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SCHRENCK-NOTZING, A. von. THE USE OF HYPNOSIS IN PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS… With Especial Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct… Authorized Translation by Charles Gilbert Chaddock. Introduction by Henry Guze.
New York: Institute for Research in Hypnosis Publication Society & Julian Press, (1956). 8vo, xvi, 320pp. Orig. red cloth. Barest external wear, otherwise fine, in barely worn dust jacket.
Reprinting and translation of Schrenck-Notzing’s classic work on using hypnotic therapeutic suggestion in treating sexual perverts, homosexuals, and masturbators. Schrenck-Notzing’s results suggested to him either that hypnosis is capable of influencing congenital abnormalities of the mind or that the congenital, hereditary factor in homosexuality is overestimated. Crabtree 1329 (first Germ. ed).
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 4581   details     inquire
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(Bee books). BRITISH BEE BOOKS. A Bibliography 1500-1976.
London: International Bee Research Association, 1979. 8vo, 270pp. Red cloth, dust jacket. Very good.
830 entries.
Price: USD 35.00 other currencies   order no. 4721   details     inquire
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(Stambaugh, Henry Hamilton). IN MEMORY OF HENRY HAMILTON STAMBAUGH, 1858-1919.
4to, (7)ff, including reproduction of painting of Stambaugh with his facsimile signature. Full crushed black morocco, lettered in gilt, gilt borders and spine with raised bands, a.e.g., purple moire silk endleaves. Housed in worn orig. plain box, “Tiffany & Co. Fifth Avenue & 37th Street New York” printed at lower section.
Four-page calligraphically-printed eulogy delivered at the funeral of Henry Hamilton Stambaugh, January 9, 1919, in a fine signed binding by Tiffany & Co. The banker Asael Edward Adams delivered the eulogy; the name of industrialist John Stambaugh is stamped in gilt at the front cover.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 6229   details     inquire
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COLMAN, George. MY NIGHT-GOWN AND SLIPPERS; or Tales in Verse. Written in an Elbow-Chair, by George Colman, the Younger.
London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1797. 4to, (2), 33pp. Orig. half crushed red morocco, marbled boards, gilt. Very good.
First Edition, a presentation copy “For Dr Arnold from the Author.” George Colman the Younger (1762-1836) was an English dramatist, miscellaneous writer, theatrical manager and drama critic. Works in which he permitted himself the greatest license are his comic poems, to which the present piece belongs.
Price: USD 850.00 other currencies   order no. 6171   details     inquire
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HATCH, Benton L.(comp. & ed.). A CHECKLIST OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THOMAS BIRD MOSHER OF PORTLAND MAINE. Compiled and Edited by… and With a Biographical Essay by Ray Nash.
(Amherst): University of Massachusetts Press, 1965. 4to, 211, (1), (1 addenda), (1 colophon)pp, tipped-in frontispiece, 20 tipped-in facsimiles. Quarter ivory cloth over pale blue boards, printed spine label, untrimmed, reserve spine label laid in at rear, slipcase, very fine in slipcase with lt wear to upper corners and mild soiling.
First Edition, number 267 of 500 copies printed by the Gehenna Press on Fabiano paper with facsimiles printed on Arches and on Shizuoka Vellum to simulate the papers used by Mosher.
Price: USD 125.00 other currencies   order no. 2418   details     inquire
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HIGGINS, Godfrey. HORAE SABBATICAE. Or, an Attempt to Correct Certain Superstitious and Vulgar Errors Respecting the Sabbath.
New York: Peter Eckler, (1893). 8vo, 81, (1), (10 ads)pp. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt, mild wear to extremities, book plate on front paste-down, text uniformly browned, with occasional mild soiling, otherwise a very good copy.
Higgins (1773-1833) investigated the history of religious beliefs in his Celtic Druids and the monumental Anacalypsis.
Price: USD 60.00 other currencies   order no. 2544   details     inquire
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RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicholas Edmé. INGENUE SAXANCOUR OU LA FEMME SEPAREE.
Paris: Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1922. 8vo, viii, 372pp. Orig. printed wrappers, sunned cover, somefoxing, a good copy.
First printing since the original of 1789 of one of the rarest of all Restif’s works. It is the story of Restif's eldest daughter, Agnès, relating with embellishments the abominable treatment that she suffered at the hands of her husband Augé. The depraved Augé mistreated his wife to the degree that she left him and he even endangered Restif's life during the Revolution. Restif took revenge on him in this book and again in L’Anti-Justine. It is the most virulent of his works, and when Restif learned the shocked response of his friends he destroyed all of the unsold copies of the first edition.. Dumas based his novel L’Ingénue on it. Cf. Jacob XXXVI & Rives-Child XXXV, l.
Price: USD 65.00 other currencies   order no. 1052   details     inquire
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DELVAU, Alfred. LE FUMIER D’ENNIUS.
Paris: Achille Faure, 1865. 8vo, [iii]-vii, (1), 315, (1)pp. Engraved frontis. by L. Flameng. Orig.printed wrappers, partly split, some foxing, overall very good.
First Edition. A collection of short theatrical scenes, reflections, bonmots and short stories, describing, in ironic tones, Parisian society with portraits of de Musset, Balzac, Prudhomme and others. T&P D-20.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 406   details     inquire
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LESSING, Julius. ANCIENT ORIENTAL CARPET PATTERNS. After Pictures and Originals of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; with Descriptive Text.
London: Henry Sotheran, 1879. Folio, (2), 26pp, 30 chromolithgraph plates. Light spots of foxing & slight tears to margins of several plates, otherwise a fine set in a modern cloth drop box, with the orig. wrapper preserved.
Rare and beautifully produced work on oriental rugs of the 15th and 16th centuries, many of which are reproduced from examples in Old Master paintings. Lessing’s book was the first work in English on Oriental carpets.
Price: USD 1,250.00 other currencies   order no. 412   details     inquire
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(Voltaire). LEOUZON LE DUC, L. VOLTAIRE ET LA POLICE. Dossiers Recueilli a Saint-Petersbourg parmi les Manuscrits Français Originaux enlevés à la Bastille en 1789...
Paris: Ambroise Bray, 1867. 8vo, 265pp, red library cloth, orig. front wrapper bound in, light foxing.
Le Clère, Bib. Crit. de la Police, 625.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 888   details     inquire
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GRIFFITS, Thomas E. COLOUR PRINTING. A Practical Demonstration of Colour Printing by Letterpress, Photo-Offset Lithography and Drawn Lithography with Illustrations Demonstrating Alternative Methods of Production and Including a Comprehensive Colour Chart.
London: Faber & Faber, (1948). 2 vols, small 4to, vol I: xii, 35pp; vol II: folder of 10 folding broadside charts (each of 7 panels) & perforated color stop card. Orig. green buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Light fading to spine, bare weaking of hinge of vol I (the portfolio), bookplate of O.U.P Technical Library, otherwise fine, both vols in lightly worn & warped orig. buckram slipcase with label.
First Edition of this marvelous work demonstrating the successive phases of letterpress, photo-lithographic, and hand-drawn lithographic printing. For each technique numerous progressive proofs are included before the final proof, and when that has been taken, experiments are enacted, such as rotations in the printing of different colors and retoning of the inks. Birren Collection 286. Herbert I, p.37. Not in Indergand.
Price: USD 60.00 other currencies   order no. 1394   details     inquire
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ESPINEL, Vincent THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE SQUIRE MARCOS DE OBREGON… Translated Into English From the Madrd Edition of 1618 by Major Algernon Langton.
London: John Booth, 1816. 2 vols, xxvii, lvi, 358, x, 494pp. Contemporary quarter calf over boards,gilt lettering to crimson morocco spine labels, gilt rules to spine, expected rubbing, boards vol. 2 detached, otherwise internally clean, a good set.
First Edition in English, the copy of Beatrice Quijada Cornish, University of California professor of literature and the foremost American scholar of Spanish literature of the first half of the 20th century, with her bookplate. This picaresque romance is generally supposed to haved served as a model for Lesage’s Gil Blas. With an extensive essay by William Walton on the Spanish novel that includes a biographical sketch of Espinel. Rare. Rudder, Lit. of Spain in English Trans., p.168. Park/Temple III, p.270. Lowndes II, p.753. Ticknor III, p.124n.
Price: USD 120.00 other currencies   order no. 2351   details     inquire
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(Desert Cavalcade). SEVENTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL DESERT CAVALCADE OF IMPERIAL VALLEY.
Calexico, California, 1946. 4to, good photos on thicker stock bound, folding map, illus. wrappers. Chips to spine ends, otherwise very good.
The Cavalcade, conceived in 1939 by the Calexico Winter Festival Association, included a three day pageant dramatizing the history of the Imperial Valley.
Price: USD 30.00 other currencies   order no. 6111   details     inquire
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PANKOW, David (ed.) AMERICAN PROPRIETARY TYPEFACES.
New York: American Printing Historical Association, (1968). 8vo, 176pp + 38 plates. Cloth. Fine.
First Edition, one of 720 copies printed letterpress at the Stinehour Press. Updike, Rogers, Dard Hunter, Ward, Morison, Goudy, Victor Hammer, Dwiggins, et al.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 6133   details     inquire
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(Semitic Philology). RAINEY, Anson F. CANAANITE IN THE AMARNA TABLETS. A linguistic analyis of the mixed dialect used by scribes from Canaan.
Leiden: Brill, 1996. 4 vols, 8vo, xxiv, 204; xx, 415; xiv, 280; viii, 198 pp. Publ. cloth, dust jacket, Fine set.
First Edition. I: Orthography, phonology. Morphosyntactic analysis of the pronouns, nouns, numerals; II: Morphosyntactic analysis of the verbal system; III: Morphosyntactic analysis of the particles and adverbs; IV: References and index of texts cited. Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1. Abt. Bd. 25.
Price: USD 500.00 other currencies   order no. 6185   details     inquire
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(Biblia Polyglotta). WALTON, Brian. DATHE, Johann Augus... In Biblia Polyglotta prolegomena. Praefatus est J.A. Dathe.
Leipsiae: sumtibus Weygandianis, MDCCLXXVII. [1777]. 8vo, lii, 696, (4 advertisment)pp. Contempt. half vellum over marbled boards. Old lib. cat. numbers affixed to spine, text lightly foxed, else a very good copy.
A reprint of Walton’s own biblical and linguistical introductions contained in the London Polyglot Bible of 1657, with a long preface by the Leipzig Professor Dathe. The edition is based on the Zurich 1673 reprint, with many corrections. The final four pages of publisher’s ads contain a priced list.
Price: USD 250.00 other currencies   order no. 6186   details     inquire
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[WILSON, Andrew]. THE CREATION THE GROUND-WORK OF REVELATION, and revelation the language of nature. Or, a brief attempt to demonstrate, that the Hebrew language is founded upon natural ideas, and that the Hebrew writings transfer them to spiritual objects.
Edinburgh: [n.p.], MDCCL. [1750]. 8vo, (2), 70pp. Disbound. Very mild embrowning and marginal foxing, some old pen notations in Hebrew, a very good, crisp copy.
First Edition. ESTC - T122745.
Price: USD 175.00 other currencies   order no. 6212   details     inquire
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HOLLOWAY, Benjamin. THE PRIMAETIVITY AND PREEMINENCE OF THE SACRED HEBREW, above all other languages, vindicated from the repeated attempts of the Reverend Kr. Hunt to level it with the Arabic, and other oriental dialects; in a letter to a friend. With a word in the preface to Dr. Shuckford...
Oxford: printed at the Theatre for S. Parker, and E. Withers..., 1754. 8vo, xxx, 97, (1)pp, with a final advertisement. Disbound. Mildly toned, a nearly fine, crisp copy.
First Edition. ESTC - T112660.
Price: USD 275.00 other currencies   order no. 6217   details     inquire
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MOODY, James. THE EVIDENCE FOR CHRISTIANITY CONTAINED IN THE HEBREW WORDS ALEIM AND BERIT, stated and defended, against the repeated rabbinical attempts to invalidate and destroy it. Being an answer to Dr. Sharp’s Two Dissertations concerning the etymology and scripture meaning of these words. To which is prefixed, a short account of the opposition and state of the controversy from Mr. Hutchinson’s first publication in the year 1724, to the present time.
London: printed for E. Withers... MDCCLII. [1752]. 8vo, xxix, (1), 181, (1)pp. Disbound. Mild foxing at title, text lightly toned with a few old marginal notations in ink, else a nearly fine, crisp copy.
First Edition of this rare polemical work. ESTC T183329. Not in Orme.
Price: USD 275.00 other currencies   order no. 6221   details     inquire
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QUARLES, Edwin. POEMS...
New York: (Eleanor Lothian), 1934. 8vo, 89, (1 colophon)pp. Publ. light blue cloth, lettered in silver. Faint staining at front cover, else a nearly fine copy, with fresh, unblemished text.
Edition limited to 300 copies, printed by the Pynson Printers of New York, September, 1934.
Price: USD 35.00 other currencies   order no. 6231   details     inquire
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BARTLETT, W.C. A BREEZE FROM THE WOODS.
Oakland: Author’s Private Edition, 1880. 8vo, vi, (2), 9-212pp. Blue cloth, black and gilt stamp, head and tail of spine, and corners chipped. Brown endpapers. A good copy.
First Edition of these reflections on nature and the out-of-doors in Mendocino, Los Gatos, St Helena, and at a hot spring. Cowan p.37.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 6263   details     inquire
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HOPKINS, Rufus C. ROSES AND THISTLES.
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1894. 8vo, 480pp. frontispiece portrait. Buckram. Near fine in dust jacket.
First Edition, in a rare and early dust jacket. A handsome Doxey imprint, designed by Bruce Porter. Harlan, Doxey, 15. Hinkel p.146.
Price: USD 200.00 other currencies   order no. 6270   details     inquire
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JAMES, George Wharton (editor). THE CALIFORNIA BIRTHDAY BOOK. Prose and Poetical Selections from the Writings of Living California Authors...
Los Angeles: Arroyo Guild Press, 1909. 12mo, 422pp, (6 Ads), grey cloth boards, stamped cover and spine. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly chipped, binding loose. Inscription on endpaper. Otherwise a good copy.
With contributions by Mary Austin, H.H. Bancroft, Luther Burbank, Gelett Burgess, Palmer Cox, Willis Linn Jepson, Charles Keeler, Jack and Charmian London, Charles Lummis, Joaquin Miller, John Muir, Mrs. Fremont Older, Olive Percival, Idah Meacham Strobridge, Herman Whitaker, et al. James was born in England 1858, and died Pasadena 1923. Not in Hinkel, which lists only one book by him.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 6271   details     inquire
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JONES, Julia Clinton. VALHALLA. The Myths of Norseland. A Saga, in Twelve Parts.
San Francisco: Printed by Edward Bosqui & Co., 1878. 8vo, 145pp. Brown cloth, stamped in gold. Bookplate. A very good copy.
First Edition of a scholarly work later published under a New York imprint in 1880. Hinkel II, 161.
Price: USD 40.00 other currencies   order no. 6272   details     inquire
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STRONG, George (1832-1912) SONGS OF THE PACIFIC. Or Light on the Samoan Question.
San Francisco: Pacific Bank Publishers, 1889. 12mo, 56pp. Printed wrappers. Very good.
Only edition - scarce. Consists entirely of The Songs of Milkanwatha, translated from the original Somoan-Feejee by Marc Anthony Henderson, although NUC list Songs of the Pacific as by George Augustus Strong. NUC notes 3 copies.
Price: USD 125.00 other currencies   order no. 6278   details     inquire
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WOODS, C.L. KAW-WAU-NITA, And Other Poems.
Stockton: D.H. Berdine, Book and Job Printer, 1873. 12mo, 99pp, green cloth, stamped in gold. Ownership stamps, light wear, overall a very good copy.
First Edition. Hinkel II, 339.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 6281   details     inquire
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SALGUES J[acques] B[arthelmy] S. DE PARIS, DES MOEURS, DE LA LITTERATURE ET DE LA PHILOSOPHIE.
Paris: J.G. Dentu, 1813. 8vo, viii, 507, (l)pp. Quarter-calf, a little rubbed, marbled boards; verygood copy.
Only Edition. A collection of amusing texts on issues of elegant lifestyle compiled by Salgues (1760-1830), one of the principal writers for the Journal de Paris and other major journals of the time. The book contains theater and book reviews; beauty tips and the latest information on fashion and good manners; popular philosophical remarks on happiness, vanity, married life, etc. Not in Quérard.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 16   details     inquire
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HENNEBERT, [Eugène]. LES ANGLAIS EN EGYPTE. L’Angleterre et le Mâhdî Arabe et le Canal de Suez.
Paris: Jouvet & Cie, 1884. 8vo, (4), 74, (2)pp. Orig. printed wrappers, 2 maps (one fold-out), foxing throughout, otherwise very good.
Only Edition. A treatise on British policy in Egypt, with considerations on the war in the Sudan and the future of the Suez Canal. Hennebert (b.1826) was an author on military science. NUC: 3 copies only.
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GEIKIE, James. FRAGMENTS OF EARTH LORE. Sketches and Addresses Geological and Geographical.
Edinburgh: John Bartholomew, 1893. 8vo, (8), 428pp, frontis. & 5 folding color maps. Cloth, backstrip gilt, a very good copy of a book seldom found in good condition.
Second edition. One of the most important publications by the leading British authority on Pleistocene geology in general and glacial deposits in particular. Geikie (1839-1915) began his career as an assistant under his brother Archibald Geikie, also a famed geologist.
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JAMIESON, Thomas Francis. THE TWEEDDALE PRIZE ESSAY ON THE RAIN-FALL.
Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1860. Sm. 8vo, (4), 51pp, 2 folding tables at the end. Disbound, aclean copy.
First Edition. The text includes essays on the evidence of rainfall from rivers, glaciers, and snowlines, the effects of forests and drainage on climate, causes of rain, temperature variations, and causes of variations in the climate. NUC: 2 copies at Library of Congress and the New York Public.
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VIANNE, Edmond. POMMES DE TERRE, leur Culture, Emploi et Conservation.
Paris: Andre Sagnier, [1870]. Sm. 8vo, (4), 156pp, 31 engravings of potatoes in the text. Orig. printed wrappers, a fine copy.
Only Edition. Published in the series Nouvelle Bibliotheque Rurale. This text details the cultivation, usage, and conservation of the potato. The plates show views of potatoes including cross-sections, and depictions of some of the hardware necessary to their proper cultivation. The author (b.1815) published several works on agriculture. Not in Nissen or NUC.
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LE RENARD, Alf[red] ESSAI SUR LA VALEUR ANTITOXIQUE DE L’ALIMENT COMPLET ET INCOMPLET.
Paris: J. Mersch, 1907. 8vo, (6), 211, (3)pp. Orig. printed wrappers, a little faded, slight foxing, otherwise very good.
Only Edition of Le Renard's thesis on penicillum glaucum and other fungi, addressing their resistance to copper and other metals. NUC: 3 copies.
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WRIGHT, Thomas, editor. THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ALBUM; or, Museum of National Antiquities.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. Sm. 4to, viii, 231pp, chromolithographic title, 27 engraved plates (some in color), & numerous illustrations in the text. Orig. green cloth, gilt & stamped in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt, fragments of old library paper labels at head & foot, slightly shaken, otherwise quite a good copy.
First Edition. The illustrations are by F.W. Fairholt; 5 of the plates are colored. The text reviews the meeting, perhaps inaugural, of the British Archæological Association which had just been founded & describes some preliminary excursions. Wright (1810-1877), indefatigable antiquary and explorer, edited and published an inordinate number of books and papers on a startling variety of subjects. His long association with the illustrator Fairholt “led Wright to produce in partnership with him an interesting series of illustrated volumes” (DNB).
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(Beardsley). DERRY, Georges. AN AUBREY BEARDSLEY SCRAP BOOK…
[London]: Walker, 1920. 4to, 7pp, frontispiece. Orig. printed wrappers, worn, signatures loose, otherwise good.
First Edition, limited to 200 copies, signed by the author [i.e Rainforth Armitage Walker] on the last leaf. This pamphlet discuses a recently found scrap book, belonging to Beardsley and containing several of his hitherto unpublished drawings. Lasner 169.
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(Besnard, Albert). MOUREY, Gabriel. ALBERT BESNARD.
Paris: Henri Davoust, (1906). 4to, l54pp, numerous plates, some in color, & containing an orig. etching. Orig. decorative wrappers, very good.
The original etching is entitled “La Morte.” An early study of Besnard, including a chapter on his etched work. Courboin & Roux 37. Colin 151. Freitag 686.
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(Dürer). DELARUE, Henri. ALBERT DÜRER MINIATURISTE.
Geneva: Editions Sonor, 1920. 4to, 12pp, 1 color plate, 16 b/w plates, orig. wrappers, very good.
Edition limited to 200 copies. The text and plates describe a miniature illustrated Passion of 1521 by Dürer.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 67   details     inquire
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(Gill, Eric). THORP, Joseph. ERIC GILL, With a Critical Monograph by Charles Marriott.
London: Cape, 1929. 4to, viii, 27pp, with a portrait frontispiece, a picture of Gill’s hands in action carving stone, and 38 plates. Orig. black cloth rebacked & corners repaired, new endpapers, very good.
First Edition, surprisingly scarce and very nicely printed and illustrated. With articles on Gill as a carver and on his art. Freitag 3491.
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(Guys). BAUDELAIRE, Charles. LE PEINTRE DE LA VIE MODERNE. Constantin Guys.
Paris: René Kieffer, 1923. 4to, 84pp, color frontis., plates & illus. throughout. Half green morocco, orig. wrappers bound in.
Limited to 550 copies, a deluxe edition of Baudelaire’s insightful text on Guys through whom he analyses modern art and life. Freitag 4096.
Price: USD 150.00 other currencies   order no. 71   details     inquire
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LEITCH, R[obert] P[ettigrew]. A COURSE OF WATER-COLOUR PAINTING. With Twenty Four Coloured Plates. Sixth Edition.
London: Cassell, Peter & Galpin, [n.d., ca. 1875]. Oblong 8vo, 36, iv, ads pp. With 24 tipped-in plates. Orig. publisher’s cloth, gilt, very good.
Leitch (d.1882), son of the artist and drawing master to Queen Victoria William L. Leitch, was a noted watercolorist and author of several manuals on various methods of painting. The chromolithography in the present volume is very effective, giving the texture and quality of watercolors.
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CROS, Charles. LE COLLIER DE GRIFFES. Derniers Vers Inédits. Avant-Propos de M. Guy-Charles Cros et Préface de M. Emile Gautier.
Paris: P.-V. Stock, 1908. Sm. 8vo, xix, 220pp. Orig. printed wrappers, uncut & unopened, a fine copy as issued.
First Edition. Cros (1842-1888) was an important figure in the symbolist movement, often credited with creating the monologue form, and renowned for his lyrics, prose poems, and roundelays. He was also a pioneer of color photography and his invention of a phonograph is said to have preceded Edison. Talvart & Place 11.
Price: USD 125.00 other currencies   order no. 129   details     inquire
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(Goncourt). SABATIER, Pierre. L’ESTHETIQUE DES GONCOURT. Thèse pour le doctorat…
Paris: Hachette, 1920. 8vo, (6), 632pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Edmond & Jules Goncourt with facing facsimiles of letters by each brother. Unopened orig. wrappers, faded, one corner chipped.
First Edition of Sabatier’s doctoral thesis on the Goncourt brothers. Part I documents their youth and the important influences of Poe, Heine, Flaubert, St. Beuve, Baudelaire and their early studies in 17th and 18th century culture upon their aesthetic theories of “art for art's sake.” Part II includes a sophisticated and original treatment of the Goncourts’ notions of beauty and imagination. Sabatier reassesses their ultra-refined sensibilities and the harsh judgements of critics (“overly charmed by bibelots and the bizarre”) in this perceptive study of the 19th century originators of “documentary fiction” and publishers of the important cultural Journal of mid-19th century France.
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MARTINO, P[ierre]. PARNASSE ET SYMBOLISME 1850-1900.
Paris: Armand Colin, 1925. Sm.8vo, (4), 220, 8 (ads)pp. Boards with printed labels on upper cover &spine, publisher’s plate on front paste-down, slight browning to endpapers, otherwise very good.
First Edition of this study on French poetry of the second half of the 19th century, focusing especially on differences and mutual influence between the two major movements of this period: Symbolism and the Parnassian school.
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RIMBAUD, Arthur. LETTRE DU BARON DE PETDECHEVRE à son Secrétaire au Château de Saint-Magloire. Suivie de Deux Dessins Inédits. Introduction et Commentaire par Jules Mouquet.
Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1949. 8vo, [59]pp, with 2 plates. Orig. wrappers, fine.
First Edition, limted to 1000 copies, reproducing Rimbaud’s essay which first appeared in a magazine, along with two previously unpublished drawings by Rimbaud.
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HOUDINI. ETCHINGS BY CAROL YEH.
Laguna Beach: the artist, 1971. Elephant folio, 12 full-page etchings including the title-page and colophon. Orig. half leather, fine as issued.
Edition limited to 9 copies, signed by the artist. This suite was inspired by the artist sensing the effects Houdini was able to achieve in escaping from various forms of bondage, and she reproduces images of Houdini in different entrapments with powerful and beautifully etched plates ranging from detailed to highly abstract images.
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(Corvo). WEEKS, Donald. FREDERICK WILLIAM ROLFE, Christchurch and the Artist.
Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1980. 8vo, 27, (3)pp. Maroon textured paper wrappers with printed paper label, fine.
Edition limited to 120 copies, printed in Baskerville type on Abbey Mills paper.
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WEINMAN, A.A. (preface). CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SCULPTURE.
San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1929. 4to, 352pp, profusely illustrated. Orig. cloth, fine.
Deluxe catalogue of a National Sculpture Society Exhibition held in 1929 which featured works from America’s foremost sculptors including Manship, French, Scudder, Haseltine and Konti.
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POE, Edgar Allan. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains, in Godey’s Magazine and Lady’s Book Vol XXVIII, 1844, pages 177-80.
(1844) 8vo, illustrated. Full red morocco, scuffed, spine lettered in gilt. A good copy.
First Printing. Heartman & Rede p.40.
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POE, Edgar Allan. About Criticism and Critics, in Graham’s American Monthly Magazine Vols XXXVI and XXXVII, 1850, pp.49-51
(1850). 8vo, illustrated. Contemp. half calf, red cloth boards. Very good.
Contains George Graham’s eulogy “The Late Edgar Allan Poe,” p.224-6. Includes contributions by Longfellow.
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BRIDGES, Robert. EROS & PSYCHE, A Poem in Twelve Measures.
London: George Bell & Sons, 1885. 8vo, 158pp. Olive linen, half cream parchment, spine lettered in gilt, edges uncut. A fine copy.
First Edition, printed on Van Gelder laid paper with watermarks. McKay 10.
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BURCKHARDT, Rudolf. GEWIRKTE BILDTEPPICHE DES XV UND XVI JAHRHUNDERTS Im Historischen Museum Zu Basel.
Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1923. Folio, 65, (3)pp, 25 mounted color lithograph plates. Orig. decorative cloth, t.e.g., expertly rebacked in matching cloth (orig. backstrip laid-down). Very good.
An incredibly beautiful work on 15th and 16th century tapestries in the Basel Historical Museum. The plates have been produced with extreme fidelity to color and texture.
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DURKHEIM, Emile. LE SOCIALISME, sa Definition, ses Débuts, la Doctrine Saint-Simonienne.
Paris: Alcan, 1928. 8vo, xi, (1), 352, (4pp)., leaves somewhat browned. Orig. printed wrappers, .
First Edition, edited with an introduction, “La place de l’Histoire du Socialisme dans l’Oeuvre de Durkheim,” by Marcel Mauss. Durkheim thought Saint-Simon a genius but considered naive the notion that industry, once properly organized and autonomous, would put all difficulties to right and usher in socialism. Durkheim teaches that moral discipline is required even within socialism, so that citizens will be satisfied with what they have. Mauss held that “no other comprehensive statement on the beginnings of socialism can compare in clarity and force” with this book. Lukes 1928a.
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FAULKNER, William. A FLIGHT COMMANDER.
[N.p.]: The Sandhill Press, 1975. 8vo, [12]pp, drawing on the title printed in yellow, 2pp in facsimile of Faulkner’s autograph, & letterpress text. Brown printed boards. Fine copy.
First and only edition, limited to 15 copies. This privately-printed book reproduces a 2 page autograph letter from Faulkner to Hubert Starr undated but probably from late June or early July of 1918. It was then that Faulkner had enlisted in the RAF and was working on an English accent and manners to ensure his acceptance by the British flyers. In the letter he writes: “… I killed a nigger yesterday morning and I had to go down to the court house and have his name taken from the draft register… Life here is a beastly bore. Whole world has gone to pot…” and he concludes with a drawing (reproduced on the cover and title-page) of himself in military garb with the note: “Me when I become a Flight Commander.” There is a prefatory note to the text signed “B.W.J.,” identifying characters mentioned in the letter and placing it in the context of Faulkner’s life.
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MITCHELL, Donald G. Clipped signature on a card.

Donald Grant Mitchell (1822-1908), American essayist and humorist, wrote under the pseudonyms of Ik. Marvel, Jno. Crowquill, and “An Opera Goer.”
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KITCHINER, William. THE ART OF INVIGORATION AND PROLONGING LIFE, By Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep, &c. Or, The Invalid’s Oracle… Sixth Edition, Very Greatly Augmented and Improved.
London: Geo. B. Whittaker, 1828. 12mo, viii, (2), 337, (4 ads)pp. Orig. boards, old cloth back worn.
A popular manual, with chapters on corpulence, sleep, clothes, wine, etc, and with the addition of a chapter on “The Pleasure of Making a Will.” Kitchiner (d.1827) was a wealthy physician who delighted in preparing feasts for his friends. He also wrote Oracles for Cooks, Housekeepers, and Travellers and books on singing and on choosing opera glasses. Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica, 912. Not in Oxford.
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HERGESHEIMER, Joseph. THE THREE BLACK PENNYS. Illustrated by David Hendrickson.
New York: Knopf, 1930. 4to, xv, 320pp, with line drawings in the text. Blue buckram. A very good copy.
First Illustrated Edition, limited to 170 copies, with drawings by David Hendrickson - in fact, a revised edition with a new introduction by the author. Hergesheimer’s novel of the rise and decline of the Penny family is considered among his best works.” Clifton Fadiman called Hergesheimer as “John Singer Sargent of the modern American novel.”
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(Butler, Samuel). HOPPE, A.J. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF SAMUEL BUTLER (Author of “Erewhon”) and of Writings about Him.
London: Bookman’s Journal, 1925. 8vo, xv, 184pp. Brown cloth, gilt. Very good.
One of 500 numbered copies.
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(Stained glass). VORBILDLICHE GLASMALEREIEN Aus dem späten Millelalter und der Renaissancezeit...
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1911. Elephant folio (26 x 19 inches), unsewn, 2ff, 16 chromolithograph plates (some folding), each with separate descriptive letterpress. Orig. boards somewhat worn, a few plates tattered at edges, several plates repaired with tape, very good.
Remarkable work on German stained glass windows. Some of the plates are grouped together and are meant to be taken out and pieced together in order to show the entire design of a window; as each plate is 26 x 19 inches, an entire grouping is rather large. An elaborate work by one of Germany’s leading publishers of architectural works.
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KERN, Walter. ITALIENISCHE MARMOR-INTARSIEN UND MOSAIKEN.
Berlin: Spielmeyer, [ca. 1900]. Elephant folio (26 x 19 inches), 25 chromolithograph plates. Orig. decorative board portfolio, rebacked, very good.
Collection of attractive plates reproducing Italian mosaics and inlaid marble floors and walls from ancient Rome to the 17th century.
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OTTINO, G. & G. Fumagalli. BIBLIOTHECA BIBLIOGRAPHICA ITALICA, Catalogo Degli Scritti de Bibliologia, Bibliografia e Biblioteconomia...
Graz: Akademische Druk- U. Verlagsanstalt, 1957. 8vo, xxiv, 431; xv, 241; 45; 39; vi, 43; 136pp. Mild shelf-wear. A nearly fine copy in red cloth.
Facsimile of 1889 edition.
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WHITTIER, John Greenleaf. THE TENT ON THE BEACH and other Poems.
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. 8vo, 172pp. Early signature, bookplate. Orig. publisher’s cloth, gilt. A nice copy with minor wear only.
First Edition, first state. BAL 21866, binding B. Johnson p.490.
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ELIOYT, Arthur Turberville. THE BOKE NAMED THE GOVERNOUR, Devised by Sir Thomas Elyot, Knt. Londini: A.D. 1564. A New Edition.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: John Hernaman, 1834. 8vo, xxxviii, (1), 293, (1), vi (subscribers)pp. Orig. dark blue cloth, printed paper label, rehinged. A very good copy.
Privately printed edition, probably issued in fewer than 150 copies. The subscribers list accounts for 100 copies and is prefaced by a note that several additional copies have been printed. This seminal work was reprinted by A.T. Eliot, perhaps a relation of the author, at least in part as a political statement against “the wild feelings of that democractic despotism, which, under the specious mask of Civil and Religious Liberty, is at present the bane of this once happy land” (dedication) It was “the first book in recognizably modern English prose [and] remained a textbook for behaviour for generations and had a lasting effect on the writing of English” (PMM). T.S. Eliot adapted the Elizabethan English of The Boke in The Four Quartets.
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(Bentley, Richard). EXTRACTS FROM LE LIVRE.
(London: Richard Bentley, 1886). 8vo, (8)pp, 40pp, frontisportrait of Richard Bentley, numerous decorative borders, decorative intials, head & tailpieces, steel engraved cuts, etc. Half brown cloth over deeply embossed decorative boards. Fine.
250 copies of articles about the Bentleys reprinted from the French bibliophile’s journal Le Livre and other sources.
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(Keats). (A collection of drawings of Keats and his circle drawn by William Wilke).
San Francisco, [ca. 1934]. Folio, 39 plates. Quarter blue morocco over cloth boards, spine letteredin gilt. Light wear to extremities, otherwise fine.
Unique (?) copy of Wilke’s sketches of Keats’s circle, probably executed for works projected by John Henry Nash in the 1930s. In addition to Keats, sketches of Hunt, Lamb, Shelley, Hazlitt, Scott, Coleridge, Dilke, Fanny Keats, Fanny Brawne and others are included. The volume was clearly bound by Nash’s binder.
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(Art…). ART IN THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL. Prepared by the Architect of the Capitol under the Direction of the Joint Committee on the Library.
Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1978. Sm. 4to, xii, 455pp, numerous illustrations (many plates in color). Orig. cloth, very good.
Thoroughly illustrated census of the 682 works of art in the U.S. Capitol and other artistic items associated with it.
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(Almanac). ALMANACH DES DAMES, POUR L’AN 1819.
Tubingen: J.G. Cotta, (1819). 16mo, (34), 218, (6)pp, incl. engraved title, 8 engraved plates. Bluemorocco, ruled in gilt & blind, a.e.g. Slightest scuffing to board, otherwise fine, in a lightly worn red morocco slipcase.
Published between 1802 and 1840, this series of literary almanacs features information on seasons, eclipses, and lunar cycles, followed by engravings of distinguished women, descriptions of their lives, and several dozen poems and prose vignettes by distinguished female French writers. This copy of the Almanach may be in a publisher’s binding. Of its thirty-nine years of publication, copies from the series are cited in NUC as being in only three libraries (ICJ, NNC, DLC).
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(Hazlitt, William). KEYNES, Geoffrey. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM HAZLITT.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. 8vo, xix, 136pp, frontisportrait. Orig. boards and dust jacket. Fine copy.
First Edition, 750 numbered copies printed. Dreyfuss, Nonesuch Press, 75.
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D***, Mme. LES JEUX DES QUATRE SAISONS. Ou les Amusements du Jeune Age.
Paris: Librairie d’ Éducation et de Jurisprudence, 1812. 12mo, (4), 216pp, frontispiece, engraved title, 7 plates (14 engravings). Contemp. quarter calf, marbled boards, marbled edges, marbled endpapers.
First Edition of these rare nine dialogues between children, quaintly illustrated, on the virtues of play, with reference to the moral values of specific games and activities. Apparently intended for children, the volume may well be infused with some political undertones. Not in NUC, which cites three copies of the second (1816) edition. Not in BMC (second edition only).
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IBSEN, Henrik. FRUEN FRA HAVET. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske, 1888. [with] HEDDA GABLER.
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske, 1890. 2 vols in one, 8vo, (4), 223; (4), 236pp. Contemp. quarter black morocco, a very good set.
First Edition of The Lady from the Sea which dates from his later period when he was writing dramas of society culminating in Hedda Gabler; and first published edition of Hedda Gabler. This play, the most performed and perhaps best known of Ibsen’s considerable output, evoked protest and bewilderment when it was first produced by reiterating themes of social corruption and the subjection of women. In London 12 copies had been privately printed in Norwegian at the instigation of Edmund Gosse prior to this edition, which is generally accepted as the first. Printing and the Mind of Man 375.
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(Morocco). INITIATION AU MAROC.
Rabat: École du Livre [for] L’Institut des Hautes-Études Marocaines, 1932. Lg 8vo, xvii, 230pp, front wrapper. Orig. morocco-grained leather with Middle-eastern style flap, blocked in gilt & black, ruled calf endpapers. Signature to fly-leaf, slight wear to extremities, very good.
One of an edition of 200 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered. This handsomely bound volume discusses the history, environment and culture of Morocco, with a view to aiding the Frenchman in adapting himself to the ways of this African republic. Despite a limitation statement indicating that the book was bound by native Moroccans, what seems to be an original wrapper is bound in.
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D’ARCY, Ella. SOME LETTERS TO JOHN LANE. Edited by Alan Anderson.
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1990. 8vo, 31, (1)pp. Wrappers. Fine.
One of 130 numbered copies.
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. ON THE VEGETABLE SYSTEM OF DIET. With a New Introduction by Hugh I’Anson Fausset.
[N.p.]: Norwood Editions, 1978. 8vo, (2), 16pp. Black buckram, spine lettered in silver. Fine.
Facsimile reprint of the London Vegetarian Society’s printing (1947) of this famous essay.
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(Twain). MEINE, Franklin J. MARK TWAIN’S FIRST STORY.
(Iowa City, Iowa): Prairie Press, [1952]. 8vo, (2), 20pp, 1 illus. Orig. beige laid wrappers over flexible boards. Fine, in original Prairie Press mailing envelope.
First separate edition. Twain wrote the story “The Dandy Frightening the Squatter” when he was only sixteen. Printed by Carroll Coleman, with an illustration by Dale Ballantyne. BAL 3582.
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STAEL-HOLSTEIN, [Anne Louise Germaine]. THE INFLUENCE OF LITERATURE UPON SOCIETY…To which is Prefixed, A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Author.
Boston: W. Wells & T.B. Wait, 1813 2 vols, 8vo, iv, 294; iv, 288pp. Half-calf, mismatched set marked duplicate from the Library Company. Good.
First American Edition? (first published in Paris in 1800). This work, the author’s most important book, had a striking influence on French thought of the early 19th century; De Stael reviews the literature of preceding ages and of other countries to show that it reflects the progress of humanity. She attempts to forecast the future of French literature and declares her faith in ‘human perfectibility,’ which was an important theme in her writings. It was this book that saw her incur Napoleon’s wrath, resulting in exile, due to her comparison of his regime with the decadent Roman empire.
Madame de Stael, daughter of Jacques Necker, founded the only salon in Paris that seriously rivaled her mother’s in influence. The strength of her ideas and connections caused her to be exiled and/or choose voluntary emigration five times between 1782 and 1810; she was intimate with Benjamin Constant and Schlegel in her intellectual pursuits, and traveled extensively with the latter.
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(ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques). PROJET CONCERNANT DE NOUVEAUX SIGNES POUR LA MUSIQUE, lu par l’Auteuar à l’ Académie des Sciences.
Geneva: [Moultou & Du Peyrou], 1781. 8vo, 438pp (incl. 19 plates), 1 folding plate. Modern wrappers, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Barest of occasional foxing & browning, miniscule hole poked in text of K1, 1-inch tear to folding plate, occasional marking in colored pencil & library stamping, otherwise very good.
Volume XVI of the first or second edition of the the complete works. Includes Project concernant de nouveaux signes de Musique, Dissertation dur la Musique moderne, Essai sur l’Origine des Langues, Lettre à M. l’Abbé Raynal, Examen de deux principes avancés par M. Rameau, and Lettre à M. Burney, suivie d’une Réponse du Petit-Faiseur. The plates in the Dissertation represent Rousseau’s novel method of musical notation, and the essay on Rameau is Rousseau’s response to Rameu’s criticism of Rousseau’s articles on music in the Encyclopédie. The important essay on the origin of language contains chapters on harmony, on an alleged analogy between sound and color, and on the music of the Greeks. The Lettre à M. Burney is an analysis of the “Alceste” written at Gluck’s request. Sénelier 1.897.
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COLERIDGE, S[amuel] T. THE STATESMAN’S MANUAL; Or the Bible the Best Guide to Political Skill and Foresight: A Lay Sermon, Addressed tothe Higher Classes of Society.
Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1832. 8vo, 231pp. Orig. boards, paper label to spine. Extremities & joints worn, signature to endpaper, light even foxing, otherwise very good.
First American Edition of the first of two tracts, or “Lay Sermons,” by Coleridge “on the the present Distresses,” such as unemployment, grain scarcity, poor relief, parliamentary reform, Catholic emancipation, and national education, long-standing problems which were finally beginning to be addressed in the wake of the Napoleonic wars. Above all, Coleridge wished to stress the prime importance of philosophy, the value of history, and his quixotic belief in the Bible as a “code of true political economy.” His message was in large part received with derision and puzzlement. Haney 45. Not in Wise.
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