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LEWIS, Clarence Irving Survey of Symbolic Logic
LEWIS, C[larence] I[rving]. A Survey of Symbolic Logic. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1918. Tall octavo, original full navy cloth. WITH: Strict Implication-An Emendation. Reprinted from The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, Vol. XVII, No. 11, May 20, 1920; pp. 3. Octavo, original printed wrappers. $850. First edition of Lewis' first major work in the field of logic, where he introduces the idea of "strict implication." Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1964), student of William James and Josiah Royce and professor of philosophy at Berkeley and Harvard, began his pioneering work in the field of logic with this work. Reacting to what he saw as paradoxes embedded in the work of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, Lewis "constructed a calculus of what he called 'strict implication,' with the help of such modal terms as 'necessary' and 'possible'" (DAB). In later works such as Symbolic Logic (1932) he attempted to add what he called a "conceptual pragmatism" to his system of modal logic. "Lewis internalized within himself the great dialogue on knowledge and reality which began with Descartes and continued with the British empiricists, Kant and the German idealists, and the American pragmatists. It may be said that this tortuous development, both in its long history and in the intellectual life of Lewis, is the attempt of the modern mind to achieve consistency and adequacy in its conceptual foundations" (Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 455). Owner signature. Text fine. Original cloth extremely good, with lightest of wear to extremities. A scarce and desirable work of American philosophy.
Price: USD 850.00 other currencies   order no. 30037   details     inquire
offered by: Bauman Rare Books   (USA)
TRUMAN, Harry Typed letter signed
TRUMAN, Harry S. Typed Note Signed. Independence, Missouri, December 13, 1966. Octavo, one page, measures 7-1/4 inches by 10-1/2 inches, on Truman's Independence, Missouri letterhead. Handsomely framed with photographic portrait and original franked envelope (with Truman's printed signature). $2000. Typed note signed by Truman, addressed "to the Honorable and Mrs. Edward D. McKim," handsomely framed with original photograph of Truman and original envelope. The note, dated December 13, 1966, reads: "Dear Ed and Mary: Mrs. Truman and I were delighted to receive your Christmas greetings. Your continued thoughtfulness is deeply appreciated and we wish you both the very best for the coming year. Sincerely yours, [signed] Harry Truman." Fine condition.
Price: USD 2,000.00 other currencies   order no. 30042   details     inquire
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CONRAD, Joseph Lord Jim
CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim, A Tale. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. Octavo, original green cloth. $1600. First edition, later issue, of one of Conrad's finest novels. The tale of an idealistic merchant marine, disgraced for cowardice, and of his ultimate redemption among the natives of Patusan. Once read as adventure stories, today Conrad's novels are considered masterpieces of moral insight and narrative technique. Wise 7. Bookplates. Owner signature. Faint marginal dampstain to lower corner. Expert restoration to original cloth, spine darkened. A very good copy.
Price: USD 1,600.00 other currencies   order no. 30061   details     inquire
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NEW YORK Journal of the Votes and Proceedings
(NEW YORK). Journal of the Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Colony of New-York.Began the 9th Day of April, 1691; and Ended the 27th of September, 1743. WITH: Journal of the Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Colony of New-York. Began the 8th Day of November, 1743; and Ended the 23rd of December, 1765. New York: Hugh Gaine, 1764, 1766. Two volumes. Thick folio, period-style full brown calf, raised bands, red and black morocco spine labels. $8500. First edition of "the most important legal collection of its time, and a cornerstone of New York and American colonial history" (Jenkins). "The constitutional history of New York can be followed" in this work (Marke 80). Although Journals of New York General Assembly Sessions had been published annually, this is their first compilation, edited by Abraham Lott. "Important" (Larned 161). The present copy includes the last leaf, an Appendix reversing the attainder of Jacob Leisler and others, "who were executed for not delivering the Fort at New York to Richard Ingoldsby, 1690" (Sabin); according to Evans, this last leaf is "often lacking." Sabin 53719. Evans 9756, 10418. Jenkins 175 (Volume I only). Ex-libris New Jersey Historical Society, with its ink stamps (marked "deaccessioned") to title pages and several text pages throughout. Text generally clean, in handsome period-style calf.
Price: USD 8,500.00 other currencies   order no. 30067   details     inquire
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SENDAK, Maurice Bernard
SENDAK, Maurice. "Bernard," Blue "Wild Things" monster created as a backpack, with a fur and fabricbody, zippered compartment in its back and adjustable straps. Taiwan: for Determined Productions, 1980. $750. One of only 50 stuffed animals signed on the foot by Maurice Sendak, recreating "Bernard," a monster from "Where the Wild Things Are." Measuring twenty-four inches from horn to toe, this stuffed doll was produced as a child's backpack. Bernard, with his blue iridescent body and black and gray beard, is the monster featured on the cover of the book. Boldly autographed on the foot by Sendak. Fine condition, as new.
Price: USD 750.00 other currencies   order no. 30105   details     inquire
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LOUVET DE COUVRAY, John Baptiste Amours of the Chevalier de Faublas
[LOUVET DE COUVRAY, Jean-Baptiste.] The Amours of the Chevalier de Faublas. London: Benbow, Lord Byron's Head, 1822 [actually circa 1885]. Four volumes. 12mo, contemporary three-quarter tan calf gilt, brown and green morocco spine labels, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $450. Late 19th-century edition, "Newly and Faithfully Translated from the Paris Edition of 1821," attractively bound. Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray, a revolutionary and member of the Convention Nationale, originally published the first part of his only novel, the romance Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas, in 1789. According to the preface, "The present translation was undertaken in consequence of a great demand arising for the work... The translator has rendered it as close as the idioms of the two languages will admit." The publication date of 1822 is most likely false, as the paper and type intimate a printing in the 1880s. It has been suggested that Victorian prudence necessitated the earlier date, as Couvray's work does contain some suggestive passages. Bookplates. Lightest wear to bindings. A handsome set.
Price: USD 450.00 other currencies   order no. 30230   details     inquire
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CHAUCER Poetical Works
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. Poetical Works. Edited by Richard Morris LL.D. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891. Six volumes. 12mo, contemporary full maroon morocco, raised bands, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $1200. Handsome six-volume set of Chaucer, in full morocco by Sotheran & Co. "Chaucer's characters live age after age. Every age is a Canterbury Pilgrimage; we all pass on, each sustaining one of these characters; nor can a child be born who is not one of these characters of Chaucer" (William Blake). Richard Morris' excellent text first appeared in 1866 in the Aldine Poets series. "It is only with Richard Morris' 1866 revision of the 1845 Aldine Chaucer that there is the first serious attempt to use manuscript evidence as a basis for establishing texts" (A.S.G. Edwards, in Ruggiers, 171). Hammond, 140. Spines evenly toned. A lovely set.
Price: USD 1,200.00 other currencies   order no. 30268   details     inquire
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HENRY, Patrick Document signed
HENRY, Patrick. Printed and manuscript document signed. Richmond, VA: August, 1786. Document measures approximately 15 inches by 13 inches. Framed with portrait; entire piece measures 32 inches by 22 inches. $6500. 1786 Land Grant, signed "P. Henry" as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Very handsomely matted and framed with portrait. Henry is among the most famous of our nation's forefathers, remembered above all else for having spoken the timeless words, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A lawyer by trade, he was a fiery orator and early radical whose 1765 Resolutions of the Stamp Act are seen by many historians as having initiated the Revolutionary War. With paper seal of the Commonwealth affixed at bottom. Document with folds and a bit of light soiling at edges. Signature large and clear. An impressive piece.
Price: USD 6,500.00 other currencies   order no. 30277   details     inquire
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PRIDEAUX, Humphrey Histoire des Juifs
PRIDEAUX, (Humphrey). Histoire des Juifs et des Peuples Voisins. Amsterdam and Leipzig: Chez Arkste'e & Merkus, 1755. Six volumes. 12mo, contemporary full mottled calf gilt, elaborately gilt-tooled spines, burgundy and olive morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. $2200. Early edition of Prideaux's six-volume History of the Jews, illustrated with fine copper-engraved plates and maps, in beautiful contemporary mottled calf-gilt bindings. The 21 engraved plates include 11 folding maps and views, including a large folding plan of the Temple of Jerusalem, and ten full-page plates and frontispieces. Prideaux's history of the Jews and "neighboring peoples" is referred to as his "Connection," as it bridges the historical gap between the Old and New Testaments. "The 'Connection,' which Lardner well calls 'learned and judicious,' supplied for a long time a real want, and stimulated further study" (DNB). The English edition of Prideaux's popular history first appeared in 1716-18, and ran through ten editions by 1749; the French translation was first published in Amsterdam, 1722. Text in French. With half titles in Volumes III-VI. Occasional embrowning to text only; folding plates clean and crisp. Exceptionally good condition, a superb illustrated set.
Price: USD 2,200.00 other currencies   order no. 30289   details     inquire
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CHAUCER Works
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works of Our Ancient, Learned, & Excellent English Poet, Jeffrey Chaucer... To which is adjoyn'd, The Story of the Siege of Thebes, by John Lidgate, Monk of Bury. Together with the Life of Chaucer.... London: [no publisher], 1687. Folio, period-style full speckled calf, elaborately gilt- and blind-stamped boards, raised bands, elaborately gilt decorated spines, red morocco label; pp. (xxxvi), 660, (24). $6500. 1687 edition of Chaucer's works, the last Gothic-type text edition, with engraved frontispiece "Progeny of Chaucer" plate incorporating portrait of the author and an image of his tomb. After this edition the quality of Chaucerian editorship declined, to be later revived in the 1775 Tyrwhitt edition of Canterbury Tales. This edition, essentially a reprint of Thomas Speght's 1602 edition, is the eighth collected edition and includes for the first time the printing of the conclusions to the Cook's and the Squire's Tale, then recently discovered, on the verso of the last leaf. The list of "Old and Obscure Words in Chaucer explained" is here marked with derivations, and a gloss has been added translating the Latin and French "not Englished" by Chaucer. "He was a great narrative artist, incomparably the greatest of an age that loved story-telling" (Sir Walter Raleigh). The imprint omits mention of printers, since the copyright of Chaucer's works belonged to the Stationer's Company. Beautifully printed in two columns of black-letter type, divisional title to the "Works" with three-quarter page woodcut arms and small woodcut armorial diagram on a2v, errata slip pasted over relevant text on G1v. Wing C3736. Pforzheimer 179. Bookplate. Beautifully bound and in fine condition.
Price: USD 6,500.00 other currencies   order no. 30322   details     inquire
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HALL, Radclyffe Well of Loneliness
HALL, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. New York: Covici-Friede, 1929. Two volumes. Octavo, original silver-stamped cloth and paper boards, top edges gilt, uncut. $800. Signed limited edition, number 135 of 225 copies signed by Radclyffe Hall, printed on Van Gelder handmade paper. This is the "Victory Edition," published nine months after the first edition, to celebrate the successful defense of the work against obscenity charges in New York's appellate court. The Well of Loneliness provided an open treatment of lesbianism "at a time when homosexuality could not be discussed in English books or in the English press. Unlike male inversion... the female kind was not officially acknowledged to exist in England. In 1920, the House of Lords declined to amend the criminal laws of England to include lesbians because the Lords did not admit such people lived" (de Grazia, 166-167). Following its 1928 publication in England, the book was ordered withdrawn from sale by the Secretary of the Home Office. Early in 1929 in New York, "Charles Sumner, Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, acting under a warrant... raided the office of the publisher and removed 865 copies remaining from the sixth edition, then raided Macy's book department" (Haight 94). This edition contains a summary of the court proceedings by defense attorney Morris Ernst, and a one-paragraph "Commentary" by Havelock Ellis, author of the suppressed 1897 Studies in the Psychology of Sex, who notes that "apart from its fine qualities as a novel by a writer of accomplished art... it is the first English novel which presents, in completely faithful and uncompromising form, one particular aspect of sexual life as it exists among us today." Among the many who protested the suppression of the novel were F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, George Bernard Shaw, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Rudyard Kipling, and Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer. The book remained contraband in England until 1959. Without the original slipcase. Interiors fine; spines lightly soiled on extremely good original cloth. An attractive pair in extremely good condition.
Price: USD 800.00 other currencies   order no. 30347   details     inquire
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FRANCE, Anatole Oeuvres Completes Illustrees
FRANCE, Anatole. Oeuvres Completes Illustrees de Anatole France. Paris: Calman-Levy, 1925-35. Twenty-five volumes. Small quarto, contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco gilt, patterned endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and mostly unopened. $3800. Very handsome set of the works of Anatole France, with hundreds of illustrations after compositions by Maxime Dethomas. Nobel Prize-winner Anatole France was known for "his graceful erudition, his love of beauty... his subtle, biting irony... his clarity of thought, and his elegant, melodious style" (Reid, 242). Edited with bibliographic notes by Leon Carais. Text in French. A handsome set in fine condition.
Price: USD 3,800.00 other currencies   order no. 30354   details     inquire
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LAMB, Charles Complete Correspondence and Works
LAMB, Charles. The Complete Correspondence and Works of Charles Lamb. London: E. Moxon, Son & Co., (1870). Four volumes. Octavo, early full olive polished calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, green and orange morocco spine labels, raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges. $550. The works of Lamb, including his correspondence, essays, poems, plays, and an essay on his life by Thomas Purnell, handsomely bound by Bickers & Son. With engraved frontispiece portrait. Bookplates. Pencil notations to rear free endpapers. Inner hinges reinforced with tape. An extremely good set.
Price: USD 550.00 other currencies   order no. 30385   details     inquire
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HALLAM, Henry Constitutional History of England
HALLAM, Henry. The Constitutional History of England From the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II. London: John Murray, 1867. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tan tree calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, red and black leather spine labels, marbled endpapers and edges. $1200. Eighth edition of Hallam's History, which helped to lay the foundations of the English historical school. Most handsomely bound by Tuckett, "Binder to the Queen." Macaulay praised this work as "the most impartial book we ever read," a view seconded by Walter Prescott (Allibone, 769). Originally published in 1827, Hallam's work remains a standard reference. (DNB). Lowndes, 982. A beautiful set in fine condition.
Price: USD 1,200.00 other currencies   order no. 30444   details     inquire
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SUE, Eugene Works
SUE, Eugene. Works. Boston: for Francis A. Niccolls & Co., (1899-1900). Fourteen volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter burgundy pebbled morocco gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, partially unopened. $2500. Limited edition, number 250 of 1000 copies, exquisitely illustrated with 42 tissue-guarded etched plates on Japanese vellum, including full-color frontispieces in each volume. The Wandering Jew (three volumes), Arthur (two volumes), The Seven Cardinal Sins (five volumes together), The Knight of Malta, and The Mysteries of Paris (three volumes) comprise this set. Title pages printed in blue and gold on Japanese vellum. One leaf in the first volume of Mysteries of Paris torn with loss and detached. Interiors bright. A handsomely bound set in near-fine condition.
Price: USD 2,500.00 other currencies   order no. 30486   details     inquire
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VON HOCHSTETTER, Ferdinand New Zealand
HOCHSTETTER, Friedrich von. New Zealand: Its Physical Geography, Geology and Natural History. Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta, 1867. Quarto, original full green elaborately gilt- and blind-stamped cloth, printed endpapers, all edges marbled. $1200. First edition in English of Hochstetter's groundbreaking work on the natural history of New Zealand, first published in German in 1863. Profusely illustrated with two color folding maps at rear, seven tinted plates, including frontispiece illustration, ten woodcut plates, and 93 in-text engravings. In 1857 Friedrich von Hochstetter was appointed the geologist of the Austrian government-sponsored Novara Expedition, a scientific journey around the world. He explored the physical wonders of New Zealand, Auckland, and Nelson, and, for being the first to interpret the facets of New Zealand's geological landscape, became known as the "Father of New Zealand Geology." Bookplate. Interior lightly foxed. Only light wear to original cloth. An extremely good copy.
Price: USD 1,200.00 other currencies   order no. 30548   details     inquire
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HEINE, Heinrich Works
HEINE, Heinrich. The Prose and Poetical Works of Heinrich Heine. New York: Croscup & Sterling Company, [1892-1905]. Twenty volumes. Octavo, contemporary full turquoise morocco gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated boards and spines with red morocco floral onlays, raised bands, gilt dentelles with watered silk doublures, top edges gilt, uncut and partially unopened. $11,800. Edition de Bibliophile, number 25 of only 75 sets printed on Holland hand-made paper, illustrated with 75 plates in double-suite, including hand-colored frontispieces in each volume. Magnificently bound by Croscup and Sterling. Translated into English and with introductions by Charles Godfrey Leland. Because Heine's prose works advocated greater social and economic freedom, the German government in 1835 declared his work "subversive." Includes The Book of Songs, Romancero, and Pictures of Travel, which contains Heine's most lasting work, "The Harz Journey." This set was sold by subscription only. A magnificently bound and wide-margined set in fine condition.
Price: USD 11,800.00 other currencies   order no. 30570   details     inquire
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SUMNER, Charles Complete Works
SUMNER, Charles. His Complete Works. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1900. Twenty volumes. Octavo, contemporary full red levant morocco gilt, raised bands, gilt-panelled boards, doublures, watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and unopened. $4800. Limited "Statesman" edition, number 300 of only 1000 copies, beautifully bound. Charles Sumner (1811-74), Senator from Massachusetts, was the leading voice in national government against slavery in the 1850s. After delivering a fiery oration against the Kansas-Nebraska act and the Fugitive Slave law in 1856-millions of copies of which were eventually sold in the North-he was brutally beaten on the Senate floor by Representative Preston S. Brooks, and act which outraged the Northern public and swayed significant public sympathy towards the abolitionists. He continued throughout his life to serve in the Senate and advocate the cause of abolition, and, after the war, of the newly freed Black men and women. Bookplates. A beautifully bound and unopened set in fine condition.
Price: USD 4,800.00 other currencies   order no. 30654   details     inquire
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PARKMAN, Francis Works
PARKMAN, Francis. Works. Boston: Little, Brown, 1890-92. Twelve volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers, and edges. $2500. Handsomely bound set of Parkman's works, illustrated with numerous maps. "Parkman ranks among the best historical writers of his country... his place is alongside the greatest historians whose works are English classics" (Allibone II, 1212). Parkman was one of the first American historians to consult original French and British manuscript material relating to the settlement of the West, and his writings possess a literary sophistication rarely found in the field of history. Among the works included in this set are his landmarks The Oregon Trail, LaSalle and the Discovery of the Great West, Pioneers of France in the New World, and The Old Regime in Canada. Interiors fine; light rubbing to extremities of contemporary bindings. A handsome set.
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SUTHERLAND, James Adventures of an Elephant Hunter
SUTHERLAND, James. The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter. London: Macmillan and Co., 1912. Octavo, original publisher's blue cloth, gilt centerpiece of an elephant on front cover, top edge gilt. $800. First edition, second printing (issued in the same year as the first) of this dramatic narrative of life on safari in Africa, illustrated with dozens of full-page and in-text photographic plates. One of the true classics of African big-game hunting, this work recounts the author's elephant-hunting exploits primarily along the Luwegu and Locheringo Rivers in East Africa. Sutherland made the world's record for shooting 447 bull elephants; there are encounters with rhinoceros, man-eating lion, leopard, and a variety of plains game as well. Evidence of bookplate removal to front endpapers. Just a bit of discoloration to publisher's cloth, gilt bright. A very good copy of this scarce title.
Price: USD 800.00 other currencies   order no. 30697   details     inquire
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LAMB, Charles Life and Works of Charles Lamb
LAMB, Charles. The Life and Works of Charles Lamb. Troy, New York: Pafraets, circa 1888. Twelve volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter navy morocco gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt, uncut and partially unopened. $2500. "Library" edition, number 701 of only 1000 sets. Handsomely bound by Stern. Includes the Essays of Elia, Tales from Shakespeare, and four volumes of Lamb's letters. Bookstamps. A handsome set in fine condition.
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STRUTT, Joseph Sports and Pastimes of the People of England
STRUTT, Joseph. The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England; Including the Rural and Domestic Recreations... from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. London: Printed by T. Bensley for White and Co., et. al., 1810. Large quarto, contemporary full brown polished calf gilt rebacked, original elaborately gilt-decorated spine laid down, black morocco spine labels, raised bands, ornately gilt- and blind-tooled covers, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers and edges. $1250. Second edition of this work first published in 1801, illustrated with a frontispiece engraving and 39 engraved plates. Strutt, antiquarian and skilled engraver, culled many of his descriptions and images from medieval manuscripts and early printed books to produce his extremely popular history of sports. Included are archery, hawking, horse racing, gambling, dancing, and cock-fighting. "In turning to the British Museum for models for his engravings [Strutt] developed that combination of text and illustration which made his antiquarian works uniquely valuable" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 499). Lowndes, 2533. Sparrow, 5. Interior lightly foxed. A beautiful, near-fine copy.
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MAYER, Luigi Views in the Ottoman Dominions
(MAYER, Luigi). Views in the Ottoman Dominions, in Europe and Asia, and Some of the Mediterranean Islands, from the Original Drawings Taken for Sir Robert Ainslie, by Luigi Mayer. London: by T. Bensley for R. Bowyer, 1810. Large folio (measures 14 inches by 19 inches), contemporary three-quarter brown morocco gilt, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. $15,000. First edition of this collection of 71 superb large folio hand-colored aquatint plates, including a folding panoramic view of Constantinople, after Mayer's drawings of views, mosques, ruins and monuments from the former northern dominions of the Ottoman Empire. While Sir Robert Ainslie was England's ambassador to Turkey at Constantinople from 1776 until 1792 he amassed a collection of original drawings by Luigi Mayer. The present work reproduces, by means of vividly hand-colored folio aquatints, views made by Mayer in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean, including Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Constantinople, Ephesus, Latachia, Tortosa, Samos and Jerusalem. This work completes publisher Bowyer's series of Mayer's views in the Ottoman Empire, the other three volumes of which were originally published separately in 1801, 1803 and 1804. Plates watermarked 1809, measuring approximately 18 by 13 inches. Abbey Travel 371. Blackmer 1100. Tooley 321. Colas 2022. Gay 2145. Inner hinges reinforced. One plate somewhat foxed, folding panorama of Constantinople with closed tear along fold, strictly marginal, otherwise interior quite clean and fine, coloring bright. A splendid volume. Scarce in this condition.
Price: USD 15,000.00 other currencies   order no. 30744   details     inquire
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ST. PIERRE, Bernardin de Paul and Virginia
BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE, Jaques-Henri. Paul and Virginia. London: W.S. Orr & Co., 1839. Small quarto, later full tan calf gilt, elaborately gilt-tooled spine, green morocco spine label, raised bands, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, uncut. $850. Later edition, beautifully bound by Rivière, profusely illustrated with 330 engravings after the works of famous artists, such as Meissonier, Johannot, and Francais, 30 of which are engraved plates, including frontispiece and vignette half-title. Paul et Virginie, the story by which Bernardin is chiefly remembered, first appeared in the 1787 edition of his Études de la Nature. The Études, "depicting natural scenes and arguing from their order and harmony against atheism, [was] a pioneer work in the literature of the picturesque, [and] brought him fame and profit." Bernardin "wrote in a rich, supple, and attractive style, and some of his descriptions of natural scenes have great charm... [H]is pictures of the sea and tropical landscapes were a novelty in French literature" (Harvey and Heseltine, 64). Text in English. A near-fine copy, beautifully bound.
Price: USD 850.00 other currencies   order no. 30782   details     inquire
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LAWRENCE, D.H. Autograph manuscript poem: 'Bombardment'
LAWRENCE, D.H. Autograph manuscript poem, "Bombardment." No place, no date. Octavo, one leaf, written on one side only, 12 lines, four verses in black ink. Housed in custom cloth portfolio. $9000. Autograph manuscript of the poem "Bombardment" in Lawrence's hand. The poem reads as follows: "The town has opened to the sun. Like a flat red lily with a million petals She unfolds, she comes undone. A sharp sky brushes upon The myriad glittering chimney-tips As she gently exhales to the sun. Hurrying creatures run Down the labyrinth of the sinister flower. What is it they shun? A dark bird falls from the sun. It curves in a rush to the heart of the vast Flower: the day has begun." This poem was first published in 1919 in Bay, a collection of poems Lawrence composed and published in response to World War I. "These poems, with those published in Poetry for July 1919 under the collective title of 'War Films,' and the 'Nightmare,' chapter of Kangaroo, comprise the greater part of Lawrence's literary reaction to the war" (Roberts A12). Lawrence began seriously working on the collection during the spring and summer of 1918. In a letter to Cecil Gray dated April 18, 1918, Lawrence writes: "I have made a little book of poems that Beaumont asked me for-all smallish, lyrical pieces. I have been doing poetry for a few weeks now... But it is exhausting to keep up. The first book has 18 poems, it more or less refers to the war, and is called Bay" (The Letters, 442). World War I proved to be a particularly difficult time for Lawrence. He and Frieda had returned to England shortly before war was declared, remaining there for the duration. Lawrence was not compelled to active service as a result of his poor health, and he and Frieda spent most of the war moving from house to house, in part because Frieda's German background raised local suspicions. The Rainbow was published in November 1915, only to be seized and suppressed immediately. "Such personal upheavals... represent a period of crisis for Lawrence. What Lawrence made of the war is seen in his writings... His response was not particularly unusual-an initial welcoming of the war, followed by horror, disgust and anger-but, at its height, the frenzy as we can discern it in letters and in biographical accounts was verging on pathological. The war rapidly became for Lawrence the obscene madness of an 'unclean world,' which, in its 'persistent nothingness,' had become hell" (Literature of Crisis, 114). Roberts A12. Originally sold by famed bookseller Jake Zeitland of California. A few light creases. On the whole in excellent condition, Lawrence's writing clear and bold. An extremely desirable and scarce manuscript poem.
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MAYHEW, Henry London Labour and the London Poor
MAYHEW, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor: The Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Cannot Work, and Will Not Work. London: Charles Griffin and Company, no date [circa 1864]-1862. Four volumes. Octavo, Volumes I-III in original publisher's plum pebbled cloth with gilt-decorated spines and gilt vignette to front covers; Volume IV in contemporary three-quarter brown morocco, raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. $2400. Early printings of this important Victorian-era London social study, including a first edition of the scarce Volume IV, the whole richly illustrated with wood engravings. "Although Mayhew incorporates a good deal of statistical material in his work, his method is essentially non-statistical: it is rather the concrete descriptive method of a journalist or novelist. His spiritual relatives are Dickens and Defoe... London Labour and the London Poor was the most comprehensive English [social] survey before Booth's... Mayhew's work is, in effect, a survey of the followers of certain occupations, and the people with whom he deals are, almost without exception, those who get their livelihood in the streets... street traders, mountebanks, crossing-sweepers, beggars and prostitutes.... Mayhew gives a good deal of statistical material, but the chief interest (and indeed delight) of his book is the copious description, largely first-hand, of all kinds of strange varieties of trades and of the lives of those who follow them" (Wells, The Local Social Survey in Great Britain, 21-22). The first three volumes are devoted to London street traders, peddlers and performers; this set is complete with the uncommon fourth volume, often not present, which deals with the vast London underworld of thieves, swindlers, beggars and prostitutes, and provides significant statistical data about crime and the criminal classes. With a total of 96 full-page wood-engraved plates and illustrations, as well as 16 maps. With half titles in Volumes I-III; not present in Volume IV. Volumes I-III were originally issued in 63 parts beginning in 1851. Early owner signature to first three volumes, dated 1875; bookplate to Volume IV. All four volumes show light wear, but bindings sound, interiors generally clean. A very good set of this scarce illustrated study.
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FEARNSIDE, W.G. Tombleson's Views of the Rhine
(TOMBLESON, W.) FEARNSIDE, W. G., editor. Tombleson's Views of the Rhine. London: W. Tombleson & Company, 1832. WITH: Tombleson's Upper Rhine. London: Tombleson & Co., no date [circa 1834]. Two volumes, uniformly bound. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter black calf gilt, marbled boards. $1500. First editions of Tombleson's lovely German scenes, richly illustrated with 137 steel-engraved plates after Tombleson and vignette title pages. Tombleson's views take us from Cologne, Bonn, and Godesburg in the first volume to the cities of the Upper Rhine, including Mannheim, Heidelberg and Strasbourg in the second volume. Without the folding map in Volume II. Plates generally clean, contemporary bindings quite handsome.
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INGOLDSBY, Thomas Ingoldsby Legends
INGOLDSBY, Thomas [BARHAM, Richard Harris]. The Ingoldsby Legends. London: Richard Bentley, 1894. Three volumes. Octavo, later three-quarter blue morocco, gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, watered-silk boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $950. Later edition of the collected legends, illustrated with 25 plates, engraved title pages in each volume, and numerous in-text illustrations by George Cruikshank, John Leech, Tenniel, and Du Maurier. Title pages printed in red and black. "The Ingoldsby Legends were first published from 1837 in Bentley's Magazine and The New Monthly Magazine, and first collected in 1840. Their lively rhythms and inventive rhymes, their comic and grotesque treatment of medieval legend, and their quaint narratives made them immensely popular" (Drabble, 66). CBEL, III, 226. A handsome set in near-fine condition.
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MILTON, John Poetical Works
MILTON, John. The Poetical Works of John Milton, With notes of Various Authors, and Some Account ofthe Life and Writings of Milton. By the Rev. Henry John Todd. London: Printed for J. Johnson, et al., 1809. Seven volumes. Octavo, contemporary full black straight-grain morocco gilt and blind-tooled, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $2500. Second edition of Milton's works, with "Considerable Additions," the only edition to contain Todd's Concordance, handsomely bound. Rev. Todd's edition of Milton's poetical works "is a most admirable one, both in the biographical part of it and where he appears in the character of editor and annotator" (Allibone, 1300). Also includes extensive notes and critical essays by Addison and Dr. Johnson, and Todd's Concordance, which offers "an incomparable index of words, applicable to any edition" (Lowndes, 1300). With engraved frontispiece plates in the first and second volumes. Interiors clean with only faint scattered foxing. Contemporary bindings quite handsome and fine.
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SOPHOCLES Electra
SOPHOCLES. Electra of Sophocles: Presented to Her Highnesse The Lady Elizabeth; With an Epilogue, Shewing the Parallell in two Poems, The Return, and The Restauration. By C.[hristopher] W.[ase]. The Hague: for Sam. Brown, 1649. 12mo, 18th-century full calf gilt rebacked, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $4800. First edition of the first English translation of Sophocles, with engraved portraits of Charles II and Princess Elizabeth. Christopher Wase's Electra was the first English translation of any play by Sophocles. Published in 1649, just after the execution of King Charles I, the translation and notes are strongly inflected by Wase's Royalist sympathies. The parallel between the ruined house of Stuart and the ruined house of Agamemnon is apt enough, and was not appreciated by the Parliamentary government. Without subtlety, Wase appended two original political poems to the end of the volume, "The Return" and "The Restauration." He was subsequently deprived of his fellowship at King's College, Cambridge, and captured at sea while fleeing England. He escaped from imprisonment but returned after a few years' service in the Spanish army. Despite the imprint, the Electra was almost certainly printed in London. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Princess Elizabeth by Francis Barlow (cropped very closely, as usual) and oval portrait of Prince Charles, the variant with scroll title reading "Jersey" (where the Prince was in 1649). With woodcut diagrams on page 19, illustrating Wase's distinctly odd footnote on how to make an axe ("Take a plate of iron infinite..."). Titles printed in red and black. Greg 683. Wing S4690. Interior generally clean. A very good copy.
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MERRICK, Leonard Works of Leonard Merrick
MERRICK, Leonard. The Works of Leonard Merrick. Fifteen volumes. WITH: The Little Dog Laughed. NewYork: E. P. Dutton, 1918-27, 1930. Together, 16 volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $1200. Limited edition, one of only 1550 sets. Handsomely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. "There have been many 'author's editions,' but never, so far as I know, one quite like this, in which the 'author' is not the writer himself but his contemporaries, who have entirely 'engineered' the edition themselves and have fallen over each other, so to speak, in this desire to join in the honour of writing the prefaces. Such is the unique esteem in which Mr. Merrick is held by his fellow-workers. For long he has been the novelists' novelist" (J. M. Barrie, from the introduction to Conrad in Quest of His Youth). Uniformly bound with The Little Dog Laughed, a work postdating the collected Works. Occasional faint foxing to endpapers. Spines evenly toned to brown. Fine condition, handsomely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.
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SMOLLETT, Tobias Works of Tobias Smollett
SMOLLETT, Tobias. The Novels. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. Eleven volumes. Octavo, contemporary full blue polished calf gilt, ornately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, red and green morocco labels, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and partially unopened. $3500. Limited large paper set of Smollett's novels, one of only 500 copies produced. Illustrated with numerous plates after Cruikshank and finely bound by Riviere and Son. This lovely large paper set was printed from type at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-Upon-Avon. Includes Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Count Fathom, Sir Launcelot Greaves, and Humphry Clinker. Text and plates fine and bright; only occasional most minor marginal dampstaining or light foxing to outer edges of a few leaves at front and rear of some volumes. Spines slightly toned, gilt bright. A fine set, beautifully bound.
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FIELDING, Henry Novels of Henry Fielding
FIELDING, Henry. Works. London: J.M. Dent, 1893. Twelve volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quartergreen morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $2500. Lovely Wortley edition of Fielding's works, number 203 of only 250 sets produced, with numerous illustrations. Fielding "is beyond question the real founder of the English novel as a genuine picture of men and women, and in some respects has never been surpassed" (DNB). This set includes all of Fielding's major novels: Amelia, Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, and Jonathan Wild the Great. Bookplates. A fine set, handsomely bound.
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ROYALTY Secret Court Memoirs. WITH: Historic Court Memoirs
(ROYALTY). Secret Court Memoirs. WITH: Historic Court Memoirs. Paris and Boston: The Grolier Society, circa 1900. Twenty volumes in all. Octavo, original three-quarter red morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt; uncut and partially unopened. $2500. Edition de Grand Luxe, number 669 of only 1000 sets, lavishly illustrated with over 160 tissue-guarded portraits and plates (etchings, photogravures, mezzotints, etc.). The set consists of memoirs of the courts of Napoleon and Josephine, Marie Antoinette, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Henry IV, Catherine II and the court of St. Petersburg, the courts of Berlin, Sweden and Denmark, and the memoirs of Maguerite de Valois, Madame de Montespan and Cardinal de Retz. Text and plates fine. Two volumes rebacked with original spines laid down, otherwise morocco bindings generally fine with only a few volumes showing some very slight wear to spine ends. Very handsomely bound and illustrated.
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SMOLLETT, Tobias Works of Tobias Smollett
SMOLLETT, Tobias. Works. London: Gibbings & Company, 1895. Twelve volumes. 12mo, original three-quarter olive green morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $1600. Limited "Bonhill Edition" of Smollett's novels, one of 250 sets produced. Illustrated with numerous plates by Frank Richards and specially bound for subscribers. Includes Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Count Fathom, Sir Launcelot Greaves, and Humphry Clinker. The text for this edition was prepared by the noted scholar George Saintsbury. A lovely set.
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BURKE, J. Bernard Historic Lands of England
BURKE, Bernard J. The Historic Lands of England. London: E. Churton, 1848-1849. Two volumes bound in one. Quarto, contemporary half-red morocco, raised bands, top edge gilt. $450. First edition of this look at England's historic estates, with 23 engraved plates and numerous in-text illustrations. John Bernard Burke, the son of renowned genealogist and author John Burke, "greatly assisted his father in his genealogical labours from 1840 onwards, and throughout his life devoted himself to similar pursuits" (DNB). With summaries of the various counties and descriptions of particular family holdings. Faint foxing to interior, minor rubbing to outer joints. A handsome copy.
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MATHEWS, Brander Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States
MATHEWS, Brander and HUTTON, Laurence, editors. Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States. Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1900. Four volumes. Octavo, 20th-century three-quarter blue morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, partially unopened. $750. "New Illustrated Edition," richly illustrated with over 60 black-and-white plates depicting renowned thespians, including frontispiece portraits in each volume. The editor Laurence Hutton, noted book collector, served as literary editor of Harper's Magazine from 1886 to 1898. Among the two-dozen famed actors and actresses discussed here are David Garrick, Edmund Kean, Charles James Mathews, Fannie Kemble, Sarah Siddons, and Francis Abington. Title pages printed in red and black. Fine condition, handsomely bound by Blackwell.
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HORNE, Andrew Somme Appelle Mirroir des Justices vel Speculum Justiciariorum
HORNE, Andrew. La Somme Apelle Mirroir des Justices vel Speculum Justiciariorum. London: for Matthew Walbancke and Richard Best, 1642. 24mo in eights, early calf expertly rebacked, red morocco spine label. $1250. First edition, in Law French, published four years before the first edition in English. "To Edward II's reign, or perhaps to the end of his father's, we must attribute the interesting but dangerous Mirrour of Justices of Andrew Horne, fishmonger and town clerk of London. It is the work of one profoundly dissatisfied with the administration of the law by the king's judges" (Maitland II:46). Text in French, printed in black letter. Wing H2790. Sweet & Maxwell 18. NYU, 38. Harvard Law Catalogue, I: 953. Marvin, 396. Complete with 148 leaves, with considerable mispagination (as issued). Leaf A7 worn at fore-edge, not affecting text. Very good condition.
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HARTE, Bret Writings of Bret Harte
HARTE, Bret. The Writings. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902. Sixteen volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter red morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut and partially unopened $900. "The Riverside Edition" of Harte's works. Includes such well-known short stories as "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "Tennessee's Partner," and "The Outcasts of Poker Flats." BAL 7384. Light wear to extremities of a few spines. A handsome set.
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JUDAICA Sefer Pirke Avot (Sayings of the Fathers)
(JUDAICA-MISHNAH) Sefer Pirke Avot [The Sayings of the Fathers]. Trattato di Abot o Sentenze Moralidei Rabbini, Tradotte dall'Ebraico da I. Costa. Livorno: Solomon Belforte, 1859. 12mo, modern blue buckram. $1250. Nineteenth-century Livorno edition of the Sayings of the Fathers, in Hebrew with Italian translation by I. Costa, printed by Solomon Belforte. "Livorno also became a center of Hebrew printing... Sixteen printers set up in Livorno between 1763 and 1870, the most important being the house of Solomon Belforte (established in 1838) which supplied the North African and Levantine market with liturgical books until the outbreak of World War II" (Encyclopaedia Judaica). Vinograd, Leghorn 1175. Title page within typographical border. A few leaves trimmed a little closely, just affecting running title. A very good copy.
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HURSTON, Zora Neale Bookmarks in the Pages of Life
(SAAR, Betye) HURSTON, Zora Neale. Bookmarks in the Pages of Life. A Selection of Short Stories... with Serigraphs by Betye Saar. (New York): Limited Editions Club, (2000). Folio, original publisher's three-quarter brown morocco and patterned paper boards, uncut. Housed in publisher's cloth clamshell box. $3800. Signed limited first edition of this selection of Hurston's stories, illustrated with six lovely folio serigraphs by Betye Saar. This copy number 121 of only 300 signed by Saar. This selection brings together six of Hurston's best stories-"Magnolia Flower," "Mother Catherine," "High John De Conquer," "The Conscience of the Court," "The Bone of Contention," and "Now You Cookin' with Gas"-each illustrated with one of Saar's serigraphs, which are colorful prints of collages made using fragments of fabric, paper and faded photographs. With Limited Editions Club newsletter laid in. A splendid production in fine condition.
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LAWSON, Robert Mr. Popper's Penguins
ATWATER, Richard and Florence. Mr. Popper's Penguins. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. Boston: Little,Brown and Company, 1938. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. $850. First edition of one of illustrator Robert Lawson's most popular books, with color and black and white plates and numerous in-text illustrations. Richard Atwater was inspired to write this tale about a housepainter who dreams of Antarctic exploration and keeps a pet penguin after seeing a film of Richard Byrd's first Antarctic Expedition. "Mr. Popper's Penguins received a Newbery Honor, was named a Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice in 1941, and was awarded a Lewis Carroll shelf designation in 1958" (Silvey, 35). Owner signature. Book near-fine. Dust jacket lightly chipped; spine somewhat worn, with expert repair to verso, front and rear panels quite nice and bright. A very good copy.
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FINLASON, W.F. Reeves' History of the English Law
FINLASON, W[illiam] F[rancis], editor. Reeves' History of the English Law. Philadelphia: M. Murphy,1880. Five volumes. Octavo, early three-quarter brown morocco gilt, gilt-stamped spines, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $1200. "New American Edition" of this comprehensive history, handsomely bound. The object of John Reeves, king's printer, in penning the legal history "was to furnish the student with a guide to 'Coke upon Littleton,' to which work it may be considered as an introduction" (DNB). In "the first edition, published in 1784-85, the author did not advance beyond the reign of Henry VII. The second edition, 1787, brought the History to the end of the reign of Philip and Mary. In 1829, another volume was added, including the reign of Elizabeth" (vii). Bookplates. Owner signatures from the year of publication. A fine set.
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CARROLL, Lewis Wonderland Postage-Stamp-Case
CARROLL, Lewis. The "Wonderland" Postage-Stamp-Case. Invented by Lewis Carroll. Oxford: Emberlin and Son, [1891]. Folding card, 16mo (measuring approximately 3 inches by 4 inches), in original linen-backed pictorial sleeve and original publisher's paper envelope. $300. Third edition, with two color illustrations printed both on the booklet covers and on the original paper slipcase. Invented by Carroll, an avid letter writer, this small folding stamp-case contains twelve small sewn pockets to hold stamps from 1/2 d to 1 s in value. Both the case and cover sleeve bear two corresponding colored images of Alice on rectos and the Cheshire Cat on versos, "and are so arranged as to form two 'Surprises,' for on pulling out the case, the cover picture of Alice holding the Duchess's baby turns into Alice holding the pig, and on the other side the Cheshire Cat, whole and entire, turns into the well-known residual smile of that quadruped" (Williams, 157). The Stamp-Case was invented by Carroll late in 1888, and was usually issued with a separately printed booklet Eight or Nine Wise Words, containing Carroll's humorous directions for the use of stamp-cases and proper instructions for letter-writing, which is not present with this copy. Third edition of the envelope with second line of description ending with "pictorial"; third edition of the stamp case with the post-free price preceding the ordinary price. Williams 223-25. Original publisher's fragile paper envelope with some light wear. Case and cover sleeve in fine condition.
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SINGER, I.B. King of the Fields
SINGER, Isaac Bashevis. The King of the Fields. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1988). Octavo, original blue cloth, original slipcase. $300. Signed limited edition, number 291 of 300 copies signed by Singer. Published in the same year as the first trade edition. Faint spotting to front cover. A fine copy.
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RAVEL, Maurice Bolero
RAVEL, Maurice. Bolero. Paris: Durand et Cie, 1929. Octavo, original paper wrappers, original glassine. $6000. Miniature study score, inscribed by the composer to the music critic Jean Marnold (dedicatee's name partly erased): "à J... M... / affectueusement / Maurice Ravel." "There should be no misunderstanding as to my Boléro," wrote Ravel. "Before the first performance, I issued a warning to the effect that what I had written was a piece lasting seventeen minutes and consisting wholly of orchestral tissue without music-of one long, very gradual crescendo. There are no contrasts, and there is practically no invention... The themes are impersonal-folk tunes of the usual Spanish-Arabian kind." Actually, "although the title is Spanish, and Ravel knew Spain, this work bears only the slightest resemblance to the authentic Spanish dance [the boléro]" (Fuld, 149). As with Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, one is unlikely to think of the original ballet scenario during a performance of the music: the sweep and magnificence of its execution suggest something more picturesque than five dancers in a café (the scenario devised by Ida Rubinstein). Ravel had originally predicted that major orchestras would refuse to program Boléro, but it became his most popular piece by far Orenstein, 239. Fuld, 149. This copy was inscribed to the critic Jean Marnold, Ravel's ardent supporter and close friend. The inscription is not dated, but the study score was first published in 1929, and by 1933 Ravel was having difficulty writing his name owing to a debilitating disease. Fine in original glassine.
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MAIRAN, Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Dissertation sur la Glace
MAIRAN, [Jean Jacques] d'Ortous de. Dissertation Sur La Glace, ou Explication Physique de la formation de la Glace, & de ses divers phénomènes. Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale, 1749. 12mo, contemporary full brown calf gilt, gilt-stamped spine, red morocco spine label, raised bands. $650. First illustrated edition of this treatise on the formation of ice, first published in 1716, here with engraved frontispiece and five detailed folding plates of scientific diagrams at rear. The Enlightenment scientist Mairan, 1678-1771, "was an important and sometimes controversial figure in the scientific community of his day. Working in the decades during which Newtonian ideas were becoming known in France, Mairan incorporated some of them in his theories; but he remained basically Cartesian" (Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 33). Text in French. Interior fine. Binding attractive. An extremely good copy.
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BOERHAAVE, Herman Tractatio Medico Practica de Lue Venerea
BOERHAAVE, Hermanno. Tractatio Medico Practica de Lue Venerea. Continens hujus affectionis Historiam, Originem, Progressum, Causas, Symptomata, & Curationem. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Henricum Vander Deyster et Philippum Bonk, 1751. 12mo, early three-quarter vellum, marbled boards. $850. First edition of this early treatise on venereal disease, with engraved frontispiece portrait of Boerhaave. Boerhaave, the leading physician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, is known for his emphasis on the Hippocratic concept of the practice of medicine, which advanced his fame as the greatest clinician in Europe. His pupil, the great Albrecht von Haller, called him "The General Teacher of All Europe." "Boerhaave had a great reputation as a clinician; he was, in fact, the creator of the modern method of clinical teaching. His writings had an enormous influence during his lifetime. Haller, Cullen, Pringle, van Swieten and de Haen were among his pupils." Garrison and Morton 73. See Garrison-Morton 2199. Text in Latin. Extremities lightly rubbed. A fine copy.
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SAYERS, Tom Original Boxing Lithograph
(BOXING). Original Boxing Lithograph. London: George Newbold, 1860. Print measures 41 by 29 inches.Handsomely framed, entire piece measures 45 by 33 inches. $6500. Original lithograph printed in color depicting the World Championship boxing match between Tom Sayers and John Heenan held at Farnborough on April 17, 1860, one of the most exciting and famed events in the history of pugilism. Although British champion Tom Sayers was slightly below the average height and weight specifications for boxers of his day, "so great were his strength and courage that he became the most distinguished fighter of his day, and the unconquered champion of England" (DNB). Some forty pounds heavier, John Heenan, commonly known as "Benicia Boy," was the reigning American champion. The two met in Farnborough, England on April 17, 1860 for the highly anticipated international championship match: "The event excited the keenest interest in both hemispheres, and was witnessed by persons in every rank of society" (DNB). The two contestants fought thirty-seven rounds in two hours and six minutes. Round after round, both boxers struggled to achieve dominance in the ring, until finally, Heenan, recognizing that he could not gain an advantage through blows alone, backed Sayers into "such a position on the ropes that strangulation was imminent" (DNB). Enraged that their national champion was about to be strangled, the crowd burst through the ring and ended the match. The referee declared a draw and both Sayers and Heenan were awarded championship belts. Sayers is depicted on the left; Heenan is on the left. This lithograph was designed from 250 portrait photographs taken specifically for this work and drawn by W. L. Walton. One five-inch tear (repaired on verso). Otherwise a bright, beautiful original lithograph, commemorating one of the most important contests in boxing history.
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BERLIOZ, Hector Damnation de Faust
BERLIOZ, Hector. La Damnation de Faust. Légende Dramatique en quatre parties... Oeuv: 24. Grande Partition avec texte Français et Allemand.... Paris: S. Richault, [1856]. Folio, modern half brown cloth, brown morocco spine label, marbled boards and endpapers. $4800. First edition, first issue, of the full score of Berlioz's great oratorio, with the engraved frontispiece. Berlioz read a translation of the first part of Goethe's Faust in 1828, and immediately began work on eight Scenes from Faust. He sent the score to Goethe for his approval; this was not forthcoming. Goethe was unmusical, but a composer acquaintance had objected to unconventional elements of Berlioz's score, and so Faust lay fallow for some years. Later Berlioz resurrected the project, not as an opera, but as a semi-staged work he called a "dramatic legend." La Damnation de Faust was performed in Paris at the Opera-Comique on December 6, 1846. "The nature music is particularly striking, in Faust's welcome of spring at the beginning and the invocation early in the fourth part, where harmony and orchestration display Berlioz's genius for the unexpected within the span of a huge melodic line... The finale of the second part, combining the songs of both soldiers and students, is a tour de force; and the Pandaemonium... is an apocalyptic scene worthy of... Blake" (New Grove 2: 596). "The earliest copies of this score in the Bibliotheque Nationale and Conservatoire de Musique have a lithographed frontispiece by F. Sorrieu of Faust being pushed down into Hell by devils with forks" (Hopkinson, 116); the frontispiece is present here. Hopkinson, 54A. Hirsch, IV: 694. Fuld, 547. Inkstamp of Richault (the publisher) on title page. Moderate foxing to early and later leaves, scattered light foxing throughout text. A very good copy.
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LAWRENCE, T.E. Form of Service Used at the Unveiling of the Memorial
(LAWRENCE, T. E.) ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. Form of Service Used at the Unveiling of the Memorial to Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia. Wednesday, 29th January, 1936, at 5:30 p.m. (London: R. E. Thomas & Newman, 1936). Octavo, original printed paper wrappers, stapled as issued; pp. 8. $200. First edition of the program of St. Paul's memorial service for Lawrence of Arabia, with photographic frontispiece of the memorial. O'Brien E093. Faint crease from old fold. A near-fine copy.
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HENRY, Patrick Document signed
HENRY, Patrick. Document signed. Richmond, Virginia, August, 1786. Folio, one page, vellum, printeddocument completed in hand. Document measures approximately 14-1/2 inches by 13 inches. $3000. 1786 Land Grant, signed "P. Henry" as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. This document grants 880 and 1/4 acres of land in Fayette county to Moses and Edward Hall "and their heirs for ever." With most of the original paper seal of the Commonwealth affixed at bottom. Document with folds, a few small tears and holes at folds and a bit of minor soiling. Henry's signature large and clear.
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AINE, H. Roux Herculanum et Pompei Recueil General des Peintures, Bronzes, Mosaiques
(POMPEII) AINE, H. Roux and BARRE, M.L. Herculanum et Pompei Recueil General des Peintures, Bronzes, Mosaiques, Etc. Decouverts jusqu'a ce Jour, et Reproduit d'Apres le Antichita di Ercolano, il Museo Borbonico et Tous les Ouvrages Analogues Augmente de Sujets Inedits. Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot, 1870-72. Eight volumes. Large octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown pebbled morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers and boards, top edges gilt. $1800. Later edition in eight volumes, illustrated with 790 plates depicting bronzes, paintings, frescoes and mosaics found during the excavation of the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii, including the erotic works of the "secret museum." First published 1840. Text in French. Bookplate. Light scattered foxing, bindings fine. A handsome set.
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KIP, Lawrence Army Life on the Pacific
KIP, Lawrence. Army Life on the Pacific; a Journal of the Expedition Against the Northern Indians, the Tribes of the Coeur D'Alenes, Spokans, and Pelouzes, in the Summer of 1858. New York: Redfield, 1859. 12mo, publisher's full brown cloth. $500. First edition of the "best account, by a participant, of the 1858 campaign against the northwestern tribes" (Howes K172). Sabin 37944. Field 837. Lacking rear free endpaper. Small tear with some loss to title page. Lightly faded publisher's cloth a bit rubbed but quite sound. A very good copy.
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SMITH, F. Hopkinson Works
SMITH, F. Hopkinson. The Works of F. Hopkinson Smith. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902-15. Twenty-six volumes. Small octavo, contemporary three-quarter dark red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $1800. "Beacon" edition, number 64 of only 204 sets, with the portrait signed by the author, printed on Ruisdael hand-made paper, with extra illustrations in color. Includes Smith's novels, stories, and sketches, with numerous illustrations by the author. Smith is noted for his varied achievements as an artist, writer, engineer, and lecturer. "His special talent lay in the anecdote, the local-color sketch, and the tale, forms he handled with a sure sympathy for what was picturesque and human" (DAB IX: 266). BAL 18233. Very minor chipping to two spine heads. A very handsome set.
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SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles Poems
SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. The Poems. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1905. Six volumes. Octavo, contemporary full green calf gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt. $1800. Finely bound set of Swinburne's Poems, in full calf gilt by Bumpus. Includes Swinburne's first published work, Atalanta in Calydon, which brought Swinburne instant celebrity; Songs Before Sunrise and A Song of Italy, which express his support for Mazzini in the struggle for Italian independence; and all three series of Poets and Ballads, including the first (1866), which features his most notorious poems ("Dolores," "Hymn to Proserphine," and "The Triumph of Time"). Contemporary owner signature. Two volumes with toning to boards only. A lovely set in very good condition.
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HEALY, Michael Augustine Report of the Cruise of the Revenue
HEALY, M(atthew) A(ugustine). Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1885. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887. Quarto, contemporary full law sheep, red and black morocco spine labels. $750. First (and only) edition, with two large folding maps, 38 pages of wood engravings and four full-page color lithographs. Healy, the son of an Irish immigrant and a Georgia slave, was the first African-American to be appointed commander aboard a cutter of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, a precursor to the modern U.S. Coast Guard. His most distinguished service was while in command of the Corwin, participating in several rescues, including members of the Greeley expedition. It has been conjectured that Healy was Jack London's model for the cruel Captain Wolf Larsen of The Sea-Wolf. Contains Healy's report as well as those of junior officers on the "Exploration of the Kowak River, Alaska" and the "Exploration of the Noatak River." A second volume of reports from Healy's expedition was published in 1889; this volume is complete as issued with all of the illustrations. Ex-libris, with one small ink stamp to front free endpaper; remnants of paper label to foot of spine. Interior clean, c