2009 June Grand Format Rare Books Auction
| Sale Number: | 6025 |
| Location: | Heritage Auctions - Dallas 3500 Maple Ave 17th Floor Dallas, TX 75219 |
| Auction Date: | June 16th at 2 PM CT through June 17th |
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Session 1
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Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. First on the Moon. A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. Written with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin. Epilogue by Arthur C. Clarke. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1970].
First edition. Inscribed and signed on the half-title page: "To Joseph Sakmyster- With Best Wishes Neil Armstrong", and signed "Buzz Aldrin" and "Michael Collins". Octavo. xiii, 434 pages. Black and white illustrations.
Publisher's black cloth over boards. Blindstamped title on front. Gilt title on spine. In original dust jacket with $7.95 price intact. Lightly rubbed on the spine ends and corners with mild soiling to the rear board. Dust jacket shows minimal edge wear, primarily at the spine ends and corners. There are two light fold lines to the rear inner flap, one running the length. A near fine copy.
This summer marks the fortieth anniversary of the watershed landing of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle in the moon's Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969 with Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin aboard. This was the culmination of more than eight years of hard work by thousands of talented and brave individuals responding to President John F. Kennedy's challenge, made May 25, 1961: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." Collectors of space memorabilia consider the autographs of the Apollo 11 astronauts an important and necessary acquisition, with all three signatures on one item the ultimate goal. This original signed first edition, telling the inside story of this world-changing event in the words of the very participants, would make a handsome and worthy addition to any collection. Included with the book is a signed Certificate of Authenticity from Space Coast Cover Service.
First edition. Inscribed and signed on the half-title page: "To Joseph Sakmyster- With Best Wishes Neil Armstrong", and signed "Buzz Aldrin" and "Michael Collins". Octavo. xiii, 434 pages. Black and white illustrations.
Publisher's black cloth over boards. Blindstamped title on front. Gilt title on spine. In original dust jacket with $7.95 price intact. Lightly rubbed on the spine ends and corners with mild soiling to the rear board. Dust jacket shows minimal edge wear, primarily at the spine ends and corners. There are two light fold lines to the rear inner flap, one running the length. A near fine copy.
This summer marks the fortieth anniversary of the watershed landing of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle in the moon's Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969 with Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin aboard. This was the culmination of more than eight years of hard work by thousands of talented and brave individuals responding to President John F. Kennedy's challenge, made May 25, 1961: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." Collectors of space memorabilia consider the autographs of the Apollo 11 astronauts an important and necessary acquisition, with all three signatures on one item the ultimate goal. This original signed first edition, telling the inside story of this world-changing event in the words of the very participants, would make a handsome and worthy addition to any collection. Included with the book is a signed Certificate of Authenticity from Space Coast Cover Service.
[John Cartwright]. American Independence, The Interest and Glory of Great Britain. A New Edition. To which is added, A copious Appendix, containing two additional Letters to the Legislature; a Letter to Edmund Burke, Esq; controverting his Principles of American Government. And A Postscript, containing new Arguments on the Subject; A Draught for a Bill proposed to be brought into Parliament for restoring Peace and Harmony between Great-Britain and British America, and for perpetuating the same... London: Printed for the Author, by H. S. Woodfall. Sold by J. Wilkie, No. 71, St. Paul's Church-yard; and at the Pamphlet-Shops, 1775.
Two octavo volumes in one. xvi, iv, [1]-72, 1-15 (Appendix), [1]-30, 1-51 (Postscript), Errata. With a folding map of British America, with suggested names and divisions.
Later full polished calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with triple-ruled borders and circular gilt corner designs, elaborate gilt tooling in compartments along the spine with two crimson leather title plates lettered in gilt inside five raised bands. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. A gorgeously bound volume. Minor shelf wear to the binding. Some offsetting to the endpapers where they make contact with the inner dentelles. Text very clean and bright. The bookplate of R. B. Adam, prolific bibliophile and collector of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and Edmund Burke among others, is affixed to the front pastedown. A near fine copy.
Sabin 11154 and 11157.
Two octavo volumes in one. xvi, iv, [1]-72, 1-15 (Appendix), [1]-30, 1-51 (Postscript), Errata. With a folding map of British America, with suggested names and divisions.
Later full polished calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with triple-ruled borders and circular gilt corner designs, elaborate gilt tooling in compartments along the spine with two crimson leather title plates lettered in gilt inside five raised bands. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. A gorgeously bound volume. Minor shelf wear to the binding. Some offsetting to the endpapers where they make contact with the inner dentelles. Text very clean and bright. The bookplate of R. B. Adam, prolific bibliophile and collector of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and Edmund Burke among others, is affixed to the front pastedown. A near fine copy.
Sabin 11154 and 11157.
George Catlin. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. Written during eight years' travel (1832-1839) amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America. With several hundred illustrations from the author's original paintings. London: Published for the Author, 1841.
First edition, first issue (with uncorrected error "Frederick" for "Zedekiah" on page 104, line 26 of Volume I). Two octavo volumes. viii, 264; viii 266 pages. Three maps (one folding) and 309 line-cut reductions of his original paintings on 177 plates.
Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards, rebacked with the original spines laid down. Spine in compartments with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt and lettered in gilt on red and green morocco lettering labels. Marbled endpapers and edges. Bindings lightly bumped and scraped, but still very handsome. Two bookplates to each front pastedown endpaper. Tipped into the front of Volume I is a page and a half of unattributed manuscript or notes for a review of the second edition of Catlin's book that appeared in the 1842 Edinburgh Review (Art. VI on page 415). Occasional minor foxing to some plates, sometimes heavier along the fore-edge margin. Text is bright and clean. A very good, attractive set.
Howes C241. McCracken, George Catlin and the Old Frontier. Streeter 1805. Wagner-Camp-Becker 84:1.
First edition, first issue (with uncorrected error "Frederick" for "Zedekiah" on page 104, line 26 of Volume I). Two octavo volumes. viii, 264; viii 266 pages. Three maps (one folding) and 309 line-cut reductions of his original paintings on 177 plates.
Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards, rebacked with the original spines laid down. Spine in compartments with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt and lettered in gilt on red and green morocco lettering labels. Marbled endpapers and edges. Bindings lightly bumped and scraped, but still very handsome. Two bookplates to each front pastedown endpaper. Tipped into the front of Volume I is a page and a half of unattributed manuscript or notes for a review of the second edition of Catlin's book that appeared in the 1842 Edinburgh Review (Art. VI on page 415). Occasional minor foxing to some plates, sometimes heavier along the fore-edge margin. Text is bright and clean. A very good, attractive set.
Howes C241. McCracken, George Catlin and the Old Frontier. Streeter 1805. Wagner-Camp-Becker 84:1.
Henry Clay. The Works of Henry Clay. New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1904.
Federal Edition. Limited to 1,000 numbered sets (this set being number 358), signed by the publisher. Ten octavo volumes. Photogravure frontispiece (in Volume X). Descriptive tissue guards. Title pages printed in red and black. Added title on Japanese vellum.
Contemporary three-quarter dark olive crushed levant morocco, ruled in gilt, over pale green watered silk cloth boards. Spines decoratively panelled and lettered in gilt; pale green watered silk endleaves. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spines faded to brown. A near fine set.
Federal Edition. Limited to 1,000 numbered sets (this set being number 358), signed by the publisher. Ten octavo volumes. Photogravure frontispiece (in Volume X). Descriptive tissue guards. Title pages printed in red and black. Added title on Japanese vellum.
Contemporary three-quarter dark olive crushed levant morocco, ruled in gilt, over pale green watered silk cloth boards. Spines decoratively panelled and lettered in gilt; pale green watered silk endleaves. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spines faded to brown. A near fine set.
John Cotton. The Churches Resurrection, or the Opening of the Fift and sixt verses of the 20th Chap. of the Revelation. By that Learned and Reverend, Iohn Cotton Teacher to the Church of Boston in New England, and there corrected by his own hand. London: Printed by R. O. & G. D. for Henry Overton, and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head-Alley, 1642.
Twelvemo. 30 pages.
Later full brown leather double-ruled in gilt on the boards, with decorative gilt stamping on the spine and two leather spine title plates lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Modern shelf wear to the binding, with some rubbing of the leather along the edges and spine. Textblock bright and clean with only scattered minimal foxing. The bookplate of renowned bibliophile and Americana collector Frederick Skiff is affixed to the front pastedown. A wonderfully preserved early Americana text in very good condition.
Brinley 546; Dexter 864; JCB II:296; Sabin 17054; Stevens 927; Stevens Nuggets 751; Tuttle 22; Wing C6419.
Twelvemo. 30 pages.
Later full brown leather double-ruled in gilt on the boards, with decorative gilt stamping on the spine and two leather spine title plates lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Modern shelf wear to the binding, with some rubbing of the leather along the edges and spine. Textblock bright and clean with only scattered minimal foxing. The bookplate of renowned bibliophile and Americana collector Frederick Skiff is affixed to the front pastedown. A wonderfully preserved early Americana text in very good condition.
Brinley 546; Dexter 864; JCB II:296; Sabin 17054; Stevens 927; Stevens Nuggets 751; Tuttle 22; Wing C6419.
John Cotton. The Way of the Churches of Christ in New-England. Or, The Way of Churches walking in brotherly equality, or coordination, without Subjection of one Church to another. Measured and examined by the Golden Reed of the Sanctuary. Containing a full Declaration of the Churchway in all Particulars. London: Printed by Matthew Simmons in Aldersgate Street, 1645.
First edition. Sixteenmo. [7], 116, [3] pages.
Bound in later three-quarter red leather with marbled boards and gilt spine titles inside four raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Minimal shelf wear to the boards, with light wear to the corners. Noted bibliophile and Americana collector Frederick W. Skiff's bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. Textblock somewhat toned. Offsetting to endpapers where they contact the leather binding. Margins somewhat trimmed. Terminal leaf of advertisement backed on paper. A very good copy.
Brinley 551; Dexter 1112; JCB II-329; Sabin 17090; Stevens 936; Stevens Nuggets 756; Tuttle 38; Wing C6471.
First edition. Sixteenmo. [7], 116, [3] pages.
Bound in later three-quarter red leather with marbled boards and gilt spine titles inside four raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Minimal shelf wear to the boards, with light wear to the corners. Noted bibliophile and Americana collector Frederick W. Skiff's bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. Textblock somewhat toned. Offsetting to endpapers where they contact the leather binding. Margins somewhat trimmed. Terminal leaf of advertisement backed on paper. A very good copy.
Brinley 551; Dexter 1112; JCB II-329; Sabin 17090; Stevens 936; Stevens Nuggets 756; Tuttle 38; Wing C6471.
[Declaration of Independence Signers]. Acts Passed at the First Session of the Congress of the United States of America, Begun and Held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the Fourth of March, in the Year M,DCC,LXXXIX .... Volume I. Philadelphia: E. Oswald, 1793.
Octavo. Clipped signatures of two signers of the Declaration of Independence, William Williams and Oliver Wolcott, both of Connecticut, affixed to the front free endpaper. 375 pages, followed by unpaginated table of contents and index.
Contemporary full morocco. Title label on spine with gilt lettering. Inked name of previous owner and presentation sentiments on front endpapers. Bookplate of the Washington County Historical Society affixed to rear pastedown. Pasted to the front free endpaper are clipped signatures of two of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, William Williams and Oliver Wolcott, both of Connecticut. Binding worn and dulled. Front board almost detached. Rear joint splitting. Foxing throughout. Overall, in very good condition.
This item was published as a two-volume set. Volume II contained the acts passed at the first session of the second Congress of the United States.
Octavo. Clipped signatures of two signers of the Declaration of Independence, William Williams and Oliver Wolcott, both of Connecticut, affixed to the front free endpaper. 375 pages, followed by unpaginated table of contents and index.
Contemporary full morocco. Title label on spine with gilt lettering. Inked name of previous owner and presentation sentiments on front endpapers. Bookplate of the Washington County Historical Society affixed to rear pastedown. Pasted to the front free endpaper are clipped signatures of two of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, William Williams and Oliver Wolcott, both of Connecticut. Binding worn and dulled. Front board almost detached. Rear joint splitting. Foxing throughout. Overall, in very good condition.
This item was published as a two-volume set. Volume II contained the acts passed at the first session of the second Congress of the United States.
Amelia Earhart. 20 Hrs. 40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship. The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.
First edition. "Author's Autograph Edition." Limited to 150 numbered copies, this being number 127, signed by the author. Octavo. 374 pages. Frontispiece. Many illustrations. Affixed to the front pastedown is a small American flag in a plastic sleeve, beneath which is printed: "This is one of the flags taken by Miss Earhart across the Atlantic in the Friendship."
Maroon cloth and paper over boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Bookplate on front pastedown of Irving W. Robbins. Mild fading to the upper portion of the front board. Front hinge cracked and starting. Frontispiece tissue guard has a short tear at fore-edge. Overall, an outstanding copy in near fine condition. Exceedingly bright and clean.
Amelia Earhart's first book. In it she recounts the 1928 transatlantic flight, in which she assisted. This followed Lindbergh's solo flight of the previous year. In the September 1928 issue of Popular Science, Earhart is quoted as saying that the flight of the Friendship is intended "to point the road toward the seaplane instead of the land plane as a means of flying across oceans, and multi-engine planes instead of single-engine. It will help toward more comfortable flying; when women demand planes not only comfortable, but luxurious, men will build them."
First edition. "Author's Autograph Edition." Limited to 150 numbered copies, this being number 127, signed by the author. Octavo. 374 pages. Frontispiece. Many illustrations. Affixed to the front pastedown is a small American flag in a plastic sleeve, beneath which is printed: "This is one of the flags taken by Miss Earhart across the Atlantic in the Friendship."
Maroon cloth and paper over boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Bookplate on front pastedown of Irving W. Robbins. Mild fading to the upper portion of the front board. Front hinge cracked and starting. Frontispiece tissue guard has a short tear at fore-edge. Overall, an outstanding copy in near fine condition. Exceedingly bright and clean.
Amelia Earhart's first book. In it she recounts the 1928 transatlantic flight, in which she assisted. This followed Lindbergh's solo flight of the previous year. In the September 1928 issue of Popular Science, Earhart is quoted as saying that the flight of the Friendship is intended "to point the road toward the seaplane instead of the land plane as a means of flying across oceans, and multi-engine planes instead of single-engine. It will help toward more comfortable flying; when women demand planes not only comfortable, but luxurious, men will build them."
W. H. Emory. Notes of a Military Reconnaissance. Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1848.
First edition, second issue of the Senate issue (with Emory's rank given as brevet major). Octavo. 416 pages. Forty plates, of which fourteen are botanical specimens, three plans, and one large folding map which is linen-backed and separate.
Original vertical-ribbed brown cloth with printed paper label on spine (chipped heavily). Some inoffensive foxing throughout, four pages in the Appendix of astronomical tables have top right corners excised affecting text of titles but not readings. Long thumb-shaped gap of paper removed from rear endpaper, pencil markings to rear endpapers, and pencil annotations to map. Linen-backed map is darkened. Still, a very good copy with the scarce large map.
First edition, second issue of the Senate issue (with Emory's rank given as brevet major). Octavo. 416 pages. Forty plates, of which fourteen are botanical specimens, three plans, and one large folding map which is linen-backed and separate.
Original vertical-ribbed brown cloth with printed paper label on spine (chipped heavily). Some inoffensive foxing throughout, four pages in the Appendix of astronomical tables have top right corners excised affecting text of titles but not readings. Long thumb-shaped gap of paper removed from rear endpaper, pencil markings to rear endpapers, and pencil annotations to map. Linen-backed map is darkened. Still, a very good copy with the scarce large map.
[Benjamin Franklin]. Richard Saunders [pseudonym]. Poor Richard improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris of the Motions of the Sun and Moon; the True Places and Aspects of the Planets; the Rising and Setting of the Sun; and the Rising, Setting and Southing of the Moon, for the Year of Our Lord...1764-1768. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, [1763-1765] and Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by D. Hall, and W. Sellers, [1766-1767].
Sixteenmo. Bound as such: 1764: [4] pages; 1768: [46] pages (no initial pages); 1765: [32] pages (missing [33-36]); 1766 [36] pages (complete); 1767 [30] pages (missing [27-32]). Textual woodcut illustrations throughout, including small woodcuts illustrating the different signs of the zodiac accompanying each month of the almanac. The illustration, "The Anatomy of Man's Body, as govern'd by the Twelve Constellations," appears on page [5] of the 1765-1767 editions.
Beautiful Vauthrin binding commissioned by a previous owner while in Paris in 1905. The binding is modern dark green morocco with gilt spine titles inside five raised bands and double-ruled gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine faded to brown. Minimal edge wear. Many paper repairs to pages throughout. Brown dampstain to bottom half of most leaves. Age-toning to the textblock. Scattered contemporary marginalia. Same previous owner's (probably the original owner's) signature on each title page except for 1765.
Close inspection yields a binding error as follows: the first two leaves are from the 1764 edition (the only leaves which appear here from that edition). The next 23 leaves correspond to the 1768 edition (and perhaps some pages from other years, but it is difficult to ascertain) which has been misbound behind the two leaves of the 1764 edition (1768 initial page(s) not present). Afterwards continue the 1765, 1766, and 1767 editions, the 1766 edition being present in full. All in all, a good compendium of Franklin's almanac in a wonderful binding.
Separate autograph notes signed appear on two different front flyleaves from previous owner Mary Van B. Harding, one dated 1921 and one 1922. Harding was an early 20th-century children's book author who in the 1921 note seems to imply that she is a distant relative of Benjamin Franklin.
The 1764-1766 editions constitute the last three Poor Richard's Almanacks that involved Benjamin Franklin directly, as he became more and more embroiled in colonial affairs and, eventually, in the American Revolution. Also, included in the 1766 edition, the last that Franklin personally oversaw, is some commentary about and the full text of The Stamp Act of 1765.
C. William Miller, Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing, pp. 425, 440, 450.
Sixteenmo. Bound as such: 1764: [4] pages; 1768: [46] pages (no initial pages); 1765: [32] pages (missing [33-36]); 1766 [36] pages (complete); 1767 [30] pages (missing [27-32]). Textual woodcut illustrations throughout, including small woodcuts illustrating the different signs of the zodiac accompanying each month of the almanac. The illustration, "The Anatomy of Man's Body, as govern'd by the Twelve Constellations," appears on page [5] of the 1765-1767 editions.
Beautiful Vauthrin binding commissioned by a previous owner while in Paris in 1905. The binding is modern dark green morocco with gilt spine titles inside five raised bands and double-ruled gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine faded to brown. Minimal edge wear. Many paper repairs to pages throughout. Brown dampstain to bottom half of most leaves. Age-toning to the textblock. Scattered contemporary marginalia. Same previous owner's (probably the original owner's) signature on each title page except for 1765.
Close inspection yields a binding error as follows: the first two leaves are from the 1764 edition (the only leaves which appear here from that edition). The next 23 leaves correspond to the 1768 edition (and perhaps some pages from other years, but it is difficult to ascertain) which has been misbound behind the two leaves of the 1764 edition (1768 initial page(s) not present). Afterwards continue the 1765, 1766, and 1767 editions, the 1766 edition being present in full. All in all, a good compendium of Franklin's almanac in a wonderful binding.
Separate autograph notes signed appear on two different front flyleaves from previous owner Mary Van B. Harding, one dated 1921 and one 1922. Harding was an early 20th-century children's book author who in the 1921 note seems to imply that she is a distant relative of Benjamin Franklin.
The 1764-1766 editions constitute the last three Poor Richard's Almanacks that involved Benjamin Franklin directly, as he became more and more embroiled in colonial affairs and, eventually, in the American Revolution. Also, included in the 1766 edition, the last that Franklin personally oversaw, is some commentary about and the full text of The Stamp Act of 1765.
C. William Miller, Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing, pp. 425, 440, 450.
[Benjamin Franklin]. The Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin. Consisting of His Life, Written by Himself. Together with Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of the Spectator. Charlestown: Printed by John Lamson, For the Principal Booksellers in Boston, 1798.
Sixteenmo. [frontispiece], [1]-300 pages. Portrait frontispiece of Dr. Franklin.
Contemporary full brown leather with a gilt-stamped red leather title plate on the spine. Some wear to the extremities, especially the spine ends and corners. Some staining, soiling, and abrading to the boards. Small wormhole to the front pastedown and frontis. Age-toning to the textblock. All in all, a very good copy.
Sixteenmo. [frontispiece], [1]-300 pages. Portrait frontispiece of Dr. Franklin.
Contemporary full brown leather with a gilt-stamped red leather title plate on the spine. Some wear to the extremities, especially the spine ends and corners. Some staining, soiling, and abrading to the boards. Small wormhole to the front pastedown and frontis. Age-toning to the textblock. All in all, a very good copy.
[Benjamin Franklin, printer]. Westminster Confession of Faith, the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, with the Scripture Proofs at Large Together with the Sum of Saving Knowledge (Contained in the Holy Scriptures, and held forth in the said Confession and Catechisms) and Practical Use thereof; Covenants National and Solemn League, Acknowledgment of Sins and Engagements to Duties, Directories, Form of Church Government, &c. of Public-Authority in the Church of Scotland. With Acts of Assembly and Parliament, relative to, and approbative of the same. Philadelphia: printed and sold by B. Franklin, 1745.
Octavo. 567 pages, with an additional 24 unnumbered pages comprising "A Table of the Chief Matters Contained in the Confession of Faith and Larger Catechisms."
Contemporary full calf over boards. Cracking to the leather. Crumbling to the front and rear pastedowns. Some loss to the rear free endpaper as well as the final page of text, affecting some text. Inked name of previous owners on front endpapers. Inked notation from a previous owner on a blank page (page 524), commemorating the dates of a family marriage and birth. Overall, a very good copy.
Benjamin Franklin was commissioned by the Philadelphia Synod to print this edition of the Westminster Confession of Faith. "This first American publication of the Confession, with the larger catechism and brief sum of Christian Doctrine added, was done in Boston, by S. Kneeland for D. Henchman in 1723, from Rothwell's London edition of 1658. [Benjamin Franklin] used as his copy text the Thomas Lumisden of John Robertson edition of Edinburgh, 1728, which with its completed 'canon' and accurate texts based on William Dunlop's edition of 1719 represented the norm of Scottish editions" (Miller).
Miller, Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing, 371. Sabin, 15445.
Octavo. 567 pages, with an additional 24 unnumbered pages comprising "A Table of the Chief Matters Contained in the Confession of Faith and Larger Catechisms."
Contemporary full calf over boards. Cracking to the leather. Crumbling to the front and rear pastedowns. Some loss to the rear free endpaper as well as the final page of text, affecting some text. Inked name of previous owners on front endpapers. Inked notation from a previous owner on a blank page (page 524), commemorating the dates of a family marriage and birth. Overall, a very good copy.
Benjamin Franklin was commissioned by the Philadelphia Synod to print this edition of the Westminster Confession of Faith. "This first American publication of the Confession, with the larger catechism and brief sum of Christian Doctrine added, was done in Boston, by S. Kneeland for D. Henchman in 1723, from Rothwell's London edition of 1658. [Benjamin Franklin] used as his copy text the Thomas Lumisden of John Robertson edition of Edinburgh, 1728, which with its completed 'canon' and accurate texts based on William Dunlop's edition of 1719 represented the norm of Scottish editions" (Miller).
Miller, Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing, 371. Sabin, 15445.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. New-York: Printed and Sold by J. and A. M'Lean, 1788.
First edition. Volume I only (of the two-volume set). Twelvemo. iv, 227 pages.
Full leather binding. Leather title label to spine with gilt lettering. Inked name of previous owner, dated 1788. Marginalia by the same hand on a few pages. Front joint repaired and strengthened, slight bowing to front board. Some of the marginalia has been trimmed during a later rebinding. Front endpaper and blank preliminary pages missing. Binding bumped and scuffed. Leaves toned with light foxing and minor dampstaining. Good condition.
"These eighty-five essays on the Constitution, almost entirely written by Hamilton and Madison (probably only five were by Jay) and published in the New York newspapers under the name of 'Publius,' were a step in Hamilton's campaign to win over a hostile majority in New York for a ratification of the Constitution. To the people of the time the collected essays were little more than a huge Federalist pamphlet. A generation passed before it was recognized that these essays by the principal author of the Constitution and its brilliant advocate were the most authoritative interpretation of the Constitution as drafted by the Convention of 1787. As a commentary and exposition on the Constitution the influence of the Federalist has been profound" (Grolier, 100 American).
First volume of the first edition of "the most famous and influential American political work" (Howes). This volume contains Federalist Papers 1 to 36.
Grolier. Howes H114. Sabin 23979. Streeter 1049.
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First edition. Volume I only (of the two-volume set). Twelvemo. iv, 227 pages.
Full leather binding. Leather title label to spine with gilt lettering. Inked name of previous owner, dated 1788. Marginalia by the same hand on a few pages. Front joint repaired and strengthened, slight bowing to front board. Some of the marginalia has been trimmed during a later rebinding. Front endpaper and blank preliminary pages missing. Binding bumped and scuffed. Leaves toned with light foxing and minor dampstaining. Good condition.
"These eighty-five essays on the Constitution, almost entirely written by Hamilton and Madison (probably only five were by Jay) and published in the New York newspapers under the name of 'Publius,' were a step in Hamilton's campaign to win over a hostile majority in New York for a ratification of the Constitution. To the people of the time the collected essays were little more than a huge Federalist pamphlet. A generation passed before it was recognized that these essays by the principal author of the Constitution and its brilliant advocate were the most authoritative interpretation of the Constitution as drafted by the Convention of 1787. As a commentary and exposition on the Constitution the influence of the Federalist has been profound" (Grolier, 100 American).
First volume of the first edition of "the most famous and influential American political work" (Howes). This volume contains Federalist Papers 1 to 36.
Grolier. Howes H114. Sabin 23979. Streeter 1049.
If you would like to send a message of well wishes to Indiana National Guard Captain Nathan Harlan, the owner of this book, please send us your comments and we will forward them on to him.
Robert Tyre (Bobby) Jones, Jr. Golf is My Game. Illustrated with Photographs and Drawings. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960.
Later edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 255 pages.
Publisher's black cloth over green buckram. Original pictorial dust jacket. Moderate shelf wear to the book and jacket. Light soiling to the boards, which also bow slightly. Dust jacket shows minor toning and paper loss at the corners and spine ends; jacket fits somewhat loosely around the book. A very good copy.
Later edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 255 pages.
Publisher's black cloth over green buckram. Original pictorial dust jacket. Moderate shelf wear to the book and jacket. Light soiling to the boards, which also bow slightly. Dust jacket shows minor toning and paper loss at the corners and spine ends; jacket fits somewhat loosely around the book. A very good copy.
John Marshall. The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. Philadelphia: C. P. Wayne, 1804-07.
First edition. Five octavo volumes. xxii, 488, 45; viii, 560, 72; viii, 580, 28; viii, 626, 16; vi, 779, 36 pages. Plus quarto map atlas, with ten engraved maps and a 22-page list of subscribers.
Contemporary full calf. Title label to spine with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers. Binding by Thomas A. Ronalds of New York. Atlas in early amateur binding. Front joint to volume one broken, with board holding by the cords. Joints to all volumes tender. Some cracking and crazing to the spines. Inked name of previous owner on front free endpapers. Moderate foxing throughout. Overall, a very nice set.
Howes M-317. Sabin 44788.
First edition. Five octavo volumes. xxii, 488, 45; viii, 560, 72; viii, 580, 28; viii, 626, 16; vi, 779, 36 pages. Plus quarto map atlas, with ten engraved maps and a 22-page list of subscribers.
Contemporary full calf. Title label to spine with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers. Binding by Thomas A. Ronalds of New York. Atlas in early amateur binding. Front joint to volume one broken, with board holding by the cords. Joints to all volumes tender. Some cracking and crazing to the spines. Inked name of previous owner on front free endpapers. Moderate foxing throughout. Overall, a very nice set.
Howes M-317. Sabin 44788.
Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. Philadelphia: Published by D. Rice & A. N. Hart, 1855.
Third octavo edition. Three large octavo volumes. iv, 333, [1, blank]; xvii, [1, blank], [9]-290; iv, [17]-392 pages. Preface (pages 1-2) bound before contents leaf in Volume I (pages iii-iv). With 120 hand-colored lithographed plates ("Lith. Printed & Cold. by J.T Bowen"). Tissue guards.
Contemporary red morocco, covers decoratively panelled in gilt within a gilt triple-rule border, spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers. Binding lightly scuffed and soiled, a few plates very slightly cropped at lower margin, just affecting imprint. Some very occasional minor soiling. Previous owner's ink signature on front free endpaper. A wonderful copy with vividly colored plates.
Originally published in twenty folio parts (three folio volumes) between 1836 and 1844, with 120 hand-colored lithographed plates. The first octavo edition appeared in 1848-1850, with the plates reduced. Several octavo editions were published between 1850 and the 1870s, with varying numbers of plates, some maintaining the original 120, and some abridged to contain as few as forty or fifty plates. All are highly desired today. "As early as 1824, the practice was begun of taking portraits of the principal Indians who came to Washington, and depositing them in the War Department. They were chiefly painted by Mr. King, an artist of high repute, who has been remarkably successful in transferring to his canvas the strong lineaments of the Indian countenance. Col. M'Kinney [sic], who was for many years superintendent of Indian affairs at Washington, and was thus brought in constant association with the principal men of the nations and tribes which sent representatives to the seat of government, conceived the plan of making this rare and curious collection more valuable to the world by publishing a series of engraved portraits exactly copied and colored from these paintings. With each portrait is connected a biographical sketch of the individual whom it is intended to represent, interspersed with anecdotes and narrations. The work contains also a historical account of the various Indian tribes within the borders of the United States" (Sabin 43410a, describing the 1836-1844 edition). "The original oil paintings of which the plates were copies were all destroyed in the 1865 Smithsonian fire" (Howes).
Howes M-129 ("the most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed"). Sabin 43411 (describing the 1850 octavo edition).
Third octavo edition. Three large octavo volumes. iv, 333, [1, blank]; xvii, [1, blank], [9]-290; iv, [17]-392 pages. Preface (pages 1-2) bound before contents leaf in Volume I (pages iii-iv). With 120 hand-colored lithographed plates ("Lith. Printed & Cold. by J.T Bowen"). Tissue guards.
Contemporary red morocco, covers decoratively panelled in gilt within a gilt triple-rule border, spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers. Binding lightly scuffed and soiled, a few plates very slightly cropped at lower margin, just affecting imprint. Some very occasional minor soiling. Previous owner's ink signature on front free endpaper. A wonderful copy with vividly colored plates.
Originally published in twenty folio parts (three folio volumes) between 1836 and 1844, with 120 hand-colored lithographed plates. The first octavo edition appeared in 1848-1850, with the plates reduced. Several octavo editions were published between 1850 and the 1870s, with varying numbers of plates, some maintaining the original 120, and some abridged to contain as few as forty or fifty plates. All are highly desired today. "As early as 1824, the practice was begun of taking portraits of the principal Indians who came to Washington, and depositing them in the War Department. They were chiefly painted by Mr. King, an artist of high repute, who has been remarkably successful in transferring to his canvas the strong lineaments of the Indian countenance. Col. M'Kinney [sic], who was for many years superintendent of Indian affairs at Washington, and was thus brought in constant association with the principal men of the nations and tribes which sent representatives to the seat of government, conceived the plan of making this rare and curious collection more valuable to the world by publishing a series of engraved portraits exactly copied and colored from these paintings. With each portrait is connected a biographical sketch of the individual whom it is intended to represent, interspersed with anecdotes and narrations. The work contains also a historical account of the various Indian tribes within the borders of the United States" (Sabin 43410a, describing the 1836-1844 edition). "The original oil paintings of which the plates were copies were all destroyed in the 1865 Smithsonian fire" (Howes).
Howes M-129 ("the most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed"). Sabin 43411 (describing the 1850 octavo edition).
[Thomas Paine]. Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, On the Following Interesting Subjects ... Written by an Englishman. Philadelphia: R. Bell, 1776.
Second edition. Twelvemo. [iv], [1] 2-79 [1, publisher's advertisement]; [ii, consisting of title: "Large Additions..." ; and "The American Patriot's Prayer"], [81] 82-87 [88, publisher's advertisement], [89] 90-119 [120, printed page: "The following additions...postscript to the introduction..." (dated Philadelphia, February 14, 1776)], [121, appendix] 122-147 [148, "remainder of these additions..."] pages. Collation: [A]2, B-I4, [no J signature], K-L4, [second title appears inserted], [M]-T4, U2.
Late nineteenth-century half red morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. Binding is a faded on the spine, and a bit rubbed around the edges. Marbled endpapers and edges. Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. General browning and foxing to sheets, mostly light but heaviest to preliminary and terminal leaves and around titles, and to signature E. Small hole to bottom of title, approximately 4mm. Second title with a bit of soiling as well. Paper repair to H1 recto with repaired tear visible on both sides and affecting about 11 lines of text (mostly the words right at the fore-edge margin. A couple of pages with folds at the top fore-edge corners. With a contemporary [ownership?] signature of Thos. Midn. Potters to the middle of the page on E1 verso. Very good. Altogether, a very pleasing copy of what is sometimes referred to as Bell's Combined edition, which was not authorized by Paine, but was issued early on after the first edition sold out.
The first edition of Common Sense went on sale January 8th, 1776 and quickly sold out. Reprints appeared almost immediately. Soon R. Bell came out with the expanded, second edition, bound with Large Additions to Common Sense (which in the second edition may be found on pages 82 through 147). Howes, in U.S.iana, maintains that "Paine was not the author of these Additions; they were gathered from various sources by Bell to make his edition 3 larger than the enlarged edition issued at Philadelphia by Bradford, to whom Paine had turned after his estrangement from Bell."
From The Life of Thomas Paine, by Thomas Clio Rickman: "Common Sense, it appears, was universally read and approved: the first edition sold almost immediately; and the second, with very large additions, was before the public soon after." Rickman goes on to quote Paine on the success of Common Sense: "'The success it met with was beyond any thing since the invention of printing. I gave the copyright up to every state in the Union, and the demand ran to not less than one hundred thousand copies, and I continued the subject under the title of American Crisis, till the complete establishment of the American Revolution.'"
Howes P15, P22. Rickman, page 61 & 63. Sabin 58213.
Second edition. Twelvemo. [iv], [1] 2-79 [1, publisher's advertisement]; [ii, consisting of title: "Large Additions..." ; and "The American Patriot's Prayer"], [81] 82-87 [88, publisher's advertisement], [89] 90-119 [120, printed page: "The following additions...postscript to the introduction..." (dated Philadelphia, February 14, 1776)], [121, appendix] 122-147 [148, "remainder of these additions..."] pages. Collation: [A]2, B-I4, [no J signature], K-L4, [second title appears inserted], [M]-T4, U2.
Late nineteenth-century half red morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. Binding is a faded on the spine, and a bit rubbed around the edges. Marbled endpapers and edges. Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. General browning and foxing to sheets, mostly light but heaviest to preliminary and terminal leaves and around titles, and to signature E. Small hole to bottom of title, approximately 4mm. Second title with a bit of soiling as well. Paper repair to H1 recto with repaired tear visible on both sides and affecting about 11 lines of text (mostly the words right at the fore-edge margin. A couple of pages with folds at the top fore-edge corners. With a contemporary [ownership?] signature of Thos. Midn. Potters to the middle of the page on E1 verso. Very good. Altogether, a very pleasing copy of what is sometimes referred to as Bell's Combined edition, which was not authorized by Paine, but was issued early on after the first edition sold out.
The first edition of Common Sense went on sale January 8th, 1776 and quickly sold out. Reprints appeared almost immediately. Soon R. Bell came out with the expanded, second edition, bound with Large Additions to Common Sense (which in the second edition may be found on pages 82 through 147). Howes, in U.S.iana, maintains that "Paine was not the author of these Additions; they were gathered from various sources by Bell to make his edition 3 larger than the enlarged edition issued at Philadelphia by Bradford, to whom Paine had turned after his estrangement from Bell."
From The Life of Thomas Paine, by Thomas Clio Rickman: "Common Sense, it appears, was universally read and approved: the first edition sold almost immediately; and the second, with very large additions, was before the public soon after." Rickman goes on to quote Paine on the success of Common Sense: "'The success it met with was beyond any thing since the invention of printing. I gave the copyright up to every state in the Union, and the demand ran to not less than one hundred thousand copies, and I continued the subject under the title of American Crisis, till the complete establishment of the American Revolution.'"
Howes P15, P22. Rickman, page 61 & 63. Sabin 58213.
Esteban Pichardo. Geografia de la Isla de Cuba. Publicase bajo los auspicios de la Real Junta de Fomento. Habana: Establecimiento tipográfico de D. M. Soler, 1854.
First edition. Four volumes in one. Octavo. xlix, 155; 272; 356; 240 pages.
Contemporary marbled sheep with gilt spine lettering and decoration. Marbled endpapers. Spine with some darkening but, overall, a lovely copy of this exceedingly rare and early publication about Cuba.
Sabin 62605.
First edition. Four volumes in one. Octavo. xlix, 155; 272; 356; 240 pages.
Contemporary marbled sheep with gilt spine lettering and decoration. Marbled endpapers. Spine with some darkening but, overall, a lovely copy of this exceedingly rare and early publication about Cuba.
Sabin 62605.
Joseph Smith. The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates Taken From the Plates of Nephi. By Joseph Smith, Junior, Author and Proprietor. Palmyra, [New York]: Printed by E. B. Grandin, for the Author, 1830.
First edition. Octavo. iv, [5], 588 [2] pages. Complete with the two-page preface at the front and the testimonial leaf followed by three blank leaves at the back. With the misprint of "122" on page 212. Without the index, which was issued at a later date.
Original unrestored full sheep binding. Smooth spine with black morocco label with gilt lettering and seven double gilt rules. Some rubbing to boards and along joints, with a few light scores to front board. Edges and extremities worn, with pasteboards exposed at corners and at top and bottom edges near joints. Three corners lightly bumped. Boards bowed. Front pastedown is peeling away from board at top edge, with a .75 x 2-inch portion missing, exposing board. Some puckering to both pastedowns. Lacking the front free endpaper leaf. Indecipherable penciled words to front pastedown and to final printed page; list of inked numbers to rear pastedown. Significant dampstaining throughout. Cockling, toning, and foxing to pages. Inoffensive minor chipping to two leaves (page 349/350 and page 351/352). Despite the cosmetic imperfections, the binding is sound, and the book is in overall very good condition.
The Book of Mormon was the first publication of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a church organized with six charter members on April 6, 1830, soon after the book went to print. "According to Smith, a revelation was given to him by an angel in September, 1823, when he was informed of the purpose of the visitation, and where the inscribed records were deposited, in the hill of 'Cumorah,' now called Mormon Hill, near the village of Manchester, Ontario County, NY, about six miles south of Palmyra, and where they had remained hidden since about the year 420 A.D. After many other visitations, these records ['engraven on plates which had the appearance of gold'] were delivered into his hands, in September, 1827; and when the translation was completed in 1829, they were returned to the angel" (Sabin).
"This is the first edition of the Mormon Bible, in which polygamy and freemasonry were prohibited. In subsequent editions the former doctrine was changed so as to permit the Saints to have a plurality of wives" (Church). The first edition is the only early edition to contain Smith's preface and the only one to identify Smith as the author. In all subsequent editions, Smith is acknowledged as merely the "translator."
This very book was recently featured on PBS' Antiques Roadshow where it caused much excitement. For generations this book has remained in the family of its earliest known owner, Texas lawyer and Presbyterian minister, the Reverend Dempsey W. Broughton (1824-1890). Dempsey Broughton, a lawyer and Chief Justice in Kaufman County, Texas, was also a Master Mason and an ordained minister who served as a pastor in North Texas. As a member of the Cumberland Presbyterians, he was instrumental in the founding of Trinity University in 1869 in Tehuacana, Texas (later re-located to San Antonio, where it continues to be a highly-respected university). Broughton served in the Confederate Army as a major in the 20th Cavalry regiment but returned to his duties with the Presbyterian Church after the war and spent his later years as a pastor in Dallas. He died in 1890 and is buried in the city's historic Pioneer Park Cemetery.
This sacred text of the Church of Latter Day Saints has had a remarkable impact on both religious thought and nineteenth-century American history, and, as such, it has become a book highly desired by collectors around the world.
Church 1342. Crawley 1. Crawley & Flake, A Mormon Fifty, 1. Flake 595. Grolier, 100 American, 37. Howes S623. Sabin 83038. Streeter Sale 2262.
First edition. Octavo. iv, [5], 588 [2] pages. Complete with the two-page preface at the front and the testimonial leaf followed by three blank leaves at the back. With the misprint of "122" on page 212. Without the index, which was issued at a later date.
Original unrestored full sheep binding. Smooth spine with black morocco label with gilt lettering and seven double gilt rules. Some rubbing to boards and along joints, with a few light scores to front board. Edges and extremities worn, with pasteboards exposed at corners and at top and bottom edges near joints. Three corners lightly bumped. Boards bowed. Front pastedown is peeling away from board at top edge, with a .75 x 2-inch portion missing, exposing board. Some puckering to both pastedowns. Lacking the front free endpaper leaf. Indecipherable penciled words to front pastedown and to final printed page; list of inked numbers to rear pastedown. Significant dampstaining throughout. Cockling, toning, and foxing to pages. Inoffensive minor chipping to two leaves (page 349/350 and page 351/352). Despite the cosmetic imperfections, the binding is sound, and the book is in overall very good condition.
The Book of Mormon was the first publication of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a church organized with six charter members on April 6, 1830, soon after the book went to print. "According to Smith, a revelation was given to him by an angel in September, 1823, when he was informed of the purpose of the visitation, and where the inscribed records were deposited, in the hill of 'Cumorah,' now called Mormon Hill, near the village of Manchester, Ontario County, NY, about six miles south of Palmyra, and where they had remained hidden since about the year 420 A.D. After many other visitations, these records ['engraven on plates which had the appearance of gold'] were delivered into his hands, in September, 1827; and when the translation was completed in 1829, they were returned to the angel" (Sabin).
"This is the first edition of the Mormon Bible, in which polygamy and freemasonry were prohibited. In subsequent editions the former doctrine was changed so as to permit the Saints to have a plurality of wives" (Church). The first edition is the only early edition to contain Smith's preface and the only one to identify Smith as the author. In all subsequent editions, Smith is acknowledged as merely the "translator."
This very book was recently featured on PBS' Antiques Roadshow where it caused much excitement. For generations this book has remained in the family of its earliest known owner, Texas lawyer and Presbyterian minister, the Reverend Dempsey W. Broughton (1824-1890). Dempsey Broughton, a lawyer and Chief Justice in Kaufman County, Texas, was also a Master Mason and an ordained minister who served as a pastor in North Texas. As a member of the Cumberland Presbyterians, he was instrumental in the founding of Trinity University in 1869 in Tehuacana, Texas (later re-located to San Antonio, where it continues to be a highly-respected university). Broughton served in the Confederate Army as a major in the 20th Cavalry regiment but returned to his duties with the Presbyterian Church after the war and spent his later years as a pastor in Dallas. He died in 1890 and is buried in the city's historic Pioneer Park Cemetery.
This sacred text of the Church of Latter Day Saints has had a remarkable impact on both religious thought and nineteenth-century American history, and, as such, it has become a book highly desired by collectors around the world.
Church 1342. Crawley 1. Crawley & Flake, A Mormon Fifty, 1. Flake 595. Grolier, 100 American, 37. Howes S623. Sabin 83038. Streeter Sale 2262.
Daines Barrington. Miscellanies. London: J. Nichols, 1781.
First edition. Quarto. iv, viii, 557, [1, errata and binder's instructions] pages. With two engraved portraits, two engraved maps (one folding), and five charts.
Contemporary marbled boards, expertly rebacked to style in brown calf, smooth spine with gilt rules and decorations, original red morocco gilt spine label, and original calf tips, a little soiled and bumped. Overall, this is an excellent copy; exceedingly clean, complete and without any previous owner's marks.
First edition. Quarto. iv, viii, 557, [1, errata and binder's instructions] pages. With two engraved portraits, two engraved maps (one folding), and five charts.
Contemporary marbled boards, expertly rebacked to style in brown calf, smooth spine with gilt rules and decorations, original red morocco gilt spine label, and original calf tips, a little soiled and bumped. Overall, this is an excellent copy; exceedingly clean, complete and without any previous owner's marks.
S. A. Binion. Rare Salesman's Dummy for Ancient Egypt or Mizraïm. Ambitious in scope and enormous in scale, Samuel Augustus Binion's book Ancient Egypt or Mizraïm was intended to be the acme of publishing, from the massive page size - 22 x 28 inches - to the quality of illustration and construction of the book itself. A work of such ambitious scope required sufficient interest in the form of capital to see the light of day. To that end, the publisher, The American Polytechnic Company Limited of Buffalo, New York produced several mock-up copies of Binion's work in an effort to entice subscribers to purchase the completed book. In addition to the title pages, projected table of contents, and list of illustrations, this copy - a "salesman's dummy" - also contains four chromolithograph illustrations, one tinted lithograph, three steel engravings, and one monochrome illustration. Bound at the back are six pages reserved for subscriber information. The mock-up is bound in brown calf with a heavier-grained leather forming borders at the edges. The completed book was finally published in 1887 in an edition limited to 800 copies. This example has moderate edge wear to the boards and a loose title page; otherwise, the contents are sound, the illustrations fine.
Jean Charles, Chevalier Folard. Histoire de Polybe. Nouvellement traduite du Grec par Dom Vincent Thuillier.... Avec un commentaire ou un corps de science militaire, enrichi de notes critiques et historiques, ou toutes les grandes parties de la guerre, soit pour l'Offensive, soit pour la Défensive, sont expliquées, démontrées, & représentées en Figures. Ouvrage très-utilie non seulement aux Officiers Généraux, mais même à tous ceux qui suivent le parti des armes. Paris: Gandouin, 1728-30.
First edition. Six octavo volumes. lxxiv, lxxx, 279; xlii, 280-749; xlii, 434; xlviii, 482; xxxviii, 508; c, 558 pages. Frontispiece. 139 plates, many folding.
Contemporary full calf. Raised bands. Gilt-stamped designs to spine. All but one gilt-stamped title label missing. Minor foxing. Joints and hinges starting, but cords holding firm. Bookplates to front pastedowns of all volumes. Very good.
Folard, a French soldier, was enamored of the writings of Greek historian and military tactician Polybius, and in this lengthy commentary, Folard expressed his own theories concerning military tactics. Though Folard's theories failed to gain much support among his military peers, this work is certainly remarkable for the dozens of stunning engravings of battle formations and siege machines.
First edition. Six octavo volumes. lxxiv, lxxx, 279; xlii, 280-749; xlii, 434; xlviii, 482; xxxviii, 508; c, 558 pages. Frontispiece. 139 plates, many folding.
Contemporary full calf. Raised bands. Gilt-stamped designs to spine. All but one gilt-stamped title label missing. Minor foxing. Joints and hinges starting, but cords holding firm. Bookplates to front pastedowns of all volumes. Very good.
Folard, a French soldier, was enamored of the writings of Greek historian and military tactician Polybius, and in this lengthy commentary, Folard expressed his own theories concerning military tactics. Though Folard's theories failed to gain much support among his military peers, this work is certainly remarkable for the dozens of stunning engravings of battle formations and siege machines.
Antoine Yves Goguet. De l'Origine des Lois, des Arts, et des Sciences, et de leurs progrés chez les Anciens Peuples. Paris: Desaint & Saillant, 1758.
First edition. Three quarto volumes. xxviii, 401; viii, 438; viii, 368, [3] pages. With half-titles, nine folding copper engraved plates, and three folding tables. Woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces throughout. Titles printed in red and black.
Contemporary full speckled calf, expertly rebacked to style. Borders rolled in gilt, spines tooled in gilt, five raised bands, gilt red and green morocco lettering pieces, gilt board edges, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved armorial bookplates of Robert Shasto on front pastedown and William Adair on rear pastedowns. A fine set.
First edition. Three quarto volumes. xxviii, 401; viii, 438; viii, 368, [3] pages. With half-titles, nine folding copper engraved plates, and three folding tables. Woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces throughout. Titles printed in red and black.
Contemporary full speckled calf, expertly rebacked to style. Borders rolled in gilt, spines tooled in gilt, five raised bands, gilt red and green morocco lettering pieces, gilt board edges, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved armorial bookplates of Robert Shasto on front pastedown and William Adair on rear pastedowns. A fine set.
George Grote. A History of Greece. London: John Murray, 1872.
Ten octavo volumes. With a photoengraved frontispiece of a bust of Grote in volume I, and several engraved maps and plans, nearly all of which are folding, and two of which have been colored by a contemporary hand.
Contemporary half brown calf over marbled boards, spines ruled and stamped in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers. Ownership inscription of Charles D. Suell, A.A. Ch[rist's] Ch[urch] Folkestone to the top of the title page in each volume, all dated 1889. A few instances of marginalia in contemporary blue pencil. Occasional light foxing. A few signatures standing proud. Some volumes with hinges starting. Overall a very good set.
Ten octavo volumes. With a photoengraved frontispiece of a bust of Grote in volume I, and several engraved maps and plans, nearly all of which are folding, and two of which have been colored by a contemporary hand.
Contemporary half brown calf over marbled boards, spines ruled and stamped in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers. Ownership inscription of Charles D. Suell, A.A. Ch[rist's] Ch[urch] Folkestone to the top of the title page in each volume, all dated 1889. A few instances of marginalia in contemporary blue pencil. Occasional light foxing. A few signatures standing proud. Some volumes with hinges starting. Overall a very good set.
David Hume. The History of England. Oxford: William Pickering, 1826.
Eight octavo volumes complete. With numerous engraved portraits throughout.
Nineteenth-century full polished olive calf by Hering. Spines heavily stamped in gilt in compartments, gilt red morocco labels, gilt board edges and turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and edges. Occasional light foxing. Very good.
Eight octavo volumes complete. With numerous engraved portraits throughout.
Nineteenth-century full polished olive calf by Hering. Spines heavily stamped in gilt in compartments, gilt red morocco labels, gilt board edges and turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and edges. Occasional light foxing. Very good.
Edmund Lodge. Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country. With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions. London: Harding, Mavor and Lepard, 1823-1834.
Twelve quarto volumes in six. 240 engraved plates, with tissue guards.
Contemporary full morocco. Raised bands. Gilt designs and lettering to spines. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Mild foxing. Some hinges cracked, but cords holding. Very good.
Twelve quarto volumes in six. 240 engraved plates, with tissue guards.
Contemporary full morocco. Raised bands. Gilt designs and lettering to spines. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Mild foxing. Some hinges cracked, but cords holding. Very good.
Thomas Joseph Pettigrew. A History of Egyptian Mummies, and an Account of the Worship and Embalming of the Sacred Animals by the Egyptians; with Remarks on the Funeral Ceremonies of Different Nations, and Observations on the Mummies of the Canary Islands, of the Ancient Peruvians, Burman Priests, &c. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, et al., 1834.
First edition, a subscription copy. Quarto. xxi, [1], 264, [1] pages. With half-title and subscription list. Complete with thirteen plates, comprising ten identified as being engraved or etched after George Cruikshank (three of these hand-colored), another unsigned engraved plate with hand-coloring, and two uncolored lithographs.
Original quarter morocco grained green cloth over brown paper boards, printed paper side title. Ownership inscription dated 1951 on front free endpaper. A few instances of light spotting, primarily marginal. Light offsetting from frontispiece on title page. Spine just slightly faded. Overall a near-fine copy.
First edition, a subscription copy. Quarto. xxi, [1], 264, [1] pages. With half-title and subscription list. Complete with thirteen plates, comprising ten identified as being engraved or etched after George Cruikshank (three of these hand-colored), another unsigned engraved plate with hand-coloring, and two uncolored lithographs.
Original quarter morocco grained green cloth over brown paper boards, printed paper side title. Ownership inscription dated 1951 on front free endpaper. A few instances of light spotting, primarily marginal. Light offsetting from frontispiece on title page. Spine just slightly faded. Overall a near-fine copy.
Walter Raleigh. The History of the World, in Five Books. London: Tho. Baffet, Ric. Chiswell, Benj. Took, etc., 1687.
Folio. xxxii, 813 pages. Engraved frontispiece and maps. Preface. Includes "The Life of the Valiant and Learned Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight," and "The Arraignment of Sir Walter Raleigh." Chronological table, and an alphabetical table of principal contents.
Recased, with original (or early) calf laid on to the boards and into the compartments of the spine. red leather title label with gilt lettering. Raised bands. Armorial bookplate of Geoffrey C. Hobbs. A clean and bright copy in very good condition.
Raleigh wrote this popular history while imprisoned in the Tower of London. He envisioned the work in three parts, but this, the first part, was all he was able to complete before his literary career was cut short by his execution. Raleigh's history concludes with the second Roman war with Macedonia.
Sabin 67560.
Folio. xxxii, 813 pages. Engraved frontispiece and maps. Preface. Includes "The Life of the Valiant and Learned Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight," and "The Arraignment of Sir Walter Raleigh." Chronological table, and an alphabetical table of principal contents.
Recased, with original (or early) calf laid on to the boards and into the compartments of the spine. red leather title label with gilt lettering. Raised bands. Armorial bookplate of Geoffrey C. Hobbs. A clean and bright copy in very good condition.
Raleigh wrote this popular history while imprisoned in the Tower of London. He envisioned the work in three parts, but this, the first part, was all he was able to complete before his literary career was cut short by his execution. Raleigh's history concludes with the second Roman war with Macedonia.
Sabin 67560.
David Roberts. The Holy Land. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., [n.d., ca. 1887].
One-volume quarto edition. 36 pages of descriptive text and 120 tinted lithographs after drawings by David Roberts.
Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in red, gilt, and blind. All edges gilt. Cloth is lightly rubbed and edgeworn; boards slightly bowed. A very good copy.
One-volume quarto edition. 36 pages of descriptive text and 120 tinted lithographs after drawings by David Roberts.
Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in red, gilt, and blind. All edges gilt. Cloth is lightly rubbed and edgeworn; boards slightly bowed. A very good copy.
J. de Saint-Martin. L'Art de faire des armes réduit à ses vrais principes. Vienna: Janne Schramble, 1804.
First edition. Octavo. [8], xii, [2], 91, [1], [2, sectional title; L'Espadon], iv, 57, [1] pages. Complete with copper engraved frontispiece of the author and all seventy-two plates (including two folding) depicting the stances of fencing.
Late-nineteenth-century full olive morocco, front cover with quadruple filet borders enclosing corner pieces of gilt sword hilts, central device of a two gilt swords resting upon a pillow made up of two-tone morocco inlays, gilt fillet board edges, and decorative gilt turn-ins. Black and gold patterned endpapers. Evidence of removed bookplate at front; owner initials on verso of frontispiece. Some darkening to page 67 of second part. Overall, a very clean and well-margined copy in a handsome binding.
First edition. Octavo. [8], xii, [2], 91, [1], [2, sectional title; L'Espadon], iv, 57, [1] pages. Complete with copper engraved frontispiece of the author and all seventy-two plates (including two folding) depicting the stances of fencing.
Late-nineteenth-century full olive morocco, front cover with quadruple filet borders enclosing corner pieces of gilt sword hilts, central device of a two gilt swords resting upon a pillow made up of two-tone morocco inlays, gilt fillet board edges, and decorative gilt turn-ins. Black and gold patterned endpapers. Evidence of removed bookplate at front; owner initials on verso of frontispiece. Some darkening to page 67 of second part. Overall, a very clean and well-margined copy in a handsome binding.
John Scott and others. A Sammelband of Twenty Sermons. London: Various Publishers, 1682-1703.
Contemporary Cambridge-paneled calf, rebacked retaining the original spine, red morocco gilt lettering label. Authors and titles (all are complete) are as follows: John Scott. A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and Court of Aldermen, at the Guild-Hall Chappel, the 16th of December, 1683. London: Robert Horn, 1683. Wing S2067. John Scott. A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London. At St. Mary le Bow, July 26. 1685. Being the day of publick thanksgiving for his Majesties late victory over the rebels. London: Rob. Horne, 1685. Wing S2069. Overall, condition of these sermons is very good. A fascinating assemblage. Please see our online catalog for the complete listing of sermons.
Contemporary Cambridge-paneled calf, rebacked retaining the original spine, red morocco gilt lettering label. Authors and titles (all are complete) are as follows: John Scott. A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and Court of Aldermen, at the Guild-Hall Chappel, the 16th of December, 1683. London: Robert Horn, 1683. Wing S2067. John Scott. A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London. At St. Mary le Bow, July 26. 1685. Being the day of publick thanksgiving for his Majesties late victory over the rebels. London: Rob. Horne, 1685. Wing S2069. Overall, condition of these sermons is very good. A fascinating assemblage. Please see our online catalog for the complete listing of sermons.
Tobias Smollett. The History of England, from the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George II. London: Printed for J. Wallis, by T. Davison, 1805.
Large and thick paper edition. Six octavo volumes. Engraved plates and added titles. Wood-engraved vignettes.
Contemporary diced russia. Covers decoratively bordered in gilt, spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, board edges ruled in gilt, turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Armorial bookplate of James Arthur Mayne. Expert restoration to spine of last volume. Otherwise near fine.
Large and thick paper edition. Six octavo volumes. Engraved plates and added titles. Wood-engraved vignettes.
Contemporary diced russia. Covers decoratively bordered in gilt, spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, board edges ruled in gilt, turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Armorial bookplate of James Arthur Mayne. Expert restoration to spine of last volume. Otherwise near fine.
The Times History of the War. London: The Times, [n.d., 1920].
Twenty-two quarto volumes. Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps. Index at the end of each volume. Final volume is a general index.
Contemporary maroon cloth. Gilt publisher's logo on the front boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Top edges gilt. Some smoke damage to the front board and edges of the final index volume. Very good.
Accompanying this set are ten linen-backed World War I battle maps, measuring 17 x 26 inches to 28 x 32 inches, each marked "Ordnance Survey, 1919." All in very good condition.
Twenty-two quarto volumes. Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps. Index at the end of each volume. Final volume is a general index.
Contemporary maroon cloth. Gilt publisher's logo on the front boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Top edges gilt. Some smoke damage to the front board and edges of the final index volume. Very good.
Accompanying this set are ten linen-backed World War I battle maps, measuring 17 x 26 inches to 28 x 32 inches, each marked "Ordnance Survey, 1919." All in very good condition.
Johann Wilhelm von Archenholtz [Editor]. The British Mercury. Hamburg: Hoffman, 1790.
First edition of Volumes XII-XV of this exceedingly scarce periodical. Octavo. Entirely uncut. [2], 414, [4, publisher's ads]; [2], 414; [2], 414; [2], 414, [4, publisher's ads] pages.
In plain publisher's drab wrappers. Some dust to uncut fore-edges. Tear to head of sunned spine. Overall, a remarkable survival, pristine and crisp.
First edition of Volumes XII-XV of this exceedingly scarce periodical. Octavo. Entirely uncut. [2], 414, [4, publisher's ads]; [2], 414; [2], 414; [2], 414, [4, publisher's ads] pages.
In plain publisher's drab wrappers. Some dust to uncut fore-edges. Tear to head of sunned spine. Overall, a remarkable survival, pristine and crisp.
George Barrington. The History of New South Wales, including Botany Bay, Port Jackson, Parramatta, Sydney, and all its Dependencies. London: W. Flint for M. Jones, 1802.
First edition, second issue, with the additional plates. Octavo. Engraved title with hand-colored vignette, twenty hand-colored engraved plates, one hand-colored engraved folding map, and a full-page wood-engraved illustration.
Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, smooth spine lettered and tooled in gilt. Bookplate of Walter Kerr Hamilton, Bishop of Salisbury, dated 1854, affixed to front pastedown. Some scattered light spotting. Rubbing to extremities. Front board starting but still holding strong. Overall, a very good copy.
Abbey, Travel, 565.
First edition, second issue, with the additional plates. Octavo. Engraved title with hand-colored vignette, twenty hand-colored engraved plates, one hand-colored engraved folding map, and a full-page wood-engraved illustration.
Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, smooth spine lettered and tooled in gilt. Bookplate of Walter Kerr Hamilton, Bishop of Salisbury, dated 1854, affixed to front pastedown. Some scattered light spotting. Rubbing to extremities. Front board starting but still holding strong. Overall, a very good copy.
Abbey, Travel, 565.
Henry B[enjamin] H[anbury] B[eaufoy]. Journal Kept by H.B.H.B. During an Aerial Voyage with Mr. James Sadler, Sen. from Hackney, Middlesex, to East Thorpe, Essex, Five Miles from Colchester, August 29, 1811. London: [Printed by] G. Woodfall, 1811.
First edition, privately printed. Octavo. 39, [1, blank] pages. One folding table.
Unbound, in a red cloth chemise. A fine copy of this very rare pamphlet on ballooning.
First edition, privately printed. Octavo. 39, [1, blank] pages. One folding table.
Unbound, in a red cloth chemise. A fine copy of this very rare pamphlet on ballooning.
Captain Edward Belcher. Narrative of a Voyage Round the World. London: Henry Colburn, 1843.
First edition. Two octavo volumes. xxii [i.e., xxxviii], 387, [16, ads]; vi, [2], 474 pages. Nineteen engraved plates and three folding maps in the rear pocket.
Publisher's blue-green blindstamped cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Very subtle glue residue along the edges of the pastedowns. Spines lightly sunned. The maps have old perforated stamps and a couple of tears along folds. Overall, very good.
First edition. Two octavo volumes. xxii [i.e., xxxviii], 387, [16, ads]; vi, [2], 474 pages. Nineteen engraved plates and three folding maps in the rear pocket.
Publisher's blue-green blindstamped cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Very subtle glue residue along the edges of the pastedowns. Spines lightly sunned. The maps have old perforated stamps and a couple of tears along folds. Overall, very good.
Norman de Garis Davies. Two Books on the Tombs at Thebes, including: The Tomb of Nakht at Thebes. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917. First edition. Elephant folio. 79 pages and 29 plates. Volume I of the Robb de Peyster Tytus Memorial Series. 1 of 500 copies printed on Van Gelder handmade paper. Publisher's brown paper wrappers with black stamping. [and:] The Tomb of Two Sculptors at Thebes. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925. First edition. Elephant folio. 76 pages and 31 plates. Volume IV of the Robb de Peyster Tytus Memorial Series. 1 of 500 copies printed on Van Gelder handmade paper. Publisher's quarter leather with tan paper boards and leather label on front board.
Nigel Strudwick, British Museum.
Nigel Strudwick, British Museum.
Charles Pierre Fleurieu, comte de Claret. Découvertes des François, en 1767 & 1769, dans le sud-est de la Nouvelle Guinée. Paris: De l'imprimerie royale, 1790.
First edition. Quarto. xvi, iv, 309 pages. Twelve folding engraved maps and plates. Extra-illustrated with five portraits from the French edition of Cook's Second Voyage tipped in throughout. Errata leaf bound after title, rather than at end. Several tables in text.
Early nineteenth-century quarter French sheep over marbled boards (a shell marble pattern), smooth spine decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, gilt red morocco lettering label, all edges marbled. Gilt morocco bookplate affixed to front plate. Contemporary manuscript ownership signature at top edge of title; former library stamp to lower margin. Light wear to extremities and lower left corner of back cover. Title page very slightly soiled. A few tiny marginal tears to folding maps, one neatly reinforced. Overall an excellent copy.
First edition. Quarto. xvi, iv, 309 pages. Twelve folding engraved maps and plates. Extra-illustrated with five portraits from the French edition of Cook's Second Voyage tipped in throughout. Errata leaf bound after title, rather than at end. Several tables in text.
Early nineteenth-century quarter French sheep over marbled boards (a shell marble pattern), smooth spine decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, gilt red morocco lettering label, all edges marbled. Gilt morocco bookplate affixed to front plate. Contemporary manuscript ownership signature at top edge of title; former library stamp to lower margin. Light wear to extremities and lower left corner of back cover. Title page very slightly soiled. A few tiny marginal tears to folding maps, one neatly reinforced. Overall an excellent copy.
Francesco Fontani. Viaggio Pittorico Della Toscana. Tomo II. Firenze [Florence]: Presso Giuseppe Tofani E Compagno, 1802.
First edition. Volume II only (of three-volume set). Folio (21.25 x 13.25 inches). Illustrated with sixty-four engraved plates (includes four double-page plates of views and plans).
Full mottled calf, boards bordered and spines tooled in gilt, two red morocco labels lettered in gilt. Binding is worn and scuffed, but still attractive. There is significant water and mold damage to the rear endpapers and 15 terminal pages, including damage to the last three plates and loss of paper on indexes, affecting about 25 lines of text. Offsetting and mild mustiness to some plates. Paper flaw on corner fold on page 101. Still, a very good group of prints with most clean and bright. The first edition of this work appeared between 1801 and 1803, with a total of 204 engraved plates.
First edition. Volume II only (of three-volume set). Folio (21.25 x 13.25 inches). Illustrated with sixty-four engraved plates (includes four double-page plates of views and plans).
Full mottled calf, boards bordered and spines tooled in gilt, two red morocco labels lettered in gilt. Binding is worn and scuffed, but still attractive. There is significant water and mold damage to the rear endpapers and 15 terminal pages, including damage to the last three plates and loss of paper on indexes, affecting about 25 lines of text. Offsetting and mild mustiness to some plates. Paper flaw on corner fold on page 101. Still, a very good group of prints with most clean and bright. The first edition of this work appeared between 1801 and 1803, with a total of 204 engraved plates.
John Charles Fremont and David Dale Owen. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44 Printed by order of the House of Representatives. [bound with:] Owen's Report of a Geological Exploration of Part of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Washington: Blair and Rives, Printers; Senate Printing Office, 1845 & 1844, 1845.
First edition, House of Representatives Issue, Doc. No. 166. Octavo. 583 [1] pages. Twenty-two lithographed plates and four maps, two of which are folding, plus the scarce large fold-out map by Charles Preuss, here linen-backed and in very good condition. There are pencil notations on the map of various dates and destinations, someone obviously mapped out the expedition on a timeline in pencil. Not offensive and could be erased. [Bound with:] David Dale Owen. Report of a Geological Exploration. First edition. Senate Issue. Thick octavo. 191 pages. 24 (of 25 plates, number 2 lacking) and maps, some with coloring. Plates and maps with wear to folds; a few separated at folds.
Both Fremont and Owen bound together in original full government sheepskin with gilt lettered black leather labels on spine. The Owen report bound first. Wear to covers and extremities; vertical wrinkling to spine, ink name on front free endpaper. Overall a tight, strong copy, uncommon in the original sheepskin.
First edition, House of Representatives Issue, Doc. No. 166. Octavo. 583 [1] pages. Twenty-two lithographed plates and four maps, two of which are folding, plus the scarce large fold-out map by Charles Preuss, here linen-backed and in very good condition. There are pencil notations on the map of various dates and destinations, someone obviously mapped out the expedition on a timeline in pencil. Not offensive and could be erased. [Bound with:] David Dale Owen. Report of a Geological Exploration. First edition. Senate Issue. Thick octavo. 191 pages. 24 (of 25 plates, number 2 lacking) and maps, some with coloring. Plates and maps with wear to folds; a few separated at folds.
Both Fremont and Owen bound together in original full government sheepskin with gilt lettered black leather labels on spine. The Owen report bound first. Wear to covers and extremities; vertical wrinkling to spine, ink name on front free endpaper. Overall a tight, strong copy, uncommon in the original sheepskin.
Charles Hose. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo. London: Macmillan and Co., 1912.
First edition. Two large octavo volumes. xv, [1], 283, [1], [4, publisher's ads]; x, 341, [1] pages. With 354 full-page photographic illustrations of native peoples and artifacts, two color frontispieces, and numerous textual illustrations. Three folding charts and four folding maps at rear of second volume.
Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Front cover gilt vignettes of natives in costume and with weapons. Small ownership signature on each front endpaper. Aside from some inconsequential extremity wear, an outstanding set.
First edition. Two large octavo volumes. xv, [1], 283, [1], [4, publisher's ads]; x, 341, [1] pages. With 354 full-page photographic illustrations of native peoples and artifacts, two color frontispieces, and numerous textual illustrations. Three folding charts and four folding maps at rear of second volume.
Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Front cover gilt vignettes of natives in costume and with weapons. Small ownership signature on each front endpaper. Aside from some inconsequential extremity wear, an outstanding set.
Baron Louis Armand de Lahontan. New Voyages to North-America. Containing An Account of the several Nations of that vast Continent; their Customs, Commerce, and Way of Navigation upon the Lakes and Rivers; the several Attempts of the English and French to dispossess one another; with the Reasons of the Miscarriage of the former; and the various Adventures between the French, and the Iroquese Confederates of England, from 1683 to 1694...Illustrated with Twenty-Three Maps and Cuts. London: Printed for J. Osborn, at the Golden-Ball, in Pater-noster-Row, 1735.
Second edition. Two twelvemo volumes. Volume I: [25], fold-out map, [1]-280 pages; Volume II: [frontis], [1]-304 pages. Eight fold-out maps and illustrations plus 15 full-page plates.
Later mottled calf. Gilt triple-ruled borders with circular floral corner designs on the covers, spine with gilt decorations in six compartments and five raised bands, gilt leather lettering-pieces in two colors, titles in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Mild wear to the edges and fold lines. A few tiny fingernail abrasions to the leather. Minimal scattered foxing. Paper fill to bottom corner of page 211-212. A beautiful copy in very good condition.
Second edition. Two twelvemo volumes. Volume I: [25], fold-out map, [1]-280 pages; Volume II: [frontis], [1]-304 pages. Eight fold-out maps and illustrations plus 15 full-page plates.
Later mottled calf. Gilt triple-ruled borders with circular floral corner designs on the covers, spine with gilt decorations in six compartments and five raised bands, gilt leather lettering-pieces in two colors, titles in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Mild wear to the edges and fold lines. A few tiny fingernail abrasions to the leather. Minimal scattered foxing. Paper fill to bottom corner of page 211-212. A beautiful copy in very good condition.
Charles A. Lindbergh. We. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.
First edition, one of 1,000 numbered copies signed by Lindbergh ("Author's Autograph Edition"). Large octavo. 308, [2, blank] pages. With inserted signed limitation page, title page, and fifty-two full-page illustrations.
Publisher's half parchment over terra cotta paper boards, gilt-stamped front board and spine. Pastedowns with an image of a flying plane, original glassine (a bit worn). Engraved bookplate of James Foster Hasbrouck. Spine lightly darkened (as usual), else a beautiful copy.
First edition, one of 1,000 numbered copies signed by Lindbergh ("Author's Autograph Edition"). Large octavo. 308, [2, blank] pages. With inserted signed limitation page, title page, and fifty-two full-page illustrations.
Publisher's half parchment over terra cotta paper boards, gilt-stamped front board and spine. Pastedowns with an image of a flying plane, original glassine (a bit worn). Engraved bookplate of James Foster Hasbrouck. Spine lightly darkened (as usual), else a beautiful copy.
Francis Trevelyan Miller. The World in the Air. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
Pioneer edition. One of 500 copies signed by the author and the following early aviators; Louis Bleriot and Henri Farman of France; Dr. Claude Dornier and Dr. Hugo Eckener of Germany; Arthur Whitten Brown and G. Herbert Scott of England; Glenn Curtiss of America. Two quarto volumes. 313, [2 double-page illustrations], [1]; 336 pages. Profusely illustrated with over 1,200 illustrations.
Publisher's half vellum over batik boards, black morocco lettering labels, endpapers to match boards. An exceptionally clean and fresh set in a binding without flaws. Housed in a half morocco felt-lined pull-off box with brown morocco spine labels.
Pioneer edition. One of 500 copies signed by the author and the following early aviators; Louis Bleriot and Henri Farman of France; Dr. Claude Dornier and Dr. Hugo Eckener of Germany; Arthur Whitten Brown and G. Herbert Scott of England; Glenn Curtiss of America. Two quarto volumes. 313, [2 double-page illustrations], [1]; 336 pages. Profusely illustrated with over 1,200 illustrations.
Publisher's half vellum over batik boards, black morocco lettering labels, endpapers to match boards. An exceptionally clean and fresh set in a binding without flaws. Housed in a half morocco felt-lined pull-off box with brown morocco spine labels.
M. C. Perry. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, Under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States. Washington, DC: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1856.
Two quarto volumes. xvii, 537; 414, xi pages. Dozens of lithographs, many in color, and woodcuts. Charts, maps, and indices.
Rebound in modern half morocco. Marbled endpapers. Volume II has library markings on title page and following page. Two volumes only, lacking the third and final volume. Internally sound. Minimal foxing to plates. Hinges to Volume I cracked, but holding. Very good.
Two quarto volumes. xvii, 537; 414, xi pages. Dozens of lithographs, many in color, and woodcuts. Charts, maps, and indices.
Rebound in modern half morocco. Marbled endpapers. Volume II has library markings on title page and following page. Two volumes only, lacking the third and final volume. Internally sound. Minimal foxing to plates. Hinges to Volume I cracked, but holding. Very good.
Henry M. Stanley. In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Limited, 1890.
Demy Quarto Edition de Luxe, limited to 250 numbered copies signed by the author on a special limitation page bound in front. Two quarto volumes. xv, 529; xv, 472 pages. With six etched plates signed in pencil by G. Montbard, and 150 woodcut illustrations. Four maps, three of which are folding; one is linen-backed. Titles printed in red and black. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Stanley printed on India paper. Satin book marks.
Original dark brown half morocco over vellum boards with the title, the flag of Emin Pasha, and Stanley's signature stamped in gilt to boards and spines. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Moderate edge wear to boards. Minor spotting to vellum, with an abrasion to the vellum on the front board of Volume I. Minor offsetting to the preliminary pages, light foxing to frontispieces, and moderate browning to the untrimmed edges. Else, a handsome set in very good condition.
Demy Quarto Edition de Luxe, limited to 250 numbered copies signed by the author on a special limitation page bound in front. Two quarto volumes. xv, 529; xv, 472 pages. With six etched plates signed in pencil by G. Montbard, and 150 woodcut illustrations. Four maps, three of which are folding; one is linen-backed. Titles printed in red and black. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Stanley printed on India paper. Satin book marks.
Original dark brown half morocco over vellum boards with the title, the flag of Emin Pasha, and Stanley's signature stamped in gilt to boards and spines. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Moderate edge wear to boards. Minor spotting to vellum, with an abrasion to the vellum on the front board of Volume I. Minor offsetting to the preliminary pages, light foxing to frontispieces, and moderate browning to the untrimmed edges. Else, a handsome set in very good condition.
Bayard Taylor. Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire. New York/London: George P. Putnam/Richard Bentley, 1850.
First edition. Two twelvemo volumes. xii, 251, [1, blank]; [2], 4, [2], 5-247, [1, blank], 17, 17A-43, [3] pages. With eight tinted lithograph plates and tissue guards.
Original green blindstamped cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on backstrips. Spines sunned. Minor shelf wear; a quarter-sized abrasion (with some board visible) to lower cover of Volume II.. Text block of Volume I at page 168 split (but holding strong). Plates with moderate to heavy foxing; light foxing to text. Contemporary ink presentation to Frances A. Kimball, from her grandmother, D. V. Kimball. Overall an excellent copy, preserved in a blue cloth slipcase with morocco edges.
First edition. Two twelvemo volumes. xii, 251, [1, blank]; [2], 4, [2], 5-247, [1, blank], 17, 17A-43, [3] pages. With eight tinted lithograph plates and tissue guards.
Original green blindstamped cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on backstrips. Spines sunned. Minor shelf wear; a quarter-sized abrasion (with some board visible) to lower cover of Volume II.. Text block of Volume I at page 168 split (but holding strong). Plates with moderate to heavy foxing; light foxing to text. Contemporary ink presentation to Frances A. Kimball, from her grandmother, D. V. Kimball. Overall an excellent copy, preserved in a blue cloth slipcase with morocco edges.
Isaac Weld. Travels Through the States of North America, and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, During the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. London: John Stockdale, 1800.
Third edition. Two octavo volumes. 427; 376 pages. 16 fold-out plates, including one hand-colored map.
Custom half leather with marbled boards and spines stamped in gold. Top edges trimmed, remaining edges rough-cut. Moderate foxing to endpapers with some minor dampstaining to the bottom spine edge of Volume II. Both volumes in very good condition.
Third edition. Two octavo volumes. 427; 376 pages. 16 fold-out plates, including one hand-colored map.
Custom half leather with marbled boards and spines stamped in gold. Top edges trimmed, remaining edges rough-cut. Moderate foxing to endpapers with some minor dampstaining to the bottom spine edge of Volume II. Both volumes in very good condition.
Miscellaneous
William and Joan Blaeu. Group of Five Copper Engraved Colored Maps, including: Territorium Abbatiae Heresfeldensis't Stift Hirschfeldt. [and:] Abruzzo Citra et Ultra. [and:] Iprensis Episcopatus. [and:] Tractus Rheni et Mosae totusq Vahalis a Rhenoberca Gorcomium. [and:] Ducatus Silesiae Schwidnicensis.
Territorium Abbatiae Heresfeldensis, ca. 1635, 24.5 x 19.25 inches, German text verso, toning and chipping at edges, one dampstain; else very good. Abruzzo Citra et Ultra, ca. 1642, 23.75 x 20 inches, Latin text verso, general toning and chipping at edges, repair and dampstain along fold; else near fine. Iprensis Episcopatus, ca. 1661, 25 x 21.5 inches, Latin text verso, toning and chipping at edges, foxing and light staining; else very good. Tractus Rheni et Mosae, ca. 1645, 23.5 x 19 inches, Dutch text verso, small tear at top along fold, foxing, soiling and general toning; else good. Ducatus Silesiae Schwidnicensis, ca. 1662, 25.25 x 21.25 inches, Latin text verso, tear at right edge extending into plate, light foxing; else very good. All maps have strong color.
In 1599 Willem Janszoon Blaeu founded one of history's greatest cartographic publishing firms in Amsterdam. He was appointed as hydrographer to the Vereenighde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company further solidifying his reputation as a cartographer. Upon Willem's death in 1638, the business passed to his sons, Joan and Cornelis. Joan continued the business alone after his brother's death in 1644. The company prospered until 1672 when a fire destroyed the printing house. A year later, Joan Blaeu died.
Territorium Abbatiae Heresfeldensis, ca. 1635, 24.5 x 19.25 inches, German text verso, toning and chipping at edges, one dampstain; else very good. Abruzzo Citra et Ultra, ca. 1642, 23.75 x 20 inches, Latin text verso, general toning and chipping at edges, repair and dampstain along fold; else near fine. Iprensis Episcopatus, ca. 1661, 25 x 21.5 inches, Latin text verso, toning and chipping at edges, foxing and light staining; else very good. Tractus Rheni et Mosae, ca. 1645, 23.5 x 19 inches, Dutch text verso, small tear at top along fold, foxing, soiling and general toning; else good. Ducatus Silesiae Schwidnicensis, ca. 1662, 25.25 x 21.25 inches, Latin text verso, tear at right edge extending into plate, light foxing; else very good. All maps have strong color.
In 1599 Willem Janszoon Blaeu founded one of history's greatest cartographic publishing firms in Amsterdam. He was appointed as hydrographer to the Vereenighde Oostindische Compagnie, the Dutch East India Company further solidifying his reputation as a cartographer. Upon Willem's death in 1638, the business passed to his sons, Joan and Cornelis. Joan continued the business alone after his brother's death in 1644. The company prospered until 1672 when a fire destroyed the printing house. A year later, Joan Blaeu died.
Books
Scipion Breislak. Atlas géologique, on vues d'amas de colonnes basaltiques faisant suite aux Institutions Géologiques de Scipion Breislak. Milan, 1818.
First edition. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. 56 engraved plates, including frontispiece.
Modern brown cloth over marbled paper. Mild foxing throughout. Some discoloration to lower portion of preliminary pages, not affecting the engravings. Very good.
Breislak's three-volume Institutions Géologiques was issued with this supplemental atlas of plates which has become quite a scarce volume on its own. Because of Breislak's affiliation with the Vulcanists of the period, many of the plates depict regions of basaltic columns, such as the Giant's Causeway, Fingal's Cave, and the Cyclopean Isles, bolstering the notion that rocks formed from molten origins.
First edition. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. 56 engraved plates, including frontispiece.
Modern brown cloth over marbled paper. Mild foxing throughout. Some discoloration to lower portion of preliminary pages, not affecting the engravings. Very good.
Breislak's three-volume Institutions Géologiques was issued with this supplemental atlas of plates which has become quite a scarce volume on its own. Because of Breislak's affiliation with the Vulcanists of the period, many of the plates depict regions of basaltic columns, such as the Giant's Causeway, Fingal's Cave, and the Cyclopean Isles, bolstering the notion that rocks formed from molten origins.
L. F Jauffret. Zoographie des Diverses Regions, Tant de L'Ancien Que Du Noveau Continent Premiere et Seconde Livraisons, contenant, outre le texte, six Cartes zoographiques format in-4o. double. Paris: De L'Imprimerie de Crapelet An VIII, [1800].
First edition. Quarto. 64 pages. With six double-page engraved maps.
Original printed pink paper wrappers, rebacked with blue-gray paper at an early date. Some creasing and soiling to wrappers, which also have light edge wear, and a small bit of loss to the upper edge of the rear wrapper, along reback. Light foxing to several plates. Overall, a very good copy.
First edition. Quarto. 64 pages. With six double-page engraved maps.
Original printed pink paper wrappers, rebacked with blue-gray paper at an early date. Some creasing and soiling to wrappers, which also have light edge wear, and a small bit of loss to the upper edge of the rear wrapper, along reback. Light foxing to several plates. Overall, a very good copy.
A. Lesage (Comte De Las Cases). Atlas Historique, Généalogique, Chronologique et Géographique. Paris: Imprime Chez Paul Renouard [1835].
Folio. Complete with thirty-seven double-page plans and maps mounted on tabs, and colored by a contemporary hand (as issued). Wood engraved printer's device on title page.
Contemporary quarter vellum over marbled boards, vellum corners, gilt green morocco lettering piece. Some light foxing throughout, primarily marginal. Overall, a very good copy.
Folio. Complete with thirty-seven double-page plans and maps mounted on tabs, and colored by a contemporary hand (as issued). Wood engraved printer's device on title page.
Contemporary quarter vellum over marbled boards, vellum corners, gilt green morocco lettering piece. Some light foxing throughout, primarily marginal. Overall, a very good copy.
Alexis Claude Clairaut. Theorie de la Figure de la Terre, Tirée des Principes de l'Hydrostatique. Paris: Chez David Fils, 1743.
First edition. Octavo. With engraved title vignette and numerous intertextual woodcut diagrams.
Contemporary mottled calf, gilt triple-fillet border, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering piece, five raised bands, gilt board edges, marbled endpapers, edges dyed red. Ink ownership inscription of the Royal Society of Sciences, Berlin, on title page. Upper joint and corners expertly repaired. Overall, a very good copy.
First edition. Octavo. With engraved title vignette and numerous intertextual woodcut diagrams.
Contemporary mottled calf, gilt triple-fillet border, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering piece, five raised bands, gilt board edges, marbled endpapers, edges dyed red. Ink ownership inscription of the Royal Society of Sciences, Berlin, on title page. Upper joint and corners expertly repaired. Overall, a very good copy.
Girolamo Mercuriale. De arte gymnastica libri sex. Apud Giuntas, Venice, 1601.
Fourth edition (the first edition, without illustrations, was published in 1569). Large octavo. [xvi], 308. [28, index and colophon] pages. Pagination includes twenty-three full-page woodcut illustrations on various aspects of ancient Greek and Roman gymnastics, including wrestling, boxing, weights, discus, etc., plus two full-page woodcut pans. Decorative woodcut initials throughout. Printer's mark on title page and colophon.
Contemporary vellum with exposed thongs and traces of original manuscript spine lettering. The Maccelsfield copy with their armorial book plate and embossed stamp (upper blank margin of first three leaves). Overall, a very clean and well-margined copy of the first illustrated book on gymnastics.
Adams M-1320. Brunet III, 1646. Graesse IV, 495. Harvard, Italian, 302. Wellcome I, 4224.
Fourth edition (the first edition, without illustrations, was published in 1569). Large octavo. [xvi], 308. [28, index and colophon] pages. Pagination includes twenty-three full-page woodcut illustrations on various aspects of ancient Greek and Roman gymnastics, including wrestling, boxing, weights, discus, etc., plus two full-page woodcut pans. Decorative woodcut initials throughout. Printer's mark on title page and colophon.
Contemporary vellum with exposed thongs and traces of original manuscript spine lettering. The Maccelsfield copy with their armorial book plate and embossed stamp (upper blank margin of first three leaves). Overall, a very clean and well-margined copy of the first illustrated book on gymnastics.
Adams M-1320. Brunet III, 1646. Graesse IV, 495. Harvard, Italian, 302. Wellcome I, 4224.
Geminiano Montanari. L' Astrologio Convinta Dif Also Col Mezzo di Nuove Esperienze, e Ragioni Fisico-Astronomiche, o Sia La Caccia del Frugnolo. Venice: F. Nicolini, 1685.
First edition. Quarto. xiv, 132, 131-258 pages. With an engraved portrait.
Contemporary vellum over pasteboard, with contemporary manuscript title on spine. Signature Q misbound (but all leaves present). Small marginal paper flaw on C3, affecting a few letters. Overall a very good copy.
First edition. Quarto. xiv, 132, 131-258 pages. With an engraved portrait.
Contemporary vellum over pasteboard, with contemporary manuscript title on spine. Signature Q misbound (but all leaves present). Small marginal paper flaw on C3, affecting a few letters. Overall a very good copy.
Sir Isaac Newton. Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica. Auctore Isaaco Newtono, Equite Aurato. Editio Ultima. Cui accedit Analysis per Quantitatum Series, Fluxiones ac Differentias cum enumeratione Linearum tertii ordinis. Amstælodami: Sumptibus Societatis, 1723.
Second Amsterdam edition (the first Amsterdam edition was published in 1714, which reprinted the rare second edition [Cambridge: 1713]). Quarto. Title page printed in red and black. [xxviii], 484, [7, Index Rerum], [1, blank], [xii], 107, [1, blank] pages. Engraved device on title, folding engraved plate facing page 465, and numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in the text.
Contemporary mottled calf over boards with old reback preserving the original spine, and with board edges and corners renewed. Boards with a double blind rule border, spine in compartments with five raised bands and a red morocco lettering label. Joints cracked but still sound, boards scuffed and a bit worn. Some browning and occasional minor spotting to text. Previous owner's ink names and notes to preliminary pages and title. Slight dampstains to bottom fore-edge corner and gutter margin of preliminary pages, generally well away from the text. Overall, an excellent, very attractive copy.
"The Principia is generally described as the greatest work in the history of science. Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the phenomena they observed, Newton explained the underlying universal laws. The Principia provided the great synthesis of the cosmos....[and] produced a general revolution in human thought, equaled perhaps only by that following Darwin's Origin of Species" (-Printing and the Mind of Man). This is the second Amsterdam reprint of the revised and expanded second edition, which was edited by Roger Cotes and brought out with the assistance of Richard Bentley, Master of Trinity College, with a new preface by Cotes: "In his important preface, Cotes attacks the Cartesian philosophy, then still in vogue in the universities, and refutes an assertion that Newton's theory of attraction is a causa occulta." The second edition also contains a revised conclusion, "a second preface by Newton and considerable additions, the chapters on the lunar theory and the theory of comets being much enlarged" (Babson). This Amsterdam reprint corrects a few errors made in the printing of the second edition and precedes the third edition by twelve years.
Babson 12 (describing 1713 second edition). Printing and the Mind of Man 161 (describing 1687 first edition). Sotheran, Second Supplement I, 5672. Wallis 11.
Second Amsterdam edition (the first Amsterdam edition was published in 1714, which reprinted the rare second edition [Cambridge: 1713]). Quarto. Title page printed in red and black. [xxviii], 484, [7, Index Rerum], [1, blank], [xii], 107, [1, blank] pages. Engraved device on title, folding engraved plate facing page 465, and numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in the text.
Contemporary mottled calf over boards with old reback preserving the original spine, and with board edges and corners renewed. Boards with a double blind rule border, spine in compartments with five raised bands and a red morocco lettering label. Joints cracked but still sound, boards scuffed and a bit worn. Some browning and occasional minor spotting to text. Previous owner's ink names and notes to preliminary pages and title. Slight dampstains to bottom fore-edge corner and gutter margin of preliminary pages, generally well away from the text. Overall, an excellent, very attractive copy.
"The Principia is generally described as the greatest work in the history of science. Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the phenomena they observed, Newton explained the underlying universal laws. The Principia provided the great synthesis of the cosmos....[and] produced a general revolution in human thought, equaled perhaps only by that following Darwin's Origin of Species" (-Printing and the Mind of Man). This is the second Amsterdam reprint of the revised and expanded second edition, which was edited by Roger Cotes and brought out with the assistance of Richard Bentley, Master of Trinity College, with a new preface by Cotes: "In his important preface, Cotes attacks the Cartesian philosophy, then still in vogue in the universities, and refutes an assertion that Newton's theory of attraction is a causa occulta." The second edition also contains a revised conclusion, "a second preface by Newton and considerable additions, the chapters on the lunar theory and the theory of comets being much enlarged" (Babson). This Amsterdam reprint corrects a few errors made in the printing of the second edition and precedes the third edition by twelve years.
Babson 12 (describing 1713 second edition). Printing and the Mind of Man 161 (describing 1687 first edition). Sotheran, Second Supplement I, 5672. Wallis 11.
Francisco Reinzer. Meteorologia Philosophico-Politica, in Duodecim Dissertationes per Quaestiones Meteorologicas et Conclusiones Politicas Divisa, Appositisque Symbolis Illustrata. Augsburg: Jeremiah Wolf, 1709.
Third Edition. Quarto. [iv], 297, [3] pages. Engraved portrait of Emperor Joseph I inserted at front; frontispiece and eighty-three engraved intertextual emblems after Kadoriza.
Contemporary full calf, decorated gilt border and armorial emblem centerpiece, spine stamped in blind, gilt morocco title label, all edges gilt. A few professional repairs to the binding and occasional subtle foxing, else a very good copy.
A lovely copy of Reinzer's most famous work with fine illustrations filled with meteorological images including comets, meteors, lightning, winds, and waters. Reinzer's scientific and meteorological dissertations are based largely on Athanasius Kircher's works, with an overlay of philosophical, political, and spiritual teachings. This strange but elaborate admixture proved popular, and Reinzer's work went through several Lain and German editions in the decades after it was published.
Landwehr German 494.
Third Edition. Quarto. [iv], 297, [3] pages. Engraved portrait of Emperor Joseph I inserted at front; frontispiece and eighty-three engraved intertextual emblems after Kadoriza.
Contemporary full calf, decorated gilt border and armorial emblem centerpiece, spine stamped in blind, gilt morocco title label, all edges gilt. A few professional repairs to the binding and occasional subtle foxing, else a very good copy.
A lovely copy of Reinzer's most famous work with fine illustrations filled with meteorological images including comets, meteors, lightning, winds, and waters. Reinzer's scientific and meteorological dissertations are based largely on Athanasius Kircher's works, with an overlay of philosophical, political, and spiritual teachings. This strange but elaborate admixture proved popular, and Reinzer's work went through several Lain and German editions in the decades after it was published.
Landwehr German 494.
Robertson [Étienne-Gaspard Robert]. La Minerve, Vaisseau Aërien Destiné aux Découvertes, et Proposé à Toutes les Académies de l'Europe. Paris: Hocquet, 1820.
Stated second edition. Twelvemo. iv. 36 pages.
Contemporary half calf over cloth. Raised bands. Title labels to spine with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Title vignette. Engraved illustrations. Two folding plates. Very good.
Étienne-Gaspard Robert (aka Robertson) was a Belgian stage magician, physics lecturer, and balloon enthusiast. Included are images of personal flying machines and balloons, but of greatest interest is the detailed engraved depiction of La Minerve, a massive balloon proposed for travel and scientific enquiry. The balloon would contain laboratories, sleeping quarters, a gymnasium, a music room, and even a smaller balloon which would act as a sort of ship's dinghy. In light of the author's tendency towards playful hucksterism, and the lack of any evidence of known copies of the purported first Viennese edition of 1804, it seems likely that this is, indeed, the first and only edition of this work. An exceedingly scarce item by this intriguing nineteenth century showman and balloonist.
Stated second edition. Twelvemo. iv. 36 pages.
Contemporary half calf over cloth. Raised bands. Title labels to spine with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Title vignette. Engraved illustrations. Two folding plates. Very good.
Étienne-Gaspard Robert (aka Robertson) was a Belgian stage magician, physics lecturer, and balloon enthusiast. Included are images of personal flying machines and balloons, but of greatest interest is the detailed engraved depiction of La Minerve, a massive balloon proposed for travel and scientific enquiry. The balloon would contain laboratories, sleeping quarters, a gymnasium, a music room, and even a smaller balloon which would act as a sort of ship's dinghy. In light of the author's tendency towards playful hucksterism, and the lack of any evidence of known copies of the purported first Viennese edition of 1804, it seems likely that this is, indeed, the first and only edition of this work. An exceedingly scarce item by this intriguing nineteenth century showman and balloonist.
J. G. Roederer. Icones Uteri Humani Observationibus Illustratae. Vanden Hoeck, Gottingen, 1759.
First edition of this excellent atlas of the uterus. Folio (16.8 x 10.5 inches). [4], 45, [3, index], [12, tables] pages. Complete with all seven engraved anatomical plates by Kaltenhofer.
Original pinkish boards with paper spine label. Some rubbing to boards and front faded to cream. Spine ends lightly worn. Scattered foxing, predominantly marginal. An excellent copy of this rare and beautiful work.
Castiglioni. Waller I, 8086.
First edition of this excellent atlas of the uterus. Folio (16.8 x 10.5 inches). [4], 45, [3, index], [12, tables] pages. Complete with all seven engraved anatomical plates by Kaltenhofer.
Original pinkish boards with paper spine label. Some rubbing to boards and front faded to cream. Spine ends lightly worn. Scattered foxing, predominantly marginal. An excellent copy of this rare and beautiful work.
Castiglioni. Waller I, 8086.
William Roy. An Account of the Trigonometrical Operation, Whereby the Distance Between the Meridians of the Observatories of Greenwich and Paris Has Been Determined from the Philosophical Transactions. London: 1790.
First separate edition, also issued in Volume LXXX of the Philosophical Transactions. Large quarto. 162 pages. With eleven engraved folding plates and four folding tables.
Contemporary tree calf, professionally rebacked, retaining original red and green morocco lettering pieces. Smooth spine ruled in gilt. With the bookplates of Matthew Lewis and Lord W. Kerr affixed to the front pastedown. Overall a very good copy.
First separate edition, also issued in Volume LXXX of the Philosophical Transactions. Large quarto. 162 pages. With eleven engraved folding plates and four folding tables.
Contemporary tree calf, professionally rebacked, retaining original red and green morocco lettering pieces. Smooth spine ruled in gilt. With the bookplates of Matthew Lewis and Lord W. Kerr affixed to the front pastedown. Overall a very good copy.
Johann Kaspar Spurzheim. The Anatomy of the Brain, with a General View of the Nervous System. London: S. Highley, 1826.
First edition. Octavo. xxiv, 234, [2, printer's slug] pages. Eleven engravings of the brain and nervous system bound in at the rear.
Uncut in original boards and green muslin spine, printed paper spine label. Scattered foxing (heavier on pastedowns), minor label chipping (still very legible). Contemporary owner's signature on front endpaper (Edward Flint, M.D., of Leicester, Massachusetts). Overall, a wonderful copy with the plates very clean and vivid.
First edition. Octavo. xxiv, 234, [2, printer's slug] pages. Eleven engravings of the brain and nervous system bound in at the rear.
Uncut in original boards and green muslin spine, printed paper spine label. Scattered foxing (heavier on pastedowns), minor label chipping (still very legible). Contemporary owner's signature on front endpaper (Edward Flint, M.D., of Leicester, Massachusetts). Overall, a wonderful copy with the plates very clean and vivid.
James D. Watson. The Double Helix. New York: Atheneum, 1968.
First edition. Signed by Watson on the front blank in his distinctive diminutive script. Octavo. xvi, 226 plus 12-page facsimile of a letter written to Delbruck telling of the double helix.
Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, front cover lettered in blind, top edge stained yellow. In a very crisp and fresh dust jacket with only two miniscule chips to head of spine; unfaded, uncreased and not price-clipped.
First edition. Signed by Watson on the front blank in his distinctive diminutive script. Octavo. xvi, 226 plus 12-page facsimile of a letter written to Delbruck telling of the double helix.
Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, front cover lettered in blind, top edge stained yellow. In a very crisp and fresh dust jacket with only two miniscule chips to head of spine; unfaded, uncreased and not price-clipped.
John Wilkins. The Mathematical and Philosophical Works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins. London: Printed for J. Nicholson [etc.], 1708.
First edition. Octavo. viii, [6], 274, [10], 90, [8], 184 pages. With engraved frontispiece portrait, additional engraved pictorial title, and numerous intertextual illustrations.
Contemporary English paneled calf with gilt morocco lettering label. Some very minor browning and a couple of short joint splits, but overall a lovely copy of this book; very clean, complete and in its original binding. Housed in a cloth clamshell case with morocco gilt lettering label.
The collected works of the founder of the Royal Society and an early defender of the heliocentric view of the planets.
First edition. Octavo. viii, [6], 274, [10], 90, [8], 184 pages. With engraved frontispiece portrait, additional engraved pictorial title, and numerous intertextual illustrations.
Contemporary English paneled calf with gilt morocco lettering label. Some very minor browning and a couple of short joint splits, but overall a lovely copy of this book; very clean, complete and in its original binding. Housed in a cloth clamshell case with morocco gilt lettering label.
The collected works of the founder of the Royal Society and an early defender of the heliocentric view of the planets.
Tractatus de Herbis. London: The Folio Society, 2002.
Facsimile edition. Folio. Limited to 1,000 copies. 217 pages. Hundreds of botanical illustrations. Also includes 76-page octavo commentary by Minta Collins, with a list of plants by Sandra Raphael.
Bound in full green goat over beveled boards, with decorative leather inlays. Gilt letting to front board and spine. Raised bands. Both book and commentary in presentation box. Fine.
This Tractatus de Herbis is a facsimile of the copy in the British Library, the earliest recorded copy.
Facsimile edition. Folio. Limited to 1,000 copies. 217 pages. Hundreds of botanical illustrations. Also includes 76-page octavo commentary by Minta Collins, with a list of plants by Sandra Raphael.
Bound in full green goat over beveled boards, with decorative leather inlays. Gilt letting to front board and spine. Raised bands. Both book and commentary in presentation box. Fine.
This Tractatus de Herbis is a facsimile of the copy in the British Library, the earliest recorded copy.
Three Early Books on Surveying, including: Samuel Wyld. The Practical Surveyor, or, the Art of Land- Measuring Made Easy. London: J. Hooke and J. Sisson, 1725. First edition. Octavo. xv, 182 pages. Folding engraved frontispiece illustrating some of the newest surveying tools. Five additional folding plates, illustrating surveying practices. Many charts throughout. Contemporary calf, recently rebacked. Some tape stains to pastedowns and free endpapers. Bookplate of previous owner (Parker, of Park Hall Esq.r.) along with inked notation at top of title page ("from Park Hall"). [and:] Robert Gibson. A Treatise of Practical Surveying; Which is Demonstrated From its First Principles: Wherein Every Thing That is Useful and Curious in That Art is Fully Considered and Explained.... Dublin: P. Wogan, 1785. Fifth edition. Octavo. 326 pages. Twelve folding plates. Full mottled calf. Title label on spine with gilt lettering. Marbled edges. Leather dry and flaking. Library plate on front pastedown. Inked name to front free endpaper. Inked notation on rear free endpaper. [and:] John Gummere. A Treatise on Surveying, Containing the Theory and Practice: to Which is Prefixed a Perspicuous System of Plane Trigonometry. Philadelphia: Kimber & Sharpless, 1843. Fourteenth edition. Octavo. 266 pages, with 152 additional pages of charts and tables. Eleven folding plates. Full mottled calf. Title label on spine with gilt lettering. Slight foxing and toning to pages. Foxing to plates. Inked names of previous owners on front free endpaper. All three volumes in very good condition.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Works. London: George Routledge Sons, 1875-1878.
Twenty-eight octavo volumes. Frontispieces in each volume save two, as issued.
Custom uniform half red leather with marbled paper boards. Spines in six compartments with raised bands and gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers; top edges gilt. Overall, a near fine set showing only light edge wear, with a small gouge in the spine of one volume.
Lord Lytton, known for coining such phrases as "the pen is mightier than the sword," "the great unwashed," and "pursuit of the almighty dollar" is perhaps best known for penning the most notorious opening line in history, "It was a dark and stormy night." These first words to his novel Paul Clifford are now used as the inspiration for the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants are encouraged to supply overly florid first lines of imaginary novels.
Twenty-eight octavo volumes. Frontispieces in each volume save two, as issued.
Custom uniform half red leather with marbled paper boards. Spines in six compartments with raised bands and gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers; top edges gilt. Overall, a near fine set showing only light edge wear, with a small gouge in the spine of one volume.
Lord Lytton, known for coining such phrases as "the pen is mightier than the sword," "the great unwashed," and "pursuit of the almighty dollar" is perhaps best known for penning the most notorious opening line in history, "It was a dark and stormy night." These first words to his novel Paul Clifford are now used as the inspiration for the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants are encouraged to supply overly florid first lines of imaginary novels.
Charles J. Connick. Adventures in Light and Color. New York: Random House, 1937.
First edition. Signed by Connick on the title page. Limited to 300 copies. Folio. xvi, 428 pages. Mounted color plates throughout.
Finely bound by the publisher in full Greek-blue pigskin, gilt lettered spine compartments with gilt emblems, patterned endpapers (matching the slipcase), top edge gilt. Overall, an excellent copy, in a worn and splitting original slipcase. This copy is apparently one of only ten copies bound in full pigskin for presentation.
First edition. Signed by Connick on the title page. Limited to 300 copies. Folio. xvi, 428 pages. Mounted color plates throughout.
Finely bound by the publisher in full Greek-blue pigskin, gilt lettered spine compartments with gilt emblems, patterned endpapers (matching the slipcase), top edge gilt. Overall, an excellent copy, in a worn and splitting original slipcase. This copy is apparently one of only ten copies bound in full pigskin for presentation.
Nina M. Davies. Ancient Egyptian Paintings Selected, Copied, and Described by Nina M. Davies With the Editorial Assistance of Alan H. Gardiner. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1936.
First edition. Printed and bound in Great Britain; plates printed by The Chiswick Press, London; letterpress printed by The University Press, Oxford. One octavo volume of descriptive text and two folio volumes containing 104 color plates, some double-page, as issued. xlviii, 209 pages; plates I-LII; plates LIII-CIV.
Contemporary leather with titles stamped in gilt in compartments between raised bands on the spine. Top edges gilt. Some light foxing and offsetting to the preliminary and terminal pages. Edge wear, corners slightly abraded; joints tender. Plates remain bright. Overall, externally very good and internally near fine.
First edition. Printed and bound in Great Britain; plates printed by The Chiswick Press, London; letterpress printed by The University Press, Oxford. One octavo volume of descriptive text and two folio volumes containing 104 color plates, some double-page, as issued. xlviii, 209 pages; plates I-LII; plates LIII-CIV.
Contemporary leather with titles stamped in gilt in compartments between raised bands on the spine. Top edges gilt. Some light foxing and offsetting to the preliminary and terminal pages. Edge wear, corners slightly abraded; joints tender. Plates remain bright. Overall, externally very good and internally near fine.
[Paul Delrue, bookbinder]. William Shakespeare. The Sonnets. London: The Folio Society, 1947.
Specially bound edition by Paul Delrue. Twelvemo. 154 pages plus Index of First Lines and binder's signature in pencil on a rear flyleaf.
Unique lacunose binding by Paul Delrue achieved in 1995, encompassing a waved collage pattern of various shades of green tooled leather and leather inlays artfully applied with a black tooled circular relief design utilized in parts. Red leather inlay strips outline the interior design of the binding, which appears to be an abstract representation of two figures intertwined. A simply sumptuous custom binding. Endpapers echo the design of the binding and are signed in print by the binder on the front pastedown. Housed in a complementary green cloth slipcase with leather laid into the interior of the box, with an artfully executed eye-like cartouche design on the inside front of the case and green leather with a tooled circular relief design on the inside back cover. Slipcase lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine, to which is affixed a red leather title plate. All edges marbled to fit the style of the binding. A fine copy of a fine binding.
Specially bound edition by Paul Delrue. Twelvemo. 154 pages plus Index of First Lines and binder's signature in pencil on a rear flyleaf.
Unique lacunose binding by Paul Delrue achieved in 1995, encompassing a waved collage pattern of various shades of green tooled leather and leather inlays artfully applied with a black tooled circular relief design utilized in parts. Red leather inlay strips outline the interior design of the binding, which appears to be an abstract representation of two figures intertwined. A simply sumptuous custom binding. Endpapers echo the design of the binding and are signed in print by the binder on the front pastedown. Housed in a complementary green cloth slipcase with leather laid into the interior of the box, with an artfully executed eye-like cartouche design on the inside front of the case and green leather with a tooled circular relief design on the inside back cover. Slipcase lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine, to which is affixed a red leather title plate. All edges marbled to fit the style of the binding. A fine copy of a fine binding.
[Doves Bindery]. Algernon Charles Swinburne. Astrophel and Other Poems. London: Chatto & Windus, 1894.
First edition. Twelvemo. 228 pages.
Gorgeously bound in full polished levant morocco by Doves Bindery, with gilt borders on sides enclosing a center panel of ruled lines with gilt corner leaf sprays, heavily gilt-tooled spine with gilt titles and five raised bands, inner gilt fillets and corner gilt leaf ornaments. Binder's signature on bottom fillet border of rear pastedown. All edges gilt. Housed in a full black morocco pull-off case with gilt spine titles inside five raised bands. Minimal wear to the binding. A previous owner's bookplate has been removed from the front pastedown. Previous catalog description for this book taped in two places to the front free endpaper; the tape has faded and stained the front free endpaper where adhered to it. Turn-ins have offset on the endpapers around the page edges. Internal contents bright and clean. Leather slightly worn on the spine of the pull-off case, with the remnants of a rectangular paper sticker still adhering to the spine. A beautiful book in near fine condition.
First edition. Twelvemo. 228 pages.
Gorgeously bound in full polished levant morocco by Doves Bindery, with gilt borders on sides enclosing a center panel of ruled lines with gilt corner leaf sprays, heavily gilt-tooled spine with gilt titles and five raised bands, inner gilt fillets and corner gilt leaf ornaments. Binder's signature on bottom fillet border of rear pastedown. All edges gilt. Housed in a full black morocco pull-off case with gilt spine titles inside five raised bands. Minimal wear to the binding. A previous owner's bookplate has been removed from the front pastedown. Previous catalog description for this book taped in two places to the front free endpaper; the tape has faded and stained the front free endpaper where adhered to it. Turn-ins have offset on the endpapers around the page edges. Internal contents bright and clean. Leather slightly worn on the spine of the pull-off case, with the remnants of a rectangular paper sticker still adhering to the spine. A beautiful book in near fine condition.
[Fore-edge Painting]. [Miss C. B. Currie]. C. G. Hamilton. The Exiles of Italy. Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co., 1857.
Octavo. 502 pages.
Sumptuously bound by Riviere in full blue straight-grain morocco, ruled and decorated in gilt and blind with floral and starburst designs at the corners, heavily gilt- and blind-tooled spine with gilt titles and five raised bands, and inner gilt fillets lined in gilt ornaments. Very light shelf wear to binding. Corners lightly rubbed, with the top corners bumped. Mild offsetting to the endpapers from the fillet borders. Internal contents clean if only slightly age-toned. Small catalog blurb tipped to front pastedown. Another catalog label affixed to verso of front free endpaper. A near fine copy.
Bound into the front is a special limitation page identifying the present volume as "No. 122 of the Books with Fore-edge Paintings by Miss Currie / The Painting under the gold is a view of The Temples of Paestum / Signed C. B. Currie." The Temples of Paestum are Ancient Greek-style structures near Naples, Italy that honor various Greek gods and goddesses. Here, Miss Currie has depicted two of the temples behind a vast field of verdant green. Two people stand in the foreground, and the right side of the painting shows a bridge with a city in the distance. A stunning work of art on a modest scale.
"Most fore-edge painters working for binding firms did not sign their work, which explains why it is difficult to pinpoint and date the hidden paintings. A few binders did leave their marks.... In the early twentieth century, Miss C. B. Currie painted and signed her fore-edges, which are often found on bindings with painted ivory insets by Miss Currie" (Anne C. Bromer, "Fore-Edge Painting - An Introduction").
Octavo. 502 pages.
Sumptuously bound by Riviere in full blue straight-grain morocco, ruled and decorated in gilt and blind with floral and starburst designs at the corners, heavily gilt- and blind-tooled spine with gilt titles and five raised bands, and inner gilt fillets lined in gilt ornaments. Very light shelf wear to binding. Corners lightly rubbed, with the top corners bumped. Mild offsetting to the endpapers from the fillet borders. Internal contents clean if only slightly age-toned. Small catalog blurb tipped to front pastedown. Another catalog label affixed to verso of front free endpaper. A near fine copy.
Bound into the front is a special limitation page identifying the present volume as "No. 122 of the Books with Fore-edge Paintings by Miss Currie / The Painting under the gold is a view of The Temples of Paestum / Signed C. B. Currie." The Temples of Paestum are Ancient Greek-style structures near Naples, Italy that honor various Greek gods and goddesses. Here, Miss Currie has depicted two of the temples behind a vast field of verdant green. Two people stand in the foreground, and the right side of the painting shows a bridge with a city in the distance. A stunning work of art on a modest scale.
"Most fore-edge painters working for binding firms did not sign their work, which explains why it is difficult to pinpoint and date the hidden paintings. A few binders did leave their marks.... In the early twentieth century, Miss C. B. Currie painted and signed her fore-edges, which are often found on bindings with painted ivory insets by Miss Currie" (Anne C. Bromer, "Fore-Edge Painting - An Introduction").
[Fore-edge Painting]. Dante Alighieri. La Divina Commedia; di Dante Alighieri. Londra [London]: Si Vende Presso C. S. Arnold, Librajo, 1827.
Twentyfourmo. 602 pages.
Full vellum binding with gilt borders and floral designs on the boards with gilt flourish on the spine and a black leather spine title plate lettered in gilt. Each board is decorated with a painting which complements the fore-edge painting, executed by the same artist: the front cover shows a cityscape scene of Florence from the Cascina; the painting on the rear board depicts a city view of Pelago, near Florence, from across the bridge entrance to the town. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. The fore-edge painting illustrates a busy city scene beside the Arno River in Florence, with the downtown area shown behind the Ponte Santa Trinita (Holy Trinity Bridge), which spans the Arno. A beautiful and energetic depiction of the Tuscan capital city in vibrant colors. Minor rubbing and dust-soiling to the binding, and slight bowing to the vellum binding, otherwise a tight, clean copy in fine condition.
A fascinating trio of paintings apropos to Dante, who was born in Florence and lived there until his exile in 1301, incorporating a great many Florentine public figures in The Divine Comedy.
Twentyfourmo. 602 pages.
Full vellum binding with gilt borders and floral designs on the boards with gilt flourish on the spine and a black leather spine title plate lettered in gilt. Each board is decorated with a painting which complements the fore-edge painting, executed by the same artist: the front cover shows a cityscape scene of Florence from the Cascina; the painting on the rear board depicts a city view of Pelago, near Florence, from across the bridge entrance to the town. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. The fore-edge painting illustrates a busy city scene beside the Arno River in Florence, with the downtown area shown behind the Ponte Santa Trinita (Holy Trinity Bridge), which spans the Arno. A beautiful and energetic depiction of the Tuscan capital city in vibrant colors. Minor rubbing and dust-soiling to the binding, and slight bowing to the vellum binding, otherwise a tight, clean copy in fine condition.
A fascinating trio of paintings apropos to Dante, who was born in Florence and lived there until his exile in 1301, incorporating a great many Florentine public figures in The Divine Comedy.
[Fore-edge Painting]. Edwards of Halifax. The Oeconomy of Human Life. London: E. Harding, 1798.
Twelvemo. 120 pages, including four pages of publisher's ads. Forty-nine vignette illustrations by Harding.
Bound almost certainly by Edwards of Halifax in full brown calf with foliate borders surrounding an arrangement of palmettos, which in turn surrounds a gilt and dark calf bordered inset of tree calf. Expertly rebacked some while ago, retaining the original smooth spine with intricate gilt and with black morocco lettering label. Gilt board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Rear joint strengthened. A lovely specimen of an Edwards of Halifax binding housed in a cloth clamshell case. As is often the case with Edwards of Halifax, this copy with a fine modern (twentieth-century) fore-edge painting of a boat sailing down a river with a man in the foreground and a small city in the background.
Twelvemo. 120 pages, including four pages of publisher's ads. Forty-nine vignette illustrations by Harding.
Bound almost certainly by Edwards of Halifax in full brown calf with foliate borders surrounding an arrangement of palmettos, which in turn surrounds a gilt and dark calf bordered inset of tree calf. Expertly rebacked some while ago, retaining the original smooth spine with intricate gilt and with black morocco lettering label. Gilt board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Rear joint strengthened. A lovely specimen of an Edwards of Halifax binding housed in a cloth clamshell case. As is often the case with Edwards of Halifax, this copy with a fine modern (twentieth-century) fore-edge painting of a boat sailing down a river with a man in the foreground and a small city in the background.
[Fore-edge Painting]. Mrs. Henry Tighe. Psyche, with Other Poems. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1811.
Third edition. Octavo. 314 pages.
Sumptuously bound in brown leather with gilt rules and designs on the boards and spine with gilt spine titles. All edges gilt. Housed in a full maroon leather pull-off case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Moderate shelf wear, including some abrading to the leather along the spine folds and ends. Internal contents bright and clean. Mild wear to the leather on the spine of the pull-off case. A very good copy.
The fore-edge painting depicts a busy scene on a wide street in a Canterbury of yore. The line of shops and houses recedes into the background, guiding the eye to Canterbury Cathedral. A stunning fore-edge work.
Third edition. Octavo. 314 pages.
Sumptuously bound in brown leather with gilt rules and designs on the boards and spine with gilt spine titles. All edges gilt. Housed in a full maroon leather pull-off case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Moderate shelf wear, including some abrading to the leather along the spine folds and ends. Internal contents bright and clean. Mild wear to the leather on the spine of the pull-off case. A very good copy.
The fore-edge painting depicts a busy scene on a wide street in a Canterbury of yore. The line of shops and houses recedes into the background, guiding the eye to Canterbury Cathedral. A stunning fore-edge work.
[Thomas Johnes, translator]. Jean Froissart. Chronicles of England, France and the Adjoining Countries, From the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV. [Cardiganshire]: Hafod Press, 1803-1805.
First thus. Four quarto volumes with Memoirs included in Volume IV. xxiv, 835; xxvi, 744; xx, 656; xx, 692 pages. Fifty-six hand-colored plates and two hand-colored maps.
Publisher's full red morocco. Boards have gilt ruled borders with cornerpieces representing flowers, spines with raised bands and six compartments. Two compartments with gilt stamped leather spine labels, other compartments with elaborate gilt stamping. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Lightly rubbed and worn with sunning to spines. Minor toning and light, scattered foxing throughout. Lacking plates 50 and 53. Overall, a very good set.
First thus. Four quarto volumes with Memoirs included in Volume IV. xxiv, 835; xxvi, 744; xx, 656; xx, 692 pages. Fifty-six hand-colored plates and two hand-colored maps.
Publisher's full red morocco. Boards have gilt ruled borders with cornerpieces representing flowers, spines with raised bands and six compartments. Two compartments with gilt stamped leather spine labels, other compartments with elaborate gilt stamping. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Lightly rubbed and worn with sunning to spines. Minor toning and light, scattered foxing throughout. Lacking plates 50 and 53. Overall, a very good set.
H. N. Humphreys. Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart. Selected from the MS. in the British Museum. London: William Smith, 1844.
First edition. Octavo. [72] pages. Complete with thirty-six chromolithograph plates. With half-title and chromolithographic added title. Letterpress title printed in red and black.
Contemporary full green morocco, multiple fillet and foliate borders rolled in gilt to a panel design, spine lettered and tooled in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, gilt board edges and turn-ins, green endpapers, all edges gilt. With four bookplates total, including two Charles Dickens bookplates: one an engraved bookplate with Dickens' name beneath a recumbent lion, the other a letterpress bookplate reading "From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June, 1870" - both are affixed to the front pastedown. A few instances of light marginal foxing. Some stains to fore-edge of text block, unaffecting text or images. Overall, a very good copy.
First edition. Octavo. [72] pages. Complete with thirty-six chromolithograph plates. With half-title and chromolithographic added title. Letterpress title printed in red and black.
Contemporary full green morocco, multiple fillet and foliate borders rolled in gilt to a panel design, spine lettered and tooled in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, gilt board edges and turn-ins, green endpapers, all edges gilt. With four bookplates total, including two Charles Dickens bookplates: one an engraved bookplate with Dickens' name beneath a recumbent lion, the other a letterpress bookplate reading "From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June, 1870" - both are affixed to the front pastedown. A few instances of light marginal foxing. Some stains to fore-edge of text block, unaffecting text or images. Overall, a very good copy.
[Merrymount Press]. The Holy Bible. Boston: R. H. Hinkley Company, 1904.
One of 1,000 sets on woven machine-made paper, out of a total edition of 2,574 sets. Fourteen octavo volumes. Photogravure frontispieces and plates after photographs and after paintings by Turner, Michelangelo, Burne-Jones, Reynolds, Rossetti, Doré, Rubens, and others; also with engravings by John Martin. Printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Boston.
Contemporary three-quarter purple morocco over decorative paper boards. Gilt-lettered spines with raised bands and blind tooling extending onto covers. Decorated endpapers. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A near fine set.
The Merrymount Press 209.
One of 1,000 sets on woven machine-made paper, out of a total edition of 2,574 sets. Fourteen octavo volumes. Photogravure frontispieces and plates after photographs and after paintings by Turner, Michelangelo, Burne-Jones, Reynolds, Rossetti, Doré, Rubens, and others; also with engravings by John Martin. Printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Boston.
Contemporary three-quarter purple morocco over decorative paper boards. Gilt-lettered spines with raised bands and blind tooling extending onto covers. Decorated endpapers. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A near fine set.
The Merrymount Press 209.
[Officina Bodoni]. The Nymphs of Fiesole. Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1952.
Limited to 225 copies on Fabriano handmade paper. Large octavo. With the woodcuts made by Bartolomeo di Giovanni for a lost Quattrocento edition recut by Fritz Kredel.
Publisher's quarter vellum over paper boards. A fine copy of one of the Officina Bodoni's most beautiful productions.
Limited to 225 copies on Fabriano handmade paper. Large octavo. With the woodcuts made by Bartolomeo di Giovanni for a lost Quattrocento edition recut by Fritz Kredel.
Publisher's quarter vellum over paper boards. A fine copy of one of the Officina Bodoni's most beautiful productions.
Charles Reade. The Works. London: The Grolier Society, [ca. 1910].
Edition Magnifique. Complete in 25 octavo volumes. Limited to 26 copies of which this is letter D.
Full leather binding by Zaehnsdorf in 1912. Boards, interior edges and spines decorated in gilt and red enamel; spines with ribbed compartments and raised bands. Mottled endpapers. All edges gilt. Set in fine condition.
Edition Magnifique. Complete in 25 octavo volumes. Limited to 26 copies of which this is letter D.
Full leather binding by Zaehnsdorf in 1912. Boards, interior edges and spines decorated in gilt and red enamel; spines with ribbed compartments and raised bands. Mottled endpapers. All edges gilt. Set in fine condition.
Antiques
Seven Architectural Views of Rome, Including Six Prints by Luigi Rossini and One Print by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.
Luigi Rossini (1790-1857). Six Prints, including: Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo. [and:] Veduta dei Grandi Avanzi degli Aquedotti di Nerone. [and:] Veduta del Pantheon di Agrippa. [and:] Veduta del Tempio di Antonino, e Faustina. [and:] Veduta dell' Interno del Tempio della Concordia, nel Foro Romano. [and:] Interno di una Piscina o Conserva d'Acqua. Six engravings by Luigi Rossini, most of which are from his Le Antichita Romane (Rome: 1819-1829). All are in generally very good condition with toning to edges. The Tempio di Antonino and Piscina prints have foxing. The Tempio della Concordia print has a stain along the right edge, outside the platemark, measuring approximately half-an-inch x 5 inches. All have light penciled notations. These sheets measure approximately 29.5 x 21 inches, with the Piscina measuring 25 x 19.25 inches.
Cavalier (Giovanni Battista) Piranesi (1720-1778). One Print: Veduta del Tempio di Ercole nella Citta di Cora. Engraving from his posthumously-published Vedute di Roma, the edition of this print unknown. Print is toned and foxed. There is a 2.75-inch vertical tear extending from bottom edge only very slightly past the platemark; tear has been repaired on the reverse, resulting in a stain on front and back, caused by the acidic reaction between adhesive and paper. Chip to top left corner. Light penciled notations. Sheet measures 25.75 x 20.5 inches.
Luigi Rossini (1790-1857). Six Prints, including: Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo. [and:] Veduta dei Grandi Avanzi degli Aquedotti di Nerone. [and:] Veduta del Pantheon di Agrippa. [and:] Veduta del Tempio di Antonino, e Faustina. [and:] Veduta dell' Interno del Tempio della Concordia, nel Foro Romano. [and:] Interno di una Piscina o Conserva d'Acqua. Six engravings by Luigi Rossini, most of which are from his Le Antichita Romane (Rome: 1819-1829). All are in generally very good condition with toning to edges. The Tempio di Antonino and Piscina prints have foxing. The Tempio della Concordia print has a stain along the right edge, outside the platemark, measuring approximately half-an-inch x 5 inches. All have light penciled notations. These sheets measure approximately 29.5 x 21 inches, with the Piscina measuring 25 x 19.25 inches.
Cavalier (Giovanni Battista) Piranesi (1720-1778). One Print: Veduta del Tempio di Ercole nella Citta di Cora. Engraving from his posthumously-published Vedute di Roma, the edition of this print unknown. Print is toned and foxed. There is a 2.75-inch vertical tear extending from bottom edge only very slightly past the platemark; tear has been repaired on the reverse, resulting in a stain on front and back, caused by the acidic reaction between adhesive and paper. Chip to top left corner. Light penciled notations. Sheet measures 25.75 x 20.5 inches.
Books
[Royal Bindings]. L'Office de la Semaine Sainte. Paris: Jacques Collombat, 1727.
Octavo. [xviii], 616 pages. With five full-page engravings, including frontispiece, and smaller engraved vignettes and initial letters throughout.
Bound for King Louis XV in full red morocco with his arms in gilt on both covers, covers with gilt panels and fleur-de-lis corner pieces, spine compartments in gilt and with central crown devices, gilt spine lettering, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Some scattered foxing. Very good condition.
Octavo. [xviii], 616 pages. With five full-page engravings, including frontispiece, and smaller engraved vignettes and initial letters throughout.
Bound for King Louis XV in full red morocco with his arms in gilt on both covers, covers with gilt panels and fleur-de-lis corner pieces, spine compartments in gilt and with central crown devices, gilt spine lettering, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Some scattered foxing. Very good condition.
Edward Ruscha. Every Building on the Sunset Strip. Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha, 1966.
First edition, second issue. Oblong octavo. Accordion-fold panorama featuring two strips of photographs of both sides of the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, folding out to approximately 27 feet.
Publisher's white wrappers in a silver foil-covered slipcase. Light wear to edges of foil, light crease to spine. Overall, an excellent and bright copy of this desirable title.
This second issue was limited to 5,000 copies. Originally published in 1966 in an edition of 1,000 copies, identifiable only by an extra two-inch flap at the end of the last folded page, the result of the printer's miscalculation.
First edition, second issue. Oblong octavo. Accordion-fold panorama featuring two strips of photographs of both sides of the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, folding out to approximately 27 feet.
Publisher's white wrappers in a silver foil-covered slipcase. Light wear to edges of foil, light crease to spine. Overall, an excellent and bright copy of this desirable title.
This second issue was limited to 5,000 copies. Originally published in 1966 in an edition of 1,000 copies, identifiable only by an extra two-inch flap at the end of the last folded page, the result of the printer's miscalculation.
Walter Scott. The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott. Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, 1834.
The complete nine volumes of Scott's Life of Napoleon from the Robert Cadell 28-volume set of The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott. Each volume illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and vignette. Several folding maps.
Contemporary red half calf over marbled boards. Raised bands. Title labels with gilt lettering and gilt designs to spines. Marbled edges. Marbled endpapers. Slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities of the bindings. Very good condition.
The complete nine volumes of Scott's Life of Napoleon from the Robert Cadell 28-volume set of The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott. Each volume illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and vignette. Several folding maps.
Contemporary red half calf over marbled boards. Raised bands. Title labels with gilt lettering and gilt designs to spines. Marbled edges. Marbled endpapers. Slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities of the bindings. Very good condition.
[Shakespeare Head Press]. The Works of Edmund Spenser. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1930-1932.
One of 375 numbered copies on Batchelor's Shakespeare Head handmade paper, out of a total edition of 386 copies. Eight large octavo volumes. With 111 woodcut illustrations, decorations, and title vignettes after and by Hilda Quick, all hand-colored, except for five that are printed in red and black. A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland with pictorial woodcut title page border and woodcut frontispiece map of Ireland by Macdonald Gill, both hand-colored. Lettering for half-titles, title pages, headings, and initials printed in red, black, and blue after designs by Joscelyne Gaskin; some shoulder notes printed in red, with occasional text printed in red and black. Edited by W. L. Renwick.
Original quarter green Hermitage calf over Cockerell marbled boards. Spines lettered in gilt. Edges uncut. An excellent set.
One of 375 numbered copies on Batchelor's Shakespeare Head handmade paper, out of a total edition of 386 copies. Eight large octavo volumes. With 111 woodcut illustrations, decorations, and title vignettes after and by Hilda Quick, all hand-colored, except for five that are printed in red and black. A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland with pictorial woodcut title page border and woodcut frontispiece map of Ireland by Macdonald Gill, both hand-colored. Lettering for half-titles, title pages, headings, and initials printed in red, black, and blue after designs by Joscelyne Gaskin; some shoulder notes printed in red, with occasional text printed in red and black. Edited by W. L. Renwick.
Original quarter green Hermitage calf over Cockerell marbled boards. Spines lettered in gilt. Edges uncut. An excellent set.
[Hand-colored Plates]. Costume of the Russian Empire. London: J. Stockdale, 1810.
Folio. With all seventy hand-colored plates listed but, as required, a 5 bis and a 20 bis for a total of seventy-two hand-colored plates of costumes of the region. Each plate with explanatory text in French and English.
Contemporary half red morocco over red pebble-grain cloth, gilt paneled spine compartments and gilt ruled bands, gilt spine lettering, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Some light soiling to cloth, Plate 5 with an expertly repaired marginal tear (blank portion only). Overall, a very clean and fresh copy in the original binding.
Folio. With all seventy hand-colored plates listed but, as required, a 5 bis and a 20 bis for a total of seventy-two hand-colored plates of costumes of the region. Each plate with explanatory text in French and English.
Contemporary half red morocco over red pebble-grain cloth, gilt paneled spine compartments and gilt ruled bands, gilt spine lettering, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Some light soiling to cloth, Plate 5 with an expertly repaired marginal tear (blank portion only). Overall, a very clean and fresh copy in the original binding.
Vellum Album of Mid-Nineteenth Century Plates. Quarto. 108 unpaginated pages. Over two hundred magazine and book illustrations and engravings, many hand-colored, have been carefully pasted into this album. Though most are undated, the illustrations seem to have come from French-language publications of the 1840s through the 1860s. Some pages loose, some mildly chipped. There is infrequent penciled scribbling in a child's hand throughout, affecting a few of the illustrations. The album is bound in full vellum with remnants of portfolio-style stay ties. The binding might, perhaps, be useful as a remboitage. Some splitting to the upper portion of the rear joint. Overall, the binding and plates are in very good condition.
[Gustave Doré, illustrator]. Alfred Tennyson. Elaine. London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1867.
First Doré edition. Folio. [vi], 84 pages. With all nine steel-engraved plates by Gustave Doré.
Original full red morocco, with title, border and repeating fleur-de-lis pattern in gilt on covers; author's and illustrator's names in gilt on an on-laid black calf ribbon at base of front cover. All edges gilt. Spine a bit darkened; foxing to tissue guards. Overall, a lovely copy in an impressive and grand binding.
First Doré edition. Folio. [vi], 84 pages. With all nine steel-engraved plates by Gustave Doré.
Original full red morocco, with title, border and repeating fleur-de-lis pattern in gilt on covers; author's and illustrator's names in gilt on an on-laid black calf ribbon at base of front cover. All edges gilt. Spine a bit darkened; foxing to tissue guards. Overall, a lovely copy in an impressive and grand binding.
Edmund Dulac [illustrator]. Three Wonderful Illustrated Books, including: Sinbad the Sailor & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. [London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d.]. Quarto. 222 pages. Twenty-three tipped-in color plates behind captioned tissue guards. Publisher's decorative tan binding with blue floral designs, and decorative stamping and titles in gilt. Floral endpapers. Moderate wear to the extremities, with minor fraying of the cloth at the spine folds. Bumped corners. Spine darkened. Scattered minor foxing of the endpapers. A beautiful book in very good condition. [and:] Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book. London/New York/Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d.]. Later edition. Quarto. 135 pages. Eighteen color plates tipped-in behind tissue guards. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and decorative stamping. Original brown paper dust jacket with full-color Dulac plate on the front panel. Moderate wear to the extremities. Rubbed corners. Scattered minor foxing to textblock and edges. Dust jacket has several closed tears along the edges, with mild paper loss at the spine ends and corners. The verso of the dust jacket shows several well-executed tape repairs. A very good copy, scarce in the dust jacket. [and:] Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book. Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations. London/New York/Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d.]. First trade edition. Quarto. 170 pages. Fifteen color illustrations tipped-in behind captioned pages. Publisher's tan cloth with teal and black titles and decorations on the spine and front board. Moderate wear to extremities. Light rubbing to boards. Bumped corners. Minor toning to endpapers. Spine cracked at page 129. Overall, a very good copy.
Edmund Dulac [illustrator]. Four Beautifully Illustrated Books, including: [William Shakespeare]. Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1908]. First trade edition. Quarto. 144 pages. With forty tipped-in color illustrations by Edmund Dulac behind captioned tissue guards. Original blue cloth with titles and decoration stamped in gilt on the front board and spine. Shelf wear to the boards at corners and spine ends. A very good copy. [and:] Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales From the Old French. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]. First trade edition. Quarto. 129 pages. With thirty tipped-in illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Original red cloth simulating morocco with lavish gilt decoration and titles. Light scuffing to corners and boards. Two creases at the bottom corner of plate 112, otherwise a near fine copy. [and:] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [circa 1909]. Quarto. Unpaginated. Quatrains printed on rectos only with decorative border, twenty tipped-in color plates with tissue guards. Original buff cloth with ornate gilt decoration and lettering. Spine slightly sunned. Light shelf wear and soiling. Decorative endpapers. Front hinge slightly loose. Very good condition. [and:] Stories From the Arabian Nights Retold by Laurence Housman. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907. First edition. Quarto. 133 pages. With fifty tipped-in color illustrations by Edmund Dulac behind captioned tissue guards, bound in back. Original brown cloth with decoration and lettering stamped in gilt. Light shelf wear. Light foxing on the preliminary pages. Front hinge starting. Very good condition.
Warwick Goble [illustrator]. Three Classic Illustrated Books, including: Giambattista Basile. Stories from the Pentamerone. Selected and Edited by E. F. Strange. Illustrated by Warwick Goble. London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. Octavo. 304 pages. Thirty-two illustrated color plates with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decorations. All edges green. Moderate shelf wear. Rubbed spine ends and corners. Previous owner's gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Front hinge cracked at page 1. Over-opened at page 81. Adhesive stain to the gutter at page 302. Light foxing to the endpapers. Overall, a very good copy. [and:] Rev. Lal Behari Day. Folk-Tales of Bengal. With 32 Illustrations in Colour by Warwick Goble. London: Macmillan and Co., 1912. Later illustrated edition after the first edition of 1883. Octavo. 274 pages plus two-page publisher's advertisement. Illustrated with thirty-two color plates protected by thick paper and captioned tissue guards. Publisher's red cloth with beautiful gilt titles and stamping. Scarce printed dust jacket lettered in red. All edges red. Moderate wear to the extremities. Spine ends sunned. Lightly rubbed corners. Minimal foxing to the endpapers. Dust jacket with minor paper loss at the corners, rear panel, and spine folds. A large section of the spine head is missing, taking the "FOLK TA" from "FOLK TALES." Still, an about very good copy, scarce in a dust jacket in any condition. [and:] The Fairy Book. The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by the Author of 'John Halifax, Gentleman.' With 32 Illustrations in Colour by Warwick Goble. London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. Later illustrated edition after the first edition of 1863. Octavo. 379 pages. Illustrated with thirty-two color plates protected by captioned tissue guards. Publisher's green cloth with elaborate decorative gilt stamping and titles. Top edge gilt. Moderate wear to the extremities. Minor rubbing to the gilt on the front board. Rubbed and lightly bumped corners. Spine has tiny closed tear at the head and a small dark stain. Textblock edges mildly thumb-soiled. Previous owner's 1913 gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Binding is square and tight, and the textblock is neat and clean. All in all, a very good copy. A great collection of three superbly illustrated story books.
Kate Greenaway. Complete Set of Miniature Almanacks 1883-[1895] in British and French Editions. Paris: Librarie Hachette Et Cie, [1883, 1887, 1888-1895] and London: George Routledge and Sons, [1884-1886]. First editions. All volumes twentyfourmo. Unpaginated. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations after Greenaway, printed in color by Edmund Evans. Original bindings of glazed pictorial boards with cloth spines, with the exception of 1884 which is in illustrated wrappers. All housed in a custom three-quarter leather clamshell case with gilt spine titles. A beautifully preserved set free of any internal markings. Some bindings show minor rubbing, abrading, and browning. Small previous bookshop's plate in the 1885 volume. The clamshell case is almost separated along the front hinge. Otherwise, a fine collection of gorgeous miniature books from one of the great children's illustrators. [together with:] Kate Greenaway's Almanack & Diary for 1897. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1897. First edition. Twentyfourmo. Imitation morocco binding. Top edge gilt. Minor rubbing to boards, else fine.
A complete set of combined first British and French editions of Kate Greenaway Almanacks. Together fourteen volumes, thirteen twentyfourmo volumes (the Almanack for 1887 being oblong twentyfourmo). No Almanack for 1896 was published.
"The beginning of 1883 had seen the publication of Kate Greenaway's first Almanack. Published at one shilling by George Routledge & Sons, and of course engraved and printed in colours by Mr. Edmund Evans, it achieved an enormous success, some 90,000 copies being sold in England, America, France, and Germany. It was succeeded by an almanack every year (with but one exception, 1896) until 1897, the last being published by Mr. Dent. The illustrations were printed on sheets with blank spaces for the letterpress, in which English, French, or German was inserted as the market demanded" (Spielmann and Layard (1905), p. 122).
A complete set of combined first British and French editions of Kate Greenaway Almanacks. Together fourteen volumes, thirteen twentyfourmo volumes (the Almanack for 1887 being oblong twentyfourmo). No Almanack for 1896 was published.
"The beginning of 1883 had seen the publication of Kate Greenaway's first Almanack. Published at one shilling by George Routledge & Sons, and of course engraved and printed in colours by Mr. Edmund Evans, it achieved an enormous success, some 90,000 copies being sold in England, America, France, and Germany. It was succeeded by an almanack every year (with but one exception, 1896) until 1897, the last being published by Mr. Dent. The illustrations were printed on sheets with blank spaces for the letterpress, in which English, French, or German was inserted as the market demanded" (Spielmann and Layard (1905), p. 122).
Al Hirschfeld and William Saroyan. Harlem as Seen by Hirschfeld. New York: The Hyperion Press, 1941.
First edition. One of 1,000 numbered copies. Folio. Six pages of text by William Saroyan, followed by twenty-four mounted original lithographs by Al Hirschfeld.
Publisher's white cloth lettered in brown with central color illustration, spine lettered in brown. Front cover with some minor scrapes. The usual finger-soiling to white covers, light wear to corners, small splits to foot of spine; else, a tight attractive copy in very good condition.
First edition. One of 1,000 numbered copies. Folio. Six pages of text by William Saroyan, followed by twenty-four mounted original lithographs by Al Hirschfeld.
Publisher's white cloth lettered in brown with central color illustration, spine lettered in brown. Front cover with some minor scrapes. The usual finger-soiling to white covers, light wear to corners, small splits to foot of spine; else, a tight attractive copy in very good condition.
A. A. Milne. Winnie-the-Pooh. [New York]: E. P. Dutton, [1926].
First American edition. Limited to 200 copies of which this is number 191. Signed by Milne and E. H. Shepard on the limitation page. Octavo. 158 pages. With illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard.
Publisher's quarter cloth with pictorial paper boards and spine label. Dust jacket still protected by original glassine and housed in publisher's pictorial box. An absolutely fine copy.
The first collection of Pooh stories. Seldom offered in such stunning condition.
First American edition. Limited to 200 copies of which this is number 191. Signed by Milne and E. H. Shepard on the limitation page. Octavo. 158 pages. With illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard.
Publisher's quarter cloth with pictorial paper boards and spine label. Dust jacket still protected by original glassine and housed in publisher's pictorial box. An absolutely fine copy.
The first collection of Pooh stories. Seldom offered in such stunning condition.
W. L. Ormsby. A Description of the Present System of Bank Note Engraving, Showing the Tendency to Facilitate Counterfeiting: To Which is Added a New Method of Constructing Bank Notes to Prevent Forgery. New York: W. L. Ormsby, 1852.
First edition. Quarto. 102 pages. Illustrated with numerous vignettes throughout, engraved frontispiece (Plate 5) and eleven engraved plates (last plate is in facsimile).
Publisher's full brown leather with gilt decoration and page edges. Rubbing and scuffing with the joints beginning to crack at spine ends. Minor toning to page edges and light, scattered foxing throughout. Plate 13 is a tipped-in facsimile. A very good copy of this core numismatic title.
First edition. Quarto. 102 pages. Illustrated with numerous vignettes throughout, engraved frontispiece (Plate 5) and eleven engraved plates (last plate is in facsimile).
Publisher's full brown leather with gilt decoration and page edges. Rubbing and scuffing with the joints beginning to crack at spine ends. Minor toning to page edges and light, scattered foxing throughout. Plate 13 is a tipped-in facsimile. A very good copy of this core numismatic title.
[Maxfield Parrish, illustrator]. Edith Wharton. Italian Villas and Their Gardens. New York: The Century Company, 1904.
First edition. Large octavo. xii, 270 pages. Fifty-two illustrations, including forty-five plates, fifteen of which are in color, with captioned tissue guards printed in red, and seven text illustrations. Twenty-six of the plates after drawings by Maxfield Parrish. Printed in red and black.
Original dark green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed, corners lightly bumped. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Internal contents bright and clean A near fine copy.
Ludwig, page 206.
First edition. Large octavo. xii, 270 pages. Fifty-two illustrations, including forty-five plates, fifteen of which are in color, with captioned tissue guards printed in red, and seven text illustrations. Twenty-six of the plates after drawings by Maxfield Parrish. Printed in red and black.
Original dark green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed, corners lightly bumped. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Internal contents bright and clean A near fine copy.
Ludwig, page 206.
[Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales. London: Constable & Co. [1917].
Limited to 525 numbered copies, signed by Arthur Rackham. Large quarto. xi, [1, blank], 250, [1], [1, blank] pages. Thirteen mounted color plates, captioned on mounts, and forty-three drawings in black and white, eight of which are full-page. Laid in is the additional mounted colored plate ("He Hurried Away with Long Strides," facing page 178), signed by Rackham, in the original light gray printed envelope.
Original gray cloth with white cloth panel on front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Mauve on white pictorial endpapers. Small abrasion professionally repaired on front cover. Otherwise, a very good copy.
Latimore and Haskell, pages 46-47. Riall, p. 129.
Limited to 525 numbered copies, signed by Arthur Rackham. Large quarto. xi, [1, blank], 250, [1], [1, blank] pages. Thirteen mounted color plates, captioned on mounts, and forty-three drawings in black and white, eight of which are full-page. Laid in is the additional mounted colored plate ("He Hurried Away with Long Strides," facing page 178), signed by Rackham, in the original light gray printed envelope.
Original gray cloth with white cloth panel on front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Mauve on white pictorial endpapers. Small abrasion professionally repaired on front cover. Otherwise, a very good copy.
Latimore and Haskell, pages 46-47. Riall, p. 129.
[Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940.
First edition thus, limited to 2,200 copies signed by the designer, Bruce Rogers. Quarto. 244, [2] pages. Sixteen color plates.
Original quarter pale yellow buckram over patterned paper boards; top edge gilt, others uncut. Housed in very lightly worn original slipcase. An excellent copy.
Riall, pages 197-198.
First edition thus, limited to 2,200 copies signed by the designer, Bruce Rogers. Quarto. 244, [2] pages. Sixteen color plates.
Original quarter pale yellow buckram over patterned paper boards; top edge gilt, others uncut. Housed in very lightly worn original slipcase. An excellent copy.
Riall, pages 197-198.
[Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. Four Christmas Books Illustrated by Rackham, including: Clement C. Moore. The Night Before Christmas. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott [1931]. First American trade edition. Octavo. 35 pages. With four color plates and seventeen drawings in black and white. Printed in red and black. Original cloth with laid-down paper cover label. Red and white endpapers. Original dust jacket with color Rackham illustration. [and:] John Ruskin. The King of the Golden River. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott, [1932]. First American trade edition. Octavo. 47 pages. With four color plates and fifteen drawings in black and white. Original cloth with laid-down paper cover label. Green and white endpapers. Original dust jacket with color Rackham illustration. [and:] Christina Rossetti. Goblin Market. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott, [1933]. First American trade edition. Octavo. 42 pages. With four color plates and nineteen drawings in black and white. Original cloth with laid-down paper cover label. Tan and white endpapers. Original dust jacket with color Rackham illustration. [and:] Robert Browning. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott, [1934]. First American trade edition. Octavo. 44 pages. With four color plates and fourteen drawings in black and white. Original cloth with laid-down paper cover label. Tan and white endpapers. Original dust jacket with color Rackham illustration. Some edge wear to dust jackets of all books, most noticeably on the first. A clean and complete set.
Latimore and Haskell, pages: 66, 71, 69, and 67.
Latimore and Haskell, pages: 66, 71, 69, and 67.
J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. [London]: Bloomsbury, [1998].
First edition, first state, with the following first state issue points: copyright page number line is descending from 10 on the left to 1 on the right; front flap of the dust jacket, paragraph 5, lines 1 and 2 does not show "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in italics; paragraph 5, line 7, "Tom El-Shawk Age 11" has no comma after the name, and age has a capital "A"; paragraph 6, line 1, "Harry Potter" is not italicized; paragraph 6, line 5, "Harry" is not italicized; paragraph 6, line 7, "Katrina Farrant Age 10" has no comma after the name and age has a capital "A." Boldly signed "J. K. Rowling" on the dedication page. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from HP4U. Small octavo. [256] pages.
Original pictorial boards. Publisher's first state dust jacket. Minimal toning to the top edge of the textblock. One minor crease to the front flap of the dust jacket. Ever so slightly over-opened at the title page. Altogether, a near fine copy of a book rarely found signed in any condition.
J. K. Rowling has captured the hearts and minds of Muggles around the world with her incredibly successful Harry Potter series. This second book covers Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, when the mysterious Chamber of Secrets is opened, and Harry and friends must battle to safeguard their lives and the world.
First edition, first state, with the following first state issue points: copyright page number line is descending from 10 on the left to 1 on the right; front flap of the dust jacket, paragraph 5, lines 1 and 2 does not show "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in italics; paragraph 5, line 7, "Tom El-Shawk Age 11" has no comma after the name, and age has a capital "A"; paragraph 6, line 1, "Harry Potter" is not italicized; paragraph 6, line 5, "Harry" is not italicized; paragraph 6, line 7, "Katrina Farrant Age 10" has no comma after the name and age has a capital "A." Boldly signed "J. K. Rowling" on the dedication page. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from HP4U. Small octavo. [256] pages.
Original pictorial boards. Publisher's first state dust jacket. Minimal toning to the top edge of the textblock. One minor crease to the front flap of the dust jacket. Ever so slightly over-opened at the title page. Altogether, a near fine copy of a book rarely found signed in any condition.
J. K. Rowling has captured the hearts and minds of Muggles around the world with her incredibly successful Harry Potter series. This second book covers Harry's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, when the mysterious Chamber of Secrets is opened, and Harry and friends must battle to safeguard their lives and the world.
J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. [London]: Bloomsbury, [1997].
First edition, first printing with correct copyright page (number line reading "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1", "Copyright © Text Joanne Rowling 1997", and "Copyright © Cover illustration Thomas Taylor1997" with no space between "Taylor" and "1997") and textual error on page 53 ("1 wand" listed twice). NOT an ex-library copy. Octavo. 223 pages.
Publisher's pictorial laminated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Mild bumping and rubbing to the edges and spine ends, with a small thumbnail bump at the bottom of the front board. Mildly rubbed corners. A few fingernail rubs to the boards and spine. Slight toning to the textblock edges. Internal contents bright and clean. Overall, a very good copy of an exceedingly rare touchstone of children's literature that Stephen King called "a feat of which only a superior imagination is capable."
General consensus is that Bloomsbury released about 500 copies of the hardcover in the first printing, most of which went to libraries and schools. This is an excellent copy of the first edition with no library markings of any kind. Here is a great opportunity to acquire one of the rarer modern firsts in all of Muggledom, an increasingly rare chance as first printing copies continue to sell into private collections.
"[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone] is as funny, moving and impressive as the story behind its writing. J. K. Rowling, a teacher by training, was a 30-year-old single mother living on welfare in a cold one-bedroom flat in Edinburgh when she began writing it in longhand during her baby daughter's nap times. But like Harry Potter, she had wizardry inside, and has soared beyond her modest Muggle surroundings to achieve something quite special" (Michael Winnerip, New York Times Book Review, February 14, 1999).
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was an instant critical success upon its release in England, winning both the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the prestigious British Book Award for Children's Book of the Year. Its popular success speaks for itself.
First edition, first printing with correct copyright page (number line reading "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1", "Copyright © Text Joanne Rowling 1997", and "Copyright © Cover illustration Thomas Taylor1997" with no space between "Taylor" and "1997") and textual error on page 53 ("1 wand" listed twice). NOT an ex-library copy. Octavo. 223 pages.
Publisher's pictorial laminated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Mild bumping and rubbing to the edges and spine ends, with a small thumbnail bump at the bottom of the front board. Mildly rubbed corners. A few fingernail rubs to the boards and spine. Slight toning to the textblock edges. Internal contents bright and clean. Overall, a very good copy of an exceedingly rare touchstone of children's literature that Stephen King called "a feat of which only a superior imagination is capable."
General consensus is that Bloomsbury released about 500 copies of the hardcover in the first printing, most of which went to libraries and schools. This is an excellent copy of the first edition with no library markings of any kind. Here is a great opportunity to acquire one of the rarer modern firsts in all of Muggledom, an increasingly rare chance as first printing copies continue to sell into private collections.
"[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone] is as funny, moving and impressive as the story behind its writing. J. K. Rowling, a teacher by training, was a 30-year-old single mother living on welfare in a cold one-bedroom flat in Edinburgh when she began writing it in longhand during her baby daughter's nap times. But like Harry Potter, she had wizardry inside, and has soared beyond her modest Muggle surroundings to achieve something quite special" (Michael Winnerip, New York Times Book Review, February 14, 1999).
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was an instant critical success upon its release in England, winning both the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the prestigious British Book Award for Children's Book of the Year. Its popular success speaks for itself.
J. K. Rowling. The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger. [London]: Children's High Level Group in association with Bloomsbury, [2008].
First UK trade edition. Signed by the author on an illustrated leaf between the title page and Contents page. Twelvemo. 108 pages plus publisher's note. Text illustrations throughout by J. K. Rowling.
Publisher's pictorial laminated boards illustrated by the author. A few incidental fingernail marks on the boards, but overall a fine copy of a book rarely found signed by the author.
"I can only think of three authors who are genuine creators of new fairytales: Joan Aiken, Tolkien and E. Nesbit. Rowling is the fourth, blending the comic with the gorgeously grotesque and adding her own delicate line drawings. All of these tales - funny, sinister, wise and captivating - could have come new-minted from the Brothers Grimm" (Amanda Craig, Book Review of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, The Times, December 4, 2008).
First UK trade edition. Signed by the author on an illustrated leaf between the title page and Contents page. Twelvemo. 108 pages plus publisher's note. Text illustrations throughout by J. K. Rowling.
Publisher's pictorial laminated boards illustrated by the author. A few incidental fingernail marks on the boards, but overall a fine copy of a book rarely found signed by the author.
"I can only think of three authors who are genuine creators of new fairytales: Joan Aiken, Tolkien and E. Nesbit. Rowling is the fourth, blending the comic with the gorgeously grotesque and adding her own delicate line drawings. All of these tales - funny, sinister, wise and captivating - could have come new-minted from the Brothers Grimm" (Amanda Craig, Book Review of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, The Times, December 4, 2008).
J. K. Rowling. Complete Set of All Seven UK Harry Potter Titles Signed by the Author, including: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. [London]: Bloomsbury, [1997]. First edition, third printing. Signed by the author in blue ink on the dedication page. Octavo. 223 pages. Publisher's pictorial laminated boards. Original dust jacket, and the first printing to include a dust jacket. Moderate shelf wear to the book and jacket. A few fingernail impressions to the panels. Minimal paper loss and some rubbing at the corners and spine tail. Very good condition. [and:] Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. [London]: Bloomsbury, [1998]. First edition, first state, with the following first state issue points: copyright page number line descending from 10 on the left to 1 on the right; on the front flap of the dust jacket, paragraph 5, lines 1 and 2 does not have "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in italics; paragraph 5, line 7, "Tom El-Shawk Age 11" has no comma after the name and age has a capital "A"; paragraph 6, line 1, "Harry Potter" is not italicized; paragraph 6, line 5, "Harry" is not italicized; paragraph 6, line 7, "Katrina Farrant Age 10" has no comma after the name and age has a capital "A." Signed by the author in blue ink on the dedication page. Octavo. [256] pages. Publisher's pictorial boards. Publisher's first state dust jacket. Fine condition. [and:] Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. [London]: Bloomsbury, [1999]. First edition. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. Octavo. 317 pages. Publisher's pictorial laminated boards. Original pictorial dust jacket. Housed in an orange cloth slipcase. Fine condition. [and:] Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. [London]: Bloomsbury, [2000]. First edition. Signed by the author in blue ink on the dedication page. Octavo. 636 pages. Publisher's pictorial laminated boards. Original pictorial dust jacket. Minimal shelf wear, else a fine copy. [and:] Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. [London]: Bloomsbury, [2003]. First edition. Signed by the author in black ink on the half-title page. Octavo. 766 pages. Publisher's pictorial laminated boards. Original pictorial dust jacket. Minor shelf wear to the book and jacket. Two minute tears to the spine tail. Minimal toning to the bottom textblock edge. A solid book in very good condition. A wristband from the J. K. Rowling book signing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival laid in. [and:] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. [London]: Bloomsbury, [2005]. First edition. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. Octavo. 607 pages. Publisher's pictorial laminated boards. Original pictorial dust jacket. Minimal shelf wear to the book and jacket, else a fine copy. A bookmark ticket for "The launch of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" laid in. [and:] Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. [London]: Bloomsbury, [2007]. First edition. Inscribed and signed "to David, / JK Rowling" in black ink on the title page. Octavo. 607 pages. Publisher's pictorial laminated boards. Original pictorial dust jacket. Fine condition. A square hologram from the autograph session is affixed to the title page.
This marvelous set of books is accompanied by a small selection of Bloomsbury promotional materials related to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, including: a ticket to the "Moonlight Signing" of the book at the London Natural History Museum; a numbered ticket for the signing; a colorful quad-fold promotional poster; a small orange paper bag; three stickers; a small solicitation for the Deathly Hallows audiobook read by Stephen Fry; a children's activity sheet with Harry Potter word games; and two balloons.
This marvelous set of books is accompanied by a small selection of Bloomsbury promotional materials related to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, including: a ticket to the "Moonlight Signing" of the book at the London Natural History Museum; a numbered ticket for the signing; a colorful quad-fold promotional poster; a small orange paper bag; three stickers; a small solicitation for the Deathly Hallows audiobook read by Stephen Fry; a children's activity sheet with Harry Potter word games; and two balloons.
J. K. Rowling. Complete Set of Harry Potter First Deluxe Editions, All Signed. [London]: Bloomsbury, [1999-2007]. First deluxe editions, with the number "1" on the number line or "First Edition" on the printing line. Octavo. All in the publisher's designated color cloth with gilt titles on the front cover and spine and a color illustration echoing the original dust jackets inset into the front covers. All edges gilt. All titles with original attached silk bookmarks. The titles include: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Original clear plastic dust wrapper. Minimal edge wear. Slightly over-opened at the half-title page, else in near fine condition. [and:] Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Original clear plastic dust wrapper. Minimal edge wear to the spine ends. Lightly rubbed corners. Overall, a tight, fine copy. [and:] Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Original clear plastic dust wrapper. Housed in a green cloth slipcase. Minimal rubbing to spine ends and corners. A fine copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from Bookbid Rare Books. [and:] Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Tiny scuff to rear cover, mild shelf wear, with lightly rubbed corners, else in near fine condition. [and:] Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Signed by the author on the title page. Minimal shelf wear. Fine condition. [and:] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Signed by the author on the title page. Small square hologram from the autograph session applied to the title page. The lightest bit of rubbing to the corners, else a beautiful fine copy. [and:] Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Signed by the author on the title page. Small square hologram from the autograph session applied to the title page. Ever so slightly over-opened at the title page. Minimal rubbing to corners and spine tail. All in all, a fine copy. A ticket for the "J. K. Rowling Open Book Tour" appearance and book signing at Carnegie Hall laid in. A fabulous collection of first deluxe editions signed by the most popular author on planet Earth.
J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the: Sorcerer's Stone; Chamber of Secrets; Prisoner of Azkaban; Goblet of Fire; Order of the Phoenix; Half Blood Prince; Deathly Hallows. [New York]: Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic Press, 1998-2007.
First American editions, first printings. Seven large octavo volumes. Illustrated.
Publisher's original cloth backs over paper boards embossed with a diamond pattern, lettering stamped on the spines. Original pictorial dust jackets. All books and jackets in very good or better condition, with minor dust jacket edge wear. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone slightly skewed.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Copyright page: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 8 9/9 0/0 01 02 and states "First American Edition, October 1998." The first state dust jacket has "The Guardian" blurb on the back with $16.95 price on the flap and no volume number on the spine. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Copyright page: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9/9 0/0 1 2 3 4 and states "First American Edition, June 1999." No volume number on the book. Dust jacket with $17.95 on the front flap and no number on the spine. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Copyright page: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9/9 0/0 1 2 3 4 with "First American Edition, October 1999." With "Year 3" on the spine of the book and the dust jacket. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Copyright: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0/0 01 02 03 04 and states "First American Edition, July 2000." "Year 4" on the book and dust jacket spine and with issue price of $25.95 on front flap. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Copyright page: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 03 04 05 06 07 and "First American Edition, July 2003." "Year 5" on the book and dust jacket spines with an issue price of $29.99. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: Copyright page: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 05 06 07 08 09 and "First American Edition, July 2005" and "Printed in the USA." With "Year 6" on the book and dust jacket spines and issue price of $29.99. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: "First Edition, July 2007." With "Year 7" on the book and dust jacket spines and issue price of $34.99.
"I think Harry will take his place with Alice, Huck, Frodo, and Dorothy and this is one series not just for the decade, but for the ages." (Stephen King)
First American editions, first printings. Seven large octavo volumes. Illustrated.
Publisher's original cloth backs over paper boards embossed with a diamond pattern, lettering stamped on the spines. Original pictorial dust jackets. All books and jackets in very good or better condition, with minor dust jacket edge wear. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone slightly skewed.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Copyright page: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 8 9/9 0/0 01 02 and states "First American Edition, October 1998." The first state dust jacket has "The Guardian" blurb on the back with $16.95 price on the flap and no volume number on the spine. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Copyright page: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9/9 0/0 1 2 3 4 and states "First American Edition, June 1999." No volume number on the book. Dust jacket with $17.95 on the front flap and no number on the spine. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Copyright page: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9/9 0/0 1 2 3 4 with "First American Edition, October 1999." With "Year 3" on the spine of the book and the dust jacket. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Copyright: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0/0 01 02 03 04 and states "First American Edition, July 2000." "Year 4" on the book and dust jacket spine and with issue price of $25.95 on front flap. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Copyright page: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 03 04 05 06 07 and "First American Edition, July 2003." "Year 5" on the book and dust jacket spines with an issue price of $29.99. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: Copyright page: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 05 06 07 08 09 and "First American Edition, July 2005" and "Printed in the USA." With "Year 6" on the book and dust jacket spines and issue price of $29.99. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: "First Edition, July 2007." With "Year 7" on the book and dust jacket spines and issue price of $34.99.
"I think Harry will take his place with Alice, Huck, Frodo, and Dorothy and this is one series not just for the decade, but for the ages." (Stephen King)
Kay Thompson. Two Eloise Books, including: Eloise at Christmastime. New York: Random House, [1958]. First edition. Signed by Hilary Knight, the illustrator, on the gift page. [and:] Eloise in Moscow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First edition. Signed by Hilary Knight on the front endpaper. Both volumes show minor soiling to the dust jackets and light foxing along the top page edge. Both are in very good condition.
William M. Timlin. The Ship That Sailed To Mars, A Fantasy. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1923].
First American edition (250 copies were distributed in America from the 2,000 copies printed in Britain). Royal quarto. Unpaginated. Forty-eight plates containing calligraphic text and forty-eight full-color illustrated plates; all plates mounted - on rectos only - on heavy gray paper. Timlin wrote the book and provided the calligraphy and the illustrations.
Parchment vellum spine over gray paper printed boards. Spine extra gilt, with lettering, decorations and vignette in gold. Light bump to head of spine. Front board is slightly bowed; rear board is lightly rubbed. Minor toning to endpapers. One plate containing text has a half-inch surface abrasion to the margin, beyond the text. Several leaves have a small closed tear to the bottom edge, near the spine edge, generally measuring about half an inch; two measure one-inch. Inoffensive bookstore label to rear pastedown. The scarce dust jacket, printed in black and gold, has browned slightly. There are a few closed tears, a couple of tiny chips, and slight creasing, mainly along the edges; one diagonal crease across front panel at top right corner. Jacket very lightly scuffed. Overall, this beautiful book is in near fine condition, and its illustrations are still bright and vivid.
Dalby, The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration. Weinberg, Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists.
First American edition (250 copies were distributed in America from the 2,000 copies printed in Britain). Royal quarto. Unpaginated. Forty-eight plates containing calligraphic text and forty-eight full-color illustrated plates; all plates mounted - on rectos only - on heavy gray paper. Timlin wrote the book and provided the calligraphy and the illustrations.
Parchment vellum spine over gray paper printed boards. Spine extra gilt, with lettering, decorations and vignette in gold. Light bump to head of spine. Front board is slightly bowed; rear board is lightly rubbed. Minor toning to endpapers. One plate containing text has a half-inch surface abrasion to the margin, beyond the text. Several leaves have a small closed tear to the bottom edge, near the spine edge, generally measuring about half an inch; two measure one-inch. Inoffensive bookstore label to rear pastedown. The scarce dust jacket, printed in black and gold, has browned slightly. There are a few closed tears, a couple of tiny chips, and slight creasing, mainly along the edges; one diagonal crease across front panel at top right corner. Jacket very lightly scuffed. Overall, this beautiful book is in near fine condition, and its illustrations are still bright and vivid.
Dalby, The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration. Weinberg, Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists.
[E. B. White]. Garth Williams. Two Original Pen-and-Ink Illustrations from Stuart Little and a First Edition of the Novel. The first illustration included here appears on page 95 of the first edition of the classic children's book and shows Harry swiping Katherine's little pillow. The drawing measures approximately 8 x 7 inches. The second image appears on page 97 and depicts Stuart admonishing Harry for taking the pillow. It measures approximately 10 x 8 inches. These wonderful drawings are in near fine condition. [together with:] E. B. White. Stuart Little. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1945]. First edition. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Octavo. 131 pages. Publisher's tan cloth with stamping in green and white. Mild toning to page edges. Dust jacket is price-clipped and shows darkening along the spine and edges with some chipping to spine ends. A near fine copy.
The character of Stuart Little came to White in a dream as he traveled by train to New York. White said Stuart appeared to him "all complete, with his hat, his cane, and his brisk manner." Though he began the manuscript in 1938, White did not complete the work until the winter of 1944-45. White's editor at Harper had difficulty finding the perfect illustrator, complaining that "it is terribly difficult to draw attractive mice" and went through no less than eight illustrators before finally signing Garth Williams, a prize-winning sculptor. Williams would also illustrate White's next book, Charlotte's Web. Though not warmly received by the literary community when first published, Stuart Little quietly gained an audience that now spans the generations.
Scott Elledge, E. B. White, pages 254 & 263.
The character of Stuart Little came to White in a dream as he traveled by train to New York. White said Stuart appeared to him "all complete, with his hat, his cane, and his brisk manner." Though he began the manuscript in 1938, White did not complete the work until the winter of 1944-45. White's editor at Harper had difficulty finding the perfect illustrator, complaining that "it is terribly difficult to draw attractive mice" and went through no less than eight illustrators before finally signing Garth Williams, a prize-winning sculptor. Williams would also illustrate White's next book, Charlotte's Web. Though not warmly received by the literary community when first published, Stuart Little quietly gained an audience that now spans the generations.
Scott Elledge, E. B. White, pages 254 & 263.
[N. C. Wyeth, illustrator]. James Boyd. Drums. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1928].
Limited to 525 copies of which this is number 148. Signed by James Boyd and the illustrator, N. C. Wyeth on the limitation page. Octavo. 409 pages.
Publisher's orange cloth with gold stamping on the spine and pictorial label to front board. Cloth is mildly rubbed and soiled; spine is lightly sunned. Previous owner's name on the second free endpaper. Front hinge is cracking. Tipped in are facsimile letters of correspondence between Boyd and Wyeth, letters written during the time Wyeth was gathering information for his illustrations. A very good copy.
Limited to 525 copies of which this is number 148. Signed by James Boyd and the illustrator, N. C. Wyeth on the limitation page. Octavo. 409 pages.
Publisher's orange cloth with gold stamping on the spine and pictorial label to front board. Cloth is mildly rubbed and soiled; spine is lightly sunned. Previous owner's name on the second free endpaper. Front hinge is cracking. Tipped in are facsimile letters of correspondence between Boyd and Wyeth, letters written during the time Wyeth was gathering information for his illustrations. A very good copy.
The Evergreen Tales; or, Tales for the Ageless. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1949-1952.
Limited to 2,500 sets of which this is set number 544. Complete in 15 quarto volumes.
Titles include: The Tale of Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves. [and:] The Ugly Duckling. [and:] The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. [and:] The Story of Joseph and His Brothers. [and:] Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. [and:] The Three Bears. [and:] Saint George and the Dragon. [and:] Dick Whittington & His Cat. [and:] Beauty and the Beast. [and:] The Tale of King Midas and the Golden Touch. [and:] Pandora's Box. [and:] The Emperor's New Clothes. [and:] The Whimsical History of Bluebeard. [and:] Hansel and Gretel. [and:] The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Housed in publisher's slipcases, many with publisher's glassine. Numerous volumes are signed by illustrators. Seldom offered complete with matching numbers. A fine set.
Limited to 2,500 sets of which this is set number 544. Complete in 15 quarto volumes.
Titles include: The Tale of Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves. [and:] The Ugly Duckling. [and:] The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. [and:] The Story of Joseph and His Brothers. [and:] Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. [and:] The Three Bears. [and:] Saint George and the Dragon. [and:] Dick Whittington & His Cat. [and:] Beauty and the Beast. [and:] The Tale of King Midas and the Golden Touch. [and:] Pandora's Box. [and:] The Emperor's New Clothes. [and:] The Whimsical History of Bluebeard. [and:] Hansel and Gretel. [and:] The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Housed in publisher's slipcases, many with publisher's glassine. Numerous volumes are signed by illustrators. Seldom offered complete with matching numbers. A fine set.
Isaac Asimov. The Foundation Trilogy, including: Foundation. Garden City: Gnome Press, [1951]. Binding priority (A). [and:] Foundation and Empire. Garden City: Gnome Press, [1952]. Binding priority (A). [and:] Second Foundation. Garden City: Gnome Press, [1953]. Binding priority (A).
All volumes are first editions, first states in dust jackets. Three octavo volumes. 255; 247; 210 pages.
A stunning, crisp set of the Foundation Trilogy. Each volume has minimal rubbing to spine ends and only mild toning on the page edges. A previous owner's name is neatly written on the front pastedown of each volume, indicating that these books have been together as a set for many years. Dust jackets are lightly rubbed, but with no fading to the spines. All volumes are in near fine condition.
"Neither novels nor trilogy, but rather a series of nine stories written in the 1940s and inspired by the fall of Rome. Eight were written for Campbell's Astounding. Now classics, they portray the destruction of a human galactic empire and the efforts of psycho-historians to shorten the coming dark ages. To do this, they set up a hidden Foundation to guide man in the development of a new culture...Some internal inconsistencies and pulp writing style, but the series helped open SF to new content beyond mere space opera. Awarded a special Hugo (1966) for best all-time series" (Anatomy of Wonder).
Anatomy of Wonder, p. 135. Currey.
All volumes are first editions, first states in dust jackets. Three octavo volumes. 255; 247; 210 pages.
A stunning, crisp set of the Foundation Trilogy. Each volume has minimal rubbing to spine ends and only mild toning on the page edges. A previous owner's name is neatly written on the front pastedown of each volume, indicating that these books have been together as a set for many years. Dust jackets are lightly rubbed, but with no fading to the spines. All volumes are in near fine condition.
"Neither novels nor trilogy, but rather a series of nine stories written in the 1940s and inspired by the fall of Rome. Eight were written for Campbell's Astounding. Now classics, they portray the destruction of a human galactic empire and the efforts of psycho-historians to shorten the coming dark ages. To do this, they set up a hidden Foundation to guide man in the development of a new culture...Some internal inconsistencies and pulp writing style, but the series helped open SF to new content beyond mere space opera. Awarded a special Hugo (1966) for best all-time series" (Anatomy of Wonder).
Anatomy of Wonder, p. 135. Currey.
Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The Living and the Dead. London: Hutchinson, 1956.
First edition in English. Octavo. 192 pages. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury.
Full red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very mild soiling to rear panel of dust jacket; front flap of jacket clipped at bottom outer corner. Overall, a very good copy.
First edition in English. Octavo. 192 pages. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury.
Full red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very mild soiling to rear panel of dust jacket; front flap of jacket clipped at bottom outer corner. Overall, a very good copy.
Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine Books, 1953.
Number 192 of 200 limited first edition copies signed by Bradbury and bound in "an asbestos material with exceptional resistance to pyrolysis." Octavo. 199 pages.
White asbestos boards. Lettering in red on spine and cover. Very minor soiling to boards. Issued without dust jacket. An outstanding, tight and bright near fine copy of this much sought-after limited binding. In custom slipcase.
Barron 4-99. Currey.
Number 192 of 200 limited first edition copies signed by Bradbury and bound in "an asbestos material with exceptional resistance to pyrolysis." Octavo. 199 pages.
White asbestos boards. Lettering in red on spine and cover. Very minor soiling to boards. Issued without dust jacket. An outstanding, tight and bright near fine copy of this much sought-after limited binding. In custom slipcase.
Barron 4-99. Currey.
Ray Bradbury. Dark Carnival. Sauk City, WI; Arkham House: 1947.
First edition. Inscribed by Bradbury on label attached to front free endpaper. Octavo. 313 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Minor wear at the spine ends and corners. Some toning to the textblock edges, and noticeable toning to endpapers. Dust jacket shows light wear to the spine ends and corners, and rubbing and some soiling to the rear panel and rear flap. A very good copy.
Dark Carnival was Bradbury's first published book and was extremely well received. Years later, Bradbury would reissue Dark Carnival as The October Country, with updated versions of most of the stories.
First edition. Inscribed by Bradbury on label attached to front free endpaper. Octavo. 313 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Minor wear at the spine ends and corners. Some toning to the textblock edges, and noticeable toning to endpapers. Dust jacket shows light wear to the spine ends and corners, and rubbing and some soiling to the rear panel and rear flap. A very good copy.
Dark Carnival was Bradbury's first published book and was extremely well received. Years later, Bradbury would reissue Dark Carnival as The October Country, with updated versions of most of the stories.
Ray Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950.
First edition, first state. Octavo. 222 pages.
Publisher's first state green cloth with red stamping. Cloth shows some faint speckling to the boards and fading to the spine . Dust jacket has minimal rubbing with darkening to the edges and spine. A near fine copy in a crisp jacket.
A clean and attractive copy of Bradbury's second book. Bradbury loosely connected these science fiction stories set on Mars into a coherent whole so that the publisher could better market the book as a novel. This "episodic first novel about mankind's colonization of Mars...helped to bring science fiction to the attention of the literary mainstream" (Bloom, Science Fiction Writers of the Golden Age p. 78).
Barron 4-102. Currey.
First edition, first state. Octavo. 222 pages.
Publisher's first state green cloth with red stamping. Cloth shows some faint speckling to the boards and fading to the spine . Dust jacket has minimal rubbing with darkening to the edges and spine. A near fine copy in a crisp jacket.
A clean and attractive copy of Bradbury's second book. Bradbury loosely connected these science fiction stories set on Mars into a coherent whole so that the publisher could better market the book as a novel. This "episodic first novel about mankind's colonization of Mars...helped to bring science fiction to the attention of the literary mainstream" (Bloom, Science Fiction Writers of the Golden Age p. 78).
Barron 4-102. Currey.
Charlotte Brontë. Villette. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1849.
First edition. Three octavo volumes. [i-iv], [1]2-324; [i-iv], [1]2-319[320]; [i-iv], [1]2-350[-352] pages (no half-titles called for).
Half brown calf over marbled boards, morocco gilt lettering labels. Spines lightly faded, bound without the terminal ads in Volume 1. Signature to top of title page. A very good copy.
First edition. Three octavo volumes. [i-iv], [1]2-324; [i-iv], [1]2-319[320]; [i-iv], [1]2-350[-352] pages (no half-titles called for).
Half brown calf over marbled boards, morocco gilt lettering labels. Spines lightly faded, bound without the terminal ads in Volume 1. Signature to top of title page. A very good copy.
Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Octavo. 454 pages.
A fine copy in dust jacket, housed in a custom chemise and slipcase.
First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Octavo. 454 pages.
A fine copy in dust jacket, housed in a custom chemise and slipcase.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars - Advance Review Copy. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1917.
Advance review copy of the first edition. 326 pages. Illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover.
Illustrated wrappers. Pre-publication paperbound review copy. Housed in a custom leather slipcase. Slightly cocked, with wear to the spine and some chipping to the top and base of the spine. Some mild dampstaining to back cover. A very good copy of this uncommon variant binding. In scuffed custom leather box.
The first of the Martian novels, The Princess of Mars first saw print in a shorter form in All-Story magazine as "Under the Moons of Mars" in 1912. When the novel was finally printed in book form, McClurg had already published four of Burroughs' Tarzan books and was advertising the Princess of Mars in their catalog as "an absorbing tale of adventure and romance forty-three million miles from Earth. It is hardly too much to say that it is the boldest piece of imaginative fiction in this generation. The story is full of weird and astounding adventures written by an author bold enough to create Tarzan, the Apeman" (Heins).
Barron 2-31. Bleiler. Currey. Heins.
Advance review copy of the first edition. 326 pages. Illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover.
Illustrated wrappers. Pre-publication paperbound review copy. Housed in a custom leather slipcase. Slightly cocked, with wear to the spine and some chipping to the top and base of the spine. Some mild dampstaining to back cover. A very good copy of this uncommon variant binding. In scuffed custom leather box.
The first of the Martian novels, The Princess of Mars first saw print in a shorter form in All-Story magazine as "Under the Moons of Mars" in 1912. When the novel was finally printed in book form, McClurg had already published four of Burroughs' Tarzan books and was advertising the Princess of Mars in their catalog as "an absorbing tale of adventure and romance forty-three million miles from Earth. It is hardly too much to say that it is the boldest piece of imaginative fiction in this generation. The story is full of weird and astounding adventures written by an author bold enough to create Tarzan, the Apeman" (Heins).
Barron 2-31. Bleiler. Currey. Heins.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Son of Tarzan. Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1917.
First edition, first state, lacking the dedication. Octavo. 394 pages. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John.
Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Cloth is lightly rubbed and worn with a slight lean to the spine. The dust jacket shows edge wear with minor chipping to spine ends and corners and a two-inch tear that begins at the upper edge of the rear joint. Overall, in very good condition.
The Son of Tarzan, fourth in Edgar Rice Burroughs' series about his famous "Ape Man," was first serialized in 1914. This first edition, published in March 1917, includes a beautiful frontispiece and title page featuring illustrations by J. Allen St. John.
Heins, page 45.
First edition, first state, lacking the dedication. Octavo. 394 pages. Illustrations by J. Allen St. John.
Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Cloth is lightly rubbed and worn with a slight lean to the spine. The dust jacket shows edge wear with minor chipping to spine ends and corners and a two-inch tear that begins at the upper edge of the rear joint. Overall, in very good condition.
The Son of Tarzan, fourth in Edgar Rice Burroughs' series about his famous "Ape Man," was first serialized in 1914. This first edition, published in March 1917, includes a beautiful frontispiece and title page featuring illustrations by J. Allen St. John.
Heins, page 45.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1914.
First edition, first printing. No acorn device on the spine and "W. F. Hall" on the copyright page in Old English script. Octavo. 401 pages.
Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles. In original pictorial dust jacket. Moderate shelf wear, bumped corners. Interior text is remarkably clean. The dust jacket shows mild edge wear, minor rubbing, and a few incidental fold creases. It has been repaired, with extensive restoration including two major tear seals and multiple pieces added to the verso. Scarce and desirable in jacket. A beautiful book.
About a year and a half after his debut in the pages of The All-Story, Tarzan's first appearance was reprinted in hardback form - the first Edgar Rice Burroughs hardcover ever published - in an initial run of only 5,000 copies.
First edition, first printing. No acorn device on the spine and "W. F. Hall" on the copyright page in Old English script. Octavo. 401 pages.
Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles. In original pictorial dust jacket. Moderate shelf wear, bumped corners. Interior text is remarkably clean. The dust jacket shows mild edge wear, minor rubbing, and a few incidental fold creases. It has been repaired, with extensive restoration including two major tear seals and multiple pieces added to the verso. Scarce and desirable in jacket. A beautiful book.
About a year and a half after his debut in the pages of The All-Story, Tarzan's first appearance was reprinted in hardback form - the first Edgar Rice Burroughs hardcover ever published - in an initial run of only 5,000 copies.
Robert Burton. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Philadelphia: T. Wardle, 1836.
First American edition (first published in London in 1621). Two large octavo volumes. xxiv, 121, [1, blank], 461, [1, blank]; [4], 612 pages. Illustrated with a woodcut vignette portrait of the author and several charts.
Original purple blindstamped cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on spines. Spines very slightly faded, minimal rubbing to extremities. Some light foxing, as usual. Volume I with lower blank corner of pages 75/76 torn away (paper flaw?) and with gathering 2H slightly browned. Armorial bookplate of Doggett Daggett on front pastedown. Pencil signature of J. Daggett on front free endpaper. Early ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper of Volume II. A fine set. Housed together in a brown cloth clamshell case.
First American edition (first published in London in 1621). Two large octavo volumes. xxiv, 121, [1, blank], 461, [1, blank]; [4], 612 pages. Illustrated with a woodcut vignette portrait of the author and several charts.
Original purple blindstamped cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on spines. Spines very slightly faded, minimal rubbing to extremities. Some light foxing, as usual. Volume I with lower blank corner of pages 75/76 torn away (paper flaw?) and with gathering 2H slightly browned. Armorial bookplate of Doggett Daggett on front pastedown. Pencil signature of J. Daggett on front free endpaper. Early ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper of Volume II. A fine set. Housed together in a brown cloth clamshell case.
[R. C. Dallas and Lord Byron]. Correspondence of Lord Byron. [N.p., London]: privately printed, [n.d., circa 1824].
Twelvemo. 200 pages. No title page.
Original cream paper over boards. White paper title label to spine, reading: "Private Correspondence of Lord Byron." Slight dampstaining to beginning and preliminary pages. Foxing throughout. Attractive twentieth-century box in red half morocco over boards. Very good.
Robert Charles Dallas came to be an important and trusted literary advisor to Lord Byron. In appreciation, Byron gave Dallas several of his manuscripts, copyrights of some of his works, as well as some letters Byron had written to his mother between 1808 and 1811. Months after Lord Byron's death, Dallas collected the correspondence between himself and Byron, as well as the letters Byron wrote to his mother, and he contracted with a London publishing firm to bring the letters out in a collection. Before the final pages of the book could be printed, the executors of Byron's estate issued an injunction to put a halt to the endeavor. During this period, R. C. Dallas passed away. The book was successfully suppressed, although a few incomplete copies managed to make their way to family, friends, or Byron enthusiasts. Dallas' son, A. R. C. Dallas, managed to get the manuscript into the hands of a publisher in Paris, A. and G. Galignani. What is now acknowledged as the first published edition came out, in three volumes, in 1825. This edition contains additional supplemental material which is chiefly concerned with the legal problems in England. On rare occasions, a copy of the 1824 suppressed edition makes it to auction, most notably a copy from the A. Edward Newton collection which is unique in that it contains additional pages.
This copy is not one of the suppressed edition, as those were in quarto, and this is twelvemo, with untrimmed pages. The dimensions (7.75 x 4.25 inches) are close to those of the Paris edition, but with a different pagination. The introductory paragraphs to this volume are similar to those which open Dallas' 1824 book, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron, which is essentially the suppressed Correspondence, but without Byron's letters.
This unknown edition (whether piracy or unrecorded privately printed edition) contains all of the seventy letters (from Byron as well as Dallas) which appeared in the Paris edition of 1825. Unknown to Wise.
Wise, A Bibliography of Byron, pages, 50, 52, 85.
Twelvemo. 200 pages. No title page.
Original cream paper over boards. White paper title label to spine, reading: "Private Correspondence of Lord Byron." Slight dampstaining to beginning and preliminary pages. Foxing throughout. Attractive twentieth-century box in red half morocco over boards. Very good.
Robert Charles Dallas came to be an important and trusted literary advisor to Lord Byron. In appreciation, Byron gave Dallas several of his manuscripts, copyrights of some of his works, as well as some letters Byron had written to his mother between 1808 and 1811. Months after Lord Byron's death, Dallas collected the correspondence between himself and Byron, as well as the letters Byron wrote to his mother, and he contracted with a London publishing firm to bring the letters out in a collection. Before the final pages of the book could be printed, the executors of Byron's estate issued an injunction to put a halt to the endeavor. During this period, R. C. Dallas passed away. The book was successfully suppressed, although a few incomplete copies managed to make their way to family, friends, or Byron enthusiasts. Dallas' son, A. R. C. Dallas, managed to get the manuscript into the hands of a publisher in Paris, A. and G. Galignani. What is now acknowledged as the first published edition came out, in three volumes, in 1825. This edition contains additional supplemental material which is chiefly concerned with the legal problems in England. On rare occasions, a copy of the 1824 suppressed edition makes it to auction, most notably a copy from the A. Edward Newton collection which is unique in that it contains additional pages.
This copy is not one of the suppressed edition, as those were in quarto, and this is twelvemo, with untrimmed pages. The dimensions (7.75 x 4.25 inches) are close to those of the Paris edition, but with a different pagination. The introductory paragraphs to this volume are similar to those which open Dallas' 1824 book, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron, which is essentially the suppressed Correspondence, but without Byron's letters.
This unknown edition (whether piracy or unrecorded privately printed edition) contains all of the seventy letters (from Byron as well as Dallas) which appeared in the Paris edition of 1825. Unknown to Wise.
Wise, A Bibliography of Byron, pages, 50, 52, 85.
[Lady Byron]. Remarks Occasioned by Mr. Moore's Notices of Lord Byron's Life. London: [privately printed, 1830].
First edition. 15 pages.
This 16-page unbound, uncut, unopened sheet has some soiling to the title page and final page. In custom folding box. Very good.
This pamphlet served to explain Lady Byron's account of the basis for the legal separation between herself and Lord Byron. Thomas Wise, in his A Bibliography of Byron, quotes Lady Byron as she explains the purpose of the piece: "'My wish is to place the copy only in the hands of those who will make a discreet use of it, and prevent the possibility of its insertion in the Newspapers at present. I think I shall not send out more than a dozen at first.'" As there is a noticeable variation between this, the first edition, and the second edition (which runs only 13 pages), Wise speculates that "these dozen or so copies formed the first edition of the pamphlet, and that when the decision was arrived at to extend its circulation to a wider circle the second edition was printed. If this suggestion be correct, the rarity of the first edition is accounted for."
Wise, 94.
First edition. 15 pages.
This 16-page unbound, uncut, unopened sheet has some soiling to the title page and final page. In custom folding box. Very good.
This pamphlet served to explain Lady Byron's account of the basis for the legal separation between herself and Lord Byron. Thomas Wise, in his A Bibliography of Byron, quotes Lady Byron as she explains the purpose of the piece: "'My wish is to place the copy only in the hands of those who will make a discreet use of it, and prevent the possibility of its insertion in the Newspapers at present. I think I shall not send out more than a dozen at first.'" As there is a noticeable variation between this, the first edition, and the second edition (which runs only 13 pages), Wise speculates that "these dozen or so copies formed the first edition of the pamphlet, and that when the decision was arrived at to extend its circulation to a wider circle the second edition was printed. If this suggestion be correct, the rarity of the first edition is accounted for."
Wise, 94.
Truman Capote. In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, [1965].
First edition, number 231 of 500 specially bound copies printed on special paper and signed by the author. Octavo. 343 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering on a red spine label, publisher's device and name in gilt at the bottom of the spine, as well as the author's initials in gilt on a red oval on the front panel. Original clear plastic jacket. Top edge stained maroon. Mustard-colored endpapers. Housed in the publisher's red paper slipcase. Minimal bubbling of the cloth along the bottom edges of the covers, and minor wear to the slipcase. Previous owner's small blindstamped name on the title page. Otherwise, a fabulous fine copy of Capote's journalistic tour de force.
"The book is neither a who-done-it nor a will-they-be-caught, since the answers to both questions are known from the outset... Instead, the book's suspense is based largely on a totally new idea in detective stories: the promise of gory details, and the withholding of them until the end" (Tom Wolfe, "Pornoviolence").
First edition, number 231 of 500 specially bound copies printed on special paper and signed by the author. Octavo. 343 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering on a red spine label, publisher's device and name in gilt at the bottom of the spine, as well as the author's initials in gilt on a red oval on the front panel. Original clear plastic jacket. Top edge stained maroon. Mustard-colored endpapers. Housed in the publisher's red paper slipcase. Minimal bubbling of the cloth along the bottom edges of the covers, and minor wear to the slipcase. Previous owner's small blindstamped name on the title page. Otherwise, a fabulous fine copy of Capote's journalistic tour de force.
"The book is neither a who-done-it nor a will-they-be-caught, since the answers to both questions are known from the outset... Instead, the book's suspense is based largely on a totally new idea in detective stories: the promise of gory details, and the withholding of them until the end" (Tom Wolfe, "Pornoviolence").
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote. London: Printed for A. Millar, over against Catherine-Street, 1755.
First edition of the important Smollett translation of Don Quixote, with all twenty-eight copper-engraved illustrations by Francis Hayman, "the most proficient English illustrator of his time." Two thick quarto volumes.
Contemporary full mottled calf, expertly rebacked to style, spines with gilt compartments and lettering labels. Rubbing to corners of contemporary calf; crack to foot of spine of Volume I. Some scattered browning, but, overall, interior is generally very clean, with only light offsetting from plates to text. Armorial bookplate. Both volumes very good.
First edition of the important Smollett translation of Don Quixote, with all twenty-eight copper-engraved illustrations by Francis Hayman, "the most proficient English illustrator of his time." Two thick quarto volumes.
Contemporary full mottled calf, expertly rebacked to style, spines with gilt compartments and lettering labels. Rubbing to corners of contemporary calf; crack to foot of spine of Volume I. Some scattered browning, but, overall, interior is generally very clean, with only light offsetting from plates to text. Armorial bookplate. Both volumes very good.
Alexander Chalmers. The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical. London: Nichols and Son, et al., 1817.
Forty-five twelvemo volumes. Frontispiece. Index.
Contemporary full calf. Gilt designs to boards. Gilt designs and lettering to spines. All edges gilt and gauffered. Part of the spine of Volume I has been inexpertly repaired. Some hinges loose. Some repairs to joints. Bookplates to front pastedowns and front free endpapers of all volumes. An attractive set, in overall very good condition.
This is an early printing of the second edition. Alexander Chalmers collected essays which appeared in periodicals throughout the eighteenth century, such as The Tattler, The Spectator, The Guardian, The Rambler, The Adventurer, The World, The Connoisseur, The Idler, The Mirror, The Lounger, The Observer, and The Looker-On. The final volume is a general index for the set. "These works, the flower of the best of English literature for a century, merit a place in every library" (The North American Review, April, 1857).
Forty-five twelvemo volumes. Frontispiece. Index.
Contemporary full calf. Gilt designs to boards. Gilt designs and lettering to spines. All edges gilt and gauffered. Part of the spine of Volume I has been inexpertly repaired. Some hinges loose. Some repairs to joints. Bookplates to front pastedowns and front free endpapers of all volumes. An attractive set, in overall very good condition.
This is an early printing of the second edition. Alexander Chalmers collected essays which appeared in periodicals throughout the eighteenth century, such as The Tattler, The Spectator, The Guardian, The Rambler, The Adventurer, The World, The Connoisseur, The Idler, The Mirror, The Lounger, The Observer, and The Looker-On. The final volume is a general index for the set. "These works, the flower of the best of English literature for a century, merit a place in every library" (The North American Review, April, 1857).
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. London: The Folio Society, [2002].
First thus, limited to 1,010 numbered copies, of which this is number 845. Folio. 551 pages.
Publisher's full goatskin. Fine, in publisher's clamshell box.
A tremendous effort by The Folio Society of reproducing in facsimile the famed "Kelmscott Chaucer" including Edward Burne Jones illustrations and woodcut borders and initials by William Morris. Essay by William Peterson laid in box.
First thus, limited to 1,010 numbered copies, of which this is number 845. Folio. 551 pages.
Publisher's full goatskin. Fine, in publisher's clamshell box.
A tremendous effort by The Folio Society of reproducing in facsimile the famed "Kelmscott Chaucer" including Edward Burne Jones illustrations and woodcut borders and initials by William Morris. Essay by William Peterson laid in box.
Joseph Conrad. Collected Works of Joseph Conrad. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925.
Memorial edition limited to 99 sets of which this is number 93. Signed by Conrad on the limitation page. Complete in 23 octavo volumes.
Publisher's white paper boards with gold stamping and blue accents. Lightly soiled with mildly darkened spines. A few volumes show light foxing and spine tears. A couple volumes with water damage and the bindings a bit musty. Overall, a good to very good set in need of some restoration.
Memorial edition limited to 99 sets of which this is number 93. Signed by Conrad on the limitation page. Complete in 23 octavo volumes.
Publisher's white paper boards with gold stamping and blue accents. Lightly soiled with mildly darkened spines. A few volumes show light foxing and spine tears. A couple volumes with water damage and the bindings a bit musty. Overall, a good to very good set in need of some restoration.
Three Privately Printed Books by Joseph Conrad, Accompanied by Seven Autograph Letters Concerning Their Publication. An important group of three privately published works consisting of Conrad's ancillary notes, letters, and diary entries including: Notes by Joseph Conrad Written in a Set of His First Editions in the Possession of Richard Curle With an Introduction and Explanatory Comments. London: Privately printed, 1925. First edition, limited to 100 hand-numbered copies and signed by Richard Curle on the limitation page. Octavo. 41, [1], [1, printer's slug], [1] pages. Publisher's light brown cloth with printed paper spine label. Original glassine (some loss). An excellent copy. This copy with two ALSs from Richard Curle (a noted travel book writer and collector of Joseph Conrad) to a Mr. Bain (apparently the printer) on his letterhead. Both letters are concerned with the payment for and production of this very title. Both letters are dated April of 1925. [and:] Five Letters by Joseph Conrad Written to Edward Noble in 1895. With a Foreword by Edward Noble. London: Privately printed, 1925. First edition, limited to hand-numbered 100 copies, signed by Edward Noble on the limitation page. Octavo. 21, [1, printer's slug] pages. Publisher's printed buff wrappers with original glassine. Excellent. This copy with four ALSs. The first is a holograph letter from Jessie Conrad (wife of Joseph) thanking Mr. Bain for sending her a copy of this pamphlet and apologizing for some mishap in the publication; "Dear Mr. Bain, I am sorry I have been so long in acknowledging your kindness in sending me the little book of my husband's letters. I have been much away from home on account of my mother's seriousness. I have been more sorry than I can say for the unfortunate trouble over the pamphlet but I understand from Mr. Curle that the matter is settled. With very kind regards. Sincerely yours, Jessie Conrad." The next letter is from Richard Curle to James Bain and he apologizes as well and leads one to think it was all a matter of an unpaid bill. At the end he proposes that they meet soon to discuss "at least one more intensely interesting pamphlet-the Diary kept by Conrad in the Congo" [see below]. "The last two are from Edward Noble, a friend of Conrad's and a seaman with literary aspirations. They are both to James Bain and in them Noble brings up a few points about the difficulty, for him, in having the five letters published (though he does thank Mr. Bain for sending a check in payment for the letters). Both letters are dated April of 1925. [and:] Joseph Conrad's Diary of His Journey up the Valley of the Congo in 1890. With an introduction and notes by Richard Curle. London: Privately printed, 1926. First edition, limited to 100 copies. Octavo. 35, [printer's slug] pages. Publisher's green cloth with printed paper spine label. Minor chips to edges of label. An excellent copy. This copy with an ALS from Curle to Bain proposing that the book here cataloged be published: "Dear Mr. Bain, Please peruse the enclosed - the information is not common property, remember - & let me know whether you think it would make an interesting pamphlet. Such a booklet would be very easy to space out & produce charmingly. My own opinion is that a limited expensive edition would be snapped up. I could sign them all if it came to that."
James Fenimore Cooper. The Last of the Mohicans. London: John Miller, 1826.
First English edition, issued about a month after the first American edition. Three twelvemo volumes. xi, [1, blank], 287, [1, blank]; [4], 276; [4], 295, [1, blank] pages. No half-titles.
Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, expertly rebacked to style, morocco gilt lettering labels. A very clean and fresh copy of this first British edition of one of the most American of all novels.
First English edition, issued about a month after the first American edition. Three twelvemo volumes. xi, [1, blank], 287, [1, blank]; [4], 276; [4], 295, [1, blank] pages. No half-titles.
Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, expertly rebacked to style, morocco gilt lettering labels. A very clean and fresh copy of this first British edition of one of the most American of all novels.
Sir Thomas Barry Cusack-Smith. Handwritten Manuscript of Town Tarrydiddles. A Society Journal Registered for Transmission Abroad. [Samoa]: [Self-published], 1882.
Manuscript. Octavo. 118 unnumbered pages. Profusely illustrated with watercolors throughout, including each volume number's cover.
Comprising Volumes 1-7 of a handwritten community newsletter in the original wrappers bound between blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on the front cover. Some wear and bubbling to the binding. Some age-toning to the internal contents, and minimal scattered foxing. A few small tears and minor creasing to the page edges. Overall, very good condition.
A beautiful compendium of poetry, proverbs, local news, politics, advertisements, articles on Samoan culture, and more. Interspersed throughout are full-page watercolors and textual illustrations depicting scenes of local life.
[Together with:] H. J. Moors. With Stevenson in Samoa. London and Leipsic: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910.
Association copy of the first edition. Previous owner's gift inscription to Sir Thomas Barry Cusack-Smith on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 230 pages.
Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine and front board. Moderate shelf wear. Toning to the endpapers. Overall, a very good copy.
Thomas Berry Cusack Smith was British Consul in Samoa from the late 1880s until 1898, and a rival of Robert Louis Stevenson for that very position.
Manuscript. Octavo. 118 unnumbered pages. Profusely illustrated with watercolors throughout, including each volume number's cover.
Comprising Volumes 1-7 of a handwritten community newsletter in the original wrappers bound between blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on the front cover. Some wear and bubbling to the binding. Some age-toning to the internal contents, and minimal scattered foxing. A few small tears and minor creasing to the page edges. Overall, very good condition.
A beautiful compendium of poetry, proverbs, local news, politics, advertisements, articles on Samoan culture, and more. Interspersed throughout are full-page watercolors and textual illustrations depicting scenes of local life.
[Together with:] H. J. Moors. With Stevenson in Samoa. London and Leipsic: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910.
Association copy of the first edition. Previous owner's gift inscription to Sir Thomas Barry Cusack-Smith on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 230 pages.
Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine and front board. Moderate shelf wear. Toning to the endpapers. Overall, a very good copy.
Thomas Berry Cusack Smith was British Consul in Samoa from the late 1880s until 1898, and a rival of Robert Louis Stevenson for that very position.
Dark Harvest Books. Near-Complete Collection of Presentation Copies Published by Dark Harvest, including: George R. R. Martin. Songs the Dead Men Sing. 1983. [and:] Alan Ryan. Cast a Cold Eye. 1984. [and:] Alan Ryan [editor]. Night Visions 1. 1984. [and:] Charles L. Grant [editor]. Night Visions 2. 1985. [and:] John Varley. Blue Champagne. 1986. [and:] David Brin. The River of Time. 1986. [and:] George R. R. Martin [editor]. Night Visions 3. 1986. [and:] Douglas E. Winter [editor]. Black Wine. 1986. [and:] George R. R. Martin. Portraits of His Children. 1987. [and:] Joe R. Lansdale. The Nightrunners. 1987. [and:] Night Visions 4. 1987. [and:] Karl Edward Wagner. Why Not You and I? 1987. [and:] Paul J. Mikol [editor]. Night Visions 5. 1988. [and:] Ray Garton. Crucifax Autumn. 1988. [and:] Dean R. Koontz. The Servants of Twilight. 1988. [and:] David J. Schow [editor]. Silver Scream. 1988. [and:] Dean R. Koontz. House of Thunder. 1988. [and:] Charles Beaumont. Selected Stories. 1988. [and:] Night Visions 6. 1988. [and:] Chet Williamson. Dreamthorp. 1989. [and:] Dan Simmons. Carrion Comfort. 1989. [and:] Dean R. Koontz. The Eyes of Darkness. 1989. [and:] Martin H. Greenberg [editor]. The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov. 1989 [and:] Robert R. McCammon. Swan Song. 1989. [and:] Joe R. Lansdale and Pat LoBrutto [editors]. Razored Saddles. 1989. [and:] Stanley J. Wiater [editor]. Night Visions 7. 1989. [and:] Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg [editors]. Stalkers. 1989. [and:] Dean R. Koontz. The Key to Midnight. 1990. [and:] John Farris. Fiends. 1990. [and:] Martin H. Greenberg [editor]. The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber. 1990. [and:] F. Paul Wilson. Reborn. 1990. [and:] Ray Garton. Methods of Madness. 1990. [and:] William F. Nolan and Martin H. Greenberg [editor]. Urban Horrors. 1990. [and:] Chet Williamson. Reign. 1990. [and:] Dean R. Koontz. Shadowfires. 1990. [and:] Night Visions 8. 1991. [and:] Dan Simmons. Prayers to Broken Stones. 1991. [and:] Gary Raisor [editor]. Obsessions. 1991. [and:] Robert R. McCammon. They Thirst. 1991. [and:] F. Paul Wilson. Reprisal. 1991. [and:] Night Visions 9. 1991. [and:] F. Paul Wilson. Sibs. 1991. [and:] Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg [editors]. Invitation to Murder. 1991. [and:] Joe R. Lansdale and Karen Lansdale. Dark at Heart. 1992. [and:] Lawrence Block. The Sins of the Fathers. 1992. [and:] F. Paul Wilson. Nightworld. 1992.
This outstanding lot collects 46 of the 47 titles published by Dark Harvest Books, a small press most identified with the Night Visions anthology series. This excellent series brought early attention to many notable authors and has recently been revived by Subterranean Press. All the volumes in this collection are publisher's signed presentation copies marked "P/C" on the limitation page, with the exception of Black Wine. (This title, evidently, was never released in a signed/numbered edition, therefore, a P/C copy was not produced. It appears to have been available only in the trade edition, offered here, and a lettered edition.)
This group was originally offered directly from the publisher in 1989, with a letter present stating such, and it included all Dark Harvest titles published to date. The previous owner then continued adding each subsequent title released, creating an almost complete run of signed, P/C copies. The only title published by Dark Harvest not included in this lot is Frost of Heaven by Junius Podrug.
The letter, on publisher's letterhead included in this lot reads: "September 20, 1989, To whom it may concern: This is to certify that this set of P/C (presentation copies) limited editions was owned by the Publisher of Dark Harvest Books, and kept in his private collection for his personal use. It is one of five complete sets that were released for sale on the date of this letter. --Paul Mikol President, Dark Harvest Books."
This is possibly the first time a Dark Harvest title run this complete has ever been offered. All volumes in this lot are in fine condition in dust jackets and are housed in publisher's slipcases.
This outstanding lot collects 46 of the 47 titles published by Dark Harvest Books, a small press most identified with the Night Visions anthology series. This excellent series brought early attention to many notable authors and has recently been revived by Subterranean Press. All the volumes in this collection are publisher's signed presentation copies marked "P/C" on the limitation page, with the exception of Black Wine. (This title, evidently, was never released in a signed/numbered edition, therefore, a P/C copy was not produced. It appears to have been available only in the trade edition, offered here, and a lettered edition.)
This group was originally offered directly from the publisher in 1989, with a letter present stating such, and it included all Dark Harvest titles published to date. The previous owner then continued adding each subsequent title released, creating an almost complete run of signed, P/C copies. The only title published by Dark Harvest not included in this lot is Frost of Heaven by Junius Podrug.
The letter, on publisher's letterhead included in this lot reads: "September 20, 1989, To whom it may concern: This is to certify that this set of P/C (presentation copies) limited editions was owned by the Publisher of Dark Harvest Books, and kept in his private collection for his personal use. It is one of five complete sets that were released for sale on the date of this letter. --Paul Mikol President, Dark Harvest Books."
This is possibly the first time a Dark Harvest title run this complete has ever been offered. All volumes in this lot are in fine condition in dust jackets and are housed in publisher's slipcases.
Daniel Defoe. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque, having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself, with an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. [with, in Volume II:] The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of his Life, and of the Strange Surprizing Account of his Travels Round three parts of the Globe. London: John Stockdale, 1790.
First edition thus. Two octavo volumes. xii, 389; v, 456 pages, plus eight pages of ads. Thirteen plates, plus two frontispieces and two vignettes. Including a biographical essay, "The Life of Daniel de Foe," by George Chalmers, as well as Chalmers' Defoe bibliography.
Contemporary full calf. Rebacked in modern calf with gilt lettering to title labels. New endpapers. Light foxing. An attractive set in very good condition.
Important early illustrated edition of Robinson Crusoe with plates engraved by Thomas Medland after designs by Thomas Stothard.
First edition thus. Two octavo volumes. xii, 389; v, 456 pages, plus eight pages of ads. Thirteen plates, plus two frontispieces and two vignettes. Including a biographical essay, "The Life of Daniel de Foe," by George Chalmers, as well as Chalmers' Defoe bibliography.
Contemporary full calf. Rebacked in modern calf with gilt lettering to title labels. New endpapers. Light foxing. An attractive set in very good condition.
Important early illustrated edition of Robinson Crusoe with plates engraved by Thomas Medland after designs by Thomas Stothard.
Philip K. Dick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Garden City: Doubleday, 1968.
First edition. Octavo. 210 pages.
Publisher's gray cloth with gold stamping. Ex-library copy with ink stamp to the bottom of the dedication page, and two small call letters to the top of the copyright page. These are the only library markings in the book, though the endpapers appear to have been renewed. Cloth is lightly rubbed and worn with a slight lean to the spine and a few spots of soiling to the fore-edge. Minor toning to endpapers with paper loss to the corners of a few scattered pages. Soiling to the text on a few pages. Tape shadows on boards and inner flaps of dust jacket. There is mild rubbing and edge wear to jacket with some chipping to upper spine end and corners, and minor fading along the spine. Paper loss to front inner flap at the lower corner. In spite of the typical flaws associated with a former library copy, this is still a solid, attractive copy in very good condition, and with the original, unclipped dust jacket without markings or restoration.
Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is one of the seminal modern science fiction novels. Strangely, the novel is almost less famous now than the 1982 film adaptation, Blade Runner. Like most film adaptations, however, the quality of the film does not approach that of the book. Dick's multi-textured post-apocalyptic tale of off-world humans and their interactions with human-like androids has been wildly popular since its publication in 1968.
Currey.
First edition. Octavo. 210 pages.
Publisher's gray cloth with gold stamping. Ex-library copy with ink stamp to the bottom of the dedication page, and two small call letters to the top of the copyright page. These are the only library markings in the book, though the endpapers appear to have been renewed. Cloth is lightly rubbed and worn with a slight lean to the spine and a few spots of soiling to the fore-edge. Minor toning to endpapers with paper loss to the corners of a few scattered pages. Soiling to the text on a few pages. Tape shadows on boards and inner flaps of dust jacket. There is mild rubbing and edge wear to jacket with some chipping to upper spine end and corners, and minor fading along the spine. Paper loss to front inner flap at the lower corner. In spite of the typical flaws associated with a former library copy, this is still a solid, attractive copy in very good condition, and with the original, unclipped dust jacket without markings or restoration.
Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is one of the seminal modern science fiction novels. Strangely, the novel is almost less famous now than the 1982 film adaptation, Blade Runner. Like most film adaptations, however, the quality of the film does not approach that of the book. Dick's multi-textured post-apocalyptic tale of off-world humans and their interactions with human-like androids has been wildly popular since its publication in 1968.
Currey.
Charles Dickens. A Child's History of England. With a Frontispiece by F. W. Topham. Volume I. England from the Ancient Times, to the Death of King John. [Volume II. England from the Reign of Henry the Third, to the Reign of Richard the Third. Volume III. England from the Reign of Henry the Seventh to the Revolution of 1688]. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852-1854.
First edition, first issue, with the correct dates on the title pages, the correct advertisements in each volume, and with all of the internal flaws listed by Smith (except for the few found "in some copies" or "in one copy" only), including no page number on p. xi in Volume I. Three small square octavo volumes. Wood-engraved frontispiece in each volume, consisting of a centerpiece, printed in black, and a vignette in each corner, printed in a light grayish mauve. The vignette illustrations in the corners are identical in each volume, while the centerpiece is different.
Original publisher's moderate reddish brown vertically-ribbed cloth. Covers decoratively bordered in blind, front covers pictorially stamped in gilt (depicting young Alfred reading to his mother), spines decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Spines very slightly faded, with a few tiny chips at extremities; short split to upper front joint of Volume I; short split to front joint of Volume II at top and bottom; corners lightly rubbed; some slight discoloration to cloth and a few small stains. The gilt on the spines is a little dulled, but the gilt on the front covers is still relatively bright. Tiny split to upper front hinge of Volume I; front hinge of Volume II starting, rear hinge cracked, but sound; hinges of Volume III cracked, but holding. Some light foxing. Volume III with the frontispiece separating and with faint marginal staining (from the edge marbling?) to pp. vii and 1. Armorial bookplate of George Barr McCutcheon on the front pastedown of each volume. Early ink signature at head of half-title in each volume: "Miss A. Copland / Augst 24th 1852" in Volume I; "Alice E. Copland / June 3rd 1853" in Volume II; and "Alice Emma Copland / June 3rd 1853" in Volume III. Tiny bookseller's ticket on front pastedown of Volume II: "F R [Y] Chelmsford." Additional bookseller's ticket on front pastedown of Volume III: "[J] Fry, Bookseller & Stationer, High St, Chelmsford." Bookseller's description laid into Volume I. A very good copy. Each volume protected in a red cloth chemise and quarter red morocco book-backed slipcase with the spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments with five gilt-dotted raised bands.
This copy was Lot 129 in the April 21 and 22, 1926 sale of The Renowned Collection of First Editions of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray Formed by George Barr McCutcheon (New York: American Art Association, Inc., 1926).
Eckel, pp. 128-130. Gimbel A128. Smith II, 10.
First edition, first issue, with the correct dates on the title pages, the correct advertisements in each volume, and with all of the internal flaws listed by Smith (except for the few found "in some copies" or "in one copy" only), including no page number on p. xi in Volume I. Three small square octavo volumes. Wood-engraved frontispiece in each volume, consisting of a centerpiece, printed in black, and a vignette in each corner, printed in a light grayish mauve. The vignette illustrations in the corners are identical in each volume, while the centerpiece is different.
Original publisher's moderate reddish brown vertically-ribbed cloth. Covers decoratively bordered in blind, front covers pictorially stamped in gilt (depicting young Alfred reading to his mother), spines decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Marbled edges and endpapers. Spines very slightly faded, with a few tiny chips at extremities; short split to upper front joint of Volume I; short split to front joint of Volume II at top and bottom; corners lightly rubbed; some slight discoloration to cloth and a few small stains. The gilt on the spines is a little dulled, but the gilt on the front covers is still relatively bright. Tiny split to upper front hinge of Volume I; front hinge of Volume II starting, rear hinge cracked, but sound; hinges of Volume III cracked, but holding. Some light foxing. Volume III with the frontispiece separating and with faint marginal staining (from the edge marbling?) to pp. vii and 1. Armorial bookplate of George Barr McCutcheon on the front pastedown of each volume. Early ink signature at head of half-title in each volume: "Miss A. Copland / Augst 24th 1852" in Volume I; "Alice E. Copland / June 3rd 1853" in Volume II; and "Alice Emma Copland / June 3rd 1853" in Volume III. Tiny bookseller's ticket on front pastedown of Volume II: "F R [Y] Chelmsford." Additional bookseller's ticket on front pastedown of Volume III: "[J] Fry, Bookseller & Stationer, High St, Chelmsford." Bookseller's description laid into Volume I. A very good copy. Each volume protected in a red cloth chemise and quarter red morocco book-backed slipcase with the spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments with five gilt-dotted raised bands.
This copy was Lot 129 in the April 21 and 22, 1926 sale of The Renowned Collection of First Editions of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray Formed by George Barr McCutcheon (New York: American Art Association, Inc., 1926).
Eckel, pp. 128-130. Gimbel A128. Smith II, 10.
Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.
First edition, first issue, with the text uncorrected, "Stave I" as the first chapter heading, red and blue title page dated 1843, blue half-title, and green endpapers. Small octavo. [8], 166, [2, advertisements] pages. Three hand-colored steel-engraved plates (frontispiece and plates facing pages 25, and 78) by and after John Leech, and four wood-engraved text illustrations (on pages 37, 73, 119, and 164) by W. J. Linton after John Leech. Missing one of the colored plates, "The Last of the Spirits" (which should be facing page 150).
Publisher's vertically-ribbed cinnamon cloth. Covers decoratively stamped in blind with a single-line border enclosing a decorative border of holly and ivy; front cover decoratively lettered in gilt within a gilt wreath of holly leaves. Spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Original green coated endpapers. Stain to front board. Backstrip separating, with some slight loss to fabric at head of spine. Inked name of three pervious owners to front free endpaper. Binding somewhat cocked. Hinges cracked. Signatures slightly weak. A good copy of Dickens' immortal Christmas classic worthy of professional restoration.
Eckel, pp. 110-115. Gimbel A79. Smith II, 4.
First edition, first issue, with the text uncorrected, "Stave I" as the first chapter heading, red and blue title page dated 1843, blue half-title, and green endpapers. Small octavo. [8], 166, [2, advertisements] pages. Three hand-colored steel-engraved plates (frontispiece and plates facing pages 25, and 78) by and after John Leech, and four wood-engraved text illustrations (on pages 37, 73, 119, and 164) by W. J. Linton after John Leech. Missing one of the colored plates, "The Last of the Spirits" (which should be facing page 150).
Publisher's vertically-ribbed cinnamon cloth. Covers decoratively stamped in blind with a single-line border enclosing a decorative border of holly and ivy; front cover decoratively lettered in gilt within a gilt wreath of holly leaves. Spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Original green coated endpapers. Stain to front board. Backstrip separating, with some slight loss to fabric at head of spine. Inked name of three pervious owners to front free endpaper. Binding somewhat cocked. Hinges cracked. Signatures slightly weak. A good copy of Dickens' immortal Christmas classic worthy of professional restoration.
Eckel, pp. 110-115. Gimbel A79. Smith II, 4.
Charles Dickens. The Complete Works of Charles Dickens. New York: Harper and Brothers, [n.d., ca. 1900].
Thirty octavo volumes. Frontispieces. Illustrated throughout.
Contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards. Gilt designs and lettering to spines. Marbled endpapers. Some rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight crumbling to the heads and tails of some of the spines. Overall, a very good set.
Thirty octavo volumes. Frontispieces. Illustrated throughout.
Contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards. Gilt designs and lettering to spines. Marbled endpapers. Some rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight crumbling to the heads and tails of some of the spines. Overall, a very good set.
Charles Dickens. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Printed and Published for the Author, by Bradbury and Evans, 1846 [i.e., December 1845].
First edition of Dickens's third Christmas book, first state of the advertisement leaf, with a two-line italic heading for Oliver Twist on p. [175]. Small octavo. [8], 174, [2, advertisements] pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece and added vignette title. Twelve wood-engraved text illustrations.
Original publisher's deep red vertically-ribbed cloth. Covers decoratively bordered in blind, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt with a detailed fireplace and decoratively lettered in gilt except for the words on the hearth, which are formed of the cloth, spine pictorially stamped in gilt with a holly wreath that has a cricket at its top and a bow at its bottom and decoratively lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Original pale yellow coated endpapers. Just slightly skewed; cloth just fraying at the corners with the boards a tiny bit exposed; a few tiny splits to cloth at spine ends, at top of front joint, and at top and bottom of rear joint; spine very slightly faded, with a diagonal crease in the cloth across the spine; some very slight darkening to the cloth on the front cover; the gilt on the spine is a little dulled, but the gilt on the front cover generally fresh and bright. Some very slight browning to the paper at the edges. Slightly over-opened at gathering H (between pp. 96 and 97); tiny indentation to the lower edge of gatherings H-M, appearing as a puncture mark on gatherings K-L. Bookplate of Eben J. Brewer on front pastedown. Previous owner's ink presentation inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy.
Eckel, pp. 119-120. Gimbel A92. Sadleir 685. Smith II, 6.
First edition of Dickens's third Christmas book, first state of the advertisement leaf, with a two-line italic heading for Oliver Twist on p. [175]. Small octavo. [8], 174, [2, advertisements] pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece and added vignette title. Twelve wood-engraved text illustrations.
Original publisher's deep red vertically-ribbed cloth. Covers decoratively bordered in blind, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt with a detailed fireplace and decoratively lettered in gilt except for the words on the hearth, which are formed of the cloth, spine pictorially stamped in gilt with a holly wreath that has a cricket at its top and a bow at its bottom and decoratively lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Original pale yellow coated endpapers. Just slightly skewed; cloth just fraying at the corners with the boards a tiny bit exposed; a few tiny splits to cloth at spine ends, at top of front joint, and at top and bottom of rear joint; spine very slightly faded, with a diagonal crease in the cloth across the spine; some very slight darkening to the cloth on the front cover; the gilt on the spine is a little dulled, but the gilt on the front cover generally fresh and bright. Some very slight browning to the paper at the edges. Slightly over-opened at gathering H (between pp. 96 and 97); tiny indentation to the lower edge of gatherings H-M, appearing as a puncture mark on gatherings K-L. Bookplate of Eben J. Brewer on front pastedown. Previous owner's ink presentation inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy.
Eckel, pp. 119-120. Gimbel A92. Sadleir 685. Smith II, 6.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations. In Three Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861.
First edition, first impression of each volume. Three octavo volumes (7.8125 x 4.9375 inches; 198 x 125 mm.). [4], 344; [2], 351, [1, printer's imprint]; [2], 344 pages plus 32-page publisher's catalog, dated May, 1861.
This copy has all of the internal flaws for the first issue called for by Smith, including the two points in Volume III that Smith notes only appeared in Sadleir's copy ("3" missing in page number on p. 103, and first "i" missing in "inflexible" on p. 193, four lines up), and with the first issue title pages.
In addition, almost all of the 126 points outlined in the detailed analysis found in the 1993 Clarendon edition of Great Expectations (Appendix D, Lists C and D, pp. 493-499) are in the earliest state, with the following six exceptions in Volume III: on p. 192, lines 11-12, with "himself very/carefully"; on p. 39, line 5, there is no ink between "you" and "feel"; on p. 193, foot, the middle "I" in "III" is not faint; on p. 195, line 2, the first inverted comma is not very faint; on p. 217, line 3, the dot of the semi-colon is missing after "night"; and on p. 220, line 16, the end-of-line hyphen is not faint.
Publisher's original moderate violet wavy-grain cloth with covers decoratively panelled in blind and spines ruled in blind and decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Original pale yellow coated endpapers. Embossed stamp on the front free endpaper of Volume I: W. H. Smith & Son, 186, Strand, London.
Each volume is just slightly skewed, with the corners rubbed, the spines slightly darkened, and the gilt on the spines dulled. Volume I with the cloth chipped away at the head of the spine, with short splits at joints; the cloth chipped at the foot of the spine, with a tiny chip to the front joint; the front hinge just starting, and the rear hinge cracked, but sound. Volume II with the cloth chipped away at the head of the spine (cloth lining still intact); a few tiny chips and a short split to the cloth at the foot of the spine at the rear joint; a short split to the cloth on the rear joint; the front hinge starting, and the rear hinge cracked, but sound. Volume III with approximately one-quarter inch of the cloth chipped away across the head of the spine, with a tiny split at the rear joint and a short split in the middle; a couple of tiny splits to the cloth at the foot of the spine, and a tiny piece of cloth chipped away; very slight blistering to the cloth on the spine at the rear joint; the front hinge cracked, but sound, and the rear hinge starting.
Each volume is generally clean and fresh internally. Volume I with a few fox marks to the front free endpaper and the title page; leaves O5 and O6 (pp. 201/202 and 203/204) poorly opened, with a small piece torn from the upper blank corner of O5; S2 and S3 (pp. 259/260 and 261/262) poorly opened in the upper gutter; a tiny tear and crease to the lower edge of X2 (pp. 307/308); Z1 and Z2 (pp. 337/338 and 339/340) poorly opened, with a small piece missing in the upper gutter. Volume II with light foxing, primarily to the edges; a few faint pencil marks on pp. 74 and 75; over-opened at gathering H (between pp. 96 and 97); a few stains on H7 (pp. 109/110); L6 (pp. 155/156) poorly cut at lower edge; P7 and P8 (pp. 221/222 and 223/224) poorly opened, with a small piece torn from the lower blank corner of P7; a tiny rust spot in the inner margin of pp. 245, 246, and 247; U4 (pp. 296/297) poorly cut at the lower edge; an ink smudge on p. 332. Volume III with a small stain in the inner margin of leaves G6-H2 (pp. 91-100); G1 and G2 (pp. 81/82 and 83/84) poorly opened, with a tiny piece torn from G1; a few rust spots on pp. 226 and 227; a paper flaw to Z3 (pp. 341/342), with a tiny extension folded over onto p. 342; just slightly over-opened between p. 344 and the publisher's catalogue and between pp. 30 and 31 of the catalog.
Despite the above mentioned flaws, this is a remarkable copy, totally untouched and unsophisticated. There is what appears to be a tiny erasure in the lower blank margin of the title page of each volume, but no evidence of later issue edition statements having been removed from the title pages and no evidence of lending library labels having been removed from the front covers.
"Great Expectations originally appeared in thirty-six weekly numbers of All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 through 3 August 1861. It appeared in the three-volume book form on July 6, 1861...This first edition was followed by four other so-called editions (actually issues) on August 5, August 17, September 21, and October 30. These first five were probably printed at a single impression and published with altered title pages to imply and encourage a rapid sale. (The words announcing the 'edition' are printed between the volume number and the imprint.) In all five issues, the same misprints persist. The genuine second edition was the one-volume 'Library Edition' with Chapman and Hall published in 1862" (Smith, pp. 103-104, note 3).
"The rarity of the first issue of Great Expectations has been attributed to the probable small binding-up of copies with the first title page, coupled with the fact (according to C. P. Johnson, Hints to Collectors, p. 33, and others later) that 'the first edition was almost entirely taken up by the libraries.' Patten, pp. 290-92, states that 1,000 copies of the first issue and 750 of the second were printed and that probably most of the first and more than half of the second (1,400) copies in all) were purchased by Mudie's Select Library" (Smith I, p. 104, note 5).
Eckel, pp. 91-93. Gimbel A146. Sadleir 688. Smith I, 14.
First edition, first impression of each volume. Three octavo volumes (7.8125 x 4.9375 inches; 198 x 125 mm.). [4], 344; [2], 351, [1, printer's imprint]; [2], 344 pages plus 32-page publisher's catalog, dated May, 1861.
This copy has all of the internal flaws for the first issue called for by Smith, including the two points in Volume III that Smith notes only appeared in Sadleir's copy ("3" missing in page number on p. 103, and first "i" missing in "inflexible" on p. 193, four lines up), and with the first issue title pages.
In addition, almost all of the 126 points outlined in the detailed analysis found in the 1993 Clarendon edition of Great Expectations (Appendix D, Lists C and D, pp. 493-499) are in the earliest state, with the following six exceptions in Volume III: on p. 192, lines 11-12, with "himself very/carefully"; on p. 39, line 5, there is no ink between "you" and "feel"; on p. 193, foot, the middle "I" in "III" is not faint; on p. 195, line 2, the first inverted comma is not very faint; on p. 217, line 3, the dot of the semi-colon is missing after "night"; and on p. 220, line 16, the end-of-line hyphen is not faint.
Publisher's original moderate violet wavy-grain cloth with covers decoratively panelled in blind and spines ruled in blind and decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Original pale yellow coated endpapers. Embossed stamp on the front free endpaper of Volume I: W. H. Smith & Son, 186, Strand, London.
Each volume is just slightly skewed, with the corners rubbed, the spines slightly darkened, and the gilt on the spines dulled. Volume I with the cloth chipped away at the head of the spine, with short splits at joints; the cloth chipped at the foot of the spine, with a tiny chip to the front joint; the front hinge just starting, and the rear hinge cracked, but sound. Volume II with the cloth chipped away at the head of the spine (cloth lining still intact); a few tiny chips and a short split to the cloth at the foot of the spine at the rear joint; a short split to the cloth on the rear joint; the front hinge starting, and the rear hinge cracked, but sound. Volume III with approximately one-quarter inch of the cloth chipped away across the head of the spine, with a tiny split at the rear joint and a short split in the middle; a couple of tiny splits to the cloth at the foot of the spine, and a tiny piece of cloth chipped away; very slight blistering to the cloth on the spine at the rear joint; the front hinge cracked, but sound, and the rear hinge starting.
Each volume is generally clean and fresh internally. Volume I with a few fox marks to the front free endpaper and the title page; leaves O5 and O6 (pp. 201/202 and 203/204) poorly opened, with a small piece torn from the upper blank corner of O5; S2 and S3 (pp. 259/260 and 261/262) poorly opened in the upper gutter; a tiny tear and crease to the lower edge of X2 (pp. 307/308); Z1 and Z2 (pp. 337/338 and 339/340) poorly opened, with a small piece missing in the upper gutter. Volume II with light foxing, primarily to the edges; a few faint pencil marks on pp. 74 and 75; over-opened at gathering H (between pp. 96 and 97); a few stains on H7 (pp. 109/110); L6 (pp. 155/156) poorly cut at lower edge; P7 and P8 (pp. 221/222 and 223/224) poorly opened, with a small piece torn from the lower blank corner of P7; a tiny rust spot in the inner margin of pp. 245, 246, and 247; U4 (pp. 296/297) poorly cut at the lower edge; an ink smudge on p. 332. Volume III with a small stain in the inner margin of leaves G6-H2 (pp. 91-100); G1 and G2 (pp. 81/82 and 83/84) poorly opened, with a tiny piece torn from G1; a few rust spots on pp. 226 and 227; a paper flaw to Z3 (pp. 341/342), with a tiny extension folded over onto p. 342; just slightly over-opened between p. 344 and the publisher's catalogue and between pp. 30 and 31 of the catalog.
Despite the above mentioned flaws, this is a remarkable copy, totally untouched and unsophisticated. There is what appears to be a tiny erasure in the lower blank margin of the title page of each volume, but no evidence of later issue edition statements having been removed from the title pages and no evidence of lending library labels having been removed from the front covers.
"Great Expectations originally appeared in thirty-six weekly numbers of All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 through 3 August 1861. It appeared in the three-volume book form on July 6, 1861...This first edition was followed by four other so-called editions (actually issues) on August 5, August 17, September 21, and October 30. These first five were probably printed at a single impression and published with altered title pages to imply and encourage a rapid sale. (The words announcing the 'edition' are printed between the volume number and the imprint.) In all five issues, the same misprints persist. The genuine second edition was the one-volume 'Library Edition' with Chapman and Hall published in 1862" (Smith, pp. 103-104, note 3).
"The rarity of the first issue of Great Expectations has been attributed to the probable small binding-up of copies with the first title page, coupled with the fact (according to C. P. Johnson, Hints to Collectors, p. 33, and others later) that 'the first edition was almost entirely taken up by the libraries.' Patten, pp. 290-92, states that 1,000 copies of the first issue and 750 of the second were printed and that probably most of the first and more than half of the second (1,400) copies in all) were purchased by Mudie's Select Library" (Smith I, p. 104, note 5).
Eckel, pp. 91-93. Gimbel A146. Sadleir 688. Smith I, 14.
[Charles Dickens]. The Library of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller. London: Chapman and Hall, 1836-1837.
First edition in book form (originally issued in fourteen monthly parts from April 1836-May 1837, with two additional parts issued in June and July 1837). Two octavo volumes. 384; 350 pages. Bound without the half-titles. Twenty-eight wood-engraved plates, including frontispieces, with tissue guards.
Bound by Root & Son in gilt-stamped full dark green polished calf. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spines faded to brown, corners and spine extremities lightly rubbed, joints tender. Occasional light foxing, primarily to the plates and adjoining text leaves. Bookplate of Nicholas Frederic Brady and additional shelf label on the front pastedown of each volume. Housed together in a brown cloth slipcase.
First edition in book form (originally issued in fourteen monthly parts from April 1836-May 1837, with two additional parts issued in June and July 1837). Two octavo volumes. 384; 350 pages. Bound without the half-titles. Twenty-eight wood-engraved plates, including frontispieces, with tissue guards.
Bound by Root & Son in gilt-stamped full dark green polished calf. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spines faded to brown, corners and spine extremities lightly rubbed, joints tender. Occasional light foxing, primarily to the plates and adjoining text leaves. Bookplate of Nicholas Frederic Brady and additional shelf label on the front pastedown of each volume. Housed together in a brown cloth slipcase.
Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865.
First edition in book form of Dickens' last completed novel. Bound from the parts, with stab-holes visible. Two octavo volumes. 320; 309 pages, plus the slightly smaller 24-page publisher's catalog, dated December, 1865. Forty wood-engraved plates (including frontispieces, with the original tissue guards) by the Dalziel Brothers and W. T. Green after Marcus Stone. This copy without the slip tipped to page [1] in Volume I, and without the page-size 36-page publisher's catalog, dated January, 1865, bound at the end of Volume I (both found in some copies only).
Publisher's original dark reddish brown sand-grain cloth. Original pale yellow coated endpapers. Spines slightly faded; light rubbing to corners and spine extremities; rear hinge of Volume I and both hinges of Volume II cracked; Volume I slightly shaken. Minimal foxing and edge soiling. Armorial bookplate of Stephen George Holland on front pastedown of each volume.
"Our Mutual Friend originally appeared in twenty numbers, bound in nineteen monthly parts, the last part forming a double number, from May 1864-November 1865. The first volume was published in book form on January 20, 1865; the second on October 21, 1865. 11s. each" (Smith I, p. 110, note).
Eckel, pp. 94-95. Gimbel A149. Sadleir 697. Smith I, 15.
First edition in book form of Dickens' last completed novel. Bound from the parts, with stab-holes visible. Two octavo volumes. 320; 309 pages, plus the slightly smaller 24-page publisher's catalog, dated December, 1865. Forty wood-engraved plates (including frontispieces, with the original tissue guards) by the Dalziel Brothers and W. T. Green after Marcus Stone. This copy without the slip tipped to page [1] in Volume I, and without the page-size 36-page publisher's catalog, dated January, 1865, bound at the end of Volume I (both found in some copies only).
Publisher's original dark reddish brown sand-grain cloth. Original pale yellow coated endpapers. Spines slightly faded; light rubbing to corners and spine extremities; rear hinge of Volume I and both hinges of Volume II cracked; Volume I slightly shaken. Minimal foxing and edge soiling. Armorial bookplate of Stephen George Holland on front pastedown of each volume.
"Our Mutual Friend originally appeared in twenty numbers, bound in nineteen monthly parts, the last part forming a double number, from May 1864-November 1865. The first volume was published in book form on January 20, 1865; the second on October 21, 1865. 11s. each" (Smith I, p. 110, note).
Eckel, pp. 94-95. Gimbel A149. Sadleir 697. Smith I, 15.
Charles Dickens. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With Illustrations by R. Seymour, R. W. Buss, Hablôt K. Browne ("Phiz") and J. Leech. London: Chapman and Hall Limited, 1887.
The "Victoria Edition." One of 1,500 copies, out of a total edition of 2,000 copies. Two octavo volumes xlvii, 430; xi, 439 pages. Titles printed in red and black. Fifty photogravure plates, including frontispiece in each volume and added vignette title in Volume I, plus a facsimile of an inscription by Charles Dickens and a facsimile of the wrapper to Part I of the original parts issue. Extra-illustrated with 105 plates, some color, some inlaid to size, including engraved portraits and views, and the Twelve Extra Illustrations to the Pickwick Papers by Charles E. Brock (Leamington Spa: Published by Arthur W. Waters, 1921), each in two states, one hand-colored, as well as the original portfolio wrappers for the Edition de Luxe.
Bound by Bayntun of Bath in three-quarter brown crushed levant morocco, ruled in gilt, over brown cloth boards. Spines decoratively panelled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Light rubbing to corners and spine extremities, upper portion of front joint of Volume I neatly repaired, front joint of Volume II neatly repaired, hinges of Volume I starting, front hinge of Volume II repaired. Some scattered light foxing, slightly heavier in Volume I. Occasional offsetting from some of the extra illustrations. Previous owner's ink presentation inscription on front flyleaf of Volume I and on front and rear flyleaves of Volume II. An excellent copy.
Gimbel B18.
The "Victoria Edition." One of 1,500 copies, out of a total edition of 2,000 copies. Two octavo volumes xlvii, 430; xi, 439 pages. Titles printed in red and black. Fifty photogravure plates, including frontispiece in each volume and added vignette title in Volume I, plus a facsimile of an inscription by Charles Dickens and a facsimile of the wrapper to Part I of the original parts issue. Extra-illustrated with 105 plates, some color, some inlaid to size, including engraved portraits and views, and the Twelve Extra Illustrations to the Pickwick Papers by Charles E. Brock (Leamington Spa: Published by Arthur W. Waters, 1921), each in two states, one hand-colored, as well as the original portfolio wrappers for the Edition de Luxe.
Bound by Bayntun of Bath in three-quarter brown crushed levant morocco, ruled in gilt, over brown cloth boards. Spines decoratively panelled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Light rubbing to corners and spine extremities, upper portion of front joint of Volume I neatly repaired, front joint of Volume II neatly repaired, hinges of Volume I starting, front hinge of Volume II repaired. Some scattered light foxing, slightly heavier in Volume I. Occasional offsetting from some of the extra illustrations. Previous owner's ink presentation inscription on front flyleaf of Volume I and on front and rear flyleaves of Volume II. An excellent copy.
Gimbel B18.
Charles Dickens. Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. New York: George D. Sproul, 1902.
Six large octavo volumes. Frontispiece and plates (from the original illustrations,) with descriptive tissue guards. Frontispiece in Volume I on India paper mounted, signed by the illustrator.
Bound by Whitman Bennett, N.Y. (stamped on front free endpaper) in three-quarter brown morocco, ruled in gilt, over marbled boards. Spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments with "CD" cipher as center tool. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. A handsome set.
Six large octavo volumes. Frontispiece and plates (from the original illustrations,) with descriptive tissue guards. Frontispiece in Volume I on India paper mounted, signed by the illustrator.
Bound by Whitman Bennett, N.Y. (stamped on front free endpaper) in three-quarter brown morocco, ruled in gilt, over marbled boards. Spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments with "CD" cipher as center tool. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. A handsome set.
[Charles Dickens]. Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. With Forty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. New Edition, Complete. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
First one-volume book edition. Octavo. viii, 248, 241-526 pages. This copy has pages 241-248 in duplicate, the first group of eight pages unsigned, the second group signed as gathering Y. Forty etched plates by George Cruikshank, including frontispiece and added vignette title.
Publisher's original grayish violet (brown) vertically-ribbed cloth. Original pale yellow coated endpapers. Spine faded, cloth strengthened at head and foot of spine, corners rubbed, some slight discoloration to cloth on covers. Hinges cracked, but still strong. Early ink signature (crossed out) and pencil signature, dated "Nov. 24 1881," on front pastedown. Housed in a half green hard-grain morocco over green cloth book-backed pull-off case.
Carr B7. Gimbel A7.
First one-volume book edition. Octavo. viii, 248, 241-526 pages. This copy has pages 241-248 in duplicate, the first group of eight pages unsigned, the second group signed as gathering Y. Forty etched plates by George Cruikshank, including frontispiece and added vignette title.
Publisher's original grayish violet (brown) vertically-ribbed cloth. Original pale yellow coated endpapers. Spine faded, cloth strengthened at head and foot of spine, corners rubbed, some slight discoloration to cloth on covers. Hinges cracked, but still strong. Early ink signature (crossed out) and pencil signature, dated "Nov. 24 1881," on front pastedown. Housed in a half green hard-grain morocco over green cloth book-backed pull-off case.
Carr B7. Gimbel A7.
Miscellaneous
Charles Dickens. Engraved Coutts & Company Check Signed. London: [January 14, 1870].
Single check (3.75 x 7.5 inches; 95 x 190 mm.). Engraved heading and boilerplate text with several letterpress elements. Four lines written in blue ink in Dickens' hand, and Dickens' signature, also in blue.
Nineteenth century laid paper, left edge indented, and an ovular blind stamp in relief at middle right edge. Mounted on heavy card stock (10.75 x 8 inches; 273 x 203 mm.). Three hatch marks in black ink over engraved place and bank name. Adhesive remnants indicate that the check was framed or matted at one time. Despite the undesirable setting, the check is in very good condition, and will display nicely when reframed.
The 1870 check in the amount of twenty pounds is made out to Mrs. Hedderley. Ellen Hedderley became the All the Year Round office housekeeper in late 1866 after Dickens' longtime servant John -- the previous AYR housekeeper -- was dismissed for stealing from the cash box.
Single check (3.75 x 7.5 inches; 95 x 190 mm.). Engraved heading and boilerplate text with several letterpress elements. Four lines written in blue ink in Dickens' hand, and Dickens' signature, also in blue.
Nineteenth century laid paper, left edge indented, and an ovular blind stamp in relief at middle right edge. Mounted on heavy card stock (10.75 x 8 inches; 273 x 203 mm.). Three hatch marks in black ink over engraved place and bank name. Adhesive remnants indicate that the check was framed or matted at one time. Despite the undesirable setting, the check is in very good condition, and will display nicely when reframed.
The 1870 check in the amount of twenty pounds is made out to Mrs. Hedderley. Ellen Hedderley became the All the Year Round office housekeeper in late 1866 after Dickens' longtime servant John -- the previous AYR housekeeper -- was dismissed for stealing from the cash box.
Books
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1894.
First edition. Large octavo. 279 pages. Frontispiece and numerous textual illustrations by Sidney Paget.
Publisher's dark blue illustrated cloth over beveled boards with gilt and black lettering to front board and spine. All edges gilt. Floral endpapers. Moderate shelf wear to the boards with mildly rubbed corners and spine ends. Hinges starting and somewhat tender but still strong. Internal contents clean with only minimal scattered foxing. A very good copy.
Contains eleven stories featuring the world's first consulting detective and his faithful Watson, including Holmes's "demise" at the Reichenbach Falls in "The Final Problem."
Green and Gibson, A14a.
First edition. Large octavo. 279 pages. Frontispiece and numerous textual illustrations by Sidney Paget.
Publisher's dark blue illustrated cloth over beveled boards with gilt and black lettering to front board and spine. All edges gilt. Floral endpapers. Moderate shelf wear to the boards with mildly rubbed corners and spine ends. Hinges starting and somewhat tender but still strong. Internal contents clean with only minimal scattered foxing. A very good copy.
Contains eleven stories featuring the world's first consulting detective and his faithful Watson, including Holmes's "demise" at the Reichenbach Falls in "The Final Problem."
Green and Gibson, A14a.
Alexandre Dumas. Henri III et sa cour; drame historique en cing actes et en prose, par Alexandre Dumas. Représenté sur le Théátre Francais, par les comédiens ordinaires du Roi, le 11 Fébrier 1829. Paris: Vezard et Cie, 1829.
First edition of the author's first book. French text. Octavo. x, [3 un-numbered], 14-171. Bound with other plays of the period.
Contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards. Joints tender, edge wear. Contents with light scattered foxing, in a cloth clamshell case. Very good condition.
First edition of the author's first book. French text. Octavo. x, [3 un-numbered], 14-171. Bound with other plays of the period.
Contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards. Joints tender, edge wear. Contents with light scattered foxing, in a cloth clamshell case. Very good condition.
George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.
First edition. Three octavo volumes. vi, [2], [1, advertisement for Scenes of Clerical Life], [1, blank], 361, [3, blank]; vi, [2], 319, [1, blank]; vi, [2], 313, [1, blank] pages plus 16-page publisher's catalogue (numbered 2-15).
Original cinnamon ripple-grain cloth (Carter's variant B) with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spines lettered in gilt. Original pale yellow endpapers. Binder's ticket ("Edmonds and Remnants") on rear pastedown of Volume I. Some wear to extremities, hinges reinforced, small spot to lower rear cover of Volume I. Bookplate and small bookseller's ticket on front pastedown. Overall, an attractive copy.
First edition. Three octavo volumes. vi, [2], [1, advertisement for Scenes of Clerical Life], [1, blank], 361, [3, blank]; vi, [2], 319, [1, blank]; vi, [2], 313, [1, blank] pages plus 16-page publisher's catalogue (numbered 2-15).
Original cinnamon ripple-grain cloth (Carter's variant B) with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spines lettered in gilt. Original pale yellow endpapers. Binder's ticket ("Edmonds and Remnants") on rear pastedown of Volume I. Some wear to extremities, hinges reinforced, small spot to lower rear cover of Volume I. Bookplate and small bookseller's ticket on front pastedown. Overall, an attractive copy.
George Eliot. Silas Marner. The Weaver of Raveloe. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861.
First edition. Octavo. [6], 364 pages plus 16-page publisher's catalog and [4]-page review of Autobiography of Dr Alexander Carlyle.
Original cinnamon wavy-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Binder's ticket ("Bound by Burn") on rear pastedown. Cream-colored coated endpapers. Minimal rubbing to extremities. Front hinge expertly repaired. Armorial bookplate of E. Hubert Litchfield on front pastedown. A very good copy.
Parrish, pp. 15-16. Sadleir 819. Wolff 2063.
First edition. Octavo. [6], 364 pages plus 16-page publisher's catalog and [4]-page review of Autobiography of Dr Alexander Carlyle.
Original cinnamon wavy-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Binder's ticket ("Bound by Burn") on rear pastedown. Cream-colored coated endpapers. Minimal rubbing to extremities. Front hinge expertly repaired. Armorial bookplate of E. Hubert Litchfield on front pastedown. A very good copy.
Parrish, pp. 15-16. Sadleir 819. Wolff 2063.
William Faulkner. Absalom, Absalom! New York; Random House, 1936.
First edition. Octavo. 384 pages. Folding map in rear.
Black cloth with red lines and gilt lettering over boards. Some minor rubbing to front pastedown. Some sunning to the spine of a very lightly chipped dust jacket. Very good condition.
First edition. Octavo. 384 pages. Folding map in rear.
Black cloth with red lines and gilt lettering over boards. Some minor rubbing to front pastedown. Some sunning to the spine of a very lightly chipped dust jacket. Very good condition.
William Faulkner. A Fable. New York: Random House, [1954].
First edition, number 847 of 1,000 limited edition copies signed by Faulkner on the limitation page. Octavo. 437 pages.
Publisher's blue cloth with blue and silver stamping. A crisp, sharp copy. Lacking original glassine dust jacket. Publisher's slipcase shows minor rubbing and soiling. A near fine copy.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1955. An intellectually powerful anti-war statement which predates and anticipates similarly brilliant examples such as Heller's Catch-22 and Kubrick's film adaptation of Paths of Glory.
First edition, number 847 of 1,000 limited edition copies signed by Faulkner on the limitation page. Octavo. 437 pages.
Publisher's blue cloth with blue and silver stamping. A crisp, sharp copy. Lacking original glassine dust jacket. Publisher's slipcase shows minor rubbing and soiling. A near fine copy.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1955. An intellectually powerful anti-war statement which predates and anticipates similarly brilliant examples such as Heller's Catch-22 and Kubrick's film adaptation of Paths of Glory.
William Faulkner. Miss Zilphia Gant. Dallas: The Book Club of Texas, 1932.
First edition. Limited to 300 copies for members of the Book Club of Texas, this being number 198. Octavo. vi, 29 pages. Preface by Henry Nash Smith.
Dark red cloth over boards. Gilt designs and lettering to front board. Gilt lettering to spine. Original glassine dust jacket with a minimum of chipping. Spine slightly sunned. A near fine copy.
Miss Zilphia Gant remains one of the most sought after titles put out by Stanley Marcus' Book Club of Texas. Howard Colville, of the Dallas printing firm J. M. Colville & Sons of Dallas, Texas, won recognition from the American Institute of Graphic Arts for his work designing this book.
First edition. Limited to 300 copies for members of the Book Club of Texas, this being number 198. Octavo. vi, 29 pages. Preface by Henry Nash Smith.
Dark red cloth over boards. Gilt designs and lettering to front board. Gilt lettering to spine. Original glassine dust jacket with a minimum of chipping. Spine slightly sunned. A near fine copy.
Miss Zilphia Gant remains one of the most sought after titles put out by Stanley Marcus' Book Club of Texas. Howard Colville, of the Dallas printing firm J. M. Colville & Sons of Dallas, Texas, won recognition from the American Institute of Graphic Arts for his work designing this book.
William Faulkner. Mosquitoes. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927.
First edition, first issue (Boni and Liveright on title page) of the author's second novel. Octavo. [2], 349, [1] pages.
Publisher's deep blue cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering, blue pattern endpapers. In the original pictorial dust jacket with red mosquitoes on a light green background. Jacket with some expert restoration. Price-clipped. A very good and attractive copy of a very scarce Faulkner item.
First edition, first issue (Boni and Liveright on title page) of the author's second novel. Octavo. [2], 349, [1] pages.
Publisher's deep blue cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering, blue pattern endpapers. In the original pictorial dust jacket with red mosquitoes on a light green background. Jacket with some expert restoration. Price-clipped. A very good and attractive copy of a very scarce Faulkner item.
William Faulkner. Notes on a Horse Thief. Greenville Mississippi: The Levee Press, 1950.
First edition. Small quarto. Number 492 of 975 limited edition numbered copies signed by Faulkner on the limitation page. 71 pages. Illustrations by Elizabeth Calvert.
Green cloth over boards. Silver design to front board. Silver lettering to spine. Decorative endpapers. Very good.
Faulkner later incorporated this short story into his novel, A Fable.
First edition. Small quarto. Number 492 of 975 limited edition numbered copies signed by Faulkner on the limitation page. 71 pages. Illustrations by Elizabeth Calvert.
Green cloth over boards. Silver design to front board. Silver lettering to spine. Decorative endpapers. Very good.
Faulkner later incorporated this short story into his novel, A Fable.
William Faulkner. Requiem for a Nun. New York: Random House, 1951.
First edition, number 725 of 750 numbered copies signed by Faulkner. Octavo. 286 pages.
Black cloth over marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Blue endpapers. Top edge gray. Some tears to the original clear acetate jacket. Near fine copy.
First edition, number 725 of 750 numbered copies signed by Faulkner. Octavo. 286 pages.
Black cloth over marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Blue endpapers. Top edge gray. Some tears to the original clear acetate jacket. Near fine copy.
William Faulkner. Salmagundi. Milwaukee: The Casanova Press, 1932.
First edition. Octavo. 53 pages. Number 175 of 525 numbered copies. Portrait of Faulkner facing title page.
Printed wrappers. Near fine condition.
Preface by Paul Romaine, the book's printer. Three articles by Faulkner: "New Orleans," "On Criticism," and "Verse Old and Nascent: A Pilgrimage." Also includes five of Faulkner's poems. Printed on the rear wrapper is a short poem by Hemingway entitled "Ultimately."
First edition. Octavo. 53 pages. Number 175 of 525 numbered copies. Portrait of Faulkner facing title page.
Printed wrappers. Near fine condition.
Preface by Paul Romaine, the book's printer. Three articles by Faulkner: "New Orleans," "On Criticism," and "Verse Old and Nascent: A Pilgrimage." Also includes five of Faulkner's poems. Printed on the rear wrapper is a short poem by Hemingway entitled "Ultimately."
William Faulkner. Four Small Press Books, including: Father Abraham. [N.p.]: Red Ozier Press, 1983. First edition. Octavo. 70 pages. Illustrated with wood engravings by John DePol. Limited to 210 numbered copies, this being number 52. Cloth over decorative paper. In original glassine dust jacket. Fine. [and:] A Green Bough. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1933. First edition. Octavo. 67 pages. Jacket design and title vignette by Lynd Ward. Green cloth over boards. Inked name of previous owner to front free endpaper. Some staining and sunning to lightly chipped dust jacket. Very good condition. [and:] Mirrors of Chartres Street. Minneapolis: Faulkner Studies, 1953. First edition. Limited to 1000 number copies, of which this is number 883. Octavo. xv, 93 pages. Illustrations by Mary Demopoulos. Introduction by William Van O'Connor. Cloth over boards. Very good in dust jacket. [and:] This Earth. New York: Equinox, 1932. First edition. Two page poem. Wrappers. Illustrations by Albert Heckman. Fine condition.
Henry Fielding. Amelia. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1752.
First edition. Four twelvemo volumes. xii, 285; viii, 262, [1, ad]; x, 323; viii, 296 pages.
Uniformly bound by Riviere & Son in period speckled calf, gilt rules and fleurons, spines tooled in gilt including raised bands, black and red morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, floral gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Bound without the terminal blank in volume I and the ad leaf in volume II. A handsome copy of Fielding's last novel. The second impression, made in January 1752 (the first in December 1751), only recently made identifiable by the correction of a misprint at the fourth line of p. 191 of Volume III ("the at Folly" changed to "at the Folly").
First edition. Four twelvemo volumes. xii, 285; viii, 262, [1, ad]; x, 323; viii, 296 pages.
Uniformly bound by Riviere & Son in period speckled calf, gilt rules and fleurons, spines tooled in gilt including raised bands, black and red morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, floral gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Bound without the terminal blank in volume I and the ad leaf in volume II. A handsome copy of Fielding's last novel. The second impression, made in January 1752 (the first in December 1751), only recently made identifiable by the correction of a misprint at the fourth line of p. 191 of Volume III ("the at Folly" changed to "at the Folly").
F. Scott Fitzgerald. All The Sad Young Men. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
First edition. Octavo. 267 pages.
Dark green cloth over boards. Blind-stamped lettering to front board. Gilt spine titles. Jacket illustration by Cleonike Damianakes Wilkins. A near fine book in an excellent dust jacket.
Arthur Mizener, in his introductory essay to Flappers and Philosophers, explains that Fitzgerald once listed four of his stories "he would not be ashamed to see in a book with the work of writers like Conrad, Forster, and Lawrence (the stories were 'Absolution,' 'The Rich Boy,' 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,' and 'May Day')" (Flappers and Philosophers, page 1). Two of the stories are in this collection. "Absolution," which originally appeared in the June 1924 issue of The American Mercury, had been in an earlier draft of The Great Gatsby, but never made it into the final manuscript.
First edition. Octavo. 267 pages.
Dark green cloth over boards. Blind-stamped lettering to front board. Gilt spine titles. Jacket illustration by Cleonike Damianakes Wilkins. A near fine book in an excellent dust jacket.
Arthur Mizener, in his introductory essay to Flappers and Philosophers, explains that Fitzgerald once listed four of his stories "he would not be ashamed to see in a book with the work of writers like Conrad, Forster, and Lawrence (the stories were 'Absolution,' 'The Rich Boy,' 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,' and 'May Day')" (Flappers and Philosophers, page 1). Two of the stories are in this collection. "Absolution," which originally appeared in the June 1924 issue of The American Mercury, had been in an earlier draft of The Great Gatsby, but never made it into the final manuscript.
[Jack Fitterer, bookbinder]. F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
First edition, first issue with all points (page 60, line 16: "chatter"; page 119, line 22: "northern"; page 165, line 16: "it's"; page 205, lines 9-10: "sick in tired"; page 211, lines 7-8: "Union Street station"; Scribner's seal on copyright page). Octavo. 218 pages.
Beautifully bound in period deco style by New York binder Jack Fitterer. The binding is deep full green morocco with lighter green inlays outlined in silver, silver spine titles, and matching marbled endpapers. A fabulous binding evocative of the Roaring Twenties. Sheets slightly age-toned. Minor creasing at the gutter to some pages. A very good copy in a sturdy binding which is itself in very fine condition.
Bruccoli, Fitzgerald, A11.1.a.
First edition, first issue with all points (page 60, line 16: "chatter"; page 119, line 22: "northern"; page 165, line 16: "it's"; page 205, lines 9-10: "sick in tired"; page 211, lines 7-8: "Union Street station"; Scribner's seal on copyright page). Octavo. 218 pages.
Beautifully bound in period deco style by New York binder Jack Fitterer. The binding is deep full green morocco with lighter green inlays outlined in silver, silver spine titles, and matching marbled endpapers. A fabulous binding evocative of the Roaring Twenties. Sheets slightly age-toned. Minor creasing at the gutter to some pages. A very good copy in a sturdy binding which is itself in very fine condition.
Bruccoli, Fitzgerald, A11.1.a.
Ian Fleming. Diamonds Are Forever. London: Jonathan Cape, [1956].
First edition. Octavo. 257 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with silver stamping. Cloth is rubbed and lightly soiled with a leaning spine. Endpapers are lightly foxed. Small ink stain on bottom edge and some soiling along the top edge. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed. Overall, a very good copy of this early James Bond title.
First edition. Octavo. 257 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with silver stamping. Cloth is rubbed and lightly soiled with a leaning spine. Endpapers are lightly foxed. Small ink stain on bottom edge and some soiling along the top edge. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed. Overall, a very good copy of this early James Bond title.
Ian Fleming. From Russia With Love. London: Jonathan Cape, [1957].
First edition. Octavo. 253 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with silver and red stamping. There are two fold creases in the front free endpaper. Endpapers and inner flaps of dust jacket show some light, scattered foxing. Overall, a near fine copy.
First edition. Octavo. 253 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with silver and red stamping. There are two fold creases in the front free endpaper. Endpapers and inner flaps of dust jacket show some light, scattered foxing. Overall, a near fine copy.
Ian Fleming. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, [1959].
First edition. Octavo. 318 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with gilt stamping. Spine is slightly leaning with mild toning to endpapers. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed and edge-darkened. A very good copy.
First edition. Octavo. 318 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with gilt stamping. Spine is slightly leaning with mild toning to endpapers. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed and edge-darkened. A very good copy.
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, [1963].
First edition. Octavo. 288 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with silver and white stamping. Spine is slightly leaning. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed and sunned along the spine. A very good copy.
First edition. Octavo. 288 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with silver and white stamping. Spine is slightly leaning. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed and sunned along the spine. A very good copy.
Ian Fleming. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, [1961].
First edition. Octavo. 253 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with gilt stamping. Lightly spotted along page edges. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed along edges and folds with a few tiny chips at spine ends and corners. A very good copy.
First edition. Octavo. 253 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with gilt stamping. Lightly spotted along page edges. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed along edges and folds with a few tiny chips at spine ends and corners. A very good copy.
Ian Fleming. Five Books, including: The Diamond Smugglers. London: Jonathan Cape, [1957]. First edition. Bookseller sticker on front pastedown. Dust jacket is price-clipped with darkening to edges and fading along the spine. [and:] You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, [1964]. First edition. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Spine has a slight lean. Dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly chipped on spine ends. [and:] The Man With the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, [1965]. First edition (no gold gun embossed on cloth). Spine has a slight lean. Dust jacket is mildly edge-darkened. [and:] Octopussy and The Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, [1966]. First edition. Dust jacket is price clipped. [and:] Henry A. Zeiger. Ian Fleming: The Spy Who Came in With the Gold. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1965]. First edition. Dust jacket is price-clipped with light rubbing and edge wear. All the volumes in this lot in very good or better condition.
James G. Frazer. The Golden Bough. A Study in Comparative Religion. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890.
First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf:"Inscribed to / Mrs. Nicholas Longworth / with the good wishes of / James George Frazer / 27th March 1933." Two octavo volumes. 409, [2 publisher's advertisement]; 407 pages. Engraved frontispiece.
Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt mistletoe ornaments to the front boards and gilt spine titles. Green endpapers. Housed in a custom beige cloth slipcase, with separate compartments for each volume, and a dark green leather title plate affixed to the spine and lettered in gilt. Both volumes have been recased, utilizing the great majority of the original green cloth, which has been laid-down on the new binding, and incorporating the original endpapers (reinforced at the hinges). Volume I appears to have the original spine intact, but new cover pieces have been applied to the boards. The gilt "T" in "THE" on the spine of Volume II is not original. Binding slightly skewed on both volumes. Moderate wear to the boards. Some bumping to the edges and corners, and rubbing and soiling to the boards. Minor bubbling to some of the cloth on the boards. Edges slightly dust-soiled. Scattered minor foxing. All in all, an about very good pair of the original publication of Frazer's seminal work.
The "Mrs. Nicolas Longworth" referred to by Frazer in the inscription is Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt's eldest daughter from his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee. Alice Longworth led a long, controversial and unconventional life and the inscription is all the more rare by the fact that Frazer signed his name in full as opposed to his usual "from the author" or "with the author's kindest regards".
First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf:"Inscribed to / Mrs. Nicholas Longworth / with the good wishes of / James George Frazer / 27th March 1933." Two octavo volumes. 409, [2 publisher's advertisement]; 407 pages. Engraved frontispiece.
Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt mistletoe ornaments to the front boards and gilt spine titles. Green endpapers. Housed in a custom beige cloth slipcase, with separate compartments for each volume, and a dark green leather title plate affixed to the spine and lettered in gilt. Both volumes have been recased, utilizing the great majority of the original green cloth, which has been laid-down on the new binding, and incorporating the original endpapers (reinforced at the hinges). Volume I appears to have the original spine intact, but new cover pieces have been applied to the boards. The gilt "T" in "THE" on the spine of Volume II is not original. Binding slightly skewed on both volumes. Moderate wear to the boards. Some bumping to the edges and corners, and rubbing and soiling to the boards. Minor bubbling to some of the cloth on the boards. Edges slightly dust-soiled. Scattered minor foxing. All in all, an about very good pair of the original publication of Frazer's seminal work.
The "Mrs. Nicolas Longworth" referred to by Frazer in the inscription is Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt's eldest daughter from his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee. Alice Longworth led a long, controversial and unconventional life and the inscription is all the more rare by the fact that Frazer signed his name in full as opposed to his usual "from the author" or "with the author's kindest regards".
Robert Frost. The Complete Poems of Robert Frost. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1950.
First thus, number 544 of 1500 limited edition copies signed by Frost and others on the limitation page. Two octavo volumes.
Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamping. Publisher's prospectus laid-in. Both volumes in fine condition, housed in publisher's slipcase and glassine.
First thus, number 544 of 1500 limited edition copies signed by Frost and others on the limitation page. Two octavo volumes.
Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamping. Publisher's prospectus laid-in. Both volumes in fine condition, housed in publisher's slipcase and glassine.
Christopher Saint Germain. The Dialoges in English, Betwene a Docter of Divinity, and a Student in the Lawes of England. Newly Corrected and Imprinted, With New Additions. London: Richard Tottell, 1580.
Small octavo. 176, [4] leaves.
Contemporary full brown calf, blind-ruled and with central blind-stamped device within an oval, expertly rebacked retaining the original spine. Marginal annotations in a contemporary hand. Overall, a very good copy with generous margins.
Small octavo. 176, [4] leaves.
Contemporary full brown calf, blind-ruled and with central blind-stamped device within an oval, expertly rebacked retaining the original spine. Marginal annotations in a contemporary hand. Overall, a very good copy with generous margins.
Sue Grafton. "A" is for Alibi: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982.
First edition (first printing with "0482" on lower front flap). Signed by Grafton on the title page. Octavo. [x], 274, [2] pages.
Publisher's gray cloth with red spine lettering. Original dust jacket with no faults. A beautiful copy.
First edition (first printing with "0482" on lower front flap). Signed by Grafton on the title page. Octavo. [x], 274, [2] pages.
Publisher's gray cloth with red spine lettering. Original dust jacket with no faults. A beautiful copy.
Robert Graves. I, Claudius. [London]: Paradin, [1977].
First limited edition (following the trade edition of 1934). One of 100 numbered copies signed by Robert Graves. Octavo.
Publisher's full purple morocco, covers with key pattern gilt borders, front cover with a gilt coin depicting the emperor, gilt spine bands, gilt spine lettering, gray endpapers, all edges gilt. In the publisher's slipcase. Bookplate. A fine copy.
First limited edition (following the trade edition of 1934). One of 100 numbered copies signed by Robert Graves. Octavo.
Publisher's full purple morocco, covers with key pattern gilt borders, front cover with a gilt coin depicting the emperor, gilt spine bands, gilt spine lettering, gray endpapers, all edges gilt. In the publisher's slipcase. Bookplate. A fine copy.
Joel Chandler Harris. Uncle Remus. His Songs and Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881.
First edition, BAL first state, of the author's first book (with "presumptive" in the last line on p. 9, and the advertisements on p. [233] beginning "New Books. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine"). Twelvemo. 231, [1, blank], [8, advertisements] pages. Eight wood-engraved plates (including frontispiece) and sixteen wood-engraved text illustrations (including title vignette).
Original blue diagonally-ribbed cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt and black and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Back cover ruled in blind. White endpapers printed in gray with a butterfly pattern. Binding somewhat worn, with headpieces and tailpieces chipped away from the spine ends, noticeable edge and fold wear, and bumped corners. Spine mildly darkened. Binding cracked at pages 97 and 120, but still holding for the most part. Dust-soiling to text edges. Scattered minor foxing, but largely the interior of the textblock is clean. All in all, an about very good copy of Harris's classic.
"The instant success of this first Uncle Remus book caused the greatest flood of dialect literature the country had known" (Grolier, 100 American).
BAL 7100. Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 56-57. Grolier, 100 American, 83.
First edition, BAL first state, of the author's first book (with "presumptive" in the last line on p. 9, and the advertisements on p. [233] beginning "New Books. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine"). Twelvemo. 231, [1, blank], [8, advertisements] pages. Eight wood-engraved plates (including frontispiece) and sixteen wood-engraved text illustrations (including title vignette).
Original blue diagonally-ribbed cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt and black and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Back cover ruled in blind. White endpapers printed in gray with a butterfly pattern. Binding somewhat worn, with headpieces and tailpieces chipped away from the spine ends, noticeable edge and fold wear, and bumped corners. Spine mildly darkened. Binding cracked at pages 97 and 120, but still holding for the most part. Dust-soiling to text edges. Scattered minor foxing, but largely the interior of the textblock is clean. All in all, an about very good copy of Harris's classic.
"The instant success of this first Uncle Remus book caused the greatest flood of dialect literature the country had known" (Grolier, 100 American).
BAL 7100. Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 56-57. Grolier, 100 American, 83.
Robert A. Heinlein. Starship Troopers. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1959].
First edition. Octavo. 309 pages. Jacket illustration by Jerry Robinson.
Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles. In first issue pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed in spots. Corners slightly worn. Minimal brown stains on the top edge and fore-edge of the textblock. Internal contents bright and clean. Dust jacket noticeably worn along the edges with moderate paper loss and closed tears at each of the spine extremities and flap fold ends, one small closed tear at the top edge of the rear panel, one vertical crease on the spine, and some rubbing to the panels. Still, a bright copy in very good condition.
Accompanied by a first edition of Tomorrow, the Stars. A Science Fiction Anthology. Edited and with an Introduction by Robert A. Heinlein. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. Minor wear and one small closed tear on the dust jacket, else a very good copy. Although edited by Heinlein, Tomorrow, the Stars was actually compiled by Judith Merril and Frederik Pohl.
First edition. Octavo. 309 pages. Jacket illustration by Jerry Robinson.
Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles. In first issue pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed in spots. Corners slightly worn. Minimal brown stains on the top edge and fore-edge of the textblock. Internal contents bright and clean. Dust jacket noticeably worn along the edges with moderate paper loss and closed tears at each of the spine extremities and flap fold ends, one small closed tear at the top edge of the rear panel, one vertical crease on the spine, and some rubbing to the panels. Still, a bright copy in very good condition.
Accompanied by a first edition of Tomorrow, the Stars. A Science Fiction Anthology. Edited and with an Introduction by Robert A. Heinlein. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. Minor wear and one small closed tear on the dust jacket, else a very good copy. Although edited by Heinlein, Tomorrow, the Stars was actually compiled by Judith Merril and Frederik Pohl.
Frank Herbert. Dune. Philadelphia / New York: Chilton Books, [1965].
First edition. Large octavo. 412 pages including multiple appendixes.
Publisher's light blue cloth with white spine titles. In original pictorial dust jacket. Moderate wear to the board edges and spine ends. Spine slightly cocked. Corners rubbed. Internal contents bright and clean. Dust jacket moderately worn and somewhat toned on the reverse, with minimal paper loss at the spine ends and flap fold ends, a quarter-inch split along the front flap fold, some creasing to the folds, and one small stain to the reverse of the dust jacket at the top of the front panel. Overall, a very good copy of an exceedingly rare classic of science fiction.
Herbert spent six years researching and writing this first-ever ecological sci-fi thriller, but it was rejected by numerous publishers before finally being accepted by Chilton, a minor publishing house known primarily for auto repair manuals. Although the book was not an instant bestseller, it won the 1965 Nebula Award for Best Novel and shared the 1966 Hugo Award. Dune has sold 12 million copies and counting, more than any other science fiction novel in history.
"One of [the] most celebrated works of modern SF." (Barron 199)
First edition. Large octavo. 412 pages including multiple appendixes.
Publisher's light blue cloth with white spine titles. In original pictorial dust jacket. Moderate wear to the board edges and spine ends. Spine slightly cocked. Corners rubbed. Internal contents bright and clean. Dust jacket moderately worn and somewhat toned on the reverse, with minimal paper loss at the spine ends and flap fold ends, a quarter-inch split along the front flap fold, some creasing to the folds, and one small stain to the reverse of the dust jacket at the top of the front panel. Overall, a very good copy of an exceedingly rare classic of science fiction.
Herbert spent six years researching and writing this first-ever ecological sci-fi thriller, but it was rejected by numerous publishers before finally being accepted by Chilton, a minor publishing house known primarily for auto repair manuals. Although the book was not an instant bestseller, it won the 1965 Nebula Award for Best Novel and shared the 1966 Hugo Award. Dune has sold 12 million copies and counting, more than any other science fiction novel in history.
"One of [the] most celebrated works of modern SF." (Barron 199)
Frank Herbert. Dune. Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company [Science Fiction Book Club], [n.d., circa 1965].
Book club edition. Inscribed on the title page: "For Dan / Frank Herbert." Herbert has also playfully crossed out his printed name on the page. Octavo. 507 pages.
Publisher's red boards with silver stamping. Toning to front endpapers. Dust jacket has an internal mend on the lower, rear corner that has caused a small tape shadow. A near fine copy.
Book club edition. Inscribed on the title page: "For Dan / Frank Herbert." Herbert has also playfully crossed out his printed name on the page. Octavo. 507 pages.
Publisher's red boards with silver stamping. Toning to front endpapers. Dust jacket has an internal mend on the lower, rear corner that has caused a small tape shadow. A near fine copy.
Frank Herbert. Dune. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1966.
First UK edition. A bookplate signed "Frank Herbert" affixed to the front free endpaper. Large octavo. 430 pages.
Publisher's full black cloth with gilt spine titles. In original black-and-white dust jacket. Minimal shelf wear to the boards. One small bump to spine tail. Some light rubbing to the spine head. Dust-soiling to the textblock edges. Internal contents bright and clean. Minor edge wear to the dust jacket, with minimal paper loss at the corners and spine ends. The glaze on the dust jacket lifting along the spine folds, especially the rear fold. Overall, a very good copy with a boldly signed Frank Herbert bookplate.
First UK edition. A bookplate signed "Frank Herbert" affixed to the front free endpaper. Large octavo. 430 pages.
Publisher's full black cloth with gilt spine titles. In original black-and-white dust jacket. Minimal shelf wear to the boards. One small bump to spine tail. Some light rubbing to the spine head. Dust-soiling to the textblock edges. Internal contents bright and clean. Minor edge wear to the dust jacket, with minimal paper loss at the corners and spine ends. The glaze on the dust jacket lifting along the spine folds, especially the rear fold. Overall, a very good copy with a boldly signed Frank Herbert bookplate.
Victor Hugo. The Works. Boston: Dana, Estes & Company, [n.d., circa 1892].
Edition Magnifique. Letter B of 26 limited edition numbered copies. 30 octavo volumes.
Custom full blue-green crushed morocco by the Adams Bindery. Boards have gilt art nouveau borders with cornerpieces representing butterflies, spines with two raised bands flanking an elongated central compartment with intricate ornamental gilt decoration. Doublures of burgundy morocco with large onlaid irises in blue with gilt borders composed of intricate gilt stems, leaves, and geometrical shapes. Front endpapers of watered silk, leather hinges, top edge gilt with other edges uncut. Plates in two states. The color of spines varies somewhat and bottom board edges show modest shelf wear. A luxury edition in a fabulous binding. The set is in near fine condition.
This beautiful 30-volume set of Hugo's greatest works includes Les Miserables in 5 volumes and Notre-Dame de Paris in 2 volumes, among numerous others. A lovely binding of a very scarce set seldom offered complete and intact.
Edition Magnifique. Letter B of 26 limited edition numbered copies. 30 octavo volumes.
Custom full blue-green crushed morocco by the Adams Bindery. Boards have gilt art nouveau borders with cornerpieces representing butterflies, spines with two raised bands flanking an elongated central compartment with intricate ornamental gilt decoration. Doublures of burgundy morocco with large onlaid irises in blue with gilt borders composed of intricate gilt stems, leaves, and geometrical shapes. Front endpapers of watered silk, leather hinges, top edge gilt with other edges uncut. Plates in two states. The color of spines varies somewhat and bottom board edges show modest shelf wear. A luxury edition in a fabulous binding. The set is in near fine condition.
This beautiful 30-volume set of Hugo's greatest works includes Les Miserables in 5 volumes and Notre-Dame de Paris in 2 volumes, among numerous others. A lovely binding of a very scarce set seldom offered complete and intact.
John Irving. Setting Free the Bears. New York: Random House, [1968].
First edition. Octavo. 335 pages.
Publisher's quarter red cloth with red paper boards and gold stamping. Modestly rubbed on the spine ends. Dust jacket has very light edge wear and minor edge toning. A near fine copy of the author's first book, in a custom chemise and slipcase.
First edition. Octavo. 335 pages.
Publisher's quarter red cloth with red paper boards and gold stamping. Modestly rubbed on the spine ends. Dust jacket has very light edge wear and minor edge toning. A near fine copy of the author's first book, in a custom chemise and slipcase.
Samuel Johnson. A Dictionary of the English Language: in Which the Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers, to which are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar. London: Printed by W. Strahan, 1755.
First edition. Two large folio volumes. Unpaginated. Text in double columns. Title pages printed in red and black. Decorative woodcut tailpieces.
Contemporary calf, rebacked to style at an early date. Raised bands. Gilt-stamped design to spines. Leather title labels with gilt lettering. Joints in volume one starting but firm. Some light abrasions and crazing to boards. Slight bumping to the extremities. Affixed to the front pastedowns are armorial bookplates: "The Armorial Bearing of the House of Abercairny." In modern custom boxes. Overall, a handsome, near fine copy.
First edition. Two large folio volumes. Unpaginated. Text in double columns. Title pages printed in red and black. Decorative woodcut tailpieces.
Contemporary calf, rebacked to style at an early date. Raised bands. Gilt-stamped design to spines. Leather title labels with gilt lettering. Joints in volume one starting but firm. Some light abrasions and crazing to boards. Slight bumping to the extremities. Affixed to the front pastedowns are armorial bookplates: "The Armorial Bearing of the House of Abercairny." In modern custom boxes. Overall, a handsome, near fine copy.
Ben Jonson. The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. London: Printed by William Stansby, 1616.
First edition, small-paper issue, third state of title page. (9.85 x 6.75 inches). [10], 1015, [1, blank] pages. Bound without the rare initial blank leaf. Engraved allegorical title by William Hole. Decorative woodcut head-pieces and initials.
An attractive full crushed red morocco presentation binding by Lloyd of London (stamp-signed on the front turn-in), with a red morocco panel inlaid to the front pastedown endpaper and stamped in gilt: "Presented to / Hon. John W. Davis / Ambassador / of the United States / to the / Court of St. James' / by / The American / Luncheon Club in London / 1920." Covers bordered with decorative gilt tooling and corner devices, spine tooled and lettered in compartments with five raised bands, board edges ruled in gilt, gilt turn ins, all edges gilt. Expertly rebacked, with the original spine laid down. Front joint just starting at the head of the spine. Corners bumped and lightly worn, a few minor scuffs and bruises. Engraved title remargined at the edges just barely touching the engraving. Repaired tear to sss4. A bit of occasional light foxing and browning, a few small stains, but overall an exceptionally bright copy in very good condition. Former copy of the American Ambassador to the United Kingdom under Woodrow Wilson, John W. Davis. Later owned by British film actor Claude Rains, with two of his bookplates.
Greg III, pp. 1070-1082. Grolier, 100 English, 17. Pforzheimer 559. STC 14751.
First edition, small-paper issue, third state of title page. (9.85 x 6.75 inches). [10], 1015, [1, blank] pages. Bound without the rare initial blank leaf. Engraved allegorical title by William Hole. Decorative woodcut head-pieces and initials.
An attractive full crushed red morocco presentation binding by Lloyd of London (stamp-signed on the front turn-in), with a red morocco panel inlaid to the front pastedown endpaper and stamped in gilt: "Presented to / Hon. John W. Davis / Ambassador / of the United States / to the / Court of St. James' / by / The American / Luncheon Club in London / 1920." Covers bordered with decorative gilt tooling and corner devices, spine tooled and lettered in compartments with five raised bands, board edges ruled in gilt, gilt turn ins, all edges gilt. Expertly rebacked, with the original spine laid down. Front joint just starting at the head of the spine. Corners bumped and lightly worn, a few minor scuffs and bruises. Engraved title remargined at the edges just barely touching the engraving. Repaired tear to sss4. A bit of occasional light foxing and browning, a few small stains, but overall an exceptionally bright copy in very good condition. Former copy of the American Ambassador to the United Kingdom under Woodrow Wilson, John W. Davis. Later owned by British film actor Claude Rains, with two of his bookplates.
Greg III, pp. 1070-1082. Grolier, 100 English, 17. Pforzheimer 559. STC 14751.
James Joyce. Henri Matisse, [illustrator]. Ulysses - Signed by both James Joyce and Henri Matisse. With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations by Henri Matisse. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935.
The first illustrated edition of Ulysses, and number 21 of only 250 copies signed by both Joyce and Matisse (the remainder of the total edition of 1,500 numbered copies were signed by Matisse only). Quarto. 363 pages. Twenty-six plates, consisting of six soft-ground etchings, printed by hand, and twenty lithographic drawings, made as studies for the etchings, printed on thin colored papers.
Original brown buckram embossed in gold on front cover and spine from a design by LeRoy H. Appleton. Top edge sprinkled brown, others uncut. Bookplate. Minimal light rubbing to binding, spine slightly dulled, else an absolutely fine copy, with the gilt on the front cover medallion especially bright. In the publisher's cardboard slipcase with light soiling and wear.
"One of the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II. According to George Macy, who undertook this only American publication of Matisse's illustrations, he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for five thousand dollars. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer's Odyssey. The preparatory drawings reproduced with the soft-ground etchings (Matisse's only use of this medium) record the evolution of the figures from vigorous sketches to closely knit, if less spontaneous, compositions." (The Artist and the Book).
The Artist & the Book 197. LEC bibliography 71. Slocum and Cahoon A22.
The first illustrated edition of Ulysses, and number 21 of only 250 copies signed by both Joyce and Matisse (the remainder of the total edition of 1,500 numbered copies were signed by Matisse only). Quarto. 363 pages. Twenty-six plates, consisting of six soft-ground etchings, printed by hand, and twenty lithographic drawings, made as studies for the etchings, printed on thin colored papers.
Original brown buckram embossed in gold on front cover and spine from a design by LeRoy H. Appleton. Top edge sprinkled brown, others uncut. Bookplate. Minimal light rubbing to binding, spine slightly dulled, else an absolutely fine copy, with the gilt on the front cover medallion especially bright. In the publisher's cardboard slipcase with light soiling and wear.
"One of the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II. According to George Macy, who undertook this only American publication of Matisse's illustrations, he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for five thousand dollars. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer's Odyssey. The preparatory drawings reproduced with the soft-ground etchings (Matisse's only use of this medium) record the evolution of the figures from vigorous sketches to closely knit, if less spontaneous, compositions." (The Artist and the Book).
The Artist & the Book 197. LEC bibliography 71. Slocum and Cahoon A22.
James Joyce. Henri Matisse, [illustrator]. Ulysses. With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations by Henri Matisse. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935.
The first illustrated edition of Ulysses, and number 271 of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the artist, Henri Matisse. Quarto. 363 pages. Twenty-six plates, consisting of six soft-ground etchings, printed by hand, and twenty lithographic drawings, made as studies for the etchings, printed on thin colored papers.
Original brown buckram embossed in gold on front cover and spine from a design by LeRoy H. Appleton. Top edge sprinkled brown, others uncut. Bookplate on front pastedown, along with the previous owner's small private library shelf sticker. The Same previous owner's ink initials dated "Hollywood, Cal, 1937" to the top fore-edge corners of both pastedown endpapers, and an additional private library ink stamp to the rear pastedown endpaper. Spine only very slightly dulled and rubbed, with a couple minuscule abrasions, else an absolutely fine copy, with the gilt stamping on the front cover medallion especially bright. In the publisher's printed cardboard slipcase with light soiling and wear around the edges.
The Artist & the Book 197. LEC bibliography 71. Slocum and Cahoon A22.
The first illustrated edition of Ulysses, and number 271 of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the artist, Henri Matisse. Quarto. 363 pages. Twenty-six plates, consisting of six soft-ground etchings, printed by hand, and twenty lithographic drawings, made as studies for the etchings, printed on thin colored papers.
Original brown buckram embossed in gold on front cover and spine from a design by LeRoy H. Appleton. Top edge sprinkled brown, others uncut. Bookplate on front pastedown, along with the previous owner's small private library shelf sticker. The Same previous owner's ink initials dated "Hollywood, Cal, 1937" to the top fore-edge corners of both pastedown endpapers, and an additional private library ink stamp to the rear pastedown endpaper. Spine only very slightly dulled and rubbed, with a couple minuscule abrasions, else an absolutely fine copy, with the gilt stamping on the front cover medallion especially bright. In the publisher's printed cardboard slipcase with light soiling and wear around the edges.
The Artist & the Book 197. LEC bibliography 71. Slocum and Cahoon A22.
[King James]. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New. Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesties Speciall Commandement. London: Robert Barker, 1611-1613.
Second folio edition of the King James Bible (15.125 x 10 inches), also known as the "Great She Bible." Text in double columns within woodcut rules. Calendar and almanac printed in red and black. Woodcut title border. Genealogical tables with woodcut borders and incorporating woodcut illustrations, including Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, and other biblical subjects. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative and historiated woodcut initials.
Bound in later full leather. Decorative tooling to boards. Rebacked. Raised bands. Leather title label to spine with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers. Hinges reinforced with cloth tape. Bookplate and bibliographical reference clipping affixed to front pastedown. Inventory sticker on flyleaf. Early facsimile title page tipped-in. Paper restoration to the fore-edges of the first twelve leaves (paper loss affecting some of the marginal notations, but none of the text is affected). Nineteen leaves at the end of the New Testament have also been restored. Several leaves scattered throughout the later books also have signs of restoration. A couple of leaves have dampstaining. Lacks both original woodcut title and map. An exceptionally fresh and clean copy of this monumental work in very good condition.
"Fry's 'first edition, second issue, without reprints,' of King James' Bible. Others more correctly style it the 'second folio edition, 1613, 11,' inasmuch as it deserves to be reckoned a distinct edition.... The general title is usually dated 1613, though the NT title bears the date 1611" (Herbert). Commonly known as the "Great She Bible," for the more correct reading "she went into the citie" in Ruth 3:15, and also for the remarkable error in Matthew 26:36 (where "Judas" appears for "Jesus." Sometimes a correction slip is pasted over the mistake, but in the present copy it is corrected in an early hand).
"The King James Bible, or the Authorized Version, as it is now commonly (but not strictly accurately) known, was the outcome of the conference summoned at Hampton Court by the King in January 1604, in an attempt to settle the quarrels in the Church of England, arising from the Puritan zeal of some of its members. It was the leader of the Puritan party, John Reynolds, the President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, who first suggested the idea of a new translation.... It has been described as 'the only literary masterpiece ever to have been produced by a committee' and was the work of nearly fifty translators, organized in six groups.... Being based on a wider range of classical and oriental scholarship than its predecessors, the Authorized Version was a more learned text... No new English translation was produced until the Revised Version of 1881, and the influence of the Authorized Version may best be described in the words of G.M. Trevelyan. 'For every Englishman who had read Sidney or Spenser, or had seen Shakespeare acted at the Globe, there were hundreds who had read or heard the Bible with close attention as the words of God. The effect of the continual domestic study of the book upon the national character, imagination and intelligence for nearly three centuries to come, was greater than that of any literary movement in our annals, or any religious movement since the coming of St Augustine'" (Printing and the Mind of Man 114, describing the 1611 first edition).
Herbert 319. STC 2224.
Second folio edition of the King James Bible (15.125 x 10 inches), also known as the "Great She Bible." Text in double columns within woodcut rules. Calendar and almanac printed in red and black. Woodcut title border. Genealogical tables with woodcut borders and incorporating woodcut illustrations, including Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, the Tower of Babel, and other biblical subjects. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative and historiated woodcut initials.
Bound in later full leather. Decorative tooling to boards. Rebacked. Raised bands. Leather title label to spine with gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers. Hinges reinforced with cloth tape. Bookplate and bibliographical reference clipping affixed to front pastedown. Inventory sticker on flyleaf. Early facsimile title page tipped-in. Paper restoration to the fore-edges of the first twelve leaves (paper loss affecting some of the marginal notations, but none of the text is affected). Nineteen leaves at the end of the New Testament have also been restored. Several leaves scattered throughout the later books also have signs of restoration. A couple of leaves have dampstaining. Lacks both original woodcut title and map. An exceptionally fresh and clean copy of this monumental work in very good condition.
"Fry's 'first edition, second issue, without reprints,' of King James' Bible. Others more correctly style it the 'second folio edition, 1613, 11,' inasmuch as it deserves to be reckoned a distinct edition.... The general title is usually dated 1613, though the NT title bears the date 1611" (Herbert). Commonly known as the "Great She Bible," for the more correct reading "she went into the citie" in Ruth 3:15, and also for the remarkable error in Matthew 26:36 (where "Judas" appears for "Jesus." Sometimes a correction slip is pasted over the mistake, but in the present copy it is corrected in an early hand).
"The King James Bible, or the Authorized Version, as it is now commonly (but not strictly accurately) known, was the outcome of the conference summoned at Hampton Court by the King in January 1604, in an attempt to settle the quarrels in the Church of England, arising from the Puritan zeal of some of its members. It was the leader of the Puritan party, John Reynolds, the President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, who first suggested the idea of a new translation.... It has been described as 'the only literary masterpiece ever to have been produced by a committee' and was the work of nearly fifty translators, organized in six groups.... Being based on a wider range of classical and oriental scholarship than its predecessors, the Authorized Version was a more learned text... No new English translation was produced until the Revised Version of 1881, and the influence of the Authorized Version may best be described in the words of G.M. Trevelyan. 'For every Englishman who had read Sidney or Spenser, or had seen Shakespeare acted at the Globe, there were hundreds who had read or heard the Bible with close attention as the words of God. The effect of the continual domestic study of the book upon the national character, imagination and intelligence for nearly three centuries to come, was greater than that of any literary movement in our annals, or any religious movement since the coming of St Augustine'" (Printing and the Mind of Man 114, describing the 1611 first edition).
Herbert 319. STC 2224.
Stephen King. 'Salem's Lot. Wheat Ridge, Colorado: Centipede Press with permission from Doubleday, 2004.
One of two beautifully bound copies of the Centipede Press edition from unsewn signatures provided by the publisher, with a special limitation page bound in back signed by King, Uelsmann, and the four gentlemen responsible for the fine binding: Forrest Jackson, Jim Croft, David John Lawrence, and Stuart Brockman. Folio (9" x 13.5"). 555 pages plus binder's inserted limitation page (unique to the two copies thus bound) and original Centipede Press copyright page. Illustrated with black and white photographs by Jerry N. Uelsmann.
Gorgeously bound in rich, thick black goatskin leather by Forrest Jackson in the Gothic style of the mid-15th century. Spine lettered in gilt with four raised bands. Hand-fashioned brass fore-edge clasps. Special black floral silk endpapers, with the cloth on the doublures bordered in red and black leather. Leather inner hinges. Blind-tooled dentelles. Silk headbands designed to resemble bloody fangs at the spine head. Housed in a custom red cloth clamshell case with a black leather spine title plate lettered in gilt. A truly stunning example of the book arts, in this case specially applied to the King of Horror's masterful second novel. Nearly invisible abrasion to leather in a few spots, and the rear endpaper is slightly wrinkled at the gutter, otherwise the book and case are in exceptionally fine condition.
The Centipede Press edition of 'Salem's Lot contains not only the original novel, but two short stories related to the novel, "One for the Road" and "Jerusalem's Lot," plus 50 pages of "deleted scenes," initial draft passages edited from the original published novel.
"Every novel is to some extent an inadvertent psychological portrait of the novelist, and I think that the unspeakable obscenity in 'Salem's Lot has to do with my own disillusionment and consequent fear for the future. The secret room in 'Salem's Lot is paranoia, the prevailing spirit of those years [early 1970s]. It is a book about vampires, it is also a book about all those silent houses, all those drawn shades, all the people who are no longer what they seem. In a way, it is more closely related to Invasion of the Body Snatchers than it is to Dracula." (Stephen King, "The Fright Report", Oui Magazine, January 1980, p. 108)
One of two beautifully bound copies of the Centipede Press edition from unsewn signatures provided by the publisher, with a special limitation page bound in back signed by King, Uelsmann, and the four gentlemen responsible for the fine binding: Forrest Jackson, Jim Croft, David John Lawrence, and Stuart Brockman. Folio (9" x 13.5"). 555 pages plus binder's inserted limitation page (unique to the two copies thus bound) and original Centipede Press copyright page. Illustrated with black and white photographs by Jerry N. Uelsmann.
Gorgeously bound in rich, thick black goatskin leather by Forrest Jackson in the Gothic style of the mid-15th century. Spine lettered in gilt with four raised bands. Hand-fashioned brass fore-edge clasps. Special black floral silk endpapers, with the cloth on the doublures bordered in red and black leather. Leather inner hinges. Blind-tooled dentelles. Silk headbands designed to resemble bloody fangs at the spine head. Housed in a custom red cloth clamshell case with a black leather spine title plate lettered in gilt. A truly stunning example of the book arts, in this case specially applied to the King of Horror's masterful second novel. Nearly invisible abrasion to leather in a few spots, and the rear endpaper is slightly wrinkled at the gutter, otherwise the book and case are in exceptionally fine condition.
The Centipede Press edition of 'Salem's Lot contains not only the original novel, but two short stories related to the novel, "One for the Road" and "Jerusalem's Lot," plus 50 pages of "deleted scenes," initial draft passages edited from the original published novel.
"Every novel is to some extent an inadvertent psychological portrait of the novelist, and I think that the unspeakable obscenity in 'Salem's Lot has to do with my own disillusionment and consequent fear for the future. The secret room in 'Salem's Lot is paranoia, the prevailing spirit of those years [early 1970s]. It is a book about vampires, it is also a book about all those silent houses, all those drawn shades, all the people who are no longer what they seem. In a way, it is more closely related to Invasion of the Body Snatchers than it is to Dracula." (Stephen King, "The Fright Report", Oui Magazine, January 1980, p. 108)
Stephen King. The Shining. Garden City: Doubleday, 1977.
First edition (code "R49" in the gutter on page 447). Octavo. 447 pages.
Publisher's quarter black cloth with tan paper boards and gilt spine titles. Lightly rubbed on corners and spine ends. Dust jacket has mild toning to edges and spine with minor wear to spine ends and corners. A very good copy.
King's third novel and basis for the Stanley Kubrick film.
First edition (code "R49" in the gutter on page 447). Octavo. 447 pages.
Publisher's quarter black cloth with tan paper boards and gilt spine titles. Lightly rubbed on corners and spine ends. Dust jacket has mild toning to edges and spine with minor wear to spine ends and corners. A very good copy.
King's third novel and basis for the Stanley Kubrick film.
[Stanley Kubrick]. Three Books That Inspired Kubrick Films, One Signed, including: Humphrey Cobb. Paths of Glory. New York: Viking Press, 1935. First edition. Bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy in an edge worn dust jacket. [and:] Howard Fast. Spartacus. New York: Published by the Author, [1951]. First edition. Signed by Fast on the front free endpaper. Book is mildly toned with a slight spine lean. Dust jacket is darkened along the spine with some chipping to spine ends. [and:] Gustav Hasford. The Short-Timers. New York: Harper & Row, [1979]. First edition. A fine copy in dust jacket.
[Stanley Kubrick]. Three Books That Inspired Kubrick Films, including: Peter Bryant. Red Alert. New York: Ace Books, [1958]. First edition, D-350. A crisp fine copy of this paperback original with white pages. Basis for Doctor Strangelove. [and:] Arthur C. Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey. [New York]: New American Library, [1968]. First edition. A very good copy with a slight spine lean and modest edge wear to the dust jacket. [and:] Arthur C. Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey. London: Hutchinson, [1968]. First UK edition. Fine in dust jacket.
Diogenes Laertius. The Lives, Opinions, and Remarkable Sayings of the Most Famous Ancient Philosophers. London: Printed for Richard Brewer (Vol. I) & Printed for R. Bentley (Vol. II), 1688 & 1696, 1696.
First edition in English. Two octavo volumes; the first being 7 1/8 x 4 7/16 inches and the second being 7 1/2 x 4 9/16 inches (the difference in size is accounted for by the span of years between publication dates and the different publishers for each volume). [16], 581, [1]; [4], 460 pages.
Uniformly bound in contemporary speckled calf, spines with four raised bands and simple red morocco gilt lettering labels. Edges sprinkled red. Some minor wear to spine extremities and tips, upper front joint of Vol. II with a two inch split (boards remain firmly attached) and split up the lower spine of first volume (predominantly cosmetic). Each volume with a contemporary manuscript label tipped on to the fore-edge (a flap in essence). A very good copy, clean and in untouched contemporary bindings.
First edition in English. Two octavo volumes; the first being 7 1/8 x 4 7/16 inches and the second being 7 1/2 x 4 9/16 inches (the difference in size is accounted for by the span of years between publication dates and the different publishers for each volume). [16], 581, [1]; [4], 460 pages.
Uniformly bound in contemporary speckled calf, spines with four raised bands and simple red morocco gilt lettering labels. Edges sprinkled red. Some minor wear to spine extremities and tips, upper front joint of Vol. II with a two inch split (boards remain firmly attached) and split up the lower spine of first volume (predominantly cosmetic). Each volume with a contemporary manuscript label tipped on to the fore-edge (a flap in essence). A very good copy, clean and in untouched contemporary bindings.
Jean de La Fontaine. Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon, par J. de La Fontaine. Paris: Libraire De l'Imprimerie de P. Fr. Didot Jeune, 1791.
First edition. Large quarto. 163, [1, blank], [1, ad for the 1792 edition of Milton's Le Paradis Perdu], [1, blank] pages. Complete with all four color-printed stipple engravings by Madame de Mouchy, C. Bonnefoy, and N. Colibert, after M. Schall; all before numbers (first state).
Contemporary French tree calf, covers with multiple gilt borders, smooth spine with thick decorative gilt rules between which are gilt arabesques, red morocco gilt lettering label, gilt board edges and turn-ins. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Bit of minor professional restoration to head of spine. A lovely copy, clean and with no offsetting, finely bound and with vivid plates.
First edition. Large quarto. 163, [1, blank], [1, ad for the 1792 edition of Milton's Le Paradis Perdu], [1, blank] pages. Complete with all four color-printed stipple engravings by Madame de Mouchy, C. Bonnefoy, and N. Colibert, after M. Schall; all before numbers (first state).
Contemporary French tree calf, covers with multiple gilt borders, smooth spine with thick decorative gilt rules between which are gilt arabesques, red morocco gilt lettering label, gilt board edges and turn-ins. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Bit of minor professional restoration to head of spine. A lovely copy, clean and with no offsetting, finely bound and with vivid plates.
Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1960].
First edition, in the first issue dust jacket. Octavo. 296 pages.
Publisher's light green cloth back over rust paper boards, lettered in a darker green on the spine. First issue dust jacket with Capote blurb in green on the front flap, the Jonathan Daniels blurb on the rear flap and the Capote portrait of Harper Lee on the rear panel. Book has light wear and fading around the edges with modest soiling on the top page edge. The jacket has minor rubbing around the edges. A few small chips and slight short tears at the spine ends and corners. A very good copy, better than is typically encountered with this title.
An important and scarce book, of which only 5,000 copies were printed. This is Harper Lee's only novel, which won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
First edition, in the first issue dust jacket. Octavo. 296 pages.
Publisher's light green cloth back over rust paper boards, lettered in a darker green on the spine. First issue dust jacket with Capote blurb in green on the front flap, the Jonathan Daniels blurb on the rear flap and the Capote portrait of Harper Lee on the rear panel. Book has light wear and fading around the edges with modest soiling on the top page edge. The jacket has minor rubbing around the edges. A few small chips and slight short tears at the spine ends and corners. A very good copy, better than is typically encountered with this title.
An important and scarce book, of which only 5,000 copies were printed. This is Harper Lee's only novel, which won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
H. P. Lovecraft. The Outsider and Others. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1939.
First edition of 1,200 copies. Signed by Virgil Finlay, illustrator of the dust jacket, on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 553 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine titles. Lightly bumped on the upper corner with toning to the endpapers. Light soiling and edge wear to the dust jacket. Inner flaps have glue residue and some loss of material. A very good copy.
First edition of 1,200 copies. Signed by Virgil Finlay, illustrator of the dust jacket, on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 553 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine titles. Lightly bumped on the upper corner with toning to the endpapers. Light soiling and edge wear to the dust jacket. Inner flaps have glue residue and some loss of material. A very good copy.
Bernard Malamud. The Natural. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo. 237, [3, blank] pages.
Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Corners very slightly bumped. Tiny ink (?) spot on pages 33/34, just touching two letters. A near fine copy of this great baseball novel. In the original color pictorial dust jacket with minor edge wear.
"A comic treatment of baseball in terms of a mythic view of the American hero" (The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature, McCue, pages 66-67).
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo. 237, [3, blank] pages.
Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Corners very slightly bumped. Tiny ink (?) spot on pages 33/34, just touching two letters. A near fine copy of this great baseball novel. In the original color pictorial dust jacket with minor edge wear.
"A comic treatment of baseball in terms of a mythic view of the American hero" (The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature, McCue, pages 66-67).
W. Somerset Maugham. Ashenden. London: Heinemann, 1928.
First edition. Octavo. 304 pages.
Publisher's blue cloth with gilt and black stamping. A bright, crisp copy with light wear to spine ends. Faint shadows on the front and rear pastedowns, likely from a now-discarded jacket protector. The full color dust jacket - a wonderful example of Art Deco design - is in near fine condition with evidence of touch-up restoration along the edges and spine ends. Ironically, it appears the jacket was originally damaged by the very protector designed to protect it. Quality restoration has saved this beautiful scarce dust jacket from further deterioration. Overall, a near fine copy, housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box by Heritage Bindery.
Based on Maugham's own experiences with British Intelligence in World War I, Ashenden later became required reading for those entering the British Intelligence Service. At the beginning of World War II, Hitler's minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, referred to Ashenden as an example of British cynicism and brutality. Not all of the stories made it to print, however; when Winston Churchill read the manuscript, he informed Maugham that some of the stories violated the Official Secrets Act, and Maugham was directed to destroy them. Ashenden, based as it was on real-life experiences rather than those created in a writer's imagination, greatly influenced writers of the genre, particularly Maugham's friend Ian Fleming. Difficult to find in such beautiful condition, this cornerstone of modern espionage fiction is one of the most collected and collectible of Maugham's books.
Stott A37a. Morgan, p. 205. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
First edition. Octavo. 304 pages.
Publisher's blue cloth with gilt and black stamping. A bright, crisp copy with light wear to spine ends. Faint shadows on the front and rear pastedowns, likely from a now-discarded jacket protector. The full color dust jacket - a wonderful example of Art Deco design - is in near fine condition with evidence of touch-up restoration along the edges and spine ends. Ironically, it appears the jacket was originally damaged by the very protector designed to protect it. Quality restoration has saved this beautiful scarce dust jacket from further deterioration. Overall, a near fine copy, housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box by Heritage Bindery.
Based on Maugham's own experiences with British Intelligence in World War I, Ashenden later became required reading for those entering the British Intelligence Service. At the beginning of World War II, Hitler's minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, referred to Ashenden as an example of British cynicism and brutality. Not all of the stories made it to print, however; when Winston Churchill read the manuscript, he informed Maugham that some of the stories violated the Official Secrets Act, and Maugham was directed to destroy them. Ashenden, based as it was on real-life experiences rather than those created in a writer's imagination, greatly influenced writers of the genre, particularly Maugham's friend Ian Fleming. Difficult to find in such beautiful condition, this cornerstone of modern espionage fiction is one of the most collected and collectible of Maugham's books.
Stott A37a. Morgan, p. 205. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
W. Somerset Maugham. Of Human Bondage. New York: George H. Doran, [1915].
First edition, first issue. Octavo. 648 pages.
Publisher's green cloth with gilt stamping on the spine and front board. Misprint on page 257, line 4. Cloth is lightly rubbed and edgeworn with a few small spots of soiling. Light foxing to front endpapers. A tight copy in very good condition, without the dust jacket.
In his biography of Maugham, Ted Morgan writes: "Maugham's most autobiographical novel. Philip Carey, the main character, suffers through many incidents taken directly from the author's own life: the loss of his mother, the breakup of his home, the years at the vicarage, the wretchedness of his school years, the stammer transposed into a clubfoot, the happy time in Heidelberg, the year in Paris, and medical school."
"It is not an autobiography," Maugham wrote, "but an autobiographical novel; fact and fiction are inextricably mingled; the emotions are my own but not all the incidents are related as they happened and some of them are transferred to my hero not from my own life but from that of persons with whom I was intimate."
Stott, A21a. Morgan, p. 194. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
First edition, first issue. Octavo. 648 pages.
Publisher's green cloth with gilt stamping on the spine and front board. Misprint on page 257, line 4. Cloth is lightly rubbed and edgeworn with a few small spots of soiling. Light foxing to front endpapers. A tight copy in very good condition, without the dust jacket.
In his biography of Maugham, Ted Morgan writes: "Maugham's most autobiographical novel. Philip Carey, the main character, suffers through many incidents taken directly from the author's own life: the loss of his mother, the breakup of his home, the years at the vicarage, the wretchedness of his school years, the stammer transposed into a clubfoot, the happy time in Heidelberg, the year in Paris, and medical school."
"It is not an autobiography," Maugham wrote, "but an autobiographical novel; fact and fiction are inextricably mingled; the emotions are my own but not all the incidents are related as they happened and some of them are transferred to my hero not from my own life but from that of persons with whom I was intimate."
Stott, A21a. Morgan, p. 194. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
W. Somerset Maugham. Jack Straw: A Farce in Three Acts. London: Heinemann, 1912.
First edition. Inscribed on the title page to noted book collector Norman Unger: "For / Norman Unger / W. Somerset Maugham." Octavo. 156 pages.
Publisher's red buckram with black stamping. Very lightly foxed on endpapers. A near fine copy.
Jack Straw was one of four plays Maugham had running simultaneously in London during the 1908 theatre season. His popularity at the time was overwhelming, and his name was impossible to avoid, appearing as it did everywhere, from newspapers and magazines to billboards and buses. "Have you seen Somerset Maugham's quartet?" was the question of the season. Punch lampooned Maugham's tremendous and ubiquitous popularity in a Bernard Partridge cartoon in which Shakespeare is shown worriedly biting his nails in front of advertisements for Maugham's four plays.
Stott A13. Morgan, p. 144. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
First edition. Inscribed on the title page to noted book collector Norman Unger: "For / Norman Unger / W. Somerset Maugham." Octavo. 156 pages.
Publisher's red buckram with black stamping. Very lightly foxed on endpapers. A near fine copy.
Jack Straw was one of four plays Maugham had running simultaneously in London during the 1908 theatre season. His popularity at the time was overwhelming, and his name was impossible to avoid, appearing as it did everywhere, from newspapers and magazines to billboards and buses. "Have you seen Somerset Maugham's quartet?" was the question of the season. Punch lampooned Maugham's tremendous and ubiquitous popularity in a Bernard Partridge cartoon in which Shakespeare is shown worriedly biting his nails in front of advertisements for Maugham's four plays.
Stott A13. Morgan, p. 144. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
W. Somerset Maugham. A Man of Honour: A Play in Four Acts. London: Chapman and Hall, 1903.
First separate issue. 150 issued. 50 pages.
Publisher's cream wrappers printed in black with a sewn binding. Some minor foxing to wrappers and page edges. One-inch split to bottom edge of spine. Soiling to pages 44 and 45. A very good copy of this delicate item.
Printed at Maugham's request by the editor of The Fortnightly Review to be sold as a souvenir on the first night of the play (Sunday, February 22, 1903). Very few were sold, and the rest were discovered shortly before the First World War in the offices of the publishers and given to Maugham. Maugham gave some as gifts and sold some through London bookseller Fred Bason; the rest were supposedly lost when Maugham's London flat was bombed during the war. In his preface to Fred Bason's bibliography of 1931, Maugham wrote: "But there is another little book of mine which must be scarcer still [than the first edition of Liza of Lambeth]. It is the paper-bound edition of A Man of Honour, which was issued by Messrs. Chapman and Hall. This was a play published in The Fortnightly Review by the late W. L. Courtney, who thought well of it, and at my urgent request the publishers bound up a few copies of the sheets, two hundred and fifty, I think, for sale in the theatre during the two performances which the Stage Society gave it. I am afraid the venture did not profit them, for I doubt whether fifty copies were sold, and I suppose the rest have long ago been pulped."
Stott A6a notes. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
First separate issue. 150 issued. 50 pages.
Publisher's cream wrappers printed in black with a sewn binding. Some minor foxing to wrappers and page edges. One-inch split to bottom edge of spine. Soiling to pages 44 and 45. A very good copy of this delicate item.
Printed at Maugham's request by the editor of The Fortnightly Review to be sold as a souvenir on the first night of the play (Sunday, February 22, 1903). Very few were sold, and the rest were discovered shortly before the First World War in the offices of the publishers and given to Maugham. Maugham gave some as gifts and sold some through London bookseller Fred Bason; the rest were supposedly lost when Maugham's London flat was bombed during the war. In his preface to Fred Bason's bibliography of 1931, Maugham wrote: "But there is another little book of mine which must be scarcer still [than the first edition of Liza of Lambeth]. It is the paper-bound edition of A Man of Honour, which was issued by Messrs. Chapman and Hall. This was a play published in The Fortnightly Review by the late W. L. Courtney, who thought well of it, and at my urgent request the publishers bound up a few copies of the sheets, two hundred and fifty, I think, for sale in the theatre during the two performances which the Stage Society gave it. I am afraid the venture did not profit them, for I doubt whether fifty copies were sold, and I suppose the rest have long ago been pulped."
Stott A6a notes. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
W. Somerset Maugham. The Moon and Sixpence. New York: George H. Doran, [1919].
First American edition. Octavo. 314 pages.
Publisher's green cloth with black stamping. Water spotting along the outer edge of the front and rear boards and a dampstain on the lower portion of the spine. Discoloration along the bottom edge, affecting the endpapers, extending upward about one inch. Previous owner's name on front pastedown. Dust jacket is edgeworn and soiled; several small chips and tears, and a portion of the lower spine is missing. A very good copy rarely found with the jacket.
Maugham based this novel on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The book's main character, like Gauguin, is a stock broker who leaves his family to go to Tahiti to pursue his dream of becoming an artist. In 1919 the artist-as-outcast was in vogue amongst literary audiences recovering from the First World War. With readers still unsure of the world around them, the time was ripe for Maugham's antisocial hero who not only goes his own way, but goes his own way in the far-flung setting of Tahiti, a peaceful and exotic locale far removed from the oppressive European battlegrounds.
Stott A22c. Morgan, p. 239. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
First American edition. Octavo. 314 pages.
Publisher's green cloth with black stamping. Water spotting along the outer edge of the front and rear boards and a dampstain on the lower portion of the spine. Discoloration along the bottom edge, affecting the endpapers, extending upward about one inch. Previous owner's name on front pastedown. Dust jacket is edgeworn and soiled; several small chips and tears, and a portion of the lower spine is missing. A very good copy rarely found with the jacket.
Maugham based this novel on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The book's main character, like Gauguin, is a stock broker who leaves his family to go to Tahiti to pursue his dream of becoming an artist. In 1919 the artist-as-outcast was in vogue amongst literary audiences recovering from the First World War. With readers still unsure of the world around them, the time was ripe for Maugham's antisocial hero who not only goes his own way, but goes his own way in the far-flung setting of Tahiti, a peaceful and exotic locale far removed from the oppressive European battlegrounds.
Stott A22c. Morgan, p. 239. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
W. Somerset Maugham. Orientations. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899.
First edition, first issue; first state binding. Octavo. 278 pages.
Publisher's dark green vertical fine-ribbed cloth with gilt spine titles. Top edge gilt; top edge is cut with remaining edges rough. Cloth is rubbed and lightly edgeworn, with some soiling to boards. Slight lean to spine. Foxing to endpapers. Hinges tender with front hinge splitting about one inch at top and bottom. Dampstain on bottom edge of front pastedown also affects the first few pages. Overall, a very good copy, without the dust jacket.
Orientations was Maugham's first collection of short stories. The book is dedicated to Mrs. Edward Johnson, wife of the British vice-consul to Spain, E. F. Johnson. After the success of Liza, Maugham traveled to Seville to write. There he stayed as a guest of the Johnsons at their villa. While in Spain, he wrote four of the stories included in this book. Maugham commented that the stories "A Bad Example" and "Daisy" were "the first stories I ever wrote, I was then 18." None of these stories was ever reprinted in later Maugham collections.
Stott, A3a. Morgan, p. 702. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
First edition, first issue; first state binding. Octavo. 278 pages.
Publisher's dark green vertical fine-ribbed cloth with gilt spine titles. Top edge gilt; top edge is cut with remaining edges rough. Cloth is rubbed and lightly edgeworn, with some soiling to boards. Slight lean to spine. Foxing to endpapers. Hinges tender with front hinge splitting about one inch at top and bottom. Dampstain on bottom edge of front pastedown also affects the first few pages. Overall, a very good copy, without the dust jacket.
Orientations was Maugham's first collection of short stories. The book is dedicated to Mrs. Edward Johnson, wife of the British vice-consul to Spain, E. F. Johnson. After the success of Liza, Maugham traveled to Seville to write. There he stayed as a guest of the Johnsons at their villa. While in Spain, he wrote four of the stories included in this book. Maugham commented that the stories "A Bad Example" and "Daisy" were "the first stories I ever wrote, I was then 18." None of these stories was ever reprinted in later Maugham collections.
Stott, A3a. Morgan, p. 702. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
W. Somerset Maugham. The Razor's Edge. Garden City: Doubleday, 1944.
Number 101 of 750 limited edition copies signed by Maugham on the limitation page. Octavo. 343 pages.
Publisher's plum buckram with black leather label and gilt stamping on the spine and blind stamping on the front board. Top edge gilt. Cloth is lightly rubbed and edgeworn, with fading along the spine and top edge. Foxing to endpapers and page edges. Publisher's slipcase not present. A very good copy.
With the world at war, spiritual novels were enormously popular. This, coupled with Maugham's compelling characterizations, drove sales of The Razor's Edge to over 500,000 copies in one month. Maugham's themes of self-discovery and a quest for transcendence anticipated the popularity in the West of Eastern spiritual thought, and the novel continues to resonate with readers 65 years after its publication.
Stott A63a. Morgan, p. 483. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
Number 101 of 750 limited edition copies signed by Maugham on the limitation page. Octavo. 343 pages.
Publisher's plum buckram with black leather label and gilt stamping on the spine and blind stamping on the front board. Top edge gilt. Cloth is lightly rubbed and edgeworn, with fading along the spine and top edge. Foxing to endpapers and page edges. Publisher's slipcase not present. A very good copy.
With the world at war, spiritual novels were enormously popular. This, coupled with Maugham's compelling characterizations, drove sales of The Razor's Edge to over 500,000 copies in one month. Maugham's themes of self-discovery and a quest for transcendence anticipated the popularity in the West of Eastern spiritual thought, and the novel continues to resonate with readers 65 years after its publication.
Stott A63a. Morgan, p. 483. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
W. Somerset Maugham. Four Limited Signed Editions, including: Of Human Bondage. Garden City: Doubleday, 1936. Limited to 751 numbered copies of which this is number 480, signed by Maugham on the limitation page. [and:] Strictly Personal. Garden City: Doubleday, 1941. Limited to 515 numbered copies of which this is number 446, signed by Maugham on the limitation page. Tape residue on the front endpapers. [and:] A Writer's Notebook. Garden City: Doubleday, 1949. Limited to 1000 numbered copies of which this is number 651, signed by Maugham on the limitation page. [and:] The Summing Up. Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. Limited to 391 numbered copies of which this is number 337, signed by Maugham on the limitation page.
All volumes in publisher's buckram and in slipcases, with the exception of A Writer's Notebook, which is missing the slipcase. Four octavo volumes. The books in this lot are in very good or better condition.
Stott. A21d, A60a, A70d, A53c. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
All volumes in publisher's buckram and in slipcases, with the exception of A Writer's Notebook, which is missing the slipcase. Four octavo volumes. The books in this lot are in very good or better condition.
Stott. A21d, A60a, A70d, A53c. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
W. Somerset Maugham. Six Plays, One Signed, including: Mrs. Dot. London: Heinemann, 1912. [and:] The Tenth Man. London: Heinemann, 1913. [and:] Smith. London: Heinemann, 1913. [and:] East of Suez. London: Heinemann, 1922. [and:] Loaves and Fishes. London: Heinemann, 1924. [and:] The Bread Winner. London: Heinemann, [1930]. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For / Paul North / W. Somerset Maugham." Spotting to front and rear boards.
All books in this lot are first editions in publisher's red buckram. Six octavo volumes. All volumes in very good or better condition.
Stott A14, A17, A19, A27a, A32, A41a. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
All books in this lot are first editions in publisher's red buckram. Six octavo volumes. All volumes in very good or better condition.
Stott A14, A17, A19, A27a, A32, A41a. From the Collection of Norman F. Moore.
Guy de Maupassant. The Life Work of De Maupassant. Embracing Romance, Travel, Comedy & Verse. For the first time Complete in English. With a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an Introduction by Robert Arnot, M. A. New York: M. Walter Dunne, 1903.
Seventeen octavo volumes. The Academie Edition, limited to 750 numbered sets, this set being number 13. Illustrated with dozens of chromolithographs "from original drawings by eminent French and American artists."
Original polished half morocco over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Gilt lettering and designs to spine. Some rubbing to the bindings. Very good condition.
Seventeen octavo volumes. The Academie Edition, limited to 750 numbered sets, this set being number 13. Illustrated with dozens of chromolithographs "from original drawings by eminent French and American artists."
Original polished half morocco over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Gilt lettering and designs to spine. Some rubbing to the bindings. Very good condition.
Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West. New York: Random House, [1985].
First edition. Octavo. 337 pages.
Publisher's red quarter cloth with red paper boards and gold stamping. Minimal rubbing to the book and dust jacket, with a couple of tiny spots on the page edges. On the Epilogue page a previous owner has written "7/25/85" in ink, about one-quarter-inch in height, on the bottom of the page, probably indicating when he or she completed reading the novel. A fine copy, housed in a custom chemise and slipcase.
One of McCarthy's most acclaimed novels, Time magazine included Blood Meridian in its "TIME 100 Best English Language Novels from 1923 to 2005."
First edition. Octavo. 337 pages.
Publisher's red quarter cloth with red paper boards and gold stamping. Minimal rubbing to the book and dust jacket, with a couple of tiny spots on the page edges. On the Epilogue page a previous owner has written "7/25/85" in ink, about one-quarter-inch in height, on the bottom of the page, probably indicating when he or she completed reading the novel. A fine copy, housed in a custom chemise and slipcase.
One of McCarthy's most acclaimed novels, Time magazine included Blood Meridian in its "TIME 100 Best English Language Novels from 1923 to 2005."
Cormac McCarthy. The Border Trilogy, including: All the Pretty Horses. New York: Knopf, 1992. First edition, second issue dust jacket. [and:] The Crossing. New York: Knopf, 1994. First edition. Signed by McCarthy on the title page. [and:] Cities of the Plain. New York: Knopf, 1998. First edition. Signed by McCarthy on a special leaf tipped-in after the front free endpaper. Limited to 1,000 unnumbered copies. All the volumes in this lot are in fine condition and are housed together in a custom slipcase.
All the Pretty Horses, the National Book Award-winning novel and the first installment of the so-called Border Trilogy, was the first of McCarthy's books to finally reach a wide, mainstream audience, and its astounding critical and popular success firmly established Cormac McCarthy as one of the finest writers of our time.
All the Pretty Horses, the National Book Award-winning novel and the first installment of the so-called Border Trilogy, was the first of McCarthy's books to finally reach a wide, mainstream audience, and its astounding critical and popular success firmly established Cormac McCarthy as one of the finest writers of our time.
Cormac McCarthy. No Country For Old Men. New York: Knopf, 2005.
First edition. Signed by McCarthy on a special leaf tipped-in after the front free endpaper. Reportedly only 300 copies so issued. Octavo. 309 pages.
Publisher's cloth with the original dust jacket. Fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.
First edition. Signed by McCarthy on a special leaf tipped-in after the front free endpaper. Reportedly only 300 copies so issued. Octavo. 309 pages.
Publisher's cloth with the original dust jacket. Fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Cormac McCarthy. Suttree. New York: Random House, [1979].
First edition. Octavo. 471 pages.
Publisher's black quarter cloth with cream paper boards and gilt stamping. Lightly rubbed with mild toning to endpapers. Hinges are slightly soft from reading. Dust jacket shows light edge wear and toning with a few small tears on the spine ends. A very good copy, housed in a custom chemise and slipcase
First edition. Octavo. 471 pages.
Publisher's black quarter cloth with cream paper boards and gilt stamping. Lightly rubbed with mild toning to endpapers. Hinges are slightly soft from reading. Dust jacket shows light edge wear and toning with a few small tears on the spine ends. A very good copy, housed in a custom chemise and slipcase
Herman Melville. Omoo. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847.
First American edition (preceded by the first English edition by almost one month). Twelvemo. xv, [1, blank], [17]-389, [1, blank] pages plus "Publisher's Advertisement" for Typee ([xv]-xxiii, [1, blank] pages) and 16-page publisher's catalogue. Half-title printed in red; title-page printed in red and black. Inserted wood-engraved frontispiece map and one wood-engraved illustration in the text.
Original purple blindstamped diaper-grain cloth with gilt vignette of a ship on the front cover. Spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Housed in a quarter blue morocco clamshell case. Extremities lightly rubbed, some discoloration to cloth, spine a bit faded. A little very light foxing. Overall, a very good copy.
First American edition (preceded by the first English edition by almost one month). Twelvemo. xv, [1, blank], [17]-389, [1, blank] pages plus "Publisher's Advertisement" for Typee ([xv]-xxiii, [1, blank] pages) and 16-page publisher's catalogue. Half-title printed in red; title-page printed in red and black. Inserted wood-engraved frontispiece map and one wood-engraved illustration in the text.
Original purple blindstamped diaper-grain cloth with gilt vignette of a ship on the front cover. Spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Housed in a quarter blue morocco clamshell case. Extremities lightly rubbed, some discoloration to cloth, spine a bit faded. A little very light foxing. Overall, a very good copy.
James A. Michener. Three Books, including: The Eagle and the Raven. Austin: State House Press, [1990]. Signed by Michener and limited to 350 copies. Housed in publisher's slipcase. [and:] The Eagle and the Raven. Austin: State House Press, [1990]. First trade edition. [and:] My Lost Mexico. Austin: State House Press, 1992. Signed by Michener and limited to 350 copies. Housed in publisher's slipcase. All volumes in this lot are in near fine or better condition.
William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson, [translators]. Völsunga Saga. The Story of the Volsungs & Niblungs. London: Chiswick Press, 1901.
Quarto. xii, 112, viii, 113, [1] pages. Printed in red and black on high quality paper using Morris' Golden type, originally designed for use at the Kelmscott Press.
Contemporary full terra-cotta morocco with gilt spine lettering and raised bands with extended strapwork terminating in blind-stamped leaf clusters. All edges gilt. A very attractive volume in near fine condition.
Quarto. xii, 112, viii, 113, [1] pages. Printed in red and black on high quality paper using Morris' Golden type, originally designed for use at the Kelmscott Press.
Contemporary full terra-cotta morocco with gilt spine lettering and raised bands with extended strapwork terminating in blind-stamped leaf clusters. All edges gilt. A very attractive volume in near fine condition.
Haruki Murakami. Kafka on the Shore. London: The Harvill Press, [2005].
Number 98 of 100 limited edition copies signed by the author on a tipped-in bookplate. Octavo. 505 pages.
Publisher's full white leather, stamped in black, and housed in the publisher's slipcase. A beautifully-designed book in fine condition.
Murakami, Japan's pre-eminent contemporary popular author, has been hailed by The Guardian as "one of the world's greatest living novelists." This acclaimed work of modern metafiction won the Franz Kafka Prize in 2006.
Number 98 of 100 limited edition copies signed by the author on a tipped-in bookplate. Octavo. 505 pages.
Publisher's full white leather, stamped in black, and housed in the publisher's slipcase. A beautifully-designed book in fine condition.
Murakami, Japan's pre-eminent contemporary popular author, has been hailed by The Guardian as "one of the world's greatest living novelists." This acclaimed work of modern metafiction won the Franz Kafka Prize in 2006.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita. Paris: Olympia Press, [1955].
First edition, first issue. Two twelvemo volumes. 188; 223 pages.
Publisher's printed wrappers with "900 franc" price on rear cover of each volume. Spine of both volumes are slightly darkened. Volume I has minor edge wear with a small scuff to middle of spine, and the wrapper is detached along the rear hinge. Volume II has several small tears along the top edge of the front panel with a fold line running most of the length and a three-inch crease to the lower corner of the rear cover. Overall, very good volumes of this scarce and scandalous novel that was the basis for the Stanley Kubrick film.
First edition, first issue. Two twelvemo volumes. 188; 223 pages.
Publisher's printed wrappers with "900 franc" price on rear cover of each volume. Spine of both volumes are slightly darkened. Volume I has minor edge wear with a small scuff to middle of spine, and the wrapper is detached along the rear hinge. Volume II has several small tears along the top edge of the front panel with a fold line running most of the length and a three-inch crease to the lower corner of the rear cover. Overall, very good volumes of this scarce and scandalous novel that was the basis for the Stanley Kubrick film.
Flannery O'Connor. The Violent Bear It Away. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1960.
First edition. Signed and dated by the author in red ink on the title page. Octavo. 243 pages. Dust jacket designed by Milton Glaser.
Original cloth backstrip and red paper over boards. Spine panel slightly spotted, else trivial shelf wear to boards, in a beautiful dust jacket with only minor toning to the inside edges. Offered in a beautiful black clamshell case with titles stamped in gilt on leather spine labels. A fine copy.
The author's second (and last) novel, signed copies of which are quite rare.
First edition. Signed and dated by the author in red ink on the title page. Octavo. 243 pages. Dust jacket designed by Milton Glaser.
Original cloth backstrip and red paper over boards. Spine panel slightly spotted, else trivial shelf wear to boards, in a beautiful dust jacket with only minor toning to the inside edges. Offered in a beautiful black clamshell case with titles stamped in gilt on leather spine labels. A fine copy.
The author's second (and last) novel, signed copies of which are quite rare.
Flannery O'Connor. Wise Blood. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952.
First edition. Octavo. 232 pages.
Original yellow cloth with black spine titles. Edge wear to the boards, especially at the spine ends. A very good copy in a dust jacket that is chipped and toned, with areas of loss to head of spine and lower edge of front panel and an abrasion that affects the "O' C" of the author's last name on the spine panel.
This, O'Connor's first book, centers on the story of Hazel Motes, the would-be founder of a church without Christ. Motes is the first of many "grotesque" characters that would come to be a hallmark of her writing style.
First edition. Octavo. 232 pages.
Original yellow cloth with black spine titles. Edge wear to the boards, especially at the spine ends. A very good copy in a dust jacket that is chipped and toned, with areas of loss to head of spine and lower edge of front panel and an abrasion that affects the "O' C" of the author's last name on the spine panel.
This, O'Connor's first book, centers on the story of Hazel Motes, the would-be founder of a church without Christ. Motes is the first of many "grotesque" characters that would come to be a hallmark of her writing style.
Ovid. Operum Tomus II. Quo Continentur Metamorphoseon Libri XV. Leipzig: [Michael Lantzenberger], 1596.
Octavo. [xvi], 650, [20], [1, imprint], [1, blank] pages. With 176 woodcut illustrations and woodcut devices on title and colophon.
Contemporary full white sheep, boards ruled and stamped in blind, centerpiece lozenges stamped in blind, spine ruled in blind in compartments, six raised bands, edges dyed blue. Ownership inscription from 1744 to lower inner corner of front free endpaper. A few instances of near-contemporary underlining. Slight wear to board edges. Even toning throughout. The cut on leaf C4 with old ink stains. Overall, a very good copy.
Octavo. [xvi], 650, [20], [1, imprint], [1, blank] pages. With 176 woodcut illustrations and woodcut devices on title and colophon.
Contemporary full white sheep, boards ruled and stamped in blind, centerpiece lozenges stamped in blind, spine ruled in blind in compartments, six raised bands, edges dyed blue. Ownership inscription from 1744 to lower inner corner of front free endpaper. A few instances of near-contemporary underlining. Slight wear to board edges. Even toning throughout. The cut on leaf C4 with old ink stains. Overall, a very good copy.
Boris Pasternak. Doctor Zhivago [in Russian]. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1959 [i.e. December, 1958].
First authorized edition in Russian (preceded only by two CIA-sponsored, and virtually unobtainable, editions printed in Italy and distributed at the Brussels World Fair in the summer of 1958). Thick octavo. [iv], 567, [1] pages.
Publisher's terra-cotta cloth with gilt spine lettering. No jacket was issued for this book. A lovely copy with only a speck on the fore-margins.
First authorized edition in Russian (preceded only by two CIA-sponsored, and virtually unobtainable, editions printed in Italy and distributed at the Brussels World Fair in the summer of 1958). Thick octavo. [iv], 567, [1] pages.
Publisher's terra-cotta cloth with gilt spine lettering. No jacket was issued for this book. A lovely copy with only a speck on the fore-margins.
Boris Pasternak. Doctor Zhivago. London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1958.
First edition in English of one of the greatest love stories of all time. Octavo. 510 pages.
Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Original dust jacket with photographic portrait of Pasternak on the rear panel. A beautiful copy in a beautiful jacket.
First edition in English of one of the greatest love stories of all time. Octavo. 510 pages.
Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Original dust jacket with photographic portrait of Pasternak on the rear panel. A beautiful copy in a beautiful jacket.
Phaedrus. Fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. Amsterdam: Ex Typographia Francisci Halmæ, 1701.
First edition. Quarto. [32], 160, [84, index] pages. Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, added engraved vignette title by P. Boutats after J. Goeree (included in pagination), large folding engraved portrait of the dedicatee (Johann Wilhelm Friso, Prince of Orange) by P. Van Gunst after B. Vaillant, eighteen engraved plates (each with six medallion subjects) by and after Jan Van Vianen, six engraved headpieces, thirty-two engraved tailpieces (including repeats), and nine engraved historiated initials.
Quarter vellum with exposed thongs over paste-paper boards, manuscript spine lettering and decoration. Faint stain along gutter margin of title page and a small repaired tear to the verso of the folding portrait, else a very clean and well-margined copy in a handsome binding.
First edition. Quarto. [32], 160, [84, index] pages. Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, added engraved vignette title by P. Boutats after J. Goeree (included in pagination), large folding engraved portrait of the dedicatee (Johann Wilhelm Friso, Prince of Orange) by P. Van Gunst after B. Vaillant, eighteen engraved plates (each with six medallion subjects) by and after Jan Van Vianen, six engraved headpieces, thirty-two engraved tailpieces (including repeats), and nine engraved historiated initials.
Quarter vellum with exposed thongs over paste-paper boards, manuscript spine lettering and decoration. Faint stain along gutter margin of title page and a small repaired tear to the verso of the folding portrait, else a very clean and well-margined copy in a handsome binding.
[Sylvia Plath]. Victoria Lucas [pseudonym]. The Bell Jar. London: Heinemann, 1963.
First edition. Octavo. 258 pages. Dust jacket designed by Thomas Simmonds.
Original black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Small Grolier Book Shop sticker to the lower front free endpaper. Dust jacket price-clipped with some small folds at the lower front edge, trivial toning to the back panel, and light wear to the spine panel including a small round scrape mid-spine. Overall, a very good copy.
An exceptional first edition of Sylvia Plath's first book written under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. Sadly it was to be her last book as she committed suicide a month after its initial publication. Truly a roman á clef as it describes the author's unhappiness and descent into mental illness. An uncommon book, the more so in this condition.
First edition. Octavo. 258 pages. Dust jacket designed by Thomas Simmonds.
Original black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Small Grolier Book Shop sticker to the lower front free endpaper. Dust jacket price-clipped with some small folds at the lower front edge, trivial toning to the back panel, and light wear to the spine panel including a small round scrape mid-spine. Overall, a very good copy.
An exceptional first edition of Sylvia Plath's first book written under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. Sadly it was to be her last book as she committed suicide a month after its initial publication. Truly a roman á clef as it describes the author's unhappiness and descent into mental illness. An uncommon book, the more so in this condition.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Conchologist's First Book: or, A System of Testaceous Malacology. Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1839.
First edition, ordinary issue (with uncolored plates). Twelvemo. 156 pages. With twelve uncolored lithographed plates, containing illustrations of 215 shells. Plate 3 is in BAL State A (no priority), with title at head: Parts of Shells.
Original pink lithographed boards with brown roan spine ruled in gilt. Early owner's signature on upper part of title page. Lightly foxed throughout. Housed in a black cloth clamshell case with gilt morocco lettering label. An excellent copy of this very fragile book, rarely seen with the original spine.
First edition, ordinary issue (with uncolored plates). Twelvemo. 156 pages. With twelve uncolored lithographed plates, containing illustrations of 215 shells. Plate 3 is in BAL State A (no priority), with title at head: Parts of Shells.
Original pink lithographed boards with brown roan spine ruled in gilt. Early owner's signature on upper part of title page. Lightly foxed throughout. Housed in a black cloth clamshell case with gilt morocco lettering label. An excellent copy of this very fragile book, rarely seen with the original spine.
[Edgar Allan Poe]. The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Science. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845-1846.
First edition, first printing, of one of the most celebrated poems in American literature.
Octavo. Volume I only. iv, 656 pages. Three engraved plates.
Half leather over cloth boards. Raised bands. Gilt lettering to spine. Joints broken, with boards held by cords. Front endpaper and first flyleaf detached, but present. Otherwise, a very good copy.
Published under the pseudonym "Quarles," The Raven (pages 143-145) brought Poe instant literary fame, quickly becoming one of the most discussed and recited poems in the country. The appearance in the American Review is the accepted first edition - the publication in the New York Mirror on January 29, 1845 was printed from advance sheets of the American Review. Volume I also includes Poe's short story "Some Words with a Mummy" (pages 363-370), and his poems "The Valley of Unrest" and "The City in the Sea" (pages 392-393).
First edition, first printing, of one of the most celebrated poems in American literature.
Octavo. Volume I only. iv, 656 pages. Three engraved plates.
Half leather over cloth boards. Raised bands. Gilt lettering to spine. Joints broken, with boards held by cords. Front endpaper and first flyleaf detached, but present. Otherwise, a very good copy.
Published under the pseudonym "Quarles," The Raven (pages 143-145) brought Poe instant literary fame, quickly becoming one of the most discussed and recited poems in the country. The appearance in the American Review is the accepted first edition - the publication in the New York Mirror on January 29, 1845 was printed from advance sheets of the American Review. Volume I also includes Poe's short story "Some Words with a Mummy" (pages 363-370), and his poems "The Valley of Unrest" and "The City in the Sea" (pages 392-393).
Alexander Pope. Uniformly Bound Set of Pope's Works. All books published in London, by F. J. Du Roveray, including: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. 1804. Six volumes in three. Frontispiece. Illustrated with engraved plates. [and:] The Iliad of Homer, Translated by A. Pope. 1806. Six volumes in three. Frontispiece. Illustrated with engraved plates. [and:] Pope's Version of Homer's Odyssey. 1806. Six volumes in three. Frontispiece. Illustrated with engraved plates.
All nine quarto volumes uniformly bound in full green morocco. Gilt decorations on boards. Raised bands. Gilt decorations and lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Some of the joints cracked, with spine loosening. Extremities bumped. Minor dampstaining to some of the pages in volume one of the Iliad. Each volume, on the front pastedown, has a bookplate of Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons. The bookplates have each left an offset shadow on the facing endpapers. Overall, a very good set.
All nine quarto volumes uniformly bound in full green morocco. Gilt decorations on boards. Raised bands. Gilt decorations and lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Some of the joints cracked, with spine loosening. Extremities bumped. Minor dampstaining to some of the pages in volume one of the Iliad. Each volume, on the front pastedown, has a bookplate of Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons. The bookplates have each left an offset shadow on the facing endpapers. Overall, a very good set.
Francoise Rabelais. Les Oeuvres. Paris: Alphonse Lemmere, 1869.
Six octavo volumes complete. Numerous finely-wrought head-pieces and historiated initials throughout.
Contemporary three quarter burgundy morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine lettering, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. An exceptionally clean set in a beautiful binding.
Six octavo volumes complete. Numerous finely-wrought head-pieces and historiated initials throughout.
Contemporary three quarter burgundy morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine lettering, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. An exceptionally clean set in a beautiful binding.
James Whitcomb Riley. The Writings of James Whitcomb Riley. New Castle: C. B. Randall, 1913.
The Elizabeth Marine Riley Edition, one of 150 numbered sets, this being copy number XVIII ("printed and bound for Mr. John C. Stubbs, Ashland Ohio"). This set is signed by Riley, and has a Typed Letter Signed by him tipped-in to volume I. Six large octavo volumes. This set extra-illustrated with full-page plates and original watercolors and ornaments by Glenn Henshaw, J. Alfred Seaford, H. Rex Cotton and Mary McAuley throughout (the watercolors are all signed by S. J. Beebee).
Bound by the House of Randall in full Spanish marbled calf. Covers decoratively paneled in gilt and with gilt floral corner pieces, spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, gilt turn-ins, green moire silk doublures and endpapers, top edges gilt. Overall, an exceptionally beautiful set in near fine condition.
The Elizabeth Marine Riley Edition, one of 150 numbered sets, this being copy number XVIII ("printed and bound for Mr. John C. Stubbs, Ashland Ohio"). This set is signed by Riley, and has a Typed Letter Signed by him tipped-in to volume I. Six large octavo volumes. This set extra-illustrated with full-page plates and original watercolors and ornaments by Glenn Henshaw, J. Alfred Seaford, H. Rex Cotton and Mary McAuley throughout (the watercolors are all signed by S. J. Beebee).
Bound by the House of Randall in full Spanish marbled calf. Covers decoratively paneled in gilt and with gilt floral corner pieces, spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, gilt turn-ins, green moire silk doublures and endpapers, top edges gilt. Overall, an exceptionally beautiful set in near fine condition.
Charles M. Russell. More Rawhides. Great Falls, Montana: Montana Newspaper Association, 1925.
First edition. Quarto. 59 pages. Dozens of illustrations by the author.
Dark green printed wrappers. On front free endpaper is the author's own bookplate, designed by him, reading, "From the library of C. M. Russell." Some light chipping to the edges of the wrappers. Very good condition.
Charles M. Russell, one of the great artists of the American West, also wrote fiction. His character Rawhide Rawlins figured in two collections, this being the second. More Rawhides was published the year before Russell's death.
First edition. Quarto. 59 pages. Dozens of illustrations by the author.
Dark green printed wrappers. On front free endpaper is the author's own bookplate, designed by him, reading, "From the library of C. M. Russell." Some light chipping to the edges of the wrappers. Very good condition.
Charles M. Russell, one of the great artists of the American West, also wrote fiction. His character Rawhide Rawlins figured in two collections, this being the second. More Rawhides was published the year before Russell's death.
William Shakespeare. The Dramatic Works. London: Printed for J. Walker, 1825.
Stereotype Edition. Twelve octavo volumes. Engraved frontispieces and plates [by Rhodes after Thurston].
Contemporary green polished calf. Covers decoratively paneled in gilt and blind, spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with two burgundy morocco gilt lettering labels, gilt board edges, turn-ins decoratively tooled in blind, marbled edges and endpapers. Bookseller's ticket of R. Griffin & Co. of Glasgow on front pastedown. Some minor foxing to plates. One spine with a slight discoloration, else a very good set.
Stereotype Edition. Twelve octavo volumes. Engraved frontispieces and plates [by Rhodes after Thurston].
Contemporary green polished calf. Covers decoratively paneled in gilt and blind, spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with two burgundy morocco gilt lettering labels, gilt board edges, turn-ins decoratively tooled in blind, marbled edges and endpapers. Bookseller's ticket of R. Griffin & Co. of Glasgow on front pastedown. Some minor foxing to plates. One spine with a slight discoloration, else a very good set.
William Shakespeare. The Comedies, Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1939.
First thus, complete in 37 quarto volumes. Limited to 1,950 sets.
Uniformly bound in publisher's half cloth with decorative paper boards and gold stamped spines. All volumes in this lot in fine condition in publisher's glassine.
Additional items included: Ten Years and William Shakespeare: A Survey of the Publishing Activities of The Limited Editions Club from October 1929 to October 1940. Publisher's full leather in very good condition. [and:] William Shakespeare. The Poems of William Shakespeare. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1941. Two volumes fine in publisher's slipcase. [and:] A Record of the Proceedings at The Limited Editions Club's Dinner to Celebrate the Twenty-first Birthday of the Club & the Fiftieth Birthday of its Founder. 1950. [and:] William Shakespeare. The Life of King Henry V. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1951. Fine in publisher's slipcase. [and:] Saxo Grammaticus. The History of Amleth, Prince of Denmark. [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1954. A fine copy housed in publisher's slipcase.
First thus, complete in 37 quarto volumes. Limited to 1,950 sets.
Uniformly bound in publisher's half cloth with decorative paper boards and gold stamped spines. All volumes in this lot in fine condition in publisher's glassine.
Additional items included: Ten Years and William Shakespeare: A Survey of the Publishing Activities of The Limited Editions Club from October 1929 to October 1940. Publisher's full leather in very good condition. [and:] William Shakespeare. The Poems of William Shakespeare. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1941. Two volumes fine in publisher's slipcase. [and:] A Record of the Proceedings at The Limited Editions Club's Dinner to Celebrate the Twenty-first Birthday of the Club & the Fiftieth Birthday of its Founder. 1950. [and:] William Shakespeare. The Life of King Henry V. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1951. Fine in publisher's slipcase. [and:] Saxo Grammaticus. The History of Amleth, Prince of Denmark. [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1954. A fine copy housed in publisher's slipcase.
[William Carew Hazlitt, editor]. Shakespeare's Library: A collection of the plays, romances, novels, poems and histories employed by Shakespeare in the composition of his works. London: Reeves and Tuner, 1875.
Stated second edition, revised and enlarged (although it is actually an entirely new production with a different editor and different sources). Six small octavo volumes.
Contemporary Riviere binding of three-quarter red morocco over lighter red cloth, spine compartments with gilt floral devices and gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Bookplate of Asa Lingard of the Bradford department store family and whose library was sold in 1944. Some old waviness to first three signatures of fourth volume (not easily seen). Mild darkening to spines but overall a very pleasing set of the scarce piece of significant Shakespeariana.
Stated second edition, revised and enlarged (although it is actually an entirely new production with a different editor and different sources). Six small octavo volumes.
Contemporary Riviere binding of three-quarter red morocco over lighter red cloth, spine compartments with gilt floral devices and gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Bookplate of Asa Lingard of the Bradford department store family and whose library was sold in 1944. Some old waviness to first three signatures of fourth volume (not easily seen). Mild darkening to spines but overall a very pleasing set of the scarce piece of significant Shakespeariana.
[Stephen King]. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1983.
First edition. Number 159 of 500 limited edition copies signed by Stephen King and illustrator Berni Wrightson on the limitation page. Quarto. 192 pages. Introduction by Stephen King. Illustrations by Berni Wrightson.
Publisher's black cloth with gilt and blue foil titles. Original glassine dust jacket. Housed in the publisher's blue paper slipcase. Minimal shelf wear; some sunning to the glassine jacket. Very light soiling to the slipcase. Fine condition.
First edition. Number 159 of 500 limited edition copies signed by Stephen King and illustrator Berni Wrightson on the limitation page. Quarto. 192 pages. Introduction by Stephen King. Illustrations by Berni Wrightson.
Publisher's black cloth with gilt and blue foil titles. Original glassine dust jacket. Housed in the publisher's blue paper slipcase. Minimal shelf wear; some sunning to the glassine jacket. Very light soiling to the slipcase. Fine condition.
Tobias Smollett. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. In which are included, Memoirs of a Lady of Quality. In Four Volumes. Vol. I. [-IV.]. London: Printed for the author, 1751.
First edition. Four twelvemo volumes. x, 288; x, 322; vi, 205, [1]; viii, 315, [1] pages.
Contemporary calf, double fillet borders, spines ruled and numbered in gilt, armorial bookplates on front pastedowns. Offsetting from turn-ins. Several hinges starting but all intact. Corners bumped and slightly scuffed. Still, this is a fine set housed in a brown cloth slipcase.
First edition. Four twelvemo volumes. x, 288; x, 322; vi, 205, [1]; viii, 315, [1] pages.
Contemporary calf, double fillet borders, spines ruled and numbered in gilt, armorial bookplates on front pastedowns. Offsetting from turn-ins. Several hinges starting but all intact. Corners bumped and slightly scuffed. Still, this is a fine set housed in a brown cloth slipcase.
John Steinbeck. East of Eden. New York: Viking Press, 1952.
First edition, limited to 1,500 copies and signed by the author on the limitation page. Octavo. 602 pages.
Publisher's blue-green cloth with gilt and brown stamping. Rear hinge cracked and splitting. Glue residue on front free endpaper, probably from a removed bookplate. Lacking the original publisher's slipcase, but now housed in a custom slipcase. Overall, a very good copy.
Steinbeck's most ambitious work, with strong allusions to the biblical story of Cain and Abel.
First edition, limited to 1,500 copies and signed by the author on the limitation page. Octavo. 602 pages.
Publisher's blue-green cloth with gilt and brown stamping. Rear hinge cracked and splitting. Glue residue on front free endpaper, probably from a removed bookplate. Lacking the original publisher's slipcase, but now housed in a custom slipcase. Overall, a very good copy.
Steinbeck's most ambitious work, with strong allusions to the biblical story of Cain and Abel.
John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, [1939].
First edition. Octavo. [6], 619, [3, blank] pages.
Publisher's beige cloth pictorially stamped in brown across the covers and spine and lettered in brown on the spine. Top edge stained yellow orange. Pictorial endpapers. In the original color pictorial dust jacket with illustration by Elmer Hader with the $2.75 price and "First Edition" intact on the front flap. Minimal wear to the board edges. Spine slightly darkened. Minor age-toning to the textblock at the endpapers and edges. Expertly restored dust jacket in great condition, reinforced along the top and bottom edges and at the four folds. Expert restoration is only visible from the verso. All in all, a very good copy of this 1940 Pulitzer Prize winner.
"It is a very long novel, the longest that Steinbeck has written, and yet it reads as if it had been composed in a flash, ripped off the typewriter and delivered to the public as an ultimatum. It is a long and thoughtful novel as one thinks about it. It is a short and vivid scene as one feels it." (Peter Monro Jack, The New York Times Book Review, April 16, 1939)
Goldstone & Payne A12a.
First edition. Octavo. [6], 619, [3, blank] pages.
Publisher's beige cloth pictorially stamped in brown across the covers and spine and lettered in brown on the spine. Top edge stained yellow orange. Pictorial endpapers. In the original color pictorial dust jacket with illustration by Elmer Hader with the $2.75 price and "First Edition" intact on the front flap. Minimal wear to the board edges. Spine slightly darkened. Minor age-toning to the textblock at the endpapers and edges. Expertly restored dust jacket in great condition, reinforced along the top and bottom edges and at the four folds. Expert restoration is only visible from the verso. All in all, a very good copy of this 1940 Pulitzer Prize winner.
"It is a very long novel, the longest that Steinbeck has written, and yet it reads as if it had been composed in a flash, ripped off the typewriter and delivered to the public as an ultimatum. It is a long and thoughtful novel as one thinks about it. It is a short and vivid scene as one feels it." (Peter Monro Jack, The New York Times Book Review, April 16, 1939)
Goldstone & Payne A12a.
John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici Friede, [1937].
First edition, first issue. Octavo. 186 pages. The first issue printing consisted of only 2,500 copies.
Publisher's tan cloth with orange and black stamping. Correct first issue points with a bullet between the "8"s on page 88 and "pendula" on page 9, line 21. Minor darkening along the top edge. Dust jacket has light edge wear and soiling with chipping to spine ends and corners. Spine is faded and darkened. A very good copy, housed in a custom slipcase.
Steinbeck's great novel, greeted with critical acclaim on its publication, has become a literary classic and a fixture on school reading lists. It also has the distinction, according to the American Library Association, of being one of the most frequently banned books of the 20th and 21st centuries. Banned for a wide range of reasons, including the characters' use of profanity to the perceived promotion of euthanasia, Of Mice and Men remains an American classic that continues to fan the flames of controversy more than seventy years after its initial publication.
First edition, first issue. Octavo. 186 pages. The first issue printing consisted of only 2,500 copies.
Publisher's tan cloth with orange and black stamping. Correct first issue points with a bullet between the "8"s on page 88 and "pendula" on page 9, line 21. Minor darkening along the top edge. Dust jacket has light edge wear and soiling with chipping to spine ends and corners. Spine is faded and darkened. A very good copy, housed in a custom slipcase.
Steinbeck's great novel, greeted with critical acclaim on its publication, has become a literary classic and a fixture on school reading lists. It also has the distinction, according to the American Library Association, of being one of the most frequently banned books of the 20th and 21st centuries. Banned for a wide range of reasons, including the characters' use of profanity to the perceived promotion of euthanasia, Of Mice and Men remains an American classic that continues to fan the flames of controversy more than seventy years after its initial publication.
John Steinbeck. Four Consecutive Printings of Their Blood is Strong. San Francisco: Simon J. Lubin Society of California, April, May, June, and December, 1938.
Includes a first edition, first issue and second, third, and fourth printings. 33, [2] Lubin Society information, pages. Photography by Dorothea Lange.
Original photographic wrappers. First, second, and fourth printings are fine to near fine, third printing is very good with double staples, minor chipping and slight soiling. All four are housed in a custom leather case, ribbed with gilt lettering, which is in fine condition.
Steinbeck's documentary history of the shabby living conditions of California's migrant workers. One year later his fictional treatment The Grapes of Wrath was published.
Goldstone & Payne A10.
Includes a first edition, first issue and second, third, and fourth printings. 33, [2] Lubin Society information, pages. Photography by Dorothea Lange.
Original photographic wrappers. First, second, and fourth printings are fine to near fine, third printing is very good with double staples, minor chipping and slight soiling. All four are housed in a custom leather case, ribbed with gilt lettering, which is in fine condition.
Steinbeck's documentary history of the shabby living conditions of California's migrant workers. One year later his fictional treatment The Grapes of Wrath was published.
Goldstone & Payne A10.
Frank R. Stockton. The Novels and Stories of Frank R. Stockton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900.
Number 100 of 204 limited edition sets.
Complete in 23 uniformly bound volumes in full brown leather, gilt decorated, spines with six ribbed compartments, top edges gilt, on Japan paper and illustrated with frontispieces in each volume. The set is in fine condition.
A one time assistant editor of St. Nicholas children's magazine, Stockton's writings of fairy tales and speculative fiction hold up well for all ages. Perhaps best known today for his short story, "The Lady, or the Tiger?", he left this popular tale open-ended and never provided a solution to the puzzle within it, even after being deluged with inquiring letters at the time.
Number 100 of 204 limited edition sets.
Complete in 23 uniformly bound volumes in full brown leather, gilt decorated, spines with six ribbed compartments, top edges gilt, on Japan paper and illustrated with frontispieces in each volume. The set is in fine condition.
A one time assistant editor of St. Nicholas children's magazine, Stockton's writings of fairy tales and speculative fiction hold up well for all ages. Perhaps best known today for his short story, "The Lady, or the Tiger?", he left this popular tale open-ended and never provided a solution to the puzzle within it, even after being deluged with inquiring letters at the time.
Irving Stone. The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Novel of Michelangelo. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1960.
Long galleys for the Uncorrected Proof for Advance Readers. Inscribed by Irving Stone on the half-title; "For Anna: this only advance copy of 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' because she is my friend and faithful fan. With love, Irving Stone. Nov. 26, 1960." Tall octavo. Unpaginated (about two inches thick and printed on rectos only).
Special presentation binding of full brown morocco with gilt spine and cover lettering. Slipcased. Excellent and unique. With Stone's manuscript correction to the title page where he has crossed out the original printed title of the book, "Life on Fire," and supplied in ink the title by which the world knows the book, "The Agony and the Ecstasy." The running title throughout the galley is "Life on Fire." Anna Sosenko must have merited special attention as the front cover of the book is lettered in gilt: "A Gift from Irving Stone to Anna Sosenko. First Uncorrected proof of The Agony and the Ecstasy."
Long galleys for the Uncorrected Proof for Advance Readers. Inscribed by Irving Stone on the half-title; "For Anna: this only advance copy of 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' because she is my friend and faithful fan. With love, Irving Stone. Nov. 26, 1960." Tall octavo. Unpaginated (about two inches thick and printed on rectos only).
Special presentation binding of full brown morocco with gilt spine and cover lettering. Slipcased. Excellent and unique. With Stone's manuscript correction to the title page where he has crossed out the original printed title of the book, "Life on Fire," and supplied in ink the title by which the world knows the book, "The Agony and the Ecstasy." The running title throughout the galley is "Life on Fire." Anna Sosenko must have merited special attention as the front cover of the book is lettered in gilt: "A Gift from Irving Stone to Anna Sosenko. First Uncorrected proof of The Agony and the Ecstasy."
Sir John Suckling. Fragmenta Aurea. A Collection of all the Incomparable Peeces, Written by Sir John Suckling. And Published by a Friend to Perpetuate His Memory. London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1648.
Second edition. Octavo. Contains Poems, &c. Written by Sir John Suckling, 119 pages; Aglaura, 82 pages; The Goblins, 64 pages; and Brennoralt. A Tragedy, 52 pages. With separate title-pages for each of the various poems and plays, all dated 1648. With a fine portrait of Suckling by William Marshall used as the frontispiece.
Contemporary calf. Leather rubbed and slightly crazed, joints tender. Contents trimmed, tight, and clean save for some toning and scattered foxing. Ink annotation on the first title page, and remnants of former owner's bookplate on the front pastedown, else a very good copy.
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) was an English Cavalier poet, who in addition to his writing skills is the supposed inventor of the game of cribbage. His most significant contributions to English literature were published four years after his death in Fragmenta Aurea, which contained essentially all his writings, including his most famous piece "Ballad Upon a Wedding".
Second edition. Octavo. Contains Poems, &c. Written by Sir John Suckling, 119 pages; Aglaura, 82 pages; The Goblins, 64 pages; and Brennoralt. A Tragedy, 52 pages. With separate title-pages for each of the various poems and plays, all dated 1648. With a fine portrait of Suckling by William Marshall used as the frontispiece.
Contemporary calf. Leather rubbed and slightly crazed, joints tender. Contents trimmed, tight, and clean save for some toning and scattered foxing. Ink annotation on the first title page, and remnants of former owner's bookplate on the front pastedown, else a very good copy.
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) was an English Cavalier poet, who in addition to his writing skills is the supposed inventor of the game of cribbage. His most significant contributions to English literature were published four years after his death in Fragmenta Aurea, which contained essentially all his writings, including his most famous piece "Ballad Upon a Wedding".
William Makepeace Thackeray. The Great Hoggarty Diamond. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1848].
First edition, first state. Octavo. 84 pages, some misnumbered.
Custom marbled wrappers. First state points include "82 Cliff Street" on the title page, six unnumbered pages of advertisements at rear, and misnumbered pages. Minor toning with two small dampstains affecting the upper fore-edge. An exceptionally scarce edition in near fine condition.
First edition, first state. Octavo. 84 pages, some misnumbered.
Custom marbled wrappers. First state points include "82 Cliff Street" on the title page, six unnumbered pages of advertisements at rear, and misnumbered pages. Minor toning with two small dampstains affecting the upper fore-edge. An exceptionally scarce edition in near fine condition.
William Makepeace Thackeray. Autograph Letter Signed Laid-in to a First Edition of Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
First edition in book form, first issue, with the headline on p. [1] in rustic type; the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on p. 336; "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on p. 453; and the ad for The Great Hoggarty Diamond (bound in at front). Octavo. xvi, 624 pages. Forty plates (including engraved title). In-text woodcut illustrations.
Contemporary crimson leather Riviere and Son binding with titles and vignettes stamped in gilt on the spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine slightly darkened, joints expertly repaired, small stain at the bottom of title page through page 6, else trivial toning to contents and in near fine condition.
Laid-in to this handsome copy is a fantastic two page Autograph Letter Signed "WM Thackeray" to Herman Merivale in which he declines an invitation to tea but attempts to apologize for "an...act of ingratitude" regarding a printer's error in one of Thackeray's articles. Apparently the word "unfurnished" was mistakenly used instead of "unfinished" in regards to Merivale's house and Thackeray assures Merivale that his house "is very handsomely furnished and secondly may I be torn to pieces by wild horses, and never asked to dinner again, if I write articles in disparagement of a house furnished with such a hospitable mahogany table as your's [sic] is and where such a kind host and hostess preside".
Grolier, 100 English, 87. Van Duzer 231.
First edition in book form, first issue, with the headline on p. [1] in rustic type; the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on p. 336; "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on p. 453; and the ad for The Great Hoggarty Diamond (bound in at front). Octavo. xvi, 624 pages. Forty plates (including engraved title). In-text woodcut illustrations.
Contemporary crimson leather Riviere and Son binding with titles and vignettes stamped in gilt on the spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine slightly darkened, joints expertly repaired, small stain at the bottom of title page through page 6, else trivial toning to contents and in near fine condition.
Laid-in to this handsome copy is a fantastic two page Autograph Letter Signed "WM Thackeray" to Herman Merivale in which he declines an invitation to tea but attempts to apologize for "an...act of ingratitude" regarding a printer's error in one of Thackeray's articles. Apparently the word "unfurnished" was mistakenly used instead of "unfinished" in regards to Merivale's house and Thackeray assures Merivale that his house "is very handsomely furnished and secondly may I be torn to pieces by wild horses, and never asked to dinner again, if I write articles in disparagement of a house furnished with such a hospitable mahogany table as your's [sic] is and where such a kind host and hostess preside".
Grolier, 100 English, 87. Van Duzer 231.
Henry David Thoreau. Cape Cod. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865.
First edition, first printing, American issue. Small octavo. [8], 252, plus 23, [1] pages. Publisher's catalogue, dated December, 1864.
Original dark green bead-grain cloth. Covers decoratively stamped in blind, spine ruled in blind and decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Original brown coated endpapers. Foot of spine expertly repaired. Glue (?) stain across front pastedown. Gilt on spine a little dull. Early ink presentation inscription, dated April 1865, on preliminary blank. Occasional minor foxing. Small dampstain and slight damage to fore-edge of firsts three gatherings (to page 48). Slight stain to pages 22 and 23.
First edition, first printing, American issue. Small octavo. [8], 252, plus 23, [1] pages. Publisher's catalogue, dated December, 1864.
Original dark green bead-grain cloth. Covers decoratively stamped in blind, spine ruled in blind and decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Original brown coated endpapers. Foot of spine expertly repaired. Glue (?) stain across front pastedown. Gilt on spine a little dull. Early ink presentation inscription, dated April 1865, on preliminary blank. Occasional minor foxing. Small dampstain and slight damage to fore-edge of firsts three gatherings (to page 48). Slight stain to pages 22 and 23.
Henry David Thoreau. Excursions. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.
First edition, first printing. Octavo. 319, [5, blank] pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait, with tissue guard.
Original dark green diamond-grain cloth. Covers decoratively stamped in blind, spine ruled in blind and decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Original brown coated endpapers. Light rubbing to spine extremities. Tiny chip to fore-edge of front free endpaper. Slight staining to pages 32 and 33. Early ink markings to page 213, offsetting to pages 212, 214, and 215. Small leather bookplates of Alex. M. Hudnut and Neva & Guy Littel on front pastedown. A few tiny marginal (ink?) spots. Overall a very good copy housed in a dark green cloth slipcase.
First edition, first printing. Octavo. 319, [5, blank] pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait, with tissue guard.
Original dark green diamond-grain cloth. Covers decoratively stamped in blind, spine ruled in blind and decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Original brown coated endpapers. Light rubbing to spine extremities. Tiny chip to fore-edge of front free endpaper. Slight staining to pages 32 and 33. Early ink markings to page 213, offsetting to pages 212, 214, and 215. Small leather bookplates of Alex. M. Hudnut and Neva & Guy Littel on front pastedown. A few tiny marginal (ink?) spots. Overall a very good copy housed in a dark green cloth slipcase.
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit or There and Back Again. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1937].
First edition with "First published in 1937" on the copyright page and all 16 misprints called-for in the Hammond and Anderson bibliography. Octavo. 310 pages plus two-page Overleaf / advertisement, the latter of which lists two Capek titles and one by Huxley. Jacket illustration, both endpapers, frontispiece, and internal illustrations by the author.
Publisher's green cloth with dark blue decorative stamping and titles designed by the author. First state dust jacket with "Dodgson" misspelled as "Dodgeson" on the back flap (the "e" has been blacked out by the publisher).
Spine only slightly cocked. Two stray faint pencil or pen marks to front board, the larger of which is not quite an inch long. Mild staining to the board edges. Corners lightly bumped, but only worn lightly rubbed. Small Oxford bookstore sticker to bottom of front pastedown, overlapping onto the cloth with thin strip of discoloration to sticker and evidence that there has been an attempt to remove it at the corner. A few spots to the top textblock edge, including a 1.25 x .25 inch grayish stain; three tiny spots to bottom edge. Dust jacket ever so slightly dust-soiled. Top and bottom of jacket lightly chipped, especially at the spine ends and the flap folds. Substantial splits and paper loss along both flap folds, possibly affected by vermin at some point. Mild abrading to a few spots on the front panel. Spine somewhat darkened. Inked name to top of front flap. Otherwise, a very good copy with clean and bright pages in the striking and vibrantly colored original and unrestored dust jacket.
Like A. A. Milne before him and many authors before and since, Tolkien began his famous story of Bilbo Baggins and his wizard friend Gandalf as a storytime tale for the children he loved. His eldest sons remember elements of the story being told to them in the family's Oxford study as far back as 1929, a fact the author seems to confirm in a 1955 letter to W. H. Auden: "All I can remember about the start of The Hobbit is sitting correcting School Certificate papers in the everlasting weariness of that annual task forced on impecunious academics with children. On a blank leaf [of one of the student papers] I scrawled: 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I did not and do not know why. I did nothing about it, for a long time, and for some years I got no further than the production of Thror's Map. But it became The Hobbit in the early 1930s..."
"Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit who lived in his hobbit-hole and never went for adventures, at last Gandalf the wizard and his dwarves perswaded [sic] him to go. He had a very exiting [sic] time fighting goblins and wargs. At last they got to the lonley [sic] mountain; Smaug, the dragon who gawreds [sic] it is killed and after a terrific battle with the goblins he returned home - rich! This book, with the help of maps, does not need any illustrations it is good and should appeal to all children between the ages of 5 and 9." Rayner Unwin, age 10, son of publisher Stanley Unwin, in a reader's report to his father dated October 30, 1936. Partially upon the basis of this report, Allen & Unwin became publishers of The Hobbit, as Stanley Unwin believed "the best judges of children's books were children." A rich and culturally significant relationship thus began between author and publisher that would continue through The Lord of the Rings and for years beyond.
Wayne G. Hammond and Douglas A. Anderson: J. R. R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography, A3a. Humphrey Carpenter: J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography (2000 edition), page 184
First edition with "First published in 1937" on the copyright page and all 16 misprints called-for in the Hammond and Anderson bibliography. Octavo. 310 pages plus two-page Overleaf / advertisement, the latter of which lists two Capek titles and one by Huxley. Jacket illustration, both endpapers, frontispiece, and internal illustrations by the author.
Publisher's green cloth with dark blue decorative stamping and titles designed by the author. First state dust jacket with "Dodgson" misspelled as "Dodgeson" on the back flap (the "e" has been blacked out by the publisher).
Spine only slightly cocked. Two stray faint pencil or pen marks to front board, the larger of which is not quite an inch long. Mild staining to the board edges. Corners lightly bumped, but only worn lightly rubbed. Small Oxford bookstore sticker to bottom of front pastedown, overlapping onto the cloth with thin strip of discoloration to sticker and evidence that there has been an attempt to remove it at the corner. A few spots to the top textblock edge, including a 1.25 x .25 inch grayish stain; three tiny spots to bottom edge. Dust jacket ever so slightly dust-soiled. Top and bottom of jacket lightly chipped, especially at the spine ends and the flap folds. Substantial splits and paper loss along both flap folds, possibly affected by vermin at some point. Mild abrading to a few spots on the front panel. Spine somewhat darkened. Inked name to top of front flap. Otherwise, a very good copy with clean and bright pages in the striking and vibrantly colored original and unrestored dust jacket.
Like A. A. Milne before him and many authors before and since, Tolkien began his famous story of Bilbo Baggins and his wizard friend Gandalf as a storytime tale for the children he loved. His eldest sons remember elements of the story being told to them in the family's Oxford study as far back as 1929, a fact the author seems to confirm in a 1955 letter to W. H. Auden: "All I can remember about the start of The Hobbit is sitting correcting School Certificate papers in the everlasting weariness of that annual task forced on impecunious academics with children. On a blank leaf [of one of the student papers] I scrawled: 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' I did not and do not know why. I did nothing about it, for a long time, and for some years I got no further than the production of Thror's Map. But it became The Hobbit in the early 1930s..."
"Bilbo Baggins was a hobbit who lived in his hobbit-hole and never went for adventures, at last Gandalf the wizard and his dwarves perswaded [sic] him to go. He had a very exiting [sic] time fighting goblins and wargs. At last they got to the lonley [sic] mountain; Smaug, the dragon who gawreds [sic] it is killed and after a terrific battle with the goblins he returned home - rich! This book, with the help of maps, does not need any illustrations it is good and should appeal to all children between the ages of 5 and 9." Rayner Unwin, age 10, son of publisher Stanley Unwin, in a reader's report to his father dated October 30, 1936. Partially upon the basis of this report, Allen & Unwin became publishers of The Hobbit, as Stanley Unwin believed "the best judges of children's books were children." A rich and culturally significant relationship thus began between author and publisher that would continue through The Lord of the Rings and for years beyond.
Wayne G. Hammond and Douglas A. Anderson: J. R. R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography, A3a. Humphrey Carpenter: J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography (2000 edition), page 184
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, including: The Fellowship of the Ring. [December, 1956]. Fifth impression. [and:] The Two Towers. [1957]. Fifth impression. [and:] The Return of the King. [May, 1958]. Fourth impression. London: George Allen & Unwin.
All volumes first editions. Three octavo volumes. All in publisher's red cloth with light spotting to page edges. Dust jackets are lightly rubbed and edgeworn with minor edge wear and darkening to the edges and spines. A very good set.
All volumes first editions. Three octavo volumes. All in publisher's red cloth with light spotting to page edges. Dust jackets are lightly rubbed and edgeworn with minor edge wear and darkening to the edges and spines. A very good set.
B. Traven. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1935.
First edition. Octavo. 366 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind cover lettering. Original pictorial dust jacket with $2.50 price on front flap. Minor edge and fold line wear but overall a very good jacket on a great copy of the book.
First edition. Octavo. 366 pages.
Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind cover lettering. Original pictorial dust jacket with $2.50 price on front flap. Minor edge and fold line wear but overall a very good jacket on a great copy of the book.
Mark Twain. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches. New York: C. H. Webb, 1867.
First edition, first issue with single page of ads preceding the title page and unbroken type on the last line of pages 66 and 198. Twelvemo. 198 pages.
Blue cloth over beveled boards. Gilt lettering and gilt-stamped frog to front board. Gilt lettering to spine. Binding somewhat cocked. Some loss of fabric to spine. Hinges broken, but holding. Rear endpaper detached, but present. Some foxing throughout. Soiling to boards. Good condition.
An unrestored copy and an excellent candidate for expert restoration. One of 1,000 copies of the first printing of Twain's first book.
BAL 3310.
First edition, first issue with single page of ads preceding the title page and unbroken type on the last line of pages 66 and 198. Twelvemo. 198 pages.
Blue cloth over beveled boards. Gilt lettering and gilt-stamped frog to front board. Gilt lettering to spine. Binding somewhat cocked. Some loss of fabric to spine. Hinges broken, but holding. Rear endpaper detached, but present. Some foxing throughout. Soiling to boards. Good condition.
An unrestored copy and an excellent candidate for expert restoration. One of 1,000 copies of the first printing of Twain's first book.
BAL 3310.
Mark Twain. The Writings of Mark Twain, Definitive Edition. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1922.
First thus. Volume one only of this 37-volume set limited to 1,024 sets, this being number 348. Signed twice by Twain, once as Mark Twain and again as S. L. Clemens.
311 pages. Illustrations.
Original half blue cloth over cream paper boards. Title label on spine. Some staining and fading to title label. Very good condition.
Note facing Twain's signature: "This fly-leaf was signed by Mark Twain in 1906 in anticipation of the present definitive edition of his works." Twain never lived to see this edition, dying twelve years before its publication. This signed volume one includes the first part of The Innocents Abroad.
First thus. Volume one only of this 37-volume set limited to 1,024 sets, this being number 348. Signed twice by Twain, once as Mark Twain and again as S. L. Clemens.
311 pages. Illustrations.
Original half blue cloth over cream paper boards. Title label on spine. Some staining and fading to title label. Very good condition.
Note facing Twain's signature: "This fly-leaf was signed by Mark Twain in 1906 in anticipation of the present definitive edition of his works." Twain never lived to see this edition, dying twelve years before its publication. This signed volume one includes the first part of The Innocents Abroad.
Lew Wallace. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880.
First edition. With a clipped signature of Lew Wallace mounted on the front pastedown. Octavo. 552 pages plus 12 pages publisher's advertisements.
Original gray fine diagonally-ribbed cloth with front cover and spine ruled in black and pictorially stamped in black, red, and blue in a floral design and lettered in black. Housed in a quarter gray morocco clamshell case. Bookplate of Mildred Greenhill on front pastedown. Occasional minor foxing. Very good condition. Mounted on the front free endpaper is a leaf inscribed in Wallace's hand: "Author of Ben-Hur, The Fair God, The Boyhood of Christ and Life of Gen. Benjamin Harrison etc." with a penciled note below the inscription: "This is in Gen Wallace's hand-it was written in the book of a photography."
First edition. With a clipped signature of Lew Wallace mounted on the front pastedown. Octavo. 552 pages plus 12 pages publisher's advertisements.
Original gray fine diagonally-ribbed cloth with front cover and spine ruled in black and pictorially stamped in black, red, and blue in a floral design and lettered in black. Housed in a quarter gray morocco clamshell case. Bookplate of Mildred Greenhill on front pastedown. Occasional minor foxing. Very good condition. Mounted on the front free endpaper is a leaf inscribed in Wallace's hand: "Author of Ben-Hur, The Fair God, The Boyhood of Christ and Life of Gen. Benjamin Harrison etc." with a penciled note below the inscription: "This is in Gen Wallace's hand-it was written in the book of a photography."
Horace Walpole. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1891.
Number 89 of 100 numbered sets on handmade paper. Nine large octavo volumes with ten engravings in each volume.
Bound by The Collectors Book Club of London in full burgundy morocco, each volume with four sets of double gilt rules that extend from the front cover through the spine to the rear cover; these are matched by four sets of blind ruled borders. Gilt spine lettering, Cockerell marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, remainder uncut, red marker ribbons in each volume. Largely unopened. Very light sunning to spines (still retaining original hue). A spectacularly clean set in an intriguing and distinctive binding.
Number 89 of 100 numbered sets on handmade paper. Nine large octavo volumes with ten engravings in each volume.
Bound by The Collectors Book Club of London in full burgundy morocco, each volume with four sets of double gilt rules that extend from the front cover through the spine to the rear cover; these are matched by four sets of blind ruled borders. Gilt spine lettering, Cockerell marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, remainder uncut, red marker ribbons in each volume. Largely unopened. Very light sunning to spines (still retaining original hue). A spectacularly clean set in an intriguing and distinctive binding.
Noah Webster. An American Dictionary of the English Language; Exhibiting the Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, and Definitions of Words. New York: S. Converse, 1829.
First abridged edition. Octavo. 1,011 pages.
Publisher's full leather with leather spine label. Though showing some rubbing, edge wear, and minor soiling, the binding is remarkably solid for a title that is typically found heavily-handled. The endpapers have been reinforced along the edges and there is light toning and foxing throughout. Bookplates of A. Edward Newton - noted book collector and bibliophile -- and George E. Cummings. In overall very good condition.
Produced a year after Webster's original two-volume edition, this abridgement was edited by Joseph Emerson Worcester. Worcester had been Webster's assistant on the two-volume edition and would later become a competitor, producing his own dictionary in 1830. This rivalry led to what has become known as the "dictionary wars."
First abridged edition. Octavo. 1,011 pages.
Publisher's full leather with leather spine label. Though showing some rubbing, edge wear, and minor soiling, the binding is remarkably solid for a title that is typically found heavily-handled. The endpapers have been reinforced along the edges and there is light toning and foxing throughout. Bookplates of A. Edward Newton - noted book collector and bibliophile -- and George E. Cummings. In overall very good condition.
Produced a year after Webster's original two-volume edition, this abridgement was edited by Joseph Emerson Worcester. Worcester had been Webster's assistant on the two-volume edition and would later become a competitor, producing his own dictionary in 1830. This rivalry led to what has become known as the "dictionary wars."
Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence. New York: D. Appleton, 1920.
First edition. Octavo. 364 pages.
Publisher's red cloth with black stamping. Cloth is rubbed and edges darkened. Bottom spine end has a three-eighths-inch chip and a small dampstain that bleeds into the spine three-quarters of an inch at its deepest point; stain does not affect any pages. Half-inch split to cloth at head of spine. Rear hinge starting. Endpapers mildly toned. The unrestored dust jacket is fragile, with even soiling and edge wear. Spine ends are lightly chipped, and joints are rubbed and tender. This is an early state of the jacket with a review by William Lyon Phelps and no mention of the Columbia "Pulitzer" Prize. Overall, a very good copy in the amazingly scarce dust jacket.
A view of New York society and upper class social customs in the late nineteenth century, by an author who was personally familiar with the era and its culture. Wharton's novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921, the first time the prize was awarded to a woman. The most difficult of the Pulitzer Prize winners to find in a dust jacket.
First edition. Octavo. 364 pages.
Publisher's red cloth with black stamping. Cloth is rubbed and edges darkened. Bottom spine end has a three-eighths-inch chip and a small dampstain that bleeds into the spine three-quarters of an inch at its deepest point; stain does not affect any pages. Half-inch split to cloth at head of spine. Rear hinge starting. Endpapers mildly toned. The unrestored dust jacket is fragile, with even soiling and edge wear. Spine ends are lightly chipped, and joints are rubbed and tender. This is an early state of the jacket with a review by William Lyon Phelps and no mention of the Columbia "Pulitzer" Prize. Overall, a very good copy in the amazingly scarce dust jacket.
A view of New York society and upper class social customs in the late nineteenth century, by an author who was personally familiar with the era and its culture. Wharton's novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921, the first time the prize was awarded to a woman. The most difficult of the Pulitzer Prize winners to find in a dust jacket.
Edith Wharton [editor]. The Book of the Homeless. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.
First edition, limited to 50 copies of which this is number 48. Signed by the publisher, D. B. Updike. Quarto. 153 pages.
Publisher's quarter blue cloth with gray paper boards and gold stamping. The deluxe edition of 50 is printed on French hand-made paper, containing four facsimiles of manuscripts and a second set of illustrations in portfolio. This copy is lacking the publisher's slipcase and the second set of illustrations. Cloth is lightly rubbed with some minor soiling along the spine and boards. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase.
First edition, limited to 50 copies of which this is number 48. Signed by the publisher, D. B. Updike. Quarto. 153 pages.
Publisher's quarter blue cloth with gray paper boards and gold stamping. The deluxe edition of 50 is printed on French hand-made paper, containing four facsimiles of manuscripts and a second set of illustrations in portfolio. This copy is lacking the publisher's slipcase and the second set of illustrations. Cloth is lightly rubbed with some minor soiling along the spine and boards. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase.
Edith Wharton. Ethan Frome. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
First edition, first printing, with the four pages of ads, "wearily" in the last line of page 135, and the blank leaf at the end. One of 2,500 copies. Octavo. [6], 195, [1, blank], [4, ads], [2, blank] pages.
Original red cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, all edges gilt. A near fine copy chemised in a gilt red morocco slipcase.
First edition, first printing, with the four pages of ads, "wearily" in the last line of page 135, and the blank leaf at the end. One of 2,500 copies. Octavo. [6], 195, [1, blank], [4, ads], [2, blank] pages.
Original red cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, all edges gilt. A near fine copy chemised in a gilt red morocco slipcase.
Walt Whitman. The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman. New York: G. Putnam's Sons / Knickerbocker Press, 1902.
Author's Autograph Edition, number 8 of 10 limited edition numbered sets, each signed by the publisher. Includes an outstanding Autograph Letter Signed by Walt Whitman. Ten quarto volumes. Japanese vellum paper. All frontispieces and illustrated plates in three states, printed on various types of paper. Notarized certificate tipped-in which testifies to the authenticity of the tipped-in signed Walt Whitman letter.
Lavishly bound in green morocco with gilt-stamped decorations to front and rear boards, with inlayed leather floral designs. Raised bands. Gilt lettering and designs to the spines. Top edges gilt. Interior doublures. Crimson velvet endsheets. Bookplates from previous owner. Some very minor bumping and rubbing to corners and head and foot of spines. A bright and tight set in near fine condition.
The BAL does not list this, G. Putnam's Sons Author's Autograph Edition, only the Author's Manuscript Edition, Collector's Camden Edition, Paumanok Edition, and the Book-Lover's Camden Edition, all with significantly larger limitations. The tipped in letter is to Jeanette Gilder, the editor of the Critic, a literary magazine which featured works by Whitman. In closing, Whitman asks Ms. Gilder to pass on his good wishes to her brothers, Joseph B. Gilder and Richard Watson Gilder. The letter is quite legible, and Walt Whitman's signature is written in a sure, firm hand. An incredibly scarce item in outstanding condition.
Author's Autograph Edition, number 8 of 10 limited edition numbered sets, each signed by the publisher. Includes an outstanding Autograph Letter Signed by Walt Whitman. Ten quarto volumes. Japanese vellum paper. All frontispieces and illustrated plates in three states, printed on various types of paper. Notarized certificate tipped-in which testifies to the authenticity of the tipped-in signed Walt Whitman letter.
Lavishly bound in green morocco with gilt-stamped decorations to front and rear boards, with inlayed leather floral designs. Raised bands. Gilt lettering and designs to the spines. Top edges gilt. Interior doublures. Crimson velvet endsheets. Bookplates from previous owner. Some very minor bumping and rubbing to corners and head and foot of spines. A bright and tight set in near fine condition.
The BAL does not list this, G. Putnam's Sons Author's Autograph Edition, only the Author's Manuscript Edition, Collector's Camden Edition, Paumanok Edition, and the Book-Lover's Camden Edition, all with significantly larger limitations. The tipped in letter is to Jeanette Gilder, the editor of the Critic, a literary magazine which featured works by Whitman. In closing, Whitman asks Ms. Gilder to pass on his good wishes to her brothers, Joseph B. Gilder and Richard Watson Gilder. The letter is quite legible, and Walt Whitman's signature is written in a sure, firm hand. An incredibly scarce item in outstanding condition.
John Greenleaf Whittier. Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company [1892], 1892.
Artists' Edition. Number 404 of 750 limited edition numbered sets. Seven octavo volumes. Engraved frontispiece portraits and photogravure plates from photographs and from drawings by Howard Pyle, Frederic Remington, Frank T. Merrill, E. H. Garrett, W. T. Smedley, H. Winthrop Peirce, F. O. C. Darley, and others, all on India paper. Each volume with an additional hand-colored frontispiece, duplicating one of the plates in the volume.
Publisher's three-quarter turquoise morocco, ruled in gilt, over marbled boards. Spines decoratively panelled and lettered in gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. A fine set.
Artists' Edition. Number 404 of 750 limited edition numbered sets. Seven octavo volumes. Engraved frontispiece portraits and photogravure plates from photographs and from drawings by Howard Pyle, Frederic Remington, Frank T. Merrill, E. H. Garrett, W. T. Smedley, H. Winthrop Peirce, F. O. C. Darley, and others, all on India paper. Each volume with an additional hand-colored frontispiece, duplicating one of the plates in the volume.
Publisher's three-quarter turquoise morocco, ruled in gilt, over marbled boards. Spines decoratively panelled and lettered in gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. A fine set.
William Carlos Williams. Paterson (Books 1 - Five). New York: A New Directions Book, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1958.
First editions. Books 1, Two, Three, and Four limited to 1,000 copies; book Five limited to 3,000 copies. Five octavo volumes. Unpaginated.
Original tan cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the front boards and spines. Dust jackets complete and not price-clipped. Edges untrimmed. Small Grolier Book Shop sticker to the lower front free endpapers of Books Three and Five. Boards clean. Textblocks tight and contents with some trivial toning, else without remarkable flaw. Dust jackets with some toning at the spine and edges; small chip at the foot of Book 1's jacket, else all copies in fine condition.
A beautiful and complete set of Williams' epic American impressionistic poem. Book Three won the first ever National Book Award for Poetry in 1950.
First editions. Books 1, Two, Three, and Four limited to 1,000 copies; book Five limited to 3,000 copies. Five octavo volumes. Unpaginated.
Original tan cloth with titles stamped in gilt on the front boards and spines. Dust jackets complete and not price-clipped. Edges untrimmed. Small Grolier Book Shop sticker to the lower front free endpapers of Books Three and Five. Boards clean. Textblocks tight and contents with some trivial toning, else without remarkable flaw. Dust jackets with some toning at the spine and edges; small chip at the foot of Book 1's jacket, else all copies in fine condition.
A beautiful and complete set of Williams' epic American impressionistic poem. Book Three won the first ever National Book Award for Poetry in 1950.
Richard Wright. Native Son. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940.
First edition, first issue dark blue cloth and first issue dust jacket. Octavo. xi, [1, blank], 359, [1, blank] pages. Title printed in red and black.
Original dark blue cloth stamped and lettered in red and white on front cover and spine. Bookplate of Arthur Johan Anderson on front pastedown and penciled signature on the front free endpaper. Housed in a quarter green cloth clamshell case. In the original green yellow and dark blue dust jacket (jacket spine slightly faded, lightly chipped at edges). "A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection" on front panel.
First edition, first issue dark blue cloth and first issue dust jacket. Octavo. xi, [1, blank], 359, [1, blank] pages. Title printed in red and black.
Original dark blue cloth stamped and lettered in red and white on front cover and spine. Bookplate of Arthur Johan Anderson on front pastedown and penciled signature on the front free endpaper. Housed in a quarter green cloth clamshell case. In the original green yellow and dark blue dust jacket (jacket spine slightly faded, lightly chipped at edges). "A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection" on front panel.
Richard Yates. Revolutionary Road. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1961].
First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Alan Butler, / With warm regards, / Richard Yates / Sept. 22, 1984." Octavo. 337 pages.
Publisher's red quarter cloth with black cloth boards and gilt stamping. Cloth is slightly rubbed with some very light foxing on the top edge. Dust jacket shows some light edge wear with darkening along the spine and a one-inch tear on the bottom edge of the rear joint. There is a half-inch dampstain on the bottom spine edge that does not affect the book. A very good copy of the author's first book, housed in a custom clamshell box.
A heartbreaking story of 1950s suburban desperation, recently adapted to film by Sam Mendes and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Alan Butler, / With warm regards, / Richard Yates / Sept. 22, 1984." Octavo. 337 pages.
Publisher's red quarter cloth with black cloth boards and gilt stamping. Cloth is slightly rubbed with some very light foxing on the top edge. Dust jacket shows some light edge wear with darkening along the spine and a one-inch tear on the bottom edge of the rear joint. There is a half-inch dampstain on the bottom spine edge that does not affect the book. A very good copy of the author's first book, housed in a custom clamshell box.
A heartbreaking story of 1950s suburban desperation, recently adapted to film by Sam Mendes and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
[Junior Etching Club]. Passages from Modern English Poets. London: William Tegg [1876].
Quarto. [3], 44 leaves of text and with all forty-seven (on forty-five sheets) full page engravings (each with its original tissue guard).
Publisher's terra-cotta cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, front cover ruled in black and with central gilt monogram device, pale yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Joints and spine ends expertly repaired, mild rubbing to tips. Overall, a beautiful copy, very clean and in the very pleasant publisher's binding.
Quarto. [3], 44 leaves of text and with all forty-seven (on forty-five sheets) full page engravings (each with its original tissue guard).
Publisher's terra-cotta cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, front cover ruled in black and with central gilt monogram device, pale yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. Joints and spine ends expertly repaired, mild rubbing to tips. Overall, a beautiful copy, very clean and in the very pleasant publisher's binding.
Session 2
John James Audubon and John Bachman. The Quadrupeds of North America - In Three Volumes. New York: V. G. Audubon, 1856, 1854, 1857.
Mixed edition. Three octavo volumes. viii, 383; 334; 348 pages. 155 colored plates, all with tissue guards, all hand-colored lithographs. Volume I (1856), third edition; volume II (1854), second edition; and volume III (1857), third edition.
Bound in full contemporary brown morocco with ornate black-stamped designs. All edges gilt. Gilt lettering to spines. Corners slightly bumped and some moderate scuffing to extremities and joints. Marbled endpapers. Occasional mild foxing. A beautiful, tight copy, with clean and vibrant plates. Very good condition.
All plates present. Plate 35 (vol. I) shows some slight discoloration. Plate 58 follows plate 59 (vol. II). Plates 65, 73, 86, and 89 (vol. II) have the titles cut off at the fore-edge, caused during the binding process. Volume I contains 13 first edition plates, indicated on the lithographs as issued by Nagel & Weingaertner (plates 6, 8, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 31).
A very nice copy of a landmark publication.
Ron Flynn, The Audubon Price Guide.
Mixed edition. Three octavo volumes. viii, 383; 334; 348 pages. 155 colored plates, all with tissue guards, all hand-colored lithographs. Volume I (1856), third edition; volume II (1854), second edition; and volume III (1857), third edition.
Bound in full contemporary brown morocco with ornate black-stamped designs. All edges gilt. Gilt lettering to spines. Corners slightly bumped and some moderate scuffing to extremities and joints. Marbled endpapers. Occasional mild foxing. A beautiful, tight copy, with clean and vibrant plates. Very good condition.
All plates present. Plate 35 (vol. I) shows some slight discoloration. Plate 58 follows plate 59 (vol. II). Plates 65, 73, 86, and 89 (vol. II) have the titles cut off at the fore-edge, caused during the binding process. Volume I contains 13 first edition plates, indicated on the lithographs as issued by Nagel & Weingaertner (plates 6, 8, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 31).
A very nice copy of a landmark publication.
Ron Flynn, The Audubon Price Guide.
Rex Brasher. Birds and Trees of North America. Kent: Published by the Author, 1931.
Limited to 500 sets, this incomplete set is number 106. Eight volumes of the 12-volume set. Each volume is numbered and signed by Brasher on the title page. 592 color plates, measuring 16 x 12 inches. Oblong folios.
Half leather with masonite boards and gold stamping. Spine leather has perished. Light toning and occasional foxing throughout. All volumes in good or better condition.
Limited to 500 sets, this incomplete set is number 106. Eight volumes of the 12-volume set. Each volume is numbered and signed by Brasher on the title page. 592 color plates, measuring 16 x 12 inches. Oblong folios.
Half leather with masonite boards and gold stamping. Spine leather has perished. Light toning and occasional foxing throughout. All volumes in good or better condition.
William Curtis. Curtis's Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed. London: Stephen Couchman, [n.d., circa 1793-1831].
Uniform half leather. Incomplete set of 42 volumes consisting of 41 volumes bound in botanical class order and the index for volumes 1-53. 4,176 hand-colored plates, measuring approximately 5.75 x 9.5 inches; some folding plates measuring 11.5 x 9.5 inches.
Heavily worn with perished spines and insect damage. Numerous boards are detached. Many plates foxed and toned. Plates in this lot can be considered in overall good or better condition; the bindings are in poor condition.
Uniform half leather. Incomplete set of 42 volumes consisting of 41 volumes bound in botanical class order and the index for volumes 1-53. 4,176 hand-colored plates, measuring approximately 5.75 x 9.5 inches; some folding plates measuring 11.5 x 9.5 inches.
Heavily worn with perished spines and insect damage. Numerous boards are detached. Many plates foxed and toned. Plates in this lot can be considered in overall good or better condition; the bindings are in poor condition.
William Curtis. Curtis's Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed. London: Stephen Couchman, 1793-1831.
39 uniformly bound octavo volumes containing issues 1-58 and the General Indexes. 3,225 hand-colored plates, measuring approximately 5 x 9 inches; some folding plates measuring 11.25 x 9 inches.
Custom red cloth with gilt spine titles and marbled page edges. Cloth is lightly rubbed and worn with some insect damage, most evident to page edges. Toning and light, scattered foxing throughout. All volumes in very good or better condition.
Still in publication, Curtis's Botanical Magazine is the oldest periodical in existence featuring colored plates.
39 uniformly bound octavo volumes containing issues 1-58 and the General Indexes. 3,225 hand-colored plates, measuring approximately 5 x 9 inches; some folding plates measuring 11.25 x 9 inches.
Custom red cloth with gilt spine titles and marbled page edges. Cloth is lightly rubbed and worn with some insect damage, most evident to page edges. Toning and light, scattered foxing throughout. All volumes in very good or better condition.
Still in publication, Curtis's Botanical Magazine is the oldest periodical in existence featuring colored plates.
William Leon Dawson. The Birds of California: A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and Subspecies of Birds Found in the State. San Diego: South Moulton Company, 1923.
Booklover's edition complete in four volumes. Limited to 1,000 copies; this copy is unnumbered. Illustrated with thirty photogravures, 120 full-page duotone plates, and more than 1,100 half-tones.
Publisher's cream cloth with blind stamping and green and gilt decoration. Cloth shows light rubbing and edge wear. All volumes in this lot in very good or better condition.
Booklover's edition complete in four volumes. Limited to 1,000 copies; this copy is unnumbered. Illustrated with thirty photogravures, 120 full-page duotone plates, and more than 1,100 half-tones.
Publisher's cream cloth with blind stamping and green and gilt decoration. Cloth shows light rubbing and edge wear. All volumes in this lot in very good or better condition.
Sydenham Edwards. The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; With Their History and Mode of Treatment. London: James Ridgway, 1815-1847.
Twenty-five octavo volumes consisting of volumes 1-12, 20-26, 28-33. This lot contains a total of 2,029 chromolithograph plates, measuring 5.75 x 9.5 inches, with some double plates measuring 9.5 x 12 inches.
Custom cloth with gilt stamped spines. Each volume has all plates present with the exception of volume 28 which appears to be lacking plates 1 through 6. Lightly toned with some scattered foxing throughout. Overall, the volumes in this lot are in very good or better condition.
Dunthorne, 108. Nissen, 2379.
Twenty-five octavo volumes consisting of volumes 1-12, 20-26, 28-33. This lot contains a total of 2,029 chromolithograph plates, measuring 5.75 x 9.5 inches, with some double plates measuring 9.5 x 12 inches.
Custom cloth with gilt stamped spines. Each volume has all plates present with the exception of volume 28 which appears to be lacking plates 1 through 6. Lightly toned with some scattered foxing throughout. Overall, the volumes in this lot are in very good or better condition.
Dunthorne, 108. Nissen, 2379.
Joseph Harrison. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florist's Magazine. London: Whittaker and Co., 1833-1843.
Eleven octavo volumes. Volume I is a second edition; remaining volumes are all first editions. 148 hand-colored plates, measuring 5 x 8.5 inches.
Custom half leather with marbled boards. Rubbed and edge worn with insect damage to several of the spines. Toning and foxing throughout. Overall, all bindings are in fair or better condition with the plates in very good or better condition.
Eleven octavo volumes. Volume I is a second edition; remaining volumes are all first editions. 148 hand-colored plates, measuring 5 x 8.5 inches.
Custom half leather with marbled boards. Rubbed and edge worn with insect damage to several of the spines. Toning and foxing throughout. Overall, all bindings are in fair or better condition with the plates in very good or better condition.
Howard Jones [text] and Mrs. N. E. (Virginia) Jones [illustrator]. Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio With Text. Circleville, Ohio, 1886. Text printed by Robert Clarke & Company, Cincinnati; plates printed by The Krebs Lithographing Company, Cincinnati.
First edition. One of the original subscribers' copies whose name is listed in a table at the back of Volume II. Two folio volumes. xxxviii, a-d, 41-138, plates I-XXXIX; 139-329, plates XL-LXVIII pages. With all 68 hand-colored lithographic plates, including two used as frontispieces, by and after Genevieve Jones, Eliza J. Shulze, and Virginia E. Jones, colored by Genevieve Jones, Eliza J. Shulze, Virginia E. Jones, Nellie D. Jacob, Kate Gephart, and Josephine Klippart, paper guards, plates LV and LVI incorrectly numbered but corrected by hand.
Half brown morocco over buckram boards by The Ruggles-Gale Company, Columbus, Ohio. Gilt-stamped spine bands with titles in gilt within compartments. Edges dyed red. Floral endpapers. Moderate edge wear, especially at the spine and corners and light scuffing to boards. Reinforced hinges in both volumes. Volume I, plates XXII and XXIII slightly cockled; Volume II, plates XLIX, L, LI, LII, LIX, LX, and LXI cockled. An illustration of a bird's nest from another publication is inserted opposite plate LII. Otherwise plates remain bright, and the set is in generally very good condition.
This extraordinarily rare work is one of the finest, if not the finest, ornithological works produced in America, and is certainly the most important and impressive examination of the nests and eggs of American birds ever produced. It was the idea of Miss Genevieve E. Jones and her friend, Eliza J. Shulze and was conceived as an artistic study of the familiar birds' nests found in the Circleville, Ohio area. A prospectus consisting of the first five plates with text by Dr. Howard Jones, was issued in July, 1879, but Genevieve Jones died of typhoid fever a month later and the project was shelved. Her family, however, decided to continue with the work and issue it as a memorial to their daughter. Mrs. N.E. (Virginia) Jones, her mother, assumed the task of coloring the plates that Miss Shulze continued to draw, and after the latter's departure from the project in 1880, undertook the entire responsibility for completing the illustrations. She was assisted by Miss Nellie E. Jacobs and Miss Kate Gephart, both of Circleville, and Miss Josephine Klippert of Columbus. The text was finished by Dr. Jones, and the entire project was financed by Mr. N.E. Jones, the girl's father. The completed work was originally issued in 23 parts between 1879 and 1886. The "Names of Subscribers" at the end of the second volume lists 39 copies then being reserved, four of which were to be uncolored, and included the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress (uncolored), ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes, and the distinguished ornithologists Elliot Coues and W. W. Dawson. It is known that only 90 sets of the completed work were finally published. From the beginning it received the highest praise: "There has been nothing since Audubon in the way of pictorial illustrations of American ornithology to compare with the present work - nothing to claim an equal degree of artistic skill or scientific accuracy..." (Coues). Complete sets of this marvelous work are rarely sold at auction. This is an excellent opportunity to own an original set of this superior work, complete and in nice condition.
First edition. One of the original subscribers' copies whose name is listed in a table at the back of Volume II. Two folio volumes. xxxviii, a-d, 41-138, plates I-XXXIX; 139-329, plates XL-LXVIII pages. With all 68 hand-colored lithographic plates, including two used as frontispieces, by and after Genevieve Jones, Eliza J. Shulze, and Virginia E. Jones, colored by Genevieve Jones, Eliza J. Shulze, Virginia E. Jones, Nellie D. Jacob, Kate Gephart, and Josephine Klippart, paper guards, plates LV and LVI incorrectly numbered but corrected by hand.
Half brown morocco over buckram boards by The Ruggles-Gale Company, Columbus, Ohio. Gilt-stamped spine bands with titles in gilt within compartments. Edges dyed red. Floral endpapers. Moderate edge wear, especially at the spine and corners and light scuffing to boards. Reinforced hinges in both volumes. Volume I, plates XXII and XXIII slightly cockled; Volume II, plates XLIX, L, LI, LII, LIX, LX, and LXI cockled. An illustration of a bird's nest from another publication is inserted opposite plate LII. Otherwise plates remain bright, and the set is in generally very good condition.
This extraordinarily rare work is one of the finest, if not the finest, ornithological works produced in America, and is certainly the most important and impressive examination of the nests and eggs of American birds ever produced. It was the idea of Miss Genevieve E. Jones and her friend, Eliza J. Shulze and was conceived as an artistic study of the familiar birds' nests found in the Circleville, Ohio area. A prospectus consisting of the first five plates with text by Dr. Howard Jones, was issued in July, 1879, but Genevieve Jones died of typhoid fever a month later and the project was shelved. Her family, however, decided to continue with the work and issue it as a memorial to their daughter. Mrs. N.E. (Virginia) Jones, her mother, assumed the task of coloring the plates that Miss Shulze continued to draw, and after the latter's departure from the project in 1880, undertook the entire responsibility for completing the illustrations. She was assisted by Miss Nellie E. Jacobs and Miss Kate Gephart, both of Circleville, and Miss Josephine Klippert of Columbus. The text was finished by Dr. Jones, and the entire project was financed by Mr. N.E. Jones, the girl's father. The completed work was originally issued in 23 parts between 1879 and 1886. The "Names of Subscribers" at the end of the second volume lists 39 copies then being reserved, four of which were to be uncolored, and included the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress (uncolored), ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes, and the distinguished ornithologists Elliot Coues and W. W. Dawson. It is known that only 90 sets of the completed work were finally published. From the beginning it received the highest praise: "There has been nothing since Audubon in the way of pictorial illustrations of American ornithology to compare with the present work - nothing to claim an equal degree of artistic skill or scientific accuracy..." (Coues). Complete sets of this marvelous work are rarely sold at auction. This is an excellent opportunity to own an original set of this superior work, complete and in nice condition.
[Charles Lemaire, Scheidweiler, and Louis Van Houtte, editors]. Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe, ou Descriptions des plantes les plus rares et les plus méritantes, nouvellement introduites sur le continent ou en Angleterre, ouvrage enrichi de notices historiques, scientifiques, étymologiques, synonymiques, horticulturales, etc, et rédigé par M. Ch. Lemaire...M. Scheidweiler...M. L. Van Houtte. Ghent: Chez Louis van Houtte, 1845-1880.
A complete set of Louis Van Houtte's lavish series, "Flowers of the Greenhouses and Gardens of Europe." Twenty-three large octavo volumes. With approximately 2,400 chromolithographed plates (some double-page, some folding), some finished by hand with color and / or gum arabic, and fifty uncolored lithographed portraits or plates. Numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. Volumes XII, XIII, and XIV (and XI?) are of the "Grande édition." Volumes XI and XVI bound without title pages.
Contemporary quarter brown morocco over marbled paper boards. Spines in compartments with five raised bands, and lettered and ruled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bindings bumped and chipped in a few places. Some foxing and occasional browning to plates, some light offsetting to plates from the adjacent text. In general, the bindings are not too tight, and there does not seem to be a problem with visibility on the double-page and folding plates (many are on guards), as is sometimes the case. Overall, a very good copy of this scarce work.
Louis Van Houtte (1810-1876) was a well-known Belgian horticulturalist who, between 1845 and 1888, published and illustrated the Flore des Serres et Jardins de L'Europe, an extensive work with over 2,400 colored lithographed plates. Van Houtte plates are distinguished by the circular signature running up the lower side ("Off. lith. et pict. in Horto van Houtteano"). As well as more common plants, it depicts many orchids, palm, and other exotic plants, which would have been found in the "Establishment Louis van Houtte," the largest nursery of its time on the continent. As a nurseryman, Van Houtte was interested in expanding his company, and after 1845 he began sending out plant collectors to bring back orchids from South America. His company propagated many plants for European greenhouses. The work is often divided into three parts due to slight variations in the title: Volumes I-X (1845-1855); Volumes XI-XV (1856-1865) have subtitle: Journal général d'horticulture; and Volumes XVI-XXIII (1865-1880) have subtitle: Annales générales d'horticulture. The numbering of the plates is complicated: although most double-page plates are counted as two plates, sometimes they are counted as only one, and other times they are counted as three or four plates, and the large folding plates are counted as four plates.
Great Flower Books, p. 84. Nissen, BBI, 2254. Plesch, pp. 225-226.
A complete set of Louis Van Houtte's lavish series, "Flowers of the Greenhouses and Gardens of Europe." Twenty-three large octavo volumes. With approximately 2,400 chromolithographed plates (some double-page, some folding), some finished by hand with color and / or gum arabic, and fifty uncolored lithographed portraits or plates. Numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. Volumes XII, XIII, and XIV (and XI?) are of the "Grande édition." Volumes XI and XVI bound without title pages.
Contemporary quarter brown morocco over marbled paper boards. Spines in compartments with five raised bands, and lettered and ruled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bindings bumped and chipped in a few places. Some foxing and occasional browning to plates, some light offsetting to plates from the adjacent text. In general, the bindings are not too tight, and there does not seem to be a problem with visibility on the double-page and folding plates (many are on guards), as is sometimes the case. Overall, a very good copy of this scarce work.
Louis Van Houtte (1810-1876) was a well-known Belgian horticulturalist who, between 1845 and 1888, published and illustrated the Flore des Serres et Jardins de L'Europe, an extensive work with over 2,400 colored lithographed plates. Van Houtte plates are distinguished by the circular signature running up the lower side ("Off. lith. et pict. in Horto van Houtteano"). As well as more common plants, it depicts many orchids, palm, and other exotic plants, which would have been found in the "Establishment Louis van Houtte," the largest nursery of its time on the continent. As a nurseryman, Van Houtte was interested in expanding his company, and after 1845 he began sending out plant collectors to bring back orchids from South America. His company propagated many plants for European greenhouses. The work is often divided into three parts due to slight variations in the title: Volumes I-X (1845-1855); Volumes XI-XV (1856-1865) have subtitle: Journal général d'horticulture; and Volumes XVI-XXIII (1865-1880) have subtitle: Annales générales d'horticulture. The numbering of the plates is complicated: although most double-page plates are counted as two plates, sometimes they are counted as only one, and other times they are counted as three or four plates, and the large folding plates are counted as four plates.
Great Flower Books, p. 84. Nissen, BBI, 2254. Plesch, pp. 225-226.
E. J. Lowe. Ferns: British and Exotic. London: George Bell & Sons, 1872.
Second edition. Eight octavo volumes. x, 160; 162; 142; 174; 168; 136; 181; 261 pages. 479 colored plates printed from wood engravings by Benjamin Fawcett, after Francis Lydon. Glossaries, indices.
Contemporary half calf over cloth boards. Raised bands. Gilt designs and gilt-stamped labels to spine. Marbled endpapers. Marbled edges. Some sunning to spines. Light foxing. Bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Neat, unobtrusive inked inventory notation from previous owner on front free flyleaf of each volume.
A comprehensive Victorian study of ferns by the preeminent English botanist, lavishly illustrated with color plates as well as hundreds of black-and-white illustrations.
Second edition. Eight octavo volumes. x, 160; 162; 142; 174; 168; 136; 181; 261 pages. 479 colored plates printed from wood engravings by Benjamin Fawcett, after Francis Lydon. Glossaries, indices.
Contemporary half calf over cloth boards. Raised bands. Gilt designs and gilt-stamped labels to spine. Marbled endpapers. Marbled edges. Some sunning to spines. Light foxing. Bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Neat, unobtrusive inked inventory notation from previous owner on front free flyleaf of each volume.
A comprehensive Victorian study of ferns by the preeminent English botanist, lavishly illustrated with color plates as well as hundreds of black-and-white illustrations.
F. Andrew Michaux and Thomas Nuttall. The North American Sylva; or, a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. Philadelphia: Wm. Rutter,1871.
Five quarto volumes. 276 hand-colored plates: 156 hand-colored stipple-engraved plates and 120 (of 121) hand-colored lithograph plates. Many of the engraved plates are from drawings by Pierre Joseph Redouté, his brother Henri Joseph Redoute, or Pancrace Bassa. The lithograph plates are primarily without credit, though a few are credited to J. Worley.
Custom half leather with mottled beveled boards, using the original publisher's leather spines with gilt and blind stamping. Lightly rubbed and edge worn. Some joints beginning to crack. Mild toning throughout. All volumes in very good or better condition.
Five quarto volumes. 276 hand-colored plates: 156 hand-colored stipple-engraved plates and 120 (of 121) hand-colored lithograph plates. Many of the engraved plates are from drawings by Pierre Joseph Redouté, his brother Henri Joseph Redoute, or Pancrace Bassa. The lithograph plates are primarily without credit, though a few are credited to J. Worley.
Custom half leather with mottled beveled boards, using the original publisher's leather spines with gilt and blind stamping. Lightly rubbed and edge worn. Some joints beginning to crack. Mild toning throughout. All volumes in very good or better condition.
Joseph Paxton. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants. London: Orr and Smith, 1834-1849.
Complete set in 16 octavo volumes. Mixed set with the first 10 volumes being ex-library. 707 hand-colored plates, measuring approximately 6.25 x 9 inches.
Twelve volumes are half leather and four volumes are full leather. Rubbed and worn, several with perished spines and detached boards. Toning and scattered foxing throughout. Plates in this lot can be considered in overall good or better condition; the bindings are in poor condition.
Complete set in 16 octavo volumes. Mixed set with the first 10 volumes being ex-library. 707 hand-colored plates, measuring approximately 6.25 x 9 inches.
Twelve volumes are half leather and four volumes are full leather. Rubbed and worn, several with perished spines and detached boards. Toning and scattered foxing throughout. Plates in this lot can be considered in overall good or better condition; the bindings are in poor condition.
Pierre Joseph Redouté and Claude Antoine Thory. Les Roses. Paris: C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1824.
First octavo edition. Two volumes. Unpaginated. 160 hand-colored plates with tissue guards. Four-page prospectus bound in after title page.
Contemporary full red calf. Ornate designs to boards. Gilt lettering and designs to spines. Marbled endpapers. Tipped-in letter to front free flyleaf of volume two, which begins: "Mon cher Redouté." Mild scratching to boards. Foxing throughout. A beautiful set of this important work. Near fine condition.
"Redouté's great chance came when, in 1798, Josephine Bonaparte acquired Malmaison and resolved to establish there a garden for rare plants. As was the fashion, she searched for an artist to make records of them, and her choice fell upon Redouté. Thus were born Ventenat's Jardin de Malmaison (1803-04) and Bonpland's Description des Plantes rares cultivées à Malmaison et à Navarre (1812-17), both superbly illustrated in colour by Redouté. To the same period belong the eight magnificent volumes of Les Liliacées (1802-16), which were followed by the still more famous Les Roses (1817-24)" (Sitwell). This, the octavo edition of Les Roses, was first published in 1824.
The tipped-in letter addressed to Redouté appears to be from a person named Guérin (perhaps Modeste Guérin, the flower cultivator). The Rosa Gallica Gueriniana (Guérin's Rose) was one painted by Redouté, but it does not appear in this octavo edition. The letter is a request by Guérin to borrow an alabaster vase from Redouté.
Sitwell, Great Flower Books, page 35.
First octavo edition. Two volumes. Unpaginated. 160 hand-colored plates with tissue guards. Four-page prospectus bound in after title page.
Contemporary full red calf. Ornate designs to boards. Gilt lettering and designs to spines. Marbled endpapers. Tipped-in letter to front free flyleaf of volume two, which begins: "Mon cher Redouté." Mild scratching to boards. Foxing throughout. A beautiful set of this important work. Near fine condition.
"Redouté's great chance came when, in 1798, Josephine Bonaparte acquired Malmaison and resolved to establish there a garden for rare plants. As was the fashion, she searched for an artist to make records of them, and her choice fell upon Redouté. Thus were born Ventenat's Jardin de Malmaison (1803-04) and Bonpland's Description des Plantes rares cultivées à Malmaison et à Navarre (1812-17), both superbly illustrated in colour by Redouté. To the same period belong the eight magnificent volumes of Les Liliacées (1802-16), which were followed by the still more famous Les Roses (1817-24)" (Sitwell). This, the octavo edition of Les Roses, was first published in 1824.
The tipped-in letter addressed to Redouté appears to be from a person named Guérin (perhaps Modeste Guérin, the flower cultivator). The Rosa Gallica Gueriniana (Guérin's Rose) was one painted by Redouté, but it does not appear in this octavo edition. The letter is a request by Guérin to borrow an alabaster vase from Redouté.
Sitwell, Great Flower Books, page 35.
O. Reveil, Fr. Gerard, A. Dupuis, and F. Herincq. Le Regne Vegetal: Divise en Traite de Botanique Generale, Flore Medicale et Horticulture Theorique et Pratique, Plantes Agricoles et Forestieres Histoire Biographique et Bibliographique de la Botanique. Paris: L. Guerin, [n.d., circa 1864-1871].
Complete in 17 quarto volumes with 6 plain and 405 hand-colored plates, and 4 folding maps. Plates measure approximately 7.25 x 10.5 inches.
Custom half leather with rubbing, edge wear, and insect damage. Chipping to some spine ends. Toning and scattered foxing throughout. Overall, a very good set.
Complete in 17 quarto volumes with 6 plain and 405 hand-colored plates, and 4 folding maps. Plates measure approximately 7.25 x 10.5 inches.
Custom half leather with rubbing, edge wear, and insect damage. Chipping to some spine ends. Toning and scattered foxing throughout. Overall, a very good set.
Sydenham Edwards. The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; With Their History and Mode of Treatment. London: James Ridgway, 1815-1833.
Nineteen uniform octavo volumes. 1,657 hand-colored plates, measuring approximately 5.5 x 9.25 inches; some folding plates measuring 9.25 x 11 inches.
Custom half leather with gilt spines and page edges. Heavily worn with perished spines and numerous boards detached. Toned with scattered foxing throughout. Plates in this lot can be considered in very good or better condition; actual bindings in overall fair condition.
Nineteen uniform octavo volumes. 1,657 hand-colored plates, measuring approximately 5.5 x 9.25 inches; some folding plates measuring 9.25 x 11 inches.
Custom half leather with gilt spines and page edges. Heavily worn with perished spines and numerous boards detached. Toned with scattered foxing throughout. Plates in this lot can be considered in very good or better condition; actual bindings in overall fair condition.
John Edward Sowerby. English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants. London: George Bell and Sons, 1887-1892.
Third edition in 13 uniform volumes. 1,938 hand-colored plates, measuring approximately 6.5 x 10 inches.
Custom half leather with moiré boards and gilt stamping. Binding shows scuffing and wear. Moderate toning, foxing, and insect damage throughout. All volumes in good or better condition.
Third edition in 13 uniform volumes. 1,938 hand-colored plates, measuring approximately 6.5 x 10 inches.
Custom half leather with moiré boards and gilt stamping. Binding shows scuffing and wear. Moderate toning, foxing, and insect damage throughout. All volumes in good or better condition.
Antiques
John James Audubon (1785-1851). Bird of Washington - Plate XI (Havell Edition).
An impressive hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman / Turkey Mill 1835." Plate not dated. General toning to paper; faint mat burn. A couple of tears and chips to bottom edge. Mounting and repair tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. Sheet has been trimmed unevenly along left side: width at top is 25 inches across, and width at bottom is 24 inches. Height of sheet measures 38 inches.
An impressive hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman / Turkey Mill 1835." Plate not dated. General toning to paper; faint mat burn. A couple of tears and chips to bottom edge. Mounting and repair tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. Sheet has been trimmed unevenly along left side: width at top is 25 inches across, and width at bottom is 24 inches. Height of sheet measures 38 inches.
John James Audubon (1785-1851). Black Vulture or Carrion Crow - Plate 3 (Bien Edition).
Chromolithograph by Julius Bien, with some hand-coloring, dated 1860; from the double elephant folio reprint edition of Audubon's The Birds of America (New York: 1858-1860). General toning to paper with browning edges. A few tears to edges. Light penciled notations. 39.5 x 26.5 inches.
Chromolithograph by Julius Bien, with some hand-coloring, dated 1860; from the double elephant folio reprint edition of Audubon's The Birds of America (New York: 1858-1860). General toning to paper with browning edges. A few tears to edges. Light penciled notations. 39.5 x 26.5 inches.
John James Audubon (1785-1851). Black Vulture or Carrion Crow - Plate CVI (Havell Edition).
A dramatic hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman 1830." Plate dated 1831. In very good condition with general toning and foxing to paper and a few small tears and chips around the edges. One 3.75-inch vertical tear extends from bottom edge into the image and has been repaired on the reverse, somewhat inelegantly. A few shallow creases. Minor paper loss to tips of corners. Brown tape residue to all edges of front and back of print. Right side shows binding edge, with prominent stitching holes. Light penciled notations. 26 x 39.25 inches.
A dramatic hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman 1830." Plate dated 1831. In very good condition with general toning and foxing to paper and a few small tears and chips around the edges. One 3.75-inch vertical tear extends from bottom edge into the image and has been repaired on the reverse, somewhat inelegantly. A few shallow creases. Minor paper loss to tips of corners. Brown tape residue to all edges of front and back of print. Right side shows binding edge, with prominent stitching holes. Light penciled notations. 26 x 39.25 inches.
John James Audubon (1785-1851). Blue Jay - Plate CII - Uncolored Original Proof (Havell Edition).
A striking uncolored original aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman 1831." Plate not dated. Printer's credit reads: "Engraved, printed & Coloured, by R. Havell, Junr." (with the final "r" in superscript). Though in excellent condition, this unusual Havell print has been fully mounted on heavy stock paper board. Print is remarkably bright and clean, with only a few scattered spots. Whatman watermark is visible along the left side, and the platemark depression is present. Minor bump to lower left corner; very tip of lower right corner missing. 25.75 x 38.75 inches.
Robert Havell, a perfectionist, was known for his superb artistry and exacting precision, and his work went through several closely-supervised steps of quality control before final publication. As it would frequently take a year or more between the original engraving of the plate and the ultimate publication, dates were generally not etched into the plate until Havell had run a series of uncolored proofs and then a series of colored proofs as tests. Only when everything was deemed perfect would Havell engrave the date in the plate and allow printing to commence. This is an original Havell proof on original Whatman paper. A wonderful item in an uncommon state.
Ron Flynn, The Audubon Price Guide.
A striking uncolored original aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman 1831." Plate not dated. Printer's credit reads: "Engraved, printed & Coloured, by R. Havell, Junr." (with the final "r" in superscript). Though in excellent condition, this unusual Havell print has been fully mounted on heavy stock paper board. Print is remarkably bright and clean, with only a few scattered spots. Whatman watermark is visible along the left side, and the platemark depression is present. Minor bump to lower left corner; very tip of lower right corner missing. 25.75 x 38.75 inches.
Robert Havell, a perfectionist, was known for his superb artistry and exacting precision, and his work went through several closely-supervised steps of quality control before final publication. As it would frequently take a year or more between the original engraving of the plate and the ultimate publication, dates were generally not etched into the plate until Havell had run a series of uncolored proofs and then a series of colored proofs as tests. Only when everything was deemed perfect would Havell engrave the date in the plate and allow printing to commence. This is an original Havell proof on original Whatman paper. A wonderful item in an uncommon state.
Ron Flynn, The Audubon Price Guide.
John James Audubon (1785-1851). California Vulture - Plate CCCCXXVI (Havell Edition).
A wonderfully imposing hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman / Turkey Mill" - no date. Plate dated 1838. General toning to paper; mat burn. Tears and chipping to edges. A couple of large chips and several tears (one approximately 2.5 inches) inexpertly repaired on reverse. Repair adhesives to reverse, including cellophane tape which has caused stains to front of print around the edges. Light penciled notations. 25.25 x 38 inches.
A wonderfully imposing hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman / Turkey Mill" - no date. Plate dated 1838. General toning to paper; mat burn. Tears and chipping to edges. A couple of large chips and several tears (one approximately 2.5 inches) inexpertly repaired on reverse. Repair adhesives to reverse, including cellophane tape which has caused stains to front of print around the edges. Light penciled notations. 25.25 x 38 inches.
John James Audubon (1785-1851). Night Heron, or Qua Bird - Plate 363 (Bien Edition).
Chromolithograph by Julius Bien, with some hand-coloring, dated 1860; from the double elephant folio reprint edition of Audubon's The Birds of America (New York: 1858-1860). General toning to paper, with chips and tears along edges and at corners. Substantial paper loss to top right corner. Acidic reaction to residue from tape on the reverse margins has bled through to the front. Light penciled notations. 39.5 x 26.5 inches.
Chromolithograph by Julius Bien, with some hand-coloring, dated 1860; from the double elephant folio reprint edition of Audubon's The Birds of America (New York: 1858-1860). General toning to paper, with chips and tears along edges and at corners. Substantial paper loss to top right corner. Acidic reaction to residue from tape on the reverse margins has bled through to the front. Light penciled notations. 39.5 x 26.5 inches.
John James Audubon (1785-1851). Reddish Egret - Plate 371 (Bien Edition).
A superb chromolithograph by Julius Bien, with some hand-coloring, dated 1860; from the double elephant folio reprint edition of Audubon's The Birds of America (New York: 1858-1860). In excellent condition except for general toning and light browning to edges. A couple of small edge tears repaired on reverse. Acidic reaction to residue from tape on the reverse margins has bled through to the front. Pin holes to top corners. Light penciled notations. 39.5 x 26.5 inches.
A superb chromolithograph by Julius Bien, with some hand-coloring, dated 1860; from the double elephant folio reprint edition of Audubon's The Birds of America (New York: 1858-1860). In excellent condition except for general toning and light browning to edges. A couple of small edge tears repaired on reverse. Acidic reaction to residue from tape on the reverse margins has bled through to the front. Pin holes to top corners. Light penciled notations. 39.5 x 26.5 inches.
John James Audubon (1785-1851). Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Plate CXXVII (Havell Edition).
A lovely hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman 1831." In excellent condition with the exception of a few faint spots, a couple of which are within the platemark, a one-inch horizontal slit near the top edge, and a few shallow creases. A short closed tear to bottom edge. Remnants of mounting material to top corners on reverse. 24.25 x 37.5 inches.
A lovely hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman 1831." In excellent condition with the exception of a few faint spots, a couple of which are within the platemark, a one-inch horizontal slit near the top edge, and a few shallow creases. A short closed tear to bottom edge. Remnants of mounting material to top corners on reverse. 24.25 x 37.5 inches.
John James Audubon (1785-1851). Rough-legged Falcon - Plate CLXVI (Havell Edition).
Hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman 1833." Plate not dated. Overall browning to paper, now brittle. A couple of small tears and chips to top edge. Significant chipping/paper loss at bottom edge. Shallow edge-to-edge horizontal crease across the middle of the print. 25.5 x 37.5 inches.
Hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman 1833." Plate not dated. Overall browning to paper, now brittle. A couple of small tears and chips to top edge. Significant chipping/paper loss at bottom edge. Shallow edge-to-edge horizontal crease across the middle of the print. 25.5 x 37.5 inches.
John James Audubon (1785-1851). Sanderling - Plate CCXXX (Havell Edition).
A charming hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman 1836." Plate dated 1834. In very good condition with general toning to paper, and a couple of chips to edges. Paper loss to lower right corner. One spot, outside the platemark. Brown tape residue to all edges of front and back of print. Light penciled notations. 38 x 25.25 inches.
A charming hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman 1836." Plate dated 1834. In very good condition with general toning to paper, and a couple of chips to edges. Paper loss to lower right corner. One spot, outside the platemark. Brown tape residue to all edges of front and back of print. Light penciled notations. 38 x 25.25 inches.
John James Audubon (1785-1851). Solitary Flycatcher or Vireo - Plate XXVIII (Havell Edition).
A delightful hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman 1834." Plate undated. In very good condition with general toning to paper, with some moisture- rippling along the margins. A few tears along the edges, many of which have been inexpertly repaired on the reverse; brown tape residue visible on front. Left side trimmed unevenly. Light penciled notations. 25 x 37.75 inches.
A delightful hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "J Whatman 1834." Plate undated. In very good condition with general toning to paper, with some moisture- rippling along the margins. A few tears along the edges, many of which have been inexpertly repaired on the reverse; brown tape residue visible on front. Left side trimmed unevenly. Light penciled notations. 25 x 37.75 inches.
John James Audubon (1785-1851). Trumpeter Swan - Plate CCCLXXVI (Havell Edition).
A beautiful hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Print is fully mounted on stiff cardboard; as such, watermark is not visible. Plate dated 1837. In very good condition with general toning to paper and paper loss to all corners. Small tears and chipping to edges. Light penciled notations. 37.5 x 25 inches.
A beautiful hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Print is fully mounted on stiff cardboard; as such, watermark is not visible. Plate dated 1837. In very good condition with general toning to paper and paper loss to all corners. Small tears and chipping to edges. Light penciled notations. 37.5 x 25 inches.
John James Audubon (1785-1851). White-fronted Goose - Plate 380 (Bien Edition).
A lovely chromolithograph by Julius Bien, with some hand-coloring, dated 1860; from the double elephant folio reprint edition of Audubon's The Birds of America (New York: 1858-1860). General toning to paper, with a couple of tears inexpertly repaired on reverse. Some light creases. Acidic reaction to residue from tape on the reverse margins has bled through to the front. Light penciled notations. 39.5 x 26.5 inches.
A lovely chromolithograph by Julius Bien, with some hand-coloring, dated 1860; from the double elephant folio reprint edition of Audubon's The Birds of America (New York: 1858-1860). General toning to paper, with a couple of tears inexpertly repaired on reverse. Some light creases. Acidic reaction to residue from tape on the reverse margins has bled through to the front. Light penciled notations. 39.5 x 26.5 inches.
John James Audubon (1785-1851). Dycoteles Torquatus - Plate XXXI (Bowen Edition).
An absolutely fantastic lithograph of the Collared Peccary, or the Javelina, hand-colored by J. T. Bowen and dated 1844, from the imperial folio edition of Audubon's The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (Philadelphia: 1845-1848). In excellent condition except for light browning to edges and a few tiny spots. Small nicks to lower corners. Top of sheet shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 27.5 x 21.25 inches.
An absolutely fantastic lithograph of the Collared Peccary, or the Javelina, hand-colored by J. T. Bowen and dated 1844, from the imperial folio edition of Audubon's The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (Philadelphia: 1845-1848). In excellent condition except for light browning to edges and a few tiny spots. Small nicks to lower corners. Top of sheet shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 27.5 x 21.25 inches.
John James Audubon (1785-1851). Lepus Glaciales - Plate XXXII (Bowen Edition).
A wonderfully appealing lithograph of the Polar Hare, hand-colored by J. T. Bowen and dated 1844, from the imperial folio edition of Audubon's The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (Philadelphia: 1845-1848). In very good condition with some minor spotting; one tear to the right edge measuring three-quarters of an inch, repaired on the reverse. Top of sheet shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 27.5 x 21.25 inches.
A wonderfully appealing lithograph of the Polar Hare, hand-colored by J. T. Bowen and dated 1844, from the imperial folio edition of Audubon's The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (Philadelphia: 1845-1848). In very good condition with some minor spotting; one tear to the right edge measuring three-quarters of an inch, repaired on the reverse. Top of sheet shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 27.5 x 21.25 inches.
John James Audubon (1785-1851). Mus Decumanus - Plate LIV (Bowen Edition).
A delightful lithograph of the Brown, or Norway Rat, hand-colored by J. T. Bowen and dated 1845, from the imperial folio edition of Audubon's The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (Philadelphia: 1845-1848). Paper is generally toned, with browning edges. A few tears to edges, repaired on reverse. Corners chipped. Paper loss to right edge. Binding edge at top is reinforced on the reverse. Light penciled notations. 27.25 x 21.5 inches.
A delightful lithograph of the Brown, or Norway Rat, hand-colored by J. T. Bowen and dated 1845, from the imperial folio edition of Audubon's The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (Philadelphia: 1845-1848). Paper is generally toned, with browning edges. A few tears to edges, repaired on reverse. Corners chipped. Paper loss to right edge. Binding edge at top is reinforced on the reverse. Light penciled notations. 27.25 x 21.5 inches.
Jean Baptiste Audebert (1759-1800). Three Prints: Le Sajou. [and:] Le Saïmiri. [and:] Le Callitriche.
Three hand-colored engravings from Histoire Naturelle des Singes et des Makis (Paris: 1798-1799). All in very good condition with mild foxing and smudges. Edges toned. All have light penciled notations. All measure 13 x 20 inches.
Three hand-colored engravings from Histoire Naturelle des Singes et des Makis (Paris: 1798-1799). All in very good condition with mild foxing and smudges. Edges toned. All have light penciled notations. All measure 13 x 20 inches.
Basilius Besler (1561-1629). Melilotus Germanica flore luteo, Galega flore cinereo, Galega flore albo.
A lovely hand-colored copperplate engraving from Besler's Hortus Eystettensis, a mammoth work originally published in Nuremberg in 1613, and later re-printed in 1640 and 1713. In excellent condition except for overall toning to paper, with some browning at edges. Shallow folds to tips of corners. Reverse contains printed text (Latin with some German). Light penciled notations. 16.25 x 20.5 inches.
A lovely hand-colored copperplate engraving from Besler's Hortus Eystettensis, a mammoth work originally published in Nuremberg in 1613, and later re-printed in 1640 and 1713. In excellent condition except for overall toning to paper, with some browning at edges. Shallow folds to tips of corners. Reverse contains printed text (Latin with some German). Light penciled notations. 16.25 x 20.5 inches.
George Brookshaw (1751-1823). Black Antigua - Plate LV.
A fabulous aquatint engraving of a pineapple, with some hand-coloring, from Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits (London: 1804-1812). Watermarked "1822." (This, actually plate XLV, was mis-numbered "LV," per Dunthorne.) In very good condition with uniform toning to paper and browning around the edges; a few light spots. Minor paper loss to lower right corner. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 17.75 x 22.75 inches.
A fabulous aquatint engraving of a pineapple, with some hand-coloring, from Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits (London: 1804-1812). Watermarked "1822." (This, actually plate XLV, was mis-numbered "LV," per Dunthorne.) In very good condition with uniform toning to paper and browning around the edges; a few light spots. Minor paper loss to lower right corner. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 17.75 x 22.75 inches.
George Brookshaw (1751-1823). Black Jamaica - Plate XL.
An absolutely superb aquatint engraving of a pineapple, with some hand-coloring, from Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits (London: 1804-1812). Watermarked "1822." In excellent condition with the exception of a streak of foxing at tip of top right corner and a couple of very faint spots inside the platemark. Edges are only slightly toned. Sheet has not been trimmed; binding edge is at the left. Light penciled notations. 18.25 x 22.75 inches.
An absolutely superb aquatint engraving of a pineapple, with some hand-coloring, from Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits (London: 1804-1812). Watermarked "1822." In excellent condition with the exception of a streak of foxing at tip of top right corner and a couple of very faint spots inside the platemark. Edges are only slightly toned. Sheet has not been trimmed; binding edge is at the left. Light penciled notations. 18.25 x 22.75 inches.
George Brookshaw (1751-1823). Black Muscadine - Plate L.
A beautiful aquatint engraving of grapes, with some hand-coloring, from Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits (London: 1804-1812). Watermarked "J Whatman 1816." In very good condition with browning edges and some light soiling. Light penciled notations. 17.75 x 22 inches.
A beautiful aquatint engraving of grapes, with some hand-coloring, from Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits (London: 1804-1812). Watermarked "J Whatman 1816." In very good condition with browning edges and some light soiling. Light penciled notations. 17.75 x 22 inches.
George Brookshaw (1751-1823). Green Melon - Plate LXIX.
Aquatint engraving of a melon, with some hand-coloring, from Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits (London: 1804-1812). Watermarked "1822." In very good condition with light toning. Left side shows a binding edge that has been roughly and unevenly trimmed. Chip to tip of lower right corner. A couple of pin holes to top edge. Light penciled notations. 17.75 x 22.75 inches.
Aquatint engraving of a melon, with some hand-coloring, from Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits (London: 1804-1812). Watermarked "1822." In very good condition with light toning. Left side shows a binding edge that has been roughly and unevenly trimmed. Chip to tip of lower right corner. A couple of pin holes to top edge. Light penciled notations. 17.75 x 22.75 inches.
George Brookshaw (1751-1823). Royal Muscadine - Plate XLVIII.
Aquatint engraving of grapes, with some hand-coloring, from Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits (London: 1804-1812). Watermarked "J Whatman 1816." In very good condition with general overall toning and browning around the edges. A few spots both inside and outside the platemark. Left side shows binding edge. Remnants of mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 17.75 x 22 inches.
Aquatint engraving of grapes, with some hand-coloring, from Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits (London: 1804-1812). Watermarked "J Whatman 1816." In very good condition with general overall toning and browning around the edges. A few spots both inside and outside the platemark. Left side shows binding edge. Remnants of mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 17.75 x 22 inches.
George Brookshaw (1751-1823). White Candia - Plate LXXI.
A lovely aquatint engraving of a melon, with some hand-coloring, from Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits (London: 1804-1812). Watermarked "1822." In very good condition with two tears to top edge, repaired with browning tape to reverse. Edges toned. Faint bleeding of background color between bottom edge of image and platemark. A few pin holes to top edge. Light penciled notations. 17.75 x 22.75 inches.
A lovely aquatint engraving of a melon, with some hand-coloring, from Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits (London: 1804-1812). Watermarked "1822." In very good condition with two tears to top edge, repaired with browning tape to reverse. Edges toned. Faint bleeding of background color between bottom edge of image and platemark. A few pin holes to top edge. Light penciled notations. 17.75 x 22.75 inches.
George Brookshaw (1751-1823). Two Prints: Red Frontiniac - Plate LVI. [and:] Black Frontiniac - Plate LVII.
A pair of beautiful aquatint engravings of grapes, with some hand-coloring, from Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits (London: 1804-1812). Red Frontiniac (watermarked "J Whatman 1809") is in very good condition with some general toning and a few faint spots of foxing; a few notches running from stitching holes along left side, and one 1.5-inch tear to left side, repaired with tape on the reverse. Left side shows binding edge. [and:] Black Frontiniac (watermarked "J Whatman 1810") is also in very good condition with general toning to the paper, browning to the edges, and some very light foxing, mostly outside the platemark; minor chipping and a couple of tiny nicks to edges. Both prints have light penciled notations. 17.75 x 22 inches, and 17.5 x 22 inches, respectively.
A pair of beautiful aquatint engravings of grapes, with some hand-coloring, from Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica; or, A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits (London: 1804-1812). Red Frontiniac (watermarked "J Whatman 1809") is in very good condition with some general toning and a few faint spots of foxing; a few notches running from stitching holes along left side, and one 1.5-inch tear to left side, repaired with tape on the reverse. Left side shows binding edge. [and:] Black Frontiniac (watermarked "J Whatman 1810") is also in very good condition with general toning to the paper, browning to the edges, and some very light foxing, mostly outside the platemark; minor chipping and a couple of tiny nicks to edges. Both prints have light penciled notations. 17.75 x 22 inches, and 17.5 x 22 inches, respectively.
Mrs. Edward Bury (née Priscilla Susan Falkner) (circa 1790s-1869). Amaryllis Miniata - Plate 35.
A wonderful aquatint engraving by R. Havell, with hand-coloring, from Mrs. Bury's A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, Belonging to the Natural Orders Amaryllidae and Liliacae (London: 1831-1834). In very good condition, with toning and a few spots. Some light rippling along the edges. A very shallow crease runs vertically inside the platemark, from edge to edge. Light penciled notations. 15.25 x 19.75 inches.
A wonderful aquatint engraving by R. Havell, with hand-coloring, from Mrs. Bury's A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, Belonging to the Natural Orders Amaryllidae and Liliacae (London: 1831-1834). In very good condition, with toning and a few spots. Some light rippling along the edges. A very shallow crease runs vertically inside the platemark, from edge to edge. Light penciled notations. 15.25 x 19.75 inches.
Mrs. Edward Bury (née Priscilla Susan Falkner) (circa 1790s-1869). Amaryllis Striatafolia - Plate 48.
A lovely aquatint engraving by R. Havell, with hand-coloring, from Mrs. Bury's A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, Belonging to the Natural Orders Amaryllidae and Liliacae (London: 1831-1834). In very good condition, with general toning, a few faint spots, and a couple of faint smudges along the right margin. Light penciled notations. 15.75 x 20.75 inches.
A lovely aquatint engraving by R. Havell, with hand-coloring, from Mrs. Bury's A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, Belonging to the Natural Orders Amaryllidae and Liliacae (London: 1831-1834). In very good condition, with general toning, a few faint spots, and a couple of faint smudges along the right margin. Light penciled notations. 15.75 x 20.75 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Acryllium Vulturina.
An exotic hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of slight toning to image area. Light penciled notations. 18 x 23 inches.
An exotic hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of slight toning to image area. Light penciled notations. 18 x 23 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Argusianus Grayii.
A magnificent hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of light toning around the edges. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
A magnificent hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of light toning around the edges. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Ceriornis Blythii.
A wonderful hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition except for a general toning of the paper and a light mat burn. Lower left corner has a tiny chip at the tip and a small area of discoloration just adjacent. Remnants of mounting tape to reverse. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 19 x 23.5 inches.
A wonderful hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition except for a general toning of the paper and a light mat burn. Lower left corner has a tiny chip at the tip and a small area of discoloration just adjacent. Remnants of mounting tape to reverse. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 19 x 23.5 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Cicinnurus Regius.
A delightful hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise (London: 1873). Light mat burn. Bottom corners have been repaired: left corner has paper loss to tip and has repair tape to both reverse and to front; right corner has paper loss to tip and has a repaired tear, with tape to reverse. Remnants of mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 18.5 x 23.5 inches.
A delightful hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise (London: 1873). Light mat burn. Bottom corners have been repaired: left corner has paper loss to tip and has repair tape to both reverse and to front; right corner has paper loss to tip and has a repaired tear, with tape to reverse. Remnants of mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 18.5 x 23.5 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Crossoptilon Thibetanum.
A striking hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of some browning along the edges and a tiny closed tear to the left side. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
A striking hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of some browning along the edges and a tiny closed tear to the left side. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Euplocomus Nycthemerus.
A striking hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of slight toning around the edges. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 19 x 23.75 inches.
A striking hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of slight toning around the edges. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 19 x 23.75 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Euplocomus Prælatus.
A beautiful hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of a shallow horizontal indentation along the top and bottom edges (caused, perhaps, by a mat), toning along the edges, and a small area of discoloration at the top left corner. Residue of mounting tape to reverse. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge, with remnants of facing sheet still attached. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
A beautiful hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of a shallow horizontal indentation along the top and bottom edges (caused, perhaps, by a mat), toning along the edges, and a small area of discoloration at the top left corner. Residue of mounting tape to reverse. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge, with remnants of facing sheet still attached. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Gallus Ferrugineus.
A fantastic hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1871-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of a short closed tear to the top edge and light toning around the edges. Right side shows binding edge, with remnants of facing sheet still attached. Light penciled notations. 18.75 x 23.75 inches.
A fantastic hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1871-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of a short closed tear to the top edge and light toning around the edges. Right side shows binding edge, with remnants of facing sheet still attached. Light penciled notations. 18.75 x 23.75 inches.
Books
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Lophorina Atra.
An impressive hand-colored lithograph with gold highlights from Elliot's Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise (London: 1873). Mat burn to edges. One-inch tear to tip of right corner; half-inch tear to lower left edge. Tiny amount of paper loss to very tips of all corners but top left. Faint spotting. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 18.25 x 23.25 inches.
An impressive hand-colored lithograph with gold highlights from Elliot's Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise (London: 1873). Mat burn to edges. One-inch tear to tip of right corner; half-inch tear to lower left edge. Tiny amount of paper loss to very tips of all corners but top left. Faint spotting. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 18.25 x 23.25 inches.
Antiques
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Numida Mitrata.
Hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In very good condition with toning around the edges and a minor smudge at top edge. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 23.5 x 18.75 inches.
Hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In very good condition with toning around the edges and a minor smudge at top edge. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 23.5 x 18.75 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Paradisea Minor.
A beautiful hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise (London: 1873). In excellent condition except for minor toning. Light penciled notations. 18.5 x 23.5 inches.
A beautiful hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise (London: 1873). In excellent condition except for minor toning. Light penciled notations. 18.5 x 23.5 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Pavo Cristatus.
An absolutely stunning hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of general overall toning and a few very faint spots of foxing. Right side shows binding edge, with sheet cut just above the stitching holes, with remnants of facing sheet still attached. Light penciled notations. 18.5 x 23.5 inches.
An absolutely stunning hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of general overall toning and a few very faint spots of foxing. Right side shows binding edge, with sheet cut just above the stitching holes, with remnants of facing sheet still attached. Light penciled notations. 18.5 x 23.5 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Pavo Muticus.
A striking and beautiful hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of general overall toning, a pin-point sized dot beneath the neck of the main peacock, wavy line of faint discoloration at right edge, a small area of discoloration at the bottom edge, and a tiny splotch at the base of the tailfeathers that appears to be color used by the colorist. Right side shows binding edge, with sheet cut just above the stitching holes, and with remnants of facing sheet still attached. Light penciled notations. 18.5 x 23.5 inches.
A striking and beautiful hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of general overall toning, a pin-point sized dot beneath the neck of the main peacock, wavy line of faint discoloration at right edge, a small area of discoloration at the bottom edge, and a tiny splotch at the base of the tailfeathers that appears to be color used by the colorist. Right side shows binding edge, with sheet cut just above the stitching holes, and with remnants of facing sheet still attached. Light penciled notations. 18.5 x 23.5 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Pavo Nigripennis.
A fabulous hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of light toning around the edges, very faint foxing outside the image area, and a three-inch long vertical tear which runs just above the right-side binding edge and which has been neatly repaired on the reverse with tape. Binding edge has remnants of facing sheet still attached. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
A fabulous hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of light toning around the edges, very faint foxing outside the image area, and a three-inch long vertical tear which runs just above the right-side binding edge and which has been neatly repaired on the reverse with tape. Binding edge has remnants of facing sheet still attached. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Phasianus Sœmmerringii.
An extremely attractive hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition except for a general toning of the paper and light browning to edges. Remnants of mounting tape to reverse. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
An extremely attractive hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition except for a general toning of the paper and light browning to edges. Remnants of mounting tape to reverse. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Pucrasia Duvauceli.
Hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In very good condition with overall toning, light foxing, and chips to the upper left and lower left corners; a short tear and tiny chip at middle of the top edge have been repaired on the reverse with cloth tape. Bottom edge shows that sheet has been cut at the stitching holes. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
Hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In very good condition with overall toning, light foxing, and chips to the upper left and lower left corners; a short tear and tiny chip at middle of the top edge have been repaired on the reverse with cloth tape. Bottom edge shows that sheet has been cut at the stitching holes. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Pucrasia Macrolopha.
A lovely hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of a couple of tiny nicks, light toning around the edges, and a small area of discoloration at the bottom edge. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge, with remnants of facing sheet still attached. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
A lovely hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of a couple of tiny nicks, light toning around the edges, and a small area of discoloration at the bottom edge. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge, with remnants of facing sheet still attached. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
Books
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Seleucides Alba.
A hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise (London: 1873). Edges are toned and show mat burn. Remnants of adhesives used during mounting are evident around all edges of the front of the print except for the left side. Image area is clean with bright colors. Light penciled notations. 18.5 x 23.5 inches.
A hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise (London: 1873). Edges are toned and show mat burn. Remnants of adhesives used during mounting are evident around all edges of the front of the print except for the left side. Image area is clean with bright colors. Light penciled notations. 18.5 x 23.5 inches.
Antiques
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Thaumalea Amherstiæ.
A wonderful hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of light toning around the edges and a faint spot of discoloration at the top right corner. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge, with remnants of facing sheet still attached. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
A wonderful hand-colored lithograph from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). In excellent condition with the exception of light toning around the edges and a faint spot of discoloration at the top right corner. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge, with remnants of facing sheet still attached. Light penciled notations. 23.75 x 18.75 inches.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Two Prints: Lophophorus L'Huysh. [and:] Numida Verreauxii.
A pair of striking hand-colored lithographs from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). Lophophorus L'Huysh is in excellent condition with the exception of toning along the edges and the missing tip of the lower left corner. Right side shows binding edge. [and:] Numida Verreauxii is in somewhat lesser condition, with general overall toning, an area of discoloration to lower left corner, and what appears to be a broken brown streak intruding into the margin caused by mending or mounting tape, the residue of which is seen along the binding edge, recto and verso. Both prints have light penciled notations. 18.75 x 23.75 inches, and 18.75 x 23.75 inches, respectively.
A pair of striking hand-colored lithographs from Elliot's Monograph of the Phasianidae, or Family of the Pheasants (New York: 1870-1872). Lophophorus L'Huysh is in excellent condition with the exception of toning along the edges and the missing tip of the lower left corner. Right side shows binding edge. [and:] Numida Verreauxii is in somewhat lesser condition, with general overall toning, an area of discoloration to lower left corner, and what appears to be a broken brown streak intruding into the margin caused by mending or mounting tape, the residue of which is seen along the binding edge, recto and verso. Both prints have light penciled notations. 18.75 x 23.75 inches, and 18.75 x 23.75 inches, respectively.
Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915). Two Prints: Paradigalla Carunculata. [and:] Diphyllodes Respublica.
Two lovely hand-colored lithographs from Elliot's Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise (London: 1873). Both are in excellent condition except for some toning around the edges. There is some minor paper loss to tips of corners of Paradigalla Carunculata, and chipping along corner edges of Diphyllodes Respublica. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 18.5 x 23.5 inches.
Two lovely hand-colored lithographs from Elliot's Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise (London: 1873). Both are in excellent condition except for some toning around the edges. There is some minor paper loss to tips of corners of Paradigalla Carunculata, and chipping along corner edges of Diphyllodes Respublica. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 18.5 x 23.5 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Apteryx Australis.
A wonderful hand-colored lithograph of the Kiwi, from Gould's Birds of Australia (London: 1840-1869). In generally very good condition with overall toning. A few small closed tears to edges, and a couple of long, shallow creases. Very faint mat burn. Tip of lower left corner is missing, a victim of careless removal of mounting tape. Mounting tape still present to other three corners on the reverse. Light penciled notations. 22 x 14.75 inches.
A wonderful hand-colored lithograph of the Kiwi, from Gould's Birds of Australia (London: 1840-1869). In generally very good condition with overall toning. A few small closed tears to edges, and a couple of long, shallow creases. Very faint mat burn. Tip of lower left corner is missing, a victim of careless removal of mounting tape. Mounting tape still present to other three corners on the reverse. Light penciled notations. 22 x 14.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Aquila Nævia.
Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In excellent condition except for light toning. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In excellent condition except for light toning. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Aquila Chrysaëtos.
An impressive hand-colored lithograph of the Golden Eagle from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with browning around the edges. Barely noticeable shallow horizontal crease runs the length of the sheet near the top edge; faint bend to lower left corner. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15 x 21.75 inches.
An impressive hand-colored lithograph of the Golden Eagle from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with browning around the edges. Barely noticeable shallow horizontal crease runs the length of the sheet near the top edge; faint bend to lower left corner. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Archibuteo Lagopus.
A hand-colored lithograph of the Rough-Legged Buzzard from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with browning around the edges. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15 x 21.75 inches.
A hand-colored lithograph of the Rough-Legged Buzzard from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with browning around the edges. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Ardea Cinerea.
A delightful hand-colored lithograph of a Heron family, from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with general toning, some browning to very edges, and faint spotting. Light area to margins, suggesting print was matted at one point. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15 x 22 inches.
A delightful hand-colored lithograph of a Heron family, from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with general toning, some browning to very edges, and faint spotting. Light area to margins, suggesting print was matted at one point. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15 x 22 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Astur Palumbarius.
A beautiful hand-colored lithograph of the Goshawk from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with general toning to the sheet and light browning around the edges. One expertly repaired two-inch tear at the left side; another half-inch tear, unrepaired, at the same side. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15 x 21.75 inches.
A beautiful hand-colored lithograph of the Goshawk from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with general toning to the sheet and light browning around the edges. One expertly repaired two-inch tear at the left side; another half-inch tear, unrepaired, at the same side. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Bubo Maximus.
A hand-colored lithograph of the imperious Eagle Owl from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with general toning to the sheet and light browning around the edges. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
A hand-colored lithograph of the imperious Eagle Owl from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with general toning to the sheet and light browning around the edges. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Chlorostilbon Atala.
A lovely and delicate hand-colored lithograph with iridescent highlights from Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming Birds (London: 1849-1861). In excellent condition with the exception of a short slit at the top edge and the missing tip of the lower right corner. Right side shows binding edge. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 14.5 x 21.25 inches.
A lovely and delicate hand-colored lithograph with iridescent highlights from Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming Birds (London: 1849-1861). In excellent condition with the exception of a short slit at the top edge and the missing tip of the lower right corner. Right side shows binding edge. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 14.5 x 21.25 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Falco Aesalon.
A tremendous lithograph of the Merlin with still-vibrant hand-coloring from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In excellent condition with light toning to edges. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
A tremendous lithograph of the Merlin with still-vibrant hand-coloring from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In excellent condition with light toning to edges. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Falco Candicans.
A hand-colored lithograph of the Greenland Falcon (light race, adult and young) from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with general toning to the sheet and light browning around the edges. Right side has been slightly and somewhat unevenly trimmed. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
A hand-colored lithograph of the Greenland Falcon (light race, adult and young) from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with general toning to the sheet and light browning around the edges. Right side has been slightly and somewhat unevenly trimmed. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Falco Peregrinus.
Hand-colored lithograph of the Peregrine Falcon from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with browning edges. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
Hand-colored lithograph of the Peregrine Falcon from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with browning edges. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Falco Subbuteo.
Hand-colored lithograph of the Hobby from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In excellent condition with toning to edges. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
Hand-colored lithograph of the Hobby from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In excellent condition with toning to edges. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Haliaëtus Albicilla.
A hand-colored lithograph of the majestic Sea-Eagle, from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In excellent condition except for overall toning and darkening around edges. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15 x 21.75 inches.
A hand-colored lithograph of the majestic Sea-Eagle, from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In excellent condition except for overall toning and darkening around edges. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Herodias Alba.
Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with mounting tape to reverse. Acidic reaction to tape on the top corners of the reverse has bled through to the front. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 14.5 x 21.5 inches.
Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with mounting tape to reverse. Acidic reaction to tape on the top corners of the reverse has bled through to the front. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 14.5 x 21.5 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Microchera Parvirostris.
A charming hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming Birds (London: 1849-1861). In excellent condition with the exception of minor foxing near the top edge and a couple of tiny tears along the left edge. Light penciled notations. Mounting tape to reverse. 14.75 x 22 inches.
A charming hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming Birds (London: 1849-1861). In excellent condition with the exception of minor foxing near the top edge and a couple of tiny tears along the left edge. Light penciled notations. Mounting tape to reverse. 14.75 x 22 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Numenius Rufescens.
A charming hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). In very good condition with general toning and a light mat burn. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 22 x 15 inches.
A charming hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). In very good condition with general toning and a light mat burn. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 22 x 15 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Nyctea Nivea.
Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with general toning and mat burn. Short tear to right edge. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15 x 22 inches.
Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In very good condition with general toning and mat burn. Short tear to right edge. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15 x 22 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Palæornis Derbianus.
A lovely hand-colored lithograph of the Earl of Derby's Parrakeet, from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). In very good condition with general toning, some browning to edges, and faint spotting. Brown tape residue along the roughly-trimmed right edge. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
A lovely hand-colored lithograph of the Earl of Derby's Parrakeet, from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). In very good condition with general toning, some browning to edges, and faint spotting. Brown tape residue along the roughly-trimmed right edge. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Paradisea Augustæ Victoriæ.
A stunning and vivid hand-colored lithograph of the Empress of Germany Bird of Paradise. In excellent condition except for some minor toning around edges and some light smudging along the right margin. One small spot at left margin. Right edge shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15.25 x 22.5 inches.
A stunning and vivid hand-colored lithograph of the Empress of Germany Bird of Paradise. In excellent condition except for some minor toning around edges and some light smudging along the right margin. One small spot at left margin. Right edge shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15.25 x 22.5 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Paradisea Intermedia.
A beautiful and vibrant hand-colored lithograph of De Vis's Bird of Paradise. In excellent condition except for a light mat burn. Mounting tape to reverse. Right edge shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15 x 22 inches.
A beautiful and vibrant hand-colored lithograph of De Vis's Bird of Paradise. In excellent condition except for a light mat burn. Mounting tape to reverse. Right edge shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 15 x 22 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Phæoptila Sordida.
A striking hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming Birds (London: 1849-1861). In very nice condition save for an even mat burn. Mounting tape to all edges on reverse. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
A striking hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming Birds (London: 1849-1861). In very nice condition save for an even mat burn. Mounting tape to all edges on reverse. 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Ramphastos Swainsonii.
A striking hand-colored lithograph of Swainson's Toucan from Gould's Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or family of Toucans, originally published in 1835. In very good condition with general toning and light foxing. Reinforcing tape to bumped lower left corner. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 14 x 21 inches.
A striking hand-colored lithograph of Swainson's Toucan from Gould's Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or family of Toucans, originally published in 1835. In very good condition with general toning and light foxing. Reinforcing tape to bumped lower left corner. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 14 x 21 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Red-Crested Duck.
Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). With "J. E. Goulb" [sic] written in the plate. In very good condition with some light spotting. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 21.25 x 14 inches.
Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). With "J. E. Goulb" [sic] written in the plate. In very good condition with some light spotting. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 21.25 x 14 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Strix Candida.
Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Australia (London: 1840-1869). In very good condition with light spotting and mat burn. A closed tear measuring 1.75 inches extends vertically from top edge. Tape residue to area near lower left corner. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 22 inches.
Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Australia (London: 1840-1869). In very good condition with light spotting and mat burn. A closed tear measuring 1.75 inches extends vertically from top edge. Tape residue to area near lower left corner. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 14.75 x 22 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Accipiter Nisis [sic]. [and:] Tinnunculus Alaudarius.
Two lovely hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). Both are in very good condition with overall toning, darker around the edges. Tinnunculus Alaudarius has an ink smear to the top left side, and a .75-inch closed tear, also to the left side; right side shows binding edge. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
Two lovely hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). Both are in very good condition with overall toning, darker around the edges. Tinnunculus Alaudarius has an ink smear to the top left side, and a .75-inch closed tear, also to the left side; right side shows binding edge. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Amazilla Pristina. [and:] Ramphomicron Microrhyncha.
A pair of delightful hand-colored lithographs with iridescent highlights from Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming Birds (London: 1849-1861). Amazilla Pristina is in excellent condition. Staple holes to top left corner. Right side shows binding edge. [and:] Ramphomicron Microrhyncha has foxing and toned edges. Both have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. 14.5 x 21.25 inches, and 14.25 x 21.25 inches, respectively.
A pair of delightful hand-colored lithographs with iridescent highlights from Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming Birds (London: 1849-1861). Amazilla Pristina is in excellent condition. Staple holes to top left corner. Right side shows binding edge. [and:] Ramphomicron Microrhyncha has foxing and toned edges. Both have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. 14.5 x 21.25 inches, and 14.25 x 21.25 inches, respectively.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Buteo Vulgaris. [and:] Pernis Apivorus.
A pair of impressive hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). Buteo Vulgaris (the Common Vulture) is in very good condition with toning around the edges and a few tiny spots. Right side shows binding edge. [and:] Pernis Apivorus (the Honey-Buzzard) is in very good condition with light toning around the edges and a few tiny spots. Right side shows binding edge. Both have light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches, and 14.75 x 22 inches, respectively.
A pair of impressive hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). Buteo Vulgaris (the Common Vulture) is in very good condition with toning around the edges and a few tiny spots. Right side shows binding edge. [and:] Pernis Apivorus (the Honey-Buzzard) is in very good condition with light toning around the edges and a few tiny spots. Right side shows binding edge. Both have light penciled notations. 14.75 x 21.75 inches, and 14.75 x 22 inches, respectively.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Circus Cyaneus. [and:] Circus Cineraceus.
A pair of beautiful hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). Circus Cyaneus (the Hen Harrier) is in very good condition with light toning around the edges and a few small spots. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. [and:] Circus Cineraceus (the Ash-Colored Harrier) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. Both prints have light penciled notations. 21.75 x 15 inches, and 21.75 x 14.75 inches, respectively.
A pair of beautiful hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). Circus Cyaneus (the Hen Harrier) is in very good condition with light toning around the edges and a few small spots. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. [and:] Circus Cineraceus (the Ash-Colored Harrier) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. Both prints have light penciled notations. 21.75 x 15 inches, and 21.75 x 14.75 inches, respectively.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Circus Aeruginosus (Adult). [and:] Circus Aeruginosus (Young).
A pair of very striking hand-colored lithographs of the Marsh-Harrier from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). Circus Aeruginosus (Adult) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges and one tiny spot in the top left area of the print. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. [and:] Circus Aeruginosus (Young) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges. Top side shows binding edge. Both have light penciled notations. 21.75 x 15 inches, and 21.75 x 15 inches, respectively.
A pair of very striking hand-colored lithographs of the Marsh-Harrier from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). Circus Aeruginosus (Adult) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges and one tiny spot in the top left area of the print. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. [and:] Circus Aeruginosus (Young) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges. Top side shows binding edge. Both have light penciled notations. 21.75 x 15 inches, and 21.75 x 15 inches, respectively.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Falco Gyrfalco. [and:] Milvus Migrans.
A pair of stately hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). Falco Gyrfalco (the Norwegian Falcon) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges and a few tiny spots. Right side shows binding edge. [and:] Milvus Migrans (the Black Kite) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges. Right side shows binding edge. Both prints have light penciled notations. Both measure 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
A pair of stately hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). Falco Gyrfalco (the Norwegian Falcon) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges and a few tiny spots. Right side shows binding edge. [and:] Milvus Migrans (the Black Kite) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges. Right side shows binding edge. Both prints have light penciled notations. Both measure 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Falco Candicans (Adult). [and:] Falco Candicans (Young).
A pair of hand-colored lithographs of the fiercely predatory Greenland Falcon (dark race) from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). Falco Candicans (Adult) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges. Right side shows binding edge. [and:] Falco Candicans (Young) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges. Left side shows binding edge. Both prints have light penciled notations. Both measure 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
A pair of hand-colored lithographs of the fiercely predatory Greenland Falcon (dark race) from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). Falco Candicans (Adult) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges. Right side shows binding edge. [and:] Falco Candicans (Young) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges. Left side shows binding edge. Both prints have light penciled notations. Both measure 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Falco Islandus (Adult). [and:] Falco Islandus (Young).
A pair of wonderful hand-colored lithographs of the Iceland Falcon from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). Falco Islandus (Adult) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges. Right side shows binding edge. [and:] Falco Islandus (Young) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges. Left side shows binding edge. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
A pair of wonderful hand-colored lithographs of the Iceland Falcon from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). Falco Islandus (Adult) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges. Right side shows binding edge. [and:] Falco Islandus (Young) is in excellent condition except for light toning around the edges. Left side shows binding edge. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Griffon Vulture. [and:] Otogyps Calvus.
Two hand-colored lithographs of vultures, including: Griffon Vulture, from Gould's Birds of Europe (London: 1832-1837). [and:] Otogyps Calvus, from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). Both are in very good condition with general toning and light spotting. Right side of Otogyps Calvus shows binding edge. Both have mounting tape to reverse, and both have light penciled notations. 14 x 21 inches, and 14.75 x 21.25 inches, respectively.
Two hand-colored lithographs of vultures, including: Griffon Vulture, from Gould's Birds of Europe (London: 1832-1837). [and:] Otogyps Calvus, from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). Both are in very good condition with general toning and light spotting. Right side of Otogyps Calvus shows binding edge. Both have mounting tape to reverse, and both have light penciled notations. 14 x 21 inches, and 14.75 x 21.25 inches, respectively.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Myiophoneus Insularis. [and:] Podoces Hendersoni.
Two hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). In very good condition with general toning to both. Both have creases and slight tearing to lower right corners, a result of careless removal of mounting tape. Some smudges to Podoces Hendersoni. Both have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 14.5 x 21.5 inches.
Two hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). In very good condition with general toning to both. Both have creases and slight tearing to lower right corners, a result of careless removal of mounting tape. Some smudges to Podoces Hendersoni. Both have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 14.5 x 21.5 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Numida Vulturina. [and:] Ceriornis Temminckii.
A pair of very attractive hand-colored lithographs. Numida Vulturina is in very good condition, with toning to the edges, a couple of short tears to the left side, and a small black dot beneath the bird's beak. [and:] Ceriornis Temminckii, from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883), is in excellent condition except for a faint mat burn to all edges and a tiny amount of paper loss to the top right corner. Mounting tape to reverse. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. Both prints have light penciled notations. 21.75 x 14.75 inches, and 22 x 15 inches, respectively.
A pair of very attractive hand-colored lithographs. Numida Vulturina is in very good condition, with toning to the edges, a couple of short tears to the left side, and a small black dot beneath the bird's beak. [and:] Ceriornis Temminckii, from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883), is in excellent condition except for a faint mat burn to all edges and a tiny amount of paper loss to the top right corner. Mounting tape to reverse. Bottom of sheet shows binding edge. Both prints have light penciled notations. 21.75 x 14.75 inches, and 22 x 15 inches, respectively.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Otis Macqueeni. [and:] Little Bustard.
Two hand-colored lithographs, including: Otis Macqueeni, from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). Very good; edges browned. [and:] Little Bustard, from his Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In excellent condition with light toning. Mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. 22 x 14.25 inches, and 21 x 14 inches, respectively.
Two hand-colored lithographs, including: Otis Macqueeni, from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). Very good; edges browned. [and:] Little Bustard, from his Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In excellent condition with light toning. Mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. 22 x 14.25 inches, and 21 x 14 inches, respectively.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Palæornis Cyanocephala. [and:] Prioniturus Discosurus.
Two beautiful hand-colored lithographs of parakeets and parrots, from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). Both are in generally excellent condition aside from light toning and discolored tape residue to the binding edge of Palæornis Cyanocephala. Both have mounting tape to reverse, and both have light penciled notations. 15 x 21.75 inches, and 14.25 x 21.5 inches, respectively.
Two beautiful hand-colored lithographs of parakeets and parrots, from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). Both are in generally excellent condition aside from light toning and discolored tape residue to the binding edge of Palæornis Cyanocephala. Both have mounting tape to reverse, and both have light penciled notations. 15 x 21.75 inches, and 14.25 x 21.5 inches, respectively.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Palumbus Elphinstonei. [and:] Palumbus Torquatus.
Two hand-colored lithographs of pigeons, including: Palumbus Elphinstonei, from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). Very good with general toning and browned edges. Tip of upper left corner is missing, a result of careless removal of mounting tape to reverse. [and:] Palumbus Torquatus, from his Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In excellent condition with light toning. Right side shows binding edge. Both have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. 14.75 x 22 inches, and 15 x 22 inches, respectively.
Two hand-colored lithographs of pigeons, including: Palumbus Elphinstonei, from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). Very good with general toning and browned edges. Tip of upper left corner is missing, a result of careless removal of mounting tape to reverse. [and:] Palumbus Torquatus, from his Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). In excellent condition with light toning. Right side shows binding edge. Both have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. 14.75 x 22 inches, and 15 x 22 inches, respectively.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Perdix Hodgsonlæ. [and:] Galloperdix Spadiceus.
Two hand-colored lithographs of fowls, from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). In very good condition with general toning and browned edges. Both have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 22 x 14.75 inches.
Two hand-colored lithographs of fowls, from Gould's Birds of Asia (London: 1850-1883). In very good condition with general toning and browned edges. Both have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 22 x 14.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Phaëthornis Intermedius. [and:] Klais Guimeti.
A pair of charming hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming Birds (London: 1849-1861). Both in excellent condition. Phaëthornis Intermedius has a few faint spots; Klais Guimeti is toned along the edges and has a small tear and stitching holes along the right edge. Both have light penciled notations. 14.5 x 22 inches, and 15 x 22 inches, respectively.
A pair of charming hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming Birds (London: 1849-1861). Both in excellent condition. Phaëthornis Intermedius has a few faint spots; Klais Guimeti is toned along the edges and has a small tear and stitching holes along the right edge. Both have light penciled notations. 14.5 x 22 inches, and 15 x 22 inches, respectively.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Ramphomicron Herrani. [and:] Dorifera Ludovicle.
A pair of lovely hand-colored lithographs with iridescent highlights from Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming Birds (London: 1849-1861). Ramphomicron Herrani is in beautiful condition except for tape residue to left margin and light toning to image area. [and:] Dorifera Ludovicle is in excellent condition aside from a light mat burn. Both have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. 14.25 x 21.5 inches, and 14.5 x 21.75 inches, respectively.
A pair of lovely hand-colored lithographs with iridescent highlights from Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming Birds (London: 1849-1861). Ramphomicron Herrani is in beautiful condition except for tape residue to left margin and light toning to image area. [and:] Dorifera Ludovicle is in excellent condition aside from a light mat burn. Both have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. 14.25 x 21.5 inches, and 14.5 x 21.75 inches, respectively.
John Gould (1804-1881). Two Prints: Thaumatias Affinis. [and:] Thaumatias Brevirostris.
A pair of charming hand-colored lithographs of nesting scenes from Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming Birds (London: 1849-1861). Thaumatias Affinis is in excellent condition, with only light toning to image area and tiny staple-like holes to top left corner. Right side shows binding edge. [and:] Thaumatias Brevirostris is also in excellent condition. Right side shows binding edge. Both prints have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. 14.5 x 21.25 inches, and 14.5 x 21.25 inches, respectively.
A pair of charming hand-colored lithographs of nesting scenes from Gould's Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming Birds (London: 1849-1861). Thaumatias Affinis is in excellent condition, with only light toning to image area and tiny staple-like holes to top left corner. Right side shows binding edge. [and:] Thaumatias Brevirostris is also in excellent condition. Right side shows binding edge. Both prints have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. 14.5 x 21.25 inches, and 14.5 x 21.25 inches, respectively.
John Gould (1804-1881). Three Prints: Gyps Bengalensis. [and:] Cinereus Vulture (drawn by Edward Lear). [and:] Bearded Vulture or Lœmmer Geyer.
Three hand-colored lithographs of vultures, from Gould's Birds of Asia and Birds of Europe. The Gyps Bengalensis is in very good condition with browning around the edges and a few spots. Tips of both lower corners missing, a result of careless removal of mounting tape. The other two are in generally excellent condition. All are lightly toned, with mounting tape to reverse, and all have light penciled notations. 14.5 x 21.75 inches, 14.25 x 21 inches, and 13.75 x 21 inches, respectively.
Three hand-colored lithographs of vultures, from Gould's Birds of Asia and Birds of Europe. The Gyps Bengalensis is in very good condition with browning around the edges and a few spots. Tips of both lower corners missing, a result of careless removal of mounting tape. The other two are in generally excellent condition. All are lightly toned, with mounting tape to reverse, and all have light penciled notations. 14.5 x 21.75 inches, 14.25 x 21 inches, and 13.75 x 21 inches, respectively.
John Gould (1804-1881). Three Prints: Surnia Funerea. [and:] Scops Zorca. [and:] Nyctale Tengmalmi.
Three wonderful hand-colored lithographs of owls, all from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). All are in generally excellent condition with some toning to edges. Right sides of all show binding edge. All have light penciled notations. All measure approximately 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
Three wonderful hand-colored lithographs of owls, all from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). All are in generally excellent condition with some toning to edges. Right sides of all show binding edge. All have light penciled notations. All measure approximately 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Four Prints: Pandion Haliaëtus. [and:] Neophron Percnopterus. [and:] Milvus Regalis. [and:] Erythropus Vespertinus.
Four hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). All in excellent condition except for general toning. Milvus Regalis and Erythropus Vespertinus have minor spotting. All four prints show binding edge to right side. All have light penciled notations. All measure 15 x 22 inches.
Four hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873). All in excellent condition except for general toning. Milvus Regalis and Erythropus Vespertinus have minor spotting. All four prints show binding edge to right side. All have light penciled notations. All measure 15 x 22 inches.
John Gould (1804-1881). Four Owl Prints.
Four extremely charming hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873), including: Strix Flammea. [and:] Syrnium Aluco. [and:] Athene Noctua. [and:] Otus Vulagaris. All are in excellent condition, with only very light toning at edges. Right sides of all prints show binding edge. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
Four extremely charming hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Birds of Great Britain (London: 1862-1873), including: Strix Flammea. [and:] Syrnium Aluco. [and:] Athene Noctua. [and:] Otus Vulagaris. All are in excellent condition, with only very light toning at edges. Right sides of all prints show binding edge. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.75 x 21.75 inches.
Books
Five Original Artist's Palette Instruction Plates From Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio.
An incredibly rare offering of five lithographed plates with artist's pencil notations indicating the proper color palette for hand-painting each example for inclusion in a work that famed ornithologist Elliot Coues described as being unequaled in "artistic skill or scientific accuracy". Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio was privately published in 1886 by Dr. Howard Jones and Virginia Jones. Over the life of the project several artists were involved in hand-coloring the illustrations so it would be difficult to attribute these examples to a specific colorist. Each plate measures about 15 x 17.5 inches. Several have been partially painted in a tentative fashion as the artist tried different shades and color combinations in an attempt to accurately portray each egg or nest. It is obvious that these are working samples as each is rather soiled and a few have small sections trimmed or cut out. Included are working examples of plate VII from Volume I, and plates LXII, XLIV (numbered LXIV in the published volume), XLV, and XLVI in Volume II. The Jones' incredible work stands to this day as a milestone in the history of American ornithological literature and complete copies are rare, these artist working samples are rarer still.
An incredibly rare offering of five lithographed plates with artist's pencil notations indicating the proper color palette for hand-painting each example for inclusion in a work that famed ornithologist Elliot Coues described as being unequaled in "artistic skill or scientific accuracy". Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio was privately published in 1886 by Dr. Howard Jones and Virginia Jones. Over the life of the project several artists were involved in hand-coloring the illustrations so it would be difficult to attribute these examples to a specific colorist. Each plate measures about 15 x 17.5 inches. Several have been partially painted in a tentative fashion as the artist tried different shades and color combinations in an attempt to accurately portray each egg or nest. It is obvious that these are working samples as each is rather soiled and a few have small sections trimmed or cut out. Included are working examples of plate VII from Volume I, and plates LXII, XLIV (numbered LXIV in the published volume), XLV, and XLVI in Volume II. The Jones' incredible work stands to this day as a milestone in the history of American ornithological literature and complete copies are rare, these artist working samples are rarer still.
Three Original Hand-Colored Plates From Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio.
Extracted from Howard Jones [text] and Mrs. N. E. (Virginia) Jones [illustrator]. Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio With Text. Circleville, Ohio, 1886. Texted printed by Robert Clarke & Company, Cincinnati; plates printed by The Krebs Lithographing Company, Cincinnati.
Three beautiful hand-colored plates from the rare work on Ohio birds, considered by many as second only to Audubon, including Plate VIII from Volume I, the nest of the Turdus Migratorius (Robin), trimmed in an oval to 16.75 x 13.5 inches, Plate XLII from Volume II, the nest of Thryomanes Bewicki (Berwick's Wren), 14 x 16.5 inches, and Plate LX from Volume II, examples of eggs from various birds including swallows, warblers, sparrows, bitterns, owls, and woodcocks. Each example remains bright and in near fine condition.
Extracted from Howard Jones [text] and Mrs. N. E. (Virginia) Jones [illustrator]. Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio With Text. Circleville, Ohio, 1886. Texted printed by Robert Clarke & Company, Cincinnati; plates printed by The Krebs Lithographing Company, Cincinnati.
Three beautiful hand-colored plates from the rare work on Ohio birds, considered by many as second only to Audubon, including Plate VIII from Volume I, the nest of the Turdus Migratorius (Robin), trimmed in an oval to 16.75 x 13.5 inches, Plate XLII from Volume II, the nest of Thryomanes Bewicki (Berwick's Wren), 14 x 16.5 inches, and Plate LX from Volume II, examples of eggs from various birds including swallows, warblers, sparrows, bitterns, owls, and woodcocks. Each example remains bright and in near fine condition.
Two Original Artist's Palette Samples for Plates From Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio. A rare offering of two lithographed plates which have been partially painted in a tentative fashion as the artist tried different shading and color combinations in an attempt to accurately portray some element of a specific bird's nest. It is also possible that these attempts were rejected by the artist as falling short of the mark for inclusion in the book that famed ornithologist Elliot Coues described as being unequaled in "artistic skill or scientific accuracy". Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio was privately published in 1886 by Dr. Howard Jones and Virginia Jones. Over the life of the project several artists were involved in hand-coloring the illustrations so it would be difficult to attribute these examples to a specific colorist. Included are working examples of plate III from Volume I, the nest of the Cocoyzus Erythrophthalmus (Black-Billed Cuckoo) and Plate XVII, the nest of the Mimus Carolinensis (Catbird), also from Volume I. The Jones' incredible work stands to this day as a milestone in the history of American ornithological literature and complete copies are rare, these artist working samples are rarer still.
Two Original Hand-Colored Plates From Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio.
Extracted from Howard Jones [text] and Mrs. N. E. (Virginia) Jones [illustrator]. Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio With Text. Circleville, Ohio, 1886. Texted printed by Robert Clarke & Company, Cincinnati; plates printed by The Krebs Lithographing Company, Cincinnati.
Two beautiful hand-colored plates from the rare work on Ohio birds, considered by many as second only to Audubon, including Plate XII from Volume I, the nest of the Sialia Sialis (Eastern Bluebird), 14 x 16.5 inches and Plate LXVI from Volume II, the nest of Parus Atricapillus (Black-Capped Chickadee), 14 x 16.5 inches. Plate LXVI has puckered slightly along the edges, else each example remains bright and in near fine condition.
Extracted from Howard Jones [text] and Mrs. N. E. (Virginia) Jones [illustrator]. Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio With Text. Circleville, Ohio, 1886. Texted printed by Robert Clarke & Company, Cincinnati; plates printed by The Krebs Lithographing Company, Cincinnati.
Two beautiful hand-colored plates from the rare work on Ohio birds, considered by many as second only to Audubon, including Plate XII from Volume I, the nest of the Sialia Sialis (Eastern Bluebird), 14 x 16.5 inches and Plate LXVI from Volume II, the nest of Parus Atricapillus (Black-Capped Chickadee), 14 x 16.5 inches. Plate LXVI has puckered slightly along the edges, else each example remains bright and in near fine condition.
Antiques
Edward Lear (1812-1888). Macrocercus Hyacinthinus - Hyacinthine Maccaw.
A beautiful and brilliant hand-colored lithograph from Lear's Illustrations of the Family Psittacidae, or Parrots (London: 1830-1832). In excellent condition with the exception of some light browning around the edges and some very faint spotting. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 13.75 x 20.25 inches.
A beautiful and brilliant hand-colored lithograph from Lear's Illustrations of the Family Psittacidae, or Parrots (London: 1830-1832). In excellent condition with the exception of some light browning around the edges and some very faint spotting. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 13.75 x 20.25 inches.
Edward Lear (1812-1888). Palæornis Melanura - Black-tailed Parrakeet.
A wonderful and sharply-detailed hand-colored lithograph from Lear's Illustrations of the Family Psittacidae, or Parrots (London: 1830-1832). In excellent condition except for faint browning to the edges and some light foxing. Minor surface loss to reverse where mounting tape was removed. Light penciled notations. 13.75 x 20.5 inches.
A wonderful and sharply-detailed hand-colored lithograph from Lear's Illustrations of the Family Psittacidae, or Parrots (London: 1830-1832). In excellent condition except for faint browning to the edges and some light foxing. Minor surface loss to reverse where mounting tape was removed. Light penciled notations. 13.75 x 20.5 inches.
Edward Lear (1812-1888). Platycercus Barnardi - Barnard's Parrakeet.
A delightful hand-colored lithograph from Lear's Illustrations of the Family Psittacidae, or Parrots (London: 1830-1832). In very good condition with some light browning around the edges and some very faint spotting. Three light horizontal creases in the lower portion of the print, near the title, ranging in length from 3 to 7.5 inches in length. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 13.75 x 20.55 inches.
A delightful hand-colored lithograph from Lear's Illustrations of the Family Psittacidae, or Parrots (London: 1830-1832). In very good condition with some light browning around the edges and some very faint spotting. Three light horizontal creases in the lower portion of the print, near the title, ranging in length from 3 to 7.5 inches in length. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 13.75 x 20.55 inches.
Edward Lear (1812-1888). Platycercus Unicolor - Uniform Parrakeet.
A charming hand-colored lithograph from Lear's Illustrations of the Family Psittacidae, or Parrots (London: 1830-1832). In very good condition with mat burn and some faint spotting. Sheet cut at the stitching holes along binding edge. Mounting tape residue to reverse. Light penciled notations. 13.75 x 19.75 inches.
A charming hand-colored lithograph from Lear's Illustrations of the Family Psittacidae, or Parrots (London: 1830-1832). In very good condition with mat burn and some faint spotting. Sheet cut at the stitching holes along binding edge. Mounting tape residue to reverse. Light penciled notations. 13.75 x 19.75 inches.
Edward Lear (1812-1888). Two Prints: White Stork. [and:] Maguari Stork.
Two hand-colored lithographs by Edward Lear from Gould's Birds of Europe (London: 1832-37). The White Stork print is in very good condition with a faint mat burn and some minor spotting. Right side cut at stitching holes along binding edge. Minor surface loss to reverse where mounting tape was removed. [and:] Maguari Stork is in very good condition with a faint mat burn and a few spots, including one fingertip-sized spot that measures approximately half an inch in diameter in the upper left area of the print. Also, a very faint dampstain, also in the upper left area. Right side shows binding edge. Mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 14.25 x 21.5 inches.
Two hand-colored lithographs by Edward Lear from Gould's Birds of Europe (London: 1832-37). The White Stork print is in very good condition with a faint mat burn and some minor spotting. Right side cut at stitching holes along binding edge. Minor surface loss to reverse where mounting tape was removed. [and:] Maguari Stork is in very good condition with a faint mat burn and a few spots, including one fingertip-sized spot that measures approximately half an inch in diameter in the upper left area of the print. Also, a very faint dampstain, also in the upper left area. Right side shows binding edge. Mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 14.25 x 21.5 inches.
Cornelius Nozeman (1721-1786). Three Prints: Rusticola. [and:] Scolopax, Arquata, Numenius. [and:] Ardeola.
Three hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827). All have minor toning along the edges and light foxing. All have slight wrinkles along the right-side binding edges. Rusticola is in good condition with spots of paper loss along its left edge. Scolopax, Arquata, Numenius is in very good condition with minor paper loss in the lower right corner and a wrinkle along the left edge. Ardeola is a horizontal image in very good condition with some smudging in the margin of its binding edge. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.5 x 21 inches.
Three hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827). All have minor toning along the edges and light foxing. All have slight wrinkles along the right-side binding edges. Rusticola is in good condition with spots of paper loss along its left edge. Scolopax, Arquata, Numenius is in very good condition with minor paper loss in the lower right corner and a wrinkle along the left edge. Ardeola is a horizontal image in very good condition with some smudging in the margin of its binding edge. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.5 x 21 inches.
Cornelius Nozeman (1721-1786). Three Prints: Fringilla Schoeniclus. [and:] Parus Palustris.[and:] Lanius Collyrio.
Three hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827). All in very good condition with light foxing and with minor toning along the edges. All have slight wrinkles along the right-side binding edges. Parus Palustris has a three-quarter-inch perpendicular tear near the upper right corner and a very faint diagonal fold line centered above the upper platemark. Lanius Collyrio has a dark smudge near the right corner of the platemark and an additional wrinkle along the right side. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.5 x 21 inches.
Three hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827). All in very good condition with light foxing and with minor toning along the edges. All have slight wrinkles along the right-side binding edges. Parus Palustris has a three-quarter-inch perpendicular tear near the upper right corner and a very faint diagonal fold line centered above the upper platemark. Lanius Collyrio has a dark smudge near the right corner of the platemark and an additional wrinkle along the right side. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.5 x 21 inches.
Cornelius Nozeman (1721-1786). Three Prints: Sterna, Nigra. [and:] Larus minor cinerus, Sterna, Hirundo. [and:] Larus minor cinereus, Mas.
Three hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827). Right sides show binding edge. All have minor toning and very slight foxing. All are in very good condition with some smudges. Larus minor cinerus, Sterna, Hirundo has some paper loss to the lower left corner. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.50 x 21 inches.
Three hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827). Right sides show binding edge. All have minor toning and very slight foxing. All are in very good condition with some smudges. Larus minor cinerus, Sterna, Hirundo has some paper loss to the lower left corner. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.50 x 21 inches.
Cornelius Nozeman (1721-1786). Three Prints: Lanius, excubitor. [and:] Turtur. [and:] Loxia, Pyrrhula.
Three hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827). All in excellent condition except for minor toning along the edges and very slight foxing. Lanius, excubitor and Loxia, Pyrrhula have slight wrinkling along the right-side binding edges. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.5 x 21 inches.
Three hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827). All in excellent condition except for minor toning along the edges and very slight foxing. Lanius, excubitor and Loxia, Pyrrhula have slight wrinkling along the right-side binding edges. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.5 x 21 inches.
Cornelius Nozeman (1721-1786). Four Prints: Anas Tadorna, Mas. [and:] Anas Tadorna, Foemina. [and:] Anas Acuta, Mas. [and:] Anas, Bernicla.
A set of four hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827). All have deckled binding edges on the right sides, minor toning along the remaining edges, and very slight foxing throughout. Anas Tadorna, Mas and Anas Tadorna, Foemina are both in excellent condition save a small hole in the upper right quadrant of Anas Tadorna, Mas, a mere anomaly in the paper. Anas Acuta, Mas is in good condition with a wrinkle on the right edge just above the bottom corner and some feathering along that and the top edge. It has also been folded horizontally four inches below the top edge. Anas, Bernicla is in very good condition with a small wrinkle along the top edge and another running vertically inside the right platemark. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.5 x 21 inches.
A set of four hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827). All have deckled binding edges on the right sides, minor toning along the remaining edges, and very slight foxing throughout. Anas Tadorna, Mas and Anas Tadorna, Foemina are both in excellent condition save a small hole in the upper right quadrant of Anas Tadorna, Mas, a mere anomaly in the paper. Anas Acuta, Mas is in good condition with a wrinkle on the right edge just above the bottom corner and some feathering along that and the top edge. It has also been folded horizontally four inches below the top edge. Anas, Bernicla is in very good condition with a small wrinkle along the top edge and another running vertically inside the right platemark. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.5 x 21 inches.
Cornelius Nozeman (1721-1786). Four Prints: Turdus, junco. [and:] Turdus, Calamoxenus. [and:] Turdus, junco, minor. [and:] Turdus Arundinaceus minimus.
Four hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827). All in excellent condition except for minor toning along the edges and light foxing. All have slight wrinkles along the right-side binding edges. Turdus, Calamoxenus has some smudging in the lower right corner. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.5 x 21 inches.
Four hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827). All in excellent condition except for minor toning along the edges and light foxing. All have slight wrinkles along the right-side binding edges. Turdus, Calamoxenus has some smudging in the lower right corner. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.5 x 21 inches.
Cornelius Nozeman (1721-1786). Four Prints: Title page, Nederlandsche Vogelen. [and:] Certhia. [and:] Chloris. [and:] Fringilla, Domeatlea.
A beautiful set of four nesting scenes. Among these hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827) is the book's title page. All are in very good condition. All have deckled binding edges on the right sides, minor toning along the remaining edges, and very slight foxing throughout. All have slight wrinkles along the binding edges. The title page has two areas of paper loss along its binding edge and some smudging along the bottom margin. The left edges of the remaining prints are slightly deckled from handling during the printing process. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.5 x 21 inches.
A beautiful set of four nesting scenes. Among these hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827) is the book's title page. All are in very good condition. All have deckled binding edges on the right sides, minor toning along the remaining edges, and very slight foxing throughout. All have slight wrinkles along the binding edges. The title page has two areas of paper loss along its binding edge and some smudging along the bottom margin. The left edges of the remaining prints are slightly deckled from handling during the printing process. All have light penciled notations. All measure 14.5 x 21 inches.
Cornelius Nozeman (1721-1786). Four Prints: Pica. [and:] Picus Martius. [and:] Palumbus. [and:] Oenas, Vinago, Livia.
Four hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827). All in very good condition with minor toning along the edges and light foxing.
Picus Martius has a small open tear near the upper right corner. Palumbus has a minute tear in the upper right corner and a small wrinkle in the bottom edge near the left corner. Oenas, Vinago, Livia has a shallow diagonal crease across the upper left corner and a two-inch wrinkle just above the lower left corner. All show binding edge at right side, and all have light penciled notations. All measure 14.5 x 21 inches.
Four hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827). All in very good condition with minor toning along the edges and light foxing.
Picus Martius has a small open tear near the upper right corner. Palumbus has a minute tear in the upper right corner and a small wrinkle in the bottom edge near the left corner. Oenas, Vinago, Livia has a shallow diagonal crease across the upper left corner and a two-inch wrinkle just above the lower left corner. All show binding edge at right side, and all have light penciled notations. All measure 14.5 x 21 inches.
Pierre-Antoine Poiteau (1766-1854) and Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840). Four Prints: Abricot commun. [and:] Robert de Rennes. [and:] Admirable. [and:] Orange de Malte.
Four stipple engravings with hand-coloring, most likely from Pomologie française; recueil des plus beaux fruits cultivés en France. (Paris: 1846). All are in generally excellent condition and are attributed to Poiteau, except for Robert de Rennes (the one plate attributed to Turpin) which has overall toning and spotting. Admirable has a small chip and an area of faint discoloration at top margin. Orange de Malte has some light spotting but is remarkably bright. All have mounting tape to reverse. All have light penciled notations. 11.75 x 17 inches, 14 x 21.5 inches (the Turpin print), 11.75 x 17.25 inches, and 11.75 x 17 inches, respectively.
Four stipple engravings with hand-coloring, most likely from Pomologie française; recueil des plus beaux fruits cultivés en France. (Paris: 1846). All are in generally excellent condition and are attributed to Poiteau, except for Robert de Rennes (the one plate attributed to Turpin) which has overall toning and spotting. Admirable has a small chip and an area of faint discoloration at top margin. Orange de Malte has some light spotting but is remarkably bright. All have mounting tape to reverse. All have light penciled notations. 11.75 x 17 inches, 14 x 21.5 inches (the Turpin print), 11.75 x 17.25 inches, and 11.75 x 17 inches, respectively.
Pierre-Antoine Poiteau (1766-1854). Four Prints: Coing de Portugal. [and:] Chêne-vert (poire). [and:] Pompelmouse ordinaire. [and:] Colmar.
Four attractive stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Pomologie française; recueil des plus beaux fruits cultivés en France. (Paris: 1846). All are in very good condition with toning and light spotting. Colmar has some minor paper loss to corners. All have mounting tape to reverse. All have light penciled notations. The first three prints measure 11.75 x 17 inches, and the last print measures 12 x 16.75 inches.
Four attractive stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Pomologie française; recueil des plus beaux fruits cultivés en France. (Paris: 1846). All are in very good condition with toning and light spotting. Colmar has some minor paper loss to corners. All have mounting tape to reverse. All have light penciled notations. The first three prints measure 11.75 x 17 inches, and the last print measures 12 x 16.75 inches.
Pierre-Antoine Poiteau (1766-1854). Four Prints: Grosse Reinette. [and:] Pigeonnet de Rouen. [and:] Reinette jaune hâtive. [and:] Amer-doux-gris.
Four stipple engravings of apples, with hand-coloring, most likely from Pomologie française; recueil des plus beaux fruits cultivés en France. (Paris: 1846). All are in very good condition with toning. Grosse Reinette has some minor spotting. Pigeonnet de Rouen has a chip near lower left corner. Reinetter jaune hâtive has a tape stain to lower left area. All have mounting tape to reverse. All have light penciled notations. 11.5 x 17 inches, 11.75 x 17.25 inches, 11.75 x 17.25 inches, and 11.75 x 17 inches, respectively.
Four stipple engravings of apples, with hand-coloring, most likely from Pomologie française; recueil des plus beaux fruits cultivés en France. (Paris: 1846). All are in very good condition with toning. Grosse Reinette has some minor spotting. Pigeonnet de Rouen has a chip near lower left corner. Reinetter jaune hâtive has a tape stain to lower left area. All have mounting tape to reverse. All have light penciled notations. 11.5 x 17 inches, 11.75 x 17.25 inches, 11.75 x 17.25 inches, and 11.75 x 17 inches, respectively.
Pierre-Antoine Poiteau (1766-1854). Four Prints: Poire sans pépins. [and:] Poire Sabine. [and:] Poire de Vallée. [and:] Bezy d'hery.
Four beautiful stipple engravings of pears, with hand-coloring, from Pomologie française; recueil des plus beaux fruits cultivés en France. (Paris: 1846). Poire sans pépins has toning and spotting. Poire Sabine has spotting and a few minor chips to the edges. Poire de Vallée has foxing, a .75-inch tear at bottom edge, and a crease to lower left corner. Bezy d'hery has a stain to left margin, a few short tears, and a couple of chips to top edge. The paper of this print is a much lighter weight than the other three. All are in generally very good condition with light overall toning. All have mounting tape to reverse. All have light penciled notations. 14.25 x 21 inches, 14 x 21.5 inches, 13.75 x 21.25 inches, and 14.25 x 21.5 inches, respectively.
Four beautiful stipple engravings of pears, with hand-coloring, from Pomologie française; recueil des plus beaux fruits cultivés en France. (Paris: 1846). Poire sans pépins has toning and spotting. Poire Sabine has spotting and a few minor chips to the edges. Poire de Vallée has foxing, a .75-inch tear at bottom edge, and a crease to lower left corner. Bezy d'hery has a stain to left margin, a few short tears, and a couple of chips to top edge. The paper of this print is a much lighter weight than the other three. All are in generally very good condition with light overall toning. All have mounting tape to reverse. All have light penciled notations. 14.25 x 21 inches, 14 x 21.5 inches, 13.75 x 21.25 inches, and 14.25 x 21.5 inches, respectively.
Pierre-Antoine Poiteau (1766-1854) and Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840). Four Prints: Royale hâtivel. [and:] Raisin précoce. [and:] Nefflier à gros Fruit. [and:] Ronce à fruit bleu.
Four stipple engravings with hand-coloring, most likely from Pomologie française; recueil des plus beaux fruits cultivés en France. (Paris: 1846). All are in very good condition with overall toning and spotting. Royale hâtivel has a thin strip of dampstaining along the left edge. Raisin précoce is specifically attributed to Poiteau and has darker spotting in the image area. Ronce à fruit bleu is attributed to Turpin and is more heavily toned than the others; it also has some offsetting along the left side. All but the last print have mounting tape to the reverse. All have light penciled notations. The first three prints measure 11.75 x 17 inches, and the last (the Turpin print) measures 14.25 x 19.75 inches.
Four stipple engravings with hand-coloring, most likely from Pomologie française; recueil des plus beaux fruits cultivés en France. (Paris: 1846). All are in very good condition with overall toning and spotting. Royale hâtivel has a thin strip of dampstaining along the left edge. Raisin précoce is specifically attributed to Poiteau and has darker spotting in the image area. Ronce à fruit bleu is attributed to Turpin and is more heavily toned than the others; it also has some offsetting along the left side. All but the last print have mounting tape to the reverse. All have light penciled notations. The first three prints measure 11.75 x 17 inches, and the last (the Turpin print) measures 14.25 x 19.75 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Amaryllis Reginæ.
A bold and lovely stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In very good condition except for general toning, some spotting, and a few shallow bends. All sides of print appear to have been minimally trimmed. Light penciled notations. 13.25 x 20.25 inches.
A bold and lovely stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In very good condition except for general toning, some spotting, and a few shallow bends. All sides of print appear to have been minimally trimmed. Light penciled notations. 13.25 x 20.25 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Heliconia Humilis.
A striking stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In excellent condition except for general toning and a few spots. Trimmed unevenly. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 13.5 x 21 inches.
A striking stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In excellent condition except for general toning and a few spots. Trimmed unevenly. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 13.5 x 21 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Lilium Chalcedonicum.
A wonderful stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In excellent condition except for very minor spotting and a shallow diagonal bend at middle of the image area. Mounting and reinforcing tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 14 x 21.25 inches.
A wonderful stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In excellent condition except for very minor spotting and a shallow diagonal bend at middle of the image area. Mounting and reinforcing tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 14 x 21.25 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Lilium Tigrinum.
Stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In very good condition with overall toning, foxing, and offsetting from text of an adjacent sheet (not present). Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 13.5 x 20.75 inches.
Stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In very good condition with overall toning, foxing, and offsetting from text of an adjacent sheet (not present). Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 13.5 x 20.75 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Magnolia Discolor.
A lovely stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Description des Plantes Rares Cultivées á Malmaison et á Navarre (Paris: 1812-1814). In excellent condition except for faint foxing and a shallow indentation rising vertically from the bottom edge. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 13.75 x 21 inches.
A lovely stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Description des Plantes Rares Cultivées á Malmaison et á Navarre (Paris: 1812-1814). In excellent condition except for faint foxing and a shallow indentation rising vertically from the bottom edge. Right side shows binding edge. Light penciled notations. 13.75 x 21 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Sanseviera Zeylanica.
Stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In very good condition with general toning, browning along the right edge, and foxing. Small dark stain at top left corner appears to be caused by an acidic reaction to mounting tape or glue on the reverse. Light penciled notations. 14 x 21.25 inches.
Stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In very good condition with general toning, browning along the right edge, and foxing. Small dark stain at top left corner appears to be caused by an acidic reaction to mounting tape or glue on the reverse. Light penciled notations. 14 x 21.25 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Sisyrinchium Striatum.
A lovely stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In excellent condition except for very faint foxing and a tiny water droplet stain near the top edge. Also, the tip of the top right corner is missing. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 14 x 21 inches.
A lovely stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In excellent condition except for very faint foxing and a tiny water droplet stain near the top edge. Also, the tip of the top right corner is missing. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 14 x 21 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Tritoma Media.
An exquisite stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In excellent condition except for some faint spotting, minor browning to bottom edge, a shallow bend to lower right corner, and a crease at tip of lower right corner. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 14 x 21.25 inches.
An exquisite stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In excellent condition except for some faint spotting, minor browning to bottom edge, a shallow bend to lower right corner, and a crease at tip of lower right corner. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 14 x 21.25 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Veltheimia Capensis.
A lovely and subtle stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In excellent condition except for general toning, a couple of shallow bends at edges, and a closed tear to top left corner which has been repaired on reverse. Light penciled notations. 14 x 21 inches.
A lovely and subtle stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). In excellent condition except for general toning, a couple of shallow bends at edges, and a closed tear to top left corner which has been repaired on reverse. Light penciled notations. 14 x 21 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Two Prints: Allium Moly. [and:] Gladiolus Cuspidatus longiflorus.
Two beautiful stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in generally excellent condition except for some foxing to the gladiolus print. Both have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 14 x 21 inches.
Two beautiful stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in generally excellent condition except for some foxing to the gladiolus print. Both have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 14 x 21 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Two Prints: Amaryllis Belladonna. [and:] Amaryllis Lutea.
Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in very good condition with general toning and foxing. Amaryllis Belladonna has three areas of staining within the platemark which seem to be acidic reactions to tape or glue on the reverse. Both prints have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. 14 x 21.25 inches, and 14 x 20.75 inches, respectively.
Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in very good condition with general toning and foxing. Amaryllis Belladonna has three areas of staining within the platemark which seem to be acidic reactions to tape or glue on the reverse. Both prints have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. 14 x 21.25 inches, and 14 x 20.75 inches, respectively.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Two Prints: Convallaria Majalis. [and:] Smilacina Racemosa.
Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in generally excellent condition except for some toning and light foxing. Convallaria Majalis is missing the very tip of the lower right corner and has a tiny notch to right side which corresponds to a stitching hole. Smilacina Racemosa has a somewhat ragged bottom edge and right edge, as well as some faint offsetting of text from an adjacent sheet (not present). Both have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. Both measure 13.75 x 20.75 inches.
Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in generally excellent condition except for some toning and light foxing. Convallaria Majalis is missing the very tip of the lower right corner and has a tiny notch to right side which corresponds to a stitching hole. Smilacina Racemosa has a somewhat ragged bottom edge and right edge, as well as some faint offsetting of text from an adjacent sheet (not present). Both have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. Both measure 13.75 x 20.75 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Two Prints: Crinum Asiaticum. [and:] Crinum Americanum.
Two attractive stipple engravings of lilies, with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in very good condition with general toning. Both prints have cellophane tape along all edges of the reverse which has, unfortunately, stained the sheet, front and back, and has left a residue. Crinum Americanum shows mat burn, has a few light spots, and has been trimmed unevenly at bottom of sheet. Both have light penciled notations. 13.75 x 21.25 inches, and 13.75 x 21 inches, respectively.
Two attractive stipple engravings of lilies, with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in very good condition with general toning. Both prints have cellophane tape along all edges of the reverse which has, unfortunately, stained the sheet, front and back, and has left a residue. Crinum Americanum shows mat burn, has a few light spots, and has been trimmed unevenly at bottom of sheet. Both have light penciled notations. 13.75 x 21.25 inches, and 13.75 x 21 inches, respectively.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Two Prints: Dracæna Terminalis. [and:] Kœmpferia Longa.
Two wonderful stipple engravings from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in generally excellent condition except for toning, some browned edges, and light foxing. Two dark spots to top left of Dracæna Terminalis. Kœmpferia Longa has a chip to lower right edge, outside image area. Both have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. Both measure 14 x 21 inches.
Two wonderful stipple engravings from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in generally excellent condition except for toning, some browned edges, and light foxing. Two dark spots to top left of Dracæna Terminalis. Kœmpferia Longa has a chip to lower right edge, outside image area. Both have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. Both measure 14 x 21 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Two Prints: Hibiscus Heterophyllus. [and:] Nymphæa Cærulea.
Two beautiful stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Description des Plantes Rares Cultivées á Malmaison et á Navarre (Paris: 1812-1814). Both are in generally excellent condition except for toning to edges and foxing. Hibiscus has a spot and a few streaks in image area. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 13.75 x 21.25 inches.
Two beautiful stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Description des Plantes Rares Cultivées á Malmaison et á Navarre (Paris: 1812-1814). Both are in generally excellent condition except for toning to edges and foxing. Hibiscus has a spot and a few streaks in image area. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 13.75 x 21.25 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Two Prints: Iris Xiphium. [and:] Iris Virescens.
Two lovely stipple engravings of irises from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in very good condition with toning, browning edges, and some light foxing. The very tips of the lower right corners of both are missing. Both have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. 14 x 21.5 inches, and 14.25 x 21.25 inches, respectively.
Two lovely stipple engravings of irises from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in very good condition with toning, browning edges, and some light foxing. The very tips of the lower right corners of both are missing. Both have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. 14 x 21.5 inches, and 14.25 x 21.25 inches, respectively.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Two Prints: Leucoium Aestivum. [and:] Ornithogalum Umbellatum.
Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in excellent condition except for a couple of shallow bends to corners. Some faint foxing and light toning to top and right edges of Leucoium Aestivum. Both have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 14 x 21.
Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in excellent condition except for a couple of shallow bends to corners. Some faint foxing and light toning to top and right edges of Leucoium Aestivum. Both have mounting tape to reverse. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 14 x 21.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Two Prints: Magnolia Pumila. [and:] Magnolia Macrophylla.
Two lovely stipple engravings of magnolias; Macrophylla from Description des Plantes Rares Cultivées á Malmaison et á Navarre (Paris: 1812-1814). Both are in very good condition. Pumila has two spots - approximately a quarter of an inch in diameter - in the image area. Macrophylla has toning, mat burn, and browned mounting tape to front and back of sheet. Both have light penciled notations. 13.75 x 21.25 inches, and 14 x 21.25 inches, respectively.
Two lovely stipple engravings of magnolias; Macrophylla from Description des Plantes Rares Cultivées á Malmaison et á Navarre (Paris: 1812-1814). Both are in very good condition. Pumila has two spots - approximately a quarter of an inch in diameter - in the image area. Macrophylla has toning, mat burn, and browned mounting tape to front and back of sheet. Both have light penciled notations. 13.75 x 21.25 inches, and 14 x 21.25 inches, respectively.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Two Prints: Moræa Vaginata. [and:] Narcissus Tazetta.
Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). (Note: Narcissus Tazetta, though enumerated Plate 9 - here in the left corner - corresponds to Plate 17 in the original edition of Les Liliacées.) Both are in very good condition with general toning and foxing, with the foxing more prominent to the narcissus print. Tiny amount of paper loss to one lower corner of each print. Mounting tape to reverse of the narcissus. Both have light penciled notations. 21 x 13.75 inches, and 20.75 x 14 inches, respectively.
Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). (Note: Narcissus Tazetta, though enumerated Plate 9 - here in the left corner - corresponds to Plate 17 in the original edition of Les Liliacées.) Both are in very good condition with general toning and foxing, with the foxing more prominent to the narcissus print. Tiny amount of paper loss to one lower corner of each print. Mounting tape to reverse of the narcissus. Both have light penciled notations. 21 x 13.75 inches, and 20.75 x 14 inches, respectively.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Two Prints: Narcissus Poeticus. [and:] Narcissus Jonquilla.
Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in very good condition with toning and foxing. Narcissus Poeticus has a couple of areas of paper loss to edges, including an area that measures .25 x 1-inch and has a short tear radiating from it. There is a small squared chip to the right edge of Narcissus Jonquilla. Both have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. Both measure 14 x 21 inches.
Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in very good condition with toning and foxing. Narcissus Poeticus has a couple of areas of paper loss to edges, including an area that measures .25 x 1-inch and has a short tear radiating from it. There is a small squared chip to the right edge of Narcissus Jonquilla. Both have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. Both measure 14 x 21 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Two Rose Prints: Rosa Bifera Alba. [and:] Rosa Banksiæ.
Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Roses (Paris: 1817-1825). In very good condition with general toning and foxing. Rosa Banksiæ has several patches of darkened tape residue, all of which are outside the platemark. Tape to reverse of both prints. Light penciled notations. 13.25 x 20.5 inches, and 14 x 21.75 inches, respectively.
Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Roses (Paris: 1817-1825). In very good condition with general toning and foxing. Rosa Banksiæ has several patches of darkened tape residue, all of which are outside the platemark. Tape to reverse of both prints. Light penciled notations. 13.25 x 20.5 inches, and 14 x 21.75 inches, respectively.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Two Prints: Yucca Filamentosa. [and:] Yucca Filamentosa (Detail).
Two wonderful stipple engravings of the yucca, with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in generally excellent condition except for toning, some of which is darker at the edges. Both have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. Both measure 14 x 21.25 inches.
Two wonderful stipple engravings of the yucca, with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in generally excellent condition except for toning, some of which is darker at the edges. Both have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. Both measure 14 x 21.25 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Two Prints: Yucca Gloriosa. [and:] Yucca Gloriosa (Detail).
Two fantastic stipple engravings of the yucca, with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in generally excellent condition except for general toning and faint foxing, both of which are more apparent in the detail print. A couple of patches of discoloration to top edge of the detail print, an apparent result of an acidic reaction with the tape or glue applied to the reverse. Both have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. Both measure 13.75 x 21 inches.
Two fantastic stipple engravings of the yucca, with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Both are in generally excellent condition except for general toning and faint foxing, both of which are more apparent in the detail print. A couple of patches of discoloration to top edge of the detail print, an apparent result of an acidic reaction with the tape or glue applied to the reverse. Both have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. Both measure 13.75 x 21 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Three Prints: Narcissus Candidisimus. [and:] Phalangium Liliastrum. [and:] Gladiolus Carneus.
Three lovely and delicate stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Narcissus Candidisimus is remarkably bright, with a couple of chips and some minor surface loss around the edges. Phalangium Liliastrum, has a shallow fold across the bottom right quadrant. The Gladiolus is toned, with offsetting from a page of text that was, at one point, opposite it; there is also a 1 x 3.25-inch area of offsetting at the top left corner. All have mounting tape to reverse. All have light penciled notations. 13.75 x 21 inches, 14 x 21 inches, and 14 x 21.25 inches, respectively.
Three lovely and delicate stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées (Paris: 1802-1816). Narcissus Candidisimus is remarkably bright, with a couple of chips and some minor surface loss around the edges. Phalangium Liliastrum, has a shallow fold across the bottom right quadrant. The Gladiolus is toned, with offsetting from a page of text that was, at one point, opposite it; there is also a 1 x 3.25-inch area of offsetting at the top left corner. All have mounting tape to reverse. All have light penciled notations. 13.75 x 21 inches, 14 x 21 inches, and 14 x 21.25 inches, respectively.
Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Four Rose Prints: Rosa Muscosa alba. [and:] Rosa Indica fragrans. [and:] Rosa Turbinata. [and:] Rosa Gallica Pontiana.
Four beautifully hand-colored stipple engravings from Les Roses (Paris: 1817-1824). All are in very good condition with general toning to paper, a little darker along the edges. Rosa Muscosa is matted to a heavier stock paper. Rosa Indica has foxing towards the edges. Rosa Turbinata has mounting tape to seven areas on the bottom and side edges, with repairs to paper along the bottom. Rosa Gallica contains foxing throughout and a small tear along the right edge. All have mounting tape to reverse, and all have light penciled notations. All measure 9.75 x 13.25 inches.
Four beautifully hand-colored stipple engravings from Les Roses (Paris: 1817-1824). All are in very good condition with general toning to paper, a little darker along the edges. Rosa Muscosa is matted to a heavier stock paper. Rosa Indica has foxing towards the edges. Rosa Turbinata has mounting tape to seven areas on the bottom and side edges, with repairs to paper along the bottom. Rosa Gallica contains foxing throughout and a small tear along the right edge. All have mounting tape to reverse, and all have light penciled notations. All measure 9.75 x 13.25 inches.
Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Four Rose Prints: Rosa Indica. [and:] Rosa Gallica (Purpuro-violacea magna). [and:] Rosa Gallica Regalis. [and:] Rosa Multiflora platyphylla.
Four lovely hand-colored stipple engravings from Les Roses (Paris: 1817-1824). All are in very good condition with general toning to paper, a little darker along the edges. Rosa Indica has a partial mat board glued to top edge on reverse and a small chip on the left edge. All have mounting tape to the reverse, and all have light penciled notations. All measure 9.75 x 13.25 inches.
Four lovely hand-colored stipple engravings from Les Roses (Paris: 1817-1824). All are in very good condition with general toning to paper, a little darker along the edges. Rosa Indica has a partial mat board glued to top edge on reverse and a small chip on the left edge. All have mounting tape to the reverse, and all have light penciled notations. All measure 9.75 x 13.25 inches.
Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) and Pancrace Bessa (1772-1835). Five Prints, including: Three Botanical Prints by Redouté: Camelia (var.) fleurs blanches. [and:] Rosier de Bancks va. à fleurs jaunes. [and:] Tubereuse. [as well as:] Two Prints by Bessa: Rosa semper virens and Rosa bracteata. [and:] Rosa Eglanteria and Rosa Berberifolia.
Three Redouté hand-colored stipple engravings from Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs (Paris: 1827-1833). All are in very good condition with general toning to paper, a little darker along the edges. Rosier and Tubereuse contain foxing. All have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. Prints measure 11 x 14.75 inches, 10.75 x 14.25, and 10.25 x 13.25 inches, respectively.
Two Bessa hand-colored stipple engravings from Traité des Arbres et Arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre. Seconde édition considérablement augmentée. (Paris: 1800-1825). Both are in very good condition with general toning to paper and light foxing. Both have mounting tape to reverse, and both have light penciled notations. Both measure 11 x 15 inches.
Three Redouté hand-colored stipple engravings from Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs (Paris: 1827-1833). All are in very good condition with general toning to paper, a little darker along the edges. Rosier and Tubereuse contain foxing. All have mounting tape to reverse and light penciled notations. Prints measure 11 x 14.75 inches, 10.75 x 14.25, and 10.25 x 13.25 inches, respectively.
Two Bessa hand-colored stipple engravings from Traité des Arbres et Arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre. Seconde édition considérablement augmentée. (Paris: 1800-1825). Both are in very good condition with general toning to paper and light foxing. Both have mounting tape to reverse, and both have light penciled notations. Both measure 11 x 15 inches.
Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Six Rose Prints: Mycrophylla (Rose). [and:] Centfeuille Cristata. [and:] Thé blanc soufré. [and:] Rose tricolore. [and:] Bengale Desprez. [and:] Bengale triomphant.
Six hand-colored stipple engravings from Choix de soixante roses (Paris: 1836). All are in very good condition with general toning to paper, a little darker along the edges, and light foxing. The Bengale triumphant and Mycrophylla have minor rippling. Petite tear along the top edge of the Rose tricolore. All have mounting tape to the reverse and light penciled notations. All measure 11.25 x 15 inches.
Six hand-colored stipple engravings from Choix de soixante roses (Paris: 1836). All are in very good condition with general toning to paper, a little darker along the edges, and light foxing. The Bengale triumphant and Mycrophylla have minor rippling. Petite tear along the top edge of the Rose tricolore. All have mounting tape to the reverse and light penciled notations. All measure 11.25 x 15 inches.
Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867). Bewick's Swan - Plate XLVII.
Hand-colored engraving from Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology. Watermarked "J Whatman, 1854." In very good condition with browned edges and several short tears along all edges, many repaired on the reverse with tape. Light penciled notations. 21.75 x 26.5 inches.
Hand-colored engraving from Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology. Watermarked "J Whatman, 1854." In very good condition with browned edges and several short tears along all edges, many repaired on the reverse with tape. Light penciled notations. 21.75 x 26.5 inches.
Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867). Cinereous Sea Eagle, Female - Plate III.
Hand-colored engraving from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman, 1846." In excellent condition. Shallow bends along right edge at both corners. Stitching holes visible along top edge. Light penciled notations. 26.5 x 21 inches.
Hand-colored engraving from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman, 1846." In excellent condition. Shallow bends along right edge at both corners. Stitching holes visible along top edge. Light penciled notations. 26.5 x 21 inches.
Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867). Egyptian Neophron - Plate A.
Hand-colored engraving from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman 1846." In very good condition with rippling along left edge, extending about two inches into the print. Some light spotting, and a stray red mark to lower left corner. Stitching holes visible along top edge. Light penciled notations. 26.25 x 21 inches.
Hand-colored engraving from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman 1846." In very good condition with rippling along left edge, extending about two inches into the print. Some light spotting, and a stray red mark to lower left corner. Stitching holes visible along top edge. Light penciled notations. 26.25 x 21 inches.
Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867). Eider Duck, Male - Plate LXX.
Hand-colored engraving from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman" - date cut off. In excellent condition except for a couple of spots and shallow creases along right edge at both corners. Light penciled notations. 26.5 x 20.75 inches.
Hand-colored engraving from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman" - date cut off. In excellent condition except for a couple of spots and shallow creases along right edge at both corners. Light penciled notations. 26.5 x 20.75 inches.
Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867). Golden Eagle Female - Plate I.
Hand-colored engraving from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman 1846." In excellent condition except for some light spotting and a shallow indentation near the lower right corner. Light penciled notations. 21 x 26.25 inches.
Hand-colored engraving from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman 1846." In excellent condition except for some light spotting and a shallow indentation near the lower right corner. Light penciled notations. 21 x 26.25 inches.
Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867). Pheasants, M & F - Plate LVII.
A beautiful hand-colored engraving from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman, 1846." In excellent condition except for a short tear at the right edge. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 26.25 x 21 inches.
A beautiful hand-colored engraving from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman, 1846." In excellent condition except for a short tear at the right edge. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 26.25 x 21 inches.
Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867). Purple Heron - Plate III.
A beautiful hand-colored engraving from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman, 1846." In excellent condition except for shallow creases to tips of corners. Light penciled notations. 20.75 x 26.25 inches.
A beautiful hand-colored engraving from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman, 1846." In excellent condition except for shallow creases to tips of corners. Light penciled notations. 20.75 x 26.25 inches.
Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867). Raven - Plate XXVII.
A wonderful hand-colored engraving of an ominous black raven from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman, 1846." In excellent condition except for a couple of spots at the left edge, outside the platemark. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 26.25 x 21 inches.
A wonderful hand-colored engraving of an ominous black raven from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman, 1846." In excellent condition except for a couple of spots at the left edge, outside the platemark. Mounting tape to reverse. Light penciled notations. 26.25 x 21 inches.
Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867). White Spoonbill, Male - Plate X.
A lovely hand-colored engraving from Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology. Watermarked "J Whatman" - no date visible. In very good condition with general toning to entire sheet. Reinforcing tape to reverse along top edge and at top corners. Light penciled notations. 26.5 x 21 inches.
A lovely hand-colored engraving from Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology. Watermarked "J Whatman" - no date visible. In very good condition with general toning to entire sheet. Reinforcing tape to reverse along top edge and at top corners. Light penciled notations. 26.5 x 21 inches.
Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867). Wild Duck - Plate L.
Hand-colored engraving from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman 1846." In very good condition with one spot to lower portion of image and a closed tear and crease to left edge. Also, there is a large chip to the right edge, with a closed tear radiating from it. Light penciled notations. 26.25 x 20.75 inches.
Hand-colored engraving from the second edition of Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology (London: 1841-1846). Watermarked "J Whatman 1846." In very good condition with one spot to lower portion of image and a closed tear and crease to left edge. Also, there is a large chip to the right edge, with a closed tear radiating from it. Light penciled notations. 26.25 x 20.75 inches.
Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822). Iris Bleu-Clair.
Stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from the Dutch artist's Fleurs Dessinees d'apres Nature (Paris: ca. 1800). In excellent condition except for overall darkening and toning and a couple of shallow bends. Light penciled notations. 13.5 x 20.5 inches.
Stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from the Dutch artist's Fleurs Dessinees d'apres Nature (Paris: ca. 1800). In excellent condition except for overall darkening and toning and a couple of shallow bends. Light penciled notations. 13.5 x 20.5 inches.
Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822). Two Prints: Rose Tremiere. [and:] Jacinthe double.
Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from the Dutch artist's Fleurs Dessinees d'apres Nature (Paris: ca. 1800). In very good condition with overall toning. A couple of bends to corners. Discoloration along edges on front caused by mounting tape on reverse. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 12.75 x 19.25 inches.
Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from the Dutch artist's Fleurs Dessinees d'apres Nature (Paris: ca. 1800). In very good condition with overall toning. A couple of bends to corners. Discoloration along edges on front caused by mounting tape on reverse. Both have light penciled notations. Both measure 12.75 x 19.25 inches.
Robert John Thornton (ca. 1768-1837). Two Flower Prints: The Superb Lily. [and:] The White Lily.
Two stunning mezzotint engravings with hand-coloring, from Thornton's The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature, Picturesque Botanical Plates of the New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus (London: 1799-1807). The Superb Lily (the Earlom engraving), dated 1799, is in very good condition with general toning, browned edges, and some light foxing. A short tear to the right side has been repaired on the reverse; the acidic reaction with the tape has bled through the paper and stained the front. [and:] The White Lily, dated 1800, is in very good condition, with light toning and browned edges. Both have mounting tape to the reverse, and both have light penciled notations. 17.75 x 22.25 inches, and 17.75 x 22.75 inches, respectively.
Two stunning mezzotint engravings with hand-coloring, from Thornton's The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature, Picturesque Botanical Plates of the New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus (London: 1799-1807). The Superb Lily (the Earlom engraving), dated 1799, is in very good condition with general toning, browned edges, and some light foxing. A short tear to the right side has been repaired on the reverse; the acidic reaction with the tape has bled through the paper and stained the front. [and:] The White Lily, dated 1800, is in very good condition, with light toning and browned edges. Both have mounting tape to the reverse, and both have light penciled notations. 17.75 x 22.25 inches, and 17.75 x 22.75 inches, respectively.
Session 3
Jean Baptiste Audebert and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot. Three Bird Prints. Hand-colored engravings from Histoire Naturelle et Générale des Colibris, Oiseaux-Mouches, Jacamars et Promerops. Very good.
John James Audubon. Black Skimmer or Shearwater - Plate 248 (Bien Edition). Chromolithograph, dated 1860. Very good condition.
John James Audubon. Scalops Townsendii - Plate CXLV (Bowen Edition). Hand-colored lithograph dated 1848, from the imperial folio edition of Audubon's Quadrupeds. Very good.
John James Audubon. Three Fox Prints (Octavo Edition). Three hand-colored lithographs from The Quadrupeds of North America. All very good.
John James Audubon. Heron Print and Three Swan Prints (Octavo Edition). Four hand-colored engravings from The Birds of America. All very good.
John James Audubon. One Antelope and Five Deer Prints (Octavo Edition). Six hand-colored lithographs from The Quadrupeds of North America. All very good.
John James Audubon. Six Large Mammal Prints (Octavo Edition). Six hand-colored lithographs from The Quadrupeds of North America. All very good.
John James Audubon. Six Small Mammal Prints (Octavo Edition). Six hand-colored lithographs from The Quadrupeds of North America. All very good.
John James Audubon. Five Squirrel Prints (Octavo Edition). Five hand-colored lithographs from The Quadrupeds of North America. All in generally very good condition.
John James Audubon. One Rat and Five Squirrel Prints (Octavo Edition). Six hand-colored lithographs from The Quadrupeds of North America. All very good.
John James Audubon. Six Bird Prints (Octavo Edition). Six hand-colored engravings from The Birds of America. All in very good condition.
John James Audubon. Six Squirrel Prints (Octavo Edition). Six hand-colored lithographs from The Quadrupeds of North America. All very good.
John James Audubon. Ten Hare Prints (Octavo Edition). Ten hand-colored lithographs from The Quadrupeds of North America. All very good.
Exceptional Botanical Copper Engraved Prints of the Infamous Mandrake Plant, Circa 1725. 10 inches x 15.5 inches. "De Mandragora Met Zyn Bloemen En Vruchten" and "Mandragoras Door Konst Opgemaakt; zo in Het Naakte, als Gekleed." Very good condition.
Cornelis de Bruin Copper Engraving of a Coffee Plant. Plate size 7 x 12 inches, 9.5 x 16 inches overall. Fine condition.
Cornelis de Bruin Copper Engraving of Fish From the Waters Off Cochin. Plate size 14.5 x 9 inches, 18.5 x 16 inches overall. Fine.
Cornelis de Bruin Copper Engraving "Russische Heiligh" and "Beestje Born-Doeskie". Plate size 7 x 12 inches, 9.5 x 16 inches overall. Fine condition.
Cornelis de Bruin: Pair of Ca. 1711 Copper Engravings of Fish. Plate size 7.5 x 12 inches, 9.5 x 16 inches overall. Fine.
Cornelis de Bruin: Four Ca. 1711 Copper Engraved Illustrations of Plants and Trees. Various plate sizes, 9.5 x 16 inches overall. Fine condition.
Cornelis de Bruin: Four Ca. 1711 Copper Engraved Illustrations of Birds and Fish. Various plate sizes, 9.5 x 16 inches overall. Fine condition.
Cornelis de Bruin: Four Ca. 1711 Copper Engraved Illustrations of Plant and Animal Life. Various plate sizes, 9.5 x 16 inches overall. Fine condition.
Jacques de Sève. Four Mammal Prints. Four hand-colored engravings from Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. All very good.
Lot of Six Chromolithograph Illustrations of Various Peach and Plum Varieties. Each about 5.25 x 8.5 inches. From Dewey's Pocket Series, copyright 1872. Vibrant illustrations "colored from nature" of various plums and peaches. Light soiling and some dampstain, else very good.
Chromolithograph Illustrations of Miscellaneous Grape Varieties. Each about 5.25 x 8.5 inches. From Dewey's Pocket Series, copyright 1872. Very good.
Lot of Six Chromolithograph Illustrations of Various Cherry Varieties. Each about 5.25 x 8.5 inches. From Dewey's Pocket Series, copyright 1872. Vibrant illustrations "colored from nature" of various cherries. Light soiling and some dampstain, else very good.
Lot of Six Chromolithograph Illustrations of Various Apple Varieties. Each about 5.25 x 8.5 inches. From Dewey's Pocket Series, copyright 1872. Vibrant illustrations "colored from nature" of various apple varieties.
Lot of Seven Chromolithograph Illustrations of Various Pear Varieties. Each about 5.25 x 8.5 inches. From Dewey's Pocket Series, copyright 1872. Vibrant illustrations "colored from nature" of various pear varieties. Light soiling and some dampstain, else very good.
Lot of Eight Chromolithograph Illustrations of Various Apple Varieties. Each about 5.25 x 8.5 inches. From Dewey's Pocket Series, copyright 1872. Vibrant illustrations "colored from nature" of various apple varieties. Light soiling and some dampstain, else very good.
Lot of Nine Chromolithograph Illustrations of Miscellaneous Trees and Flowers. About 5.25 x 8.5 inches. From Dewey's Pocket Series, copyright 1872. Vibrant illustrations "colored from nature" of various trees and flowers. Light soiling, else very good.
Lot of Nine Chromolithograph Illustrations of Miscellaneous Berries. About 5.25 x 8.5 inches. From Dewey's Pocket Series, copyright 1872. Vibrant illustrations "colored from nature" of the Sharpless' Seedling, various currants and berries. Light soiling, else very good.
George Edwards. Three Buceros Prints. Three hand-colored engravings from John Wilkes' Encyclopaedia Londinensis. All very good.
George Edwards. Four Long-Legged Bird Prints. Four hand-colored engravings from John Wilkes' Encyclopaedia Londinensis. All very good.
George Edwards. Four Falcon Prints. Four hand-colored engravings from Wilkes' Encyclopaedia Londinensis. All very good.
George Edwards. Four Bird Prints. Four hand-colored engravings from A Natural History of Uncommon Birds and Wilkes' Encyclopaedia Londinensis. All very good or better.
George Edwards. Four Bird Prints. Four hand-colored engravings from John Wilkes' Encyclopaedia Londinensis. All very good.
George Edwards. Four Prints. Four hand-colored engravings from Edwards' Gleanings and from his A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of some other Rare and Undescribed Animals. All very good.
George Edwards. Four Water Bird Prints. Four hand-colored engravings from A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and from Wilkes' Encyclopaedia Londinensis. All very good.
George Edwards. Five Bird Prints. Hand-colored engravings from Edwards' A Natural History of Uncommon Birds and from Wilkes' Encyclopaedia Londinensis. All very good.
George Edwards. Six Bird Prints. Six hand-colored engravings from John Wilkes' Encyclopaedia Londinensis. All very good.
George Edwards and Richard Polydore Nodder. Six Prints of Animals and Reptiles. All in very good condition.
Eight Natural History Prints by Artists including: J. Pass. [and:] R. P. Nodder. [and:] George Edwards (attributed to). [and:] Captain Brown & Wm. Warwick. Eight hand-colored prints. All generally good.
Sydenham Teast Edwards. Five Botanical Prints. Five hand-colored engravings, circa 1805-1809. All in very good condition.
John Gould. Astur Palumbarius. Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Great Britain. Very good.
John Gould. Brachyotus Palustris. Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Great Britain. In excellent condition.
John Gould. Herodias Garzetta. Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Great Britain. Very good.
John Gould. Hydrophasianus Sinensis. Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Asia. Very good.
John Gould. Pterocles Fasciatus. Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Asia. Very good.
John Gould. Sypheotides Auritus. Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Asia. Very good.
John Gould. Urocissa Flavirostris. Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Asia. Very good.
John Gould. Two Prints: Halcyon Fulgidus. [and:] Halcyon Pyrrhopygia. Two hand-colored lithographs. Both in very good condition.
John Gould. Two Prints: Parasitic Gull. [and:] Pomerine Gull. Two hand-colored lithographs from Gould's Birds of Europe. Very good.
John Gould. Two Water Bird Prints, including: Chaulelasmus Strepera. [and:] Uria Carbo. Both generally very good.
John Gould. Four Prints: Climacteris Rufa. [and:] Blue Thrush. [and:] Linota Montium. [and:] Podoces Humilis. Four hand-colored lithographs. All very good or better.
John Gould. Four Prints: Columba Leuconota, Vig. [and:] Columba Intermedia. [and:] Columba Leuconota. [and:] Vinago Sphenura. Four hand-colored lithographs. All very good or better.
John Gould. Four Prints: Black Tern. [and:] Cinclus Cashmeriensis. [and:] Turnstone. [and:] Cream Coloured Courser. Four hand-colored lithographs. All very good or better.
John Gould. Four Prints: Pied Wag-Tail. [and:] Russet Wheatear. [and:] Accentor Altaicus. [and:] Snow Finch. Four hand-colored lithographs. All very good or better.
John Gould. Four Prints: Grandala Cœlicolor. [and:] Halcyon Sanctus. [and:] Garrulax Pœcilorhyncha. [and:] Little Auk. Four hand-colored lithographs. All excellent.
John Gould. Four Prints: Cinclus Sordidus. [and:] Climacteris Scandens. [and:] Waxen Chatterer. [and:] Calliope Pectoralis. Four hand-colored lithographs. Very good or better.
John Gould. Four Prints: American Cuckoo. [and:] Common and Lesser Whitethroat. [and:] Delchon Nipalensis. [and:] Allotrius Xanthochloris. Four hand-colored lithographs. All very good.
John Gould. Four Prints: Paradoxornis Gularis. [and:] Dendrochelidon Comatus. [and:] Ruticilla Erythrogastra. [and:] Black Headed Bunting. Four hand-colored lithographs. Very good.
John Gould. Four Prints: Gull Billed Tern. [and:] Sandwich Tern. [and:] Fulmar Petrel. [and:] Aegialitis Monachus. Four hand-colored lithographs. All very good.
John Gould. Halmaturus Dorsalis: Gray. A hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Mammals of Australia. Very good.
George Robert Gray. Two Bird Prints. Two hand-colored lithographs from Genera of Birds Comprising Their Generic Characters. Both very good.
[Grönvold] Six Chromolithograph Illustrations of Birds. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. From Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, includes beautiful color illustrations of the Redbreast, Red Wing, Wood-lark, Meadow Pipit, Alpine Accentor, and Grasshopper Warbler. All examples in near fine condition.
[Grönvold] Six Chromolithograph Illustrations of Birds. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. From Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, includes beautiful color illustrations of the Greenfinch, Lesser Redpoll, Short-toed Lark, Richard's Pipit, Hedge-sparrow, and Tree Pipit. All examples in near fine condition.
[Grönvold] Four Chromolithograph Illustrations of Birds. 8.75 x 11.25 inches. Includes beautiful color illustrations of the corn bunting, willow warbler, wood warbler, and jackdaw. All examples in near fine condition.
[Grönvold] Six Chromolithograph Illustrations of Birds. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. From Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, includes beautiful color illustrations of the Blackcap, Linnet, Tree Creeper, Whitethroat, Dartford Warbler, and Pied Flycatcher. All examples in near fine condition.
[Grönvold] Six Chromolithograph Illustrations of Birds. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. From Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, includes beautiful color illustrations of the Red-breasted Flycatcher, Twite, Siskin, Ortolan Bunting, House Sparrow, and Lesser Whitethroat. All examples in near fine condition.
[Grönvold] Six Chromolithograph Illustrations of Birds. 11.25 x 9.75 inches. Includes beautiful color illustrations of the hooded crow, barred warbler, rook, bunting, wagtail, and Lapland bunting. All examples in near fine condition.
[Grönvold] Six Chromolithograph Illustrations of Birds. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. Includes beautiful color illustrations of the aquatic warbler, nuthatch, rock pipit, yellow browed warbler, garden warbler, and golden-crested wren. All examples in near fine condition.
[Grönvold] Six Chromolithograph Illustrations of Birds. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. Extracted from Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, includes beautiful color illustrations of the Marsh Tit, Black Redstart, Chaffinch, Tree-sparrow, Wren and an illustration of sky lark and woodlark eggs. All examples in near fine condition.
Anton Hartinger. Pineapple Painting. An original watercolor. Dated 1873 in graphite, lower left corner. In very good condition.
Robert Havell, Jr. Two Prints: Feathers of the Emerald Birds. [and:] The Magnificent. Two hand-colored engravings from Havell's A Collection of the Birds of Paradise. Both very good.
John Frederick Herring, Sr. Two Prints: Race Horse. [and:] Park Hack. A pair of hand-colored engravings. Both in very good condition.
Jacques Hnizdovsky. Leafless Tree, 1965. A limited edition woodcut on Japanese paper. In excellent condition.
J. J. Jung. Four Camellia Prints. Four hand-colored stipple engravings from Iconographie du Genre Camellia. All very good.
Johannes Gerardus Keulemans. Four Bird Prints. Four hand-colored lithographs from A Monograph of the Meropidae, or Family of the Bee-Eater. All very good.
Edward Lear. Black Stork. Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Europe. Very good.
Edward Lear. Platycercus Stanleyii. Hand-colored lithograph from Lear's Parrots. In excellent condition.
Edward Lear. White Crane. Hand-colored lithograph from Gould's Birds of Europe. Very good.
Copperplate Engraving of an Ethiopian Banana Tree. 12.5 x 14 inches. This exceptional copper engraving depicts a banana tree indigenous to Abyssinia. Light toning at the edges with a closed two inch tear at one edge not affecting illustration, else near fine.
Copperplate Engraving of Ethiopian Elephants. 17 x 13.5 inches. This exceptional double-page copper engraving depicts a herd of elephants feeding. Light toning at the edges, two vertical fold creases, else near fine.
Copperplate Engraving of an Ethiopian Marmoset. 12.5 x 14 inches. Scattered moderate foxing, especially along the edges, else good condition.
Copperplate Engraving of Unusual Ethiopian Monkeys. 17 x 13.5 inches. This exceptional double-page copper engraving depicts a tribe of unusual monkeys eating insects, fending off lions and generally scampering around. Light toning at the edges, two vertical fold creases, else near fine.
Copperplate Engraving of Ethiopian Sheep Varieties. 14.5 x 14 inches. This exceptional copper engraving features two varieties of sheep indigenous to Abyssinia. Light toning at the edges, else near fine.
François Nicolas Martinet. Two Bird Prints. Two hand-colored engravings from Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. Both very good.
Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer. Guirlande de Fleurs. Hand-colored flower garland. Generally very good condition.
Cornelius Nozeman. Two Prints: Anas Acuta, Foemina. [and:] Anas, Crecca. Two hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen. Both very good.
Cornelius Nozeman. Two Prints: Platalea, Leucorodia. [and:] Ardea Ciconia. Two hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen. Very good or better.
Cornelius Nozeman. Two Prints: Ardea Nycticorax. [and:] Colymbus, Cristatus. Two hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen. Both excellent.
Cornelius Nozeman. Two Prints: Phasianus, Colchicus, Mas. [and:] Fulica, chloropus. Two hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen. Both very good.
Cornelius Nozeman. Three Prints: Hirundo Agrestis Drepanis. [and:] Hirundo Agrestis. [and:] Hirundo Domestica. Three hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen. All very good.
Cornelius Nozeman. Three Prints: Nidus Ardeæ Stellaris. [and:] Nidus Fulicae. [and:] Nidus Pelecani, Carbonis. Three hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen. All very good.
Cornelius Nozeman. Three Prints: Palumbi Nidus et Ova. [and:] Nidus Platalea, Leucorodia. [and:] Nidus Ardeæ, Nycticoracis. Three hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen. All very good.
Cornelius Nozeman. Three Prints: Noctua Minor Aucuparia. [and:] Tetrao, Coturnix. [and:] Tringa, Pugnax. Three hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen. All very good.
Cornelius Nozeman. Four Prints: Alauda. [and:] Ampelis, Garrulus. [and:] Fringilla, Coelebs. [and:] Oriolus. Four hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen (Amsterdam: 1770-1827). All very good.
Cornelius Nozeman. Four Prints: Motacilla, alba. [and:] Motacilla, Oeuanthe. [and:] Passer Arboreus. [and:] Emberiza. Four hand-colored engravings from Nederlandsche Vogelen. All very good.
[M. C. Perry] Three Chromolithograph Illustrations of Various Birds From Admiral Perry's Expedition to Japan. 8.5 x 11 inches. Three beautiful chromolithograph illustrations of various birds encountered by Perry's expedition. Very good condition.
[M. C. Perry] Three Chromolithograph Illustrations of Various Birds From Admiral Perry's Expedition to Japan. 11 x 8.5 inches. Three beautiful chromolithograph illustrations of various birds encountered by Perry's expedition. Very good condition.
[Commodore Perry]. Collection of Six Antiquarian Color Lithographs Featuring Various Birds Encountered on Commodore Perry's Expedition to Japan.
[Commodore Perry]. Collection of Ten Antiquarian Color Lithographs Featuring Various Fish Encountered on Commodore Perry's Expedition to Japan.
[M. C. Perry] Four Chromolithograph Illustrations of Various Fish From Admiral Perry's Expedition to Japan. 11 x 8.5 inches. Four beautiful chromolithograph illustrations of various fish encountered on Perry's expedition to Japan. Very good condition.
[M. C. Perry] Five Chromolithograph Illustrations of Various Fish From Admiral Perry's Expedition to Japan. 11 x 8.5 inches. Five beautiful chromolithograph illustrations of various fish encountered on Perry's expedition to Japan. Very good condition.
[M. C. Perry] Five Lithograph Illustrations of Mollusk Shells From Perry's Expedition to Japan. 8.5 x 11 inches. Two beautiful chromolithograph illustrations and three monochrome illustrations of mollusk shells found on Perry's expedition to Japan. Very good.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Begonia Evansiana. Stipple engraving with hand-coloring, from Malmaison. Very good.
Pierre Joseph Redouté. Two Prints: Aimé vibere (Thé). [and:] Maria Leonida. Two hand-colored stipple engravings from Choix de soixante roses. Both very good.
Pierre Joseph Redouté. Two Prints: Belle Rubanée (Provins). [and:] Cent-feuille unique melée de rouge. Two hand-colored stipple engravings from Choix de soixante roses. Very good.
Pierre Joseph Redouté. Two Prints: Bengale à grandes feuilles. [and:] Bengale Philippe. Two hand-colored stipple engravings from Choix de soixante roses. Both very good.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Two Prints: Andromeda Pulverulenta. [and:] Viburnum Rigidum. Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring. Very good.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Two Prints: Calendula Chrysanthemifolia. [and:] Calendula Flaccida. Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Malmaison. Excellent condition.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Two Prints: Eucomis Punctata. [and:] Aletris Fragrans. Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring, from Les Liliacées. Both excellent.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Two Prints: Gordonia Pubescens. [and:] Cotyledon Crenata. Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring. Very good.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Two Prints: Mespilus Japonica. [and:] Bignonia Pandorea. Two stipple engravings with hand-coloring. Both very good.
Pierre Joseph Redouté. Four Rose Prints. Four hand-colored stipple engravings from Les Roses. All are in very good condition.
Pierre Joseph Redouté. Four Rose Prints. Four hand-colored stipple engravings from Les Roses. All are in very good condition.
Pierre Joseph Redouté. Four prints. Two etchings and two lithographs. All very good.
Four Botanical Prints, Including One by Redouté: Aramon. [and:] Wilmot's Early Reds. [and:] Cerise commune. [and:] Figue Violette. Hand-colored engravings of fruit, all very good or better.
Pierre Joseph Redouté and Pancrace Bessa. Five Prints by Redouté and One Print by Bessa. All in good or better condition.
J. Rivet (?). English Springer Spaniel Head. French print, dated 1938. In excellent condition, signed by the artist in pencil.
Frederick Sander. Two Prints: Cymbidium Mastersi. [and:] Lælia Euspatha. Two chromolithographs from Sander's Reichenbachia. Both very good.
Albertus Seba. Six Snake Prints. Six hand-colored engravings from John Wilkes' Encyclopaedia Londinensis. All very good.
Prideaux John Selby. Bittern - Plate VIII. Hand-colored engraving. Watermarked "J Whatman 1846." In excellent condition.
Prideaux John Selby. Gooseander, Male - Plate LVII. Hand-colored engraving. Watermarked "J Whatman 1846." In excellent condition.
Prideaux John Selby. Great Eared Owl - Plate XIX. Hand-colored engraving. Watermarked "J Whatman 1846." In excellent condition.
Prideaux John Selby. Northern Diver, Adult - Plate LXXVI. Hand-colored engraving. Watermarked "J Whatman 1846." In generally excellent condition.
Prideaux John Selby. Red Throated Diver - Plate LXXVIII. Hand-colored engraving. Watermarked "J Whatman 1846." In generally excellent condition.
Prideaux John Selby. Two Prints: Crested Cormorant. [and:] Jer Falcon. Two hand-colored prints. Both in excellent condition.
Prideaux John Selby. Three Prints: Snowy Owl. [and:] Stock Dove and Rock Pigeon. [and:] Roller. Three hand-colored prints. All very good or better.
Lynne Tinley "Spinifex Pigeon" Limited Edition Signed Print. 11.25 x 14.25 inches. Handmade paper. A handsome limited edition signed print, one of twenty, by Australian artist Lynne Tinley. Moderate foxing to the margins, else very good.
Lynne Tinley Animal Print on Handmade Paper. 10.75 x 9.5 inches. Handmade paper with highlights added by hand. Australian artist Lynne Tinley has signed the print in pencil at the bottom edge and again in white paint along the edge. Fine.
Seven Ca. 1887 Engravings of Various Small Mammals. 10 x 13.25 inches. Includes illustrations of the great kangaroo, three-toed sloth, porcupine, whale, wild boar, beaver, and marmot. Very good.
Eight Circa 1887 Engravings of Various Deer, Elk, Bison etc.. 10 x 13.25 inches. Includes illustrations of two types of bison, chamois, camel, roe deer, fallow deer, red deer and elk. With some light scattered foxing, else very good.
Eight Ca. 1887 Engravings of Various Large Mammals. 10 x 13.25 inches. Includes illustrations of two types of rhinoceros, hippopotamus, koodoo, eland, giraffe, zebra and ant-eater. With some light scattered foxing, else very good.
Johann Wilhelm Weinmann. Two Botanical Prints. Color engravings with additional color added by hand, from Phytanthoza Iconographia. Both in excellent condition.
Six Prints of Mammals. Six hand-colored engravings from John Wilkes' Encyclopaedia Londinensis. All very good.
Alexander Wilson. Two Bird Prints. Two hand-colored engravings from American Ornithology. Good or better condition.
Alexander Wilson. Three Prints: Barn Swallow. [and:] Pigeon and Warbler. [and:] Hooping Crane. Three hand-colored engravings from American Ornithology. All very good or better.
Collection of Four 19th Century Illustrations of Sea Mammals. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. A collection of illustrations including 2 monochromatic and 2 chromolithograph plates featuring various sea mammals including a whale, seals, sea lion and walrus. Very good.
Lot of Six Vintage Illustrations of Elephants, Hippos and Rhinos. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. Lovely 19th century illustrations including 5 monochromatic and 1 chromolithograph plate featuring various elephants, rhinos, hippos and a boar. Very good.
Collection of Seven 19th Century Illustrations of Various Large Cats. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. Beautiful illustrations including 3 monochromatic and 4 chromolithograph plates featuring lions, a jaguar, a leopard, pumas, and a tiger. Very good.
Lot of Eight Vintage Illustrations of Various Birds. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. Beautiful 19th century illustrations including 5 monochromatic and 3 chromolithograph plates featuring various birds including kites, osprey, finches, golden eagle, and others. Very good.
Lot of Eight Vintage Illustrations of Apes and Monkeys. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. Beautiful illustrations including 6 monochromatic and 2 chromolithograph plates featuring chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan, macaques, and other monkeys. Very good.
Lot of Nine Vintage Illustrations of Various Birds. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. Lovely 19th century illustrations including 6 monochromatic and 3 chromolithograph plates featuring various birds including harriers, woodcock, weaver birds, hummingbird, and others. Very good.
Lot of Ten Vintage Illustrations of Various Birds. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. Lovely 19th century illustrations including 6 monochromatic and 4 chromolithograph plates featuring various birds including ravens, woodpeckers, mallard duck, Baltimore Oriole, and others. Very good.
Collection of Ten Vintage Illustrations of Insects and Spiders. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. Beautiful illustrations including 4 monochromatic and 6 chromolithograph plates featuring various insects and spiders including the crab spider, lantern fly, stag beetle, locust, butterflies, and beetles, etc. Very good.
Collection of Ten 19th Century Illustrations of Various Birds. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. A collection of beautiful illustrations including 6 monochromatic and 4 chromolithograph plates featuring various birds including finches, sparrows, buntings, partridge, and others. Very good.
Collection of Thirteen 19th Century Illustrations of Various Mammals. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. A group 10 monochromatic and 3 chromolithograph plates featuring various mammals including the anteater, sloth, porcupine, hyena, beaver, brown bear, harvest mouse, polar bear, kangaroo, wolverine, sloth bear and others. Very good.
Lot of Sixteen Vintage Illustrations of Various Large Mammals. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. Lovely illustrations including 12 monochromatic and 4 chromolithograph plates featuring various large mammals including deer, gazelles, giraffes, buffalo, camels, chamois, and many others. Very good.
Twenty-one 19th Century Illustrations of Reptiles and Fish. 9.5 x 12.5 inches. A collection of illustrations including 17 monochromatic and 4 chromolithograph plates featuring fish and reptiles including swordfish, crabs, frogs, turtles, flying fish, lobsters, and various monitors, lizards and snakes. Very good.
Five Flower Prints. Five hand-colored engravings. All in very good condition.
Three Bird Prints: Le Faucon Sors. [and:] Le Loriot Coudougnan Mâle. [and:] L'Acoli. Three bird engravings with hand-coloring. All very good or better.
Three Botanical Prints, including prints by: John Frederick Miller. [and:] James Sowerby. [and:] P. F. Le Grand. All very good.
Gambogia Gutta / Das unæchte Gummigut. Artist and source unknown. A beautiful German engraving with hand-coloring. In excellent condition.
Unknown artist. Two Prints: Mico. [and:] Saj. Two hand-colored engravings. Both in very good condition.
Four Examples of Botanical Art, including: An Original Watercolor Signed by Shirrell Graves. [and prints by:] Johann Michael Seligmann. [and:] J. J. Jung. [and:] John Edwards. All very good or better.
Unknown Artist. Rose Painting. An original watercolor. In very good condition .
James Armstrong [publisher]. The Celebrated Greyhounds. A hand-colored lithograph in very good condition. This print has been fixed to a mounting board.
Lot of 13 Antique Copperplate Engravings Featuring Animals, Birds and Fish. Plate size measures 7 x 8.5 inches with an overall page size of 8 x 10.5 inches. Very good.
Books
Princess Bibesco and Arlette Davids. Flowers: Tulips Hyacinths Narcissi.... 1940. First edition. Folio. Forty illustrations by Davids. Original gray linen is slightly dirty. Else very good in a stained and worn dust jacket.
George Boulger [Author] and I. S. Perrin [Artist]. British Flowering Plants. London: Bernard Quaritch,1914. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Four quarto volumes. Color illustrations. Original white cloth. Spines slightly darkened. Light edge wear and corners just slightly bumped. Rear hinge of volume 4 starting. Overall a very good set.
James Britten. European Ferns. London: Cassell & Company, [n. d.]. Publisher's cloth with 30 colored plates. Cloth is rubbed and edge worn with insect spotting along page edges. Mild toning and scattered foxing throughout. In overall very good condition.
N. L. Britton and J. N. Rose. The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family. [Pasadena]: [Scott E. Haselton], [1937]. First thus. Four quarto volumes. Very good.
Jonathan Couch. A History of the Fishes of the British Islands. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1862-1865. Complete in four octavo volumes. 252 hand-colored plates. Plates in overall very good or better condition; bindings in poor or better condition.
Baron [Georges] Cuvier. The Animal Kingdom.. New York: Carvill, 1831. First American edition. Four octavo volumes. Twenty engraved plates. Full speckled sheep. Foxing, else a very attractive copy in its original American binding.
Charles Darwin. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin. London: John Murray, 1888. First edition. Three octavo volumes. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine. Overall, a handsome and sound copy of the first edition.
Erasmus Darwin. Xoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life - Volume I Only. London: J. Johnson, 1794. First edition. Full mottled tree calf, rubbed with a couple of gouges to boards. Foxing. Very good. By Charles Darwin's grandfather.
Sydenham Edwards. The Botanical Register: Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; With Their History and Mode of Treatment. London: James Ridgway, 1816-1817. Volumes 2 and 3 only. Overall fair condition.
Albert Kenrick Fisher. The Hawks and Owls of the United States in Their Relation to Agriculture. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893. First edition. Octavo. Twenty-six chromolithographic plates. Original plum cloth. A couple of signatures a bit sprung, else very good.
Shirley Hibberd [editor]. The Floral World and Garden Guide. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1869-1870. Two octavo volumes in half leather. Spines and corners are perished and boards are detached. Numerous hand-colored plates throughout. Fair condition.
William Houghton. British Fresh-Water Fishes. London: William Mackenzie, [1879]. First edition. Two folio volumes. 41 chromolithographs. Publisher's brick-red cloth with beveled edges, ornately stamped in gilt and black. Old tidemark on the upper front corner of one volume, some rubbing, corners bruised. Very good.
F. Edward Hulme. Two Sets on Flowers, including: Familiar Wild Flowers. London: [n.d.]. [and:] with Shirley Hibberd. Familiar Garden Flowers. London: [n.d.]. 10 total volumes. Plates in overall very good condition; bindings in poor condition.
John Hunter. Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy. London: G. Nicol, J. Johnson, 1792. Second edition. Quarto. Illustrated. Contemporary leather boards re-backed more recently. Wear to corners and edges, plates with foxing and finger-soiling to plates, else a very good copy.
Jonathan Kingdom. East African Mammals. Chicago: 1971-1989. Various editions. Seven quarto volumes. Profusely illustrated. First three volumes in original maroon cloth with dust jackets; last four volumes in stiff pictorial wraps. All very good.
Louise S. Lovett. Desert Flowers. [N.p.: presumably printed by the author, ca. 1957-1960]. First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Thirty-two plates, some colored.
E. J. Lowe. Ferns: British and Exotic. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1868. Complete in eight octavo volumes. Plates in very good or better condition; bindings only fair.
[Pierre-Hippolyte] Lucas. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés des Arachnides et des Myriapodes. Paris: Societe Bibliophile, 1850. Two octavo volumes. With all forty-six colored lithographs. Uncut in original printed wrappers with engraved designs. Housed in two cloth clamshell boxes. Overall, very good.
Robert Marnock. The Floricultural Magazine, and Miscellany of Gardening. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1836-1842. Volumes 1-6. Plates in overall good or better condition; bindings in poor condition.
F. Andrew Michaux and Thomas Nuttall. The North American Sylva; or, a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. Philadelphia: D. Rice & A. N. Hart, 1859. Five quarto volumes. All volumes in good or better condition.
Albert G. Nye, Compiler. Sea Mosses From the Pacific Coast. San Francisco, ca. 1880. Octavo with twenty-six mounted specimens. No text as this was a personal project of Nye's. Contemporary half brown morocco over brown cloth. Very good.
Anne Pratt. The Flowering Plants of Great Britain. London: Warne, [c. 1885]. Three octavo volumes. With 240 chromolithographs, one uncolored lithograph. Publisher's green cloth. Light foxing. One signature detached, else a very good copy.
Charles Sprague Sargent. The Silva of North America: A Description of the Trees Which Grow Naturally in North America Exclusive of Mexico. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891-1902. Complete in 14 folio volumes. All volumes good or better.
Sacheverell Sitwell. Pair of Beautifully Illustrated Books, including: Fine Bird Books 1700-1900. [and:] Great Flower Books 1700-1900. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. First editions. New in the publisher's shrink-wrap.
John Torrey. A Flora of the State of New York, Comprising Full Descriptions of All the Indigenous and Naturalized Plants Hitherto Discovered in the State. 2 Volumes. Albany: Carroll and Cook, 1843. Binding is in poor condition, interior pages and plates are in good or better condition.
Mary Vaux Walcott. North American Wild Flowers. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1925. First trade edition. Five quarto volumes. 400 color plates. A very good set.
J. G. Wood. Animate Creation; Popular Edition of "Our Living World." New York: Selmar Hess, [1885]. Three volumes. Bindings lightly rubbed and edge worn; minor fraying at corners and spine ends. Hinges repaired. Very good.
Antiques
William Wood. Index Entomologicus; or, A Complete Illustrated Catalogue, Consisting of 1944 Figures, of the Lepidopterous Insects of Great Britain. London: William Wood, 1839. First edition. Octavo. Contemporary half-black morocco over marbled boards. A very good copy.
Books
Five Dutch Books Featuring Natural History Cigarette Cards, Published in Zaandam, Holland by Uitgave Verkade's Fabrieken. Five large quarto volumes. Text in Dutch.
Two Zoology Books, including: Peter P. Good. A Materia Medica Animalia. 1853. [and:] Georges Cuvier. The Animal Kingdom, Arranged According to its Organization. 1863. Both good or better.
Eight Natural History Titles, including books on Darwinism, published between 1838 and 1930. All in good or better condition.
Antiques
Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. 1764. Collection of Five Magnificent 18th-Century Steel Engravings Featuring Mechanical Views.
Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. 1764. Collection of Five Magnificent 18th-Century Architectural Steel Engravings.
Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. 1764. Collection of Six Magnificent 18th-Century Steel Engravings With Illustrations of Wool Manufacture.
William Hogarth. Three Prints: Marriage A-La-Mode-Plate I. [and:] The Industrious 'Prentice, Lord-Mayor of London-Plate 12. [and:] Tail Piece (The Bathos). Three engravings. All in good condition.
Copperplate Engraving of Monks Being Beheaded by Abyssinians. 14.5 x 12.5 inches. This exceptional double-page copper engraving features three unfortunate monks being dispatched by the sword. The plate displays some light scattered foxing, else it is in very good condition.
Miscellaneous
Barry Moser and others. Trio of Artist-Signed Broadsides for Beardsley's Café Restaurant. This exceptional lot of anniversary broadsides by various artists including Barry Moser. Fine condition.
Antiques
Bernard Picart Engraving "Alcyone & Ceyx Transformed Into Halcyons". Plate imprint 10 x 14 inches, overall 12 x 18 inches. The paper has toned, especially along the edges with some modest scattered foxing; otherwise it is in good condition.
Bernard Picart Engraving "Amphion Builds the Walls of Thebes by the Music of His Lyre". Plate imprint 10 x 14 inches, overall 12 x 18 inches. The paper has toned, especially along the edges with some modest scattered foxing, else it is in good condition.
Bernard Picart Engraving "The Argonauts Pass the Symplegades". Plate imprint 10 x 14 inches, overall 12 x 18 inches. The paper has toned, especially along the edges with some modest scattered foxing, otherwise it is in good condition.
Bernard Picart Engraving "Arion Preserved by a Dolphin". Plate imprint 10 x 14 inches, overall 12 x 18 inches. The paper has toned, especially along the edges with some modest scattered foxing, otherwise it is in good condition.
Bernard Picart Engraving "Atlas Supports the Heavens on His Shoulders". Plate imprint 10 x 14 inches, overall 12 x 18 inches. The paper has toned, especially along the edges with some modest scattered foxing, otherwise it is in good condition.
Bernard Picart Engraving "Bellerphon Fights the Chimaera". Plate imprint 10 x 14 inches, overall 12 x 18 inches. The paper has toned, especially along the edges with some modest scattered foxing, otherwise it is in good condition.
Bernard Picart Engraving "Glaucus Changed Into a Sea-God". Plate imprint 10 x 14 inches, overall 12 x 18 inches. The paper has toned, especially along the edges with some modest scattered foxing, otherwise it is in good condition.
Bernard Picart Engraving "Hercules's Combat With the Hydra". Plate imprint 10 x 14 inches, overall 12 x 18 inches. The paper has toned, especially along the edges with some modest scattered foxing, otherwise it is in good condition.
Bernard Picart Engraving "Memnon's Statue". Plate imprint 10 x 14 inches, overall 12 x 18 inches. The paper has toned, especially along the edges at the bottom with some modest scattered foxing, otherwise it is in good condition.
Bernard Picart Engraving "Penelope's Web". Plate imprint 10 x 14 inches, overall 12 x 18 inches. The paper has toned, especially along the edges with some modest scattered foxing, otherwise it is in good condition.
Bernard Picart Engraving "Tithonus, Aurora's Husband, Turn'd Into a Grass-hopper". Plate imprint 10 x 14 inches, overall 12 x 18 inches. The paper has toned, especially along the edges with some modest scattered foxing, otherwise it is in good condition.
Carmine Pignataro. Untitled Print. A hand-colored engraving depicting a classical frieze. In very good condition.
Joseph Strutt. 1796. Beautiful Group of Four Hand-Colored Copper-Plate Engravings Featuring the Dress of Early English Nobles.
Joseph Strutt. 1796. Magnificent Lot of Four Hand-Colored Copper-Plate Engravings Featuring the Fashion of Early English Monarchs.
Joseph Strutt. 1796. Handsome Group of Four Hand-Colored Copper-Plate Engravings Featuring Early English Women's Fashion.
Joseph Strutt. 1796. Beautiful Collection of Six Hand-Colored Copper-Plate Engravings Featuring the Fashion of Early English Kings.
Joseph Strutt. 1796. Magnificent Collection of Six Hand-Colored Copper-Plate Engravings Featuring the Military Fashion of Early England.
Joseph Strutt. 1796. Exceptional Collection of Six Hand-Colored Copper-Plate Engravings Featuring Early English Women's Fashion.
Joseph Strutt. 1796. Beautiful Collection of Seven Hand-Colored Copper-Plate Engravings Featuring the Fashion of Early English Kings and Queens.
Eight Portrait Engravings, including prints by: George Vertue. [and:] Adriano Haluech. All in good condition.
Nine Portrait Engravings, including prints by: George Vertue. [and:] Peter Vandrebranc. [and:] Cornelius Visscher. All very good.
Photography
Group of 22 Publicity Photographs and Various Images of Renowned Authors. Including Poe, Capote, Hawthorne, Caldwell, Dunbar, Browning, Byron, Barrie and others. Very good condition.
Books
Group of Seven Almanacs in one Bound Volume. London: Various Publishers, 1834. Small octavo. Contemporary straight-grained red morocco, expertly rebacked retaining original spine, with parchment tabs separating each almanac. Spine darkened. A very good copy.
Four Books on American History including Obituary Addresses on the Occasion of the Death of Henry Clay. 1852. [and:] Life of David Crockett, the Original Humorist and Irrepressible Backwoodsman. 1865. [and:] G. S. Weaver. The Lives and Graves of Presidents. 1884. [and:] Charles Edey Fay. Mary Celeste: The Odyssey of an Abandoned Ship. 1942. Very good.
Two Books Featuring Heroes and Villains of the Old West including Jay Donald. Outlaws of the Border. Philadelphia: Douglas Brothers, 1882. First edition. [and:] Dewitt C. Peters. Kit Carson's Life and Adventures Hartford: Dustin, Gilman & Company, 1875. Revised. Very good.
Two Books on American Indians including Charles De Wolf Brownell. The Indian Races of North and South America. New York, 1857. [and:] George P. Belden. Belden, The White Chief; or, Twelve Years Among the Wild Indians of the Plains. Cincinnati, 1871. Very good.
Robert Walsh [editor]. The American Review of History and Politics and General Repository of Literature and State Papers. Philadelphia: Printed for Farrand and Nicholas, 1811-1812. First edition. Four octavo volumes. Overall very good condition.
[American Tract Society]. Anonymous. The History Of Thomas Frankland. New York: American Tract Society, [n.d., c. 1830].
Thomas Archer. Pictures and Royal Portraits Illustrative of English and Scottish History, From the Introduction of Christianity to the Present Time. London: Blackie & Son, 1878. First edition. Very good.
Thomas A. Ashby. The Valley Campaigns. New York: Neale Publishing, 1914. First edition. Inscribed by the author to his daughter. Green cloth. Hinges cracked, binding slightly cocked. Very good. Civil War.
Joseph Ayloffe. Calendars of the Ancient Charters, and of the Welch and Scotish Rolls, Now Remaining in the Tower of London: etc. London: Benjamin White, 1774. First edition. Quarto. Polished calf. Scattered foxing, else a very good copy.
Francis Bacon. Sylva Sylvarum. London: S. G. and B. Griffin, 1676. Engraved frontispiece. Full contemporary calf. Rebacked. Raised bands. Marbled edges. Very minor foxing. Slight water stains to preliminary pages. Very good.
[Edith Wallace Benham and Anne Martin Hall, editors]. Ships of the United States Navy and their Sponsors 1797-1913. Privately printed, 1913. First edition. Admiral Peary's daughter's copy. Very good.
John C. Bourne. Bourne's Great Western Railway, New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969. First edition thus. Large folio. 58 pages plus an unpaginated section of 34 plates.
Two Books on the Civil War including George S. Boutwell. Speeches and Papers Relating to the Rebellion and the Overthrow of Slavery. Boston: Little, Brown, 1867. [and:] John William Jones. The Personal Reminiscences of General Robert E. Lee. New York: D. Appleton, 1875. Very good.
Two Sets of Memoirs of Civil War Union Generals including Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. New York: Charles Webster, 1885. [and:] Phillip H. Sheridan. Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan. New York: Charles Webster, 1888. Very good.
Kenneth Davis. A Prophet in His Own Country. New York: Doubleday, 1957. First edition. Octavo. Inscribed by author to Adlai E. Stevenson. Finely bound in full brown morocco. Some faint water lines to rear cover, else an attractive copy.
Gabriel d'Emillianne. A Short History of Monastical Orders, in Which the Primitive Institution of Monks, Their Tempers, Habits, Rules, and The Condition they are in at Present, are Treated of. London: Printed by S. Roycroft, for W. Bentley, in Russel-Street Covent Garden, 1693. Twelvemo. [26], 312 pages. Later brown leather with blind-stamped tooling & lettering and five raised bands. Binding somewhat worn. Over-opened at the front hinge. Three bookplates removed from the front endpapers. Scattered minor foxing. A very good copy.
Jacques Mallet du Pan. The History of the Destruction of the Helvetic Union and Liberty. Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, March, 1799. First American edition and first in English.
E. A. Duyckinck. National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans: Including Orators, Statesmen, Naval and Military Heroes, Jurists, Authors, etc. From Original Paintings by Alonzo Chappel With Biographies by E. A. Duyckinck. New York: Johnson, Fry & Company, [1861]. Very good.
Evert A. Duyckinck. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson and Company, 1873. Two quarto volumes. With many finely executed steel engravings. Half-leather bindings. Marbled endpapers. Trivial shelf wear, else fine.
Two Sets Dealing With the History of England including George L. Craik and Charles MacFarlane. The Pictorial History of England. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846.[and:] Winston S. Churchill. A History of the English Speaking Peoples. London: Cassell and Company, 1956-58. Very good.
Two Works on English History including Junius. Junius. State Nominis Umbra. London, 1805. [and:] John Heneage Jesse. Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reigns of William and Mary, Queen Anne, and the First and Second Georges. Boston, 1901. Very good.
Three Works of European History including Edward Creasy. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo. 1886. [and:] John Skelton. Maitland of Lethington and the Scotland of Mary Stuart A History. 1887. [and:] Henri Bouchot. La Restauration. 1893. Very good.
Benjamin Franklin. Leonard W. Labaree [editor]. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. Volumes 1-22 only (of 33). New Haven: Yale University Press, [1961-1982]. Dust jackets. All very good or better.
Two Works on French History in Fine Bindings including M. A. Thiers. The History of the French Revolution. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. [and:] Dennis Bingham. The Bastille. New York: James Pott & Company, 1901. Very good to fine condition.
Thomas Fuller. The History of the Worthies of England. First Printed in 1662. A New Edition. Two volumes. Contemporary quarter calf. Rebacked, needing restoration. Text block very clean. A good copy only.
The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs. London: Charles Knight, 1833-37. First edition. Seven octavo volumes. Each with approximately 24 steel engraved portraits. Red half-leather bindings. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume, else fine.
James Granger. A Biographical History of England. [With:] A supplement, consisting of corrections and large additions, to A biographical history of England. London: Printed for T. Davies, 1769-74. First edition. Quarto. Uniformly bound in contemporary full tree calf. Very good.
Antoine Hamilton. Memoires du Comte De Grammont. London: William Miller and Jacques Carpenter, 1811. Nouvelle edition. Two volumes. Bound in full dark brown straight-grain morocco. Rubbing and wear to covers, repair to joints at crown of Vol. 2, moisture stains to endpapers, scattered foxing to plates, else pleasing copy.
Hutchins Hapgood. The Spirit of the Ghetto. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1902. First edition of the author's first book. Original green pictorial cloth printed in black, white, and red on front. Extremities a bit rubbed, otherwise a very good and bright copy.
[Charles F. Horne and Walter F. Austin, editors]. Source Records of the Great War. [N.p.]: National Alumni, 1923. Seven volumes in multi-colored leatherette. Fine in worn slipcases.
Henry Lee. Observations on the Writings of Thomas Jefferson, with Particular Reference to the Attack They Contain on the Memory of the Late Gen. Henry Lee. New York: Charles De Behr, 1832. First edition. Octavo. Some rubbing to boards and extremities, label lightly chipped with some scattered foxing. Overall, a very good copy in its original binding.
John S. Jenkins. History of the War Between the United States and Mexico. Auburn: Derby, Miller and Co., 1850. Octavo. Publisher's full black morocco covers. Aside from the usual foxing, a very good copy.
Walter K. Kelly. Erotica. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. First edition. Octavo. Light foxing. Full smooth red calf, borders rolled in gilt, boards tooled in decorative gilt, spine lettered in gilt compartments, five raised bands, all edge gilt. A very good copy.
[Francis Scott Key]. Early Appearance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in The Analectic Magazine, Volume IV, 1814. Four issues of the magazine bound together in one contemporary half calf volume. Very good.
Nathaniel Pitt Langford. Vigilante Days and Ways: The Pioneers of the Rockies. Boston: J. G. Cupples Co., 1890. First edition. Inscribed by author. Two octavo volumes. Publisher's blue cloth. Some light tip and spine end wear. Overall, a very good, inscribed copy.
[Law]. A Collection of the Several Statutes, and Parts of Statutes, Now in Force, Relating to High Treason and Misprision of High Treason. London: Charles Bill, 1709. First edition. Twelvemo. Two volumes in one. Contemporary full black morocco. One front endpaper with upper blank corner excised, otherwise a lovely copy; clean and completely unrestored.
17th Century British Law Imprints Bound Together, including: The Reports [...] Sir Richard Hutton Knight. [and:] Plusieurs Tres-Bons Cases.... [and:] Les Reports de Cases & Matters en Ley....[and:] Une Extract Table al Report de Sir John Davys. Very good.
Benson J. Lossing. Five Volumes on the United States, including: History of the United States. 1857. [and:] History of the United States of America. [1876]. Four volumes. All good or better.
Charles Lummis. Mesa, Canyon and Pueblo. New York: Charles Century Co., 1925. First edition of this title. Inscribed. Octavo. Publisher's brick red cloth with decorative vignette of an Indian starting a fire on the front cover. Very good and clean. Inscribed by Lummis on the front endpaper.
Lord Macaulay. Two Sets, including: The Works of Lord Macaulay. Boston: 1860. [and:] The History of England. Boston: 1860. Seven volumes bound in leather. Bindings dulled, spines sunned. Very good.
William Meredith. Memorials of Charles John, King of Sweden and Norway. London: George Henry Colburn, 1829. First edition. Octavo. Mild foxing on endpapers only. Full red morocco, borders rolled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands. A very good copy.
S. D. Mirys. Figures de la République Romaine, Accompagnées d'un Précis Historique. Paris: Mirys, [1800]. Quarto. Illustrated with 120 (of the original 180) magnificent engraved plates with their original tissue guards. Very good.
Frank Moore [editor]. The Rebellion Record. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1863-1864. Seven volumes. Custom half leather, lightly worn. All in very good or better condition.
Sir Harris Nicolas. History of the Battle of Agincourt and the Expedition of Henry the Fifth into France in 1415. To Which is Added the Roll of the Men at Arms in the English Army. London: Published by Johnson & Co., 1833. Third edition. Octavo. Back board detached, former ownership ink stamps on the endpapers, else a tight copy in near fine condition.
Zelia Nuttall. The Book of the Life of the Ancient Mexicans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1903. Oblong octavo. Publisher's limp suede with the title blind-stamped on the spine and an ancient mandala on the front. A very good copy.
Five Books on Pennsylvania History, published between 1852 and 1916, including titles by: Samuel M. Janney. [and:] John F. Watson. [and:] Thomas Lynch Montgomery. All in good or better condition.
John J. Pershing: My Experiences in the World War (Two Volumes). New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1931. Signed by the author and numbered 873 of 2,100 copies. Moderate wear, else very good.
James Allanson Picton. Oliver Cromwell. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882. First edition. Thick octavo. 516 pages. Riviere style binding in full navy smooth calfskin. Light nicking and scratching to covers, otherwise a fine beautiful copy. In excellent condition.
P. Francisco Pomey. Pantheum Mythicum, seu Fabulosa Deorum Historia. Amsterdam: Ex Officina Schouteniana Trajectiad Rhenum, apud Viduam J.J. A Poolsum, 1777. Editio decima. Small octavo. Contemporary full vellum with exposed thongs and manuscript spine lettering. An excellent copy, extremely clean.
A. F. Pollard. Henry VIII. London: Goupil & Company, 1902. Limited edition of 1150 numbered copies. Large quarto. Thirty-one engraved plates by Manzi, Joyant & Company of Paris. Chromolithograph frontispiece of Henry VIII. Half-morocco binding. Marbled edges. Very good.
Frederick J. Prior. Operation of Trains and Station Work. Chicago: H. Drake & Co., 1908. Octavo. Publisher's flexible brown morocco with gilt spine and cover lettering, gilt train on front cover. An excellent copy.
Madame de Remusat. Memoirs of Madame de Remusat 1802-1808. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880. First edition. Three octavo volumes. Contemporary maroon half-morocco over red cloth boards, spines lettered and tooled in gilt. Overall a very good set.
[Charles] Rollins. The Ancient History of the Egyptians.... Boston: 1807. Twelfth edition, complete in eight volumes. All volumes good or better.
William Russell. The History of Modern Europe [...] In a Series of Letters From a Nobleman to His Son. A New Edition, with a Continuation, Extending to the Treaty of Amiens, in 1802. 1815.Five volumes. Full leather binding. Very good.
Robert and Samuel Wilberforce. The Life of William Wilberforce. London: John Murray, 1838. First edition. Five twelvemo volumes. Diced calf. Marbled endpapers. Front board volume one starting to detach, wear to edges with some light scuffing to boards, else very good.
Wallis Windsor. The Heart Has Its Reasons. New York: David McKay, 1956. Signed by the author on the front endpaper.
Marcus Wright, Benjamin La Bree and James Boyd [editors]. Official War Record of Battles by Land and Sea in the Civil War. Washington: Edward J. Stanley, 1898. First edition (sold by subscription). Very good.
William Young. The Fencer's Manual; Being a Series of Introductory Lessons to the Art of Fencing, With Lithographic Plates Illustrative of the Principal Parades. Chatham: Printed by James Burrill, 1840. First edition. Octavo. Half calf over marbled boards. A near fine copy.
[Hugh Craig, translator]. William Zimmermann. A Popular History of Germany from the Earliest Period to the Present Day. New York: Henry J. Johnson, 1878. First edition. Four volumes. Quarto. Illustrated. Scattered edge wear, and a couple of spine crowns with small paint mark, otherwise a very attractive bright set.
Three Signed Autobiographies, including: Jack Dempsey. Dempsey (as told to Bob Considine and Bill Slocum) [and:] Lititia Baldrige. Roman Candle [and:] Gypsy Rose Lee. Gypsy. All good or better.
Fourteen Ninja Books, including books published by Paladin Press and others. All books are softcover and all books are in fine condition unless otherwise noted.
Fifteen Ninja and Fighting Books, most published by Paladin Press. All are softcover, unless otherwise noted. All books in fine condition.
Bible Printed in 1801, The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, with Apocrypha: Translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Engraved plates. Very good.
The Book of Common Prayer [Bound with:] [Psalter]. The Whole Book of Psalms. 1745 and 1748. Octavo. Full red morocco by H. Bailey. Overall a good copy of this important work.
Brother Isaiah. The City of New Jerusalem. Los Angeles: Wolfer Printing Company, 1932. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's blue fabricoid with gilt spine and cover lettering. Rubbing to joints but overall a very strong and clean copy of the collected sermons of Brother Isaiah.
Alice Getty. The Gods of Northern Buddhism: Their History, Iconography and Progressive Evolution Through the Northern Buddhist Countries. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914. First edition. Quarto. lii, 196 pages. Inscribed by the author. Illustrated. Publisher's green cloth. Slight wear to spine extremities, else a very good copy.
John Lydgate. The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man Englished by John Lydgate From the French of Guillaume de Deguileville. London: Nichols and Son, 1905. First edition. Quarto. With list of the members of the Roxburghe Club on inserted sheet. Publisher's quarter brown roan over purple boards. A very good copy.
Mother Teresa. Two Signed Books and Original Photographs, including: Meditations from a Simple Path. [and:] In My Own Words. The books come with a signing photo from that day and authenticating letter from the recipient.
Thomas Allom and Robert Walsh. Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Illustrated. London: Fisher, Son, & Company, (n.d., circa 1838). First edition. Two volumes in one. Quarto. Maps. Engraved plates. Quarter-leather. Front board detached, shelf wear, else very good.
Luigi Amedeo of Savoy. On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1903. First UK edition. Two quarto volumes. Illustrated. Maps. Overall a very good, clean copy.
George French Angas. The Kafirs Illustrated. A Facsimile Reprint of the Original 1849 Edition of Hand-Coloured Lithographs. Cape Town and Rotterdam: 1974. Limited to 950 numbered copies signed by Frank R. Bradlow.
George Anson. A Voyage Round the World. London: John and Paul Knapton, 1753. Seventh edition. Three fold-out charts. Full leather. Boards detached but present. Remnants of title page. A few preliminary and terminal pages detached but present. Inked name dated 1780. Fair condition.
W. A. Baillie-Grohman. Sport in The Alps, in the Past and Present. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1896. First edition. Octavo. Contemporary half red morocco over marbles boards. Some minor rubbing at extremities but a bright and tight copy. California mountaineer Vernon Howard's copy with his bookplate.
W. H. Bartlett [illustrator] and William Beattie. The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain. First edition. Two quarto volumes. Illustrated with engraved plates. Quarter leather binding. Boards worn, especially at the edges, cloth with moderate staining, else very good.
William Beattie. Switzerland. London: George Virtue, 1836. Two illustrated volumes. Half leather. Bindings rubbed and worn; pages foxed. Bookplates. Very good.
Nathaniel Bowditch. The New American Practical Navigator. New York: E. M. Blunt and Samuel A. Burtus, 1817. Full leather with new backstrip and endpapers. Good.
Frank Brinkley, et al. Oriental Series. Boston: J. B. Millet, 1901-1910. A complete set in twenty-four volumes. Original cloth. Spines uniformly faded. Very good. A comprehensive history of the Near East, the Far East, and Russia.
Du Chaillu. The Land of the Midnight Sun. New York: Paul B. Harper & Brothers, 1881. First edition. Two volumes. In original blue cloth binding, lettered in gilt on spines.
Hon. Robert Curzon. Visits to Monasteries in the Levant. London: John Murray, 1851. Fourth edition. Octavo. Prize binding from King's College of full plum morocco. Evidence of removed bookplate on front endpaper. Crisp, clean and in a lovely prize binding.
Abbe Emmanuel Domenech. Seven Years' Residence in the Great Deserts of North America. London: Longman, Green, et al., 1860. Complete in two volumes. Very good.
Alexander Dow. The History of Hindostan. Translated from the Persian. London: Vernor and Hood, 1803. New edition. Three octavo volumes. Contemporary mottled calf with twining gilt borders. A very attractive set of this classic.
Amelia Earhart. The Fun of It. Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1932. Sixth printing. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.
The Edinburgh Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary: Containing a Description of the Various Countries, Kingdoms, States, Cities, Towns, Mountains, &c. of the World... London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827. First edition. Six octavo volumes. Very good.
Filippo de Filippi. Ruwenzori: An Account of the Expedition of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1908. Publisher's red cloth. Ex-library copy. Front hinge weak. Very good.
F. Jay Haynes. Portfolio of Twelve Water Color Views, Yellowstone National Park. St. Paul: F. J. Haynes & Bro., 1900. First edition. In original publisher's burgundy cloth covered box. Twelve mounted color photographs of Yellowstone. Box with some splitting to the hinge, scattered soiling, plates fine.
William Janson. A View of the Present Condition of the States of Barbary. London: Samuel Leigh, 1816. Second edition. Delicate full leather. Two folding maps. Good.
Austen P. Layard. Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon; With Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1853. Front hinge broken. Good condition.
Dr. Gustave Le Bon. Les Civilizations de L'Inde. Paris: Firmin Didot & Co., 1887. First edition. Publisher's full red morocco. Spine very slightly sunned. Very light rubbing and shelf wear, and corner slightly showing. Hinges tender but still holding tight. Overall a very good copy.
J. Hardwicke Lewis and May Hardwicke Lewis, with Francis Gribble. The Lake of Geneva. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. First edition. Generally, a near fine copy.
William Libbey and Franklin E. Hoskins. The Jordan Valley and Petra. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. Complete in two volumes. Folding map at rear of volume II. Very good.
Stephen H. Long. Voyage of a Six-Oared Skiff to the Falls of St. Anthony in 1817. Philadelphia: Henry B. Ashmead Book and Job Printer, 1860. First edition. Octavo. Original flexible black cloth ruled in blind. An excellent copy in the (unblemished) publisher's binding.
G. Muir Mackenzie and A. P. Irby. Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe. London: Bell and Daldy, 1867. First edition. Thick octavo. Contemporary full brown calf. A handsome and sturdy copy in the original binding.
Mortimer Menpes. Japan, A Record in Colour. London: Adam and Charles Black, [1905]. Color plates by Menpes. Publisher's blue cloth. Spine sunned. Very good.
Mortimer Menpes. World Pictures, Being a Record in Colour. London: Adam and Charles Black, [n.d., 1902]. Color plates by Menpes. Decorated red cloth is lightly rubbed; corner bumped. Spine sunned. Very good.
Two Photograph Albums of "The Grand Tour" of Italy and Paris. Two volumes. No dates, circa 1890s. Oblong folios. Unpaginated. The first six photos in the first volume are in color, followed by approximately forty-five to fifty black and white (actually sepia) albumen prints and the second volume contains scenes from a tour of Paris. This volume is only about half full of prints. Very good condition.
Robert Taylor Pritchett. "Gamle Norge" -- Rambles and Scrambles in Norway. London: Virtue & Co., 1879. Publisher's green cloth with gilt and black stamping. Very good.
Guido Rey. The Matterhorn. London: T. Fisher Unwin, [1907]. Mustard cloth with leather spine labels. Rubbing and light edge wear; clean repair to front hinge. Very good.
George Fennell Robson. Scenery of the Grampian Mountains. Illustrated by forty etchings in the soft ground: representing the principal hills from such points as display their picturesque features. London: Published by the Author, 1814.
Luther M. Schaeffer. Sketches of Travels in South America, Mexico and California. New York: James Egbert, 1860. First edition. Twelvemo. Publisher's brown bubble-grain cloth with covers and spine decoratively stamped. Spine very slightly faded, with slight wear to spine extremities. Overall, a very good copy.
Dr. Henry Schliemann. Tiryns. The Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns. The Results of the Latest Excavations. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885. First edition in English. Octavo. lxiv, 385, [1] pages. Publisher's blue cloth. A bright fine copy.
E. George Squier. Peru. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877. Publisher's green cloth is rubbed and fraying at corners and spine ends. Hinges weak. Minor chipping to front free endpaper. Very good.
John L. Stephens. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. London: John Murray, 1842. Two volumes. Lightly worn with foxing throughout. Both very good.
F. F. Tuckett. A Pioneer in the High Alps: Alpine Diaries and Letters of F. F. Tuckett. London: Edward Arnold, 1920. First edition of this mountaineering classic. Octavo. Publisher's brown cloth. Scattered light foxing, spine lettering somewhat faded. A clean and tight copy.
M. C-F. Volney. Travels through Syria and Egypt. Dublin: Messrs. White, et al., 1793. Two volumes in one. Full leather is edge worn and cracking along the joints. Lightly foxed throughout. A very good copy.
Frank Wild. Shackleton's Last Voyage. London: Cassell and Company, 1923. Publisher's blue cloth. Scattered foxing throughout. Very good.
H. E. Winlock. Egyptian Expedition Publications, Volume XVI, 1945: The Slain Soldiers of Neb-Hepet-Re Mentu-Hotpe. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945. First edition. Quarto. 40 pages plus unnumbered pages containing 40 plates.
Two Books on Africa, including: Charles J. F. Bunbury. Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope. [and:] James Bryce. Impressions of South Africa. Both very good or better.
Two Books on Africa, including: Mary Gaunt. Alone in West Africa. [and:] Seth K. Humphrey. Loafing Through Africa. Both very good or better.
Three Titles on Africa, including: Theodore Roosevelt. African Game Trails. [and:] Michael H. Mason. Deserts Idle. [and:] H. R. Palmer. Sudanese Memoirs. All the volumes in this lot are in good or better condition.
Four Titles on Africa, including: Michael Davitt. The Boer Fight for Freedom. [and:] Theodore Roosevelt. African Game Trails. [and:] Aloysius Horn. The Life and Works of Alfred Aloysius Horn: An Old Visitor. [and:] I. Schapera. The Khoisan Peoples of South Africa. All in good or better condition.
Four Books on Africa, including: Mungo Park. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa. [and:] Charles Neufeld. A Prisoner of the Khaleefa. [and:] Caroline Kirkland. Some African Highways. [and:] Adolf Friedrich. From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile. All in good condition.
Three American Travel Titles by authors including: [Thomas L. McKenney]. [Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes, of the Character and Customs of the Chippeway Indians, and Incidents Connected with the Treaty of Fond Du Lac]. [and:] Washington Irving. Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains. [and:] Zena Irma Trinka. Out Where the West Begins. All books in good or better condition.
Two Arctic Travel Titles, including: Captain M'Clintock. The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas. [and:] Fridtjof Nansen. Farthest North. Two volumes. Very good or better.
Two Arctic Travel Titles, including: Charles Sheldon. The Wilderness of the Upper Yukon. [and:] Captain Thierry Mallet. Plain Tales of the North. Both very good or better.
Four Arctic Travel Books, including: Paul B. Du Chaillu. The Viking Age. [and:] Frederick A. Cook. Discovery of the North Pole. [and:] Wilfred T. Grenfell. Labrador: The Country and the People. [and:] Mary Lee Davis. Uncle Sam's Attic: The Intimate Story of Alaska. All good or better.
Four Arctic Travel Books, including: E. Marshall Scull. Hunting in the Arctic and Alaska. [and:] Vilhjalmur Stefansson. The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions. [and:] Walter E. Traprock. My Northern Exposure. [and:] Peter Freuchen. Ivalu: The Eskimo Wife. All good or better.
Two Titles on Asia, including: Sven Hedin. Central Asia and Tibet. Two volumes. [and:] Perceval Landon. Lhasa. Two volumes. All very good or better.
Two Eastern Travel Books, including: P. T. Etherton. Across the Roof of the World. [and:] L. A. Lyall. China. Both books very good.
Two Far East Books, including: Sir Edwin Arnold. Seas and Lands. [and:] Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell. Labrador Looks at the Orient. Both very good.
Three Middle East Books, including: John P. Newman. The Thrones and Palaces of Babylon and Nineveh From Sea to Sea. [and:] William M. Thomson. The Land and the Book: Southern Palestine and Jerusalem. [and:] Madeleine Sweeny Miller. Footprints in Palestine. Inscribed by Miller. All very good or better.
Four Middle East Titles, including: H. B. Tristram. The Land of Israel; A Journal of Travels in Palestine. [and:] Frank S. De Hass. Buried Cities Recovered, or, Explorations in Bible Lands. [and:] Mrs. Oliphant. Jerusalem: The Holy City Its History and Hope. [and:] Hector Bolitho. Beside Galilee: A Diary of Palestine. All good or better.
Five Middle East Titles, including: John W. Dulles. The Ride Through Palestine. [and:] James W. Hott. Journeys in the Old World. [and:] John Fulton. Palestine: The Holy Land. [and:] W. D. McCrackan. The New Palestine. [and:] Charles M Doughty. Travels in Arabia Deserta. All good or better.
Three Middle East Titles, including: Selah Merrill. East of the Jordan. [and:] William M. Thomson. The Land and the Book: Central Palestine and Phoenicia. [and:] William M. Thomson. The Land and the Book: Southern Palestine and Jerusalem. All good or better.
Two Middle Eastern Travel Titles, including: M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym of William Makepeace Thackeray]. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo. [and:] Angus Hamilton. Afghanistan. Both very good.
Five Books on Egypt, published 1905 and 1923. All in very good or better condition.
Two Titles on Europe, including: J. T. James. Journal of A Tour in Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland During the Years 1813 and 1814. [and:] H. D. Inglis. Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote. Both very good or better.
Three Books on Europe, including: Felix Narjoux. Notes and Sketches of an Architect Taken During a Journey in the Northwest of Europe. [and:] W. T. Palmer. The English Lakes. [and:] J. J. Jusserand. English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages. All very good or better.
Four Travel Books on Europe, published between 1875 and 1925. All in very good or better condition.
Three Books on India, including: Mortimer Menpes. The People of India. 1910. [and:] Katharine Pyle. Fairy Tales From India. 1926. [and:] Flora Annie Steel. India. 1905. All in generally very good condition.
Two Books on Constantinople and Cashmere, including: John B. Ireland. Wall-Street to Cashmere. New York, 1859. [and:] A. V. Williams Jackson. From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam. New York, 1911. Very good.
Three Books on Russia, including: W. H. Russell. The British Expedition of the Crimea. [and:] Thomas Witlam Atkinson. Oriental and Western Siberia. [and:] Augustus C. J. Hare. Studies in Russia. All good or better.
Three Books on England, including: A. R. Hope Moncrieff. Middlesex. 1907. [and:] Wm. T. Palmer. The English Lakes. 1908. [and:] E. Arnot Robertson. Thames Portrait. 1937. All are in good or better condition.
Four Book on the United Kingdom, including: Canon Danks. Canterbury. [and:] Frank Fox. England. [and:] Norah Baldwin Martin. The Lake District. [and:] Edward Thomas. Beautiful Wales. All books illustrated with color plates. All in good or better condition.
Lot of Two Facsimile Editions of Early Exploration, Including Works by Raleigh and Drake. Cleveland: World Publishing Company, [n.d., 1966].
Three Titles of Discovery, including: W. G. Hamley. A New Sea and an Old Land. [and:] Henry Schliemann. Mycenae. [and:] W. M. Flinders Petrie. Ten Years' Digging in Egypt. All good or better.
Eleven Exploration Titles, Including One Signed by Admiral Richard E. Byrd. All volumes in good or better condition.
Bureau of Aeronautical Research, Bound Report. 1940-1945. This lot consists of eight papers by Dr. C. B. Ling, et al. Some material is in Chinese.
M. Cuvier. Essay on the Theory of the Earth. New York: Kirk & Mercein, 1818. Full leather. Scattered foxing throughout. Very good.
Jessie Dobson. Anatomical Eponyms. Edinburgh and London, 1962. Second edition. Original tan cloth. Very good in dust jacket.
Paul Ehrlich and Sahachiro Hata. La Chimiothérapie expérimentale des spirilloses. Paris: A. Maloine, Editeur, 1911. First French edition. Octavo. Full morocco grained brown leatherette. Absolutely as-new.
Francis Galton. Hereditary Genius. An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1870. First American edition. Octavo. Original green cloth. Evidence of bookplate removal from front pastedown, small light mark on lower spine (and ends mildly worn), else a very good copy.
L. Feuchtwanger. A Popular Treatise on Gems, In Reference to Their Scientific Value. New York: D. Appleton, 1859. Publisher's cloth. Color frontispiece. Light rubbing and edge wear. Very good condition.
Three Books of Gemology, including: C. W. King. Antique Gems. [and:] Harry Emanuel. Diamonds and Precious Stones. [and:] C. W. King. The Natural History of Gems or Decorative Stones. All in custom leather bindings. All very good or better.
Three Books on Gem Lore, including: William Jones. Finger-Ring Lore. [and:] W. R. Cattelle. Precious Stones. [and:] George Frederick Kunz. The Magic of Jewels and Charms. All very good or better.
Three United States Reports, including one report on Alaska, published in 1887, and two U.S. Geological Survey reports, published in 1904 and 1905. All very good or better.
Charles Lyell. The Geological Evidences of The Antiquity Of Man. London: John Murray, 1863. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's pebble-grain blind-stamped greenish blue cloth. Tips a bit bruised but a beautiful copy, tight and with the gilt unfaded.
Charles Lyell. Three Nineteenth Century Geology Titles, including: A Manual of Elementary Geology. [and:] The Student's Elements of Geology. [and:] Principles of Geology. All very good or better.
Two Geology Books, including: Robert Allan. A Manual of Mineralogy. [and:] Robert Bakewell. An Introduction to Geology. Both good or better.
Three Geology Books, including: Roderick Impey Murchison. Siluria. [and:] A. C. Ramsay. The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain. [and:] W. B. Wright. The Quaternary Ice Age. All in good or better condition.
Jabez Hogg. The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Application; Being a Familiar Introduction to the Use of the Instrument, and the Study of Microscopical Science. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1876. New edition. Octavo. 762 pages. Illustrated. Near fine.
M. F. Maury. The Physical Geography of the Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1855. First edition. Octavo. Original publisher's blind-ruled plum cloth binding. A clean copy in very good condition.
Pierre François Percy. Manuel du Chirurgien D'Armée, ou Instruction de Chirurgie Militaire. Paris: Chez Germer Baillière, 1830 [1792]. First edition from 1792. Overall, a very good copy.
John Dewey. Psychology. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1887. First edition of this vastly important book. Octavo. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Previous owner's signature on front blank. A bit of rubbing to joints, but overall a very clean and tight copy.
Two Books on Psychology, including: Carl G. Jung. Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology. London, 1916. First edition in English. Marginalia, else very good. [and:] William James. Talks to Teachers on Psychology: and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals. New York,1899. First edition. Very good.
Faujas de Saint-Fond. Description des Experiences de la Machine Aerostatique de Mm. de Montgolfier... Paris; Et fe trouve a Bruxelles, Chez De La Haye, Libraire, rue de l'Etuve, 1784. Second Brussels edition. Octavo. 204 pages with nine fine full-page engravings. Later three-quarter calf binding with gilt decoration and lettering on the spine. Marbled endpapers. Very good.
F. W. Sargent, M. D. On Bandaging and Other Operations of Minor Surgery. Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1859. New edition. Twelvemo. 359 pages. Illustrated. Contemporary brown leather with gilt spine titles on a black leather title strip. Worn binding, but internal contents clean, with only minimal scattered foxing. Very good condition.
J. D. B. Stillman. The Horse in Motion. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882. Publisher's brown cloth is rubbed and fraying. Hinges splitting. Illustrated. Good.
Edward Strother, MD. The Family Companion for Health, or the Housekeeper's Physician. London: John and James Rivington, 1750. Third edition. [12], [1] 425, [25, index] pages. Bound in full calf, gilt lettered red leather label on spine. Re-backed, covers with some wear and rubbing, corners bumped, else a tightly bound, sound copy.
H. G. Wells. Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First American edition. Frank L. Dyer's copy with his bookplate. Very good condition.
Four Physical Science Books, including: John Tyndall. Heat: Considered as a Mode of Motion. [and:] John Tyndall. Essays on the Floating-Matter of the Air in Relation to Putrefaction and Infection. [and:] John Tyndall. Heat: A Mode of Motion. [and:] Ralph Abercromby. Seas and Skies in Many Latitudes. All in good or better condition.
Two Books on Architecture, including: William P. P. Longfellow [editor]. A Cyclopedia of Works of Architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant. New York, 1895. Limited edition. [and:] Thomas Graham Jackson. Byzantine and Romanesque Architecture. Cambridge, 1913. Very good or better.
Two Books on Architecture in America, including: Andrew N. Prentice. Renaissance Architecture and Ornament in Spain. [and:] Lewis A. Coffin Jr. and Arthur C. Holden. Brick Architecture of the Colonial Period in Maryland & Virginia. Very good condition.
Two Works on Japanese and Chinese Art, including: Ernest F. Fenollosa. Epochs of Chinese & Japanese Art: An Outline History of East Asiatic Design. [and:] James A. Michener. Japanese Prints From the Early Masters to the Modern. Very good.
Two Works on English Architecture, including: Francis Bond. An Introduction to English Church Architecture From the 11th to the 16th Century. London, 1913. [and:] A. and A. W. Pugin. Gothic Architecture Selected From Various Ancient Edifices in England. Cleveland, 1919. Very good.
F. Starkie Gardner. Two Issues of The Portfolio, including: Armour in England. 1897. [and:] Foreign Armour in England. 1898. Numerous color and black and white plates. Both copies are ex-library with edge wear and loose pages. About good.
Auguste Bernard. Geofroy Tory, Peintre et Graveur, Premier Imprimeur Royal, Reformateur de L'Orthographe et de la Typographie Sous Francois Ier. Paris: Librairie Tross, 1865. Very good.
Walter Shaw-Sparrow. Frank Brangwyn and His Work. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1920. Small quarto. With numerous color plates, all stamped "Selznick International Pictures, Inc. Research Dept." Binding worn and tender. Front board almost detached. Good condition.
Mildred Stapley Byne and Arthur Byne. Spanish Gardens and Patios. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1924. First edition. Quarto. Illustrated. Publisher's blue cloth with a gilt vignette on cover, gilt spine and cover lettering. Original dust jacket. A beautiful copy.
Charlie Chaplin. My Trip Abroad. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922. Presumed first edition. Octavo. Illustrated. Original photo-printed paper-covered binding, original photographic tan and dark brown dust jacket. Jacket lightly darkened, else a fine copy.
Henry W. Cleveland, William Backus, and Samuel D. Backus. Village and Farm Cottages. The Requirements of American Village Homes Considered and Suggested; With Designs for Such Houses of Moderate Cost. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1856. First edition. Octavo. Illustrated. Publisher's embossed green cloth. Very good.
J. Y. Akerman. A Descriptive Catalogue of Rare and Unedited Roman Coins. London: Effingham Wilson, 1834. Signed note from Akerman. Many engraved plates. Contemporary full calf. Very good condition.
M. Alfred de Lostalot. Dessins Et Modeles: Les Arts Du Bois et Les Arts Du Tissu. Paris: J. Rouam & Co., [n.d., circa 1890]. Two volumes. Quarto. Profusely illustrated. Finely bound in publisher's deluxe full brown morocco. Light rubbing to joints, else a fine set.
Three Books on Egyptology, including: M. Brodrick and A. A. Morton. A Concise Dictionary of Egyptian Archaeology. 1936. [and:] James Baikie. Egyptian Papyri and Papyrus-Hunting. 1925. [and:] Harold Hayden Nelson. Medinet Habu, Vol I. 1930. Very good.
Two Works on Egyptian Papyrus, including: Mythological Papyri. New York: Pantheon Books, 1957. First edition, with 30 loose plates of Egyptian Religious texts and representations housed in a matching clamshell case. [and:] Alan H. Gardiner [editor]. The Wilbour Papyrus, Volume I, Plates. London: For the Brooklyn Museum at the Oxford Press, 1941. First edition. Very good.
Robert Florey. Filmland. Paris: Éditions de Cinémagazine, 1923. First edition, limited to 50 copies. Inscribed by Florey on the half-title. Octavo. Illustrated. Contemporary green cloth. Some flecking to front cover, but a very clean and sound copy of this rare edition.
Walter Horn and Ernest Born. The Plan of St. Gall. Berkeley, 1979; [1982]. First edition. Three folio volumes, plus a supplement. Profusely illustrated. Original off-white cloth; supplement in stiff wraps. Cloth slightly soiled, else very good.
Edwin Jewitt. Manual of Illuminated and Missal Painting. London:, J. Barnard, [n.d., ca. 1860]. Six color plates. Hinges repaired. A lovely little book in near fine condition.
George Frederick Kunz. The Magic of Jewels and Charms. Lippincott, 1915. First edition. Illustrations. Extremities worn. One-inch split at lower joint. Front hinge cracked; binding sound. Good condition.
George Frederick Kunz. Natal Stones. New York: Tiffany & Co., [n.d., circa 1915]. Twentieth edition. Inscribed by the author. Half-bound in leather over marbled boards. Binding rubbed and worn. Good condition.
D. H. Lawrence. The Paintings of D. H. Lawrence. London: Mandrake Press, [1929]. Limited to 510 copies. Publisher's half leather. Prospectus laid-in. A very good copy.
Charles Moore. Daniel H. Burnham: Architect Planner of Cities. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921. First edition. Two octavo volumes. Illustrated. Original green cloth. Near fine in a good slipcase, as issued.
Henry Moses. A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Paterae, Tripods, Candelabra Sarcophagi, etc. London: J. Taylor, [1814]. First edition. Quarto. Boards slightly scuffed. Light foxing throughout, as is usually the case. Overall, a very good copy.
Elizabeth Neurdenburg. Old Dutch Pottery and Tiles. New York: Himebaugh & Browne, 1923. First trade edition. Quarto. Original dark lavender cloth boards. In original buff dust jacket lettered in black.
John Henry Parker. Six Volumes on Roman Archeology, published between 1876 and 1879. All uniformly bound in half leather; all lightly worn. All books in very good or better condition.
Francis Cranmer Penrose. An Investigation of the Principles of Athenian Architecture. London: Macmillan & Co., 1888. New and enlarged edition. Folio. Publisher's quarter red roan over black sand-grain cloth. Minor wear to spine extremities and corners a bit bumped but overall a very good and clean copy in the original, and largely damage-free, binding.
Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer. Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Folio. Original publisher's pale green boards. A very good, attractive and tight copy.
William B. Scott. Pictures by Italian Masters Greater and Lesser. London: Virtue, Spalding, and Company, [1874]. First edition. Folio. With fifteen engraved plates. Original decorated boards, all edges gilt. With some minor edge wear, else very good condition.
Franz Stassen and Richard Wagner. Der Ring Des Nibelungen: Das Rheingold. Berlin: Verlag Ludwig Schroeter, [1930]. First edition. Folio. Inscribed by artist Franz Stassen on verso of front cover to Fraulein Erika Dernburg during the Bayreuth Festival in 1932. Very good condition.
Russell Stephenson. Eighty Sketches in Water Colour From Nature. London: The Saint Catherine Press, 1926. Limited edition, one of 220 numbered copies. Folio. 319 pages. Edges untrimmed. Mounted color plates. In original red slipcase. Few light abrasions to leather, else a fine copy. Slipcase with some wear.
Joseph Strutt. The Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England. London: Printed for Benjamin and John White, 1793. "A New Edition," with twelve additional plates. Large quarto. With seventy-two copper engraved plates. Very good condition.
Ellen Terry. The Story of My Life. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1908. First limited edition. Inscribed by Ellen Terry to her "nanny." . Publisher's cream cloth with blue borders and spine lettering. Minor toning to spine; otherwise a very good copy.
Louis Eustache Ude. The French Cook. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828. Eight plates. Half bound in red morocco. Binding rubbed. Light dampstaining. Very good. Recipes from the great French chef.
Giuseppe Verdi. Attila: Drama Lirico di Temistocle Solera. Ridotta per Piano Forte da L. Truzzi. Milan: Presso F. Lucca, 1847. Oblong folio. 120 pages. Period quarter vellum over marbled boards. Overall, a very good copy.
Aristophanes. Women in Parliament. London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1929. Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies signed by the translator, Jack Lindsay, printed on handmade paper. Illustrations by Norman Lindsay throughout text. Unique half-calf binding with blue cloth. Very good.
A. E. Gallatin and L. M. Oliver. A Bibliography of the Works of Max Beerbohm. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. First edition, thus. Tall octavo. x, 60 pages. Original gold-stamped red cloth. Fine in a neatly repaired dust jacket.
Alfred Bestor. David Jacks of Monterey, and Lee L. Jacks His Daughter. Stanford University Press, 1945. First and only edition. One of 105 copies. Folio. Publisher's quarter brown cloth over light brown cloth stamped with a pattern of green cypress trees, printed paper spine label. Excellent.
Stephen Crane. The Red Badge of Courage. New York: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for Random House, Inc., 1931. One of 980 numbered copies. Quarto. Publisher's variant binding of quarter russet morocco over patterned blue boards. A virtually flawless copy.
P. J. Croft. Autograph Poetry in the English Language - Complete in Two Volumes. London: Cassell, 1973. First edition, limited to 1,500 copies. Folio. Facsimiles of pages from poets' manuscripts. Dust jackets. Fine in splitting slipcase.
James H. Fraser. The Paste Papers of the Golden Hind Press. Madison: Tideline Press, 1983. First edition. One of 70 numbered copies signed by Delight Rushmore Lewis whose parents, Arthur and Edna Rushmore, ran the Golden Hind Press. Tall octavo. Publisher's quarter cream buckram over brown boards. A near fine copy.
[John Glanvill, translator]. Bernard de Fontenelle. A Plurality of Worlds. [London]: Nonesuch Press, 1929. Limited edition, one of 1,600 copies. Octavo. Original full limp parchment. Overall a near fine copy housed in the original gilt-stamped green paper slipcase.
Three Grabhorn Press Books on Japanese Art, including: Figure Prints of Old Japan [and:] Landscape Prints of Old Japan; From the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century [and:] Twelve Wood-Block Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro Illustrating the Process of Silk Culture. Very good.
Bret Harte. How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1941. First illustrated edition. One of 25 copies signed by the artist Paul Landacre. Octavo. Publisher's quarter red morocco over green patterned paper boards. A very good copy.
Elbert Hubbard. Two Books, including: Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book. Good. [and:] The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard. Very good.
Ward Ritchie. Some Books with Illustrations by Paul Landacre. [Northridge, CA]: Santa Susana Press, 1978. First limited, signed edition. Octavo. Publisher's navy cloth, front board stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, blue-grey endpapers. A fine copy.
[Leaf Book]. The Great Polyglot Bibles. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1966. One of 400 copies. Folio sheets loose as issued in a terra-cotta paper folder. Includes an original leaf from the first Polyglot Bible, the Complutensian of Acala, 1514-17. Fine in original purple cloth box with printed labels.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1985. First edition. Folio. One of 800 copies. Bound in Nigerian oasis goatskin over marbled boards, with gilt spine lettering. Original slipcase. A fine copy.
[Limited Editions Club]. Bram Stoker. Dracula. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1965. Limited edition of 1,500 copies signed by illustrator Felix Hoffman. Folio. Black buckram backstrip over black cloth boards. Overall an as new copy housed in the original red cloth slipcase.
Oscar Wilde: Three Limited Edition Volumes, including: The Book of Ruth and two copies of Salomé. Light wear to the Book of Ruth and light fading to the spines of the Salomé volumes, else fine. Both slipcases show considerable wear.
Giovanni Mardersteig. The Officina Bodoni. Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, 1980. Limited to 1,500 copies. Two folio volumes. Illustrated. Original quarter brown morocco. A fine set. In the original morocco-tipped slipcase.
J. Luther Ringwalt. American Encyclopedia of Printing. Philadelphia: Menamin and Ringwalt, 1871. First edition. Tall and thick octavo. Publisher's terra-cotta cloth. Slight rubbing to extremities. An overall very good and clean copy, in the original binding.
[Roycrofters]. Robert Louis Stevenson. A Lodging for the Night: Being a Tale Concerning One of Life's Lesser Hardships - Commonly Called Trouble. East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1902. One of 100 copies printed on Japan vellum. Signed by Elbert Hubbard and Minnie Tisdale. Octavo. Publisher's half green morocco over brown boards.
John Harrison. The Story of the Great Omar Bound by Francis Longinus Sangorski and Its Romantic Loss. London: Piccadilly Fountain Press, 1933. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies. Signed by the author. Publisher's green cloth. Original printed green dust jacket. Original card slipcase with some wear.
Ellen Shaffer. The Garden of Health. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1957. From a limited edition of 300 copies. An original illustrated leaf from the 1499 edition of Hortus Sanitatis tipped-in. Quarter beige cloth over magenta paper boards. Title printed in black on the spine. A fine copy.
Specimens: A Stevens-Nelson Paper Catalogue. New York: The Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation, 1953. Presentation copy of the first edition. Quarto. Quarter blue morocco over marbled paper boards. A fine copy housed in the original slipcase (slipcase edges only lightly worn).
George Thomason, [collector]. Catalogue of the Pamphlets, Books, Newspapers, and Manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, Collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661. London: 1908. Two large octavo volumes. Very good condition.
Three Fine Press Works, including: Mario Uchard. My Uncle Barbassou. London: Vizetelly & Company, 1888. [and:]Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson Hitherto Unpublished. Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1916. Two quarto volumes. [and:] George Moore. Héloise and Abélard. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921. Two octavo volumes. All very good.
Two Classic Sets of Reference Works, including: John L. Stoddard. Stoddard's Lectures (including supplemental volumes). Boston, 1909. Fourteen octavo volumes. [and:] The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition. Cambridge, 1910-1911. Twenty-nine quarto volumes. Very good condition.
Ayres, Baker, Erskine, et al. [editors]. Columbia University Course in Literature Based on the World's Best Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1928-1929. Founder's edition. Eighteen octavo volumes. Illustrated. Very good condition.
Rev. E[benenzer] Cobham Brewer, LLD. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama. New York: Selmar Hess, 1892. First edition. Four volumes. Publisher's deluxe binding of three-quarter dark brown morocco over dark brown pebble-grain cloth. Scuffing and shelf wear, else an attractive set.
Robert Browning. The Complete Works of Robert Browning [and:] Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Complete Works of Mrs. E. B. Browning. New York: Society of English and French Literature, 1898-1900. Limited to 1,000 copies. 18 octavo volumes. A beautiful set.
Robert Burns. The Works of Robert Burns with an Account of His Life, and A Criticism On His Writings. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813. Seventh edition. Four volumes. Finely bound in full cross-grain brown morocco. Covers with wear, corners worn, joints tender or lightly cracking but overall holding. Very good condition.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People. London: W. & R. Chambers, 1860-68. First edition. Ten octavo volumes. Profusely illustrated throughout. Publisher's half pebbled green morocco over green cloth. Near fine.
Charles Dickens. The Complete Works of Charles Dickens. New York: Fred DeFau & Co., [n.d. circa 1900]. Twenty-eight volumes (of thirty-two). Illustrations. Limited to 1,000 sets. Some scuffing to the leather bindings. The upper panel of the spine of one volume torn. Very good.
[Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot]. Guizot's Popular History of England From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria. Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1876-81. First American edition. Five volumes. Original deluxe three-quarter red morocco. Moderate wear to bindings, else near fine.
Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot. A Popular History of France From the Earliest Times and Guizot's Private Life. Boston: Estes & Lauriat, circa 1880 and 1882. Seven octavo volumes. Half-tan calf. Some wear to covers and corners, one front cover expertly re-attached, else an attractive set in very good condition.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1900. Limited to 200 numbered copies. With an Autograph Manuscript Letter, dated Sept. 2, 1906, bound into Volume I. Seven octavo volumes. Three-quarter dark blue morocco. Near fine.
Victor Hugo. Notre-Dame de Paris 1482 [and:] Les Misérables. Paris: Imprimé par L'Imprimerie Nationale; Édité par la Librairie Ollendorff, 1904-1909. One of 300 numbered copies. Five quarto volumes only. Illustrated. Contemporary half red morocco over red boards. Fine condition.
Charles Lamb. [Works]. Edited, With Introduction and Notes by Alfred Ainger. Comprising: Poems, Plays, and Miscellaneous Essays (1884); Mrs. Leicester's School, etc. (1885); Tales from Shakespeare (1886); The Essays of Elia (1887); and Letters of Charles Lamb (two volumes, 1888;). London: Macmillan and Co., 1884-1888. Six small octavo volumes. Beautifully bound. Bookplate of Harold Leufroi Chalifoux on front pastedown. A few joints cracked, else an attractive set.
Alain-Rene Lesage. Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane Publiée avec une Introduction. Paris: A la Cité des Livres, 1929. Four volumes. Octavo. One of 1,000 copies. Finely bound in three-quarter chocolate brown morocco over marbled boards. A most attractive set in fine condition.
John Milton. The Works of John Milton. 1863. Eight volumes. Original full calf. Some rubbing to binding. Some hinges cracked, but holding. The top board of volume five detached. Overall, a very good set.
Plutarch's Lives. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899. Dryden translations corrected and revised by A. H. Clough. Five octavo volumes. Half-calf and raised spine bands. Top edge gilt. Moderate edge wear with slight darkening to spines, otherwise very good.
Alexander Pope. The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. In Nine Volumes Complete. London: J. and P. Knapton, 1751. Nine octavo volumes. Twenty-four copper engraved plates. Three-quarter burgundy calf over burgundy boards, and gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers and edges. A lovely and early set in near fine condition.
George Rawlinson. History of Herodotus. London: John Murray, 1880. Four octavo volumes. Contemporary tan polished calf. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of The Gray Library. An excellent set.
William Shakspeare. The Plays and Poems of Shakspeare. London: A. J. Valpy, 1832-34. Fifteen octavo volumes. With illustrations from the Boydell edition. Contemporary light brown half morocco. An attractive set in near fine condition.
[Sir Edward Sullivan, bookbinder]. J. F. W. Sursum Corda. In Memoriam C. E. et R. S. [N. p., London]: [n. d., approximately 1860]. Octavo. [2, blanks], [6], [36, blanks]. Gorgeously bound blank book by Sir Edward Sullivan in grass-green crushed levant morocco. Beautifully decorated fine binding in fine condition.
Charles Sumner. The Works of Charles Sumner. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1874-77. Twelve octavo volumes. Publisher's three-quarter brown calf over marbled boards. An attractive set with light wear to the edges, else in near fine condition.
[Publius Cornelius Tacitus]. The Works of Cornelius Tacitus. London: John Stockdale, 1811. New edition. Eight volumes. Bound in contemporary full calf. With five fold-out maps. Scattered wear, joints a bit tender though strong and holding, else an attractive set.
Cecil Aldin. Dogs of Character. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1927. Contains an original signed sketch by Aldin, the author and artist, number 192 of 250 copies. Quarto. Slightly soiled boards, light foxing, else fine.
Cecil Aldin. The Merry Party. London: Oxford University Press, n.d. [1911]. Sextodecimo, square. Unpaginated, dust jacket, twenty-four full page color plates mounted and six double page mounted color plates for a total of thirty full color illustrations. Very good.
Cecil Aldin. Three First Editions, including: A Dog Day [and:] A Gay Dog [and:] The Romance of the Road. All show light to moderate wear.
Cecil Aldin. Six Books, including: The Cecil Aldin Book [and:] Dogs of Character [and:] Mac [and:]Pickles [and:] Zoo Babies. [and:] Bunnyborough. Generally good or better.
J. M. Barrie. Peter Pan and Wendy. London, [n.d., circa 1920]. Early edition. Illustrations by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Original orange cloth. Light wear to boards. Very good.
Giambattista Basile. Stories from The Pentamerone. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1911. Small quarto. 304 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decorations. A beautiful copy in very good condition.
L. Frank Baum. The Royal Book of Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1921. First edition, first state. Octavo. 312 pages. Twelve color plates. Original gray cloth stamped and lettered in black, pictorial paste-on illustration to front cover. Very good condition.
[Ivan Bilibin]. Ivan Bilibin. New York, 1981. First edition. Text by Sergei Golynets. Profusely illustrated. Original blue cloth. Edges of pages lightly browned, else fine in dust jacket. With publisher's original protective box.
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett. The Comic History of England [and:] The Comic History of Rome. London: Bradbury, Agnew and Co. [circa 1880], 1880. Later printings. Two octavo volumes. Finely bound by Riviere in full calf. Re-coloring to abrasion at bottom of one volume, else a very attractive set.
Gilbert Abbott Á Beckett. George Cruikshank's Table-Book. London: At the Punch Office, 1845. [and:] The Comic History of Rome. London: Bradbury and Evans, no date. [and] The Comic History of England. London: At the Punch Office, 1847. Two octavo volumes. Very good condition.
The Book of Old English Songs & Ballads. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d.]. Rubbed and worn with darkening along spine. A good copy.
R. D. Blackmore. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Ermoor. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Limited, 1910. Dulverton edition, limited to 250 copies. Octavo. Colored illustrations by Charles Brittan and Charles Brock. Full-leather binding. Trivial wear to boards, else near fine.
E. Gordon Browne. Nutcracker & Mouse-King. London: J. Coker, [n.d.]. Illustrations by Florence Anderson. Illustrated glazed boards. Binding worn. In heavily chipped dust jacket. Good condition.
Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. With Twelve Full-Page Illustrations in Color From Drawings by Blanche McManus. New York: M. F. Mansfield and A. Wessels, [1899]. Octavo. 121 pages. Publisher's cloth rebacked with blue tape. Soiled and stained boards and textblock. Some of the plates heavily worn around the edges. A good copy.
Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote. London: George Routledge, 1885. Limited to 50 numbered copies, with two extra sets of etchings by George Cruikshank. Contemporary leather. Very good.
E. J. Detmold, [illustrator]. Fabre's Book Of Insects. New York: Tudor Publishing Company, [1937].
Seventh printing of this new edition. Quarto. Illustrated. Publisher's original binding of green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Very good.
Seventh printing of this new edition. Quarto. Illustrated. Publisher's original binding of green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Very good.
Charles Dickens. The Boys of Dickens Retold. Springfield: McLoughlin Brothers, [n.d., circa 1899]. Quarto. 139 pages. Gray embossed covers stamped in orange, in original tan dust jacket lettered in black and gold. Chromolithograph frontispiece. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a chip to spine crown and corners. Very scarce in dust jacket.
Walt Disney. Mickey Mouse the Mail Pilot. Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, 1933. First edition. Small square twelvemo. Original illustrated color stiff wrappers. Light wear to front joint and a few creases; otherwise a very bright and clean copy.
Gustave Doré [illustrator]. Aventures du Baron Münchhausen. Paris: Charles Furne, [1862]. First edition of one of Dore's earliest works. Quarto. Publisher's deluxe binding. Some scattered foxing and a bit of wear to corners, else a very attractive copy.
[Gustave Doré, illustrator]. Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884. First American illustrated edition. Very good condition.
[Gustave Doré, illustrator]. Three Books Illustrated by Doré, including: Miguel de Cervantes. The History of Don Quixote. [and:] The Bible Gallery. [and:] Dante Alighieri. Dante's Inferno. All three volumes very good.
Edmund Dulac [illustrator]. The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales From the Old French. New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d., circa 1914]. Quarto. 189 numbered pages. Thirty tipped-in color illustrations by Dulac. Mock-morocco burgundy cloth. Light wear, cracked hinged, else a near fine copy.
Edmund Dulac [illustrator]. Four Illustrated Books, including: A Fairy Garland. [and:] John Milton. The Masque of Comus. [and:] The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales. [and:] Stories from the Arabian Nights. All but Comus in dust jacket. All very good or better.
Antiques
Lot of 14 Color Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Each color illustration measures 5.75 x 7.25 inches tipped-on to the original 8.5 x 11 inch page. Extracted from Stories From Hans Andersen, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. Fine.
Books
Myfanwy Evans. No Rubbish Here. London: Collins, 1936. First edition. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest. Original pictorial boards. Extremities bumped and worn. Very good in a price-clipped dust jacket.
Rachel Field. Hitty. Her First Hundred Years. With Illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. Octavo. 207 pages. Publisher's decorative cloth with a paper title plate affixed to the front board. Slightly worn and soiled binding. Very good condition.
Jean de La Fontaine. Fables Choisies. Paris: Louis Conard, Libraire-Éditeur, 1933. Three octavo volumes. Contemporary half red morocco over lighter red cloth. A wonderfully illustrated edition of these classic fables in beautiful condition.
W. S. Gilbert. Savoy Operas. London: George Bell and Sons, 1909. First edition thus. Illustrated by W. Russell Flint; 28 full-color plates with captioned tissue guards, missing the plates facing page 156, 162, 166, 170, 182, and 198. Otherwise, a very good copy.
Jack Glover. Glover's Illustrated Letters. Sunset, Texas: Cow Puddle Press, 1977. First edition of 100 copies. Inscribed by the author. Brown leatherette boards. Very good.
Lynda Graham. Ann Kirn [pictures]. Pinky Marie. The Story of Her Adventure with the Seven Bluebirds. Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1939. First edition. Quarto. Illustrated in color and black & white. A very good copy.
The Greedy Duckling. London: Thomas Nelson, [n.d., circa 1914]. Six charming color plates. Side-stapled contents are detached from binding; staples rusting. Overall, good.
Cornelius Gurlitt. Das französische Sittenbild des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts im Kupferstich. Berlin: Im Verlag von Julius Bard, [n.d., circa 1912]. Folio. 100 beautiful copper-engraved plates. Publisher's original full vellum binding. A near fine copy.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton. The Sylvan Year. Boston, 1876. First edition. Illustrations. Original green cloth. Significant wear to extremities; contents sound. Overall, very good.
[Greg Hildebrandt, illustrator]. Three Classic Children's Books, including: The Wizard of Oz. [and:] Pinocchio. [and:] Favorite Fairy Tales. All books in fine condition.
Marcus D. Huish and Helen Allingham. Happy England. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1903. First edition. Illustrations. Original blue cloth. Light shelf wear. Very good.
Jean Ingelow. Mopsa the Fairy. New York: Macmillan, 1927. First edition. Illustrations by Dugald Stewart Walker. Publisher's blue cloth. Very good.
Blanchard Jerrold. The Life of George Cruikshank. London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. First edition. Two volumes. George Cruikshank illustrations. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in three quarter wine smooth calf. Bindings scuffed and a bit worn, spines a bit faded, though still an attractive set.
Charles Kingsley. The Water-Babies. London: Macmillan, 1924. Color plates by Warwick Goble. Boards are spotted and have some dampstaining; extremities worn. Contents are clean. Generally very good.
Rudyard Kipling. Just So Stories. London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. Small quarto. First edition of Kipling's famous collection of twelve stories and twelve poems. Original pictorially stamped red cloth. Some minor foxing to endpapers, else a very clean and tight copy.
Four Juvenile Adventure Tales by Thomas W. Knox, including: The Young Nimrods in North America. [and:] The Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part Fifth: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey Through Africa. [and:] The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire. [and:] The Boy Travellers in Northern Europe. All tight and crisp; all in very good condition.
[Albert Kretschmer and Karl Rohrbach]. Die Trachten der Völker, [Leipzig]: [Bibliographische Anstalt Adolph Schumann], [n.d., 1906]. Portfolio. 104 loose lithographed leaves featuring costuming through the ages.
The binding is in only good condition, but the illustrated leaves are in very good or better condition.
The binding is in only good condition, but the illustrated leaves are in very good or better condition.
D. H. Lawrence. Lady Chatterley. Paris: Deux Rives, [1956]. Limited to 200 copies with one drypoint etching laid-in to publisher's wrapper. Additional portfolio of 17 uncolored lithographs present. Lacking publisher's chemise and slipcase. A very good copy.
Donald A. Mackenzie. Indian Myth and Legend. London: Gresham Publishing, 1913. Spine is sunned with toning throughout. A very good copy.
Thomas Malory. Le Morte D'arthur. London: The Folio Society, [2003]. First thus, limited to 1,020 copies, of which this is number 523. Publisher's full Nigerian goatskin with gold stamping. A fine copy, in publisher's clamshell box.
Kim Man-Choong. The Cloud Dream of the Nine. A Korean Novel: A Story of the Times of the Tangs of China About 840 A. D. Translated by James S. Gale. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers, [n.d.]. Octavo. 307 pages. With 16 full-page black-and-white plates. Moderate shelf wear, with mildly tattered spine ends and corners. Very good condition.
Janette Sebring Lowrey. Tap-a-tan! New York: Harper & Brothers, [1942]. First edition. Illustrations by Masha. Rear board has some discoloration. Minor staining to page edges. Dust jacket. Very good.
Edward McDermott. The Merrie Days of England. Sketches of Olden Time. London: William Kent & Co., 1859. First edition. Quarto. 160 pages. Illustrated. Beautiful contemporary Edmonds & Remnants morocco binding. Light foxing. Near fine.
Alfred Moffat. Our Old Nursery Rhymes. London: Augener Ltd., [1911]. Rubbed and soiled with fraying spine ends and corners. A good copy.
Mrs. Molesworth. The Cuckoo Clock and Other Stories. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [n.d.]. Illustrations by Edna Cooke. Price-clipped dust jacket is chipped and tape-repaired. Very good condition.
Sidney Baldwin [compiler]. Stories by Mrs. Molesworth. New York: The Dial Press, 1935. Color illustrations by Edna Cooke. Very good.
Barry Moser Inscribed Self Portrait Broadside. Lithograph. 22 x 28 inches. Signed in pencil by Moser. Fine condition.
John Mitford. The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, London, 1819. First edition. Octavo. 224; [68] pages notes. Finely bound by Riviere in full navy calf. A couple of scratches to fore-edge gilt, else near fine. A beautiful copy.
Marcie Muir and Robert Holden. The Fairy World of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. London: A & C Black, 1985. First English edition. Profusely illustrated. Original green cloth. About fine in dust jacket.
Wilbur D. Nesbit. The Jolly Kid Book. [Joliet]: [The P. F. Volland Company], [n.d., circa 1926]. Illustrations by Marie Honré Meyers. Board book, rubbed and worn along edges. The delightful illustrations are still vivid. Good condition.
Maxfield Parrish and Eugene Field. Poems of Childhood. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. First Maxfield Parrish edition. Quarto. Illustrated endpapers. Eight color plates and color title page by Maxfield Parrish. Original black cloth binding. An about very good copy.
[Charles Perrault]. The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1922. First edition. Octavo. Illustrated by Harry Clarke. Original binding. Major wear to the edges of the boards, spine soiled with light scattered foxing throughout and on the edges, else good condition.
Frederick Simpson Coburn [painter]. Illustrations (Printed on Japanese Vellum Paper) for the Works of Edgar Allan Poe. New York, 1902. One of 300 sets of the extra suite of illustrations to accompany the Tamerlane edition of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Folio. With all 72 plates printed on Japan vellum. In the original box. A very good copy.
[Willy Pogany]. Willy Pogany's Mother Goose. New York: Thomas Nelson, [1928]. Octavo. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Worn and soiled binding. Hinges tender. Mild staining to text. Good condition.
Two Works Illustrated by Willy Pogany, including: Goethe. Faust. London, [n.d., circa 1908]. Thirty color plates. Ex-library copy. [and:] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London, [n.d.]. Fourteen tipped-in color plates. Chipped dust jacket. Both first editions thus. Both very good.
[Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood. With a Preface by Edmund Gosse. London: William Heinemann, [1918]. Limited edition. Signed by Rackham. Very good condition.
William Shakespeare. A Midsummer-Night's Dream. London: William Heinemann, [1929]. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Rubbed with light soiling. Toning and scattered foxing throughout. A good copy.
Arthur Rackham [illustrator]. Richard Wagner. Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods. London / New York: William Heinemann / Doubleday Page, 1911. First trade edition in variant binding. Color plates. Binding worn and cocked; front hinge cracked. Contents clean. About very good.
Arthur Rackham [illustrator]. Lot of Five Illustrated Books, including: Phillpotts. A Dish of Apples. [and:] Walton. The Compleat Angler. [and:] Ruskin. The King of the Golden River. [and:] Andersen. Fairy Tales. [and:] Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. All very good or better.
[Charles Robinson, illustrator]. The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes. London: Blackie & Son, [n.d.]. Eight color plates. Red cloth is heavily stained and faded. Good condition.
W. Heath Robinson [illustrator]. Old-Time Stories. London: Constable & Co., [1921]. Illustrations, including tipped-in color plates (two are missing). Rear board hanging by threads. Boards stained and split at joints. Good condition.
W. Heath Robinson [illustrator]. Two Beautifully Illustrated Books, including: Shakespeare's Comedy of Twelfth Night. [and:] Rudyard Kipling. A Song of the English. Both very good.
Charles S. Bayne [editor]. My Book of Best Fairy Tales. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, [n.d.]. Illustrations by Harry Rountree. Water damaged to rear board and pages. Rubbed and worn. A fair copy.
[Thomas Rowlandson, illustrator]. The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque; a Poem.; The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of Consolation; a Poem.; The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife, a Poem. A set of the three "Tours of Doctor Syntax" in a decorated cloth binding. Worn bindings, scattered foxing, somewhat tender hinges, else in very good condition.
[Thomas Rowlandson, illustrator]. The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London Or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis. A Poem. London: J. Johnson, 1820. Third edition. Octavo. Complete with twenty hand-colored plates. Bound by Bayntun of Bath in full red morocco covers. A beautiful copy in fine condition.
Gustav Weil [editor]. Tausend und Eine Nacht. Berlin: Neufeld & Henius, [1914]. Illustrated by Fernand Schultz-Wettel. Two volumes in German. Cloth is rubbed and soiled. Both volumes in good or better condition.
Jessie Wilcox Smith [illustrator]. Mary Stewart. The Way to Wonderland. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1917. First edition. Publisher's brown cloth. General wear. Overall, very good.
Frankfort Sommerville. The Spirit of Paris. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1913. Color plates. Lovely pictorial olive cloth. Binding lightly rubbed and worn; boards slightly bowed. One plate detached, but laid-in. Very good.
Lionel Strachey [translator]. Memoirs of an Arabian Princess. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907. First edition. 227 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's blue-green cloth with gilt and silver illustration stamped on the front board and gilt spine titles. Top edge gilt. Moderate shelf wear. Binding cracked at page 144. Otherwise, a very good copy.
Mrs. Strang's Annual for Children. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, [n.d., circa 1920]. Some color plates. Hardcover. Binding rubbed, worn, and cocked. Good condition.
Robert Smith Surtees. Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1865. First edition. Octavo. Illustrations by John Leech and Hablot K. Browne. Full red morocco. Some foxing throughout, else a fine copy.
[Arthur Rackham, illustrator]. Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood. With a Preface by Edmund Gosse. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, [1918]. Large octavo. 133 pages. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration. Somewhat worn binding with mildly tattered spine ends and corners. Scattered minor foxing (color plates unaffected). About very good condition.
Margaret W. Tarrant. The Book of Games. London & Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1920. Small octavo. 144 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's red cloth spine over brown paper boards with a small illustration inset into front cover. Binding somewhat worn. Foxing. Previous owner's signature. Very good condition.
Austin Dobson. The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIII Century. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1892. Large Paper Edition of 450 copies, of which this is number 330. Octavo. 89 pages. Fifty illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Very good condition.
Oscar Wilde. Two Books Illustrated by John Vassos, including: The Ballad of Reading Gaol [and:] Harlot's House, and Other Poems. Both very good.
Harold Waldo. Stash of the Marsh Country. New York, 1921. First edition. A two-page TLS by Waldo to California poet Harry Noyes Pratt is mounted to rear endpaper. Very good in a worn dust jacket.
[D. J. Watkins-Pitchford]. B. B. [pseudonym]. The Wind in the Wood. With Illustrations by D. J. Watkins-Pitchford. London: Hollis & Carter Ltd., [1952]. First edition. Octavo. 143 pages. Twelve beautiful full-page color plates. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles. Soiled and stained cloth. Edge-worn binding. A good copy.
Karl Woermann. Geschichte der Kunst Aller Zeiten und Völker. Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1915. Presumed first edition. Four large octavo volumes. Full blue cloth with gilt-stamped titles and borders. A very good set.
N. C. Wyeth [illustrator]. Four Classic Illustrated Books, including: John Hay. The Pike County Ballads. [and] Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped. [and] Robin Hood. [and] Jules Verne. Michael Strogoff. All very good.
Collins Girls' Annual. London and Glasgow: Collins, [n.d., circa 1950s]. Illustrations, some in color. Binding lightly scuffed. Slight bow to front board. Very good. Stories and poems for pre-teen British girls.
Marcus Morris [editor]. Girl Annual - Number Eight. London: Hulton Press, [n.d., circa 1960]. Illustrations and comic strips. Binding scuffed and bumped. Dust jacket rubbed and chipped. Very good. Stories and activities for pre-teen British girls.
Mrs. Herbert Strang [editor]. The Green Book For Girls. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, [n.d., circa 1925]. Illustrations. Corners bumped; foxing throughout. In rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Very good condition.
Mrs. Herbert Strang [editor]. The New Green Book For Girls. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, [1934]. Illustrations. Boards lightly rubbed. Front hinge cracked; binding a little loose. Good condition.
Blackie's Girls' Annual. London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Ltd., [n.d.]. Small quarto. 228 pages. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's beige cloth over pictorial laminated boards with light green spine titles. Worn and mildly soiled binding. Bumped and tattered corners. Front hinge starting. Very good condition.
Blackie's Children's Annual. London and Glasgow: Blackie and Son Ltd., [n.d.]. 30th Year. Quarto. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated. Mild soiling. Edge wear. Spine wrinkled. Hinges starting. Overall, an about very good copy.
Two Blackie and Son Books for Young People, including: Blackie's Little Ones' Annual. Good. [and:] Fun For Me. Very good. Both books rubbed and worn.
Blackie's Little Ones' Annual. London: Blackie & Son, [n.d., ca. 1930s]. Charming illustrations throughout, several in color. Binding rubbed and worn. Front hinge starting. Front free endpaper missing. Generally sound. Very good.
Our Tinies' Gift Book. London: Renwick of Otley, [n.d., ca. 1931]. Illustrations. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Edges rubbed. Binding loose and cracked. Good.
Happy Hours with Merry Little People. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, [1897]. Small quarto. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated. Crimson cloth over pictorial laminated boards. Noticeably worn binding, with tattered spine and corners. Age-toning to textblock. Good condition.
Little Folks. A Magazine for Young People. London, Paris, New York and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1907. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's red cloth over pictorial laminated boards. Worn binding. Bumped and tattered corners. Foxing to textblock edge. An about very good copy.
Herbert D. Williams [editor]. Little Folks: The Magazine for Boys and Girls, Volume 90. London: Cassell and Company, 1919. Rubbed and edge worn. Overall, a good copy.
Harry Golding [editor]. Ward Lock & Co.'s Wonder Book. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1916. Twelve color plates. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Binding rubbed and worn. Good.
Harry Golding [editor]. Wonder Book, A Picture Annual for Boys and Girls. London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1925. Illustrations, including twelve color plates. Binding rubbed and worn. One page repaired with tape. Good.
Louey Chisolm and Amy Steedman, editors. A Staircase of Stories. London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, Ltd., [n.d.]. Illustrated. Publisher's orange-brown cloth with black titles and small illustration inset into front board. Worn and mildly soiled binding. Tender hinges. About very good.
Three Illustrated Books including Charles Mackay. Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book 1851. [and:] Robert B. Brough. The Life of Sir John Falstaff. [and:] The Happy-Go-Lucky. Very good.
Eight Illustrated Books, including books by: William Hamilton Gibson. [and:] Oliver Goldsmith.[and:] Mrs. Babauld.[and:] John Masefield. [and:] Charles Hanson Towne. [and:] Ernest Seton-Thompson. [and:] Roger De Coverley. [and:] George Saintsbury. All very good.
William Harrison Ainsworth. The Constable of the Tower. An Historical Romance. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. Very good.
William Harrison Ainsworth. Jack Sheppard. A Romance. London: Richard Bentley, 1839. First edition. Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Three octavo volumes. Half calf and marbled boards. All edges gilt. Near fine.
[Isaac Asimov]. Martin H. Greenberg [editor]. The Asimov Chronicles. Arlington Heights: Dark Harvest, 1989. Limited to 52 copies, of which this is letter TT. Signed by Asimov. Fine in publisher's wooden slipcase.
[Isaac Asimov]. Martin H. Greenberg [editor]. The Asimov Chronicles: Fifty Years of Isaac Asimov. Dark Harvest, 1989. Signed by Asimov. Fine in slipcase. Also included is the first trade edition of Robots and Empire.
Isaac Asimov. Foundation and Earth. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1986. Number 114 of 300 special edition limited numbered copies signed by the author on a special limitation page bound in front. Publisher's burgundy boards with gilt titles. Matching slipcase. As new.
Isaac Asimov. Prelude to Foundation. New York: Doubleday, 1988. Limited to 500 copies, signed by Asimov. Publisher's full leather, in slipcase. Fine. Also included is the first edition of the trade hardcover.
Isaac Asimov. Robots and Empire. Huntington Woods: Phantasia Press, 1985. Signed by Asimov. Fine in publisher's slipcase. Also included is the first edition of this title in the trade hardcover.
Isaac Asimov. Foundation's Edge. Binghamton: Whispers Press, 1982. Limited to 1,000 copies, signed Asimov. In fine condition. Also included is a copy of the first trade edition of Foundation's Edge.
Isaac Asimov. Two Foundation Volumes, including: Foundation [and:] Foundation and Empire. Gnome Press first editions. Foundation is in good condition; Foundation and Empire is very good.
Isaac Asimov. Two Books, One Signed including: The Robots of Dawn. Limited edition, signed by Asimov. [and:] Robot Dreams. Both fine.
Isaac Asimov. Two Books, One Signed, including: Twentieth Century Discovery. [and:] The Foundation Trilogy. Easton Press. Signed by Asimov. Both fine.
Isaac Asimov. Two Books, including: Near Futures and Far. [and:] Nemesis. Both near fine.
Isaac Asimov. Two Books, One Signed, including: Robots and Empire. Phantasia Press. Signed. [and:] Robots and Empire. Advance uncorrected proof in wrappers. Both fine.
Isaac Asimov. Three Titles, One Signed, including: The Currents of Space. Book club edition. [and:] Earth Is Room Enough. [and:] Pebble in the Sky. Fortieth anniversary edition. Signed. All near fine or better.
Jean M. Auel. The Complete Earth's Children Series. This complete set of first editions of Auel's popular Earth's Children series, beginning with The Clan of the Cave Bear, consists of five books. All are in very good to fine condition.
[Francis Bacon]. Baconiana: A Quarterly Magazine - Eight Volumes. Volumes in this lot span the years 1902-1916. All in original wraps. One issue lacks wrappers. All volumes in generally good or better condition.
[Francis Bacon]. Baconiana: A Quarterly Magazine - Fifteen Volumes, Including Vol. I, No. I. Volumes in this lot span the years 1892-1916. All in original wraps. Three issues lack wrappers. All volumes in generally good or better condition.
[Francis Bacon]. Baconiana: A Quarterly Magazine - Group of Twenty-Six Volumes. Dates range from 1892 to 1917.
[Francis Bacon]. Baconiana: A Quarterly Magazine - Group of Forty-Five Volumes.
James Baldwin. Going to Meet the Man. New York: Dial Press, 1965. First edition. Octavo. Yellow cloth over brown boards, black cover and spine lettering. Original dust jacket. Clean, bright, and tight.
Honoré de Balzac. Les Contes Drolatiques. Paris: Garnier Fréres, Libraires-Editeurs, ca. 1860. Illustrated by Gustave Dore. Vellum over boards, with floral decoration stamped in gilt..Near fine.
J. M. Barrie. The Little Minister. London: Cassell & Company, 1891. In three volumes. Rubbing and edge wear. A very good set housed in custom chemises and slipcase.
Jack Bechdolt. The Torch. Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1948. Signed by Bechdolt on the front endpaper. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed and edge worn with some minor chipping to bottom spine end. Near fine.
Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. Philadelphia: George Barrie/Bibliophilist's Library, [ca. 1900]. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies printed on Japanese vellum. Translated by John Payne, with etchings by Leopold Flameng. Two octavo volumes. Red calf binding. Fine.
David Brin. The River of Time. Dark Harvest, 1986. Limited to 52 copies, of which this is letter D. Signed by Brin. Fine, in the publisher's wooden slipcase.
David Brin. Three Signed Limited Editions, including: Startide Rising. [and:] The River of Time. [and:] The Uplift War. All volumes fine, in dust jackets; housed in publisher's slipcases.
John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress. Burlington, NJ: Printed and Published by S. C. Ustick, 1805. Small octavo. Bound in full contemporary calf. A relatively early American edition of Bunyan's classic.
Robert Burns. Two Versions of The Works of Robert Burns including: The Works of Robert Burns Complete in One Volume With Life by Allan Cunningham. London, 1844. [and:] The Works of Robert Burns. London, [n.d.]. Both very good.
Malcolm Burr. Dersu the Trapper. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1941. First edition. Rubbed and toned with small dampstains to fore-edge. Dust jacket is chipped and soiled. A good copy.
Edgar Rice Burroughs. Five Tarzan Books, including: The Return of Tarzan. [and:] Jungle Tales of Tarzan. [and:] Tarzan the Terrible.. [and:] Tarzan and the Ant Men. [and:] Tarzan and the Foreign Legion. First four books from Grosset & Dunlap, last book from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.. All volumes very good or better, in dust jackets.
William S. Burroughs. Naked Lunch. New York: The Grove Press, 1959. First American edition. Publisher's black cloth over black boards with gilt spine titles. Near fine, in a lightly chipped first state dust jacket.
James M. Cain. Past All Dishonor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First edition. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in gold. Original dust jacket in immaculate condition. Bookplate. Very good.
L. Sprague de Camp. Two Books, Both Signed, including: with Fletcher Pratt. Wall of Serpents. [and:] The Prisoner of Zhamanak. Both in dust jackets and slipcases. Both fine.
Orson Scott Card. Two Books, One Signed, including: Cardography. Signed. [slipcased with:] Card Catalogue by Michael Collings. [and:] Treason. Near fine.
Raymond Chandler. The Little Sister. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First American edition, first printing. Publisher's orange cloth, blue-stamped front board and spine. A near fine copy in a bright, non-clipped dust jacket.
Arthur C. Clarke. 2010: Odyssey Two. Phantasia Press, 1982. Limited edition, signed by Clarke. A fine copy in dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. [with:] A fine copy of the first trade edition.
Arthur C. Clarke. Two Books, Both Signed, including: The Songs of Distant Earth. [and:] with Gentry Lee. Cradle. Both fine.
J. M. Coetzee. Slow Man. London: Secker & Warburg, [2005]. Publisher's full leather, limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 28. Signed by the author on the limitation page. A fine copy, in the publisher's slipcase.
Joseph Conrad. The Rover. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First American edition. Original navy blue cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering. Original printed green dust jacket, with mild edge wear and spine sunning. Very good.
James Fennimore Cooper. Four Titles, including: The Pilot; A Tale of the Sea. Three volumes. [and:] Stories of the Sea. [and:] The Bravo. [and:] Lionel Lincoln; or, The Leaguer of Boston. All very good.
[No Author]. A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs, from Oliver Cromwell To this present Time: By the Greatest Wits of the Age... London: [no publisher], 1705. Full polished morocco. Moderate shelf wear, especially to the spine. About very good.
Charles Cotton. Poems on Several Occasions. London: Printed for Tho. Basset, Will Hensman and Tho. Fox, 1689. First edition. Nineteenth-century calf, spine with raised bands and older red morocco gilt lettering label. Overall a very good copy.
Peter Coxe. The Social Day, A Poem in Four Cantos. London, 1823. First edition. Folio. Bound in half burgundy morocco over marbled boards. Binding worn and chipped. Foxing and dampstaining to interior. Good.
e. e. cummings. 95 Poems. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, [1958]. Limited to 300 numbered copies and signed by cummings. Spine is slightly darkened. Near fine, in the publisher's slipcase.
Mark Z. Danielewski. House of Leaves. New York: Pantheon Books, [2000]. First edition, two-color. Signed by Danielewski in blue on the second free endpaper. Purportedly one of 800 unnumbered copies so issued. Dust jacket. Fine, in a custom slipcase.
Mark Z. Danielewski. Two Signed First Editions of Only Revolutions, including: London: Doubleday, [2006].[and:] New York: Pantheon, [2006]. Both signed. Both fine in dust jackets.
Charles Dickens. American Notes for General Circulation. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842. This work bound into a single volume with four titles by other authors. Half leather binding. Edges rubbed. Very good.
[Charles Dickens]. Charles Dickens to John Leech. [N.p.]: Walter Dexter, 1938. First edition. One of 21 privately printed copies, signed by Walter Dexter. Original green wrappers are lightly abraded and toned. Internally bright. Very good.
Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. Sixth edition. Illustrations by John Leech. Two pages of ads. Original light brown cloth. Slight lean to binding. Very good condition.
Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Illustrations by H. K. Browne. Half bound in contemporary brown calf. Light shelf wear. Mild foxing. Bookplate. Very good.
Charles Dickens. Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Illustrations by H. K. Browne. Errata sheet. Full morocco modern binding by Baytun. Near fine.
Charles Dickens. Drawn From Life. New York: E. J. Hale & Sons, 1875. First American edition. Publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth. Wear to extremities; spot to front endpapers. Very good.
[Charles Dickens]. John C. Eckel. The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and Their Values. London: Chapman & Hall, 1913. Large Paper Copy. Vellum-backed cloth-covered boards. Dust jacket chipped and torn. Very good.
Charles Dickens. Hunted Down. London: John Camden Hotten, [1870]. First English edition. Half leather with original wrappers bound-in. Moderate wear to binding. Very good.
[Charles Dickens]. Immortelles from Charles Dickens by Ich. London: John Moxon, 1856. Publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth. Lightly worn. Catalog blurb pasted to endpaper. Very good.
Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. No Thoroughfare. The Perils of Certain Prisoners. London: Chapman and Hall, 1890. First edition. Blue cloth. Good.
Charles Dickens. The Life of Our Lord. London: Arthur Barker, 1934. First thus, limited to 250 copies. Illustrations. Gilt-stamped vellum over thin boards. Boards significantly bowed. Very good.
Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition, later issue. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles. Considerable wear to boards. Binding tender. Not all plates present. Fair only.
Charles Dickens. Master Humphrey's Clock. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841. First edition in book form. Three volumes. Publisher's dark gray cloth. Later reddish-brown endpapers. Overall, very good condition.
Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist. By "Boz." London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition. One volume only (of the three-volume set). Green half-leather binding. Good. A collection of Cruikshank's plates.
Charles Dickens. The Plays and Poems of Charles Dickens. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1882. First suppressed edition. Two volumes. Full reddish-brown morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt. Slight discoloration to spines. Else fine.
Charles Dickens. The Plays and Poems of Charles Dickens with a Few Miscellanies in Prose. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1885. Two volumes. Blue cloth boards. Moderately worn. Very good.
[Charles Dickens]. Sketches of Young Couples & Young Gentlemen. London: Chapman and Hall, [n.d.]. First collected edition. Publisher's red cloth. Good.
[Charles Dickens]. The Strange Gentleman. By "Boz." London: Chapman and Hall, [1871]. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of Dickens' first produced play. Original printed paper wrappers. Some light soiling and wear. Very good.
Charles Dickens. The Strange Gentleman. Privately printed, 1928. Limited to 250 copies. Vellum backstrip over paper boards. Vellum yellowed. Very good.
[Charles Dickens]. Tom Taylor. Dramatized version of A Tale Of Two Cities. London: Thomas Hailes Lacy, [n.d.]. Contemporary half leather. Front cover detached and spine partially detached. Fair. Mr. Kendal's prompt copy, with his notations.
Two Works by Charles Dickens including Master Humphrey's Clock. London, 1840. Volume one only. Illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Second front free endpaper clipped out. [and:] Martin Chuzzlewit. Two octavo volumes. Illustrations by Phiz. Very good.
[Charles Dickens]. Two Miniature Books, Playing Cards, and a Carte de Visite. All in good or better condition.
Charles Dickens. Lot of Five Dickens Works, including some later editions and foreign editions. Books in generally good or better condition.
[Charles Dickens]. Five Books on Dickens' Experiences in America. Books published between 1844 and 1933. All in good or better condition.
[Charles Dickens]. Fifteen Charles Dickens-Related Books. Books published between 1888 and 1980. One book in fair condition; all others in good or better condition.
Gardner Dozois [editor]. Eight Volumes of The Year's Best Science Fiction. Volumes 1-7 and volume 9. The first three volumes published by Bluejay Books; the rest by St. Martin's Press. All volumes are first editions. All are near fine, in dust jackets.
Theodore Dreiser. The Carnegie Works at Pittsburgh. Chelsea, NY: Privately printed, 1927. First edition. One of 150 copies. Publisher's quarter beige cloth over pattern-paper boards. Touch of foxing to label, otherwise an excellent copy.
Ian Fleming. Octopussy and the Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First edition. Slim octavo. 95 pages. Publisher's black cloth stamped in foil, in original illustrated dust jacket that has price sticker over original printed price. A fine copy.
Ian Fleming. Six James Bond Books, including: Dr. No. New York: Viking Press, 1958. [and:] The Spy Who Loved Me. New York: Viking Press, [1962]. [and:] On Her Majesty's Secret Service. [New York]: New American Library, [1963]. [and:] You Only Live Twice. London: Jonathan Cape, [1964]. Second state. [and:] The Man With the Golden Gun. [New York]: New American Library, [1965]. [and:] Octopussy. [New York]: New American Library, [1966]. All good or better, in dust jackets.
J. J. Grandville. Fables de La Fontaine. Paris: H. Fournier, 1838. A new edition. Two octavo volumes (untrimmed). Contemporary quarter green calf over marbled boards. Some loss to spine caps and lower front and lower rear joint of each volume cracked (though binding is still solid). Some usual foxing but a very large and complete copy.
Richard Ford. Two Signed First Editions, including: A Piece of My Heart. New York: Harper & Row, [1976]. [and:] The Ultimate Good Luck. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. Both books near fine, in lightly worn dust jackets. Both in custom slipcases.
Ray Garton. Methods of Madness. Arlington Heights: Dark Harvest, 1990. Limited to 52 copies of which this is letter P. Signed. Fine in publisher's wooden box. Also included is a copy the first trade hardcover.
Elizabeth Gaskell. The Moorland Cottage. London: Chapman & Hall, 1850. First edition. Octavo. 182 pages. Illustrations by Birkett Foster. Modern half-calf binding, top edge gilt. Fine.
Thomas Gray. Poems and Letters. London: Chiswick Press, 1863. First Chiswick Press edition. Quarto. xvi, 415, [1] pages. Contemporary full brown calf by Riviere. Inscription from noted California bibliographer Robert E. Cowan to Zamorano Club founder Arthur E. Ellis on front flyleaf. Overall a very good copy.
Thomas Hardy. Jude the Obscure. New York: Harper & Bros., 1896. First American edition. Publisher's green cloth with gilt emblem on front and gilt spine lettering. A beautiful copy with virtually no flaws.
Joel Chandler Harris. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First edition, first state. Good condition.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret. Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1883. Limited edition of 250 copies. Octavo. 368 pages. Modern quarter-leather binding and marbled boards. Near fine condition.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. Passages from the English Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. First edition. Two volumes. Green cloth. Moderately worn. Very good.
Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition with first issue dust jacket. Book slightly cocked. Price-clipped jacket is worn. Very good.
Ernest Hemingway. First Edition and First Appearance of The Old Man and the Sea, including: Life Magazine. [and:] The Old Man and the Sea. First edition, first state. Rubbed and worn, in dust jacket. Both very good.
Frank Herbert. The Dragon in the Sea. Garden City: Doubleday [Science Fiction Book Club], [ca. 1956].Book club edition. Signed by Herbert. Fine in dust jacket. Herbert's first book.
Frank Herbert. Two First Editions, One Signed, including: Chapterhouse: Dune. Signed. [and:] Chapter House Dune. Both fine.
Frank Herbert. Two First Editions, One Signed, including: Children of Dune. [and:] God Emperor of Dune. Signed. Both very good or better.
Frank Herbert. Two Signed First Editions, including: God Emperor of Dune. Gollancz, 1981. Inscribed to Malcolm Edwards. [and:] The White Plague. Putnam's, 1982. Signed limited edition. Both fine.
Frank Herbert. Two First Editions, One Signed, including: Heretics of Dune. Limited edition. Signed. [and:] Heretics of Dune. Both in fine condition.
Eric Hodgins. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper.
William Hope Hodgson. The House on the Borderland and Other Novels. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. First Arkham House edition. Dust jacket art by Hannes Bok. Near fine condition.
Aldous Huxley. The Devils of Loudon. London: Chatto & Windus, 1952. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's orange cloth. In the original pictorial dust jacket with minor corner wear, and faint offsetting from jacket panels to front the endpapers; otherwise, a beautiful copy.
John Irving. The World According to Garp. New York: E. P. Dutton, [1978]. First edition. Signed by Irving. Dust jacket. Very good, in custom slipcase.
John Irving. Four First Editions, One Signed, including: The Water-Method Man. [and:] The 158-Pound Marriage. [and:] A Widow For One Year. [and:] A second copy. Limited edition, signed. All very good or better.
Christopher Isherwood. Three Books, including: Lions and Shadows. [and:] The Memorial [and:] Berlin Stories. All very good or better.
[George P. R. James]. Henry Masterton; or the Adventures of a Young Cavalier. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832. First edition. Three octavo volumes (text blocks trimmed). Nice modern half-leather binding. Corners bumped and worn, else near fine.
Samuel Johnson. The Rambler. London: Printed for T. Longman, B. Law and Son, H. Baldwin, H. Robson, et al., 1793. The twelfth edition. Four volumes. Bound in full contemporary calf. A lovely set in a contemporary binding.
James Joyce. Ulysses. London: The Folio Society, [2004]. First thus, limited to 1,760 numbered copies, of which this is number 537. Publisher's full turquoise leather with gilt and brown stamping. In publisher's clamshell box. Fine condition.
Omar Khayyám. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám Vols. I and II. New York: L.C. Page & Co., 1898. First Edition. Octavo. Two volumes. Publisher's white cloth stamped in gilt and red, top edges gilt. Nice art-deco bookplate. Great copy of this easily-soiled production.
Stephen King. 'Salem's Lot. Wheat Ridge: Centipede Press, 2004. Limited edition. Folio. [10], 555, [3], pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs by Jerry N. Uelsmann. Original black cloth. A fine copy.
Rudyard Kipling. Captains Courageous. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. First edition. Small octavo. Twenty-two full-page text illustrations. Original medium blue smooth cloth. Some wear to extremities and corners. Wrinkling to half title, rear board bowed a bit, bookplate to front pastedown, still a very good copy.
Rudyard Kipling. The Five Nations. London: Methuen and Company, 1903. First edition. Octavo. Original maroon gilt stamped cloth, top edge gilt. Thirty-eight page publishers catalogue at end dated July, 1903. Near fine in a half- green morocco slipcase with folding chemise.
Four Works by or About Rudyard Kipling including The Day's Work. London, 1898. [and:] From Sea to Sea, Letters of Travel. New York, 1899. [and:] Traffics and Discoveries. London, 1904. [and:] Will M. Clemens. A Ken of Kipling. New York, 1899. Very good.
[Five Books by or About Rudyard Kipling including Kim. 1912. [and:] A Book of Words. 1928. [and:] The Second Jungle Book. 1895. [and:] A Fleet in Being. Notes of Two Trips With the Channel Squadrons. 1898. [and:] Arley Munson. Kipling's India. 1915. Very good.
Five Books by Rudyard Kipling including Rudyard Kipling's Verse Inclusive Edition 1885-1932. 1934. [and:] "Captains Courageous". 1898. [and:] Traffics and Discoveries. 1904. [and:] Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People. 1891. Very good.
D. H. Lawrence. Touch and Go. C. W. Daniel, London, 1920. First edition. Octavo. 96 pages. Original orange thin boards, blue printed paper labels. Printed dust jacket (light edge chips). A little light endpaper browning. A near fine copy of this scarce and fragile book. Roberts A14.
Two Books by T. E. Lawrence including Revolt in the Desert. New York, 1927. First American edition. Octavo. A faultless copy in a very attractive dust jacket. [and:] Oriental Assembly. London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1939. First edition, first issue. Octavo. An exceptionally clean copy.
Norman Mailer. The Naked and the Dead. New York: Rinehart and Company, [1948]. First edition in first state dust jacket. A very good copy showing modest edge wear.
George R. R. Martin. Two Signed Limited Editions From Dark Harvest, including: Songs the Dead Men Sing. 1983. [and:] Portraits of His Children. 1987. Both volumes are in fine condition and are housed in publisher's slipcases.
Miscellaneous
W. Somerset Maugham. Two Autograph Letters Signed, From Maugham To an Editor at Viking Publishing. Two letters written in January, 1944 as he was preparing his Introduction to the Viking anthology of Dorothy Parker's works. Very good condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. One Autograph Letter Signed, One Typed Letter Signed, and One Signature. All in generally fine condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. One Autograph Letter Signed and Two Autograph Notes Signed, To Writer Douglas Ainslie. All items in fine condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Two Autograph Letters Signed, and One Typed Letter Signed, To a Magazine Editor. Three somewhat cranky and world-weary letters from Maugham to an editor of an unnamed magazine who has repeatedly, and without success, solicited articles from Maugham. All letters circa 1941. All in fine condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Two Letters Signed by Maugham and One Signature. Lot includes one typed letter signed, dated 1958, one autograph letter signed, undated, and a 4 x 2.5 inch piece of paper containing Maugham's signature. All in overall very good condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Typed Letter Signed, with Studio Portrait by Pach Bros. One framed piece containing: Signed letter on Villa Mauresque stationery. [and:] A very handsome photographic portrait. Matted, glazed and framed. Near fine.
W. Somerset Maugham. Four Real Photo Postcards, Two Signed. Four photographs of Maugham printed on paper with a postcard back, two of which are signed (one of which includes Maugham's longtime companion Alan Searle). Fine.
Books
W. Somerset Maugham. Ashenden. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. First American edition. Minor soiling to publisher's blue cloth. Lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Very good.
W. Somerset Maugham. Cakes and Ale. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc., 1930. First American edition. Signed by Maugham on the front free endpaper. Publisher's green cloth with back and gilt cover and spine labels. Cloth faded around edges and labels a bit scuffed but a solid copy.
W. Somerset Maugham. The Collected Edition, With One Volume Inscribed by Maugham. London: Heinemann, 1931-1969. All fifteen volumes are in good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. The Explorer. London: Heinemann, 1908. First edition sheets cut down and issued in a remainder binding. Publisher's green cloth. Near fine.
W. Somerset Maugham. The Hero. London: Hutchinson, 1901. First edition. Blue cloth. Possibly a remainder binding not mentioned in Stott. Soiled, rubbed, and cocked; hinges splitting. Rear endpaper missing. Good.
W. Somerset Maugham. Of Human Bondage. London: Heinemann, 1915. First English edition. Publisher's blue cloth. Cloth is rubbed and edgeworn; hinges tender and splitting. A better than good copy.
W. Somerset Maugham. The Land of the Blessed Virgin. London: Heinemann, 1905. First edition, first variant binding. Publisher's blue paper-covered boards. Boards lightly rubbed with fraying corners. Bookplate. Very good.
W. Somerset Maugham. Liza of Lambeth. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. First edition, third issue. Publisher's pale green cloth is lightly rubbed and soiled. Very good.
W. Somerset Maugham. The Magician. London: Heinemann, 1908. First edition, first issue. Publisher's blue cloth. Abrasion to pastedown caused by removal of a bookplate. Very good. In a custom slipcase.
W. Somerset Maugham. The Making of a Saint. Boston: L. C. Page, 1898. First edition, second state. Publisher's gray cloth is lightly rubbed and spine is darkened. Inked name. A tight, bright copy in near fine condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. The Narrow Corner. London: Heinemann, [1932]. Advance proof copy. Publisher's buff wrappers. Very good.
Miscellaneous
[W. Somerset Maugham]. Overnight Sensation. Pyramid Film, [1983]. 16mm full-length print of the Oscar-nominated short film starring Louise Fletcher. This single reel print appears to be in fine condition. In a Pyramid Films canister.
Books
W. Somerset Maugham. The Painted Veil. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First edition. Limited edition of 250 copies signed by Maugham. Octavo. Covers soiled, corners bumped, overall a very good copy. A particularly scarce signed Maugham edition.
W. Somerset Maugham. The Painted Veil. London: Heinemann, [1925]. First English edition, second issue, first state. Publisher's blue cloth. A near fine copy in a lightly chipped dust jacket.
W. Somerset Maugham. The Painted Veil. New York: George H. Doran, 1925. First trade edition. Publisher's red cloth. In lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Very good.
W. Somerset Maugham. The Trembling of a Leaf. New York: Doubleday, 1939. First thus. Inscribed by Maugham. Publisher's blue cloth. In lightly chipped and worn dust jacket. Very good.
W. Somerset Maugham. Two Early Editions, including: Orientations. London: Unwin, 1899. Colonial edition. [and:] Mrs. Craddock. London: Heinemann, 1903. Both volumes in good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Four Advance Proofs, including: Don Fernando. [and:] Catalina. [and:] Ten Novels and Their Authors. [and:] Points of View. All very good or better.
W. Somerset Maugham. Four American First Editions, including: The Moon and Sixpence. [and:] Liza of Lambeth. [and:] The Trembling of a Leaf. [and:] On A Chinese Screen. All in good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Books Concerning Maugham and His Work, including bibliographies and criticism. All books in this lot are in good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Two Sets, including: Complete Works. Heron Books. Complete in 31 volumes. [and:] Ten Novels Selected, Edited and Introduced by.... John C. Winston. 10 volumes. All very good or better.
W. Somerset Maugham. Six Books, including: The Magician. [and:] The Painted Veil. [and:] Andalusia. [and:] East and West. [and:] The Moon and Sixpence. [and:] Of Human Bondage. All very good or better.
W. Somerset Maugham. Six Books, including: The Narrow Corner. [and:] Ah King. [and:] Six Comedies. [and:] The Summing Up. [and:] Encore. [and:] The Vagrant Mood. All very good or better.
W. Somerset Maugham. Six Books, including: The Casuarina Tree. [and:] Cakes and Ale. [and:] Gin and Bitters by "A. Riposte." [and:] First Person Singular. [and:] The World Over. [and:] The Three Fat Women of Antibes. All very good or better.
W. Somerset Maugham. Six Books, including: Orientations. Fair. [and:] Liza of Lambeth. [and:] The Making of a Saint. [and:] Cakes and Ale. [and:] Of Human Bondage. [and:] The Moon and Sixpence. All good or better unless otherwise noted.
W. Somerset Maugham. Seven Books. All in very good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Seven Books, including: The Explorer. [and:] Ashenden. [and:] The Moon and Sixpence. [and:] The Sacred Flame. [and:] The Painted Veil. [and:] The Gentleman in the Parlour. [and:] Of Human Bondage.
W. Somerset Maugham. Seven Books, One Owned by Film Director George Cukor. All books in very good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Seven "Cheap" Editions, including: The Magician. [and:] Mrs. Craddock. [and:] Sadie Thompson. [and:] The Painted Veil. [and:] The Moon and Sixpence. [and:] Rain. [and:] Secret Agent. All good or better.
W. Somerset Maugham. Seven Bound Magazines, including the 1898 issue of Cosmopolis in which Maugham's first published story appeared. Bound volumes of Punch, Pall Mall Magazine, The Strand, and The Windsor Magazine.
W. Somerset Maugham. Seven Books. All books in good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Eight Books, One Signed. Eight books, most first editions, published between 1940 and 2002. Catalina contains a bookplate signed by Maugham, pasted to the front free endpaper. All very good or better.
W. Somerset Maugham. Eight Books. All volumes in this lot are in good or better condition unless otherwise noted.
W. Somerset Maugham. Eight Books. All books in this lot are in good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Nine Books. All books in this lot are in very good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Ten Photoplay Editions, One With Director George Cukor's Bookplate. Specially-produced movie tie-in books. All books in good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Ten Books, including three hand-made books produced in 1966 by design students at the prestigious Camberwell College of Art and Crafts. All books in this lot are in very good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Eleven Books. All books in very good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Twelve Books. These books, published between 1920 and 1966, are all in dust jackets. All in good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Twelve Plays in Wrappers, One With Director George Cukor's Bookplate. All books in this lot are in very good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Group of Mass Market and Paperback Editions. This lot contains over one hundred paperback editions of Maugham's works, mostly in the mass market format. All in good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. 31 Issues of Hearst International - Cosmopolitan with Maugham Contributions, printed between 1921 and 1939. All items in this lot are in good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. 40 Magazine Issues with Somerset Maugham Contributions, printed between 1922 and 1966. All items in good or better condition.
W. Somerset Maugham. Theatre Programs and Theatrical Ephemera, including over sixty programs from theatrical productions of Maugham's works, from plays produced in the very early 1900s through the 1990s. All items in good or better condition.
George de Maurier. The Martian. A Novel. London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. Limited edition of 250 numbered. Quarto. Illustrated by the author. Publisher's quarter vellum over light green cloth. Some light soiling to spine as is typical with vellum, else very clean and tight copy.
[Merrymount Press] John Milton. The Poetical Works of John Milton. With a Life of the Author and Illustrations. Boston: R. H. Hinckley Co. [1909], 1909. One of 555 sets printed. Four tall octavo volumes. Publisher's full elaborately embossed pigskin, raised bands, top edges gilt. A beautiful set.
James A. Michener and Jack Levine. Facing East. New York: Maecenas Press, Random House, 1970. Limited to 2500 numbered copies signed by Michener who wrote the text and Levine who produced the woodcuts and sketches. Fine.
Two Signed Books by Edna St. Vincent Millay including Huntsman, What Quarry? New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. Limited signed edition. [and:] The King's Henchman. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1927. Signed limited. A very good copy.
A. A. Milne. When We Were Very Young. [New York]: E. P. Dutton & Co., [1924]. One of 500 copies of the First American limited edition. Sumptuously bound in dark blue full morocco with gilt decorations. Original covers and endpapers bound in back. Housed in a dark blue cloth slipcase. Fine.
A. A. Milne. Winnie the Pooh. London: Methuen, [1973]. Number 289 of 300 limited edition copies signed by the illustrator. The first edition with color illustrations. Gilt-stamped blue morocco boards. Publisher's slipcase. Fine.
Christopher Morley. The Haverford Edition of Christopher Morley. Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1927. Limited to 1001 sets signed by Morley on the limitation page. Complete in twelve volumes. Very good condition with minor fading to spines.
Flannery O'Connor. Wise Blood. London: Neville Spearman, 1955. First English edition. Original orange cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
George Pelecanos. Three Signed First Editions, including: A Firing Offense. [1992]. [and:] Nick's Trip. [1993]. [and:] Shoedog. [1994]. All in dust jackets. All in fine condition. Each housed in a custom box or slipcase.
Two Limited Editions from Phantasia Press, One Signed, including: Philip José Farmer. River of Eternity. Signed. [and:] Harlan Ellison [editor]. Medea: Harlan's World. Both near fine in publisher's slipcases.
Polaris Press. Two Books, including: Frances Stevens. The Heads of Cerberus. 1952. [and:] Perley Poore Sheehan. The Abyss of Wonders. 1953. The only two titles published by Polaris Press, an off-shoot of Fantasy Press. Each is limited to 10 copies, bound in quarter leather and housed in publisher's slipcases. Both in jackets. Fine.
[Ezra Pound]. Umbra: The Early Poems of Ezra Pound. London: Elkin Mathews, 1920. First edition. Artist Henry Strater's personal copy with his signature in ink on the front endpaper. Half-leather. Fine.
Tim Powers. Three Books, including: On Stranger Tides. Ultramarine Publishing Co., [1987]. Signed. [and:] On Stranger Tides. Ace Books, [1987]. [and:] The Anubis Gates. Mark Ziesing, 1989. Signed. In publisher's slipcase. All fine.
Francis Rabelais. Master Francis Rabelais: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Saying of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel. London: A. H. Bullen, 1892. First edition. Three octavo volumes. Fine condition.
Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, 1957. First edition, first printing, in first issue dust jacket. Publisher's green cloth. Original price-clipped first issue dust jacket with "10/57" on the front flap and publisher's name and address on the rear flap. Previous owner's name. Some pages creased. Overall, very good condition.
Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd. South Pacific; A Musical Play. New York: Random House, 1949. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's tan cloth with multi-colored spine. A very clean copy in a handsome dust jacket.
[Sir Walter Scott]. Chronicle of the Canongate. Edinburgh: Cadell and Company, 1827. First edition. Two twelvemo volumes. Quarter-leather binding and marbled boards. Modest wear to the boards and edges, else a very good set.
[Sir Walter Scott]. The Fortunes of Nigel. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1822. Three volumes. Quarter-leather binding. Trimmed. Edge wear to the leather, front free endpaper detached but present in Volume II, light scuffing to boards, hinges tender, else very good.
Sir Walter Scott. Kenilworth. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1821. First edition. Three octavo volumes. Original publisher's gray paper-covered boards. Chip to foot of spines of Volumes I and II with inch and a half loss, inch and a half chip to head of Volume III, joints cracked on Volume I but holding, wear to edges of boards. Overall a very good set.
Sir Walter Scott. The Lady of the Lake. Edinburgh: Printed for John Ballantyne and Longman by James Ballantyne and Co., 1810. First edition, first impression. One of only 2,000 copies printed. Second state of page 288. Quarto. Contemporary half navy morocco over marbled boards. A beautiful copy in a gorgeous contemporary binding.
[Sir Walter Scott]. St. Ronan's Well. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1824. First edition. Three octavo volumes. Quarter-binding and marbled boards. Boards rubbed, worn, and bowed. Large portion of spine panel of Volume I hanging, else very good.
[Sir Walter Scott]. Pair of Novels by Sir Walter Scott including Quentin Durward. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1823. [and:] The Abbot. Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. Very good.
[Sir Walter Scott]. Two Novels by Sir Walter Scott including Redgauntlet, A Tale of the Eighteenth Century. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1824. [and:] Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1810. Very good.
Shakespeare Book Lot including Shakspere: Critical Study of His Mind and Art. [and:] Shakespeare Versus Shallow. [and:] Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear. [and:] The Shakespeare Phrase Book. [and:] Sonnets of William Shakespeare. [and:] Familiar Talks on Some of Shakspeare's Comedies. [and:] The Stratford Gallery. Very good.
E. E. "Doc" Smith. Children of the Lens. Reading: Fantasy Press, [1954]. Limited to 500 copies of which this is number 190. Inscribed by Smith on the limitation page. A very good copy.
Edmund Clarence Stedman. Poets of America. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1885. First edition of a limited edition of 150 large-paper copies. Two octavo volumes. Half-brown morocco over brown cloth by Whitman Bennett. Fine.
John Steinbeck. Three Works, including: The Moon is Down [and:] Of Mice and Men [and:] The Long Valley. All in dust jackets. Two later printings (The Moon is Down and Of Mice and Men) and one first edition (The Long Valley). Books in very good condition in good or better dust jackets.
Gene Stratton-Porter. Jesus of the Emerald. Garden City and New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1923. First edition. Octavo. Illustrated by Everett Winchell. Illustrated buff boards. In original publisher's box and original glassine wrapper. Offsetting to front cover from glassine, else a fine fresh copy in a good un-restored box.
Alfred Lord Tennyson. Enoch Arden. London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1864. First edition. Small octavo. Full green calf , double-fillet borders rolled in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Overall a fine copy housed in a green cloth slipcase.
William Makepeace Thackeray. The History of Henry Esmond: A Soldier in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne (Esmond: A Story of Queen Anne's Reign). London: Smith, Elder, & Company, 1852. First edition. Three twelvemo volumes.
William Makepeace Thackeray. The Virginians. London: Bradbury and Evans, London, 1858. First edition, in the original twenty-four monthly parts. Plates and text with occasional very light foxing or browning, otherwise a very attractive fresh and clean set. Clamshell case.
[William Makepeace Thackeray]. Two Books by William Makepeace Thackeray including The Kickleburys on the Rhine (written as M. A. Titmarsh), London, 1850. [and:] Vanity Fair. New York and Boston, 1900. Both volumes in very good or better condition.
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [c. 1965]. Complete in three volumes, in publisher's slipcase. All second editions, twelfth or later printings. All volumes near fine.
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Two Towers. Being the Second Part of the Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1955. First edition, stated second impression (no date on title). Octavo. With folding map. Original red cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Overall a very good copy.
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. West Hatfield, CT: Pennyroyal Press, 1985. Centenary Edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by the artist. Publisher's full green morocco. A fine copy. In the original shipping box.
Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). With One Hundred and Seventy-Four Illustrations. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American edition, early issue. Fair condition.
Mark Twain. Mark Twain's Autobiography. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924. First edition, first issue. Two octavo volumes. Publisher's blue cloth. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Both jackets just lightly chipped at edges and uniformly sunned at spines (as is the slipcase). Overall, very good condition.
Mark Twain. Three First Editions of Later Works, including: Merry Tales [and:] The American Claimant [and:] Mark Twain's Library of Humor. All in original decorative cloth. Condition as follows: Merry Tales (very good); The American Claimant (near fine); Mark Twain's Library of Humor (good).
Jack Vance. Alastor Trilogy, Signed, including: Trullion: Alastor 2262 [and:] Marune: Alastor 933 [and:] Wyst: Alastor 1716. San Francisco: Underwood-Miller, 1984. Limited to 200 signed copies. Dust jackets. Three volumes in publisher's slipcase. Fine.
Jack Vance. Demon Prince Series, including: Star King. [and:] The Killing Machine. [and:] The Palace of Love. [and:] The Face. [and:] The Book of Dreams. First thus trade edition set complete in five octavo volumes. All fine.
Jack Vance. Three Titles Published by Underwood-Miller, including: The Dying Earth. 1976. [and:] The Last Castle. 1980. Signed. [and:] The House of Iszm. 1983. Signed. All in dust jackets, all fine.
Jack Vance. Three Titles Published by Underwood-Miller, including: Morreion. Signed by Vance. [and:] Lost Moons. [and:] Cugel's Saga. Signed by Vance. All in dust jackets. All fine.
Jules Verne. L'Île Mystérieuse. Paris: Hetzel, [n.d., 1875]. First illustrated edition. Illustrations. Text in French. Original pictorial red and blue cloth. Binding worn, chipped and splitting. Frontispiece detached but laid-in. Library discard. Good condition.
Jules Verne. Mathias Sandorf. Paris: Bibliotheque D'education et de Recreation, 1885. Rubbed and worn with broken hinges. Fair condition.
Jules Verne. Michael Strogoff. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877. First British edition. Half-bound in red leather. Lightly rubbed and worn. A very good rebound copy.
Gore Vidal. Two First Editions, including: Williwaw. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1946. [and:] The City and the Pillar. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1948. Both volumes in very good condition in dust jackets.
Ina Russelle Warren [editor]. The Doctor's Window. Poems by the Doctor, for the Doctor and about the Doctor. Buffalo, New York: Charles Wells Moulton, 1898.
Evelyn Waugh. Nine First Editions, One Signed. All volumes in very good or better condition.
H. G. Wells. Select Conversations With an Uncle. London: John Lane, 1895. First edition of H. G. Wells' first publication. One of 650 copies. Octavo. Publisher's light purple moire cloth. Bookplate. Bright, fresh and lovely copy.
Eudora Welty. The Robber Bridegroom. West Hatfield, Massachusetts: Pennyroyal Press, 1987. Number 43 of 150 limited edition copies signed by Eudora Welty and illustrator Barry Moser. Publisher's red morocco. In original clear plastic dust jacket. Housed in a beige cloth slipcase. As new.
Edith Wharton and Ogdon Codman, Jr. The Decoration of Houses. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. First edition. Publisher's marbled paper boards. Boards rubbed and worn. Author's first book under her name. Very good, in a custom slipcase.
Edith Wharton. Ethan Frome. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First edition. Publisher's red cloth. Mild sunning to spine and light foxing throughout. A sharp, bright copy. Very good. In a custom chemise and slipcase.
Edith Wharton. Two First Editions, including: Italian Backgrounds. [and:] French Ways and Their Meaning. Both very good or better.
Edith Wharton. Four First Editions, including: The Touchstone. [and:] Crucial Instances. [and:] Madame de Treymes. [and:] The Children. All books very good or better.
[Walt Whitman]. Horace Traubel. With Walt Whitman in Camden - Three Volumes. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961. First edition thus. Illustrated. A fine set in the handsome publisher's slipcase. Memories of the poet in 1888 by a Whitman disciple.
Walt Whitman. Two Books, including: Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia: 1888. [and:] Specimen Days & Collect. Glasgow: 1883. First British edition. Both very good.
Autographs
Thornton Wilder. Autograph Letter Signed, "Thornton Wilder." One page, approximately 6 x 8 inches, January 5, 1938, New Haven, Connecticut, personal stationery, black ink. A fascinating letter responding to criticism of his view of the afterlife in his fiction, written by Wilder in the year he both published and won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Our Town. In the text of the letter, Wilder references his two most famous works - the aforementioned Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey (for which he won his first Pulitzer Prize). Two horizontal mailing folds, some age discoloration along the edges, and one tiny tear at the top edge, else in fine condition.
Books
Richard Yates. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1962]. First edition. Inscribed by Yates. Publisher's green cloth lightly sunned. Edgeworn dust jacket. A very good copy of the author's second book.
Richard Yates. Liars in Love. [New York]: Delacorte Press, [1981]. First edition. Inscribed by Yates. Binding lightly rubbed; small dampstain on the top edge that affects the book and dust jacket. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Very good.
Richard Yates. Two Signed First Editions, including: Disturbing the Peace. Inscribed. [and:] Young Hearts Crying. Signed and dated. Both in very good or better condition, in dust jackets.
Roger Zelazny. Two Limited Edition Amber Books, including: Trumps of Doom. 1985. [and:] Blood of Amber. 1986. Published by Underwood-Miller, both are still in original shrinkwrap and are presumed to be signed and numbered. Fine in publisher's slipcases.
Roger Zelazny. Two First Editions, including: The Dream Master. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Dust jacket. [and:] The Courts of Chaos. Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. Dust jacket. Both volumes in fine condition.
Roger Zelazny. Three Limited Editions, including: The Last Defender of Camelot. In shrinkwrap. Presumed signed. [and:] Trumps of Doom. Signed. [and:] Blood of Amber. Signed. All published by Underwood-Miller. All fine.
Roger Zelazny. Four First Editions, One Signed, including: Isle of the Dead. [and:] The Hand of Oberon. [and:] A Rhapsody in Amber. Signed. [and:] Unicorn Variations. All near fine or better.
Two Folio Society Publications, including: Arthur Helps [editor]. Leaves From the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands From 1848 to 1861. [and:] John Milton. Paradise Lost. Both near fine or better.
Lot of Four Works of Poetry and Song including John Williamson Palmer [editor]. Folk Songs. [and:] Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. [and:] [John Greenleaf Whittier]. The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. [and:] [Felicia Hemans]. The Poems of Felicia Hemans. Very good.
Three Works by English Poets including Robert Browning. The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. 1886. [and:] Edmund Spenser. The Faerie Queen. 1866. [and:] The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, etc. 1866. Very good.
Two Books on English Poets and Poetry including William Knight. The Life of William Wordsworth. Edinburgh: William Patterson, 1889. [and:] Andrew Lang [editor]. Poet's Country. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1907. Very good.
Lot of Three Books including Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romance. Philadelphia, 1846. [and:] The Byron Gallery. London, 1833. [and:] Thomas Moore. Lalla Rookh. An Oriental Romance. London, 1817. Very good.
Two Classic Works of English Literature including The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. [and:] The Norton Facsimile of The First Folio of Shakespeare. Very good.
Pair of English Literary Works in Fine Bindings including Stuart Dodgson Collingwood. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. Dodgson Collingwood). London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. [and:] Francis T. Palgrave. The Golden Treasury. London: Macmillan & Company, 1931. Very good.
Two Works of 19th Century English Literature including George Du Maurier. Trilby, A Novel. London, 1895. [and:] Thomas Ingoldsby [Thomas Harris Barham]. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels. London, 1911. Fine condition.
Two Classic Works of English Literature including Daniel Defoe. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. London, 1869. [and:] Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe; A Romance. Hartford, 1821. Very good condition.
Six First Editions, including: Humphrey Cobb. Paths of Glory. [and:] Frederick Exley. A Fan's Notes. [and:] Edward Gorey. The Unstrung Harp. [and:] James Gould Cozzens. S.S. San Pedro. [and:] Elizabeth Bowen. The House in Paris. [and:] Calder Willingham. End as a Man. All with light wear.
Homer and Plato. Three Classics. The Dialogues of Plato. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892. Five volumes. [and:] The Odyssey of Homer. London: Medici Society, 1930. [and:] The Iliad of Homer. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. Two volumes. Very good.
Four Works of Classical Greek and Roman Literature including The Odes of Horace. 1858. [and:] Attic Tragedies: Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus. 1927. [and:] The Odyssey of Homer. 1871. [and:] P. Verili Maronis. Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis. The Works of Virgil. 1876. Very good.
Eight Works of Fiction including Mark Twain. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. 1896. [and:] Mark Twain's Library of Humor. 1888. [and:] Richard Greaves. Brewster's Millions. 1903. [and:] Zane Grey. Tales of Swordfish and Tuna. 1927. [and:] Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Tolls. 1940. [and:] Carl Van Vechten. The Tiger in the House. 1924. [and:] George W. Cable. Kincaid's Battery. 1908. [and:] John Steinbeck. The Red Pony. 1945. Very good.
Lot of Seven Fine Bindings including The Ingoldsby Legends. [and:] Legends of the Monastic Orders As Represented in the Fine Arts. [and:] Presentation of Imperial Russian Easter Gifts by Carl Fabergé. [and:] The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. [and:] Leo. The Scapegoat. [and:] Fenelon. Adventures of Telemachus. [and:] Walter Scott's Works: Ivanhoe. [no date]. Very good.
Three Cyberpunk Books, Two Signed, including: William Gibson. Neuromancer. [and:] William Gibson. Mona Lisa Overdrive. [and:] Bruce Sterling. Crystal Express. All fine in dust jackets.
Five Signed First Editions of Contemporary Literature, including works by Jim Harrison, Tristan Egolf, Jonathan Safran Foer, Alan Hollinghurst, and Ian McEwan. All are in near fine or better condition.
Two Fantasy First Editions, One Signed, including: Robert Silverberg. Lord Valentine's Castle. [and:] Martin H. Greenberg. The Leiber Chronicles. Signed by Leiber. In dust jacket, and in publisher's wooden slipcase. Both near fine.
Two Fantasy Books, including: Tanith Lee. Dreams of Dark and Light. [and:] Anne McCaffrey. Dragonsdawn. Both near fine or better.
Three Fantasy Books, including: Daphne du Maurier. Classics of the Macabre. Signed by Du Maurier. [and:] Gene Wolfe. There Are Doors. [and:] Martin H. Greenberg. The Leiber Chronicles. All near fine.
Four Fantasy First Editions, including three books by Stephen R. Donaldson and one by Raymond E. Feist. Three books in this lot are signed. All in fine condition.
Two Science Fiction Titles, One Signed, including: Frank Herbert. Children of Dune. Book club edition. Signed. [and:] Robert R. McCammon. Bethany's Sin. Both near fine.
Two Science Fiction First Editions, One Inscribed, including: Frank Herbert. God Emperor of Dune. Inscribed by Herbert.[and:] David Brin. The River of Time. Both near fine or better.
Two Science Fiction Books, One Signed, including: Jack Williamson. The Humanoid Touch. [and:] Isaac Asimov. Prelude to Foundation. Easton Press. Signed. Both fine.
Two Science Fiction Limited Editions, including: Isaac Asimov. Have You Seen These? Signed by Asimov. [and:] Theodore Sturgeon. Godbody. Presumed to be signed (still in shrinkwrap). Both fine.
Two Science Fiction Limited Editions, Both Signed, including: Frank Herbert. Heretics of Dune. [and:] C. J. Cherryh. Visible Light. Both in fine condition.
Three Limited Edition Science Fiction Books, All Signed, including: Poul Anderson. Orion Shall Rise. [and:] Vonda M. McIntyre. Superluminal. [and:] Frederik Pohl. The Day the Martians Came. All fine.
Four Science Fiction Limited Editions, All Signed, including: Jack Williamson. The Humanoid Touch. [and:] Robert Silverberg. Sailing to Byzantium. [and:] John Varley. Blue Champagne. [and:] Jack Williamson. Into the Eighth Decade. All near fine.
Four Science Fiction First Editions, Three Signed by Bob Shaw, including: Bob Shaw. The Ragged Astronauts. [and:] Shaw. The Wooden Spaceships. [and:] Shaw. The Fugitive Worlds. [and:] Fredric Brown. And the Gods Laughed. All near fine or better.
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