Paraguay, Brazil, and the Plate. Letters written in 1852?1853.
Mansfield, Charles Blachford, & Charles Kingsley. Posthumously published first edition, including a sketch of the author's life by Kingsley along with a map, portrait, and illustrations. According to the DNB, Mansfield was one of the earliest Englishmen to visit the capital of Paraguay, and "certainly the first to go there merely to take notes"; he has a number of thoughts regarding the future of South America, while the DNB highlights the "bright and careful descriptions of Paraguayan society, the scenery, plant and bird life" contained in these letters, which include similar entries for the other stages of Mansfield's travels. Binding: Contemporary dark blue calf, covers framed in single gilt fillet, spine with gilt-beaded raised bands and gilt-stamped floral compartment decorations. Board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls. All edges gilt; endpapers of striking blue and gilt marbled paper. 12mo (18.6 cm, 7.32"). Frontis., xxi, [1], 504 pp.; 1 fold. map, illus. Palau 149416. On Mansfield, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online). Bound as above, spine slightly dimmed, extremities rubbed. Ownership marking (?) at foot of half-title and pencilled annotation on title-page both now almost completely effaced. Pages faintly age-toned with leaves prior to text (only) showing a few instances of foxing; otherwise, a very clean and fresh copy and one with => the folding map in excellent condition.- $650
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Ballet Russe, Memoir of Nicolas Legat Translated and with a Foreword by Sir Paul Dukes. Dedicatory Poem by John Masefield.
Legat (Nicolas)). 4to, publisher's red cloth, backs strip faded and a little rubbed at head, untrimmed. ppxv, 67, with 7 plates in colour and 24 "monotone". Very light foxing to a very few leaves. Masefield's dedication with printed signature. First Edition. The 3 appendices pay tribute to Pavlova, and list ballets in which Legat appeared, and those he produced. "He lived with one ideal. to transmit his learning to succeeding generations and keep alight the torch. (of) St Petersburg in the last decades of the Ninetenth Century" (Foreword) both as performer and later as teacher and ballet master.- $126
- $126
Parrots.
Jardine: Later grey cloth, uncut. Engraved portrait, coloured -title-page, 30 hand-coloured engraved plates after Edward Lear. One plate just trimmed (African Grey), otherwise good margins. The issue with the hand-coloured parrots against full engraved background scenery (not just a branch as in some late issues). Getting to be a difficult book to find. Series: Naturalists' Library.- $597
- $597
Types of Floral Mechanism A Selection of Diagrams and Descriptions of Common Flowers. Part 1, Types 1-XII. (All Published).
Church (Arthur Harry). Substantial 4to (10 x 10 3/4 ins, 250 x 320mm) very small and faint dark mark to backstrip, otherwise Fine Condition in publisher's green pebble cloth, backtrip gilt. pp vii, 211, monochrome plates, text illustrations and 39 extraordinary colour-printed plates, after Church's paintings. A project of "The Hundred Best Flowers" was proposed (intro), but after disagreements with Clarendon, Part 1 was all published, although he continued working on it until 1915. "An attempt has been made to strike a mean between prosy abstruseness. and imaginative flights." "Some of the finest (coloured illustrations) produced in modern times. their strikingly bold, almostJugendstil, images were used on greetings cards in the 1980s." ODNB quoting Mabberley's biography.- $414
- $414
Ballet -To Poland. Decorated by Kay Ambrose. In Aid of the Polish Relief Fund.
Haskell (Arnold L.) Ed: Tall 4to (7 1/2 x 10ins, 200 x 250mm) bright in original buckram cloth with gilt lettering and motif to top cover. pp (154). Very light foxing to a few leaves. Essays and letters from the great and the good of contemporary ballet and theatre - Geligud, Masefield, Schaverell Sitwell, Victor Dandré, Ninette de Valois, Constant Lambert, W de.Basil et al., illustrated throughout with text illustrations by Kay Ambrose and plates after McKnight Kauffer, Pavlova, Felix Topolski, Oliver Messel, Cecil Beaton et al., some never before published. "Abums" of photographs, some pp58, of the greatest performers - Helpman, Fonteyn, Pavlova, Nijinski, and stars of the Russian and Polish ballets. "This Edition is limited to One Hundred copies. This is No.26" and signed by Haskell and Ambrose. Additionally in this copy 4 of the photographs have been autographed :Tamara Toumanova 1954, Pamela May, June Brae, Margot Fonteyn.- $274
- $274
Swiss Scenery.
Cockburn (Major.) 4to (7.5 x 10 3/4, 190 x 270mm) contemporary half calf, gilt, top joint a little worn and split at head of backstrip. Engraved title-page, 60 steel plates. A little foxing (mainly marginal) and occasional offset. "Carefully and truthfully drawn, architecture correct in its proportions" DNB. A European tourist since the age of 13, Batty served under Wellington in both the Peninsular war and Waterloo campaign.- $407
- $407
The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, Collected by the Late Arpad Plesch. Parts 1-3 Complete.
Plesch Library: 3 volumes 4to, original boards, minor bump to one corner, otherwise, clean and fresh. Many plates, some coloured. 863 lots, all fully described, many with copious bibliographical notes, with buyer's names and price lists. Usually found with dusty or soiled covers, this is an excellent copy of one of the finest botanical libraries at auction.- $211
- $211
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. With Forty-Two Illustrations by John Tenniel. Together with: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. With Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel.
Carroll (Lewis), Rev.Charles Dodgson. Uniformly finely bound in contemporary three-quarters dark green morocco, marbled sides, backstrips with raised bands, 5 panels, gilt with a rose motif, top edges gilt. Alice: half-title, frontispiece, pp (viii), 192. Through the Looking-Glass: half-title, leaf of the chess game, frontispiece, (ix), 224. Both volumes have a leaf Christmas Greetings (From A Fairy To A Child.) dated 1887, paginated 195 in Alice and 227 in Looking-Glass and bound-in at the end, the intervening blank having been removed in rebinding. Williams 162. A Fine Pair, with the bookplate of Louise Whitfield Carnegie, wife of Andrew Carnegie. The couple "jointly helped the creation of over 2,500 libraries between 1883 and 1929." Wikipedia.- $842
- $842
The Book of Flower Fairies.
Barker (Cicely Mary) Publisher's green cloth, gilt, untrimmed and complete with the 72 colour-printed Flower Fairy plates plus text illustrations. Front end-paper neatly cut out, free end-paper affixed to inside cover, neat inscription to foot of half-title. Bright, crisp copy. An early issue, the plates with their decorative ruled borders and the tallest format (6 x 7.5 ins, 145 x 190mm). A compilation of Flower Fairies of the Spring, Summer and Autumn.- $168
- $168
Tales of the Century or Sketches of the Romance of History Between the Years 1746 and 1846.
Sobieski (John) and Charles Edward Stuart, otherwise John Carter Allen or John Hay Allan, and Charles Manning Allan or Charles Stewart Hay Allan. Nicely bound in generous modern quarter dark red morocco, raised bands, gilt, marbled sides, all edges gilt. Lithotint frontispiece (joint between it and title-page slightly split), ppxii, 230 (Tales), 1-300 (various Notes). First Edition. A series of tales and jottings "credible because (they are) improbable" (intro) by the remarkable Sobieski Stewarts, the "de jure monarch(s) of England in place of the then reigning sovereign Queen Victoria", claiming to be, quite without justification or evidence, the Grandsons of the Pretender. Their claim drew the support of men of rank and intelligence, but was "absolute fabrication" (Walter Scott), who suggested that they were "men of warm imaginations . of much accomplishment but little probity". "Shot through with pure fantasy and bare faced forgery." Trevor-Roper. Chapters include The Prince's Long Incognito and The Arrest of Charles Edward.- $274
- $274
Dogs.) Mammalia.Canidae. Volume 2 (Volume X of Mammalia).
Jardine (Sir W.) Later grey cloth, part of original backstrip retained as label. Engraved portfait, title, 4 uncoloured plates, 31 hand-coloued steel engraved plates, this First Edition with the uncoloured backgrounds. A little light browning, overall good conditon . Volume 2 illustrates and describes mostly domestic dogs, their wild ancestors being in Volume 1.- $211
- $211
Simla Past and Present. With Illustrations.
Buck (Edward J.) Substantial Royal 8vo (7 1/2 x 10ins, 190 x 260mm) publisher's printed buckram, beveled edges, untrimmed, lettering on backstrip faded, carefully recased. pp xiv, 270, advertisement leaf. Folding map, 51 plates, mostly after photographs, a few leaves discoloured or slightly foxed. Only Edition. With an early photograph of Simla noting several places on verso, and an early typed pp5 essay by Sita Ram Kohli on the Trial of Diwan Mul Raj, Governer of Multan.- $316
- $316
The Zoographia (Descriptions of Animals) Known as.
Hecke (Jan van den). A Collection of 9 etchings, each approx 165 x 110mm, 6.5 x 4.5ins, with ruled margins (none trimmed), mounted up to 8.2 x 6.7ins, 270 x 170mm on contemporary straw coloured paper, the plates just edge mounted on one side or corner, several now loose, all in good condition, clean and fresh, now protected in a custom case. The full suite is 12, we have 1-2, 4-5, 7, 9-12. Dedication on Plate 1 "Magnificentissimo principi Paulo Iordano Bracciani duci. fecit aqua forti Johannes vanden Hecke". Delightful, sensitive and humorous etchings, delicately illustrating farm and domestic animals - dogs (4), horses, donkeys, cattle, sheep, a stray squirrel - in a mixture of ruined classical and dilapidated rustic farmyard settings. Working firstly in Antwerp, later Brussels before finally returning to Antwerp, Van den Hecke visited Rome on several occasions between 1644 and 1658, that classical influence being evident in these lovely etchings. He was particularly noted for his canvases of flowers, plants and his still lives, his patron the Duke of Bracciano being a celebrated collector.- $1,544
- $1,544
Ye Legende of Dicke Whyttington and hys Catte. 1420. Solde for Six Pennies. Ye Wrytinge of Ye Legends bye Horace Lennard. Ye Pictures bye Wallis MacKaye.
Lennard (Horace). 4to (8 3/4 x 11ins, 220 x 275mm) original deliberately aged vellum covers (now rather brittle), printed red and black, original green linen ties with red paper seal, printed with portrait of Augustus Harris, the completely untrimmed edges now rather more worn than even the the distressed original. Tipped-in notice explaining this re-imagining of the legend, pp (16), final leaf listing Harris' pantomimes at Crystal Palace, and Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Illustrated throughout in red and black to accompany the verse text. Marginal foxing. A rare survival, 2 copies recorded in the UK, 2 in US, 1 in Amsterdam. Son of a famous theatrical manager father, also Augustus Frederick Glossop Harris, following some years of successful acting, producing and management in music hall and theatre, Augustus junior leased the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, his celebrated and popular pantomimes subsidizing Opera productions such as the first production of Meistersinger, and Tristan and Isolde (first outside Germany), as well as other less popular pieces whose plots were "long and bewildering". The pantomimes cast Dan Leno, Vesta Tilley, Marie Lloyd, Little Titch, and both pantomimes and other productions were famous for their lavish scenery and parades, even involving Major Kitchener to arrange marching sequences. His innovations such as electric lighting, dark auditoriums during a performance, and courageously promoting Opera in languages other than Italian, set the standard of the day. Our Whyttington is no longer the innocent country lad, but a turbaned African youth, setting ashore at the white cliffs where John Bull has no cats. After being pulled up by Constable Bowbelles on Highgate Hill (a Victorian stop-and-search), the pestilential plague of rats is dispersed, and Dick's journey continues meeting William Booth, paying income tax to Gladstone, being entranced by his many visits to the Belles of the Drury Lane Theatre accompanying the Prince of Wales, and receiving honours from Queen Victoria. He returns home a rich man to his waiting sweetheart, founds a corporation, where he as Lord Mayor grew toothless old and fat, "And this is how ye stories run, which telle of Dyckie Whyttington".- $807
- $807
Fishing Tackle of Quality. 1938 Edition.
Alexander Martin: Original black and gilt stapled pictorial card covers - an embossed, gilt, hooked trout, and fishing tackle - Scottish fishing resort map to rear, very slight bump to lower edge. pp136, illustrated throughout, pp14 are in full colour - mostly flies and rods - includes shotguns and cartridges etc. Sticker tipped in from Stand T24 North of the Palace of Industry Exhibition, Empire Exhibition, Glasgow 1938, order form loose inside back cover. Game, Coarse and Sea fishing, rods reels, bags and every accesssory. An exceptionally nice catalogue in very good condition. The fourth generation, established over 130 years ago.- $105
- $105
The Botanic Garden. Ed: J.C.Niven.
Maund (B.) 6 volumes Roy8vo (7 x 10in.,180 x 260mm) original mauve stamped cloth, gilt, chips and splits to backstrips of several volumes, untrimmed, so in the tallest possible state. 250 Hand Coloured Plates,arranged 5 to a page. Very sight and occasional spotting to untrimmed edges, otherwise internally a crisp set of the Second Edition. The usual issue of the First Edition is about 6 x 8 ins, 150 x 200mm, so considerably smaller page size, with 4 figures and ruled divisions.- $983
- $983
Internatioal Automobile Parade. (The same in German and French.)
Logoz, Arthur. Tall 4to (215 x 300mm, 8 1/2 x 12ins) publisher's cloth-backed printed boards, the fine photographic and gilt dust jacket "Auto-Parade" bright but with a few small chips missing. pp (ix), 291, 97 coloured photographic plates with 291 images. With the pink errata slip loose. Preface in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. 2nd Edition or Volume 2. Exceptional copy. Italian, English, German, French, USA, Swedish, Czecho-Slovakian, Australian, Swiss and DDR cars make up this fabulous catalogue of stylish and fabulous automobile dreams. Full technical details including ex-works prices, and some road test reviews by "Phaeton".- $133
- $133
Verve. An Artistic and Literary Quarterly. (Volume 1) No,4. Director E.Tériade.
Verve: Folio 260 x 255mm, 10.5 x 14ins. Coloured stiff wrapper specially designed by Rouault, backstrip rubbed, internally very good. A Who's Who of the Fine Arts. Texts by Garcia-Lorca, Sartre, Paul Valéry. Marie Renard (model to Berthe Morizot (sic)), et al., reproductions, many in colour, of works by Rembrandt, Courbet, Lautrec, Miro, Rousseau, Rouault, Rubens, Doré, classical suites of "Grandes Heures" and medieval works finished in gold, Tintoretto, Degas, photographs by BrassaÏ, Bill Brandt (Gustav Doré's London Rediscovered series), Maywald (Seurat to Monet) et al. Original Lithographs: 8 original lithographs "Tacuinum Sanitatis Fourteenth Century Book of Health". Derain, Garden of Allah (6 pieces). Matisse, a specially commissioned double-page La Danse with 2 further lino cuts on versos (Figures of Skaters), 5 further reproductions of Matisse throughout. The English Language Edition, issued simultaneously with the French.- $695
- $695
Admiral Halsey’s Story
Halsey, William F. Fleet Admiral U.S.N New York, 1947 Signed by author on half title page. Hard cover. Octavo. [xvii] 310 pp. Blue publisher's cloth over boards. Gilt titles to cover and spine. Map end papers. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Clean and unmarked. Light shelf wear to cover. No dust jacket. William Frederick Halsey Jr. was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy during World War II. He is one of four individuals to have attained the rank of fleet admiral of the United States Navy. Halsey was made commander of the South Pacific Area, and led the Allied forces over the course of the Battle for Guadalcanal and the fighting up the Solomon chain. In 1943 he was made commander of the Third Fleet, the post he held through the rest of the war. He took part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle of the Second World War and, by some criteria, the largest naval battle in history.- $225
- $225
On Active Service In Peace and War
Stimson, Henry L. New York, 1948 Two volume set. Number 227 of a limited first edition of 1250 signed by the author on the limitation page of volume I. Hardcovers in blue publisher's cloth with dust jackets. Octavo. Both volumes clean and unmarked. Price clipped dust jackets show some shelf wear and fading to spines and are protected in archival quality mylar sleeves. Henry Lewis Stimson was an American statesman, lawyer, and Republican Party politician. Over his long career, he emerged as a leading figure in U.S. foreign policy by serving in both Republican and Democratic administrations. He served as Secretary of War (1911–1913) under President William Howard Taft, Secretary of State (1929–1933) under President Herbert Hoover, and Secretary of War (1940–1945) under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.- Wikipedia.- $165
- $165
Point Counter Point
Aldous Huxley 1st printing in publisher's original cloth with perimeter ruling to board and spine and titles to spine in black - all still fresh, clean and bright with the slightest hint of bumping/rubbing to top spin end. The binding is sound, tight and square. Internally neat, scripted and dated [1928] ownership signature to centre of ffep; otherwise entirely clean and fresh. The unclipped dust jacket is good only having some limited loss at spine ends, tiny chips at fold ends, a short closed tear at top of rear panel [2cms] and a little soiling generally except at flaps [see relevant images].Jacket now presented in a removable, transparent cover. A nice copy in jacket.- $170
- $170
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I Love You Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan [signed]
Nancy Reagan 2nd printing in publisher's original light blue paper covered boards with mid blue cloth spine and titles to spine in silver - all still fresh, clean and bright with very minor bumping to spine ends and corners. The binding is sound, tight and square. Internally Nancy Reagan's signature to dedicated The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum bookplate - pages crisp, fresh and clean.The unclipped dust jacket is crisp and vibrant with a hint of bumping/creasing occasionally at edges. A very nice copy.- $170
- $170
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A House for Mr Biswas [signed]
V.S. Naipaul 5th printing signed for The New Fiction Society - in publisher's original black cloth with titles to spine in gilt - still very good with very minor bumping/creasing at spine ends. The binding is sound, tight and square. Internally clean and fresh with dedicated new fiction society's stamp and author's signature directly to ffep. The unclipped dust jacket remains complete and crisp with just the slightest hint of darkening at edges. A very nice copy.- $276
- $276
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys 2nd impression [same year as 1st] in publisher's original matt-red cloth with titles in gilt to spine - all still fresh, clean and bright. The binding is sound, tight and square. Internally neat scripted gift inscription to top, right corner of ffep; ffeps a little off-set with some very light foxing/spotting. Otherwise internally clean. The price-clipped dust jacket remains crisp and vibrant with just a hint of edge wear occasionally and a couple of tiny nicks. A nice copy- $105
- $105
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The Unconsoled [signed]
Kazuo Ishiguro 1st printing with full number series 1-10 on copyright page. In publisher's original black cloth with titles in ivory to spine - all still fresh, clean and bright with the slightest hint of bumping to top spine end. The binding is sound, tight and square with a hint of spotting to top edge of page block. Internally clean and fresh with author's signature directly to title page with no further inscription. The unclipped dust jacket remains crisp and vibrant with maybe a little creasing to top spine end.There is also a 'signed copy' publicity band -supporting the provenance of the signature- with a little creasing at bottom edge of spine section. A very nice copy.- $105
- $105
Cut Up, eine Anthologie. AQ 14.
BREGER (U.), PAULL (S.), STEGENTRITT (E.). 25 x 19 cm, 68 p., ill. Broché, couv. ill. Edition originale de cette anthologie de cut-ups de Bain, Beach, Breger, Burroughs, Pélieu, Fauser, Gibbs, Guthrie, Hanak, Kollmann, Kolonah, Mayor, Norse, Nuttall, Plymell, Stalter, Weissner. tetxes en anglais et allemand.- $145
- $145
The Princess Casamassima
Henry James 1st one volume edition same year as 1st edition in publisher's original green cloth with decorative and gilt bands to front board and spine and titles to spine in gilt - some rubbing/small area where worn through to text block towards bottom end of front joint with occasional small stain and very minor bumping to spine ends. The binding is sound, tight and about square. Internally eps lightly spotted, no inscriptions and occasional light foxing stain. A nice copy now in a removable, transparent, acetate cover.- $171
- $171
Amerika
Kafka, Franz; translated by Edwin Muir; preface by Klaus Mann Norfolk CT, 1940 Octavo, about 8.75 inches tall, in blue cloth with a paper spine label. 299 pages. According to the afterword by Max Brod, this novel was not quite finished. It does, however, end on a more hopeful note than Kafka's other work. Previous owner name on each side of the front endpaper; the endpapers are moderately stained from glue offset. Inside is otherwise clean, bright and soundly bound. The covers show light extremity wear, and the gutters and spine show spotty fading, also the likely effect of glue offset. The salmon jacket is complete but for very shallow chipping at the foot of the spine and the bottom front panel. There is moderate darkening to the spine and edges of the jacket.- $375
- $375
Japanese Bayonets: The Definitive Work on Japanese Bayonets, 1870 to Present
Johnson, Larry Broken Arrow OK, 1988 Quarto, 11.25 inches (29.5 cm) tall in gilt stamped green cloth. 152 pages illustrated by photographs drawings. Very nicely produced, this includes cross references to other bayonet books. Also, a glossary. Photographic detail is very good. There is minor toning to the fore-edges of the pages, but otherwise a clean, sound copy with no sign of wear to the covers. The jacket is unworn, crisp and bright but also very light edge toning.- $375
- $375
Carnaval
Neiman, Leroy New York, 1981 LargeFfolio, about 17 inches tall, 13 inches wide, with imprinted acetate jacket that is, as usual, adhering to book covers stripping some color in horizontal lines from the cover illustration. The jacket is also a bit undersized or perhaps it is shrinking. Otherwise, a clean, bright and soundly bound copy with an otherwise undamaged jacket. The original shipping box is included. It has a few dings and dents, but sound with the interior cradle intact.- $475
- $475
Over the River: Project for Arkansas River, State of Colorado [Signed].
Christo and Jean-Claude; photographs by Wolfgang Volz; commentary by Jonathan Henery. Belgium, 2006 Large quarto in light blue cloth stamped in dark blue. Unpaginated, but about 200 pages. SIGNED BY CHRISTO AND JEAN-CLAUDE ON THE TITLE PAGE IN ORANGE. First published in 1998 in paperback in tandem with a book on "The Gates", this edition updates the activity since that time on this still uncompleted project. This hardback edition is a larger format than the original, about 12 x 10 inches. A clean, bright, unworn copy but, while the binding is still sound, the perfect binding is exposed behind the front endpaper. The jacket is crisp and complete but very slightly worn at the tips.- $300
- $300
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History of the French Protestant Refugees from the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes to Our Own Days [Vol. I. Vol. II].
Weiss, M. Charles [Professor of History in the Lycée Bonsparte]. New York, 1836 First Edition. Small Octavo Translated from the French by William Herbert Henry; with an American Appendix by a Descendant of the Huguenots; John F. Trow, Printer and Stereotyper. Detailed Publishers' Advertisement with note of praise and comment as to the excellence of author. A seven page Author's Preface stresses the end of the book is one purely historical, not to revive the irritating controversy or reawaken ancient resentments. Volume I, 382 pages with advertisements; Volume II, 333 pages with Authentic Documents referred to in Justification of the Text for both Volume I and II; pages 335 to 419. Near fine, sturdy condition with only slight bending at top and bottom of spines. Front and back covers blind stamped with initialed crest and edge rules. A very uncommon book. OCLC reports few libraries committed to retain the hard copies- $350
- $350
Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation, Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish , and Fishing . . . .
Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton; Harris Nicolas. London, 1836 Two quarto volumes, about 11 inches tall, in full green Morocco by J. Wright, with elaborately decorative gilt borders on cover, five raised bands with brown spine labels, extra gilt decorated compartments, gilt decorated dentelles. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. A magnificent copy of the first Pickering edition. From the library of R.B. Adam, his oval bookplate with the bust of Samuel Johnson in the center on the front pastedown of volume I. Adam was a significant collector from Buffalo who built the best Johnson collection in America. Light edge wear to the covers; an inconsequential chip to the author spine label of volume I. Irregular foxing in both volumes: moderately heavy here and there but volume I is largely clean and significant parts of volume II are as well. Some offsetting from engravings, occasionally fairly substantial. Some bookseller notes in pencil on verso of the front endpaper.- $3,000
- $3,000
American Harness Racing
Hervey, John; Edwin T. Keller New York, 1949 Quarto, about 12 inches tall, in burgundy calf decorated in gilt, five raised spine bands with horseshoes surrounded by a decorative device in four compartments, decorated dentelles, marbled endpapers. 206 pages illustrated by photographs. LIMITED EDITION, #50 OF 250 COPIES. The first "book" is 115 pages, and is titled "American Harness Horses and Horsemen" by Hervey; the second book, by Keller, completes the book and is titled "American Harness Horses and Horsemen of Today". Inside is clean, bright and sound. The covers have ever so slight extremity wear and a modest abrasion to the lower spine. Otherwise this impressive book is lovely with bright gilt.- $400
- $400
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Old Settlers’ Souvenir Album [Sauk County]
Canfield, William H. Unknown, No Date [1901] Hardback octavo in white cloth with a faux alligator finish. 53 pages plus ads and a portrait of the publisher of the Sauk County Democrat, perhaps the publisher or printer. A scarce early history of an area of south-central Wisconsin, Baraboo being the county seat of Sauk County. Lots of photographic portraits including frontis of the author. An assortment of letters, biographies, minutes of meetings of the Old Settlers' Association. A funeral notice tipped in near the front, and several pages of religious materials by Canfield as well as a pamphlet containing argument on separation of church and state. These extra materials are on different, more acidic, paper but they all appear to have been inserted when the book was bound. Some irregular darkening to the rear covers; extremities modestly worn with the tips worn through to the boards, and the cloth at the front joint (the exterior hinge) is beginning to separate at top and bottom. The binding is sound but the rear endpaper has separation of a couple inches. The extra pages mentioned above are moderately toned. There are, therefore, several flaws, but all are of minor severity.- $350
- $350
Taming of the Sioux
Fiske, Frank Bismarck ND, 1917 Red cloth stamped in gilt on cover with a teepee and a column of smoke pictured on a pastedown along the foredge of the front cover. 186 pages with photographs by the author and drawings by Francis Zahn (Holy Star). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH A SIMPLE PERSONAL INSCRIPTION, IN A SHAKY HAND, DATED 1951. Howes, F155A. Shifflet, p. 162. A short but important look at the end of the Indian Wars in the Dakotas and the period thereafter including the death of Sitting Bull. A bright, sound copy with bumping to the front tips so that boards show through. Otherwise just a touch of edge wear and an old price in red pencil on the front endpaper. The rear pastedown was applied somewhat sloppily, showing a crease.- $750
- $750
YEAGER; An Autobiography.
Yeager, Chuck and Leo Janos New York, 1985 Qctavo, 9 inches, in tan cloth with dark brown spine, 343 pages includes an 8 page index.. Signed on free front endpaper. "General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all...the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound...the World War II fighting ace..." Book signed by him at an annual meeting of Motorola Service Shops, circa 1987 General Yeager died December 7, 2020 at 97 in Los Angeles. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket.- $225
- $225
ANACREON TEIUS, Poeta Lyricus Summa Cura & Diligentia, ad Fidem Etiam Vet. MS. Vatican. Emendatus. Item Anacreontis Vita. Accessere Ormanenti Loco Tres Eleganter-Sculptae. Opera & Studio Josuae Barnes.
Anacreon 12mo. First edition edited by Barnes (a professor of Greek at Cambridge University). (20),lxxv,(37),401,(7)pp. Index. Illustrated with 3 copper engraved folding portraits (the author, the editor, and the Duke of Marlborough). Cont. tooled, paneled calf, rebacked, gilt decorated spine with black morocco label. Front hinge cracked but holding nicely. Engraved bookplate of Edward Conyers, Esq. of Walthamstow, Essex, on front pastedown & the same owner's signature dated 1710 on a blank preliminary. 1710 is the year Conyers (1693-1742) graduated from Oxford. One leaf with a repaired tear (no loss, but a bit discolored). See Dibdin, GREEK & LATIN CLASSICS, 4th ed. Vol. I, p. 260-261.- $350
- $350
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Mrs. Craddock [dated 1903]
William Somerset Maugham 1st printing 1902 but dated 1903 - some of the bound copies of the first printing were allocated for the Colonial edition. They were given a cancel title page stating '1903' instead of the original title page '1902' which was replaced - the idea was that by the time they arrived at the farthest reaches of empire their date remained current - some of these were ultimately issued with no half-title and sold to the Times Book Club with no ads at the rear [see Toole Stott A5a and b.] like this one. In publisher's original petrol blue cloth with titles in gilt to front board and spine and publisher's windmill device stamped to centre of rear board in blind - with fading to spine titles which remain legible however, a little rubbing to spine ends and corners. The binding is sound, tight and square with all page block edges trimmed as required with a hint of spotting. Internally clean with occasioal mark; no inscriptions. A nice copy.- $369
- $369
The Magician
William Somerset Maugham Scarce 1st printing and 1st issue [Toole Stott A11] with collation as required and one of 2100 intended for the home market. In publisher's original river blue cloth with title and author's Islamic arch design to front board and titles to spine all in gilt; publisher's windmill device to rear board in blind - still very good with original spine, nibbled at ends, relaid professionally and inconspicuously; the spine is a little faded and soiled. The binding is therefore entirely sound, tight and square. Internally new endpapers; all else original with occasional light mark or stain; there are no inscriptions; 3 pages of publisher's ads following main text at rear as required. Uncommon.- $1,064
- $1,064
The Merry-go-round
William Somerset Maugham Very scarce 1st printing, 1st issue of the author's 5th novel [Toole Stott A7 - there were only 3000 copies] in publisher's original dark petrol blue cloth with titles to spine in gilt and titles and Islamic arch motif stamped to front board in gilt and publisher's windmill logo to rear board in blind - with original spine professionally and inconspicuously re-laid and with original eps retained. There is a little unevenness of colour at front and rear boards.The binding is entirely sound, tight and square with top edge of page block cut and the other two rough trimmed as required. Internally the front flyleaf appears to be absent; the gutters of both eps are split but there is absolutely no movement and there are no inscriptions, bookplates or marks. Book presented now in a clear, removable, acetate cover- $2,056
- $2,056
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The Complete Short Stories [3 volumes all 1st printings]
W. Somerset Maugham 3 volumes, all 1st printings - in recent half morocco with leather corners and with 5 raised bands, black title labels and gilt titles and ruling with publication date at base to each spine. The boards of the original publisher's binding have been retained with titles stamped in gilt towards top and publisher's Islamic arch logo at bottom right hand corner of front board in blind. All bindings remain fresh, clean and bright and the joints are completely unworn. All bindings are sound, tight and square with just a little light spotting to the leading page block edge of volume 3. Internally there are no marks or inscriptions, bookplates or anything else and each volume has matching and very attractive marbled endpapers. A lovely 1st edition set that would grace any library. 1st printings are becoming increasingly uncommon.- $1,404
- $1,404
A Gun For Sale
Graham Greene 1st printing in publisher's original red cloth with titles to spine in gilt - all still fresh, clean and bright with a hint only of lightening to spine. The binding is sound, tight and square. Internally clean and fresh with no inscriptions or other marks. A very nice copy.- $1,253
- $1,253
Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh 1st printing, 1st state with the original names Martin Gaythorn-Brodie and Kevin Saunderson respectively on pages 168 and 169 in publisher's original snake skin patterned red/black cloth with titles in gilt to spine - all still fresh, clean and bright. The binding is sound, tight and square. Internally clean with all illustrative plates by the author present and no inscriptions with the occasional light stain or light diffuse foxing. A very nice copy.- $1,360
- $1,360
The Confidential Clerk: A Play
T.S. Eliot 1st printing in publisher's original mid-blue cloth with titles in gilt to spine - all still fresh, clean and bright. The binding is sound, tight and square. Internally clean and fresh with author's signature to title page with no further inscription. The unclipped, 1st state dust jacket [with 10/6 on front flap at lower end] is complete and still generally bright with just a tiny amount of nibbling at top spine and fold ends and a little fading at spine. A very nice copy.- $2,001
- $2,001
OBSERVATIONS PHYSIQUES ET MATHEMATIQUES: POUR SERVIR A L’HISTOIRE NATURELLE & A LA PERFECTION DE L’ASTRONOMIE & DE LA GEOGRAPHIE: Envoyees de Siam a l’Academie Royale des Sciences a Paris, par les Peres Jesuites Francois Qui Vont a la Chine en Qualite de Mathematiciens du Roy.
Gouye, Thomas 8vo. (8),278,(6)pp. With the leaf of approbation and the 2 leaves of index at back. With 3 copper engraved folding plates, illustrating the author's dissection of a crocodile. Original mottled calf, gilt spine in six compartments. Spine extremities worn and front hinge starting, but quite sound. Front free endpaper lacking. Small paper repair on a blank portion of the title, likely removing the name of a previous owner, and a small repair at the bottom blank margin of pp. 33/34. Some occasional text foxing. This is the scarce first edition of Jesuit scholar Gouye's (1650-1725) first book, a report of his scientific observations made on his voyage and stay in Siam before traveling on to China. He makes observations on the animals of Siam, on eclipses, mathematical calculations of latitude & longitude, and geography. Currently there is no other copy for sale on-line. The last auction record was 2004 (2,160 GBP). There is one copy (2 listings but the same copy) of his second report of his observations published in 1692, a briefer work of 113pp., for $15,000. DeBaker & Sommervogel III, columns 1640-1641. Cordier. INDOSINICA 949.- $6,500
- $6,500
Ninety-Two in the Shade
McGuane, Thomas New York, 1973 First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover. Octavo. 197pp. Top edge stained red. Signed by author on title page and dated 1992. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The author's third novel and the basis of a 1975 movie of the same name directed by him.- $250
- $250
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CRITICISMS ON THE ROLLIAD. [By Joseph Richardson and others]. The Ninth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged
Rolliad 2 parts bound in one. 164;iv,136,8pp. Engraved frontis. and large engraved vignette on title. Contemporary tree calf, ornately gilt spine with red calf spine label; extremities a bit rubbed. Part I is the ninth edition (1791) and Part II is the third edition (1790). A collection of Whig political satires directed against William Pitt and his followers. The two parts are usually found separately.- $150
- $150
The Raven, Le Corbeau
Poe, Edgar Allan New York, 1968 A facsimile of the 1875 edition of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe with French translation (into English) by Stephane Mallarme and illusttrations by Edouard Manet. Copy number 119 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Slim quarto. Hard cover. Unpaginated but 32pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket.- $225
- $225
Oölogy of New England: A Description of the Eggs, Nests and Breeding Habits of the Birds Known to Breed in New England with Coloured Illustrations of Their Eggs.
Capen (Elwin A.) Tall folio (10 1/2 x 14ins, 270 x 375mm). Text and plates loose and unbound (see below) in original black cloth box, small splits, a little rubbed, but very good. pp 116. "25 full page plates of eggs, representing several hundred, beautifully coloured. Notably complete and good". ( Bennett, American Nineteenth Century Colour Plate Books). The dramatic colour printed plates show 323 eggs, decoratively arranged on each plate with ruled border and captioned, most images far larger than usual, and printed on a straw-coloured or very light-green card stock. This has become a scarce book, and is the first copy I have seen in many years. Quite the largest format of its sort and the only one on American Birds Eggs. The Finest Possible Copy. " This magnificent volume. has long been out of print. Last Summer amongst the effects of the late E.A Capen a few copies of this valuable work, uncut, untrimmed and unbound, but each copy assembled and wrapped ready for the binder were unearthed, and. the undersigned secured them. The few copies I possess are being distributed among my old. friends." From the label affixed to the top of the box, in the name of Frank H. Lattin M.D., Albion. N.Y.- $2,026
- $2,026
Statutes of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire 1957. Together with: Service of Dedication in St Paul’s Cathedral, Wednesday 22 May 1974.
Order of the British Empire: 2 items folio (8 1/2 x 11ins, 215 x 285mm) original maroon stiff card covers, gilt and in fine condition. Statutes: pp67, 7 monochrome plates. 3 letters to Richard Gronow Hinks MBE from the Registrar of the OBE concerning fund raising and dedication of the chapel in St Pauls, signed receipt of One Pound's donation (the maximum permitted) to the funds of the chapel. Service: pp2 p printed red and black, coloured frontispiece and plate. With invitation and dress and transport instructions.- $109
- $109
New Year’s In Sokolniki
Kononov, A Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Ca 1954 Stapled in wraps. 11 1/4" by 8 1/2" Twelve pages including three full page b/w illustrations by N. Zhukov. Very good. A publication of the Soviet Children's Library For Tiny Tots which tells a story of V.I. Lenin visiting an orphanage outside of Moscow and delivering presents and good cheer. Propaganda in the form of a thinly veiled retelling of the Santa Claus folk tale.- $125
- $125
THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE. Edited by W. E. Henley
Shakespeare, William Folio. 10 volumes. Each volume with a fine frontispiece with tissue guard. Large vignette on each title. Finely printed in an edition of 1,000 copies, signed by the publisher, on fine paper, with deckle fore-edge. Bound in half dark green morocco over dark green cloth. Gilt spines with 5 raised bands. T.e.g. A very attractive set, but for a few covers being a bit bowed. This fine set is referred to as the Constable Edition or the Edinburgh Folio Edition.- $750
- $750
THE WORKS OF SALLUST, Translated into English. With Political Discourses Upon That Author. To Which Is Added, a Translation of Cicero’s Four Orations Against Catiline. By Thomas Gordon
Sallustius Crispus, Caius 4to. 2 parts in 1. xvi,xviii,202;viv,336,(10)pp. Index. Cont. half calf, spine decorated in blind & gilt, with brown calf spine label, over marbled boards (a bit darkened). Cont. inked signatures of 2 previous owners on title page. The scarce first edition of this translation. The title page is not dated (in all copies). The date of 1744 is assumed from "the evidence of" Sept. 3, 1743 printed at the end of the dedication of Volume 2.- $450
- $450
PICCADILLY IN THREE CENTURIES. With Some Account of Berkeley Square and the Haymarket
Dasent, Arthur Irwin 8vo. vi,(vi),318,(6)pp. The final 4 pages being ads. Index. Illustrated with 11 plates, and further "Extra-Illustrated" with 71 plates (5 in color); portraits, facsimiles and views, some inlaid or mounted. Fine copy in full tan polished morocco, with ornately gilt pine and two colored morocco spine labels. T.e.g. Bookplate of J. L. and E. B. Ketterlinus of Philadelphia. Binding signed by Riviere.- $650
- $650
DICTIONARY, PERSIAN, ARABIC, AND ENGLISH; With a Dissertation on the Languages, Literature and Manners of Eastern Nations. A New Edition, with Numerous Additions and Improvements by Charles Wilkins
Richardson, John. A. 2 volumes. Lg. 4to. xcvi,1157,(1);(4),xxiv,853,(3)pp. Double column text. With the leaf of ads at the back of Volume II (a tape repair to a blank portion of the leaf), and the half-title in Volume II (no half-title required in Volume I). Cont. calf boards, quite rubbed & worn, calf chipped along the edges and some corners. Both volumes nicely rebacked with red morocco spine labels. A number of old rubber stamps of the Mercantile Library New York, who sold off their books in the 1970s. Each volume with an old inscription of a preliminary blank from one Joseph Wolff to his friend J. King. Very scarce. The greatly revised "New Edition" with extensive revisions by the great orientalist Charles Wilkins (Richardson died in 1795). The work was originally printed in 2 folio volumes in 1777-1780 in Oxford. Richardson also wrote A SPECIMEN OF PERSIAN POETRY (1774), and both an Arabic Grammar (1776) and a Persian Grammar (1771). The first volume is Arabic and Persian words translated to English, and the second volume English words translated to Arabic and Persian.- $2,000
- $2,000
Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Ichtyologie. Dédié et présenté à M. Necker, Ministre d’Etat, & Directeur Général des Finances.
BONNATERRE, Abbé. Première édition, in-4; lvi, 215p.; 102 planches gravées en taille douce, en beau tirage, représentant 413 poissons. Jolie reliure moderne en demi-veau bronze, dos à nerfs orné de filets et roulettes dorées, et de petits fers à froid, plats et gardes marbrés. Traces de mouillures en marge extérieure du volume, n'affectant pas le texte ni la gravure, ayant entraîné une fragilisation du papier sur quelques cahiers. La partie "Ichtyologie" de l'Encyclopédie Panckoucke, qui forme un panorama descriptif des principales espèces de poissons alors recensées, remarquablement illustrée de 102 belles planches gravées en taille-douce.- $1,278
- $1,278
THE POETICAL WORKS OF LORD BYRON with Explanatory Notes and a Life of the Author, by Thomas Moore. Illustrated with Numerous Fine Steel Engravings Embracing the Principal Female Characters, Landscape and Historical Subjects. First Quarto Edition Complete in One Volume
Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord Lg. 4to. (2),ii,xxviii,(5)-740pp. Double column text. Plus a frontispiece portrait, added engraved title and 38 steel engraved plates (each with a tissue guard). Bound in full 20th c. gilt decorated polished green calf. A.e.g. Some foxing of outer leaves and occasional light foxing of the plates (mostly in the blank outer margins). A lovely edition.- $200
- $200