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First Edition - Ansel Adams - A Superb Copy Yosemite and the Range of Light

Adams, Ansel. YOSEMITE AND THE RANGE OF LIGHT (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979) First edition. 116 photos. Oblong folio, half red buckram and black cloth, in the dustjacket and publisher’s original shipping box. An excellent copy in mint condition, utterly pristine and as issued, in the original shipping and protective box.

The Basis for the Study of the Greek Language One of the Greatest Renaissance Contributions - Budé - 1548 - Estienne - Commentarii Linguae Graecae...

Budé, Guillaume. COMMENTARII LINGUAE GRAECAE ... Ab eodem accuratè recogniti, atque amplius tertia parte aucti (Paris: Robert Estienne, 23 December, 1548) With Fine Provenance.

The first issuance of the definitive and best edition, enlarged by more than a third from the original. Estienne device [Schreiber 10] on title; foliated Greek initials. Folio, bound in full 18thcentury sprinkled calf, the covers with fine double fillet border lines gilt, the spine beautifully presented with raised bands gilt stopped, the compartments with fine panel designs some elaborately decorated in fully gilt presentations and others with tooled borders and central ornamental pieces, red morocco let-

Burnaby’s Important Central Asian Travels A Ride to Khiva Handsome Contemporary Calf

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Burnaby, Fred. A RIDE TO KHIVA: TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN CENTRAL ASIA (London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., n.d.)

Early popular edition. Small 4to, three-quarter contemporary brown calf stamped with floral border in blind over feathered boards, spine in compartments separated by gilt rule and tooling, red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt. A handsome and sturdy copy, internally quite fresh and clean.

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ONE OF THE TWO GREAT BOOKS TO BRING ANSEL ADAMS’ EXTRAORDINARY WORK TO THE ATTENTION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC. The collection of photographs, beautifully presented, draws from work that the photographer collected and assembled through years of travels into the Yosemite region.

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Price: $6500.

tering label gilt. In this copy the colophon leaf has been bound at the beginning, before the title. A superior copy beautifully preserved, the covers in excellent condition, the back sometime renewed brilliantly to style, with the manuscript ownership entry of Gouye de Longuemarre.

A RARE AND IMPORTANT PRINTING OF THIS GREAT RENAISSANCE MASTERWORK. The definitive and best edition with extensive use of the “grecs du roi,” enlarged from notes left by Budé, of one of the greatest Renaissance contributions to the study of Greek antiquity, and the book which was directly responsible for the foundation of the Collège de France.

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Price: $395.

AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THIS SCARCE WORK OF CENTRAL ASIAN TRAVEL. Burnaby’s famous journey on horseback from St. Petersburg to Khiva during the winter of 18751876 in what is now Uzbekistan, which had just lately been closed to travellers. While the author calls this a travelogue of his journeys through Russia, he was primarily concerned with Russia’s expansion through Central Asia.

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Burns’ Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect The Kilmarnock Edition - The Fine Facsimile of 1927 With Prospectus An Excellent Copy in the Original Slipcase

Burns, Robert. POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT. (Kilmarnock [but Glasgow]: By John Wilson, [but, John Smith and Son], 1786, [but, 1927]) 2 volumes. First Edition of this exact facsimile of the true and very rare first edition. An exact facsimile of the original Kilmarnock Edition. This copy also includes the rare prospectus for the work, issued on heavy paper and printed as the book. 8vo, publisher’s original blue paper wrappers, in blue paper covered slipcase printed on the front in dark blue and with a printed paper label on the spine. An excellent, unusually fine copy, essentially mint and pristine and with the prospectus

Wright’s Early Biography of Burton Two Volumes - Original Cloth Scarce First Edition

[Burton] Wright, Thomas. THE LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON (London: Everett and Co., 1906) 2 volumes. First Edition, First Issue. With 64 illustrations and maps, including photographic and facsimile reproductions. 8vo, original red ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, and decorated with gilt bands at the head and tail. A fine, well preserved copy

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mint as well, the wrappers essentially as new but for very minor sunning to the blue paper at the spine, almost always the case, the slipcase with only some minor wear along the top edge and some light mellowing.

A complete and scrupulously produced facsimile issue of the very rare first Kilmarnock edition of Scotland’s national poet. Copies of the first pressing of Burns’ beloved poems are notoriously rare and command significant five figure sums in the marketplace. For most of us, this exact facsimile is the closest we can hope to get.

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Byron, George Gordon, Lord. CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE. A Romance (London: John Murray, 1841) First edition with the illustrations. With 61 very fine engravings on steel and one fold-out map all by W. Finden. Thick 8vo, luxuriously bound

by Tout in dark turquoise-blue morocco, the covers and spine with elaborate all over gilt arabesque decorations and corner tooling, the spine with raised bands separating the compartments, lettered and richly gilt designs, edges with double gilt fillet rules, elaborate gilt turnovers. A very fine and beautiful

Curae Posteriores and the Latinite Mediae 1681 and 1682 - In Antique Vellum Scarce

Cellarius, Christophori. CURAE POSTERIORES DE BARBARISMIS ET IDIOTISMIS SERMONIS LATINI..., [Bound with] DE LATINITATE MEDIAE ET INFIMAE AETATIS LIBER, SIVE ANTIBARBARUS, Recognitus Denuo et Innumeris locis Auctus (Ienae (Jena): Io. Bielckii, 1680 [and] 1682) Two books bound as one. Second edition of the Curae Posteriores and second edition of the Latinitate Mediae. With the engraved pictorial title dated 1680. 12mo, handsomely bound in contemporary antique vellum with yap edges. A very fine and proper copy, unusually well preserved. Rare thus.

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Cotton, Charles. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS (London: printed for Thos. Basset, 1689) First edition. 8vo, bound in full contemporary calf. A desirable copy in this rare period binding.

RARE FIRST EDITION ISSUED IN 1689. Including, on page 14, a poem dedicated to “my dear and most worthy friend,” Isaac Walton.

Cotton and Walton co-authored what is perhaps the most famous fishing book of all time, entitled THE COMPLEAT ANGLER. Cot-

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De Amicis, Edmondo. CONSTANTINOPLE Translated from the Fifteenth Italian Edition by Maria Hornor Lansdale (Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, 1896) 2 volumes. First edition, first impression and first of the translation. Wonderfully illustrated with 50 photogravure plates from original photographs and with a folding map. 8vo, publisher’s beautiful crimson-red cloth exquisitely decorated in gilt in all-over designs, the upper covers and spine in a fine and delicate Turkish motif, t.e.g., red ribbon markers bound in. In the rare original red cloth dustjackets backed with stiff paper and gilt lettered on the spines. A very fine set, quite exceptional, the books pristine and perfect and as

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SCARCE AND IMPORTANT EARLY PRINTING FROM JENA. Two works bound together on the study of Latin by one of the most learned philologists of the 17th century. Christopher Cellarius studied at several German universities, he taught moral philosophy and the Oriental languages at Weissenfels. In 1673, he was made rector of the school at Weimar, and afterwards of the seminaries at Zeitz and Merseburg, and, finally, professor of eloquence and history at Halle, where he died in 1707. He is also noted for being the first person to divide Western history into the Ancient, Medieval and New periods, and in doing so creating the term “Middle Ages”.

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Price: $2150.

ton’s reputation as a burlesque writer may account for the neglect his poems were met with in the 18th and 19th centuries, but their excellence was not, however, overlooked by good critics. Coleridge praises the purity and unaffectedness of his style in the ‘Biographia Literaria’, and Wordsworth gave a copious quotation from the ‘Ode to Winter’. The ‘Retirement’ is printed by Walton in the second part of the Compleat Angler.

Constantinople - Wonderfully Illustrated - 1896 - Two Vols Virtually As Mint in Original Gilt Decorated Cloth

Price: $2500.

copy in a luxurious, very bright and clean. Some very light, quite unobtrusive and only occasional foxing.

A SUPERB AND EXTREMELY APPEALING COPY of Lord Byron’s classic poetic work. This volume, profusely illustrated by one of the best known steel-engravers in London, is a visual treat.

Through the viewing of the illustrations, the reader is able to travel through Albania, Spain, Porugal, Greece, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy enjoying through the lyrical voice of the poet and also through the evocative illustrations.

Charles Cotton - Poems on Several Occasions - 1689 The Biography and Typography of William Caxton

Price: $950.

with only a bit of age mellowing to the bindings and some occasional internal aging.

RARE FIRST EDITION and a fine early biography of Burton with excellent scholarship and profuse illustration. Now quite scarce.

Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimmage Exquisitely Bound and Illustrated With Superb Engravings

Price: $275.

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Price: $395.

mint and unused, the rare jackets very fine as well though with a touch of bleed from damp to the upper and lower edges of the dust-jacket spine panels and to the upper corners of the first four preliminary leaves of Vol. I. The books, other than the initial four preliminary leaves noted have not been affected.

RARE IN THIS CONDITION, AN ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL SET IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH DUSTJACKETS. CONSTANTINOPLE is an account of De Amicis travels through Constantinople giving especial attention to the people and modern life in this ancient city.

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First Edition Charles Dickens - Master Humphrey’s Clock

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‘Don Quixote’ With the Heroic Illustrations of Gustave Doré

Item Number: 11 Price: $1850.

The First Book Forms of Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop - Handsomely Bound at the Time

In a Handsome Full Morocco Binding, Gilt Decorated

Dickens, Charles. MASTER HUMPHREY’S CLOCK (being, OLD CURIOSITY SHOP and BARNABY RUDGE) (London: Chapman and Hall, 1840, 1841) 3 volumes. First edition. With 198 drawings by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Royal 8vo, bound in handsome period three-quarter tan calf over marbled boards, the spines very handsomely decorated with wide raised bands gilt decorated, compartments decorated with gilt panel designs incorporating fine central ornamental pieces, two compartments gilt lettered over maroon morocco labels. A handsome

[Doré, illus.] Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel. THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE... (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, [c. 1870]) A very early issue of this wonderfully illustrated Cervantes. With 118 spectacular illustrations by by Gustave Doré. Royal 4to, in a very fine, English binding of deluxe dark green morocco, the covers ornately framed in gilt featuring thick beautifully roll-tooled band-, frame- and panel-work surrounded by multi-ruled gilt lines with small rosette corners gilt, inner ruled in blind and gilt, the spine very richly gilt decorated in compartments between wide gilt-ruled raised bands, the compartments feature fine and

Edmund Dulac’s Fairy Book With the Full Compliment of Colourplates

Dulac, Edmund, Ilus. EDMUND DULAC’S FAIRY-BOOK: Fairy Tales (London: Hodder and Stroughton, [N.D., circa 1920s) An early reprint of the 1919 deluxe edition with the full compliment of 16 plates. With 16 beautiful tipped in colour plates by Edmund Dulac and with a decorated titlepage and lower page edges. The original printing of 1916 had only 15 plates. Small 4to, publisher’s blue ribbed cloth, the spine gilt lettered, the upper cover paneled in blind, decorated endpapers and free-flies. A very handsome copy, the text-block fine and very well preserved, the plates all

The Town - William Faulkner - 1957 A Fine Copy of the First Edition

Faulkner, William. THE TOWN (New York: Random House, 1957) First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth in the pictorial dustjacket. A fine, bright and very handsome copy, very minimal mellowing to the spine panel.

FIRST EDITION. Faulkner’s second novel about the Snopes

and well preserved set, internally quite clean and fresh with very little aging, the bindings in a fine state of preservation.

According to Eckel, this work was published in four distinct forms: in 88 weekly parts, 30 montly parts, a three-volume edition, and in separately bound volumes of the two stories, “The Old Curiosity Shop” and “Barnably Rudge.” “In the latter form,” he states, “all the extraneous ‘Clock’ matter had been expunged, but was retained in the other forms of publication.” The three volume sets have become scarce indeed and especially so in such a fine state of preservation.

elaborate gilt panel work incorporated multiple tools, one compartment lettered in gilt. A very handsome and sturdy copy, internally fresh with only a bit of very occasional minor spotting, much less then typically found, the binding is very strong and well preserved, beautiful and of fine craftsmanship.

AN UNUSUALLY HANDSOME COPY. VERY SCARCE IN SUCH WELL PRESERVED CONDITION. Gustave Doré was one of the greatest illustrators of his day. His grand and magnificent style is a perfect complement for Cervantes heroic tale. This massive tome is one of our favorite printings of the Spanish classic.

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The Greatest Historical Work Ever Undertaken - Four Volumes - Handsome Contemporary Bindings Gilt

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3 Volumes in Original Bindings - Exemplary Condition

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and the havoc they wreak on the town of Jefferson. This novel is a Faulkner classic, manifesting many of the themes of the American South which first made their appearance in Faulkner’s early career, and which are partly derived from the author’s experience of the Great Depression.

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Price: $895.

THIS IS A VERY PLEASING, HANDSOME AND QUITE ELUSIVE SET OF THE GREATEST HISTORICAL WORK EVER UNDERTAKEN. It was in Italy while “musing amid the ruins of the Capital” that Gibbon formed the plan of his history. Originally published in six volumes from 1776 to 1788, Gibbon’s fine scholarship has remained for the most part unchallenged. The work’s numerous reprintings throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are evidence of its popularity and historical accuracy.

Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. [Carlyle, Thomas, Translator].

WILHELM MEISTER’S APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAVELS. From the German of Goethe. (London: Chapman and Hall, Strand, 1842) 3 volumes. New Edition, Revised and Thomas Carlyle’s First Book. 8vo, publisher’s original dark green blindstamped cloth, lettered in gilt on the spines and decorated in blind on the covers. An unusually fine, clean, bright set. Especially well preserved.

A FINE EDITION OF THIS MASTERWORK AND AN IMPOR-

Price: $245.

pristine, the blue cloth clean and bright, the binding with only the most minimal evidence of age.

ONE OF EDMUND DULAC’S MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOKS. Dulac’s FAIRY BOOK...represented a real tour de force for the illustrator. For each fairy tale, Dulac adapted his style to each country included--Japan, Serbia, Italy, Belgium, France, England and Russia-demonstrating his profound empathy with a variety of different ages and cultures. The selection of cultures represented were those of the allied nations as of 1916.

Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Gibbon, Edward. THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. (Halifax: William Millner, 1845) 4 volumes. An attractive and very elusive early 19th century printing of this classic work Illustrated with 4 folding maps.

8vo, bound in contemporary three-quarter dark-blue calf over textured cloth boards, spines in 6 compartments with raised bands gilt decorated, morocco labels lettered in gilt, marbled endleaves. A very pleasing and well preserved set of this elusive printing. The bindings are handsome and strong, the text-blocks are clean, crisp and very readable. A handsome set.

Price: $1650.

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Price: $450.

TANT TRANSLATION BY THOMAS CARLYLE. In WILHELM MEISTER Goethe again took up the novel form. It is full of not only realistic detail, but as well, poetic allegory. Wilhelm Meister was considered not so much “an illustration of the author’s life-philosophy as a lay-figure on which he demonstrates his views. [It] is a work of extraordinary variety, ranging from the commonplace...to poetic romanticism.... Of all Goethe’s works, this exerted the most immediate and lasting influence on German literature; it served as a model for the best fiction of the next thirty years” (Britannica).

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Thomas Gray’s Poems and Letters

Beautifully Printed, Bound and Illustrated Early Printed Photographs Tipped In - 1867 - London

Gray, Thomas; [Chiswick Press]. POEMS AND LETTERS (London: The Chiswick Press, 1867) First Edition. Illustrated with four original sepia toned photographs, mounted. 4to, beautifully bound in fine full red morocco, the covers with triple gilt fillet lines at the borders, the spine richly gilt incorporating central floral tools within elaborate panel designs, the compartments separated by raised bands gilt ruled, one compartment lettered in gilt, finely tooled gilt turnovers. A fine copy, fresh and clean internally and with the binding in fine order.

In Our Time - Published 1925 - First Edition Hemingway’s First Great Book of Stories

Hemingway, Ernest. IN OUR TIME (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925) First Printing of the First American Edition and First Trade Edition published for the general market. It is preceded only by a very limited number (170) that were produced in Paris prior to this printing. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover and with gilt geometric decorations on the upper cover. A good copy, the text with evidence of old light and quite unobtrusive damp at the lower outside corner, but otherwise clean and solid. The cloth

David Hume’s Great History of England - 1846 A Rare One Volume Edition Grandly Bound

Hume, David and Smollett, T[homas]. THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND... (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846) A very attractive edition complete in one volume. With two fine engraved portraits, one of Hume as frontispiece and one of Smollett. Large, thick 4to, regally bound with Tudor roses and crowns in contemporary red morocco harking back to the Regency period. The covers with multiple gilt fillet borders, the inner with large ornate cornerpieces, this surrounding a central gilt device of a coronet and Tudor rose on the upper cover and coronet and portcullis on the lower, the spine incorporating both rose and portcullis coronets again in the uppermost and lowermost of six floral gilt decorated

S.K. Hutton - Among the Eskimos of Labrador

First Edition - A Fine and Handsome Copy - 1912

Hutton, S.K. AMONG THE ESKIMOS OF LABRADOR: A Record of Five Years’ Close Intercourse With the Eskimo Tribes of Labrador (London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1912) First edition.

With 47 illustrations from photographs on plates, 2 maps, one of which is colour and folding. 8vo, publisher’s original charcoal grey cloth, lettered and decorated with a pictorial vignette on the upper cover and spine in sky-blue. A fine copy, bright and beautifully preserved, both inside and out.

Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language With Johnson’s Great Preface - A Lexicographical Wonder The Last of the Great Two Volume Folio Editions And the Last Edition Published in Johnson’s Lifetime

Johnson, Samuel. A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE... (London: by W. & A. Strahan for W. Strahan, J. F. & C. Rivington [and others], 1784) 2 volumes. The Fifth edition, retaining Johnson’s famous advertisement to the fourth. With the provenance of Alexander Speirs of Elderslie House, Scottish politician. Titlepages printed in red and black. Royal folio (420 X 263mm), in a handsome contemporary binding of full tree calf framed with an ornate border of vines with flowers and grapes or berries, expertly rebacked to very proper period style featuring raised bands ruled with thistle motif gilt bands, these repeated at the head and tails, contrasting red and green morocco labels gilt

The Works of Ben Jonson In Elusive Period Jonson, Ben. THE WORKS OF BEN JONSON... (London: Printed Calf in Original State for J. Walthoe, M. Wotton. . . J. Tonson, and W. Innys, 1716) 6 volumes. Early antiquarian edition. Adorned with frontispieces - 1716 - London and plates, including a portrait in Volume I. 8vo, bound in fine period polished calf in very pleasing and handsome style, the spines with raised bands and lettering on contrasting red and

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BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED AT THE CHISWICK PRESS AND WITH THE ADDITION OF FOUR VERY EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS TIPPED IN. Included is Thomas Grays masterpiece, one of the best-loved eighteenth-century English poems, and certainly among the most influential single works of poetry -- “An Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard”. Additionally there are a profusion of the other poems as well as notes on the poems. Forty five of Gray’s letters are also included.

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Price: $950.

with fading to the gilt on the upper cover and the gilt faded out on the spine panel as is often times the case.

Hemingway’s first book of stories other than a work which only contained three, this is also only his second published book, and the first that was published for the general trade audience. Fewer than 1400 copies of this book were published. It was influenced, as was THREE STORIES AND TEN POEMS (1923) by Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, while spokespersons for the “Lost Generation.

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Price: $795.

and framed compartments, one compartment gilt lettered and additional gilt lettering at the tail. A very handsome and collectible copy, very finely bound, the binding strong and sturdy with just a bit of expected and attractive age evidence, the text fine and fresh with only a little spotting at the prelims and to the paper used for the portrait plates, that of Hume with a bit of light marginal staining not affecting the image.

FIRST OF THE EDITION. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT HISTORICAL WORK, RARE IN ONE VOLUME FORMAT. It is especially unusual to discover a copy so firm and sturdy and in a binding clearly made for a gentleman of considerable wealth and importance.

Item Number: 19 Price: $495.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE WORK, SCARCE IN SUCH NICE CONDITION and a very early study of the Innuit people dwelling along the ice-laden coast of Labrador. Hutton was a missionary who lived with the eskimos for a number of years. “I called them my neighbours, not only because they lived close by, but because they showed kindness to me; and I have pictured them as I found them...” [p. 21]. A unique, enjoyable, and uncommon narrative.

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lettered. A very attractive set, the text solid and quite fresh, clean with only extremely minor and occasional evidence of aging to the leaves, discrete evidence of old damp at the bottom outside corners of Vol.II, often near invisible.

A VERY HANDSOME SET OF THE FIFTH EDITION, which is a reprint of the fourth, the last in which Johnson had any involvement. TEXTUALLY, THE FOURTH IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE BEST EDITION of Johnson’s great work and THE MOST IMPORTANT EDITION AFTER THE FIRST. This edition is the last to be printed in Johnson’s lifetime and is also the last of the two volume folio editions.

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Price: $1250.

green morocco labels. A fine handsome set and rare in this condition, the joints sometime refurbished.

SCARCE EARLY PRINTING HANDSOMELY BOUND. A beautiful presentation of one of the English language’s greatest writers. Jonson of course is most remembered for his plays and poetry.

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A Leaf from the Editio Princeps “King James” Bible Exodus XXIV XXVI

[King James Bible], [1611 Bible]. A LEAF FROM THE 1611 KING JAMES BIBLE, a Leaf From EXODUS containing part of Chapter XXIV, all of Chapter XXV and part of XXVI ([London: Robert Barker, 1611]) A single leaf from the First Edition or the Editio Princeps of the King James’ Bible. Printed double-column with headlines and chapter lines, this leaf with a fine six line ornamental capital initial on one side and a fine five line capital initial on the other, text within woodcut rules, in both gothic and roman letter. Royal Folio, single leaf. A very well preserved leaf, with

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virtually no wear and only the lightest of discoloration along the inner margin.

A LEAF IN PERFECT CONDITION FROM THE BOOK OF EXODUS FROM THE EDITIO PRINCEPS OF KING JAMES’ BIBLE, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE ‘AUTHORIZED’ VERSION, A LANDMARK OF PRINTING AND THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL ENGLISH BIBLES. The King James Bible was described by W. A. Jackson as “perhaps the single most important influence upon the development of English prose style.”

Beautiful Artwork Celebrating Classical Greek Images From LaBorde’s Precious Collection des Vases Grecs One of the Rarer Images Featuring Shading and Depth

LaBorde, Alexander De; [Antiquities; Greek Art]. VASE N. 24 [and] VASE N. 25 [An Original Colour Aquatint Plate From] Collection Des Vases Grecs by De M. Le Compte De Lamberg Expliquee Et Publiee Par Alexander De LaBorde (Paris: Imprimerie De Jules Didot Aine, 1813-1824) From the first edition of this monumental work on classical art. An original aquatint printed in terracotta-red and black over a white background. This plate, XL of volume II, is one of the finest plates of the collection. It represents two juxtaposed, black-glazed vases, a terracotta-figured

Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice With James Linton’s Illustrations

[Linton, Illus.] Shakespeare, [William]. SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDY OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (London: Hodder & Stroughton, ca.1910) First Edition. With 36 tipped-in colourplate illustrations by James D. Linton. 4to, publisher’s original sea-green cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover. A bright clean and handsome copy with some light unobtrusive mellowing at the spine panel.

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Milne, A.A. [A Set of the Four WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG; WINNIE THE POOH; NOW WE ARE SIX; THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER (London: Methuen & Co. LTD., 1934) 4 volumes. First Cheap Edition. Fine, detailed, original illustrations by Ernest Shepard, on virtually every page. 8vo, original publisher’s bright blue cloth, pictorially illustrated and lettered in black on spine and upper board. All four dustjackets are printed on blue paper and illustrated with all over designs after drawings by Ernest Shepard. Very well preserved and clean copies of all four books, the dustjackets with some mild

Mollien’s Travels in Africa Early Imprint With Map and Engravings

Mollien, Gaspard Theodore. TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA... (London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co., 1820) First edition in English. With a large folding map, stippleengraved frontispiece and six uncoloured aquatint plates. 4to, contemporary three-quarterhalf calf over marbled boards, lettered in gilt on the spine. A fine copy, very bright and crisp and quite clean but for some typical spotting here and there, the

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Nixon, Mima. ROYAL PALACES AND GARDENS With an Introductory Essay by Dion Clayton Calthrop, Author of ‘The Charm of Gardens’ (London: A. & C. Black, 1916) First Edition, DELUXE LIMITED EDITION of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by artist Mima Nixon. With 60 very fine and beautiful tipped-in colourplates by Irish watercolourist Mima Nixon. 4to, publisher’s original white cloth decorated on the upper cover and spine in the motif of a stylized garden gate in black and red, gilt lettered on both the cover and spine as well, in the very rare original pink paper jacket. A superb, bright and fine copy, the white cloth especially well preserved, the rare jacket very attractive and with

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FIRST EDITION. Linton’s stylish illustrations beautifully fill out this classic work. A pleasing marriage of a wonderful play and story and beautiful illustrations in colour from the period of great English colourplate illustration and bookmaking.

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Price: $950.

aging or evidence of use, primarily at the tips and edges, light age mellowing.

FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, THE FIRST “CHEAP” EDITION, IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS. These charming children’s classics contains delicately detailed illustrations and some of the most beloved stories of all time. From the first poem or story to the last drawing, the reader is transported to another world of imagination and youthful play.

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Price: $1950.

antique spine sometime expertly restored, inner front hinge with paper support.

This volume is filled with the author’s descriptions of history, geography, animals, religion, culture and his experiences in tribal kingdoms. Mollien got to know the peoples of various tribes in equatorial Africa, as well as their royalty.

Royal Palaces and Gardens - Exquisitely Illustrated in Colour A Superb Deluxe Copy in the Very Rare Dustjacket

Price: $1300.

warrior is seen on the left vase, while a terracotta-figured griffon in an ornate border is seen on the vase to the right. The plate is numbered and each vase is captioned. Folio captioned sheet measuring 22.5” x 16.5”, the two vases are each over 9” tall.

ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE PLATES OF THE COLLECTION, this plates features two full views of vases, providing a sense of depth and grace far deeper then the typically flat images associated with this famous work.

All Four of the Timeless Pooh Books A.A. Milne and E. Shepard - Cherished

by Young and Old

Price: $550.

Item Number: 27

Price: $895.

some light edge-wear or evidence of age and a small chip, the text bright and clean, one small unobtrusive fold line to a corner of one plate, the limitation page with its number traced over in a later hand by a 1926 owner who has also signed the page just beneath the artist’s partially expunged signature.

SCARCE LIMITED EDITION OF THIS BEAUTIFUL WORK. Text by various writers describing the royal residences of Europe accompanies the bright and wonderful paintings by Ms. Mima Nixon.

Her works often capture unusual views of the homes as seen from their gardens, or are often glimpses of the fairy tale corners of the gardens themselves.

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A Beautiful Edition of Ovid’s Ten Epistles Translated Into English Fitzthomas, Dryden and Others Handsomely Bound in Decorated Contemporary Mottled Calf

Item Number: 28

[Ovid]. TEN EPISTLES OF OVID, Translated into English Verse...

(London: Printed for C. and R. Baldwin, 1807) First of the edition. 8vo, beautifully bound in full contemporary green mottled calf, the spine in compartments between raised bands decorated in gilt, gilt decorated compartments incorporating border and center tooling, black morocco lettering label gilt, covers with gilt ruled borders surrounding an inner gilt roll, all edges gilt, marbled endleaves. A crisp and clean copy in a superb state of

preservation. A handsomely bound volume.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE TRANSLATION. This handsome edition, very attractively bound contains some of Ovid’s most famous work including the epistle of Sappho to Phaon by Pope; and of Dido to Eneas by Dryden.

Matthew Prior - Rare English Poetry - 1740 The Rare Private Printing - A Fine Copy Original Polished Calf of the Period Gilt Decorated

Item Number: 29

Prior, Matthew. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF HIS LATE EXCELLENCY MATTHEW PRIOR ESQ; CONSISTING OF POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS... (London: Printed for the Editor, 1740) First Edition. Illustrated with superb engraved frontispiece, and engraved tail pieces throughout. 8vo, original polished calf of the period, the covers with double gilt fillet lines at the borders, the spine with fine glt decoated panel desings incorporating large central ornamental devices, within compartments separated by raised bands gilt tooled, red calf label gilt. A fine and very pleas-

A Fine First Edition in the Original Cloth

Schillings, C. G. WITH FLASHLIGHT AND RIFLE: A Record of Hunting Adventures and of Studies in Wild Life in Equatorial East Africa; Translated by Frederic Whyte (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1906) 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with 302 “untouched” black and white photographs by the author. 8vo, in the publisher’s original green buckram, the spines lettered in gilt, with circular black and white pictorial decoration of an elephant embossed on front covers. A very pleasing, fresh and handsome set, bright and clean inside and out, especially well preserved.

Item Number: 30

Item Number: 31 Price: $495.

A LOVELY PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION FROM AN EARLY CONSERVATIONIST. Schillings was one of the first sportsmen of repute “to stand up before a snobbish public and proclaim that the best sport for a man of cultivated mind is the snapshotting with the camera, rather than the pumping of lead into elephants, rhinoceroses, antelopes, zebras, and many other harmless, beautiful, or rare beasts and birds” (from the introduction). The photographs are altogether an amazing collection, portraying a wide variety of creatures in their natural habitats, including even nighttime predators in mid-pounce.

Ivanhoe - Handsome Contemporary Bindings Gilt

First Edition - Sir Walter Scott’s Most Famous Tale

[Scott, Sir Walter]. IVANHOE; A Romance. By “The Author of Waverley,” &c. (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1820) 3 volumes. First Edition, with all half-titles present,, page 159 numbered correctly. 8vo, contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, the spines with double gilt ruled bands separating the compartments, contrasting red and black morocco lettering labels to each volume, stamped in gilt, the compartments with central gilt ornamental devices. A handsome set, well preserved in its original bindings, hinges a bit rubbed from use but strong and tight, text-blocks in good order, internally

Item Number: 32 Price: $2650.

quite clean and fresh, the contemporary bindings with some light expected age or light rubbing from use, a bit of wear at the extremities or tips. A pleasing set in its original state and quite scarce thus.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS QUITE SCARCE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK. This set with all half-titles present as is often not the case. The best of Scott’s historical novels and by far his most famous work. This was Scott’s culminating success in a book-selling sense, and marked the highest point both of his literary career and his social prosperity.

William Shakespeare - The Comedies Histories and Tragedies A Beautifully Bound Impression - With Fine Provenance

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Shakespeare, William. THE COMEDIES HISTORIES AND TRAGEDIES OF SHAKESPEARE (London: William Pickering, 1831) The fine and very scarce Pickering edition in one volume.

This copy WITH FINE PROVENANCE, having come from the library of Austin Dobsin, with his decorative plate and identifying ownership label. Thick 8vo, in a beautiful English binding of three-quarter crimson morocco over feather marbled boards, lined in gilt at the turnovers, the spine with raised bands dividing the compartments which are decorated with gilt framed panels

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THOR. Many considered this to be Roth’s best works since ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’. Both suspenseful and hilarious it is essentially a spy story in which Roth confronts his own double, an impostor whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel and back into Europe, a “Moses in reverse” and a cunning nemesis to the real “Philip Roth.”

Roth, Philip. OPERATION SHYLOCK A Confession (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993) First edition, first printing, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR in the year of publication, 1993.

Large 8vo, original gray boards backed in blue cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original publisher’s dustjacket. A very fine copy, essentially as new, the jacket likewise.

INSCRIBED AND DATED BY THE AWARD WINNING AU-

Schillings’ With Flashlight and Rifle in Africa

Price: $550.

ing, clean, unpressed and crisp copy of this handsomely printed work. Entirely unsophisticated with some light evidence of shelving at the foot of the spine.

RARE IN THIS STATE AND CONDITION. A beautifully printed work and an important posthumous collection, including many poems not previously published; the editor was John Bancks (or Banks), who has signed the dedication. The section at the end consists of commendatory verses, and translations from Tibullus and Ovid.

Operation Shylock - A Beautiful Copy in Dustjacket First Edition - Signed

by Philip Roth

Price: $895.

Item Number: 33 Price: $1750.

and lettered in gilt in two of the compartments. A very fine and bright copy, beautifully preserved, the morocco binding in excellent condition and the text-block too, in very fine condition.

A BEAUTIFULLY BOUND EARLY PRINTING OF THE MASTER’S WORKS, THIS COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE, HAVING BEEN OWNED BY AUSTIN DOBSIN. The fine Pickering production of Shakespeare’s plays is still one of the most famous of the early 19th century printings and this copy is especially attractive in fine binding and ownership history.

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A Beautiful Copy - The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Item Number: 34

Aurel Stein in Original Cloth - Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan

Item Number: 36 Price: $1250.

“Gulliver’s Travels“ - 1726-27 Edition in 2 Volumes

Item Number: 36 Price: $9500.

With a Beautiful Split Handcoloured Fore-Edge Painting Very Finely Bound in Polished Tree Calf Gilt Extra

His First Great Central Asian Expedition

The Coleridge Family Copy - Inscribed by 3 Descendants A Rare Early Issue - One of the Great Works in Literature

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS...

(London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University, 1919) First of the edition. WITH A FINE SPLIT FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF PERCY AND MARY SHELLEY AND LANDSCAPES. Portrait frontispiece of Shelley. 8vo, beautifully bound in full polished tree calf, the spine richly and elaborately designed gilt in panel designs within compartments separated by raised bands, lettered in gilt on a green morocco label in one compartment, the covers with gilt roll tooling at the borders, all edges, turnovers

Stein, M. Aurel. SAND-BURIED RUINS OF KHOTAN. Personal Narrative of a Journey of Archaeological & Geographical Exploration in Chinese Turkestan (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1904) Early printing. With a large folding map and 135 illustrations.

8vo, original sienna polished cloth gilt lettered and pictorially decorated in black and yellow on the spine and decorated and lettered in black and yellow on the upper cover. A fresh and desirable copy of this scarce and important work, pages 13-28 with either a chip or neat repair along the bottom margin not effecting the text in any way, head and tail of spine slightly

[Swift, Johnathan]. TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD... (London: For Benj. Motte, 1727, 1726) 2 volumes. A very interesting set with fine provenance. The Coleridge family copy. First edition, Teerink’s B issue of Vol. II dated 1726 and the Second edition of Vol. I, formatted, sized and in presentation as the firsts and published within just a few months of the first editions and set from the first issue of the first edition (the A edition). This is the first edition to include the “Verses,” which had been separately printed in March of 1727. Portrait frontispiece, 6 maps and plates. 8vo, full calf

and dentelles fully gilt decorated. A very fine copy, beautifully presented and preserved.

A BEAUTIFUL COPY IN A BEAUTIFUL BINDING, WITH A BEAUTIFUL SPLIT FORE-EDGE PAINTING. Shelley remains one of the best known and loved Romantic poets; his works such as Queen Mab, The Revolt of Islam and Prometheus Unbound have indisputably placed him amongst the greatest English poets. This handsome printing, in a fine antique binding, provides some of the greatest works of Romantic poetry.

rubbed and with a small chip.

VERY SCARCE AND IMPORTANT WORK BY STEIN. In 1900-1901 Stein excavated several ruined sites in the Taklamakan Desert around Khotan, publishing his experiences in SAND-BURIED RUINS OF KHOTAN. This would be the first of two expeditions which would lead to his being awarded the Founder’s Gold Medal by the Royal Geographic Society.

in contemporary style. An especially attractive copy of this increasingly scarce title.

RARE EARLY ISSUE OF ONE OF THE GREAT WORKS IN THE HISTORY OF WORLD LITERATURE. THE COLERIDGE FAMILY COPY. INSCRIBED BY THE GREAT POET’S NEPHEW AND SON-IN-LAW HENRY N. COLERIDGE, BY F.G. COLERIDGE AND ALSO BY HIS GRANDDAUGHTER EDITH COLERIDGE. A SPECIAL COPY WITH WONDERFUL PROVENANCE.

The Silmarillion - The Precursor to “Lord of the Rings” J.R.R. Tolkien’s First Conception

Tolkien, J. R. R. THE SILMARILLION, edited by Christopher Tolkien (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1977) First edition.

With a large folding map at the rear. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth in pictorial dustjacket. A fine copy but for some residue of tape on the endpapers and flaps.

The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books An Invaluable and Important Reference Work

[Trustees of the British Museum]. BRITISH MUSEUM CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS TO 1955: Compact Edition [with] BRITISH MUSEUM GENERAL CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS: Ten Year Supplement 1956-1965, Compact Edition (New York: Readex Microprint Corporation, 1967, 1969) 32 volumes (22 to 1955 + 5 supplement). Second editions. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spines. A very handsome, clean, well preserved set of this important work.

Item Number: 37 Price: $225.

Published after Tolkien’s death, this book evolved over a sixty year period and was originally conceived before both THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS. It is still considered the original work of the Middle Earth fantasies.

Item Number: 38 Price: $1500.

AN IMPORTANT REFERENCE WORK. A complete list of printed books to 1965 contained in the British Museum collection.

Approximately ten volumes of the original edition are contained in each volume of this edition. An invaluable reference.

Captain J.K. Tuckey - Expedition to Explore the River Zaire A Great Work of African Discovery - 1818 - With Engravings

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Tuckey, Captain J.K. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO EXPLORE THE RIVER ZAIRE... (London: John Murray, 1818) First edition. Illustrated with the large folding map and 13 engraved plates, of which one is coloured by hand. Large 4to, later antique wine coloured cloth, gilt lettering to the spine. A large copy, quite clean and well preserved, crisp and unpressed, the colour plate in good order, some typical mellowing or spotting associated usually with the plates, upper cover detached and easily refurbished on request.

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Item Number: 39 Price: $1850.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. An attempt to explore the Congo River and to find a link with the Niger and investigate the possibilities for trade on these arteries. Smith from Kew Gardens and other botanists were along to collect plant seeds. Tuckey died on the support ship.

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Merry Tales From Mark Twain First Edition in the Original ‘State A’ Cloth Binding

Twain, Mark. MERRY TALES (New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892) First edition, BAL’s first binding state. 8vo, publisher’s original green-gray cloth lettered and decorated on the upper cover and spine in gilt and black. An honest and well preserved copy lightly mellowed by time and use.

Item Number: 40 Price: $295.

FIRST EDITION. A selection of seven tales by the great American author and humorist for Arthur Stedman’s Fiction, Fact and Fancy series. The tales are; The Private History of a Campaign That Failed, The Invalid’s Story, Luck, The Captain’s Story, A Curious Experience, Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning and Meisterschaft.

First Edition - Arminius Vámbéry’s Travels in Central Asia An Important and Scarce Work on Central Asia - 1864

Vámbéry, Arminius. TRAVELS IN CENTRAL ASIA. Being the Account of a Journey From Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand Performed in the Year 1863 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864) First Edition, American Issue, same year as the English. With 12 wood-engraved plates. Tall 8vo, publisher’s original dark plum cloth blind decorated on the upper cover, the spine gilt lettered and decorated. A very nice copy, the cloth still dark with bright gilt, minor age-wear to the spine

tips and corners, small chip at the tail of the spine, without the folding map.

FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT WORK ON CENTRAL ASIA. Vámbéry travelled to Central Asia as a linguist to study the languages represented there and determine their relation to his own mother tongue, Hungarian. The book is divided into two parts: the first a description of his travels, the second devoted to notices concerning the geography, statistics, politics, and social relations of Central Asia.

Jules Verne - Doctor Ox - 1874 First Edition in English in Original Cloth

Verne, Jules. DOCTOR OX, and Other Stories... (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874) First Edition in English and First American Edition. Small 8vo, publisher’s original terra cotta cloth, the upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt, the spine lettered in gilt. A nice copy in collector’s condition, the rubbing to the cloth is very minimal and confined primarily to the tips, light mellowing to the cloth or age evidence.

Item Number: 42 Price: $595.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. The stories include Doctor Ox’s Experiment, Master Zacharias, A Drama in the Air, A Winter in the Ice and The Fortieth French Ascension of Mont Blanc.

Two Years in the Antarctic - E.W. Kevin Walton Signed By The Author - The Special Memorial Fund Edition

[Antarctic] Walton, E. W. Kevin. TWO YEARS IN THE ANTARCTIC (Malvern: The Knell Press, 1982) The first Knell Press printing and the second overall, especially printed to raise funds for the Jim Bishop Memorial Fund. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With a map of the Graham Land peninsula, fifty photographs on glossy plates bound at the center, layouts of two bases, facsimile 1947 menu card, map of Marguerite Bay and two figures of sled dog positions. 8vo, original light blue cloth lettered on the spine in gilt, in the original dustjacket. A fine signed copy, the book essentially near as new in a jacket with very minor mellowing along the edges.

Item Number: 43 Price: $125.

SIGNED SPECIAL REPRINTING OF AN ANTARCTIC CLASSIC. This is the account of Kevin Walton’s two years spent in Antarctic just after WWII as part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey resupplying four bases and establishing a new base in Marguerite Bay. Though the account contains the expected tales of hardships and dangers it is Walton’s emphasis on the logical approach to Polar life that made the original edition popular reading.

This special edition of 1982 was published to raise money for the Jim Bishop Memorial Fund to provide financial support for young people who wish to take part in adventurous activities.

Izaak Walton - The Compleat Angler - Limited Edition Handsomely Illustrated by Douglas Gorsline

Walton, Izaak; [Complete Angler]; [Limited Editions Club].

THE COMPLEAT ANGLER; Or, The Contemplative Man’s Recreation... (New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948) First Edition, 1258 of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator. Handsomely illustrated with wash-drawings and engravings by Douglas W. Gorsline. Folio, original white vellum over decorated boards, with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine, and housed in the publisher’s slipcase. A fine copy internally with some light evidence of staining to the spine and the slipcase.

Item Number: 44 Price: $225.

A CHARMING BOOK ILLUSTRATED IN THE ENGLISH STYLE, signed by the artist, Douglas W Gorsline. Walton’s ANGLER has been described as “full of wisdom, kindly humour, and charity; it is one of the most delightful and care-dispelling books in the language.” “More than most authors he lives in his writings, which are the pure expression of a kind, humorous and pious soul in love with nature, while the expression itself is unique for apparent simplicity which is really elaborately studied art” (DNB).

Edward Waterhous’ Defence of Arms and Armory - 1660

Item Number: 45 Price: $2525.

Waterhous, Edward. A DISCOURSE AND DEFENCE OF ARMS AND ARMORY, Shewing the Nature and Rises of Arms and Honour in England, From the Camp, the Court, and the City: Under the Two Later of Which, are Contained Universities and Inns of Court (London: T.R. For Samuel Mearne, 1660) Scarce First Edition. This copy without an engraved frontispiece which is sometimes lacking. Small 8vo, bound later in full brown-black calf by Bruno to period style. The spine with raised bands and ruling in blind, 5 compartments with central blind-tooled floral device and two compartments lettered in gilt. A well preserved

copy in a handsome later binding, minor mellowing and with the first few and last few leaves having a touch of very minor edge wear.

RARE, OCLC list only one library and Wing indexes only nine copies. Edward Waterhous (1619-70) was a noted heraldic writer, antiquarian scholar and preacher. He was elected to the Royal Society after its second charter. This work is his discourse on Heraldic Arms, one of his most studied interests. It was perhaps written as distraction from his own grief upon the loss of a friend and relation.

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Item Number: 41 Price: $245.