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Pioneering Works on Alcoholism, Typhoid and Fevers Dr. John Armstrong - “The Modern Sydenham”

Armstrong, John, M.D. PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS of TYPHUS FEVER, of the COMMON CONTINUED FEVER, and of INFLAMMATORY DISEASES,&c,&c,-----with NOTES,CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY with Notes Critical and Explanatory by Nathaniel Potter, M.D. (Philadelphia: James Webster, 1822) Second American Edition, from the Third English, with corrections and appendix. 8vo, full contemporary tree calf, the spine with flat bands double ruled in gilt and a single red morocco label gilt lettered. Internally a very well preserved

An Important Contribution to the Study of Colour Edward Bancroft on the Chemistry of Dyes

Bancroft, Edward. EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES CONCERNING THE PHILOSOPHY OF PERMANENT COLOURS; AND THE BEST MEANS OF PRODUCING THEM BY DYEING, CALICO PRINTING, &C. (Philadelphia,: Thomas Dobson, 1814.) Two Volumes. First American Edition from the much improved revised English Edition of the previous year. 8vo, original paper back gray boards, with paper labels, uncut and largely unopened. Enclosed in a fine folding slipcase box. Internally fine and visually a remarkable clean copy in original condition. Minor vertical split to the spine of the first volume,

The Shakespeare Head Bronte The Finest Edition of the Collected Novels

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Brontë, Emily, Charlotte & Anne. THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD BRONTË. (Oxford: By Basil Blackwell at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1931) 11 volumes. Large Paper Edition in eleven volumes complete, comprising the complete fiction,LIMITED to 1000 numbered copies. Other volumes comprising correspondence, letters etc. were published three to seven years later. With illustrations by Jack Hewer comprising thirty landscape and

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Price: $450.

copy with much less spotting or toning then one would expect of books of the time, the copy still solid and quite fresh, the binding with upper hinge just lightly cracked, the calf binding still in nice condition.

A SCARCE EARLY STUDY OF TYPHOID AND ITS TREATMENTS. The work also contains his study of brain fever from drunkenness, a pioneering article on withdrawal and substance abuse that remained highly important for decades and was acclaimed by doctors such as Rush, Trotter and Huss.

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Price: $1850.

(not affecting the tightness of the binding) and minor cover soiling and light wear to the boards, but very rare in boards and an excellent copy.

A major contribution to the literature on colour, and dyeing, and very rare in original printer’s boards. American books of this period in boards are rare in general. Having discovered the dyeing properties (yellow) from the inner bark of the American black oak, he introduced and marketed the dye in Europe and he published this classic book whose theories were in advance of their time.

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Price: $950.

architectural views. Tall 8vo, in the original green buckram, with printed paper spine labels. A lovely handsome set, trivial rubbing, neat bookplate, and dime size discreet blindstamp to the bottom of the title-page, otherwise spotless.

This is the finest edition of the novels of Emily, Anne and Charlotte Brontë. The set contains in eight volumes: Wuthering Heights; Agnes Grey; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Jane Eyre; Shirley; Villette; and The Professor.

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The Romantic Tale of Lorna Doone Beautifully Illustrated and Exquisitely Bound

Blackmore, R. D. LORNA DOONE: A Romance of Exmoor (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co.,LTD., n.d.) First Printing of the handsome Dulverton Edition with illustrations prepared especially for it. With 16 fine colour plates, including 12 landscapes by Charles E. Brittan and 4 figurative subjects by Charles E. Brock. 4to, beautifully bound and signed by Morrell in very fine full crimson crushed morocco. The covers are decorated with roll tooled interlacing borders in gilt with fine floral corner-pieces and with beautifully gilt-tooled turn-ins and edges, the spine delicately gilt decorated with floral tools in the corners of gilt

The Gulistan or Rose Garden of Sa’di The First Edition of Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1888

Burton, Richard. THE GULISTAN OR ROSE GARDEN OF SA’DI, Faithfully Translated into English (Benares: Printed by the Kama Shastra Society for Private Subscribers Only, 1888) First Edition, printed for private subscribers only. 8vo, bound in publisher’ s original full stiff vellum with gilt ruled and lettered spine, the covers bevelled and with blind ruled borders.

An excellent copy, fine and very well preserved with some light and of course, expected mellowing to the white vellum.

Fin du Siècle Chinese Erotica 5 Coloured Iconic Images on Original Scroll

[Chinese Erotica, “Shunga” Scroll]. [COLOURED WOODCUT ENGRAVINGS OF CHINESE EROTICA IN SCROLL FORMAT] (China: , circa 1900s) Chinese erotica, executed in woodblock and hand-coloured. With five 9.25” x 7.75” erotic drawings in colours. Scroll, with images laid onto the backing and bordered with decorative edging, original materials unrestored. Very

Winston Churchill’s Nobel Prize Winning History The Second World War - First Edition - 6 Volumes A Fine and Handsome Set in the Original Dustjackets

Churchill, Winston. THE SECOND WORLD WAR (London: Cassell and Co, 1948-54) 6 volumes. All volumes are first edition. A profusion of maps and diagrams in all volumes. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in the original dustjackets. A handsome and very well preserved set of the firsts, the text appears as pristine and with bindings in excellent order, the jackets very handsome and in an excellent state of preservation with only very minimal wear or rubbing,

The Important Longfellow Translation of Dante The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Three Volumes Original Green Cloth - Fine and Bright

Dante Alighieri , [Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Translator].

THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, Late Ticknor & Fields and Fields, Osgood & Co., 1877) 3 volumes. Early printing of Longfellow’s great translation, issued by Osgood, in the original three volume format as in the first printing. This a large paper set with fine broad margins.

Title-pages printed in black and red. Large 8vo, bound in the publisher’s original dark-green cloth, the spines lettered and ruled in gilt, upper covers gilt lettered. A very handsome and fine set, the green cloth in excellent state of preservation, no fad-

Charles Darwin - On the Origin of Species The Most Important Scientific Work of the 19th Century and the Most Important Biological Text Ever Written

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Darwin, Charles. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (London: John Murray, 1892) Sixth edition, with additions and corrections. With a folding diagram.

8vo, publisher’s original dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and in blind on the upper and lower covers.

Includes glossary and index. A very clean and well-preserved copy with only a bit of age or mellowing, hinges strong, corners all good, the cloth bright and the gilt in very nice condition.

Unusual thus.

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frames within the compartments between gilt stippled raised bands, two compartments with green morocco labels bordered and lettered in gilt. A most handsome and superb copy, the text and plates in very fine condition, the beautiful Morrell binding in a perfect state of preservation.

FIRST PRINTING OF THE FINE DULVERTON EDITION IN A VERY HANDSOME FULL BINDING GILT, SIGNED BY MORRELL. ARGUABLY THE FINEST FORMAT OF THIS BELOVED TALE.

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Price: $795.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT BURTON ITEM, and according to Penzer (p. 177), the distinction between the first and second issue of the book is only the presence of the date on the spine. As a possible indication of this book’s scarcity, Penzer quotes 17 sale room prices for Burton’s KAMA SUTRA, 10 for the ANANGA RANGA, 26 for the PERFUMED GARDEN, but only three for the GULISTAN.

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Price: $950.

well preserved, the images all bright and pristine, the paper on which they are printed fine, the scroll sturdy and in excellent condition.

A WELL PRESERVED CHINESE SCROLL INCORPORATING EROTIC IMAGES.

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Price: $850.

minimal mellowing at the spine panels as is always the case.

A very pleasing, well preserved set.

NOBEL PRIZE WINNING FIRST EDITION. Upon hearing that President Roosevelt sought suggestions about what the war should be called Churchill replied, “The Unnecessary War.” According to Churchill, “There never was a war more easy to stop than that which has just wrecked what was left of the world from the previous struggle.”

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Price: $1650.

ing, hinges strong and firm, only the lightest evidence of age whatsoever, the text-blocks in very nice condition too.

THE FINE AND IMPORTANT TRANSLATION OF ONE OF THE GREATEST LITERARY WORKS, BY THE RENOWNED AMERICAN LITERARY GIANT HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Longfellow, America’s “Fireside Poet”, turned to his translation of Dante for solace after the tragic death of his second wife. . His translation of the greatest of all Italian literary figures is treasured to the present day and is largely credited for beginning a trend in bringing the world’s great literary treasures to American readers.

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Price: $895.

THE GREATEST WORK IN SCIENCE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND THE MOST IMPORTANT BIOLOGICAL WORK EVER PENNED. An important early edition of “the most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century” and “the most important biological work ever written” (Horblit, Freeman). Darwin’s elaboration of the theory of natural selection laid the groundwork for the controversy over the evolution of man. The repercussions of Darwin’s theory on religious, scientific, sociological and philosophical thought was the result of what Garrison considered “the most wonderful piece of sythesis in the history of science.”

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Charles Dickens’ Christmas Stories and Christmas Books

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Dickens, Charles. CHRISTMAS STORIES from ‘Household Words’ and ‘All The Year Round’ [and,] CHRISTMAS BOOKS [including, A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man] (London: Chapman and Hall, 1893, 1894) 2 volumes. An early printing of these holiday classics and including the most revered of Dickens’ great books of Christmas. With 14 illustrations, by Dalziel, Green, Mahoney, etc in the first volume, and with 63 illustrations in the second volume, by Leech, Stone, Tenniel and others as in the first editions. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on the spine and decorated in blind on the upper cover.

Very fine and near pristine copies with much of the textblocks still unopened, the cloth bright and without fading and with just the most minor evidence of age.

A FINE AND HANDSOME SET, INCLUDING A COPY OF EACH OF THESE GREAT CLASSICS. Who better then Charles Dickens to bring to life stories both festive and haunting of the holiday season? This collected edition contains the shorter Christmas stories published in the two British weekly magazines Dickens edited in the 1850s and 1860s. The copy of Christmas Books contains all five of the author’s greatest contributions to Christmas literature.

And The First Edition of Dickens’ Holiday Classic

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Dickens, Charles. THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846) First Edition, with the second state of the advertisement leaf as is normally found. Complete with 14 engraved illustrations by John Leech, R. Doyle and others.

12mo, rebound in red morocco, preserving most of the original cloth to the boards including the gilt vignette on the upper cover, the spine with tall gilt stippled raised bands and gilt ruled and

decorated compartments, lettered in gilt in two compartments.

A fine clean copy.

THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH was third in Dickens’ Christmas Book Series. The title grew out of Dickens’ idea to begin a weekly periodical named “The Cricket” with an added motto, “A cheerful creature that chirrups on the hearth.”

Very Bright and Fine Copies of Each Book London - 1893 Including All of His Most Famous Christmas Books and Stories

The Cricket on the Hearth - 1846

The Bible With Spectacular Illustrations - Rare in this State Doré’s Magnificent Holy Bible Two Volumes In Superb Bindings Gilt Extra

[Doré, Gustav. Illus]. THE HOLY BIBLE... (London and New York: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, [ca.1878]) 2 volumes. Doré’s magnificent illustrated Bible in full morocco bindings. With the 220 very fine full-page engravings by Gustave Doré, additionally with four leaves of family registries within decorative borders with Biblical scenes. Folio, in very attractive full contemporary black morocco gilt extra, the thick and sturdy boards with a wide ornate vine and flower framework border in gilt, the spines lavishly and handsomely gilt decorated in a vine motif within compartments separated by gilt tooled raised bands, gilt ruling to each compartment, two of which are gilt lettered, gilt tooled

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wide board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. A very handsome copy. This book is typically found with heavy foxing, but in this case it is only barely evident with in the text and only lightly to the prelims, uncommonly clean. The text is very sound and the bindings are well preserved.

PERHAPS THE MOST MAGNIFICENT OF THE DORÉ ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. THE HOLY BIBLE is a huge testament to Doré’s talent and a most impressive accomplishment in size and scope. The grandeur of Doré’s artwork is perfectly suited to accompany the greatest work of literature.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Illustrated by Dulac

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Labrys 5, A Rare Work of Lawrence Durrell

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Price: $450.

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Price: $795.

A Great Classic First Edition

With Autographed Letter, Signed

[Dulac, Illus.] Khayyam, Omar. THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d., circa 1915) 20 beautiful full page color plates by Edmund Dulac. 4to, publisher’s original full red cloth lettered and elaborately decorated in pictorial designs in gilt on the spine and upper cover. A very bright, clean and handsome copy with exceptional color plates.

(Durrell, Lawrence) Labrys 5, . LABRYS 5: LAWRENCE DURRELL (London: Printed at the Hunting Raven Press, Frome, 1979) First edition, WITH AUTOGRAPH NOTE LAID IN. Illustrated with black and white photos. 8vo, original pictorial paper wraps lettered in blue. A very clean and solid copy.

The Book of the Dead - The Papyrus of Ani - 1913 E.A. Wallis Budge’s Classic Translation Very Handsome

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[Egypt; Budge, E.A Wallis, trans., Papyrus; Book of the Dead].

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: The Papyrus of Ani; a Reproduction In Facsimile, With Hieroglyphic Transcript, Translation and Introduction by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge... Published by Permission of the Trustees of the British Museum (London and New York: The Medici Society, Ltd. and G. P. Putnams, 1913) 2 volumes. First Medici Society edition, with a very early facsimile of the actual papyri and a plate by plate description of the Papyrus of Ani. With 37 beautifully produced chromo-lithographic colour folding plates reproducing in facsimile the Papyrus of Ani, additionally illustrated throughout the text. Tall royal 8vo, publisher’s best binding of original red cloth lettered and decorated with gilt extra

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FIRST EDITION IN THE BRIGHT RED CLOTH. Announced in June 1909, Edward Fitzgerald’s translation of the 12th century Persian RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, newly illustrated

by Edmund Dulac, became the Gift Book of the year. Each page of verses or quatrains was printed on heavy paper surrounded by delicate borders and was frequently interspersed with Dulac’s evocative paintings.

AUTOGRAPHED NOTE ON A LETTER laid in. The letter asks for Durrell’s consideration in providing a signed copy of one of his books. Durrell replies that he doesn’t have to staff to pack and send a book, but he has autographed the letter and attached a note and sent it back.

pictorial designs on the spines, and with elaborate and deeply embossed pictorial designs and lettering in gilt on both upper covers. A very handsome set indeed, only lightly mellowed by age. Scarce with the spine designs fully gilt.

RARE AND IMPORTANT EDITION WITH CHROMOLITHOGRAPH PLATES and a fine printing of Budge’s great English translation in two volumes. The BOOK OF THE DEAD was inscribed, in the form of various compositions, by the Egyptians upon the walls of tombs and sarcophagi, coffins and funeral stelae, papyri and amulets to ensure the well-being of the dead in the world beyond the grave.

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India Past and Present - Two Volumes - First Edition

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Inscribed by Robert Frost in 1950 - A Masque of Mercy

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Forbes-Lindsay’s Fine Travel Work Very Fine With a Profusion of Illustrations Throughout

A Pleasing Association Copy to a Friend at Harvard First Edition of His Experiment in Blank Verse

Forbes-Lindsay, C. H. INDIA PAST AND PRESENT (Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1903) 2 volumes. First edition.

With 50 fine photogravure plates after photos and a color folding map. 8vo, original bright red cloth with rich and elaborate gilt decorations on the spines and upper covers, in the scarce original cloth dustjackets. A very fine, exceptionally clean and as pristine set.

Frost, Robert. A MASQUE OF MERCY (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947) 2 volumes. First Edition and a FINE ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY ROBERT FROST, dated 1950. 8vo, publisher’s original light blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. In the original dustjacket. A very fresh and well preserved copy, the blue cloth excellent but for trivial rubbing at the extremities, quite handsome with only some expected age mellowing and a small chip at tip of the lightly faded jacket

Galileo Galilei - Opere del Galileo - 1808 The Complete Works Including Many Early Issuances A Fine Set in Rare Pristine Bindings of the Period

Galilei, Galileo. OPERE DI GALILEO GALILEI... (Milano: Dalla Società Tipografica de’Classici Italiani, 1808) 13 volumes. Rare first printing of the OPERE in octavo format and a superb and diligent accumulation of the older editions. With a very finely engraved frontispiece of Galileo, engraved folding plans, folding plate of the compass, many woodcut plates, astronomical renderings, mathematical tables and diagrams. 8vo, in contemporary Italian bindings of fine three-quarter polished calf over marbled boards, handsomely decorated with gilt bands on the spines dark

AN EXTREMELY FINE SURVIVAL. THIS SET, NOT ONLY WITH THE CLOTH DUSTJACKETS, BUT WITH THE SLIPCASE WHICH IS EVEN MORE RARE THAN THE DUSTJACKETS. BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED ON BOTH VOLUMES. An especially attractive record of the subcontinent, with fine illustrations.

Gibbon, Edward. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF EDWARD GIBBON, ESQUIRE... (London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1796 and 1815) 3 volumes. First Editions of the first two volumes issued in 1796 and first edition of the third volume, issued in 1815. Illustrated with frontispiece engravings in volumes one and three and with epitaph leaf and folding genealogical table in volume three. 4to, handsomely bound in full contemporary calf by White of Doncaster, the covers with gilt fillet lines at the borders around a more elaborate blind rolled frame, the spines with wide raised bands ruled in gilt creating compartments crosshatched in blind, contrasting red and black labels gilt lettered. A very beautiful and proper

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Graves, Robert. I, CLAUDIUS From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Emperor of the Romans... [with] CLAUDIUS THE GOD And His Wife Messalina (London: Arthur Baker, 1934) 2 volumes. First Edition of each volume. With fold out genealogical trees of the Imperial family and fold out and tree of the royal family of the Herods. 8vo, handsomely bound in three-quarter black crushed morocco over marbled boards, the back and corner-pieces with gilt chain ruling, the spine gilt ruled raised bands separating compartments with large gilt central tools, smooth black morocco labels in two compartments gilt tooled and lettered. A

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Hemingway, Ernest. MEN WITHOUT WOMEN (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927) First Edition and the first Issue, having the Scribner seal on the copyright page and 1927 on the title-page. 8vo, original smooth black cloth with gold paper lettering labels printed in black on both the spine and the upper board. A fine copy with only very light evidence of age, the black cloth unusually fresh and unfaded, the gold labels still very bright

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set, the bindings extremely attractive with only some minor and expected evidence of age, the text in excellent order, all very desirable.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF ALL THREE VOLUMES. The work here includes notes, letters, diaries, essays, unpublished works. The printing includes pieces in both English and French and occasional writing in Latin is interspersed. The work was gathered by Lord Sheffield and Gibbon’s memoirs were assembled by Lord Sheffield from drafts of an autobiography which Gibbon left unfinished at his death. It was on the Sheffield family estate that Gibbon was buried after his passing.

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Price: $895.

very handsome set, the bindings pristine and as mint, the text fine with just a light touch of the mellowing to the fore-edge and prelims common to paper of the era.

FIRST EDITION OF THE COMPLETE I, CLAUDIUS SAGA, Graves’ best known work which became massively popular when first published in 1934 and gained literary recognition with the award of the 1934 James Tait Black Prize for fiction. The two novels’ fame was considerably enlarged and renewed in 1976 when BBC Television adapted the two books into the popular serial, also entitled “I, Claudius”.

Men Without Women - An Early Hemingway Classic The First Edition - 1927 - A Bright Attractive Copy

Price: $3950.

green morocco lettering labels gilt. A very fine set, large and unusually fresh, as pristine.

EXTREMELY SCARCE IN SUCH WELL PRESERVED BINDINGS OF THE PERIOD. USUALLY ENCOUNTERED IN VELLUM BINDINGS, THIS RARE EDITION OF GALILEO’S COMPLETE WORKS INCLUDING THE ‘DIALOGO’ . The most significant support of the Copernican theory of a heliocentric planetary system--in other words, the embodiment of the “Galilean Revolution.

The Complete I, Claudius - First Edition of Each Volume A Handsome Set in Black Morocco Bindings Robert Graves Best Known Work - A Prize Set

Price: $550.

spine panel. A few unobtrusive spots on three early leaves likely caused by something once laid in.

FIRST EDITION AND A FINE AND PLEASING SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed by Frost to Virginia Proctor, secretary to Harvard President James Byrant Conant. Though Frost tenure at Harvard was short, his friendship with Mrs. Proctor lasted well beyond his years in Cambridge.

Edward Gibbon’s Miscellaneous Works and Memoirs

Rare First Edition of All Three Volumes 1796

Price: $325.

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Price: $800.

and without any chipping.

FIRST EDITION, First Printing of Hemingway’s second book of short stories. The collection includes, according to Kenneth Lynn, three “truly magnificent works” and two near masterpieces: The Killers, Hills Like White Elephants, In Another Country, Fifty Grand, and Now I Lay Me. It is considered by many to be one of the most influential books of short stories written in the 20th century.

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Sir John Herschel’s Important Treatise on Light A Groundbreaking Work in the Science

Herschel, Sir John F. W. TRAITE DE LA LUMIERE. (Paris: La Librarie Scientifique - Industrielle de Malher, 1829 & 1833) Two volumes. First Edition Volume One & Reprint of Volume Two. With 15 folding plates, and a supplementary text by A. Quetelet.

8vo, recent cloth with paper spine labels. Some minor spotting, but a lovely copy in attractive binding.

Gertrude Jekyll on Some English Gardens A Beautiful Book in the Genre - First Edition

Jekyll, Gertrude. SOME ENGLISH GARDENS After Drawings by George S. Elgood, R.I. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905) Third issuance, one year after the first and in the identical format in all ways. With 50 beautiful colour plates after watercolours by Elgood. Folio, in original polished blue buckram, the spine and upper cover lettered and ruled in gilt. A very handsome copy, the cloth bright with very little evidence of age or wear, the corners still quite sharp, the gilt fresh, internally clean and quite fresh throughout with a bit of toning to the endpapers as is the case in

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HERSCHEL’S IMPORTANT TREATISE ON LIGHT. With Sections on photometry, refraction, the construction of the eye and lenses, achromatic telescopes, diffraction of light, colors, etc.

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Johnson, Samuel. A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE... (London: by W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton, T. and T. Longman, C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755) 2 volumes. First edition. Title pages printed in red & black, woodcut tailpieces. Royal folio, bound in contemporary brown paneled calf, sometime re-backed to style, morocco lettering labels gilt. Each volume housed in a cloth slipcase. A generally well preserved set with a bit of rubbing to the extremities as would be expected, and with some typical evidence of use at the hinges. Internally clean and well preserved with the

Keats, John. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS AND LETTERS OF JOHN KEATS (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899) The Cambridge Edition of the Poets. With a portrait frontispiece + tissue guard, and a portrait title-page illustration. 8vo, very handsomely bound in fine dark maroon crushed goatskin, the spine with raised bands gilt stopped, the compartments with fine double fillet ruled panels enclosing a central ornamental device gilt tooled, lettered in gilt in two

A Very Early Issuance of The Call of the Wild Jack London’s Great Masterpiece of American Literature

London, Jack. THE CALL OF THE WILD (London: William Heinemann, 1903) A very early printing of the first edition, U.K. issue, only two months after the first printing. Printed in America and the same sheets as the American issue and identical in format but for the blue cloth used rather than green.

Illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull.

8vo, publisher’s original pictorially decorated ribbed navyblue cloth lettered in gilt and with illustrations of dog sleds on the upper cover in white, red and black, similarly gilt lettered and pictorially decorated on the spine, pictorial endpapers.

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Lyell, Charles, ESQ. F.R.S. TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA; With Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia (London: John Murray, 1845) 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with an impressive folding hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece of Niagara Falls and the adjoining countryside showing the rock strata in colours in Vol. I; large folding coloured geological map of the U.S. and Canada in Vol. II and five additional plates, three of which are folding and one coloured, and additional illustrations within the text. 8vo, in the publisher’s original green cloth impressed with a botanical pattern in blind on all covers, the spines blind decorated and

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Price: $650.

compartments. A very fine and very handsome copy, beautifully preserved and in excellent condition.

A FINE COPY OF THIS EXCELLENT COLLECTION. With an excellent biographical sketch of the author, a full accounting of the poetry including the early poems, the major long poems and works, a great profusion of letters and with notes and illustrations, a bibliographical rendering of the poems, an index of first lines, an index of titles and an index to the letters.

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Price: $275.

This binding is identical to the first U.S. but for the colour of the cloth. A very bright and attractive copy, the blue cloth in especially nice condition with no fading and only a little wear or rubbing at the extremities.

AN AMERICAN MASTERPIECE AND ONE OF THE “PERFECT” BOOKS. This attractive and bright copy retains the exact format, look and feel of the first issue without commanding the very high price tag that would be associated with a copy of the first issue even approaching this quality.

First Edition of a Core Text by the Eminent Geologist Travels in North America - Charles Lyell - 1845 A Fine Set of this Rare Illustrated Classic

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title-page to Vol. I reinserted and tipped in after repair to a closed tear at the verso.

RARE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT, THE TRUE FIRST EDITION OF SAMUEL JOHNSON’S MASTERWORK. “The most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography (PMM). Begun in 1747 and printed over five years, Johnson’s DICTIONARY set the standard for all subsequent lexicographical work. Its excellence was immediately recognized in all quarters and the first edition of two thousand copies sold quickly.

John Keats - The Complete Poetical Works - A Fine Copy Beautifully Bound in Very Handsome Maroon Morocco Gilt

Price: $895.

nearly all of the early printings.

AN IMPORTANT BOOK, AND A VERY BEAUTIFUL ONE TOO. A horticultural tour through Edwardian England, with notes by the preeminent Ms. Jekyll, who has been described as a premier influence in garden design by English and American gardening enthusiasts.

She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and wrote over 1,000 articles for magazines such as ‘Country Life’ and ‘The Garden’.

Johnson’s Great Dictionary - PMM - First Edition - 1755 “The Most Amazing, Enduring, and Endearing One-Man Feat in the Field of Lexicography”

Price: $550.

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Price: $1250.

lettered in gilt. An extremely fresh and bright set, a fine set, the cloth with no wear or fading, the text appearing generally as pristine and extremely clean, a little mellowing to the endpapers and title-page only.

UNUSUALLY FINE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT EARLY WORK ON AMERICAN GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY. Lyell was an eminent British geologist whose work was especially important at this time because it had just been discovered that “a correct appreciation of the principles of geology became essential to the zoologist who would understand the relations between existing genera and species.

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Larry McMurty - The Last Picture Show - First Edition

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A.T. Mahan’s Life of Nelson - First Edition - 1897

A Pristine Copy Near as Mint - In Superior Dustjacket

Mahan, Captain A.T. THE LIFE OF NELSON, THE EMBODIMENT OF THE SEA POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co, 1897) 2 volumes. First edition.

With 19 portraits and illustrations and 21 maps and plans. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth gilt lettered on spine, decorated in gilt on upper cover. A very handsome, very bright set with no sign of fading to the blue cloth and with the gilt still sparkling fresh, the text very bright and clean, some unobtrusive

McMurtry, Larry. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (New York: The Dial Press, 1966) First edition. 8vo, original beige cloth in the dustjacket. A very fine copy, as pristine.

A VERY FINE, AS MINT COPY OF THIS VERY WELL RE-

markings on the rear cover of volume two.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION AND A FINE SET. Perhaps the finest, most accurate, and detailed biography of Lord Admiral Nelson ever published. Nelson, of course, is known for his illustrious naval career which culminated at the battle of Trafalgar, where under his command the English decimated the Napoleonic fleet and prevented them from reaching the Continent.

Monstrelet, Enguerrand de. THE CHRONICLES OF ENGUERRAND DE MONSTRELET... (London: William Smith, 1840) 2 volumes. First edition in this format and an important early printing of Johnes’ translation. With very fine woodcut illustrations throughout the text. Royal 8vo, in handsome antique three-quarter reddish tan calf over cloth covered boards by Morrell of London, the spines with gilt spangled raised bands between gilt framed compartments, two of which are lettered in gilt, additional gilt ruling at both tips and gilt lettering at the

First Edition with Fine Colour Plates - 1818

Price: $750.

CEIVED AND SUCCESSFUL FIRST EDITION. The novel won McMurtry the second of his three Jesse H. Jones Awards. This semiautobiographical novel was the basis for the 1971 motion picture of the same name directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet “A History of Fair Example, and of Great Profit to the French” A Handsome Set in Morrell of London Bindings

Price: $850.

Item Number: 30

Price: $750.

tail, handsome engraved MacEwen bookplates on front endpaper. A very fine and handsome set, the bindings strong and attractive with only a touch of mellowing at the corners, the text beautifully preserved, fresh and clean.

SCARCE, an important printing of Johnes’s translation, which was the standard for most of the nineteenth century. Monstrelet continued the great European Chronicle, picking up at the point were Froissart’s work left off. The author less-than-modestly called it, “A history of Fair Example and of Great Profit to the French.”

Item Number: 31 Price: $1650.

Neale, Adam. TRAVELS THROUGH SOME PARTS OF GERMANY, POLAND, MOLDAVIA, AND TURKEY. (London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818) First Edition. With 15 fine handcoloured aquatints on 11 plates.

4to, three-quarter dark green crushed morocco over linen boards, the spine with raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments.

An unusually nice copy, large and with very little evidence of the expected foxing, plates in fine order.

FINE FIRST EDITION WITH BEAUTIFUL HANDCOLOURED PLATES. The plates include views of Dresden, Prague, Agatopoli and the Harbor of Incada.

Kay Nielsen’s Best and Most Famous Book - 1914

Item Number: 32 Price: $6250.

Travels Through Some Parts of Germany, Poland...and Turkey Printed in London Handsomely Bound

Beautifully Bound by Zaehnsdorf in Full Rich Morocco Gilt East of the Sun and West of the Moon

[Nielsen, Kay, illus.]. EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON: Old Tales From the North (London: Hodder and Stroughton, [1914]) First Edition. The best of the various issues of the first editions. Illustrated with 25 beautiful tipped-in color plates by Kay Nielsen and numerous detailed black and white drawings. 4to, handsomely bound in a deluxe full crushed black morocco binding by Zaehnsdorf, the spine with fine raised bands and gilt lettering, the upper cover with a tall gilt pictorial

decoration derived from Nielsen’s illustrations, the endpapers designed from Nielsen’s “North Wind” plate, with a custom clamshell box. A fine copy, richly bound, the colour plates are truly fine impressions, in superb condition.

FIRST EDITION AND AN IMPORTANT AND UNIQUE COPY OF NIELSEN’S BEST BOOK. Fifteen old Norwegian folk-tales from Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe’s ‘Norske Folkeeventyr’, have been selected and magnificently portrayed by Nielson.

First Edition - The North Pole - Robert E. Peary - 1910 The Culmination of a Centuries Old Dream

Peary, Robert E. THE NORTH POLE. With an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910) First edition. Illustrated with 4 photogravures and 112 illustrations from photos and a folding map. Large 8vo, sea green cloth,with gilt lettering on spine and a bust of a polar bear in white, the upper cover with gilt letters and an embossed medal.

A very handsome copy, very well preserved, the spine panel

The Tale of Pig Robinson by Beatrix Potter A Very Attractive Copy in The Original Cloth

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Potter, Beatrix. THE TALE OF LITTLE PIG ROBINSON (London: Frederick Warne and Company, 1930) mFirst edition, first reprint. With 6 colour plates, 22 full page black and white illustrations, illustrated endpapers and pictorially decorated titlepage all by Beatrix Potter. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth, the upper cover gilt lettered and with pictorial decoration by Potter in maroon. A fine and handsome copy, the blue cloth with just

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polar bear image is white and complete, the gilt is bright, cover gilt and medallion are in gilt and well preserved, the text-block and plates are also very well preserved, .

FIRST EDITION OF THIS CORNERSTONE TEXT AND A VERY PLEASING COPY. “Commander Peary has made all dwellers in the civilized world his debtors; but, above all, we, his fellow Americans, are his debtors” (-from the introduction by Roosevelt).

Item Number: 34 Price: $395. the lightest evidence of age, but nearly as pristine, the text very clean and fresh and looking essentially as mint, especially well preserved for a book of the period..

FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE, LITTLE PIG ROBINSON was the author’s last book and the final entry in the series of “Peter Rabbit” tales. Oddly, it was one of the first to be written and it is also the longest.

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Rackham’s Elusive 1909 Grimms’ Fairy Tales The Best and Finest Edition

[Rackham, illus.] The Brothers Grimm. THE FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas (London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1909) First edition, first printing of this considerably altered issue from Constable and Co.’s 1900 selection of Grimms’ Fairy Tales. 40 colour plates

by Arthur Rackham and with over 50 black and white illustrations throughout. Royal 8vo, finely bound in three quarter red morocco over the publisher’s original red cloth-covered boards with elaborate gilt pictorial decoration and lettering on the upper cover. A handsome and desirable copy, internally very well

Winwood Reade’s African Sketchbook The Scarce First Edition in Original Cloth - 1873

Reade, Winwood. THE AFRICAN SKETCH-BOOK (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1873) 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with12 maps and 10 full-page woodcuts. Large folding map at the end of Volume II. 8vo, original dark green cloth, gilt-lettered and pictorially decorated with vignettes on the spines, the upper covers centrally decorated with black letters and vignette in black and gilt, the borders with multiple rules in black. A handsome set of this scarce double-decker in the original cloth.

Just a bit of aging and mellowing but uncommonly well pre-

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preserved, fresh with only minor mellowing, much less then is typical on this title, the original cloth on the binding very bright, the morocco very fine.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS MASTERWORK BY ARTHUR RACKHAM. VERY SCARCE. This is by far the better of the editions from Constable and Co., the 1900 selection had black and white illustrations only. For this edition, Rackham reworked the drawings, “generally overhauling them as a set, supplementing and omitting, with a view to the present edition.” The present edition contains 40 beautifully coloured plates and 55 black and white drawings.

Item Number: 36 Price: $1450. served just the same.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Based on three years’ travel in Sierra Leone, Senegambia, Liberia, the Gold Coast , the Slave Coast and “the Negro Republic.”“It is not only a narrative of travel I offer to the public”, says the author, “ but a sketch book of African life; and though the texture of the work is light, the labour bestowed upon it has been immense”. Copies of the first edition are especially elusive and very much so in this condition.

Highly Important Artwork from Significant Early Travels

Item Number: 37 Price: $550.

J.D. Salinger’s Iconic American Literary Classic

Item Number: 38 Price: $4500.

David Roberts’ View of a Great UNESCO World Heritage Site From the Great Standard Folio Edition

The Catcher in the Rye - Boston - 1951 First Edition

Roberts, David; [Egypt]. The Convent of St. Catherine, Mt. Sinai [An Original Hand-Coloured Lithograph From] THE HOLY LAND, SYRIA, IDUMEA, ARABIA, EGYPT AND NUBIA (London: F.G. Moon and Co., 1845) From the Standard Folio First Edition, limited to 500 sets only. An original hand-coloured lithographic plate by Louis Haghe after David Roberts’ paintings done on location in 1839. Printed on a half folio sheet 15.5” x 13”, the captioned image, is 14” x 10”, now presented in cream

Salinger, J. D. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951) First edition and first printing and in the first issue dustjacket. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. In the original dustjacket featuring Salinger’s photo on rear cover credited to Lotte Jacobi and $3 price correctly positioned on front flap. A well preserved copy, the black cloth with no fading and with the gilt bright, just some typical evidence of age or use, the text clean and fresh, an old unobtrusive crease to the lower corner section of the half-title,

mounting boards glazed behind clear mylar. Beautifully handcoloured to the highest standards of the time. An example in excellent condition, clean, fresh, beautifully preserved.

FROM One of the most desirable of all travel and COLOURplate books. This is a beautiful plate of a highly significant site, “Santa Katarina”, Sacred Monastery of the God-Trodden Mount Sinai. Built between 548 and 565, the monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world.

the scarce first issue jacket attractive with some inevitable edge-wear, a little bit of chipping, rubbing or mellowing and evidence of use.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF AN AMERICAN ICONIC WORK AND A 20TH CENTURY LITERARY CLASSIC. J.D. Salinger’s first and still, most famous work.. Salinger tapped into a common and necessary theme in American literature with his unhappy teenage character, Holden Caulfield, who runs away from his boarding school as part of his disgust with ‘phoniness’.

The Mammals of South West Africa - 1934 Perhaps the Best Work on the Subject - First Edition A Bright Set With the Original Dustjackets Included

Shortridge, Captain G. C. THE MAMMALS OF SOUTH WEST AFRICA... (London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1934) 2 volumes.

First edition. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs on glossy plates and several maps printed in black and red, as well as a fold-out map at the rear of volume one printed in black and blue. Large 8vo, in the original green cloth with gilt vignette of two zebras in chase on the upper covers, and gilt lettering on the spines, in the very scarce original dustjackets. A bright, handsome and clean set, with almost none of the typical foxing, the green cloth bright with just some very minor age

Item Number: 39 Price: $275. mellowing to the edges and extremities. The very rare jackets with mellowing, some edge-wear and a bit of chipping but still preserving the books well and remaining significantly complete and sound.

FIRST EDITION AND AN EARLY COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT OF SOUTHWESTERN AFRICA’S “AMAZING VARIETY” OF MAMMALS. In this volume, Captain Shortridge compiles not only the results of his own expeditions but the field notes of others to provide the most complete account of mammalian wildlife possible in this region.

General Smuts - A Very Fine Set in Dustjackets - 1936 Sarah Gertrude Millin’s Engaging Biography and History

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[South Africa; General Smuts] Millin, Sarah Gertrude. GENERAL SMUTS (London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1936) First edition, early impression. With 23 black and white illustrations from contemporary photographs. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered and with stars denoting volume numbers in gilt on the spines, in the original second state dustjackets of bright yellow paper lettered in blue and black. A very fine set, unusually well preserved, pristine throughout and near as mint.

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A SUPERB SET, UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. A great political-biography of South African hero, General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Millin’s text was painstakingly researched before being revised

by General Smuts himself. It is not only a well written and engaging biography, but also offers a great deal of history on the Second Boer War and the first World War.

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A Superior Copy - Pristine and Partially Unopened Rare First Edition of a Great Work on Southern Africa 1835 Steedman’s Wanderings and Adventures in the Interior

Steedman, Andrew. WANDERINGS AND ADVENTURES IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. (London: Longman & Co., 1835) 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with early lithographic and wood engravings, being a frontispiece to each volume, engraved vignette titlepage to each volume and ten plates. Also with a fine large folding map. 8vo, in the very rare original publisher’s ribbed dark olive cloth, the spines gilt lettered within an ornate gilt frame. A very fine and bright set, extraordinarily so and appearing completely pristine and probably mint, most of Volume II remains unopened, the text

Item Number: 41 Price: $1850.

very bright and fresh, some of the inevitable foxing due to the stock used which is always the case, the cloth still extremely fresh and attractive, the colour rich with no fading, virtually no wear whatsoever, hinges fine, in all a most unusual and superior set.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF A TRULY IMPORTANT BOOK, SELDOM SEEN AT ALL, VERY RARE IN ORIGINAL CLOTH AND IN THIS CONDITION UNHEARD OF. The account of the author’s travels during his ten years of residence in the Cape.

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - 1937 In the Original Dustjacket

Steinbeck, John. OF MICE AND MEN (New York: Covici Friede, 1937) First Edition, later issue with errors and bullet corrected and pricing to the rear panel of the dust jacket. 8vo, publisher’s original tan cloth, lettered on terra cotta labels bordered in black on the spine and upper cover, in the beautifully decorated pictorial dustjacket. The book very good with just a bit of the mellowing typical to depression era printings. The jacket attractive

Item Number: 42 Price: $295. though edgeworn and with some chipping.

ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT OF ALL OF STEINBECK’S WORKS. An exquisitely written tale and one of Steinbeck’s greatest books. The publisher produced only 2500 copies of MICE AND MEN, whereas the first issue of GRAPES OF WRATH numbered 50,000.

Huckleberry Finn - Finely Bound in Full Green Morocco The Fine Children’s Illustrated Classic Edition

Twain, Mark. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (London and New York: J. M. Dent & Sons and E. P. Dutton, 1956) First reprint of the Children’s Illustrated Classics edition. Illustrated by C. Walter Hodges with 4 finely produced plates in colour and fourteen black and white drawings within the text. 8vo, very finely bound in full forest green morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, the spine with tall raised bands blind ruled,

Item Number: 43 Price: $595.

two compartments with gilt lettering, fine marbled endpapers.

A very fine copy of this very attractive printing, the binding very handsome and beautifully preserved.

CHOICELY BOUND, and the great classic of American literature is nicely brought even more to life by Greenaway Medal winning C. Walter Hodges’ illustrations. Though English, Hodges had no trouble capturing the uniquely American characters and settings.

First Edition - 1677 - The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft A Very Rare Early Recognition of the Psychosomatic Attributing Witchcraft to Psychological Phenomena

Webster, John. THE DISPLAYING OF SUPPOSED WITCHCRAFT... (London: by J.M. for the Booksellers in London, 1677) Important first edition. With fine provenance, coming from the Wrest Park library of Thomas Philip Earl de Grey. With both the imprimatur leaf and final leaf with the printer’s note to the reader included; these are often lacking. Folio, handsomely bound in contemporary full calf, sometime ago expertly restored where some loss occurred at the tips or edges, the original spine panel with gilt tooled compartments between wide raised bands, gilt

ruled, one compartment with a brown morocco label gilt lettered, the fore-edge with brass clasps. A beautifully preserved copy, the text very fresh, crisp, and especially clean. The calf aged and restored as noted, the binding solid and handsome VERY RARE IN ORIGINAL BINDING. FIRST EDITION AND AN ESPECIALLY SCARCE EARLY WORK DEBUNKING WITCHCRAFT AND RECOGNIZING THE SUPERNATURAL AS PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENA.

H. G. Wells’ The Research Magnificent A Signed Presentation Copy - 1927

Wells, H. G. THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT (London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1927) SIGNED, PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed to the recipient with Wells’ classic flourish on May 7, 1931. 12mo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and with a central gilt motif on the upper cover. A well preserved copy with some wear to the upper joints.

Item Number: 45 Price: $550.

SIGNED AND PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR. Though best remembered for his classic science fiction novels such as THE TIME MACHINE, Well’s was a truly multifaceted writer. He also wrote serious scientific reviews and sociological and historical papers that remain highly regarded.

Walt Whitman’s Prose Works - Specimen Days & Collect

Item Number: 46 Price: $6500.

Whitman, Walt. SPECIMEN DAYS & COLLECT. (Philadelphia: Rees Welch & Co., 1882-1883.) First Edition, First Issue.

This copy is from the library of diarist Frederick Shelley Ryman with his signature on the front end-paper, where he also has written, “Autograph Edition see p.122- Bought off Walt Whitman himself. Recd Jan. 6th, 1888”. Forty four of Ryman’s diaries dated 1880-1929 are in the permanent collection of the Mass Historical Society. “An atheist, he espoused free-love doctrines, passionately loved the poetry of Walt Whitman, and championed women’s rights to equal education and employment. Nonetheless, the adventures he recorded at length in his diaries disclose a subculture that Ryman shared with other single men and women of the era. Ryman left a rich historical

legacy in his extensive diaries which provide a rare personal account of male sexual experience during the 19th Century”.

This copy has Ryman’s news clippings, cross outs, marginal lines and annotations sporadically throughout. This copy has a BOLD WHITMAN SIGNATURE laid in at page 122 opposite the portrait (loose) of Whitman with butterfly. 8vo, bound in the publisher’s original yellow cloth. An attractive copy well used by its illustrious former owner with his extensive and highly interesting notes throughout.

A WONDERFUL COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. THIS FASCINATING COPY WITH LAID IN AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE OF WALT WHITMAN AND EXTENSIVE NOTATIONS ATTESTING TO ITS FINE PROVENANCE.

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