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Reminiscences of a Ranger - Early Times in South California First Trade Edition - Illustrated Throughout

Bell, Major Horace. REMINISCENCES OF A RANGER. Or Early Times in Southern California. (Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, 1927) First Trade Edition, first public issue. Illustrated with a frontispiece plate and a number of other full page illustrations.

8vo, original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine panel and decorated with gilt western designs and gilt lettering on the upper cover, in the scarce original pictorial printed red paper dustjacket. A fine copy in a very good dustjacket, a little offset-

[Breviary], Roman Breviary. [BREVIARUIM CADURCENSE illustrissimi & reverendissimi in chrito patris d d BertrandiBaptist-Renati du Guesclin Pars Aestiva] (Paris: Jean-Baptiste Coignard and Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, [1745]) A handsome 18th century edition. With initials, tables, calendars, printed music, etc. 12mo, in contemporary full calf, the spine with gilt tooled compartments between gilt tooled flat bands, the tools feature palm fronds, the cross and the sacred heart. aii-cii, 564, cxxxix, [18] pp. Well preserved, the leather is a bit worn but less

Item Number: 2 Price: $150. then is typically found for books used daily in churches, the text still quite clean and fresh and solid, lacking ai, title.

A HANDSOME EXAMPLE OF AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ROMAN BREVIARY FROM FRANCE. The Breviary was the liturgical book of the Latin liturgical rites of the Catholic Church prior to 1974. It contains all the public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially by bishops, priests, and deacons in the Divine Office.

A Fine Set of the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Three Volumes - 1856 - In the Rare Original Cloth Bindings

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. POEMS (London: Chapman and Hall, 1856) 3 volumes. Fourth edition. 8vo, publisher’s olive green cloth with elaborate blind embossed designs on all covers, the spines handsomely lettered in gilt with gilt decorative tool.

A beautiful set, rarely encountered in such nice condition, the text bright and clean with only the most minimal of foxing to a few leaves in the prelims, the cloth fresh with just a touch of wear along the tips or extremities.

RARE IN THIS CONDITION AND A VERY EARLY SET OF BROWNING’S BEAUTIFUL POETRY. IT IS UNCOMMON TO

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ting from the red paper dustwrapper to the endpaper, the spine ever so lightly mellowed.

FIRST TRADE AND PUBLIC EDITION. Originally published in a small edition in 1881, many copies were destroyed in a fire. The author traveled to Los Angeles in 1852 to visit an uncle, Alexander Bell, who had settled there in 1842 and married a Mexican California.

Alexander had become wealthy as a trader and influential in politics.

Horace Bell was a founding member of the Los Angeles Rangers.

A French Breviary Circa 1745 Breviarum Cadurcense Pars Aestiva

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FIND THESE IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. Browning’s poetry was already critically and publicly acclaimed while she was alive; she was considered Wordsworth’s successor as Poet Laureate upon his death. However, Browning’s more advanced ideas may appeal to readers of this generation. Browning was sympathetic to the ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, politically progressive in her views and in the literary realm, transformed poetic style and content. Thus, her work is by no means a mere curiosity but rather representative of the highest literary and intellectual achievements.

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E.A. Wallis Budge Traces the Cult of Osiris First Edition 1911 - Profusely Illustrated

Budge, E. A. Wallis. OSIRIS AND THE EGYPTIAN RESURRECTION. (London: The Medici Society Ltd., 1911) 2 volumes. First edition. With 200 illustrations after drawings from Egyptian papyri and monuments, including 4 plates in collotype, and frontispieces in colour. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth, spines lettered in gilt and blind with blind vignettes, upper covers lettered in blind with blind stamped pictorial vignettes. A very well preserved and handsome set.

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SCARCE FIRST EDITIONS, nice sets have become difficult to find. “In this work by Dr. Budge, the author attempts to investigate the history of Osiris and the dogma of resurrection in Ancient Egypt.

As Dr. Frazer found in ‘The Golden Bough’ the central point for incomparable studies of Religions and myths, so---taking Osiris as the centre of religion of Egypt---this investigation assumes the form of a history of the beliefs in heaven and hell, of African eschatology, and a description of the other world.

Fogel’s Comprehensive Charles Bukowski Checklist First Edition - A Scarce Printing of Only 200 Copies

[Bukowski, Charles]; Fogel, Al. CHARLES BUKOWSKI: A Comprehensive Checklist (Miami, FL.: The Sole Proprietor Press, October 1982) LIMITED Frst Edition, one of only 200 copies printed, SIGNED and numbered by the compiler, Al Fogel. 4to, bound in publisher’s original glossy white wrappers printed in black, staple bound. A fine copy, as pristine, the white wrappers just a touch mellowed.

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Burns, Robert. POEMS AND SONGS BY ROBERT BURNS. (London: W. Kent & Co, 1861) First edition thus. Frontispiece engraving, engraved title, and over 50 other engravings by Birket Foster, Harrison Weir, S. Edmonston and other famous artists of the period. 4to, publisher’s beautiful original Victorian red cloth, lettered and elaborately decorated in all-over designs in gilt on the spine and on both covers. In very fine and exemplary condition,

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice. THE GODS OF MARS (London: Methuen and Co., 1920) First U.K. edition. 8vo, green cloth lettered in black. A very good copy still quite clean and tight with the expected age mellowing.

ONLY THE SECOND OF BURROUGHS’ FAMOUS ‘BARSOOM’ SERIES. As in all of Burroughs’ extremely popular Mars

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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron - 1859

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Finely Bound in Period Morocco

Burton , Captain Sir Richard F. (ed. Wilkins W.H.). WANDERINGS IN THREE CONTINENTS (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1901) First edition. With photogravure portrait frontispiece and other illustrations by A. D. McCormick. 8vo, pubisher’s original red buckram with gilt lettering and portrait on the upper cover, and gilt lettering on the spine. Some overall mellowing to the colour, a bit of rubbing to the extremities and spine panel, internally bright and clean, hinges firm and strong.

Byron, George Gordon, Lord. THE POETICAL WORKS (London: John Murray, 1859) “New and Complete edition”. With 11 very handsome engraved plates, including a portrait frontispiece and engraved vignette title page. 8vo, period three-quarter green morocco and green pebbled cloth, spine with raised bands gilt decorated, lettered in gilt in one compartment. Very handsome and

Charles Dickens’ ‘Household Words’ Handsomely Bound in Rowfant Morocco

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Dickens, Charles. SELECTIONS FROM HOUSEHOLD WORDS, CONDUCTED BY CHARLES DICKENS (New York and London: various publishers, 1850-51) 2 volumes. Comprising numbers 180 to 196 in the first volume, and numbers 27 to 52 in the second.

8vo, in a handsome binding of three-quarter dark green morocco and marbled boards by the Rowfant bindery, the panels with elaborate tools featuring scroll work and pointille decoration, gilt lettered in two panels. Some foxing to content, the bindings

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novels, one can expect to find in this book lots of action, fighting and scantly-clad alien babes. At the end of the first book, ‘A Princess of Mars’, John Carter is unwillingly transported back to Earth. ‘The Gods of Mars’ begins with his arrival back on Barsoom (Mars) after a ten-year separation.

The Travels and Adventures of Sir Richard Francis Burton Eight Important Essays Edited by W.H. Wilkins

Price: $495.

the gilt and cloth are undiminished by time, the pages clean and fresh, just a touch of light aging to the extremities.

A BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN DECORATED BINDING WITH WONDERFUL TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT and a very desirable copy of the “Poems and Songs”, complete with charming illustrations throughout. The large format and clear type make this copy a pleasure to read.

Back to Mars with Edgar Rice Burroughs From His Most Popular Science Fiction Series

Price: $175.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY TWO HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED. This comprehensive list includes books, booklets, chapbooks, broadsides and separate appearances. There are 75 items described, in addition are the 10 most important magazine or anthology contributions and the 10 most sought after titles from rare book dealers. A very valuable reference for any collector.

Burns’ Poems and Songs in Exquisitely Decorated Cloth Published in London 1861

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SCARCE FIRST EDITION. This posthumous volume of essays reveals Burton “in the aspect in which he was known best to the world-as a traveler and explorer.” Contained within are Burton’s writings on travels and explorations in El Medinah and Mecca, Harar, The Heart of Africa, The City of the Mormons, Dahome, The Congo, Brazil and Syria. Most of the essays were lectures that Burton delivered before a variety of geographical and scientific societies.

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well preserved, with occasional light foxing to some plates.

A VERY EARLY EDITION OF BYRON’S WORKS COLLECTED. It is well illustrated with attractive engraved plates, features a chronology of his life and works, a full index and extensive appendix of scholarly notes by Sir Walter Scott, Lord Jeffrey, George Crabbe and several others. Thomas Moore’s notes are also included.

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are in fine condition.

A VERY FINE COLLECTION OF THE DICKENS SELECTIONS, AND A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THE LOVELY WORK DONE BY THE ROWFANT BINDERY. Household Words was an English weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens in the 1850s. It took its name from the line in Shakespeare’s Henry V: “Familiar in his mouth as household words.”

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Cumming’s Five Years of a Hunter’s Life in Africa The Rare First Edition - Two Volumes - London - 1850

Cumming, Roualeyn Gordon. FIVE YEARS OF A HUNTER’S LIFE IN THE FAR INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA... (London: John Murray, 1850) 2 volumes. Scarce First Edition. With a frontispiece and vignette title page in each volume, and 13 additional plates including a map, a total of 17 illustrations as called for. 8vo, bound in contemporary three quarter dark-rose calf over marbled boards by Bosworth and Harrison. The spines with gilt stippled and ruled raised bands between gilt framed compartments with elegant corner-pieces,, one compartment with morocco labels gilt lined and lettered. A handsome, clean

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FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE CORNERSTONE BOOKS ON AFRICAN EXPLORATION AND HUNTING. Cumming was a reknown and experienced sportsman whose thirst for adventure could only be somewhat slaked in the unexplored wilds of the African continent. This book is an account of his adventures hunting in the “untrodden wilds” of South Africa.

Doré’s Magnificent Bible - Super Folio - A Pristine Set Two Volumes In Superb Bindings Gilt Extra With Spectacular Illustrations - Rare in this State

[Doré, Gustav. Illus]. THE HOLY BIBLE containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the Authorised Version. (London: Cassell and Company, Limited, [c. 1865-1870]) 2 volumes. The magnificent Doré illustrated Bible, a wonderful copy. With 220 full page engravings by Gustave Doré. Fine Large Folio Volumes, publisher’s best bindings of full rich brown morocco gilt, covers with ornate blind ruled borders and elaborate blind tooled designs in arabesque patterns across the entirety of both covers, spines with raised bands and gilt lettering in two compartments, elaborate blind tooled decorations in the other compartments,

[Doves Press] Milton, John. AREOPAGITICA; A Speech of Mr. John Milton For the Library of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England.... (Hammersmith: At the Doves Press, 1907) First edition thus, and from a small but unspecified printing by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. Small 4to, original Doves soft vellum lettered on the spine in gilt. A fine copy, the text clean and fresh with just the lightest hint of the toning associated with this title, the vellum in excellent order with just a

[Dryden] Decimus Junius, Juvenalis; Aulus Persius Flaccus. THE SATIRES OF DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS. Translated into English Verse by Mr. Dryden, and several other Eminent Hands.

Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus... (London: Jacob Tonson, 1697) Early issue. Adorned with sculptures, being a frontispiece, sixteen finely engraved copper plates by Hollar to illustrate each of the Satires and one additional engraved bust of Persius. 8vo, contemporary full speckled calf, sometime long ago rebacked to period style featuring gilt ruled raised bands, one compartment with a dark green morocco label lettered and

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Jeremy Taylor - One of Only 320 Copies Printed

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Handsome Gilt Decorations First Edition - Published by Hodder and Stoughton

From the Golden Cockerel Press - 1923

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[Fine Press]; Armstong, Martin, Editor. JEREMY TAYLOR: A Selection From His Works (Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1923) FIRST AND LIMITED EDITION, one of 320 copies only. This copy with FINE PROVENANCE, the Library of Le Duc de Richelieu, and with the further provenance established as coming from the private library of Haven O’More.

With occasional headlines and large engraved initials printed throughout in red. 4to, publisher’s original blue boards backed

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ruled in gilt. A well preserved copy. Some minor toning or foxing, more so to the title and frontispiece, binding with some normal age evidence.

AN IMPORTANT TRANSLATION OF ONE OF THE GREAT CLASSICAL TEXTS. Jacob Tonson published The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and Aulus Persius Flaccus originally in 1693.

The engraved plates are much in the same style as the somewhat more famous plates in Dryden’s ‘Virgil’, which was first published the same year as this edition.

Dulac’s Poe -The Bells and Other Poems In Original Cloth [Dulac, illus.] Poe, Edgar Allan. THE BELLS and Other Poems.

(London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912]) First edition. Illustrated with 28 supeb colour plates by Edmund Dulac. 4to, publisher’s original olive cloth very generously decorated in gilt and blind in pictorial and figurative designs over the entire spine and upper cover, with gilt decorated endleaves. A pleasing, bright, clean and handsome copy with only light age mellowing. The plates are especially bright with all captioned tissue guards present.

SCARCE AND BEAUTIFUL FIRST EDITION. “The Outlook”

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bit of the natural mottling normal to the material.

A FINE AND BEAUTIFUL PRINTING FROM THE DOVES PRESS. This is the text of a speech delivered by Milton to Parliament on the liberty of unlicensed printing, which has since become a standard text on free speech and freedom of the press. A well-printed and handsome edition. Perhaps the first and greatest of all writings on the freedom of the press and speech.

The Satires of Junius and Persius - Dryden’s Translation Printed by Jacob Tonson Adorned With Fine Copperplates by Hollar

Price: $3750.

turn-ins gilt tooled. A truly beautiful and outstanding set of this great Doré creation in a truly exemplary format in the best bindings. An as pristine set in extremely fine condition.

RARE, BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED AND ELABORATELY BOUND ISSUE OF THE FOLIO PRINTING. One of the most magnificent of the Doré illustrated books. A huge testament to Doré’s talent and a most impressive set in size and scope. These books are not commonly found in such condition due to the stress caused by the bulk of the text, but this copy is essentially pristine, bright and solid and as lovely a copy as one can possibly hope to find.

The Doves Press Printing of John Milton’s Areopagitica The First Great Book on Freedom of the Press

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and “The Bookman” both commented that ”the book thinking people will say with grace...sometimes Dulac’s pictures are deep-coloured and intense, sometimes dim and ghost-like. But one and all are sensitized to record impressions of unearthly beauty or horror. Only Poe could have written the poems. Only Dulac could have illustrated them.”

Indeed, Dulac brings Poe’s genius to life with his worlds of swirling furies, forlorn moonlit maidens, and eerie fairy castles that seem to stumble away from reality into the edge of dream---or nightmare.

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in buckram, with a printed paper label on the spine. A very nice copy, well preserved and handsome.

FIRST EDITION LIMITED and a handsome printing from the Golden Cockerel Press. This copy is from the personal library of Haven O’More, who conceived and formed the ‘Garden Collection’, one of the greatest book collections of the 20th century. It has his printed library catalogue label laid in.

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A Chronological History of the Continent of Florida

Barcia - The First Translation into English of this Great Work - First Edition and First Limited Edition - A Very Fine Copy

[Florida]; Barcia , [Andres Gonzalez de]. BARCIA’S CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE CONTINENT OF FLORIDA. Containing the Discoveries and Principle Events... From the Year 1512... Until the Year 1722... (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1951) First edition in English, LIMITED to 999 numbered copies. This printing is the first time the work was ever translated into English. Engraved styled head and tail-pieces, folding genealogical plate, original prospectus included, title-page and limitation page printed in black and red. Tall 4to, publisher’s original cloth designed beautifully to be reminiscent of antique

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vellum, lettered in manuscript style on the spine in brown, the upper cover with pictorial decorations in brown, orange and green, original clear plastic dustjacket. Pristine but for a little abrasion or creasing to the front free-fly and blanks.

SCARCE FIRST AND LIMITED EDITION AND THE FIRST TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH of, “the principal authority on Florida itself during its two centuries of Spanish supremacy. . . “.

Howes, B130. Originally published in 1723 in Madrid, this book covers the peninsula’s history from the landing of Ponce de Leon in 1512 through the year 1722.

One of the Great Works of American Poetry-North of Boston

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Hemingway’s The Green Hills of Africa - First Edition

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A Robert Frost Classic The First American Edition - In the Rare Dustjacket

His Thoughts on Literature and Game

Frost, Robert. NORTH OF BOSTON (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915) First Edition Thus, Stated Third edition but actually the second printing of the First Edition Printed in America. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on the spine and upper cover, in the publisher’s original dustjacket. A fine and handsome copy, only the most minor of mellowing to the tips, the jacket unusually well preserved, whole

Hemingway, Ernest. GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935) First Edition. Illustrated with black and white drawings throughout. 8vo, original green cloth lettered in gilt over black on gilt ruled spine, upper copy with Hemingway signature printed in gilt. In the original decorated dustjacket. A nice copy of this work, the cloth with some of the usual mellowing down to the spine panel and covers, the jacket with some minor shelf-wear or edge rubbing.

SCARCE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION IN THE

Frank Herbert’s Dune - A Fine Copy Arguably the Most Famous Book of the Sci-Fi Genre

Herbert, Frank. DUNE (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1984) First Putnam edition. With the two page map of Arrakis. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth over blue boards, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original dustjacket. A fine copy indeed, very bright, the jacket with virtually no wear and only trivial signs of age.

THE FIRST BOOK IN HERBERT’S EPIC SERIES, AND ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS OF ALL

Oliver Wendell Holmes - Poems - His First Book First Edition with Materials Never Before in Book Form The First English Edition - London 1846

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. POEMS (London: O. Rich & Sons, 1846) The Author’s First Book. First English edition with material never previously appearing in book form or preciously collected. 8vo, publisher’s original brown ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt and ruled in blind on the spine, covers bordered and stamped in blind. A clean copy, head and tail of the spine with a bit of wear from shelving and age, internally clean, hinges in good order.

Important & Early Missionary Travels in Asia L’Abbe Huc’s Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China

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Huc, M. [L’Abbe Evariste Regis]. TRAVELS IN TARTARY, THIBET, AND CHINA, During the Years 1844-5-6. Translated From the French by W. Hazlitt (London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, [circa 1850]) 2 volumes. Second edition or printing in English. Extensively illustrated throughout with wood engravings and with a frontispiece plate and vignette title-page to each volume, folding map in Vol. I. 8vo, original mustard embossed cloth, the covers extensively decorated in blind in a pattern featuring thistles, roses and acorns, the spine likewise decorated but in gilt and with gilt lettering, publisher’s advertisements as endpapers. A very good and handsome set,

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and without chipping, just a bit of wear at the fold lines and extremely minor rubbing to the spine.

SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION AND IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. THIS ISSUE WAS ACTUALLY THE FIRST REPRINT OF THE FIRST EDITION PRINTED IN AMERICA. The book is vital to his development as a great poet. It remains in all his oeuvre perhaps the most prominent of his books.

ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. An account of big-game hunting with digressions on literary matters; this work shows Hemingway’s further cultivation of the primitive and brutal levels contrasted with hollow culture, which he felt had cheated his generation. Hemingway would long carry the reputation of a master hunter as well as master writer. His love of the African landscape and his pursuit of African game is legendary and in his work he ‘brought into focus a great deal that is significant about human living and dying, and about the trade called literature’.

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TIME. This finely produced Putnam edition attests to the near cultlike popularity that Frank Herbert had found with his complex story since its original publication in 1965. The story of Paul Atreides has become one of the most famous and best selling novels of the genre. In 1975, it was voted by Science Fiction readers as the greatest novel ever, over such classics as LORD OF THE RINGS, 1984, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, and etc.

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FIRST EDITION ISSUED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. This edition includes nine poems which had never before been collected or produced in book form and a short memoir of the author from Griswold’s POETRY AND POETS IN AMERICA. A fragile book, nice copies are seldom encountered.

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scarce in the original cloth, the bindings showing very little wear but for a chip to the outer cloth at the spine head of Vol.I, the text-block very well preserved.

THE ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN TRAVELS TO LHASA AFTER THE EXPULSION OF THE CAPUCHINS. For fourteen years Huc served as an important missionary in China with access to both high officials and the poor he ministered to. He worked in various places including with the Tartars in Mongolia. In this, his first book, he described his journey into Tibet and traces the history of Christianity in China. The mission was sent on behalf of the Holy See, to investigate this little known region.

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A Handsome Set of The Letters of Junius With Fine StippleEngraved Portraits Throughout

Junius [Francis, Sir Philip]. JUNIUS. STAT NOMINIS UMBRA [The Letters of Junius] (London: By T. Bensley, 1805) 2 volumes.

First Edition Thus and a large paper copy with wide margins, a new edition of the revised version of the “Letters,” with a dedication to the English people and a preface. With engraved titles and 21 stipple engraved portraits by Ridley, Hopwood and others, the tissue guards present. Tall 8vos, bound in maroon crushed morocco over cloth covered boards, the spines with blind ruled

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flat bands and two gilt lettered compartments. A fine set.

AN ELEGANT LARGE PAPER EDITION OF A CLASSIC. The “letters of Junius” were originally contributed to the London “Public Advertiser” from the 21st of January 1769 to the 21st of January 1772 and were intended to discredit the ministry of the duke of Grafton (although their political content is of little interest now, and indeed had little effect in their time). Their interest lies in their style and the controversy regarding their authorship.

Layard’s Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon The Important First Edition - 1853 A Handsome Copy in the Original Decorated Cloth

Layard, Austen H. DISCOVERIES IN THE RUINS OF NINEVEH AND BABYLON; With Travels In Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert... (London: John Murray, 1853) First edition. With a profusion of large folding maps and fine lithographic plates, a number tinted, and with extensive illustrations throughout the text. Thick 8vo, publisher’s brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and extensively and pictorially decorated in blind in all over designs across both covers and the spine in Babylonian motif. A very nice copy of this now scarce title rarely found in decent condition, clean and with virtually none of the foxing to which the book is

Le Vaillant’s Travels into Africa - 1790 The Important First Edition of the First Voyage In the Rare Printer’s Boards - Original Deckled Edges

Le Vaillant, [Francois]. TRAVELS FROM THE CAPE OF GOODHOPE, INTO THE INTERIOR PARTS OF AFRICA, INCLUDING MANY INTERESTING ANECDOTES. With Elegant Plates.

Descriptive of the Country and Inhabitants... (London: for William Lane, 1790) 2 volumes. First edition. With 14 elegant copperplate engravings, some folding. There are two plates of giraffes rather than only one as listed and an additional plate of arms opposite page 1. 8vo, in original printer’s boards and untrimmed as issued, very rare as such, the boards of gray paper

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prone, one map a bit worn along the outside edge.

AN IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION, NOW SCARCE, this is an extensive and detailed description and interpretation of Layard’s excavations at Ninevah and Babylon. In two separate trips, Layard was the first to discover and excavate the ancient city of Ninevah.

Maps and engravings illustrate not only the physical site and remains, they also illustrate the excavation itself. This book is of special interest for its work in the translation of the cuneiform script of the region-- a very new area of study at the time and still subject to argument and revision.

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Locke, John. AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMANE UNDERSTANDING In Four Books (London: for Awnsham and John Churchil, 1700) The fourth edition, with a large number of additions. With the engraved portrait frontispiece of John Locke.

Folio, full contemporary paneled calf, expertly rebacked to correct period style with tall raised bands double-ruled in gilt and a brown morocco label gilt ruled and lettered. A very handsome copy, crisp and in fine order inside and out, pastedown and free-fly renewed with proper handmade paper, the binding very attractive, sturdy and sound.

First Edition of Norman Mailer’s Greatest Work The Naked and The Dead

Mailer, Norman. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD (New York: Rinehart and Co, 1948) First edition, first issue with Rinehart logo on copyright page, jacket without the Rinehart quote. 8vo, original black cloth printed in white on the spine, printed dustjacket with Mailer’s photograph on the rear panel. Internally a very good and well preserved copy with only minor mellowing and some dusting to the page edges. The cloth good only with the spine panel loose from the front board but still whole and

Mollien’s Travels in the Interior of Africa - 1820 First Edition With Map and Engravings Handsomely Bound and Presented in Antique Calf

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with contemporary backing of brown calf gilt ruled and lettered in manuscript. A fine set in fully original condition as it came from the printer, unrestored and unsophisticated.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK. “Le Vaillant was a French naturalist who traveled in South Africa from 1780 to 1785 when he collected material for his magnificent book on the birds of Africa. His travels were extensive and took him as far as Namaqualand, Bechuanaland, and parts of the Kalahari. His conceit adds a spice of humor to his books”

John Locke - An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding The Last Edition Published in His Lifetime - PMM 164 The Most Complete Expression of the New Empiricist Spirit A Very Handsome Copy

Price: $295.

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A VERY EARLY PRINTING WITH THE PORTRAIT, AND A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF LOCKE’S GREAT ESSAY, the “first attempt on a great scale, and in the Baconian spirit, to estimate critically the certainty and the adequacy of human knowledge, when confronted with God and the universe” (EB). This was the last edition to be published in Locke’s lifetime. It contains all of the additions of the previous three editions. The principal additions include an epistle to the reader on Locke’s terminology and there are two wholly new chapters. There are also numerous minor additions and corrections.

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attached to the back, some wear to the board edges and corners, dustjacket in good order with very little wear or aging.

NORMAN MAILER’S FIRST BOOK AND ARGUABLY STILL ONE OF HIS BEST. Long considered one of the best novels to come out of World War II, and the best to come out of America. It caused a sensation on its initial publication; critics compared the 25-year-old author to Tolstoy and catapulted him to instant literary celebrity.

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Mollien, Gaspard Theodore. TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA, to the sources of the Senegal and Gambia.., in the Year 1818... (London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co., 1820) First edition in English. With a large folding map, stipple-engraved frontispiece and six uncoloured aquatint plates. 4to, antique three-quarter calf over marbled boards, lettered in gilt on the spine. A very handsome and well preserved copy. Quite clean throughout. A small repair to the lower outside corner of the title-page.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. “It was at first my intention, when I set out for the interior of Western Africa, to explore anew the countries which Mungo Park had visited; but being soon convinced of the impossibility of making discoveries, or even of traveling at all in that quarter, I resolved to strike out a new track...” 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.

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Thomas More’s Utopia - An Early Edition The Rare First Irish

More, Sir Thomas. UTOPIA: Written in Latin by Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England. Translated into English, by Gilbert Burnet... (Dublin: Printed by R. Reilly, for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, 1737) The Rare First Irish Edition. Large 12mo, period mottled calf with blind stamped bands to the spine, gilt lettering on a crimson morocco label, bordered by gilt on the spine. An attractive and very well preserved copy, internally very clean and crisp.

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A PMM WORK AND CONSIDERED ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS IN THE HISTORY OF HUMAN THOUGHT. Originally published in Latin in 1516, More’s UTOPIA fancifully attacked the vices of power and “declared for indifference of religious creed with a breadth of philosophical view of which there is no other example in any Englishman of that age” (Encyc. Brit.). This 18th century edition is proof of its enduring influence.

An Original Drawing by Kay Nielsen Actors Upon the Stage - A Drawing of Theatre in Place

Nielsen, Kay. A DRAWING, POSSIBLY FOR USE AS A SET DESIGN, INCORPORATING SOME OF NIELSEN’S FINEST ARTISTIC TALENTS. Signed by Nielsen at the foot of the drawing.

370 x 265 mm (the image 280 x190 mm), the drawing is matted and protected in a plastic sleeve. Well preserved with little evidence of age and no damage to the drawing surface.

A RARELY ENCOUNTERED DRAWING BY ONE OF THE FOREMOST ILLUSTRATORS OF THE EARLY PART OF THE 20TH CENTURY. The Nielsen drawing is quite an interesting piece.

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Norman, Philip. LONDON VANISHED & VANISHING (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905) First edition. With 75 colour paintings depicting charming scenes of the people, scenes and places throughout the city of London at the turn of the century.

Tall 8vo, publisher’s original blue/green cloth, boldly gilt lettered on both upper cover and spine. A fine copy, internally essentially pristine, spotless and bright, the cloth beautifully preserved, the binding with strong hinges, a sturdy and tight copy.

[Parrish, Maxfield]. Wharton, Edith. ITALIAN VILLAS AND THEIR GARDENS (New York: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1904) First edition and First Issue. A COPY WITH SUPERB PROVENANCE, from the home of Nancy Lancaster and her husband, Arthur Ronald Lambert Field Tree. Lancaster has been called “the most influential English gardener since Gertrude Jekyll.” Profusely illustrated with 52 illustrations, 27 of which are colourplates or half tones by Maxfield Parrish, the rest being photographs and drawings. Tall 8vo, publisher’s original dark forest green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine,

Ellery Queen and The Spanish Cape Mystery First Edition - One of the Early Novels - 1935

Queen, Ellery. THE SPANISH CAPE MYSTERY. A Problem in Deduction (New York: Frederick Stokes Company, 1935) First Edition. The endpapers decorated with sketch of the Spanish Cape Cove printed in green. 8vo, in the original bright red cloth lettered in black on upper cover and spine. A very nice copy, but for a bit of inevitable mellowing to the red cloth of the spine it is near very fine.

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[Robinson, W. Heath, illus.]; Kipling, Rudyard. A SONG OF THE ENGLISH (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, [1909]) First edition. As the English, but bound in olive green cloth rather than the dark blue of the English issue. Sheets and plates all most probably printed in England. With 30 color plates tipped-in within ornamental borders, and with black and white drawings on almost every page, all by W. Heath Robinson.

Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white illustrations in the text. Large 4to, original olive green cloth lettered and elaborately

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cover design by Decorative Designers with elaborate pictorial decorations after Maxfield Parrish in an all over design. A fine copy with only light evidence of age or use.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE AND A COPY WITH VERY FINE PROVENANCE. One of the most well written books on Italian garden design. The combination of Wharton’s liquid descriptions and Parrish’s romantic paintings, makes for an extremely delightful book. Special attention is given to the gardens found at Florentine, Sienese and Roman villas. The relationship of the buildings to the natural surroundings is explored in detail.

Item Number: 33 Price: $125.

FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHORS’ FAVORITE OF ALL THE NOVELS WRITTEN. The Spanish Cape Mystery concerns the problem of the undressed man. The Ellery Queen novels, written by Frederic Dannay and Manford Lepofsky under the pseudonym of their main character, are gems of the golden age of mystery writing. THE SPANISH CAPE MYSTERY was the first Ellery Queen novel to be made into a motion picture, and many more would follow.

With the Very Beautiful Illustrations of W. Heath Robinson First Edition - Rudyard Kipling - A Song of the English

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FIRST EDITION OF AN EXCELLENT AND WELL ILLUSTRATED DEPICTION OF LONDON AND ITS PEOPLE. One of the most famous book of London printed and produced at the turn of the last century. The paintings by Philip Norman are charming and profuse and show the many sides of this city. The book shows beautifully the many parks, towns, squares and shops and is a tour de force journey through one of the greatest cities in the world.

Italian Villas and Their Gardens - With Fine Provenance

Maxfield Parrish and Edith Wharton The Magic of the Italian Garden

Price: $8500.

It seems possible that it might have been intended for use as a set design, but it is also a rather accomplished drawing which has very finished elements such as the figure at the far left and the figure facing. These incorporate Nielsen’s best traits as an artist. The figure to the far right seems also to have a wash applied as the artist might have done while beginning his water colour work. A working figure underlies one of the finished ones, and the drawing is signed by Nielsen at the bottom of the plate.

London Vanished & Vanishing - First Edition - Fine & Fresh

With Seventy-Five Elegant Colourplates - 1905

Price: $2250.

Item Number: 34 Price: $850.

decorated in gilt with fine pictorial designs on the upper cover and spine. An unusally nice copy of this lovely book.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORK BY RUDYARD KIPLING. THE W. HEATH ROBINSON ILLUSTRATIONS ARE SUPERB BY ANY MEASURE. The trade edition of this volume was issued to benefit the “Daily Telegraph” National Bands Fund, and includes the text of a speech given by Kipling on the subject.

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George Saintsbury’s History of the French Novel A Handsome Set of the First Edition Finely Bound Signed and Owned by the Author Dorothy McDougall

Saintsbury, George. A HISTORY OF THE FRENCH NOVEL (TO THE CLOSE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY) (London: Macmillan and Company, 1917) 2 volumes. First Edition. An author’s copy, it is inscribed to travel writer Dorothy McDougall from a friend Christmas 1917. Ms. McDougall authored quite a few books on France. Her signature appears in the second volume, along with marginal notations in her hand. 8vo, very attractively bound in red half calf over boards, the spines with gilt ruled raised bands between compartments with small central

A Walter Scott Scarcity in Full Contemporary Calf The Abbot - First Edition

[Scott, Sir Walter]. THE ABBOT. By the Author of “Waverley.”

(Edinburgh: For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820) 3 volumes. First edition. 8vo, in full contemporary calf, the boards framed in gilt, the spines with gilt ruled flat bands, gilt numbered in one compartment, red morocco gilt lettered labels in another. A handsome set in contemporary calf, the text quite fresh and clean, the calf with some minor wear at the edges, the

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gilt fleur-de-lis, one compartment with green morocco labels gilt lettered. A fine set in very handsome bindings, the coral coloured calf lightly mellowed at the spine panels.

FIRST EDITION of this impressive work on the French novel written by the foremost English authority on French literature of his day.

Although Saintsbury was best known during his lifetime as a scholar, he is also remembered today for his Notes on a Cellar-Book (1920), one of the great testimonials in the wine oeuvre to drink and drinking.

Item Number: 36 Price: $295. spines a bit mellowed, two volumes with very minor chipping at the heads, one volume with a bit of restoration to the spine panel, hinges with a little wear but all holding fine.

AN ATTRACTIVE FIRST EDITION, this is one of Scott’s popular tales from Benedictine sources. It is set in the time of Mary, Queen of Scots, and follows the fortunes of characters we first met in “The Monastery”, as well as some new characters introduced here.

An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare Mrs. Montagu’s Classic 18th Century Study

[Shakespeare) Montagu, Mrs. AN ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS AND GENIUS OF SHAKESPEARE, Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic poets. With some remarks upon the misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire. (London: Printed by Harding and Wright for R. Priestley, 1810) Sixth edition, corrected. To which are added, THREE DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD. 8vo, full period polished calf, the spine with raised bands gilt ruled and attractively decorated, gilt center tools in the compartments, gilt fillet lines on both covers. A very handsome copy, very ap-

P.H. Sheridan - Infamous Hero of the Civil War First Edition of His Personal Memoirs - 1888 A Fascinating Military Biography of the “Great War” Series

Sheridan, P.H. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF P. H. SHERIDAN. General United States Army. (New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888) 2 volumes. First edition. Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece and a profusion of plates and maps, some of which are fold-out. 8vo, publisher’s original “Shoulder Strap” dark green cloth with gilt lettering and fine all over gilt pictorial decorations over the spines and upper covers. A much nicer copy then one often sees. The green cloth is still dark and unfaded with very bright gilt, with some minor rubbing and spotting.

Internally with much less then typical foxing but with some toning, both being a bit heavier at the prelims. The volumes a

Thoreau, Henry David. WALDEN, Or, Life In the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854) First edition, first state of the text, September ads (the various ads are of “no known bibliographical significance” -BAL, 20106). Illustrated with the map of Walden Pond printed on a separate leaf and inserted at p. 307 and with title vignette of the cabin in the woods. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered in gilt and ruled in blind on spine, bordered and decorated in blind on all covers. A handsome copy of this important work, internally very pleasing and very fresh and essentially free of the browning which so often effects this title,

Item Number: 38 Price: $350.

little shaken but the hinges are still quite tight. In all a very nice and usable set.

A CIVIL WAR CLASSIC NOW BECOMING HARD TO FIND IN COLLECTABLE CONDITION. Sheridan recounts his life as a West Point cadet, cavalry commander, American military observer to the Franco-Prussian War, infamous hero of the American Civil War, among other appointments and experiences. This beautiful set is illustrated throughout. One of the “Great War” series, which also includes PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT and MCCLELLAN’S OWN STORY, among other titles.

Item Number: 39 Price: $9500. the binding with gentle and expert restoration at the head and tail of the spine and with a little touching up of the tips.

HIGHLY IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF A SEMINAL WORK IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. WALDEN IS AN ICONIC BOOK and it has taken its place as one of the greatest books of American literature and a highlight of American thought. In attempting an experiment in simple living Thoreau became the embodiment of the American quest for the spiritual over the material; and his book, ostensibly a simple record of his experiment, has earned the reputation as a work of great philosophical import.

And a Scarce, Early, Handsome English Issue of Walden Henry David Thoreau’s Great Cornerstone of American Thought

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Thoreau, Henry David. WALDEN, With an Introductory Note

by Will H. Dircks (London: Walter Scott, 1888) A very early reprint of the First English Edition, this being for “The Camelot Series” edited by Ernest Rhys. Small 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth, the upper cover lettered and decorated in black, the spine with lettering and decoration in both gilt and black. Internally near pristine, the red cloth bright and well preserved, the

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pealing and with only a hint of age to the binding.

AN IMPORTANT PERIOD PIECE AND FINE ACADEMIC AND CLASSIC work of literary criticism, which strives to study Shakespeare in the context of the great Classical writers. Montagu includes chapters on: Dramatic Poetry, Historical Drama, Henry the IV both parts, Preternatural Beings, Macbeth, and the Death of Julius Caesar. Mrs. Montagu was well placed in literary circles of the day and was widely respected for her writing and study. She was considered an expert on Shakespeare.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden - First Edition A Highlight of American Renaissance Thought A Clean and Handsome Copy of an Iconic Work - 1854

Price: $295.

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spine panel is a touch darkened and there is a small abrasion to the cloth, otherwise only very minor evidence of age.

SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION, and these early English issues are less frequently seen then their Ticknor and Fields American counterparts. Harding, in his “Centennial Checklist of the Editions of Walden,” states that Walter Scott’s printing, issued first in 1886, was the first original British edition.

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First Edition, First Printing - The Return of the King

Item Number: 41 Price: $2450.

Tolkien, J. R. R. THE RETURN OF THE KING (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1955) First edition, First Printing with “First Published in 1955” on the copyright page. With the decorated title-page runes designed by the author and with the large folding map at the rear. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth with gilt lettered spine, in original decorated dustjacket. A very handsome and bright copy, the jacket especially clean and well preserved, ownership stamp to the front pastedown and a bit of offset to the free-fly.

FIRST EDITION OF THE FINAL BOOK OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF FANTASY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. The third and final volume of J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” (following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers) begins in the kingdom of Gondor, which is soon to be attacked by the Dark Lord Sauron. Tolkien though the title was too much of a spoiler, giving away too much of the story and wanted to call it “The War of the Ring”.

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace - Six Volumes - 1886

Item Number: 42 Price: $13,500.

[Tolstoy] Tolstoi, Leo. WAR AND PEACE...Translated into French by A Russian Lady and From the French by Clara Bell...

(New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886) 6 volumes. First edition in English, First Issue of each volume with the proper dating and Gottsberger imprint to the verso of each title-page. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spines, with black tooled borders and gilt pictorial decorations in all over designs to the covers. A very pleasing set of this rare survival.

The cloth remains in quite good condition, the hinges are tight, some light edgewear to expected areas of the cloth, the tips and

the spine ends just a bit rubbed, two volumes with a bit more wear to the tips of the spines. Ads comport with those in the copy at Harvard University.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. A COMPLETE SET OF FIRST ISSUE VOLUMES, ALL IN ORIGINAL BINDINGS AND IN A PLEASING STATE OF PRESERVATION. Tolstoy’s epic of the Napoleonic wars has few peers in world literature. War and Peace can be said to stand “at the crucial point where the modern novel begins.”

Tolkien’s Thrilling Conclusion to The Lord of the Rings

Rare First Edition in English of a World Classic - Original Cloth Gilt Decorated - A Very Pleasing Set

Rare First French Editions of Twain’s Two Masterpieces Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer and Les Aventures de Huck Finn Each Beautifully Presented in the Original Decorated Cloth

Twain, Mark. LES AVENTURES DE TOM SAWYER, Traduit Avec L’Autorisation De L’Auteur Par William-L. Hughes [and] LES AVENTURES DE HUCK FINN, L’AMI DE TOM SAWYER Avec L’Autorisation De L’Auteur Par William-L. Hughes (Paris: Bibliotheque Novelle De La Jeuesses, A Hennuyer, ImprimeurEditeur, [ca. 1884, 1886]) Together two volumes. The first editions in French. Both novels feature black and white illustrations

by Achille Sirouy. Square 8vos, each in the original cream cloth, beautifully decorated in colours from scenes out of the stories

and lettered in red and black on the upper and lower cover and spines. A fine, bright pair of these rare books, the cream cloth just slightly dusty.

RARE. Very lovely copies of the first French editions of both Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. These editions were beautifully illustrated and bound quiet differently from their American counterparts, only two copies of Tom Sawyer have are noted to have appeared at auction for over 30 years and there are no records at all for Huck Finn.

Jules Verne - Facing the Flag - 1897 The Very Scarce First Edition in English

Verne, Jules. FACING THE FLAG (New York: F. Tennyson Neely, n.d. [1897]) First American Edition and First Edition in English. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth lettered in black on the spine and upper cover and decorated with panel design in blind on the upper cover, ruled in blind on the spine. A very good and pleasing copy, a bit of expected aging to the tips, spine a bit mellowed, small discoloured mark.

Item Number: 44 Price: $1150.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. The publisher Neely copy-righted this tale in December 1896, and then in January 1897 published it in several formats. Sampson Low’s British edition, titled FOR THE FLAG, was not published until October of the same year.’ See Sumner. The story hinges upon the extraordinary adventures of a mad French inventor who has imagined a diabolical engine of war

Edward Waterhous’ Defence of Arms and Armory - 1660 A Rare Discourse on Heraldry and Arms

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. 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

Virginia Woolf’s First Novel - The Voyage Out

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a handsome later binding, minor mellowing and with the first few and last few leaves having very minor edge wear, without an engraved frontispiece which is sometimes lacking.

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. During the Commonwealth he resided near Oxford in order to have access to the Bodlein Library and continue his researches and his antiquarian interests.

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Woolf, Virginia. THE VOYAGE OUT (New York: George H. Doran, 1920) First American edition. 8vo, green cloth, with title panel on upper board in blind and with black lettering on spine.

A very good copy of this scarce edition.

WOOLF’S FIRST NOVEL, published in England in 1915. “

Realistic in form but already foreshadowing the lyric intensity of her later work, it describes the voyage to South America of a young Englishwomen, Rachel Vinrace; her engagement there to Sir John Hirst and her subsequent fever and rapid death.”

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