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The Rare & Beautiful Illustrated Ogilby Aesop Complete The Fables of Aesop Paraphras’d in Verse London - 1668 Rare and Seldom Encountered - Replete with Hollar Engravings

Aesop; [Ogilby, John]. THE FABLES OF AESOP PARAPHRAS’D IN VERSE... [With] AESOPIC’S: OR A SECOND COLLECTION OF FABLES, PARAPHRAS’D IN VERSE (London: Thomas Roycroft for the author, 1668) Two volumes bound as one. The first complete edition of the two works, including the second folio issue of John Ogilby’s majestic Aesop, bound with the first issue of his second collection of Aesop. This copy with the early 19th century provenance of William Moore of Sayes House.

The two books illustrated with a total of 151 magnificent plates, he vast majority of which by Hollar, including the frontispiece portrait of Ogilby, which is frequently lacking. Title-page to each

Austen, Jane. EMMA, A Novel With a Note by R. Brimley Johnson (London: Chatto & Windus, 1910) 2 volumes. First Edition from the St. Martin’s illustrated Library of Standard Authors, the Jane Austen collection. Illustrated with 20 fine colour plates and colour illustrated endpapers all by A. Wallis Mills. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth decorated with gilt designs and gilt lettering on the upper covers around a central colour pastedown from one of Mill’s illustrations, the spines attractively gilt

Albert Beveridge - The Life of John Marshall One of the Great American Biographies

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Beveridge, Albert J. THE LIFE OF JOHN MARSHALL (Boston: The Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin, 1916-19) 4 volumes.

A very early reissue of the first edition. With numerous illustrations, including color frontispieces in each volume. 8vo, publisher’s original ribbed green cloth, gilt lettered on the spines and upper covers. A very handsome set, internally near as new with just very light age to the bindings, the cloth still nice and dark, the gilt bright, all sound and sturdy.

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Price: $18,500.

book printed in red and black. Folio, bound in contemporary calf, restored at the back preserving most of the original spine panel. A handsome copy, the text block in full original state, some occasional toning, or signs of use as expected, antique manuscript notations on a handful of leaves, plates 29 and 38 with closed tears at borders expertly repaired and not affecting the printed portions.

JOHN OGILBY’S GREAT PRINTING OF AESOP’S FABLES. One of the finest english illustrated books of the period. Quite rare, especially so in period antique calf as with this copy.

Jane Austen’s Emma - A Charming Two Volume Set With A. Wallis Mills’ Twenty Colour Illustrations

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Price: $495.

lettered. A really lovely set in wonderful state of preservation, the cloth is fresh and clean with bright giltwork.

A PLEASANT PRINTING OF THIS CLASSIC WORK. Jane Austen rejected the romantic and heroic tradition of such writers as Ann Radcliffe, and in concentrating on English home life produced novels that came impressively close to artistic perfection. In EMMA, the last-written of her published works, Austen created the most admirable and lovable of her heroines.

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Price: $225.

AN IMPORTANT AND CLASSIC WORK. A brilliantly written life of John Marshall, 1755-1835, the second Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and a fascinating account of the early development of the nation. A standard work. Marshall’s court opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law while promoting nationalism and making the Supreme Court of the United States a center of power with the capability of overruling Congress.

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The First Dated Bible and Only the Fourth Printed Bible From the Fust and Schoeffer Bible of 1462 A Leaf from The Book of Kings

Bible, Leaves of the Bible, Füst and Schoeffer; Early Printing. A LEAF FROM THE FIRST DATED BIBLE. From the Book of Kings (Mainz: Fust and Schoeffer, 1462) A fine leaf from the first dated Bible, the Fourth printed Bible (preceded only by: Gutenberg, the 36-line Bible and Mentelin). Using a new type face; type set on a smaller body with more lines to the page. Printed double column, 48 lines per page. With manuscript titles in red and blue, large red and blue chapter numbers and beautiful large

A Fine Work on Pottery and Porcelain Beautifully Bound

by Porter in Full Inlaid Morocco

Chaffers, William. MARKS AND MONOGRAMS ON POTTERY AND PORCELAIN, of the Rennaissance and modern Periods; with Historical Notices of Each Manufactory; preceded by an Introductory Essay on the Vasa Fictilia of England, of the Romano-British and Medieval Eras (London: J. Davy and Sons, c.1870) Third edition, revised and considerably augmented.

With 2200 Potters’ marks and illustrations. Large 8vo, in a fine designed binding by Porter, of full green morocco with diamond shaped inlaid designs in gold and brown decorating

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extended initials red and brown or red and blue each with fine pen work extending over 20 lines. Folio leaf. A very handsome leaf very well preserved.

A RARE AND IMPORTANT LEAF FROM THE 1462 BIBLE. For all intents and purposes, the earliest obtainable printed Bible leaves after those of the Gutenberg Bible – and these, at a fraction of the cost.

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[Churchill, Sir Winston]. DUNKIRK TO BERLIN; A MAP OF THE HISTORIC WARTIME JOURNEYS UNDERTAKEN BY THE RIGHT HON. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL... (Great Britain: George Philip & Son Ltd in Association with “Time and Tide”, April, 1956) First edition, issued to World Books members. Included with the map is the March, 1956 issue of “Broadsheet”, the bulletin for World Book members. A very large colour map printed on heavy folding stock, beautifully decorate, preserved in the publisher’s pictorially decorated and as issued slipcase. A

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[Clarke, illus.] Poe, Edgar Allan. TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION (New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1939) An early issue of the edition including the colour plates. With 32 plates by Harry Clarke, in colour and black and white, and with a profusion of other illustrations by Clarke. 4to, in the publisher’s original black cloth with a pictorial pastedown on top cover, and gilt lettering to the spine. A nice copy, internally quite fine with bright plates, one leaf opened carelessly but otherwise appearing nearly unused, the cloth mellowed a bit

The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge A Fine and Handsomely Bound Set - 1844 Published by Pickering in London Three Volumes

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. THE POETICAL WORKS OF S.T. COLERIDGE (London: William Pickering, 1844) 3 volumes.

Very early collected edition. Small 8vo, three-quarter period red morocco over marbled boards, lettered in gilt in two compartments of the spines between raised bands gilt lined, the remaining compartments elaborately decorated with gilt panel designs and central ornamental tooling, marbled edges and endpapers.

A lovely and pleasing set, the text-block very clean and bright,

Captain James Cook - Bound in Period Calf Gilt ‘The Voyages Around the World’

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Cook, Captain James. THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, AROUND THE WORLD... (London: William Wright, 1836) 2 volumes. An early octavo edition with engraved plates.

Engraved frontispiece, title page and a number of full page engravings in each volume. 8vo, contemporary dark blue calf and marbled boards, elegantly tooled and lettered in gilt within compartments between flat bands the spines. A very handsome set, still in very good order and with only light rubbing or evidence of use. A well preserved set of this scarce book, engravings in good order and with some of the usual mellowing.

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handsome copy of the hard to find and impressive map.

SCARCE RECORD OF CHURCHILL’S HISTORIC WORLD WAR II JOURNEYS. This is a cartographic record of the travels Churchill took as the Prime Minister in defense of Britain during the period of 1940-1945. Presented in full color are his journeys to numerous political conferences from New York to Moscow, beginning with the “Atlantic Charter” of 1941, which was the product of his meeting at sea with Roosevelt that established the general desire on both sides for a democratic, progressive post-war world.

With Harry Clarke Illustrations - One of a Limited Number Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Price: $450.

upper cover, and an inlaid gold diamond on the spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy.

FINELY BOUND BY PORTER. The author was the standard authority on hall-marks and potters’ marks, and also on gold and silver plate. He published the two invaluable works by which he is likely to be remembered. Like Hawkins’s ‘Medallic History’ or Gwilt’s ‘Dictionary of Architecture,’ they are both still being gradually transformed and modernized by other hands, but they will doubtless bear his name for a long time to come.

The Map of The Prime Minister’s World War II Travels A Rare Offering in Churchilliana Sir Winston Churchill’s Journeys Undertaken

Price: $4250.

Item Number: 7

Price: $395.

as it is prone to do, with some cosmetic splitting along the bottom of the front hinge, boards sturdy and strong though with endpapers intact.

A GREAT BOOK OF POE’S MOST WONDERFUL WRITINGS. This is the handsome Tudor issue with the plates in colour added to the edition. There are twenty-nine tales. Clarke’s superb drawings evoke the dense spiritual qualities reflected within Poe’s exquisite and impassioned writing. A wonderful marriage of artist and writer.

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Price: $450.

the bindings well preserved with only light evidence of age or use.

THE BEST EARLY PERIOD COLLECTION OF COLERIDGE POETRY. A very pleasant set of Coleridge’s works, which includes his Juvenile Poems, Kubla Khan, Sibylline Leaves, Christabel, Zapolya, Wallenstein, Miscellaneous Poems and the Rime of the Ancient Mariner as well as others. This is an early published set of the works and is quite a pleasing copy.

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Price: $1150.

A HANDSOME EARLY SET WITH ENGRAVED PLATES. This volume provides the reader with the opportunity to examine and discover all three voyages that paved the way for circumnavigation in all future years. Cook’s third voyage differs from the first two because the scene of discovery was largely the North Pacific and North American coast as Cook was seeking a northwest passage to Europe. On the return trip a stop at the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) proved disastrous when Cook met his death there at the hands of natives. For this reason that voyage was written not by Cook but by Capt. James King.

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An Extraordinary Sixteenth Century Illustrated Book Babtistae della Porta’s Classic Work - 1586 Rare First Edition De Humana Physiognomia Libri IIII

della Porta, Babtistae. DE HUMANA PHYSIOGNOMIA libri IIII Ad Aloysium Card Estesem (Vici Aequensis [Vico Equense]: Iosephum Cacchium, 1586) First Edition. With engraved titlepage (including a portrait of the author within an architectural border), engraved portrait of Cardinal Luigi d’Este, the dedicatee, two full-page engravings of a man and a woman (each repeated once), and 81 engravings by repetition of 27 copperplates. Folio, bound in full tan morocco, the spine with raised bands ruled in blind, the bands carried over to the boards into a decorative triangle also in blind. A very good of this original work with some mild and old evidence of damp, generally quite clean and fresh,

the later binding with some rubbing and discoloration.

AN EXTRAORDINARY SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ILLUSTRATED BOOK, and one of the earliest works on physiognomy,preceding by some two hundred years Lavater’s attempts in estimating human character by features of the face. Porta’s treaties on human physiognomy attempts to establish “scientifically” the correspondence between external form of the body and the internal character of a person, specifically mental and moral attributes. Physiognomy (literally ‘knowledge of nature’) is the art of reading a person’s character, disposition, even his future from signs in his face.

Thomas F. Dibdin - ‘Bibliomania; or Book-Madness’ 1848 - With Preliminary Observations and Supplement Handsomely Bound in Full Zaehnsdorf Morocco - Gilt

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. THE BIBLIOMANIA; OR, BOOKMADNESS; A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ROMANCE... (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842) New and Improved edition. Including the reprint of the 1809 edition and the supplementary matter of 1811. Illustrated throughout with fine, beautiful woodcut engravings, borders, headpieces and initials, printed in red and black, a number of the plates on India paper, mounted. Large, thick 8vo, in a beautiful Zaehnsdorf signed binding dated 1893 of full black morocco, the boards richly adorned in fine Edwardian style. The boards feature a wide frame of gilt vines, flowers and thistles at the corners, the spine with tall gilt stippled raised

The Gadshill Edition of Dickens’ Works A Solid Set in Contemporary ThreeQuarter Calf

Dickens, Charles. THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS...

With Introduction, General Essay, and Notes by Andrew Lang.

(London: Chapman and Hall, 1899) 33 volumes. The Gadshill Edition. With the illustrations from the original first editions, as well as additional material such as manuscript facsimiles, portraits, etc. 8vo, in contemporary three-quarter tan calf over marbled boards, the spines decorated in gilt in compartments between flat bands, two contrasting labels lettered in gilt. Internally a nice solid set, the bindings still firm and strong but with

Illustrated Magnificently By Gustave Doré The Classically Important Fables of La Fontaine Handsomely Bound in Fine Red Morocco Gilt

[Doré, Illus.] La Fontaine, [Jean de]. THE FABLES OF LA FONTAINE. Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury (London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, N.D., circa 1870) A very early printing. With 86 magnificent full page illustrations, many smaller illustrations and a portrait frontispiece all by Gustave Doré. Royal 4to, in a very handsome contemporary deluxe binding of three-quarter red morocco over matching pebbled cloth covered boards, the spine with blind stippled raised bands creating compartments with multiple rules in gilt, within which is fine gilt tooling in a floral and vine motif, one compartment is

Eliot, George. DANIEL DERONDA (Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876) 4 volumes. First Edition, with fine provenance of Robert Hoe. 8vo, beautifully bound by Riviere and Son in full tan calf, the covers with multi-ruled gilt fillet lines at the borders with circular tools as corner-pieces, the spines richly gilt decorated in panels between gilt ruled and stippled raised bands, two compartments with contrasting red and green morocco labels. A superb copy and a fine and handsome set, the text clean and fresh with two edges still untrimmed and free from

Setting the Encyclopedic Standard

bands creating compartments decorated much like the covers.

A very appealing and attractive copy, internally fresh and clean with almost none of the commonly found foxing. The handsome Zaehnsdorf binding with some early expert restoration and minimal general age-evidence at the edges and tips.

A GREAT BIBLIOPHILIC CORNERSTONE WORK, WITH MAJOR ADDITIONS. ONE OF THE CORE TEXTS OF BOOK COLLECTING. This new edition, written 30 years after the first, adds “Preliminary observations, and a supplement including a key to the assumed characters in the drama.”

Item Number: 12

Price: $600.

rubbing and edge wear, the spines mellowed with chipping at several of the spine tips, a few labels lacking, one volume lacking additional leather on the spine, lacking volume 21, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’.

ONE OF THE VERY BEST COLLECTED SETS OF DICKENS. It “contains all the original illustrations, with many additional ones by Charles Green, Henry Furniss, Maurice Grieffenhagen et al”. They were printed from author’s carefully corrected editions of 1867 and 1868.

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Price: $1450.

boldly gilt lettered A very fine and handsome copy, solid and fresh and clean with no sign of the typical foxing associated with these printings whatsoever. The binding bright and well preserved as well. An excellent copy.

A BEAUTIFULLY BOUND AND WELL PRESERVED COPY OF THIS MASTERPIECE BY GUSTAVE DORé. An impressive tome of some of the best loved fables, including ‘The Grasshopper and the Ant’, ‘The hen with the golden eggs’ and well over 150 more.

With his full-page engravings Gustave Doré does his best work with great dramatic flare.

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Price: $4000.

any spotting, the fine binding in excellent condition.

FIRST EDITION, GEORGE ELIOT’S (Mary Anne Evans) LAST COMPLETED NOVEL AND THE ONLY ONE SET IN HER CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY AND TIME. With a mixture of social satire and moral searching, it contains a sympathetic rendering of Jewish proto-Zionist and Kabbalistic ideas. These renderings served to make it a controversial, and final, statement of one of the greatest of Victorian novelists.

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Price: $2250.

[Encyclopaedia Britannica, Reference]. THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA... (New York: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 19101911, 1922) 29 volumes + 1 index + 2 supplement, all bound into 16. The eleventh edition, the last two volumes the twelfth. With hundreds of engraved plates and drawings throughout all the volumes. 16mo, handsomely bound in contemporary three-quar-

ter brown morocco. A very nice, clean set, the spines uniformly toned, showing some overall expected signs of use.

AN INVALUABLE REFERENCE TOOL. “The most famous of all encyclopedias in the English language” (PMM). ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA stands alone as a monument of learning and a fount of knowledge.

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Encyclopædia Britannica - 1911

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Price: $950.

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First Edition of George Eliot’s Final & Controversial Novel Daniel Deronda - With Fine Provenance and Handsomely Bound

Price: $9850.

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First Edition - Inscribed by the Author

Poems - James T. Fields

Fields, James T. POEMS (Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co, 1849) First Edition, INSCRIBED by Fields on the rear end-paper. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and tooled in blind on the covers. A very well preserved and pleasing copy. Still handsome after all these years.

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FIRST EDITION AND A RARE, INSCRIBED COPY. A collection of Fields poems in the original cloth binding. As well as being a popular poet in his own right, Fields was one half of Ticknor & Fields and served as that company’s literary expert.

The Beautiful Medici Morte D’Arthur - Flint’s Illustrations

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With Beautiful Illuminated Plates in Colours

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Superbly Bound by Sangorski in Full White Vellum Gilt First Limited Edition - Four Volumes Beautifully Presented

Froissart’s Chronicles Very Finely Bound A Preferred Set with Separate Titles for the Illuminations

[Flint, W. Russell illus.] Malory, Thomas Sir. LE MORTE DARTHUR: The Book of King Arthur... (London: Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society, 1910-1911) 4 volumes. LIMITED FIRST EDITION, and one of only 500 numbered copies on Riccardi handmade paper, with the publisher’s rare 4pp. advertisement.

Beautifully illustrated with 48 tipped-in color plates after watercolors by W. Russell Flint. Exquited pictorially decorated title-page to each volume printed in blue and black. 4to, a probably unique set, presented in very fine signed bindings by Sangorski and Sutcliffe of full white vellum, the covers framed with gilt fillet border lines and featuring a central gilt tool of the

Froissart, Sir John. CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, AND THE ADJOINING COUNTRIES... (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874) 2 volumes. Complete with a colour lithographed titlepage, two illuminated title-pages for the illustrations, 116 woodcut illustrations throughout the text, and over 70 magnificent illuminated coloured plates heightened with gold after originals from the manuscript editions of Froissart in the British Museum, the Bibliotheque Royale, and other sources.

Large thick 8vo, three-quarter red crushed morocco over feathered marbled boards, with handsome gilt lettering and tooling

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. [Carlyle, Thomas, Translator].

WILHELM MEISTER’S APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAVELS. From the German of Goethe. (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866) 2 volumes. Early edition in English. 8vo, publisher’s original diced purple cloth, lettered in git on the spines. A fine and excellent set in extremely fresh condition. The spine panels evenly mellowed down to a honey gold colour.

[Grey, Zane]. AN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF AUTHOR ZANE GREY And His Brother Romer Grey on a Bear Hunting Trip (circa 1930) A fine original photograph of Zane and Romer Grey displaying the results of a bear hunt together. The Photograph is SIGNED BY ZANE GREY, but the ink has faded and only the impression remains viewable in angled light. Black and white photograph, approximately 8 by 6.5 inches, mounted in textured buff board with beveled edge and handsomely framed in wood and glazed. The photograph itself is in beautiful condition with

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Hardy, Thomas; The Marquis of Lorne; Mrs. Alexander. THREE NOTABLE STORIES. Love and Peril. To Be, Or Not To Be. The Melancholy Hussar. Respectively by the Marquis of Lorne, Mrs. Alexander, Thomas Hardy (London: Spencer Blackett, 1890) First edition, and being the first of Hardy’s short story “The Melancholy Hussar of The German Legion”. 8vo, bound in contemporary three-quarter blue morocco and marbled boards, gilt lettered in two compartments of spine, wide gilt decorated raised bands. Now housed in a fine custom clamshell box backed in blue morocco and gilt lettered. The textblock in fine state being clean and uncommonly fresh, solid and free of spotting or toning

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RARE PRINTING IN ORIGINAL PUBLISHER’S CLOTH. In WILHELM MEISTER Goethe again took up the novel form. It is full of not only realistic detail, but as well, poetic allegory. Wilhelm Meister was considered not so much “an illustration of the author’s life-philosophy as a lay-figure on which he demonstrates his views.

Item Number: 20

Price: $650.

no fading or chipping, the contrast is excellent and the image is defined and clear, frame and mounting are very fine, the signature however is faded to near invisibility.

A VERY HANDSOME ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF BROTHERS ZANE AND ROMER GREY. In hunting attire the two men are standing in a forested area with two black bears from their hunting trip. One of the bears is on the ground, the other suspended from a tree.

Hardy’s ‘Melancholy Hussar’ - Rarely Encountered First Edition in Three Notable Stories - 1890

Price: $2350.

on the spines between raised bands. A very handsome set in a very pleasing state of preservation, a clean and well preserved set with light or minimal aging or time wear.

THE MOST IMPORTANT 19TH CENTURY TRANSLATION OF THE GREAT RENAISSANCE HISTORY AND A COPY IN PREFERRED BINDING WITH A PROFUSION OF LITHOGRAPHED PLATES. The illuminated plates have retained their deep, bright colours and gilt highlights. Based on a medieval manuscript, they not only illustrate the chronicle but are a good example of the type of manuscript art being produced at the time.

Zane and Romer Grey - Icons of Western Americana A Fine Original Photograph While Bear Hunting

Price: $6500.

British Royal Lion, the spines with gilt stippled raised bands creating compartments framed with a gilt rule, two compartments lettered in gilt. An extremely fine set, especially so, with virtually no evidence of age whatsoever to either the text or vellum, essentially pristine.

FIRST EDITION WITH THE FLINT ILLUSTRATIONS AND A SUPERB SET IN FULL VELLUM BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE. Surely one of the finest editions of Malory’s great Morte D’Arthur. The beautiful watercolours of Russell Flint, combined with fine typography and paper make a remarkable impression.

Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship - Goethe’s Great Work An Especially Fine Set in Original Cloth

Price: $450.

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Price: $550.

completely, the antique binding a bit rubbed at the joints but still firm and sound, at the lower spine tip there is a roughly three-quarter in chip to the leather.

THE FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF THOMAS HARDY’S SHORT STORY WHICH WOULD LATER APPEAR IN “LIFE’S LITTLE IRONIES.” It is also the first edition of the works by John Campbell and Annie Hector Alexander. ‘The Melancholy Hussar’ first appeared in the Bristol Times, but this is the first appearance in book form. It is an uncommon item for the Hardy collector to acquire.

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Very Rare First and Only Antiquarian Edition The Most Famous of Tudor Poems – The Spider and the Flie

Heywood, John. A PARABLE OF THE SPIDER AND THE FLIE, Made by John Heywood (London: Tho. Powell, 1556) VERY RARE first and only edition prior to the modern era, this the Berland copy with his famous ex-libris to the upper pastedown.

Approximately thirty 3/4 page woodcuts and 10 full page woodcuts, most of which are repeated several times throughout the text (for a total of 118 woodcut illustrations). In addition there are four woodcut tailpieces (each used many times, a total of 73 impressions.) There are also two full-page portraits of the author. Small 4to, in very handsome 19th c. full maroon straight grain morocco, tooled edges and dentelles, very attractively gauffered edges in

His First Book - Oliver Wendell Holmes - Poems 1836 - First Edition Scarce Original Cloth

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. POEMS (Boston: Otis, Broaders and Company, 1836) First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original brown patterned cloth, with the original paper lettering label on the spine, lettered in black. A well preserved copy of this fragile book published in original cloth decorated in blind. Internally, the pages are quite clean and fresh and unfoxed, and indeed with some pages unopened and all edges untrimmed. Light aging at

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a pattern reminiscent of a medieval binding, sewn headbands.

Silk marker. Extremities scuffed; made endpapers somewhat brittle around the edges; text block falls open in center. All in all; a highly original’ bespoke binding, well:executed and sturdy. lacks two leaves; A1 (title) and C4, both supplied in excellent lithographic facsimile.

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, WITH THE PROVENANCE OF THE BERLAND COLLECTION, VERY RARE. Only three auction records since 1976; The Houghton copy sold twice (in 1979, then again in 1995) the third record is for this copy, which sold at the Berland sale in 2001.

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Jonson, Ben. THE WORKS OF BEN JONSON. With a Biographical Memoir by William Gifford (London: Printed for J. Walthoe, M. Wotton. . . J. Tonson, and W. Innys, 1716) 6 volumes. Early antiquarian edition. Adorned with frontispieces and plates, including a frontispiece portrait in Volume I. 8vo, bound in fine period polished calf in very pleasing and handsome style, the spines with raised bands and lettering on contrasting red and green morocco labels in gilt, board edges tooled in blind, edges sprinkled red. A fine handsome set and rare in this condition, the joints sometime refurbished. The textblocks are only very

A Leaf from the “King James” Bible St. Matthew XVII - XIX From The Editio Princeps of the Famed 1611 Bible

[King James Bible], [1611 Bible]. A LEAF FROM THE 1611 KING JAMES BIBLE, a Leaf From SAINT MATTHEW containing part of Chap. XVII, all of Chapt. XVIII, and part of Chap.

XIX ([London: Robert Barker, 1611]) A single leaf from the First Edition or the Editio Princeps of the King James’ Bible. Printed double-column with headlines and chapter lines, this leaf with two fine five line ornamental capital initials, text within woodcut rules, in both gothic and roman letter. Royal Folio, single leaf.

A very fine and well preserved leaf with no staining or wear

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Kipling, Rudyard. ‘CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS’ (London: Macmillan, 1897) First edition. With 22 fine black & white illustrations on plates by I.W. Taber. 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth elaborately lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt on both the spine and the upper cover in a maritime motif. A nice copy of this beloved story, the blue cloth bright and unfaded, the gilt on the front cover perfect, that on the spine only very slightly mellowed, the text block with very little and very occasional of the normally encountered spotting.

Item Number: 25

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Kolbe, Peter. DESCRIPTION DU CAP DE BONNE-ESPERANCE... (Amsterdam: Chez Jean Catuffe, 1743) 3 volumes. Early printing in French with the half-titles. 24 engraved plates plus 6 folding views and maps, title page printed in black and red.

Small 8vo, handsomely bound in full mottled calf of the period, the spines with raised bands, decorated with gilt panel designs in the compartments, ruled in gilt on two red morocco lettering labels. A handsome copy in a fine period binding, some rubbing

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whatsoever. A large leaf showing the original stab marks for sewing from the original time of binding. 17th century marginal note small and unobtrusive.

A LEAF IN PERFECT CONDITION ST. MATTHEW FROM THE EDITIO PRINCEPS OF KING JAMES’ BIBLE, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE ‘AUTHORIZED’ VERSION, A LANDMARK OF PRINTING AND THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL ENGLISH BIBLES.

Item Number: 26

Price: $795.

A PLEASING FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK. Kipling’s tale of a spoiled youth who becomes a man at sea is one of his best loved stories. Its themes are universal and timeless. It is also an excellent portrayal of life in the Gloucester fishing fleet of Massachusetts, written while the Kiplings were living in the United States. Though Kipling lived in Vermont for several years and was married to an American this is his only novel with entirely American settings, themes and major characters.

Peter Kolbe - 1743 - Description du Cap de Bonne-Esperance A Handsome Copy in Contemporary Binding Beautifully Decorated with Engraved Plates, Maps and Views

Price: $1250.

lightly mellowed and the extremities lightly rubbed.

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

His first play to be produced “Every Man Out of His Humour” featured William Shakespeare in its cast. Along with Jonson’s great body of work is William Gifford’s memoir, a selection of Commendatory Verses on Jonson written by his contemporaries, a fine glossary and extensive index.

‘Captains Courageous’ - Kipling At His Very Best First Edition of His Moving Maritime Adventure - 1897

Price: $550.

the extremities and a tad more with small chips at the head and tail of the spine. A much better copy than is generally encountered.

THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK, AND A RARE SURVIVAL. A VERY NICE COLLECTION OF HOLMES’ POEMS some of which are published here for the first time. Scarce in the delicate early cloth.

The Works of Ben Jonson In Elusive Period Calf in Original State - 1716 London

Price: $28,500.

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to the extremities and a bit of cracking to a few joints, antique library stamps at the titles, text-blocks clean and bright and fresh, plates in very nice condition, withal a pleasing copy.

FINE ISSUE OF THE FRENCH EDITION REPLETE WITH BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED PLATES. The account on the condition of the colony of the European inhabitants is full of interesting observations not to be found in any other description of the country.

Kolbe’s account was first published in German in 1719.

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The Great Edition in English - The First History of Rome The Best Translation Available of Livy’s History

[Livy ] T. Livius, of Padua. THE ROMANE HISTORIE Written

by T. Livius... Translated out of Latine into English by Philemon Holland... (London: Adam Islip, 1600) First Edition in English of Livy’s highly influential history of Rome. Engraved decorations at head of each chapter, decorated title, two portraits: Queen Elizabeth and Titus Livius. Thick Folio, in 18th century threequarter calf over marbled boards, the spine with blind ruled flat bands, a large red morocco label lettered in gilt. A very handsome and well preserved copy, the text fresh and unpressed, some extremely faint and unobtrusive antique dampstaining

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to approximately the first 100 or so pages, very minor, occasional spotting or toning, more so to the first and final leaf as is common with this title, the binding handsome with minor age and rubbing.

This is the RARE FIRST ENGLISH translation of the great historian’s work on Roman history, originally written circa 20 B.C. IT IS A RARE EDITION IN ENGLISH OF SUPREMELY IMPORTANT ROMAN TEXT. Holland’s edition was widely studied in Elizabethan time and served as a major source for William Shakespeare.

Jack London’s Erotic Novel

Item Number: 29

Price: $375.

The Little Lady of the London, Jack. THE LITTLE LADY OF THE BIG HOUSE (New is of a love triangle on a large western ranch. [The novel] was meant to Big House - First Edi- York: Macmillan, 1916) First edition, first issue. Illustrated with exalt the splendor of Wolf House and scientific farming and sex. “It is a colour frontispiece. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth, picto- all sex, from start to finish--” he wrote to the editor of Cosmopolitan, tion - 1916

rially decorated and lettered in black, orange and white on the “in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a upper cover and in gilt, black, orange and white on the spine. A million miles of being achieved, and in which, nevertheless, is all the guts of sex, coupled with strength.” very nice, bright copy, very well preserved, fresh and clean.

FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. This tale by London

Basil Lubbock’s Classic and Important Work The Last of the Windjammers - A Bright and Handsome Set

Lubbock, Basil. THE LAST OF THE WINDJAMMERS (Glasgow: Brown, Son, and Ferguson, 1954) 2 volumes. First editions, fourth impression of Vol. I and fourth impression of Vol. II. Beautifully decorated with 220 illustrations, 35 ships’ plans and fine cartographic endpapers. Thick royal 8vo, publisher’s original royal blue cloth lettered in gilt and blind on the spines and upper covers. A bright, clean and handsome set, nicely preserved.

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The Greatest Naval Hero of an Extraordinary Empire

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A Beautiful Edition of Ovid’s Ten Epistles

Item Number: 32

A.T. Mahan’s Life of Nelson - 1898

Translated Into English Fitzthomas, Dryden and Others - 1807 Handsomely Bound in Decorated Contemporary Mottled Calf

Mahan, Captain A.T. THE LIFE OF NELSON, THE EMBODIMENT OF THE SEA POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co, 1898) 2 volumes. An early printing. 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 and clean set with no sign of fading and with the gilt still sparkling. Only light evidence of use or age.

[Ovid], . TEN EPISTLES OF OVID, Translated into English Verse, By the Late Rev. Wm. Windsor Fitzthomas with the Latin and Notes... (London: Printed for C. and R. Baldwin, 1807) First of the edition. 8vo, beautifully bound in full contemporary green mottled calf, the spine in compartments between raised bands decorated in gilt, gilt decorated compartments incorporating border and center tooling, black morocco lettering label gilt, covers with gilt ruled borders surrounding an inner gilt roll, all edges gilt, marbled endleaves. A crisp and clean copy in a superb state

Julia Margaret Cameron’s Most Famous Portraits Twenty Five of Her Best Photogravures On Fine Plates Alfred Lord Tennyson and His Friends - One of Only 400 Copies

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[Photography] Cameron, Julia Margaret and Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. ALFRED LORD TENNYSON AND HIS FRIENDS; a Series of 25 Portraits and Frontispiece in Photogravure From the Negatives of Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron and H.H.H. Cameron.

Reminiscences by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, with introduction by H.H. Hay Cameron. (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893) First Edition, LIMITED to 400 numbered copies. With frontispiece and 25 photogravures from life by Ms. Cameron, these rank among her most famous portraits. Large folio, in the original publisher’s decorated cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine. The binding only a bit mellowed, the plates in excellent condition.

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A BRIGHT AND PLEASING SET OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK, NOW QUITE SCARCE IN SUCH CONDITION. These handsome books contain a comprehensive history of the tall ships.

Extensively illustrated with photographs, maps and ship plans, the author explores both facts and legends of the great age of sailing.

These are perhaps the most handsome set of all the books printed on the history of the tall ships.

Price: $650.

A BRIGHT SET AND AN IMPORTANT WORK. 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. Mahan, a captain in the United States Navy, was one of the greatest naval historians.

Price: $895.

of preservation. A handsomely bound volume.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE TRANSLATION. “As a story-teller and guide to Greek myth and Roman legend, Ovid was very influential on later Roman writers and was read, quoted, and adapted during the Middle Ages. He was the favourite Latin poet of the Renaissance, and there were many translations of his works into English.”-M.C.Howatson. His influence upon great writers through history, from Chaucer to Marlowe and Shakespeare, is well-known.

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Price: $6750.

CAMERON’S MOST FAMOUS PORTRAITS, LIMITED EDITION WITH LARGE FINE PLATES BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED. Published posthumously, this appreciation of Ms. Cameron’s photography. The list of subjects is a virtual “Who’s Who” of late Victorian men of letters. There a number of Tennyson himself, along with Longfellow, Charles Darwin, Thomas Carlyle, Robert Browning, Herschel, Gladstone, Henry Irving, etc.

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Benjamin Bunny - The First Sequel to “Peter Rabbit” A Beloved Illustrated Tale by Beatrix Potter

Potter, Beatrix. THE TALE OF BENJAMIN BUNNY (London: Frederick Warne, Circa 1916) An early issue, in the same format as the first. With 27 color plates, endpaper, and cover decoration

by Beatrix Potter. 12mo, publisher’s original gray-green boards lettered on the upper cover and spine in dark green and with a pictorial pastedown on the upper cover. A fine copy with just the lightest evidence of age, unusually well preserved for such an early issue.

[Rackham, illus.] Shakespeare, William. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (London: William Heinemann, 1912) First edition, early impression. 40 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham as well as black and white drawings throughout. Large 8vo, original cream cloth lettered in gilt on spine and decorated in gilt on upper cover. A very fine copy internally, the cream cloth bright and quite handsome with the gilt and binding in excellent order with only very minor evidence of age.

Teddy Roosevelt - Hunting Trips of a Ranchman Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains One of 500 LargePaper Copies - Rare First Edition

Roosevelt, Theodore. HUNTING TRIPS OF A RANCHMAN. Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains (New York: The Knickerbocker Press for G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1885) The Medora Edition, one of 500 numbered copies, large-paper. With 20 illustrations in black and white by A. B. Frost, R. Swain Gifford, and others. Thick 4to, publisher’s original brown polished buckram, the spine and upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt. A handsome and well preserved copy of this important work. The spine is a tad mellowed, as is usual with this color

Price: $375.

SCARCE IN SUCH NICE CONDITION. BENJAMIN BUNNY is the first sequel to The Tale of Peter Rabbit and tells of Peter’s return to Mr. McGregor’s garden with his cousin Benjamin. They go to retrieve the clothes he lost there during his first adventure. In Benjamin Bunny, Potter deepened the rabbit universe she created in Peter Rabbit.

Illustrated With 40 Colour-Plates By Arthur Rackham Shakespeare’s Most Delightful Comedy

Item Number: 34

Item Number: 35 Price: $1050.

IMPORTANT AND BEAUTIFUL FIRST EDITION, EARLY IMPRESSION, WITH FINE ILLUSTRATIONS. Shakespeare’s brilliant and delightful comedy was a wonderful exercise and ambitious undertaking for Arthur Rackham. This book ranks with PETER PAN as one of the finest expressions of his “fantasy” style of illustration.

This particular title in the Rackham oeuvre is among the scarcest and is in constant demand.

Item Number: 36

Price: $2350.

cloth, and there is light wear to the tips, internally, the text block is very fine and very bright.

FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER, LIMITED ISSUE. SCARCE. Roosevelt wrote in his “Foreword” of October 1898 to a joint title publication that “... the wilderness has been conquered and the game killed off. The frontier itself has vanished.” “My object in writing these books was not only to give a full account of the chase of every kind of big game proper to the United States, but also where possible to touch on their life histories....”

The Catcher in the Rye - Boston 1951

Item Number: 37

Price: $950.

Salinger, J. D. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (Boston: Little, Brown, 1951) First Book Club issue but with dustwrapper with printed price on the turnover. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and with the original pictorial dustjacket. A fine copy with the jacket in beautifully preserved condition.

AN AMERICAN 20TH CENTURY CLASSIC. J.D. Salinger’s first

and still, most famous work of all. 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’. Caufield’s feelings and the idiom in which he communicates them have made the book a symbol of purity and sensitivity to generations of readers and has insured that it will remain a particularly coveted title in modern literature.

The Striking Sangorski and Sutcliffe “Rubaiyat”

Item Number: 38 Price: $2500.

J.D. Salinger’s American Classic

After One of Their Greatest Illuminated Manuscripts The First Printed Edition, Signed by Them Both

[Sangorski and Sutcliffe] Fitzgerald, Edward. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM... Reproduced from a Manuscript written and illuminated by Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe (London: Siegle Hill and Co., n.d. circa 1910) First Edition, LIMITED, reproduced from a manuscrip by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe. This is one of only 550 copies only SIGNED by both Mssrs. Sangorski and Sutcliffe. With 12 plates printed in gold and full colour, text printed in black and red, with elaborated initials, boarders and decoration throughout in silver, gold, red, blue, brown and black also with decorative endpapers designed in colours. Large 4to, original full vellum with a dark burgundy morocco lettering label gilt on the spine, the upper cover and spine elaborately

decorated with an all-over gilt design featuring most prominently the distinctive Sangorski and Sutcliffe peacock. A very nice copy of this magnificent book, internally fine and fresh, the colour plates in excellent condition, the vellum with just the lightest mellowing, the morocco spine label with some minor evidence of chipping at the edges. With the provenance of Sir Edwin Cooper Perry and Lady Perry.

The first book publication of the famous Sangorski and Sutcliffe illuminated manuscript. With an introduction, life of the author, and notes. The illuminations in this manuscript are of exquisite patterns executed in Sangorski’s best style. The initials are quite breathtaking.

Henry Savage-Landor’s Across Widest Africa - 1907 he First Journey Across “Widest Africa” First Edition - A Very Pleasing and Handsome Set

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Savage-Landor, A. Henry. ACROSS WIDEST AFRICA: An Account of the Country and People of Eastern, Central and Western Africa... (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1907) 2 volumes. First edition. With 160 illustrations from photographs and a large color folding map at rear. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth gilt lettered and ruled on the spines and covers. A very pleasing, well preserved and handsome set, the cloth clean and very solid but for the lightest evidence of shelving, internally solid and clean, the plates and folding map in excellent order.

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SCARCE. This is the account of the first journey taken across Africa at its widest point with “pleasure as its sole object,” covering over 8,500 miles in a space of 364 days. Like much of Savage-Landor’s work, these two volumes have since become fixtures in any collection of Africana. They are replete with photographs and descriptions of the circumstances of Africa at the turn of the century. Savage-Landor is known not only for his writings of his African travels, but also his accounts of Tibet, China, South America, Europe, and numerous points in between. A desirable set of this Africana classic.

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Sir Walter Scott - A Beautiful Set in Contemporary Calf The First Collected Edition - 60 Volumes - Novels and Poems

Scott, Sir Walter. NOVELS and POETICAL WORKS (Edinburgh: Cadell and Co, 1829-34) 60 volumes. The first collected edition. With engraved frontispiece and vignette title page in each volume. 12mo (in sixes), contemporary half calf and marbled boards gilt lettered on spines, gilt decorated raised bands. A superb set in exquisite condition.

UNHEARD OF IN THIS CONDITION. Sir Walter Scott re-

Item Number: 40 Price: $8500.

mains one of Scotland’s greatest men of letters. His influence was as far reaching as his works were commercially successful. His poetry earned him an offer of the laureateship, which he refused, and was considered quite original in style among the Romantics. Scott is best remembered however for his novels which were extremely influential to both his contemporaries and his literary posterity.

Robert Southey’s Great Epic - 1818 - A Beautiful Set The Curse of Kehama - With Fine Provenance Based on Hindu Mythology and Zoroastrian Theology

Southey, Robert. THE CURSE OF KEHAMA (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812) 2 volumes. A very early printing, only two years after the original. A copy with fine provenance, being that of Anne MacKenzie Gladstone, sister of William Ewart Gladstone, four times British Prime Minister.

12mo, in lovely antique polished calf of the period, the covers decorated with a gilt ruled rolled frame in a fan and flower motif, the spines with gilt stippled raised bands gilt ruled, the compartments with elaborate gilt tooled frames surrounding a central gilt floral device, each volume with two navy morocco

Item Number: 41 Price: $495.

labels gilt lettered. A very fine set, in a wonderful state of preservation, fully original with just a light bit of wear to the extremities and very minor chipping at the spine tips.

A BEAUTIFUL SET WITH FINE PROVENANCE, OF THIS CLASSIC BY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE LAKE COUNTRY POETS. A FINE PRINTING OF THE POEM AND WITH EXTENSIVE NOTES ON INDIAN RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY. Southey was a contemporary of Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats and a highly important poet in his own right.

Rare First Edition of Edmund Spenser’s Poems One of the Great Masters of the Language

Sp. Ed. [Spenser, Edmund]. [Five Works Extracted From COMPLAINT...] (London: For William Ponsonbie, 1590-1591) First edition, complete here are “Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie”; “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”; “Ruines of Rome”; and “The Visions of Bellay”. Also present is “Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberds Tale” in portions. With handsome engraved allegorical titlepages for “Muiopotmos” and “Prosopopoia”, and with two engraved head-pieces and two large engraved initials. Small 4to, in attractive later but antique full dark blue morocco framed in double blind fillets, spine gilt-stamped with

Item Number: 42 Price: $6500. title, board edges with gilt roll, marbled end-pages.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS COLLECTION OF POEMS BY ONE OF ENGLAND’S GREATEST LITERARY MASTERS, rare even in this ravished form. Edmund Spenser, stands at the pinnacle of English poesy with William. This rare relic survived a stint in an English bookseller’s erstwhile “hospital,” where certain sections were removed in order to sophisticate other copies, it now contains only the key pieces named above, bound out of order. All are textually complete except “Prosopopoia”, which is lacking signatures M-P.

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

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

Item Number: 43 Price: $1850.

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

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

Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper The First Edition, First Issue in Original Cloth

Twain, Mark. THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER. A Tale for Young People of All Ages (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co, 1882) First edition, first issue, with the “Franklin Press” imprint and the first state of the binding. With 192 illustrations. 8vo, publisher’s original dark green cloth, with pictorial decoration in gilt and black on upper board, stamped and lettered in gilt and black on the spine. A very good and pleasing copy, internally solid and quite clean with only a bit of the expected age evidence here and there. The binding still very attractive and

Item Number: 44 Price: $2500. well preserved with some typical evidence of shelving to the extremities and shoulders.

THE RARE FIRST ISSUE. Twain’s timeless tale of two little boys who switch places to see how the other half lives. Very scarce in unsophisticated original cloth. THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER was quite unlike anything Twain had done up till that time. It is a fine adventure with a delicate vein of “Twainian” humor running throughout

The Very Important Cathedral Architectural Work of 1836

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Item Number: 45 Price: $750.

Winkles, [Benjamin]. WINKLES’S ARCHITECTURAL And Picturesque Illustrations Of The Cathedral Churches Of England And Wales... (London: Effingham Wilson and Charles Tilt, 1836, 1838, 1842) 3 volumes. First editions of each of the three volumes. With 181 fine steel engraved plates, including the frontispieces, being views and plans of 27 cathedrals, all are engraved by Henry and Benjamin Winkles. 4to, antique three-quarter dark green-black morocco over marbled boards.

A well preserved and handsome set, text blocks clean and tight

as are the plates, clean separation of text-block from front inner hinge in Vols I and II, easily refurbished and not affecting the quality of the books.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS BEAUTIFUL AND VERY USEFUL AND IMPORTANT WORK. Benjamin Winkles “Cathedrals” is largely credited with inspiring the 19th century Gothic revival in British architecture. The work provides beautifully drawn and engraved naturalistic views of 27 of Great Britain’s finest cathedral churches.

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