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A’BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott (1811-1856). The Comic History of England. -The Comic History of Rome. London: Punch, 1846-1848.
2 works in 3 volumes, 8vo (220 x 140 mm). Half-titles (printed in red for England), titles printed in red and black, 19 hand-colored engraved plates, numerous woodcut and steel engraved illustrations throughout SIGNED BY DE COVERLY. (Some minor spotting or browning, one leaf with a small hole repaired to Rome volume not affecting text.) Uniformly bound FROM THE ORIGINAL 20/19 AND 10/9 PARTS in red crushed levant, sides with elaborate foliate border gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt-lettered in two, the rest decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (some very minor wear, joints and spine ends discreetly reinforced). FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUES, BOUND FROM THE ORIGNAL PARTS. England volumes COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL WRAPPERS AND ADVERTISEMENTS as called for by Abbey with the following exceptions: Part 5 back wrapper with “The Comic History of England” on the inside and “Rowland’s Unique Preparations” on the outside; lacking advertisement to part 1. Rome volume with the front wrappers to parts 5 and 7, and the back wrapper to part 7 only. Abbey Life 434, 435. 77
Provenance: D. Paterson (signatures to wrappers of England parts); George Browning Anderson (bookplates). $700-900 78*
[AFRICA]. BUCKINGHAM, James Silk. Travels in Mesopotamia. London, 1827. 2 volumes, 8vo. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION. -- EDMONSTONE, Archibald. A Journey to Two of the Oases of Upper Egypt. London, 1822. 8vo. ORIGINAL BOARDS. FIRST EDITION. -- SHABEENY, Abd Salam and James Grey JACKSON. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa. London, 1820. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. --Together, 3 works in 4 volumes, condition generally fine. Property from the Collection of the Valley of Milwaukee, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Milwaukee, Wisconsin $500-700 79
ALBINUS, Bernard Siegfried (1697-1770). Explicatio tabularum anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii.
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Leiden: Johann and Hermann Verbeek, 1761.
Folio (435 x 270 mm). Half-title, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 47 plates with duplicates in outline (totaling 89). (Lacking engraved frontispiece, a few plates disbound, some minor spotting or soiling.) Contemporary boards, modern leather rebacking (some overall wear to boards). Second edition. Eustachius finished his copper plates in 1552, but only a few were published in his lifetime. The plates were rediscovered and published in full in the first edition (Rome, 1714). Provenance: H.W.T. Seemoller (signature on title, signature dated 1832); Fr. Michaelsen (signature dated 1842); Maday Pista (stamp on flyleaf and verso of title); four other illegible signatures, three dated (1932, 1947, and 1956). $600-800 80
[DANTE Alighieri (1265-1321)]. Sonetti e’ Canzoni di diversi antichi autori Toscani in dieci libri raccolte. Florence: heirs of Filippo Giunta, July 1527.
Small 8vo (152 x 95 mm). Woodcut printer’s device on title-page and verso of final leaf. (Lacking q8, some light spotting or browning, minor dampstain to outer margin of a few leaves.) Modern green crushed levant (some light wear). Second and most complete edition of this 14th-century collection of Italian poets, including the first edition of Dante’s Canzoniere, and edited by Bernardo Giunta and others. From the personal Fable collection of Kenneth McKenzie (see Kenneth McKenzie, “Some Remarks on a Fable Collection,” Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.4, June 1944). EXTREMELY RARE: according to online sale records, only two copies of this work have appeared on the market at auction in the last 35 years. Adams T-1213. Provenance: Cesaris Quirone? (early signature on title-page); A.S. (manuscript initials on title-page): Kenneth McKenzie (1870-1949) American Professor and Italian Literature scholar (signature and bookplate). 80
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