Flora Lapponica exhibens plantas per Lapponiam crescentes, secundum systema sexuale collectas in itinere impensis Soc. reg. litter. et scient. Sueciae a. 1732 instituto. Additis synonymis, & locis natalibus omnium, descriptionibus & figuris rariorum, by Linnaeus (Linne, Linnaei, Caroli). Edited by James Edward Smith - 1792

1687 Travels of Chardin in PERSIA Middle East Iraq Turkey Iran Voyages French

A rare French edition of Jean Chardin's "Travels into Persia and the East Indies". This book is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East. This printing was published at the same time as other French edition, all are considered first editions. In this book Chardin discusses his journeys from Constantinople to the Black Sea, Persia, and throughout the Middle East (Kashan, Iraq; Armenia, Crimea, and Georgia). The end of his journey took him through the Cape of Good Hope, on his way home.

Upon his return, he was considered quite a celebrity in London; though, according to Evelyn he was 'not inclined to talke wonders". He met with famous members of the Royal Society, all of whom took great interest in his voyage. He told them of his witnessing of Abbas II's coronation, and the jewels and fine ornaments he had seen.

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1834 1ed Victor HUGO Poems French Literature Cromwell Hernani Lucrezia Odes 8v

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

The best-known and oft-considered greatest French writer is unarguably Victor Hugo. His romance novels and stories have withstood the test of language and time. His most famous work, 'Les Miserables', has been transformed into film, theatre, and opera. This early printing of the works of Hugo includes works through 1838 including:
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"Cromwell"
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"Odes et Poesies et Ballads"
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"Les Orientales"
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"Hernani"
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"Marion de Lorme"
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"Le Roi S'amuse"
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"Lucrezia Borgia"
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"Les Chants du Crepuscule"
Item number: #14787
Price: $750
HUGO, Victor
[Victor Hugo works]
Paris: Libraire d'Eugene Renduel, 1834-1838. 1st editions

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· Collation: Complete with all pages; 8 volumes
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~9.25in X… Read More

1840 HANDEL Dettingen Te Deum Classical Music Austrian Succession WAR

Alongside Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederic Handel was one of the two greatest Baroque music composers. Best known for his 'Messiah', Handel was responsible for hundreds of pieces of music, many of which were written with liturgical texts. Handel's 1743 masterpiece 'Dettingen Te Deum' was written in honor of the British victory at Dettingen in the War of Austrian Succession.
Handel, who had become proud of his English home, wrote this setting of 'Te Deum' for the day King George II appointed a day of celebration in honor of the victory. Like many of Handel's works, it features chorus, full orchestra, and solos.
This Varey edition of Handel features a piano reduction as well as the choral and solo parts.
Item number: #15687
Price: $750
HANDEL, Johann Frederic
The Te Deum, composed for the Victory at Dettingen
London: Varey, [1840].

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[2], 53, [1]
· Language:… Read More

1557 1ed Epitome on Prosody Latin & Greek Grammar Language Berthelon Literature
A rare and rather obscure 16th-century study on Prosody, linguistics, and grammar. Collected and edited by a Pantaleon Bartelon, this work is a collection of literary and poetic examples published together with the intents of offer direction to writers and grammarians.
Item number: #20562
Price: $750
BERTHELON, Pantaleon
Epitome in prosodiam : ex variis scriptoribus compendiosè collecta
Parisiis: Ex officina Simonis Calvarini, 1557. First edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
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277, [27]
· References: USTC 198081; Pettegree, FB 55983
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Provenance: Handwritten – Alexandri [Peleé] DeVarenne, 1726
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~4.5in X 3in (11.5cm x 7.5cm)
· Quite scarce
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1840 Charles Dickens 1ed Master Humphrey's Clock First Book Form in 3v CLASSIC
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."
― Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. One of his lesser-known works was 'Master Humphrey's Clock', a work which follows Humphrey and the stories he and Mr. Pickwick tell. The parts of this work were released in short segments weekly in periodicals in London. It first appeared in complete book form in 1840 by Chapman and Hall.
Item number: #22944
Price: $750
DICKENS, Charles
Master Humphrey's Clock. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Complete in 3 volumes.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. First edition.
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· Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes
o Vol. I – [4], 306
o Vol. II – vi, 306
o Vol. III – vi, 426
o… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First U.S. edition / First printing. Off white cloth. Near fine with owner name emboss stamp to front free endpaper and also the title page in very good to near fine dust jacket, with several edge tears. The author's first book.

London; New York: Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co, 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No jacket as issued. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. 24mo., (15)pp., illustrated on each page in bright red, green, grey, blue, gilt, etc. chromolithographs. Bound in pebbled cloth backed glossy paper over boards, chromolithographs. The spine's cloth is torn at its crown, with loss. Light to moderate soiling to the covers. Internally clean and bright. A Very Good copy. **** Author's first book. "Booker T. Washington" on the title page. Part of the Gem series. ***.

1537 1ed Orthodox Saint John Chrysostom On the Priesthood + Brixius Marburg

A rare 16th-century printing of works of John Chrysostom. Chrysostom was one of the most important Early Christian Church authors and preachers and is most remembered for his sermons and homilies. He preached on many different subjects, but his most frequented topic was helping the needy. Chrysostom calls for followers of Jesus to set aside their material desires to help the poor, often in a way that shamed the rich and guilted them in to giving.
"Do you pay such honor to your excrements as to receive them into a silver chamber-pot when another man made in the image of God is perishing in the cold?" (Chrysostom in Liebeschuetz)

One of his most important treatises was 'On the Priesthood' in which he describes his experiences becoming a priest and living as a priest. Interestingly, this work was popular during his lifetime as he made references to it in his other works.
This extremely rare 16th-century edition of 'On the… Read More

London.: Richard Bentley.. 1861.. First edition, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece and black and white text illustrations, [i]-xxxii + 350pp with a final advertisment leaf of Bentley's Standard Novels, 19.4 x 13cm, original blind-stamped blue cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine (dulled) and gilt vignette of a ship with pennants a flutter to the top board, slight spotting mainly limited to the endpapers and age toning to the edges of the text, old varnish to the boards (obscuring gilt lettering to spine and dulling the gilt to the ship vignette) corners tender, but a good clean example of a title scarce on the market. Written in the year Japan opened its doors to foreign trade (but published three years later), by the first British Consul to Nagasaki, Christopher Pemberton Hodgson (he also served as French Consul). As well as giving a key survey of a landmark period (including the structure of society, religion and Japanese attitudes to the West), Hodgson importantly includes a catalogue of… Read More

Contemporary binding rubbed to extremities. Life time edition of Karamzin's most important work on Russian history. Volumes - 2,4,5,6,7,9,10