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BY A FUTURE PRESIDENT OF U.S.A. first edition tall 8vo. xiii, [3], 387, 1 (advt.)]pp., folding map, contemporary diced calf, decorative twisting gilt rolled border on sides, spine panelled by gilt hightlighted raised bands, large gilt tool at panel centres, black morocoo title label, marbled end papers, a few trivial patches of silverfish damage to leather surface on sides, corners slightly scuffed, else a very good copy. Interesting near contemporary printed label for 'F. Kay's New Circulating Library' pasted at centre of front board. John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), American diplomat, senator and the sixth President of the United States (1825-1829), is widely considered as one of the greatest diplomats and secretaries of state in American history. In early life he had spent much time in Europe on diplomatic missions with his father John Adams, later President of the United States, during which time he learned several languages. Washington appointed him American minister to the Netherlands… Read More

THE HUMAN CONDITION - HUMOUROUS HAND-COLOURED PLATES
first edition oblong folio (26.8 x 33.5 cms.) 7 plates drawn and engraved by Alken with contemporary hand colouring as issued, 1 leaf of text (printed on recto only), original printed buff wrappers, front wrapper printed to serve as a 'title page', secured by a pink ribbon through stab holes at right-hand margin, wrappers lightly soiled, some dustiness and minor marking at plate margins and a few grubby marks at outer lower marginal corners, very lightly creased where once folded, loosely laced into later stiff plain wrappers. Uncommon.

THE BODY-SNATCHING CRISIS - AN IMPORTANT REPORT IN MEDICAL HISTORY first edition follscap folio 150, [2 (blank)]pp., original blue wrappers, title page repeated on front panel, edges untrimmed as issued, slight cracking of wrapper front 'joint', wrappers and edges a little dusty, else very good in its original state.Garrison-Morton.com 'History of Medicine Bibliography', 7096.In early nineteenth century Britain and Ireland the supply of dead bodies for teaching purposes in medical schools was regulated by the Murder Act of 1752 which stipulated that only corpses of executed criminals could be used for dissection. While the 18th. century hundreds had been executed for trivial crimes by the 19th century that number had dropped to about 56 people annually, while at the same time the expansion of the medical schools meant that upwards of 500 cadavers were needed annually. The anatomy teachers in medical schools resorted to paying for bodies without asking too many questions which resulted in a… Read More

IMPORTANT HISTORY OF COMMERCE - THE BEST EDITION - GREATLY EXPANDED & REVISEDfirst edition thus revised and expanded (second overall) 4 vols. 4to. [2 (title)], (v)-lxxxviii, 556; [2 (title)], 647, [1 (blank)]; [2 (title)], 508, [59 (chronological index)], [1 (blank)], [11 (index & appendix)], [1 (blank)]; [2 (title)], iv, [4 (list of subscribers)], 718, [43 (alphabetical & chronological index)], [1 (blank)]pp., 2 folding maps, 1 frontispiece plate, 1 folding table, contemporary speckled calf, sides with a decorative gilt rolled border, spines panelled by gilt highlighted raised bands, panels gilt tooled, black morocco title labels and olive green morocco numbering labels, labels on vol. 2 renewed (very close match to originals), minor old worm trace in a few early gatherings of vol.2 very skillfully repaired, minor damps stains to margins of some leaves (mainly of terminal leaves), some minor cracking of joints sometime very skillfully refurbished. Overall a nice and a handsome… Read More

INTERESTING HAND-COLOURED FASHION PLATES
4 vols. large 8vo [2], ii, [2], 340; [2], ii, 2, 336; [2], ii, ii, 334; [2], ii, ii, 332pp., 46 wood engraved plates (42 fashion plates and 4 portraits) plus 48 hand-coloured fashion plates, contemporary half purple leather, spines decorated in gilt in panels and with black labels, patterned cloth on sides, leather on spines faded to a light tan, else very good.

LIMITED TO 125 COPIES ONLYATTRACTIVELY ILLUSTRATED & DECORATED first edition thus, edition limited to 125 copies 4to. [124]pp. including 21 pages of music, 12 tipped-in colour plates by Main R. Bocher mounted inside elaborate decorative borders in terracotta, elaborate decorative borders and illustrations and decorative initials throughout in black and teracotta, full-page illustrations in black, four elaborate coloured pages decorated by Evelyn Paul, publisher's full vellum, front board with an elaborate decorative title panel [by Paul?] in colours and gilt, top edge gilt, decorative endpapers, some very light toning and offsetting, boards a little marked, else a very good copy.This No. 39 of 125 copies signed by Evelyn Paul and with a very small and neat former owner's signature below that of Evelyn Paul on limitation leaf.Aucassin & Nicolette is medieval French romance. It deals with the love of Aucassin for the Saracen captive Nicolette. Count Garin, Aucassin's father is bitterly opposed… Read More

ATTRACTIVE ARCHITECTURAL PATTERN BOOK first edition thus, expanded 4to. (30.5 x 23.5 cms.) [4 (colour-printed title page & contents)], 58; 24; 16; 19pp. plus 33 unnumbered leaves of text, 150 plates (of which 3 double-page), 1 folding table, contemporary half black leather, spine panelled by gilt decorated raised bands, maroon title label gilt, purplish cloth on sides, edges marbled, closed tear (no loss) in folding table, upper joint bit scuffed near head, minor scuffing at corners of binding, else very good and internally very fresh copy. Engraved collection bookplate of 'William Barker,/ Londonderry" and the later signature 'M. A. Robinson/ Londonderry/ may 1898' on front end paper. The Liverpool-based architect brothers William J. and George Ashdown Audsley first published this book about 1868 in folio (45 x 33 cm.) with 91 plates and republished this extended edition about 1870 in quarto (30.5 x 23.5 cms.) with 150 plates. To some copies at least of the of the latter they added a… Read More

FINE MAPS & PLATES OF THE RIO DE LA PLATE REGION
Azara (1746-1821), a military officer and naturalist, was appointed to a delegation to settle the boundary dispute between Spain and Portugal in the Rio de la Plata region and spent the twenty years 1781 to 1801 in the region, during which time he studied and documented the area's geography, animals and native peoples. He published his Voyage in Madrid in Spanish after his return to Europe with 4 octavo volumes of text and this accompanying folio atlas volume. The atlas includes folding maps of South America, Paraguay and the Province of Buenos Aires, the Government of Buenos Aires, the Government of Paraguay and part of Chaco, and the Province of Chiquitos and Government of Matagroso and of Cuyaba; eight city plans and views, including a double-page plan and view of Buenos Aires, seven plates depicting animals, and four plates depicting birds.