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London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856. First edition. With four color lithographed plates, two maps, and seven illustrations in the text. 8vo, handsomely bound three-quarter crimson morocco over dark-gray cloth covered boards, the spine with raised bands ruled in gilt, lettered in gilt in two compartments, top edge gilt, blind rules to the morocco corner pieces, marbled end-leaves.. xli, 648. Appendices, Index. A fine copy, the binding in very pleasing condition, the text-block crisp and clean throughout, the plates and maps beautifully preserved. FIRST EDITION OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK. FIRST FOOTSTEPS IN EAST AFRICA is a seminal work of Africana recording Burton's first expedition into Somalia. His purpose was to explore the forbidden Moslem city of Harar, "a city whose walls no European had ever penetrated," as well as to gather information about the headwaters of the Nile. He travelled in the same disguise that took him to Mecca, as Haji Mirza Abdullah, an Arab… Read More

Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1992. 2 volumes bound in one as issued. First Easton Press Edition and essentially a facsimile of the Memorial Edition issued by Burton's wife in 1894. With four plates, two maps, and seven illustrations in the text. 8vo, handsomely bound in full green leather, the spine with raised bands ruled in gilt, lettered in gilt in two compartments, decorated in gilt in three compartments, the covers decorated in gilt in all over designs, all edges gilt, moire silk endleaves. xxxiv, [2], 209; [8], 276 pp. A pristine, as mint copy, the binding in brilliant condition, the text-block crisp and clean throughout, the plates and maps beautifully preserved. FIRST EASTON PRESS EDITION OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK. FIRST FOOTSTEPS IN EAST AFRICA is a seminal work of Africana recording Burton's first expedition into Somalia. His purpose was to explore the forbidden Moslem city of Harar, "a city whose walls no European had ever penetrated," as well as to gather information about… Read More

London: Tylston and Edwards, 1894. 2 volumes. First Edition thus and first issue of the Memorial Edition. With coloured lithographic frontispieces, maps and illustrations, some full-page and in colour throughout the work, as in the first edition. 8vo, publisher’s original black polished cloth lettered in gilt on the spines. xxxiv, (ii), 209; (x), 276, (4) pp. A very handsome set, well preserved, bright and clean with some minimal wear or light evidence of age at the head-caps or outer joints. The cloth is in good order, the hinges strong, the binding tight, the text-block clean. AN IMPORTANT BURTON PRINTING and a very important edition of this primary text, created by Isabel Burton in honour of her husband’s expansive work and extended oeuvre. Ms Burton had hoped to continue on with the project, publishing many more of Burton’s writings, but the seven volumes which she did publish were the only ones ever printed. This is a fine set of the scarce Memorial issue of one of Burton’s… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First Edition. 8vo, black cloth lettered in gilt, in the original handsomely printed and coloured dustjacket. xvii, 293. A fine copy in a complete and very nice dustjacket. FIRST EDITION AND A HANDSOME COPY. “It is the fate of this generation- of you in Congress and of me as President- to live with a struggle we did not start, in a world we did not make. But the pressures of life are not always distributed by choice. And while no nation has ever faced such a challenge, no nation has ever been so ready to seize the burden and the glory of freedom.” - John F. Kennedy to Congress, 1962.

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1926. 2 volumes. An early printing, with the December 1926 imprint, using the original English sheets. With over 100 illustrations from numerous sources on finely produced black and white plates, and with 2 folding genealogical charts. Tall, thick 8vos, very handsomely bound in contemporary three-quarter crushed dark-green morocco over marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with gilt ruled trim to the corner-pieces and backings , the spines with gilt tooled raised bands separating compartments, four of which contain central gilt decorative tools and two of which are gilt lettered, additional gilt lettering at the foot of the spine panels, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. xxix, 538; xii, 576 pp. A very handsome and attractive set, the text quite clean and fresh with only minor evidence of age or use, the Sangorski and Sutcliffe bindings are stately and reserved, well preserved and showing only light age evidence. AN IMPORTANT TEXT IN EXCELLENT SIGNED… Read More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. First Edition, First Issue, with the apostrophe in "Carter'sville" on the spine and the vignette of a staircase on page 1, a copy with provenance having been Arthur Swann's copy. With numerous black and white illustrations by E W Kemble and the author throughout. 12mo, publisher’s original olive boards, lettered in gilt on the spine and bordered and lettered in black on the upper cover. vi, 208 pp. A fine, clean copy. FIRST EDITION OF SMITH'S FIRST NOVEL. With charming illustrations within the text. Smith was an author, artist and engineer whose best known work is the foundation for the Statue of Liberty.

London: By T. Bensley for J. Edwards and E. Harding, 1797, 1796. First edition thus of each title and a very early edition of LEONORA (Lenore), with fine provenance being from Condover Hall, the grandest manor house in Shropshire, and with at least two generations of lineage at Condover. First, with the manuscript ownership notation of Owen Smyth Owen, whose family owned the hall beginning with its construction circa 1598 and later with the fine engraved bookplate of Reginald Chomondeley, who owned Condover Hall when he was host to American writer Mark Twain in 1873. Both works ornamented with very fine engravings from the pencil of the Right Hon. Lady Diana Beauclerc, being nine plates engraved by Vandenburg, Bartolozzi, Chessman and others and with 15 engraved head and tail vignettes engraved by Bartolozzi and others within the FABLES, and 5 plates engraved by Bartolozzi and others and 4 very fine engraved vignette head pieces within LEONORA. The text of Lenore/Leonora given in both German and… Read More

London: Printed by W. Strahan, For J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, (but, Longman Group UK0, 1755, (but, 1990). 4 volumes, including two of the DICTIONARY as originally issued, another being the facsimile of the first edition of THE PLAN OF THE DICTIONARY. and a volume containing essays concerning The Genesis of the Johnson's Dictionary and The Lexicographic Achievement of Johnson. First Edition of the Facsimile of the Original First Edition of each title. Title-pages printed in red and black, woodcut tailpieces. Royal folio (410 x 260 mm.), expertly bound to style in full red Cabra leather, the spines with raised bands gilt ruled creating compartments which are paneled in gilt, one compartment with green lettering label gilt, three other compartments with gilt lettering, the covers with gilt fillet rules at the borders, original end-leaves, the Essays and PLAN in original wrappers, the volumes all housed in the original slipcase.… Read More

Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon, 1929. COPY NUMBER 1 of the this LIMITED FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the Illustrator, J. E. Laboureur. With, an extra set of the engravings in final state housed in a foldover sleeve at the end of the book. This copy signed and with a special design by Laboureur on the upper cover. Printed on Batchelor hand-made paper. Including the normal copies a total printing of only 527 copies was accomplished. With a total of 15 engravings, the 7 called for engraved illustrations on plates by J. E. Laboureur bound in with tissue guards, a second set of the plates in final state housed in a sleeve at the rear and with an additional plate of the engraved title-page vignette added to this copy and not called for in the records. 8vo, in the original vellum over green cloth boards, the spine gilt lettered and with the special design by Laboureur stamped in gilt on the upper cover. xxviii +128 pp. A very fine copy, essentially as pristine. FIRST EDITION, COPY NUMBER 1 OF THIS… Read More

N.P.: N.P., N.D. [circa 1874-1877]. 2 volumes. A UNIQUE SET OF DRAWINGS. 215 original fashion drawings 1874-1877, accomplished in original pencil and watercolour. 11 x 17.5 cm. , bound in contemporary brown cloth lettered “Ladies’ Fashions 1874-75 and 1875-7 in gilt on the spines. 215 plates hand-numbered in pencil. The plates are very well preserved, fresh and clean and in excellent state. A RARE AND UNIQUE SET. A collection of 215 original fashion drawings of ladies in a wide variety of dresses. They are drawn first in pencil then filled out in ink and beautifully coloured in watercolours. A fantastic archive of 19th century style.

Mexico City: Editorial Seneca, 1940. First Illustrated Edition, the First Edition solely in Spanish, following the bilingual Spanish-English edition translated by Rolfe Humphries and published just a few weeks earlier in New York. With four full page plates from drawings by Garcia Lorca, two in colour and two in black and white. Titlepage printed in black and red. 4to, publisher’s original printed wrappers and with the jacket band announcing “Un libro inedito de Federico Garcia Lorca.” Now preserved in a folding case. 187pp. A fine, uncut copy, very well preserved indeed. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION AND FIRST SOLELY IN SPANISH OF Garcia Lorca’s final published cycle of poems. The poems were published posthumously in 1940, but were written during his residency in New York in 1929 and 1930. His experiences in New York, amongst the disenfranchised African American population, transformed him into a passionate advocate of the theatre of social action. This edition followed the… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1927. First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original orange cloth lettered in black on the spine and upper cover. 118 pp. A very good and well preserved copy. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT BOOK BY JUSTICE FRANKFURTER ON AN ICONIC AMERICAN TRIAL. In 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both Italian-Americans, were convicted of robbery and murder. Although the arguments brought against them were mostly disproven in court, the fact that the two men were known radicals (and that their trial took place during the height of the Red Scare) prejudiced the judge and jury against them. On April 9, 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti's final appeal was rejected, and the two were sentenced to death. Felix Frankfurter, then a professor at Harvard Law School, was considered to be the most prominent and respectable critic of the trial. This extremely well written analysis of the trial and the factors relevant to both the case and the author's critical legal analysis is… Read More

Berlin,: Verlog von G. Reimer, 1842.. First Edition. With 10 full page lithographed plates, including 3 hand-finished chromolithographs. Folio, bound in later morocco backed marbled boards, the spine with lettering label gilt. A fine copy indeed with a neat release stamp on the verso of the title, and some very light spotting. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SCARCE WORK ON RAVENNA AND SOME OF ITS MOST IMPORTANT ARCHITECTURAL TREASURES. It is a study of Christian buildings from the 5th to 9th century. The author was a German architect, art historian and the first Prussian state curator . He was the heir to the Radensleben estate near Neuruppin and canon of the Brandenburg Cathedral Monastery. In 1838/1839 he stayed in Italy and studied the ancient sites. He subsequently gave lectures on the history of architecture in the Altes Museum. He was also an early advocate for historic conservation, arguing for restraint in renovation or reconstruction and a visible distinction between old and new

Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 1995. LIMITED FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Sewell, Taylor and Falkner, one of only 100 deluxe copies to be specially bound and housed in a fine case, and presented with a very limited reprinting of DAISY AND MARGUERITE (100 copies only) and with a portfolio containing a bifolium from 'Horae Beatae Virginis' printed at Saint Dominic's Press. This copy further with an autograph letter and a typed letter, both signed, from Michael Taylor to the original owner and a signed autograph letter from the Whittington Press to the original owner. Including the non-deluxe issue, only 400 copies of the work were printed. With plates in both colour and black and white and with 12 finely produced tipped-in reproductions of printing examples. 4to, in the special deluxe binding of quarter Oasis morocco over paper-coved boards, the portfolio of matching paper backed in cloth. The DAISY AND MARGUERITE reproduction bound tan paper-covered boards backed in buckram as the original,… Read More

New York: Viking Press, 1972. First Edition, seventh printing. With spot drawings from THE NEW YORKER. 8vo, full black cloth with gilt on spine. In the original dustjacket. xxiv, 232. A fine copy. A FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF PARIS IN THE 20s & 30s. Writing under the pen name Genet, Janet Flanner wrote the “Letter from Paris” column in the New Yorker magazine. Collected here are her best columns from 1925-1939. Thus there are contemporaneous accounts of exciting things like Lindbergh's arrival in Paris on 21 May 1927, and the riot on Feb 6, 1934, connected to the Stavisky scandal. Flanner has incisive comments on prominent people who died in Paris such as Clemenceau in 1929 and Marshall Foch that same year, and of Edith Wharton in 1937. Flanner is very readable, pertinent and often funny. It was a fantastic stretch of years, made more poignant by what we know came immediately after it.

London: Printed for William Baynes and Son, 1825. 2 volumes. An early printing of the Whiston edition. Engraved frontispiece, folding map of Canaan and Palestine and a folding plan of Jerusalem. 8vo, bound in full contemporary diced calf, the spines in five compartments separated by wide raised bands triple gilt ruled and decorated, two compartments with contrasting red and black morocco lettering labels gilt, the covers ruled in gilt, marbled edges. 635; 652 including appendices and index pp. A handsome and well preserved set with light aging to the bindings which remain in very good order. The textblocks are clean, crisp and unpressed, only occasionally showing any foxing, the plates remain in very good order as well with a bit of the expected usual spotting. A FINE EARLY PRINTING OF JOSEPHUS AND WITH A FINE LIFE OF JOSEPHUS INCLUDED. "Josephus was a learned Jew who lived in the latter half of the first century of our era. At Rome he early made a favorable impression on the… Read More

London: Queen Anne Press, 2012. First Edition, Deluxe Issue, One of a Limited Number for Presentation, Signed by the author Jon Gilbert, by Fergus Fleming and by Kate Grimond. Profusely illustrated throughout with full-page colour plates in suites, and black and white illustrations throughout the text. Set in Albertina type and printed in two colours. Royal Quarto, beautifully bound in fine quarter vellum over black cloth covered boards, the spine lettered in gilt, the upper cover with gilt emblematic device, red coloured endleaves, top edge gilt. [x], 692, [1] pp. A mint copy, unopened and without fault, the glassine jacket still in pristine condition. Very scarce thus. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED AND A PRESENTATION COPY OF THE CONSUMMATE WORK ON IAN FLEMING AND THE VAST TROVE OF PRINTINGS OF THE AUTHOR'S WORK. Winner of the 16th ILAB-Breslauer Prize for bibliography, this is one of the most comprehensive works in the entire field. Jon Gilbert, a fine bookseller as well as bibliographer… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Companyt, 1955. First Edition, Second Printing. Illustrated with photographs. 8vo, publisher's original cloth over cloth covered boards, the spine panel lettered in gilt, in the pictorially illustrated dustjacket. [xiv], 15-318 pp. A very good and well preserved copy, the dustjacket with some light rubbing to the extremities, the gilt to the spine panel slightly mellowed by time, a tight, clean and proper copy, some marginalia and notes in pencil to the final blank. THE DESERT AND THE STARS IS A LITERARY DETECTIVE STORY INVOLVING THE ECCENTRICITIES OF LAWRENCE'S PUBLIC AND PERSONAL LIFE writes the publisher. 'It tells of his personality, of his archaeological work at Carchemish, his study of medieval fortifications, his successful war experiences, and with the tragedy of his life: the refusal of the British government to honour political commitments to the Arabs which had been made to iinsure Arab entry into the war against the Turks.' The author writes that the… Read More

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1911. First edition. With Ms. Du Cane's wonderful paintings reproduced on fine colour plates, and with a folding map at the end of the book. Large 8vo, in the publisher's original sea-blue-green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and with decorations to the spine and upper cover in an all-over design in dark blue. vii, 172, 3 ads. pp. A quite pleasing copy of this elusive A. & C. Black illustrated title. The cloth still in pleasing condition with just very light age evidence, the blue and gilt decorations all very bright, the textblock clean, the plates all fine indeed. FIRST EDITION OF THIS BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED WORK ON THE CANARY ISLANDS. Ms. Du Cane's watercolours, rich with floral pinks and purples, were the perfect choice to capture this beautiful group of islands. Ella was an accomplished artist and her sister Florence a writer. After their father died in 1889 they decided that they would travel the world unchaperoned. They visited China, Japan,… Read More

London: John Murray, 1864. 2 volumes. First Edition. Featuring a charming set of engravings depicting views of Arpino, Cicero's hometown, Rome, and Formia, where he was murdered, as well as portraits of him and other great Roman statesmen on coins and medals. With frontispieces to each volume and 12 plates; title pages printed in red and black within ornate border. 8vo, antique tan calf of the early 20th century by Root & Son, spines with raised bands, compartments ruled in gilt, red morocco labels, double gilt fillet frame on covers, gilt decoration on board edges and turn-ins, red endleaves, top edges gilt, yellow silk book markers. viii, [2], 310; [2], 299 pp. A handsome set, light evidence of age to the bindings, the headcap to Vol. II a bit rubbed, the text-blocks are clean, the illustrations are all in fine condition, a near fine copy. FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE BIOGRAPHY OF CICERO. William Forsyth was a Scottish poet and journalist, editor of the "Aberdeen Journal", one of the… Read More