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GOTHIC NOVEL IN A PARTICULARLY PRETTY COPYfirst edition 3 vols. 12mo. (iii)-xii, 306; [2 (title leaf)], 316; [2 (title leaf)], 367, [1 (blank)]pp. bound without half-titles, contemporary mauve half calf, smooth spines with two black morocco labels with richly gilt borders, the remainder of the spines blind tooled in a complex lattice pattern, marbled paper on sides, marbled endpapers,scattered light foxing, else a very nice fresh copy in a pretty binding. A particularly attractive copy.Early pencilled signature (before binding) on title page of vol. 3, "C. Vesey Lucan House" and the slightly later signature on early blanks of "W. H. Moore Hodder".St. Clair The Godwins and the Shelleys, p.440 Summers Gothic Bibliography, p. 398 Wolff 2588 Not in SadleirThis gothic novel, a study of madness, took Godwin over eight years to write. "Written like all his novels in the first person the book attempts to show how obsession leads to madness. Godwin sought to trace the breakdown of… Read More

FICTIONAL PORTRAYAL OF SHENSTONEfirst edition 2 vols. 12mo. iv, 240; [4], 248pp., frontispiece plate in each volume, contemporary Irish sprinkled calf, spines panelled by gilt highlighted raised bands, large bunch of flowers tool at panel centres, red morocco labels gilt, edges dyed green, frontispieces trifle shaved at their fore-edges, else a fine fresh copy.ESTC t10229Richard Graves (Glocestershire, 1715-1804), poet and novelist, educated at Oxford, graduated B.A. in 1736, became a fellow of All Soul's College, took his Master's Degree at Oxford, 1740 and was ordained in the same year. He obtained a curacy near Reading but lost his fellowship and offended his relations by marrying an uneducated sixteen year old farmer's daughter. He remained very poor for some years but later through the interest of Sir Edward Harvey became Rector of Claverton, Vicar of Kilmersdon and Chaplin to the Countess of Chatham. For thirty years he took pupils whom he educated with his own family. His pupils… Read More

first edition 12mo. (in sixes), x, (13)-168, 28 (Lippencott's advt.)pp., wood-engraved frontispiece plate, original dark brown cloth, sides elaborately blocked in blind, spine gilt lettered, some scattered light foxing, neatly recased with the original endpapers reused.
Inscribed on front endpaper "Presented to Jones Johnston of the ship Victory by John S. Young of Norfolk, State of Virginia, U.S.A.. June 2nd 1858" and on a preliminary blank "Jones Johnston Ships Victory of Liverpool at Norfolk State of Virginia U.S.A. June 2nd. 1858".
Wagner-Camp 213:1. Flake-Draper 3746. Howes G-463.An important early firsthand account of life in the Salt Lake Valley during the first few years of Mormon habitation. Gunnison (1812-1853), American army engineer, surveyor and explorer was in 1849 "assigned as assistant to Captain Howard Stansbury in the first exploration of the Great Salt Lake Basin by the Army's Topographical Engineers. ... Both of the officers were favorably impressed by the organization and communal… Read More

"SINGLE MOST COMPREHENSIVE COMPENDIUM ON THE SUBJECT" - FINE COPY WITH A.L.S. FROM THE AUTHOR first edition 2 vols. large 4to. (30 x 23 cms.) xviii, [2], iii, [1 (blank)], 304; viii, (305)-609, [1 (printer's slug)]pp., frontispiece plate in each volume plus 153 plates (some folding), 216 figures and photo illustrations through the text, original cream buckram, front covers handsomely gilt blocked with astrolabe design, spines gilt lettered, spine just a trifle darkened, lovely copy.Autograph letter from Gunther relating to the book loosely inset. Later neat ex-libris stamp of Christopher St J. H. Daniel. Related press clipping and other material also loosely inset.Rare, according to Charles Batey (printer to the O.U.P.) only 250 sets were ever produced. Acknowledged by Professor Owen Gingerich (1930- ), Research Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University, as "the single most comprehensive compendium on the subject which everyone seriously interested in… Read More

first edition 2 vols. tall 8vo. xx, 392; xxvi, [2], 627, [1]pp, 6 maps (5 coloured, of which 1 folding), 1 folding chart, 11 plates, original red cloth, spines gilt lettered, vol.1 largely unopened, spines a shade faded, vol. 2 with a couple of nicks in front joint, some light damp mottling to cloth at fore edge of vol.1 and joint of vol.2, else very good.
Endpaper with the attractive pictorial linocut? bookplate of James Small, Brechin, sometime Prof. of Botany at Queen's University and with his signature.
A major and pioneering work.Guppy (1854-1926), English surgeon, geologist, botanist and photographer, after serving as a naval surgeon 1876-1885 partly in the Pacific (especially in the Solomon Islands) returned to the Pacific to undertake extensive geological and botanical research, including investigations of the coral reefs at the Keeling Islands and other work at Java, Hawaii and Fiji. "From 1906 to 1914 he made studies in the West Indies and the Azores. The First World War curtailed travel… Read More