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LE GUIN, URSULA. Gwilan's Harp. 8vo. Original wrappers, label on front cover. Lord John Press, Northridge 1981. First Edition. Limited to 300 copies signed by Le Guin. This is copy # 36. Fine.

REPORT ON THE PERSONAL PAPERS OF ROBESPIERRESEIZED FROM HIS HOUSEFirst Edition of this report on the personal papers of Robespierre, intended to be evidence of his guilt8vo. 19th century leather-backed marbled boards, gold lettering on spine. A Paris, De L'Imprimerie Nationale Des Lois . (1794 or 1795).Spine worn, boards scuffed; title page toned; tear to page 51/52 missing some text; small tears to margins of a few pages.

Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated with over 100 copperplate engravings, including a folding plate and 2 double-page plates, all by Giovanni Giorgi; numerous engravings in text; woodcut printers mark on colophon page; with the phallic illustrations completely intact. (These, as noted by Graesse, are often defaced or removed.). Folio. 17th-century full calf, spine with 6 raised bands, richly tooled in compartments, title in gilt in second compartment. All edges speckled. Printed in Udine, Italy by Niccolo Schiratti for Francesco Bolzetti, 1653 (colophon dated 1652). Second Edition. First Enlarged Folio Edition, second issue, with new title page. This illustrated treatise on the sepulchral lamps of the ancients (mostly Greek and Roman) was first printed in Venice in 1621 in a smaller 4to format with fewer illustrations. (Brunet III, 1069; Cicognara 1678; Graesse IV, p.202.) Fortunio Liceti, often Latinized as Licetus, an Italian doctor, philosopher, and scientist, was professor at the universities of Padua… Read More

8vo. Decorated cloth, gilt letters on spine. New York, Macmillan Company 1922. Later edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Lindsay on the front endpaper, "With good wishes to Harry Strong. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay." Offsetting to front and back endpapers, o/w Fine.

Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Original boards, spine labels. New York, 1839. First Edition. 2 volumes. Laid in is a 3-page ALS from Longfellow to My Dear Sir, dated Cambridge, Nov. 23, 1880. The letter expresses gratitude for the gift of a book of Selections from Longfellows poems assembled by school children. It reads in part, I hasten to thank you for it, and through you all my young friends, whose names are written in it. Please say to them how highly I am gratified by this mark of their esteem and consideration . . . With 2 bookplates, including that of Mary Lecomte du Noüy. Some light staining and peeling to boards; head and heel of spines chipped; former signature erased; some foxing and minor ink stains; o/w Very Nice. Both volumes enclosed in red morocco box.

Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with 12 full-page hand-colored engravings illustrating 24 species of amaranthus. Folio. Modern ¼-leather-backed marbled boards. Turici (Zurich): impensis Ziegleri et fil, 1790. First Edition. The only edition of a specialist botanical work on the species of amaranthus by Carolo Willdenow, director of the Berlin Botanical Garden. The engravings are designed and engraved by R.J. Schellenberg. Willdenow is considered one of the founders of phytogeography, the study of the geographic distribution of plants. He was also a mentor of Alexander von Humboldt, one of the earliest and best known phytogeographers. Willdenow was interested in the adaptation of plants to climate, showing that similar climates had plants with common characteristics. His herbarium, containing more than 20,000 species, is preserved in the Botanical Garden in Berlin. Occasional foxing; title page browned; plates in very good condition.