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London: Hurst and Blackett, 1863. Gothically Romantic Novel In the Original Cloth Not in Sadleir or Wolff MACDONALD, George. David Elginbrod. In Three Volumes. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1863. First edition of the author's first published novel. Three octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 199 x 125 mm.). viii, 325, [1]; vi, 335, [1]; vi, 398. Original brick red pebble-grain cloth with covers ruled in blind and spines ruled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. A few leaves in gathering N in Volume I poorly opened at top and a few leaves in gathering H in Volume III poorly opened at edge (none affecting any text). The front cover of Volume I shows evidence of a lending library label having once been affixed, and the front and rear pastedowns of Volume III show signs of there once having been a brown paper protective cover. Otherwise, this is as near fine a set as one could ever wish for, with the hinges sound and the gilt lettering on the unfaded spines fresh and bright. "[Macdonald] and his… Read More

Philadelphia [&] Pittsburgh: James Kay, Jun. and Brother; C.H. Kay & Co.,, 1829. A Compendium of Practical Knowledge MACKENZIE, Colin. Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic Arts: Constituting A Complete Practical Library relative to [and including] Agriculture, Bees, Calico printing, Carving at table, Cements, Confectionary, Cookery, Crayons, Dairy, Diseases, Distilation, Dying, Enamelling, Engraving, Farriery, Food, Gardening, Gilding, Glass, Health, Inks, &c, Jewellers pastes, Lithography, Medicines, Metallergy, Oil colours, Oils, Painting, Pastry, Perfumery, Pickling, Pottery, Preserving, Scouring, Silk, Silk worms, Silvering, Tanning, Trees of all kinds, Varnishing, Water colours, Wines, &c, &c, &c. A new American from the latest London Edition. With numerous and important additions generally; and the medical part carefully revised and adapted to the climate of the U. States; and also a new and most copious index by an American Physician. Philadelphia: James Kay,… Read More

Bruxelles: J.B.A.M. Jobard, 1825. A Superb Set in the Original Wrappers of Madou & Van Hamelryck's Costumes of Belgium Complete with 124 Fine Hand Colored Lithograph Plates MADOU, Jean-Baptiste, and [Jean-Louis Van HAMELRYCK]. Costumes Belgiques, Civils, Militaires, Religieux, Anciens et Modernes. Dessinés par Madou. Vingt-cinq livraisons de cinq planches, et une feuille de texte. Bruxelles: J.B.A.M. Jobard & Jobard Freres, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828 & 1830. First edition in the original twenty-five parts as issued. Folio (12 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches; 314 x 241 mm.). [i-ii, engraved vignette title-page, verso blank], [iii]-iv, Introduction, [1-9]; [10-17]; [18-25]; [26-33]; [34-41]; [42-49]; [50-57]; [58-65]; [66-73]; [74-81]; [82-89]; [90-97]; [98-105]; [106-113]; [114-121]; [122-129]; [130-137]; [138-145]; [146-153]; [154-161]; [162-169]; [170-177]; [178-185]; [186-193]; [193-196], [i]-iv, table. pp. Paper fault on lower margin of pp. 58-59 (part 11), not affecting text. Complete with 124 fine hand… Read More

Paris: Louis Janet, 1828. A Color-Plate Tour Down the River Seine [MALO, Charles]. Voyage Pittorèsque de Paris au Havre sur les Rives de la Seine. Paris: Louis Janet, [1828]. First edition. Sixteenmo (5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches; 146 x 89 mm.). [viii], [1]-207, [1, blank] pp. Hand colored copper-plate vignette title-page of a steam ship on the Seine and ten charming hand-colored copper plates depicting a journey down the Seine from Paris to Le Havre. Beautifully bound ca. 1960 in full maroon straight-grain morocco, covers richly decorated in gilt with an inlaid central oval of olive green morocco and four small red flowers in corners. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt and with inlaid red or olive green oval panels decorated in gilt. Decorative gilt ruled board edges, decoratively ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers and original? pink paper wrappers bound in. All edges gilt. A truly wonderful copy of this charming little tour down the river Seine. "An anonymously… Read More

London: Printed by Englemann, Hullmandel or Lefevre for W. Spooner, 1831. Mansion's Fancy Ball Dress Complete with Thirty Magnificent Hand Colored Lithographs of the Highest Quality Depicting the Costumes of Europe and Russia MANSION, aka André Léon Larue. [Fancy Ball Dress]. [London: W. Spooner, 1831-32]. First edition. Large folio (18 3/8 x 12 3/8 inches; 467 x 314 mm. Image size 10 1/8 x 8 inches; 258 x 203 mm.). Thirty magnificent hand colored lithograph plates, all heightened with gum arabic, depicting the regional costumes of Europe. The plates were variously printed by Engelmann & Co., C. Hullmandel, Lefevre & Co., and Meifred, Lemercier & Co. All plates mounted on heavy gray paper and captioned in manuscript. All plates with tissue guards. First plate with small offset from leather bookplate, some light marginal foxing, generally not touching the images. Bound ca. 1835 in three-quarter maroon morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt. Front cover with rectangular maroon morocco label… Read More

London: Pubd....by R. Ackermann, 1831. Twelve Superb Hand-Colored Lithographs of Regional Costume MANSION, aka André Léon Larue. National Ball Costumes. London: Pubd.... by R. Ackermann, 1831-1832. Folio. Twelve numbered hand-colored lithographed plates (measuring approximately 7 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 193 x 138 mm. on sheets measuring approximately 15 3/8 x 11 3/16 inches; 390 x 286 mm.) all heightened with gum arabic. The plates are printed by C. Hullmandel and are dated from Novr. 1st, 1831 to Feby. 1st, 1832. Loose, probably as issued, in an early stiff blue paper wrapper with the title label and shelf mark of the Hofbibliothek Donaueschingen. Housed in a half dark red morocco over marbled boards, front cover with rectangular maroon morocco bordered and lettered in gilt. Smooth spine with dark red morocco label lettered in gilt. A wonderful copy of this extremely rare series of plates. We have been unable to locate any other copies. The plates are captioned: "Russia, Kazan, Prov:… Read More

Pennsylvania: Bryn Mawr Coolege Library, 1983. An 'Aligator' Binding on a Book about A World Famous Collection of Bookbindings MASER, Frederick E. Bookbinding in America 1680-1910. From the collection of Frederick E. Maser. With an essay by Willman Spawn. Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Brtyn Mawr College Library, 1983. First edition. Large quarto (11 x 8 1/4 inches; 280 x 210 mm.). 122, [1, colophon], [1, blank] pp. Six full color plates (including frontispiece) and numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text. Full brown levant morocco, both covers with a large onlaid piece of dark brown alligator skin, smooth spine with onlaid black calf label lettered in gilt, woven endpapers. Housed in a brown morocco backed red cloth clamshell case, spine with onlaid black calf label lettered in gilt. Although the binding is unsigned it was certainly done by a skilled student of the art of bookbinding. A perfect gift for a student of bookbinding. "The occasion of this study is the gift to the… Read More

: , 2012. A Lovely Original Watercolor From Leave Your Sleep Adapted to Music by Natalie Merchant McCLINTOCK, Barbara, artist. "If No One Ever Marries Me". From Leave Your Sleep by Natalie Merchant. [N.p.], 2012. Original pen, ink and watercolor illustration. Signed "Barbara McClintock" on lower left-hand corner. Image size: 9 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 244 x 200 mm. Matted. (Mat size: 18 x 14 inches; 457 x 356 mm.). A lovely illustration from the collection of classic children's poetry in Leave Your Sleep. This book was adapted to music by Natalie Merchant, and opens the door to a wondrous world filled with witches and fearless girls, blind men and elephants, giants and sailors and dancing bears. It features a daring and delightful selection, ranging from the beloved to the undiscovered. Natalie Merchant's brilliant musical renderings, selected from her highly praised album, share the stage with Barbara McClintock's richly imagined art to create a memorable reading, looking, and listening experience.… Read More

Philadelphia: D. Rice & Co., 1872. One of the Finest Artistic and Anthropological Records of the Native Americans ever Published MCKENNEY, Thomas L. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred Portraits from the Indian Gallery in the War Department at Washington. In two Volumes. Philadelphia: D. Rice & Co., 1872. Two large octavo volumes (10 11/16 x 7 5/8 inches; 272 x 194 mm.). [iv], [1]-450; [1]-541, [1, blank] pp. Complete with *ninety-nine hand-colored lithographic plates heightened with gum arabic, as enumerated in the list of illustrations at the beginning of each volume (61 in volume one, and 38 in volume two, all with original tissue-guards). Some occasional and very minor foxing otherwise a near fine and clean example, the lithograph plates with superb hand coloring. Original half dark brown morocco over diced brick-red cloth, spines with five raised bands decoratively ruled and decorated… Read More

Venice: Appresso Tomaso Baglioni, 1609. The First Practical Treatise on Navigation Second Italian Edition MEDINA, Pietro da. Arte Del Navigare dell'eccel Dottor Pietro Da Medina. Nella quale copiosamente si tratta tutto quello, che appartiene alla Navigatione, e sua cognitione. Venice: Appresso Tomaso Baglioni, 1609. Second edition in Italian (first published in 1554) of this ground-breaking Spanish work on Compass Navigation. Small quarto (7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 197 x 145 mm.). [xiv], 137, [3, blank] pp. Title-page printed in red and black and with a large woodcut. Full-page woodcut map of Europe, the Atlantic Ocean and the New World on page 33 (identical to the 1554 edition) and numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams throughout. Numerous woodcut head pieces and initial letters. Early ink name on either side of woodcut, library blind-stamp at top of title. Contemporary mottled calf, spine with four raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Spine expertly… Read More

: Privately Reprinted, 1886. Just like Love is yonder rose, Heavenly fragrance round it throws..." Luis de Camoens - Portugal's Greatest Poet A Wonderful Inlaid Binding by Charles Meunier [MEUNIER, Charles, binder]. CAMOENS. Luis de. Love Poems from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoens. By Lord Viscount Strangford. [London]: Privately Reprinted, 1886. Limited to 50 copies on Japan Paper (this being number 49), signed by the editor, B.B. Haggin. Additionally inscribed on a front blank leaf "Compliments of the Editor/B.B. Haggin/March 27th, 1892." Small quarto (8 9/16 x 6 9/16 inches; 217 x 167 mm.). [iv], [117], [3, blank] pp. Original stiff paper wrappers decorated in gold bound in. Illustrated with very attractive, engraved head and tail-pieces. Bound ca. 1886 by Charles Meunier (stamp-signed in gilt on lower turn-in). Full rose colored crushed morocco, each cover richly and decoratively bordered in gilt surrounding a rectangular foliate frame with sixteen flowers inlaid in black morocco and… Read More

New York City: The Limited Editions Club, 1949. One of Fifteen Hundred Copies Signed By Arthur Miller and Leonard Baskin MILLER, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem. With five etchings by Leonard Baskin. New York City: The Limited Editions Club, [1984]. Limited to 1,500 copies signed by the author and the illlustrator (this being no. 1324). Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 inches; 267 x 203 mm.). [viii], [1]-164, [165, verso blank], [colophon leaf signed in pencil by Arthur Miller and Leonard Baskin, verso blank] pp.] Publisher's full brown morocco [by Gray Parrot Incorporated], smooth spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy in the publisher's gray board slipcase. Loosely inserted is the monthly newsletter for December 1984. "This book was Designed by Ben Shiff... set in American and English Monotype Bulmer by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrarie at Golgonooza Letter Foundry. The text was printed by Daniel Kelcher at the Wild Carrot Letterpress. The etchings were printed… Read More

London: Methuen & Co.,, 1924-28. People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day... Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." A Fine First Edition Set of the Four "Pooh" Books in their Original Dust Jackets MILNE, A[lan] A[lexander]. SHEPARD, Ernest H., illustrator. [The Four Pooh Books]. When We Were Very Young. With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co., [1924]. First edition (second issue with p. ix numbered). Small octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 127 mm.). x, [2], 99, [1] pp. Numerous text illustrations. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt ruled front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, back cover pictorially stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, plain endpapers, top edge gilt. Minimal rubbing to corners and spine extremities. Neat contemporary ink name and date "November 28th 1924" on front blank. A near fine copy. In the original cream-colored pictorial dust jacket… Read More

London: Stanley Paul & Co., 1925. One of 500 Copies Signed by A.A. Milne Beautifully Illustrated by Henriette Willebeek Le Mair MILNE, A.A. A Gallery of Children. Illustrations by Saida (H. Willebeek Le Mair). London: Stanley Paul & Co., [1925]. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 copies (of which 485 are for sale), numbered and signed by the author (this copy being No. 32). Large quarto (12 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches; 317 x 256 mm.). [2, blank], 105, [1, printer's imprint] pp. Color pictorial title and twelve color plates (plates on glossy paper). Original white buckram over beveled boards. Front cover and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Very slight soiling to cloth, endpapers slightly foxed. Short (5/8 inch) tear to outer margin of E2 (pp. 37/38). Otherwise a near fine copy. "If we have caught within this Book/(But once) that sudden elfin look/Which flickers in a baby's face—/Or prisoned for a moment's /The shadow in a baby's dimple;/'Tis all that we have… Read More

New York and London: Chiwick Press:- Charles Whittingham and Co,, [1900]. 'Paradise Lost' A Fine Extra-Illustrated Edition of the Poems of John Milton Finely Bound Almost Certainly by The Harcourt Bindery of Boston MILTON, John. [The Crown Edition of] The Poets of Great Britain. Extra Illustrated Copy of the Aldine Edition of the British Poets. New York and London: Chiwick Press:- Charles Whittingham and Co,, [1900]. Two small octavo volumes (6 1/2 x 4 inches; 165 x 102 mm.). [i]-lxiv, [1]-337, [1, imprimateur]; [i]-xvi, [1]-387, [1, blank] pp. Title-pages printed in black and red. With a life of John Milton. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of twelve engraved plates, including four hand-colored, all with tissue-guards. Handsomely bound almost certainly by The Harcourt Bindery ca. 1900, in full red morocco, covers with double gilt border with fancy corner-pieces, enclosing a spray of flowers elaborately stamped in gilt and with green morocco leaf inlays and buff morocco inlaid flowers. Spines… Read More

London: Printed for John Watts, 1732. Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money." (Molière) First Landmark Collected Edition In English and French MOLIERE, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de. Select Comedies of Mr. De Moliere. French and English. In eight volumes with a frontispiece to each Comedy. London: Printed for John Watts, 1732. First collected edition in English and French, published eighteen years after the 1714 six volume first English edition. Eight small octavo volumes (6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches; 164 x 95 mm.). Titles printed in red and black. Engraved portrait frontispiece in volume one and seventeen engraved frontispiece plates (one for each play). Full contemporary sprinkled calf, covers double-ruled in blind, spines with five raised bands, maroon morocco gilt lettering labels, decorated board edges. Each volume with a neat contemporary ink inscription "Marie Synge son Livre". Some light wear to a few joints but overall a… Read More

Paris: Delpech, 1830. A Scarce Sampler of Social Pretensions The Jovial Spirit and Verve of Monnier On the Ridiculous, Freakish Vanities of Parisian Society MONNIER, Henri. Boutades [Jokes]. Paris: Delpech, n.p. [1830]. First edition complete as issued. Oblong quarto (11 1/8 x 14 3/8 in; 283 x 365 mm). Hand-colored pictorial engraved title-page and six superb hand-colored lithographs. Loose, as issued. The hand-colored lithograph title-page depicts a liveried black servant offering a group of caricatures for your consideration. Chemised in a half green morocco clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. An album of extreme scarcity, with no copies coming to auction within the last forty-six years. OCLC/KVK locate only one complete copy in libraries and institutions worldwide at The Getty Research Institute Library (US, CA). The Morgan Library and Museum (US, NY) - have an imperfect copy at the bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987, lacking title-page and plate 2… Read More

Paris: Delpech, 1828. Extremely Rare Monnier MONNIER, Henri. Six Quartiers de Paris. Paris: [François Séraphin] Delpech, 1828. A rare suite of six hand colored lithographed plates, (without the hand colored lithographed title) otherwise complete as issued. Oblong quarto. Plate size: 9 x 12 inches (231 x 307 mm). Bound to contemporary style in full dark green morocco. Gilt ruled borders. Gilt panel. Gilt lettering and ornaments to spine. Restoration to lower corner of plate four, otherwise a fine copy. According to the ABPC Index, since 1923 only three copies have come to auction (1938, 1949, 1979). There are only three copies in institutional holdings worldwide. The plates: 1. Le Marais 2. Quartier St. Denis 3. Quartier de la Bourse 4. Chaussée d'Antin 5. Faubourg St. Honoré 6. Le Faubourg St. Germain For reasons unknown, Ray identifies this suite as being by Eugene Lami, despite the plates clearly identified as by Monnier; the only copy to come to auction in the last thirty-five years… Read More

Paris: Delpech, Editeur et Imprimeur en Lithographie, 1829. Then" and "Now"— Eighteen Scarce Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates By Le Maitre Monnier MONNIER, Henry. Jadis et aujourd'hui. Paris: Delpech, 1829. Title from front wrapper. Oblong folio (10 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches; 270 x 353 mm.). Pictorial lithograph wrapper and eighteen hand-colored lithographed plates, depicting bankruptcy, childhood, dressing, the boudoir, a physician, an attorney, the promenade, an evening gathering, etc. ,"then" and "now." The plain rear wrapper is also bound in at the end. Bound ca. 1925 [by René Kieffer] in quarter dark blue straight-grain morocco over marbled boards. Spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled end-papers. Lower tip of spine a little chipped, minimal rubbing to board extremities, otherwise fine. The plates are very clean, with only minimal edge browning. A wonderful copy of this extremely scarce series of plates. Loosely inserted is a duplicate of plate 15 "Jadis. Une Soirée." Very… Read More

Paris: Chez Gihaut frères, 1828. Henry Monnier's Rare Album of Parisian Manners MONNIER, Henry. Moeurs Parisiennes... [Parisian Manners]. Paris: Chez Gihaut frères, 1828. First edition. Large oblong quarto (10 7/8 x 14 inches; 276 x 355 mm.). Original wrapper as lithograph title-page and ten humorous hand colored plates lithographed by de Villain. First plate with tiny (5/8 inch) repairs to lower blank margin. Handsomely bound ca. 1920 by Yseux sr. de Thierry-Simier (stamp-signed on verso of front free-endpaper) in three quarter crushed maroon morocco over dark red boards ruled in blind, smooth spine decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges uncut. Original printed front and back lilac wrappers bound in (minimal expert repairs to edges of wrappers). A superb uncut copy in an attractive binding. A very scarce album - we have only seen this title once before. According to OCLC there are just two copies located in institutions worldwide (Herzogin Anna Amalia… Read More