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Paris: Chez Leroy, 1790. 2 volumes. First edition. Volume I with 6 plates, 2 folding, Volume II with 6 plates including the very rare plate of the Hottentot woman in first state and uncensored. 8vo, bound in contemporary French calf, the spines with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt in the compartments, two morocco lettering labels gilt, marbled end-leaves, gilt tooled edges. xxiv, 383; 403 pp A handsome set in unrestored or sophisticated state, some cracking to the hinges, some typical wear to the tips. RARE FIRST EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING WITH THE ENGRAVED PLATE OF THE “HOTTENTOT WOMAN” IN FIRST ISSUE, UNCENSORED STATE. “Le Vaillant was a French naturalist who traveled in South Africa from 1780 to 1785 when he collected material for his magnificent book on the birds of Africa. His travels were extensive and took him as far as Namaqualand, Bechuanaland, and parts of the Kalahari. His conceit adds a spice of humor to his books” This book relates experiences and… Read More

Paris: Chez H. J. Jansen, [1795]. 2 volumes. First Edition. 13 plates including five folding plates as called for. 8vo, bound in contemporary French calf, the spines with flat bands and gilt lines, red morocco lettering label gilt. xliv, 304, errata; 426 pp, errata. A fine set internally, the text very clean, bindings show signs of wear with spine panels re-laid. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK BY LE VAILLANT. A classic on African travel, this second expedition includes important descriptions of Namaqualand, Damaralan, Bechcuanaland, and the Kalahari Desert. Le Vaillant journeyed to the Cape, for the first time during the previous decade during which he travelled to Algoa Bay and the district then known as "Bruyntes Hoogte" via Mossel Bay, returning through the "Camdeboo" country and crossing the Gamka, Buffalo, and Touws Rivers. He set off on the second journey, related here, from the place he ended the first, the route taken being to the north, and for over a year traversed… Read More

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First Edition. Decorated with illustrated end-leaves. 8vo, publisher's original brown cloth, backed in original off-white cloth, black lettering label gilt to the spine panel, the upper cover lettered and decorated in gilt and black, in the original pictorial dustjacket. [viii], 769, [1], [2] pp. A fine copy with very little evidence of age or use. FIRST EDITION IN VERY PLEASING CONDITION OF THIS FINE WORK WHICH WON THE HARPER PRIZE FOR 1939-1940. The author has given us a story that is one of the least known in American history. CHILDREN OF GOD, relates the history of the Mormons, of their beginnings and the rapid growth of the society and culture. The book relates the persecution and heroism and the mass migration that took them across the country and the trackless Western plains offering suffering anguish, prejudice, life-threatening dangers and intense persecution. The author's approach is written mainly in terms of the two dominating… Read More

London: by Miles Flesher for Richard Tonson, 1688. First Edition in English. This copy has two title pages, one with the Tonson imprint rubricated (black and red), the other with the Heyrick imprint in black only. Sabin states: “As some copies have only the black titles and some only the rubricated ones, while others have both, it seems possible that all the issues were originally published with two titles.” Engraved portrait frontispiece of translator Paul Rycaut, the rubricated title page in red and black, and 10 copperplate engravings. Folio, an especially handsome copy, bound in its original contemporary speckled English calf, the spine with raised bands, the compartments with floriated panels decorated in gilt, red morocco lettering piece gilt, the covers with a border decorations rolled in blind and double-filleted rules at the borders. 1019. A superb copy of this rare and early work. The book remains in its original binding. The text-block is crisp, clean and unpressed, The… Read More

London: George Philip & Son, 1885. The first one volume edition with the “new and original matter and corrected map”. This printing includes three additional chapters not in the first printing. Illustrated with 32 plates and illustrations, 120 woodcuts in the text and a large folding coloured map in a pocket at the end. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine. xxviii, 569, including index. A handsome and well preserved copy, the gilt remains very bright, the cloth nice and dark with just a bit of expected aging to the corners and extremities, the hinges with just a tad of age evidence, internally very fresh and in fine clean condition, the folding map in good order. VERY SCARCE FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION IN COLLECTOR’S CONDITION. THE FIRST EDITION WITH ADDITIONS AND THE CORRECTED MAP. After a naval career that took him to Ethiopia and the slaving areas of East Africa, Cameron was selected by the Royal Geographical Society in… Read More

London: George Philip & Son, 1885. The first one volume edition with the “new and original matter and corrected map”. This printing includes three additional chapters not in the first printing. This copy with INSCRIBE PRESENTATION from a Lovett Cameron family member. Illustrated with 32 plates and illustrations, some folding, 120 woodcuts in the text and a large folding coloured map. Thick 8vo, in a handsome Relfe Brothers prize binding of full polished chocolate calf ruled on both covers in gilt with gilt corner pieces, the spine very handsomely gilt decorated in elaborate motif with large center tools in compartments between gilt stippled raised bands, one compartment with black morocco label gilt lettered, gilt hashed board edges and gilt tooled turn-ins, fine marbled endpapers, page edges marbled. xxviii, 569, including index. A handsome and well preserved copy, binding with expert rebacking preserving the original spine panel and all done very discreetly, the text block quite clean… Read More

London: Daldy, Isbister and Co., 1877. 2 volumes. First edition. 33 plates and facsimiles, numerous woodcuts in text, large folding map in rear pocket. 8vo, publisher’s original dark blue cloth lettered and extensively decorated in gilt on upper covers and spines, bordered in blind on the lower cover. xvi, 389 including index, ads; xii, 366 including index, ads. pp. A bright, handsome and excellent set, clean and tight and very well preserved. SCARCE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. After a naval career that took him to Ethiopia and the slaving areas of East Africa, Cameron was selected by the Royal Geographical Society in 1873 to go in search of Livingstone, and instructed also to make independent explorations with Livingstone’s guidance. Upon learning of Livingstone's death, Cameron’s European companions turned back but Cameron dedicated his expedition to geographical exploration of the African continent and forged ahead alone, arriving in Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika in 1874, where he… Read More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905, 1906, 1921. 3 volumes. 8vo, luxuriously bound in full tan morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, lettered and decorated with skillfully accomplished borders of gilt and black in panels of spines enclosing small gilt ornament, covers decorated with a frame of a black enclosed within gilt fillet border, with gilt ornaments at corners, gilt ruled turn-ins, a.e.g. xviii, 726; viii, 611; ix, 582 pp. A fine set. An exquisite and handsomely bound set of this excellent collection of post-Elizabethan verse. Volume I contains Chamberlayne's "Pharonnida" and "England's Jubilee"; Benlowe's "Theophila"; and the poems of Katherine Phillips and Patrick Hannay. The second volume includes Marmion's "Cupid and Psyche"; Kynaston's "Leoline and Sydanis" and his "Cynthiades"; the poems of John Hall, Sidney Godolphin and Philip Ayres; Chalkhill's "Thealma and Clearchus"; the poems of Patrick Carey and William Hammond; Bosworth's "Arcadius and Sepha"; and others. Volume III… Read More

Philadelphia: George Barrie and Son, ND. Circa 1894. 2 volumes. With 39 handsomely engraved illustrations from drawings by G. Jeanniot on plates with tissue guards. 8vo, contemporary three-quarter blue morocco over blue cloth covered boards, the spines gilt decorated in tasteful period style, the compartments featuring central fleur-de-lis devices in gilt gilt decorated raised bands, two compartments gilt lettered, t.e.g. 260; 292 pp. A very handsome and proper set, the bindings with only extremely minor rubbing to the edges or tips, all sturdy, solid and very attractive, the text very fine and fresh indeed. A SCARCE TITLE AND A HANDSOMELY BOUND SET OF THIS MASTERWORK BY VICTOR HUGO. A very pleasing edition of Hugo’s timeless classic comprised of the complete second part of the epic, COSETTÉ. The addition of the illustrations make it all the more appealing.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934. First edition. Title-page printed in black and red. 8vo, printer’s original blue paper-covered boards back in black linen, the spine with a paper label printed in black, black linen corner pieces. 91pp. Internally a fine copy, the binding paper and cloth in excellent condition as well but for a touch of fading to the colour. FIRST EDITION. This is Millay's "heartfelt tribute to the magnificence of man," which predicts the eventual extinction of mankind with its last section, Epitaph For the Race of Man. The work was composed as Millay reflected on events in Europe and was convinced that the world seemed ready to go to war yet again.

A Leide (Leiden): Chez Pierre Vander, 1713. The First French edition of Scamozzi with impressive engraved full-page architectural renderings and illustrations. With half-title, elaborately engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page printed in red and black, handsomely engraved dedication, engraved head and tail pieces throughout, and with a vast number of engraved full page architectural plans, renderings and other illustrations including 42 engravings to text (37 full-page, five half-page), 44 full-page woodcuts to text (two double-page), and with 18 (of 21) fine sculptural plates of the Edifices of Rome. Folio, bound in contemporary full mottled calf, the spine with gilt tooled and framed compartments between raised bands. [xii], 276 pp., lacking leaf ee4 (page 219/220). A handsome volume, internally the paper is fresh and clean, unpressed and well preserved, the contemporary calf unrestored and unsophisticated in original state, with some age wear evident to the board edges and corners, the… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923. First American edition. 8vo, publisher’s orange cloth with paper label on spine. 303, ads. A very nice copy of this scarce edition with minor staining to the cloth and wear to paper label. This novel evoking the life and death of Jacob Flanders was recognized as a new development in the art of fiction. In its day it was both praised and attacked, but has survived to secure Woolf’s reputation in 20th century literature.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1969. First Edition, First State. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth lettered in blind on the upper cover and in gilt on the spine, in the original dustjacket. 589 pp. A very fine copy of the book with just hint of age mellowing, the jacket very attractive and fresh with only a bit of very minor rubbing to the extremities from shelving. FIRST EDITION, the author's longest work and one noted scholar Alfred Appel called "an erotic masterpiece that explores the nature of time... a great work of art, a necessary book, radiant and rapturous...[it] provides further evidence that [Nabokov] is a peer of Kafka, Proust and Joyce." - New York Times Book Review, May, 1969.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1957. The First American edition. 8vo, publisher's original yellow cloth over black boards, lettered in red on spine and cover. 512 pp. A very good and clean copy. FIRST EDITION. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE USSR IN INSTALLMENTS. Soviet novelist Dudintsev created a sensation when his book was originally read in installments in the journal Novy Mir. The tale of an engineer who is opposed by bureaucrats in seeking to implement his invention came to be a literary symbol of the Khrushchev Thaw. 'The public gave the novel an overwhelmingly positive reception. The issues of Novy Mir containing the novel sold out within hours. Subscribers to the journal were besieged with demand for their copies. Readers waited months to be allowed to borrow a copy from a library. Initially, official reaction, as expressed in Pravda and other periodicals, reflected reserved praise for Dudintsev's book. Toward the end of 1956, official organs began to attack the author and his… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1971. First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in the original dustjacket. xiv, 205 pp. A fine copy with extremely mild edgewear to the head of the spine of the dustjacket. GLORY WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN RUSSIAN, WITH THE TITLE PODVIG, IN 1932. It was translated by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with the author. "Nabokov writes, of his hero Martin, that 'to listen to Moon's rich speech was like chewing thick elastic Turkish Delight powdered with confectioner's sugar.

London: Printed for Jacob Robinson, 1743. First edition, the first of the two issues of 1743, being the issue printed by Robinson with the author's names stated. With a number of attractive woodcut headpieces and initials. 8vo (190 x 120 mm), especially well bound in very handsome contemporary full polished brown calf, the boards framed with double-ruled gilt, edges hatched in blind, the spine finely gilt decorated with elaborate detailed tooling in five compartments between wide gilt ruled and hatched raised bands, a sixth compartment with red morocco label ruled and lettered in gilt, additional gilt at the tips and along the joints. With the engraved bookplate of Lord de Saumarez, an admiral of the British Royal Navy, notable for his victory at the Second Battle of Algeciras. Saumarez is one of the true historical figures to appear in C. S. Forester's Hornblower novels, being celebrated in two of the novels. Saumarez's fictional alter-ego also plays a role in two of the Aubrey-Maturin novels… Read More