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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

A CONTEMPORARY MARINER'S COPY 4to. (3)-136pp, numerous woodcut diagrams, contemporary sheep with blind tooled Cambridge panels on sides, neatly rebacked with a new plain and unlettered spine, original endpapers reused, no half-title A1, some old cracking to the leather on front board, contents locally a trifle dusty, but generally very good. Inscribed on front endpaper "Saml. Langford/ Book/ Anno Dom. 1754" in a calligraphic hand and with some other contemporary notes on payments for "oyle" and wine and glasses. Later manuscript notes on rear endpapers. ESTC n4038 locating National Library of Scotland, National Maritime Museum, Smithsonian and Univ. of Michigan only.First published in 1680 and then regularly reprinted throughout the eighteenth century. Although the text is therefore fairly easily available the individual editions are rare due to its use as a working tool on board ship. The calendar data was recalculated for each edition (this edition was made "to serve (without any… Read More

HANDSOME COPY IN BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO first (fourth) English edition 2 vols tall 8vo. lxxvi, 452; xxviii, 545pp. .... [with]RÉMUSAT, Claire de] A Selection from the Letters of Madame de Rémusat to her Husband and Son, from 1804 to 1814. From the French by Mrs. Cashel Hoey and Mr. John Lillie. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington: 1881 first English edition tall 8vo. xxviii, 434pp. The three volumes uniformly and very attractively bound in high quality near contemporary half blue crushed morocco, spines panelled by gilt decorated raised bands, direct lettered gilt, top edges gilt, marbled sides and matching end papers, Claire de Rémusat, (1780-1821), née Vengennes, educational writer, married when only sixteen years old a government administrator. Shortly after her husband was appointed in 1802 Prefect of the Palace she was appointed lady-in-waiting to Empress Josephine and she became an habituée of the Parisian salons of the imperial era. She kept in touch… Read More

IMPORTANT WORK ON TURKEY & UKRAINE first edition in English 2 vols. tall 8vo. xxiv, 532; [2 (title)], 382, [14 (index)]pp., contemporary speckled calf, smooth spines panelled with gilt fillets and with red morocco lettering pieces gilt and with boldly gilt decorated dark green morocco numbering pieces with the numbers on oval red morocco onlays gilt at their centres, small patches of the leather on the front board of vol.I along the joint eaten away by silverfish (easily repaired), else a very handsome and fresh copy. ESTC t118411 locating few copies for a work of this nature. Volume I undated and Volume II dated. Some copies are known which omit 'London' from the imprint of vol.1. An important work. De Tott, a Hungarian, went to Constantinople in 1755 and remained there until 1763. His knowledge of the Turkish language and culture, as well as his ideas for extending commercial and diplomatic relations, led to his being appointed French consul in the Crimea. On his return to… Read More

A NOVEL OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LONDON LOW LIFE"ALL ARE KNAVES, CHEATS AND RASCALS"3 vols. 12mo. [4 (title & 'Advertisement'), 212; [2 (title)], 191, [1 (blank)]; [2 (title)], 207, [1 (errata)]pp., contemporary sprinkled calf, neatly and sympathetically rebacked with new spines, spines panelled by double gilt fillets, red morocco labels gilt, direct numbered gilt, original endpapers reused, clean tear (no loss) in I6 of vol.1, some minor stains, else very good.Inscribed "H. K. Hall 1786" at head of title page.ESTC t100116 (3 in UK, 8 in U.S.A. & 1 in Australia) Raven & Forster The English Novel 1770-1799, 1785Trusler (1735–1820), Anglican clergyman and author in wide-ranging genres, had founded a Literary Society to promote British authors by undertaking the risks and costs of publication with the the author to receive all the profit after the society's expenses had been paid. Subscriptions were invited from the general public but the society's publicity noted that booksellers and… 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

VERY RARE HANDBOOK ON RIFLES first edition 8vo. 32pp., 1 multi-folding plate, 3 pages of diagrams, original red cloth, sides decoratively blind blocked, front cover gilt titled, nice bright copy. Rare.No copy of the first edition located by Library Hub (formerly COPAC) or OCLC. We can locte no other copy of the first edition. This useful handbook was republished in 1860 and went to a fifth edition by 1861.Covers the stripping down and parts of a rifle all illustrated in very clear wood-engraved diagrams. Also covers the principles of firing, aiming, distance estimation, etc. with a large folding plate to illustrate the latter.