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London: Printed by J. Bennet, for WIlliam Abington, 1684. First Collected Edition of The Observator "A Feat of Literary Endurance" Roger L'Estrange's Newspaper, The Observator, Corroded the Foundations of Whiggery... L'ESTRANGE, Roger. The Observator, in Dialogue. The First Volume...[Nos. 1 (Wednesday April 13, 1681)-470 (Wednesday, January 9, 1683)]. London: Printed by J. Bennet, for William Abington, 1684. Volume I (of 3) of the first collected edition of The Observator, Nos. 1-470. Folio (13 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches; 333 x 207 mm.). [2], [4, "To the Reader"], [8, "The Table"], [3, contents], [1, blank] pp. followed by The Observator Nos. 1-470 (unpaginated). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Roger L'Estrange, dated 1684, by R. White after G. Kneller. Handsomely rebound in 'antique Cambridge-style' paneled calf. Covers decoratively ruled and tooled in blind, spine richly tooled in gilt in compartments with six raised bands and red morocco gilt lettering label, board edges and turn-ins decoratively… Read More

Paris: Chez L'Editeur [Pierre de Crapelet], 1827. Seven Fine Hand Colored Lithographs from Le Bon Genre BON GENRE, LE. [Observations sur les Modes et les Usages de Paris], Seven fine hand colored lithograph plates. [Paris: Chez L'Editeur [Pierre de Crapelet, 1830]. Seven plates from a later edition of ca. 1830. Each plate measures 10 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches; 276 x 216 mm. Some very small light stains affecting the lower portion of the first four plates. Le Bon Genre was one of the earliest series of prints to record the social trends and leisure activities of contemporary Parisians. It is the most important fashion portfolio of its time documenting, through its caricatures, the rise of the modern city of Paris and the emerging middle-class bourgeois, its fashions, recreations and dating customs. It also has fun at visitors' expense, particularly the English, whose customs and fashions the French found incomprehensible and unfashionable; the years of hostility between France and England did nothing to… Read More

London: Printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer, 1804. A Humorous Work by Humphry Repton, with Ten Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates Fine in the Original Boards, Uncut REPTON, Humphry. Odd Whims; and Miscellanies. London: Printed for William Miller, by W. Bulmer and Co., 1804. First edition. Two small octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 196 x 124 mm.). [1]-xii, [2], 171, [1, blank]; [vi], 164 pp. Ten hand-colored aquatint plates by J. Stadler after Repton. Stipple-engraved title vignettes by H.R. Cook after Repton. Complete with both half-titles. Plates 1 (volume 1 facing p. 24), 4 (volume 1 facing p. 126) and 10 (volume 2 facing p. 114) slightly stained in blank margins, short marginal tear on fore-edge of leaf G (pp. 81/2) in volume 1. Plates watermarked "1798". Original pink boards, printed paper labels on spines. Ink note on front board of volume 2. A remarkable copy of this rare and charming work. Better known for his 1803 work with intricate hand-colored plates after his own drawings of… Read More

London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. A collection of poems and short stories, full of humor Thirteen illustrations by George Cruikshank CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. MERLE, William Henry. Odds and Ends. In Prose and Verse. By William Henry Merle, Esq. Illustrated by George Cruikshank from designs by the author. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. First edition. Small octavo (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 194 x 121 mm.). [viii], [1-3], 4-6, 9-146, [2] pp. Twelve woodcut and one etched illustration including seven full-page. Bound without the half-title and 12 pages of advertisements. Publisher's dark green pebbled cloth, spine with printed paper label. A very good copy from the celebrated library of Estelle Doheny with her oval bookplate on front paste-down. In one of the vignettes, we see a cat, looking melancholy, refusing the dish offered to her by her mistress; around her neck hangs a medallion with the portrait of a pig and, in front of her,… Read More

London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. A collection of poems and short stories, full of humor Thirteen illustrations by George Cruikshank CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. MERLE, William Henry. Odds and Ends. In Prose and Verse. By William Henry Merle, Esq. Illustrated by George Cruikshank from designs by the author. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. First edition. Small octavo (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 194 x 121 mm.). [viii], [1-3], 4-6, 9-146, [2] pp. Twelve woodcut and one etched illustration including seven full-page. Bound without the half-title and 12 pages of advertisements. Three quarter dark green morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Joints cracked but holding. In one of the vignettes, we see a cat, looking melancholy, refusing the dish offered to her by her mistress; around her neck hangs a medallion with the… Read More

Paris: J. Hetzel, 1846. A Remarkable Survival GAVARNI, Paul, illustrator. Oeuvres Choisies de Gavarni. Revues, corrigées et nouvellemant classées par l'Auteur. Études de Moeurs Contemporaines. Paris: J. Hetzel, 1846. First Collected Edition. Two octavo volumes (10 7/16 x 7 1/4 inches; 265 x 184 mm.). Lithograph frontispiece, [xii], 39 plates; [iv], 5 plates; [iv], 25 plates; [iv], 11 plates, [2, list of plates]. [viii], 48 plates; [iv], 19 plates; [iv], 13 plates, [2, list of plates], [2, advertisements]. Each of the seven title pages with a vignette. A total of 160 wood engraved plates + wood engraved frontispiece and 7 wood engraved vignette title-pages. Publisher's blue cloth, covers ruled in blind and elaborately decorated in gilt, spines with titles and elaborate gilt decoration, yellow coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Fine and untouched copies of the first two (of four) volumes of this first collected edition. Two further volumes were published two years later in 1848. Contents: Les… Read More

London: , 1781. In a Contemporary Morocco Binding Attributed To Derôme Le Jeune ROUSSEAU, [Jean Baptiste]. [DEROME, Nicholas Denis aka Le Jeune, binder; attributed to]. Å’uvres de Rousseau. Nouvelle édition. London: 1781. Two twelvemo volumes (4 5/8 x 2 13/16 inches; 118 x 72 mm.). [4], 252; [4], 276 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Delvaux in Volume I. Contents: Volume I, "Odes sacrées," "Odes, Liv. II-IV," and "Cantates allégoriques." Volume II, "Epitres, Liv. I-II," "Allégories, Liv. I-II," "Epigrammes, Liv. I-IV," and "Poésies diverses." Contemporary full red morocco attributed to Derôme Le Jeune, unsigned but with dentelles à l'oiseau, characteristic of Derôme, to volume two. Covers with gilt triple fillet border, smooth spines decoratively tooled in gilt in panels with two olive green morocco gilt lettering labels, board edges with single gilt fillet, gilt dentelles à l'oiseau, all edges gilt, bright blue endpapers. The absolute bare minimum of rubbing to extremities. A… Read More

Venice: Ex Typographia Balleoniana, 1754. A Fine Eighteenth Century Italian Book of Hours in its Original Red Morocco Binding With Hand-Painted Gauffered Edges [VENETIAN BINDING]. [BOOK OF HOURS]. Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis S. Pii V. Pontificis Maximi. Venetiis [Venice]: Ex Typographia Balleoniana, 1754. Octavo (7 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches; 197 x 117 mm.). [i]-xxxxiv, [1]-453, [3, indices] pp. Vignette engraved title-page and seven full page copperplate engravings in the text. Full contemporary red morocco, covers elaborately decorated in gilt, spine with five raised bands decoratively gilt in compartments, decorative gilt board edges, marbled liners. The edges are gilt and exquisitely gauffered with small diamond shaped lozenges hand-painted in red. An exquisite example in exceptionally fine and untouched condition with just the smallest amount of light scuffing to the extremities. A remarkable survival from nearly two hundred and seventy years ago... Books of Hours were bestsellers. They were… Read More

London: Printed for Thomas McLean, 1821. Scarce Copy With Earliest Watermarks Complete With Half-Title CARELESS, John [pseudonym]. [CHATTO, William Andrew]. The Old English 'Squire. "A Jovial Gay Fox-Hunter, Bold, Frank, and Free." A Poem in Ten Cantos. Illustrated with Plates, by One of the Family. London: Printed for Thomas McLean... by Howlett and Brimmer, 1821. First edition, earliest issue, a Large Paper copy complete with half-title; scarce. Tall octavo (10 3/8 x 7 1/8 in; 263 x 181 mm ). viii, 136 pp. Twenty-four hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece, watermarked "Whatman 1821". (The plates in Abbey's copy watermarked "Whatman 1823." Bound by Rivière & Son in full green crushed morocco, covers with French fillets, spine with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, wide gilt decorated turn-ins, plum endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine slightly sunned. With the armorial bookplate of sporting book collector Graham M. Adee on front… Read More

London: Printed for Thomas McLean, 1821. Scarce Large Paper Copy in Original Boards From Chatto, Windless, and Careless, 1821 CARELESS, John [pseudonym]. [CHATTO, William Andrew]. The Old English 'Squire. "A Jovial Gay Fox Hunter, Bold, Frank and Free." A Poem, in Ten Cantos. Illustrated with Plates, by One of the Family. London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean by Howlett and Brimmer, 1821. First edition, first issue, a Large Paper copy. Large octavo (10 7/8 x 7 3/8 in; 277 x 184 mm). viii, 136 pp. Half-title, hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and twenty-three hand-colored aquatint plates. Plates watermarked "J. Whatman 1821." Plates in Abbey's copy watermarked 1823. Publisher's original boards, rebacked preserving original spine with paper label. Uncut. Upper hinge near invisibly repaired. Faint offsetting of plates. A fine copy. With the leather bookplate of Joseph Widener. Housed in a later red cloth slipcase. "The half-title is frequently missing" (Tooley) but it is present in this copy. Though… Read More

London: Richard Bentley, 1838. Charles Dickens Unromantic Portrayal of Criminals and Their Sordid Lives DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens. Author of "The Pickwick Papers" In Three Volumes. Vol. I. [II. III. ] London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition of Dickens' second novel. The "Charles Dickens" issue, with the title-page authorship credit to Charles Dickens instead of "Boz" and with the "Church" version of the final plate. First state of volume III with "pilaster" instead of "pier" or "pedestal" on page 164. Almost all the internal flaws according to Smith present. Three octavo volumes (7 15/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 202 x 124 mm.). Volumes I and III in twelves, volume II in eights. [iv], [1]2-331, [1, blank], [4, advertisements]; [iv], [1]2-307, [1, blank]; [iv], [1]2-315, [1, blank] pp. No half-title called for in Volume III. Twenty-four engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Small piece (3/4 x 3/8 inch) torn away from upper corner of second plate in volume II, repaired tear to… Read More

London: Charles Tilt, 1840. Fourteen Humorous Hand-Colored Engraved Plates 'A Fine Collection of Miscellaneous People or Things' HEATH, H[enry]. Omnium Gatherum. [Together with:] Omnium-Gatherum. Second Series. [London: Published by Charles Tilt, n.d., ca. 1840]. Later issue, on thick paper (first published 1831-1834). Oblong folio (10 1/16 x 13 3/4 inches; 256 x 350 mm.). Pictorial hand-colored engraved title page and thirteen numbered hand-colored engraved plates, containing 247 vignettes. Late nineteenth century three-quarter red morocco over red cloth boards ruled in gilt by L. Broca (stamp-signed on front free endpaper). Front cover lettered in gilt, spine with two raised bands, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Expertly and almost invisibly rebacked with original spine laid down. A near fine copy. Omnium Gatherum (A collection of miscellaneous people or things). "Henry Heath (fl. 1822-1842), caricaturist, is a shadowy figure. Because of a similarity in style between… Read More

Venice: Aldus, 1554. A Scarce Aldine Cicero Defends his Friend, Titus Annius Milo CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Oratione di Cicerone. In Difesa di Milone, Tradotta di latino in uolgare da Giacomo Bonfadio. Vinegia [Venice]: In Casa de figliuoli di Aldo [Aldus]; 1554. First edition in Italian of Pro T. Annio Milone. Small octavo (5 7/8 x 4 in; 150 x 100 mm). [2], 38 pp. Title and preface in roman; main text in italic within a narrow column with wide margins. Aldine printer's device to title-page and verso to E6. Contemporary limp vellum. Imperfect paper restoration to upper corner of preliminary leaf A2 with some loss of text to the first seven lines. Early inked ownership on title page later inked-out; one contemporary inked margin note, a few underlinings or margin marks. Final two leaves with worming to extreme gutter margin. Library shelf label to front paste-down endpaper. Withal, an excellent copy of a a rarely seen Aldine volume. Scarce; only three copies recorded by OCLC. The Pro Tito Annio… Read More

London: Edward Orme, 1819. The Manners, Customs, Scenery, and Costume of a Territory, Now Intimately Blended with the British Empire" (Preface) Forty Magnificent Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates WILLIAMSON, Captain Thomas, [Author, Illustrator], [HOWITT, Samuel, Illustrator]. Oriental Field Sports; Being a Complete, Detailed, and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East; and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the Natural History of the Elephant, the Rhinoceros, the Tiger, the Leopard, the Bear, the Deer, the Buffalo, the Wolf, the Wild Hog, the Jackall, the Wild Dog, the Civet, and other Undomesticated Animals... as likewise the different species of Feathered Game, Fishes, and Serpents. The Whole interspersed with a variety of Original, Authentic, and Curious Anecdotes, Taken from the Manuscript and Designs of Captain Thomas Williamson... The Drawings by Samuel Howitt, Made Uniform in Size, and Engraved by the First Artists. Second Edition. London: Published by Edward Orme,… Read More

USA: Walt Disney Studios, 1970. Thomas O'Malley and Uncle Waldo DISNEY STUDIOS. Original Walt Disney Production celluloid with background featuring Thomas O'Malley and Uncle Waldo from The Aristocats. Walt Disney: [USA, 1970]. Image size: 7 7/8 inches x 9 7/8 inches; 202 x 250 mm. Framed size: 12 3/4 inches x 14 1/2 inches ; 326 mm x 370 mm. Matted, framed and glazed. Fine. The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated romantic musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Wolfgang Reitherman. The 20th Disney animated feature film, the film is based on a story by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe, and revolves around a family of aristocratic cats, and how an alley cat acquaintance helps them after a butler has kidnapped them to gain his mistress's fortune which was intended to go to them. The film features the voices of Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Hermione Baddeley, Dean Clark, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers, and Roddy Maude-Roxby. In 1962, The Aristocats project began as an… Read More

USA: Walt Disney Studios, 1970. Thomas O'Malley and Duchess DISNEY STUDIOS. Original Walt Disney Production celluloid with background featuring Thomas O'Malley and Duchess from The Aristocats. Walt Disney: [USA, 1970]. Image size: 7 7/8 inches x 9 7/8 inches; 202 mm x 250 mm. Framed size: 12 3/4 inches x 14 1/2 inches; 326 mm x 370 mm. Matted, framed and glazed. Minimal cracking on cell, otherwise fine. The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated romantic musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Wolfgang Reitherman. The 20th Disney animated feature film, the film is based on a story by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe, and revolves around a family of aristocratic cats, and how an alley cat acquaintance helps them after a butler has kidnapped them to gain his mistress's fortune which was intended to go to them. The film features the voices of Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Hermione Baddeley, Dean Clark, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers, and Roddy Maude-Roxby. In 1962, The… Read More

London: Cowie and Strange, 1827. The William Hartmann Woodin Copy Together with an India Paper Proof Before Letters, of the George Cruikshank Frontispiece CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. HARCOURT , John. John Harcourt's Original Jests. London: Cowie and Strange, 1827. First edition adorned with an engraved frontispiece by George Cruikshank and a woodcut vignette of the same on the cover. Together with an India paper proof, before letters, tipped onto a larger sheet with a blue outline border. Twelvemo Chapbook (5 3/8 x 3 1/2 inches; 138 x 89 mm.). Etched frontispiece, [1]-54 pp. Publisher's stiff paper printed wrappers. Spine worn, covers loose, front cover with some rubbing to print. Housed in a blue buckram clamshell case with red morocco labels lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Bookplate of William Hartmann Woodin on inside top cover of case A fun little chapbook of jests, the cover bears the title: "The Shilling Comic Annual a Collection of All the Short, Good Things, which Have,… Read More

n.p.: , 1865. A Lovely Original Pen, Ink & Wash Drawing by Ernest Griset "Griset possesses the faculty of investing his animals with human expression, without ever causing them to lose their own identity, and of making them funny without being ridiculous." GRISET, Ernest. Original pen, ink and wash drawing of Two Bears climbing up a pole and being watched by a crowd... n.p., n.d, ca. 1865. Signed with initials, framed and glazed. (3 x 2 3/8 inches; 76 x 61 mm.). Image size: 3 x 2 3/8 inches; 76 x 60 mm. Ernest Henri Griset (1843-1907). Born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Northern France, was a French-born painter and illustrator noted for the humorous interpretations of his subjects. Griset's parents moved to England from France in 1848. He studied for a while under the Belgian artist Louis Gallait before moving back to England, then regularly drew the animals at the London Zoo as a basis for his paintings and illustrations. He became known particularly for his humorous and satirical designs, which were… Read More

Paris [&] New York: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, Roe Lockwood and Son , 1878. Silly Questions Depicted in Nineteen Humorous Lithographs BARIC, [Jules Jean Antoine]. Ou Diable L'Esprit Va-T-Il Se Nicher? Par Baric. [Where the Devil will the Spirit go?]. Paris [&] New-York: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, Roe Lockwood and Son [1878]. First (only?) edition. Folio (13 3/16 x 10 1/8 inches; 335 x 257 mm.). Lithographed pictorial title and eighteen numbered lithographed plates depicting the Devil. The plates are captioned below. Plates lithographed by Génix. Publisher's pictorial glazed yellow boards, expertly and almost invisibly rebacked to style. Extremities a little worn, light staining to endpapers. Some light foxing and marginal soiling. An excellent copy of this scarce work. Jules Jean Antoine Baric (1825-1905) illustrated several books of caricatures or cartoons for Arnauld de Vresse between 1857 and 1878. No copy has sold at auction since 1975. According to OCLC there is just one copy located in… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1923. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Lectures on Spiritualism DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan. Our American Adventure [&] Our Second American Adventure. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., [1923 & 1924]. First English editions. Two octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 216 x 140 mm.). 205, [3, blank] pp. Inserted photographic frontispiece; [vi], 250 pp. Inserted photographic frontispiece and eight photographic plates. Publisher's black ribbed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, white endpapers. Spine extremities of second volume slightly worn, otherwise near fine. 1,500 copies were published on 16th March 1923 [&] 1,000 copies published on 15th February 1924 [both] priced 10/6. Our American Adventure is a trip report written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published serialized from 3rd September to 17th December 1922 in Lloyd's Sunday News, and in book form on 16th March 1923 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. Arthur Conan Doyle tells about his trip to America and Canada from 9th April to… Read More