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The fourth edition, revised, to which is added an Index explaining the names of countries, cities, rivers, &c. (24),341,(15)pp followed by 4pp publisher's catalogue. Bound to style in full calf tooled in a Cambridge design. Spine in five compartments with raised bands; red leather lettering label, gilt. Marbled endpapers. The title page is in the first state (no priority) without mention of Knapton and the other printers. Text block lightly age-toned, with occasional light foxing, else this is a very good copy in a fine binding. 'Prince Arthur' is one of the earliest of the Arthurian revivals. During the Commonwealth and thereafter stories of Kings and Queens were out of vogue. Even Malory's opus went unprinted for nearly 200 years, from 1634 until 1816. This edition of Prince Arthur is the fourth and last, and the first in small format. First published in 1695, it was instantly popular, and went through three editions by 1696. See Lowndes 211. ESTC T74304.

Prince Arthur. An Heroick Poem. In Ten Books.
Blackmore, Richard
London: Printed for J. Tonson at Shakespear's-Head, over against Catherine-Street in the Strand,, 1714.
Price: $350.00
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8vo. The rare privately-published first printing of author's first book, and the first in the Inheritage Cycle, later issued by Knopf in a hardbound trade edition. Wraps. A few bottom corners lightly bent, including the upper cover, and trace of soil on the edges else a near fine copy. Inscribed by the author on the half title: To David, Christopher Paolini. Housed in a custom velvet-lined slipcase of deep blue cloth and with the author's rendition of Sapphira's eye from the book's cover replicated on the sides Basis for the 2006 movie, which was nominated for a Saturn Award.

Eragon
Paolini, Christopher
Livingston, Montana: Paolini International, LLC, (2002).
Price: $1,000.00
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xvi,131,(1)pp. 8vo. Frontispiece and 40 illustrations on 30 plates of horseless carriages. Recent quarter leather, gilt spine titles, cloth sides, marbled endpapers. Ex-library copy with stamp and number on the title page; general soil throughout, esp. the title, and a few closed marginal tears (no loss). Scarce. The first books on the automobile appeared in English in 1896; this is one of them.

"Carriages Without Horses Shall Go" , Being a Reprint of a Paper on Horseless Road Locomotion Read before Section G of The British Association, Liverpool, September 23, 1896.
Sennett, A. R.
London: Whittaker & Co., 1896.
Price: $1,000.00
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8vo. vii,(1),256pp. Publisher's maroon T-grain cloth; gilt spine titles; gilt title on upper board. Index. Edges lightly worn, spine darkened, else a very good copy. General discussion of Irish witchcraft, witches, wizards, demons, followed by discussions of actual cases from the 13th through the 19th centuries. First published in Dublin in the same year and many times reprinted. This is bandleader Artie Shaw's copy, with his bookplate and his signature on the front pastedown.

Irish Witchcraft and Demonology
Seymour, St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt)
Baltimore: Norman, Remington & Co, 1913.
Price: $200.00
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8vo. viii,324pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Merlin beneath a tree. Contemporary straight grained morocco spine and corners, gilt spine title and tooling, paste-paper boards, marbled endpapers. Title page printed in black and red. Index. The Preface, 'To the Reader' is signed by Thomas Heywood. Edges and corners worn else this is a very good copy. First printed in 1641 and later reprinted in 1812; this printing is nonetheless scarce in its own right. Lowndes, p. 1064, mentions only the 1641 and 1812 printings.

The Life of Merlin, Sirnamed Ambrosius. His Prophecies, and Predictions Interpreted; and Their Truth Made Good by Our English Annals:
[Heywood, Thomas]
London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1813.
Price: $600.00
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8vo. xvi,402pp. followed by a 2pp publisher's catalogue. Contemporary half calf; spine with simple gold rules, red leather lettering peice, gilt, marbled paper boards, Hand-colored frontispiece of the interior of a Harem; folding map. The map has an unobtrusic repair of a short marginal tear (no loss); the map and frontispiece are lightly soiled, endpapers foxed, board papers generally worn at edges and rubbed on surfaces; inner hinges with an early cloth reinforcement; else a very good copy. Armorial bookplate of John Gregory Crace, and with an inscription on a preliminary blank: "To Emily Patan from her affectionate husband J. F. Patan. Calcutta 1826." First edition in English of these letters written by Joseph Michel Tancoigne during his voyage to Persia between 1807 and 1809, as a member of the French embassy of the general Gardane, the first of the three French embassies to Persia in the nineteenth century. First published in Paris under the title "Letres sur la Perse et la Turquie d'Asie" in 1819.

A Narrative of a Journey into Persia, and Residence at Teheran; Containing a Descriptive Itinerary from Constantinople to the Persian Capital,...
Tancoigne, M. (Joseph Michel)
London: W. Wright, 1820.
Price: $1,250.00
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Small 4to. i-ix,(9),19-296pp. Modern full maroon morocco. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, tooled in blind, brown leather lettering labels, gilt; boards tooled in blind; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 64 hand colored, tissue-guarded lithographic plates, 60 of which are individual blooms with facing letterpress descriptions; the remaining four plates illustrate the preliminary general botany discussion. Light foxing to the letterpress and the tissue guards and a coupe of the plates, but the rest of the plates are fine and bright with vivid coloring. A near fine copy and quite scarce. U.S. Color Plates Books, p. 83. This title begins with a general introduction to botany followed by colored illustrations and floral descriptions.

Boudoir Botany, Or the Parlor Book of Flowers, Comprising the History, Description and Colored Engravings of 24 Exotic Flowers, 24 Wild Flowers of America and 12 Trees with Fruits
Newman, John M., M.D.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847.
Price: $1,500.00
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A Broadside, finely printed by Asa Peavy in red and black on a Legion Letterpress in an edition of 208 copies. Wood engravings by George Walker. The text is from 'A Crowne-Garland of Goulden Roses', London, 1612. This is the first printing of the Arthurian sonnet since then, and a very nice job Asa has done of it. The three wood engravings are well executed: The knight and the maid; the hag; and the (absolutely stunning) flea. Unframed; shipped rolled.

A New Sonnet of a Knight & a Faire Virgin
Johnson, Richard
San Francisco: Bullnettle Press, 1998.
Price: $50.00
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8vo. (7 x 8-1/2 inches). 44pp. Stapled wraps. The outer wrap is a yellow color. Illustrated entirely except for the final pages. "This booklet is printed as a companion to the twenty numbered volumes frinted Frbeuary '97 from the original linoleum blocks as a memorial to our friend and fellow arftist Murray Levy." A fine copy. Levy died in 1990.

Life and Death of an Americna Artist
Kerson, Sam
Worcester, VT: Dragon Dance Theater, 1997.
Price: $250.00
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Publisher's grteen paper over boards. A fine, as new copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is fine as well. Inscribed by Cooper on on the title page. The thiord book in the Dark is Rising Sequence.

Greenwitch
Cooper, Susan
New York: Margaret K. McElderberry Books, 1997.
Price: $200.00
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Small folio. 16pp, of which 12pp are facsimiles of Petrus Peregrinus, On The Magnet, Reproduced from a manuscript written by an English hand about AD, 1390. The manuscript facsimiles are printedin black, red and blue. One of 50 copies only. Nicely bound in quarter red cloht, marbled paper sboards, printed paper label to the upper board. The original wrapper is mounted and bound in. A fine copy. Rare.

De Magnete
Peregrinus, Petrus
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1900.
Price: $250.00
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The First Part (and the Second Part) of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha
(Ashendene Press) Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1927-1928.
Price: $3,500.00
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(The Peloponnesian War) Thucydides Translated into English by Benjamin Howett, M.A., Late Master of Balliol College and Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
(Ashendene Press) Thucydides
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1930.
Price: $7,500.00
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Folio. Full publisher's calf. Spine in six compartments with raised bands; gilt device blocked onto the upper board, gilt spine titles. No. 81 of 390 copies, signed by Hornby. viii, 172pp, Bibliographical descriptions, examples of woodcuts, specimen pages of most of the books of the press. BInding lightly rubbed else a fine copy. Ashendene Bibliography, No 40. The last book of the Press.

A Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at the Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV - MCMXXXV
(Ashendene Press) Hornby, Charles Harry St John; Ashendene Press
Chelsea: Shelley House (Ashendene Press), 1935.
Price: $2,500.00
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8vo. xvi + 95pp + colophon. Introduction by Walter W. Seton. Original full limp vellum with silk ties. Printed on Batchelor hand-made paper with untrimmed edges.Title in gilt on the spine. Facsimile reproduction of the first four pages of the original manuscript written at Florence in the year 1496. Blue initials and main text in red and black. One of 286 copies on paper. A fine copy. Housed in a protective chemise and a slipcase of blue cloth with marbled paper sides. Ashendene Press, No. 30..

Vita Di Santa Chiara Vergine Composta Per Vgolino Verino Cittadino Florentino
(Ashendene Press) Verino, Ugolino
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1921.
Price: $750.00
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A Book of Songs and Poems from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha.
(Ashendene Press) (Bible in English)
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1904.
Price: $1,500.00
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Spenser's Minor Poems, Containing the Shepheardes Calender, Complaints, Daphnaida, Colin Clouts, Come Home AGain, Amoretti, Hymnes, Epithalamion, Prothalamion, Sonnets, and Svndrie Other Verses
(Ashendene Press) Spenser, Edmund
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1925.
Price: $1,500.00
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Folio. 230, (1)pp. Translated by W. Adlington. Printed in black and red, with initials in red and blue. Later custom full maroon morocco by Denny; spine lettered in gilt; maroon endpapers with morocco doublure; followed by marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. One of 165 copies on paper. A near fine copy. Ashendede Bibliography, No. 33.

The XI Bookes of the Golden Asse Containing The metamorphosie of Lucius Apuleius Interlaced With Sundry Pleasant & Delectable Tales : With an Excellent Narration of the Marriage of Cupid & Psyches set out in the Fourth, Fifth, & the Sixth Bookes. ...
(Ashendene Press) Apuleius, Lucius
Chelsea: at the Ashendene Press, 1924.
Price: $1,750.00
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First edition. Small 8vo. (8),131,(8)pp plus 4 pp of ads. Bound with 'The Bath and Bristol Guide: Or, The Tradesman's amd Traveller's Pocket-Companion. Bath: Printed by T. Boddely. No date, but probably 1751. Together two volumes bound in one. Bound to style in full calf with a 'Cambridge'-style panel design in blind on the boards; spine in five compartments with raised bands, red leather lettering label, gilt; marbled endpapers. Some staining and darkening of some of the text block, which is cropped closely, but overall the text block is very good in a fine binding. Scarce. Wing D2617. Cox, Travel, III, p. 141. ESTC R17303.

Anglia Rediviva; Being a Description of all the Shires, Cities, Principal Towns and Rivers, in England ...
Dunstar, Samuel
London: T. Bennet, et al., 1699.
Price: $1,500.00
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Tall 8vo. 401pp. Contemporary tree-calf. Spine decorated with gilt rules and tooling; red leather lettering label, gilt. Ownership name dated 1907. The first 30pp have a marginal dampstain at the upper corner, light rubbing to the edges and hinges, lacks rear free endpaper, else this is a very good copy. First published in London the preceding year and many times reprinted.

Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, Queen of Henry VIII
Benger, Miss
Philadelphia: Abraham Small, 1822.
Price: $250.00
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12mo. 214pp. Frontispiece portrait of Major André. Contemporary full sheep. Spine decorated with simple gilt rules; red leather lettering label, gilt. Hinges lightly rubbed, label chipped, else a very good copy. Appendix containing an account of the trial and escape of Joshua Hett Smith, A monody on the death of Major John Andre by Miss Seward, Letters addressed to the author of the foregoing poem, by Major Andre, when he was a youth of eighteen. The frontispiece is signed: Scoles sculp. Howes, S-631. Early American Imprints, 2nd series, 18637.

An Authentic Narrative of the Causes Which Led to the Death of Major Andre, Adjutant-General of His Majesty's Forces in North America
Smith, Joshua Hett, and Miss Seward
New-York: Everett Duyckinck, 1809.
Price: $150.00
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Honzo Komoku (The Complete Book on Chinese Materia Medica: Bencau Gangmu); Honzozu (Supplementary Illustrations); Ketsubokyo Besshu (Quotations) and Supplements.
Li, Shizhen; Jakusui Ino, ed.
Edo and Kyoto: Tohon'ya Seibe et al., (1714).
Price: $12,500.00
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8vo. (vi), 46pp. Bound to style in full calf; red leather lettering piece, gilt; the boards tooled in blind. Title page remargined (no loss) else a fine copy. With the statement at the foot of the title page: "Published by order of that House." The headpiece on page one consists of repeating crowns over a Tudor rose, a fleur-de-lis, a Scottish thistle and an Irish harp. Gauden, 1605-1662, bishop of Worcester, putative author of the "Eikon Basilike." In the early days of the Civil War his sympathies were with the Parliament, and for a short time in 1643 he was a member of the Westminster Assembly. Later he changed his opinions, but was able nonetheless to retain his living throughout the Commonwealth period. At the Restoration in 1660 he was made Bishop of Exeter, and in 1662 was translated, not as he hoped, to Winchester, but to Worcester. Scarce. Wing G362; ESTC R5024.

The Love of Truth and Peace. A Sermon Preached Before the Honourable House of Commons Assembled in Parliament.
Gauden, John
London: G. M. for Andrew Crooke, 1641.
Price: $750.00
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12mo. (x),165pp. Fourteen full page ilustrations by Angel de Cora. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in yellow. Pp.15-16 (the former a blank, the latter a half-title) have a dark offset from a newspaper clipping. That clipping is now in a mylar sleeve and laid in at the front of the book. It is a photograph and caption from the Washngton, D.C., Evening Star of September 17, 1925. The photograph is a picture of the author, in full SIoux regalia, "Princess Zitkala-Sa of the Sioux Tribe", on the occasion of her lecture on social questions facing Indian women,. The clipping is folded once. This book is signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Light rubbing and soil, bookplate of former owner, else a very good copy.

Old Indian Legends Retold by Zitkala-Sa (Signed)
Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin)
Boston: Ginn and Company, 1901.
Price: $1,000.00
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Old Testament: First and Second Books of Kings, complete
Bible in English: King James Bible
London: Robert Barker, 1611.
Price: $7,500.00
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Fiftieth Thousand and thus the second edition. Publisher's green cloth blocked in black and gilt, with the title on both spine and upper board, and the publisher's imprint and a floral device in gilt, a floral border in gilt on a black ground, and a floral device in black on the upper boards. Chocolate brown coated endpapers. Badly bound by the publisher--some inner signatures stand proud. Light wear to the spine tips and edges, some light rubbing, inner hinge split but firm, else a very good copy. With the reset chess diagram, replacing the Kings missing from the board since the 25th thousand. Very unusual in green cloth instead of the more typical red cloth. See Williams, Madan & Green , No. 84a.

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
Carroll, Lewis
London & New York: Macmillan and Co., 1881.
Price: $400.00
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First three volume collected edition of Franklin's Works. Three volumes, 8vo. pp. xiv,(1),440,(18);vi,(1),468;(2),vi, Contemporary full marbled calf. Spines gilt. Marbled endpapers. Engraved bookplates. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece; each volume with engraved titles as well as typeset titles. Complete with twelve engraved plates. Edges lightly rubbed, two hinges neatly repaired, new lettering labels to style; a very good set. Sabin 25495.

The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Now First Collected and Arranged: With Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself
Franklin, Benjamin
London: J. Johnson, 1806.
Price: $2,000.00
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Folio. 152 pp. Folio, publisher's white printed boards in publisher's slipcase, glassine dustwrapper. There is light staining and some rubbing of the spine tips else the book is very good. The wrapper lacks a small piece at the tip of the spine and has two marginal tears, some staiining, else is very good. The publisher's slipcase is stained, darkened in places, and lightly chipped else in good condition.

Observations
Avedon, Richard (Photographs) and Truman Capote (Text)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.
Price: $500.00
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8vo. (32)pp. Original papier-mâché black binding, new black morocco spine. Chromolithographed title page and 31 chromolithographed pages illuminated by Noel Humphreys. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. One of the earliest papier-mâché bindings, reminiscent of a Gothic carved binding, in high relief showing the symbols of the Evangelists in the corners, with the figure of a sower in the center. Respined in black morocco, inner hinges neatly repaired, else a very good copy. In a custom leather backed clamshell case. McLean, Victorian Publisher's Book-bindings,pp. 13 & 51; and Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, pp. 99-103; Middleton, History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique, p. 139. Provenance: From the Benedictine Abbey at Stanbrook with its bookplate: Ex Libris Abbatiae Sanctae Mariae de Stanbrook.

Parables of Our Lord
(Humphreys, Noel)
London: Longman and Co., 1847.
Price: $750.00
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8vo. xiii,(1),153pp. Original cream-colored limp vellum binding, gilt titles, Yapp edges, yellow silk ribbon ties. One of 125 copies printed on handmade paper, from a total edition of 150 copies. Introduction by Richard le Gallienne. Prose and poetry in honor of St Valentine, and published on his day in 1893. Vellum beautifully preserved, but yawning as it will; the fragile silk ribbon ties and somewhat soiled and frayed but still able to keep the covers shut. A near fine copy. Laid in is a penny post card posted February, 1893, typewritten, in which the author, Frank E. Bliss, notifies the New York recipient that the book had been shipped. Also laid in is a letter to Beverly Chew from the author, handwritten and signed. With the engraved bookplate of Beverly Chew on the front pastedown.

In Praise of Bishop Valentine
(Bliss, Frank; Richard le Gallienne)
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1893.
Price: $500.00
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8vo. 296pp. Frontispiece engraving of Alfred the Great, Bound to style in quarter morocco, original red leather lettering label, gilt, marbled paper boards. A chatty, well noted, biographical discourse on the rulers of England. First published in 1740 and then attributed to Robert Dodsley, later reprinted in 1745 in Robert Dodley's Trifles. Now, however, it is usually attributed to Lord Chesterfield. Label chipped else a fine copy.

The Chronicle of the Kings of England, From William the Norman to the Death of George III.
(Dodsley, Robert; Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield)
London: J. Fairburn, 1821.
Price: $250.00
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Broadside chart, 140 by 50 cms., dissected and mounted on linen, then folded into 4to. cloth covers. Original red cloth, gilt title. Cloth soiled and worn, especially at edges; new spine and endpapers; most of the folds have been reinforced on the rear with cloth, old library withdrawn stamp on reverse of one panel else a good copy and quite scarce. Compiled and dedicated to the members of the Wernerian Club by the author.

A Chart of British Ornithography: Designed for Popular Use
Barlow, Thomas W.
London: W. W. Robinson, 1847.
Price: $150.00
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12mo. 108pp. Publishers original drab brown cloth; upper board blocked in gilt with title within a floral design. Ink name on front pastedown. Cloth soiled, binding lightly shaken, gilt rubbed else a very good copy. The date of publication is taken from the Advertisement, page 4. This seems to be the first Oliver and Boyd printing of a hieroglyphic Bible and the second Edinburgh printing after the Doig and Sterling edition of 1814. The accepted publicaton date for this Bible is 1818; three other known copies are known to have been issued either in quarter leather and marbled paper boards, or in printed card covers. Our copy is in what is clearly publisher's cloth with gilt blocked on the upper board. This combination is unknown before 1826. It is likely, then, that the textblock, while printed earlier, was bound after 1826. Exceedingly scarce. Protected in a custom clamshell box.

A New Hieroglyphic Bible
Bible in English
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1818.
Price: $1,000.00
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First edition. Volume I. 4to. vii,[1],298,[2];pp., plus 23 (of 24) colored lithographic plates, and uncolored engraved portrait of Charles Willson Peale . Engraved title page. Contemporary calf boards, rebacked to style. in matching leather, and with the original spine laid-in. Lacking plate 18, the Rail. Text is brown and spotted, the plates less so with very good coloring. Several pages have been expertly remargined at the fore edge (no loss) else this is a very good copy. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper dated 1832. Very rare and among the first American books to be illustrated with lithographic plates. The Cabinet of Natural History was started by brothers Thomas and John Doughty in Philadelphia. It was issued in monthly parts and ran from the end of 1830 until the spring of 1834 However, despite its relatively short life, it left behind an important legacy: Bennett calls it the "first major sport print color plate book produced in America," the text includes firsthand accounts of hunting expeditions of all kinds and are among the earliest of their kind. The plates include the "first colored sporting prints made in America" (Henderson), and most importantly the work includes a significant number of original lithographs by one of the great names in 19th-century American art. The first volume (made up of twelve parts ) was certainly the work of both Doughty brothers, with virtually all the plates being the work of Thomas. "Artistically, Vol. 1 is much the most important, for it contains the original plates by Thos. Doughty, famous painter and founding father of the Hudson River School" - Bennett. Indeed the plates in the later volumes are from a multitude of hands and sources. "The coloured plates are important - being the first coloured sporting prints made in America. There is only one earlier American book with coloured plates that I know of, and that is a treatise on Medical Botany - published in Philadelphia in 1817. Many of these coloured plates of animals and birds are charming, the colouring is soft, correct as to details, and all are well drawn" - Gee.

The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports: Volume I.
Doughty, John and Thomas
Philadelphia: T. & T. Doughty, 1830.
Price: $2,500.00
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The Fifth Edition. 8vo. 448 pp followed by 16pp index. Engraved frontispiece; Ten full page engraved plates, of which 2 are folding. Bound to style in full calf; spine in 6 compartments with raised bands; red leather lettering label, gilt; boards tooled in blind in a 'Cambridge" design. Marbled endpapers. Occasional light soil else a fine copy. ESTC.

The Housekeeper's Instructor, or, Universal Family Cook:Being a Full and Clear Display of the Art of Cookery in All its Branches ... : Proper Rules for Brewing Malt Liquor ...:
Henderson, William Augustus
London: W. and J. Stratford, (ca. 1795).
Price: $750.00
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Observationes philologico-criticae in sacros Novi Foederis libros:
Palairet, Elias
Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Carnelium Haak, 1752.
Price: $400.00
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8vo. x,144pp. Frontispiece engraving of the Emperor Tchien Loong. Original paper covered boards, printed label on the upper board. Half-title present. Spine entirely perished, boards well rubbed and worn, upper hinge neatly mended; a good copy in scarce irignal temporary binding. An abridgement of Aeneas Anderson's 'Narrative of the British embassy to China printed in the same year. See Cox, I, 344. ESTC T133375; Lowndes, p. 40. The author was on the staff of Earl Macartney's embassy to China in 1792-1794, historically important as it was the first British mission to China. Protected in a custom clamshell case.

An Accurate Account of Lord Macartney's Embassy to China Carefully Abridged from the Original Work: with Alterations and Corrections, by the Editor, Who Was Also an Attendant at the Embassy
Anderson, Aeneas
London: Vernor and Hood, 1795.
Price: $1,000.00
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Thick 8vo. 551ff. (complete, including the Bull of Pope Sixtus IV). Contemporary, possibly original, quarter pigskin simply tooled in blind; wooden boards; one sueded leather set of ties remain, of two sets. Several minor repairs to the binding and text block, especially to the beginning and ending signatures. Upper outside of the corner of the text has worn off, possibly by insect damage, without loss; occasional worming, with slight loss; first page significantly darkened; occasional text stains; boards slightly yawning; contemporary ink marginalia throughout. Rubricated throughout as well. Overall a very good copy. One of the great Summas of Moral Theology, originally known as the Summa Casuum when it first appeared in 1484. The author revised it in this editon of 1495 and so this second version is known as the Rosella Casuum. ISTC is00049000; Goff 549; Hain 14183, and many more references.

Summa Casuum Conscientiae (Summa Rosella Casuum)
Salis, Baptista de (Trovamala)
Venice: Georgius Arrivabenus, 1495.
Price: $5,000.00
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8vo. xii,(13)-291pp. followed by 5 page publisher's catalogue. Publishers maroon cloth, gilt titles and arms on spine and upper board. Illustrated with full page plates as well as a color plate of Queen Victoria. Old library stamp on the reverse of the title page; spine has a neatly mended horizontal split; gilt and cloth significantly rubbed, the latter especially at the edges, else a good copy. Bookplates, including one identified as the Arms of Betham, and with an inscription on the ffep: To Lonie Irvin (M. L. Betham) from W. G. I., 1905" No publication date on title page; the date is taken from OCLC entries. Scarce.

A House of Letters, Being Excerpts from the Correspondence of Miss Charlotte Jerningham, Lady Jerningham, Coleridge, Lamb, Southey, Bernard & Lucy Barton and Others.and from Diaries and Various Sources; and a Chapter Upon Landor's Quarrel, Etc.
Betham, Ernest, ed.
London: Jarrold & Sons, (1905).
Price: $150.00
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Thin 4to. (62)pp. Black cloth boards with photograph paste-ons printed in black and red. Full page photographic illustrations throughout. Neat old simple library stamp on the title page, paste-on photographs worn at edges and lightly rubbed; light wear to corners, else a very good copy.

60 Aspects de l'Exposition Coloniale
Cloche, M., Photos; Studio Debery Peignot
Paris: Editions Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1931.
Price: $150.00
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Square 4to. Publisher's stiff wraps Illustrated throughout.. Published on the occasion of a major exhibition of photographs of Harry Callahan held at the Museum of Modern Art from December 2, 1976 to February 8, 1977. Signed by Harry Callahan on the half-title. Lightly rubbed else near fine condition.

Callahan: An Aperture Book
Szarkowski, John, ed. (Signed)
NY: Aperture and Musem of Modern Art, (1976).
Price: $200.00
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Thin 8vo. xiii,(1),68pp. Publisher's cream-color cloth with dark brown spine titles. Dustwrapper is not clipped, has two short closed marginal tears and is lightly rubbed else very good. Winner of the 1987 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Signed by the author on the title page, and also warmly iscribed by him to Peter Wild: "For Peter in friendship, gratitude, and admiration.--David 9-27-88. And with Wild's ink notes, comments and observations throughout, as well as two sheets of paper laid-in with additional comments.

Saving the Young Men of Vienna
Kirby, David
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
Price: $100.00
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8vo. Publisher's white cloth spine printed in green, and green paper boards,. Light soil especially at the edges, and review notes, else very good. Dustwrapper is not price-clipped; it has a short closed marginal tear on the reverse panel, is lightly soiled, else very good. Review copy, with the review slip laid-in, and with the ink stray marginal marks by the reviewer, mostly small dots and dashes.

Abbey's Road
Abbey, Edward
E. P. Dutton: New York, 1979.
Price: $250.00
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Thin 4to. Cloth spine, pictorial paper boards, illustrated endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout by the author. This is an early edition, possibly a second printing, certainly pre-1974, with "Copyright © 1963 by Maurice Sendak..." on the title page without any further date and without the LC number or an ISBN number. Rubbing to one corner of the front free endpaper else a near fine copy. The dustwrapper is third state, with the 1974 blurb on the rear flap and without the numbers on the front flap. The Caldecott seal is present. The jacket is price-clipped, has a marginal closed tear through the 't' of 'Things', lightly soiled else very good.

Where the Wild Things Are
Sendak, Maurice
n.p.: Harper & Row, (1963).
Price: $500.00
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2 volumes. 8vo. (6),215,ads;(6),203,ads.pp. Publisher's brick-colored cloth printed in black. Patterned endpapers. Lacks half-titles; clioth significantly soiled and darkened; ex-library with stamp on reverse of title, pockets removed from rear and stamps on edges of text blocks; else this is a good copy. Scarce.

A Flight to Florida, and All that Came of it.
Peregrinator (Christopher Mudd)
F. V. White: London, 1888.
Price: $300.00
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8vo. 252pp. Publisher's black pebble-grained cloth; boards and spine with blind rules, and with gilt titles on spine Index. Classic legal reference many times reprinted. Ownership name in pencil on the front free endpaper; rubber stamp at bottom of title page else a very good copy with only a trace of wear and soil.

Ethics and Jurisprudence for Dentists
Noyes, Edmund, DDS
Chicago: Tucker-Kenworthy Co., 1915.
Price: $150.00
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Illustrated by Edwin Herron, 4to. 90,(2)pp. Pictorial paper boards. A near fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped; it is rough along the top edge and the spine, especially the spine tips, has a few short closed marginal tears, and light soil else very good. The illustrations are full page and are printed in blue and red. Scarce, especially in collectible condition. Children's Judaica.

Tell Me Why: A Primer for Judaism
Bobrow, Dorothy
New York: Bookman Associates, (1954).
Price: $125.00
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12mo. 143pp. Contemporary half leather. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt title and rules. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Light wear else a very good copy. In Spanish. Fairly scarce work by the esteemed Spanish politician-philosopher.

El Triunfo de los Jesuitas en Francia
Pidal y Mon, Alejandro
Madrid: F. Maroto é Hijos, 1880.
Price: $200.00
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Folio. (28),100,(3)pp. Includes 100 full page plates. Publisher's black cloth, silver title. Introduction by Dody W. Thompson. One of 5000 copies. Ownership sticker on ffep else a fine copy. Dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is fine as well.

Brett Weston: A Personal Selection
Weston, Brett
Carmel: Photography West Graphics, 1986.
Price: $150.00
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Folio. 156(4)pp. Publisher's grey cloth, silver spine lettering. Ownership label on ffep else a fine copy. Dustwrapper is unclipped and fine as well. Signed by Snowdon on the title page: "Snowdon".

Stills 1984-1987 (Signed)
Snowdon
London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1987.
Price: $150.00
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