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A Beautifully Illus-trated Edition - In the Scarce Dustjacket

[Attwell, M.L., Illus.] Barrie, J. M. PETER PAN AND WENDY (London: Hodder & Stoughton, ca. 1925) First edition in this format. Twelve tipped-in color plates and 19 illustrations throughout the text by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Large 8vo, pub-lisher’s full blue cloth blocked in blind on the covers and gilt lettered on the spine, in the scarce dustjacket. A fine copy. Both the book and dustjacket are clean and bright.

A FINE AND VERY WELL PRESERVED COPY. A charming edition of the Peter Pan story. The illustrations are in style somewhat typical of English style during the first decades of the 1900’s. In ad-dition to the color plates, many illustrations are scattered throughout the text, sometimes whimsically so. This is an exceptional copy in that it retains the pictorial dustjacket, something that rarely happens with a children’s book as decorative as this.

Offprint Study of Apianus - Author’s Presentation CopyThe Copy of Samuel Eliot Morison

[AMERICANA], [Morison, Samuel Eliot], De Smet, Antoine. LES GEOGRAPHES DE LA RENAISSANCE ET LA COSMOG-RAPHIE (Bruxelles: Travaux de l’Institut pour l’etude de la Renaissance et de l’Humanisme, 1970) First Edition Offprint, Author’s Presentation Copy. FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON, with his signature and nota-tions. 8vo , in original printed paper wraps. A bright and well-preserved copy with little evidence of age.

Item Number: 1 Price: $150.

Peter Pan and Wendy - Illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell Item Number: 2 Price: $495.

RARE OFFPRINT AND AN AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY TO A REVERED FELLOW AUTHOR. This pamphlet dis-cusses Apianus’ Cosmographia and its influence on the Renaissance world-view. The cover bears Morrison’s signature and a note (“Good for Apian”) in his hand; the title-page bears a personal inscription (in French) by the author.

Fine Books and Manuscripts

Sir Samuel Baker and The New Discoveries in AfricaThe Nile Tributaries of AbyssiniaOne of the Most Remarkable Achieve-ments of Exploration

the lower portion of the spine, blue end-leaves, pastedown for note-taking to one. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE SEMINAL WORKS ON THE EXPLORATION OF THE NILE SOURCES. In this volume Baker traces his discovery of the sources of the lower Nile in the Atbara River and the Blue Nile in Abyssinia. Also of interest is the fact that Sir Baker went on these expeditions with his wife. Mrs. Baker should be considered an accomplished explorer in her own right. She shared in all of the hardships and dangers 19th Century exploration had to offer and her contributions to the expedi-tions are well documented.

Item Number: 3 Price: $950. Baker, Sir Samuel. THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA AND THE SWORD HUNTERS OF THE HAMRAN ARABS (London: Macmillan, 1867) First edition. With frontispiece portraits of the Samuel and Mrs. Baker, 23 black and white wood-engraved plates, and two color maps, one folding and one full-page. 8vo, in contemporary three-quarter dark brown calf over brown pebbled boards, the spine with gilt ruled flat bands and gilt lettering. Internally a fine copy, fresh and clean with a light touch of foxing to the prelims only. Copies this clean are uncommon, the binding handsome and solid showing light aging or evidence of shelving to the extremities and some abrasion to



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The Lake of the Royal Crocodiles - Eileen BiglandFine Copy in Dust-jacket of the First Edition

pleasing and well-preserved. FIRST EDITION. “This book...is a record of surface impressions gained during a .. visit to Tropical Africa,”. The lyrical narrative of the adventures of Eileen Bigland (also the author of travel narrative LAUGHING ODYSSEY) as a guest of the Bemba tribe in Central Africa is told with good humor and a storyteller’s flair.



The Cabinet of Nature - Early Children’s Book - 1817A Children’s Guide to Nature in Chap-book Form

This children’s book is called a chapbook, a more modern term that derives from the chapmen. Chapmen were pedlars who hawked their goods in towns and villages, and at country fairs. This chapbook con-tains a short explanation of astronomy and the solar system, as well as descriptions for each month of the weather, what is being planted and harvested and what various animals do during these month.

Item Number: 7 Price: $850. [Chap Book], . THE CABINET OF NATURE, FOR THE YEAR; CONTAINING, CURIOUS PARTICULARS CHARACTERISTIC OF EACH MONTH... (New York: Samuel Wood and Sons, 1817) First American edition. VERY RARE. 14 illustrations 12 mo, in original paper with illustrations on upper and lower covers. A good copy and internally fresh.

The Leader as Artist - First EditionChurchill’s Paint-ing As A Pastime

Item Number: 8 Price: $350. Churchill, Winston S. PAINTING AS A PASTIME (London: Odhams Press Limited/Ernest Benn Limited, 1948) First edi-tion. With a frontispiece portrait, and 18 color reproductions from paintings. 8vo, original cloth with a gilt lettered spine, in a pictorially decorated dustjacket. A very good copy, with some rubbing and wear to the edges of the jacket and some light offsetting to the cloth.

The Book of the Dead - E.A. Wallis Budge’s Classic WorkAn Early and Handy Edition in Three Volumes

Budge, E. A. Wallis, trans. THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: An English Translation of the Chapters, Hymns, Etc., of the Theban Recension, With Introduction, Notes, etc. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co, 1901) 3 volumes. Very early edition, from Books on Egypt and Chaldaea. Illustrated throughout with 420 vignettes, many full-page or quite large. Small 8vo, publisher’s orange cloth lettered in black on the spines and let-tered and decorated in black on the upper covers. A very good and handsome set, just a bit mellowed, very minor abrasion to the spine tips.

FIRST OF THE EDITION. A very nice edition of the English translation in three volumes. The smaller octavo format makes this set particularly user-friendly for study or field work. Includes a cumula-tive index in the third volume. Budge’s is the great English translation of The BOOK OF THE DEAD, which was inscribed, in the form of various compositions, by the Egyptians upon the walls of tombs and sarcophagi, coffins and funeral stelae, papyri and amulets to ensure the well-being of the dead in the world beyond the grave.

Bigland, Eileen. THE LAKE OF THE ROYAL CROCODILES ([London]: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939) First edition. 8 full-page illustrations and 2 maps. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, lettered in beige on the spine and upper cover, with pictorially tooled vignette in blind on the upper cover, in the original illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy, dustjacket unusually

FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE WORK. This volume contains 18 of Mr. Churchill’s paintings along with 2 essays that he wrote on the importance of hobbies and the joys of painting. It provides a personal look into the private world of the great leader.

Cicero’s Great Treatise on Oration - Paris - 1540 - Very RareWith the Highly Es-teemed Commentary of Strebaeus of ReimsOne of the Most In-fluential Writers on Western Thought

Item Number: 9 Price: $3500. (Cicero; Ciceronis; Ciceron) and, Strebaeus, Jacobus Lodoici. M. TULLII CICERONIS DE ORATORE AD QUINTUM FRATREM DIALOGI TRES... [HIS THREE DIALOGUES UPON THE CHARACTER AND QUALIFICATIONS OR AN ORATOR.] (Paris: Ex officina Michaelis Vascosani, sub Fonte, 1540) First Vascosani printing of this highly important work. RARE. OCLC shows only three copies worldwide, with two in the Americas and one in Europe. Beautifully decorated with a full engraved and illustrated title-pages with architectural borders to each book, these handcoloured at some time. Folio, full antique decorated calf, the spine in compartments separated by raised bands, with contrasting red and green morocco labels lettered and bordered in gilt, full gilt panel designs with central ornamental devices. A very clean, crisp and unpressed and well-preserved copy.

AN EARLY PRINTING OF CICERO’S GREAT SERIES OF TREATISES ON THE ART OF ORATION. Marcus Cicero, ora-tor, lawyer, politician, and writer was one of the most renowned and influential men of the Roman World. A prolific writer and speaker, it is through him that much of the history of Rome is known. Cicero took oration very seriously, essentially concluding that the perfect orator must also be the perfect man. These three treatises are one of his chief rhetorical works, meant to form a continuous series contain-ing a complete system of rhetorical training: the first deals with the studies necessary for an orator, the second with the treatment of the subject matter, and the third with the form and delivery of the speech. A very handsome and well-preserved copy of one of Cicero’s most significant works of rhetoric.

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton’s First ExplorationsWanderings in West Africa - London - 1863A Fine Set of the First Edition in Original Cloth


[Burton, Richard F.]. WANDERINGS IN WEST AFRICA From Liverpool to Fernando Po. By a F.R.G.S. (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863) 2 volumes. First edition. With a folding map in Volume I and frontispiece plate in Volume II. 8vo, original dark purple-brown lettered and ruled in gilt on the spines, with blind ruled borders on covers. Now in a fine custom made slipcase with devided sections for each volume carefully designed to comple-ment the original brown cloth. A lovely, fine set, the cloth in

excellent condition, Volume II still largely unopened, internally very clean, much better then one normally expects to find. VERY SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDINGS, THIS AN UNCOMMONLY BRIGHT AND FINE EXAMPLE. According to Penzer, Burton intended to suppress his name entirely from this work, though our copy does indeed have “R. F. Burton” on the spine. This is a truly fine copy of a book rarely found in such condition.



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One of the Most Scholarly Histories of ColumbusThe Voyages of Chris-topher ColumbusFirst Edition of the Translation

Item Number: 10 Price: $395. [Columbus] Jane, Cecil. THE VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS... (London: The Argonaut Press, 1930) Limited edition, one of 1050 numbered copies, printed on fine Japanese Vellum. Illustrated with five maps and an original woodcut by William Monk on title page. 4to, publisher’s original grey cloth backed in white vellum gilt lettered, with a pictorial coat-of-arms design on the top right quadrant of the upper cover in 5 colours and gilt, edges uncut. A very fine and handsome copy, as pristine and still being largely uncut and unopened, bright

Adventures of a Brownie - 1872Fine Victorian Tales for Children - Lov-ingly Illustrated

period. The binding with just a bit of bumping, insignificant edgewear or other extremely minor evidence of age. A sweet an attractively illustrated Victorian children’s book written by the author for her adopted daughter. These are the memorable tales of a foot-high, wingless, “stay-at-home household elf” who lives in the coal cellar; a representative of that largely un-noticed and unseen race of fairies called “Brownies”. Time has not tarnished the glow of this fine little book, as appealing today as it was well over a century ago.

[Craik, Dinah Maria (Mulock)]. THE ADVENTURES OF A BROWNIE. As Told to My Child. By the Author of “John Halifax, Gentleman.” (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1872) First Ameri-can Edition, first issue with “just ready” in the advertisements. Lovingly illustrated with six engraved plates and numerous smaller wood engravings throughout the text by Helen Paterson (aka Mrs. Allingham) 12mo, publisher’s original brick coloured cloth attractively lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine. A fine copy, especially well preserved for a juvenile book of this

Dante’s Divine Comedy - The Cary Translation - 1880’sThe First ‘Modern’ Translation Into English

Item Number: 12 Price: $245. Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321). THE VISION; or HELL, PURGA-TORY, AND PARADISE, of Dante Alighieri. Translated by The Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A...With a Life of Dante... (London: Frederick Warne and Co., circa 1880’s) The “Albion” edition, and a handsome early edition of this work - the first modern translation of Dante into English. Additionally included in this edition is a Life of Dante, Chronological view of his age, Notes and an Index. With a frontispiece engraving of Dante. Thick 8vo, bound in the publisher’s full green ribbed cloth, gilt lettered on the spine and on the upper cover. A very handsome copy,

First Edition - Dickens or Wight and George CruikshankSunday in London - 1833 - Illustrated

handsome copy. Verso of the title and rear fly with old library identifying notations, bottom edge similarly stamped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE AND WITH CRUIKSHANK’S ILLUSTRATIONS. The argument continues on as to whether this book was penned by Dickens or Wight. Regardless, this copy is handsomely bound and presented and the Cruikshank plates are in excellent order.

Item Number: 13 Price: $295.[Dickens, Charles or Wight, John] Cruikshank, George. SUNDAY IN LONDON. Illustrated in Fourteen Cuts, by George Cruik-shank... (London: Effingham Wilson, 1833) First edition, first issue. With the frontispiece illustration of “People of Condition” and 13 other finely engraved illustrations by George Cruikshank. 8vo, three-quarter red morocco, lettered and ruled in gilt between raised bands of the spine, covers ruled in gilt. A clean and

and clean and beautifully preserved. A BEAUTIFUL PRINTING OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT TEXT. Includes Columbus’ journals from all four voyages as well as a section on the second voyage from Andrés Bernáldez. An important primary source for any study of Columbus. Cecil Jane notes that such a mythology has arisen around the figure of Columbus that “the process of distortion has so advanced that the real Columbus is more hidden from view than he was in the period...”

clean, fresh and sound. A HANDSOME EARLY EDITION OF CARY’S HIGHLY IMPORTANT TRANSLATION OF DANTE INTO ENGLISH. Cary’s famous translation has long been considered the first modern rendering of Dante’s timeless epic into English. While previous English translations prior to Cary’s had been accomplished in the 18th century, none were able to transfer into the English language, the beauty and richness of language for which Dante has forever been revered.


With Doré’s Wonderful Illustrations - Large Folio Item Number: 14 Price: $750.Doré, Gustave (Illustrator). Tennyson, Lord Alfred. ELAINE (London: Edward Moxon, 1867) First Separate Edition and First Edition with the Doré illustrations. Illustrated with nine steel engraved plates (with tissue guards) after Gustave Doré. Folio., publishers original royal blue pebbled cloth decorated in gilt, silver and black and on the upper cover, the spine beautifully decorated and lettered in gilt, bevelled boards, purple coated

A Superior Copy - First Edition - Elaine - 1867From the Arthurian Legends

endpapers, all edges gilt. A superior copy with only a hint of marking to the covers and only very light rubbing at the corners. An unusually bright and clean copy. FIRST EDITION OF THIS ELUSIVE DORÉ WORK. A long Arthurian poem originally issued in IDYLLS OF THE KING. An impressive piece of high Victorian book design and illustration.

The First Edition of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets

Item Number: 15 Price: $495.Eliot, T.S. FOUR QUARTETS (London: Faber and Faber, 1944) First edition, first impression. Very nicely printed on crisp japon vellum like paper. 8vo, publisher’s original tan cloth, gilt let-tered on the spine, in the original dustjacket, printed in black and red. A very nice copy with no spotting but to the endleaves as is usual, the dustjacket with light age-mellowing or edgewear, no evidence of the usual bowing. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF ELIOT’S CULMINATING WORK. The collected edition of the Four Quartets: “Burnt Norton,” “East

Coker,” “The Dry Salvages” and “Little Gidding.” It remains to this day one of Eliot’s most powerful and successful works. This work is Eliot’s last major poetic achievement and reflects “his pilgrimage towards his own particular brand of High Anglicanism [which] may be charted in his poetry...to its culminating vision in Four Quar-tets.” [Oxf Compan to EngLit] These poems are contemplations of time, memory, place and consciousness. [Oxford Companion to American Lit.].

One of the Most Powerful Works of the Century



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A Joel Chandler Harris ClassicUncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings


With Beautiful Illuminated Plates in Colourswear, the backs sometime replaced to sympathetic style. THE MOST IMPORTANT 19TH CENTURY TRANSLA-TION OF THE GREAT RENAISSANCE HISTORY AND A COPY IN PREFERRED BINDING WITH A PROFUSION OF LITHOGRAPHED PLATES. “Froissart might be called the great interviewer of the Middle Ages. The news correspondents of modern times have scarcely surpassed this medieval collector of intelligence. The illuminated plates have retained their deep, bright colours and gilt highlights. Based on a medieval manuscript, they not only illustrate the chronicle but are a good example of the type of manuscript art being produced at the time.

Item Number: 17 Price: $2350.Froissart’s Chronicles Very Finely BoundA Preferred Set with Separate Titles for the Illuminations

Harris, Joel Chandler. UNCLE REMUS, His Songs and Sayings (New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1884) First edition, second impression. Formatted and decorated as the first issue, “pre-sumptive” corrected on p. 9 and with ads mentioning the book. With numerous illustrations throughout, including many full page, by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. 8vo, in the publisher’s mustard cloth pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the upper cover and gilt lettered on the spine. A fair and

honest copy in original state, with no repairs or restoration but as such with some wear and age to the binding, most signifi-cantly along the front outside hinge, internally a bit toned, but otherwise quite nice. SCARCE AND IMPORTANT. On the Grolier Club List of “100 In-fluential American Books,” on the Newton List of “100 Good Novels,” and one of Merle Johnson’s “High Spots of American Literature.”

Froissart, Sir John. CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, AND THE ADJOINING COUNTRIES... (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1868) 2 volumes. Complete with a colour lithographed titlepage, two illuminated title-pages for the illustrations, 116 woodcut illustrations throughout the text, and over 70 magnificent illuminated coloured plates heightened with gold after originals in the British Museum, the Bibliotheque Royale, and other sources. Large thick 8vo, full red contemporary morocco over boards, with handsome gilt lettering and tooling on the spines between raised bands. A handsome set in a very pleasing state of preservation with light or minimal aging or time

Grant’s ‘Personal Memoirs’ of the Civil WarA Fine Set in Origi-nal Cloth Gilt

Item Number: 18 Price: $895.Grant, U.S. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT (New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885) 2 volumes. First edition. With 49 maps and illustrations, including a portrait frontispiece and with the dedication from Grant in holograph facsimile. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth lettered in gilt and with a gilt medallion on the upper covers, with floral endpapers. A very handsome set, pleasing and solid with only light age evidence to the cloth. The gilt is still bright, the green cloth dark, the

textblocks in fine order. IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. An important historical memoir of the Civil War, and the best thing that Grant ever wrote. General Schwartzkopf has recently called this the finest memoir of war experi-ences that has ever been penned. Collectable copies of these books are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain.

The Finest War Memoir Ever Penned

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Important Conduct of LifeHandsomely Bound and Presented - 1860

Item Number: 16 Price: $450.Emerson, Ralph Waldo. THE CONDUCT OF LIFE (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860) Early English issue, same year as the first, second edition slug to the title, but most likely the sheets from the first with a new title-page, same format and in the same year as the American first edition. 8vo, handsomely bound in full polished calf, the spine with raised bands gilt ruled, red morocco lettering label gilt, gilt fillet lines to the borders of the covers, marbled end-leaves and turnovers decorated in blind. A fine copy, well preserved with only minimal evidence of shelv-

ing or mellowing. SCARCE AND IMPORTANT. Based on lectures he made while traveling, The Conduct of Life was declared by Thomas Carlyle to be the best of all Emerson’s works. It features a number of Emerson’s po-ems scattered throughout that act as introductions to each essay. Some of the topics covered are: Fate, Power, Wealth, Culture, and Beauty. In an advertisement dated 30 August 1860, Smith Elder announced that they would be publishing this book by Emerson contemporaneously with its publication in America.

Thomas Harris - Hannibal Rising - First Edition FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON A PAST-EDOWN . “Hannibal is one of the most haunting characters of all literature. At last the evolution of his evil is revealed.”

Item Number: 20 Price: $395.Harris, Thomas. HANNIBAL RISING (London: Heinemann, 2006) First edition, AUTOGRAPHED BY THE AUTHOR ON A PASTEDOWN. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth over red boards, lettered in gilt on the spine, in the publisher’s original decorated dustjacket. A very fine copy, as mint.

A Pristine Copy - With Autograph of the Author

The Tiger of Mysore - G.A. Henty - 1895In the Original Beau-tifully Decorated Cloth

Item Number: 21 Price: $225.Henty, G.A.. THE TIGER OF MYSORE, The Story of the War with Tippoo Saib (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1895) First American edition. Frontispiece and 11 black and white full-page illustrations by W.H. Magretson. With 1 map. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth with Edwardian style painted illustration on front cover and spine. Lettered in beige on front cover and gilt on spine. A fine copy.

POSSIBLY ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR BOY’S ADVEN-TURE WRITERS OF ALL TIME. In each, a boy finds himself caught up in one of the great adventures of history. While his stories span all ages and civilizations, he captures the true spirit of the Vic-torian age of exploration. This tale is of the campaign against Tippoo Saib and the British battle for control of Southern India.



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Peter Kolbe - 1743 - Description du Cap de Bonne-EsperanceA Handsome Copy in Contemporary BindingBeautifully Decorated with Engraved Plates, Maps and Views

antique library stamps at the titles, text-blocks clean and bright and fresh, plates in very nice condition. FINE ISSUE OF THE FRENCH EDITION REPLETE WITH BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED PLATES. Kolbe had been sent to the Cape of Good Hope for the purpose of compiling an all-round descrip-tion of South Africa and for astronomical and surveying research. He lived and worked at the Cape from 1705 till 1713. Kolbe gives an exact and detailed account of all aspects of life at the Cape, including a highly interesting and accurate account of the Hottentots.

Item Number: 22 Price: $1650.Kolbe, Peter. DESCRIPTION DU CAP DE BONNE-ESPER-ANCE... (Amsterdam: Chez Jean Catuffe, 1743) 3 volumes. Early printing in French with the half-titles. 24 engraved plates plus 6 folding views and maps, title page printed in black and red. Small 8vo, handsomely bound in full mottled calf of the period, the spines with raised bands, decorated with gilt panel designs in the compartments, ruled in gilt on two red morocco lettering labels. A handsome copy in a fine period binding, some rubbing to the extremities and a bit of cracking to a few joints,

T.E. Lawrence’s Oriental Assembly - A Superb Copy Item Number: 23 Price: 1250.Lawrence, T. E. ORIENTAL ASSEMBLY (London: Williams and Norgate, 1939) First edition. Bradford Lawrence’s copy. Profusely illustrated throughout with photos by the author. 8vo, publisher’s original tan buckram lettered in gilt on spine. A superb, as pristine copy in the rare dustjacket which is also in superb condition. FIRST EDITION IN REMARKABLY FINE CONDITION. A

First Edition in Scarce Dustjacket - As Pristine - 1939The Bradford Law-rence Copy

volume of Lawrence’s previously uncollected writings, edited by his brother. Includes the suppressed chapter of Seven Pillars, a note on Kennington’s Arab portraits and other important essays. The second part contains over 100 photographs taken by Lawrence during the Revolt in the Desert. See the Ransom Collection at University of Texas for note on Bradford Lawrence.

The First Full Biography of Lord ByronJohn Galt - The Life of Lord Byron - 1830In an Unusually At-tractive Contempo-rary Binding Gilt

[Lord Byron]; Galt, John, Esq. THE LIFE OF LORD BYRON (Lon-don: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830) “Second edition”, but actually a reissue of the first edition, and in the same year as the first. With an engraved portrait of Byron, engraved portrait of Countess Guiccioli and engraved half-title featuring a vignette of Newsted Abbey. Small 8vo, in a charming contemporary binding of three-quarter black calf over marbled boards, the spine with raised bands finely gilt decorated, the compartments with gilt panels featuring corner tools of budding leaves complementing

Item Number: 24 Price: $295.intersecting gilt work, one compartment with a scarlet morocco label finely gilt lettered and decorated. A very lovely copy, the gilt very bright on finely preserved calf, the marbled boards only with minor rubbing, internally solid with only a bit of expected toning or occasional spotting. THE FIRST FULL BIOGRAPHY OF LORD BYRON, QUITE SCARCE AND TRULY DIFFICULT TO FIND IN NICE CONDI-TION OR IN AN ESPECIALLY ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY BINDING SUCH AS THIS COPY.

Captain A.T. Mahan - First Edition - 1908Naval Administra-tion and Warfare - In the Original Cloth

LIFE OF NELSON, THE EMBODIMENT OF THE SEA POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN; THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY 1660-1783; THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND EMPIRE 1793-1812; THE INTEREST OF AMERICA IN SEA POWER, PRESENT AND FUTURE; SEA POWER IN ITS RELATION TO THE WAR OF 1812 and a number of other important works.

Item Number: 25 Price: $195.Mahan, Captain A. T.. NAVAL ADMINISTRATION AND WARFARE, Some General Principles with Other Essays (Lon-don: Sampson Low, Marston, & Co., 1908) First edition. With a folding map. 8vo, original blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. A handsome, bright and tight copy, closed tear to one free-fly, without loss. FIRST EDITION. A rarely encountered title by the author of THE

Now We Are Six - First Edition - In Original Dustjacket Item Number: 26 Price: $895.Milne, A.A. NOW WE ARE SIX (London: Methuen & Co., 1927) First edition. With illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt on covers and spine, in the original illustrated dustjacket. A well preserved and pleasing copy, the body of the book and text block very nicely preserved with little age evidence, the spine panel with a lightened spot at the head, the dustjacket with some light edgewear or chipping or evidence

The Third of the Wonderful Pooh Books

of shelving, spine panel of the dustjacket a bit mellowed, some light browning to the prelim gutters as is typical. SCARCE IN DUSTJACKET. This third book in the quartet written by Milne, inspired by his young son Christopher, and illus-trated by Shepard was an instant success. Like WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, NOW WE ARE SIX is a joyful combination of verse and pictures designed to captivate young readers.

Norwegian Fairy Tales Illustrated by Kay NielsenEast of the Sun and West of the MoonA Bright and Fresh Copy in the Original Cloth

FIRST OF THE EDITION. THE FINE AMERICAN ISSUE OF NIELSEN’S BEST BOOK. Fifteen old Norwegian folk-tales from Asbjornsen and Moe’s ‘Norske Folkeeventyr’, have been selected and magnificently portrayed by Nielson. Only his second book com-mission, this collection of paintings earned him enormous public recognition and equal standing with Dulac and Rackham as a leading children’s book illustrator. Here, in its larger format, we are offered the luxury of viewing all 25 illustrations with utter clarity.

Item Number: 27 Price: $1500.[Nielsen, Kay, illus.]. EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON: Old Tales From the North (New York: George H. Doran, nd [1914]) First U.S edition. Illustrated with 25 beautiful tipped-in colour plates, numerous black and white illustrations, and elaborate decorative endpapers by Kay Nielsen. 4to, publisher’s original yellow cloth lettered in red on the spine and on the upper cover. An especially nice copy indeed, the original cloth bright with fresh lettering, the spine panel unusually well preserved, internally about as clean and fine as we ever see the book.



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The Seasons - An Early American Chapbook - 1845 With the growth of small printers, miniature editions of old fa-vourites could be printed. While chapbooks were ostensibly designed to help children learn how to read, they often broached adult subjects and were the source of entertainment in families and villages.

Item Number: 28 Price: $850.Phelps, A. THE SEASONS (Greenfield: A. Phelps, 1845) First edition. VERY RARE. 12 illustrations Small 8vo, original illus-trated wraps. Cover and pages are still bright, pages separated at hinge.

With Willy Pogany’s Brilliant IllustrationsThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner - A Very Fine CopyHandsomely Present-ed in the Publisher’s Best Binding

flawless and the binding is very handsome and beautifully preserved with virtually no evidence of use or age. A SUPERIOR COPY OF THIS GREAT BOOK. One of the most beautiful and decorative books of the period. The binding is quite attractive, the half-title is elaborately printed in gold, red and green; the title-page is a Morris-esque pastiche. There are, in addition to the color plates, roughly ten full-page illustrations in black and either green or gray; and the pages that have no text or illustrations are filled with decorative elements.


Plato, (427–347 BC). THE WORKS OF PLATO. A New and Lit-eral Version. (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861-1864) 6 volumes. A choice and rare edition by Henry Cary of Worcester College, Oxford University; George Burges of Trinity College, Cambridge University and Henry Davis for King’s College, Cambridge. 8vo, choicely bound in three quarter brown polished calf over marbled boards. The spines with gilt decorated wide raised bands forming compartments with panels ruled and decorated in gilt, two compartments with contrasting red and maroon morocco

[Pogany, illus.] Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER (London: George G. Harrap, 1915) The first edition in the publisher’s best binding. Profusely illustrated throughout by Willy Pogany, including 20 tipped-in color plates. With exquisitely detailed pages of intricately woven text and illustrations, enclosed in ornate borders. 4to, bound in the origi-nal dark-tan calf with finely tooled pictorial designs in gilt and colours on the upper cover and spine. A fine copy of this book in the beautiful presentation binding. The interior is virtually

A Bright Edition of a Chapbook

Item Number: 29 Price: $1250.An Important English Version from Oxford and CambridgePublished in London 1861 - 1864 - Six Volumes

labels lettered in gilt, all edges marbled, marbled endleaves. A handsome and very useable set, well preserved and beauti-fully presented. SCARCE EARLY PRINTING OF THIS IMPORTANT TRANS-LATION AND VERSION OF PLATO’S DIALOGUES. This edition of the Platonic Dialogues predates Jowett’s famous Oxford transla-tion. All of the editors were well respected scholars and professors at Cambridge and Oxford and the authors of many works of philosophy, literature, etc.

The Works of Plato - Handsomely Bound and Presented

Ellery Queen and The Spanish Cape MysteryFirst Edition - One of the Early Novels - 1935


Queen, Ellery. THE SPANISH CAPE MYSTERY. A Problem in Deduction (New York: Frederick Stokes Company, 1935) First Edition. The endpapers decorated with sketch of the Spanish Cape Cove printed in green. 8vo, in the original bright red cloth lettered in black on upper cover and spine. A very nice copy, but for a bit of inevitable mellowing to the red cloth of the spine it is near very fine. FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHORS’ FAVORITE OF ALL THE NOVELS WRITTEN. The Spanish Cape Mystery concerns the problem

of the undressed man. The Ellery Queen novels, written by Frederic Dannay and Manford Lepofsky under the pseudonym of their main character, are gems of the golden age of mystery writing. The reader obtains clues in the same way as the protagonist detective, thus the books become intellectually challenging puzzles. THE SPANISH CAPE MYSTERY was the first Ellery Queen novel to be made into a motion picture, though many more would follow.

Ezra Pound - Personae - The Collected Poems - 1926 Item Number: 31 Price: $750.Pound, Ezra. PERSONAE. The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound... (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926) First Edition, and a copy with FINE ASSOCIATION PROVENANCE having been owned by Henry Strater and signed and stamped by him on the free-fly. Frontispiece illustration on coated paper. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. A very good copy with the cloth and textblock well preserved, the spine lettering mellowed out by age. FIRST EDITION AND A COPY WITH VERY PLEASING AS-

First Edition - A Copy with Fine Provenance - Strater’s CopyOwned by Heming-way’s Friend and Illustrator of the “Cantos”

SOCIATION PROVENANCE. Includes all of Pound’s poems to that date except for the unfinished “Cantos” (includes RIPOSTES, LUSTRA, HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS, and H. S. MAUBERLY). Henry Strater, owner of this volume, was a Lost Generation artist who fished with, fought and eventually befriended Ernest Hemingway. He also illustrated the controversial “Cantos” of poet Ezra Pound and was also was the inspiration for the char-acter Burne Halliday in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “This Side of Paradise.”

Robustly Illustrated by Howard Pyle - 1921 Item Number: 32 Price: $895.Pyle, Howard. HOWARD PYLE’S BOOK OF PIRATES... (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1921) First Edition, an early printing. Profusely illustrated by Howard Pyle with a colour frontispiece, and 11 other fine full-page colour plates, 24 black and white full-page plates and a profusion of textual illustrations. Folio, publisher’s original quarter black cloth over beige boards, with a pictorial pastedown and black lettering on the upper cover and gilt lettered on the spine, in the scarce dustjacket. A very pleasing copy of this classic work, the boards and spine as fresh and clean as one could hope for, internally with only a very small amount of the foxing and toning to which the book is

The Book of Pirates A Very Pleasing Copy in the Dust-jacket

unfortunately quite prone. The jacket is lacking its spine panel but the upper and lower cover and flaps are fully present with only a few chips. In all very attractive. SCARCE IN DUSTJACKET AND A FINE WORK, BEAUTI-FULLY ILLUSTRATED. One of Pyle’s best and most popular books, and an uncommon find in the dustjacket. Pyle’s paintings have been a virtual treasure chest of imagery for roughly a century now. They have been drawn upon, copied, reproduced and borrowed from. They have been an inspiration for costumers from the swashbuckling silent films in the early 1900s to Johnny Depp in the 21st century.



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Rackham’s Elusive 1909 Grimms’ Fairy TalesThe Best and Finest Edition

Item Number: 34 Price: $3150.[Rackham, illus.] The Brothers Grimm. GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES (London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1909) First edition, first printing. 40 color plates by Rackham with additional black and white illustrations throughout. Thick, Royal 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth lettered in gilt and with elaborate gilt pictorial decorations on spine and upper cover. An especially nice copy, very well preserved, bright and clean, endleaves with antique restoration.

VERY SCARCE. A considerably altered edition from Constable and Co.’s 1900 selection of Grimms’ Fairy Tales that had 100 of Rackham’s black and white illustrations. For this edition, Rackham reworked the drawings, “generally overhauling them as a set, supple-menting and omitting, with a view to the present edition.” The present edition contains 40 beautifully coloured plates and 55 black and white drawings. One of Rackham’s most elusive titles.

Roscoe’s Great Work - The Life of Lorenzo De’ Medici AN IMPORTANT CLASSIC, HANDSOMELY BOUND. The principal work in the author’s long history of historical writings. Roscoe began publishing this at his own expense in 1793, with the first edition produced in February of 1796 (though marked as 1795). This volume drew great attention both in England and abroad, and went into many subsequent editions. Included are two appendix of documents in the original Italian and Latin and a number of poems in Italian.

Item Number: 35 Price: $1650.Roscoe, William. THE LIFE OF LORENZO DE MEDICI CALLED THE MAGNIFICENT (Liverpool and London: J.M. McCreery, 1795) 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated throughout with engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignettes on title pages, engraved chapter heads. 4to, contemporary three-quarter tan calf over marbled boards, the spine decorated with multi-ruled gilt bands and lettered in gilt on a black morocco lettered label. Gilt rules to the boards. A handsome set, very clean internally. Some rubbing to the calf.

First Edition - 1795 Including the Poems of Lorenzo the Mag-nificentIllustrated Through-out with Fine Engravings

Handsomely Bound By Sangorski and SutcliffSaint Francis of Assisi - His Life and Times

simple and tasteful blind ruled raised bands and gilt lettering, gilt chain tool on board edges, decorated endpapers, silk marker bound in. A very fine copy, inside and out, the spine just ever so lightly mellowed. BOUND BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFF. This history of Saint Francis, his life, his miracles and his times was beautifully produced in fine Medici Society fashion.

Item Number: 36 Price: $195.[Saint Francis]; Bonnard, Abel and Simmonds, Florence [Transla-tor]. SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI (London: The Medici Society, 1930) First edition. With a tipped in colour frontispiece and 8 black and white plates from Giotto’s famed frescos in the Basilica of San Francesco d’Assisi. 8vo, very nicely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliff in antique full red morocco. The upper board fea-tures a large colour pastedown of Botticelli’s Madonna of the Book with Child within a blind-stamped frame, the spine with

The Striking Sangorski and Sutcliffe “Rubaiyat” Item Number: 37 Price: $2500.[Sangorski and Sutcliffe] Fitzgerald, Edward. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM... Reproduced from a Manuscript written and illuminated by Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe (London: Siegle Hill and Co., n.d. circa 1909) First Edition. This is number 167 signed by signed by Mssrs. Sangorski and Sutcliffe. With 12 plates printed in gold and colors, text printed in black and red, with elaborated initials throughout in red, blue, gold, brown and black also with, borders, and decorative endpapers. Large 4to, original full vellum with a honey coloured morocco letter-ing label gilt on the spine, the cover elaborately decorated with

an all-over design featuring most prominently the distinctive Sangorski and Sutcliffe peacock, the spine also decorated in gilt with rich floral tooling. An unusually fine and bright copy of the book. Beautifully preserved. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, SIGNED AND NUM-BERED. The first book publication of the famous Sangorski and Sutcliffe illuminated manuscript. The illuminations are of exquisite patterns executed in Sangorski’s best style. The initials are quite breathtaking. The colours used, heightened with burnished gold, and the delicate borders are in the manner of the finest manuscripts.

After One of Their Greatest Illuminated ManuscriptsThe First Printed Edition, Signed

Landor’s Travels into Central Asia and TibetIn The Forbidden Land

Item Number: 38 Price: $495.Savage Landor, A. Henry. IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND... (Lon-don: Heinemann, 1898) 2 volumes. First edition, first issue. With photogravure frontispiece, 8 colour plates, 50 full page illustra-tions, over 150 illustrations in text, and a large folding map at rear. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth handsomely lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt, black and brown on the upper covers and in gilt and black on the spines. Internally a very good copy and a pleasing set, quite clean and fresh, the cloth with some rubbing to the green colouring at the extremities, some evidence of age or mellowing to the cloth, hinges a bit shaken as is typical

with these heavy text-blocks. THE TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, AND NOW QUITE SCARCE. This has become, like the author’s other books, quite difficult to obtain these days. The books were especially popular and after the original two volume format was sold out quickly, the book was reprinted again and again in a one volume format. The British 2nd impression in the original two volume format was issued months before the first American issue and only a few weeks after the first impression.

Rolf in the Woods - Adventures of a Boy ScoutFirst EditionBy the Founder of the Boy Scouts of America - E.T. Seton

Item Number: 39 Price: $175.Seton, Ernest Thompson . ROLF IN THE WOODS. The Ad-ventures of a Boy Scout With Indian Quonab and Little Dog Skookum (Garden City: Doubleday Page and Company, 1911) First Edition. illustrated by the author with 12 black and white plates and over 200 line drawings throughout. Large 8vo, pub-lisher’s original green cloth, pictorially decorated with a moose head on the upper cover in brown and black, gilt lettered, the spine pictorially decorated with a bear head in brown and black and gilt lettered. An extremely well preserved copy, only a bit

of very minor age toning otherwise quite fine indeed. FIRST EDITION, BY ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA. Thomson Seton was a noted natu-ralist, author and wild-life artist but will always be best remembered as one of the pioneers of scouting. He was the author of the original BOY SCOUT HANDBOOK. He was personally responsible for the strong influence of American Indian culture within the BSA and was highly influential upon Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of scouting worldwide.



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Captain John Hanning Speke - First Edition - 1863ournal Of the Dis-covery of the Source of the NileA Landmark Work in the History of Exploration

Item Number: 41 Price: $2250.Speke, Capt. John Hanning. JOURNAL OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE (London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863) First edition. Illustrated with numerous black and white plates, portraits and illustrations throughout the text, and two maps including the large folding map. 8vo, contem-porary three-quarter brown calf, the spine with gilt decorated bands between compartments, central tooled device in blind. A handsome copy, internally fine, fresh and sound with no sign of foxing or toning to the paper, the contemporary binding quite

handsome with some of the expected signs of age. SCARCE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT LANDMARK WORK OF AFRICAN EXPLORATION BY THE FIRST EXPLORER TO DISCOVER ONE OF THE MAJOR SOURCES OF THE NILE. After an expedition into eastern Africa in the company of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, Speke returned to England to announce his hypothesis that the Nile issued from Lake Victoria-Nyanza. However, his fellow geographers, including Burton, were skeptical of this claim.

Adam Smith - The Classic Work - The Wealth of NationsSecond Irish Print-ing - 1785 - Bound in Fine Irish Tree CalfRare and Very Sel-dom Encountered

Item Number: 40 Price: $5500.Smith, Adam. AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS (Dublin: For W. Colles, E. Moncrieffe, G. Burnet et. al, 1785) 2 volumes. Second Irish printing and a very early issuance of the work. 8vo, very handsomely bound in full Irish tree calf, the covers tooled with gilt key roll at the borders, gilt edges to the bindings, the spines with elaborate gilt tooling and decoration to the spine panels in an all over design, two contrasting morocco lettering labels of red and green, marbled endleaves. A very handsome and attrac-tive set of Smith’s classic work. Such early printings are rarely

encountered. Expertly and unobtrusively rehinged. RARE AND IMPORTANT IRISH PRINTING OF THIS CLAS-SIC TEXT. Smith’s classic work was begun at Toulouse in 1763-64 where he had traveled as guardian of Henry Scott, and in the company of David Hume, historian and fellow professor at Glasgow University. The work took shape over the next ten years and was finally published in 1776. At one point during its composition, Hume wrote that Smith was “cutting himself off entirely from human society.” But his labors, however severe his methods, yielded the “first and greatest classic of modern economic thought” (Printing and the Mind of Man).

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanThe Favorite Book of Thomas Jefferson and MarthaA Cornerstone of English LiteratureIncludes A Senti-mental Journey to France and Italy

Item Number: 42 Price: $450.Sterne, Laurence. THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN & A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY... (London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1900) 2 volumes. A finely printed and handsome edition. The first in this format including not only the principle novel, TRISTRAM SHANDY, but also A SENTIMENTAL JOUR-NEY and three other shorter works. 8vo, bound in attractive antique three-quarter calf over marbled boards, the spines with elaborate gilt panels designs incorporating border and center

tooling, each volume with two morocco lettering labels gilt. A very handsome, very pleasing set. The bindings are very tasteful and the text-blocks are clean and easily read. A FINE AND IMPORTANT WORK AND A CORNERSTONE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND THE STREAM-OF-CON-SCIOUSNESS NOVEL. Sets are scarce now, and this is a very handsome example, with the bindings well designed and executed by Morrell. Sterne’s unique work is considered the progenitor of the stream-of-consciousness novel.

Switzerland - Lausanne and Montreaux - Two VolumesWith Beautiful Colourplates and Fine Text

Item Number: 43 Price: $250.[Switzerland; Suisse; Schweiz]; Gribble, Francis H.. LAUSANNE (with,) MONTREAUX (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909 & 1908) 2 volumes. First Edition of each volume. Beautifully decorated with full page colourplate illustrations in each volume. A total of 40 colourplates are contained within the books, each volume having 20, all executed by J. Hardwicke lewis and May Hardwicke Lewis. 4to, publisher’s original maroon and royal blue cloth bindings, each with fine gilt and colour work to the spines and covers. The LAUSANNE in very fine condition, fresh

and clean; the MONTREAUX still clean and well preserved, the cloth slightly mellowed and with a bit more age evidence. A NICE SET OF THESE TWO FINE BOOKS ON THE BEAUTI-FUL AREAS OF FRENCH SWITZERLAND. Each has a number of fine chapters on the history of the areas. All are well written and well researched. The paintings reproduced are pleasing and very suc-cessfully evoke the sensibility of these areas of the Swiss geography. Two lovely books with beautifully rendered illustrations.

Rare First Edition in English of a World ClassicLeo Tolstoy - War and Peace - Six Volumes - 1886Original Cloth Gilt Decorated - A Very Pleasing Set

Item Number: 45 Price: $13,500.Tolstoi, Leo. WAR AND PEACE. A Historical Novel...Translated into French by A Russian Lady and From the French by Clara Bell... (New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886) 6 volumes. First edition in English, First Issue of each volume. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spines, with black tooled borders and gilt pictorial decorations in all over designs to the covers. A very pleasing set of this rare survival. The original cloth remains in quite good condition, the hinges are strong and tight, some light edgewear to expected areas of the

cloth, the tips and the spine ends just a bit rubbed primarily from shelving, two volumes with a bit more wear to the tips of the spines than the others. RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. A COMPLETE SET OF FIRST ISSUE VOLUMES, ALL IN ORIGINAL BINDINGS AND IN A PLEASING STATE OF PRESERVATION. Tolstoy’s epic of the Napoleonic wars has few peers in world literature; John Galsworthy described it as “THE GREATEST NOVEL EVER WRITTEN.”

Days With Sir Roger de CoverlyFrom ‘The Specta-tor” - Illustrated by Hugh Thomson

Item Number: 44 Price: $195.[Thomson, Hugh. Illustrator], de Coverley, Sir Roger. DAYS WITH SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY, A Reprint from “The Specta-tor”. With Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. (London and New York: Macmillian and Co., 1892) Third edition. 50 illustrations by Hugh Thomson 8vo, green cloth with handsome gilt illustra-tions and lettering on the upper cover and spine. A very good

copy, quite clean and bright. With a few bumps in the cloth and some minor chips at the spine panel at the hinges. A charming confection. A humorous month in the countryside with Thomson’s witty illustrations.

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