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Giovanni Boccaccio - Il Decamerone - Superbly BoundWith the Very Fine Engravings ThroughoutThe Very Fine Pickering Printing of 1825

gilt with multiple tools filling completely the compartments, lettered and numbered in gilt within two compartments. A very fine, very beautiful set, in superb period bindings with virtually no evidence of age or wear. A VERY IMPORTANT AND VERY APPEALING SET OF THE DECAMERON IN THREE VOLUMES. THE PICKERING PRINTING OF 1825 IS REVERED FOR ITS BEAUTY AND QUALITY. The plates are very finely reproduced and contribute greatly to the appeal of this lovely set.

Item Number: 2 Price: $3250.


Chaucer’s Poetry in Four Volumes - With Skeat’s PrefaceA Fine Victorian Set Edited by Bell

gilt on the spines. An unusually clean, bright and handsome set in very fine condition. AN ATTRACTIVE, DECORATED VICTORIAN SET OF CHAUCER’S COLLECTED WORKS. Included are a Preliminary Preface by W.W. Skeat, a Memoir of Chaucer by Robert Bell, all of the Collected Works including those no longer attributed to Chaucer, and a comprehensive Glossary. An inviting presentation of Chaucer’s classic works.

Item Number: 5 Price: $295. Chaucer, Geoffrey. POETICAL WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAU-CER; With Poems Formerly Printed With His or Attributed to Him. Edited, With a Memoir, by Robert Bell. With a Preliminary Essay by Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. (London: George Bell and Sons, 1885-8) 4 volumes. Very early printing with the preface by Skeat. Engraved frontispiece of Chaucer in Volume I. 8vo, original pub-lisher’s terracotta cloth with elaborate stamped designs in black on the upper covers, in blind on the lower covers and lettered in

Winston Churchill - The World Crisis - 1911-1918Original Navy-Blue Cloth Gilt - London - Four Volumes

Item Number: 6 Price: $695. Churchill, Winston. THE WORLD CRISIS. 1911-1914; 1915; 1916-1918. (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923-29) 4 volumes. Early issues, most are early printings of the first editions, and all volumes are impressions made in the same month as the first impressions of the first editions. Profusely illustrated throughout with maps and diagrams, including many that are multi-page and folding and in colours. Royal 8vo, publisher’s original navy-blue polished cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spines,and stamped in blind on the upper covers as the first impressions of the first editions. A nice set, text-blocks are tight and clean

Robert Burns’ Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish DialectThe Posthumous Poems - 1869The Kilmarnock Edi-tion, Signed by the Publisher

Burns, Robert. POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT. [POSTHMUOUS POEMS.] (Kilmarnock: James M’Kie, 1869) Kilmarnock Complete Edition, one of 600 copies, signed by the printer James M’Kie. 8vo, publisher’s original blue boards backed in white parchment, original paper label on the spine. A very nice copy, internally bright and fresh, spine a bit mellowed as is almost always the case and with minimal evidence of aging to the boards.

EARLIEST LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. This is perhaps the most complete and scrupulously compiled print-ing of the facsimile issue of the very rare first Kilmarnock edition of Scotland’s national poet. The volume is individually numbered and signed by publisher James M’Kie.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. DECAMERONE Di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (London: Guglielmo Pickering, 1825) 3 volumes. First edition thus. Beautifully illustrated with very fine plates engraved by the celebrated Auguste Fox after the designs of Sto-thard and finely printed on special paper and with an engraved frontispiece of Boccaccio in Volume I. 8vo, very handsomely and very beautifully bound in superb period bindings of full brown crushed morocco, the spines with specially designed gilt tooled raised bands, the compartments elaborately decorated in

and without fault, all maps and charts and folding plans are pristine, there is some light evidence of old damp blending in quite unobtrusively and only occasionally to some bits of the cloth. Still, a handsome set of this important work. SCARCE SET. In Churchill’s own words: “(in) the... volumes of the WORLD CRISIS...I have told the story of the War from the British standpoint, and particularly from those positions of authority which I held myself. The war at sea, the expedition to the Dardanelles, and the campaigns in France and Flanders filled the stage.

Very Rare First Edition of a Nobel Prize WinnerBjornson’s Happy Boy, A Tale of Nor-wegian Peasant Life


Bjornson, Bjornstjerne. THE HAPPY BOY, A Tale of Norwegian Peasant Life. Translated from the Norwegian by H.R.G. (Boston and Cambridge: Sever, Francis, & Co., 1870) Rare First edition in English. The True First American Edition. Portrait frontispiece and decorative chapter heads. 8vo, publisher’s original brick red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover and with floral decorations and rules in blind on both covers.. A bright and very good copy with some of the typical foxing. Pastedowns

and each freefly have remains of old glue or subsequent tears. Some light wear to extremities. RARE FIRST EDITION. Bjornson won the Nobel Prize for litera-ture in 1903. “The tale here presented is the story of a young peasant boy, to whom the world has always seemed a delightful dream, until he is awakened to his position in it by finding obstacles in the way of his love for a girl who is above him in birth.”

A Richard Burton First Edition - Vikram and the VampireA Handsome and Bright Copy in Original Cloth

of the spine. Very tight, clean and bright internally. THESE STORIES WERE ADAPTED BY BURTON FROM STORIES INCLUDED IN THE BAITAL PACHISI, a Hindu ver-sion of the traditional vampire tales. Penzer says these traditional tales were written in Sanskrit some time after 1070 A.D., though they were carried by oral tradition much earlier. He also states that, although copies of the second and third issue of this book do turn up, “they are seldom in good condition” (Penzer, p. 82).

Item Number: 4 Price: $895. Burton, Richard F. VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE or Tales of Hindu Devilry ([London and] New York: [Longmans, Green and Co and] D. Appleton & Co., [1870]) First edition, issue in the green cloth, this copy with the rare Appleton title-slug printed in London and using the first edition UK sheets. With illustrations by Ernest Griset. 8vo, original green cloth gilt lettered and pictorially decorated in black on spine and upper cover. A very bright and attractive copy, unusually so. Expert and essentially unnoticeable strengthening to the head and tail



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VERY SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS UN-TRIMMED AND UNBOUND. Coleridge began to write these poems in 1797 in Stowey (Somerset). He wrote ‘Kubla Khan’ after returning from Germany in 1800 and finished the last work, ‘The Pains of Sleep’, shortly before publication.

The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor ColeridgeA Fine and Hand-somely Bound Set - 1844Published by Picker-ing in London - Three Volumes

Item Number: 8 Price: $450. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. THE POETICAL WORKS OF S.T. COLERIDGE (London: William Pickering, 1844) 3 volumes. Very early collected edition. Small 8vo, three-quarter pe-riod red morocco over marbled boards, lettered in gilt in two compartments of the spines between raised bands gilt lined, the remaining compartments elaborately decorated with gilt panel designs and central ornamental tooling, marbled edges and endpapers. A lovely and pleasing set, the text-block very

Romualdo Zotti’s Rare Edition of DanteA Fine and Very Handsome Set of this Influential Printing

and beautiful set, internally as fresh, clean and solid as could be. The contemporary calf bindings very handsome and proper, also beautifully preserved, one hinge of volume three quite tender, easily repairable. RARE, OF ZOTTI’S TWO PRINTINGS OF DANTE THE TOTAL NUMBER LISTED IN LIBRARY HOLDINGS IS ONLY 43 COPIES, AND THIS EDITION BEING ONLY 23 OF THOSE. Of these listed, some are incomplete and most do not have the por-trait of Dante.

Dante Alighieri, . LA DIVINA COMMEDIA Illustrata di Note Da Romualdo Zotti [Dell Inferno; Del Purgatorio; Il Paradiso; Vita di Dante] (London: Presso di R. Zotti, 1819-1820) 3 volumes. The second of Zotti’s two rare Italian editions printed in England, revised and with expanded notes and commentary. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of Dante in volume one. 8vo, full contemporary dark calf, the boards with a rolled frame in blind, the spines gilt tooled flat bands creating compartments with either gilt lettering or central gilt tooled devices, fine marbled endpapers and blind stippled turn-ins and board edges. A fine

Darwin’s First Work on Pangenesis - Highly ImportantVariation of Animals and Plants...A Pleasing Copy - Beautifully Preserved - Bright and Fine

Item Number: 10 Price: $950. Darwin, Charles. THE VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS UNDER DOMESTICATION (London: John Murray, 1899) 2 volumes. Second edition, eighth impression, a very early reissue of an important edition revised. With illustrations throughout. 8vo, original polished green cloth gilt lettered and decorated on the spines, paneled in blind on the covers. An excellent copy, very well preserved and quite fine, bright and clean, unusually so with very little evidence of use or age. Vol. II partially unopened.

Ruwenzori - A Handsome Copy of the First EditionThe Great Range and Mountains of the MoonVery Scarce and Important Africana

handsome copy with very minimal mellowing to the cloth, endpapers refreshed. A VERY SCARCE WORK OF AFRICANA. The mountain range of Ruwenzori, is believed to be the mythical Mountains of the Moon told about by Ptolemy. Located in central Africa, these snowy mountains drain into the lakes that feed the Nile, making this the true source of the great river.

Item Number: 12 Price: $1850.De Filippi, Filippo. RUWENZORI, An Account of the Expe-dition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi. With a Preface by the Duke of the Abruzzi. (London: Archibald Constable and Co, 1908) First Edition in English. Il-lustrated with a vast profusion of illustrations throughout, 32 very fine photographic plates on heavy stock, 5 folding maps and numerous black and white photos. Includes a colour fron-tispiece from a painting by A. Fitzgerald and several large and impressive folding panoramas. Thick 4to, publisher’s original red buckram lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. A

clean and bright, the bindings well preserved with only light evidence of age or use. THE BEST EARLY PERIOD COLLECTION OF COLERIDGE POETRY. A very pleasant set of Coleridge’s works, which includes his Juvenile Poems, Kubla Khan, Sibylline Leaves, Christabel, Zapolya, Wallenstein, Miscellaneous Poems and the Rime of the Ancient Mariner as well as others. This is an early published set of the works and is quite a pleasing copy.

A FINE SET, SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION, AND AN IMPORTANT WORK. The second edition is very important in that Darwin made a number of corrections, but more importantly he reworked Chapter XXVII on Pangenesis. This work “represents the only section of Darwin’s big book on the origin of species which was printed in his lifetime and corresponds to its first two intended chapters. It contains, in Chapter XXVII, his provisional hypothesis of pangenesis; one which he thought was new, but has a long back history” (Freeman 877).


Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Original Publisher’s WrapsChristabel, Kubla Khan, and The Pains of Sleep - 1816

Item Number: 7 Price: $1850. Coleridge, Samuel. CHRISTABEL, &C. (London: John Murray, 1816) Second issuance. 8vo, printer’s original drab wrappers, unbound and untrimmed. An unusually well preserved copy, the wrappers untouched and unrestored, some chipping or loss to the spine panel of the wrapper confined to the lower section, quite clean and showing just occasional age internally.

Holland - Illustrated with Photogravures - 1894Beautifully Decorat-ed in Gilt and in the Rare Cloth Jackets

decorated similarly on the spines. In the rare original blue cloth dustjackets. A very fine set, the books essentially pristine and perfect, the rare jackets with only the most minimal evidence of shelving. AN ESPECIALLY FINE SET, VERY CLOSE TO PERFECT AND IN THE VERY RARE ORIGINAL CLOTH DUSTJACKETS IN FINE CONDITION. Coates’ production of De Amicis excellent writings on the Netherlands are a fine example of Victorian travel writing beautifully presented and bound.

Item Number: 11 Price: $250.De Amicis, Edmondo. HOLLAND, Translated from the Thir-teenth Edition of the Italian by Helen Zimmern (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1894) 2 volumes. First edition, first of this translation and first with these illustrations. Wonderfully il-lustrated with 44 photogravure plates from photographs taken expressly for these volumes by Charles L. Mitchell, and with a folding map of the Netherlands. 8vo, publisher’s beautiful navy-blue cloth exquisitely decorated in gilt with a delicate all over-design to the upper covers featuring a finely executed broad border of tulips surrounding a field of gilt stops, gilt lettered and




First Edition - Inscribed by the Author FIRST EDITION AND A RARE, INSCRIBED COPY. A collection of Fields poems in the original cloth binding. As well as being a popular poet in his own right, Fields was one half of Ticknor & Fields and served as that company’s literary expert.

Item Number: 16 Price: $450.Poems - James T. Fields

Fields, James T. POEMS (Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co, 1849) First Edition, INSCRIBED by Fields on the rear end-paper. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and tooled in blind on the covers. A very well preserved and pleasing copy. Still handsome after all these years.

A Copy with Superb Provenance - Six Vol-umes - 1782-1788Beautifully Bound in Full Green Contem-porary Morocco

Item Number: 17 Price: $12,500.

Gibbon, Edward. THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1782-88) 6 volumes. AN IMPORTANT COPY. Volumes 1-3 are very early issues, volumes 4-6 are first issues of the first editions. A COPY WITH VERY FINE PROVENANCE having come from the library of Mr. Justice Day and subsequently from the library of The Honorable Michael Foot, renown member of the British House of Commons and one of the most important English politi-cians of the last century. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 engraved maps, two of which are quite large and folding. With all half-titles. Large 4to, in very fine contemporary bindings of crushed full green morocco. A fine and very handsome set,

beautifully preserved and internally still crisp and unusually clean and fresh. AN IMPORTANT AND EARLY ISSUANCE OF THE GREAT-EST HISTORICAL WORK EVER UNDERTAKEN, A COPY IN RARELY ENCOUNTERED “PRESENTATION” BINDINGS OF FULL GREEN DELUXE CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO AND A COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE. ‘Justice Robert Day (1746-1841) was the outstanding politico-judicial figure of Kerry at the turn of the nineteenth century. Michael Foot (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010) was a British Labour Party politician, journalist and author, and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1955 and from 1960 until 1992.

The Greatest Historical Work Ever Undertaken

Epictetus - His Morals, with Simplicius His CommentPrinted London - 1704 - With a Life of Epictetus IncludedAn Early Translation of this Ancient Greek Classical Work

Item Number: 15 Price: $450.Epictetus, (Stanhope, George, Translator). EPICTETUS HIS MORALS, WITH SIMPLICIUS HIS COMMENT. MADE ENG-LISH FROM THE GREEK. By George Stanhope...With the Life of Epictetus from Monsieur Boileau (London: Printed for Richard Sare, and Joseph Hindmarsh, 1704) The third edition of transla-tion, corrected and with a Life of Epictetus by Monsieur Boileau. 8vo, full contemporary calf polished calf, the covers bordered in blind, sometime rebacked to correct style with raised bands ruled in blind, tan morocco label gilt lettered. Internally a fine

copy, crisp and fresh and solid. The old calf with minor expected wear, one hinge separated but easily repairable. A VERY EARLY EDITION AND A VERY EARLY TRANSLA-TION OF THE GREAT STOIC PHILOSOPHER. The translation, first printed in 1694 was also Stanhope’s first book before he went on to become the dean of Canterbury and claimed his place as one of the most popular preachers of his day.

A Very Nice Copy of Detmold’s Best Work Item Number: 13 Price: $1250.[Detmold, illus.]. THE FABLES OF AESOP (London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909]) First edition. Illustrated with 23 tipped-in color plates by Edward J. Detmold. 4to, tan cloth with elabo-rate pictorial decoration featuring an owl with wings spead in colours on the upper cover and spine. A very nice copy, free of the inevitable browning to the endpapers.

The Fables of Aesop - Published - 1909Beautifully Illus-trated with Tipped-In Colourplates

A VERY PLEASING COPY AND QUITE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. These illustrations represent, in our opinion, Det-mold’s very best work. Their grace and sensitivity reflect a certain Eastern sensibility. The artist’s powers in the delicate communication of nature’s spirit are exemplified by these wonderful paintings, rich with the wide variety of the colours in the spectrum.

Sketches By “Boz” and Sketches by “Boz” (II)Published in London - 1836 and 1837 - Beautifully Bound

Item Number: 14 Price: $7950.(Dickens, Charles) “Boz”. SKETCHES BY “BOZ”, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. WITH SKETCHES BY “BOZ”, THE SECOND SERIES (London: James Macrone, 1836, 1837) 3 volumes. First editions of both works. 8vo, in a fine full olive morocco binding signed by Zaehnsdorf, ruled in gilt on covers. Very fine gilt decorations and lettering between raised bands of the spine. Gilt turn-ins. Fine decorative end-papers. A fine set. Spines lightly toned to honey.

RARE FIRST EDITIONS OF BOTH WORKS. SKETCHES BY BOZ was Dickens first work to be published in book form. In addi-tion to the importance of Dickens in world literature, this ‘Sketches’ also features the light-hearted illustrations of George Cruikshank. The Second Series contains a catalogue of Macrone publications and features an ad for the novel GABRIEL VARDON by Charles Dickens, which would be reissued as BARNABY RUDGE.

The True First Editions of Dickens’ First Great Books

A Charles Smith 12 Inch Terrestrial Globe with Exceptional Detail and Finely Hand-Coloured


[Globe] Smith, Charles. SMITH’S TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, Con-taining all the Most Recent Discoveries (London: C. Smith and Son, Circa 1880) A scarce and very handsome 12 inch globe. printed in multiple colours, this richly detailed globe, shows all the continents & countries as they were at the time and also indicates all the major ocean currents, connecting currents and the Antarctic & South East Trade Wind Drifts. Also with an ana-lemma showing the declination of the sun for every day of the year and the Equation of Time. Total height approx. 19 and a half inches, on its original stand of a turned mahogany column with a trefoil base resting on bun feet, with a graduated brass merid-ian marked out in degrees of longitude. The globe is made of 12 hand-coloured copper engraved gores on solid core. Very well

preserved, uncommonly such. The glove bright and fresh, the original stand in excellent condition as well. An uncommonly handsome and well preserved example of a scarce Charles Smith Globe. Charles Smith was a noted Stationer, map and globe-seller in London from about 1800. Between 1827 and 1852 the business was carried on by Charles Smith & Son, and from 1853 onward, by William Smith. Smith and Sons produced a vast number of well engraved maps and several fine atlases. His globes and maps are very distinctive, characterized by their lucid, fine engraving and vibrant colour washes that combine to make them both extremely attractive and very informative.

A Handsome 19th Century Globe on Fine Mahogany Stand



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age or use to the binding, primarily at the tips. Hinges are tight and strong and the text-block well preserved. FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE EARLY TEXT ON HARLEM. James Riker New York historian and genealogist was descended from early Dutch settlers. During the late 1830s and early 1840s he lived intermittently in Goshen, New York, where he ran a store. By the mid-1840s he had settled at the family home on Delancey Street in Manhattan.

The Sun Also Rises - In the Scarce Original Dustjackettoned just a bit as would be expected, and with some light evidence of shelving or use at the edges or tips. FIRST EDITION, EARLY PRINTING, OF ONE OF THE AUTHOR’S MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS AND AN ICON IN THE WORLD OF MODERN LITERATURE. PERHAPS THE GREATEST OF THE 20TH CENTURY EXPATRIATE NOVELS . Hemingway’s fourth (and third generally published) book, and his first “bestseller.” Hemingway was the leading spokesperson for the “lost generation”; he reflected the sentiments of those affected by the world wars and their disillusionment.

Item Number: 22 Price: $3250.Hemingway, Ernest. THE SUN ALSO RISES (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928) First Edition, eighth printing, February 1928, with the same dustjacket artwork and design originally issued for the first printing. A photograph of Hemingway has been added to the rear panel in place of a drawing of the author. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, with the gold paper labels on the spine and upper cover printed in black, in the scarce original dustjacket. A very pleasing copy, surprising in its state of preservation, the black cloth still quite fresh and bright, the gold labels whole and bright, a bit of minor mellowing only to the tips or edges. The rare iconic dustjacket still very handsome,

One of Hemingway’s Most Important Books

The Tiger of Mysore - G.A. Henty - 1895 Item Number: 23 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.

In the Original Beautifully Decorated Cloth

THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST TIPPOO SAIB AND THE BRIT-ISH BATTLE FOR CONTROL OF SOUTHERN INDIA. Possibly one of the most popular boy’s adventure 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 Victorian age of exploration.

Grey, Zane. THE DESERT OF WHEAT (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1919) First edition. With 4 illustrations by W.H.D. Koerner. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth lettered in gilt, with title and author’s name in gilt panel on upper cover. In the rare dustjacket. A very good and pleasing copy, the jacket with a bit of mellowing or aging at the rear panel and turnover. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN DUSTJACKET. Appearing at first to be a story of the American farmer and wheat country. The

Item Number: 19 Price: $1000.An Early Zane Grey in the Elusive Dust-jacket

Desert of Wheat, takes us beyond Grey’s typical time period, the late nineteenth century, and to the author’s own day. Published in 1919, the novel deals with matters both domestic and European surrounding the American involvement in the First World War and is a thrilling and romantic tale of sabotage in the wheat fields of the Pacific Northwest during that conflict.

Desert of Wheat - First Edition - 1919

First Edition - Thomas Hardy - Wessex PoemsA Handsome Copy in Original Cloth

FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. A lovely copy of Hardy’s first significant publishing venture as a poet. Though better known now as a novelist, Hardy rated poetry above fiction. Like many of his novels, the landscapes of Dorset echoes throughout his writing. The poetry is scarce, unadorned and surprisingly modern. Though first published in 1898 it contains poems he’d been working on since the 1860s.

Item Number: 20 Price: $1500.Hardy, Thomas. WESSEX POEMS. And Other Verses (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1898) First Edition. With 30 illustrations by the author. 8vo, publisher’s original blue ribbed cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, upper cover with Hardy’s floral monogram device in gilt. A very handsome and pleasing copy, internally very fine and essentially pristine, the cloth very well preserved, spine just a tad mellowed.

First Edition of this Formative Work on Harlem Item Number: 21 Price: $450.[Harlem, New York]; Riker, James. HARLEM (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals...; Also, Sketches of Numerous Families, and the Recovered History of the Land-Titles. (New York: Printed for the Author, 1881) First Edition. Illustrated with engravings in the text, full-page plates and a large folding map of Harlem. Royal 8vo, publisher’s original sea-green cloth, the covers stamped in blind with multi-framed panels at the borders, the spine lettered in gilt. A very good copy, clean and tight and very well preserved internally and with only light evidence of

James Riker - Har-lem (City of New York) - 1881

His First Book - Oliver Wendell Holmes - Poems1836 - First Edition - Scarce Original Cloth - Includes “Old Ironsides”

THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK, AND A RARE SURVIVAL. A VERY NICE COLLECTION OF HOLMES’ POEMS some of which are published here for the first time. Scarce in the delicate early cloth. Many of these early poems are humorous, such as “Ballad of the Oysterman” and “My Aunt”. Also included in the collection is his famous poem “Old Ironsides”, a tribute to the eighteenth-century frigate USS Constitution. Thanks in part to the poem, she was saved from being decommissioned and is now the oldest commissioned ship in the world still afloat.

Item Number: 24 Price: $550.Holmes, Oliver Wendell. POEMS (Boston: Otis, Broaders and Company, 1836) First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original brown patterned cloth, with the original paper lettering label on the spine, lettered in black. A well preserved copy of this fragile book published in original cloth decorated in blind. Internally, the pages are quite clean and fresh and unfoxed, and indeed with some pages unopened and all edges untrimmed. Light aging at the extremities and a tad more with small chips at the head and tail of the spine. A much better copy than is generally encountered.




Washington Irving’s ‘Conquest of Granada’ Item Number: 27 Price: $995.Irving, Washington. A CHRONICLE OF THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA. From the Mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida (London: John Murray, 1829) 2 volumes. First English edition. 8vo, antique three-quarter red calf over marbled boards. The spines with gilt stippled raised bands creating compartments framed in both gilt and blind, with two blue morocco labels ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. A very nice set, internally fine and fresh and very clean, the bindings sturdy and attractive with only a bit of expected age evidence.

The First English Edition Handsomely Bound

FIRST EDITION, THE ENGLISH ISSUE, which appeared only a few weeks after the American. In spite of the near simulta-neous release, the text of this English edition does differ a bit from its American counterpart. Despite Irving’s use of an imaginary chronicler, Agapida, who’s dialog livens up the flavor of the text, the CONQUEST OF GRANADA was the product of careful historical research in Madrid.

Homeri [Homer], [Greek; Classical]. [Ilias & Odyssea Iliad and Odyssey, Greek text with Latin notes] ‘Ομήρού Ίλιάς καί ‘Οδύσσεια, Καί είις αϋτάς σχόλια, ή έξήγησις Διδύμου. Homeri Ilias & Odyssea, Et in easdem scholia, sive interpretatio Didymi. Cum Latina s ersione accuratissima... (Amsterdam-Leiden: Ex Officina Elzeviriana / Eudguni Batavorum, Ex Officina Francisci Hackii, 1655-1656) 2 volumes. The only complete Homer issued from the celebrated Elzevier Press, containing the scholia of Di-dymos Chalcenterus (Scholia D), and the Latin translation by the philologian Hubert van Giffen (1534-1604). For the first time the Greek text, the scholia and the Latin translation are printed on the same page. Greek, Roman and Italic types. Volume I with an engraved title-page; title within a broad architectural

Item Number: 25 Price: $6500.The Complete Iliads and Odyssey - Greek and LatinA Beautiful Set In Fine Red Morocco of the Period

border, woodcut decorated initials. Volume II with title-page printer’s device of Francois Hackius, three decorated initials and a large cul-de-lampe on verso of the last leaf. 4to, in beautiful antique red morocco framed by double gilt fillet. The spines are decorated with flat band fillets creating compartments decorated with thistle tools. Provenance: from the library of the Irish family O’Byrne, castle of St. Gery, near Toulouse. A very handsome and proper set, the antique morocco with just some light evidence of age. AN IMPORTANT PRINTING OF THESE CLASSICAL WORKS. THE FIRST AND ONLY COMPLETE ELZEVIER HOMER, and the first time the Greek text, the scholia and the Latin translation are printed on the same page.

The First and Only Elzevier Homer - 1655-1656

Ted Hughes’s The Hawk in The Rain First Edition of His First Book

TED HUGHES’S FIRST BOOK IN FIRST EDITION FORMAT. AWARDED THE FIRST PUBLICATION AWARD BY MARIANNE MOORE, W.H. AUDEN, AND STEPHEN SPENDER. “The talent is unmistakable. The work has focus, is aglow with feeling, with conscience; sensibility is awake, embodied in appropriate diction.”

Item Number: 26 Price: $475.Hughes, Ted. THE HAWK IN THE RAIN (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957) First edition of the author’s first book. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, in the publisher’s original printed and decorated dustjacket. A fine copy with a bit of light mellowing to the spine panel of the jacket.

James Joyce - Pomes Penyeach - First English EditionA Copy with Rare Review SlipPublisher’s Original Printed Wrappers Lettered in Black


Joyce, James. POMES PENYEACH (London: Faber and Faber, 1933) First English edition, and the First Faber and Faber edi-tion, A SCARCE REVIEW COPY WITH PUBLISHER’S SLIP INSERTED. 8vo, publisher’s original first edition pale-blue printed wrappers over card. A handsome copy with some light mellowing and a few age or use spots to the covers. Internally fresh and clean throughout.

RARE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION AND REVIEW COPY.Joyce’s second collection of poetry. Archibald MacLeish was enthusiastic about these poems and encouraged Joyce to publish them under the title POMES PENYEACH. First editions in any of the original formats are becoming more and more difficult to obtain.

Poetical Works of John Keats - Buxton Forman’s Edition Item Number: 29 Price: $850.Keats, John. THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS. Given From His Own Editions and Other Authentic Sources.... Edited with Notes and Appendices by H. Buxton Forman. (London: Reeves and Turner, 1902) An early and illustrated edition of the Forman edited Keats. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of Keats, with facsimile autograph, six other portraits and 10 other illustrations all on plates. 8vo, in a handsomely presented and fine binding by Macmillan and Bowes of three-quarter crushed morocco over delicately marbled tan paper covered boards, let-

A Fine Edition - Beau-tifully Bound and Presented

tered in gilt on the spine and with thick raised bands beautifully gilt decorated. Gilt ruling on the covers, marbled endpapers. A fine copy in every way, internally pristine and the binding in excellent condition. A VERY HANDSOME AND FINELY BOUND COPY of Buxton Forman’s highly important collection of Keats. The ten illustrations are lovely pre-Raphaelite plates and the seven portraits nicely round out the volume. A very pretty book, well suited to the content.

When We Were Very YoungA Bright and Hand-some CopyDedicated to “Billy Moon”

THE FIRST POOH BOOK AND A FINE COPY, SCARCE IN DUSTJACKET. Ironically, when A.A. Milne was first presented with the possibility of Ernest Shepard being the illustrator for this first Pooh book, he was less than pleased, having never been particularly drawn to Shepard’s style. But the illustrator won out in the end and the rest is legend.

Item Number: 30 Price: $350.Milne, A. A. WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG (London: Meth-uen & Co., 1925) Very early printing. Illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered and pictori-ally decorated in gilt on cover, t.e.g., in the scarce printed and illustrated dustjacket. A very bright, very clean copy, beautifully preserved, the dustjacket a bit mellowed by age.



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Very Early English Issues of Three Core Texts of Warfare Item Number: 31 Price: $5500.Machiavelli, Nicholas; Whitehorne, Peter; Novarese, Girolamo Cataneo. THE ARTE OF WARRE, WRITTEN FIRST IN ITAL-IAN BY NICHOLAS MACHIAVELL, AND SET FORTHE IN ENGLISHE BY PETER WHITEHORNE... [With,] CERTAIN WAIES For the Ordering of Souldiours in Battleray, and Setting of Tattailes... [With,] MOST BRIEFE TABLES To Know Redily How Manie Ranckes of Footemen armed with Corlettes... (London: by Thomas East: for Iohn Wight, 1588) 3 volumes bound in one. Third printing in English of the first two works. The third work not generally included with the two prior texts and this, most likely a third issue as well. Provenance: Early ownership signa-ture of “Lewis Morris, His Booke” written by hand on the cover; “The Gift of Wm. Jones to me Lew...”. Seven engraved woodcut double-page designs for the Machiavelli showing battle plans and arrangements of soldiers; a profusion of plates and figures throughout the second work, engraved plates of fortifications, plans for artillery, mines and fireworks and engraved tail-pieces and printer’s decorations; the third work with a series of tables and plans for the ordering of battle and the ordering of soldiers.

4to, earlier vellum taken from a larger sheet used much earlier than the date of publication and most probably for the purpose of recording transactions, original deerskin tie. A well used and rather worn copy of this very rare book, but an extraordinary survival of a work almost never encountered at auction or in the marketplace. The Machiavelli misses its title-page but is otherwise complete as called for beginning with the Proheme, the other two works have both of their title pages and are com-plete as called for. Probably, two blanks are missing, one at the front and one at the rear of the volume. Edges are tattered on a number of the leaves at the front and the rear of the volume and there is some folding and creasing of many of the leaves. But this is an honest and absolutely contemporary copy of one of the most elusive works and earliest translation of any work of Machiavelli into English. VERY RARE AND ONE OF THE MOST ELUSIVE WORKS OF MACHIAVELLI TO OBTAIN IN ENGLISH. STC considers the Certain waies for the ordeyng of souldiers to be the second part of The art of warre.

Nicolo Machiavelli - The Arte of Warre - London - 1588Bound with Certain Waies for the Order-ing of SoldioursWith the Work by Novarese on The Ranking of Armed Men

The First Dibdin Edition - A Rare Large Paper CopyThomas More’s Utopia

Item Number: 32 Price: $1650.More, Sir Thomas. A MOST PLEASANT, FRUITFUL, AND WITTY WORK OF THE BEST STATE OF A PUBLIC WEAL, AND OF THE NEW ISLE CALLED UTOPIA... (London: by William Bulmer, at the Shakespeare Press, for William Miller, 1808) The Important First Dibdin edition, and the Large Paper printing, with excellent margins. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and titlepage, one engraved plate and several woodcuts in the text. 8vo, in the publisher’s highly unusual and attractive binding of original half reverse calf over soft calf covered boards, spine with simple raised bands ruled in black

and with black lettering in one compartment, board edge with elaborate rolled tooling in black, page edges marbled. SCARCE IN THIS BINDING. An extremely sturdy copy, the book strong and tight though with some evidence of the effects of damp at some point in time. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WORKS IN THE HISTORY OF HUMAN THOUGHT. SCARCE FIRST DIBDIN EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, IN THE PUBLISHER’S PREFERRED BINDING. More’s great and classic work.

Lord Roberts’ Hugely Successful Work - 1897One of the Great Books of the English Empire

Item Number: 34 Price: $595.Roberts (of Kandahar), Field-Marshal Lord. FORTY-ONE YEARS IN INDIA, From Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1897) 2 volumes. Very early issuance, only being the sixth and printed within weeks of the first issue. Engraved frontispieces, engraved title-pages, half-title and title page printed in red and black, a profusion of illustrations and folding maps throughout. 8vo, original navy blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spines; decorated in gilt on the upper covers with the gilt center bordered in attractive

blindstamping, with Bently’s decorated endpapers, edges untrimmed. A fine set, fresh and clean inside and out, the bindings bright with no fading of either the gilt or cloth, very minor evidence of age at the tips. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Memoirs of forty-one years as a British officer and commander in India. A snapshot of the British Empire in all her grandeur, Roberts profiles the great men and battles that shaped the years of the British-Indian colonization.

The Finest of the Editions of Edgar Allan PoeLimited to 100 Specially Bound Numbered CopiesWith the Engravings and Gravures in Three States

Item Number: 33 Price: $6500.Poe, Edgar Allan. THE TALES AND POEMS OF EDGAR AL-LAN POE. With Biographical Essay by John H. Ingram (Phila-delphia: George Barrie, [1895]) 6 volumes. The fine Édition des Amis Des Arts limited to only 100 numbered sets, printed on fine large paper and specially bound by the publisher for each individual subscriber. With 20 original etchings for the edition, a new etched portrait of Poe and five photogravures. This set with each of the 26 plates in three states, the third state of each frontispiece being full colour, thus a total of 78 plates, six of which are in full colour. Large 8vo, bound for H. Tener

Langstroth in very fine three-quarter crushed green/brown morocco over marbled boards, the upper cover with the fine gilt monogram HTL, the spines gilt lettered in two compartments and with fivel raised bands, t.e.g., others untrimmed. A very fine set, essentially pristine and perfect. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION LIMITED ISSUE, and one of the finest illustrated editions of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe. This the best and most limited of the issues, with the plates in all three states, including the coloured state for the frontispieces and specifically bound by the publisher for each client to taste.

Through the Philippines with Savage LandorFirst Edition - Gems of the East

Item Number: 35 Price: $750.Savage-Landor, A. Henry. THE GEMS OF THE EAST sixteen thousand miles of research travel among wild and tame tribes of enchanting islands (London: Macmillan, 1904) 2 volumes. First edition. With numerous illustrations from photographs, diagrams, plans and fold-out maps, by the author. 8vo, original ornamental red cloth with pictorial designs in black and gilt on upper covers, spines lettered in gilt. A fine set, very bright and clean, with just a light touch of the foxing usually associated with these titles.

AN EXTENSIVE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LOOK AT THE PHIL-IPPINE AND SULU ARCHIPELAGOES. The work also includes extensive geological information as well. Covered are a large number of native tribes, the American occupied areas and even the Celebes Pirates. Savage-Landor was a well known and popular writer and latter day explorer. He traveled and wrote some of the most important turn of the century works about a number of areas just beginning to open up across the globe. Books written by him are now becoming quite scarce in first edition format and collectable state.




Sir Walter Scott - First Edition - 1825 - Four VolumesHandsomely Bound - Tales of the Crusad-ers

Item Number: 36 Price: $895.[Scott, Sir Walter]. TALES OF THE CRUSADERS (Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1825) 4 volumes. First edition. 8vo, in handsome contemporary bindings of full tan calf, the spines with raised bands gilt ruled and bordered, two contrasting morocco lettering pieces to each volume. A very

handsome, well bound set with some typical evidence of age at the extremities, the joints or hinges occasionally a bit rubbed. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING. A subset of the wildly popular Waverly Novels, TALES OF THE CRU-SADERS is comprised of “The Betrothed” and “The Talisman.”

Jonathan Swift’s First and Most Notorious SatireTale of a Tub - An Attack on Religious Excesses - Illustrated

Item Number: 37 Price: $350.[Swift, Jonathan]. A TALE OF A TUB WRITTEN FOR THE UNIVERSAL IMPROVEMENT OF MANKIND, to Which is Added an Account of a Battle Between the Ancient and Mod-ern Books in St. James Library with the Author’s Apology and Explanatory notes by W. Wotton and Others. (London: Thomas Tegg, 1811) First Tegg Edition and first edition thus. With seven engraved plates by John Thurston, all dated 1810. 8vo, contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, the spine with gilt ruled raised bands separating the compartments, four

of which contain a central gilt floral device, one compartment with a gilt tooled and lettered black morocco label. A very nice copy, internally solid and fresh with just a bit of expecting age evidence, the contemporary binding well preserved and quite handsome in all. A HANDSOME EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY EDITION OF JONATHAN SWIFT’S FIRST MAJOR WORK, and one con-sidered by many to be his most masterly satire.

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace ThackerayIn a Beautiful Full Decorated Binding By Bayntun-Riviere

Item Number: 38 Price: $1500.Thackeray, William Makepeace. VANITY FAIR (London: Brad-bury & Evans, 1849) A very early issuance. With the author’s 40 illustrations in steel or wood engraving. 8vo, in a Bayntun-Riviere binding of full crushed black morocco, with beautiful intricate blind stamped decorations on the covers surrounded by a gilt border, and with gilt lettering and botanical tooled designs along a paneled spine between gilt-stippled raised bands, gilt inner dentelles and botanic borders on turn-ins and board edges gilt tooled. A very fine copy in an extremely attractive fresh and

attractive binding. AN ESPECIALLY ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK OF 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE. Thackeray used the novel’s Napoleonic era and its setting within a worldly society to mirror the society of his own with great success. Though prior being well published as both a writer and illustrator, largely in Punch, this was Thackeray’s first novel of significance. It cemented his position within the canon of 19th century writers and still remains his most famous and popular.

Jules Verne - Facing the Flag - 1897The Very Scarce First Edition in English

Item Number: 39 Price: $1150.Verne, Jules. FACING THE FLAG (New York: F. Tennyson Neely, n.d. [1897]) First American Edition and First Edition in English. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth lettered in black on the spine and upper cover and decorated with panel design in blind on the upper cover, ruled in blind on the spine. A very good and pleasing copy, a bit of expected aging to the tips, spine a bit mellowed, small discoloured mark. RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. “The story

hinges upon the extraordinary adventures of a mad French inventor who has imagined a diabolical engine of war that in its explosive effects surpasses anything in this direction conceived by mortal man... It has an added and highly piquant interest from the fact that Turpin, the celebrated and excitable inventor, declares that he has been libeled in the person of the mad hero of FACING THE FLAG, and is bringing action against Jules Verne.

The Impressive Limited Edition of 250 Numbered CopiesThe Writings of Oscar Wilde

Item Number: 41 Price: $1650.Wilde, Oscar. THE WRITINGS OF OSCAR WILDE Uniform Edition Illustrated (London: A.R. Keller & Co., 1907) 15 vol-umes. The very fine Oxford Edition LIMITED to only 250 copies numbered by hand in each volume. Handsomely illustrated with tissue-guarded engraved plates by various artist and portraits in photogravure. “Salome” with 4 tinted plates by Aubrey Beardsley. In all there are a total of 48 illustrations. 8vo, in the publisher’s impressive original binding designed for the Oxford Edition of full calf, the boards with a elaborate all over raised design in a floral Art Nouveau motif, on the upper cover this design frames a large central bird in gilt, the spine similarly embossed in blind and gilt lettered, pink marbled endpapers and t.e.g. A handsome set, interally fine with no spotting, fox-ing or evidence of much use, a little offsetting to the endpapers

and prelims from the calf turn-ins. The bindings a bit worn at the edges and tips and with the spines a bit mellowed but still quite handsome and sturdy with strong hinges. A HANDSOME DELUXE, LIMITED AND EARLY PRINTING OF THE WORKS OF OSCAR WILDE. Includes Wilde’s works: Salome, The Duchess of Padua, Vera, Lord Arthur, Savile’s Crime, A Woman of No Importance, Intentions, What Never Dies, Poems in Prose, De Profundis, Dorian Gray, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Epigrams, A House of Pomegranates, and Poems. Also included are Essays and Stories by Lady Wilde, Criticisms and Reviews, and a Life of Oscar Wilde. Each volume is wonderfully illustrated by either fine artwork of the period or by portraits from contemporary photographs. “Salome” includes 4 of the famous plates by Aubrey Beardsley.

H. G. Wells - A Signed Presentation CopyThe Research Mag-nificent

Item Number: 40 Price: $550.Wells, H. G. THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT (London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1927) SIGNED, PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed to the recipient with Wells’ classic flourish on May 7, 1931. 12mo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and with a central gilt motif on the upper cover, t.e.g. A well preserved copy with some wear to the upper joints. SIGNED AND PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR. Though best

remembered for his classic science fiction novels such as THE TIME MACHINE, Well’s was a truly multifaceted writer. He wrote ad-ditionally humorous novels of modern morals that were extremely popular in their time. He also wrote serious scientific reviews and sociological and historical papers that remain highly regarded. He was highly involved in politics and is remembered as being somewhat of a lady’s man.

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