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Beke, Charles T. Ph.D, F.S.A, etc. REASONS FOR RETURNING THE GOLD MEDAL OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF FRANCE AND FOR WITHDRAWING FROM ITS MEMBER-SHIP... (London: James Madden, 1851) EXTREMELY RARE, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS, OWNER OF THE PHILLIPPS COLLECTION. 8vo, original printed and sewn wrappers. 12pp. A very fine copy, completely

in original state and excellently preserved. EXTREMELY RARE, ACCORDING TO AVAILABLE RE-CORDS, ONLY FOUR COPIES ARE NOTED IN INSTITUTION-AL HOLDINGS, TWO BELONG TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND ONE TO THE VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM. THIS IS VERY POSSIBLY THE ONLY COPY IN PRIVATE HANDS AND THE ONLY KNOWN INSCRIBED COPY OF THIS EXTREMELY RARE WORK.

Sir Francis Bacon’s Essays and Advancement of LearningBacon, Sir Francis. ESSAYS [OR COUNCILS, CIVIL OR MOR-AL], COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL & [THE] ADVANCE-MENT OF LEARNING (London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1925) An early printing of the century. The title-page printed in red and black. 8vo, handsomely bound in full period crimson calf by Riviere and Son, the covers with elaborate border tooling incorporating quadruple gilt fillet and gilt stopped rules with multi-tooled gilt corner pieces surrounding straight grained designed covers, the spine of a tone darker and with full gilt

Item Number: 1 Price: $350.

Charles Beke - Reasons for Returning the Gold Medal Item Number: 2 Price: $1850.

panel designs within compartments separated by gilt stopped raised bands, one compartment with gilt lettering on a dark morocco label, another compartment lettered in gilt. A very handsome copy of this highly important work, sturdy and clean in a handsome binding. SCARCE. This volume includes some of the most important essays ever penned by Bacon who is especially significant for his explorations into the relation between science and thoughtful living.

Fine Books and Manuscripts

In a Handsome Gilt Binding by Riviere and Son

With Important Com-mentary, Notes and Maps Handsomely Bound

[Bible]. THE HOLY BIBLE, the Text According to the Authorized Version... (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1836, 1837) Six volumes in the preferred bound as three format. A very early issue of the Tract Society’s important scholarly version with commentary. With 8 maps, 6 of which printed in colour and 4 of which being folding. Large 8vo, contemporary full calf, the boards with chain tool boarders in blind and triple-line gilt frames, the spines beautifully gilt tooled in large compartments between double raised bands gilt tooled, two compartments with black morocco labels multi-ruled and lettered in gilt, board

edges gilt tooled. A very well preserved and handsome set, the textblocks all quite fine, second volume only with some chipping and loss to the front free-fly, the bindings handsome and proper with just a bit of minor wear or rubbing to the tips or extremities, less so then would be expected. A VERY HANDSOME SET OF THE IMPORTANT AND SCHOLARLY USEFUL BIBLE FROM THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY. The Authorized Version augmented by extensive com-mentary, tables, notes, prefaces and arrangements.

A Fine Printing of the 19th Century - Holy Bible Item Number: 3 Price: $750.


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First Edition - Frank T. Bullen - Very Rare Inscribed CopyThe Log of a Sea-Waif - The First Four Years of a Life at Sea

very little evidence of use or age. A VERY RARE INSCRIBED COPY, AUTOGRAPHED BY THE AUTHOR AND THE TRUE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC TEXT. “In graphic and picturesque phrases (Bullen) has sketched the events of his voyages to the West Indies, to Bombay and the Coromandel coast, to Melbourne and Rangoon. Nothing could be more absorbing interest than this wonderfully vivid account of foks’l humanity and the adventures and strange sights and experiences attendant upon deep-sea voyages.”



A Handsome Copy of the Rare 1602 Speght EditionThe Workes of Geof-frey Chaucer

tall, thick unadorned raised bands and a red morocco label. An excellent copy with an uncommonly well preserved and large text-block, very clean and fresh with only minor and occasion evidence of use or age, marginal paper flaw on a few leaves. Very neat antique manuscript marginal markers at specific lines of text drawn in the form of pointing hands as would be proper, the binding with some wear at the corners. A VERY WELL PRESERVED AND PROPER COPY OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT PRINTING OF CHAUCER. THE BOOK REMAINS IN AN ANTIQUE BINDING WITH LARGE AND BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED TEXT-BLOCK.

Item Number: 8 Price: $14,500. Chaucer, Geoffrey. THE WORKES OF OUR ANCIENT AND LEARNED ENGLISH POET, JEFFREY CHAUCER... newly Printed... (London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1602) The Second Speght edition and A VERY EARLY PRINTING OF CHAUCER. Title within a woodcut border (Mck & F.232), woodcut Progenie of Chaucer with the Gower portrait of Chaucer, woodcut coat of arms on c4r, fine woodcut of the Knight, very beautiful histori-ated and decorated multi-line woodcut initials. The text printed double column Black Letter, some roman, foliated. Folio, in very proper antique binding, most probably of the 1700’s, of marbled paper over stiff boards backed in calf and with calf corner-pieces, the spine long ago expertly restored in correct period style with

Churchill’s The Story of the Malakand Field ForceFirst Edition of Churchill’s First Book - A Fine And Fresh Copy in Original Cloth

Item Number: 9 Price: $10,500. Churchill, Winston. THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE: An Episode of Frontier War (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1898) First edition, first issue, no other printings were issued of the first edition but one. This copy with the printed errata slip tipped in. A complete and perfect copy. With a pho-tographic portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps in colour and 4 sketches and plans. 8vo, publisher’s original pale green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and cover. Now housed in a very fine light-red morocco fold-over case. An extremely fine copy, all

Truman Capote’s Short Stories - A Tree of NightFirst Edition in the Original Dustjacket

Capote, Truman. A TREE OF NIGHT and other stories. (New York: Random House, 1949) First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in silver on the spine, in the original printed dustjacket. A very good copy with light age wear to the extremities of the jacket.

FIRST EDITION. TRUMAN CAPOTE’S FIRST BOOK OF SHORT STORIES AND ONLY THE SECOND WORK OF LIT-ERATURE PUBLISHED BY HIM. Includes eight masterful short stories, two of which received O.Henry awards.

Bullen, Frank. THE LOG OF A SEA-WAIF, Being Recollections of The First Four Years of my Sea Life (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1899) First edition. A COPY INSCRIBED IN THE HAND OF THE AUTHOR AND VERY RARE THUS. 8 full page illus-trations. 8vo, publisher’s original navy-blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated in gilt with a pictorial design on the upper cover. Now housed in a foldover box with the spine and turnovers of red calf over red cloth, raised bands gilt ruled, lettered in four compartments in gilt. An as fine, handsome and very clean copy, bright and strong and very well preserved, with

tissue guards present, maps and sketches all in especially fine condition, the cloth as pristine and about as fine and clean as one could hope to find. THE FIRST EDITION, AND AN EXTREMELY FINE AND CLEAN COPY OF THIS INCREASINGLY HARD TO FIND WORK. The first book written by Winston Churchill who would one day be not only a prolific and prize winning author but one of the greatest figures in modern history.

Picturesque Europe - Beautiful Steel Engravings ThroughoutVery Handsomely Bound Set


[Bonney, T. G., and others]. PICTURESQUE EUROPE (London: Cassell Petter and Galpin, nd) 5 volumes. First edition. With a profusion of very fine full-page steel-engraved plates and wood-engraved illustrations throughout the text. Large 4to, contemporary three-quarter red calf over moire cloth boards very richly decorated in gilt in panel designs within compartments of the spines, raised bands decorated with gilt rolls, black morocco lettering labels gilt decorated. A fine set with a bit of light shelf

wear to the extremities, internally quite, fresh, crisp and clean, with a touch of foxing to a few of the prelims and occasionally to tissue guards. Volume 5 mellowed on the spine. SCARCE LONG SET WITH 5 VOLUMES INCLUDING TWO ON THE BRITISH ISLES, replete with very fine steel plate engravings and three volumes on Continental Europe with many fine engravings on wood within the text and a profusion of fine steel engraved plates.

Cervantes - The History of Don Quixote of La ManchaSpecially Printed and Bound for the Navarre SocietyCombining Two of the Most Famous English Editions

modern title-pages printed in red and black, the half-titles in red. Thick, royal 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth finely decorated and lettered in gilt on the spines, the upper covers ruled in gilt with large gilt tools in the center. A fine, clean and unusually bright set, the cloth just a tad rubbed at the corners and spine tips A wonderful edition of DON QUIXOTE, combining traits of the two most famous English Editions. A fine combination very attrac-tively printed on laid paper made especially for the Navarre Society. The gilt work on the spines is also extremely attractive.

Item Number: 7 Price: $225. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE OF THE MANCHA. Translated From the Spanish...by Thomas Shelton. Reprinted from the First Edition, 1612-1620, With a New Preface by F. J. Harvey Darton (London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society, 1923) 2 volumes. The first edition of this Navarre Society issue, one of an unspecified limited edition, printed upon fine laid paper specially made for the society. Illustrated with two portraits, 18 plates faith-fully reproduced from the famous Tonson edition of 1737, and facsimiles of the engraved title-pages of the edition of 1612. The



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gale encountered while sailing from Madras to Cuddalore, and obser-vations on Indian and Chinese cultural practices. The only edition of this description of a visit to New South Wales in 1818 and one of surprisingly few accounts of a voyage on a convict transport. This volume also contains Count de Forbin’s “Recollections of Sicily”, in which the author extolls the picturesque wonders of Palermo, Syra-cuse, Mount Etna, and Messina.

Dante’s Divine Comedy - The Cary TranslationIn a Pleasing Binding From the Beginning of the Last CenturyThe First ‘Modern’ Translation Into English

Item Number: 11 Price: $695. 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 the Life of Dante, Chrono-logical View of his Age, Additional Notes, and Index. (London: George Bell and Sons, 1901) An early twentieth century edition using Cary’s translation, the standard translation for centuries. With frontispiece portrait. 8vo, in a handsome and pleasing binding of three quarter vellum and light-green cloth with decorative designs to the spine panel and with morocco label

Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe - ca. 1790 - LondonEarly Three Volume set with Lovely Engravings

only minimal wear or evidence of age. A VERY PLEASING AND WELL PRESERVED EDITION. A charming set of Defoe’s immortal romance with lovely full page engravings. Robinson Crusoe was based on the true story of Alexan-der Selkirk’s exile on an inhabited island during the early part of the 18th century, and was perhaps the first great novel ever to be written in the English language and surely one of the most unforgettable adventure stories of all time.

Defoe, Daniel. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. (London: Printed for C. Cooke, Pater-Noster-Row, ca. 1790) 3 volumes. First Cooke Edition, undated but with the engravings at the front dated 1796, 1797 and 1799 and the other plates beginning in 1793. Embellished with engravings throughout. Small 8vo, handsomely bound in 3/4 contemporary calf with gilt rules and tooling on the spines, gilt lettering on contrasting red and green morocco labels; marbled endpapers; all edges dyed red. A very nice set, very well preserved with

Dickens’s American Notes For General CirculationIn Handsome Victo-rian Binding - 1850

Item Number: 13 Price: $750. Dickens, Charles. AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCU-LATION (London: Chapman and Hall, 1850) First single volume edition. Engraved frontispiece. 8vo, handsomely bound in a Victorian binding of gilt-bordered three-quarter crushed green morocco over marbled boards with marbled endleaves, spine lettered in gilt and in compartments separated by gilt-decorated wide raised bands. A fine and handsome copy, very nicely pre-

John Dryden’s Fables and Gottfried Bürger’s Lenore - 1797Adventures in New-foundland

with inner frame of a rolled thistle device, the board edges gilt rolled and the turn-ins gilt tooled in Greek key. The spine elegantly decorated with six wide compartments between gilt stippled raised bands, each compartment beautifully gilt tooled around a large central gilt device, three compartments with large morocco gilt lettered and tooled labels in contrasting blue and green, one smaller gilt lettered label at the foot. The finest copy we have ever seen. A beautiful copy, the superb Regency binding fully original, unrestored and unsophisticated. A BEAUTIFUL EDITION OF THESE GREAT WORKS, IL-LUSTRATED WITH FINE ENGRAVINGS BY LADY DIANA BEAUCLERC AND IN AN EXCEPTIONALLY HANDSOME BINDING WITH THE PROVENANCE OF THE GRANDEST MANOR HOUSE IN SHROPSHIRE.

Item Number: 15 Price: $7500.[Fables]; Dryden, John [and] Bürger, Gottfried Augustus; [Fine Binding]. THE FABLES OF JOHN DRYDEN [Bound with] LEONORA Translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürger by W. R. Spencer (London: By T. Bensley for J. Edwards and E. Harding, 1797, 1796) First edition thus of each title and a very early edition of LEONORA (Lenore), with fine provenance being from Condover Hall, the grandest manor house in Shrop-shire, and with at least two generations of lineage at Condover. Both works ornamented with very fine engravings from the pencil of the Right Hon. Lady Diana Beauclerc. The text of Lenore/Leonora given in both German and English, English on one page, German on the facing page. Folio, in a superb contemporary full Regency binding of red crushed morocco, both boards with a wide and elaborate gilt tooled frame in a chain-like pattern

lettered in gilt, border work to the binding executed in gilt. The binding tight and very well preserved, the book clean and strong and appealing. A HANDSOMELY BOUND COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT TRANSLATION 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 had been ac-complished in the 18th century, none were able to transfer the beauty and richness of language for which Dante has forever been revered.

served copy with only the lightest mellowing to the spine pane. Internally very bright and clean with no foxing. DICKENS’S RENDERING OF HIS JOURNEYS IN AMERICA. He went as far West as St. Louis and describes the people and char-acteristics of many of the cities and towns along the way including Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Cincinnati. An especially nice copy of this printing.


Narrative of a Voyage to India and of a Shipwreck With a Description of New South Wales and SicilyTwo Rare Essays - First Editions - London - 1823

Item Number: 10 Price: $575. Cramp, W.B. NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO INDIA; OF A SHIPWRECK ON BOARD THE LADY CASTLEREAGH; AND A DESCRIPTION OF NEW SOUTH WALES [with,] Recollec-tions of Sicily, by Count de Forbin (London: Sir Richard Phillips, 1823) First Edition. 8vo, disbound. A very bright, clean and well preserved copy, partially unopened. RARE. A descriptive account of the author’s experiences as a mer-chant seaman. Includes some vivid passages about a near-catastrophic

Last Report on the Miracles at Little No HorseSigned by the Author - Louise ErdrichHer Most Ambitious Novel to Date

SIGNED FIRST EDITION BY AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR LOUISE ERDRICH. In this masterful novel Erdrich weaves a tale that spans nearly a century, the strange and compelling story of Father Damien Modeste, a beloved Ojibwe reservation priest who has hidden his true identity as a woman beneath his cassock for decades.

Item Number: 14 Price: $125.Erdrich, Louise. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE (New York: HarperCollins, 2001) First edition, first printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, pub-lisher’s original speckled white boards backed in brown cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, in the original dustjacket. A pristine copy, as mint.



Edward Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”handsome set, fresh and near to pristine internally, the contem-porary bindings in good order and in completely original state, some volumes with weakening to some hinges and some with minor chipping or other mellowing to the spines. A SIGNIFICANT AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT EDITION, THE FIRST IN OCTAVO, AND A VERY EARLY ISSUANCE IN ANY FORMAT OF THE GREATEST HISTORICAL WORK EVER UNDERTAKEN.

Item Number: 19 Price: $4500.The Very Scarce First Octavo Editions - A Masterpiece of His-torical Writing - A PMM Title

Gibbon, Edward. THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (London: for W. [and] A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1783-1790) 12 volumes. The very rare first octavo edi-tions, and an extremely early printing of the work in any format. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and three impressive engraved folding maps. 8vo, in very handsome contemporary bindings of full polished calf, the spines extensively decorated incorporating lavish gilt panels in a Greco-Roman style and with two lettering labels in contrasting red and green moroccos A very

American Big Game Fishing - A Very Handsome CopyOne of the Best Books Ever on Big Game Fishing


[Hemingway, Ernest]. Connett, Eugene V., editor. AMERICAN BIG GAME FISHING (New York: The Derrydale Press, 1935) LIMITED EDITION, one of 850 copies only. Handsomely Illus-trated with a colour frontispiece, four colour plates and a number of other drawings by Lynn Bogue Hunt, and with a profusion of photographs, drawings and maps on glossy plates. Large 4to, publisher’s original ribbed royal blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and elaborately lettered and decorated in gilt on the upper cover with a border incorporating corner designs of game fish. A bright, and handsome copy, internally largely

unopened, the cloth bright and fresh with only the lightest evidence of shelving at the extremities, the spine gently mel-lowed to a pleasing navy-blue. SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN HANDSOME COLLECTOR’S CONDITION. WITH THE IMPORTANT CHAPTER ON MAR-LIN FISHING BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY. Includes contributions from Lynn Bogue Hunt, Van Campen Heilner, S. Kip Farrington, Jr., as well as a chapter on fishing for marlin off Cuba by Ernest Hemingway. A wonderful and justly sought-after production by the Derrydale Press.

With Ernest Hemingway on Marlin Fishing - 1935

Italian Villas and Their Gardens - A Beautiful BookMaxfield Parrish and Edith WhartonThe Magic of the Italian Garden

Item Number: 18 Price: $1500.[Gardens; Italian Gardens; Parrish, Maxfield]; Wharton, Edith. ITALIAN VILLAS AND THEIR GARDENS (New York: The Century Co, 1905) First Edition, second issue. Profusely il-lustrated with 52 illustrations, 27 of which are colourplates or half tones by Maxfield Parrish, the rest being photographs and drawings. Tall 8vo, publisher’s original dark forest green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine, cover design by Decorative Designers with elaborate pictorial decorations after Maxfield Parrish, upper cover stamped in gilt and blocked in

light green, blue, purple, gilt and rust, showing a villa garden. A beautifully preserved copy, very fresh and bright withal. An as pristine copy of this beautiful book. SCARCE FIRST EDITION, AND A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE 1905 ISSUE OF THIS HIGHLY REGARDED AND SOUGHT AFTER WORK. One of the most well-written books on Italian garden design. The combination of Wharton’s liquid descriptions and Par-rish’s romantic paintings, makes for an extremely delightful book.

Barcia - Chronological History of the Continent of Florida Item Number: 16 Price: $275.[Florida]; Barcia , [Andres Gonzalez de]. BARCIA’S CHRONO-LOGICAL HISTORY OF THE CONTINENT OF FLORIDA... (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1951) First edition in English, LIMITED to 999 numbered copies. This printing rep-resents the first time the work was ever translated into English. Engraved styled head and tail-pieces, folding genealogical plate, original prospectus included, title-page and limitation page printed in black and red. Tall 4to, publisher’s original cloth designed to be reminiscent of antique vellum, lettered in manu-script style on the spine in brown, the upper cover with pictorial

The First Translation into English of this Great WorkFirst Edition and First Limited Edition - A Very Fine Copy

decorations in brown, orange and green. In the original clear plastic dustjacket as issued. A very fine copy, pristine but for a little abrasion or creasing to the front free-fly and blanks. SCARCE FIRST AND LIMITED EDITION AND THE FIRST TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH of, “the principal authority on Florida itself during its two centuries of Spanish supremacy. . . “. Howes, B130. Originally published in 1723 in Madrid, this book covers the peninsula’s history from the landing of Ponce de Leon in 1512 through the year 1722. The translation was done under the patronage of the St. Augustine Historical Society.

An Important Print-ing With Coloured Lithographic Title

Item Number: 17 Price: $950.Froissart, Sir John. CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, AND THE ADJOINING COUNTRIES... (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1857) 2 volumes. With a lithographed title-page illuminated and coloured, and with a profusion of woodcut illustrations throughout the text. Royal, thick 8vo, beautifully bound in full vellum over boards, the covers with double gilt ruled border with floral corner-pieces, the spines richly gilt tooled with elaborate panel designs within the compartments between flat bands, finely tooled and lettered contrasting red

and green morocco labels in two compartments and smaller red morocco labels at the tails, thick beveled edges and fine marbled endpapers. A fine and very handsome set in an excel-lent state of preservation. the vellum covered boards a touch mottled from age. A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT 19TH CENTURY TRANSLATION OF THE GREAT RENAISSANCE HISTORY. Johnes’s translation was the standard for most of the nineteenth century, preferred to Lord Berners’ of 1525.

Froissart - The Chronicles - Finely Bound in Full Vellum

Howitt’s Foreign Field SportsWith a Number of Whaling Illustrations


Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskrich, &c. (Mssrs.). FOREIGN FIELD SPORTS, Fisheries, Sporting Anecdotes, &c. (London: W. Gillings, (c. 1820)) With 50 beautifully hand-coloured plates. Small folio, handsome contemporary straight grain dark green morocco rebacked to style, gilt bands on the spine, the covers with wide gilt and blind-tooled borders. A nice copy with the

plates in clean condition. ONE OF THE GREAT OLD COLOURPLATE BOOKS. The plates are dated 1813 but not watermarked; the second edition was published in 1819. Includes four illustrations of whaling.

Foreign Field Sports - With Very Fine Hand-Coloured Plates



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light, unobtrusive wear to the tips and extremities, the jacket with just a hint of mellowing along the edges. AN IMPORTANT BOOK AND THE VERY SCARCE FIRST PRINTING IN FIRST EDITION FORMAT. While the Bantam paperbound issue seems to be easily obtainable this first issue in cloth is quite rare. THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE is an unorthodox “look around to see what is happening and why” created by one of the major intellectual influences of the time.

Melville’s Typee - “A Peep at Polynesian Life” MELVILLE’S FIRST BOOK, AND THE MOST POPULAR DURING HIS LIFETIME. It is a classic in the literature of travel and adventure and is partly based on Melville’s experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842. The title is derived from the name of a valley there called Tai Pi Vai.

Item Number: 26 Price: $495.Melville, Herman. TYPEE: A Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1871) An early printing by Harper Brothers, the “Revised Edition, with a Sequel”. With a chart of the Marquesas Islands as frontispiece. 8vo, publisher’s original cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and elaborately decorated in blind on the spine. An especially handsome and clean and bright copy.

A Very Handsome Copy in the Original Cloth

One of the Most Beautiful of the A. & C. Black Books Item Number: 27 Price: $925.Menpes, Mortimer [Illus.] and Dorothy [text]. PARIS (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909) First Edition, Large Paper, Limited and Best edition, the Edition-de-Luxe on handmade paper and limited to 500 hand-numbered copies. SIGNED by the Artist. With 75 beautiful plates in colour with captioned guards and line drawings throughout the text all but Mortimer Menpes. 4to, publisher’s original white cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and red on the upper cover and spine. A beautiful volume,

Paris - The Limited Edition-de-Luxe - One of Only 500 Copies

bright and clean internally, the plates and pages near as pristine, some minor darkening or handling to the binding as would be expected of white cloth only. FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER, LIMITED. THE EDITION-DE-LUXE ON THE CITY OF LIGHT MAGNIFICENTLY CAP-TURED IN COLOUR BY RENOWNED ARTIST MORTIMER MEMPES.

Johnson, Samuel. TAXATION NO TYRANNY; An Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress (London: For T. Cadell, 1775) First Edition, Todd’s First issue with the press marks as called for, with half-title. 8vo, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in three-quarter dark-green crushed morocco over marbled boards, the spine with two gilt ruled raised bands, small gilt tools at the tips and verticle gilt lettering. The text is beauti-fully preserved, very clean and especially fresh, a nice large well margined copy, the handsome binding with spine evenly toned to an attractive brown and some mild rubbing along the joints.

Item Number: 23 Price: $8500.Britain and the Strug-gle of the American ColoniesSamuel Johnson on the Great Question Facing America - 1775

VERY RARE AND ELUSIVE TRUE FIRST ISSUE, FIRST EDI-TION. TODD NOTES THAT THERE WERE ONLY 500 COPIES OF THIS TRUE FIRST ISSUE, followed only days later by 1000 copies of the second. As noted in Maggs 1038:145, “...if one thinks he is reading the first edition based solely upon the evidence of the title-page, the odds are two to one that he is looking at the text of the second edition.” In spite of being a paid writer for these pamphlets, few man of his day were as widely respected as Johnson and his views carried a great deal of weight.

Taxation No Tyranny - First Edition - Very Rare First Issue

The Naked and The Dead - The Limited Signed EditionMailer’s Greatest Work and One of the Best W.W. II Novels

covers and spine in gilt. A pristine copy, as mint. The laid in pamphlet on the edition with brief manuscript notation on cover but otherwise mint as well. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION PRODUCED ON THE ANNI-VERSARY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF NORMAN MAILER’S FIRST BOOK AND ARGUABLY STILL ONE OF HIS BEST.

Item Number: 24 Price: $250.Mailer, Norman. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD (Franklin Cen-ter, PA.: The Franklin Library, 1979) LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Laid-in at the front of this volumes is the ‘Notes From the Editors’. Illustrated by Alan E. Cober. Decorated titlepage printed in black and olive, printed in black and olive at chapter headings. Tall 8vo, in the publisher’s fine limited edition binding of rich brown morocco elaborately decorated on both

Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore - Rare First Printing Item Number: 25 Price: $350.McLuhan, Marshall and Fiore, Quentin. THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE. Co-ordinated by Jerome Agel (New York: Random House, 1967) First edition, first printing. Illustrated profusely throughout, on every page, in black and white from a great variety of sources. Small Folio, 11 by 6.75 inches, in the original black and cream cloth decorated in an all over pattern and in the original dustjacket of matching design. A fine copy, internally near as new, very mild toning to the cream cloth and extremely

The Medium is the Message - Original Cloth and DustjacketA Cutting Edge Look at Society to Come

[Homer]. HOMER HIS ILIADS [and] HOMER HIS ODYSSES Translated, Adorn’d With Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annota-tions, by John Ogilby (London: by James Flesher for the Author, 1669) Bound together as one volume. The second printings of Ogilby’s translations of both. The Iliads with a title-page in red and black, and 43 [of 47] magnificent plates by Hollar, Lampart, and others, engraved head- and tailpieces and initials throughout, without the portraits of Ogilby and Homer. The Odysses with title-page in red and black and 23 engraved plates [without the Ogilby portrait which is a repeat of the portrait in the Iliads or the portrait of Charles II which is very rarely if ever encountered], engraved head- and tailpieces and initials throughout. Royal folio, bound in the original contemporary calf, the covers with double fillet rules at the borders, the spine with raised bands. A

Item Number: 22 Price: $3250.John Ogilby’s Great English Translations Original Calf Bind-ing - Adorned With Magnificent Plates

rare copy still retaining its original binding and without repairs. This copy was used throughout the centuries and has occasional closed tears or others with some loss, a title-page detached and present, there is some staining here and there typical to books that have been well used over the centuries. The binding has wear and some chipping or loss to the extremities at the spine tips, edges and corners. A copy highly unusual in that it has no repairs or re-backing and a reasonable copy including both of these great books, retaining virtually all of their original en-graved illustrations and with rather typical loss to the textblock and the expected faults. HIGHLY IMPORTANT PRINTINGS IN ENGLISH OF TWO GREAT BOOKS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS.

Homer’s Iliads and Odysses - 1669 - Large Folio Copies



A Fine Printing of John Milton’s Poetical Works Item Number: 30 Price: $495.Milton, John. THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON, English and Latin; Edited, With a Bibliographical Introduction, Life of Milton, and an Analysis of Addison’s Criticism on Paradise Lost (London: George Bell and Sons, 1908) 2 volumes. Engraved frontispiece of Milton. Small 8vo, finely bound by Bickers and Sons in full navy blue calf, spines in six compartments each sepa-rated by raised bands, gilt tooled central ornamental device in four compartments and gilt lettering in two, gilt lettered compart-

Two Volumes Hand-somely Bound By Bickers and Sons

ments and covers ruled in gilt, fine marbled endpapers, board edges gilt-tooled. A fine, handsome and very nicely preserved set, but for some light and even mellowing to the spines. HANDSOMELY BOUND AND SIGNED BINDING BY BICK-ERS. This thorough collection includes not only ‘Paradise Lost’ and the other major works, but the sonnets, psalms, translations, and his work in Latin.

Henry Miller’s Sunday After the WarA First Edition in the Very Scarce Jacket

FIRST EDITION. This is a collection of Miller’s previously unpublished writings and includes works that were in progress at the time, a long story, a critique of Hollywood, and critical analyses on various subjects such as Greece, D.H. Lawrence, art, and the work of Anaïs Nin.

Item Number: 29 Price: $295.Miller, Henry. SUNDAY AFTER THE WAR (New York: New Directions, 1944) First edition. 8vo, publisher’s cream colored cloth with crimson lettering on spine, in the original dustjacket. A fine copy in a well preserved dustjacket with minimal wear at the edges and a few chips. The book and jacket are both quite fragile due to the paper standards during the war, rare in this condition.

Signed by Field Marshal Montgomery of AlameinA History of Warfare - The First Edition - Limited Beautifully Bound by Zaehnsdorf in Full Niger Morocco


Montgomery, Viscount of Alamein, Field Marshall. A HISTORY OF WARFARE (London: Arcadia Press for the World Publish-ing Company, 1969) Special Limited Edition of only 265 copies SIGNED by Montgomery of Alamein, of which numbers 251-265 were not for sale. Numerous illustrations throughout in black & white and colour including 29 full page colour plates, maps and battle plans. 8vo, in the impressive full black morroco binding by Zaehnsdorf designed for this edition, with gilt dentelle inside covers, inlaid morocco design of a cannon on the upper board, spine gilt-lettered between raised bands. A very handsome copy,

very fine with just a little rubbing along the bottom board edges from shelving. AN EXTREMELY HANDSOME BOOK, IN A BEAUTIFUL BINDING. An in-depth look at warfare from the earliest times and most primitive societies to the Nuclear Age. Written by one of the 20th centuries greatest warriors and military minds. it also provides thoughts on the nature of war in general and thoughts on the ideal of Peace. The work is impressively designed and illustrated.

Thomas More’s Utopia - Limited Edition in Full Parchment Item Number: 32 Price: $195.More, Sir Thomas. UTOPIA: Written in Latin by Sir Thomas More, Knyght, and translated into English by Ralphe Robinson... (Boston, Lincolnshire: Robert Roberts, 1878) Limited edition, one of only 100 copies numbered in manuscript and signed by the publisher, Robert Roberts. A beautiful Victorian production of UTOPIA with Dibdin’s important notes and introduction. With engraved head-pieces, initials and borders throughout, title-page in red and black with allegorical border, frontispiece portrait of More from a drawing by Hans Holbein, a fine double-page plate also after a drawing by Holbein of More’s family, addi-tional decorations throughout. 8vo, in the publisher’s original

One of the Greatest Texts Ever Published - One of 100 Copies Only

parchment over stiff paper boards with yap edges, the spine with raised bands and a printed paper label. A very attractive copy of this extremely limited edition of More’s classic work, internally with some light spotting to the prelims, much less than would be typical, the binding with some age mellowing to the parchment, including a few chips at the spine, with some weakness at the front hinge. A VERY BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED LIMITED EDITION OF THIS GREAT WORK AND IMPORTANT EDITION, HIGHLY ATTRACTIVE AND COLLECTABLE.

Morison’s Classic Work on Christopher Columbus - 1942Admiral of the Ocean Sea - First Edition - Two VolumesA Very Pleasing Set - With Photograph of the Author

FIRST EDITION IN VERY PLEASING CONDITION. Accord-ing to Morison in the preface, “this book arose out of a desire to know exactly where Columbus sailed on his Four Voyages, and what sort of a seaman he was. No previous work on the Discoverer of America answers these questions in a manner to satisfy even an amateur sea-farer.” Whether or not one is in accord with the idea that Columbus “discovered” America, this book constitutes a foundation study of the most famous of Renaissance mariners.

Item Number: 33 Price: $450.Morison, Samuel Eliot. ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA: A Life of Christopher Columbus (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1942) 2 volumes. First edition. With numerous illustrations, including maps by Erwin Raisz and drawings by Bertram Greene. A pleas-ing photograph of Admiral Morison in his uniform is affixed to the free-fly of Vol. I. 8vo, publisher’s original terracotta polished buckram, the spines and upper covers decorated and lettered in gilt on blue with “Compass Rose” motifs. A very pleasing set in quite nice condition.

The Life of Michel Angelo - Beautifully IllustratedIn a Very Handsome Polished Calf Bind-ing of the PeriodRichard Duppa’s Important Work - London - 1807

compartments, one with dark green morocco lettering label gilt. A truly beautiful copy. Some light expected age evidence along the hinges and extremities. A BOOK OF GREAT BEAUTY, HANDSOMELY BOUND IN FULL PERIOD POLISHED MOTTLED CALF. When speaking of any of the craftsmen involved in the work, whether printer, engraver or binder, clearly no detail was overlooked and no expense was spared in its production. Duppa’s biography can be found credited in almost all later scholarly work on Michelangelo.

Item Number: 28 Price: $1750.[Michelangelo] Duppa, R[ichard]. THE LIFE OF MICHEL AN-GELO BUONARROTI, With his Poetry and Letters (London: John Murray, et al, 1807) Second issuance. With a finely engraved portrait frontis by Bartolozzi and 49 etched outline plates of selections of works, several of which are folding, including a very large and quite impressive folding plate of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Tall 4to, handsomely presented in a very fine and beautiful contemporary binding of full polished mottled calf, the spine is tooled in gilt, with double fillet lines separating the



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Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator - First Edition Item Number: 34 Price: $450.Mounteney-Jephson, A.J. EMIN PASHA and the REBELLION AT THE EQUATOR, a Story of Nine Months’ Experiences in the Last of the Soudan Provinces. (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890) First edition. Illustrated with numerous black and white drawings, a fold-out map, and a photographic frontis of the author, as well as a large fold-out copy of the Mahdi’s Letter to Emin Pasha in Arabic demanding his surrender. 8vo, bound in publisher’s original rust cloth, let-

tered in gilt and pictorially decorated in black and gilt on the spine and upper cover. A well-preserved copy with only minor age-mellowing to the spine. SCARCE TRUE FIRST EDITION. An engrossing account of Mounteney-Johnson’s travels and harrowing experiences in the Equatorial Province from 1888-89 with Emin Pasha. He recounts in riveting detail the harsh and unfair treatment he received while in Emin’s territory and indeed of his long imprisonment there.

9 Months With Emin Pasha - Mounteney-Jephson - 1890

The Complete Writings of William Blake The Fine Nonesuch Press Illustrated Edition

Item Number: 36 Price: $225.[Nonesuch Press] Blake, William. THE COMPLETE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM BLAKE With All the Variant Readings, Edited by Geoffrey Keynes (London and New York: The Nonesuch Press and Random House, 1957) First edition thus, newly edited by Geoffrey Keynes. With pictorially decorated titlepage and colophon, and with reproductions after Blake within the text. 8vo, publisher’s original orange cloth over marbled boards gilt ruled, and gilt lettered on the spine, bound at Beccles in Suf-

folk. A very fine copy, very bright and beautifully preserved. A lovely example. THE NONESUCH BLAKE, designed by Francis Meynell, com-posed in the Ehrhardt types and printed by William Clowes and Sons on paper specially made by Robert Fletcher. The text was newly edited for this edition by Geoffrey Keynes.

Graeciae Descriptio Accurata - Thomas Fritsch 1696Pausanias - The Original Authority on Greece - Luxuri-ously Bound and Presented

Item Number: 37 Price: $3250.Pausanias. [Title in Greek and in Latin] GRAECIAE DESCRIP-TIO ACCURATA...cum Latina Romuli Amasaei interpretatione. Accesserunt Gul. Xylandri & Frid... (Leipzig: Thomas Fritsch, 1696) First of this important and beautifully printed edition. With parallel text in Greek and Latin; printed in double columns, title printed in red and black, with engraved vignette of Pegasus, with woodcut head- and tail-pieces and with a folio presentation page beautifully printed and unique to this volume. Folio, in

a fine binding of contemporary vellum, the covers with gilts coats of arms at the center, probably Dutch, surrounded by a wide gilt rolled panel with gilt corner devices, the spine with raised bands. A SUPERB PRINTING AND MAGNIFICENT COPY OF THIS LUXURIOUSLY PRODUCED WORK. WITH FINE GILT COATS OF ARMS AT THE CENTERS OF THE COVERS AND WITH A UNIQUE FOLIO PRESENTATION PAGE.

The Very Beautiful Nonesuch Press HerodotusThe History of Hero-dotus of Halicarnas-sus - A Fine CopyPrinted in Nonesuch Plantin with Per-petua and Felicity Types

Item Number: 36 Price: $1950.[Nonesuch Press], Herodotus. THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS OF HALICARNASSUS... (Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1935) LIMITED EDITION, one of only 675 numbered copies. Illustrated with 9 large wood-engravings by V. Le Campion, one colour plate, and 9 double-page maps by T. Poulton. Printed in Nonesuch Plantin with Perpetua and Felicity italic types. Folio, publisher’s original half blue vellum over blue cloth, the spine lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt designs which follow to the turnovers. A fine copy, internally very much so, the bind-ing in excellent condition with just a hint of the age evidence or

mellowing one expects with the blue vellum, but without any of the bowing typical to the book. RARELY ENCOUNTERED. A FINE COPY OF THE AU-THOR’S FIRST BOOK, IN THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. LIMITED EDITION, AND ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MODERN PRINTINGS of the Greek historian. This is very pleasing copy: the gilt is brilliant, the boards are not bowed as is usual, and the volume is clean throughout. In all likelihood this particular copy has never been read.

A First Edition of Great Rarity in the African GenreJohn Petherick’s Travels in Central Africa - 1869Early Exploration of the Western Nile Tributaries

Item Number: 38 Price: $6500.Petherick, Mr. and Mrs. [John]. TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AFRICA, AND EXPLORATIONS OF THE WESTERN NILE TRIBUTARIES (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869) 2 volumes. First Edition. VERY RARE. Profusely illustrated with many engraved illustrations within the text plus a frontispiece plate to each volume and 8 additional full-page plates and two maps on fold-out plates. 8vo, in handsome contemporary bindings of three quarter dark green calf and green green cloth. Upper covers with gilt crest of the Library of Parliament, spine with gilt decorated raised bands and lines in both gilt and blind, one com-

partment lettered in gilt and one with gilt crest of the Library of Parliament, also with red morocco labels. A handsome set, the bindings are sound and sturdy and the paper is fresh and remarkably clean with the typically found foxing being present only on the prelims and much less so than would be commonly found. Bindings with some minor expected age wear to the calf but withal still very well presented. EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND IMPORTANT WORK. Very few sets of this work are ever encountered for sale or in extant col-lections.

Émile Prisse d’Avennes’ Portrait of His Friend and HostOne of the Most Famous Plates of the Oriental Album

Item Number: 39 Price: $1295.[Print] Prisse d’Avennes. “PORTRAIT OF THE LATE GEORGE LLOYD, ESQ.” [A single Lithographic Print from ORIENTAL ALBUM, Characters, Costumes and Mode of Life, in the Valley of the Nile] (London: Madden & Malcolm, [1848]) A fine hand-coloured lithograph from the first folio edition. An especially famous plate of ORIENTAL ALBUM, after the drawings by E. Prisse d’Avennes done on stone by Bureau and printed by Le-mercier in Paris and coloured by hand. A 14 by 11 inch captioned image, on a single folio sheet measuring 21.5 by 14.25 inches,

now protected in gray boards glazed with mylar. A beautifully preserved folio plate, the colours vivid and strong. A WONDERFUL PLATE FROM THE FAMOUS ORIENTAL ALBUM, this being the portrait of Presse’s host and close friend for some time during his first travels through Egypt. From 1839-43 it seems they resided together mainly in Luxor in some rooms at the rear of the vast temple at Karnak. The plate shows him in garb befitting an Arab Sheikh, smoking from a hookah while reclining on luxurious Oriental carpet laid upon the desert sands.



Arthur Rackham and the Brothers GrimmFirst Edition - Little Brother & Little Sister

Item Number: 40 Price: $650.[Rackham, illus.] The Brothers Grimm. LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER And Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm (Lon-don: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1917) First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 11 tipped-in colored plates, along with original drawings throughout, by Arthur Rackham. 4to, full olive green cloth with gilt pictorial vignettes and lettering on upper cover

and spine, with illustrated endpapers. A handsome copy of this scarce book. FIRST EDITION. This collection, which includes forty new stories, was designed to form a complementary volume to GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES, which Constable published with Rackham’s illustra-tions in 1909.

Ashanti Law and Constitution - An Exceptional CopyThe Rare and True First Edition

Item Number: 41 Price: $550.Rattray, Capt. R.S., M.B.E., B.Sc. (Oxon). ASHANTI LAW AND CONSTITUTION (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929) The True First edition. Illustrated with142 black and white plates, includ-ing frontispiece. 8vo, publisher’s original dark red cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt with gilt publisher’s device on the spine. An unusually fine and handsome copy.

A RARE BOOK ON ANY ACCOUNT, IT IS REMARKABLY SO IN SUCH FINE CONDITION. This intriguing and unusual volume is an exhaustive study of the Ashanti legal customs and advocates that successful European rule of the African tribes (specifi-cally the Ashanti) is grounded in an understanding of native beliefs and history.

Captain John Hanning Speke - A Very Handsome CopyThe Very Rare Two Volume Issue - A Cornerstone WorkJournal of the Dis-covery of the Source of the Nile

Item Number: 42 Price: $1850.Speke, Capt. John Hanning. JOURNAL OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE (Edinburgh: William Black-wood and Sons, 1864) 2 volumes. VERY RARE FIRST TWO VOLUME, DOUBLE-DECKER PRINTING, ISSUED JUST MONTHS AFTER THE FIRST ISSUANCE. Illustrated with a great profusion of black and white plates, portraits and maps including a large folding map. 8vo, very handsomely bound in three-quarter honey morocco over marbled boards, the spine

with raised bands ruled in gilt, lettered in gilt in two compart-ments of the spine, marbled end-leaves. A fine set, some foxing to preliminary pages, otherwise text bright and clean, binding in very nice condition, very well preserved. THE VERY RARE TWO VOLUME ISSUE OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT LANDMARK WORK OF AFRICAN EXPLORA-TION BY THE FIRST EXPLORER TO DISCOVER ONE OF THE MAJOR SOURCES OF THE NILE.

What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the NileCaptain John Han-ning SpekeThe Rare First Edi-tion in the Original Cloth

Item Number: 43 Price: $4500.Speke, John Hanning. WHAT LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE (Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1864) First edition. With an engraved frontispiece, folding map, and the double-page map of the Somali Coast. 8vo, publisher’s original rust-coloured cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, the covers ruled and decorated in blind. A very good and handsome copy, with a bit of tenderness to the outer hinge of the upper cover, light shelf wear, a sound and clean copy, well

preserved for this difficult book. THE RAREST AND DEAREST OF THE TWO BOOKS PENNED BY JOHN SPEKE AFTER HIS TRAVELS INTO THE LAKE REGIONS OF AFRICA AND THIS, THE NARRATION OF THE HIGHLY IMPORTANT JOURNEY WITH RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON. This work is composed of two parts, the “Journal of Adventures in Somali Land,” and the “Journal of a Cruise on the Tanganyika Lake.”

The Most Comprehensive Reference of Its KindThe Dictionary of National Biography

Item Number: 44 Price: $975.Stephen, Sir Leslie and Sir Sidney Lee, eds. THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY From the Earliest Times to 1900 [with] D.N.B. TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1901-1911, [with] D.N.B. TWENTIETH CENTURY 1912-1921, [with] D.N.B.1922-1930, [with] D.N.B. 1931-1940, [and with] D.N.B. 1941-1950. Founded in 1882 by George Smith. (London: Humphrey Milford, 1913, 1922, 1927, 1950. 1953, 1967) 28 volumes (22 to 1900 + Index + 5 volumes of 20th century) A very pleasing early printing and issue. With black and white portrait frontispiece in Vol. I. 4to, publisher’s original dark blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on

the spines, ruled in blind on the covers. A very pleasing, clean, well preserved set with only very light evidence of age. Very usable, strong and well bound. A SUPERB REFERENCE WORK. A truly comprehensive reference for biographical information about significant English personages throughout history, the first reference of its kind and the definitive one in its time. The dictionary was founded in 1882 by George Smith of the publisher Smith, Elder, & Co. and continues to be an invaluable reference today.

Mercer’s Journal of the Waterloo Campaign - First EditionAn Extraordinary Set - In Fine Zaehns-dorf Morocco - Pre-sentation Bindings - Unique

Item Number: 45 Price: $2850.[Waterloo; Napoleon]; Mercer, General [Alexander] Cavalié. JOURNAL OF THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN Kept Through-out The Campaign of 1815 (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870) 2 volumes. RARE FIRST EDI-TION IN PRESENTATION BINDING. A UNIQUE COPY. A family presentation copy, inscribed to George E. Mercer from I. Tod-Mercer and dated [18]96. 8vo, in a beautiful Zaehnsdorf signed binding dated 1896, thus no doubt custom made for the presentation to George E. Mercer, of full crushed scarlet morocco richly adorned in fine style. The boards feature a wide frame of gilt vines, flowers and thistles which is further ruled in gilt then further surrounded by minutely detailed gilt rolling, the upper boards lettered in gilt, the spines with gilt lettering with a gilt oval surrounded by more gilt vines and flowers which then grow

both up and below to fully frame the spine panel, wide turn-ins gilt tooled, silk endpapers with powder blue moire complete this beautiful presentation. An extraordinary set, the condition remains outstanding. The text-block is essentially pristine, the fine bindings show only the most minimal evidence of age. A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION, SCARCE IN ANY STATE AND THIS AN EXTRAORDINARY COPY. Mercer’s ‘Journal’ is an important source for historians of the Wa-terloo campaign, as well as a detailed description of the landscape and people of Belgium and France in the early 19th century. It is one of the few accounts of the period written by an artillery officer. The work is usually found in editions in French. Its historical value in the English-speaking nations was largely overlooked till its rediscovery with a Praeger edition in 1970.

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