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A note on OCLC
As is now the norm, OCLC counts are tentative, at best, as we recognize that searches using different qualifiers will often turn up different results. Searches are now further complicated by the vast numbers of digital, microfilm, and even print-on-demand copies, which have polluted the database considerably, making it difficult, without numerous phone calls or emails, to determine the actual number of tangible copies. Hence, even though the counts herein have been recently checked, most all should be taken as a measure of approximation.
1. The history of the Orkney Islands: in which is comprehended an account of their present as well as their ancient state; together with the advantages they possess for several branches of industry, and the means by which they may be improved. Illustrated with an accurate and extensive map of the whole islands, and with plates of some of the most interesting objects they contain. Edinburgh: printed for the Author ... and sold by Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh; and Longman Hurst Rees & Orme, London, 1805.
$1,500
First edition, 4to, pp. [2], viii, 509, [3] plate list and ads; folding map and 11 engraved plates; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelf-back, printed orange label on spine; small chip from the corner of the label but on the whole a very good, sound and clean copy.
Barry's History contains "a view of the ancient and modern inhabitants, their monuments of antiquity, their natural history, the present state of their agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, and the means of their improvement, but depends also on the unpublished manuscripts of George Low. The book displays much diligent research and careful individual observation, notwithstanding the fact that he had access to the valuable manuscripts of Low, who had died without being able to find for them a publisher. Barry never sought to conceal his possession of Low's manuscripts; he refers in his ‘History’ to Low's ‘Tour,’ and possibly would have more fully acknowledged his obligations to him had he not been attacked by his last illness while the ‘History’ was passing through the press" (see DNB).
2. Considerations upon the state of public affairs at the beginning of the year 1796. London: printed for J. Owen, no. 168, Piccadilly, 1796.
$175
First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 97, [1]; stitched, as issued; last leaf with short tear at the stitch, else near fine.
The concern here is largely with France "whose immense population and resources, with the extent of their territory and advantageous position upon the continent and the ocean, but more than all these, their restless character and military talents have constantly threatened ... the common independence and integral sovereignties of Europe."
3. Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres. A new edition. London: Baynes and Son, and Walker and Co., Paternoster Row, and to be had of all Booksellers, 1823.
$250
8vo, pp.xi, [1], 679, [1]; original drab paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; small cracks starting at the extremities, otherwise very good and sound.
Hugh Blair (1718-1800) the famed Scots divine and professor of rhetoric was very successful with this book which "could boast ten editions in England between 1783 and 1806, not to mention the American reissues and one French (1797), one Italian (1801), and one Spanish (1816) version" (Aarsleff). He was a friend of Hume and Adam Smith, the latter of whose lectures inspired Blair in this endeavor.
Alston calls it a " comprehensive discussion of rhetoric and style with wide-ranging comments on language in general, and English in particular."
4. L’antiquité dévoilée par ses usages, ou examen critique des principales opinions, cérémonies & institutions religieuse & politiques des différents peuples de la terre. Amsterdam: chez Marc Michel Rey, 1766.
$1,250
First edition, 6 parts in 3 volumes, 12mo, pp. xvi, 400; [4], 404; [4], 419, [1] ads; uncut; original plain stiff paper wrappers, red armorial stamp on each title page; manuscript titling on spine a bit rubbed, mild dampstaining to the upper cover of volume I, a few small cracks; very good.
The life of Boulanger appended here in volume I is by Diderot. L’antiquité dévoilée par ses usages is part of the first significant group of anti-religious publications a brought to light by Baron d'Holbach who had many works printed under his care. Holbach (1723-1789) was one of the most acute and influential French writers of his time. This anti-metaphysical and anti-religious treatise, inspired by enclyclopedistic thought (like many other works resurrected by Holbach), condemned to be burned by a decree of July 18, 1770, was welcomed with sarcasm by Voltaire "who did not fully realize the importance of the historical criticism that the L’antiquité dévoilée par ses usages brought to the problem of the origin of religions" (Diaz, Philosophy and Politics in the French 18th Century, p. 306).
Born the son of a paper merchant in Paris, Boulanger (1722-1759) studied first mathematics, and later ancient languages. He composed several philosophical works in which he sought to come up with naturalistic explanations for superstitions and religious practices, all of which were published posthumously. His major works were Research into the Origins of Oriental Despotism (Recherches sur l’origine du despotisme oriental, 1756) and Antiquity Unveiled (L’Antiquité dévoilée par ses usages, 1766). Boullanger became associated with the Encyclopedie, edited by Diderot and d’Alembert, and he wrote several articles for the work including “political economy” and “flood.”
5. J. P. Brissot, deputy of Eure and Loire, to his constituents, on the situation of the National Convention; on the influence of the Anarchists, and the evils it has caused; and on the necessity of annihilating that influence ignorer to save the Republic. Translated from the French. With a preface and occasional notes by the translator. A new edition. London: printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1794.
$425
8vo, pp. xl, 121, [1], [6] Stockdale ads; in this copy the first gathering (pp. i-viii) is repeated; the translation is by William Burke, revised and with a lengthy preface by Edmund Burke, but purporting to be by the translator. First published in French in 1793 just a few months before Brissot was guillotined, and first published in England earlier in 1794. This copy without the final 24-page catalogue which is found in some copies.
Bound with: [Society for Equitable Assurances]. A short account of the Society for the Equitable Assurances on lives and survivorships established by deed enrolled in his majesty’s court of King’s Bench at Westminster. London: printed in the year 1793, pp. 18, [2]; title page of the first volume a little soiled, but in all, very good and sound.
Remains of wrapper glue on the spine edges of the first title page, and some soiling on the verso of the last leaf of the Stockdale ads suggest that the first piece was disbound and then coupled incongruously with the assurance pamphlet, restitched in its present form.
Goldsmiths' 16110; Todd 62b.
6. The life and character of Bonaparte, from his birth to the 15th of August, 1804 ... Second edition, altered and improved. Newcastle upon Tyne: printed by K. Anderson, in the Side, and sold by T. Ostell, Ave-Maria-Lane, London, May 30, 1805.
$500
8vo, pp. 296; stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece by Mackenzie; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, blue printed label on spine; a fine copy.
7. Reflections on the revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris ... The fourth edition. London: printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1790.
$1,250
8vo, pp. iv, 364; original blue-gray paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, spine neatly titled in manuscript; light wear and soiling, very good.
This "fourth edition," published in the same year as the first, is identified by Todd as the third edition, second impression.
Todd 53g. See also, Printing and the Mind of Man 239; and, Rothschild 522: "Variations in the editions of this book published in 1790, which present the bibliographer with a bewildering, but textually unimportant, problem of classification, were caused by the tremendous contemporary demand for copies."
8. The genuine poetical remains of Samuel Butler. With notes by Robert Thyer ... With a selection from the author’s characters in prose. Illustrated with humorous woodcuts, and portraits of Butler and Thyer. London: printed for Joseph Booker, 61, New Bond Street., 1827.
$425
8vo, pp. vii, [3], [11]-301, [1]; 2 engraved portraits, engraved vignette title page, and 9 engraved plates bound in at the back; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine, lightly rubbed; near fine.
9. Recollections of Italy, England and America, with essays on various subjects, in morals and literature. London: Henry Colburn, Public Library, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, 1815.
$750
First edition in English, 8vo, 2 volumes, pp. xii, 258; [4], 314, [2] ads; a very good, sound and pleasing copy in original drab boards, printed paper labels on spines.
Enthusiastic account of Rome and Naples, with much on Vesuvius, written by the Comte during his visit to Italy in 1803. The sections on America, dealing largely with the native Americans, occupy the last third of volume I. Chateaubriand, a member of the royal court, fled France in 1790 and traveled to America to seek refuge in the French émigré communities of Philadelphia and Canada. Afterwards he returned to Europe and lived in England and Italy. An American edition appeared in 1816 and another in England in 1828 under the title of Travels in America and Italy.
Howes C326: "Sketches maritime discovery from the earliest time to Bering, Vancouver, Mackenzie, Lewis and Clark, Pike and Schoolcraft." Sabin 12270.
10. Portraiture of Quakerism, as taken from a view of the moral education, discipline, peculiar customs, religious principles, political and civil œconomy, and character, of the Society of Friends. London: printed by R. Taylor and Co., Shoe-Lane, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row, 1806.
$850
First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. [2], xl, 400; x, 431, [1]; viii, 438; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, manuscript labels on spine; upper cover of volume II lightly dampstained, rear free endpaper of volume II torn, nevertheless, a very good, sound set in the original boards. Early ownership signature of Sarah Greenfield 1806 in each of the volumes.
A sympathetic discussion of Quakerism, including its lifestyle, social customs as well as religious principles, by an important English anti-slavery activist. Clarkson, though not a Friend himself, admired both the faith, and William Penn. He eventually wrote in 1813 the first real biography of Penn. The present title proved quite popular according to Lowndes, who asserts that "2,500 copies were sold without advertisement."
Sabin 13492.
11. Biographia literaria; or, biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions. London: Rest Fenner, 23, Paternoster Row, 1817.
$1,500
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [4], 296; [4], 309, [3] ads; original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback; volume numbers stamped on spine in blind; some wear and cracking of the joints, but generally close to a very good copy, uncut and largely unopened, in original boards. Black cloth folding box with maroon morocco label lettered in gilt.
Ashley I, p. 205; Wise, Coleridge, 40; Tinker 699.
12. A treatise on the police of the metropolis; containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention. The fourth edition, revised and enlarged.. London: C. Dilly, Poultry, 1797.
$950
8vo, pp. xxix, [1], [6], 440, xxviii; uncut; double-page table of prisoners; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; some fading and wear, but on the whole very good. Ownership signature of "William Thos. Salvin 1797" on title page.
Colquhoun's influential treatise on crime and policing in London, including a full discussion of the system of hulks, and transportation to New South Wales. Three editions were printed in 1796, three more before the end of the century, plus a Philadelphia edition in 1798.
13. The loyal man in the moon. With thirteen cuts. By the author of The Constitutional House that Jack Built. London: printed for C. Chapple, Pall Mall, Bookseller to His Majesty. and His Royal Highness the Duke of York, and J. Johnston, Cheapside. price One Shilling, 1820.
$125
First edition, 8vo, pp. 28; removed from binding; very good. With a large wood-engraved title vignette, and 12 other wood engravings in the text, all but the title vignette attributed to Robert Cruikshank in the Brit. Mus. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, 13648-13660.
A satire, in verse, upon the supporters of Queen Caroline, specifically a satire of William Hone's The Man in the Moon, 1820.
14. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Eans, Bouverie street, 1852-53.
$5,250
First edition in the original 20 parts in 19, 8vo, pp. xvi, 624; complete with half-title, engraved frontispiece and title page, plus 38 engraved plates H.K. Browne; all the advertisement leaves and inserts are present per Hatton & Cleaver; original light blue pictorial wrappers, spines with neat, unobtrusive repairs; occasional soiling on wrappers, occasional wear at the edges, plates lightly foxed. Enclosed in green cloth, lettered folding box.
Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 275-304; Podeschi/Gimbel A130.
15. A collection of poems in six volumes by several hands. London: printed by J. Hughs for R. and J. Dodsley, at Tully’s-Head in Pall-Mall, 1758.
$950
Mixed editions (as often), 6 volumes, 8vo, each volume with an engraved vignette title page and an engraved headpiece; engraved tailpieces in volumes I, II, III, V, and VI; engraving in volume III on p. 319; plus, a plate of music in volume IV; a perfectly matched set in original sheep-backed marbled boards, entirely uncut; spines little scuffed, small cracks starting at the joints, but in all a good copy or better, unrestored. Ownership signature of "Dorothy Carter / Jane Carter the gift of my uncle the Rev. Jas. Carter of Worlingham" on the front pastedown of each volume.
Robert Dodsley (1703 -1764), the distinguished poet and dramatist, originally published the work in three volumes in 1748, finally extending it to six volumes by 1758. In this set, Volumes I, II and III are fifth editions; volume IV is a second edition; volumes V and VI are first editions. Originally, volumes I-III were first published in 1748; volume IV in 1755 (another v. 4, with different contents, published in 1749); and, volumes V-VI in 1758.
''Having now by the advice and assistance of my friends, brought this Collection of Poems to a competent size, it has been thought proper that the farther progress of its growth should here be stopped. From the loose and fugitive pieces, some printed, others in manuscript, which for forty or fifty years past have been thrown into the world, and carelessly left to perish; I have here, according to the most judicious opinions I could obtain in distinguishing their merits, endeavoured to select and preserve the best..." (postscript of Vol. 6).
Volume I contains Johnson's London, his first published work which originally appeared in 1738; contributors other than Johnson include Alexander Pope, Joseph Wharton, Henry Fielding, Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole, among others.
See Case, English Poetical Miscellanies, 458. Also see Rothschild 804 for the complicated explanation of volumes and editions. "An interesting study of this Collection, including material from Horace Walpole's annotated copy, is 'Dodsley's Collection of Poetry, Its Contents and Contributors,' by William Prideaux Courtney, privately printed in London in 1910" (Rothschild).
16. Pierce Egan’s book of sports, and mirror of life: embracing the turf, the chase, therein, and the stage; interspersed with original memoirs of sporting men, etc. Dedicated to George Osbaldston, Esq. London: printed for Thomas Tegg and Son, Cheapside; Griffin and Co., Glasgow; and Egg, Wise, and Co., Dublin, 1836.
$850
8vo, pp. [4], 414; text in double column; 26 half-page woodcuts, 1 on the title, the remaining 25 on the first page of the original parts-issue format, i.e. first page of each octavo gathering; 4 of these are repeated on the covers; original pictorial boards, and rare thus; generally a fine, clean copy.
At least one of the illustrations is signed 'R.S.' - possibly Robert Seymour.
17. A letter to Viscount Milton, M. P. by one of his constituents. London: James Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1827.
$250
First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 56; self-wrappers, stitched, as issued; very good.
An anonymous work inscribed by its author to the addressee of the pamphlet: "The Viscount Milton, from the author." Viscount Milton is Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam (1786-1857), a British nobleman and politician who condemned slavery, advocated revision of the corn laws, and supported Catholics.
Political pamphlet addressing, inter alia, Catholic emancipation, "the most prominent and persistent English political in the early 19th century" (Machin, "The Catholic Emancipation Crisis of 1825," The English Historical Review, Vol. 78, No. 308, p. 458).
18. Mayflies of the driftless region. Wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec, with identifications by Clarke Garry. Stockholm, Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales, 2005.
$530
Edition limited to 400 copies (there were also 50 copies of the deluxe issue in 2 volumes which sold out in the year of publication); 8vo, pp. x, [11]-77, [2]; wood-engraved vignette title page and 13 colored wood-engravings (1 folding); original printed boards backed in chocolate brown calf, lettered in gilt on spine; as new in publisher's slipcase.
Winner of a Judges Choice Award at the 2005 Oxford Fine Press Bookfair and of the Carl Hertzog Award for "excellence in book design."
19. Translation of the letters of a Hindoo rajah; written pervious to, and during the period of this residence in England. To which is refined a preliminary dissertation on the history, religion, and manners, of the Hindoos. The second edition. London: G. and J. Robinson, No. 25, Paternoster Row, 1801.
$400
2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [4], lvi, [4] glossary, 271, [1]; [2], 349, [1]; uncut; contemporary glazed brown paper-covered boards and spines, red morocco labels; lightly rubbed, very good. An early binding in imitation of a full calf binding.
Hamilton's first novel, first published in 1796 is dedicated to Warren Hastings, late Governor General of Bengal. "In 1796 she published Translation of the Letters of the Hindoo Rajah. The two-volume work in the tradition of Montesquieu and Goldsmith, follows the adventures in England of an Indian prince. His encounters with slave owners, capricious aristocrats, skeptical philosophers and belligerent women leads to his progressive disillusionment with English culture" (Wikipedia).
20. Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines in several diseases ... Sixth edition, with additions, revised by the author. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, David Brown, and john Greig, Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and T. and G. Underwood, London., 1818.
$450
8vo, pp. xxxii, 223, [1]; uncut and largely unopened; engraved portrait frontispiece by Burnet after Raeburn; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine. Fine copy, including here for the first time, a new preface to this edition.
Hamilton (1749-1835), a prominent and well-respected physician in late 18th- and early 19th-century Edinburgh, worked at the Trades Maiden Hospital, George Heriot's Hospital, and for over 30 years as a physician to the Royal Infirmary. After some early successes with puratives in treating typhus fever, he extended their use to a number of other diseases. His treatise on the subject, Observations on the Utility and Administration of Purgative Medicines, first published in 1805, went through eight British and three American editions.
Heirs of Hippocrates 1089; Wellcome III, 203
21. Original poems, in the moral, heroic, pathetic, and other styles. By a traveller ... Ninth edition. Halesworth: printed for the author, by T. Tippell, 1829.
$150
First edition, 16mo, pp. [2], 42; original drab paper-covered boards, printed paper label ("Original Poems, / in the / Moral, Heroic, Pathetic, / and other styles.") on upper cover; a bit of flaking to the spine, but otherwise very good and sound. Early ownership signature of F. Searle on the title page. Small bookplate of J. O. Edwards.
Of this ninth edition OCLC locates only 2 copies: Wisconsin and Leeds, plus 3 copies at the ever-suspicious British Library Reference Collection. First published in 1825 and reprinted at various places some 18 times by 1835.
22. [Japan Guide Book.] 改正東京名獨案内 / Tokyo mei hitori annai [= Guide to Tokyo sightseeing]. Tokyo: Shimizudo, 1890.
$600
Revised and corrected edition, oblong fukurotoji, 3 x 7 in., ff. 27; engraved folding map of the districts around Tokyo Bay; each page engraved in two rows, with the top row an illustrated map of sightseeing destination and the lower row notes on the above, the whole text comprising 7 routes, each depicting shrines, temples, bridges, shops, banks, hamlets, theaters, an amusement park, and a foreigner's quarter. In one instance the traveler appears to be expected to hop on a train during one leg and arrive at Meguro. Another trip takes one from Shinagawa to Shibuya. Many of the routes begin or end around Nihonbashi. The final three leaves contain useful references. The first item, for example, is a list of the ideal places to visit every month for flower viewing. Original orange paper covers, covers soiled, text clean and sound, very good.
No copies in OCLC or ci.nii.
23. The Dodd family abroad. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. J Menzies, Edinburgh; J. M’Glashan, Dublin, 1852-54.
$2,000
First edition in the original 20 parts in 19; 8vo, 40 engraved plates (including frontispieces and engraved title page) by Phiz (Halbot K. Browne); original pictorial lavender wrappers; the wrappers faded to yellow, several spines slightly chipped, front wrapper of the first and last part soiled; in all, a very good set, contained in a red cloth dropback box with black morocco label lettered in gilt on spine. Carried on both the inside of the front wrapper, on both sides of the back wrapper, and, intermittently from No III onwards, increasingly in later numbers, are various inserts at back and front of 15 numbers. One striking loose insert: the bright rose pink half-page ad for forthcoming (1853) Christmas tales.
24. A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes. A new edition, corrected. London: J. Dodsley in Pall Mall; and T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, (Successor to Mr. Cadell) in The Strand, 1795.
$500
12mo, pp. xi, [2], 14-184; original full coarse canvas, an early use of cloth as a binding material, and often found on schoolbooks, as here; early pencil notes on front pastedown, rear free endpaper excised; very good and sound.
With the ownership signature of A. K. Graham 1797, and Richard Graham, July 1804 on the front free endpaper; on the rear endpaper, that of J. A. Graham 1800.
Lowth's grammar "has probably exerted more influence than any other treatise in forming the character of the numerous grammars that have since been used as school books, in Great Britain and the United States" -- Attributed to William H. Wells, and Published in Rollo La Verne Lyman's "English grammar in American schools before 1850." (Washington: GPO, 1922.)
Appearing for the first time in 1762, the book was initially conceived as a grammar for Lowth's young son, Thomas Henry, and the children of a few of his patrons. However, when the first edition was actually published by Robert Dodsely in London, it was revised to meet the general needs of the scholars and the reading public. The edition was very small in number and seen as a pilot project. Lowth wrote that he hoped to receive "the judgement of the learned upon it," and aimed to publish a better edition in the future. In the midst of the burgeoning market for English grammars, Lowth's book was an immediate success. Dodsely, recognizing the enormous commercial potential of the new grammar, pressed Lowth to prepare this second edition as quickly as possible. As the publisher of Samuel Johnson's extremely popular Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Dodsely also saw an opportunity to make up for the shortcomings of the ill-considered and severely criticized grammar prefixed to the dictionary.
Lowth (1710-1787) was primarily known in his day as the Bishop of London, and the Hebrew scholar who authored Praelectiones Academicae which put forth the idea that sacred poetry be read as poetry, and which should be examined by the ordinary standards of literary criticism. Lowth was also the biographer of William of Wykeham and an able translator. Today he is remembered chiefly for his Grammar, widely popular and still in use well into the 19th century.
Alston I, 250.
25. Hommage aux dames. Paris: Chez Janet Libraire, Rue St. Jacques, No.59, [1815].
$225
Small 12mo (4¾" x 3¼"), pp. [28], 152, [16]; engraved title, 6 finely engraved plates and 12 small engraved vignetted pages at the back representing the months of the year; contains an almanac calendar for the year 1815, printed descriptions of the plates, and a number of airy, moralizing poems. An attractive little volume in original glazed green pictorial paper over boards, a.e.g., and retaining the matching glazed green pictorial sleeve, rubbed.
In this copy there are copious brief notes in pencil in English in the almanac, and more detailed notes and poetry in ink, in French in the monthly calendar at the back.
26. Macbeth, a poem, in six cantos.. London: published by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1817.
$500
First edition, 12mo, pp. [4], 224, [8] ads; original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; a stain or two on the covers, but this copy is near fine.
With notes by J. Adam. Also attributed to David Carey.
Jaggard, p. 384. OCLC locates copies at the National Library of Scotland, Nottingham, two at the BL, Folger, Michigan, Penn, and UCal.-Davis.
27. [Mao, Zedong.] 陕西省革命委员会第二次. 活学活用毛泽东思想积极分子. 代表大会材料汇编 / Shanxi sheng geming weiyuanhui di er ci. Huo xue huoyong Mao Zedong sixiang jiji fen zi ... [= The second session of the Shaanxi Provincial Revolutionary Committee. Active study and application of Mao Zedong Thought. Compilation of congress materials.]. [Shaanxi]: 1970.
$250
10 x 7.25 in., pp. [4], 8, 569, [1]; text in Chinese; color plate of Mao, illustrated inner wrapper; red gilt paper wrappers; spine edges rubbed, corners bumped, very good.
Includes a series of reports by industry groups, transportation brigades, mines, factories, etc.. While these reports include statistics on output and efficiency, the larger focus is on Mao's teachings and the ways in which those teachings are the foundation of all activity across the economy.
No copies in OCLC, though similar titles from other provinces are present.
28. [Map - Chinese Islands.] 閩浙沿海各島嶼詳图 / Min zhe yan hai ge dao yu xiang tu [= Map of islands off the coast of SE China]. [N.p.]: Information Bureau of the Executive Yuan, 1958.
$250
Folding map, 42 x 30 in., showing roadways and major towns and cities, as well as bays, islands, and other features, labeled in both Chinese and Romanized characters, starting from Shen-Chuan Bay in Guangdong up to Hang-Chow (Hangzhou) Bay, including Taiwan. Some edgewear and splits at folds, including one 8" split, one panel soiled, good.
29. The loves of the angels, a poem. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1823.
$225
First edition, 8vo, pp. [5], viii-x, 148, [2] ads; original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; joints cracked and chipped, the binding shaken; a good copy at best.
Having returned from his exile in France in 1823, Moore completed The Loves of the Angels, "his last long poem, interconnected confessional narratives about three angels who fall in love with mortal women and become caught in mortality themselves. Although the tension between the spiritual and the explicitly sensual is resolved in accord with the morality of Moore’s time, the theme of angels desiring physical union shocked orthodox Christians and caused enough stir to guarantee sales. Moore accommodated his critics in the fifth edition of the book (1823) by turning his Christian angels into Moslem angels, adding bookish footnotes to explain and support the Levantine substance. The poem is redeemed by the separation of the real and the ideal, and, like Shelley and Keats, Moore is successful in making earthly life spiritually acceptable. Music becomes the link between love and religion, and Moore’s musical expression reiterates the Romantic theme in tones alternating between melancholy and delight" (poetryfoundation[dot]org).
30. Ayesha, the maid of Kars. By the author of “Zohrab,” “Haji Baba,” &c. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street (successor to Henry Colburn), 1834.
$950
First edition, 3 volumes, 12mo, pp. vii, [1], 317, [1]; [2], 330; [2], 335, [1]; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; upper joint of volume II cracked, light to moderate foxing throughout; all else approaching near fine.
Sadleir 1796; Wolff 4927.
31. Narrative of voyages explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H. M. ships Leven and Barrcouta, under the direction of Captain W. F. W. Owen, R. N. by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to His Majesty, 1833.
$4,250
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 434; viii, 420; 24-page publisher's catalogue tipped in at the front of volume I; 4 folding maps, 5 lithograph plates and 5 wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original drab paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; small cracks starting at the extremities of the joints, but in all a near fine copy in its first binding.
Ownership inscription in each volume of Henry Villiers-Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Decies (1803-1874), British MP "for County Waterford from 1826 to 1830 and for Banbury from 1830 to 1831. He was appointed the first ever Lord-Lieutenant of County Waterford in 1831, a post he held until his death, and was admitted to the Irish Privy Council in 1837" (Wikipedia).
Mendelssohn II, p. 133: "The journals of Captain Owen and his officers were edited and prepared for press by Mr. Heaton Bowstead Robinson, and contain a large amount of varied information respecting many portions of Africa in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. There are a number of notes on the Cape, where Captain Owen instructed Lieutenant Vidal to survey the whole of the peninsula and the shores of False, Haut (Hout), and Table Bays. Later on a general survey of the South Coast of Africa was carried out by the expedition 'from Cape Hangclip to the eastward, as far as the Keiskamma River, and from thence northward to Delagoa Bay.' Considerable information is afforded regarding the state of the country in the vicinity of the coasts, together with interesting notes on Chaka and the Zulus, and the natives of Delagoa and Kaffraria. There are large charts of Delagoa Bay and the coasts of the Cape, and some illustrations..."
32. The Italian, or the confessional of the black penitents. A romance ... Second edition. London: T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies (Successor to Mr. Cadell) in the Strand, 1797.
$1,250
3 volumes, 12mo, pp. 380; [2], 360; 444; original blue paper-covered boards, at some point rebacked and re-labelled in the style of the original binding. The spine paper is incongruously fresh; the font, type- setting, and design of the labels are clearly later; and, signs of the spine restoration can be glimpsed within. (Original) boards are a weathered dull grey. Red cloth clamshell box, morocco label lettered in gilt.
In volume III, G12 - I1 (pp. 167-194) has mistakenly been placed in front of G2-11 (pp. 147-166). This likely occurred not when the volume was originally bound, since the reversed sections do not correspond to complete signature gatherings, but when the volume was rebacked. The whole recessed cluster of pages is now detached from the sewing.
Ownership signature on the title page of each volume: "H.R.H. The Dutchess of York," i.e. Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (Friederike Charlotte Ulrike Katharina, 1767-1820, a Prussian princess by birth and a British princess by marriage. She was the eldest daughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia and the wife of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, second son of King George III of the United Kingdom.
A masterpiece of gothic literature, The Italian was translated as soon as it was published by the abbot Morellet. The novel was the last work published by Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) during her lifetime.
Rothschild, 1703.
33. 東都歳事記 / Touto saijiki [= Annual record of the Eastern Capital]. Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1893.
$575
Later edition, 5 vols, fukurotojo, 9 x 6 in.; text in Japanese; 74 woodblock illustrations, many double-page; original blue paper wrappers; wrappers lightly edge rubbed, text clean and sound, light worming in margins of the first few leaves of vol. 1, repaired and not affecting print; very good.
The first edition of this poplar title was published in 1838. It records the annual events around Edo (Tokyo), with two volumes for Spring, and one each for Summer, Fall and Winter. The illustrations depict processions, holiday street scenes, shrine performances, moon viewing, a sumo match, ceremonies, and so on.
34. The vision of Don Roderick; a poem. Edinburgh: printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for John Ballantyne and Co. Hanover Street, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1811.
$650
First edition, quarto issue, first impression, second state of p. 3 (beginning "May rise" in line 2); 4to, pp. ix, [3], 122 [i.e. 128], [2] ads; original blue-gray paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; corners worn, small cracks and some rubbing, but on the whole a very good, sound copy.
This follows the privately printed edition of 50 copies by several days.
Todd & Bowden 59Ab: "To 'strengthen' a rather slim performance, typographically, one or more of the early gatherings were usually printed on heavier paper [as here] .... Because of the belated insertion of a second, half-sheet (H) there is a repetition of numbered pages 68-69 resulting in the misnumbering of all subsequent pages."
35. The abbot. By the author of “Waverley”. Edinburgh: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, Edinburgh., 1820.
$650
First edition, 3 volumes, 12mo, pp. [4], iv, 348; [4], 351, [1]; [4], 367, [1], plus leaf of ads; original blue grey boards, brown paper shelfback, original printed labels on spines; dampstain in the top margin of the first volume affecting the prelims, and the terminal ads at the back of volume III; all else very good and sound; housed in a dark blue cloth, folding box with black morocco spine label lettered in gilt.
Todd & Bowden 146Aa.
36. Set of five Surtees sporting novels in original parts . London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852-65.
$9,500
With wood engravings and hand-colored etchings by John Leech, all first editions, all in the original monthly parts, bound in the original pictorial brick-red wrappers. Handley Cross had first appeared as an unillustrated three-decker in 1843. Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds also contains 10 hand-colored etchings by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). While Surtees wrote nine novels in all, these five are usually referred to as his 'sporting novels' as they are the only ones with the Leech illustrations for which they were made famous, and they are also the only ones issued in parts.
"Surtees's range was limited, his style often clumsy and colloquial. Even in the better-constructed novels the plots are loose and discursive. Nevertheless, his sharp, authentic descriptions of the hunting field have retained their popularity among fox-hunters ... Among a wider public his mordant observations on men, women, and manners; his entertaining array of eccentrics, rakes, and rogues; his skill in the construction of lively dialogue (a matter over which he took great pains); his happy genius for unforgettable and quotable phrases; and above all, his supreme comic masterpiece, Jorrocks, have won him successive generations of devoted followers. Although his proper place among Victorian novelists is not easy to determine, his power as a creative artist was recognized, among professional writers, by Thackeray, Kipling, Arnold Bennett, and Siegfried Sassoon, and earned the tributes of laymen as distinguished and diverse as William Morris, Lord Rosebery, and Theodore Roosevelt" (Gash, Robert Surtees and Early Victorian Society, 1993).
The novels include:
Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour. By the author of “Handley Cross,” “Jorrocks’s Jaunts,” etc. etc. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1852-53. First edition in the original 13 monthly parts in 12; 8vo, pp. [12], 408; wood-engraved vignette on title page and 13 hand-colored engraved plates by John Leech, plus 86 wood engravings in the text; original pictorial brick-red wrappers; several discreet repairs, but otherwise in excellent and clean condition. According to Tooley’s description, this copy is a mixed 1st and 2nd issue. The first issue points are its dedication to Lord Elcho, as here, (rather than Earl Elcho), and the spelling error on p. 95 (which Tooley gives as “Mr. Sponge’s Sorting Tour,” but which is here “Mr. Sponge’s Ssorting Tour - a variant not noted by Tooley); and as in the 2nd issue, the woodcut appears on p. 230 and not 229, and the endpaper ads are printed in black not red. As for the advertisements, this copy has more than is given in Tooley, including part II which carries a half page blue green slip for Dickens’s Bleak House; part IV has a 12-page insert for Ford’s Eureka Shirts and other men’s clothing; on the inside of the back wrapper in part IX is an ad for Thomas Harris and not, as in Tooley, the Vegetable Kingdom; in parts XII and XIII the wrapper ads, and the back inserts, are the same as in Tooley, but in the front, and in place of the Tooley items, are inserts for the Annual Christmas Number of Household Words, for the New Sporting Newspaper, and Punch’s Almanack for 1853. Mellon/Podeschi 187; Schwerdt II, p. 238; Tooley 476.
Handley Cross; or Mr. Jorrocks’s Hunt. By the author of Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour &c. &c. &c. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1853-54. First edition in the original 17 monthly parts, first issue with "illustrious Leech" in the preface; 8vo, pp. x, [2], 412; wood-engraved vignette on title page and 17 hand-colored engraved plates by John Leech plus 85 wood engravings in the text; original pictorial brick-red wrappers; a very nice set. All of the advertisement matter, whether on the wrappers or as inserts, match those listed by Tooley, with the following variants: part X on the inside of the back wrapper has an ad for The Respirator, and not (as in Tooley) one for Watherston & Brogden; parts XIV on the inside of the back wrapper has and ad for Dickens’s Hard Times not (as in Tooley) Watherston & Brogden; and part XVI has on the inside of the front wrapper Passam Smith & Company, and on the inside of the back wrapper Dr. De Jongh’s cod-liver oil, rather than, respectively, Tooley’s New elegant Ballads and Anglers Guide. Mellon/Podeschi 188; Schwerdt II, p. 234; Tooley 473.
“Ask Mama” or the Richest Commoner in England. By the author of Handley Cross” “Sponge’s Sporting Tour” &c, &c. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857-58. First edition in the original 13 monthly parts, 8vo, pp. [2], viii, 550; wood-engraved vignette on title page and 12 hand-colored engraved plates by John Leech plus 69 wood engravings in the text; original pictorial brick-red wrappers; a very nice set meeting in all details the first issue as described by Tooley; first issue of part I with Ask Mamma in unshaded letters. Mellon/Podeschi 195; Schwerdt II, p. 235; Tooley 472.
Plain or ringlets? By the author of “Handley Cross,” “Sponge’s Sporting Tour,” Ask Mama,” etc. etc. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1860. First edition in the original 13 monthly parts in 12; 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 406; wood-engraved vignette on title page and 13 hand-colored engraved plates by John Leech, plus 44 wood engravings in the text; original pictorial brick-red wrappers; a very nice copy. The advertisements conform to Tooley, except this copy does not carry the Bradbury and Evans 12-page insert in Part XII. Mellon/Podeschi 199; Schwerdt II, p. 238; Tooley 477.
Mr. Facey Romford’s Hounds ... With illustrations by John Leech and Halbot K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans, 11. Bouverie Street, 1864-65. First edition in the original 12 monthly parts (with a duplicate of part I, but see below); 8vo, pp. [8], 391, [1]; wood-engraved vignette on title page and 24 hand-colored engraved plates by John Leech and Halbot K. Browne, plus numerous wood engravings in the text; original pictorial brick-red wrappers; some flaking and small loss of paper to several spines; slight stain (an attempt to re-color) on front wrapper of part IV; of the wrappers of the two parts I, the first is first issue with the title reading "Mr. Romford's Hounds," and the second is the second issue, with Mr. Facey Romford’s Hounds in outline lettering; and all remaining wrappers, are in are Tooley’s first state. All of the advertisement matter, whether on the wrappers or as inserts, match those listed by Tooley, with the following exceptions: part II at the end includes a four-page insert for "Important Family Medicine"; part VI does not include the insert Note of Lever’s Martin; part VII has no insert slip for “Just Published”; part XI has no blue paper insert for Liverpool London & Globe; and part XII there's no slip for “Sporting Works.” Mellon/Podeschi 207; Schwerdt II, p. 237; Tooley 475.
Together, five volumes, each in a green cloth chemise and uniformly boxed in a green morocco pull-off case, spines faded to brown and all lightly scuffed. Each chemise with the bookplate of Joel Spitz, Glencoe, Illinois, and several discreet Spitz rubberstamps throughout.
37. The sportsman’s magazine; or, chronicle of games and pastimes. London: Hodgson and Co. 10, Newgate street, 1823-1825.
$1,250
First edition, 3 volumes, 12mo, pp. 346; 322; [2], 272; letterpress title for the first number is wanting; 3 engraved title pages and 20 engraved plates, wood-engraved illustrations in the text; contemporary drab paper-covered boards, spine numbers stamped on spine; contained in a red cloth slipcase with black morocco label lettered in gilt. Bookplate of Alfred Barmore Maclay (his sale 11 April 1945); and Joel Spitz, Glencoe, Illinois. Stamped at top right corner of each rear pastedown: From the collection of Maxine and Joel Spitz “Trail Tree” Glencoe Item No 169. Also stamped on the inside of the maroon cloth folding box.
Volume I, no. 1, (Aug. 1823) to volume III, no. 20 (Jan. 1825). "This little magazine is of considerable sporting value and very hard to find in the original state" (Schwerdt). This rare and short-lived magazine put strong emphasis on pugilism, but also reported on angling, cocking, hawking, coursing, and more unusually pedestrianism, rowing, aquatic sports, "the golf" and, in June and July, cricket. The present run is complete in three volumes; two separate angling tracts with their own pagination were also issued.
Schwerdt II, p. 221.
38. The seasons. Parma: Giambattista Bodoni, 1794.
$750
Edition probably limited to 250 copies, large 4to, pp. [6], xii, 248 (leaf 29-3 is a cancel); uncut copy in original orange paper-covered boards, paper label on spine; extremities rubbed, corners worn, text a little shaken; a good copy in its original binding.
Ebert notes that there are some fifty copies on vellum paper in folio, and a single copy on vellum; ESTC records only 3 copies of the folio in America, and of the quarto only four: LC, Newberry, Tulane, and Oregon. Lowndes IV, 2671; Brooks 531.
39. [Tokyo View Book.] 東京名所 / Tokyo meisho [= Famous places in Tokyo]. [Tokyo: ca. 1895?].
$375
Accordion-fold album, 3 x 4.25 in; pp., 50; each page with a grayscale photoreproductive image of sights and events around Tokyo, Japanese and English captions, and a Japanese description; pattered paper boards, edges silvered, paper label; label with some light wear, else near fine.
A keepsake offering a snapshot of a rapidly modernizing Japan. The images represent both the old Tokyo, with pictures of Benkei bridge, Sakura at Ueno park, temples, and the Yoshiwara red light district, and highlights of its most modern elements, such as the Daiichi Bank building, Ginza's street lined with electric poles, and the tramline crossing Mumaya Bridge (described here as the newest bridge in Tokyo and erected in 1893).
40. Ten thousand a-year! . Paris: Baudry’s European Library, 3. Rue Malaquais, near the Pont des Arts, and Stassin and Xavier, 3, /Rue du Coq, Sold also by Amy, Rue de la Paix; Truchy, Boulevard des Italians; Leopold Michelsen, Leipzig; and by all the Principal Booksellers on the Continent., 1841.
$450
2 volumes, 12mo, pp. [4], 688; [4], 960; uncut; original plain green wrappers, printed paper labels on spines; lightly chipped, but near fine and very uncommon in this state. A 4-page publisher's catalogue has been tipped inside the front wrapper on volume I.
Originally published in Philadelphia in 6 volumes in 1840-41 (see Sadleir 3304), and in 3 volumes in London in 1841. This is the first continental edition. The Tauchnitz edition did not appear until 1845.
See Wolff 7072.
41. De Cyril Institution libri octo ... Ex recensione, et cum notis, Thomae Hutchinson. Glasgow: excudebat Andreas Duncan, academiae typographus. Veneunt apud R. Priestley, T. Hamilton, et G. Cowie et Soc., Londini; Bell & Bradfute, et Doig & Stirling, Edinburgh; et Andream Duncan, Glasguae, 1814.
$375
8vo, pp. [4], 566, [2] ads; engraved frontispiece map of Persia and Asia Minor; text entirely in Greek, with Latin notes; original blue paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; joints and extremities rubbed, label with slightest chipping, but in all, a pleasing copy. Early ownership signature of H. D. Forbes on title page.
Hutchinson (1698-1769) edited Xenophon's Cyropaedia, London, 1727, and his Anabasis, London, 1735, each of which passed through numerous editions.