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Stowe,
Harriet Beecher. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, OR LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY (Boston:
John P. Jewett and Company, 1852) 2 volumes. First edition, First
issue with all points as called for by B.A.L. With the six original
steel-plate engravings and title-pages illustrated with large
vignettes. 8vo, publisher’s original textured brown cloth, spines
gilt lettered and decorated in blind, upper covers decorated with
gilt pictorial vignettes and with borders in blind, lower covers
decorated with pictorial images and borders in blind. x, 312;
iv,322, [2, blank]. Unusually well preserved and a pleasing copy in
the publisher’s scarce original brown cloth gilt. The first edition
of UNCLE TOM’S CABIN is a book that is rarely seen in good
condition. This copy though, is presented with the gilt on the
covers still bright and the cloth quite clean and dark. There is
some light or expected evidence of age and light rubbing at the
corners. The spines are unusually well preserved with only light
shelfwear. Some, but far less than the usual foxing to the paper. A
blank at the beginning of each volume sometime neatly excised. An
unusual survival without later restoration.
Baker, Sir S[amuel].W. EXPLORATION OF THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF
ABYSSINIA. The Sources, Supply, and Overflow of the Nile; The
Country, People, Customs, etc. Interspersed with many Highly
Exciting Adventures of the Author, among Elephants, Lions,
Buffaloes, Hippopotami, Rhinoceros, Antelopes and other Great Game
of the Country; Accompanied by Expert Native Sword Hunters.
(Hartford: O.D. Case & CO., 1868) First edition, American issue.
Illustrated with twenty-one black and white plates from original
sketches by Sir S.W. Baker, and with two coloured maps, one full
page and one folding. 8vo, publisher’s original dark plum pebbled
cloth, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, boards ruled in blind. xx,
624. A nearly pristine, exceptionally fine copy, highly unusual as
such.
[Newton, Isaac]. PHILOSOPHIÆ NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA Auctore
Isaaco Newtono, Equite Aurato. Edition Secunda Auctior et Emendatior
(Cambridge: (University Press), 1713) The second edition, the first
to include the General Scholium in which Newton gives a general
resume of the work. One of about 750 copies printed, of which 250
were sent to Holland and France. Engraved vignette on title, one
folding engraved plate, and numerous woodcut diagrams and
illustrations in the text. Large 4to, bound in full English
contemporary polished calf, the spine fully gilt and very handsome,
morocco lettering label gilt, compartments handsomely gilt between
raised bands of the spine. 14 leaves, 484, [8]. A very handsome
copy, the back expertly and exquisitely restored to style, title
with usual offset from binding turn-ins in fore-margin, fore-margin
of title very slightly frayed, small neat repair to upper inner
corner of title.
[Appianus], . [APPIANI ALEXANDRINI ROMANARUM HISTORIARUM] [APPIAN OF
ALEXANDRIA]. Historia romana. [And:] De bellis civilibus.
[Translated from Greek into Latin by Petrus Candidas Decembrius]
(Venice: Bernard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein,
1477) 2 volumes. First complete edition of the surviving portions of
Appian’s History of Rome (As a matter of note, Part II only, De
bellis civilibus, was printed by Vindelinus de Spira in 1472) Roman
letter. Thirty-two lines, printed marginalia. Four-sided woodcut
white vine border on the recto of a2 of Part I printed in red,
three-sided woodcut white vine border on the recto of a2 of Part II
printed in black, both possibly by Bernhard Maler. Nine- and
five-line white-on-black woodcut initials. Headlines consisting of
book numbers or titles supplied erratically. Large quarto volumes
(10 15/16 x 8 inches; 278 x 204 mm.) , early twentieth-century
English niger morocco. Covers panelled in gilt, gilt-lettered spines
with raised bands, turn-ins ruled in gilt, all edges gilt. [132] and
[212] leaves. Complete with both initial blanks. A superb copy of
this typographical masterpiece. Volume I with two wormholes to lower
blank margin of last few leaves and light dampstaining to last two
leaves (o9-o10). Volume II with short repaired tear to lower corner
of initial blank leaf and small stain to leaves h8-h10. Occasional
minor dampstaining to extreme lower margins, scattered light
marginal foxing, mainly in Volume II. Ink presentation inscription
from Joachim Erckstede to Dr. Valentin de Teteleben (dated November
1522) on verso of final leaf in Volume I and on recto of initial
blank leaf in Volume II. A few contemporary ink marginalia in Book
II of De bellis civilibus. Bookplate of William Harrison Woodward.
Joyce,
James. ULYSSES (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1936) First
authorized English edition; one of 100 copies signed by Joyce (of a
total edition of 1000) printed on mould-made paper bound in vellum.
8vo, luxuriously bound in a beautiful designed binding by Eric Gill
of full vellum with his gilt decorations of a bow on the upper
cover, and a gilt titled spine, t.e.g. Housed in the original
publishers patterned boards slipcase. 766. A very fine copy. One of
the most handsome we have seen.
[Flora; Flowers; Botanicals, Colourplate]. FLORE DES SERRES ET
JARDINS DE PARIS, ou Collection de Plantes, Remarquables pour leur
Utilité, leur Élegance, leur Éclat ou leur Nouveauté; Consistant en
Six Cents Planches soigneusement lithographiées et coloriés,
accompagnés d’un texte particulier pour chaque plante, ses
caractères générique et spécifique ainsi que sa synonymie, son
histoire, l’époque de sa découverte, celle de son introduction dans
nos contrées et dans nos jardins, ses usages, soit dans les arts,
soit l’économie domestique et la médicine; enfin les différens modes
de culture qui réussissent le mieux dans nos climats pour lui faire
parcourir complètement toutes les périodes de la vie végétale...
(Paris: Au Dépôt Général de la Librairie, (1830) - 1834) 6 volumes.
First Edition of this great and unsurpassed work, printed on vélin.
Embellished with 600 magnificent full-page lithographic plates with
colouring by hand. Each plate is accompanied by one or two leaves of
textual explanation. One plate is in black and white. Folio (380 x
275 mm), Beautifully bound during the period in very fine half red
calf, the spines richly ornamented with mosaic decorations, fillets,
motifs and palettes in gold. Green morocco onlays within the gold
tooling. The spine lettered in gilt within an oval compartment ruled
in gilt, covers with three gilt fillet lines at the borders of the
turnovers, edges uncut. A very fine copy in a beautiful state of
preservation. The bindings are lavish and in excellent order with
very litle evidence of age, the gilt and decorations are bright,
only minimal evidence of use. The plates are clean and fresh and
bright and beautifully coloured. This is a superb and exceptional
example of this rare book conserved in what can only be described as
one of the most beautiful and romantic bindings of the period.
Bigelow, Henry Jacob, M.D. INSENSIBILITY DURING SURGICAL OPERATIONS
PRODUCED BY INHALATION. [offprint of] The Boston Medical and
Surgical Journal, Vol. XXXV. Wednesday, November 18, 1846. No. 16.
(Boston: Offprint from the: Boston Medical and Surgical Journal,
1846) First Separate Printing, the Scarce Offprint of the first
printed account of the use of an inhaled anesthesia in surgery. 8vo,
original printed self-wrappers, threaded as issued. Now housed and
protected in a very handsome gilt decorated morocco backed solander
case with chemise. (309)-316 as paginated in the rare offprint. A
very well preserved copy, handsome and clean, the edges of the paper
with just a bit of age wear or mellowing.
Wells, H.G. THE TIME MACHINE. An Invention (London: William
Heinemann, 1895) First edition, first issue, with the covers printed
in purple and with the 16 page ad catalogue beginning with the
advertisement for THE MANXMAN. 8vo, publisher’s original tan cloth
lettered in blue on the spine and in purple on the covers, the upper
cover featuring a sphinx design, the rear cover with the emblematic
device. 152 pages plus 16 page ad catalogue. A very nice copy of
this important work of science fiction. Solid, sturdy and fresh with
only light and even mellowing from time. Endleaves with just the
very lightest quite typical spotting, pages quite fresh and clean.
Meyrick, Samuel Rush. A CRITICAL INQUIRY INTO ANTIENT ARMOUR, as it
existed in Europe, but particularly in England, from the Norman
Conquest to the reign of King Charles II: With a Glossary of
Military Terms of the Middle Ages (London: Robert Jennings, 1824) 3
volumes. First edition. Illustrated with 80 engraved plates,
including 71 hand-coloured and with 27 very large illustrated and
historiated chapter initials hand-coloured and heightened in gold.
Folio, contemporary half crimson morocco over marbled boards,
lettered in gilt on the spines between raised bands. 20, lxxvii,
206; 297; 147, glossary. A very handsome and unusually nice set in
rare contemporary morocco backed marbled boards, very fresh and
clean internally. The bindings are bright, clean and well preserved
with very little evidence of age, just a bit of minor shelf or age
wear.
Stanley,
Henry M. IN DARKEST AFRICA, or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of
Emin, Governor of Equatoria (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1890) 2 volumes. Edition de Luxe. One of a limited edition of 250
numbered copies signed by Stanley on the reverse of the half-title.
With 6 etchings and 150 woodcut illustrations and 3 folding maps.
Each of the etchings are signed in pencil by the artist. Large 4to,
contemporary three-quarter brown morocco and with vellum covered
sides, gilt lettered on the spines, gilt lettered and with gilt flag
vignette on the upper covers, t.e.g. and all edges untrimmed. xv,
529; xi, 472. Index in each volume. A lovely example of this rare
set, the bindings unusually fresh with the morocco and vellum in an
especially good state of preservation, extremely fresh and clean
internally.
First Edition
of Dixon and Portlock’s Voyage
Dixon, Captain George. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon. (London: by Geo. Goulding, 1789) First Edition, with the half-title, scarce and often missing. With 22 engraved plates and folding maps, including a large folding engraved frontispiece map, four double-page engraved maps, seventeen engraved plates, including an engraved plate of music and three double-page plates. 4to, in contemporary full tree-calf, raised bands on spine, red morocco lettering label, gilt. xxix, 360, 47. A crisp and handsome copy in a beautiful state of preservation, the rare, contemporary and unrestored binding shows little of the usual wear. The joints are cracked or starting. Both Dixon and Portlock were employed by the "King Geoge's Sound Company" to secure furs on the Northwest coast of North America--Alaska, British Columbia, Vancouver, and Queen Charlotte Islands--which were to be sold in the China market. "In the furtherance of the trade the ships separated and worked independently of each other. Their voyages were important for the supplementary detail to be added to the geographical explorations of Cook.
Palladio, Andrea. THE FOUR BOOKS OF ARCHITECTURE... Literally Translated from the Original Italian, by Issac Ware (London: by Isaac Ware, [1738]) First edition of Isaac Ware's translation, highly important and perhaps the best of all the early English translations. With 4 engraved architectural title-pages, 204 engraved plates, 7 engravings within text and additionally decorated with engraved head and tale pieces by William Kent. Complete and perfect. Large folio, 405mm x 270mm, antique calf of the period, marbled boards with antique calf corner pieces, the spine sometime expertly restored, raised bands bordered with gilt fillet rules, head-caps gilt decorated, red morocco lettering label gilt. [xiv, with the ad leaf], 110, the many plates on folio pages, a profusion of them being bound at the end of each of the four books, over 300 pages plus blanks. An especially handsome and large copy with good margins, internally unusually clean and fresh. This is the best copy and the cleanest copy we have seen of the Ware translation and production of Palladio’s great work. AN UNUSUALLY FINE AND HANDSOME COPY OF THIS RARE BOOK. Produced with the assistance of Lord Burlington, Ware’s translation surpassed all earlier English editions in its faithfulness to the original. The divisional titles are reverse reproductions of the original woodcuts of 1570. A very skilled draughtsman and engraver, Ware exactly traced and engraved the plates for his edition from Palladio’s original drawings in Burlington’s collection.
Burton, Richard F. PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA AND MEDINA (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) 3 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with a folding map frontispiece and 17 plans and plates, several colored. 8vo, original publisher's deep blue cloth decorated in black, gilt lettered on spines. xv, 338, 24 ads; iv, 426; xi, 448. A very nice copy in the scarce original cloth, with highly sympathetic refurbishment expertly accomplished. According to Penzer, and to countless readers since, this is "one of the greatest works of travel ever published." Burton was one of the first westerners to enter the Arab holy cities and to accomplish this he had to assume the character and costume of a Persian Mirza, a wandering Dervish, and a "Pathan." Mrs. Burton said of his feat that “ It meant ...living for nine months in the hottest and most unhealthy climate, upon repulsive food; it meant complete and absolute isolation from everything that makes life tolerable, from all civilization, from all his natural habits; the brain at high tension, but the mind never wavering from the role he had adopted; but he liked it, he was happy in it, he felt at home in it, and in this book he tells you how he did it, and what he saw.” First editions in the original cloth are rare.
Montaigne, Michel de. ESSAIS DE MESSIRE MICHEL, SEIGNEUR DE MONTAIGNE, Chevalier de L’Ordre du Roy, & Gentil-Homme Ordinaire de sa Chambre, Maire & Gouverneur Bourdeaus (Bourdeaus: S. Millanges, 1582) VERY SCARCE. Only the second edition of this important work, revised and enlarged. This may well be called the earliest “obtainable” edition as first editions appear only very rarely on the market and at extraordinary prices. 12mo [151x100mm], finely bound by Chambolle-Duru in full red morocco, board edges double ruled in gilt, with finely gilt tooled turn-ins and marbled endpapers, the spine with raised bands ruled in blind and gilt lettering, a.e.g. (98), 806, (1), blank. A very fine and attractive copy, the binding handsome and excellent state, internally fresh, clean and solid. SCARCE SECOND ISSUANCE OF WHAT IS CONSIDERED THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN ESSAY. THE FIRST PRINTING IS OF THE MOST EXTREME RARITY AND THUS, THIS 1582 ISSUE IS THE EARLIEST PRINTED COPY GENERALLY OBTAINABLE.
Hardy, Thomas. TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES (London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co, 1891) 3 volumes. First edition, first issue. 8vo, beautifully bound in 3/4 calf over marbled boards, the spine with raised bands separating compartments tooled in gilt, contrasting red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt . 264; 278; 277. A lovely set, the gilt still fresh, the bindings very finely preserved, the text-block clean and bright. IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. One of Hardy’s greatest novels, and one of his last. Publication of the novel created a violent sensation and the critical reception of TESS, and later, JUDE THE OBSCURE, convinced Hardy to give up novels in favor of poetry (which he had always considered superior to fiction). Only 1000 copies were printed, and as was the case with many Victorian novels, copies were snapped up by the lending libraries of the period and were subject to the repeated hard wear of enthralled readers. It is now a very scarce work.
[Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark]. TRAVELS TO THE SOURCE OF THE MISSOURI RIVER AND ACROSS THE AMERICAN CONTINENT TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Performed...in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806 (London: Longmans, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815) The first three-volume edition of Lewis and Clarke, published one year after the first edition, this is the second English printing. With the engraved folding map and 5 full page maps as called for. 8vo, bound in beautiful three-quarter contemporary Regency red calf over marbled boards, the spines decorated with fine gilt work, gilt lettered and numbered in two compartments, gilt rules separating the compartments, stately blind tooled designs, gilt rolled head and tail caps. xix, 411; xii, 434; xii, 394. An unusually fine copy, very handsome and beautifully preserved. The original bindings in excellent condition, the text-blocks clean and sound, the maps in excellent order. Extremely rare in this condition. A VERY RARE THREE-DECKER LEWIS AND CLARKE IN REMARKABLY FINE CONDITION. The account of the most famous exploring expedition in American history. Lewis and Clarke set out from the Mississippi-Missouri confluence for the purpose of establishing trade ties with the Indians of the region; they achieved their goal and in doing so expanded tremendously the geographical knowledge of the area. This account dispelled much of the ignorance about the West and is "one of the most interesting narratives of North American exploration in existence" (Hill, p. 180).
[Gutenberg, Printer. Bible, in Latin]. A LEAF FROM THE GUTENBERG BIBLE: I Samuel. 29:6 through 31:12. (Mainz: Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust, c.1450) A single leaf from the famed 42-line Bible, the first book printed from moveable type. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT LEAF AS IT CONTAINS THE DEATH OF SAUL, THE EVENT THAT LED TO DAVID BECOMING KING. Printed in gothic letter, chapter title printed in blue and red, red and blue initials throughout. Folio, a Noble Fragment, housed in a full morocco binding, lettered in gilt. A copy with superb provenance, given by A. Edward Newton to Lucy Doheny wife of Edward Doheny Jr. and daughter-in-law of Estelle and Edward Doheny. With Newton's inscribed presentation on the free-fly and Doheny's ownership plate on the front pastedown. Single leaf. An especially fine leaf, the Noble Fragment binding and slipcase with some wear. The Gutenberg Bible may be described without the slightest exaggeration not only as the earliest but also the greatest printed book in the world. It is the first book from the printing press, having been preceded only by a few trial pieces, single leaves, almanacs and grammatical booklets of which merely stray fragments remain.
A Burton First Edition "Vampire"
Burton, Richard F.
VIKRAM AND THE VAMPIRE or Tales of Hindu Devilry ([London and] New
York: [Longmans, Green and Co and] D. Appleton & Co., [1870]) First
edition, issue in the green cloth, this copy with the rare Appleton
title-slug printed in London and using the first edition UK sheets.
With illustrations by Ernest Griset. 8vo, original green cloth gilt
lettered and pictorially decorated in black on spine and upper
cover. xxiv, 319. A very bright and attractive copy, unusually so.
Expert and essentially unnoticeable strengthening to the head and
tail of the spine. Very tight, clean and bright internally. James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson In Three Volumes - A Beautifully Bound and Readable Set
Boswell, James.
THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. (London: Macmillan and
Co., Limited, 1900) 3 volumes. First edition thus.
Tall 8vo, beautifully bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full navy
blue calf, the covers decorated with gilt key rolls bordered with
gilt fillet lines and joined with chrysanthemum corner tools, the
spines very handsomely decorated with full gilt panel designs
incorporating rich borders and central ornamental tools, gilt
lettered on two red morocco lettering pieces for each volume,
t.e.g., marbled endleaves. xv, 533; (4), 470; (4), 522 pp.
A very attractive set, very handsome in beautifully decorated full
calf bindings gilt extra, very well preserved.
The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron
First Editions of The Christmas Books
The Divine Comedy and Conzoniere
Dante Alighieri, Plumtre, E. II.. THE COMMEDIA AND CONZONIERE OF
DANTE ALIGHIERI with Notes, Essays and Biographical Introduction.
(London: Ibister & Co. Ltd., 1893, 1892) 2 volumes. Vol.1 Second
edition, Vol. 2, Third edition. Frontispiece portrait in each
volume. 8vo, original olive green cloth pictorially decorated in
gilt and black on the covers and lettered in gilt on the spines.
cxxi,383; xiii, 560. A very handsome and bright copy with the text
blocks clean and tight and the cloth unfaded.
Scarce First Edition - Thomas DeQuincy
[DeQuincey, Thomas]. CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER (London:
for Taylor and Hessey, 1822) First edition. 12mo, contemporary
three-quarter tan calf over pebbled green cloth boards, gilt
lettering between raised bands gilt ruled and decorated on the
spine, all edges marbled. vi, 306. A very clean and handsome copy,
unusually well preserved.
Dickens, Charles. THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD (London:
Bradbury & Evans, 1850) First edition. With 39 illustrations by H.
K. Browne 8vo, contemporary three-quarter black-green morocco over
marbled boards, very handsomely tooled in gilt on the raised bands
of the spine, lettered in gilt in two compartments. xiv, 624. A very
handsome copy, quite fine, and with only some mild, unobtusive
evidence of age to the covers and with much, much less than the
usual toning to the plates.
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