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PENNY DREADFUL, SCARCE AND COMPLETERARE FIRST EDITION. 8vo, [2], 286 pp., illustrated with 36 half-page vignettes in the text and 2 full-page plates signed "Pickering", probably J. Pickering (frontispiece plate printed in landscape format and the second plate bound in the middle of the book, at the beginning of chapter XIV); published in 36 parts. Early 20th century navy blue buckram binding, gilt title tooled to rounded spine and double gilt fillets decorating spine caps. All edges sprinkled in red. Early provenance stamp to verso of both plates and blank margin of p. 130: "From / Ann Plummer's / news paper office / Theobalds Road / London." Additional imprint statement printed at colophon: "London: Published by E. Lloyd at the office of 'The Penny Sunday Times', 231, Shoreditch." Very light browning throughout (a classic aging issue of the thin low-quality paper used in C19th newspapers), negligible repair to a small tear at gutter of final leaf. An excellent copy.Thomas Peckett Prest (1810 -1859)… Read More

3 RARE PAPERS ISSUED IN THE EARLY PROCEEDINGS OF THE IMPERIAL TOMSK UNIVERSITY, INCLUDING AN IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING MEMOIR ON THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY POPOV, M. F. Kratkiy istoricheskiy ocherk imperatorskogo Tomskogo universiteta za 25 let yego sushchestvovaniya (1888-1913) [A brief historical sketch of the Imperial Tomsk University for 25 years of its existence (1888-1913)]. Tomsk, Tipo-litografiya Sibirskogo tovarishchestva pechatnogo dela, 1913. 8vo, [2], 29, [1] pp. [BOUND WITH:] MILYUTINYM, A. I. Biblioteka Imperatorskogo Tomskogo universiteta, 1888-1913: kratkiy istoricheskiy ocherk biblioteki, sostavlennyy bibliotekarem A. I. Milyutinym [Library of the Imperial Tomsk University, 1888-1913: a short historical sketch of the library, compiled by the librarian A.I. Milyutin] Tomsk, Tipografiya Gubernskogo Upravleniya, 1914. 8vo, 34 pp., with the original printed wrappers bound in. Cyrillic stamp on front wrapper and first page. The Scientific Library of Tomsk State University was one of the… Read More

A VERY INTRIGUING LITTLE BOOK OF THE UTMOST RARITYFIRST and ONLY edition. 12mo, 96 pp., title within a charming woodcut border. Several headpieces. Contemporary calf with gilt decorations to spine, skilfully restored. An excellent copy.This anonymous collection of heroical, amorous and frivolous poems is a mystery. It has no imprint information, so no place, no name nor date stated. The title-page tells us just "printed in that year", which seems a joke. The only bibliographical work mentioning it is Lachèvre's Bibliographie des recueils collectifs de poésies publiés de 1597 a 1700 (Paris, 1905), in the Supplement (Vol. 4, p. [22], Letter N). Not even Lachèvre managed to see this work in person as he stated in his comment to the work: "Nous n'avons pas été assez heureux pour mettre la main sur ce petit volume...". Lachèvre suggested that the book might have been published "vers 1675".The book is mentioned also in the third part of Bibliotheca Hohendorfiana (no. 1961, p. 149), the catalogue of… Read More

A UNIQUE COPY!!12mo. 2 vols: [2], 352; [4], 291, [1] pp., with 16 folding engraved plates bound horizontally taken from a 16th century edition. Bound in quarter red morocco and paper over pasteboards. Some light scratches and scuffing to the binding, else very good. Light age toning. Clean and crisp throughout.This curious copy of an early C19th edition of Ovid's Latin Metamorphoses with a French translation by J. G. Dubois Fontanelle, was cheaply printed in Paris by Duprat-Duverger and Delalain in 1806 in two 12mo volumes. It is "curious" because it contains a gorgeous folding engraved frontispiece and 15 other alike engraved plates bound horizontally at the beginning of each book of the Metamorphoses. After a careful investigation, we found out that all the other digitised copies of the same edition of this book, either do not have plates at all or they do, but the plates are totally different, being full-page, none folding and surely executed in a later style. Moreover, the initial plate is not… Read More

FOUR RARE ENGLISH SATYRICAL POEMS AND TRACTS, INCLUDING SHANNON'S GIUSEPPINO8vo, bound in contemporary half calf and marbled paper over boards, gilt-tooled lettering to spine, 4 works in 1 vol.: SURREBUTTER, John (pseud. of John ANSTEY). The Pleader's Guide…Book II. London, T. Caddell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802, pp. vi, vi, 90, [2] [bound with] WHISTECRAFT, Robert and William (pseud. of John Hookham FRERE). Prospectus and Specimen of an Intended National Work… Relating to King Arthur and His Round Table. Third Edition. London, John Murray, 1818, pp. vii [1], 55, [1], 61, [1], containing all 4 cantos [bound with] [SHANNON, Edward N.] Giuseppino: An Occidental Story. London, Longman, 1821, pp. [2], 64, after the style of Byron's Beppo [bound with] POLYPUS (pseud. of Eaton Stannard BARRETT). All the Talents… Eleventh Edition. London, John Stockdale, 1807, pp. xv (missing half-title), [1], 81, [1]. The bookplate of the early owner H. R. Evans, Esq., is glued to the front pastedown, just below a ms.… Read More

RICHLY ILLUSTRATED PUBLISHER'S BINDING, SIGNED AND VERY WELL PRESERVEDFIRST EDITION. 8vo, [iv], 540 pp., with vignette on t-p and 21 engraved plates including frontispiece, 8 of which are coloured. Black cloth with cloth-backed spine and corners reinforced, gilt-stamped borders on covers with green, pink, yellow, red and white heightening. Bookbinder's signature to foot of spine "LENÈGRE REL." A.e.g.Famous account of a journey by journalist Charles de Saint-Julien (1802-1869), who travelled from Saint-Petersburg to the Caucasus via Finland, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. It follows a trip from Saint-Petersburg to Kamtchatka.Vicaire, Livres du XIXe siècle, VII, 24.

RARE THIRD EDITION12mo, 576 pp., with several engraved half-page vignettes in the text and one full-paged. Frontispiece plate signed by William Chester Walker (1823-1872, fl.). Illustrations engraved probably after Cruickshank's sketches. Quarter gilt leather and marbled paper over pasteboard. Some early pencil annotations throughout. First leaf partially teared, with no loss. Rare. The first edition was printed in 1826, the second in 1828.