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Madrid: Diego Antonio Rejon de Silva, 1784. El Tratado De La Pintura por Leonardo de Vinci, y los tres libros que sobre el mismo arte escribió Leon Bautista Alberti: traducidos e ilustrados con algunas notas por Don Diego Antonio Rejon de Silva. Madrid: Diego Antonio Rejon de Silva, 1784. First Spanish edition of Leonardo's Treatise of Painting, the most important treatise on art to be written during the Renaissance. Two parts in one quarto volume (10 x 7 3/4 inches; 253 x 197 mm). [14], xviii, [3]-266. With 42 engraved plates, including a frontispiece and two portraits (of DaVinci and Alberti). Also includes biographies of both artists by R. Trichet Du Fresne. Full contemporary vellum. Spine lettered in brown ink. All edges speckled red. Inner hinged cracked but holding. Vellum a bit soiled. Top of spine chipped. Some toning to leaves and plates, but generally very good. First Spanish edition of Leonardo's first published work. The treatise was drawn together from his copious notes by his pupil… Read More

Paris: J. Mariette, 1730. LEONARDO DA VINCI; CAYLUS, ANNE CLAUDE PHILIPPE, COMTE DE. A Set of Plates by Caylus after Leonardo [LEONARDO DA VINCI]. [Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de [illustrator]. Recueil de testes de caractere & de charges. dessinées par Leonard de Vinci Florentin, & gravées par M. le C. de C. Paris: J. Mariette, 1730. First edition. Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches; 289 x 219 mm.) 22, [2, catalog] pp. With engraved sepia title-page after Agostino Carracci and 59 numbered engravings on 31 plates. Most engravings are 2 to a page. And a final sepia engraving entitled "di mano di Lodovico Cigoli." Contemporary red morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt. Binding with some professional restoration. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. All leaves bound on stubs. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Overall very good. A set of plates by Caylus after Leonardo's grotesque face studies. The number of plates can vary, but this copy contains all the engravings described in the printed… Read More

Paris: Librairie Hachette et cie, 1906. PLAYING CARDS. Les Cartes a Jouer du Quatorzieme au Vingtieme Siecle ... Ouvrage contenant 3200 reproductions de cartes dont 956 en couleur, 12 planches hors texte coloriees a l'aquarelle, 25 phototypies, 116 enveloppes illustrees pour jeux de cartes et 340 vignettes et vues diverses. Paris: Librairie Hachette et cie, 1906. First edition. Two large quarto volumes (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches; 320 x 250 mm.). Complete with three-thousand, two-hundred reproductions of historical playing cards, nine-hundred fifty-six of which are in color; five mounted color plates; and four-hundred fifty-six intertextual illustrations. Title-pages in red and black. Quarter nineteenth century brown calf over marbled boards, spines decorated in gilt with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Original front and rear wrappers bound in. Board extremities rubbed. A bit of sunning to top of front cover on Vol. 1. Overall, a very good copy. A standard reference work on the history and art… Read More

Honolulu, Hawaii, 1867. Honolulu, Hawaii: 1867. Full Description: DAMON, Samuel Chenery. Autograph Letter Signed. Honolulu, Hawaii: October 21, 1867. Autograph letter signed "S.C. Damon", to "Rev. E. A. Park D.D." One quarto page (10 x 8 inches; 254 x 203 mm). Manuscript letter on recto and verso in brown ink. Lined paper. With one vertical center crease folding it in half, as expected in a letter. An armorial blindstamp to upper left margin. About fine. This letter to Rev. Edward A. Clark starts with Damon's desire to purchase a copy of a sermon, and goes on to discuss how he has just celebrated his 25th anniversary of arriving in Honolulu. "Yesterday I preached my 25th Anniversary Sermon of my arrival in Honolulu. I arrived here Oct. 19th, '42." Samuel Chenery Damon was "Born in Holden, Massachusetts; graduated from Andover Theological Seminary in 1841; sailed with wife, Julia, to Hawai‘i in 1842 as missionary for American Seamen's Friend Society; served as pastor of Honolulu Seamen's Chapel… Read More

London: Readers Library Publishing Co., LTD, 1920. DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.. Two Years Before the Mast. London: Readers Library Publishing Co., LTD., [N.d., ca. 1920]. First Readers Library edition. Octavo. Full red cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, dust jacket. Jacket lightly chipped on top and bottom of spine. Otherwise, fine. HBS 66324. $100.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844. DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.. Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844. Early edition. Small octavo. 483pp. Original full brown pebbled cloth, gilt-stamped on spine. Some foxing throughout, edges bumped, spine split and a bit chipped on top with rubbing to extremities. A very good copy. "Dana, a man of great energy, wrote Two Years before the Mast and taught elocution at Harvard while attending classes there. His book, published in 1840, was an immediate success in the United States and in England, and it permanently influenced works about the sea, making their authors both more realistic about and also more cognizant of the common sailor's plight. About thirty books with titles echoing Dana's were published by 1860. The most notable literary beneficiary was Herman Melville, who in Chapter 24 of White-Jacket (1850) calls Two Years before the Mast "unmatchable" and whose Moby-Dick (1851) shows several traces of… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.. Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. Early edition. Small octavo. 483pp. Original full brown pebbled cloth, gilt-stamped on spine. Some foxing throughout, edges bumped, spine chipped on top and bottom with rubbing to extremities. A good copy. "Dana, a man of great energy, wrote Two Years before the Mast and taught elocution at Harvard while attending classes there. His book, published in 1840, was an immediate success in the United States and in England, and it permanently influenced works about the sea, making their authors both more realistic about and also more cognizant of the common sailor's plight. About thirty books with titles echoing Dana's were published by 1860. The most notable literary beneficiary was Herman Melville, who in Chapter 24 of White-Jacket (1850) calls Two Years before the Mast "unmatchable" and whose Moby-Dick (1851) shows several traces of its… Read More

London: Edward Moxon, 1846. Third edition. Octavo. (1)-8 pp. ads, (1 blank), (i-iii)-iv,(v)-xii, (12), (1)- 215 pp. With scarce foldout of list of lithographic prints in front. Original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt-stamped on spine. Spine rubbed on top and bottom with some wear, tips bumped. Very good. HBS 66364. $750.

London: Published by J. Cunningham, 1841. Bound together with The Kinsmen: Or the Black Riders of Congaree. A Tale. London: Published by J. Cunningham, 1841. Scarce British edition with preface dated July 1840. Octavo. [1-6], 7-156 pp. [1-3], 4-176 pp. Half brown calf over marbled boards. Boards and spine scuffed, spine split yet boards are nice and tight. A very good copy of a scarce English edition published the same year as the first English edition. HBS 66370. $500.

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1853. DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.. DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.. A Memoir of the Late Rev. William Croswell , D.D.. Rector of the Church of the Avent. Boston, Massachusetts. By His Father. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1853. First edition. Octavo. Signed by Richard Henry Dana Jr. on front free endpaper, "Rich H. Dana, Jr." Original full black cloth, blindstamped with a cross on front and back covers, gilt-stamped on spine. Front hinge starting as well as frontispiece. Closed tear on endpaper. Tips bumped, spine sunned and shows wear at top and bottom. Good. HBS 66328. $300.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.. Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847. Early edition. Small octavo. 483pp, 20pp ads. Original full brown pebbled cloth, gilt-stamped on spine. Extremities heavily rubbed, tips bumped, spine extremely chipped on top and bottom with some fraying. Good only. "Dana, a man of great energy, wrote Two Years before the Mast and taught elocution at Harvard while attending classes there. His book, published in 1840, was an immediate success in the United States and in England, and it permanently influenced works about the sea, making their authors both more realistic about and also more cognizant of the common sailor's plight. About thirty books with titles echoing Dana's were published by 1860. The most notable literary beneficiary was Herman Melville, who in Chapter 24 of White-Jacket (1850) calls Two Years before the Mast "unmatchable" and whose Moby-Dick (1851) shows several traces of… Read More

Boston and Manchester, 1872. Boston and Manchester: 1872. Three Autograph Letters Signed ("R.H. Dana Jr" and "R.H.D. Jr"), 18 pp. recto and verso, (conjoined leaves). Octavo. Boston and Manchester, 1872-1874, to his daughter, Elizabeth Ellery Dana. Lengthy and affectionate letters full of family gossip, advice, and details of his travel. Written in brown ink on Dana's personal stationary. Fine. Elizabeth Ellery Dana (1846-1939), the eldest of seven children, had two brothers, William and Edmund Trowbridge, and three sisters, Lucy (wife of William Channing), Ann, and Almy (later married to William Stedman). She also had several quite young half-brothers and sisters. HBS 66455. $2,500.

Amsterdam: George Gallet, 1703. First French edition. Folio (13 3/4 x 9 inches; 349 x 229 mm). [6], 556, [4] pp. Complete with half-title, engraved frontispiece, Thirty-four engraved maps, plates and plans and forty-three engravings in the text. The thirty-four engraved maps, plates and plans are comprised of one large folding map, sixteen, full page plates and seventeen double page plates. Title printed in black and red. Contemporary speckled calf, expertly rebacked with original spine laid down. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt. Edges speckled red. Marbled endpapers. Boards a bit rubbed. A one-inch tear to crease of folding map, not affecting map. Paper flaw to top outer corner of leaf Qqq2, not affecting text. Two-inch closed tear to leaf Ttt3, paper flaw to outer margin of leaf Vvv2, not affecting text. A five-inch closed tear to plate facing page 530, and a 1.25 inch closed tear to the bottom corner outer corner of Zzz2, not affecting text. Overall a very clean, nice copy. "Olfert Dapper… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. Full Description: DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Faces in the Struggle for Life. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First American edition, first issue, with two quotations on the verso of the half-title. One of only 1,500 copies printed. Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 inches; 195 x 125 mm). 432 pp. Folding lithographed diagram (speciation tree) facing p, 108. Original dark brown bead-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spine ruled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt. Original dark brown coated endpapers. A minor amount of foxing throughout. Page 70 with previous owner's marginal notes in red pencil. A small blindstamp to front flyleaf. Overall a near fine copy of the extremely scarce first issue of the first American edition. Housed in a custom black morocco clamshell. One of the most influential scientific works of the nineteenth century, On the Origina of Species… Read More

London: John Murray, 1871. Full Description: DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. With illustrations. London: John Murray, 1871. First edition, first issue, with "transmitted" appearing as the first word on p. 297 of Volume I, and with twenty-five errata (seventeen for Volume I and eight for Volume II) on the verso of the title leaf to Volume II, and with the leaf (pp. [ix-x]) containing Darwin's note on "a serious and unfortunate error" tipped in leaf after p. viii in Volume II. Two small octavo volumes (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 180 x 122 mm). [iii]-viii, 423, [1, printer's imprint]; [iii]- viii,[ix-x, "Postscript"], 475, [1, printer's imprint] pp. Bound without half-titles and publisher's ads in both volumes. Numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. Both volumes with the bookplate for Francis Wedgwood, Barlaston on front pastedown. Francis Wedgwood was the brother of Emma Wedgwood, Charles Darwin's wife (and first cousin). Francis, Emma and their seven other… Read More

London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Full Description: DARWIN, Charles. Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle, under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. First edition, second issue, and the first separate edition of Darwin's own account of the voyage of the Beagle. The first issue forms Volume III of the Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836 (London: 1839). Octavo (9 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 232 x 145 mm). [4], [vii]-xiv, 629, [1, blank], [609]-615, [1, blank] pp. "Addenda" (pp. 609-629) bound before index ([609]-615) in this copy. With half-title and the sixteen-page publisher's catalogue dated August 1839 at end. Additionally, there is a slip tipped to final page of catalogue advertising further titles by Darwin, which is usually missing. Two folding charts (Southern Portion of South America" at p. xiv and "Keeling… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. Full Description: DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First American edition, third issue. "Revised Edition" on title-page and three quotations to verso of half-title. Octavo (7 11/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 196 x 125 mm). [1]-432 pp. With folding chart. Original pebbled brown cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. Green-coated endpapers. A very slight bit of fraying to top and bottom of the spine. Spine lightly sunned. Previous owner's pencil signature on front free endpaper. And an old ink gift inscription dated 1895 on front flyleaf. Some intermittent light foxing. Housed in a custom full black morocco clamshell. Overall a very good unrestored copy. One of the most influential scientific works of the nineteenth century, On the Origin of Species was (and still is) one of the most… Read More

London: Printed forthe Author, and Sold at His Shop in Great Russell-Street, 1781. GARRICK, David. . DAVIES, Thomas. Memoirs of Life of David Garrick. Interspersed with Characters and Anecdotes of His Theatrical Contemporaries. The Whole Forming a History of the Stage, Which Includes a Period of Thirty-Six Years. London: Printed for the Author, and Sold at His Shop in Great Russell-Street, 1781. Third edition. Two octavo volumes (7 1/4 x 4 11/16 inches; 185 x 119 mm). [16], 352 [2, blank]; [16], 434, [2 ads] pp. With engraved portrait frontispiece. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt-stamped on spine with red morocco labels. Top edge brown, others speckled red. Inner hinges slightly cracked, spine and edges a bit rubbed. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. Some minor worming from front pastedown through title-page of volume two, not affecting text. Very good. HBS 64622. $750.

Paris: Librairie De France, 1931. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri. DE GONCOURT, Edmond. La Fille Élisa de Edmound de Goncourt. [Paris: G. Charpentier, Editeur, 1877]. Paris: Librairie De France, 1931. Facsimile edition of Toulouse-Lautrec's copy of the first edition with facsimiles of his original marginal watercolors. Limited to 175 numbered copies, this being copy number 31. Two twelvemo volumes (7 3/8 x 4 5/16 inches; 186 x 123 mm). Facsimile copy volume in original yellow wrappers, printed in black on front and back wrappers. Uncut. Back of wrapper lightly soiled. Introduction volume in original drab wrappers. Both volumes housed together in original drab board slipcase. Slipcase with previous owner's old ink notes. Overall very good. HBS 64710. $1,500.

Rome: Stamperia Pagliarini, 1788. First edition of this collection of verse fables. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 196 x 135 mm). viii, [2], 180 pp. Printed on light blue paper, one of a few like this which are presumed to have been printed for presentation. With half-title. With engraved vignette title-page printed on thick cream-color paper. Engraved vignette title-page with scene of animals. Title-page is inserted but part of the pagination. Comprised of 70 fables. A second edition was printed in 1790. Nineteenth-century half vellum over marbled "wood-grain" paper boards. Spine with black morocco label, lettered and ruled in gilt. Label slightly chipped. Pages uncut and mostly unopened. Paper boards a bit rubbed and very slightly peeling at the vellum. Some very minor foxing, mainly to page edges, but generally the blue paper is very clean. Overall a very good copy. "Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi of Rome (1754-1827) published his Favole at Rome in 1788; they were reprinted in 1790, 1801, 1821. The… Read More