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Departmental Ditties I and other verses
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Departmental Ditties I and other verses: The First Edition of Kipling’s first published work

by KIPLING, RUDYARD

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FIRST EDITION, tall narrow 4to, half red morocco over marbled boards, original light brown printed wrappers that double as an Indian civil service envelope preserved, marbled endpapers, bookplates of William Garth and William Marchbank, Lahore, the Civil and Military Press, 1886.
The First Edition of Kipling's first published work. Previous work was either printed privately, offprints or collaborative books. Kipling was sub-editor of the Civil and Military Gazette, an Anglophone newspaper reporting from Lahore on the life of the Civil Service and the Indian Army in Punjab. Thanks to his occupation and his family's social standing he had many opportunities to explore the full range of life in India. He remained keenly observant of the thronging spectacle of native India, which had engaged his interest and affection from earliest childhood. He was quickly filling the journals he worked for with prose sketches and light verse. Kipling began inserting his own poems under the heading of Departmental… Read More
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Deliciae naturae Selectae of Uitgeleezen Kabinet van Natuurlyke Zeldzaamheden.
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Deliciae naturae Selectae of Uitgeleezen Kabinet van Natuurlyke Zeldzaamheden.: One of the finest colour-plate natural history books

by KNORR, GEORG WOLFGANG & P.L.S. MULLER

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Dordrecht: by Abraham Blussé and Son, 1771.
2 volumes in one, Folio (524 x 345mm) 2 volumes, folio (524 x 345mm). Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 91 fine hand-coloured engraved plates, one double-page, by or after Knorr, B.R. Dietschlin, G.F. Dietsch and others, 4pp. list of subscribers). Contemporary calf-backed speckled boards, title labels on spines.
FIRST EDITION in Dutch, Number 64 of 99 Copies.
One of the finest colour-plate natural history books, illustrating specimens from the leading collections of Nuremberg. The plates depict mainly marine and zoological subjects, but also include a number of fine depictions of minerals. It is often said that the beauty of these illustrations exceeds that of their models.
Georg Wolfgang Knorr (1705-1761), German palaeontologist, painter, engraver and art dealer, engraved portraits, landscapes and animal studies after Dürer.
In the eighteenth century, Nuremberg became the leading city in the production of fine illustrated natural history books. This… Read More
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