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Paris: Les editions G. Cres et Cie., 1922. In two volumes. xviii, [2], 355, [1]; [4], 387pp, [3]. With numerous engraved plates after designs by Charles Eisen. Contemporary gilt-tooled brown crushed morocco, T.E.G. Very minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, internally immaculate. A handsomely bound copy of La Fontaine's perennially popular short stories. Originally published in 1665, the tales gained notoriety for their bawdy themes and archly licentious tone and frequently courted censorship. . 8vo.

London: Printed for C. Chapple, 1814. Two volumes bound as one. xxii, [2], 286; [2], 360pp. Uncut in contemporary cloth-backed buff paper boards, original publisher's printed paper lettering piece pasted to spine. Rubbed and marked. Short closed tear to Vol. I title, scattered foxing. The first edition, in original boards, of a translation into English verse of Jean de La Fontaine's (1621-1695) fables commonly ascribed to eminent Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852), author of the immensely popular epitome of romantic Orientalism, Lalla Rookh (1817). . First edition. 12mo.

Amsterdam: Chez Jaques le Jeune [Daniel Elzevir], 1671. 176pp, [2]. Later gilt-tooled speckled calf. Lightly rubbed. Recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP, title page a trifle dusty. The first Elzevir edition (printed in the year after the original edition published by Thomas Jolly at Paris), of a curious work, commonly attributed to French philosopher, philologist, and historian François de La Mothe Le Vayer (1588- 1672), that revels in obscenity and mockery. Presented in six parts, the most notable being the second that deals with Parties appellees honteuses aux hommes et aux femmes. There is an allusion also to an extraordinary form of worship among the indigenous North American Huastec people of the Pánuco. . 12mo.

London: C. and J. Ollier..and William Blackwood, 1820. [4], xiv, 267pp, [1]. With half-title. Contemporary navy half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, lightly foxed. The first edition in English of German author Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de la Motte-Fouque's (1777-1843) enduringly popular romance, originally published as Sintram und seine Gefährten in Vienna in 1715. . First edition in English. 12mo.

London: Printed for Samuel Leigh, 1815. viii, 416pp. With three engraved folding maps (one hand-coloured) Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Scattered spotting. A revised edition of the Englis translation of geographical engineer and historian Eugene Labaume's (1783-1849) eye-witness account of the events of the French invasion of Russia in 1812. . Second edition. 8vo.

Paris: Chez Janet et Cotelle, 1820. viii, 446pp. With a half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled red half-roan, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Extremities rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas E. Croft to FEP, armorial bookplate of Richard Benyon Croft to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. A revised edition of geographical engineer and historian Eugene Labaume's (1783-1849) eye-witness account of the French invasion of Russia in 1812. . Sixieme edition [i.e. sixth edition]. 8vo.

Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1766. 197pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Armorial bookplate with initials 'S.B.' to FEP, remnants of early circulating library label to verso of title. A rare Foulis edition of an English translation of De Mortibus Persecutorum by early Roman Christian author Lactantius. Burnet completed the translation, which is prefaced with notes on the work, whilst exiled in Holland during the reign of James II, drawing parallels between the Latin study of the persecutors of fourth-century Christianity and contemporary Protestantism. ESTC records copies at only two locations in the British Isles (NLS and Oxford), and none elsewhere. ESTC T168646.. 18mo.

Leith: Printed for the Author, and sold by James Burnet, 1815. xii, 181pp, [1]. With half-title. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards. Worn, with rubbing and loss to spine, boards and extremities, cracking to joints (boards holding strong). Marbled endpapers with early Warwick bookseller's label. A rare collection of poetry by an anonymous Leith 'young lady', attributed in this copy (by Eric Quayle) to Mary Panton. Dedicated to Lady Anne Johnstone Hope, included are 'Lines on reading the Life and Poems of H.K. White' and ten sonnets. Apart from the Leith imprint, there is much to belie the Leith imprint: the list of subscribers is surprisingly English in nature; and indeed, as the British Critic noted with characteristic English pomp, 'the language is not alloyed with unintelligible Scotticisms'. COPAC locates copies at BL, Oxford, NLS and St. Andrews only, OCLC adds copies at Kansas, Miami and Oakland. Not in Jackson. Jackson, Romantic poetry by women p.387. Not in… Read More

[s.i.]: [s.n.], [s.d., c.1906] 73-78pp. With three photographic plates. Stapled, as issued, into original publisher's plain paper wrappers. Light spotting to extremities. Presentation copy, inked inscription to upper wrapper; 'To Lord Ralph D. Kerr / from the author / Jedburgh 14 Nov. 1906.' A monograph extracted from the proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club on the discovery of a series of sculptured stones at Jedburgh in the Scottish borders. . 8vo.

London: Printed for the Author, 1810. vi, 150pp. Later gilt-tooled red half-roan, green paper boards. Heavily rubbed, chipping to head and foot of spine. Hinges exposed, scattered spotting, head of leaf D6 torn away - touching text with slight loss of sense. The second known copy of the first edition of a grammar 'formed upon a New Plan' to facilitate 'the acquisition of the Spanish language'. The majority of the example phrases provided for the practice of students are taken from 'the best Spanish authors' (though uncredited), and include numerous references to the deeds of Cortez in South America, and, rather unsurprisingly, a plethora of extracts from Don Quixote: 'One of them gave D. Q. such a blow on the shoulder, on the sword side, the poor D. Q. came to the ground in a very unpleasant state'. A second edition was published in the same year as the first, a third and final 'new edition' appeared in 1824. OCLC records a single copy of the first edition… Read More

[Paterson, N.J.]: [St. Anthony Guild Press], [1943]. vi, 41pp [4]. With a photographic portrait frontispiece. Original publisher's red morocco, lettered in gilt. Boards a little marked and stained, though internally bright, fresh and clean throughout, with the gift inscription 'To David Alexander Lockhart, on the happy occasion of his Baptism, with ever good wish. A. G. Cicognani, Archbishop of Laodicea, Apostolic Delegate. Washington D. C. - January 1944'. An informative work by William J. Lallou, inscribed by it's subject, the Italian cardinal Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Secretary of State, Dean of the College of Cardinals, and Apostolic Delegation to Washington D. C. . First edition. 8vo.

Londres [i.e. London]: Se vend Chez Elmsly et al., 1792. In three parts, each with separate pagination and register. [4], 85, [1]; 36; 66pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Recent bookplate of Basil Jacobs to FEP. Presentation copy, inked inscription to foot of title page: 'Mr. Hardinge. from the Author'. The first edition of Trophime-Gerard, marquis de Lally-Tollendal's (1751-1830) impassioned advocacy for Louis XVI, composed, whilst in exile in Britain, in an effort to prevent the monarch's execution by the National Convention during the French Revolution. ESTC T86657.. First edition. 8vo.

London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1894. 224pp. Contemporary brown half-morocco, marbled boards, lettered in gilt, T.E.G. Extremities rubbed, spine sunned. Marbled endpapers, prize plate to FEP, occasional spotting. A late Victorian edition of the first work to make the plots of Shakespeare's plays accessible to a juvenile audience. The romantic writers and siblings Charles and Mary Lamb were convinced by William Godwin to undertake the work for his nascent Juvenile Library. Although only Charles Lamb's name adorns the title page, the comedies (some fourteen of the twenty plays, and thus the majority of the work) were composed by Mary. The work was first published in 1807. . 8vo.

London: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, 1818. In two volumes. ix, [3], 291, [1]; [6], 259pp, [1]. Contemporary dark green half-calf, marbled paper boards, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges. Rubbed, wear to head of spines. Marbled endpapers, faded ink-stamps of a contemporary literary society to both titles, paper repair to fore-edge of Vol. II title page, scattered spotting. William St Clair's copy, with his distinctive pencilled ownership inscription and bibliographical notes to front blank fly-leaves of Vol. I. The first collected edition of essayist, critic and poet of the Romantic movement, Charles Lamb (1775-1834) including his trenchant defence of the genius behind Shakespeare's characters, 'On the Tragedies of Shakespeare'. William St Clair (1937-2021), British scholar and senior civil servant, notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys, The Biography of a Family (1989) and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (2004). Jackson p.439.. 12mo.

London: Edward Moxon, 1836. [4], 340pp. Without half-title. [Uniformly bound with:] LAMB, Charles. Elia. Second series. London. Edward Moxon, 1836. New edition, xiii, [3], 295pp, [1]. With half-title. 8vo. Handsomely bound in later burgundy half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt. Slightest of rubbing to extremities. Bookplates of Robert J. Hayhurst to both FEPs, very small holes to margins of leaves E2-3 of Vol. I, very occasional marginal ink annotations, sporadic spotting. An attractive paring of both series of the collected essays of Charles Lamb (1775-1834). First published in book form in 1823 and 1833 respectively, the essays had initially appeared in John Scott's London Magazine between 1820 and 1825 under the pseudonym of Elia. Lamb drew upon his own experience and correspondence for the pieces, his dramatic persona allowing for the representation of a more naive and whimsical take on contemporary events. . New edition.

London: Printed for M. J. Godwin, 1814. [4], viii, [1], 10-176pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary green half-calf, marbled boards, gilt. Rubbed, slight split to upper joint. Inked ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, offsetting to title page, very occasional light spotting. An early piece of juvenilia principally by Mary Lamb (with contributions by her brother Charles) centred upon the newly arrived pupils during their first evening in attendance of Mrs. Leicester's school for girls, during which they together relate the circumstances of their upbringings and difficulties had with their immediate families. The stories are at least partially autobiographical, reflecting Mary's troubled childhood and history of mental instability. First printed in 1809, the book proved remarkably popular, reaching 11 editions by 1836. . Fourth edition. 12mo.

London: Griffith and Farran, late Grant and Griffith, [s.d., c.1865?] xii, 118pp, [2]. With a woodcut frontispiece and a final leaf of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Ink ownership inscription of L. J. Whatman, Printers to front blank fly-leaf. A Victorian edition of an early piece of juvenilia principally by Mary Lamb (with contributions by her brother Charles) centred upon the newly arrived pupils during their first evening in attendance of Mrs. Leicester's school for girls, during which they together relate the circumstances of their upbringings and difficulties had with their immediate families. The stories are at least partially autobiographical, reflecting Mary's troubled childhood and history of mental instability. First printed in 1809, the book proved remarkably popular, reaching 11 editions by 1836. . 12mo.

London: Printed for M. J. Godwin and Co., 1821. [4], viii, [1], 10-180pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Later calf-backed marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Offsetting to title page, scattered spotting. William St. Clair's copy, with his characteristic pencilled ownership inscription to recto of FFEP. An early piece of juvenilia principally by Mary Lamb (with contributions by her brother Charles) centred upon the newly arrived pupils during their first evening in attendance of Mrs. Leicester's school for girls, during which they together relate the circumstances of their upbringings and difficulties had with their immediate families. The stories are at least partially autobiographical, reflecting Mary's troubled childhood and history of mental instability. First printed in 1809, the book proved remarkably popular, reaching 11 editions by 1836. William St. Clair (1937-2021), British scholar and senior civil servant, notable as the author of The… Read More

Imprinted at London, by Edm. Bollifant, 1596. [10] 588pp, [6]. With an engraved map of Britain and and engraved folding map of the Kent Beacons. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript to spine, yapp edges, without original ties. Housed in recent custom half-morocco slip-case. Extremities marked and discoloured, chipping to head of spine. Hinges exposed, early manuscript calculations, pen-trials, and a note in a French hand to FFEP, early ownership inscriptions of James Humphrey and Francis Taylor to margins to title page, occasional spotting, without RFEP, recent ink-stamp of Rita A. Brenner to REP. The second and greatly enlarged edition of Lambarde's Perambulation of Kent, the first printed book on Kent and the earliest of all English county histories. William Lambarde, (1536-1601), English historian and jurist, fellow of Lincoln's Inn. In the year of his death he became Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London, and had previously been a personal historical consultant to Queen… Read More

Berlin: Haude und Spener, 1770. [4], 210pp. Printed in black letter. Modern buff paper boards, lettered in black to spine. Leaves browned and spotted. Book-label of Erwin Tomash to FEP The first edition Swiss German mathematician, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777) tables designed to aid in the resaerch of number theory. From the recently dispersed library of Erwin Tomash (1921-2012), American engineer recognised for his early pioneering work with computer equipment peripherals. His library consisted of over 3,000 books and manuscripts relevant to the history of computation, from medieval and renaissance works on arithmetic, finger-reckoning and the abacus, to the birth in the twentieth century of theoretical and practical computer science under Alan Turing. Tomash L20.. First edition. 12mo.