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Saint George's Dragon.
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Saint George's Dragon.: A Romance of Present Days and Ancient Deeds Set Forth to Pleasure all Folk Still Young by the Magician Thanassy Pengellow and His Young Relatives Cordelia Castlemine and Barni Lejane with the Help of Their Friend Greville MacDonald Their Doings Limned by

by MACDONALD, Greville

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1929. 4to (10 x 8 inches). Original typed manuscripts with extensive corrections and annotations by the author in pen. [3], 234 ll. with original stamped and addressed portion of the envelope sending the manuscript to E.P. Dutton, New York Original typescript of an unpublished fantasy novel by the British author and doctor Greville MacDonald. Inscribed on the title, "Property of Greville MacDonald M.D. Wildwood, Haslemere, Surrey, England." This copy of the manuscript was submitted to John Macrae, President of E.P. Dutton, New York, for publication. It was evidently rejected, with the title docketed "This ms. not to be used Y. 4/29/29." MacDonald (1856-1944), son of author George MacDonald, was an early reader of Alice in Wonderland in manuscript, his enthusiastic response convincing Dodgson to publish. He later became an ear, nose and throat doctor of some distinction, working with Joseph Lister. He retired from practice in 1904 and moved to Haslemere where he tended the flame of his father's… Read More
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Tropical Diseases.
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Tropical Diseases.: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates

by MANSON, Patrick

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New York: William Wood & Company, 1898. First American edition. 8vo. Color frontispiece and one additional color plate, 88 b/w illustrations to text. xvi, [1], 605, [1] pp. Publisher's green cloth; binding cocked, foxing. With publisher's compliments slip tipped-in before the title-page First American edition of this "great work" (PMM) and a classic of modern medical literature by the father of tropical medicine and founder of the London School of Tropical Medicine, Patrick Manson (1844-1922). The work summarizes his groundbreaking discovery of mosquito-born infections and presents a practical introduction to tropical diseases. "A work founded on his large experience and numerous original researches in China" (ODNB). This American edition was published the same year as the first London edition — both editions are uncommon in the trade. Garrison-Morton notes a 16th edition of the work appearing as late as 1966. REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 2266; PMM 388
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Catalogue raisonné des différens objets de curiosités dans les sciences et arts,
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Catalogue raisonné des différens objets de curiosités dans les sciences et arts,: qui composoient le cabinet de feu Mr Mariette Controleur général de la Grand Chancellerie de France …

by (MARIETTE, Pierre-Jean) BASAN, Frederic (graveur)

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Paris: Chez l'Auteur … et chez G. Desprez, 1775. First edition. 8vo. Engraved title by Moreau le Jeune, engraved frontispiece by Choffard after Cochin fils (bound after title), four etched plates by Basan after Guercino (folding), Perino del Vaga, Guerchin and Carracci. xvi, 418 pp. Contemporary paste-paper boards, rebacked in half calf preserving spine label; light wear and soiling to title One the most important sale catalogues of old master prints and drawings of the 18th century, the collection of art dealer, historian and connoisseur Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694–1774). A copy useful for provenance research with with buyers' names and prices assiduously recorded in a contemporary hand. Mariette prized drawings over paintings as being more expressive of an artist’s true talent and spirit. His collection included over 9,000 drawings — that number inflated by Mariette’s unorthodox practice of splitting sheets with drawings on recto and verso to produce two separate sheets. His collection was… Read More
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Martin's System of Practical Penmanship:
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Martin's System of Practical Penmanship: Taught in 24 Lessons at His Writing and Book Keeping Academy, no. 182 Main Street, Worcester, Mass

by MARTIN, E.T

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Worcester: Printed by Henry J. Howland, [ca. 1847]. First edition. Oblong 4to. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Martin by Oliver Pelton, 11 engraved plates by W.B. Emery after writing samples with flourishes by Martin, printed by A.C. Beaman, with tissue guards. [10], [6] pp. Publisher's cloth, front cover stamped in gilt "Martin's Pearls" within gilt wreath, a.e.g.; covers worn at extremities, ffep creased and torn with tissue repair, frontispiece and title offset, some foxing A handsome penmanship manual, the plates elaborately flourished with birds, fish, leaves and flowers the plates now perhaps more of interest as folk art than instructional models. Martin ran a bookkeeping and writing academy in Worcester with his three brothers. His method, which teaches a highly ornamental copperplate, reduces letters to seven component strokes. The 24 lessons, described in the letterpress text, are illustrated in the 11 engraved plates demonstrating the component strokes, instructions for composing letters… Read More
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Melmoth the Wanderer:
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Melmoth the Wanderer: a Tale

by [MATURIN, Charles Robert]

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Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. Cheapside, London, 1820. First edition. 4 vols in 2. 8vo. [v]-xii, 341, [1]; [ii], 321, [1]; [ii], 368; [ii], 453, [1] pp., bound without half-titles and without ad leaf in vol. 4. Mid-nineteenth century half calf and marbled boards, brown morocco spine labels, marbled edges; some rubbing and external repair, labels chipped, a few minor stains to text, very good Rare first edition of this late Gothic masterpiece by the Irish Protestant clergyman and author Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824): "in Frankenstein and Melmoth the Wanderer, the Romantic orgy reached its height" (Raleigh, The English Novel). Melmoth was a significant influence on Balzac (who thought it "the greatest creation of one of the greatest geniuses of Europe"), Baudelaire ("ce pâle et ennuyé Melmoth"), Poe and Wilde, (a great-nephew of Maturin, who fashioned himself "Melmoth the Wanderer" during his exile from England). Melmoth "burns to tell… Read More
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The Botanic Garden:
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The Botanic Garden: Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants Cultivated in Great Britain …

by MAUND, Benjamin

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London: Baldwin and Cradock, Simkin and Marshall, et al, 1825-1832. First edition. 4 vols. 8vo. Additional engraved title to each volume, vol. IV with engraved dedication to Queen Victoria, 384 hand-colored engraved figures on 96 plates by S. Watts after drawings by Mrs. Edward Bury, Miss E. Maund, Miss S. Maund, Edwin Dalton Smith and Mills. Contemporary green half calf over marbled boards; some light scuffing to spines, endpapers and engraved titles foxed and stained, plates clean and bright. First edition of the first four volumes, featuring delicate and finely hand-colored engravings with detailed notes on each flower's history and cultivation. The complete Botanic Garden eventually extended to 18 volumes including supplements. Printed at Maund's press at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.PROVENANCE: A.C. Hadland (signature on ffep); Henry Sotheran (bookticket and description laid-in, purchased £2,250)REFERENCE: Great Flower Books, p. 160; Nissen 2222
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Ivlivs Solinvs. Itinerarivm Antonini Avg. Vibivs Seqvester. P. Victor de regionibus urbis Romae....
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Ivlivs Solinvs. Itinerarivm Antonini Avg. Vibivs Seqvester. P. Victor de regionibus urbis Romae. Dionysius Afer de situ orbis Prisciano interprete

by MELA, Pomponius

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(Venice: In aedibvs Aldi, et Andreae soceri mense, October 1518). 8vo. 233, [3] leaves, including blank q8, colophon leaf, penultimate blank, and final leaf with Aldine device on verso. Collation: a-z^8 A-F^8 G^4. 18th-century half calf and marbled boards, red morocco spine label; binding worn, old repair to spine head, paper flaw on margin of c4; occasional light dampstaining and foxing The sole Aldine edition of these works; it is also the editio princeps of Publius Victor, the second edition of Antoninus Augustus' Itinerarium, and the third edition of Dionysius in Latin. As is to be expected, the text is in italic with spaces and guide letters provided for (unaccomplished) initials. The register (leaf G2 recto) lists a gathering *4 that is not found here or in any known copy, so the reference would seem to be incorrect. REFERENCE: Adams M1053; Renouard 83; Schweiger, II, 607 ("seltene Ausg.")
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[Typee] Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas...

[Typee] Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands;: or, a Peep at Polynesian Life

by MELVILLE, Herman

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London: John Murray, 1846. First edition, second state of C2 (p. 19, l. 1 reads “Pomare”). 8vo. Map at p. [xvii]. xvi, [2], 285, [1] pp., + 16 pp. catalogue dated March 1846 (BAL "B" variant, no priority), with half-title. Publisher's red cloth (BAL variant B), covers stamped in blind, spine titled in gilt. An exceptional copy, with just a trace of wear to front board fore-edge and rear joint, small chip from tail end of spine A fine first edition in publisher's cloth of Melville's first book, preceding the American edition of the same year, which appeared a month later under its now more familiar title, TYPEE. This London edition was set from Melville's manuscript, whereas the New York Wiley & Putnam edition was set from proof sheets of the Murray edition. "Murray's first printing consisted of 4,048 copies (2,500 of them in wrappers), priced at five shillings in cloth and half a crown in wrappers; the book became a profitable one for Murray, with further printings required, but Melville's earnings… Read More
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Leçons sur la Pathologie Comparée de l'Inflammation
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Leçons sur la Pathologie Comparée de l'Inflammation: Faites à l'Institut Pasteur en Avril et Mai 1891

by METCHNIKOFF, Élie

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Paris: G. Masson, 1892. First edition. 8vo. 3 colored lithographs by Roussel after Metchnikoff, 65 illustrations to text. xi, [1], 239, [1] pp. Contemporary half tan morocco and marbled boards; joints rubbed, pages toned, previous owner's inscription to flyleaf, book-plate First edition of Metchnikoff’s “classic lectures on inflammation” (Garrison-Morton) and phagocytosis, delivered in French at the Pasteur Institute in 1891. Metchnikoff states that, even though phagocytosis in man and higher animals has been the focus of study, a similar process also takes place in lower forms of life, both plant and animal. Therefore, it is important to make a comparative study of inflammation” (Heirs of Hippocrates). REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 2307; Heirs of Hippocrates 2079; Waller 6413
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A Treatise on the Ecclesiastical Architecture of England, During the Middle Ages
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A Treatise on the Ecclesiastical Architecture of England, During the Middle Ages

by MILNER, John

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London: J. Taylor, Architectural Library, 1811. First edition. Tall 8vo. Engraved frontispiece (plate 10) and 9 engraved plates at rear. [6], xix (i.e., xxiv), [1], 135, [1], [12, publisher's catalogue] pp. Uncut in publisher's grey-blue boards, printed spine label (with price "15s. Boards"); a beautifully preserved copy with just occasional marginal foxing. First edition of this early treatise on the origins of the Gothic style. Milner argues that Gothic, or pointed, architecture originated in England from the intersection of circular arches. PROVENANCE: Thomas Fitzherbert (armorial book-plate dated 1749) REFERENCE: BAL, Early Printed Books, no. 2148
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Ave Maria Gold Quartz Mine, Mariposa, California, collection of 9 shares certificates

Ave Maria Gold Quartz Mine, Mariposa, California, collection of 9 shares certificates

by (MINING, GOLD RUSH)

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[London]: Ave Maria Gold Quartz Mining Association, [ca. 1851]. Oblong 8vo (6-1/2 x 9 inches), printed on light blue onionskin paper, scalloped left edge, with ms insertions and authorizing signatures of Secretary and two committee members, description of the Ave Maria Gold Quartz Mining Association printed on verso; light creasing Evidence of London investment in the California Gold Rush, 9 certificates (7 for 5 shares each and 2 for 10 shares each) of the London-based Ave Maria Gold Quartz Mining Association. A total of 50,000 shares were issued at £1 each. The company held half the rights to the Ave Maria Gold Quartz Mine in the Mariposa District, California, which was worked under a lease with the owner of the other half. Today the Ave Maria River is known as the Stockton Creek.
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Le Nouveau Monde, collection of 9 shares certificates

Le Nouveau Monde, collection of 9 shares certificates

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Paris, ca. 1851. Oblong 8vo (6-1/2 x 10 inches), text in French and English printed in black and red on onionskin paper, with ms insertions, ink stamp and authorizing signatures of the Director, London agent and committee member; light creasing Evidence of French investment in the California Gild Rush, a collection of 9 shares certificates, each certificate for 5 shares of 25 francs each
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Memorial and Resolutions of the Legislature of the Missouri Territory,

Memorial and Resolutions of the Legislature of the Missouri Territory,: and a Copy of the Census of the Fall of 1817: Amounting to 19,218 Males. December 8, 1819. Referred to a Select Committee [cover title]

by (MISSOURI COMPROMISE, SLAVERY)

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Washington, [D.C.]: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1819. First edition. 6, [2 blanks] pp. Untrimmed, top edge uncut; light foxing and dusting The first petition for Missouri statehood adopted by the Missouri territorial legislature and presented to the House by Missouri delegate John Scott. It lit the fuse of sectional conflict between the North and South over the westward expansion of slavery that would only temporarily cool with the Missouri Compromise of 1820, smoldering until its ultimate eruption in the Civil War. The memorial argues for statehood on the grounds that the Missouri Territory, with some 100,000 inhabitants, was too large for effective political administration. The proposed boundaries, about 30% larger than what was ultimately adopted, include the 36'30" boundary that would establish the line between future free and slave states in the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The Memorial is signed in type by David Barton, Speaker of the Missouri House, Benjamin Emmons, President of the… Read More
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Los Siete Libros de la Diana …
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Los Siete Libros de la Diana …: dirigidos al muy Illustre señor don Iuan Castella de Villanoua, señor de las baronias de Bicorb, y Quesa. Añadio se agora historia el Alcida y Sylvano compuesta por el mesmo autor

by MONTEMAYOR, Jorge de

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Anvers [Antwerp]: Iuan [Juan] Stelsio, 1561. First Antwerp edition, fifth edition overall. 12mo. Woodcut device on title and recto of final leaf. [3], 230, [2] ll. COLLATION: A-T12 V4. Contemporary vellum; A8 trimmed with some loss to text at fore-edge margin due to misaligned imposition, running titles trimmed First Antwerp edition, fifth edition overall, of this foundational and wildly popular pastoral prose romance and Shakespeare sourcebook, written in Spanish by the Portuguese author Jorge de Montemayor (c.1520-1561). First published in 1559 in Valencia, Diana "holds the distinction of being the first fully developed Iberian romance of the sixteenth century" (Cambridge History of Spanish Literature, 2005, p. 187). Diana was one of the most popular works of early modern Europe, running to dozens of editions in Spanish throughout the second half of the 16th century, as well as numerous translations. The first English translation, by Bartholomew Young, was published in 1598. Diana’s plot, a… Read More
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Patient Joe;

Patient Joe;: or the Newcastle Collier

by [MOORE, Hannah]. Z.

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London: Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts, [1795 or 1796]. Folio (17-1/2 x 10-3/8 inches) printed broadside in two columns, engraved vignette at head; never folded, minor edgewear Broadside Cheap Repository tract by Moore, a reactionary poem to reinforce the notion that the working class should be content with its poverty and lowly social status. This state listing J. Marshall before S. Hazard in the imprint. REFERENCE: ESTC T43772; Spinney 30
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The Theory of the Gene
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The Theory of the Gene

by MORGAN, Thomas Hunt

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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926. First edition. 8vo. Pub. black clothl; spin faded, ex-library with label removed from spine, pocket removed from rear pastedown, stamp to front paste-down and some pencil markings Morgan won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1933
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