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Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1741. Nouvelle edition. Three quarto volumes (9 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 238 x 190 mm). [2, blank] [10, 4 of which are ads], [i]-xxxvi, [1]-526, [4, blank]; [2, blank], [6], xxxiv, [3]-383, [2, blank]; [8], [2, ads], [8. letter], 1-144, 147-218, [1]-150, [35, table], [3, blank] pp. Each volume with half-title. Volume I and II with engraved half-titles and volume II with engraved frontispiece. Volume III with engraved frontispiece. An additional seventeen engraved plates, four of which are folding. Three of the folding plates are engravings of Rabelais' residence and the other is a folding map. Complete with 21 engraved plates. Numerous other engraved initials, chapter titles and vignettes. Contemporary tan polished calf. Triple gilt fillet borders. Edges and turn-ins tooled in gilt. Spines with red and brown morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Spines stamped in gilt. All edges dyed red. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown of each volume.… Read More

Paris: Quatrieme Cahier, 1945. ROMAINS, Jules. SUARÈS, André. La Table Ronde. Paris: Quatrieme Cahier, [1945]. Quarto. 227 pp. Limited to 2150 copies, of which this is number 54. Original wrappers. With 8 photgravures laid in. Loose as issued. Slipcase. Minor browning to spine. Very good. HBS 66393. $250.

London: George C. Harrap & Company, 1929. RACKHAM, Arthur. . "An Epitaph for My Wife". Original illustration for "The Vicar of Wakefield" [London: George C. Harrap & Company, 1929]. Original fine pen and ink and watercolor for the frontispiece of "The Vicar of Wakefield." Matted, framed and glazed. Watercolor measures (9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches; 235 x 165 mm), but probably larger under the mat. Frame measures (16 x 13 1/4 inches; 410 x 340 mm). Signed 'Arthur Rackham' on lower right corner. In a gilt frame. Image is of Vicar and his wife standing in in front of the fireplace. The wife is wearing a floral dress. A contemporary sticker for art dealer "Arthur Ackermann & Son inc" on the back of the frame. Also a sticker from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on the back. Overall a very beautiful original painting. Latimore and Haskell,. Riall,. HBS 69017. $12,500.

Paris: Hachette, 1913. RACKHAM, Arthur; AESOP. illustrator]. AESOP, [contributor]. Fables D'Esope. Traduction Nouvelle Illustree Par Arthur Rackham. Paris: Hachette, 1913. Full Description: RACKHAM, Arthur, [illustrator]. AESOP, [author]. Fables D'Esope. Traduction Nouvelle Illustree Par Arthur Rackham. Paris: Hachette, 1913. Limited edition of 55 copies signed by Rackham, this being number 29 printed on papier du Japan. Out of a total edition of 430. With 13 mounted plates on green paper. Descriptive tissue guards. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 9 inches; 290 x 230 mm). Full vellum pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. With gold silk ties. Vellum a bit bowed as usual. Some very light dust soiling. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Still overall a near fine copy. Latimore and Haskell,. Riall,. HBS 68876. $2,000.

Paris: Hachette, 1913. RACKHAM, Arthur. . L'oeuvre De Arthur Rackham. Ouvrage Illustre De 44 Planches En Couleurs. Paris: Hachette, 1913. One of 60 copies signed by Rackham, this being number 3. on papier imperial du Japon. Out of a total edition of 460. Quarto (11 3/8 x 9 inches; 290 x 230 mm). With 44 mounted color plates on green paper. Descriptive tissue guards. Full vellum pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front board and spine. Top edge gilt. Some minor dust soiling to spine and boards. Without silk ties. Overall very good. Latimore and Haskell,. Riall,. HBS 68877. $1,500.

London: George C. Harrap & Company, 1929. RACKHAM, Arthur. . "I Found the Prisoners Very Merry, Expecting My Arrival". Original illustration for "The Vicar of Wakefield" [London: George C. Harrap & Company, 1929]. Original fine pen and ink and watercolor from "The Vicar of Wakefield." Matted, framed and glazed. Watercolor measures (8 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches; 210 x 150 mm), but probably larger under the mat. Frame measures (15 x 12 1/2 inches; 385 x 320 mm). Signed 'Arthur Rackham' on lower right corner. In a gilt frame. Image is of prisoners and the Vicar in the jail. Image is mostly in grey and brown, but a few prisoners have red kerchiefs. A contemporary sticker for art dealer "Arthur Ackermann & Son inc" on the back of the frame. Also a sticker from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on the back. Overall a very beautiful original painting. Latimore and Haskell,. Riall,. HBS 69016. $7,500.

London: William Heinemann, 1912. RACKHAM, Arthur; AESOP|VERNON JONES, V.S.|CHESTERTON, G.K.. illustrator]. AESOP, [contributor]. CHESTERTON, G.K., [contributor]. VERNON JONES, V.S., [translator]. Æsop's Fables. A new translation by V.S. Vernon Jones. With an introduction by G.K. Chesterton and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1912. Full Description: [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. AESOP. Æsop's Fables. A new translation by V.S. Vernon Jones. With an introduction by G.K. Chesterton and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1912. First trade edition with an original drawing by Rackham on the half-title. Octavo (8 x 6 inches; 200 x 150 mm). xxix, [1, blank], 223, [1] pp. Thirteen color plates (including frontispiece), with descriptive tissue guards, and fifty-three drawings in black and white (nineteen full-page). Hal-title includes a half-page original drawing by Rackham of a crow and a smaller bird surrounded by a square frame and signed "AR" in… Read More

London, 1916. RACKHAM, Arthur. Cesarino and the Dragon". London: 1916. Original fine pen and ink and watercolor from "The Allies' Fairy Book." Measures 250 x 192 mm. Signed and dated 'ARackham 1916' on lower left corner. Mounted, framed and glazed. Image depicts Cesarino protecting his love while fighting a dragon with a sword and a knife in his hand. Meanwhile the dragon is fighting off a lion, a bear and a dog. Even the personified tress behind Cesarino appear to be helping scare away the dragon. This mythical and whimsical piece is very romantic despite all of the gore gong on. James Hamilton notes in his biography of Rackham that in this illustration 'Rackham combines his feelings of heraldry and the fantastic with his love of early Italian painting... The head of Cesarino is adapted from the head of the young horseman in Uccello's Battle of San Romano, a painting which Rackham recorded as being one of his favourites at the National Gallery in London.' "Cesarino and the Dragon' was used for… Read More

Pennsylvania: Julio H. Rae, Publisher, 1851. RAE, Julio. First edition. Oblong quarto. (Measures 9 3/8 x 13 3/4 inches). 23 pp. and 16 lithographed plates, several folding. Contemporary brown cloth with newer maroon cloth, original black and gold label on front cover. Original black and gold wrappers bound in. Covers bumped on corners with some marginal staining. Very good and scarcely found complete. This beautiful city directory illustrates eight blocks of Chestnut Street in downtown Philadelphia with sixteen lithographs. Each plate accompanied with advertisers on that street. HBS 67303. $3,000.

London: Albion Press Prinmted: Published by James Cundee, 1805. Full Description: RAINSFORD, Marcus. An Historical Account if the Black Empire of Hayti. Comprehending a View of the Principal Transactions in the Revolution of Saint Domingo; With its Ancient and Modern State. London: Albion Press Prinmted: Published by James Cundee, 1805. First edition. Quarto (11 x 8 3/4 inches; 280 x 222 mm). xxiii, [1, errata], 467, [1, blank], [9, index], [3, advertisements] pp. Complete with eleven engraved plates including the frontispiece and a two leaf facsimile letter in French of Toussaint Louverture. In addition, there is a folding map and a folding plan. With half-title. Original drab boards, rebacked to style with original printed paper label. Uncut and partially unopened. Boards and spine rubbed and a bit soiled. Paper label is a bit rubbed but still legible. Some foxing and toning, mainly to preliminary leaves. Edges a bit darkend and brittle. Small closed tear to lower margin of plate captioned "View… Read More

Copenhagen: Printed for Schuboth by J. R. Thiele, 1811. First edition. Octavo (6 11/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 170 x 140 mm). LVI, 282, [6] pp. Contemporary half brown roan over marbled boards, beige morocco gilt lettering label. Text lightly browned throughout due to the qulity of the paper, upper corner of front endpaper cut away, slight loss to head and tale of spine. A very good copy. "The ‘Guide to the Icelandic or old Nordic Language' was the first of an important series of publications which qualify Rask as one of the founders of the modern science of language... The interest that his writings aroused in the ancient Scandanavian Tongues directed attention to their literature, He was the first to study the ancient Nordic languages systematically. He disovered the correspondence of the consonant relations between the Indo-European languages, which led Jacob Grimm to formulate the rules underlying the Germanic as well as the the first complete texts of the eddas of Snorri and Saemund and added… Read More

London: in aedibus Richard Tottell, 1579. Full Description: RASTELL, John. [RASTELL, William, Translator]. An An Exposition of Certaine Difficult and Obscure Words. and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set foorth and augmented, both in french and English, for the helpe of such younge students as are desirous to attaine the knowledge of ye same. Whereunto are also added the olde Tenures. [London]: in aedibus Richard Tottell, [1579]. First edition under this title. Earlier editions in English were published under the title The expositions of the termes of the lawes of Englande with dyvers proper rules and principles of the lawe. This was a translation of Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum which was first printed in 1523 with a Latin title and text in French. Text in two columns, in both French and English. French is in plain type, English is in black letter. Small octavo (5 5/8 x 3 3/4 inches; 145 x 95 mm). [2, blank], [4], 196 [ie 211], [2, blank] leaves. We could find no copies of the… Read More

Hartford: James Thrall Soby, 1934. Harford Connecticut/ New York: James Thrall Soby/Random House, [1934]. First edition with the cancel title with the fictitious "second edition"statement. According to 101 Books, by Roth, the publisher "attempted to generate demand where none existed by suggesting the edition had sold out. copies with the original title page are exceedingly rare." Presentation copy, inscribed by Man Ray at the top of the Contents page: "To Corinne Chochem/ Cordially Man Ray 1948." Large quarto. [vi], 104, [1, blank], [1, colophon]. pp. Extensively illustrated with 104 black and white photogravures. In publisher's stiff wraps (front cover in full-color, rear cover in plain light yellow) spiral bound by original white plastic comb. Some rubbing to edges of wraps. Front wrap with a few creases. Rear wrap with some minor scuffing. Comb split in one place (yet still holding pages solidly). Still, a very nice copy, with beautiful photographic images throughout. "Best remembered for her… Read More

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co, 1814. First edition. Quarto. [i-v] vi-xxii, [1, blank], 156, [fold-out map] pp. (Measures 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches). Full black morocco., gilt-stamped spine with five raised bands. All edges gilt. Previous owner's bookplate. The slightest of wear to spine extremities, otherwise, near fine. HBS 66802. $2,000.

London: John Murray, 1816. London: Printed for John Murray, 1816. First edition, uncut. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author (?) on the half-title: "From the Author." Octavo. [4], 126, [1, blank], [1, printer's imprint], [4, advertisements] pp. Modern antique-style calf. Occasional light foxing. Housed in a custom full brown morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped. "In August 1815...P. Grenfell, an influential speaker on financial questions, asked Ricardo to help him in his Parliamentary battle against what he regarded as the excessive profits of the Bank of England. Ricardo, who thought the Bank as ‘an unnecessary establishment getting rich by those profits which fairly belong to the public'...responded positively and by September had written a pamphlet, Proposals for an Economical and Secure Currency, which was published in February 1816, shortly before the debate on Grenfell's motion on the Bank. This pamphlet contained a detailed account of his plan to make the Bank of England resume cash… Read More

London: Stanley Paul & Co. (1928) Ltd, 1929. London: Stanley Paul & Co. (1928) Ltd., [1929]. First London edition, first printing with no mention of later printing on verso of title-page. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 216 x 140 mm). [4], 9-189 pp. Complete. In publisher's dust jacket. This edition is very rare. We could find no copies of this London edition at auction in the past 50 years and only one copy at a library. Publisher's full green cloth. Front board and spine lettered in red ink. Previous ownership inscription dated Nov. 1929 on front free endpaper. In publisher's pictorial dust jacket. Jacket a bit toned and lightly rubbed at folds. A few tiny closed tears along edges of back panel. Overall an about fine copy. "Ripley, Robert LeRoy (26 Dec. 1893-27 May 1949), cartoonist and creator of the newspaper feature "Believe-It-or-Not,"... in 1923, Ripley started drawing the feature for the Evening Post. In 1929 a book-length selection of his drawings and sketches published by Simon and… Read More

Barcelona: Espasa y Compañía, editores, 1883. RIVA PALACIO, Vicente. . Mexico a traves de los siglos. Historia general y completa del desenvolvimiento social, político, religioso, militar, artístico, científico y literario de México desde la antigüedad más remota hasta la época actual. Obra única en su género. Publicada bajo la direccíon del General D. Vincente Riva Palacio é imparcial y concienzudamente escrita en vista de cuanto existe de notable...por los reputados literatos... Barcelona: Espasa y Compañía, Editores, [1883-90]. First edition. Five thick folio volumes. [4], 926, [2]; [4], 930, [2]; [4], 810, [2]; [4], 880; [4], 881, [3] pp. With sixty-nine (of seventy-two) plates and maps (including chromo-lithographs and a few photogravures) with tissue guards. Palua lits only 70 plates and in light of that the only plate definately missing is "Generals Don Ramon Corona" in the fifth volume. This title is almost always found with a varying number of plates. Numerous text… Read More

Würzburg: Verlag und Druck der Stahel'schen K. Hof-Und Universitats-Buch-Und Kunsthandlung, 1896. Würzburg: Verlag und Druck der Stahel'schen K. Hof- Und Universitats- Buch- Und Kunsthandlung, 1896. Second edition. Octavo. 12 pp. Original buff printed wrappers. Contemporary signature on top right hand corner, Dr. R. Bernoulli, most likey related to Dr. Daniel Bernoulli, prominent Swiss mathematician responsible for the "Bernoulli Theorem" still practised today. Wrappers a bit browned, otherwise, a very good, clean copy. "While performing experiments with a Crookes vacuum tube, a type of cathode-ray tube, Röntgen observed that some agent produced in the tube was causing barium platinocyanide crystals to fluorescence was caused by unknown rays (which he named "x-rays") originating from the spot where cathode rays hit the glass wall of the vacuum tube. He announced his discovery in the present paper, which described the rays' photographic properties and their amazing ability to penetrate all… Read More

London: Printed for J.L. for Henry Hood, Abel Roper, and Richard Tomlins, 1654. REYNALD, Thomas. . The Birth of Mankind, Otherwise Caled, The Womans Book. Or A Guide for Women, In their Conception. Bearing, and Suckling their Children. Containing 1. The anatomie of the vessel of generation. 2. The formation of the child in the womb. 3. What hinders conception; and its remedies. 4. What furthers conception. 5. A guide for women in conception. 6. Of miscarriage in women. 7. A guide for women in labour. 8. A guide for women in their lying in. 9. Of nursing of children. Illustrated with figures.Ilustrated with Figures. Translated into English by Thomas Reynald, Doctor of Physics. The Fourth Edition Corrected and Augmented. London: Printed for J.L. for Henry Hood, Abel Roper, and Richard Tomlins, 1654. Fourth and expanded edition of Thomas Raynalde's translation of Roesslin's classic De partu hominis. Small quarto (7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 188 x 145 mm). [8], 192, 185-192, 191-193, [1, blank] pp. Text and… Read More

London: rinted by J[ohn]. B[eale]. and are to be sold by Robert Allot, 1631. First Edition of the first full English translation of Celestina, translated by James Mabbe. And often considered the first European novel. Small folio (10 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches; 275 x 182 mm). [14], 202, pp. With some misprints in pagination. Bound without the inital and final blank. Text written in play format. With woodcut vignette on title page, woodcut headers and initials. Full modern calf. Ruled in blind. Spine with green morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. With light dampstaining to outer margins of last 6 signatures. Leaf O with closed tear paper flaw, not affecting text. Small bookseller label on rear pastedown. Overall very good. "Often considered the first European novel, La Celestina was profoundly influential in the development of European prose fiction and is valued by critics today as much for its greatness as literature as for its historical significance" (Encyclopedia of Literature, 222). "'If Cervantes… Read More