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Edinburgh: Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1706. First edition. Folio. [10], 60 pp. COLLATION: 2 ¶2 2¶1 A-P2. Modern three-quarter red morocco, arms of the Earl of Perth stamped in gilt on front cover; near fine, with a small piece from the lower corner of the title-page, not affecting the text First edition of Defoe's lengthy poem in praise of Scotland, written to promote union when Defoe was chief propagandist and agent in Scotland for Northern Secretary Robert Harley. "[Defoes] Caledonia, a sixty-page poem published in 1706 with a grant from the Scottish privy council, celebrates Scottish history and a number of its most illustrious and historically important families" (ODNB). The poem is addressed to Scotland's landed gentry, of whom 84 were subscribers to the first edition; the present copy was in the possession of the Earls of Perth, Stobhall.Foxon notes copies with paper watermarked with French arms (D90) or, as in the present copy, Amsterdam arms and fool's cap…
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Caledonia,: &c. A Poem in Honour of Scotland, and the Scots Nation. In Three Parts
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The Carpenter's New Guide: Being a Complete Book of Lines for Carpentry and Joinery. Treating Fully on Practical Geometry the Eighth Edition
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Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son, June, 1818. Second American edition. 4to. 84 engraved plates. vi, [7]-127, [1] pp. Rebound to style with contemporary calf boards red morocco spine label preserved; heavily foxed, some creasing and wear to plates, occasional staining including dampstain to top margins and gutter of first quarter of textblock, top edge of first few leaves worn with later Japanese tissue repair; a serviceable and sturdy copy The second American edition of the most important builder's manual of its time, first published London 1792, with editions continuing through the 1860s. The first two American editions were published by Carey in 1818 and are both adapted from the 6th London edition. Nicholson, through the continual republication of his technical plates in American handbooks, almost deserves to be called the father of American carpentry and joinery (Talbot Hamlin, Greek Revival Architecture in America, p. 340). Nicholson was a major influence on American architects, including Owen…
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The Case of Heman Considered,: In a Sermon on PSAL. LXXXVIII. 15 .... Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Edward Bromfield, Merchant of Boston, in New-England. April 10, 1756. AEt. 61
by PRINCE, Thomas
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Boston: S. Kneeland, 1756. First edition. 8vo. Title-page with printed black mourning border. [4], 33, [3] pp., with half-title. Nineteenth-century half black morocco and marbled boards, spine titled in gilt; covers rubbed, dampstain to binder's blanks at front and rear First edition of Thomas Prince's sermon on the occasion of the death of Boston merchant Edward Bromfield (1695-1756). Prince (1687-1758) was pastor at Boston's Old South church, and an antiquarian and collector of New England history. This copy belonged to John Wingate Thornton, a Boston lawyer, antiquarian, author and book collector. He was a member of the American Antiquarian Society and Vice-Present of the Prince Society, a group dedicated to republishing important works of Americana, named for Thomas Prince. PROVENANCE: William Cordwell (contemporary signature on title-page); John Wingate Thornton, 1818-1878 (bookplate, signature on half title, Boston, March 1845)REFERENCE: ESTC W30220; Evans 7769
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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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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 (16941774). 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 artists true talent and spirit. His collection included over 9,000 drawings that number inflated by Mariettes unorthodox practice of splitting sheets with drawings on recto and verso to produce two separate sheets. His collection was…
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Catalogue of the Fifty Manuscripts & Printed Books Bequeathed to the British Museum by Alfread H. Huth
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London: Printed for the Trustees [of the British Museum], 1912. First edition. Folio. Photogravure portrait frontispiece of Huth after Emery Walker, 18 plates, numerous illustrations in the text. xvi, 130 pp. Publisher's red cloth, spine titled in gilt; some fading to spine and portions of covers Introduction by A. W. Pollard, Preface by F. G. Kenyon. Catalogue of the 13 manuscripts, 36 printed books, and a collection of 75 Elizabethan broadside ballads that comprised Huth's posthumous gift to the British Museum
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A Catalogue of Horace Walpole's Library ...: With Horace Walpole's Library by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis
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London: Oxford University Press, 1969. First edition. 3 vols. 4to. xci, [1], 479, [1]; v, [1], 565, [1]; v, [1], 542 pp. Publisher's navy cloth; corners bumped, textblock edges foxed, in price-clipped dust-jackets with light shelfwear
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The Cat's Tail: Being the History of Childe Merlin. A Tale. By the Baroness de Katzleben
by (CRUIKSHANK, George) [SOUTHEY, Caroline Ann, née Bowles]
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1831. First edition. George Cruikshank. 8vo. 3 etched plates by George Cruikshank. 31, [1] pp. Later full polished calf, gilt spine with contrasting morocco spine labels, t.e.g., by Worsford, original wrappers bound in; joints rubbed First edition of this "feline epic" by Robert Southey's second wife.REFERENCE: Cohn 124
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The Cenci: A Tragedy, in Five Acts
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[Livorno], Italy: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, 1819. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 104 pp. Full green crushed morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; bound without first blank, fine save for occasional pencil marks to margins First edition, one of 250 copies. Based on real events, the tragic story of Beatrice, "La Cenci," a Roman noblewoman executed in 1599 for the murder of her tyrannical and abusive father. Shelley was inspired to write the play after seeing Guido's portrait from life of the imprisoned Beatrice; he claims in the Preface that he learned the details of the case from a manuscript copied from the archives of the Cenci Palace. With its theme of the corruption and cruelty of the aristocracy, Shelley intended the work to appeal to the masses, and consciously avoided poetic language: "I have avoided with great care in writing this play the introduction of what is commonly called mere poetry, and I imagine there will scarcely be found a detached simile or a single isolated description"…
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Cinq Chants Populaires de Palestine d'Israël [title in Hebrew and French]
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Paris, February-June 1949. Folio. 10 pp. pen and ink on musical staff paper, autograph note with French translation and guide to Hebrew pronunciation laid in A manuscript fair copy of five short pieces for solo voice and piano by the Jewish-Swiss composer and musicologist Claude Abravanel (1924-2012). Lyrics are in Hebrew and French, the titles of the five pieces in French are "Chant des Marins," "Chant pour le Sabbat," "Mélodie," "Chanson Religieuse," and "Hora / Danse Israélienne." The manuscript was completed in 1949 shortly after the founding of the state of Israel, an event referenced by the crossing out of "Palestine" in the title and its replacement with "Israël." Abravanel emigrated to Israel in 1951, teaching music theory at the Jewish Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem and serving as founding director of the Academy's music library. His published academic work focused on Claude Debussey he wrote a bibliography of the composer and the influence of the Bible on various styles…
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The Collected Works : with Memoir by Sir Thomas Watson Edited for the Society by Robert Martin
by LATHAM, Peter Mere
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London: The New Sydenham Society, 1876. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, strapwork design in blind, gilt-stamped profile portrait and lettering on spine; light shelfwaer, vol. I spine ends frayed and joints starting, contemporary ownership signature on half-title, book-plate, ink number stamp to vol. I title
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The Comic History of Rome
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[London]: Bradbury, Evans, and Co, nd. Early edition. John Leech. 8vo. 10 hand-colored steel-engraved plates, 98 wood-engravings to text and illustrated title printed in black and red by John Leech. xii, 308 pp. Near contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, contrasting morocco spine labels, marbled edges; extremities rubbed, chip to head of spine. Gift inscription in pencil, Dec. [18]72, on flyleaf
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The Comic History of England
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London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., nd. Early edition. John Leech. 2 vols. in one. 8vo. 20 hand-colored steel-engraved plates and 200 wood-engravings to text by John Leech. xviii, 320; 304 pp. Contemporary three-quarters brown morocco gilt and marbled boards, a.e.g.; joints rubbed, front hinge tender REFERENCE: Abbey Life 434; Ray England 136 ("the element of comedy in the book is provided exclusively by Leech's illustrations")
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The Comic History of England
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London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co., nd. Early edition. John Leech. 2 vols. in one. 8vo. 20 hand-colored steel-engraved plates and 200 wood-engravings to text by John Leech. xviii, 320; 304 pp. Later full blue calf gilt, contrasting spine labels, a.e.g. by Bayntun; some foxing and toning, repairs to fore-edges of a few preliminaries, one plate creased REFERENCE: Abbey Life 434; Ray England 136 ("the element of comedy in the book is provided exclusively by Leech's illustrations")
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The Complete Poetical Works of
by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth; HOLMES, Oliver Wendell; LOWELL, James Russell
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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, n.d.. Cambridge Edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume. Uniformly bound in contemporary three-quarters red morocco and marbled boards, gilt; light shelfwear
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The Connection: Introduction by Kenneth Tynan. Photographs by John E. Wulp
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New York: Grove Press, Inc / London: Evergreen Books Ltd, (1960). First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with b/w photographs by John E. Wulp from the original Living Theater stage production. 96 pp. Publisher's photo-illustrated wrappers. Light rubbing to covers First edition, signed ("Jack Gelber") on the half-title of this groundbreaking and controversial work, a play-within-a-play about heroin-addicted jazz musicians waiting for their score. Performances featured live jazz music by Freddie Redd. The Connection premiered off-Broadway on July 15, 1959, at the Living Theater, directed by Judith Malina. It won the Village Voice Obie Awards for Best New Play, Best Production, and Best Actor (Warren Finnerty in the role of Leach). The play was adapted to film in 1961 by Shirley Clarke, featuring the Freddie Redd Quartet with Jackie McLean on alto
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Cottage Residences;: or a Series of Designs for Rural Cottages and Cottage-Villas, and Their Gardens and Grounds. Adapted to North America
by DOWNING, A[ndrew] J[ackson]
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New York and London: Wiley and Putnam, 1842. First edition. 8vo. 11 engraved plates (1 in color) and 69 illustrations to text. [4, ads], [iv], 187, [1], [4, ads] pp. Publisher's plum cloth, stamped in blind and gilt; spine faded, endpapers discolored, previous owner's signature to ffep First edition of Downing's influential second book, which presents 10 designs for cottages ("ornamental farm," "English rural gothic," "Italian," "old English," etc.), with elevation, floor plans, illustrations of construction details, estimate of cost, and a suggested layout of the grounds and gardens. It is "arguably the first of the new genre of house pattern books, which depicted the home in its landscaped setting, plans of the grounds, and ornamental details, along with an explanatory text to assist the reader in choosing a residence appropriate to his or her circumstances. Unlike the larger houses Downing used to illustrate in the Treatise, most of the designs in Cottage Residences were smaller and more…
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Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry.: ... With Notes and a Preface by Maria Edgeworth
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London: J. Johnson and Co., 1811. First London edition. [with:] LEADBEATER, Mary. Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry.... Part Second. With Notes and Illustrations. Dublin: Printed at the Hibernia-Press Office, for J. Johnson & Co., St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1813. First edition2 vols. 12mo. [2], v, [5], 343, [1] pp., with half-title; viii, [1], 212, [8, blank], [213]-275, [1] pp. Both volumes uncut in publisher's boards, printed spine label to first title; light wear to joints, housed together in a cloth folding box. The first London edition of Cottage Dialogues Among the Irish Peasantry and the first (Dublin) edition of its continuation, both in fine condition in publisher's boards, and the former with the ownership signature of Scottish literary critic and author Elizabeth Rose, Baroness of Kilravock. The Cottage Dialogues are a series of morally improving vignettes by the Irish Quaker author, diarist and chronicler of Irish rural social life, Mary Leadbeater (17581826). "The…
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Cours d'architecture,: ou Traité de la Décoration, Distribution, & Construction des Bâtiments
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Paris: Chez Desaint, 1771-1777. First edition. 9 vols. 8vo (6 vols. text) and tall 8vo (3 vols. plates). With half-titles in text volumes. 377 engraved plates (full-page or folding) by Croisey, De la Gardette, Marillier, et al, after Blondel, Desprez, Eisen, Helin, Patte, et al. Contemporary tree calf, flat spines with red morocco onlaid panels gilt-stamped with neo-classical tools, onlaid green and tan morocco lettering and volume number pieces; a few heads chipped, occasional light shelfwear. A beautiful copy in contemporary binding of the first edition of the encyclopedic and richly illustrated manual of architecture instruction that was the standard handbook of its day (Fowler). Known as the Petit Blondel to distinguish it from the four folio volumes of Blondels LArchitecture françoise(the Grand Blondel), the Cours is based on Blondels teaching at the École des Arts, a private school that he founded in Paris in 1740. His works remain to this day the most complete and authoritative account ever…
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Cremaster 3
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New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2002. First edition. Oblong 4to. Color film stills throughout. Publisher's illustrated wrappers; fine Signed ("Matthew Barney") on the title-page
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The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems
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New York: George Dearborn, 1835. First edition. 8vo. [6], 84 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait and vignette title-page. Publisher's deluxe binding, black morocco, gilt- and blind-tooled, gilt lyre and cherub centerpiece (as in cloth trade binding) gilt board edges and turn-ins, glazed endpapers, a.e.g., in custom blue morocco-backed slipcase and chemise; light rubbing to extremities, endpapers discolored, frontispiece offset to engraved title. First edition of the first collection of Drake's poetry, published 15 years after his early death from consumption, here in the publisher's deluxe morocco gilt binding. Drake (1795-1920) was a physician and pharmacist and an early member of the Knickerbocker Group. His only lifetime publications were "The Croaker Papers," anonymous political satires written in collaboration with Fitz-Green Halleck. Drake requested that his poetry manuscripts be destroyed following his death; they were instead preserved by his wife and eventually shepherded to print by his…
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