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A survey of the cities of London and Westminster: containing the original, antiquity, increase,...
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London: printed for A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Walthoe, E. Horne, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, R. Robinson, and T. Ward, 1720. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Fine. First Strype Edition, best and most desirable edition of Stow's magisterial study—the "starting point of all inquiry into the subject of Elizabethan London." Complete in two folio volumes; each of the six 'books,' introduced by a drop-head title, with its own pagination: [4], xii, xlii, [2], 308, 208, 285, [1]; [2], 120, 459, [1], 93, [3], 143, [1], 26, [2]pp, with 70 plates, plans and maps (31 double-page or folding), including those of London, Westminster and Southwark. Title pages in red and black. Superbly bound in handsome contemporary paneled calf sewn on six raised bands, very skillfully rebacked with the original lettering pieces laid down. A crisp, clean, fresh copy, with only occasional minor soiling, the copper-engraved plates in deep, rich impressions. Provenance: On the verso of the title pages, the… Read More
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Principles of political economy : considered with a view to their practical application
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Principles of political economy : considered with a view to their practical application

by MALTHUS, Thomas R. (1766-1834)

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London: John Murray, Albermarle-Street, 1820. First Edition. Paper-covered Boards. First Edition, with the rare 4-page publisher's catalog, dated April 1820, of this classic of economic theory. 8vo: vi,601, 1]pp. "London: Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar." on colophon and title-page verso, as called for. Uncut, in the original publisher's drab blue paper-covered boards, largely unopened, with brown paper spine and remnants of original printed label. Internally, fresh and bright with only occasionally spotting, original spine largely perished but restored sensitively by an expert conservationist, the boards somewhat stained and bumped but thoroughly original, hinges reinforced. Small owner's book label, probably contemporary, partly effaced, reading T ? Cobb. Clamshell case with leather spine label gilt. An unsophisticated copy of a truly scarce (in publisher's binding), important, and desirable book, a cornerstone of economic thought and a major influence on other scientific endeavors,… Read More
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Britannia: or a chorographical description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the...
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London: printed by Mary Matthews, for Awnsham Churchill, and sold by William Taylor, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1722. Full Calf. Fine. A pinnacle of English scholarship, the first comprehensive topographical survey of Great Britain, complete in two tall folio volumes, mainly printed in two numbered columns: [66]pp,cclxviii columns,[2]pp,696 columns; [2],697-1526 columns,[176, appendices, index and errata]pp, with copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of Camden, 10 plates of coins and antiquities, 51 folding or double-page uncolored maps (including 42 county maps and maps of north and south Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and "The Smaller Islands in the British Ocean) "all new engrav'd," additional engravings and woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary Cambridge-style paneled calf (joints very neatly repaired), spine in seven compartments between raised bands, red morocco lettering pieces gilt; title pages in red and black. An unusually Fine set, original binding with handsome patina; pages bright, fresh and… Read More
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[Color Plate] Select Views of London. With Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Some of the...
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[Color Plate] Select Views of London. With Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Some of the Most Interesting of its Public Buildings

by PAPWORTH, J[ohn]. B[uonarotti]., 1775-1847

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London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, by J. Diggens, St. Ann's Lane, 1816. Half-Morocco. Fine. First Edition in book form of "one of the great books of London." (Franklin), collecting a series of architectural notes describing contemporary London for Ackermann's Repository, illustrated with colored aquatints and originally published in serial form between 1810-1815. This is the issue without Papworth's name on title page (no priority established). Imperial 8vo: [8],159,[1]pp, with 76 delicately hand-colored aquatints (five folding), by J. Hamble and Joseph Constantine Stadler after Papworth and Augustus Pugin, "of past London, with representations of City churches and other topographical features now no longer in existence" (Prideaux). Later green morocco over navy pebbled cloth, flat spine (sunned to brown) lavishly gilt, all edges marbled, marbled end papers. A fine Ackermann production in a tall, attractive copy, beautifully bound, occasional light offsetting and scattered foxing, plates… Read More
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The history of a voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, made in 1763 and 1764, under the...
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London: printed for William Goldsmith, Number 24, Pater-Noster Row; and David Steel, Number 1, Union-Row, the Lower-End of the Minories, Little Tower-Hill, 1773. Second Edition. Full Calf. Fine. Second Edition in English of a primary source on the Falkland Islands. 4to: [4],xvii,[1],294pp, with 16 copper engraved charts (three folding), maps (one folding), and plates (three folding) of native inhabitants and fauna. Period-style speckled calf, spine in six compartments between raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece gilt. The Ingleton Copy (Geoffrey and Nan, with their book plate on front paste-down), formerly the property of Admiral Phillip P. King (with his initialed annotation on p. 273 and penciled marginalia in his hand, including a slip of notations on laid paper tipped in following p. 264. Geoffrey Ingleton was a bibliophile and amateur etcher, mainly of historical marine subjects. King, 1791-1856, was an early explorer of the Australian and Patagonian coasts.) An exemplary,… Read More
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[Children's Literature] Original stories from real life with conversations, calculated to...
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[Children's Literature] Original stories from real life with conversations, calculated to regulate the affections, and form the mind to truth and goodness

by WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary (1759-1797); William Blake (Illustrates)

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London: printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1791. Second Edition. Vellum. Fine. First Edition illustrated by William Blake (and first to carry Wollstonecraft's name on title page) of this didactic collection of stories for children. 12mo: viii,[4],177,[3,advertisements]pp, with six full-page copper-engraved plates (including frontispiece) designed and engraved by William Blake. No half-title, as issued. According to Easson & Essick, there are two states of the plates, but only a few copies have the first state; some are a mixture. Windle, however, has identified a third state and notes that Bentley believes the plates were optional in both the 1791 and 1796 editions. A superb copy, newly rebound by Fitterer in full vellum with salmon pink morocco lettering piece gilt. Light offsetting from plates, very minor foxing, else clean and bright in a very pretty pristine binding. Bentley 421A. Bibliotheca Bibliographici 596. Windle A3b. Ashley Library IX, p 157 and X, p. 219 ("first… Read More
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Fructologie, ou Description des arbres fruitiers ainsi que des fruits que l'on plante et qu'on...
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Fructologie, ou Description des arbres fruitiers ainsi que des fruits que l'on plante et qu'on cultive ordinairement dans les jardins . . . [bound with] Pomologie, ou description des meilleures sortes de pommes et de poires, Que l'on estime & cultive le plus, soit aux Pais-Bas, soit en Allemagne, en France, en Angleterre, &c

by KNOOP, Johann Hermann (c.1706-1769)

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Amsterdam: Chez M. Magérus, Libraire, 1771. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Fine. Rare French Edition of the first compendium of fruit arboriculture with 39 folding copper-engraved plates in fine contemporary hand coloring. Two foolscap-folio volumes bound in one: [ii],160,[iv],161-205,[1], with 19 plates (quince, cherry, plum, fig, currant, almond, chestnut, apricot, and other fruits and nuts) and large woodcut tailpieces; [ii],339 [i.e. 139]pp, with 20 plates by Jacob Folkema and Jan Caspar Philips (showing 103 apple varieties and 82 varieties of pears, with such evocative name as red apple paradise, Queen of England, siren lemon, and Mrs. Thigh). Title and preface from the Leeuwarden edition of 1766 bound in between Rr2 and Ss. Elegantly bound in early mottled calf, spine richly gilt in seven compartments divided by raised bands, green morocco lettering piece gilt, edges stained red, plain period end papers. An excellent copy of a superb production, the only notable flaw being three plates and… Read More
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Four Quartets [comprising East Coker, Burnt Norton, The Dry Salvages, Little Gidding]
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Four Quartets [comprising East Coker, Burnt Norton, The Dry Salvages, Little Gidding]

by ELIOT, T[homas]. S[tearns], 1888-1965

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New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. -/Fine. First Printing ("First American Edition" on copyright page) of the first single-volume edition of Eliot's wartime masterpiece (preceding the British edition by more than a year), in the first-issue dust jacket (with nine titles to back panel). Tall, slim 8vo: [8],39,[1]pp. Original black cloth, spine titled in gold; jacket printed in gray and black, priced $2. About Fine (lettering to spine occasionally rubbed); slight toning to jacket's spine panel, crown of spine nicked, else exceptionally well-preserved. Gallup A43. A total of 4,165 copies were printed, but 3,777 destroyed because the margins were incorrectly set, because of unskilled wartime labor. The remaining 788 copies, of which this is one, were issued as review copies and to preserve copyright. Collects four interrelated poems published separately over the previous three years. East Coker is the village in Somerset from which Eliot's ancestors departed for the New World, in… Read More
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[Whaling] De Walvischvangst, met Veele Byzonderheden Daartoe Betrekkelyk. Met plaaten
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[Whaling] De Walvischvangst, met Veele Byzonderheden Daartoe Betrekkelyk. Met plaaten

by [JONG, Dirk de (active 1779-1805)]

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Amsterdam / Harlingen: Peter Conrad / Volkert van der Plaats [through 1786], 1784. First Edition. Quarter-Calf. Fine. Rare complete copy of this early classic in the literature of whaling, illustrated with finely engraved maps of the polar regions, including one of the earliest maps showing the whole of the Arctic and perhaps the first map of Nova Zembla. Four volumes bound in one, each with title page and separate pagination. 4to (250 x 202mm): vii,[1],96, with four plates (three folding) and two folding maps; iii,[1],116, with one plate and three folding maps; [4],116, with nine plates (one folding), and folding map; [4],116pp, with one folding plate, the magnificent lifting of the nets, depicting the fleet of ships and sloops used in the fishery. Contemporary quarter calf over speckled paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments divided by double gilt rules, tan leather lettering piece gilt, all edges speckled brown. A Fine, wide-margined example, tightly bound in contemporary (probably… Read More
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A Practical Essay on the Art of Colouring and Painting Landscapes in Water Colours, with Ten...
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A Practical Essay on the Art of Colouring and Painting Landscapes in Water Colours, with Ten Illustrative Engravings; [bound with] A Practical Illustration of Gilpin's Day, Representing the Various Effects on Landscape Scenery from Morning till Night, in Thirty Designs from Nature

by CLARK, John Heaviside (1770-1863); [William Gilpin, 1724-1804]

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London: Printed for and sold by Edward Orme, Bond Street, the Corner of Brook Street, 1812. Full Calf. Fine. Superb, beautifully colored examples (bound in one volume) of these early guides to watercolor painting: the "first of the coloured drawing books" (Prideaux) and and a "surprisingly elusive" (Martin-Hardie) copy of Gilpin's Day. Royal 4to (350 x 247mm): [4],28pp, with 10 numbered aquatints (six hand-colored; plate IV misnumbered "V") engraved by J. Hamble after Clark; [4],viii,[32]pp, with 30 hand-colored aquatint engravings by Clark after Gilpin. Contemporary Cambridge-style paneled calf, covers with Greek key border in gilt and floral roll and corner pieces in blind, spine (relaid) gilt in six compartments between raised bands, all edges marbled. Provenance: early twentieth-century bookplates of bibliophile Mildred Davey and printer and book collector John Nolty (1851-1930) to front end sheets. A gorgeous, wide margined example, clean and bright throughout. Tooley 144 and 145. Abbey (Life)… Read More
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[Ornithology] [Hand-Colored] Harmonia ruralis: or, An essay towards a natural history of British...
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[Ornithology] [Hand-Colored] Harmonia ruralis: or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds: illustrated with figures, the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes

by BOLTON, James ((bap. 1735, d. 1799)

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London: printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1830. Quarter-Vellum. Fine. New (and preferred) Edition, "revised and very considerably augmented," of one of the most "luxurious" (Coues) eighteenth-century works on British song birds, with the hand-coloring "so much improved." (Jackson) Two volumes bound in one. Royal 4to (314 x 235 mm): xxiv,66; [2],96,[4]pp, with 81 beautifully hand-colored plates (including frontispiece) of male and female songbirds and their eggs and nests (41 of birds, 36 of nests and eggs, 4 portraying both), drawn and engraved by the author. Quarter vellum over blue paper-covered boards, original paper title label printed in black to spine. Volume I only with light (occasionally moderate) spotting throughout, few marginal chips to title label, but a superb example, tightly bound and generally clean throughout with vibrant hand-color. Sitwell, p. 78. Nissen IVB 115 (for first and Bohn editions). Zimmer I, p. 64 (Bohn edition). Jackson (Bird Etchings), pp.169-80. Mullens, pp.… Read More
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[Maritime] The Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship. Illustrated with engravings. In...
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[Maritime] The Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship. Illustrated with engravings. In two volumes

by STEEL, David

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London: Printed For David Steel, Union-Road, Little Tower Hill, 1794. Full Calf. Fine. Rare First Edition of Steel's exhaustive treatise on shipbuilding (complete in two continuously paginated volumes bound as one), a massive work addressing all things maritime in the age of sail. Demy 4to (262 x 204mm): xv,[3],185,185*,186-240; [4],245*-260*,244-425,[5],147,[1]pp, with 95 inserted copper-engraved plates (some folding and double-page), depicting shipbuilding, masts, ropes, sails, and the like; two volvelles (one defective), and numerous full-page tables. (Pagination is continuous but highly irregular, per ESTC.) Contemporary full tree calf covers with old reback, flat spine gilt in six compartments, red leather lettering piece gilt, marbled end papers, separate title pages. Book plate of conservationist Frederick E. Ellis (1916-2010), of Shaw Island, Washington. A superb example in period binding, tightly bound and clean throughout, with excellent impressions of the plates; compass volvelle absent… Read More
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Axel's Castle : A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
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Axel's Castle : A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930

by WILSON, Edmund (1895-1972)

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First printing (with "A" and Scribner's seal on copyright page) of Wilson's first collection of critical essays, charting the influence of the French Symbolist poets on such revolutionary twentieth-century texts as Joyce's Ulysses and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Crown 8vo (203 x 136mm): [12],319,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven navy blue cloth, paper spine label printed in black, fore-edge untrimmed; putty grey typographic dust jacket printed in black and priced $2.50. Clamshell case. A truly spectacular example, tightly bound (lightly read, if at all) and spotless throughout. Jacket spine panel darkened a degree or two, else virtually pristine. Modern Movement 71 ("ends with a capital and little known account of the Dada movement by Tristan Tzara"). The introductory essay on Symbolism (tracing its origins in the works of Poe, first translated into French by Baudelaire) is followed by chapters on W. B. Yeats, Paul… Read More
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Reflections in a Golden Eye [Inscribed to H. Tatnall Brown, Jr.]
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Reflections in a Golden Eye [Inscribed to H. Tatnall Brown, Jr.]

by MCCULLERS, Carson (1917-1967)

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin [Riverside Press]??, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine-. First Printing of McCullers's second novel, a "hothouse tale of twisted desire and simmering violence." (Terrence Rafferty) Crown 8vo (202 x 129mm): [6],182,[2]pp. Publisher's two-tone grey and beige cloth lettered in yellow and black on front cover and black on spine, fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed, double-page title printed in yellow, black, and beige. First Issue dust jacket (with die-cut glassine window on front panel) printed in yellow, black, and beige and priced $2.00. Housed in bespoke green cloth-covered slip case and chemise, brown leather spine label stamped in gilt. Inscribed by the author to front fly leaf to H. Tatnall Brown, Jr. (1900-1983), author, bibliophile, and dean of Haverford College: "For H. Tatnall Brown, Jr. / with best wishes from / Carson McCullers." Scattered spotting to spine, faint offsetting to end papers, but a superlative example, tightly bound (apparently unread)… Read More
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[Collected Works in Original Cloth] The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe : with Notices of his...
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New York: J. S. Redfield, Clinton Hall, Nassau-Street, 1850. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine+. Three First Editions (second printings of volumes 1 and 2, per BAL; first printing of volume 3) of the first collection of Poe's poetry and prose, edited by N. P. Willis, J. R. Lowell, and R. W. Griswold. Crown 8vo (185 x 113mm): xx,483,[5]; vi,[7]-495,[1]; xxxix,[1],607,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Poe to volume one. Original purple elaborately blind-stamped T-cloth (also issued in black, blue, green-blue, and brown), spines lettered in gilt. Contemporary ownership inscriptions of Caroline Chesebro to each volume, dated in the year of publication, and of Robert H. Chesebro, dated Sept. 1923. An excellent matched set in original cloth, tightly bound (spines sunned but gilt bright) and generally clean throughout (light intermittent foxing to volumes one and two). BAL 16158 and 16159. Robertson, p. 289. Heartman & Canny, pp. 88-91. Tane, p. 99. Sabin 63522 and 63570. Published as a two-volume set one… Read More
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