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A CLOSE FRIEND OF LAWRENCE STERNEHALL-STEVENSON, JOHN. Fables for Grown Gentlemen: or, A Fable for every Day on the Week. 4to. Disbound. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley. 1761. First Edition.Hall-Stevenson was a friend of Laurence Sterne, and was immortalized in Sterne's Tristam Shandy and Sentimental Journey Through France and England. He also claimed friendship with John Wilkes, Horace Walpole and Rousseau. Notorious for licentious verse, he published a Lyric Epistle (1760) to Sterne on the triumph of Tristram Shandy, which Gray called "absolute nonsense." Better known were his Fables for Grown Gentlemen. Horace Walpole credited Hall-Stevenson with "a vast deal of original humour and wit."Hall-Stevenson gave some financial support to his friend Sterne, who often visited him at Skelton. They liked to race chariots over the sands at Saltburn. Hall-Stevenson appears under the name of 'Eugenius' in Sterne's novels Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. The latter was… Read More

Translated into French by Henri Robillot. Illustrated with original Frontispiece and full-page color lithographs by Garcia-Fons. 8vo. Padded faux leather, gilt design. André Sauret; de la Collection des Douze Meilleurs Romans Policiers. No. 11. Lithographs printed at Les Presses de Mourlot Frères, Paris 1969. First French Illustrated Edition. Limited to a small number on alfa paper, unnumbered. Fine.

SIGNED BY HARDY61. HARDY, THOMAS. The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse. A New Version of an Old Story Arranged as a Play for Mummers. In One Act. Requiring no Theatre or Scenery. First Edition, second impression. Presentation copy, signed by Hardy on the title page, "Yours truly Thomas Hardy," with blind stamped "Presentation Copy" on title page. Although not stated, the book comes from the library of the translator Cecil Georges Bazile. Frontispiece, with tissue guard. 8vo. Original green boards, gilt design on cover; gilt letters on spine; enclosed in original white printed dust wrapper. Macmillan and Company Limited, London 1923.Some water damage to binding; dust wrapper soiled and chipped, with 2½-inch chip to front edge; o/w very nice.

THE CONCEPTUAL ORIGIN OF "NEWSPEAK"8vo. Contemporary full calf; gilt decorations on spine; spine label; green silk bookmark. A Paris, Chez Les Marchands De Nouveautés, 1797. First Edition.La Harpe was the first to denounce an essential mechanism of terror, the manipulation of language; or the concept of "Newspeak," as developed by George Orwell in 1984.La Harpe shows how revolutionaries gave words new meanings to handle the crowds. They established a "reverse language" that allowed spying in the name of freedom, tyranny in the name of equality, massacre in the name of fraternity, persecution in the name of tolerance, etc. This inversion of language - which led to the guillotine and the Vendée "genocide" - was set up by the so-called Enlightenment philosophers, including Voltaire who consistently associated the word "fanatical" with Catholic. Binding worn and chipped at lower spine and bottom edge; endpapers refreshed; generally clean internally. Scarce.

Inscribed on the front cover, "From Mory Sherburne to Mark Henry Wentworth Esqr."8vo. Original printed wrappers, sewn. Portsmouth, (New-Hampshire) Printed by Daniel and Robert Fowle, 1767. First Edition. Fine.

Illustrated with 72 mounted albumin photographs. 32mo. Full vellum with Romulus and Remus gilt stamp on front and back covers; spines relaid; red spine labels, gilt lettering. Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz1860. 2 volumes. A commercial undertaking as evidenced by the poor paper quality and sloppy pasting and cutting of photos. Nevertheless, an interesting example of a "grangerized" work when extra illustrations were added by Grand Tour Victorian tourists, a market clearly courted by Tauchnitz European Editions of the classics. Bookplates; some peeling and partial loss to spines, inner hinges crudely repaired.

Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 14 engraved plates. 8vo. Original publisher's plain paper boards, chipped paper label on spine. London, Published by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1824. First and only edition of Royal Naval officer Sir Henry Heathcote's demonstration of the effectiveness of his patented design for an improved arrangement of staysails. The Naval and Military Magazine (1827, Vol. I) reviewed the work, commenting: "However elaborate the diagrams, practical proofs must always be preferred on professional points; and, though the baronet is backed by Euclid, and assures his readers he is supported in his theory by the opinions of experienced officers, it is not too much here to assert, that the majority of both the new and old school will dispute the utility of staysails, in any shape, set upon a wind; and few, it is presumed, will approve of the cut of Sir Henry's jib." The same journal later notes that several naval commanders have reviewed the staysails favorably, and that they… Read More

ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 600 WOODCUTS
BIBLIA, ad vetustissima exemplaria nunc recens castigata, in quibus praeter ea quae subsequens praefatio indicat, capita singula ita versibus distincta sunt ut numeri praefixi lectorem non remorentur et loca quaesita tamquam digito demonstrent. Edited by Johannes Hentenius. Title page illustrated with an elaborate architectural woodcut border incorporating several scenes: St. Jerome in his study, Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac, and Cain slaying Abel; plus over 600 text woodcuts after Hans Holbein, Bernard Salomon and Pierre Eskrich. Thick 4to. Bound in 16th- or 17th-century full vellum over semi-rigid boards; spine titled "Biblia Sacra" in an early hand. Printed in Venice [by Altobello Salicato] for heirs of Niccolò Bevilacqua & assoc., 1574. The Latin text of this Venetian edition is of Hentenius' influential 1547 Louvain Bible, which closely follows the Estienne Bible of 1538-40, with some modifications of the text and marginal matter.
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First Edition.Holmes' Ramble contains valuable comparisons of Mozart and Beethoven which date from only a very short period after Beethoven's death, as well as an engraved facsimile of an invitation to Beethoven's funeral.8vo. Half-leather-backed decorated boards, gold stamped on the front and back covers with the crest of The Society of Writers to the Signet. London: Published by Hunt and Clarke. 1828. Hinges cracked but holding firmly by the cords; minor wear to boards and corners; o/w fine.

Theo. Audel & Company, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. With upwards of 500 illustrations and diagrams. Original red cloth, faded. Theo. Audel & Company, New York 1907. Sixth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. The illustrated treatise gives the essential details of construction and many important points on the successful operation of the various types of motor carriages driven by steam, gasoline and electricity, including a 2-page cross-sectional diagram of an American four-cylinder touring car. Cover worn and faded, o/w very nice

8vo. Original blue cloth, in dust wrapper. Doubleday, Doran and Co., New York 1942. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Hoover, "To Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Jones with the kind regards of Herbert Hoover." Dust wrapper stained on back cover, 3-inch tear at top of back cover; some chipping to head and heel of spine; 3 pages slightly stained by offsetting from papers laid-into the book; o/w a clean copy. Very Nice.

Presentation copy inscribed by Hoover to Stanford ProfessorFrontispiece. 8vo. Original cloth, in dust wrapper. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Printing, with Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. Presentation copy inscribed by Hoover on the front endpaper, "To Prof. Eliot Jones (and Mrs. Jones) With the wishes for a Happy New Year (if any) Herbert Hoover." Eliot Jones, author of five books, was a professor at Stanford (Hoover's alma mater) for 35 years. Dust wrapper slightly chipped at edges, with 1½-inch tear to top of front cover; 1-inch tear to middle of spine; o/w Fine.

Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Bound in original boards. Parma 1791. First Edition. One of 25 copies on papier verge of an edition of 128. Paper worn on spine; interior clean and bright. A Fine Copy. Scarce.

Hand illuminated by Minnie Gardner.First Edition. Signed by Elbert Hubbard and Minnie Gardner. Limited to 940 numbered copies, This copy #402. 4to. ½ brown suede over gilt-stamped gray paper-covered boards, leather label on the spine. (The Roycroft Press, East Aurora 1900). Suede worn at corners of front cover; interior clean and bright. Fine.

ROYCROFT PRESS, 1905. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with hand colored initials and insignia at rear. 8vo. In a Roycroft binding of ½-brown leather over French marbled boards; spine with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering and design; marbled endpapers. The Roycroft Press, East Aurora 1905. Limited to 100 copies printed on Japan vellum, signed by Hubbard. This copy #52. Previous owners signature to the front endpaper, light soil to the lower outside corners of the first and last pages, o/w bright and clean