Search Results: Authors starting with H from Bull's Head Rare Books

London: John Murray, 1831. First edition. 8vo. 2 engraved plates. v, [3], 52 pp. Polished calf, gilt; rubbed, pencil annotations by early owner PROVENANCE: Richard Goolden (book-plate); Seth B. Watson (gift inscription from the previous)

Boston: Richardson, Lord and Holbrook, 1829. First edition. 8vo. 135, [1], [12, ads] pp. Uncut in publisher's cloth-backed boards, printed spine label; light scuffing to covers, near fine First edition of the first American book on pedagogy, a collection of thirteen lectures addressed to prospective teachers. Hall (1795-1877) was a founder of the American Institute of Instruction and a leader of the school reform movement. He advocated for teachers to be rigorously trained, adequately compensated for their labor, and equipped with useful educational tools and supplies (Hall popularized the use of the chalkboard in schools). “The object, in lecturing and writing, has been to present the nature of their employment, to those who are preparing themselves to instruct; and to impress them with the importance of being properly qualified, and faithful in their employment, as well as to give such directions for governing and teaching as might be useful to them” (Preface). Hall imagines a primarily male… Read More

Halleck (1790-1867) was one of the most popular American poets in the first half of the 19th century and the only American to be honored with a statue in Poet's Row in Central Park. Recent scholarship has contextualized Halleck as an early gay American poet, whose relationship with fellow poet and collaborator Joseph Rodman Drake formed the basis for Bayard Taylor's 1870 novel Joseph and his Friend cited by some as the first gay American novel. (See Hallock, The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck, University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.) Born in Guilford, Connecticut, Halleck moved to New York in 1811, and in 1813 formed an intimate relationship with Drake. In 1819 the men became literary stars when they published "The Croakers," a series of poems satirizing prominent New Yorkers; Halleck followed this up in 1819 with Fanny, a poem satirizing New York's nouveaux riches which went through several life-time editions; Alnwick Castle and other poems appeared in 1827, featuring… Read More

København [Copenhagen]: P.G. Philipsens Forlag, 1890. First edition. 8vo. [4], 333, [1] pp. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards; binding rubbed, early ownership signature to title-page, toned First edition of this highly influential semi-autobiographical novel about a humiliated and impoverished writer in Oslo. A precursor to so much of the literature of alienation and consciousness of the 20th century. In his introduction to a 1967 edition of Hunger Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote “The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun.” Hamsun won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

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

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1826. First American edition. 8vo. iii, [5], ii, 480 pp. Uncut in publisher's boards, printed spine label; some loss to spine ends, front hinge reinforced, sporadic foxing, in custom gray cloth slipcase and chemise First American edition of these works by the British Romantic poet Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), whose poetry was immensely popular in the United States and brought a stream of American visitors to her Liverpool home. Publication was overseen by the Boston Unitarian Andrews Norton, who "hailed Hemans's work as forwarding a liberal, disestablished protestantism" (ODNB). Andrews continued to publish Hemans's works in uniform style over the next several years, a plan he outlines in the Advertisement. (In anticipation of his plan, the half-title indicates "Vol. I.") Norton also notes that many of the miscellaneous shorter poems are here published for the first time, the manuscripts having been delivered directly from Hemans. An attractive copy,… Read More

[Switzerland?], late 19th century. Oblong 4to. 100 pressed and mounted botanical specimens on 20 mounts, each with printed or manuscript caption giving the Latin name. Decorated green cloth album, bordered in black and gilt, titled on front cover in gilt, decorated endpapers; occasional light foxing to mounts, specimens generally in fine condition and the binding unusually bright and clean. With one additional mounted specimen laid-in an envelope with the manuscript note "Harebell. From highest point of Schybige Platte, Switzerland." A very handsome herbarium of alpine flora, with the specimens artfully mounted with narrow paper strips. The labels appear to have been taken from a variety of printed sources, as they mix lithographic printing with letterpress, and several are found in penciled manuscript. The specimens include examples of species of Anemone, Rhododendron, Ajuga, Potentilla, Azalea, Viola, Erica, Saxifraga, Carex, Campanula, Ranunculus, and others.

ca. 1900. 4to. 20 mounted seaweed specimens, most captioned with Latin name. Purple embossed cloth, stamped in gilt and black on the front cover; front hinge starting, occasional spotting or staining. Alphonse Crane, bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA (ink stamp on front pastedown)

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine titled in gilt; spine faded, closed tears to head of spine cloth REFERENCE: BAL 8803

Houghton Mifflin and Company. Later editions. 8 vols. 8vo. Contemporary orange-brown three-quarter morocco, gilt spines with raised bands, t.e.g., by R.W. Smith; spines toned, occasional light shelfwear and spotting to covers and endpapers, small chip to head of the Professor at the Breakfast-table A set of the works of Oliver Wendell Holmes assembled from later uniform editions of his works published by Houghton Mifflin:The Guardian Angel (1885); Elsie Venner (188-); The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1884); The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1885); Pages from an Old Volume of Life (1884); The Poetical Works (nd); The Professor at the Breakfast-table (1885); Medical Essays (1883)

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. First edition, BAL state B (no priority), binding A. 12mo. 39, [1] pp. + 4 pp. inserted publisher's list (October 1850) at front. Publisher's printed glazed cream-yellow boards (BAL binding A); spine chipped, front joint cracked, some soiling to boards, in custom brown cloth slipcase and chemise First edition of this poetical address to the Yale Phi Beta Kappa Society by Oliver Wendell Holmes. With a later manuscript note of October 1906 on the ffep by Yale alumnus Edmund Stedman, who witnessed the address: "I was only sixteen … it much impressed me, as all of us college boys knew something of the doctor's early verse." Stedman (1833-1908) was a poet, critic and stock broker, whose anthologies of American literature were important steps in defining the canon of American letters. BAL identifies two printings of the first edition, each printing having two states distinguished by minute typographical differences to the copyright page and signature mark 3.… Read More

Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858. First edition. 8vo. Engraved vignette title-page and 8 plates, letterpress title-page printed in red and black. viii, 373, [1] pp. Publisher's brown cloth, covers stamped in blind with ornate frame with curved inner corners, spine titled in gilt and stamped with 4 gilt rings (3 with fleur-de-lis and 1 with publisher's monogram), publisher's advertisements on endpapers (BAL binding A); small circular wormhole to cloth on rear joint, slight gouge to lower margin of first few leaves, still a remarkably fresh copy, in a custom brown cloth slipcase and chemise A fine first edition of the fictionalized table talk of Oliver Wendell Holmes, the epitome of the intellectual Boston Brahmin ethos. Contains two of his most celebrated poems, "The Deacon's Masterpiece or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay" and "The Chambered Nautilus." The Autocrat originated with two early essays published under that title in the New England Magazine in 1831 and 1832. Holmes reused the title… Read More

1780. Folio. Manuscript score in pen and ink by copyist N.G. Vigittil. [4 (title, libretto), 101 (score), 1 (blank)] pp. Contemporary paste-paper wrappers, printed label on front cover; some wear to covers with loss at lower spine end, first few leaves lightly soiled and worn, occasional foxing and toning, some unobtrusive pencil annotations, book-plate A fine contemporary copyist manuscript of Homilius's Christmas oratorio, first published in 1777 in Frankfurt. Complete score in an accomplished hand comprising decorative calligraphic title, libretto, and the complete parts for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, organ, strings, woodwinds, brass and timpani, notated in brown ink on up to twenty single-stave systems per page. RISM records 10 partial or complete manuscript copies of the Christmas oratorio dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. The present example is unrecorded and the copyist, N.G. Vigittil, does not appear in any RISM records.Homilius (1714-1785) was a German organist and composer,… Read More

London: Humphrey Milford, 1930. Second edition, no. 47 of 250 copies printed on hand-made paper. 8vo. Two photogravure portraits, two facsimiles of Hopkins’s manuscripts, and a drawing by Hopkins used as a headpiece. [20], 159, [1] pp. Publisher's half parchment and patterned boards; small nick and some soiling to spine, small dealer description affixed to colophon page Hopkins’ poems were not published until 1918, nearly thirty years after his death, gathered and edited by his friend Robert Bridges. This second edition, limited to 250 copies (there was also a trade edition), contains sixteen additional poems not included in the first edition.“Hopkins’ poetry with its religious faith, his experiments in versification, his ‘dark night of the soul’ would have reduced all his Victorian contemporaries to immediate insignificance—like Rimbaud’s in France—had they but known of him” (Connolly)REFERENCE: Connolly 100, no. 33 (first ed.); Dunne A73

London: William Sandby, 1749. 2 vols. 8vo. 35 engraved plates (including frontispiece to vol. I), engraved dedication leaf and title-page vignette portrait of Horace, title-pages in red and black. [2], vi, [2], 166; [2], 167-353, [1] pp. Ca. 1875 red straight-grained morocco gilt, by Cecil & Larkins; fine Sandby's Horace in a beautiful and restrained binding in the style of Roger Payne. Cecil & Larkins were active 1875-1880 REFERENCE: ESTC T46228

London: William Pickering, 1824 [colophon dated 1826]. 24mo. 192 pp. Unopened in contemporary patterned paper boards; some wear and staining to binding. LACKING frontispiece A Pickering miniature Diamond Classic

New York: The Publisher Printing Co., 1908. First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece, illustrations throughout text. 319, [1] pp. Publisher's decorated tan cloth; slightest shelfwear, small bump and stain to front cover, near fine. PROVENANCE: Romuald Codare, 1912-1933, professional magician who performed as "Codare, The Main Mystic" and "Romano" (ownership inscription, 1933, on ffep)

London: Sampson Low, Martson, Sealre, and Rivington, 1881-1885. 12 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarters red morocco, marbled boards, t.e.g., by R.W. Smith; spines darkened, some wear to spine ends Comprising: Handel, by Mrs. Julian Marshall; Mozart, by Dr. F. Gehring; Schubert, by H.F. Frost (second edition); Joseph Haydn, by Pauline D. Townsend; Purcell, by William H. Cummings; Sebastian Bach, by Reginald Lane Poole; Schumann, by J.A. Fuller Maitland; Richard Wagner, by Frances Hueffer (second edition); Rossini and His School, by H. Sutherland Edwards; Mendelssohn, by W.S. Rockstro; English Church Composers, by Wm. Alex. Barrett; Weber, by sir Julius Benedict (second edition)

Philadelphia: James Webster, 1817. First American edition. 8vo. 8 engraved plates by Kneass, Young & Co. viii, xii, viii, 514 pp. (Advertisement and Dedication leaves bound in reverse order). Contemporary sheep, red morocco spine label; binding scuffed, toned and foxed First American edition, first published London, 1794. “Hunter’s last work, published the year after his death, contained his studies of inflammation and of the management of gunshot wounds, both of which subjects had been imperfectly understood before his time. He recognized the process of inflammation as one of the most widespread phenomena in pathology” (Norman).REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 2283 (first ed.); Norman 1122 (first ed.)

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