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Paris: Barba, 1812. 8vo. [76] pages. Stapled into later plain wrappers; half-title leaf present, a very good copy. This relates to Etienne's 1810 work: Les Deux Gendres, which was translated into English as: The Two Sons-In-Law.

London & NY: Macmillan, 1900. First edition.. Green pictorial cloth designed in red, white and black. Frontispiece and 15 plates in colour. All edges stained red. One ad leaf at the rear. Light fraying at the spine ends, some very moderate overall wear, internally very fresh. The blank front end paper has been excised. Overall a clean very good copy with all 16 plates.

Ottawa: Director of Public Information, 1941.. 32pp. Self-wrappers lettered in black, stapled. Light wear to edges, but about fine. The text of an address given by the Prime Minister of Canada before THE CANADIAN CLUB OF OTTAWA, September 17th, 1941.

London, 1809.. Engraved map, 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Early colour. Stain to right margin, toned at edges, very good. From: "A Collection of Voyages and Travels, from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century" (Volume 24). London: 1809.

Toronto: Macmillan, 1927. First edition.. Burgundy cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece. A bit marked on the front cover, a very good copy. Inscribed and signed by King to Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Thorburn on the front end paper, a Christmas inscription signed "Laurier House" Ottawa, December, 1927. A further inscription beneath it is from Charlotte Whitton (former Mayor of Ottawa), and describes how the book was given to her by Mrs. Thorburn in 1951, and that she is now [in 1966] passing it on to a new owner. Two newspaper clippings taped to the inner front cover contain an obituary and memorial of Charlotte Whitton.

[Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1967]. . A broadside poem on yellow/brown stock, a single sheet measuring 8 x 12 inches. From the Unicorn Folio Series, Volume 1, limited to 325 copies. Fine condition.

[San Francisco]: Grabhorn Press, 1958. . Oblong printed wrappers, sewn. Illustration in color on title page; text in black & red. Faint wear, short tear in the lower edge of the back cover, about fine. Limited to 200 copies, Printed for the Members of the Roxburght and Zamorano Clubs, 1958. David Magee indulges in humorous Grabhorn reminiscences relating to the production of the Bibliography of the Press.

New Delhi, Bombay, etc.: Allied Publishers, (1963). First edition.. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in black. Frontispiece portrait of the His Holiness Marishi Mahesh Yogi. Slight wrinkling of cloth, ownership name on front end paper, a very good copy in a slightly chipped dust jacket, the jacket missing small pieces from the upper corner and top of spine. The spine of the jacket is a bit faded. The Indian first edition of this important book, very uncommon.

London: Circle Press, [1969?]. First edition. An illustrated broadside poem on heavy stock, silkscreened in colour. Measures about 20 x 30 inches. Limited to 150 copies (according to WorldCat). A few light creases from being rolled, but fresh and basically fine. Designed by Samuel Maitin, poem by Rothenberg.

cat40a. NY & Chicago: Butler Brothers, [ca,1888]. Original pictorial wrappers. Issued as No. 33 in The Electric Series. A rough copy, the wrappers chipped at the edges (affecting the last word of the title on the front cover), some page corners chipped away at upper and lower tips, paper very browned and fragile; a good copy. Originally published by Chapman in 1885, and in the USA by Munro in the same year. This Butler edition bears an ad on the inner back cover for an E.P. Roe novel which is touted as "The American Novel of 1888". An uncommon title by Griffiths. Listed in Hubin.

London, etc.: Cassell, 1918. First edition. Red cloth lettered in black. An old pencil note to the title page, some dust soiling of covers, a bright very good copy otherwise. Illustrated with several maps.

cat40a. Toronto: Musson, 1943. First Canadian edition. Brown cloth lettered in green. Some slight bubbling of cloth, light edge wear, a clean very good copy in a slightly worn dust jacket, some small chips from corners and top of spine, a few creases, but decent looking. The American edition appeared from Crime Club in 1941.

[Likely France, 1480-1500].. A single leaf from a French Book of Hours, produced ca.1480-1500. Executed on paper (we believe). Some wrinkling at the edges, fine condition . Leaf size is about 9 x 12 cm., in a frame measuring 22 x 26 cm. Attractively matted and framed in a reversible frame, so that both sides of the leaf are visible. Eighteen lines of Latin text in black & red, with seven illuminated capitals; the verso bears seven lines of text, one initial and a small illuminated panel. This leaf was the end of a section, the verso being only partly lettered. The text is from the Hours of the Cross at Vespers, including the hymn "De cruce deponitur". The Latin text of the hymn begins with the blue initial 'D': "De cruce deponitur hora vespertina. fortitudo latuit in mente divina. Talem mortem subiit vitæ medicina. heu corona gloriæ iacuit supina." An English translation is approximately: “At the hour of eventide Christ from his cross was taken. In whose soul his fortitude did covertly remain.… Read More

[Likely France, 1480-1500].. A single leaf from a French Book of Hours, produced ca.1480-1500. Executed on paper (we believe). Some wrinkling at the edges, fine condition . Leaf size is about 9 x 12 cm., in a frame measuring 22 x 26 cm. Attractively matted and framed in a reversible frame, so that both sides of the leaf are visible. Seventeen lines of Latin text in black & red, with eight illuminated capitals on the recto; seven illuminated capitals on the verso. The text on this leaf includes “Quia fecit in magna qui potens est" from the canticle Magnificat, or The Song of Mary, and was set to music by Bach in 1723, his “Magnificat”. The Magnificat is usually sung or recited during the main evening prayer service, at Vespers in the Catholic and Lutheran churches, and Evening Prayer (Evensong) in the Anglican Church. In Eastern Christianity, the Magnificat is sung at Matins.

[Likely France, 1480-1500].. A single leaf from a French Book of Hours, produced ca.1480-1500. Executed on paper (we believe). Some wrinkling at the edges, fine condition . Leaf size is about 9 x 12 cm., in a frame measuring 22 x 26 cm. Attractively matted and framed in a reversible frame, so that both sides of the leaf are visible. Fifteen lines of Latin text in black, in one column, ruled in brown ink. Illuminated vertical panels on both sides with backgrounds of blue, gold and brown, floral designs on the gold backgrounds. The illuminated panel is to the right of the text on the recto, to the left of the text on the verso of the leaf. The text includes: “qui etiam illuminat omnem hominem venientem in hunc mundum: fac ut ipse illuminet mentem meam lumine gratiae suae”, part of a prayer to the Virgin Mary, from the suffrages section of the manuscript. .

Lipsiae: Litteris. Immanuelis Titil, [1711].. Self-wrappers, 20pp. Disbound from a volume, clean and very good. Woodcut headpiece, decorative initial, and tailpiece. Small numbers in pen on upper corners of all leaves (777-795). Text in Latin. A discussion between the two authors, relating to genealogy without parents.

London: Smith, Elder, 1905. First edition.. Blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black. 334 pp. Five leaves of undated ads at the rear. A little wear to corners, a clean very good copy. A novel of Spain in the early 19th century. Uncommon.

NY: C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co./San Francisco: Bancroft, 1860. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged.. anticat16. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, spine designed in gilt. Yellow end papers. Frontispiece portrait. Light shelf wear, a nice clean copy. First published in 1850.

[Santa Barbara]: Unicorn Press, 1970. First edition.. An illustrated poetry broadside, measuring 13 X 20 inches. Fine condition. Woodblock illustration by Dick Crispo. Issued as Unicorn Broadsheet Series II, Number 1.

Cummington: Cummington Press, 1949. First edition. . Oblong blue-gray wrappers, plain & unlettered, stitched. A fine copy. One of about 2500 copies. Printed as an insert for the magazine The New Colophon, 199 copies were reserved for private distribution. 186 copies were bound in blue-gray wrappers, and 13 in red wrappers. This is one of the 186 copies bound thus. Abbott A9. A FACE is a short poem first printed in HORIZON in 1947.