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New Rochelle, New York: Caratzas Brothers, 1979 Burgundy cloth, stamped in gilt. Quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with one short tear.

Kanagawa: Getsumeikai, 1961 This book was originally published in 1933. The first edition is rare: OCLC lists two copies, at the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress. Of the present edition, it lists thirteen copies, largely in botanical libraries. . Hand-woven blue cloth over boards, the color achieved with the Ai dye. Gilt lettering in English and Japanese. 11 1/4 x 8." . With fifty mounted skeins of dyed silk showing the colors achieved with the dyes. Also with a full-page color woodblock of the "Ai no Zu" plant and a photograph showing the picking of benibana, plus an actual specimen of the akanegusa plant. There are sixty-five photographs of the plants used. The paper is specially processed heavy handmade nihonshi (two-layered washi). Preface and plant names in English, text in Japanese. A fine copy in black wrap-around cloth case. A fine copy of a scarce work. This volume is printed in a limited edition of 500 as it is not practical or possible to produce more than that number of the… Read More

New York: Scribners, [1970] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. With 32 pages of plates and 8 line drawings. Light shelfwear. Near fine in lightly soiled very good+ d.j.

Dublin: Printed by J. Stockdale, 1795 First Dublin edition, first published in London earlier in the same year. All editions of this book are uncommon. OCLC records nine copies of the present edition (only five in the United States). This is the author's only novel.. Contemporary tree calf with red morocco spine label and gilt seal stamped on spine. . Two volumes in one, twelvemo. . Separate title-pages for each volume. With half-title in volume one (not called for in volume two). Two patches of calf on front cover rubbed. Contemporary bookplate of an Alexander Warren to front pastedown. Remarkably clean and bright internally. A very good, very fresh copy. Ann Yearsley, née Cromartie (bap. 1753 – d. 1806) was a poet, playwright, and friend of Hannah More, Elizabeth Montagu, and other prominent poets and thinkers of the day. When Yearsley and her family were living in poverty, More organized, by subscription among her literary and wealthy friends, the publication of a volume of Yearsley's poems.… Read More

New York: Macmillan, [1973] First U.S. edition. Cloth. Octavo. Very good in very good dust jacket. Jacket has one-inch tear at top of front cover and light edgewear.

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, [1975] Natural linen with gilt front cover and spine. Thick octavo. With 200 facsimile plates, reproducing representative pages from rare printed Haggadahs in two of the world's outstanding Judaica collections, Harvard and the Jeswish Theological Seminary. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has several shot tears and some edgewear.

[Tokyo: Rikuyo-sha Publishing, Inc [1989] Boards, with pictorial dust jacket. Quarto. Color illustrations. Light crease in front cover, small tear in jacket at head of spine. Very good+, tight and clean. Text in Japanese and English. A beautiful book on pop-up books, flapped books, panoramas, hole books, and other visual trick books. Includes over 100 examples of the bst work from the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and other countries. Reference material about such books is uncommon.

London: Macmillan, 1885 First edition. Original green cloth, blocked in black and gilt. Two volumes, octavo. Light shelfwear, endpapers and edges a little foxed, but a fine, bright set. Pencil signature, dated 1887, on an opening blank. A near fine copy. One of the later novels of the popular women's writer, Charlotte Yonge (1823-1901), who published nearly 160 books. Yonge, who herself was raised according to the system advocated by Maria Edgeworth and her father, was the child of a man who believed at once in higher education for women and female subservience to men. Not surprisingly, her work has not been embraced by modern readers. Still, her novels are important for their rounded views of women, and their insistence on the importance of the education and intellectual nurture of women. While few of her books are rare, they are difficult to find in fine condition.

London: Macmillan, 1888 First edition. Original green cloth, blocked in black and gilt. Two volumes, octavo. Corners lightly bumped, minor dustsoiling. Hinges of Volume II starting, but entirely sound. A very good copy. One of the later novels of the popular women's writer, Charlotte Yonge (1823-1901), who published nearly 160 books. Yonge, who herself was raised according to the system advocated by Maria Edgeworth and her father, was the child of a man who believed at once in higher education for women and female subservience to men. Not surprisingly, her work has not been embraced by modern readers. Still, her novels are important for their rounded views of women, and their insistence on the importance of the education and intellectual nurture of women. While few of her books are rare, they are difficult to find in fine condition.

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1860 Original reddish-brown blindstamped cloth, gilt spine. . Two volumes, small octavo. . Spines a bit cocked and darkened, binding extremities lightly rubbed, top edge of the last text leaf of Volume II closely cropped, later endpapers, a little light foxing. Overall a good, clean copy, scarce in original cloth. First edition of one of one of Charlotte Yonge's (1823-1901) more important novels. The heroine, Honora Charlecote, confronts the strain and the benefits of being a self-reliant woman. This novel is one of a series, beginning with The Heir of Reclyffe (1853), and proceeding through Heartsease (1854), The Daisy Chain (1856), Dynevor Terrace (1857), and The Young Stepmother (1861), which deal with complex women and men in difficult personal and social situations, in a realistic setting. Though Yonge's beliefs in devotion to duty and sacrifice of personal interests to family have alienated modern readers, these novels are important for their rounded views of… Read More

Los Angeles: LAAC Press, 1979 First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Light shelfwear. Very good+ in like d.j.

Paris: Chez Lejay, Libraire 1769 Second edition of the first French translation of Young's Night Thoughts, with corrections and additions. Also contains Epitre à Voltaire, le Dernier jugement; Paraphrase du livre de Job; Revue de la vie; Pensées sur divers sujets; and Eusèbe. Contemporary smooth calf. Gilt, flat spines, with burgundy and golden brown spine labels, edges stained red. Two volumes, octavo. Engraved frontispiece in each volume, title-page vignettes A fine set, very attractive. Young's work originally appeared as The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality (1742). The first edition of Tourneur's (1736-1788) translation also appeared in 1769. It was praised by Diderot and became extremely popular, fueling a French interest in English Romanticism. Tourneur later produced a highly esteemed prose translation of Shakespeare's plays (1776-82), as well as translations of Richardson's Clarissa and Ossian's poems

A Paris, & se trouve à Basle, chez Jean schwieghauser, 1770 Rare early edition of Pierre le Tourneur's translation of Young's Night Thoughts. Not in RLIN, OCLC or NUC. Mentioned (but not listed) in Forter's bibliography of foreign translations of Young (Book Collector 1971, pp. 47-67), though he later appears to have acquired a copy, as there is now one at the Bodleian Library in the Forster collection. Contemporary polished calf, gilt calf spine labels, batik endpapers, all edges gilt. . Two volumes in one, twelvemo, in eights and fours. Slight damage with old repair (affecting a small area of text) on Vol. I, pp. 63-4. Several ink numerals in preliminaries. Otherwise a very good, clean copy. Pierre le Tourneur's translation of Night Thoughts first appeared in 1769. This edition follows the Paris edition of 1770, and shows how widespread the demand for Young's poetry could be.

London: Printed for the Author, by Fry and Couchman, 1788 First edition, inscribed on the title page by Young: "Saml. Mather's 1788 / from the author. Recently rebound in period style tree calf by Philip Dusel with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Octavo. Two engraved plates. Slight foxing, plates more extensively foxed. Endpapers and edges of last few leaves slightly toned. Contemporary ink inscription on title-page. A very good, clean copy. Little is known about Robert Young, including his dates, except that he was a social reformer and founder of the Philanthropic Society in 1788. The present work is one of two treatises that Young wrote on Newtonian philosophy, including An Examination of the Third and Fourth Definitions of the First Book of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia and of the Three Axioms or Laws of Motion (1787). In his preface, he writes, "…the following essay is intended to support, extend, and improve the Newtonian system. On the contrary, improvements imply imperfection, and… Read More