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Venezia: Giambatista Novelli, 1757. First Edition of this early Italian translation of Pope's "Essay On Man". With engraved frontispiece, and engraved vignette to the title-page, engraved head and tailpieces throughout. 8vo, bound in full vellum with leather spine label, marbled edges. xxxii, 181, [1] pp. A fine copy, very well preserved, crisp and clean throughout, the vellum binding also fine, strong and tight and with just some normal evidence of age. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT TRANSLATION WHICH WAS REPRINTED A NUMBER OF TIMES DURING THE CENTURY AND JUST SHORTLY AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THE WORK IN ENGLAND. At the end of the work are added Ode sulla religione" and Sonnets, Le Prove Dimostrative Della Verita Della Reigione Cristiana composed by Adami.

New York: Random House, 1965. Early issue, 1966 dustjacket back 'Q' Illustrated throughout by B. Tobey. 8vo, publisher's original pictorial boards in the dustjacket. 64 pp. A very good copy with minor evidence of age and slight edgewear to the dustjacket. A Beginner Book. humorous kid-friendly illustrations by B. Tobey. This story is a gay, fantastic adventure that takes place in the mind of one boy.

London: Queen Anne Press, 2012. First Edition, Deluxe Issue, One of a Limited Number for Presentation, Signed by the author Jon Gilbert, by Fergus Fleming and by Kate Grimond. Profusely illustrated throughout with full-page colour plates in suites, and black and white illustrations throughout the text. Set in Albertina type and printed in two colours. Royal Quarto, beautifully bound in fine quarter vellum over black cloth covered boards, the spine lettered in gilt, the upper cover with gilt emblematic device, red coloured endleaves, top edge gilt. [x], 692, [1] pp. A mint copy, unopened and without fault, the glassine jacket still in pristine condition. Very scarce thus. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED AND A PRESENTATION COPY OF THE CONSUMMATE WORK ON IAN FLEMING AND THE VAST TROVE OF PRINTINGS OF THE AUTHOR'S WORK. Winner of the 16th ILAB-Breslauer Prize for bibliography, this is one of the most comprehensive works in the entire field. Jon Gilbert, a fine bookseller as well as bibliographer… Read More

New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?

Northampton, Massachusetts: E. Turner, circa 1815. First edition. 9 illustrations. 12 mo, original illustrated wraps, as issued. 18 pp. A very well preserved copy. RARE. This is a cautionary tale for children to do their schoolwork and mind their elders. This children’s book is called a chapbook, a more modern term that derives from the chapmen. Chapmen were pedlars who hawked their goods in towns and villages, and at country fairs. In 1553, Edward VI proclaimed that champmen must be licensed and Chettle, in Kind Hart’s Dreame (1592) wrote that “‘Chapmen are able to spred more pamphlets...then all the booksellers in town.’” Although they sold other wares, too, they always had cheap booklets, sometimes ballad sheets which eventually assumed the familiar form af a miniature booklet, with a paper cover thatusually had a picture. Even Shakespeare, in Henry IV, mentioned the chapmen as did Urquhart’s Rabelais in 1653. With the growth of small printers, miniature editions… Read More

London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1859. First edition, first issue, and with the ads in first state. 8vo, publisher’s original olive green ribbed cloth, blindstamped on the covers and gilt-lettered on the spine. 8pp. ads, (8), 261. Internally a fine copy, the textblock uncommonly fresh and bright with little sign of use, the cloth also well preserved and attractive but for the rear hinge which is split but is easily repairable. SCARCE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. An expansion of Tennyson's "Morte d'Arthur," THE IDYLLS OF THE KING was well received, and helped to restore Tennyson's popularity after the critical failure of his previous volume of poems. This, the first of the Idylls to be published, tells the stories of Guinevere, Elaine and Lancelot, Vivien and Merlin, and Enid and Geraint.

Venezia: Antonio Groppo, 1760-61. 2 volumes. First Groppo Edition. Superbly illustrated with very fine engravings throughout including a very finely engraved full-page frontispiece by Novelli, a beautifully engraved title page in red and black, with finely engraved vignettes and head and tail pieces throughout, a very fine full page engraving of the author by Agostino Caracci, and with 20 very beautifully executed full page engravings by J. Leonardus from the designs of Bernardo Castello from 1617. The “Argomentos” all with elaborate engraved and intricate borders, the first large multi-line initial of each canto finely historiated with engraved figures, and additionally, 94 fine and large engravings are included within the text after designs by Novelli and executed for the edition by Leonardus. 4to, in fine full antique vellum over stiff boards with yap edges and marbled endpapers, the spines with a brick-red morocco title labels gilt lettered and decorated and a smaller brown morocco… Read More

Vinegia: Figlioli di Aldo (Aldus), 1547. Early Printing by Aldus. Elaborate Aldine device Impressed on the titlepage and at the end on the verso of the colophon leaf. Dedication to Michel de Selva, vescovo di Viseo. 8vo, bound in 17th century stiff vellum, red morocco lettering label gilt. ff. (5), 195, (8). A fine example with the title label with a bit of chipping and with some light loss. RARE ALDINE EDITION OF THE CLASSIC LANDMARK IL CORTEGIANO. Castiglione’s great work is one of the most famous books of the Italian Renaissance and represents the highest level of commitment to the prince and the new political and social order. The Courtier is the prototype of the courtesy book, written as conversation between members of the court. At the time of its composition Castiglione was at the court of Guidobaldo de Montefeltre and Elizabetta Gonzaga at Urbino, together with Bembo, Giuliano de' Medici, Federico Fregoso and other Renaissance luminaries; members of that court feature as… Read More

Venegia: Maestro Bernardino de Vidali, 1528. A very early Edition of the Vellutello Petrarca. With fine heraldic ownership label. Illustrated with the rare two page view of the Valchiusa. This copy with the Babylonian Sonnets (165 ff,) not censored and still included in the text. Rare thus. 4to (mm. 190 x 140), handsomely bound in fine full vellum of the period. (11ff), 185 ff, (51 ff Del Triumpho) pp. A contemporarily bound copy, in a pleasing state of preservation, generally crisp and clean throughout, some interesting notes in very early hands to the pastedowns, a few here and there in the margins of the text-block, interesting notes concerning prohibition to the leaves that contain the Babylonian verses, the back sometime strengthened, the vellum binding strong and in good order. A FINE AND VERY EARLY PRINTING OF THE VELLUTELLO PETRARCA. The volume was dedicated to Carlo Grotta Chancellor to Cardinal Cristofor Madruzzo, Principe Vescovo of Trent and organizer of the Council of… Read More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859. First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original Ticknor brown cloth decorated in blind on the covers and lettered on the spine in gilt. 362, 8 ads pp. A very fine copy, essentially pristine, and as well preserved as one could ever expect to find. SCARCE FIRST EDITION AND A WORK FROM THE NEW ENGLAND LITERARY RENAISSANCE. A compendium of essays on Cervantes, Don Quixote, THE SCARLET LETTER, Wordsworth, Fiction, Music, Robert Burns, public opinion and much more by a Unitarian preacher of marked oratorical power. He was widely known as a lecturer, and his numerous volumes of literary interpretation and criticism were very well-received, particularly his “Human Life in Shakespeare” and the work presented here.

Boston: A Bullfinch Press Book; Little, Brown and Company, 1996. First edition With 100 fine full-page plates in black and white and colour, all by Imogen Cunningham. 4to, publisher's original dark-gray cloth, lettered in silver on the spine. In the publisher's photographically decorated dustjacket. 160 pp. A very fine copy, essentially as pristine.. A FINE FIRST EDITION. Classic Photographs by Cunningham. From the earliest years of her career, which began about 1906, until her death in 1976, photographer Imogen Cunningham explored botanical imagery with intelligence and originality. The book here presents a wonderful selection of her botanical images dating from 1913 through the 1970's, with special emphasis on the work created in the 1920's and 1930's. More than half of the images have never before been published. The author Richard Lorenz discusses her ongoing interest in botany. There are also botanical notes on plants that are illustrated in the plates.

New York: Random House. An early printing, sized and formatted just as the first. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, in the original printed dustjacket. (10), 343 pp. A fine copy, the book fresh and clean and nearly as new, the jacket very fresh and handsome with virtually no wear. AN EARLY PRINTING, AND A FINE COPY. Capote's "non-fiction novel" was the first of the modern true crime books which have proved so lucrative and popular (witness THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG and FATAL VISION) that they now have their own section in bookstores. IN COLD BLOOD details the 1959 murders of four members of the Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. Capote learned of the quadruple murder before the killers were captured, and he traveled to Kansas to write about the crime. He was accompanied by his childhood friend and fellow author Harper Lee, and they interviewed residents and investigators assigned to the case and took… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. 2 volumes. First Edition. Portrait frontispieces, 36 full page illustrations, over 100 illustrations in text, 2 large color folding maps at front, 1 folding map in text, 1 diagram. 8vo, publisher’s original brick red cloth gilt-lettered and with elaborate pictorial decorations in gilt and black on the spines and upper covers. xv, 529; xv, 472, [2] ads pp. A very bright and handsome set, especially well preserved. The cloth, gilt and colours all in very pleasing condition, the bindings showing minimal evidence of age or use, a tight and clean set with the plates and maps in excellent condition and virtually none of the foxing typical to the book. SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN UNUSUALLY FINE CONDITION AND ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE WRITINGS OF ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPLORERS OF THE DARK CONTINENT. "By 1885 Stanley had become deeply interested in the schemes of Mr. (afterwards Sir) William Mackinnon, chairman of the British India Steam… Read More

London and New York: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington for Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. 2 volumes. Edition de Luxe. One of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies signed by Stanley on the reverse of the half-title. With 6 etchings and 150 woodcut illustrations and 3 folding maps. Each of the etchings are signed in pencil by the artist. Large 4to, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco and with vellum covered sides, gilt lettered on the spines, gilt lettered and with gilt flag vignette on the upper covers, t.e.g. and all edges untrimmed. xv, 529; xi, 472 pp. Index in each volume. A lovely example of this rare set, the bindings unusually fresh with the morocco and vellum in an especially good state of preservation, extremely fresh and clean internally. Only a light bit of aging to the vellum, quite unusual in this condition. VERY SCARCE LIMITED EDITION OF ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE WRITINGS OF ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPLORERS OF THE DARK CONTINENT. "By 1885 Stanley had become… Read More

New York: Viking, 1987. First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original white cloth over boards lettered in sepia on the spine, in the original dust jacket. 180 pp. A fine bright copy in the dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, “for Chai and Mike with warm good wishes, Maxine Kumin”. “Maxine Kumin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critically acclaimed novelist and short story writer, permits us to look at the world from her rural perspective-to travel the seasons of a country year, to search the woods for wild mushrooms, to discover a nest of newborn herons, to watch a moose emerge from the forest at dusk. These essays, shot through with the same compassion and expressive grace that have always illuminated Kumin’s writing, cast new light on events as seemingly prosaic as putting in fence posts and as transcendent as the birth of a foal.”-Publisher

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1985. First Edition. With illustrations throughout by Maurice Sendak. Small 8vo, publisher's dark-gray cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, in the pictorially decorated dustjacket. [6], 42 pp. A very fine copy, as pristine and essentially mint. FIRST EDITION OF THIS STORY BY MAURICE SENDAK'S FATHER. Written when Philip Sendak was 75 years old. A story of a life spent growing up in a Polish-Jewish shtetl, how a boy ran away from home, arrived in America, married and raised a family. It tells also a story from the author's own childhood...the story of a boy who is left alone but guided by a magic bird. A story within a story and a distillation of the values and beliefs that are worth teaching to our children.

London: William Heinemann, 1911. 2 volumes. First Edition. Ann Savours Shirley's Copy, a copy with pleasing provenance.Ann Savours Shirley's Copy, a copy with pleasing provenance. Tipped-in color frontispiece in each volume, numerous illustrations in text. Royal 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, lettered and decorated in gilt on upper cover featuring a Northern sunrise. xi, 383; 416 including index pp. A handsome, well preserved and proper set, the text blocks sturdy and quite fresh, the cloth handsome and pleasing with a bit of expected age only, the gilt lettering and motifs to the covers bright, the black decorations clean and unblemished, a bit of mellowing to the spine panel lettering. A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION SET IN THE POLAR OEUVRE. THIS COPY WITH THE PREFERRED GILT DECORATIONS TO THE UPPER COVERS. Nansen’s most significant biographer described him as the man who, "in the teeth of skepticism and discouragement harder to face,… Read More

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. First Edition. Illustrated thoughout. 4to., publisher’s original lavendar boards backed in purple cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, the dustjacket pictorially illustrated and decorated. (8), 119pp. A fine copy, the dustjacket a little mellowed. FIRST EDITION OF THIS PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BOOK. A HUMOUR TRIP WITH THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHOR.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First American Edition, second printing, March 1927. A WONDERFUL SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY WITH EXCELLENT PROVENANCE. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover and with gilt geometric decorations on the upper cover. 214, (1) pp. A fine copy, beautifully preserved. FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY OF HEMINGWAY'S FIRST BOOK OF STORIES OTHER THAN THE WORK WHICH INCLUDED TEN POEMS. This was the author's first book published in the U.S., only his second published book and the first that was published for the general trade audience. Fewer than 1400 copies of the first issue of the book were published, and even less of this second issue which is considered to be more rare than the first. It was influenced, as was THREE STORIES AND TEN POEMS (1923) by Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, while spokespersons for the "Lost Generation. There is excellent provenance associated with this copy which… Read More

New York: Macmillan and Co., 1895. First Edition. With a frontispiece illustration. 8vo, publisher's original green cloth, the covers and spine panel lettered and multi-ruled in black. [viii], 190 pp. A very good copy, a bit of mellowing to the spine and some evidence of use, still a well preserved copy, the binding tight and sound and the text-block clean and in good order. FIRST EDITION. A traveller's tale set in the islands of Samoa with the legendary traveller Robert Louis Stevenson as guide, this book is valuable not only for its enjoyment as a tale of adventure, but also for its record of Stevenson himself - a literary figure more commonly seen as author and not subject. RKP