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Soft cover. Fine. Illustrated with stencil-colored lithographed title page and frontispiece; 12 full-page color collotype plates after Shahns original watercolors; 10 color plates after drawings, and Hebrew lettering by Shahn. Folio. Loose as issued, in original lettered parchment wrappers and glassine. Trianon Press, Paris 1965/66. Limited to 292 copies. This copy out of series. Signed by Shahn on the title page. The text is printed in both Hebrew and English in letterpress. Lacking original box. Enclosed in custom made black and blue leather-backed clamshell box, gilt tooled, gilt letters on spine. A fine Copy.

SCOTT, SIR WALTER. Halidon Hill; A Dramatic Sketch, From Scottish History. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, untrimmed. Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh; And Hurst, Robinson, and Co. London, 1822. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Sir Alexr Keith Knight Marischal Ravelston from His Affectionate Kinsman The Author." Sir Alexander Keith, a close friend of Scott, was founder of the Keith Prize, a biennial prize for the most important discoveries in science made in any part of the world.
Although this lesser-known work is written as a dramatic sketch, Scott tells us in the preface that it is not intended to be produced on the stage. Halidon Hill tells the story of the reconciliation between two feuding Scottish chiefs before they die valiantly in the fight against Edward III of England. The Eclectic Review of September 1822 says, "This is a 'sketch,' but it is from the hand of a master; and there is a chasteness and simplicity in the poetry, such… Read More

The Handmaid to the Arts, Teaching I. A perfect knowledge of the materia pictoria; or the nature, use, preparation, and composition, of all the various substances employed in painting, . . . II. The means of delineation or the several devices employed for the more easily and accurately making designs from nature, or depicted representations. . . III. The various manners of gilding, silvering, and bronzing. . .Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Modern ½-leather binding over marbled boards, gilt decorated spines with 5 raised bands, red and black gilt-lettered morocco labels. London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1764. Rare Second Edition, with considerable additions and improvements. 2 volumes. This work was first published in 1758. The enlarged second edition contains information on all aspects of painting, engraving, coloring of prints, transfer of prints onto glass, coloring of glass, etching of glass, Japanning, lacquering, papier-mâché, marbling paper, etc. Robert Dossie trained as an apothecary and studied… Read More

ONE OF 10 COPIES WITH AN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTSPARK, MURIEL. Harper and Wilton. 8vo. Bound in Nigerian goatskin, gold letters on spine. (London) Colophon Press 1996. First Edition. One of 10 Roman-numbered copies for Private Distribution, signed by Spark. This copy # IV. Tipped-in is a 14 line holograph worksheet for a poem, beginning, "It was not when the / wind whistled round / the house and moaned / in the eaves that / the house felt weird -" Fine.

DORÉ PROOF ILLUSTRATIONSCollection of 29 full-page proof engravings of the drawings by Gustave Doré for the French edition of Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, Furne et Jovet, 1877. 28 engravings are on parchment paper; one is on Japon paper, with pencil annotations. Plus proof of title page, printed in red, on parchment paper, with an engraved portrait of Doré. Title page reads: "Croisades Illustrée de 100 Grandes Compositions Gustave Doré. Tome Second. Paris, 45 Rue Saint-André-des-Arts 45." The title page coincides broadly with that of the second volume of the Furne edition, (Leblanc Catalogue de l'oeuvre complet de Gustave Doré p. 240- 241.)In all, 26 loose folio sheets (some double sided), approximately 12½ by 17 inches each; engravings measure approximately 8 by 9½ inches. 4 engravings are on the versos. Some are duplicates.An incomplete set of proof engravings for the first print of Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, dating back to 1877 at a preliminary stage of the production of this… Read More

Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with 12 full-page hand-colored engravings illustrating 24 species of amaranthus. Folio. Modern ¼-leather-backed marbled boards. Turici (Zurich): impensis Ziegleri et fil, 1790. First Edition. The only edition of a specialist botanical work on the species of amaranthus by Carolo Willdenow, director of the Berlin Botanical Garden. The engravings are designed and engraved by R.J. Schellenberg. Willdenow is considered one of the founders of phytogeography, the study of the geographic distribution of plants. He was also a mentor of Alexander von Humboldt, one of the earliest and best known phytogeographers. Willdenow was interested in the adaptation of plants to climate, showing that similar climates had plants with common characteristics. His herbarium, containing more than 20,000 species, is preserved in the Botanical Garden in Berlin. Occasional foxing; title page browned; plates in very good condition.

William Robertson. An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge Which the Ancients had of India; and the Progress of Trade with that Country Prior to the Discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope. With an Appendix Containing Observations on the Civil Policy – the Laws and Judicial Proceedings – the Arts – the Sciences – and Religious Institutions of the Indians. Illustrated with 2 folding maps. 4to. Rebound in modern leather-backed boards. London, Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1791. First Edition. William Robertson was an eminent Scottish historian. "Having published a highly influential History of Scotland; established his reputation with his life of Charles V; and expanded his fame with his History of America . . . Robertson turned his attention to India. The Disquisition falls into two main parts: the first two-thirds is a narrative of the commercial contacts India had with the outside world from ancient times to the sixteenth century; the remainder is a long… Read More

8vo. ½ calf over marbled boards; spines with five raised bands, 2 black morocco labels, gilt lettered; leaf edges red speckled. London: Published by the Author. 1829. 2 volumes. Although not a Catholic, Cobbett took up the cause of Catholic Emancipation. Between 1824 and 1826, he published his History of the Protestant Reformation, a broadside against the traditional Protestant historical narrative of the British reformation, stressing the lengthy and often bloody persecutions of Catholics in Britain and Ireland. At this time, Catholics were still forbidden to enter certain professions or to become members of Parliament. The law was no longer enforced, but it was still officially a crime to attend mass or build a Catholic church. Although the politician William Wilberforce also worked and spoke against discrimination against Catholics, Cobbett continued a strident and racist opposition to the noted reformer, particularly after Wilberforce published his Appeal in Behalf of the Negro Slaves in the… Read More

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUEIn Six Volumes. 12mo. Bound in modern leather reminiscent of the style of the period. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1749. First Edition. First Issue. The first edition consisted of 2000 copies, which were virtually all spoken for prior to the formal day of publication. The copies of the first edition are distinguished by the presence of the Errata Page after the Table of Contents in Volume I. The errata were corrected and the page taken over by the enlargement of the contents in the unmarked second edition of 1500 copies. The second edition was ordered after the first edition was exhausted. Both editions were in circulation on the formal publication day of 28 February. This set exhibits the usual cancels, with the rare cancel B5 unsigned in Volume VI. (Cross III: 317; Rothschild 850-1; Grolier English Hundred 48. ESTC T1947.)Tom Jones is regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. Coleridge acknowledged it as having one of the three great plots of all… Read More

Illustrated with 358 full-page engraved, hand-colored plates. 4to. Bound in original contemporary publisher's ½-leather-backed cloth, gilt decorations on spine, 5 raised bands, all edges marbled. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1851-1857. First Edition. First Issue. 6 volumes. Only the first edition sets were fully hand colored. In later editions the backgrounds were not colored. Morris's A History of British Birds was first published in monthly parts from June 1850, over a period of 7 years. Each part contained 24 pages of letterpress and 4 hand-colored plates. It was a resounding success. The inspiration for the book came from the renowned English printer, Benjamin Fawcett, who approached Morris to write the text when Morris became Vicar of Nafferton. Alexander Francis Lydon, one of Fawcett's principal engravers, contributed much in technique and design. Morris was a popular writer on natural history in general, and birds in particular. His first book, Guide to an Arrangement of British Birds, was… Read More

The Home. From Cellar to Shingles. The Webber Lumber & Supply Co. Catalog No. 96. Illustrated. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, in original mailing envelope. Fitchburg, Mass. (Ca. 1928). First Edition of this catalogue featuring home hardware, fixtures and related accessories with a distinct focus on Arts & Crafts and Mission style accents. "You will find this catalog a ready hand book of all the material required with which to build a home – the doors, windows, frames, flooring, paint, hardware, roofing – all the material needed from cellar to shingles... In practically every hamlet, village, town and city in New England we have sold anywhere from a dozen to several score home builders. In going over our records we find among our customers such names as that of Augustus St. Gaudens, the noted sculptor, also Percy MacKay[e], the author and playwright, Winston Churchill, the celebrated author, and Maxfield Parrish, the artist. These people of note found our material satisfactory for building… Read More

Hardcover. Very Good. Edited by Henri Estienne. Text mostly in Greek (with some Latin). Dedicated to Philipp Ludwig, Graf von Hanau-Münzenberg. Woodcut printers device on title-page; several decorative woodcut initials and head-pieces. 8vo. Bound in 18th-century mottled calf, rebacked in modern leather (retaining old endpapers); marbled endpapers, edges marbled. (Geneva) Henri Estienne, 1573. (Adams, H-812; Renouard, Etiennes, 140: 9; Hoffmann, II, 205; Schweiger I, p.163; Chaix-Dufour-Moeckli 78). Scarce Editio Princeps of The Contest of Homer and Hesiod, a Greek narrative (of uncertain authorship) that expands on a remark made in Hesiods Works and Days to recount an imagined poetical duel between Homer and Hesiod, in which Hesiod wins a bronze tripod, which he dedicates to the Muses of Mount Helicon. The work clearly dates to the 2nd century AD, for it mentions Hadrian (line 33). Friedrich Nietzsche deduced that it must have an earlier precedent in some form, and argued that it derives from the… Read More

Tall 8vo. Original cloth; spine label. Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980. First Edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author, of an edition of 330. Set in Aldus types on Arches mouldmade paper. This copy #143. Fine.

Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Original boards, spine labels. New York, 1839. First Edition. 2 volumes. Laid in is a 3-page ALS from Longfellow to My Dear Sir, dated Cambridge, Nov. 23, 1880. The letter expresses gratitude for the gift of a book of Selections from Longfellows poems assembled by school children. It reads in part, I hasten to thank you for it, and through you all my young friends, whose names are written in it. Please say to them how highly I am gratified by this mark of their esteem and consideration . . . With 2 bookplates, including that of Mary Lecomte du Noüy. Some light staining and peeling to boards; head and heel of spines chipped; former signature erased; some foxing and minor ink stains; o/w Very Nice. Both volumes enclosed in red morocco box.