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Amsterdam: W. Holtrop, 1781. FIRST EDITION. 178 x 108 mm. (7 x 4 1/4"). 18 p.l., 3-58, [2] pp. Contemporary quarter calf over speckled paper boards. A TOTAL OF 33 VERY CHARMING ENGRAVED PAGES comprising the title page, the following page with calligraphic alphabets, four other full-page illustrations (comprising mathematical shapes, multiplication table and system using digits of hands, vowels and consonants with small exemplary pictures, and the solar system) and 27 half-page illustrations showing scenes of childhood, commerce, laboring, and domesticity, these and the first two leaves done on heavy stock, the engravings by L. Brasser, N. van der Meer, C. Bogerts, C. Brouwer, B. de Bakker, J. Condet, and H. Numan after designs by the author in collaboration with P. Wagenaar den Jongen. Hesselink and Kerssemakers 87. ◆Small chip to head of spine with older repair, corners a little bumped, three leaves with short closed marginal tears, A1 lightly soiled, occasional mild browning or foxing, but still…
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VADERLANDSCH A-B BOEK VOOR DE NEDERLANDSCHE JEUGD
by (CHILDREN'S BOOKS). [SWILDENS, JOHAN HENDRIK]
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THE VALE OF SLAUGHDEN, A POEM, IN FIVE CANTOS
by (ENGLISH HISTORY, EARLY - POETIC VERSIONS OF). BIRD, JAMES
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Halesworth [Suffolk]: Printed and sold by T. Tippell, 1819. FIRST EDITION. 216 x 133 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/4"). xvi, [2], 116 pp. Contemporary rose-pink calf decorated in gilt and blind, smooth spine with compartments densely diapered in gilt, two black morocco labels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Alfred Sherlock Gooch; verso of front free endpaper and half title with ink signature of Thomas Sherlock Gooch. ◆Joints a little rubbed at the top, leather a bit smudged and marked, minor intermittent foxing, but a clean and very fresh copy internally in a once very pretty binding that is still quite appealing. Set in the ninth century on the coast of Suffolk ("between the sea and the river Ald"), this long-form poem tells the story of a brutal Danish invasion upon a Saxon village. As DNB tells us, the work "was first issued by subscription, but its success induced a London publisher, three months after its appearance, to undertake an edition for…
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VANITY FAIR: A NOVEL WITHOUT A HERO
by THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
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London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, the Earliest Issue. 216 x 139 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2"). xvi, 624 pp. With ad for the forthcoming "Great Hogarty Diamond" at front. Pleasing polished calf, gilt, by Root & Son (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), covers with French fillet border, raised bands, spine compartments with central fleuron, one red and one green morocco label, turn-ins with cresting rolls and plain rules, blue endpapers, all edges gilt. 40 steel-engraved plates (including engraved title), all with tissue guards, 150 woodcuts, and initials by Thackeray. Van Duzer 231; Grolier "One Hundred" 87. See Day, "History of English Literature 1837 to the Present," pp. 183-84. ◆Vague dampstain to tail edge of rear board, spine less lustrous than the covers, trivial wear to extremities, occasional minor foxing and faint offsetting from illustrations, other insignificant defects, but an excellent copy--clean and fresh internally, in a pleasing binding with nothing…
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VEDUTA ESTERNA DELLE TRE SALE SEPOLCRALI, CREDUTE DELLA FAMIGLIA D 'AUGUSTO from LE ANTICHITÀ ROMANE. ["EXTERNAL VIEW OF THE THREE ROOMS OF SEPULCHRES, BELIEVED TO BE FOR THE FAMILY OF AUGUSTUS" from ROMAN ANTIQUITIES]
by PIRANESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA
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Paris, ca. 1835. Second Paris Edition. 505 x 720 mm. (20 x 28 1/4"). Plate 39 from volume II of "Le Antichità Romane," with a 375 x 500 mm. (14 3/4 x 19 1/2") etching of an external view of the remains of a columbarium tomb which possibly belonged to the Augusto family. Focillon 263; Wilton-Ely 398. ◆Scattered mild foxing to the (generous) margins, faint vertical crease to center, but a fine specimen, clean, fresh, and rather bright, with a rich impression of the plate. This is a handsome etching showing an external view of burial chambers within a mausoleum believed to belong to the family of the Roman emperor Augustus, from the second Paris edition of Piranesi's masterful "Roman Antiquities." Gaius Octavius Augustus (63 B.C. - 14 A.D.) became the first emperor of Rome in 27 B.C. and soon undertook an ambitious building program, constructing a forum, temples, a mausoleum, triumphal arches, and other monuments. Many of these buildings, including the mausoleum, were ransacked and damaged by the…
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VERSUCHE UNTERHALTUNGEN UND BELUSTIGUNGEN AUS DER NATÜRLICHEN MAGIE
by GÜTLE, JOHANN CONRAD
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Leipzig und Jena: bei Adam Gottlieb Schneider, 1791. FIRST EDITION. 197 x 127 mm. (7 3/4 x 5"). 9 p.l., 358. Attractive contemporary half calf over pink paper boards, raised bands, spine densely gilt in compartments with tulip centerpiece, fleuron sidepieces, and scrolling floral cornerpieces, two tan morocco labels, marbled pastedowns. With hand-colored title page vignette and 11 FINE ENGRAVED FOLDING PLATES, ALL COLORED BY HAND. ◆Insignificant fading to covers, minor foxing confined to short portions of the text, other trivial imperfections, but AN OUTSTANDING COPY, the binding with virtually no wear, the text unusually clean and fresh, and the intriguing colored plates in a remarkable state of preservation. If there had been infomercials in 1800, the Nuremberg polymath Johann Gütle (1747-1827) would have been actively involved in this kind of promotion. Self taught in physics and mathematics, Gütle was an active entrepreneur who fabricated and sold everything from etched glass to cleaning…
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A VERY STRIKING CONTINUOUS BIFOLIUM, EACH LEAF WITH A LARGE WOOD ENGRAVING, FROM AN INCOMPLETE COPY OF CHAUCER'S "WORKS.
by (KELMSCOTT PRESS). CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES, Illustrator
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Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. FROM A COPY OF AN EDITION OF 425. 425 x 289 mm. (16 3/4 x 11 3/8"). pp. 439-42. Untrimmed, unsewn leaves that were never permanently bound, attractively matted. WITH WOODCUT INITIAL AND BORDERS DESIGNED BY WILLIAM MORRIS, THE WOOD-ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS BY EDWARD BURNE-JONES. ◆IN VERY FINE CONDITION, with only trivial imperfections. This beautiful publisher's work of art comes from the Kelmscott Chaucer, one of the great achievements in the history of printing. It comes from an incomplete copy that was apparently put to (gentle) use in the Press workshop, and that was purchased at auction having been laid into the publisher's boards but never having been bound (there are stab holes on some leaves, as here, but nothing was ever glued). William Morris had fallen in love with Chaucer's works when he and Burne-Jones were students at Oxford, and with the founding of the Kelmscott Press in 1891, Morris began plans, first announced to the public in 1892, for the…
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VETERES ARCUS AUGUSTORUM TRIUMPHIS INSIGNES EX RELIQUIIS QUAE ROMAE ADHUC SUPERSUNT CUM IMAGINIBUS TRIUMPHALIBUS RESTITUTI
by (ARCHITECTURE - ANCIENT ROMAN WORLD). BARTOLI, PIETRO, Illustrator. BELLORI, GIOVANNI PIETRO
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Rome: Buagni, 1690. 492 x 310 mm. (19 1/4 x 12 1/4"). [6] leaves of text numbered in sequence with the plates; i.e,. title page, frontispiece, To the Reader, plates 3-15, text leaves 16-19, plates 20-52. Modern quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands, spine panels with gilt starburst centerpiece. With allegorical frontispiece featuring a portrait of the dedicatee (Cardinal Otthobono) and 46 FINELY ENGRAVED COPPERPLATES OF ROMAN ARCHES, half of these double-page, all mounted on stubs. Cicognara 3608; Brunet I, 758 and VI, 29473. ◆Slight signs of use to the covers, first and last three leaves faintly foxed, one- to two-inch light dampstain to bottom corners (far from images or text), other trivial imperfections, but A FINE COPY--internally clean, fresh, and bright, with excellent impressions of the engravings, and in a pleasing binding showing virtually no wear. This work depicting the triumphal arches of imperial Rome is considered by Cicognara to be "the most beautiful of this genre, and…
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VIA CRUCIS, OU COLLECTION DE QUATORZE GRAVURES REPRESENTANT LES QUATORZE STATIONS COMMUNEMENT APPELEES: LE CHEMIN DE LA CROIX
by (ILLUSTRATED BOOKS - COLORED PLATES, STATIONS OF THE CROSS)
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Paris: Pierron & Bance aîné, 1813. 267 x 204 mm. (10 1/2 x 8"). 32 pp. (second leaf mispaginated, but text complete). ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY CITRON MOROCCO BY BRADEL L'AINÉ, (binder's ticket on verso of free endpaper), covers with a border of gilt rules, decorative rolls, and repeating garlands and bows, large central gilt stamp of the Crucifix with the Instruments of the Passion, smooth spine divided into compartments with gilt rules, compartments with gilt cross in center and a star in each corner, black morocco label with gilt lettering, gilt turn-ins, light blue silk pastedowns and endleaves. (With expert restorations to corners). WITH 16 ENGRAVED PLATES, ALL FINELY COLORED BY A CONTEMPORANEOUS HAND and with the original tissue guards. Three-line ink call number(?) on blank flyleaf at front. For the binder: Fléty, "Dictionnaire des Relieurs Français," p. 33. ◆Morocco with many faint little spots (conceivably in the original hide), trivial scuffing and dings, but the original unrestored…
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THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
by (BINDINGS - RIVIERE & SON). GOLDSMITH, OLIVER
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London and New York: Macmillan Co, 1927. 191 x 127 mm. (7 1/2 x 5"). xxxvi, 306 pp.Preface by Austin Dobson. CHARMING CONTEMPORARY FAWN-COLORED PICTORIAL CRUSHED MOROCCO BY RIVIERE & SON, covers with frame formed by multiple gilt rules with onlaid green dot cornerpieces and gilt festoons at head and tail of frame, central PICTORIAL INLAY IN FOUR COLORS depicting a vicar pontificating (and in front of him as an indication of shadow, thin penwork lines inscribed into the morocco); raised bands, spine gilt in French fillet compartments with central gilt patera, wide gilt-framed turn-ins with ribbon cornerpieces, leather hinges, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In a linen-covered slipcase. With frontispiece and 181 illustrations in the text by Hugh Thomson. ◆Spine very slightly and uniformly sunned toward a butterscotch color, but A VERY FINE COPY, the text clean, fresh, and bright, and the lustrous, appealing binding with only the most insignificant wear. This copy of Goldsmith's classic is…
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VIRGINIA ILLUSTRATED: A VISIT TO THE VIRGINIAN CANAAN, AND THE ADVENTURES OF PORTE CRAYON AND HIS COUSINS
by [STROTHER, DAVID HUNTER]. "PORTE CRAYON," Pseudonym. (BINDINGS - MONIQUE LALLIER)
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. FIRST EDITION. 250 x 155 mm. (9 3/4 x 6"). 300, [4] (ads) pp. EXCELLENT MODERN MAROON CRUSHED MOROCCO BY MONIQUE LALLIER (signed on front turn-in), covers and smooth spine with wrap-around inlays of green, tan, ivory, and marbled pink leathers, some textured, in an undulating pattern evocative of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, gilt lettering at head of spine, pink endpapers, top edge gilt. In a matching maroon morocco-backed clamshell box. With 138 illustrations by "Porte Crayon" in the text. Front pastedown with bookplate of Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls; front flyleaf with 19th century ink signature of A. W. Callisen. ◆Occasional minor marginal stains, smudges, or foxing, one leaf creased, but a very nearly fine copy internally, clean and fresh, and the binding as new. This is a superb example of the work of American binder Monique Lallier, its multi-colored onlays in various leathers subtly referencing the landscape explored in these humorous sketches. As she…
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VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE AND OTHER PAPERS
by (BINDINGS - SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE). (FLORENCE PRESS). STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
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London: Published for the Florence Press by Chatto & Windus, 1910. ONE OF 250 COPIES ON PAPER (12 additional copies were printed on vellum). 250 x 185 mm. (9 7/8 x 7 1/4"). 5 p.l., 120 pp., [1] leaf. ANIIMATED DARK GREEN INLAID CRUSHED MOROCCO, ELABORATELY GILT, BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE (signed on front turn-in), covers with inlaid border of russet ribbon laced at each corner through a blue heart from which is suspended a pair of bells in inlaid brown morocco, an inner border of red inlaid hearts alternating with small gilt floral tools, front cover with centerpiece medallion of five inlaid flowers in green, white, and yellow on a densely stippled ground within a red inlaid circle with a gilt collar of oak leaves and acorns, rear board with centerpiece inlay in brown and pink of Pan pipes suspended on a ribbon, the whole enclosed in a gilt garland; raised bands, spine gilt in compartments featuring floral cornerpieces and knotwork centerpiece with red heart and dot inlays, very ornate gilt inner…
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VITA CHRISTI [in Dutch] TBOECK VANDEN LEVEN JHESU CHRISTI
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Zwolle: Peter van Os, 20 November 1495. 240 x 188 mm. (9 1/2 x 7 3/8"). Double column, 40 lines plus headline in gothic type. Attractively matted. Capitals struck with red, red paragraph mark and three-line initial, and WITH A TWO-PANEL WOODCUT (107 x 135 mm.) OF CHRIST BEFORE PILATE. Goff L-356; BMC IX, 88; ISTC il00356000. ◆A couple of faint red dots (offset from adjacent rubrication), scattered faint foxing to margins, but an excellent leaf, clean and fresh. .
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VITA DEL CAVALIERE GIAMBATTISTA BODONI. TIPOGRAFO ITALIANO E CATALOGO CHRONOLOGICO DELLE SUE EDIZIONI
by (BODONI, GIAMBATTISTA). [LAMA, GIUSEPPE DE]
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Parma: Dalla Stamperia Ducale, 1816. FIRST EDITION. 248 x 159 mm. (9 3/4 x 6 1/4"). With the list of subscribers in volume I. Two volumes.. Contemporary burgundy roan over matching buckram, raised bands, spines with gilt-ruled compartments, gilt titling, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Both volumes with engraved frontispiece, that in volume I featuring a medallion portrait of Bodoni and that in volume II depicting an angel beside a printing press; original tissue guards. With laid-in 19th century manuscript bibliographical note in French. Brooks 1170; Bigmore and Wyman I, 69; Birrell & Garnett 195. ◆Spines sunned to light brown and a little spotted, short crack to head of one joint, extremities a bit rubbed, boards lightly chafed, but the binding entirely sound, and A VERY FINE COPY INTERNALLY--especially clean, smooth, and bright, with extremely wide margins. This classic biography of the enormously influential Italian printer has all of the production values he held dear: fine paper,…
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VITAE EXCELLENTIUM IMPERATORUM
by (BODONI IMPRINT). NEPOS, CORNELIUS
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Parma: In aedibus Palatinis, typis Bodonianis, 1799. 350 x 247 mm. (13 3/4 x 9 5/8"). 1 p.l., ix, [v], 286 pp. Pleasing 19th century stiff vellum, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), covers with French fillet border, flat spine with lattice-work design, blue morocco label, densely gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. A Large Paper Copy. Front pastedown with engraved bookplate of Raphael Mauritius Bauer; front free endpaper with bookplate of Stephen D. Winkworth. Brooks 747. ◆Just a hint of soiling to vellum, a couple of preliminary leaves with minor marginal foxing, but A VERY FINE COPY, the text clean, smooth, and bright, the margins vast, and the binding with virtually no signs of wear. This stately folio printing of the earliest known collection of Classical biographies bears all the hallmarks of a Bodoni imprint: beautiful, creamy paper, elegant typography, and sharp, deeply impressed printing. Giambatista Bodoni (1740-1813)…
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VITAE PONTIFICUM
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[Treviso]: Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 10 Feb. 1485. 310 x 210 mm. (12 1/4 x 8 1/4"). [135] leaves (lacking final blank). Contemporary wooden boards backed with (period?) deerskin, flat spine, two later black leather labels, front board with remnants of straps nailed on, rear board with brass catch plates (rear hinge reinforced at final leaf). In a fine modern brown linen clamshell box with black morocco label on back. Goff P-770; BMC VI, 897; ISTC ip00770000. ◆Bottom of joints with three-inch cracks, two-inch crack to middle of rear joint, deerskin somewhat rubbed, a couple of pages with short wax stains to text (nothing illegible), final quire with minor foxing and stains to margins, occasional pale marginal browning, paper defects, or faint dampstains, but still a very good copy--clean, very fresh, and almost entirely bright internally, printed within spacious margins, and in a sturdy binding retaining a good deal of its antique appeal. First printed in 1479, the "Lives of the Popes" is…
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VITAE SANCTORUM PATRUM, SIVE VITAS PATRUM [in German]. LEBEN DER HEILIGEN ALTVÄTER
by (INCUNABULAR LEAF WITH WOODCUT). HIERONYMUS
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[Strassburg: Printer of the "Antichristus" (Heinrich Eggestein?), not after 1482]. First or Second Edition in German. 285 x 200 mm. (11 1/4 x 7 7/8"). Single column, 34 line in gothic type. Attractively matted. WITH A HALF-PAGE WOODCUT (85 x 132 mm.) OF A SCENE FROM THE LIFE OF HILARION. Goff H-216; BMC I, 168; ISTC ih00216000. ◆Faint marginal smudge, but A FINE LEAF, clean, fresh, and bright, with ample margins, of a very rare early issue of the German translation of the "Lives of the Desert Fathers." .
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VON DEM SIG DES WORTS GOTTES
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Dillingen: Sebald Mayer, 1567. First German Edition. 208 x 160 mm. (8 1/4 x 6 1/4"). 26 p.l., 416 leaves.Translated by Nicolaus Hug. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, inner medallion roll with Julius Caesar, Ovid, Cicero, and Virgil, outer roll with King David and Christ, raised bands, later paper label with manuscript title, original catch plates and anchor-plates, remains of thongs (two small contemporary patches to boards). With full-page woodcut of the Apocalypse showing the Queen of Heaven and the Beast. Title page printed in red and black, and with ink inscription in a 17th century hand: "Ex bibliotheca Wisensteig, de[?] 1626." VD16 R 3806. ◆Significant splaying to front board, small patch of worming to lower cover, pigskin a little soiled, one-inch closed tear to front free endpaper, mild foxing to title page and six other pages, other trivial defects, otherwise an excellent copy, quite clean and crisp internally, in a sturdy binding. Featuring a dramatic…
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VOYAGE AUTOUR DE MON JARDIN
by (GARDENS, ILLUSTRATED WORKS ON). KARR, ALPHONSE
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Paris: L. Curmer & V. Lecou, 1851. First Illustrated Edition. 280 x 185 mm. (11 x 7 1/4"). [iv], 416 pp. EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY CAT'S-PAW CALF, covers with triple gilt fillet borders and floral cornerpieces, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with floral centerpiece and fleuron cornerpieces, tan morocco label, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. With numerous in-text black & white illustrations, seven of which are full-page, and eight botanical color plates, including frontispiece, all with light pink titled tissue guards. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt. Vicaire IV, 639-40. ◆Light scattered patches of foxing (occasionally found on plates, though not affecting the image), but overall a beautiful copy, the binding lustrous and wonderfully well preserved, and the pages especially fresh, very white, and entirely clean. Penned by a former editor of "Le Figaro" who had a passion for flora, this is an enchanting meditation on the delights of the garden,…
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THE VOYAGE OF THE FOX IN THE ARCTIC SEAS: A NARRATIVE OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE FATE OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN AND HIS COMPANIONS
by (ARCTIC EXPLORATION - FRANKLIN, SIR JOHN). M'CLINTOCK, FRANCIS LEOPOLD
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London: John Murray, 1859. FIRST EDITION. 225 x 155 mm. (9 x 6"). xxvii, [i], 403, [1] pp. Pleasing contemporary red half calf over marbled boards, raised bands, spine attractively gilt in compartments featuring scrolling cornerpieces and lozenge centerpiece, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With frontispiece, engraved title page, 13 plates, two folding maps, one folding document, and five small illustrations in the text. ◆A little rubbing to joints and extremities, a three-inch tear to fold-out plate (no loss), other trivial defects, but still a nearly fine copy, the attractive binding solid and very bright, and the text fresh and smooth. This is a well-illustrated and well-documented account of the final search for Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer who mapped nearly two thirds of the northern coastline of North America and whose expedition disappeared during an 1845 attempt to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. Franklin was a hero in Britain for…
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VOYAGE PITTORESQUE EN SICILE
by (COLOR PLATES - TRAVEL AND VIEWS, SICILY). GIGAULT DE LA SALLE, ACHILLE ÉTIENNE
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Paris: P. Didot, l'ainé [second volume Jules Didot l'ainé], 1822-26. FIRST EDITION. 641 x 495 mm. (25 1/4 x 19 1/2"). Lacking the dedication leaf and subscriber list present in the Abbey copy. Two volumes. Edited by Jean Frédéric d'Ostervald. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, textured paper boards, gilt titling on spine, edges untrimmed. One map (as called for, though the Abbey copy has two), and 92 ACCOMPLISHED AND BEAUTIFULLY HAND-COLORED AQUATINT PLATES OF SICILIAN VIEWS. Abbey, "Travel" 262; Graesse VI, 400; Brunet V, 1379. ◆Moderate rubbing to joints and elsewhere, covers with some scars, other minor problems externally, but the original bindings entirely solid--and surprisingly so for such an immense book with so many fabulous pictures to look at. Preliminary leaves and text lightly to substantially foxed, a half dozen plates with faint overall browning, one tissue guard missing, the margins of perhaps half the engravings with foxing (usually light, though noticeable in three or…
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