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Stevens, R. Blake and Jean E. Van Rutten The FAL Rifle the Classic Edition.
Cobourg: Collector Grade, 1998. Second edition (pp. 166, append.; 258, append.; 372, index) of the single volume edition FAL series (1993) originally published as three volumes, viz., North American FALs NATO’s Search for a Standard Rifle; UK and Commonwealth FALs; The Metric FAL the Free World’s Right Arm. Large quarto (30 cm) in pictorial dust jacket, plain black cloth with more than 800 illustrations of various sorts-- photographs, sketches, line drawings, etc. Historical narrative and detailed technical description of the design, development, adoption, and deployment of the FAL rifle in its multi-faceted configurations. Plenty of detail here to build your own. As New.
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127.50 USD
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Stevens, R. Blake and Jean E. Van Rutten. The FAL Rifle the Classic Edition.
Cobourg: Collector Grade, 1998. Second edition (pp. 166, append.; 258, append.; 372, index) of the single volume edition FAL series (1993) originally published as three volumes, viz., North American FALs NATO’s Search for a Standard Rifle; UK and Commonwealth FALs; The Metric FAL the Free World’s Right Arm. Large quarto (30 cm) in pictorial dust jacket, plain black cloth with more than 800 illustrations of various sorts-- photographs, sketches, line drawings, etc. Historical narrative and detailed technical description of the design, development, adoption, and deployment of the FAL rifle in its multi-faceted configurations. Plenty of detail here to build your own. As New.
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127.50 USD
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Stevenson, Robert Louis The Silverado Squatters
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1923. No. 221 of a limited edition of 380 (pp. xii, 99). Folio in matching slipcase (32.5). From the colophon: “John Henry Nash, of San Francisco, certifies that this copyis one of an edition of three hundred and eighty printed by him, from hand-set types which have been distributed, and the presswork completed in the month of September, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-three. The title-page portrait and illustrative head-bands are the work of Howard Whitford Willard. This copy is No. 221.” Also, bound in, Nash’s punning errata slip. Printed on hand-made paper with Nash’s water-mark, the text as yet unopened (You will want a paper-knife). This copy has apparently stayed in its slipcase, as it is unread, and so the text and covers are clean and (the text especially) bright. The exposed spine, however, is faded and needed repair. The title label survives. The slipcase is faded and worn at the edges. Still, a handsome, well-executed design.
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200.00 USD
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805 |
Stilgebauer, Edward Gotz Krafft Die Geschichte einer Jugend
Berlin: Rich. Bong, 1905. In four volumes (Mit Tausand Masten, Im Strom der Welt, Im Eugen Kreis, Des Lebens Krone). Octavo, in tan paper-covered boards with blue titles; small decorative stickers on front epps., small (1 cm) split bottom hinge of first volume. Otherwise, a clean, tight four- volume set. Very good.
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42.50 USD
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806 |
Stilphen, George Albert The Apples of Maine
Otisfield, ME: Stilphen’s Crooked River Farm, 2000. Number 363 of an edition limited to 500 copies, signed on the half-title page by Stilphen (xxi, 341 pp., appendices, index). The pomology of Maine, with descriptions and technical references for hundreds of varieties which have made an appearance there, from the Blue Pearmain and the Flushing Spitzbergen to the MacIntosh. In dark green cloth with gilt lettering. A scarce book. As new.
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170.00 USD
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807 |
Stilphen, George Albert The Apples of Maine
Otisfield, ME: Stilphen’s Crooked River Farm, 2000. Number 364 of an edition limited to 500 copies, signed on the half-title page by Stilphen (xxi, 341 pp., appendices, index). The pomology of Maine, with descriptions and technical references for hundreds of varieties which have made an appearance there, from the Blue Pearmain and the Flushing Spitzbergen to the MacIntosh. In dark green cloth with gilt lettering. A scarce book. As new.
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170.00 USD
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Stilphen, George Albert The Apples of Maine
Otisfield, ME: Stilphen’s Crooked River Farm, 2000. Number 371 of an edition limited to 500 copies, signed on the half-title page by Stilphen (xxi, 341 pp., appendices, index). The pomology of Maine, with descriptions and technical references for hundreds of varieties which have made an appearance there, from the Blue Pearmain and the Flushing Spitzbergen to the MacIntosh. In dark green cloth with gilt lettering. A scarce book. As new.
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809 |
Stone, Sir Benjamin (Photographer) Souvenir of the Reception of Admiral Caillard and the Officers of the French Fleet by the Houses of Parliament. Westminster Hall, 12th August 1905.
London: Blades et al.,n.d. Quarto, fancy gilt decorations and lettering, in white faux vellum, a.e.g. A suite of ten fine photographic studies (15cm x 20cm) of the Houses of Parliament by an important English photographer and recorder of social and political life. Stone ‘had a deep concern for British heritage, and among his photographs were recorded many British customs and festivals, parliament and parliamentarians, Westminster Abbey, and royal palaces. His photographs of the coronations of Edward VII and George V caused him to become known as the royal photographer’ (Chinn, ODNB). With brief titles, descriptions in French. Covers rubbed and worn at the corners, top and bottom of spine; tissue guards browned, lightly but not offensively offset onto text pages. Plates are clear and sharp. Quite a handsome production, housing work by an important photographer.
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55.25 USD
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810 |
Stone, Witmer The Plants of Southern New Jersey with Especial Reference to the Flora of the Pine Barrens and the Geographic Distribution of the Species [in the] Annual Report of the New Jersey State Museum (1910).
Trenton: New Jersey State Museum, 1911. First edition (890, index). Folding map, frontis, and 129 plates illustrating the flora of the Barrens. Tall octavo in green cloth and gilt titles (top and bottom of the spine abraded, tips just worn through). One doubts even an exceptionally rare plant was overlooked in this comprehensive account. A typical entry includes the plant’s formal botanic name (e.g., viburnham nudum L.), its common name (larger witherod), references to earlier descriptions (Linnaeus, Barton, Knieskern, Britton), the plant’s distribution (swamps of the barrens), etc. A book to have at one’s elbow while reading John McPhee’s Pine Barrens. A clean, solid copy.
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425.00 USD
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812 |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1854. First edition, in two volumes, with illustrations by Hammat Billings (lxv, 326 pp.; vii, 432 pp.). In recent half leather with decorative paper covered boards, red band and gilt lettering on spine. Boards are worn around the edges; clean and tight internally. Ex libris Dyer Library, Saco, Maine-- since 1882 the first volume was checked out twice, the second volume not at all.
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170.00 USD
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813 |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life among the Lowly
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853. New illustrated edition (pp. xii, 508), frontispiece by John Gilbert, ornamental title page by Phiz, and 130 engravings on wood by Matthew Urlwin Sears. Octavo (20 cm) in decorative navy cloth, gilt decorations to front cover and spine, impressed decoration to rear cover, a.e.g. The first decorative, illustrated edition. Tips worn, spine ends abraded, rear hing starting. A very good copy of a handsome edition.
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200.00 USD
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814 |
Strickland, Agnes [and Jane Strickland] Lives of the Queens of England. From the Norman Conquest.
London: Bell & Daldy, 1866- 69. Revised and augmented edition, in six volumes each with a portrait as frontispiece (pp. frontis., xxiv, 640; frontis., xi, 663; frontis., vii, 584; frontis., ix, 620; frontis., ix, 522; frontis., xi, 508, index). Small octavo (18 cm) specially bound in three-quarter calf over complimentary marbled paper; five raised bands, titles and fancy gilt decorations in panels; edges marbled; matching marbled epps. Each volume with an engraved portrait of an English queen as a frontispiece. Two of the Strickland sisters stayed at home and pursued writing careers while Susanna and Catharine Parr lit out for Canada. An unusually handsome set.
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297.50 USD
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Suckling, Sir John [Attr'd.] The Coppy of a Letter Written to the Lower House of Parliament Touching Divers Grievances and Inconveniences of the State.
London: Walkley, 1641. First edition (pp. [24], mispaginated at p.14). Small quarto (18cm) in 19th century three-quarter blue morocco over complimentary marbled paper; gilt titles and decoration, t.e.g., sprinkled edges, marbled epps. The writer, an erstwhile Member of Parliament, reminds the House of the utility of free speech in the search for truth (as did Milton) and of the inadvisability, fiscally and morally, of frivolous wars. This short work has been attributed to the poet John Suckling (1609- 1641?), a man of many parts not all of which were congruent. Suckling was of course a more than middling poet in the lineage of Donne but, as he says of himself, “... loved not the Muses so well as his sport;/ And prized black eyes, or a lucky hit/ At bowls, above all the Trophies of Wit”. He was at once a spendthrift cavalier (He once sold a great tract of land in order to finance the arming and outfitting of a sort of Praetorian guard whom he thought to lead into battle), a courtier who financed and produced suitably expensive and elevated entertainments for Charles I, an ardent but easily distracted lover, and a famous wit. Certain of his letters, however, portray a thoughtful and well-disposed writer given to apt marital advice (as to his sister) and sound political principle (as, for example, in his letter of 1640 to Henry German advising “the king on how to deal with widespread popular disquiet”). He is also credited with inventing, if that is the word, the game of cribbage (anything for a bet, Sir John). See Tom Clayton’s biographical sketch of Suckling in ODNB for a great deal more. A handsomely bound, bright copy. Quite scarce.
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255.00 USD
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817 |
Swan, Abraham The British Architect or, The Builder’s Treasury of Stair-Cases.
London: the Author, 1758. Later edition (viii, 16) illustrated with upwards of one hundred designs and examples on sixty folio copper-plate engravings with letterpress commentary. Folio (40cm) in modern, decorative half calf over fine complimentary marbled paper; six raised bands, gilt titles and decorations to spine on red and green morocco labels; new endpapers; title page, Introduction, and Plate 60 provided in facsimile. The contents of this influential architectural design book are somewhat lengthily summarized in the subtitle: “Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious Method of drawing the FIVE ORDERS, than has hitherto been published, by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts, free from those troublesome Divisions call’d Aliquot Parts. Shewing also how to glue up their Columns and Capitals. II. Likewise STAIR-CASES (those most useful, ornamental, and necessary Parts of a Building, though never before sufficiently described in any Book, Ancient or Modern); shewing their most convenient Situation, and the Form of their Ascending in the most grand Manner: With a great Variety of curious Ornaments, whereby any Gentleman may fix on what suits him best, there being Examples of all Kinds; and necessary Directions for such Persons as are unacquainted with that Branch. III. Designs of ARCHES, DOORS, and WINDOWS. IV. A great Variety of New and Curious CHIMNEY-PIECES, in the most elegant and modern Taste. V. CORBELS, SHIELDS, and other beautiful Decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary RULES of CARPENTRY; with the Manner of TRUSS’D ROOFS, and the Nature of a splayed circular SOFFIT, both in a streight and circular Wall, never published before. Together with Raking Cornices, Groins, and Angle Brackets, described.” The influence of this one book by Abraham Swan (1720- 1765) on colonial and post- revolutionary architecture in America is suggested by the fact that it was the first book of its kind published in North America, having been reprinted by Bell in Philadelphia (1775). But by that time Swan’s British Architect already had been available in at least two editions (1745 and 1758), and colonial builders had been busily reproducing and adapting Swan’s patterns for nearly thirty years, as their ambitious clients sought to transplant British design to their new circumstances. In New England, Swan’s pattern book (It comes with sets of measurements and detailed proportions) shared its popularity with Langley’s Builder’s Jewel (1741). Swan’s chimney-piece designs are to be found, line by line, in the ‘mahogany room’ of the Lee house (1768) at Marblehead, Mass. Farther south, down along the Atlantic seaboard, William Buckland and William Sears followed Swan’s patterns in the late 1750’s in decorating George Mason’s Gunston Hall and again, following Plate 51 verbatim, in the neo-classical chimney-pieces in the Hammond- Harwood and Brice houses in Annapolis. Mason’s neighbour, a certain George Washington, also employed Sears who, following Swan’s designs, produced the much praised chimney-piece in the small dining room at Mt. Vernon. Even after the Revolution had freed Americans from British tyranny, American builders of substantial houses who were looking for authentic Georgian designs sought out Swan’s work, as witness the ethereal flying staircase and decorative woodwork in the McLennan House in Portland, Maine (1801). Generally speaking, the elements of neo-classical decoration found in the principal houses of colonial America, from Maine to Georgia, are traceable in whole or in part to the Swan’s patterns and designs found in The British Architect. (See Whiffen & Koeper, 100; Hafertepe and O’Gorman, 4; mountvernon.org; gunstonhall.org ). Moisture stains at top corner of several prelims and plates 58, 59. An especially handsome copy of Swan’s influential work.
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1190.00 USD
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819 |
Symons, Thomas H. B. Meta Incognita: A Discourse of Discovery. Martin Frobisher’s Arctic Expeditions, 1576- 1578. Mercury Series Directorate Paper 10.
Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1999. First edition, in two volumes (xlvi, 298; vi, 299- 636). SIGNED by Symons. Illustrated with sixteen colour plates and several additional b&w. Quarto (22cm x 28cm) in pictorial stiff wraps. Contributions from fourteen experts on such matters as boats, exploration, cartography in a wide-ranging study of exploratioon in Elizabethan times, including details of Frobisher’s vessels, finance and organization of the expedition, human and natural history of Baffin Island. A handsome copy.
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85.00 USD
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820 |
Tanguay, Cyprien Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes depuis La Fondation de la Colonie jusqu’a Nos Jours.
Montreal: Eusebe Senecal & Fils, 1871- 1890. Premiere edition, en sept tomes (pp. xxxviii, 623; xxii, 622; 607; 608; viii, 608; 608; xi, 688). Large fold-out genealogical chart and folding map, frontis to volume I portrait of Tanguay. Large octavo (26 cm) in publisher’s green buckram, gilt titles to spine, bookplate and blind stamp of Long Island (NY) Historical Society. Senecal used poor quality paper from wood pulp, and therefore the pages of text, especially those of the earlier volumes, are becoming quite brittle; spine of the first volume has been skillfully repaired. Nevertheless clean and solid. Quite scarce.
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300.00 USD
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Taylor, C[harles] J[ay] England. Pen and Ink Sketches.
New York: R. H. Russell, 1899. First edition, seventy pen and ink sketches, unpaginated. Long folio (45 cm) tan cloth over pictorial paper covered beveled boards. Seventy lush pen and ink sketches (38 cm x 25 cm) of English village and town life composed while Taylor was a visitor in the south of England during the last years of Victoria’s reign. Titles include “The Lady and the Villager”, the “Old Squire”, and “The Peapicker’s Lost Child”. Charles Jay Taylor (1855- 1929) was a successful illustrator for several popular America periodicals including Harpers, Life, and Punch. His “Taylor Girls” depicting an idealized feminity were as well known in their time as those of his somewhat better known contemporaries, Harrison Fisher and Charles Dana Gibson. Many of his political cartooons appeared in the New York Daily Graphic which was much given to lampooning the excesses of America’s wealthy and powerful elite, such as W. H. Vanderbilt. His work along with the graphic art of Opper, Gillam, and Graetz was a feature of Keppler’s satirical Puck magazine which took on such egregious figures of the Gilded Age as Jay Gould and Cyrus Field. An example of Taylor's earlier political caricatures is included here along with several images from England Pen and Ink itself. Binding skilfully repaired, firm; edges of the covers chipped and worn (as often happens to paper over beveled edges), somewhat soiled in places but still attractive. Internally the plates are generally clean and bright. Quite a nice copy of a scarce title, one of several high quality books published by Robert Howard Russell around the turn of the century; held in but twenty libraries worldwide.
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500.00 USD
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824 |
Teesdale, Henry Map. Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
London, c. 1830. Sheet (37cm x 47cm), image (33cm x 41cm). A fine, colourful engraved map with decorative borders depicting much of present-day Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Showing details of James Bay, the five Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River and the two maritime provinces, with the northeast U.S. sketched in. Good, wide margins (two small tears, repaired), neat central seam as issued. Date is approximate but close-- Toronto (so named in 1834) is shown as ‘York’ and Teesdale’s major work predates the name change. A bright, colourful map of early 19th century Canada which not much more than a dozen years before had withstood the American invasions of the war of 1812-1814. Ex Ruddell collection (November 2008). Simply mounted on white, acid-free mat.
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170.00 USD
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Tegetmeir, Denis The Seven Deadly Virtues
London: Lovat Dickson, n.d. [but c. 1934]. An unnumbered copy of a limited edition of 250 signed by Tegetmeier and Eric Gill (who wrote the Foreword and contributed to the design of the book). Large 4to with forty-two of Tegetmeier’s caricatures of ‘the foibles of our age’ arranged as pictorial comments on short prose passages, e.g., ‘A policewoman, coming up quietly and keeping an eye on young couples in Hyde Park, has greatly improved the general conduct’ (The Bishop of London). In worn dust jacket (nicks and a few chips around the edges, age toned), black cloth with gilt lettering (bottom edge shelf-worn, front endpapers discoloured); images (sometimes reminiscent of Thurber, sometimes of German expressionism) clean and bright.
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255.00 USD
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Temminck, C. J. Monographies de Mammalogie, ou Description de Quelques Genres de Mammiferes, dont les Especes Ont Ete Observees dans les Differens Musees de l’Europe; Ouvrage accompagne de planches d’Osteologie, pouvant servir de suite et de complement aux Notices sur les animaux vivans, publiees par M. le baron G. Cuvier, dans ses Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles.
Paris: Chez G. Dufour et Ed. D’Ocagne, 1827. Volume I only (268, contents, plates), twenty-five fine folding engraved plates (28 x 23 cm), especially of bats. Large quarto in modern half leather over original marbled paper; gilt title to spine; plate and small stamp of Museum of Natural History; extremities worn. Neat and tidy binding and text. A handsome copy of an important work by the director of the Leyden Natural History Museum.
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637.50 USD
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827 |
Tennyson, Lord Alfred [and Arthur G. Doughty, Trans.]. Idylls of the King [in Pitman Shorthand].
Montreal: Dominion Illustrated Publishing, 1889. First edition (102 pp.). Quarto (25 cm), in full calf with gilt titles and decoration, rubricated edges, and marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and six additional engravings from watercolours depicting various moments in the narrative by Henry Sandham, RCA. Boldly inscribed by the author on the ffep to ‘Oscar Buss’ (?) at Montreal, January 1890. A product of Doughty’s ambitious early years in Canada to which he emigrated at age 26 (Later he was appointed Dominion Archivist of Canada), this work unites Doughty’s devotion to the revival of epic medievalism in Tennyson with an ambition, however short lived, to reform the world of commerce by establishing shorthand for general use. In the (English phonographical) Preface Doughty says, “In now presenting the Idylls of the King in [shorthand] characters, to the cultivated reader, the Editor hopes that, in thus becoming the handmaid of Lord Tennyson’s muse Shorthand may gain some reflected glory from so enobling a service.” Doughty vigorously promoted his work in Canadian government circles, approaching the privy council as well as the Governor-General himself, and sought to have his shorthand translation of Tennyson’s famous poem placed in every school in the country-- he evidently hoped to do well by doing good. However, a reviewer of the time probably accurately expressed the public reception of Doughty’s efforts when he wrote that the work was ‘as curious a token of respect as ever was paid to the genius of a favourite author’ (quoted in Hayward). In the event, Canadian school children were spared lessons in shorthand epic poetry (and, if Doughty had had his way, probably Shakespeare and Milton and the Bible, too) for Doughty failed to attract a political champion to his cause, and the literary shorthand project sank almost without a trace. In only a very few years Doughty’s career suddenly flowered when he was appointed the first Dominion Archivist, a position he held with distinction for more than thirty years, producing along the way the twenty-three volume history Canada and Its Provinces (with Adam Shortt). It is likely, too, that Sir Arthur G. Doughty (as he became) was entirely content this early literary project was forgotten by almost everyone. Indeed, the biographical sketch of Doughty’s life and career in the Canadian Encyclopedia states little is known of Sir Arthur’s early career but notes by the way his literary bent as the author of several works on Tennyson of whom he, like his entire generation, was apparently enamoured. Tennyson died in 1893, at a great age, and since only a few copies of Doughty’s shorthand Idylls were in circulation and there is no record of Doughty presenting the poet laureate with a copy, it is unlikely Tennyson saw the work and so passed on to another life unperturbed. For more about this quixotic stenographic venture into literary medievalism see Robert Hayward’s ‘Sir Arthur Doughty, Shorthand, and Alfred Lord Tennyson’ in Archivaria 21 (Winter 1985- 86). This rare and curious book was produced to a high standard, printed on heavy, coated paper (recto only), and illustrated with the work of the pre-eminent watercolourist of the day. Minor wear to the extremities, the front hinge wearing thin, a few scattered finger-marks. Quite a handsome copy.
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552.50 USD
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Thacher, James A Practical Treatise on the Management of Bees; and the Establishment of Apiaries, with the Best Method of Destroying and Preventing the Depradations of the Bee Moth.
Boston: Marsh & Capen, 1829. First edition (162, appendix, postscript, contents, errata, adverts). Includes as appendix and postscript a twenty page extract from Mary Griffith’s article on bee-keeping from the North American Review, October, 1828. (See our book No. 731, [Griffith, Mary]. Our Neighbourhood, or Letters on Horticulture and Natural Phenomena: Interspersed with Opinions on Domestic and Moral Economy. New York: Bliss, 1831.). In tan quarter cloth and paper-covered boards, title in black on spine label. Lightly foxed and damp-stained throughout, as is common enough. James Thacher, M.D., (1754- 1844) was a surgeon during the Revolution and later published a number of medical works, both technical (an unsuccessful treatment for hydrophobia) and historical (biographical sketches in Memoirs of Eminent American Doctors). Thacher’s suggested methods for managing the bee moth problem include a sugar and vinegar trap (He suggests the drunken moths can be fed to the chickens), beating them with a broom, and a specially designed hive. An early American work on apiculture, it relies on Huber, Bonner, et al., in so far as their work seemed applicable in the newly minted eastern states. See also Janson (Pomona’s Harvest).
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829 |
Thackeray, William Makepeace The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1946. Collected and edited by Gordon N. Ray, in four volumes, first edition (pp. clxxiii, 522, append., index; 853, append., index; 695, append., index; 586, append., gen. index). Large octavo (24 cm) in maroon publisher’s cloth, gilt titles to spine, decoration to front covers. The defunct wrappers have done their duty: four clean, sound volumes.
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60.00 USD
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830 |
The Toronto Women’s Press Club [L. M. Montgomery, Charlotte Whitton, Louis Mason, Mary Isabel Houston et al.]. Verse & Reverse, Volumes 1 & 2
Toronto: Goodchild, 1921 and 1922. The annual collections of poetry by the club members, in two volumes (pp. 47, 47). Small quarto (19.5cm, 19cm) in folding paper wraps (blue and blue gray), decorative front covers-- one with gilt title, the other with impressed fancy title in light blue, cord binding (mostly missing on one), front edges untrimmed. The second volume signed by Mason and Houston on the pages with their contributions. Three poems by L. M. Montgomery (‘Winter Song’, ‘The Gate of Dream’, and ‘Spring Song’). According to the Prefatory Note, the Toronto Women’s Press Club held a poetry night in April of 1921 and decided to publish the poems presented by its members (and again in 1922). Volume 1 lightly sunned, especially on the rear cover which has a discoloured patch suggesting some sort of label has been removed; string ties abraded away but still present inside; volume 2 somewhat age-toned with a few whitish marks to the rear cover. Bright, clean copies.
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127.50 USD
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Theberge, Clifford B. and Elaine Theberge The Edge of the Shield, A History of the Township of Smith 1818-1980
Peterborough: Smith Township Historical Committee, 1982. First edition (xiii, 402, notes, append., index). Signed by Clifford and Elaine Theberge and by Will Telford. Tall octavo, over a hundred illustrations of everyday life through the years, full-page and in text. Black cloth with gilt titles in pictorial dust jacket (worn around the edges, top and bottom of spine, less than very good), binding and text fine.
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38.25 USD
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Thomas, Dylan Twenty-Five Poems
London: J.M. Dent, 1936. First edition. Small octavo in grey dust jacket over grey paper-covered boards, black lettering. Small chip at bottom of Dj, “For Mr. J. Frank Willis” (of the Canadian Broadcasting Company) in small neat letters under Thomas’ name on Dj, brief underlining in same ink of one line on inside Dj flap. Text and covers are without blemish.
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1275.00 USD
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Thomson, David Croal The Water -Colour Drawings of Thomas Bewick.
London: Barbizon House, 1930. First edition (xxiii, 83), No. 373 of an edition limited to 200 (Nos. 326- 525) printed on hand-made paper with 40 tipped in colour plates (c. 23cm x 30cm) by Thomas Bewick, tissue guards. Three-quarter leather over tan cloth, gilt titles to front cover and spine, text block uncut/ unopened. Minor stain bottom edge of rear endpapers.
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297.50 USD
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Thomson, W. M. The Land and the Book; or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and the Scenery of the Holy Land.
London: Nelson, 1867. One volume edition: Part One (Phoenicea and Palestine), Part Two (Northern Palestine), Part III (Sea-Coast Plains--Sharon and Philistia), Part IV (Southern Palestine); (xvii, folding map, 699 pp., indices) includes colour frontispiece and 12 other full-page colour plates, together with over 100 b&w illustrations some full-page. In black morocco with gilt decorations; five raised bands, a.e.g. Hinges repaired (spine glued down), endpapers discoloured, small tear in folding map repaired. Colour plates are exceptionally clean and bright, as is the text generally.
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838 |
Thoreau, Henry David Walden, or Life in the Woods
London: Walter Scott, 1886. First British edition, introduced by Will H. Dircks (pp. 336). Octavo in fancy cloth over paper, a.e.g. The first ‘true’ British edition as the earlier appearance in Britain of the American philosophical classic was printed from the original U. S. sheets. Edge wear, p. 90 loose. An acceptable copy.
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300.00 USD
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839 |
Thoyts, E. E. How to Decipher and Study Old Documents, Being a Guide to the Reading of Ancient Manuscripts.
London: Elliot Stock, 1893. First edition, with an Introduction by C. Trice Martin, Assistant Keeper of H.M. Records (xii, 143 pp., 11 b&w illustrations). In pictorial olive cloth with gilt lettering. Corners, top and bottom spine bumped, minor spotting and rubs; a few foxed pages. Features helpful, and interesting, discussion on how to read early handwriting in, for example, monastic documents, legal instruments; lists and describes useful books on paleography (e.g., How to Write the History of a Parish, Upon Parish Registers). A hard to find book, especially in this first edition.
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840 |
Tindale, Thomas Plumpton Floating Spars
N.p. [but London]: H[orace] N[oble] P[ym], 1876. Privately printed in an edition limited to 100 copies (frontis, 63 pp.). Inscribed by Horace Pym (1844- 1896), the editor/ publisher, to his daughter (‘For Via from her Dad’) and with her bookplate (‘Via’ Yolande Sylvia Nina Noble Pym). Small 4to in brown cloth with gilt pictorial decoration and titles to beveled covers and spine, teg, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece by William Blake Richmond (‘a labour of love’) and a memoir by Pym who collected and published these twenty poems as a tribute to a naturalist friend who died young. Pym describes Tindale’s cluttered house in Sussex Square in which ‘he would shut himself up for many hours, hardly touching food, and reading and writing for ten and twelve hours at a stretch’ and which ‘he fitted up in the quaint manner which so forcibly reflected the many-sided mind of its master:-- old pictures, Anglo-Saxon skulls and stone implements...ponderous folios, cabinets of china, coins, Egyptian relics, and Arctic trophies; whilst scientific instruments, lying in most admired disorder, made it at times almost perilous for the unwary visitor to move in haste.’ The description needs only a dressing gown, a pipe, and a violin. A handsome memorial to a lost friend and a singular example of a scarce book.
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841 |
Tipping, H. Avray English Gardens
London: Country Life, 1925. First (?) edition (pp. lxiv, 375, index). Large folio (39 cm) in green publisher’s cloth, gilt titles and decorations to cover and spine (a bit faded), a.e.g., decorative endpapers. Sixty-five photo illustrations in the extensive introduction exhibit various features of a traditional English garden. Fifty-two gardens are pictured and described in detail including more than 500 large photo illustrations. A few spots and a small ink stain to the front cover of an otherwise quite fine copy.
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842 |
Torr, James [and Christopher Hildyard]. The Antiquities of York City, and the Civil Government thereof: with a List of all the mayors and Bayliffs, Lord Mayors and Sheriffs, from the Time of King Edward the First, to this present Year, 1719.
York: printed by G. White for F. Hildyard, 1719. First edition (pp. [vii], 148, appendix), illustrated with sketches of various armorial devices, etc. Octavo (19.5 cm) in polishes calf, five raised bands, gilt titles to spine, remnants of gilt decorations to covers. Hinges skilfully repaired. A clean, attractive copy.
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843 |
Traill, C. P. and Agnes Chamberlin. Studies of Plant Life in Canada; or Gleanings from Forest, Lake and Plain.
Ottawa: Woodburn, 1885. First edition (frontis, ix, 273, index). Illustrated by nine full-page chromolithographic plates after the drawings of Agnes Chamberlin. In decorative brown publisher’s cloth (The book was also bound in green) with impressed and gilt decorations and lettering, a.e.g., beveled edges. In 1868 C. P. Traill’s Canadian Wildflowers was published to general acclaim. The strikingly colourful lithographs were the work of Susanna’s daughter and Traill’s niece Agnes Fitzgibbon, as she then was-- she sketched and then engraved the floral images, and along with her three daughters, hand-coloured all 5,000 plates. Now, fifteen years later, Agnes Chamberlin (Subsequent to her husband’s death she had married Brown Chamberlin, MP) suggested a second work in a similar vein; again, Agnes supplied the art work and the business connections while C. P. mined her scrapbooks and products of her flower press. See Michael Peterman’s recent book Sisters in Two Worlds, A Visual Biography of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill for an especially interesting and well illustrated informal discussion. C. P. Traill’s writing career began in Canada, anyway, with The Backwoods of Canada (1836) and ended more than fifty years later with the publication of two story collections, Pearls and Pebbles and Cot and Cradle Stories. Studies, a work which energized her later years, was her last important book. Minor wear top and bottom of spine, rubbed at the extremities; otherwise a fine, clean copy of this classic work.
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425.00 USD
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844 |
Traill, Catharine Parr Canadian Crusoes, A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains
New York: Francis, 1853. First edition, edited by Agnes Strickland (frontis, 4 plates, 376 pp., pub’s adverts). In brown cloth with impressed decoration and gilt decoration, lettering on spine. For an earlier account of the lost in the woods story apparently based on fact, see Natalie Kinsey-Warnock and Helen Kinsey’s The Bear that Heard Crying which tells the story of Sarah Whicher, aged three, who in 1783 was lost for several days in the vicinity of Warren, NH, USA, and who was kept warm and safe, in her words, by ‘a big black dog’. Top and bottom of spine chipped, corners worn through, some damp stains. Still a good copy of a hard to find book.
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106.25 USD
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845 |
Traill, Catharine Parr Lost in the Backwoods. A Tale of the Canadian Forest.
London: Nelson, 1886. First edition thus (viii, 319), octavo in blue pictorial publisher’s cloth, figures and titles in gilt. A reprint under another title of Traill’s The Canadian Crusoes (1853) enhanced with 32 engravings. For an earlier account of the lost in the woods story apparently based on fact, see Natalie Kinsey-Warnock and Helen Kinsey’s The Bear that Heard Crying which tells the story of Sarah Whicher, aged three, who in 1783 was lost for several days in the vicinity of Warren, NH, USA, and who was kept warm and safe, in her words, by ‘a big black dog’. Slightly worn corners, top and bottom spine, a single spot (1 cm) to rear cover. A clean, bright copy-- an exemplary decorative cloth cover.
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846 |
Traill, Catharine Parr The Canadian Crusoes. A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains.
New York: Francis, 1853. First edition, edited by Agnes Strickland (376 pp., pub’s adverts). Frontis, title page, and 4 plates by Harvey. In brown cloth with impressed decoration and gilt decoration, lettering on spine, a.e.g. Skilfully rebacked with original largely retained and laid down, edges and corners worn, light foxing here and there as usual. Still, a good copy.
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85.00 USD
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847 |
Traill, Catharine Parr The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America.
London: Charles Knight, 1836. First edition (xiii, 351 pp.). 12mo, twenty engraved illustrations, in contrasting brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. Traill’s first book, according to Needler in Otonabee Pioneers, was intended ‘to enlighten the people of the Old Country on Canada, and to encourage immigration,- not to discourage it, as her sister Mrs. Moodie [who suffers at Needler’s hands] did in Roughing It in the Bush’ (95). Earlier, Needler writes, ‘...for seven years the Traills lived the stern life of pioneers making themselves a home in the unbroken forest land of the upper Otonabee. Here, in the midst of such hardships as she could never have dreamt of as she left her home in the Suffolk countryside, Catharine Parr Traill found time to write the long letters on the experiences of the first four years that make up her book...’ (90). In History of the Book in Canada, George L. Parker in his article “Courting Local and International Markets” says, ‘Almost as disheartening [as the fortunes of John Richardson, author of Wacousta] were the circumstances of the Strickland sisters, who arrived in 1832, both recently married to half-pay officers, and ready to carve out homes in the wilderness near Lakefield, Upper Canada. In England they and their sisters [two of whom remained in England] had turned to writing as a source of financial support after their father’s bankruptcy and death.... They were in desperate financial straits through the 1830s and quite unsuited to pioneer life, but they exploited their hard-ships in best-selling books about genteel upper-middle-class emigrants. Traill sent descriptive letters to her sister Agnes Strickland [author of the successful Lives of the Queens of England], who used her own reputation and influence to have Charles Knight issue these [the collected letters] as The Backwoods of Canada... in his Library of Entertaining Knowledge’ (349). According to Parker, Traill’s first book, though it received good reviews, was reprinted several times (notably in an edition which included chapters on the Rebellion of 1837) and was translated into French and German, earned its author all of 125 Pounds-- hardly a ticket out of the wilderness (395). Traill’s principal later works include The Female Emigrant’s Guide (1854), Canadian Wildflowers (1868), and Studies of Plant Life in Canada (1885)-- the latter two owe much to the lithographs contributed by Traill’s niece Agnes FitzGibbon (later, Chamberlin). With the bookplates (two) of Rev. Robert Albion Cox (c. 1800- 1846), Vicar of Hinton St. George, Somerset. Worn at the corners, spine skilfully repaired, corners of two prelims worn. An attractive copy of Traill’s first book, now become quite scarce.
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600.00 USD
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848 |
Traill, Catharine Parr and Agnes Fitzgibbon (Illus.). Canadian Wild Flowers
Toronto: Coles, 1972. First edition thus (86 pp.), facsimile of the original 1868 edition published by John Lovell (Monteal). Reproductions of the ten plates lithographed and painted by Fitzgibbon (and her children). Small folio in stiff wraps slightly rubbed along a spine edge, in original matching slipcase (a few flakes just starting). Clean, bright, and presentable.
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63.75 USD
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849 |
Traill, Catharine Parr [Mrs. Traill]. Stories of the Canadian Forest; or, Little Mary and Her Nurse.
Boston: Hall and Whiting, 1881. First edition thus (frontis., 240 pp.), earlier published as Little Mary and Her Nurse. Octavo (18.5 cm) in decorative scarlet publisher’s cloth with impressed and gilt and other decoration, titles. Nature lore and stories cast as a (somewhat stilted) dialogue, among members of a squirrel family for example. Lightly rubbed spine and edge of front cover, inside front hinge starting. A handsome scarlet and gilt copy of this scarce book
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200.00 USD
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850 |
Trevelyan, Sir Charles Wallington, Its History and Treasures.
Privately printed, 1950. Seventh edition with photographic illustrations. An account of the history and treasures of a great Northumberland country house. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, 44 pp. Minor rubbing. Worth the price if only for the origin of the Jacobite toast to the “little gentleman in velvet”.
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17.00 USD
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851 |
Triggs, N. Inigo Formal Gardens in England and Scotland, their Planning and Arrangement, Architectural and Ornamental Features
London: Batsford, 1902. Subscriber’s copy (xxiv, 59 pp., 122 plates). Illustrated with 72 plates from drawings by Triggs and 53 photographs by Charles Latham. Large folio (44 cm x 33 cm) in half morocco and paper covered boards, five raised bands, gilt to titles, teg, rubricated titles. Studies ‘some of the most complete and historical gardens’ in England and Scotland giving both historical and descriptive accounts of the gardens illustrated-- not only gardens but pictures and descriptions of dovecotes and mazes as well. A few closed tears, library bookplate, 3 unobtrusive stamps to a still handsome copy of this lovely large appreciation of gardens.
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637.50 USD
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853 |
Turner, R. An Easy Introduction to the Arts and Sciences: Being a Short but Comprehensive System of Useful and Polite Learning; Divided into Lessons...Adapted to the Use of Schools and Academies.
London: Rivington et al., 1821. Eighteenth edition. Frontis., title, x, 310 pp., pub’s. adverts. 12mo., or 9cm x 14cm, illustrated with three dozen copperplate engravings, full-page and cut into the text showing, for example, maps of Europe, the world, and the solar system; a “rein deer,” an elephant with an oddly detailed trunk, and a camelopard. The illustrated crocodile (reminiscent of an armoured dog) comes with directions for evading a hungry one (“The only way of eluding the crocodile when pursued by it, is to turn in a zig-zag direction very frequently....”). In three-quarter leather and decorative cloth boards, gilt title; leather spine professionally replaced, corners and cloth boards worn; previous owner’s name clipped from half title; minor stains and blotches through the text. An example of a schoolbook from a time when if you didn’t have a fact at hand, you were free, within the bounds of reasonable assumption, to imagine one. SOLD
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854 |
Tusser, Thomas Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, as Well for the Champion, or Open Country, as for the Woodland or Several; together with A Book of Huswifery.
London: Lackington, Allen and Co., 1812. Edited by William Mavor. New edition with ‘notes georgical, illustrative, and explanatory’ (328; table of Points, glossary, adverts.). Quarto, in full red leather, gilt titles to spine, five raised bands, titles in red. Thomas Tusser (1524- 1580) first published A Hundred Good Pointes of Husbandrie in 1557, the second printed book on farming published in English, after Fitzherbert’s Husbandry (1523), and for the time something of a perennial best seller. In 1573 the text, much modified and expanded, was published in its final form as Five Hundred Points. McRae says, ‘At the heart of the book is a calendar of information and advice about the farming year,’ a device which originated with Tusser and which commonly appears in works on gardening and farming to this day. In the latter part of the book are the ‘pointes of huswiferie loosely arranged around a working day; and framing these principal sections are a number of..poems, generally concerned with household management and rural customs.. Its publication in eighteen editions between 1557 and 1599 makes it probably the biggest selling book of poetry of the reign of Elizabeth I’ (ODNB) and ‘long the handbook of English country gentlemen’ (McDonald quoted in Fussell). Indeed, in its conception and language Five Hundred Points addresses the farming family, whether landowner or tenant, who must get on with things, who must see to the round of daily chores, who must be guided by the season’s turn, and who must be prepared to take urgent measures, such as burying dead cattle: Whatever thing dieth, go bury or burn, For tainting of ground, or worser ill turn; Such pestilent smell, or a carrenly thing, To cattle and people, great peril may bring. (36) This long-lived, rude Georgics, however well it sold, did not bring Tusser financial ease any more than his various farming projects, which never seemed quite to succeed, and Tusser relied on his talents as a singer to earn a spotty income as a choister at court and in the churches. As Fuller remarked, ‘He spread his bread with all sorts of butter, yet none would stick thereon’ (ODNB). Quite a lovely copy of Mavor’s edition, with the bold signature of ‘Sir Cecil Bisshopp, Bart.’ (probably the 8th baronet of Parnham, 1753- 1828) on ffep. Its outer hinges are just starting and the endpapers are a bit foxed, but the binding is sound and the text, set in a handsome font, is clean and bright.
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855 |
Tuttle, Charles R. Tuttle’s History of the Dominion of Canada with Art Illustrations. From the Earliest Settlement of the British-American Colonies to the Present Time (Volume I) and The Comprehensive History of the Dominion of Canada with Art Engravings, from Confederation of 1867 to the Close of 1878 (Volume II).
Montreal: D. Downie, 1877; H. B. Bigney, 1879. First edition, in two volumes (pp. 524, 517). Large quarto (29 cm) in decorative green publisher’s cloth, gilt decorations and titles, marbled edges. Illustrated with many full-page steel and wood engravings, including 25 Bartlett prints of Canadian scenes. Tips worn, top and bottom edges of spines lightly worn. A very good, clean copy.
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300.00 USD
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856 |
Twain, Mark [Samuel Clemens] Life on the Mississippi
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883. First edition (first state, with points at pp. 441 and 443). In full leather with marbled end papers, edges. Skillfully replaced leather spine, red morocco label and gilt lettering. Covers worn, corners worn through, brittle end papers with some corners flaked off. Generally a nicely repaired, tight copy of this hard to find edition of the American classic.
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1275.00 USD
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857 |
Twain, Mark [Samuel Clemens] The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches.
New-York: C.H. Webb, 1867. First edition, second printing (absent adverts., broken type as called for, BAL 3310). Bound in full maroon morocco with jumping frog let in in tan leather, gold stamped fly on front cover; title blind-stamped into let in matching tan leather panel on spine and “Twain” in impressed gilt. In matching maroon cloth slipcase, preserving the maroon cloth front (faded gilt frog) and back cover (impressed frog) and spine (approximately 75% including worn, faded but still clear title and author in gilt) of the original. Text block, other than for some smudging as from a reader’s soiled fingers and one worn spot to an early page, is tight and intact. The bookbinder’s notes suggest the dilapidated, near perished state in which the book was found: “Since the text block had to be dismantled for sewing, all pages were washed to reduce acid levels. Sewing on linen threads. End bands primary sewing on linen thread, secondary sewing with silk. Starch paste was used on back of text with Japanese paper and linen backing. Linen backing and hemp sewing supports glued into split boards using Ph neutral pva” (John Burbidge). The once disbound book has been washed, resewn, bound in handsome decorative leather, and housed in a maroon cloth slipcase on which are mounted the original covers and spine. The original front endpapers (one bearing a previous owner’s signature-- “L. Barrett”) have been preserved separately, along with the original cloth and paper spine backing (on which a date, “April, 1867.”). Included, as well, are two photographs showing the state in which the book was found and the bookbinder’s notes. A handsomely bound and carefully preserved copy of a scarce American literary classic.
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2295.00 USD
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859 |
Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens] The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg.
Harper’s Magazine, December, 1899. The first appearance of this famous story, published in hard-cover in the following year in the collection The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches. Small quarto (25.5 cm) in green cloth over fine marbled paper, gilt titles, complimentary endpapers; issue’s frontispiece and other illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock; Stephen Crane’s Whilomville stories published in Harper’s issues at this time. Fine.
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85.00 USD
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860 |
Twain, Mark [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] Mark Twain’s Autobiography
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1924. First edition, in two volumes (xvi, 368; viii, 365, adverts), with an Introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine. Large 8vo with Twain portraits as frontispieces with imprinted tissue guards. In BAL (3537) two states of the first edition are described without concluding which should be assigned precedence, saying, the ‘tentative’ sequence is ‘not firmly established.’ The differences between Variant A and Variant B reside in features of the second volumes, the first volumes being indistinguishable from each other. In particular, the frontispiece tissue guards in Variant A sometimes may be imprinted; whereas the frontispiece tissue guards in Variant B are always imprinted. According to BAL, however, the central distinguishing feature is that Variant A includes two pages of advertising bound in at the end of volume two, followed by a blank; Variant B is free of advertising, with two blank pages at the end of volume two.
Our copy matches the description of Variant A in all particulars except one: it has yet to be bound. Since 1924, this copy has been clothed only in publisher’s plain, brown paper wraps. Volume one is identified by a large ‘1’ in red pencil on the wrapper; volume two is marked with a large ‘2’ in ordinary pencil. BAL says, “In advance of publication the publisher sold an unknown number (It could not have been great) of copies in folded sheets to certain antiquarian booksellers and collectors.” This copy of Variant A of the Autobiography would seem to be an example of one of those unbound advance copies, issued in the expectation buyers would have their copies specially bound for their collections. Indeed, the discovery of an advance copy in Variant A format (imprinted tissue guards and two pages of advertising) supports an argument which assigns precedence to Variant A (‘an unknown number’ of unbound copies in Variant A format being produced first, immediately followed by bound copies in the same format).
Our copy is housed in a handsome, bespoke double solander case by John Burbidge in dark blue cloth, an echo of the trade binding, with decorative gilt lettering (‘Samuel Clemens, Florida, MO, 1835’ to the cover of volume one and ‘Mark Twain, Stormfield, 1910’ to the cover of volume two, ‘Clemens’ and ‘Twain’ on the case’s spine) and bone fasteners; interior lined with fine marbled paper.
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3060.00 USD
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861 |
Tyrrell, James W. Across the Sub-Arctics of Canada
Toronto: Briggs, 1897. First edition (pp. 280, appendix, index). Small folio (23 cm) in gray cloth with gilt titles and pictorial decoration, fold-out maps, and more than 80 photographs and drawings. “A Journey of 3,200 miles by canoe and snowshoe through the Barren Lands including a list of plants collected on the expedition, a vocabulary of Eskimo words, [and] a route map with illustrations from the photographs taken on the journey, and from drawings by Arthur Heming.” Tips, spine top and bottom worn. A very good, clean copy.
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863 |
Underwood, Loring The Garden and Its Accessories with Explanatory Illustrations from Photographs by the Author and Others.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1907. First edition (xiv, 215) with a hundred or so photo plates illustrating garden design and ornament. An important association, signed and with the inscription to ‘Charles Francis Adams 2nd from Loring Underwood’ boldly on the ffep. Octavo, decorative green publisher’s cloth featuring a fountain seen through an arch, gilt titles, teg. Tips, bottom edge of spine lightly rubbed. A fine looking copy. Loring Underwood's work as a landscape architect can be found at Vassar College and for a while at Belmont, Massachusetts, where he designed at his brother Henry’s behest the first outdoor municipal swimming pool in the U. S. The photographs by Loring Underwood portray such garden ‘accessories’ as summer houses, espaliered peach trees on a brick wall, sundials, pergolas, a wall fountain. Sometimes an accessory is a crude looking hut, evocative of a certain rusticity, and at others a miniature Greek temple, its geometry partly concealed and softened by greenery. Perfect hydrangeas are placed in a stone vase. In some ways, the book records the American aristocracy taking pictures of each other’s houses; but they did have lovely houses and Loring Underwood was skilled photographer who worked closely in landscape design with, among others, the second generation of Olmsteds. The garden wall and gates of the Adams Mansion in Quincy, Massachusetts, are shown in the plate on p. 177. It was the home of Charles Francis Adams 2nd (1835- 1915), writer on transport subjects and for a short while President of the Union Pacific Railroad, to whom this copy is inscribed and from whose collection it originates. He was a direct descendant of the American presidents John Adams (the second) and John Quincy Adams (the sixth) and brother to the American writer Henry Adams (The Education of Henry Adams, Mont -Saint- Michel and Chartres). Loring Underwood’s brother William (Wm. Lyman as he was styled) was a skilled photographer, also, but with the difference that his interest in photography turned to solving a problem affecting the Underwood family’s canned food business (perhaps familiar as Underwood’s Devilled Ham): their canned goods occasionally became infected with a bacterium which poisoned the contents, caused the cans to swell, and threatened to destroy the family business which had prospered during the Civil War. William Loring, working with staff at MIT, used photomicrophic techniques to photograph the bacteria at a magnification of 1,000. Some of his traditional nature photographs found their way into the work of the famous naturalist John Burroughs. See Lyons, Gentlemen Photographers (1987) for more. [These two Underwood brothers should not be confused with their contemporaries, the Underwood brothers, Elmer and Bert, of Ottawa, Kansas, who sold stereographs door-to-door and later ran a world-wide news photo service.] A handsome copy of a scarce book with the best of pedigrees.
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864 |
Underwood, Loring The Garden and Its Accessories with Explanatory Illustrations from Photographs by the Author and Others.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1907. First edition (xiv, 215) with a hundred or so photo plates illustrating garden design and ornament. An Underwood family copy, bearing the inscription ‘Mabel P(?). Underwood/ 119 ?e???ry W. Boston/ Mass/ from L. H. U./ Christmas 1906’ Octavo, in original dust jacket (two small chips at top of spine, one at bottom repaired, two small closed tears, edges rubbed) in decorative green publisher’s cloth featuring a fountain seen through an arch, gilt titles, t.e.g.. A fine looking copy never out of its dust jacket. Loring Underwood’s work as a landscape architect can be found at Vassar College and for a while at Belmont, Massachusetts, where he designed at his brother Henry’s behest the first outdoor municipal swimming pool in the U. S. The photographs by Loring Underwood portray such garden ‘accessories’ as summer houses, espaliered peach trees on a brick wall, sundials, pergolas, a wall fountain. Sometimes an accessory is a crude looking hut, evocative of a certain rusticity, and at others a miniature Greek temple, its geometry partly concealed and softened by greenery. Perfect hydrangeas are placed in a stone vase. In some ways, the book records the American aristocracy taking pictures of each other’s houses; but they did have lovely houses, and Loring Underwood was skilled photographer who worked closely in landscape design with, among others, the second generation of Olmsteds. The garden wall and gates of the Adams Mansion in Quincy, Massachusetts, are shown in the plate on p. 177. Loring Underwood’s brother William (Wm. Lyman as he was styled) was a skilled photographer, also, but with the difference that his interest in photography turned to solving a problem affecting the Underwood family’s canned food business (perhaps familiar as Underwood’s Deviled Ham): their canned goods occasionally became infected with a bacterium which caused the cans to swell, poisoned the contents, and threatened to destroy the family business which had prospered during the Civil War. William Loring, working with staff at MIT, used photomicrophic techniques to photograph the bacteria at a magnification of 1,000. Some of his traditional nature photographs found their way into the work of the famous naturalist John Burroughs. See Lyons, Gentlemen Photographers (1987) for more. [These two Underwood brothers should not be confused with their contemporaries, the Underwood brothers, Elmer and Bert, of Ottawa, Kansas, who sold stereographs door-to-door and later ran a world-wide news photo service.] A handsome copy of a scarce book with the best of pedigrees.
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765.00 USD
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865 |
Unitt, Doris and Peter Unitt Treasury of Canadian Glass
Peterborough: Clock House, 1969. Second edition. Hundreds of illustration, mostly b&w, support this comprehensive account of Canadian glass manufacture and design--details of pressed glass, fruit jars, etched glass, art glass. Dj shows edge wear, book is a Very Good copy.
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170.00 USD
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Unitt, Doris and Peter Unitt. American and Canadian Goblets
Peterborough: Clock House, 1970- 75. First edition, in two volumes (352, index; 319, index). Illustrated and described in the Unitts’ clear, orderly fashion-- hundreds of large, useful photos, technical details, and references for the serious collector. Octavo in orginal dust wrappers (Brodart wraps, extremities lightly worn), red publisher’s cloth with gilt titles. The word ‘definitive’ really does apply.
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van der Aa, Pieter Map. Cercle de Haut Rhin. Suivant les Nouvelles Observations de Mess.rs. de l’Academie Royale des Sciences etc. Augmentees de Nouveau.
Leiden, 1729. From Abraham Du Bois, La Geographie Moderne, Naturelle, Historique & Politique dans une Methode Nouvelle.... Sheet (26cm x 40cm), image (22.5 cm x 30cm); decorative title cartouche at upper left with city and river scenes, conjoined cornucopias; ample lateral, good top and bottom margins. The map depicts a portion of the region of the upper Rhine from the confluence of the Rhine and the Main at Mayence (Mainz), west to the Nahe at Rudesheim, and then north to the entrance of the Moselle at Coblentz. The northern watershed of the River Main (Mein) is shown in some detail, as is the watershed of the Weser to the north, formed by the confluence of the Fulda and Werra. Cities and political divisions typical of the region in the 18th century are also shown in some detail. The copperplate engraving is dark and clear. Generally, an attractive mapof Riesling country.
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Van Rensselaer, Solomon A Narrative of the Affair of Queenstown: in the War of 1812. With a Review of the Strictures of that Event, in a Book Entitled, “Notices of the War of 1812”
New-York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1836. First edition (41, 95, adverts). Small octavo (12 cm x 19 cm) in original decorative brown cloth, title label to spine (reads ‘The War of Queenstown/ L. & Co./ 1836’); folding map of the Niagara frontier details disposition of American troops, etc., in Summer and Fall 1812; lengthy appendix with copies of correspondence among various American officers; twenty-two page publisher’s catalogue. Solomon Van Rensselaer (1774- 1852), who served as aide-de-camp to his cousin Stephen Van Rensselaer III (1764- 1839), the commander of American troops at the battle of Queenston Heights, published this defence of the conduct of the disastrous campaign which all but destroyed Stephen Van Rensselaer’s political ambitions. Minor wear top and bottom spine; light moisture stain bottom front and back covers; folding map with rough edges and small tear at fold. Generally, a clean presentable copy. [Possibly an interesting association with the apparent signature in pencil on the ffep of ‘W[illiam] H[enry] Seward’ (1801- 72), secretary of state in the Lincoln and Johnson administrations, who promoted the purchase of Alaska by the U. S. from Russia (‘Seward’s Folly’). Seward’s name has been lightly struck through with another pencil, seemingly a gesture to indicate new ownership-- the lines (there are two) are wider and softer than the fine, hard lines of Seward’s signature. A comparison of Seward’s signature here (which I take to be quite early-- he would have been about 35 when the book appeared) with examples of his signature as secretary of state shows differences: the signature here has an elaborated final ‘d’ and emphasizes the capitals; whereas the four or five document signatures I have seen do away with almost all decoration. Nevertheless, common to all the examples, the characteristic crossing the ‘H’ to the the ‘S’ and the formation of the capital letters are persuasive. It is likely, Seward, a New York Whig reformer, as was Stephen Van Rensselaer (‘The Patroon of Rensselaerwyck’), would have been interested in Solomon’s defense of the conduct of the Niagara campaign-- especially as the military defeat cost Van Rensselaer a chance to be elected governor of New York, a post Seward was about to take up.] A very presentable copy.
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870 |
Varley, Telford Winchester
London: A. & C. Black, 1910. First edition. Lovely colour plates from paintings of Winchester by Wilfrid Ball. Decorative cloth, gilt lettering, top edge. Sunned spine, marginalia, some browning not affecting plates.
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871 |
Vaux, Calvert Villas and Cottages. A Series of Designs Prepared for Execution in the United States.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First edition (i- xii; 13- 318, advert); illustrated by 300 engravings (some full-page, others in-text) showing designs in generic Gothic manner together with floor-plans, details of door and window treatment, etc. Large octavo in tan publisher’s cloth, gilt decorations and titles, perished spine skilfully replaced (colour advert on card for encaustic tiles, some damp staining, bound in at rear). Vaux was an associate of Andrew Downing during the last few years of Downing’s life which ended in a tragic steamboat accident on the Hudson (The book is dedicated to the Downings). Vaux went on to work with Frederick Law Olmsted on, among other projects, the design for Central Park, NYC. The ‘villas and cottages’ of the title are in reality quite ambitious houses, suggestive of English country houses a growing middle and upper middle class might fancy for themselves. General light wear to covers, only minor light foxing. A very good copy of an important book on American architecture.
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872 |
Vaux, Calvert Villas and Cottages. A Series of Designs Prepared for Execution in the United States.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First edition (i- xii; 13- 318, advert); illustrated by 300 engravings (some full-page, others in-text) showing designs in generic Gothic manner together with floor-plans, details of door and window treatment, etc. Large octavo in tan publisher’s cloth, gilt decorations and titles, perished spine skilfully replaced (colour advert on card for encaustic tiles, some damp staining, bound in at rear), new endpapers. Vaux was an associate of Andrew Downing during the last few years of Downing’s life which ended in a tragic steamboat accident on the Hudson (The book is dedicated to the Downings). Vaux went on to work with Frederick Law Olmsted on, among other projects, the design for Central Park, NYC. The ‘villas and cottages’ of the title are in reality quite ambitious houses, suggestive of English country houses a growing middle and upper middle class might fancy for themselves. General wear to cover edges, only minor light foxing. A very good copy of an important book on American architecture.
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873 |
Vernon S. Forbes and John Rourke Paterson's Cape Travels 1777 to 1779
Johannesburg: Brenthurst, 1980. One of 850 copies bound in cloth of an edition of 1000 (pp. frontis, 202, appendices, bibliography, index). Large quarto (27 cm) illustrated with 62 colour plates from Paterson’s collection of watercolours published here for the first time, including images of people, scenery, animals, and plants encountered during his four journeys in search of botanical specimens for the collection of his sponsor Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore. Pictorial dust jacket, green publisher’s cloth, gilt titles to spine. Mended 4 cm tear to bottom edge of dust jacket, dj tips lightly worn, protective Brodart wrapper. Paterson’s account of his exploratory and plant gathering journeys in South Africa, A Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria, was first published at London in 1789. Paterson’s actual ms account on which the London edition was based was discovered ‘in mysterious circumstances’ in the middle of the 20th century and acquired for the Oppenheimer Library. This book is, therefore, the first publication of Paterson’s original ms and retains the peculiarities of his style and grammar which were due to ‘deficiencies in his education’. The notes for this edition include a biographical sketch of William Paterson, who is pictured in the frontispiece later in life in the uniform of the Lt. Governor of New South Wales, an appreciation of his work as a plant collector (As a twenty-one year old assistant gardener, he was sent out from Scotland to South Africa), and an account of his writing and drawings. In that context, then, the editors present ‘An account of four journies into the southern parts of Africa’, Paterson’s original manuscript. Details of Paterson’s botanical illustrations and the locations where they are held occupy several appendices. That text is united here with selections from the three hundred or so watercolour sketches of Paterson’s Cape travels. A fine copy of an admirable production. Quite scarce.
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874 |
Vertue, George [and Horace Walpole] A Catalogue of Engravers, Who have been born, or resided in England; Digested by Horace Walpole, from the Mss. of Mr. George Vertue; to which is added An Account of the Life and Works of the Latter.
London: J. Dodsley, 1782. Later edition (pp. 304, index). Octavo (19 cm) in full calf. Gilt decoration and titles to spine (faded), speckled edges. Hinge repaired, one weak hinge, spine chipped, scattered light dis-colouration in text.
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875 |
Vertue, George [and Horace Walpole] A Catalogue of Engravers, Who have been born, or resided in England; Digested by Horace Walpole, from the Mss. of Mr. George Vertue; to which is added An Account of the Life and Works of the Latter.
London: J. Caulfield, T. Coram, and G. Barrett, 1794. Later edition (pp. 230, index) with seventeen engraved portraits of engravers, including frontispiece portrait of Vertue himself. Octavo (20 cm) in three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and decoration, t.e.g. Hinge repaired, edges rubbed, scattered light discolouration in text and to portraits. Bookplate of Thomas Jolley, F.S.A., ms. notes to epps and to one page text, neat hand-written list of portraits.
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72.25 USD
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877 |
Virgil Opera, varietate lectionis et perpetua adnotatione illustrata
a C. G. Heyne [Works, edited by Christof Gottlieb Heyne]. London: T. Payne et al., 1793. Third edition. Four volumes (without the frontispiece and engraved vignettes) in contemporary full leather, gilt decoration, titles. A good deal of superficial flaking, one volume number label (Vol. I) missing from spine. Internally tight and clean throughout. The speckled leather and bit of gilt not withstanding, a rather plain set, but with the bookplates and from the library of Sir William Gregory, “The Right Hon.ble W. H. Gregory, K.C. M.G., Coole Park, Gort, Ireland”, husband of Lady Augusta Gregory (playwright for the Irish National Theatre and confidante of W.B. Yeats, among others). See, for example, Yeats’ poetry collection The Wild Swans at Coole (1917).
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878 |
Vuillemin, Alexandre Nouvelle Carte de La France et de Ses Colonies indiquant les Voies de Communication, Route Nationales, Departmentales, Chemin de Fer, Canaux, les Villes industrielles, Etc.
Paris: A. Logerot, 1874. Large folding colour map (110 cm x 89 cm) mounted in sections on linen and bound in hardcover folder as a book (23 cm x 13 cm), red cloth with gilt decoration and titles. Spine skilfully repaired in black cloth as original. Covers worn along edges. Map shows details of geography, settlement, and infrastructure of France; inset are maps of Paris and assorted ‘possessions’ including Algeria, Corsica, Cochinchine, St. Pierre and Miquelon. Clean, bright, and sound.
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881 |
Waldo, Frederick W. Captain Lightfoot The Last of the New England Highwaymen. A Narrative of His Life and Adventures, with some Account of the Notorious Captain Thunderbolt.
Topsfield: The Wayside Press, 1926. First edition thus(xiii, 162), the first publication of the Wayside Press. Illustrated with thirteen b&w reproductions of period engravings. Royal octavo (24cm) in black over red cloth, gilt titles to spine, in red dust jacket with black decoration and titles. Michael Martin, aka Captain Lightfoot, is said to have dictated this account shortly before his execution for armed robbery. Dust jacket faded on the spine, damp stain here and there, two corners worn through, small loss at top of spine; one front and one rear endpaper with small red stain. A less than very good dust jacket on a better than very good book.
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882 |
Wallace, J. S. Night Is Ended, Thoughts in Lyrics
Winnipeg: Contemporary, 1942. First edition (95 pp.), with an introductory note by E.J. Pratt. Sixty short, rather conventional poems-- but Wallace was “interned” (imprisoned) by Canadian authorities for two years, beginning in 1940, for his left-wing politics, and his poems’ point of view is real enough. Absent any Dj, bookplate, but an otherwise clean, tight copy.
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883 |
Walton, George E. Mineral Springs of the United States and Canada with Analyses and Notes of the Prominent Spas of Europe, and a List of Sea-Side Resorts.
New York: Appleton, 1892. Third edition, revised and enlarged (xvi, 468, appendix, index, adverts), folding map showing sites in eastern states and central Canada bound in as frontis with additional folding maps showing springs in Virginia, at Sarasota, and in Michigan. Octavo, in red publisher’s cloth (spine edges rubbed, stains especially to rear cover), gilt titles; generally a tight, clean copy and quite scarce.
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170.00 USD
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884 |
Walton, Izaak and Arthur Rackham The Compleat Angler or the Contempletive Man’s Recreation Being a Discourse of Rivers Fish ponds Fish and Fishing not unworthy the Perusal of most Anglers.
London: George G. Harrap, 1931. Reprinted from the fifth edition (1676), the last revised by Walton, by permission of John Lane the Bodley Head (pp. frontis, 224). Twelve colour plates, additional head and tail-pieces, decorative endpapers, etc., by Arthur Rackham. Quarto (25.5 cm) in blue cloth, gilt titles to cover and spine, t.e.g. Absent dust jacket, minor wear to tips, top and bottom edges of spine rubbed. A handsome edition of Walton’s masterpiece, enhanced by Rackham’s famous colour illustrations where tree trunks might be the forelegs of some large, quiet animal and a gypsie’s ragged skirt a sylvan fairy’s dress. A clean, bright copy.
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885 |
Wanscher, Ole The Art of Furniture
New York: Reinhold, 1966. First edition. Five thousand years of furniture and decorated interiors. Hundreds of photo’s and sketches support this history. Translated from the Danish by David Hohnen. A single chip in the spine of the Dj, o/w a solid, clean copy.
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888 |
Warder, John A. American Pomology. Apples
New York: Orange Judd, 1867. First edition (vii, 744 pp., index). In dark brown paper, gilt decoration (apple) to front cover and decorative gilt lettering to spine with 290 illustrations cut into text. A complete account of apple knowledge as then received by the president of the Ohio Pomological Society and Vice-President of the American Pomological Society, e.g., propagation, dwarfing, planting, thinning, diseases, insects, classification, varieties. Thin cloth covers worn around edges as is common, top and bottom of spine chipped and repaired; internally tight and clean. A hard to find, comprehensive account of apple culture from the mid-nineteenth century.
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306.00 USD
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889 |
Warder, John A. Hedges and Evergreens. A Complete Manual for the Cultivation, Pruning, and Management of All Plants Suitable for American Hedging; especially the Maclura, or Osage Orange.
New York: A. O. Moore, 1858. First edition (x, 291, index, adverts). Small octavo (19cm) in brown publisher’s cloth with impressed decoration, gilt titles to spine (faded); illustrated with twelve engraved plates and numerous in-text engravings. Warder chief proposition is that because the best farms were ‘destitute of rock for walls’ (He was writing about his experience in the midwest and south) and ‘divested’ of their timber, hedging recommends itself as the best method for enclosing fields and other properties... and especially hedges of the Osage orange, an example of which could once be found on the perimeter of Camp Kilmer in New Jersey. Therefore this comprehensive treatise, as I am sure he says somewhere, on hedging-- materials, methods, tools, etc. Light wear to top and bottom of spine, rear edge worn through in two places; endpapers browned, somewhat dry with some age spotting early and late. A clean, solid copy.
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890 |
Waugh, Evelyn A Handful of Dust
London: Chapman and Hall, 1934. First edition. Decorative black and red cloth (red faded on spine), gilt lettering. Absent Dj, slightly cocked, edge worn. Internally tight and clean.
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891 |
Weatherly, F. E. Our Darling’s Surprise Pictures.
London: Ernest Nister, [1895]. First edition. Large quarto in pictorial boards, a picture book with pull-tabs that animate the illustrations for the young reader with moveable panels. New endpapers; covers scratched and rubbed, light soiling throughout. A very good copy.
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1000.00 USD
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892 |
Weaver, Lawrence Houses & Gardens by Sir Edwin Lutyens, R. A..
London: Country Life, 1925. Third edition (pp. xi, 344, appendix, index, adverts). Large folio (39 cm) in red publisher’s cloth, gilt titles and decorations to cover and spine, t.e.g.. Lutyens’ work to about 1912-- town buildings, public monuments, various country houses, etc.-- is critically described and illustrated by nearly six hundred photographs and scale drawings (in the appendix). A few spots to the front cover, titles a bit faded. Quite a fine copy.
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275.00 USD
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894 |
Webster, John Clarence The Forts of Chignecto. A Study of the Eighteenth Century Conflict Between France and Great Britain in Acadia
[New Brunswick]: the Author, 1930. No. 384 of an edition limited to 400 copies (142, index). The copy of M. D. Morrison of Halifax, NS. Small quarto (26 cm x 18 cm) in gray, stiff boards, gilt titles; colour frontis portrait, 27 plates (including earliest map of Chignecto, French map, various portraits, plans, aerial view, etc.) and four figures in the text. Accounts of topography, Nova Scotia and the expedition against Fort Beausejour, British occupation; large appendix with biographical sketches, journal extracts, letters (some published here for the first time). A fine copy of a scarce book.
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895 |
Weir, F. G. Scugog and Its Environs.
Port Perry: Star Print, 1927. First edition (vi, 143). Tall octavo (24 cm.) in purple pebbled cloth, gilt titles to spine. Absent any plates, a history of the first hundred years of settlement in and around the Scogog region of Ontario-- Reach Township, Lake Scugog, Scugog Island, township politics, the drainage company, churches and schools, pioneering families, lists of officer holders, teachers, and notables. Good details suggest how things worked: “Mr. Nesbitt’s first tax bill was fifty cents, and he had to walk all the way to Bowmanville to pay it; but he actually paid only twenty-five cents for he got half the amount back to buy his dinner” (21). Professor Leo Johnson’s copy. Clean and bright.
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896 |
Welle-Strand, Erling 2500 Miles on the Norwegian Coastal Steamer.
Bergen: Bergen Line, etc., 1965. Fifth impression (pp. 63), translated by Christopher Norman. Colourful stiff wraps (20 cm), map in rear pocket. A ‘competent and unobtrusive guide’ for a ‘cruise on board the express steamer along the coast of Norway’ from Bergen north to Kirkenes beyond the arctic circle-- well illustrated with photos and art work. Traveller’s ms. on end paper. A very good copy. Scarce.
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897 |
Wertheim, Maurice Salmon on the Dry Fly
New York: the Author, 1948. Edition limited to 500 copies printed at Elm Tree Press, Woodstock, Vermont (pp. 18). Reprint by the author of his article in Field & Stream in the same year. Small folio (24cm) in fine blue paper over boards, decorative title label, title to spine. Illustrated with two photographs, watercolour by Pleissner reproduced in b&w; decorative title page, head and tail pieces. Included is a signed letter from Wertheim, enclosing the book as a gift and with season’s greetings to Judge George Frankenthaler, late of the NY Supreme Court, from whose library our copy originates. "Frankenthaler was a prominent Republican and father of the noted artist Helen Frankenthaler" (McNaught). This copy with skilfully replaced cloth on the spine; the letter with two folds, sunned along one edge. Each year for perhaps thirty years Maurice Wertheim (1886-1950) traveled into Quebec to fish for Atlantic salmon on the dry fly, and this is his account of what was likely one of his last fishing trips published within two years of his death. Wertheim was, as they say, a man of many parts but nevertheless ‘preferred to be considered a sportsman’. His obituary in the New York Times (May 1950) describes him as a prominent investment banker and founder of Wertheim & Co. (later reformed as Citigroup), a founder and director of the New York Theatre Guild, former publisher of The Nation, a trustee of the American Wildlife Foundation, and an accomplished chess player. Upon his death he bequeathed his collection of more than two dozen impressionist and post-impressionist paintings to Harvard’s Fogg Museum. The Maurice Werheim Collection includes works by Cezanne, Degas, Manet, Matisse, Monet, Picasso, and van Gogh (See O’Brian. Degas to Matisse: The Maurice Wertheim Collection). In the year just previous to the publication of this little book, Wertheim donated to the national government a large tract of land in Suffolk County on eastern Long Island, now known as the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge. One of his daughters was the well-known historian Barbara Tuchman. This little book is a sketch of a few days fishing and describes the various holding spots, the pools with names familiar to those who fish them, the best way to approach each stretch of river, and the inevitable (it seems) goofs-- a long way from camp, Wertheim discovers he has forgotten his fishing knife and a prized floating leader. Wertheim’s wife fished with him (with a wet fly), and so his fish stories carried more credibility than most. Excellent.
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898 |
West, Herbert Faulkner A Stephen Crane Collection
Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library, 1948. First edition, one of 350 copies printed at the Anthoensen Press, Portland (pp. xiii, 30). Octavo (23 cm) in reddish brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. A description of the George Matthew Adams collection of Crane’s works presented to Dartmouth in 1946. Clean, bright, and sound. Scarce.
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899 |
Westlake, H. F. A Guide to Westminster Abbey.
London: A. R. Mowbray, 1965. Later edition revised, first published 1916 (70 pp.). Duodecimo (17cm x 10cm), in light blue wraps with coats of arms, folding plan of the minster, photographs of the windows, interior details, order of service, ceremonies, etc. A single, short closed tear lower edge of front cover, small spot in gutter of preface page. Narrates a walking tour through the great minster pointing out most noteworthy features.
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900 |
Wettstein, Richard von and Victor Schiffner et al. Ergebnisse der Botanischen Expedition der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften nach Sudbrasilien 1901 [Report of the Botanical Expedition to Southern Brazil of the Imperial Academy of Sciences].
Vienna: Holder et al., 1908- 1931. First edition, in German. A collection of reports from a number of investigators arranged as three volumes. Volume I comprises Vol. 79, Part 1, Reports to the Akademie (312 pp., 26 plates some in colour), Pteridophyta and Anthophyta, to include O. Porsch’s ‘Bearbeitung der Orchidaceae’; Volume 2 comprises Vol. 79, Part 2, Reports (141 pp., 15 plates some in colour), Solanaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Apocynacaee, etc.; Volume 3 comprises Vol. 83, Reports (353 pp., 24 plates), Musci, Eumycetes and Myxomycetes, etc. Large 4to in original paper covers laid down on cloth covered boards (Vols. 1 &2) and original brown paper wraps (Vol. 3). A fine, virtually pristine copy of this scarce study.
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