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[Stonehenge] A journal of eight days journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames; through Southampton, Wiltshire, &c. with miscellaneous thoughts, Moral and Religious; In A Series Of Sixty-Four Letters: Addressed to two Ladies of the Partie. To which is added, An Essay On Tea, Considered as pernicious to Health, obstructing Industry, and impoverishing the Nation: With an Account of its Growth, and great Consumption in these Kingdoms. With Several Political Reflections; And Thoughts ON Public Love. In Twenty-Five Letters to the same Ladies. By a gentleman of the partie

HANWAY, Jonas (1712-1786) · 1756

$649.00 (€588.83 | £491.24 | ¥103,637)

London Printed by H. Woodfall First Edition, "printed for presentation only and not sold." (DNB). The more common second edition, published in octavo, appeared the following year. 4to: [6],201,[5],203-361,[1]pp, with engraved frontispiece and engraved plate opposite the divisi...

Thank You, Fog : Last Poems

AUDEN, W. H. (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973) · 1974

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,733)

London Faber & Faber First Impression First Impression of the poet's last-published collection. Slim demy 8vo (216 x 137): 57,[1]pp. Publisher's quarter-bound blue cloth stamped in gold, pale blue paper-covered boards; grey and black dust jacket priced at £1.75. Fine (and unre...

Cyrano de Bergerac [Presentation Copy] Translated by Howard Thayer Kingsbury: Accepted and Played by Richard Mansfield

ROSTAND, Edmond (1868-1918) · 1898

$1,399.00 (€1,269.30 | £1,058.93 | ¥223,402)

Boston, New York, London Lamson, Wolffe and Company First Edition First English Edition, inscribed in an elegant hand by the translator on front fly-leaf: “Compliments of / Howard Thayer Kingsbury / November, 1898.” Small 8vo: 241,[1]pp. Publisher's original red cloth lettered...

[Pirates] Memoires de monsieur Du Guay-Trouin, lieutenant general des armées navales

[Duguay-Trouin] DU GUAY-TROUIN, René (1673-1736) · 1756

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

Amsterdam Chez Pierre Mortier Later edition of the memoirs of one of the most illustrious French corsairs, including descriptions of his spectacular attacks on Rio de Janeiro. 12mo (166 x 92mm): xxxix,312pp, with engraved frontispiece and five (of six) folding plates (absent p...

Thank You, Fog : Last Poems

AUDEN, W. H. (Wystan Hugh, 1907-1973) · 1974

$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,429)

London Faber & Faber First Impression First Impression of the poet's last-published collection. Slim demy 8vo (216 x 137): 57,[1]pp. Publisher's quarter-bound blue cloth stamped in gold, pale blue paper-covered boards; grey and black price-clipped dust jacket. Fine (and unread...

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet and Other Poems [Nathaniel Tarn's copy]

BERRYMAN, John (1914-1972) · 1959

$139.00 (€126.11 | £105.21 | ¥22,197)

London Faber & Faber First Impression First Edition of this selection by Berryman from two of his previous books, including Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, "one of the most unique poems in modern American literature." (Literary Encyclopedia) Demy 8vo (216 x 134mm): 111,[1]pp. P...

Gardeners and Astronomers : New Poems

SITWELL, Edith (1887-1964) · 1953

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

New York Vanguard Press First Printing First Edition, American issue, one of only 2500 copies, published the same month (November) as the London edition, which had a print run of 4000. Demy 8vo (234 x 151mm): 60,[2]pp, with six full-page black and white illustrations (includin...

[Golden Cockerel Press] Sonnets, With Folk Songs from the Spanish [Unopened]

ELLIS, Havelock (1859-1939) · 1925

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, Great Britain Golden Cockerel Press Limited Edition, no. 17 of 500 numbered copies printed on Kelmscott handmade paper. Demy 8vo (221 x 147mm): xiv,[2],81,[3]pp, with wood-engraved vignette to title page and press device to colophon in gilt. ...

Histoire de la Virginie : contenant, I. l'histoire du premier etablissement dans la Virginie, & de son gouvernement jusques à présent, II. les productions naturelles & les commoditez du païs, avant que es Anglois y negociassent, & l'améliorassent, III. la religion, les loix, & les coutumes des Indiens naturels, tant dans la guerre, que dans la paix, IV. l'etat présent du païs, tant à l'égard de la police, que de l'amelioration du païs

[BEVERLEY, Robert, ca. 1673-1722] · 1707

$949.00 (€861.02 | £718.32 | ¥151,543)

Amsterdam Chez Thomas Lombrail, marchand libraire, dans le Beurs-Straat First French-language Edition (another French language edition was printed in Orleans, but bearing a Paris imprint, the same year, with no priority definitively established), translated from the English, o...

[Color Plate] Chrysal, or, The adventures of a guinea: wherein are exhibited views of several striking scenes : with interesting anecdotes of the most noted persons in every rank of life through whose hands it has passed, by an Adept [3 vols.]

[Johnstone, Johnson ] JOHNSTON, Charles (1719?-1800?) · 1822

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

London Printed for Samuel Richards and Co. 3, Grocers'-Hall Court, Poultry; and T. Mason & Sons, 2, Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury The "best scandalous chronicle of the day," complete in three volumes. (Tooley) 12mo: viii,319; 321; 326pp, with 12 hand-colored plates engraved ...

[Council of Pisa] [Religion] [Catholic Church] Histoire du Concile de Pise: et de ce qui s'est passé de plus mémorable depuis ce Concile jusqu'au Concile de Constance. Enrichie de portraits

LENFANT, Jacques (1661-1728) · 1724

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

Amsterdam chez Pierre Humbert First Edition First Illustrated Edition, complete in two volumes bound in one, of this history of the Council of Pisa. 4to: liii,366; 327,[31]pp, with 16 full-page copper-engraved plates (portrait of the author by J. Houbraken after A. Pesne, one ...

[Utopian Literature] Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum Novam Telluris Theoriam Ac Historiam Quintae Monarchiae Adhuc Nobis Incognitae Exhibens e Bibliotheca B. Abelini

[Baron Ludvig Holberg, writing as:] KLIMIUS, Nicolaus (1684-1754) · 1766

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Hafinae & Lipsiae [Copenhagen and Leipzig] Printed By Pelt, Friedrich Christian Early Reprint Fourth Edition, in Latin, of one of the most popular eighteenth-century utopian novels (second only to Gulliver's Travels), eventually reaching some 60 editions in 13 different langua...

Hudibras, in three parts; written in the time of the late wars: corrected and amended. With large annotations, and a preface, by Zachary Grey LL.D. Adorn'd with a new set of cuts

BUTLER, Samuel (bap.1613, d.1680); William Hogarth [illustrates] · 1764

$364.00 (€330.25 | £275.52 | ¥58,126)

London printed for C. Hitch, G. Hawkins, C. Bathurst, J. Tonson, J. Worral, R. Baldwin, T. Longman, J. Bathoe, C. Corbett, T. Lownds, G. Kearsly, T. Becket, W. Nichol, and M. Richardson Best edition (Lowndes), with Grey's annotations and Hogarth's plates, of the most celebrate...

Hazard, The Painter [Signed]

MEREDITH, William (1919-2007) · 1975

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

New York Alfred A. Knopf First Printing Stated First Edition. As New and Unread in a bright pictorial dust jacket with a wraparound detail from Bruegel's painting 'The Harvesters.' Signed by the poet on the half-title page (and also warmly inscribed in a neat hand by a previou...

Poems

DUGAN, Alan (1923-2003) · 1961

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

New Haven Yale University Press First Edition First Printing of this important debut, awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Selected and introduced by Dudley Fitts. Slim crown 8vo (203 x 124mm): xiii,[1],62,[2]pp. Publisher's coarsely woven plum-colored ...

Statical essays: Containing vegetable staticks; or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables. Being an essay towards a natural history of vegetation . . . ; [offered with:] Statical essays: containing haemastatics; or, an account of some hydraulic and hydrostatical experiments made on the blood and blood-vessels of animals. . . . To which is added, an appendix, . . . With an index to both volumes [PMM]

HALES, Stephen (1677-1761) · 17381740

$1,999.00 (€1,813.68 | £1,513.09 | ¥319,214)

London Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, at the West-End of St. Paul’s; T. Woodward, at the Half-Moon over-against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-street; and J. Peele, at Locke’s Head in Amen-Corner A superb set of these classics of experimental science, milestones in the hist...

The Wye Tour, or Gilpin on The Wye, with picturesque additions, from Wheatley, Price, &c. and archaeological illustrations

FOSBROKE, T. D. (Thomas Dudley, 1770-1842); [William Gilpin, 1724-1804] · 1826

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

London Printed by and for W. Farror, sold by Messrs. Nichols, 25 Parliament Street and Messrs. Baldwin, Cradock and Joy Beautifully bound Third Edition (first published 1818) of this popularization of Gilpin's first picturesque tour, introducing the picturesque to a whole new ...

[Collected Works in Original Cloth] The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe : with Notices of his Life and Genius . . . In Two Volumes; [offered with] The Literati : some honest opinions about autorial merits and demerits, with occasional words of personality together with marginalia, suggestions, and essays [Association Copies]

POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) · 1850

$3,274.00 (€2,970.47 | £2,478.16 | ¥522,815)

New York J. S. Redfield, Clinton Hall, Nassau-Street Three First Editions (second printings of volumes 1 and 2, per BAL; first printing of volume 3) of the first collection of Poe's poetry and prose, edited by N. P. Willis, J. R. Lowell, and R. W. Griswold. Crown 8vo (185 x 11...

Reflections in a Golden Eye [Inscribed to H. Tatnall Brown, Jr.]

MCCULLERS, Carson (1917-1967) · 1941

$5,524.00 (€5,011.88 | £4,181.24 | ¥882,111)

Boston Houghton Mifflin [Riverside Press]??? First Edition First Printing of McCullers's second novel, a "hothouse tale of twisted desire and simmering violence." (Terrence Rafferty) Crown 8vo (202 x 129mm): [6],182,[2]pp. Publisher's two-tone grey and beige cloth lettered in ...

[Florence] [Binding] Tuscan Cities [Extra-Illustrated]

HOWELLS, W. D. (William Dean, 1837-1920); Fratelli Alinari (Photographs) · 1900

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

Leipzig Heinemann and Balestier Later edition of Howells's guide to Florence and Pisa enriched with literary portraits of their most illustrious citizens. Crown 8vo (150 x 109mm): 264pp, with 27 tipped-in full page albumen prints, many by the Florence firm Fratelli Alinari. Fu...