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[Scottish Topography] [Grangerised] [Hand-Colored] Remarks on Local Scenery and Manners in Scotland During the Years 1799 and 1800

STODDART, John (1773–1856) · 1801

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

London William Miller, Old Bond Street First Edition An extra-illustrated copy of this uncommon treatise on the manners, customs, and scenery of Scotland. Complete in two royal octavo volumes: xxiv,310; viii,341,[3]pp, with engraved title-page vignettes by W. Poole, double-pag...

The Tennis Court Oath. A Book of Poems [Inscribed to William Targ]

ASHBERY, John (1927-2017) · 1968

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

Middletown, CT Wesleyan University Press Early Reprint First Edition, Third Printing, of this touchstone of contemporary American avant-garde poetry. Crown 8vo (203 x 152mm): 94,[2]pp. Publisher's gray cloth, spine stamped in red and black, pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped...

Lord Weary's Castle [Signed, with Pulitzer Prize belly band]

LOWELL, Robert (1917-1977) · 1947

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

New York Harcourt, Brace [from 1946] Second Impression (per Mazzaro) of the poet's first trade publication with [b.3.47] on copyright page, but styled "Second Edition" on dust jacket flap. Regardless, an early issue, published just months after the first printing and identical...

[Maritime] Traité complet de la navigation : contenant les propositions & pratiques de geometrie, de la sphere & d'astronomie, les tables du mouvement du soleil . . . & plusieurs autres, nouvellement calculées, & reformées pour le siecle prochain . . . les regles generales de la navigation . . . avec des cartes marines . . . le tout clairement expliqué . . . [the Streeter copy]

BOUGUER, Jean (d. 1714) · 1698

$1,774.00 (€1,609.53 | £1,342.78 | ¥283,285)

A Paris, et se vend à Nantes chez P. de Heugueville, marchand libraire, à la Bible d'Or. Et chez l'auteur, au Croisic First Edition Rare First Edition of this early treatise on navigation (all of which, especially those of the Bougeurs, Jean and his son Pierre, have become in...

[Musical Score] Stabat Mater : for Soprano and String Quartet [Inscribed]

THOMSON, Virgil (1896-1989) · 1933

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

New York Cos Cob Press First Edition Text, in French, by Max Jacob. Crown 8vo (180 x 133mm): 9,[1]pp. Publisher's original tan wrappers printed and decorated in red and black. Front wrapper inscribed: "love & faithfulness / Alfred / from / Virgil." "Alfred," according to a not...

La théorie, et la pratique du jardinage, où l'on traite à fond des beaux jardins appellés communément les jardins de plaisance, et de propreté

[DEZALLIER] L. S. A. J. D. A. [Le Sieur Antione Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, 1680-1765] · 1739

$1,099.00 (€997.11 | £831.86 | ¥175,496)

A La Haye [The Hague] chés Jean Martin Husson Early Reprint Third Edition of this important French treatise on garden design, "to this day the standard authority on the formal garden." (Henrey) 4to (257 x 193mm): [8],383 [13]pp, with 42 copper-engraved plates (some folding and...

The Light Around the Body [Inscribed Association Copy]

BLY, Robert (1926-2021) · 1967

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

New York Harper & Row First Printing First Edition (so stated) of Bly's second collection, playfully inscribed by him on the front free end paper in three colors of pen in the year of publication: "Oct. 24, '67 / For Henry / who published so many / of these poems / and for Jul...

Closing the Ring [Signed]

KUMIN, Maxine (1925-2014); Barnard Taylor (Illustrates) · 1984

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

Lewisburg, Pa. Bucknell University : Press of Appletree Alley Limited Edition First Edition, No. 27 of 28 copies printed on mould-made Rives, from a total edition of 150. Royal 8vo (261 x 174mm): 47,[1]pp, with linoleum engravings in color by Barnard Taylor. Publisher's tan qu...

Short Stories [Poems]

MERRILL, James (1926-1995) · 1954

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

Pawlet, Vt Claude Fredericks at the Banyan Press Limited Edition Only Printing of this scarce early collection, No. 147, one of the first 150 copies reserved for the poet and printer, from a limited edition of 210 numbered copies, of which only 60 copies were for sale. Slim de...

After Magritte

STOPPARD, Sir Tom · 1971

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

London Faber & Faber First Edition First Impression of the playwright's one-act farce inspired by a surrealist painting. Crown 8vo (199 x 113mm): 47,[1]pp. Publisher's wrappers with French flaps over cream-colored stiff card (no case bound issue published) printed in yellow an...

[The Courtier] Il Libro del Cortegiano [Unmutilated]

CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare (1478-1529) · 0

$1,024.00 (€929.07 | £775.09 | ¥163,520)

Padova [Padua] Appresso Giusseppe Comino Early Reprint An important reprint of Aldine's first edition of 1528, discarding the extensive alterations to the text that corrupted editions of this classic treatise on etiquette for more than a century. 4to (23 x 16 cm) xxiv, 352pp, ...

[Aeschylus] Prometheus Bound

LOWELL, Robert, 1917-1977 [Translates] · 1970

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

London Faber and Faber Limited First Edition First Impression of Lowell's "free, rather politicized translation of Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound." (Literary Encyclopedia) Slim crown 8vo (200 x 117mm): vi,[2],67,[1]pp. Publisher's rose cloth, spine lettered in gilt; white typogr...

Wessex Poems and Other Verses

HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928) · 1898

$1,024.00 (€929.07 | £775.09 | ¥163,520)

London Harper & Brothers, 45 Albemarle Street First Edition First Impression of the author's first collection of poems, one of only 500 copies. Crown 8vo (200 x 131mm): xi,[1],228pp, with 31 illustrations (13 full-page, including frontispiece) reproduced from drawings by Hardy...

About the House

AUDEN, W[ystan]. H[ugh]. (1907-1973) · 1965

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

London Faber and Faber First Printing First Printing, one of 4000 copies. Tall, slim 8vo: 94pp. with errata slip tipped in facing page 7. Publisher's pale blue linen cloth, spine stamped in gold; price-clipped typographic dust jacket printed in black, olive green and purple. A...

Amores [First State]

LAWRENCE, D[avid]. H[erbert], 1885-1930 · 1916

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

London Duckworth First Edition First Issue (with 16-page publisher's catalog at the end) of Lawrence's second collection of poems. Crown 8vo: viii,140,16pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed (variant 1. Roberts spec...

[Political Tract] The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition. By the Authour of Absalom and Achitophel

[DRYDEN, John, 1631-1700] · 1682

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

London printed for Jacob Tonson at the Judge’s Head in Chancery-lane, near Fleet-street First Edition Presumed second issue (two lines of Latin verse on final page) of this satirical poem lampooning the Earl of Shaftesbury. Small 4to: [12],20pp. There are at least two issues: ...

Grotesque architecture, or Rural amusement, consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosqes, moresque pavilions, grotesque and rustic seats, green houses, & c., many of which may be executed with flints, irregular stones, rude branches, and roots of trees. The while containing twenty-eight new designs, with scales to each. To which is added, an explanation, with the method of executing them

WRIGHTE, William (active 1790–1802) · 1802

$874.00 (€792.97 | £661.55 | ¥139,567)

London Printed by W. Stratford, Crown-Court, Temple-Bar; For J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library Early Reprint A New Edition of this enchanting pattern book of architectural follies, describing designs for huts, hermitages, grottoes, and other rural retreats in which man...

Bright Ambush : Poems [Pulitzer Prize]

WURDERMANN, Audrey (1911-1960) · 1934

$101.00 (€91.64 | £76.45 | ¥16,128)

New York John Day First Edition First Printing of this Pulitzer prizewinning collection, making Wurdemann, at age 24, the youngest recipient of that award. Tall, slim 8vo: [14],76,[2]pp. Publisher's lime-green cloth, spine lettered in gold, top edge stained green, fore- and bo...

Nothing is lost, sweet self : No. 1 in a series of Contemporary Poetry Set to Music [Signed, with proof sheets laid in]

DURRELL, Lawrence (1912-1990); T. Wallace Southam · 1967

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

London Turret Books Limited Edition First publication in the series Contemporary Poetry Set to Music, a six-line poem by Durrell, set to music for "high voice" by Southam. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by the poet and the composer, this being no. 25. Unpaginated: [8]p...

Clievelandi Vindiciæ; or, Clieveland’s genuine poems, orations, epistles, &c. Purged from the many false & spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptions in the true copies. To which are added many additions never printed before: with an account of the author’s life. Published according to the author’s own copies

CLIEVELAND [Cleveland], John (1613-1658) · 1677

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

London Printed for Obadiah Blagrave at the Sign of the Bear in St. Paul s Church-Yard, near the Little North Door First Edition Best edition of Cleveland's works, "Purged from the many false & spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptio...