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[Inuit] [Northwest Passage] [Arctic] Ten months among the tents of the Tuski : with incidents of an Arctic boat expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, as far as the Mackenzie River, and Cape Bathurst

HOOPER, W. H. (William Hulme, 1827-1854) · 1853

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

London Published by John Murray First Edition First Edition of this truly fascinating account, important for its descriptions of the manners, customs, and culture of the Inuit and other native tribes, particularly the Chukchi (Tuski) people. Thick 8vo: xv,[1],417,[1]pp, with 4...

The seasons. By Mr. Thomson [Subscribers Edition]

THOMSON, James (1700-1748) · 1730

$701.00 (€636.01 | £530.60 | ¥111,941)

London [none given] First Edition thus Subscribers Edition of Thomson's masterpiece, and perhaps the most popular English-language poem in blank verse (running to some 5500 lines in its final form) from Milton to the Romantics, as well as "one of the earliest, longest, and f...

Poems

GATES, [Sidney] Barrington (1893-1973) · 1925

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

London Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 52 Tavistock Square, London, W.C.1 First Edition First Impression. 8vo: 112pp. Publisher’s red and black marbled paper-covered boards, cream title label printed in black to upper board. A superlative copy (prob...

The scribleriad: an heroic poem. In six books

CAMBRIDGE, Richard Owens (1717-1802) · 1751

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

London Printed for R. Dodsley in Pall-mall, and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-row Six parts in one volume. 4to: xvi,31,[1]; 31,[1]; 31,[1]; 32; 32; 27,[9]pp, each book with separate title page, frontispiece, and pagination, the seven full-page plates engraved by Boitard a...

Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772, on several parts of England; particularly the mountains, and lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland

GILPIN, William (1724-1804) · 1786

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

London printed for R. Blamire, Strand First Edition of one of the earliest guides to the Lake district, complete in two volumes. 8vo: [4],xxxi,[1],xvi,230; [4],268,xivpp, with 30 sepia acquaints and soft-ground etched plates, including 3 maps with watercolor wash, by Joseph Fa...

Eikon basilike [in Greek]. The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings [Madan 66]

CHARLES I, King of England [GAUDEN, John, 1605-1662] · 1681

$1,988.00 (€1,803.69 | £1,504.76 | ¥317,458)

London Printed by R. Norton for Richard Royston Bookseller to His most Sacred Majesty [from 1649] Later seventeenth-century edition of this purported spiritual autobiography attributed to King Charles I of England. Crown 8vo (181 x 101mm): [16],256pp, with frontispiece engrave...

The manner of raising, ordering, and improving forest-trees: With directions how to plant, make, and keep woods, walks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c. Also rules and tables shewing how the ingenious planter may measure superficial figures, divide woods or land, and measure timber and other solid bodies, either by arithmetick or geometry: with the uses of that excellent line, the line of numbers, by several new examples; and many other rules, useful for most men

COOK, Moses · 1717

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

London Printed for Daniel Browne, Andrew Bell, John Darby, Arthur Bettesworth, John Pemberton, Charles Rivington, John Hooke, R. Cruttenden and T. Cox, Jer. Battley, Edward Symon Early Reprint Second Edition, "very much corrected," of this influential treatise by the head gard...

[Foulis Press] The gentle shepherd. A pastoral comedy

RAMSAY, Allan (1684-1758) · 1788

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

Glasgow printed by A. Foulis, and sold by D. Allan, Dickson’s Closs, Edinburgh, also by J. Murray, No. 32. Fleet-Street, and C. Elliot, Strand, London First Edition thus First Illustrated Edition of this widely popular pastoral comedy in vernacular Scots, with glossary and ev...

An account of the European settlements in America. In six parts. I. A short History of the Discovery of that Part of the World. II. The Manners and Customs of the original Inhabitants. III. Of the Spanish Settlements. IV. Of the Portuguese. V. Of the French, Dutch, and Danish. VI. Of the English. Each Part contains An accurate Description of the Settlements in it, their Extent, Climate, Productions, Trade, Genius and Disposition of their Inhabitants: the Interests of the several Powers of Europe with respect to those Settlements; and their Political and Commercial Views with regard to each other. In two volumes

BURKE, Edmund (1729-1797) · 1765

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

London printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall, Early Printing Fourth Edition, "with improvements," complete in two volumes, of the "best contemporary account" of European colonization of the New World. (Howes). Printed by William Bowyer, whose records show only 500 copies went t...

[Hand-Colored] Glances at Character [Brent Gration-Maxfield's copy]

[ANONYMOUS]; CLARK, John Heaviside (Engraver, fl. 1789-1830) · 1814

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

London Printed by Whittingham and Rowland, Goswell Street; For John Carr, 56, Paternoster-Row First Edition First Edition of this uncommon satirical depiction of various Regency-era character types and memes, in verse. Crown 8vo: viii,158,[2]pp, with eight delicately hand-colo...

[Robinson Crusoe] [Hand-Colored] The hermit: or, the unparallel’d sufferings and surprising adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman: who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited Island in the South-Sea; where he has lived above Fifty Years, without any Human Assistance; still continues to reside, and will not come away. Containing, I. His Conferences with Those who found him out; to whom he recites the most material Circumstances of his Life; as, that he was born in the Parish of St. Giles, educated by the charitable Contribution of a Lady, and put ’prentice to a Locksmith. II. How he left his Master, and was taken up with a notorious House-Breaker, who was hanged; how, after his Escape, he went to Sea a Cabin-Boy, married a famous whore, listed himself a common Soldier, turned Singing-Master, and married three Wives, for which he was tried and condemned at the Old Baily. III. How he was pardoned by King Charles II. turned Merchant, and was shipwrecked on this desolate Island on the Coast of Mexico. With a curious Frontispiece and a Map of the Island

LONGUEVILLE, Peter, fl. 1727 [DORRINGTON, Edward] · 1768

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

London printed for J. Wren, opposite New Exchange Buildings in the Strand; S. Crowder, H. Woodgate, J. Fuller, and J. Warcus Early Reprint Fourth Edition of one of the "best of the English imitations of Robinson [Crusoe]." (Gove) 12mo: xii,263,[1]pp (wanting one quire, pp 83-...

[Harlem Renaissance] Copper Sun; with decorations by Charles Cullen

CULLEN, Countée P. (1903-1946) · 1927

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

New York Harper & Brothers First Edition Two copies in different binding variants (one a later issue) of the poet's second collection. Crown 8vo (190 x 127mm): xi,[1],89,[1]pp, illustrated throughout. First Printing (with "first edition" and "G-B" on copyright page): Publisher...

Le Paradis Perdu, poëme par Milton; Édition en Anglais et en Français, Ornée de douze Estampes imprimées en couleur d'aprés les Tableaux de M. Schall . . .

MILTON, John (1608-1674) · 1792

$1,624.00 (€1,473.44 | £1,229.24 | ¥259,332)

Paris chez Defer de Maisonneuve, rue du Foin S. Jacques, no. 11, First Edition thus First Illustrated French Edition, Second Issue (preferred) by Maisonneuve, one of the earliest examples of coloring printing (preceded in France only by Sergent's Portraits des grands hommes), ...

[Scotland] Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the high-lands of Scotland

GILPIN, William (1724-1804) · 1792

$326.00 (€295.78 | £246.76 | ¥52,058)

London printed for R. Blamire, Strand Second Edition Second Edition (first published in 1789) of this title from Gilpin's series applying his principles of picturesque beauty to the exploration of various British landscapes, in this case to the scenery of the Scottish highland...

Spenser’s Faerie queene. A new edition with a glossary, and notes explanatory and critical by John Upton . . . In two volumes [Extra-Illustrated]

[John Upton] SPENSER, Edmund (1552?-1599) · 1758

$2,149.00 (€1,949.77 | £1,626.63 | ¥343,168)

London printed for J. and R. Tonson First Edition thus First Annotated Edition, illustrated (grangerized) with the full suite of 32 double-page plates by William Kent for the 1751 edition of Spenser’s Faerie Queene, published by Stephen Wright and John Brindley (ESTC T35152). ...

Trivia: or the Art of Walking the Streets of London [Large-Paper Copy]

GAY, John (1685-1732) · 0

$2,149.00 (€1,949.77 | £1,626.63 | ¥343,168)

London printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys between the Temple-Gates in Fleetstreet First Edition First Issue, large-paper copy (engraved headpiece on p. 1 depicts a street scene, not a phoenix, with elaborate engraved ornaments, not printer's ornaments, on pp. 21 a...

[Armorial Binding] Praedium Rusticum

VANIÈRE, Jacques (1664-1739) · 1707

$476.00 (€431.87 | £360.29 | ¥76,011)

Paris [Lutetiae Parisiorum] Apud Joannem Le Clerc First Edition 12mo: [6],268,[12], with engraved initials and head and tail pieces, and 10 charming full-page plates by Laurent Cars after Dumesnil, one at the beginning of each book. In Latin. Full speckled calf, contemporary t...

[Garden Design] [Beekeeping] Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier : beschrijvende alderhande Princelijcke en Heerlijcke Lusthoven en Hofsteden . . . [bound with] De Nieuwe Verstandigen Hovenier, Over de twaelf Maenden van't Jaer . . . [and with] De Medicyn-Winckel, of Ervaren Huys-Houder . . . Den Naerstigen Byen-Houder . . . Den verstandigen Kock

GROEN, Jan van der (c.1635–1672); NYLAND, Pieter · 1675

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

Amsterdam Marcus Doornick Early Reprint Sammelband of key gardening and husbandry texts, complete with all plates showcasing seventeenth-century garden design. Three titles in one quarto volume, including Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier, the most influential horticultural manual fr...

Hedda Gabler [Skuespil i fire akter]

IBSEN, Henrik (1828-1906) · 1890

$1,174.00 (€1,065.16 | £888.63 | ¥187,473)

København [Copenhagen] Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag (F. Hegel & Son) First Edition First Printing of perhaps Ibsen's "most frequently performed play in the modern theatre." (PMM) In Danish (then the literary language of both Denmark and Norway). Foolscap 8vo: [4],236pp. Publ...

The North Ship

LARKIN, Philip (1922-1985) · 19451965

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

London Fortune Press Early Reprint Second (unauthorized) Edition, originally published by the Fortune Press in 1945. Tall, slim 8vo: [4],36pp. Publisher's smooth maroon buckram (some copies bound in brownish-orange buckram, no priority known), spine lettered in gilt, bottom e...