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JOYCE, James (1882-1941) · 1918

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

Boston The Cornhill Company First Edition thus First Unauthorized American Edition of Joyce's first regularly published work, with print run estimated at 1000 copies. Small, slim 8vo: 20 unnumbered leaves, with 36 numbered Elizabethan-like poems chronicling the growth of a you...

The Dance of Life, a poem, by the author of "Doctor Syntax." illustrated with coloured engravings, by Thomas Rowlandson

COMBE, William (1741-1823); Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) · 1817

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

London R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101, Strand First Edition First Edition in book form (originally published in eight monthly parts), Rowlandson and Combe's companion-piece to their earlier "The Dance of Death" and one of Rowlandson's finest works. Royal 8vo: [2],ii,ii,...

[Natural History] Actinologia Britannica. A History of the British Sea Anemones and Corals. With Coloured Figures of the Species and Principal Varieties [Unrecorded binding variant]

GOSSE, Philip Henry (1810-1888) · 1860

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

London Van Voorst, Paternoster Row First and only hardcover edition of Gosse's finest work, marking a "major advance in natural history book illustration intended for the mass market." (ODNB). Tall 8vo: xl,362,[2],8pp (pp 7-10 are cancels), complete with 12 tissue-guarded plat...

Poems 1930-1933

GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985) · 1933

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,733)

London Arthur Barker Ltd First Edition First Impression. Slim 8vo: [8],38pp. Publisher's black linen spine stamped in gilt, grey paper-covered boards lettered in black (without dust jacket, as issued), bookplate and gift card tipped to front paste-down. Near Fine or better, co...

Fructologie, ou Description des arbres fruitiers ainsi que des fruits que l'on plante et qu'on cultive ordinairement dans les jardins . . . [bound with] Pomologie, ou description des meilleures sortes de pommes et de poires, Que l'on estime & cultive le plus, soit aux Pais-Bas, soit en Allemagne, en France, en Angleterre, &c.

KNOOP, Johann Hermann (c.1706-1769) · 1771

$3,649.00 (€3,310.71 | £2,762.01 | ¥582,698)

Amsterdam Chez M. Magérus, Libraire First Edition thus Rare French Edition of the first compendium of fruit arboriculture with 39 folding copper-engraved plates in fine contemporary hand coloring. Two foolscap-folio volumes bound in one: [ii],160,[iv],161-205,[1], with 19 plat...

The Deserted Village, A Poem

GOLDSMITH, Oliver (1728-1774) · 1770

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

London Printed for W. Griffin, at Garrick's Head, in Catharine street, Strand First Edition First Issue (with erroneous catchword "Careless" for "Thus" on p. 9) of one of the most influential poems of the eighteenth century, condemning the enclosure of land into vast landsca...

Travels through Portugal and Spain, in 1772 and 1773

TWISS, Richard (1747-1821) · 1775

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

London printed for the author, and sold by G. Robinson, T. Becket, and J. Robson First Edition First Quarto Edition (a two-volume duodecimo Dublin edition also was published) of the book Dr. Johnson called "as good as the first book of travels you will take up . . . if you exc...

Abel redevivus : or, The dead yet speaking. The lives and deaths of the moderne divines. Written by severall able and learned men (whose names ye shall finde in the epistle to the reader.) And now digested into one volumne, for the benefit and satisfaction of all those that desire to be acquainted with the paths of piety and virtue

FULLER, Thomas (1608-1661) · 1651

$1,249.00 (€1,133.21 | £945.40 | ¥199,449)

London printed by Tho. Brudenell for John Stafford, dwelling in Brides Churchyard, neer Fleetstreet First Edition First Issue, with engraved title page signed "Ro: Vaughan sculp:" and imprint "Sould by Iohn Stafford in Brides Churchyard 1651." Small 4to: [10],440,[20],441-596p...

[Hand-Colored] The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan. A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos by Quiz

[COMBE, William, attributed]; ROWLANDSON, Thomas (Illustrates) · 1816

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

London Printed by Thomas Tegg, No. 111, Cheapside First Edition of this ferocious satire of British colonial rule in India. Royal 8vo (244 x 150mm): iii-x,252pp, with folding frontispiece, illustrated title, and 25 full-page plates (all tissue-guarded hand-colored aquatints) a...

[Color Plate] The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy. A poem, in four cantos, with notes

MITFORD, John (1782-1831) · 1823

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

London Published for the author, and sold by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row et al Early Reprint Royal 8vo: [vii],[1],284]pp, with tissue-guarded, hand-colored frontispiece and 19 hand-colored full-page plates by Charles Williams. Elegantly bound by Bayntun in full...

[Color Plate] Poetical sketches of Scarborough; illustrated by twenty-one engravings of humorous subjects, coloured from original designs, made upon the spot

ROWLANDSON, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Text by John Buonarotti Papworth, Francis Wrangham, and William Combe] · 1813

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

London Printed for R. Ackermann 101 Strand by J. Diggens Saint Ann's Lane Second Edition Second Edition of this volume of light satirical verse, published the same year as the first, with initials of the authors now subjoined to each incident. Royal 8vo: [8],xv,[1],215,[1]pp, ...

[Slave Trade] A voyage to the river Sierra-Leone, on the coast of Africa; containing an account of the trade and productions of the country, and of the civil and religious customs and manners of the people; in a series of letters to a friend in England

MATTHEWS, John · 1788

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

London printed for B. White and Son, at Horace’s Head Fleet-Street; and J. Sewell, Cornhill First Edition First edition. 8vo: iv,183,[1]pp (p.142 mispaginated 147), with folding copper-engraved frontispiece of a view of the island Bananas and large folding map of part of the c...

[Color Plate] The tour of Doctor Prosody : in search of the antique and picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney, and Shetland isles ; illustrated by twenty humorous plates

[COMBE, William, imitator; Thomas Rowlandson, imitator] · 1821

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

London / Edinburgh / Glasgow Matthew Iley, Somerset Street / Bell and Bradfute; W. Blackwood / W. Turnbull First Edition First Edition. Tall 8vo: [4],251,[1]pp, with 20 leaves of hand-colored aquatints by William Read and C. Williams (after, but not by, Rowlandson, as often...

[Architecture: Church] Illustrative Views of the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Canterbury; Exhibiting the Most Interesting Points of its Architecture and Antiquities, in Nineteen Highly-Finished Line Engravings, from Drawings by Hastings, with Historical Descriptions of its Structure, Antiquities, and Present State

WOOLNOTH, William [Thomas Hastings] · 1836

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

Canterbury / London Henry Ward, No. 14, Sun Street / Whittaker & Co. First Edition First (and only) Edition, containing the plates and an abridgment of the text of Woolnoth's A graphic illustration of the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Canterbury, published in 1816. Oblong 4...

Jumpers

STOPPARD, Tom · 1972

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

London Faber & Faber First Edition First Impression ("First published in 1972) of Stoppard's first full-length play following "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead." Slim 8vo: 91,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven scarlet cloth, spine stamped in gilt; typographic dust jacket print...

[Three Tours of Doctor Syntax, comprising:] The First Tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the picturesque; [with] The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of consolation; [and] The Third Tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of a wife

COMBE, William (1742-1823); Thomas ROWLANDSON (1756-1827) · 1855

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

London Nattali and Bond, Bedford Street, Covent Garden [from 1812] Early Reprint Ninth Edition, complete in three volumes with 80 hand-colored aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson. (Eighty-one plates are called for on the title pages, but the plate lists contain a total of only 79, ...

Baby Doll

[Thomas Lanier Williams, writing as] WILLIAMS, Tennessee (1911-1983) · 1957

$101.00 (€91.64 | £76.45 | ¥16,128)

London Secker & Warburg First UK Edition First Impression of the script for Williams's first original screenplay. Small 8vo: 140pp, with black-and-white stills from the film. Publisher's scarlet V cloth, spine lettered in silver, illustrated dust jacket priced 12s/6d. A Very F...

Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers: plus un traité des Orangers et des reflexions sur l'Agriculture; avec une instruction pour la Culture del fleurs.

QUINTINYE [Quintinie], [Jean] de la (1626-1688) · 1716

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

A Paris Chez Charles Osmont, ruë Saint Jacques, à l'Ecu de France Early Reprint New, revised and enlarged edition (Augmentée de la Culture des Melons, de la maniere de taillerles Arbres Friutiers, d'in Dictionnaire des termes dont fe fervent les Jardiniers en parlant des Arbre...

[Color Plate] Select Views of London. With Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Some of the Most Interesting of its Public Buildings

PAPWORTH, J[ohn]. B[uonarotti]., 1775-1847 · 1816

$3,649.00 (€3,310.71 | £2,762.01 | ¥582,698)

London Printed for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, by J. Diggens, St. Ann's Lane, First Edition in book form of "one of the great books of London." (Franklin), collecting a series of architectural notes describing contemporary London for Ackermann’s Repository, illustrated with col...

A topographical survey of the great road from London to Bath and Bristol. With historical and descriptive accounts of the country, towns, villages, and gentlemen’s seats on and adjacent to it; illustrated by perspective views of the most select and picturesque scenery To which is added a correct map of the country Three miles on each side of the road; planned from a scale of one inch to a mile

ROBERTSON, Archibald (ca. 1745-1813) · 1792

$926.00 (€840.15 | £700.91 | ¥147,870)

London printed for the author, Charles-street, ST. Jame’s-square; and William Faden [replaced by R. Faulder in vol. II], Charing-cross First Edition First Edition, complete in two royal octavo volumes: [2],xv,[1],154; vii,[1],190,[2]pp, with 65 aquatint plates in sepia "beauti...