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The Trees of the Genealogia Deorum of Boccaccio

[Boccaccio; Caxton Club] Wilkins, Ernest Hatch. THE TREES OF THE GENEALOGIA DEORUM OF BOCCACCIO (Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1923) FIRST and LIMITED EDITION, one of only 160 copies printed on handmade Fabriano Paper. With 21 plates, three of which are in beautiful full colour, with printed tissue guards. Also with fine engraved ititials and tables throughtout.

4to, publisher’s original half vellum over buff boards with small vellum corner-pieces. A very fine copy, near as pristine. SCARCE, LIMITED TO ONLY 160 COPIES. A study of the genealogical tables used to decorate Boccaccio’s great mythological work, from manuscripts and the early printed editions.

Le Morte D’Arthur - A Brilliant Masterpiece[Beardsley, illus.] Malory, Thomas. LE MORTE D’ARTHUR...Introduction by Prof. Rhys and a note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance (London and New York: J. M. Dent and Sons, Aldine House and E.P Dutton and Co., 1927) Third and most complete edition, limited to 1600 copies, with 10 extra illustra-tions not included in the two first printings. 22 full page and double-page illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley including the fine frontispiece, the Merlin drawing and the design for the original cover, also with numerous designs and illustrations throughout the text, as well as a profusion of decorated initials and chapter headings. Thick, large 4to, publisher’s original dark

Item Number: 1 Price: $3250.

One of 160 Copies Only - The Caxton Club Item Number: 2 Price: $695.

green polished cloth with spine and covers beautifully and fully decorated in gilt after designs by Beardsley. A very handsome, superior copy, beautifully preserved. AN IMPORTANT PRINTING OF THIS VERY BEAUTIFUL BOOK, and this a very desirable and strong copy. The third edition contains an extra 10 illustrations added in the text, the first edition to do so, as well as the original binding design (which was never used) and a full size facsimile of the Merlin drawing, previously used on a smaller scale. The text is that of Caxton’s printed for the first time in 1485 at Westminster in London.

Fine Books and Manuscripts

The Best Edition With Aubrey Beardsley’s Illustrations

Beautifully Bound in Full Polished Calf - Gilt ExtraA Cornerstone Book of English LiteratureThe First of the Bronte Sisters’ Novels Pub-lished

[Brontë, Charlotte] Bell, Currer (Pseud). JANE EYRE: An Autobiography. Edited By Currer Bell (London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1847) 3 volumes. RARE FIRST EDITION of the great masterpiece by Charlotte Bronte. 8vo, in very attractive bindings of full tan calf, the spines richly gilt decorated in compartments between raised gilt decorated bands, the boards gilt framed, two of the spine compartments with contrasting red and green morocco labels gilt lettered and decorated. Publisher’s ad cata-logue is retained and bound in. A very fine copy, beautifully

preserved and clean throughout. RARE, AND ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER BOOKS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. JANE EYRE IS NOT ONLY THE FIRST NOVEL PUBLISHED BY CHARLOTTE BRONTE, but is also the first published of the Bronte Sisters. In an amazing year for them, all three published a work in 1847 under a ‘Bell’ pseudonym. Charlotte’s was first, the two others were Emily’s Wuthering Heights (published as Ellis Bell) and Anne’s Agnes Grey (published as Acton Bell). All three are very scarce indeed.

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre - The First Edition Item Number: 3 Price: $48,500.


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In a Beautiful Binding - Robert Burn on Roman HistoryBy the Most Famous Archaeologist on the Topic - 1871Rome and the Cam-pagna - A Superbly Bound First Edition

lettered in gilt with gilt ruling at head and tail of spine, unob-trusive library label also at the tail of spine, marbled endpapers, small library stamp at bottom of title. A very handsome copy indeed, in a beautiful and rich binding. FIRST EDITION IN A SUPERB BINDING. An extensive ren-dering of Roman history, architecture, and topography gleaned from excavations and research of the area. It includes beautiful illustrations and maps to supplement Burn’s descriptions.



Two Volumes - Byron’s Complete Poetical WorksTogether With the Life, Letters and JournalsHandsomely Bound In Fine Full Period Emerald Calf Gilt

in antique full forest-green calf, the covers with double gilt fillet rules at the borders, inner stippled border in blind and with floral corner-pieces, the spines with gilt laced raised bands, compartments fully gilt decorated, with red morocco label gilt ruled and lettered. A very handsome set, fine with only a bit of very minor spotting to the prelims. BRYON’S COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS handsomely presented in an elegant period binding, beautifully preserved inside and out.

Item Number: 8 Price: $950. Byron, Lord. THE POETICAL WORKS OF LORD BYRON... [with,] Moore, Thomas, editor. THE LIFE, LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF LORD BYRON... (London: John Murray, 1852 and 1866) Together 2 volumes. The Complete and Copyright Edition of the ‘Works’, and the New and Complete Edition of the ‘Life’. The ‘Works’ with fine steel engraved portrait and an engraved half-title with vignette, both by Finden, and four pages of autograph facsimiles. The ‘Life’ with Finden engraved portrait, vignette half-title featuring a differing view and seven engraved plates. Royal 8vo, each volume very finely and uniformly bound

Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” - A Very Handsome SetThe Fine Mot-teux Translation in Lovely Period Bindings

Item Number: 9 Price: $1250. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. THE HISTORY OF THE RE-NOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA...Translated By Several Hands: and Published By the Late Mr. Motteaux. Revised Anew From the Best Spanish Edition, by Mr. Ozell... (Edinburgh: Alex. Lawrie and Co, 1803) 4 volumes. Early English Edition. Small 8vo, handsomely bound in contemporary polished calf, the spines with gilt bands separating compartments decorated with a central gilt decoration, lettered in gilt in one compartment, numbered in gilt in another, the cover borders roll tooled in gilt.

Robert Burns’ Complete Works - A Handsome CopyIllustrated With Fine Steel-Plate Engrav-ings

Burns, Robert. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS... (London: George Virtue, ND [circa 1840]) An early, handsome illustrated edition. With over 35 engravings on steel by noted artists such as W.H. Bartlett, T. Allom, and others. Tall and thick 8vo, handsomely bound in contemporary three-quarter red calf over pebbled boards, the spine beautifully gilt decorated in com-partments between wide gilt tooled bands, each compartment is elaborately decorated around a central tool in a shell motif, one compartment with a burgendy morocco letting label gilt,

marbled endpapers. A beautiful copy in a handsome period binding, minor age wear to extremities, internally quite fresh and very well preserved. A fine early illustrated collected edition of Burns’ works. It includes Allan Cunningham’s “life and notices”. Cunningham, a published poet and magazine contributor, was a neighbor of Robert Burns. The handsome steel engravings in this edition include a number of impres-sive portraits, but there are also illustrations to verses which delight-fully capture the lighthearted style and charm of the Scottish Poet.

Burn, Robert. ROME AND THE CAMPAGNA: An Historical and Topographical Description of the Site, Buildings, and Neigh-bourhood of Ancient Rome. (Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1871) First edition. With 85 illustrations and 25 maps and plans, several folding and several in colour. 4to, very beautifully bound in the finest period red morocco, the covers with elaborate gilt multi-line frames enclosing elaborate key rolled ornamental inner frames gilt; the spine in compartments decorated very elaborately, separated by gilt-tooled and-bordered raised bands,

A very pleasing set. Handsome and very well preserved with only minor age evidence. A FINE AND HANDSOME SET OF THIS CLASSIC WORK. Motteux’s translation is one of the most famous of the period, and here, the book is presented in pleasing period bindings still preserved in unusually nice condition.

A Fine Set of the Poetry of E.B. BrowningThree Volumes - 1856 - In the Rare Original Cloth Bindings


Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. POEMS (London: Chapman and Hall, 1856) 3 volumes. Fourth edition. 8vo, publisher’s olive green cloth with elaborate blind embossed designs on all covers, the spines handsomely lettered in gilt with gilt decorative tool. A beautiful set, rarely encountered in such nice condition, the text bright and clean with only the most minimal of foxing to a few leaves in the prelims, the cloth fresh with just a touch of wear

along the tips or extremities. RARE IN THIS CONDITION AND A VERY EARLY SET OF BROWNING’S BEAUTIFUL POETRY. IT IS UNCOMMON TO FIND THESE IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. Browning’s poetry was already critically and publicly acclaimed while she was alive; she was considered Wordsworth’s successor as Poet Laureate upon his death.

A Richard Burton Rarity - In the Rare Cloth BindingWit and Wisdom From West Africa

A RARE WORK BY BURTON, being a collection of proverbs and sayings from the Wolof, Kanuri, Oji, Ga or Accra, Yoruba, Efik or Old Calabar, and Mpangwe languages. It was the author’s inten-tion that, “such specimens may go a long way towards refuting the old-fashioned doctrine of an essential inequality of the Negroes with the rest of mankind, which now and then shows itself, not only in America, but also in Europe.”

Item Number: 7 Price: $7500. Burton, Richard F., compiler. WIT AND WISDOM FROM WEST AFRICA; A Book of Proverbial Philosophy, Idioms, Enigmas, and Laconisms (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1865) The very rare first edition. 8vo, in the scarce publisher’s binding of full plum cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and stamped in blind on the covers. Housed in a handsome foldover box. A very nice copy with some expected age-wear and expert refreshinging to the cloth hinges.



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in gilt. An exceptionally rare presentation copy. A fine and as pristine copy internally, partially unopened, the bindings tight and clean, but with spines sympathetically replaced at a later date and the upper cover of Vol. II replaced to match. RARE AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY GEO. CATLIN. We can find only one other copy of this book to have appeared in recent times--the Manney-Silver copy sold some years ago in the rooms. Printed at a later date as ADVENTURES OF THE OJIBBEWAY AND IOWAY INDIANS IN ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND BELGIUM.... The publishing of these volumes celebrated the opening of Catlin’s Indian Gallery in London.

Chaucer’s Poetry in Four Volumes - With Skeat’s PrefaceA Fine Victorian Set Edited by Bell

Item Number: 11 Price: $295. Chaucer, Geoffrey. POETICAL WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER... With a Preliminary Essay by Rev. W. W. Skeat, M.A. (London: George Bell and Sons, 1885-8) 4 volumes. Very early printing with the preface by Skeat. Engraved frontispiece of Chaucer in Volume I. 8vo, original publisher’s terracotta cloth with elaborate stamped designs in black on the upper covers, in blind on the lower covers and lettered in gilt on the spines. An unusually clean, bright and handsome set in very

James Fenimore Cooper - An American ClassicThe History of the Navy of the United States - First Edition - A Gentleman’s Set Very Handsomely Bound

edges marbled. A beautiful set, wonderfully preserved in bind-ings reflecting fine provenance. The text is extremely fresh and clean, the bindings with only very minor age evident. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF THIS VERY FINE WORK and “the single most important and influential American naval history down to the publication of Alfred Thayer Mahan’s writings on sea power, beginning in 1890” - Robert Madison, Northwestern University. This British printing is of higher quality then its American counterpart and was published so closely with it that the June 1839 issue of Athenaeum mistakenly reported the Bentley issue being first.

Cooper, J.[ames] Fenimore. THE HISTORY OF THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (London: Richard Bentley, 1839) 2 volumes. First Edition, English Issue. With engraved frontispiece portraits of Commodore Perry and Stephen Decatur, engraved portrait of Commodore MacDonough and charts of Plattsburg Bay and Tripoli. Tall 8vo, in very fine bindings of contemporary full navy blue calf, the covers beautifully paneled in gilt and blind, , the spines with multi-gilt ruled raised bands between elaborately gilt tooled paneled compartments, two compartments with dark maroon gilt lettered and ruled morocco labels, board edges and turn-ins gilt tooled, endpapers and page

Curzon’s Administration of the British Empire in IndiaBritish Government in India - 1925 - Two VolumesA Fine Set in the Publisher’s Scarce Dustjackets

Item Number: 13 Price: $495. Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquis. BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN INDIA: The Story of the Viceroys and Government Houses (London: Cassell and Co, Ltd., 1925) 2 volumes. First Edition, Third impression. 84 illustrations and plans, several folding. 4to, original blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on spine and upper covers, gilt decorative device also on upper covers, this set in the rarely encountered dustjackets. A choice set, in fine condition, bright and very pleasing, the dustjackets complete

Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe - ca. 1790 - LondonEarly Three Volume set with Lovely En-gravings

gilt rules and tooling on the spines, contrasting red and green morocco labels. A very nice set, very well preserved with only minimal wear or evidence of age. A VERY PLEASING AND WELL PRESERVED EDITION. A charming set of Defoe’s immortal romance with lovely full page engravings.

Item Number: 15 Price: $950.Defoe, Daniel. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. (London: Printed for C. Cooke, Pater-Noster-Row, ca. 1790) 3 volumes. Cooke Edition, undated but with the engrav-ings at the front dated 1796, 1797 and 1799 and the other plates beginning in 1793. Embellished with engravings throughout. Small 8vo, handsomely bound in 3/4 contemporary calf with

fine condition. AN ATTRACTIVE, DECORATED VICTORIAN SET OF CHAUCER’S COLLECTED WORKS. Included are a Preliminary Preface by W.W. Skeat, a Memoir of Chaucer by Robert Bell, all of the Collected Works including those no longer attributed to Chaucer, and a comprehensive Glossary. An inviting presentation of Chaucer’s classic works.

and with just a touch of age. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION AND AN IMPORTANT BOOK. Curzon was one of the great administrators of the British empire in India. He is credited with stabilizing the finances between the government and the provinces and instituting numerous reforms. The first volume of his work details the history and nature of the vari-ous government houses in Calcutta, and the second volume narrates the stories of the various rulers who have lived there.


An Exceptionally Rare Autograph Presentation Copy SignedGeorge Catlin - Notes of Eight Years’ Trav-els and ResidenceAuthor of The North American Indians and The Indian Port-folio - Celebrating the Catlin Gallery

Item Number: 10 Price: $9500. Catlin, George. CATLIN’S NOTES OF EIGHT YEARS’ TRAVELS AND RESIDENCE IN EUROPE, WITH HIS NORTH AMERI-CAN INDIAN COLLECTION... (London: by the author, 1848) 2 volumes. First Printing of Volume I and the second of Volume II. The books do not differ in size or presentation and are a matching set since they were presented by Catlin to the recipient. VERY RARE PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED IN BOTH VOLUMES BY CATLIN IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICA-TION, 1848. With 24 plates after drawings by the author. 8vo, bound in the original blue cloth lettered with pictorial decora-tions on the upper covers in gilt and on the rear covers in blind, the borders stamped in arabesque designs, the spines lettered

The First Trade Published Edition - Large Paper CopyAnd the First ‘Mod-ern’ Translation Into English - 1819Dante’s Divine Com-edy - The Great Cary Translation

sentially as pristine internally, the original boards are rubbed and the backstrips mostly missing on Vols I and III, but this is a set which has never been fiddled with and remains entirely unsophisticated and as originally offered from the printer. RARE FIRST EDITION AND COMPLETE SET IN ORIGINAL PRINTER’S BOARDS. ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS OF ALL TIME. Cary’s famous translation has long been considered the first modern rendering of Dante’s timeless epic into English.

Item Number: 14 Price: $4500.Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321). THE VISION; OR HELL, PURGA-TORY AND PARADISE OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. Translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, A.M. (London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1819) 3 volumes. A LARGE PAPER COPY of the FIRST TRADE EDITION of the FIRST MODERN TRANSLATION into English in its complete form. Preceded only by the privately printed edition issued by the author. Tall 8vo, still bound in the original printer’s boards, untrimmed and uncut. VERY RARE THUS. A very rarely encountered set in excellent condition, es-



A Beautiful Copy of a Cornerstone Workbeautifully stylized designs of the sun and of birds in flight. An unusually bright, clean, tight and very fine copy with virtually no evidence of use or age. A VERY FINE FIRST EDITION COPY OF THIS CORNER-STONE WORK BY ONE OF THE PREMIER EXPLORERS OF THE 19TH CENTURY. Du Chaillu is also the author of EXPLORA-TIONS AND ADVENTURES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA.

Item Number: 19 Price: $695.Du Chaillu’s Journeys Through ScandinaviaThe Land of the Midnight Sun - First Edition - 1882

Du Chaillu, Paul. THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN. Sum-mer and Winter Journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland and Northern Finland (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1882) 2 volumes. First edition. With 235 illustrations and a large folding map. 8vo, publisher’s original sea-blue cloth lettered and elaborately decorated with pictorial overall designs in gilt and red on the upper covers and spines. The upper covers have

Very Fine First Edi-tions of the Entire Set - 1922, 1923, 1925Beautifully Bound in the Original Gilt Decorated Cloth


[Everest Expeditions], . Howard-Bury, Lieut.-Col. C. K. MOUNT EVEREST: The Reconnaissance, 1921 [with] Bruce, Brigadier-General Hon. C. G. THE ASSAULT ON MOUNT EVEREST 1922 [with] Norton, Lieutenant-Colonel E. F. THE FIGHT FOR EVEREST: 1924 (London: Edward Arnold and Co, 1922, 1923, 1925) Together 3 volumes. First editions. Each with a profusion of illustrations, several in color, and folding maps. 8vo, original blue, red, and green cloth respectively, lettered in gilt on spines

and covers. Index to each volume. A very fresh and clean set, very handsome and in unusually nice condition. THE THREE BRITISH EVEREST EXPEDITIONS OF THE 1920’S, SCARCE IN SUCH EXCELLENT CONDITION AND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDINGS GILT. The British made it a point of national pride to scale the mighty Everest, and the saga of their quest makes for fascinating reading.

Everest Expeditions - The Fight, Assault, Reconnaissance

The Doves Press Milton - Paradise Lost / Paradise RegainedIn Beautiful Original Vellum Bindings by the Doves Bindery

Item Number: 18 Price: $7500.[Doves Press] Milton, John. PARADISE LOST [with] PARADISE REGAIN’D To Which Are Added Samson Agonistes & Poems Both English and Latin Compos’d On Several Occasions (Ham-mersmith: The Doves Press, 1902, 1905) 2 volumes. Each one of 300 copies. Printed in black and red with large initials in red throughout both volumes. The first pages of both Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained with substantial printing in red. 8vo, original Doves Press soft vellum lettered on the spines in gilt. A beautiful set in near pristine condition, a touch of marginal

foxing to the edges of the last few leaves of the first book, not effecting the text and not obtrusive. FIRST EDITION OF THIS BEAUTIFUL WORK OF THE DOVES PRESS. A beautiful production, in the best of the Doves style. As Colin Franklin says in defense of this simplicity, “[T]he Doves Press was a religious activity; its discipline one of prayer rather than of chorus girls.” These volumes are some of the best examples of what the Doves Press is known for: beauty through pure type rather than ornament.

Scarce First Edition Dickens in Original Cloth Item Number: 16 Price: $3250.Dickens, Charles. A CHILD’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND (Lon-don: Bradbury and Evans, 1852, ‘53, ‘54) 3 volumes. First edition, first issue with points as called for. Engraved frontis and half title in each volume and with the original tissue guards as called for by Eckel. 8vo, publisher’s original reddish brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spines and with the gilt pictorial devices surrounded by elaborate blind stamped borders on the upper covers, lower covers stamped elaborately in blind. A handsome, very well preserved and clean set of this scarce book. With virtually no mellowing to the spine panels and only very light, unobtrusive wear to the cloth, showing a tad at the head

Child’s History of England - Three Decker Format

and tail of the spine of Vol. III. All in all, an unusually clean and nice copy of this extremely scarce book in the original cloth, very well preserved and completely unrestored. VERY SCARCE in first edition, first issue format preserved in the original cloth bindings. From the Roman conquest to the reign of William and Mary, 1688. ‘The germ of this book was in the mind of Dickens nearly ten years before the idea was perfected. In 1843 he wrote to Douglas Jerrold concerning it but no immediate result fol-lowed. In style, subject and composition it was different from anything he had attempted.’

The Lives of the Famous Philosophers - Basel - 1533 - In a Wonderful State of Preservation - A Classic Work

Item Number: 17 Price: $19,500.Diogenes Laertius, [Greek Philosophy]. [Title in Greek and Ro-man types: THE LIVES OF THE FAMOUS PHILOSOPHERS.]... Diogenis Laertij De vitis, decretis, & responsis celebrium philoso-phorum Libri decem, nunc primum excusi (Basel: Hieronymus Froben e Nikolaus Episcopius, 1533) The Editio Princeps, the first printing of the work in the original Greek. Greek and ro-man type. Woodcut printer’s device of Johann Froben by Hans Holbein der Jünger [The Younger] on the title-page and on fol. CC4v. Woodcut decorated headpieces, decorated and animated initials on black ground, from different alphabets designed by Holbein; on fol. a1r 8-line initial, showing Heraclitus and Dem-ocritus, from the capital Latin alphabet of May 1520 drawn by Holbein and by Jacob Faber (cfr. Hollstein’s German, xivB, n. 119).

4to (210x146 mm), in a very rarely encountered contemporary binding of Dutch blind-tooled leather over wooden boards. Turn–ins and cords fixed at the inner boards. Antique spine and clasps renewed at a later date and accomplished with the greatest skill. A beautiful and fine broad-margined copy, faint waterstaining to the inner corner of the first quires, a minor repair to the gutter of the first leaves, two tiny wormholes in the last three quires. EXTREMELY RARE EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THIS REMARK-ABLY IMPORTANT BOOK AND A COPY WHICH IS OF THE VERY FINEST STATE. The editio princeps of Diogenes Lives of the Famous Philosophers, is the most important source of our knowledge in Greek philosophy, from Thales to Pyrrho.

Editio Princeps of Diogenes - Fine Contemporary Binding

3 Volumes in Origi-nal Bindings - Ex-emplary Condition


Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. [Carlyle, Thomas, Translator]. WILHELM MEISTER’S APPRENTICESHIP AND TRAVELS. From the German of Goethe. (London: Chapman and Hall, Strand, 1842) 3 volumes. New Edition, Revised and Thomas Carlyle’s First Book. 8vo, publisher’s original dark green blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gilt on the spines and decorated in blind

on the covers. An unusually fine, clean, bright set. A FINE EDITION OF THIS MASTERWORK AND AN IMPOR-TANT TRANSLATION BY THOMAS CARLYLE. In WILHELM MEISTER Goethe again took up the novel form. It is full of not only realistic detail, but as well, poetic allegory.

Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels



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sometime refurbished. RARE AND IMPORTANT AND THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK BY SAMUEL JOHNSON. One of the most important and earliest sources on Ethiopia and the Nile River. Lobo (1595-1687), a Jesuit priest, stayed in Ethiopia for nine years and travelled to Lake Tana and the Blue Nile. When the Jesuits were expelled from the country by by Basilides in 1648, he too had to leave and did so via Massaua and Suakin. He was the foremost European expert on Ethiopian matters of his day.

A Leaf from the “King James” Bible - St. John IX - Xstab marks for sewing from the original time of binding. 17th century marginal note small and unobtrusive. A LEAF IN PERFECT CONDITION ST. MATTHEW FROM THE EDITIO PRINCEPS OF KING JAMES’ BIBLE, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE ‘AUTHORIZED’ VERSION, A LANDMARK OF PRINTING AND THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL ENGLISH BIBLES. The King James Bible was described by W. A. Jackson as “perhaps the single most important influence upon the development of English prose style.”

Item Number: 25 Price: $550.[King James Bible], [1611 Bible]. A LEAF FROM THE 1611 KING JAMES BIBLE, a Leaf From SAINT JOHN containing part of Chap. VIII, all of Chapt. IX, and part of Chap. X ([London: Robert Barker, 1611]) A single leaf from the First Edition or the Editio Princeps of the King James’ Bible. Printed double-column with headlines and chapter lines, this leaf with a fine five line ornamental capital initials, text within woodcut rules, in both gothic and roman letter. Royal Folio, single leaf. A very fine and well preserved leaf with little wear and only a mild bit of discoloration along the outside edge, showing the original

From The Editio Princeps of the Famed 1611 Bible

The Koran - Sale’s Great English Translation Item Number: 26 Price: $650.Koran; [Sale, George, translator]. THE KORAN, Commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated from the Original Arabic... By George Sale, Gentleman. (London: Orlando Hodg-son, [1840]) A new edition with a memoir of the translator, a long preliminary discourse on Islam and with various readings and illustrative notes from Savary’s version of the Koran. Engraved folding map, a number of genealogical tables, and a folding plan and view of the Temple of Mecca. 8vo, contemporary full pol-

The Expanded Edition - 1838 - Handsomely Bound

ished honey calf, the spine in compartments filled with elabo-rate arabesque floral designs gilt, raised bands ruled in gilt, dark red morocco lettering label gilt. A very nice copy, hand-some and well preserved, bright and pleasing to the eye. HANDSOME EXPANDED EDITION OF ISLAM’S HOLIEST BOOK. Sale’s version, published initially in 1734, is the best early translation of the Islamic holy book, and the first English translation taken directly from the original Arabic.

Gibbon, Edward. THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1788-1789) 6 volumes. Volumes 1-3 are very early issues, volumes 4-6 are first issues of the first editions. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 engraved maps. With all half-titles. Large 4to, in the very rare complete original bindings of fine contem-porary full polished calf, the covers framed with elaborate gilt rolled borders surrounding borders made of multiple gilt tools, gilt ruled edges, the spines with handsome gilt decorated panel designs within compartments featuring elaborate borders and central gilt ornaments, black morocco lettering labels gilt deco-

Item Number: 22 Price: $10,500.Fresh and Beautifully Preserved - Six Vol-umes - 1788-1789The Greatest His-torical Work Ever Undertaken

rated and stamped. A fine and very handsome set, internally still crisp and unusually clean. Finding sets of Gibbon which have not been re-backed or rebound is a daunting task. Thus, copies in original calf of the period are truly elusive. This is especially well preserved and has only minor expert and very skillful strengthening or restoration. AN IMPORTANT AND EARLY ISSUANCE OF THE GREAT-EST HISTORICAL WORK EVER UNDERTAKEN, A COPY IN RARELY ENCOUNTERED “PRESENTATION” BINDINGS OF FULL DELUXE CONTEMPORARY POLISHED CALF, BEAUTI-FULLY GILT DECORATED.

Edward Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall’ of the Roman Empire

Hemingway’s Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories1938 - First Edition in Original Cloth - In the Dustjacket

the spine and end-papers, the dust-jacket whole and complete with light rubbing at the edges. VERY SCARCE. Includes the play, The Fifth Column and 49 short stories. An enticing collection of stories by the master storyteller.

Item Number: 23 Price: $2500.Hemingway, Ernest. THE FIFTH COLUMN AND THE FIRST FORTY-NINE STORIES (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938) First edition. 8vo, original publisher’s red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine within black compartments, and with a fac-simile of Hemingway’s signature in black on the upper cover. A pleasing and attractive copy with some very light mellowing to

Lobo’s Important Voyage to Abyssinia Item Number: 24 Price: $1000.[Johnson, Samuel]; Lobo, Jerónimo. A VOYAGE TO ABYS-SINIA... Translated from the French by Samuel Johnson... (Lon-don: Elliot and Kay, 1789) Second Edition of the first translation into English, and the first published work by Samuel Johnson, author of the famed dictionary. 8vo, bound in full contemporary calf bordered in blind. Sometime rebacked to correct period style featuring gilt ruled flat bands and a brown morocco label lettered in gilt. A fine copy internally with just a bit of light expected mellowing to the paper, uniform and very minor, the boards with some minor age-wear to the extremities, the corners

And the First Published Work By Samuel Johnson

Nineveh and Its Remains - 1849 - A Cornerstone WorkA.H. Layard’s Great Archaeological Dis-covery

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. In two separate trips, Layard was the first to discover and excavate the ancient city of Ninevah. This volume is the record of the initial discovery and excavation of the site. Layard’s excavations would bring a greater understanding of the origins of civilization. Maps and engravings illustrate not only the physical site and remains, they also illustrate the excavation itself. Layard’s work is of special interest for he translated the cuneiform script of the region-

Item Number: 27 Price: $950.Layard, Austen Henry. NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS... (London: John Murray, 1849) 2 volumes. First Edition, first is-sue. Extensively illustrated with approximately 100 full-page, folding, double-page and other fine engravings, building plans and maps. 8vo, in very handsome contemporary bindings of three-quarter brown calf over marbled boards. A very desirable set, internally fine and solid, the handsome bindings with just minor expected evidence of age, plates and the folding map all in excellent order.



Fortescue’s Rare English Translation of Pedro Mexia Item Number: 30 Price: $7500.[Mexia, Pedro. THE FOREST Or Collection of Historyes No Lesse Profitable, Then Pleasant and Necessary, Doone Out of Frenche into English, by Thomas Fortescue (London: John Day, 1576) VERY RARE ENGLISH PRINTING of Fortescue’s translation, from a French version by Claude Gruget, of Pedro Mexia’s “Silva de Varia Lecion.” Engraved title-page within a very handsome historiated border, on the verso of which is a large engraved Fortescue coat of arms, printed in English Black Letter with engraved decorated initials throughout and engraved tailpieces. Small 4to (7.5” X 6”), bound in contemporary limp vellum, the spine lettered in antique manuscript, the fore-edge with leather ties still significantly intact, and curiously, with four

A Collection of Historyes - Romans, Greeks, Persians et. alIn Comtemporary Limp Vellum - 1576

leaves from the 16th century work “Voyage of the Wandering Knight bound in at the rear. Lacking signature oo (leaves 145-148) with no evidence that this signature was ever bound in. An attractive, clean and fresh copy, the text un-pressed, occasional early scholarly notations, the contemporary vellum with some expected wear, especially at the edges. VERY RARE. PUBLIC RECORDS SHOW NO COPIES HAVE APPEARED AT AUCTION AS FAR BACK AS THE 1970s, and there are no other copies known to be on the market. This is appar-ently the most elusive of the two rare English imprints, which OCLC lists in only 16 copies.

[Lee, Robert E.]; Long, A.L. MEMOIRS OF ROBERT E. LEE. HIS MILITARY AND PERSONAL HISTORY... (New York: J. M. Stod-dart and Company, 1887) First Edition, Second Issue. Illustrated throughout with a facsimile of General Long’s handwriting, an engraved portrait frontispiece of Lee, a number of other plates, a large and folding map, and seven other maps showing Lee’s original field maps. Large, thick 8vo, publisher’s original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. A very handsome copy, the cloth bright and deep green with no fading, internally as nice a copy as one could hope for, with no evidence

Item Number: 28 Price: $850.The Finest of All the Contemporary Ac-counts

of the foxing and toning usual to the book, front pastedown and free-fly with light breakage, the binding strong. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK. ‘General Lee, less fortunate than Grant, was overtaken by death before he could complete his design of writing and publishing to the world his personal narrative of the important events in which he figured. This work has been considered the consummation of that intention, with General Long who having served under General Lee, being chosen as the writer.

The Memoirs of Robert E. Lee

Naval Administration and Warfare - In the Original ClothCaptain A.T. Mahan - First Edition - 1908

FIRST EDITION. A rarely encountered title by the author of THE LIFE OF NELSON; THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY 1660-1783; THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION; THE INTEREST OF AMERICA IN SEA POWER; SEA POWER IN ITS RELATION TO THE WAR OF 1812 and a number of other important works.

Item Number: 29 Price: $195.Mahan, Captain A. T. NAVAL ADMINISTRATION AND WAR-FARE, Some General Principles with Other Essays (London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Co., 1908) First edition. With a folding map. , original blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, t.e.g. A handsome, bright and tight copy, closed tear to one free-fly, without loss.

A Finely Printed Edition of John Milton’s WorksIncluding all His Great Works and All of the Minor WorksIn Handsome Signed Period Binding


Milton, John. THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON... (London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1896) 3 volumes. An early reprint of the first of the edition. Engraved frontispiece of Milton in each volume. 8vo, in a handsome signed binding by W. Roach of three quarter green morocco over marbled boards, the spines beautifully decorated in gilt in an Art Nouveau style featuring off-set raised bands and gilt tooling in a stylized floral motif, endpapers marbled, t.e.g. A very handsome set, beauti-fully presented in fine bindings, clean and fresh throughout, the bindings attractive and sturdy with only very minor evidence

of age at the extremities, the spines uniformly and pleasantly toned to rich honey in colour. A VERY ATTRACTIVE SET. In PARADISE LOST, PARADISE REGAINED and SAMSON AGONISTES Milton revived the heroic verse of Homer and Virgil to frame the tale of Satan and Paradise that has become the best-known epic poem written in English. This thorough collection includes not only ‘Paradise Lost’ and the other major works, but the sonnets, psalms, translations, and his work in Latin.

Morison’s Classic Work on Christopher Columbus - 1942 Item Number: 32 Price: $450.Morison, Samuel Eliot. ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA: A Life of Christopher Columbus (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1942) 2 volumes. First edition. With numerous illustrations, including maps by Erwin Raisz and drawings by Bertram Greene. A pleas-ing photograph of Admiral Morison in his uniform is affixed to the free-fly of Vol. I. 8vo, publisher’s original terracotta polished buckram, the spines and upper covers decorated and lettered in

Admiral of the Ocean Sea - First Edition - Two VolumesA Very Pleasing Set - With Photograph of the Author

gilt on blue with “Compass Rose” motifs. A very pleasing set in quite nice condition. FIRST EDITION IN VERY PLEASING CONDITION. Ac-cording to Morison in the preface, “this book arose out of a desire to know exactly where Columbus sailed on his Four Voyages, and what sort of a seaman he was. No previous work answers these questions in a manner to satisfy even an amateur seafarer.”

The Works of Plato - Handsomely Bound and PresentedAn Important English Version from Oxford and Cam-bridgePublished in London 1861 - 1864

bands forming compartments with panels ruled and decorated in gilt, two compartments with contrasting red and maroon morocco labels lettered in gilt. A handsome and very useable set, well preserved and beautifully presented. SCARCE EARLY PRINTING OF THIS IMPORTANT TRANS-LATION AND VERSION OF PLATO’S DIALOGUES. This edition predates Jowett’s famous Oxford translation.

Item Number: 33 Price: $1250.Plato, (427–347 BC). THE WORKS OF PLATO. A New and Literal Version. Chiefly from the Text of Stallbaum. (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861-1864) 6 volumes. A choice and rare edition by Henry Cary of, Oxford University; George Burges of Trin-ity College, and Henry Davis for King’s College, Cambridge. 8vo, choicely bound in three quarter brown polished calf over marbled boards. The spines with gilt decorated wide raised



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Superb Tonson Printing - With the Fleur-de-lys Watermark Item Number: 34 Price: $3250.Prior, Matthew. POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS (London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1718) The FIRST AND BEST OF THE RARE Tonson subscription folio editions, ONE OF A VERY SMALL NUMBER OF COPIES ONLY, of this sumptuous “Super-fine” issue, with the watermark of a fleur-de-lys surmounting a shield, organized and published by Prior’s friends. Illustrated with superb engraved frontispiece, and large and finely engraved head, tail and initial pieces throughout. Folio, original full period speckled calf, red calf label gilt within raised bands of the spine separating the compartments which are elaborately decorated

with finely tooled gilt panel work surrounding central gilt tooled floral pieces. A very fine and very crisp copy of this exquisitely printed work. Entirely unsophisticated with some very minor expected age. VERY RARE in this state. An exquisitely printed work. The quality of the engraving work is absolutely superb and the setting of the type and choice of paper of the very highest quality. Having this book in one’s hands makes one reflect upon how wonderful a folio edition of Shakespeare might have been had Tonson ever undertaken the task.

The Most Rare of the First Edition Issues - Superfine FolioFine Original Full Calf Gilt Extra - Sub-scriber’s Issue

David Roberts - A View Across the Columns of KarnacHighly Important Artwork from Significant Early TravelsFrom the Great Standard Folio Edi-tion Limited to 500 Copies

Item Number: 36 Price: $3000.Roberts, David; [Egypt]. KARNAC [a View Looking Across the Hall of Columns, being an Original Hand-Coloured Lithograph From] THE HOLY LAND, SYRIA, IDUMEA, ARABIA, EGYPT AND NUBIA (London: F.G. Moon and Co., 1847) From the Standard Folio First Edition, limited to 500 sets only. A single original hand-coloured lithographic plate drawn on stone by Louis Haghe after David Roberts’ paintings done on location in 1838. Printed on a single folio sheet 24” x 17”, the captioned image, is 19” x 12.75”, now presented in cream mounting boards 30” x 24” glazed behind clear mylar. Beautifully hand-coloured

to the highest standards of the time. An example in excellent condition, clean, fresh, beautifully preserved. FROM ONE OF THE MOST DESIRABLE OF ALL TRAVEL AND COLOURPLATE BOOKS. We have a good number of im-pressive images from the Standard Folio Edition of this classic work available for purchase. As well as many views of Egypt we also have available, views of Nubia, Petra, Sinai, the Jordan, Tyre, Sidon and Baalbec. Please inquire for further details.

Julius Caesar & Tymon of Athens - From the Great 2nd FolioTwo of Shakespeare’s Great Roman Histo-ries - 1632

Item Number: 37 Price: $7500.Shakespeare, William. “THE TRAGEDIE OF JULIUS CÆSAR” [with] “LIFE OF TYMON OF ATHENS” ([London]: [by Thomas Cotes for Robert Allot], [1632]) From the famed Second Folio of Shakespeare. Folio, quarter brown calf and marbled boards, gilt lettered and ruled on the spine. A large and handsome copy, the binding in excellent order, the textblock quite nice and with only occasional and typical light spotting or aging. RARE EXAMPLE FROM THE SECOND FOLIO OF SHAKE-

SPEARE. Two plays of Shakespeare’s great series of Roman plays, of which JULIUS CAESAR is without question the most famous. Com-plete and extracted from the Second Folio edition of his COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES, a cornerstone--and some would say foundation--of English literature. While the complete Second Folio is one of the book collector’s great prizes, a status well reflected in its price these days, this is an opportunity to acquire two of the most famous plays from the volume bound separately.

“Accounts of the Chase” by Teddy Roosevelt - 1886Superb and Especial-ly Fine - Hunting Trips of a Ranchman

Item Number: 36 Price: $895.Roosevelt, Theodore. HUNTING TRIPS OF A RANCHMAN. Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains (New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons at the Knickerbocker Press, 1886) First edition, with the very scarce multi-page advertising brochure laid in. Fifty-five illustrations by such well-known artists as A.B. Frost, R. Swain Gifford, J.C. Beard, F.E. Gifford and Henry Sandham 8vo, in the publisher’s fine binding of mustard coloured patterned cloth, the upper cover designed and

stamped in red, the spine lettered in gilt, patterned endleaves. A pristine copy, brilliantly preserved and about as fine a copy as anyone could expect to find. SCARCE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED. Roosevelt writes in his “Foreword” of October 1898 to his works on sport and hunting in America that “... the wilderness has been conquered and the game killed off. The frontier itself has vanished.” Rare in such fine condition.

Specially Printed & Bound by The Shakespeare Head PressThe Rare Limited Edition of Only 100 CopiesPlutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and RomansA Classical Text, A Classic Translation - Superbly Illustrated

Item Number: 38 Price: $3650.[Shakespeare Head Press], Plutarch. THE LIVES OF THE NOBLE GRECIANS AND ROMANES, Compared Together by that Grave and Learned Philosopher & Historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea: Translated out of Greek in to French by James Amyot...and out of French into Englishe by Thomas North (Stratford-Upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell, 1928) 8 volumes. RARE LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES, printed on handmade paper, numbered and SIGNED by the illustrator Thomas Lowinsky. Decorations throughout consisting of portraits within headpieces by Thomas Lowinsky. Tall 8vo, very handsomely bound in the publisher’s

best bindings of three quarter black levant morocco by Morley of Oxford, the spines with wide bands with multiple gilt rules, handsomely gilt lettered in three compartments. A very fine set, very handsome indeed and in wonderful condition. RARE FIRST EDITION, BEST ISSUE OF THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PLUTARCH, LIMITED TO ONLY 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. This edition was printed from the first edition of 1579. Lowinsky’s portrait head-pieces are taken so far as possible from authentic originals. A handsomely printed set of North’s classic translation.

Sinai and Palestine in Connection with Their HistoryA Superb Copy - Very Fine - Arthur P. Stanley - 1881

Item Number: 39 Price: $295.Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn. SINAI AND PALESTINE IN CON-NECTION WITH THEIR HISTORY (London: John Murray, 1881) First edition. With 5 sketch maps in the text, a coloured eleva-tion as frontispiece, and 6 folding color maps. 8vo, publisher’s original best binding of full contemporary black morocco, the spine with raised bands and lettering in gilt, all edges gilt. A superb copy, very fine, as mint and pristine.

A VERY FINE COPY. The record of the author’s travels in the Holy Land, with a particular emphasis on how the Sacred Geography relates to and influenced the Sacred History. Though he was Canon of Canterbury during the writing of this book, Stanley’s interests were not limited to the ecclesiastical-- his travels in Europe, Asia, Africa and America were also marked by his enthusiasm for the history and historical landscape of those regions.



The Grapes of Wrath - 1939 - A Handsome CopyFirst Edition in the Original DustjacketJohn Steinbeck’s Pu-litzer Prize Winning Novel

Item Number: 40 Price: $7850.Steinbeck, John. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (New York: Vi-king, 1939) First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original pictorially decorated tan cloth in original first issue dustjacket, with price and “First Edition” statement both present. A handsome, bright and clean copy, the dustjacket whole and without tears, light evidence of shelving over time, the backstrip of the dustjacket just a touch mellowed by age, clean and bright internally, solid and very well preserved. AN IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION AND PERHAPS THE

GREATEST BOOK WRITTEN BY THIS NOBEL PRIZE WIN-NING AUTHOR. John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel of migrant workers in America. The story of the Joad family, simple people living close to nature, whose lives are disrupted by the malevolent forces of drought, market conditions and human creed. The novel graphically demonstrates the dangers to society when the vital like between rural man and the Earth is broken. The condition of this copy, in the pictorial jacket, is quite pleasing indeed.

The Favorite Book of Thomas Jefferson and MarthaA Cornerstone of English LiteratureThe Life and Opin-ions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanWith A Sentimental Journey to France and Italy

Item Number: 41 Price: $450.Sterne, Laurence. THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN & A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY [with, A Political Romance, or, The History of a Good Warm Watch-Coat; A Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais and Memoirs of the Life and Family of the Late Mr. Laurence Sterne Written by Himself] (London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1900) 2 volumes. A finely printed and handsome edition. The first in this format including several works. 8vo, bound in attractive antique three-quarter calf over marbled boards, the spines with raised bands gilt stopped and

gilt ruled at the edges, compartments with elaborate gilt panels designs incorporating border and center tooling, each volume with two morocco lettering labels gilt. A very handsome, very pleasing set. The bindings are very tasteful and the text-blocks are clean and easily read. A FINE AND IMPORTANT WORK AND A CORNERSTONE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND THE STREAM-OF-CON-SCIOUSNESS NOVEL. Sets are scarce now, and this is a very handsome example.

Anna Karenina - A Tolstoy Masterpiece Profusely Illustrated by Barnett Freedman

Item Number: 42 Price: $425.Tolstoy, Leo. ANNA KARENINA. (Cambridge: Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1951) 2 volumes. First of the edition, one of 1,500 copies only, signed by the artist. Illustrated with lithographs drawn on stone by Barnett Freed-man. 8vo, in the publisher’s original paper covered boards illustrated in imaginative lithographs by Freedman. In the original cardboard slipcase. A fine set, only a touch mellowed

at the spine panels, in the original slipcase which shows a bit of shelf-wear at the edges. RICHLY CHARMING AND ROMANTIC ILLUSTRATIONS BY BARNETT FREEDMAN. Translated by Constance Garnett. The text edited and revised by Gustavus Spett. Arguably the greatest novel ever written and one of the greatest translations of the text.

Demons and Demon-Dancing in West and North AfricaThe Ban of the Bori - Scarce First Edition

Item Number: 43 Price: $395.Tremearne, Major A. J. N. THE BAN OF THE BORI, Demons and Demon-Dancing in West and North Africa. (London: Heath, Cranton & Ouseley, 1914) First edition. Coloured frontispiece, 60 photographs and 47 figures in text. 8vo, publisher’s original polished tan cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the spine and upper cover. A bright and handsome copy with clean photographs throughout.

FIRST EDITION AND SCARCE.Anthropologist Tremearne spent much of his career studying the people of Africa. Here he dis-cusses the magical spirit world of the Hausa people and the religious customs around demons and the resultant demon dancing. A fine copy of a scarce book.

Beautiful Views of the Landscapes of the BibleFinden Engraved Plates by Turner, Roberts and OthersLandscape Illustra-tions of the Bible - 1836 - Finely Bound

Item Number: 44 Price: $1250.W. and E. Finden Engravers]; Horne, The Rev. Thomas Hartwell; [David Roberts, J.M.W. Turner, Illustrators]. LANDSCAPE IL-LUSTRATIONS OF THE BIBLE... (London: John Murray, 1836) 2 volumes. First edition. With 97 finely steel engraved plates, including the vignette extra-titles, engraved by W. and E. Fin-den from original works done “on the spot” by artists such as David Roberts, J. M. W. Turner, J. D. Harding, A. W. Collcott and others. Large 4to (295 x 230 mm), in handsome contemporary half-calf with corner pieces over textured cloth covered boards, the spines richly decorated in gilt compartments between flat

blind-decorated bands, two compartments with brown and green morocco labels. A fine and handsome set, internally as fresh and clean as could logically be hoped for, only the most trivial of age occasionally evident, the bindings handsome with only very light evidence of age, the inner hinges expertly strengthened. FIRST EDITION A STRIKING COLLECTION OF FINDEN ENGRAVED PLATES. Each of the compelling views of the land-scapes of the bible are tissue-guarded, captioned and accompanied by plentiful descriptive text by the Rev. Hartwell Horne.

The Medici - Colonel G.F. Young’s Classic WorkSuperb Dark Green Morocco by Bayntun-Riviere of BathThe Best Biography of the Great Renais-sance Family

Item Number: 45 Price: $950.Young, Colonel G. F. THE MEDICI (London: John Murray, 1930) 2 volumes. An early printing, with the January, 1930 imprint, but using the original sheets. With over 100 illustrations from numerous sources on finely produced black and white plates, and with 2 folding genealogical charts. Tall, thick 8vos, very finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath in signed contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco over green cloth, all covers with a gilt fillet lines at the borders of the morocco, the spines with six gilt framed compartments separated by raised bands

gilt stopped, four compartments with gilt central fleur-de-lis and two gilt lettered. A very fine, clean, bright and handsome set, very well preserved and unusually appealing. AN IMPORTANT TEXT IN EXCELLENT SIGNED BINDINGS BY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE OF BATH, one of the most important bookbinding companies of the 19th and 20th centuries, famous for their materials and tooling used in binding. The elegance of the bindings is especially fitting to the subject.

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