Literature
The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn.
London: Ward, Locke & Co. n.d, circa 1865. Octavo; contemporary half blue morocco. A nice copy of this one-volume edition of Kingsley's classic novel, first published in three volumes in 1859. Two Devonshire county families come to Australia to seek their fortunes; bushrangers, natural disasters and cattle branding give drama...
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$325.00
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Angola, Histoire Indienne. Ouvrage sans vrai-semblance.
"Agra" (Paris): avec Privilege du Grand Mogol, 1746.
Not known to Strabo or Ptolemy
Two volumes in one, octavo; in contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt, crimson label. First edition: a popular and often reprinted satire on Parisian manners, set in the Indies, in a "fertile land now known to...
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$1,850.00
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The History of Scotland…
London and Edinburgh: Mawman, 1804. Four volumes, octavo; fine in contemporary speckled calf, spines with simple double gilt rules, blue morocco lettering pieces and circular red morocco volume number labels; folding facsimile frontispiece showing Queen Mary's handwriting and a view of the College of Edinburgh. Handsome set of the second...
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$2,850.00
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Le Hachych.
Paris: Paulin, 1843. Octavo, ms. inscription on title; in the original printed yellow wrappers. Presentation copy of the very rare first edition of this utopian hymn to hashish.In the early 1840s the French psychiatrist Moreau had begun studying the possible therapeutic applications of hashish, in the process installing himself as...
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Révolutions Politiques et Sociales de 1848, prédites en 1843. Le Hachych.
Paris: Comptoir des Imprimeurs-Unis, 1848. Octavo, uncut and mostly unopened; in the original printed yellow wrappers, Author's presentation copy of the second edition of Lallemand's rare tale of the coming society, and the first to attribute authorship. First published as Le Hachych in 1843, its new title here is more...
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$2,300.00
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Elia essays which have appeared… in the London Magazine.
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1823. Octavo, 6pp. ads at rear. First edition, second issue: Lamb's most famous work.Writing as 'Elia' for the London magazine, the graceful irony of Lamb's essays was immediately popular, and his unaffected, inclusive style brought a poise rarely equalled in the essayist. Nonetheless, Elia sold poorly...
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$400.00
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The Essays of Elia.
London: Macmillan, 1921. Small octavo, all edges gilt, a crisp copy; full polished calf, spine with raised bands, gilt. A very good copy of the well-known English essayist Charles Lamb's best known work. First appearing between 1820 and 1823 in the London Magazine, the content is known to be largely...
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$185.00
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Recueil de différentes choses… Relation du royaume des Feliciens, Peuples qui habitent dans les Terres Australes…
A Lausanne: chez Marc-Mic. Bousquet, 1756.
De la Rochefoucauld's copy of a de luxe issue, with an imaginary voyage to les Terres Australes
Four volumes, quarto; contemporary speckled calf, gilt backs with raised bands, contrasting spine labels with gilt lettering, with gilt stamped coat-of-arms arms at foot of spine encircled...
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$15,000.00
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Les Amazones Révoltées…
Rotterdam: Don Luis le Maingre …, 1730. Duodecimo, with both errata leaves; contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments between raised bands, crimson morocco label. First edition and very rare. Although rarely commented on, this work concludes with the hypothesis that Hercules discovered the golden apples in continental America.Although...
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$2,100.00
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The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane.
London: Hurst, Robinson and Company, 1822. Four volumes, small octavo, 24 engravings including 4 frontispieces, some foxing to plates and preliminaries; half polished calf with marbled boards, spines with double morocco labels, gilt. A lovely set of the French novelist and playwright Alain-René Lesage's masterpiece in a Root binding. Lesage...
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$825.00
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Les Avantures de Monsieur Robert Chevalier, dit de Beauchene.
Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la …, 1733.
Colourful tale of a Canadian corsair
Two volumes in one, duodecimo, five plates, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes; occasional ms. marginalia in a neat early hand, a good copy in later half red morocco. An attractive copy of the...
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$1,100.00
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Laughable lyrics: A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music…
London: Robert John Bush, 1877. Square octavo; original maroon cloth, head of spine restored. Lear had written his first Book of Nonsense for the children of his patron the Earl of Derby in 1845. Laughable Lyrics, the fourth nonsense book, and 'last but not least' (Muir, p. 147) 'included some...
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$1,150.00
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The Complete Poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus.
London: Fanfrolico Press, 1929. Tall octavo, signed numbered edition, includes numerous wood engraved illustrations, untrimmed; a crisp copy, top edges gilt, in full brown crushed morocco, title in gilt to spine. A very attractive copy from a limited edition published by the Fanfrolico Press.The accomplished translation is by Jack Lindsay...
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$675.00
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The Poetical Works.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, and Company, 1885.
America's lyric foundation
Eight volumes, octavo; finely bound in contemporary tan polished calf, gilt. Very attractive set of Longfellow's works. Published shortly after the poet's decease, this comprehensive American edition includes prose and dramatic works. Many cherished favourites are here, including The Golden Legend...
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$975.00
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Les Princesses Malabares, ou le Célibat Philosophique…
'Andrinople: chez Thomas Franco" 1734. Duodecimo, old quarter calf. First edition of this allegorical satire on French society, an orientalist fantasy with Malabar princesses and many of the usual props including sultans and harems. Its author is believed to have been de Longue, an obscure writer who does not make...
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$885.00
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The History of England from the Accession of James the Second.
London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1859-1862.
A classical history by a propagator of "the Liberal faith"
Eight volumes, octavo, full polished calf, gilt spines with red and green morocco labels, marbled edges. An attractive set of Macaulay's History of England with the final volume completed posthumously by his sister...
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$850.00
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Les Bonnets, ou Talemik et Zinéra…
London: Jacques-Francois Quillau, 1765. Duodecimo, contemporary sprinkled calf, flat spine banded in gilt. First edition: a strange Orientalist tale of Talemik and Zinera, royalty of the cosmopolitan Abbasid caliphate which ruled from Baghdad until the city was sacked in 1258.Although the novel itself is a fairly traditional oriental tale, its...
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$1,400.00
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Epigrammatum libri.
Paris: Barbou, 1754. Two volumes, duodecimo; contemporary green straight-grained morocco. An attractive copy of Martial's epigrams. Vignette by Legrand after Eisen.
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$450.00
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Lettres Chérakéesiennes mises en François de la traduction Italienne…
Rome: de l'Imprimerie du Sacré Collége de la Propagande…, 1769.
An Iroquois warrior in Paris
Octavo, bookplate with coat-of-arms; an appealing copy in original quarter sheep and plain grey boards, First edition, based on the Lettres Iroquoises of 1752: a wonderful imaginary voyage, and a rare example of such a......
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$1,550.00
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Mahmoud le Gasnevide, histoire orientale…
Rotterdam: Jean Hofhoudt, 1729. Octavo, woodcut vignettes; in contemporary sprinkled calf. First edition of this Oriental romance and utopian allegory by the economist Melon (d. 1738), an influential French intellectual, who, amongst other things, helped found a literary society under the protection of the Duc de la Force. His best...
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$785.00
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L'Homme Sauvage, Histoire traduite de….
Amsterdam: Chez Zacharie, 1767.
Rousseau's monkey on Peru
Duodecimo; contemporary French mottled calf gilt, spine banded and gilt, crimson label. A very attractive copy of the first edition: the "noble savage" in the Americas, and an important work in the French utopian tradition.Mercier (1740-1814) was a prominent French dramatist, and...
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$2,100.00
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The Amazing Marriage.
London: Archibald Constable, 1895. Two volumes, octavo; ribbed sage-green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and the upper board, uncut. First edition and one of Meredith's best loved novels: the 'chivalrous advocacy of women compromised in honour and in pride by masculine despotism' (CHEL).
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$285.00
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Diana of the Crossways a novel.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1885. Three volumes, octavo, with the half-titles; original red cloth. First English edition, preceded by a New York piracy of the unfinished novel as it appeared in the Fortnightly Review from September to December 1884, where it ended with the abrupt note: 'Thus was the erratic...
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$485.00
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Poems and lyrics of the joy of Earth.
London: Macmillan, 1883. Octavo; finely bound in full polished tortoiseshell marbled calf, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, raised bands. A superb copy of the first edition, in an unusual polished tortoiseshell calf binding by Mudie. Here Meredith continues to delineate his cult of the earth, in the tradition of...
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$425.00
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