Literature
Suspense.
London: Richard Bentley, 1890. Three volumes, octavo, with half-titles; contemporary half chestnut calf, marbled endpapers. First edition and, like all Merriman titles, scarce: the adventures of the rakish Theo Trist, war-correspondent to the Russo-Turkish war.
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$550.00
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The Life of Josiah Wedgwood.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865. Two volumes, thick octavo, two engraved portrait frontispieces, double-page pair of chromolithograph plates of borders, numerous wood engravings in the text; ALS from Josiah Wedgwood II (son of Josiah Wedgwood) attached to verso of frontispiece in first volume;in striking three-quarter red morocco, gilt lettering and...
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$1,400.00
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The dramatic works…
London: W. Bunce, 1765. Octavo; full calf. Fourth edition of three popular plays by Moore, including his most powerful work The Gamester in which his 'tragic and moral bent unite most clearly and forcibly' (CHEL).
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$285.00
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The Brook Kerith. A Syrian Story.
London: William Heinemann, 1929. Tall octavo, signed and numbered from a limited edition of 375, with twelve engravings (including frontispiece) unopened; in full vellum binding, gilt, bookplate. A very good copy of George Moore's decorative retelling of the Gospel story. Published by Heinemann, a private press from Covent Garden established...
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$1,500.00
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De optimo Reipublicae statu…
London and Paris: Barbou, 1777. Duodecimo, with a frontispiece to the first work; contemporary dark green morocco, sides bordered and spine panelled in gilt, all edges gilt. The attractive Barbou edition of Utopia, bound with the matching edition of Erasmus' Praise of Folly.The friendship between More and Erasmus (1469-1536) is...
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$1,250.00
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A most pleasant, fruitful, and witty work…
London: William Miller, 1808.
Large paper issue of a classic
Quarto, engraved frontispiece and one plate; contemporary straight-grain brown morocco, elaborately gilt. Classic edition of More's Utopia in English, here in a "Large Paper" issue: a fine copy of this attractive scholarly edition of Robinson's translation of More's text, with...
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$2,400.00
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The Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel.
London: Robert Holden, 1926. Octavo, four facsimile plates, uncut; original quarter vellum, cloth sides. From a limited edition of 750, the first volume in the Library of Impostors: the tale of a fateful trip. It includes four plates reproduced from the first edition.First published in 1751, this work has often...
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$285.00
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The Defence of Guenevere and other poems.
London: Reeves and Turner, 1895. Octavo, half blue morocco gilt, edges uncut. The poem details the beginning of the Fall of Camelot and the Death of King Arthur. Queen Guenevere held a feast at which her enemies poisoned a plate of apples, knowing them to be the favourite dessert of...
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$225.00
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The Earthly Paradise. A Poem.
London: F.S. Ellis, 1870-, 1871. Four volumes, octavo; contemporary manuscript inscriptions and attractive bookplates in each; contemporary half dark green morocco, top edges gilt, others uncut. Fifth edition of parts one and two, and second edition of parts three and four. A fine set of Morris's third book, which was...
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$1,185.00
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Gobi or Shamo: A Story of Three Songs.
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1890. Octavo; original dark blue cloth. Third edition (first 1889), with presentation inscription "Eden Lewis from Rosalind Carlisle, July 1893" (Lady Carlisle was Gilbert Murray's mother-in-law), and the signature of the book's later owner Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford.Gobi or Shamo was...
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$300.00
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The Story of Nefrekepta, from a Demotic Papyrus.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911. Quarto, uncut, with colour-printed frontispiece and woodcut tail-piece by Florence Kingsford Cockerell; gilt stamped brown boards. First edition: an Egyptian fragment translated by Gilbert Murray.The classicist explains in his preface that "the origin of this tale is in Demotic Egyptian, in prose, on a fragmentary papyrus...
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$245.00
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Mausoleum potentissimorum ac gloriosissimorum regni…
Nuremberg: Endter, 1664.
Hungarian nobility and royalty
Folio, title-page in black and red, additional engraved title, 59 full-page portrait engravings in the text; in contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink. First edition of this handsome work on the Hungarian monarchy with a wonderful series of fifty-nine full-length heraldic portraits of...
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$4,200.00
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Ref: #3905157
A New and General Biographical Dictionary…
London: T. Osborne et al. 1766.
From Moses to contemporary men of fashion
Eleven volumes, octavo; a most handsome set in contemporary speckled calf. This grave and ambitious work sets out to list the most famous and infamous individuals encountered in the histories and legends of all nations. Volume one...
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$3,500.00
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Relation du Voyage Mysterieux de l'Isle de la Vertu, a Oronte.
Mons: chez Gaspard Migeot, 1740.
Mexican Bishop and the Land of Virtue
Duodecimo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt. Attractive copy of a rare work, with a Belgian imprint, relating the "mysterious voyage" to a "Land of Virtue".First published in Rouen in 1684, this rare spiritual romance is an educational novel written...
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$1,425.00
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Relation de Voyage Mysterieux de L'Isle de la Vertu, à Oronte.
Paris: Christophe Remy, 1695.
The "Protector to the Indians" tells of an island of virtue
Small octavo; a very good copy in contemporary calf. Second edition of this rare spiritual romance. First published in Rouen in 1684, this educational novel is written as an allegorical voyage to the imaginary island...
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$1,850.00
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Ref: #3006460
Illuminated Miniature of St. Matthew.
Paris: circa 1500.
Exquisite late medieval manuscript leaf
Fine illuminated leaf, 165 x 109 mm., double-sided, with a fine miniature of St Matthew, 42 x 40 mm., with three-quarter ornamental border divided into geometrical compartments, with blue and gold acanthus and coloured flowers and leaves; one 2-line illuminated initial C....
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$4,500.00
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Télephe en XII livres.
Londres; et se trouve à Paris: Pissot, 1784. Octavo, woodcut vignette on title, early inscribed attribution 'Par Mr de Péméyea'; contemporary French quarter calf. First edition of this antiquarian utopia set in Minoan Crete, chronicling the reconciliation of all strata of society. The success of this novel by the Professeur.....
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$2,650.00
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry…
London: J. Dodsley, 1767. Three volumes, octavo, engraved frontispiece and titles, two other textual engravings; an attractive set with contemporary ownership inscriptions, contemporary calf, spines banded and gilt, red morocco labels. Second edition, expanded, of this celebrated collection. Samuel Johnson is known to have encouraged Percy in his work, and...
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$725.00
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Le Roi Voyageur, ou Examen des Abus de l'Administration de la Lydie.
Londres: T.P. Capel, 1784. Octavo, completely uncut, original wrappers. First edition: the fictional discovery and translation of an ancient travel account used to mask a political satire. The London imprint is probably a disguise since the binding shows the use of French printed waste as strengthening. Published only five years...
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$1,685.00
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A General Dictionary of Painters…
London: 1829. 2 volumes, octavo, with 25 engravings including two frontispieces, handsomely bound in full contemporary green straight-grain morocco, spines ornately gilt with raised bands, boards embossed and decorated in gilt, dentelles, all edges gilt. A particularly attractive copy of the 1829 New Edition of Pilkington's standard reference work, revised...
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$575.00
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An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot…
London: J. Wright, 1734. Folio; a large copy, disbound; quarter morocco box. First edition, and a fine copy of one of Pope's most celebrated invectives, addressed to his physician and life-long friend, Arbuthnot. It famously contains Pope's savaging of Queen Caroline's confidant and society gossip Lord Hervey, who is named...
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$1,400.00
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. in Nine Volumes, Complete.
London: Law, et al. 1797.
"a short yet not imperfect system of ethics"
Nine volumes, octavo, engraved frontispiece; early half blue straight-grained morocco and marbled boards, a handsome set. A handsome eighteenth century edition of the complete works of the poet and satirist Alexander Pope, containing the pivotal analysis An...
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$2,250.00
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La Conquete des Airs, Reve Philosophique.
Paris: Marchant, Editeur, 1834. Octavo, 22 pp.; in the original printed blue paper wrappers preserved in a modern quarter cloth binding. Rare first edition (NUC notes a single copy) of this very early aeronautical fantasy, an impassioned plea for the aérostation as the basis for a world of harmony and...
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$2,400.00
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Selected poems with an introduction and notes by Austin Dobson.
London: Kegan Paul, 1889. Octavo, engraved frontispiece; in a stunning Zaehnsdorf binding. First edition thus: collected edition of some of the lighter verse by the diplomat and author Matthew Prior.
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$600.00
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