ref. 56433Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus 1749. A copper engraved view on laid paper uncoloured from Volume 4 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen 1747 - 1774. Image size is 28cm x 19cm. Text in German. Verso blank. At upper right: "No. 11." At lower right: "F. de Bakker fecit 1748". Original folds clean very good condition trimmed very slightly into the plate area on the lower right side. This view possibly by Bellin engraved by de Bakker first appeared in Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages. A view of Cape Coast Castle Swedish name: Carolusborg at Cabo Corso "Short Cape" in Portuguese later "Cape Coast" in English on the coast of Ghana West Africa. Built in 1653 by the Swedish Africa Company later occupied by the Dutch and taken by England in 1664 this fort was a key element of the British possessions on the Gold Coast of Africa. Now a designated UNESCO site this fort was one of the notorious "slave castles" of Ghana which were used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Following the construction of large subterranean dungeons the fort was used to hold slaves before they were loaded onto ships and sent to the Americas and the Caribbean. This last stop before crossing the Atlantic was known as the gate of no return. This is a view of the fort from the East based on one by William Smith "East Prospect of Cape Corse or Coast Castle" as printed in John Green & Thomas Astley's "A New General Collection of Voyages." London: Astley 1745 Volume 2. Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, 1749. unknown
ref. 56432Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus 1749. A copper engraved view on laid paper uncoloured from Volume 4 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen 1747 - 1774. Image size is 28cm x 19cm. Text in German. Verso blank. At upper right: "No. 10." At lower right: "F. de Bakker fecit 1748". Original folds clean very good condition trimmed very slightly into the plate area on the lower right side. This view possibly by Bellin engraved by de Bakker first appeared in Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages. A view of Cape Coast Castle Swedish name: Carolusborg at Cabo Corso "Short Cape" in Portuguese later "Cape Coast" in English on the coast of Ghana West Africa. Built in 1653 by the Swedish Africa Company later occupied by the Dutch and taken by England in 1664 this fort was a key element of the British possessions on the Gold Coast of Africa. Now a designated UNESCO site this fort was one of the notorious "slave castles" of Ghana which were used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Following the construction of large subterranean dungeons the fort was used to hold slaves before they were loaded onto ships and sent to the Americas and the Caribbean. This last stop before crossing the Atlantic was known as the gate of no return. This is a view of the fort from the Northwest based on one by William Smith "A Prospect of Cape Coast-Castle" as printed in John Green & Thomas Astley's "A New General Collection of Voyages." London: Astley 1745 Volume 2. Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, 1749. unknown
ref. 56445Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus 1749. A copper engraved view on laid paper uncoloured from Volume 5 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen 1747 - 1774. Image size is 25cm x 17cm. Text in German. Verso blank. At upper right: "No. 43.". At lower right: "F. de Bakker fecit 1749." and "T.V.F.". Original vertical folds clean very nice condition. This view possibly by Bellin engraved by de Bakker appeared earlier in Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages. An image of the Imperial Audience Hall at Beijing China. The scrollwork cartouche contains a numbered key to locations in the image. This image is based on the one by Jean Nieuhof published in his 1665 work: L'Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers L'Empereur de la Chine . "Le dedans du Palais Imperial 'T KEYSERS HOF van binnen" - pg. 215. Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, 1749. unknown
ref. 56454NY 1841. A broken run of 22 issues from New Series Vol. 3 1841. These issues were in a binding at one time; condition is a bit ragged disbound so some pages are loose. Eight issues have parts of Barnaby Rudge serialized not complete pirated. The issues with Dickens in are Volume 3 #s 12 13 17 34 39 41 43 50. It was The Albion that first printed Dickens in America in 1835 when they printed without permission A Dinner at Poplar Walk and several other early sketches which prompted Dickens to pursue a campaign to promote international copyright laws. These 1841 issues are uncommon. NY, 1841. unknown
1742ref. 89PBMXY3Z0MCAvignon: no publisher 1742. Contemporary calf gold-tooled spine with red label marbled endpapers red edges. 8vo. Second or third edition of the funeral oration for the sinologist and mathematician Claude de Visdelou 1656-1737 by Father Norbert of Bar-le-Duc 1703-1769 dedicated to Pope Benedict XIV. The oration prooved highly important in the so-called Struggle of the rites in China between the Jesuit missionaries and the Chinese emperor and the Pope.The author of the oration Norbert de Bar-le-Duc a Capuchin monk 1716 and priest 1729 also known as Norbert de Lorraine Curé Pierre Parisot or Abbé Platel was sent to Malabar and later to Pondicherry in December 1736 after being appointed procurator of the French mission. He stayed for three years in Pondicherry where he soon came into conflict with the Jesuits on the same issue - the struggle of the now Malabaric rites -which had lead to Visdelous exile in the same Capuchin monastery in the same town. So the anti-Jesuit Father Norbert de Bar-le-Duc understandably delivered Visdelous funeral oration .An undated 4to edition that names no printer or place of printing appears to be the first edition of the funeral oration. Sommervogel and Cordier mention an 8vo edition nominally printed by Antoine Pereira in Cadiz though other sources suggest it was printed in Avignon with the same collation as our edition and published in the same year making the present edition the second or third.Fine copy with bookplate on inside front cover: ''Devie Prêtre''. Binding skilfully repaired; head of second fly-leaf damaged.l De Backer & Sommervogel VIII col. 843; Cordier Sinica 1100-1; Librairie Polak Coll. de M.M.: Extreme oriênt du 16e siècle au 20e siècle 305; Adelhelm Jann Die katholischen Missionen in Indien China und Japan 1915 passim; Claudia von Collani & Claudio Filippo Grimaldi S.J. Zur Ankunft des päpstlichen Legatien Charles-Thomas Maillard de Tournon in China in: Monumenta Scrica 42 1944 pp. 329-359; Robert Streit & Joh. Dindinger eds. Bibliotheca Missionum 7 1932 pp. 105-107; Biogr. univ. XLIII cols. 638-640; not in Lust. [no publisher], unknown
1988ref. 019527: Cal Or Carl 1988. Hardcover. Fine. 1988 Book: Fine/ . Book: Fine/ $100.80 Cal`s Sketch Book Or Carl`s Sketch Book. Cal Or Carl UnStated Publisher UnStated Edition 1988. Tall Wide H/c Red Leather Type Material On Rounded Spine With No Title Hard Cover Book: Fine/ Slight Shelf Edge And Corner Wear. 1sT Nine Pages Is A Printed Letter To Linda February 20 1988 From Cal Or Carl Bound Into The Book By A Book Binder As One. The Rest Of The Pages Are Sketch Pages Probably Printed By Lithograph Reproduction Printing. Pages Are Not Numbered And Total Thickness Of Approximately 1 ¼ Inches Thick. D/j: None. This Item Will Be Sent Wrapped In Plastic Taped Shut And In A = Corrugated Mailing B0X. To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The Description Described Which Applies To This B00K Only. = No Odors No Writing No Names No Rippling Not Stuck Together No Book Plate Not X~Library No Other Marks. = Will Make It An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection Or As A Gift For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING AVAILABLE Cal Or Carl hardcover
1541ref. M23NGJ7IKRQ5Utrecht: Herman van Borculo 1541. Contemporary vellum wrapper straight-sewn on 3 tanned calf straps laced through the wrapper with the authors name in large textura lettering reading up the spine. Small 8vo 16 x 10.5 cm. With Van Borculos winged stag couchant regardant and book device on the title page and another salient regardant with 2 books on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf; and 3 vine-leaf ornaments Vervilet 7 8 & 43. Set in an Aldine-style italic type with upright capitals; 92 mm/20 lines with roman capitals for occasional words phrases and 2-line initials. Rare first edition in the original Latin of the collected poetic works of the humanist and neo-Latin poet Janus or Joannes Secundus Jan Everaerts 1511-1536 who "ranks among the foremost poets of the world" as "the only famous 16th-century Dutch poet" Guépin p. 231: "one of the most significant and enduring poets of the Renaissance" and "the outstanding Latin love poet of the northern Renaissance" Price p. 1. Although not quite twenty-five when he died he published numerous poetic works from 1532 to 1536 but left most of his work unpublished at his premature death. Much of his poetry appeared for the first time in the present posthumous edition. Janus is most famous for his "Basia" kisses: 19 lyric love poems influenced by Catullus. Janus's three books of elegies especially the first book comprising 11 love poems to his possibly fictional first love Julia are also masterpieces of neo-Latin poetry.Although revered internationally in his own century and influential throughout the 17th and 18th centuries among his avid readers were Ronsard Fleming Huygens Milton and Goethe Janus's name has been eclipsed in the Netherlands by those of Cats and Vondel in part because they wrote in Dutch.Janus Secundus was born in The Hague. His father was a lawyer at the leading courts of the Low Countries and the family moved to Maastricht when Janus was sixteen. He studied law there and later studied at Bourges and at the University in Louvain. Though a native Dutch speaker and fluent in French Janus had learned Latin with his older brothers at an early age and corresponded with them in Latin.With 3 French verses in a near contemporary hand on the endleavesFurther with a near contemporary donation inscription on the title-page; a 19th-century bookplate on the inside front wrapper and blue ink stamp on the title-page. With the title-page somewhat worn and with stains in its margins plus a water stain in the first 10 leaves and a fainter marginal one some of the last few leaves but otherwise in good condition. The sewing supports have broken at the front hinge and the velum wrapper is somewhat soiled with a small corner of the back wrapper lost. Rare first edition of a seminal work of neo-Latin poetry by the first great Dutch poet Janus Secundus.l Adams S837 1 copy; BMC STC Dutch p. 185; G. Joos Uitgaven van Janus Secundus 10; Netherlandish books 27713 10 copies; USTC 421142 same 10 copies; Valkema Blouw Typ. Batava 2673 13 copies; not in Oberlé Poètes néo-Latins; for Secundus: J.P. Guépin "Tres fratres Belgae: brothers poets and civil servants in the sixteenth century" in: The Low Countries 8 2000 pp. 231-238; David Price Janus Secundus 1996. Herman van Borculo, hardcover
1952ref. 19700Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1952. Hard Cover. BOOK VERY GOOD/JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. A VERY CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT ATTRACTIVE DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. Dustjacket is a tiny bit smaller than the book but it isn't too noticeable under brodart. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. First title in the Pam and Penny series. NOT an ex-library copy. Scarce copy of this sought after title in the Pam and Penny series. J. B. Lippincott hardcover
1952ref. 19701Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1952. Hard Cover. BOOK VERY GOOD/JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. A CLEAN NICE COPY WITH A BRIGHT ATTRACTIVE DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. ""Easter Greetings"" written on front pastedown can be covered with the included blank decorative bookplate. First title in the Pam and Penny series. NOT an ex-library copy. Scarce copy of this sought after title in the Pam and Penny series. J. B. Lippincott hardcover
1473ref. 14731Rome: Joannes Philippus de Lignamine 1473. Limp sheepskin parchment ca. 1740/50 sewn on 3 supports cut flush with the bookblock and attached to the cover with separate alum-tawed thongs with a hollow back 2 alum-tawed loop and knot fastenings extensive title hand-lettered across the spine possibly later in the 18th century. Small folio 26.5 x 20 cm. With spaces left for 2 large 6-line and about 80 small 3-line initials to indicate the beginning of the books chapters and a couple other divisions never filled in each preceded by an indented chapter or other heading mostly of 4 or 5 lines. Text block 19.5 x 11.5 mm with 31 lines per page. Set in a single roman type throughout Lignamine 125R. Second Rome edition published in 1473 of a popular philosophical moral and practical work by Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo bishop of Zamora 1404-1470. Known in English as the Mirror of human life it is divided into two "books" the first 30 numbered chapters devoted to secular life and the second 43 numbered chapters to spiritual life each dealing with various stages in human development. It discusses the benefits responsibilities and dangers of various trades and professions and was intended to help people choose a vocation. This makes it a valuable source for information about numerous occupations in a wide range of social strata. Lignamine's roman type used for the entire book first appeared in a book with colophon dated 3 August 1470 ISTC iq00024000 making it one of the very earliest roman types and it deserves more attention than it has received. Olocco convincingly argues that the earliest truly roman types were based on a style of humanistic manuscript hand that evolved in Padua where Andrea Mantegna revived classical roman inscriptions in his frescos in the 1450s and where manuscripts took inspiration from classical Roman inscriptions for their capitals and adapted the serif structure of the lowercase to them. Lignamine's type is also set with considerable sophistication already in its earliest uses with special characters for abbreviations and with T and V kerned to avoid white gaps in combinations like "To" without overdoing it something Jenson appears to have tried only in 1471 and quickly abandoned. The fore-edge margins contain frequent contemporary manuscript notes in brown ink often serving as a guide to the content and occasionally simple contemporary penwork decorations probably by the same hand drawing attention to short passages in the text. There are also slightly later manuscript notes. Engraved armorial bookplate of Manuel Gonzalez Salmon 1778-1832 Prime Minister of Spain in 1819 and 1826-1832. With some small holes in the last text leaf a worm hole restored in the fore-edge margin of the first 30 leaves leaving a small stain some minor foxing mostly in the first leaf and last leaf of the text and a couple small ink smudges. Otherwise in very good condition. Lacking the initial blank leaf. The book still has generous margins but occasionally a manuscript note has been shaved. The parchment of the binding is wrinkled and part of one fastening is lost. One of the earliest incunabular editions of an important work.l Bod-Inc R086; BMC IV pp. 31-32; Goff R220; Hain-Copinger 13943; GW M38496; IGI 8397; ISTC ir00220000; Klebs 857.9; Oates 1380; Proctor 3391; USTC 991529; for the early history of roman printing types: H. Carter A view of early typography 1968 pp. 47-49; R. Olocco The Venetian origins of roman type 2017 online at: http://articles.c-a-s-t.com/the-venetian-origins-of-roman-type-a856eb3f0cb. Joannes Philippus de Lignamine, unknown
2005ref. x-0807856029Univ of North Carolina Pr 2005. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 240 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. Univ of North Carolina Pr paperback
1513ref. L85CQLCOIXI5Colophon: Venice: Gregorio de Gregori 1513. Early 20th-century vellum possibly incorporating older materials sewn on 3 recessed supports red spine label. Folio 30.5 x 21 cm. With 13 woodcut decorated initials 6 series plus 8 repeats 4-line typographic Lombardic initials. Set in rotunda gothic types in 2 columns with a preliminary note in roman type. With contemporary pen decorations in brown ink added to about half of the initials and occasional similar pen decorations in the margins an occasional manuscript paragraph mark some rubrications in brown ink and some initials coloured with a transparent ochre wash. Seventh known copy of an early edition of an important treatise on pharmacology and medical botany by Giovanni Giacomo Manlio di Bosco fl. 1490-post 1500 first published in Venice 1490 or Pavia 1494 Sordano records an edition by Octavius Scotus in 1490 but the ISTC records no edition by him until 1496. It is a commentary on ancient Arabic and Greek pharmacological works especially the Arabic treatises of Yuhanna Ibn Masawayh ca. 777-857 a Nestorian Christian physician from Assyria who taught at the academy in Gundeshapur Iran and was personal physician to four caliphs. It gives instructions for preparing numerous medicines indicating the quantities of the ingredients simples each derived from a single plant and describing each ingredient. The present edition includes Manlios preliminary note addressed to Bernardinus Niger included in the 1494 1496 and 1499 editions but omitted in many later editions.The title page indicates that the book also contains Lumen apothecariorum a work by Quirico de Augustis de Tortona of Milan fl. 1486-1497 first published in 1492. But it is not present here or in any of the other seven copies we have traced. The two works were combined in the Venice editions of 1504 ca. 1502/05 and 1506. De Gregori apparently followed one of these editions but did not include the second work. Hieronymus Surianus fl. 1458 d. 1522 edited the first two.With contemporary and later marginal manuscript notes. With the text area of B2.7 somewhat browned an occasional small and unobtrusive stain and a few small worm holes in the last few leaves but generally in very good condition. Some of the manuscript notes have been shaved. The binding is slightly dirty and the boards slightly bowed but the binding is still good. A rare early edition of an important work of pharmacology.l Durling 2938; EDIT 16 29621 1 copy; ICCU 29621 same copy; KVK & WorldCat 5 copies; Emiliano Sordano Il Luminare maius di Manlio del Bosco thesis University of Torino 2010 p. 41; USTC 840112 2 copies; cf. Adams M370 1506 ed.; BMC STC Italian p. 410 1504 and other eds.; Schelenz Geschichte der Pharmazie p. 414 1529 ed.; Wellcome 4017 1628 Lyon ed.; not in Garrison & Morton; Honeyman; Norman Lib. Gregorio de Gregori, hardcover
1850ref. 70164New York:: S. W. Benedict 1850. First edition. original printed front wrapper; rear wrapper lacking. Some brown spotting covers about 20% of the front wrapper decreasing in extent and color over the next few leaves not affecting legibility. . 8vo. Arguments and reasons submitted to the Honorable the Members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the 31st Congress of the United States. Howes C-771. Sabin 16719. S. W. Benedict, unknown
2009ref. 012273Sceptre 2009. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION 1ST PRINT SIGN LINE AND DATED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE. Book as new unread FINE/FINE condition. Review: 'It seeks to stun and amaze and deceive and always to entertain . it works on every level' -- Guardian on CARTER 'Casts a spell that is sly intoxicating deceitful and enduring. Savour its every page' -- Independent on CARTER 'A quirky life story that transmutes into a John Buchan thriller.Engaging comical and yes magical this is a sure-fire contender for the debut novel of the year' -- Independent on Sunday Sceptre hardcover
2009ref. 012272Knopf 2009. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION 1ST PRINT SIGN LINE AND DATED BY AUTHOR TO TITLE PAGE. Book as new unread FINE/FINE condition. Review: 'It seeks to stun and amaze and deceive and always to entertain . it works on every level' -- Guardian on CARTER 'Casts a spell that is sly intoxicating deceitful and enduring. Savour its every page' -- Independent on CARTER 'A quirky life story that transmutes into a John Buchan thriller.Engaging comical and yes magical this is a sure-fire contender for the debut novel of the year' -- Independent on Sunday Knopf hardcover
1894ref. 36530New Spalding Club Aberdeen 1894. 4to. First and Sole Edition thus on laid paper with a frontispiece original tissue guard present title in red and black and a fine double-page facsimile parallel text in Latin and English free endpapers browned as usual frontispiece and facsimile lightly spotted; original series binding of olive green cloth blocked in blind club badge blocked in gilt on front board gilt back uncut a remarkably bright clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 525 NUMBERED COPIES. New Spalding Club publication no. 12. With the club's Seventh Report by Council 1893 and list of members to 30 June 1894 bound in at end. Hector Boethius or Boece 1465-1536 first principal of the University of Aberdeen is known for two important works of medieval Scottish history: the 'Historia Gentis Scotorum' Paris 1527 and his earlier Lives of the Bishops of Murthlack and Aberdeen Paris 1522. Of the latter work a facsimile text in the original Latin was issued by the Bannatyne Club publication no. 11 in 1825. The present edition remains the sole published transliteration. Moir was Co-Rector of Aberdeen Grammar School. Read 3742. New Spalding Club, Aberdeen, hardcover
1984ref. 17677London: Allison and Busby 1984. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK NEAR FINE/JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. 1ST PRINTING. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. WESTLAKE'S FIRST NOVEL WRITTEN UNDER THE PSEUDONYM RICHARD STARK. HANDSOME COLLECTIBLE COPY. Allison and Busby hardcover
1969ref. 17671New York: Macmillan 1969. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK FINE/DUSTJACKET FINE. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special decorative bookplate. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. 1ST PRINTING. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. NOT A REMAINDER. 184 Pages. A Cock Robin mystery. Richard Stark is a pseudonym of Donald E. Westlake. Origninal price of $4.50 on front dustjacket flap. HANDSOME COLLECTIBLE COPY. Macmillan hardcover
1961ref. 6240Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1961. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK FINE/JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. 192 pages. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. 1ST PRINTING. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. Attractive blank bookplate on the front endpaper. Second in the Midge Heydon series. NOT an ex-library book. Stated first edition. Scarce in this edition and condition. J. B. Lippincott hardcover
ref. F4CE1CC3UKU0London: Jeffrey Wale John Isted 1706. 19th-century tanned half sheepskin tree-marbled paper sides. 8vo. First English edition of a treatise on the medicinal use of Spanish fly Lytta vesicatoria traditionally classified in the family Canthardiae. Joannes Groenevelt 1648-1715/16 was a Dutch-born physician practising in London from 1675 on. Spanish fly was known for centuries as an aphrodisiac but was also extremely dangerous overdoses sometimes causing death. Greenfield as he called himself in England strongly advocated the use of Spanish fly primarily for the treatment of gout and of bladder and kidney diseases. One of his patients accused him of malpractice and Groenvelt was fined and sent to Newgate prison but obtained permanent freedom through William III's general pardon in 1691. He published the present treatise on the use of Spanish fly as a vindication of his methods. It includes a laudatory poem by Bernard Mandeville detailed descriptions of the various medicinal uses of Spanish fly followed by medical observations and several recipes.l Blake p. 187; ESTC T64914; for the author: Cook "Groenevelt Joannes bap. 1648 d. 1715/16" in: ODNB online ed. Jeffrey Wale, John Isted, unknown
1840ref. J37G5H5ISWE1Istanbul 1840. Mounted on a larger sheet of paper in a passe-partout. Watercolour drawing on wove paper 29.5 x 45 cm with highlights in shellac and a thin black border. A lively scene on the Tophane Quay in Istanbul with the background dominated by the dome and minaret of the 1580 Kilic Ali Pasha Mosque. The tip of a second minaret perhaps from a different mosque is visible in the distance. On the quay an opulently dressed black-bearded Ottoman a high official in the Emperor's court or a wealthy merchant stands in the centre of the scene with his entourage. He wears red robes trimmed with gold and with black decorations a white turban around a red fez and a gold waistband with the hilts of two guns sticking out and carries a walking stick in his left hand. His entourage includes a white-bearded Islamic holy man with a green turban around a red fez a Greek or Armenian man in a black hat a dark-skinned woman in green robes holding a bundle and several other men women and children. They appear to be preparing to depart in the boats that stand ready. Two more dark-skinned women in white robes with red and blue stripes follow the party deferentially. Several people appear in the boats in addition to their crews. Four more white-bearded Islamic holy men each again with a green turban around red fez sit in one with some women while two Ottoman infantrymen with bayonets stand in another one just stepping out. Other parts of the quay show various men busy with their trades or smoking long pipes. From the collection of Hooton Pagnell Hall in Yorkshire England. With a 1.5 cm tear in the water at the foot of the scene not approaching the boats and otherwise in very good condition. A lively and fascinating scene on a quay in Istanbul with the dome and minaret of Kilic Ali Pasha Mosque prominently shown.l For the King family: Debretts Peerage 1840 p. 423 & 1861 p. 338; Debretts Baronetage LXXV 1893 p. 127. unknown
1834ref. 28019The Booksellers Brighton 1834. 12mo. with lithographed frontispiece woodcut title-vignette 5 lithographed plates one folding numerous woodcut illustrations in the text and full-page engraved map signature on front paste-down some negligible dust-soiling to page edges; original pattered green cloth upper board blocked and lettered in gilt short split in lower joint but binding entirely sound else an unusually clean firm copy. THIS COPY MAY BE MISSING A FOLDING MAP WHICH IS PRESENT IN AT LEAST THE 1836 EDITION. The leading guide to Brighton during the 1830s and 1840s variously attributed to James or Edward Wallis. The earliest edition we have been able to trace was published in 1831; the latest in 1846. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Anderson p.208 records only the 1836 1840 and 1846 editions. The Booksellers, Brighton hardcover
ref. 54702London: 1771. 8vo. xx 366 pages. Full calf spine lettered in gilt on a panel of red. Marbled end papers. The calf is finished in an unusual marbled pattern. Large chip from the upper spine not affecting the title; upper cover and first blank leaf detached; a clean very good copy otherwise. Early ownership signature of William Thomas Wyld on the verso of the front end paper and that of a later owner on the detached blank. This issue has a colon after London on the title page. This is the so-called "Piccadilly Edition" a re-issue of the 1771 London edition. The author was assumed by some to be Edmund Burke; later scholarship suggests that it was in fact Sir Philip Francis 1740-1818. The Junius letters were serialized beginning in 1769 and many unauthorized and incomplete editions were issued soon after. unknown
ref. 54358London: Printed for Vernor Hood and Sharpe 1807. First edition. 12mo. Full calf spine gilt. Considerable wear to corners both hinges repaired covers likely re-attached small chip from spine label just touching title numerous annotations and marginalia; basically very good otherwise. A somewhat rough but interesting copy of this collection of the younger Dibdin's verse and songs with many comical and curious entries. unknown
1718ref. 58200Various places including Camp Sprague Camp Brightwood and Douglas Hospital Washington D.C. July 10 1861 - June 7 1862. Fine original condition; postage clipped from envelopes. 8vo. The first letter is written from Hopeville Connecticut prior to enlistment. Subsequent letters describe the trip to Washington D.C. the camp there R.I. prisoners taken at Bulls Run; the capture of a spy bad news from "Missouria" entrenchment work rumors of the death of Jeff Davis passing within 30 ft. of Lincoln "He looks just like the pictures I have seen of him" and many other interesting details. Green had become a hospital orderly by early 1862 and describes hospital conditions sightseeing in wartime Washington and news from the battlefields. unknown
