Buckland, Francis Trevelyan (1826-1880).MareMagnum
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1860pp. xvi, 423 + Frontis. Slight foxing. 12mo. 19 cm. Original full cloth binding. Engraved ExLibris of George Dawson Coleman. Very good. This first American edition of the first of what eventually became four series. It includes Buckland's popular essays on: 'A Hunt in a Horse-pond; 'Rats'; 'The Cobra di Capello'; 'Fish and Fishing'; and 'My Monkey Jacko.' Known as the People's Naturalist, Buckland was trained as a medical doctor but spent a great part of his time as a fisherman, antiquary, and naturalist. In 1867 he was appointed to the congenial post of Inspector of the Salmon Fisheries. "Genial, sagacious, enthusiastic, always prone to look at the humorous side of his subject, Buckland aimed rather at enlisting the sympathies of others in his favourite studies than at acquiring the name of a profound writer on science. He held the ordinary usages of society in supreme contempt when they appeared to interfere with his zeal for experiment and research in natural history. His friends love to recall him - now wading into some icy cold river to capture salmon for the purposes of artificial breeding - now smoking and in his shirt sleeves as he arranged curiosities at South Kensington - and now again humorously dilating in his house in Albany street about the habits of the pet animals which generally ran loose through his rooms" - From the 'Dictionary of National Biography' Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W147
1858pp. xvi, 42 (2) lxviii + Plates (some in color). 4to. 27 cm. Attractive original full blue cloth binding, lettered in gold. Edited and translated by Nathaniel Hill, Katherine Isabella Cust, John Lydgate (Ca. 1370-1451), and others. The wonderful woodcuts are from the Paris edition of 1511. First Edition thus. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W144
1799pp. viii, [9]-501, [3] + Engraved frontis portait. 8vo. Name clipped from title page. Foxed and age stained. Original full leather binding, worn and chipped at head of spine. Autograph ownership of: " J. Walter Getty, March 1899." Getty (1871-1946) was a banking executive in Maryland and Virginia. Includes "A Short Account of Doctor Clarke, by a Late Eminent Divine and Author." Evans; 35312. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W151 Rear
1729pp. (16) [Including a list of subscribers], 392. Decorative initials and printer's devices. 8vo. Foxed. Contemporary full leather binding, tooled in blind. Back and joints worn and tender. Manuscript ownership of "Walter Getty, March 1899." Extensive subscriber's list which includes some notable names. RELIGION; THEOLOGY; ETHICS; CHRISTIAN LIFE; 1729 **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W138 Rt/R
1854ONLY Volume One of Two. pp. xii, 401, (12)[Publisher's catalogue] + half title, frontis and folding maps and views. Numerous text engravings. XLib. Stamp on half title and elsewhere. Library bookplate. Text clean. Folding maps and views brown but not brittle. Tall 8vo. Original full gold decorated brown cloth binding, slightly worn. FRENG 1
1846pp. (13), 147. Thin 8vo. Handsome original full cloth binding, lettered in gold and decorated in blind, executed by Westleys & Clark, London - with their small ticket on the rear paste down. Mildly XLib. James Orchard Halliwell (1820-1889) was a biographer of Shakespeare, book collector, antiquarian, and prodigal scholar. In spite of his intelligence and industry, Halliwell's life was dogged with controversy on both personal and professional fronts. His marriage to the daughter of Sir Thomas Phillips did not meet with Phillips' approval, and the young couple was disinherited and placed in financial st aits. He was later investigated for book theft from the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, regarding several volumes later sold to the British Museum, but no charges were ever filed and Halliwell was able to clear his name. Later disputes arose over Halliwell's views concerning the authenticity of various Shakespeareian works. His quarrel with the authorities at Stratford-on-Avon led to his decision not to bequeath his important personal Shakespeare collection to their library; instead, it was sold to a buyer in the United States upon Halliwell's death. See the DNB JUN2B / NW23
1885pp. xx, 409 + Engraved portrait and facsimiles. 8vo. 22 cm. Crisp original blue cloth binding, decorated in black and gold. Sidney Smith (1771-1845) was one of the foremost English preachers of his da y; a champion of parliamentary reform; staunch advocate of Roman Catholic emancipation; and a figure famous for his intelligence, wit, and charm. After leaving Oxford he was ordained in the Church of England. He later attended lectures in moral philosophy, chemistry, and medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he made many friends and helped to found 'The Edinburgh Review' (1802). For over twenty-five years he was a leading contributor to that important journal. In 1803 he moved to London and began a series of enormously popular lectures in moral philosophy. When the predominantly Whig ministry took office in 1806, Smith received the living of Foston-le-Clay, Yorkshire. At first he discharged his duties through a curate, until the Clergy Residence Act put an end to this common pract ice, and he left London for Yorkshire in 1809. Although he hated being isolated in Yorkshire, he won his parishioners' affection; and he continued to write effective polemics (especially on the Roman Catholic question). In 1828 he was installed as prebend of Bristol Cathedral. Under a Whig government it was expected that he would soon be a bishop; but opposition proved strong. Eventually, he succe eded in becoming a canon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. On his brother Courtenay's death in 1839, Smith inherited a fortune, bought a house in London, and lived there until his own death. Scarce f irst American edition the 'standard' life of Smith. "Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient" - Sidney Smith. W140
1882Two volumes. pp. 516; 565 + Fifty-one wonderful photogravure plates from the photographs of Dr. Charles L. Mitchell and Francis Frith. Original full red cloth binding., brilliantly decorated in gold. Set against the turbulent historical backdrop of the 1680s, in England's lawless West Country, Lorna Doone is an action-packed tale of romance, revenge and family warfare. Blackmore's sweeping story of love and crime is one of fiction's most respected works. Three young people are caught in a taut emotional triangle - Carver Doone, murderous member of a feared family of aristocratic outlaws; John Ridd, a young farmer dedicated to avenging his father's death; and Lorna Doone, the dark-eyed beauty for whom both men would willingly die. At once independent and vulnerable, Lorna is the Doone "Princess", condemned by the family to marry Carver. But Lorna may not be quite what she seems. Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900) was born in Longworth, Berkshire, where his father John Blackmore was Curate-in-charge of the parish. Only a few months after his birth his mother died of typhus, his father moved back to his native West Country and young Richard was taken in charge by his aunt. In 1831 John Blackmore married again and Richard went to live with his father and stepmother in Devon. Richard went to school in Tiverton where he excelled in classical studies and later won a scholarship t o Oxford, where he took his degree in 1847. He made his first attempt at writing a novel during a university vacation. After leaving Oxford he entered the law, being called to the Bar in 1852. Ill-health, however, forced him to give up legal work as a full-time occupation and in 1853 he took the post of classics master at Wellesley House Grammar School, Hampton Road, Twickenham. Soon after accepti ng this post, Blackmore moved from London to Hampton Wick, where he lived until he moved to his new home in Teddington. In 1853 he married, and in 1854 published anonymously two volumes of poetry. In September 1857 his uncle died leaving his nephew a sum of money which enabled him to realise a long-held ambition - that of possessing a house in the country with a larger garden. Blackmore selected a plot of land at Teddington and built his new house (completed in 1860). He was to live there for the rest of his life. Gomer House, named after one of his favourite dogs, had extensive grounds. Within them Blackmore developed an 11 acre market garden, specialising in the cultivation of fruit. The grounds were surrounded by high walls. Although an expert in horticulture, he lacked the necessary bu siness sense and his market garden was not a very profitable enterprise. In the late 1860's Blackmore fought the coming of the railway to Teddington, winning claims against his property by the London and South West Railway Company, but being unable to prevent the erection of a station almost directly opposite his house. Some local residents in Teddington apparently regarded Blackmore as unsociable, if not misanthropic. Charles Deayton, a Teddington merchant is recorded as saying to a visitor: "He is not a social man, and seems wedded to his garden in the summer and his book writing in the wint er. That is all I know of him; except that he keeps the most vicious dogs to protect his fruit, and I would advise you to avoid the risk of visiting him." In fact, though of a retiring disposition, Blackmore did have a number of intimate friends whom he met regularly and many friendships with Americans as a result of his wide following in the United States. Blackmore died at Teddington in 1900 after a long and painful illness. He was buried at Teddington Cemetery. His wife had died in 1888. He had no children. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
196696 p. With Twenty-four full-color plates and 196 duotone illustrations. Large oblong folio. 39 x 53 cm. Original blue cloth binding. Dust wrapper with a few repaired tears. In the commentary Anthony Burgess laments "the loss of the romance of this splendid age, crushed in the rapacious maw of the industrial 19th century with its iron foundries, boilers, and coal smoke." He deftly employs quotation s from Fielding, Smollett, Johnson, Surtees, and Austin to animate the coaching world of Tom Jones and Mr. Jorrocks. The illustrations are drawn from a broad range of pictorial sources including Hogarth, Rowlandson, and the master of the coaching print - James Pollard. Many are (sadly?) suitable for framing. Though often thrown in with a lesser class of 'Coffee Table Book' this is really one of th e most compelling modern books on transportation life before the age of steam. "What a delightful thing's a turnpike road, So smooth, so level, such a mode of shaving the earth As scarce the eagle in the broad Air can accomplish with his wings waving: Has such been cut in Phaeton's time, the god Had told his son to satisfy his craving With the York Mail" -- Lord Byron, 'Don Juan' Canto X . LOC ?
1965202p. + Illustrations. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original DJ. OCC 13 **
1935Small folio. Illustrated by Carlise's cartoons of an old-guard pack of irreverent hounds, as they originally appeared in the pages of The Sportsman Magazine. Tan pictorial boards, printed in color. Normal wear here and there, but still a very good copy. Bold manuscript ownership of E. D. Orbell. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 1250 copies. Siegel 87; Frazier C-1-a. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W139
1888301 p. + Unusual mounted frontis showing the Bank and a busy thoroughfare. 8vo. Original dark green cloth binding, embossed in blind and gold. Beige floral endpapers. Marbled edges. Early ownerships, including John H. Royer (1864-1910). W145 / DC
1797Two volumes. pp. [1], xxv, 274; [1] 318 + Sixteen stipple engraved portraits + Engraved title pages. Foxed. Uncut. Deckel edged. Absolutely contemporary bindings of leather backed marbled boards, worn. 8vo. These intense polemic letters were originally published in the era 1769-1772. This edition was called for by the political agitation caused in England by the Napoleonic Wars. Authorship is often ascribed to Sir Philip Francis, but this is by no means certain. This set belonged to Richard Machell, who was appointed, in 1770, to be domestic Chaplain to the household of William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W151 .
1953112p. Numerous illustrations some in color. Folio. Original gold decorated purple velvet. Unfortunately very worn, faded and scuffed. Spine torn. Inked ownership of Susan L. Chase. Text includes American advertisements. Issued to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Gene Box 2
1890Volume one only. Lacks second volume. Illustrated with full page cromolithographs and numerous text illustrations. AEG. Folio. Original cloth. Front board detached. Some foxing. A few pages cut with no loss. Gene Box 1/2
1928pp. 294 + color frontis illustrated by Charlotte Lederer. Uncut. 8vo. Original decorated full cloth green binding. Slightly worn. Bercovici's gypsy stories were used three times to make motion picture films, including: Revenge, The Volga Boatman, and Law of the Lawless. Born in Romania in 1882, the author's own childhood was spent in the tents of gypsy's. Bercovici is quoted as saying, "There is not a gypsy in the world who cannot tell you who I am. I am a gypsy by choice and not by blood, by temperament and not race." **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GYPSY 1
1827pp. 23, (1). 12mo. New wraps. The authorship has been variously ascribed to Thomas Price, Robert Goadby, Mrs. Goadby and, Carew himself. Old tape repair of title page not effecting text. The purported author, who characterizes himself as the Devonshire stroller and dog stealer, was born in 1693 and transported to America at some undetermined date in his youth. Carew describes his adventures in Maryland, Virginia,and farther north where,according to Howes, he operated confidence schemes among colonial suckers. Also described are his picaresque adventures among gypsies, on the Continent,and particularly in London. The volume concludes with a gypsy cant dictionary. This particular edition is quite scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GYPSY 2
1831167p. All edges gold. 12mo. Original full leather binding decorated in blind. One inch of the spine is missing. Front board detached. Old book label removed. Small printed bookseller's label from Foyle's. Crabb, a Wesleyan Methodist minister in Southampton who had befriended and cared for a number of Gypsies, here gives a sympathetic account of their lives and habits. First Edition. GYPSY 2 **
1962pp. 190 + Numerous photographic illustrations. 8vo. Original cloth backed paper boards. Dust Jacket. A look at "the aristocrats of the road" by one who has traveled with them. First Edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GYPSY 1
1948280p. 8vo. Decorated paper board binding. Dust Jacket. The story revolves around the tinkers and gypsies of England. First American Edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GYPSY 1
1907pp. xl, 480, Frontis + illustrations. Marbled edges. 8vo. Gilt decorated half leather binding. Quentin Durward is a historical novel by Walter Scott, first published in 1823. The story concerns a Scottish archer in the service of the French King Louis XI (14231483). For his gipsy material Scott relied largely on two works: 'Dissertation on the Gipseys from the German of H. M. G. Grellmann (1807), and A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, and Present State of the Gypsies by John Hoyland (1816). **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GYPSY 1
1866575p. 8vo. Original full brown cloth binding. Slight foxing on first few leaves. Text on four pages stained by newspaper clippings. Includes chapters on Continental, English, Scottish, Linlithgowshire , Fife and Stirlingshire, Tweed-dale and Clydesdale, and Border Gypsies; as well as chapters on Marriage and Divorce Ceremonies, Language, and the Present Condition and Number of the Gipsies in Scotland. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GYPSY 2
1965pp. xii, 449. Illustrated with over fifty text drawings. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original worn dust jacket with some tears. Text beginning to brown. First published in 1889. WHISKEY 3
1991256p. Illustrated with numerous photographs and maps. Folio. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Nice copy. WHISKEY 3
1860Two Parts. pp. 56: 48. Illustrated with top margin woodcuts. 4to. Original full purple cloth binding. Edges sun faded. Owned by Judge Mayer Sulzberger (1843-1923). XLib. [Dropsie College]. Scarce reprint of the rare original 1700's edition. Interesting poems describing public houses (Pubs) in London and Westminister during the 1700's. Describes the kinds of beers they served and the sorts of people that frequented them. Wood cut images accompany each verse. Ward (1667-1731), was a humourist, of `low extraction' and with little education. In early life he visited the West Indies, and afterwards he began business as a publican in Moorfields. By 1699 he had moved to Fulwood's Rents, where he kept a punch-shop and tavern (probably the King's Head), next door to Gray's Inn, until his death. Giles Jacob (Poetical Register, 1723) says: `Of late years he has kept a public-house in the city (but in a genteel way), and with his wit, humour, and good liquor, has afforded his guests a pleasurable entertainment; especially the high-church party. A man of considerable natural parts and with a gift of humour, `Ned Ward,' as he is frequently called, imitated Butler's `Hudibras' both in his style and in his attacks on the Whigs and low-church party. Though vulgar and often grossly coarse, his writings throw considerable light on the social life of the time of Queen Anne, and especially on the habits of various classes in London; but much allowance has to be made for exaggeration" - DNB. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! WHISKEY 4