![[Brenthurst Series. Third Series] 1. The Jameson Raid: A Centennial Retrospective by Greg H. Cuthbertson. 2 Brian Warner and John Rourke. Flora Herscheliana: Sir John and Lady Herschel at the Cape 1834 to 1838 by Brian Warner and John Rourke. 3. The Siege of Mafeking, Vol. 1, edited by Iain R Smith. 4. The Siege of Mafeking, Vol. 2. 5. François Levaillant and the Birds of Africa by L. C. Rookmaker et al.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/044/792/1056792044.0.m.jpg)
[Brenthurst Series. Third Series] 1. The Jameson Raid: A Centennial Retrospective by Greg H. Cuthbertson. 2 Brian Warner and John Rourke. Flora Herscheliana: Sir John and Lady Herschel at the Cape 1834 to 1838 by Brian Warner and John Rourke. 3. The Siege of Mafeking, Vol. 1, edited by Iain R Smith. 4. The Siege of Mafeking, Vol. 2. 5. François Levaillant and the Birds of Africa by L. C. Rookmaker et al.
by (South Africa)
Johannesburg, South Africa: Brenthurst Press, 2004. Copy E of 25 (later 20) copies in full binding, for Robert S. Pirie. Numerous colour illustrations. 5 vols. Large 4to. Full publisher's navy Nigerian Sokoto goatskin, t.e.g. Bookplate of Robert S. Pirie. Loosely inserted engraved cards from "Mr Harry Oppenheimer, Brenthurst, Johannesburg” or compliments slip from Mary Slack (Harry Oppenheimer's daughter). As... Read More
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S. W. Silver & Co.'s Handbook to South Africa including the Cape Colony, Natal, the Diamond Fields, the Transvaal, Orange Free State, etc.
by (South Africa)
London: S. W. Silver & Co. Office of 'the Colonies and India', Cornhill, 1880. Third Edition, Revised. Folding panorama at p. X of Capetown and Table Mountain, WITHOUT MAP (which may never have been issued, supposedly opposite title-page). x, 576pp. Thick 12mo (7 x 4 5/8 inches). Publisher's brown pebbled cloth, neatly recased. Bookplate of H.A. Bryden on front... Read More
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![[Carte-de-visite portrait of Tsekelo Moshoeshoe, the son of Moshoeshoe I, King of Lesotho]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/760/206/1527206760.0.m.jpg)
[Carte-de-visite portrait of Tsekelo Moshoeshoe, the son of Moshoeshoe I, King of Lesotho]
by (Southern Africa)
Paris, 1870. Ink inscription on verso. Spotting in the image, the image mounted upside down on the mount. Ink inscription on verso.
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Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence
by Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary, editor
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1885. First Edition. Frontis. in each volume and 10 other illus. including vignettes. xi, [i], 400, [4] pp.; vii, [i], [401]-794, [4] pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Blue publisher's cloth, te.g.. Slight fading to spine, else fine. First Edition. Frontis. in each volume and 10 other illus. including vignettes. xi, [i], 400, [4] pp.;... Read More
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Notice sur la Géographie des Animaux...Extrait de la Revue Suisse, Aout 1845
by Agassiz, Louis
Neuchatel: Imprimerie de Henri Wolfrath, 1845. First separate edition. 31 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later cloth and boards, with stamp withdrawn "Bowdoin College", with original wrappers bound in and inscribed "Mr. le Dr. Stoner hommage de l'auteur.. First separate edition. 31 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.
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American Banker's Association. Book of Photographs. Descriptions. General Information
by Pinkerton's National Detective Agency
[New York], 1898. 300 photographic mug shots (1-180 on 15 sheets with 12 images per sheet, with additional images 181-300 on 10 sheets with each image separately issued and tipped in), each with corresponding textual descriptions. With circular numbers 1-101 (numbers 9-101 being separately issued and tipped in), many folded. With other related ephemera laid in. Oblong folio. Contemporary... Read More
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Let's Pretend. Poems
by Agnew, Georgette
London: J. Saville & Co, 1927. First edition. Number 92 of 160 copies, signed by the author and Artist. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. 70, [2, blank] pp. 1 vols. 4to. Quarter vellum and blue buckram. Fine in blue boards slipcase (repaired). Shepard, Ernest H. First edition. Number 92 of 160 copies, signed by the author and Artist.... Read More
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De Re Mettallica. Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 with Biographical Introduction, Annotations & Appendices upon the Development of Mining, Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Mineralogy, and Mining Law from earliest times to the 16th Century
by Agricola, George
London: Published by Published for the Translators by The Mining Magazine, 1912. Translated from the First Latin text of 1556 by Herbert Hoover & Lou Henry Hoover, Number 630 of 3000 copies. Illustrated, [iv], xxxi., 640pp. Printed by Albert Frost & Sons, Rugby. Folio. Original vellum over boards, mottled, small split at front joint, else near fine. Translated... Read More
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[Two sammelbands of 12 works issued by the Society]
by (Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture)
Boston, 1811. 8vo. Contemporary half calf [vol. 1] or full tree sheep [vol. 2], vol. 1 covers detached, vol. 2 worn at joints, minor losses to spine. Early owner's signatures, ex-library (Essex Agricultural Institute). 8vo. Founded in 1792 by Samuel Adams, John Hancock, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine and others, the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture is one... Read More
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Sub Rosa. Strange Tales
by Aickman, Robert
London: Gollancz, 1968. First edition. 256 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth. Fine in fine price clipped dust jacket. Tiny ownership notation on flyleaf. First edition. 256 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.
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Cold Hand in Mine. Eight Strange Stories
by Aickman, Robert
London: Gollancz, 1975. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Violet cloth. Fine copy in fine dust. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. The dedication copy, inscribed on the flyleaf, “For my dear dedicatees in love and gratitude RObert Aickman January 1976” The printed dedication reads For Mary George and Ann Pym who lent me a beautifu lapartment without which this... Read More
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Senlin: A Biography
by Aiken, Conrad
London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition, first issue binding. 36 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Patterned mauve and pink paper boards, with yellow title label. Spine tanned, slightly rubbed. Owner signature on flyleaf. Very good. First edition, first issue binding. 36 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The poem is revised from its earlier appearance. The number of copies printed is... Read More
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Selected Poems
by Aiken, Conrad
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in very good jacket. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by Aiken on the flyleaf to ALLEN TATE, who supplied the lengthy blurb on the rear panel of the dust jacket ("ALLEN TATE says of Conrad Aiken ... 'he represents the perfection of a vanishing American type: the complete man... Read More
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Thee
by Aiken, Conrad
New York: George Braziller, 1967. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue gray boards. Some paste toning at gutters. Fine in very good jacket. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to poet ALLEN TATE, "For Allen/con amore/ and I don't know How/ Somerset Maugham got on my back-!/ Conrad/ 1967.
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Collection of the works of Joan Aiken
by Aiken, Joan
London: Jonathan Cape, British Broadcasting Corporation, etc., 2011. First editions, UK or American according to precedence, plus some first American editions, as noted. Variously illustrated by Pat Marriott, Quentin Blake, and others. 109 vols. 8vo. Original publisher’s bindings, illustrated dust jackets when called for. Often with ownership signature of John Clute, and Hand Clute bookplate by Judith Clute. Generally... Read More
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Collection
by Aimard, Gustave
London: George Vickers, Angel Court, Strand OR, John & Robert Maxwell, 1877. 6 vols. 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary red calf and marbled boards, one front hinge off. 6 vols. 8vo. Vol. II: The Guide of the Desert, Revised and Edited by Percy B. St. John,, 1876; The Insurgent Chief, Revised and Edited by Percy B. St. John,... Read More
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Museum of Painting and Sculpture, or Collection of Principal Pictures, Statues and Bas-Reliefs in the Public and Private Collections. Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture ou Recueil des Principaux Tableaux, Statues et Bas-Reliefs des Collections Publiques et Particulières de l'Europe
by Ainé, Duchesne
London & Paris: Rossange, Barthes and Lowell; Audot, Éditeur, 1834. Dessiné et gravé a l'eau forte par Réveil, Avec des notices critiques et historiques par Duchesne Ainé. TEXT IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH. With The Logge del Vaticano, drawn and etched on steel, by Reveil; from Rafaelle's Frescoes (Volume 17, 1833). Paris: Printed by Rignoux. 17 vols. 12mo. Bound in... Read More
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Typed document signed, an agreement between Western Film Exchange of New York and Frank Meyer, concerning the terms of a loan
by Aitkin, Harry E.
New York, 1911. 2pp. Small folio. Old folds. Very Good. 2pp. Small folio. Aitkin (1877-1956) was an early film producer and distributor during the silent film era, noted for his worth with Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith. The Western Film Exchange was founded in Milwaukee in July 1906 by John R. Freuler and Aitkin for the purpose of... Read More
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The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem in Three Books
by Akenside, Mark
“London [i.e., Newcastle?]: [s.n.], 1744. Pirated edition (?). [2], 102 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Early black calf, rubbed and worn, upper joint cracked (cords holding), flyleaf detached and rear free endpaper lacking. Pirated edition (?). [2], 102 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound with 3 others: [ANONYMOUS]. Lucius and Celadon: or, a Dialogue on the Existence and Immortality... Read More
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Typescript, signed ("Anna Akhmatova"), Drafts of the Poems "Земля хотя и не родная" and "В Выборге
by Akhmatova, Anna
Komarovo, 1964. 1 pp. Very good. 1 pp. Two poems typed on the same sheet. The first poem is an early draft of what would be published as "On the Road," which changes some lines and adds an extra stanza in the middle of the published poem. The second poem, "In Vyborg," has one line much changed, and... Read More
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Chetki. Stikhi
by Akhmatova, Anna
Berlin: S. Efron, 1920. 118 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wrappers. Spine darkened, small losses to ends. 118 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Nice copy of this emigré edition of these poems of Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). Originally published in 1913.
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![Uroki muzyki. Stikhi. [Music Lessons]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/953/707/1462707953.0.m.jpg)
Uroki muzyki. Stikhi. [Music Lessons]
by Akhmadulina, Bella
Moscow: Sovetskiĭ Pisatel', 1969. First edition. 160 pp. Small 8vo. Fold on last page, otherwise fine. First edition. 160 pp. Small 8vo. After her first book of poems Struna [String] (1962) was published, as a success, her work was criticized by the government as "superfluous and too intimate". It took her seven years to publish this, her second... Read More
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Rashomon
by Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co, 1952. [First]. [ii] 95 pp. [i]. 1 vols. slim 8vo. Bright green cloth with gilt lettered spine and cover with illustrated dust jacket. Back board and dust jacket stained. [First]. [ii] 95 pp. [i]. 1 vols. slim 8vo. Two of the stories in this book, "Rashomon" and "In A Grove" are the source... Read More
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To Planters and Other Slaveholders [caption title]
by (Alabama) Breaker, C. M.
Spring Hill, AL [but printed in Marion, Alabama?], 1849. 2pp. handbill with integral address leaf. Signed in print by C.M. Breaker, President of the Board of the Bethel Baptist Association. Addressed in manuscript to "Mr. Burwell (Planter) / Dayton". 4to. Usual folds with minor separations. 2pp. handbill with integral address leaf. Signed in print by C.M. Breaker, President... Read More
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A Directory of Greene County for 1855-6, Embracing the Names of Voters in the County Generally, Alphabetically Arranged, their Occupation, Residence and Post Office; Numerous Tables of County Statistics, a Short Sketch of the Early Settlement of the County; Advertisements, &c. &c
by (Alabama) Snedcor, V. Gayle
Mobile: Printed by Strickland & Co, 1856. [2],74pp. including errata, plus [24]pp. of advertisements at rear. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, letterpress label on the upper cover, rebacked with cloth at an early date, hinges reinforced with cloth. Minor staining. Provenance: William Martin (signatures, listed as a planter on p. 29. [2],74pp. including errata, plus [24]pp. of advertisements at rear.... Read More
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