Coryats Crudities. Hastily gobled up in five Moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy...Helvetia alia Switzerland, some parts of Germany and the Netherlands..
by Coryate, Thomas
London: Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby], 1611. First edition. Quarto in eights (8 1/8 x 6 inches; 206 x 153 mm). [-]2; a8-b8 ([-]1 inserted after a3); b4; c8-g8; h4-l4; B8-D8 (D3 inserted after preceding D); E8-3C8; 3D4; [-]2 (first is signed 3E3 and both are errata). The present copy collates the same as Pforzheimer. Illustrated with engraved title-page by... Read More
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The Compleat Angler
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son] Haywood, Helen R. (artist); Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1926. Fine. A very fine and unique copy. Specially bound with two superb original watercolor paintings on both of the calf doublures by Helen R. Haywood. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 1/2 in; 181 x 113 mm). lxxxix, [4], 454, [14 as Anglers' Calendar] pp. Black and white illustrations throughout, some... Read More
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Children's Poetry
by [Craik, Dinah Mulock] The Author of John Halifax
London: Macmillan, 1881. First edition. Near Fine. Finely bound by J & JP Edmond & Spark of Aberdeen for S. Drostane's College. Full calf with gilt to spine and college crest in gilt to front board. All edges and endpapers marbled. Small bump to crown of spine; occasional light foxing largely confined to margins. Presentation inscription to front... Read More
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Maggie, a Girl of the Streets
by Crane, Stephen
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. First trade edition. Near Fine. This 1896 edition was the first to be widely available after Crane privately published the work in 1893 in wrappers (now quite scarce); also, the first edition published under Crane's real name. This copy in the first state according to BAL (title-page printed in upper and... Read More
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Jennie Juneiana: Talks on Women's Topics
by [Croly, Jane Cunningham] Jennie June
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1864. First edition. Fine. Publisher's green cloth. 240 pp. Top edge gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. A Fine copy with just a slight lean to the spine. Jane Cunningham Croly (1829 – 1901), who wrote under the pseudonym Jennie June, founded both Sorosis, "the most influential early women's club in post-Civil War America" (ANB),... Read More
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George Cruikshank's Fairy Library (Inscribed first editions)
by Cruikshank, George
London: David Bogue, 1854. First editions. Fine. A complete first edition set of George Cruikshank’s Fairy Library, bound together, as follows: Hop-O’My-Thumb and The Seven-League Boots. London: David Bogue, [1853]. Inscribed on title-page, “To the Revd. Thomas Hugo with the regards of Geo. Cruikshank Augt. 9 1853.” The History of Jack & the Bean-Stalk. London: David... Read More
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Estelle, by Mr. Florian...With an Essay Upon Pastoral
by Cummyng, Susanna (translator)
London: Printed for the translator, 1798. First Thus. Contemporary full polished calf with gilt to spine and boards; morocco spine label replaced. Measuring 160 x 95mm. All edges speckled red. Marbled endpapers. Some chipping and loss to spine extremities; joints rubbed and tender, but holding well. Small chip to rear board. Externally pleasing. Armorial bookplate of Charles Henry Rich... Read More
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A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education in Boarding Schools
by Darwin, Erasmus
Derby: J. Drewry, 1797. First edition. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards; spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label; all edges dyed yellow. Boards and spine rubbed; some chipping along edges. Original stab holes visible in gutter margins. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown; ink signature of Mary Wolley to front free endpaper; light foxing. Quarto collates complete,... Read More
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[An Explanation of Dassier's Medals of the Sovereigns of England]
by [Dassier, Jean]
N.P., 1797. Bound in late eighteenth-century full red roan. Covers with gilt single fillet border, smooth spine ruled in gilt, board edges and turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Blank book, interleaved and with thirty-three leaves with sixty-six mounted engravings (front and back of each medal), including thirty-one medals by Jean Dassier of the Sovereigns... Read More
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Doctor Warrick's Daughters
by Davis, Rebecca Harding
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. First edition. Near Fine. Complete with fifteen plates (including frontispiece). [6], 301, [2, ads] pp. Publisher's olive cloth stamped in black and gilt. Spine toned. Contemporary ink ownership inscription (Gertrude Gilson) to upper flyleaf. A clean, Near Fine copy with just a bit of marginal toning and some dustsoiling to top edge. ... Read More
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Democracy in America. Part the First
by de Tocqueville, Alexis
London: Saunders & Otley, 1836. Second edition in English. Two octavo volumes, collating xliv, 333, [2 ads]; vi [of viii], 462, [2 ads]: with the folding map to the front of volume 1; half-title in volume 1, lacking half-title in volume 2 and lacking the second leaf of the table of contents. Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards,... Read More
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De la Démocratie en Amérique (Presentation copy)
by de Tocqueville, Alexis
Paris: Pagnerre, 1850. Thirteenth Edition. Revised, corrected and augmented with a comparative examination of democracy in the United States and Switzerland, and an appendix. Text in French. Inscribed by the author: "à M. Courbis offert par l'auteur AT." Bound in a contemporary French binding of green quarter morocco over paper boards, marbled end-papers. Two volumes bound together in one,... Read More
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The Library of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller (in 2 vols.)
by [Dickens, Charles (contributor)]
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition. First edition in book form, first issue, with title-page to Vol. I dated 1836. Two octavo volumes (8 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 206 x 130 mm.). [iii-v]vi[vii]viii, [1]2-384; [vi], 350. Twenty-eight engraved plates by various artists including Robert Seymour and Robert William Buss. Publisher's dark green bead-grain cloth over boards, covers... Read More
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Twelve original character studies from Martin Chuzzlewit
by Dickens, Charles; Kyd (pseudonym of Joseph Clayton Clark, illustrator)
[n.p., London?], 1893. Original artwork. Near Fine. Twelve fine original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings illustrating Martin Chuzzlewit, signed by the artist. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 286 x 225 mm). Done on fine laid paper. Original blue wrappers with "12 Original Character Studies from 'Oliver Twist' Drawn in colors by 'Kyd'" in ink manuscript on front... Read More
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Dombey and Son (Extra-illustrated)
by Dickens, Charles
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Near Fine. Finely bound by Morrell in three-quarter green morocco, all edges gilt, spines with intricate details and raised bands, marbled end papers. An excellent copy overall, with four additional portrait plates bound in, depicting characters from the novel. Dombey and Son tackles a number of key themes that appear... Read More
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Dombey and Son
by Dickens, Charles
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Fine. Very early issue, with all but 3 of Smith's 'internal flaws.' Finely bound by Bayntun in full red morocco with a portrait of Dickens on the front cover and his signatures on the rear in gilt. Gilt titles and decorative spine compartments on the spine, all edges gilt. Marbled end... Read More
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Twelve original character studies from David Copperfield
by Dickens, Charles; Kyd (pseudonym of Joseph Clayton Clark, illustrator)
[n.p., London], 1893. Original artwork. Near Fine. Twelve fine original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings illustrating David Copperfield, signed by the artist. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 286 x 225 mm). Done on fine laid paper. Original blue wrappers with "12 Original Character Studies from 'David Copperfield' Drawn in colors by 'Kyd'" in ink manuscript on front... Read More
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood [Bound with:] John Jasper’s Secret
by Dickens, Charles; Henry Morford
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition. Fine. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 140 mm). vii, [1, “Illustrations”], 190 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens (“Engraved by J.H. Baker, from a Photograph taken in 1868, by Mason & Co.”), wood-engraved vignette title by J. Brown, and twelve wood-engraved plates, two by the firm of Dalziel... Read More
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood; [Bound with] John Jasper’s Secret
by Dickens, Charles; Henry Morford
Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition. First edition in book form. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 208 x 133 mm.). vii, [1, “Illustrations”], 190 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens (“Engraved by J.H. Baker, from a Photograph taken in 1868, by Mason & Co.”), wood-engraved vignette title by J. Brown, and twelve wood-engraved plates, two by the firm... Read More
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Dombey and Son
by Dickens, Charles
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. First issue with the 'eight-line errata' (following all but a very few of the points in Smith), in book form of Dickens' seventh novel, bound from the original monthly parts, with stab-holes present in the inner margins of gatherings. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in; 222 x 138 mm). xvi, [1,... Read More
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
by Dickens, Charles
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. First edition. First edition in book form, first issue following all points in Smith including vignette on title-page with amount on sign post transposed to read "100£" and seven studs in the trunk. Plates facing pp. 387 and 386 transposed as per Michael Sadleir's copy at UCLA, and all of the other thirty-four first... Read More
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Dombey and Son
by Dickens, Charles
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Fine. Very early issue, with all but 5 of Smith's 'internal flaws.' Finely bound full red morocco with a portrait of Dickens on the front cover and his signatures on the rear in gilt (binding unsigned, but seems to be Bayntun). Gilt titles and decorative spine compartments on the spine, all... Read More
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Oliver Twist. By Charles Dickens (in 3 vols.)
by Dickens, Charles
London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition. Near Fine. Second issue, with the title-page authorship credit to Charles Dickens instead of "Boz" and with the “Church” version of the final plate. First state of volume III with "pilaster" instead of "pier" or "pedestal" on page 164. Almost all the internal flaws according to Smith present. Three octavo volumes (7... Read More
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The Nonesuch Dickens (in 24 vols.)
by Dickens, Charles
Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1939. First thus. Near Fine. Number 552 of 877 sets in 24 volumes, including an original steel plate from Chapman & Hall (Dickens' original publishers) enclosed in an additional volume. The present plate, one of only 877 held in their archive, is "Paul's Exercises" from Dombey & Son and is accompanied by a proof pull... Read More
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
by Dickens, Charles
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition. Near Fine. Bound in the publisher's full crushed purple morocco, all edges gilt. Stamped in gilt on the spine and with blind rules on the boards and spine. With original yellow-coated end papers. A lovely, Near Fine copy overall. One spot of offsetting on the first couple leaves, otherwise quite clean... Read More
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