ALI Salim

Indian Hill Birds. Illustrated by G.M. Henry. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Oxford University Press,, [1949]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates, and endpaper maps, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in black, radial corners, a good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Tate, p.200.

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Book number: 35345

Catalogue: Natural History0

Keywords: natural history, birds, ornithology, avifaunas, indian, indian birds, indian hill birds, salim ali

Webb, Bill (artist) and Henry Miller

Always Merry and Bright. " Henry Miller. (Poster)

Big Sur, Calif.: Henry Miller Memorial Library. 1986. Offset poster. 20 x 16 inches. .

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Book number: 16-3019

Catalogue: Ephemera

AUDEN W. H.

At the Grave of Henry James [in] Horizon. Vol. III. No. 18. June 1941. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Horizon,, 1941. 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers; backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, clean copy. The same issue includes contributions from Duncan Grant, Augustus John and John Rothenstein, together with an illustrated advertisement from Zwemmer of their window exhibition mounted to launch Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms'. Bloomfield & Mendelson C251.

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Book number: 25136

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern first editions, modern firsts, auden, hemingway, horizon, periodicals, w.h. auden

BRIGHT, J. B. (JONATHAN BROWN BRIGHT 1800-1879 ) .

The Brights Of Suffolk, England : Represented In America By The Descendants Of Henry Bright, Jun., Who Came To New England In 1630, And Settled In Watertown, Massachusetts. By J. B. Bright. For Private Circulation.

Boston [USA] : Printed By John Wilson And Son, 22, School Street, 1858 . 0. Signed first edition. A very good original binding. 8vo. 9.5" x 6.0" x 1.25". pp.xvi/[4pp.]/pp.345 . Well illustrated with frontis, plates, portraits, map, plans, and coat of arms. Original brown cloth with gilt crest to the front board and gilt title to spine. Corners carefully strengthened. Two handwritten letters tipped-in to the front endpapers. Both addressed to W. Winters and signed by the Author; J. B. Bright. One letter also retains the Bright wax seal. Also a sepai photograph (Carte de visite: "Whipple, 297 Washington St. Boston.") laid down to the front free-endpaper: "J. B. Bright aged 63, 1863." 2 neat ownership inscriptions and some notes to second front free-endpaper. ** "William Winters (1834-1893) was a Baptist preacher. In 1876, he was appointed pastor of Ebenezer Strict Baptist Chapel on Fountain Place, Waltham Abbey, where he remained until his death. He was also a religious journalist, historian of Waltham Abbey, bookseller, hymn-writer and editor for the Earthen Vessel, Gospel Herald and Cheering Words." - See The Baptist Particular *** "BRIGHT, Jonathan Brown, author, b. in Waltham, Mass, 23 April, 1800; d. there, 17 Dec, 1879. He was educated in the Waltham common schools and in Westford (Mass.) academy, and at sixteen years of age removed to Missouri. Five years later he engaged in business in Alabama, and in 1823 went to New York, where he became a cotton-broker. In 1849 he left business and retired to his native place, where he was known as a public-spirited citizen. Mr. Bright became interested in genealogy, and made many researches into his family history both here and in England, the results of which were published in a volume intended for private distribution, which has been pronounced a model for works of its kind. It is entitled “The Brights of Suffolk, England, represented in America by the Descendants of Henry Bright, Jr, who settled at Watertown, Mass, about 1630” (1858). Mr. Bright left to Harvard college $50,000, the income to be divided between the purchase of books and the support of scholarships, to which Brights lineally descended from Henry Bright, Jr, should have priority of claim." - See Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography.

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Book number: 51320

Catalogue: Genealogy: : 19th Century

Keywords: Jonathan Brown Bright Whipple Boston John Wilson and Son William Winters Waltham Abbey Baptist Genealogy: : 19th Century

Bright, Henry Arthur, edited with introduction by Anne Henry Ehrenpreis,

Happy Country This America: the travel diary of Henry Arthur Bright.

Colulmbus, Ohio State Univ Press, (1978). VG.

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Book number: BOOKS041835I

Catalogue: Travel

BRIGHT, HENRY

Henry Bright 1810-1873 a Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings in the Collection of Norwich Castle Museum

Norwich, Norwich Castle Museum, City of Norwich Museums. 1973. Paperback, Sm Qto. Book, ix,51 pages of text, followed by the plates. There is a small shelf mark label applied to the corner of the front cover. Very Good.

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Book number: 34390

Keywords: Henry Bright Victorian 19th Century British Art

BRONTE Charlotte

Five Novelettes. Passing Events. Julia. Mina Laury. Captain Henry Hastings. Caroline Vernon. Transcribed from the original Manuscripts and edited by Winifred Gerin. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE

Folio Society,, 1971. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece, plates, facsimiles in the text and coloured endpaper maps; maroon buckram, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in publisher's board slip-case, the latter lightly browned at edges. Collects five novelettes written between 1836 and 1839.

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Book number: 47627

Catalogue: Folio Society0

Keywords: folio society, bronte, charlotte bronte, currer bell,

CARCOPINO Jerome

Daily Life in Ancient Rome. The People and the City of the Height of the Empire. Edited with Bibliography and Notes by Henry T. Rowell. Translated from the French by E.O. Lorimer. [First English Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION

F Beyer, Bergen,, [1887]. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece and plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 23258

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration0

Keywords: travel, europe, italy, rome, ancient rome, jerome carcopino,

COLERIDGE Samuel Taylor

Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Fourth Edition. [Edited and with a Preface by Henry Nelson Coleridge]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING

John Murray,, 1851. Sm. 8vo., Fourth Edition, with engraved portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), frontispiece and title very lightly spotted; nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, back with five raised bands, second compartment with black leather label lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, green endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a most attractive copy. Handsome copy of a work first published in 1835. SCARCE. Shepherd/Prideaux, (1900), 64 (recording the first edition); Wise 80 (recording the third edition of the same year).

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Book number: 14089

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, coleridge, table talk, lake poets, romantic poets, samuel taylor coleridge

COURAGE Major G.

The History of 15/19 The King's Royal Hussars 1939-1945. With Foreword by Brigadier Sir Henry Floyd. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Gale & Polden, Aldershot,, 1949. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, folding maps (the majority coloured in outline) and endpaper maps; blue regimental cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and colours, gilt back, boards unevenly faded else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sutcliffe, p.90; White, p.23.

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Book number: 44608

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, kings royal hussars, hussars, north west europe, unit history, unit histories

Digby, Sir Kenelm [1603 - 1665]

POEMS From SIR KENELM DIGBY'S PAPERS. In the Possession of Henry A. Bright. Roxburghe Club

London: Nichols and Sons, 25, Parliament Street, 1877. 1st Edition, a paper copy. Original brown quarter leather binding over red paste-paper boards. Gilt stamped title lettering to spine. [6], vi, [2], 51, [1] pp. T.p printed in red & black. Laid in at front a printed slip, "Eighty copies on paper. / Two copies on vellum." Illustrated with portrait of Digby, from an Engraving by R. Van de Voerst after A. Van Dyck. Facsimile leaf of Digby's handwriting inserted prior to p. 7. Portrait of Venetia, Lady Digby, inserted prior to p. 21. Tailpieces throughout. Printer's device to last page. Royal 8vo. 10-3/4" x 8" The Roxburghe Club was founded in 1812 and is the oldest society of bibliophiles in the world. Its membership is limited to 40, chosen from among those with distinguished libraries or collections, or with a scholarly interest in books. It has also been distinguished, among the many publishing societies that have done so much in this country for history, letters, antiquity and other branches of literature and art, for the quality of its publications.The spur to the Club's foundation was the sale of the enormous library of the Duke of Roxburghe (who had died in 1804), which took place over 46 days in May-July 1812. The auction was eagerly followed by bibliophiles, the high point being the sale on 17 June 1812 of a first edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, printed by Christophorus Valdarfer of Venice in 1471, and sold to the Marquis of Blandford for £2,260, the highest price ever given for a book at that time. (The Marquis already possessed a copy, but one that lacked 5 leaves.) That evening, a group of eighteen collectors met at the St Albans Tavern, St Albans Street (later renamed Waterloo Place) for a dinner presided over by the 2nd Earl Spencer, and this is regarded as the origin of the Roxburghe Club. A toast drunk on that occasion has been repeated at every annual anniversary dinner since to the "immortal memory of John Duke of Roxburghe, of Christopher Valdarfer, printer of the Boccaccio of 1471, of Gutenberg, Fust and Schoeffer, the inventors of the art of printing, of William Caxton, Father of the British press [and others; and] the prosperity of the Roxburghe Club and the Cause of Bibliomania all over the world". It was decided to make the dinner an annual event: further members were admitted the following year. The club was formed by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, author of the book Bibliomania; or Book-Madness (1809), who served as its first secretary; and the club was formalised under Earl Spencer's presidency. The Club rapidly became more than a mere social institution. Each member was (and remains) expected to sponsor the publication of a rare or curious volume. Other volumes are published by the Club collectively. Initially the volumes were editions of early blackletter printed texts (the first, in 1814, was the Earl of Surrey's translation of parts of Virgil's Aeneid, originally printed in 1557); but from as early as 1819 they began to include texts taken from manuscript originals. The standards of scholarship are high, and the quality of printing, facsimile reproduction, and binding is lavish. Copies of each volume (in a fine binding) are presented to all members, and a limited number of extra copies (generally in a less lavish binding) may be made available for sale to non-members. From 1839, the total number of copies for each publication, including members' copies, was limited to 100. Recently, the limit was raised to 342 copies: 42 for the club, 300 for the public. The Roxburghe Club is generally recognised as the first "book club" (that is, text publication society), and was a model for many book societies that appeared later in Britain and Europe. Digby "was an English courtier and diplomat. He was also a highly reputed natural philosopher, astrologer and known as a leading Roman Catholic intellectual and Blackloist. For his versatility, he is described in John Pointer's Oxoniensis Academia (1749) as the 'Magazine of all Arts and Sciences, or (as one stiles him) the Ornament of this Nation'". [Wiki] Scarce Roxburghe publication, at the time of cataloguing, RBH shows the last copy to market was almost 60 years ago, in 1966, and we see no other copies on offer. General binding wear, primarily to extremities & some rubs to spine leather. Usual age-toning to paper. A VG copy.

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Book number: 51722

Catalogue: Books - on - Books

Keywords: Books - on - Books Literature

ROD GARNER

Bright Evening Star: A Portrait of John Henry Newman

Liverpool, Liverpool Hope University. 2019, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9781898749196). Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 131pp paperback, inscribed by the author, corner bumped. Good. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 067400

Keywords: 9781898749196 newman

GRAVES Robert

Lawrence and the Arabs. Illustrations edited by Eric Kennington. Maps by Henry Perry. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Jonathan Cape,, [1927]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 26 plates on 23 and 4 maps in red and black, free endpapers faintly browned; original terracotta cloth, gilt back, tiny nick at headband, boards mildly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Higginson A26a; O'Brien E030.

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Book number: 48052

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern first editions, modern firsts, graves, robert graves, lawrence, lawrence of arabia, ww1, great war, palestine

ALLTHORPE-GUYTON, MARJORIE

Henry Bright 1810-1873. Paintings and Drawings in Norwich Castle Museum

Norwich, Norfolk Museums Service. 1986, First Edition. Blue Cloth with dust jacket, 305mm. x 220mm. Book, 111 pages, colour & b/w illustrations, catalogue of 87 works, bibliography. Minor wear, unmarked. [816]. (ISBN: 090310153X) , Very Good/Very Good.

William GlynnProfessional seller

Book number: 019007

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art Painting Drawing Collections History 090310153x

HAGGARD Henry Rider

Allan Quartermain. Being an Account of his Further Adventures and Discoveries in Company with Sir Henry Curtis, Commander John Good and one Umslopogaas. [Illustrated by C.H.M. Kerr]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Longmans Green & Co.,, 1887. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 19 plates and 13 illustrations in the text; original brown cloth, bevelled boards, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, ivory endpapers, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a bright, clean copy. The plates are engraved by Cooper after Kerr. Allen 2.

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Book number: 25003

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, rider haggard, allan quartermain, henry rider haggard