La Roche, Frau Sophie Gutermann von.

Les caprices de l'amour et de l'amitie; anecdote angloise, suivie d'une petite anecdote allemande.

Zuric: chez Orell, Gessner, Fuesslin & Comp. 1772, 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 153, [i]pp. First edition. Paper boards. Good.

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Book number: 2753

Catalogue: First Editions, Eighteenth Century Books

Romains, Jules, Marcel Brion, Francis Carmody, & Richard Exner.

Yvan Goll.

Paris: Pierre Seghers, Editeur, 1956. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 223 pages. In the publisher's decorated stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated. From the library of Ernst Erich Noth. With a dedication from Claire Goll to Noth. Good.

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Book number: 1175

Catalogue: First Editions, Signed and/or Presentation Copies

Keywords: Autographed Books

Ruskin, John.

Pre-Raphaelitism & Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds.

New York: John Wiley, 1851. 0. Hardcover. Small octavo. Two works bound together. First work: 57 pages; second work: 38 pages. First American edition. Original blindstamped cloth, with design of a painter's easel in gilt on upper cover. Top of spine slightly chipped. Ex-library copy, with no markings on the outside, but with rubber stamps on front free end paper and title-page. Good.

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Book number: 301

Catalogue: First Editions, Artbooks

Keywords: First Editions

Sanderson, Sir William.

Aulicus coquinariæ: or A vindication in ansvver to a pamphlet, entituled The court and character of King James. Pretended to be penned by Sir A.W. and published since his death, 1650.

London: printed for Henry Seile, over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1650 [i.e. 1651]. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 205, [iii]pp. Last leaf is blank. Title within decorative woodcut border. Printer's device. Contemporary sheep, rebacked. Woodcut initials and headpieces. ESTC R203447; Wing S645. With the armorial bookplate of Evin Philip de Eatington Shirley. A very good copy. Very Good.

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Book number: 1877

Catalogue: First Editions, Eighteenth Century Books, Theater

Sandys, Edwin.

A relation of the state of religion: and with what hopes and pollicies it hath beene framed, and is maintained in the severall states of these westerne partes of the world.

London: Printed by Val. Sims for Simon Waterson dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Crowne, 1605. 0. Hardcover. Small quarto. [91]ff. A4-Z4, AA4-ZZ4. First edition. Ornament beneath title. Contemporary vellum, repaired by Bernard Middleton. From the library of C.R. Lowell, with his bookplate and his rubber stamp on each title-page. Also, on first title-page, an ownership inscription: "bibca Williams Scptio, 1813." STC 21716. In this edition, H3r line 1 ends: practi- (Birmingham copy). Bound with: Bacon, Francis. The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Very Good.

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Book number: 1791

Catalogue: First Editions, Seventeenth Century Books

Saunders, Richard West.

Skallagrim (Grim The Bald). An Operetta In three Acts.

Privately Printed, 1925. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. First edition. Vellumized paper spine with marbled paper boards. Edition limied to 500 copies; this is No. 423. Printed at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, with the typography design ed by Bruce Rogers. Good.

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Book number: 687

Catalogue: First Editions, Private Press/Fine Printing, Music

Keywords: First Editions

Seghers, Pierre.

Piranese.

Neuchâtel: Ides et Calendes, 1960, 0. Soft cover. Square quarto. 61pp. First edition. One of 200 copies H.C. on vélin de Biberist. Decorated stiff paper wrappers. From the library of Ernst Erich Noth. With a dedication from Seghers to Noth. A smudge on the front free endpaper where the dedication is; smudge runs throughout book, but in a much reduced size. The smudge is located at lower foreedge margin. Good.

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Book number: 1574

Catalogue: First Editions, Signed and/or Presentation Copies

Keywords: Autographed Books

Smith, Titus Keipler.

Altruria.

New York: Altruria Publishing Company, 1895. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 120pp. First edition. Wrappers. Slight abrasion on upper cover, minor chipping to foot of spine. Uncut and unopened. Good.

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Book number: 2103

Catalogue: First Editions

Smith, Albert Richard [+ FIVE More Works].

A Bowl of Punch.

London: D. Bogue, 1848. 0. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 125 pages. First edition. Contemporary red cloth, repaired. Illustrated by A Henning, Hine and Sala. Bound with: Smith, Albert Richard, The Natural History of the Ballet-Girl; Smith, Albert Richard, The Natural History of the Gent; Smith, Albert Richard, The Bal Masqué; Reach, Angus Bethune, A Romance of a Mince-Pie; Mayhew, Horace, editor, The Comic Almanack for 1849. Good.

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Book number: 754

Catalogue: First Editions, Nineteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Smith, Albert Richard [+ FIVE More Works].

The Natural History of the Ballet-Girl.

London: D. Bogue, 1847. 0. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 103 pages. First edition. Contemporary red cloth, repaired. Illustrated by A Henning. Bound with: Smith, Albert Richard, The Natural History of the Gent; Smith, Albert Richard, The Bal Masqué; Smith, Albert Richard, A Bowl of Punch; Reach, Angus Bethune, A Romance of a Mince-Pie; Mayhew, Horace, editor, The Comic Almanack for 1849. Good.

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Book number: 575

Catalogue: First Editions, Nineteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Smith, Albert Richard [+ FIVE More Works].

The Natural History of the Gent.

London: D. Bogue, 1847. 0. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. viii, 104 pages. First edition. Contemporary red cloth, repaired. Illustrated by A Henning. Bound with: Smith, Albert Richard, The Natural History of the Ballet-Girl; Smith, Albert Richard, The Bal Masqué; Smith, Albert Richard, A Bowl of Punch; Reach, Angus Bethune, A Romance of a Mince-Pie; Mayhew, Horace, editor, The Comic Almanack for 1849. Good.

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Book number: 704

Catalogue: First Editions, Nineteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Smith, Edmund.

Phædra and Hippolitus. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market, by Her Majesty's sworn servants.

London: Printed for Bernard Lintott at the Cross-Keys between the two Temple-gates in Fleetstreet, n.d. [1707]. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [12], 64pp. [-]6, B4-I4. First edition. With the half-title present. Modern light brown half goatskin over marbled boards. ESTC T42205. Worming on lower margin, affecting some words. Based on Racine's Phèdre. This play is further remarkable by virtue of its being the sole genuine classical play of the entire Augustan period. The first edition of Smith's first play. Good.

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Book number: 1913

Catalogue: First Editions, Eighteenth Century Books, Theater

Keywords: Theatre

Swinburne, Algernon Charles. [WITH A LETTER FROM THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON - SWINBURNE'S PUBLISHER].

Erechtheus: A Tragedy.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 105pp. In the original teal cloth binding, gilt fillet border on upper cover. Shelf wear, some miniscule tears at the top and bottom of spine. Corners bumped. With a two-page letter from Watts-Dunton, to Edith C. Pollock, who used the pseudonym 'Thorn Ismay,' and wrote children's books, in reference to a work by Swinburne and his - Watts-Dunton, that is - intent to visit her. A nice item bringing together three British writers of the late nineteenth-century. In its original stamped envelope addressed in Watts-Dunton's hand. Good.

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Book number: 121

Catalogue: First Editions, Signed and/or Presentation Copies, Theater

Keywords: 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE, AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS, ENGLISH POETRY First Editions

Swinburne, Algernon Charles.

Select Poems.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1877. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. First edition. Blue cloth binding. Good.

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Book number: 36

Catalogue: First Editions, Poetry

Keywords: 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH POETRY, POETRY First Editions

Symons, Arthur.

A Book of Twenty Songs.

London: J. M. Dent & Co. 1905. 0. Soft cover. Square 8vo. First edition. Pale green printed wrappers, faded. One corner bumped. Fine copy. Very Good.

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Book number: 394

Catalogue: First Editions, Poetry

Keywords: ENGLISH LITERATURE, POETRY First Editions