Paul Adrien

Le Pilote Willis Pour Faire Suite Au Robinson Suisse

Paris , Tour Ad Mame Et Cie , 1858. Leather. A French story of travel and adventure. Handsomely bound in a quarter morocco binding. A French adventure story written by Paul Adrien. This copy includes nine plates in volume one and eleven plates in volume two.Each plate explores depicts the range of conflicting settings from the wilderness to the stately home. This novel is highly influenced by 19th century gender politics, each plate reflects patriarchal attitudes toward women who are shown to be subservient to men. Bound in a quarter morocco. Externally generally smart. Slight loss to the head of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Spotting throughout. A small tide mark from the first leaf to page 24. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Buchzahl: 879V46

Katalog: World Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: Literature French 2 volumes French None

William Harrison Ainsworth

The Works of Ainsworth

London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. c1890. Leather. A handsome sixteen volume set of illustrated works by Ainsworth in half red morocco. Sixteen volumes. Complete in sixteen. 'Author's copyright edition' stated to the title page to some of the works. Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper to the boards. Raised bands and gilt details to the spine. Illustrated by various artists including the renowned 'Phiz', best known for his illustrations for Charles Dickens. Also illustrated by George Cruikshank, John Franklin and John Gilbert. With frontispieces, vignettes and;  39 plates to 'Tower of London', 7 to ' Star-Chamber',  14 to 'Auriol',  16 to 'Crichton', 15 to 'Boscobel', 18 to 'Windsor Castle', 26 to 'Jack Sheppard', 20 to 'Old St Pauls', 7 7o 'Ovingdean Grange', 7 to 'Spendthrift', 21 to 'Guy Fawkes , 19 to 'Miser's Daughter', 17 to 'Rookwood', 11 to 'Lancashire Witches', 11 to 'Flitch of Bacon' and 22 to 'Mervyn Clitheros&apos. This collection features the complete works of English historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth. He is best known for his work 'Rookwood, which can be found in this collection, which features the character 'Dick Turpin' as the main character.Undated. Dated by copies found on Jisc. Bound in half morocco with paper to the boards. Externally excellent with very slight fading to the spines and the odd mark only. Internally firmly bound with light age toning and the odd spot, heavier to the front and rear. Near Fine . Ill.: Phiz; George Cruikshank; John Gilbert; Tony Johannot. Near Fine .

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Buchzahl: 880Z30

Katalog: World Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: Illustrated Half morocco Literary collections Half morocco Phiz; George Cruikshank; John Gilbert; Tony Johannot

Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Dorothy Britton; E. G. Seidensticker

Tu Tze-Chun

London , Kodansha International and Ward Lock & Company, 1965. First edition. Cloth. A first English edition of this Japanese short story with woodcuts. A first English translated edition of Tu Tze-Chun by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, translated by Dorothy Britton. With woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara and an introduction by E. G. Seidensticker. This is an English translated copy of Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Tu Tze-Chun. Ryunosuke Akutagawa was a Japanese writer active in the Taisho period in Japan, regarded as the father of the Japanese short story. With woodcuts throughout the text. In the original slipcase. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original slipcase which is very smart with some fading to the boards and spine. Fine . Ill.: Naoko Matsubara. Fine .

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Buchzahl: 852B14

Katalog: World Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Dorothy Britton Tu Tze-Chun world literature Tu Tze-Chun Naoko Matsubara

Marianna Alcoforado; Edgar Prestage [trans.]

The Letters of a Portuguese Nun

Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1900 . First edition. Leather. A scarce Limited Edition of this series of five passionate letters between a Portuguese nun and her French lover. In a lovely full calf signed binding. A scarce, Limited Edition of this collection of passionate letters with a much contested authorship; scholars now believe it to be a work of epistolary fiction written by Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, a minor peer, a friend of Madame de Sevigne, the poet Boileau, and the dramatist Jean Racine.To the verso of the title page it is remarked that 'this First Edition on Van Gelder paper consists of 925 copies&apos. The first edition thus, being the first American edition translated by Edgar Prestage, and published by Thomas Bird Mosher.Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper, binder's stamp to verso of front free endpaper.In a bright full calf signed binding from Otto Schulze, this is a lovely edition of this passionate work, first published in 1669. In a full calf signed binding, with gilt detailing. Rubbing to back strip head and tail, with light discolouration to back strip. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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Buchzahl: 820F10

Katalog: World Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: otto schulze Letters of a Portuguese Nun Jean Racine Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne Letters of a Portuguese Nun None

Louisa M. Alcott; Daniel Defoe; Max Pemberton; John Buchan; Frances Jenkins Olcott

Assorted Works of Children&Apos;S Literature

London, Associated Newspaper, Ltd. c1932. Cloth. An unusually bright collection of four important pieces of children's literature, illustrated in colour and in splendid decorative bindings. 'Little Women' was written by Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) and follows the four March sisters as they navigate adolescence; scholars often describe it as being semi-autobiographical, inspired by the author's time in her family home with three sisters. Alcott later wrote two sequels, 'Little Men' and 'Jo's Boys&apos.'Robinson Crusoe' was written by Daniel Defoe (c1660-1731), an English writer who produced over three hundred works in his lifetime. 'Robinson Crusoe' has a legacy unlike any other, having forged a genre of its own and inspiring copycat books starring castaways on desert islands, such as 'Swiss Family Robinson', 'Lord of the Flies' and Jules Verne's 'Mysterious Island&apos. 'The Arabian Nights' Entertainment' is a collection written in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It was collected over hundreds of years by authors, translators and scholars across Asia and North Africa. Famed tales within include 'The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor', 'Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp' and 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves&apos.'The Magic Walking Stick' was written by John Buchan and is a children's work telling the tale of Bill and his magic walking-stick which can transport him anywhere.Sir Max Pemberton's 'The Iron Pirate' was the author's best-known work, and saw enormous popularity in the 1890s. It is the tale of a high-seas adventure.The Iron Pirate contains a set of six lovely postcards relating to the work in an envelope pasted to the front pastedown.Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece in full colour, as well as containing colour plates by various artists.Undated; dated from copies on Jisc.Published by Associated Newspapers, Ltd.Four beautiful examples of these important classic pieces of fiction, scarcely found in such a well-preserved set. In a full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Internally, firmly bound. Pages have the odd instance of spotting but are otherwise bright. Near Fine . Ill.: Percy Tarrant; Elenore Plaisted Abbott; Ellis Silas; Vernon L. Soper; Monro S. Orr. Near Fine .

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Buchzahl: 770R97

Katalog: World Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: Little Women Louisa May Alcott Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Louisa May Alcott Arabian Nights Magic Walking Stick Percy Tarrant; Elenore Plaisted Abbott; Ellis Silas; Vernon L. Soper; Monro S. Orr

Mateo Aleman

Primera Y Segunda Parte de Guzman de Alfarache

Burgos, Iuan Bautista Varesio, 1619. Vellum. A very scarce, first complete edition of Aleman's famous picaresque romance. In the original Spanish.'Guzman de Alfarache' was published in two parts, the first part in Madrid in 1599 and the second in Lisbon in 1604. This is the first edition published with both parts as one. This novel follows the adventures of a young rogue and is told from an autobiographical standpoint. The adult narrator looks back on his youthful years and picaresque adventures and moralizes on the childish excesses. Parallels have been drawn to other contemporary picaresque novels such as 'Lazarillo de Thomas&apos. With the signatures: *12, A-P8, Q2, jj8, A-T8, V10.Collated, complete. The catchwords to *6-9, *11-12 are obscured due to the way the leaves have been torn from the work. With a separate title page, register and pagination to second part.An English edition of this work was not published until 1622. This was a highly popular work, and subsequently translated into many languages. In a contemporary vellum binding. Externally, very smart. Light marks to the boards and spine. Loss to the spine label. Internally, the title page and a further 11 of the preliminary leaves are detached but present. Chips to the extremities of the detached leaves and some loss to the catch-words. A1 is also detached but present, with a tear to the leaf. Otherwise, this work is firmly bound. Occasional worm tracks to pages, heaviest to 2S-2V gatherings. Closely cropped to the head of V9. Pages are very bright with just the occasional light spots to pages. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Buchzahl: 722L11

Katalog: World Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: Picaresque Romance Novel Romance None

Vittorio Alfieri

Vita Di Vittorio Alfieri Da Asti

Firenze [Florence], Leonardo Ciardetti, 1822. Leather. The autobiography of famed Italian tragedian Vittorio Alfieri, in the original Italian. Two volumes bound together in half vellum, in the original Italian.Published posthumously, this autobiography is Vittorio Alfieri's chief work of prose. An Italian dramatist and poet, Alfieri is often considered to be the 'founder of Italian tragedy&apos. He composed nineteen tragedies, alongside sonnets, satires and epigrams. Despite a dramatic and troubled existence, this work is surprising in the cold and languid gravity he applies to the most interesting adventures and strongest passions of his life in nineteenth century Italy.These works are bound with their individual title pages, and with an illustrated frontispiece to each volume. In the original half vellum binding with cloth covered boards. Marks to the boards, age toning to back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Buchzahl: 781F24

Katalog: World Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: Italy Italian Literature Autobiography Vellum Italian Literature None

Dante Alighieri

Dante Illustrated by Gustave Dore: Inferno Purgatory and Paradise

London, Cassell & Company Limited, 1903-04. Paperback. The complete thirty-six parts of Gustave Dore's illustrated 'Divine Comedy' of Dante by Cassell & Company. Complete in thirty six parts.Casell's illustrated edition of Dante Alighieri's long narrative poem, telling of the author's journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise while representing the soul's journey to God. A very important Italian work. The English translation of the Rev Henry Francis Cary. With critical and explanatory notes, life of Dante, and chronology.Featuring 136 full page plates by Gustave Dore, popular and prolific artist and wood engraver. His art is widely recognised all over the world due to his bizarre and exuberant style that creates dream like scenarios, widely emulated by Romantic academics. Collated, complete. Often described as the father of the Italian language, Dante Alighieri was a mediaeval poet and philosopher, known for his poem Divina Commedia, and for his use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin; much of his work was written in Tuscan dialect, which was more accessible to all readers.Advertisements internally to wraps as well as period advertisements bound in to occasional front. In the original publisher's wraps. Externally with light wear to extremities, with occasional wraps a trifle rubbed with chipping and light loss to spine and extremities. Wraps soiled and lightly marked. Loss of spine vol. I, with rear wrap loose but present. Spine and wraps vol. 28 restored with light loss to titles front wrap. Internally, text block firmly bound. Minor faint staining mark affecting frontispiece vol. I to top margin, not affecting the illustration. Spotting scattered to leaves. Good . Ill.: Gustave Dore. Good .

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Buchzahl: 870A16

Katalog: World Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: dante alighieri divina commedia gustave dore divina commedia Gustave Dore

H C Andersen; Louis Demouceaux

Nouveaux Contes

Versailles, Imprimerie de E Aubert, 1874. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce, first French language edition of Hans Christian Andersen's tales. Translated into French by Louis Demouceaux. A very scarce edition of Hans Christian Andersen's tales,  especially scarce in commerce. With an original photo portrait frontispiece taken in Versailles. Tales include 'Au Moulin', 'L'Aire', 'Le Petit Rudy' and 'Le Papillon&apos. In the publisher's original wraps. Externally, sound. Chips to the spine. Small loss to the head of the spine. Patches of rubbing to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Occasional light spots to pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Buchzahl: 779L4

Katalog: World Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: Demouceaux Andersen Hans Christian Andersen Andersen None

J. R. L. Anderson

Reckoning on Ice

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1971. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this thriller by John Richard Lane in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. This thriller was written by John Richard Lane Anderson, a British journalist and writer. The work follows a scientist who believes someone is out to steal his work, enlisting a young accountant to investigate. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely with only the odd spot to the endpapers. The wrap is excellent with only slight creasing to the head and tail, slight marks and a chip to the tail of the front flyleaf. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with the odd minor spot only. Spotting to the fore edge. Near Fine . Ill.: none. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Buchzahl: 890Z20

Katalog: World Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: First edition Thriller J. R. L. Anderson Fiction Thriller none

Anon

La Dote Di Susetta Romanzo Francese Della Fine Del Secolo XVIII

Siena, Nella Tipografia di Guido Mucci, 1829. Fine Binding. An Italian translation of a French romantic novel. The author of this work is not known. With an introduction by Giovanni Rosini. Rosini was an Italian writer and Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Pisa. With an engraved frontispiece. In Italian translated from the original French. In a full morocco binding with gilt stamping to the board edges and to the spine. Externally, generally smart with rubbing to the head and tail of spine as well as to the extremities. A few light marks to the boards. Front hinge is strained but firm. Marks to the front pastedown. Prior owner's inscription to the recto of front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with just the odd spot. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Buchzahl: 565L1

Katalog: World Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: Italian Novels Translation Illustrated Novels None

Anon

Historical and Romantic Legends of France

London, W. Brittain, 1841. Leather. A scarce volume on Historical and Romantic Legends of France. Illustrated with numerous engravings on wood. Two volumes bound as one. In a half black calf leather binding with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, worn. Corners are bumped. Front joint in tender. Internally, binding is loosening in places. Both hinges are weak. Pages are generally bright and clean with some scattered light foxing and age-toning. There is a bookplate to the front pastedown. There are also ink stamps to the recto of front free end papers and title-page. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .

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Buchzahl: LTH4-C-17

Katalog: World Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: History Legends France French Legends None

Anon and B Disraeli

Uncle Tom in England or a Proof That Black&Apos;S White an Echo to the American &Apos;Uncle Tom&Apos; and Venetia

London, Houlston and Stoneman, 1852-3. Leather. Two interesting novels bound as one. The first, Uncle Tom in England appears to be an english novel which draws a parallel to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. The author is not attributed, although to the rear there is an essay by anti-slavery campaigner and president of the British and Foreign anti-slavery society, Thomas Clarkson. To the preface is written that the author has connected its plot to the work of Mrs Stowe and is therefore to be looked on as an Echo or sequel to 'Uncle Tom&apos. Several characters share their names with Stowe's. This is the third edition of Uncle Tom in England, printed the same year as the first American edition. Uncle tom in England is an extremely scarce and unusual text. The second novel to this text is Benjamin Disraeli's novel Venetia. Venetia was originally released in 1837 and was published so as to form an income for Disraeli in a time of need. It is a romance based on the characters of Shelley and Byron. In a half calf binding with paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart with heavy rubbing to spine and boards. Spine label and head and tail of spine are particularly rubbed. Front hinge is slightly strained but firm. Prior owner's inscription to front pastedown 'John P Maitland Family Heriloom&apos. Another inscription to recto of front endpaper dated 1918. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned to edges with scattered spots throughout. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Buchzahl: LTH3-F-24

Katalog: World Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: Slavery England Uncle tom Disraeli England None

Anonymous; Eugene Mason

Aucassin & Nicolette

London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1910. Fine Binding. A beautifully illustrated English translation of this medieval French story, handsomely bound in half calf by Hatchards. 1910 Edition, part of the 'Some Tales of Old Romance' series.This is a wonderful medieval French story, which was circulated anonymously in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This work is an example of 'chantefable', which is a 'sung story' in which prose and verse are combined into one form. 'Aucassin and Nicolette' is known only from one surviving manuscript which was discovered by a medievalist in 1752. This story recounts the tale of Aucassin, the son of Count Garin of Beaucaire, who is in love with a Saracen maiden who was sold to his father and undergoes an adventure of torment and passion with her. Translated from the French by Eugene Mason. Illustrations include a frontispiece, five colour plates, and a range of in-text hand coloured illustrations, all by Maxwell Armfield. Collated and complete. Handsomely bound in half calf with cloth boards by Hatchards, with their binder's stamp to the verso of the front free-endpaper. Containing an ink inscription from a previous owner to one of the front free-endpapers, dated 1924. Handsomely bound in half calf with cloth boards by Hatchards, with their binder's stamp to the verso of the front free-endpaper. Externally, very smart, with just some very light shelf wear and a small amount of rubbing to the extremities. Containing an ink inscription from a previous owner to one of the front free-endpapers. Internally, front hinge is very lightly strained, though remaining binding is firm. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Maxwell Armfield. Very Good Indeed .

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Buchzahl: 826J2

Katalog: World Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: aucassin nicolette french eugene mason nicolette hatchards Maxwell Armfield

Anonymous

Life of a Fox, Written by Himself

London, Whittaker & Co. 1843. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this charming biography of a fox, with illustrations by Thomas Moore. The uncommon first edition. Illustrated by Thomas Smith with a frontispiece and four plates. Collated complete. This work features an endearing fictional autobiography of a fox named Wiley. The fox documents his life, discussing escaping from hunting parties with the intention of this work to be to inform the huntsman of what became of the fox that alluded them. The work is dedicated to 'Charles Earl of Hardwick' who he explains hunted him for many years and whose land he promises not to trespass upon again. The work also includes a brief extract from 'Diary of a Huntsman' which was written by the author and illustrator of this work, T. Smith. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally sound with front and rear joints tender, marks and slight rubbing and fading to the boards, bumping to the extremities, small closed tears to the head and tail of the spine and fading to the spine with evidence of tape repairs to the spine and rear board. Hinges weak with bookseller's label to the front pastedown and binder's label to the rear with the odd mark. Internally rear blank starting, otherwise firmly bound, with occasional tidemarks, minor marks and the odd spot. Evidence of tape repairs the the half title. Good . Ill.: Thomas Smith. Good .

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Buchzahl: 884Z29

Katalog: World Literature

Sonstige Stichworte: Fox Hunting First edition Illustrated Hunting Thomas Smith