MUDIE, Robert (1777-1842)

[Ornithology] [Color Printing] the Feathered Tribes of the British Islands. Complete in Two Volumes

London, Whittaker and Co. Ave Maria Lane, 1835. Decorative Cloth. Second Edition (so stated) of this popular account, containing "the first coloured illustrations ever attempted in a printed book." (Mitzman) Complete in two volumes. Crown 8vo (200 x 117mm): xxiv,[2],379,[5]; [2],391,[5]pp, with tissue-guarded frontispieces, colored title page vignettes by George Baxter, and 27 additional colored full page steel-engraved plates (all tissue-guarded) and text woodcuts. Publisher's forest green pebbled cloth, covers paneled and decorated in blind, spines richly gilt, edges rough-trimmed. Sweetly inscribed to front paste-down of first volume, in elegant contemporary hand: "To / John Stewart Bogg / on his coming of age, / June 27, 1859, / From his affectionate brothers / Edward and Thomas." An exemplary set (aside from marginal foxing to title pages), tightly bound in original cloth and generally clean throughout. Mullens & Swann 1834. Wood, p. 474 (this edition). Zimmer, p. 446 (fourth edition). Nissen IVB 654 (incorrectly identifying plates as chromoxylographed). Lowndes III, p. 1626 (fifth edition). Mitzman, George Baxter and the Baxter Prints, p. 15. First published the previous year. According to the Cyclopædia of English Literature, Mudie wrote or compiled more than 90 books on a staggering array of subjects in various genre, including natural and moral philosophy, the seasons, China, India, copyright, an atlas, a novel, topography, and ornithology. The Feathered Tribes is of particular interest, marking Mudie's first collaboration with George Baxter, who revolutionized color printing, using an intaglio steel plate, usually in aquatint, with color from as many as twenty wood blocks, that lent a "dramatic quality to the Baxter process which was lacking in pure chromoxylography or chromolithography." (Gascoigne, How to Identify Prints, p. 29). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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MULLER, Johannes (1801-1858)

[Natural History] ûber Die Fossilen Reste Der Zeuglodonten Von Nordamerica Mit Rücksicht Auf Die Europäischen Reste Aus Dieser Familie

Berlin, Verlag von G. Reimer, 1849. Morocco. First and only edition of this rare treatise on fossil finds discovered in the Eocene of Alabama, in 1845, and thought to be those of a genus of the whale family. Medium folio (467 x 330mm ): iv, 38 pp. with 27 superb, multi-figure lithographic plates of fossils, many duo tone, variously signed. Text in double columns. Modern quarter black morocco over gray cloth boards, red morocco lettering piece gilt. Tight, square, virtually pristine binding; text and plates with only light scattered foxing. About Fine. Nissen 2919. Sabin 51287 (erroneously noting date of publication as 1819). In the spring of 1847, Albert Koch, a charlatan showman in the mold of P. T, Barnum, displayed in the capitals of Europe the fossil of a supposed gigantic primeval animal, a species of incongruously long (114 feet) sea serpent whose bony parts he had cobbled together at random and to which he gave the name "Hydrarchus sillimani." Koch rationalized the remains attributed to Hydrarchus with a biblical creature: Job's Leviathan. But the anatomist Richard Owen and the geologist Charles Lyell, among others, spotted the hoax. Soon after, King Frederick Wilhelm IV of Prussia acquired the frankenstein for the Royal Museum of Berlin, and Johannes Muller set to work reassembling its parts. In Über die fossilen Reste der Zeuglodonten, Muller reports the results of these investigations. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Whales, Fossil -- North America. Whales, Fossil -- Europe. Paleontology -- Tertiary.

NICKELSON, B. C. (1826-1923)

[Confederate] [Indian Wars] a Brief Sketch of the Life of a Confederate Soldier and the Ups and Downs During Pioneer and Indian Warfare in Texas [Rare Variant]

Dallas, TX, Stellmacher & Clark [Printers], 1928. Half-Morocco. Scarce survival of this sole edition, the far less common variant with "Ex-Confederate" in title. Copyright date is 1928 but author portrait is dated 1929. Crown 8vo (192 x 130mm): 16pp, with portrait frontispiece. Original grey paper wrappers lettered in black and bound in later red half morocco over rose-pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Book label of Charles B. Sanders, Jr. to rear paste-down. An excellent example with variant title, original wrappers preserved, tightly bound and clean throughout. Worldcat Discovery notes only two copies, both in the United States. Dornbusch II, 3025. Nickleson served in the 28th Missouri Cavalry during the Civil War and saw action at Wilson's Creek, Antioch Church, Fayetteville, Devil's Backbone, Fort Smith, Shiloh, and Franklin. He also fought in the Mexican-American War under Winfield Scott, Sam Houston, and others. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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NIGNON, Édouard (1865-1934); Robert de Flers (Introduces); P. F. Grignon (Illustrates)

[Gastronomy] [Food & Drink] Les Plaisirs de la Table. Où, Sous Une Forme Nouvelle, L'Auteur a Dévoilé Maints Délicieux Secrets Et Recettes de Bonne Cuisine, Transcrit Les Précieux Avis de Gourmets Fameux Et de Fins Gastronomes, Conseillers Aimables Et Sûrs de L'Art Du Bien-Manger. Préface de Robert de Flers. Dessins de P.F. Grignon

Paris, Chez l'auteur / chez Lapina, Editeur, 1930. Limited Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Second Revised Edition, "where, in a new form, the author has revealed many delicious secrets and recipes for good cooking, transcribes the precious opinions of famous gourmets and fine gourmets, friendly and sure advisers in the art of eating well," with new introduction by the original dedicatee, Robert de Flers. Copy no. 1259 of 2000 copies on verge, from a total of 2150 copies. 8vo (235 x 190mm): [6],viii,339,[1]pp, with numerous drawings in bistre (chapter head- and tail-pieces and vignettes in text). Original salmon-colored stiff paper wrappers, wraparound deco design in black and bistre, edges untrimmed, illustrated end papers, title page in black and bistre, original book marker (stenciled 1259) laid in. A superb copy, tightly bound and clean throughout (virtually pristine). Oberlé 277-78 ("remarquable"). Cagle 364 (citing this second edition only). First published in 1926. Nignon was chef to the emperors Nicholas II of Russia and Franz Joseph I of Austria as well as at Hotel Claridge's in London. In 1908, he bought Larue Restaurant in Paris, and is regarded as a founder of modern French cuisine, influencing chefs who invented nouvelle cuisine with his use of lighter sauces and seasonings and unusual combinations of ingredients. Flers (1872-1927) was a playwright, librettist, and journalist, and at the time he wrote this preface, literary editor of Le Figaro. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Cuisine française. Gastronomie France. MODERN FIRSTS

NOWELL, John (1794-1869)

An Essay on Cottage Allotment, or Field Garden Cultivation

Huddersfield, Printed and sold by T. Kemp, 1844. Wrappers. First Separate Printing (second edition overall) of Nowell's appeal to his fellow mill-owners and manufacturers. With an Appendix, "Example Schedules from the Eastbourne Self-Supporting Schools." Foolscap 8vo (172 x 105mm): 24pp. Handsomely preserved in recent stitched marbled wrappers, printed paper label to upper cover. An excellent example and rare survival with few institutional copies and none in commerce at this writing. Goldsmiths' 33646. Originally published, the same year, as the concluding section of a paper read before the West-Riding Geological and Polytechnic Society, "An essay on farms of industry ." From 1750 and over the next 100 years, the majority of common land in Britain was enclosed with hedges planted to divide fields, changing the landscape forever and leaving a whole class of rural poor dispossessed and in peril of starvation for lack of food or the land on which to grow it. The General Enclosure Act of 1845, enacted one year after Nowell's appeal, made provisions for the landless poor in the form of field gardens limited to a quarter of an acre. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Working class -- Great Britain -- Social conditions. Landlord and tenant -- Great Britain. Agriculture -- Great Britain. Technical education -- Great Britain. Agricultural education -- Great Britain. Allotment gardens -- Great Britain.

PALGRAVE, Francis T. (1824-1897)

The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language. Selected and Arranged with Notes

Cambridge & London, Macmillan, 1861. First Edition. Original Cloth. Scarce First Impression of this spectacularly successful anthology, collecting the best-loved English poems from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries (from Shakespeare to Shelley, with a heavy dose of the Romantics), establishing a canon of the "best" poems in English literature. Only 2,000 copies of the first impression were printed. Foolscap 8vo (158 x 102mm): [12],332pp, with tissue-guarded title-page vignette engraved by C. H. Jeens after the sculptor Thomas Woolner, who shared a house with Palgrave in the early 1860s (apparently a self-portrait of Woolner in the guise of Pan fluting beneath a sapling). Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt seal within double-ruled gilt frame to front cover, rear cover framed in blind, coated chocolate-brown end papers, edges untrimmed. Contemporary binder's ticket to rear paste-down. Short tear neatly closed on p. 227, else a bright, fresh, fine copy, tightly bound and clean throughout. Foxon, "Bibliographical Notes and Queries", The Book Collector, Autumn 1955, pp. 252-53 and Spring 1956, p. 75. Spevack, "The Golden Treasury: 150 Years On," British Library Journal, 2012. Carter (Binding Variants), p. 113. J. W. Mackail, writing in the Dictionary of National Biography, called The Golden Treasury "one of those rare instances in which a critical work has substantive imaginative value, entitl[ing] its author to rank among creative artists." Arriving in England, in 1912, Robert Frost announced: I have "come to the land of The Golden Treasury. That is what I came for." Palgrave, advised by his friend Alfred Lord Tennyson (to whom The Golden Treasury is dedicated), omitted verse from this anthology by then-living writers, and his choices clearly reflect the preferences of his times. According to Foxon, the scarce first impression is distinguished by four hallmarks: half-title in Roman capitals (later changed to Gothic type), '4/6' price to foot of spine (later removed), second paragraph of Preface in three lines, four notes on p. 323) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Sonstige Stichworte: MODERN FIRSTS

PAPWORTH, J[ohn]. B[uonarotti]., 1775-1847

[Color Plate] Select Views of London. With Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Some of the Most Interesting of Its Public Buildings

London, Printed for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, by J. Diggens, St. Ann's Lane, 1816. Half-Morocco. First Edition in book form of "one of the great books of London." (Franklin), collecting a series of architectural notes describing contemporary London for Ackermann's Repository, illustrated with colored aquatints and originally published in serial form between 1810-1815. This is the issue without Papworth's name on title page (no priority established). Imperial 8vo: [8],159,[1]pp, with 76 delicately hand-colored aquatints (five folding), by J. Hamble and Joseph Constantine Stadler after Papworth and Augustus Pugin, "of past London, with representations of City churches and other topographical features now no longer in existence" (Prideaux). Later green morocco over navy pebbled cloth, flat spine (sunned to brown) lavishly gilt, all edges marbled, marbled end papers. A fine Ackermann production in a tall, attractive copy, beautifully bound, occasional light offsetting and scattered foxing, plates fresh, clean and bright. Provenance: small, discreet book label of Le Baron E. de Thysebaert to corner of front paste-down. Tooley 361. Abbey (Scenery) 217. Prideaux, p. 143-44. Franklin, pp. 90-91 ("The seventy-eight [sic] plates are excellent, printing and colouring more careful than in their first journal appearance ."). Papworth (he adopted the second name of Buonarroti after friends acclaimed him a second Michelangelo following his design for a Waterloo trophy), one of Ackermann's stalwarts, was an architect; designer of furniture, decorations, accessories, and store fronts, and landscape gardener. He designed Ackermann's showroom at 101 Strand. The views here are divided into two sections: the first, of places of worship, entertainment, and residences; the second, of mercantile and financial establishments (the Guildhall plate is additional, those of showroom interiors were omitted). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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PARKMAN, Francis (1823-1893)

New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. First Edition thus. Hardcover. First Printing of this edition with numerous illustrations by James Daugherty of Parkman's classic account of a summer tour, in 1846, of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas, "with a view of studying the manners and character of Indians in their primitive state." . Introduction by Mark Van Doren, Tall, thick 8vo (212 x 141mm): xvii,[1],385,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven butterscotch cloth, spine lettered in maroon, upper cover with maroon vignette of Sioux warrior and galloping mount, double-page pictorial title (in addition to letterpress title), fore-edge untrimmed; beautifully illustrated dust jacket priced $1.00. A superlative example, tightly bound and all but pristine. Grolier (American) 100, 58 ("one of the exuberant masterpieces of American literature" and the "classic account of the emigrant journey to the Rockies"). PMM 327. Field 1177 ("It is not too high praise of his work to say, that his pictures of savage life are not excelled by the narratives which had their birth in the personal experiences of Washington Irving, or the imagination of Fenimore Cooper."). Larned 2062 ("one of the classics of western narratives. No other book on the West has enjoyed equal popularity."). Hubach, p. 100 ("No other book contains a more graphic presentation of the panorama of Western migration during this period"). Originally serialized in twenty-one installments in Knickerbocker's Magazine (1847-49), Parkman's account is "one part history and two parts travel narrative and adventure story. There are many and better accounts of life among the settles of the West; but Parkman has given us a unique picture of life in a Sioux village before it was changed and eventually destroyed by contact with the white man. By what Parkman called 'a sly trick' the publisher of the first book editions changed the title to The California and Oregon Trail, Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life, hoping to capitalize on public interest in the California Gold Rush. Eventually [when Little, Brown, in this edition] decided to reissue the work in 1872 with a new preface by the author, Parkman insisted on a return to the original title, The Oregon Trail." (PMM) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine.

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PATERSON, Daniel (1738-1825)

A New and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales [Bound with] a Travelling Dictionary: Or, Alphabetical Tables of the Distance of All the Principal Cities, Borough, Market, and Sea-Port Towns, in Great Britain, from Each Other. Shewing by Inspection the Number of Miles Every City or Town in the Kingdom Is Distant from Any Other, According to the Nearest Direct or Cross Road. Comprehending Above Fifty Thousand Distances, Carefully Collected from the Best Authorities, and Arranged in a Manner Entirely New and Plain. To Which Is Added, a Table, Shewing the Distance of the Towns, Bridges, &C. Upon the River Thames, from Each Other by Water. The Whole Being a Second Part to the New and Accurate Description of the Roads

London, printed for T. N. Longman, Pater-Noster-Row [from 1771], 1794. Early Reprint. Stiff Wraps. 8vo: xxxvi,380 numbered columns,381-394pp, with double-page copper-engraved map as frontispiece; [4],216pp. ESTC Citation No. T93564 and T93553. Finely bound to style by Fitterer in stiff beige wraps, printed paper spine label. Binding and text block clean, bright and unmarked save for offsetting from engraved map. A superlative copy. Fordham (Road-Books), pp. 27 and 29. Roscoe, (John Newbery) A399/6. Not in Hodson. The tenth edition: with the addition of near ninety pages, including considerable improvements in the direct roads, many new cross roads, and a great number of noblemen's and gentlemen's seats. Tenth Edition of the first work (1794; originally published 1771) "With the Addition of near Ninety Pages, including considerable Improvements in the direct Roads, many new Cross Roads, and a great Number of Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats"; Sixth Edition (1792), improved and corrected, of the second work, with separate title page. Although Paterson contributed no significant innovations to the compilation of road books, relying on the advances of Norden, Ogilby, and others, he "made improvements in style and presentation and added factual detail—so much so that his name was for many years an indicator of reliability in road books, and was attached to them long after he had stopped compiling them." (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Roads—Great Britain. Great Britain—Description and travel—1701-1800.

PATERSON, Daniel (1738-1825)

A New and Accurate Description of All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales

London, printed for T. N. Longman, Pater-Noster-Row, 1794. Early Reprint. Wraps. Small 8vo: xxxvi,380 numbered columns,381-394 [Index to the County Seats]pp, with folding copper-engraved map frontispiece. Recently bound to style by Fitterer in drab wraps, printed paper spine label, end papers renewed. A Very Good or better copy (map and title page lightly browned, browning and creases to some early page margins only), in a Fine binding. Lowndes 1798. Fordham (Road-Books), p. 27. Not in Hodson. Tenth edition (originally published 1771), with "addition of nearly ninety pages, including considerable improvements in the direct roads, many new cross roads, and a great number of noblemen's and gentlemen's seats." Although Paterson contributed no significant innovations to the compilation of road books, relying on the advances of Norden, Ogilby, and others, he "made improvements in style and presentation and added factual detail—so much so that his name was for many years an indicator of reliability in road books, and was attached to them long after he had stopped compiling them." (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Very Good+ .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Roads—Great Britain. Great Britain—Description and travel—1701-1800.

[PEACOCK, Thomas Love, 1785-1866]

[Gothic Novel] Nightmare Abbey: By the Author of Headlong Hall

London, Printed for T. Hookham, Jun. Old Bond-Street; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster-Row, 1818. Half-Calf. First Edition of "the most esteemed of Peacock's seven novels." (Kiernan) 12mo (165 x 95mm): [4],218pp. Contemporary butterscotch half-calf over marbled boards, flat spine in six compartments divided by gilt rules, title direct to second compartment, others with gilt pinwheel device; stenciled arms to front paste-down. Binding lightly rubbed, else a handsome copy, fresh, bright and virtually free of foxing. Sadleir 1957f. Kiernan (Frivolity Unbound), pp. 29-37. Butler (Peacock Displayed), pp 102-39. In Nightmare Abbey, Peacock pokes fun at the gloom and melancholy of the gothic genre and satirizes the Romantics, principally Byron, Coleridge, and Shelley. "Though it received little notice on its first appearance, Nightmare Abbey is now perhaps Peacock's Pride and Prejudice, his most generally liked and frequently read book." (Butler) Given the same year of publication and that both satirize the gothic, Nightmare Abbey is frequently compared with Austen's Northanger Abbey, although, as Howard Mills points out (in Peacock: The Satirical Novels, pp. 200-230), "Unlike Jane Austen, Peacock is more interested in ideas than people." Peacock, a friend of Shelley, wrote novels that combined elements of fantasy and social commentary. This, his third, represents a return to the pattern of Headlong Hall, his first. But if "Headlong Hall provides the primordial setting for a wide-ranging Enlightenment debate on human progress, Nightmare Abbey seems like nothing so much as a kind of gothic confection with its sliding panels and secret apartments. It is described as 'a venerable family-mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapitation, pleasantly situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens, at the verge of the county of Lincoln'. Nightmare Abbey's debates focus on the morbid turn taken by modern literature. Scythrop Glowry [a caricature of Shelley] is the extreme instance of where such morbid tendencies can lead — especially when coupled with an inability (like the heroine of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey) to distinguish between life and literature." (Literary Encyclopedia) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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PECK, Francis (1692-1743)

Desiderata Curiosa: Or, a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces Relating Chiefly to Matters of English History; Consisting of Choice Tracts, Memoirs, Letters, Wills, Epitaphs, &C. Transcribed, Many of Them, from the Originals Themselves, and the Rest from Divers Antient Ms. Copies, or the Ms. Collections of Sundry Famous Antiquaries and Other Eminent Persons, Both of the Last and Present Age: The Whole, As Near As Possible, Digested Into an Order of Time, and Illustrated with Ample Notes, Contents, Additional Discourses, and a Complete Index

London, printed for Thomas Evans in the Strand, 1779. First Edition thus. Paper-Covered Boards. Large Paper Copy ("A new Edition, greatly corrected, with some Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Peck") of this "curious collection of original papers, relating chiefly to English history." (Lowndes) Two volumes bound as one, each with separate title page but continuously paginated. 4to (307 x 235mm): xvii,[7],238,[10]; vi,[10],[239]-581,[9]pp, with engraved portrait frontispiece of the author and nine copper-engraved plates. Pages. 420 and 426 misnumbered 400 and 406, respectively. Recent period-style blue-grey paper-covered boards by Fitterer, beige paper spine with paper title label printed in black, end-papers renewed. Several leaves heavily dust-speckled, several others lightly so, else a finely bound wide-margined copy, fresh, bright, and clean throughout with tissue guards protecting all plates. Lowndes IV: 1812. Lewine, p. 406 ("of about the same value" as the first edition of 1732-35). Peck was elected a member of the Society of Antiquaries on 9 March 1732, the same year he published the first section of his illustrated Desiderata curiosa, the work for which he became best known. A second volume appeared in 1735. The eighteenth-century antiquary William Cole was not impressed: "Had he lived longer we might have had many more curious pieces of antiquity, which he seems to have been in possession of; but the chief and great failing of this gentleman seemed to be an eager desire to publish as little in one volume as he could, in order to eke out his collection. His ‘Desiderata Curiosa' is full of curious things, but he has so disjointed, mangled, and new-sentenced all of them, and what with detached books, chapters, and heads of the chapters, that, in endeavouring to be more than ordinarily clear, he has become at many times quite the reverse." (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Great Britain—History—Source. Great Britain—History—Elizabeth, 1558-1603. Great Britain—History—Early Stuarts, 1603-1649. Great Britain—Antiquities—Early works to 1800.

[PHILLIPS, Sir Richard, 1767-1840]

[Juvenile] the Wonders of the Telescope. By the Author of "the Wonders of the Microscope

London, William Darton & Son, Holborn Hill, 1830. Quarter Sheep. Scarce early edition of this beautifully illustrated children's book. 12mo (144 x 89 mm): iv,5-156pp, with folding engraved frontispiece of the solar system and 13 further plates, most folding and all but two dated 1823. Of special note is the plate of Herschel's 40-foot telescope, constructed between 1785 and 1789 and shortly to be dismantled, in 1839. Original red quarter skiver, spine lettered longitudinally in gilt, marbled paper-covered boards. Neat gift inscription (dated 1898) to front fly leaf; recent book label of Stanley Scott, Chard, Somerset, to rear paste-down. Professionally refurbished and now presenting attractively: two closed tears to frontispiece skillfully mended with Japanese tissue, else tightly bound, with pages and plates remarkably fresh and bright. Darton H1605(2). Paul, Children's Book Business: Lessons from the Long Eighteenth Century. Osborne, p. 216 (for first edition). First published in 1805 and again in 1809, here issued by Quaker publisher William Darton. Sir Richard Phillips, a friend of Priestley and a fascinating figure in the Regency world of letters, published the first edition, and he may have been the author: Phillips founded a philosophical society whose activates included astronomical observations. The Wonders of the Telescope was recommended by educator Eliza Fenwick in her Visits to the Juvenile Library (1805), where it is described, on a visit to Tabart's bookshop, as "two [the other was The Wonders of the Microscope] of the most popular books in the shop" (cited in Paul, p. 91). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

[Collected Works in Original Cloth] the Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe : With Notices of His Life and Genius... In Two Volumes; [Offered with] the Literati : Some Honest Opinions About Autorial Merits and Demerits, with Occasional Words of Personality Together with Marginalia, Suggestions, and Essays [Association Copies]

New York, J. S. Redfield, Clinton Hall, Nassau-Street, 1850. Decorative Cloth. Three First Editions (second printings of volumes 1 and 2, per BAL; first printing of volume 3) of the first collection of Poe's poetry and prose, edited by N. P. Willis, J. R. Lowell, and R. W. Griswold. Crown 8vo (185 x 113mm): xx,483,[5]; vi,[7]-495,[1]; xxxix,[1],607,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Poe to volume one. Original purple elaborately blind-stamped T-cloth (also issued in black, blue, green-blue, and brown), spines lettered in gilt. Contemporary ownership inscriptions of Caroline Chesebro to each volume, dated in the year of publication, and of Robert H. Chesebro, dated Sept. 1923. An excellent matched set in original cloth, tightly bound (spines sunned but gilt bright) and generally clean throughout (light intermittent foxing to volumes one and two). BAL 16158 and 16159. Robertson, p. 289. Heartman & Canny, pp. 88-91. Tane, p. 99. Sabin 63522 and 63570. Published as a two-volume set one year after Poe's untimely death, the first volume contains Poe's tales and the second his poems. The third volume, containing his criticism and including Rufus Wilmot Griswold's infamous memoir, a slanderous and inaccurate account of Poe's life, also appeared in 1850. A fourth volume (BAL 16161), with Arthur Gordon Pym and other prose works, intended as a companion to reprints of the first three, was not published until 1856. Caroline Chesebro (March 30, 1825 - February 16, 1873) was an American writer of fiction, including short stories and novels. Born "Caroline Chesebrough" but known by her preferred spelling of "Caroline Chesebro," she was founder of The Packard Quarterly. In 1848, she became a contributor to Graham's American Monthly Magazine, which Poe edited and in which he first published "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," now recognized as the first detective story. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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POE, Edgar Allan (1809 -1849); Thomas Brown

The Conchologist's First Book : A System of Testaceous Malacology, Arranged Expressly for the Use of Schools, in Which the Animals, According to Cuvier, Are Given with the Shells : A Great Number of New Species Added and the Whole Brought Up, As Accurately As Possible, to the Present Condition of the Science

Philadelphia, Published for the author, by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, and for sale by the principal booksellers in the United States, 1840. Quarter-Calf. Second Edition (revised and enlarged from the first edition issued the previous year, with new preface by Poe) of this text printed under Poe's name but practically a reprint of Thomas Brown's The Conchologist's Text-Book (Glasgow, 1833). Foolscap 8vo (170 x 104mm): [ii],[3],4-166,[2]pp, with twelve lithographic plates of shells. Mint green paper-covered boards printed in black (modeled on those of Brown's fourth edition of 1836), brown calf spine in six compartments divided by gilt rules stamped in gilt. One of the copies with uncolored plates and plate III in BAL's state B (no known priority), titled "Part of Shells." Light wear to spine ends and board edges; pages and plates intermittently spotted (occasionally moderately so), but an excellent example, securely bound and generally clean throughout, with brief, scattered lightly penciled notations in contemporary hand. BAL 16132. Robertson, pp. 42-45 (especially for discussion of Thomas Wyatt and Isaac Lea's unacknowledged adaptation of Brown's book). Heartman & Canny, pp. 41-44. Tane, p. 45 ("Poe took four of Brown's plates and extensive portions of the text"). *Rinderknecht (American Imprints) 40-5476. Tucher 1754 (calling the book a piracy). Poe, desperately in need of money, allowed his name to be used to popularize this book; he was responsible for several significant changes to Wyatt's text, in addition to writing the brief preface and introduction. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). .

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