WAVELL, A. J. B. (Arthur John Byng, 1881-1916)

[Ottoman Empire] a Modern Pilgrim in Mecca and a Siege in Sanaa

London, John Constable, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce First Printing of this clandestine tour of the Near East. Demy 8vo (213 x 138mm): viii,[2],349,[1]pp, with seven plates from photographs (one a map) and large folding map of Arabia in black and blue inserted at rear. Publisher's Prussian blue cloth stamped in gilt. End papers renewed, map with expertly repaired tear and several place names neatly underlined in red crayon, else an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. In Wavell's day, few Christians had visited Mecca, and fewer still Medina. At age twenty-six, in 1908, he traveled in disguise via Beirut and Damascus, reaching Medina by the Hedjaz railway. After some weeks' stay, he traveled secretly to Sanaa, where he witnessed the siege of January to March, 1911, when the Yemenis sought to drive out the Turks. He describes tensions between the non-Turkish population of the Ottoman Empire and their rulers, who tried to "Turkeycise" their subjects. His two companions were an Arab from Aleppo and a Mombassa Swahili. To avoid detection, Wavell told Arabs that his language was Swahili (he was fluent), and when he met natives of East Africa, said he spoke only Arabic. 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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WEISSE, John A. (1810 -1888); Samuel Birch (1813-1885)

[Masonry] [Cleopatra's Needle] [Central Park Obelisk] the Obelisk and Freemasonry According to the Discoveries of Belzoni and Commander Gorringe. Also Egyptian Symbols Compared with Those Discovered in American Mounds

New York, J. W. Bouton, 1880. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this consideration claiming correspondences between ancient Egyptian obelisks and Freemasonry, shedding light on the beginnings of civilization. Demy 8vo (231 x 141mm): [2],178,34pp, with tissue-guarded frontispiece, six additional full-page plates of the Central Park obelisk, its construction, and symbols (three in color), and numerous line drawings. Publisher's blue-green cloth, front cover paneled in blind with gilt obelisk device, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, leaf-patterned end papers. Ex libris to front paste-down of freemasonry Lodge "Mark Masons Hall" and of Masonic member Wolfram Kraffert. Faint red band, an ancient Egyptian symbol of regeneration and of Freemasonry, to lower spine. A beautifully preserved example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Weisse was a French-American physician, philologist, and archaeologist with interests in both Freemasonry and ancient Egypt. The focus of his treatise is the connection between Freemasonry and Henry Honeychurch Gorringe's discovery of Masonic emblems and symbols on the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, which, at the time of this writing, was in the hold of the steamship S.S. Dessoug on its way to New York. Gorringe and Giovanni Battista Belzoni, an Italian adventurer and sometime archaeologist, believed that secret societies akin to Freemasonry predated construction of obelisks and pyramids in ancient Egypt, as evidenced by the carvings on Cleopatra's Needle of Masonic tools (square, compass, plummet, and the like) that would have been necessary to construct those architectural wonders. Cleopatra's Needle was created during the reign of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Thutmose III. During the nineteenth century, Egyptomania swept through British and American cities, which scrambled to acquire obelisks to erect in their parks and squares. Cleopatra's Needle (whose creation is not actually connected with the Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII, but legend has it that she brought a similar obelisk, now in London, from Heliopolis to Alexandria to decorate a new temple), was erected (and still stands) in Central Park, in 1881. Gorringe supervised transport of the 200-ton red granite monument from Alexandria to Greywacke Knoll, in Central Park, just across the drive from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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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[Charles Molloy Westmacott, writing as] BLACKMANTLE, Bernard (c. 1788-1868); Robert Cruikshank (Illustrates)

The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious

London, Sherwood, Jones and Co. [through 1826], 1825. First Edition. Supposed First Issue (with plate 28 , vol. I, misdated 1284 and p.222, vol. II, blank) of one of the finest English color plate books, complete in two volumes. (Abbey and Tooley disagree, with Abbey arguing that these points are without bibliographical value.) Royal 8vo: xiii,417; xv,[1],399,[1]pp, with 71 hand-colored aquatints by Robert Cruikshank, Rowlandson, and others; 1 uncolored woodcut plate and 74 wood engravings in text. Bound in full crimson levant morocco, covers framed with French fillets, elaborately gilt-tooled spines and dentelles, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. the binding exquisite. Light bumping and wear to several corners, mild offsetting from plates, very occasional foxing, still an excellent copy inside and out, the binding exquisite, the plates vividly colored. Abbey Life 325. Tooley 504. Prideaux, p. 310. Martin Hardie, pp. 191-92. Originally published in 24 monthly parts, The English Spy provides a vivid panorama of English high- and low-life, "a veritable chronique scandaleuse of the time. In the pages of this extraordinary work figure all the notables of the day, either openly or under slight disguise" (Hardie). Described by Prideaux as "perhaps the most daring book ever published," as many of the characters, including Lord Byron, Beau Brummell, Pierce Egan, Pea-green Hayne, Henry Brougham, and the Duke of Wellington, were instantly recognizable to its early readers. Most of the plates are by Robert Cruikshank, who figures in the book under the pseudonym "Robert Transit"; two plates are by Thomas Rowlandson, notably "R.—A.'s [Royal Academicians] of Genius Reflecting on the True Line of Beauty at the Life Academy" (featuring portraits of West, Shee, Haydon, Lawrence, Westmacott and Flaxman); a few others were contributed by G. M. Brighty and T. Wageman. The numerous in-text woodcuts are after Cruikshank, Rowlandson, Gillray and Finlay. The lively text is by the journalist (and blackmailer) C. M. Westmacott, notorious as a muckraker and for extorting large sums of money from victims, including royalty, eager to keep their names out of print. 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. .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Satire, English. Manners and customs. Satire, English. England—Social life and customs.

WHEATLEY, Hewett

[Angling] the Rod and the Line : Or, Practical Hints and Dainty Devices for the Sure Taking of Trout, Grayling, Etc. [Joseph Delaplaine Bates, Jr. 's Copy]

London, Published by Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1849. Decorative Cloth. Scarce First (and only) Edition of "one of the most original books in the bibliography of angling." (AnAnglersBookcase online) Foolscap 8vo (172 x 105mm): 157,[2],32[ad]pp, with nine bright, detailed hand-colored plates of flies. Original sage-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers elaborately paneled in blind, pale yellow end papers. Armorial book plate to front paste-down of angling author Joseph Delaplaine Bates, Jr. (1903-1988), whose works include the modern classic Fishing Atlantic Salmon: The Flies and the Patterns. An exceptional example with excellent provenance, tightly bound in original cloth and clean throughout, with richly colored plates. Westwood & Satchell p. 239 ("Characterised by a mixture of caustic humour and sound practical knowledge"). Smith, p. 46. Bartlett, p. 74. Hoe Library III, p. 199. Wheatley was the "first to recommend eyed hooks for trout-flies. He fished many of his artificial flies, including beetles, floating. When the fly was meant to sink, he made no doubt about it, and leaded the shank of his hooks—surely another 'first' for this remarkable innovator. In anticipation of nymph fishing, Wheatley observed: 'Many fly-fishers must have remarked, that for a fortnight at least before the May-fly appears in any numbers, trout do not rise so freely as before that period. And I am satisfied, from personal observation, they are then feeding on the fly, at the bottom, as it quits the case in which it has passed its grub existence.'" (An Anglers Bookcase) 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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WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892)

Calamus. A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868-1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter Doyle)

Boston, Laurens Maynard, 1897. First Edition. Cloth. First American Issue of the only edition, with spine imprint Maynard and title page "Published by Laurens Maynard" (later Small, Maynard). Edited, with an introduction, by Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D. one of Whitman's literary executors. Small 8vo: viii,173pp, with two inserted leaves of Japan paper, one (frontispiece) with drawing by H. D. Young of Whitman and Peter Doyle on verso before title page, the other a photograph of a letter on recto after p. 112. Publisher's lime T-like cloth (bold ribbed), cover blind stamped with single rule frame, spine lettered in gilt. Pages marginally toned, frontispiece and facsimile letter browned, else an excellent example. BAL 21446. Myerson A14.I.b1. In the third edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1860, Whitman's "Calamus" poems, a cluster devoted to male-male affection, make their first appearance (the edition on offer here is the first, 37 years later, in which the poems stand alone). The Calamus poems offer a vision of men loving men to counter the Civil War horror of fratricide that threatened the nation at a pivotal moment in its history. Their genesis is found in an unpublished manuscript sequence of twelve poems entitled "Live Oak With Moss," written in or before the spring of 1859. The poems seem to recount the story of a relationship between the speaker and a male lover. In the third edition of Leaves, Whitman included the twelve "Live Oak" poems along with others to form a sequence of 45 untitled poems that celebrate many aspects of "comradeship" or "adhesive love," Whitman's term, borrowed from phrenology, to describe male same-sex attraction in its political, spiritual, metaphysical, and personal phases—in Whitman's view, the backbone of future nations, the root of religious sentiments, the solution to the big questions of life, and a source of personal anguish and joy. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine- .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Poets, American—19th century—Correspondence.

WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892); Marcel Gaillard (illustrates)

The Sleepers : A Poem

Paris, from the press of François Bernouard, 71, Rue des Saints-Pères, 1919. Limited Edition. Stiff Wrappers. First Separate Edition of one of the three major poems of 1855 (with "I Sing the Body Electric" and "Song of Myself") merged in the first edition of Leaves of Grass, with plates designed and engraved on wood by Marcel Gaillard, limited to an edition of 250 numbered copies (this, no. 56) on Verge d'Arches paper. Royal 8vo (279 x 229mm): [38]pp, with 16 plates. Faint speckling to covers, else a virtually pristine example (partially unopened). Myerson H63.1.a. In this, its final version, "The Sleepers" runs 184 lines, in free verse, divided into eight sections. Whitman's speaker has a vision of wandering through the night, viewing the sleeping bodies of various people around America. He sees both the wretched and the peaceful, entering, in turn, each sleeper's dreams: a girl waiting for her lover, a dead body interred, a swimmer torn by waves and rocks, President Washington at war, and Whitman's mother meeting a Native American woman. He dreams the dreams of various nationalities, of student and teacher, master and slave. Gaillard's (1886-1947) woodcuts are expressionist and powerful. "Here, the poet is the one wakeful presence in a sleeping world, 'bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers.' This is the essence of Whitman's perspective. Others are at rest; he is restless. Others sleep together; he wanders alone. In sleep, others are all body and no consciousness; he is all consciousness, a floating eye recording the world from outside." (Matthew Aucoin, composer of "Crossing," an opera based on Whitman's Civil War diaries) 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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WILLARD, S. (Solomon, 1783-1861); SMILLIE, James (1807-1885)

[American Revolution] Plans and Sections of the Obelisk on Bunker's Hill, with the Details of Experiments Made in Quarrying the Granite Stone; [Offered with: ] a Panoramic View from Bunker Hill Monument

Boston, [printed by Samuel N. Dickinson, Washington Street] / Published by Luther Stevens, 186 Washington Street, 1861. Two works documenting the first public obelisk in the United States and the technology developed to create it. First (and only) Edition of the Willard, quite scarce. Royal 8vo (340 x 253 mm): [5],6-31,[1]pp, with 14 inserted leaves (including frontispiece) of plates (one folding). Original drab boards, brown muslin spine, upper cover with publisher's paper title label ruled and printed in black. Inscribed on front fly-leaf in pencil: "Charles W. Pearson, August 13, 185?" A handsome survival, tightly bound (hinges neatly reinforced with Japanese tissue), pages and plates generally clean and free of foxing, with occasional smudges and stains. American Imprints 43-5291; Hitchcock 1409. The second work, by Smillie: Slim demy 8vo (223 x 175mm): 16pp, with frontispiece view of the monument, engraved by E. A. Fowle from a drawing by R. P. Mallory, seven-part accordion-fold panoramic view (engraved for Drakes History of Boston) of 160 important sites and institutions (pp 2-12 provide "A key to the engraving"), and woodcut in text. Publisher's green paper-covered boards printed in black, rebacked with black cloth spine (mimicking the original). End sheets and first page of text tanned from binder's glue, else pages and plates (including folding panorama) fresh, bright, and free of foxing. Also issued, in 1848, by Redding & Co. 8 State Street, Boston, in brown cloth decorated in blind and gilt. Stokes & Haskell P.1855—G-37. Abbey (Life) 573 (for Mallory's panorama, issued by Redding). The Battle of Bunker Hill actually was fought on Breed's Hill, site of the Willard's Bunker Hill Monument, on June 17, 1775. The first monument, commemorating the major opening battle of the American Revolution, was an 18-foot wooden pillar with gilt urn, erected in 1794 by King Solomon's Lodge of Masons to honor the fallen patriot and mason, Major-General Dr. Joseph Warren, who was killed during the battle's third and final assault. From 1824 to 1842, Willard designed and built the present monument, a 221-foot tall granite obelisk, for which he also developed the granite quarry, in Quincy, Massachusetts, that provided stone. The first railroad in the country was built to transport granite from that quarry to the waterfront, where it was taken by boat to Charlestown and hauled to the building site. 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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Sonstige Stichworte: Granite. Quarries and quarrying. Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.)

KENNEDY, William and Brendan Kennedy; Glen Baxter (Illustrates)

Charlie Malarkey and the Belly-Button Machine [Inscribed, with Doodles]

Boston, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated) of first children's book by the author of Ironweed, signed by both William Kennedy and the illustrator. Demy 8vo (229 x 214mm): 40pp, with frontispiece and sixteen full-page color plates. Publisher's fuchsia pictorial cloth-effect boards, patterned end papers, illustrated dust jacket priced $10.95. Inscribed by William Kennedy on title page and by Glenn Baxter, with four captioned doodles, on half title. A handsome example (jacket's gently edge-worn), tightly bound and clean throughout. Blaney, p. 45. In this collaboration between the Pulitzer prize-winning author and his son, Charlie Malarkey wakes up to find his belly button is missing. Brendan Kennedy began this story with his father at the age of four; it was published during Brendan's junior year of high school. They two also wrote Charlie Malarkey and the Singing Moose. 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/Near Fine+.

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WILLIAMS, Gordon R.; [Thomas Bewick]

[Caxton Club] Fantasy in a Wood-Block or What Occurred When John James Audubon, the Naturalist, Visited with Thomas Bewick, the Wood-Engraver in the Year 1827. Being a Narrative by Gordon R. Williams, Together with a Print Taken by R. Hunter Middleton from the Wood-Block Which Mr. Bewick Was Engraving at the Time

Chicago, Caxton Club, 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tall, slim 8vo: [4],12,[6]pp, including full-page reproductions from photographs, plus the Bewick wood-block print. Decorated gold-and-tan paper-backed boards, black linen spine, printed paper label, medium-brown laid end papers. Pristine. One of five variant bindings (collect them all!) deposited in the Newberry Library. Limited to 500 unnumbered copies, designed by Greer Allen, composed in Monotype Bell, letterpress printed at Press of A. Colish, Mount Vernon, NY; binding by Publishers Book Binding, Long Island City, NY; text on Curtis Rag of the Curtis Paper Co. of Newark, Delaware; paper by the John A. Manning Co. of Troy, NY; decorated cover papers by Birgitte Cramer of Copenhagen, Denmark; end papers are Miliani Ingres from Fabriano, Italy. 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.). As New .

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WILLIAMSON, John

The British Angler: Or, a Pocket-Companion for Gentlemen-Fishers. Being a New and Methodical Treatise of the Art of Angling: Comprehending All That Is Curious and Useful in the Knowledge of That Polite Diversion. As: I. An Introduction; Containing an Encomium on Rivers and the Art of Angling, with General Observations on the Nature of Fish. II. The Angler's Apparatus: Or, Directions Concerning Rods, Lines, Hooks, Floats, and the Rest of the Tackle: Also, of Baits, Natural and Artificial. III. An Exact Description of the Several Kinds of Fish That Are Found in the Rivers, and on the Sea-Coasts of Great Britain; Their Size, Shape, Qualities, Seasons, Feeding, Haunts, &C. IV. The Whole Practice of Angling: Teaching the Choice and Preparation of Proper Stands; the Method of Taking Every Species, More Particularly the Sportive Trout, the Voracious Pike, and Other Capital Game. With Descriptions of Our Principal Rivers, Observations Relating to the Weather, and Other Necessary Remarks. Together with Supplemental Discourses, 1. On Fish-Ponds and Reservatories. 2. On the Laws Against Poachers, and in Favour of the Fair Angler. Also, Excellent Receipts for Dressing of Fish, and a Complete Index, in Which the Terms in Use Among Anglers Are Occasionally Explained. Embellished with Copper-Plates Curiously Engraved. The Whole Compiled from Approved Authors, and Above Thirty Years Experience, by John Williamson, Gent. Who Has Added a Verification of the Principal Heads, at the End of Each Chapter, for the Help of Memory

London, printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-glass, on London-bridge, 1740. First Edition. Full Leather. First edition of "One of the best of the manuals . " (Westwood & Satchell) 12mo (166 x 99mm): viii,318,[10]pp, with frontispiece, two (of three) folding copperplate engravings, and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary speckled sheep, covers bordered in gilt, spine in six compartments between raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt. Ownership inscription of Wm. Alington, dated 1800, to front fly-leaf; second, indecipherable signature, dated May 21st, 1797, to title page. A handsome, albeit defective, copy, with first folding plate absent. Westwood & Satchell, p. 241. Heckscher 2273. Bartlett, p. 75. Smith, p. 46. Chapters on equipment (rods, lines, hooks, floats, and bait) and on fishing for salmon, trout, grayling, pike, perch, carp, and other fishes, with appendices on fish ponds, laws of angling, and cookery. 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.). Very Good+ .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Fishes. Fishing—Early works to 1800. Fishing—Equipment and supplies.

WILLUGHBY, Francis (1635-1672); John Ray (1627-1705)

[Natural History] the Ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the County of Warwick Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. In Three Books. Wherein All the Birds Hitherto Known, Being Reduced Into a Method Sutable to Their Natures, Are Accurately Described. The Descriptions Illustrated by Most Elegant Figures, Nearly Resembling the Live Birds, Engraven in LXXVII Copper Plates. Translated Into English, and Enlarged with Many Additions Throughout the Whole Work. To Which Are Added, Three Considerable Discourses, I. Of the Art of Fowling: With a Description of Several Nets in Two Large Copper Plates. II. Of the Ordering of Singing Birds. III. Of Falconry. By John Ray, Fellow of the Royal Society

London, printed by A[ndrew]. C[larke]. for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1678. First Edition thus. Paneled Calf. First Edition in English of "one of the most important treatises on ornithology of all time, being the first systematic classification of the birds of the world." (Wood). Translated, edited and slightly expanded by Ray from Willughby's Latin original. Crown folio (364 x 231mm): [12],53,[3],55-271,[3],273-441,[7]pp, with two full-page letterpress tables and 80 leaves of plates, most unsigned but some credited to Thomas Browne and three by F. H. van Hove, two by W. Faithorne, and one by W. Sherwin. The two engraved plates showing techniques and equipment for snaring birds, often absent, are bound in at p. 28 (as prescribed); the remaining 78 numbered plates (depicting more than 200 species) appear at the end. An excellent example, beautifully bound to style in recent quarter calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine in seven compartments divided by gilt-ruled raised bands, end papers renewed, title page in red and black. Binding pristine, title page lightly soiled, text block generally clean throughout and virtually free of foxing, two plates with short marginal tears far from images, old repair to one plate corner. Wing W2880. Nissen IVB 991. BM(NH) V, p.2331. Wood (McGill), p.629. Zimmer (Ayer Ornithological Library), pp. 676-78. Anker 532 ("marks an epoch in the history of ornithology"). Lowndes 2939. Bibliotheca Bibliographici 39. Mullens, pp. 7-8. In the 1660's, John Ray and his pupil (and, later, patron) Francis Willughby toured the Continent, gathering material for their planned complete classification of the vegetable and animal kingdoms. After Willughby's early death in 1672, which deprived Ray of both a collaborator and a friend, Ray took over his notes, and, having edited the incomplete manuscript and added his own observations, published Francisci Willughbeii ornithologiae libri tres; totum opus recognovit, digressit, supplevit Joannes Raius, in 1676. The present work, a translation by Ray, was published two years later and includes three more plates than the Latin edition as well as an expanded text, including three additional sections by Ray on fowling, falconry, and songbirds. In all, Ray and Willughby described more than 230 species, which they had observed. Ray's systemization was revolutionary (Zimmer calls it the "cornerstone of modern systematic ornithology"), preserving the broad division of land and water birds, but rather than subdividing functionally, on grounds of diet, singing ability, and other behavioral traits, he introduced a classification based on anatomy, using for criteria foot structure, beak form, and body size. In the preface, Ray writes that the plates, despite some difficulties in communication between himself and the engravers, "are the best and truest, that is, most like the live Birds, of any hitherto engraven in Brass." Isaac Newton called this work the "foundation of scientific ornithology." 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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Sonstige Stichworte: Birds—Early works to 1800. Fowling—Early works to 1800. Falconry—Early works to 1800.

WILSON, Alexander (1766-1813); Prince Charles Lucian Bonaparte (1803-1857)

American Ornithology; or, the Natural History of the Birds of the United States

London, Paris & New York, Cassell Petter & Galpin [Chatto & Windus], 1877. First Edition thus [from 1808]. Half-Morocco. A superb 3-volume British edition of this classic American bird book, the "first major scientific work published in the United States" (Burtt and Davis, p. 333), here in its final state (with notes and Life of Wilson by Sir William Jardine) and with the largest number of plates. Demy 8vo (211 x 140mm): cv,[1],408,[8,Cassell catalogue]; vii,[1],495,[1]; vii,[1],540pp, with tissue-guarded engraved portrait frontispiece of Wilson in shooting attire and 103 chromolithographed plates, featuring Lizar's attractive re-engravings of Wilson's originals. Publisher's dark green morocco-backed red cloth, spines richly gilt with hawk vignette, top edge gilt, black coated end papers. Pages and plates virtually pristine (light foxing to opening leaves of each volume; label blacked out on fly leaves). Nissen 996 (Chatto & Windus imprint). Anker 533. Sitwell, p. 155-57. Reese 3 ("the first American work to use color plates to convey scientific information, and the first real combination of text and color illustration produced in the United States.") Anker 533 and 534. Originally published in nine folio volumes with 76 hand-colored engravings between 1808 and 1814 in a subscribed edition of 400 copies, then updated and expanded after Wilson's death by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano. Wilson was almost entirely eclipsed in popular awareness by John James Audubon and his Birds of America (1827-1838), but Wilson, not Audubon, is the true founder of American ornithology, and this work is the foundational account of North American birds. This edition reprints Wilson's original text and Bonaparte's "continuation" and includes Jardine's later notes (see Zimmer I, pp. 64-65), which Neville Wood (quoted in Allibone III, 2765-2766) calls "by far the best edition." Matching entirely in format, binding, pages, and plates the Chatto & Windus edition of 1876 (see Sitwell). Indeed sets have appeared in commerce with the Chatto & Windus imprint to Volume I and that of Cassell Peter & Galpin to Volumes II and III. The publishing firm Cassell was founded in 1848 by John Cassell and taken over by Thomas Dixon Galpin and George William Petter in 1855, when it began trading as Cassell Petter & Galpin. The imprint did not become Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company until 1878, with the arrival of a new partner, Robert Turner. Petter resigned in 1883, and from 1888 the company was known simply as Cassell & Co. 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: Birds -- United States. Birds -- North America. Birds -- Pictorial works. Birds.

WILSON, G. W. (George Washington, 1823-1893)

Photographs of English and Scottish Scenery. Dunkeld. 12 Views

Aberdeen: 24 and 25, Crown Street, Printed by John Duffus, 1866. First Printing. Original Cloth. A superb copy in original cloth, with twelve albumen prints by Wilson, from his series on towns and villages. Demy 8vo (220 x 179mm): twelve albumen photographs of Dunkeld (97 x 80mm) mounted on card with printed title beneath, each followed by a leaf of descriptive letter press printed on recto only. Original pebbled green cloth paneled in blind, front cover stamped in gilt, brown coated end papers, all edges gilt. Several pages and mounts (not prints) lightly spotted, but an excellent example. Rare. Gernsheim 309. Not in Margolis & Moss. Part of a series of at least 12 titles by Wilson published between 1865 and 1868, each on a separate town or area of England and Scotland and each with twelve views (original albumen prints). Early on, Wilson grasped the potential of photography to provide tourists with souvenirs of their travels, and he began photographing popular haunts and picturesque spots. This volume was one result. Dunkeld is a cathedral town on the north bank of the River Tay, opposite Birnam, called the "Gateway to the Highlands, one of thew best preserved eighteenth-century country towns in Scotland. The surrounding countryside is heavily wooded, and has some notable trees, including the Birnam Oak, believed to be the only remaining tree from Birnam Wood named by Shakespeare in Macbeth. The largest collection of Wilson's work—containing some 27,000 negatives—is the George Washington Wilson Photographic Archive at the University of Aberdeen. 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+ .