POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)

[Forgeries] the Spectacles [First and Second Printings]

Philadelphia, Richard Gimbel, 1938. First Edition. Card Covers / Wrappers. Two copies, First and Second Printings, of this curious Poeana. Small 8vo (89 x 137mm): [2],14pp. Original staple-bound dappled purple card covers (first) and salmon pink wrappers (second), both printed in black. Text setting identical in both printings; only wrapper text varies. Title page (both printings): "Edgar Allan Poe stated that: / 'The Tales of the Folio Club / are sixteen in all.' / Fifteen tales are known. / This is the sixteenth. / Uncovered by Richard Gimbel and Published / Philadelphia, July, 1938." According to the colophons (inside back cover): "This First Edition Attributing The Spectacles to Edgar Allan Poe / is limited to / 100 copies" [ours is no. 23.] "This Second Edition Attributing / The Spectacles / by / Edgar Allan Poe / is limited to / 1000 copies." Oddly, the second printing ("edition") is quite rare (no copy can be located for sale online at present, and WorldCat has no listing; what's more, no copy have appeared at auction, according to RBH and ABC. Odd because 10 times the number of second printings supposedly were issued. Neat ink date stamp ("SEP -1 1938") on verso of title page of first printing, else both volumes Fine, fresh and unmarked. OCLC: 22233296 and 4448925. Mabbott III, pp. 885-886. BAL, v. 7, p. 152. Heartman & Canny, pp. 234-36. Savoye, "Focusing on a Pair of False ‘Spectacles'," Edgar Allan Poe Review, Spring 2009, vol. X, no. 1, pp. 98-102. Two printings of a spurious Poe text, supposedly the "earliest" draft of Poe's short story, "The Spectacles," "discovered" by celebrated Poe collector Richard Gimbel in 1938, then published in the September 24, 1938, issue of Liberty magazine ("The Spectacles: The Lost Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe, Hidden 100 years! Liberty presents a remarkable literary discovery. How the Story was Found. By Edward Doherty."), followed by these limited issues. The text is almost certainly a twentieth-century forgery; whether Gimbel perpetrated the hoax or was an unsuspecting dupe is unclear. According to Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe Society, "The text appears to have been taken from a reprint of the story in Godey's Lady's Book for April 1836." Not to be confused with Poe's The Spectacles, first published in The Dollar Newspaper (Philadelphia), March 27, 1844, and reprinted in The Broadway Journal, November 22, 1845, and in Griswold, Vol. 1, 1850. 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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PONTINI, Giovanni

[Hunting] [Falconry] la Cacciagione de' Volatili, Osia L'Arte Di Pigliare Uccelli in Ogni Maniera, Con I Rimedj Per Guarirli Dalle Loro Malattie. Opera Del Roccolista Giovanni Pontini Da Castelcucco Di Asolo [Kurt Lindner Collection]

In Vicenza, Giandomenico Occhi Librajo in Piazza, 1758. Wrappers. First Edition of this important work on the trapping of birds with nets, as still practiced today in the Veneto. Crown 8vo (180 x 121 mm): [10],11-110, [2] pp, with frontispiece, coat of arms of Count Ghellini, and 12 further plates (two folding) engraved by Cristoforo Dall'Acqua (1734-1787) depicting various bird species and net configurations, as well as woodcut vignette on title page, decorated woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary paper-case binding, early manuscript title to spine, edges uncut. Provenance: from library of German entrepreneur Kurt Lindner (1906-1987), the so-called "Bibliotheca Tiliana" (book plate to front paste-down and stamp to title page verso). The library, which included some 12,000 works from different periods, was the world's largest on the subject of hunting. After Lindner's death, the collection was sold at auction. Several plates and pages moderately spotted, but a superb, unsophisticated copy with excellent provenance. Harting 286. Italian Union Catalogue 000142. Schwerdt, II, p. 74. Souhart, p. 386. As well as various techniques of capture, several bird species are described, including those used as lures, with reference to their songs, habits, and favorite foods. 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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RABELAIS, François (ca. 1490-1553?)

The Works of Francis Rabelais, M.D. Now Carefully Revised, and Compared Throughout with the Late New Edition of M. Le Du Chat, by Mr. Ozell. Who Has Likewise Added at the Bottom of the Pages, a Translation of the Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, of the Said M. Du Chat, and Others: In Which Notes, Never Before Printed in English, the Text Is Not Only Explained, But, in Multitudes of Places, Amended, and Made Conformable to the First and Best Editions of This Learned and Facetious Author. Adorn'd with 15 Very Neat Copper-Plates

London, printed by J. Hughs, near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, for J. Brindley, bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at the King's-Arms in New-Bond-Street; and C. Corbett, at Addison's Head, against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet-street, 1737. First Edition thus. Full Calf. A gorgeous set of the first complete, scholarly edition in English, with explanatory notes, in five volumes, of this burlesque romance. 12mo: iii-xxii,iii-viii,cxxxiv,135-384; iii-x,11-251,[1]; xx,367[2 misnumbered 22],[5]; iii-xc,281,[13, including two final advertisement leaves]; lxiv,267,[5]pp, with 15 copper-engraved plates (11 of which are folding, one of which is a map), most bearing the signatures of Henry Roberts and Nathaniel Parr; numerous head- and tail-pieces and a woodcut in the text. Beautifully bound by Fitterer in period-style butterscotch cat's-paw calf, spines in six compartments between raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering pieces gilt, all edges gilt, marbled end papers, title pages (all five of which are cancels) printed in red and black. Lowndes 2033. ESTC Citation No. T13265. The first complete edition of Rabelais's works was published in Lyons, in 1567, by Jean Martin. Sir Thomas Urquhart's English translation of the first two books ("The finest translation ever made from one language into another," according to Charles Whibley) appeared in 1653, followed by Peter Anthony Motteux translation of the remaining three volumes and his revisions of Urquhart's first two in 1693 and 1694. Forty-three years later, in 1737, John Ozell revised (including restoring passages from Urquhart omitted by Motteux) and published our edition, combining the monumental translations of Sir Thomas Urquhart' wth those of Motteux and adding explanatory notes, in an edition that became the standard of the eighteenth and nmineteenth centuries. "For Rabelais—monk, physician, humanist—nothing succeeds like excess. His giant heroes and their hard-living cronies wallow in the socially, aesthetically and politically incorrect. They're sexist, gluttonous, profane, bellicose, cruel, childish, ingenious, disputatious and completely vulgar. You wouldn't want them for neighbors, but they'd be great on your side in a fight." (Michael Dirda, Wash. Post, 2/16/1992) "Principally the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel), and their adventures, presented as a connected series of five novels written in an extravagant, satirical vein featuring much crudity, scatological humor, and violence (the censors of the Sorbonne stigmatized the novels as obscene). While the first two books focus on the lives of the giants, the rest of the series is mostly devoted to the adventures of Pantagruel's friends, including Panurge, a roguish erudite maverick, and Brother Jean, a bold, voracious and boozing ex-monk, and others on a collective naval journey in search of the Divine Bottle. 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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RAWSTORNE, Lawrence; PARKER, Eric (introduces); RAWLINS, T. J. (illustrates)

[Shooting] Gamonia: Or, the Art of Preserving Game; and an Improved Method of Making Plantations and Covers Explained and Illustrated [Edition de Luxe]

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1929. Limited Edition. Morocco. Deluxe Facsimile Edition, limited to 125 copies, of "the first treatise devoted solely to the subject of pheasant rearing, covert shooting, and the management of woodlands for the special purpose of preserving game." (from the preface) Publisher's green morocco with gilt borders; top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Royal 8vo (258 x 220mm): 256pp, with 15 color plates after J. T. Rawlins by A. W. Reeve and others. Frontispiece lightly spotted, but an excellent, wide-margined example, tightly bound and clean throughout. For first edition, see: Tooley 393. Abbey (Life) 392. Prideaux, p. 348. Schwerdt II, 127 ("an esteemed book . [with] unusually attractive" shooting scenes). Franklin, pp 44-45 ("very charming and excellent illustrations"). Originally published, in 1837, by the incomparable Rudolph Ackermann. This new edition reproduces the original text as well as the 15 color plates, and is introduced by Eric Parker, shooting editor of "The Field." 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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REVERDY, Pierre (1889-1960); Henri Matisse (Illustrates)

Les Jockeys Camouflés. Trois Poèmes Par Monsieur Pierre Reverdy. Agrementés de Cinq Dessins inédits de Monsieur Henri Matisse

Paris, La Belle Édition, 71, Rue des Saints-Pères, 1918. Limited Edition. Wrappers. First Edition, No. 221 of 300 copies on verge d'Arches, of Matisse's first illustrated book. Square royal 8vo (247 x 224mm): [50]pp, with five plates (one double-page) from early drawings by the French Fauve illustrating three poems by Reverdy. Original wrappers printed in blue and black, untrimmed. Wanting the unprinted glassine dust jacket. An excellent example of this rare survival (many copies were destroyed at the author's request), expertly respined to style, several leaves with archival repairs to margins only, lower right corner of front wrapper renewed, but bright and fresh, tightly bound and clean throughout. The Artist and the Book 195 ("notable for its imaginative use of color in typography [but see below] and for the only appearance of Matisse's early drawing style as book illustration.") Barr, Matisse, pp. 196, 560 ("sometimes considered Matisse's first illustrated book"). Editions Albert Skira, Anthologie du Livre Illustré par les Peintres et Sculpteurs 255. The first of two editions published in Paris, in 1918, with text printed in green, orange, blue, and black, a typographical caprice that infuriated Reverdy, who demanded that the publisher, François Bernouard, issue a second version, printed only in in black, which came out in a numbered edition of 105 copies with the imprint: Paul Birault (pour l'auteur). 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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ROBERTS, Henry (1803-1876)

[Architecture] the Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, Their Arrangement and Construction, Illustrated by a Reference to the Model Houses of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes and Other Buildings Recently Erected, Being an Essay Read January 21 1850 at the Royal Institute of British Architects. With Plans and Elevations of Dwellings Adapted to Towns, As Well As to the Agricultural and Manufacturing Districts

London, The Society for Improving the Condition of the laboring Classes, at No. 21, Exeter Hall, Strand, 1850. Half-Calf. First Edition of Roberts's "most important" publication, advocating philanthropic housing for the working classes. (ODNB) Royal 8vo (257 x 167mm): [8],34pp,35-47,[2]ff,2pp, with 12 unnumbered lithographic plates printed on one side only and illustrations in the text depicting floor plans, architectural plans, and elevations of actual and proposed buildings, principally dwellings, including workers' cottages and lodgings for unmarried labourers. Handsome recent half-leather and beige cloth, spine gilt, end papers renewed. Pages gently and evenly toned, else pristine in beautiful bespoke binding. Goldsmiths' 37127. Not in Archer. Subsequent editions appeared, including that of 1867, and were translated into French. Among the scaled floor plans and handsome engraved elevations are those for the block of self-contained flats in Streatham Street, Bloomsbury, Roberts's most successful model dwellings. "A founder member (1835) and fellow (1837) of the Institute of British Architects, Roberts was well established by the time he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1838, but it is as a pioneer of working-class housing that he is of great historical importance. The Destitute Sailors' Asylum, Whitechapel (1835), marked the beginnings of his practical involvement in the subject, and in 1844 he became a founder member and the honorary architect of the reconstituted Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes (SICLC). With Prince Albert as the first president and Lord Ashley, later earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885), as an effective vice-president, the SICLC was instrumental in changing laissez-faire attitudes to housing the poor, largely by erecting and publishing a variety of exemplary buildings, all to designs by the honorary architect. Roberts was also the author of numerous publications dealing with philanthropic housing, the most important of which was The Dwellings of the Labouring Classes." (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 Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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ROGET, Peter Mark (1779-1869)

[Original Cloth] Thesaurus of English Words : So Classified and Arranged As to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition. Revised and Edited, with a List of Foreign Words, Defined in English, and Other Additions by Barnas Sears

Boston, Gould & Lincoln, 59 Washington Street, 1854. Original Cloth. First expurgated American edition of this essential reference, revised more than 25 times during Roget's life and continually in print since 1852. Crown 8vo (192 x 110mm): 468,[12]pp. Original brown cloth elaborately stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, pale yellow end papers. Book label to front paste-down of Library of Rev. J. F. Jones. Light spotting to end sheets and first and final few pages, else an excellent example in original cloth, securely bound and unusually fresh and bright. Kennedy 9784. Vancil, p. 208. First published in London, in 1852 (Kennedy 9775), and scarce in all early editions. The first (unexpurgated) American edition (Kennedy 9780, citing it as second edition overall) was brought out by Little, Brown the previous year. While praising the original edition in his preface, Barnas Sears avers that the preponderance of low and vulgar words is not suitable for general use, and therefore all such words and terms have been dropped from this edition. "In 1840 Roget retired from medical practice, but he kept busy with his other interests. By 1846 he was working hard on a project he had devised more than forty years before, a work that would make him a household name a century and a half later, his Thesaurus of English words and phrases, classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas, and assist in literary composition. Roget had the idea for the thesaurus, a treasury of words, early in his career. He set out for his own use a methodical system of verbal classification, in a manuscript notebook in 1805, and kept notes on words for the next four decades. The Thesaurus was published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, who issued a run of 1000 copies on 17 January 1852, at a cost of 14s. per copy." (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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ROWLANDSON, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Text by John Buonarotti Papworth, Francis Wrangham, and William Combe]

[Color Plate] Poetical Sketches of Scarborough; Illustrated by Twenty-One Engravings of Humorous Subjects, Coloured from Original Designs, Made Upon the Spot

London, Printed for R. Ackermann 101 Strand by J. Diggens Saint Ann's Lane, 1813. Second Edition. Morocco. Second Edition of this volume of light satirical verse, published the same year as the first, with initials of the authors now subjoined to each incident. Royal 8vo: [8],xv,[1],215,[1]pp, with 21 hand-colored engravings (including frontispiece) by Thomas Rowlandson after drawings by J. Green, showing "comically all the delights and amusements of a fashionable watering-place." (Hardie) "Plate 8, ‘The Warm Bath,' is said to contain the portrait of Mrs. Robinson, George IV's mistress." (Tooley). Elegantly bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full burgundy morocco, covers with triple gilt (French) fillets, spine richly tooled in gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled end papers. Light, scattered foxing and brief rubbing to joints, else an exceptionally pleasing copy. Abbey, Scenery 297-98. Tooley 422. Prideaux, pp. 144-145. Grolier Rowlandson 66 (for first edition). Hardie, p. 170. Franklin, pp. 72-74 ("The plates are very beautifully done . "). Text by William Combe, most famous as author of The Tour of Doctor Syntax; clergyman, abolitionist and bibliophile Francis Wrangham, who also produced a bibliography of Scarborough; and architect and designer John Buonarotti Papworth. One of England's oldest and most fashionable seaside resorts, Scarborough in Yorkshire grew as a major destination for therapeutic sea-bathing from the mid-18th into the 19th century. "It appears that Mr. Green, the artist, during a visit to Scarborough in the season of 1812, made various pleasing and humorous sketches of the most striking objects . and that some of his poetical friends, to whom they were shown, undertook the task of illustrating and giving them effect by appropriate sketches in verse." (The Monthly Review, Vol. LXXII (1813), p. 73). 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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Keywords: Scarborough (England)—Description and travel. Scarborough (England)—Poetry. Caricature, English—19th century.

SANDERS, William Perry (1881-1940)

[Old West] [Frontier Life] [Comanche Nation] Days That Are Done

Los Angeles, Grafton Publishing Corporation, 1918. First Edition. Card Covers. First Printing of these six accounts of the Old Southwest. Thick foolscap 8vo (178 x 123mm): 134pp, with portrait frontispiece and eight further illustrations from half-tones. Publisher's pictorial card covers printed in pale blue and brown. An exemplary example (barely noticeable damp spot to foot of first few leaves), tightly bound and clean throughout. Descriptions of a culture and a way of life that were passing out of view, recording the author's experiences and providing information on people and events. Covers the hunting of buffalo and antelope, conflicts with Native Americans, cattle drives (New Mexico to Kansas City), ranching, and cowboys and their ponies, with details handed down by the author's father. William Perry Sanders was born in Texas and moved with his family to Magdalena (Socorro County), New Mexico, sometime around 1890. After about twenty-five years in New Mexico he moved to Southern California, where this book of reminiscences was published. The title is drawn from Longfellow. 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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SCHAEBERLE, J. M. (John Martin, 1853-1924); S. W. Burnham; Edward Singleton Holden

[Photobook] [Eclipse] Reports on the Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, December 21-22, 1889, and of the Total Eclipse of the Moon, July 22, 1888, to Which Is Added a Catalogue of the Library (Contributions from the Lick Observatory No. 2)

Sacramento, State Office, A. J. Johnston, Supt. State Printing, 1891. Decorative Cloth. First edition of this combined report, featuring original prints of some of the earliest photographs to document a solar eclipse. Demy 8vo (227 x 142mm): [4],121,[1]; 121*,[1]pp, with frontispiece ("Silver print of the Total Solar Eclipse of December, 1889), 10 further plates (including 2 additional mounted original silver prints), and illustrations and charts in the text. Bound with Catalog of the Library of the Lick Observatory of the University of California. Part I - To July 1, 1890. Prepared by Edward S. Holden (separate title page and pagination). Publisher's black pebble-grained cloth, spine lettered in gilt, sides paneled in blind. Stamp of Imperial College Physics Library to title page. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Not in Margolis & Moss. In 1888, Schaeberle became one of the inaugural astronomers at Lick Observatory. He led expeditions to witness the solar eclipses at Cayenne, French Guiana, in 1889; to Chile, in 1893, and to Japan, in 1896, having designed the "Schaeberle Camera" to photograph the sun and its corona during the eclipses. The earliest scientifically useful photographs of a total solar eclipse was made by Julius Berkowski at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia, on Monday, July 28, 1851 and by Warren De La Rue, on July 18, 1860. 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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SILLITOE, Alan (1928-2010)

Road to Volgograd

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition (so stated). 8vo: [4],176,[4]pp. Publisher's turquoise cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge stained gold, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust jacket priced $3.95 with correct 10/64 date of publication on front flap. As New and unread, a superb copy without flaw. Gerard A11. From the author of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959), which both became classic British New Wave films. This is his account of a visit to the Soviet Union, as guest of the Soviet Writers' Union, where Sillitoe was feted as a proletarian writer. His memoir includes impressions of Moscow, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Volgograd (Stalingrad), Irkutsk, Lake Baikal and Siberia. Note: 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. As New/As New.

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SIMES, Thomas (fl. 1757-1780)

The Military Guide for Young Officers, Containing a System of the Art of War; Parade, Camp, Field Duty; Manoeuvres, Standing and General Orders; Warrants, Regulations, Returns; Tables, Forms, Extracts from Military Acts; Battles, Sieges, Forts, Ports, Military Dictionary, &C. With Twenty-Five Maps and Copper Plates [Easton Neston Library Copy]

London, Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall, 1781. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Third Edition (incorporating regulations of H. R. H. the late Duke of Cumberland) of this standard reference for junior officers in the British army (and for officers in the Continental Army). Crown 8vo (204 x 125mm): [4],363,[1,advertisement],[177,"military, historical, and explanatory dictionary" and Index],[2,advertisements]pp, with 19 full- and half-page battle plans, large folding battle plan, four folding maps (Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America), and numerous tables (a few folding). Early full brown calf, flat spine in six compartments between decorative gilt bands, black leather lettering piece gilt. Engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Hesketh Bart and shelf label of the library at Easton Neston to front paste down. Collated and complete (including blanks), a bright, well-cared for copy with important provenance, tightly bound and clean throughout. First published in 1772 for more than 330 subscribers. Simes's textbooks (he published at least six) were not innovative, describing what was common practice and borrowing freely from European military works, but he compiled and organized accepted principles, presenting extensive information on the history of warfare and the classical principles upon which contemporary military discipline was based—in short, everything that a young officer needed to rise through the ranks. He even provided templates of forms for every imaginable eventuality, from granting furloughs to reporting illnesses. Sotheby's auctioned the entire contents of Easton Neston in 2005, including the fabulous library, which incorporated works from the library at Rufford Hall, home for more than 500 years to generations of Heskeths. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine- .

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SITWELL, Sacheverell (1897-1988)

[Ornithology] Fine Bird Books 1700-1900

New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990. First Edition thus. Hardcover. First reprinting of the scarce 1953 edition of this classic reference for ornithological illustration. Foreword by S. Dillon Ripley. Royal 8vo (301 x 223mm): xi,180pp, with 52 full-page color plates. Publisher's navy blue cloth, spine lettered in gold, mint green end papers; illustrated dust jacket priced $65. An excellent example (usual faint sunning to jacket's spine panel), tightly bound (lightly read, if at all) and clean throughout. With a useful bibliography by Handasyde Buchanan and James Fisher of the better known ornithological classics. Sir Sacheverell, whose cultural studies became standard fare for devotees of art, architecture, and music, was the scion of one of England's most prolific literary families. 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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SMITH, F. Hopkinson (1838-1915)

In Dickens's London: Twenty-Two Photogravure Proofs Reproducing the Charcoal Drawings

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. No. 60 of an edition limited to 150 sets of 22 fine photogravures proofs (320 x 240mm) signed in plate ("Coffee-Room, George Inn" additionally signed by Smith in pencil at lower right of image), individually matted with tissue guard and original publisher's printed descriptive label on verso. Complete with 8pp letterpress (508 x 406mm) half-title and title pages, limitation leaf signed by Smith and the publisher,introduction by Smith, and list of proofs with notes. Presented in original muslin-backed portfolio with linen ties and lidded box printed in green and black. One plate label wrinkled, letterpress very lightly toned to page edges, else virtually pristine. BAL 18258. Francis Hopkinson Smith, who descended from a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was an author, artist, and engineer (among other projects, he built the Race Rock Lighthouse in Long Island Sound southwest of Fishers Island and the foundation for Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's Liberty Enlightening the World (the Statue of Liberty) in New York Harbor. 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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SMITH, Edwin (1912-1971)

[Photobook] a View of the Cotswolds

Risbury, Herefordshire, The Whittington Press, 2005. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 22 of 350 copies set in Poliphilus and Fry's Baskerville types and printed at the Whittington Press on sand-colored Bugra-Butten mould-made paper. With essays, commentaries, and a checklist by Alan Powers, George Ramsden, Veronica Watts, Edwin Smith, Shawn Kholucy, Ian Mackenzie-Kerr, and Rory Young. Royal 8vo (342 x 244mm): [6],50pp, with 32 tritone photographic plates. Publisher's half charcoal-grey coarsely woven cloth over repeat pattern paper-covered boards after a wood engraving by Edwin Smith, spine lettered in silver, title page printed in orange and black, black end papers. An exemplary example in original matching slip case, tightly bound and clean throughout. During the 1950s and 1960s, Smith and his wife, the artist and writer Olive Cook, bicycled throughout England, recording, with a half-plate camera mounted on a mahogany tripod, church and country-house architecture, landscapes and gardens, and vernacular buildings dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Cotswolds views presented here date from those sojourns, and celebrate the local style and exquisite harmony of churches and tombstones, manor houses and cottages, created using the same pale honey and ochre limestone. Smith trained as an architect and thought of himself as a painter, but he was also a preeminent photographer, publishing more than thirty volumes of his work. 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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