KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936)

The Vampire

Boston, Privately Printed, 1898. Pictorial Wrappers. Scarce First Boston Edition of this unauthorized pamphlet featuring a poem written by Kipling to garner publicity for a mildly pornographic painting by his cousin Philip Burne-Jones, entitled "The Vampire," which was modeled by the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Foolscap 8vo (146 x 108mm): [8]pp, printed in deep bluish green and scarlet with tipped-in frontispiece reproduction of Burne-Jones's painting and gothic-lettered title page with vignette by E. J. Clark of bats in flight beneath a crescent moon (repeated on each page, recto and verso). Original buff stiff paper wrappers hand sewn with red thread at centerfold, front cover lettered and decorated in types and design of title page. Manuscript ex libris of "George D. Goodrich, Boston," to front cover verso. Wanting the envelope. Short split to bottom of spine fold, else about Fine. Richards E1-23. Livingston 151 & 152. Grolier 232. Written to accompany the "The Vampire," portrait of a femme fatale leaning over her male victim, No. 15 in the catalogue of the New Gallery Summer Exhibition, in 1897, a major show that included works by John Singer Sargent as well as Philip's father, Edward Burne-Jones. Kipling's poem descried the foolishness of a man allowing himself to be destroyed by a heartless woman (Mrs. Campbell broke Philip's heart by dumping him for a leading man and then a series of other lovers). The poem became the inspiration for the 1909 Broadway play, "A Fool There Was," and the 1915 film of the same title, starring Theda Bara as the Vampire (earning her the nickname "the vamp"). Issued the following year in light gray crisscross cloth. Richards speculates the "private printer" was the Cornhill Press. 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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KUHNE, Frederick

[True Crime] [Fingerprint Archive] the Finger Print Instructor... Based Upon the Sir E.R. Henry System of Classifying and Filing. A Text Book for the Guidance of Finger Print Experts and an Instructor for Persons Interested in the Study of Finger Prints

New York, Munn & Company, 1917. Decorative Cloth. Second Printing of the first authoritative American book on fingerprinting, profusely annotated and with an archive of related emphemera. Demy 8vo (227 x 143mm): vii,[1],155,[1]pp, with frontispiece, all eleven double-page plates of fingerprint examples inserted in rear pocket, and numerous line drawings and plates from half-tones in the text. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers paneled in blind with large gilt-stamped palm print to front. Ink stamp (twice) of Henry Y. Ostrander, M.D. to fly-leaf and title page, as well as his manuscript ex-libris and those of three other owners. The archive includes: four-page leaflet "Learn the Language of Fingerprints," advertising a 16-week course at the Delehanty Institute in New York; brochure and price list from Fingerprint Laboratories in New York, offering FBI Identification Kit, finger print powders, and other supplies; printed flyer and two mimeographed diagrams from the W.P.A. Adult Education Fingerprinting Program in New York; 22 loose pages and two index cards of handwritten class notes, and three fingerprint classification forms (one unused). A fascinating survival, insightfully annotated, tightly bound and clean throughout. First published in 1916. Kuhne worked at the New York Police Department's Bureau of Criminal Identification. Ostrander is listed as residing in Brooklyn, N.Y. in the 1901 edition of the Standard Medical Directory of North America. 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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KUMIN, Maxine (1925-2014); Barnard Taylor (Illustrates)

Closing the Ring [Signed]

Lewisburg, Pa, Bucknell University : Press of Appletree Alley, 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, No. 27 of 28 copies printed on mould-made Rives, from a total edition of 150. Royal 8vo (261 x 174mm): 47,[1]pp, with linoleum engravings in color by Barnard Taylor. Publisher's tan quarter-calf over beige paper-covered pictorial boards, spine lettered in gold, tan end papers, title page in red and black, original unprinted acetate jacket. Signed by Kumin at the colophon. Spine lightened a degree or two, top edge briefly spotted, else Fine. Kumin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1973, and served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982. She is thought to be the last person to have seen the poet Anne Sexton alive; the two were close friends, and had had lunch the day of Sexton's suicide, in 1974. 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 Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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LANGDON, Emma F., Mrs. (1875-1937)

[Unionism] the Cripple Creek Strike, 1903-1904

Victor, Colo, Copyrighted . by Mrs. Emma F. Langdon, 1904. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. True First Printing (Great Western Publishing Co. editions are reprints) with "unanimous endorsement of the Colorado State Federation of Labor" on p. [5]. Demy 8vo (198 x 150mm): [12],248pp, with tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece of Langdon, folding plate of United States Reduction and Refining Plant at Colorado City, and 48 further full- and partial-page plates (mostly views and portraits from photographs, including many union officers). Publisher's forest green pictorial cloth, upper cover decorated and lettered in gilt. A superb survival, binding fresh with bright gilt, pages and plates virtually pristine. Contemporary account of the Colorado Labor Wars, one of the bloodiest labor strikes that led to the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905. Dedicated to the Western Federation of Miners, who "have made a lawful, law-abiding and manly fight against the lawless, corrupt and un-American methods of those against whom they have a grievance." Emma Florence Langdon was a linotype operator, historian, and labor leader celebrated for her defense of press freedom during the Colorado labor wars. In 1903, she worked in the Cripple Creek mining district as an apprentice linotype operator alongside her husband and brother-in-law at the Victor Record, the only pro-union newspaper in Teller County. When the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) went on strike, in August, in support of Colorado City's smelter workers, Langdon, a member of the Typographical Union, supported the decision. "They are brothers," she later wrote. "We are both subjected to the same conditions. He is on strike today, I may be tomorrow. We both stand for the same—unionism." In September, Governor James Peabody sent the National Guard to Cripple Creek under the command of Adjutant General Sherman Bell. The Mine Owners' Association paid the guardsmen, "an unholy and dastardly contract" to "stamp out the life" of the WFM, Langdon called the arrangement. On September 20, Langdon reported, the military, serving as escort to nonunion workers, "charged upon the mass of men, women and children and herded them like wild beasts upon the sidewalks." Before the year was over, with the strike still ongoing, Langdon started writing this history. The Cripple Creek Strike is a blend of history, eyewitness accounts, and advocacy. 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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LECOY, F. (Francois)

[Surveying] Méthode Simple Et Facile Pour Lever Les Plans, Suivie D'Un Traité Du Nivellement Et D'Un Abrégé Des Règles Du Lavis : Avec Onze Planches, Dont Neuf Enluminées

A Paris, Chez Duponcent, Libraire, quai de la Grève, N. 34, 1803. Sheep. Rare First Edition of this map-maker's manual with brilliant hand-colored plates. 8vo (): xii,95,[1]pp, with title page vignette and 11 folding engraved plates (of surveyor's instruments and sample maps and plans), nine of which are hand-coloured, "enluminées avec soin et conformément aux principes." Publisher's signature of authentication to verso of title page. Contemporary sheep-backed brown marbled boards, flat spine in six compartments divided by ruled bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled edges, green silk marker. WorldCat Discovery identifies a single copy at libraries worldwide (Canadian Center for Architecture); Rare Book Hub lists only three copies of the second edition. An exemplary copy (occasional light foxing), tightly bound and general clean throughout, with richly colored plates. Attractively illustrated guide on topographical surveying and cartography by this French geographer, divided into three sections: basic geometry and instrumentation to enable precise measurements of the terrain; techniques of mapping and surveying; directions on realizing plans through such techniques such as wash and shading. Further editions appeared in 1805, 1813, 1830, 1846 and 1848, as well as a German translation in 1814. 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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LÈCUYER, Raymond

[Photobook] Histoire de la Photographie

Paris, Baschet et Cie, 13, Rue Saint-Georges, 1945. Quarter-Cloth. First Edition of the most sought after and rarest of L'Illustration's great albums, a landmark work describing in exhaustive detail photography's early development. Text in French. Royal 8vo (375 x 280mm): [8],451,[5]pp, profusely illustrated with hundreds of monochrome and color plates (some with die-cut and decorative mounts and borders), using a variety of reproduction techniques and paper stocks, and an original full-page calotype (still life by Sougez, p. 189). Publisher's maroon cloth spine titled in silver, marbled paper-covered boards, and decorative endpapers, with original lorgnon bicolore (3-D glasses) housed in front past-down pocket for viewing in relief the anaglyphs on pp. 285-88. Corners lightly rubbed, few trivial nicks to boards, but an excellent example, securely bound and virtually pristine throughout. Frizot, p. 10. Successor to Beaumont Newhall's The History of Photography (1937), demonstrating "the irrevocable link between technique and the meaning of images. The effect was to recognize that photography had achieved an immediate maturity, contemporary with its invention." (Frizot) With such chapters as: the antecedents of photography, the age of daguerreotype and calotype, the vogue of artistic photography, the animated image, and the conquest of color. 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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LEE, Henry (1826/7-1888)

[Moby Dick] the White Whale

London, R. K. Burt & Co, 1878. First Edition. Wrappers. Sole edition of this detailed survey of sightings of the white Beluga whale, beginning in the 1860s. Demy 8vo (215 x 139mm): 16 pp. Original pale yellow wrappers printed in black. Blind bookseller's stamp to lower cover (Willing & Co. 366 Gray's Inn Road), which is lightly dust-soiled and edge-nicked. A collectible survival. Lee was appointed a director of the Royal Aquarium, in Brighton, in 1872, where a female beluga whale, captured near Labrador, was exhibited for three days, before it died and was autopsied. His account includes a natural history of Beluga whales and references to historic sources going back to Guillaume Rondelet, the French sixteenth naturalist. Unsurprisingly, no mention is made of Moby Dick, since Melville's creation was, of course, an albino sperm whale, not a Beluga. 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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LEREDDE, Laurent V. (1866-1926)

[Syphilis] la Réaction de Wassermann. Sa Valeur Dans le Diagnostic Et le Traitement de la Syphilis

Paris, A. Maloine, 1912. Stiff Wrappers. First (and only) edition of this illustrated pamphlet on the first serologic (complement fixation) test for syphilis, published just six years after the German bacteriologist August von Wassermann developed the test, in 1906. Slim royal 8vo (241 x 155mm): 43,[1]pp, with three full-page color plates depicting reaction results. Publisher's stiff charcoal grey paper wrappers lettered in silver foil, red test-tube device mounted to upper cover. Perfectly preserved, a rare survival (Worldcat Discovery lists only three institutional copies, all in France), tightly bound and clean throughout. The Wassermann Test, invented soon after Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffmann had identified the causative organism of syphilis, Spirochaeta pallida, has been largely superseded by more modern alternatives. 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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LONDON, Charmian Kittredge (1871-1955)

Our Hawaii

New York, Macmillan & Co, 1917. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of these accounts of the Londons' trips to Hawaii in 1907 and again in 1915 to 1916, shortly before Jack London's death. 8vo: xiv,[2],345[7]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Jack London (facsimile signature), colored map of the islands, and 15 plates with multiple images from photographs. Finely woven sea-green cloth, spine and upper cover lettered and decorated in gilt, fore-edge untrimmed. Hint of rubbing to bottom corners, front hinge tender, but a very bright, attractive example, about Fine. 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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LOWES, John Livingston (1867-1945)

The Road to Xanadu : A Study in the Ways of the Imagination [Signed and Unopened]

Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1927. Hardcover. Limited Edition (one of 300 copies) of Lowes's most famous work, examining the sources of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan." Signed and dated (1929) by Lowes to fly leaf. Royal 8vo (239 x 160mm): xvii,639,[1]pp, with frontispiece, title-page vignette, and 15 further full-page plates inserted. Publisher's linen-backed boards, decorative paper labels printed in black to spine and upper cover, edges entirely uncut, title page in green and black. Spine mildly toned, covers lightly rubbed, but a superb example, tightly bound, pristine throughout, and entirely unopened. Litt, "Book of a Lifetime: The Road to Xanadu" (The Independent, 29 February 2008). Using Coleridge's notebooks and other papers at the Bristol Library, Lowes assembled a list of books that the poet read as he composed his poems. Later critics have disputed Lowes's findings and method, but The Road to Xanadu, according to the British academic Toby Litt, is a book of a lifetime: "Its argument, that Coleridge had one of the most extraordinary minds the world has ever seen, is there on every page." 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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[THACKER & Co Ltd]

[Photobook] 24 Choice Photogravure Views of Bombay [Mumbai]

Bombay, Thacker & Co Ltd, 1914. Stiff Wrappers. Scarce album of original photographs of Bombay locales from the dawn of the twentieth century. Oblong crown 8vo (148 x 195mm): [48]pp, with 24 postcard-sized photographs, each titled to lower margin and mounted on heavy brown stock to obverse of each leaf. Publisher's stiff deep beige card covers decorated and lettered in dark brown, string-tied with original cord. Printed in England, with "British Manufacture throughout. E. W. Savory Ltd. Bristol" stamped to back cover. Trivial wear to covers, else a superior copy, the photogravures completely unfaded and virtually pristine. The images include: Richard Temple's Statue and High Court, The Victoria Terminus, General Post Office, B B & C I Railway Offices, Taj Mahal Hotel, Hotel Majestic and Waterloo Mansions, The Cuffe Parade, Malabar Hill from Chowpatty Sands, Queen's Statue and Esplanade Road, Princes and Victoria Docks, Victoria Gardens, The Royal Bombay Yacht Club, Back Bay from Malabar Hill, Crawford Market, Elephanta Caves, and the Sacred Pool of Temple. Thacker and Company Ltd, established in 1878, is one of the oldest listed companies on the Bombay Stock Exchange. It has grown from a trading company to one today with interests in finance, trading, and information technology. 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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LYELL, Sir Charles (1797-1875)

The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation

London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1863. Early Reprint. Decorative Cloth. Thick 8vo: xvi,528pp, with two full-page wood-engraved plates and 58 figures in the text. Original green heavily embossed, pebble-grained cloth, upper cover with two gilt fossil vignettes, spine lettered in gilt, marbled end papers renewed with period examples. Near Fine or better, pages clean and fresh (barring mild foxing of first and final few leaves), binding tight and square (after expert and almost imperceptible restoration). A handsome, collectible copy. Norman 1400. Garrison-Morton 204.1. Freeman (British Natural History Books) 2369. Challinor 192. Geology Emerging 1439. Second Edition. Revised. First published in 1863, Antiquity of Man went through three editions that year, with a fourth and final edition appearing in 1873. Our copy appeared in April, 1863 (two months after the first edition), with alterations, corrections, and a new seven-page appendix. The book dealt with two linked scientific issues that rose to prominence in the preceding decade: the age of the human race and Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Geologists had finally established that "early humans lived alongside the mammoths and other extinct mammals of the glacial period, known by this time by Lyell's name, ‘Pleistocene' (formerly his ‘Newer' Pliocene). This locked the human species firmly into earth history, by extending human history far beyond the reach of textual records into a prehistory recorded only in fossil bones and stone artefacts. The bulk of Lyell's book was devoted to a rather derivative account of this research. [In addition, after publication of Darwin's Origin of Species] Lyell had to alter his entire perspective on the history of life, finally conceding that successively higher forms of life had been formed in the course of time. He even allowed that the human species was no exception, at least in its physical aspects; but he remained sceptical about the adequacy of Darwin's theory to account for the origin of the mental and moral aspects that were most distinctively human." (ODNB) Note: 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. Near Fine+ .

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[BULWER-LYTTON, Edward, Baron, 1803-1873] LYTTON, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer

The Caxtons: A Family Picture

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1849. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this scarce triple-decker, which pioneered the "domestic" school of fiction. Crown (195 x 119mm): 8vo: [4],iii,[1],viii,327,[1]; [4],346; [4],308,32pp. Publisher's chocolate brown ribbed cloth blocked in blind and lettered in gold, fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed, pale yellow end papers. Contemporary armorial (ormerod) book plate of Jonathan Hargreaves (1840-1893) to front paste-downs (Franks Bequest 13772). End sheets spotted, else a fine, bright set, tightly bound and clean throughout. Sadleir 392. Wolff 924. First of three Caxton novels, "discursive treatments of upper middle-class life, quite different from his other fiction." (Wolff) Bulwer-Lytton loomed large on the literary scene for several decades ("In his day, no British writer rose faster or stood higher . and his day spanned several literary eras, from late Georgian to high Victorian," according to John Sutherland). He wrote in an astonishing variety of styles, and, his silver-fork novel Pelham was "the most popular and most often reprinted fashionable novel of the century." (Sutherland, "Ho, Diomed," TLS Issue 5081, p. 12) "Bulwer had a major impact on Edgar Allan Poe, on his Byronic persona, his writing and his editorial practice. His Newgate novels influenced Charles Reade, Wilkie Collins, and Sheridan Le Fanu. His emphasis on the crucial role of "wholeness" in art particularly impressed Matthew Arnold. Melville, Carlyle, Hawthorne, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon are among others whose work was directly affected by that of Bulwer. Until relatively recently, Bulwer's literary reputation was that of an opportunist who slavishly followed popular taste. In Edward Bulwer-Lytton: A Fiction of New Regions (1976), however, Allan Conrad Christensen argued convincingly that Bulwer was a pioneer rather than an imitator; his experiments with different novelistic genres, to Christensen, are the result of his desire to find the most appropriate form for his complex metaphysical philosophy." (Literary Encyclopedia) The Caxtons was one of his most popular novels, and in 1853 Bulwer-Lytton published a sequel to it entitled My Novel. 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 Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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[BULWER-LYTTON, Edward, Baron, 1803-1873] LYTTON, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer

[Early American Cloth] the Last Days of Pompeii. By the Author of "Pelham," "Eugene Aram," "England and the English," &C... . in Two Volumes

New York, Published by Harper & Brothers .. and Sold by the principal Booksellers throughout the United States, 1834. Original Cloth. First American Edition of Bulwer's hugely successful novel, complete in two duodecimo volumes. xii,[2],9-240; 201,[3],28(publisher's catalogue),[8][further advertisements)pp. Original publisher's peach-colored cloth, printed paper spine labels, contemporary manuscript ex-libris to title pages. Spines a shade lightened, else an exceptionally crisp, clean, well-preserved set, in early American cloth. First published in London the same year, The Last Days of Pompeii, Bulwer's single most successful book, "rapidly achieved classic status and remained a best-seller for the rest of the century; it was translated into at least ten languages (no fewer than sixteen French impressions had been issued by 1864), was frequently dramatized, and twice adapted as an opera. Two years after the death of [Walter] Scott, Bulwer's epic tale of Roman indulgence, Christian martyrdom, and the cataclysmic eruption of Vesuvius established him as the most popular historical novelist of the day." (ODNB) The novel was inspired by both Bulwer's visit to the ruins of Pompeii and by Karl Briullov's monumental painting The Last Days of Pompeii, which Bulwer saw when it was exhibited in Milan, in 1828. Walter Scott described the painting as an "epic in colors," and it inspired a poem by Pushkin. After many years at the Louvre, it is now housed at the State Russian Museum, in St. Petersburg. 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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MAASKAMP, Evert [edits], 1769-1834

Merkwaardige Gezigten, Gebouwen, Monumenten En Standbeelden in de Noordelijke Provintien Van Het Koningrijk Der Nederlanden

à Amsterdam, chez E. Maaskamp, près du Palais, 1816. First Edition thus. Half-Calf. First separate edition of this rare guide for tourists to the northern provinces of the Netherlands, Oblong foolscap 8vo (113 x 162mm): [80]pp, with title-page vignette by W. van Senus and 37 finely executed aquatints printed in sepia by L. Portman after G. J. Michaelis, F. A. Milats and others, each followed by numbered letterpress leaf with descriptive text in Dutch and French translation on verso. Contemporary brown half leather with vertically ribbed matching cloth sides, marbled end papers. The plates are of historic buildings, monuments, and statues, as well a scenes of Dutch cultural life, including ice skating, boating, and the like, in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Delft, Haarlem, and other locales. Old manuscript ex libris (in English) to first blank of Ada Sylverwood [?] Eames, 1880, who has inscribed on facing paste-down: "A sacred relic from old Ruddington." A fine example, tightly bound and clean throughout, with strong impressions of the plates. Landwehr (Dutch Books with Coloured Plates) 369. Text originally published by Maaskamp in its Reuse door Holland series, between 1806 and 1812. 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 Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Keywords: Castles -- Netherlands -- Pictorial works. Historic buildings -- Netherlands -- Pictorial works. Castles. Historic buildings. Manners and customs.