ALKEN, Henry

Scraps from the Sketch-Book of Henry Alken

London: Thomas M'Lean, 1823. A Very Scarce Alken With Forty-Two Hand-Colored Plates The Schwerdt - Duke of Gloucester Copy ALKEN, Henry. Scraps From the Sketch-Book of Henry Alken. Engraved by Himself. Containing Forty-Two Plates. London: Thomas M'Lean, 1823. First edition with the plates all dated 1820. Oblong folio (9 9/16 x 13 5/8 inches; 243 x 347 mm.). Title leaf (verso blank), and forty-two hand-colored engraved plates heightened with gum arabic, twelve with multiple images. Plates watermarked "J. Whatman 1822 & 1824". Bound ca. 1900 by Morrell of London (stamp-signed) in half maroon straight-grain morocco over plum cloth ruled in gilt. Front cover with rectangular maroon morocco label, bordered and lettered in gilt, spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. The Schwerdt copy, with his bookplate and that of Prince Henry, first Duke of Gloucester on the front pastedown and the free endpaper. A bright, clean, and superb copy of an extremely scarce album by Henry Alken. According to Schwerdt there was an uncolored edition of 1821. While Siltzer notes an Alken Sketch Book of 1820 (34 plates), and the Scraps.. edition of 1822 (assumedly mistaken for 1823). It is not in found in Tooley or Abbey in any edition. The "Scraps" include equestrian, hunting, dog, bowling scenes, etc. In short, each print features a sporting tableau. Of Alken, Siltzer wrote, "It took but a short time for the leading art publishers of London to recognize his genius and to discover that they had 'struck a reef' of both artistic and financial value, and the well-known firms of Thomas M'Lean, S. and J. Fuller, and Rudolph Ackermann were not slow to reaping full benefit.. It appears that Alken himself occasionally engraved plates, and thus added to the facility of production.." C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (1862-1939) was the esteemed collector whose collection of sporting books up to WWII was considered the finest ever amassed. The catalog to his collection, Hunting, Hawking Shooting, is a standard reference. Prince Henry, first duke of Gloucester (1900-1974) was a soldier and member of the British Royal Family, the third son of King George V and Queen Mary. Schwerdt I, p. 21. Cf. Siltzer, p. 71. .

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Book number: 02263

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Caricatures Nineteenth-Century Literature Naval and Military Dogs

ALKEN, Henry

Set of Six Plates on Fox Hunting, A.

London: Thos. McLean, 1820. A Fine Set of Six Hand Colored Etched Plates on Fox Hunting ALKEN, Henry. A Set of Six Plates on Fox Hunting by Henry Alken 1820 [cover title]. London: Thomas McLean, 1820. Oblong folio (11 3/4 x 17 3/8 inches; 298 x 441 mm.). Specially printed title-page Six fine hand-colored etched plates, all plates window-mounted on stubs. (platemark size: 7 3/8 x 9 5/8 inches; 182 x 244 mm.). All plates with imprint "London, Published by Thos. McLean, Hay Market, 1820" Bound ca. 1960 in three quarter red morocco over pink boards decoratively ruled in ruled in gilt. Front cover with large rectangular red morocco label decoratively bordered and lettered in gilt. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt, white endpapers, edges speckled blue. This fine set of plates depict the huntsmen having a drink at the inn and preparing for the hunt; gathering the hounds; ready to enter the field; the hounds find the scent; the huntsmen and hounds in full chase; success! one of the huntsmen holding the dead fox. From the estate of Arnold "Jake" Johnson (1930-2017) of Bozeman, Montana. A true bibliophile, Johnson was an inveterate collector of rare items related to travel, expeditions in India and Africa, English sporting and color-plate, 19th century big game hunting, and Western Americana. To be offered in a series of sales, the Collection comprises hundreds of rare books, hand-written accounts of hunting expeditions, striking examples of 19th century photographic travel albums, and elusive bibliographies and facsimiles of major works. Siltzer, p. 58 (referring to the plates as aquatints); Not in Abbey; Not in Mellon/Podeschi; Not in Schwerdt; Not in Tooley. .

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Book number: 05103

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Caricatures Hunting Sports Dogs

ALKEN, Henry; SUTHERLAND, T.

[Shooting]

London: Thomas Pulser, 1817. A Set of Four Magnificent Hand Colored Aquatint Plates by Henry Alken, Engraved by T. Sutherland ALKEN, Henry. [Shooting]. London: Thomas Pulser, 1 June 1817 [i.e. 1820]. Four Magnificent Hand Colored Sporting Engravings by T. Sutherland after Henry Alken. Elephant folio (16 5/8 x 21 7/8 inches; 423 x 556 mm.). Four magnificent hand colored aquatint plates (image size: 13 x 16 1/2 inches; 330 x 420 mm.). All plates with imprint "Pubd. Jun 1, 1817, by Thos. Pulser, Surrey side Westminster Bridge.' Interleaved with card, some light soiling of margins. The first plate with a tiny inner-margin tear, the second plate with a tiny tear below the imprint, both with almost invisible repairs. The third plate with a two-inch marginal tear (not affecting image) repaired on the verso with tape. The first three plates are watermarked 1820. Mid-to-late nineteenth century half brown morocco over green pebble-grain cloth ruled in gilt. Smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, green marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Light wear to spine extremities. With the bookplates of Clarence S. Bemens, Joseph Widener and Joel Spitz on front pastedown. A set of large, highly attractive aquatints, closely related to the series published by S. and J. Fuller in 1813, with aquatints by R. Reeve. While two of the plates show top-hatted sportsmen in action, another depicts the shooting party and their dogs taking refreshments under the trees, and in the last they can be seen packing up and 'going-home'. Provenance: Clarence S. Bemens - Joseph Widener - Joel Spitz (purchased from Sessler, Philadelphia, 1954). "Set of four. Aquatints by T. Sutherland. Published, June 1, by T. Pilser (sic), Westminster Bridge Road." (Siltzer). Henry Thomas Alken was born into what became an artistic dynasty. He studied under the miniature painter J.T. Barber and exhibited his first picture (a miniature portrait) at the Royal Academy when he was sixteen. From about 1816 onwards he "produced an unending stream of paintings, drawings and engravings of every type of field and other sporting activity. He is best remembered for his hunting prints, many of which he engraved himself until the late 1830s .. To many, sporting art is 'Alken', and to describe his work or ability is quite unnecessary" (Charles Lane British Racing Prints, pp. 75-76). The Plates: 1. Pheasant Shooting. 2. Refreshing. 3. Cock Shooting. 4. Going Home. Snelgrove Mellon, 46 (p. 21); Siltzer, p. 57; Not in Bobins or Schwerdt. .

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Book number: 05113

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: SUTHERLAND, T Caricatures Hunting Sports Dogs

ALKEN, Henry

Specimens of Riding Near London

London: Published by Thomas M'Lean, 1823. Alken's Rare Satire Successfully Transplants Horse's Ass to Rider's Seat ALKEN, Henry. Specimens of Riding Near London. Drawn from Life. London: Published by Thomas M'Lean. Repository of Wit and Humour, No. 26, Haymarket, 1823. Second edition. Oblong folio (8 3/4 x 12 3/4 in; 222 x 323 mm). Printed title and eighteen hand-colored engraved plates. Late nineteenth century half red roan over red cloth boards, ruled in gilt. Rectangular red roan gilt lettering label, bordered in gilt on front board. Spine with two raised bands, paneled and lettered in gilt. Clean tear in the inside margin of the seventeenth plate (just touching image) expertly and almost invisibly repaired. A few other small marginal tears neatly repaired. Some very minor marginal spotting or soiling to the margins but still a near fine copy. Plates watermarked 1821 and 1822. A work of great scarcity with only one copy of the first edition (1821) and only three copies of this, the second edition, coming to auction within the last thirty-five years. The last copy appeared over twenty-two years ago. The Plates: 1. One of the comforts of riding in company. H. Alken 1821. 2. Symptoms of Things going downhill. H. Alken 1821. 3. The pleasure of riding in company. One would stop if the other Could. H. Alken 1821. 4. Preparing for the Easter Hunt (I shall be over Jack). H. Alken 1821. 5. The Consequences of having plenty of company on the Road. H. Alken 1821. 6. A thing of the last consequence. H. Alken 1821. 7. Delighted. S. Alken del et sc. Augt. 1, 1821. 8. Perfectly satisfied. S. Alken del et sc. Augt. 1, 1821. 9. Dissatisfied. S. Alken del et sc. Augt. 1, 1821. 10. Surprised. S. Alken del et sc. Augt. 1, 1821. 11. Displeased. S. Alken del et sc. Augt. 1, 1821. 12. Terrified. S. Alken del et sc. Augt. 1, 1821. 13. 'Taste - View near Knigtsbridge. (Bound as frontispiece). Drawn and Engraved by S. Alken Septr. 1, 1821. 14. Lords - View in Hyde Park. Oct. 1, 1821. 15. Yeomanry of England paying a visit. H. Alken del et sc. 1821. 16. Fancy - View near Grays Inn Road. Drawn and Engraved by S. Alken Septr. 1, 1821. 17. Folly - View near Acton. Drawn and Engraved by S. Alken Septr. 1, 1821. 18. Knights - View in the City Road. Oct. 1, 1821. Tooley 52. .

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Book number: 01689

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Caricatures Hunting Sports Horses

ALKEN, Henry

Sporting Notions

London: T. McLean, 1838. A Fine Contemporary Album Containing Eighteen of Henry Alken's Highly Amusing Hand Colored Lithographs ALKEN, Henry, illustrator. [Sporting Notions]. [London: T. McLean, 1831-33]. Small oblong quarto (6 11 /16 x 8 3/8 inches; 170 x 212 mm.). Eighteen fine hand colored lithographs mounted on G. Whatman watermarked paper. all plates heightened with gum arabic. Average plate size: 4 7/8 x 6 5/8 inches; 124 x 168 mm. Nineteenth century blue patterned paper boards (ca. 1838), covers decoratively bordered in gilt, spine worn and chipped, otherwise near fine. Front flyleaf with ink date "1838". This is an intriguing little album of eighteen fine hand colored lithographed plates, each of which has been cut to the border thus losing it's title. We have been able to identify eleven of the images - nine are very similar to the illustrations in one of Henry Alken's rarest titles Sporting Notions (London, 1831-33) and the other two are very similar to the illustrations in his equally rare Ideas, Accidental and Incidental To Hunting and Other Sports (London, 1830). However the plates in our album are approximately one inch less all round in size and all of the images are 'in reverse'. A fine contemporary album with amusing plates. The plates: 1. Woo - Woo- I have a notion that I shall lose him.. 2. [Horse and rider over water] 3. I have a Notion that you are going the wrong way, don't you see our party out yonder. 4. [Horse and rider jumping over stile and water] 5. [Horse and rider jumping over stile] 6. I have a Notion you must pull him over or persuade him to pull you back again. 7. [Horse and rider jumping over gate] 8. Two horses and their riders going through gate] 9. I have an Idea that this Fence is either too High or that my Horse is too Short (Sporting Ideas) 10. I have an Idea that this is a situation that this of considerable difficulty (Sporting Ideas) 11. [Horse and rider jumping over fence] 12. I had a Notion that that there was room for two to go through at a time. 13. I had no Notion of the Comforts of Hunting by Water. 14. I have a Notion that this may be called "Riding to the hounds at a Smashing rate." 15. I had not the most distant Notion that my Horse was going to stop. 16. I had a Notion that Timber jumping was quite an easy thing. 17. [Horse and rider having caught a large branch] 18. This gives me a Notion that its better to "Look before you leap." See: Tooley 54; Siltzer p. 73; Dixon 95; Mellon/Snelgrove 34; Schwerdt l, p.23; Mellon/Podeschi 136; Tooley 36; Schwerdt I, pp. 17-18; Siltzer, p. 72. .

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Book number: 04600

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Caricatures Hunting Horses

ALKEN, Henry

Sporting Discoveries, or the Miseries of Shooting in a Series of Seven Plates

London: S. & J. Fuller, 1816. One of the Rarest of Alken's Works" Seven Magnificent Hand Colored Etched Plates Depicting 'The Miseries of Shooting' ALKEN, Henry. [Sporting Discoveries, or The Miseries of Shooting in a series of seven plates, Being Hints to Young Sportsmen. By Ben Tally-Ho. Author of "Qualified Horses and Unqualified Riders."]. London: Published by S. and J. Fuller, [February 1st, 1816]. First edition, with all seven plates dated February 1st, 1816. Oblong folio (10 3/8 x 14 inches; 262 x 355 mm.). Seven magnificent hand-colored etched plates. Bound by Rivière & Son ca. 1900 in full red crushed levant morocco, covers decoratively bordered in gilt, spine with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt ruled board edges, gilt decorated turn-ins, dark blue coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Expertly and almost invisibly rebacked with the original spine laid down. A fine copy with the hand coloring bright and fresh. Each of the plates have extensive engraved captions explaining each pitiful situation, be it the accidental shooting of an old market woman; the accidental shooting of your favorite pointer; getting caught by gamekeepers; the accidental shooting of a fine lamb; discovering that your powder flask is empty; discovering a brood of turkeys, or, getting your leg caught in a trap. The plates: 1. "A Simple Discovery" Published Feb. 1. 1816. 2. "A Common Discovery" Published Feb. 1. 1816. 3. "A Troublesome Discovery" Published Feb. 1. 1816. 4. "A Trifling Discovery" Published Feb. 1. 1816. (Watermarked "J. Whatman 1817") 5. "A Curious Discovery" Published Feb. 1. 1816. (Watermarked "J. Whatman 1817") 6. "A Fatal Discovery" Published Feb. 1. 1816. (Watermarked "J. Whatman 1817") 7. "A Painful Discovery" Published Feb. 1. 1816. (Watermarked "J. Whatman 1817") "First issue of a well drawn and finely coloured set of plates representing shooting accidents, not easily met with in perfect state. No copy in Brit. Mus." (Schwerdt). First issue of an excessively rare early Alken. The companion to the Miseries of Hunting and the Miseries of Driving. We can locate only three copies of this book in libraries and institutions worldwide: Yale University Library (CT); The National Sporting Library (VA); and The Huntington Library (CA). Schwerdt I, p. 23; Bobins II, 748; Siltzer p. 69; Tooley, 53 (1823 issue); Fitz Eugene Dixon sale at Anderson Galleries January 6th, 1937, lot #7, ($675); Not in the Widener Auction of 1944. .

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Book number: 05599

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Caricatures Hunting Sports

ALKEN, Henry

Tutor's Assistant

London: Thos. Mc.Lean, 1823. The Wilmerding Copy Scarce English Grammar Tutorial Satirically Illustrated With Examples from Life for E-Z Learning ALKEN, Henry. Tutors Assistant, containing a Variety of Amusing Scenes. London: Thos. McLean, 1823. First edition. Oblong folio (10 1/4 x 14 in; 260 x 354 mm). Six hand-colored soft-ground etchings all with multiple images. Plates watermarked 1823. Image size: 8 3/8 x 10 5/8 in; 211 x 270 mm. Publisher's original printed wrappers with loose plates laid-in as issued. Wrapper joints beginning to split but intact. Neat 19th century ownership label to upper wrapper at top margin. With the bookplate of Lucius Wilmerding. An excellent copy, housed in a gilt-lettered brown cloth portfolio. Scarce; only four copies have come to auction within the last thirty-six years, only one of which was in the original wrappers, as here. OCLC/KVK record only five copies in library holdings worldwide. The Plates: 1. A Dipthong is the meeting of Two Vowels U and I perhaps &c. 2. Letters are divided into Vowels and Consonants &c. 3. The feminine gender Signifies Animals of the female kind &c. 4. The Glittering Prospect charms my eyes &c. 5. A Verb Neuter expresses neither action nor passion &c. 6. Imperative Mood, or do you die &c. Lucius Wilmerding (1880-1949), born in NYC, graduated Harvard in 1901 and then began an extremely successful career as a stock broker on Wall Street. In 1930 he became a trustee of the New York Public Library. He was Vice-President of the American Library in Paris, a trustee and one-time president of the Grolier Club, a member of the Club of Odd Volumes and the American Antiquarian society. "Mr. Wilmerding early became a collector, and in later years specialized in English and French literature, colored plate books, and historical bindings" (Obituary, American Antiquarian Society, October 1949). Tooley 59. .

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Book number: 02537

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Caricatures

ALLEN, Harvey

Anthony Adverse

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc. 1933. Publishers Weekly best-selling novel in the US for 1933 & 1934 ALLEN, Harvey. Anthony Adverse. Decorations by Allan McNab. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc. 1933. First edition, first printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 6 inches; 216 x 152 mm.). [xii], [1]-1224 pp. Title-page printed in blue & black. Publisher's blue cloth, front cover bordered and titled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. Original printed dust jacket with $3.00 on front flap, spine slightly darkened, extremities of inside fold neatly strengthened. A good copy. The novel contains three volumes: The Roots of the Tree, The Other Bronze Boy and The Lonely Twin, and each volume contains three "books", making for nine books in total. The story follows the eponymous protagonist, Anthony Adverse, through several adventures around the world. This includes slave trading in Africa, his business dealings as a plantation owner in New Orleans, and his incarceration and eventual death in Mexico. The novel was the Publishers Weekly best-selling novel in the United States for two consecutive years: 1933 and 1934. .

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Book number: 05781

Catalogue: Modern Firsts

Keywords: Voyages and Travels

ALTIMIRAS, Juan

Nuevo Arte de Cocina

Madrid: Francisco Martinez Dávila, 1814. 'The New Art of Cooking' The Book that Revolutionized Spanish Cuisine ALTIMIRAS, Juan. Nuevo Arte de Cocina, Sacado de la Escuela de la experiencia economica. Dedicado a san Diego de Alcalá. Madrid: D[on]Francisco Martinez Dávila, 1814. Twelvemo (5 1/2 x 3 5/8 inches; 140 x 92 mm.). [i]-xii, xvii-xxvi, [1], full-page woodcut, verso blank, 1-152 pp. (A6-L8, M2). Small piece (1 3/4 x 1/2 inch) torn away from lower blank margin of D6 (pp. 31/32), not affecting text. Contemporary Spanish calf, smooth spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Westbury on front pastedown. Light rubbing to binding extremities, still a wonderful copy. The book that revolutionized Spanish cuisine: Juan Altamiras was the Ferrán Adrià (best chef) of the kitchens of the 18th century. OCLC/KVK locte just two examples in libraries and institutions worldwide: Bibliotheca Nacional de Espana (Spain); The only time that this edition has appeared at auction over the past 100 years was at the Westbury collection of Cookery Books was sold by Sotheby's, London 15th & 16th February, 1965. (this copy - purchased by Bernard Quaritch, London). The early 19th century in Spain was a period of significant cultural and social change. Cookbooks from this time provide insights into the ingredients, cooking methods, and culinary preferences of the era. In 1745, Juan Altamiras, a Franciscan friar from Aragon, published a recipe book titled New Art of Cooking, which unexpectedly became a best-seller. Its success was due in part to the simplicity of the recipes: unlike many other books of the time, they were designed for only a pair of hands and a modest kitchen. He left us numerous recipes of great originality and, thanks to his emphasis on healthy food and natural flavors, surprisingly suitable for modern tastes and the most current culinary trends. Palau I, 53; This edition unknown to Bitting or Vicaire. .

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Book number: 05752

Catalogue: Food

Keywords: Cookery

ANDERSEN, Hans Christian; BUSHBY, Mrs. Anne

Danes Sketched by Themselves, the

London: Richard Bentley, 1864. The moral of this story shows, Though knaves on women oft impose, That men are sometimes quite as green, But hold their tongues themselves to screen" (Hans Christian Andersen) [ANDERSEN, Hans Christian]. BUSHBY, Mrs. Anne, editor and translator. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors. Translated by Mrs. Bushby. In Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1864. First English edition of this collection of Danish tales and verse, selected and translated by Mrs. Bushby. Three octavo volumes (7 7/8 x 4 15/16 inches; 200 x 125 mm.). [2, publisher's advertisements], [6], 312; [4], 303, [1, blank]; [4], 303, [1, blank] pp. Original terra cotta pebble-grain cloth with covers decoratively stamped in blind and spines ruled, decoratively stamped, and lettered in gilt. Original cream-colored endpapers. Some very faint marks on the front covers, where there must once have been library labels, the absolute minimum of rubbing to corners, some minor foxing to top edge. A truly spectacular copy. OCLC records just ten copies in libraries and institutions worldwide. Includes stories and poems by Hans Christian Andersen ("Morten Langè. A Christmas Story" - volume I, pp. 199-208, and "The Man from Paradise. A Comic Tale" - volume I, pp. 305-312); Carl Bernhard ("Cousin Carl," "Aunt Francisca," "Damon and Pythas," and "The Bankrupt"); Bernard Severin Ingemann ("The Doomed House," "The Secret Witness," "All Souls' Day," "The Aged Rabbi. A Jewish Tale," and "The Death Ship"); Carit Etlar ("Too Old," "The Shipwrecked Mariner's Treasure," and "Twice Sacrificed"); H.P. Holst ("Lisette's Castles in the Air"), Adam Oehlenschlager ("Death and His Victims"), and others. "Mrs Bushby is in many ways an interesting translator, who did not see Andersen as simply a children's writer, and that some of her divergences from Andersen's text are not mistakes but deliberate adaptations for the benefit of her audience in Victorian Britain..Mrs Anne S. Bushby (died 1875) knew Andersen personally, had indeed courted his acquaintance since his first visit to London in 1847, when her husband called upon him to invite him to dinner (Bredsdorff 1954: 314)" (Viggo Hjørnager Pedersen, Anne Bushby, Translator of Hans Christian Andersen, 2004). "Most of the following stories have appeared, from time to time, in the ‘New Monthly Magazine,' and a few in other periodicals. They are now gathered together, and it is hoped that they may convey a favourable impression of the lighter literature of Denmark,—a country rich in genius, science, and art" (Prefatory note). Not in Sadleir or Wolff. .

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Book number: 00298

Catalogue: European Literature

Keywords: BUSHBY, Mrs. Anne Danish Literature Fairy Tales Fairy Tales Literature

ANDERSEN, Hans Christian

Nye Eventyr [New Fairy Tales]

Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1845-1848. The Original Stories That Catapulted Andersen to Fame ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Nye Eventyr. Kjøbenhavn: C.A. Reitzel, 1845-1848. First edition, complete, two volumes (collections) bound together, of Anderson's second series of fairy tales, the first issue of Collection Two, the second issue of Collection One. Small octavo (6 1/4 x 4 in; 157 x 103 mm). Collection One: 47, [1, blank]; 68; 52 pp. Collection Two: 72; 60 pp. Two leaves, comprised of table of contents and dedication page to Collection Two, have been misbound out of sequence. Otherwise, complete with half titles for each volume, both shared title pages, both shared contents leaves, all dedication leaves, all half titles for each fairy tale, and all five regular title pages. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Marbled edges. Some light scattered foxing and toning, and an occasional inkspot. Otherwise a very nice copy. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell case. A work of extreme scarcity with OCLC/KVK recording only a handful of copies in libraries worldwide, and with possibly only one other example, the Klein copy (1980), coming to auction within the last thirty-three years of ABPC records (Sotheby Hodgson's catalogue note vague and incomplete). These stories were originally issued in parts; very few have survived in that state. The publisher, Reitzel, collected the individual parts in their original printings, added tables of contents, and published them in anthologies as here. The importance of these stories, here - staggeringly - in their first edition, cannot be underestimated. They have become deeply embedded in the Western world's cultural consciousness, as timeless as our memories of childhood. More to the point, however, is that, unlike Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, who were compilers and talented interpreters of traditional folk stories in their respective cultures, in this second series of Andersen tales, the stories are wholly original, the product of a brilliant imagination, featuring characters of great love and yearning who, misunderstood and misfits in a cruel world, have become transcendent heroes for humanity of all ages. The stories have become the cornerstones of Western children's literature, the characters eternal psychological archetypes. "For his second collection, Nye Eventyr (New Fairy Tales), Andersen wrote some of his most important and famous stories. He moved away from traditional folk material towards creating tales that came from his imagination. The words ‘told for children' were omitted from the new title as Andersen sought to engage adults and children alike. He had found a genre in which he had a unique voice" (British Library Online Gallery). The Stories: Volume One 1. The Angel 2. The Nightingale 3. The Sweethearts 4. The Ugly Duckling 5. The Fir Tree 6. The Snow Queen 7. Night Ghosts 8. The Red Shoes 9. The Jumpers 10. Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep 11. Holger Danske Volume Two 1. The Old Street Lamp 2. The Neighboring Family 3. The Darning Needle 4. Little Tuck 5. The Shadow 6. The Old House 7. The Drop of Water 8. The Little Match Girl 9. The Happy Family 10. The Story of a Mother 11. The Shirt Collar Nielsen 467 & 529. .

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Book number: 01243

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: European Literature Fairy Tales Fantasy Literature Literature

ANDREWS, James; TWAMLEY, Louisa Anne

Flora's Gems: Or, the Treasures of the Parterre

London: Charles Tilt, 1830. Handsome and Interesting Ornaments for the Drawing-Room Table" ANDREWS, James. Flora's Gems: or, The Treasures of the Parterre. Twelve Bouquets, drawn and coloured from nature, by James Andrews. With Poetical Illustrations, by Louisa Anne Twamley. London: Charles Tilt, [1830]. First edition. Folio (14 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches; 369 x 273 mm.). 20 unnumbered pages including half-title, title-page, contents, dedication leaf, and advertisement leaf at end. Hand colored lithographed title and eleven superb hand-colored lithograph plates, all with their original tissue-guards. Publisher's green diaper-grain cloth, covers decoratively bordered and stamped in blind enclosing a large and quite magnificent gilt urn with flowers. Spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, original yellow coated end-papers, all edges gilt. Lower 3 1/2 inches of front inner hinge slightly cracked - still the finest copy that we have ever seen. "The covers are decorated with stamped and gilt bouquets of flowers in tall vases, typical of the age in which "Handsome and interesting ornaments for the drawing-room table" were in vogue." (Dunthorne). James Andrews (1801-1876) was an English draughtsman, botanical painter and illustrator noted for his accomplished illustrations. He also taught flower-painting to young ladies. His first illustrated work was Flora's Gems (1830) for which Louisa Anne Twamley wrote the text. He created the illustrations for the famous nature writer Sarah Bowdich Lee's 1854 book Trees, Plants, and Flowers: Their Beauties, Uses, and Influences. In March 1857, his painting of fruit and a bowl in watercolour received a medal from the Royal Society of Agriculture and Botany in Ghent. In 1868, Andrews exhibited a piece called Earnest Andrews, a painting of fruit and flowers, at the Royal Academy of Art annual summer exhibition. The highly colored plates in Flora's Gems: or, The Treasures of the Parterre (a formal garden) depict magnificent bouquets of various flowers. 1. Wreath 2. Lilian (Narcissus, Anemone, Purple Stock) 3. The Naming of the Iris (Iris, Ranunculus, Hyacinth, Heath) 4. The Fairy Couch (Dahlia, China Aster, Convolvulus) 5. Eudora (White Geranium, Stock, Schizanthus) 6. The Tulip (Tulip, Passion Flower, Sweet Peas) 7. The Hollyhocks in the Old Hall Garden (Hollyhock, Major Convolvulus, Indian Pink) 8. The Lilac Tree (Persian Lilac, Red Camellia, China Rose) 9. Poetic Fables - The Hyacinth (Blue Hyacinth, Tulip, White Camellia) 10. Folly's Flowers - The Columbine (Columbine, White Lily, Lupine) 11. The Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum, Heliotrope, Dahlia) 12. The Rose (Rose, Cyclamen, Larkspur) Dunthorne, 13; Nissen BBI, 35. .

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Book number: 04213

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: TWAMLEY, Louisa Anne Gardening Natural History

ANGAS, George French

Kafirs Illustrated, the

London: J. Hogarth, [1849]. Of the three works, The Kaffirs Illustrated is the most uncommon" (Tooley). With Thirty Beautiful Hand-Colored Plates ANGAS, George French. The Kafirs Illustrated, in a Series of Drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa Tribes; also, Portraits of the Hottentot, Malay, Fingo, and other races inhabiting Southern Africa: Together with Sketches of Landscape Scenery in the Zulu Country, Natal, and the Cape Colony. London: G. Barclay for J. Hogarth, [1849]. First Edition. Large folio (19 9/16 x 14 1/8 inches; 497 x 359 mm.). [ii], [i]-viii, [9-52] pp. Lithographed frontispiece portrait on India proof paper mounted, lithographed title-page, lithographed dedication leaf, and thirty finely hand-colored lithographed plates drawn on stone by G.F. Angas, M. & N. Hanhart, B.W. Hawkins, A. Laby, J. Needham, and W. Wing, after Angas. Eleven wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Small closed tear repaired to margin of plate 17, not affecting illustration. Plate number 18 slightly toned and with very small chip to margin, again not affecting illustration. With a chapter entitled "General Remarks on the Races Inhabiting Southern Africa." Bound ca. 1849 by Bull & Son of Surbiton (stamp-signed in black on front free endpaper). Contemporary half black straight-grain morocco over green cloth boards ruled in gilt, front board with title printed in gilt, within decorative gilt border. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Expertly rebacked with original spine laid down. Some occasional very light foxing to a few plates. Small ex-library sticker on front pastedown. First edition of this scarce and important nineteenth century survey of South Africa, including outstanding portraits, depicting the local ethnic groups such as the Khoikhoi (then referred to as Hottentots), Cape Malays and Zulus. The plates also include superb views of Cape Town, Durban, Wynberg, Hottentot Holland, Genadendal, Paarl and Somerset West. "The three large works by George French Angas, The Kaffirs Illustrated, The New Zealanders Illustrated and South Australia Illustrated, are amongst the most important of the illustrated travel books of their period.. Of the three works, The Kaffirs Illustrated is the most uncommon" (Tooley). According to OCLC there are just 15 copies of The Kafirs Illustrated in libraries and institutions worldwide compared to 38 copies of South Australia Illustrated and 42 copies of The New Zealanders Illustrated. George French Angas (1822-1886), also known as G.F.A. was an English explorer, artist, naturalist, zoologist, painter and poet who emigrated to Australia. He studied anatomical drawing and lithography in London prior to traveling to New Zealand and Australia, and, for two years, in South Africa - resulting in the present work. His paintings are held in a number of important Australian public art collections. He was the eldest son of George Fife Angas, who was prominent in the early days of the colonization of South Australia. Angas painted some of the earliest views of South Australia. Arriving in Adelaide in January 1844, Following a trip to New Zealand he returned to South Australia in 1845 and traveled to Port Lincoln. In the following year he returned for a short while to England, accompanied by a young M ori man, Hemi Pomara, who was exhibited alongside Angas's paintings at the Egyptian Hall in London. Angas' next journey in 1846 was to South Africa, where he spent two years in Natal and the Cape, working on a series of drawings and watercolors which were published in 1849 as The Kafirs Illustrated. Abbey, Travel, 339; Bobins I, 71; Colas 134; Mendelssohn I, pp. 45-46; Theal p.9; Tooley 60. .

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Book number: 04947

Catalogue: Color-Plate Books

Keywords: Africana Voyages and Travels

APICIUS, Marcus Gavius

Apicii Coelii de Opsoniis Et Condimentis, Sive Arte Coquinaria

Amsterdam: Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1709. The Art of Cooking in Roman Times APICIUS, Marcus Gavius. Apicii Coelii De Opsoniis et Condimentis, Sive Arte Coquinaria, Libri Decem. Cum Annotationibus Martini Lister, è Medicis domesticis Serenissimae Majestatis Reginae Annae, et Notis selectioribus, variisque lectionibus integris, Humelbergii, Barthii, Reinesii, A. Van Der Linden, & Aliorum, ut & Variarum Lectionum Libello. Editio Secunda. Amsterdam: Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1709. Second edition. Small octavo (7 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 193 x 111 mm.). Engraved frontispiece, [xxxvi], [2, blank], 277, [18, lectures], [25, index] pp. Title-page printed in red and black. The frontispiece was designed and engraved by J. Goeree and depicts a Roman Kitchen with a staff of five preparing a meal. Eighteenth century speckled calf, covers ruled in blind, expertly rebacked. Spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco label lettered in gilt, edges sprinkled red, armorial bookplate on front paste-down. Neat ink signature of front free-endpaper, some minimal foxing, corners of binding worn, otherwise an excellent copy. A fine scholarly edition of Apicius, the major source for our knowledge of the cookery of the Roman world. This second edition of his cookbook of 1709 is a considerably revised and augmented re-issue of Lister's London edition of 1705 with an added index. Marcus Gavius Apicius (1st Century AD) is believed to have been a Roman gourmet and lover of luxury, who lived sometime in the 1st century AD, during the reign of Tiberius. The Roman cookbook Apicius is often attributed to him, though it is impossible to prove the connection. He was the subject of On the Luxury of Apicius, a famous work, now lost, by the Greek grammarian Apion. M. Gavius Apicius apparently owed his cognomen (his third name) to an earlier Apicius, who lived around 90 BC, whose family name it may have been: if this is true, Apicius had come to mean "gourmand" as a result of the fame of this earlier lover of luxury. The book also may have been authored by a number of different Roman cooks from the first century AD. Many of the recipes contain the ingredient Silphium, a plant that was used in classical antiquity as a seasoning, perfume, an aphrodisiac and medicine. Silphium became extinct in the first century CE. Martin Lister (1639-1712) was a naturalist and chief physician to Queen Anne of England from 1709 till his death in 1712. in 1705 he published an edition of the recipes of the Roman cook Caelius (or Coelius) Apicius. The collection is arranged in ten books, and is usually called De re coquinaria. It is the only surviving cookery book that records Greek and Roman cuisine. It is thought to have been compiled in imperial Roman times. The recipes are organized similarly to a modern cookbook. The recipes which are thought to have been compiled in imperial Roman times are organized similarly to a modern cookbook. Apicius was at the beginning of the 18th century largely associated with gluttony and intemperance. 'In his lengthy Latin introduction, Lister tries to rescue Apicius from the charge of gluttony - and indeed to stress the health-giving properties of his recipes. Generations of moralizing historians had argued that the fall of Rome was at least partly down to excessive gourmandising. Lister takes the opposite view: the barbarian sack of Rome halted the Romans development of healthy, nourishing seasonings and sauces. Lister was, in the parlance of the time, a Modernist. Bitting, p. 13; Cagle 1076; Graesse A160 (belle édition); Vicaire 32. .

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Book number: 05748

Catalogue: Food

Keywords: Cookery

[DECORATIVE ARTS]

[in Japanese]. Setsu Kushi Hinagata [Patterns of Miniature Combs]

[Tokyo]: [Japan Art Society], [1905]. The Art of Japanese Hair Combs A Singular Scrapbook [DECORATIVE ARTS]. [In Japanese]. Setsu Kushi Hinagata [Patterns of Miniature Combs]. [Tokyo: Japan Art Society, 37th Year of the Meiji (1905)]. Octavo (9 1/2 x 5 3/4 in; 242 x 140 mm). 154 pp. A unique scrapbook of over 500 charcoal rubbings on rice paper of Japanese miniature comb and hairpin (koagi) patterns tipped-in to the pages of three issues of Japanese Art Society Reports bound together. The original collector has crossed-out the original titles, publisher, etc. and provided their own manuscript title in black marking pen. Each page has two rubbed patterns, each pattern with upper and lower views of each comb, and the rubbings are remarkably sharp with even small details very clear. Publisher's original string-bound wrappers with losses but the integrity of interior of the book remains complete and intact. Early auction clipping for this item ("Kushi Hinagata") mounted to the inside of the rear (Japanese front) cover. Housed in a green silk drop-back box with traditional Japanese clasps with paper label on spine, lettered in Japanese. The art of Japanese hair decoration, or kushi, dates back hundreds of years and has rich and varied heritage. As with much Eastern art it served to "beautify items of everyday use, to make the commonplace extraordinary [and] to tell of the life and status of the wearers, who were geisha, courtesans, court ladies, and housewives" (Ziesnitz and Momoko, Combs and Hairpins, Daruma: Japanese Art and Antique Magazine, Summer 2002). And, indeed, this work is a testament to the beautiful and elegant diversity of this Japanese decorative art. A curious, attractive and visually arresting book, one with certain aesthetic merit, given the obsessive care and attention necessary to compile such a volume which, with its use of a marking pen, dates this compilation to sometime post-1952, the year that marking pens were introduced. A valuable historical, cultural, and artistic record as well as an object that, as much as its subject, renders the commonplace extraordinary, and takes its place along side of Hokusai's classic Imayo Kushi Hinagata (1823) as a key reference. "Women have always adorned themselves but perhaps none so subtly as the Japanese. You can reproduce the old hairstyles seen in painting and sculpture but their hair ornaments remind us of the coiffures on which they were worn. In other words, hair ornaments are tangible souvenirs of ancient hairstyles. "Hair ornaments were not mere accessories to feminine coiffure and attire. In keeping with the Japanese urge to beautify items of everyday use, to make the commonplace extraordinary, they were turned into artistic objects mirroring cultural and and social history. They tell of the life and status of their wearers, who were geisha, courtesans, court ladies, and housewives. "They give a glimpse of the exceptional beauty of Japanese art.." (Ziesnitz, Sharon. Combs and Hairpins. Daruma 35, vol. 9, No. 3, Summer 2002). .

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Book number: 01948

Catalogue: Decorative Arts

Keywords: Japan Original Art in Book