SWINBURNE, Henry (1743-1803)

Travels Through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776. In Which Several Monuments of Roman and Moorish Architecture Are Illustrated by Accurate Drawings Taken on the Spot [R.J. Hayhurst's Copy]

London, Printed for P. Elmsly, in the Strand, 1779. Half-Calf. A superb First Edition (in period binding) of this account of a sojourn to Spain, "an exact investigation of the soil, cultivation, government, commerce, and manners." 4to (283 x 220mm): xv,[1],427,[15]pp, with folding engraved map and 18 plates (five folding) of archaeological monuments and Moorish architecture, including several views of the Alhambra. Period brown half calf over marbled boards, flat spine divided by gilt bands into six compartments with central floral devices, black morocco lettering piece gilt, edges marbled. Later book plate of Robert J. Hayhurst, who was a keen collector of eighteenth-century literature in fine contemporary bindings. A wide-margined, virtually pristine example (scattered occasional foxing and offsetting) with rich impressions of the plates. Cox I, p. 151 (quoting DNB: "The plates are of great excellence. His drawings were faithful to fact and elegant in design.") Palau XXII: 325909 (noting the "plates on special thick paper with wide margins"). Graesse VI, p. 535. Brunet V, 604. The deaths of Swinburne's father, mother, and eldest brother left him financially independent, and in 1763 he traveled to Italy, visiting the art treasures and antiquities of Turin, Genoa, and Florence. His travels continued in 1775, to Spain, in the company of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, resulting in this account, enhanced with plates from Swinburne's drawings (half of them etched by Swinburne himself). 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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TENNANT, Stephen (1906-1987); Pamela Grey (1871-1928)

The Vein in the Marble

London, Philip Allan & Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. First (and only) Printing of this scarce book of verse, tales, and illustration, a collaboration between Tennant, "brightest" of the "Bright Young People," and Pamela Grey, Lady Glenconner (famously painted by John Singer Sargent) and Tennant's mother. Blue buckram-backed paper-covered boards, paper title labels printed in black to front board and spine, decorative end papers. Wanting the rare dust wrapper. Royal 8vo (244 x 185mm): [8],64pp, with 32 tipped-in black-and-white plates reproducing pen-and-ink drawings and watercolors by Tennant and decorative end piece. Trivial wear to binding, else about Fine. Pamela Grey contributed the short poems and morality tales for modern life, Tennant, the accompanying illustrations, peopled with a mix of Regency courtiers, nymphs, and fairy tale characters reminiscent of Beardsley. Despite positive reviews, sales were disappointing, and copies are now scarce. 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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THOMSON, Virgil (1896-1989)

[Musical Score] Stabat Mater : For Soprano and String Quartet [Inscribed]

New York, Cos Cob Press, 1933. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Text, in French, by Max Jacob. Crown 8vo (180 x 133mm): 9,[1]pp. Publisher's original tan wrappers printed and decorated in red and black. Front wrapper inscribed: "love & faithfulness / Alfred / from / Virgil." "Alfred," according to a notation to front cover verso, is Alfred Barr (1902-1981), who was named director of New York's newly founded Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) at age 27, in 1929. About Fine, fresh and bright (miniscule light stain to gutter throughout. Quite scarce, especially so inscribed. Stabat Mater is a medieval Latin hymn to the Virgin Mary, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ's mother during his crucifixion. According to the composer Ned Rorem, Thomson's rendition is one of his most moving pieces, with "a lean and ambiguously modal counterpoint and a heartbreaking coda." The text is not from the Stabat Mater poem, but a 15-line exchange among an angel, Saint John, Mary at the cross, and Jesus, and was written by Max Jacob, a Jewish poet turned to Christianity. Barr and Thomson likely met when both were in their twenties; they traveled in the same artistic circle, including Philip Johnson, Lincoln Kirstein, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, A. Everett "Chick" Austin Jr. and Julien Levy, most of them alumni of the "Hound & Horn" and the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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THOMSON, James (1700-1748)

The Seasons. By Mr. Thomson [Subscribers Edition]

London, [none given], 1730. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Subscribers Edition of Thomson's masterpiece, and perhaps the most popular English-language poem in blank verse (running to some 5500 lines in its final form) from Milton to the Romantics, as well as "one of the earliest, longest, and finest nature poems in the English language." (Literary Encyclopedia) Large 4to: [8],250,[4, half title and Argument for Spring, final page of subscribers list, and errata misbound],251-252,16,8pp, with title page in red and black with engraved vignette, five full-page allegorical plates by William Kent (one for each season and one for the valedictory to Newton),and head- and tail-pieces and historiated initials by Samuel Richardson. Contemporary full speckled English calf, flat spine in seven compartments divided by gilt rolls, red morocco lettering piece gilt, board edges gilt-tooled, armorial engraved bookplate of James Grove Wood, Castle Grove, on front paste-down. Wood (1803-1891) lived at Castle Grove, Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland. An excellent wide-margined copy; joints, caps and corners very skillfully restored; pages generally clean and bright (final four leaves lightly toned; unobtrusive marginal worm track, far from text, through Spring). Foxon T237. Rothschild 2423 (for first collected edition). Lowndes 2671. ESTC Citation No. T141597. Three quarto editions (ESTC Nos. T153055, T141596, and T141597) were published, in London, in 1730; ours is the most complete. It is a reissue of the First Collected Edition (which includes the first appearance of both "Autumn" and "A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton"), with the addition of "Britannia" (2nd. ed. corrected) and "A paraphrase on the latter part of the sixth chapter of St. Matthew," both with separate pagination and register ("Britannia" also has a separate title page). Not to be confused with any of the three smaller, non-subscription octavo editions , also published in 1730. Thomson treats each season in succession, describing changes in the weather and landscape of the Scottish border country (where he was born) and its inhabitants, human and otherwise, occasionally ranging as far afield as Africa, Surinam, the Arctic, Lapland, and Russia. Each poem devotes particular attention to rivers, rural pastimes and industries, as well as to assorted insects, birds, and beasts. "Winter" was first published in a brief version, in 1726. By 1727, Thomson was composing "Summer," followed by "Spring" (1728), and finally "Autumn," in 1730, the year all four appeared together in this collected edition. According to Lowndes, "about 360 copies were subscribed for at £1.1s." The list of subscribers includes many members of the landed gentry as well as the poets Alexander Pope (3 copies) and Richard Savage, the Scottish artist Alan Ramsay, and the antiquarian Horace Walpole. 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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THWING, Annie Haven (1851-1940)

The Crooked & Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston 1630-1822

Boston, Marshall Jones Company, 1920. Quarter-Cloth. First Edition of this charming tour of Boston's colonial and pre-industrial neighborhoods. Royal 8vo (240 x 154mm): xii, 282pp, with frontispiece and 23 full-page plates and seven folding maps on tissue. Publisher's quarter black cloth lettered in gold, brown paper-covered boards, decorative label printed in black to front cover, fore- and bottom edges uncut. Vintage bookseller's ticket to front paste-down (Chas. E. Lauriat, Boston). A superior example, tightly bound (hinges skillfully reinforced with Japanese tissue, several leaves roughly opened with no loss of text) and clean throughout. According to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, "Annie Haven Thwing turned her massive collection of nearly 125,000 index cards into this beloved and highly informative 1920 publication. Thwing used colony records and Suffolk deeds to paint a picture of Boston's neighborhoods—the North End, Government and Business Centre, South End, West End, and "The Neck"—and their inhabitants. The story is also told visually in seven charming maps." 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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[ANONYMOUS]; [TILTON, J. E., publisher]

Phantom Flowers. A Treatise on the Art of Producing Skeleton Leaves

Boston, J. E. Tilton and Company, 1864. Decorative Cloth. First Edition under this title (see below) of this early work on a fashionable Victorian pastime. 8vo (191 x 119mm): 96pp, with six tissue-guarded plates, head pieces, and historiated initials. Original dark green ribbed and beveled cloth, covers paneled in blind, gilt vignettes to spine and front cover, chocolate brown end papers, illustrated title page. Gift inscription to Mary D. Ballou (perhaps the Rhode Island suffrage pioneer), dated 1865 and her manuscript ex-libris in elegant script, with "Providence," to front fly leaf. Slight scuff to cover vignette,else tightly bound and virtually pristine (tissue guards lightly foxed but plates generally bright), with interesting provenance. First published in Philadelphia, in 1863, by Edward Parrish, under the title Phantom Bouquet : Skeletonizing Leaves and Seed Vessels. Producing skeleton leaves involved removing chlorophyll from leaves to create intricate designs in imitation of those left by insects and larvae. The designs were used as borders on photographic portraits and for other decorative purposes. 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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TODHUNTER, John (1839-1916)

[Sette of Odd Volumes] a Riverside Walk : An Easy-Going Essay by a Peripatetic Philosopher [Unopened]

London, Imprynted at the Bedford Press, 20 and 21, Bedfordbury, 1898. Wrappers. Limited Edition, no. 117 of 250 copies printed for private circulation only. Foolscap 8vo (145 x 116mm): 43,[1]pp, with frontispiece (Low Water in Mortlake Reach) and list of Sette club members. Publisher's blue-grey wrappers, uncut and entirely unopened. Faint creasing to rear wrapper, but a spectacular survival, securely bound and clean throughout. Read at a meeting of the Sette at Limmer's Hotel on Friday, January 14, 1898, and presented to the Sette by Todhunter, Irish poet and playwright. Ye Sette of Odd Volumes was a London bibliophilic club, founded in 1878 by bookseller Bernard Quaritch. Members included a wide-ranging cross-section of notable men, including literary figures, artists, scientists, politicians, businessmen, and eccentrics. The original Sette disbanded on the eve of the Second World War, in 1939, but rebanded in 1950 with a new group of members. 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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TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-1882)

[Bermuda] [Jamaica] [Barbados] the West Indies and the Spanish Main

London, Chapman & Hall, 1860. Decorative Cloth. Fourth Edition (in format identical to the first) of this chronicle of Trollope's travels through Barbados, the Bermudas, Cuba, Jamaica, New Granada, St. Thomas, and Trinidad, written while he was on post office business in the West Indies. Crown 8vo (196 x 118mm): iv,5-371,[1],32[publishers' catalogue dated February, 1860]pp, with colored folding map frontispiece. Original grained maroon cloth, covers and spine blocked in blind, spine lettered in gold, edges uncut, pale yellow end papers. Binding lightly rubbed, but tightly bound and clean throughout, a collectible copy. Sadleir 9 (incorrectly dating this edition 1861). Terry, pp. 582-84. The first of Trollope's travel books, originally published the previous year. "Trollope sailed for the West Indies on 17 November 1858, his second postal mission . He checked postal routes meticulously . prescribed economies, and initiated changes. Henceforth travel would become more important in his life, feeding into his fiction . The West Indies and the Spanish Main . is rich in observation, commentary on people and places, and careful evaluation of practical issues. His forthright views on race mirror contemporary thinking but have their own integrity based on observation. The book is rich too in anecdote, incident, description, as well as humour." (Terry) 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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[Duguay-Trouin] DU GUAY-TROUIN, René (1673-1736)

[Pirates] Memoires de Monsieur Du Guay-Trouin, Lieutenant General Des Armées Navales

Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier, 1756. Full Calf. Later edition of the memoirs of one of the most illustrious French corsairs, including descriptions of his spectacular attacks on Rio de Janeiro. 12mo (166 x 92mm): xxxix,312pp, with engraved frontispiece and five (of six) folding plates (absent plate opposite p. 120, apparently never bound in). Full mottled calf, flat richly gilt spine divided into six compartments by triple rules, red morocco gilt label, all edges stained red, marbled end papers, book label of P. Gaingnot-P. au Mans. The highly accomplished engravings, by J. P. Le Bas and A. Coquart, include frontispiece portrait of the author, view of a French man-of-war with parts labeled, three (of four) folding views of naval engagements, and the magnificent folding plan of Rio de Janeiro. Also included are lists of ships and crews under Du Guay-Trouin's command in various campaigns. Lower joint skillfully repaired, else Fine, with pages and plates pristine. STCN 305337807. Keynes (Bibliotheca Bibliographici), p. 117. Borba de Moraes 272. Gibson's Library, p. 115. Sabin 29198 (quoting Borba 272: "Pierre Mortier, the well-known Amsterdam book dealer, published several editions of the Memoires, beginning 1740, continuing 1746, 1748, 1756, 1769, and 1773, all of which contain the author's portrait, five plates, and the map."). First published in Amsterdam, in 1730, in a pirated edition extracted from an unfinished manuscript. The first official (and complete) edition was published posthumously in Paris, in 1740. Admiral Du Guay-Trouin, noted for his exploits during the War of the Spanish Succession, from 1699 to 1712, sailed American and Caribbean waters as a privateer. In 1711, he led a French expedition against Rio de Janeiro, then considered impregnable, and after an eleven day siege he occupied the city for some two months, holding the governor for ransom and ransacking the churches and plundering their treasures. 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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TWISS, Richard (1747-1821)

Travels Through Portugal and Spain, in 1772 and 1773

London, printed for the author, and sold by G. Robinson, T. Becket, and J. Robson, 1775. First Edition. Full Leather. First Quarto Edition (a two-volume duodecimo Dublin edition also was published) of the book Dr. Johnson called "as good as the first book of travels you will take up . if you except the learning." Medium 4to (288 x 230mm): [4],iv,465,[7]pp, with folding frontispiece map, six engraved plates (two folding), and engraved vignette bearing the coat of arms of Spain. Contemporary calf, richly gilt flat spine in six compartments divided by elaborate gilt bands with gilt galleon device in each, black morocco lettering-piece gilt, unusually attractive marbled end papers, all edges speckled blue. Engraved armorial bookplate of Baron Clonbrock, perhaps 1st Baron Clonbrock, Robert Dillon (1754-1795). Joints skillfully repaired, else an excellent, exceptionally wide-margined copy, clean and tight throughout. Cox I, 144. Palau 342601 (singling out the scene of bullfighting in the plaza at Cadiz). Foulché-Delbosc (Bibliographie des voyages en Espagne et en Portugal) 167A and (Catalogue de la bibliothèque hispanique) 526. Creswell 340 (mentioning passages on the Great Mosque of Cordova and the Alhambra). The year following publication, Twiss boasted he had "journeyed about 27,000 miles, which is 2,000 more than the circumference of the earth." In Travels through Portugal and Spain, he provides accounts of the Islamic monuments in Andalucia and of paintings by Spanish artists in churches, private collections, and the royal palaces, commenting particularly on works by Velazquez and Murillo. There are also sections on bull fighting, baboons, dress, "female knights," gypsies, gardens, licorice, mountains, opera, "water nymphs," and tobacco, among other topics. In the fourth appendix, Twiss provides an extensive bibliography of books published relating to Spain and Portugal and an extensive list of Spanish Literature. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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VANIÈRE, Jacques (1664-1739)

[Armorial Binding] Praedium Rusticum

Paris [Lutetiae Parisiorum], Apud Joannem Le Clerc, 1707. First Edition. Full Calf. 12mo: [6],268,[12], with engraved initials and head and tail pieces, and 10 charming full-page plates by Laurent Cars after Dumesnil, one at the beginning of each book. In Latin. Full speckled calf, contemporary to publication, covers framed in blind with gilt-stamped coat-of-arms on both, spine in six compartments richly gilt, red leather lettering piece gilt, edges speckled red, marbled end papers. About Fine, joints skillfully reinforced; clean, well-margined leaves with occasional mild foxing and edge stains; most plates with faint tide mark to upper edge. Huzard II 944. Thiébaud 917-918. Schwerdt II, p. 278-79. First Edition (according to Schwerdt, but Thiébaud calls the Paris edition of 1696, which is "fort rare," the "Édition originale") of this didactic poem in ten books praising the pleasures of life in the countryside. Vanière instructs on the art of gardening while inspiring, in picturesque verse, a love of weather and landscape, the grape harvest, winemaking, hunting and fishing, orchards and vegetable gardens, and bees. His poems were highly esteemed, with editions of Praedium Rusticum issued for more than a hundred years, until 1829. The 1707 edition contains ten books, but the poem would ultimately comprise sixteen, in the second edition of 1730. The title refers to Charles Estienne's sixteenth-century treatise on gardening of the same name, but Vanière's poem is more than a reiteration, also providing a response to Rene Rapin (a French Jesuit, as was Vanière), emphasizing the value of herbs and vegetables over flowers and topiaries, which Rapin championed in his Hortorum (1665). Vanière's instructive content and practical perspective made his poem one of the most popular published in seventeenth century France. Gilt-stamped arms on both boards are those of Henry William Paget (1768-1854), 2nd Earl of Uxbridge and, later, 1st Marquis of Anglesey. A distinguished officer, Paget commanded the English cavalry at the battle of Waterloo, where he lost a leg. 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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VEEN, Otto van [Otto Vaenius ], 1556-1629

[Emblem Book] Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata, Imaginibus in Aes Incisis, Notisque Illustrata

Bruxellis [Brussels], Apud Franciscvm Foppens, 1682. Early Reprint. Full Calf. First of the Brussels Foppens editions of Veen's enduringly popular "Emblems from Horace" (principally from the Odes and Satires), a classic of emblematic literature. 4to: [8],205,[3]pp, with full-page engraved coat-of-arms, portrait of "Octavio Vaenius," and 103 engraved emblems with mottoes in Latin and stanzas in French below each plate and verses in Latin, Italian, Dutch and French on verso of preceding plate. Contemporary sprinkled calf, very skillfully rebacked, spine in six compartments between raised bands with central printer's ornament in blind, recent blue morocco lettering piece gilt, title page in red and black with portrait medallion. Provenance: Crawfurd Antrobus (armorial book plate on front paste-down). An excellent, well-margined copy with several old well-executed paper repairs to short closed tears, mostly marginal; few marginal stains, else clean, fresh, and bright, plates in deep, rich impressions; handsome period binding. Landwehr (Low Countries) 680 (for the identical Brussels Foppens edition of 1683). Praz II, p.168-69. Originally published in Antwerp, in 1607, then reprinted in numerous editions with polyglot text, ensuring it a Europe-wide readership. Van Veen was among the most important Dutch emblematists of the 17th-century, as well as Antwerp's leading artist and dean of the painters' guild of St. Luke. Peter Paul Rubens entered his studio, in 1594 or 1595, as an apprentice, and Veen's role as a classically educated humanist artist (pictor doctus) influenced Rubens deeply. 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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VENTURI, Lionello (1885-1961); [Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906]

Cézanne : Son Art — Son Oeuvre [Inscribed]

Paris, Paul Rosenberg Éditeur, 21, rue La Boétie, 1936. Stiff Wrappers. Limited Edition of the first catalogue raisonné of works by French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne, complete in two volumes. Inscribed by Venturi and numbered XV (probably one of an unspecified number of copies reserved for the author, separate from the edition of 1000 copies). Thick royal 8vo (302 x 232mm): 407,[3]; [4],[2], with 406 full-page black-and-white plates on coated stock. Publisher's original textured stiff aquamarine wrappers lettered in saffron yellow, white spines titled in black, title pages in scarlet and black, edges uncut. Text in French. Inscribed and dated August 2, 1936 to first volume fly leaf, less than a month after publication, to Mme. Pellerin, probably the widow of Auguste Pellerin (1852-1929), one of the earliest and greatest collectors of Cézanne works (see below). A superb set (trivial edge wear; occasional light, erasable pencil notations to margins, chiefly check marks), tightly bound and virtually pristine throughout (many leaves unopened), with important provenance. Published in Paris by Cézanne's dealer, Paul Rosenberg. The fully illustrated second volume reproduces all but four of the 1,634 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and lithographs catalogued. According to Christie's, "The collector Auguste Pellerin brought together, over more than a quarter of a century, the greatest collection of Cézanne pictures ever assembled. As there are no surviving records of Pellerin's purchases or disposals it is uncertain just how many Cézannes were in the collection, but there were certainly well over a hundred. It would appear that he was one of the very first real collectors of Cézanne's pictures, commencing possibly as early as 1895 and steadily adding to the collection until his last documented purchase at the Gangnat sale in 1925 (just four years before his death), when he paid the then record price of 528,000 francs for Le Grand Pin et les Terres Rouges (Venturi 459). What is astounding is the sheer passion Pellerin exhibited for Cézanne's work and the great number of pictures which he acquired in such a relatively short time. 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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VITRINGA, Campegius (1659-1722)

[Judaica] de Synagoga Vetere Libri Tres : Quibus Tum de Nominibus, Structurâ, Origine, PræFectis, Ministris, & Sacris Synagogarum, Agitur; Tum PræCipue, Formam Regiminis & Ministerii Earum in Ecclesiam Christianam Translatam Esse, Demonstratur: Cum Prolegomenis

Franequeræ [Franeker, the Netherlands], Typis & impensis Johannis Gyzelaar, illustr. Frisiæ Ordd. atque eorundem Academiæ typograph. ordinar, 1696. Second Edition. Vellum. Second Edition of this work on the ancient synagogue and development of the early Church. Complete in two continuously paginated volumes bound in one. Small 4to (194 x 156mm): [30],608,[6],609-1138, [38]pp, with identical additional engraved title pages showing Jews before a temple and signed "J. Goeree delin. / J. Mulder sculp" to both parts and woodcut headpieces, initials, and ornaments. Contemporary vellum, edges stained red, manuscript title to head of spine in early hand. Title pages printed in red and black, with woodcut printer's device bearing motto "Ego Iehoua vocauite iuste," the title page to the second part reading "Campegii Vitringa De synagoga vetere liber tertius: quo rectores & ministri synagogarum conferuntur cum praepositis & diaconis ecclesiae Christianae pars II." Bookseller's ticket to front paste-down: Thomas Baker, 72 Newman Street, London. A superb example, nearly pristine, with tight text block and clean, fresh pages. Furst III, 483. Text in Latin with with numerous passages in Greek and Hebrew. Vitringa was a Dutch Christian Hebraist, educated at the universities of Franeker and Leyden. Along with his "Commentary on Isaiah, frequently republished in the eighteenth century, this was his chief work. (Jewish Encyclopedia) 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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WALLER, Edmund (1606-1687)

The Works of Edmund Waller Esqr. In Verse and Prose Published by Mr. Fenton

London, printed for I. Tonson in Ye Strand, 1729. First Edition. Full Calf. Large 4to: [18],450,xci,[1]pp, with engraved title page, four full-page copper-engraved plates (including frontispiece portrait of Waller engraved by Vertu after Kneller), and numerous superb head- and tailpieces and historiated initials. Contemporary cambridge-style calf, sides decorated in blind and framed with rat's tooth roll, ribbed spine richly gilt in seven compartments, red morocco lettering piece gilt (chipped), plain period end papers. Near Fine or better, with light offsetting, sporadic foxing and the odd smudge, else clean and crisp throughout; joints very skillfully repaired, spine ends renewed. Provenance: signature of the bibliophile Douglas Grant in pencil to front fly-leaf. Wither to Prior 941. Grolier English 100, 27. First Collected Edition, the "most sumptuous ever published. It contains all the poems which had hitherto appeared, to which the editor has added four new . Waller's letter are added for the first time and the various prefaces to the earlier editions are reprinted. Finally, the information given in the notes is so full and accurate that little has been left to the research or correction of later editions." (Wither to Prior) Waller's poems were widely read during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. "Dryden, who greatly admired Waller and consistently treated him as mentor and precursor, claimed that ‘the well-placing of words, for the sweetness of pronunciation, was not known till Mr. Waller introduced it.' . When neo-classical canons of correctness fell out of fashion in the nineteenth century, Waller's poetic reputation plummeted, and it has never fully recovered, [though] . renewed interest in court culture and in the intersection of literature and history toward the end of the twentieth century has led to a modest Waller revival." (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.). Near Fine+ .

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Keywords: English poetry.