QUILLET, Claude, 1602-1661 [William Oldisworth, translates; Elisha Kirkall, engraves]

Callipaedia [CallipæDia]: Or, the Art of Getting Pretty Children. In Four Books. Translated from the Original Latin of Claudius Quilletus. By Several Hands

London, Printed for Bernard Lintott at the Cross Keys between the Two Temple Gates in Fleetstreet, 1710. First Edition. Sheep. First Edition in English of this neo-Latin poem on procreation, pregnancy, and the raising of children, the translation of which (from the French) is attributed in subsequent editions to William Oldisworth. Foolscap 8vo (163 x 98mm): [16],72,[8]pp, complete with all five full-page engravings by Elisha Kirkall (the plates apparently were not ready when the book was issued and are often lacking, as with all three copies at the British Library) and four final index and advertisement leaves. Contemporary speckled sheep with handsome patina, boards framed with single gilt fillet, spine in six compartments between raised bands, recent morocco lettering piece gilt. Rubbing and scuffs to boards and spine, joints skillfully repaired, binding now sturdy and secure. Pages generally clean, with the plates in deep, rich impressions. Unsophisticated, and charmingly so. Case 253. Foxon O142. Wellcome IV p. 457. First published in Leiden, in 1655, and in Paris, in 1656. A Latin version was issued in London in 1708; two editions in English (the other printed for John Morphew) appeared in 1710 and in 1712. The French abbe Claude Quillet's poem concerns not only raising children but also choosing the right wife, and offers thoughts on marriage, divided into four books: "The First treats of the Nature and Variety of Beauty, and of the Choice of a Wife. The Second, of Marriage and Enjoyment, with Laws and Rules relating to both, from Nature and Astrology. The Third, of Conception, and Imagination. The Fourth and Last, of the Beauty of the Mind, of Education and Virtue, and of the Variety of Climes, Customs, and Manners." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). .

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QUINTINYE [Quintinie], [Jean] de la (1626-1688)

Instruction Pour Les Jardins Fruitiers Et Potagers: Plus Un Traité Des Orangers Et Des Reflexions Sur L'Agriculture; Avec Une Instruction Pour la Culture Del Fleurs

A Paris, Chez Charles Osmont, ruë Saint Jacques, à l'Ecu de France, 1716. Early Reprint. Full Calf. New, revised and enlarged edition (Augmentée de la Culture des Melons, de la maniere de taillerles Arbres Friutiers, d'in Dictionnaire des termes dont fe fervent les Jardiniers en parlant des Arbres, & d'une Table des Matieres), of the most famous French manual on gardening. Complete in two quarto volumes. [8],16,23[i. e. 32],[8],666[84 misnumbered 80],[4], with 12 copper-engraved plates (2 folding), mostly of pruning patterns and tools; [12],562,[30]pp, with one plate and woodcuts in text of both volumes. Each section (six main books on fruit and kitchen gardens, treatise on oranges and reflection on agriculture) begins with a large engraved vignette and historiated initial. Contemporary speckled calf, spine richly gilt in six compartments between raised bands, brown morocco lettering piece gilt, edges speckled red, plain period end papers, title page with woodcut vignette. A superb set, occasional toning, very sporadically scattered marginal foxing, else a beautifully printed, clean, crisp wide-margined copy in handsome period binding. Brunet III 838. Hunt 388. Oak Spring Pomona 1. Pritzel 5075. Originally published (posthumously) in Paris, in 1690. Probably the most influential book in the history of pomology, by the leading French gardener of the seventeenth century. For more than 20 years, beginning in 1665, La Quintinie worked as gardener to Louis XIV, rising steadily with ever-expanding titles. The potager at Versailles, constructed from 1677 to 1683, is the most famous of the fruit and kitchen gardens he oversaw in all the royal houses to meet the needs of the court: asparagus in December and strawberries in April, as well as the King's favorite figs. This book, published by La Quintinie's son Michel, introduced his methods to a wide audience, with detailed instructions for planting, pruning and espaliering fruit trees, and cultivating vegetables. Later editions, such as our copy, added to the directions for pruning and thinning out buds sections on melons and flowers, as well as advice on dealing with orange tress and La Quintinie's reflection on agriculture. 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 .

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RAMSAY, Allan (1684-1758)

[Foulis Press] the Gentle Shepherd. A Pastoral Comedy

Glasgow, printed by A. Foulis, and sold by D. Allan, Dickson's Closs, Edinburgh, also by J. Murray, No. 32. Fleet-Street, and C. Elliot, Strand, London, 1788. First Edition thus. First Illustrated Edition of this widely popular pastoral comedy in vernacular Scots, with glossary and evocative engravings by David Allan. Large 4to: [4,including half title],x,[2],111,[3],17(glossary),[1]pp, with portrait frontispiece, 12 numbered uncolored aquatints by David Allan, and 9 engraved leaves of music and words, numbered 1-18. Text based on quarto edition of 1728. Contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked preserving original richly gilt flat spine and red morocco lettering piece gilt. An excellent very wide-margined in a well-preserved contemporary binding, plates in rich impressions, occasional spotting to text but generally clean and bright. Gaskell (Foulis) 688. Abbey (Life) 244. Rothschild 1732. Martin 216. The Foulis Press first published The Gentle Shepherd (which was originally published by, in 1725, in Edinborough, Glasgow, and London) in 1743, then again in 1745, 1747, 1750, and 1752, before issuing this handsomely illustrated edition in 1788. The play was first performed as a ballad opera in 1747, from which the supplemental eighteen pages of engraved songs were taken. David Allan (1744-1796), known as "the Scottish Hogarth, explains in the dedication, which prominently follows directly on the title page: "It will be easily seen that I am not a master in the mechanical part of this art: but my chief intention was not to offer expensive and smooth engravings, but expressive and characteristic designs." Thus the conscious naivety of his style echoes the simplicity of the country folk whom he depicts. His twelve plates were the first use in Scotland of aquatints for book illustration. 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.). .

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RAPIN, René (1621-1687)

Rapin of Gardens. A Latin Poem. In Four Books. Englifh'd by Mr. Gardiner

London, Printed for Bernard Lintot, at the Cross-Keys between the Temple Gates, Fleetstreet, 1728. Three-Quarter Calf. Translated by James Gardiner. Crown 8vo (192 x 115mm): liii,[1],200,[10], with frontispiece portrait of Gardiner engraved by Vertue after a painting by Johann Verelst, folding copper-engraved parterre, and full-page engraved frontispiece, engraved by Elisha Kirkall, to each of the four books (Of Flowers, Of Trees, Of Water, The Orchard). Concluding with index and advertisement leaf. Rebound recently in three-quarter calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine, in six compartments between raised bands, decorated in gilt, red leather lettering piece gilt, end papers renewed. An excellent example, tightly bound, fresh and bright throughout, with rich impressions of the plates. Foxon G14. Henrey II, p. 411, and III 1255. Hunt 414. Third Edition of the Gardiner translation (originally pubolished in 1706). First published by Rapin, in 1665, as Hortorum libri quattuor, in imitation of Virgil's Georgics but focused on the garden (which Virgil neglected), specifically the gardens of Maria de' Medici and of Henry IV of France. First translated into English (rather poorly: see Hunt) during the seventeenth century by John Evelyn, and according to Henrey, "quotations from it are to be found in many seventeenth and eighteenth century English books on gardening." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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RAYE, Charles

[Hand-Colored] a Picturesque Tour Through the Isle of Wight. Illustrated by Numerous Views

London, For the Proprietor by Howlett and Brimmer, Frith Street, Soho, 1825. First Edition. Half-Leather. Oblong 4to (195 x 263mm): [52]pp, with 24 hand-colored plates (23 aquatints and one engraving) and blank interleaves, each plate preceded by two-page letterpress description. Plate VIII, Sand Rock near Niton, often found plain (as in Abbey copy), here colored. Plates xxii and xxiii signed: C. Rosenberg sculpt. Contemporary half crimson straight-grained roan over drab paper-covered boards, red roan title label lettered and bordered in gilt to upper cover. A handsome copy (binding lightly rubbed, occasional offsetting and spotting), tightly bound and generally clean throughout with vividly colored plates. Abbey (Scenery) 349. Tooley 394. Prideaux, p. 349. Includes views of Carisbrooke Castle, the needles from Chale Bay, Black Gang Chine, St. Laurence's Church, Bonn Church, Ventnor Cove, Culver Cliffs, and Cowes Castle. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, writers and artists, keen to explore the more remote parts of the British Isles, visited the Isle of Wight to study and record its scenery and antiquities. 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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[Nobel Laureates] RAYLEIGH, Lord John William Strutt (1842-1919) and Professor William Ramsay (1852-1916)

Argon, a New Constituent of the Atmosphere

City of Washington, Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1896. First Printing. Original Cloth. First separate appearance of this scientific paper reporting discovery of the first inert gas, for which Rayleigh and Ramsay were awarded the Nobel prize. Royal 8vo (322 x 242mm): [4],43,[1]pp, with tables and five text woodcut illustrations. Original forest green publisher's cloth, covers framed in blind, upper cover lettered in gilt, yellow coated end papers. Publisher catalog slip laid-in. Wanting the plain-paper dust jacket. A Fine, bright copy, pristine inside and out. Dibner 50 (for original periodical appearance). Originally published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, in 1895. Both Rayleigh and Ramsay claimed priority for the discovery of argon; they eventually agreed to submit a jointly authored paper. Both later won the Nobel prize (Rayleigh for Physics, Ramsay for Chemistry), and their discovery was a major factor in both awards. "Rayleigh and Ramsay had noted that nitrogen obtained from the air had a density greater than that of nitrogen liberated from its compounds by about one-half percent. This led to the isolation of the first of the inert gases, which they called argon," after the Greek word aergón ("inert, inactive") (Dibner). Ramsay later investigated other atmospheric gases, isolating helium, neon, krypton, and xenon, which pioneered a new section of the periodic table. 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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RAYMOND, Elmer D.

[Arctic] Letters from a Globetrotter. Written for Members of the Round-the-World Society

[various places], [925]. Travelogue in the form of subscription letters written by Elmer D. Raymond, founder and president of the Round-the-World Society. Demy 8vo (232 x 160mm): frontispiece of clipper ship from sketch by Raymond and title page in red and black, folding map of the world, two-page forward (printed rectos only), and 53 mimeographed stamped and postmarked letter sheets (each folded twice, creating an address panel and three stenciled pages), addressed to Mrs. David R Doru of Coopers Town, N.Y.; with sixteen black-and-white plates from photographs of various locations Raymond visited ("From the mighty metropolises of European civilization, from the squalid villages of African savagery, from the icy waters of the Arctic, from the barren sands of the deserts"), and an original radiogram announcing Raymond's approach to the North Pole. The first twenty-seven letters are unnumbered, followed by numbers XXVII [sic] through LII. Bound in pebbled black limp leatherette fastened with metal screw posts, front cover blind-stamped with title and elephant device, stiff black end papers. When a letter was received, the subscriber unfolded it and placed it into the post-and-screw two-holed binder. Beautifully preserved, tightly bound and clean throughout. In 1925, Raymond set off for (then) exotic locales and every few days mailed members of the Round-the-World Society a correspondence describing his travels. On July 6, the first letter was sent from New York, and 53 others followed through the end of the year. Raymond crossed the Atlantic to London then flew to Paris, visited Luxembourg and Belgium, and "dashed" to the North Pole (he wrote twelve letters from the Arctic with such titles as: "In the northernmost city in the world," "The land of many surprises," and "Finding the remains of Andree's balloon expedition"), then traveled on to Germany and back to Paris, the French Riviera, and Italy. His first African stop, after a stormy voyage, was in Tunis, where he visited the ruins of Carthage then moved on to Morocco, visiting the Kasbah and hunting with a sheik. The contents of different copies vary, with catalogers reporting as few as 43 letters and as many as 60. The radiogram seems unique to this copy. 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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REED, J. Eugene (edited by)

The Lives of the Roman Emperors and Their Associates : From Julius Caesar (B C 100) to Augustus (a D 476)

Philadelphia, Gebbie & Company [through 1884], 1883. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Complete set, in five volumes, in exceptionally fine matching publisher's bindings. Royal 8vo (243 x 165mm): vi,[4],342; [8],342; [8],344; [8],344; [8],344pp, with 50 tissue-guarded steel-engraved plates and numerous woodcuts, "forming a full portrait gallery of the Roman emperors." Original royal blue fine woven cloth, spine and covers blocked in blind with floral friezes and rules, upper cover stamped in gilt with central laurel wreath enclosing gilt lettered title, spine lettered in gilt with fasces and laurel wreath; beveled edges; robin's egg blue end papers, all edges gilt. Virtually pristine (excepting nick to cloth on back board edge of v. II), down to gilt edges, which still sparkle. Gebbie and Co. was justly regarded for publishing handsome illustrated works, with fine bindings and high production values, and proof of that reputation is this set. From the Preface: "In comprehensiveness of scope the present work exceeds all similar undertakings, while in point of illustration it is unique. The portraits, wood and steel, are from carefully authenticated antique busts and statues, being reproductions of the plates made for Iconographie Romaine . by the Chevalier Ennio Quirinus Visconti . and after his death, completed by the eminent archaeologist, the Chevalier A Mongez. The text has been drawn from many sources. For the lives of the first twelve emperors we could not do better for the reader, than to avail ourselves of the justly-famed 'Lives' of Suetonius, whose gallery of breathing portraits, and treasury of personal anecdote, seems rather to acquire fresh interest with the lapse of time. The illustrious Tacitus has also served us with one of his most admired productions. For the lives of several of the emperors and their families, we are indebted to the Chevalier Mongez (translated expressly for this work); while the spirited and graphic biographies of the French historian, Jean Baptiste Louis Crevier, are a fund upon which we have freely drawn. The biographies have been supplemented by several eloquent and vivid dissertations which elucidate important epochs of Roman history, and thus afford an effective setting from which the personal histories shine forth with a clearer and stronger radiance." 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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[REYNOUD, Marcel]

[Sketchbook] [école de Boulle] Cours de L'Histoire de L'Art

Paris, 1916. [Original Manuscript]. Card Covers. Beautifully executed sketchbook, in pencil, pen-and-ink, and watercolor, by a student at the prestigious École de Boulle in Paris. Demy 8vo (217 x 165mm): 27 leaves of graph paper with lesson notes (emphasizing architecture) in an elegant script on verso and drawings (mostly in color and many on thick paper pasted down) on recto, followed by 26 blank leaves. Black quarter cloth over mottled green card covers, speckled end papers. A superb survival, skillfully drawn and richly colored, tightly bound and clean throughout. Original manuscript containing the notes for art history classes given in 1915-1916 at the École de Boulle in Paris, a sequence of 25 lessons, excepting the fourteenth (which the author perhaps missed) taken by a second-year student whose surname, which appears on front cover, title page, and following leaves, was Reynoud (one Marcel Reynoud was enrolled at the École as a first-year student in 1914). The École de Boulle, a college of fine arts and crafts and applied arts founded in 1886, is one of the most famous art schools in Paris, named for the cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle, the preeminent marquetry artist during the reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715). The school trains students in two main departments: artistic crafts, including marquetry, cabinetmaking, tapestry, and upholstery (Marcel Reynoud's specialty), and applied arts, such as interior architecture and furniture design. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books and manuscripts 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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RIPA, Cesare (1560-1645)

[Emblem Book] Iconologia Di Cesare Ripa... Divisa in Tre Libri, Ne I Quali Si Esprimono Varie Imagini Di Virtù, Vitij, Passioni Humane, Affetti, Atti, Discipline, Humori, Elementi, Corpi Celesti, Prouincie D'Italia, Fiumi, & Altre Materie Infinite Vtili Ad Ogni Stato Di Persone. Ampliata Dal Sig. Cav. Gio. Zaratino Castellini Romano in Questa Vltima Editione Di Imagini, & Discorsi, Con Indici Copiosi, & Ricorretta

In Venetia [Venice], Appresso Nicolò Pezzana, 1669. Early Printing. Quarter-Vellum. An early edition of the most famous catalog of emblems and symbols collected from antique literature and translated into pictorial terms for the use of visual artists, influencing, among others, Vermeer. 4to (210 x 148mm): [58],686pp (numerous page-numbering errors), with title-page vignette and 354 quarter-page woodcut illustrations in the text. Modern quarter vellum over paste-paper boards to style by Fitterer (a truly stunning binding), all edges stained red. Praz, p. 472-73. Landwehr (FISP) 630. Graesse VI, 129 (for the monumental, five-volume Perugia edition of 1764-67). The first edition of his Iconologia was published, without illustrations, in 1593, then a second edition with 151 woodcuts, in Rome, in 1603, Following were numerous editions and translations, with a rich array of illustrations that widely influenced the visual arts during the the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (Ours is a reissue of the Padua edition of 1630, with more woodcuts than any edition we can locate.) In particular, the Iconologia influenced the painter Pietro da Cortona and his followers as well as such Dutch artists as Gerard de Lairesse and Willem van Mieris. Vermeer used the emblem for the muse Clio for his The Art of Painting and several others in his The Allegory of Faith." Ripa was a scholar and man of letters from Perugia, who spent much of his life in Rome in the service of Cardinal Montelparo and then the Salviati family. 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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ROBERTSON, William (1721-1793); Antonio Pillori [translates]

[Hand-Colored] Storia Di America Del Dottore Guglielmo Robertson : Tradotta Dall' Originale Inglese Dall' Ab. Antonio Pillori Fiorentino [the History of America]

In Venezia [Venice], Nella stamperia Gatti a spese di Leonardo e Giammaria Fratelli Bassaglia, 1783. Original Wraps. Second Venice Edition of Antonio Pillori's translation of Robertson's standard work, on the discovery of America and the conquest of Mexico and Peru. Demy 8vo (202 x 136mm): xxiv,240pp, with frontispiece portrait of Columbus and large folding map of Gulf of Mexico showing Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, and farther Caribbean islands; [2],5-328pp, with frontispiece portrait of Bartolomé de las Casas and folding map of South America; [2],3-359 [p. 181 misnumbered "281"; p. 304, "204"],[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Cortés and folding map of Mexico; [4],295,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Pizarro and large folding map of Middle America. Original paper-case bindings with yapped edges, manuscript titles and volume numbers to spines, text block sewn on tawed tongs (vol. iv with modern replacements). Worming to upper cover, portrait, title page, and map margins of vol. iv now expertly restored by a paper conservationist. A remarkably fresh, wide-margined set, in original paper-case bindings, complete in four volumes (eight books) as issued, with all four folding maps colored in outline by a contemporary hand (as the John Carter Brown Library copy). Borba de Moraes, p. 740-41 (first edition). Sabin 71997, noting the Venice editions of 1778 and 1802 only). Originally published, in two volumes, in 1777 by Strahan and Cadell in London and Balfour in Edinburgh "to a very positive reception" (ODNB); first Venice edition published in 1778. "Its success," according to the ODNB, "was even more marked on the continent, where it was considered Robertson's masterpiece . With its dramatic sweep of narrative, combined with a provocative confrontation of two very different stages of civilization [Spanish and Native American] and a prose that was more flexible and evocative than that of his earlier books, the History of America is often regarded as Robertson's most interesting, original, and even Romantic work. However, it also shows the Eurocentric limits of his stadial thinking, because it presents an unsympathetic account of Native Americans and glosses over Spanish atrocities." Borba de Moraes credits Roberston with writing the "first history of the discovery and Spanish conquest of America based on ample bibliographical information and documents in the Simancas archives. The bibliography at the end of the second volume is remarkable for the time." Franklin D. Roosevelt owned the first Venice edition. 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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ROBERTSON, Archibald (ca. 1745-1813)

A Topographical Survey of the Great Road from London to Bath and Bristol. With Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Country, Towns, Villages, and Gentlemen's Seats on and Adjacent to It; Illustrated by Perspective Views of the Most Select and Picturesque Scenery to Which Is Added a Correct Map of the Country Three Miles on Each Side of the Road; Planned from a Scale of One Inch to a Mile

London, printed for the author, Charles-street, ST. Jame's-square; and William Faden [replaced by R. Faulder in vol. II], Charing-cross, 1792. First Edition. Half-Calf. First Edition, complete in two royal octavo volumes: [2],xv,[1],154; vii,[1],190,[2]pp, with 65 aquatint plates in sepia "beautifully engraved and resembl[ing John] Carey's work" (Cox) and 11 maps (10 double-page). Recent period-style half-calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spines in six compartments between raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco lettering pieces gilt, end papers renewed—a very handsome presentation. The title page to vol. 2 bears the imprint: London: printed for the author; and R. Faulder. Title and half-title toned, expected offsetting of plates, otherwise a Fine, attractive set. Abbey (Scenery) 24. Cox 1792. Brunet 1333. Lowndes III, 2105. RCIN 1076105. Little is known of the author, not even his place or date of birth, "but Bath was a popular destination for members of the gentry during the Regency period, and this book was intended to serve as a guide to those making the journey, pointing out important sites and picturesque views along the route. In his preface, Robinson explains that all of the plates that illustrate the work were ‘not ideal but Real Views accurately taken on the spot by the author for the purpose; and the plates were all engraved by himself'.'" (Royal Collection Trust) According to Abbey, a few copies were printed on large paper, and these often have colored plates. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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ROLLESTON, Samuel (1702?-1766)

A Philosophical Dialogue Concerning Decency. To Which Is Added a Critical and Historical Dissertation on Places of Retirement for Necessary Occasions, Together with an Account of the Vessels and Utensils in Use Amongst the Ancients, Being a Lecture Read Before a Society of Learned Antiquaries. By the Author of the Dissertation on Barley Wine

London, printed for James Fletcher in the Turl, Oxford; and sold by J. and J. Rivington in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1751. Stiff Wrappers. First (and only) Edition of this rare and curious treatise on scatology, with numerous references from classical sources illustrating various cultural attitudes toward "lavatorial behaviour." The second part describes various historical types of receptacles for human excrement and urine. (Sometimes attributed to Benjamin Buckler.) Demy 4to (248 x 192mm): 47,[1,Index]pp. Beautifully bound by Fitterer in stiff hand-marbled paper wraps, white paper label printed in black to upper cover. A Fine copy of this scarce pamphlet, tightly pound and clean throughout. Bibliotheca Osleriana 6409. Not in Bibliotheca Scatologica. A dissertation in the form of a dialogue on the history of public toilets, in which Rolleston coins the word "water closet." Rolleston relates textual evidence from biblical and classical sources to observations of present-day (eighteenth-century) behaviors, combining the literary and the scientific. The philosophical dialogue is a lighthearted but serious debate centered cultural differences and nature vs. nurture in toilet habits through history. The main theme is shame. 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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ROSTAND, Edmond (1868-1918)

Cyrano de Bergerac [Presentation Copy] ; Translated by Howard Thayer Kingsbury: Accepted and Played by Richard Mansfield

Boston, New York, London, Lamson, Wolffe and Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. First English Edition, inscribed in an elegant hand by the translator on front fly-leaf: "Compliments of / Howard Thayer Kingsbury / November, 1898." Small 8vo: 241,[1]pp. Publisher's original red cloth lettered and decorated in silver to spine and upper board, with frontispiece portrait (tissue guard still present) of the actor Richard Mansfield in costume. A Near Fine or better, spine slightly faded (though silver remains bright) and darkened page edges. Very scarce, particularly in this condition. Cyrano de Bergerac was first published in France by Charpentier et Fasquelle in 1898 (following its stage production at the Porte Saint-Martin Theater in Paris on December 28, 1897), and first translated into English by Kingsbury for Lamson, Wolffe the same year. Mansfield was the first actor to play Cyrano in the United States in an English translation. The play is based loosely on the life of Savien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655), Rostand's favorite writer. "Yet the character as portrayed by Rostand - with his excessively-enlarged nose, his almost super-human duelling skills and his ability to improvise eloquent poetic speeches - is far from an exact portrait of the real-life Cyrano of the seventeenth century. Possessed of a keen intellect with an insatiable appetite for reading and for learning, he constantly experiments with, when he is not challenging outright, the established social, scientific, political and religious ideas of his day. This questioning, satirising and ridiculing of contemporary authorities, along with an open-mindedness to new concepts that remains strikingly modern, has earned Cyrano a firm place amongst the libertin writers of seventeenth-century France." (Literary 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.). Near Fine+ .

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ROTHENSTEIN, Sir William (1872-1945)

Twenty-Four Portraits: With Critical Appreciations by Various Hands

New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1920. Quarter-Cloth. Limited Edition (2,000 unnumbered copies printed, of which 1,200 for sale in Great Britain and 800 in the United States), collecting portraits of Rothenstein's friend and contemporaries (including Max Beerbohm, Joseph Conrad, Sir Edward Elgar, André Gide, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, T. E. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, and H. G. Wells), with accompanying biographical sketches. Royal 8vo (254 x 161mm): [60] pages, with 24 unnumbered leaves of plates. Publisher's sage green cloth over cyan paper-covered boards, pale blue paper labels printed in black to spine and front cover, wove forest green end papers; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; grey-green dust jacket printed in black (unpriced, as issued). A handsome copy (corners bumped; jacket's spine panel a bit darkened, flap folds rubbed), tightly bound and clean throughout. More than two hundred of Rothenstein's portraits of famous people are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, in London. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+/Near Fine+.

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Book number: BB2267

Catalogue: HAND-PRESS PERIOD

Keywords: XIX CENTURY