BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

South-Western France from the Loire and the Rhone to the Spanish Frontier; Handbook for Travellers

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1895. Cloth. Second Edition. xxiv, 294 pages, with 10 maps and 13 plans (some folding). Nominally the second edition, but Baedeker only published this title once. Publisher's red flexible cloth stamped in blind and gilt with all edges marbled and a green silk page-maker. Almost Fine (but for very light soiling to the covers and a touch of foxing to the edges of several maps), with richly marbled edges; the covers bright, square, and tight, the maps properly folded and free of tears. Scarce, especially in such collectible condition. Hinrichsen E123. "The Romantic movement in Germany had given a new impetus to travel . In 1828 Baedeker bought the rights to J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln and, after the death of the author, Baedeker himself revised and updated the work, recreating it for a new market. Using his own travel experiences he guided the tourist to the principal attractions in each place, saving travellers the expense of hiring their own guide. He thus created a new type of guidebook, which was widely copied throughout Europe and opened up tourism to a new class of visitor. The reliability of the information was ensured by annual journeys by Baedeker himself and by reference to respected published sources and expert scholars. For the serious tourist a Baedeker was indispensable, its tone, especially with respect to southern Europeans, assuring northerners of their superiority, and suggesting ways of avoiding dangers. When Lucy Honeychurch finds herself ‘In Santa Croce with no Baedeker' in E. M. Forster's A Room with a View (1908) she is entirely lost." (ODNB) Note: With few exceptions (always noted), we only stock Baedekers in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene wrappers. Fine- .

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BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

St. Petersburg Und Umgebung... Zweite Auflage; Handbook for Travellers

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1913. Second Edition. Original Cloth. Second (and final) Edition (first appeared in 1901), published only in German, with details of a new arrangement of paintings at the Hermitage recently completed. Small, slim 8vo: xxii,134pp, with 5 maps (including one of Russia on rear end papers), 11 plans, and 4 floor plans. Publisher's red flexible cloth, all edges marbled, green and red silk page-makers. Front end papers and half-title toned, but a superb, virtually pristine example: contents clean throughout, no marks, tears, marginalia, foxing, or stains; completely unfaded, crisp, and bright. Hinrichsen D465. "In 1828, [Karl] Baedeker bought the rights to J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln and, after the death of the author, Baedeker himself revised and updated the work, recreating it for a new market. Using his own travel experiences, he guided the tourist to the principal attractions in each place, saving travellers the expense of hiring their own guide. He thus created a new type of guidebook, which was widely copied throughout Europe and opened up tourism to a new class of visitor. The reliability of the information was ensured by annual journeys by Baedeker himself and by reference to respected published sources and expert scholars. For the serious tourist a Baedeker was indispensable, its tone, especially with respect to southern Europeans, assuring northerners of their superiority, and suggesting ways of avoiding dangers. When Lucy Honeychurch finds herself ‘In Santa Croce with no Baedeker' in E. M. Forster's A Room with a View, she is entirely lost." (ODNB) Note: With few exceptions (always noted), we only stock Baedekers in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene wrappers. Fine .

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BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy and the Tyrol; Handbook for Travellers

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1905. Cloth. Twenty-first edition. Small 8vo; xxxviii, 548pp, with 63 maps, 17 plans, and 11 panoramas. Publisher's red flexible decorative cloth stamped in blind and gilt, all edges marbled, two silk page-maker (red and green). A superb copy with bright gilt lettering and richly marbled edges; binding bright, square, and tight, maps properly folded and free of tears; spotting to map frontispiece, else fresh and bright. Hinrichsen E087. "The Romantic movement in Germany had given a new impetus to travel . In 1828 Baedeker bought the rights to J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln and, after the death of the author, Baedeker himself revised and updated the work, recreating it for a new market. Using his own travel experiences he guided the tourist to the principal attractions in each place, saving travellers the expense of hiring their own guide. He thus created a new type of guidebook, which was widely copied throughout Europe and opened up tourism to a new class of visitor. The reliability of the information was ensured by annual journeys by Baedeker himself and by reference to respected published sources and expert scholars. For the serious tourist a Baedeker was indispensable, its tone, especially with respect to southern Europeans, assuring northerners of their superiority, and suggesting ways of avoiding dangers. When Lucy Honeychurch finds herself ‘In Santa Croce with no Baedeker' in E. M. Forster's A Room with a View (1908) she is entirely lost." (ODNB) Note: With few exceptions (always noted), we only stock Baedekers in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene wrappers. Fine .

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BAEDEKER, Karl [Ludwig Johannes], 1801-1859

[Travel Guide] Austria Togethep [Sic] with Budapest, Prague, Karlsbad, and Marienbad [First State]; Handbook for Travellers

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1929. Early Reprint. Stamped Cloth. Twelfth Revised Edition, one of the rare uncorrected copies with the typo "togethep" on title page (most copies were corrected by hand in ink). Small 8vo (157 x 103mm): lxiv,518pp, with 86 maps and plans, two panoramas, and street index of Vienna. Publisher's red flexible cloth stamped in blind and gilt, all edges marbled. Fine: gilt lettering bright; bindings clean, square and tight; maps properly folded and free of tears. Hinrichsen E059 ("uncorrected versions are rare"). "In 1828, [Karl] Baedeker bought the rights to J. A. Klein's Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln and, after Klein's death, Baedeker himself revised and updated the work, recreating it for a new market. Using his own travel experiences, he guided the tourist to the principal attractions in each place, saving travellers the expense of hiring their own guide. He thus created a new type of guidebook, which was widely copied throughout Europe and opened up tourism to a new class of visitor. The reliability of the information was ensured by annual journeys by Baedeker himself and by reference to respected published sources and expert scholars. For the serious tourist, a Baedeker was indispensable, its tone, especially with respect to southern Europeans, assuring northerners of their superiority, and suggesting ways of avoiding dangers. When Lucy Honeychurch finds herself ‘In Santa Croce with no Baedeker,' in E. M. Forster's A Room with a View, she is entirely lost." (ODNB) Note: With few exceptions (always noted), we only stock Baedekers in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene wrappers. Fine .

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BALDWIN, James (1924-1987); Yoran Cazac (Illustrates)

[Juvenile] Little Man, Little Man : A Story of Childhood

New York, Dial Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this "child's story for adults," written in Black English from the perspective of Baldwin's seven-year-old nephew. Illustrated by Yoran Cazac. Royal 8vo (242 x 185mm): 96pp, with color illustrations throughout. Publisher's pictorial boards (repeating dust jacket design), illustrated dust jacket priced $6.95. An exceptional example (spine ends lightly bumped), tightly bound and clean throughout. Since the Sixties, Baldwin had faced rejection by Black militants, who opposed his integrationist views, while, at the same time, the mainstream media panned his later works. Feeling ostracized and depressed, he turned inward, drawing comfort from his large family, particularly his brother, David. One fruit of this isolation and introspection was this children's book. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine.

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BATES, H. E. (Herbert Ernest, 1905-1974); Carol Barker {illustrates]

Achilles the Donkey; [Together with] Achilles and Diana; [and with] Achilles and the Twins [All Signed]

London, Dennis Dobson [through 1964], 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated in color throughout by Carol Barker. First Impressions of the second and third works, Second Impression of Achilles the Donkey (first published 1962), all three volumes signed by Bates on half-title or title pages; two dated 1969. Royal 8vo (285 x 216mm): unpaginated, with full-color illustrations on almost every page. Publisher's pictorial boards, titles to spines in black, illustrated end papers and title pages; wraparound illustrated dust jackets identical to covers, all priced 18s. Exceptionally fresh copies, a virtually pristine, superlative set. Eads A 93a, 96a, and 101a. Unusually, the artwork for the installment in this trilogy of children's picture books came first. Barker painted the pictures after a visit to Greece, and Bates agreed to write the text to accompany them. For the second and third books in the series, the collaboration was more orthodox, with Bates writing the story, which Barker then illustrated. A simple tale of a young donkey, named for his running abilities, who is separated from his mother and bought by a cruel fruit-vendor. He escapes ill-treatment with the help of a pelican named Popo. The story was adapted for the television series "Jackanory" and aired in September 1970. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine.

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[BEAUFOY, Captain Henry, attributed to]

Scloppetaria: Or Considerations of the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns, with Reference to Their Forming the Basis of a Permanent System of National Defence, Agreeable to the Genius of the Country

London, Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-Bar, for T. Egerton, Military Library, Near Whitehall, 1812. Morocco. Second Edition of the first book in English on target rifle shooting (the Latinized title means The Militiaman) and attempts to increase the accuracy of long-barreled firearms. Tall 8vo: xxiv,251,[7]pp, including errata sheet, with nine numbered engraved plates, three target plates showing the accuracy of various rifle bores, and two tables; fourth folding target illustration, in manuscript, bound in. Recently quarter-bound in blue straight-grained morocco and marbled paper, spine in six compartments, title stamped gilt to second, edges untrimmed. Finely preserved example, all but pristine. Quite scarce; World Cat lists only two copies, both in the British Library. Riling 350. Originally published in 1808, with chapters on projectiles, the theory of spiral motion, qualities of the rifle, history of the rifle, construction and perfection of the rifle, appendages (gun powder, balls, patch and stopple, target), and mode of use (loading, taking aim, cleaning). "The English military conducted research on various rifles from 1800, especially emphasizing long-range shooting at targets at more than 550 metres. When early in the 1850s volunteer rifle brigades for [target rifle] shooting were formed, they attracted some of the finest shots in the United Kingdom, and long-range shooting became so popular that at the first prize meeting in 1860 of the National Rifle Association, Queen Victoria fired the first shot." (Britannica) 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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[MAURICHEAU-BEAUPRÉ, Charles; CUNARD, Nancy (translates?)]

[Guide Book] [Louis XIV] a Day in Versailles. Illustrated Guidebook of the Museum, the Park, the Chateau, the Trianons

Paris, Braun & Co, 1950. First Impression. Stiff Wrappers. First English language edition of this Cunard curiosity, as she purportedly translated this guide book. Foolscap 8vo: 64pp, with 32 full-page illustrations from photographs and 8 plans. Original greyish-beige perfect-bound wrappers printed in green and reddish-brown. A Very Fine copy, virtually pristine. There is no credit to Cunard within the book's pages, and the Bibliotheque National de France attributes the translation to "Miss Erlich," without a clue to her identity or providing a basis for the attribution. Evidence for Nancy Cunard's responsibility for the translation comes from a copy owned by a London bookseller that once belonged to Cunard and was inscribed by her on the title page ("Translation from the French Edition by Nancy Cunard Feb 1950)." Cunard (1896-1965), of course, was the British upper class poet, heiress, and political activist, who became muse to some of the twentieth century's most distinguished writers and artists, including Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound and Louis Aragon—who were among her lovers—as well as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Constantin Brâncu i, Langston Hughes, Man Ray, and William Carlos Williams. In 1920, Cunard moved to Paris, and seven years later to a farmhouse in La Chapelle-Réanville, Normandy, where she set up the Hours Press. After the Second World War, she returned to England, and in later years she suffered from mental illness and poor physical health, worsened by alcoholism and poverty. 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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Keywords: Palaces -- France -- Versailles. Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) Grand Trianon (Versailles, France) Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) Petit Trianon (Versailles, France)

[BECKFORD, Peter, 1740-1811]

[Rural Sports] [Fox-Hunting] Thoughts on Hunting. In a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend

Sarum [Salisbury], printed by E. Easton: sold by P. Elmsley, in the Strand; J. Ridley, St. James Street; London; and W. Sollers, Blandford, 1781. Full Calf. First Edition, complete with half-title, of this "corner-stone of a huntsman's library." (Gee) Small 4to: [10],334pp (pp. 303-310 misnumbered 301-308), with engraved frontispiece of Diana preparing for the hunt by Bartolozzi after Cipriani and two engraved plates (plan and elevation of stables). Contemporary tree calf, spine in six compartments between raised bands, elaborately tooled in gilt, red morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled edges and end papers, three green silk ribbon markers. Fine, wide-margined copy on heavy paper, virtually pristine. Lowndes I, 136. Rothschild 350 (second edition, 1782). Schwerdt I, 56 ("A famous book on this subject"). Gee, p. 8. Sterling Library 35. Beckford was the first English writer to describe minutely and accurately the whole sport of hunting. "Beckford's works were remarkable because they detailed the grubby nitty-gritty of animal husbandry in a light, eloquent prose. [He] offered detailed advice on all aspects of animal welfare, specializing at various periods in the breeding of harriers, foxhounds, and buck-hounds. Almost a hundred years later his tips on various practical topics were quoted in D. P. Blaine's authoritative An Encyclopædia of Rural Sports. (ODNB) "'Never,'" wrote a writer in the Retrospective Review, "had fox or hare the honour of being chased to death by so accomplished a hunter; never was huntsman's dinner graced by such urbanity and wit. He would bag a fox in Greek, find a hare in Latin, inspect his kennels in Italian, and direct the economy of his stables in exquisite French'". (DNB). 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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BECOURT, A. de

[Origami] [Juvenile] [Geometry] [Paper-Modeling] Art de Fabriquer Toutes Sortes D'Ouvrages En Papier, Pour L'Instruction Et L'Amusement Des Jeunes Gens Des Deux Sexes

Paris, Audot, Editeur, rue des maçons-sorbonne, no. 11, 1828. Wrappers. A charming juvenile, with directions, patterns, and finished views for the construction of paper and cardboard toys—a sentry box, a thatched cottage, furniture, a bridge, a windmill, a medieval tower, and more—intended to teach elementary geometric concepts. 12mo (146 x 89mm). vii,[1],9-106,12[advertisements]pp, with hand-colored frontispiece and 21 further numbered folding plates (not bound in numerical order, but correctly placed with respect to pages to which the drawings correspond). Original stitched wrappers printed in black. A superb uncut copy (light scattered foxing throughout) in publisher's original printed wrappers. NUC pre-l956: 42:561. Gumuchian 508. Second Edition (so stated), first published earlier the same year. 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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BELL, Clive (1881-1964)

The Legend of Monte Della Sibilla or le Paradis de la Reine Sibille [H. Balfour Gardiner's Copy]

Richmond, Printed and Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, Hogarth House, 1923. Pictorial Boards. One of 400 copies printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Royal 8vo (257 x 186mm): 25,[1]pp, with frontispiece and one further drawing by Duncan Grant and one figure by Vanessa Bell. Original pictorial boards printed in black; wanting the scarce plain cream dust jacket. Provenance: H. Balfour Gardiner, with his blue ink stamp to front fly-leaf. Very light occasional spotting, but an excellent example, securely bound and generally clean throughout. Woolmer 27. Laing A8. At the turn of the twentieth century, Bell was prominent in the group of friends who met on Thursday evenings at 46 Gordon Square in Bloomsbury, including Virginia Stephen (later Woolf) and her sister Vanessa, who married Bell in 1907 and illustrated this and many other books published by the Woolfs at the Hogarth Press. Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950) was a British musician and composer and member of the Frankfurt Group. 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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BESTERMAN, Theodore (1904-1976)

Old Art Books: Collected and Catalogued by Theodore Besterman

Maggs Bros, 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 238 of 300 copies signed by Besterman, cataloging his fabulous collection of fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth century art books. Medium folio (412 x 310mm): xiv,118,[2]pp, plus folding frontispiece and 149 additional plates (some folding). Publisher's gun-metal grey cloth, spine lettered in gold. An exceptional example, tightly bound and clean throughout, unread and virtually pristine. Besterman was one of the preeminent systematic bibliographers of the twentieth century. 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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[Eric Arthur Blair, writing as:] ORWELL, George (1903-1950)

[Cartoon Strip] Animal Farm

1954. First Edition thus. Stiff Wrappers. Uncommon edition of the world's most famous modern animal fable and political allegory. Oblong 8vo (164 x 240mm): [28]pp, with 52 cartoon strips. Grey illustrated wrappers printed in black, staple-bound. Light stain to top left corner of upper wrapper, else an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Fenwick (A.10.M1) mentions, in passing, the strip cartoon version serialized by British and American newspapers but not this publication. Shortly after Orwell's death, his widow Sonia was visited in London by representatives of the American producer Louis de Rochemont, seeking movie rights to Orwell's novel. A conventional live-action adaptation was out of the question, of course, given that the book's main characters were farmyard animals, so De Rochemont hired the British husband-and-wife animators John Halas and Joy Batchelor, who had produced propaganda films during the Second World War. Their adaptation of Animal Farm was released in 1954, the first feature-length animation movie made in the United Kingdom. Unbeknownst to Halas and Batchelor, de Rochemont secretly worked for the CIA. According to Hugh Wilford (see The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America), the CIA provided most of the $500,000 funding for the film. For Orwell, the Communists ended up no less rotten than the capitalists they'd rebelled against. For the CIA, however, such a view reflected as badly on Washington as it did on Moscow, so de Rochemont's finale, in which humans are entirely absent, has the pigs get their comeuppance from the animals they betrayed. Harold Whitaker, one of the film's lead animators, produced the comic-strip version, which appeared in newspapers to promote release of the film, in 1954. 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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BODDAERT, Pieter (1730-1796); Johannes Oosterdijk Schacht; Johann Albert Schlosser (d. 1769)

[Frog] [Wunderkammer] Brief Van Pieter Boddaert... Aan Den Zeer Weledelen Hooggeleerden Heere Johannes Oosterdyk Schacht... Behelzende Eene Naauwkeurige Beschrijving, En Naar Het Leven Vervaardigde Afbeelding, Van Den Twee-Koleurigen Kikvorsch... Johannes Albertus Schlosser [IV. Pieter Boddaert over Den Twee-Koleurigen Kikvorsch / Petrus Boddaert de Rana Bicolore]

Te Amsterdam, By M. Magérus, Boekverkooper, 1772. Stiff Wrappers. First and only edition of Boddaert's description of the nocturnal giant leaf frog (a native of the Amazonian rain forest that produces a poison traditionally used as medicine) from the Schlosser natural history cabinet, the first monograph on (and first illustrations of) this species. Demy 4to (283 x 221mm): 48pp, printed on heavy paper in Dutch and Latin on facing pages, with three folding engraved plates. Bound in recent stiff marbled wrappers, printed paper label to front cover, edges speckled green. An excellent example, virtually pristine. Nissen ZBI 435. Fourth in a series of five letters often bound together (De lacerta amboinensi, by J. A. Schlosser, and three others (numbered) by Boddaert: De Chaetodonte argo (1770); de Testudine cartilaginea (1770), and De chaetodonte dicantho (1772). Johann Albert Schlosser (d. 1769) was an Amsterdam physician, member of the Royal Society in London, and collector who assembled a fine natural history cabinet. After his death, Boddaert published four reports (including this and one on the freshwater Southeast Asian soft-shell turtle, which we also have on offer) on zoological specimens from Schlosser's collection, while also preparing Schlosser's cabinet for auction. As was customary, each publications was addressed to a colleague, in this case to Johannes Oosterdyk Schacht, a Dutch physician. 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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BODDAERT, Pieter (1730-1796); Johann Albert Schlosser (d. 1769)

[Turtle] [Wunderkammer] Brief Van Pieter Boddaert... Aan Den Zeer Weledelen Gestrengen Heere W. RoëLL... Behelzende Eene Naauwkeurige Beschrijving, En Naar Het Leven Vervaardigde Afbeelding, Van de Kraakbeenige Schildpad... Johannes Albertus Schlosser [III. P Boddaert over de Kraakbeenige Schildpad / Petrus Boddaert de Testudine Cartilaginea]

Te Amsterdam, by Kornelis van Tongerlo, 1770. Stiff Wrappers. First and only edition of Boddaert's description of the freshwater Southeast Asian soft-shell turtle (Testudine cartilaginea) from the Schlosser natural history cabinet, the first monograph on (and first illustration of) this species. Demy 4to (283 x 221mm): [4],39,[1]pp, printed on heavy paper in Dutch and Latin on facing pages, with folding engraved plate. Bound in recent stiff marbled wrappers, printed paper label to front cover, edges speckled green. An excellent example, virtually pristine. Nissen ZBI 434. Third in a series of five letters describing exotic animals, often bound together (De lacerta amboinensi, by Johann Albert Schlosser, and three others (numbered) by Boddaert: De Chaetodonte argo (1770); De rana bicolore (1771), and De chaetodonte dicantho (1772), published in Amsterdam. Schlosser (d. 1769) was an Amsterdam physician, member of the Royal Society in London, and collector who assembled a fine natural history cabinet. After his death, Boddaert published four reports (including this and one on the nocturnal giant leaf frog, which we also have on offer) on zoological specimens from Schlosser's collection, while also preparing Schlosser's cabinet for auction. As was customary, each publications was addressed to a colleague, in this case to W. Roëll, professor of medicine at Utrecht. 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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