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Johnsoniana, on the Occasion of the Tercentenary of Samuel Johnson’s Birth

A Dictionary of the English LanguageSamuel Johnson, LL.D. London; J. Johnson, C. Dilly et al.; 1799; 8th edition. Two volumes, contemporary plain brown morocco with double ruled borders, gilt spines carefully rebacked with 5 raised bands, 6 compartments, lettering pieces in red and blue and elaborate gilt designs. Both volumes bear the armorial bookplate of Sir Charles Cockerell, Bart.(1755-1837). $2750

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Arthur Murphy, Esq. London; Johnson, Nichols, et al.; 1806; "A New Edition in Twelve Volumes." Twelve volumes in contemporary speckled calf, gilt spines with black and green lettering pieces. Frontispiece Vol. 1, new endpapers Vol. 1. $750

Life of Johnson.  James Boswell. London; Macmillan; 1906. Half-red morocco with gilt lettering piece; top edge gilt. $100

Life of Johnson. James Boswell. Oxford; Pickering; 1826. Four volumes in burgundy creased cloth; new endpapers; all edges gilt. Ex-library, with few markings. $450

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets.  Samuel Johnson. London; Bathurst et al.; 1781. First London edition; 4 volumes in full calf; gilt spine with red lettering pieces; raised bands; engraved frontispiece. Water stains on the bottom of the pages in volume 1; last 2 pages of volume 4 missing (replaced with copies). $650

A Journey to the Western Islands.  Samuel Johnson. Dublin; Williams; 1775. First Dublin edition. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with red lettering piece. $350

The Prince of Abissinia.  Samuel Johnson. London; Strahan, et al.; 1766. Fourth edition; two volumes; later full-calf with repaired joints; gilt boards and spine with red and black lettering pieces. $245

Observations and Reflection Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy and Germany.  Hester Lynch Piozzi. London; Strahan and Cadell; 1789. First edition; two volumes in contemporary half-leather with marbled boards, raised bands. Ads present in volume 2. $550

The Adventurer.  Samuel Johnson and John Hawkesworth. London; Strahan et al.; 1770. Four volumes, recent half-morocco with new end papers, gilt spine, no head bands. Ex-library with few markings. $300

Rasselas & Dinarbas.  S. Johnson and C. Knight. London; Walker, et al.; 1817. Small (12mo), blue cloth volume with engraved frontispiece and title page. Ex-library with two stamps. $50

Dinarbas; A Tale.  Cornelia Knight. London; Dilly; 1790. First edition. Half-calf with raised bands, repaired hinges. This is Knight’s first published work. $300

EUROPEAN HISTORY

The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint Simon on the Reign of Louis XIV, and the Regency.  Bayle St. John. London; Chapman & Hall; 1857. First and Second Series; 4 volumes; half-red morocco over marbled boards, with raised bands and beautiful gilt lettering and design on spines, marbled end papers. $425

The Constitutional History of England  from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II.  Henry Hallam. London; John Murray; 1827. First edition. Two volumes, contemporary calf, gilt spines, raised bands, marbled edges. $500

Sketches from Venetian History.  London; John Murray; 1831. Two volumes, vol. 2 is 3rd edition (1838.) Contemporary vellum, with gilt spines and lettering pieces. All engravings, including foldout map, present. $120

Memoirs of the Protectorate House of Cromwell.  Mark Noble. Birmingham; Pearson and Rollason; 1784. First edition. Two volumes, three-quarter calf over marbled boards, with marbled endpapers, raised bands. Engraved frontispiece in both volumes. Volume 1 is dated MDCCXXXLIV rather than "MDCCLXXXIV" as volume two correctly reads. $650

The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England.  Edward, Earl of Clarendon. Oxford; Clarendon Press; 1826. Eight volumes, including an index. Contemporary full calf, with gilt boards and spine, raised bands and marbled endpapers. $900

Invasion of the Crimea.  Alexander Kinglake. Edinburgh and London; Wm. Blackwood; 1863-1887. Eight volumes with Vols. 1& 2 being 3rd editions, Vols. 3 & 4 2nd editions. and Vols. 5-8 1st editions. Three-quarter red leather over red cloth, gilt design and lettering on spines, raised bands, marbled endpapers. $1,250

Napoleon.  Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Lt.-Col. United States Army. Part of the "Great Captains" Series. Boston and New York; Houghton, Mifflin; 1901. First edition. Four volumes, maroon cloth. Dodge has been described as the "greatest American historian." He also served in the Civil War. $600

The History of the Reign of Charles V.  William Robertson. London; Strahan; 1769. First edition. Three volumes recently bound in green half-leather with gilt spines and raised bands. Ex-library with gilt number on spines but few other markings. $450

England Under Queen Anne.  G.M. Trevelyan. London; Longmans Green; 1931. Two volumes, green cloth with gilt lettering. From the Library of Herbert Claiborne Pell, U.S. Representative from New York, Minister to Portugal and Hungary. $60

History of the Reign of George III.  Robert Macfarlan. Edinburgh; Brownlie; 1810-1812. Four volumes, all first editions, in quarter-leather over marbled boards. Scarce. Vol. 1, 1810; Vol.2, 1811; Vols. 3 & 4, 1812. $295

The History of the Revolutions in Sweden and Portugal.  The Abbe Vertot. Dublin; Grierson; 1727. Early leather; gilt spine; missing lettering piece, raised bands. Bookplate of Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham (1799-1868), MP. $195

The Illustrated History of the War Against Russia.  E. H. Nolan, Ph.D., LL.D. London; Virtue; probably 1857. Two volumes, dark green cloth. All six double-page foldout maps present. $300

AMERICAN HISTORY

Grant and Sherman; Their Campaigns.  J. T. Headley. New York; E. B. Treat; 1865. Full leather; black lettering pieces on spines. "With Numerous Fine Steel Portraits, Battle Scenes, & Maps." $250

The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield, Our Martyred President.  James D. McCabe. Cincinnati; Jones Brothers; 1880. Full leather, top board loose; marbled endpapers. $50

Around the World with General Grant 1877, 1878, 1879.  John Russell Young. New York; American News Co.; 1879. Two volumes, three-quarter leather over marbled boards, with marbled endpapers and edges; "with eight hundred illustrations." $150

The History of the Seventh Regiment of New York 1806-1890.  Colonel Emmons Clark. New York; The Seventh Regiment; 1890. Two volumes; blue cloth with gilt design and lettering. Rebacked, with original backstrip retained. $250

The Crisis of the Old Order; The Coming of the New Deal; The Politics of Upheaval.  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. New York; Houghton Mifflin, 1957, 1959, 1960; Book of the Month Club editions. All with dust jackets in mylar. $35

The Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Columbus.  Washington Irving. Philadelphia; Carey, Lea et al.; 1835. Second American edition, contemporary leather with repaired hinges. $140

American Conflict:  A History of the Great Rebellion.  Horace Greeley. Hartford; O.D. Case; 1864-66. Two volumes, full leather, rebacked with original backstrip retained. "Illustrated by portraits on steel of Generals, Statesman and other Eminent Men: Views of the places of historic interest: Map, Diagrams of Battle-Fields, Naval Actions, etc.: from Official Sources." $250

The Great Rebellion; A History of the Civil War in the United States.  J. T. Headley. Hartford; Hulbut, Scranton; 1864. Two volumes, elaborately blind-tooled boards, rebacked with original backstrips retained, marbled endpapers and edges. "With numerous fine steel engravings." $125

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin.  H. W. Brands. New York; Doubleday; 2000. First edition. Dust jacket in mylar cover. $25

On Active Service in Peace and War.  Henry L. Stimson and McGeorge Bundy. New York; Harper & Brothers; 1948. First edition. In mylar protected dust jacket. $65

Roosevelt: From Munich to Pearl Harbor.  Basil Rauch. New York; Creative Age Press; 1950. First edition, mylar protected dust jacket. $30

Life and Times of Washington.  Schroeder-Lossing. Albany; M.M. Belcher; 1903. Four volumes in two, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spines. Inscribed "Best Wishes Eugene M. Gravis State Comptroller 1915-1916." $75

The Growth of the American Republic.  Morison, Commager and Leuchtenburg. New York; Oxford Univ. Press; 1969. Two volumes, black cloth. $35

Jefferson Davis:  A Memoir by His Wife.  Varina Jefferson Davis. New York; Belford Co; 1890. Two volumes, red cloth, chipped black lettering pieces on spines. $150

Sitting Bull and the Indian War.  W. Fletcher Johnson. Edgewood Pub. Co.; 1891. First edition; "Profusely Illustrated." Green decorative cloth. $165

Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South.  Hinton Rowan Helper. New York; Burdick; 1860. Ex-library. Brown cloth. $95

A South-Side View of Slavery or Three Months at the South in 1854.  Nehemiah Adams. Boston; T. R. Marvin; 1854. Ex-library. Discolored blind-tooled cloth boards. $95

The Sable Cloud:  A Southern Tale with Northern Comments.  Nehemiah Adams. Boston; Ticknor and Fields; 1861. Ex-library. Blind-tooled cloth boards. $65

The History of the Antislavery Cause in State and Nation.  Rev. Austin Willey. Portland; Brown Thurston, et al.; 1886. Cloth boards with gilt design on top board and the words "Go Free" $100

North Haven Annals:  A History of the Town from its Settlement 1680 to its First Centennial 1886.New Haven; Lee & Adkins; 1892. Black cloth with gilt lettering. $150

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society.   Boston; Charles C. Little and James Brown; 1843. Volume VIII of the 3rd Series. Blue publisher’s boards with beige spine. $125

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society.  Boston; Samuel Hall; 1800. "Volume VI, For the Year M,DCC,XCIX. Blue publisher’s boards with beige spine. Top board detached. $350

 

BIOGRAPHY

Life of Lord Kitchener.  Sir George Arthur. London; Macmillan; 1920. Three volumes, blue cloth with gilt lettering. All photographs and maps present; 4 of the 6 maps are foldout. $150

Goethe - The History of a Man.  Emil Ludwig. London, Putnam 1928. First American edition. Two volumes, blue cloth with gilt lettering. $75

This I Remember.  Eleanor Roosevelt. New York; Harper; 1949. First edition (so stated). In unclipped dust jacket. $65

William Booth:  Founder of the Salvation Army.  Harold Begbie. London; Macmillan; 1920. Two volumes, blue cloth with gilt lettering. $50

Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More.  William Roberts. London; Seely & Burnside; 1834. Four volumes, ? first edition, contemporary half calf, rebacked with backstrips retained, marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Bookplate of Thos. Ashton, 1st Baron of Ashton & Hyde. $200

Lives of the Sheridans.  Percy Fitzgerald. London; Bentley; 1886. Two volumes in full calf, board reattached retaining original backstrip, gilt boards and spines, with raised bands. Bookplate of George J. Gould, son of financier Jay Gould. $125

Life of Napoleon.  Baron Jomini. New York; D. Van Nostrand; 1864. First American edition. Five volumes, including the Atlas, maroon cloth. Translation & notes by H. W. Halleck. From the Library of The Commandery of the State of Illinois; Inscribed by Gen. William Vandever, Civil War General. $1,250

Memoirs of Celebrated Etonians.  Heneage Jesse. London; Bentley; 1875. Two volumes, three-quarter blue calf over blue boards, marbled endpapers and pages, ornate gilt spines with red lettering piece and raised bands. Contents includes Henry Fielding, Earl of Chatham, Horne Tooke, Horace Walpole, Lord North, and many others. $175

The Life and Times of Cavour.  Wm. Roscoe Thayer. Boston; Houghton Mifflin; 1911. Two volumes, green cloth with plates and a foldout map. $50

The Life of the Late Earl of Chesterfield: or The Man of the World . . . Delivered in a Series of Letters to His Son.  London; J. Bew; 1774. Two volumes in full contemporary leather, red lettering pieces. $375

George Washington Carver:  An American Biography.  Rackham Holt. Garden City; Doubleday Doran; 1943. Blue cloth. $25

Booker T. Washington:  Builder of a Civilization.  Emmett Scott, Lyman Beecher Stowe. Garden City; Doubleday Page; 1916. Green cloth. $45

NATURAL HISTORY AND ILLUSTRATED

British Fresh-Water Fishes.  W. Houghton, M.A., F.L.S. London and Dublin; Mackenzie; n.d. [1879]; 1st edition. Reddish- brown cloth boards with gilt and black titles on front boards ; elaborate gilt pictorial covers with fisherman standing in stream holding a fish. Gilt and black decorative spines, complete with 41 beautiful color plates. $1,500

Lloyds Natural History:  

The following four sets are uniformly bound in maroon cloth with sunned spines, black and gilt lettering.

Mammals

R. Lydekker. London; Lloyd; 1896. One volume. All 32 color plates present. $75

Handbook of Game-Birds

Ogilvie-Grant. London; Lloyd; 1896. Two volumes. All color plates present. $125

A Handbook to the Birds of Great Britain

Bowdler Sharpe. London; Lloyd; 1896. Four volumes. All color plates present. $250

Handbook to the Order Lepidoptera.

Kirby. London; Lloyd; 1896. Five volumes. All color plates present (158 total.) $595

Familiar Wild Birds.  W. Swaysland. London; Cassell; 1902. Two volumes with three-quarter leather over green cloth, marbled endpapers and edges. All 160 color plates present. $185

Familiar Trees.  G. S. Boulger. London; Cassell; ca. 1906. "Entirely New Edition Revised Throughout and Enlarged. Three volumes, half calf over red boards, with gilt spines. All plates present in all three volumes including 114 color plates and 114 black and white plates. $135

Country Life Library of Sport:  Fishing.  Horace G. Hutchinson. London; Newnes; 1907. First edition. Two volumes, red cloth with gilt lettering. Hundreds of black and white photographs. $95

Angling in British Art.  Walter S. Sparrow. London; John Lane;1923. Blue cloth with gold lettering, 288 pages with index. All plates present, including 39 in color. $250

The Cherries of New York.  U. P. Hedrick. New York; New York Agricultural Experiment Station; 1915. Green cloth. All plates present. $275

Index Entomologicus or a Complete Illustrated Catalogue Consisting of Upwards of Two Thousand Accurately Coloured Figures of the Lepidopterous Insects.  W. Wood, F.R.S, & L.S. London; Willis; 1854. Three-quarter calf over marbled boards, with marbled endpapers, ornate gilt spine with raised bands. All 59 plates present. $500

Pheasants - Their Lives and Homes.  William Beebe. New York; Doubleday, Doran; 1936. Two volumes in one; green cloth with gilt medallion on front board. All plates present. $95

Nouveau Dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquee aux arts, principalement l'agriculture et l'economie rurale et domestique. Par une societe de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs: avec des figures tirees des trois regnes de la nature.  Paris; De L’Imprimerie de Crapelet; 1803. Twenty-four volumes. Bookplate of The Duchesse de Courland, also known as the Duchess de Dino. The Duchess de Dino was the wife of Talleyrand's nephew and she was also Talleyrand's mistress. $1,750

Cattle; Their Breeds, Management and Diseases, with an Index.  London; Baldwin and Craddock; 1834. First edition. Publisher’s boards. $125

The Complete Angler; To which are added, an introductory essay; the Linnaean arrangement of the various river-fish delineated in the work; and illustrative notes.  Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton. London; John Fleet; 1823. The first "Major Edition" of the Angler, based on the fifth edition (1676), with an introductory essay, revised notes, etc. by John Major; notable particularly for the engraved illustrations. Three-quarter leather over brown cloth; gilt decorative spine. $350

The Angler’s Guide Being A Plain and Complete Practical Treatise of the Art of Angling for Sea, River and Pond Fish.  T. F. Salter. London; James Maynard; 1841. Ninth edition (1st edition was published in 1820.) "Illustrated with eighty-nine Fine Cuts." Brown cloth boards with elaborate gilt design on front board, blind-tooled design on rear board, and gilt-designed spine, with all edges gilt. Fold out illustration present. $300

LITERATURE & SETS

The Collected Works of George Moore.  New York; Boni and Liveright; 1922; the Carra Edition. 20 volumes complete. This edition consists of 1000 numbered sets. The first volume is numbered and signed by the author. This set is number 475 of the 1000. There are 20 volumes and the last volume states that, although originally planned as a 21 volume set, volume 20 is the final volume. Cloth boards with dust jackets.$1,000

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  Lewis Carroll. Macmillan, 1903. Copyright page states "First Edition Sixpenny Series published 1898. Reprinted, 1899 (twice), 1900, 1902, 1903." Full leather, prize binding with insignia of Kimbolton School in gilt. Contains 42 illustrations by John Tenniel. $150

The Complete Works of Tolstoy.  Boston; Dana Estes; 1904; The Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Volumes I through XXIV are translated from the Original Russian and Edited by Leo Weiner and are consecutively numbered. The final four unnumbered volumes are Tolstoy’s posthumous works with three edited by Hagberg Wright (The Light that Shines in the Darkness; Father Sergius; The Forged Coupon) and their fourth, Hadji Mura, translated by Aylmer Maude. Blue cloth with gilt design and spines and gilt signature on front board; TEG. $1,250

The Works of Charles Dickens.  Boston; Dewolfe, Fiske; n.d. Thirty volumes complete, full leather with two black lettering pieces on spines, blind stamps on spine and raised bands, marbled endpapers, top-edges gilt.  $500

Hawthorne’s Works.  Cambridge; Riverside Press; 1863; large paper edition with illustrations. Two hundred fifty copies printed. This is copy 206. Twelve volumes complete, Beige cloth boards with paper label on spine. Some pages uncut. $600

The Writings of Mark Twain.  Hartford; The American Publishing Company; 1899. "The Edition DeLuxe ," limited to 1,000 copies. This is copy No. 293. Twenty volumes were issued between 1899-1900. Three more volumes were issued between 1900 and 1907, but this 22 volume set was the complete set as initially offered. Green cloth with paper labels on spines.  $1,100

Gulliver’s Travels.  Jonathan Swift. London; Joseph Wenman; 1780. Three volumes bound in one 12mo volume. Full leather with engraved frontispiece for each volume.  $435

The Select Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.  London; Hector McLean; 1826. Five volumes in full brown morocco with gilt border on boards, gilt spines and gilt dentelles. $1,000

The History of Tom Jones.  Henry Fielding. London; Cooke; n.d. [?1792 or 1794]. Four volumes, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, with gilt spines and red lettering pieces. $295

Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea.  Charles Johnston. London; T. Becket; 1766-67. Four volumes rebacked with brown leather, with gilt lettering. Mixed set with volumes 1 & 2 being the 5th edition and volumes 3 &4 being the 2nd edition. $265

The Citizen of the World.  Oliver Goldsmith. Edinburgh; Oliver & Boyd; 1809. Two volumes, modern rebinding with half-morocco.  $90

The World.  Adam Fitz-Adam [Edward Moore]. London; Parsons; 1794. Four volumes in contemporary tree calf, gilt spines with red and black lettering pieces. $250

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews.  Henry Fielding. London; Symonds; 1794. Two volumes disbound, placed in blue cloth-covered cases. $250

A Tale of a Tub.  Jonathan Swift. London; Thomas Tegg; 1811. Recently rebound in full brown morocco. Seven illustrations including the frontispiece. $125

The Redskins; or Indian and Injin.  J. Fenimore Cooper. New York; Burgess and Stringer; 1846; 1st American edition published in the U.K. the same month. Two volumes in one. Half-leather over marbled boards. $295

The Bravo.  J. Fenimore Cooper. London; Colburn and Bentley; 1831. Three volumes, quarter leather over marbled boards and endpapers. Book plate of Louisa Craven with an Earl’s coronet. Louisa Elizabeth Frederica was the 1st and only daughter of the 1st Earl of Craven. $250

SIGNED & INSCRIBED

Sappho.  Rare 1st edition of 12 graceful etchings by Renee Sintenis illustrate works of the Greek poetess, Sappho, in this 1921 limited edition. It contains twenty-two poems or fragments, elegantly etched in Greek by Sintenis’ husband, E. R. Weiss. Signed by both Sintenis and Weiss, it is #178 of 185 copies printed on hand-made Dutch Butten paper. Printed by Alfred Ruckenbrod, Berlin . In worn and torn dust-jacket. $500

The Longest Day.  Cornelius Ryan. New York; Simon and Schuster; 1959; 2nd edition. With dust jacket. Inscribed by Ryan and signed "Cornelius – Connie to you – Ryan December 1959." $250

Wartime Correspondence between President Roosevelt and Pope Pius XII.  With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Myron C. Taylor. New York; Macmillan; 1947. White cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine; top edge gilt; in book box. Inscribed by Taylor to "Mr. And Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt [Jr.?] with friendly regards" and dated April 12, 1947.

Kennedy.  Theodore C. Sorensen. New York; Harper & Row;1965. Limited edition of the 1st edition; 1963 copies printed; this is copy number 1683; signed by Sorensen. Blue cloth with mylar cover; book box. $195

Autopsy of an Empire.  Jack F. Matlock, Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow. New York; Random House; 1995; 1st edition. Inscribed to Hal Friedlander, signed by Matlock and dated January 19, 1996. Book in dust jacket with mylar protector. $50

Ah, Wilderness!  Eugene O’Neill. New York; Random House; 1933.This edition was limited to 325 copies, printed on rag paper and signed by the author. This is copy number 5. Full navy blue leather with light blue and red lettering pieces on the spine; top edge gilt. $200

The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto 1941-1944.  Lucjan Dobroszycki, editor. New Haven; Yale University Press; 1984. Dust jacket with mylar cover. Inscribed to Dr. Pierre C. Haber from the editor and dated September 11, 1984. $40

The Supreme Court of the United States: Its Beginnings & Its Justices 1790-1991.  Preface by William Rehnquist. Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution. Portrait on top board. Has taped in card stating "Supreme Court of the United States Washington, DC 20543" and signed by William H. Rehnquist.  $125

The Battle of Waterloo.  G.W. Picton. London; R. Edwards; n.d. [?1816]. Contemporary leather; rebacked with original backstrip retained. Six color plates; two foldout maps; three black and white portraits. The inscription reads: "Mrs. Carter’s Book, given to her by her son Phillip Carter, who served in the Horse Guards and engaged at the Battle of Waterloo, June 18, 1815 for Elizabeth Carter." $450

A Man in Full.  Tom Wolfe. New York; Farrar Straus; 1998; 1st Trade E edition. Dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed by Tom Wolf. $75

In Spite of Myself: A Memoir.  Christopher Plummer. New York; Knopf; 2008; 1st edition. Inscribed by the author to Leonard and Evelyn (?Lauder) and signed. $75

With Lawrence in Arabia.  Lowell Thomas. Garden City; Doubleday; 1967; "New Enlarged Edition." Dust jacket in mylar cover. Insribed "Dear Vince: – without you I never would have turned out this all important epilougue! And signed Lowell Thomas. $95

Amelia Earhart; Photograph and signature on paper in pencil, undated; matted and framed. Also includes a copy of The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell. New York; St. Martin’s Press; 1st edition. $375

Mountbatten of Burma.  A typed letter on Broadlands stationery, dated 8th January 1969. "Dear Mr. Sterrett, I have kept the snapshot you took of our wedding photo at Pickfair and return the other enclosures. Thank you for the offer of a birthday cake but I receive such a surprising number of offers of gifts that I have had to make a rule to decline them except from friends. Yours sincerely," and signed in ink Mountbatten of Burma. $500

OTHER BOOKS OF IMPORT

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.  Adam Smith. Dublin; W. Colles, R. Montcrieffe; 1785; 4th edition (2nd Dublin ed.). Two volumes, full leather, vi-xiiv.498; (viii),489,(58), (appendix & index), with half-titles. $1,250

Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World.  Charles Darwin. London; John Murray;1845;2nd edition. Red cloth, blind tooled boards, $650

The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms with Observations on their Habits.  Charles Darwin. New York; Appleton; 1882; 1st U.S. edition. Orange cloth boards with black design, gilt lettering on spine. $295

The Measures of the Imagination.  Mark Akenside. London; Cadell and Davies; 1803. Contemporary full leather, all edges gilt, with fore-edge painting. $250  

Eighty-five non-consecutive issues of The Observator, a periodical written by Roger L'Estrange, bound in 19 th Century calf, the dates span Dec. 3, 1681 to July 4, 1685. The Observator was issued as a single, folio-size leaf, printed on both sides, and published from 1681-1687. Fifty-four of the issues (Dec. 1681- Jan. 1684) were published by Joanna Brome. L'Estrange was an outspoken Royalist, prominent journalist, translator of some Greek and Latin classics, and at certain periods exerted considerable control, via censorship, over the English press.  Following are the issues:

Dec. 3, 1681 #77 trimmed to edge of text; Feb. 4, 1681 #96; Mar. 10, 1681 #109; Mar. 25, 1681 #115; Apr. 19, 1682 #124; July 12, 1682 #169; July 13, 1682 #170; Dec. 23, 1682 #263; Dec. 27, 1682 #264; Dec. 30, 1682 #265; Jan. 3, 1682 #267; Jan. 6, 1682 #268; Jan. 10, 1682 #269; Jan. 15, 1682 #277; Feb. 24, 1682 #294; Feb. 28, 1682 #296; Mar. 21, 1682 #306; Feb. 16, 1683 #16 two holes, 1-2 cm.; Feb. 17, 1683 #18; Apr. 14, 1683 #319; Apr. 26, 1683 #327; Apr. 30, 1683 #330; May 2, 1683 #331; May 3, 1683 #332; July 14, 1683 #374; July 21, 1683 #378; July 23, 1683 #379; Aug. 11, 1683 #385; Aug. 23, 1683 #391; Aug. 24, 1683 #392; Aug. 27, 1683 #393; Aug. 29, 1683 #394; Sept. 5, 1683 #398; Sept. 6, 1683 #399; Sept. 8, 1683 #400;Sept. 10, 1683 #401; Oct. 20, 1683 #423; Oct. 22, 1683 #424; Oct. 25, 1683 #426; Nov. 1, 1683 #430; Nov. 3, 1683 #431; Nov. 5, 1683 #432; Nov. 8, 1683 #434; Nov. 28, 1683 #445; June 2, 1683 #349;Dec. 6, 1683 #451; Dec. 10, 1683 #453; Dec. 12, 1683 #454; Dec. 15, 1683 #456; Dec. 27, 1683 #463; Dec. 29, 1683 #464; Dec. 31, 1683 #465; Jan. 2, 1684 #466; Jan. 3, 1684 #467; May 21, 1684; #65; June 9, 1684 #77; July 10, 1684 #95; July 12, 1684 #96; July 21, 1684 #101; Aug. 7, 1684 #111; Aug. 9, 1684 #112; Aug. 16, 1684 #116; Sept. 8, 1684 #129; Sept. 27, 1684 #140; Oct. 20, 1684 #153; Oct. 29, 1684 #158; Oct. 30, 1684 #159; Nov. 1, 1684 #160; Nov. 8, 1684; #164Nov. 12, 1684 #166; Dec. 3, 1684 #177; Dec. 20, 1684 #187; Dec. 22, 1684 #188; Dec. 29, 1684 #191; Dec. 31, 1684 #192; Jan. 12, 1684/5 #199 ; Jan. 19, 1684/5 #203; Mar. 26, 1685 #21; Mar. 30, 1685 #23; Apr. 29, 1685 #35; May 2, 1685 #36May 4, 1685 #37June 29, 1685 #52June 1, 1685 #53 July 4, 1685 #54.  $900.

A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901.  T. Allston Brown. New York; Dodd, mead; 1903; 1st edition; 358 copies printed, 52 on Japan Paper and 305 on deckle-edge paper; this is copy number 82. Three volumes, green cloth with papers labels on spines. Each volume contains an inscription from Louise Arzula Sully, who was married to Daniel Sully, the main clown in the Humpty Dumpty Circus, and noted in the index to these volumes. $500

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.  John Locke. London; Arthur Bettsworth and Charles Hitch, et al.; 1731; 10th edition. Two volumes, contemporary calf, raised bands, brown and red lettering pieces. $500

The Diseases of Women with Child and in Child-Bed.  Francis Mauriceau; translated by High Chamberlen. London; T. Cox; 1736. Full calf, beautifully rebacked with five raised bands, gilt details on compartments, red lettering piece.  $500