Antique & Collectible Books

Utrecht, Johannes Ribbius, 1687.4to. Later half vellum, with old brocade-paper to boards. With folding map (mounted on Japanese paper) and 8 engraved plates (3 folding). 222,(10) pp.First Dutch edition. - The treatise by the scholar, Job (Hiob) Ludolf (1624-1704), was first published in Latin, Historia Aethiopica, in 1681, and is regarded as the first authoritative account of Abyssinia. He has been called the 'founder of Ethiopian studies in Europe'. Although he never visited the country, Ludolf formed a close working relationship with an Ethiopian monk resident in Rome, himself clearly a highly intelligent man. From this fruitful partnership emerged grammars and dictionaries of the classical Ethiopian language as well as a lengthy history of the country. The large folding map by Tellez, is a landmark of cartography, as it is the first to show the source of the Blue Nile at Lake Tana. The fine plates depict illustrations of Ethiopean fauna, a banana plant, decapitation of missionnaries, etc. A… Read More

Berlin, Libau, Lagarde und Friedrich, 1789-1793.7 volumes. Original embossed cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With 7 portrait frontispieces and 34 plans and maps (mostly folding).First German edition. - This famous and influential work was first published in French in 1788, Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce. Numerous editions and translations appeared throughout the 19th century. Although there had been earlier attemps to popularize what was known of Greek antiquity, none was so immediately succesful and influential as Barthelemy's Anacharsis, which played an important part in the development both of neo-classicism and philhellenic sentiment in France (Contominas p. 17). - (Age-browned). - A fine set.Fromm 2082; Cf. Blackmer Collection 83 and Atabey Collection 67; Eutiner Landesbibliothek 0085 (later ed. only).

1722 1st ed FABLES of Antoine le Brun French Literature Verse Animal Tales
Antoine Louis Le Brun was a rather unknown 18th-century French fabulist and writer whose 'Fables' were written in verse – a rather unique concept for fables. This 1722 first edition included all five books of fables in one volume.
Item number: #14736
Price: $499
LE BRUN, Antoine-Louis
Fables
Paris : Chez G. Saugrain, 1722. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o [36], 356, [2]
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Provenance: Bookplate – J.B. IDT
o In Collegio Regio Lugdunensi, Professoris
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Language: French
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Binding: Leather; tight & secure
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Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)
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1841 Robert Merry Museum American History Voyages Indians Egypt Dinosaurs 9v SET
'Robert Merry's Museum' was a 19th-century periodical, notably collected and edited by Samuel G Goodrich. Most of the articles in this series were written for young readers, instructing them of things from around the world – animals including dinosaurs, Bible stories, American history and founding fathers, poems, Egyptian antiquities and ruins, world voyages, and even articles on Native American Indian tribes!
Item number: #14207
Price: $750
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Robert Merry's museum

New York : William K. Vaill; Boston : Bradbury & Soden; New York: Mead, [1841-1849]. 1st editions

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 9 volumes
o Heavily illustrated throughout
o Includes numerous hand-colored, full-page engravings
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
· Size: ~8in X 6in (19.5cm x 15cm)
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1867 BEAUTIFUL Robert Burns Cotter's Saturday Night Scottish Poetry Chapman ART
"The Cotter's Saturday Night" is a poem by famed Scottish poet Robert Burns. First written in 1786, this epic poem describes the rural life of a peasant cotter and his family and their celebrating the Sabbath through scripture reading and devotion. This 1867 edition was illustrated by F.A. Chapman.
Item number: #17369
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BURNS, Robert
The cotter's Saturday night
New York : Charles Scribner & Co. 1867. 1st edition

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[2], 47, [1]
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Heavily illustrated throughout
· Provenance: Handwritten – Margaret M. Gould, 1866
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Decorative cloth
· Size: ~8.5in X 6.25in (21.5cm x 16cm)
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1772 Louis XV France Monument ART Marie Antoinette Louis XVI Portraits Paris
A rare, late 18th-century collection of commemorative art and monuments admiring the reign of King Louis XV of France. This book contains portraits of iconic French royals including Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

Item number: #19732
Price: $499
France
Etrennes Francoises pour le l'annee 1772. Comprenant les monumens memorables et recents… regne de Louis XV
[Paris: 1772].

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o 16 plates
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Language: French
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Binding: Softcover
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Size: ~9in X 6in (23cm x 15.5cm)
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Privately Printed, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Detailed history of Galesburg, North Dakota, Traill County. Histories of businesses, churches, schools, hundreds of family histories and much more. Densely illustrated with historical photographs. See attached image for table of contents. Scarce. 448 pp. 11 1/4" x 8 3/4". Tight, unmarked copy with light shelf wear. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.

1685 1ed Matthew Taubman Loyal Poems & Satyrs Litanies Popish Plot Dissenters

Matthew Taubman was a 17th-century English Poet Laureate known for his literature and poems affecting the Popish Plot. One such work was his "Loyal Poems and Satyrs" which includes numerous poems and songs which were written against traitors devising events of the Plot. Published in 1685, it contains litanies and hymns, as well as poems defending those accused he felt were innocent.

Item number: #22290
Price: $950

TAUBMAN, Matthew

Loyal poems and satyrs upon the times since the beginning of the Salamanca plot

London: Printed for John Smith, 1685. First edition.

Details:
• Collation: Complete with all pages
o [8], 128
• Provenance: Bookplate – Revd. W. Shepherd
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~6.75in X 4.25in (17cm x 11cm)
• Rare and desirable

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Londini: Gulielmi & Joannis Innys, 1724. Third edition. Illustrated with 24 fine engraved plates, (of which two are folding), small thick octavo, pp [28], 482, [30], + 4-page bookseller's catalogue, {Blanche Henrey points out that page numbers 281-288 are repeated, a printer's error}, a few very slight marks or paper imperfections, but generally a remarkably clean, bright and tight copy, the front hinge is cracked but without any weakness, the front free endpaper however is partially loose and may soon become completely so, an armorial bookplate on the front endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, scuffed age-toned and worn at the corners, neatly rebacked with a new calf spine, a calligraphic paper title label. Blanche Henrey 323. [John Ray FRS (1627 - 1705) was a Christian English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists.His classification of plants in his earlier Historia Plantarum, was an important step towards modern taxonomy. Ray rejected… Read More

1653 1ed Explanation Psalms BIBLE Commentary Scottish Puritan Dickson SPURGEON

David Dickson was a 17th-century Scottish minister whose biblical commentaries were popular references for decades. In fact, according to famed Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon, Dickson's works are
"invaluable to the preacher. Having read and re-read, [commended] with much fervor."

This particular work is Dickson's commentary on the first fifty chapters of Psalms offering a verse-by-verse explanation of each psalm.

Item number: #22530
Price: $750

DICKSON, David

A brief explication of the first fifty Psalms

London: printed by T.M. for Ralph Smith, 1653. First edition.

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· Collation:
o [10], 351 (i.e., 333), [1]
§ P. 145-148 provided in handwritten facsimile
§ Pagination error expected of this edition: p. 148 jumps to 177; textually complete
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; secure
· Size: ~6.5in X 4.25in (16.5cm x 10.5cm)
· Quite rare

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Old Times: A Picture of Social Life at the End of the Eighteenth Century. Collected and Illustrated from the Satirical and Other Sketches of the Day. By John Ashton. With Eight-eight Illustrations. New York: Scribner & Welford, 1885 First Edition.
A stunning satirical look at the fashion, politics, daily life of the Royals and the middle class of the period, with many of the illustrations from the Times. (London)
Condition: NOT a library book. Sound binding. New matching spine with stamped gilt title, author, and date as shown. Original boards. Complete with tissue guarded frontispiece. All 88 illustrations present, printed in red ink. See samples pictured. Please review photos and ask for more if necessary to make your best buying decision!
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1856 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1ed DRED Dismal Swamp Nat Turner Slavery Abolition 2v

Known mostly for her cultural defining work 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' Harriet Beecher Stowe presents "Dred," her second novel. Although it enjoyed better initial sales than her previous, and more famous, novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, it was ultimately less popular. Uncle Tom's Cabin drew criticism from abolitionists and African American authors for the passive martyrdom of Uncle Tom, and the endorsement of colonization as a solution to slavery.

'Dred,' on the other hand, introduces a black revolutionary character who is presented as an heir to the American Revolution rather than a problem to be expatriated. "Dred" offers a gripping narrative that not only captivates readers but also serves as a fervent plea for social change, making it a significant contribution to the abolitionist movement and a testament to Stowe's literary prowess.

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Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania with special reference to the food-habits, based on over three thousand stomach examinations.: Edwin K. Meyers. 1888, First edition. Hardcover. Sm. 4to, 9.25 x 6, xii, 260 pp. Original green cloth binding, gilt titles. Illustrated with 50 plates, 49 of which are in color. Green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Handsome detailed illustrations of the birds of Pennsylvania copied from Audubon's Birds of America. BY STATE ORNITHOLOGIST B. H. WARREN. Gift inscription and compliments card of D. H. Hastings, Adjutant General of Pennsylvania tipped-in to front free endpaper. Gift inscription from a subsequent owner written on the front free endpaper under the card from D.H. Hastings.
Condition
Light soiling and shelf wear, wrinkling to portions of spine; front hinge and portions of inner spine repaired; pages 213 - 221 unskillfully glued back in. The plates are clean and intact.
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Ornithologist B.H. Warren was born in West Chester and affiliated with the… Read More

Small octavo (7 5/8 by 5 3/8 inches) New York: Published by the Author, 1883. Original First Edition. 140 pages, frontispiece, original green hardcover cloth binding, good condition (normal, mild shelf wear, printed on paper that is now aged and brittle, but intact, with no loss; and not affecting contents which are complete).

An early expose on opium and its affect on people who use it, with details of the author's experiences while visiting Chinatown, and its opium dens; with his commentary on the habits of "Women Who Smoke," "A Day in an Opium Asylum," and chapters on "An American Palace Joint," Cravings on the Road," "Victims in the Dramatic Profession," plus "A Chapter on Legislation," among others.

THIS LAND WAS OURS: THE DEL VALLES AND CAMULOS
This signed copy was inscribed to Julius Guis who was editor of the Ventura Star Free Press where the author, Wallace Smith worked.
Smith, Wallace E.Published by Ventura Historical Society, Published by Ventura Historical Society,, Ventura, 1977
FIRST EDITIONUsed - Hardcover 
Condition: Very Good Plus
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First edition. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 266pp. Incl. notes and 'Index of Persons'. Limited to 1000 copies. A few illustrations from old photographs; endpapers decorated with family tree and map. Tan cloth stamped in red.