The Famous Collection of Works by William Blake the Property of the late Graham Robertson..
by [Sale Catalogue]
2219. London: Christie's, July 22, 1949. 8vo, 44 pp., illustrated. Original boards, a little worn. § Bentley, Blake Books, 659.
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My Mortal Enemy
by Cather, Willa
1977. New York: Knopf, 1926. 8vo, 132, (1, colophon)pp. Original quarter linen with patterned paper-covered boards, and plain card slipcase. Spare label still on front pastedown. Corners a bit bumped, backstrip and label toned and slightly worn. A very good, unopened copy. § First edition, limited issue, one of 220 signed copies. Cather's eighth and darkest novel. Charles Johanningsmeier in Cather Studies notes: "For many years, scholars have regarded My Mortal Enemy as somewhat of an... Read More
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Barlaam and Josephat
by Caxton, William
1986. Greenbrae: The Allen Press, 1986. 8vo, 53 pp. Blue cloth lettered in rust colored ink on upper cover and backstrip. A fine copy in acetate dust jacket with the original prospectus laid in. § Edition of 140 copies. A Christianized telling of the life of the Buddah, translated and first published by William Caxton in the Golden Legend in 1484. Designed, printed, and bound by Lewis and Dorothy Allen.
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Le Jaloux Carrizales d'Estramadure
by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
1916. Paris: Societe Litteraire de France, 1916. Folio, [x], 59, [1] pp., original wrappers bound in repeating letterpress and device of title-page printed in black, red and gold, frontispiece simulating a Baroque pictorial title-page of an early Cervantes edition, with author-portrait and architectural border printed in black and red, seven wood engravings hors-texte, headpieces and tailpieces, red and black historiated initial letters. Half brown morocco signed by Bernasconi, marbled paper boards, gilt paneled backstrip with square tan... Read More
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Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg
by Chamberlain, Samuel
1937. 1937. Drypoint etching 10 1/2 x 7 1/2'' on handmade paper, mounted, signed by the artist and numbered in pencil; very good. § Out of 100 this is number 84. Samuel E. Chamberlain (1829-1908) was a soldier, painter, and author who traveled throughout the American Southwest and Mexico.
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![Letter from W. Hunter regarding Voyage of the Vessels "Captain Cook" and "Experiment" to the Northwest Coast in the fur trade A.D. 1786. [and] Letter and Memorandum from Capt. George Dixon to Sir Joseph Banks regarding the fur trade on the Northwest Coast A.D. 1789](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/874/339/1574339874.0.l.jpg)
Letter from W. Hunter regarding Voyage of the Vessels "Captain Cook" and "Experiment" to the Northwest Coast in the fur trade A.D. 1786. [and] Letter and Memorandum from Capt. George Dixon to Sir Joseph Banks regarding the fur trade on the Northwest Coast A.D. 1789
by White Knight. Chapbooks
1940. [San Francisco]: White Knight Press 1940-1941. 2 parts, 8vo, each 5pp. Original printed red wrappers, fine. § Each limited to 125 copies. Compliments slip of David L. Christianson in one part.
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Bars and Shadows. Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin
by Chaplin, Ralph
1922. New York: The Leonard Press, 1922. 12mo, 48 pp. Photographic portrait frontis. Printed paper-wrapped boards. Light wear and spotting to boards; very good. Inscribed by Bruce Rogers on recto of frontispiece. § A collection of poetry written by labor organizer and Wobbly Ralph Chaplin while serving four years of a 20-year sentence for conspiring to hinder the draft and encourage desertion during the First World War. This copy has been inscribed to a friend by... Read More
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Retrospect: Reminiscences and Impressions of a Hunter-Naturalist in Three Continents 1851-1928
by Chapman, Abel
1928. London and Edinburgh: Gurney and Jackson, 1928. 8vo. xix[i], 353[1]pp including index, [5]pp appreciations of Abel Chapman's work, errata slip tipped in after contents leaves, 20 colored plates with printed tissue-guards and 35 b/w plates by Joseph Crawhall, W. H. Riddell and rough sketches by the Author. Original green cloth gilt, a bit worn but a sound reading copy. § First edition. Chapman traveled extensively in Europe and Africa, hunting, wildfowling and fishing. He was... Read More
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Les Natchez: Roman Indien
by Chateaubriand, Francois Rene de
1827. Paris and London: Henri Colburn, New Jerusalem Street, 1827. 3 vols., 8vo, 350; 281; 312 pp. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine decorations and lettering with dark blue title and volume strips, minor foxing; very good. Bookplate of H. Moody in volume one. § A handsome example in a contemporary binding of Chateaubriand's fictionalized account of the Natchez Wars in Louisiana, inspired by his visit to America in 1791 and written during his... Read More
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The Poetical Works edited by Richard Morris... with Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
1883. London: Bell, 1883. 6 vols, sm. 8vo, full green crushed morocco extra, red moire silk endpapers, dentelles, a fine set bound by Riviere with the backstrips uniformly faded (as always) to brown. § Second edition, with alterations in the Text and Glossary. With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas. Issued in the Aldine Edition of the British Poets series.
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The Need for Chocolate
by Cheever, Mary
1980. New York: Stein and Day, 1980. 8vo, 129 pp. Original plain boards with red cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust-jacket. Inscribed by Mary Cheever, dated June 22 1981, autograph letter from her to the same recipients laid in. Dampstaining to the letter, upper and outer margins of the book, and some damp damage to the spine panel of the backstrip. § First edition. A book of poems from the New York novelist and... Read More
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Looking for Work
by Cheever, Susan
1979. New York: Simon and Shuster, 1979. 8vo, 188 pp. Original yellow boards with black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, near fine in a original unclipped dust-jacket, partly toned. Inscribed by Cheever on the front free endpaper "For Ted and Ruth with love and thanks for many things, Susan". § First edition of Cheever's first novel. "It is the story of a young woman who loves men, but whose relationships are often sabotaged by the expectations... Read More
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![Logic Made Familiar and Easy: To which is added a compendious system of metaphysics or ontology. Being the Fifth volume of the Circle of the Sciences, &c. Published by the King's Authority. The Third Edition corrected. [with] Rhetoric Made familiar and easy to Young Gentlemen and Ladies, and Illustrated with several beautiful Orations from Demosthenes, Cicero, Sallust, Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, &c. Being the Third volume of the Circle of the Sciences, &c. Published by the King's Authority. The Third edition](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/106/975/863975106.0.l.jpg)
Logic Made Familiar and Easy: To which is added a compendious system of metaphysics or ontology. Being the Fifth volume of the Circle of the Sciences, &c. Published by the King's Authority. The Third Edition corrected. [with] Rhetoric Made familiar and easy to Young Gentlemen and Ladies, and Illustrated with several beautiful Orations from Demosthenes, Cicero, Sallust, Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, &c. Being the Third volume of the Circle of the Sciences, &c. Published by the King's Authority. The Third edition
by [Children's Education]. [Goldsmith, Oliver?]
1769. London: Newbery and Carnan, 1769. 2 vols., 16mo, xl, 264; 286, (2, ads)pp. Original quarter green vellum over black coated boards with paper label to spine. Slight wear and rubbing to extremities; else very good, clean copies. § Two from the seven volume series "The Circle of the Sciences" which was an early attempt to introduce children to logic, philosophy, mathematics etc. All the early editions are scarce. Oliver Goldsmith has been named as a... Read More
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A collection of six pieces of 19th century sheet music
by [Sheet music] [Chromolithography]
1880. London, New York etc.: various publishers, n.d. 6 items, disbound, each with lithographic title page/cover sheet, in color. Occasional foxing and browning. Several items are cropped, apparently at the time of binding, affecting title page but not music. § A collection six of 19th century songs, including marches, polkas, and waltzes, printed in London, and New York. The chromolithographic title pages depict clowns, aristocrats, and landscapes. The titles are: - "The Express Gallop," comp.... Read More
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The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill with Copious Notes and a Life of the Author by W. Tooke F.R.S.
by Churchill, Charles. Tooke, W. [ed.]
1844. London: William Pickering, 1844. Three vols., 8vo., cxii, 256; 352; 355, [1] pp., engraved frontisportrait, and Aldine device on the title-page. Contemporary half green calf, red marbled boards heightened in gilt, five raised bands with gilt-tooled panel decoration to backstrip, red and black morocco label strips with title information in gilt to backstrip, marbled endpapers. Joints and corners of boards have some slight rubbing, minor foxing to outer margins; otherwise very good. Bookplate of Thomas Lee... Read More
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Martij Tullij Ciceronis philosophie totius: ac facundie principis: de Officijs. Amicitia: Senectute paradoxis: Illustria monimenta. Cum diligentissima Iodoci Badij Ascensij textus explanatione. Necnon elegantissimis consummatissimiso Petri Marci commentarijs. Preterea. addidimus Francisci Maturantij Perusini. In libros officiorum. n modo perfecti oratoris: sed eti philosophi per excellentes in eiusdem Ciceronis Paradoxis commentarij ... Deinde. tabula fideliter impressa ... aucta: ad amussimo castigata. Et de nouo emendatus per Nicolaum Cappusotum .
by Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Hemmersbach, Aarom von (binding)
1952. Lyon: Simon Vincent, 1511. Squat 4to, 8, 281, [1] ff. Below the heading is a woodcut. Below the title is a printer's mark, and below this a fleur-de-lis in red. Title in black and red. Bound by Aarom von Hemmersbach in a colored tattoo binding with the bust of Cicero on the upper cover and a Roman landscape on the lower cover; raised bands with floral decoration. Initially a somewhat crude rebinding by Pierre Thibaudeau brilliantly... Read More
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The God of Shelley and Blake
by Clarke, John Henry
1966. London & New York: Haskell House, 1966. 8vo, 21pp. Stapled printed wrappers with light sunning to spine. A very good copy. §.
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A Letter from Lieut. Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, K.B. to the Commissioners of Public Accounts, Relative to some Observations which may be judged to imply Censure on the late Commanders in Chief of His Majesty's Army in North America
by Clinton, Henry
1784. London: J. Debrett, 1784. Slim 8vo, 31, [1, publisher's ads] pp. Unopened and untrimmed; stitched as issued. Wrappers toned, dealer marks on upper wrapper, else fine. § First edition. Clinton's vindication of his expenditures of public money while in command of the British army during the American Revolution. Howes C494.
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Hieroglyphic Bibles: Their Origin and History. A hitherto Unwritten Chapter of Bibliography. With Facsimile Illustrations...and A New Hieroglyphic Bible told in Stories by Frederick A. Laing
by Clouston, W.A.
1894. Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, 1894. 4to, xvi, 316 pp. followed by Frederick Laing's colored hieroglyphic Bible, consisting of 94 plus 184 mounted plates, four to a page, comprising stories from the Old and New Testaments. Original tan linen buckram over beveled boards, decoratively stamped in gilt and black. Top edge gilt. Edges of boards a bit browned. Near fine in the original blue cloth printed dust jacket which has light edge wear. § First... Read More
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Blake
by Clutton-Brock, Alan
1970. New York: Haskell House, 1970. 8vo, 140 pages. Original red cloth. Fine. § Reprint of the 1933 edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1402 B: "A trivial, inaccurate book, which... finds that Blake was mad...".
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Blake
by Clutton-Brock, Alan
1933. London: Duckworth, [1933]. 8vo, 140 pages. Original red cloth. § Bentley, Blake Books, 1402: "A trivial, inaccurate book, which... finds that Blake was mad...".
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Blake
by Clutton-Brock, Alan
1933. London: Duckworth, [1933]. 8vo, 140 pages. Original red cloth. § Bentley, Blake Books, 1402: "A trivial, inaccurate book, which... finds that Blake was mad...".
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The Sea-weed Collector's Guide: containing plain instructions for collecting and preserving, and a list of all the known species and localities in Great Britain
by Cocks, J.
1853. London: John van Voorst, 1853. Sm. slim 8vo, xvii, 120, (4, ads.)pp. Color frontispiece (partially slightly faded). Original grey-green cloth rebacked, front end-paper creased, internally clean and sound. § First edition of this early book on the subject. John Cocks was the first to discover the red seaweed Stenogramme interrupta. The first part constitutes a "how to" guide to recognising, gathering, cleaning, drying, and mounting specimens followed by: "A list of the British marine algae,... Read More
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Steel & Roses. American Prints in the Hersh Cohen Collection & Botanical Books in the Fern Cohen Collection
by Cohen, Hersh and Fern
2011. NY: Grolier Club, 2011. 2 vols. in one, 4to, printed dos à dos, 68, 60pp. Illustrated in b/w (Prints), and color (botany). Illustrated wrappers. § Ingenious catalogue of two very different collections put together by the Cohens.
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The Drawings and Letters of... An Artist in El Dorado
by Coit, Daniel Wadsworth
1937. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1937. Slim folio, xi, [4], 2-31, [32-50]pp. Eight plates from drawings by Coit. Linen-backed blue boards, gilt-lettered paper labels on cover and spine. Boards slightly sunned, front free endpaper with wrinkles and a 2" closed tear. Bookplate. A very good copy in the plain dust-jacket (sunned and lightly edgeworn). § Limited to 325 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Edited, with a biographical sketch by Edith M. Coulter.... Read More
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