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The Mégha Dúta — The Cloud Messenger
Kalidasa. The Mégha Dúta; or cloud messenger; a poem, in the Sanscrit language. Calcutta printed and London reprinted: Black, Parry, & Co., 1814. 8vo (20.4 cm, 8"). [4], 2, [ix]–175, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click either righthand image for an enlargement. A scarce book: Via OCLC, RLIN, and NUC Pre-1956 we trace only six copies in U.S. institutions!
• NSTC K23. Recent neat green cloth, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Some pages with very faint foxing. A decidedly nice copy.
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18th-Century “Sketches”Kames,
Henry Home, Lord. Sketches
of the history of man. Edinburgh: W. Creech, W. Strahan, & T. Cadell,
1774. 4to (27.5 cm, 10.9"). 2 vols. I: xii, 519, [1 (blank)] pp. II: [4], 507,
[1 (blank)] pp. 
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate “De la bibliotheque de F. Freudenreich.”
• ESTC T48434; Alston, III, 308; Goldsmiths’-Kress 11089; Sabin 32702. Contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked preserving original gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels, spines with gilt-stamped thistle decorations; edges and corners rubbed, sides showing small scrapes and discolorations. Residue on pastedowns from sometime removal of bookplates. Pages age-toned, with occasional small spots, and offsetting from binding to in margins of first and last few leaves. All edges speckled.
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“In Search of ” — A Brave & Sad AccountKane, Elisha Kent. Arctic explorations: The second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, ’54, ’55. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., 464 pp.; 1 fold. map. , 11 plts., illus. II: Frontis., add. engr. t.p., 467, [1] pp.; 1 fold. map, 1 map, 7 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. As described by the title-pages, the volumes are “Illustrated by upwards of three hundred engravings, from sketches by the author. The steel plates executed [by J. Hamilton and others] under the superintendence of J.M. Butler, the wood engravings by Van Ingen & Snyder.” The plates total 20 altogether, including frontispieces.
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Netley AbbeyKeate, George. Netley Abbey. An elegy...the second edition, corrected and enlarged. London: J. Dodsley, 1769. 4to ( 26.4 cm, 10.4"). 31, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacking the half-title).
• ESTC T75210. Marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Half-title lacking. Upper margin of title-page showing small abrasions and traces of affixed paper; title-page and several others stamped by a now-defunct institution.
Minors
by Majors?
Kendrick, Aschel C. Our poetical favorites. Second series. A selection from the best minor poems of the English language comprising chiefly longer poems. New York: Sheldon & Co., 1876. 12mo. vii, [1], 543, [1] pp. 
• Very good; board edges, corners, and spine extremities showing light wear, spine slightly dimmed. (1957)
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Kennedy,
[Charles] R[ann]. A poem on the death of her royal highness the Princess
Charlotte of Wales and Saxe Cobourg. London: Pr. for the author by A.J. Valpy,
1817. 8vo (19.2 cm, 7.5"). 42 pp. (lacking half-title). 
quotes the jingle "Never was sorrow more sincere / Than that which flowed round
Charlotte's bier."
• On Princess Charlotte Augusta, see: DNB, X, 120–22. Recently rebound in quarter tan cloth and light blue paper-covered sides, spine with paper label. Apparently lacking the half-title. A very few spots of light foxing, primarily to final leaves, with pages otherwise clean.
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“Oats,
a kind of
Grain
for Horses”
Kersey, John.
A new English dictionary, or, A compleat collection of the most proper
and significant words, and terms of art, commonly used in the language ... London:
Pr. for J. and J. Bonwicke, 1748. Small 8vo (17.5 cm; 7"). Unpaginated, unfolioed,
but [160] ff.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Ruth Wallis, writing in the on-line DNB, observes of his lexicography: “He called himself ‘Philobibl.’ when revising and augmenting the folio sixth edition of E. Phillips's New World of Words, or, Universal English Dictionary (1706; 3rd edn, 1721); he had added ‘20,000 hard words in arts and sciences’, while stating that it was ‘no part of our design to teach liberal or mechanical arts and sciences as a late learned author has attempted to do’, referring to the 1704 Lexicon technicum by John Harris. In 1708 he published the octavo Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum, a condensed ‘portable’ version of the ‘voluminous’ 1706 work. He was ostensibly still alive when a third, corrected and enlarged, edition appeared in 1721.”
• Alston, V, 81; ESTC N20205; Vancil 138; O'Neill K-13. Recent full dark brown calf, old style, by Grace Bindings. Ex-library with small pressure stamp on title-page, five digit number in lower margin of A2. No other markings. Age-toning, occasional foxing. Old writing of the 1750s in some blank areas. Nice. (21730)
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History ofLand Possession in Maryland Kilty, John. The land-holder's assistant, and land-office guide;
being an exposition of original titles... Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. 8vo (22 cm, 8.6"). viii, [9]–497, [1], xliv, vi, [2] pp. (pagination skips 457/58).
Click the interior images for enlargements. • Parsons 322; Shaw & Shoemaker 15373. Period-style quarter tan cloth with light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Title-page, first preface page, and one other institutionally rubber-stamped. Pages age-toned, with occasional minor staining. (23905)
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A
U.S. Navy Classic — 21
"Elegant" Engravings
[Kimball,
Horace]. American naval battles: Being a complete history of the battles
fought by the Navy of the United States from its establishment in 1794, to the
present time...with twenty-one elegant engravings, representing battles, &c.
Boston: J. J. Smith, 1831. 8vo. Engr. title, 278, [1] pp., 19 illus., 2 plts.
•
Second edition; first published in 1816 under the title The Naval Temple,
and with "authorship" ascribed to Barber Badger. Why this unchanged
second edition is ascribed to Kimball is a mystery. One of the earliest, and
certainly to that time the most lavishly illustrated, histories of the Navy,
it covers Tripoli, 1812, and more, with the text being heavily composed of officers'
reports and other official, eyewitness accounts. All but two of the engravings
are full-page text illustrations, not plates. and they are chiefly wood engravings,
only one being on copper. The two plates—illustrations produced separately
and inserted into the printed gatherings, and not counted in the pagination—consist
of one of each type of engraving.
• Sabin 1165. Original sheep, worn, dry, rubbed, joints partially open; loss of spine leather top and bottom. Expectable foxing. The illustrations still please, and the text informs.
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Commemorating
the
First
Anniversary of His DeathKing,
Martin Luther, Jr. Letter from Birmingham jail. Stamford:
The Overbrook Press, [1968]. Small quarto. [8 (4 blank)], 17, [3 (2 blank)] pp.
• Stiff printed wrappers, center bit of top edge a trifle bumped. Near fine. (23499)
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Kingsbury, Benjamin. A treatise on razors; in which the weight, shape, and temper of a razor, the means of keeping it in order, and the manner of using it, are particularly considered.... Sixth edition. London: Pr. by E. Blackader, 1810. 8vo signed in fours (21.5 cm, 8.4"). [4], 7–48 pp. (lacking half-title).
• Recent period-style blue paper–covered boards, tan paper spine label. Faded library stamps on title-page and one other page; lacking half-title. Light foxing; page edges embrittled.
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THE KINSEY REPORT Kinsey, Alfred. C.; Wardell B. Pomeroy; & Clyde E. Martin. Sexual behavior in the human male. Philadelphia & London: W. B. Saunders Co., 1948. 8vo. xv, [1], 804 pp.
• Very good, in publisher's cloth. Front free endpaper torn out. Preliminary pages with a few light creases in fore-margins probably created from paper clips being fastened to them at one time. (10711)
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Youthful Writing. Good Writing!Kipling, Rudyard. The city of dreadful night and other places. Allahabad & London: A.H. Wheeler & Co / Sampson Low, Marston, & Co., [1891]. 8vo. 96 pp. 
• Stewart 94. Publisher's wrappers, front wrapper lacking, back wrapper torn and chipped. Publisher's slip detached (torn away, affecting four letters) but present. First and last few leaves lightly foxed. (13989)
Chiswick Press Erotica — Limited to 125 CopiesKnight, Richard Payne. A discourse on the worship of Priapus, and its connection with the mystic theology of the ancients ... (a new edition). To which is added an essay on the worship of the generative powers during the middle ages of Western Europe. London: Privately printed [at the Chiswick Press for J.C. Hotten], 1865. 4to (21.9 cm, 8.6"). xvi, 254 pp.; 40 plts. (2 double-page).
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The volume is illustrated with 40 engraved plates depicting various phallic and genital-oriented statues, coins, and images. There was a very close reprinting in 1894, with a preface giving that date; the present
example matches the collation and all other points of the 1865 edition, including the errata being in their uncorrected state (they were updated for the 1894 printing).
Binding: Roxburghe-style binding of contemporary quarter straight-grain morocco with dark red paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title. Upper edges gilt.
An interesting “gentleman’s book” in a variety of senses.
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FromRomulus Augustulus to Louis PhilippeKoch, Christopher William. History of the revolutions in Europe.... Middletown [Ct.]: Edwin Hunt, 1833. 2 vols. in 1. 12mo (19.5 cm, 7.625"). I: 280 (i.e., 276) pp.; 4 plts. II: 393, [1 (blank)] pp., [1 (blank)] f.; 8 plts. 
24 wood-engraved illustrations on 12 plates, some of which are signed “JWB” and one of which is signed “B.”
• Contemporary publisher’s mottled sheep; spine gilt extra. Fine abrasions or chipping to leather, especially to head and foot of spine. Offsetting from turn-ins; lightly foxed throughout. A closed tear without loss in pp. 327–28. All edges marbled.
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