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Beauties
of
the
Thames Illustrated
(A
SWEET & SUBSTANTIAL ENGLISH “VIEWS” BOOK).
Ireland, Samuel. Picturesque views on the river Thames, from its
source in Glocestershire to the Nore; with observations on the public buildings
and other works of art in its vicinity. London: T. & J. Egerton, 1792. 4to
(25 cm, 9.8"). 2 vols. I: Add. engr. t.-p., xvi, 209, [3] pp.; 1 map, 27 plts.,
illus. II: Add. engr. t.-p., viii (incl. t.-p.), 258, [4] pp.; 1 map, 25 plts.,
illus.
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52 aquatint plates engraved by C. Apostool after drawings by Ireland, 2 maps, and
a number of in-text cuts. 
This supplies both handsome, interesting pictures and good, now quaint reading.
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Abadiano, Dionisio. Estudio arqueológico y jeroglífico del Calendario ó gran libro astronómico histórico y cronológico de los antiguos indios. México: Impr. de la Secretaría de fomento, 1889. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.25"). xii, 202 pp., [1(errata)] f., illus., 2 fold. plts.
Click the images for enlargements. • Palau 370. Late 19th- or early 20th-century quarter brown sheep. Very good copy. (21728)
Illustrated & AnnotatedArabian Nights. The thousand and one nights, commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights’ entertainments. London: Charles Knight & Co., 1839–41. 8vo (25.3 cm, 10"). 3 vols. I: Add. engr. t.-p., xxiii, [3], [xxv]–xxxii, 618 pp.; illus. II: Add. engr. t.-p., xii, 643, [1] pp.; illus. III: Add. engr. t.-p., xii, 763, [1] pp.; illus.
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A lavishly produced set, attractively illustrated and bound.
Palatino Arrighi Cataneo Yciar & Others Surveyed Atkins, Kathryn A. Masters of the Italic letter: twenty-two exemplars from the sixteenth century. Boston: David R. Godine, 1988. Oblong 8vo. 183 pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • Publisher's burgundy cloth; in original dust jacket. A very good copy. (22009)
For
CALLIGRAPHY / WRITING
Wildcats, Bears, Rabbits, Otters, Skunks, Buffalo,
& “Wapite”Audubon, John James, & John Bachman. The quadrupeds of North America. New-York: V.G. Audubon, 1854. Royal 8vo (27.5 cm; 10.75"). 3 vols. I: viii, 383, [1 (blank)] pp., 50 plts. II: [2] ff., 334 pp., 49 plts. III: v, [1], 348 pp., [1] f., 51 plts.
155 fine handcolored lithographed plates by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after J.J. and J.W. Audubon, lithographed by J.T. Bowen. 
A lovely set. (23904)
“The Victoria Album”(Augusta's Album).
Luckenback, Augusta, collector. Manuscript on paper, in English. Philadelphia, Easton, Bethlehem, and elsewhere. ca. 1853. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). [84 ff. (12 inscribed)]; 8 plts.
The front cover vignette has been reproduced, in gilt, opposite the frontispiece portrait.
Provenance: The inscription on the front fly-leaf reads “Miss Augusta E. Luckenback [/] presented to her by her dear sister Em [/] Feb.y 11th/53.”
Binding: Publisher’s red morocco, spine gilt extra, front and back covers with gilt-stamped vignettes of Queen Victoria, front vignette surrounded by gilt-stamped floral border. All edges gilt.
• Binding as above, edges and spine rubbed, still bright and attractive. Mild foxing to some leaves and plates.
European
Conquest &
Settlement of
Ceylon
Malabar
& “The East”Baldaeus, Philippus. Wahrhaftige ausführliche beschreibung der berühmten ostindischen kusten Malabar und Coromandel, als auch der insel Zeylon... Amsterdam: Brey Johannes Janssonius & Joannes von Someren, 1672. Folio (31.5 cm, 12.5"). *4 A–Z4 Aa–Zz4 Aaa–Zzz4 Aaaa–Fff4 Gggg6 2*4 **4 ***4; [3] ff., 610 pp., [13] ff., 16 fold. maps/plans, 18 fold. plts., and in-text illus.
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The work is highly illustrated and the engravings, being16 folding maps/plans, and 18 folding plates, are of battles, plans
of fortresses, maps of areas, statutes, etc. Three double-page engraved tables are of scripts. The in-text illustrations, which are just as detailed and impactful, are numerous.
An important book on the rising Dutch presence in the East Indies and concomitant diminution of the Portuguese hegemony. This is the first edition in German; a Dutch-language edition also appeared in 1672.
• Landwehr, VOC, 557. 18th-century calf, gilt spine extra. Binding shows wear, with abrasions and leather lost; joints starting. Onetime library call number on spine; other library pencillings, but no stamps. Clean copy.
Cortlandt Bishop Copy
Balzac, Honoré de. La Vendetta. Paris: A. Ferroud, F. Ferroud, Successor, 1904. Tall 8vo.
• Bound by Granghaud in full red morocco with tooling in gilt and black. Wide turn-ins with gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. In marbled, morocco-edged slipcase.
The Private Edition, One of 12 Copies Only
A Family Copy Barham, R. Harris. The Ingoldsby legends or mirth and marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby Esquire [with] The Ingoldsby legends ... Second series. London: Richard Bentley, 1840 & 1842. 8vo. 2 vols. I: [6], v, [3], 338, [2] pp. with inserted extra-engraved title (a proof before letters), numbered colophon leaf, engraved title, and six etched plates; II: vii, [3], 288 pp. with engraved title and seven etched plates.
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Sadleir's analysis suggested to him the following probable sequence: a) the private edition, b) copies of the public edition with p. 236 in the same form as it appears in the private edition, c) copies of the public edition with p. 236 blank; and d) copies of the public edition with the complete new version of the text on p. 236.
However, the remnants of the binding preserved at the back of the present first volume — see note below and
Barham began writing the short pieces making up this series as contributions to his friend and classmate's Bentley's Miscellany. The subject matter was “at first derived from the legendary lore of the author's ancestral locality in Kent, but soon [was] enriched by satires on the topics of the day and subjects of pure invention, or borrowed from history or the ‘Acta Sanctorum’. . . . The success of the ‘Legends’ was pronounced from the first, and when published collectively in 1840 they at once took the high place in humorous literature which they have ever since retained” (DNB).
Provenance: With R.H.D. Barham’s signature as noted above, and with the armorial bookplate of Sir David Lionel Salomons (1851–1925) in each volume.
• NCBEL, III, 365; Sadleir 156a; Tinker 216 (public edition); Carter, Binding Variants, p.92. Bindings a bit darkened and slightly discolored at extremities, light rubbing to joints, some foxing to the prelims of the first volume, with an old tide-mark in the lower gutter areas of the plates; a tipped-in bookseller's description in the first volume. 
A very good, very interesting example of a very rare thing.
First
Publicly
Available, “Real”
Editions,Signed Bindings[Barham, Richard Harris, a.k.a.] Ingoldsby, Thomas. The Ingoldsby legends or mirth and marvels. London: Richard Bentley (pr. by Samuel Bentley), 1840–47. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8.1"). 3 vols. I: Engr. t.-p., v, [3], 338, [2] pp.; 6 plts. II: Engr. t.-p., vii, [3], 288 pp.; 7 plts. III: Engr. t.-p., vi, [2], 364 pp.; 6 plts.
18 plates engraved by George Cruikshank, John Leech, and John Tenniel.
Bindings: Contemporary signed bindings by E.P. Dutton & Co., of red morocco with covers framed in gilt triple fillets; spines with raised bands, gilt-stamped titles, and compartments framed in gilt double fillets. Board edges gilt-ruled, gilt inner dentelles. Upper page edges gilt. 
Original cloth covers and spines bound in at the back.
• Sadleir 156b, e, & f; NCBEL, III, 365. Bindings as above, spines and upper board edges darkened with a bit of rubbing; free endpapers with offsetting from turn-ins. One volume with lower part of cover stained and the lower inner margin of the title-page and plates (not the text leaves!) waterstained. One plate evenly age-toned.
A Luxurious Production — An Interesting ProvenanceBartlett, William Henry. The pilgrim fathers; or, founders of New England in the reign of James the First. London, Edinburgh, & New York: T. Nelson & Sons, 1866. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). Frontis., add. engr. t.-p. (incl. in pagination), x, [13]–230 (pagination skips 219/20) pp.; 26 plts.
28 steel-engraved plates (including the frontispiece and additional engraved title-page) and a number of in-text woodcuts, all done after designs by the author, who was best known as an artist and topographical draftsman.
Binding: Publisher’s embossed morocco, spine with raised bands and blind-tooled decorations in compartments; all edges gilt.
Provenance: Presented to a library by Robert E. Keighton, a distinguished professor of homiletics from whom Dr. Martin Luther King is reported to have taken most of his nine seminary courses in pastoral rhetoric.
• Sabin 3789; NSTC 2B10634; King connection noted in: Lischer, Richard. The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America (Oxford, 1997), p. 64. Binding slightly rubbed at edges, extremities, and joints. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, title-page pressure-stamped, contents page with inked notation in inner margin and stamped numeral in lower margin, back pastedown with pocket. Some light foxing, including spots to a few plates; plates with minor offsetting around guard leaves.
With
theWood
Engravings BRIGHTLY
Hand-Colored
(Beginners' Reader).
[front wrapper serves as title-page] The child's coloured easy
lesson book. With many coloured illustrations. London: Dean and Son, [ca.
1855–60]. 12mo. [6] ff. 
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• Publisher's yellow printed and illustrated wrappers; spine oversewn. First and last leaves at one time minorly adhered to the wrappers with tears resulting. Dog-ears and some staining. A reader that was definitely used by a child (but not one that was used up).
The Latest in
Surgical Techniques Bell, John. Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds. Walpole, NH: Pr. for Thomas & Thomas and Justin Hinds by George W. Nichols, 1807. 8vo. 2 vols. in 1. 192, 180 pp.; 2 plts.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Bell, brother of neurologist Sir Charles Bell, was a Scottish anatomist and surgeon in addition to being a skilled artist who often illustrated his own work. This treatise featurestwo copper-engraved plates done by Amos Doolittle after drawings by Bell, and two small, unattributed woodcuts.
Provenance: Large early signature of Wm. Daugherty to fly-leaf.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 12101; Austin 192. Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, board edges tooled in blind; joints and edges lightly rubbed, spine label crackled. Front fly-leaf with early inked ownership inscription. Light foxing and offsetting. A good, sound, pleasant copy. (22549)
Wood-Engravings byAlexander Anderson [Berquin, Arnaud]. The looking-glass for the mind, or, intellectual mirror. Being an elegant collection of the most delightful little stories, and interesting tales. Chiefly translated from that much admired work L'Ami Des Enfans. With elegant engravings of wood, by Anderson. Philadelphia: Alexander Towar; Hogan & Thompson, 1832. 12mo. 216 pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. children's classic with illustrations by America's finest early wood engraver. A handsome edition.
• Publisher's sheep, gilt-stamped label and modest gilt rules to spine; joints open and some leather lost to front cover and spine extremities, but volume sturdy. Foxing to outermost (blank) pages, occasional light spots in margins. The impressions of the images tend to be very crisp and satisfactory. (709)
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