A VELLUM BIFOLIUM FROM A LARGE HEBREW BIBLE CODEX, WITH PARTS OF GENESIS 18 AND 23 -

London: Printed by J. and J. Jackson, Louth, for Simpkin and Marshall, 1827. FIRST EDITION. 163 x 102 mm. (6 1/2 x 4"). xii, 228 pp. LOVELY LATE 19TH CENTURY CRIMSON MOROCCO, ELEGANTLY GILT, covers with plain and decorative gilt rules and fleuron cornerpieces, raised bands, spine gilt in double-ruled compartments with urn of flowers at center surrounded by small tools, leaf garlands at corners, gilt titling, richly gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt. Front pastedown with the bookplate of S. A. Thompson Yates. Thomson 1; Ashley Library VII, 102; Hayward 244; Wise 1. ◆Faint discoloration in bottom margin of about 25 leaves, isolated insignificant soiling, otherwise A VERY PRETTY BOOK IN FINE CONDITION, the text fresh and bright, and the especially beautiful binding lustrous and unworn. This is Alfred Tennyson's first published volume, issued in collaboration with brothers Charles and Frederick when the future Poet Laureate was 18. Although he modestly removed himself from the title, Frederick wrote four… Read More

Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg]: Conradum Henricum Stage, 1764. Second Edition in Latin. 208 x 160 mm. (8 1/8 x 6 1/4"). 9 p.l., 262 pp.Translated from French into Latin by Joseph Claude Destouches. VERY ATTRACTIVE LATE 18TH CENTURY ETRUSCAN CALF IN THE STYLE OF EDWARDS OF HALIFAX, covers with gilt border, central panel framed by stencilled palmettes within double gilt rules, an Etruscan-style vase at center within a stencilled sunburst, raised bands, spine panels with blind-stamped Etruscan vase, black morocco label, gilt-rolled turn-ins, all edges gilt. With printer's elaborate engraved device on title page, engraved portrait of Elector Maximilian-Joseph of Bavaria at the head of the dedication to him, engraved allegorical headpiece at the opening of Book I, wood-engraved tailpieces at end of each section. ◆Small wormhole near head of front joint, two corners a bit bumped, minor foxing to title and final page, other trivial imperfections, but QUITE A FINE, WIDE-MARGINED COPY, clean, fresh, and… Read More

The Hague: The Servire Press; New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1934. FIRST EDITION. No. 631 OF 1,000 COPIES on Old Antique Dutch (and 29 special signed copies on Japon.). 241 x 162 mm. (9 1/2 x 6 3/8"). 4 p.l. (first blank), 77, [3] pp. Plain paper wrappers in white dust jacket, front cover with design by Lucia Joyce printed in blue and silver, blue titling on front cover and spine, ENTIRELY UNOPENED. With the very rare original glassine and housed in a (slightly worn) brown cardboard slipcase. With opening initial and tailpiece designed by Lucia Joyce. Slocum & Cahoon A-43. ◆Glassine a little wrinkled, one corner just lightly bumped, otherwise A PRISTINE COPY. This is a fragment from "Finnegans Wake," beautifully printed in Holland on thick paper using an unusually large, round, and vaguely Medieval typeface. Our copy could hardly be in better condition--as close to mint as one could hope to find, and with all original components. Joyce's daughter Lucia (1907-82) was diagnosed with schizophrenia when… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1896. 210 x 152 mm. (8 1/4 x 6"). 2 p.l., 112 pp.Translated by Edward FitzGerald. ESPECIALLY ELEGANT OLIVE BROWN MOROCCO, LAVISHLY GILT, BY ZAEHNSDORF (signed on front turn-in and with the stamped oval, normally marking the firm's best work, on the rear pastedown), covers elaborately gilt with border of multiple fillets, cresting wave roll, and lily cornerpieces enclosing a center panel with an all-over profusion of flowers, leaves, and tendrils on four vertically scrolling vines, raised bands, foliate spray compartments, with tendrils rising alternately either to the right or the left, fine gilt floral and foliate inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other EDGES UNTRIMMED AND UNOPENED. Paas 3043. ◆Isolated trivial wear to extremities, but A VERY FINE COPY IN AN ESPECIALLY PLEASING BINDING. This never-read copy of the most popular English poem of the 19th century comes in a binding luxuriant with flowers, transporting the reader to an exotic Persian… Read More

London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1830, 1834. First Illustrated Editions. 202 x 135 mm. (8 x 5 1/2"). Two separately published works bound in two volumes (but often found as companion volumes).. VERY PRETTY SKY-BLUE MOROCCO, GILT, BY W. ROOT & SON (stamp-signed on front turn-ins), covers with gilt rule frame bedecked with a profusion of flowers, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with large floral spray centerpiece, gilt titling, turn-ins decorated with gilt rules and floral garland, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. The two volumes with a total of four plates, 20 illustrations in the text, and more than 100 fine steel-engraved headpieces and tailpieces, after designs mostly by J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Stothard. Ray 13, 15. ◆Spines slightly and uniformly darkened to a blue-green, but AN EXTREMELY PRETTY SET IN VERY FINE CONDITION, the immaculate text with virtually no signs of use, and the glittering bindings unworn. In flamboyant decorative morocco and containing illustrations of… Read More

London: Printed by J. and J. Jackson, Louth, for Simpkin and Marshall, 1827. FIRST EDITION. 163 x 102 mm. (6 1/2 x 4"). xii, 228 pp. LOVELY LATE 19TH CENTURY CRIMSON MOROCCO, ELEGANTLY GILT, covers with plain and decorative gilt rules and fleuron cornerpieces, raised bands, spine gilt in double-ruled compartments with urn of flowers at center surrounded by small tools, leaf garlands at corners, gilt titling, richly gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt. Front pastedown with the bookplate of S. A. Thompson Yates. Thomson 1; Ashley Library VII, 102; Hayward 244; Wise 1. ◆Faint discoloration in bottom margin of about 25 leaves, isolated insignificant soiling, otherwise A VERY PRETTY BOOK IN FINE CONDITION, the text fresh and bright, and the especially beautiful binding lustrous and unworn. This is Alfred Tennyson's first published volume, issued in collaboration with brothers Charles and Frederick when the future Poet Laureate was 18. Although he modestly removed himself from the title, Frederick wrote four… Read More

Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg]: Conradum Henricum Stage, 1764. Second Edition in Latin. 208 x 160 mm. (8 1/8 x 6 1/4"). 9 p.l., 262 pp.Translated from French into Latin by Joseph Claude Destouches. VERY ATTRACTIVE LATE 18TH CENTURY ETRUSCAN CALF IN THE STYLE OF EDWARDS OF HALIFAX, covers with gilt border, central panel framed by stencilled palmettes within double gilt rules, an Etruscan-style vase at center within a stencilled sunburst, raised bands, spine panels with blind-stamped Etruscan vase, black morocco label, gilt-rolled turn-ins, all edges gilt. With printer's elaborate engraved device on title page, engraved portrait of Elector Maximilian-Joseph of Bavaria at the head of the dedication to him, engraved allegorical headpiece at the opening of Book I, wood-engraved tailpieces at end of each section. ◆Small wormhole near head of front joint, two corners a bit bumped, minor foxing to title and final page, other trivial imperfections, but QUITE A FINE, WIDE-MARGINED COPY, clean, fresh, and… Read More

The Hague: The Servire Press; New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1934. FIRST EDITION. No. 631 OF 1,000 COPIES on Old Antique Dutch (and 29 special signed copies on Japon.). 241 x 162 mm. (9 1/2 x 6 3/8"). 4 p.l. (first blank), 77, [3] pp. Plain paper wrappers in white dust jacket, front cover with design by Lucia Joyce printed in blue and silver, blue titling on front cover and spine, ENTIRELY UNOPENED. With the very rare original glassine and housed in a (slightly worn) brown cardboard slipcase. With opening initial and tailpiece designed by Lucia Joyce. Slocum & Cahoon A-43. ◆Glassine a little wrinkled, one corner just lightly bumped, otherwise A PRISTINE COPY. This is a fragment from "Finnegans Wake," beautifully printed in Holland on thick paper using an unusually large, round, and vaguely Medieval typeface. Our copy could hardly be in better condition--as close to mint as one could hope to find, and with all original components. Joyce's daughter Lucia (1907-82) was diagnosed with schizophrenia when… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1896. 210 x 152 mm. (8 1/4 x 6"). 2 p.l., 112 pp.Translated by Edward FitzGerald. ESPECIALLY ELEGANT OLIVE BROWN MOROCCO, LAVISHLY GILT, BY ZAEHNSDORF (signed on front turn-in and with the stamped oval, normally marking the firm's best work, on the rear pastedown), covers elaborately gilt with border of multiple fillets, cresting wave roll, and lily cornerpieces enclosing a center panel with an all-over profusion of flowers, leaves, and tendrils on four vertically scrolling vines, raised bands, foliate spray compartments, with tendrils rising alternately either to the right or the left, fine gilt floral and foliate inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other EDGES UNTRIMMED AND UNOPENED. Paas 3043. ◆Isolated trivial wear to extremities, but A VERY FINE COPY IN AN ESPECIALLY PLEASING BINDING. This never-read copy of the most popular English poem of the 19th century comes in a binding luxuriant with flowers, transporting the reader to an exotic Persian… Read More

London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1830, 1834. First Illustrated Editions. 202 x 135 mm. (8 x 5 1/2"). Two separately published works bound in two volumes (but often found as companion volumes).. VERY PRETTY SKY-BLUE MOROCCO, GILT, BY W. ROOT & SON (stamp-signed on front turn-ins), covers with gilt rule frame bedecked with a profusion of flowers, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with large floral spray centerpiece, gilt titling, turn-ins decorated with gilt rules and floral garland, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. The two volumes with a total of four plates, 20 illustrations in the text, and more than 100 fine steel-engraved headpieces and tailpieces, after designs mostly by J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Stothard. Ray 13, 15. ◆Spines slightly and uniformly darkened to a blue-green, but AN EXTREMELY PRETTY SET IN VERY FINE CONDITION, the immaculate text with virtually no signs of use, and the glittering bindings unworn. In flamboyant decorative morocco and containing illustrations of… Read More