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        A book from the James Garfield library, name and date-stamped one month before winning the Presidential election and undoubtedly used in his short term. An incredible Presidential book rarity

      The first Presidential memorial library, completed at the Lawnfield estate in Ohio by the widow of James Garfield four years after his assassination, houses almost 3,000 books that were used and treasured by the 20th president. Books were a rare commodity to young James, who lost his father before the age of two, and was raised by his mother who struggled to maintain a humble existence. Both James Garfield and his wife Lucretia were voracious readers and amassed a large collection of books. Some twenty years ago, several dozen of his books were de-accessioned, and one of these scarce books is described below: The Agricultural Progress of The Nation in Cheapening the Food of America and Europe, examined by Samuel B. Ruggles; Henry Bessey, Publisher, New York 1880. Tall folio, 31 pps. With a 19 page appendix and a tipped-in, hand colored, fold-out map of the United States on back free end paper. Stamped, &#147; J.A. Garfield / Oct 6 1880&#148; on the front free end paper. Light scuffs and soiling to exterior. Interior toned with foxing and minor worming to endpapers, else near fine condition. In October, 1880, James Garfield was a Congressman from Ohio and the Republican candidate for President. He would win the presidential election one month later. This book of facts and figures would have held great interest to Garfield. In a speech he delivered to the House of Representatives in 1869 regarding census information, Garfield declared, &#147;The developments of statistics are causing history to be rewritten. Till recently, the historian studied nations in the aggregate, and gave us only the story of princes, dynasties, sieges, and battles&#133;Now statistical inquiry leads him into the hovels, homes, workshops, mines, fields&#133;and all other places where human nature displays its weakness and its strength. In these explorations he discovers the seeds of national growth and decay, and thus becomes the prophet of his generation&#133;&#148; Garfield no doubt would have noted the reference to the impending presidential election on page 21, &#147;It would be idle to expect any wholesome and efficient legislation on the subject of our agricultural necessities during the feverish excitement of the present season, when the nation is passing through the periodical and constitutionally recurring quadrennial distemper attending the genesis of a President, so utterly demoralizing and distracting the swarms of partisan politicians of every grade and stripe hovering around, and some of them actually finding their way into,&#133;the forty-eight legislative halls between the two oceans. When the present heated term shall have passed away&#133;the farmers of our country&#133;might do wisely to&#133;examin[e] the immense agricultural statistics&#133;They might also&#133;much facilitate the proper distribution of the great bodies of agricultural immigrants, now landing weekly by tens of thousands in our seaports, forming, historically, a part of what a far-seeing political writer of our age so grandly depicts as &#145;the great procession of nations, incessantly crossing the Atlantic, with the solemnity, dignity and certainty of a providential event.&#146;&#148;

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        Wild Animal Stories: A Panorama Picture Book

      Ernst NIster and E. P. Dutton London and New York: Ernst NIster and E. P. Dutton, n.d. (1880s). First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Yes. First edition. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. With six large chromolithographed pop-ups and numerous black and white vignettes in text. Pictorial boards with brown cloth backstrip. Floral endpapers. Boards moderately worn at the edges with some scuffs and soiling. Front hinge cracked a few pages into text causing the text block to be a bit shaky. All pop-up illustrations are complete and in working order. Very good

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        The Chateau d'If: worn by wind and wave

      N.p: done for an edition of Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo n.d N.p: done for an edition of Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, n.d. India ink on scraperboard, signed with address on verso. Image 10 x 6 inches, matted to 17 x 13 inches overall. Fine condition. Reed, The Illustrator in America 1880-1980, p. 65 . The famous harbor prison, where Dumas' Edmond DantËs was incarcerated, is shown in outline, with a highly dramatic sky above, and four fishing boats plying the waters of the Mediterranean, below. Thornton Oakley (1881-1955) painted for exhibition, and both wrote and illustrated for many prominent magazines. He trained originally as an architect, and was a student of Howard Pyle; his work is represented in many major museums in the United States and abroad. He also taught and lectured--for two decades he was head of the Department of Illustration at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art

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        The WORKS Of CHARLES DICKENS - The Pocket Volume Edition

      London:: Chapman & Hall,. 1880.. 16mo. 5-7/8" x 3-7/8". 1st edition thus. 30 volumes, complete.. Original publisher&#39;s flexible green cloth binding with black & gilt stamping.. PPII cocked with a small stain to the lower corner of the first 4. leaves. BH1 with cracked front hinge. Otherwise a VG+ to Nr Fine. set, with the occasional VG volume, evidently depending, as one would. expect, on the popularity of the title.. An economical edition offered by C&H, in this pocket format, without illustrations. Uncommon as offered here, i.e., in a complete set.

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        Ancient Chester: a Series of Illustrations

      London & Manchester: Henry Sothern & Co, 1880 Of the streets of this old city, taken sixty years since, including views of Edgars Cave, St Johns Church & Eaton Hall. In contemporary black leather spine with crimson cloth covers, bumped and worn at edges and corners, large title in gilt to black leather label to front cover. Spine has contemporary gilt tooling. Internally, endpapers have been tidied up, endpapers have a very small amount of foxing, title in red and black ink within double ruled red ink borders, titlepage has some tiny paper loss to thumbing at very edge of page, 29 full page atmospheric etchings, each with a leaf of text, not paginated. A great Chester title.Hughes, social reformer and children&#39;s writer sought an appointment, which he was given in July 1882, as a county court judge. This brought an end to his involvement in politics, and a move to Chester. He resigned from the Co-operative Union. His work as a judge seems to have been congenial to him although, according to John Telford, &lsquo;his rough and ready justice became a byword for constant reversal on appeal&rsquo; (Telford, 10). During the 1880s he wrote four more biographies, including Daniel Macmillan (1882) and David Livingstone (1889). He built himself a house called Uffington, at Dee Hills Park, Chester, to which he moved in October 1885. See ODNB for a full Bio.

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        La reliure francaise depuis l'invention de l'imprimerie jusqu'a la fin du xviii. siecle. paris, demascene morgand et ch. fatout, 1880.

      Cm. 32,5, pp. 144. Antiporta figurata, illustrazioni nel testo e 22 tavole fuori testo, perlopiù a doppia pagina e ciascuna accompagnata da velina parlante. Solida ed elegante legatura coeva in piena pelle, dorso a nervi con titoli su tassello, piatti inquadrati da filetti concentrici e con armi centrali in oro. Taglio di testa dorato, dentelles interne e brossura originale conservata. Dorso abilmente e quasi impercettibilmente rifatto; esemplare a pieni margini ed in ottimo stato di conservazione, stampato su carta di ottima qualità. Edizione originale ed unica.

      [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Benacense]
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        PIANOFORTE SONATAS

      London: Augener & Co., 1880 Three Folio Volumes, &#39;Special Edition&#39;. Highly embellished bindings with gilt, blue & black stamped decorations on spines & front covers; blind stamped borders on back covers; ornate end-papers. Magnificently ornate & scarce fine binding set of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas. The sonatas are edited by Ernst Pauer, the Austrian pianist, composer & teacher. There is no printed publication date, however the slightly beveled boards & profuse front cover gilt decorations are typical of bindings of the late Victorian period. In any case, the &#39;1891&#39; date from the modest presentation inscription to the flyleaf recto suggests a minimum age. Each volume with gilt text block edges, ornate end-papers & title pages, & a themed index. Vol I also has a tissue guarded fine engraving frontispiece of Beethoven & an eight page set of historical notes. The notation itself is very clear & widely spaced -ideal for reading from a distance. Victorian sheet music bindings are often highly ornate & intricate, but we have never seen anything as embellished or as spectacular as this particular set. Significant portions of the gilt are stamped into the cloth as fine lines, which give the impression of varying shades of gold when viewed from different angles. The central &#39;shining star&#39; piece on the fronts. is especially effective. Apart from gilt, decorations are also stamped in light-blue & black. It is likely these volumes were issued as a special & very limited edition. A simply exquisite set of Beethoven&#39;s Sonatas in wonderfully elaborate Victorian styling in essentially fine condition showing very light use; tight with text block & Pages in fine condition; neat presentation inscription to flyleaf recto repeated on the title pages of Vols. II & III. Vol. I : frontis., 8, 1-231; Vol. II: [1] 232-447; Vol. III: [1], 448-640 Folio (33.5cm X 27.5cm), Ships 7.6kg. 1st Edition.

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        SCARLET BOOK OF FREE MASONRY; CONTAINING A THRILLING AND AUTHENTIC

      1880. Very Good. [REDDING, M. W.] SCARLET BOOK OF FREE MASONRY; CONTAINING A THRILLING AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE IMPRISONMENT, TORTURE, AND MARTYRDOM OF FREEMASONS AND KNIGHTS TEMPLARS, FOR THE PAST SIX HUNDRED YEARS; ALSO, AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE EDUCATION, REMARKABLE CAREER, AND TRAGIC DEATH OF THE RENOWNED PHILOSOPHER PYTHAGORAS. RECENT REMARKABLE DISCOVERY OF MASONIC EMBLEMS ON AN ANCIENT OBELISK IN EGYPT. New York: Redding & Co. (1880). First edition. 517 pp. 8vo., brown cloth stamped in gilt, black and blind. Spine and corners shelfworn, frayed. Cover bright. Spine nicked at heel and crown. Bookblock tight. Color litho plates, b/w illustrations in the text. Frontispiece tissue guard foxed. Very good.

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        A Tramp Abroad ( 1st/1st - First Issue - Rare - Original Binding - 328 Illustrations - Moses Frontispiece )

      American Publishing Company, 1880. Hardcover. Good. American Publishing Company, Hartford, CT 1880. First Edition / First Printing / First Issue. Original cloth binding with gold gilt illustration at the front board and gilt lettering at the spine. Has all first issue points. Frontispiece has the caption "Moses" which was later changed to "Titian&#39;s Moses". Binding A, sheets bulk to 1 5/8". Rare. {ref: BAL 3386}. Book Condition: Good+, original cloth binding with gilt illustration at the front board, book is tight and square, shelf wear at the edges, portrait frontispiece of Mark Twain, tissue guard and "Moses" frontispiece present, illustrated throughout, fraying at the head and foot of the spine, bumped corners, lightly age toned pages, tight spine.

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        Lord Randolph Churchill, inscribed by Churchill to Brigadier-General Simon Fraser

      This is Churchill's first biographic work, concentrating heavily on his father's career in Parliament after 1880. The British first edition was published in two volumes in 1906. In 1907, the publisher issued a one-volume edition, containing the full text of the two volume work (printed on thinner paper). The binding closely resembles that of the first edition of just a year earlier; the binding cloth and shelf appearance are the same except for the absence of the gilt title and coat of arms on the front cover of the one-volume edition. This particular copy bears a lovely and quite interesting five-line inscription in black ink on the half title reading: "To / Simon Fraser / from / Winston S. Churchill / 1908-1922". Brigadier-General Simon Joseph Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat and 3rd Baron Lovat KT, GCVO, KCMG, CB, DSO (1871-1933), was a prominent Scottish Roman Catholic aristocrat, soldier, politician, and one of the largest landowners in Britain. Lord Lovat served with distinction in both the Boer War and the First World War, where he commanded the Highland Mounted Brigade at Gallipoli . He would later serve with Churchill in the Conservative administration of Stanley Baldwin as Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs from 1926 to 1927. Churchill's inscription is an epitaph for his stormy, 15-year tenure as M.P. for the Scottish industrial constituency of Dundee. In 1908, Churchill - still in his mid thirties - was promoted to the Cabinet. At the time, an old rule required that newly appointed Cabinet Ministers had to seek re-election by their constituencies. Unfortunately for Winston, the by-election became a test of confidence in the Liberal government. Forced to defend the Government's policy of the past two years, targeted by vengeful Conservatives, and hounded on the hustings by Suffragettes, Churchill lost his seat. Literally within minutes of his defeat, Churchill received a telegram from Dundee Liberals inviting him to become their candidate. When he did accept the invitation - 72 hours later to the chagrin and consternation of local pride - Churchill wrote to his mother: "It is a life seat and cheap and easy beyond all experience". This was not to be the case. At the time, Churchill was a young lion of the Liberal Party, vexing the British establishment and helping lay the foundations of the modern welfare state. In 1904, he had quit the Conservative Party and joined the Liberals, beginning a dynamic chapter in his political career that saw him champion progressive causes and be branded a traitor to his class - doubtless endearing him to the people of Dundee. Nonetheless, the gap between him and his constituents was acute. Dundee was a predominantly working class constituency - "a dark mass of dirty grey sandstone tenements, punctuated by high chimney stacks and church spires", heavily reliant on the volatile textile trade. In 1922, Churchill lost his seat in a 6-way contest, in which he placed 4th. His party was likewise slaughtered at the polls, winning only 62 seats and becoming insignificant. At the time, the loss seemed like Churchill's political denouement. However, two years later, after losing two by-elections, he won his way back to the House of Commons as an independent. When Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin brought him into his Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Churchill turned full circle, becoming once more a Tory, which he would remain for the remaining 40+ years of his long political life. The inscription is distinct and unfaded, though the ink has bled slightly onto the facing blank endpaper. The book itself retains the original, unrestored binding in red cloth with gilt top edge. The binding is tight and square with a lightly sunned spine, darkened spine gilt, and minor wear at extremities. The contents are clean and bright with no spotting and no markings other than the author's inscription. Bibliographic reference: Cohen A17.4, Woods/ICS A8(b), Langworth p.74.

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        Panorama von Schleswig. Kolor. Lithographie von Müller. Verden, um 1880. 39 x 61 cm. Gerahmt.

      Eine große Gesamtansicht von Schleswig in der Mitte, umgeben von 10 Randansichten u.a. vom Kreisgericht, der Domkirche, dem Gymnasium, Stampfmühle und Irrenanstalt.- Leichte Stockflecken im weißen Außenrand.

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        Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue francaise et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle. 10 Bde. Paris, Vieweg, 1880-1902. 4°. Hldr.-Bde. d. Zt. mit je 2 goldgepr. RSch. (teils etw. berieben, 1 Kap. mit Fehlstelle).

      Seltene Originalausgabe.- Frédéric Eugen Godefroy (Paris 1826-1897 Lestelle-Bétharram) dokumentiert in rund 160.000 Einträgen den alt- und mittelfranzösischen Wortschatz.

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        (Hamburg 1829 - 1907 Kiel). Wäscherinnen an der Schwentine (?). Öl auf Leinwand. Um 1880. Unten links signiert 'a. Lohse'. 44 x 67 cm, Gesamt: 50 x 72 cm. Gerahmt.

      Der schleswig-holsteine Zeichner und Maler war seit 1850 ansässig in Kiel. Malte Landschaften aus der Kieler Gegend.- Vgl. Thieme Becker und Bötticher, Malerwerke d. 19. Jahrh., I 2 (1895).

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        Das Jahr und seine Kinder (The Year and its Children)

      Dusseldorf: J. v. Breidenbach, (c. 1880&#39;s). Folio. 13 ff., plus a 13ff. portfolio of lithographs. Thirteen original ink-and-watercolor illustrations on vellum by Frau Allwine Schroedker for a published nineteenth-centrury calendar. Each leaf shows a poetic quotation in calligraphy under the name of the month, elaborately hand-illuminated in colors and gold. February&#39;s child is a golden-haired fairy amid masses of spring flowers. May shows a courting couple in a bower of seasonal blooms. September&#39;s golden letters form a gothic arbor, with a young couple climbing to pick grapes. With exquisite workmanship, Frau Schroedker has combined complex interlace and foliage with detailed, realistic flowers, fruit, and figures to make these designs. The colors glow against the vellum. The title illustration shows an allegorical figure of the year: a veiled woman with a globe, with twelve little children playing in the folds of her gown. The vellum sheets, each measuring 11 1/2 by 8 1/4 inches, are very fine, each individually matted, in a specially-made quarter-vellum drop-back box. The accompanying lithograph portfolio of the published work, lacking the months of April, August, and September, is in cloth, decoratively stamped in gold and black, showing light wear and soil.

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        A trip to Mexico being notes of a journey from lake Erie to lake Tezcuco and back

      Toronto: Willing & Williamson, 1880. relié. 16,5x22cm. Edition originale. Reliure de l&#39;éditeur en pleine percaline brique, dos lisse orné de frises dorées en tête et en queue comportant de petites traces de frottements en tête et en queue, premier plat orné d&#39;un motif décoratif aztèque doré, tête dorée, petites salissures marginales sur le deuxième plat. Exceptionnel exemplaire agrémenté de 20 photographies (la plupart débrochées) alors que tous les autres exemplaires présentés à la vente ne comportent toujours que 12 ou 13 photographies. Ouvrage orné d&#39;une carte et illustré d&#39;une planche de hiéroglyphes aztèques. Ex-dono à la plume sur la page de titre, exemplaire quasi exempt de toute rousseur. - Willing & Williamson, Toronto _1880, 16,5x22cm, reliure de l&#39;éditeur. - reliure de l&#39;éditeur

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        Croquis parisiens

      Paris: Henri Vaton, 1880. relié. 15x22,5cm. Edition originale imprimée sur Hollande. Reliure en demi maroquin rouge à coins, dos à quatre nerfs, date en queue, plats de papier marbré, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, tête dorée, couvertures conservées, reliure signée de Godillot. Envoi autographe signé de l&#39;auteur. Ouvrage illustré de 8 eaux-fortes hors-texte de J.F. Raffaelli et J.L. Forain. Quelques petites rousseurs. Bel exemplaire agréablement établi. - Henri Vaton, Paris _1880, 15x22,5cm, relié. - relié

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        Stanford&#146;s New Map of Ireland in Counties & Baronies on the basis of The Ordnance Survey & Census

      London: Edward Stanford, 6 Charing Cross. S.W. [n.d., c. 1880]. . Map dimensions 93 x 72.5 cm, overall dimensions 99x 78.5 cm. Large folding map of Ireland, original colour in block and outline. The whole dissected into 30 sections and mounted on linen, folding into original dark green cloth slipcase with publisher&#146;s green printed label to upper board. Stanford&#146;s yellow printed advertisements to folded end sections on linen verso. Slight wear to slipcase label, a few minor creases to the map, some light soiling along horizontal folds and light stain to linen verso, publisher&#146;s advertisements somewhat darkened. Overall, a very good example.

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        THE CAVE TEMPLES OF INDIA

      London: W. H. Allen & Co. , Trubner & Co. , E. Stanford and W. Griggs. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1880. Hardcover. Ex-Library; B&W and sepia; 4to 11" - 13" tall; xx, 536, 98 plates pages; 1 vol. Fergusson, J; Burgess, J. The Cave Temples of India. London: W. H. Allen, 1880. 1st ed. 4to, 3/4 leather and cloth, gilt-lettered & raised bands; extremities rubbed, library markings to spine. With fold map, 98 litho. Plates (some fold) ; library markings to endpapers, some [mainly marginal] plates and title page, tape reapir to one folding plate. .

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        Stanford's New Map of Ireland in Counties & Baronies on the basis of The Ordnance Survey & Census...

      London: Edward Stanford, 6 Charing Cross. S.W. [n.d., c. 1880].. Map dimensions 93 x 72.5 cm, overall dimensions 99x 78.5 cm. Large folding map of Ireland, original colour in block and outline. The whole dissected into 30 sections and mounted on linen, folding into original dark green cloth slipcase with publisher's green printed label to upper board. Stanford's yellow printed advertisements to folded end sections on linen verso. Slight wear to slipcase label, a few minor creases to the map, some light soiling along horizontal folds and light stain to linen verso, publisher's advertisements somewhat darkened. Overall, a very good example.

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        [THREE WATERCOLORS SHOWING SCENES OF THE KHANTY PEOPLE, A NORTHERN SIBERIAN TRIBE FROM THE VICINITY OF TOBOLSK, PAINTED TO CELEBRATE THE 300th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF TOBOLSK AND THE ANNEXATION OF SIBERIA TO RUSSIA]

      Tobolsk. [ca. 1880].. Three watercolors, 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches, matted to 13 x 16 inches. Fine. In a blue three-quarter cloth portfolio. A set of three lovely watercolors by Mikhail Stepanovich Znamensky, a prominent 19th-century Siberian artist, writer, historian, archaeologist, and ethnographer. Each is captioned in pencil and all are signed by the artist. The first scene shows two summer tents with three Khanty women seated in or just outside them. One woman holds a child. The second image is a winter snowscape showing a man with three reindeer standing outside a log cabin. The third scene depicts three Khanty people in traditional clothing standing in a dining room, with a Russian official seated on the left; a portrait of the Tsar hangs on the wall in the background and an animal skin is draped on the table. Very well educated as a religious artist, Znamensky was among the elite of Tobolsk and was close to many exiled members of the famous Decemberist revolt of 1825 (Puschin, Yakushkin, and others), as well as the outstanding Russian writer Pyotr Yershov. Znamensky worked as a teacher in several religious and secular colleges in Tobolsk, was a translator of the Tatar language, and also illustrated the literary works of Gogol, Yershov, Goncharov, and Tolstoy. He regularly published his caricatures in the magazines of Saint Petersburg. His main interest, however, was Siberian history and ethnography. Znamensky&#39;s essays and stories on Siberian history were regularly published in the local magazines, and several of his books on the subject were published in Tobolsk, Tyumen, and Saint Petersburg. In pursuance of his interest, Znamensky traveled extensively in Siberia, Central Asia, and the northern regions of Asiatic Russia in the 1850s and 1860s, making sketches and paintings of the landscapes and tribes. In 1872 his works were exhibited at the Moscow Polytechnic Exhibition, where they were awarded the silver medal from Moscow University. The present watercolors are from a series of works created to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Tobolsk and the annexation of Siberia to Russia, which was celebrated in 1885. The artist took a special trip around the towns of the region, the result of which was a unique series of sketches and watercolors. From this body of work an album entitled "From Tobolsk to Obdorsk" was created, specially bound in birch bark. It was comprised of thirty-two images showcasing local life in Tobolsk, Berezov, and Obdorsk, with images of local people, the surrounding area, and historical sketches. The album was exhibited in the Tobolsk Art Gallery in 1889. Later, in 1894, the heir to the Russian throne - the future Nikolai II - visited Tobolsk during his round-the-world trip. He was quite taken with the album, which he acquired for the high price of 800 roubles (per his inscription on the verso of the folder). The album came to the Emperor&#39;s library in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg and, after the Revolution of 1917, became part of the Russian State Library in Moscow where it currently resides. The three watercolors offered here were not part of that album, but are similar stylistically and clearly come from the same series. For example, the image with the three Khanty and the Russian official appears almost exactly in the album, with trivial changes in detail, such as a different color of tablecloth. Znamensky&#39;s watercolors weren&#39;t published in Russia before the Revolution of 1917. His album "From Tobolsk to Obdorsk" was printed in facsimile for the first time in 2008. His drawings were used, however, as illustrations in the first and only edition of the book by the Italian ethnographer and anthropologist Stefano Sommier, UN&#39; ESTATE IN SIBERIA FRA OSTIACCHI, SAMOIEDI, SIRIENI, TATARI, KIRGHISI e BASKIRI (Florence, 1885). This valuable report of Sommier&#39;s travels through Siberia in 188 contains fourteen interesting woodcuts based on Znamensky&#39;s watercolors and depicts Samoyeds and Ostyaks resting in their dwellings, riding deer, playing musical instruments, walking at market places, and more. Znamensky&#39;s original works can be found in many Russian state institutions.

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        Oeuvres Complètes

      Paris: J.Hetzel & Cie. & A.Quantin & Cie., 1880-89., 1880. 48 Volumes. 8vo. with half-titles. finely bound in half morocco by Vauthrin, t.e.g., original printed wrs. bound in (some clear dampstains & hint of foxing). Definitive Edition, based on the original manuscripts, this is one of only 15 copies on papier de Chine. Carteret I 431..

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        A.L.S. Longfellow to noted poet and journalist Charles Kent

      4 pp. Cambridge, Apr. 29, 1880. 12mo. Neatly written letter from Longfellow to Charles Kent (1823-1902), well-known English poet, biographer and journalist, concerning a book written by Kent ("Corona Catholica), and others sent to Longfellow for which Kent had never heard back concerning Longfellow&#39;s receipt of the books. He writes: "My Dear Mr. Kent, I hasten wit all speed to thank you for your kind letter and for the "Corona Catholica," both of which reached me safely and are very welcome. But I am troubled by what you say of the other books sent so long ago, your collected Poems, and "Charles Dickens as Reader." They were both received and I wrote to you at the time a letter full of thanks, particularly for the Poems and among the Poems, more particularly for the beautiful lines addressed to me, which I always deeply feel." He goes on to say that he is truly grieved that his letter never reached Kent, with the only consolation being this letter. He also thanks Kent for the "Corona" but states that is "very curious..." and that he does care as much for the "Prophecy of St. Malachi" as Kent does. "But I do care for the versions of your lines in various languages. I have always been much interested in such things, and this is a valuable addition to my little store of linguistic curiosities. Signed in full, "Yours faithfully, Henry W. Longfellow. Superb letter in very good condition.

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        The South African Campaign, 1879.

      London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1880.. First edition, 4to, 60 mounted Woodburytype portraits, 2 maps (one folding), margins of three leaves having been repaired, inner hinges shaken, orig. cloth, a little worn, tear to upper joint, head and foot of spine frayed.

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        NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years&#39; Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832 - 1839. In Two Volumes

      London:: Pubished by the Author at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.. 1880.. Royal 8vo. 10-1/4" x 6-1/2". Later edition, first published in 1841 (cf. Howes C-241). 2 volumes (ix, [1 (blank)], 298; xii, 303, [1] pp).. Original publisher&#39;s deep maroon vertically-ribbed cloth bindings with elaborate gilt & black stamping. TEG.. Spines slightly dull. Bookplate & po name stamp to eps. Occasional. prior owner marginalia. Overall, a VG - VG+ set.. 180 plates, the preponderance b/w. Color lithographed map of the "Indian Localities".

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        THE PILGRIM&#39;S PROGRESS FROM THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME

      London: Strahan, 1880. Fine. Edition de Luxe. Printed on Special Hand-made Paper, with Proofs of Illustrations on Japanese Paper. Limited to 500 copies, this no. 160 Folio. xvi, 327p. Illustrated by Frederick Barnard and others with 100 mounted illustrations engraved by the Dalziel Brothers, some full-page and others of various sizes in the text, all with tissue gaurds. Bound in full brown crushed morocco with marbled flyleaves, t.e.g., the spine with gilt titles and densely gilt panels, doublures of deep scarlet with central gilt ornament and fancy dentelles Quite an impressive edition.

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        Ancient Chester: a Series of Illustrations

      London & Manchester: Henry Sothern & Co, 1880 Of the streets of this old city, taken sixty years since, including views of Edgars Cave, St Johns Church & Eaton Hall. In contemporary black leather spine with crimson cloth covers, bumped and worn at edges and corners, large title in gilt to black leather label to front cover. Spine has contemporary gilt tooling. Internally, endpapers have been tidied up, endpapers have a very small amount of foxing, title in red and black ink within double ruled red ink borders, titlepage has some tiny paper loss to thumbing at very edge of page, 29 full page atmospheric etchings, each with a leaf of text, not paginated. A great Chester title.Hughes, social reformer and children&#39;s writer sought an appointment, which he was given in July 1882, as a county court judge. This brought an end to his involvement in politics, and a move to Chester. He resigned from the Co-operative Union. His work as a judge seems to have been congenial to him although, according to John Telford, &lsquo;his rough and ready justice became a byword for constant reversal on appeal&rsquo; (Telford, 10). During the 1880s he wrote four more biographies, including Daniel Macmillan (1882) and David Livingstone (1889). He built himself a house called Uffington, at Dee Hills Park, Chester, to which he moved in October 1885. See ODNB for a full Bio.

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        The WORKS Of CHARLES DICKENS - The Pocket Volume Edition

      London:: Chapman & Hall,. 1880.. 16mo. 5-7/8" x 3-7/8". 1st edition thus. 30 volumes, complete.. Original publisher&#39;s flexible green cloth binding with black & gilt stamping.. PPII cocked with a small stain to the lower corner of the first 4. leaves. BH1 with cracked front hinge. Otherwise a VG+ to Nr Fine. set, with the occasional VG volume, evidently depending, as one would. expect, on the popularity of the title.. An economical edition offered by C&H, in this pocket format, without illustrations. Uncommon as offered here, i.e., in a complete set.

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        History of the Flag of the United States of America, and of the Naval and Yacht-Club Signals, Seals, and Arms, and Principal

      Boston: A. Williams and Company, 1880. SIGNED by author, plus ALS. History of the Flag of the United States of America, and of the Naval and Yacht-Club Signals, Seals, and Arms, and Principal National Songs of the United States. With a Chronicle of the Symbols, Standards, Banners, and Flags of Ancient and Modern Nations. Second Revised Edition. Published Boston: A. Williams and Company, 1880. Thick 8vo., 7 1/2" x 10." xxii+815 pp. Illustrated with 200 engravings, plus 10 color plates. Original blue cloth with gilt seal and titles. Signed by author at end of Preface. With two signed letters laid in: 1. A letter from L.R. Hamersly & Co., publishers of The United Service (3/4 page on company letterhead, Oct 14, 1880) to Edward Shippen, Medical director, U.S.N., directing Shippen to write as long a review as necessary; 2. A letter from Preble to Shippen, thanking him for the review (2 1/2 half-pages, Nov 20, 1880). Front inner hinge paper split, but hinge remains tight, fraying at the heel and crown, wear at the tips, otherwise very good. Preble states in his letter that only 500 copies of this edition were printed. A nice association copy. . Signed by Author. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo. Illus.

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        De la vanité des institutions fondées par le sophisme, mélanges pour faire suite aux &#39;Ruines de la monarchie française&#39;

      Paris & Lyon: Lib. Victor Lecoffre, 1880. relié. 13,5x23cm. Edition originale. Reliure en plein cartonnage marine, dos à cinq nerfs orné de doubles caissons dorés décorés de motifs floraux centraux et en angles, roulettes dorées sur les coiffes, encadrement de quintuples filets et frises dorés et de larges dentelles dorées sur les plats frappés en leur centre des armes dorées non identifiées, gardes et contreplats de soie moirée crème, doubles filets dorés sur les coupes, tête dorée sur tranches, élégante reliure de l&#39;époque non signée. Ouvrage orné d&#39;un portrait de l&#39;auteur en frontispice. Rousseurs affectant principalement les premières pages et les pages 183 à 186. Exemplaire établi dans une parfaite et majestueuse reliure non signée. - Lib. Victor Lecoffre, Paris & Lyon _1880, 13,5x23cm, relié. - relié

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        OEUVRES COMPLETES DE MOLIERE (12 VOL SET - COMPLETE)

      Paris: Garnier Freres, 1880 -1885. Second edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. VOL 1 &#150; xvi, 540 pgs. Vol 2 &#150; lv, 436 pgs. Vol 3 &#150; 466 pgs. Vol 4 &#150; 450 pgs. Vol 5 &#150; 526 pgs. Vol 6 &#150; 488 pgs. Vol 7 &#150; 518 pgs. Vol 8 &#150; 504 pgs. Vol 9 &#150; 468 pgs. Vol 10 &#150; 518 pgs. Vol 11 &#150; 496 pgs. Vol 12 &#150; 510 pgs. 6 x 9 1/2 in. Text in French.& Deep green half morocco, with lacquered green marble boards. Gilt lettering and designs on spine. 5 raised bands. Gilt upper text block. Tissue-protected frontis, Vol 1, tissue-protected engravings and fold-out illustrations. Silk bookmark. Condition of book is NEAR FINE; & Vols 1 and 12 have some very slight wear to spines, otherwise the leather and marbled boards are remarkably clean and vivid. Gilt upper text block very bright. Some slight shelf-wear to top and bottom edges.& &

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        NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years&#39; Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832 - 1839. In Two Volumes

      London:: Pubished by the Author at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.. 1880.. Royal 8vo. 10-1/4" x 6-1/2". Later edition, first published in 1841 (cf. Howes C-241). 2 volumes (ix, [1 (blank)], 298; xii, 303, [1] pp).. Original publisher&#39;s deep maroon vertically-ribbed cloth bindings with elaborate gilt & black stamping. TEG.. Spines slightly dull. Bookplate & po name stamp to eps. Occasional. prior owner marginalia. Overall, a VG - VG+ set.. 180 plates, the preponderance b/w. Color lithographed map of the "Indian Localities".

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        Novels of George Eliot

      Edinburgh - William Blackwood and Sons, 1880 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A set of the novels of George Eliot, containing Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Scenes of Clerical Life, Felix Holt, Romola, and Middlemarch. Mary Anne Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (187172), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and well known for their realism and psychological insight. Throughout her career, Eliot wrote with a politically astute pen. From Adam Bede to The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner, Eliot presented the cases of social outsiders and small-town persecution. Felix Holt, the Radical and The Legend of Jubal were overtly political, and political crisis is at the heart of Middlemarch, in which she presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832. The novel is notable for its deep psychological insight and sophisticated character portraits. With vignette title pages andtwenty-five plates, collated complete. Seven volumes bound in six (missing volume VIII Daniel Deronda). Condition: In half-morocco bindings with marbled boards. Externally rubbed, with wear to the extremities. All joints cracked. Internally, generally firmly bound although strained in places. Pages arebright, with some scattered light spotting. Overall: GOOD..

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        George Eliot&#39;s Novels: Vol. I Adam Bede; Vol. II Mill On The Floss; Vol. III - IV Silas Marner & Scenes from a Clerical Life; Vol. V Felix Holt; Vol. VI Romola; Vol. VII Middlemarch & Vol. VIII Daniel Deronda

      Edinburgh: William Blackwood & SOns. Re-issue. Half-Leather. Near Fine. (c. 1880) Red half calf, raised bands, T.E.G., marbled eps., gilt spine lettering. Very solid set with only slight misc. shelf wear. All columes are tight and unmarked. Handmade paper. All DJs are archival mylar protected. Selling books since 1980 and online since 1999.

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        The Works of George Eliot. Include: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Romola, Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss, Felix Holt, Daniel Deronda, etc. Together with: George Eliot&#39;s Life, as related in her Letters and Journals. Arranged and Edited by her Husband, J.W. Cross

      Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, n.d. (c.1880)., 1880. The Cabinet Edition, complete in 24 volumes being 21 volumes of the Works and 3 volumes of her Life. 8vo. A very handsome set in a contemporary binding of half maroon morocco by Tout with gilt titles and fine gilt tooling to spines, marbled boards with double gilt rule, marbled end papers, top edges gilt.

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        PRIVATE JOURNAL OF EDWARD PAUL DUFFY, PRINTER, U.S. FLAGSHIP TRENTON, EUROPEAN SQUADRON, BEGINNING IN MARSEILLE, FRANCE [manuscript title]

      [At sea, primarily in the Mediterranean]. 1880-1881.. [186]pp., plus 26 blank pages. Includes many newspaper clippings and pamphlets. Three-quarter contemporary calf with paper boards. Spine nonexistent at foot. Calf significantly rubbed, missing in most places. Boards rubbed, loose. Text clean, brittle, but loosely bound; some pages loose. Text in good condition. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label. Edward Paul Duffy was a soldier and printer aboard the U.S.S. Trenton. During his time on board Duffy printed the TRENTON HERALD, a twice monthly newspaper. Newspaper clippings pasted to the front board of his journal herald Duffy as the pioneer of American amphibious printing and estimate his readership to number one thousand. Duffy also served as a correspondent to the BALTIMORE SUN, writing of the activities of the European Squadron and his experiences in various Mediterranean cities. Clippings of his articles from the BALTIMORE SUN are tipped in, as well as several pieces of his shipboard printing, INSPECTION OF POWDER DIVISION and COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TIMES OF EVOLUTIONS DURING INSPECTION OF EUROPEAN SQUADRON. Duffy&#39;s journal records the daily weather, activities aboard the Trenton, and his trips off the ship in cities such as Madeira and Villefranche. He frequently notes his press and letters or activities related to it, i.e. the printing of a program for the Snowflakes which performed before Christmas of 1880 and subscriptions made to his paper by prominent Americans such as capitalist J.W. Mackay. The Trenton sailed home for the centennial celebration of the victory at Yorktown, but Duffy was honorably discharged after two years of service and discontinued his journal upon reaching the Chesapeake Bay. A wonderful record of shipboard printing in the American Navy.

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        The Power of Movement in Plants

      London: John Murray, 1880. First issue, from the fourth generation of the Wedgwood-Darwin family library with their bookplates and one signature. x, 592pp.,with the two line errata on page x, illustrated, bound by the family&#39;s favorite binder D. Dilworth, Newcastle with their small green binders label, in full tan diced calf, boards single ruled in gilt, raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated, red morocco spine label gilt, all edges marbled with matching endpapers. A handsome copy without ads. An important study on the movement of plants or "revolving nutation" or (circumnutation and circumnutate) depending on the plant&#39;s immediate surrounding and the effects these surroundings have on the plants.. First Edition. Octavo.

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        THE PRINCESS

      London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1880. One of 50 Large Paper Copies signed by the printer and dated October 23, 1880 (this being copy #41). The Most Important Binding We've Ever Had, withA Romantic Story and Interesting Technical Issues 194 x 121 mm (7 5/8 x 4 3/4"). 4 p.l., 199 pp. CHOICE APPLE GREEN MOROCCO, LAVISHLY GILT, BY THOMAS J. COBDEN-SANDERSON (stamp-signed and dated on rear turn-in), covers diapered in gilt with Tudor roses on leafy vines (C-S Design #20), each compartment formed by the roses containing an "M," the center cruciform panel on the upper cover with the name "MITFORD" tooled in gilt, a "B" above it and a "C" below it, rear cover with the date "24 FEBRUARY 1886" in the center compartment; raised bands, guttered (i.e., concave) spine (as intended), spine panels with central Tudor rose surrounded by leafy vines and much stippling, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt and gauffered. In a sturdy and handsome modern green morocco clamshell box. With engraved frontispiece. Front pastedown with engraved bookplate of Bertram Freeman-Mitford (see below). Rear pastedown with Cobden-Sanderson's handwritten receipt for £ 6.6.0 affixed, rear free endpaper with manuscript letter from Cobden-Sanderson to Lady Clementine Mitford tipped on. Tidcombe 33 (for the binding). Spine with just a hint of sunning (toward caramel, as almost inevitable with green morocco), a pinprick hole just below the rose in the tail edge panel, light foxing to frontispiece, otherwise AN EXTREMELY FINE COPY INSIDE AND OUT AND A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OF THE TASTE AND SKILL OF A BINDING DONE WITH COBDEN-SANDERSON'S OWN HANDS. This is one of the most attractive volumes--and almost certainly the most important binding--we have ever offered for sale: an early specimen of the work of the central figure in the history of English bookbinding, and a volume with a charming, romantic story as well as technical issues of considerable interest attached to it. Cobden-Sanderson (1840-1922) did not produce many bindings with his own hands, but he did nothing short of change the entire course of bookbinding in England. Tidcombe's detailed and exhaustive catalogue lists just 167 examples of bindings produced by him, all of them executed between July of 1884 and March of 1893. Through this small corpus of work, Cobden-Sanderson "rejuvenated English binding" with his theories of design "and set it on a new course of development." (Morgan Library Exhibition catalogue) Nixon calls our binder a "pre-eminent figure . . . both as a designer of great originality, who rescued the craft from half a century of purely imitative work, and as a craftsman of outstanding ability." Produced during the first 20 months of his career (the 33rd item in Tidcombe's census), the present binding marks two firsts: the first use of the new Tudor rose and rose leaves (tools 2a, 6a, 6n), and the first employment of an important improved method of preparing the leather (specifically, the manner in which our binder crushed, or pressed, the morocco in preparation for its gilt decoration). Access to the personal side of this volume can be found in Cobden-Sanderson's journal entry for 22 December 1885, which records that "on Saturday [19 December] Mitford and Lady Clementine came and were exceedingly polite. Mitford brought me a large paper (Kegan Paul) 'Princess' to bind by the 24th February, mode and finish to be left entirely to myself." The binder's notes observe that "the design of back-side varies from front. The 'M' is inverted in the lower half [of the back]. This, an accident, [is] a great improvement. Time 54 3/4 hours. Undercharged." We know from the letter tipped into the volume that the book was delivered on 23rd February 1886 "by a sure hand," arriving just in time, as it was to be Lady Clementine's gift to her husband on his 49th birthday, the next day. Cobden-Sanderson visited the Mitfords in April and was pleased to find Bertram Mitford thrilled with the binding, even though his "Philistine friends" had thought the (intentionally) concave spine a flaw. Cobden-Sanderson records in his journal on 2 April 1886: "I advised him to stand by the gutter [i.e., defend the spine design], for it was most beautiful." Mitford (1837-1916), the diplomat and author, was created first Baron Redesdale in 1902; he is best known for being the grandfather of the brilliant and scandalous Mitford sisters, including noted writers Nancy and Jessica, Nazi sympathizers Diana and Unity, and the current dowager duchess of Devonshire. Not to be overlooked is the fact that the present volume comprises a beautifully printed strictly limited luxury edition of "The Princess" (about which, see item #144, below).

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        Romola

      London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1880. Two royal octavo volumes. (xii), 306, (ii); (xii), (404)pp. One of 1,000 numbered copies comprising a deluxe edition. Illustrated with twenty-four engraved plates by Sir Frederick Leighton and numerous smaller vignettes. Each volume features three fore-edge paintings in the typical Fazakerley style: in each, a larger central painting is flanked by two smaller, atmospheric paintings, all of which are directly related to Eliot&#39;s novel. The large painting depicts the title character assisting her blind father in his study, and the smaller paintings show the front of a Florentine villa and a bridge scene; the second volume&#39;s large painting has Romola kneeling before the monk Savonarola to receive his blessing, and this is surrounded by an archway above and a sea cliff below. These paintings, which characteristically do not require fanning to view, are further heightened by Fazakerley&#39;s trademark gauffered strapwork, which essentially frames each painting, giving it further emphasis. This strapwork carries across the three edges of the text block. & & The set is bound by Fazakerley in brown crushed levant in a near-Jansenist style: save for a set of elaborate gilt monograms on the upper covers, the exterior is plain. The doublures feature a Greek urn with two tendrils rising in a delicate swirling pattern, with a variety of buds and flowers emanating from them and filling the panel. This motif is framed by a triple gilt rule, with beveled corners and a scalloped fillet border. Thomas Fazakerley served an apprenticeship with John Sutton in 1813 before establishing his own bindery in 1835. His son, John, succeeded him in 1860 and continued the business until the outbreak of World War I. The Fazakerley bindery was noted for the high quality of their work, especially on their full crushed Levant "reliures de luxe," which featured triptych fore-edge paintings, such as the present example. Calligraphic gift inscriptions to front blank leaves of each volume. Internally fine, save for foxing to the plates from the tissue guards. The bindings show faint uniform fading to spines and a few minor scratches, otherwise fine.

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        THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS (Illustrated with 63 Hand Coloured Plates, complete in 15 Volumes.)

      London: Chapman & Hall, 1880. C.1880. A handsome set of 15 volumes containing the works of Dickens. Very unusually this set includes 63 fine HAND COLOURED plates and coloured frontispeice plates that have been heightened with gum arabic; also numerous b/w illustrations. The titles are The Personal History of David Copperfield. with sixty-one illustrations by J. Barnard. 437p four hand coloured plates and a Dickens portrait frontispiece.- Our Mutual Friend. With fifty-eight illustrations by J. Mahoney. 419p. four coloured plates - Bleak House. Sixty-one illustrations by J. Barnard. 440p.three coloured plates - American Notes and Pictures from Italy. With eighteen illustrations by A. B. Frost and Gordon Thomson. 210p., two coloured plates - Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of every-day life and every-day people. With thirty-four illustrations by F. Barnard. 240p., one coloured plate (possibly 1of 2) - The Adventures of Oliver Twist. With twenty-eight illustrations by J. Mahoney. 204p., two coloured plates - The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With fifty-seven illustrations by "Phiz". 400p., four coloured plates- Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. With fifty-nine illustrations by J. Barnard. 423p., four coloured plates - Little Dorrit. With fifty-eight illustrations by J. Mahoney. 423p.four coloured plates, - The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. With fifty-nine illustrations by F. Barnard. 420p., five coloured plates- The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Reprinted pieces and other stories. With thirty illustrations by L. Fildes, E. G. Dalziel, and F. Barnard. 348p., three coloured plates- Barnaby Rudge. With forty-six illustrations by F. Barnard. 322p., three coloured plates - Great expectations. With thirty illustrations by F. A. Fraser. 225p., one coloured plates - A Tale of Two Cities. With twenty-five illustrations by F. Barnard. 176p., one coloured plates - Hard Times. With twenty illustrations by H. French. 134p., one coloured plates - A Child&#39;s History of England. With fifteen illustrations by J. McL. Ralston. 190p two coloured plates.- The Uncommercial Traveller. With twenty-six illustrations by E. G. Dalziel. 174p., two coloured plates with very slight staining to edges - Christmas stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round". With twenty-three illustrations by E. G. Dalziel. 277p, four coloured plates - The Old Curiosity Shop. With thirty-nine illustrations by C. Green. 274p, three coloured plates - Dombey and Son. With sixty-two illustrations by F. Barnard. 449p., four coloured plates- The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster. With forty illustrations. 449p, two coloured plates and a portrait frontispeice of the young Dickens - Christmas Books. With twenty-eight illustrations by F.Barnard. 200p.,three coloured plates with a little water staining. Attractively bound in half mid tan polished calf with five raised bands; ornate gilt decoration to bands and compartments. Black spine labels with gilt lettering. Generally sound bindings, slight general wear with a little rubbing to joints and extremities, a few short cracks to the top of the joints of several volumes, one joint professionally repaired with a leather insert, marbling to boards, with matching endpapers and page edges. Contents clean and tight, minimal marks as described above, no inscriptions or bookplates. A superb illustrated set. . Hardback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Barnard, Phiz, Mahoney, Dalziel et al. 4to (18 x 24cm).

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        The City of Dreadful Night

      London - Reeves and Turner, 1880 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. James Thomson&#39;s first and most important book. In the very scarce first issue large paper copy, of which only forty were printed. The City of Dreadful Night is a study in melancholia and the introverted mind. It is a city of the mind, but real: a real unreal city. Nobody knows how they got there because the place itself is lost in a trackless wilderness of savage mountains, ravines, and bleak moors. Even the sea into which the River of the Suicides flows is called shipless&#39;. From the hills, the city is a nocturne in lead and faded gold: a line of faint light marks where the city broods in its own endless night. On the skyline, like congealed grief, looms the city&#39;s goddess, Melencolia. In day time the city shrinks till it&#39;s no bigger than a human heart but it is always there, a place of despair peopled by a sad brotherhood of monks and kings, priests, drunks, artists, poets, soldiers. It is a brotherhood, being inhabited mainly by men. Few women are there and, says the poet thankfully, fewer children. Nor are there many elderly men, which may suggest that the people afflicted this way either grow out of it or die young. (Thomson wrote the poem in two stages, when he was thirty-six and next when he was thirty-eight. He was only forty-seven when he died. ) Condition: In a cloth binding. Externally sound, with some rubbing and marks to the boards. Both hinges are very tender, and held by cords only. Front joint has started but still firm. Wear to top and tail ofspine. Internally, generally firmly. Pages have scattered spotting. In need of a recase, but well worth it. Overall: GOOD ONLY..

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        Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de la flore et de la pomone de l&#39; Ile de Java peints d&#39;après nature par Madame Berthe Hoola van Nooten. Troisieme edition

      Brussels and Leipzig: Librairie Européenne C. Muquardt, [No date on title, but with a foreword dated 1880]. Folio. (21 7/8 x 15 3/4 inches). Half- title, title, dedication to the Queen of the Netherlands and foreword in French, parallel text in French and English. 40 chromolithographed plates by P. Depannemaeker after Hoola van Nooten. Original printed paper boards, rebacked and recornered to style. Third, and improved edition of this magnificent display of spectacular Javanese fruits and flowers, their bright colours ideally suited to the then new technique of chromolithography. &#39;Europeans who beheld these plants for the first time... could not but have been moved to wonder and amazement&#39; (&#39;Oak Spring Flora&#39;) Berthe Hoola van Nooten (1840-1885), a latter-day Maria Sibylla Merian, produced the present work as a heroic response to circumstances which left her on Java, a widow in her early twenties with a family to support and little money, certainly not enough to pay for her family&#39;s passage home to Belgium. &#39;Aware of the vogue in Europe for exotic flora, she decided to take advantage of her enforced exile and put to use the skill at flower painting that she had no doubt acquired as a girl. Thus she prepared forty magnificent plates for Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de l&#39;Ile de Java... [van Nooten] was clearly a more than competent artist, for the splendid tropical plants, with their lush foliage, vividly coloured flowers and exotic fruit, have been depicted with great skill. She managed to accentuate the splendour of each species by adopting a style that combined great precision and clarity with a touch of neo-Baroque exuberance, revelling in the rich forms and colours of the tropics. The reader&#39;s eye is immediately captured by the dark leaves, shown furled or crumpled or partly nibbled away by insects, the delicately rendered details of the follicles and seeds, and the heavy clusters of flowers that cascade down the page. The excellent reproduction of the artist&#39;s drawings in the form of chromolithographs lends an added tactility to these striking images&#39; (Oak Spring Flora) The work consists of a lithographed dedication (in rhyme) to the Queen of the Netherlands. This is followed by a preface in which the author hints at the tragic personal circumstances which led her to seek a publisher for the work, and the forty plates, each of which is accompanied by detailed text in French and English giving a description as well as occasional information on the plants&#39; culinary, medical, religious and other uses. The plates depict a mixture of indigenous, naturalised and introduced plants and include shrubs, flowering trees and, perhaps the most striking of all, 16 portraits of plants with edible fruits: pomelo, rambutan, mangosteen, custard-apple, bread-fruit, mango, bananas, star-fruit and papaya amongst others. Great Flower Books (1990) p. 103; Landwehr 80; Nissen BBI 93; Oak Spring Flora 87; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 3025

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        Paper Weaving: a work book for Froebel's System of Gifts & Occupations. An album of woven & folded paper.

      circa 1880.. An album based on Freidrich Froebel's "System of Gifts and Occupations" compiled by E. L. Whitlow whose name appears at the front of the volume. Of the 20 or so of Froebel's "Gifts & Occupations", 3 are represented in this album: "Weaving" [the 14th gift];"Folding" [the 18th gift]; & "Cutting" [the 13th gift]. The album contains 48 woven glazed black & white paper panels of various intricate designs, each approx. 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches, mounted 4 per-page; 4 sets of folded purple paper work, or origami, 80 examples in all, mounted to 9 of the album leaves; 14 leaves of cut paper work; and 5 leaves of strip folded paper designs. A remarkable album that must have taken many hundreds of hours in its execution. 4to ( 12 x 9 3/4 inches), contemporary half black morocco; joints split but firm, backstrip very chipped. Internally several leaves detached, some edge dust marking but generally all the examples in very good condition.

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        THE TRIBULATIONS OF A CHINAMAN

      1880. hardcover. Verne, Jules. THE TRIBULATIONS OF A CHINAMAN. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Illustrated by L. Benett. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1880. 32 pp ads dated April 1880. Original blue-grey cloth decorated in black and gilt, all edges gilt. <p>First British Edition of one of Verne&#39;s odder tales... Wealthy Chinaman hears that his fortune is lost. Opts for honorable suicide by arranging for a friend to kill him. Learns that his fortune isn&#39;t lost after all. Tells friend thanks but there is no need to kill him. Friend replies that he has already arranged for some thug to do the deed and now can&#39;t contact him...</p> <p>This Verne title is also unusual in that all three early publishers of this tale, on both sides of the Atlantic, ultimately published it in the exact same cloth binding (showing several characters "afloat on their backs, propelled by the wind caught in minisails attached to toe-masts, controlled by waistband halyards" [T&M]).</p> <p>The first edition in English was published in September 1879 by Lee & Shepard of Boston, translated by Virginia Champlin and unillustrated, both in wrappers and in plain cloth. By November, George Munro then published it in wrappers in his Seaside Library. About a year later (October 1880), Dutton of New York published the tale from the British plates (a different translation, by Ellen Frewer) -- with fifty full-page illustrations from the original French edition, and in the binding designed by Sampson Low. In November Sampson Low published it in England (perhaps waiting to make it a holiday offering). Finally, a year after this (September or October 1881) Lee & Shepard re-published the Champlin translation but with the fifty illustrations that had appeared in the Dutton and Sampson Low editions, and in the same binding they had used.</p> <p>This copy is in light blue-grey cloth (the only color in which we have seen the Sampson Low edition, just once before), and is in near-fine condition (wear limited to one little spot on the front joint). Although this is an example of the ill-conceived early-80s experiment of binding with staples rather than with string, this copy has held together remarkably well. In our experience, this Sampson Low edition is much scarcer than any of the early American editions. Taves & Michaluk V020.</p> (Sumner & Stillman Code:12160)

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        Les enfants du Capitaine Grant. Voyage autour du monde. Illustrés de 172 vignettes par Riou. Gravées par Pannemaker

      Paris, Hetzel, ca. 1880.. Tit., 624 S. Rote Chagrinlederband d. Zt. mit goldgeprägter Mittelarabeske auf beiden Deckeln, feiner Filetenvergoldung mit Eckfleurons, reicher Vergoldung in 4 Rückenfeldern, goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, Steh- und Innenkantenvergoldung a la dentelle sowie dreiseitigem Goldschnitt.

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        General McClellan&#146;s removal from command, sanctioned by Lincoln, after the battle of Antietam is addressed in an article by George Ticknor Curtis in this periodical from President Garfield&#146;s library

      The first Presidential memorial library, completed at the Lawnfield estate in Ohio by the widow of James Garfield four years after his assassination, houses almost 3,000 books that were used and treasured by the 20th president. Books were a scarce commodity to young James, who lost his father before the age of two, and was raised by his mother who struggled to maintain a humble existence. Both James Garfield and his wife Lucretia were voracious readers and amassed a large collection of books. Some twenty years ago, several dozen of his books were de-accessioned, and one of these books is described below: Soft Cover Periodical: The North American Review., Volume 130., Number 6., June 1880. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 8vo, 626 pps. followed by 8 pps. of advertising. Written in unknown hand on the front cover, &#147;The Honorable / Jas. A. Garfield / Mentor / Ohio&#148;. Edge wear and soiling to covers and page block. Small loss at spine, else very good condition. Found in the book, possibly as a bookmark, a partially printed certificate completed in manuscript, entitling Garfield&#146;s ten year old son, Irvin, to a free subscription to an illustrated children&#146;s magazine, Our Little Ones, beginning November 1880 through October 1881. The time period of this certificate coincides with Garfield&#146;s election and short-lived Presidency, suggesting that Garfield used this book as President. Two articles of potential interest to the President might have been, &#147;Popular Fallacies about Russia&#148;, by E. W. Stoughton, and part III of &#147;McClellan&#146;s Last Service to the Republic&#148;, by George Ticknor Curtis. In Curtis&#146; article, &#147;we undertook to give an account of some of the circumstances attending General McClellan&#146;s relations to the Administration of President Lincoln, and especially of the strange occurrence of his removal from command after the battle of Antietam&#148; He concludes, &#147;Among all the distinguished military men of this or any other age, of whom the world knows so much as it knows of McClellan, there has been no man whose ambition was so perfectly unalloyed by the base element of self-seeking at the expense of others, and no man who has suffered so much injustice from official superiors.&#148;

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        Ueber Nucleins?en. Offprint with 2 others, Miescher's Copies

      1880-89. No Dust Jacket. Miescher's Copies of Altmann's Papers on Nucleic Acids Altmann, Richard (1852-1900). (1) Ueber Nucleins?en. Offprint from Arch. Anat. Phys. (1889). 524-536pp. Original printed wrappers, creased vertically. Stamp of the Vesalianum, Physiologisch-chemisches Anstalt, Basel on the front wrapper. (2) Die Structur des Zellkernes. Offprint from Arch. Anat. Phys. (n.d.). 409-411pp. Original printed wrappers, creased horizontally, small wax stain on front cover. Booklabel and stamp of Johann Friedrich Miescher (1844-95). (3) Zur Theorie der Bilderzeugung. Offprint from Arch. Anat. Phys.(1880). 111-184pp. Plate. Original printed wrappers, slightly soiled. Upper right corner of first leaf cut away. Stamp of the Vesalianum, Physiologisch-chemisches Anstalt, Basel on the front wrapper. Together 3 offprints. Very good. First Editions, Offprint Issues. Garrison-Morton 713 (no. [1]). Altmann coined the term "nucleic acid ," which he introduced in his 1889 paper "Ueber Nucleins?en," and developed a convenient and general method for its preparation. His work on nucleic acids represents an early stage in the development of molecular biology. Altmann was a student of Johann Friedrich Miescher, who in 1869 discovered a hitherto unknown substance in the cell nucleus that he named nuclein; we now know it as DNA. Altmann worked with Miescher at Miescher's institute in Basel, called the "Vesalianum" after the great 16th-century anatomist. At the time Miescher was performing biochemical investigations of salmon sperm, from which he had succeeded in isolating protamine, an important constituent of spermatazoa. However, Miescher "fell into an error: he detected purine bases in the protamine he had isolated by the murexide reaction, no doubt caused by contamination with adhering DNA. Later, Miescher requested that [his associate] Piccard re-investigate this question. Piccard also detected purine bases in the acid extract of spermatozoa from which protamine was isolated. However, he concluded (correctly) that nuclein also contained purine bases. This confusion was not resolved until R. Altmann in 1889 separated protein (free of purine bases) from nuclein (called by him nucleic acid), containing xanthine bases" (Wolf). Our copy of Altmann's paper on nucleic acid bears the stamp of Miescher's Vesalianum, as does the third offprint in the collection, a paper on the theory of imaging. The second offprint, on the structure of the cell nucleus, is from Miescher's library, with his stamp and booklabel. Fruton, Proteins, Enzymes, Genes, p. 400. Wolf, "Friedrich Miescher, the man who discovered DNA," (web reference). Portugal and Cohen, A Century of DNA, pp. 20-21.

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        Les Petites Cardinal

      Ancienne Maison Michel Levy Freres Calmann Levy Editeur Paris: Ancienne Maison Michel Levy Freres, Calmann Levy, Editeur, 1880. Full page pen & ink drawing with added water-color before title page signed Ulysse-Roy. 6 other black and white illustrations signed in the plate J[ean].Massard tipped in, and two unidentified artist plates between half-title and title page, 256(1) with 12 engraved vignettes by Henry Maigrot. OCLC records a limited edition of 25 copies of this work with the original 12 vignettes on Chine and tipped in as opposed to only vignettes printed above the text. An additional two copies of an unidentified illustrator with tipped in plates between half-title and tile page, although none are included in collation and does not make mention of a color illustration by Ulysse-Roy. The first six chapters of this volume are the result of the first two chapters of the volume entitled: Madame et Monsieur Cardinal (Mr. and Mrs. Cardinal) published in 1872. Bound in 1/2 blue-gray morocco over decorative paper covered boards, spine lettered and stamped in gilt, decorative endpapers, top edge gilt, original green printed wrappers bound in, a few minor spots of rubbing or nicks. An unique collection of prints within one book.. 12mo.

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        THE NECKLACE OF PRINCESS FIORIMONDE; and other stories. With illustrations by Walter Crane.

      vii, 184pp. With eight full-page plates and other illustrations within the text. Original decorative cloth, gilt. All edges gilt. The decorative part of the original dust-wrapper [the front panel and the spine] attached to the rear fixed endpaper. First edition. Inscribed on the verso of the front endpaper, 'A. C. from A. C. 2961.' Probably a gift from Arthur Crane, Walter's younger brother, to Anthony Crane, Walter's grandson, from whose library this book came. Evidence of something having been removed from front endpaper; cloth a little faded; else a very good copy.

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        Group of circus sideshow cabinet cards and cartes-de-visite depicting midget Minnie Warren alone and with husband Commodore Nutt, Tom Thumb's wedding, giantess Ella Ewing and family, sword thrower "The Great Arcarn," facially disfigured "Elephant Man" in Middle Eastern dress, and midget doctor

      v.p. ca. 1880s 90s v.p., [ca. 1880s-90s]. Albumen prints mounted on card; three cabinet cards (approx. 6-1/2 x 4- 1/4 in.); four cartes-de-visite (approx. 4-1/4 x 2-1/2 in.), some captioned in pencil on the rear. All in near fine condition . A fine group of circus freakshow and dime museum oddities, similar in theme to the work of Charles Eisenmann. In fact, the haunting portrait of a facially disfigured "Elephant Man" is from the Bowery studio of Frank Wendt, Eisenmann's business partner

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