viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1870

WALLACE, Alfred Russel.
        Insulinde: het land van den orang-oetan en den paradijsvogel. Uit het Engelsch vertaald en van aanteekeningen voorzien door P.J. Veth.
      Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen, 1870-71.2 volumes. Original pictorial cloth gilt (rebacked with the original spines laid down). With 2 maps (1 folding and coloured) 12 wood-engraved plates and 41 wood-engravings. XXIV,528; X,552 pp.* First Dutch edition; first published in London 1869 The Malay Archipelago; the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise. - Wallace's (1823-1913) second, longest, and most significant expedition was to the relatively underexplored Malay Archipelago between 1854 and 1862. His journey took him first to Singapore and then Borneo, where he hunted and observed the orangutan (1855-1856). Heading east to the Moluccas group, he explored Amboyna and Ternate during 1857 and 1858. In 1858 Wallace traveled to Lombok and Bali in the Timor group, recognizing this group of islands as the boundary between the two primary continental influences dividing the natural history of the archipelago, the Indian sub-continent in the northwest, and Australia in the southeast. The remaining three years of Wallace's travels (1859-1862) took him east to the Papuan group, where he explored Macassar, the Aru Islands (where he studied the bird of paradise) then New Guinea. This was interspersed with return visits west to Ternate and Amboyna, and the Celebes group for the first time. He visited Sumatra before returning to England via Singapore (Speake, Encyclopedia, p.1264). This is a magnificent combination of interesting sketches of travel and vivid pictures of natural history.Bastin-Brommer N 564; Tiele 1195; Cat. KITLV p.5.

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GOUFFE' Jules.
        LE LIVRE DE CUISINE. Comprenant "La Cuisine de Menage et la Grande Cuisine", avec 4 planches imprimées en chromolitographie et 182 gravures sur bois dessinées d'après nature par E. Ronjat.
      Librairie Hachette, Paris 1870 - Testo francese. 2^ edizione. Cm.27,7x17,2. Pg.XII, 844. Legatura in tela rinforzata al dorso. Tassello con titoli in oro. Fondamentale testo di gastronomia ottocentesca, qui in seconda edizione, apparso la prima volta nel 1867. Ne è autore Jules Gouffè (1807-1877), figlio di un pasticciere e allievo di Carême che lo impiegò in giovane età come capo-cuoco all'ambasciata austriaca di Parigi. Esercitò la professione in seguito al Palazzo delle Tuileries ed al rinomato Jockey Club, ed infine aprì in proprio una celebre pasticceria ubicata in Rue Fauburg St.Honoré. Lasciò numerose opere assai stimate, quali "Le Livre des Conserves" (1869), "Le Livre de Pâtisserie" (1873) e "Le Livre des Soupes et des Potages" (1875). Considerato il padre della cucina decorativa, pose particolare attenzione all'apparato iconografico delle sue opere, utilizzando per primo la cromolitografia per illustrare le sue straordinarie pietanze. 2500 gr. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Twain, Mark (pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens)
        The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as
      American Publishing Company, Hartford, CT, 1870. Very Good with no dust jacket. Third Printing. Hard Cover Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine and cover, double frontispieces. Illustrated with 234 B reproductions of prints, drawings, etchings qand engravings, many full-page. First edition, third printing: Pages xvii and xviii have their page numbers; the last entry on page xviii ends with the word "conclusion"; the engraved portrait of Napoleon III appears at page129; the heading on page 643 is "CHAPTER LXI"; the third page of the printed ads begins with "Illustrated History of the Bible." [McBride pg. 8]. The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867. It was the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime, as well as being one of the best-selling travel books of all time. . Head and heel worn with slight loss, corners mildly worn, front hinge starting, unmarked, tight, and clean. VERY GOOD. 234 Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xviii, 651, (5-adverts) pp

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Prang, Louis and Co
        ALPHABETS PLAIN, ORNAMENTED AND ILLUMINATED, A SELECTION FROM THE BEST ANCIENT AND MODERN STYLES, PARTICULARLY ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF PAINTERS, ENGRAVERS, MARBLEWORKERS AND ILLUMINATORS
      L. Prang & Co, Boston 1870 - oblong 8vo. original green cloth stamped in gilt. (16) leaves. Preface, color title page followed by 15 plates of alphabets (some colored), and a leaf of advertising. Publishing date comes from title in ad in the back. Former owner has added pencil addresses and comments on front pastedown, free endpaper and verso of free endpaper. Shaken with pages detached. Covers are well preserved. original green cloth stamped in gilt [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Twain, Mark (pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens)
        The Innocents Abroad, or the New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as they Appeared to the Author
      American Publishing Company, Hartford, CT 1870 - Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine and cover, double frontispieces. Illustrated with 234 B&W reproductions of prints, drawings, etchings qand engravings, many full-page. First edition, third printing: Pages xvii and xviii have their page numbers; the last entry on page xviii ends with the word "conclusion"; the engraved portrait of Napoleon III appears at page129; the heading on page 643 is "CHAPTER LXI"; the third page of the printed ads begins with "Illustrated History of the Bible." [McBride pg. 8]. The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain published in 1869 which humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867. It was the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime, as well as being one of the best-selling travel books of all time. . Head and heel worn with slight loss, corners mildly worn, front hinge starting, unmarked, tight, and clean. VERY GOOD. . 234 Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xviii, 651, (5-adverts) pp [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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POWELL, John Wesley
        Autograph Letter Signed ("J.W. Powell")
      Octavo. One page dated Dec. 28, 1870 from Normal, Illinois. Old folds from mailing, one fold has split, two small punch holes in left margin. A brief letter to a Mr. Mumford responding that he will be on hand to see him on January 10th in Brooklyn, N.Y. On the verso the letter has been docketed by the recipient: "Maj. J.W. Powell, Normal, Ill. ... No Answer." Accompanied by an old auction description of the letter. Powell was a naturalist and explorer who, after losing an arm in the Civil War, in 1869 led the first known passage through the Grand Canyon. Two years later he and his team re-traced, mapped, and photographed the route. In 1881, Powell was appointed the second director of the U.S. Geological Survey. Powell's autograph is uncommon. .

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Nietzsche, Friedrich:
        Gratulationsschrift des Paedagogiums zu Basel. Inhalt: Beiträge zur Quellenkunde und Kritik des Laertius Diogenes. Von Prof. Dr. Friedrich Nietzsche.
      Carl Schutze's Universitaetsbuchdruckerei., Basel, 1870 - Basel, Carl Schutze's Universitaetsbuchdruckerei. 1870. 4°- Titel, gedruckte Widmung, 36 S., 7 S., 1 n.n. S. Blaugrüne Originalbroschur in neuer Pappschachtel. Schaberg 18. - Erste Ausgabe. - Die zweite grössere selbständig erschienene Publikation von Nietzsche, einige Monate nach dem Privatdruck "Homer und die klassische Philologie" erschienen. Die Schrift erschien als Festschrift zur Verabschiedung von Franz Dorotheus Gerlach der an der Universität und dem angeschlossenen Paedagogium fast 50 Jahre als Lateinlehrer gewirkt hatte. Nietzsche, der 1869 als Griechischlehrer, noch vor seiner Promotion eine Anstellung als Lateinlehrer erhielt, unterrichtete u.a. am Paegagogium genannten Gymnasium am Münsterplatz jede Woche 8 Stunden Latein. Der junge ehrgeizige Deutsche zögerte offenbar nicht sich mit einem weiteren Aufsatz, nach dem "Homer" einem Publikum in Basel bekannt zu machen, obwohl er wusste, dass der geehrte Gerlach sich gegen seine Anstellung gewehrt hatte. Die Schrift wurde in unbekannter Auflagenhöhe gedruckt. Schaberg vermutet jedoch mindestens in 100 Exemplaren. Der Drucker hatte Carl Schultze hatte offenbar Probleme mit dem Satz und bat Nietzsche in einem Brief um Hilfe. Es schlichen sich aber trotzdem 3 Druckfehler auf Seite 3 des Büchleins ein. Da Zeitnot und Geldmangel keinen Neudruck zuliessen, wurde den Exemplaren ein , hier leider fehlender Korrekturzettel beigegeben. Nietzsches Aufsatz umfasst die ersten 36 Seiten. Danach folgt die "Berichterstattung der Lehrer über den im Schuljahr 1869 auf 1870 erteilten Unterricht" in dem über Nietzsches Anstellung berichtet wird. - Die ersten 6 Blätter stockfleckig, danach nur noch wenige schwache Einzelflecken. Die Broschur leicht knittrig. Sprache: Deutsch Blaugrüne Originalbroschur in neuer Pappschachtel. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

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Pullen, Henry William, and Others
        THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL ... [with] "WHY JOHNNY DIDN'T INTERFERE ..." [with] JOHN JUSTIFIED: A REPLY TO "THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL ... Tenth Edition [with] "WHICH SHOULD JOHN HAVE HELPED?" ... Second Edition. [with] THE TRUE STORY ABOUT THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL ... [with] JOHN'S GOVERNOR VISITS DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL ... [with] LOUIS' OWN ACCOUNT OF THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL ... [with] DAME EUROPA'S ACCOUNT TO THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL BOARD ON THE FIGHT IN HER SCHOOL AFTER HEARING BOTH SIDES [with] THE BREAK-UP OF DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL ... [with] JOHN'S UNCLE (A THOUGHTFUL OLD GENTLEMAN) THINKS IT IS TIME TO SAY A WORD ... Fourth Edition, with Appendix, As to the 500,000 Men [with] IMPEACHMENT OF THE BRITISH LION BY THE BRITISH UNICORN AT THE QUEEN'S ARMS
      London: various publishers,. 1870-1871. Small octavo, eleven pamplets,. bound together in three-quarter black leather and marbled boards in one volume.. Last two titles have closely trimmed fore-edges with loss of a few. letters of text from right edges of most leaves, else all are very. good. None have their original paper covers. (#107140). Mostly first editions. Eleven pamphlets, ten of them issued as responses to THE FIGHT AT DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL, Henry William Pullen's anonymously published allegory about the Franco-Prussian war (1870-1871). About 200 pamphlets, taking various sides of the question, appeared over the next couple of years. "The treatment by Pullen and his followers of modern mechanized war as a row among school boys is likely to strike a modern reader as either quaint or horribly naïve. The other irony triggered by a modern reading is that Dame Europa's School, an allegorical figment in 1870, was, a hundred years later, well on its way to becoming an actual political and economic institution, the European Union (which now, under the stress of a single currency, may be on its way back to being a fantasy). The only pamphlet here with futuristic content is THE BREAK-UP OF DAME EUROPA'S SCHOOL (Locke I, see below). The only pamphlet here not found in Locke (Spectrum I, II or III) is the last of these, IMPEACHMENT OF THE BRITISH LION BY THE BRITISH UNICORN AT THE QUEEN'S ARMS by Wykehamicus Friedrich, pseudonym of Frederick Gale (London: P. S. King, 34, Parliament Street, 1871), which abandons the schoolboy allegory of Pullen for a system based on animals (England = the Lion; Scotland = the Unicorn; France = the French Eagle; Germany = the double-faced Eagle; Russia = the Bear; America = the Stars and Stripes Menagerie, etc.), but it is still very much in the same spirit of half-playful, half-earnest satire." - Robert Eldridge. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy I, pp. 16-17 and Spectrum II, pp. 130-131.

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Eitel, Rev. E.J.
        Hand-Book for the Student of Chinese Buddhism
      Lane Crawford & Co., 1870, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust JacketSize: 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Text is in multiple languages. Text in Chinese and English. Ex-Library. Number written in pencil on free endpage. Binding is broken in several places, but all pages are attached. Fraying to spine ends. Pages tanned. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Previous bookseller's sticker on front free endpaper. Stamp on edges of text-block. Bookplate on front pastedown with pocket and circulation slip on rear endpages. Boards bumped and worn at corners, edges and spine ends. Previous owner's stamp on front pastedown. Quantity Available: 1. Inventory No: 147476.

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Ravelet, M Armand and P Theodore Ratisbonne
        Oeuvres de Saint Bernard Precedees de L'histoire de Saint Bernard et de Son Siecle [5 volumes complete, ex libris John Ruskin]
      Bar Le Duc, Louis Guerin 1870 - All vols. VG+ hardbacks with light edgewear and minor scuffing but solidly bound and tight. Volume I has the bookplate of John Ruskin 'Ex Libris John Ruskin, Brantwood'. 584 pp; 526 pp; 560 pp 702 pp; 848 pp 5 matching volumes half calf with 5 raised bands and red leather title/volume labels in 2 compartments and 4 floral motifs. Brown cloth boards and red dyed page edges and marbled endpapers. Index in volume 5. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Piloty & Loehle Hg.):
        Privates Album mit 99 Cartes des Visites. [Beinhaltet: [Franz Karl Erzherzog von Österreich und Sophie Friederike von Bayern, an einem Tisch sitzend] (L. Angerer, Wien); Princess Alice; Porträtaufnahmen aus der Schönheitsgalerie Ludwig I. von Bayern - Alexandra Amalie von Bayern, Marianna Marquesa Florenzy (Florenzi), Auguste Ferd. Prinzessin von Bayern, Therese Spence, Isabella Gräfin von Tauffkirchen-Engelberg, Josepha Conti, Rosalie Julie von Bonar, Caroline von Waldbott-Bassenheim, Caroline Lizius, Wilhelmine Sulzer, Elise List, Mathilde von Jordan, Amalia von Lerchenfeld (von Krüdener), Charlotte von Hagn, Antoinetta Cornelia Vetterlein, Ludovika Freyin von Neubeck, Emilie Milbank, Antonie Wallinger, Helene Sedlmayr, Regina Daxenberger
      -,, [Wien?], 1870 - [Wien?], -, zwischen 1870 - 1890 (?). Priv. Ld. der Zeit, mit einer eingelassenen ovalen Porträtphotographie. Neben den genannten Fotographen sind folgende vertreten: Philipp Hoff, Frankfurt; J. Löwy, Wien; Atelier Adèle, Wien; Fritz Luckhardt, Wien; Dr. Szèkely, Wien; Emil Rabending, Wien; Julius Gertinger, Wien; Loescher & Petsch, Berlin; J. Lafranchini, Wien; E. Bieber, Hamburg; Constantin, Wien. - Angestaubt, Papierrahmen m. Läsuren, CdV's tlw. etw. stockfleckig, leichte Gbrsp., Prägestempel, tlw. hds. Titeleien auf den CdV's, Ebd. berieben, die Schließen fehlen sowie eine der Metallbefestigungen. Ein Rahmen im Album ist leer. - Ein Querschnitt durch die Frauenideale des 19. Jahrhunderts mit den 36 Porträts aus der Schönheitengalerie Ludwig I. aus Nymphenburg. Deutsch Priv. Ld. der Zeit, mit einer eingelassenen ovalen Porträtphotographie.

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Ronalds, Francis
        Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark
      1870. Very Good. Ronalds, Francis (1788-1873). A.L.s. to Latimer Clark. Battle, April 11, 1870. 2pp. 181 x 114 mm. Provenance: Latimer Clark.Ronalds invented the first working electric telegraph in 1816. His device involved two synchronized clocks whose dials were marked with the letters of the alphabet; instead of hands, each clock had a rotating disk with a notch cut into it so that only one letter on the clock face was visible at a time (Standage 1998, 19). Ronalds placed one clock at each end of eight miles of insulated wire that he had laid down in his garden, and used electrical impulses to transmit signals between them. He wrote to Lord Melville of the British Admiralty offering to demonstrate his telegraph, but was rejected: John Barrow, secretary to the admiralty, wrote back to Ronalds saying that "telegraphs of any kind are now [after the conclusion of the Napoleonic wars] totally unnecessary, and that no other than the one now in use [a semaphore telegraph] will be adopted" (quoted in DNB). Ronalds did not pursue his telegraphy venture any further, but left a record of it in his Descriptions of an Electric Telegraph and of Some Other Electrical Apparatus (1823; reprinted in 1871 at the suggestion of Latimer Clark). It was left to Charles Wheatstone and William Fothergill Cooke, both of whom knew of Ronalds's experiments, to develop the first telegraph adopted for public use in Britain in 1845. In 1871, in response to a petition submitted the previous year to Prime Minister William Gladstone, Ronalds received a knighthood for his contribution to telegraphy. His letter to Clark expresses his gratitude for this honor and for Clark's part in it:"Your kind congratulations are peculiarly esteemed; for I have every reason to believe that your expressions of approbation &c. of my humble labours in Electro-Telegraphy have been influential in Her Majesty's gracious act in my behalf."I believe it is almost needless to tell you that the honour conferred is much less valued by me than the testimony it helps to afford to the validity of my early labours in the matter. . . . " Origins of Cyberspace 187.

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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
        Poems [Special Early Binding Called for by Rossetti]
      F. S. Ellis, London 1870 - First issue text. Special binding printed by the publisher's binder (Burn & Co., with their binder's ticket at rear) as requested by Rossetti. There is one copy in the Colbeck Collection, "As soon as this book was bound it ws apparent to Rossetti that the binding case was fractionally too thick for the body of the text, causing design and lettering of spine to overlap. A few copies were hastily put-up for him byt he same binder (with ticket) in a plain cloth of similar colour and texture, spine lettered "Poems/By/D. G./Rossetti" in a smaller type and between borad and narrow bands at top and bottom, etc." Therefore, a vanishingly scarce binding in what must represent one of the earliest assemblages of the sheets. As expected, has the first issue error p.27 for p.275. Hinges separating, otherwise near fine. [Attributes: First Edition]

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Baumer, W. & I.Schnorr and Others
        The Workshop A Monthly Journal Devoted to Progress of the Useful Arts Volumes III and IV
      E.Steiger, New York 1870 - This is a very good hardcover copy in the original binding of leather spine and corners and dark pebbled cloth boards. The leather is tooled in gilt, with raised bands on the spine and gilt borders on the covers. This is volumes 3 and 4 bound together. Generally very clean inside, but some light foxing, a previous owner name on the endpaper, and a light moisture stain (in faint outline) to the lower edge and margin of the last pages of Volume IV. A journal of decorative arts, illustrating a whole range of decorative arts, including metalwork, ceramics, furniture, stone carving and textiles. Beautifully printed with highly detailed engravings on almost every page. Many full-page plates. 13" high X 10" wide, 192 & 192 pages. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Prang, Louis and Co
        ALPHABETS PLAIN, ORNAMENTED AND ILLUMINATED, A SELECTION FROM THE BEST ANCIENT AND MODERN STYLES, PARTICULARLY ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF PAINTERS, ENGRAVERS, MARBLEWORKERS AND ILLUMINATORS
      Boston: L. Prang & Co, 1870. original green cloth stamped in gilt. oblong 8vo. original green cloth stamped in gilt. (16) leaves. Preface, color title page followed by 15 plates of alphabets (some colored), and a leaf of advertising. Publishing date comes from title in ad in the back. Former owner has added pencil addresses and comments on front pastedown, free endpaper and verso of free endpaper. Shaken with pages detached. Covers are well preserved.

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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
        Poems [Special Early Binding Called for by Rossetti]
      London: F. S. Ellis, 1870. First edition. First issue text. Special binding printed by the publisher's binder (Burn & Co., with their binder's ticket at rear) as requested by Rossetti. There is one copy in the Colbeck Collection, "As soon as this book was bound it ws apparent to Rossetti that the binding case was fractionally too thick for the body of the text, causing design and lettering of spine to overlap. A few copies were hastily put-up for him byt he same binder (with ticket) in a plain cloth of similar colour and texture, spine lettered "Poems/By/D. G./Rossetti" in a smaller type and between borad and narrow bands at top and bottom, etc." Therefore, a vanishingly scarce binding in what must represent one of the earliest assemblages of the sheets. As expected, has the first issue error p.27 for p.275. Hinges separating, otherwise near fine.

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Reynolds.G. W. M. [George William Macarthur Renolds 1814-1879]:
        CANONBURY HOUSE; Or, The Queen's Prophecy.
      LONDON John Dicks 313 The Strand First Edition 1870 - A very nice copy of the first edition in original blind stamped & gilt embossed publishers cloth 10"x7" 237pps. printed in double colums and bound from 30 weekly penny parts. Original yellow coated endpapers with no ownership marks 21 full page illustrations by by E.H.Corbould [1815-1905] Reynolds was an English novelist and Chartist leader ; Editor of the London Journal [1846] Reynold's Miscellany [1846] and Reynold's Weekly Newspaper (1850) Virtually forgotten now, his exposure of Victorian poverty & criminality predates Mayhew's better known accounts. In his lifetime he was more read than Dickens or Thackeray and in his obituary " The Bookseller " called him the most popular writer of our times. Scarce Copac records only the Bodleian Library copy. NB: Additional images of the book can be provided on request. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

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DORE' Gustave - OLLIER Edmund (a cura)
        The DORE' GALLERY: Containing Two Hundred and Fifty Beautiful Engravings, Selected from The Doré Bible, Milton, Dante Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, Atala, Fontaine, Fairy Realm, don Quixote, Baron Munchausen, Croquemitaine, &c. &c.
      Cassell, Petter, and Galpin 1870 in 4° grande (cm 35x27), pp. 4, 250 tavv., 172 (di 180) di testo, 4; leg. coeva m / pelle rossa con angoli, tit. in oro al ds., piatti in legno foderati in carta marmor., tagli dorati. Opera enciclopedica sulla produzione del più grande illustratore francese dell?ottocento, le inc., protette da veline con citazioni e indicazioni dei passi ill., sono seguite da ampie spiegazioni poste a fine vol. Mancano le ultime 8 pp. di ?The Works Illustrated? ed alcune pp. dell?indice; restauro al margine di 1 c., e margini rifatti a 2 cc.; lievi e diffuse fior., ma m. tavv. ne sono completamente prive. Mancanze a parte, l?opera è in buono stato, completa delle sue tavv. 081 / 29 78

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Champlain, Samuel) C. H. Laverdiere
        OEUVERS DE CHAMPLAIN PUBLIEES SOUS LE PATRONAGE DE L'UNIVERSITE LAVAL (6 VOLUMES BOUND IN 2)
      Imprime Au Seminaire Par Geo. E. Desbarats, Quebec 1870 - Quarto. 2 books have been discreetly and archivally rebacked with original backstrips present; contents clean and bindings sound; numerous plates, some color, many of which are fold out; there are 2 quite large fold-out maps--one is very nice, the other has been archivally reattached at a tear on the top corner--this one also shows wear at the folds with closed tears at the intersections of the horizontal and verticle folds; nevertheless, a nice copy of a quite uncommon set; digital images availabe upon request. Very Good binding. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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L. PERROUD (Peintre )
        DESSIN ORIGINAL AQUARELLE EN COULEURS: "INTERIEUR DU CHATEAU DES DUCS DE BRETAGNE A NANTES " PAR L. PERROUD
      - Dessins Un Dessin Original, à la mine de plomb, lavis (rouge, bleu, gris,et marron) et craie blanche, Format : 37,2 centimètres de haut par 25,7 centimètres de large, sur papier gris, signée en bas à gauche à l'encre brune, Période création/exécution : 19e siècle.(1870) peintre inconnu mais DESSIN SUPERBE.RARETE.en trés bon état (very good condition). [Attributes: Signed Copy]

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BRINTON, John H
        Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton, Major and Surgeon U.S.V. 1861-1865
      8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 361pp. Frontispiece portrait. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear; inner hinges starting but expertly and archivally strengthened, thus tight; smallish age toned area on front endpaper from long-ago newsprint contact. Tight and nice first edition of this important and scarce military medical memoir. This exceptional copy bears the small custom bookplate on front pastedown of Christian Brinton (1870-1942), a noted medical professional well-known as an art critic collector and curator who promoted modernism and other art "isms." Above this bookplate, he handsomely pencils "C.W. Brinton / Bryn Mawr, Pa. 10/15/42" -- obviously pencilled shortly before his death some time later that year. The front flyleaf opposite this bears two additional Brinton family inscriptions: Nicely penned near the top is this presentation inscription: "Christian Brinton / with the regards of / his friend and / kinsman the editor / Jasper Yates Brinton / July 3, 1915." And below this is the following large, bold inscription: "To Christian Brinton / from / 'The dark haired girl' / on this fourteenth day / of November -- 1935 -- / 'Bidderhook' / Sarah Brinton Auchenried." John H. married Sarah Ward in 1866 and the couple had four children, the youngest of which was Jasper, who edited his father's posthumously-published autobiography. What Christian and Sarah's relationship to the author is remains unclear. James I. Robertson Jr. notes: "Brinton, a renowned surgeon and able scholar, provides intimate glimpses of both Federal hospitals in the West and the principal battlefields of the East." NEVINS I, 63.

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TENNYSON, Alfred, Baron Tennyson.
        A Collection of five first editions by Alfred Tennyson from the Library of Arthur Tennyson, four INSCRIBED, three SIGNED.
      1870-86 All five volumes are in original green cloth, rubbed, with fore edges of boards uniformly affected by damp.1. The Holy Grail, Strahan, 1870. INSCRIBED on leading blank by Emily Tennyson: 'Arthur & Harriet From Alfred & Emily'. 2. Queen Mary, Henry S. King, 1875. INSCRIBED on e.p.: 'Arthur Tennyson from Alfred'. 3. Harold, Henry S. King, 1877. INSCRIBED on half title: 'Arthur & Harriet Tennyson from Alfred'. 4. The Lover's Tale, C. Kegan Paul, 1879. INSCRIBED on e.p. in pencil: 'A & H Tennyson, Clifton, Bristol, June 6th 1879 from the Author Ad. T.'. 5. Locksley Hall, Macmillan, 1886. With gift inscription for Christmas 1886 in pencil on leading blank, not from Alfred, and partially erased. Alfred and Arthur were the fourth and eighth of the twelve children born to the Reverend George Clayton Tennyson, 1778-1831, and Elizabeth Ffytche, 1781-1865. Arthur, 1814-1899, who married Harriet West, is one of the 'lost brothers' of the family; no letters to or from him are recorded in the Tennyson Letters ed. by Lang & Shannon. His grandfather suggests in 1827 that Arthur becomes a 'cadet or into the Navy'. In 1831 he writes: 'I don't know what Arthur is fit for. He still does not know the Multiplication Tables or indeed anything useful. He could learn if he would but he is idle as a Foal. He must be instructed before he can be fit for anything and his gestures and twitchings etc. are ridiculous and he would be a subject of ridicule anywhere.' Another letter from Cecilia Tennyson refers to Arthur as 'my poor brother' (1837). By 1843, Arthur was voluntarily admitted to Dumfries Asylum in an attempt to cure his alcoholism - and was visited there by Thomas Carlyle. Later in the year he travelled with Frederick and Septimus to Italy - and stayed there for the next twelve years. In 1852, Emily Tennyson refers to 'Arthur's book of sketches' and Charles says that he is 'going to put up at Arthur's'. He is mentioned only once in a letter from Alfred, writing to H.K. Atkinson in November 1873: '... Arthur is married, but has no family ...'. Little else seems to be known; Harriet West died at some point (date not found) and Arthur remarried Louisa Maynard. Interestingly, Alfred purchased his house, Farringford, on the Isle Of Wight, from the Reverend George Turner Seymour - of Clifton, Bristol, the address for Arthur & Harriet mentioned in the inscription to The Lover's Tale.

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Thomas Moore
        Moore's Irish Melodies - In Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth Of The Poet
      John G. Murdoch, No date, Leather Bound, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust JacketWith the Celebrated and Unsurpassed Symphonies and Accompaniments of Sir John Stevenson, Mus. Doc., and Sir Henry Bishop. Illustrated by twenty original steel engravings, After W. P. Frith, R.A., A. Elmore, R.A. & with a Biography of Thomas Moore and An Essay on the Music Of Ireland. Circa 1870. Full brown morocco. All engravings with tissue guards. Gilted page edges. Rebound. Corners bumped, back cover rubbed and wear at edges otherwise in very good condition. Inscription to previous owner on half title page along with another owner dated 1995. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Rare & Collectible::Rare & Collectible; Music; Music::Sheet Music; Antiques & Collectables; Rare & Collectible. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 002129.

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McAfee, Joseph B.
        Official Military History of Kansas Regiments During the War for the Suppression of the Great Rebellion
      W. S. Burke, 1870, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good Condition, Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket, Signed by person(s) connected with bookSize: 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Pencil markings throughout text. Front hinge cracked, but binding still secure. Rear hinge beginning to crack. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's name on pastedown. Stamp on edges of text-block. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends. Rebound to hardcover with decorative endpapers. Signed gift bookplate of David Whittaker, Adjunct General of Kansas from March 05, 1870 - March 05, 1873. Writing in pencil on front free endpage. Stain and small rebinding clippings on front free endpage. Quantity Available: 1. Signed by person(s) connected with book. Inventory No: 139520.

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Shakespere William ( Edited By Charles Knight )
        The Works of Shakspere Imperial Edition ( Complete in 2 Volumes ) ( Fine Leather Gilt Bindings )
      London: Virtue & Company Limited, 1870. Books measure 15 x 111 1/4 inches.Collation, 810,778,188pp, 46 full pages steel engraved illustrations, including frontis and titles. Bound in original publishers ornate gilt leather, full gilt edges. Leather very lightly rubbed, short minor split to 2 hinge joints, but boards firmly attached. Internally, pages and plates in very good clean condition throughout. A very nice clean edition, in very attractive period bindings. . Imperial Edition . Full-Leather. Very Good Plus. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

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PAINE, John.
        Sydney].
      c. 1870 - Albumen print. Five-part panorama. Fair tonal range and in fair condition, photographer's studio stamp on reverse and initials in negative, small tear in far right hand corner. Dimensions: 150 by 1000mm. (6 by 39.4 inches). This early and rare view of Sydney incorporates The North Shore, Neutral Bay, Milson's Point, Circular Quay, Darling Harbour, Balmain, Ball's head, Berry Bay and Parramatta River. John Paine was a commercial photographer who specialised in views of Sydney and the Blue Mountains. Paine showed his photographs worldwide and was awarded a bronze medal at the Sydney International Exhibition 1879, silver medal from Calcutta International Exhibition 1883 - 1884, bronze medal from Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London 1886, and a brass medal from International and Colonial Medal Amsterdam 1883.

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(ROPS). GLATIGNY, Albert
        Le fer rouge. Nouveaux châtiments.
      France et Belgique, Chez tous les libraires, 1870 [= Brussels, Poulet-Malassis, 1871]. Original wrappers. (4), 76 p. Uncut. With an original etching by Félicien Rops printed in red. Printed on papier de Hollande. First edition. Spine worn, cover a bit yellowed.* Rare first edition with the added etching, ridiculing Napoleon III and Maréchal Bazaine who are being branded with a red iron ('fer rouge') because of the Battle of Sedan and the Siege of Metz, while a vulture is sitting on the dead in a prison. This first edition is very rare.

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ROOSEVELT, Theodore
        His personal inscribed copy of a book by another another
      Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati 1870 - Light pencil inscription signed with initials on the blank page before the half-title: "Send back this book when you have finished with it as I need it for some of my work. T.R." An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith, During his Captivity with the Indians in the Years 1755, '56, '57, '58, & '59. With an Appendix of Illustrative Notes by W. M. Darlington of Pittsburgh. 190 pages, 8vo, dark green cloth with a gilt-stamped spine (edges and corners bumped and rubbed; partial closed tear along the inner edge of the half-title page; light pencil notations throughout, possibly written by Roosevelt). Cincinnati, Robert Clarke & Co., 1870. First edition. Very good(-) condition. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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Cussans, John Edwin (1837-1899)
        History of Hertfordshire, containing an Account of the Descents of the Various Manors; Pedigrees of Families connected with the County; Antiquities, Local Customs, &c., &c. (6 parts in 3 Volumes, Large Paper copy)
      Chatto and Windus, 1870, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good Condition, First Edition, Signed By the AuthorSize: 33cm x 50cm, 1870-1881. 6 parts in 3 volumes. Half titles, engraved frontispiece portrait, one engraved map, 22 plates, all but one lithographed, 4 hand-coloured, 17 tinted (occasional light spotting), 2 plates lightly dampstained at the bottom (the image is not affected). Contemporary red half morocco and roan gilt (extremities rubbed), hinges were reinforced, top edges gilted. ONE OF 75 LARGE PAPER COPIES (this is #70, signed by Cussans). 33cm x 50cm, (13'' x 20''). VERY SCARCE. Photos available upon request. HEAVY SET (35 kg), Livre

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Dickens, Charles
        THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
      1870. With Twelve Illustrations by S. L. Fildes, and a Portrait. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. Original green cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Edition in book form. This remains one of the great unfinished and unsolved literary mysteries: only six serial parts were written when Dickens died on the 9th of June 1870. Numerous other writers have completed the tale, as they saw fit; even today, this mystery prompts other mysteries -- such as the recent books THE LAST DICKENS by Matthew Pearl and DROOD by Dan Simmons.~This copy is in the first binding state (with the saw-tooth border on the front cover). Stab-holes are visible near the gutter of the leaves, indicating that this is a copy bound from those original serial parts (the publisher invited buyers of parts to bring them in to be put into the official binding); this copy accordingly does not include the ad catalogue found only in some copies that were not originally in parts. Condition is near-fine with very little soil or wear. Smith I pp 111-117.

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PUZZLES
        Geographisches Geduldspiel
      Germany: c, 1870. Set of 6 engraved dissected puzzles, with a colour printed copy of each map loosely inserted, 280 x 310 mm., decorative box with colour lithograph on lid; some light wear to box edges, and paper repairs, otherwise in very good original condition. This lovely German puzzle-game, designed to encourage children's geographical awareness, includes two circular puzzles of the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. As the title of the game suggests (geduldspiel translates as "patience game"), patience was required to complete the set. All six puzzles are accompanied by a printed guide.

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FONTANE Marius
        VOYAGE PITTORESQUE A TRAVERS L’ISTHME DE SUEZ Vingt-cinq grandes aquarelles daprÃ¨s nature par RIOU, lithographiÃ©es en couleur par M. EugÃ¨ne Ciceri.
      Paris, Dupont / Lachaud Editeurs, Imprimerie J. Claye, s.d. (1870 ca.) In folio gr. (mm. 560 x 390), tela edit. blu (con aloni, restaurata), tit. e belle decorazioni oro ai piatti, tagli super. dorati, pp. (4),100, con il ritratto di Ferdinand de Lesseps (ideatore ed esecutore del progetto del taglio dell?'istmo), una carta geografica litografata del Canale di Suez con incluse 3 piante: Port Said, Ismailia, Suez, e con 25 magnifiche tavv. f.t. (precedute da velina con didascalia) tratte dagli acquarelli dal vero di Riou, litografati a colori da Ciceri, che raffigurano vedute del canale, di città, paesaggi, feste dell?'inaugurazione (ottobre 1869). Quest?'opera monumentale, superbamente illustrata, ci conduce da Port-Said a Suez, attraverso Kantara - El Guisr - il lago Timsah - Ismailia - da Timsah ai laghi Amers fino al Mar Rosso. L?'A., il giornalista francese Marius Fontane (1838-1914), fu segretario generale della Compagnia del Canale di Suez e fu al seguito di Ferdinand Lesseps anche per i lavori dell?'itsmo di Panama. Rara "edizione originale", nella tiratura di 500 esemplari.Cfr. Brunet,VII,510: ?"Volume splendidement illustré..?" - Benezit,XI, p. 722 che dell?'artista francese precisa: ?"Edouard Riou (1833-1900), peintre, aquarelliste, dessinateur. Il traita particulièrement des sites de la foret de Fontainebleau et des scènes égyptiennes..?" - Lorenz,IX, p. 595. Le prime 2 cc. (occhietto e ritratto) restaur. e con un brutto alone all?'ang. infer. destro (cm. 16x18); sulle 12 cc. seguenti l?'alone si riduce e attenua sempre di più sino a scomparire. Dalla p. 17 in poi il volume (tutto su carta forte) è fresco e molto ben conservato.

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Roudanovsky, Pierre (1829-1888, eig. Petr Vasil'evich Rudanovskii)
        Études photographiques sur le système nerveux de l'homme et de quelques animaux supérieurs d'après les coupes de tissu nerveux congelé. 2e édition, revue et corrigée. Atlas und Text in 2 Bänden
      Paris, Adrien Delahaye 1870.. [Atlas]: Folio (32 x 47 cm). Halbleinenmappe mit aufgezogenem Titel der Org.-Broschur und Schließbändern, Rücken erneuert, 1 Bl. (Titel), 16 Tafeln mit 165 montierten Originalphotographien. Einband etwas verstaubt und an den Kanten berieben, die Trägerkartons der Photographien mitunter etwas braunfleckig. [Text]: Oktav, bedruckte Org.-Broschur. 64 S., unbeschnitten, mit wenigen kleinen Randläsuren. Insgesamt gut erhalten. 2. Ausgabe (Broschur d. Textheftes vermutlich irrtümlich als 3. Ausgabe bezeichnet, Titel jedoch als 2.). - Nicht bei Garrison (History of Neurology), Taureck (Bedeutung der Photographie für die medizinische Abbildung im 19. Jahrhundert) oder anderen uns zugänglichen Bibliographien des Gebietes. - Von großer Seltenheit, über den KVK ist diese zweite Ausgabe nur in der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig nachgewiesen, die erste Ausgabe von 1868 findet sich lediglich in den Pariser Bibliotheken BNF und Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé (Abfrage KVK am 16. Februar 2012), sowie der Sammlung photographisch illustrierter Bücher der British Library. Seit 1975 kein Exemplar auf deutschen Auktionen nachweisbar. - Roudanovsky (1829-1888) Schüler Brocas, wirkte als Arzt in Nijni Taguil, im russischen Gouvernement Perm im Ural. Sein mit Originalmikrophotographien illustriertes Atlaswerk, dem großen hysiologen Vlaude Bernard gewidmet, ist eine der frühesten Anwendungen der Photographie auf histologischem Gebiet. Roudanovsky publizierte 1876 noch ein weiteres Werk zu diesem Thema (De la structure des racines des nerfs spinaux et du tissu nerveux dans les organes centraux de l'homme et de quelques animaux supérieurs), das vermutlich von seiner Frau Olga aus dem Russischen ins Französische übersetzt wurde (das ist verm. auch der Fall bei vorliegendem Werk).

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LLOYD, L.
        Peasant life in Sweden. London, J. Childs and son, 1870. 8:o. Extra illustrated title,X,479,(1) pp. & 9 plates.
      1870 - Green publisher's cloth, spine gilt, covers with blindstamped border. Endpapers renewed, repairs to outer joints and spine, one of the plates with tear. Grey front wrapper preserved and with dedication to the author's daughter Maria Lloyd. Signature and bookplate of the Swedish naturalist and painter Gunnar Brusewitz. A well read copy.Bring 802. On the wedding practices, Christmas traditions, folklore, games, Midsummer celebrations, educational system and social order of Sweden. Llewellyn Lloyd (1792-1876) was born in London where his father was a banker. Inspired by Captain Brooke's travels in Scandinavia he came to Sweden in 1823, filled with a love of adventure and a passion for hunting. He wrote extensively about hunting and fishing and his books on these subjects were generally well received. "Peasant life in Sweden", which was translated into Swedish in 1871, was however criticized for giving an antiquated picture of Lloyd's new homeland. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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