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FRANCE, Anatole.
        Histoire Contemporaine: L'Orme du Mail - Le Mannequin d'Osier - L'Anneau d'Améthyste - Monsieur Bergeret à Paris.
      Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1897 - 1900 - Editions originales, 4 volumes in-8, tous en tirage de tête sur Japon impérial; L'Orme du Mail (n°26/30), Le Mannequin d'Osier (n°28/30), L'Anneau d'Améthyste (n°11/40), Monsieur Bergeret à Paris (n° 35/60). L'Orme du Mail: [iv], 336p.; Le Mannequin d'Osier: [iv], 350p.; L'Anneau d'Améthyste: [iv], 419p.; Monsieur Bergeret à Paris: [iv], 404p. Sobre et élégante reliure bradel de Carayon en demi-maroquin rouge à coins, dos lisse orné de filets dorés , plats et gardes marbrés, couvertures et dos d'origine conservés, les quatre volumes réunis sous un emboîtage bordé assorti. Avec les ex-libris de Alain de Suzannet et de Jean Inglessi. Exemplaire de parfaite fraîcheur. Exceptionnelle réunion des quatre volumes de cette tétralogie romanesque sur papier du Japon, remarquable satire de la société contemporaine avec Monsieur Bergeret, professeur de littérature latine, comme fil rouge. Située d'abord à Tourcoing, l'action se déplace à Paris avec la nomination du héros à la Sorbonne, et sa recherche d'un logement: "La rue Gît-le-Coeur l'attirait particulièrement, et quand il voyait l'écriteau d'un appartement à louer? il gravissait les montées, accompagné d'une concierge sordide? Les ateliers de reliure et de cartonnage y mettaient d'aventure une horrible senteur de colle pourrie. Et Mr. Bergeret s'en allait, pris de tristesse et de découragement." Le comte Alain de Suzannet, grand bibliophile, est issu d'une famille vendéenne propriétaire du Château de la Chardière à Chavagnes. Il vécut à Lausanne, à la "Petite Chardière", jusqu'à son décès en 1950. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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PORTA, Reverend Austin C.
        Manuscript Journal: College of the Immaculate Conception
      New Orleans. [1897-1907]. Marble papercovered boards with brown cloth backstrip. 420 hand numbered lined pages. Chips and tears on the spine, worn edges, rubbing, thus good only. A handwritten journal by the Reverend Austin C. Porta while he held the position of chaplain as well as Professor of Logic, Metaphysics, and Ethics at the College of the Immaculate Conception, a boy's high school run by the Jesuits in New Orleans. The journal is written during the end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th, and includes an intricate hand drawn "deaf and dumb" (sign language) alphabet, the Lord's prayer written in 21 languages, including Gaelic, Welsh, Dutch, Anglo-Saxon, and Icelandic, and several pages examining the history of the Church written out as a timeline beginning with "30 [AD] Council of Jerusalem," and ending with a list of recent Popes. Porta also wrote out two fables, and short biographies of authors and poets, such as Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, and John Keats; these include a brief description of their lives, an explanation of the writer's "genius," and a sampling of their work. There are several pieces of ephemera laid in, some inscribed by Porta and one page with the letterhead of the College of the Immaculate Conception.An interesting collection of religious and educational musings by a Jesuit at the turn of the 20th Century. .

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Bellamy, Edward.
        EQUALITY .
      New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897 - Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii-viii 1-412 [413-420: ads], fly leaves at front and rear, original decorated blue-gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in sliver and black. First edition. Sequel to Bellamy's influential LOOKING BACKWARD 2000-1887 (1888). Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-13; (1981) 1- 17; (1987) 1-7; and (1995) 1-7. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 058. Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity, p. 201. Rooney, Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias, 1865-1917, pp. 182-83. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 111. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, pp. 66-7. Bleiler (1978), p. 20. Reginald 01066. BAL 967. Wright (III) 459. Early owner's name and date, 1 July 1897, in ink on front free endpaper. Mild damp stain to upper right margin of the text block and upper edges of the front and rear covers, a very good copy in a printed dust jacket with mild damp stain along upper edges with light show through, some age darkening to edges and spine panel, mild shelf wear to spine ends, and 50 mm closed tear along upper portion of rear flap fold. The scarce jacket is attractive overall. (#136810) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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JOHN MUNRO. [David Gascoyne]
        A Trip to Venus. A novel
      Jarrold & Sons, London, 1897, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, 1st Edition. First Edition, first printing. 8vo. 254pp + [xviii] publisher's catalogue at rear. Blue smooth weave cloth lettered in gilt and red, and decorated with gilt-stamped stars. Publisher's monogram blind-stamped to rear board. David Gascoyne's copy, with his name and the date 1943 inked to the front endpaper. Cloth discoloured at backstrip. Front hinge tender at half-title yet binding perfectly sound thereafter. Some darkening to endpapers and pastedowns. A lovely crisp copy of an extremely uncommon science fiction novel: an account of a journey to an idyllic utopia on Venus, with a brief excursion to Mercury, written by a Bristol-based mechanical engineer. The first chapter, 'A Message from Mars', for originally published as a stand-alone short story in Cassell magazine (1895), and was subsequently revised into this current form.

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[HONG KONG, MACAO AND CANTON 1890S ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM].
        [Royal Engineers and the R.A.M.C. South China in the 1890s].
      51 albumen photographs, 49 full plate (approx 22 x 26cm) and 2 half page (approx 14 x 20cm) illustrating life in the Each photograph laid on card and presented in a lacquer album featuring a Japanese scene on the upper cover. Most of the photographs are captioned in ink in a neat late 19th century hand, some have also been captioned by Arthur Hacker in pencil. Some light browning and occasional spotting on card, some images a little faded. Upper hinge of album split. A very interesting and unusual album in good condition. This album is from the collection of multi-talented Hong Kong historian, collector, artist and author Mr Arthur Hacker MBE. This documentary album includes many unusual images of interest including scenes from the life of Royal Engineers and the Royal Army Medical Corps (R.A.M.C) in the 1890s Hong Kong. Additionally the album includes numerous most unusual images of topographical and historic interest. Some photographs of particular note are: 1. "Ti-ping-shou, [sic Tai-ping-Shan] scene of plague in '94" with the more interesting additional caption by Arthur Hacker "Government Plague Inspectors. (note acetylene lanterns). 2. "Hong Kong Harbour". Looking across the warehouse roofs to Kowloon and the hills beyond. 3. "Pic-nic Party of R.E in a Chinese Temple, Fo-to-mun-ki". [Launch picnic at Chek-siu-wan, 11.6.98. (Mixed group of 60.)]. 4. "Hong Kong Harbour". Looking across the Royal Naval Dockyard to the mainland. 5. "Kowloon City with Paddy Fields beyond". View of Kowloon walled city looking south. 6. Two photographs showing typhoon damage. "Effects of Typhoon" and "S.M.(?Submarine)Pier after Typhoon". 7. Docks, Kowloon. 8. "H.K. 24th May 1897". Queen's Birthday Harbour scene (British fleet dressed overall). 9. "Wanchai, the Harbour, & Kowloon". The American Fleet in Port. 10. Uncaptioned studio image showing 5 Chinese men seated at a table eating. Described by Arthur Hacker as "Fine studio portrait of five Chinese taking chow. (Style of M.Miller but probably later). 11. View across the roof tops of Canton to the French Roman Catholic cathedral. 12. "Execution of Pirates at Kowloon". The "Namoa" Pirates. Kowloon City Beach (lookig ESE) 17 April 1891. 13. A second photograph entitled "After execution". Captioned in pencil by Arthur Hacker "The Namoa Pirates - 17 April, 1891. Head of Kowloon Bay - looking west - Kowloon City and Lian Rock to right.... Several Europeans crossed over from Hong Kong to witness the Executions..." 14. "The Queen's Statue". Described by Arthur Hacker on the accompanying typed sheet as "The Unveiling of the Queen Victoria's Statue on the Praya Reclamation, 28.5.96 shewing Hong Kong Club partly completed and harbour background. (A very detailed print of excellent quality and of exceptional merit). 15. R.E. Jubilee Celebrations Hong Kong 1897. 2 images including Happy Valley Grandstand - hymn-singing, 21st June 1897. 16. Good photograph of the Governor, Sir William Robinson and Sir Paul Chater. 17. Macao. The Praya Grande - looking south. .

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Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge].
        THE PLATTNER STORY AND OTHERS.
      London: Methuen & Co., 1897 - Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [1] 2-301 [302: printer's imprint [303-304: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank; half title and title leaves are a conjugate pair and are inserted] + 40-page publisher's catalogue dated "March 1897" inserted at rear, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition. One of Wells's more uncommon books, this collection includes many of his best SF and fantasy tales. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-154. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1676. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2328. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 227. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 70. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-245. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 15056. Currey, p. 522. Hammond C2. Wells 10. Wells Society 10. Slight spine lean, spine panel just a bit darkened, endpapers a bit tanned, leather bookplate of G. E. G. Tooth affixed to front paste-down with light offset on free endpaper, still a bright, tight, very good copy. An attractive copy of a book seldom found in nice condition. (#149942) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Harte, Bret
        [AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED OF HARTE'S ACCOUNT OF THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH, "MY EXPERIENCES AS A GOLD DIGGER"] [with:] [CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT OF THE SAME STORY RETITLED IN MANUSCRIPT, "HOW I WENT TO THE MINES"]
      [Arford House, Headley, Hampshire, England, 1897. Quarto. Loose sheets. Accompanied by the original brown paper packaging with additional autograph notation by Harte and addressed to Harte, postmarked November 1897. Two tiny stains to the first page of the manuscript, mailing folds. Minor fold separations to first page of typescript, one horizontal mailing fold. Overall very good. In a cloth chemise with red morocco label in gilt, with two modern bookplates, in a blue morocco clamshell case. An extraordinary surviving literary treasure from one of the West's legendary authors, comprising working drafts of Bret Harte's account of his time as a gold digger, probably in the Stanislaus River region in Tuolumne or Calaveras county. Both the manuscript and typescript have holographic corrections in the author's hand. Little is known of Harte's life between his arrival in Oakland in 1854 and his move to San Francisco in 1860 to work for the GOLDEN ERA. His work in the gold-mining regions that figures so prominently in his work occurred during this dark period in his biography, and are of the most interest to Harte scholars. This present manuscript is one of the most important sources for researching Harte's experiences during this mysterious period. This story provides some of the best detail on how Harte first became acquainted with the mines and miners which figure so prominently in his most famous works. "[This sketch] lays no claim to biographical accuracy, and certain improbable incidents were doubtlessly elaborated for the sake of giving point to the narrative. The storyâ€¦employs the first person - with Harte usually a sign of autobiographic tendency. Harte's sisters accepted it as essentially accurate; so did his devoted friend [T. Edgar] Pemberton. The narrative, moreover, has the ring of authenticity; the intimate experiences and petty difficulties of the boy walking to the mines are hardly ones which an elderly gentleman would be able to imagine in London" - Stewart. The typescript, the first seven pages of which are present here, has been corrected in manuscript to be nearly identical to the published version. Most notable in both typescript and manuscript are the passages which were entirely deleted from the published version which first appeared in the American periodical, YOUTH'S COMPANION in 1899. The published version numbers approximately 3800 words and Harte's own notation on the packaging indicates the original story was 4500 words. Deleted passages include the first paragraph recounting Harte's experiences with mining and his bad first impression of miners: "I suspect that I never really caught what was then called - 'the gold fever' - an infection to which an imaginative and errant school boy like myself might have been unduly susceptible. I never had the faith of a gold seeker. Even the glamour of emigration to a distant and unknown country did not include the hopeful vision of picking up gold nuggets in the streets of San Francisco...I remember that at first the returning successful or unsuccessful miner as I saw him in the streets of San Francisco, unkempt of hair and beard and patched of trowser, did not strike my boyish fancy as an heroic figure. His implements were not picturesque, and in his kit or outfit the frying pan and the kettle were shamelessly obtrusive...Let any of my youthful readers, unused to manual labor, imagine himself condemned for days, weeks and perhaps even years, to the regular task of digging, shovelling and carrying earth in a wheelbarrow to a dirty stream to be as regularly washed; let him further imagine that his only reward for this toil was just sufficient to procure him the plainest food and he will have some idea of gold digging as practised by at least two-thirds of the mining population of California - even in what was known as its 'flush times.'" Later, Harte wrote of the visual environment in California, especially around the gold mines themselves: "In that absolutely clarified air, it seemed only a few hundred feet away. In point of fact it was nearly two miles as the crow flies, and a hawk swinging midway up the abyss, seemed larger than the crawling miners besides the canvas tents. There were gashes and excavations on the mountain side - and a rugged gap in the files of pines; there were hovels, misshapen sheds, and piles of debris." From the celebrated collection of Estelle Doheny copy, with her bookplate on the folder, sold as lot 720 at the auction of her collection at Christie's on Feb. 2, 1988, where it realized $18,000.

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Meyer, 5. Aufl. - Luxusausgabe / Prachausgabe. -
        Meyers Konversations-Lexikon Ein Nachschlagewerk des allgemeinen Wissens. Fünfte, gänzlich neubearbeitete Auflage. Neuer Abdruck.
      Leipzig-Wien, BI Bibliographisches Institut, 1897. - 5. Aufl., (17+3) Bände. 4° (25x17) je Band etwa 1000 S., mit insgesamt mehr als 10500 Abb.im Text und auf 1088 Bildertafeln in Holzstich und Chromolithographie, Karten und Plänen, einheitl OHldrbde mit LdrEcken, floraler ReliefpapierBezug, 2 farb RSchilder, mit reicher Blind- und goldPräg, dreiseitig marmorSchnitt, goldSchmuckVorsätze, (alle Gelenke und Kapitale intakt), wenige Kanten etwas berieben, einzelne Titelblätter schwach staubstockfleckig, kaum gelesen, sehr gepflegte Exemplare, komplett in 21 Bänden.17 Bände von A-Z (komplett), dazu 18. Band (1898 Ergänzungen und Nachträge - Register), 19.Band (Jahres-Supplement 1898 - 1899), 20.Band (Jahres-Supplement 1899 - 1900), 21.Band (Jahres-Supplement 1900 - 1901).-

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Chavannes, Albert.
        IN BRIGHTER CLIMES; OR, LIFE IN SOCIOLAND: A REALISTIC NOVEL .
      Knoxville, East Tennessee: Chavannes and Co., [1897] - Octavo, [1-2] [i] ii-iv [1] 2-254, original pictorial gray-green wrappers printed in black. First edition, later issue. A sequel to THE FUTURE COMMONWEALTH; OR, WHAT SAMUEL BALCOM SAW IN SOCIOLAND (1892). In the 1960s, a young married couple, Charles and Mary, emigrate to Socioland, an American cooperative commonwealth in Central Africa. "Chavannes states that this is a history of the life and marriage of Charles Morril and Mary Lenard, who live in a country 'under social condition very different' from those in America. He places Socioland in Africa because the Mormons have 'pre-empted' the only site available in the U.S. and because he objects to the Moon or Mars "as a dwelling place for earthly beings." Although he gives some notice to property reform and has the commonwealth handle all trade, most attention goes to sexual matters. Women have gained full equality with men, prostitution does not exist, and there is no stigma attached to illegitimate births. Marriage is a free contract between equals. After Morril's wife has two children, the main story line concerns his affair with a young woman, Rose Mansfield, who is something of a flirt. When Mary learns of this, the couple is brought closer together, and they realize that monogamy is the 'best form of sexual association' at the present stage of civilization." - Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 154. This book was published in 1895 in cloth with an inserted frontispiece portrait of the author. The 1897 copies, issued in paper without the frontispiece as "New Thought Library" number 1 (May 1897) appear to comprise trimmed down first printing sheets. Both the 1895 and the 1897 issues are rare. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 196. Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity, p. 198. Rooney, Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias, 1865-1917, p. 184. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 105-06. Wright (III) 1000. Signature of Chas. C. Haskell at upper edge of front cover. Front wrapper preserved, rear wrapper renewed, neatly rebacked with black cloth tape with spine title on typed label, a very good copy. (#139191) [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

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DEBUSSY, Claude 1862-1918
        Autograph letter signed in full to the music publisher George Hartmann, dated September 18, [18]97.
      - La chevalier d'or, a Rosicrucian "pantomime si esthétique de Madame [Jean- Louis] Forain," was intended for private performance at her Paris home, probably for Christmas 1897. Although Debussy had evidently completed a musical plan for the pantomime, he never finished it. In a letter, dated 1 November, Debussy tells René Peter that Le chevalier was "naturally still not finished." When Madame Forain gave him a deadline to complete the work, Debussy remarked that it would be just as easy "to learn Assyrian" as to comply with it. Robert Orledge in Debussy and the Theatre, p. 264. George Hartmann (d. 1900) secured the rights to all Debussy's works for 500 francs a month in 1895. In a letter to Pierre Louys, Debussy wrote "[Hartmann] was sent to me by Providence and played his part with a grace and charm quite rare among the philanthropists of art." Paul Jackson. 1 page. Octavo, ca. 247 x 201 mm. In black ink. Debussy asks his publisher for an advance of 500 francs to facilitate the composition of his pantomime, La chevalier d'or: "Naturally I have great problems, complicated by my father's illness, and I shall like to have a little peace to compose my pantomime the best and quickest [way] possible."Creased at folds and slightly overall; very small stain to lower blank margin of recto.

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Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge].
        THIRTY STRANGE STORIES .
      New York: Edward Arnold, 1897 - Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi 1-504 [505-506: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original pictorial medium green cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in black, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. Collects thirty stories, three of which appear here for the first time in book form. Most of the others were published earlier in THE STOLEN BACILLUS (1895) and THE PLATTNER STORY (1897). This was Wells's first short story collection published in America and there was no equivalent printing in Britain. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1677. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2329. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-247. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 15082. Wells 13. Mild rubbing to spine ends and corner tips, a nearly fine copy. An excellent copy of an uncommon book. (#136504) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Therese, Prinzessin von Bayern
        Meine Reise in den brasilianischen Tropen. Mit zwei Karten, 4 Tafeln, 18 Vollbildern und 60 Textabbildungen zum Theil nach Photographien der Reisegesellschaft und Zeichnungen der Verfassering.
      Verlag Dietrich Reimer,, Berlin, 1897 - EA. Berlin, Verlag Dietrich Reimer, 1897. Kl4°. 542 S. m. Titelportät (sehr schönes Lichtdruck-Portrait des damaligen brasilianischen Kaisers Dom Pedro II unter Schutzblatt (Chemise). Ill. O-Leinen m. Goldpr. Goldschnitt. Schmuckvorsätze (Goldprägung). Lesefaden. Einbandkanten leicht bestoßen. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung der Prinzessin in Portugiesich "A sua querida prima Isabel, digna filha do seu Pai, a autora. Novembro 1897". Sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Als Widmungsexemplar eine besondere Rarität. Ill. O-Leinen m. Goldpr. Goldschnitt. Schmuckvorsätze (Goldprägung). Lesefaden. Einbandkanten leicht bestoßen. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung der Prinzessin in Portugiesich "A sua querida prima Isabel, digna filha do seu Pai, a autora. Novembro 1897". Sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge]
        THE INVISIBLE MAN: A GROTESQUE ROMANCE
      London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited,. 1897. title page printed in orange and black, original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold.. Spine panel a bit darkened, endpapers a bit darkened and lightly. foxed, top edge of text block dusty, hairline crack along inner front. hinge (which is still tight), an about near fine copy with no binding. wear and bright cover stamping. A superior copy of this book.. (#147967). First edition. "Amoral scientist discovers invisibility, but even this fails in the face of invincible obtuseness and cruelty of petty bourgeois England. Brilliant idea, memorable scenes, and vigorous chase-plot in an ambiguous (and scientifically impossible) tale." - Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 70. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-163 and (2004) II-1227. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2330. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 797. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 226. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1057-61. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 15039. Currey, p. 520. Hammond B4. Wells 11. Wells Society 11.

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Hensen, Prof. V.; Apstein, Dr. C.
        Die Nordsee - Expedition 1895 des Deutschen Seefischerei-Vereins. Über die Eimenge der im Winter laichenden Fische.
      Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel, Leipzig 1897 - 1 Blatt, 96 Seiten, 1 Blatt. Mit 4 Figuren im Text und 20 farbigen, lithographierten ( teilweise ausfaltbaren ) Tafeln. Goldgeprägter Ohldr, Groß4°. Inhalt: Reisebericht - Systematik ( der Fischer ) - Verteilung der Eier und Fischlarven nach den Befunden der 3 Nordsee-Fahrten - Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse - Über die Fruchtbarkeit des Wassers - Nachtrag - Literaturverzeichnis - Tafelerklärung. Mit eingebundenem Handschreiben Prof. Dr. Henkings ( Generalsekretär des Deutschen Seefischereivereins ) an Emile Cacheaux (?), President de la societe.et.peches maritimes.) Datiert am 24. Mai 1897. " Euer Hochwohlgeboren, gestatten wir uns ein Exemplar der Schrift.ganz ergebenst zu überreichen. Deutscher Seefischereiverein in Vertretung des beurlaubten Präsidenten, Prof. Dr. Henking, Generalsecretär ". Einband etwas berieben, Ecken und Kanten bestoßen. Innen Bibliotheksstempel. Papier durchgehend gebräunt, wenige Seiten gering fleckig. Einige Seiten etwas angerändert. Tafeln sauber und von guter Erhaltung. Insgesamt gutes Exemplar. ( Pic erhältlich / webimage available ) [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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        Meyers Konversations-Lexikon 5.Auflage Engelmann, 17 Bände
      - Prachtausgabe von Gustav Engelmann, Berlin.Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Ein Nachschlagewerk des allgemeinen Wissens. Fünfte gänzlich neubearbeitete Auflage. 17 Bände (A-Z komplett). Leipzig und Wien, Bibliographisches Institut, 1897 (Neuer Abdruck). Original-Halbledereinbände. Dekorative Lederrücken mit sehr schönen, grazil gearbeiteten Blind- & Goldprägungen im Jugendstil. Lexikonformat ca. 25 x 17 cm. Wie auch den ersten acht Originalbildern zu entnehmen, ist die Rückenfront sehr harmonisch. Die Goldprägung glänzend erhalten, nur geringe Bereibung an den Rücken. An einer Rückenkante ein kleiner, an einer zwei ganz kleine Einrisse; bei Band 7 ebenfalls ein Einriss sowie Fehlstück. Buchkanten & Außengelenke berieben, Ecken bestoßen. Die Buchdeckel haben feine Kratzer, einige wenige etwas mehr & einer ist ein Stück berieben. Kein unangenehmer Geruch. Bindung intakt. Grafiken, Karten & Abbildungen einwandfrei erhalten, keine (der häufigen) beschädigte Stellen. Seiten unterschiedlich fleckig: vordere & hintere Seiten stärker, ansonsten mal mehr oder weniger, aber teils auch gar keine Fleckigkeit. Ein Seidenpapier ein Stück eingerissen, eine Karte fast lose, ein Stadtplan & eine Karte lose, zwei Tafeln ebenfalls. Zwei Ecken einer Seite sind abgerissen, dabei ist bei einer Seite die Schrift betroffen (es fehlen jeweils etwa fünf Buchstaben). 45000 Gramm.

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Stead, William T[homas] (editor).
        REAL GHOST STORIES: A REVISED REPRINT OF THE CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S NUMBERS OF THE "REVIEW OF REVIEWS" 1891-2.
      London: Grant Richards, 1897 - Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xiii [xiv] xv-xvi 1-334 [335-336: ads] + 16-page publisher's catalogue dated "Autumn, 1897" inserted at rear, original dark green cloth, front panel stamped in white, spine panel stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed. First "book" edition and first printing of this text. A revised text "with some necessary omissions" of two famous collections of "true" ghost stories and articles on psychic phenomena by a major nineteenth-century promoter and champion of Spiritualism. "The Christmas and New Year's numbers of the REVIEW OF REVIEWS, 1891-2, supplied a large number of REAL GHOST STORIES, under which title, indeed, they were reprinted in October, 1897. Many of us will remember how people at the time spoke of the REVIEW with bated breath: how it was hurried out of the sight of children, and read almost in secret by their elders with blanching cheeks and tingling nerves. I fear we may have become very sophisticated since these happy days." - Summers (ed), Victorian Ghost Stories, p. xxi. The best known and most influential of the late Victorian "true" ghost story collections. For a biographical sketch of Stead see, Shepard (ed.), Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology, Second Edition, pp. 1286-7. A bit of tanning and foxing to the endpapers, else a bright, nearly fine copy. (#151652) [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Worpswede, Aus.
        Neue Folge 1897. Berlin, Fischer & Franke, 1897. Mit 1 radierten Titelvignette u. 12 Radierungen von Hans am Ende, Fritz Overbeck, Fritz Mackensen u. Heinrich Vogeler. Folio. OHlwd.-Mappe mit schwarz- u. goldgepräg. Titelillustr. (angestaubt u. berieben).,
      1897 - Enthält die Radierungen 'Die Hamme', 'Jan van Moor' und 'Fleet' von Fritz Mackensen, 'Dornröschen' (Rief 20 II b (100)), 'Frühling' (Rief 18 c (100)) und 'Die Lärche' (Rief 19 II b (100)) von Heinrich Vogeler, 'Worpswede', 'Ein stiller Winkel' und 'Aus meinem Fenster' von Fritz Overbeck und 'Kinderköpfchen', 'Moorlandschaft' und 'Birkenwäldchen' von Hans am Ende, sowie die radierte Titelvignette von Fritz Mackensen und Heinrich Vogeler. Teilweise in der Platte signiert oder monogrammiert.- Titel und Radierungen (meist nur) im weißen Außenrand teils leicht stockfleckig. Gewicht in Gramm: 500 [Attributes: Signed Copy]

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Lasswitz, Kurd
        AUF ZWEI PLANETEN. ROMAN
      Weimar: Verlag von Emil Felber,. 1897. original bevel-edged maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, all edges marbled, floral-patterned endpapers, green ribbon markers.. Mild spine lean to volume two, rubbing to spine ends, corner tips and. along bottom edges, small damp stain along lower fore-edge of front. cover of volume one, small damp stain at upper right front corner of. volume two and two fainter, small spots at upper fore-edge just below. the corner stain, a tight, very good copy that presents well overall.. First printing copies are rare. (#140642). First edition, first printing. The first printing, limited to 2000 copies. A mammoth and highly imaginative novel. Earth is conquered by the Martians who establish a protectorate thereby bringing reason and utopia to the planet. "In the mainstream, the undisputed pioneer of German SF was Kurd Lasswitz (1848- 1910). His AUF ZWEI PLANETEN (1897) is a classic of interplanetary fiction, remarkable not only for its striking anticipations of space travel, including space stations, but also for its attempt to give philosophical depth to a struggle between a technologically advanced humanoid Mars and an Earth fighting for independence and autonomy. The novel is not wholly successful -- Lasswitz was too didactic -- but is nevertheless a praiseworthy effort." - Rottensteiner, "German SF" in Anatomy of Wonder (1987), p. 383. AUF ZWEI PLANETEN "was neither his first book nor his only work of fiction, but it was the one that made him famous. It has been a permanent part of German literature since its first appearance in 1987. The Nazis banned it as 'democratic,' but it was re- issued in 1948 in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Lasswitz' birth." - Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel (1951), pp. 45-8. All but one post-World-War-II German-language edition and the only English- language edition are abridged. (The entire text is found in Rudi Schweikert's edition [Frankfurt: Verlag 2001, 1979], an edition now hard to find.) Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-103; (1981) 1-122; and (1987) 6-22 and (2004) II-634. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 485. Kretzmann, The Pre-War German Utopian Novel (1890- 1914), Ph.D. diss., Brown University, May, 1936, pp. 107-111, 213. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 109. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2334-38. Bloch (2002) 1864. Nagl, p. 248.

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        Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas., Neu bearbeitet von Prof. Dr. R. Blasius und vielen anderen. Herausgegeben von Dr. Carl Hennicke in Gera. Bände 1 bis 5 von 12. 1. Band: Drosseln; 2. Band: Grasmücken, Timalien, Meisen und Baumläufer; 3. Band: Lerchen, Stelzen, Waldsänger und Finkenvögel; 4. Band: Stärlinge, Stare, Pirole, Rabenvögel, Würger, Fliegenfänger, Schwalbenvögel, Segler, Tagschläfer, Spechte, Bienenfresser, Eisvögel, Racken, Hopfe, Kuckucke; 5. Band: Raubvögel (Eulen, Käuze, Falken, Weihen, Bussarde, Adler, Habichte, Geier).
      Gera-Untermhaus: Lithographie, Druck und Verlag von Fr. Eugen Köhler, 1897 - 1905. - Zusammen LXVIII, 1754 Seiten mit gelegentlichen Textabbildungen, 228 chromolithographierte Tafeln, 6 schwarz-weiße Tafeln. Durch Band Register erschlossen. Einbände berieben und etwas fleckig, Hinterdeckel des ersten Bandes vom Rücken gelöst, Stempel und Inventarnummer auf den Titelblättern, sonst, und vor allem innen, gut erhaltenes und sauberes Exemplar. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 24000 39,5 x 29,5 cm, mittelbraune Original-Halbleinenbände mit goldgeprägten Rückentiteln, Deckel mit schwarzem Papier bezogen, dreiseitig marmorierter Schnitt.

      [Bookseller: Matthias Severin Antiquariat]

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Stoker, Bram
        DRACULA
      Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company,. 1897. original mustard cloth, front, spine, and rear panels stamped in red.. Cloth dusty, tear in cloth near upper spine end, remnant of a small. paper label above the publisher's spine imprint, a couple of short. splits along inner front hinge, small circular stamp to front free. endpaper and half title page, closed tears at upper margin of. contents leaf and top edge of first leaf of text, a solid, good copy.. (#147944). First edition, second (or third) printing. Bibliographically, a complex book: this copy is part of the second printing (or third printing) which printed an advertisement for Stoker's THE SHOULDER OF SHASTA on page [392] -- this page is blank in all first printing copies. According to Dalby 10c, this is the "third issue of [the] first edition," but it is a later printing, not a later issue. The most famous and influential of all vampire novels. "Although it is based in part on the crude VARNEY, THE VAMPIRE and the superior 'Carmilla' by LeFanu, DRACULA remains the definitive treatment of the classical vampire, a work of great imagination and conviction. While it is generally conceded that it has technical weaknesses -- wooden characters, sentimental writing, needless complexity - - its virtues overweigh its flaws and it is one of the great classics of supernatural fiction." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1546. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 167-68. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-186. Bleiler (ed), Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, pp. 375-81. Cawthorn and Moorcock: Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 19. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 21. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 404-06. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 404-09. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-234. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 187. Reginald 13726. Dalby 10b.

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        Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas. Neu bearbeitet von Prof. Dr. R. Blasius und vielen anderen. Herausgegeben von Dr. Carl Hennicke in Gera. Bände 1 bis 5 von 12. 1. Band: Drosseln; 2. Band: Grasmücken, Timalien, Meisen und Baumläufer; 3. Band: Lerchen, Stelzen, Waldsänger und Finkenvögel; 4. Band: Stärlinge, Stare, Pirole, Rabenvögel, Würger, Fliegenfänger, Schwalbenvögel, Segler, Tagschläfer, Spechte, Bienenfresser, Eisvögel, Racken, Hopfe, Kuckucke; 5. Band: Raubvögel (Eulen, Käuze, Falken, Weihen, Bussarde, Adler, Habichte, Geier).
      Gera-Untermhaus: Lithographie, Druck und Verlag von Fr. Eugen Köhler, 1897 - 1905... Zusammen LXVIII, 1754 Seiten mit gelegentlichen Textabbildungen, 228 chromolithographierte Tafeln, 6 schwarz-weiße Tafeln. 39,5 x 29,5 cm, mittelbraune Original-Halbleinenbände mit goldgeprägten Rückentiteln, Deckel mit schwarzem Papier bezogen, dreiseitig marmorierter Schnitt.. Durch Band Register erschlossen. Einbände berieben und etwas fleckig, Hinterdeckel des ersten Bandes vom Rücken gelöst, Stempel und Inventarnummer auf den Titelblättern, sonst, und vor allem innen, gut erhaltenes und sauberes Exemplar.

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EPICTETUS
        [THE DISCOURSES IN ENGLISH]
      London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1897. First Printing of this Edition n. Hardcover. 229 x 184 mm (9 x 7 1/4"). Two volumes. Reprinted from the Translation of George Long. First Printing of this Edition. PLEASING CONTEMPORARY OLIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY JOSEPH BRETAULT (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with triple gilt fillet border, upper cover of both volumes with elaborate heraldic centerpiece containing the motto "Marte Et Arte" bannered beneath a Scottish lion rampant at top, and "Ard Choille" bannered below a crowned lion's head at bottom (the centerpiece also featuring a bee to the right, leeks at center, a flowered thistle to the left, and, at center, an opened book with "ET" on the left page and "AM" on the right); smooth spines with elongated panels formed by concentric fillets, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. A Large Paper Copy. Titles printed in red and black, woodcut initials. Spines uniformly sunned to a warm brown, boards with slight fading as well, otherwise A FINE COPY, the leather lustrous and with only trivial signs of use, and the text immaculate. This is a pleasing copy, with very ample margins, of an attractively produced English language edition of the discourses of Epictetus (55-135 A.D.), the text of which is known to us only through lecture transcriptions made by one of the philosopher's students. In the text, the author, who had himself experienced enslavement, teaches the path to inner tranquility (which he equates with the good life) in the face of all circumstances. Despite the profoundly serious nature of their content, these are informal, vigorous, warm, and witty remarks that reveal the warmth of their writer and that make a good read. The translation used here is by George Long (1800-79), who spent the years 1824-28 in the United States teaching Latin and Greek at the new University of Virginia, where he became a friend of Thomas Jefferson. He later taught classics at the Universities of London and Brighton. Joseph Bretault (1856-1903) was among the top rank of contemporary bookbinders. In its January 1903 review of the Bookbinder's Guild of California Exhibition in San Francisco, "The International Bookbinder" included among "the great binders of the day" the names of Cobden-Sanderson, Roger de Coverley, Bretault, Gruel, Durvand, Douglas Cockerell, and Otto Zahn. This book could well have been a wedding gift (even if the weighty contents might seem a rather dour dower), with the two families being represented by the initials at the center of the volumes' covers. The personages involved are uncertain; the symbolic bee of industry, the thistle of Scotland, and the leek of Wales give us vague clues. More promising are the "M," the crowned lion crest, and the "Ard Choille" motto, all of which would have fit a member of the MacGregor family from Edinburgh as bride or groom. Apart from content and provenance, this is a very attractive copy, one worthy of epicurean, rather than stoic appreciation.

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Humphrey, Maud; Elizabeth S. Tucker
        Little Grown-Ups: With Numerous Full-Page Colour-Plates after Paintings in Water-Colours by Maud Humphrey and with Decorative Borders and Other Designs together with New Stories and Verses by Elizabeth S. Tucker
      London: Gardner, Darton & Company. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1897. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, large color paste-down on both covers. Illustrated with 12 full-page, full-color, chromolithographed plates by Maud Humphrey, and decorative borders and designs by Elizabeth S. Tucker. Maud Humphrey (1868-1940) was an American suffragette, commercial illustrator, watercolorist, and the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart. She studied at the Art Students League of New York and in Paris at the Julian Academy. She won the competition of famous Boston chromolithographer Louis Prang and Company for Christmas card design, and then began working for publisher F. A. Stokes as an illustrator. From the 1890?'s through the 1920?'s, her work Included child portraits, calendars, greeting cards, postcards, fashion magazines, and more than 20 story books. She earned more than $50,000 a year while her husband's surgical practice brought in only $20,000 a year and the average book illustrator earned about $4,000 per year. . Covers mildly bumped and worn, former owner's name in pencil on ffep, otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. All illustrations in perfect condition, clean and bright. Now in Mylar. VERY GOOD.. Color Plates. 4to 11" - 13" tall. (50) pp .

      [Bookseller: Round Table Books, LLC]

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        Album Salon. Primera Ilustracion Espanola en Colores. Ano 1897 through Ano 1907. (all published).
      - Eleven issues bound in ten volumes (384, 292, 292, 292, 296, 260, 236, 212, 204, 212 pp.) comprising a complete run of the Catalonian fine arts annual published by Miguel Segui, providing an overview of the year's developments in painting, sculpture, architecture and theater, primarily focused on Barcelona, with additional coverage of events elsewhere in Spain, Europe and the Americas, profusely illustrated throughout with reproductions of photographs, paintings and illustrations, many of them beautiful full-color lithographs or halftone tints. In overall excellent condition throughout most of the set's nearly 2500 pp., with approximately eighteen heavily varnished two-page color spreads damaged due to internal adhesion, resulting in a loss of surface material in ca. 11 cases, and inseparably fused pages in ca. 7 places. Small folio. Uniformly bound in 1/2 leather and red cloth, spines tooled and gilt with five raised bands, slightly rubbed, a few interior hinges starting. Barcelona (Centro Editorial Artistico de Miguel Segui) 1897-1907. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Thoma, Hans (1839 Bernau/Schwarzwald - Karlsruhe 1924)
        Fliegender Merkur (Über der Bucht von Lerici).
      . Algraphie mit blaugrüner Tonplatte, 1897, auf sehr festem bräunlichem Bütten, mit Rotstift signiert. 35,8:45,2 cm. Literatur: Beringer, Griffelkunst 92.. Thoma begann nach Lehren als Lithograph und Anstreicher in Basel sowie als Uhrenschildmaler in Furtwangen, die er nicht beendete, autodidaktische Mal- und Zeichenstudien. 1859 studierte er an der Karlsruher Kunstakademie bei Ludwig Des Coudres (1820-1878) und Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807-1863). 1868 reiste er nach Aufenthalten in Basel und Düsseldorf mit Otto Scholderer (1834-1902) nach Paris. 1870-1877 lebte er in München, wo er mit dem Leibl-Kreis verkehrte. Sein erster Aufenthalt in Italien war 1874, ein zweiter 1880. 1876 zog er nach Frankfurt am Main. Nach sehr zögerlich einsetzendem Erfolg - seinen ersten größeren Auftrag hatte er 1882, 1890 seine erste erfolgreiche Sonderausstellung in München - führte seine steigende Bekanntheit 1898 zur Professur an der Karlsruher Kunstakademie und 1899 zum Direktorat der dortigen Kunsthalle.

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