Displayed below are some selected recent viaLibri matches for books published in 1897

BAEDEKER, Karl
        Russland Handbuch für Reisende
      Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1897. Cloth. Near Fine+. Fourth Edition. lii, 458pp, with 14 maps, 18 plans, and 4 floor plans. An exceptional copy (preliminaries and subsequent page edges toned), with bright gilt lettering, one (of two) woven silk page-maker, and richly marbled edges; the red flexible cloth covers unmarked, square and tight, the maps properly folded and free of tears. Hinrichsen D460. Note: With few exceptions (always noted), we only stock Baedekers in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene wrappers.

      [Bookseller: Fine Editions Ltd]

George A. Aitkin
        The Spectator &
      98 - London & Boston - J. B. Millet Company, 1897 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. The library edition of The Tatler and Spectator with notes and introduction by George A. Aitkin. Bound in cloth with gilt lettering. Limited edition, number 82 of 100. With Catherine Coffin Phillips nameplate on the front pastedowns. Catherine Coffin Phillips wrote Cornelius Cole California Pioneer, which was first published in 1929. The original Tatler was founded in 1709 by Richard Steele. Steele's idea was to publish the news and gossip heard in London coffeehouses. In its first incarnation, it was published three times a week. The original Tatler was published for only two years, from 12 April 1709 to 2 January 1711. A collected edition was published in 171011, with the title The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. The Spectator is a weekly British magazine first published on 6 July 1828. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture. George Atherton Aitken (18601917) was a Victorian-period public servant and man of letters. He was an expert on the Queen Anne period of English literature. He wrote and edited several books and contributed a number of DNB articles. Condition: The bindings are tight and firm. There is slight wear to the extremities, including slight bumping. Internally the pages are clean and bright, withscattered foxingon the first and last couple of pages of each volume. The nameplates have Lucile written in ink on the corner. Overall the condition is very good indeed..

      [Bookseller: Rooke Books]

Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)
        The Faerie Queene / by Edmund Spenser Pictured and Decorated by Louis Fairfax-Muckley with an Introduction by John W. Hales M. A. ... - [Complete in 2 Volumes]
      London : J. M. Dent & Co. , MDCCCXCVII [1897], 1897. 1st edition in this form, limited. Physical desc. : 2v. : ill.. ; 24cm. Printed in red and black. With a glossary prepared by Dr. R. Morris, taken from the Macmillan edition (1869) . '"This edition of Spenser's Faerie Queene is limited to 1250 ordinary copies, for England and America, after printing which the type has been distributed'. Uninked, impressed stamp to the title. Very good copy in the original elaborately gilt-blocked & tooled cloth. Professionally recased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains an uncommonly well-preserved example.

      [Bookseller: MW Books Ltd.]

Edmund Spenser
        The Faerie Queene
      Westminster - Archibald Constable and Co., 1897 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Ascarce editionof thiscomplete sixvolume copy of'The Faerie Queene' by Edmund Spenser. Spenseris recognised as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, and one of the greatest poets in the English language. The Faerie Queene is an incomplete English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. The first half was published in 1590, and a second installment was published in 1596. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: it was the first work written in Spenserian stanza and is one of the longest poems in the English language. It is an allegorical work, written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I. In a completely allegorical context, the poem follows several knights in an examination of several virtues. In Spenser's A Letter of the Authors, he states that the entire epic poem is cloudily enwrapped in allegorical devises, and that the aim of publishing The Faerie Queene was to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline. The Faerie Queene found political favour with Elizabeth I and was consequently a success, to the extent that it became Spenser's defining work. The poem found such favour with the monarch that Spenser was granted a pension for life amounting to 50 pounds a year, though there is no evidence that Elizabeth l read any of the poem. Includes a frontispiece to the beginning ofeach volume with tissue guards. Condition: In gilt half morocco bindings with marbled boards. Externally, inexcellent condition. Internally, firmly bound, verybright and clean with some uncut pages. Overall Condition: FINE..

      [Bookseller: Rooke Books]

SPENSER. EDMUND
        THE FAERIE QUEENE. Edited from the original editions of 1590 and 1596 with an Introduction and Glossary by Kate M. Warren
      Archibald Constable & Co. Westminster. London. 1897-1900. SIX VOLUMES. FIRST KATE WARREN EDITION. 8vo.(6.8 x 4.4 inches). Illustrated frontis to each volume - 3 portraits and 3 sepia photographic views (River Blackwater, County Cork, ; Ruins of Kilcolman, Spenser's home in Ireland, ; Glengarriff, County Cork.) each with a tissue guard. Each volume with an extra, decorative title page. A fine and clean set with a few of the gatherings still unopened. Finely bound, by Riviere, in early twentieth century quarter vellum with single raised bands. Green title labels, ruled and lettered in gilt. Arts and Crafts style tall flower design with stems, leaves and flower in gilt to each spine. Blue cloth on boards. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Some minor marks to the cloth on a few of the boards but the spines all clean and the gilt bright so the set looks great on the shelf. A very attractive set of vellum bindings.

      [Bookseller: Paul Foster Books]

Rodenbough, Theophilis F. (Brevet Brigadier-General U.S.A.)
        Sabre And Bayonet : Stories of Heroism and Military Adventure : Collected and Edited
      New York: Dillingham, 1897. Very Good+ in the publisher's full burgundy cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt (still brilliant). Octavo. 361pps., with numerous black-and-white illustrations -- 20 of them full-page. There is mild bumping to the tips and light touches of soiling to the cloth. Also, the page-edges are slightly browned. Modest reading wear, including the (very) sporadic smudge, fox-mark, or creased page-corner. This item has been recently restored: it has new inner hinges (the endpapers are original), a tightened spine, and new endcaps (where there had previously been a bit of fraying to the cloth. It is overall, then, quite clean and the binding tight with all pages intact. This is an association copy, inscribed in a fine, calligraphic hand to 'Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady with compliments of T. F. Rodenbough, New York, April 6/'03.' It is also inscribed in an only slightly less stylish hand 'with the compliments of the old sergeant, Jno. H. Cook.' Brady would, of course, go on to become a successful and highly-published author of historical and biographical titles (his career barely begun at the time of this signing); his works included 'Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West,' 'Commodore Paul Jones,' 'In the Wasp's Nest,' 'Sir Henry Morgan, Bucaneer,' 'Arizona,' and 'Indian Fights and Fighters.' He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1883 and had spent several years in the West, seeking adventure, and working for the Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific railroads. He later became an ordained deacon in the Episcopal church before resigning to engage in his literary pursuits. The two signers of the book, the author, Rodenbough, and Cook, were both recipients of the Medal of Honor for feats of heroism during the Civil War. Rodenbough, a horseman, served with the 2nd U.S. Cavalry, the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and the 3rd Pennsylvania Provisional Cavalry; he received his citation for actions at Trevilian Station, Virginia. Cook -- on whom a chapter (including a couple of sketches) is devoted in this book -- was a member of Company A, 119th Illinois Infantry; he received his Medal 'for conspicuous bravery at the battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, April 9th, 1864.' A very nice copy of an elusive book -- a collection of true stories concerning the Civil War and the Wild West -- rendered one-of-a-kind with the inscriptions. Rodenbough published a number of Civil War titles and is, perhaps, best known among collectors for his 'From Everglade To Canon With the Second Dragoons' (1875), a classic piece of nineteenth century American military history. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos, comprehensive, can be emailed upon request.. SIGNED. Cloth.

      [Bookseller: Nooks Of Books (Member of IOBA and the B]

Honore de Balzac; Translated by Ellery Sedgwick, William Walton et al
        The Novels of Honore de Balzac
      - London - Leonard Smithers, 1897 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A set of the stories ofLa Comedie Humaine by Honore de Balzac. La Comdie humaine (The Human Comedy) is the title of Honor de Balzac's (17991850) multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (18301848). Containing The Splendours and Miseries of Courtesans, The Poor Relations, HIstory of the Thirteen, Grandeur and Downfall of Cesar Birotteur, The Civil Service, A Prince of Bohemia, Gaudissart II, The Houseof Nuncingen , The Petty Borgeois, The House of the Cat and Racket, Memoirs of Two Young Wives, Modeste Mignon, A Start in Life, Madame Firmiani, Albert Savarus, A Daughter of Eve, The Marriage Contract, La Grenadiere Gobseck, A Woman of Thirty, The Deserted Mistress, Old Goriot, Honorine, Colonel Chabert, The Interdiction, Beatrix, and A Double Family. Illustrated throughout with one hundred and ten plates (collated complete). The Comdie humaine consists of 91 finished works (stories, novels or analytical essays) and 46 unfinished works (some of which exist only as titles). It does not include Balzac's 5 theatrical plays or his collection of humorous tales, the Contes drolatiques (183237). The title of the series is usually considered an allusion to Dante's Divine Comedy; while Ferdinand Brunetire, the famous French literary critic, suggests that it may stem from poems by Alfred de Musset or Alfred de Vigny. While Balzac sought the comprehensive scope of Dante, his title indicates the worldly, human concerns of a realist novelist. The stories are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories. Limited to two hundred and fifty complete copies. This copy out of series. Eleven volumes dated 1897 and eleven volumesdated 1899. Condition: In red cloth bindings. Externally, generally smart, though bumped, with some marks. Dampstaining to two volumes. Hinges strained. Internally, generally firmly bound, although slightly strained in places. Pages are bright and mainly clean, with just some scattered light spotting amd foxing to the endpapers. Overall: VERY GOOD..

      [Bookseller: Rooke Books]

SCOTT, Sir Walter
        The Waverley Novels
      Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black,, 1897. 25 volumes, octavo. Bound in contemporary half blue calf, with red twin labels, gilt title and decoration to spine, raised bands. Marble boards, edges and endpapers. Some rubbing to spine and corners, minor internal foxing, otherwise good set.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Napier, George G.; Sir Walter Scott (subject); Alfred de Sauty (book binder)
        The Haunts and Homes of Sir Walter Scott (Fore-edge Painting | Foreedge Paintings | Lovely Celtic Vine Arts & Crafts Full Leather Binding | Signed By Binder | Alfred de Sauty (bookbinder) | Limited Edition
      Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1897 Full inlaid green morrocco leather binding signed by Alfred de Sauty. Raised bands, all edges gilt, a lovely Celtic knot motif on the front cover with green and brown leafs in the corners, raised bands nd flower and leaf design in each compartment. Three unsigned vignette foreedge paintings of rural scenes. Front joint is weak and slightly starting. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Photo of foreedge and binding available upon request. Alfred de Sauty, the son of a distinguished engineer, studied engineering himself for a time. He gave it up for bookbinding and although he was not apprenticed in the trade, he worked as a finisher at Riviere's and designer for the Hampstead Bindery before starting on his own. De Sauty then developed new and wonderful styles in inlaid leathers which combined delicate pointille work. For some years he taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts being succeeded there by Charles McLeish the younger when he emigrated to the United States. He eventually managed the hand bindery of R.R. Donnelly in Chicago. For other de Sauty bindings see: Nixon - Broxbourne Library, no 110. Nixon -- Five Centuries of English Bookbinding, no. 97. Nixon -- Oldaker Collection, no. 56.. Signed by Binder. First Edition Thus. Full Morocco Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

      [Bookseller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries]

Brontë, Charlotte [1816-1855] Illustrated by F. H. Townsend [1868-1920]
        Jane Eyre; An Autobiography
      Published by Service and Paton, 5 Henrietta Street, London First Thus Edition 1897. London 1897. First thus edition hard back binding in publisher's original maroon cloth covers, gilt title, author lettering and leaf design to the spine, circular gilt motif to the upper panel, untrimmed fore and lower page edges. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains [xii] 436 [ii] printed pages of text with 16 full-page monochrome illustrations throughout. Age tanning to the end papers and page edges, foxing to tissue guarded frontispiece and the title page, the odd fox spot to the text block, spine ends rolled-in, spine slightly faded. Member of the P.B.F.A.

      [Bookseller: Little Stour Books PBFA]

[Holy Childhood Indian School]:
        ANISHINABE ENAMIAD. MESSENGER OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD
      Harbor Springs, Mi. [1897-1907].. Eight volumes containing up to twelve monthly issues each. Printed in double columns. Quarto. Bound in cloth-backed marbled boards or plain wrappers. Near fine. This is a run of ANISHINABE ENAMIAD/MESSENGER OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD from March 1898, Vol. III, No. 1 to February 1907, Vol. XI, No. 12 (excluding Vol. VI, nos. 3 and 12; Vol. VII, No. 12; Vol. VIII, the English language edition; and all of Vol. X). This is a scarce monthly journal containing volumes of information about the education of Indian children and Catholic missionary work in the Midwest at the turn of the century. ANISHINABE ENAMIAD, later called MESSENGER OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD, was a monthly journal published by the Franciscan fathers at the Holy Childhood Church and School in Harbor Springs, Michigan, devoted to the interests of the missionaries among the Ottawa and Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians. The journal was edited by the noted Jesuit scholar and author, Zephyrin Engelhardt, the type was set by Indian boys, and the journal was printed by students on school grounds. "Anishinabe Enamiad" translates as "The Christian Indian," and the journal began publication in March 1896. For the first two years the content was printed exclusively in the Chippewa language, and contained prayers, biographical sketches of church fathers, and news of the educational work of the Catholic Church among the Indians. With Vol. III, No. 1, published in March 1898, a monthly English language "Supplement" appeared, usually two pages long, and carrying news, theology, and opinion pieces. In December 1902, with the publication of Vol. VII, No. 10, the "Supplement" was expanded to eight pages and renamed MESSENGER OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD CHURCH AND SCHOOL, HARBOR SPRINGS, MICH. The final three issues of Vol. VII and all of Vol. VIII continue to carry the dual Chippewa- English language format. The name, ANISHINABE ENAMIAD, and the Chippewa language format were finally done away with in March 1904 with the commencement of Vol. IX, when the name was permanently changed to MESSENGER OF THE HOLY CHILDHOOD, and the journal was printed only in English. When it began publication in March 1896, ANISHINABE ENAMIAD was a journal of modest editorial ambitions. Initially printed entirely in Chippewa and running eight pages, it contained prayers, church history, and news of missionary work, to be read by the local adult Indian population and the Catholic missionaries who worked among them. It also printed the list of the school's honor roll students, and the names of the journal's subscribers. From a pedagogical viewpoint, it served the significant purpose of training young male students in the craft of printing. With time, its ambitions would grow, and the addition of the English-language "Supplement" accompanied an expansion in scope. Geared now to the local missionaries, and indeed to Catholic missionaries across the country, the journal began to print local and world news, including the death of Pope Leo XIII, the progress of the Spanish-American War, the death of Queen Victoria, the Boer War, and the Galveston Flood. There appeared pieces on Catholic doctrine, sectarianism, and conversion. The cause of the Indian School would become a recurring theme, and articles were printed which reported on Congressional appropriations of funds for Catholic Indian Schools, the visit to the Harbor Springs School of U.S. Indian Schools Superintendent W.H. Hailmann was documented, and a lengthy article on the Holy Childhood School was reprinted from THE HEADLIGHT of Detroit. An ongoing feud was conducted in print with the Carlisle Indian School of Pennsylvania over that school's alleged anti-Catholic bigotry. Photographs would adorn the journal, including pictures of the school, the student body, and classrooms. Also included were photographs of Pope Leo XIII and various Catholic missionaries, illustrations of biblical scenes, and advertisements for other publications from the press at Harbor Springs, such as books by Father Engelhardt. A column of wit and humor would occasionally appear. With time, MESSENGER... would scale back its ambitions, and by 1904 the content was exclusively devoted to articles on missionary work and religious issues. The Holy Childhood School in Harbor Springs, Michigan was established as a day school in the fall of 1885 in northern Michigan, near Traverse City. The history of the Catholic education of natives in that location dates back to 1829, however, when the Rev. T.S. Dejean took in an Indian student at the spot which would become the Holy Childhood School. The first class of 1885 was made up of thirty-six boys and girls. The following year the school's operations were expanded to include boarders, with sixty-four Indian boys and girls enrolled, along with twenty white students. By 1894 the school was teaching more than two hundred boarding students. The students were taught composition, arithmetic, history, geography, and penmanship, as well as trades such as printing, bookbinding, shoemaking, tailoring, and carpentry. All told, this collection presents an unequaled wealth of knowledge about the cultural, social, and pedagogical experiences of the Indians and missionaries of Michigan at the turn of the 20th century.

      [Bookseller: William Reese Company - Americana]

Hutchinson, Horace G. et al
        Country Life Illustrated. The Journal for all Interested in Country Life and Country Pursuits 1897-1898 4 volumes [including After Dinner Golf in 20 parts]
      Hudson & Kearns, London, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition. The first two years, Volumes 1-4, of this influential weekly journal of the country life. Bound in uniform half read calf over cloth - variously worn, rubbed, with a number of surface marks, scrapes and tears, but generally tight, square and still attractive on the shelf. Tear to the first title page and a few other minor flaws and finger marks internally, but quite clean overall. Included the first publication of Hutchinson's After Dinner Gold in 20 parts with the fantastically strange illustrations, not published alone until 1986. A trove of information on costume, rural architecture, horse, hound, hunting, sailing, and everything else that comprised the English country life at the turn of the century. Size: Folio. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Gardening. Inventory No: 039973. . This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

      [Bookseller: Pazzo Books]

        Love is Enough, or the Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality
      (Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897). Quarto. 91pp. One of 300 copies on paper. Illustrated with two full-page woodcuts by Edward Burne-Jones and numerous ornamental initials and borders by Morris. With pale blue foliate initials. This was one of only two books printed in three colors at the Kelmscott Press, in addition to being the penultimate book of the Press. One of the most beautiful books published by the Press, perhaps rivaling the famed Kelmscott Chaucer. Very light wrinkling to lower covers near spine, slight toning along spine, else a fine copy in full-limp vellum, lacking three silk fore-edge ties. One of Morris' handsomest books.

      [Bookseller: Bromer Booksellers]

Autographes d'exception (TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Henri de)) Henri de) VIELE-GRIFFIN Francis
        [Autographes d'exception] La clarté de vie
      Paris: Mercure de France, 1897. Broché. 14x18,5cm. Edition originale collective, un des ex de première émission. Précieux envoi de l'auteur à Jules Renard. Notre exemplaire est enrichi du célèbre ex-libris du dédicataire dessiné et gravé par Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec encollé sur la première garde. Dos légèrement fendillé en tête et en pied, un mors fendu et restauré en marges intérieures à l'aide d'une pièce adhésive, deux petites déchirures restaurées en marges intérieures à l'aide de pièces adhésives, rares piqûres affectant certains témoins. Notre exemplaire, bien que sur papier courant, est à toutes marges. - Mercure de France, Paris _1897, 14x18,5cm, broché. - Autographes d'exception broché

      [Bookseller: Librairie Le Feu Follet]

(LEAUTAUD Paul) PERICAUD Louis
        Le théâtre des funambules : ses mimes, ses acteurs et ses pantomimes depuis sa fondation, jusqu'à sa démolition
      Paris : Léon Sapin, 1897. Broché. 16,5x25,5cm. Edition originale dont il n'est pas fait mention de grands papiers. Notre exemplaire est enrichi d'un manuscrit autographe de 3 pages de Paul Léautaud, rédigé aux versos de deux pages de catalogue du Mercure de France et d'un prière d'insérer, consistant en les biographies de la dynastie Deburau : celles du célèbre mime Jean-Baptiste Gaspard et de son fils non moins illustre Charles ainsi que celle du mime Paul Legrand, disciple et rival de Deburau Ier, que Paul Léautaud avait connu dans son enfance. Enfin, nous joignons 3 gravures représentant l'entrée du théâtre des Funambules, Deburau et Paul Legrand. Dos passé, un mors légèrement fendu puis recollé en tête. Unique ensemble. Provenance : de la bibliothèque de Paul Léautaud. - Léon Sapin, Paris _1897, 16,5x25,5cm, broché. - broché

      [Bookseller: Librairie Le Feu Follet]

GIACOSA, Giuseppe;
        CASTELLI VALDOSTANI e CANAVESANI,
      Torino, Roux & Frassati, 1897 . acqueforti di Carlo Chessa e Celestino Turletti. In-folio, pp. (6), 158, (9, Indici), legatura edit. cart. marrone, dorso in tela, titolo in oro sul primo piatto, 295 x 420mm., 12 acqueforti. Prima edizione.

      [Bookseller: ERIK TONEN BOOKSELLER]

VERNE, Jules
        Clovis Dardentor
      London; Sampson, Low and Co. 1897, 1897. First English Edition. 8vo. 320pp. Publisher's lavishly decorated olive green cloth; titled in gilt and decorated in yellow, grey and light grey to spine and front board. Very light rubbing otherwise an immaculate, clean, tight copy of a scarce Verne title. The very uncommon de luxe binding with all edges gilt and heavy bevelled boards. Illustrated throughout with the customary Verneian lack of consideration for the sanity of the engravers, or any thought that they might have families and need to get home before three in the morning. Unusually enough for Verne this is more in the style of a cunning comic romp involving two impoverished brothers and their dramatic (not to say idiotic) attempts to be adopted by the rich gentleman of the title, with predictably unpredictable results. A glorious copy of a scarce book.

      [Bookseller: Adrian Harrington Rare Books]

Nansen, Fridtjof
        Farthest North - 1st US Edition
      Harper & Brothers New York: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine. 1897. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Original Cloth. A bright set of the First US Edition in Nearly Fine condition. A most handsome and collectible documentation of historical significance. All four folded maps present. Arctic Bibliography 11983; The Nobel Laureate's account of his three-year long expedition. In 1893 Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and so drift North. Given up for dead, he traveled 146 miles farther north than anyone else in the past four hundred years. 120 full page and numerous text illus, 16 colored plates, etched portrait, photogravures, and 4 loose maps in protective pockets. Top edges gilt, two sides un-cut; Vol. 1 & 2 .

      [Bookseller: Books Tell You Why ]

H.G.WELLS
        The Invisible Man. A Grotesque Romance.
      C.Arthur Pearson Limited, London, 1897.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. First Edition with the correct first state points. 245pp. Red cloth, gilt lettered and ruled at spine, with gilt titles to upper board and a black illustration. Binding a little cocked, top edge dust marked and cloth faded and a little rubbed at spine. Paper tanned. Binding a little tender. An extremely bright copy. Neat contemporary name inked to front endpaper.

      [Bookseller: Clearwater Books]

Siler, George & Houseman, Lou M. 
        THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY BEING A REVIEW OF THE WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST BETWEEN ROBERT FITZSIMMONS AND JAMES J CORBETT AT CARSON CITY, NEV. MARCH 17TH 1897
      W. J. Jefferson Printing & Publishing Co. THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY BEING A REVIEW OF THE WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST BETWEEN ROBERT FITZSIMMONS AND JAMES J CORBETT AT CARSON CITY, NEV. MARCH 17TH 1897, W. J. Jefferson Printing & Publishing Co., N.d. (but 1897), first edition, 52 numbered pages, some modest wear and tear and chipping to the somewhat color faded front and rear covers restored by a professional paper conservationist), else a tight vg copy in pictorial wraps as issued with just about fine interior consisting of a pink paper stock text block as issued. A detailed account of the boxers and their boxing history, the Articles of Agreement, pre-fight events and round by round commentary by the referee (Siler) and Houseman. This fight is of course acknowledged as amongst the greatest fights in the recorded history of the sport and was the second ever heavyweight championship fight, Corbett defeating Sullivan 5 years earlier in New Orleans. It was also the first championship fight ever filmed, in this case by the Edison Picture Company and memorialized not only by Corbetts own "long count" accusation, but also by Fitzsimmons famous Solar Plexus Punch which won the match for him in the 14th round. The OCLC reveals only 3 copies while no copies have been reported among the major auction houses in the last 35 years. Among the "Holy Grails" of those collecting important boxing titles.

      [Bookseller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY ]

DARWIN, Charles.
        The Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
      London: John Murray, 1897.. Forty-ninth thousand. 8vo. xxi, (1), 432 pp. Publisher's dark green cloth embellished with the circular gilt crest of Bradford Grammar School to the upper board, very small neat ownership inscription to upper corner of first free endpaper. Folding plate Some trivial shelf wear, an excellent copy. Freeman 451.

      [Bookseller: Bow Windows Bookshop, ABA, ILAB]

HUMPHREY, Maud and TUCKER, E. S.
        THE BOOK OF PETS.
      [24] leaves, each printed on one side only, and bearing full-colour illustrations. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Lengthy inscription on front endpaper; else a very good copy of a scarce London printing.

      [Bookseller: David Miles]

        ENCICLOPEDIA ITALIANA DI VETERINARIA.
      In-16, tela verde edit. Di questa nota collana di veterinaria della Vallardi, offriamo un gruppo di 24 opere in 37 voll., così composto:: - ARUCH, "Malattie del sistema nervoso" (1914), pp. XI,459, con 108 figg. - ARUCH, "Malattie del sistema nervoso e dell?apparato genito-urinario" (1900), pp. XI,330, con 77 figg. - BALDONI, "Patologia e terapia chirurgica speciale" (1901), in 4 voll., pp. XV,424; VIII,430; VIII,451; VIII,444,12 (con sottolineature); illustr. da 168 figg. - BALDONI "Patologia e terapia chirurgica generale", s.d. pp. VIII,370, con 50 figg. (manca il frontesp.) - BARUCHELLO "Malattie del ricambio materiale e del sangue - Malattie della pelle non parassitarie", s.d., pp. X,(2),423, con 44 figg. - BECCARI / PUGLIESE "Elementi di fisiologia" (1910), in 2 voll., pp. XV,318; XI,460,(2); con 110 figg. - BOSSI "Semiotica e diagnostica delle malattie chirurgiche" (1899), in 3 tomi: ?Parte generale?, pp. XIV,(2),386, con 106 figg. - ?Parte speciale? , pp. IX,292; XI,604 (numeraz. continua), con 115 figg. - BOSCHETTI "Manuale di propedeutica medica comparata degli animali e dell?uomo" (1901-1909), in 3 voll., pp. XII,341,(3); XI,452; XV,527; con 209 figg. nel t. e 17 tavv. f.t. - BRAZZOLA "Trattato di anatomia patologica", vol. I ?Patologica generale?, s.d., pp. VIII,298, con 29 figg. - FOGLIATA "Ippopodologia" (1898), in 2 voll., pp. XV,346; VIII,690 (numeraz. continua), con 265 figg. - GALLI "Patologia generale comparata e sperimentale" (1897), pp. VIII,304, con 105 figg. - GAMBAROTTA "Medicina operatoria" (1902), pp. XII,408, con 81 figg. - GAY "Malattie dell?apparato respiratorio" (1898), pp. XII,404, con 32 figg. - GAY "Malattie dell?apparato della circolazione sanguigna e linfatica" (1898), pp. XV,212, con 9 figg. - GHERARDINI "Tecnica delle necroscopie" (1905), pp. (8),315, con 25 figg. - LEVI "Materia medica: farmacologia e tossicologia" (1899), pp. XII, 376. - MARCHI "Ezoognosia" (1901), Vol. I ?Parte generale?, pp.XIX,415, con 198 figg. - MARCONE "Microbiologia generale e tecnica microbiologica" (1905), pp. XV,430, con 43 figg. - MARCONE "Malattie infettive" (1911), Vol. I, pp. X,370. - MAZZINI "Giurisprudenza veterinaria" (1902), pp. XV,515. - MORETTI "Malattie dell?apparato digerente", s.d., in 2 voll., pp. XI,352; XII,632; con 178 figg. - ROUX "Ostetricia e ginecologia", s.d., pp. XI,291,(3), con 84 figg. - SAVARESE "Manuale di ispezione delle carni" (1900), pp. XIII,(3),399, con 89 figg. nel t. e 1 tav. a colori f.t. - VACHETTA "Oftalmojatria veterinaria", s.d. (2a ediz.), in 2 voll., pp.XXXI,309; IV,303; con 130 figg. nel t. e 2 tavv. a colori f.t. - VARALDI "Anatomia veterinaria", s.d., in 2 voll., pp. XIV,351; XVI,624 (numeraz. continua), con 188 figg. nel t. Con fiorit. interc. nel t. ma complessivam. in buono stato.

      [Bookseller: Libreria Antiquaria Malavasi]

Halford, Frederic M
        Dry Fly Entomology: a brief description of leading types of natural insects - with the 100 best patterns of floating flies and the various methods of dressing them
      London: Vinton & Co 1897 London: Vinton & Co, 1897. Edition De Luxe, no. 60 of 100 copies, numbered and signed by the author on the title page of each volume. 2 vols., 4to. With 18 wood engraved and 10 hand-colored etched plates, plus numerous illustrations in text; Vol. II contains 100 flies in 12 recessed card mounts. Full green crushed morocco gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. Covers time-darkened and, as usual, spines uniformly faded to brown; second volume rebacked, else a fine set with the flies in perfect condition. With an inserted fly at no. 54, with the manuscript notation "one of the flies tied by Halford in 1903". Westwood & Satchell Supplement, p. 246; Gee p. 92; cf. Hayter, F. M. Halford and the Dry-Fly Revolution (2002) . Frederic M. Halford (1844-1914), author and angler of the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras whose writings and systematic approach to the dry fly profoundly influenced fly-fishing around the world. His books, beginning with Floating Flies (1886) and Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice (1889), and culminating with Dry-Fly Entomology (1897), made a legendary figure of the somewhat reserved Halford and shaped the sport for decades. As Tony Hayter's recent biography demonstrates, Halford's life and writings remain of perennial interest

      [Bookseller: James Cummins Bookseller ]

H G Wells
        WAR OF THE WORLDS complete serial in Pearson's Magazine
      London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, 1897.. Illustrated by Warwick Goble. First Illustrated Edition. Quarter Leather/Maroon Cloth. Very Good Contents FINE/No Jacket. 8vo - 9¾" Large Not Inscribed or Signed HARDBACK The complete UK FIRST serial publication (April - December 1897) of "The War of the Worlds," the classic scientific romance, sort after for the many illustrations by Warwick Goble embedded in the wraparound text layouts that were possible in this larger (6 1/2" x 9 3/4") format -- a LARGE 8vo book format, in TWO volumes (Jan - June 1897 and July - Dec 1897). This FIRST IlLLUSTRATED version features a total of fifty-seven unique illustrations by Warwick Goble (several are used more than once) -- (only fifteen were selected for the first U.S. edition - New York: Harper, 1898). (The first edition - London: Heinemann, 1898 - had no illustrations.)This matching pair (as shown) have leather spines (rubbed to the edges) with Maroon cloth boards in excellent condition with beautifully marbled fore edges and FINE CONTENTS make for an extremely Handsome Pair.NO EXTRA POSTAGE ABOVE OUR STANDARD RATES! Please Email for further details.

      [Bookseller: Bookfarm.co.uk]

Bradley, WIll
        Bradley: His Book
      The Wayside Press Springfield, MAss.: The Wayside Press, 1896-1897. First edition.. Hardcover. Very good. Yes. Volume I number 1 through Volume II number 3. Volume I is tall, thin 8vo. containing the four numbers of Volume I. Volume II is 4to. containing the three complete numbers of Volume II (all published but for a fragmentary No. 4, not present here.) Contemporary half morocco, marbled paper boards. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers with cloth inner hinges. A compilation of stories and poetry richly illustrated throughout with reproductions of the work of Beardsley, Morris, Burne-Jones, Parrish, Toulouse-Lautrec, and others, by a master of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Unfortunately in 1897 Bradley's health suffered; he had to sell the Wayside Press and was unable to complete the final number of volume II. Spines are significantly sunned and the leather and marbled paper are rubbed in places. A fine copy of the bound seven numbers; the leather of the binding is sunned on the spines and rear board of Volume II, and the leather and paper are rubbed. Overall a nice copy in a very good binding. Scarce.

      [Bookseller: Thorn Books ]

Millais, John Guille:
        British Deer and their Horns;
      London, Henry Sothern & Co., 1897.. HARDBACK, original brown buckram, with brown embossed design and lettering on front cover and spine, coloured frontispiece, red and black lettering on title-page, pages: xviii, 224, electrogravures 10, plates 10, text figs. 176 (incl. b & w photos.), 304mm x 388mm (9" x 15.25"), former owner's bookplate and another's details pencilled on front end-papers, 4 plates of antlers, skulls and skeletons, loosely inserted, with 2 newspapers clippings - about deer and Millias and 3 sheets of typed information and drawings about red deer, head missing 0.5cm, tail missing 1.75cm, spine darkened, hinges a little cracked (but sound), corners lightly bumped, covers used and a little dark in places, some spotting to electrogravures and occasionally elsewhere, otherwise a very fine copy. 3.9Kg. This is a heavy item and will incur additional postage.

      [Bookseller: Baldwin's Scientific Books]

ADOLPH ERIK NORDENSKÖLD (1832 - 1901)
        "Periplus - Utkast Till Sjökortenes och Sjöböckernas Äldsta Historia"
      The complete book, large folio, 50,5x36cm The original calf binding, title in gilt with a T-O map and date 1897 on front cover and title on spine (some light rubbing) Stockholm 1897 A very fine copy of the first edition of Nordensköld's "Periplus", the important reference work dealing with marine cartography, early world maps and regional maps and charts. There are sixty reproductions and the index is comprehensive. Nordensköld, a Finnish baron and Arctic explorer built up the largest collection of rare maps and atlases in Scandinavia. This treasure of a collection is today kept in The National Library of Finland, Helsinki

      [Bookseller: Kunstantikvariat PAMA AS]