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London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, 1843. First English edition, preceded a few months by the American edition. Smith, American Travellers Abroad, C2; Sabin 9889; Robinson, Wayward Women, page 233; Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers, page 65. Spine and edges repaired; some light browning and foxing; very good copy.. 8vo, original blind-stamped black cloth, gilt lettering. 16-page publisher's catalogue dated August, 1845. "This is the earliest and most balanced first-hand account of Mexico to be written by a woman" - Robinson. Frances Calderon de la Barca (1804-82) was born in Scotland and raised in France and Boston, where she met the Spanish Minister to the United States, Angelo Calderon de la Barca. Together they traveled to Mexico. Bookplate of American novelist Larry McMurtry on the front paste-down; this is a duplicate from his large collection of books by women travelers.

Firenze: Nella Stamp. De Pietro Allegrini, 1788, 1788. First edition. Sabin 10704; Palou 42410. Slight wear to the edges of the binding; fine copy.. 4to, contemporary vellum, gilt lettered spine, a.e. stained red. A treatise by Florentine historian and mathematician, Stanislao Canovai (1740-1811), that attempts to restore the reputation of Amerigo Vespucci as the founder of the new world, which was named for him, but he was not generally credited with being the first one there. Canovai makes the case that Vespucci set foot in America one year before Columbus. Canovai's Elogio d'Amerigo Vespucci went through several editions, and the merits of it were debated for decades as new, revised editions appeared. See, for example, a substantial discussion of it in the North American Review, April 1821 (JSTOR). From the library of collector Brent Gration-Maxfield, with his interesting and extensive notes in pencil on the free endpapers, with bibliographical citations and statements (albeit not entirely… Read More

London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing Office; for John White, 1805, 1805. First and only edition. See Colbert, Women's Travel Writing, 1780-1840. Original paper spine skillfully repaired; spine label almost gone; boards a little rubbed; but a fine copy in original state, enclosed in a cloth clamshell case.. 4to, original tan paper spine and blue paper boards, printed paper label, untrimmed. Two aquatint engravings by R. Pollard. Eight page list of subscribers. Topographically inspired poetry about Turkey, Syria and Greece by Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1759-1804), posthumously edited by his sister Susanna Maria Carlyle (1752-1833), handsomely printed by William Bulmer and illustrated with two fine aquatints by the artist and engraver Robert Pollard (1755-1838). Susanna Maria Carlyle's role in this publication was essential and hence Benjamin Colbert recognizes her contribution in his bibliography of Women's Travel Writing. Small book labels of Ruari McLean and J. O. Edwards on… Read More

[Venice: Aldus Manutius, January 1502]. (Colophon: Venetiis in Aedibus Aldi. Mense Ianuario m.d.ii), 1502. First Aldine edition, first issue with the misprint of "Propetius" for Propertius on the title-page and the cancellan of the corrected title-page on the final leaf. Renouard 1502-16; Adams C1137; Clemons and Fletcher 32. Faint early ink ownership marks on the title-page; binding slightly rubbed, particularly at the head of the spine, where the hinge is just starting; a fine copy.. Small 8vo, 19th century brown polished calf, dark brown morocco spine labels, Aldine anchor gilt-stamped on the upper and lower boards, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. The first Aldine edition of the complete poetry of Catullus, published with the selected verse of his fellow Roman poets, Tibullus and Sextus Propertius, edited by Girolamo Avanzi - an important and authoritative edition for its scholarship and as a precursor to Aldus' designs as a publisher of the Classics in small format: "The starkness of this… Read More

Paris: Apud Mamertum Patissonium, in Officina Rob. Stephani, 1577, 1577. First edition edited by Joseph Scalinger. Adams C1156; Schreiber, The Estiennes, 248. Edges just a little rubbed; fine copy.. 8vo, two parts in one volume, 18th century French cat's paw calf, marbled endpapers, maroon morocco spine label, gilt decorations and lettering, a.e. stained red. Woodcut vignette printer's device of the Estiennes on the title-page. The celebrated and often reprinted edition of Catullus and his two fellow Roman poets, Tibullus and Propertius, edited by French scholar Joseph Justus Scalinger (1549-1609), one of the most influential classical scholars of the Renaissance. Scalinger's Catullus became the definitive text of the great lyrical poet, and like many of Scalinger's works, a model for future textual scholarship. Scalinger "produced, in 1577, a new textus receptus of Catullus (if less so for Tibullus and Propertius), which endured, in common use with some modifications, for two hundred and fifty… Read More

London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1659, 1659. First edition. ESTC R210048; Wing C3671; Mish, English Prose Fiction, 1600-1700, page 35; NCBEL I, 2058. Bound a little tightly; two mended tears, without loss; very good copy.. Small 12mo, late 19th century brown half smooth calf, brown cloth sides, gilt lettering. Text interleaved with old laid paper, but without annotations. A rare work of prose fiction by prolific writer, physician and philosopher William Charleton (1619-1707), a short philosophical tale based on the story of a woman from the legendary ancient city of Ephesus: "The Ephesian Matron: Based on the Tale in the 'Satyricon' of Petronius . . . is an attack on the fashionable cult of Platonic love of [Charleton's] day, in which he insists that physical love and lust are both manifestations of 'an appetite to procreation'. Charleton sees his lascivious heroine as an Epicurean who lives by 'the simple dictates of mother-Nature'" - John Henry in the ODNB. Provenance: small round stamp of… Read More

Baltimore: Published for the Editor by E. J. Coale, Richard J. Matchett, Printer, 1821, 1821. First edition. American Imprints 4963; Sabin 12173. Tears in two margins, probably from opening, but not touching text; some foxing and browning; very good copy.. 12mo, original drab paper boards and printed paper spine label, untrimmed. A commonplace anthology compiled by Marylander Elizabeth Chase (1767-1840), the sister of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Chase. The contents, from both American and English sources, range from brief biographical sketches of writers, excepts from Samuel Richardson, William Gilpin, commentary on Edmund Burke, a brief essay about the horrors of slavery - presumably by Elizabeth Chase, but it is unsigned - and several poems by an "Edgar" which have in the past been hopefully but speciously attributed to the young Edgar Allan Poe. Early and contemporary annotations and ownership signatures in pencil.

London: Printed in the year, 1654, 1654. First edition. ESTC R208498; NCBEL I, 1305; Wing C-4672. Plate mounted and possibly trimmed; frontis portrait repaired in the lower left corner with manuscript facsimile; very good copy.. Small octavo, 19th century calf rebacked, red morocco spine label, blind rules and decorations, gilt lettering, a.e.g. Frontis portrait and one plate. John Cleveland's account of the famous peasant insurrection led by Walter Tyler (d. 1381) against Richard II in protest over his tax on commoners to pay for the war with France. Tyler and his rebels entered London and terrorized supporters of the monarchy, but Tyler was killed after meeting with Richard II, and his followers were allowed to go home. G.A. Henty, among others, have fictionalized Tyler's Insurrection; Cleveland may be making subtle comparisons between Tyler and Cromwell. The text is preceded by a six-stanza poem to John Lydgate, the 15th century English poet and monk; in this copy another version poem, from… Read More

London: Printed for F. Cogan, 1749 [&] 1750, 1749. First edition. ESTC T79268; Teerink 81 (Supplement); Case, English Poetical Miscellanies, 467; NCBEL II, 472, 476, 483, etc.. Binding a rubbed, but sound; some foxing and smudges in the text; very good copy.. 3 vols in 2, 8vo, contemporary brown calf, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. Three volumes, complete, of an important English poetical miscellany which the editor and publisher Francis Cogan assembled for the cause of preserving what he feared were works that would be lost to the "low and declining state" of poetry. Included are the Earls of Dorset, Halifax and Roscommon, Samuel Garth, Thomas Tickell, Ambrose Phillips, Thomas Sprat, and what are stated to be uncollected pieces by John Sucking, Matthew Prior, Thomas Ottway, and Jonathan Swift (a few of which Teerink suggests may be doubtful).

London: Hamilton, Adams; Liverpool: Marples, 1834, 1834. First English Translation. OCLC records about 15 copies. Very good copy.. 16mo, contemporary brown moire, a.e.g. Frontis portrait. The first translation into English of the poetical work of German poet and soldier Theodor Körner (1791-1813), a romantic and popular figure in German literature and lore. He heroically died in battle at the young age of 21. His literary remains, mostly plays and poetry, were compiled and edited by his father and sister. The English translator was William Brownsword Chorley (1804-1879), a scholar and book collector, who inscribed this copy "To Hartley Coleridge with the Translator's respects and regards." Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849), the eldest son of Samuel Taylor and Sara Coleridge, and was an interesting and brilliant but tormented poet.

London: Printed by J. Morphew, 1713, 1713. First edition. ESTC 66953; Goldsmiths' 5090; not found in NCBEL. Edges slightly rubbed; fine copy.. 8vo, modern brown half calf period style, marbled paper boards, gilt lettering. With half-title. A discussion about the injurious effects of gambling on the character and the purse in a dialogue between Callimachus and Dolomedes, set in early 18th century England. Jeremy Collier (1650-1726) was famous for his A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage and the "Collier Controversy" that ensued. This dialogue was later collected in Collier's Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects (1720).

Paris: E. Typographia Regia [Colophon: Curante Sebastiano Cramoisy], 1651, 1651. The first printed edition of the complete text. Small hole in the title-page where a signature was erased; a little spotting; very good copy, with generous margins.. Two volumes in one, folio, 42 x 29 cm, recent brown half calf, red spine label, marbled paper boards, gilt lettering, edges stained red. With half-title. Engraved vignettes on the title-page and the first leaf of each of the 15 parts. Printed in double columns, with parallel Latin and Greek texts. The first work of history written by a Western woman, Anna Comnena (1083-1153), the 12th century Byzantine princess. She wrote The Alexiad to chronicle the achievements of the reign of her father, emperor Alexius I Comnenus, who ruled Byzantine from 1081 to 1118 and oversaw the so-called Comnenian restoration. Though her accuracy in a few matters has been questioned, the text - an eyewitness account by a participant and observer at the center of events - is an… Read More

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1698, 1698. First edition. ESTC R29682; Wing C5845; NCBEL II, 751. The outer margins of three leaves are trimmed closely, while the outer margins of the other three leaves are almost full, giving the impression that when the sheets were washed by Riviere, they trimmed away fraying or badly soiled edges on three margins; very good copy.. Folio, full brown calf by Riviere, brown morocco spine label, gilt lettering, t.e.g. A nine-page poem that obliquely praises Charles Montague, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who as Congreve's patron, was responsible for getting the poet-playwright cushy government posts such as a commissioner of the malt lottery, licensing hackney coaches and approving wine licenses. See the ODNB.

London: Sands & Company, 1900, 1900. First edition. Binding a little worn and soiled; some light foxing; very good copy.. 8vo, original pictorial green cloth, gilt lettering, t.e.g. Conrad's story "An Outpost of Progress," which first appeared in Cosmopolis magazine in 1897 and was collected in Tales of Unrest (1898), is included here in an anthology published to raise funds for the besieged citizens of the town of Ladysmith, South Africa, a contribution Conrad make along with 15 other authors (F. Anstey, W.E. Norris, Edgar Fawcett and Eden Phillpotts among them) without fee. The profits from the book went to the Mayor of Ladysmith, a town which was under siege by the Boers and not freed until early 1900. This is Conrad's first appearance in an anthology, and it is one of his scarcest works of this kind.

London: Charles Tilt, 1832, 1832. First edition. Cohen 65. Fine copy, enclosed in a cloth chemise, with the bookplate on the front paste-down of the exclusive New York club, The Brook.. 12mo, original printed yellow wrappers. Four plates. Advertisement on the rear wrapper. Without the eight pages of terminal advertisements as called for by Cohen. A fable about a humble bee who wanders too far from home, literally and figuratively, and is taken advantage of by a devious wasp, who encourages him to drink too much. Little is recorded about the author Richard Frankum, who apparently was a physician. In a second edition published by Pickering in 1861, he acknowledges the fine work of Cruikshank in illustrating his fable.