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Middelburg: Gilles Horthemels le Jeune, 1688, 1688. First edition. Brunet, II, 470; Cioranescu, Bibliographie de la Littérature Française, 38017; OCLC records 12 copies, five in the US and seven in Europe and Britain. Edges of the binding a little rubbed; scattered stains and foxing; paper repairs to the final two leaves, mostly marginal but affecting a few letters at the extremities of three lines in the penultimate leaf; very good copy, enclosed in a quarter morocco clamshell case.. Small 12mo, 19th century brown half morocco, signed P. Pralon of Dijon, dark brown paper boards, blind rules and gilt lettering. Woodcut device on the title-page and two woodcut initials. [12], 95 pages. Three ingenious, bold and entertaining imaginary conversations between the fictional character of Moliere's famous play, Tartuffe, and the deceased François Rabelais, written pseudonymously and modeled most closely on the dialogues of Lucian, Pietro Aretino and Bernard le Bovier Fontenelle. The subject of the… Read More

Paris: Eugene Renduel, Editeur-Libraire, 1829-31, 1829. Second edition of volume one, published the same year as the first; first edition of volume two. Spines a little faded and slightly smudged; some light foxing; very good copy.. 2 vols, 8vo, 20th century tan quarter calf (signed Kering & Muller on the spine of volume one), marbled paper boards, spines with handsome gilt floral decorations and lettering, marbled edges. Frontis portrait. With half-titles. An early and scarce work by Paul Lacroix (1806-84), French antiquary, bibliographer, editor and author of novels and short tales, who often wrote under the pseudonym "Bibliophile Jacob," this being one of the earliest, if not the earliest example of his use of that nom de plume. Soirées de Walter Scott is a collection of French historical tales, inspired by a visit Scott made to Paris in 1826, during which Scott and Lacroix met, probably at a soirée at Princess Galitzin's, where James Fenimore Cooper was also in attendance. In the first… Read More

Paris: Jules Gay, Editeur, 1863, 1863. First edition, number 75 of 300 numbered copies on Holland paper (of a total of 317 copies). Upper joint starting, but sound; fine copy.. 12mo, contemporary green half morocco by V. Champs, marbled paper boards, spine gilt-decorated in five compartments, gilt lettering, t.e.g., others untrimmed. An interesting compilation by Paul Lacroix (1806-84), French antiquary, bibliographer, editor and author, of the library of Marie Antoinette that was housed at her estate, Petit Trianon. The 736 entries are arranged by sciences and arts, belles lettres (the majority of the works) and histoire. Along with the usual suspects are imaginary voyages and a number of memoirs of amorous characters that shocked the general reader when the catalogue was first published. Lacroix, who often wrote under the pseudonym "Bibliophile Jacob," compiled this when he was librarian of the Arsenal Library, Paris. Bookplate of F. T. Kunkelmann on the front paste-down.

London: Printed for the Author, 1808; London: Printed by W. and T. Darton, 1808; London: Printed for the Author, 1809, 1808. First editions of the first two titles; second edition of the third. NCBEL III, 387; Wise and Wheeler, pages 30-32; Partridge, Robert Eyres Landor, His Life and Work, pages 32-35. Binding and label a little rubbed; very good copy.. 3 vols in 1, 12mo and 8vo, 19th century half vellum, marbled paper boards and matching endpapers, red morocco spine label, gilt decorations and lettering. Second volume without half-title; otherwise with half-titles as called for; volumes one and three with the corriendas; volume three with the terminal leaf "To a Certain Provincial Bookseller.". In 1808, Robert Eyres Landor (1781-1869), the younger brother of Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), did as many young aspiring and struggling writers have done and sharpened his developing literary pen with an anonymous poetical satire. His target was the influential literary figure Samuel Parr and his… Read More

London: Printed for John Murray, 1812, 1812. First edition. Wise & Wheeler 12; NCBEL III, 1211. Some minor chafing and wear to the binding; very good copy.. Small 8vo, early 19th century blue diced calf, green leather label, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. Bound without the half-title. The first published play by Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), an historical drama based on the Spaniard, Julian, Count of Ceuta, his quarrel with Roderic and the tragic consequences it had on Spain. This famous event in Spanish history was also used in verse and plays by Walter Scott, Robert Southey and Willilam Rowley. Attractive armorial bookplate on the front paste-down, signed "G.W. Eng '94"

New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867, 1867. First edition. BAL 11241, state A with the title leaf a cancel; Wright II, 1507. Edges slightly rubbed; paper a shade browned; very good copy.. 8vo, original blind- and gilt-decorated dark green cloth, gilt lettering. The first book and only work of fiction by poet and musician Sidney Lanier (1842-1881), a novel set in Tennessee before and during the Civil War, which uses the conflict as a backdrop to examine and contrast the complicated nature of man. We first purchased this copy from Booked Up in Georgetown in 1985 and quickly sold it through a catalogue to a collector in Virginia. Recently we re-purchased this from a dealer representing that collector. In the intervening years we have not had a copy of Tiger-Lilies, though we have seen a few beat-up ones.

New York: Taylor & Dodd, 1840, 1840. First edition. Sabin 39863; American Imprints 40-3934. Some foxing; cloth a little faded and worn; very good copy.. 2 vols, 12mo, original blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt lettering. Writings from the combative radical Democrat and journalist William Leggett (1801-1839), who edited the Evening Post with William Cullen Bryant and championed and wrote extensively on abolition and free speech. This collection marked the first American attempt "to establish the standing of a writer on the basis of journalistic work" - DAB. Bryant, who held the copyright on this work, worked with Sedgwick on the editing. From the library of a friend of Bryant and probably Leggett, as well, New York author and journalist James Lawson (1799-1880), with his signature in penciil ("James Lawson / Yonkers") on each title-page. Lawson was a friend and collaborator with many New York writers of the period. See the DAB. This work often - but not always - contains a frontis portrait of Leggett.… Read More

London: Printed for A. Millar and J. Nourse, R. and J. Dodsley; D. David and C. Reymer, 1757, 1757. First edition. ESTC T89805; Fleeman 57.3LMM/1. Edges a little rubbed; fine copy.. 5 vols, 12mo, 20th century olive speckled calf period-style with brown on-laid panels on the upper and lower boards, brown morocco spine labels, gilt decorations and lettering, a.e.g. Bound without the half-titles. Charlotte Lennox's translation of the Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719), written by Madame Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle (1726-1773), and one of several translations from the French by novelist and poet Lennox (1720-1804). Madame de Maintenon was the second wife of Louis XIV of France, though the marriage was not officially acknowledged and she was consequently never the queen of France. Her first marriage was to French poet Paul Scarron. Samuel Johnson assisted Lennox with the dedication. Oliver Goldsmith reviewed the translation in the Monthly Review and… Read More

London: Printed for Edw. Husbands, 1643, 1643. First edition. ESTC R17603; Wing E1780. Top margins trimmed closely, partially shaving the page numbers; edges of the final leaf a little toned and slightly chipped at the edges, and with a neat repair with two words in manuscript facsimile; very good copy.. Small 4to, modern black quarter morocco, decorated paper boards, gilt lettering. Title within a typographical border, woodcut head-piece and initial, text in black letter, eight pages. An interesting document issued 18 November 1643, at the beginning of the English Civil War, that called for the protection and preservation of libraries and archives from sale or dispersal by the Committees for Sequestration, which were confiscating estates and assets of the Royalists. The ordinance denounces as "prejudiciall to the publique" any "dispersing by sale or otherwise" of books seized by the parliamentary Committees for Sequestration, whether "Manuscripts or written Bookes, proceedings of Courts, evidences… Read More

London: Printed for T. Waller, 1752, 1752. The Second Edition, "corrected and enlarged." The first was published in 1750. ESTC T63180; NCBEL II, 1419. Title-page trimmed slightly along the fore-edge (not touching the text); top margin closely trimmed, touching the pagination on four leaves; light foxing; very good copy.. 8vo, later tan quarter calf, marbled paper boards, red leather spine label, gilt lettering. Bound from a tract volume; without the half-title and advertisement leaf. A lively tourist guide to Paris, with recommendations for cafes, wine, travel by coach, notable monuments and buildings, dealing with the border police, currency exchange, etc. Five Weeks Tour was sufficiently popular that it went through four editions; the final one was issued in 1765. William Lucas apparently published nothing else.

London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1760, 1760. First edition, Todd's edition A.. ESTC T78375; NCBEL II, 556; Todd, "Patterns in the Press Figures: A Story in Lyttelton's Dialogues of the Dead," Studies in Bibliography, No. 8, 1956. Hinges starting, but sound; edges slightly rubbed; fine copy.. 8vo, later 18th century English brown half calf, marbled paper boards, red morocco spine label, gilt rules and lettering. The popular Dialogues of the Dead by Lord George Lyttelton (also spelled Lyttleton) (1709-1773). This first edition contains 28 dialogues, the first 25 are by Lyttelton and the final three by his friend Elizabeth Montagu. Lyttelton's interlocutors include Addison and Swift, Plato and Fenelon, Cortez and William Penn, Boileau and Pope, Locke and Bayle, and Lucian and Rabelais. In number 28, Elizabeth Montague has Plutarch, Charon and a contemporary London bookseller discussing reading tastes of the day. Lyttelton was a respected and well-connected politician and man of letters. His Dialogues,… Read More