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First or early editions. Various places and publishers, 1655-1897, 1655. See Beverly Seaton, The Language of Flowers, A History. University Press of Virginia, 1995. A detailed description of the collection is available via pdf on our website on the catalogues page.. The Language of Flowers phenomenon flourished for almost eighty years, beginning in France in the early 19th century. As both potent and subtle symbols in Western culture, flowers are found in religious texts, poetry, heraldic, and emblematic literature from the classical period and early Christianity, through medieval literature and the enlightenment. In the early 19th century books were written and published for the first time under titles such as Abécédaire de Flore ou Langage des Fleurs (1811), Oracles de Flore (1816), Emblemes de Flore et des Végéaux (1819) and Le Langage des Fleurs (1819). With those publications, the language of flowers and its exploration of floral symbolism in communication - usually as a language of… Read More

London: Printed for John Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669, 1669. Second edition in English, preceded by the edition of 1662. ESTC R30756; Wing O270; Cox, Literature of Travel, I, page 249. Several of the maps have paper repairs at the folds and in the margins; the third map, of the River Volga, is a little darkened at the edges and dust-soiled; the two leaves (Q4 & R1) adjacent to that map are also a little darkened and dust-soiled; one clean tear to a leaf, without loss; very good copy.. Folio in fours, contemporary mottled calf rebacked, red morocco spine label, blind rules and gilt lettering. Frontispiece, six folding maps, two portraits and one engraved Cyrillic alphabet in the text. In 1634 Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp (present day Denmark and Germany), sent an expedition, with Adam Olearus (1603-1671) as its secretary, from Hamburg to Moscow in an attempt to establish commercial relations with Russia, which failed. Undeterred Frederick sent a similar expedition to Persia in 1636, also with… Read More

Paris: Marie-Nyon, 1832, 1832. Second edition; the first was published in 1830. OCLC records four editions between 1830 and 1847, with scattered but not plentiful holdings in Europe and three in North America: Montreal, Quebec and the Free Library of Philadelphia. Edges slightly rubbed; fine copy.. 2 vols, 12mo, contemporary continental half acid calf, paste-paper boards, orange and green leather spine labels, gilt decorations and lettering. Two title-pages in each volume, in French and English. An anthology-text book of English literature for the French student, compiled by D. O'Sullivan, an English professor at the Royal College of St. Louis, with notes and brief biographical sketches, including early critical treatments of Shelley, Coleridge, Byron, Hunt, Baillie and Barbauld for a foreign audience. On the recto of the French title-page of each volume is a printed statement about the authenticity of the text, signed by O'Sullivan.

Printed MDC.XXVI. First edition. ESTC S113538; STC 18903. Text washed, most noticeably on the first and final leaves; fine copy, enclosed in a slipcase.. 4to, later brown morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for William Stirling-Maxwell, with the Stirling-Maxwell gilt insignia on the upper and lower boards, gilt lettering on the spine, a.e.g. 18 pages, A-D3; lacking the final blank. In 1609 courtier and poet Thomas Overbury (1581-1613) traveled through the Low Countries and France and wrote this essay about the equilibrium of power between France, Spain and England that would guarantee their mutual preservation. This would become known as the "balance of power" later in the 17th century, when Overbury was principally known as the author of the often reprinted poem "A Wife" and for his central role in a court scandal, his imprisonment in the Tower and death there, which was possibly a murder. In addition to the politics written about in his essay, Overbury comments on the characteristics of the people… Read More