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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.

Alexandria: Printed by Cottom and Stewart, Booksellers, 1802, 1802. First American edition. American Bibliography 1860; cf. Garside & Schöwerling 1801:15 for the English edition. Binding rubbed and worn; label chipped; moderately foxed and stained; conrer of one leaf torn, with loss to about seven lines of text, but not the sense; a good copy.. 3 vols in 1, as issued, 12mo, contemporary sheep, red morocco label, gilt rules and lettering. Separate title-pages for volumes 2 & 3, but the pagination is continous. The first American edition of the only novel by Thomas Bellamy, the picaresque tale of a young boy, Alfred, who is abandoned by his mother and lives through numerous "calamitous vicissitudes," but in the end is saved by a generous family. The Beggar Boy was left unfinished at Bellamy's death, and his friend the novelist Elizabeth Sarah Villa-Real Gooch completed the work, as noted by her in the preface.

Cantabrigiæ: Ex Officina Joann. Hayes, Sumptibus Henrici Dickinson, 1681, 1681. Second English edition; the first was published in 1672, also by Hayes. ESTC R9979; Wing V107; Honeyman Sale Catalogue 3029. Edges and hinges repaired; prelims a little foxed; a very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf rebacked, raised bands. Five folding plates. Title-page printed in red and black. The celebrated treatise on scientific and comparative geography by the German geographer Bernhardus Varenius (1622-1650), first published in Amsterdam in 1650. It became the standard textbook on the subject for a century. Isaac Newton edited and revised this edition for his students at Cambridge; it was Newton's first published work. Small bookplate of Johann Lawrence on the front paste-down.

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 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.

(San Francisco: The Jumbo Press, 1955), 1955. First edition, one of a very few copies for private circulation. OCLC records three copies (BCC, Wellesley & Brigham Young); not in the Grabhorn Press Bibliography. In fine condition, handsomely framed.. Broadside, 49 x 16 cm, printed in black on mustard-yellow paper. The second broadside Jane Grabhorn wrote and printed for her husband Robert on the occasion of his birthday. This one is comprised of 18 spurious and ridiculous quotations that only the wit of Jane Grabhorn could devise: "Our long association has been a frightful, I mean fitful, well, anyway, it's been damn long. Ed Grabhorn"; "Birthday-wise 55 is not fabulous, but Robert Grabhorn-wise you might say it's amazingly different, period. Albert Sperisen"; "Warren thinks all the Dutch do is slog around in wooden shoes picking tulips and repairing dykes. Very few of us wear wooden shoes. Antoinette Howell"; etc. From the library of San Francisco bookseller and close friend to the Grabhorns - as… Read More

Weimar: Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, May, 1826, 1826. Fine copy.. 4to, recent wrappers, [16] pages, printed in double columns numbered [49]-64. An example of the influence and spread of the news of Mary Somerville's first scientific publication, "On the Magnetizing Power of the More Refrangible Solar Rays" - i.e., the magnetizing power of sunlight - that had been published in the February, 1826, issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Her husband, William Somerville, had "communicated" her observations to the Society because as a woman Mary had no access to such outlets of communication. Nonetheless, the scientific observations were clearly credited as hers, and news about them quickly spread to Europe, as evidenced by this report in a German scientific periodical within months of their first publication in London. The notice is the lead article in this issue of Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde and takes up three columns. The accomplishments and career of Mary Somerville… Read More