Search Results: Titles starting with H from Howard S. Mott, Inc

[THAMES, HMS]. Manuscript logbook of HMS Thames , British 32-Gun Richmond-Class Frigate assigned to interdict enemy shipping in the West Indies. AMs, approximately 384pp. 4to, original reversed calf, morocco label on front cover gilt lettered "Thames Log Book." England and the West Indies, 25 February 1797 to 30 June 1798.A marvelous historical document, rich in detail, being the war-time logbook of 16 months duration of a 18th century English 32-gun fifth-rate frigate, one of the first Richmond-class frigates built for the Royal Navy, written at a time when England was at war with both France and Spain. Such ships served as fast scouts or independent cruisers, and to be posted aboard one of them was considered a plum assignment because of the prospect of prize money for the crews. Commanded by a distinguished officer, a future admiral who had a long and successful naval career throughout the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Includes the Spithead Mutiny at Portsmouth, an event… Read More

BOUND BY THE CO-OPERATIVE PRINTING SOCIETY, MANCHESTER HALL, F[RED], Advisor of Studies to the Co-operative Union of Great Britain ad Ireland.
Handbook for Members of Co-operative Committees. With a Foreword by W. R. Rae, J. P. (Chairman Central Education Committee, Co-operative Union Limited). 8vo, full black morocco by the Co-operative Printing Society, with their label inside rear cover, upper and lower covers each with 24 gilt-stamped leaves surrounding a double-bordered geometric design resembling a scalloped French fountain, in the center of which are 4 in-laid red leather balls around a larger brown ball, spine & edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, hand-colored calligraphic presentation leaf, pp. xxii, 456, a.e.g. Manchester: The Co-operative Union Limited, 1924.
Second (Revised) Edition, published October, 1924; first published December, 1923. Four editions would be published by 1931. Fine copy in a handsome… Read More

A SOURCE BOOK FOR JEZEBELL PETTYFER
[MACFALL, Haldane]. ST. JOHN, Sir Spenser. Hayti or The Black Republic. 8vo, nearly contemporary (remainder?) cloth, pp. xiv, [2], 343. London: Smith, Elder, 1884.
First Edition. An important copy bound without the map. ODNB calls this a "savagely hostile" book. We have seen the book referred to as "racist." It was written by a British diplomat who spent several years in the country. This copy belonged to Haldane Macfall while he was writing his classic picaresque West Indian masterpiece set in Barbados, The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer (1897). Ownership inscription inside front cover: "C. Haldane Macfall 60 Wynnstay Gardens Kensington SW '96." Macfall has made marginal scorings and underlinings on 82 pages in pencil, the greatest number in the section on voodoo, and also written 44 words. On free half of front end paper he cites three books on Haiti, calling Moreau de St. Mery's "excellent & truthful."… Read More

MOTLEY, John Lathorp.
History of the United Netherlands: from the death of William the Silent to the Synod of
Dort. With a full view of the English-Dutch struggle against Spain, and the origin and destruction of the Spanish Armada...From the death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years' Truce---1609. 4 vols., Large 8vo, original black cloth, spines stamped in gold, pp. xii, 532; [viii], 563, 4 ads; x, 599; [viii], 632, 4 ads + 4 inserted frontispieces, 1 inserted folding plate. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861-68.
First American Edition. Nearly fine, free of foxing, and rarely found in such condition. Motley's outstanding history of the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain, from the death of William the Silent (1584) to the truce of 1609. Touches on America only incidentally. Motley later wrote, "My subject had taken me up, drawn me on, and absorbed me into itself." "Leaving for Europe in 1851 he plunged into the archives of Belgium, Holland and Germany. He… Read More

A FINE PRESENTATION COPY
GIVEN TO CANADIAN FRIENDS WITH WHOM THE AUTHOR VISITED FIELD, Rachel. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. With Illustrations of Dorothy P. Lathrop. 4to, original cloth (rubbed; front cover and spine faded to green), printed label (browned; with one corner chipped), colored frontispiece, pp. 207 + 2 color plates (edges of the 45% of the book slightly stained at lower blank margins). New York: Macmillan, [May] 1930.
Early edition of the author's most famous book; a classic juvenile illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop. First printed October, 1929, reprinted twice in December, 1929, and this copy a May, 1930, reprint. The book was awarded the Newberry Medal in June 1930, the month before this copy was presented by Field to some Canadian friends. Not a prime copy, but a fine association copy, inscribed to family friends: "For Docia [Eudocia Dewey Jones] and little Docia [Docia Flynt Jones Horton] with such… Read More

BALZAC BIOGRAPHY PRESENTED TO ZOLA
LIE, Erik.
Honoré de Balzac mennesket og kunstneren en kildestudie. [Illustrated]. 8vo, original gilt stamped blue cloth (minor rubbing), fine floral marbled endpapers, frontispiece portrait, pp. 275 + 3 plates, a.e.g. Copenhagen: Gyldendal boghandel, 1893.
First Edition. A biography with bibliographical references. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, "Monsieur Emile Zola homage de l'auteur. Paris 29 Avril 93." Pasted below the inscription is the author's Paris business card. Erik Lie (1868-1943), was a successful Norwegian writer of adult and juvenile fiction, as well as scholarly works on literary history. This son son of the famous novelist Jonas Lie was a respected journalist, and founder of the Nordic library in Paris.

A FINE COPY OF AN AMERICAN CLASSIC, "THE GRAND-FATHER OF BAR GUIDES", A COLLECTION OF THE FIRST THREE EDITIONS (PLUS ANOTHER): "COPIES IN COLLECTOR'S STATE...ARE JUST ABOUT UNKNOWN."
THOMAS, Jerry, formerly principal bar-tender at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, and the Planter's House, St. Louis. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivants Companion, to which is appended a manual for the manufacture of cordials, fancy syrups, &c. Illustrated with descriptive engravings. The whole containing over 600 valuable recipes. By Christian Schultz. 12mo, original brown wavy-grained cloth with elaborate blind stamped decorative leaf design on both covers, front cover stamped, How to Mix Drinks Price $1.50 in gold,spine stamped How to Mix Drinks, with publisher's monogram on shield device at base, same device on rear cover in blind,pp. 244, [8] ads, with 10 in-text illustrations. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1862. First Edition (& 3 others): First Edition. When found this book, which was in print for more… Read More