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MARX (Karl, Carlos): O CAPITAL. Lisbon: Francisco Luiz Goncalves, 1912. Translated by Albano de Moraes. 8vo, 240pp with ink ownership inscription at head of half-title; contemporary cloth-backed boards, light bumping to spine ends and corners.
First edition thus, one of two Portuguese translations of Das Kapital to be published 1912, the first appearances of this text in Portugese. The other is translated by Emilia de Araújo Pereira, with no established priority between the two.

BAUDELAIRE (Charles):
OEUVRES POSTHUMES. Portrait gravé sur bois
Paris, Société du Mercure de France, 1908.
Large 8vo., 416 pp. (untrimmed); maroon half-leather, spine gilt lettered, original full yellow printed wrappers bound in place.
Portrait frontispiece (in two states: wood engraved and monochrome/bistre) from a photograph taken in 1865 by Charles Neyt.
Deluxe edition, including for the first time the articles of "Corsaire-Satan" and "Paris-Journal".
ONE of 87 COPIES (# 22) on Hollande papier, printed specially for Mm. Cumin & Masson.
Reference: Carteret, Trésor du bibliophile, 131; Talvart & Place, "Bibliography of modern French-language authors", I, 293.
A beautiful copy.

RABELAIS (François), 1583–1553 and DORÉ (Gustave), illus., 1832–1883
Oeuvres de François Rabelais, contenant la vie de Gargantua et celle de Pantagruel, augmentés de plusieurs fragments et de deux chapitres du Vème livre restitués d'après un manuscrit de la bibliothèque impériale, [...] Illustrations par Gustave Doré.
Paris, Bry Ainé, 1854.
Works of François Rabelais, with the Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel.
Imperial 4to., [iii] 339 pp. + [1] Table; printed pictorial wrappers printed in red, blue and gilt; some wear and minor stains, spine end splits repaired, mottled pink slipcase.
With 15 full-page black-and-white woodcut plates with printed text, including frontispiece + numerous text illustrations (approx. 100 designs by Gustave Doré, not all included in subsequent editions).
First edition, first issue in original printed wrappers.

(DICKENS, Charles)
DARLEY (Felix O C) [1822–1888]
Oliver Twist: First meeting with the Artful Dodger, 1882
Original pencil and watercolor wash drawing depicting this
pivotal scene from the novel by Charles Dickens
Measures 8-3/8 x 6-3/4 inches
Signed and dated by the artist "F O C Darley /82" at bottom left
Darley is considered amongst the pioneers of American illustration.

BEWICK (Thomas) [1753–1828]
Three Miniature Drawings, circa 1820
Pencil and watercolor studies of birds and squirrels, the first examples we have experienced available on the marketplace.


Provenance: Dr. Edward Brett, pioneer and renowned
specialist in the study of Paediatric Neurology

One of the most important and pioneering collection catalogues in the Antiquarian Children's Books FieldThe Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books 1566-1910 , Volume I* 1476-1910, Volume II. Prepared by Judith St John. Toronto Public Library, 1975. ISBN# 0-919486-25-8; 0-919486-54-1. Tall 8vo, xxiv[i]561[1] - xii[i] [563-]1138pp; original decorative cloth. Two volumes, with text illustrations; Vol. I also with numerous plates including 12 in color; frontispiece portrait of Edgar Osborne in Vol. II. Latest edition revised and corrected. An essential reference.$125.