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Italy, 1825. Album of dynamic original drawings chronicling the Napoleonic era, with an emphasis on the Italian campaigns. Events depicted include sieges and battles (Mantua, Lodi, Trebbia, Marengo); the signing of treaties (Campo Formio, Tolentino); the deaths of generals (Duphot, Joubert); and the royalist attempt to assassinate Napoleon with a "macchina infernale." Later scenes include the battles of Wagram, Ligny, and Waterloo, and Napoleon's exile to St. Helena. The drawings vary in their level of finish: some precise and detailed, others with a more fluid line, but all united by a shared style and graphic weight. An optimistic early bookseller's note identifies the drawings as the work of Jacques-Louis David, which is certainly not true, but the unknown Italian artist was clearly inspired by neoclassical French history painting. "Fine dalla giornata di Marengo" expands a detail of a battle scene by Carle Vernet (1758-1836), and "Napoleone all' Isola de Lobau" echoes a painting of Charles…
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Pen Sketches of Napoleon I (album of original drawings)
by [Bonaparte, Napoleon]
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Philipok
by Tolstoy, Leo; Beneduce, Ann Keay (translator); Spirin, Gennady (illustrator)
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New York: Philomel Books, 2000. First edition of this English adaptation of Philipok, a classic of Russian children's literature, collected in Leo Tolstoy's 1875 New Primer (Novaya Azbuka). Eager to go to school with his older brother, little Philipok slips out of the house one day to find the village schoolhouse: "there was nobody on the porch. Philipok could hear the voices of the children inside. He started to go in, but suddenly he was afraid." Russian-born illustrator Gennady Spirin, who loved the story of Philipok as a child, produced the detailed watercolors that accompany the simple story, and has signed this copy on the half-title. A fine signed copy of a beautiful book. Slim quarto, measuring 10 x 8 inches: [32]. Original color pictorial laminated boards, red endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Signed by Gennady Spirin in gold ink on half-title.
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Picture Posters to Color: Fruits and Vegetables
by [DESIGN]; Elms, F. Raymond
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Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company, 1951. Complete set of midcentury classroom posters, designed to be colored by students. The twelve fruits and vegetables featured here are apples, beets, carrots, cherries, grapes, peaches, pears, radishes, strawberries, sweet corn, tomatoes, and wax beans, each depicted on the tree, vine or stalk. As a footnote, each image offers specific instructions on which colors the children should choose. Beckley-Cardy 535. A fine set of vintage classroom materials, with pomological appeal. Complete set of twelve black and white posters, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Housed in publisher's pictorial envelope printed in black and red. Light wear and smudging to envelope, posters fine.
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A Poetical Dictionary; or, the Beauties of the English Poets, Alphabetically Displayed
by [Derrick, Samuel (editor)]; Shakespeare, William; Jonson, Ben; Milton, John; Dryden, John; Gay, John; Pope, Alexander; Johnson, Samuel
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London: Printed for J. Newbery, J. Richardson, S. Crowder, et al., 1761. First edition of this absorbing miscellany of English poetry, thematically and alphabetically organized in the tradition of Edward Bysshe's popular Art of English Poetry (1702). Verses appear under headings from "Abbey" (a passage from the Elizabethan history play Thomas Lord Cromwell, attributed to Shakespeare) to "Zimri" (from Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel"). Other headings include "Bees," "Camera Obscura," "Folly," "Genius," "Hops," "Marriage," "Player," "Sloth," and "Witch." The verses under "Love," covering forty-five pages, offer a brisk survey of every aspect of infatuation, passion, and regret, from Romeo and Juliet through Comus to The Rape of the Lock. Although the Poetical Dictionary was once attributed to Oliver Goldsmith, based on the prose style of the preface, the editorship of Samuel Derrick is now established. A failed actor and enterprising hack writer, Derrick was friendly with Samuel Johnson, whose massive…
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The Princesse de Clèves
by Lafayette, Madame de; Mitford, Nancy (translator)
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London: Euphorion Books, 1950. Privately printed first edition of English novelist Nancy Mitford's translation of Madame de Lafayette's seventeenth-century novel, a high spot of French literature, illustrated with portraits of the court of Henri II. The Princesse de Clèves, the tale of a faithful wife tempted by the fascinating Duc de Nemours, introduces a modern psychological realism into the highly stylized conventions of French court romance: "She could not suppress an uneasy happiness at the sight of him, but when he was not there the thought that her love had its origins in his physical presence filled her with anguish so that she almost hated him." This scarce edition was published by Euphorion Books, the private press of Nancy Mitford's sister Diana Mosley, and contains Mitford's acid preface, which was watered down considerably when the translation was reprinted by Penguin in 1962. A near-fine copy of a fragile book, scarce in jacket. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.25 inches: [6], 172.…
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The Princess Casamassima
by James, Henry
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London: Macmillan, 1886. First edition of Henry James's most overtly political novel, one of 750 copies, first published in the Atlantic Monthly. The Princess Casamassima traces the friendship of a radical London bookbinder and an idle princess with revolutionary sympathies: "By way of defending the aristocracy he said to her that it couldn't be true they were all a bad lot (he used that expression because she had let him know that she liked him to speak in the manner of the people)." The comparatively action-packed plot, which turns on a terrorist assassination attempt, shows the influence of Charles Dickens and Émile Zola on James more clearly than his introspective fiction. Edel & Laurence A29. A near-fine copy of a major novel. Three octavo volumes, measuring 7.5 x 5 inches: iv, 252; iv, 257, [3]; iv, 242, [2]. Original dark blue-green cloth, double-rule border and panel stamped in black and blind, spines lettered in gilt with gilt publisher's device and decorative rules at top and bottom…
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Problema Bianco - Bigio - Nero
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[Milan]: Il Tesoro delle Famiglie, late nineteenth century. Striking broadsheet logic puzzle, issued by Il Tesoro delle Famiglie, a nineteenth-century Italian periodical aimed at women in the home. Three married couples need to cross a river using a single boat that can hold only two people at a time. The jealous husbands ("mariti gelosi") refuse to allow their wives to cross the river or to wait on the opposite shore in the company of another man. Players are instructed to cut out the boat and the six figures (two printed in white, two in grey, and two in black) to work out the quickest way to get all three couples across the river. A compelling and ephemeral piece of popular printing, featuring a logical challenge, a sexist premise, and a graphic appeal. Oblong broadsheet, measuring 8.75 x 12 inches, printed recto only. Shallow creasing; faint tidemark and half-inch chip to right margin, not affecting image.
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The Pupil of Pleasure: or, the New System Illustrated. Inscribed to Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, Editor of Lord Chesterfield's Letters
by Melmoth, Courtney (Pratt, Samuel Jackson)
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London: Printed for G. Robinson, and J. Bew, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1776. First edition of this epistolary novel, published two years after the posthumous appearance of Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman. In that controversial bestseller, Chesterfield advises his son to cultivate an open, inviting manner while steadily advancing his own interests: "take great care that the first impressions you give of yourself may be not only favorable, but pleasing, engaging, nay, seducing." Samuel Johnson remarked that Chesterfield's letters "teach the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master." Philip Sedley, the apt young hero of Pupil of Pleasure, takes "the divine Letters" as his gospel, moving to the spa town of Buxton to practice his pleasing, engaging, and seducing: "what our Garrick is to Shakespeare, I am resolved to be to Chesterfield - the living comment upon the dead text." But what begins as a comic novel, featuring a naïve…
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