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CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). A group of 4 works, including:An Outcast of the Islands. 1896. Provenance: Hugh Sutherland (bookplate); Wilson Collection (stamp); acquired from Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers, Los Angeles. FIRST ISSUE. Cagle A2a(1). -- The Children of the Sea. NY, 1897. Provenance: Barton Wood Currie (1877-1962) American journalist and book collector (bookplate). -- The Nigger of the "Narcissus." A Tale of the Sea. 1898. Cagle A3c(1). -- Typhoon and Other Stories. 1903. 20th century blue polished calf gilt   by Bayntun. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, most published in London, most published by William Heinemann, various 8vo sizes, most in original bindings, ALL FIRST EDITION or FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, condition generally fine.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

[CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator]. CAREY, David (1782-1824). Life in Paris. London: for John Fairburn, 1822.  8vo (214 x 131 mm). Half-title, "To the Binder" leaf at end; engraved title, engraved frontispiece, and 20 engraved plates all with hand-coloring. (Some minor spotting or offsetting.) 20th-century green crushed levant gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Riviere & Son. Provenance: Thomas Gullan? (faded signature on half-title).FIRST EDITION. Abbey Travel 112; Tooley 129.  Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

[CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878)]. JERROLD, William Blanchard (1826-1884). The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs. London: Chatto and Windus, 1882.2 volumes, 8vo (188 x 120 mm). Half-titles, frontispieces, illustrated title-pages, illustrated throughout; EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the addition of approximately 101 portraits plates, and facsimiles, many with hand-coloring. (Some light spotting.) 20th-century red morocco gilt, front covers with facsimile signatures gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest with figures after Cruikshank gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (some light scuffing).FIRST EDITION of the definitive biography of Cruikshank.  

[CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878)]. A group of 3 works about Cruikshank, comprising:THACKERAY, William Makepeace. On the Genius of George Cruikshank. London, 1884. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED. Contemporary maroon morocco gilt, stamp-signed by Morrell. Later edition. [Bound with:] The Political "A, Apple-Pie." London, 1820. Twenty-fifth edition. -- INGLIS, Henry David. Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote. London, 1837. Illustrated by Cruikshank. Later polished calf gilt stamp-signed by Root & Son. FIRST EDITION. -- BLANCHARD, Laman, editor. George Cruikshank 's Omnibus. London, 1842. Illustrated by Cruikshank. Later blue half morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, condition generally fine.  

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.  8vo (208 x 128 mm). 43 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), Robert William Buss, and Robert Seymour (including engraved frontispiece and additional engraved vignette title-page). (Lacking half-title, some minor spotting.) 20th-century calf gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by RIVIERE & SON (spine sunned).FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, text with most of the first issue points listed in Smith, this copy without signature E on p.25, but with "inde-licate" corrected on p.341. With most plates in Smith 's first state. Gimbel A15; Grolier English78; Smith I:3.  

DICKENS, Charles ( "Boz") (1812-1870). Master Humphrey's Clock By "Boz." London: Chapman and Hall, 4 April 1840 - 27 November 1841.  88 weekly parts, 8vo (267 x 180 mm). Three frontispieces and numerous wood engravings in the text by George Cattermole, Hablot K. Browne and others. (Some soiling and chipping, a few soft creases.) Original pictorial printed white self-wrappers, uncut (some chipping and light soiling, a few leaves becoming detached); green cloth slipcase and chemise.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, IN THE ORIGINAL 88 WEEKLY PARTS. With preliminaries (frontispiece, title-page, and Preface) for the three volume edition present in numbers 26, 52, and 88; addresses by the author in parts 9, 80-83, and 87; a tipped in advertisement to pt. 62 for Chambers 's Journal of Literature, Poetry, Biography, and Adventure. Each weekly part was issued as a single folded sheet of 16 pages, 4 of which formed the outer wrapper around 12 numbered pages of letterpress. "Of the four issues the weekly one is difficult to obtain in a clean condition and is therefore the costliest" (Eckel). All 88 parts include front wrappers with an engraved design by George Cattermole which was engraved in wood by E. Landells. One of the first works to be published in both weekly and monthly parts, a strategy which proved unsuccessful. Eckel, pp. 61-65; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 161-182.

DICKENS, Charles ( "Boz") (1812-1870). The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Hablot Knight Browne ( "Phiz") (1815-1882), illustrator. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844.8vo (213 x 131 mm). Half-title, etched frontispiece, additional etched vignette title-page, 38 (of 38) etched plates by Browne. (Some spotting or staining, some toning to plates, some minor chipping with a one or two old repairs to a few plates.) Early 20th-century calf with gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Root & Son (some minor rubbing, bookplate removed from endpaper).FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, second issue with the signpost reading " £100," and the 14-line errata. Eckel pp. 71-73; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 185-224; Smith I: 7.

DICKENS, Charles ( "Boz") (1812-1870). Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans, December 1855 - June 1857.20 parts in 19, 8vo (222 x 142 mm). Half-title in pt. 11, with 40 (of 40) etched plates (including frontispiece and additional title-page) by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). (Some staining or toning, some chipping, plates browned.) Original blue-green pictorial wrappers (a few wrappers detached, Part I soiled and with losses, some overall chipping, front wrapper to Part 3 supplied with part number updated in ink, repairs to spines).  FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, VIRTUALLY COMPLETE WITH ADVERTISEMENTS AND INSERTED SLIPS, first issue of part 15, with character name "Rigaud" rather than "Blandois" on pages 469, 470, 472, and 474 and the subsequent correction slip in part 16. "Little Dorrit Advertiser" present throughout, all of the inserted advertisements as called for by Hatton and Cleaver, with the following exceptions: additional advertisements not called for in parts 2 and 9; lacking 12pp. front ads in parts 3 and 15; lacking rear ads in parts 2, 3, 5, 11, 15, and 17; lacking one ad in part 6.  

BOUGUER, Pierre (1698-1758). Essai d'optique, sur la gradation de la lumiere. Paris: Claude Jombert, 1729.  12mo (160 x 97 mm). 3 folding engraved plates, initial blank, errata and publisher's catalogue at end. (Minor marginal toning to some gutters, occasional spots.) Contemporary calf   (rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, upper fore-corners worn). Provenance: Ferguson of Raith (armorial bookplate).  FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TREATISE ON PHOTOMETRY. As the discoverer of a practical method of measuring the intensity of light, Bouguer was the founder of this branch of optics. A youthful prodigy who established himself early in life as the leading French authority on nautical matters, Bouguer merely dabbled in optics as a hobby. Nevertheless, the Essai contains two fundamental contributions to the subject. The first was his method of using the naked eye "not as a meter but as a null indicator, i.e., to establish the equality of brightness of two adjacent surfaces" (DSB), and then applying Kepler's law of inverse squares. His second discovery concerned the transmission of light through transparent surfaces: "In a medium of uniform transparency the light remaining in a collimated beam is an exponential function of the length of its path in the medium. This law was restated by J. H. Lambert in his Photometria (1760) and, perhaps because of the great rarity of copies of Bouguer's Essai, is sometimes unjustifiably referred to as Lambert's law" (op. cit.). Norman 283.  Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil

DICKENS, Charles ( "Boz") (1812-1870). Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, May 1864 - November 1865.20 parts in 19, 8vo (223 x 138 mm). Half-titles, frontispiece and 39 wood-engraved plates after Marcus Stone by Dalziel and W.T. Green. (Some staining.) Original green pictorial printed wrappers (several parts rebacked, a few covers becoming detached, some browning, chipping and staining); cloth slipcase and chemise. Provenance: Frank Cotton (early signature on pt. 1); M. Carr (signature on pts. 2 & 5).FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, first issue of part 1 without the printer's imprint on front wrapper, and with the scarce slip addressed to the reader. The "Our Mutual Friend Advertiser" in each part and other inserted advertisements as listed in Hatton and Cleaver with the following exceptions: a few parts with different advertisements on inner rear wrapper; lacking a portion of the Advertiser in part 14; with additional rear ad in part 2; Mappin ad in part 17 printed on white paper (rather than green or yellow), and in part 19/20 printed on yellow paper (rather than green). Our Mutual Friend was Dickens ' fourteenth, and final, completed novel. Eckel, pp. 94-5; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 343-370; Yale/Gimbel A149.

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Mystery Of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall, April-September 1870.One volume bound from 6 original parts (222 x 138 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker from a photograph, engraved title after Luke Fildes, 12 wood-engraved plates by Dalziel, C. Roberts and others after Fildes. (A few minor spots, slight toning.) Late 19th-century brown morocco gilt, stamp-signed by Henderson & Bisset (spine sunned, slight wear);original blue-green pictorial wrappers bound in.  FIRST EDITION, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS, with all covers and ads as listed in Hatton and Cleaver including the scarce "Cork Hat" ad, with the following exceptions: part 4 lacking Chapman & Co. 2pp. ad; part 5 lacking Chapman & Hall's ad dated 31st July 1870 and Chapman & Co.'s 4pp. slip; pt. 6 lacking 4pp. Wilcox & Gibbs ad. Dickens only completed 6 parts of this work before his death, with only 3 being published while he was alive, leaving readers in suspense regarding the outcome of the tale (Hatton & Cleaver, p. 373). Eckel pp. 96-98; Hatton and Cleaver pp. 373-384; Gimbel A154.

[DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)]. FORSTER, John (1812-1876). The Life of Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874.6 volumes (3 volumes in 6 parts), 8vo (212 x 133 mm). 3 half-titles, portrait frontispieces, illustrated throughout; EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the addition of approximately 196 portraits and plates, and with 5 printed wrappers bound in for monthly issues of Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Dombey and Son, Our Mutual Friend, Martin Chuzzlewit. (Some spotting and staining, some light offsetting.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Riviere & Son (some light wear to extremities).FIRST EDITION of this biography of Dickens, written by his friend, literary agent, editor, and literary executor John Forster. Following Dickens ' death, Forster was left the manuscripts for many of Dickens ' novels, which are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

[DICKENS, Charles]. KITTON, Frederick George (1856-1904). Dickens and His Illustrators. London: George Redway, 1899.4to (278 x 222 mm). 68 plates (of 69, lacking plate XIV). (Some minor spotting and chipping.) Modern half calf gilt top edge gilt, others uncut (a few gatherings becoming detached, some staining and wear).Second Edition of Kitton 's work including illustrations by the   illustrators of Dickens ' works, including George Cattermole, George Cruikshank, John Leech, Hablot Knight Browne "Phiz," Marcus Stone, and Sir John Tenniel.[With:] CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878). The Comic Almanack. First Series, 1835-1843. --Second Series, 1844-1853. London: John Camden Hotten, 1835-1853. 4 volumes, 8vo (185 x 120 mm). Engraved title-page vignette in vol. I, numerous illustrations. (Some toning and spotting.) 20th-century half green morocco, gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Root & Son (some spotting and light wear).

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). A group of 3 editions of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club and related works, comprising:The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. ALDIN, Cecil, illustrator. London: Chapman & Hall Ld. and Lawrence & Jellicoe, Ltd., 1910. 2 volumes. 20th-century half maroon calf gilt.   First edition illustrated by Aldin. "“-- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. NY & Chicago: Butler Brothers, Incorporated, n.d. Publisher 's green cloth. Provenance: S.J. Puckett (early gift inscription); Peggy Timberlake (gift inscription, 1937). -- FITZGERALD, Percy Heatherington. The History of Pickwick. London by Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1891. Contemporary half calf gilt, stamp-signed by Morrel.   FIRST EDITION. -- Together, 3 works in 4 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, condition generally good.  

[DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)]. A group of 8 works about Dickens and his life, including:BAKER, George Pierce, ed. Charles Dickens and Maria Beadnell ("Dora") Private Correspondence. Saint Louis, MO: Privately printed for William K. Bixby, 1908. Publisher 's half vellum gilt. Provenance: Mrs. H.C. Scott (contemporary gift inscription). INSCRIBED BY THE PUBLISHER. -- LANGTON, Robert. The Childhood and Youth of Charles Dickens. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1891. Publisher's tan cloth gilt. LIMITED EDITION, number 180 of 300 copies   SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. 7 etchings related to Dickens laid in. -- FORSTER, John. The Life of Charles Dickens. NY: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1911. 2 volumes.   Contemporary dark green half morocco gilt by Stikeman & Co. "Memorial edition.". -- WHIPPLE, Edwin Percy. Charles Dickens The Man and His Work. Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. 2 volumes. Contemporary half brown morocco gilt by The Riverside Press. LIMITED EDITION, number 331 of 550 copies. -- SMITH, Francis Hopkinson. In Dickens' London. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Publisher 's half cloth. -- And 3 others. Together, 8 works in 11 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, many illustrated, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally good or fine.  

[DICKINSON, Emily (1830-1886)]. "Success." In: A Masque of Poets. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878.  8vo. Original black decorated cloth gilt and stamped in red (some wear, some soiling, rear joint cracked; front hinge starting); black cloth folding case, red leather lettering-piece gilt to spine. Provenance: Charles Purrington (stamp).FIRST EDITION, containing one of the only lifetime publications of the author. Also including works by Louisa May Alcott, Sidney Clopton Lanier, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, James Russell Lowell, Christina Georgina Rossetti, and Celia Thaxter.Property from a Private Collection, Evanston, IL

[CARDIAC DISEASE]. A group of 8 works, including:LATHAM, P.A. Lectures on Subjects ... Comprising Diseases of the Heart. London, 1845. 2 volumes. -- KEYNES, George, editor. The Anatomical Exercises of Dr. William Harvey. London, 1928. Contemporary morocco gilt, uncut.   LIMITED EDITION, number 60 of 1450 copies. -- BALFOUR, George William. Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Heart and Aorta. London, 1882.   -- MACKENZIE, James, Sir. Principles of Diagnosis and Treatment in Heart Affections. London, 1916. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. -- And 4 others. Together, 8 works in 9 volumes, various 8vo sizes, most in original cloth gilt, condition generally good. Complete list available upon request.  Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil

DICKINSON, Emily (1830-1886). Poems ...--Poems Second Series "“Poems Third Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892, 1891, 1896.3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo. 3pp. facsimile of "Renunciation" in the Second Series. (Some light creasing and spotting.) All in original green cloth-backed cream cloth gilt, edges gilt (some staining or soiling, some light rubbing or scuffing). Provenance: Nathan Haskell Dole (1852-1935), American editor, translator, author (note by Stephen Weissman, Ximenes Rare Books, indicating the purchase from Dole's library in 1978).FIRST EDITIONS of the Second and Third Series, eighth edition of the First Series. While Dickinson published 7 poems during her lifetime in magazines, these posthumous volumes comprise the first published collections of her poetry, which were edited by her close friends Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson. Dole published a letter summarizing a paper written by Todd on Dickinson 's life and works, published in Book News in March 1892, noting that Todd was "one of the comparatively few who were admitted to anything like intimacy with the weird recluse of Amherst" (Buckingham, 361). Dole also noted that the Indian pipe decoration on the front covers of the present works was made from the panel given to Dickinson as a gift from Todd (Buckingham, 349). BAL 4655; 4656; and 4661 [Binding 1, with spine imprint of "Roberts Bros." in unbeveled boards]; Buckingham, Emily Dickinson 's Reception in the 1890s.Property from a Private Collection, Evanston, IL

DICKINSON, Emily (1830-1886). Poems by Emily Dickinson Edited by Two of Her Friends Second Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. DICKINSON, Emily (1830-1886). Poems by Emily Dickinson Edited by Two of Her Friends Second Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. 8vo. 3pp. facsimile in the Second Series. (Some light toning, a few short tears not affecting text.) Original gray cloth gilt, top edge gilt (some light wear to extremities and light soiling). FIRST EDITION, second issue with "1892" on title-page and no printing or edition statement. While Dickinson published 7 poems during her lifetime in magazines, the present works are her first published collections of poetry, which were edited by her close friends Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson. BAL 4656 (covers beveled, flyleaf at front, terminal flyleaf). [With:] Poems by Emily Dickinson Edited by Two of Her Friends [First Series]. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. 8vo. (A few spots.) Original green cloth gilt, top edge gilt (some light rubbing, rear hinge a little loose; corner chipped on one leaf from rough opening).  Fifth edition. Property from a Private Collection, Evanston, IL

DICKINSON, Emily (1830-1886). Letters. Mabel Loomis Todd, editor. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894. 2 volumes, 12mo. 2 frontispieces, 3 facsimile letters. (A few minor stains.) Publisher’s green cloth gilt (some very light rubbing, spines slightly darkened); modern green slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with (half-titles in both volumes, the "paration to me” reading on p.[v] in vol.I, and the correct footnotes. IN THE FIRST STATE BINDING with Robert Bros. imprint in gilt on spine). BAL 4660. Property from a Private Collection, Evanston, IL

DICKINSON, Emily (1830-1886). Poems by Emily Dickinson Edited by Two of Her Friends. New York: Collectors Reprints, Inc., November 1993.2 volumes, 8vo. Publishers quarter gray pictorial cloth gilt and stamped in silver; tissue dusk jackets. [With:] 2 copies of a typed card laid in "Printed for subscribers to The Library of American Poets".LIMITED EDITION of this facsimile, one of 2,500 copies, printed at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont. The facsimile is based on the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection copy at the New York Public Library, a first edition, first issue of the work.  Property from a Private Collection, Evanston, IL

[DICKINSON, Emily (1830-1886)]. A group of 20th-century editions relating to Dickinson and her circle, including:  STEARNS, Florence Dickinson. Strange Dimension Poems. NY: G.P. Putnam 's Sons, 1938. Original blue cloth gilt.   PRESENTATION COPY. "“Two additional copies, both presentation copies. -- HITCHCOCK, Frederick H. The Handbook of Amherst. Amherst, MA: N.p., 1891. Original blue cloth gilt.   -- TODD, Mabel Loomis, editor. Letters of Emily Dickinson. NY et al: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931. Original green cloth gilt; dust jacket. . -- Unpublished Poems of Emily Dickinson. Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson, editors. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. Original green cloth gilt; original dustjacket. Later edition. SIGNED BY THE EDITORS, and additionally inscribed by Bianchi. -- JENKINS, MacGregor. Emily Dickinson Friend and Neighbor. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company,1930. Original blue cloth stamped in red and green; dustjacket.   -- Another copy. 1939. Publisher 's green cloth stamped in orange; dustjacket. Later edition. -- Together, 5 works in 8 volumes, various 8vo sizes, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally good or fine.Property from a Private Collection, Evanston, IL

D'ISRAELI, Isaac (1766-1848). An Essay on the Manners and Genius of the Literary Character. London: T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1795.  8vo (205 x 124 mm). (Some occasional staining.) Original blue-grey boards, uncut (some light staining and chipping); folding case. Provenance: Sir George Douglas (bookplate).FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. "The Literary Character has, in the present day, singularly degenerated in the public mind" (Preface). British writer and scholar Isaac D'Israeli was the father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. ESTC T109852.  Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

DRAKE, Leah Bodine (1904-1964). A Hornbook for Witches Poems of Fantasy. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1950.8vo. Half-title. (Some very light toning.) Original black cloth, spine gilt-lettered (a few scuffs, corners slightly bumped); unrestored and unclipped pictorial dustjacket (some minor chipping and rubbing). Provenance: Charlotte Stephens (gift inscription from Mary Henderson).FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY DRAKE: "Sincerely, Leah Bodine Drake. 1950." ONE OF THE RAREST BOOKS PUBLISHED BY ARKHAM HOUSE, ONE OF 553 COPIES, of which 300 were given to Drake. Dedicated to Drake 's "sixteenth century ancestor Jean Bodin who also concerned himself with witches," this was her first book of poetry and her only work published by Arkham House. American visual artist Frank Utpatel, who designed cover illustrations for various works of science fiction and fantasy including the magazine Weird Tales  and works by H. P. Lovecraft, provided the illustrations for this dustjacket.Property from the Collection of Christi Schmitz

ELIOT, George ( "Mary Anne Evans Lewes") (1819-1880). The Mill on the Floss. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.3 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, 16pp. publisher's advertisements at end of vol. III. (Some spotting, toning, and staining.) Publisher 's orange-brown diagonal ripple-grain blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered by Edmonds & Remnant with their ticket (spines darkened, slight wear to extremities, some very minor staining); folding case. Provenance: Sold Barker Shiffnal Bookseller (bookseller 's embossed ticket).FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE in Carter's variant B binding, with no advertisement inserted in vol. I and 16pp. publisher's advertisements at end of vol. III. Carter pp.110-111; Sadleir 816.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

CHAPTAL, Jean Antoine Claude (1756-1832). Traite theorique et pratique sur la culture de la vigne, avec l'art de faire le vin, les eaux-de-vie, esprit de vin, vinaigres simples et composes ...seconde edition. Paris: Marchant for Delalain fils, An X - 1801.  2 volumes, 8vo (203 x 122mm). 21 engraved plates (3 folding), 3 letterpress folding tables. (Occasional minor spotting or browning, small pale stain in some upper margins in Vol II., minor soiling.) Contemporary French tree calf gilt (a little wear to spine ends and joints). Provenance: previous owner 's library stamp on titles.    Second edition, published the same year as the first edition.   Brunet VI, 6368.  Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil

EMERSON, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882). Nature. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836.  12mo. Original purple-rose cloth embossed with coral-like branches, blocked in blind, title gilt-lettered on upper cover (repairs to spine ends, spine slightly leaned, some minor soiling); folding case. Provenance: Mercantile Library Association New York (stamps on title and contents leaves, a few shelf marks).FIRST EDITION, second state with p.94 correctly numbered. EMERSON'S FIRST BOOK and, a fundamental work of the Transcendentalism movement, one of 1,500 copies printed, which were issued in bindings of varying cloth and designs, offering as many as 75 different binding combinations. BAL 5181 (binding cloth G, frame B, no priority); Myerson A3.1.a (binding cloth 2, stamping B).  Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt (minor blistering to the rear cover, slight rubbing to corners).  FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with "chatter" for "echolalia" on p. 60, "northern" for "southern" on p. 119, "sick in tired" for "sickantired" on p. 205, and "Union Street station" for "Union Station" on p. 211. Bruccoli A11.1.a; Connolly The Modern Movement 48.Property from the Collection of G. Deliberto

GODWIN, Francis, Bishop (1562-1633). Annales of England. Containing the Reignes of Henry the Eighth. Edward the Sixt. Queene Mary. Morgan Godwyn, translator. London: printed by A. Islip and W. Stansby, 1630.  Folio (278 x 174 mm). 3 engraved portraits, ornamental woodcut borders on title and 2 sectional titles, numerous woodcut decorations and initials. (Marginal wormholing in top gutter, some minor staining or spotting, a few tiny holes from the deckle, some minor creasing, corner on Nn2 folded and uncut.) Contemporary blind-ruled calf gilt, covers with central gilt design, edges sprinkled red (rebacked preserving original spine and endleaves, an old repair and some contemporary annotations to front flyleaf, some light wear). Provenance: S.G. Lansford? (early signature, 4 August 1687).FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, originally published in 1616 in Latin, and translated into English by Bishop Godwin 's son, Morgan Godwyn. Bishop Godwin also wrote The Man in the Moone which was posthumously published in 1638, considered to be among the first works of science fiction. ESTC S106901.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985). Good-Bye To All That. London: Jonathan Cape, [1929].  8vo. Pictorial portrait frontispiece, illustrations. Publisher's salmon cloth (a few faint stains, spine slightly leaned, spotting to fore-edge); original pictorial dust jacket (some minor chipping, some minor soiling, spine panel browned, price-clipped).  FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, including passages on p.290 and pp.341-343 that were suppressed at Siegfried Sassoon's insistence in later issues. The unexpurgated text includes a description of Sassoon's mother's attempts to communicate with her dead son Hamo, and the text of a verse letter from Sassoon to Graves, published without his permission. Higginson & Williams A32a.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

GRAY, Thomas (1716-1771). Odes. Strawberry-Hill, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757.  4to (250 x 202 mm). Half-title; engraved device on title-page. (Discreet repair to inner blank margin of the first few leaves). 19th-century calf gilt, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Riviere; morocco-backed slipcase. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "Ilissus" on p.8 and the comma after "Swarm" on p.16. The first book printed at Horace Walpole's Strawberry-Hill Press. Hayward 174; Hazen, Strawberry Hill, 1; Rothschild 1067.  Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

CLAVIUS, Christoph (1537-1612). Algebra. Rome: Bartholomaeus Zanettus, 1608.  Contemporary flexible vellum, manuscript title on spine (spine darkened with some chips at ends, some edgewear, soiled, front hinge cracked, lacking front and rear free endpapers).  FIRST EDITION, marking the first appearance in Italy of the German plus ( "+") and minus ( "- ") signs. Clavius was also "one of the very first to use parentheses to express aggregation of terms" (see DSB III, p. 312). Clavius ' Algebra was so well received that a Geneva edition followed only a year later (1609). BL/STC Italian I, p. 240; Honeyman 719; Sommervogel II, 1221. RARE.Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894). The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858.  8vo. Half-title, engraved title, additional letterpress title printed in red and black, 8 engraved plates. (Some minor staining or offsetting.) Original brown pebble blind-stamped cloth (some light rubbing, front hinge starting, a few corners bumped); folding case. Provenance: Benjamin Franklin Taylor (1819-1887) (stamp).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. In BAL Binding Aa (no priority) with 5-ring decoration, the period after the word "Company" in the imprint,   BAL 8781; Tilton P.69ff.[Laid in:] Autograph letter signed ( "O.W. Holmes"), to Professor Rogers. [London], 29 May 1868. One page with integral blank, 8vo, folded, a few spots. Regarding a sketch of the life and work of Dr. Mason Warner and encouraging revision if needed.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

IRVING, Washington (1783-1859). The Alhambra. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832.2 volumes, 8vo (198 x 116 mm). ORIGINAL PURPLE MUSLIN-BACKED TAN BOARDS, printed paper label on spine, uncut [BAL variant B, no priority] (some staining or soiling, labels chipping with minor losses, some minor rubbing); folding case. Provenance: D.F. Chadceyne? (gift inscription from H. Manning).FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with "Philadelphla" in imprint on title-page Vol. II. BAL 10136.

JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784). A Journey to The Western Islands of Scotland. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1775.  8vo (207 x 126 mm). (Light spotting and mostly marginal toning heaviest at the end.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, top edge darkened, some minor chipping). Provenance: Samuel Oldnall (signature, a few annotations); Mary Russell Oldnall (signature).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (Todd 's edition A), with the 12-line errata, and with "afford'' on p.199, line 13, which has been corrected in the previous owner 's hand in this copy. Johnson's journey, though contemplated far earlier, took place in 1773 when he was sixty-four. He sent the first sheets of his account to press on 20 June 1774, and before the year ended it had been published at 5 shillings. ESTC T84319; Rothschild 1257 (with page 296 correctly numbered); Tinker 1357.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

JOHNSON, Samuel (1709-1784) and Hill BOOTHBY (1708-1756). An Account of the Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson, from His Birth to His Eleventh year, Written by Himself ...to which are added original letters... by Miss Hill Boothby. London: Richard Phillips, 1805.  8vo (172 x 103 mm). (A few small annotations, some soiling and spotting, marginal rust-hole on A4.) Original blue boards, uncut (modern rebacking and a few repairs, some minor soiling); cloth folding case. Provenance: Edward Sage? (early signature, 1873); Stoke Newington Public Libraries (stamps on a few leaves).  FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Johnson ordered all of his papers destroyed after his death, but this fragment was saved by his servant Francis Barber, and was subsequently sold by Barber 's widow to the publisher Richard Phillips. Rothschild 1272.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

KIPLING, Joseph Rudyard (1865-1936). Debits and Credits. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926.  8vo. (Some offsetting from old laid-in clippings.) Original red cloth gilt, added rear pocket (some toning to edges); folding case. Provenance: K.N.K, 17 September 1926).FIRST EDITION of Kipling 's collection of stories and poems.  [Laid in:] KIPLING. Typed letter signed, with holograph corrections ( "Rudyard Kipling"), to Sir Kenneth D. Mackenzie. Sussex, 20 January 1927. 2 pages on a bifolium, 8vo, on Bateman 's Burwash stationary with original addressed and stamped envelope, some toning and creasing. Marked "private" and regarding science, the occult, and the Church: "The whole question raised by you in your thesis is too great an [sic] one to be decided on general rules, it seems to me. The Church used to take one view of it some time ago, and Science now takes the other. It is very difficult to come to any conclusion, on the relative balance of good and evil ... Thank you again for your interesting handling of the thorny subject."  Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

KIPLING, Joseph Rudyard (1865-1936). A group of 3 works, comprising:  Captains Courageous. London & NY: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1897. Publisher 's gilt stamped blue cloth, edges gilt. FIRST EDITION. Livingston 137. -- Collected Verse. London: T. and A. Constable for Hodder & Stoughton, 1912. Contemporary limp vellum gilt, (lacking ribbon ties). DE LUXE LIMITED EDITION, number 466 of 500, SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND PRINTER. -- Kim. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1901. 20th-century red morocco gilt, original cloth bound in FIRST EDITION. Livingston 250.   -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, condition generally fine.  Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

CULLEN, William (1710-1790). Synopsis and Nosology, being an Arrangement and Definition of Diseases. Hartford: Nathaniel Patten for Isaiah Thomas, 1792.16mo (148 x 84 mm). Half-title. (Some very minor spotting or browning.) Contemporary sheep, smooth spine gilt-ruled and with mor lettering piece (minor worming near head of spine, else very good). Provenance: Jonathan Sax (contemporary   inscription on title, "Ex Libris Johannis Saxonis").  FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, and an early American medical imprint. Cullen was an eminent Scottish physician; professor of medicine and chemistry at Glasgow and Edinburgh and first published this work in Latin in Edinburgh the same year. The work was first translated into English for the present American edition. This copy the issue with a six-line imprint. ESTC notes two issues of imprint, one in   6 lines long, with last line beginning "Boston"; the other in 5 lines, with last line beginning "and by him ..."    Evans 24237; Austin 581; Norman 540; ESTC W22405.Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1892). The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1855.  8vo. Advertisements dated November 1855. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth gilt-lettered on spine (spine slightly leaned, a touch of wear with discreet repairs to spine ends); folding-case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "In the Moon" on p. 32, "Wahonomin" on p. 39, "Dove" on p. 96 "Cooed the Omemee" on p. 278; with the "n" in "one" on p. 279 present (no priority in BAL). BAL 12111; Grolier American 66.  Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882). The Masque of Pandora. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875.  8vo. (Some offsetting to a few pages.) Original publisher 's gilt-stamped green cloth, beveled boards (some minor rubbing, some light wear to spine ends and corners); custom green and tan drop-spine box with green morocco lettering-piece gilt. Provenance: Dr. T. M. Dalooska (presentation inscription from the author); Mildred Greenhill (bookplate); H. Bradley Martin (bookplate; sold his sale, Sotheby 's New York, 30 January 1990, lot 2128).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY LONGFELLOW: "Dr. T. M. Dalooska with compliments and kind regards of the Author. May 23, 1876." One of 3030 copies in the first edition, with first issue points: imprint and copyright notice dated 1875, "Cadenabria" on p. [iii], "Heard in" on p. 32, and "Sea-Tides" as running headline on p. 141. THE H. BRADLEY MARTIN COPY. BAL 12170.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

ADAMS, George (1750-1795). Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy. London : R. Hindmarsh, sold by the Author, 1794.  5 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece, 39 folding plates. (4 plates supplied from shorter copy margins extended to size, some uncut plate margins frayed, one with longer tear not affecting image.) Original paper-backed boards, printed spine labels, uncut and largely unopened (spines lightly toned, minor wear to extremities, labels rubbed). Provenance: Ben Damph Forest Library (stamps on pastedowns).  FIRST EDITION of his last publication, containing his lectures on many areas of natural philosophy from astronomy to optics. ESTC T88417.Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil

DESCARTES, Rene (1596-1650). L'Homme et la Formation du Foetus. Paris: Charles Angot, 1677.4to (245 x 185mm). Illustrated with numerous anatomical text woodcuts and other diagrams. (Occasional marginal spotting, some minor wormholes or short wormtracks mostly in lower margins, occasionally touching letters, some repaired). Contemporary French calf gilt (some old repairs to joints and edges, joints now starting near ends, but cords sound). Provenance: Herbert McLean Evans (bookplate).    Second edition in French. Dedicated to Colbert, and the second to contain his De homine figuris, his attempt to explain reproductive generation in mechanistic physiological terms. Another issue by Girard was published the same year. The work represents "the first attempt to cover the whole field of 'animal physiology'" (Garrison & Morton). The first edition appeared in Latin in 1662, a translation from the original French manuscript; the first French edition appeared in 1664, and included the first printing of the treatise De la formation du foetus, which appears here on pp. 99-154. The woodcuts are based on drawings by Descartes in the manuscript.  Garrison & Morton 574; Tchemerzine 4, 309; this edition not in Wellcome.  Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil

[MINIATURE BOOK] -- [BIBLE, in English]. The Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of the Old and New Testaments. London: E. Newberry, 1780.41 x 28 mm. Engraved title pages (including second title for the New Testament) and 8 (of 14) engraved plates. (Lacking A1.) Contemporary calf (some wear).   FIRST EDITION of "the best-known miniature Bible" (Adomeit). THE EARLIEST ISSUE without an imprint on p.256, without a period after the date on the first title page and with parentheses enclosing the page numbers. Adomeit B26; ESTC T124732. [With:] [MINIATURE BOOK] -- [BIBLE, in English]. Holy Bible King James Version. Tokyo: Toppan Printing Co., N.d. Square 35 x 35 mm. Red cloth.  

[MINIATURE BOOK]. CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B. C. E.). M. Tullii Ciceronis de Officiis Libri Tres. [Antwerp]: Platiniana Raphelengi, 1610.65 x 40 mm. Title-page printed within a double-rule border, text printed within rule border. (Some soiling and staining, heaviest on first and last several leaves.) Contemporary blind-ruled calf (some light wear). Provenance: John J. Boswitt (signature dated 1822); Hugh Tempest Sheringham (1876-1930), English angling author (bookplate).  A rare edition of Cicero's works. Not in Spielmann.  

PEPYS, Samuel (1633-1703). Memoirs of Samuel Pepys. Comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669. London: Henry Colburn, 1825.  2 volumes, 4to (299 x 225 mm). Half-titles, 13 engraved portraits and plates including one folding map,   in-text illustrations, advertisement leaf in vol. I. (Some offsetting, spotting or staining). Contemporary calf gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, brown and black lettering-pieces gilt, edges marbled (skillfully re-backed, some minor wear, a few light scuffs to sides); later beige cloth slip-case. Provenance: Hugh Percy, possibly (1785"“1847) 3rd Duke of Northumberland (bookplates).FIRST EDITION of Pepys' diary, which was in cipher until 1825, when it was deciphered by John Smith. Edited by Lord Braybrooke, the contents depict contemporary everyday life, making this a popular source of information about late 17-century England. Grolier English 75.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

[POETRY & PLAYS]. A group of 14 works, including:SCOTT, John. The Poetical Works. London: J. Buckland, 1782. Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked). Keynes 94. -- LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. Tales of A Wayside Inn. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863Original green cloth blind-stamped.   FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. BAL 12136. -- ELIOT, T.S. The Cocktail Party. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., [1950]. Original green cloth; in unrestored and unclipped dust jacket.   Gallup A55a. -- CUMMINGS, E. E. Tulips and Chimneys. NY: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. Original quarter linen. -- And 10 others. Together, 14 works in 16 volumes, various 8vo and 12mo sizes, most FIRST EDITION, condition generally fine.  Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume (1806-1875). De l'Electrisation Localisee et de son application a la physiologie, a la pathologie et a la therapeutique. Paris: J.-B. Balliere, 1855.8vo. Half-title; numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. (Occasional minor marginal foxing). Contemporary quarter morocco, marbled boards, spine gilt (minor rubbing to extremities).    FIRST EDITION. Duchenne proved electricity to be an essential tool for the study of the physiology of muscles in the body, and also a means of diagnosis. He was able to identify previously unknown diseases, distinguishing between progressive muscular atrophy, labioglossolaryngeal paralysis, progressive muscular atrophy with pseudohypertrophy, and locomotor ataxia. "Duchenne classified the electrophysiology of the entire muscular system and summed up his findings in the above work. The application of his results to pathological conditions marks him as the founder of electrotherapy" (Garrison & Morton).  Garrison & Morton 614; Heirs of Hippocrates 1690; Osler 2511; Waller 2604; Norman 659.  Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil

[POLAR/ARCTIC EXPLORATION]. NANSEN, Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg (1861-1930). Farthest North. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897.2 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces, 4 color folding maps, 16 chromolithographic plates after Nansen 's sketches, numerous illustrations. Original black cloth gilt, stamped in red, green, and silver, top edge gilt, others uncut (some staining); modern blue paper-covered slipcase. Provenance: Redfield Proctor (1831-1908), 37th Governor of Vermont, Vermont Senator(bookplates).  FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Nansen's voyage was the first for the Fram, a ship specially designed to withstand ice pressure; after being frozen in for 3 years, the Fram emerged from the ice undamaged, and went on to carry Roald Amundsen to South Polar waters on his 1910 expedition. Though Nansen didn't reach the North Pole during his expedition, he reached the highest latitude so far attained by man (85 ° 14'). Nansen's account was instantly successful and was translated into numerous languages. Arctic Bibliography 11983; PMM 353 (Norwegian edition, "it remains the classic story of Polar exploration").Property from a Private Collection, Evanston, IL

SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de (1900-1944). Wind, Sand and Stars. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939.  8vo. Original quarter blue calf, blue-and-white patterned cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (some chipping and minor staining); original board slipcase (some wear).  FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, number 43 of 500 copies SIGNED BY SAINT-EXUPERY. Saint-Exupery's memoirs recall his early flights, first as a mail carrier pilot in the Sahara and Libya, and later in South America and Spain. Saint-Exupery disappeared on a flight over the Mediterranean in 1944.[With:] SAINT-EXUPERY. Night Flight. Stuart Gilbert, translator. New York & London: The Century Co., 1932.8vo. Publisher 's original blue cloth pictorial stamped in navy and gilt,   (some spotting to upper edge, some light rubbing; in original dustjacket (price-clipped, some chipping, some light toning). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, FIRST PRINTING of Saint-Exupery's second novel which won the Prix Femina in 1931.  Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

SCOTT, Walter, Sir (1771-1832). Woodstock: or, The Cavalier. Edinburgh & London: for Archibald Constable and Co.; Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826.3 volumes, 8vo (195 x 122 mm). Half-titles. (Small holes on title-pages from erasure, some spotting or staining.) Original boards, printed lettering-pieces, uncut (some chipping and soiling, spines slightly darkened, hinges reinforced); slipcase. Provenance: J.L.P. Leith? (signatures); Helen Gordon (signatures, 1846); effaced signatures on titles.  FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL BOARDS of one of Scott 's Waverly novels, a historical novel is set just after the English Civil War (1642-1651) which retells the escape of Charles II of England in 1652 and his triumphal entry into London on 29 May 1660. Scott 's Waverly novels were published anonymously prior to 1827.  Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950). Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant. London: Grant Richards, 1898.  2 volumes, 8vo. Photogravure portrait frontispiece and 8pp. publisher's advertisements in Vol.I; 4pp. publisher's advertisements in Vol.II. (A few stains.) Publisher's green cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (some staining, spines darkened and slightly leaned, hinges starting or separating); morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance: Alfred J. Warne Browne (presentation inscription, stamp on paste-down vol.I).    FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY SHAW: "From G.B.S. ,painter of humanity, to Warne Browne, painter of the next deepest subject - the sea! Cadgwith Sept. 1899." Shaw's "unpleasant" plays were so-called because they forced the spectator to face unpleasant truths; he followed them with "pleasant" plays in an effort to appeal to producers and audiences.  [With:] SHAW. The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God. London: Constable & Company Limited, 1932.8vo. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations by John Farleigh. (Some occasional spotting or soiling.) Publisher 's pictorial black and white boards (some light rubbing). FIRST EDITION of Shaw 's controversial short story collection.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). East of Eden. New York: The Viking Press, 1952.8vo. Original publisher's green cloth stamped in red and dark green (front hinge starting, a few leaves nearly sprung, very slight wear to extremities); original unclipped dust jacket (some slight chipping, a few short tears, spine panel toned).  FIRST TRADE EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with ''bite'' on p. 281. FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET without reviews, the with the $4.50 price present. Elia Kazan's 1955 film of the same title was loosely based on the fourth and final part of Steinbeck's novel. Goldstone & Payne A32.b.

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). Sweet Thursday. New York: The Viking Press, 1954.8vo. Original publisher's beige cloth stamped in blue and red, top edge stained red; unclipped dust jacket (some light chipping and wear to extremities).  FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with top edge stained red. FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with the $3.50 price present and with no blurbs beneath the photo of Steinbeck on the back panel. Goldstone & Payne A33.b.

STERNE, Laurence (1713-1768). A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. London: T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1768.  2 volumes, 16mo (144 mm x 90 mm). Half-titles; 16pp. subscribers' list in vol. I. Contemporary calf, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt (rebacked preserving original spines and endpapers, neat repairs to corners); cloth folding case. Provenance: C. Marlborough (signatures on titles); Abel E. Berland (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Vol. I is Rothschild's variant 2 with "vous" on p.150; Vol. II is Rothschild 's variant 1 with "who have" on p.133. "The real journey immortalized in the story was made in October, 1765... in December, 1767, two volumes were completed, and on February 27, the work was published... On the eighteenth of March, Sterne died" (Grolier). ESTC T14747; Grolier English 54; Rothschild 1971.  Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

ERNSTING, Arthur Conrad (1709-1768). Historische und physikalische Beschreibung der Geschlechter der Pflanzen. Welcher Hrn. Linnaeus systematisches Verzeichnis von den Geschlechtern der Pflanzen beigefuget worden. Lemgo (North Rhine-Westphalia): gedruckt mit Meyerschen Schriften, 1762.  2 parts in one volume, 4to (212 x 170mm). 10 engraved folding plates at end. (Some minor browning to text.) Late 18th- or early 19th-century half calf, marbled boards (a little wear to spine ends and corners, some rubbing to joints and edges, some scrapes to boards).    FIRST EDITION. Includes section on pp. 663-748, Caroli Linnaei Methodus sexualis sistens genera plantarum secundum mares et foeminas in classea et ordines redacta.  Hirsch II, 299; Stafleu & Cowan 1717; Pritzel 2735.Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil

TARKINGTON, Booth (1869-1946). The Gentleman from Indiana. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899.  8vo. Original green cloth stamped in red and tan, spine gilt-lettered, top edge green, others uncut (light rubbing to extremities, spine slightly darkened). Provenance: A.R. Howard? (stamped signature); acquired Hamill & Barker.FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE with   "eye" and "so pretty" on p.245, and "brain of Zeus" on p. 342. IN EARLIEST BINDING with the ear of corn on the spine pointing up. Tarkington 's first novel.[Laid in:] TARKINGTON. Autograph letter signed ( "Booth Tarkington"), to Mrs. Charles A. Evers. Indianapolis, Indiana, 16 June 1899. 4 pages, 8vo, creasing and light toning. Responding to Evers ' request for an autograph, one of the first he ever received: "Yours is the first and only request of that kind I have received and I confess, without caution, that I am in a state of painful anxiety lest it prove also the last ..." --   Self-portrait of Booth Tarkington drawn in pencil, signed ( "Booth Tarkington"). Indianapolis, Indiana, 1903. 1 page (one leaf), 8vo, on wove paper, some spotting.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892). Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. London: Effingham Wilson, 1830.  12mo (180 x 105 mm). 2pp. publisher's advertisements. Blue crushed levant gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Riviere (hinges lightly rubbed).  FIRST EDITION, second issue, with "carcanet" on p.72, and with p.91 numbered correctly. Tennyson's first separately published book. Wise 6.  Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

WALLACE, Lew (1827-1905). Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880.8vo. 12 pp. advertisements at rear. (Some staining.) Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in red, blue, green, and black (darkened and some staining, some light wear, front hinge starting, a few leaves becoming loose).FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with dated title-page and 2-line dedication, and with covers not beveled. Ben-Hur, one of the best-selling novels of the 19th century. The film adaptation, released in 1959, won 11 Academy Awards. BAL 20798.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust

WOOD, Ellen ( "Mrs. Henry Wood") (1814-1887). East Lynne. London: Richard Bentley, 1861.3 volumes, 8vo (186 x 112 mm). (Some minor spotting and soiling.) Early 20th-century blue morocco gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Root; together in custom blue cloth slipcase. Provenance: H. Harvey Frost (1863"“1969), industrialist and bibliophile (bookplate).FIRST EDITION of Wood 's Victorian best-selling sensational novel. After first being rejected for publication by Chapman & Hall and Smith & Elder, Bentley published it in a small run, which went on to be published in 15 editions in 5 years, with 110,250 copies sold in its first 25 years. Sadleir 3333.Property from the Annette Perlman Trust