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Zustand: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, March 16 (weekend SALE item)* first edition; small octavo, 48 pp, general age toning, light extraction roughnes at spine and lacks paper wrappers; Dodge is also believed to be the author of Mediator's Kingdom here defending his views that even defensive war is forbidden by the Gospel against an anonymous witling , - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. hardback, small 8vo, 155pp, 22pp adverts, frontispiece and title vignette, aeg, occasional slight foxing, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, green cloth, gilt decs and titles, corners rubbed and staining on front board, Good / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. hardback, small 8vo, (vi),199pp, slight foxing, text otherwise clean and sound, front inner hinge slightly cracked, green cloth, printed title labels, spine label browned, Good condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Slipcase. 1st Edition. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First P;Rinting Of This Edition, 1985 (The 1997 Reprint Is Just Slightly Smaller). Hardcover Inn Matching Blue And Gilt Slipcase. Also With The Original Abrams Mailing/Storage Box. Fine. Gift Quality.

hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, slim octavo, quarter red leather lettered gilt, red cloth boards lettered gilt, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed. A tightly bound copy, minor knock to the leading top corner of the lower board, mild foxing, xiv + 67pp. The work translated into modern Scots by Clement B Gunn.

Original hardcover, gilt. 240 pp.; 24.5x17.5 cm. Text in Greek (small signs of use, some notes in pencil) Although very good, see picture Psalter containing the Psalms of the Prophet and King David, along with the Nine Odes and interpretative notes. This edition is designed for liturgical use throughout the ecclesiastical year and follows the Orthodox Christian tradition. Published by the monastery press "To Perivoli Tis Panagias" in Thessaloniki. 640g.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. Full period calf. Small octavo. xxx, 524pp. A curious collection of poetry dedicated to the following subjects: encounters, games, love and serious subjects. The game section has much on chess, billiards, dice and other pastimes. This work has been attributed to the satirical poet David Ferrand and to Dutuit, lawyer for the Parliament of Normandy. The binding is worn with some scuffing and heavy edgewear to the covers and some dryness to the spine and chipping to the spine tips. The text is good with some scattered spotting and soiling and some light staining to a few margins. The title page is loose and chipped at the left side. There is some early ink writing to the inside cover and rear endsheet. This copy has no front flyleaves. Scarce.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Exceedingly scarce in the trade, there being only two additional copies available on-line currently. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of one of the oddest items ever to be held in my hands; nothing fancy, but complete and still pretty sturdy. In apparent First Edition state, with no additional printing states listed. Bound in full period calf-leather in a short octavo format measuring 6 3/4" x 4" tall and wide, respectively. Binding is worn and scuffed a bit and with some but not a lot of stress to joints; front upper is lightly cracked. Spine is a bit dry, tips are bruised a bit and scuffed, paste-down is a bit spotted and with scattered ink marks, else the item stands easily on its own on the shelf. The Table of Contents shows: Title, Epistre (4 sheets), Avertissement and Privilege (4 sheets), Tables (3 sheets), Portrait de l'auteur a sa maitresse (4 sheets). Five chapters follow, to wit: Entretiens, Jeux, Amours, Galanteries, Pieces serieuses. Les Veritez Plaisantes ou le Monde au Naturel is entirely in French. It features finely engraved black-and-white heads and tails and sports lovely initials. There are five raised bands, and it's red-stained all around. There are five fleurs-de-lis stamped in gilt finely to spine, short title stamped sharply into burgundy leather in one compartment. The satirical poet David Ferrand is credited with this work, but so was a lawyer for the Parliament of Normandy, Dutuit, according to a penciled note inside rear board. The note is trustworthy, coming from the book scout and bibliographer, erotophile and literary sleuth, Gershon Legman, as conveyed to me by his fabulous widow, Judith Legman. In addition, in the fourth volume of Barbier's Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes (Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Works), at p. 945 in a footnote, is the attribution of these Pleasant Verses to an avocat in the Normandy Parliament "by the name of Dutuit" (translated via Google Translate). That bibliographer, Antoine-Alexandre Barbier (Jan. 11, 1765 - Dec. 5, 1825) was a French librarian and bibliographer whose abovementioned work "helped to preserve scholarly books and manuscripts during and after the French Revolution" (Encyclopedia Britannica, on-line entry). Of his many accomplishments were that, in 1794, he was temporarily commissioned to distribute back to various libraries of Paris the books and manuscripts that had been confiscated during the French Revolution. Then he set his sights to preserve works in the arts and sciences, including the letters of "Pierre-Daniel Huet, bishop of Avranches, and, more important, the manuscripts of the works of François Fénelon, the celebrated 17th-century author and theologian." Then released from his Catholic Church orders, being obsessed more with books than with thoughts of the Afterlife, Barbier "became librarian successively to the Directory, to the Conseil d?État, and, in 1807, to Napoleon, for whom he also researched scholarly answers to political and religious problems" (Encyclopedia Britannica). All in, a nice exemplar of a scare tome. [xxxii], 2-524 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Quarter Leather. Zustand: Very good. The first edition of An Enquiry Into The Conduct Of General Putnam, In Relation To The Battle Of Bunker, Or Breed's Hill, attributed to David Lee Child. (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, [5], 6-58pp. Three quarter brown morocco, marbled boards. Title stamped in gilt along the spine. Bookplate removed from front pastedown. New endpapers. Occasional light foxing throughout, toning along margins of title page. (Sabin 12696). This pamphlet was written in response to the DearbornPutnam controversy, a long-running historical dispute, which reignited in 1818, when General Henry Dearborn published an account of the Battle of Bunker Hill alleging that Major General Israel Putnam had shown indecision and cowardice by failing to assume effective command during the engagement. Dearborn's charges directly challenged the Revolutionary War heroism long attributed to Putnam and provoked an intense regional backlash, particularly in Connecticut, where Putnam was venerated. The controversy unfolded through a series of pamphlets, newspaper editorials, and public statements defending or attacking Putnam's conduct. Historians have since viewed the episode as an instructive example of the politicization of Revolutionary War reputations in the early republic, reflecting the tension between emerging historical inquiry and entrenched patriotic legend.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition thus, and sole Halma edition in Latin dedicated to Prince Willem of Nassau. Quarto (pages 27.6 x 21.7 cm, overall 28.5 x 23 cm). Engraved title by P. Boutats after Jan Goeree; inserted folding engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Nassau, by Pieter van Gunst after Bernard Vaillant (sheet 43.5 x 30 cm, folded quarto; platemark 37.2 x 28 cm); 18 inserted engraved plates signed Jan van Vianen (Dutch, 1660 1726), each with 6 engraved medallions (73 mm dia.) arrayed 2 wide by 3 deep on plate. Early 19th-century dark bluish green straight-grain morocco, spine in six compartments between broad raised bands, gilt title in second and date at foot, other compartments, perimeters of covers and dentelles elegantly stamped, rolled and ruled in gilt and blind, prepared grayish green-blue endpapers, all edges gilt, pink marker ribbon, by René Simier, relieur du Roi, gilt-stamped Simier R. du Roi at foot of spine. Printed on thick laid paper with 2 large in-text engraved vignettes signed van Vianen, 3 other unsigned in-text engraved vignettes (including title), 6 engraved headpieces, 9 engraved ornamental letters and 28 engraved tailpieces. Collates complete, [2 ll.] (binder's free endleaf and blank leaf) and [1 l.] (vellum blank leaf) front and back, *^4 - ****^4, A^4-Z^4, Aa^4-Gg^4, Hh^2: 1 l. (engraved title recto), 1 l. (additional title recto letterpress in red and black with engraved vignette), 6 pp. (Dedicatio to the Prince), 6 pp. (Praefatio), 7 pp. (Vita Phaedri by Johann Scheffer), 6 pp. (Judicia et Testimonia), 3 pp. (Inscriptiones), pp. [1]-152 (Fabula Phaedri Libri V), 153-160 (Appendix, fabula by Marquard Gude), 71 pp. (Index Omnium Vocabulorum), 13 pp. (Index), plus the Vaillant portrait inserted before the dedication and the 18 van Vianen plates inserted facing the respective text page designated on each plate. Front joint tender and reinforced, joint seams worn and touched with conservation color, covers scuffed and with edge wear, cover corners worn through, marginal staining on endpapers, front gutter reinforced and brushed with conservation color, light marginal or full-page toning and occasional slight foxing throughout, 7 cm archivally repaired clean edge tear in portrait, unobtrusive frontally, and another 2 cm clean closed edge tear on fold of sheet, 2 cm. clean closed tear in margin of engraved title outside platemark, 1 cm ink blot at fore-edge of last several leaves; overall in very good condition. A large paper copy (27.6 cm tall versus 25-26 cm typically) such as the Radziwill large-paper copy in blue morocco, 115 frs. mentioned at p. 413 in Lewine, Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books (London, 1898), and the NYPL Spencer Collection copy ex-Henry Huth annotated on its blank front flyleaf, Large paper, from the library of Prince Gallitzin (pages 27.6 x 21.5 cm). The printing in the present copy, compared carefully with that of the Huth-Spencer copy, is superb. Just one indication, among many, is the engraving of the miniscule seascape in the van Vianen vignette on p. 152 at the end of Lib. V: the tiny fine lines of the ships, waves and clouds are incisively clear and unbroken. Provenance: Presentation inscription front free endpaper verso dated Westminster 1845 from (Headmaster) R[ichard] W[illiamson] to George Gillett; from the libraries of Robert Hoe, Cortlandt F. Bishop and Mary S. Collins, their bookplates on front pastedown. References: Brunet IV, 588 ("Édition fort soignée sous le rapport de la métrique et contenant un bon choix de notes; mais ce qui le recommande particulièrement, ce sont les belles gravures"), Cohen / De Ricci, 797-8 ("Très belle édition, bien illustrée"), Dibdin Greek and Latin II, 120-1 ( The type is peculiarly rich and bold, and is hardly equalled by any Dutch edition of a classic"), Landwehr, F163 ("Special edition made for the Crown-Prince and the most luxurious among the Dutch Phaedrus editions").

[Circa 1872]. Albumen print photograph of an engraving, carte de visite format, 63 x 103 mm (mount); verso with imprint of 'Davies, Photo. Bourke St., Melbourne', and printed text headed 'The Hairless Horse, Caoutchouc'; the albumen print is in excellent condition, with a small surface mark at lower right edge; the mount is clean. We have not been able to trace another example of this carte de visite in Australian collections. A wood engraving similar to the present image, by Ebenezer and David Syme of Melbourne, dated July 16, 1872, is held in the collection of the State Library of Victoria. This carte reflects popular taste of the period, with its fascination for freaks of nature displayed as curiosities in sideshows or circuses. The horse's name, Caoutchouc, deriving from the Tupi (an indigenous language of Brazil) word for "rubber", was intended to describe the appearance and feel of the horse's coat. The horse was reputedly captured as a wild brumby near the Balonne River in southeast Queensland, and was subsequently exhibited in New South Wales and Victoria in 1871-72. The printed text on the back of the carte states: 'He has been declared by the savants of New South Wales and Victoria to be the most remarkable deviation of nature from her conventional groove that ever came before their observation. The skin is entirely devoid of one single hair, and in colour is a beautiful glossy black, giving him the appearance of being cast from indiarubber - hence his name - Caoutchouc.' An entry in the Auckland Daily Southern Cross of November 28, 1873, advertises Caoutchouc's arrival and presentation there, and also gives a brief history of the horse. The article states that the entrepreneur owner of the horse will not sell him - not even for 1500 pounds - and that the horse is now bound for San Francisco, to be taken thence across the United States and ultimately to the United Kingdom. The British Library holds a poster which advertises an appearance of Caoutchouc at the Alexandra Palace, Muswell Hill, London (tentatively dated 1885 but most likely 1875), bearing an image of the horse and the caption 'The marvellous equine phenomenon, Caoutchouc or hairless horse. Just imported from Queensland, Australia, and never before Exhibited in England, is on view daily. Admission threepence.'.