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London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814. Octavo. Improved with many additions and observation by Hutton. Four Volumes in Two, Four Title pages, 98 plates on 97 leaves(some folding) with 4 manuscript pages bound in(mathematical) some plates hand colored(most likely by previous owner?) Hutton was an English mathematician and surveyo. He was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bound in 3/4 maroon polished calf over marbled paper covered boards, raised bands with compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, joints and corners rubbed, some toning or scattered foxing to plates, text clean. A good set of this scarce work.

Oyama, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. Giles Greenfield. A collection of Lafcadio Hearn's poetry designed by his son to include notes and illustrations from his father's notebook. From the Preface: "Among my father's relics I have found a note-book which contains Japanese comic poems about goblins and monsters and other odd subjects rendered by him into English and a number of them illustrated by himself. [...] The present volume is designed to reproduce the more interesting parts of the old note-book and the publishers have taken great pains to make faithful reproductions." 17x12.5". Beautiful dark blue and beige covers with yellow paper title to front cover (English) and rear cover (Japanese), bright yellow endpapers, handmade rough-cut pages. Limited Edition: No. 336 of 500 copies issued. Half-title, limitation on tipped in card, full-title page, preface, 5-45, Japanese preface, Japanese title page. Pages of text and tipped in tissue illustrations. Near fine. Foxing to half-title and occasional very… Read More

Albany, 1801. Folio printed Broadside, 9" x 16." Mildly toned, lightly worn, old mailing folds, two tabs on blank verso from prior mounting. Addressed in ink on blank verso: "Mr. Benjamin Warren | Augusta." Very Good. The broadside is signed in type by nearly forty worthy Federalists who urge the election of Lieutenant-Governor Stephen Van Rensselaer to replace John Jay, who had become New York's second Governor after resigning as the first Chief Justice of the United States. Van R is praised for his private and public character, his integrity and patriotism. "At a time when personal animosity and party spirit prevail, we have a peculiar pride and satisfaction in recommending to your support a man distinguished for his disinterestedness and moderation." Our research does not disclose any other copies of this unusual imprint. Not in American Imprints, Sabin, Eberstadt, or on OCLC or the online sites of AAS, NYPL, NYHS, Harvard, Yale as of May 2023.

Boston: N.E.: Printed and Sold by S. Kneeland & T. Green, 1738. [4], 26 pp, lacking the final blank. Stitched as issued, scattered foxing, Good+, with death's head ornamentation at the head of the title. ESTC records this as Coollidge's only printed Sermon. He dedicates it to Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor ["and Commander of the Castle"] Spencer Phips. Coollidge says that "there is something in the conduct of divine Providence, which at the first view appears puzzling even to good Men." But, after "Persons of this Character" contemplate further, "the divine Proceeding is unexceptionably just, righteous, and equal, tho' they don't always see the Grounds and Reasons of it." He counsels "the profoundest Submission under all our Trials and Sorrows." "Castle William" was originally built on Castle Island in Boston Harbor in 1634; it was rebuilt and given its name in 1692. Abandoned by the British during the Revolutionary War, it was renamed Fort Adams and then [and now] Fort Independence. King… Read More

Pavia: Martinus de Lavalle, 3 August 1489. FIRST EDITION. 367 x 253 mm. (14 1/2 x 9 7/8"). Double column, 58 lines in gothic type. Attractively matted. WITH A FULL-PAGE WOODCUT OF THE "TREE OF CONSANGUINITY" in the shape of a large arrow superimposed on the body of Christ the King. Text printed in red and black. Remnants of mounting tape to verso. Goff C-945; BMC VII, 1012; ISTC ic00945000. ◆Slight corner crease, faint thumbing to one corner of margin, but A FINE LEAF, clean, fresh, and ESPECIALLY BRIGHT, from the only incunabular edition of a rare work on consanguinity, setting forth prohibitions on marriage between those closely related by blood. .

London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814. Octavo. Improved with many additions and observation by Hutton. Four Volumes in Two, Four Title pages, 98 plates on 97 leaves(some folding) with 4 manuscript pages bound in(mathematical) some plates hand colored(most likely by previous owner?) Hutton was an English mathematician and surveyo. He was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bound in 3/4 maroon polished calf over marbled paper covered boards, raised bands with compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, joints and corners rubbed, some toning or scattered foxing to plates, text clean. A good set of this scarce work.

Oyama, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. Giles Greenfield. A collection of Lafcadio Hearn's poetry designed by his son to include notes and illustrations from his father's notebook. From the Preface: "Among my father's relics I have found a note-book which contains Japanese comic poems about goblins and monsters and other odd subjects rendered by him into English and a number of them illustrated by himself. [...] The present volume is designed to reproduce the more interesting parts of the old note-book and the publishers have taken great pains to make faithful reproductions." 17x12.5". Beautiful dark blue and beige covers with yellow paper title to front cover (English) and rear cover (Japanese), bright yellow endpapers, handmade rough-cut pages. Limited Edition: No. 336 of 500 copies issued. Half-title, limitation on tipped in card, full-title page, preface, 5-45, Japanese preface, Japanese title page. Pages of text and tipped in tissue illustrations. Near fine. Foxing to half-title and occasional very… Read More

Albany, 1801. Folio printed Broadside, 9" x 16." Mildly toned, lightly worn, old mailing folds, two tabs on blank verso from prior mounting. Addressed in ink on blank verso: "Mr. Benjamin Warren | Augusta." Very Good. The broadside is signed in type by nearly forty worthy Federalists who urge the election of Lieutenant-Governor Stephen Van Rensselaer to replace John Jay, who had become New York's second Governor after resigning as the first Chief Justice of the United States. Van R is praised for his private and public character, his integrity and patriotism. "At a time when personal animosity and party spirit prevail, we have a peculiar pride and satisfaction in recommending to your support a man distinguished for his disinterestedness and moderation." Our research does not disclose any other copies of this unusual imprint. Not in American Imprints, Sabin, Eberstadt, or on OCLC or the online sites of AAS, NYPL, NYHS, Harvard, Yale as of May 2023.

Boston: N.E.: Printed and Sold by S. Kneeland & T. Green, 1738. [4], 26 pp, lacking the final blank. Stitched as issued, scattered foxing, Good+, with death's head ornamentation at the head of the title. ESTC records this as Coollidge's only printed Sermon. He dedicates it to Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor ["and Commander of the Castle"] Spencer Phips. Coollidge says that "there is something in the conduct of divine Providence, which at the first view appears puzzling even to good Men." But, after "Persons of this Character" contemplate further, "the divine Proceeding is unexceptionably just, righteous, and equal, tho' they don't always see the Grounds and Reasons of it." He counsels "the profoundest Submission under all our Trials and Sorrows." "Castle William" was originally built on Castle Island in Boston Harbor in 1634; it was rebuilt and given its name in 1692. Abandoned by the British during the Revolutionary War, it was renamed Fort Adams and then [and now] Fort Independence. King… Read More

Pavia: Martinus de Lavalle, 3 August 1489. FIRST EDITION. 367 x 253 mm. (14 1/2 x 9 7/8"). Double column, 58 lines in gothic type. Attractively matted. WITH A FULL-PAGE WOODCUT OF THE "TREE OF CONSANGUINITY" in the shape of a large arrow superimposed on the body of Christ the King. Text printed in red and black. Remnants of mounting tape to verso. Goff C-945; BMC VII, 1012; ISTC ic00945000. ◆Slight corner crease, faint thumbing to one corner of margin, but A FINE LEAF, clean, fresh, and ESPECIALLY BRIGHT, from the only incunabular edition of a rare work on consanguinity, setting forth prohibitions on marriage between those closely related by blood. .