Various places and publishers: 1879-20. 3 vols. § Three works on algae published between 1879 and 1920, all inscribed by the author or from one botanist to another, the collection illustrating the collegiality of American and German botanists. 1) Engler, Adolf and Karl Prantl. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien - nebst ihren..... More
London: 1821. 2 vols., small 8vo, xii (-vii/viii), 12, xxiv (-i/iv), 214; [I], [215]-592 pp. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, and 230 illustrations including 17 woodcuts and 6 engraved plates by Blake, and four other designs by Blake engraved by others. Original full rose sheep, backstrips lettered in..... More
August 5, 1893(?). 1 page (114 x 180 mm) laid notepaper, 15 lines in ink on recto, verso blank. Fully mounted on a larger piece of paper; slight shadow from framing, otherwise very good. § A one page autograph letter from George A. Walkem (1834-1908), 3rd Premier of British Columbia..... More
Paul Hartmann, 1929. 4to, 86 pp., illustrated with 18 original etchings by Jean Bruller, hand-colored. Original printed wrappers over stiff card. Moderately foxed, backstrip paper with splits, binding cracked, but complete and with the bold illustrations still bright. § Copy number XXXIII of XXXV copies on Madagascar paper for La..... More
New York: Stein and Day, 1980. 8vo, 129 pp. Original plain boards with red cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust-jacket. Inscribed by Mary Cheever, dated June 22 1981, autograph letter from her to the same recipients laid in. Dampstaining to the letter, upper and outer margins of the..... More
New York: Simon and Shuster, 1979. 8vo, 188 pp. Original yellow boards with black cloth backstrip lettered in gilt, near fine in a original unclipped dust-jacket, partly toned. Inscribed by Cheever on the front free endpaper “For Ted and Ruth with love and thanks for many things, Susan”. § First..... More
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1927. 8vo, [1]-[94] pp. Original pictorial paper wrappers, uncut, with publisher’s advertisements to lower wrapper. Some faint age-toning to outer margins; otherwise very good. Warmly inscribed by Jean Cocteau in ink on the half-title, with Cocteau’s trademark hand-drawn star above his signature, “à Pierre avec ma tendresse..... More
No place (but London?): no date (ca. 1820?). 2 pp., small 4to, written in brown ink on one side and addressed on the other with a watercolor drawing by Cruikshank. § A tantalizing letter: addressed only to “Mr. Cumberland,” it is tempting to hope it might be George Cumberland, especially..... More
London: John Murray, 1880. 8vo, x, 592, 32 (ads dated May 1878) pp. Illustrated with 196 in-text woodcuts. Original green blind-stamped cloth, backstrip titled in gilt, brown coated endpapers, hinges cracked, a little wear to crown and foot of backstrip, text block edges (but not pages) stained, an unsophisticated copy..... More
Wyndham Place: Sept. 12, 1831. 4to, 1 p., traces of removal from an album-leaf on verso, no damage. § ‘Dr. Hanthall’ [or Haulhall?], an allegedly distinguished Horace scholar introduced to Dibdin by Richard Heber, with whom Hanthall/Haulthall corresponded in Latin: see Dibdin’s Reminiscences (1838), ii:967, quoting a knowledgeable letter to..... More
[London]: Sept. 9, 1799. 4to, 1 p., tiny hole in centre, text unaffected. § A highly important, very early, and previously unrecorded letter, tasking his correspondent to give the bearer two copies of “my Charts of the Rights of Persons,” one colored and one plain, without charge, “in tolerably clean..... More
W.P.: Nov. 20, 1827. Sm. 8vo, 4 pp. Small tear at one corner without loss. § A sad letter, reporting, in shock, the ‘melancholy, dreadful occasion’ of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Davis, having been ‘burnt to death... What was wonderful was she suffered little or no pain but lay in a...... More
London: 'Tuesday', n.d. 8vo, 1p., trimmed close to the margins with no loss. § A sweet little letter, inviting them to a ‘confabulation’ over dinner (‘haddock, roast mutton, and apple (drawing)’. Dibdin has added two simple drawings, one of a dish (of apples) and one of a heart (i.e. heartily..... More
[N.p.]: Oct. 19, 1826. 4to, 3 pp. Small tear from breaking the seal, othewrwise fine. § A deeply moving and sad letter about the illness of Arch’s brother Arthur, and Dibdin’s own ailments. "As I was very nearly "going the way of all flesh" from the same complaint... I have..... More
Kensington: July 17, n.d. 8vo, 4 pp. Very good. § Interesting letter ‘in direful wrath’ about Dulau, who ‘owes me upwards of £50’, and concerned about Leighton’s ‘price for boarding’: ‘he asked 14, then 18, and then 17, and I stuck out for 16 free volumes. Shall it be so?’..... More
W.P.: Oct. 9, [1828]. 4°, 3 pp., edges of conjugate second leaf reinforced with transparent paper-tape, no text loss. No loss but not in good condition. § Sadly, one of many Dibdin letters about being behind in financial obligations. He begins: "‘Be tranquil!’ so perhaps Triphook had berated Dibdin sternly..... More
Kensington: March 22, 1824. 8°, 2 pp. with a separate wrapper franked ‘Spencer’, with Dibdin's wax seal bearing the Aldine anchor and the word "Aldus". § Interesting letter thanking Brockett for ‘your intended kind Present. Lord S[pencer] will necessarily have the books’; TFD is deeply occupied by his new duties..... More
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[London]: April 12, 1799. 1p., oblong 4to, a bit soiled and once removed from an album with tape marks on verso. § Very early ALS concerning ‘some Dramatic German M.SS which you might perhaps like to purchase’ from the bearer, a lady: ‘Any arrangement you may make with her I...... More
Oxford: OUP, 1957. 8vo, xx, 143 pp., 77 illustrations. Original blue cloth, with printed dust jacket with some chipping, inscribed in ink at front endpaper with Piers Gascoigne 1988. Fine. § First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 1448: “These suggestive attempts to apply modern psychological distinctions to Blake’s art are most..... More
London: Keegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883. 8vo. Frontispiece by Edwin Austin Abbey. Bookplate of M.G. and E.A. Abbey. Contemporary dark green morocco, gilt decorations and lettering, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Joints and edges a little rubbed, backstrip and boards faded, near fine within with some foxing to the endpapers and..... More
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1958. 8vo, 382 pp. Publisher's green patterened boards with title labels on upper cover and backstrip, red endpapers, original color-printed dust-jacket with the flaps cancels as always. A near fine copy with only a little foxing to the textblock edge and very light wear to the..... More
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977. Large 4to, xxxii plus 75 full-page plates and 6 other illustrations. Silver illustrated wraps with curling to edges. Bumping to corners. Inscribed to the American Blake Foundation from “Bob and Jenijoy” on title page. Very good. § Bentley, BBS, p.215: “useful introduction... slightly reduced”..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, [1931]. 8vo., [x], 358 pp., title-page printed in black and red. Original quarter red cloth, and silver-gray cloth, lettering in silver to backstrip, top-edge silver, uncut, with tissue dust-jacket as issued. Jacket has a few small chips, otherwise a very fine copy. §..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. 8vo, (2), xvi, 96 pp. Signed proof of an original etching and 5 photogravure plates by Tuttle. Original quarter cream cloth and plain paper boards, priced ticket of Stanley Rose's bookshop on rear pastedown (see below). A fine, unopened copy in the worn but..... More
New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1968. 8vo, 86 pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Pictorial boards in unclipped dust jacket, jacket slightly toned, extremities worn, 1 cm tear to upper panel of jacket. § First edition, inscribed by the author “to Donald Alan Larkin Best-wishes - from..... More
