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Halleck (1790-1867) was one of the most popular American poets in the first half of the 19th century and the only American to be honored with a statue in Poet's Row in Central Park. Recent scholarship has contextualized Halleck as an early gay American poet, whose relationship with fellow poet and collaborator Joseph Rodman Drake formed the basis for Bayard Taylor's 1870 novel Joseph and his Friend cited by some as the first gay American novel. (See Hallock, The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck, University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.) Born in Guilford, Connecticut, Halleck moved to New York in 1811, and in 1813 formed an intimate relationship with Drake. In 1819 the men became literary stars when they published "The Croakers," a series of poems satirizing prominent New Yorkers; Halleck followed this up in 1819 with Fanny, a poem satirizing New York's nouveaux riches which went through several life-time editions; Alnwick Castle and other poems appeared in 1827, featuring… Leer más

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. Cheapside, London, 1820. First edition. 4 vols in 2. 8vo. [v]-xii, 341, [1]; [ii], 321, [1]; [ii], 368; [ii], 453, [1] pp., bound without half-titles and without ad leaf in vol. 4. Mid-nineteenth century half calf and marbled boards, brown morocco spine labels, marbled edges; some rubbing and external repair, labels chipped, a few minor stains to text, very good Rare first edition of this late Gothic masterpiece by the Irish Protestant clergyman and author Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824): "in Frankenstein and Melmoth the Wanderer, the Romantic orgy reached its height" (Raleigh, The English Novel). Melmoth was a significant influence on Balzac (who thought it "the greatest creation of one of the greatest geniuses of Europe"), Baudelaire ("ce pâle et ennuyé Melmoth"), Poe and Wilde, (a great-nephew of Maturin, who fashioned himself "Melmoth the Wanderer" during his exile from England). Melmoth "burns to tell… Leer más

LEISHMAN, William. An Essay, Historical and Critical, on the Mechanism of Parturition. First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth with Elizabeth’s signature, “E. Blackwell,” on the front free endpaper. viii, 129, [erratum] pp. London, John Churchill & Sons, 1864. [And:] COURTY, Amédée-Hippolyte-Pierre. Traité pratique des maladies de l’utérus et de ses annexes ... First edition Numerous illustrations throughout. 8vo. Publisher’s green blindstamped cloth, boards slightly warped, headcap chipped, extremities slightly rubbed, with Emily Blackwell’s signature on the half-title. xxiv, 1088, 24 (ads) pp. Paris, P. Asselin, successeur de Béchet Jeune et Labé, 1866. Once can scarcely imagine a more evocative and satisfying provenance of these two books. One was owned by Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) the other by her sister, Emily (1826-1910). Furthermore, these two works related directly to their medical careers and were doubtless useful in their work at the New York Dispensary for Poor Women… Leer más

London: J. Phillips, 1788. First edition. 8vo. iv, [5]-55, [1, ads] pp. Stab-stitched, untrimmed, removed, with evidence of prior binding along spine; first and last pages toned and dust-soiled, loss of a few letters on title from poor imposition, occasional staining and chipping, old paper adhesion at gutter, in custom cloth folding box. Rare first edition of one of the foundational texts of the British abolition movement — “the first piece of published abolitionist propaganda” (Christopher Fyfe, ODNB) — an early firsthand account of the specifics of the slave trade by Alexander Falconbridge, who served as surgeon on four slave trading voyages from the west coast of Africa to the Caribbean from 1780-1787.Falconbridge (c. 1760-1792) met the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson in Bristol in 1787 during the latter’s fact-finding mission to gather evidence against the slave trade. Falconbridge was enlisted in the cause, traveling with Clarkson to Liverpool and London to provide expert testimony and to… Leer más

Boston: Leland and Whiting, 1843. 4to. 3 engraved plates in no. 2 (plates to nos. 1 & 3 in facsimile). 1-48; [49]-96; [97]-144 pp. Later 19th-century half red morocco and marbled boards, no. 1 rear wrapper and no. 2 wrappers bound-in (upper portion of no. 2 front wrapper filled in, no. 1 front wrapper in facsimile); covers lightly rubbed and faded, a few small tape repairs, light staining to margins of no. 2, foxing and toning to no. 3. The complete run of this short-lived periodical edited by James Russell Lowell with contributions by Poe in each volume, including the first printings of "The Tell-Tale Heart" (no. 1, pp. 29-31) and "Notes Upon English Verse" (no. 3, p. 102-112). Other contributions include short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne ("The Hall of Fantasy" and "The Birthmark") and poems by Jones Very, John Greenleaf Whittier, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and James Russell Lowell. "The Tell-Tale Heart" was first rejected by the Boston Miscellany with the editor's request that "if Mr. Poe would… Leer más

Paris, Gavarnie, Mont-Cenis, Grenoble, Fontainebleau ..., 1838-1871. 8vo. 355 pp. Holopgrah manuscript in ink in French. Contemporary half gray cloth and marbled boards. Ex-libris manuscript of "Doctor Roussel" on ffep and small book ticket ("Henry D.") on front pastedown. Some scuffing to cloth spine “Le 7 juillet 1838, à 7 heures 20 minutes du soir, je parti de Paris …”A lengthy, nearly career-spanning record of Roussel’s botanical and geological observations and studies made in his travels throughout France. The unpublished manuscript, written in a small, neat hand, documents eighteen separate trips made from July of 1838 to September of 1871. Most of the voyages originate from Paris, with destinations including Mont-Cenis, Gavarnie, Grenoble, Fontainebleau and environs, Melun, Toulouse, Auxerre, Nantes, Le Creusot and Cherbourg. The manuscript includes Roussel’s identification of plant species and his abundant and minute observations on the geological and topographic details of the French… Leer más

Paris: Chez Desaint, 1771-1777. First edition. 9 vols. 8vo (6 vols. text) and tall 8vo (3 vols. plates). With half-titles in text volumes. 377 engraved plates (full-page or folding) by Croisey, De la Gardette, Marillier, et al, after Blondel, Desprez, Eisen, Helin, Patte, et al. Contemporary tree calf, flat spines with red morocco onlaid panels gilt-stamped with neo-classical tools, onlaid green and tan morocco lettering and volume number pieces; a few heads chipped, occasional light shelfwear. A beautiful copy in contemporary binding of the first edition of the encyclopedic and richly illustrated manual of architecture instruction that was the standard handbook of its day (Fowler). Known as the Petit Blondel to distinguish it from the four folio volumes of Blondels LArchitecture françoise(the Grand Blondel), the Cours is based on Blondels teaching at the École des Arts, a private school that he founded in Paris in 1740. His works remain to this day the most complete and authoritative account ever… Leer más

ca. 1925. 9 x 14 inches. Pen and ink and watercolor drawing on laid paper, signed and titled lower right ("Alastair — La Dame aux Camélias"), toned. Glazed and framed Original illustration by the enigmatic decadent artist Alastair from his series of illustrations of La Dame aux Camélias by Alexander Dumas fils. REFERENCE: see Fifty Drawings by Alastair (1925) for other drawings in this series

[Livorno], Italy: Printed for C. and J. Ollier, 1819. First edition. 8vo. xiv, 104 pp. Full green crushed morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; bound without first blank, fine save for occasional pencil marks to margins First edition, one of 250 copies. Based on real events, the tragic story of Beatrice, "La Cenci," a Roman noblewoman executed in 1599 for the murder of her tyrannical and abusive father. Shelley was inspired to write the play after seeing Guido's portrait from life of the imprisoned Beatrice; he claims in the Preface that he learned the details of the case from a manuscript copied from the archives of the Cenci Palace. With its theme of the corruption and cruelty of the aristocracy, Shelley intended the work to appeal to the masses, and consciously avoided poetic language: "I have avoided with great care in writing this play the introduction of what is commonly called mere poetry, and I imagine there will scarcely be found a detached simile or a single isolated description"… Leer más

Newcastle: Edw[ard] Walker, 1825. One of 100 proof sets. 2 vols. in one. 4to. Half-titles with engraved vignette, 302 proof plates before letters, contemporary manuscript captions in ink with common and Latin names: Land Birds, 156 (of 157) wood-engraved plates; Water Birds, 146 (of 157) (83 numbered twice) wood-engraved plates. Later 19th-century full dark green morocco gilt by Tout, t.e.g.; foxing to preliminaries, repaired closed tear Water Birds half-title, occasional spotting to a few plates, faint presentation inscription from Thomas Kerrick, 1826, on each half-title One of 100 sets of proofs of Bewick's British Land Birds and Water Birds. Roscoe quotes a letter from Bewick to J.F.M. Dovaston, dated 26 November 1825: "I, last summer printed 100 Sets 4to of Birds & Quadrupeds, without Type for the sole use of Artists (& when interleaved) of Naturalists..."REFERENCE: Roscoe 43 & 44

London: John Murray, 1846. First edition, second state of C2 (p. 19, l. 1 reads “Pomare”). 8vo. Map at p. [xvii]. xvi, [2], 285, [1] pp., + 16 pp. catalogue dated March 1846 (BAL "B" variant, no priority), with half-title. Publisher's red cloth (BAL variant B), covers stamped in blind, spine titled in gilt. An exceptional copy, with just a trace of wear to front board fore-edge and rear joint, small chip from tail end of spine A fine first edition in publisher's cloth of Melville's first book, preceding the American edition of the same year, which appeared a month later under its now more familiar title, TYPEE. This London edition was set from Melville's manuscript, whereas the New York Wiley & Putnam edition was set from proof sheets of the Murray edition. "Murray's first printing consisted of 4,048 copies (2,500 of them in wrappers), priced at five shillings in cloth and half a crown in wrappers; the book became a profitable one for Murray, with further printings required, but Melville's earnings… Leer más

Anvers [Antwerp]: Iuan [Juan] Stelsio, 1561. First Antwerp edition, fifth edition overall. 12mo. Woodcut device on title and recto of final leaf. [3], 230, [2] ll. COLLATION: A-T12 V4. Contemporary vellum; A8 trimmed with some loss to text at fore-edge margin due to misaligned imposition, running titles trimmed First Antwerp edition, fifth edition overall, of this foundational and wildly popular pastoral prose romance and Shakespeare sourcebook, written in Spanish by the Portuguese author Jorge de Montemayor (c.1520-1561). First published in 1559 in Valencia, Diana "holds the distinction of being the first fully developed Iberian romance of the sixteenth century" (Cambridge History of Spanish Literature, 2005, p. 187). Diana was one of the most popular works of early modern Europe, running to dozens of editions in Spanish throughout the second half of the 16th century, as well as numerous translations. The first English translation, by Bartholomew Young, was published in 1598. Diana’s plot, a… Leer más

Edinburgh: Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, 1706. First edition. Folio. [10], 60 pp. COLLATION: 2 ¶2 2¶1 A-P2. Modern three-quarter red morocco, arms of the Earl of Perth stamped in gilt on front cover; near fine, with a small piece from the lower corner of the title-page, not affecting the text First edition of Defoe's lengthy poem in praise of Scotland, written to promote union when Defoe was chief propagandist and agent in Scotland for Northern Secretary Robert Harley. "[Defoe’s] Caledonia, a sixty-page poem published in 1706 with a grant from the Scottish privy council, celebrates Scottish history and a number of its most illustrious and historically important families" (ODNB). The poem is addressed to Scotland's landed gentry, of whom 84 were subscribers to the first edition; the present copy was in the possession of the Earls of Perth, Stobhall.Foxon notes copies with paper watermarked with French arms (D90) or, as in the present copy, Amsterdam arms and fool's cap… Leer más

London: J. Payne, 1757. First thus, second edition of Persian Eclogues. 8vo. [iii]-vii, 23, [1, ads] pp., lacking half-title. 2(— 1, half-title) A-G2. Removed from pamphlet volume (numbered "6" in ink at head of title) and bound in later blue wrappers, light soiling to E2v and F1r The second edition of Collins's first published work, Persian Eclogues (1742), with new title and revisions to the text. The preface outlines the conceit of the work, that the poems originated in the Middle East, written ca. 1700 by one Abdullah, a Persian from Tauris, and passed from a silk and carpet merchant to the unnamed English translator. The four eclogues follow in succession the passage of the day from morning to midnight, and though retaining many elements of form and language of contemporary English poetry, attempt to capture an “Oriental” mode of thought. "There is an elegancy and wildness of thought which recommends all their [i.e. Arabian or Persian] compositions; and our [i.e. English] genius's are as… Leer más

London: H. Trapp, 1788-1789. 2 vols. 8vo. 448; 416, [8, errata and index] pp. Modern dark green quarter morocco and marbled boards; toned, occasional staining and foxing, a few small paper repairs, vol. II A1, B2-3 silked, A1 repaired with some loss to text on verso. In custom slipcases [Vol. II bound with:] WINCHESTER, Elhanan. A Selection of Sermons, Some Original, and Others Never Before Published in Europe.... The First Volume. London: Printed for the Author. Sold by T. Scollick, 1789. 60 pp. Not in ESTC or OCLC.Rare complete run of The Philadelphian Magazine, all 22 numbers published in London, February 1788-November 1789, by the American Universalist clergyman Elhanan Winchester (1751–1797), bound with an unrecorded collection of his sermons. "Winchester was a remarkable orator, an early antislavery advocate, and a prominent pastor during the years of the American Revolution. He should be remembered as one of the most influential contributors to early American Universalism and as a man who… Leer más

1932-1944. Oblong 12mo. 87 autographs on album leaves, nearly all accompanied by reproduced photographs of the performers, with manuscript notes by the album's compiler giving the location and date of the performance where the autograph was procured and details about the performance lineup An attractive and extensive collection of autographs of jazz bandleaders and musicians of the 1930s and '40s, meticulously compiled and assembled by the original collector to include important performance information. Notable names include Duke Ellington; Fats Waller, Count Basie; Mary Lou Williams, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Fletcher Henderson, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Guy Lombardo, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Jimmy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller.Each autograph, with a few exceptions, is on a separate album leaf and is accompanied by clipped photographs of the performer and a note as to when and where the autograph was procured (i.e. "Normandie Ballroom Boston April 13, 1937").… Leer más

Chicago: The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago, (1992). No. 4 one of 200 copies. 3 vols. Folio. 30 photographic prints from original glass plate negatives, each print mounted (16 x 20 inches). [viii] pp. booklet with explanatory text and list of plates for each volume (text by Peter F. Dorman, John Coleman Darnell, and Susan Lezon). Housed in three cloth clamshell boxes by Claudia Cohen. Small dampstain to volumes II & III box with some staining in vol. III to mounts and booklet confined to margin, some fading to clamshell boxes, prints fine with extraordinary detail and tonal gradation A portfolio of limited edition photographic prints from the Epigraphic Survey's archive of over eight hundred large-format glass plate negatives, taken in Egypt between 1880 and 1930 for the tourist trade by photographers such as Antonio Beato and the Zangaki brothers. Printed at Chicago House, the field headquarters of the Survey in Luxor. "Unlike other methods of reproduction, in which an artificial… Leer más

[Boston]: Printed for the proprietors [by Samuel Etheridge], 1800. 8vo. 34 pp. Contemporary sheep; upper board detached, ffep removed, in a custom chemise and slipcase. Scarce American price book for Boston carpenters, in contemporary sheep. Signed, as usual, by Thomas Stutson, secretary of the committee that drew up the rules, which were devised to establish a fair system of charges for services rendered. Prices are an early example of the use of dollars and cents. Rink lists previous editions from 1774 (1 copy), 1794 (no copy known) & 1795 (2 copies).PROVENANCE: William Reese (book-label on chemise)REFERENCE: Evans 37003; Rink 1760

1780. Folio. Manuscript score in pen and ink by copyist N.G. Vigittil. [4 (title, libretto), 101 (score), 1 (blank)] pp. Contemporary paste-paper wrappers, printed label on front cover; some wear to covers with loss at lower spine end, first few leaves lightly soiled and worn, occasional foxing and toning, some unobtrusive pencil annotations, book-plate A fine contemporary copyist manuscript of Homilius's Christmas oratorio, first published in 1777 in Frankfurt. Complete score in an accomplished hand comprising decorative calligraphic title, libretto, and the complete parts for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, organ, strings, woodwinds, brass and timpani, notated in brown ink on up to twenty single-stave systems per page. RISM records 10 partial or complete manuscript copies of the Christmas oratorio dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. The present example is unrecorded and the copyist, N.G. Vigittil, does not appear in any RISM records.Homilius (1714-1785) was a German organist and composer,… Leer más

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. Third edition. 8vo. 1181, [1], [2, ads] pp. Publisher's green cloth, rebacked, ex-library with spine marking crudely effaced; book-plate Presentation copy, inscribed "A.J. Nellis with kind regards of Wm Osler. 5.25.00.""Osler’s textbook was the best English work on medicine of its time" (Garrison-Morton). “This book went through sixteen editions in its fifty-five years in print and gained and maintained a place in English, American, and even continental practice only comparable with that held by the treatise of Sir Thomas Watson (1843) in the preceding decades. The clear, concise, attractive presentation and the many citations from history and the classics gave it a unique place among scientific books with an essentially literary flavor” (Golden & Roland, p. 136) For a discussion of the third edition, see Richard Golden, A History of William Osler's The Principles and Practice of Medicine (Montreal, 2004), pp. 68-71. REFERENCE: Bibliotheca Osleriana… Leer más