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1810027147London: T. Caddell & Davies 1810. Octavo. xvi 143 pages 70 pages of Arabic text Leigh Hunt regarded the fable 'Abou ben Adhem' as one of the best and a translation of it adorns his tomb though he himself did not read Arabic. It is this work of J.D. Carlyle that first appeared in 1796 which became his source though the numerous errors in the original edition were not corrected until the 1810 edition. Moses Stuart the great Hebraist and master of a dozen near Eastern languages wrote Professor Carlyle's translation has enabled the wider English to discover the sweetness of the Arabian tales. Bookplate dated 1832 from Library of Mrs. Whitby Mary Anne Theresa Whitby 1784-1850 of Newlands. She was a landowner antiquary artist silk producer and author. She was also a specimen collector experimenter and observer. In 1846 Whitby read a paper on silkworm cultivation at the Southampton meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at which Charles Darwin was present. In 1848 Whitby published A manual for rearing silkworms in England. Whitby was an active participant in the British Association; her articles on silkworms and silk cultivation appeared in the Association's 1844 1846 and 1849 reports. In addition to her personal experiments which she undertook at her home near Lymington in Hants Whitby undertook experiments on Darwin's behalf and sent him specimens. Whitby's work on silkworms was referenced by Darwin in The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication 1868 Univ. of Cambridge. Bound in a newer 3/4 black leather over early marbled paper covered boards retaining the original endpapers raised bands compartments decorated in gilt double red leather spine labels gilt all edges marbled. A very nice copy. T. Caddell & Davies unknown books
1860018435Leipsic: Ernest Fleischer 1860. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. iv 96 pages of text followed by 16 plates for Hamlet 12 plates for Macbeth 12 plates for Romeo and Juliet 12 plates for King Lear 12 plates for The Tempest 12 plates for Othello 12 plates for The Merry Wives of Windsor and 12 plates for King Henry IV. The front endpaper is inscribed and signed by the poet Thomas Carlyle. It reads "To Mrs. Dr. Russell Holm Hill with lasting gratitude and regards: signed T. Carlyle. Chich 2 Octr 1869." Oblong octavo 8vo. a.e.g. Nicely bound in half green morocco by Zaehnsdorf with minor rubbing with minor touch-ups. The title page one plate and most text pages are lightly creased. There is minor foxing to several pages. Many of the plates are lightly foxed in the plate and in the margins. First edition. Ernest Fleischer Hardcover books
180528304London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Printing Office; for John White 1805 1805. First and only edition. Colbert. Original paper spine skillfully repaired; spine label almost gone; boards a little rubbed; but a fine copy in original state enclosed in a cloth clamshell case. 4to original tan paper spine and blue paper boards printed paper label untrimmed. Two aquatint engravings by R. Pollard. Eight page list of subscribers. Topographically inspired poetry about Turkey Syria and Greece by Joseph Dacre Carlyle 1759-1804 posthumously edited by his sister Susanna Maria Carlyle 1752-1833 handsomely printed by William Bulmer and illustrated with two fine aquatints by the artist and engraver Robert Pollard 1755-1838. Susanna Maria Carlyle's role in this publication was essential and hence Colbert recognizes her contribution in his bibliography of Women's Travel Writing. Small book labels of Ruari McLean and J. O. Edwards on the front paste-down. <br/><br/> London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing Office; for John White, 1805 hardcover books
1825WRCLIT56864London: Taylor & Hessey 1825. viii352pp. Large octavo. Portrait. Dark green pebbled cloth printed spine label similar to Tarr's binding 'b'. Moderate foxing to endsheets prelims portrait and terminal leaves label a bit worn but legible otherwise a very good copy. First edition of Carlyle's first substantial original book publication somewhat revised and expanded from its first appearance in the LONDON MAGAZINE. Only one thousand copies were printed. DYER p.244. NCBEL III.1249. TARR A3.I. Taylor & Hessey hardcover books
1970008388Durham North Carolina: Duke University Press 1970. The first 12 volumes published 1970-1985. The first four volumes in publisher's slipcase the slipcase is Fine. All twelve volumes are Fine As Issued. Pristine white cloth. A set worthy of a scholar collector or institution. A heavy set will require additional shipping charges for priority or international shipping. Please inquire before ordering. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine as Issued/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Duke University Press Hardcover books
1881008415Londini: Longmans Green & Co. 1881. SCARCE in lovely fine binding stamp signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London for Marshall Field and Co. Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 was a Scottish essayist satirist and historian. Published a month after Carlyle's death by his literary executor James Anthony Froude to much controversy over the editing. They were republished in 1887 with Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton as the editor. Two volumes in contemporary half calf over marbled boards the calf undyed at the spines and dyed green at the covers to harmonize with the green marbled boards backs gilt marbled end papers top edges gilt wear showing at joints yet still holding nicely small rubs at corners interiors clean and bright. A handsome set. . First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good -/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Longmans, Green & Co. Hardcover books
195726286New York: American Fabrics Magazine 1957. Light foxing to the page edges and a few page margins and a small spot of disoloration at the spine foot else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Sharp copy. First Edition. Tall quarto. Oversized magazine-format textile trade publication. This issue published to commemorate the International Silk Congress of 1957 with covers designed by DalÃ. Printed in color and black and white and featuring fabric swatches throughout. Includes articles promoting silk on women's and menswear trends reports on the silk industry in America and Europe and a silk lexicon with a skein of silk taped in. New York: American Fabrics Magazine unknown books
1836124840Boston Massachusetts: James Munroe and Company 1836. First US. Hardcover. VG- Spine chipped at top and bottom; Some wear to cloth at extremities; Pencil markings at ffep; Light foxing. Two uncuts sheets inexplicably have amjor tear at mid-page may be a binding error but will need expert repair. Brown cloth; Gilt titling at spine; 299 pp.; No illustrations. The first US edition of Carlyle's major work. James Munroe and Company hardcover books
1825141961825. FE. CARLYLE Thomas. THE LIFE OF FRIEDRICH SCHILLER. Comprehending an Examination of his Works. London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey 1825. The first edition of Carlyle's first original book. The work is recast and somewhat enlarged from the version that appeared in the London Magazine in 1823-4. Bound in 19th century half leather and marbled boards without the half title. The preliminaries are foxed else the text is beautifully clean and fresh; boards and spine show only light shelfwear. A very desirable copy. Scarce. Dyer p. 244 $450.00a. unknown books
181032985London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davis 1810. 2nd edition. Modern brown leather spine over 19th C marbled paper boards with brown leather tips. Modern eps. Square & tight. Minor rubs to boards with stain to rear board. Withal a VG copy. xvi 143 1 blank 70 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davis hardcover books
18411259911London: James Fraser 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo 303 pages; VG; bound in brown leather with six-band embossed spine and gold gilt; rebacked with spine preserved; boards with double gilt rule board edges with single gilt roll; marbled end pages; strong binding; first few pages with slight browning around spine; text and paper clean; includes lectures on Islam the Reformation Cromwell; GP consignment; shelved in Case 3. 1259911. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. James Fraser hardcover books
1850221637London Chapman & Hall 1850. 1850. Bound with: Chartism. London Chapman & Hall 1842 1839. Second edition. 8vo. 3/4 gilt stamped dark green morocco over green cloth spine with raised bands gilt ruled compartments gilt stamped red and green morocco labels t.e.g. Fine. No signatures or bookplates. First issuance of the 8 "Latter-Day Pamphlets" in book form including "Model Prisons" "Downing Street" and Jesuitism.". F. Hardcover. London, Chapman & Hall, 1850. hardcover books
1883008290London: Longmans Green & Co. 1883. Called "one of the great letter writers" by Virginia Woolf Jane Welsh Carlyle was not published during her lifetime 1801-1866. Three volumes in fine contemporary bindings of half polished calf over marbled boards the backs with red and pale green morocco labels with gilt lettering tail date and intricate gilt tooling marbled end papers tops gilt. Very Good Plus corners somewhat bumped light rubbing to calf light toning to end papers only. A quite handsome set. . First Edition. Half Calf. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Longmans, Green & Co. Hardcover books
196493552NY:: Vantage Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. B0007H92IW . A novella of crime and racism in a small Southern town at the turn of the twentieth century. The author's first book. Stated first edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Very good in a very good faded out along the spine dust jacket. ; 76 pages . Vantage Press, hardcover books
183708396Boston: James Monroe 1837. Hard Cover. Very Good. Small Octavo. Second Edition. Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Bound in original floral embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering spine. Mild sun and ghost of label spine. Foxing first and last few pages. Book plate front pastedown. 300 pp. Carlyle's most enduring and influential work. <br/><br/> James Monroe hardcover books
1860Embry 79438Brown and Taggard 1860. Occasional light wear still near fine to fine and bright One half blue morocco over marbled boards spines decoratively gilt. Brown and Taggard, 1860. hardcover books
1827008736Edinburgh: William Tait 1827. SCARCE. Four volumes rebound in later 19th c. quarter calf over marbled boards a Very Good set calf worn at corners boards a bit rubbed lacking half titles and added engraved title pages p.145 in Vol. IV misnumbered 149. From the personal library of noted medievalist Charle W. Jones his signature FEP each volume. Thomas Carlyle's 3rd book appearance to which he contributed a preface to the whole work and biographical and critical introductions for the authors here included. The last volume comprises the first English edition of Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Travels". . First Edition. Quarter Calf. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William Tait Hardcover books
52409NY:: Barnes & Noble. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. N.D. Hardcover. Complete in six volumes. All volumes are third to fifth impressions thus. From the personal library of the late Renaissance historian and scholar Vincent Ilardi - each volume bearing his name stamp on the front free endpaper. Each volume is very good in a very good age toning along the spines and edges dust jacket. . Barnes & Noble, hardcover books
1867214146London: Chapman and Hall 1867. First edition. 2 55pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original printed wrappes. Slight nicking to spine ends minor soiling to covers early owner's signature on front wrapper and a few neat marginal marks in text. Very good. First edition. 2 55pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Carlyle's bitter polemic in reaction to the 2nd Reform Bill. Chapman and Hall unknown books
15362Carlyle Thomas & Ralph Waldo Emerson Correspondence Of Carlyle And Emerson. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1883. Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson is the product of the lifelong friendship between Emerson and the Scottish philosopher and social commentator Thomas Carlyle. The two first met during Emerson's first travels in 1833. Sailing first to Europe Emerson met with John Stuart Mill who gave him a letter of introduction to Carlyle. It was during this trip that Emerson had his intellectual and spiritual revelations that led to his formation of transcendentalism. He formed a close bond with Carlyle and the two corresponded until Carlyle's death in 1881. First Edition First Printing large volume in half leather with marbled boards. The front board of Volume 1 is reattached with repairs to interior hinge in white fabric tape. Otherwise they are in very good condition with minor wear at spine and minor foxing. Limited to 250 copies this being number 12. unknown books
1884WRCLIT80018London: Longmans Green and Co. 1884. Four volumes. Original cloth. Portraits. First editions. Matching bookplates and ownership signatures in the first two volumes modest shelfwear at extremities a few small spots to cloth of second work a bit of light foxing early and late; withal a very good tight set. Longmans, Green, and Co. hardcover books
1843376191843. CARLYLE Thomas. PAST AND PRESENT. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1843. First American edition binding A. Emerson was the editor of this edition. 8vo. drab brown paper-covered boards; vi 296pp. Ink signature. Front hinge tender spinal ends worn boards rubbed and nicked at edges. An acceptable copy of a scarce book. unknown books
1825WRCLIT18529London: Taylor & Hessey 1825. viii352pp. Portrait. Original boards rebacked with original backstrip and label laid down. Boards varnished title foxed some pencil notes. A good copy. First edition of Carlyle's first substantial original book publication somewhat revised and expanded from its first appearance in the LONDON MAGAZINE. Only 1000 copies were printed. DYER p.244. NCBEL III.1249. TARR A3.I. Taylor & Hessey hardcover books
19161923<p>London: Chapman and Hall 1916. Five volumes 12 mo. uniformly bound in three-quarter smooth brown calf over navy blue cloth. Gilt armorial device on upper covers gilt rules and titles top edge gilt. Only one volume of Frederick the Great present of five. Rubbing along hinges and extremities.still an attractive little set. Included are the titles: Latter-Day Pamphlets Translations from Museus Tieck Richter; The French Revolution Sartor Resartus on Heoroes Hero- Worship and the Heroic in History Past and Present; Frederick the Great and Wilhelm Meister.</p> Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1932283092Racine Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co 1932. First Whitman Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding/Good dust jacket. A clean copy; First Whitman Edition which collected seven of the Hamilton Brown Shoe Co. stories into one hardcover volume. Includes full page color illustrations throughout. Dustjacket has a long closed tear to the front cover and small chips and tears to the edges. Soiling to the front and rear covers and small spots of surface loss to the spine. Now protected in a mylar cover. Good binding / Good dust jacket. Whitman Publishing Co unknown books
