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201820604St. Petersburg: Dmitry Sayenko; Nikodim 2018. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes folio. Slipcased. One of 20 copies signed by Owens and Sayenko in the colophon. Prospectus laid in. The volumes are in fine as new condition; the slipcase has a tiny bump on one corner else is fine.<br/> <br/>The main volume 56pp hardcover is in full grey linen with a linocut paste-on and brass corners. Tan endpapers. All pages of handmade paper and uncut replete with linocuts taken directly from the blocks and in multiple colors with the text letterpress deeply printed on dampened paper with Baskerville type. <br/> <br/>Volume 2 is also folio and in handmade paper wraps the upper wrap with a linocut of Gawain and Ragnell taken from the block and title by letterpress in red. 28pp. The text is printed offset on ivory machine-made paper and contains the complete Romance as transcribed from the sole manuscript by Frederick Madden and rendered into modern English by James J. Owens keeping the original cadence and rhyme schemes.<br/> <br/>The artist explains the first volume: loose pages in an attic from an old book some chewed by rats. The owner realizing they are from the same book puts them together as best he can even though some of the pages are artfully torn by the artist to imitate the effects of rats gnawing through paper.<br/> <br/>This is the story of Gawain and the Loathly Lady Dame Ragnell. For Arthur's sake and safety Gawain wed her and when he did exactly the right thing the spell was broken she shed her ugliness and became beautiful. The sovereignty of women was the key.<br/> <br/>Dmitry Sayenko is a Russian printmaker and book artist. His works are in private collections and in special collections in Russia Germany and England among others. For this bit of artistry he cut over 50 blocks made the paper printed it with text and illustrations while damp and bound the books. The deep impression of the illustrations and the text on the handmade paper are superbly satisfying. His renderings of a morose Arthur a gallant Gawain a Lady with ugliness to spare and finally the beauty in the ending: these are a perfect match for the text. Dmitry Sayenko; Nikodim hardcover books
20604St. Petersburg: Dmitry Sayenko; Nikodim 2018. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes folio. Slipcased. One of 20 copies signed by Owens and Sayenko in the colophon. Prospectus laid in. The volumes are in fine as new condition; the slipcase has a tiny bump on one corner else is fine.<br /> <p><br /> The main volume 56pp hardcover is in full grey linen with a linocut paste-on and brass corners. Tan endpapers. All pages of handmade paper and uncut replete with linocuts taken directly from the blocks and in multiple colors with the text letterpress deeply printed on dampened paper with Baskerville type. <br /> <p><br /> Volume 2 is also folio and in handmade paper wraps the upper wrap with a linocut of Gawain and Ragnell taken from the block and title by letterpress in red. 28pp. The text is printed offset on ivory machine-made paper and contains the complete Romance as transcribed from the sole manuscript by Frederick Madden and rendered into modern English by James J. Owens keeping the original cadence and rhyme schemes.<br /> <p><br /> The artist explains the first volume: loose pages in an attic from an old book some chewed by rats. The owner realizing they are from the same book puts them together as best he can even though some of the pages are artfully torn by the artist to imitate the effects of rats gnawing through paper.<br /> <p><br /> This is the story of Gawain and the Loathly Lady Dame Ragnell. For Arthur's sake and safety Gawain wed her and when he did exactly the right thing the spell was broken she shed her ugliness and became beautiful. The sovereignty of women was the key.<br /> <p><br /> Dmitry Sayenko is a Ukrainian-born printmaker and book artist. His works are in private collections and in special collections in many countries. For this bit of artistry he cut over 50 blocks made the paper printed it with text and illustrations while damp and bound the books. The deep impression of the illustrations and the text on the handmade paper are superbly satisfying. His renderings of a morose Arthur a gallant Gawain a Lady with ugliness to spare and finally the beauty in the ending: these are a perfect match for the text.<br /> <p>. Dmitry Sayenko; Nikodim hardcover
2222172<p>"Evelyn Waugh" in black fountain pen ink Islington n.d. on his personal 17A Canonbury Square Islington N.1 North 5788 letterhead paper watermarked "Warriston Vellum" November 4 n.y. but ca. 1928 4 1/2" x 7" 1 page with integral leaf. Very good minor signs of handling.</p><p>To Henry Williamson</p><p>Letter thanking Williamson for his compliments on his recent novel.</p><p>In part: ".how surprising to get back the book.I enjoyed writing it which I gather is an unusual experience.we leave at the end of this week for a month or two in Constantinople."</p><p>See "diaries" page 301. Sunday November 11 1928 where Waugh discusses a visit with Henry Williamson and loan of a copy of "Decline and Fall."</p><p>In part: ".He is quite elderly - though I find him coupled with me in reviews as promising young writers - and wholly without culture."</p> unknown books
2222172<p>"Evelyn Waugh" in black fountain pen ink Islington n.d. on his personal 17A Canonbury Square Islington N.1 North 5788 letterhead paper watermarked "Warriston Vellum" November 4 n.y. but ca. 1928 4 1/2" x 7" 1 page with integral leaf. Very good minor signs of handling.</p><p>To Henry Williamson</p><p>Letter thanking Williamson for his compliments on his recent novel.</p><p>In part: ".how surprising to get back the book.I enjoyed writing it which I gather is an unusual experience.we leave at the end of this week for a month or two in Constantinople."</p><p>See "diaries" page 301. Sunday November 11 1928 where Waugh discusses a visit with Henry Williamson and loan of a copy of "Decline and Fall."</p><p>In part: ".He is quite elderly - though I find him coupled with me in reviews as promising young writers - and wholly without culture."</p>
18702222265<p>First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece and vignette on half title page. Later 3/4 brown morocco gilt spine with four small gilt flowers by Root & Son. t.e.g. Ten page preface and folding map at end of text. Fine clean copy. No foxing. 491 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Penzer 84.</p><p>Printed by Savill Edwards & Co. Chandos Street Covent Garden.</p> Tinsley Brothers hardcover books
16017682Londini London: Impensis G.Bishop. 1601. Folio pp. xlii 378 381-914 10. 20th-century half sheep pebbled cloth boards spine divided by raised bands black morocco label. Title-page trimmed and mounted final leaf also mounted a few smaller repairs to early leaves small wormhole in blank margin some foxing and occasional light marginal dampstaining. Spine rather rubbed and darkened and sometime furbished worn at ends and joints just starting to crack at head. The second edition of Fulke’s tendentious and influential comparison of the Douay-Rheims and Bishops’ translations of the New Testament with his notes and commentary intended to refute the arguments on which the former version was based. Fulke’s work with the two texts in parallel columns the Catholic in roman type and the Church of England version in italic sold better in England than the Douai Bible ever had bringing its language to a wider readership and becoming indirectly responsible for its influence on the coming King James version. ESTC S107069. Impensis G.B[ishop]. hardcover
1657AQ33174Cambridge: Printed by John Field 1657. 1354pp. Title printed within an ornamental border containing the seal of Cambridge University signed: Rob. Vaughan sculp. The New Testament and the Psalms both have separate title pages dated 1657 the register is continuous. Handsomely bound by Gilmour of Salisbury in early nineteenth-century black panelled morocco richly tooled in gilt and blind A.E.G. gilt dentelles. Lightly rubbed some surface loss to upper board. Armorial bookplate of J. L. Jackson with later pencilled inscription 'to Mr. Calcraft. John 1.29. I Thess. v. 23 ' to FEP head of text-block trimmed with occasional loss to running- title small hole to leaf Cc1 with slight loss of text and sense very occasional chipping to margins. A choice example of a Commonwealth era Cambridge-printed King James Bible notorious for its errors from the press of John Field in a finely executed later provincial binding - to a very distinct style - by the Gilmour family Andrew then George of binders and stationers of Salisbury fl.1800 onwards. As was noted by the contemporary pamphleteer William Kilburne in his Dangerous errors in several late printed Bibles London 1659 part of a series railing against the poor-quality Bible printing work of Henry Hills and John Field this edition omits Psalms Ch.143 v.4 in its entirety 'and there are many other faults as I am well informed of very great notoriety'. Provenance: With the bookplate of James Leonard Jackson 1777-1854 rector at St. Mary's Church Swanage; presented by him to a male member of the Calcraft family of Wareham most likely John Hales Calcraft 1796-1880 Member of Parliament for Wareham. ESTC R38638 Herbert 656 Wing B2252. 8vo. Printed by John Field unknown
63592London: Published for John Reeves Esq. 1802. 9 vols. 8vo. 23.5 x 14 cm. Handsomely bound in straight grained dark blue morocco sides ruled with gilt fillet border enclosing blindstamed central panel smooth spines with gilt rules and gilt lettering inner dentelles with with greek key motif marbled endpapers silk ribbon page markers all edges gilt. Gilt leather label to front inner board of Vol. 1 of 'W. & G. Foyle Ltd.' Some light trivial shelfwear contents clean save for some spotting to 'Notes' section at end of Vol. 1 generally an excellent handsomely bound set. Vol. 1: Genesis - Numbers Vol. 2: Deuteronomy - 2 Samuel Vol. 3: 1 Kings - Esther Vol. 4: Job - Psalms Vol. 5: Proverbs - Jeremiah Vol. 6: Ezekiel - Malachi Vol. 7: The Apocrypha Vol. 8: Matthew - Acts Vol. 9: Romans- Revelation London: Published for John Reeves, Esq., 1802. hardcover
AQ22662London: Sold by J. Oliver.and J. Sellar junior s.d. c.1686 Single engraved sheet folded vertically and housed in modern blue paper wrappers. Some old folds with occasional minor tearing offsetting and browning - especially to gutter. Short tear to the head of spine of the enclosing wrappers. A rare survival of a choice engraved plan of the annual military review of King James II's troops at Hounslow Heath in July 1686. The Restoration settlement of Charles II provided the King with just a small defensive military; a standing army in name only. This was expanded greatly during the 1660s and 1670s largely as a result of the Anglo-Dutch - and Franco-Dutch - wars. But the accession of his brother James II himself intent on expanding his armed presence in part out of necessity given the threat of rebellion as demonstrated by the efforts of the Duke of Monmouth in 1685 led to significant expansion of the English armed forces. Annual military manoeuvres and reviews were hosted at Hounslow Heath each summer between 1685 and 1688 in order to train this enlarged and increasingly professional force and in no small part to demonstrate the substantial military support that the King - always in a politically precarious position in relation to the Church Parliament and landed gentry despite apparent popularity amongst his subjects - could muster. The English puritan minister and journalist Roger Morrice noted in his diaries that several thousand visited the camp - the early-modern equivalent of the earlier chivalric tournament - represented by this engraving. It is perhaps therefore unsurprising that a number of commercial opportunities from prostitution to printing arose from the impressive and novel gathering. Whilst ESTC locates a single copy Oxford of this plan finely engraved for English print and map-seller's John Seller 1668–1698 and John Oliver OCLC adds a further example at Cambridge and reproductions have supposedly been made from an 'original in the Huntington Library' which we have been unable to locate other editions of the same view are also known. A broadside version of this prospect 'printed for and sold by Richard Palmer' - with letterpress titling and woodcut illustration - was also issued. Another also in broadside format and with a variant title with an exact date specified An exact prospect of his Majesty's forces as they are encamped on Hounslow Heath 19 July 1686 London 1686 bears the imprint of 'Walter Davis in Amen-Corner' is recorded by ESTC at three location Ashmolean BL and Oxford. ESTC R25579. Wing R25579. Dimensions: Sheet - 490 x 310 mm; Engraved area - 462 x 230 mm. Sold by J. Oliver...and J. Sellar junior, [s.d., c.1686?] unknown
1721019642London: E. Bell J. Darby A. Bettesworth F. Fayram J. Pemberton J. Hooke C. Rivington F. Clay J. Batley and E. Symon 1721. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Contemporary panelled calf recent green calf title label to spine. Additional engraved title to each part engraved frontispiece and title vignette 103 engraved illustrations including portrait several initials and headpieces verso of final leaf with manuscript annotation to tailpiece continuous pagination closed tear at head and foot of F2 leaf K1 with strengthened closed tear to fore-margin some browning scattered spotting and marks occasional marginal damp-staining recent front free endpapers with cloth hinge without rear free endpaper contemporary panelled calf recent green calf title label to spine joints slightly split corners bumped. cover worn. <br/> <br/> E. Bell, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, J. Pemberton, J. Hooke, C. Rivington, F. Clay, J. Batley, and E. Symon hardcover
Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1855, in-16, legatura editoriale in piena tela blu con figura in oro e fregi a secco sul piatto anteriore, titolo e figura in oro al dorso, pp. VII, [1], 428. Prima edizione in lingua inglese di quest'opera di Turgenev, considerata uno dei capolavori del realismo russo. Si tratta d'una raccolta di 25 racconti o schizzi ambientati durante le battute di caccia nella tenuta materna di Spasskoe. Pubblicati nel 1852, quando in Russia la servitù della gleba era ancora una drammatica realtà, i racconti suscitarono grande impressione nel pubblico per la loro carica di condanna sociale. La rappresentazione della crudeltà dei proprietari terrieri era priva di filtri e influenzò l'opinione pubblica a tal punto che nel 1861 lo zar abolì la servitù della gleba emancipando circa 40 milioni di contadini. Il volume si presenta integro in ogni sua componente, ma la tela delle copertine reca delle tracce di usura lungo le cerniere e i bordi dei piatti.
17673087Cambridge: John Archdeacon 1767. Two vols. 6.75 x 4.25". Contemporary Scottish black morocco spine in six compartments red morocco lettering pieces in the second others with gilt saltire with small flowers covers framed with distinctive interlocking tool impressed individually. Red and black PRINTED book labels of Elisabeth Hall dated 1769 pasted onto "Dutch gilt" endpapers. Some modern glue is visible in the inner hinge of the lower cover of vol. 2. Two original binder's blanks at the front and back of both volumes. Suitable for exhibition and study. This well preserved set of Scottish bindings is further distinguished by FOUR copy-specific letterpress bookplates printed in red and black no doubt in Scotland which reads in full: <br/><br/>"Elisabeth Hall Her Bible. 20th June. MDCCLXIX." <br/><br/>Concerning this printed bookplate it would appear that the present volumes contain the only known impressions of it thereby meriting inclusion in ESTC and elsewhere.<br/><br/>The tools on the front cover of the bindings have not been matched with published examples but the spine treatment and endpapers are decidedly Scottish.<br/><br/>That the Psalms were printed in Edinburgh Alexander Kincaid 1763 leads us to the conclusion that the present bindings are not only Scottish but that the original owner of them Elisabeth Hall was certainly Scottish herself.<br/><br/>John Archdeacon's 1767 Cambridge Bible is not in the National Library of Scotland. Unsurprisingly NLS has four copies of Alexander Kincaid's 1763 Psalms two of which are in the Bindings Collection: Bdg.s.8072 and Bdg.s.1002. John Archdeacon unknown books
1958814A58Milano : La Rinascente 1958. First edition. Hardback. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 8" . Not Stated . A very scarce first edition study of Gio Ponti's work with industrial design text both in Italian and English. The first edition of this work. A very scarce study of the career and work of Gio Ponti Italian architect and designer who built over a hundred buildings in Italy and other countries as well as popular furniture pieces. The present volume was issued by La Rinascente in Milan for the award 'La Rinascente Compasso d'Oro' industrial design award founded in 1954 promoting quality in the field of Italian industrial design. With both Italian and English text translated by Maureen Thompson. With illustrations in text. Complete with slipcase. In the original publisher's binding over paper covered boards. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear spine and boards only lightly bumped some sunning to spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. With illustrations in text. Very Good Indeed La Rinascente hardcover
17910005591Worcester & Boston: Isaiah Thomas 1791. First edition. Hardcover. Good. With two of the 50 copperplate engravings from the folio edition plates 29 & 48. Royal quarto 1310 pages contemporary blindstamped full sheep repaired joints and head and foot spine panels replaced and with new endpapers; The frontispiece has been tipped-in on the new endpaper; rear cover very scuffed foxing and spots throughout edgeworn <br /> <br /> a few minor marginal tears and chips some leaves imperfectly sewn in. The Family Record leaves have extensive handwritten notes of the families of Gen. Joseph Badger Jr. Signed by him of Gilmanton Belmont NH father of Gov. Wm. Badger 1834-36. & Charles Jacobs of Gilmanton. <br/><br/>Isaiah Thomas whom Benjamin Franklin called 'the Baskerville of America' was one of the notable publishers during the early days of the Republic.He made every effort to ensure accuracy of the text by comparing some thirty different editions and having the text carefully examined by several clergymen and others who compared it with eight Bibles - Herbert 1353." The First Illustrated Bible printed in America is the 1791 folio Bible by Isaiah Thomas "The most sumptuous American Bible of the eighteenth century" : thus this quarto-sized version of that work is the Second Illustrated Bible printed in America and the first Royal Quarto Bible in English published in American both editions were announced as "completed" on the same date altho vol. 2 of the folio was still in progress. Rumball-Petre 172; Sabin 5173 variant; O'Callaghan pp. 40-42; Hills 30. Evans 23185 states that some copies were issued with no Concordance and 48 additional plates. This state however has only two copperplates as frontispieces of the 50 copperplate engravings from the folio edition plates 29 & 48 . Included are 200 pages of Tables Apocrypha and Family Records Index etc. The subscription price was $7 but half the price could be paid in wheat rye Indian corn butter or pork! It is believed that 1500 copies of each format were printed. "The two Thomas Bibles of 1791 were without doubt far in advance of any other publications of the same kind that had appeared in America in point of typography excellence of paper binding and general execution - Wright EARLY BIBLES OF AMERICA." Isaiah Thomas hardcover
23542Kentfield CA: The Allen Press 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tall 4to. 56 leaves unnumbered. Finely printed by hand by Lewis and Dorothy Allen ion all-rag handmade Umbria paper made in Italy. Printed damp on an 1846 Columbian handpress. Decorative page heading in Hebrew with sentences from the first chapter of Genesis. Asian green endshets and guards for the illustratioms.<br /> <p><br /> Bound in Fortuna cloth in an Iranian design hand blocked in Venice. <br /> <p><br /> 24 illustrations engraved by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Title in green and brown woodcuts printed in brown; green and orange used for highlights in the text. The endsheets are lightly faded from the adhesive else this is a fine copy housed in the original slipcase.<br /> <p><br /> One of 140 copies. <br /> <p><br /> Allen Press Bibliography No. 35.<br /> <p>. The Allen Press hardcover
1792374643Philadelphia: W. Young 1792. Text in two columns. 1170pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf rebacked at an early date upper cover detached worn. Provenance: General Theological Seminary perforated stamps bookplate other markings. Paper box. Text in two columns. 1170pp. 12mo. A rare early American bible advertised as the "first American pocket bible" being Young's second edition of the bible complete with metrical psalms following his edition from a different setting of 1790 Evans 22345; Hills 25. That bible was advertised for sale by Young in Dunlap's American Daily Advertise in May 1791 as "lately published" at the price of "6-1/2 dollars cash and 7 if entered on account." Although both that bible and the present edition are duodecimo the former is larger in both height and width and the 1791 advertisement continues by noting that "An edition of the Bible in pocket size is now in the press." The present Bible would be advertised in Philadelphia newspapers in September and October 1792 as "now in the press the first American edition of the Pocket Bible . printed on fine paper with good type." <br /> <br /> Small-format American bibles published less than a decade after the Aitken bible are rare and this would appear to be the smallest bible in English published in America to date. Hills 32; Evans 23183; ESTC W4493 W. Young unknown
181816976Pittsburg: Cramer and Spear 1818. Small 8vo. 792pp. Original publisher's sheep. Signatures sprung from use but attached; pages generally very soiled and with some contemporary markings; old repair to the spine else the binding is in good condition. Ownership name of Dan Smith dated 1828 and later 'Dan Smith His Book'. The New Testament has a separate title page. <br /> <p><br /> In this copy there is a short note pinned to its verso listing the births of members of the McNees family in the late nineteenth century. <br /> <p><br /> This is the first Bible printed west of the Allegheny River and the first Bible in English printed west of the Allegheny Mountains. <br /> <p><br /> Note: this is a well used copy but in good condition. Rare. <br /> <p><br /> Hills 349; Not in Darlow and Moule<br /> <p>. Cramer and Spear unknown
186530602Dublin: James Duffy & Co 1865. Later edition. Hardcover. g to g. Large quarto. 2 764 222pp. Finely gold-stamped and gold-tooled contemporary black leather. All gilt edges. Striking fore edge painting of landscape with antique church complex. Silk-moire endpapers. Handwritten family registry in front. Frontispiece of Old Testament reproduction of a painting in monochrome by W. & A. K. Johnston. Frontispiece engraving in New Testament. "This New Edition of the English Version of the Bible printed with our permission by James Duffy.carefully collated by our direction with the Clementine Vulgate; likewise with the Douay Version of the Old Testament of 1609 and with the Rhemisch Version of the New Testament of 1582 and with other approved English Versions." Illustrated with 12 full-page monochrome plates in sepia-tone 2 full-page engravings as well as many b/w in-text illustrations. Some age wear and staining on binding. Wear along front joints and corners. Gutters at front and rear endpapers reinforced with fine red cloth band. Inscription on blank leaf following front endpaper: "Gift from Stephanie to Tom on the eve of their marriage October 3rd 1983." Sporadic foxing throughout. Overall good condition. James Duffy & Co hardcover
1925100676<p>New York and London 1925-1926. 1925-1926. Very good. - 1 An autograph letter 1 & 1/4 pages signed "Rosita Forbes". Writing from 28 Wilton Place London on May 23 1924 Rosita Forbes is concerned with her tax liabilities in England as a result of her just completed first American lecture tour. She addresses a Miss Smith of the Pond Bureau asking that should "British Income Tax people" inquire about her tour and her contracts with the Pond Bureau "please give no information of any sort but refer the questioners to us. Next time I come to U.S.A. I shall have to have a financial secretary to keep accounts!". She suggests she could return in October "but I don't want to arrive in America more than one day before my first lecture. Your country is too expensive."</p><p>2 A cablegram from Forbes dated May 9 1925: "AVAILABLE AMERICAN LECTURES FROM NOVEMBER FIRST OR EARLIER TILL MARCH CABLE CONFIRMATION."</p><p>3 A 3-page autograph letter 7 inches high by 4-1/2 inches wide "Rosita Forbes". Writing from 28 Wilton Place London on May 9 1925 Forbes addresses Pond stating that she has "always been ready to come out to U.S.A. by Oct. 30th. I cabled you to this effect yesterday.I sent you a quantity of press cuttings & a good Abyssinian dress picture a week ago. Now I send you some snapshots & a map with our complete route on it.I don't see how Weigall & I can clash because our subjects are so different.I hope this time you will save on railway fares!!!! Please try & arrange lectures in groups if possible! Macaulay is going to publish my Abyssinian book 'From Red Sea to Blue Nile' & also a novel 'Wings Aflame' in the autumn. Best of luck to us both!!!!" The title "Wings Aflame" may be a reference to her novel "If the Gods Laugh" published in 1925.</p><p>4 A retained carbon of Pond's cable dated May 13 1925: "NOVEMBER ONE TO MARCH SATISFACTORY CAN YOU REMAIN TO MARCH THIRTEEN HAVE ENGAGEMENT BOOK FOR NINTH"</p><p>5 A return cable from Forbes dated May 14 1925: "YES FORBES"</p><p>6 A retained carbon of Pond's letter dated June 11 1925 addressed to "My Dear Lady Rosita". In his letter Pond complains "I note that Macaulay has the books. I'm sorry one of the better publishers was not selected for they do publish rather sensational stuff". He goes on to comment about Abyssinian controversies. "Marian C. Cooper asks me to ask you not to judge his ideas of Abyssinia by his articles in ASIA which were edited without his consent nor the film The Golden Prince which was made up without his aid from some pictures he and Schoedsack made. .Powell in his book on Abyssinia criticized Cooper for things he had done and he does not wish you too to join in the hue and cry."</p><p>7 Retained carbon of Pond's June 16 1925 cable: "CAN I USE ABYSSINIAN PHOTOS FOR NEWSPAPER PUBLICITY ARTICLES.".</p><p>8 A cablegram from Forbes dated June 18 1925: "FORBES ANXIOUS SELL ARTICLES AND PHOTOGRAPHS ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION CONSULT KENNADAY 215 WEST 33RD STREET AND DO WHAT BOTH CONSIDER BEST.".</p><p>9 Retained carbon of Pond's reply to Forbes cablegram now addressing her as "My dear Mrs. McGrath". "Paul Kennaday tells me that he has not been able to place your articles about Abyssinia. I am awfully sorry that this has not been done for we need publicity in this country to secure business and so far no one knows that you have been in Abyssinia or made a new journey.Things so far have not been going as good as I like but this does not mean that there will be no tour and a fairly good one. If you find that English bookings are going exceedingly well I suggest that you give Mr. Christy more time in November."</p><p>10 A 2-page autograph letter 5-3/4 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide on "28 Wilton Place" letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". The letter dated September 15 1925 overlaps with Pond's later letter of September 18th. "I am so sorry you are having trouble over my American tour - what bad luck. I think under the circumstances it would probably be better if I arrived on January 1st & stayed till early April.Would you mind on receipt of this letter cabling me the date you consider most suitable for me to come over as I have to arrange the letting of my house which is a matter needing time. I don't mind what date I come but as living is very expensive in U.S.A. I don't want to come until there is contract business in view!!".</p><p>11 A retained carbon of Pond's September 18 1925 letter to Forbes suggesting that the tour be moved forward to January "to commence your tour with your booking in Haverhill Massachusetts on January 5th."</p><p>12 A retained carbon of Pond's letter responding to Forbes letter of September 15. Dated September 25 1925 Pond writes "I think we are both agreed that it is better for you to arrive in early January. I am not cabling you about this as I wrote you on September 18th and you know my point of view. Your first engagement at present is January 5th."</p><p>13 A cablegram from Forbes dated September 29 1925: "DELIGHTED ARRIVE JANUARY FIRST / ROSITA".</p><p>14 A retained carbon of a letter from Pond dated October 8 1925 concerning a booking. "The Chicago Geographic Society is very anxious to have you this year but they are unable to pay more than one hundred $100.00 dollars. Are you willing to allow me to book you with them I giving you the minimum rate of seventy-five $75.00 dollars which was in force last year and retaining twenty-five $25.00 dollars to cover my own expense"</p><p>15 A 2-page autograph letter 7 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide on "Broadlands Romsey Hampshire" letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". Forbes sends the first sheet of her contract not here present and pictures for her lectures. "I shall probably have to come over on the 'Paris' of the Compagnie Transatlantique leaving Plymouth on the 16th Dec. as I can probably get better accommodation on her as I have done a good deal of writing for the Company.I am so sorry you are having so much trouble over my tour for I've always told everyone that of all the business men all over the world I've come in contact with you are the best to work with.".</p><p>16 A retained carbon of a letter from Pond dated October 30 1925 encouraging Forbes to come later than the December date she suggested. "There will really be nothing doing here until your first lecture on January 5th."</p><p>17 A 2-page autograph letter 5-3/4 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide on "28 Wilton Place" letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". The letter dated October 30 ok's the arrangements with the Chicago Geographical Society but questions "Won't the National or American Geographical Socs. have me this time" She confirms her early arrival in New York and makes a request "Please secure an inexpensive room with bath somewhere in N.Y. Consult Miss Smith because you are not very good my friend at cheap hotels!!!!"</p><p>18 A 2-page autograph letter 5-3/4 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide on "28 Wilton Place" letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". Addressing "Mr. Pond or Miss Smith" Forbes reaffirms her December arrival in New York. "Don't you think you cd. induce some of the newspapers to interview me on 'Curious Xmases' or 'My most extraordinary Xmas'. It wd. make publicity. I spent one Xmas in camp in the African desert on my way to Kafara. Another in an Arabian harem one in Persia & in Abyssinia they have a special ceremonial."</p><p>19 In a retained carbon of a Pond letter dated November 13 1925 he expresses his pleasure that Forbes has accepted the terms for the Chicago Geographical Society lecture. "The National Geographic which wanted you so eagerly before has now passed you by and so has the American. They are strange people."</p><p>20 A 2-page autograph letter 7 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide on "The Nook Sunningdale" letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". In the letter dated November 21 Forbes reassures Pond that despite her early arrival he doesn't ".have to bother at all about me till you want me to lecture.Mr. Wingate of the Dorland Agency is going to communicate with you re publicity on arrival as I've just written the feature article for the February issue of the Monitor on 'Morocco'".</p><p>21 In a retained carbon of a letter dated November 30 1925 Pond regrets that it is too late to place an article on various Christmases with any of the syndicates or magazine sections of newspapers. However he has an idea: "Iola Plaxton spent some time in Fleet Street as the special correspondent for the Daily and Sunday Express is now back in New York and keen to meet you. .she concocted a scheme provided you approved of your giving her an exclusive interview on this particular theme the minute you arrive. Meantime she is going to get an editor lined up to take it."</p><p>22 Retained copy of a cablegram dated December 22 1925: "ROSITA FORBES STEAMER 'PARIS' NY. RESERVED ROOM AT WALDORF ASTORIA. POND."</p><p>23 An undated promotional letter from The Pond Bureau signed in blue ink by James B. Pond and titled "Rosita Forbes Returns". In the letter he solicits future lecture possibilities. "Although Rosita Forbes has been announced before you are again reminded of her return tour. If you can still find a place for her do so for you will like her and she will please you. Send for open dates and terms."</p><p>24 An autograph letter 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead. Dated January 7 1926 Forbes writes to the Pond office manager "Miss Smith" after her first lectures in Haverhill Mass. "I enclose two endorsed cheques value 200 $ & 230 $ - a long bill for steamer fare 2 lectures & expenses.Please send me here - I've left the Shelton too noisy - the 2 photos I gave to Mr. Pond the first day I saw him & ask him to send me a cheque soon as I have 10 dollars 1 cent a French franc & a half crown left in the world." Signed "Yrs. R.F."</p><p>25 On a "Hotel Webster New York" envelope Forbes notes her expenses: "They only gave me enclosed 150 dollars at Passaic last night instead of 200 as per contract". She then lists her expenses including a taxi fare totalling $2.52. Pond notes that he has paid the $2.50 and dates the envelope !/12/26 with the note "Remainder due tomorrow $50.00".</p><p>26 An autograph letter 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead. Dated Jan. 13 -1926 and addressed to "Miss Smith" Forbes sends further financial accounts regarding the Passaic NJ lecture. "If you get a cable for me tomorrow or Friday will you let me know at once as I'm expecting a very important business wire from England. Yrs. wearily - just how you feel too!" Signed "Rosita Forbes".</p><p>27 A January 18 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to George Byron Gordon of the Philadelphia Museum for payment of $150.00 for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked "PAID".</p><p>28 A January 19 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to Forbes detailing payments totaling $213.30 paid to her for expenses and lectures in Passaic NJ and Philadelphia.</p><p>29 A retained carbon of a letter from Pond dated January 19 1926: "When you arrive in Toledo on Thursday A Mrs. Rippon will meet you at th station and will take you to the Hotel Secour."</p><p>30 An autograph letter on 8-3/8 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide letterhead signed "Rosita Forbes". Writing from the "Fortnightly Club 120 Bellevue Rd Chicago" Forbes informes Pond "I shall not be in U.S.A. on April 7th. I sail on the 'France' on April 3rd. If the Philadelphia Geographical Society want me they'll have to change their lectures round a bit & let me have an earlier date. Yrs. dirtily - is it possible to keep clean in Chicago!" The letter is humorously dated "Jan. 24th. I have reason to believe".</p><p>31 A lengthy 2-page autograph memo on 8 inch high by 6 inch wide notepaper signed "R. F." "Due to Rosita Forbes" Forbes outlines $489.28 in expenses and fees due her for Steamer fare and and Haverhill/Brockton lecture fees & expenses during the early part of January 1926. "Note A. You forgot to tell me that Mrs. Fuller wrote you about Dec. 1 offering me hospitality at Brockton. They were all very angry about it !!!! I cd. only say I had never been told of such an offer." The memo is accompanied by a calculator receipt from Pond's office confirming Forbes' math.</p><p>32 An autograph letter 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead. Dated "Sunday Jan. 31". Addressing Miss Smith of the Pond Bureau Forbes writes: "I arrived here this morning by the 'Big Four' which only takes 1 night & 1 day instead of yr. nice -sweet - train which takes 2 nights & 1 day!! No letters!!! Please send me .the copy of Raisuli book i.e. "The Sultan of the Mountains: The Life Story of Raisuli" as I must look up some stories in it for an article.Please also let me know how many of Mr. Crane's lectures Vassar Smith Providence Bryn Maur. are arranged & what date" Signed in full "Rosita Forbes".</p><p>33 A 2-page financial memo dated Feb. 1st 1926 handwritten by Rosita Forbes on a folded 7 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide sheet of "The Fortnightly / Chicago" letterhead. On the first page Forbes notes the amounts due to the Pond Bureau for lectures in Toledo Chicago and St. Louis. On the 2nd page she lists her expenses. The memo is unsigned.</p><p>34 In an autograph letter on 3 sides of a folded sheet of 5 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide notepaper Forbes complains to Miss Smith of the Pond Bureau "When I asked the Buffalo Athletic Club for cheque they said by contract it was to be mailed to you but they presented me with 25 dollars as they hadn't time to look up the one way fare." She then outlines her expanses and asks that "Mr. Pond .send me a cheque for this before I go to Cambridge on Weds. & wd. you send a p.c. to Toledo & the March lectures asking them to pay me cheques at the end of lecture - otherwise I shall be in a recurrent state of bankruptcy!!" The letter is signed in full "Rosita Forbes" and is stamped "Ans'd Feb 16 1926".</p><p>35 A retained carbon of a letter from Pond to Forbes dated February 16 1926 in which Pond indicates his irritation with her. "I shall greatly appreciate it if when you have a contract calling for payment with me you do not request that a committee make payment with you.Apparently you asked Dr. Gordon in Philadelphia for your fee for he wrote me a rather long letter asking me why I had financial troubles with my lecturers. This give a very bad impression.I have not yet had any word from Brooklyn. The new chairman is apparently disgruntled.It certainly was most unfortunate that you missed Brooklyn and I do hope you will examine your contracts carefully in advance."</p><p>36 A February 13 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to F. A. Coupal of the Buffalo Athletic Club for payment of $250.00 and $19.57 expenses for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked "PAID".</p><p>37 A February 18 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to Charles R. Crane of the Radcliffe College for payment of $200.00 for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked "PAID".</p><p>38 A February 25 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to Isaiah Bowman of the American Geographical Society for payment of $75.00 for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked by Pond "Paid Mrs Forbes". Together with: a Typed Letter Signed dated February 5 1924 from Isaiah Bowman Director of the American Geographical Society praising Forbes lecture given during her first American tour. "She has a most entertaining story to tell and it could hardly be told with greater art."</p><p>39 A February 25 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to Marion Miller of the Toledo Club Toledo Ohio for payment of $200.00 for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked by Pond "did not fill date".</p><p>40 An autograph letter 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead dated Sat. Feb. 27. "Dear Lady / Here is my bill.I think perhaps you'd better send it me on Monday or I might be penniless!! but most of all I want that poster about my films - 'Red Sea to Blue Nile' which I gave Mr. Pond at the Waldorf.So awfully sorry to bother you." Signed in full on the verso "Rosita Forbes". The bottom edge of the letter has some damage resulting in the loss of a very few letters.</p><p>41 A March 1 1926 carbon of a memo addressed to Rosita Forbes for payments due her of $100.00 and $16.51 expenses for a lecture by Forbes in Cambridge Mass.</p><p>42 A March 3 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to Charles R. Crane of the Mary Wheeler School for payment of $200.00 for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked "PAID".</p><p>43 A 2-page autograph letter 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead dated March 4. "Dear Miss Smith / I had a letter from the man at Toledo insisting that Mr. Pond had agreed to let him know whether I was coming or not & that the Pond Bureau having failed to write he was justified in believing I was not coming. I think therefore that it is only fair to call Brooklyn & this quits as far as finance is concerned. I lost 100 dollars over Toledo owing to some slight forgetfulness!!!! & you lost 50 dollars over Brooklyn owing to some large forgetfulness!!!! .It was rather awful about Toledo because as i told you I was to be the guest at a big newspaper lunch. So much for this sad business!!".She goes on to outline her plans for lectures up until March 14. Chicago Minneapolis and Decatur Illinois. Signed "Yrs. R. F."</p><p>44 A March 25 1926 carbon of a receipt addressed to R.V. Nevins of the Algonquin Club Bridgeport Conn. e for payment of $200.00 plus $5.52 expenses for a lecture by Forbes. The receipt is marked "PAID".</p><p>45 A March 26 1926 retained carbon of a Pond letter. He expresses his disappointment as to the result of Forbes' tour. "I find that you only delivered nineteen professional talks receiving a gross amount for them of $1992.50. Considering your heavy expenses here in the way of living and moving about I am afraid you must have had a considerable loss."</p><p>46 A 2-page autograph memo 9-3/8 inches high by 6 inches wide on "Hotel Webster New York" letterhead dated March 27 1926. The memo outlines Forbes' expenses for her Bridgeport and Montclair lectures and the amounts owed her from the Pond Bureau. The memo is signed "R. Forbes".</p><p>47 An April 14 1926 retained carbon of a Pond letter. He hopes that she had "a pleasant and peaceful" journey home to England. He goes on to mention that she has a brief mention in Gilbert Frankau's newest book "Masterson".</p><p>48 A 2-page autograph letter signed "Rosita Forbes". The letter dated July 2 1931 on 9 inch high by 7 inch wide "Harefield House Harefield Middlesex" letterhead is a response to Pond concerning the lecture possibilities of the English explorer Bertram Thomas. ".before I got your letter I had warmly recommended you to him. I spent most of our lunch with him telling him to go to you but remember he'll be a serious speaker! I've told him he must make his book a bit light & he promised to try". She goes on to recommend the Turkish-Albanian soldier and statesman Izzet Pasha. "Use my name for all its worth with Bertram.</p><p>49 A July 10 1931 retained carbon of Pond's response to Forbes' letter of July 2. "I finally met Bertram Thomas. I found him a very disagreeable individual. I wrote him a letter telling him what I thought of him and he came and apologized to me. From what I know my call down was needed."</p><p>Though Rosita Forbes started travelling at an early age following her marriage to Major Ronald Forbes it wasn't until after a nervous breakdown following her husbands death in World War I that her travels started in earnest. At first she served as an ambulance driver in France during the war and subsequently traveled around the world "by way of American Hawaii Papua Sumatra Java Cochin China Siam." and again back to China where she was taken prisoner during the revolution and ended up doing Red Cross work for the Chinese army. In 1919 she resumed her travels through Africa and the middle-east and was in Jerusalem for the riots of 1920. "From here her journeys are chronicled in her lectures.After her return from Kufra she met and married Col. Arthur McGrath of the British War Office." Astonishingly all this had been accomplished by the time she was thirty years old.</p><p>Rosita Forbes described her journey around the world in her first book "Unconducted Wanderers" 1919. Disguised as a Moslem she travelled across the Libyan desert to the oasis of Kufara from 1920-21. This journey is described by her in "The Secrets of the Sahara: Kufara" 1924.</p> New York and London, 1925-1926.
181816976Pittsburg: Cramer and Spear 1818. Small 8vo. 792pp. Original publisher's sheep. Signatures sprung from use but attached; pages generally very soiled and with some contemporary markings; old repair to the spine else the binding is in good condition. Ownership name of Dan Smith dated 1828 and later 'Dan Smith His Book'. The New Testament has a separate title page. <br/> <br/>In this copy there is a short note pinned to its verso listing the births of members of the McNees family in the late nineteenth century. <br/> <br/>This is the first Bible printed west of the Allegheny River and the first Bible in English printed west of the Allegheny Mountains. <br/> <br/>Note: this is a well used copy but in good condition. Rare. <br/> <br/>Hills 349; Not in Darlow and Moule Cramer and Spear unknown books
196737132Hong Kong: Published by The East Society Printed by Sing Cheong Printing Co. Ltd 1967. 1st edition. Wrappers with printed dust jacket. Clear malleable plastic dust jacket protector publisher's. Spine lightly sunned. Prior owner name stamp to t.p. top magin otherwise a VG - Nr Fine copy. Unpaginated. Text in One 2-panel color image otherwise all images black & white. 11-1/4" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/>"Chang Dai-chien was one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Originally known as a guohua traditionalist painter by the 1960s he was also renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter. Further Chang is regarded as one of the most gifted master forgers of the twentieth century. . and it is suggested that many notable collections of Chinese art contains a forgery by the master painter" Wiki. "This book which represents the epitome of Chang Dai-chien's achievements since 1944 contains one hundred and thirty reproductions of his landscapes human figures plants flowers birds animals and fish in both the elaborate and the hsieh yi styles. The pictures are arranged in chronological order to enable the reader to see more clearly how the master after having already attained in his middle age a dizzy height in Chinese art continued on to reach even greater heights." Foreword. While well represented institutionally the work somewhat uncommon in the trade. Published by The East Society, Printed by Sing Cheong Printing Co. Ltd unknown books
06417London: John C. Nimmo 1885. The English Dramatists on Large Paper<br /> A Finely Bound Brian Frost Set of the Great Elizabethan and Jacobean Playwrights<br /> <br /> ENGLISH DRAMATISTS. The English Dramatists Edited by A. H. Bullen. London: John C. Nimmo 1885-1888.<br /> <br /> Large-paper issue one of only 120 numbered copies printed on laid paper. <br /> <br /> Sixteen octavo volumes 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 140 mm. Title-pages printed in red and black throughout with etched portrait frontispiece of Thomas Middleton in the first volume.<br /> <br /> Comprising: Thomas Middleton 1580-1627. 8 volumes. 1885; Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593. 3 volumes. 1885; John Marston 1576-1634. 3 volumes. 1887 and George Peele 1556-1596. 2 volumes. 1888.<br /> <br /> Handsomely bound circa 1960 by Brian Frost in three-quarter green morocco over green cloth boards ruled in blind spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments marbled endpapers top edges gilt. Spines a little faded otherwise a fine and elegant set.<br /> <br /> An important scholarly edition devoted to the principal non-Shakespearean dramatists of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. Under the editorship of A. H. Bullen - one of the foremost literary scholars of his generation - these volumes helped restore serious attention to the extraordinary richness and diversity of Renaissance English drama beyond Shakespeare himself.<br /> <br /> The centerpiece of the collection is the extensive edition of Thomas Middleton whose darkly satirical and psychologically acute plays have increasingly come to be regarded among the greatest achievements of the Jacobean theater. Included alongside Middleton are the complete dramatic works of Christopher Marlowe Shakespeare's brilliant predecessor whose Doctor Faustus Tamburlaine and Edward II transformed English tragedy; John Marston master of fierce satire and decadent comedy; and George Peele among the earliest and most lyrical dramatists of the Elizabethan stage.<br /> <br /> Printed in a strictly limited large-paper issue of only 120 sets and attractively rebound by the noted Bath binder Brian Frost the present set offers both scholarly importance and considerable shelf appeal - a distinguished collection of the great voices of the English Renaissance theater. London: John C. Nimmo, 1885 unknown
16931278861693. ENGLISH LAW. Manuscript Book of Precedents. England 1673-93. Quarto modern full brown morocco; 53 leaves. $2500.17th century manuscript legal book of precedents with entries dated between 1673 and 1693 citing legal opinions generally relating to trade.This manuscript in a clear readable hand with a manuscript index contains opinions by thirteen different legal experts including William Jones Robert Stephens and Francis Pemberton. The cited opinions generally regard trade and mention corn imported flowers wine wool fish sarsaparilla vinegar gloves cattle and stockfish among other goods; there is a particular emphasis on laws regarding trade with England's growing empire: entry number 99 is ""The East India Companys Charter"" and others focus on goods specifically from Ireland or the Caribbean. First leaf misbound text complete; tape repair to top corner of first leaf. An intriguing piece of legal history. unknown
22140See Lowe Arnott and Robinson English Theatrical Literature 1163-1172. Fine copies. 5 vols 4to uniformly bound with attractive tan paper spines period-style and sprinkled paper boards with manuscript titles on the spines. A gathering of five important pamphlets dealing with the acrimonious dispute between two groups of partners of the Covent Garden Theatre - usually referred to as the "Proprietors' Dispute" - a quarrel that began in 1767 when two of the partners Thomas Harris and John Rutherford attempted to insert mistresses - particularly one Mrs. Lessingham - into the theatre company and have them cast in unsuitable roles. Harris and Rutherford squared off with George Colman and William Powell the opposing partners for over a year of accusations and counter accusations that resulted in a legal squabble and a classic pamphlet war. The contents of the pamphlets are informative not only with regard to the dispute itself but they also document everyday operations of the Covent Garden Theatre and theatrical management of the period in general. With the exception of some minor foxing browning and stains the pamphlets are in very good condition with wide margins. In all Lowe describes ten pamphlets dealing with the Proprietors' Dispute; rarely are five found together. Full description of each volume upon request. <br/><br/> unknown books
