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177517124London 1775. Engraving by Joshua Record. In excellent condition with the exception of some minor foxing across the sheet and some waterstaining along the upper margin. A decorative engraving by the celebrated architect Robert Adam depicting an elegant room in Lord Derby's house in Grosvenor Square London.<br/> <br/>Robert and his brother James Adam forever changed the face of British architecture by introducing innovative Classical design ideas. From 1754-57 Robert lived in Italy where he had a long productive friendship with Piranesi which was inspirational for both men. Adam's first book on Diocletian's palace in Dalmatia is clearly very like the archaeological investigations Piranesi was making at the same time of similar ruins. Piranesi's friendship and passion for Roman Classicism were seminal influences on Adam and the greatest single factor other than his own talent in the work Adam produced on his return to England. Upon his return the brothers launched their career by building the Adelphi from the Thames to the Strand in London which although not a commercial success at the time included one of London's most cherished buildings the Adlephi Theatre. Together the Adam brothers designed and built some of the most famous buildings in England including such bastions of English architecture as Kenwood House Keddlestone Manor and Syon House. To the interiors of their English country houses the Adams brought wonderful ornamental elements in niches lunettes festoons and reliefs. Their classically designed buildings were so numerous in London that they changed the prevailing feel of the city and established their brand of neo-Classicism as the model of elegance and importance. It is asserted that the brothers originated the concept of the uniform facade attached to the typical English row house an architectural device that distinguishes London buildings. This monumental contribution is evidenced in the Adams' designs for Portland Place and Fitzroy Square and these were used as architectural models for the whole city. The brothers brought their talents into other areas by designing furniture to complement their beautiful interiors and by creating and publishing a treatise of design entitled 'Works in Architecture'. The work was published in three volumes over an extended span of time beginning in 1773 with the final volume being published posthumously in 1822.<br/> <br/>Cf. Brunet I.47; cf. Lowndes I p.8; DNB; Wilton-Ely The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. unknown books
1873100070Folio original cloth with leather spine and corners hinges reinforcedgilt title on front cover 49 maps. Binding in poor condition covers almost detached spine loose with two large pieces missing from top and bottom extremities very worn some aging to preliminaries but maps are very bright and clean overall. Previous owner laid down a few additional maps. One is glued to margin of Australia. Colorful general atlas with double page maps of Australia various countries in Europe South America India China and Africa.There is a very attractive general double page map of the United States. Assitionally there is a second map of the United Sates featuring the southern states. Adam & Charles Black, books
18171335432Boston: Wells and Lilly 1817. Early American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii 262 2 250 2; VG-; bound in publisher's blue-gray boards paper spine; some wear and rubbing to boards some chipping and cracking to spine most of the titling has worn off; text block uncut; mild foxing primarily to extremities; ownership name in ink to the title page; with half-title two title pages; two volumes in one; scarce; shelved case 10. Mizuta: TMS25;<br /> <br><br /> <br><br /> The first American edition was published in 1817 by Anthony Finley in Philadelphia. This edition came out later that year.;. 1335432. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Wells and Lilly hardcover books
17745327London 1774. Engraving by T. Miller expert repairs to old fold touching image area. A fine architectural engraving of Kenwood House in Hampstead London re-modelled in 1761-1773 and now home to the Iveagh Bequest picture collection.<br/> <br/>Robert and his brother James Adam forever changed the face of British architecture by introducing innovative Classical design ideas. From 1754-57 Robert lived in Italy where he had a long productive friendship with Piranesi which was inspirational for both men. Adam's first book on Diocletian's palace in Dalmatia is clearly very like the archaeological investigations Piranesi was making at the same time of similar ruins. Piranesi's friendship and passion for Roman Classicism were seminal influences on Adam and the greatest single factor other than his own talent in the work Adam produced on his return to England. Upon his return the brothers launched their career by building the Adelphi from the Thames to the Strand in London which although not a commercial success at the time included one of London's most cherished buildings the Adlephi Theatre. Together the Adam brothers designed and built some of the most famous buildings in England including such bastions of English architecture as Kenwood House Keddlestone Manor and Syon House. To the interiors of their English country houses the Adams brought wonderful ornamental elements in niches lunettes festoons and reliefs. Their classically designed buildings were so numerous in London that they changed the prevailing feel of the city and established their brand of neo-Classicism as the model of elegance and importance. It is asserted that the brothers originated the concept of the uniform facade attached to the typical English row house an architectural device that distinguishes London buildings. This monumental contribution is evidenced in the Adams' designs for Portland Place and Fitzroy Square and these were used as architectural models for the whole city. The brothers brought their talents into other areas by designing furniture to complement their beautiful interiors and by creating and publishing a treatise of design entitled 'Works in Architecture'. The work was published in three volumes over an extended span of time beginning in 1773 with the final volume being published posthumously in 1822.<br/> <br/>Cf. Brunet I.47; cf. Lowndes I p.8. unknown books
18762526LEIPZIG METZGER & WITTIG 1876. 8 vo. Set of 21 vols. printed in French. The first edition was 1821 with subsequent editions published throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Ex-library; usual stamps. 19th century contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Covers a little rubbed corners rounded. Joints of volume I are splitting but bindings are tightly strung. In fair condition. METZGER & WITTIG hardcover books
1785JC14369Edinburgh: John Bell & William Creech 1785. Third Edition Enlarged. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo; xvi; 317 pp. Previous owner's armorial bookplate Abercromby of Birkenbog Bart. Full contemporary calf a lovely copy. <br/><br/>An important work of Scottish Philosophy. It holds a distinction of being one of about a dozen books by Scottish authors that James Madison thought fit to import to America in 1782 for The Library of the U.S. Congress. John Bell & William Creech hardcover books
1834WRCAM50779Edinburgh & London 1834. iii-xvi426pp. plus folding map in front pocket. 19th-century polished calf gilt spine gilt extra leather label stamped in gilt. Minor soiling corners worn. Contemporary bookplate. Internally clean. Map backed on linen. Very good. Second edition with additional "notes made during a second visit to Canada in MDCCCXXXIII." "Visited Baltimore Washington Western N.Y. and devotes 32 pages to Michigan Territory. 2nd and best Edition containing Notes of a Second Visit made in 1833" - Wright Howes. The map shows the British North American provinces and the adjoining states in 1833. TPL 1641. SABIN 24102. WRIGHT HOWES 45:148. HOWES F86. hardcover books
1749677611749. 1749 Treatise on the Game Laws of Bavaria Austria and Mainz Ickstatt Johann Adam von 1701-1776. Klett Johann Friedrich Editor and Translator. Grundliche Abhandlungen von den Jagdrechten: Wie sich Solche aus den Allgemeinen Naturlichen Und Besondern Staatsrechten Erweisen Lassen. Mit einer Vorrede von dem Verschiedenen Zustande der Jagden bey den Romern und Deutschen und einem Anhang von den Neuesten Mehrentheils Ungedruckten Churmaynzischen Churbayerischen Erzherzoglich-Oesterreichischen Und Andern Jagdordnungen. Nebst einem Entwurf von einer Vorteilhaft Eingerichteten Waldordnung. Herausgegeben und mit einem Register Versehen von Johann Friedrich Klett. Nuremberg: Auf Kosten Johann Georg Lochners 1749. xlvi 428 16; 172 pp. Two parts each with title page. Title page of second part with title beginning Wald-Ordnung dated 1748. Quarto 7-3/4" x 6-1/4". Contemporary speckled calf blind rules to boards raised bands and lettering piece to spine marbled pastedowns. Light rubbing and a few minor worm holes to boards moderate rubbing to extremities light chipping to spine ends corners bumped and somewhat worn later library bookplate to front pastedown later owner bookplate to front free endpaper. Title page of first part printed in red and black attractive woodcut head and tail-pieces. Light toning to text light foxing in places early owner signatures to verso of front free endpaper and head of title page later library stamp to title page's verso. A handsome copy. $850. Only edition Part II a reissue of a work first published in 1748. The first part is overview of Bavarian forestry hunting and fishing laws from 1664-1742 followed by similar sets of laws promulgated in Austria in 1743 and in Mainz in 1744. The second part is a translation of the Bavarian laws with editorial commentary by Klett who also translated Part I. Early game and land laws record the earliest attempts to preserve the environment. They also offer fascinating insights into social history due to their relevance to topics ranging from class structure to foodways. Das Verzeichnis Deutscher Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts 14598590-006. unknown books
1830WRCAM34850Montreal: Printed at the Office of the Herald and New Gazette 1830. 216pp. Frontispiece. Original muslin-backed paper boards. Some minor foxing mostly in the first and final pages. A very good copy in original condition untrimmed. Kidd emigrated to Canada from Ireland at a young age and after being rejected for the priesthood he began publishing poetry. The epic main poem consumes over half the text with nearly forty shorter poems comprising the rest. Kidd claims that he travelled extensively among the Indians of Upper Canada and his poetry carries great sympathy for native peoples and their exploitation at the hands of European settlers. He writes that the "Huron Chief" was composed "on the inner rind of birch bark during my travels through the immense forests of America and under many difficulties and privations." He also claims that the poems would soon be published in native languages. SABIN 37700. TPL 1585. Printed at the Office of the Herald and New Gazette hardcover books
200710364Kolkata: Laurens & Co Press 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. One of 333 hand numbered copies in slipcase. Folio. A book of daguerreotypes by Fuss based on engravings by William Blake. All elements in fine condition. "Signed" by Fuss with his fingerprint to colophon page. Beautiful artist book. Laurens & Co Press hardcover books
179048326Dublin: printed by P. Byrne 1790. 6 volumes 8vo engraved frontispiece 2 folding engraved maps and 5 folding tables; contemporary full mottled calf red and black morocco labels on spines 2 lacking; spine ends chipped extremities rubbed and worn but in all a good serviceable set. Engraved bookplates of Alexander Crofts. First published in 2 volumes folio in 1762. Anderson 1693-1765 was a Scottish economist and for 40 years was a clerk in South Sea House the headquarters of the South Sea Company. Late in his life Anderson traveled to the American colonies begetting a son Adam E. Anderson later noted for being an early settler and planner of the Ohio Territory. <br/><br/> printed by P. Byrne unknown books
7421818. BLACK Adam and Charles Publishers. BLACK'S NEW LARGE MAP OF ENGLAND & WALES. According to the Ordnance Admirality and Other Surveys. On the scale of 4 miles to an inch by John Bartholomew F.R.G.S. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black n.d. circa 1870-1890. Three color sheets folding mounted on linen. The North and Midlands Sections are each 37 1/2 by 81 1/2 inches 95 x 206 cm; the South Section is 28 3/4 by 81 1/2 inches 73 x 206 cm. All fold to 9 1/2 by 6 3/4 inches 24 x 17 cm. A fine copy housed in slightly rubbed and soiled green cloth pull-off slipcase with publisher's paper label on the front gilt-stamped title and a hand-lettered label on one side. Unfolded this is a huge and wonderful map. unknown books
182413380London: Hurst Robinson and Edinburgh: Constable 1824. First UK edn. 8vo pp. 405 473. expanded from the more common 335 pp. NY edition of 1823. Bound in original paper backed boards spine paper missing and one cover separate uncut and partially unopened offsetting to the title-page little water stain to the endpapers in vol. 2 with errata slip in each volume and two plates. Housed in a custom slipcase and chemise. Howes H-560 Best edition with the extra 12 pages added to vol. 2 that are in just some copies; Clark II:207; Sabin 32358; Field 704. The letters were originally published in the London Christian Observer and here contain the addition of an appendix of Hodgson's account of his visit with the Choctaws Chickasaws Creeks and Cherokees and a description of the missions at Brainerd and Elliott. Hodgson travelled primarily through the south and Northeast. He traveled from Washington met with Jefferson at Monticello went up the Hudson to Albany and Niagara to Montreal. He continued down through Vermont saw the Quakers in New Hampshire and on to Boston and Philadelphia. This volume is from the library of General Sir William Henry Clinton son of Sir. Henry Clinton. see DNB. Hurst Robinson and Edinburgh: Constable unknown books
1951005095Utrecht: Société De Roos Spring 1951. Limited Edition. First Edition Thus. One slipcase for two hardcover folios. . Near Fine. Unnumbered copy of the limited edition totalling 181 numbered copies but this copy coming an original pencil drawing by the artist as well as signed proof versions of the lithographs in addition to all the signed lithos that came with the limited edition. 4to. 29 by 21 cm. 61 1 pp. The drawing signed by Vroom is a pencil sketch of three woman. 27 signed proofs or that is what we believe these to be. Some of the lithos are here in two states with one featuring a related drawing in the margin. In addition to signing all the lithos Vroom also signed the colophon in the book proper. Light wear to the slipcase. <br/><br/> Société De Roos hardcover books
1678780961678. LITTLETON Adam. Linguae Latinae Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus. A Latine Dictionary in Four Parts. I. An English-Latine. II. A Latine-Classical. III. A Latine-Proper. IV. A Latine-Barbarous. London T. Basset J. Wright and R. Chiswell 1677 and 1678. Folio. Unpaginated. Second edition the first was 1673 much enlarged. The English-Latin portion is as much thesaurus as dictionary. The "Latine-Classical" is a Latin-English dictionary with etymology including Hebrew; the "Latine-Proper" is a dictionary of personal and place names; the "Latine-Barbarous" dated 1677 contains erroneous and foreign words. A legal dictionary and tables of weights measures coinage chronology etc. crown the work. In 1670 Littleton was made chaplain to Charles II. His dedication to the King explains that he has rejected much of former dictionaries which would not be of use to students. His dictionary remained in print until 1735. An engraved frontispiece rebacked shows the Palatine Library established by Augustus. The engraved map of Ancient Italy and the engraved plan of Rome showing all its monuments and buildings are both present. In an unsophisticated calf binding of the period with plain boards and spine in six compartments with elaborate floral tooling. Hinges cracked externally. Bookplate of Watkin Williams of Penbedw Denbigh probably the Welsh schoolmaster-poet who won the Eisteddfod at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 with a poem in Welsh on George Washington. Cordell 220. BL 612.1.13. unknown books
1857408581857. <p>Sedgwick Adam 1785-1873. Two autograph letters signed to James Marshall. Dent Yorkshire Oct. 7 1857; Trinity College Cambridge Oct. 31 1857. 8pp. total. 186 x 113 mm. Light soiling along folds but very good.</p> <p>Letters with excellent scientific content from one of the founders of modern geology. Sedgwick was responsible for defining the Devonian and Cambrian ages in the geological time scale and his immensely popular lecture courses on geology delivered annually at Cambridge between 1819 and 1870 had an enormous influence on succeeding generations of English geologists. One of his students was Charles Darwin who began attending Sedgwick's lectures in January 1831 and accompanied Sedgwick on a geological field tour of Wales the following summer. The two men remained friends until Sedgwick's death even though Sedgwick was never able to accept Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.</p> <p>IIn his Oct. 7 letter to Marshall Sedgwick discusses the geological researches he was then undertaking in England's Lake District:</p> <p>"I mean D.V. to work my way to Ulverston; & on Saturday or possibly Monday to transfer my head quarters to Broughton. I want to connect our work in all quarries on the east side of the road with the great open quarries in the Ireleth country; which we failed to do. The beds in the great open quarries strike very differently from those you & I saw; yet the strike of the cleavage is unchanged in direction & from end to end almost perpendicular--I think it highly probable that the bed between the Ireleth slate & the Ulverston estuary are nearly all from the flag or flag & grit--And I suspect that some hard gritty ridges I remember to have seen in a part of Cartmell Fell are but a repetition by enormous fault of the Comiston grits. . . ." </p> <p>Sedgwick also notes his intention to "hear Dr. Livingstone's evening lecture"; this is a reference to David Livingstone 1813-73 famous for his exploration of Africa. Sedgwick later provided a preface to Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge Lectures 1858.</p> <p>In his Oct. 31 letter Sedgwick touches on his precarious health--"On Monday I ought to have begun my course of lectures but on that day I had a severe relapse of vertigo & was obliged to put off my lectures until Friday yesterday"--and continues his discussion of his work:</p> <p>"All the rocks from the Ireleth country to the Comiston Ulverston sands are Comiston flag--But in our final traverse we found the hard Comiston grits in the hills S. W. of Penny Bridge--just where they ought to be--I think there is an enormous break down the valley meeting the complicated faults which come down from the hill a little North of Seathwaite at an angle.--In short the country from Ireleth Moor inclusive to the Sand of Ulverston has had a shove southwards of about five miles!"</p> <p>The recipient of these letters James Marshall was an amateur geologist and Fellow of the Geological Society. A friend of both Sedgwick and John Herschel Marshall was "a keen advocate of scientific education" Briggs Victorian Cities 1993 p. 161. Olroyd Earth Water Ice and Fire 2002 p. 20. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. </p> . unknown books
1896140940980Oxford: Oxford at the Claredon Press 1896. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original burgundy cloth ruled in blind with spine stamped in gilt; lacking a dust jacket. Very Good. Cloth rubbed and lightly spotted. Offsetting to free endpapers. Owner name effaced with some abrasion from front paste down and small vintage bookseller label partially removed from rear paste down. The first publication of major lectures of Adam Smith from notes taken by his student at the University of Glasgow circa 1863-4. These lectures contain the formative ideas he later worked into The Wealth of Nations. Oxford at the Claredon Press unknown books
183631787Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie 1836. 1st edition thus Howes F-202; cf. Graff 1357 Rader 1419 for the separate printing. Not in Sabin. Period maroon half-sheep over green marbled paper boards. General shelfwear with rubs to leather extremities. Usual bit of foxing. A VG copy. 4 416 pp. Text triple column. Flint piece pp. 284 - 288. Steel engraved plate of Frederick Marryat drawn by Behnes engraved by Lawson precedes text. 4to. 11-3/8" x 9-1/8" <br/><br/>Flint's long letter 11 columns in small type is dated Alexandria La. April 21 1835 and apparently not known to Kirkpatrick who made no reference to it in his biography of Flint per Graff. The cited references make mention of a separate 12mo edition of this work and of which we find an occasional record the last being in 1973. Rare. Marryat is represented with The NAVAL ANNUAL in addition to the engraving. Miss Baillie no doubt unknowingly contributes a number of dramatic pieces all but two asserted to be original publications and which by appearing herein constitute their first US appearance. Printed and Published by Adam Waldie hardcover books
183631787.1Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Adam Waldie 1836. 1st edition thus Howes F-202; cf. Graff 1357 Rader 1419 for the separate printing. Not in Sabin. Period brown half-calf over brown marbled paper boards. Joints starting boards held solidly by cords with a largish chip to leather at spine crown. Usual bit of foxing. Period pos to top margin of t.p. An About VG copy. 4 416 pp. Text triple column. Flint piece pp. 284 - 288. 'Belles Lettres' - 4pp / issue usually. Steel engraved plate of Frederick Marryat drawn by Behnes engraved by Lawson precedes text. 4to. 11-3/8" x 9-1/8" <br/><br/>Flint's long letter 11 columns in small type is dated Alexandria La. April 21 1835 and apparently not known to Kirkpatrick who made no reference to it in his biography of Flint per Graff. The cited references make mention of a separate 12mo edition of this work and of which we find an occasional record the last being in 1973. Rare. <br /> <br />Marryat is represented with The NAVAL ANNUAL in addition to the engraving. In 'Belles Lettres' is found JAPHET In SEARCH Of A FATHER. <br /> <br />Miss Baillie no doubt unknowingly contributes a number of dramatic pieces all but two asserted to be original publications and which by appearing herein constitute their first US appearance. <br /> <br />"Belles Lettres" also publishes for the first time journal entries from an officer of the U. S. S. PEACOCK which was serving at the time in the Far East. The editor introduces his correspondent by saying he begins by "giving the details of the awful disaster which befell the Peacock from which she escaped almost by a miracle." Printed and Published by Adam Waldie hardcover books
1790549Philadelphia 1790. Autograph Letter Signed. Folio sheet folded. 1 page of text with address on the verso. Folded with small tears at the folds blank piece missing at the wax seal. Highly legible hand. Watermark paper "I R". Letter from Adam Zantzinger concern the receipt of money and shipment of "Liquers and Molasses and Sugar . . all of the best quality. The gin I imported from Holland in large Pipes & it is the best Quality & will cost you much less than the gin in cases; the cases are at 30/ only hold about 3 1/2 gallons so that the gin in cases will cost you 8/6 the gallon & this only 5/6. I have sent you like wise one keg of the best French Brandy & one of the best Red Sweet Wines and a Roal of Tobacco which I hope will please you. The casks are all filled full and hope they will all com safe to hand. I give the waggoner a bottle of Spirrits out of my casks & expect he will see carefully of your liquor." Adam Zantzinger was a member of the Pennsylvania Militia 1775-1783 and is listed in the Revolutionary War Batallion Index. In 1775 he purchased a 9-acre parcel of land north of the City of Philadelphia called the Norther Liberites on Ridge Avenue across the street from what is now Girard College. He was listed in the membership rolls of the Carpenters Company for 1786 and became a shareholder in the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1790. 319 549. unknown books
1790319Philadelphia 1790. Autograph Letter Signed. Folio sheet folded. 1 page of text with address on the verso. Folded with small tears at the folds blank piece missing at the wax seal. Highly legible hand. Watermark paper " I R ".Letter from Adam Zantzinger concern the receipt of money and shipment of "Liquers and Molasses and Sugar . . all of the best quality. The gin I imported from Holland in large Pipes & it is the best Quality & will cost you much less then the gin in cases; the cases are at 30/ only hold about 3 1/2 gallons so that the gin in cases will cost you 8/6 the gallon & this only 5/6. I have sent you like wise on keg of the best French Brandy & one of the best Red Sweet Wines and a Roal of Tobacco which I hope will please you. The casks are all filled full and hope thy will all com safe to hand. I give the waggoner a bottle of Spirrits out of my casks & expect he will see carefully of your liquor."Adam Zantzinger was a member of the Pennsylvania Militia 1775-1783 and is listed in the Revolutionar War Batallion Index. In 1775 he purchased a 9 acre parcel of land north of the City of Philadelphia called the Norther Liberites on Ridge Avenue across the street from what is now Girard College. He was listed in the membership rolls of the Carpenters Company for 1786 and became a shareholder in the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1790. unknown books
198120005New York: Summit Books 1981. First edition of this modern classic. Octavo original half cloth. Inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine with a few closed tears. George Jerome Goodman was an American author and economics broadcast commentator best known by his pseudonym Adam Smith which was assigned by Clay Felker at New York magazine in order to keep his published articles about Wall Street anonymous. "Like the painter Mondrian Adam Smith makes it look simple." Summit Books hardcover books
1821170889Vienna: Imprimerie de J. V. Degen Pierre Mechetti Devant Charles 1821. Leather bound. Binding set many covers are off most spine labels are off. Sold as a reading set only these books have the typical old dusty leather feel to them. 21 volumes in 1/2 brown leather. Some portraits and illustrations. Dates as follows: 1-3: 1803 new edition; 4-5: 1805; 6-11:1808; 12-13: 1811; 14-15: 1813; 16-18: 1818; 19: 1819; 20: 1820; 21: 1821. Uniformly bound but the leather is dry and some covers are off spine missing from volume 1. Contents are generally described as Vols. 1-4: Dutch and Belgian artists; 5-11: German artists; 12-21: Italian artists. The Supplement volume covers Peintres et Dessinateurs Neerlandais and has the front cover off. Scarce as a complete set in any condition. Suitable for restoration which would be very expensive. Imprimerie de J. V. Degen, Pierre Mechetti, Devant Charles hardcover books
1923246618Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1923. No. 60 of 525 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 75 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece signed by the artist in pencil. 1 vols. 4to. Original gray paper covered boards beige linen spine with printed label. A few spots on last two leaves of text else fine. Benson Frank W. No. 60 of 525 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 75 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece signed by the artist in pencil. 1 vols. 4to. A well-produced survey of the great etcher's work dealing primarily with wildfowl. Mill/well/26/1 Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1929245993Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company Printed at the Riverside Press 1929. No 62 of 600 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 62 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece "Flying Pintail" signed by him. 1 vols. 4to. Original gray paper covered boards beige linen spine with printed label. Label scuffed else very good. Bookplate of G. Peabody Gardner & Rose Gardner. Benson Frank W. No 62 of 600 copies. With descriptions and reproductions of 62 plates by Benson plus an original etched frontispiece "Flying Pintail" signed by him. 1 vols. 4to. A well-produced survey of the great etcher's work dealing primarily with wildfowl. The Flying Pintail etching original to this volume is item 275 in the catalogue and was produced in 1927. Houghton Mifflin Company [Printed at the Riverside Press] unknown books
