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184826992London; Auckland: various. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1848-1879. First editions. Hardcover. Bound in 20th century blue cloth boards. Binder's ticket on rear endpaper Pelorus Press Auckland. Previous owner's ex-libris bookplate Frank G. Glen. Some foxing. Berry "New Zealand as a Field for Emigration" has tissue paper repair to lower corner of front wrapper and lacks the folding map. Original wrappers bound in for four titles. Fading to wrappers. The pamphlet without wrappers Buddle "Aborigines of New Zealand" 1851 was not issued with wrappers see Bagnall 739: "Cover-title". "Aborigines of New Zealand" with dampstain to title leaf. The John White pamphlets "Maori Superstitions" 1856 as an inscription by the author but without the author's signature. The inscription is hard to red: " With kind regards from of the author". ; Bound volume of 5 pamphlets all first editions. Berry pamphlet lacking the map. 20th century blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Spine titled " VOL. 5". With typewritten contents leaf bound in. The 5 pamphlets are: 1 Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society "New Zealand. Correspondence between the Wesleyan Missionary Committee and the Right Honourable Earl Grey Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonial Department on the Apprehended Infringement of the Treaty of Waitangi". London: 1848. 36 pages. Printed green wrappers. Page dimensions: 211 x 130mm. Cover title: "New Zealand. Treaty of Waitangi." Reference: Bagnall 5983 - "a lengthy restatement of the views of Hobson the British Government and the missionaries. 2 John White "Maori Superstitions: A Lecture". Auckland: Printed by Williamson and Wilson 1856. 33 1 blank pages. Printed pink paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 214mm x 134mm. Selected Contents: World origin of; Kumara Origin of; Cannibalism Origin of; World drowned; New Zealand fished up; Mamari Canoe of Ngapuhi; Arawa; Canoe of East Cape District; Tainui Canoe Of Whaingaroa; People In New Zealand Before The Maori Race; Names and Attributes Of Dogs; Two Men And A Woman Taken To Heaven Alive; Origin Of The Moon; Incantation To Make Children's Teeth Come; Tattooing Ceremonies of for Man; Ditto ditto for Woman. Reference: Bagnall 6031. 3 Rev. J. Berry "New Zealand as a Field for Emigration" London: James Clarke & Co. 1879. 41 pages including the printed inside of the rear green cover. Lacking the map. Blue printed paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 182 x 121mm. Reference: Bagnall 420. 4 Rev. Thomas Buddle " The Aborigines of New Zealand: Two Lectures". Auckland: Williamson and Wilson 1851. 51 1 blank pages. Cover-title. Page dimensions: 213 x 131mm. Reference: Bagnall 739: "An outline of Maori life and custom." 5 Rev. Thomas Buddle "The Maori King Movement in New Zealand with a Full Report of the Native Meetings held at Waikato April and May 1860." Aucklnad: Published at the "New-Zealander" Office 1860. 72 2 blank pages. Printed pale yellow paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 214 x 134mm. Rare. Reference: Bagnall 740 - "The origins of the King movement so far as it was understood at the time by a noted Wesleyan missionary. Buddle saw the implications of settle anxiety for land as well as of Maori political organisation but circumstances made his temperate proposals impracticable." . [various] hardcover
187012823Newnan Ga: October 1 1870. Broadside 7.75 x 9 inches with engraved vignette at center. Old folds moderate foxing and dust-soiling light staining. Short closed tear to bottom edge. Overall very good. A delightful mid-19th-century Georgia railroad broadside advertising changes to the ticketing system for one of the southern rail lines owned by William Byrd Berry. Here rates for travel between Berry's hometown of Newnan and Carrollton or Bowdon are specified and the rates for children under the age of 10 are noted as half price. Further the broadside stipulates baggage is capped at fifty pounds and the excess will be charged "Express rates." The work is signed in type by "W.B. Berry & Co." and dated October 1 1870 in Newnan. The text is enhanced with a striking central vignette of a locomotive pulling several railcars through a mountainous region. William Byrd Berry 1831-1902 was a prominent businessman and landowner born and raised in Newnan Georgia. He served as president of various banks and was involved in a number of railroad interests in the state. As far as we can tell the present broadside is unrecorded. October 1 unknown
1840820B47London : John Russell Smith c1840. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 13.5" by 8.5". none . A scarce and beautifully presented volume of County Genealogies of Hertfordshire and Genealogia Antiqua by William Berry. This is a scarce volume of County Genealogies Pedigrees of Hertfordshire Families and Genealogia Antiqua or Mythological and Classical tables compiled from the best authors on fabulous and ancient history both by William Berry. County Genealogies has a beautifully illustrated title page and pages of decoratively printed genealogical charts. The genealogies have been collected from the Heraldic Visitations manuscripts in the British Museum. In half leather binding with marbled boards. Externally very smart. There are a few marks to the boards and some rubbing to the extremities. Internally firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages with the odd scattered spot throughout. Very Good Indeed John Russell Smith hardcover
181560390London: Longman Hurst Ress Orme and Brown. 1815. Hardcover. Very Good. 348pp map and 29 plates complete as listed previous owners name blanked out with sticky paper in top margin of 4pps deckle edge pages bound in recent green cloth new endpapers; Quarto . Longman Hurst Ress Orme and Brown hardcover
1825102601825 Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1825; 2 volumes in-8°, plein veau glacé violine de l'époque, oulette à froid encadrant les plats, dos orné de filets et fleurons dorés , titre et tomaison dorés, tranches marbrés; (4),III, 358pp.; (4), 313pp. et LXXVIIIpp. (appendice). Orné d'une grande carte dépliante. Rares rousseurs, reliure en partie insolée et passée au brun (dos des deux volumes et plats du Tome 2, avec très petite perte au mors du Tome 2 et manques de cuir aux mors du Tome 1, fente à la chanière inférieure avec épidermure en piedau Tome 1).
181966477London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown Paternoster-Row; and James Ridgway Piccadilly 1819. First edition 4to pp. ciii 1 150; original brown paper-covered boards printed paper label on spine; small cracks at the bottom of the spine small wax spots on lower cover but otherwise near fine. On the upper cover is the ownership signature of Princess Starhemberg i.e. Princess Franziska Starhemberg 1787-1864. Presentation copy from the editor Mrs. Berry inscribed "To the Princess Starhemberg from her most attached grateful & affectionate friend The Editor." There is one correction in ink in the margin of p. viii also in her hand. Berry 1763-1852 was the editor of the works of Horace Walpole two dramatic plays and A Comparative View of the Social Life of England and France from the Restoration of Charles II to the French Revolution. "These letters are written with such a neglect of style and often of grammar as may disgust the admirers of well-turned periods and they contain such frequent repetitions of homely tenderness as may shock the sentimental readers of the present days. But they evince the enjoyment of happiness built on such rational foundations and so truly appreciated by its possessors as too seldom occurs in the history of the human heart. They are impressed too with the marks of a cheerful mind a social spirit and every indication of a character prepared as well to enjoy the sunshine as to meet the storms of life" Berry p. xix. Lowndes p. III 2155. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row; and James Ridgway, Piccadilly unknown
187024646Paris 1870 -in-8 demi chagrin un Manuscrit ORIGINAL relié, reliure demi-chagrin violet in-octavo (binding half shagreen in-octavo), RELIURE D'ÉPOQUE, dos à nerfs (spine with raised bands)(dos insolé), décoré "or" et à froid (gilt and blind stamping decoration), titre frappé "or", entre-nerfs à fleurons fleur de Lys "or", filet à froid de part et d'autre des nerfs, papier marbré marron foncé, marron clair et rouge aux plats, tête lisse dorée (gilt top edge), gouttière et tranche de queue non-rognées, Ex-Libris gravé en noir par Dan Lailler sur papier blanc collé au dos du 1er plat : aux armes de RICHELOT [de la Bibliothèque de René RICHELOT (1895-1969), un des derniers Grands Bibliophiles Bretons, ancien président de la Société archéologique d'Ille et Vilaine ], extrait découpé du catalogue de la Librairie Durand-Noël collé au dessus de l'Ex-Libris aprés l'achat de celui-ci, Texte Autographe Manuscrit à l'encre brune par V. BONHIOL (tampon de V. Bonhiol, Paris en bleu en bas du titre + Préface signée V.B.), Manuscrit orné d'une photographie albuminée en noir : Portrait de Mme la Duchesse de Berry en frontispice + 2 Photographies albuminées en noir "Portrait de Mme la Duchesse de Berry" différentes en hors-texte (dont une à la fin de sa vie) + 2 dessins originaux à la plume en noir à l'encre de chine ( dessin du Chateau de la Pénissière + dessin avec Femmes en costume d'époque lisant l'affiche "ETAT DE SIEGE" devant l'entrée du Château des Ducs de Nantes) + une grande planche hors-texte dépliante : "Intérieur et plan de la mansarde ou S.A.R. la Duchesse de Berry à été arrêtée"d'aprés un dessin de PLOUAYS DE CHANTELOU, lithographié en noir par Charpentier à Nantes + un Fac-Similé de lettre Autographe de Marie-Caroline Duchesse de Berry à Mr Meyer consul de Naples à Bordeaux, fait à Paris en Aout 1870,
188346401845Nevers, Michot, 1883 ; in-folio, demi-chagrin brun à coins, dos à nerfs filets et fleurons dorés, fil. dor., tête dor. (Reliure de l’époque signée “Compagnon à Moulins”). 243 pp., 33 gravures hors-texte.ÉDITION ORIGINALE et PREMIER TIRAGE de cette luxueuse publication, tirée à seulement 400 exemplaires numérotés. Né en 1819 à Clamecy, Amédée Jullien travaille dans sa jeunesse chez le paysagiste Reymond. Notaire à Tannay, il vend son étude et se retire pour s’adonner à la gravure à l’eau-forte, puis il se tourne vers la décoration des faïences et devient, à Paris, un actif homme d’affaires. Fondateur et premier conservateur du Musée de Clamecy en 1876, il meurt dans cette ville en 1887. 32 magnifiques planches hors-texte gravées à l’eau-forte et 1 portrait de Jullien par Lhermitte. « Jullien a fait revivre l’ancien Nivernais et son antique chef-lieu par la description historique, topographique, et artistique des principales villes. » Surugue, 614 - Guéneau, 101.Bel exemplaire frais, petites épidermures.
18580024891858 Paris, A. Morel et Cie, 1858. In-folio (288 X 395 mm) percaline violine, dos lisse muet, double encadrement avec écoinçons à froid sur les deux plats, auteur, titre et illustrateur dorés au centre du premier plat, grand fleuron à froid au centre du second plat, tranches dorées (reliure de l'éditeur) ; (2) ff. de faux-titre et titre illustré, VII pages (table des matières, fac-similé d'une lettre de George Sand à Maurice Sand et avant-propos), 48 pages et 12 planches hors-texte.
186528380London: Longman Green and Co. 1865. 3 volumes extended to 6 by the insertion of 206 extra plates. Hardcover. Near fine/No jacket issued. London: Longman Green and Co. 1865. Edited by Lady Theresa Lewis. 6 vols. 3 volumes extended to 6 by the insertion of 206 extra plates. Various pagination pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Full crushed brown morocco. Gilt spines tooled in compartments with floral art nouveau motif. Boards double ruled in gilt. Board edges gilt with gilt turn-ins. Top edges gilt. Light wear to bindings. Else a spectacular set inside and out. Near fine/No jacket issued. Multiple volumes - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. Longman, Green and Co. hardcover books
1831254561London 1831. Miniature globe in turned walnut case with domed lid. 1.5 inch diameter. 12 hand colored globe gores with original varnish and metal pins at each pole which enable the globe to spin in the case. Cartouche set in north Pacific. Stains along the equator in the Pacific.<br/><br/> This terrestrial globe is the smallest version made by Newton and Berry Sumira p. 189. Wonderful detail included for such a small globe. The track of Captain Cook's final voyage of 1776 is shown when Captain Clarke and Gore sail to the Bering Sea after Cook is murdered. John Newton 1759-1844 is the founding member of this family firm. Miles Berry joined the firm in 1803. They also made planetaria and mechanical models. An excellent example of a pocket globe.<br/><br/> unknown books
1865ST19156London: Longmans Green and Co 1865. FIRST EDITION. 222 x 146 mm. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4". Three volumes extended to six. Edited by Lady Theresa Lewis. <br/> EXCEPTIONALLY PRETTY CRIMSON CRUSHED MOROCCO HANDSOMELY GILT BY MORRELL signed on front inner dentelles covers bordered with double rules raised bands spines gilt in compartments featuring drawer pull and cinquefoil cornerpieces and elegant floral centerpiece elaborately gilt inner dentelles top edge gilt other edges rough trimmed. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH MORE THAN 275 ENGRAVED PLATES 30 of them views the rest portraits four of the plates folding and eight in color. One plate with small skillfully repaired tear at fore edge a few leaves and a dozen plates with sprinkled foxing isolated light offsetting and minor stains and soiling in the text but AN EXTREMELY FINE SET THE LOVELY BINDINGS UNUSUALLY BRIGHT AND VIRTUALLY UNWORN and internally very fresh and clean.<br/> <br/> This lavishly illustrated and handsomely bound set documents the very long and meaningful life of a spinster devoted to her father and her sister—and to literature. Mary Berry 1763-1852 grew up in a family of modest fortune yet she knew a great many important people including Princess Caroline of Wales the estranged wife of the Regent their daughter Princess Charlotte and the author Mme. de Stael who described Mary as "by far the cleverest woman in England." Mary met Lord Byron and Napoleon but her greatest friend was Horace Walpole the society wit letter-writer and builder of the neo-gothic extravaganza Strawberry Hill. Walpole who met Berry and her younger sister Agnes when they were in their twenties became so fascinated by their wit and wisdom that he persuaded them to settle with their father near him at "Little Strawberry Hill" which he bequeathed to them in his will. He left them his manuscripts as well and Mary Berry became the editor of his works. She also authored a play and a study of English and French society but our collection of her journal entries and letters put together by Lady Theresa Lewis 1803-65 is Mary Berry's most enduring legacy. The journal begins when Mary at 20 sets out with her father and Agnes for a tour of Holland Switzerland and Italy where she looks at paintings attends plays and records the ups and downs of stagecoach travel. The letters and entries in her journal written until her death give a rare picture of her times and her clever and endearing personality. At the same time some entries are melancholic in which she attributes falling short of achievements commensurate with the level of her abilities and never experiencing marriage and motherhood. Besides charming portraits of the Berry sisters the illustrations in our expanded set depict the authors they read Dryden for example the painters whose works they viewed the many notable figures they met or gossiped about royalty politicians actresses people of fashion and views of the places they visited. Our lovely set was produced by the London bindery of W. T. Morrell established about 1861 as successor to the firm begun by Francis Bedford who in turn had taken over the famous bindery of Charles Lewis. Prideaux in her "Modern Bookbindings" published in 1906 says that Morrell at that time had a very large business that supplied "all the booksellers with bindings designed by his men" bindings that were "remarkable for their variety and merit." The six volumes here look remarkably attractive on the shelf. Longmans, Green, and Co unknown
181655305Paris: Vente 1816. Fine. Royal wedding edition of this popular pre-Revolution comedy issued on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Marie-Caroline and the Duc de Berry - and from the library of the Duchess herself who famously sold her books after her failed coup in 1832. The Duchess's wedding occurred only a year after the restoration of the royal House of Bourbon in 1815 following Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo. On that occasion a special performance of Andrieux's 1787 play was performed for the Duchess a devotee of the theater. This rare edition was printed as a memento of that event which was to have massive implications in French history. <br /> <br /> The Duchess's new husband was the king's brother; after the Duc de Berry's assassination in 1820 their son became the heir apparent to the French throne. But when the July Revolution of 1830 deposed the Bourbons the Duchess and her son went into exile. In 1832 however the Duchess of Berry clandestinely returned to France to lead a rebellion becoming "the most wanted woman in France" Samuels. Her coup failed and she was once again exiled; her story would later be dramatized in fiction by Alexandre Dumas as LES LOUVES DE MACHECOUL 1859. <br /> <br /> Realizing she would never return to her beloved library of some 8000 volumes at Chateau Rosny she made the decision to sell it. It was then one of the most famous libraries in France with a tremendous range in philosophy history travel science law theology fiction and theater. This copy's binding and bookplates mark its provenance from the library of the Duchess. It was bound by René Simier 1772-1843 who "had no superior and few rivals during his career" Ramsden 190 with his ticket announcing him as "Binder to the King to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Berry and to His Royal Highness the Duke of Bordeaux." The binding is in the style the Duchess regularly ordered from Simier featuring her gilt arms on the boards upon a carefully selected full morocco. It further bears the engraved bookplate of Rosny on the unusual pink endpapers. Books from the Duchess's library still appear with some regularity on the market today but rarely with such a close personal connection to the Duchess herself. Contemporary full honey morocco boards stamped in gilt with the arms of the Duchess of Berry bound by René Simier with his ticket "Relieur du Roi de S.A.R. Madame Duchesse de Berry et de S.A.R. Mgr le duc de Bordeaux". Pink glazed endpapers all edges gilt. 4 82 pages. Engraved bookplate of the Bibliothèque de Rosny on front pastedown; bookplates also of Alexis Rouart and Eugène Aubry-Vitet. Only trace rubbing and soil. Vente unknown
1830124608London: Newton Son & Berry c. 1830-1836. Fine pair of rare early 19th century celestial and terrestrial table globes published by Newton Son & Berry. Both the celestial and terrestrial globe measure 12 inches in diameter with a calibrated brass meridian ring and 19 inch mahogany horizon ring decorated with mounted hand colored decorations. Mounted on ebonized oak stands. Each globe is comprised of 12 richly detailed hand-colored gores with polar calottes the terrestrial globe detailing the earth's landmasses major countries and cities and the celestial showing the major stars in various sizes related to their brightness displayed with a table of magnitudes. Major constellations and all twelve zodiac signs are illustrated with detailed hand-colored drawings. The cartouche on the celestial globe is inscribed "Newton's New & Improved Celestial Globe On which all the Stars Nebulae & Clusters contained in the extensive Catalogue of the late E. Wollaston E.R.S. are accurately laid down their Right Ascensions and Declinations having been recalculated for the Year 1830 by W. Newton. Manufactured by Newton Son & Berry Chancery Lane London Published 1836." In near fine condition with some light restoration. Each globe measures 19 inches tall. The sphericity of the Earth was established by Greek astronomers in the 3rd century BC with the earliest terrestrial globe appearing during that period. The earliest known globe was constructed by Crates of Mallus in Cilicia now Cukurova in modern-day Turkey in the mid-2nd century B.C.E. Now known as the Erdapfel the earliest extant terrestrial globe was produced in 1492 by German mapmaker navigator and merchant Martin Behaim in Nuremberg Germany. Traditionally globes were manufactured by gluing a printed paper map onto a sphere often made from wood. Newton, Son & Berry unknown books
