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1853100379Adelaide: W.C. Cox Printer 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adelaide W.C. Cox Printer 1853. Octavo 46 pages. Relatively recent quarter morocco and buckram by the Law Bindery Melbourne; title leaf a little foxed with minimal light scattered foxing to a few other leaves; an excellent copy with most interesting provenance see below. The author Clerk of the Executive Council of South Australia was on board the vessel; this is his account of the first successful navigation of the Murray as far as Swan Hill by Captain Francis Cadell. Fellow-passenger James Allen also published his version of events. Captain William Randell and his paddle-steamer 'Mary Ann' left Goolwa at the Murray mouth ahead of Cadell and travelled much farther up the Murray but Cadell overtook him en route and reached Swan Hill first. However both men deservedly earned the bonus of 2000 pounds offered by the South Australian Government 'for each of the first two steamers to travel up the Murray as far as the Darling junction' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. We have noted previously the manuscript correction page 5 line 4 'largest' to 'longest' river and presume it is in Kinloch's hand. At the head of the title page of this copy is the pencilled ownership name possibly his signature of Robert Wadsworth over-written in red ink by the subsequent owner 'John Shillinglaw from Robert Wadsworth 1854'. Shillingworth has annotated the text in both pencil and red ink three and seven pages respectively. The pencilling identifies the 'gentleman's son' working as a shepherd as 'old "Bigodd Macdonald"' and asks elsewhere of a sentence nine lines long 'what does this wretched twaddler mean' he's got a point too!. Robert Wadsworth was eventually Clerk of the Victorian Executive Council from 1875 to 1889; of passing interest to bibliophiles his son Arthur 1864-1931 was the first Commonwealth Parliamentary Librarian having 'charge of the Commonwealth library for over twenty-six years while also being titular head of the Victorian State parliamentary library' ADB. <p>John Joseph Shillinglaw 1831-1905 public servant and historian was the eldest son of the librarian of the Royal Geographical Society. 'He was to study under Captain John Washington eminent maritime surveyor and in 1852 he migrated with his father and brothers to Victoria arriving in October. From November he was chief clerk of petty sessions at Williamstown and in 1854 was appointed inspector and sometime acting superintendent of the Water Police. He was also secretary to the Steam Navigation Board until December 1857. In 1856-69 he was shipping-master for the Port of Melbourne and registrar of seamen; he helped to found the first Sailors' Home and did much to improve the working conditions of seamen'. It is hardly surprising that he should be given a copy of this book soon after its publication. He held various public service positions over the years; from 1885-94 he 'was secretary to the royal commission on vegetable products. He was also secretary to the Board of Viticulture. Shillinglaw was an enthusiast in whatever department he worked; however he is remembered for his association with colonial literature and history'. He was the author of numerous books and on his death his estate 'included a vast collection of papers and rare books' presumably including this item ADB. Ferguson 11196. W.C. Cox, Printer hardcover
187238915Hartford 1872. Broadside 6" x 9-1/2" text surrounded by mourning border. A few spots Very Good. Illustrations of two steamers. At the bottom: "This is Good for ONE PASSAGE Only. - H.G." Dated at Hartford November 5 1872.<br /> <br /> "Salt River" is 19th century American slang: a losing candidate for office was taking a trip "up Salt River." Tickets for passage "up Salt River" were frequently printed to mock supporters of losing candidates. <br /> This humorous scarce broadside taunts Horace Greeley and other defectors from the Republican Party for their support of Greeley in 1872. "On the overwhelming defeat of the Liberal Republican Party and its candidate Horace Greeley in the presidential election of 1872. Greeley had been nominated at a Liberal Republican convention at Cincinnati in May and at the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore in July 1872" AAS description.<br /> Pall bearers include Charles Sumner and General Banks prominent Republican supporters of Greeley.<br /> OCLC 191231113 2- AAS Middlebury 47090036 1- CT Hist. Soc. as of August 2025. unknown
1834013113London: Cochrane & M'Crone 1834. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. A lovely 8 volume set in polished speckled full leather double- ruled covers front and back floral dentelles aeg spine with six compartments gilt raised bands. Incidental spotting to the interior here and there. Solid bindings all around. Cochrane & M'Crone hardcover
1844M6443London: Chart Committee of the Admiralty c. 1844. Very Good; four small tears in the upper right right and lower right margin professionally repaired and not affecting the image. Notes: Originally printed in 1798 in Spanish later translated by Faden in 1804 and again in 1844. Hydrographic Office seal in top right. The bay is marked with depth soundings. In the upper right of the map is a legend denoting various landmarks and edifices on the map. Size : 446x551 mm 17.56x21.69 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Reference: Cueto 189 Category: Maps City Maps;Maps West Indies Cuba & Bahamas; Chart Committee of the Admiralty unknown
1933153095Culver City CA: RKO Studios Inc 1933. Final Draft script for the 1933 film. Carbon typescript on onionskin with production number "687" and "Property of RKO Studios Inc. Return to Scenario Dept. Files" stamps on front wrapper.<br /> <br /> Based on an unpublished play by Anne Caldwell and Louis Brock. One of the most famous dance debuts in film history featuring the iconic team of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers performing "The Carioca." The film's success set a dance and music craze across the country and made the pair bankable worldwide for a string of classic films. Nominated for an Academy Award.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. <br /> <br /> Tan titled wrappers noted as FINAL SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 687 dated August 25 1933 with credits for author Louis Brock. 161 leaves with last page of text numbered 159. Ribbon copy typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. RKO Studios, Inc unknown
184829072New York: Van Norden 1848. The 1st annual report of the Hudson River Railroad not recorded on OCLC. Early reports authorizing the construction of the railroad from NY to Albany are dated 1848; the 2nd Annual Report of the Directors of the Hudson River Railroad is dated August 1849 <br /> The New York & Harlem Railroad NY&H was incorporated in 1831 to build a line in Manhattan from 23rd Street north to 129th Street between Third and Eighth Avenues the railroad chose to follow Fourth Avenue. At first the railroad was primarily a horsecar system but in 1840 the NY&H's charter was amended to allow it to build north toward Albany. In 1844 the rails reached White Plains and in January 1852 the NY&H made connection with the Western Railroad later Boston & Albany at Chatham New York creating a New York-Albany route. The Hudson was a busy river and the towns along it felt no need for a railroad - except during the winter when ice prevented navigation. Poughkeepsie interests organized the Hudson River Railroad in 1847. <br /> <br /> 8vo 24 page pamphlet. Printed paper wrappers one folding sheet of statistics tipped-in. Ex-lib with Hamilton College Library stamp and catalog numbers at front cover and slt foxing internally o/w very good. A fascinating first look at the Hudson River Rail line with the progress to date" now about 3000 men working between this city and Poughkeepsie the most of them between the city and Breakneck hill." p2. Van Norden unknown
194920.809Santander: Imp. de la Librería Moderna 1949 -1962. 1ª ed. Tela verde con títulos dorados en los lomos. 12.5x17.5. Firma de y ex-libris de anterior propietario. Alguna huella de óxido en algunos tomos pero buenos ejemplares Imp. de la Librería Moderna hardcover
1900ST17635London and New York: Ernest Nister; E. P. Dutton & Co ca. 1900. 194 x 125 mm. 7 5/8 x 4 7/8". 304 pp.Adapted for English readers by L. L. Weedon. <br/> EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO BY RIVIERE & SON stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in covers with gilt-ruled border and panel the panel corners each with two tulips stems on ground stippled in gilt raised bands one compartment with gilt titling the others densely gilt with three tulip stems on ground stippled with gilt and within a curving gilt-ruled border gilt ruled turn-ins with gilt tulips and stippling at each corner red watered silk pastedowns and endleaves all edges gilt. With frontispiece seven plates several in text-illustrations and head- and tailpieces by T. H. Robinson. AN ALMOST PERFECT COPY the binding especially lustrous and virtually pristine internally.<br/> <br/> This is a beautifully bound English translation of a popular German historical romance set in 16th century Württemberg. Inspired by the novels of Sir Walter Scott poet and novelist Wilhelm Hauff 1802-27 set his tale in Swabia during the reign of Duke Ulrich 1487–1550 a volatile nobleman dubbed "the Swabian Henry VIII" for his scandalous exploits. The novel appeared in German in 1826 just a year before the author's untimely death from typhoid and was a huge success. Duke Ulrich's descendant Duke Wilhelm of Ulrach was so taken with the story that he restored the eponymous Lichtenstein Castle. With prominent gilt blossoms against a stippled ground our especially pretty Riviere binding is done in the style of the Doves workshop which was flourishing under the direction of Thomas J. Cobden-Sanderson at the time of publication. The long-lived Riviere firm began with Robert who set up as a bookseller and binder in Bath in 1829 then established a bindery in London in 1840; in 1881 he took his grandson Percival Calkin into partnership at which time the firm became known as Riviere & Son; the bindery continued to do business until 1939 when it merged with Baytun of Bath. Rivere's work has consistently been of the highest standard throughout its long years of operation. The binding here is little changed since the day it left the workshop and the glossy brilliant white leaves of the text look like new. Ernest Nister; E. P. Dutton & Co unknown
1927ST16866hLondon and New York: Macmillan Co 1927. 191 x 127 mm. 7 1/2 x 5". xxxvi 306 pp.Preface by Austin Dobson. <br/> CHARMING CONTEMPORARY FAWN-COLORED PICTORIAL CRUSHED MOROCCO BY RIVIERE & SON covers with frame formed by multiple gilt rules with onlaid green dot cornerpieces and gilt festoons at head and tail of frame central PICTORIAL INLAY IN FOUR COLORS depicting a vicar pontificating and in front of him as an indication of shadow thin penwork lines inscribed into the morocco; raised bands spine gilt in French fillet compartments with central gilt patera wide gilt-framed turn-ins with ribbon cornerpieces leather hinges marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In a linen-covered slipcase. With frontispiece and 181 illustrations in the text by Hugh Thomson. ◆Spine very slightly and uniformly sunned toward a butterscotch color but A VERY FINE COPY the text clean fresh and bright and the lustrous appealing binding with only the most insignificant wear.<br/> <br/> This copy of Goldsmith's classic is delightful enhanced by the appealing illustrations of Thomson and the book's charming pictorial cover. Riviere is one of the foremost names in English binding partly because the firm did consistently fine work and partly because it was so long in business. Robert Riviere began as a bookseller and binder in Bath in 1829 then set up shop as a binder in London in 1840; in 1881 he took his grandson Percival Calkin into partnership at which time the firm became known as Riviere & Son and the bindery continued to do business until 1939. <br /> <br /> Written in 1761-62 but not published until four years later "The Vicar of Wakefield" was said to have been rescued from some of Goldsmith's unpublished manuscripts by Dr. Johnson who thus saved the penniless author from debtors' prison by selling it to a publisher for £60. Considered to be the masterpiece of the middle-class domestic novel the "Vicar" has never gone out of style because its whimsically delineated characters have a delightful simplicity that somehow insulates them against ultimate misfortune and the innocent and virtuous are rewarded as they should be in the end. Macmillan Co unknown
1949231021949. Environmental Policy Glen Canyon Archive of federal and regional Colorado River Basin materials documenting how the river was successively treated as scenic terrain engineered water infrastructure and regulated recreation landscape across the mid twentieth century. The group centers on Glen Canyon and the broader basin as federal agencies development planners and conservation advocates advanced competing uses for the river. Engineering maps government surveys construction photographs ecological advocacy newsletters and environmental planning documents establish the process by which canyon landscapes were converted into measurable storage systems dam sites recreation zones and administratively managed federal space.<br /> <br /> Colorado River Basin with material tied to Arizona Utah and the broader American West. 1946-1979 Archive of 26 items including 3 engineering maps 4 press silver gelatin photographs 15 issues of Peak and Prairie Sierra Club Rocky Mountain Chapter newsletter 1 Colorado River Storage Project pamphlet 2 government publications and 1 National Park Service NEPA circulation letter. Visible material includes contour maps and storage-capacity graphs reducing canyon topography to projected reservoir form; black-and-white press photographs showing Glen Canyon Dam under construction diversion tunnels excavation and early recreation on Lake Powell; and printed federal planning documents focused on road systems zoning wilderness recommendations and recreational use after inundation.<br /> <br /> 1 A Survey of the Recreational Resources of the Colorado River Basin. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service 1950; compiled from 1946 fieldwork. Government publication establishing a pre-dam baseline for the basin's scenic and recreational assessment. The volume includes 13 folded maps in the rear pocket charting river corridors proposed reservoirs and basin-wide topography preserving a record of landscapes later submerged or reclassified under postwar development plans.<br /> <br /> 2 Engineering maps for Boulder Canyon and Dewey Dam sites. Circa mid twentieth century. Three technical maps converting river terrain into contour lines section views and storage curves for projected impoundment and control. Their emphasis on capacity grade and reservoir profile shows the bureaucratic and engineering language through which the basin entered federal planning systems.<br /> <br /> 3 Press silver gelatin photographs of Glen Canyon Dam construction and early Lake Powell use. Circa 1960-1966. Four press photographs showing dam works within the canyon including diversion tunnels excavation concrete placement and recreational boating on the new reservoir. Verso captions from the Bureau of Reclamation and Associated Press cite "more than one million cubic yards of concrete" and the "pouring of first concrete for the dam proper" linking the images to federal publicity and construction chronology.<br /> <br /> 4 Colorado River Storage Project. Bureau of Reclamation pamphlet. Mid twentieth century. Public-facing promotional publication presenting the storage project as a large-scale federal development program for water control and regional growth. Its language praises Glen Canyon Dam as "one of the great dams of the world" making clear the official rhetoric used to justify transformation of the river through reclamation policy.<br /> <br /> 5 Peak and Prairie. Sierra Club Rocky Mountain Chapter newsletter. Fifteen issues early 1970s. Regional environmental newsletters reporting on conservation campaigns and debates over western energy water and land use. Within this group the newsletters supply contemporaneous advocacy evidence that federal river development was being contested in organized print networks rather than treated as a settled engineering program.<br /> <br /> 6 Glen Canyon National Recreation Area: Proposed General Management Plan / Road Study Alternatives / Final Environmental Statement. National Park Service July 1979. Federal planning document setting out zoning road alternatives and wilderness recommendations for the recreation area created after completion of the dam. In contrast to the earlier survey and engineering material this document shows Glen Canyon as a managed recreational and environmental jurisdiction governed through formal planning categories.<br /> <br /> 7 National Park Service circulation letter citing Section 1022c of the National Environmental Policy Act. 1979. Official letter announcing distribution of the final environmental statement and inviting public comment. The document provides direct evidence of the procedural side of late twentieth century environmental governance in which major federal land-use decisions required circulation review and recorded administrative response.<br /> <br /> Across the group the 1950 survey preserves the basin before inundation the engineering maps and construction photographs record its conversion into infrastructure and the 1970s Sierra Club and National Park Service material shows subsequent conflict and regulation after Glen Canyon Dam's completion in 1964. The archive therefore documents a shift in federal treatment of the Colorado River Basin from scenic and recreational appraisal to industrial water control and then to environmental review under NEPA-era law.<br /> Handling wear across materials; photographs retain strong contrast with legible captions; maps with expected fold lines; bindings intact. Overall very good condition. A concentrated documentary group on the administrative visual and environmental remaking of the Colorado River Basin in the postwar American West. unknown
177148726Madrid: por D. Joachin Ibarra 1771. Small folio pp. 4 lvi 143 1; engraved vignette title page; bound with: Jordán de Assó y del Río Ignacio & Miguel Manuel y Rodríguez El ordenamiento de leyes que D. Alfonso XI hizo en las Cortes de Alcalá de Henares el año de mil trescientos y quarenta y ocho. Publícanlo con notas. Madrid: Ibarra 1774 pp. 2 xxxiv 158 2; woodcut vignette on title page tail-pieces; decorative initial. Laws statutes etc. of the Kingdom of Castile in Spain. Miguel Manuel y Rodríguez of Seville was one of the great historians of Spain in the 18th century and he was also the first librarian of the Colegio Imperial de Madrid. Together with Dr. Ignacio Jordán de Asso y Rio a Spanish historian jurist and naturalist who was also known under the pseudonym Melchor de Azagra they published these two works dedicated to Spanish law: the first on the Charter Viejo de Castilla; and the second El Ordenamiento de Leyes in which they deal with the system of laws that Don Alfonso XI made in the courts of Alcala de Henares in the year 1348 here published with notes and an accounting of the Kingdom of Castile. Palau 18725 and 18726 respectively. Lasala 287 and 345 respectively. por D. Joachin Ibarra unknown
178059007but actually London: William Strahan 1780. Folio broadsheet 17½" x 11"; 3 horizontal folds the paper a bit dusty else very good. With its original separately printed title leaf folded into a wrap-around sleeve. In January 1776 Captain Bromedge wrote to Vice Admiral Schuldham regarding his boarding of the ship Boston Packet and his suspicion that they were carrying stores to the enemy. "I am informed by the crew of the Boston Packet that the Master declared repeatedly on the Passage that could he make Cape Codd he would go in there and land his cargo or could he make Cape Ann he did not fear meeting with some of his Friends to carry him into Beverly or Salem" see Naval Documents of the American Revolution Vol III p. 1005 for the full text of his letter. Regarding this and similar allegations Vice Admiral Graves issued the orders printed here specifically pertaining to the Boston Packet: "You are to seize and detain all Ships and Vessels belonging to the Inhabitants of the four New England Provinces and to send them to Boston." On the verso is printed Rear Admiral Schuldham's confirmation of Graves' order "the probability of these stores being smuggled away to the Enemy.makes me think it highly proper that they should be detained." In effect this is a Letter of Marque issued during the Revolutionary War but pertaining only to a particular class of merchant ships and to two vessels in particular one of which was the Boston Packet. Rare. OCLC shows only the John Carter Brown holding a copy. With manuscript additions dating the document September 1775 and addressing it to Captain Bromadge. ESTC also locates a copy at the BL. unknown
2008ART-1-13067Hudson River Museum 2008-09-27. perfect. Acceptable. 9x7x0. Has some creasing on the spine and some light bends. Customer service is our goal! Hudson River Museum unknown
1955181250Nanjing: Gangwu ju ganghang jiandu c.1955. A revolution on the river A scarce handbook unrecorded institutionally issued by the Nanjing port authorities after the 1955 modernization of signals in the 1000-kilometre lower Yangtse. The charts and tables give information on every light as well as distances wind signals and anchorages for shelter tides and traffic control markers. Between 1953 and 1955 the government oversaw changes along the entire stretch of the river introducing Soviet-style systems and for the first time making the whole of the middle and lower stretches safely navigable at night. Octavo. Text in Chinese signals printed in colour. Original blue cloth wallet binding with popper clasp front cover lettered in silver contents unfolding concertina-style including charts of channel diagrams and tables. Light toning occasional foxing: near-fine. hardcover
1713988F17London: John Morphew 1713 . First edition. Hardback. Good. 7.5" by 5". None. The first edition of this fascinating criticism and response to the critiques levelled against Queen Anne by Richard Steele in his periodical 'The Guardian'. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this work.Presented as "a letter from a Country Whig to Mr. Steele" this work replies to criticisms published in The Guardian of Queen Anne.The author defends the Queen"s honour and prerogative against what the author calls the "unexampled insolence" of The Guardian"s author Richard Steele.ESTC N8361Rebound with endpapers renewed.Most frequently erroneously attributed to Mary de la Riviere Manley some have claimed this may be the work of Daniel Defoe though this has been widely discredited. Rebound half morocco binding with marbled paper covered boards and endpapers renewed. Externally bright with rubbing to back strip and front board. Minor loss to back strip head with head of front joint starting and board holding firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages significantly age toned due to paper type with light spotting and handling marks throughout. Good John Morphew hardcover
41051501China n.d. ca 1900.A group of nineteen sepia-toned original photographs each about 15.5 x 11 cm. many with captions or titles in ink some have corner numbers in the negative all very clean bright clear strong images. VERY RARE SET ! . . . AN EARLY COLLECTION OF SEPIA-TONED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS . . . SHOWING THE CHIANG-JIANG YANGTSE RIVER & ENVIRONS . . This is a lovely early collection of genuine and original photographs of the Yangtze River and the gorges. . The English speaking foreigner who took these photographs put titles and captions on many. It begins with a voyage up the Yangtze River with the first date on December 16 1900 and continuing photographs through December 19 23-25th. . Each photo is mounted on a card likely extracted from an old photo album some cards have two images one on each side. . Captions are: 1. 2 Photos: "December 16th S.S. Kiang Ho arrived at Ichang arrived Ichang December 19th." and the verso: "H.M.S. Kinsha at Ichang." The 2nd image looks like a postcard or something other than a matching glossy photo the size is 14 x 8 cm. with hand written caption. . 2. 2 Photo views of "Shin Tan" anchorage & rapids . 3. 2 Photos: "December 24th Tung Ding Gorge" & "Christmas Day" 1900 "Shin Tan rapids." . 4. 1 Photo: "UP THE YANGTSE' . 5. 2 Photos: "THE FIRST GORGE" with '664' hand written on the negative. And verso blank no caption shows rocky mountain shore line. . 6. 2 Photos: "December 23rd the Padunzai Rapid" shows several junks & boats at anchorage with people looking on. Verso shows "December 23 rd" other small vessels and boat haulers along the shore. This second photo has a touch of fading at the center upper portion could be sunlight over exposure balance no issues. . 7. 2 Photos: "Tung Ding Rapid" shows river going large vessel with oars. Verso shows mountainous shore line with river junk. . 8. 2 Photos: No captions on either. First shows the river with three boats and steep shore line mountains. Verso shows large rock formation on diagonal entering the river. . 9. 2 Photos: First no caption but has hand written negative number '574' showing a tall pagoda on diagonal rock formation entering the river "Pa Ling" lightly written in lower right pencil. Verso shows river at low tide and a tiny river boat lower right corner pencil "Kwei Fu Gorge." . 10. 2 Photos: "Treking up Shin Tan." A dramatic view of two river vessels under sail both attached with long ropes and teams of coolies hauling the boats up against the stream. Verso pencil in lower right corner: " Isubau Gorge." H.M.S. Kinsha at Ichang a lovely steam paddle wheeler. First gorge Up the Yangtze trekking up Shin Tau Shin Tau Rapid Tung Ling Rapid & Gorge Padunzai Rapid &c. . SIZE Each photo is 15.4 x 10.8 cm. varying to about 15 x 11 cm. and slight other variant sizes similar to above. . Board sizes vary even though the photos are about standard size. Ranging from largest: 25.2 x 20.8 cm. smallest: 19.3 x 26.4 cm. . Color photos are posted to our website. . CONDITION: These are original glossy photographs each gently laid down some edges not fastened firmly a couple of loose or folds on edges. All clean vivid good focus no obvious fading a couple of the usual and typical less than perfect 'development' spots. By and large an excellent group of photographs developed most likely in China a souvenir of a foreign person's trip 1900down the river. Far and above the average photograph quality of this early period. . RARITY: Original early dated photos of the Yangtze river are RARE and seldom found during this period. Even rarer are photographs with captions and dates. Nicely done fascinating work. . . unknown
1844ST20685-2London: T. C. Newby 1844. FIRST EDITION. 170 x 102 mm. 6 3/4 x 4". 1 p.l. xiii 3 205 1 pp. 1 leaf ads.Preface by Charles Dickens. <br/> VERY PLEASING GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO BY RIVIERE & SONS stamp-signed on front turn-in covers framed with gilt rules densely tooled cornerpieces with floral sprigs on a stippled ground raised bands spine panels lavishly gilt with a starburst of floral tools emanating from a central medallion all on a stippled ground gilt lettering turn-ins gilt ruled with floral garlands at the corners all edges gilt original tan cloth wrappers bound in at rear. Title page printed in blue and red. Eckel pp. 146-47; Podeschi B-121. Sheila M. Smith "John Overs to Charles Dickens: A Working-Man's Letter and Its Implications" Victorian Studies 18 no. 2 1974: 195–217. Spine just slightly sunned though hard to tell because of the heavy gilt a few trivial spots internally but A VERY FINE COPY in quite a pretty binding.<br/> <br/> This attractively bound volume of a working class poet's verse and prose represents one of Dickens' charitable efforts in the spirit of social reform. A carpenter by trade John Overs 1808-44 had become acquainted with Dickens in 1839 when he submitted poetry for publication in "Bentley's Miscellany" then under Dickens' editorship. Over the next several years Dickens became a literary mentor and something of a friend to Overs providing writing advice lending books and helping Overs to secure a position at Drury Lane Theatre when his tuberculosis became too severe to continue his work as a carpenter. Literary scholar Sheila M. Smith has suggested that Overs may have served as an influence for "The Chimes" Dickens' penultimate Christmas book; she writes that Overs "was neither a political agitator nor a trade unionist. . . yet he was bitter and exulting in the idea of social revolution. A working man of this kind goaded to such feelings would have aroused Dickens's sympathy at a period when the novelist was experiencing his most violent indignation about his country's poor." To whatever degree that sympathy proved a literary inspiration for Dickens it directly led to the publication of the present work. When it was clear by the spring of 1844 that Overs would not survive his illness Dickens suggested to him that he publish a collection of his writings to help provide for his family after his passing. And so the present anthology was published only months before Overs' death on September 28 1844 with the proceeds from the book along with an additional charitable collection taken up by the publisher allowing his widow to make a living by opening a small milliner's shop. T. C. Newby unknown
1820C8881xvi17-340 pages with frontispiece and diagrams. Octavo 8" x 5" bound in half leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Translated from the Italian of Ercole dal Rio by J S Bingham. To which is prefixed an Essay on the origin of the game by Eyles Irwin. Whyld: 1820:14<br /><br />Translated from <i>Il guioco incomparablile degli schcchi</i> 1769 by Ponziani here erroneously attributed to Ercole del Rio. J S Bingham is a pseudonym of Captain John Smith RN "Quotes and queries" <i>British Chess Magazine</i> November 1978 page 523. Irwin's "Essay on the origin of the game is a paper on Chinese chess cited as <i>Whyld</i> 1795:3.<br /><br />Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani was an 18th-century Italian law professor priest chess player composer and theoretician. He is best known today for his chess writing. Ponziani was friends with fellow Modenese chess players and writers Ercole del Rio and Giambattista Lolli and collectively the trio are known as the Modenese Masters. In 1769 Ponziani published the first edition of <i>Il giuoco incomparabile degli scacchi The Incomparable Game of Chess</i>. As Ponziani did not include his name in the work <i>Opera d'Autore Modenese</i> it was identified to the Anonymous Modenese. The second edition in 1782 was much improved and laid out the principles of the Italian school of chess as exemplified by 17th-century Italian masters such as Gioachino Greco. Although Ponziani identified himself in the second edition the 1820 translation by English naval officer J. B. Smith using the pen name J. S. Bingham <i>The Incomparable Game of Chess</i> attributed the work to del Rio. Ponziani's work is the best practical guide produced by the Modenese Masters. Like writings by del Rio and Lolli Ponziani deals only with the opening and endgame with no discussion of the middlegame. Murray H. J. R. 1913 <i>A History of Chess</i><br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />End papers renewed former owners solutions to problems tipped in at gutter next to problems. Point rubbed with some rubbing to boards. A very good copy of a scarce item. J J Stockdale hardcover
1820BOOKS008881xvi17-340 pages with frontispiece and diagrams. Octavo 8" x 5" bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Translated from the Italian of Ercole dal Rio by J S Bingham. To which is prefixed an Essay on the origin of the game by Eyles Irwin. Whyld: 1820:14 First English edition.Translated from Il guioco incomparablile degli schcchi 1769 by Ponziani here erroneously attributed to Ercole del Rio. J S Bingham is a pseudonym of Captain John Smith RN "Quotes and queries" British Chess Magazine November 1978 page 523. Irwin's "Essay on the origin of the game is a paper on Chinese chess cited as Whyld 1795:3.Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani was an 18th-century Italian law professor priest chess player composer and theoretician. He is best known today for his chess writing. Ponziani was friends with fellow Modenese chess players and writers Ercole del Rio and Giambattista Lolli and collectively the trio are known as the Modenese Masters. In 1769 Ponziani published the first edition of Il giuoco incomparabile degli scacchi The Incomparable Game of Chess. As Ponziani did not include his name in the work Opera d'Autore Modenese it was identified to the Anonymous Modenese. The second edition in 1782 was much improved and laid out the principles of the Italian school of chess as exemplified by 17th-century Italian masters such as Gioachino Greco. Although Ponziani identified himself in the second edition the 1820 translation by English naval officer J. B. Smith using the pen name J. S. Bingham The Incomparable Game of Chess attributed the work to del Rio. Ponziani's work is the best practical guide produced by the Modenese Masters. Like writings by del Rio and Lolli Ponziani deals only with the opening and endgame with no discussion of the middlegame. Murray H. J. R. 1913 A History of ChessCondition:End papers stained previous owner's old signature on front end paper. Spine renewed with original spine label to spine. Points rubbed and bumped some soiling to else a very good copy of a scarce item. J J Stockdale hardcover
1957mon0000043002Holt Rinehart and Winston 1957. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Inscribed by previous owner. Some writing. Weak Hinges Well worn. Worn cover edges. Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover
1653801London : Printed for Henry Eversden at the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard 1657. Hardcover. Used-Very Good. Small 4to. 20 236 257-267 278-417 6 pp. Collation: pi4 a6 B-Gg4 Hh2 Ll-Fff4 Fff3. Two folding plates. Expertly rebound preserving much of the original blind-ruled leather covers; spine and board corners are new. Spine is decorated in blind. Some general age-toning in the text but always very legible. Like the copy in the Univ. of Bristol Library the source text for online editions this copy has continuous text in spite of some oddities in pagination. Compared to that copy however it does have one additional blank leaf at the end. Two ownership inscriptions one the earlier in several places. A very good copy of an uncommon work the first English version of Riviere's treatise. London : Printed for Henry Eversden at the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard, 1657 hardcover
18726400London: F. Harvey 1872. Second edition. Number 6 of 50 copies printed. Small quarto 8 1/4 x 6 inches; 210 x 152 mm. ii blank vi 160 i 3 blank. Etched half-title drawing by William M. Thackeray. Five full-page etchings on india paper by George Cruikshank. Bound ca. 1920 by Rivière & Son stamp signed on verso of front endpaper in full dark blue crushed levant morocco. Both covers richly decorated in gilt with triple borders each surrounding one hundred and seventy nine floral tools in a geometric design; spine with five raised bands richly decorated and lettered in gilt with the same floral tools; double-ruled gilt board edges decorative turn-ins all edges gilt. Front and rear outer joints repaired.<br /> <br /> "Sir William Fraser 1816-1898 was a genealogist archivist and Scottish historian. Trained as a solicitor his professional involvement with peerage cases began a lifetime of research into the genealogy of Scotland's most prominent landed families" Edinburgh University Library. His Colia's Whispers is a collection of poetry inflected by Victorian tastes for historicism and revivalist styles. The text is accompanied by five George Cruikshank etching on India paper are five out of eight compartments of a large plate etched by G.C. for Sir William Fraser in 1870 for Poems by the Knight of Morar. "Only fifty numbered copies were issued of this edition and consequently it is scarce" Cohn. George Cruikshank 1792-1878 was one of the most famous British caricaturists and illustrators during the Regency period. He would form a friendship with Charles Dickens illustrating many of his books and later in life would be active in the temperance movement. <br /> <br /> "The Riviere Bindery was one of the most notable and prolific shops in London's West End from about 1840 through 1939" Princeton. Bath-based Bayntun Bindery acquired the firm in 1939 transforming into the "Bayntun-Riviere bindery" which is still in existence and family owned. F. Harvey unknown
18356796London: Taylor and Hessey and Edward Moxon 1835. First edition and second edition. Fine. Lamb's Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia finely bound by Riviere & Son in full dark brown morocco with a dark green morocco pull-off case. Two volumes octavo. vi 341; xiii 295 pp. complete. Elaborate gilt spines in six compartments with raised bands. Gilt rule to boards and gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Teal coated endpapers. Small twentieth-century bookseller's ticket to lower flyleaves. A Fine fresh set in a beautiful binding.<br /> <br /> First edition second issue of Essays of Elia with both the Fleet Street and Waterloo addresses in the imprint bound without the terminal publisher's ads. Second edition of Last Essays of Elia which was first published by Edward Moxon in 1833.<br /> <br /> Lamb's accessible and conversational essays were published under the pseudonym Elia inspired by an Italian man that Lamb had known at the South Sea House and had appeared serially in The London Magazine between 1820 and 1825. Despite his struggles with mental illness Charles Lamb 1775 - 1834 would be celebrated for his literary contributions producing a range of material from essays to poems. Lamb belonged to an active literary circle which included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Fine. Taylor and Hessey [and] Edward Moxon unknown
1710252472London: John Morphew 1710. Second edition of vol. I first edition of vol. II. Frontispiece in vol. I. ii vi 246; xvi 380 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary panelled calf vol. I rebacked preserving most of original black morocco label corners repaired hinges strengthened. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. Vol. II with later spine label binding rubbed. Second edition of vol. I first edition of vol. II. Frontispiece in vol. I. ii vi 246; xvi 380 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. This famous attack scandalized virtually every member of the Whig Party and led to Mrs. Manley's arrest. A friend and collaborator of Swift's she succeeded him as editor of The Examiner and exercised some influence on Defoe. ESTC N47961; ESTC T106837 John Morphew unknown
06566London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1928. A Milne Classic in a Fine Rivière Binding<br /> "Christopher Robin Is Six" - A Superb Decorative Copy<br /> <br /> MILNE Alan Alexander. Now We Are Six. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co. 1928.<br /> <br /> Fourth edition. Small octavo 7 5/16 x 4 3/4 inches; 189 x 121 mm. xi 1 blank 103 1 1 printer's imprint pp. With numerous black and white illustrations in the text.<br /> <br /> Elegantly bound ca. 1928 by Rivière & Son in full blue polished calf covers double-ruled in gilt the upper cover pictorially stamped in gilt with five charming figures from the text surrounding the title all within a fine gilt frame. Spine with five raised bands richly tooled in gilt in compartments with two red morocco labels lettered in gilt. Blue marbled endpapers all edges gilt. The original peach pictorial endpapers printed in black bound in at front and rear. Spine very slightly mellowed otherwise an exceptionally fine copy. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase.<br /> <br /> A most attractive and unusually well-preserved example of Now We Are Six the third volume in A. A. Milne's beloved Winnie-the-Pooh series published at the height of his literary partnership with Shepard. Issued two years after Winnie-the-Pooh 1926 the present volume continues the gentle poetic chronicles of Christopher Robin's imaginative world - poems that balance whimsy with a quiet often wistful awareness of childhood's passing.<br /> <br /> Shepard's illustrations - already inseparable from Milne's text by this date - appear here in their original black and white form capturing with remarkable economy the personalities of Pooh Piglet and their companions. The famous vignette of Christopher Robin "going on an adventure" appears on the cover in gilt lending this binding a particularly appropriate decorative coherence.<br /> <br /> The binding executed by Rivière & Son at the end of the 1920s is characteristic of their finest work of the period: crisp gilding harmonious proportions and a sensitive integration of illustrative motifs into the design. The retention of the original pictorial endpapers is an especially desirable feature preserving an important element of the book's first issue character within an elevated binding.<br /> <br /> A charming and highly desirable copy of one of the central works of 20th-century children's literature - both a cornerstone of the Milne canon and a beautifully presented example of English decorative binding at its best. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928 unknown
