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1860382AG1860. England c. 1860. Original autograph. Beautifully framed. The frames with the photographs inside measure: 50cm x 40 cm The frame with the vintage autograph is slightly smaller: 47 cm x 42 cm. Excellent condition. The only existing autograph of Fox Talbot on the international market at the time of cataloging. Very rare ! William Henry Fox Talbot 11 February 1800 17 September 1877 was a British scientist inventor and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. His work in the 1840s on photomechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process the precursor to photogravure. He was the holder of a controversial patent which impacted the early development of commercial photography in Britain. He was also a noted photographer who contributed to the development of photography as an artistic medium. He published The Pencil of Nature 184446 which was illustrated with original salted paper prints from his calotype negatives and made some important early photographs of Oxford Paris Reading and York. Wikipedia unknown
1870165341870. Watercolour and pencil signed "Phiz" and inscribed as title. 1 vols. 7 1/4 x 13 1/4. Browne or "Phiz" was a noted illustrator of Dickens and for Punch. The present work was probably engraved for Punch about 1870 when the artist specialised in sporting cartoons. Watercolour and pencil signed "Phiz" and inscribed as title. 1 vols. 7 1/4 x 13 1/4" Cf. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting pp. 64-5 unknown books
1870165361870. watercolour and pencil signed "Phiz" and inscribed as title. 1 vols. 6 3/4 x 10. Browne was a noted illustrator of Dickens and for Punch. The present work was probably engrvaed for Punch about 1870 when the artist specialised in sporting cartoons. watercolour and pencil signed "Phiz" and inscribed as title. 1 vols. 6 3/4 x 10 unknown books
18811409565New York: E. B. Treat 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto viii 48 plates 106 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Quarter-bound in black leather and marbled paper boards. Gilt lettering and decoration on compartmentalized spine and corners. Free endpapers and paste downs marbled. Red speckling to edges of text block. Mild shelf wear on boards concentrated on spine and edges. Chipping along the hinges of spine and corners. Slight white staining on front board. Three stickers from previous owners adhered to front and back pastedowns. Reinforcements to endpapers/ Mild staining on text block concentrated on pages i-iii and 81-106. All 48 plates included. Shelved in in Case 4. George Henry Fox was one of the six founders of the American Dermatological Association and was often. This book was publisher almost a decade before before he served simultaneous terms as president of the New York County Medical Society and the New York State Medical Society. Source: The New York Times. 1409565. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. E. B. Treat hardcover
1814011940E. Cox & Son 1814. Modern quarter calf marbled boards. Old faded library ink stamp on title page; light foxing. Total of 23 plates collates complete. Collation: x 4 100 14 4 179 12 pp. 23 engraved plates. Second Edition Enlarged. Hard Cover. Very Good. E. Cox & Son Hardcover
1874431j2644New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. "Frank Vincent Jr. 1847 -1916 was an American explorer businessman and art collector. The first American citizen to publish a detailed account on Angkor while he was a guest at the court of the King of Siam he is best known for his detailed accounts of journeys through Southeast Asia and Northern Europe particularly this title". - Wikipedia/Angkor Database. Bookplate of Charles Fox Gardiner inside from board. Dr. Gardiner 1857-1947 served as a physician in the new state of Colorado. He became internationally known for his theories on the treatment of tuberculosis and wrote an acclaimed book entitled 'Doctor at Timberline' which recounted some of his extraordinary medical adventures in the wilds of Colorado. A prior owner's name and date appear in light pencil upon first blank leaf. xvi 316 4 ads p. Original bevelled emerald cloth is richly adorned in gilt and bears above-average wear and insect markings. Lacking bottom half-inch of backstip. Narrow opening to each inner joint. A worthy first edition example of this early account. ; 8vo . Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
189878088Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle 1898. Fine. Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle Paris 1898 13 x 19 cm broché First edition with no mention of deluxe paper copies. Precious signed autograph inscription from Octave Mirbeau to his friend Jules Renard. Blue pencil mark by Jules Renard on the front cover. Our copy is further enriched with the famous bookplate of Jules Renard designed and engraved by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle unknown
189318273Paris, Editions du “Mercure de France”, 1893 ; in-16 (203 mm), broché, chemise-étui (rel. mod.) ; [16] 230 pp., [1] f. blanc, photographie du poète, en frontispice, à l’époque où on l’appelait “Le magnifique”.
1891168943London: Chatto & Windus 1891. The gains have been cumbrously and expensively procured. by blundering and bad faith First edition scarce of this repost to Henry M. Stanley and condemnation of the "Scramble for Africa". "The chief reason for finding fault with this Expedition is that by exposing its blunders and ill effects something may perhaps be done to deter civilised Englishmen from ever again sanctioning or applauding such proceedings" preface. Records show only a single copy appearing at auction in the last two decades. In 1890 as the secretary of the Aborigines' Protection Society Henry Fox Bourne 1837-1909 began denouncing atrocities being committed in the Congo Free State "emerging as a fierce public critic to European territorial claims in Sub-Saharan Africa" Mitchell. Here quoting extensively from In Darkest Africa and other expedition narratives he levels charges of mendacity of motive and callousness in the face of suffering: "Stanley himself neither knows nor cares how many thousands of slaughtered natives should be added to the 311 dead Zanzibaris Soudanese and Somalis to make up the huge total of mortality incident to the methods and exploits of the Emin Relief Expedition" p. 188. Fox Bourne was nothing if not relentless: his 1903 Civilisation in Congoland elaborated on the horrendous treatment meted out to colonial subjects by the Belgian government. Provenance: with the January 1908 ownership inscription on the front free endpaper of Florence Kelsey born c.1857 the wife of Arthur Kelsey 1835-1922 an East India Company assistant surgeon who subsequently entered private practice in 1863. Loosely inserted is an early twentieth-century cigar label showing Emin Pasha. Octavo. 2 pp. publisher advertisements at end. Original light brown cloth remainder binding for the Times Book Club spine lettered in black with book club device at foot in black front board with black frame edges untrimmed. Spine toned boards lightly foxed endpapers browned text generally clean: a very good copy. Angus Mitchell Roger Casement: 16 Lives 2014. hardcover
1887998F18Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons 1887 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 6". None. Inscribed by the author to his own mother this is the very scarce first edition of Samuel Middleton Fox's entertaining science fiction novel about a society's failure to run a futuristic pleasure city. The very scarce first edition of this work complete in two volumes.Signed by the author with a presentation inscription to the half title of volume I reading 'For Mama from the Author Xmas'. The author's mother was Quaker Rachel Elizabeth Fox.This inscription additionally provides the date 1886 indicating that he inscribed this copy for his mother prior to the official publication date of 1887.A thrilling and entertaining science fiction novel anonymously authored offering 'a fairly mild-mannered Satire of high society featuring a pleasure city on the Riviera which proves too expensive to run' according to The Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction.With a publisher's catalogue to the rear of volume II.Fox only published one other novel 'George: A Story in Drab and Scarlet' in 1890. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards bright. Fading to back strips with shelf wear to back strip head and tail and bumping to back strip heads. Front hinge of volume II strained but firmly held. Author's inscription to half title of volume I. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright with spotting throughout and the odd handling mark. Very Good William Blackwood and Sons hardcover
18917927London: Chatto & Windus 1891. First edition. Fine. Original publisher's primary blue cloth gilt there are examples of remainder bindings extant octavo. Edges untrimmed 32 pp. publisher's ads at rear mostly uncut pictorial bookplate of Herbert & Sarita Ward to front pastedown. Fore-edge foxed otherwise a Fine copy with outstanding provenance. <br /> <br /> An extraordinary association copy of a noted rarity a sharp critique of the "Scramble for Africa". The copy of Herbert Ward sculptor writer and member of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He was directly under the command of Major Edmund Barttlelot at the rear column having been appointed by Stanley as a lieutenant. The infamous column features heavily in Fox Bourne's work with the entirety of chapter five dedicated to the topic. Ward and his work My Life with Stanley's Rear Guard are quoted extensively and Fox Bourne clearly makes an example of Ward's illegal and immoral behaviour. A particularly disturbing example is the case of the execution of Burgari who was initially charged with stealing food from Ward before attempting to flee. Two officers Troup and Jameson wanted the punishment to be downgraded but Ward along with Bonny and Barttlelot voted for the death penalty. <br /> <br /> Fox Bourne became secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society in 1889. He edited its journal Aborigines' Friend and lobbied for the rights of indigenous peoples and especially advocated for those in Africa. He stated that indigenous people had fundamental rights to their land their rites and their institutions. He later published Civilisation in Congo Land A Story of International Wrong-Doing in 1903 focusing on the horrendous treatment of the indigenous population by the Belgian government. Fine. Chatto & Windus unknown
182723959Newcastle: J. Hodgson 1827. First edition. Hardcover. Later brown cloth brown leather spine label lettered in gilt. Very good. xxii 2 312 pages. 23 x 15 cm. illustrated with engraved frontispiece folding table 7 plates 2 of which by Thomas Bewick and illustrations in the text. Provenance: Author to son Charles Fox with inscription dated 1830 gifted from "Mrs. Charles C. Fox dated 15 Nov. 1915. One of the most significant 18th century collections of Natural History and Ethnography. A catalogue of the museum's holdings that includes a section entitled "Utensils of Savage Nations" which includes material from New Zealand "Owhyhee and other Sandwich Islands" "Otaheite and Society Islands" George's Island the Pacific Northwest etc including material collected during Cook's voyages and a number of natural history specimens are described like the wombat illustrated the koala and the duck-billed platypus from Australia and an extensive foreign ornithological section which includes many specimens from the South Seas. Forbes lists only one copy and could find no references to this rare work. Some spotting or browning to plates and offsetting from plates to text. Interior contents fresh and clean. Rubbing to backstrip extremities. J. Hodgson hardcover
184753117London: John Murray 1847. First edition. 8vo. vii 492 pp. with 16 pp. of advertisements dated July 1846. Publisher's cloth decorated in blind and titled in gilt on the spine. Tips slightly curled and rubbed; a clean tear at the rear joint and at the spine crown have been expertly repaired and are barely noticeable. Original owner's neat signature on the front pastedown. Polymath William Henry Fox Talbot inventor of the negative/positive photographic process the photogravure printing process which afforded reproduction of images from life to ink on paper translator of Assyrian cuneiforms and etymologist of the English language here states "in giving the opinion of previous inquirers I have frequently quoted Johnson and also Thompson's Etymons of English Words. But it is evident that Johnson had no taste for etymology so that the assistance to be derived from him is usually rather meagre."<br/><br/>Limited to 500 copies. <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
18479675n.p. 1847. 1 vols. Folio. Sewn into original brown wrappers worn. 1 vols. Folio. 215 ORIGINAL SPORTING DRAWINGS. The artist from internal evidence seems to be Rev. H.L. Bennet--clearly an ardent and well-connected sportsman as most of his sketches are portraits and caricatures of well-known hunting men and women of the day many of whom are identified. These include a portrait of Lord Jersey who Nimrod called "perhaps the most elegant rider for hounds the world has ever seen" and many others. The drawings are skilfully executed and are often amusing. A unique production of one of the golden ages of British sport.<br/><br/>Including : Examples of 2 pages 7 images: Mrs. Rowley's Groom on his Compact Mare Rush Esq Farthgghoc Col. Joddsch Lord Anson's steward M-- Wyatt. J.H. Jr T.T.D.<br/><br/>Another: 2 pages; Rev. G. Loyd T.T Darke Esq. 2 others<br/><br/>Another: 2 pages; Col. Goodell 4 others Mr. Drakes Grey's horse. unknown books
188120104New York: E.B. Treat 1881. FIRST EDITION. With 48 hand-coloured photographic plates. Modern half-calf and marbled boards; interior toned with only minimal browning. A very nice copy. First edition. Like his Photographic illustrations of skin diseases published a year earlier Fox's aim was "to present a practical exposition of the subject with special reference to points of diagnosis and treatment" preface. The photographic plates produced by Harroun and Bierstadt of New York depict a wide variety of dermatologic manifestations of syphilis.<br /> <br /> Fox 1846-1937 was a professor of dermatology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York and was the longest surviving member of the six founders of the American Dermatological Association. "His contributions to dermatologic teaching were unmatched. His writings were numerous and outstanding including the first photographic atlas of skin diseases" Shelley. E.B. Treat unknown
189416452Paris, Ernest Flammarion, (1894) ; in-18 (178 x 118 mm) ; demi-maroquin rouge à coins, dos à nerfs, titre doré, couverture illustrée par Félix Vallotton conservée, tête dorée sur témoins (reliure postérieure) ; (8), 276 pp.
18479675n.p. 1847. 1 vols. Folio. Sewn into original brown wrappers worn. 1 vols. Folio. The artist from internal evidence seems to be Rev. H.L. Bennet--clearly an ardent and well-connected sportsman as most of his sketches are portraits and caricatures of well-known hunting men and women of the day many of whom are identified. These include a portrait of Lord Jersey who Nimrod called "perhaps the most elegant rider for hounds the world has ever seen" and many others. The drawings are skilfully executed and are often amusing. A unique production of one of the golden ages of British sport.<br /> <br /> Including : Examples of 2 pages 7 images: Mrs. Rowley's Groom on his Compact Mare Rush Esq Farthgghoc Col. Joddsch Lord Anson's steward M-- Wyatt. J.H. Jr T.T.D.<br /> <br /> Another: 2 pages; Rev. G. Loyd T.T Darke Esq. 2 others<br /> <br /> Another: 2 pages; Col. Goodell 4 others Mr. Drakes Grey's horse. unknown
1846468908London: Printed by Palmer and Clayton 1846. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Quarto. 4 338pp. 1 Talbotype salt print and 16 plates two of which are folded. Contemporary dark green quarter morocco and cloth over boards gilt spine. Ex-library with small date “1846†lettered by hand on spine else a clean unmarked copy. Wear to the joints and leather corners loss at head of spine about an inch bottom compartment of spine is rubbed loss at bottom right corner of title page not affecting the letterpress else very good with modest toning to the endpapers and scattered foxing. The highly sought after eighth volume of this important journal featuring William Henry Fox Talbot’s original salt print with a letterpress caption pasted underneath: “The Palace of Justice at Rouen. From Nature 1843†and a letterpress label pasted on the reverse: “Patent Talbotype or sun picturesâ€. The volume also contains sixteen other exemplary plates. A scarce copy in the original boards of “the first magazine in the world to be illustrated with a photographâ€. Gernsheim 620. Printed by Palmer and Clayton hardcover
18032175London: Printed for Thomas Cox 1803. First Edition. Quarto 10 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 275 x 225 mm. viii 100 13 explanation of plates 1 blank pp. Presentation copy from the author on a slip tipped in at the head of the title-page which reads "Mr. Pitt with best respects/from the Author". With thirteen copper-plates.<br/><br/>Contemporary half calf over marbled boards rebacked with original spine neatly laid down. Spine with green calf spine label. Label lettered in gilt. Spine tooled in gilt. Calf ruled in blind. Newer endpapers. Some mild oxidation mainly to title-page and first few leaves as well as some mild foxing to a few plates but mainly along edges. A small wormhole at the very edge of the lower margin not affecting text. Overall a very good copy.<br/><br/>"Fox's classic treatise on the teeth is the first to include explicit directions for correcting dental irregularities. It is the first work on orthodontics"--Garrison-Morton 3679.<br/><br/>"In the spring of 1799 Fox began a course of lectures on the teeth to students at Guy's and he continued as a lecturer there until his death. This was certainly the first series of lectures specifically on dentistry to be given in Britain and probably in the world. On them he based his two books The Natural History of the Human Teeth 1803 and The History and Treatment of the Diseases of the Teeth 1806 which were the first important dental works in English to have illustrations of operative dental procedures and of pathological dental conditions. Fox was also the first to give specific instructions for the correction of irregularities of the teeth. There were three English editions of his works two American editions and a French translation by Lemaire. These works were the first true textbooks on dentistry for students and practitioners and for the next fifty years they were the most quoted ones in the English-speaking world." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.<br/><br/>Garrison and Morton 3679. Norman Library 825. Printed for Thomas Cox unknown books
180367960First Edition Of The First Work On Orthodontics FOX Joseph. The Natural History of the Human Teeth. Including a Particular Elucidation of the Changes Which Take Place During the Second Dentition and Describing the Proper Mode of Treatment to Prevent Irregularities of the Teeth. To Which is Added An Account of the Diseases Which Affect Children During the First Dentition. Illustrated with Thirteen Copper-Plates. London: Printed for Thomas Cox 1803. First Edition. Quarto 10 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 275 x 225 mm. viii 100 13 explanation of plates 1 blank pp. Presentation copy from the author on a slip tipped in at the head of the title-page which reads "Mr. Pitt with best respects/from the Author". With thirteen copper-plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards rebacked with original spine neatly laid down. Spine with green calf spine label. Label lettered in gilt. Spine tooled in gilt. Calf ruled in blind. Newer endpapers. Some mild oxidation mainly to title-page and first few leaves as well as some mild foxing to a few plates but mainly along edges. A small wormhole at the very edge of the lower margin not affecting text. Overall a very good copy. "Fox's classic treatise on the teeth is the first to include explicit directions for correcting dental irregularities. It is the first work on orthodontics"--Garrison-Morton 3679. "In the spring of 1799 Fox began a course of lectures on the teeth to students at Guy's and he continued as a lecturer there until his death. This was certainly the first series of lectures specifically on dentistry to be given in Britain and probably in the world. On them he based his two books The Natural History of the Human Teeth 1803 and The History and Treatment of the Diseases of the Teeth 1806 which were the first important dental works in English to have illustrations of operative dental procedures and of pathological dental conditions. Fox was also the first to give specific instructions for the correction of irregularities of the teeth. There were three English editions of his works two American editions and a French translation by Lemaire. These works were the first true textbooks on dentistry for students and practitioners and for the next fifty years they were the most quoted ones in the English-speaking world." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Garrison and Morton 3679. Norman Library 825. HBS 67960. $3500 Printed for Thomas Cox hardcover books
1803121495London: Printed for Thomas Cox 1803. First edition of the first work on orthodontics. Quarto bound in full leather with morocco spine label lettered in gilt five raised bands to the spine stamped ruling to the panels illustrated with thirteen copper plates. From The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine with Norman's bookplate to the pastedown. In near fine condition. An exceptional example with noted provenance. "Here English dental surgeon Joseph Fox discusses the major causes of malocclusion in the permanent teeth and described his method of correcting these by means of a fixed metal band and silk ligatures. Fox's orthodontics marked a great improvement over the method of Fauchard and Bourdet and his system of treatment found favour for nearly half a century" Norman. "Fox's classic treatise on the teeth is the first to include explicit directions for correcting dental irregularities" Garrison-Morton. Printed for Thomas Cox hardcover books
1803218202London: Thomas Cox 1803. hardcover. very good. The Natural History of the Human Teeth Including a Particular Elucidation of the Changes which Take Place during the Second Dentition. viii 100pp followed by 13 copper plate engarvings. London: Thomas Cox 1803. AND: The History and Treatment of the Diseases of the Teeth the Gums and the Alveolar Processes with the Operations which they Respectively Require. iv 170pp followed by 9 copper plate engravings lightly foxed and stained. 4to with wide margins bound in full diced calf well-rubbed but sound. London: Thomas Cox 1806.<br/><br/> Landmark work on orthodontics. Two classical treatises by the pioneering London dental surgeon. Fox was first to give explicit directions for correcting dental irregularities as well as instructions for various surgical procedures. Weinberger History of Dentristry Vol. I; pp. 340-4. In 1799 Joseph Fox pupil of John Hunter received the appointment of dental surgeon to Guy's Hospital the first hospital to add a dental surgeon to its staff and the first to institute a special course of dental lectures. GM 3679; 3671.1. Campbell 54 and 59.<br/><br/> Thomas Cox unknown books
1803218202London: Thomas Cox 1803. hardcover. very good. The Natural History of the Human Teeth Including a Particular Elucidation of the Changes which Take Place during the Second Dentition. viii 100pp followed by 13 copper plate engarvings. London: Thomas Cox 1803. AND: The History and Treatment of the Diseases of the Teeth the Gums and the Alveolar Processes with the Operations which they Respectively Require. iv 170pp followed by 9 copper plate engravings lightly foxed and stained. 4to with wide margins bound in full diced calf well-rubbed but sound. London: Thomas Cox 1806.<br/> <br/> Landmark work on orthodontics. Two classical treatises by the pioneering London dental surgeon. Fox was first to give explicit directions for correcting dental irregularities as well as instructions for various surgical procedures. Weinberger History of Dentristry Vol. I; pp. 340-4. In 1799 Joseph Fox pupil of John Hunter received the appointment of dental surgeon to Guy's Hospital the first hospital to add a dental surgeon to its staff and the first to institute a special course of dental lectures. GM 3679; 3671.1. Campbell 54 and 59.<br/> <br/> Thomas Cox unknown
18393335Washington D.C.: Langtree & O'Sullivan 1839. First edition. Light foxing throughout. Otherwise in very good condition. First edition. 3 428–520. <p><br /> One of the earliest American reports on the photographic innovations by Daguerre and Talbot.<br /> <p><p><br /> This significant issue of Democratic Review includes one of the earliest American accounts of the pioneering discoveries in photography by Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot. The article "Photogenic Drawing" pp. 517–520 offers a detailed overview of Daguerre's daguerreotype process highlighting images such as a view of Paris from the Pont des Arts a crouching Venus statue and a spider magnified under a microscope. However except for the Venus photograph the other images mentioned are now lost. The section on Daguerre draws from Henri Gaucheraud's article published on January 6 1839 in La Gazette de France and Samuel F. B. Morse's report "The Daguerrotipe" from The New-York Observer April 20 1839. The article also covers Talbot's photogenic drawing referencing his "Account of the Processes employed in Photogenic Drawing" presented to The Royal Society in February 1839 and published in The Literary Gazette. <br /> <p><p><br /> This publication captures a critical moment in the early history of photography and its introduction to the American public.<br /> <p>. Langtree & O'Sullivan unknown
1806001310Paris Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Aîné 1806
