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GIBSON, Charles Dana. LONDON. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. First edition. 18 x 12 inches, cloth-backed pictorial boards. A collection of Gibson's illustrations of London scenes and people at the turn of the last century. Remarkably well-preserved copy of this scare book. $225
BARTON, Benjamin Smith. ELEMENTS OF BOTANY: OR OUTLINES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF VEGETABLES . . . THE SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND GREATLY ENLARGED. IN TWO VOLUMES. Philadelphia: Printed for the Author. 1812 - 1814. Octavos, old leather, rubbed, one joint strengthened, inconspiciuous traces of shelf labels, bookplates of defunct library, old stamp on bottom edges, occasional foxing. xviii, 320, 320 - - 321, 321 - 324, [20]; iv, blank leaf, 110, 111 - 112, 111 - 180, 16, [21] - 44, [16], 39 -40 pages. 39 plates (all published - the title page says 40 plates, but plate 37 was never published.) The plates are "from the original drawings by Mr. William Bartram." Some plates with offset due to folding. A very good copy of a seminal work. $2000
HIND, Henry Youle. EXPLORATIONS IN THE INTERIOR OF THE LABRADOR PENINSULA, THE COUNTRY OF THE MONTAGNAIS AND NASQUAPEE INDIANS [2 VOLUMES]. London: Longman, etc., 1863. First edition. 2 volumes, old half leather with marbled boards, spines with light wear. With the bookplates of George Alfred Townsend (Eastern Shore author) showing the arch that he erected (which still stands) in Western Maryland in memory of the war correspondents of the Civil War. Complete with 2 maps & 12 striking, richly colored plates. Two plates have some marginal wear. Some moderate foxing, mostly marginal. RARE. "Based on the expedition of 1861, which Hind conducted from the Bay of Seven Islands on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, overland by the Moisie River to Hamilton Inlet on the Labrador Coast. He gives a detailed report on the topography of the country, of Montagnais, Nasquapee and other Indians; he also gives an account of the history and importance of the Labrador peninsula, of the missions (Roman Catholic, Church of England and Moravian) and of the fisheries," from a Bibliography of Canadiana, by Staton and Tremaine. $1500
FITZHERBERT, Anthony. LA GRAUNDE ABRIDGEMENT, COLLECTE PAR LE IUDGE TRESREUEREND MONSIEUR ANTHONY FITZHERBERT . . . PER CEO CORRECTE . . . NOUELMENT ANNOTE . . . [London]: Richardi Tottelli, 1577. Somewhat worn later linen, labels gone, approx. 10 X 7-1/2 inches, bookplate removed, folio 2 of part 1 repaired (no loss), last few folios lightly stained along top margins. [1], 257, 259-342, [1], 66 folios, as noted by ESTC, collation in 8s. 2 elaborate woodcut title pages, 2 colophons. In black letter law French. Of great importance in the codifying of British Common Law (which we inherited), described by DNB as "emphatically the 'Grand Abridgement,' the first serious attempt to reduce the entire law to systematic shape." A legal landmark, first published in 1514. ESTC locates 8 copies in the US: Columbia, Folger, Harvard, Huntington, U Kansas, U Minn., U Texas & Yale. $3000
BELL, Charles. A SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS, EXPLAINING THE COURSE OF THE NERVES. London: Printed by C. Whittingham for T. N. Longman, etc., 1803. 11 x 9 inches. (4), 49 pages, plus advt. leaf. One marginal repair using paper. Nine plates, two of which are folding. Old ink stain affecting margin of pages 9 - 11. Light damp-stain to a few page corners. Overall, a very nice copy, attractively rebound in modern cloth-backed marbled boards with a paper title label on front cover. Sir Charles Bell, (1744 - 1842), was the discoverer of distinct functions of the nerves. Knighted for his contributions to medical science, he was also a Fellow of the Royal Society and a professor of surgery at Edinburgh. (See DNB). $1750
FAULKNER, William. DOCTOR MARTINO AND OTHER STORIES. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1934. Black and red cloth, stamped in gold, 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 1/360 signed by Faulkner on limitation page. Top edge black. Pages untrimmed. The top half of the spine shows fading which is common with this printing of the book, but the lettering is still bright. A very good + copy. $1250
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