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1. Right Hon. Charles James Fox
A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second; 1808with an Introductory Chapter... To Which is Added an Appendix
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  London: Printed for William Miller, Albemarle Street; By W. Bulmer and Co., 1808 xl + 293 + cli pages of the Appendix; with a frontispiece portrait of Charles James Fox; this the large wide-margined "Royal Paper" edition measuring approx. 9 3/4" x 11 1/2"; Charles James Fox (1749-1806) British statesman, Oxford-educated, became Lord of the admiralty under North, joined Johnson's 'club', opposed North's American policy, supporting the repeal of the tea duty, wounded in a duel with William Adam, took a leading part in debates on economic reform, appointed foreign secretary, , introduced measure to reform government of India, famously, his name erased from the privy council for giving the toast "Our sovereign, the people," interviewed Buonaparte, 1802, favored Catholic emancipation and moved the abolition of the slave trade a few days before his death,  Brown leather covers, with a rebacked spine in tan leather. Black label to the top of the spine, with gilt lettering, a beautiful collectable book. Rare

2. VAN KEMPEN, N.G. and W.H. Bartlett.
The History and Topography of Holland and Belgium 1850           
By........Translated by William Gray Fearnside. 
Illustrated with Splendid Engravings From Drawings by W.H. Bartlett.
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Published in  London:  by George Virtue, nd. (1850). Tall 8vo., full contemporary morocco, raised bands, gilt compartments, gilt borders on covers, A.E.G., iv, 204pp. With 61 engraved plates (22 of Holland, 39 of Belgium), an engraved title, and a folding map. Original half letter binding, to the spine and corners, with marbled paper covering the boards. Gilt lettering and designs along the spine. RARE, and Highly Collectable. 

3. The Interests of Scotland Considered 1733
with Regard to its Police in Imploying of the Poor, its Agriculture, its Trade, its Manufactures, and Fisheries
by Patrick Lindsay
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The FIRST EDITION of Lindsay’s recommendations for the revival of the Scottish linen industry, farming, and fishing. After having served with Sir Robert Riche in his regiment of foot in Spain, Lindsay settled in Edinburgh as an upholsterer. His business was prosperous and he became dean of his guild and was elected lord provost in 1729 and 1733. From 1734-41 he was a member of Parliament for Edinburgh. He died in 1753 shortly after having been appointed the Governor of the Ile of Man. Lindsay begins by noting the terrible conditions of the poor in Scotland and the high level of unemployment and begging. He then goes on to discuss various laws in commerce (both domestic and international) which have negatively affected the state of trade in Scotland and to suggest the possibility of cultivating silk manufacture, trade with the West Indies, the linen trade, flax farming, and the fisheries within Scotland as a solution. To do this, however, he calls for government intervention and provides examples of its success in some areas of Scotland and other countries. There is also a large section about the herring trade, including a discussion of the relative merits of herring from different areas, how they taste, and their conservation.Title page missing. Hand written title on a prelim page. Contents tight. September, 1733. First Edition. Leather cover. xxxv,229pp + advert :: Vignette head and tail pieces :: 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5") :: The author [1686-1753] was the Lord Provost of Edinburgh and published this volume anonymously . Index to part one of the book with the ERRATA page after the index...RARE.

4. Instinct Displayed, 1818
In a Collection of Well-Authenticated Facts Exemplifying the Extraordinary Sagacity of Various Species of the Animal Creation.
by Priscilla Wakefield 
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 London: Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1818. 1818. Third Edition by the original publisher, Darton, Harvey, and Darton.  Rebound with half brown leather spine and corners, with marbled paper covers. Five raised bands to the spine, a very clean and Rare copy.  By the English Quaker writer and educator (and Elizabeth Fry's aunt). From her Preface, "The harmonising beauty of creation and the interesting objects it presents, have been my delight from childhood; and the enjoyments, as well as the advantages, I have received from this taste, have made me desirous of communicating it to others, by relating a few well authenticated facts of the exact coincidence of the instinctive powers with the necessities of animals ... I thought more likely to arrest the attention of the young, when combined in the form of letters, rather than a long string of detached anecdotes…." 4 x 7"; [xx] + 311 pages. Third Edition. RARE                                    

                          5. A History of British Birds;- 1903                     
by  Rev. F. O. Morris
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Revised and Brought Up To Date, With an Appendix of Recently Added Species and With Four Hundred
Plates Specially Corrected for This Edition,
and All Coloured By Hand, in Six Volumes 
      Published by John C. Nimmo, Ltd., London 1903 - Six volumes, original green cloth, triple blindstamped borders to both covers, gilt lettering to the spine of the six Vols. Illustrated by four hundred hand-coloured quarto plates. Stunning. in very fine condition.

6.  Mastrius de Meldula, 
               F. Bartholomaeus.             
Theologia Moralis. 1723
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For mentem DD. Seraphici, & Subtilis concinnata, et Disputationes in vigintiocto auctore diffused, F. Bartholomaeo Mastrio de Meldula. Ordinis Minorum Conventualium Sancyi Francisci Sacrae Theologiae Magister. Venetiis, Apud. Anthonium Mora 1723. Folio (cm. 36) ligation beautiful contemporary calligraphy on parchment with title to the spine, title in red and black, with a small copper engraved device to the title page. RARE;- Text on two col.Timbro Bibl. extinct. Beautiful specimen. Stunning condition $450

7. Arbor Omnium Opinionum Moralium, 1687
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Cassianus, a S. Elia. Arbor Omnium Opinionum Moralium, title in red and black, with device, last f. repaired, ownership entry on free end-paper, contemporary vellum-backed boards, covers paper-covered, rubbed, head of spine worn,;- Published in  Venice, by Caspar de Stortis, 1687 RARE, Beautiful Condition.

   8.  The Conspirators;        
Or, The Romance Of Military Life
by Edward Quillian
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  A 3 Vols. set, Signed by Edward Quillian. 1841. The Conspirators, or the Romance of Military Life, etc

Author: Edward QUILLINAN 
Publication Details: London, 1841.  
Physical Description: 3 vol. ; 12º. There are no other original  copies of their set to be found on the world-wide web. Original brown leather bother to spine and corners, and brown cloth to the covers. Three black labels to the spines of the 3 Vols. Three black labels to the spines of the 3 Vols. Signed by Edward Quillian. Some rubbing to the spines and corners, otherwise a very collectable set of a very RARE work.  Some rubbing to the spines and corners, otherwise a very collectable set of a very RARE work.

Edward Quillinan (12 August 1791 - 8 July 1851) was an English poet who was a son-in-law and defender of William Wordsworth and a translator of Portuguese poetry.He was born at Oporto,  Portugal, on 12 Aug. 1791, the son of Edward Quillinan, an Irishman of a good but impoverished family, who had become a prosperous wine merchant at Oporto. His mother, whose maiden name was Ryan, died soon after her son had been sent, in 1798, to England, to be educated at Roman Catholic schools. Returning to Portugal, he entered his father'sCountry House,   but this distasteful employment ceased upon the French invasion under Jean-Andoche Junot  in 1807, which obliged the family to seek refuge in England.

After spending some time without any occupation, he entered the army as a cornet  in a cavalry regiment, from which, after seeing some service at Walcheren, he passed into another regiment, stationed at Canterbury. A satirical pamphlet in verse, The Ball Room Votaries, involved him in a series of duels, and compelled him to exchange into the 3rd. Dragoon Guards,   with which he served through the latter portion of the  Peninsular War. In 1814 he made his first serious essay in poetry by publishing Dunluce Castle, a Poem, which he followed with Stanzas by the author of Dunluce Castle (1814), and The Sacrifice of Isabel (a more important effort in 1816), and Elegiac Verses addressed to Lady Brydges in memory of her son, Grey Matthew Brydges (1817).

In 1817 he married Jemima, second daughter of Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges  and subsequently served with his regiment in Ireland. In 1819 Dunluce Castle attracted the notice of Thomas Hamilton  the original "Morgan O'Doherty" of Blackwood's Magazine,  who ridiculed it in a review entitled Poems by a Heavy Dragoon. Quillinan deferred his rejoinder until 1821, when he attacked John Wilson and John Gibson Lockhart,  whom he erroneously supposed to be the writers, in his Retort Courteous, a satire largely consisting of passages fromPeter's Letters to his Kinsfolk, done into verse. The misunderstanding was dissipated through the friendly offices of  Robert Pearse Gillies, and all parties became good friends.

In 1821 Quillinan retired from the army, and settled at Spring Cottage, between Rydal and Ambleside, and thus in the immediate neighbourhood of Wordsworth, whose poetry he had long devotedly admired. Scarcely was he established there when a tragic fate overtook his wife, who died from the effects of burns, 25 May 1822, leaving two daughters. Wordsworth was godfather of the younger daughter, and he wrote an epitaph on Mrs. Quillinan. Distracted with grief, Quillinan fled to the continent, and afterwards lived alternately in London, Paris, Portugal, and Canterbury, until 1841, when he married Wordsworth's daughter, Dora Wordsworth.  The union encountered strong opposition on Wordsworth's part, not from dislike of Quillinan, but from dread of losing his daughter's society. He eventually submitted with a good grace, and became fully reconciled to Quillinan, who proved an excellent husband and son-in-law. In 1841 Quillinan published The Conspirators, a three-volume novel, embodying his recollections of military service in Spain and Portugal. In 1843 he appeared in Blackwood as the defender of Wordsworth against Walter Savage Landor, who had attacked his poetry in an imaginary conversation with Richard Porson,   published in the magazine. Quillinan's reply was a cento  of all the harsh pronouncements of the erratic critic respecting great poets, and the effect was to invalidate as a whole criticisms that might have been defensible individually. Landor dismissed his remarks as "Quill-inanities;" Wordsworth himself is said to have regarded the defence as indiscreet.

In 1845 the delicate health of his wife induced Quillinan to travel with her for a year in Portugal and Spain, and the excursion produced a charming book from her pen. In 1846 he contributed an extremely valuable article to the Quarterly Review on Gil Vincente,   the Portuguese dramatic poet. In 1847 Dora died, and four years later (8 July 1851) Quillinan himself died (at Loughrig Holme, Ambleside) of inflammation, occasioned by taking cold upon a fishing excursion; he was buried in Grasmere churchyard. His latter years had been chiefly employed in translations of Luis de Camoes' Lusiad,  five books of which were completed, and of  Alexandre Herculano's History of Portugal. The latter, also left imperfect, was never printed; the Lusiad was published in 1853 by John Adamson,  another translator of Camoen's. A selection from Quillinan's original poems, principally lyrical, with a memoir, was published in the same year by William Johnston,  the editor of Wordsworth.

Quillinan was a sensitive, irritable, but most estimable man. "All who know him," says  Southey, writing in 1830, "are very much attached to him." "Nowhere," says Johnston, speaking of his correspondence during his wife's hopeless illness, "has the writer of this memoir ever seen letters more distinctly marked by manly sense, combined with almost feminine tenderness." Matthew Arnold in his Stanzas in Memory of Edward Quillinan, speaks of him as "a man unspoil'd, sweet, generous, and humane." As an original poet his claims are of the slenderest; his poems would hardly have been preserved but for the regard due to his personal character and his relationship to Wordsworth. His version of the Lusiad, nevertheless, though wanting his final corrections, has considerable merit, and he might have rendered important service to two countries if he had devoted his life to the translation and illustration of Portuguese literatu

         9.  Torquato Tasso              
           La Gerusalemme Liberata,           
     Poema Di Torquato Tasso,
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2 Volumes      
Published by Guiseppe Molini All'insegna Di Dante, Firenze, Italy 1818 - Octavo. half leather spine and corners on the 2 VOLS. Marbled paper to the covers. Gilt lettering to the spine. . Marbled page edges, marbled eps. lxxv, 417pp, 458pp, (1) Errors/corrections. Portrait frontis in volume 1. Italian text. Ridotta a Miglior Lezione; Aggiuntovi il confronto delle varianti tratto dalle piu celebri edizioni, con note critiche sopra le medesime. Heraldic bookplate for  M. Pakenham Edgeworth, a renowned Botanist. RARE;-

10. Leland, Thomas      
The History of Ireland, 1773      
In three volumes. From the Invasion of Henry II. With a preliminary discourse on the ancient state of that Kingdom.
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. Published by J. Nourse, T. Longman, G. Robinson, and J. Johnson, London, 1773. In 3 VOLS. Original brown leather binding, marbled and highly decorated in gilt to all the covers, front and back. Spines of the 3 VOLS. are red labels with gilt lettering, and gilt decorations along the spines. In beautiful condition, RARE.

Leland, vicar of Bray, Co. Wicklow, began this history in 1768. It was published in 3 volumes in 1773, with the 3rd edition in 1774. The history contains few references to original authorities, and is in great part based upon the writings of Moryson, Ware, Cox, Harris and Carte. It discusses medieval Ireland, Irish chieftains, early government and concludes with the capitulation of Limerick in 1691.  The History Of Remarkable Events In The Kingdom Of Ireland: Exhibiting The Very Extraordinary Transactions Of Wentworth, Earl Of Strafford; Charles The First; Oliver Cromwell The Great; Charles The Second; James The Second; Butler, Earl Of Ormond; King William The Glorious Deliverer; And George Walker, Volume 1. Leland, Thomas. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: The History Of Remarkable Events In The Kingdom Of Ireland: Exhibiting The Very Extraordinary Transactions Of Wentworth, Earl Of Strafford; Charles The First; Oliver Cromwell The Great; Charles The Second; James The Second; Butler, Earl Of Ormond; King William The Glorious Deliverer; And George Walker;-
RARE, Highly Collectable;- 

11. “ Trials for Witchcraft, Sorcery, 
and Superstition in Orkney” 1835?
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No info of Publisher;- Collection of different Witch-Trials collected together in one book;- List of the Trials below..Re-bound in black cloth binding to covers;- clean a fine collectable book all in one. he oldest Pamphlet is Renwick Williams. dated 1790;- published in London by D. Brewman; and the last 1832. Highly Collectable. Rare/Scarce $1,200

1. Trial of Marable Couper, for Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Superstition;-
2. Trial of Anie Tailzeour, alias Rwna Rowa, for Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Superstition;-
3. Examination of the charges of Witchcraft, Sorcery, against Marrione Richart or Layland before the Kirk Session of Sunday;-
4. Trial of Marrione Richart or Layland for Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Superstition and Divination;- 
5. Trial of Katherine Cragie, alias Estquay, for Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Superstition;-
6. Second Trial of Katherine Cragie;-
7. Trial of Jonet Reid for Witchcraft, Charming, &c.
8. The Trial of Renwick Williams,  (Commonly called The Monster) at the Old Bailey 1790.
9. The Case of the Children of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex 1832;-

12. George Colman.
The Jealous Wife, A Comedy of five acts, with the Variations in the Manager’s Book at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane;-
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Published by  James Barker;- London 1789;- With a Prologue & the List of Dramatis Personae included;- Original brown paper covers;- 84  pages. This edition is very rare early Drury Lane  Play;- Some note in the margins, otherwise a fine copy of a highly collectable play. 1st. thus.

14. Nigger Jokes and Stump Speeches : 
being a collection of approved nigger jokes, stump speeches, conundrums, and the essence of minstrelsy.
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 Published in London & New York by Samuel French & T. Henry French 1878. Volume 2 only;- 1st. Edition. Full green leather binding, with 64 pages. Index to the front pages. Original paper cover within;- this is a very Scarce book, no other original copies to be found. Highly collectable and rare. Fine copy;-

15.  Original issue: 
Joujou and the other three trials,
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 with ten woodcuts by Joseph Quesnel, "First Collection",Editions de la Belle Page, 103 rue de Vaugirard, VI, Paris, 19

The joujou, and three other trials by Remy De Gourmont. 1926 RARE

The Joujou, and three other trials. P., La Belle Page, 1926, 16mo square, br., Cov. fig. and sub., uncut, uncut, 52 - (4) p. (M.31)

Original edition volume illustrated by 10 woodcuts by Joseph Quesnel. <* R> Contains Relics, The Anti ..., The Joujou, The Chain of Command, essays in The Flash and The Journal from 1891 to 1893. <* R> 34 One of Japan Imperial head after an ex. single, containing a series of woodcuts of old Japan in cov. printed. This one of a collaborator of 5, No. I, printed for Jean de Gourmont Census 2 copies. "This book is currently drawn ORIGINAL EDITION of 750 copies put on the market:

1 of Manufactures imperial Japan, with original drawings by Joseph Quesnel and one double suite of woodcuts of old China and Japan to form. Number 1.

29 Manufactures of imperial Japan, accompanied by a series of woodcuts on Japan in the old form, numbered 2 to 30.

50 of Madagascar on vellum, numbered from 31 to 80, and Reserved Champion at the Bookstore.

658 on Arches paper, numbered 81 to 738, plus 12 copies of the same paper, reserved for Muses-Museum for Friends of the Workshop, and numbered AAXII IAA.

More copies of 24 employees, numbered I to V (Japan), VI-X (Madagascar) and XI through XXIV (Arches):

    Remy de Gourmont is from an old family from the Cotentin, which has established a branch in Paris and founded a publishing house that published books and especially many prints and engravings. He is the son of Count Auguste-Marie de Gourmont and Countess, born Mathilde de Montfort.In 1866 the family moved to the Manor of Mesnil-Villeman, near Villedieu (Manche). Remy de Gourmont is internal to the college of Coutances from 1868 to 1876. This is an excellent student, even if he is too much imagination. In 1876 he moved to Caen, 46 Groom Street, and began studying law. In 1879 having obtained his bachelor's degree in law, he moved to Paris, first in the Rue Richer, then shortly after 41 rue d'Hauteville.

In November 1881, he obtained a job attached to the National Library. He began working in Catholic periodicals such as Le Monde or The Contemporary. Between 1882 and 1886, he published several books of popular history but with a novel, Merlette (1886), whose action is located in the country of his childhood, between Villedieu and Avranches, he made ​​his debut truly literary. The book was received with indifference.

In this same year 1886, Remy de Gourmont, who had previously mainly been interested in history and ancient literature, new research finds aesthetic of his time through the journal The Vogue of Gustave Kahn. He also met Berthe Courrière model and sole heir of the sculptor Auguste Clésinger, on which it commissioned a study to the young author who soon became her lover. She inspires her passionate letters, written during the year 1887 and to be published posthumously under the title Letters to Sistine (1921). He moved home, 71 rue des Saints-Peres, and will live there until his death.

Berthe Courrière will always dedicated to Remy de Gourmont. It inspired his novel Sixtine(1890), which fits perfectly with the multiple sensitivity of his time, and he dedicated to Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, whom he met at the National Library and became his friend. At the same time, it binds with Joris-Karl Huysmans, who will be the dedicatee of Latin mystique(1892) and will be guided by Berthe Courrière in his novel there, and frequent on Mondays from Stephane Mallarme, rue de Rome .

In 1889, Remy de Gourmont is, with Alfred Vallette, Louis Dumur, Ernest Raynaud, Jules Renard, one of the founders of the Mercure de France, which he will work for twenty-five years. This collaboration will scar the personality of the magazine, to which the name of Gourmont remains inextricably linked. In April 1891, he published an article entitled "The Joujou Patriotism" in which he argues that the deep cultural and artistic affinities between France and Germany, which should bring about a reconciliation of the two countries, are thwarted by nationalist passions; the disdainful tone of the article more likely that the thesis itself raises a controversy that led to it being removed from the National Library and close his columns most of the mainstream press, despite the efforts of his lawyer Octave Mirbeau, who still manages to get him into the Journal.

Around the same time, Gourmont is achieved by a form of lupus whose progression can be halted only by cauterization extremely painful, disfiguring and which gives his face look unsustainable. Deeply affected, he remains cloistered in his long and when it starts to get out, it is only to move the offices of Mercury, and Conde Street, once a year, for a few weeks vacation in Coutances. For him, now, no longer exist that work and books. He published almost exclusively by Mercure de France, a vast and abundant work, consisting of novels, plays, poetry collections and especially trials that show a profound erudition.

In 1910, he met Natalie Clifford Barney. She inspires great passion which breathes in theLetters to the Amazon, published in 1914. With it he agrees to go out again and even made a trip to Normandy. Locomotor ataxia but that reaches mine for several years his health. World War I plunged into a deep depression, his friends left for the Front for the most part, the Mercury closed for a year. His illness is getting worse, he walks more and more difficult. He published a few articles in newspapers such as France and La Depeche de Toulouse.

He died of a stroke Sept. 27, 1915 and is buried at Père Lachaise in the tomb of Clésinger.Berthe Courrière inherits all the manuscripts and the library of the writer, it sends the brother of it, Jean de Gourmont, when she dies in turn less than a year later. This will work for nearly ten years, to publish numerous unpublished.

DARWIN, Charles) HUXLEY, Thomas Henry, et al. Charles Darwin. Memorial Notices Reprinted from “Nature”  Published inLondon: by Macmillan, 1882. Slim octavo, Original black three quarter leather and green marbled paper. A fine copy of a collectable book.

First book edition of this collection of essays originally printed in Nature to memorialize Darwin’s death.

A compilation of essays originally printed in Nature upon the occasion of Darwin’s death including an introductory notice by Huxley, Romanes’ essay on Darwin’s life and character, Sir Geikie’s essay on his work in geology, Thiselton’s essay on his contributions to botany, and two additional essays by Romanes on Darwin’s work in both zoology and psychology.

17. Olliffe, Charles
Les alchimistes d’autrefois.
(The alchemists of old.)
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Paris, Baudry, 1842 - In-32 [100 x 55 mm] XVI, 291 pp.. Original Brown sheepskin leather with  spine tooled in gilt dishes decorated with a golden wreath, golden urn in the center. Gilt lettering to the spine;- This miniature book, 2” x 4” inches;- is very Scarce & Rare. A little history of the alchemists of old and "their successors, the chemists." The author also talks about the Rosicrucians, Nostradamus, etc.. 

The book is in a fine condition and has 291 pages and is complete and highly collectable.

18. Etrennes curious and instructive 
NATIONAL enriched figures, historical anecdotes...
Leap Year 1788
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Published in Paris, by Cailleau, [1788],  gilt edges (contemporary tan leather binding). Embossed gilt to both front and back covers. Gilt decorations to the front and back and along the spine

Frontispiece ("A perceived the Assembly of Notables, held in Versailles in February 1787") and 12 vignettes accompanying each one month of the year. Nice copy.
Interior dimensions: 96 x 58 mm.Scarce/ Rare;- Fine condition of this unusual book;-

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