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Hornbeck, Robert. ROUBIDOUX’S RANCH IN THE [18]70’s. Riverside, CA: Press Printing Company 1913. 230pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and 11 plates. Finely bound in 1/2 red calf, gilt, over black cloth (circa 1930). T.e.g. Rare history of the orchards, ranches and founding of Riverside, California. Howes H631.
Hey, Richard. A DISSERTATION ON THE PERNICIOUS EFFECTS OF GAMING… The Second Edition. Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon Printer to the University; for J. & J. Merrill et al 1784. (4),100pp. Finely rebound in antique style; full gilt tooled calf with red morocco spine label. The second edition, first is 1783. A prize winning essay at the University of Cambridge (June 1783).
Gant, Roland. MOUNTAINS IN THE MIND. Poems. With Six Wood-Engravings by Howard Phipps. Andoversford: The Whittington Press 1987. 4to. (32),(2)pp. Title & text printed in brown & black. Illustrated with 6 wood engravings by Howard Phipps (1, a frontispiece printed in color). The Special Edition limited to 40 roman numeral copies, signed on the limitation leaf by Roland Gant and Howard Phipps. It includes a set of the artist’s proofs, plus a seventh engraving not in the text. All are signed by Phipps. Red burlap, paper spine label, mounted wood engraving on front cover. The suite of the artist’s proofs is loosely housed in a matching portfolio. Both items are in the publisher’s brown cardboard slipcase. Fine.
Gilpin, William. THE LIFE OF HUGH LATIMER, BISHOP OF WORCESTER.London: Printed by Charles Rivington, for John and James Rivington 1755. (2),198,(6)pp. Index. Including 1 page of publisher’s ads. Modern marbled boards, paper label on front cover. Gilpin’s (1724-1804) biography of Hugh Latimer (1485?-1555).
Scott, Sir Walter. TALES OF MY LANDLORD, Collected and Arranged. In Four Volumes. Edinburgh: Printed for William Blackwood, and John Murray 1816. First edition, state 1 of Vol. 2. 12mo. 4 vols. With all 4 half-titles. Early 20th century 1/2 calf, gilt, red & brown morocco spine labels, over marbled boards. One label with a chip. A very nice set. The first edition of the first series of Scott’s TALES OF MY LANDLORD. One of the scarcest early novels of Scott.
[Dodsley, Robert (ed.)]. A COLLECTION OF POEMS in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. London: Printed for J. Dodsley 1770. 6 vols. Each vol. with a copper engraved headpiece and an allegorical copper engraved title-page vignette. Vol. IV with an engraved sheet of music at back. Cont. calf, worn, uniformly rebacked in 20th cent. gilt tooled tan calf with dark brown spine labels. Inner hinges reinforced with binder’s tape.
[Tickell, Richard]. ANTICIPATION: Containing the Substance of His M_____y’s Most Gracious Speech to Both H____s of P__L_____T, on the Opening of the Approaching Session, Together with a Full and Authentic Account of the Debate Which Will Take Place in the H___e of C_____s, on the Motion for the Address, and the Amendment. With Notes… The Sixth Edition, Corrected. London: Printed for T. Becket 1778. 8vo. vi,(2),74,(2)pp. including the half-title and a leaf of publisher’s ads. Modern 1/2 black morocco, gilt, over marbled boards. Concerns the American Revolution. See Adams 78-102g, but a variant with the final reset gathering with ads. Howes T-258.
Greenewalt, Crawford H. HUMMINGBIRDS. With a Foreword by Dean Amadon. Garden City, NY: Published for The American Museum of Natural History by Doubleday & Page -1960. 4to. xvi,250,xxipp. Index. Illus. with a tipped-in color frontis. and 68 tipped-in color plates, with descriptions of hummingbirds in flight. With additional drawings and text figures. Beige gilt-stamped cloth, in a photo-illus. d.j. (small closed t ears).
Curtis, Mattoon M. THE STORY OF SNUFF AND SNUFF BOXES. Profusely Illustrated. New York: The Liveright Publishing Corp 1935. 150pp. plus 60 leaves of plates (containing 119 illus.). Bibliog. Black cloth, gilt, d.j. (rather chipped).
Delafield, John, Jr. AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGINS OF THE ANTIQUITIES OF AMERICA. With an Appendix, Containing Notes, and “A View of the Causes of the Superiority of the Men of the Northern Over Those of the Southern Hemisphere.” By James Lakey. New York: Published for Subscribers, by J.C. Colt 1839. 4to. 142pp. Illustrated with 10 lithographic plates (5 hand-colored). Modern burgundy morocco over marbled boards. Some foxing. This copy lacks the folding frontispiece plate. See Howes D229 which notes “the folding plate is often lacking.”
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