First Edition with fine hand-coloured botanical plates by Sydenham Teast Edwards (1768–1819). Edwards’s early work appeared in William Curtis's prestigious Botanical Magazine. In 1804, he was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society. He also contributed to the Flora Londinensis among other ...

2 volumes, 4to. Contemporary tree calf, attractively rebacked to style with flat spines gilt in compartments, red and green morocco labels, corners restored, brown endpapers, gilt edges. 61 contemporary hand-coloured plates of flowers engraved by F. Sansom after Sydenham Edwards and 13 uncoloured plates of garden buildings and implements, in all 74 plates. Faint browning to outer leaves, pl. 40 (vol. 2) with paint smudge, a little foxing at beginning of vol. 2, still an excellent copy.

Shelley writes in the third person: "Mr. Shelley requests that Mr. Pike would give the Bearer the copy of the Settlement in his possession. Mr. S. will return it in the course of the week." Kenneth Neill Cameron provides the most accurate dating for this letter in Shelley and His Circle, vol. III, ...

One page, 12mo, with Shelley's red wax seal, red cloth portfolio. Provenance: A. Edward Newton (his sale Parke-Bernet, pt III, 30 October 1941, lot 247; bookplate in portfolio); Roger H. West (bookplate in portfolio). Excellent condition, the seal intact.

First Edition of the finest and most durable expression of the ultimate perfectibility of man. “The prophetic view of the tenth epoch shows Condorcet at his most original. He forecasts the destruction of inequality between nations and classes, and the improvement, intellectual, moral and physical, ...

8vo. Original blue paper wrappers lined with printer’s waste, sewn on two cords, edges uncut. In a buff cloth folding case, maroon morocco label lettered gilt. The fragile wrappers with very minor chipping, some gatherings very slightly browned, still a fine copy in original state.

Large-Paper Issue of one of the most ambitious and successful of all illustrated books, the zenith of the 18th-century decorated book in France. In his Avertissement de l'éditeur Monthenault draws attention to the skill with which Cochin adapted Oudry's loose drawings into a state ready for the ...

4 volumes, large folio (485 × 325 mm). Contemporary French red morocco, spine compartments with morocco labels and large gilt urn device surrounded by small tools, triple gilt fillet round sides, floral urn at inner corners, gilt turn-ins, blue endpapers, gilt edges. Engraved portrait of Oudry by Tardieu after Largillière, portrait of La Fontaine by Cochin fils after Oudry and 275 plates by Cochin, Tardieu, Prévost, Chedel, Lempereur and others after Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 209 woodcut title-vignettes, en-têtes and culs-de-lampe by Bachellier, half-titles. A very little skilful restoration to extremities, the occasional insignificant mark internally, but an excellent and very large copy in a fine contemporary binding.

First Edition, First Printing. With the author’s signed presentation inscription on the first blank, “To Hans Reichel Emperor of the Oceanic Depths! from his good friend Henry Miller Paris 8/37”. Reichel was an artist who had trained with Klee and was acquainted with Kandinsky, Gropius, Feiniger ...

8vo. Signatures loosely inserted into the original buff wrappers printed in red. Housed in a quarter brown morocco slipcase. Folding frontispiece by Abraham Rattner. Wrappers just a touch sunned but an excellent copy.

First Edition, First Impression.

Large 8vo. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt and black all edges gilt. Illustrations by Paget. Early ownership signature to front endpapers, bottom edge of front board slightly rubbed, spine lightly rubbed.

First Edition. The Jesuit Father De Smet’s Life provides an overview of his life and travels among Western Indian tribes from 1838–70. His journals and notes contain some of the earliest records of the life and customs of tribal life in the Northwest.

4 volumes, 8vo. Original dark green vertical fine-ribbed cloth, title gilt to spines. Frontispiece to each and 12 other plates, folding map in end-pocket to Volume IV. Hinges of vols. I & IV cracking, indistinct splash mark to upper board of vol. IV, but overall a very good set.