86 87 88 89 90 91 BROWNING ROBERT. The Statue and the Bust. By Robert Browning. 12mo, original sheets, uncut. London: Edward Moxon, 1855. Privately printed. $45.00 BROWNING, ROBERT. Gold Hair. A Legend of Pornic. By Robert Browning. 12mo, in the original sheets, uncut. London: 1864. Privately printed. $45.00 BROWNING, E. B. The Seraphim, and other Poems by Elizabeth B. Barrett. 8vo, original cloth. London: 1838. $180.00 The First Edition. PRESENTATION COPY from Mrs. Browning to one of her closest friends, inscribed: "Mary Robinson from her affectionate E. B. B." PRESENTED TO FREDERICK LEIGHTON BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets . . 12mo, original green cloth. London: 1863. $250.00 The First Edition. PRESENTATION COPY (by the author's husband, Robert Browning), inscribed: "Frederick Leighton, from his affectionately ever R. B." Contains Mr. Leighton's book-plate. BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT (William Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, and others.) The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, modernized. 12mo, cloth. London: 1841. $125.00 Laid in is A. L. (3rd person) of Miss E. B. Barrett (Mrs. Browning), relating entirely to the book and the collaborators. "Indeed it was enough to have been permitted to do anything in such a work and with such labourers." etc. [BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT.] An Essay on Mind, with other Poems. 12mo, original boards, with printed label, uncut. London: James Duncan, 1826. $120.00 The extremely rare FIRST EDITION, issued anonymously when the authoress was but 17 years of age. ENTIRELY UNCUT, and clean and crisp as when issued. THE BRYANT-VERPLANCK CORRESPONDENCE 92 BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN. THE BRYANT-VERPLANCK CORRESPONDENCE. Being a series of Forty-six Autograph Letters, signed by William Cullen Bryant to Gulian C. Verplanck, from 1821 to 1864. Letters tipped on quarto sheets and bound in red levant morocco. $375.00 Verplanck was one of Bryant's first patrons and did much to shape his career. Contains many early literary reminiscences of NEW YORK. 93 94 95 96 TWO OF THE MOST CURIOUS VOLUMES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE BULWER, JOHN. Anthropometamorphosis: Man transform'd: or the artificiall Changling historically presented, in the mad and cruell Gallantry, foolish Bravery, ridiculous Beauty, filthy Finenesse, and loathsome Loveliness of most Nations. 4to, brilliant impression of the beautifully engraved portrait of the author by William Faithorne, and of the very curious frontispiece by Cross, also upwards of 160 wood-cuts illustrating the absurdities practised on the body by all the nations of the World, fine clean copy, green morocco super extra, gilt edges, by Bedford. London: Printed by William Hunt, 1653. $85.00 This is assuredly one of the most curious volumes ever compiled. The author has been at the pains to bring together everything he could meet with of the treatment of the human body by different nations, ancient and modern, and in the New World as well as the Old, according to the dictates of fashion, vice, or custom. BULWER, JOHN. Chirologia: or the Natural Language of the Hand. Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures thereof. Whereunto is added Chironomia: or the Art of Manuall Rhetoricke. WITH VERY PRETTY EMBLEMATIC FRONTISPIECES TO EACH PART AND 6 PLATES OF DIAGRAMS ENGRAVED BY MARSHALL. Crimson crushed levant morocco super extra, gilt edges, by Bedford. London: Thos. Harper, 1644. $90.00 * This very curious volume gives an explanation of all the actions, gestures, and movements of the hand and fingers. It is a most exhaustive little work, containing a mass of curious information. The present is a very fine copy, and it is doubtful whether a better one is known. WITH THE BEAUTIFUL COLORED PLATES BURNEY, FANNY. Evelina: or the History of a young Lady's Introduction to the World. A NEW EDITION EMBELLISHED WITH (COLORED) ENGRAVINGS BY HEATH. 8vo, original boards, entirely uncut, enclosed in blue levant morocco solander case. London: Edward Mason, 1821. $365.00 Excessively rare in this condition; rare in any state and possibly unique in the original boards, uncut. PRESENTATION COPY OF BURNS'S POEMS TO ONE OF HIS DEAREST FRIENDS BURNS, ROBERT. POEMS CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT. (PORTRAIT.) 8vo, old calf, enclosed in blue levant morocco solander case. Edinburgh, 1787. $2500.00 PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed: "To Mr. Andrew Aiken, as a mark of affectionate esteem, from The Author." One of the finest Burns's presentation copies extant. 97 98 99 100 101 102 BUTLER, CHARLES. The Feminin Monarchie, or The Histori of Bees, Shewing Their Admirable Nature, and Properties, Their Generation and Colonis, etc. Written out of Experience. Quarto, brown morocco extra, gilt edges. Oxford: William Turner, 1634. Very rare. $35.00 GENUINE FIRST ISSUES OF BUTLER'S HUDIBRAS [BUTLER, SAMUEL.] Hudibras. The First Part. Written in the time of the late Wars. London: Printed by J. G. for Richard Marriot 1663. THE FIRST LEAF WITH "IMPRIMATUR" DATED NOVEMBER, 11, 1662. Hudibras. The Second Part. By the Author of the First. Printed by T. R. for John Martin and James Allestry 1664. Hudibras. The Third and last Part. Written by the Author of the First and Second Parts. WITH THE 5 LINES OF "ERRATA" AT END. These Three Parts, forming the first issues of the first edition One of the wittiest books ever written. Excessively rare. BUTLER, SAMUEL. Hudibras, a Poem. EMBELLISHED WITH TWELVE (COLORED) ENGRAVINGS. 2 vols., 8vo, original boards, uncut. London: Printed for Akerman, and others, 1822. $35.00 Appropriately illustrated with fine colored engravings by Clark. BUTLER, SAMUEL. Hudibras, in Three Parts, written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and amended. With Large Annotations, and a Preface, by Zachary Grey, LL.D. 2 vols., 8vo, blue morocco, extra, by Riviere. London: Bettenham, 1744. $150.00 Large Paper copy in a charming decorative binding with brilliant impressions of the famous Hogarth plates. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF LORD BYRON'S BYRON, LORD. THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, WITH (Pub 13 pp., 4to, laid in and bound in red cross grained morocco, by Riviere. PURCHASED FROM CAPTAIN BYRON, WHO ASSERTED THAT THIS MS. WAS THE VERY LAST ONE REMAINING IN POSSESSION OF THE POET'S FAMILY. BYRON, LORD. The Island, or Christian and His Comrades. 8vo, original paper wrappers, entirely uncut in cloth case. London: John Hunt, 1823. $75.00 The First Edition. A superb copy with half-title and advertisements. LONDON, Printed by F. G. for Richard Marriot, under Saint Dunstan's Church in Fleetfreet. 1663. Facsimile of title page of No. 98. 103 104 105 106 107 BYRON, LORD. Poems on His Domestic Circumstances. I. Fare Thee Well! II. A Sketch from Private Life. With the Star of the Legion of Honour and other Poems. 8vo, sewed, entirely uncut, in cloth folders. London: W. Hone, 1816. $35.00 The First Edition. With half-title; excessively rare in this condition. BYRON, LORD. Hours of Idleness. A Series of Poems, Original and Translated. Beautifully bound in full crimson levant morocco, with double of blue inlaid with colors, silk end papers, t. e. g., uncut, by De Samblancx & Weckesser. Newark: Printed and sold by S. and J. Ridge, 1807. $250.00 THE FIRST EDITION OF LORD BYRON'S FIRST BOOK. In a beautiful inlaid binding. ONE OF THE RAREST COLLECTIONS OF ENGLISH CALLIOPE OR ENGLISH HARMONY. A collection of the most celebrated English and Scots Songs, NEATLY ENGRAV'D AND EMBELISH'D WITH DESIGNS .. (In two volumes.) CLIO AND EUTERPE or British Harmony. A collection of Celebrated Songs and Cantatas. CURIOUSLY ENGRAV'D EMBELISH'D WITH DESIGNS ADAPTED TO EACH SONG. In three volumes.-5 vols., 8vo, uniformly bound in Niger morocco, g. e., by De Coverly. London: Henry Roberts. (1739) and 17591762. $525.00 A wonderful set of this excessively rare collection of English and Scots songs. CAMPBELL, THOMAS. Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale: and other Poems. 4to. London, 1809. The Pleasures of Hope, with other Poems. 4to. London, 1803. Bound together, half morocco, g. e. $150.00 This was Archdeacon Wrangham's copy and contains the following items of association value: I. Campbell's name and address in his autograph. II. The original proof-sheets of pp. 7 and 8 with correction in the author's handwriting; and a note at foot of page 7 (proof-sheet), in the handwriting of Lord Byron. III. Portraits of Gertrude and Campbell; outline engravings in Gertrude of Wyoming, from drawings by Hicks for the Art Union; and a portrait of Lord Nelson, etc., etc. CAMPBELL, THOMAS. Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale, and other Poems. 4to, original boards, uncut, enclosed in handsome blue levant morocco solander case. London: 1809. $250.00 A portion (21⁄2 pp., 4to) of the ORIGINAL AUTHOR'S MANUSCRIPT in blue morocco folder accompanies the volume. |