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London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Circa 1855. Early editions. Leather bound. 288; 355; 410; 328; 368; 136; 164pp. Octavo [23 cm]; contemporary 3/4 green Moroccan leather, with marbled paper covered boards, raised bands and gilt tooled spines. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Extremities and boards rubbed, spines moderately sunned, underlying boards occasionally exposed at edges and corners. The title page of "The Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies" has been tipped in, and a contemporary notation has been skillfully effaced. All plates and their accompanying tissue-guards are in fine condition, bright and beautiful. The plates in the "The British Grasses and Sedges" and "The Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies" volumes do not have tissue guards. Very Good. Item #67126 Anne Pratt is one of the most famous and successful female botanical artists of the 19th century. She wrote and illustrated more than 20 books on botany. An attractive early set, with one uncolored and 317 very attractive plates color-printed by William Dickes using George Baxter's printing process. Baxter was known for using the best materials, inks he ground himself, and numerous wooden blocks to add colors.

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Basileæ (Basel): Ex Officina Joan. Oporini (Joannes Oporinus), [1548]. Second volume of a work in three volumes. 667pp. Quarto [33 cm] Mid-17th-century vellum binding (likely Spanish, but possibly Italian). Bold manuscript title on the spine. Gauffered edges. With tanned skin sewing supports. Initial letters. Text block hanging on to wraps by a single leather cord. ***Missing title page and prefatory pages to Aristotle's work on auscultation. Text block cracked a couple of times at the rear. Light marginal tidemarks to the preliminary pages. Occasional manuscript notations. Pages exceptionally bright. Latin text. Contents: Aristotelis Stagiritae Physicae Auscultationis (Io. Argyropylo Byzantio Interprete): Liber Primus; Liber Secundus; Liber Tertius; Liber IIII; Liber V; Liber VI; Liber VII; Liber VIII. Aristotelis Stagiritae De Coelo (Io. Argyropylo Byzantio Interprete): Liber Primus; Liber Secundus; Liber Tertius; Liber Quartus. Epistola Nuncupatoria ad Leonem. Aristotelis Stagiritae Peripa Teticae Disciplinae Autoris: Liber De Generatione & Interitu Prior (Latinus á Petro Alcyonio factus); Liber De Generatione et Interitu Posterior (Latinus á Petro Alcyonio factus). Petrus Alcyonius Antonio Prato S. P. D. Aristotelis Stagiritae Meteoron (Petro Alcyonio Interprete): Liber Primus; Liber Alter; Liber Tertius; Liber Quartus. Aristotelis Stagiritae De Anima (Ioan Argyropylo Byzantio Interprete): Liber Primus; Liber Secundus; Liber Tertius. Petri...

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London: George Redway, 1888. First edition thus. Hardcover. 315pp. Octavo [23 cm] Brown cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Beveled edges. "Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co." stamped in gilt at foot of spine. Spine mildly rolled; gentle bumped at the spine ends and corners; front pastedown has a name and date in pen (name crossed out) and the partial remains of a previous owner's bookplate; name in pen on the verso of the front free endpaper; free endpapers darkened; bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown; text block cracked at p. 209, but still extremely sturdy. Very Good. Item #68960 An early work by Arthur Edward Waite. This book describes the lives of prominent figures in the field of alchemy, including Roger Bacon, Nicholas Flamel, Denis Zachaire, Michael Sendivogius, Lascaris, and others. Originally issued anonymously in 1815. The original publication is generally attributed to Francis Barrett, but that attribution has been viewed with skepticism. Brooklyn-born Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942), a self taught scholar of the occult and major mystic, was one of the major figures of the 'Occult Revival.' Waite's mother brought him and his sister to suburban London at the age of two, after the death...

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Original watercolor on paper. 14" x 3/4" x 18" [18" x 21" in mat]. The view from the artist's apartment window. Full of New York flavor, Bochorakova-Dittrichova's depiction of New York bustles with pedestrians, passing cars, and billboards and awnings. Signed "BD" and titled "New York" in the lower corners. A charming and typical, however very unique, New York scene, full of movement and color, which reveals an intimate snippet of the artist's life. Item #58526 Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova (1894-1980) was the first female wordless novelist and the only woman to work in this medium during its heyday. She was born in the Moravian region of what is now the Czech Republic and spent most of her life in Brno, the Moravian capital. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and in 1923 received a government scholarship to study printmaking in Paris. Bochorakova-Dittrichova's unpublished wordless novel Malirka Na Cestach [The Artist on Her Journey] recounts this period in her life. In Paris, she first encountered the wordless novels of Flemish artist Frans Masereel, the originator of the form, and was inspired to create her own. Over the course of her long career, Bochorakova-Dittrichova published several wordless novels, along...

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London: The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1893. First edition, secondary binding. Hardcover. 239pp. Quarto [28 cm] Olive green cloth over boards with bevelled edges, and black ink stamped lettering and embellishments on the backstrip and front board. Black endpapers. Covers slightly cocked; cloth at the spine ends and corners a bit frayed; spine subtly darkened and the title mildly rubbed; periodic cracks to the text block. Good +. Item #69018 Waite's classic work on Alchemy. Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942) was an American-born British mystic, occultist, and prolific writer. He was received into the Golden Dawn in 1891, however he precipitated a schism in the Golden Dawn in 1903, when he purged magic from the rituals replacing it with mysticism. The society born from this schism, the Independent and Rectified Rite of the Golden Dawn, was quickly torn apart by internal feuding, leading Waite to dissolve it and replace it with the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross in 1915. Waite's most enduring legacy is the Tarot deck that he helped create, the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck, the best known Tarot deck.

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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973-1978. Various printings of the Bollingen Series editions. Hardcover. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth over boards stamped in gilt and copper. Illustrated. Light wear to the spine and boards. Bookseller's tickets on endpapers or dust jacket flaps. Pages clean and free of markings. In dust jackets, with surface scratching and rubbing, and moderate edge wear, including very occasional shallow closed tears and chips, or creasing to the inside flaps. The jackets of four of the volumes are price-clipped. ***Will require extra postage due to the number of volumes. ***Does not include volume 19 and 20 (the general bibliography and index). Very Good / Very Good. Item #68978 Bollingen Series XX. With the following Bollingen editions of Jung's works: 1) Psychiatric Studies (Third printing of the second edition, with corrections and an addition); 2) Experimental Researches (First printing); 3) The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease (Third printing); 4) Freud and Psychoanalysis (Third printing) 5) Symbols of Transformation (Third printing of the second edition); 6) Psychological Types (Third printing); 7) Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (Fourth printing of the second edition); 8) The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Third printing of the second edition); 9) Part 1...

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London: Cresset Press, 1928. Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes. Limited edition. Hardcover. (viii), 175; (viii), 163pp. Folio [37 cm] Full black parchment vellum with gold spine lettering, and raised bands. Top edges gilt. Light wear to covers; corners lightly worn; spines spotted; spines a bit chipped at the foot. No slipcase. Very good. Item #59105 Printed in an edition limited to 195 numbered copies printed by Bernard Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper. This copy is numbered 66. The text for volume I from the 11th edition, published 1688, which represents Bunyan's final revision; Vol. II taken from the 2nd edition, published 1687. Beautiful wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes. The text for Vol. I from the 11th edition, published 1688, which represents Bunyan's final revision; Vol. II taken from the 2nd edition, published 1687.

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Springville, UT: Anderson and Crandall (Photography Studio), 1893. Photograph. Large format albumen photograph [approximately 40 cm x 25 cm] in a nice period ornamental wooden frame. An attractive image with nice contrasts. This has not been examined outside of the frame. Near Fine. Item #67327 A photo collage depicting a view of the Salt Lake City Temple above a picture of Brigham Young. A small banner design with the text "Salvation for the Dead" is shown above the image of the temple. These images are situated above a book that reads "Book of Life. In Memory of Brigham Young [...]", and two other open books below that, all surrounded by a decorative border of flowers. A lovely design and production. Rare. George Edward Anderson (1860-1928) was born in Salt Lake City and lived in Springville, Utah. He was a devout Mormon who photographed and documented many of the prominent figures, scenes, and landmarks of Utah and LDS history. Anderson & Crandall was the short-lived business partnership between George Edward Anderson and Lucian D. Crandall in Springville, Utah, circa 1892-93.

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Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1981. Edward Abbey. First Peregrine Smith Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 269pp. Octavo [22 cm] Light orange boards with title stamped in black ink on spine and front cover. Pictorial endpapers. Spine a touch rolled; spine ends bumped. Light rubbing to edges of the boards. Dust jacket is bright, though the spine is a tiny bit sun toned. Edges a bit chipped. Very Good - / Very good. Item #68030 ISBN: 0879050705 Inscribed by Edward Abbey in black ink on the front free endpaper. A work first published in 1968. Drawings by Edward Abbey. Photographs by Gibbs Smith. Includes a four page introduction by the author that only appears in this edition. Illustrated with nineteen chapter head illustrations by the author that appear only in this edition. The author's seminal and enduring work. Abbey foresaw the coming of industrial tourism while a ranger at then Arches National Monument in the 1950s.

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Salt Lake City, UT: Frank H. Nelden & Co., Basement Wasatch Drug Store, [late July, 1882]. Ephemera. Folio (35 cm x 25.5 cm), [4] pp, lithographically printed, with an illustrated masthead; the central column of the front page is devoted to the Walker Grand Opera House concert for Saturday evening, July 29, 1882, with a detailed programme for a performance by The Original Tennessee Jubilee and Plantation Singers (the programme is continued on the second page); the remainder of the publication is filled with advertisements (several illustrated) for an array of Salt Lake City businesses, including F. H. Nelden's Wasatch Drug Store and mercantile printery, W. H. Yearian & Co., Joslin & Park, Rudolph Alff, Mulloy & Paul, Walker Bros., Chapman & Whytock, Goldsmith & Co., Cohn Bros., W. L. Pickard, G. M. Peirce, F. E. Schoppe, A. L. Williams, Jos. Baumgarten, Kelly Bros., John S. Lindsay, J. D. Farmer, Careless & Croxall, Buckle & Son, Durst & Trimble, Great Western Trunk Factory, C. J. Gustaveson, F. M. Bishop, and Geo. A. Meears; the third page contains numerous pieces of advertising copy for some of the aforementioned enterprises, plus a cryptically-worded paragraph spruiking celebrated Salt Lake City artist Alfred Lambourne's...

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London: Publisher not printed on title pages, 1883. Subscriber's Copy. Hardcover. 565; 659pp. Quarto [29.5 cm] Green cloth over boards with lettering in gilt and black and blind ruled borders on the backstrip and boards. Underlying boards exposed occasionally along the edges. Endpapers cracked along the hinges and hinges weak. Date in pen on front endpapers near the hinge. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedowns. Tiny numerical notation on the title pages. Text block of volume 2 cracked at the center. *** Lacks chart. Plate III (Map, Ancient India and Adjoining Countries) has a 4 1/2" tape repair to the reverse. May require extra postage due to weight. Good. Item #68938 Includes detailed information on Tree Worship, Serpent and Phallic Worship, Fire Worship, Sun Worship, the Early Faiths of Western Asia, and Faiths Exhibited by Western and Eastern Aborgines. James George Roche Forlong (1824-1904) joined the Indian Army in 1843. He was appointed as an Engineer in the army based in Myamar in 1852. In the years 1858-9 he travelled widely in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Spain. Subsequently, his engineering skills continued to take him to numerous other locations. He later retired and began writing on...

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