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  • ROWE, Nicholas (1674-1718)
    Ulysses: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Queen’s Theatre in the Haymarket. By Her Magesty’s Sworn Servants.

    London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn Lane. 1706. First Edition
    Small 4to, [-]2, A-I4; [xii], 64pp, (with hf-title) sig. I2 shaved at foot not affecting legibility, browned throughout, modern 1/4 red morocco, marbled bds.
    Reference: ESTC T55545

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  • An imaginative tour de force
    Un Autre Monde. Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Stations, Cosmogonies, Fantasmagories, Reveries, Folatreries, Faceties, Lubies, Metamorphoses, Zoomorphoses, Lithomorphoses, Metempsycoses, Apotheoses et Autres Choses. by GRANDVILLE, [J.J. Pseudonym of Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard].
    GRANDVILLE, [J.J. Pseudonym of Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard].
    Un Autre Monde. Transformations, Visions, Incarnations, Ascensions, Locomotions, Explorations, Peregrinations, Excursions, Stations, Cosmogonies, Fantasmagories, Reveries, Folatreries, Faceties, Lubies, Metamorphoses, Zoomorphoses, Lithomorphoses, Metempsycoses, Apotheoses et Autres Choses.

    Paris H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur, Rue Saint-Benoit 7, 1844. First Edition
    Royal 8vo, frontis. (iv), 295, (1) pp, half-title and title-page printed in red, 36 plates part-coloured by hand as issued, over 140 black-and-white illustrations in the text, occasional light foxing mainly in the prelims., 19th century half russia, marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers, recently re-backed, boards a little rubbed but a sound copy.
    Grandville’s most important book; an extraordinary imaginative tour de force; an inspirational fantasy which undoubtedly had an influence well into the twentieth century. That influence can be seen in Tenniel’s illustration to Alice; Max Ernst and the Surrealists as well as the likes of Ralph Steadman and Gerald Scarfe.
    Ray 196 Carteret v3, 285

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  • Underground London. Street & Railway Map in Sections Together With An Alphabetical & Classified Index of Places Streets & Stations. Price 2d by [LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAY MAP]
    [LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAY MAP]
    Underground London. Street & Railway Map in Sections Together With An Alphabetical & Classified Index of Places Streets & Stations. Price 2d

    London : Johnson, Riddle & Co Ltd. [c. 1909]. Cr. 8vo [4], 54 pps, 2-page key map with lines printed in their corresponding colours, sectional maps in black-and-white with lines in blue, publisher’s decorated paper covers in red and black, small cut(?) extending from front cover through the gutter of the first 10 leaves, not affecting text, staples rusty otherwise good.
    Leboff & Demuth: No Need to Ask. page 52

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  • Verses on Various Occasions by [NEWMAN, John Henry Cardinal (1801-90)]
    [NEWMAN, John Henry Cardinal (1801-90)]
    Verses on Various Occasions

    London : Burns, Oates & Co.... 1868. First Edition
    Cr. 8vo, [A]8, B-Z8, Aa8, cont. half morocco, marbled bds, t.e.g. others uncut, spine worn.
    The author’s first published collection of verse; it includes his best known poem, The Dream of Gerontius”
    Reference: Hayward 281

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  • The discovery of Utopia in Australia
    Voyages et Avantures de Jaques Masse by [TYSSOT DE PATOT. Simon (1655-1727?)]
    [TYSSOT DE PATOT. Simon (1655-1727?)]
    Voyages et Avantures de Jaques Masse

    Bordeaux : Chez Jaques L’Aveugle. 1710 [ but not before 1742]. [4th edition]
    12mo, eng. portrait of Jacques Masse, 3 leaves, 508 pps, title-page vignette of a nude woman, old mottled calf, marbled endpapers, recently rebacked and corners renewed, spine fully gilt, red edges, a few ms. marginalia in pencil in the early pages, early signature of “Edward Scudamore M.D., St. George’s Place, C....ty”on verso of front end-paper and of “G.S. Morley” on front fly-leaf, a good sound copy.
    According to Rosenberg this is the fourth (his ‘edition D’) of four editions all dated 1710, the earliest of which was probably issued in The Hague c. 1714-1717. It has all the issue points that he mentions; the…

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    Bordeaux : Chez Jaques L’Aveugle. 1710 [ but not before 1742]. [4th edition]
    12mo, eng. portrait of Jacques Masse, 3 leaves, 508 pps, title-page vignette of a nude woman, old mottled calf, marbled endpapers, recently rebacked and corners renewed, spine fully gilt, red edges, a few ms. marginalia in pencil in the early pages, early signature of “Edward Scudamore M.D., St. George’s Place, C....ty”on verso of front end-paper and of “G.S. Morley” on front fly-leaf, a good sound copy.
    According to Rosenberg this is the fourth (his ‘edition D’) of four editions all dated 1710, the earliest of which was probably issued in The Hague c. 1714-1717. It has all the issue points that he mentions; the nude woman vignette, the imprint spelt “Bordeaux”, *1 missigned *2, A6 missigned H6, and P3 unsigned, and from the watermark he dates it ‘not before 1742’.
    Tyssot de Patot, a firebrand Huguenot free-thinker, sets his imaginary voyag (or as P.D. Gove argues, rather an ‘extraordinary’ voyage; making the distinction between narratives which the authors admit to being fantasy and those which are passed off as genuine voyages), as had Vairesse before him, in Australia drawing for his description of the country on the accounts of real travellers such as Dellon and Lahontan. Here his hero discovers a well-organised Utopia and makes the very prescient observation of the importance of mining and irrigation in that country.
    Reference: Cioranescu 18me 62587 Gove : Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction. p.217
    [Rosenberg: Tyssot de Patot & His Work... pps 86-90]

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  • Pioneers of film and skiing
    FANCK, Arnold (1889-1974) & Hannes SCHNEIDER (1890-1955)
    Wunder des Schneeschuhs. ein System des Richtigen Skilaufens und Seine Anwendung im Alpinen Geländelauf... Mit 242 Einzelbildern und 1100 Kinematographischen Reihenbildern.

    Hamburg : Gebrüder Enoch Verlag, 1926. First Edition, 2nd issue (6-10 Tausend)
    Large 4to, 216, xx pp, 242 photo-illustrations and diagrams in text and 126 photographic sequences, a total of some 1100 images on 42 sheets in a pocket at the rear, publisher’s original decorated blue cloth printed in black, fine copy.
    Arnold Fanck was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre. He is best known for the extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as The Holy Mountain (1926), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929), Storm over Mont Blanc (1930), Der weisse Rausch (1931), and S.O.S. Eisberg (1933). Fanck was also instrumental in launching the careers of several filmmakers including…

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    Hamburg : Gebrüder Enoch Verlag, 1926. First Edition, 2nd issue (6-10 Tausend)
    Large 4to, 216, xx pp, 242 photo-illustrations and diagrams in text and 126 photographic sequences, a total of some 1100 images on 42 sheets in a pocket at the rear, publisher’s original decorated blue cloth printed in black, fine copy.
    Arnold Fanck was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre. He is best known for the extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as The Holy Mountain (1926), The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929), Storm over Mont Blanc (1930), Der weisse Rausch (1931), and S.O.S. Eisberg (1933). Fanck was also instrumental in launching the careers of several filmmakers including Leni Riefenstahl and cinematographer Sepp Allgeier.
    Johann "Hannes" Schneider was an Austrian Ski instructor from the Arlberg. He developed the Arlberg technique and appeared in Dr. Arnold Fanck's ski film. Der weiße Rausch, filmed in the Arlberg in the winter of 1930/1931, which helped make skiing popular.
    He moved to New Hampshire in 1939 and during the Second World War helped train the 10th Mountain Division of the U. S. Army in which his son Herbert served. Hannes became a member of the US Ski Hall of Fame in 1958.

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  • Published at the height of the Civil War showing the South’s military positions
    Wyld’s New Map of the Southern States of North America [With The Forts, Harbours & Miltary Positions] by WYLD, James junior (1812-1887) geographer to the Queen
    WYLD, James junior (1812-1887) geographer to the Queen
    Wyld’s New Map of the Southern States of North America [With The Forts, Harbours & Miltary Positions]

    London : James Wyld, 457 Strand, (next door to the Post Office) 11&19 Charing Cross, S.W. and 2, Royal Exchange City, E.C. [1862]. Second Edition [date taken from LC]
    Folding map in 36 sections (17x11cm) laid down on linen and enclosed in the publisher’s cloth boards, printed paper label on front board and spine, 3cm split at head of spine Overall size 69x103cm, a good copy.
    A map of the Confederate States showing in colour the “Dividing Line between the Free & Slave-holding States” as well as the military positions and published at the height of the Civil War. The Library of Congress copy may be accessed online here:-
    http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3860.cw0036500

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