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First edition. First edition. Engraved cartouche of fish on title, ten engraved vignettes of fish in text, two engraved pages of music. 1 vols. Small 8vo. A choice copy of the first edition of Walton's Compleat Angler, a landmark of mid-seventeenth century English letters and one of the foundation stones of angling literature, with distinguished nineteenth century provenance. James Wilson Rimington-Wilson (1822-1877) of Broomhead Hall, Yorkshire, was a strong amateur chess player and a noted collector of books on chess and other sports. The library was dispersed in 1928: Jerome Kern owned a manuscript poem on chess by Oliver Goldsmith from the Rimington Wilson library; and a manuscript hand list of his sporting books, 1866, is at the University of Virginia. Wing W 661; Coigney 1; Church Catalogue I, 32; Pforzheimer 1048; Grolier Wither to Prior III 193; Westwood and Satchell, p. 217 Nineteenth-century dark green morocco, gilt, gilt spine with raised bands and citron morocco labels, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., by BEDFORD. Final leaf neatly repaired at outer margin, with one letter in neat pen facsimile; contemporary manuscript correction to p. 245, line 17 (changing "contention" to "contentment."). Fine copy, with the signature of JW RIMINGTON WILSON on verso of the front flyleaf, and the morocco ex-libris of GEORGE GOYDER. Boxed Engraved cartouche of fish on title, ten engraved vignettes of fish in text, two engraved pages of music. 1 vols. Small 8vo.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition of Izaac Walton's beloved masterpiece and perhaps the best-known work in English on the subject of fishing--part fishing manual, part literary classic, a meditation on friendship, and a celebration of contemplation and the traditional natural order. Small quarto. (xvi), 246 pp., with page 245 in the later state with "contentment"; early state trout engraving at center of p. 71; preponderance of text uncorrected as per Horne, with corrected text on pp. 103, 113, 123, 135, 152, and 197, partially on page 88. Beautifully bound in full green morocco, stamped in gilt; all edges gilt; moire silk endleaves; with 2 pages of music for "The Angler's Song" by Henry Lawes with one page printed upside down as intended to enable two singers to sing facing each other. Text trimmed close in top edge, just touching some running headlines; light soiling to title-page and text; scattered light dampstaining in top and fore-edges; repaired closed tear in lower fore-edge, pp. 149/150, other small minor wear to text edges; text corrected in a contemporary hand, p. 169. Housed in a red cloth box, with "Brooke Dolan 1940" stamped in gilt on front panel; light fraying and hairline split started to front joint of custom cloth box. With distinguished provenance, from the collection of American adventurer, naturalist and sportsman Brooke Dolan II, in his custom-made cloth box; prior to that from the collection of Rudolph August Witthaus with his morocco label to the front pastedown. Witthaus was the top authority on poisons in the United States and was a forensic toxicologist in many important capital murder cases of the late19th and early 20th centuries. A cornerstone of angling literature and one of the most popular books ever published in the English language. The Compleat Angler has remained continuously in print over the last 370 years since this first edition, going through an astonishing 300-plus editions. The majority of the book is comprised of a dialogue between a fisherman and a hunter, in which the former attempts to persuade the latter on the practical and spiritual merits of fishing.

First edition. First edition. Engraved cartouche of fish on title, ten engraved vignettes of fish in text. Title within engraved piscatorial cartouche, 6 engravings of fish within text variously attributed to Lombart, Faithorne or Vaughan, 2 pages of music for "The Angler's Song" by Henry Lawes with one page printed upside down as intended to enable two singers to sing facing each other, type-ornament headpieces, woodcut initial. 1 vols. Small 8vo (5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches). First edition of a landmark of English literature. The present copy has A3r in uncorrected state and displays most other errors as noted by Horne (although p. 114 reading VVhen not VVien); p. 245 (with a notorious error) is here in facsimile in the corrected state. The first edition of Walton's perennially popular and never out-of-print angling classic has always been difficult to find. Its tremendous appreciation in value over the last twenty years is an indication of how few copies indeed remain, outside of permanent collections, as well as how relentlessly it is still pursued by collectors. Wing W 661; Coigney 1; Horne 1; Church Catalogue I, 32; Pforzheimer 1048; Grolier Wither to Prior III 193; Grolier, English 31; Westwood and Satchell, p. 217. Provenance: John Peachey (1749-1816, West Dean, Sussex, F.R.S. and M.P., 2nd Baron Selsey from 1806; bookplate dated 1782 preserved) - Harry T. Pethers (sale Sotheby's, 5 December 1960, lot 135, £145 to Maggs) - Bent Juel-Jensen (acquired from Maggs, February 1961, for £225) Bound without terminal blank R4; leaves F4, Q6-8 and R1-3 in facsimile, a few headlines just shaved; washed and pressed. Early 20th-century olive morocco gilt, paneled sides with corner fleurons and central lozenge, gilt spine with two red leather labels, edges gilt on the rough. In red morocco-backed slipcase with chemise, spine tooled in gilt with crest and motto "veritas", by James McDonald, New York Engraved cartouche of fish on title, ten engraved vignettes of fish in text. Title within engraved piscatorial cartouche, 6 engravings of fish within text variously attributed to Lombart, Faithorne or Vaughan, 2 pages of music for "The Angler's Song" by Henry Lawes with one page printed upside down as intended to enable two singers to sing facing each other, type-ornament headpieces, woodcut initial. 1 vols. Small 8vo (5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches).

277 x 187 mm. (11 x 7 1/4"). Two volumes. MAGNIFICENT OLIVE GREEN MOROCCO COSWAY BINDING BY RIVIERE & SON (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with wide inlaid strapwork frame of Pacific blue morocco filled with swirling gilt vines bearing four red and four white inlaid morocco blossoms, the intersections of the vines at head and food bound by two inlaid gray morocco dolphins, EACH COVER WITH HAND-PAINTED MINIATURE SCENE BY C. B. CURRIE (signed in gold on rear pastedown) inset at center, the scenes depicting Richmond Bridge, Snowdon, Hampton in Middlesex, and Ullswater, the paintings under glass and enclosed by a stippled gilt frame featuring eight swimming fish and 20 onlaid dots of tan morocco (one cover lacking one dot, perhaps never applied); raised bands, spine compartments with inlaid blue morocco frame, four containing a swirl of gilt vine and either a red or white inlaid morocco flower, two compartments with gilt lettering, turn-ins framed by gilt vines and frolicking gilt fish, a white morocco water lily inlaid at each corner, olive green watered silk endleaves, top edges gilt. Housed in chamois-lined tan morocco pull-off cases. WITH 61 ENGRAVINGS after Stothard and others, 15 of these full-page. A LARGE PAPER COPY. Verso of front free endpaper with ex-libris of David and Lulu Borowitz; front flyleaf of volume I inscribed in pencil: "To David From Harry / Dec. 1916." Coigney 44; Oliver 41; Bibliotheca Piscatoria, pp. 228-29; Keynes, "William Pickering," pp. 23, 82. Occasional mild foxing or faint offsetting from engravings, but an excellent copy internally--clean and fresh with vast margins, and IN A FLAWLESS BINDING. This is an especially desirable copy of one of the finest illustrated editions of the "Angler," splendidly bound by the masters of the so-called Cosway binding; because of its beauty, condition, and provenance, it is perhaps the finest example of this type of volume that we have ever offered for sale. The "Cosway" style of binding, with painted miniatures inlaid in handsome morocco, apparently originated with the London bookselling firm of Henry Sotheran about 1909, the year G. C. Williamson's book entitled "Richard Cosway" was remaindered by Sotheran and presumably given this special decorative treatment. The name "Cosway" then was used to describe any book so treated, whatever its subject. Cosway bindings come in numerous shapes and sizes, and vary a great deal in quality, but the very best ones--as here--combine the three names of Riviere, Stonehouse, and Currie. The finest miniatures on Cosway bindings were executed by Caroline Billin Currie (1849-1940), who is known to have created such paintings for Sotheran's from 1910 until her death, usually, as in the present case, from designs by J. H. Stonehouse for bindings executed by Riviere. In the early years of her career, Currie primarily did portraits, usually of the author of the work or a leading character in the novel, but as she reached the height of her powers, she began to do scenes, sometimes emulating the style of other artists. The tranquil landscapes here are reminiscent of the style of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro in the use of light, color and pointillist effects. The front cover of volume I features the liveliest scene, showing a woman and child strolling on a road, and a horseman, two travellers, and a charming dog on a riverside path, in addition to the fishermen in skiffs on the river. The front cover of volume II shows a pleasure-boating party boarding in the early morning light, a stately home in the background, and two fishing boats already on the lake. The rear covers of both volumes are serene views of a lake or river in hilly countryside, with a sole angler accompanied by female companions. Walton (1593-1683) lived in turbulent times, and he suffered personal tragedy (enduring the deaths of both his wives and eight of his nine children), but, largely because of the present work, he is forever identified with quietude and serenity. First published in 1653, his "Compleat Angler" is the classic work on the art of angling, infused with wise fish lore, written by an indomitable angler who knew every haunt of fresh water fish in the south of England. But, as Day says, "the love of angling is only the outward sign of a gentle inward grace, the soul of a thoroughly good man who loves peace and quiet meditation. If any one man created the idyll of the English countryside, it was Walton." Oliver notes that our edition "is conspicuous for its illustrations," done by "some of the most prominent artists of the time," and "Bibliotheca Piscatoria" tells us that "this superb edition contains the variations of all the first five editions, voluminous notes, [and] original and elaborate memoirs of Walton and Cotton, presenting many new facts." The Grolier Club Checklist pronounced that "no finer edition of the 'Complete Angler' will ever be published." Keynes notes that with printing by Whittingham and engravings by Stothard, it "is regarded by some as the supreme example of [publisher William] Pickering's taste." Our Large Paper Copy version of the book was sold by Pickering for the princely sum of £10 10 shillings (when the average laborer at that time earned slightly less than £28 per year). Along with his wife Lulu, our previous owner David Borowitz was a highly discriminating Chicago collector whose special interests included extra-illustrated works, antiquarian English literature, continental books, and illustrated works, especially color-plate volumes and books illustrated by George Cruikshank and his contemporaries. Books from his library, which were sold in three auctions at Sotheby's in New York in 1977-78, are invariably found in exceptional condition. First Nicolas Edition. A Large Paper Copy.

6 volumes and 1, (portrait, frontispiece, 14) 865, 889 (1) 29 (1), 447 (1), 389 (1), 227 (1), 149 (1), 87 (1, 3, 1), 128, 23 (1) 20, 159 (1), 390, 983 (1), (2) 72, 56, 98, 80, 196, 140, 24, 58, 36, 36, 96 (=74), (2) p. H. 46 x W. 29,5 cm. Contemporary Leather with 6 raised bands, decorated with gilt, large Folio + Apparatus, (6) 570 (6) p. later Vellum with 5 raised bands, Folio. This is the last edition of the four great Polyglots, following that of Alcalá (1514-1517), in four languages, Antwerp (1569-1573), in five, and Paris (1628-1645) in seven. It's the most extensive edition of the great Polyglot Bible, the London Polyglot, or the Walton Polyglot after the compilator Brian Walton, 1600-1661. According to Brunet, this edition "is the most sought after, being more complete and correct than the others, and containing nine different languages", with Ethiopian and Persian added to the seven languages of the Paris Polyglot. So it includes the text of the Bible in 9 different languages, Hebrew, Samaritan, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Ethiopic, Syriac, Arabic, and Persian. All of the texts which are not in Latin are accompanied by Latin translations and all are arranged side by side or one over another on the two pages open before the reader. The first three volumes contain the Old Testament. They give the Hebrew text with the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Latin Vulgate, the Greek Septuagint, the Aramaic Targum, and the Syriac and Arabic paraphrases. The fourth part contains the Apocrypha and the Triplex Targum, i.e. Targumim I and II of Jerusalem and the Persian version of Jacob ben Joseph Tawus. The fifth volume is devoted to the New Testament, printed in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopian. Finally, the last section contains the critical apparatus. Volume 1 is illustrated with multiple engravings in the text, a portrait of Brian Walton, a frontispiece, 2 plans, a map, and 3 engravings, all double-page except 1 plan. An extra volume by Brian Walton, the Apparatus, contains parts of the Polyglot such as codices, chronologies, proverbs, and Holy Land details. (Vol. 1 missing blank leaf after pp. 865. Spines restored, portrait and title print frayed, with creases, some browning, and staining.) A copy of the second edition, without the reference to Cromwell's protectorate in the preface. It does not contain the dedicated epistle to King Charles II but does contain the one mentioned by Brunet at the beginning of the first volume, p. 48. From the library of the Scholasticate of Differt, Belgium, with dry-stamp and stamp on the title. A firm and complete set of this influential work. Darlow, T.H./Moule, H.F. (1963). Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of Holy Scripture, Vol.II 1, no. 1446 on p. 23-26 / Wing B2797 / Brunet, I, 852.

Signed limited edition, special issue, number 2 of 14 copies for presentation issued with an original signed pen-and-ink and watercolour sketch by Rackham, here depicting Izaak Walton being served a fish on a plate, and in a specially commissioned luxury binding decorated in gilt with tools designed by the artist. The signed edition was limited to 775 copies. Harrap launched The Compleat Angler at a presentation party on 24 September 1931, during which each one of the 14 guests was presented with a leather-bound edition of the book, each with a signed ink sketch by Rackham on the half-title. Rackham had been adding special watercolour to volumes since the early 1920s as commissions to supplement his income, but it was George Harrap who hit on the idea of a "Rackham special", the most exclusive format of Rackham's books. From The Vicar of Wakefield onwards, Harrap held back the first dozen or so copies to be specially bound, as here, and asked Rackham to add a unique original watercolour sketch to the limited page. The first few copies were usually reserved for the publisher and his family; only a handful were available to the public. Describing his artistic method for these "specials", Rackham pointed out that "my little sketches must inevitably be of a light-hearted or joking nature. They have to be spontaneous and free handed. The nature of the paper is such that there can be no preparatory drawing and no alterations". Latimore & Haskell, pp. 66-67; Riall, p. 175. Small quarto. Colour frontispiece and 11 plates with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in text, by Rackham, title printed in green and black. Publisher's special binding of red crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, titles in gilt direct to spine, raised bands, single gilt fillet frames to compartments and gilt fish motif (closely resembling that used on copies in the vellum binding), concentric gilt panels on boards with fish motif to corners, three frames in gilt to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, red silk bookmarker. Bequeathal inscription dated 1956 loosely inserted. Binding sharp, a few spots of faint foxing to contents, very slight foxing to fore and bottom edges, else internally crisp and unmarked. A fine copy.

First Edition of this biography collected later in Walton's Lives. Bound in 18th century full morocco; all edges gilt with marbled endpapers; some page spotting; small leather bookplate; some rubbing, especially at the outer joints; overall very good. Presentation copy, with annotations in the author's hand, inscribed on the Imprimatur leaf, 'For My Sister Beacham. Iz: Wa.' The recipient was actually his wife's sister, his sister-in-law. There are corrections in Walton's hand on four pages. With the ownership signature on the title page of Ralph Widdrington, a Greek scholar at Cambridge University. Additionally, a tiny ink note on the recto of the rear free endpaper by one J. Clarke in 1855 indicates that this was purchased a year earlier at the Pickering Sale ('no. 2012'). While Walton presentations are not unknown, they are exceptionally scarce. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Original pen, ink and watercolour painting on board. Signed and dated by the artist in the lower right hand corner. Original Leicester Galleries exhibition notice to the rear. 24.5cm x 17.4cm. Very good condition indeed. An iconic angling image from Walton's Compleat Angler. "I am glad to enter you into the art of fishing by catching a chub, for there is no fish better to enter a young angler. Go to the same hole in which I caught my chub, where in most hot days you will find a dozen or twenty chevens floating near the top of the water; get two or three grasshoppers as you go over the meadow, and get secretly behind the tree." (p. 69) LITERATURE: The Compleat Angler (Harrap, 1931), plate at p.68.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Ford, Walton (illustrator). Limited Edition. Art Edition no.66 of 100, signed by Walton Ford Printed on archival-quality paper Finished with a sumptuous calf-leather cover and gold embossing Packaged in a clamshell box covered in Luxor book cloth With an original six-color intaglio print, Limed Blossoms, made especially for this book by Walton Ford. Also, on title page, W.Ford drew a cheetah - @5", which he initialed & dated (2008), along with the location (Great Barrington, MA). Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. Original watercolor and pen and ink drawing on paper, mounted onto card (drawing measures 6 3/8 x 7 5/8 inches, paper sheet 8 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches). Verso of card with: "To be returned to A. Rackham | Insurance value 30 pounds" written in pencil. Housed in gilt frame with "Old Church Galleries" sticker on back. Additional four provenance labels underneath the rear brown framing paper. The first reads: "38. Izaak Walton." Second is a sticker of authenticity: "F.R. It is important that this label should never be destroyed. The evidence it bears of the registered stock number has in the past proved to be of very great value for purposes of identification and authenticity. Artist: Arthur Rackham; Title: Isaac Walton; Registered Number D. 13846 6 ½ x 7 1/2" with an additional smudged area, larger sticker from "Ernest Brown & Phillips, Ltd. The Leicester Galleries." A fourth sticker identifies the piece in a December 1935 exhibition of Rackham's work, with the purchaser named as "Captain E. Merry"; additional numerical pencil markings on back. A bust-length portrait of Izaak Walton (1593-1683) in front of landscape background. The black and white ink illustration was used in Rackham's illustrated edition of The Compleat Angler, published 1931 (on page 19). Rackham added the watercolor when offering this piece for sale at Leicester Galleries. Izaak Walton was an English author and biographer remembered for his beloved book The Compleat Angler (1653). The fishing guide mixed practical advice with folklore, and would eventually be illustrated by Arthur Rackham. In that book, "No fewer than six plates have landscape backgrounds, plates which should remind us of Rackham's very serious reputation as a landscape painter, with a fine vision of natural forms" (Gettings). Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classicfrom Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Fine.

Condition: Fine. Original watercolor and pen and ink drawing on paper, mounted onto card (drawing measures approximately 278 x 190 mm). Signed and dated by Arthur Rackham in 1931 (lower left). Matted, framed and glazed. Image coming a bit loose in mount, some minor soiling on matte. From The Compleat Angler, printed tissue guard with: "And There We Played at Shovel-Board Half the Day," facing p 182. Last sold at Heritage Auctions, 2019. Before that at Swann Galleries, 1996 making $9,200. A rustic scene of several young men playing shovel-board in a pub designed for Rackham's version of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler (1653)the quintessential pastoral work on fishing. Structured as a dialogue between a fisherman, huntsman, and fowler, the book is a celebration of the natural world and the thrills of fishing as a pastime. In this edition the text is visualized with Arthur Rackham's unparalleled illustrations, making it a delight for fishing enthusiasts and collectors alike. Despite Rackham's illness and personal struggles during the project, it was seen as an opportunity to revitalize his career. "No fewer than six plates have landscape backgrounds, plates which should remind us of Rackham's very serious reputation as a landscape painter, with a fine vision of natural forms" (Gettings). A lovely example of Rackham's more traditional artistic hand. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classicfrom Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Fine.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933) (illustrator). Civil War Pen and Ink Drawings ¿ An Incident at Cold Harbor, Cold Harbor, VA. After a sketch by Charles W. Reed, June 1864. By Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933, Title inscribed in pencil, in the upper right hand corner Medium: Pen and crayon Dimensions: Sheet Size: 12 1/4 x 17 5/8¿ Reference p389, #517, Sears, Stephen. The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933) (illustrator). Civil War Pen and Ink Drawings ¿ Federal Wounded on the Grounds of Marye House Fredericksburg, VA. After a photograph by Matthew Brady or assistant, May 1864. By Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933, Title inscribed in pencil, in the upper left hand corner Medium: Pen and ink on paper Dimensions: Sheet Size: 12 1/4 x 16 1/4¿ Reference p389, #516, Sears, Stephen. The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art.

The Second edition much enlarged. The Second edition much enlarged. Engraved piscatorial vignette on title page and ten small copperplate engravings in the text. 1 vols. 12mo. Attractive copy of the second edition of Walton's Angler. Rare: Sir John Hawkins in the Preface to his 1760 edition of the Angler, said "The Second Edition I have never seen.". Coigney 2 Bound in mid-19th-century green roan, tooled in blind. With a nice angling bookplate of the Rev. H. J. Cotton with signature "JHCotton" at the top of the plate. Title laid-down on thin card and lower margin trimmed at the foot (no loss) and with a small hole in the blank area below the vignette and slight tears across the center repaired. Lightly browned, a few spots. Closely trimmed at the head and fore-edge affecting top line of text on A11v, A12r and a few headlines, final or initial letters touched on the fore-edge of B6r, F6r, I3r, I5r, I6r-v, K8r, L2v, L3r, L4r, L6r, O3v, the music on O5v-O6r, Q4v, Q5v, Q6v catchword on G5v, snout of the fish on K6r and P6r touched Engraved piscatorial vignette on title page and ten small copperplate engravings in the text. 1 vols. 12mo.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933) (illustrator). Civil War Pen and Ink Drawings ¿ Camp of the 153rd New York Infantry. After wartime photograph by Alexander Gardner. By Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933), Title inscribed in pencil, in the upper left hand corner above the image. Medium: Pen and ink on paper Dimensions: Sheet Size: 10 1/4 x 13¿ Reference p 381, #380, Sears, Stephen. The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art.

Limited Art edition. This is number 5 of 100 numbered copies signed by Ford and issued with the original intaglio print Limed Blossoms, depicting a group of ruby-red throated hummingbirds trapped in flower blossoms. Folio. Illustrations throughout. Original full brown leather, gilt title to spine, illustration of two birds to front cover in gilt, housed in publisher's cloth clamshell box with lettering to spine and illustration of a bee to lid, all in gilt. With original six-color intaglio print in a quarter cloth folder with cardboard sides. With original packaging box. A fine copy.

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Allom; Boys; Mackenzie and Walton (illustrator). An excellent and exceptionally scarce first edition imprint of this profusely illustrated work regarding the first Afghan War, presented in the original silk moire boards and complete with highly informative tinted lithograph illustrations. Very scarce. Folio. Collated complete with a hand coloured frontispiece, title page vignette, lithograph dedication to The East India Company, engraved map, vignette illustration to page twelve and twenty five tinted lithographed plates by Allom, Boys, Mackenzie & Walton. Plates printed using Hullmandel's patented Lithotint process. An extremely scarce imprint of the first edition, not found on Copac or in Abbey travel. Only two known records of this work at auction. Expertly rebacked in quarter morocco with original silk moire boards. It is extremely common for this particular work to be rebacked. The original decorative and desirable silk moire boards are still present. Sir Keith Alexander Jackson was a British officer, notably fighting in the First Anglo-Afghan War where he served as a Captain in the 4th Light Dragoons, integral to the campaign to replace pro-Russian Emir of Kabul with the pro-British Shah Shuja. This work 'Views in Affghaunistan' is considered Jackson's Magnum Opus.The work was published during the height of British successes in Afghanistan; prior to their withdrawal from the country and following on from this successful campaign. Jackson was granted a leave of absence, during which he was able to arrange the publication of this work. The work is highly regarded for the depth of historical and topographical information it provides, but it is the extremely detailed lithographic illustrations for which the work is most widely praised. The plates include not only pictorial information regarding the military campaigns in the area, but also a wider understanding of the Afghan culture and people. The work offered a previously unseen snapshot into the topography, culture and people of Afghanistan, as well as a firsthand account of the military campaign, including specific military engagements and the occasional lithograph of British officers. The work is not only beautifully illustrated, but an integral first hand account of a decisive military campaign, with this particular copy complete with fine plates. An exceptional copy of a firsthand account of significant historical value, complete with fine lithographic plates and presented in the original highly desirable moire silk boards. Expertly rebacked in quarter morocco with original silk moire boards. Externally smart with slight rubbing, resulting in some slight loss to the silk and to the morocco on the spine. Very light area of damp staining to lower extremity of front board. Marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just minor sunning to the extremities and the very occasion spot. Sunning to frontispiece. Evidence of professional repair to margin of frontispiece. Neat repair to extremity of text page entitled 'Ghuznee'. Very small closed tear to extremity of page three. The plates are in fine condition. Very Good Indeed. book.

First edition. First Edition. Original Wrappers missing. 229pp. Fourteen plates including Frontispiece. The "Exceedingly Rare" first edition of one of the classic western outlaw and gunmen books. "This is the life story, taken from his own lips, of one of the most notorious lawmen and gunmen who ever lived.Floyd Streeter, mentioning Hickok, Earp, Masterson, Hardin, and Billy the Kid, stated: 'While every one of these men was brave beyond question and made an excellent record, Ben Thompson was the most dangerous in deadly combat with a pistol.He engaged in more deadly encounters with a pistol than any other gunmen then living and won every battle but the last. This record made him the most feared fighter of his day'.In 1882, while Thompson was city marshal of Austin and Walton a leading criminal lawyer, the two men began working on the story of Thompson's life. When Thompson was gunned down in San Antonio two years later, Walton finished the text and had it printed.Very few copies were printed and fewer sold.Walton's narrative, which in effect is Thompson's autobiography, is therefore the most important record of this contradictory man. It is naturally sympathetic, but it presents the case for Thompson with factual accuracy even though its conclusions are biased in his favor. It is perhaps the most important contemporary account of any Western gunman."--John H. Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 210. Six-Guns 2302: "exceedingly rare and exceedingly high in price when one is fortunate enough to locate a copy."(1954). This is the only copy that we have ever seen! The original wrappers are missing. The frontispiece is detached but present. The text block is lightly tanned, but clean and tight. Protected in a custom quarter-leather slipcase with title, author, place and year of publication in gilt on spine.

Fourth edition. Fourth edition. Engraved cartouche on the title-page, and ten small copperplates of fish in the text. 1 vols. Small 8vo (5-5/8 x 3-5/8 inches; 142 x 85 mm). Excellent copy of this Walton, first published in 1653. The first four editions there were five in his lifetime remained anonymous. Coigney 5; Horne 5; Oliver 5; Pforzheimer 1051; Westwood & Satchell, p. 219; Wing W665 Bound in contemporary mottled calf, leather title label in red, front joint split, but holding. Bookplate of Leeds. Brown calf-backed slipcase and cloth chemise Engraved cartouche on the title-page, and ten small copperplates of fish in the text. 1 vols. Small 8vo (5-5/8 x 3-5/8 inches; 142 x 85 mm).

Condition: Very Good. Fourth Edition. 1688. xvi, 1-255, [1], [16]. Fourth edition. Small 8vo, meauring roughly 5.5 x 3.75 inches, with ten engravings in text and two pages of the "Angles Song" with page of music purposely bound in upside-down in all copies as intended so two people could read the music simultaneously. Bound in older full calf ruled and decorated in blind with spine titles in gilt, marbled endsheets; neatly rebacked. Light rubbing to binding, title page soiled. two inked names to title page and to bottom of each music plate, occational browning or spotting. Several pages have old marginal ink markings or an occasional ink splash. A celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Originally published in 1653, a total of five editions were published during the author's life time, the first four of which were published anonymously.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933) (illustrator). Civil War Pen and Ink Drawings ¿ Exterior View of Fort Sumter. After photographs, April 1861. By Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933), Title inscribed in pencil, in the upper right hand corner, and commentary along the bottom on corrections needed. Medium: Pen and ink on paper Dimensions: Sheet Size: 10 1/2 x 12 1/2¿ Reference p380, #365, Sears, Stephen. The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933) (illustrator). Civil War Pen and Ink Drawings ¿The Andrew¿s Raid: Beginning of the Pursuit. April 12, 1862 original illustration. By Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933), Title inscribed in pencil, in the center of page under the image. Medium: Pen and ink on paper Dimensions: Sheet Size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/2¿ Reference p 388-89, #498, Sears, Stephen. The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933) (illustrator). Civil War Pen and Ink Drawings ¿ Army Wagon. After wartime photograph. By Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933), Title inscribed in pencil, in the center of the page above the image Medium: Pen and ink on paper Dimensions: Sheet Size: 10 x 8¿ Reference p388, #506, Sears, Stephen. The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933) (illustrator). Civil War Pen and Ink Drawings ¿ Allatoona Pass, Georgia. After a photograph by George N. Barnard, 1864 By Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933, Title inscribed in pencil, in the upper left hand corner and in pencil in bottom right hand corner, the name of the photographer Medium: Pen and ink on paper Dimensions: Sheet Size: 15 5/8 x 19 5/8¿ Reference p 389, #520, Sears, Stephen. The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Three parts bound in one volume. [28], 275, [11]; [5], 111, [2]; [12], 96, [6] pages. Some copperplate engravings throughout. Very thick 12mo, handsomely rebound in recent full beige blind-stamped morocco with red leather spine labels. Pages generally rather clean but some age toning and browning at edges, and some ink spotting on fore-edge along with contemporary inked title "Compleat Angler"; Walton's frontispiece with small hole and chipped edges. London: Richard Marriott, 1676. A lovely copy. The fifth edition of Walton/Cotton's Compleat Angler, and the fourth edition of Venables' Experience'd Angler. Part. I: Izaak Walton. "Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish & Fishing". Engraved piscatorial title-page, 10 small engravings of fish, 2 pages of music + 10 pages titled "A Short Discourse by Way of Post-script, Touching the Lawes of Angling". Part II: Charles Cotton. "Being Instructions How to Angle For a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream". Part III: Robert Venables. "The Experience'd Angler: Or, Angling Improv'd. Being a General Discourse of Angling". Engraved illustration facing title, and 10 engraved plates, including some of the same as in first part.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933) (illustrator). Civil War Pen and Ink Drawings ¿ Umbrella Rock, Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tennessee. After a wartime photograph. By Isaac Walton Taber (1857-1933, Title inscribed in pencil, in the upper right hand corner Medium: Pen and ink on paper Dimensions: Sheet Size: 12 x 8 1/2¿ Reference p388, #497, Sears, Stephen. The American Heritage Century Collection of Civil War Art.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Muy bien. 1ª Edición. NARRACIONES TERRORIFICAS es una revista argentina de 1939 a 1949. Es el primer pulp de horror publicado en español, con traducciones directas de pulps de Estados Unidos, en particular Weird Tales, además de autores españoles con o sin seudónimo. //Algunos de los autores son Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Frederick Benson, Ernest William Hornung, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Harry Walton, José Mallorquí Figuerola, Bram Stoker y más./ Edición original de 1939, editorial Molino.//Colección casi completa, muy difícil conseguir tantos, y en esta muy buena codición. Hay 73 de los 76 volúmenes. Faltan los números 25,70,y 76. // Muy buen estado con muy pocas señales de uso.//Unas 80 páginas por número. Medidas: 23,5 x 17 cm// NARRACIONES TERRORIFICAS is an Argentine magazine from 1939 to 1949. Is the first horror pulp published in Spanish, with direct translations of pulps from the United States, in particular Weird Tales, Horror Stories and Terror Tales, as well as Spanish authors with or without pseudonyms.// Some of the authors are Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Frederick Benson, Ernest William Hornung, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Harry Walton, José Mallorquí Figuerola, Bram Stoker, and more.// Original edition of 1939, Editorial Molino.// Almost complete collection, very hard to get so many, and on this very nice codition. There are 73 of the 76 volumes. Issues 25, 70, and 76 are missing.// Very good condition with very few signs of use.// About 80 pages each number.// Size: 9.3 x 6.5 inches.

Scarce third state of Robert Walton's decorative map of the World, based upon the earlier edition of John Speed's World map.Double hemisphere map of the World, with portraits of the four great explorers of the era, Sir Francis Drake, Thomas Candish, Oliver Van Noort, and Ferdinand Magellan.California is depicted as an Island, with an unusual Northwest Coast of America. The map is surrounded by smaller celestial hemispheres and the four elements with notes on the South Pole & Straits of Magellan. Walton's map is rarer than John Speed's map and is of equal artistic and cartographic importance., Size : 398x530 (mm), 15.67x20.87 (Inches), Hand Colored, 0 Very Good, backed on acid free tissue paper for long term preservation.

Condition: Fine. A very fine and unique copy. Specially bound with two superb original watercolor paintings on both of the calf doublures by Helen R. Haywood. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 1/2 in; 181 x 113 mm). lxxxix, [4], 454, [14 as Anglers' Calendar] pp. Black and white illustrations throughout, some full-page. Initials and vignettes. Inserted limitation leaf "With Water/Colour Drawings/on/Calf Doublures/by/[signed] Helen R. Haywood." Bound by Rivière & Son c. 1926, stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full forest green crushed morocco, covers with gilt double-rule border, spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Double gilt-ruled board edges, decorative gilt ruled turn-ins, enclosing calf doublures with full, angling-themed original watercolor paintings. Green moire silk free endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a felt-lined green cloth clamshell case, spine with leather label, lettered in gilt. Izaak Walton's The Compleate Angeler (1653) is perhaps the quintessential pastoral work on fishing. Structured as a dialogue between a fisherman, huntsman, and fowler, the book is a celebration of the natural world and the thrills of fishing as a pastime. The two exquisite original watercolors on calf elegantly reproduce at the front "Come, now bait your hook again, and lay it into the water, for it rains again" (Compleat Angler, Fourth Day) and at the rear "Marry, God requite you, sir, and we'll eat it cheerfully" (Compleat Angler, Third Day). Helen R[iviere] Haywood (1908-1995), was an English painter, children's book illustrator, and writer, best known for her foredge paintings. She came from a book-binding family: Haywood was the granddaughter Robert Riviere, founder of the great bindery, which executed this lovely binding, and her uncle (who also worked for the firm) introduced her to foredge and double foredge painting. Between the 1930s-1970s she completed multiple commissions for Inman's Books, a New York City based antiquarian book dealer. From her intertest in science, anthropology, and naturalism, Haywood developed a keen attention to the world's natural elements; this talent for observation and specificity found its way into her artwork. Provenance: Purchased by David Brass Rare Books from John & Judith Head (May 2012); sold to Randal Moscovitz (December 2012). Fine.

First complete edition of 'The Universal Angler', containing the fifth edition of Walton's Angler, the first edition of Cotton's continuation of The Complete Angler and the fourth edition of Venables' The Experienc'd Angler. Three volumes in one, octavo (148 x 90 mm). Later full crushed olive morocco, with raised bands, gilt decoration and titles to the spine, triple ruled gilt border to the covers, gilt decorated turn-ins and all edges gilt. General title page to front and individual title pages to each volume, including engraved title pages to volumes one and three. Ten engravings attributed to Pierre Lombart in Part I (repeated in part II), woodcut initials and headpieces, two pages of printed music. A trace of wear to the binding but a fine copy, textually complete (though wanting two terminal blanks) and internally fresh. The fifth edition was the last to receive Walton's own revisions. Bound under the title The Universal Angler with Charles Cotton's and Robert Venables's continuations, "all of which may be bound together, or sold each of them severally". Venables's text, The Experienced Angler, or Angling Improved, is a fourth, enlarged, edition (third extant) and Cotton's Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream is a first edition. "Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, 'Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did'; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling" (The Compleat Angler).