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Imprint: 1826 FINLEY, Anthony. [MAP], MASSACHUSETTS, CONNECTICUT AND RHODE ISLAND. [FrOM A NEW AMERICAN ATLAS DESIGNED PRINCIPALLY TO ILLUSTRATE THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA...Philadelphia: A. Finley, 1826.] Engraved hand-colored map, 19"x 24". Drawn by D.H. Vance and engraved by J.H. Young. Lightly soiled with light off-setting. Center seam split 6" from top. Stock number: 88095.
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Imprint: 1826 FINLEY, Anthony. [MAP] MISSOURI AND THE TERRITORY OF ARKANSAS. [From A NEW AMERICAN ATLAS DESIGNED PRINCIPALLY TO ILLUSTRATE THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA.] Philadelphia: A. Finley, 1826. Engraved hand-colored map, 19"x 24", drawn by D.H. Vance and engraved by J.H. Young. Lightly soiled with faint off-setting. Stock number: 88089.
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Imprint: 1826 FINLEY, Anthony. [MAP], NEW YORK. [From A NEW AMERICAN ATLAS DESIGNED PRINCIPALLY TO ILLUSTRATE THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA...Philadelphia: A. Finley, 1826. Engraved hand-colored map, 19"x 24". Drawn by D.H. Vance and engraved by J.H. Young. A few chips to edges. Lightly soiled with light off-setting. Center seam split 1/2" top and bottom. Stock number: 88098.
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Imprint: 1826 FINLEY, Anthony. [MAP], OHIO, INDIANA AND ILLINOIS, AND PART OF THE MICHIGAN TERRRITORY. [From A NEW AMERICAN ATLAS DESIGNED PRINCIPALLY TO ILLUSTRATE THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA.] Philadelphia: A. Finley, 1826. Engraved hand-colored map, 19"x 24". Drawn by D.H. Vance and engraved by J.H. Young. Lightly soiled with faint off- setting. Top and bottom of center seam split 1 1/2". Stock number: 88092.
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Imprint: 1826 FINLEY, Anthony. [MAP], PENNSYLVANIA NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE.[From A NEW AMERICAN ATLAS DESIGNED PRINCIPALLY TO ILLUSTRATE THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA.] Philadelphia: A. Finley,1826. Engraved hand-colored map, 19"x 24". Drawn by D.H. Vance and engraved by J.H. Young. Lightly soiled and browned, botoom corners chipped. Center seam split about 1 1/2" top and bottom. Stock number: 88090.
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Imprint: 1826 FINLEY, Anthony. [MAP], SOUTH AMERICA. [From A NEW AMERICAN ATLAS DESIGNED PRINCIPALLY TO ILLUSTRATE THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA... Philadelphia: A. Finley, 1826.] Engraved hand-colored map, 19"x24". Drawn by D.H. Vance and engraved by J.H. Young. Lightly soiled with light off-setting. Stock number: 88094.
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Imprint: 1826 FINLEY, Anthony. [MAP], VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. [From A NEW AMERICAN ATLAS DESIGNED PRINCIPALLY TO ILLUSTRATE THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA... Philadelphia: A. Finley, 1826.] Engraved hand-colored map, 19"x 24". Drawn by D.H. Vance and engraved J.H. Young. includes inset map of the "Plan for Washington City". Lightly soiled with light off- setting. Center seam split. Stock number: 88093.
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Imprint: 1882 FINLEY, Martha. MILDRED'S MARRIED LIFE AND A WINTER WITH ELSIE DINSMORE. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1882. Small 8vo. Green cloth stamped in gilt to spine. Part of fly leaf clipped.very Good., Very Good Stock number: 87648.
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Imprint: 1924 FIRBANK, RONALD. SORROW IN SUNLIGHT. London: Brentano's [1924]. First British edition. Preceded by American edition titled Prancing Nigger. small 8vo. cloth. A near fine copy in a very worn, tattered dust jacket that is tape repaired down the front., Fine Stock number: 78774.
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Imprint: 1867 (FIRE LANDS PIONEER). THE FIRE LANDS PIONEER. Volume VIII, June 1867, Vol. IX, June 1868, Vol. X, June 1870. Published by the Fire Lands Historical Society. Sandusky, OH: Register Steam Printing Establishment, 1867, 1868, 1870. Three issues in 8vo., marbled-paper-covered leather- backed boards, original wrappers bound in. Bookplate. Front board, two chipped prelim. blanks detached but present, rear board starting, crumbling leather. As is, with clean text. Stock number: 59820.
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Imprint: 1908 FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 1708-1908, TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Falmouth, Mass. First edition. 8vo., wrappers. Flyleaf adhered to front wrap. Paper somewhat edge-toned. Wrappers lightly foxed and sunned to extremes. About very good., Good Stock number: 73849.
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Imprint: 1915 [First World War]. (CHURCHILL, Winston, et al.). "A SOUVENIR OF THE GREAT WAR." Circa 1914-1915. A piece of linen, 19 1/2 by 24 1/2 inches, printed with 28 portraits of heads-of-state and political and military leaders, mostly from England and Commonwealth countries, but also including those from allied countries: France, Belgium, Serbia, Russia and Japan. A central motif representing Britain's pact with Belgium, wherein Britain promised to aid Belgium if her neutrality was breached, is superimposed over flags of the allied nations. "A scrap of paper," the German Chancellor von Bethman-Hollweg's derisive remark about the pact, is printed next to the document with an arrow pointing toward it. But arching above and below the document are the phrases "Liberty & Peace" and "Our Word Our Bond." Portraits of Lord Kitchener, General Joffre, Grand Duke Nicholas, and General French, the top British, French and Russian military leaders, are printed above the pact. The remaining portraits form a border around the cloth; moving clockwise from the right corner, they are: King of Servia [sic], Czar of Russia, General Botha, Gen. Smith Dorrien, Gen. D. Henderson, Gen. Allenby, Col. Sam Hughes, King of Belgium, General Le Man, Lord Landsdowne, Rear Admiral Beatty, Hon. Winston Churchill, Lord Fisher, Admiral Jellicoe, Gen. Douglas Haig, Sir Edward Grey, Pres. Poincare, Hon. A. Bonar Law, Hon. H. H. Asquith, Lord Roberts, Maharajah of Behar, Viceroy of India, King George V, Mikado. Printed in sepia, red, blue and yellow, and mounted on mat board; the cloth is lightly age-toned, and the blue has faded to light grey, but very good overall., Very Good Stock number: 77633.
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Imprint: 1908 FIRTH, C.H. MILTON AS AN HISTORIAN. From the Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. III. London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, [c. 1908]. Original wrappered pamphlet, 32 pp. of text, bound in green cloth boards (with several blanks). Cancelled library bookplate to fpd, no external marks. Shallow vertical crease throughout the pamphlet, else near fine, in a very good binding, slightly bumped and darkened at the perimeters., Fine Stock number: 75027.
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Imprint: 1895 FIRTH, C. H., ed. SCOTLAND AND THE COMMONWEALTH: LETTERS AND PAPERS RELATING TO THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND, FROM AUGUST 1651 TO DECEMBER 1653. Publications of the Scottish History Society, vol. XVIII. Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society. lv + 383 = 16 pp. 8vo., dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Spine has shallow chips at heel and crown. Spine slightly soiled. Pencil ownership to half-title. Very good internally, unopened., Good Stock number: 83592.
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Imprint: 1899 FIRTH, C. H. SCOTLAND AND THE PROTECTORATE: LETTERS AND PAPERS RELATING TO THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND FROM JANUARY 1654 TO JUNE 1659. Publications of the Scottish History Society, vol. XXXI. Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society, 1899. lxii + 432 + 8 pp. 8vo., dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Spine slightly chipped at heel. Rear board's cloth is slightly wrinkled. Pencil ownership to half-title. Interior clean and tight with folding plates in black and white or sepia. Stock number: 83593.
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Imprint: 1919 FISCHER, Martin H. THE NEW HOPE IN HEREDITY. N.p.: Henry Holt and Company, 1910. Reprinted from The Unpopular Review for April-June, 1919. Vol. XI, No. 22, p.320-339. Stapled wrappers. Light soil to covers. A very good copy., Very Good Stock number: 55363.
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Imprint: 1949 FISHER, Frank B., Jr. FACTS FABLES & FICTION OF HOKKAIDO JAPAN "The Land of a Thousand Stories" Sapporo: Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Printing Shop (1949). 12mo., red flexible covers, gilt. Interesting collection of stories. The front hinge is just starting at the top, else good. Unusual., Good Stock number: 75100.
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Imprint: 1949 FISHER, Frank B., Jr. FACTS FABLES & FICTION OF HOKKAIDO JAPAN "The Land of a Thousand Stories" Sapporo: Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Printing Shop (1949). 12mo., red flexible covers, gilt. Interesting collection of stories. The back cover has a crease, else good. Unusual., Good Stock number: 75138.
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Imprint: 1893 NO. 3 FISHER, A. K., ed. C. Hart MERRIAM. THE HAWKS AND OWLS OF THE UNITED STATES IN THEIR RELATION TO AGRICULTURE. Illustrated by J. L. & R. Ridgway. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893. 210 pp. Color plates, complete. 8vo., brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Moderate shelfwear, corners bumped. Interior near fine, only an occasional spot of foxing, plates clean and fresh with tissue guards intact. The plates are striking, often depicting the birds of prey with their victims., Fine Stock number: 83201. ISBN: ORNITHOLOGY
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Imprint: 1968 FISHER, Alfred Young. NOTES FROM A COMMONPLACE BOOK. [N.P.: France], privately printed, 1968. "Not For Sale" printed on verso of title page. Inscribed presentation copy with warm gift inscription on front flyleaf, with a small handwritten note from the author laid in. 30 pp. 12mo., pale wrappers printed in dark blue and black. Light soil to wrappers, interior fine., Fine Stock number: 83715.
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Imprint: 1974 FISHER, Ronald Aylmer. THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF R. A. FISHER. Edited by J. H. Bennett. 4 of 5 volumes only, nos. 2 (1925-31), 3 (1932-36), 4 (1937-47), and 5 (1948-62). Adelaide: University of Adelaide, 1971-1974. As new. Papers on statistics and genetics., Fine Stock number: 78887.
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Imprint: 1916 FISHER, Marian Cole. TWENTY LESSONS IN DOMESTIC SCIENCE. Calumet Baking Powder Co., 1916. 8vo. Green cloth. Prior ownership in ink to ffep. Very Good., Very Good Stock number: 87652.
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Imprint: 1928 (FISHING). BAIT-CASTING. By William C. Vogt. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928. First edition, inscribed presentation copy. 8vo., half maroon morocco, maroon cloth-covered boards, spine in gilt, t.e.g.; xi + 102pp. with b&w photographic ills. Minimal faint foxing, else a lovely, fine copy., Fine Stock number: 34991.
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Imprint: 1927 FISHING MASTERS' ASSOCIATION. FISHERMEN OF THE ATLANTIC 1929. Boston: Fishing Masters' Association, 1927. 138 pp. 8vo., green cloth stamped in gilt. Good, front and rear boards dampstained at fore-edge. Gilt lettering and cloth clean. In original brown paper dust jacket with inkstamp from Fishing Masters' Association, with several closed tears. Light foxing to endpapers, but interior is unaffected by dampstaining. Contains many illustrated advertisements pertaining to the commercial fishing industry. "Containing the only complete list of Fishing Vessels of Boston, Gloucester, Provincetown, New Bedford, Nantucket, Portland, ME; the New England Coast, Newport, R.I.; New London, Conn.; New York, Philadelphia, Pensacola, Florida, and Galveston, Texas." B/w photo reproductions, including scenes of the Boston Fish Pier, various fishing boats. About good., Good Stock number: 83790.
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Imprint: 1873 FISKE, John. MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpretated by Comparative Mythology. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. First edition of Fiske's second book, an inscribed presentation copy. Mildly over-opened, some dampstaining to the top edge, wear at crown and heel. A very good copy., Very Good. Illustr: SFE Stock number: 18120.
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Imprint: 1904 FISKE, John. NEW FRANCE AND NEW ENGLAND. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1904; Cambridge, Riverside Press. First illustrated edition. Illustrated from maps, portraits, facsimiles, photographs and drawings. xxx, 338 pp. 8vo., green cloth printed in gilt to upper board and spine, top edge gilt. Ink stamp to ffep. Text and illustrations clean and tight. Sunning and rubbing to spine, dust soil to top edge, and mild shelfwear. Good plus., Good Stock number: 57381.
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Imprint: 1924 (FITZGERALD, Edward). EDWARD FITZGERALD AND BERNARD BARTON: Letters Written by Fitzgerald, 1839-1856. Edited by F.R. Barton, with a Foreword by Viscount Grey of Fallodon. With Two Portraits. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. First edition. 8vo., maroon cloth, lettered in gilt. Fine, in a worn, chipped and slightly soiled dust jacket., Fine Stock number: 45694.
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Imprint: 1980 FITZGERALD, F. Scott. THE GREAT GATSBY. With an introduction by Charles Scribner III. And illustrations by Fred Meyer. N.p.: Printed for members of The Limited Editions Club, (1980). This copy is number 226 from an edition of 2000 signed by the illustrator. Designed by Roderick D. Stinehour, and printed and bound at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont, it is illustrated with 14 colorplates after gouaches by Fred Meyer. xix,[5],171 pp. Small quarto, 8 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches, full gray buckram, stamped in black and silver gilt with a design created by Deborah M. Evetts. A fibe copy, it is housed in a lightly shelfworn publisher's black paper slipcase with silver gilt lettering on one side. Stock number: 88604.
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Imprint: 1909 FITZGERALD, Edward. RUBA'IYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. (Author's Final Revision) with The Literal Omar, Being a Version of Those Quatrains of the Original Upon which Fitzgerald's Poem was Based. Edited by Arthur Guiterman. With Eight Illustrations by Gilbert James. San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company, (1909). 8vo., half-bound red morocco over red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Spine and perimeters darkened, moderate wear to extremes, small patch of damp to front boards; hinges tender. Text and illustrations clean and solid. Very good overall., Good Stock number: 64745.
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Imprint: 1896 FITZGERALD, Edward, translator. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. POrtland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1896. 12mo., decorative paper over limp boards, yapp fore-edges, untrimmed. Partially unopened. Ink ownership. Sun, slightly soiled and touch of bubbling to binding; near fine internally, with slight offsetting from an old bound-in (now detached but present) silk ribbon bookmark. An about very good, tight copy., Very Good Stock number: 72151.
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Imprint: 1872 [FITZGERALD, Edward, translator]. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, the astronomer-poet of Persia. Rendered into English verse. Third Edition. London: Bernard Quaritch, Piccadilly. 1872. xxiv,36 pp. Purple cloth boards backed in dark brown calf, with gilt title to spine, dark brown coated endpapers. Presentation ticket (George M. Folsom to F. O. French) and bookplate (of French) at front pastedown. Quite clean, but with some occasional light foxing. The t.p. is partially sprung. Leather back is rubbed at heel and crown, and very lightly at joints. Boards are sunned at top-edges and show some random, light spotting. A very good copy of the third edition. Comprised of 101 quatrains; it includes the first appearance of the famous 'Book of Verses' stanza., Very Good Stock number: 65237.
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Imprint: 1903 FITZGERALD, Edward. THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. The Astronomer Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With an appendix, showing the variations in the first three editions of Fitzgerald's translations. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1903. Small 8vo., decorative grey cloth, lettered in gilt; t.e.g. Just slight bubbling to cloth at rear board; touch of darkening at crown. Overall, a fine copy, with the remnants of a dust jacket., Fine Stock number: 60573.
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Imprint: 1913 FITZGERALD, Edward. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. London: Philip Lee Warner, 1913. Limited edition, 1/1000 copies. 8vo., beige cloth-backed grey paper-covered boards. Bookplate, ownership blind-stamp to ffep. Spine as been varnished; some soil and light edgewear to boards. Offsetting to endpapers, but text is clean and attractive. A very good reading copy., Very Good Stock number: 59541.
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Imprint: 1971 FITZGERALD, Robert. SPRING SHADE. (New York): New Directions, (1971). Inscribed for Ted & Kay Morrison. 8vo., blue paper-covered boards backed in beige cloth. Near fine, in a dust jacket with a touch of soil and sun., Fine Stock number: 61912.
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Imprint: 1965 FitzGIBBON, Constantine. THE LIFE OF DYLAN THOMAS. With photographs. Boston: Little, Brown, (1965). First American edition. Fine, in a near fine dust jacket., Fine Stock number: 69823.
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Imprint: 1937 FITZPATRICK, Kathleen. THE WEANS OF ROWALLAN. New York: Coward-McCann, 1937. First Edition. 8vo. Introduction by Walter de la Mare. Illustrated by Peggy Bacon. Light-brown cloth, lettered in blue to spine. Top edge lightly soiled. Dustjacket lightly soiled and chipped. Very Good., Very Good Stock number: 88498.
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Imprint: 1870 [FLAGS] Suharaya Mo^hei, publisher. KISHO^ ZUFU. To^kyo^, n.d. [c. 1870]. 22.1 x 14.6 cm., Printed paper covers, tassel-bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. 11 sheets of color woodblock printed prints of Japanese government flags for the new Imperial era of Meiji, with explanatory text. A so-called "kanpon" or government publication, one of several "outsourced" to private printing houses during the earliest days of the new regime. Fine, impressions, colors, condition, in clasped chitsu case. Very unusual., Fine Stock number: 87703.
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Imprint: 1925 O'FLAHERTY, Liam. THE INFORMER. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., (1925). First edition. 272 pp. Octavo, green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. A crisp and clean copy showing very light dust-soiling to top edge, a bit of wear at heel and crown, else fine. A taut novel about Gypo Nolan, an Irish revolutionary and the informer of the title. It was made into a critically-regarded and popular film by John Ford in 1935 starring Victor McLaglen., Fine Stock number: 88761.
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Imprint: 1954 FLAUBERT, Gustave. BOUVARD AND PECUCHET. Translated by T. W. Earp and G. W. Stonier, with an introduction by Lionel Trilling. (Norfolk, CT:) New Directions, (1954). 8vo., blue cloth spine in gilt. Light wear to crown and heel. Dustwrapper is soiled and heavily sunned at spine with few nicks and tears. About very good., Very Good Stock number: 53152.
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Imprint: 1926 FLAUBERT, Gustave. CORRESPONDANCE. Oeuvres Completes de Gustave Flaubert. Paris: Louis Conard, 1926(-1933). 9 volumes. In French. Nouvelle Edition Augmentee. 8vo., white wrappers. Light shelfwear. Uncut and unopened with some minor dog-earing. Tissue jackets are worn at spines. A very good set., Very Good Stock number: 75040.
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Imprint: 1895 FLAUBERT, Gustave. THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTONY. London: H.S. Nichols, 1895. First English translation. Authorised Edition. Translated from The French by D.F. Hannigan. Illustrated with 9 original designs after S. Gorski. 8vo., blue cloth, gilt title and illustration to spine and front board, t.e.g. Gently bumped and shelfworn at spine extremities and fore- corners. Some foxing to endpapers with mild perimeter toning to text. Uncut. Very good. (Harris p.58), Very Good Stock number: 76756.
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Imprint: 1915 FLECKER, James Elroy. THE OLD SHIPS. London: Poetry Bookshop, [1915]. First edition, first issue. 8vo., wrappers 32pp. As is: wraps worn and soiled, with slight dampstain; front wrap detached, rear wrap nearly separated. First and last leaves bear some soil; first leaf chipped, several leaves dog-earred; the text is serviceable. Poems. Stock number: 63445.
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Imprint: 1911 FLETCHER, Alice C. and Francia La Flesche. THE OMAHA TRIBE. Extract from the Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911. 4to., olive cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; illustrated. Small spot of dampstaining to spine and rear boards, touch of soil elsewhere. Hinges tender; slight foxing to edges, but internally, text and plates are bright and clean, very good., Very Good Stock number: 60635.
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Imprint: 1691 Fleury, Claude (and Jean Claude Fabre). HISTOIRE ECCLESIASTIQUE, par Mr. Fleury, Pretre, Abbe de Loc-Dieu, sous-precepteur de Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne & de Monseigneur le Duc d'Anjou. Paris: Pierre Emery (etc.), 1691(-1738). Quarto. 36 volumes. First edition. A beautiful set in full mottled calf, gilt, with lettering-pieces and five raised bands to spines. Probably bound at publication of the final volume. Title woodcut, and copper-engraved headpiece with history scene to each volume, mostly by Sebastien LeClerc. Volumes 21-36, by Fabre, are subtitled "Pour servir decontinuation a celle de Monsieur l'Abbe Fleury." Beginning with Volume 20 the imprints vary to include Jean Mariette, Saugrain, Pierre Martin, and Hippolyte-Louis Guerin. A thorough theological, historical, and anecdotal chronicle of the Catholic Church from the time of the Evangelists to 1595. A standard work, first published in 1691 and reprinted many times. Small losses to three spine ends, wear to extremities, and small superficial cracks to hinges of six volumes; occasional light waterstaining, but on the whole a very good copy. The OCLC shows only one other copy of the first edition, at Yale., Very Good Stock number: 70769.
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Binding: Paperback FLORENZ, Dr. Karl. JAPANISCHE MYTHOLOGIE. NIHONGI. "ZEITALTER DER GOTTER" Tokyo: Hobunsha, 1901. 8vo. IX, 341pp + Plates. In wrappers, published as "SUPPLEMENT Der 'Mittheilungen' Der Deutschen Gesellschaft Fuer Natur- Und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens." A translation of the first two books of the Nihongi and related texts into German by Florenz, who was a professor at the University of Tokyo at the time. He was also known for his translations of Japanese poetry, which were published as illustrated crepe paper works by Hasegawa. This is the original offprint edition of this interesting and very scarce work. Slight soiling and foxing. The printed paper spine, glued down over the sewn signatures, has split at page 96, leaving the text block in two parts. Otherwise a very good and clean copy. $228.00, Very Good Stock number: 67255.
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Binding: Paperback FLORENZ, Dr. Karl. JAPANISCHE MYTHOLOGIE. NIHONGI. "ZEITALTER DER GOTTER" Tokyo: Hobunsha, 1901. 8vo. IX, 341pp + Plates. In wrappers, published as "SUPPLEMENT Der 'Mittheilungen' Der Deutschen Gesellschaft Fuer Natur- Und Voelkerkunde Ostasiens." A translation of the first two books of the Nihongi and related texts into German by Florenz, who was a professor at the University of Tokyo at the time. He was also known for his translations of Japanese poetry, which were published as illustrated crepe paper works by Hasegawa. This is the original offprint edition of this interesting and very scarce work. Clean copy in the original paper wrappers, bound into 1/4 cloth spine in blue and blue marbled boards - very durable and handsome. Stock number: 77343.
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Imprint: 1898 FLORENZ, Dr. Karl. [SIX OFFPRINTS, bound in one volume. [All are] Sonderabdruck aus den "Mittheilungen" fur Natur- und Volkerkunde Ostasiens... Formosanische Volkslieder Nach Chinesishen Quellen. Bd., VII, Theil 1. Tokyo: 1898. 50 pp. Neue Bewegungen zur Japanischen Schriftreform...mit Lautphysiologischen Exkursen. Bd. VIII, Theil 3. Tokyo: 1902. 34 pp. Bemerkungen und Berichtigungen zu Lange's Einfuhrung in die Japanische Schrift. Bd. VII, Theil 1. Tokyo: 1889. 28 pp. Erwiderung auf Prof. Dr. Lange's "Kritische Betrachtungen." Band VIII, Theil 1. Tokyo: 1900. 28 pp. Die Bedeutung des Pronomens "Dore". Bemerkungen von R. Lange und K. Florenz. Bd. IX, Teil 2. Tokyo: Hobunsha, 1903. 6 pp. Tsubosakadera oder Die Wunderbare Gnade der Goettin Kwannon (Ubersetzt von N. Okamoto, Revidiert und eingeleitet von K. Florenze. Tokyo: Hobunsha, 1903. 20 pp. 8vo., original wraps bound in brown cloth. Soil, some bumping and bowing to boards. Ffep detached but present; internally, occasional foxing, age-browning, offsetting. A servicable reading copy. In German. Stock number: 67310.
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Imprint: 1672 FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus. THE ROMAN HISTORY OF LUCIUS JULIUS FLORUS IN 4 BOOKES, MADE ENGLISH. [London:] Sold by Sam'l Speed, [1672]. The second edition of this English translation by John Davies, first published in 1669. This copy lacks the printed title-page but has the engraved title page by Frederick H. Van Hove (1628-1698). Signed: C-S8. 5 1/2 by 3 3/4" (14 x 9.5 cm). [8],230,,[20] pp.; the final page is a bookseller's advertisement. Page 143 is incorrectly marked 134. Pages 201-2 have a printer's error; the sheet has a small tear at the bottom edge that was folded over when it was in the press. Occasional light worming at top margin, sometimes affecting the running title but not the text. Cased in contemporary full calf, with black lettering piece on spine that is worn and rubbed. The bookblock is split near the center, after p. 136, with the first part detached from the binding. Bookplate of bibliographer Graham Pollard. It is offered with all faults. Stock number: 78068.
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Imprint: 1636 FLORUS, Lucius Julius [i.e. Annaeus]. The Roman Histories of Lucius Iulius Florus from the Foundation of Rome till Caesar Augustus, for above DCC yeares & from thence to Trajan, near CC years, divided by Florus into IV ages. London, Printed by R. Bishop, to be sold by Fr. Bowman in Oxford, 1636. 12mo. [1]f., [xxii]336pp. Third edition of E. M. Bolton's translation, first published in 1619. Engraved title showing a Roman centurion, and the four "ages of Rome" described in niches. Lacking final blank, otherwise internally fine, in early calf, ruled in blind. A few minor chips to extremities of covers., Fine Stock number: 78080.
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Imprint: 1966 [FLOWER ARRANGEMENT]. THE MASTERS' BOOK OF IKEBANA. Background and Principles of Japanese Flower Arrangement. Edited by Donald Richie & Meredith Weatherby. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, (1966). First edition. 4to., green cloth; 272pp. With many color tipped-in illustrations. About fine, with the publisher's wrap-around band. A lovely and surprisingly hard to find work., Fine Stock number: 61565.
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