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[Norman Kane]

PETRONIUS ARBITER.  LE SATYRICON DE PETRONE. Traduit En Francais Par Laurent Tailhade. Edition Definitive...
Paris, 1922.  1st trade edition of this edition. 6 monochrome plates  by J. E. Laboureur (OK). Duodecimo, approx 7.75 x 5 inches. 306, (iii) pp. Orig glazed yellow wrappers. Glossary at end. Prior owner's name & date on front blank. A clean tight copy.  ($40)  $20

DAUDET, Alphonse.  PORT TARASCON. THE LAST ADVENTURES OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS TARTARIN.  N.Y., 1891.  Translated by Henry James. 1st edition. Preceded French edition! BAL 10766: Binding A. 1st edition E&L B6a. Blue cloth stamped in gold and silver. The earliest frontis with subject turned left. Illustrated. A nice copy.  ($40)  $20

PIRON, [Alexis].  OEUVRES CHOISIES DE PIRON. 2 Volumes.  Geneva (or Paris?), 1777.Approx 4-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches, in full mottled calf. Gilt rule frames on covers and ornate gilt decoration and lettering on spines. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine joints rubbed and chipped, (a bit more severely on Volume 2) with bottom 1/4 inch of spines lacking or damaged. A bit rubbed along edges. Portrait frontis. "A light, witty, poet, author of many keen epigrams, besides verse tales, satires, &c, not free from course buffoonery;  Piron's election to the Academie... was vetoed by Louis XV on account of a licentious "Ode a Priope," (Oxford Companion to French Literature).  ($60)  $20

ARIOSTO, Ludovico.  THE ORLANDO FURIOSO TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE. [8 Volumes].  London, John Murray (1823-1831).  Translated from the Italian by William Stewart Rose. Approximately 7-3/4 x 5 inches. In ribbed brown cloth, decoratively stamped in blind with gilt lettering on spines. A little rubbed at head and heel of spines. A very good set of the first edition of this translation.  ($150)  $60

GILLISPIE, Charles Coulston [Editor in Chief].  DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY, VOL. I, VOL. II, and VOL. IV.
N Y., 1970.  Three volumes from the series, Vol. I: Pierre Abailard - L. S. Berg, Vol. II: Hans Berger - Christoph Buys Ballot, and Vol. IV: Richard Dedekin - Firmicus Maternus.  Each volume a thick 4to, 11 x 9 inches in black and gold stamped green cloth.  The second volume has the original dust wrapper, but is an exlibrary copy with the expected markings and marks to the edges as well.  Overall a  good  group of 3 volumes from this useful and authoritative reference source.  ($50)  $25

CHURCHWARD, Albert.  THE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF PRIMORDIAL MAN. The Evolution of Religious Doctrines from the Eschatology of the Ancient Egyptions.  N. Y. & London.  1st US printing of the second, improved, [1912/13] edition. Complete with 19 black and white plates, some folding. 9-3/4 x 6-1/4 inches; 501 pages. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine; spine a little darkened. A look at Ancient Egypt's view of death & the afterlife. ($40) $20

RETI, Richard.  MASTERS OF THE CHESSBOARD.  N.Y., 1932.  1st US edition. Original red cloth stamped in black. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches); xiii, 436 pages. Translated from the German by M. A. Schwendemann. Introduction by Horace Ransom Bigelow. Covers a little stained and worn, name &c. on endpaper. Otherwise a very good copy of this important work!
($40)  $15

ANTRIM, Benajah J.  PANOGRAPHY, OR UNIVERSAL DRAWINGS,...WITH THE NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF PASIGRAPHY, AS THE SCIENCE OF LETTERS; BEING PARTICULARLY ADAPTED TO ...INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND THE STUDY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES. WITH SPECIMENS...FIFTY DIFFERENT ALPHABETS...  Phila: The Author, 1843.  
First Edition. Rebound in binder's cloth, small tear at top of the title page, binder's repair on last page. Faded library stamp on the title page and elsewhere. Ten pages of plates inserted and an 11th with blank verso. Errata on last page. 161, [1] pages. Some foxing. ("Antrim here proposes a scheme of universal language based upon sound...thus foreshadowing the so-called International Phonetic Alphabet now in use among linguists." Starting with the Gold Rush, a daguerreian and artist of the same name was active in Mexico, California, and Hawaii; the Library of Congress has his 1849 Journal and Sketchbook.) ($50)  $25

CARNEGIE, Andrew.  AMERICAN FOUR-IN-HAND IN BRITAIN.  N.Y., 1883.  1st trade edition in brown cloth with gilt lettering and black illustration of horse's head with gilt horseshoe on front cover and illus. of four-in-hand paraphernalia in black on spine. "Artotype" photo frontis. A little rubbed, sticker on front paste-down, otherwise a very good  copy of a book usually found in worn condition.  ($40)  $20

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