[Rarebooks] FS: SOME INTERESTING NEW ARRIVALS

[Norman Kane]

ORIGINAL CLOTH IN VERY GOOD OR BETTER CONDITION UNLESS OTHERWISE DESCRIBED:

ALVARADO, LISANDRO. GLOSARIO DE VOCES INDIGINAS DE VENEZUELA.  Caracas, 1921.  Half leather, small name stamp, collector's bookplate and several inscriptions.   Xix, [2], 319 pp.   $50.00 

PAEZ, (Don) RAMON,  WILD SCENES IN SOUTH AMERICA; OR, LIFE IN THE LLANOS OF VENEZUELA. SECOND EDITION.
N.Y.: Scribner, 1863.  Rebound in cloth, front inner joint reinforced, small name stamp on end paper.  Fronts. (with tissue), plates and text-illustrations. OCLC locates 3 copies only of this edition - NONE IN THE U.S. Paez was educated by the Jesuits at Stonyhurst, where he probably met Charles Waterton, (see below.)   $65.00

WILBERT, JOHANNES.  FOLK LITERATURE OF THE WARAO INDIANS. NARRATIVE MATERIAL AND MOTIF CONTENT.
U.C.L.A., 1970.First edition.  Original decorated cloth, very good in dust wrapper.  Signed inscription on end paper by the author, with the small name stamp of the recipient (Robert Morey) on the top edge. 614, [1] pp. (The "Boat People" of Venezuela and Guyana. This volume in the Series -  Latin American Studies vol. 15  - appears to be unavailable.) $90.00

[BIBLE].  EL EVANGELIO DE MARCOS EN LENGUA TUNEBA. TRADUCCION DE MARIA ELENA MARQUEZ ...
Caracas, 1975.  Original pictorial wrappers, very good.  Illus. $40.00

[WINE].  OTTAVI, OTTAVIO.  PRATICHE DI CANTINA. [#] VI. MALATTIA ED ALTERAZIONI DEL VINI.  TERZA EDIZIONE.
Casale, 1921.  Original pictorial wrappers, very good 40 pp., a few marginalia, dealer's label on spine. This title in the series concerning infected vines, is represented in OCLC only by one copy of a 1916 edn & 1 copy of a 1947 edn (UC-Davis & a copy in Italy.)  $50.00

WALKER, CHARLES V[INCENT].  TRATTATO DI GALVANOPLASTIA  . . . RIPRODURRE LE MEDAGLIE E LE PROVE  DEL DAGHERROTIPO ... STATUETTE DE GESSO, &c, PER MEZZO DEL GALVANISMO ... VERSIONE ITALIANA ... DI T. GIOVANELLI.
Naples, 1850.     Original printed wrappers, moderate wear, folding plate (one fold repaired). This edition has corrections and a number of notes by the editor.  (Walker was the first person to send a submarine telegraph signal; he also connected the British railroads to the Greenwich Observatory. Walker was President of the British Meteorological Society and the Society of Telegraph Engineers & Electricians.) ONLY ONE COPY IN OCLC (Burndy Library). As the title suggests, this work had applications to Daguerreotypes and art work.  $90.00

[MICHIGAN CARRIER'S ADDRESS].  CARRIER BOY'S NEW YEARS' ADDRESS TO THE PATRONS OF THE BRANCH COUNTY GAZETTE.  Coldwater, Michigan, Jan. 1, 1862.  Broadside, approx. 18 X 13 inches, a few small marginal tears, one tiny separation at fold, old folds, ornamental typographic border, large open and solid type in title, four columns of rhyming verse, largely on the Civil War.  "From Mrs. Whillen" ?? written at top corner.  A unique survivor ??  Not in OCLC, which records very few Midwestern carrier addresses. The Union List of Newspapers finds only 1 issue of this fugitive newspaper - Dec., 25, 1867 , at the AAS. $450.00

WATERTON, CHARLES.  WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICA, THE NORTH-WEST OF THE U. S., & THE ANTILLES, IN ... 1812, 1816 , 1820 & 1824  ... NEW EDITION, EDITED, [&c], BY J. G. WOOD. WITH 100 ILLUSTRATIONS.  London, 1885.
"With original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, &c for cabinets of natural history."  Attractive full polished gilt calf prize binding.  Award certificate awarded by Stonyhurst School to Edward Blount in 1886 on paste-down end paper. Xvi, 520 pages. All edges gilt, marbled end papers. A nice copy.  (Stonyhurst is an ancient Jesuit school in Lancashire. The choice of this popular book, which was an inspiration for Darwin and Wallace among others,  was uniquely appropriate, as Waterton was educated at Stonyhurst.  He is remembered as a pioneer naturalist and environmentalist.  See PAEZ above.) $75.00

[WINE].  2 ISSUES OF THE GIORNALE VINICOLO ITALIANO FROM 1900 & 1887.  Orig. wrasps, one v.g., one chipped. 
1887 issue is illus.  THE 2, $15.00

[JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH].  STEVENSON.  A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES. Scribner, 1947. Pictorial cloth, edge-rubbed,
small name on fly-title.  Color t.p. & 9 color plates, as listed.  $15.00

WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL.  A NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS ON THE AMAZON & RIO NEGRO ... 2ND EDN.  London, 1889.  
Reading copy, top inch of spine worn. $10.00

SIDGWICK. SOURCES AND ANALOGUE S OF A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT’S DREAM.  NY & London, 1908. Fronts. Orig.  half cloth, slight nick, o/w v.g.  $10.00


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