[Rarebooks] FS: These 6 books are $90 net each or $500 for all.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

1.    (CHILDREN'S LITERATURE) Pratt, Samuel Jackson. PITY'S GIFT: A Collection of Interesting Tales, To Excite the Compassion of Youth for the Animal Creation. Ornamented with Vignettes. From the Writings of Mr. Pratt. Selected by a Lady. Fifth Edition. London: Printed by C. Whittingham for Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al. 1810. 12mo. viii,136pp. Illustrated with 14 text woodcut vignettes. Cont. red morocco over marbled boards, edges worn.    $125.00
A collection of animal stories, first printed in 1798.

2.    (DICTIONARIES) Chompre, Etienne-Maurice. DICTIONAIRE ABREGE DE LA FABLE, Pour l'Intelligence des Poets, des Tableaux & des Statutes, Dont les Sujets Sont Tires de l'Histoire Poetique. Dixieme Edition. Paris: Chez Saillant and Chez Desaint. 1766. 12mo. 428pp. Cont. mottled calf, gilt ornamented spine with brown morocco label, extremities a bit scuffed & with minor chips. Cont. engraved bookplate on front pastedown.    $125.00

3.    (ECONOMICS) Kirkland, Frazar (ed.). APPLETONíS CYCLOPAEDIA OF COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS ANECDOTES of Merchants, Bankers, Millionaires, Bargain Makers, etc., etc., in All Ages and Countries... Embellished with Portraits and Illustrative Cuts. New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1872. Lg. 8vo. xxxiv,782pp. Index. Illustrated with 39 steel engraved plates and 25 woodcuts. Orig. gilt decorated black calf over marbled boards.    $125.00

4.    (HORTICULTURE) Nicol, Walter. THE GARDENERÌS KALENDAR; or Monthly Directory of Operations in Every Branch of Horticulture. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company and Constable, Hunter, Park and Hunter. 1810. First edition. 8vo. xxiv,648pp. Index. Cont. calf, scuffed, head of spine chipped, over marbled boards (rubbed), black calf spine label. Occasional foxing.    $125.00

5.    (NATIVE AMERICANS) A STATEMENT OF THE INDIAN RELATIONS; With a Reply to the Article in the Sixty-Sixth Number of the North American Review, on the Removal of the Indians. New-York: Clayton & Van Norden, Printers. 1830. 22pp. Plain paper wrappers (somewhat browned), stabbed and tied at inner margin. Small water stain in blank fore-margin.    $125.00
AMERICAN IMPRINTS (1830) #3591.

6.    (THEATER) Laujon, Pierre. LE COUVENT, OU LES FRUITS DU CARACTERE ET DE L'EDUCATION, Comedie en Un Acte et en Prose... Paris: La Veuve Duchesne. 1790. First edition. 8vo. (8),66,(2)pp. Engraved frontispiece. 2 pages of printed music & words at the end. Disbound.  Scarce.  $125.00
This play was performed April 16, 1790, at the Theatre de la Nation.

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