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Masch, Gottlieb Matthaeus Carl [Masch, G. M. C.]
Wappen-Almanach der Souverainen Regenten Europa [Coat of Arms Almanac of
the Sovereign Rulers of Europe]; Wappen-Almanach der souverainen Regenten
Europas : mit Geschlechts-Tabellen und Wappenbeschreibungen [Coat of arms
almanac of the sovereign rulers of Europe: with gender tables and
descriptions of the coat of arms]

Rostock: J. G. Tiedemann, 1842. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A
Very Good or better copy of the first edition, first printing, of this
notable German Almanac of the Rulers of Europe issued for 1842, complete
with fifty-four (54) black and white plates, all present, each with its
original gender table and descriptions of the relevant Coat of Arms. The
volume shows some spotting to the covers, a name and address stamp to the
front free endpaper and some scattered foxing to the pages within; an
EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE BOOK with WorldCat locating only eight (8) copies. This
copy wears its EXTRAORDINARILY RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. The dust jacket
is in Very Good condition and shows some spotting and some modest chips as
well as one long and one short tear where the front panel turns to the
spine panel. A few small pieces of archival tape have been applied to the
verso to prevent such tears from growing. Another small tear appears where
the front panel turns to the front flap, and the spine label is cracked at
each turn to an adjoining panel. Notwithstanding the forgoing conditions,
the jacket's very existence is remarkable. In Mark Godburn's excellent work
[titled "Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets" published by Oak Knoll Press in
the US and by Private Libraries Association in the UK] Godburn includes an
Appendix providing a list of "...all known publishers' dust-jackets issued
on hardback books in Great Britain, Europe and the United States to 1870.
Both flap-style and sealed, plain and printed, are included. There are
about sixty titles overall, and, when multiple years of the same annual are
added, the figure is close to one hundred. German jackets predominated
before mid-century, but the largest number of titles are British, with
nearly forty, about half as many German, a handful of American and one
Danish." Had the present book in dust jacket been included, it would have
been named therein as the EIGHTH EARLIEST SURVIVING DUST JACKET. Thus, we
have here a notable book in an ASTONISHINGLY RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. A
RARE FIND FOR COLLECTORS AND INSTITUTIONAL LIBRARIES. Very good / very
good. Item #3160

Price: $6,000.00  AVAILABLE TODAY AT $1,950.


Acker, Paul; Ardouin-Dumazet; des Gachons, Jacques; Geniaux, Charles; Le
Goffic, Charles; Merki, Charles; Paillon, Maurice; Sedeyn, Emile; and
Spont, Henri, and others
Le Tour De France

Paris: Publication du Tour de France, 1911. First Edition, First
Printing. Wrappers.
A remarkable Fine copy of the first edition, first printing in the
Publisher's original wrappers still wearing the RARE ORIGINAL TRANSLUCENT
DUST JACKET. The volume is in unusually attractive condition with only mild
wear and the exceedingly ephemeral dust jacket shows some general wear and
tear but its very existence is quite surprising if not stunning. The jacket
wraps around the entire book (excluding only the page block's top and
bottom edges) and was issued with seals that affixed its opposite ends to
each other. Unsurprisingly, the seals have broken -- either by age and
handling or to enable someone to look at the page rectos and versos. [Being
ephemeral, most examples of the dust jacket used in the series of like
books issued by the Publisher over the course of years -- of which this
book is an excellent example -- would have perished over time or have been
discarded.] The book appears to have been unread as most of the page pairs
remain unopened at the page block's top edge. (An example of this is shown
in one of the images of the book that we have. We would be happy to provide
the multiple images we have taken to potential buyers of the book as well
as to researchers.) The book is replete with images, including some maps,
and city/townscapes. [Please note that the volume is not about the bicycle
race but is instead about the beautiful country of France. This is a heavy
book and requires shipment by Priority Mail. Buyer's shipping cost will
exceed the amount quoted by this site.] A. Fine / near fine. Item #2974

Price: $2,350.00   AVAILABLE TODAY AT $800.


Lord Macaulay; Macaulay, Thomas Babington
Lays of Ancient Rome with Ivry and The Armada [New Edition]

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1884. New Edition. Hardcover. A Very Good
to Very Good + copy of Lord Macaulay's most famous literary work bound in
red cloth with the spine lettered in gilt, the front board attractively
lettered and illustrated, and the closed page block edges in gilt as well.
(The cloth shows a dark portion at the top edge where the jacket does not
cover the cloth.) The text is illustrated with Forty-One (41) illustrations
of various sizes by J. R. Weguelin. First published in 1842, this QUITE
SCARCE JACKETED volume presents great Roman tales here retold by Thomas
Babington Macaulay (also known as Lord Macaulay). In four of these,
Macaulay recounts in poetic form four heroic episodes from early Roman lore
with strong dramatic and tragic themes. Macaulay also included two poems
inspired by more recent history: Ivry and The Armada. The narrative poems,
or lays, by Thomas Babington Macaulay, are titled "Horatius" [which
describes how Publius Horatius and two companions, Spurius Lartius and
Titus Herminius, hold the Sublician bridge, the only span crossing the
Tiber at Rome, against the Etruscan army of Lars Porsena, King of Clusium,
each of them willing to die in order to prevent the enemy from crossing the
bridge, and sacking the otherwise ill-defended city.] "The Battle of Lake
Regillus" [which celebrates the Roman victory over the Latin League at the
Battle of Lake Regillus. Several years after the retreat of Lars Porsena
and the Etruscans, Rome was threatened by a Latin army led by the deposed
Roman king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, together with his son, Titus
Tarquinius, and his son-in-law, Octavius Mamilius, prince of Tusculum. In
conscious imitation of the renowned Homer, the work includes several
finely-described single combats]. "Virginia" [which describes the tragedy
of Virginia, the only daughter of Virginius, a poor Roman farmer. The
wicked Appius Claudius, a member of one of Rome's most noble patrician
families, and head of the college of decemvirs, desires the beautiful and
virtuous Virginia. He initiates legal proceedings, claiming Virginia as his
"runaway slave", knowing that his claim will be endorsed by the corrupt
magistracy over which he and his cronies preside. Driven to despair,
Virginius resolves to save his daughter from Claudius' lust by any
means—even her death is preferable.] and "The Prophecy of Capys" [which
narrates Romulus and Remus triumphal arrival at the house of their
grandfather, Capys, a blind old man who then enters a prophetic trance
foretelling the future greatness of Romulus' descendants, and their
ultimate victory over their enemies in the Pyrrhic and Punic wars. The two
additional poems also are of the highest quality. The first work, "Ivry, a
Song of the Huguenots" celebrates a 1590 battle won by Henry IV of France
and his Huguenot forces over the superior forces of the Catholic League.
While Henry's succession to the French throne was contested by those who
refused to accept a Protestant king of France, his great victory left him
the only credible claimant to the French crown he was unable to overcome
all his opposition until he converted to Catholicism in 1593. "The Armada:A
Fragment" which describes the arrival at Plymouth in 1588 of news of the
sighting of the Spanish Armada, and the lighting of beacons to covey the
news not only to London but to all of England. Philip II of Spain had sent
his Armada holding his army to invade England and to depose the Protestant
Queen Elizabeth. While his fleet was considered by many to be invincible,
the invasion was thwarted by a combination of England's vigilance and by
her forces' tactics that took advantage of the size and poor
maneuverability of the Armada's ships. Composed by Macaulay in his spare
time during his thirties while employed as a member of the Governor-General
of India's Supreme Council from 1834 to 1838 of them, Macaulay once
recounted that their composition occurred to him in the jungle at the foot
of the Neilgherry hills, with most of the verses being created during what
he called "a dreary sojourn" at Ootacamund and a "disagreeable" voyage
taken by him in the Bay of Bengal. His great work in which he intended was
to create poems resembling those that might have been sung in ancient
times, were were first published by Longman in 1842, at the beginning of
the Victorian Era. They became immensely popular, and were standard reading
in British public schools for over a century. Winston Churchill memorized
the four Roman Lays while at Harrow School and there won an award for
memorizing and declaiming all 1200 lines of Macaulay's text, demonstrating
that, notwithstanding is less than great academic performance at Harrow, he
was capable of giving a remarkable oratorical performance, a trait that
served both him and England later in his life. Notably In two films ["Into
The Storm" (2009) and "Darkest Hour" (2017)], Churchill is depicted
reciting Horatius' speech while serving Prime Minister during the Second
World War. [Please note: the RARE DUST JACKET shows a tear to the front
panel's turn to the front flap as well as a shorter tear where the spine
panel turns to the front panel. Small pieces of archival tape have been
applied to the jacket's verso at the internal extremes of such tears to
prevent them from lengthening. As to the larger tear, it is quite visible
in the first image with this listing -- while the second image shows the
jacket in a protective cover that holds the tear closed. The dust jacket
also has some tiny edge tears and a linear indent to the upper front panel.
A prior owner has written the author and title information to the upper
spine panel.] Copies in the dust jacket as early as is this one are
EXTRAORDINARILY SCARCE and perhaps RARE. Very good + / very good. Item #3231

Price: $2,250.00   AVAILABLE TODAY AT $850.


Tavenor-Perry, J. [John] (1842-1915)
Dinanderie A History and Description of Mediaeval Art Work in Copper Brass
and Bronze [WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS]

Edinburgh: George Allen & Sons, 1910. John Tavenor-Perry. First
Edition. Hardcover.
An EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, of
"Dinanderie A History and Description of Mediaeval Art Work in Copper Brass
and Bronze" by the British architect, architectural historian, and
specialist on medieval architecture John Tavenor-Perry, in a Fine example
of the QUITE RARE dust jacket, TOGETHER WITH MOST OF THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS
USED IN THE BOOK. The book shows some pushing to the spine ends and a tiny
tear to the spine tail. The corners are sharp and the book's colour is
beautiful and full (without even a hint of the fading usually seen on other
copies), and the gilt lettering to the spine is quite bright. Many of the
page pairs are unopened at the leading edge, showing that the book has not
been read, the page block's top edge is in gilt, and the volume feels
rather tight and certainly has not been handled much. The QUITE RARE DUST
JACKET shows some minor pushing and tearing as well as a bit of loss at the
corners and edges and the rear panel shows a few tiny holes. The book comes
with seven (7) separate volumes which together contain what appears to be
an earlier concept for the book's title page as well as all but 14 of the
71 ORIGINAL PROOFS for Dinanderie's illustrations (each of which is named
as a "Figure" therein). [Dinanderie also contains 48 Plates taken from
photographs rather than from Tavenor-Perry's Original Drawings.] The great
majority of the Original Drawings have been executed on drawing boards,
although several of them have been drawn on paper affixed to such boards.
Many of them show handwritten notations in a hand or hands unknown to us
stating how the particular drawing is to appear in the book. Many of the
drawings are larger than their offspring in the book, rendering them more
easily viewable in detail. These drawings are found in the above-referenced
seven (7) separate volumes of Tavenor-Perry's Original Drawings. (Most of
such separate volumes are in merely good or better condition. They show
wear and tear to the bindings and many, if not most, of the boards which
host the drawings having come loose from their respective bindings.) Four
of these volumes -- those with blue spines -- are dedicated to Figures in
Dinanderie, and the other three volumes contain multiple original drawings,
some used in Dinanderie and some, if not all, of the others were used with
other Tavenor-Perry works such as "Paschal Candlesticks and some others",
an article by Tavenor-Perry which appeared in the October 1908 issue of
Christian Art, an illustrated monthly magazine, a copy of which is housed
in the Princeton University Library. One of the above-referenced separate
volumes (labeled "Paschal Lights") includes all ten (10) Figures provided
by Tavenor-Perry for such Christian Art article. Figures I and II therein
also appear as Figures 35 and 36 in "Dinanderie", Figure III therein
appears as Figure 39 in Dinanderie, and the three-item Figure IV therein
appears as Figures 41, 42, and 43 in "Dinanderie"). Per the Meriam-Webster
dictionary, "Dinanderie", means "decorative objects of brass, copper, or
bronze chiefly for ecclesiastical or domestic use such as were made in the
13th to 15th centuries" and is defined in Collins Dictionary as: "fine cast
metalwork objects, esp of bronze, made in the Belgian city of Dinant from
the late Middle Ages, or other later metalwork in this style". Copies of
Dinanderie are rather uncommon to the market, especially when in
collectable condition, and most we have seen are faded and often also show
meaningful wear. In our experience, copies in the dust jacket are virtually
impossible to find. Copies as nice as is this copy are as scarce as hen's
teeth and those this nice and in the dust jacket (especially in a dust
jacket as nice as is this one) are scarcer still. Not only is this copy
extraordinary, but accompanied by so many of the Original Tavenor-Perry
drawings used in the book, it is ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING. Fine / Fine. Item
#3007

Price: $5,850.00   AVAILABLE TODAY AT $2,350.


[Perthes, Johann Georg Justus]
Almanach de Gotha Pour L'Annee 1844 [EXTRAORDINARILY EARLY AND RARE
ORIGINAL DUST JACKET -- ONE OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN]

*SOLD.*

Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1844. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
TEMPORARILY REDUCED. WAS $5,250. A Very Good + copy of the first edition,
first printing for 1844 in an Essentially Fine EXTRAORDINARILY EARLY AND
RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET (showing a short tear where the spine panel meets
the front panel), with several images of notable persons of that time. [The
volume shows spotting to the closed page block's edges and some concavity
to the spine panel, internally, with the exception of one image, the leaves
are rather clean and pleasing; otherwise Fine]. Johann Georg Justus Perthes
was a German publisher and founder of the publishing house that bears his
name. Almanach de Gotha was an annual genealogical, diplomatic, and
statistical summary of European royalty, nobility, and key officials and
agencies. It was published in French in Gotha, Germany. The first Almanach
de Gotha was published in 1764, and the last was published in 1944. Copies
are usually found worn, often significantly so. Copies in the dust jacket
are quite scarce indeed, and copies of any book published as early as was
this one that still wears its original dust jacket are EXCEEDINGLY SCARE TO
RARE. We never have seen a copy this early in a dust jacket as nice as is
the dust jacket presented here. In Mark Godburn's excellent work titled
"Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets" published by Oak Knoll Press in the US
and by Private Libraries Association in the UK, Godburn includes an
Appendix providing a list of "...all known publishers' dust-jackets issued
on hardback books in Great Britain, Europe and the United States to 1870.
Both flap-style and sealed, plain and printed, are included. There are
about sixty titles overall, and, when multiple years of the same annual are
added, the figure is close to one hundred. German jackets predominate
before mid-century, but the largest number of titles are British, with
nearly forty, about half as many German, a handful of American and one
Danish." The present copy comes eighth on that list, and is the first
annual there appearing, showing it to be a REMARKABLY EARLY and, of course,
EXCEEDINGLY RARE DUST JACKET]. A Very Good + copy in a Virtually Fine dust
jacket, an EXCEEDINGLY RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET, AND ONE OF THE EARLIEST
DUST JACKET'S KNOWN TO EXIST. Very good + / fine. Item #3250

*SOLD.*  Price: $5,250.00   AVAILABLE TODAY AT $1,550.

Stephen Johnson
Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
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