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Robert Bridges
1873 - Basil Montagu Pickering, London - First Edition
The first collection of poems by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930), poet, prosodist, anthologist, and typographer, who was considered among the most influential literary figures of the early twentieth century.
Scarce, according to McKay’s Bibliography, (1933) Bridges said that ’most of this edition was, in fact, destroyed, and very few copies are believed to exist’.
It ‘contains perhaps his greatest short poem, the “Elegy on a Lady Whom Grief for the Death of Her Betrothed Killed,” a poem comparable only to Dryden’s “Ode to the Memory of Mrs. Ann Killigrew.”... In grace and technical perfection there is nothing to exceed a few poems in the 1873 volume. Bridges ranks with Chaucer, Herrick, and Milton as a metrist, and this command over the formal aspect of poetry was complete from the first.’ - Albert Guerard, Jr.
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1873 - Basil Montagu Pickering, London - First Edition
The first collection of poems by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930), poet, prosodist, anthologist, and typographer, who was considered among the most influential literary figures of the early twentieth century.Scarce, according to McKay’s Bibliography, (1933) Bridges said that ’most of this edition was, in fact, destroyed, and very few copies are believed to exist’.
It ‘contains perhaps his greatest short poem, the “Elegy on a Lady Whom Grief for the Death of Her Betrothed Killed,” a poem comparable only to Dryden’s “Ode to the Memory of Mrs. Ann Killigrew.”... In grace and technical perfection there is nothing to exceed a few poems in the 1873 volume. Bridges ranks with Chaucer, Herrick, and Milton as a metrist, and this command over the formal aspect of poetry was complete from the first.’ - Albert Guerard, Jr.
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Japan and China - History, Arts and Literature -
F. Brinkley
1910 - J. B. Millet Company, Boston and Tokyo
A complete twelve volume set of this popular and heavily illustrated series, which offers a comprehensive overview of Japan and China. Covering a wide range of topics including their history, government, art, religion, trade, commerce, international relations and institutions, together with detailed appendices and indices.
Illustrated with twelve colour frontispieces, large folding colour map of Asia, fifty photographic plates (26 tinted, 34 monochrome) each with tissue guard, and sixteen pages of silver and ceramic marks.
Bound in the original publisher’s decorated cream vellum paper spines over brown paper covered boards, and titles pages decorated in colour.
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1910 - J. B. Millet Company, Boston and Tokyo
A complete twelve volume set of this popular and heavily illustrated series, which offers a comprehensive overview of Japan and China. Covering a wide range of topics including their history, government, art, religion, trade, commerce, international relations and institutions, together with detailed appendices and indices.Illustrated with twelve colour frontispieces, large folding colour map of Asia, fifty photographic plates (26 tinted, 34 monochrome) each with tissue guard, and sixteen pages of silver and ceramic marks.
Bound in the original publisher’s decorated cream vellum paper spines over brown paper covered boards, and titles pages decorated in colour.
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Billiards -
Major William Broadfoot
1896 - Longmans, London and Bombay - Number 193 of 250 Large Paper Deluxe Edition
A handsome copy of this large and comprehensive limited edition, an informative history and guide to the game of billiards, with contributions by A.H. Boyd, Sydenham Dixon, W.J. Ford, Dudley D. Pontifex, Russell D. Walker, and Reginald Rimington-Wilson.
Illustrated with eleven full page black and white plates by artist Lucien Davies, and numerous drawings and diagrams throughout the text.
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1896 - Longmans, London and Bombay - Number 193 of 250 Large Paper Deluxe Edition
A handsome copy of this large and comprehensive limited edition, an informative history and guide to the game of billiards, with contributions by A.H. Boyd, Sydenham Dixon, W.J. Ford, Dudley D. Pontifex, Russell D. Walker, and Reginald Rimington-Wilson.Illustrated with eleven full page black and white plates by artist Lucien Davies, and numerous drawings and diagrams throughout the text.
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The Life & Works of Charlotte Brontë & her Sisters. -
Anne, Charlotte & Emily Brontë, Mrs. Gaskell
1910 - Smith, London - The Hawthorn Edition
In seven finely bound volumes by Bayntun-Rivière. Together with the works of the Brontë sisters are introductions by Mrs. Humphrey Ward and Clement K. Shorter, as well as copious additional notes, introductions and prefaces by others. With portraits and illustrations.
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre, Emma, Shirley, Stories from Angria, The Professor, Villette, Poems, Memoir of Emily Jane Brontë, and Memoir of Anne Brontë.
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights, and Poems.
Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, and Poems.
Mrs. Gaskell - The Life and Works of Charlotte Brontë and her Sisters.
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1910 - Smith, London - The Hawthorn Edition
In seven finely bound volumes by Bayntun-Rivière. Together with the works of the Brontë sisters are introductions by Mrs. Humphrey Ward and Clement K. Shorter, as well as copious additional notes, introductions and prefaces by others. With portraits and illustrations. Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre, Emma, Shirley, Stories from Angria, The Professor, Villette, Poems, Memoir of Emily Jane Brontë, and Memoir of Anne Brontë.
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights, and Poems.
Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, and Poems.
Mrs. Gaskell - The Life and Works of Charlotte Brontë and her Sisters.
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Selections from the Popular Poetry of The Hindoos -
Thomas Duer Broughton [Editor Translator]
1814 - Printed by Whittingham and Rowland for John Martin, London - First Edition
A pretty and scarce first edition of the the first published anthology of Hindi Poets. Internally fine and unopened.
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1814 - Printed by Whittingham and Rowland for John Martin, London - First Edition
A pretty and scarce first edition of the the first published anthology of Hindi Poets. Internally fine and unopened.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee -
Dee Brown
1970 - Holt, New York - First Edition
A rather scarce first edition, first printing of the book, in first state dust jacket.
Dee Brown’s powerful, eloquent, and meticulously documented account of the mistreatment and displacement suffered by native Americans at the hands of American expansionism during the nineteenth century. Brown used first-hand accounts of Dakota, Ute, Sioux, and Cheyenne tribe members, as well as autobiographies and council records, to narrate the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that left the native American people demoralised and decimated, dramatically changing the perspective of the history of the American West.
Illustrated with forty-nine black-and-white photographs.
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1970 - Holt, New York - First Edition
A rather scarce first edition, first printing of the book, in first state dust jacket.Dee Brown’s powerful, eloquent, and meticulously documented account of the mistreatment and displacement suffered by native Americans at the hands of American expansionism during the nineteenth century. Brown used first-hand accounts of Dakota, Ute, Sioux, and Cheyenne tribe members, as well as autobiographies and council records, to narrate the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that left the native American people demoralised and decimated, dramatically changing the perspective of the history of the American West.
Illustrated with forty-nine black-and-white photographs.
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The Poetical Works -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1911 - Oxford University Press, London - Oxford Edition
‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.’
A handsomely bound volume of the collected works of Browning, with the author’s dedication to her father and preface commenting on her earlier works. Despite living under the tyrannical rule of her father through much of her life, Browning was one of the most industrious poets of her generation, her bibliography boasting well over two-hundred published poems at the time of her death. A pioneer for civil-rights, feminism, and a stalwart anti slavery advocate, she remains as beloved today as she was in the eighteen-hundreds.
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1911 - Oxford University Press, London - Oxford Edition
‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.’A handsomely bound volume of the collected works of Browning, with the author’s dedication to her father and preface commenting on her earlier works. Despite living under the tyrannical rule of her father through much of her life, Browning was one of the most industrious poets of her generation, her bibliography boasting well over two-hundred published poems at the time of her death. A pioneer for civil-rights, feminism, and a stalwart anti slavery advocate, she remains as beloved today as she was in the eighteen-hundreds.
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Chafing-Dish Dainties -
Mrs. Sarah Brownson How
1896 - Self Published. Printed by E. C. Lockwood, Brooklyn - First Edition
'At once a stove and kitchen - the chief recommendation of the Chafing-dish is that it may be brought into use at a moment's notice.’
A rare and delightful guide to the benefits of the chafing-dish, with numerous recipes for eggs and omelettes, caramels, corned beef, lobster, macaroni, oysters, turkey, veal and sweetbreads.
‘There are all possibilities within the chafing dish, providing there is a cordon blue, who gives herself up to the task of managing it. If the cook be a novice, Mrs. Sarah Brownson How of Brooklyn in her pretty book “Chafing Dish Dainties” will explain all the niceties and there is also to be found an extensive menu, all to be cooked with a chafing dish.’ - New York Times, New Book Review, 1897.
Mrs. Sarah Brownson How, a New York socialite gave frequent lectures on the art of housewifery as well as the history of New York.
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1896 - Self Published. Printed by E. C. Lockwood, Brooklyn - First Edition
'At once a stove and kitchen - the chief recommendation of the Chafing-dish is that it may be brought into use at a moment's notice.’A rare and delightful guide to the benefits of the chafing-dish, with numerous recipes for eggs and omelettes, caramels, corned beef, lobster, macaroni, oysters, turkey, veal and sweetbreads.
‘There are all possibilities within the chafing dish, providing there is a cordon blue, who gives herself up to the task of managing it. If the cook be a novice, Mrs. Sarah Brownson How of Brooklyn in her pretty book “Chafing Dish Dainties” will explain all the niceties and there is also to be found an extensive menu, all to be cooked with a chafing dish.’ - New York Times, New Book Review, 1897.
Mrs. Sarah Brownson How, a New York socialite gave frequent lectures on the art of housewifery as well as the history of New York.
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Price HK$ 2,000