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text. The Library of Congress confirms that their copy is exactly the
same as ours. We would hazard a guess that the copy at Florence
follows suit. Evidently the first edition of the text. The music written
and directed by Giovanni Vincenzo Meucci.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MAFFEI (Francesco
Scipione), Marquis.
Le Cerimonie, comedia.
Venezia, per
Bonifacio Viezzeri,
1728. FIRST EDITION, with engraved
vignette title-page, pages 86, (2, blank), small 8vo, recent
paper wrapper: one side note just barely touched, otherwise a
very good copy.
His last theatrical work, an original comedy, before he became
especially interested in the archaeology of his native town (Verona).
COPAC has O & L only.
(2)
CONFORTO (Nicola).
Antigono. Dramma per musica.
Pel Teatro di S. M. B.
Printed by G. Woodfall,
1757. FIRST
ENGLISH EDITION, in English and Italian on facing pages,
45-pages, small 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
Both ESTC and COPAC have only the BL copy. Conforto (1727-65)
wrote this adaptation from Metastasio for the San Carlo theatre,
Naples in 1750. Its success secured him appointment as court
composer in Madrid. It ran for eleven nights at the King’s Theatre,
London during March, 1757.
(3)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1017
.
LANG (Andrew).
The Green Fairy Book. With
numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford.
Longmans, Green, and Co.,
1892
FIRST EDITION, with full-page and other illustrations, pages
(2, blank), (2), xi, (3), 366, (2, blank), roy 8vo, finely bound in
recent green quarter morocco, gilt, with label, gilt, uncut:
short tear in blank margin of two leaves skilfully repaired,
some very light signs of use but a very good copy, handsomely
bound, with the bookplate of Stephen George Holland.
Copy number 66 of 150 copies on large paper
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1018
.
LANG (Andrew).
The Yellow Fairy Book. With
numerous illustrations by H. J. Ford.
Longmans, Green, and Co.,
1894
FIRST EDITION, with full-page and other illustrations, pages
(2, blank), (2), xvi, 321, (3, blank), roy 8vo, finely bound in
recent yellow quarter morocco, gilt, with label, gilt, uncut:
with some very light signs of use but a very good copy,
handsomely bound.
Copy number 103 of 150 copies on large paper.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1019
.
LANG (John Dunmore).
Freedom and independence
for the golden lands of Australia; the right of the colonies,
and the interest of Britain and the world.
Longman …,
1852
FIRST EDITION, with map of the proposed Seven United
Provinces of Eastern Australia, pp xvi, 339, (1), (4, ads), 8vo,
original green cloth, uncut & mostly unopened: nice copy.
Ferguson 11336. Lang (1799-1878), anti-Catholic Australian
ecclesiastic, pioneer of democracy in Australia, founder of the
Australian Presbyterian Church, and an influence in shaping early
colonial settlement.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
VIVIENNE (May).
Travels in
Western Australia. Being a description of the various cities
and towns, goldfields, and agricultural districts of that state.
1902. SECOND EDN, with some 100 interesting illustrs from
photos, pp xv, 344, 8vo, orig red cloth, gilt: the binding just a
little dull but sound and strong and still a very good copy.
(2)
MACARTNEY (John Neill).
The Bendigo Goldfield
Registry …With plans by H. B. Nicholas … Also, notes on
the Bendigo Goldfield … By W. Nicholas. And a description
of the Fryer’s Creek Claims, with plan. Second year.
Melbourne: Charles F. Maxwell,
1872. With frontispiece and 21
folding maps (repair to a fold in one of them, without serious
loss), pages (4). 120, xxxvi (and a further 4-pages of adverts
on the endpapers), 8vo, original green cloth, gilt: with
cancelled Linen Hall Library bookplate, library number
erased from spine, binding worn at corners but sound and
strong and generally a clean and very good copy.
Ferguson 11846. The second and final year of issue.
(3)
HOWITT (Wm.).
Two Years in Victoria. With visits to
Sydney and Van Diemen’s Land. Second edition.
Longmans,
Green, Longmans, and Roberts,
1860. Pages xx, v-xi, (1,
blank),290: 303, (1), with half-title,2 vols in 1, cr 8vo, original
orange-brown cloth, gilt: small piece torn from blank portion
of final leaf, otherwise very good.
Ferguson 10621. A valuable contemporary account of life in the
Victorian gold-fields.
. (4)
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1020
.
LANG (Leonora Blanche).
The Book of Princes and
Princesses. By Mrs. Lang. Edited by Andrew Lang.
Longmans,
Green, and Co.,
1908
FIRST EDITION, with 8 coloured plates and many other
illustrations by H. J. Ford, pages xix, 361, (1, blank), (6,
adverts), 8vo, original blue decorative cloth, gilt, edges gilt: a
fine, bright, fresh and attractive copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
KINGSLEY (Charles).
Madam How and Lady Why, or, first lessons in earth lore for
children.
Bell and Daldy,
1870. FIRST COLLECTED
EDITION, with illustrs, pp xv, (1), 350, (2, ads), 8vo, original
blue cloth, gilt, edges gilt, by Burn & Co., with ticket: inside
hinges lightly cracked, the stitching a little weak and the spine
heavily and evenly rubbed, yet a clean and very good copy.
Kingsley’s last book for children, exploring the problems posed by
geology, was originally published serially in ‘Good Words for the
Young’, 1868-69. This first edition in book-form is an uncommon
book.
(2)
YEARSLEY (Macleod).
The Folklore of Fairy-Tale.
Watts & Co.,
1924. FIRST EDITION, pages xiii,240, 8vo,
original cloth: a very good copy.
(3)
HABBERTON (John).
Helen’s Babies. With some
account of their ways innocent, crafty, angelic, impish,
witching, and repulsive. Also a partial record of their actions
during ten days of their existence. By their latest victim. New
edition, illustrated by Wallis Mackay.
William Mullan & Son,
1878. FIRST EDITION THUS(?), with 8 plates, pages 208,
16(adverts), 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth, gilt, by Seton of
Edinburgh, with ticket: a very good to nice copy.
“Illustrated Presentation Edition” (half-title).
(4)
ROBINSON (W. Heath): - Johnson (A. E.).
W. Heath
Robinson.
A. & C. Black,
1930. SECOND EDITION, 15 plates
(6 col) & 47 other illustrs, 8vo, original cloth: very good.
(5)
FRYER (Jane E.).
The Mary Frances Sewing Book, or
adventures among the thimble people. Illustrated by Jane
Allen Boyer.
G. G. Harrap
[1914]. FIRST UK EDITION, with
4 coloured plates, many other illustrations, and complete with
the 10 folding patterns,280-pages, roy 8vo, original cloth: a
very good to nice copy.
(6)
[PARR (Harriet), Miss].
Legends from Fairyland. By
Holme Lee. With illustrations.
Frederick Warne,
1868. With 8
plates, pp vi, (1),239, (1), large 12mo, original green cloth, gilt:
very good-nice.
The first of her three volumes of highly successful fairy stories which
were first published in 1860, ‘61 and ‘62, here published as part of
“Cousin Kate’s Library” - so lettered on spine.
(7)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
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