50 AUTOGRAPH LEAVES of Our Country's Authors. Vignette title and views and over 200 pages of the facsimile handwriting of the best-known American authors. 4to, cloth gilt, top 51 ACON (FRANCIS). (I.) WORKS. Collected and on India paper-the Arms of BACON in gold and colors on each title. 15 vols. half morocco, uncut, Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1863. Also-(II.) Personal History of LORD BACON, from unpublished papers. By WM. HEPWORTH DIXON. Cloth, uncut. Together 16 Boston, 1861, and Cambridge, 1863 vols. 8vo. LARGE PAPER. Only 100 copies printed of the "Works" in 15 vols. and 75 on large paper of the "Personal History." Very scarce in this size. The finest production of the celebrated Riverside Press, and the most beautiful example of American typography. To posterity and distant ages, Bacon bequeathed his good name, and posterity and distant ages will do him ample justice. Wisdom herself has suffered in his disgrace, but year after year brings to light proof of the arts that worked Bacon's downfall and covered his character with obloquy. 52 BACKUS (Isaac). History of New England, with particular reference to the denomination of Christians called Baptists. Second edition, with Notes by DAVID WESTON. 2 vols. 8vo, half morocco. Newton, Mass., 1871 Complete sets of the original work, published 1777-96, are now rare. The copy in the library of Judge Greene sold for $75. Mr. Bancroft, the historian, bears honorable testimony to the author's fidelity, considering his history, as to facts, more to be depended on than any of the early histories of New England. 53 BAILLIE (JOANNA). DRAMAS. A Series of Plays on the Passions, each Passion being the subject of a Tragedy and a Comedy. 3 vols. 8vo, yellow calf, gilt. London, 1836 LARGE PAPER and best edition. "This may be said to form a sequel to the Plays on the Passions." -LOWNDES. 54 BAIN (Alexander, M.D.). The Senses and the Intellect, third edition, 1868; and on the Study of Character, including an Estimate of Phrenology, 1861. Together 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. By the learned author of "The Emotions and the Will." 55 BANCROFT (George). HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, from the Discovery of the American Continent. Portraits on India paper, and an inserted photo-Portrait. perial 8vo, cloth, uncut. IO vols. imBoston, 1861-75 50 copies printed, 2 of which were LARGE PAPER. VERY SCARCE. destroyed by the fire at C. B. Richardson's store, New York, September, 1864. The above is No. II, with an original autograph letter of the author in an envelope, also loose newspaper cuttings. "His work is and must be the standard history of the country, and as such should reach every family, and be studied by every person who would be acquainted with the events of our past existence."-New Haven Journal. 56 BANCROFT. The Same. Vols. 1 and 2. cloth, uncut. Very scarce and original edition. Portrait. 8vo, Boston, 1834-37 57 BANCROFT. History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States. 2 vols. 8vo. N. Y., 1882 "The American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man."-GLADSTONE. 58 BARCLAY (J. T., M.D.). City of the Great King; or Jerusalem as It Is and It is to Be. Portrait and numerous illustrations, many full paged and colored. Royal 8vo, cloth Phila., 1858 This volume, by an author who was a missionary at Jerusalem for three and a half years, Allibone says, is "a reliable work-highly commended." 59 [BARHAM (Rev. R. H.).] Ingoldsby Legends; or Mirth and Marvel, by THOMAS INGOLDSBY, Esq., with Notes Introductory and Illustrative by R. H. DALTON BARHAM. With humorous plates by CRUIKSHANK and LEECH. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, Bentley, 1870 Library Edition. "For originality of design and diction, for quaint illustration and musical verse, they are not surpassed in the English language. From the days of Hudibras to our time, the drollery invested in rhymes has never been so amply or felicitously exemplified." 60 BARING-GOULD (S.). The Book of Were Wolves. Frontispiece. Crown 8vo, cloth, uncut. An account of a terrible superstition. London, 1865 61 BARROW (J.). Life of PETER THE GREAT. Illustrated. 16mo, cloth, bevelled sides, gilt edges. Interesting in these Nihilistic times. London, n. d. 62 BARLOW (JOEL). THE COLUMBIAD: a Poem. Beautiful Portrait of BARLOW, and numerous plates by SMIRKE, engraved by HEATH, BROMLEY, etc. Thick 4to, calf extra, marbled edges. Phila., 1807 FINE COPY of the first edition From the Libraries of E. B. Corwin and Rufus Choate. The earliest attempt at an American epic. It was printed at the expense of Robert Fulton, to whom it was dedicated. The above was a new edition, with great alterations of the " 'Vision of Columbus," beautifully printed, and illustrated with eleven fine engravings from Smirke's designs. "The Columbiad made its appearance in the most magnificent volume which had ever been published in America."—ALLIBONE. 63 BARTLETT (John Russell, the distinguished bibliographer, and ex-Secretary of State of Rhode Island). Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihuahua. Map and plates. 2 vols. 8vo, half morocco, gilt. N. Y., 1854 "This work of Mr. Bartlett is replete with interest from the manner in which he has jotted down his observations. The style is simple and unpretending, and all the more graphic and attractive on that account."-N. Y. Knickerbocker. 64 BARTLETT. Dictionary of Americanisms: a Glossary of Words and Phrases usually regarded as Peculiar to the United States. Royal 8vo, cloth. Second edition. Greatly improved and enlarged. Boston, 1859 65 BARTLETT (W. H.). Walks about Jerusalem and its Environs. With beautiful steel engravings, plans, and numerous woodcuts. Thick impl. 8vo, half green morocco gilt, edges gilt. London, George Virtue, n. d. An early edition, with good impressions of the plates. 66 BAYARD. The very Joyous and Pleasant History of his Feats, Exploits, Triumphs, and Achievements of the Good Knight, without Fear and without Reproach, the gentle LORD DE BAYARD. Set forth into English by EDWARD COCKBURN. Frontispiece, and printed in the old style by WHITTINGHAM. Small 4to, polished calf extra, top edge gilt, others uncut. London, 1848 SCARCE. A fine example of Chiswick Press typography. 67 BAYLE (Peter). THE DICTIONARY, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL, of MR. PETER BAYLE. [Translated into English, with many additions and corrections made by the Author himself that are not in the French editions.] Second edition, with Life by DES MAIZEAUX. Portrait. 5 vols. folio, calf, rebacked (title of Vol. 3 lacking). London, 1734-38 BEST EDITION. "Bayle's Dictionary is, as a cornucopia of flowers, bright, blooming, and captivating."-DIBDIN. 66 His Critical Dictionary is a vast repository of facts and opinions." -GIBBON. He was the only man who ever collected with so much judgment and wrote with so much spirit at the same time."-POPE. 68 BAY PSALM BOOK. A Literal Reprint of the Bay Psalm Book, the earliest New England version of the Psalms, and the first book printed in the United States, Cambridge, for C. B. Richardson, 1862; and being-The VVhole Booke of Psalmes faithfully translated into English Metre. Whereunto is prefixed a discourse not only the lawfulness, but also the necessity of the heavenly Ordinance of singing Scripture Psalmes in the Churches of God. Imprinted 1640. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Cambridge, printed for Charles B. Richardson, 1862 VERY RARE. Of this reprint but 50 copies were printed for subscribers, and ONLY FIVE on the heavy tinted paper, of which the above is one. The original edition was printed at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1640, but six perfect copies of which are known. It was the first book printed in North America. The most recent sale of a copy was that in the collection of the late C. Fiske Harris, of Providence, which was sold for $1,500 at the auction rooms of Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., Clinton Hall, Astor Place, N. Y. 69 BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. DRAMATIC WORKS, with Notes and Biographical Memoir by the REV. A. DYCE. Portraits. II vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1843 BEST EDITION. One of the best edited works of modern times. "Beaumont and Fletcher are lyrical and descriptive poets of the first order; there is hardly a passion, character, or situation which they have not touched in their devious range, and whatever they touched, they adorned with some new grace or striking feature; they are masters of style and versification in almost every variety of melting modulation or sounding pomp, of which they are capable in comic wit and spirit, they are scarcely surpassed by any writers of any age."-HAZLITT. |