Literature & Linguistics / English & American Literature

[RASPE, Rudolf Erich]. "Complete Original Edition" of the surprising travels and adventures of Baron Munchausen, in Russia, the Caspian Sea, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, on the Atlantic Ocean, and through the centre of Mount Aetna, into the South Sea. Also, an account of a voyage into the Moon and Dog Star ... A sequel, containing his expedition into Africa... humbly dedicated to Mr. Bruce.
London, R.S. Kirby, 1819. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a hand-coloured portrait of Baron Munchhausen as a frontispiece, and 27 hand-coloured engraved plates, including 8 folding. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, bound by Wallis (stamp on verso of first flyleaf). Kept in a marbled paper (and brown calf fore edge) slip case. XII, 179, [1] pp. Full description

[REYNARD THE FOX]. The most delectable history of Reynard the Fox. Newly corrected and purged...
London, Thomas Ilive for Edward Brewster, 1701.
With:
(2) [REYNARD THE FOX]. The most pleasant and delightful history of Reynard the Fox. The second part. ...
London, Anne Maxwell and Robert Roberts, for Edward Brewster, 1681.
(3) [REYNARD THE FOX, ADDITIONS]. The shifts of Reynardine the son of Reynard the Fox, ...
London, Thomas James for Edward Brewster and Thomas Passenger, 1684. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With woodcut of King Lion's court on the title page, 61 woodcuts in text of part 1 (including 23 repeats) and 15 woodcuts in part 2, all repeated from part 1. Further with a large woodcut decorated initial in part 3 and decorations built up from cast fleurons in parts 1 and 2. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Late-18th-century sprinkled calf, gold double fillets, blind-tooled board edges, red morocco spine label in 2nd of 6 compartments, red sprinkled edges. [160]; [112]; [4], 160 pp. Full description

REYNOLDS, John and Johannes GRINDAL (translator). Tonneel der wereldtse rampsaligheden, vertoonende Godts wraake, over de roepende en verfoeyelijke zonde der moedtwillige en voor-bedachte moordery. Welkers wonderlijke ontdekkingen en gestrenge straffe beschreven worden in XXX. bezondere jammerlijke historien: vervattende veel droevige en gedenkwaardige geschiedenissen: historische, zedelijke en goddelijke lessen.
Amsterdam, (colophon: widow of Tymon Houthaak) for Gerrit van Goedesbergh, 1667. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved printer's device on the title page, and 30 full-page engravings, each with 8 separate illustrations, depicting 240 scenes from the many stories. Contemporary vellum. [8], 888 pp. Full description

RIHANI, Ameen. Around the coasts of Arabia.
London, Constable & Co., 1930. 8vo. With a pictorial map as frontispiece, 31 photographic half-tone plates and a full-page map on an integral leaf. Original publisher's black cloth, with title in gold on spine. X, [2], 364 pp. Full description

[ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. The tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the picturesque. A poem.
London, R. Ackermann, 1812. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 78 full-page hand-coloured aquatint plates and 2 hand-coloured aquatint vignettes. With: [ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. The second tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of consolation; a poem.
London, R. Ackermann, 1820.
[ROWLANDSON, Thomas]. The third tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of a wife, a poem.
London, R. Ackermann, 1821.
Late 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco by the Rivière Bindery. III, [3], 276; [6], 277, [1 blank]; [4], 279, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SA'DI SHIRAZI and Stephen SULIVAN (translator). Select fables from Gulistan, or the bed of roses. Translated from the original Persian of Sadi.
London, J. Ridley, 1774. 8vo. Modern half calf (period style), gold-tooled spine. V, [1 blank], 139, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SEALSFIELD, Charles (pseudonym of Karl POSTL). Nathan, de squatter-regulator, of de eerste Amerikaan in Texas.
The Hague, K. Fuhri, 1852. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With a lithograph title page in each volume, printed in sepia and lithographed by C.W. Mieling. Original half blue cloth with the title in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides. [4], 254; [6], 192 pp. Full description

SEWARD, Anna. Monody on Major Andrè. To which are added letters addressed to her by Major Andrè in the year 1769.
Lichfield, Printed and sold by J. Jackson for the author [etc.], 1781. 4to. Half red morocco, marbled paper sides, gold-tooling on spine. IV, 47, [1] pp. Full description

SHAKESPEARE, William and Abdullah CEVDET (translator). [Makbet = Macbeth in Ottoman Turkish].
Cairo, Egypt, Kütübhane-i Içtihad, 1909. 8vo. With practically all text set in Arabic type. Half maroon cloth and brown decorated paper sides. [5], 153, [2] pp. Full description

ZIMMERMAN, W.F.A. (pseudonym of Carl Gottfried Wilhelm VOLLMER). Californie en de goudkoorts. Togten in het westen van Noord-Amerika. Het leven en de zeden der goudgravers, Mormonen en Indianen.
Amsterdam, P.M. van der Made, 1864. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a tinted lithographed frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's original printed stiff paper wrappers. [8], 380; [4], 403, [1 blank] pp. Full description