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Doctor Syntax in Paris or A Tour in Search of the Grotesque by COMBE, William; Williams, Charles

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Title: Doctor Syntax in Paris or A Tour in Search of the Grotesque
Author: COMBE, William; Williams, Charles
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Printed for W. Wright, 1820. Syntax Abroad: The Grotesque Tourist in Paris A Spirited Imitation of the Rowlandson - Combe Tradition, with Fine Hand-Colored Aquatints [COMBE, William]. Doctor Syntax in Paris or A Tour in Search of the Grotesque. A Humorous & Satirical Poem. London: Printed for W. Wright, 1820. First edition. Octavo (9 3/16 x 5 3/4 inches; 234 x 146 mm.). [iii]-viii, 318 pp. Eighteen hand-colored aquatint plates (including frontispiece and vignette title) after Charles Williams. Plates watermarked 1819. Handsomely bound in early twentieth-century three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards by Zaehnsdorf (stamp-signed on the verso of the front free endpaper). Spine elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Spine lightly faded still a bright, clean, and unusually well-preserved copy. William Combe (1741-1823) " is particularly remembered for the verses that he wrote to accompany Rowlandson's coloured plates and drawings of the adventures of 'Dr Syntax'. The first of these works, The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, a parody of the popular books of picturesque travels of the day, and particularly of the works of Gilpin, appeared in Ackermann's Poetical Magazine in 1809, and in 1812 as a book which went into many editions. Dr Syntax is the grotesque figure of a clergyman and schoolmaster, who sets out during the holidays, on his old horse Grizzle, to 'make a TOUR and WRITE IT', and meets with a series of absurd misfortunes. This was followed in 1820 by The Second Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of Consolation (for the loss of his wife) and in 1821 by The Third Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of a Wife. The three Tours were collected in 1826. Combe also wrote the letterpress for Rowlandson's The English Dance of Death (1815-16), The Dance of Life (1816), and Johnny Quae Genus (1822), another Syntax story" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature). "The good-natured moralising schoolmaster became a public character and a general favourite. Syntax was the popular title of the day, and shop windows displayed Syntax hats, Syntax wigs, and Syntax coats...Its success produced a host of parodies and spurious imitations. Among them the best perhaps is the Tour of Dr. Syntax through London, with twenty plates, published in 1820....Other imitations were Syntax in Paris, which appeared in 1820, with seventeen plates; and the Tour of Dr. Prosody in Search of the Antique, etc., in 1821, with twenty plates by W. Read" (Martin Hardie, p. 168). "The author of the text [of Doctor Syntax in Paris] is unknown, but, although this is manifestly in plates and general style a Syntax imitation, the text might conceivably be genuinely by Combe" (Abbey, Travel). Charles Williams (fl. 1797-1830) "was the chief caricaturist for Fores, the printseller and was a follower and copyist of James Gillray. His early work is published under the name 'Ansell' but the later is usually anonymous" (Houfe, The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators, p. 348). Abbey, Travel, 109; Martin Hardie, pp. 168 and 317; Tooley 432.

Остров в степи [Ostrov v stepi (Island in the Desert)] by Zamchalov, G.; Olga Perovskaja (photographer)

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Title: Остров в степи [Ostrov v stepi (Island in the Desert)]
Author: Zamchalov, G.; Olga Perovskaja (photographer)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: g+ to vg
Description: Moscow: OGIZ; Detgiz, 1935. Hardcover. g+ to vg. Quarto. 132 (4)pp. Original red paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped zebra illustration on cover, gray lettering on cover and spine, protected in modern mylar. Endpapers in photogravure. Illustrated title page. Book for adolescents about life and animals in the steppe, e.g. gnus, antelopes, yaks, llamas, horses, otters, ostriches, dogs, and sheep. Beautifully illustrated with b/w photographs of animal life throughout. Text in Russian. Binding sunned and rubbed along edges with minor soiling on covers. Small chip at lower foredge of front endpaper. Block lightly age-toned. Binding and interior in overall good+ to very good condition.

Rudiments of a Vocabulary of Egyptian Hieroglyphics by Sharpe, S

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Title: Rudiments of a Vocabulary of Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Author: Sharpe, S
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: A good copy; front bd. detached; rear endpaper torn out.
Description: London: E Moxon, 1837. First Edition.. orig. publisher's cloth backed bds. .. A good copy; front bd. detached; rear endpaper torn out.. 4to. There are 16 leaves of litho. plates. The biographer in the DNB remarks that the author had a natural gift - coupled to extreme patience - for the divination of texts. This no doubt was an asset when he undertook his translation of the Bible (from the Greek). The work offered here is based on Young and Champollion but is heretical in some of its interpretations. Still, an early and valuable work in Egyptology. DNB XVII, 1363 - `65.

The Motherhood of God by White, Anna

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Title: The Motherhood of God
Author: White, Anna
Seller: De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description: Canaan Four Corners: Press of the Berkshire Industrial Farm, 1903. 27 pp. Good with a small chip to the spine. This includes a speech White gave at a meeting of the Equal Rights Club of Hartford, Connecticut. White was a Shaker sister and part of the progressive North Family at Mt. Lebanon. She was a vegetarian, pacifist and a believer of equal rights for all. Ericson, 8126.

TEN THOUSAND LIGHT-YEARS FROM HOME by Tiptree Jr., James

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Title: TEN THOUSAND LIGHT-YEARS FROM HOME
Author: Tiptree Jr., James
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: New York: Ace Books, 1973. Very good.. First edition, paperback original, of the debut short story collection by the legendary intelligence officer-turned science fiction author, published to acclaim before the sf community discovered "Tiptree" was a pen name for a woman writer. Includes her first published short story ("Birth of a Salesman," which appeared in ANALOG in 1968). As adroitly narrated in the Hugo award-winning biography by Julie Phillips, a number of prominent male writers in the community praised Tiptree's "ineluctably masculine" writing style before she was outed as a woman in 1977. Tiptree's reputation continues to rest largely on her short stories, many of which address gender in subtle yet unflinching ways. 7'' x 4.5''. Original color pictorial wrappers with design by Chris Foss, Ace 80180, priced at.95c. Yellow edges. Publisher's ads at rear, single color ad leaf bound within text. 319, [1] pages. Slight bumping to extremities, patch of shallow rubbing to spine head. No spine crease.

Giles: Sunday Express and Daily Express Cartoons

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Title: Giles: Sunday Express and Daily Express Cartoons
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Beaverbrook Newspapers Limited. Good. Giles: Sunday Express and Daily Express Cartoons. London: Beaverbrook Newspapers Limited, ND. Illustrated. Oblong 4to. Illustrated paperback. Book condition: Good with lightly rubbed, bumped, and curled edges and creases in front cover. Pages faintly yellowed.

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