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93. dearmer, mabel (illustrator). laurence HoUsman (author). the story of seven Young goslings. London; Blackie And Son, Limited. [circa 1905].
£225
4to. original cloth-backed boldly illustrated pictorial boards; pp. [32]; with 6 full colour plates, a delightful pictorial title-page and tinted outline drawings in memorable style throughout, with some Art Nouveau styling; a lovely copy of a scarce work with a little sun-lightening to cloth at spine but very little of the usual rubbing to edges; internally with light foxing to the text leaves, age-toning to stock throughout and a couple of light scratches, but an attractive and tight copy.
early edition. this work was first issued in 1899 and is elusive in any edition.
94. deiGHton, len. Funeral in Berlin. Jonathan Cape. 1964. £128
crown 8vo. original black cloth; a very good copy in a slightly creased and lightly soiled raymond hawkey photographic dust-jacket. First edition of ‘secret File no. 3’.
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95. domeneCH, emmanuel Henri dieudonné. seven Years’ residence in the great Deserts of north america. London: Spottiswoode and Co for Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860.
£895
8vo (205 x 134mm), 2 volumes. early 20th-century half red crushed morocco over cloth, spines gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering- pieces in 2, others decorated with floral and foliate tools, date lettered directly at the foot, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others trimmed; pp. i: xxiv, 445, [1 (imprint)]; ii: xii, 465, [1 (imprint)]; tinted wood-engraved frontispiece and 56 tinted wood-engraved plates after a. Joliet, one hand-coloured engraved folding map by erhard after P. Bineteau with routes added by hand in red; extremites very lightly rubbed, occasional light spotting or marking, bound without advertisements at end of both vols, one title trimmed touching copyright line, a few plates trimmed touching captions, map trimmed with small losses, laid down and with repaired tears, nonetheless a very good set retaining half-titles; provenance: one plate with caption corrected in pencil.
First edition. the missionary and author abbé Domenech (1825/6-1886) was born in France, but in 1846 he interrupted his theological studies to travel to america, in response to a call for missionaries, and completed his theology course at st louis, where he also studied english and german, and the situation and needs of the north american missions. ‘in May, 1848, he was assigned to duty at the new german settlement of castroville in texas, from which he was
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transferred later to Brownsville. the war with Mexico was just concluded; raiding bands of Mexicans and rangers were ravaging on both sides of the rio grande, while outlaws from the border states and almost equally lawless discharged soldiers filled the new towns, and hostile indians hovered constantly in the background. a cholera epidemic added its horrors. nevertheless the young priest went bravely to work with such energy that he soon became an efficient power for good throughout all southern texas. in 1850 he visited europe and was received by the pope. returning to texas, he continued in the mission field two years longer, when he returned to France with health broken and was appointed titulary canon of Montpellier. When the French troops were dispatched to Mexico in 1861 he was selected to accompany the expedition as almoner to the army and chaplain to the emperor Maximilian. after the return to France he devoted his remaining years to european travel, study, and writing, and the exercise of his ecclesiastical functions. in 1882-3 he again visited america’ (Catholic Encyclopaedia). Domenech was the author of a number of books, including this, which were based on his experience in america, but his accounts of the region were treated with (an understandable) suspicion following his involvement with the publication of a forged amerindian pictographic manuscript. however, the present work remains of value for its coverage of the indigenous peoples of texas and louisiana. Domenech drew on various texts when compiling the work, which contains descriptions of the region’s antiquities, amerindian character, languages, festivals, industry, customs, religions, as well as comments on their origins (sabin particularly identifies the reports of the surveys for the Pacific railroad as a source).
Abbey, Travel 664; Howes D410; Sabin 20554.
96. donnelly, ivon arthur. chinese Junks and other native craft. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., 1924.
£125
8vo (265 x 179mm). original white buckram-backed, textured paper covered boards, the upper board blocked in silver with design of a junk and lettering cartouches, spine with lettering-panels printed in blue, patterned endpapers printed in blue; pp. [6 (blank)], [10 (half-title, frontispiece on verso, title, imprint on verso, preface, verso blank, contents, verso blank, illustrations, verso blank)], 142, [2 (blank l.)]; title- vignette, head- and tailpieces, colour-printed mounted frontispiece and 5 colour-printed mounted plates, 25 full-page illustrations in the text, all after Donelly; a little rubbed and bumped at extremities causing small surface losses, some cracking on hinges and block, spine a little rubbed and marked, silver on upper board oxidised, some very light toning, otherwise a very good copy.
second, revised and enlarged edition. Donnelly’s work was first published by Kelly and Walsh in c. 1920 under the title Chinese Junks: A Book of Drawings in Black & White; the preface states that, ‘owing to the success of a small book of sketches of chinese Junks published some four years ago, and in response to numerous requests for a larger and improved edition, i put this book before the public with the hope that it may prove to stimulate Western interest in the seacraft of the most ancient of civilisations’. a second edition of Chinese Junks and Other Native Craft with the same pagination as this edition was issued by Kelly and Walsh in 1930. Donnelly (b. 1890) was based in china (the preface is signed ‘tientsin, north china’), and was the co-author of The China Coast by Ivon A. Donnelly; with Verse by Joan Power tientsin: 1931), and compiler of The Taku Tug & Lighter Co. Ltd. and the Haiho (london: 1933), The “Hai-Ho” (Sea River): A Brochure on the River from Taku Bar to Tientsin (s.l.: 1933).
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