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208.merrill, selah. east of the Jordan. a record of travel and observation in the countries of Moab, gilead, and Bashan during the Years 1875-1877 ... with an introduction by roswell D. hitchcock. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1881.


£295


8vo in 12s (212 x 142mm). original mustard-yellow pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, upper board and spine impressed with flower pattern in relief, blocked with borders and decorations in gilt and red, blocked in gilt with vignettes, and lettered in gilt, olive-green coated endpapers, pp. xv, [1 (blank)], 549, [1 (blank)], [6 (advertisements)]; wood- engraved frontispiece, retaining tissue guard, 5 wood-engraved plates, wood- engraved illustrations, plands, and diagrams in the text, and one folding wood-engraved map after rudolph Meyer; text in roman, greek and arabic types; extremities very lightly rubbed and bumped, some light marking, some neatly-repaired cracking on hinges, some light spotting and occasional offsetting, otherwise a very good copy in the original cloth;


provenance: adrian Vanderveer martense (1852-1898,


engraved bookplate on upper pastedown) — ella Brown (signature on upper margin of title).


First edition. the american congregationalist cleric, archaeologist and consul selah Merrill (1837-1909) enrolled at Yale university in 1863, but left before graduation to study at Yale Divinity school, and he was ordained as a congregationalist minister in 1864. after service in the civil War with the 49th united states infantry, Merrill studied at Berlin university from 1868 to 1870, during which time he also undertook an extended tour of egypt, Palestine and syria, which stimulated his interest in biblical archaeology and history. ‘in 1870 a large group of american scholars launched the american Palestine exploration society, formally organised the following year. in 1873 an expedition was sent to Palestine to carry out a geographical and archaeological survey of eastern Palestine (transjordan), parallel to the survey of Western Palestine which had just been begun by the english Palestine exploration Fund, but the expedition was a total failure, both from the standpoint of cartography and that of archaeology. in 1874-75 a new expedition was organised, with col. J.c. lane as leader and Merrill as archaeologist. after an initial trip to eastern Palestine lane saw that the task was too difficult for the limited resources of the society, and resigned, whereupon it was decided to give up any attempt to make a complete survey and to restrict the work to archaeological exploration. Merrill was placed in charge of the expedition, and in three extended trips (1876-77) collected a mass of archaeological, topographical, and ethnographical data. his most important results were published in popular form in his East of the Jordan’ (DaB Xii, p.564). this copy was previously in the collection of adrian


Vanderveer Martense of Flatbush, Brooklyn, an alumnus of rutgers university (Ba) and columbia university (Ma), and an enthusiastic amateur photographer, whose collection of lantern slides is held by the Brooklyn historical society; examples of his work are reproduced in W.l. Young (ed.) Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs, 1865-1929: 157 Prints from the Collection of the Long Island Historical Society (new York: 1978).


Smith, American Travellers Abroad, M73 (‘One of the outstanding Biblical archaeologists tells of his work with the American Palestine Exploration party’).


Presentation coPY


209. milne, a.a. (author). saida [H. Willebeek le mair] (illustrator). a gallery of children. Philadelphia; David McKay Company. 1925.


£950


tall 4to. original blue cloth lettered in gilt with onlaid pictorial label to upper cover; pp. [x], 11-105; 12 coloured plates by le Mair printed in delicate colours; cloth lightly dusted with some bruising to head of spine, gilt a fraction dulled; internally generally clean, with some speckling and dusting to edges of book block, and internal foxing affecting a couple of the plates and one blank plate-guard; a couple of short, closed, edge tears (now neatly repaired with archival tissue and unobtrusive).


First u.s. edition. an association copy inscribed by Milne to his brother, in ink, to front free endpaper: “K.J.M. from his ever a:a:M:. nov. ‘25”. Kenneth John Milne was the author’s beloved older sibling, known fondly as ‘Ken’. sadly he died prematurely just four years later, in 1929.


210.milne, a.a. (author). e.H. sHePard (illustrator). Winnie- the-Pooh. London; Methuen & Co. 1926.


£950


8vo. original dark green cloth gilt, single-line gilt panel to upper board enclosing a gilt vignette of christopher robin and Pooh, top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed, pictorial map endpapers; pp. [viii], ix-xi + [v] + 158 + [ii]; illustrated throughout in line; a fine and exceptional copy both externally and internally with only the tiniest bruise to lower fore-corners of boards and the original owner’s neat ink name and date (oct. 1926) to front free endpaper.


First edition of this children’s classic.


211. milne, a.a. (author). e.H. sHePard (illustrator). now We are six. London; Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1927.


£248


8vo. original crimson cloth, single-line gilt panel to upper board and gilt vignettes to both covers, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers; pp. [x] + 103; illustrated delightfully in line by e.h. shepard; a clean and attractive copy with a little fading to spine and minor rubbing to head and tail; internally very good and clean with some offset browning to half-title and to the inner margin of two page openings, from newspaper clippings.


First edition. a classic volume of children’s verse.


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