Early Dust Jackets

Beautifully preserved bindings in early dust-jackets or boxes, in date order: FORGET ME NOT for 1828 (London, Rudolph Ackermann, 1827). Green decorated boards and green decorated slipcase. A stunning copy, just light rubbing at extremities but looks nearly unused. Slipcase also near fine, with title and date hand-lettered in contemporary hand on edge. Provenance: from the fabled Fürstenbergischen Hofbibliothek Donaueschingen library. $750. [sealed jacket] POETICAL WORKS OF THE LATE RICHARD S. GEDNEY (London, Mancheser, New York, 1857). Second edition. Publishers' blue cloth, gilt. Fine unopened copy in the original sealed wrapping jacket. Jacket with tears down fore-edge but still sealed. Remarkable survival. Comes with three other copies not in jackets, of the blue, green and salmon bindings, one with a descendant signature. (These extra copies should stifle your wicked desire to open the sealed copy.) $12,500 [400 color plates] Joseph Carl Weber, DIE ALPEN PFLANZEN D