MISCELLANY - Walt WHITMAN (1819-92). Leaves of Grass, Philadelphia, 1894, portrait laid down as a frontispiece, facsimile signature on title (lacks engraved portrait frontispiece), original cloth gilt. With 12 other miscellaneous works in 15 vols. (16)

MISCELLANY - Walt WHITMAN (1819-92).  Leaves of Grass. Including Sands at Seventy ... 1st Annex, Good-bye my Fancy ... 2d Annex, A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait from Life. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1894. Large 8vo (215 x 140mm). Photographed portrait [?extracted from a newspaper] laid down as a frontispiece, facsimile signature of the author on title (lacks engraved portrait frontispiece, some light staining). Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. Provenance: Albert Platt, Jan. 1895 (signature on front free endpaper). An early reprint of the "Deathbed" edition of 1892. With 12 other miscellaneous works in 15 vols. including the same author's Leaves of Grass ... Including a Fac-simile autobiography variorum readings of the poems and a department of Gathered Leaves (Philadelphia, David McKay, 1900, original green cloth gilt), Joseph Seboth and Jenny Schermaul's Die Alpenpflanzen (Prague, vol one: 1886; vol. III: 1881, vols. one and III only (of 5), chromolithographed plates, original pictorial cloth gilt, vol. one is a second edition), Francesca Alexander's Roadside Songs of Tuscany ... Second Edition (New York, 1888, plates, original buckram gilt), [Oswald A. Smith's] Auburnia etc. ([London], Privately Printed by Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1891, original dark blue buckram gilt, FIRST EDITION of these Latin translations of Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village' and other poems, RARE), William Chappell's Old English Popular Music ... A New Edition with a Preface and Notes, and the Earlier Examples entirely Revised by H. Ellis Wooldridge (London, [?1893], 2 vols., original buckram gilt), A. J. Hipkins' Musical Instruments Historic, Rare and Unique (London, 1921, coloured plates, contemporary drab half morocco, reprint, ex-library copy) and John Parris's The Cherokee Story (Asheville, 1950, original wrappers, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the author and by the Cherokee George Owl). The lot sold not subject to return. (16)