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198180855London: Allison & Busby 1981. Octavo boards. First edition in English. A translation of CETTE CHÈRE HUMANITÉ 1976. ". one of the major French SF novels of the 1970s." - Anatomy of Wonder 1987 4-159 and 6-77. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #80855 Allison & Busby unknown books
198122662London: Allison & Busby 1981. Octavo boards. First edition in English. A translation of CETTE CHÈRE HUMANITÉ 1976. ". one of the major French SF novels of the 1970s." - Anatomy of Wonder 1987 4-159 and 6-77. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #22662 Allison & Busby unknown books
2010183834Paris: Picard 2010. Hardcover. VG/VG. Tan cloth boards with burgundy lettering; white and color illustrated dust jacket black spine lettering; 485 pp; illustrated profusely in bw with several color illustrations. Text is in French. Gothic Brittany religious architecture. Picard hardcover books
1957WRCLIT69381Np: Regie du Film / Orsay / Columbia 1957. Vintage 30 x 40" 75 x 100 cm. British quad screen printed pictorial poster. Repeated folds some offsetting and light soiling to an area of the white lettering small breaks at folds in margins a used but essentially very good copy. A British quad publicity poster for the brief 1957 English language release of this 1955 French film adaptation of Lawrence's 1928 novel directed by Marc Allégret starring Danielle Darrieux Leo Genn Erno Crisa and Janine Crispin et al. The poster makes much of the novel's continued status as a 'banned book' in its unexpurgated form and as tepid as it is the film was also banned in the US until a court ruling in its favor. While artistically a fairly crude piece of work this quad is a much more visually appealing poster than that for the short-lived US 1957 release. Both are uncommon. Regie du Film / Orsay / Columbia unknown books
1999250381Cologne: Evergreen 1999. Private. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. 278 pages 4to sky blue boards with white text dust wrapper. Cologne: Evergreen. 1999. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Evergreen unknown books
19999001462Koln Germany: Evergreen 1999. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Text translated into English. Contains more than 300 illustrations. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. <br/><br/> Evergreen hardcover books
1924D1314Paris: Edition du Sagittaire chez Simon Kra 1924. Very Good. 4to 245 x 190 mm. iv 124pp. i. Illustrated with 15 hand-colored watercolors à la pochoir by Chas Laborde. Limited edition printed on vélin paper numbered 343 of 450. Original wrappers printed in black and red with printers device to front spine printed; light occasional toning; spine chipped at tail. Front endpaper signed by David J. Modgrain Paris 1925 and later inscribed to Martha Snodgrass/ Aug. 21 1933. Once more inscribed on this page in French and dated 4 Novembre 1940. Charles- Louis Philippe French novelist had brief liaison with a prostitute which inspired his best-known novel Bubu de Montparnasse. It was widely regarded as the working-class novelists first success a study of Parisian low-life in which the influence of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky is predominant; it was first published in 1901. Chas Laborde was a well-known caricaturist working in the Montmartre region of Paris at the time of this work. Just two years after work on Bubu de Montparnasse Laborde published an album of etchings entitled Rues et Visages de Paris which with great verve and humor depicted a variety of typical scenes of everyday Parisian life. This publication later inspired a similar book for London and New York street-life. Labordes reputation was spreading further afield and in the spring of 1932 he went to New York at the invitation of Condé Nast publications. Carteret IV p. 316. <br/><br/> Edition du Sagittaire, chez Simon Kra unknown books
1905182183Paris: Librairie Universelle 1905. Hardcover. VG shelfwear to boards with scuffing and bumping pages are age toned as expected with age but otherwise very clean and clear. Three-quarters green cloth and marble decorated boards bw illustrated title page 250 pp illustrated in bw throughout. Text is in French. Illustrated with 90 lithographs by Grandjouan. Librairie Universelle hardcover books
19512221New York Shakespeare House 1951. 1951. First edition thus. 12mo. 5 page preface by T.S. Eliot. Original 1/2 black leatherette over blue buckram with upper cover gilt/blue Shakespeare head vignette t.e.g. purple silk bookmark. Dust jacket price clipped; few nicks. Very good. 125 pages 3 pages of advertisements. No signatures or bookplates. English text by an unspecified translator. Notable for Eliot's 5 page preface comparing Philippe's story of the downtrodden in Paris with Dickens' view of the lower classes in London. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Shakespeare House [1951]. hardcover books
9455New York: Roy Publishers. Very Good. Hardcover. Good in Good DJ . Roy Publishers hardcover books
192040567Munich: Kurt Wolff 1920. hardcover. very good. Frans Masereel. 20 woodcut illustrations by Frans Masereel. 208pp. 8vo cloth-backed pictorial boards. Munchen: Kurt Wolff 1920. Very good .<br/><br/> Kurt Wolff unknown books
1982151912New York: Rizzoli 1982. First American Edition preceded by the French edition published by Editions du Regard in 1981. Photo-illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white. <br/><br/>A superb history of the Bugatti family: Carlo the father a furniture designer Rembrandt Bugatti son a sculptor and Ettore and Jean son and grandson automobile designers. <br/><br/>Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Rizzoli unknown books
197971720London:: J. M. Dent & Sons. Very Good. 1979. Hardcover. 0460069632 . Illustrated by the author. Translated from the French by Deirdre Engel. First British edition. Gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper else very good in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . J. M. Dent & Sons, hardcover books
2298040Delegation au Tourisme de Guadeloupe Tourism Delegation of Guadeloupe. Large Softcover. Very Good. Giraud Philippe photographs. Hand written gift note to previous owner laid in. Box lightly rubbed. Book in excellent condition. Portfolio of images on heavy 11 3/8 x 15 1/2 paper stock in publisher's black wraps with original box which shows a painting on the front which appears to bear the artist mark Wolf. Hand written gift note to previous owner laid in. Giraud is known for his travel photography and released several other portfolios of Guadeloupe. Uncommon - OCLC lists only four copies. Delegation au Tourisme de Guadeloupe (Tourism Delegation of Guadeloupe) paperback books
16350000195Paris: S. le Moyne 1635. First edition. Full Leather. Very Good. 4to 236 x 180 mm Modern pebble leather binding with new end papers. Bookplates of Ashton Allis on new front pastedown Edward Sanford Burgess present on recto of original free end paper respectively. 16 1-238 2 158 as 358 220 as 196 pp 68 full-page copper engraved plates all botanical. Ink manuscript present on verso of front free end paper inscriptions in ink on title page and numerous notations mainly in the Enchiridion. The text block has usual browning from age some minor fore edge damp staining away from text and occasional light foxing. The plates have been attributed to Pierre Valet. <br/><br/>This is the first description of the Canadian Flora. Cornut was a French botanist and physician who never visited North America but instead received the majority of his plant specimens from the Robins family who supervised the gardens of Henry IV and the garden of the Paris Faculty of Medicine and the Morin family who owned several Parisian commercial nurseries. Over thirty species from eastern North America are here described and illustrated for the first time; the importance of which recognized by Linnaeus over a century later as he consulted this work in order to better understand the plants of that region. Cornut also included five South African bulb plants again illustrated here for the first time. Provenance: Bookplates of Ashton Allis on new front pastedown Edward Sanford Burgess present on recto of original free end paper respectively. Edward Sandford Burgess the eldest child of Chalon and Emma Burgess was born in Little Valley New York on 19 January 1855 d. 1928. Edward took an early interest in botany. By the age of sixteen he had analyzed 280 plants near his home. By the age of nineteen he had penned the Flora of Chautauqua County in which he presented the name and locality of every plant known to him 710 in that county. JB vol. 3 p. 28 This work was eventually published as the following: The Chautauqua flora: a catalogue of the plants of Chautauqua County New York native or naturalized; extending through the cryptogamous plants to the end of the Hepaticae Clinton New York 1877. In 1895 Edward went to New York City to become the head of the Department of Biological Sciences at Hunter College. Eventually he entered Columbia University where he received his Ph.D. in 1899. In addition he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from his alma mater Hamilton College in 1904. Edward continued in his post at Hunter College until 1925. During this period he published many works on botany. Among them were the following: "The Work of the Torrey Botanical Club" Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 27 1900: 552-8; "Plant Illustrations in the Middle Ages" Torreya 2 1902: 60-1; "History of pre-Clusian botany in its relation to aster" Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 10 1902: 1-447; "Aster" in Flora of the Southeastern United States J.K. Small 1903; "Species and variations of Biotian asters with a discussion of variability in Aster" Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 13 1906: 1-419; and "A method of teaching economic botany" Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 17 1918: 52-5. JB vol. 3 pp. 50-4 As might be deduced from his list of publications Edward was remembered most for his important work as a student of the genus Aster. In this group of extremely variable plants he hoped to find the forces of evolution at work. Indeed Edward discovered 84 species of Aster when only two to eleven had previously been known.Univ. Oregon Special Collections Cleveland 190; Hunt 227; Nissen BBI 406; Pritzel 1894; Stafleu & Cowan 1233 S. le Moyne, hardcover books
1944226392New York Farrar & Rinehart 1944. 1944. First edition. 8vo. Translated with an introduction color frontispiece chapter heading decorations and endpapers by Edward Larocque Tinker. Dust jacket unclipped; short tears. Good water stains to lower margins. Novel set in the author's native Haiti. Prize winning novel Second Latin-American contest DJ. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. New York, Farrar & Rinehart [1944]. hardcover books
194432316NY: Farrar & Rinehart 1944. Translated by Edward Larocque Tinker. Numerous small b/w woodcuts. 225 pp. Hardcover. 8vo size. Light pumpkin illustrated cloth. Top edge dyed. Extremities rubbed; head and heel bumped; boards lightly soiled and toned; edges preliminaries and page perimeters very lightly toned. Dust jacket edge-worn foxed soiled and toned. Else interior clean and bright; sound. Very good/Good. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1944018565NY: Farrar & Rinehart. 1944. A novel of Haiti by these two Haitian brothers which won a prize in the Second Latin American literature contest sponsored by Farrar & Rinehart. Inscribed by Thoby-Marcelin to Barbara Howes in 1971. Poet Barbara Howes edited From the Green Antilles one of the first anthologies of Caribbean literature to appear in the U.S. in 1966. She was married to the poet William Jay Smith. This book has the Howes/Smith bookplate on the front pastedown. Translated by Edward Larocque Tinker who designed and illustrated the book and who provides an introduction to it entitled "Haitian Background" explaining both the history and the metaphysics of Haitian religious beliefs. Fine in a good price-clipped dust jacket threatening to split at the flap folds. An important book and especially scarce signed. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
194467281New York: Éditions de la Maison Française 1944. Paperback. 255p. first US edition in French two-inch corner torn from base of half-title page wraps. Previous owner's name & address written on first front end page. This first novel by the Haitian brothers first published in Haiti in 1942 won several prizes for fiction. Éditions de la Maison Française paperback books
1944161700New York Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart Inc. 1944. Octavo pp. i-iv v-ix x xi-xxvii xxviii 1-2 3-225 226-228: blank inserted frontispiece with color woodcut illustration by Edward Larocque Tinker decorated boards top edge stained black fore-edge untrimmed pictorial endpapers. First edition. First novel by a fine native Haitian writing team with seventeen-page introduction "Haitian Background" by Edward Larocque Tinker. "In CANAPÉ-VERT we have for the first time in English a vivid and accurate picture of life on the island Haiti seen from the inside. The authors both Haitian born have captured the true subtlety of the Negro-peasant mentality with all its strange naïve reasoning its deep-rooted superstition and the tang and savor of its humor." - Tinker. Bleiler 1978 p. 192. Reginald 09658. A fine copy in very good dust jacket priced $2.50 on front flap with wear at edges tape mends at spine ends and corner and dust soiling to rear panel. #161700 Farrar & Rinehart Inc. unknown books
2006175007Bern: Kunsthalle Bern 2006. Paperback. VG. Color-illustrated wraps with white spine lettering. 76 pp. Illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from April 8 to May 21 2006. Text in English and German. Kunsthalle Bern paperback books
17452430061745. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 19 x 25.5".<br/><br/> This beautiful map depicts the Neuchatel region of Switzerland showing the town of Neuchatel as well as Lake Neuchatel. It is based on a 1710 original by David François de Merveilleux redone by Guillaume de L'Isle and published by Philippe Buache. The map is is finely detailed with abbeys and priories castles battlefields mineral springs and forests. An elegant compass rose is shown in Lake Neuchatel and a decorative title cartouche at the top of the map is flanked on either side by historical and geographical text in French. The map dates to the reign of Frederick I of Prussia who presided over Neuchatel's golden age and ushered in a period of expansion in commerce banking and industry such as watchmaking and lace. The map is in excellent condition with wide margins as issued and no chips or tears. Minor stains in margins not affecting the image. Philippe Buache 1700--1773 was a French geographer who trained under the geographer Guillaume De L'Isle 1675--1726 a French cartographer known for his popular and accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas and Africa. He is important as the first "scientific" cartographer who incorporated the most current information on exploration and topography into his maps.<br/><br/> unknown books
1783242998Dezauche 1783. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 19.75 x 25.5". Sheet measures 21.5 x 30".<br/><br/> This map of Canada and the northern United States extends north from around the latitude of Baltimore all the way up to Baffin Bay along the shore of Greenland. Published by Jean-Claude Dezuache in 1783 it is the eighth revision of a map originally published by De L'Isle in 1703. The map is notable as the first to include "Etats-Unis" in the title coming as it did on the heels of the American Revolution. In fact this appearance is one of the earliest appearances of the name United States Etats-Unis on a printed map. The map is compelling in its accuracy particularly with regard to the Great Lakes depicting them as fully enclosed and properly placed in longitude and latitude. There is also excellent detail around the Hudson and Mississippi Rivers. The elaborate cartouche is decorated with a beaver natives one of whom is bearing a scalp and Jesuit explorers. Furthermore the fleurs-de-lis that previously adorned the shield at the top of the cartouche has been erased and the crown converted into a halo suspended above an orb a response to the execution of the king following the French Revolution Below a table of colors delineates the boundaries of the United States and European possessions. Indian nations are also labeled. The map is in excellent condition with wide margins as issued. Guillaume De L'Isle 1675--1726 was a French cartographer known for his popular and accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas and Africa. He is important as the first "scientific" cartographer who incorporated the most current information on exploration and topography into his maps. Philippe Buache 1700--1773 was a student of De L'Isle and became one of the most active proponents of the so-called school of theoretical cartography active in mid-18th century France. This map is fascinating record from a remarkable moment in North American history.<br/><br/> Dezauche unknown books
5113viii 349 pp.; vi misnumbered viii 264 pp. Two vols. 8vo orig. printed wrappers bound in attractive 20th-cent. cloth green leather lettering pieces on spines uncut. Paris: L. Potier & M. Defer; London: Barthès & Lowell 1852. bound with: -. Catalogue de Livres provenant de la Bibliothèque du Chateau d'Eu. 29 pp. one leaf of "Vacations." 8vo uncut. Paris: L. Potier 1853. The sale catalogues of the royal libraries at the Palais-Royale Neuilly and the Château d'Eu representing nearly a complete record of the illuminated manuscripts early printed books and fine bindings belonging to Louis-Philippe 1773-1850 and his wife Marie-Amélie 1782-1866. Fine copies from the library of A.R.A. Hobson with bookplate. ❧ Gustave Brunet Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique cols. 487-88-"Cette bibliothèque.offrait une importance toute spéciale. On y trouvait un grand nombre de livres provenant du comte de Toulouse et de grandes publications modernes françaises ou étrangères qui se montrent rarement dans les ventes.". hardcover books
6181Finely engraved frontis. with profile of Le Bas drawn by Cochin & engraved by C.E. Gaucher & finely engraved tailpiece at the end of the biographical sketch by same. xlix 92 19 pp. catalogue list. 8vo orig. semi-stiff boards head of spine a little split leaves uncut. Paris: Clousier & Joullain 1783. The very rare sale catalogue of the engraver to the Cabinet du Roi; with a valuable list of 133 catalogues produced by Joullain since 1763. Le Bas 1707-83 studied under Antoine Hérisset and is famous for his skilled imitations of works by Teniers Wouwerman Falens Coypel Watteau Oudry etc. This catalogue begins with a lengthy and most informative biographical sketch based on notes by Hecquet a connoisseur of prints and close friend of Le Bas. It discusses contemporary debates on the artistic merit of engraving and Le Bas' reputation in the art world providing an intimate understanding of the man. The present catalogue describes 15 paintings 56 drawings 705 lots of prints some very large group lots 10 lots of artist's tools a lot containing several reams of fine paper and three lots of furniture and several portfolios for a total of 787 lots. The auctioneer denotes whether or not prints are in "first state." There is a table of artists at the end. Nice copy sporadic marginal dampstaining. The frontispiece portrait has a small stain just touching the image. ❧ Benezit Vol. 8 pp. 586 Le Bas. Blanc Trésor de la Curiosité. Vol. II pp. 84-87. Lugt 3639. N.B.G. Vol. 30 col. 65. hardcover books
