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1861e0064Part I "General Report": 131 pages with the 2 large folding maps profile of area 12 engraved plates including frontispiece one "Interior of Moquise House" being colored 7 colored chromolithic plates titled "Indian Portraits" 8 folding panoramas and 41 wood cut illustrations in the text; Part II "Hydrographic Report: 14 pages; Part III " Geological Report": 154 pages with 3 plates 3 lithographic plates 27 wood cut illustrations in text tables 2 maps; Part IV "Botany": 30 pages; Part V "Zoology": 6 pages; and Appendices 32 pages. Quarto ll 3/4" x 9" 36th Congress 1st Session Senate EX Document. Original gilt pictorial blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Howes 194 First edition.<br /><br />Ives was born in New York City in 1828 and was a graduate of the United States Military Academy in 1852. As a Lieutenant from 1853 to 1854 he was appointed by the U.S. Army to the Topographical Engineers as assistant to Lt. A.W. Whipple in the Pacific Railroad survey along the 35th parallel. From 1857 to 1858 Ives commanded an expedition to explore up the Colorado River from its mouth. At Robinson's Landing he built then used the 54 foot paddlewheel steamboat Explorer to map and survey the river. His party included Smithsonian associate John Strong Newberry as geologist. He led his party up the Colorado to the lower end of the Grand Canyon then struck out across the desert to Fort Defiance in Colorado. Ives Reported his findings in his 1861 Report upon the Colorado river of the West. The Ives expedition produced one of the important early maps of the Grand Canyon drawn by F. W. v. Egloffstein topographer to the expedition. Ives next served as engineer and architect for the Washington National Monument from 1859 to 1860. During the American Civil War he joined the Confederate Army and served in several engineering capacities and was finally appointed aide-de-camp to President Jefferson Davis from 1863 to 1865. After the war he settled in New York City where he died November 12 1868<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />New spine and paste downs some maps repaired else a very good copy. Government Printing Office hardcover books
193713885London: William Heinemann Ltd 1937. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. The first volume of memoirs by the English playwright actor director and wit signed and inscribed on the half title to Maurice Chevalier: "Maurice / From one 'old Ham' / To another! / Noël / Arras 1939." The memoir written in Coward's amusing style covers his life until 1931; it was followed by Future Indefinite and Past Conditional. 431 pp. Blue cloth binding. Some light shelf wear and fading to the spine; overall in fine condition.<br style="">The French actor cabaret singer and entertainer Maurice Chevalier is perhaps best known for his signature songs including "Louise" "Mimi" "Valentine" and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and for his films including The Love Parade and The Big Pond. His trademark attire was a boater hat which he always wore on stage with a tuxedo. In 1958 he starred with Leslie Caron and Louis Jourdan in Gigi and in the early 1960s he made eight films including Can-Can in 1960 and Fanny the following year.  The success of Gigi prompted Hollywood to give him an Academy Honorary Award that year for achievements in entertainment. <br style=""> William Heinemann Ltd hardcover books
28443 p.l. x 214 pp. 1 leaf. 8vo cont. red boards flat spine gilt uncut. Paris: Silvestre 1837. bound with: VEINANT Auguste Alexandre. Catalogue des Livres rares et précieux du Cabinet de M. name supplied in a contemporary hand: "Veinant" dont la Vente aura lieu le jeudi 20 décembre 1855 et jours suivants. vi 2 118 pp. 8vo uncut. Paris: E. Tross 1855. Two important catalogues attractively bound together. Each priced throughout in a contemporary hand. I. The sale catalogue of the first library formed by La Bédoyère 1782-1861 one of the best-known French book collectors of the 19th century. The son of one of Napoleon's generals La Bédoyère was a high officer in the Gardes du Corps of Louis XVIII and Charles X and chevalier of Saint-Louis and of the Légion d'honneur. Known as one of the most discerning and rigorous collectors he envisioned forming a library of the best early and modern editions in the most splendid examples. He bought from the leading dealers and made important acquisitions at the sale of Caillard in 1810 and the sales of d'Ourches and Firmin Didot in 1811. When buying modern luxury books he often bought five or six copies printed on the finest paper and selected the best leaves from each to form one "extra" superior copy. He sought with great ardor copies of proofs before letters and the original watercolors and drawings which he bound in the most sumptuous style. "Très-belle bibliothèque formée par un amateur plein de zèle et très-difficile. Les reliures de Du Seuil de Padeloup de Derome sont nombreuses ainsique les ouvrages non rognés."-Gustave Brunet Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique col. 476. The sale of 1750 lots produced the large sum of 108753 fr. Immediately after this sale La Bédoyère started collecting again and the second library was sold in 1862 after his death. This copy lacks the index. II. Veinant d. 1859 formed one of the finest private libraries in Paris of the period. An extremely active collector from his earliest days Veinant knew all the dealers and fellow collectors and frequented the sales rooms. He had the reputation of being extremely difficult and at the same time being one of the most knowledgeable of bibliophiles. Fine copies. ❧ I. Guigard II pp. 269-70-this sale "passait pour l'une des plus riches de son époque tant par le choix le nombre et la variété des sujets que par le luxe de l'ornementation et de la reliure." II. Gustave Brunet Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique cols. 111 & 541-42. hardcover books
1807937Newark: S. and J. Ridge 1807. First Edition Later Printing. =-. First Edition Later Printing. Finely bound in full dark brown crushed morocco with gilt ruled borders three-dot motif in corners five wrap-around embossed strapwork devices connecting five raised bands which have gilt ruled borders. A fine copy of the rare first edition with later issue points. <br/><br/> S. and J. Ridge hardcover books
182017071London: Thomas Davison / John Hunt 1820-24. Six volumes bound in three. Demy-octavos 16.5cm; contemporary full diced calf; bound including original title pages; half-titles and terminal leaves where called for. An attractive set in contemporary binding sympathetically re-backed preserving the original endpapers as well as most of the original spines and spine labels. Early printed bookplate of John Colston to each front pastedown with later inked ex-libris "J. Hames" added beneath each printed portion. The full foolscap octavo edition of Don Juan preceded in each case by quarto editions in the same year. Cantos I-II are from an early but not first printing with 1820 date at base of title page but no statement of "New Edition" as seems somewhat common though this issue appears unmentioned by Wise. The remaining volumes are first printings. WISE II p.3-8. Thomas Davison / John Hunt unknown books
18534676London: John Murray 1853. Two volumes. Bound in full red morocco by Riviere signed in ink on paper pastedowns with all-over gilt interlacing floral and leaf design on both covers and spine literally every square centimeter covered with this attractive repeating design. Some light foxing All edges gilt with attractive and intricate interweaved goffering to all edges on both volumes. Near fine. Exquisite. <br/><br/> John Murray unknown books
1848103118<p> Large 4to 9" x12" original red cloth gilt title top cover and gilt decorated spine illustrated with 42 hand colored plates xii. 137 1 pp. and 206 pp. Spine is split and torn lower portion may have been reattached frayed at head and foot hinges weak some minor foxing and toning a little some staining to half title probably from and old flower; otherwise about very good. Plates bright and clean. Henry Noel Humphreys 1807-1879 was a graphic artist and author born in Birmingham. His illustration work ranged from natural history and book illumination to works of fiction. He would do the incredibly attractive illustrations in Jane Loudon's Ladies' Flower Garden Series 1839-1848. The present title was first published in 1841 but several editions followed. Humphreys would also publish a similar work on Moths in 1845 and a second work on moths and butterflies in 1859. The 42 plates in this volume illustrate most of the known British butterflies at that time. ODB.</p> William Smith, books
1969144541Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1969. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With holograph annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. <br/><br/>One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny complex and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel Coward bring the erudite and the cockney together to make a quintessentially British film with as fine an ending as one could ask for. <br/><br/>13 x 9 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Lee The Heist Film. Paramount Pictures unknown books
2003CNJL1250Octon: Verdigris Press 2003. Limited Edition. Folio in a case. Fine. Rothchild Judith. Number 10 of 50 copies quarto size 20 pp. signed by Judith Rothchild and the printer Mark Lintott. Wallace Stevens 1879-1955 was "one of America's most respected poets. He was a master stylist employing an extraordinary vocabulary and a rigorous precision in crafting his poems. But he was also a philosopher of aesthetics vigorously exploring the notion of poetry as the supreme fusion of the creative imagination and objective reality." N.B. from the web site of the Poetry Foundation. <br/><br/>"Study of Two Pears" was first published in 1954 in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens and is here translated into French by Bernard Noel. The title asserts itself as being concerned with visual arts and each stanza tugs at the tension between reality that is observed and imaginative reality the observer sees the pears but not as he wills language fails to adequately describe them as they are without the use of metaphor. There might be no more appropriate poem to illustrate than this as the speaker's desire to describe the pears without relating them to anything else is an act of reduction which ultimately expands the image by showing us the many things they do resemble. <br/><br/>Illustrated by Rothchild's velvety hyper-realistic mezzotints which follow the progress of the stanzas each print gradually growing brighter the pears illustrated from every possible angle becoming more definite and resolved along with the poem. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original wrappers screen-printed with a design of green brown and orange with the title letterpress printed to the backstrip and upper wrapper in dark green loose leporello deckled fore-edge nine mezzotints two blind-stamped sets of pears to fly-leaves text in English and French; handset type Hahnemuhle paper quarto size 11" by 11.75" unpaginated with 20 pp. limited edition this number 10 of 50 copies signed by printer Mark Lintott and Judith Rothchild. Housed in a heavy cardboard slipcase covered in green paper and similarly screen-printed in shades of green lined with plain green paper. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine; crisp clean; other than a hint of rubbing to the top corners and a small rubbed spot on the spine of the backstrip as new and free of prior owner markings; in a like case. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Verdigris Press unknown books
2567xiii 3 400 pp.; xii 55 pp.; vi 192 pp. Three parts in one vol. 8vo cont. vellum over boards binding a little soiled arms in gilt of Baron de Walckenaer on covers single gilt fillet round sides flat spine gilt black leather lettering piece on spine t.e.g. others uncut. Paris: L. Potier 1862. A nice copy of the sale catalogue of the second of two libraries formed by La Bédoyère 1782-1861 one of the greatest French book collections of the second half of the 19th century. Immediately after selling his first library in 1837 he started on a second which was sold after his death realizing 155439 frs 75 c. Part I plus 13124 frs 40 c. Part II for which no price list was issued. The second section contains a published account of the first sale an index and price list. 4583 lots and partially priced in a contemporary hand. ❧ Guigard II p. 270-"La seconde dans son genre était peut-être la plus curieuse qu'on ait réunie. Elle n'était composée pour ainsi dire que d'ouvrages sur la Révolution française. On y comptait cent mille pièces consistant en pamphlets affiches et placards mémoires procès-verbaux chansonniers almanachs historiques et satiriques; journaux politiques gravures portraits et caricatures relatifs aux hommes du jours. Le tout accompagné de vingt dossiers de lettres autographes des principaux personanages de la Révolution.". hardcover books
184817405London: Longman & Co 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. iv1312pp. Thirty-two pages are chromolithographed by Humphreys in addition there is a leaf of the illuminator' s remarks and one comprising an index of the miracles. Bound in the original black papier-mache covers designed to look like carved ebony. The binding was based on one carved in ivory in the 12th Century and has medallions of the principal miracles intertwined with ornate decorations and the title. The front and rear covers are identical. The book is exuberantly illustrated using chromolithography on 32 pages alternating between hot bright colors and cool pages subtly tinted with various shades the whole combining to make both a magnificent tribute to Medieval illustration and to the then new and novel technique of chromolithography. Marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Nicely rebacked in plain black leather;; a few small cracks in the binding edges and corners neatly mended but a very good copy. The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings 160-162. Housed in a custom slipcase. Longman & Co hardcover books
1954142898Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1954. Final White script for the 1956 film. Director Michael Curtiz's presentation copy in tan leather with gilt titles and Curtiz's name at the bottom right corner of the front board. <br/><br/>An adaptation of the 1925 operetta of the same name by Rudolf Friml which is based on Justin Huntly McCarthy's 1901 romantic novel and play "If I Were King." <br/><br/>Set in France in the year 1461. <br/><br/>Brown leather covered boards titles in gilt. Title page present dated December 9 1954 with credits for producer Pat Duggan director Michael Curtiz screenwriter Ken Englund. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 96A. Mimeograph duplication with blue and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 12-15-54 and 2-9-55. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus with some wear at the edges. Paramount Pictures unknown books
19465703N.p. London: British Army Department of the Scientific Adviser to the Army Council 1946. First edition. Acceptable/Exercise Musk Ox was the first big Allied peacetime military maneuver after World War II. It took place in the polar region of Canada around Hudson Bay on the assumption that the arctic would be an important battleground in future wars. The maneuvers were intended to try out equipment and techniques. The Canadian army invited military observers from several nations including Britain. The expedition set out from Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay in February 1946 to travel over 3100 miles on "snowmobiles" that is modified 4-passenger light tanks that had been designed for an invasion of Norway which never happened. The route went north from Churchill to Denmark Bay then west to Norman Wells and south to finish at Edmonton. Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Croft 1906-1998 was the official observer for the British military. Before the war Croft had distinguished himself on the 1934 Lindsay expedition to Greenland covering over 1000 miles. The Wikipedia article on Croft claims that as a result of the Greenland trek Croft held the Guinness-endorsed record for longest self-sustaining journey for more than 60 years. For this and other expeditions he received the Polar Medal and the Back Award from the Royal Geographical Society. His distinguished wartime career included serving with a Special Forces unit behind enemy lines in Tunisia and several other covert missions in Scandinavia Corsica Italy and France for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. After acting observer of Exercise Musk Ox he was seconded to the Canadian Department of National Defense to develop clothing and equipment for Arctic warfare. Crofts report was produced for internal distribution only and very few copies exist OCLC locates one only. This copy belonged to the inveterate French polar explorer Paul-Emile Victor 1907-1995 whose life is as closely associated with Arctic regions as his friend Jacques Cousteau's is with the ocean. This copy of the Musk Ox report not only shows Victor's bookplate but includes an autograph signed declaration in French "The author Lt. Col. Andrew Croft is one of my friends. In 1934 with the Lindsay expedition he crossed the empty ice from Disko Bay to Uummannaq. Upon arriving Lindsay and Croft gave me their dogs and they became my top dogs " The text is illustrated with Croft's excellent photography. 34 cm; 59 1 24 2 pages and folding map. Appendices include 42 half-tone plates after photographs and table of recorded wind velocities. Distribution list at end. Bound in original green printed wraps stamped with accession stamps of the French Centre inter-armées de documentation militaire on upper wrap and on title page. Preserved in contemporary bristol board cover paper title label typed on upper board and spine. Veteran condition with old cello tape repairs to gutter of title page and several leaves of the appendices. Last appendix leaf guarded in cello tape on all edges with cello tape repair across central part of the leaf affecting two half-tone plates. Map folds repaired with cello tape. PAUL-EMILE VICTOR'S copy with his bookplate and an autograph note signed by Victor remarking that the author Croft is a personal friend and that Croft had given some favorite dogs to Victor in 1934. [British Army] Department of the Scientific Adviser to the Army Council hardcover books
179126261Bingii ad Rhenum: G. C. Voigt 1791. First quarto edition. Editio omnium novissima notis et animadversionibus quoad historiam et dissertationem sic Novi Testamenti aucta ad castigationem et illustrationem opinionum quorumdam sic auctoris opera et studio Constantini Roncaglia . Quibus accedunt praeter animadversiones a P. Joanne Dominico Mansi . in 2. Lucensi editione inserta sic aliae insuper ejusdem auctoris noviter elucubratae. Full mottle calf raised bands gilt decorated compartments morocco labels marbled endpapers all edges red. Spines and boards rubbed and scuffed worn at extremities heads and heels of a few volumes chipped calf occasionally darkened or brittle mainly on spines library call numbers to lower compartments seminary book plate to front pastedowns occasional bookseller's ticket bindings tight some scattered foxing otherwise leaves clean and unmarked. A valuable set. Illus. Sm. 4to.25 cm. Noel Alexandre or Alexander Natalis 1639-1724 was a French historian and theologian of the Order of St. Dominic who studied philosophy and theology in the convent of Saint Jacques Paris where he taught for twelve years obtained the licentiate from the Sorbonne and in 1675 the doctorate and was urged to write a complete history of the church the first volume appearing in 1677. "His directness and conciseness his critical acumen and his manner of viewing history and dividing it into special studies then quite original although now common enough won for him the approbation of the learned. The first volumes of the history brought him letters of commendation and praise from Pope Innocent XI and many cardinals but later volumes gave offense at Rome because of the author's Gallicism and Innocent XI finally forbade the faithful to read .it" Cath.Ency. Alexandre corrected the work in the third edition. Constantino Roncaglia brought out a sixth edition unaltered but with the addition of paragraphs and dissertations correcting the most offensive statements. The work was thus removed from the Index by Pope Benedict XIII. The edition offered here is the best and most complete edited by Giovan Domenico Mansi who added many explanatory notes. An anonymous writer in two supplementary volumes also included here carried the history into the eighteenth century and added various dissertations from other historians. The work thus completed appeared at Venice in 1778 in eleven folio volumes and at Bingen 1785-91 in twenty volumes. Brunet I 169. G. C. Voigt hardcover books
1855225549<p>London John Murray 1855. 1855. "A New Edition" so stated. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Full gilt stamped polished tan calf spines with raised bands gilt stamped devices within gilt stamped compartments gilt stamped green and tan labels covers double gilt ruled with decorative corner devices gilt stamped edges blindstamped inner dentelles marbled endpapers and edges minor rubbing. Very good. 6 volumes complete. An attractive fresh set. No signatures or bookplates. Hardcover.</p> John Murray, 1855 hardcover books
04043London & Cambridge: Macmillan & Co. 1863. Just Another Destitute Little Chimney-Sweep"<br/>or <br/>"The Oddest Fairy Tale That There Has Ever Been.<br/>A Near Fine Copy Of The First Edition of The Water-Babies<br/><br/>KINGSLEY Charles. The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. With two illustrations by J. Noel Paton R.S.A. London & Cambridge: Macmillan and Co. 1863.<br/><br/>First edition second state. Small square octavo 8 x 6 1/8 inches; 203 x 155 mm. viii 3 4-350 1 advertisements 1 blank. Without the ‘L'Envoi' leaf which was canceled early on by Kingsley. Inserted frontispiece and full-page illustration opposite p. 145. With eight large engraved initial chapter letters. <br/><br/>Original dark green fine-grain cloth front cover with gilt triple-rule border enclosing a pictorial gilt center device depicting Tom a Fish and a Sea-Horse. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Dark brown coated endpapers top edge gilt. With the binders ticket of Burn of Kirby St. on the rear pastedown. Unidentified rectangular bookplate on front paste-down. A couple of small and very light spots on front cover inner hinges with partial expert and almost invisible repairs. Otherwise a superlative copy the gilt bright and fresh of this scarce children's classic. Contemporary neat ink inscription on verso of front end-paper dated "Xmas 1863." Housed in a fleece-lined quarter green morocco over green cloth clamshell case. <br/><br/>"Charles Kingsley was a rural vicar in Victorian England and the "land-baby" of the sub-title was his youngest son five-year-old Grenville Arthur. In writing this fairy tale about the underwater adventures of Tom a chimney-sweep's climbing-boy Kingsley uttered many a sermon. But along with his zeal for Anglican Christianity he also brought into play his enthusiasm for nature and his strong sense of indignation at the Victorian practice of using small children as laborers. <br/><br/>The difference between the first and second states is solely the removal of the L'Envoi leaf. The first state "contains a leaf bearing a poem L'Envoi. Kingsley had second thoughts about this while the book was being printed and he had the leaf removed but not before a few hundred copies of the book had already gone forth." Gottlieb Early Children's Books and Their Illustration 113.<br/><br/>Grolier 100 34. London & Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., 1863 unknown books
6471iv 51 1 pp. 8vo attractive antique calf-backed marbled boards spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: B. White and Son et al. 1788. First edition. Land enclosure in 18th-century Britain was highly controversial: it consolidated small landholdings into larger farms ceasing to be common land for communal use. Oftentimes landowners including the Church were not adequately compensated upon suffering enclosure on their properties. Turner 1739-1826 took his degree at Emmanuel College Cambridge and was rector of Wing. This work was written on the occasion of the enclosure of one of his livings given to him by the Crown in 1788 and in it Turner endeavored to call to the attention of the heads of the Church and the public various instances of injustice done to Church revenues by the manner in which enclosures were managed. Fine copy. Scarce. hardcover books
1727CAT000162Dublin: J. Watts 1727. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary paneled calf corners worn recently rebacked in calf. Introduction by Richard Bradley preface subscriber list. Scattered browning endpapers discolored generally clean internally.<br/><br/>The first English edition was London 1725 the first French was 1709. A great deal of information on food and drink as well as gardening weights and measures destruction of vermin bee keeping etc. Attractive in-text illustrations scattered throughout. Size: Folio. 2-volume set complete. Previous owner's book-plate on front pastedown. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Gardening. Inventory No: CAT000162. J. Watts hardcover books
1861230141Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1861. First edition. Frontispiece 1 profile 8 fold-out panoramic views 24 lithographs some with tinted backgrounds 8 have been additionally hand-colored without 4 fold-out maps; 131; 154; 30; 6; 31 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to 11-1/8 x 8-5/8 inches. Later quarter cloth and marbled boards and endpapers. Fine copy. Bookplate of the Burndy Library with withdrawal stamp on the front pastedown. First edition. Frontispiece 1 profile 8 fold-out panoramic views 24 lithographs some with tinted backgrounds 8 have been additionally hand-colored without 4 fold-out maps; 131; 154; 30; 6; 31 1 pp. 1 vols. 4to 11-1/8 x 8-5/8 inches. Inscribed to Benjamin Silliman. William Goetzmann calls Lieutenant Ives's complete report "The best by far of these individual reports.It is a long carefully written journal consciously literary but with a maximum amount of attention to scientific observation. John Strong Newberry's geological report which accompanied Ives's narrative is one of the best of the government geological reports." Goetzmann gives a full account of the expedition in Army Exploration in the American West pp.379-94. Includes these separately numbered parts: Geological Report. By Dr. John Strong Newberry; Botany. By Professors Asa Gray John Torrey et al.; Zoology. By Professor Spencer Fullerton Baird; and Appendices<br/><br/>Inscribed by John Strong Newberry on the title page: "Prof. B. Silliman Jr. with the kind regards of J.S. Newberry." John Strong Newberry who was the naturalist on Ives' expedition up the Colorado River wrote Part III of this Report which deals with the Geology and Paleontology of the regions they explored. Ives' party were among the first white men to visit the floor of the Grand Canyon and upon their return it was Newberry who realized the canyon's geological significance and encouraged further exploration. It is likely that Newberry inscribed this copy to Benjamin Silliman Jr. a famous chemist and Yale professor whose analysis of "rock oil" in Pennsylvania in 1855 introduced investors to the potential of petroleum and led to the drilling of Edwin Drake's successful oil well on his property in 1857. Silliman also took on consulting activities in the American West in the 1860's and favorably reported on petroleum deposits in southern California as well as gold and silver properties in California Nevada and northern Arizona. Howes I-I92; Wagner-Camp 375; Sabin 35308; Wheat Transmississippi West 4: pp.98-101; Flake 4287; Goetzmann pp.379-394; Larned 412; Paher Nevada: An Annotated Bibliography 952; Arizona 100:47 Government Printing Office unknown books
1617046703Paris: François Julliot 1617. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary with the 2nd work speckled calf edges lightly worn hinges a touch rubbed sound and attractive overall. Old signature crossed out on title old bookplate to pastedown notes on front blank. 14 295 21pp; 76pp<br/><br/>The first is the classic account of the paranormal by Taillepied - first published in 1588 all the editions are uncommon. His account was reprinted until 1667 and was influential - he was a believer in poltergeists and spirits often at odds with reformation figures like Ludwig Levater who were eager to disbelieve. The second title by the physician and entomologist Poupart is quite scarce - just 6 copies in OCLC - and details a specific haunting at Saint Maur - a classic case of rustling papers moving drapes the bed walking itself around the room self rearranging furniture unexplained noises etc etc. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Magic Paranormal & Occult; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046703. François Julliot hardcover books
1997CNJL1063Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press 1997. Limited Edition. Leather. Fine. Pitts J. Martin. No. IX of X specially bound copies folio size 27 pp. signed by J. Martin Pitts and Paul Delrue with prospectus. Paul Delrue b. 1944 bound his first book at the age of fifteen in 1959 and knew he had discovered his calling. He became an apprentice at the University College London from 1961-64 and worked there as a binder until 1971. He set up his own bindery in 1971 and in 1981 was elected a Fellow of the Society of Bookbinders having founded and served as chairman of the Chester and North Wales branch in 1979. Paul has earned numerous awards and honours including the Silver medal and three other awards in 1991 in The Bookbinding Competition. He was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in the same year; the following year he was awarded two Bronze medals in the prestigious Prix Paul Bonet. <br/><br/>Paul invented the lacunose style of binding which is masterfully shown in this work although he uses other methods as well. His work is highly prized and springs from within him; as he writes on his website "A book and its binding are inextricably linked - the one complements the other in a way which creates something more than just a book with an attractive cover. My design bindings draw on what a book says to me and how it inspires me emotionally." <br/><br/>The lovely Delrue binding perfectly complements the story by The Hon. Roden Noel 1834-1894. "In this poem he mixes elements of the story of Salmacis & Hermaphroditus from Ovid's Metamorphoses with memories of moods settings and atmospheres from his Irish childhood combining as John Addington Symonds wrote full sensuous feeling for the material world with an ever-present sense of the spirit informing it and bringing all its products into vital harmony." n.b. from the web site of The Old Stile Press<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full leather in the Lacunose style with leathers used in colours of different blues grey greens brown and tan with swirls of lighter colour reminiscent of water pooling and white featherstrokes fore- and bottom edges uncut printed on brown paper throughout French folds double-spread title page with two-colour linocut by J. Martin Pitts in brown and white linocuts in brown and white by Pitts throughout; folio size 13" by 10" 27 unnumbered pages one of 225 copies this number 206 number IX of X specially bound copies signed by J. Martin Pitts and Paul Delrue on the colophon. With the prospectus for the special edition a grey sheet with a biography of Paul Delrue folded once with another sheet folded once to make four pages with four tipped-in colour photographs of the binding. In a case of quarter tan cloth with pictorial cloth boards with pocket made of grey-green cloth with grey-green ribbon stamped "Delrue". <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine with clean boards straight corners a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings. The prospectus is near fine clean with only light wear. The case is fine also strong and sturdy clean and without wear. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. [The Old Stile Press] unknown books
194221239ENew York: Random House 1942. First Edition. Signed by actress Noel Neill on the half-title beneath the printed drawing of Superman with her name and that of the character she played “Lois Laneâ€. Noel Neill was the first actress to play Lois Lane and is the most famous woman associated with the role starting in 1948 opposite Kirk Allen as Superman in the Columbia Pictures 15 chapter Superman serial. In the 1950s she again played the role opposite George Reeves in the classic television series. Throughout the years Neill has been considered the classic Lois Lane and has made appearances in small roles in later Superman films including the most recent recent Superman Returns 2006. With a hint of foxing to the endpapers and with faint evidence of a cup mark to the cloth at the front board else an about fine bright copy in a very good lightly used dust jacket with some fading mostly to the spine a slight rippling from a cup mark and some small chips and tears. An illustrated Superman novel published here for the first time with line drawings and full color full page illustrations by Superman’s co-creator artist Joe Shuster. Random House hardcover books
1924316809Oxford: Oxford University Press 1924. First edition one of 800 copies. Profusely illustrated after photographs old engravings etc. 106 plates on 80 leaves in volume I and 54 plates on 47 leaves in Volume II. xv 281; viii 282-580 pp. 2 vols. 4to. Publisher's blue buckram. With front pictorial dust wrapper for each volume laid in. First edition one of 800 copies. Profusely illustrated after photographs old engravings etc. 106 plates on 80 leaves in volume I and 54 plates on 47 leaves in Volume II. xv 281; viii 282-580 pp. 2 vols. 4to. IN PARTIAL DJS. The standard work on the history of court tennis. The archive of the Oxford University Press reveals that in 1932 some 380 sets of the edition were pulped. The true limitation is therefore nearer to 420. Whitman p. 28 Oxford University Press unknown books
18471267London: Longman & Company 1847. First edition. First edition. 12mo. Superbly bound in full black impressed morocco binding over beveled boards by Hayday. 31 chromolithographed full-page illustrations chromo title page text borders and initials all by Noel Humphreys. A monumental production of this most notable and sought-after early Victorian landmark in book binding and color production. A fne copy with almost no signs of wear seldom seen in this condition. <br/><br/> Longman & Company hardcover books
184721823London: Longmans 1847. Humphreys Noel. 8vo 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. Chromolithographed title page and 31 chromolithographed pages with text symbolic borders miniatures and initials printed in gold black and colors 2 page printed explanation and advertising leaf. Publisher's papier-maché boards covered with black plaster molded to appear like a Gothic carved wood binding with gilt stamped leather back. Although as inevitable with the gutta-percha gluing the leaves have become detached this is nonetheless an exemplary and extraordinarily fine copy of a fragile production usually found quite worn often missing the spine the edges chipped etc. but here with the binding showing almost no wear and even the gilt on the cover edges intact and the spine gilt visible though tarnished. This is the earliest example of this innovative use of materials to reproduce antiquarian handmade work and it met with considerable commercial success. Cornelius Hauck copy with bookplate. Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England 231; Abbey Life 222. <br /><br /> Longmans hardcover books
