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19881943POCKET BOOKS/PAN BOOKS 1988. softcover. Dirk Gently POCKET BOOKS 69267PAN BOOKS 30955 POCKET BOOKS/PAN BOOKS paperback
19522222322244995<p>The First UK printing published by William Heinemann London in 1952. Autograph presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author. The recipient was the actress Sylvia Coleridge 1909-1986 who played Octavia Countess of Bonnington at the play's first performance at the Opera House Manchester on the 15th July 1952. Additionally autographed by 22 members of the play's cast. Tipped-in contemporary newspaper clippings. The author's presentation signature binding of red cloth and gilt by Bumpus Ltd. The author's signature binding by Bumpus was either issued in red cloth or red morocco with all edges gilt to both issues. The BOOK is in Very Good or better condition with a little fading at the spine tips and slight rubbing at the corners. The book is dedicated to Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne who have both signed this copy as part of the cast and who starred in the lead roles of this play. Alfred Lunt went on to win a Tony Award for best actor in the 1955 Broadway production. A wonderful association copy. The book is protected in a removable Mylar archival cover. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.</p> William Heinemann, London hardcover
1879B6441London: John Murray. 1879. A fine copy in publisher’s decorative half red calf. Binding: contemporary half red calf over marbled boards title in gilt on two spine with five raised bands spine with decorative gilt ruling and central devices marbled upper and lower endpapers top edges in gilt. Notes: The books Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates and A Pilgrimage to Nejd are attributed to her and were based on her journals but were extensively edited by her husband. Illustrated with a folding map and hand-coloured woodcuts by the author. <br><br>Anne Isabella Noel Blunt 1837 – 1917 known for most of her life as Lady Anne Blunt was co-founder with her husband the poet Wilfrid Blunt of the Crabbet Arabian Stud in England and the Sheykh Obeyd estate near Cairo. The two married on 8 June 1869. From the late 1870s Wilfrid and Lady Anne travelled extensively in Arabia and the Middle East buying Arabian horses from Bedouin tribesmen and the Egyptian Ali Pasha Sherif. Among the great and influential horses they took to England were Azrek Dajania Queen of Sheba Rodania and the famous Ali Pasha Sherif stallion Mesaoud. To this day the vast majority of purebred Arabian horses trace their lineage to at least one Crabbet ancestor.<br><br> Size: 8vo. Illustration: Illustrated with a folding map and hand-coloured woodcuts by the author. Volume: 2 volumes. Category: Book Asia Middle East General; Book Plate Books Colour; John Murray. hardcover
1635MS0022<p>A2-4 lacking A1 blank B4 C2 Aa-Ff4 Gg2 Hh-Kk4 Ll2 A-H4 A-S4 pages with tables and illustrations. Quarto 9" x 6 1/2" bound in old limp parchment with title to spine. From the library of professor Astronomer Historian and Bibliophile Owen Gingerich. Fist edition.</p><p>Noël Duret also known as Natalis Durret was a prominent 17th-century French mathematician astronomer and astrologer. He actively advanced both the theoretical and applied scientific practices of his era. He served as the official Royal Cosmographer to King Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu. : He worked as a professor of mathematics in Paris teaching both pure theory and applied branches like cartography. Duret acted as a vital publisher and promoter for the famous mathematician François Viète. He helped popularize Viète's revolutionary system of symbolic algebra across France. : In 1635 he published <em>Nouvelle Théorie des Planètes</em>. He followed this up in 1641 by publishing detailed astronomical ephemerides and tables. These tools provided essential calculation methods for determining celestial positioning at sea and on land.</p><p>Owen Jay Gingerich 1930-2023 was an American astronomer who had been professor emeritus of astronomy and of the history of science at Harvard University and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. In addition to his research and teaching he had written many books on the history of astronomy.</p><p><strong>Condition: </strong>Edge wear some endemic browning from the original paper stock occasional old ink marginalia else about very good.</p> Chez Gervais Allio
2017Am2173Chichester: Wiley Blackwell 2017. 15 volumes xcvii 8217 pages : illustrations black and white and colour maps black and white and colour still in publishers's boxes 2 unread. Contents: v. I. A-B -- v. II. C-Cor -- v. III. Cor-D -- v. IV. E-Env -- v. V. Env-Geo -- v. VI. Geo-Gra -- v. VII. Gra-Inf -- v. VIII. Inf-Map -- v. IX. Map-O -- v. X. P-Rec -- v. XI. Ref-Slu -- v. XII. Sno-Spa -- v. XIII. Spa-T -- v. XIV. U-Z -- v. XV. Appendix/index. Hard Cover. New. Wiley Blackwell Hardcover
1861009786Washington D. C: Superintendent of Documents 1861. 5 parts in one volume. 2 large folding lithographic maps clean/no tears 8 fine folding lithographic views 8 chromolithographic beautiful color plates showing dress of various Indian tribes along river and 16 lithographic plates of views and fossils from sketches by Baldwin Mollhausen all clean and in excellent condition. Original decorated black cloth gilt with spine cloth missing. Overall tight and clean. Minimal foxing. Frst edition This is the Senate and preferred issue. Probably best known as the engineer and architect of the Washington Monument 1859-1860 in 1857 Ives was "promoted to first lieutenant and was named to lead an expedition up the Colorado River in order to develop potential routes of supply in the event of a war between the national government and the Mormon settlements in Deseret Utah. Ives's expedition included John Strong Newberry as naturalist the Prussian Heinrich Balduin Möllhausen as artist and unofficial diarist and F. W. Egloffstein as topographer. Ives purchased a steamboat in Philadelphia. The vessel was taken apart and shipped via the Isthmus of Panama to California and thence to the mouth of the Colorado River where Ives and the members of his expedition rendezvoused late in 1857. Ives and his men reassembled the steamboat and christened it the Explorer. They launched the ship on 31 December 1857 and set out on their journey of reconnaissance. Overall with exception of spine covering missing an exceptional copy. Clean. 1st Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket - Issued. Illus. by Möllhausen Heinrich Baldwin. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Superintendent of Documents Hardcover
16991509150060Parisiis : A. Dezallier 1699-01-01. 3rd. Hardcover. Good. Complete 8 volume set bound in 7 volumes. Vols. 1 & 2 bound together. Folios 38 cm. 3rd edition. Bound in contemporary calf. 6 raised bands. Gilt spine. All bindings solid. Chipping with loss to spines particularly to vol. 3. Engraved title in red and black. Internally good a few contemporary notations to margins browning spots to pages but very usable. Early signature of Joannes Baptista Parisi parrochey Ollargien 1703 sp on end pages. 19th century seminary book plate. Moreri Grand Dictionnaire Historique I1731 220; Graesse /71; Qurard I 29; Ebert 418 ; De Feller Biographie Universelle I1847 129; Brunet I 169; A. Hanggi Der Kirchenhistoriker Natalis Alexander Freiburg/Schweiz 1955. <br><br> Alexander Natalis an important French historian and theologian began his great history of the church at the urging of Jean Baptiste Colbert. Alexander's Historiae initially brought him praise from Pope Innocent XI and many cardinals but subsequent volumes gave offence to the Pope and Rome because of the author's Gallicanism an upstart Catholic sect from the Declaration of the Clergy of France in 1682 at the behest of King Louis XIV. Pope Innocent IX placed this work on the Index and forbade Catholics to read it on pain on excommunication. In the preface to the third edition Paris 1699 eight folio volumes Father Alexander submitted fully to the judgment of the Holy See and in some scholia added to the dissertations showed that in some instances he had been criticized and judged unjustly. Alexander did formally amend his edition as expected but did not purge the offending remarks rather these remarks where extracted from the text and placed in the scholia. Alexander is noted for his important contribution to research on Thomas Aquinas and his Summa Theologica. - McMahon A. 1907. Alexander Natalis. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. <br><br> This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Parisiis : A. Dezallier hardcover
1824186939London: John Murray vols I-VI; Knight and Lacey IX; John & Henry L. Hunt X-XI 1824-27. Fine contemporary morocco A very attractive mixed-imprint set in well-preserved bindings. 11 vols octavo 160 x 103 mm. Contemporary blue straight-grain morocco spines lettered in gilt gilt lozenge tool to upper and lower compartments gilt ivy-leaf frame to boards enclosing blind roll and corner rosettes green coated endpapers edges gilt blue bookmarkers. Unobtrusive scratches to boards corners bumped intermittent foxing heavy in vol. XI. A very good set presenting well in the bindings. hardcover
1832139270London: John Murray 1832-33. An attractive set An attractive library set of Byron's works complete with the three Don Juan volumes added to the edition including all his poems and plays letters and journals and the Life by his friend Thomas Moore. 17 vols octavo 166 x 104 mm. Engraved frontispieces and vignette title pages. Contemporary red half morocco spines lettered in gilt marbled sides and endpapers. Bindings with sporadic rubbing but generally in nice shape slight discoloration to some endpapers contents lightly toned else clean and unmarked. An excellent set. unknown
1928145380Snowshill Cotswolds: November 1928. Cotswold calligraphy A beautiful arts and crafts style calligraphic Christmas gift inscribed in orange ink to the final leaf "Written for Miss Ellen D. Sharpe by her friend S. B. Russell at Snowshill on the Cotswolds in November 1928". The work was created by Sydney Bolton Russell 1866-1938 the father of the arts and crafts furniture designer Gordon Russell 1892-1980. Sydney moved to the Cotswolds in 1904 when he bought the Lygon Arms in Broadway. He renovated the property in 1910 with the help of the arts and crafts architect Charles Bateman and it was at this time that Gordon developed an increasing interest in furniture design and the wider arts and crafts movement as he repaired the inn's antique furniture. Sydney moved out of the inn in 1915 which was by then a hotel of national repute and to the neighbouring town of Snowshill and a home he again renovated with Batemen in order to spend more time on his own artistic endeavours. In 1922 he and Gordon established Russell and Sons a brand which shaped 20th-century furniture design. The recipient of this Christmas gift was Ellen Dexter Sharpe 1861-1953 a patron of the arts in Providence who gave numerous donations to the Rhode Island School of Design. Russell travelled to Boston in October 1926 and likely met Sharpe on this visit. Quarto 280 x 186 mm pp. 18. Text written in black with red initials colour nativity illustrations pasted to title page and final page of text. Finely bound at time of presentation in blue morocco spine in compartments raised bands ruled in gilt titles in gilt to front board blue marbled endpapers turn-ins elaborately rolled in gilt. Spine very lightly toned minor scuff to edges faint offsetting to free endpaper margins a near-fine copy. hardcover
1931178845London: 1931. The "Incomparable Max" meets The Master Limited edition number 41 of 100 copies. Each plate a caricature of the stars of Noël Coward's operetta Bitter Sweet is signed by the artist and subject. There were 900 further copies issued without autographs. The show was Coward's most successful musical play running in the West End from 1929 to 1931 and on Broadway from 1929 to 1930. This volume is accompanied by the publisher's prospectus. "It was difficult to ignore the production appearing as it did in every medium. Cochran the producer commissioned Max Beerbohm to do a series of Bitter Sweet caricatures. 'Max took a great liking to Noël Coward himself and was enchanted with the play' wrote David Cecil. 'Its nostalgic evocation of Victorian and Edwardian epochs chimed deliciously with the wit of the song 'Green carnation' which poked fun at the very group of 'greenery-yallery' aesthetes the venerable dandy personified" Hoare. Provenance: the New York collector Herbert Schimmel 1909-2003 with his bookplate on the inside cover. A collector of art nouveau Schimmel also amassed a large library of Coward's works as well as of his contemporary Ivor Novello. Folio. Original quarter vellum portfolio grey paper covered boards titles to front cover in gilt containing title and contents leaves bifolium introduction 5 offset caricatures 334 x 230 mm mounted within grey card bifolia 400 x 286 mm as issued. Corners bumped covers and mounts lightly toned slight foxing to flaps and title page nick at foot of prelims plates bright and fresh: a very good set. Gallatin & Oliver 30a; Philip Hoare Noël Coward: A Biography 2013. hardcover
24694Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd. 2004. First edition first printing. First edition first printing. Deluxe Issue. Signed by the author. Quarto. Publisher's quarter purple leather with aluminium boards silkscreened in orange and pink fluorescent inks orange lettering to the spine. All edges in prismatic silver. Housed in a full black leather box silkscreened with six flourescent guitar strings. Illustrated with over 300 photographs in colour and black and white throughout. Multi-coloured silk ribbons. A fine copy the binding square and tight clean and bright inside and out. Complete with the black leather box pocket inside the lid containing a photographic print signed by Rolling Stone Magazine photographer Baron Wolman in an orange sleeve only present in this deluxe edition. This is number 333 of 350 copies of the deluxe edition signed by Ross Halfin Brad Tolinski and Aerosmith lead guitarist Joe Perry. There was also a simultaneous issue of 1400 'collectors' copies without the signed print or the signature of Joe Perry. A typically beautiful and weighty Genesis production which with commentary from Noel Redding Mitch Mitchell Eric Clapton Ronnie Wood Aerosmith's Joe Perry and Jimi himself claims to be the most comprehensive visual memoir of Hendrix ever published. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. Guildford: Genesis Publications Ltd. 2004 hardcover
1849009747London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1849 Folio 56 cm 2 15 pp. letterpress title printed in red and black additional chromolithographic title 39 chromolithographic plates and one uncoloured plate. Contemporary half leather over red cloth spine with raised bands gilt-lettered title all edges gilt binding worn but sound with rubbing to extremities and some skinning of the leather mainly on the back board; spotting and toning throughout occasionally heavy; indistinct bookbinder's stamp on front pastedown. An important and lavishly produced survey of the art of illumination from the fourth to the seventeenth century by Henry Noel Humphreys 1810-1879 one of the leading Victorian interpreters of medieval art with plates executed by Owen Jones the foremost designer and chromolithographer of the period. The text provides a concise but learned overview of Roman Byzantine Insular Carolingian Gothic and Renaissance illumination reflecting contemporary scholarship and the nineteenth-century revival of interest in medieval ornament. The magnificent full-page chromolithographic plates printed from stone in rich colours and often at the scale of the originals reproduce some of the finest examples of manuscript illumination including leaves from the Lindisfarne Gospels Italian Renaissance manuscripts Franco-Flemish court productions and Gothic devotional books. The plates remain vivid and striking. A good copy of one of the most significant Victorian publications on medieval art. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans hardcover
193132453AB1931. Second Impression. Edinburgh and London William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. 1931. Octavo. Frontispiece XII 271 pages. With seven photographic illustrations on four plates. Original Hardcover with the very rare original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear and foxing to the edges and several pages. This book is very rare in its original dustjacket. Inscribed and signed by Charles Noel Carnegie 10th Earl of Southesk 1854-1941: "To Lady Adam Smith from the Earl of Southesk - Jan 1934". With a newspaper-clipping on an event of Inverness Central School loosely inserted and with a newspaper-clipping shopwing the elderly "Earl of Southesk and Mr. Donald Steuart-Fothringham going out to shoot over Petterden Moor Angus". A wonderful association copy ! Charles Noel Carnegie 10th Earl of Southesk JP DL 20 March 1854 10 November 1941 was a Scottish nobleman. Carnegie was the son of the explorer and poet James Carnegie 9th Earl of Southesk and his first wife Catherine Hamilton Noel daughter of the Charles Noel 1st Earl of Gainsborough. He had three older sisters Lady Arabella Charlotte wife of Samuel Romilly Lady Constance Mary wife of Victor Bruce 9th Earl of Elgin and Lady Beatrice Diana Cecilia Diana Cecillia wife of the Rev. Henry Holmes Stewart. After his mother's death in 1855 at the age of twenty-six his father remarried to Lady Susan Catherine Mary Murray eldest daughter of the 6th Earl of Dunmore in 1860. From his father's second marriage he had seven younger half-siblings including: Sir Lancelot Douglas Carnegie Lady Dora Susan wife of Maj. Ernest de Rodakowski-Rivers Lady Elizabeth Erica Lady Helena Mariota Lady Katherine Agnes Blanche wife of Courtenay Morgan 1st Viscount Tredegar Hon. Robert Francis who married Violet Fraser and Hon. David Wynford Carnegie. His paternal grandparents were Sir James Carnegie 5th Baronet de jure 8th Earl of Southesk and the former Charlotte Lysons a daughter of the Reverend Daniel Lysons. He was educated at Harrow and St Andrews University and would later receive an honorary degree from the university in October 1902. Amongst his various offices he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the part-time Forfar and Kincardine Artillery Militia in 1872 and steadily progressed through the officer ranks until he became the Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant in 1894 with the honorary rank of Colonel. He retired from the command in 1906. He also served as a Deputy Lieutenant for Angus Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire from 5 January 1900. He held the office of Justice of the Peace for Aberdeenshire and for Angus. In 1905 he succeeded his father as the 10th Earl of Southesk who had restored the family titles with the original precedence by reversal of the 1715 Act of Attainder in 1855. He had the reputation of being the best game shot in Scotland. In 1921 Kinnaird Castle which was situated in one of the grandest Scottish glens and was the seat of the Earls of Southesk for more than 600 years burnt to the ground. "Only a small part of the servant's wing has escaped. A considerable part of the library was saved but many books impossible to replace as well as Raeburn's portrait of Lady Carnegie valued at £10000 were lost." Lord Southesk rebuilt the castle. A prominent art collector he owned "a large collection of paintings by old masters and antique gems." Source: Wikipedia hardcover
194589879n. l. Paris: s. n. Paysage dimanche 1945. Fine. s. n. Paysage dimanche n. l. Paris s. d. 1945 11.50 x 22 cm 3 pages in-4 Autograph manuscript by the author 3 pages in-8 published in issue 21 4 November 1945 of Paysage Dimanche. Complete manuscript written on both sides in a very dense hand with numerous deletions corrections and additions. Together with the complete typescript bearing 3 autograph corrections in black ink. This text by Maurice Blanchot « Les malheurs de ""Peau d'âne"" » contains two paradoxes. Contrary to what its title suggests it does not deal with the work of Charles Perrault; furthermore this column is devoted to the tales of an author whom the critic had already cited in his article on the fantastic novel published the previous year in the Journal des Débats and whose work he appeared to have little taste for: Noël Devaulx. Yet with nuance Blanchot here reveals to the reader the qualities of these tales and beyond that their terrible relevance in the year 1945: « Il y a dans ces récits d'au-delà du monde un certain charme provincial qui est assez singulier ; ils n'ont assurément rien à voir avec quelque folklore mais se déroulant comme tout vrai conte ""aux environs de l'absence"" ils finissent par nous imposer cette impression que nulle part est une province morte que c'est un lieu aussi suranné précieux et ridicule que peut l'être la province la plus archaïque. Or cette impression ne laisse pas de nous inquiéter. Car ce monde qu'on nous découvre et qui a la fragilité l'air endormi et sournois des objets dans les vieilles maisons c'est le nôtre mais c'est surtout celui de nos inquiétudes les plus brûlantes celui de la surnature et du surréel. . Après la lecture de L'Auberge on rêve à l'autre monde comme à un modeste salon de campagne du dehors encore très respectable de bonne compagnie et même solide mais qu'on y entre et tout vole en poussière. » A subtly political reading of Noël Devaulxs tales. s. n. [Paysage dimanche] unknown
199650376ULLSTEIN LEOPOLD 02/1996. 13. softcover. Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis ULLSTEIN, LEOPOLD paperback
1740011411London: Printed for R. Francklin C. Davis J. Pemberton 1740. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo small. Vol. I Fifth edition corrected. Vol. II & III Fifth edition. Vol. IV Third edition. Translated from the original French. Contemporary leather boards with gilt triple filet recently professionally rebacked with new leather spines in contemporary style labels raised bands and gilt compartments. xviii 323 13 pp. index; viii 4 312; xviii 366; 4 368 pp. Frontispiece numerous copperplate engravings in each volume mostly folding. Vol. I: 24/25 plates Plate 16 apparently lacking. Vol. II: 35 plates incl. frontis. Vol. III: 32 plates frontis. Vol. IV: 28 plates frontis. Some light wear to boards. Light foxing and sporadic rust and ink staining to interior commensurate with age. A handsomely restored set. Printed for R. Francklin, C. Davis, J. Pemberton hardcover
185320949London: Ingram Cooke and Co. 1853 A connected narative of the development of the art its primeval phases in Egypt China Mexico etc; its middle state in the Cuneatic systems of Nineveh and Persepolis to its introduction to Europe through the medium of the Hebrew Phoenician and Greek systems and its subsequent progress to the present day. viii 176pp gilt all edges. 28 plates all present and correct. All colour plates are signed H.N.Humphreys. Lith.Day & Son. Lith.rs to the Queen. All black and white plates are signed 'Printed by Paul Jerrard 111 Fleet St'. Marbled end papers and pastedowns. Black papie mache with red backing paper. The design is the same on both covers comprising a leaf and flower border with three fillets inside. The centre is occupied by a large foliage stem which surrounds the title. The lower pastedown bears the binders label of Leighton Son & Hodge Shoe Lane London Ball 53A The binding has been meticulously rebacked with the original gold blocked design relaid. There is no loss or damage to the papier mache. Internally there is light random foxing throughout. This is a rare survivor of a spectacular binding fully deserving of the new Solander box in which it is now housed. Ingram, Cooke and Co. hardcover
1700FLEol[AL31Cologne: Heirs of Corneille d'Egmond 1700. 1700. 2 Volumes. 12mo. pp. 378 4; 3 p.l. 366 7. contemporary sprinkled sheep gilt backs spinal extremities worn. armorial bookplate of Bernard de Noblet Comte de Chenelette. Dominican critique of the Jesuit position on Confucian rites and ceremonies written specifically in response to Michel Le Tellier's Défense des Nouveaux Chrétiens and the Éclaircissement of Charles Le Gobien. First published the previous year. Lust also notes a so-called 'second' edition of 1700 apparently a re-issue of the first with cancel title. cfBarbier I 245. cfCioranescu 6806. cfCordier 877. cfLust 854-55. Hardcover. Cologne: Heirs of Corneille d'Egmond, 1700. Hardcover
181055228London John Murray/Thomas Davison 1810-21. 8vo. Bound in 6 uniform near contemp. hcalf. Richly gilt spines. Wear to spine-ends. Gilt lettering. Upper part of spine on the first volume loosening. Light wear to edges. All but one are Murray imprint. In general clean and fine on good paper. <br/><br/><em>An interesting collection of nearly all of Byron's works and here with many first editions. </em> unknown
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2011__1412903696Sage Publications Ltd 2011. Hardcover. New. 2136 pages. 10.00x6.75x4.00 inches. Sage Publications Ltd hardcover
