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31394This influential English travel writer and historian is most remembered for his monumental 8-volume "Invasion of the Crimea" 1863-87; other titles include "Eothen or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East" 1844. Carte-de-visite 2¼" X 4" London England n.y. ca.1875. Near fine. A superb sepia-tone portrait of an older Kinglake in three-piece suit reclining in a leather chair book in lap. Photographer's name Elliott & Fry and address printed on blank lower margin as well as noted on a decorative backstamp. A beautiful example in clean sharp-cornered condition. unknown
London, Encounter, 1970. Arabs & Negroes. Ilustraciones en b/n. textos de L. Borges, L. Barzini, N. Dennis, etc. 96p. 4º. Cubiertas originales. Algo deslucida. Buen ejemplar. 1ª edición
Barcelona, Edit. ILC, 1988. Il·lustracions en b/n. 118p. 4t.major. Rústica editorial, amb vores gastades. Bon exemplar. Book in English. Obres de Llorenç Villalonga, Miquel Àngel Riega, Baltasar Porcel, J.V. Foix, etc.
Porto, Fund. Serralves, 1995. llustraciones en color y negro fuera texto. 165p. Folio. Rústica editorial ilustrada. Muy buen ejemplar. Libro en castellano, inglés y portugués.
192 p. Early 1830 manuscript ownership trimmed on top edge of title page. Light foxing. Inner hinge cracked. 12mo. 180 mm. Later 19th century binding. Spine crudely rebacked in leather, worn. Marbled boards. Hardbound. Good. First American Edition. SCARCE. S&S/AI 2301. PAIMP 23
London, Encounter, 1970. Ilustraciones en b/n. textos de Malreaux, G. Grass, J. Kessler, P. Rieff, S. Hook, D. Cook, etc. 96p. 4º. Cubiertas originales. Algo deslucida. Buen ejemplar. Book in English. 1ª edición
1870D11031England 1870s. Hardcover. Very Good. England Kent and Norfolk counties: c. 1871-1874. 8vo 175 x 115mm; 61 numbered pages in the hand of Charles W. Prescott detailing his various hunting excursions around the Kent countryside. Prescotts ownership inscription on front free-endpaper is dated 1871. His entries are easily read and cover Prescotts adventures on hunting hares with a skulk of foxes writing Found another in the same field ran her straight back to Old Park round the pond and the pack hunted her beautifully . Dec. 16 1871. The hunts took place over sprawling village and countryside or as he describes hop-gardens hills and ploughs of land in the Herne Bay area of Kent England. Many entries are headed by recognizable locations; Stroud Park Broomfield Hilsborough Wolston Heath and Chislet Mill and are dated with month and sometimes year. Only a portion of the way full his entries span about three years the first dated: Oct. 19 71 Stroud Park and last March 25 1874. Contemporary black morocco marbled endpapers and marbled endpapers with original brass clasp faint splitting at lower hinge of first few leaves strengthened at endpapers corners rubbed otherwise in very good shape especially considering it was wielded around so much of the Kentish countryside. Prescott makes many personal anecdotes about his day noting things in his surroundings like scent moderate or adding his opinions we could not kill I think we should have but the sun was too hot. Prescott often ends the entries with jotting down the days weather as something like very indifferent but as good as could be expected with a very cold east wind or simply stating Frost. It is evident from Prescotts personal asides that he was a vigilant huntsman quite dedicated to the task. Further personal glimpses reveal a record of his horses charming names including Salt Fish and Molly Malone. At the time Prescott was taking these notes Herne Bay area and the Kentish villages would have been teeming with people. The Victoria era was one of prosperity when elite English folk flocked to popular destinations to partake in their favorite pastimes. From 1873 on in the journal Prescott notes he was hunting with Pytchley by writing their name in parentheses. The Pytchley hunt is an organization originally based in Northamptonshire in formation as early at the 1630s. The organization is still active today. Pytchleys website notes that from 1819-1873 right as Prescott began with Pytchley for one year the Althorp and Pytchley countries were hunted by one pack with a second pack established at Brigstock. Prescott was part of the famous hunt organization at a time when it was amid significant change and expansion. His notes may keep further clue of such growth. While the huntsman himself may be unknown to history the anecdotal evidence in Prescotts diary gives us a glimpse of the Victorian man fond of his sport. <br/><br/> hardcover
London, Encounter, 1968. Student Revolt. Ilustraciones en b/n. Textos de A. Kavan, P. Wiles, etc. 96p. 4º. Cubiertas originales. Algo deslucida. Book in English. Buen ejemplar. Contents: Letters from Evelyn Waugh to Randolph Churchill, p. 3-19; "The Student Revolt", p. 20-44, with essays by various contributors; notes on underground film by John Weightman; poetry; book reviews; etc.
London, Encounter, 1968. Ilustraciones en b/n.96p. 4º. Cubiertas originales. Algo deslucida. Book in English. Buen ejemplar. Includes: A reconsideration of T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" by John Holloway. An essay "R. D. Laing & The Death Circuit" by David Holbrook. A Poem "Bobby Bailey" by Kingsley Amis. An Essay "The Prospects of Academe" by Sidney Hook. After de barricades, artículo de Raymond Aron sobre el reciente, entonces, mayo del 68 en París.
352p. Pictorial decorated title page. Illustrated with full page plates. Numerous juvenile scribbling and smudges. Some pages loose. Penciled ownerships of Delta and Mabel Pipes, Fulton Ohio. [These are young children of Alpheous L. Pipes and his wife Mary Jane Sellars]. Sm. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, worn at extremities. Hardbound. PA64 TOP
1597ST15850London: Printed by the Widow Orwin for Thomas Man 1597. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY. 187 x 130 mm. 7 3/8 x 5 1/8". 5 p.l. 93 pp. <br/> 20th century gray paper boards. Printer's device on title page. Title page inscribed "Gyven to name inked through but perhaps "Thomas Langham" by the aucthor Jo. Norden"; tail margin of title inscribed "Constantin Adyn his booke"; 19th century ink signature of Benjamin Hynam on recto and verso of title. Front pastedown with early 20th century bookseller's description pasted on. STC 18614; ESTC S113322. ◆Boards a bit soiled but otherwise unworn minor dust-soiling or browning to head margins one quire a little browned occasional trivial smudges or tiny rust spots but an excellent copy generally clean and fresh.<br/> <br/> Written during a fallow period in the author's regular career as a cartographer this work emphasizing the importance of service to God for all leaders and common soldiers in the sovereign's army was inscribed by the author to a friend or patron. One of several works Norden dedicated to the earl of Essex it got our author into professional difficulties when Essex's enemy Robert Cecil rose to power and was in a position to impede Norden's career as a mapmaker. Norden quickly tried to push responsibility onto a "false Norden" from Kent he was from Somerset but biographer Frank Kitchen has established that the shared "interests backgrounds written expression everyday circumstances and style" indicate there was but one author. Though best known for his surveys and maps--including the first county maps of England to include roads--the pious Norden ca. 1547-1625 also produced numerous works of devotion and prayer among them the enormously popular "A Pensive Mans Practice" which went to 40 editions in his lifetime. While his sincere religious sentiments are not to be doubted it must be acknowledged that Norden was most moved to write these manuals when he was between surveying jobs and short of money. Aimed at soldiers of every rank the present work urges the "necessity of the fear and service of God" and "the use of all divine virtues both in commanding and obeying practicing and proceeding in the most honorable affairs of war." Norden also encourages civilians to support and respect the military and to pray for men-at-arms. This is an especially rare work: OCLC and ESTC find five copies in U.S. libraries and except for the two copies in the Cottesloe Library there seems to have been only one other--defective--copy at auction listed by RBH and ABPC. The present item is even more desirable as an extremely uncommon presentation copy signed by a 16th century English author. The Constantin Adyn who owned our copy is likely the early seventeenth-century schoolmaster otherwise known as Constantine or Constantinus Adyn fl. 1605-25 whose school was situated in Brighton according to Church of England records. The latest owner is likely the Anglo-Russian writer bibliophile and watchmaker Benjamin Hynam 1769-1859 a prominent figure in the distinguished Hynam family imperial watchmakers to Russian royalty. In the late eighteenth century the Hynams maintained a presence in both St Petersburg and London. Printed by the Widow Orwin for Thomas Man unknown
1593ST15853London: Deputies of Christopher Barker 1593. FIRST EDITION. 185 x 140 mm. 7 1/4 x 5 1/2". 12 p.l. 328 327-342 pp. <br/> Contemporary limp vellum yapp edges flat spine with later red morocco label. Inside front cover with ink owner's inscription of George Wilson dated November 1 1854; front flyleaf with engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Francis Fremantle; early pen trials to title page old mathematical calculations on rear endpaper. Cockle 57; STC 23468; ESTC S117986; Heuser Beatrice "Strategy Before Clausewitz: Linking Warfare and Statecraft 1400-1830" 2017 chapter 5: "A National Security Strategy for England: Matthew Sutcliffe the Earl of Essex and the Cadiz Expedition of 1596." ◆Vellum a bit soiled half-inch chip to head of spine two-inch crack to fore edge of front cover title page with small ink stain and light soiling other trivial imperfections in the text but still an excellent copy clean and fresh internally and in a sound binding.<br/> <br/> This rare treatise addressing all aspects of war has been cited by military historian Beatrice Heuser as perhaps a unique example of a case "in which a civilian an 'armchair strategist' published a book containing a comprehensive concept for how to conduct a war with a specific enemy that was applied in practice." According to Heuser Sutcliffe penned "a national security strategy for England" and one that Robert Devereux Earl of Essex to whom the work is dedicated put into practice in the country's ongoing conflicts with Spain leading to the operation that resulted in the successful capture of Cadiz in 1596. Sutcliffe had met Essex at Trinity College Cambridge where he had likely served as one of the young earl's tutors. DNB observes that Sutcliffe who studied law before becoming a doctor of divinity applied his legal training to this work in which he examines not only fortifications aggressive and defensive tactics and the practical considerations of recruiting paying feeding and housing armed forces but also discusses laws and regulations governing the military. Cockle notes that the work "was well known both at home and abroad" and that it "urged the importance of military studies." Following this consequential work Sutcliffe restricted his writings to theological subjects and enjoyed a 40-year career as dean of Exeter Cathedral. This work is rare in the marketplace: ABPC and RBH find just three other copies at auction in the past 40 years. Deputies of Christopher Barker unknown
192654824Paris et Bruxelles: G. van Oest 1926. First edition in French. Color frontispiece and 100 full-page plates reproducing 164 miniatures. x 162 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Three quarter polished tan mottled calf and marbled paper boards gilt-lettered spine raised bands t.e.g.; with the original blue printed wrappers bound in. Fine. First edition in French. Color frontispiece and 100 full-page plates reproducing 164 miniatures. x 162 pp. 1 vols. Folio. G. van Oest unknown
192854668Paris et Bruxelles: G. van Oest 1928. First edition in French. Color frontispiece and 100 full-page plates reproducing 159 miniatures. x 113 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled paper boards gilt-lettered spine raised bands t.e.g.; with the original blue printed wrappers bound in. Fine. First edition in French. Color frontispiece and 100 full-page plates reproducing 159 miniatures. x 113 pp. 1 vols. Folio. G. van Oest unknown
111802William Hodge & Comapny. Edinburgh and London. 1912. William Hodge & Company. 1912. First edition. Hardback no DW. Beautifully rebound in quarter red morocco with gilt motifs of Lady Justice to spine red marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in black and white. Light creasing to spine joints with head and tail slightly bumped. Small closed tears to top of pages 248 and 249. Pages browned otherwise a lovely clean copy. hardcover
111814Canada Law Book Company. Toronto. 1913. Canada Law Book Company. 1913. First edition thus. Hardback no DW. Beautifully rebound in quarter red morocco with gilt motifs of Lady Justice to spine red marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in black and white. Light creasing to spine joints with head and tail slightly bumped. Pages browned and foxed otherwise a lovely clean copy. hardcover
111797William Hodge & Company. Edinburgh and London. 1920. Jarrolds Publishers. 1920. First edition. Hardback no DW. Beautifully rebound in quarter red morocco with gilt motifs of Lady Justice to spine red marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in black and white. Light creasing to spine joints with head and tail slightly bumped. Small pencil annotation to bottom corner of title page. Pages browned otherwise a lovely clean copy. hardcover
111790William Hodge & Comapny. London. 1914. William Hodge & Company. 1914. First edition. Hardback no DW. Beautifully rebound in quarter red morocco with gilt motifs of Lady Justice to spine red marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in black and white. Light creasing to spine joints with head bumped. Pages slightly browned and edges lightly foxed otherwise a lovely clean copy. hardcover
1920111817William Hodge & Company. 1920. William Hodge & Company. 1920. First edition. Hardback no DW. Beautifully rebound in quarter red morocco with gilt motifs of Lady Justice to spine red marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in black and white. Light creasing to spine joints with head and tail slightly bumped. Pages browned otherwise a lovely clean copy. hardcover
111759Cromarty Law Book Company Philadelphia 1911. Cromarty Law Book Company. 1911. First US Edition. Hardback with no DW. 8vo. Illustrated with numerous plates. Beautifully rebound in quarter red morocco with gilt motifs of Lady Justice to spine red marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Page edges slightly browned o/w contents clean and sound. A lovely book covering the trial and events concerning the first killing on a British train. hardcover
New York, Edit. Shorewood Fine Art Book, 1981. Numerosas ilustraciones en color. 206 p. 4º. Piel editorial con lámina montada. Lomo con resto etiqueta. Puntas levemente rozadas. Etiqueta. Sello caucho. Buen ejemplar. Book in English.. Musée de l'Annonciade, Musée Picasso Antibes, Musée Fernand Léger, Foundation Maeght, Musée Marc Chagall, Musée Matisse Cine, etc.
Las Palmas, 2007. Numerosas ilustracions en color y negro fuera texto. 70p. 4t. Rústica editorial ilustrada. Libro en castellano e inglés. Book in English. Muy buen ejemplar.
1723300066printed for the Author and J. Walthoe 1723. One leaf engraved on recto by Nutting. 20 cm. Closed tear at left margin. One leaf engraved on recto by Nutting. 20 cm. <br/><br/> printed for the Author, and J. Walthoe unknown
Prato, Museo Arte Contemporaneo Prato, 1992. Numerosas ilustraciones en color y negro. 127p. Folio. Rústica editorial ilustrada. Libro en italiano e inglés. Book in English. Muy buen ejemplar. Includes: Sylvie Fleury, Anya Gallaccio, Karen Kilimnik, Vik Muniz, Pep Agut and others.
Barcelona, Inst. de Cultura, 1999. Nombroses il·lustracions en color. 4ºmajor. Rústica editorial il·lustrada. Llibre en català i anglès. Book in English. Molt bon exemplar. INTERVENCIONS ALS MUSEUS DE BARCELONA. IDEA ORIGINAL, TERESA BLANCH. - PEREJAUME - TONY OURSLER - BRACO DIMITRIJEVIC - MARTIN KIPPENBERGER - PEDRO CABRITA REIS - ANTONI ABAD - JANA STERBAK - JEAN-MICHEL OTHONIEL - SUSANA SOLANO - HANNAH COLINS - CARLOS PAZOS - ANA LAURA ALAEZ-IKE UDE - THOMAS GRUNFELD - VICTORIA CIVERA - LLUIS HORTALA
