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3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispieces, coloured and monochrome plates, and maps in the text; pictorial cloth, gilt backs, burgundy tops and endpapers, a near fine set in publisher's board slip-case blocked and lettered in gilt. The volumes of Wedgwood's classic trilogy were first published in 1955, 1958 and 1964 respectively. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
1 vol. in-folio reliure éditeur pleine toile bleue, dos et plat richement orné, toutes tranches dorées, nomb. ill., Russian Orthodox Young Committee, printed in Japan, 1971, 486 pp. / Folio, full decorative cloth, edges gilted Bel exemplaire de ce bel ouvrage. Very nice copy (neither signatures nor stamps...). Text in Russian. Russe
1 vol. grand in-8 br., Société des Nations (S.D.N.), League of Nations, Genève, 1941, Geneva 1941, 271 pp. Bon exemplaire Français
Hardcover folio (62 x 31 cm), The Graphic. Royal Jubile Number. June 20, 1887, 32 pp. Special issue celebrating the fiftieth year of Queen victoria's reign. Includes Walter Besant's "Fifty years ago or The Queen's accession". Fair copy (internally good, cover shows numerous signs of wear). Anglais
8vo, editor's blue cloth richly gilted, edges gilted, John Van Voorst, London, 1855, 306 pp. Charming editor's cloth. Good (binding slightly rubbed) Anglais
1 vol. grand in-4 cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette illustrée, Verlag Stadler, 1988 Very good copy. Text in german, english, italian, french and japanese. Français
1 vol. 4to. softcover, black & white maps and graphics, Word Wide Fund for Nature International - WWF, Hong Kong 1996, 529 pp. Text in English Very nice copy. Scarce, nowadays. Anglais
160 p. 16mo. Original full leather binding. With a contemporary (American?) printed label: "WILLIAM NICHOLS Requests any person who may borrow this Book, to return it as soon as possible." With Nichols' manuscript ownership and additional manuscript presentations of Dr. L. Armstrong. Mark Akenside was a famed English poet and physician. His chief literary work was the didactic poem The Pleasures of Imagination (1744). Among his other works are the neoclassical Odes on Various Subjects (1745) and the Epistle to Curio (1744), a vigorous political satire. Akenside's conversion to Tory principles at the accession of George III earned him the appointment of Physician to the Queen. The early ownerships and label are especially interesting. JUN2A/W140 RtStk
Ten Volumes. Very XLib. Some volumes underlined. Quarto. A mixed set in variant cloth bindings. Some volumes worn. Hardbound set. Our colleague, Eric Chaim Kline, describes this set well - "This great work of Jewish scholarship was the first attempt to translate the Talmud into English. The arrangement is not in the traditional order, but rather organized according to topic, thereby focussing on the educational value rather than on completeness." Shipping this set will require extra post. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUDAICA BOX 6
pp. viii, 358, xxi, [3]. Engraved frontis portrait, engraved title, and an engraved cul-de-lampe portrait of Queen Elizabeth on the last leaf of text. Small 4to. 210 mm. Original marbled boards binding, backed with black cloth. First edition. Detailed and entertaing scholarship by a precocious teen-ager who began to write while convalescing, after the amputation of his right arm. He is so shown here, in a lithograph portrait, with quill in his left hand, and his empty right sleeve pinned across his tunic. Manuscript presentation from the father of the young author to Rev. R. Blackiston, March 1820. . **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W151
Old and New Testaments bound in one: pp. viii, 3-587; 190 + Engraved frontis and title. Irregular pagination. Text beginning to brown but not brittle. Double column. Early manuscript ownership of Julia A. Lumbard on first fly leaf. Front fly leaves loose. 16mo. 145 mm. Original leather binding. Original leather spine label, lettered in Gothic type. Spine worn with small loss at rear joint. Title continues: 'With The Marginal Readings: Together With A Copious And Original Selection Of References To Parallel And Illustrative Passages. Exhibited In A Manner Hitherto Unattemped'. Hardbound. Good. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. This is the English text from Samuel Baxter's eight language Polyglot printed in London in 1822. The little book became an immediate success and later editions are not uncommon, but this first edition is quite SCARCE. Hills 753; D/M 1785. PAIMP 21
48 p. Foxed. Deckle edges. 160 mm. Original printed paper covered boards, darkened. Rear board dampstained. Spine perished. Hardbound. Good. First American edition, published almost simultaneously as the British first, 'The Prophecy of Dante' was written at Ravenna, June, 1819, 'to gratify' the Countess Guiccioli, who believed herself 'at the point of death.' Byron was experiencing heightened interest in Italian literature and Italian politics, which lent zest to this labour of love, and, time and place conspiring, he composed 'the best thing he ever wrote' (Letter to Murray, March 23, 1820). S&S/AI 4895. PAIMP 25
270 p. [Lacks last leaf of index] + Four woodcut plates. 12mo. Original full leather binding. Early ownership of E. L. Halstead. A popular and influential garden book by this famous writer, reformer, "muck-raker" and politician. Cobbett wrote the book "to cause the art of gardening to be better understood and practiced than it now is in America." William Cobbett (1762-1835), the son of a peasant f armer, makes clear his attitude toward gardeners in the preface: "The inside of a labourer's house, his habits, his qualities as a workman, and almost his morality, may be judged from the appearance of his garden. If that be neglected, he is, nine times out of ten, a sluggard or a drunkard, or both." The American Gardener was later revised and published as The English Gardener (London, 1829). **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W130.
Very Good English Revised Third Edition of this rare map of Cyprus, made by Salmon, who was the director of Cypriot land registration and surveys. "Shows grid, district boundaries, heights in feet, railways, roads (2 categories), antiquities, ancient sites.". / "Shows district boundaries, towns and cities, roads (2 categories), railroads, ancient sites and antiquities, and dry streams. Relief is shown by contours, gradient tints, and spot heights. Earlier Edition: 1952.". (OCLC). "In December 1926, in a memorandum to the Colonial Office on vacant surveying positions in the colonies, Palestine and Cyprus were mentioned at the end of a group of Mediterranean colonies; that is there was a group of Mediterranean colonies, and also Cyprus and Palestine [.] Only in 1929 was an Imperial project involving Palestine and Transjordan, brought up at the committee (Colonial Survey Committee). This was the experimental aerial survey for determining the route of the Haifa - Damascus railway, which was presented as a model for mapping from aerial photographs [.] Among the important things reported to the Colonial Survey Committee was the reconnaissance conducted by Colonial Winterbotham, the Chief of the GSGS, in the survey departments of the colonies in 1929, a trip that had been encouraged in the first Conference of Empire Survey Officers in 1928 [.] ... how much Salmon [F. J.] expected from Winterbotham's visit to Ceylon a short time before he was to take over the directorship of the small survey department of Cyprus.". (Source: The Survey of Palestine Under the British Mandate, 1920-1948). Original color map. Folded in original wrappers. Fine. Elephant folio. (58 x 89 cm). In English. Survey of Cyprus administration map. Scale of 4 miles to one inch = 1/253440. Compiled and drawn under the direction of F. J. SALMON, (Director of Land Registration and Surveys, Cyprus, 1932). Revised Third Edition. Second in 1950.
Three volume set. Autograph Edition. All volumes: 25x17cm. Part one: [xxxiii + 373] pages. Part two: [xiii + 413] pages. Part three: [xii + 388] pages, including Index. Hardcover, Original maroon publishers' buckram with printed paper title label to spine. The printed paper title label on part three is mostly missing. Covers and spines are in good condition, with some minor wear and tear on edges and corners. Pages with gilt upper edges. Pages yellowing. Some uneven trimmed pages . Many black & white illustrations, each with a protective leaf. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
Very Good Turkish Paperback. 12mo. (17 x 12 cm). In Turkish. 247, [1] p. First Turkish Edition of '1984' by Orwell. Extremely rare. Just one copy in OCLC: 70936372. Not in Fenwick.
This is a very good hardcover copy of the first edition in red cloth with title printed in gilt on the spine. Very clean inside and out. Back hinge repaired, bump to top corner of text block, small moisture stain to top edge of text block. The standard work on the subject with extensive bibliographical listings, and hundreds of color plates (with captions printed on tissue guards) and black & white illustrations of playing cards. Illustrates the history of playing cards beginning with the earliest cards ever found, which come from Provence, France, and date to around 1440. Folio, 12" high X 9" wide, 468 pages. Foreign postage will be extra for this large heavy book. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Uncut pages. Soiling and slightly stained on covers. Otherwise a very good set. 12mo. (18 x 11,5 cm). In Turkish. 4 volumes set: ([8], 338 p.; [8], 327 p.; [4], 292 p.; [4], 501 p.). Tom Jones: Sokakta bulunmus bir çocugun hikayesi. [= The history of Tom Jones; A foundling]. 4 volumes set. Translated to Turkish by Mina Urgan. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London, and is among the earliest English prose works to be classified as a novel. It is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book Great Novelists and Their Novels among the ten best novels of the world. Tom Jones is generally regarded as Fielding's greatest book and as an influential English novel. Urgan was a Turkish academic, translator, author and socialist politician. She translated works of Thomas Malory (c. 1415-1471), Henry Fielding (1707-1754), Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Graham Greene (1904-1991), William Golding (1911-1993), John Galsworthy (1867-1933) and Shakespeare (1564-1616) into Turkish. She was honored with the "Golden Book Award" in 1993. For her work Virginia Woolf, she received the "Sedat Simavi Literature Award" in 1995, and the "Association of People of Letters Honor Award" in 1996. (Wikipedia). First Edition. Only one copy in OCLC in Bogaziçi University Library 949616686 / 32595091 (Two copies) / Not in US and British libraries.
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 167 p. Extremely rare First Turkish Edition. Doktor Moro'nun adasi. [= The Island of Dr. Moreau]. Translated by Hamdi Varoglu. TURKISH LITERATURE Sci-fi Collection Novel.
pp. xx, 190 [10]. Small quarto. 210 mm. All edges gilt. Unusual color chromolithographed frontis and 60 wood engraved text illustrations by Charles Keene. Title printed in red and black. Original publisher's full plum cloth binding, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind. Binding slightly rubbed, but still attractive. The complex binding design is by John Leighton, and was executed by Edmonds & Remnants (with their label). Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was an English dramatist and writer who, from the 1830s to 1850s, was absolutely at the centre of literary London. A friend of Dickens and Thackeray, both pall-bearers at his funeral. Jerrold was an editor, playwright, journalist, novelist and public wit and among the most popular writers in Britain. It was 'Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures' that really captured the public's imagination. Serialized in Punch, they were lively studies of female domination in Victorian society. The illustrations here by Charles Kenne (1823-1891), who began to draw for Punch in 1852, are considered a masterpiece in book illustration. Ray. 'Illustrator and the Book in England' #188. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! BINDINGS NW52
Two Volumes + Plus full page sepia chromolithographs by Leighton Brothers. Profusely illustrated with woodcuts. Folio. Original quarter leather over cloth boards. Spines gold lettered and embossed and decorated in blind. Leather corners worn with some loss. Leather spines scuffed. Hardbound set bound by Leighton Brothers. A scarce and interesting set. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ARCH BOX 3
Two Volumes bound in one: pp. 313; 320. Fore-edges dampstained. Large 8vo. 225mm. Original full cloth binding. Head and tail of spine worn. First American Edition. Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps (1805-1894) was the French developer of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas in 1869, and substantially sailing distances and times between the West and the East. He attempted to repeat this success with an effort to build a sea-level Panama Canal during the 1880s, but the project was devastated by epidemics of malaria and yellow fever in the area, and the projected de Lesseps canal was left uncompleted and eventually partially superseded by a non-sea-level canal with locks, built by the United States and completed in 1914. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! BIO BX 2
Two Volumes. pp. xvi, 395; vii, 440 + Engraved frontis portrait. 8vo. Some light foxing to preliminary leaves. Handsome full leather binding, decorated in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gold gilt. Engraved armorial bookplate of Lewis Loyd. A handsome set of the First Edition. Edited by T.F. Ellis, this set includes some of his earliest and latest works, among them: Macaulay's Poems and Inscriptions, 'Criticisms On the Principal Italian Writers', 'Mill On Government', 'Sadler's Law Of Population', 'On Mitford's History Of Greece', Utilitarian Theory Of Government', articles on John Dryden, John Bunyan, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, William Pitt, &c. Many of them were originally articles written for the Knights Quarterly Magazine, the Edinburgh Review, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A handsome set. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SW2
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original color chromo-lithograph map. Folded. Oblong folio. (40 x 50 cm). In Ottoman script. Color lithograph. An attractive map which shows Austria-Hungary land with Venice Bay and North Italy. Scale: 1:3.500.000. Dated Hegira: 1310 = [Gregorian 1894]. This uncommon map of Austria-Hungary in Ottoman script was published in an atlas, 'Yeni cografya atlasi', which was issued in Istanbul in the late 19th century. Ali Seref Pasa or Hafiz Ali Esref. He was a soldier, who was schooled in Paris as a cartographer around 1862. Already in Paris, he published his first atlas with 22 maps, called 'Yeni atlas'. Upon his return to Istanbul, he became a chief cartographer at the Matbaa-i Amire Printing Press in Beyazit, which was the successor of the Muteferrika press from 1727. Among others, he translated the large Kiepert map of Anatolia to Ottoman. He died in 1907, leaving his large project of a gigantic map of Anatolia in 100 sheets unfinished. Ali's name is often misunderstood or even listed as two different people: Ali Seref Pasa and Hafiz Ali Esref. Until the surname law adopted on June 21, 1934, Turks did not have surnames. They were born with one first name and were until adulthood described only as sons or daughters of their parent's names. Later they were given titles such as Effendi (Sir), Bey (Chief), or Hanim (Madam) for higher classes, or they were given names according to their work or class. The names were not inherited by children until 1934 when the surname law was enforced. The mapmaker Ali received names Seref, the honorable, and Pasa, the dignitary. He was also known as Hafiz, the memorizer of the Qur'an and Esref, Proud. So Ali Seref Pasa would have a meaning 'Honourable Dignitary Ali, and Hafiz Ali Esref, Memorizer of Qur'an, Proud Ali. Daruttibaa - Matbaa-I Amire Printing Press: The first press in the Muslim world, called Daruttibaa, was founded in Istanbul by Ibrahim Muteferrika in 1727, with permission of Sultan Ahmet III. It was located in Muteferrika's house. The first book was published in 1729 and until 1742 sixteen other works followed. After Muteferrika's death, the press was suppressed for printing, as printed books were considered dangerous. In 1796 the press was purchased by the government and moved to Uskudar in Istanbul, and in 1831 finally to Beyazit, where it was renamed to Matbaa-i Amire in 1866. The press was closed in 1901 and was reopened in 1908 under the name 'Âmire' In 1927 the name changed to State Printing House. The press still exists and is known for publishing school and educational books. Extremely rare. Not in OCLC.; Not in TBMM Map Collection.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original color chromo-lithograph map. Folded. Oblong folio. (40 x 50 cm). In Ottoman script. Color lithograph. It Portugal and Spain with Gibraltar and North African shores. Scale: 1:3.500.000. Dated Hegira: 1310 = [Gregorian 1894]. OTTOMAN MAP of SPAIN & PORTUGAL] Ispanya & Portekiz: Sâye-i Türkiye Hazret Gazi Sultan Abdülhamid Hân-i Sâni'de Maarif Umûmiye Nezâret-i Celîlesi ruhsatiyle Haset tarafindan Fransa Cemiyet-i Cografya âzâlarindan mütesekkil komisyona mahsûs tanzîm edilmis oldugu son atlasinin tercümesi olarak bu def'a Erkân-i Umûmiyye Dairesi Besinci Fen Subesi'ne me'mûr piyade mirlivâlarindan saâdetlü Ali Seref Pasa maarifetleriyle tersîm ettirilmistir. This uncommon map of Spain and Portugal in Ottoman script was published in an atlas, 'Yeni cografya atlasi', which was issued in Istanbul in the late 19th century. Ali Seref Pasa or Hafix Ali Esref. He was a soldier, who was schooled in Paris as a cartographer around 1862. Already in Paris he published his first atlas with 22 maps, called 'Yeni atlas'. Upon his return to Istanbul he became a chief cartographer at the Maatbaa-i amire Printing Press in Beyazit, which was the successor of the Muteferrika press from 1727. Among others he translated the large Kiepert map of Anatolia to Ottoman. He died in 1907, leaving his large project of a gigantic map of Anatolia in 100 sheets unfinished. Ali's name is often misunderstood or even listed as two different people: Ali Seref Pasa and Hafiz Ali Esref. Until the surname law adopted on June 21, 1934, Turks did not have surnames. They were born with one first name and were until the adulthood described only as sons or daughters of their parent's names. Later they were given titles such as Effendi (Sir), Bey (Chief) or Hanim (Madam) for higher classes, or they were given names according to their work or class. The names were not inherited by children until 1934, when the surname law was enforced. The map maker Ali received names Seref, the honourable, and Pasa, the dignitary. He was also known as Hafiz, the memorizer of Qur'an and Esref, Proud. So Ali Seref Pasa would have a meaning 'Honourable Dignitary Ali, and Hafiz Ali Esref, Memorizer of Qur'an, Proud Ali. Daruttibaa - Matbaa-I Amire Printing Press: The first press in the Muslim world, called Daruttibaa, was founded in Istanbul by Ibrahim Muteferrika in 1727, with a permission of Sultan Ahmeet III. It was located in Muteferrika's house. The first book was published in 1729 and until 1742 sixteen other works followed. After Muteferrika's death, the press was supressed for printing, as printed books were considered dangerous. In 1796 the press was purchased by the government and moved to Uskudar in Istanbul, and in 1831 finally to Beyazit, where it was renamed to Matbaa-i Amire in 1866. The press was closed in 1901 and was reopened in 1908 under the name 'Âmire' In 1927 the name changed to State Printing House. The press still exists and is known for publishing school and educational books. Extremely rare. Not in OCLC.; Not in TBMM Map Collection.
