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194019371John Murray 1940. 8vo. First Edition with a portrait frontispiece endpapers lightly spotted; original blue cloth backstrip with paper label printed in black blue silk marker a very good clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO DAVID ROWLANDS WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION DATED CHRISTMAS 1941 ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. This copy was presented in return for a copy of Rowlands' 'Autumn Twilight' published in an edition of 50 signed copies. A splendid literary presentation copy of an early collection of Betjeman's verse. Peterson A8a; Stapleton I.18. John Murray, hardcover
1962144222Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1962. Third edition revised with addenda in a handsome binding by Zaehnsdorf. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary was first published in 1933. Large Octavo 268 x 190 mm. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in red morocco titles to spine in gilt raised bands single gilt fillet frames to boards and compartments turn-ins richly gilt with foliate motifs marbled endpapers gilt edges. Spine a touch sunned the binding otherwise sharp and vibrant internally crisp; a fine copy. hardcover
23054043-nnew. unknown
First edition, 4to (310 x 250 mm), [12], 240pp., photographic frontispiece, photographic vignette to title page and an additional 22 mounted albumen photographs, 4 lithographed plans, front inner hinge a little tender, orig. publishers brick red pebbled cloth, blocked in gilt, some light wear, all edges gilt. Gernsheim, 545.
Tela blu rigida con bella sovracopertina illustrata da Hans Tisdall, pp 127. Jonathan Cape, 1964. First British Edition. Hardcover, pp 127. Wraparound dustjacket illustration by Hans Tisdall.
Litografia, 1896, disegnata su carta transfer bianca con una trama di pietra granulosa; unico stato; stampata con inchiostro nero sulla carta vergata color crema usata per l'edizione The Art Journal. Nella pietra a sinistra il monogramma a forma di farfalla. La bambina che posò per questo accattivante ritratto era la figlia di tre o quattro anni dell'amico di lunga data di Whistler, David Croal Thomson. Thomson si era interessato al lavoro dell'artista per molti anni e aveva organizzato la retrospettiva di grande successo dei suoi dipinti alla Galleria Goupil nella primavera del 1892. Era stato redattore di The Art Journal dal novembre 1892 e aveva già pubblicato una delle litografie di Whistler, Les Bonnes du Luxembourg" nel numero di dicembre 1894 del periodico. Whistler probabilmente fece il disegno di trasferimento di Evelyn quando visitò la famiglia Thomson nel gennaio 1896 nella loro casa fuori Londra. Qualche ossidazione, altrimenti in buone condizioni. Bibliografia Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow , 2012, cat. no. 146. Transfer lithograph, 1896, drawn on white transfer paper with a grained-stone texture; only state; printed in black ink on the cream laid paper used for The Art Journal edition. In the stone at left: butterfly monogram. The child who posed for this engaging portrait was the three - or four-year - old daughter of Whistler’s longtime friend, David Croal Thomson. Thomson had taken an interest in the artist’s work for many years and had organized the very successful retrospective of his paintings at the Goupil Gallery in the spring of 1892. He had served as editor of The Art Journal since November 1892 and had already published one of Whistler’s lithographs, Nursemaids: “Les Bonnes du Luxembourg” in the December 1894 issue of the periodical. Whistler probably made the transfer drawing of Evelyn when he visited the Thomson family in January 1896 at their home outside London. Some foxing, otherwise good condition. Bibliografia Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow , 2012, cat. no. 146.
A LARGE-PAPER COPY of the original edition of this massive bibliography of printed and manuscript sources on heraldry, genealogy, nobility and other matters pertaining to the British aristocracy. About 1,000 items cited and described in detail, plus a short-title catalogue of continental works on the same subjects. Beautifully printed on fine wove paper. Folio. Attractively bound in recent cloth. Frontispiece engraving stained (mainly marginal), else uncut, fine, and bright.
1814313413New York: Collins and Co 1814. Third Collins edition. Text in two columns separate title for New Testament. Folio. Contemporary diced morocco marbled endpapers. Some scuffing and wear to boards leaves browned. Third Collins edition. Text in two columns separate title for New Testament. Folio. This copy without the plates sometimes found in this edition. The family records between the Old and New Testaments detail the ancestors and decendents of William Hartman Woodin 1821-1886 of the Jackson & Woodin railroad manufacturing concern of Berwick Pennsylvania. His grandson of the same name was Frankling Roosevelt's secretary of the treasury in 1933. O'Callaghan p 117. Provenance: W.H. Woodin stamped in gilt on spine; genealogical records between OT & NT Collins and Co unknown
1948AG-10068<p>Shanghai: Published by The English Monthly Publishing House printed by Kaiming Bookstore. This monthly was mainly for high school English teachers and English learners to improve their English abilities. Edited by professors at universities the first issue was published in 1945 this group comprises 10 issues: 1948: No. 31-38; 1949: No. 43 45. 12mo 71 pp; paper wrappers with a few small repairs slight tears but overall very good condition. This includes English texts selected from the writings of Pearl Buck Carl Sandberg A A Milne &c.<br /></p><p><b>英è¯æœˆåˆŠ</b></p><p>《英è¯æœˆåˆŠã€‹æ‚志由英è¯æœˆåˆŠç¤¾å‡ºç‰ˆï¼Œå¼€æ˜Žä¹¦åº—å°è¡Œå°åˆ·ã€‚æ‚志创刊于1945年上海，由大å¦æ•™æŽˆç¼–写，旨在æ高国内英è¯æ•™å¸ˆå’Œé«˜ä¸ä»¥ä¸Šå¦ç”Ÿçš„英è¯èƒ½åŠ›ã€‚本组共10期，13×17.5cm，有两本书皮ç¨å¾®ç ´æŸç¼ºå¤±ï¼Œå…¶ä»–å“相éžå¸¸å¥½ã€‚</p> The English Monthly Publishing House paperback
4557LAWRENCE HYDE FIRST EARL OF ROCHESTER 1641-1711. Rochester was named a Lord of the Treasury in 1679. In 1681 he was elevated from Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth to Earl of Rochester. He had friction with King James II and was dismissed from the Treasury in December 1686 with a substantial pension.ROBERT HOWARD 1626-1698. An English Restoration dramatist Howard is best remembered for The Indian Queen and The Committee as well as his ongoing literary feud with John Dryden. During the English Revolution Howard sided with the Royalists at the Battle of Newbury and was imprisoned. After the Restoration he was elected to Parliament and made auditor of the Exchequer.DS. 1pg. 8 x 8 . May 15 1686. Whitehall Treasury Chambers. A document signed Rochester. It was written to Robert Howard the auditor of the Exchequer: At my hearty Commendation By Virtue of his Majestys Letters Patents authorizing the payment of the yearly Sallarys sic to the Judges These are to pray and require you to make and pass Debentures for payment of such Summes of moneye sic as are and shall from time to time be due to Richard Hearn Serjeant at Law and one of the Barons of his Majestys Court of Exchequer upon his Sallary of One thousand pounds per annum according to the direction of the said Letters Patents and let sic the same be satisfied out of any his Majestys Treasure now or hereafter being and remaining in the receipt of the Exchequer not appropriated to particular uses by Act of Parliament For which this shall be your Warrant. Treasury Chamber the 15th day of May 1686. Rochester. The document is addressed To my very Loving friend Sr Robt Howard Auditor of his Majestys Records of Exchequer. This document concerns the creation of some of the first exchequer bills of credit which was Englands first attempts at paper currency. Obviously it was cumbersome to pay people since lengthy documents such as this example had to be written out and signed by an official. The first bank to permanently use banknotes was the Bank of England in 1695. The currency promised to pay the bearer the value of the note on demand. The next year the Bank of Scotland followed suit. The document has chipping to the margins and three tape stains to the edges and is in very good condition. The manuscript comes with numerous articles about the Scottish economist John Law who first introduced paper money in France and lecture notes from what seems to be an economics professor who used this document in his or her classes. 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
16511006702 volumes 4to however one volume is slightly larger than the other modern calf and boards printed in black leter and Roman types 2 1369-1417 & 2 1677-1689 pp. Last leaf in both volumes moderately worn and some repairs to one of those leafs pages in both volumes creased in the middle library plate on both front pastedowns early owners inscrpition on back of last leaf in one volume normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. This is a scarce item that was probably removed from a larger work however the sjubect is the same. Basically these acts focus on the seizure of lands during the English Civil War following the execution of Charles I in 1649 and just before the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1653. The text is primarily lists of nobility who remained loyal to the crown and whose lands were forfeited to the commonwealth for "treasons against the parliament and the people of England." John Field, hardcover
182728956London: T. Rodd 1827 1827. First edition second issue; the first issue was dated 1825; this second issue has a cancel title with a slightly revised imprint dated 1827. NCBEL III 1644; Lowndes page 705. Title-page a bit dusty and smudged but overall a very good copy. 8vo modern red cloth red morocco spine label gilt lettering untrimmed. Errata slip tipped in. An early work by Rev. Alexander Dyce 1798-1869 the prolific compiler editor and scholar. See the ODNB. In the preface Dyce states that the "object of the present volume is to exhibit the growth and progress of the genius of our country-women in the department of poetry." He acknowledges the one earlier anthology dedicated to women poets George Colman's and Thornton Bonnel's Poems by Eminent Ladies 1755 reprinted in 1780 but points out its deficiency in containing "no extracts from rare books and . . . specimens of only eighteen poets." Dyce assembled almost two hundred poems by 79 women regardless of class social standing or education beginning with Juliana Berners and including Anne Bradstreet Margaret Cavendish Anne Killegrew Aphra Behn Mary Pix Lady Chudleigh Anne Finch Susanna Centlivre DelaRivier Manley Mary Leapor Eliza Haywood Mary Robinson Anne Yearsley Charlotte Smith Mary Tighe Ann Radcliffe Anna Laetitia Barbauld Helen Maria Williams Anne Grant Mary Russell Mitford and L. E. Landon. Each entry is has a brief few lines about the poet. From the library of the great scholar of English poetry Roger Lonsdale though without any physical evidence of ownership. London: T. Rodd, 1827 unknown
16972539London: Abel Roper and Roger Clavel 1697. First Thus . Hardcover. Good. First Thus an awkward verse translation; 12mo rebacked with new spine new endpapers and original boards; good original leather boards scratched rubbed and worn; boards heavily worn on all edges often to board; corners bumped and worn; bottom corners to worn corners now rounded; bottom corner of frontispiece chipped off does not affect illustration; pages foxed and toned; ink notation to margins of several pages throughout possibly printed but appears to be drawn; pencil writing to margins of several pages throughout; top corners of pp41-43 creased; hole and brown stain to middle of p79-80 affects two words of text destroying one; large stain to side edge of pp89-94; 328pp. <br/> <br/> Abel Roper and Roger Clavel hardcover
1927biblio688<p>Dust jacket has wear along the edges with small tears. There is a piece of tape on the spine along with reinforcement tape inside of dust jacket. Bottem edge of HC is bent. Dust jacket has some scratches and some creasing. Reinforcement binding was added inside front end page and next page. Dust jacket and pages of book have some discoloration from age. Delivery confirmation is provided where available. BOOK IS COMPLETE WITH ALL 44 ILLUSTRATIONS.</p> Heinemann hardcover
1812002514 BeaumontJames Ballantyne 1812. New edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vos law buckram with leather labels. <br/><br/> James Ballantyne hardcover
1814313413New York: Collins and Co 1814. Third Collins edition. Text in two columns separate title for New Testament. Folio. Contemporary diced morocco marbled endpapers. Some scuffing and wear to boards leaves browned. Third Collins edition. Text in two columns separate title for New Testament. Folio. This copy without the plates sometimes found in this edition. The family records between the Old and New Testaments detail the ancestors and decendents of William Hartman Woodin 1821-1886 of the Jackson & Woodin railroad manufacturing concern of Berwick Pennsylvania. His grandson of the same name was Frankling Roosevelt's secretary of the treasury in 1933. O'Callaghan p 117. Provenance: W.H. Woodin stamped in gilt on spine; genealogical records between OT & NT Collins and Co unknown books
181235967Philadelphia: Stereotyped for the Bible Society at Philadelphia by T. Rutt Shacklewell London and pr. by William Fry 1812. 12mo 17.9 cm 7". 456 45978 481633 1 pp. 1 f. 191 1 pp. <br><br>The first Stereotyped Bible Printed in America. The Bible Society of Philadelphia founded in 1808 with Bp. William White as its first president was the first Bible society organized in the United States. It published this the first stereotype Bible printed in the U.S. from plates imported from London; the B.F.B.S. contributed £500 towards the purchase of the plates and they were admitted to the U.S. free of import duties. The initial run produced 1050 copies of the complete Bible and 750 copies of the New Testament in double columns in very small type.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Signature of Edward H. Mills dated 27 May 1843 on front pastedown. From the collection of Michael Zinman. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 24835; Hills 213; Herbert 1560; O'Callaghan 110; Wright Early Bibles of America 19293; Rumball-Petre 189. Contemporary sheep rubbed with joints opening and leather lost at spine head; wormwork to spine and some margins of text. Volume "soft" with sewing pulling away from spine and a few gatherings separated; text foxed and browned as often; several leaves perhaps two dozen damaged with some loss of text perhaps a dozen more with small tears. Lacking two leaves of the Old Testament all others present. A distressed copy of this important edition and priced accordingly. Stereotyped for the Bible Society at Philadelphia, by T. Rutt, Shacklewell, London, [and pr. by William Fry] hardcover books
183725250New York: T. Mason & G. Lane for the Methodist Episcopal Church pr. by J. Collord 1837. 8vo 22.5 cm 8.9". 734 pp. 219/20 lacking. <br><br>Commentary by John Wesley the founding father of Methodism on the New Testament including the Book of Revelation. The text is "that of the Common English Translation with some of Bengel's readings incorporated" according to O'Callaghan. Having originally appeared in 1754 the Notes were here published by Mason and Lane who in collaboration with printer James Collord produced numerous Methodist treatises and Bible editions.<br>Â Â Â Â Uncommon: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 locate only 10 U.S. holdings of this edition. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â American Imprints 1837 43174; O'Callaghan 253. This ed. not in Hills; not in Wright. Period-style quarter tan cloth and light blue papercovered boards spine with printed paper label. Title-page and first and last sections with lower portions of leaves waterstained though not darkly; foxing throughout. Significant portions of the two leaves bearing pp. 21518 torn diagonally away with loss of most notes and some text of John; leaf bearing pp. 219/20 lacking. T. Mason & G. Lane for the Methodist Episcopal Church (pr. by J. Collord) hardcover books
16-6234New York: Boston London: Major newspapers and reviews 1877-1917. A Collection of original printings of obituaries. tributes and biographies of Ambassador John Lothrop Motley 1814 -1877. Mounted on 14 ledger sheets 31 x 42cm. .Ambassador John Lothrop Motley April 15 1814 – May 29 1877 was an American author and diplomat. As a popular historian he is best known for his works on the Netherlands the three volume work The Rise of the Dutch Republic and four volume History of the United Netherlands. As United States Minister to Austria in the service of the Abraham Lincoln administration Motley helped to prevent European intervention on the side of the Confederates in the American Civil War. He later served as Minister to the United Kingdom Court of St. James during the Ulysses S. Grant administration.In December 1870 Mr. Motley sent a 62-page dispatch to Secretary Fish titled “End of a Mission†in which he protested his recall and recounted the events leading to the dispatch of November 10. The Secretary followed with an even longer rejoinder sent not to Motley who was no longer in an official position and hadn’t been when he had sent the dispatch but to the chargé d’affaires Benjamin Moran. Senator Sumner upbraided Mr. Grant and Mr. Fish on the Senate floor then had the Senate publish all the documents related to the recall. In 1878 Oliver Wendell Holmes a fellow Brahmin wrote a memorial biography which was devoted to a defense of the former minister and a repudiation of his recall. John Jay who had succeeded Mr. Motley in Vienna published his own defense of him in 1877. Mr. Grant after leaving the presidency wrote a letter to the New York Herald reiterating that his reason for dismissing Mr. Motley was solely that he had failed to carry out his duties. Mr. Grant restated this charge a few years later in a Cairo interview while he was on a world tour concluding that he had no ill will toward Mr. Motley who “…like other estimable men made mistakes and Motley made a mistake which made him an improper person to hold office under me.â€.Provenance: Lt.-Col. Herbert Alexander St. John-Mildmay was born on 20 July 1836.1 He was the son of Captain George William St. John-Mildmay and Mary Baillie. He married Susan Margaret Stackpole Motley daughter of the American writere and diplomat the Hon. John Lothrop Motley 1814 -1877 on 7 May 1884.1 He died on 21 October 1922 at age 86. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Rifle Brigade. He was appointed Member Royal Victorian Order M.V.O. New York:, Boston, London: Major newspapers and reviews, 1877-1917 unknown
1916DEMO016733IParis: Nouvelle Revue Francaise 1916. First French edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo 2811pp. rebound in Art Deco style by L. Roger-Maxime in full morocco; in in a slipcase. <br/><br/>This is an unnumbered copy of the thousand copies done for French speakers. Since its first appearance in England in 1911 it had been translated into Japanese and Russian. This was a seminal set of essays in which Craig re-imagines and re-images the theater and demonstrates it with his 16 color plates included here. The Art Deco banded binding has reds black and cream inlays by L. Roger-Maxime all in a compatible slipcase with splashes of color. Translated from the English by Genevieve Seligmann-Lui; Introduction by Jacques Rouche Nouvelle Revue Francaise hardcover
189529843London: Osgood McIlvaine & Co 1895. Hardcover. Small 4to. Vellum spine and tan cloth over boards. xi 447pp. Numerous engravings by du Maurier. Very good. Large paper edition consisting of 250 numbered copies this #163 signed by du Maurier. Scarce. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co hardcover
16511006702 volumes 4to however one volume is slightly larger than the other modern calf and boards printed in black leter and Roman types 2 1369-1417 & 2 1677-1689 pp. Last leaf in both volumes moderately worn and some repairs to one of those leafs pages in both volumes creased in the middle library plate on both front pastedowns early owners inscrpition on back of last leaf in one volume normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. This is a scarce item that was probably removed from a larger work however the sjubect is the same. Basically these acts focus on the seizure of lands during the English Civil War following the execution of Charles I in 1649 and just before the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1653. The text is primarily lists of nobility who remained loyal to the crown and whose lands were forfeited to the commonwealth for "treasons against the parliament and the people of England." John Field, hardcover books
4557LAWRENCE HYDE FIRST EARL OF ROCHESTER 1641-1711. Rochester was named a Lord of the Treasury in 1679. In 1681 he was elevated from Viscount Hyde of Kenilworth to Earl of Rochester. He had friction with King James II and was dismissed from the Treasury in December 1686 with a substantial pension. ROBERT HOWARD 1626-1698. An English Restoration dramatist Howard is best remembered for The Indian Queen and The Committee as well as his ongoing literary feud with John Dryden. During the English Revolution Howard sided with the Royalists at the Battle of Newbury and was imprisoned. After the Restoration he was elected to Parliament and made auditor of the Exchequer. DS. 1pg. 8 ½†x 8 ½â€. May 15 1686. Whitehall Treasury Chambers. A document signed “Rochesterâ€. It was written to Robert Howard the auditor of the Exchequer: “At my hearty Commendation By Virtue of his Majesty’s Letters Patents authorizing the payment of the yearly Sallarys sic to the Judges These are to pray and require you to make and pass Debentures for payment of such Summes of moneye sic as are and shall from time to time be due to Richard Hearn Serjeant at Law and one of the Barons of his Majesty’s Court of Exchequer upon his Sallary of One thousand pounds per annum according to the direction of the said Letters Patents and let sic the same be satisfied out of any his Majesty’s Treasure now or hereafter being and remaining in the receipt of the Exchequer not appropriated to particular uses by Act of Parliament For which this shall be your Warrant. Treasury Chamber the 15th day of May 1686. Rochesterâ€. The document is addressed “To my very Loving friend Sr Rob’t Howard Auditor of his Majesty’s Records of Exchequer.†This document concerns the creation of some of the first exchequer bills of credit which was England’s first attempts at paper currency. Obviously it was cumbersome to pay people since lengthy documents such as this example had to be written out and signed by an official. The first bank to permanently use banknotes was the Bank of England in 1695. The currency promised to pay the bearer the value of the note on demand. The next year the Bank of Scotland followed suit. The document has chipping to the margins and three tape stains to the edges and is in very good condition. The manuscript comes with numerous articles about the Scottish economist John Law who first introduced paper money in France and lecture notes from what seems to be an economics professor who used this document in his or her classes. unknown books
