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1893214413東京. Tokyo.: 奎暉閣. Keikikaku. Revised Edition. Meiji 26 1893. Folding engraved map of Tokyo in Japanese and English with woodblock colour 51.7 x 71.7cm folds into 18.5 x 10cm original covers title and publishing details upper cover. Neatly repaired on the reverse along some of the folds with a little minor loss occasional minor spotting otherwise very good. This is a map of Tokyo which was originally published in 1887 and revised in 1893. The map could be used for a tourist self-guide map as 39 illustrations of major sites and buildings are surrounding the map. Main landmarks including the Royal Palace are coloured in deep red. Some residents' names are recorded in some blocks. Three charts of text in Japanese on the bottom right give the names of the neighbourhoods to be found within each of Tokyo's wards. An inset at the top left shows a map of Yokohama. . 奎暉閣. [Keikikaku]. unknown
1860217209Japan. Circa 1860. Two black and white woodblock kawarabans 22.4 x 30cm occasional light creasing but overall very good. These two kawaraban present vocabulary lists comparing Japanese with six foreign languages: American Russian British Dutch Chinese and French. Alongside each vocabulary list a small portrait of a "typical" man from the respective country is provided with the country's capital indicated. For instance an American soldier is shown holding a gun with Washington listed as the capital while a Russian officer is depicted with a sword and St. Petersburg is named as Petoruku the capital. <br> <br>The vocabulary lists themselves are quite difficult to interpret raising the possibility that some of the words may be fabricated or inaccurate. However in the American section a few recognisable words such as "silver" and "coin" appear to have been transcribed phonetically into Japanese. . unknown
186013891860. Pencil on cream-colored oak tag 10 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches 260 x 136 mm. Scattered light gray discoloration throughout rubbing with some small areas of associated loss in the lower left image area at the sheet edge. Inscriptions in pencil on the verso including an illegible signature. This charming landscape features the structure now known as the Worplesdon Place Hotel near Guildford Surrey. The house is of notable historical significance and it is registered to have been built in about 1845 by Sir William Bovill. Initially called Worplesdone Lodge the grand manse served as a private residence for the next 100 years and was owned by several notable people. In the 1950s it became a hotel and still operates in this manner today. Here we see the house soon after its completion with St. Mary the Virgin Church seen on the hill in the distance. unknown
190028014London: Various publishers 1900. First Editions. 8 vols. 8vo. Bound in 3/4 brown polished calf t.e.g. by Bickers & Son London. With the bookplate of R.D. Jackson. First Editions. 8 vols. 8vo. Various publishers unknown
18204532London: T Cadell & W. Davies 1820. Eighth edition Enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vos modern fine 3/4 brown morocco marbled boards scuffed; ex libris Frank Bridge Hitchcock. <br/><br/>To Which are Added Some Further Particulars of the Author's Life New Notes Illustrative of His Poems and Letters and Many Other Additions by his brother Gilbert Burns. Egerer 222 . With engraved portrait and facsimile. WITH RELIQUES OF ROBERT BURNS; Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters Poems and Critical Observations on Scottish Songs. Compiled by Robert H. Cromek. London1817. 4th edition. In matching binding. T Cadell & W. Davies hardcover
18770007988London & New York: George Routledge And Sons 1877. New edition Revised and Corrected. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo; xxix 383 pages half calf raised bands extra gilt spine with contrasting morocco labels marbled endpapers and edges. <br/><br/>The Old English Poets series. "The present edition of Marlowe's Works is not a reprint . but exhibits a new text formed on a collation of the early copies - Preface." George Routledge And Sons hardcover
18760007978London & New York: George Routledge And Sons 1876. New edition Revised and Corrected. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo; lviii 407 pages half calf raised bands extra gilt spine with contrasting morocco labels marbled endpapers and edges. <br/><br/>The Old English Poets series. "The present edition of Marlowe's Works is not a reprint . but exhibits a new text formed on a collation of the early copies - Preface." George Routledge And Sons hardcover
1812002514James Ballantyne 1812. New edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vos law buckram with leather labels. Ex libris Henry George Impey Siddons a descendant of actress Sarah Siddons and Arthur Lanyon Blair. <br/><br/>These fine Elizabethan playwrights were overshadowed by Will Shakespeare - but who wasn't Still these felllow were outstanding in their field. James Ballantyne hardcover
18800007992London & New York: George Routledge And Sons 1880. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vos; lxxii 645; vii 720 pages half calf raised bands extra gilt spine with contrasting morocco labels marbled endpapers and edges head of spines rough. <br/><br/>The Old English Poets series. "The present volume contains the whole of the above-mentioned editions of Peele and Greene; nor is it a mere reprint important alterations corrections and additions having been made throughout - Dyce's Notice." With engraved portrait frontispieces and vignettes on title-page. George Routledge And Sons hardcover
1812002514 BeaumontJames Ballantyne 1812. New edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vos law buckram with leather labels. <br/><br/> James Ballantyne hardcover
185014321850. Pencil on cream wove paper 10 1/2 x 7 inches 267 x 178 mm. A few scattered light spots of discoloration and general toning. On the verso there is a partial non-archival inventory sticker as well as some light notations in pencil including the name "Corley. unknown
1869biblio76<p>1869. Smith Elder & Co. Boards endpages and foredges have a brown spotted pattern; boards have burgundy corners and spine with gold lettering some worn to illegibility. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpages. Bindings in poor condition with separated hinges disintegrating spines Text throughout is clean and unmarked.</p> Smith, Elder & Co. hardcover
18792221941<p>First edition. Octavo. With half-title page. 3/4 gilt stamped red calf over marbled boards spines with raised bands and gilt stamped devices within gilt rule compartments covers ruled in gilt marbled endpapers. Very good light rubbing. 387 pages.</p><p>Heraldic bookplate of Raymond.</p><p>No signatures.</p> Smith, Elder & Company hardcover
1890BOOKS040678IIndianapolis IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company 1890. HC. good decorated olive green cloth teg hardcover SEE NOTE. B&W illustrations. Or the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth." Following the text is "The Author and The Book" by Maurice Thompson 8 pages. Signed by Julia Marlowe on front free endpaper "In remembrance - Julia Marlow - February 1903." Laid in is ALS by Charles Major dated December 27 1906. Nice clean and tight copy with a few stray pencil marks. Author's first book. 359pp. The Bowen-Merrill Company unknown
1893DEMO001181ILondon: John C. Nimmo 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Portrait 4 ills. 4to 160 pages two tone cloth t.e.g. cloth ribbon small dark spot on rear cover <br/><br/>A Large-paper edition. With portrait and 4 illustrations. John C. Nimmo hardcover
189210431<p>London Printed at Chiswick Press 1892. HB NODJ ISSUED 1892 1st edition with colophon on Last pageSoft Light Brown Tweed with White Vellum Leather Spine with Gold Gilt Decorations & Titles NF/VG AS-IS NODJ Minor Cover Rub & Scuff Minor Soil Spine Some Fox 194 pgs Interior Nice Tight Clean . First Edition. Hard Cover.</p> London Printed at Chiswick Press hardcover
184441372Milsom Street Bath and 26 Haymarket London: Edmund Francis English Jr. and Thomas McLean. Lithographed and printed at 79 St. Martin's Lane and by Moyes and Barclay Castle Street Leicester Square London 1844. Folio. 24 1/4 x 16 1/2 inches. First Edition. 8 1-10. 18 pp. 12 leaves of plates. Title with hand-colored vignette mounted on card lithographed dedication to Princess Emilia of Baden and the Marchionesses Douglas and Clydesdale List of Subjects and List of Vignettes on Letterpress List of Subscribers "To the Reader" by English Lithograph letter from Beckford to English that is not mentioned in Abbey 6 tinted lithograph "Illustrations of Lansdown Tower Bath" with text on each room of the tower and Beckford's obituary and woodcut epitaph errata note 13 tinted and hand-colored lithograph plates mounted on 12 card leaves with pencilled titles underneath plates. Dark red straight-grained half morocco over publisher's brown moiré cloth title stamped and lettered in gilt on front and on spine with bookplate on pastedown<br/> <br/> Grand first edition folio volume of a fantastical folly with 13 hand-colored lithographs of Beckford's unimpeachable decor.<br/> <br/> Shortly after the eccentric novelist collector bibliophile and plantation-owner William Beckford died in May of 1844 the book Views of Lansdown Tower was published revealing Beckford's extraordinary retreat its luxurious interiors and the exquisite art collection he had assembled inside this fantastical architectural folly just outside Bath in Somerset England. Views was initiated by Willes Maddox under the patronage of Beckford who is found in the book's subscribers list. Beckford had moved to Bath from his estate Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire in 1822 and remained there until his death. In 1826 Beckford employed a young architect named Henry Goodridge 1797-1864 to build the tower and its adjoining library about a mile away from Beckford's residence in Crescent. Beckford's Tower known initially as Lansdown Tower was built in Italianate neo-classical style on Lansdown Hill. The Tower and its attached railings are now designated as a Grade I listed historic building by the UK. It is the only standing example of Beckford's architecture. Though he did not live there Beckford used the tower as a showcase for his collection of art and fine books and its crowning cupola as a belvedere for taking in picturesque vistas of the surrounding landscape. The book reproduces drawings by Maddox in lithographs by C. J. Richardson. Maddox later gained a reputation for painting the portraits of eminent Turks and took up an invitation from the Sultan to work in Istanbul. Four of the book's 13 plates illustrate some of Beckford's objets d'art including ceramics ivories and metalware alongside his immaculate parlor furniture. The colored plates in order: I. Ornamental Title with View of Tower. II. Exterior of LansdownTower. III. The Vestibule. IV. The Scarlet Drawing Room. V. The Staircase. VI. View of the Belvedere. VII. Objects of Vertu No.1 in Mr. Beckford's Collection. VIII. The Sanctuary. IX. The Crimson Drawing Room. X. Black Cabinet in Crimson Drawing Room. XI. Objects of Vertu No.2 in Mr. Beckford's Collection. XII. The Library. XIII. Objects of Vertu No.3 in Mr. Beckford's Collection. XIV. Ornamental Furniture in Mr. Beckford's Collection. And the Vignettes in Letterpress: XV. Embattled Gateway in Garden. XVI. Italian Cottage. XVII. The Grotto. XVIII. View in Garden where the Sarcophagus stood before removed. XIX. The Tomb of Mr. Beckford. XX. The Tomb of Mr. Beckford's favourite Dog.<br/> <br/> Abbey Scenery 420. Bobins II 682. SP Lohia 626. Edmund Francis English Jr. and Thomas McLean. Lithographed and printed at 79 St. Martin's Lane, and by Moyes and Barclay, Castle unknown
1854001541London: Rock & Co. 1854. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Oblong 32mo. Two volumes. Yellow printed and embossed wrappers with slight shelfwear and soiling. No title pages as issued. Each volume contains 6 engraved views. The first contains views titled Clifton from Ashton Falls Clifton from the Ferry The Avon from St. Vincent's Rocks St. Vincent's Rocks Hot Wells & Baths and Victoria Square. The second volume contains New Church - Victoria Park Terraces - Clifton from Cumberland Basin Victoria Square duplicate The Pump Room - Royal Clifton Spa - Hotwells Clifton The Rivers Avon & Levern from Penpole Point and Nightingale Valley near Clifton. There is a bit of foxing affecting each plate of the first volume as well as small tears at the top edge of each plate not affecting images. A small water stain in the margin of the first 4 plates in volume one and the first 3 plates in the second volume not affecting images. The plates in the second volume are on thicker paper. Most of the plates are dated individually and range from June 2nd 1852 to October 10th 1854. They measure 4" tall by 6.75" wide approximate. Natural scenes showing the countryside rivers and paddlewheelers and architecture of local buildings. Interesting ephemeral viewbooks in very good condition despite the minor faults. England Great Britain Cities Viewbook Natural History. Rock & Co. Paperback
1813009174Paris: Gide Fils & R. Nicolle 1813. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Four volumes bound in full mottled calf gilt backs marbled end papers and edges. Very Good Plus light rubbing to boards and labels. A quite handsome set. Gide Fils & R. Nicolle Hardcover
18990007651Portland ME: Thomas B. Mosher 1899. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo 96 pages unopened in original boards with later quarter black cloth spine. Ex libris Herbert Carleton Wright with the motto "mens sibi conscia recti" that is "a mind conscious of its own rectitude" from THE AENEID. <br/><br/>One of 450 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper. "A handsome but unauthorised reprint of the book first printed in 1872 with a Preface by the American publisher-editor and 3 Appendices - Colbeck Swinburne 81." This is Swinburne's reply to a literary attack by Robert Buchanan. "Irradiating and informing UNDER THE MICROSCOPE is a rapture of rage unmistakably Swinburnian - Mosher's Preface." Thomas B. Mosher hardcover
1879516421879. Med. Jb. 1879/1. - Wien Wilhelm Braumüller 1879 8° 128 5 lith. Tafeln orig. Broschur; unaufgeschnittenes Expl. unknown
1883215London: English Printmakers 1883. Etching with aquatint and stipple on cream laid paper 7 x 4 3/4 inches 175 x 120 mm full margins. With a stamped signature including the date in the lower right image area and the English Pintmakers blind stamp lower left sheet margin. In very good condition with extremely small dog-ear shaped hard crease lower left sheet corner. A lovely 19th century Parisien interior scene. English Printmakers unknown
185369294Philadelphia: Isaac Leeser 1853. BIBLE IN ENGLISH; LEESER Isaac. LEESER Isaac translator. The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures. Carefully translated according to the Masoretic Text on the Basis of the English Version after the best Jewish Authorities; and supplied with short Explanatory Notes. By Isaac Leeser. Hebrew "For it shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of his seed." Dent. xxxi 21. Philadelphia: Isaac Leeser 1853.<br> <br> Full Description:<br> <br> BIBLE IN ENGLISH. LEESER Isaac translator. The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures. Carefully translated according to the Masoretic Text on the Basis of the English Version after the best Jewish Authorities; and supplied with short Explanatory Notes. By Isaac Leeser. Hebrew "For it shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of his seed." Dent. xxxi 21. Philadelphia: Isaac Leeser 1853.<br> <br> First edition of the first complete translation of the Old Testament by a Jewish translator into English building upon Leeser's 1845 translation of the five books of the Pentateuch translation in 1845-1846. Folio 10 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches; 275 x 212 mm.<br> <br> Original full brown morocco. Boards ruled and elaborately stamped in gilt. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Binding with some restoration along joints and edges. A bit of foxing mainly to the preliminaries. Some occasional light dampstaining. Overall a very good copy.<br> <br> "Having published a five-volume Pentateuch-cum-haftarot lections from the Prophets translation in 1845-1846 as well as a complete vocalized and accentuated Hebrew Bible in 1848 the first such edition published in the U.S. he proceeded from April 1852 to September 1853 to extend his translation efforts to the entire Hebrew Bible. The result was his Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures the first translation of all of Tanakh into English by a Jew complete with short explanatory notes. Leeser explained in the preface to his magnum opus that he undertook the project in order to provide Anglophone Jewry with a vernacular version of the Bible "which has not been made by the authority of churches in which they can have no confidence" pp. iii-iv. The book achieved wide popularity among English-speaking Jews and even some Gentiles especially in America and went through multiple editions." Sotheby's<br> <br> "The translation of the Bible was Leeser's great literary achievement and represented many years of patient labor and devotion to a task which he considered sacred. Leeser was not fully equipped for this work for he was no specialist in Hebrew philology nor a master if Jewish learning in general and he was quite conscious of his shortcomings but he was inspired. He says in his preface: 'I thought in all due humility that I might safely go to task confidently relying upon that superior aid which is never withheld from the inquirer after truth.' He made good use of the various German translations by Jews of the collective commentary known as the Biur vol. III sec. 81 and of other Jewish exegetic works. As a result his translation though based in style upon the King James version can be considered an independent work for the changes he produced are numerous and great. His prime concern was to supply the traditional interpretation when necessary and the retention of the Jewish spirit at times even at the expense of beauty of style. The translation went through numerous editions and until the new Jewish Publication Society version was issued in 1917 it was the only source from which many Jews not conversant with Hebrew derived their knowledge of the Bible in accordance with Jewish tradition" Waxman History of Jewish Literature 1090.<br> <br> HBS 69294.<br> <br> $12500. [Isaac Leeser] unknown
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
1829616161829. unknown
