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70064A fine watercolour depicting shells on pith paper. Oblong 15.0 x 23.0 cm. Glass covered. In simple but elegant frame of 27.0 x 34.0 cm. = Delicately water-coloured images of shells by an unknown artist. The genera are usually very recognizable except for the volutid; species-level identification is less easy but that of course has not been the aim of the artist who painted the gastropods as mirror images. Very small tear in upper right part and thin tear to upper middle margin some light foxing but not very distractive. A unique item. unknown
70063A fine watercolour depicting shells on pith paper. Oblong 15.0 x 23.0 cm. Glass covered. In simple but elegant frame of 27.0 x 34.0 cm. = Delicately watercolour images of shells by an unknown artist. The genera are usually very recognizable except for the volutid; species-level identification is less easy but that of course has not been the aim of the artist who painted the gastropods as mirror images. Small tear to lower middle part and some light foxing but not very distractive. A unique item. unknown
70062A fine watercolour depicting shells on pith paper. Oblong 15.0 x 23.0 cm. Glass covered. In simple but elegant frame of 27.0 x 34.0 cm. = Delicately water-coloured images of shells by an unknown artist. The genera are usually very recognizable; species-level identification is less easy but that of course has not been the aim of the artist. A few light spots are present; a few short marginal tears in the paper but not too distractive. A unique item. unknown
54649A fine watercolour depicting shells on pith paper. Oblong 15.0 x 23.0 cm. Glass covered. In simple but elegant frame of 27.0 x 34.0 cm. = Delicately water-coloured images of shells by an unknown artist. The genera are usually very recognizable; species-level identification is less easy but that of course has not been the aim of the artist. A few thin tears and some light spots are present but not very distractive. A unique item. unknown
54650China ca. 1850. Oblong 15.0 x 23.0 cm. Glass covered in simple but elegant frame of 27.0 x 34.0 cm. = Delicately watercoloured images of Chinese shells by an unknown artist. Most shells are from marine environments South Chinese Sea and large and colourful. The genera are usually very recognizable species-level identification is less easy but that of course was not the aim of the artist. Some light spotting and a few tiny dents but not very distracting. A unique item. unknown
1883144403London : James Nisbet 1883. First Edition. Hardback. Good to very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 276 pages; Physical desc. : viii 276 p. ; 22 cm. Subject: Christian ethics - Quotations maxims etc. Includes index of subjects under which citations are arranged. London : James Nisbet hardcover
19151303Cincinnati Ohio 1915. Boards. Good . SCRAPBOOK. 8vo 9½" x 6½"; 34 unnumbered leaves; three-quarters green calf; blind-stamped "Scrap Book" and hubs on spine; marbled boards; sewn-in bindings; commercially sold scrapbook with Daniel Slote & Co. book trade label on front endpaper; 1 ½" split to spine; fragile without wrinkling or odors; good plus. Approximately 200 newspaper clippings 170 pasted or laid-in; 16 loose clippings covering topics of household and garden presumably collected by a young woman circa 1915. Among tips for raising fowl pork and dairy cows recipes for all seasons and "Comforts for Sick People" and "For the Invalid's Tray" two laid-in clippings offer competing remedies for "blackheads miscalled 'flesh worms' by many a young miss." Eleven of the loose clippings document a record-breaking cold snap in Cincinnati in summer 1915. Each leaf contains two columns of gummed lines on the front and back. The scrapbook was produced by Daniel Slote & Co. under a patent held by his close friend Mark Twain see Slote featured as Twain's roommate in The Innocents Abroad 1869 and advertised as "the only gummed Scrap Book made: always ready for use without extra gum or paste." This particular scrapbook highlights articles of note and hints helpful to a young woman some of which remain timeless. unknown
1857233London: Knight and Son 1857. Only a good copy in publisher's worn blind and gilt stamped maroon cloth lacking flyleaf and heavy wear to front hinge. Presumed first edition per OCLC dating. Featuring four hand-colored plates. A moral story about a girl who dreams/intends to become a "child of god" but perpetually gives into temptation but after visiting a family member and the death of a friend Clara finds that "there is no place where I can better serve God than in my own dear home."<br /> <br /> 16mo 2 186pp. 2 advertisements. Scarce with only two copies located on Worldcat as of May 2021. Knight and Son unknown
192610399London: Methuen & Co 1926. Second-hand hardcover. <p>Anonymous. Clarisse or The Old Cook. FIRST EDITION Methuen & Co: London 1926. 8vo 165x130mm qtr bnd black cloth red dec bds xii1782pp. preface by A B Walkley; translated by Elise Vallée eps lightly offset toned; owner name to ffep; t.e dusty</p> Methuen & Co unknown
140948130New York: no publisher 1995. Near Fine. A large collection of approximately 300 color photographs documenting the 1995 New York City Gay Pride parade with images typically depicting floats parade marchers banners signs and crowds. Most images appear to be taken from the crowd. Those depicted marching in the parade come from a broad range--from local establishments such as bars or gyms and activist organizations such as GLAAD and PFLAG or for causes such as AIDS/HIV religious affiliations to those marching with clever signs.<p>Photos measure 12.5cm x 9cm. Bound in nine Qualex Photo Galaxy drugstore albums with silver card wraps printed in black bound at top edges with clear plastic brackets. Near Fine light wear to covers one bracket semi-lose at top. A fantastic glimpse into mid-nineties gay culture and the issues the community was facing at the time. [no publisher] unknown
1797601461797. ANONYMOUS. A Collection of Poems on Religion and Moral Subjects. Extracted from the Most Celebrated Authors. Collecta Revirefeunt. 18th-century full calf gilt-lettered red morocco spine label gilt ruled spine. Elizabeth-town NJ: Printed by Shepard Kollock for Cornelius Davis 1797. First edition. Evans 31953. Felcone 54. An anthology of poetry including Thomas Gray's "An Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard" Robert Blair's "The Grave" Young's "The Last Day" and other poems. Some light scattered foxing and toning else a very good copy. unknown
18301443No place listed: Not stated 1830. Full leather. Fine. FASHION ALBUM. Spine title: Coloured Plates of the Latest Fashions<br /> 8vo; horizontal ribbed brown Morocco with gilt borders and ornaments; 5 banded spine with gilt ornaments red leather title label; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles heavy marbled endpapers; frontispiece 54 hand-colored engraved plates 50 mounted to cream-colored stock with tissue guards 5 larger plates not mounted but bound-in; fine. The album appears to have been compiled as a personal collection of women's fashions with each plate carefully excised and mounted on heavy cream-colored paper stock with a debossed border plate line. Twelve prints with dated titles on the illustrations begin with "Morning Dress for Jan.y 1801" and end with "Afternoon Dress for June 1801." These are followed by fifteen plates dated 1805-1807 printed by Vernor Hood and Sharp Poultry. This publisher is sometimes identified as only Vernor & Hood and later as Vernor Hood and Sharpe and was located at 31 Poultry in London from 1799-1809. One plate is hand-dated 1826 and two are dated 1831 in small neat pencil. Eleven plates follow with no date or publisher then five more lacking dates but marked with the printer's name Joseph Robins Bride Court London. There are four illustrations from Ladies Pocket Magazine 1831. The album concludes with five bound-in plates lacking date but marked "Invented by Mrs. Bell No. 26 Charlotte Street Bloomsbury." Mrs. Bell was the proprietor of Magazine des Modes as well as a milliner dress and corset maker. Allen 2020 <br /> <br /> The album is an extraordinary collection of early 19th century fashions of well-dressed English women. Not stated unknown
56407London: The Self-Help Press no date circa 1910. Self-Help / Political Biography RARE ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.96. Publisher's paper covers illustrated with a photograph by Elliott and Fry stapled twice and priced at 2d. Crumbling to dust as you read this; as brown as they come and dreadfully brittle. How does it even still exit Front cover and first leaf loose. There is only one copy in UK libraries at the National Library of Wales according to Library Hub Discover successor to COPAC. Poor but unlikely to be found in better condition. That's right you too could take part in the last British cavalry charge and have a hand in creating the Welfare State! Number two in a series of pamphlets giving a potted history of the exploits of various 'successful' people most seem to be politicians. London: The Self-Help Press, no date [circa 1910] unknown
50592New York NY: Manhattan Post Card Co. no date circa 1900. Coney Island EARLY POSTCARD IMAGES. Octavo pamphlet. Dichromatic printing on clay paper with colour-illustrated card covers stapled. 16 double-sided black and white photographic plates totalling 64 individual images. Some small losses to edges of first and last leaves. Rubbing to edges with one closed tear to front cover and a tear to head of spine. A rare survival. Very good. A collection of early postcard images of 'the playground of New York'. New York, NY: Manhattan Post Card Co., no date [circa 1900] unknown
1928587941Chicago: Canterbury Press 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Orange cloth stamped in black. A couple of paper remnants on the front board else near fine in faintly stained very good dust jacket with a couple of small chips. Fictional autobiography of an African-American preacher from Chicago almost certainly written by the white journalist and writer Opie Read. In nicer than usual jacket. Canterbury Press hardcover
170021774Germany 1700-20. Other. Still in very good to excellent condition. The four small engravings each ca. 78 x 115cm pasted down on an atlas page. 78 by 115mm 3 by 4½ inches. 78 by 115mm 3 by 4½ inches. Copper engraving uncolored as published. Shown are Constantinoples Turkish residence Sieben Thürmen and the Patriarchen Kirche. unknown
18881464Epinal France: Imagerie D'Epinal 1888. Boards. Very good . HUMOR RACIST CARICATURE. Folio; 56pp; pages numbered 1-60 printed recto only on very thin paper stock lacking pp15 16 17 and 19-SEE NOTE BELOW; red pictorial boards on front rear has green and white patterned boards green cloth shelf-back; "Printed expressly for the Humoristic Publishing Company Kansas City Mo." on the foot of each page; cartoon-style hand-colored lithographed illustrations; light scuffing to boards at edges and bumped corner age-toned paper fragile 3pp with closed tears extending into text: 9&10 from fore-edge and 31 from bottom; very good plus. OCLC only locates two copies in English at Yale and Princeton and two in France in French. Although the cover title is in French the cartoon text is all in English. Published in France by the old and revered Imagerie D'Epinal founded by the Jean-Charles Pellerin family in 1796 and continuing today it was printed for the Humoristic Publishing Company in Kansas City Missouri. Famous stories and tales many moralistic are included in comic strip form one story to a page. Included are: William Tell Little Tom Thumb Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella.<br /> <br /> Fifty-six hand-colored cartoons printed one side only. Overstreet states that "All copies known only have 50 of the 60 known of these broadsheets." And "All known copies were collected with sheets 15-20 23 24 47 and 48 missing." In this volume pages 15 16 17 and 19 only are lacking. Overstreet 366. Imagerie D'Epinal unknown
1727BB0614London: Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane; J. Stagg in Westminster Hall; and D. Browne without Temple-Bar 1727. Quarter-bound Leather. Near Fine. Third Edition with price 2s. 6d below imprint in square brackets. Full of fascinating information relating to the etiquette and procedure of royal ceremonies. Small 4to 210 x 155mm: 80pp with large folding copper-engraved frontispiece "Procession of Kings and Queens with over 150 robed figures" measuring a full 440 mm x 350 mm a second folding engraving "The Manner of the Champions performing the Ceremony of ye Challenge" and 12 woodcuts in the text depicting various ceremonial objects including crowns maces scepters and coronation rings. Bound in early possibly contemporary quarter sheep with marbled boards red morocco lettering piece gilt all edges marbled. Bookplate of Buddle Atkinson to front paste-down. A sturdy unsophisticated copy frontispiece slightly spotted along folds sporadic light soiling and browning binding rubbed along spine and corners but an excellent example of a scarce book. ESTC Citation No. T113877. Lowndes 526. Bindley pt. vi 1039. Not in Halkett & Laing. Buddle Atkinson's bookplate appears in Hugo's Catalogue of Thomas Bewick's works but it is in fact engraved on steel not wood and came from the workshop of Mark Lambert one of Bewick's pupils. The plate was designed and engraved by George F. Robinson who joined Lambert's workshop in 1841 and who in the course of 50 years became chief engraver and director of all art works carried out by the firm. The plate was produced when Atkinson b.1841 was a young child perhaps for putting in books that had been owned by his father John Buddle so it likely dates from 1845-1850. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane; J. Stagg, in Westminster Hall; and D. Browne, without Temple-Bar unknown
1910550603Pittsburgh: Freedmen's Department of Woman's Board of Home Missions 516 Market Street 1910. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 24mo. 11pp. Stapled white printed self-wrappers. Few sewn marks along spine where once bound with other publications else a very good copy. Freedmen's Department of Woman's Board of Home Missions, 516 Market Street unknown
180018412c1800. 470mm in diameter. Instruments""Planispherum Lunare A unique manuscript lunar astrolabe Ink and polychromy on paper over pine. The instrument comprises a circular base plate and three rotatable cardboard volvelles and a brass radius pointer attached to each other in the centre. A brass ring is attached to the base plate for suspending. All four paper covered discs are finely inscribed in manuscript with various scales and symbols. Content 1. The smallest volvelle bears a scale covering 12 hours on its outer ring. It also shows the ecliptical motion of the Sun the Moon's orbit the line of nodes and the arguments of latitude in other words the distances from the nodes. 2. On the second volvelle a scale covers the years from 1801 to 1825. each year is subdivided in twelve months with the abbreviated name written for each month. 3. The following volvelle carries a series of scales showing a monthly calendar a zodiac calendar with skilfully drawn pictures and the symbols of the signs. Below the zodiac is a scale for the declination of the sun throughout the year set in four sequences of three. 4. On the outside rim of the volvelle is another calendar scale in which the months are unevenly distributed. This scale presumably was to be used in conjunction with the outer scale on the circular base plate. In addition the volvelle holds two brass studs that most probably helped the user turn the disc to the desired position. This latter scale gives the days subdivided in hours. The days are numbered I to XXXI with the number I coinciding with XXVII and 8 hours the sidereal period of the Moon which results in a double numbering from XXVIII to XXXI. Below this scale for days there is a series of dates all confined to the period 1801 to 1825 presumably for solar eclipses. The brass rule or pointer holds a horizontal scale from 5 to 0 LA-southern declination and from 0 to 5 LB-northern declination indicating the latitude of the moon with respect to the ecliptic. The closer to 0 at new moon or full moon the likelier an eclipse is to occur. The rule is engraved with """"Locus Lunae"""". The circular scales serve to set the moon's position and node relative to the sun from which the user can then infer the lunar phase and whether an eclipse will occur at new moon or full moon. Manuscript instruments of this type are rare especially in such good condition as no other exact copy is recorded to date. Similar instruments were produced at the end of the sixteenth century mostly in brass. Sir Robert Dudley 1573-1649 see item 17 had a lunar calculator made by Charles Whitwell c. 1568-1611 a brass disc of 72 cm diameter overall which was the most complex instrument made during the sixteenth century. Inscribed 'Sir Robert Dudley was the inventor of this instrument' its purpose was to calculate the place of the moon over a period of thirty years. It is now in the Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence Italy. Another similar paper device was printed with detailed instructions in 1786 in Vlissingen Flushing in the Netherlands advertised as a """"Starkundige Maan-Wyzer en Almanach"""" Astronomical Moon Pointer and Almanac by Henricus Schortinghuis. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Webster Roderick and Marjorie 'Western Astrolabes' Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum 1998; Museo di Storia della Scienza Florence Italy unknown
19203217n.d. 19th or 20th century. Two illuminations on thin India paper some vertical creasing professionally matted and framed. Ad 1 priapus: 300 x 250 mm frame size 198 x 140 mm visible 147 x 93 mm size of illumination. Ad 2 she-devil: 306 x 231 mm frame size 205 x 140 mm visible 150 x 83 mm size of illumination. Sold as a pair. TWO WEIRD EROTIC INDIAN ILLUMINATIONS THE LIKES OF WHICH WE HAVE NEVER BEFORE ENCOUNTERED AND ARE UNLIKELY TO ENCOUNTER AGAIN. <br /> <br /> Popular in Roman decorative art the winged priapus is uncommon in Indian iconography. Our illumination is of particularly high quality and depicts a beautiful Indian woman riding a reined priapus perhas twice her size. The priapus is depicted with avain feet and giant wings. The environment is like a strange dream: in the foreground a grey pool with pink flowers; behind are dark green hills with eerie trees and vegetation. In the sky at sunset are what appear to be rain clouds touched in white. We have been unable to transcribe the text but there is writing on the verso. <br /> <br /> The second illumination depicts a grotesque she-devil with fangs horns and a long tongue naked save for pearls around her wrists ankles and biceps. Above her waist her speckled skin is light purple and below dark green. The monster clutches to a strange tree on which four priapus grow and with it engages in sexual relations. She reaches toward a basket of several other priapus which are positioned on an upper branch. As with the accompanying illumination in the foreground we find a watery pool and pink flowers and dark green hills studded by surreal trees. The setting is at twilight. <br /> <br /> HIGHLY CURIOUS AND MUST BE SEEN TO BE FULLY APPRECIATED. unknown
180517799Augsburg: Bürglen 1805. 185 by 144mm. 7.25 by 5.75 inches. Prints""J. J. Scheuchzerus Johann Jakob Scheuchzer Engraved portrait. Johann Jakob Scheuchzer 1672-1733 published 34 original works and numerous articles on the subjects of history science and travel; his subscribers included some of the most notable names of the day such as Isaac Newton and Hans Sloane. After extensive journeys throughout his native Switzerland he published a four sheet map of the country in 1712 the same year that a civil war toppled the Old Swiss Confederacy and ended Catholic hegemony. Until the end of the eighteenth century Scheuchzer's map was the most accurate cartographical representation of Switzerland in existence. Additionally Scheuchzer was appointed senior town physician in Zurich in 1733 and for this reason his portrait was included in George Wihelm Zapf's 'Abbildungen berühmter & besonders' a collection of 180 portraits of famous physicians. Bürglen, unknown
53012London: The Daily Express no date c.1937. Early Road Map EARLY EDITION. Quarto 28 x 21 pp.128. A gazetteer with eight loose map cards with the original wrap-around band stating 'Important First - turn to page two!'. Publisher's navy leatherette boards with titles blind to upper board. Light outer rubbing with some browning to gazetteer. A near fine example likely never used. London: The Daily Express, no date [c.1937] unknown
14142Philadelphia: Published and for Sale by Johnson and Warner No. 147 Market Street and at their Bookstore in Richmond Virginia and Lexington Kentucky 1810. . 59 1pp. 12mo. Woodcut illustrations some signed "A" Alexander Anderson in the block; variable spotting especially at the beginning. Original printed stiff gray wrappers; stitching partly defective with a pirce of the backstrip missing but intact. Second American edition not so stated first published in London by John Harris in 1804 and by Johnson in Philadelphia in 1806; a manuscript note in a copy of the London edition says the book "was written by Dr. James Hodson." The illustrations are particularly fine though not printed on especially good paper. Dame Partlet is said to have been a very near relation to that renowned person Goody Two Shoes so well known to every good child who would rather read in pretty books than waste their time in idle play. . . . Welch American Children’s Books. . . Prior to 1821 253.2 this copy Welch’s "reissue" with the publisher’s address on the cover given as 171 Market Street. Pomeroy Alexander Anderson 190b. Philadelphia: Published and for Sale by Johnson and Warner, No. 147, Market Street, and at their Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia unknown
191674751Paris: Henri d'Arthez 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi 160p. Rebound in recent 1/4 leather. 17cm. French text. Copy No. 194 of 475 copies "sur papier verge d'Arches" out of an edition of 500 numbered copies. Henri d'Arthez hardcover
