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177165510Wien Vienna: Johann Trattner 1771. Fine. Johann Trattner Wien Vienna 1771 21 x 26.70 cm relié The rare first edition illustrated with an engraved title featuring a large vignette within a portico the title on the pediment 4 beautiful figures finely engraved and drawn by Landerer including Camp of the royal troops in Moravia mausoleum erected by the empress for the Prince of Lichtenstein. and 2 vignettes at the bottom of the page View of Schloschof castle. Contemporary full raspberry vellum binding. Smooth spine decorated. Spine and joints heavily worn overall. The gilt on the spine is almost invisible. Head cap detached and tail cap torn off. 2 corners bumped the other 2 rubbed. In 55 short chapters the author composed rhyming maxims on human happiness the army science. not without some references and concealed portraits of the great princes of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. This rare edition was certainly self-published with a small print run. Copies can be found in Austrian libraries but neither in France nor England. [ Johann Trattner] hardcover
197141027Bern : Verein Schweizerischer Lithographiebesitzer 1971. 580x410mm. 48 farbige Kunstbltter Verlegereinband. Nicht nummeriert. 8250 Verein Schweizerischer Lithographiebesitzer unknown
23092Without date or place. 3pp. 12mo. Bifolium on ruled laid paper. Fair: aged with a 12.5 x 5 cm section cut away from the top of the first leaf before the writing out of the poem. 63 lines divided into six nine-line stanzas. The stanzas are numbered and the poem is complete. The stanzas are numbered and the poem is complete. Written from the slave's point of view with the first stanza reading: 'I'm weary yet I cannot sleep Dark thoughts of morning make me weep For at the rising Sun I'm told I'll be converted into gold There's no escape I must be sold Because my master wants the gold And I'm his Slave yes I'm his Slave Because my master wants the gold And I'm his slave'. Last stanza describing the slave's flight to Canada: 'At last my dreadful journeys o'er I'm safe upon the farther shore St Georges cross floats over me I've found the land of Liberty. My youths renewed no more I'm old That fear is gone of being sold For now I'm Free Yes now I'm Free The fear is gone of being sold For now I'm Free.' No indication has been found that the poem was ever published. Without date or place. unknown
174317785Paris: I.F. Benard 1743. 252 by 184mm. 10 by 7.25 inches. Prints""Nicolas de Fer Geographie de sa Majeste Nicolas de Fer Engraved portrait. Portrait of Nicolas de Fer 16461720 who was apprenticed to Parisian engraver Louis Spirinx and made his first map at 23. In 1687 his father's printing firm was passed on to Nicolas who rapidly expanded the cartographical side of the business. Perhaps de Fer's greatest work 'L'Atlas curieux' was published from 1700 until 1705 at which point it spanned four volumes and contained 113 maps and views many of which focused on the regions and monuments of France. The entire work can be considered a celebration of the French empire under the reign of King Louis XIV from whom de Fer received a royal privilege in 1703. During de Fer's period as official geographer to the King de Fer continued to produce a great number of impressive maps which eventually won him the even more prestigious post of official geographer to the Pope to which he was appointed in 1720. The portrait served as the frontispiece of 'Les frontieres de France et des Pais Bas' at atlas by de Fer published by I.F. Benard in 1743. It shows de Fer in a high powdered peruke and elaborately flowing robes holding a pen in his left hand. In the oval frame around him his name and official roles are identified while the plinth below reads: """"A server le Public j'ay employé mes jours En habile Geographe j'ay parcouru la terre. Et si par mes travaux j'ay pu le satisfaire Qu'il demande poour moy le Celeste sejour"""". Flanking the plinth are all manner of geographical and astronomical equipment. I.F. Benard, unknown
1811644P32London: Henry Colburn 1811. Cloth. Good. 9" by 5.5". None. A very scarce second edition of this interesting travel work looking at Lisbon. A very scarce work. The second edition of this work. A fascinating travel work looking at Lisbon at the turn of the nineteenth century. Discussing the city's politics religion and scenery as well as looking at the people in the town and at the rebuilding of the city that took place after an earthquake in 1755. Written anonymously. In a quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards. Externally sound. Cloth to the joints is lifting with cracks to the joints. Light discolouration and marking to the boards. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Prior owner's illustration to the verso to the rear endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with the very occasional light spot. Good Henry Colburn hardcover
1884355490716608London 1884. First Edition. Hard Cover. London: J. And R. Maxwell 1884. First UK Edition. No Date - 1884. Never Before Published. 316 pages. Publisher's red cloth lettering and rules to spine in gilt cloth to spine panel darkened some darkening and soiling to covers end-papers tanned and foxed prelims foxed light tanning to page margins small marks to pages 311 & 312 else a good sound copy. Rare. Only 1 copy in COPAC held by the British Library. From the collection of the late great collector of detective fiction - Bob Adey. hardcover
1669715P4Cologne: Nicolas Schoute 1669. Leather. Good Only. 6.5" by 4". None. A very scarce collection of three French works on the New Testament and the Catholic opinion of a contemporary translation of the Bible. Complete as three volumes bound in one.In the original French.Collated from Jisc from copies held at the University of Oxford Libraries and Ushaw College.One collective title page printed in red and black and three additional tile pages for the separate parts. Additional title page for 'Ordonnance de Monseigneur l'Illustrissieme & Reverendissime Hardovin de Perefixe'.The imprint on the title page is fictitious and the work was actually printed in Paris.A detailed Catholic work on the New Testament contemplating and defending the Bible de Port-Royal a French translation of the Catholic Bible that was published in instalments in 1667 to 1696.The work also discusses Pope Alexander VII who died two years before this work was published and Jansenism the theological movement in Catholicsm that was popular in France when this work was written. In a full calf binding. Externally sound. Cracks to the joints and a joint to the spine. Some loss to the head and tail of the spine. A little bumping to the extremities. Lacking the spine label. Some marks and discolouration to the boards and spine. A small amount of loss to the rear board. Hinges are strained. Internally generally firmly bound with the binding broken in one place. Pages are age-toned with some spots and marks. Small closed tear to the margin of the third leaf of the work no loss. A small amount of worming to the head of page 539 of the last work to the rear pastedown. Good Only Nicolas Schoute hardcover
192361936N.p.: Privately printed for the Author and His Friends 1923. 8vo. Limited to 200 copies. 154 pp. Original printed paper wraps. In recent cloth solander box with photocopy of original cover pasted onto front. Covers worn & spotted with some loss to spine covering. Internally clean. Lesbian erotica originally printed in 1897. Scarce. . Good. Wraps. 1923. Privately printed for the Author and His Friends 1923 paperback
193710577No Place: No Publisher. No Place No Publisher n.d. c1937. First edition first impression. Hardback. A very good copy. A seemingly unrecorded collection of three short pieces set around the Apennines. The first story is in the legend / folklore vein the other two a bit more bucolic. An interesting book and not a chore to read. Bound in half leather with a little rubbing to the leather and boards marbled endpapers AEG. 10577 Hyraxia Books. n.d. c1937 . Very Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1937. No Publisher hardcover
187612014London: Samuel Tinsley. London Samuel Tinsley 1876. First edition first impression. Hardback. A very good copy. "Conveys its protagonist posthumously to the land of Coralia Under the Sea and subsequently into space past the Moon and Sun until she reaches the further stars which are a heavenly abode combines SF and fantasy and occultism" SFE JC. Some pulling to the hinges a little rubbing to the corners slight lean to the spine some bumping to the spine tips. Very neat internally. No half-title if there was one. 16pp ads to the rear. 12014 Hyraxia Books. . Very Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1876. Samuel Tinsley hardcover
196614082United States: Paracelsus Research Society 1966. First Edition Thus Limited . Hardcover. Fine/NO Dustwrapper. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. or Plain and Honest Directions on How to Make the Stone by Anonymous. Translated into English from the Original German. Originally published anonymously in Leipzig anno 1711. With a Commentary by Frater Albertus. First Edition Thus. Limited Edition to 500 copies for the subscribers to the Alchemical Laboratory Bulletin. First Edition. Paracelsus Research Society Salt Lake City USA 1966. illus 96pp adverts hb No Dust-wrapper silver dark blue cloth bookseller's label some faint marks on rear cover fine <br/> <br/> Paracelsus Research Society hardcover
1790kb179.907GB: T Cadell 1790. DISBOUND TEXT No covers. Folding plan trimmed close to original frame. Has been awkwardly folded and has some repair to back. Some marks/spotting to face. Plate is loose Consists of a blank halftitle title page and pages 1-437 1 plus errata leaf. plus blank. Leaf 423/4 bit creased. Brown stain in lower margin of pages 75-84. Clean tight text block collated complete. Most suitable to rebind. 1st Edition. Good. T Cadell unknown
an15-6-24-23-Hardcover. Fair. Here's a 1951 1st ed 14th printing has some wear to and is missing small parts of dust cover. Book cloth has heavy wear from reading but surprizingly not musty. Good binding. No marks or highlights inside has some tanning and foxing. Packaged with care. hardcover
1837GEN23-B-9Glasgow: John Smith and Son 1837. Cloth. Good/Very Good Indeed. 11" by 8.5". None. A very scarce account of the banquet in honour of Sir Robert Peel's election as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. Detailing the proceedings at the election and inauguration; the addresses of various public bodies; and reports of the speeches at the dinner. With a list of the noblemen and gentlemen who attended. Featuring six engraved plates to the rear including a folding plate depicting the view of the Grand Banqueting Hall. Rebacked in a calf binding with the original pictorial paper covered boards. Externally boards are a trifle rubbed with some wear and marks. Internally firmly bound and bright with only the odd spot and handling mark Good John Smith and Son hardcover
18361013F19London: Black and Armstrong c1836 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 11" by 8.5". T. Allom. Beautifully illustrated with engraved plates and handsomely bound in half calf this is the first edition of a guide to the Tyrol region with engraved plates. The first edition of this work dated circa 1836 via the University of Oxford libraries. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved title page forty-four engraved plates and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. These illustrations are the work of T. Allom with 'historical and characteristic descriptions by a companion of Hofer'. Bookplate of Gerard Paxon to the front pastedown and his inscription to the title page. A beautifully illustrated guide to the scenery of Tyrol the region in the Alps of Northern Italy and western Austria. In a half calf binding with cloth covered boards and gilt detailing to back strip. Back strip bright with rubbing to boards. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright with spotting throughout including to plate perimeters. Inscription to title page head. Foxing to frontispiece and engraved title page. Very Good Black and Armstrong hardcover
1900756R2London: Kelly's Directories Limited c1900. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7". Not Stated. A superior copy of this Victorian map detailing London and its surroundings. Kelly's Directories Ltd. was established to function as a trade directory registering local trade owners. It remains an important record for historians and researchers.The map details London and its surrounding suburbs and measures 37.5x28in.Undated: the company name Kelly & Co. was renamed Kelly's Directories Limited in 1897 as seen with this map. A prior owner has incorrectly dated it c1870. In a full cloth binding. Externally very smart some scratches to the boards wear to the head and tail of the spine and label is rubbed away. Internally firmly bound map has two prior owner's inscription an incorrect circa date and a few green pencil marks to the map otherwise bright and clean. Very Good Indeed Kelly's Directories Limited hardcover
18111010F56London: J. Harris 1811 . First edition. Leather. Good Only. 6.5" by 4.5". Not Stated. A fascinating and vanishingly scarce first edition collection of four short stories intending to educate children about 'the lives of the Arabians in the last century'. The vanishingly scarce first edition of this work. The only edition of this work ever published.Illustrated with a frontispiece.A collection of four anonymously authored short stories titled 'The freebooter of the desert' 'Hadjee Achmed or the woodcutter' 'Adelara and Aderon' and 'Selim and Zanada'.These short tales are intended to offer cultural insight into 'the manners and customs of the Arabians in the last century'. In a full tree calf binding. Front board weakly held by one cord only. Rear joint starting with board somewhat tender. Rubbing and minor losses of calf to back strip. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean with the odd handling mark. Good Only J. Harris hardcover
1891833F21Not Stated: None 1891-1896 . Leather. Very Good. 13" by 11". Reginald Cleaver; Bernard Partridge et. al. A wonderful full calf volume in a signed binding consisting of one-hundred mounted illustrations taken from the pages of 'Punch'. An impressive selection of one-hundred mounted and hand numbered illustrations drawn from the pages of the influential nineteenth century weekly magazine 'Punch or The London Charivari'. These illustrations have been carefully removed from the pages of 'Punch' and pasted in.With numerous examples each of illustrations from such figures as cartoonist Reginald Cleaver illustrator Everard Hopkins caricaturist Phil May and illustrator Bernard Partridge. All were regular contributors to the pages of Punch.Titled 'My Contributions to Punch' following the title page is a four page index providing the title of each illustration the date of the issue in which it appeared and the page number within this volume. Each page features a hand-written number corresponding to plate number.Known for its humour and satirical tone 'Punch' was founded in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells and is remembered for helping to coin the term 'cartoon'.With the monogram 'AR' in gilt to the front board. Rebacked in a full calf signed binding with gilt detailing. Back strip laid down with boards restored. Rubbing to board perimeters. Internally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good None hardcover
1909955F32Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1909 . Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A scarce complete four volume set of this fascinating and detailed guide to the Indian Empire illustrated with folding colour maps. The 'New Edition' complete in four volumes.Illustrated with a folding colour map frontispiece to each volume. Collated complete.Present here are volume I: Descriptive; volume II: Historical; volume III: Economic and volume IV: Administrative.Published Under the Authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India this is a fascinating account of many aspects of life in India and the history of the country including discussion of education medicine currency banking legislation geology and geography.The work offers insight into early twentieth century British colonial perspectives on Indian history and culture. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip heads and tail with back strips tails of volumes II and III lightly faded. Minor hole in cloth of front board of volume IV with light tide mark to tail of front board of volume I and to fore edge of volume II and III boards. Internally firmly bound. Light offsetting to title pages with pages otherwise exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good The Clarendon Press hardcover
1709930P44London: H. Hills 1709. First edition. Paperback. Good Only. 7.5" by 4.5". None. A vanishingly scarce satirical poem on the society of the University of Oxford the first edition. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce work.'The Servitour: a Poem' is a satirical poem on life at the University Oxford anonymously written but described as being by a servitour of the university. A servitour was a lower-class student of the University who played for their education by performing menial tasks for the wealthy students such was waiting on them at meals.Register runs as A8.Half-title is present.Collated complete. Rebound in paper wraps. Externally wraps are almost detached from one another. Light edge wear and marks to the wraps. Minor sunning to the extremities. Pencil to the front wrap. Internally textblock is detached from the wraps. generally firmly bound first and last leaf are working loose. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with scattered spots and handling marks. Good Only H. Hills paperback
52528<p>Derby Thomas Richardson circa 1830. TITLE CONTINUED: showing the evil effects of bad company; with the untimely end and execution of this deluded young man who was induced by an infamous prostitute named Mary Millwood to rob his master and murder his uncle. Later printing circa 1830 approximately 185 x 100 mm 7¼ x 4 inches folding hand coloured frontispiece small vignette of a hanging at foot of last page pages: 3 4-24 some pages not numbered original publisher's yellow printed wrappers. Spine neatly repaired wrappers a little dusty upper margin of folding frontispiece trimmed otherwise a very good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.</p> Derby, Thomas Richardson, circa 1830.
1789311791789. S.l. s.ÂŽ. 1789. Un vol. au format in-16 137 x 88 mm de xxiv - 114 pp. Reliure lÂŽgÂrement postÂŽrieure de pleine basane glacÂŽe et racinÂŽe brune plats jansÂŽnistes dos lisse ornÂŽ de doubles filets dorÂŽs filets en pointillÂŽs dorÂŽs larges fleurons romantiques dorÂŽs titre dorÂŽ jeu de petits filets obliques dorÂŽs et petits filets obliques en pointillÂŽs dorÂŽs sur les coupes tranches marbrÂŽes. Edition en partie originale. ''La derniÂre et prÂŽsente ÂŽdition est plus complÂte que les autres''. in QuÂŽrard. ''Ce livre est du petit nombre de ces ouvrages qui comme Le Contrat social sont trop au-dessus de leur siÂcle pour Âtre apprÂŽciÂŽs par la multitude. Nous nous h‰tons de le donner au public parce que le temps de son triomphe est venu''. ''Je ne dÂŽsespÂre pas qu'avoir avoir ÂŽvidemment constatÂŽ ce que les hommes se doivent mutuellement et combien leurs intÂŽrÂts sont liÂŽs les uns aux autres on ne pžt bient™t porter un Code de cette espÂce ˆ un tel point de perfection que les hommes de tous les ordres et de tous les climats de l'univers en fissent volontiers la rÂgle de leur conduite particuliÂre et le gage de leur confiance rÂŽciproque''. Barbier III Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes 841 - QuÂŽrard I La France littÂŽraire p. 175 - Cioranescu I Bibliographie de la littÂŽrature franÂaise du XVIIIÂme 9448 pour une ÂŽdition millÂŽsimÂŽe 1774. DiscrÂtes altÂŽrations superficielles affectant le dos. Papier lÂŽgÂrement oxydÂŽ pouvant en outre prÂŽsenter de claires rousseurs. MalgrÂŽ une pagination erratique exemplaire collationnÂŽ complet. Peu courant. b42961 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
18867216Mexico: Oficina Tip. de la Secretaría de Fomento 1886. First Edition Primera edición. Hardcover Tapa dura. México Oficina Tip. de la Secretaría de Fomento 1886-1887. En folio. lvii-148 pp. 1 h. Encuadernación en holandesa de época. Primera edición dirigida por Antonio Peñafiel de esta gramática de la lengua Zapoteca hablada por los indígenas del estado mexicano de Oaxaca excepto en una pequeña porción del territorio que ocupan los chontales. La tradición presenta a esta tribu como hermana de los mixtecas. El manuscrito original de donde se tomó el texto es anónimo y lleva la fecha de 1823. El título continua: "Que agregó a su obra otro 'arte' por el P. Fray Andrés Valdespino las reglas de las partículas por Fr. Juan de Córdoba el confesionario en zapoteco del Valle por el R.P.P. General fray Antonio Vellón cura propio de tehuantepec y antes de Xalapa del Estado; la administración de los Sacramentos en idioma zapoteco y otro confesionario en lengua zapoteca de tierra caliente o de Tehuantepec". Las páginas numeradas en romano contienen unas notas bibliográficas de los escritores que se han ocupado de la lengua zapoteca; siguen los textos que se indican en la portada. Oficina Tip. de la Secretaría de Fomento hardcover
197267008Verona: Editiones Dominicae di Franco Riva I poeti illustrati 1972. Ottimo Fine. Testo traduzione e note a cura di Caterina Vassallini. Con 2 litografie originali a 3 colori di Enrico Della Torre numerate e firmate cm 235x65 - 20x165. 4to cm 37x275. pp. 36 6. Ottimo Fine. Edizione originale di 160 es. numerati. Libri d'artista italiani del Novecento Jentsch 1993 Jentsch Ralph I libri d'artista italiani del Novecento. Torino Allemandi. Editiones Dominicae di Franco Riva, I poeti illustrati unknown