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177510699Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-mall; and T Cadell successor to Mr. Millar in the Strand. London. 1775. Small 8vo. 6.4 x 4.1 inches. xv 221pp Publishers advert leaf. A neat previous owner name and date 'Miss Barwell Oct. 1779' on the front free endpaper. Small crease to the bottom outer margin of a few pages but overall a bright clean and fresh copy. Fine contemporary binding of full tan calf. Spine with raised bands. Compartments have gilt rules. Red title label gilt. Board edges with decorative gilt roll design. Marbled endpapers. A small ink spot to the lower board but overall a lovely copy in a fine 18th century calf binding. Originally published in 1762 Lowth's Introduction to Gramar went through several printings and revisions by the author. Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-mall; and T Cadell, successor to Mr. Millar, in the Strand. London. 1775 hardcover
19013554907235781901. Calcutta: Thacker Spink & Co Reprinted 1901. This is the Second Edition of this title. Written by "A Thirty-Five Years' Resident". Publisher's olive-green soft cloth boards with black lettering. A couple of former owner's inscriptions to the front paste-down and front free end-paper otherwise a VG copy with slightly soft spine tips. Firm hinges. Cloth in nice condition. No foxing. Firmly bound. Complete with 123 pages including faintly-lined tissue pages between each page of text for taking notes as issued. One of the tissue pages has a penned recipe on it. There is a 56-page catalogue of to the rear of Thacker Spink & Co's Publications. An early Indian cookery book compiled anonymously by a "Thirty-Five Years' Resident" and containing recipes and cooking methods on rice curries soups fish vegetables preserves liqueurs and more along with information on medicines perfumes and cosmetics. Originally published as a first edition in 1880 which is exceedingly uncommon. This - the reprint form 1891 - occasionally appears but this is a much nicer copy than normally encountered. NB: Not to be confused by any modern re-issue of this title. Photographs/scans available upon request. hardcover
19953554907223181995. First Edition. New York: Primary Packaging Inc 1995. First Edition. Limited to 400 copies. Given as a Christmas present to clients of Primary Packaging Inc in December 1995 by Delano Harwich President and Stephen Barnhardt Art Director. This particular copy was given to Joe Spellman Executive Vice President Product Development Creative Services Worldwide of Elizabeth Arden in New York. Artwork typesetting electronic prepress printing stamping embossing lacquering and all work necessary for this book was created manufactured and assembled at Primary Packaging Maspeth New York. This is a book of recipes divided into different sections: Special Event Soup Fish Fowl Meat Pasta Miscellaneous and Dessert. The recipes provided by representatives from Chanel Mem Company Liz Claiborne Linda Mason Elements Inc. Rotman Productions Gryphon Development Guerlain Estee Lauder Circle of Beauty Pinnacle Brands Inc. Lancaster Tsumura Diane von Furstenberg Avance Designs Aris Isotoner Idice North America Inc Ann Gottlieb Associates Revlon Happi Donna Karan Delagar Josephine Reed Food Editor - PrimeTime News Mary Faulconer Marc Rosen etc. A stunning production printed on high quality paper. Housed in the publisher's custom-made black clamshell box. Fine in box with one corner damaged. At the time of listing I can find no copies of this privately-produced book for sale on the web. Scarce. Photographs/scans available upon request. unknown
18237692<p>Printed by W. Baxter Oxford for J. Parker and F. C. & J. Rivington. London.1823. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. 6.8 4.3 inches. 3 Illustrations by George Cruikshank. A fine clean copy in early twentieth century binding by Riviere. Full tan morocco with five raised bands each with gilt piping. Compartments ruled decorated and lettered. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Paper watermarked 1822. Blank endpapers showing some foxing but the text papges are fine and bright. Published anonymously but the author is known to be E. Berens. .A handsome book with quality illustrations by Cruikshank. Cohn #71.:</p> Printed by W. Baxter, Oxford, for J. Parker and F. C. & J. Rivington. London.,1823 hardcover
184010711Leeds: Mason & Scott 1840. Second-hand hardcover. <p>Anon. The Whole Art of Confectionary. New Edition Mason & Scott: Leeds 1840. 12mo in 6s 170x100mm recased red cloth brown leather gilt lettered spine label 471pp. VG/VG faint agetoning to pp edges</p> <p><br /> <p><br /> ANON¹. <br /> <br /> The Whole Art of Confectionary; also sugar boiling iceing candying making of wines jellies &c. &c. for the use of ladies confectioners housekeepers and others : to which are added several new and useful receipts never before published. New Edition price One shilling. <br /> <br /> Leeds : Mason & Scott 37 Briggate 1840. New Edition. <br /> <br /> Duodecimo in 6s 170x100mm red satin cloth boards brown leather gilt lettered spine label top-edge stained red-brown 471pp : AⶠB-Dâ¶. Bookseller's ticket "Cooks Books T & M McKirdy" to rear paste down; professionally cased² or recased pre 1980s new endpapers top-edge faintly soiled very faint age-toning to title page very faint sporadic foxing; bottom edge of D6 faintly soiled.<br /> <br /> A Regency/late Georgian/early Victorian book from Northern England on confectionery baked goods preserves desserts non-alcoholic drinks sugar and boiled candy with chapters on curing malt liquor perry beer and ale. The final chapter is "Pleasing and Cooling Drinks many of which may be used by Members of Temperance Socities sic".  There are 110 recipes ranging from funeral bunns to curing ropy ale; barley sugar to elder wine bride cake to quince cream.³ Many of the recipes are for commercial quantities and a number have suggested prices and costs. References to Barm Beest Gingerbreads Yorkshire Muffins and a range of spiced fruit cakes suggest the receipts were drawn from Northern England.</p> <br /> Scarce in any edition or format. An excellent copy.<br /> <br /> § OCLC records no holdings this edition. A number of variants are held in the UK and the USA<br /> § Not in Oxford nor Cagle nor Bitting. cf Axford pps.297-8 for American editions circa 1836.<br /> <br /> ¹ This edition does not list an author. There are a number of British editions with variations published and/or printed and sold between 1815 and 1848 across Yorkshire and the Midlands claiming authorship by W S Stavely Edward Logan MacKenzie J E Thomas and others.  There are also several American editions published 1830s in New York and Chicago claiming authorship by W Young or S W M'Getrick.<br /> ² Inspection of digital copies at Leeds University and the British Library suggest this was issued originally with cheaply printed yellow wrappers.<br /> ³ Again comparing digital copies from institutional holdings early copies have less recipes; later editions like this have additional chapters for apricot preserves and for temperance drinks.</p> Mason & Scott unknown
1948319400Bombay: Conservator of Forests 1948. 8 pp. signed by the Conservator of Forests Southern Circle and extensively annotated by his office. 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Original self-wrappers in envelope the whole housed in a modern blue cloth clamshell box with a custom-printed title page laid in. Somewhat worn soiled. 8 pp. signed by the Conservator of Forests Southern Circle and extensively annotated by his office. 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. A rare piece of ephemera; licenses such as this dictated the range that could be hunted as well as the species Bison Sambhar and Cheetah and the number of animals and their sex bulls or stags only. Conservator of Forests unknown
1820Flo547<p>19th century scrapbook of old maps and views of London</p><p>Includes a large folding map of the City of London in the time of the Anglo-Saxon era about the year 1000 by William Darton from 1810 in fine handcolour</p><p>Another fine folding map of Middlesexia by the Dutch mapmaker Johannes Blaeu from 1662 showing the centre of London surrounded by the villages of Putney Shoreditch Chelsea Kensington etc.</p><p>With 79 large and small engraved landscape views of London the river Thames bridges stately homes churches villages Hampton Court Carlton House Westminster Abbey St Paul's Cathedral Southwark Cathedral Globe Theatre Bedlam Hospital etc.</p><p>Views by artists such as Richard Gardnor Jr. Roberts Charles Wild Wenceslaus Hollar. About 40 engravings cut from William Thornton's<em> New Complete and Universal History of the City of London</em> 1780s. Two engravings Globe Theatre and St Faith's Church in the crypt of the old St Paul's Cathedral by Wenceslaus Hollar 17th century.</p><p>Compiled in the Victorian era by Josephine Dockar-Drysdale of Wick Hall Radley Oxford. The daughter of Scottish businessman William Dockar who bought the manor in 1850 she was already a widow when she moved into the house in 1882. According to family reports she was 'fearsome' 'an horrendous woman' and 'a terror.' <em>Interview with granddaughter Louise Curtis in Radley History Club.</em> Scrapbooking and sentimental poetry may have been her only pleasures. She looks quite miserable in her portrait by Sir Hubert von Herkomer.</p><p>Green cloth scrapbook with a decorated front cover bookplate of compiler <em>Josephine Dockar-Drysdale</em> on front endpaper 81 maps and engravings mounted on hinged card handwritten poem <em>The Unhappy Lady of Hackney</em> on blue paper many engravings trimmed to edge of image age-toning to pages and endpapers.</p><p>Fascinating and unusual album of London history.</p> hardcover
1828CAT000116Amsterdam: F. Kaal 1828. Early Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Contemporary thick printed wraps spine perished binding loose. Pirated edition of a popular Dutch cookbook originally published in 1803. viii 236pp. Size: 8vo octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000116. F. Kaal unknown
1894055535New York and Lexington KY: The Printery 1894. Hardcover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 192 pages. Hardcover bound in slate blue cloth with cover lettering in gilt. The binding is rubbed and worn and the front cover is quite soiled. Corners bumped. A sound copy. The text is toned but clean. The frontis portrait of Jefferson Davis has a tear at the gutter. An early owner's gift inscription at the top of the title page reads "Bernon Allen. / From his Father Monday January 21st 1895". A couple of pages have edge tears. There is a little damping at the top edge and corner of the pages in issue No. 3 starting at page 33 and running about 20 pages. This does not affect the text. The portrait after page 112 John W. Ellis Governor of North Carolina has a fold at the bottom corner which was improperly trimmed during printing does not affect the image. Three is a tear in the center of the image of the double page illustration Panoramic View of New Orleans1862 on the leaf for pages 185-186. Contains all 12 issues. Each issue has a portrait for the front cover The issues also contain text illustrations and text maps as well as some full or double page illustrations. The first issue is dated 1893 and the final issues are dated 1894 but we assume the book was published in its entirety in 1894. <br/> <br/> The Printery hardcover
305380Watercolor and gouache on pith paper. Tipped onto a backing sheet at each corner and bordered by strips of embroidered fabric. A few splits in the corners but otherwise in good condition. 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches.<br/> <br/> Accomplished painting of a botanical arrangement from China for the export market undated but early 19th century. Beautifully painted with many flowers and a butterfly.<br/> <br/> unknown
305388Watercolor and gouache on pith paper. Tipped onto a backing sheet at each corner and bordered by strips of embroidered fabric. A few splits in the right margin but otherwise in good condition. 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches.<br/> <br/> Accomplished painting of a botanical arrangement from China for the export market undated but early 19th century. Beautifully painted bouquet of flowers with many types of fruits intertwined.<br/> <br/> unknown
305385Watercolor and gouache on pith paper. Tipped onto a backing sheet at each corner and bordered by strips of embroidered fabric. A few splits in the left margin but otherwise in good condition. 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches.<br/> <br/> Accomplished painting of a botanical arrangement from China for the export market undated but early 19th century. Beautifully painted with a tiny butterfly flowers and fruit flowing over the page.<br/> <br/> unknown
305383Watercolor and gouache on pith paper. Tipped onto a backing sheet at each corner and bordered by strips of embroidered fabric. A few splits in the corners but otherwise in good condition. 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches.<br/> <br/> Accomplished painting of a botanical arrangement from China for the export market undated but early 19th century. Beautifully painted with five different flowers and a cute butterfly.<br/> <br/> unknown
1807051183Paris: Chez Barba Libraire 1807. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mos. ix 14-251 5; viii 230; xii 211 1; 239; 364 pages. Hardcovers bound in quarter leather and marbled paper-covered boards. The bindings are quite worn scuffed and bumped but the bindings are sound. An ex-library set with full markings. Removed shelf labels from the spines and paper label on the front covers. Ink stamps on the title pages one from Austria and one in Russian. The title labels on the spines are worn with two showing heavy chipping and pest damage. In Volume IV there are burn marks at the tops of pages 229-239 with some loss of text heavy loss on the last fe3w pages. The text blocks are quite sound. A scarce early work on Napoleon. No other copies online; no auction records found. <br/> <br/> Chez Barba, Libraire hardcover
dola1009Paris: Nouvelles Éditions Latines 1950. First Edition. A remarkable rarity in flawless condition of an extremely fragile book due to acidic paper. A virulent anti-Communist manifesto against the Vietnamese Communist Party and its armed wing anticipating the bloody civil war that ensued and the defeat of French imperialism which led to the US militarist intervention into the internal affairs of Vietnam. A significant piece of French imperialist militarist propaganda. Sixteen institutional holdings are cited in Worldcat which records no French language edition. 12mo. pp. 122 ff. 2. 2 double-page text maps. Uncut & unopened in pictorial wrs. short split in lower front joint. dola1009 Paris: Nouvelles Éditions Latines, [1950] unknown
186653113St. Paul: Whitney's Gallery & Art Depot 1866-1867. 1866-1867. First edition. Original Photograph. CDV. Image: 2.125"x3". Mount: 2.5"x4". An image taken from a slight distance of two Sioux Indian teepees. There is some light brush and a couple of fallen trees in the foreground with a small child standing near the logs. An Indian is seated just outside the entrance of one of the teepees. A couple of large trees and some smaller ones are in the background behind the teepees. A clean sharp image. The imprint on the back of the mount indicates this Whitney image is from 1866 or 1867. A scarce image. Whitney's Gallery & Art Depot, 1866-1867. unknown
1831039827New York: Jocelyn Darling 1831. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. 1/4 leather worn and scraped but sound over paper boards with a green label. Some staining to boards. Light scattered foxing but otherwise clean internally; the first signature is slightly loose small tear to the margin of page 175. One of the earliest national directories it was published again in 1832 - both years are rare. 395pp with the errata at the rear. The first section lists business geographically the second by trade and the third alphabetically. The last section discusses various industries and tariffs. Index at rear. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 039827. <br/><br/> Jocelyn, Darling hardcover
19106594Shanghai: American Bible Society. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1910. Hardcover. Black cloth gilt lettering to front cover binding stapled text presented in two columns with English at left and Cantonese at right. ; 4-1/2" x 6-1/4"; 107 pp; A scarce book. OCLC records 4 entries with a total of 6 copies NYPL Harvard with dupes. Cambridge only 1910 copy is at ILIFF School of Theology others are of an earlier 1900 printing. ; Covers rubbed small losses to cloth along edges prior owner pencil inscription name scribbled to front free flyleaf and inside rear cover initials title page pulled away a bit from spine revealing binding staples text clean and unmarked. . American Bible Society hardcover
1810045665Charlestown: J. White 1810. Broadside. Very Good Condition. Single sheet mild soiling verso discolored and with old pen title one edge trimmed unevenly in the margin. Two woodcuts one of a reaper one of a dinner scene at top. "Here's Statesmen lawyers & doctors gay Time with its scythe sweeps them all away." Just one copy in Worldcat at Harvard. Not at the AAS. ca. 11 1/2" x 9". Undated ca. 1810 - the Harvard copy suggests 1810-1830 the years White was most active. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Americana. Inventory No: 045665. <br/><br/> J. White unknown
1804CC25Fredrick-town MD: MATTHIAS BARTGIS 1804. Book. Very Good. Leather Hardcover. Few torn pages but complete and tight. MATTHIAS BARTGIS Hardcover
1817CAT000268London: Published by the editor and sold by all periodical publishers in Town and Country 1817. Early Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary leather backed marbled boards neatly rebacked boards rubbed. Modest scattered foxing and browning a bit heavier early on a few minor stains. 4 376pp with a frontispiece and nine plates. Cagle 760 1818 ed. Simon 865 1813 ed.<br/><br/>Although there were editions in 1813 1815 1816 1817 and 1818 they are all curiously scarce. Tips on brewing flatulenceand 133 pages of cookery. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000268. Published by the editor and sold by all periodical publishers in Town and Country hardcover
189025328<p><strong>1890 Magic Lantern Construction Hollywood Film Movies precursor Photography</strong></p><p>The magic lantern was an early type of image projector employing pictures painted printed or produced photographically on transparent plates usually made of glass one or more lenses and a light source. Since the late 19th-century smaller versions were also mass-produced as a toy for children. The magic lantern was in wide use from the 18th century until the mid-20th -century when it was superseded by a compact version that could hold many 35 mm photographic slides: the slide projector.</p><p>"<em>The Magic Lantern</em>" featured here in the original orange cloth binding is filled with illustrations depicting different projectors and the interior construction of such devices. </p><p>Item number: #25328</p><p>Price: $499</p><p>Anon.</p><p><strong><em>The Magic Lantern: its construction and use.</em></strong></p><p>London : Perken Son & Rayment 1890.</p><p><u>Details</u>: </p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->140 14</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->44 numbered in-text figures</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Orange cloth</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~7.25in X 4.75in 18.5cm x 12cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>25328</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> Perken, Son & Rayment hardcover
1890206978Chicago. : The American Historic Society. c. 1890. First edition. . Three-quarter leather over marbled boards. Hard covers. Fine set. 4to. Two volumes. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. The American Historic Society. hardcover
1908207313Napa.: H.A. Darms. 1908. First edition. . Gilt decorated hard cover. . Near fine copy very light shelf wear. . Folio. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. H.A. Darms. hardcover
1937208270San Francisco.: Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District. September 1937. First edition. Decorated hard cover. . Fine copy in bright near fine very small chip at spine tip and on rear bottom edge dust jacket in mylar. . 4to. Folding plates color frontis. Architectural details. Photographs. Very rare in this condition. Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District. hardcover
