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1870144676Alzey 1870 1870. First Edition. Hardback. Fine copy later-bound in cloth-backed marbled boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 140 pages; Description: 140 p. Subject: Hebrew language and literature. Theology - Judaism Alzey, 1870 hardcover
1896H22270Chicago: A. M. Rothschild & Co 1896. Paperback. Very Good. 6.75 x 5 inches pictorial wraps very good light wear and tanning about 50 pp. of either actual music reduced to fit the page or priced lists of sheet music. Uncommon. Worldcat/OCLC finds NO copies in institutions. A. M. Rothschild & Co paperback
1896050805London Uk: Macmillan And Company 1896. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Tissue Guarded Plates. 269 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. Near Fine Slight Usage Gilt Brilliant Cloth Clean With Slight Rubbing No Fraying. Front Hinge Partly Cracked Former Owner's Name Byers Signed At Belfast. Baron Ferdinand De Rothschild 1839 - 1898 Also Known As Ferdinand James Anselm Freiherr Von Rothschild Was A British Jewish Banker Art Collector And Politician Who Was A Member Of The Prominent Rothschild Family Of Bankers. He Identified As A Liberal Later Liberal Unionist And Sat As A Member Of Parliament In The House Of Commons From 1885 To 1898. Ferdinand Had A Younger Sister Alice Who Like Her Brother Was A Keen Horticulturalist And Collector. She Inherited Ferdinand's Property Waddesdon Manor In 1898 After He Died And Likewise Continued The Tradition Of Using The House As A Place To Keep His Impressive Collections. In This Book Rothschild Demonstrates The Facility Of The Accepted Elites In Talking At Length About Powerful Yet Dispicable People Yet Never Criticizing Their Grievous Faults. <br/> <br/> Macmillan And Company hardcover
185748172Paris : P. Jannet et Paul Daffis 1857 et 1858. 170x100mm. LXXX XXXIX - 358Êpages reliures percaline dÕditeur rouges. Plats orns froid. Titres collection et motifs dors au dos. Teinte du dos un peu passe sinon en bon tat. 620 P. Jannet et Paul Daffis unknown
189614436Mâcon: Protat frères 1896. Fine. Protat frères Mâcon 1896 12 x 19 cm broché First edition. Patience the source of all virtues the use of money God's protection what is true education Spine split with lacks at head and foot worming to front cover. Protat frères unknown
1879118851879. Paris Calmann Lévy éditeur 1879. In/4 reliure demi-basane rouge dos à nerfs à fleurons et titres dorés illustrations : nombreuses vignettes de Bertall 423 pages. Page de tittre avec taches et petite déchirure sans manque ; feuillet 3 avec une déchirure plus importante ; déchirure également en p. 419 et taches diverses sur les derniers feuillets. En début d'ouvrage deux pages intercallées en fac-similé de texte 17è sur le sujet. Une histoire passionnante celle du courrier et de ses modes d'acheminement à travers les âges unknown
1894S414431894. 6 col plates. . HB. 4to rebound in recent buckram with leather title piece to spine. Vg. The text only for Vol. I No 2 is here bound with the plates for Vol. I No 1. Contents: Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Phytophagous Coleoptera obtained by W. Doherty in the Malayan Archipelago by Martin Jacoby pp. 267-330; An Account of a Collection of Diurnal Lepidoptera made by Mr W. Doherty at Humboldt Bay Dutch New Guinea and in neighbouring islands by H. Grose Smith pp. 331-365 543-551; New Genera and Species of Geometridae by W. Warren pp. 366-466; First Glimpses of the Zoology of the Natuna Islands by Walter Rothschild pp. 467-483 and several other short papers. The text for Vol. I No 2 calls for 3 plates which are not present. The 6 fine chromolithographic plates bound in this volume illustrate the text in the previous part - Vol. I No 1 - and are by F.W. Frohawk 3 of Sphingidae Lep. and 3 of Cerambycidae Col. hardcover
1891BB0965Firmin Didot 1891. PAGINATION: xcii 379 lxii 390 cxi 428 cxxxvi 412 clvi 354 lxxvi 380pp. ~Original red cloth gilt. Owner's signature to half-titles. Hinges sound. Cloth mildly stained in three volumes but contents unaffected. Minor edgewear. Hardback. Hardback. Good. Firmin Didot Hardcover
189246558Paris: Calmann Levy 1892. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Large octavo 8 3/4 x 5 3/4". 2 55 1 316pp. Original half pebbled cloth over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering to spine. Tissue guarded frontispiece portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.<br /> <br /> This volume comprises 91 never-published-before letters written by the Genevan philosopher writer and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau to his friend Madame Boy de la Tour. The Appendix section contains 13 letters from Madame Boy de la Tour to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Includes two genealogy charts at rear.<br /> <br /> Text in French. Binding withsome wear along edges small chips and light scuffing. Spine with joints lightly scuffed and light fraying at head and tail of spine. Some light foxing to very first and very last leaves. Binding in overall good- to good interior in good to very good condition. Calmann Levy hardcover
1873181042Paris .: Hachette. 1873. 2nd ed. Contemporary quarter red morocco over marbled boards raised bands gilt title speckled edges. Very good light shelfwear one corner bumped. Small 8vo. Hachette. hardcover
1882mon0000014411Librairie de Firmin Didot 1882-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Lightly read. Scuffed covers with rubbed edges. Bump to top corner tips. Binding is tight. No markings in book. Librairie de Firmin Didot hardcover
189885663Editions Masson et Cie 1898. Paperback. Illustrations et graphiques. <b>Livre en français</b>. Couverture souple. Environ 200 pages de bibliographie. Broché. 658 pages. Légère mouillure en marche. Non coupé. <i>ref. 85663</i> Editions Masson et Cie paperback
183338749Paris: Chez Ladvocat 1833. AN OUTSTANDING LARGE-PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS HISTORICAL DRAMA ABOUT THE CHILDREN OF EDWARD IV OF ENGLAND from the libraries of James de Rothschild and bibliophile Eugène Paillet with his armorial bookplate--etching with aquatint--on front pastedown and his ownership signature on front fly. 189 pp plus attractive engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by Prud'homme after Paul Delaroche. A LARGE-PAPER COPY PRINTED ON FINE WOVE PAPER WITH LARGE MARGINS. Rothschild catalogue II 1349 THIS COPY; Vicaire III 110 CITING THIS COPY. Large 8vo. Attractively bound in boards by Raparlier with his stamp with a leather spine label. A bid of wear to extremities internally UNCUT FINE AND BRIGHT. AN OUTSTANDING COPY OF A RARE BOOK. <br/><br/> Chez Ladvocat hardcover
18781692<p>Paris: J. Rothschild 1878. First edition.</p><p><strong>ARTISTIC ENGRAVED PLATES WITH HAND COLORED INSECTS IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT. </strong></p><p>This volume is one of three published in the series "Musee Entomologique Illustre Histoire Naturelle Iconographique des Insectes publiee par une reunion d'entomologistes Francais et etrangers Sous la Direction de J. Rothschild."</p><p>21x27 cm hardcover marbled paper covered boards red cloth spine with gilt title marbled edges bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier MD to front paste-down i-viii 424 pp 460 wood engravings 24 engraved plates with hand coloring and facing tissue guards. Wear to cover edges light browning to page edges and tissue guards. Very good in custom archival mylar cover.</p><p><strong>JULES ROTHSCHILD </strong>1838 – 1900 Honorary Consul of the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen in 1866 made a French citizen in 1867 Jules Rothschild founded a publishing house in Paris. In 1855 he was noticed by the botanist Joseph Decaisne of the Institute who encouraged him to open the "Librairie de la Société botanique de France. Until the mid- 1880s he published numerous works there relating to insects and flowering plants. He was made a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1878 at which time he published the remarkable Musée entomologique illustré: natural iconographic history of insects offered here. In 1880 Stéphane Mallarmé offered him the essay Les Dieux antiques a new illustrated mythology after George William Cox. The publishing house that bears his name then moved to 13 rue des Saints-Pères. One of the last books he published was Plaisirs et jeux by Gaston Vuillier 1900 a remarkable album in large quarto format illustrated with heliogravures a rather rare technique at the time and printed in 3000 copies on fine paper.</p><p>Several plates from <em>Rothschild's Histoire Naturelle Iconographique des Insectes</em> were reproduced in <strong>MS Engel's Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth Featuring Illustrations from One of the World's Great Rare Book Collections. American Museum of Natural History 2018.</strong></p> J. Rothschild hardcover
184646563Paris: Ballay Aine 1846. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. 12mo 7 1/4 x 4 3/4". 36pp. Original printed wrappers.<br /> <br /> James de Rothschild's humorous response to an anti-semitic pamphlet by Mathieu Dairnvaell who accused him of being responsible for the fatal railway accident which occured in July 1846 on the Chemin de Fer du Nord James de Rothschild’s newly opened railway line. The event provided a focus for anti-semitism in France at the time.<br /> <br /> This work is illustrated with five in-text woodcuts.<br /> <br /> Wrappers slightly creased along edges. Text in French. Wrappers in overall good interior in very good condition. Ballay Aine unknown
1869mon0000137881de J. Claye 1869. Bound in full brown morocco raised bands gilt lettered spine gilt dentelles purple silk doublures and endpapers a.e.g. hinges fine VERY GOOD. Published by the Compagnie du Chemin de Fer du Nord on the death of Baron James de Rothschild. James de Rothschild was the fifth and last son of Mayer Rothschild founder of the bank in Frankfurt. James moved to Paris in 1812 and made great advances to the French branch which earned him the title of banker king of kings and bankers. The book talks about his amazing career and his philanthropy and generosity. de J. Claye hardcover
1822148501St. Petersburg Russia: Imperial Commission of the Sinking Fund 1822. Rare Russian Imperial bond signed by banker and Lord of Finance Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Quarto two pages partially printed in three languages the document is dated March 1 1822 and certifies the bearer is entitled to 720 rubles with a 5% annuity. Signed in ink by Rothschild at the upper right. In very good condition. Nathan Mayer Rothschild was an English-German banker businessman and financier a symbol of a new type of social elite - the Lord of Finance. Founder of the English branch of the prominent Rothschild family Rothschild gained his power by dealing in gold bullion subsidizing British allies and issuing bonds for government loans a mainstay of his bank's business. He gained a position of such power in the City of London that by 1825–1826 he was able to supply enough coin to the Bank of England to enable it to avert a liquidity crisis. The bond system was a revolutionary development in financing due to the high liquidity of assets that the land-based system lacked. Imperial Commission of the Sinking Fund unknown
1822147492St. Petersburg Russia: Imperial Commission of the Sinking Fund 1822. Rare Russian Imperial bond signed by banker and Lord of Finance Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Quarto two pages partially printed in three languages the document is dated March 1 1822 and certifies the bearer is entitled to 720 rubles with a 5% annuity. Signed in ink by Rothschild at the upper right. In very good condition with light toning a few losses and closed tears. Nathan Mayer Rothschild was an English-German banker businessman and financier a symbol of a new type of social elite - the Lord of Finance. Founder of the English branch of the prominent Rothschild family Rothschild gained his power by dealing in gold bullion subsidizing British allies and issuing bonds for government loans a mainstay of his bank's business. He gained a position of such power in the City of London that by 1825–1826 he was able to supply enough coin to the Bank of England to enable it to avert a liquidity crisis. The bond system was a revolutionary development in financing due to the high liquidity of assets that the land-based system lacked. Imperial Commission of the Sinking Fund unknown
1822147780St. Petersburg Russia: Imperial Commission of the Sinking Fund 1822. Rare Russian Imperial bond signed by banker and Lord of Finance Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Quarto one page partially printed in three languages the document is dated March 1 1822 and certifies the bearer is entitled to 720 rubles with a 5% annuity. Boldly signed by Rothschild at the upper right. In very good condition with light toning pin holes. Nathan Mayer Rothschild was an English-German banker businessman and financier a symbol of a new type of social elite - the Lord of Finance. Founder of the English branch of the prominent Rothschild family Rothschild gained his power by dealing in gold bullion subsidizing British allies and issuing bonds for government loans a mainstay of his bank's business. He gained a position of such power in the City of London that by 1825–1826 he was able to supply enough coin to the Bank of England to enable it to avert a liquidity crisis. The bond system was a revolutionary development in financing due to the high liquidity of assets that the land-based system lacked. Imperial Commission of the Sinking Fund unknown
190016257London: for the Society 1900. FIRST EDITION. Complete with 18 hand-colored lithographed plates of birds by Keulemans 2 hand-colored lithographed maps 4 duo-tone osteological plates and 10 text illustrations. Half morocco with the original blue printed rear wrapper bound in at the end. From the library of Dr. James M. Dolan Jr. curator of the San Diego Zoological Society with his bookplate and blind-stamp on lower blank margin of first leaf. An excellent copy with only very light browning on osteological plates. First edition as issued by the Zoological Society of London. Rothschild with Keulemans’ exquisite plates again outdoes himself. Rothschild was obsessed with the cassowary a giant flightless bird with a colorful neck native to Papua New Guinea and the surrounding islands. He invested huge amounts of money in bringing the species over to England both dead and alive in order to study their habits plumage and behavior. In this monograph Rothschild describes in minute detail all species and subspecies local names measurements distribution bibliography and all other pertinent information such as the anatomical and taxonomic information. Casey Wood refers to it as “a beautifully illustrated treatise†and Anker goes a step further by calling it “an especially profusely illustrated treatise.†The second section deals withâ€the relations of the Casuariidae to the remaining ‘Struthious’ forms and the position of these with regard to the ‘Carinatae’†introduction. Pycraft credits Rothschild for having furnished the bulk of the material for this monograph.<br /> <br /> Rothschild 1868-1937 2nd Baron Rothschild member of one of the world’s wealthiest familes was a British zoologist who became a great collector and founded the Rothschild Natural History Museum in London. The Zoological Society published a number of exquisite ornithological monographs in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; this one is considered one of the most important as well as magnificent and beautifully illustrated monograph of the period. for the Society unknown
189543621Wien Vienna: Friedrich Jasper 1895. Limited First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 1/160. Elephant folio 18 3/4 x 14 1/4". 12 67 1pp Text 44 leaves Color map and Photo plates Vol. 1; 12 73 1pp Text 32 leaves Color map and Photo plates Vol. 2. Uncut. Original gilt-stamped full calf with gold lettering and tooling to front covers and spines. Raised bands. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Tissue-guarded photo-illustrated title page in each volume. Decorative initials. <br /> <br /> The author of this work Nathaniel Mayer von Rothschild 1836-1905 was the eldest son of the banker Anselm Salomon Freiherr von Rothschild. As he was not really interested in the affairs of the family he left the bank early to work exclusively as an art collector travel writer amateur photographer flower grower and generous benefactor. <br /> <br /> In this two-volume set published for his immediate circle of friends Nathaniel Rothschild describes the two Mediterranean trips he carried out with his friend Baron August Twickel in 1893 and 1894 onboard the "Aurora" first voyage and the "Thalia" second voyage. <br /> <br /> Splendidly and lavishly illustrated throughout with 1 color map 43 full-page and 50 in-text collotypes the first volume is dedicated to the first voyage and describes the following places: Livorno Corsica La Goulette Hammam Meskoutin Biskra Bougie Algiers Oran Alicante Ibiza Palma de Mallorca and Barcelona. <br /> <br /> The second volume contains 1 color map 31 full-page and 50 in-text collotypes and describes the second voyage covering Dalmatia Montenegro Corfu Greece and Turkey. <br /> <br /> One of 160 numbered copies of which this is No. 107.<br /> <br /> Bindings with sporadic age-toning staining and rubbing. Sporadic foxing throughout. Text in German. Bindings in overall good- to good interior in good to very good condition. Friedrich Jasper hardcover
190016272London: R.H. Porter 1900. FIRST EDITION. With 83 plates including 55 hand-colored lithograph plates by and after J.G. Keulemans and F.W. Frowhawk 20 collotype plates from photographs including one duplicate plate “Group of Four White Albatrosses†and 8 monochrome plates all tissue guards present. Red half-morocco and cloth boards minor staining to a small portion of the front cover; other than some minor foxing to the paste-down and endleaves an outstanding copy with the original pink printed wrappers bound in. First edition of this landmark study of the birds of the Hawaiian Islands limited to 250 copies. Issued in three parts Rothschild provides a bibliography and brief survey of the origin and distribution of the Hawaiian avifauna. A summary of the diary of Henry Palmer an ornithologist employed by Rothschild who collected specimens on the islands between 1890 and 1893 forms the basis of this work. Palmer gathered a total of 1832 birds. The fine hand-colored plates were drawn and lithographed by Keulemans. Included are fifteen new species and a number which are now extinct and which are indicated by pencil notations in the text.<br /> <br /> Anker 429; Wood p. 543; Zimmer p. 532; Nissen IVB 794. R.H. Porter unknown
