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000149573Mordehai ben Hilel haKohen. Rav Mordechai. Riva 1558. In Hebrew. The listing price is for a single volume of this title. The copy is in fair condition without binding. Some imperfections are among the following common defects: holes damaged pages tears water stains foxing worm holes or tracers age spots frayed margins handwritten notes inscriptions censorship stamps. Please contact us for more details on the condition of the book. SKU000149573 unknown
000143810Shlomo Luriya ben Yechiel. Amudei Shlomo. Basel 1599. Publisher: Konrad Valdkirch. In Hebrew. The listing price is for a single volume of this title. The copy is in fair condition without binding. Some imperfections are among the following common defects: holes damaged pages tears water stains foxing worm holes or tracers age spots frayed margins handwritten notes inscriptions censorship stamps. Please contact us for more details on the condition of the book. SKU000143810 unknown
18990009160LONDON ENGLAND to KUCHING SARAWAK BORNEO. Good. 1899. On offer is a fascinating diary of an English gentleman by the name of Ben D. Beeley from England who at the very end of the 19th Century travels from London to Borneo to function as a missionary to the local population there. The 1899 New Year begins with a short entry by Beeley: I commenced the New Year in all Saints Church. O Lord help me to serve Thee with true devotion in my life as a missionary in Borneo. In February He sails aboard steamship from London heading to Singapore. The day before he says his goodbyes: The saddest day in my life he remarks. I left home this morning at 9 a.m. How awful to say good-bye to the dear ones at home Dear Father and Darling mother and dear old Gal. M God help them and bless and comfort them.I took my dear little Lottie for a long walk. How happy I was in her company. How sad to leave her but I am happy since I know she loves me truly and faithfully. I have asked her not to wait for me and she promises she will not. Never can I forget the farewell at All Saints Church. All the girls cried. Jeff embraced me. And those dear men how they did cheer!! My god take away pride from me. He leaves on the steamer Kawachi Maru. The beginning of his journey is less than pleasant filled with headaches terrible sea sickness and rough seas. The days get better as they go on and Beeley notes his activities everyday on the boat. For example: Awoke feeling much better. Had a better breakfast. Spent the morning on Deck. Talk to one of the Miss Vincents. Bible Reading on Luke xvii 1 -10 . Very rough in evening and much spray. He writes everyday of the journey to Singapore. From England the steamer travels across the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal. Beeley doesnt like Port Said much: I was 4 or 5 times in the day grossly insulted in the street. The whole tone of the place is awful. There is work there for 100 missionaries and there is only one! The ship reaches Singapore and is therefore only a day before it goes on to Borneo. Beeley is stationed in Kuching Sarawak as a missionary. His first impressions in early April are very positive and shortly after arriving he get to work: I took Perrys boys for scripture from 10 to 10:45. It was a great treat to hear how well they answered. They were all Dyaks and Chinese. My first bit of mission work. He comes off as an intensely curious person and writes often about the customs and religion of the people around him: Chinese ancestor worship is very extraordinary.a procession headed by 2 men carrying 2.coloured baskets next to a scarlet banner followed by a dead goat on a stretcher and a young dead pig both these have fruit in their mouths.; The Malays have curious customs of piling up pillows one on the top of the others; The Chinese and Malay made an awful row. They believe a dragon was swelling the moon. and they tried to scare him. He also starts to notice some of the ethnic strife: This morning 5 Dyaks were executed for the murder of some Chinese. The murder took place about five years ago but the murders have only just been found out. We had some Cricket at the fort. It was good fun. The Dyaks thoroughly enjoyed it. There was a boy in an inch of water on the pitch. I never expected to play cricket in the east in such a quagmire. While in Kuching Beeley spends considerable time with one of the White Rajahs of Sarawak Charles of Sarawak Charles Johnson/Brooke. The Rajahs were a dynastic monarchy of the English Brooke family who founded and ruled the Kingdom of Sarawak from 1841 - 1947. He receives an invitation for dinner from the Rajah at Astana his palace in Kuching. When Beeley sets off to the field to preach he encounters many obstacles including awful weather tribes of headhunters and dangerous animals. At one village he notices human heads hanging from posts outside of their homes. Saribas people are very nice & all want me to stay with them. There were 2 human heads hanging up the house opposite our beds.He has near disastrous river trip & almost drowns on several occasions. He also hunts & in one case shoots a 7 foot crocodile outside of his hut. His journey to the more rural and isolated parts of the country is exceptionally fascinating to read. Despite becoming a Deacon in September Beeley is assigned to a seemingly abandoned missionary station where everything is rundown and has to live in the ruins of a house. He suffers bouts of dysentery and mentions many of his fellow missionaries are depressed and want to leave Sarawak. He writes 'This Diocese is in a bad state. Men are all dissatisfied. Gomes Perry in fact nearly all want to leave. What will be the end I do not know! Shortly afterward he becomes horribly ill and spends almost two months in a delirious state. He writes often of struggles with his faith I hope I shall not be alone in any mission station I am so weak & I am afraid of myself.; O God help me in the great responsibility of guiding this mission station. Give me strength and help. I do feel the responsibility of this mission I hope all will go well. and his own personal salvation. As well as his struggles to actually comprehend the Dyak language and culture and to speak back to them. At the end of the year Beeley writes a fantastic retrospective passage: The end of 1899. A wonderful year to me. The beginning of a new life how many things have happened !! Some for good some almost bringing about my downfall. God thou knowest- all my love thee feeble and weak though it be. Am I better or worse for the past year The past is gone from us forever. It is gathered and it belongs to us no more. No single work can ever be unspoken no single step retraced. In February I had heart rendering farewells to leave home & my dear family & her whom I love. In April i landed in Sarawak & commenced my work. In July I had fierce trials by temptation. In August I was prostrate on a bed with sickness. In September I was ordained Deacon. In December left alone in the heart of Sarawak. Yet O God I was in thy hands & I know thou will keep me safe. The book is in good condition. The cover and spine have some aesthetic wear and discoloration but are still structurally good. The binding is still tight. The pages inside show little foxing or rips and tears. The handwriting is clear and legible throughout in black and blue ink and occasionally pencil. Some of the ink has faded a bit and there are a couple dozen pages where the ink has bled through to the other side. This does slightly affect the ease at which the content can be read for these pages but the bleeding through is minimal and the words can still be made out with slightly more effort. OVERALL: G; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF BEN D. BEELEY LONDON ENGLAND UNITED KINGDOM PORT SAID SUEZ CANAL SINGAPORE KUCHING SARAWAK BORNEO CHRISTIAN OUTREACH PROSELYTIZING MALAYSIA SOUTHEAST ASIA ANGLICAN MISSIONARY MISSIONARY WORK IN ASIA TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY CHRISTIANITY IN ASIA MALAY PEOPLE DYAK PEOPLE CHARLES BROOKE RAJAH OF SARAWAK WHITE RAJAHS KAWACHI MARU AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY DIARIES PERSONAL HISTORY FIRST PERSON ACCOUNT WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
7689Nicholson Ben. Nicholson Ben. OLYMPIC FRAGMENT. LAFRANCA 9. Etching printed with tone 1965 signed dated and numbered 29/50 in pencil. Published by Ganymed and Marlborough with the Lafranca blindstamp. 8 x 9 3/4 inches; 203 x 248 mm. image; 12 1/2 x 14 7/8 inches; 318 x 378 mm. sheet. In very good condition with traces of tape residue top edge verso. unknown
193077835London Gaumont British Distributors 1930. 4to. 44pp. Illustrated. WITH THE SIGNATURE OF OWNERSHIP OF Mr. LOUIS BRADFIELD on the front cover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY FLORENCE BIRCH on the front cover: With the grateful thanks of the Matinee Comttie sic Florence Birch Chairman. A souvenir of the Ben Travers play A Night Like This performed in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen at the Aldwych Theatre on 24th February 1930. unknown
190566654Paris: L'Edition d'art H. Piazza 1905. Fine. L'Edition d'art H. Piazza Paris 1905 14 x 21.50 cm relié sous boîte-étui de l'éditeur Illustrated edition with 51 original colour compositions by Etienne Dinet one of 60 copies on Japan paper ours specially printed for the bookbinder René Aussourd containing at the end a second state of the engravings in black. Full brown morocco binding smooth spine gilt name of the illustrator at foot of spine gilt dots on boards decorated with a wide blind-stamped border border of chocolate brown morocco fillet on marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns following endpapers of marbled paper all edges gilt covers and spine preserved contemporary unsigned binding but attributable to René Aussourd. Some foxing to verso of the last black engraving of the suite. Complete copy with its advertising prospectuses and publisher's full green leather slipcase with flaps brown felt lining. L'Edition d'art H. Piazza hardcover
166066808Sumptibus authoris [l'auteur] typis Georgi Deckeri | Basileae [Bâle] 1660 | 16 x 20.50 cm | relié
1956C86675Lund Humphries. As New. 1956. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - TWO 2 VOLUMES. Text in English and French. Volume 1: 32 pages; 203 illustrations. Volume 2: 4 pages of text; 142 illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Lund Humphries hardcover
533315Unbound. Fine. Five concept drawings. Gouache and airbrush with some cut-out elements. Each drawing is approximately 16.5" x 22" mounted on slightly larger card boards. Unsigned but accomplished by important industrial designer Ben Fortunato Marcune who later shifted his focus to sculpture and art. Each painting is on paper tipped-on to artist's board with a plastic overlay sheet. Three of the drawings are for vending machines the other two are designs for a trade show booth incorporating the machines. The condition of each is fine. As ludicrous as it seems French fry vending machines actually enjoyed a brief vogue in the 1980s and 1990s first appearing in 1982 in Australia and still exist today albeit in scattered locations. The machine used boiling cooking oil and had a built-in fire extinguisher. More recent versions use hot air to heat the fries. These drawings date appear to be from the early to mid-1980s and are striking whimsical and pleasing and shed light on various innovations in marketing and processing foods. unknown
1960140947690Eureka CA: Hearse Press 1960. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. One of 200 copies. 28 pp. Bound in publisher's stiff white wraps lettered in red with illustration by Ben Tibbs. Very Good with moderate oxidation to staples and associated rust staining. Toning to covers and contents with offsetting at rear cover; middle gathering detached. <p>Bukowski's scarce first book that sold dismally upon publication. Publisher E.V. Griffith took nearly 30 months to complete the chapbook due to financial restraints to the point that Bukowski contributed to the production and eliminated ads altogether. Krumhansl 3; Debritto A3. Hearse Press unknown
156753370Sabbioneta: Vincenzo Conti 1567. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. Small quarto. 261 1ff. Signatures: 1-65 alef - sameḥ-heh4 chi2 = 262 leaves. Woodcut illustration leaf 90. Final two leaves are folding broadsheets with letterpress charts the first leaf 261 with the final page of text at the verso. Printer's device Hercules slaying the Hydra at title. Modern black polished calf. A few skilfull paper repairs at top margin in early leaves. Clean marginal tear leaf 181. Light worm tracing with some text loss in final ten leaves; along with a small group of 4 to 6 very tiny worm holes in the final 30 leaves. Light mostly marginal dampstain at final 30 leaves. Both charts with old corrections and annotations and some loss of text due to worming each mounted on fine laid paper. A good copy with generally crisp clean text notably complete with the final two folding almanac charts.<br /> <br /> Second edition of this compendium of Jewish law composed in honor of Don Samuel Abravanel of Seville. It was intended principally for the use of persons in the upper social classes many of whom occupied positions in government and found it inconvenient to observe all the legal and ritual regulations or lacked the time to refer to the halakhic sources. First published at Ferrara in 1554 and arranged in five articles Heb. = ma'amarot "the work has an added importance on account of the introduction which contains valuable historical material including important details of the method of study in the yeshivot of France and Germany as well as contemporary incidents in the history of the Jews in Spain. Menahem writes reprovingly of those Jews who because of the demands of the times began to disregard the observance of the precepts. Although he shows great erudition in his knowledge of the Talmud and codes and was acquainted with the teachings of the earlier Spanish French and German scholars he relies mainly for his halakhic rulings on those of Asher b. Jehiel" EJ. This preference likely reflects the influence of Asher's son Judah who was one of Menahem's principal teachers at the yeshiva in Toledo.<br /> <br /> Among the very last Hebrew works published at Sabbioneta the title highlights the approval of Vespasiono Gonzaga the reigning prince. Previously in 1553 "the proprietors of this press attempted the hazardous work of republishing the Talmud and one Treatise saw the light; but the papal decree of that year made the further publication of the Talmud in Italy an impossibility. The end of this press came in the year 1559 due as De Rossi intimates to anti-Christian statements in some of their publications which finally brought down upon them the wrath of the church" Amram. When Vincenzo Conti briefly re-established the press at Sabbioneta to print the present work and two or three others he would have been keen to indicate his obedience to the temporal and ecclesiastical authorities.<br /> <br /> The verso of the last numbered leaf and the following unnumbered leaf both are broadsheets comprise a calendar or almanac entitled "Beʼur ha-luḥot" for the years 5025-6000. The first part is designated "Ha-Luaḥ ha-Rishon" and the second "Ha-Luaḥ ha-Sheni." Many copies appear to lack one or both of the broadsheets.<br /> <br /> Annotations: Old Hebrew entries in two hands at the margins of the title-page; some scattered marginal notes in Hebrew. Title in Hebrew: â€×¦×“×” לדרך וזוודין ל××•×¨×—× :†â€×•×”×’×“×œ× ×• ×•×”×•×¡×¤× ×• . בי×ור קצת מילות ערביות . ולוחות העבור . ×•× ×•×¡×£ על הלוח ×¡×™×ž× ×™ ×”×“×¤×™× ×ž×”×ž×מרות ×•×”×›×œ×œ×™× ×•×”×¤×¨×§×™× â€<br /> <br /> References: D. Amram The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy pp. 292-3; Cowley 132; Enc. Jud. 11:1303-04; Goldstein 105; Roest Rosenthaliana p. 788 noting two tables; Steinschneider 6368.2 and 3617 Luah; Vinograd Sabbioneta 55; USTC 1791691; Zedner p.527. Vincenzo Conti hardcover
528978Unbound. Near Fine. Pencil sketch on 5" x 8" notebook paper. Very faint mat burn at margin and a small paper remnant at the top of the sheet else near fine. A portrait of Shahn's mentor and first employer Mr. Hessenberg owner of Hessenberg's Lithograph Company on Beekman Street in New York. Three-quarter profile of Hessenberg from mid-chest bespectacled and smoking a small cigar. Captioned in pencil by Shahn: "A moral sensible well bred man will not affront no other can." Shahn has Inscribed the drawing at a later date to the subject's son Stanley Hessenberg and inserted the original date: "for Stanley a drawing of his father. Ben Shahn 1916."<br /> <br /> With: A very nice two page Autograph Letter Signed from Shahn to Stanley Hessenberg. Folded as mailed else fine in original envelope sent from Roosevelt New Jersey and postmarked in 1952. Really quite a wonderful letter discussing the elder Hessenberg: ".evoked a flood of memories. One in particular - a drawing I made of your father many many years ago. I found it! It was in a sketchbook dated 1915-1916. I've had it matted. It gives me great pleasure to send it along. The signature was just put on. I didn't sign my drawings in those days. The little aphorism must have been given to me by your father. I will tell you how fondly I treasure your father's memory. He was such a gentle soul. For a kid to have to go to work at 14 is not very pleasant. To have come under the gentle influence and tutelage of your father was the only compensation. unknown
194482930New York: National Citizens Political Action Committee 1944. First Edition. Original offset lithograph in colors; on heavy white stock measuring 101cm x 76.5cm 39 7/8" x 30". Signed in plate lower left. <br /> <br /> A rare variant of this poster produced for the contested 1944 campaign in support of Franklin D. Roosevelt's fourth term. The poster was issued with text in at least two languages besides English: Prescott notes a variation of the poster with text in Polish "Nasz Przyjaciel" overprinted above the child's head citing its use in meeting halls with large numbers of Polish workers and mentioning "no other record" of other foreign language editions printed. The present version with text printed in Greek "You voted for the friend of the people" presumably not seen by him. PRESCOTT The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn 151. 82930. National Citizens Political Action Committee unknown
188610165Huron Dakota: Huronite publishing house 1886. Second Edition. Very good. 12mo 88 1 pages. original pictorial wrappers portrait and plates. -- Light wear to tips of the spine corners bumped bottom lightly top corner has a diagonal crease corners of pages themselves top lightly bumped bottom hardly at all. Internally clean and tight. A few pages with small foxed spots to the extremities. --- Overall condition for this fragile & rare book. "Not in Allen's Dakota Imprints. Wilkins had an adventurous time after leaving Fort Snelling. He gives some interesting anecdotes of the Sioux Uprising and the mass hanging of the thirty-eight Sioux at Mankato".-rarebookhub: Rare Book Transaction History one listing found in a dealers catalog @$125.00; source year 1953. Huronite publishing house unknown
176560978Amsterdam 1765. 4to. Contemporary vellum spine with marbled paper covered boards. Simple and worn but tight and functional. Split in the inner stitching but leaves still attached. With brownspotting and signs of use throughout. Small tears to some blank margins. Two leaves more worn to the lower margin just touching one engraving and a line of text resulting in very minor loss. Titl-page within woodcut printed border. Illustrated throughout with 14 large 77 x 115 cm woodcut illustrations and 13 large illustrated woodcut initials ca 32 x 32 cm. 33 ff. In spite of its signs of frequent use the book is in very good condition for this type of work which is usually in extremely poor condition. <br/><br/><em>A beautifully illustrated and very rare 18th century Haggadah setting forth the order of the Passover Seder; fully complete with 14 large woodcut illustrations inspired by the "Amsterdam Haggadah" from 1695. The commentary by Rav Leone Modena found in this Hagadah the famous “Tzeli Esh†is an abbreviation of Don Isaac Abrabanel’s voluminous commentary “Zevach Pesach†first published during the author’s lifetime in Constantinople in 1505. The translation of the “Tzeli Esh†into Yiddish is by Solomon Zalman ben Moses Raphael London 1661-1748 author and translator who was active between 1709 and 1735. Leon de Modena or Yehuda Aryeh Mi-Modena 1571-1648 is considered the most famous Venetian Rabbi of the 17th century. He was a Jewish scholar born in Venice into a family of migrants from France after the French expulsion of Jews. He was well respected but his reputation within traditional Judaism suffered both due to his criticism of emerging sects within Judaism but also because of his addiction to gambling and seeming lack of stability. He is famous for his criticism of the mystical approach to Judaism and his attacks on the Kaballa but his international fame mainly rests upon him being the interpreter of Judaism to the Christian world. He was the first since Josephus and Philo to write a Jewish text to non-Jewish readers Historia de gli riti Hebraici 1637 which was widely read by Christians and extremely influential. The editor Naftali Hertz ben Alexander Ziskind Levi Rofe of Emden “set up his press in Amsterdam in 1726. He complemented his printing equipment with that purchased from the Isaac Templo press after it was closed down. He was a physician by profession as evidenced by his moniker Rofe. He was granted title of doctor of medicine from the University of Harderwijk in 1716. He pursued his medical practice as well as printing and bookselling. He was a member of a small group of Jewish intellectuals interested in scientific disputes. He tended to publish alone as well as in cooperation with others but above all with his son-in-law Kosman ben Joseph Baruch who was also involved in the book trade. Their cooperation lasted from 1742 to 1766 and resulted in many works being published.†The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art The Center for Jewish Art </em> hardcover
176560978Amsterdam, 1765. 4to. Contemporary vellum spine with marbled paper covered boards. Simple and worn, but tight and functional. Split in the inner stitching, but leaves still attached. With brownspotting and signs of use throughout. Small tears to some blank margins. Two leaves more worn to the lower margin, just touching one engraving and a line of text, resulting in very minor loss. Titl-page within woodcut printed border. Illustrated throughout with 14 large (7,7 x 11,5 cm) woodcut illustrations and 13 large illustrated woodcut initials (ca 3,2 x 3,2 cm). 33 ff. In spite of its signs of frequent use, the book is in very good condition for this type of work, which is usually in extremely poor condition.
196752594BB23 Blatt Nice, 12. April 1967. 23 x 23 cm.
164085383London England: Printed by Richard Bishop and Robert Young and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke in St. Paules Churchyard; Printed by John Beale for Richard Meighen and Robert Allot 1640. Hardcover. Very Good. NO FIRST TITLE PAGE. Folio 11 3/8 in. x 7 1/4 in. Text: 10 7/8 in. x 7 in. Full contemporary leather double-ruled in gilt. 5 raised bands. Boards scuffed gilt mostly faded. Evidence of considerable cosmetic repair to boards spine and corners reconstituted <br /> <br /> Leather spine label ruled and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper to paste-down and endleaves Part of rear endleaf aliced away along outer edge app. 10 in. x 2 in. Contemporary ink inscription to flyleaf "Song to Celia/Drink to me only with thine Eyes Page 55." Ink ownership inscription to table of contents. Geo.Rockford Occasional ink or pencil annotation. Pages lightly tanned clean. <br /> <br /> Previous owner's name in "senior hand" to "The Catalogue" A3 page Geo.Rockford;that page with 5 1/2 in. x 1 1/2 in. headpiece depicting a lovely bare-breasted angel surrounded by vines flowers ripe grapes. 12 testimonial "blurbs" to Ben Jonson ii through viii from I Selden Ed. Heyward Wil. Hodgson Geor. Chapman Hugh Holland George Lucy E. Bolton Franc. Beaumont. <br /> <br /> Vol I: 8 668 228. MISSING frontispiece portrait and first title page. Contains EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOR EVERY MAN OUT OF HIS HUMOR CYNTHIAS REVELLS POETASTER SEJANUS THE FOX THE SILENT WOMAN THE ALCHYMIST CATILINE EPIGRAMMES THE FORREST ENTERTAINMENTS PANEGYRE MASQUES BARRIERS. Each subsidiary play has its own titlepage dated 1640. All except Poetaster printed by Richard Bishop. Poetaster printed by Robert Young. Vol I is a reprint with corrections of the 1616 first edition. ESTC S112456 Gregg 1073<br /> <br /> On the Dramatis Personae page preceding the Prologue of "EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR" under "The Principall Comedians were" is listed along with nine others "Will. Shakespeare".<br /> <br /> Vol II: 12 88 Misprint 12 as 6 13 as 3 31 as 13; 75 3 Misprint 19 as 9 22 as 16 63 as 36; 93-170 Misprint 99 as 97. Contains BARTHOLOMEW FAYRE THE STAPLE OF NEWES THE DIVELL IS AN ASSE. Printed by John Beale for Richard Meighen and Robert Allot. <br /> <br /> This Vol. II a reissue of the 1631 edition. Typically. it was bound together with Volume III not Volume I. Herein is no Volume III. The once visible now repaired by conservator exposed pasteboard on the back board reveals printed text likely dating to 18th c. which suggests that this volume I and II were bound together in the 18th c. WITHOUT Volume III. <br /> <br /> Each subsidiary play has its own titlepage with imprint "I.B. for Robert Allot" dated 1631. The pagination of the second volume differs slightly from the ESTC entry for Vol. II. which is 12 88 2 93-170 75. ESTC S111824. The pagination and misprints differ from Gregg's A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama.which is as follows: 12; 1-170 2 misprint 12 as 6 13 as 3 31 as 13 97 as 9 99 as 97 132 as 124 137 as 129; 2-75 misprint 19 as 9 22 as 16 63 as 36 Gregg 1076-1077. <br /> <br /> The publication history of Ben Jonson's works involves a series of complicated legal disputes over intellectual property. Percy Simpson has called the 1640 folio editions "a record of muddle evasion and dishonesty." cited in Williams "Chetwin Crooke and the Jonson Folios". The poet and playwright Ben Jonson 1572-1637 achieved a high level of literary success rivalled only by his contemporary William Shakespeare. Although of humble origins Jonson carved out a space for himself as one of England's foremost authors of the Jacobean period renowned for his elaborate court masques and poignant comedic plays. His mother a clergyman's widow remarried a bricklayer. Jonson received a schoolboys education at Westminster School where he studied under the antiquarian William Camden. As a young man Jonson worked for his step-father as a bricklayer. Unsuited to the task of bricklaying it had been reported that Jonson would recite lines of Homer while serving as his step-father's hod-carrier.<br /> <br /> In the 1690s Jonson joined English expeditionary forces to the Low Countries. Upon his return he worked with limited success as an actor. In the autumn of 1698 the premier of his Every Man in his Humor at the Curtain Theatre acted by Shakespeare's Company and with Shakespeare himself playing a leading role solidified Jonson's reputation as an accomplished playwright. The play introduced a new kind of vernacular comedy. His other early successes included Every Man Out of his Humor Cynthia's Revels and Poetaster.<br /> <br /> King James's ascension in 1603 marked a new upward phase in Jonson's career. At the Stuart court Jonson staged elaborate masques a genre of courtly entertainment with singing dancing acting music outlandish costumes scenery and automatons. Jonson's 1605 Masque of Blackness gained him royal favor. In this extravagant masque included in the present copy Queen Anne and eleven of her ladies emerged from a scallop shell painted as "Blackamores" and "strangely attired." In collaboration with Inigo Jones Jonson's masques of the Stuart court "achieved its most sophisticated form" ODNB.<br /> <br /> In addition to his literary achievements Jonson's interest in the publication of his work cultivated a sense of "authorial ownership and identity that is recognizably modern." Therefore he is a major figure in the history of intellectual property rights. Despite the fact that the theatre companies owned his plays Jonson collaborated with publishers to have his collected works printed in 1616. The present 1640 printing of Volume I is a reprint of the 1616 edition. In the years leading up to the 1640-41 printing of Volumes I II and III a series of legal disputes occurred between Jonson the printers the booksellers and the publishers. <br /> <br /> The enduring legacy of Jonson in the English canon cannot be understated. As Ian Donaldson writes "In theatre.Jonson perfected a kind of comedy more technically perfect in design more contemporary in subject matter than that of his greatest rival i.e. Shakespeare." His work influenced writers such as Abraham Cowley John Milton Lord Rochester and John Dryden. He remains a central figure of English poetry drama and verse. Printed by Richard Bishop [and Robert Young], and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke, in St. Paules, Churchyard; Printed by J[ohn] hardcover
19184508Paris: L'Edition D'Art H. Piazza 1918. First edition thus. First edition thus. Thick folio size. Exquisitely bound by Durvand master French binder in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries known for his elaborate and technically excellent gilt application tooling and design. An impressive and finely gilt-tooled work bound in sumptuous full dark green crushed cape levant. The front and back covers lavishly impressed and tooled in gilt comprising an oval central medallion with red tracery designs within a solid gold background. With recessed cords on spine giving a deep design in relief with one elongated panel of Arabic design incorporating three red onlays and title in Arabic in center. Elaborate gilt dentelles with 5 fillet lines watered green silk panels and flyleaf. Single gilt rule along the edges of the boards. Top edges finely gilt. Signed on the front lower dentelle "Durvand Rel. Relieure or "binder". The book is scarce and one of the finer illustrated books of this genre published in the 20th Century 173pp. No. 622 form an edition 0f 800. Printed with lavish color plates in full color 38 full-page colored plates with lettered tissue guards many illuminated with gold. The illustrations are by E. Dinet and decorations by de Mohammed Racim. Very slight wear to joints. A fine copy of a binding one would expect to find with faults due to its size and weight but this example is amazingly bright and fresh. Housed in a leather-edged French Marble paper slipcase. L'Edition D'Art, H. Piazza unknown books
19184508Paris: L'Edition D'Art H. Piazza 1918. First edition thus. First edition thus. Thick folio size. Exquisitely bound by Durvand master French binder in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries known for his elaborate and technically excellent gilt application tooling and design. An impressive and finely gilt-tooled work bound in sumptuous full dark green crushed cape levant. The front and back covers lavishly impressed and tooled in gilt comprising an oval central medallion with red tracery designs within a solid gold background. With recessed cords on spine giving a deep design in relief with one elongated panel of Arabic design incorporating three red onlays and title in Arabic in center. Elaborate gilt dentelles with 5 fillet lines watered green silk panels and flyleaf. Single gilt rule along the edges of the boards. Top edges finely gilt. Signed on the front lower dentelle “Durvand Rel. Relieure or “binderâ€. The book is scarce and one of the finer illustrated books of this genre published in the 20th Century 173pp. No. 622 form an edition 0f 800. Printed with lavish color plates in full color 38 full-page colored plates with lettered tissue guards many illuminated with gold. The illustrations are by E. Dinet and decorations by de Mohammed Racim. Very slight wear to joints. A fine copy of a binding one would expect to find with faults due to its size and weight but this example is amazingly bright and fresh. Housed in a leather-edged French Marble paper slipcase. L'Edition D'Art, H. Piazza unknown
1911ST17882Paris: H. Piazza 1911. No. 262 OF 450 COPIES. 236 x 168 mm. 9 3/8 x 6 5/8". 198 pp. 2 leaves. <br/> SUPERB DARK BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT AND INLAID TO AN ARABIC DESIGN BY BLANCHETIÈRE stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in covers with frame of gilt-tooled tan morocco outlined in scarlet morocco central panel with recessed cornerpieces and central arabesque of lilac morocco its edges framed with inlaid scarlet morocco raised bands spine compartments framed in tan and red morocco with gilt tooling at corners central compartment with inlaid center ornament of tan morocco tooled with gilt flowers gilt lettering PURPLE MOROCCO DOUBLURES framed in blue and brown morocco with blind chain roll royal blue moiré silk endleaves all edges gilt. Original color-illustrated paper wrappers bound in. Housed in matching morocco-lipped slipcase. Title page and three section titles with elaborate Islamic frames printed in colors 41 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS BY ÉTIENNE DINET nine of them full-page nine double-page. All text with decorative frames printed in green. ◆Spine just faintly and evenly sunned but A BEAUTIFUL COPY SPARKLING INSIDE AND OUT.<br/> <br/> This collection of stories of life in the Sahara Desert is not only in a sumptuous binding but its color illustrations are printed with such skill that they seem very much like original paintings. French Orientalist painter Étienne Dinet 1861-1929 met his Arabic teacher and closest friend Sliman ben Ibrahim 1870-1953 in Algeria in 1889 when Sliman saved the painter from an ambush. Sliman accompanied Dinet to Paris in 1896 where the latter met the French Society of Oriental Painters and impressed them with both his character and his couscous. Sliman and Dinet collaborated on several other works including a biography of Mohammed and an account of the Hajj they made to Mecca after Dinet's conversion to Islam. The gorgeous binding by Henri Blanchetière 1881-1933 utilizes rich jewel tones scalloped edges and complex gilt scrolling patterns calling to mind Islamic art and architecture and echoing Dinet's beautiful designs used inside the book. After training with Marcellin Lortic and René Kieffer Blanchetière took over the atelier of binder Joseph Brétault in 1906 at which time "he aligned himself with Marius-Michel in the pursuit of a modern binding style inspired by nature. His designs incorporated a cautious blend of Art Nouveau flowers" and "after World War I he gradually cut his remaining ties to traditionalism." Duncan & De Bartha As a craftsman of artistic fine bindings Blanchetière ranks with Kieffer and Charles Meunier but his bindings are less commonly seen in the marketplace. H. Piazza unknown
16398878Amsterdam, imprimé par l’auteur, 1639. Petit in-12 (125 x 68 mm), 8 ff. n. ch., 337 pp., 1 p. n. ch., 25 ff. n. ch. Vélin, dos lisse avec titre à l’encre, notes anciennes sur le premier contreplat et sur le titre, vélin jauni (reliure de l’époque).
190566654L'Edition d'art H. Piazza | Paris 1905 | 14 x 21.50 cm | relié sous boîte-étui de l'éditeur
2000AIB702_E40569_702Yunnan People s Publishing House 2000-01-01. hardcover. New. Ship out in 2 business day And Fast shipping Free Tracking number will be provided after the shipment.Language:Chinese.Hardcover. Publisher: Yunnan People s Publishing House. Satisfaction guaranteedor money back. <br/><br/> Yunnan People s Publishing House hardcover
159933044-51Basel Konrad Waldkirch 1599. Printer's device and historiated initials at top of title-page. Double columns. 166 ff. Sm. folio. Old boards spine and all edges leather- rebacked. In a cloth case. Basel Konrad Waldkirch 1599. First Basel edition of this dictionary entitled "Arukh" of the entire post-biblical literature and a special dictionary to the Talmud and Midrash. Rabbi Nathan ben Jechiel b. Abraham c. 1020-1106 was a Jewish Italian and both a lexicographer and one of the most important Talmudic authorities of the 11th century. He quotes on individual headwords texts from many of today lost writings and leads rabbinic expressions on their supposed original in Greek Latin Persian etc. It attained great popularity especially at the work on Tamudic lexica up to the present. This work was first issued at Venice in 1533 but in fact it is not a word-for-word reprint.- Due to paper quality slightly browned throughout some small wormtracks in inner margin of last few leaves otherwise a good copy. - VD 16 N 160; Fürst III p. 21; Prijs 158; Wininger JNB vol. 4 p. 500. JUDAICA ; Basel, Konrad Waldkirch hardcover
