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51-6404London: Printed by J. Gold Naval Chronicle Office and published by Joseph Mawman 39 Ludgate Street 1815. 8vo. 14.5 x 23.5cm. vi 579pp. Contemporary English binding full long-grain blue morocco wide gilt borders framing the covers spine with 5 raised bands with decorated compartments gilt-stamped letter “S†on the covers gilt edges borders of the same morocco inside and endpapers of blue silk with gilt borders. Superficial crack along spine.Presentation copy in French from Smythe . “offered as a token of esteem and friendship by the publisher an associate member of the Royal Academy of Sciences Arts and Belles-Lettres of the city of Caen". Exemplaire “offert en témoignage d’estime et d’amitié par l’éditeur membre associé de l’Académie Royale des sciences arts et belles-lettres de la ville de Caenâ€. . Folding map as frontispiece by R. Rowe. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:230578317:Notes:Frontispiece is folded plate: chart on Mercator's Projection exhibiting Crusoe's trackEmbellished throughout text with maps and engravings. Cannot find any references to John Spencer Smythe in biographies and OCLC omits his name from the book! London: Printed by J. Gold Naval Chronicle Office, and published by Joseph Mawman, 39 Ludgate Street, 1815 hardcover
1713E0012Paris: Chez les T'Serstevens 1713<br /><br /> 2 volumes: i-x44816 pages with illustrations 2 folding maps and index; iv28516 pages with illustrations folding map and index. Duodecimo 6 1/2" x 4 1/4" bound early calf with labeled spines. From the Society of Writers to the Signet. European Americana 713/77 this edition not in Sabin Early French edition. Rare French edition of one of the most famous books of the period Exquemelin's account of the adventures life morals and customs of the pirates roaming the seas together with a full description of the Caribbean where they mainly operated. The French edition was just like the Dutch edition directly based on the original manuscript and was adapted by Thomas de Frontigniers. Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin called Oexmelin by the French was a chemist of French Protestant origin who spent several years with the pirates as a ship's surgeon. He took part in their daring exploits like the expeditions of the notorious English buccaneer Henry Morgan called John in the book including his raid on Maracaibo in 1669 or a year later his attack on Panama. The first edition of Exquemelin's eye witness account was published in Dutch in Amsterdam by Jan ten Hoorn in 1678 an edition so rare that it long escaped bibliographers. Exquemelin who once before in 1672 had shortly been in Amsterdam returned there in 1677 to take the 'chirurgijn' exams he sorely needed to exercise this profession at Jamaica where he had settled and in 1679 he made his last 'proof'. Meanwhile he also offered his manuscript to the publisher's Ten Hoorn who printed it in 1678. The book became immediately so polular that editions were published everywhere. The Spanish edition of 1681 probably also published in Amsterdam was long taken for the first. The first French edition was published two years before the present but both editions are equally extremely rare. In 1684 Exquemelin had sailed for France and the captain of the ship impressed with his stories saw to it that Exquemelin's manuscript was made ready for publication. The French edition altough seemingly much the same as the first Dutch edition from which most translations were made proves by closer comparison to be considerably enlarged. Several extra chapters are added mostly treating the natural history of the Spanish Americas and the romantic figure of Monbars is found here for the first time. For both the Dutch and French editions Exquemelin's manuscript had been adapted but according to De la Fontaine Verwey has kept the French edition the closest to the original. The illustrations for the French edition were newly made as well and where the Dutch edition mainly shows the portraits and atrocious acts of the pirates the plates of the French edition pay more attention to the geographical and natural historical aspects including for the fist time the plate with a buccaneer in hunting costume. Another plate shows the catching of turtles at night and the illustration in the text shows a sea-cow of which Exquemelin made a special study. The maps were also newly designed with the help of AbbBaudrand who wanted to remain anonymous; they include a map of the Isthmus of Panama drawn by Exquemelin himself. The book therefore is an important 'Americanum' as well. Of special interest are the two "Appendices" with an account of the possessions revenues and offices of the Spaniards in America including a complete list of all ecclesiastical functionaries in Spanish America together with their salaries. No book in any language was ever the parent of so many imitations and the source of so many legends and it still is popular today. The Society of Writers to Her Majestys Signet is the oldest legal society in the world. It is a private society of Scottish solicitors. The Society dates back to 1594 and is part of the College of Justice. Writers to the Signet originally had special privileges in relation to the drawing up of documents which required to be signeted but these have disappeared and the Society is now an independent non-regulatory association of solicitors most of whom are based in Edinburgh. Members of the Society. Condition: Joints begining gilt embossed stamps of the Society of Writers to the Signet on front boards 4 leaves of Volume II soiled and slightly defective along outer margins; book plates on front pastedowns 3 folding maps each with moderate browning and very short closed tears else about a very good set. . Early French Edition. Full-Leather. About Very Good. Duodecimo. Chez les T'Serstevens hardcover books
16-6339Mid-late 19th Century. . Watercolor and gouache. 31 x 22cm. Annotated with artist's name verso and collection number. .Compare to Morgan Library Dept. of Drawings and Prints. Record ID:109832.Notes:The artist's fame stems from his sketches of Parisian society for which Baudelaire dubbed him “the Painter of Modern Life†in the pages of Le Figaro 1863. Widely traveled and a regular contributor to the growing corpus of illustrated journals such as Illustrated London News and Punch he worked swiftly and captured the sense of movement synonymous with modern urban life.This group of figures appears to be gathered in the foyer of a theater or cabaret judging from the row of gas lamps along the upper margin. The women wear small bonnets one a cape the other a jacket over voluminous crinolines a stiff underskirt introduced in 1855 and unfashionable by 1867. They speak to two men in top hats while a third seems indifferent to their presence; other similarly attired men mill about and walk through the background.Provenance:Né en 1906 à Lezay Deux-Sèvres Jacques Cathy a exercé d’abord la profession de caricaturiste à l’hebdomadaire « Le Rire ». Il a rejoint vers 1927 l’équipe du Cabaret « La Vache Enragée » conduite par Roger Toziny. Jacques Cathy poursuit sa carrière de chansonnier après le décès de Toziny en 1939 et après la guerre il conduit parallèlement une carrière d’acteur dans le cinéma. Jacques Cathy était le 3ème Maire de La Commune Libre de Montmartre à partir de l’élection en 1949.Final provenance: Les Collections Aristophil - 164 bis avenue Charles-de-Gaulle 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine. Mid-late 19th Century. unknown
173376597London: Johannes Pine 1733. Hardcover. The second issue with the corrected Caesar medallion in the second volume. Octavo two volumes. In contemporary burgundy calf bindings with a black leather spine label five raised bands elaborate gilt stamping ornamental dentelles and marbled endpapers. Period ink notation to the first blank leaf in the first volume. The bookplates of Sir Robert Peel 2nd Baronet FRS 1788-1850 and noted collector Francis A. Gaskill appear on the front endpapers. The spines are darkened with a bit of wear to the extremities.<br /> <br /> A tour-de-force of 18th century book design Pine's Horace is entirely engraved both text and illustration and liberally supplied with initials head- and tailpieces and vignettes exhibiting a harmony and delicacy reminiscent of the best French printing of the period. Johannes Pine hardcover
1910D6835Germany c.1910. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original black cloth; 246 x 200 mm; approx. pp. 300 handwritten in black ink throughout and demonstrating a variety of lettering styles with very fine drawings in pencil and ink most touched with color either in pencil ink or watercolor. Even when illustrating technical details our author captures the grain in the wood and gleaming metal hardware -- this is an intricately detailed and exceptionally beautiful treatise on all aspects of the construction of high-rise buildings and homes. <br/><br/> hardcover books
193276557Paris: L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza 1932. Hardcover. From an edition of 2500 copies this is one No. 2046 of 2200 printed on Velin Chiffon. Exquisite edition of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights with a French translation by Orientalist J.C. Mardrus 1868-1949. Mardrus's version of the Arabian Nights is mentioned explicitly in the pages of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Features 144 color plates by Léon Carré as well as gilt decorated chapter title pages borders and initials by Racim Mohammed. Quarto: twelve volumes in six. In three-quarter green morocco over green cloth bindings with blue mororcco spine labels five raised bands and decorative gilt stamping. The original printed paper wrappers are bound in. A lovely set. L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza hardcover
1935206117Privately Constructed: no publisher an Artists book 1935. Hardcover. VG light signs of age-toning to sheets. Tan paper spine is hand-lettered attached to green paper-covered boards. Inscribed and decorated endpaper in front hand-lettered and color-painted title-page followed by 12 hand-lettered pages inter-leaved with 10 hand-painted illustrations 9 of them being full-page. This book is a unique birthday present crafted for and presented to Juliana Force by Eirene Mungo-Park or Mungo Park in an undated inscription which reads as follows: "To Juliana Force a tribute from one of the birds the "English Robin". Provider of my utmost needs Baths and Sanctuary and feeds. God bless you dear for I would be Thin and grubly but for thee." This inscription is on the front free endpaper and is accompanied by a watercolor painted Robin with a crown of flowers perched upon a branch. The other watercolor illustrations in the book are primarily of birdfs as seen on the title-page and of birds and other beats gathered in or around an elevated circular water-bath or bird-bath in a yard. A few rudimentary human figures and other animals are present and there is a very nice end illustration exclaiming Happy Birthday with a young Shirley Temple-ish girl surrounded by a circluar frame of flowers at the end. A unique artist's book by Eirene Mungo-Park for her benefactor Juliana Force. Mungo-Park was a member of the Whitney Studio Club in the late 1920s and her works were purchased by Demuth Bluemner and others and Bluemner took inspiration from some of Mungo-Park's poetry noteably The Sonnet Series in the mid-1930s. no publisher, an Artists book hardcover
177233314Oxford 1772. 8vo 21.5 cm 8.5". 2 32 6 pp. <br><br>with his The history of the University of Oxford from the death of William the Conqueror to the demise of Queen Elizabeth. Oxford: Pr. by W. Jackson & J. Lister for J. & F. Rivington 1773. 4to 27.3 cm 10.75". 4 264 2 pp.<br>Â Â Â Â Bound together here are this author's first 32-page history tracing the story of education in Britain back to the Druids and his much more extensive follow-up on Oxford's development including e.g. passages on => politics religious controversies towngown contretemps and epidemics. Sir John Peshall sometimes given Pechell formerly Pearsall sixth baronet was a clergyman and antiquary known for his philanthropic activities; he was himself an Oxford man BA 1739 MA 1745.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of the famed Hookham Circulating Library. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T63374 & T68757. Contemporary half calf and marbled papercovered sides rebacked and corners refurbished; marbled paper sides with surface wear. Front pastedown with bookplate as above pastedown and free endpaper with small pencilled annotations. Octavo history with small portion torn away in outer margin only of final "Additions" leaf; quarto history with dust-soiling to title-page around edges of bound-in octavo and following leaves showing impression of bind-in. Occasional light foxing only to both items mostly confined to margins; quarto with a very few early inked corrections and annotations. unknown books
1598001041London: Thomas Creede 1598. First English language edition. . Hardcover. See Description. Small folio. Lacking preliminary blank leaf thus pp. 10 310 292 4. Page numbering is erratic. Leaf Ee3 is mis-signed as F3 but all leaves are present and in order. The title page contains a woodcut vignette/device. Each chapter begins with a woodcut decorative head piece and an initial. Bound in full dark brown modern calf with blind tooled borders and stamps after an early period style. The upper part of the title page is age-toned / tanned; a professionally sealed 7 cm. tear runs from the gutter part way across the upper portion of the title and is difficult to detect on first sight; a couple of tiny chips on the top edge are restored. Interior pages are generally attractive but with occasional mild age-toning and periodic faint marginal damp staining. A small repair patch is present on the inner margins of leaves A6 and V6. A tear on leaf V6 also carefully sealed extends vertically about 8.5 cm from the lower gutter and part way into the text but causing almost no obscuration. Printed by Thomas Creede who is best known for issuing dramatic works including some of Shakespeares plays. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is a translation of "Recueil des choses mémorables avenues en France sous le règne de Henri II François II Charles IX Henri III et Henri IV." This work is generally attributed to either Simon Goulart or Jean de Serres and was first printed in French no place or publisher in 1595 and again in 1598 expanded to include the reign of Henri IV up to the year 1597. See Brunet IV 1161-1162. The second part with new pagination provides translated selections from Pierre Matthieus 4 part "Histoire des derniers troubles de France" first published in Lyons 1594-95. A section at the end is titled "a brief recitall of the most memorable things which came to passé in Fraunce under the raigne of Henry the fourth until the middle of the Yeare 1598" which if written by Matthieu may possibly represent the first printing of some amendments which Matthieu later added to the second edition of his "Histoire" printed in 1600. This collection provides interesting testaments to the wars of religion in France during the 16th century. A separate 4 page tract at the end is titled: "A true discourse concerning the deliverie of Brittaine in the yeare 1598." ESTC S121331; USTC 513796; Lowndes p. 831; Hazlitt Biblio. Collections 2nd Series p. 231. <br/> <br/> Thomas Creede hardcover
15557297Strassburg: Wendelinus Rihelius 1555. First edition. 17th century boards. Very Good. Folio. ff.44691. Final leaf a blank. Colophon at bottom of f.469. Large woodcut device on title page. 18th century red boards morocco spine label spine and extremities somewhat rubbed but quite sound. Front free endpaper lacking. Old rubber stamp at lower blnk margin of title. Some minor marginal worming. Some early marginal annotations in a few sections. The scarce first edition of this famous history of the German Reformation. It was immediately controversial. The Schaff-Herzog RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA states "Storms of protest arose against it on every side both Roman Catholic and Protestant." There are 2 issues of this work VD S6668 ours and VD S6669 which differs in having the last leaf numbered 470 and leaf 463 has an errata printed on the recto. In VD S6668 there are 469 numbered leaves and leaf 463 is blank without errata and not numbered. Wendelinus Rihelius hardcover books
184012434London: Robert Tyas 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 12mo 152pp. illustrated with six plates by Thomas Sibson. A handsome Kelliegram binding by Kelly & Sons of London in full deep tobacco surely! brown crushed morocco with vignette on the front board depicting a hand gingerly taking snuff from a snuff box. The spine title is in typical art nouveau type and the image of a tall walking stick or cane appears down the middle of the spine. All edges gilt silk endpapers modest gilt dentelles and the original wraps bound-in at rear. Mild dust-soiling to wraps and contents and a very slight bend to the bottom of the rear board see image but still a near fine very sound and handsome example. The book is a tongue-in-cheek celebration of smokeless tobacco one of the great addictive pastimes of the 19th century though it is still a major industry. A lovely example in a charming binding which in Kelliegram style boldly announces the book's subject on the front board. An auction record from decades ago described a similar example as a "nicotian Kelliegram" one of a presumably small but recognizable group of tobacco-themed Kelliegram bindings. Delightful. Robert Tyas hardcover
2013105193D. A. P. Distribution. New. 2013. Paperback. 3775734686 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 176 pages; illustrated in color. -- with a bonus offer-- . D. A. P. (Distribution) paperback
198252434New York: Dept. of Philosophy New School for Social Research. As New. 1982. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine clean & unmarked tight to the spine - 15 pages. Includes "How to Escape from Hege's Aesthetics" by A. Hofstadter "A Significant Phenomenological Alternative for Aesthetics" by D. Kuklinkova and more. -- with a bonus offer-- . Dept. of Philosophy, New School for Social Research paperback
1975106001Museum. New. 1975. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- - 303 pages. SIGNED by CROSBY FORBES - INCLUDES COPPER PLATES. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum hardcover
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1931106150New York: Horace Liveright. As New. 1931. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine & tight to spine. Corresponds to / earlier hard cover edition of ASIN: B000BIVREY -- with a bonus offer-- . Horace Liveright hardcover
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1418159850Shūseidō 衆星堂. Reprint. Tenpō 14 1843. Large folding handcoloured map of the thirteen provinces from which Mt. Fuji can be viewed. 159 x 178cm. Folds into paper covered card covers measuring 40 x 24cm. Title label upper cover. A little browning along folds occasional spotting and soiling. A little worming causing approximately 1cm of loss in places. Two chops in lower section. A very striking and attractive map. This very large handsome map is a detailed map of the thirteen provinces from which one can see Mt. Fuji. Provinces shown are the eight provinces of the Kantō region Sagami 相模 Musashi 武蔵 Kazusa 上総 Shimofusa 下総 Awa 安房 Kōzuke 上野 Shimotsuke 下野 and Hitachi 常陸 and five other provinces Izu 伊豆 Suruga 駿河 Tōtōmi 遠江 Kai 甲斐 and Shinano 信濃. The map offers a large amount of detailed information such as province and county borders rivers high ways post towns checkpoints villages and scenic spots. <br> <br>The cartographer Akiyama Einen or Nagatoshi 秋山永年 came from Edo and the editor Funakoshi Seizō 船越清蔵 studio name: Shugu 守愚 1805-62 a Confucian scholar from Nagato Province now the western half of present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture. A dedication by Funahashi Akira 舟橋徴 is dated 1843. . Shūseidō 衆星堂 unknown
1763116905briasson david le breton durand 1763 in-folio A Paris, chez Briasson, David, Le Breton, Durand, 1763, 1 volume grand in-folio de 260x410 mm environ, complet des 233 planches et du texte explicatif. Pleine reliure d'époque, dos à six nerfs portant titres et tomaisons dorés, caissons ornés, encadrement des plats à froid, coupes filetées, tranches rouges, gardes de papier marbré à la coquille. Reliure en mauvais état mais exemplaire solide et intérieur frais : coiffes absentes, mors fendus, importantes épidermures.
