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1758H6IG81I49TLCSaxony 1758. 8vo. Brown morocco Lyon ca. 1900 with gold-tooled turn-ins marbled end-papers headbands and ribbon marker in green red and yellow gilt edges signed by Louis GUÉTANT. With title-page printed in red and black and 16 numbered double-page engraved plates. 87 pp. First edition in French published one year after the first German edition of the first work attributed to David Cranz missionary in the Moravian United Brethren best known for his 1765 description of Greenland. The present work gives a history of the United Brethren their beliefs and their practices both in Europe and in their missions in America. The church was established in 1457 but the book concentrates on its history since its establishment in Herrnhut Saxony near the Moravian border under Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf in 1722. Under his guidance the church set up their mission in Greenland in 1733 and a 1747 act of Parliament under George II granted them permission to practice their religion freely in the British colonies in America. The illustrations show ordination induction baptism communion marriage exorcism an agape feast and other activities in the Moravian Church as well as their missionary work among black slaves in the West Indies 2 plates American Indians probably in Pennsylvania and native Greenlanders.With the gold-stamped leather armorial bookplate of Noé de Salvert. In very good condition with occasion light marginal foxing. The beautiful binding by the deluxe binder Louis Guétant active in Lyon ca. 1895-ca. 1920 is in fine condition with only a couple scratches on the back cover. A rare and important primary source for the Moravian United Brethren with remarkable plates of Greenland Eskimos American Indians and black West Indian slaves.l Brunet I col. 1258; James Ford Bell B-426; Sabin 7935 see also 97851 & note before 97846; KVK 3 copies; BN-OPALE plus 2 copies; Kirchenlexikon XVI cols. 324-336; not in Arctic Bibliography; Barbier; Church; Eberstadt; JCB; Quérard; Streeter. ABE CAT Alaska Canada & Greenland hardcover
1720NC0225E. Curll 1720. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. London 1720; rebound in brown leather covered boards; corner and spine edge wear; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; new end papers; Previous owner's name on front end papers; lightly foxed; coffee colored discoloration at hinges pages original front end paper fading through 225; From the library of ABAA bookseller Tom Nicely; 320 pages. E. Curll hardcover
1720540914London: Printed for E. Curll 1720. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Octavo. xix 5 320 8pp. eight-page publisher’s catalogue at the back. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait and three engraved plates one of which shows images of sign language. In the original calf with blind tooling on both covers neatly re-backed in 19th century calf with a red spine label and wove endpapers. The boards are darkened and worn at the corners four text leaves are slightly creased some intermittent toning about very good. The author of this popular account of an enterprising deaf-mute has been attributed both to William Bond and Daniel Defoe and has yet to be resolved in favor of one or the other. A scarce copy of the first edition in the original boards ESTC T69700. OCLC locates only two copies. Printed for E. Curll hardcover
178343848Lyon: chez Jean-Marie Bruyset Pere & Fils. A. 1783. 12mo. 17x 9.5cm Volume 5. In original full mottled calf real raised bands panels ornated full gilt decorated marbled endpapers edges stained red in contemporary binding style some wear on the edges hollow binding with the rear marbled endpaper re-used to line the hollow out recess which continue from page 30 the back interior box glued. – When opened the interior hollowed recess is not noticeable however the book is uncommonly light in very good sound condition. very good. These hollow book boxes were common before after the second war in the book stals on the banks of the Siene. They were made from broken sets which were common in that era and were considered a great keepsake in the growing tourist trade. As a bookseller you never had any money to hide away however we did keep the cash register float in a book box made from a small folio “Boy’s Own Annual 1912†for about forty years shelved with the reference and bibliography section behind the counter until it fell apart in complete exhaustion. chez Jean-Marie Bruyset Pere & Fils. A. unknown
1783H291Frankfurt am Main: Johann Gottlieb Garbe 1783. First printing. Hardcover. Good. First edition 1783 12mo bound in late 19th century cloth backed boards 336 pp good copy with light library treatments bookplatles blindstamp on title page text VG and clean some tanning and foxing. The author 1723-98 was a German jurist politician and journalist. Johann Gottlieb Garbe hardcover
1762249483Paris: de l'Imprimeries de H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour 1762. 42 pp. 7 full page engraved plates. 1 vols. Folio 18 x 12 inches. Contemporary drab wrappers uncut . Fine. 42 pp. 7 full page engraved plates. 1 vols. Folio 18 x 12 inches. From Description des arts et métiers. de l'Imprimeries de H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour] unknown
1726CAT000635London: J. Nicholson 1726. Third Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Half red leather over marbled boards marbled endpapers. In text illustrations and 2 plates 1 folding. A wealth of information on livestock from belching in cattle to vvhezing in horses distilling bees home remedies etc. Old Lawes Trust stamp to title scattered foxing. Size: 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Cooking Wine & Dining. Inventory No: CAT000635. J. Nicholson hardcover
1745316296London: Thomas Astley 1745. Engraving. 4 x 13-1/4 inches. Creased from prior folding a few wormholes soiling and foxing. Engraving. 4 x 13-1/4 inches. Engraving showing "Negro Canoas carying Slaves aboard at Mansrow" extracted from A New Collection of Voyages and Travels 4 vols London: Thomas Astley 1745-7. <br/><br/> Thomas Astley unknown
17527865Prag, Johann Carl Hraba, 1752. 4 Bll., 136 S., 3 Bll. (Register). 1 Kupfer-Frontisp. und 15 Kupfertafeln. Gr.-8°. Ldr. der Zeit auf 5 Bünden mit Rückenschild (beschabt und etw. bestoßen, oberes Kapitel mit kl. Einriss, kl. Bibliotheksschidchen am vorderen Deckel).
1775038076Rome Circa 1775 1775. 1st Edition 1st Printing. No Binding. Very Good. Original Etching . Original Etching Trimmed To 3/16" Margins All Around. One Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. <br/> <br/> unknown
1779ST19371Madrid: Imprenta Real 1779. FIRST EDITION. 235 x 150 mm. 9 1/4 x 6". 10 p.l. 126 XL pp. 1 leaf errata. <br/> EXCELLENT CONTEMPORARY CRIMSON MOROCCO BY DEROME LE JEUNE his ticket with address of Rue St. Jacques on verso of front free endpaper covers framed with thick and thin gilt rules raised bands spine compartments with central floral sprig surrounded by a lozenge of small tools volute cornerpieces gilt titling gilt-rolled turn-ins gilt edges cobalt blue paste-paper endpapers. WITH SIX CHARMING ENGRAVED ALLEGORICAL PLATES after G. Ferre. Front pastedown with morocco bookplate of Mortimer L. Schiff and small book label with a gilt cipher on a red peach. A Large Paper Copy. Palau y Dulcet IV 107; RSIM B VI 429; MGG VI 1403 f.; Gregory-Bartlett I 129. Three minute dents to front board a hint of wear to bands and corners isolated faint foxing blank recto of frontispiece leaf and blank verso of final leaf with faint blue shadown from endpapers but all of these quite trivial and otherwise A BEAUTIFUL COPY--fresh clean and bright internally with very wide margins and strong impressions of the plates and in a lustrous binding showing with few signs of use.<br/> <br/> This is surely one of the handsomest poetical treatises on music ever produced and it is offered here in a binding done by one of the finest craftsmen working in Europe during the period of the book's publication. The work is written in the "silva" form of poetry used by persons of high rank illustrated with fine engravings and put into elegant morocco by the finest hands among the large Derome family of binders. According to Palau our first edition is "beautiful and printed on fine paper." He says further that although the strongly expressed opinions of the youthful author on contemporary composers caused the work to be "unfairly attacked" it was "appreciated by professors of music and collectors of literature in that genre" especially in Italy and America. A child of the Enlightenment Iriate 1750-91 gained entry to intellectual and artistic circles in Madrid through his uncle who was librarian to the king of Spain. He translated works by Horace and Virgil into Spanish by royal request and wrote criticism poetry and dramas. He is best known for his satirical fables on the contemporary literary scene "Fábulas literarias." There were no fewer than 18 members of the Derome family who made their livings as binders in Paris from the middle of the 17th century until the first quarter of the 19th but by far the most distinguished family member was Nicolas-Denis called "le jeune" 1731-88. Known for the gracefulness of his bindings and for being capable of "amazing delicacy" in Hobson's words Derome le jeune was simply the leading binder of the day and his work was much in demand. Because he refused to turn away customers Derome was forced to hire a number of assistants whose work he could not always supervise closely. However Thoinan says that the binder's best work is indicated by the presence of his ticket as here. The volume's provenance adds to its luster: it was in the distinguished library of American bibliophile Mortimer Schiff 1877-1931. In Dickinson's words Schiff a financier and philanthropist Schiff "brought together an unrivaled collection of decorative bindings." His library included works by great printers important illustrated books and works printed on vellum but chiefly fine and historic bindings. The "Reliures" database of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France commends Schiff for assembling "one of the most important inter-war libraries" noting that his collection was "renowned for its collection of French bindings.". Imprenta Real unknown
1765250754Nuremburg 1765. 1 vols. c. 14" x 9 ". Fine. 1 vols. c. 14" x 9 " Great Flower Books p.75; Women of Flowers p. 73. Great Flower Books p.75; Women of Flowers p. 73 <br/><br/> unknown
176761751No place nor printer 1767. 8vo. In contemporary marbled paper covered board. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities internally nice and clean. 4 60 pp. <br/><br/><em>Rare second edition of this work on governance and statecraft. Barbier III 84c5. </em> unknown