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191263285London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to the Medici Society 1912. half-cloth over boards. Riccardi Press. 8vo. half-cloth over boards. 30 6 pages. Limited to 530 numbered copies. The first book printed in Riccardi 11-point face. Tompkinson p.150. The Riccardi Press Booklets No.1.Spine age darkened. and rubbed along edges. Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society unknown books
197383986Moskva: Izd-vo "Nauka" Glavnaia. red. vostochnoi lit-ry 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. 623p. Original black cloth. 22cm. Russian text; English summary at pages 621-623. Translated into Russian by L. A. Khanlarian. <br/><br/> Izd-vo "Nauka," Glavnaia. red. vostochnoi lit-ry hardcover books
199366842Pusan Korea: World Kuk Sool Association 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Founded in 1961 Ku Sool Won attempts "to integrate and explore the entire spectrum of established traditional Korean martial arts body conditioning techniques mental development and weapons training." Signed and dated by the author below his portrait. Quarto. Original black cloth binding with gilt stamping and a ribbon marker. Some minor staining to the fore-edge with a bit of light wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good. World Kuk Sool Association hardcover books
1879S9704Dobeln:: J. B. Thallwig 1879. 1879. Series: Zehunter Bericht uber die Konigliche Realschule I. Ordnung und Landwirthschaftslchule . . . April 1879. Sm. 4to. xv 34 pp. Self-wraps. Rare. See: Verein Bayerischer Philologen Blatter fur das bayerische Gymnasialschulwesen 1880 vol. 16. p. 380. Bibliotheca historico naturalis et physico-chemica: oder . . . Volumes 13-15 1877 p. 106. J. B. Thallwig, 1879. paperback books
1750002388Venezia: Giammaria Lazaroni e Domenico Tabacco 1750. Pebbled Half Cloth Faux Leather over Paper Pastedown on Boards. Good Minus. 8vo. 20 568 pp. With fifteen woodcut plates with frontis one for each canto of the Aenied and one for the Bucolica and Georgica respectively. Some soiling throughout. All leaves of the Bucolica and a few of the Georgica have severe wormholing in the lower corner with only trivial touching of text. A few other leaves have corners overtrimmed or with loss. Still an uncommon edition with only three copies located on OCLC. <br /><br /> Giammaria Lazaroni, e Domenico Tabacco hardcover books
187828959Boston: Frank Wood Printer 1878. 34pp plus portrait frontis and original tissue guard of John Everitt who "sailed for Valparaiso from New York.to be associated with the General Superintendent at the Mines"; and large Bird's-Eye View 32" x 16" and Topographical Plan of the mines. Original printed wrappers stitched. Wrappers chipped at edges and reinforced at the spine with tape. Some chipping to several blank margins. Good.<br/><br/> The Company based in New York issued this Prospectus which includes a detailed report from its Mining Engineer W.A. Holcomb. Flagler its President was a major capitalist during the last half of the 19th century; he formed the National Tube Company and owned one of the predecessors to U.S. Steel. <br/>OCLC 1013744777 1- U IL as of November 2020. Frank Wood, Printer unknown books
194241548Newark NJ: L'Adunata dei Refrattari 1942. 28p. staplebound pamphlet very good. Quaderno no. 3. The anarchist poet and journalist author associated with the Futurist movement had arrived in the United States in 1938. L'Adunata dei Refrattari unknown books
194042146Newark NJ: L'Adunata dei Refrattari 1940. 28p. staplebound pamphlet very good. Quaderno no. 2. The anarchist poet and journalist author associated with the Futurist movement had arrived in the United States in 1938. L'Adunata dei Refrattari unknown books
194871744Paris: Les Editions du Mouflon 1948. Wraps. Very good/Very good. Limited Edition one of 15 suites on Verge Diarches paper with two suites of plates by Jacques Touchet one in color and the other in black and white. This is exemplaire 19. The original drawing is not present. Extraordinarily prolific Restif 1734-1806 was a rival of the Marquis de Sade and is perhaps best known for the term named after him: retifism or shoe fetishism. In 1775 he published Le Paysan perverti an erotic novel with a moral purpose which was quite successful causing him to follow it with La Paysanne Pervertie 1784. Tall octavo: 189 p. The gatherings are bound together in the folded dust jacket over paper wrappers. A few short closed tears; otherwise very good. Les Editions du Mouflon unknown books
176626741Paris: La Compagnie des Libraires Associés 1766. Octavo. 1f. title 3 preface 4 named cast list 5-34 pp. With decorative woodcut head- and tailpieces to pp. 5 and 33.<br/><br/>Disbound. Very light foxing and mottled browning title and p. 34. Rare. Not in Sonneck. Worldcat 3 copies only at Cornell Southern Methodist University and the National Library of Australia. This edition contains the one-page preface which appeared in the 1765 edition published by Duchesne.<br/><br/>Le petit-maître was first performed at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris on October 7 1865. "The opera which exposed the morals of 18th-century society was performed 12 times in the first month and was praised by the Mercure de France for being in the French taste." Barry S. Brook et. al. in Grove Music Online. La Compagnie des Libraires Associés unknown books
198415311Washington DC: International Monetary Fund 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Very good in like jacket. Mild wear. Else clean bright and sound throughout. Uncommon in jacket and in this condition. <br/><br/>Second volume only of the series. 947pp. with index. International Monetary Fund hardcover books
1828D2439Paris: Firmin Didot pour Lami Denozan 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 210 x 132mm. viii cxlvi 48pp. notes and glossary. Illustrated with hand-colored engraved title with marginal vignettes of female personifications and muses by Richard Parkes Bonington. Illustrated throughout with 10 half-page lithographs printed on chine-collé carefully hand-colored heightened in gilt and mounted; six are by Richard Parkes Bonington and four are by Henry Monnier and 15 decorative initials highlighted with colors inspired by ornaments found on the Books of Hours printed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 19th-century full red morocco decoratively tooled in gilt five raised bands gilt doublures marbled endpapers all edges gilt; lightly foxed throughout miniatures remain bright and fresh; spine slightly scuffed. Armorial bookplate of J. Austin Stevens Junior to front pastedown. First Edition of this rare and unusual book OCLC locates only four copies all in German libraries. Férdinand Langlé littérateur dramatist and occasional necromancer focused his literary interests on the nostalgic and the romantic. In 1828 he edited Les Contes du Gay-Sçavoir a witty collection of medieval ballads and fables. The text is printed in Gothic characters and illustrated to imitate the style of medieval manuscript illumination; it is followed by endnotes and a glossary printed in Roman type. The major illustrator of the work Richard Parkes Bonington was an English Romantic landscape painter who also worked in lithography. He was a close and admired friend of painters Eugene Delacroix and Antoine-Jean Gros. Gordon Ray speaking of Bonington says his importance in the development of lithography can hardly be overstated.His designs for Vues pittoresques de lEcosse and Contes des Gay-Sçavoir are by no means negligible. Boningtons career as a lithographer was short but splendid. - Art of the French illus. book pp. 173 & 176. Fine fresh and bright rare colored copy of this nostalgic work on the medieval period. Brunet III 819; Carteret III p. 172 livre tres rare; Curtis 54-60; Ray 114 <br/><br/> Firmin Didot pour Lami Denozan hardcover books
17776329The Hague but Paris: Gosse et Pinet; Humblot 1777. First edition. Fine/The collected works of Restif de la Bretonne would probably fill an entire wall case. He wrote tirelessly producing some 250 books--a considerable physical task if not the intellectual achievement of some of his contemporaries in the French siècle des Lumières. Restif was a libertine and he wrote quite a lot about sex. He also bravely ignored standard literary forms forging his own way into autobiography polemic essay pornography and fiction leaving trails that are yet to be explored. The volumes offered here in their completely original unsophisticated state form a part of an ambitious series of books that appeared over two decades under the umbrella title "Idées singulières" Modest Proposals an extensive compendium of rules and regulations for the creation of a utopia. Each title in the series proposes a reform project for a particular aspect of society. In the case of Les gynographes that aspect is the status of women in society. While not entirely a 21st-century feminist disappointingly he is unable to exceed received patriarchal attitudes Restif makes some presciently modern arguments including that gender inequality is a social construct and is not biologically determined and that education is the key to gender equality. Indeed the text betrays a disconcerting mix of statements that can be interpreted as misogynistic alongside truly revolutionary ideas about the condition of women in society. Even the 19th-century bibliographer P.L. Jacob notes that "some very singular and very original ideas" occur juxtaposed against "severe and unjust comments" about women. . 2 volumes octavo 22; viii 238; 239- 567 1 pages. Unbound untrimmed unmarked and completely unsophisticated copy in original publisher's marbled paper wraps. Pages not bright. Some dampstains and occasional spots. References: Courbin "Rétif et son oeuvre" #14595; Rives Childs XVI p. 245; Jacob XVII p. 143. Gosse et Pinet; Humblot paperback books
16691149Paris: Claude Barin 1669. <br/><br/>Corneille Thomas 1625 1709 translator. Ovid 43 B.C. 17 or 18 A.D. Les metamorphoses d'Ovide Traduites en vers Francois par T. Corneille. Paris: Claude Barin 1669. Original edition of the first two books of Ovid translated by Thomas Corneille. The full translation was not published until 1697. <br/><br/>12mo. Contemporary calf gilt spine with raised bands. Rubbed. Leaf with engraving on verso; leaf of title verso blank; 8pp. ded. to La Dauphin signed T. Corneille; 4pp. Av lecteur; 234pp. text with one engraving for book II on I viverso; 12pp. priv. dated 12 Aout 1668/31 Jan 1669. Collation: 1 a6 A-T6 V3 . STC French 1601-1700 O-236. An elegant edition with beautiful typography and ornamentation. <br/><br/>Thomas Corneille 1625-1709: playwright poet. To distinguish himself from his brother Pierre Corneille Thomas was known as “Monsieur Corneille.†He was one of the leading authors who began to produce plays during the Fronde and brought out even more plays than his brother Pierre: thirty-eight plays composed alone or in collaboration. His first tragedy Timocrate 1656 helped to restore the genre to popularity after the troubles of the Fronde. Although he was more attractive in manner and in conversation than Pierre he lacked Pierre's genius. Still "with Quinault he filled the interval in the history of the French drama between the zenith of Pierre Corneille and the advent of Racine" Harvey and Haseltine. <br/><br/>Although not as important a playwright as his brother Thomas wrote with great facility. He is credited with perfecting the French language as can be evidenced by this translation of Ovid begun shortly after he left school his notes to Claude Favre Vaugelas Remarques su la langue Francais 1647 his compilation of a dictionary of arts and sciences for the Academie Francaise 1694 and his editorship of Mercure galant with Donneau de Vise. <br/><br/>The artist of the two engravings fronting the books is the son of Hermann Weyen or Weyher Laurent Weyen 1643-1672 a Flemish engraver who died in Paris. Laurent also engraved illustrations for the works of Moliere. <br/><br/>Provenance: Goodspeed's Bookshop/Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow. Claude Barin hardcover books
18941399253D Cong. 2d Sess.: SED27. 1894. 101pp Disbound some pages loosened else Very Good. SED27. unknown books
1972166879New York: David McKay Company 1972. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A collection of "letters" from Gold to his daugher Tracy on a wide range of subjects. A near fine copy in an about very good dust jacket with a tear to the bottom rear corner another to the bottom of the spine and some other minor wear. Signed and inscribed by Gold on the front free endpaper: "To Lois and Wayne- In enduring friendship. Best Don Gold." A nice association copy as the recipient was Lois Wille who was a two time Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago journalist and Gold was a Chicago writer. David McKay Company unknown books
1824WRCAM35060ALondon: G. Cowie 1824. xvi208pp. plus folding map. 20th-century tan buckram spine gilt with a wax seal presumably covering a library call number. Bookplate removed from front pastedown. Light scattered foxing. A good solid copy. Published anonymously but attributed by the British Museum to John Hankshaw while THE ECONOMIC LITERATURE OF LATIN AMERICA Palau and OCLC assign authorship to Francis Hall. This record of a journey was published according to the anonymous author due to the desire "so universally felt in Great Britain of information as to the actual condition of the Republic of Colombia. The more that rich and beautiful country becomes known the greater will be the interest excited towards it among all Europeans. So extensive a field for the exercise of European industry and intelligence has not for ages presented itself." <br> <br> A travel journal composed in the form of letters the author describes the landscape the inhabitants the climate and soil natural resources commodities government and the possibilities for commerce. The highly detailed map of Greater Colombia is "taken from Humboldt and various other recent authorities." ALBERICH 1336. NAYLOR 85. SABIN 14598. PALAU 112082. G. Cowie hardcover books
5595148 leaves including the final blank Roman letter except for the two-line title in gothic type 51 lines & headline capital spaces with guide letters. Folio 290 x 188 mm. late 17th-cent. panelled English speckled calf rebacked with the orig. spine laid-down minor staining to a few leaves in blank upper margins. Basel: J. Amerbach 1494. First edition of the "first bibliography to be compiled as a practical work of reference."-Grolier Club Bibliography 7. Tritheim 1462-1516 one of the leading polymaths of his age was appointed the 25th abbot of the monastery at Sponheim in 1483. "One of the first of his many self-imposed tasks was the reorganization and cataloguing of the monastic library if one can call reorganization the process of transforming forty-eight mongrel volumes into a splendid collection of 2000 printed books and manuscripts many of great importance and rarity. "It was during the progress of this work no doubt as his exceptional knowledge of books caused inquiries frequently to be addressed to him that he conceived the notion of compiling a new and ambitious bibliography of ecclesiastical writers. He began work in 1487 and by the spring of 1492 he was able to send the complete manuscript to the bishop of Worms. He then revised it and in 1494 the Liber de scriptoribus ecclesiasticis a folio of nearly 300 pages issued from the Basle press of Johann Amerbach. "From Alexander bishop of Cappadocia down to himself Tritheim sets out in chronological order nearly a thousand writers largely but not exclusively ecclesiastical giving a short account of each followed by a list of his or her writings. Nor are these lists merely perfunctory: it is obvious from such a heading as that for St. Augustine under which he enumerates 277 works that Tritheim must have lavished an immense amount of genuine research on his bibliography. In all about 7000 books are recorded. An alphabetical index of authors arranged of course by Christian names is added. The contrast between the feeble theological bibliographies of the manuscript age and this first attempt in the printing era is very striking."-Besterman The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography pp. 7-8. The title of the book is somewhat misleading since the work is not restricted to ecclesiastical writers but also includes authors such as Dante Poggio and Sebastian Brant. A fine and crisp copy of a book which has become uncommon on the market preserved in a box. Bookplate of the Society of St. John the Evangelist Cowley Oxford. With a note on the rear paste-down referring to "Derby" the Earls of Derby and a shelf-mark. ❧ Goff T-452. unknown books
1576393Lyons: J. Quadratius for A. de Harsy 1576. Sm. 8vo. 80424pp. With the final 2 blank leaves. Index. Cont. vellum soiled. One leaf with a marginal repair touching a shoulder note. The 12 books of medicine of Alexander of Tralles was a 6th century classic and was often reprinted in both Greek and Latin. Our Latin translation by Johann Gunther first appeared at Strasbourg in 1549. Wellcome Medical Library I #214. See Stillwell. AWAKENING INTEREST IN SCIENCE 1450-1550 III #265. BL French STC p. 10. (J. Quadratius, for) A. de Harsy hardcover books
188768676San Francisco: The History Company Publicadores 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Scarce Spanish language schoolbook with lessons modeled after those in early American primers. Bancroft 1832-1918 is best known for his monumental 39-volume history of the Pacific Coast region from Central America to Alaska. Numerous textual illustrations. Small octavo. Original printed brown paper-covered boards. Pencil marginalia to a few pages. Period previous owner's ink signature to the front flyleaf with a pencil inscription to the front pastedown. The corners are showing with some general shelfwer and minor spotting to the boards. The History Company, Publicadores hardcover books
1909265421Penzance 1909. Vintage photograph on card mount embossed photographer's stamp on mount "Preston/Penzance". Photo 10-3/8 x 13-3/8 in. Fine. Vintage photograph on card mount embossed photographer's stamp on mount "Preston/Penzance". Photo 10-3/8 x 13-3/8 in. This large vintage photograph showing a horse-drawn parade float model of Shackleton's Nimrod with the ship's name and "Lieut Shackleton in Antarctic Regions" painted on the side. Manning the float are 6 young men and a small boy all in cold weather gear.<br/><br/>It's a wonderful demonstration of the interest in polar exploration during the Heroic Age. Many of the expeditions enjoyed send off and welcome parades and this is almost certainly a relic from one of these for the Nimrod expedition 1907-09. The largest of all parades for the Nimrod was actually held in Lyttleton New Zealand where as many as 50000 people turned out for the send off. Indeed the photographer here Preston was based in Penzance. The image was almost certainly taken by him or his son Richard. <br/><br/>The Nimrod Expedition 1907-9 was Shackleton's first Antarctic expedition as leader - he had previously sailed under Scott on the Discovery Expedition. Shackelton was attempting to be the first to reach the South Pole. Though he failed at this the expedition was notable for reaching the farthest South point just over 100 miles from the pole and for the ascent of Mount Erebus. Shackleton returned to England a hero and was subsequently knighted by Edward VII. unknown books
200664031Jerusalem:: Devora Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 1932687661 . Color photographs throughout. First edition. Faint damp mark along bottom edge of text block else very good in a very good dust jacket. . Devora Publishing, hardcover books
1905WRCAM32109Godthaab Greenland 1905. Lithograph 10 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches. Worn along left edge small closed tears along top and bottom edges of center fold. Two old soft secondary fold lines. Very good. An attractive image showing a family of Greenlanders sledding and skiing down a hill likely produced by Lars Møller Greenland's premier printer or by Møller's youngest son Steffen. The illustration shows a family of seven Greenland natives sledding down a hill while two other youngsters ski alongside with one of the skiers in the process of falling. Other winter sports enthusiasts cavort in the distance and the stark Greenland landscape is ably depicted. Lars Møller an accomplished printer and illustrator was the dominant figure in Greenlandic printing in the last quarter of the 19th century producing much of the printed output in the country. His son Steffen succeeded his father and produced impressive works in his own right including a native language speller from which this illustration may be an example. Knud Oldendow THE SPREAD OF PRINTING. WESTERN HEMISPHERE. GREENLAND Amsterdam: Vangendt & Co. 1969 pp.68-69 and passim. unknown books
1931011629Paris: Draeger Freres 1931. Soft cover. Very Good. A lot of 4 annual catalogs from the preeminent French house of wine each strikingly illustrated or designed by various French artists. The 1932 issue is illustrated by Edy Legrand. Black paper cover is an oval cut out that reveals pictorial underneath. It is missing its right lower quadrant and is split in the upper right quadrant. The 1934 catalogue is designed by French artist Alfred Latour. Spiral bound. Clear plastic spiral spine tanned and the covers a tad soiled. The 1936 catalogue is designed and illustrated by French artist A. M. Cassandre. Spiral bound plastic toned covers slightly soiled. The 1955 catalogue is designed by Alfred Latour with color reproductions of paintings by Andre Marchand. Spiral bound. The pages and colored plates in all the issues are near fine. 1955 catalogue from the preeminent French house of wine. Strikingly designed by Alfred Latour with color reproductions of paintings by Andre Marchand. Spiral bound. Near fine. Draeger Freres unknown books
198749758Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. Very Good. 1987. Hardcover. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press 1987. F/NF . The University of North Carolina Press hardcover books
