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18495043Paris: Typ. Schneider Rue d'Erfurth 1 1849. Very good. Broadside approximately 18 x 13 inches. Matted and framed. A pair of short closed tears repaired at lower edge. Even toning and light creasing. Contemporary manuscript annotation under caption title. A wonderful illustrated faux news broadside published in Paris as gold fever coursed through Europe in 1849. The headline promises "nouveaux détails" of the gold mines in California but the text is in fact a humorous description and light-hearted admonishment of the multitudes thoughtlessly giving up their livelihoods for the hardscrabble life of a gold digger in the California wilderness. The first section runs through a litany of types who are abandoning their lives for adventure and advises them not to consider the difficulties of the journey:<br /> <br /> "En route pour les mines d'or de la Californie! Partez! Il n'est pas néccessaire que vous preniez de lourds baggages : une cassette et une bonne pioche vous suffriont. Ne vous laissez pas décourager par la peur d'une navigation de cinq mois. elle sera peut-être périlleuse. mais le résultat est si consolant : de l'or!. toujours de l'or!. Qu'importent la colique et les fièvres doublées d'un mal de mer brutal. de l'or!. toujours de l'or!. Qu'importe d'être noir ou jaune en mourant du moment qu'on se repose dans un linceul d'or pour l'éternité! Partez!"<br /> <br /> The remainder of the text somewhat sardonically describes life in California and warns prospective travelers not long for the comforts of home but rather to concentrate on their sought-after riches:<br /> <br /> "Par example ne vous attendez pas à jouir de toutes les douceurs de la vie. Vous n'y trouverez ni biftecks au beurre d'anchois ni dinde truffées; car les aliments y sont rares. Mais les racines y sont en grande abondance. Vous vivrez un peu à la manière des anachorètes pour un temps. seulement vous déterrerez de l'or. ce qu'ils ne faisaient pas que l'on sache."<br /> <br /> The illustration which occupies approximately the top third of the broadside depicts men and women from all walks of life carrying pickaxes on their shoulders and racing for a ship about to depart. The image carries the printed signature of "B. Netter;" a contemporary manuscript note under the caption identifies the publication date as February 17 1849. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France estimates that as many as 40000 French men and women made their way to California between 1848 and 1856. The present broadside is an excellent document of California gold fever in France and the pervasive interest in gold rush news in Europe during the mid-19th century. Rare we locate just four copies at Berkeley UCSD California Historical Society and the BNF. Typ. Schneider, Rue d'Erfurth, 1 unknown
1827008235Paris Libraires quai des Augustius no. 55: Chez Rey et Gravier 1827. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A very rare item on the Mountains of the World. First & only edition in contemporary quarter green calf over marbled boards corners & edges worn ms paper label to upper board. Spine gilt & blind tooling gilt titles upper & lower edges worn. Internally ms note to fep half title printers details to verso 4 140 pp marbled text block edges half removed bookseller label to fpd the ms note to fep states: Par Mr Bruyere Sous intendant militaire à Saumur he was the quarter master there. Very rare no copies available commercially none at auction and only 1 copy held by an institution Cambridge Uni. 195126 mm <br/> <br/> Chez Rey et Gravier hardcover
1841579065Carcassonne 1841. Binding has been taped but is still very loose. Cover slightly scuffed and marked in places mostly the edges and corners.Brown spotting on some pages mostly the end papers. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library. With usual stamps and markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item450grams ISBN: Carcassonne hardcover
18675808John Camden Hotten Piccadilly London 1867. HB NODJ1867 stated second edition Blue Pictorial Cloth with Gold Gilt decorations Hinge slightly Starting Minor Rub Wear Scuff mainly on edges Slight Fox Here & There Former owner NameTiny chips base & top Spine VG/VG- AS-IS NODJ Small Corner Bump 266 pgs indexAds in Back Bk . Hard Cover. John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly London hardcover
1858H3843Madrid: Imprenta y Estereotipia de M. Rivadeneyra 1858. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition 1858 original blue wraps bound into quarter marbled morocco and cloth boards very good or better 329 pp. Beautifully bound. Imprenta y Estereotipia de M. Rivadeneyra hardcover
1894GHTctVAH18St. Petersburg: Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Marine 1894. 1894. 8vo. pp. x 1 leaf 390 11 8ads. titles in French & Russian text in Russian French & English. folding table. woodcut title & vignettes. 4 double-page plates showing ships. contemporary quarter sheep original printed wrs. bound in rubbed several rubberstamps. Second Edition. St. Petersburg: Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Marine, 1894. unknown
18466267Black and white illustrations by Grandville throughout both as sur blanc plates and within text. German Gothic text throughout. Has been professionally recased with new endpapers although original endpapers are also present. Dark brown cloth with both debossed and gilt decoration to boards as well as gilt decoration to spine. Marbled page edges. Foxing see image. No previous owners' names or other markings. vi 370 pp. 6 1/2 x 9 inches. Carl B. Lorck hardcover
19000007678Manchester: Blackie & Son 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 245 pages original pictorial cloth worn hinges cracking untrimmed foxed. <br/><br/>With 11 colored plates by Walter Crane. A splendidly illustrated version of DON Q. attempting to capture the essence of it for children. "DON QUIXOTE" is one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times and there are very few who have not at one time or another felt themselves to be Don Quixote confronting the windmills or Sancho Panza at the inn - PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 111." "I have DON QUIXOTE by the bedside . DON Q is the best book out there on political theory followed by "Hamlet" and "MacBeth" -Subcommandante Marcos Zapatista leader." .Sedo Collection Blackie & Son hardcover
189553540Chicago & New York: Rand McNally & Co. 1895. 8vo. 333 1 pp. Red linen decorated & lettered in gilt on front cover gilt lettering on spine t.e.g. minor rubbing minor soiling to spine slightly cocked still VG- copy. First American edition of this curious Henty title first published in book form in England by Chatto & Windus 1894 of this curious mystery of mystery and kidnapping of one of two twin girls used to inflict pain upon the father and the twin sister. The mystery is resolved by the young hero in the last half of the book in the gold camps above Sacramento CA. Rand, McNally & Co., unknown
1880172187Edinburgh : Thomas George Stevenson 1880. 1st edition limited edition one of 350 this copy numbered 206. Hardback. Fine copy in the original cloth covered boards professionally recased in later Dutch-linen. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 43 pages; Description: 43 p. lxiii leaves of plates ; 58 cm. Subjects: Edinburgh Scotland --Pictorial works Edinburgh : Thomas George Stevenson hardcover
1885366856Edinburgh: privately printed 1885. First Edition. Softcover. Good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Series; Bibliotheca curiosa. Physical description; 38 p. ; 18 cm. Notes; With a reproduction of the t.-p. of an undated edition: The rare and most vvonderful thinges which Edward Webbe an Englishman borne hath seene and passed in his troublesome trauailes in the citties of Ierusalem Dammasko Bethelem and Gallely . London Printed by Ralph Blower for Thomas Pauier & are to be solde at his shop in Corn-hill at the Signe of the Cat and parrats ouer against Popeshead alley nere the Royal exchange 1610. Bibliography: p. 5. Subjects; Middle East Description and travel ; Early works to 1800. Russia Description and travel ; Early works to 1800. Middle East Description and travel. Russia Description and travel. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Edinburgh: privately printed paperback
1898H9828Athens: Anesti Konstantinidou 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall 8vo morocco backed cloth boards very good light rubbing to leather original cover wraps bound in but somewhat worn contents otherwise very good. 85 pp. We could locate no other copies of this book in commerce in citations or in institutions. Anesti Konstantinidou hardcover
1833309London: A. K. Newman Leadenhall Street 1833. 14 x 9 cm. Very good. <p>1 vol. 160pp. Binding: contemporary marbled spine with gold lettering: <br />"HOFLAND'S ELIZABETH" Engraved frontispiece</p><p>Real life instructive tale for young people carefully abridged by the author to attract a wider public i.e. cheaper. 2s 6d. Very light foxing to endpapers.</p><p><br /></p> A. K. Newman, Leadenhall Street hardcover
1837626988Philadelphia: The Liberal Union 1837. xvii 2 20-118 pp. missing page 119 1. Black leather spine with gilt titling and marbled endpapers; "Printed at the Office of the National Laborer". Heavy wear and chipping to spine; boards no longer extant. Front free endpaper and first blank page detached but still extant with some chipping to corners. Some staining to bottom corner at gutter of first few pages. Some mild foxing throughout. Final page 119 no longer extant with bottom quarter of following blank missing as well. Some discoloration smoke to tail of final pages. Gatherings still held together quite securely although with some cocking to the top half of the spine. Appears to be a good candidate for recasing or rebinding with a facsimile copy of the final page. Originally published in eight parts under the title "Equality-- A Political Romance" in the Philadelphia deist magazine "The Temple of Reason" this utopian fantasy is commonly accredited to be the first utopian novel written and published in the United States. According to the historian Richard J. Twomey "Equality." marks a turning point in social critique in how it marks private property itself as the root of "social evil" rather than inherited privilege or property. Faherty and White. This scarce edition of 1837 is preceded only by the 1802 serialization. . Hard Cover. Fair. The Liberal Union Hardcover
1872303445London 1872. Albumen print measuring 11-5/8 x 16-1/4 in 295 x 412 mm. Laid down on thick cream card with manuscript caption measuring 17 x 21 in. Image slightly faded card chipped with some minor soiling one tear not affecting image. Albumen print measuring 11-5/8 x 16-1/4 in 295 x 412 mm. A rare survival. This image appears in William Bradford's fabled book of photographs Arctic Regions. It was taken by either Dunmore or Critcherson the two professional photographers from Boston who accompanied Bradford on his 1869 expedition to the Arctic on the steamship Panther. It was probably taken at Upernavik a settlement on an island off Greenland's west coast or Godhavn.<br /> <br /> Arctic Regions included 141 albumen prints in addition to Bradford's account of the voyage. The title of the photograph here varies from the printed caption in the book where it reads: "Plate Number: 116 Esquimaux igloe or winter hut made of turf and stones. The entrance is to the left through a door which is about three and a half feet high. The length of the passage is about twelve or fifteen feet and at the farther end is another door through which one almost has to crawl on his hands and knees. After passing through there is then room to stand erect but one is forced to leave very soon owing to the bad air." <br /> <br /> This photograph is slightly larger than the one in the book which is 277 x 365mm. Furthermore the image in the book is cropped closer on the right and left margins. <br /> <br /> The New York Public Library has a folio of 26 images of near identicle size mounted on card. The portfolio was donated to the library in 1892 as part of the Robert Stuart Collection. According to Horch originally all of these images were captioned in manuscript though were later remounted with typed captions as "the original ink-written captions for the photographs had badly faded by 1940." It's interesting that the caption on their duplicate of this image is the same as ours and the image itself has not been cropped. Horch writes that Bradford probably not only selected these images himself but "closely directed the actual taking of the photographs." <br /> <br /> It's entirely likely that Bradford would have had extra prints made to distribute to friends repay favors and most of all to solicit subscribers to what was a very expensive book to publish. Given how it conforms to the examples in the Robert Stuart portfolio this particular image is probably one of them. Horch Frank. "Photographs and Paintings by William Bradford". American Art Journal 5.2 1973: pp 61-70; cf Parr and Badger I p31Prm/photo unknown
181770532Edinburgh: William Blackwood / Baldwin Cradock and Joy 1817. Third edition with additions. Leather Bound. Very Good -. 348pp. Octavo 21.5cm. Full leather; stamped with an elaborate blind stamped diamond pattern and gilt border on covers. Title stamped in gilt on spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. A bit of soiling scuffing and sunning to boards. Foot of spine is badly bumped and scuffed exposing underlying boards. Elaborate bookplate on front pastedown along with a bookseller's ticket. Binding is quite tight. A foundational text in the field of paleontology. William Blackwood / Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy unknown
184751585Lindsay and Blakiston 1847-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Very small cloth hardcover with embossed covers and gold titles free endpapers frontis and title partially detached/torn. balance is tight. Please email for photos. Lindsay and Blakiston hardcover
1871010933BOSTON MA: D LOTHROP. BROWN DECORATIVE CLOTH. SOME BOTTOM FORE-EDGE WEAR. . VG. Hardcover. 1871. D LOTHROP hardcover
185942532London: John Henry and James Parker 1859. First edition. 4to. xii 243 1 pp. Contemporary brown half morocco over plum cloth sides spine with raised bands gilt lettered direct to two panels marbled endpapers early armorial bookplate to the front pastedown another early ownership inscription to the front flyleaf with a further more recent one underneath top edge gilt. 73 plates plus 43 woodcuts in the text. Very good. London: John Henry and James Parker unknown
187334559Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons 1873. True First Edition Very Scarce. 8vo publisher's original red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. 2 ads. x 130 folding map at rear. A fine copy very well preserved with minimal mellowing to the red of the spine panel the binding tight and the text-block clean. RARELY SEEN FIRST EDITION. The three papers consider: I. The Relations Between Great Britain the Protected Tribes and Ashanti with the Causes of the Ashanti War. II. The Relations and Causes Continued. III. The Topography of Ashanti and the Protectorate of the Gold Coast. A folding map of the Gold Coast and Coomassie is tipped in at the end of the book. William Blackwood and Sons hardcover
184396110London Provident Institution or Bank for Savings 1843. Pamphlet. Used - Good. 1-4 pages each. Mostly folded sheets 13 x 8.5". Docketed. Creased many mostly short splits along folds minor soiling G. London Provident Institution or Bank for Savings unknown
1829H18899Milano: Presso gli editori degli Annali universali delle scienze e dell'industria 1829. Hardcover. Good. 3 of 4 volumes Vols. I-III 8vo half leather and marbled boards good with some wear and rubbing to leather lacking one spine label inner hinges have been strengthened neatly contents very good moderate foxing. Portrait frontispiece in the first volume. Presso gli editori degli Annali universali delle scienze e dell'industria hardcover
18930803169Glasgow: A. Bryson & Co 1893. First edition / 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 7 books bound in 2 volumes. Covers the First throught Seventh tournaments from 1893 through 1899. First Edition / First Printing. Call's 149. Bound in 1/2 brown calf over brown cloth boards with red leather spine labels original covers not bound. Tournaments 1-4 in Vol. 1 5-7 in Vol. 2. Good spines faded but lettering still stron rubbing to leather edges bottom 3/4 inches of spine on Vol. 2 is unevenly chipped 1.5 inch split at top of front spine hinge chipped around top of spine. 14 x 21. hard cover. 63 63 70 100 72 80 & 80pp. B1903A. A. Bryson & Co unknown
18930803561Glasgow: A. Bryson & Co 1893. First edition / 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 7 books bound in 1. Covers the First throught Seventh tournaments from 1893 through 1899. First Edition / First Printing. Call's 149. Good to very good bound in contemporary black cloth slight wear to edges of spine & covers inner hinge reinforced with binding tape bookplate on inside front cover. Original covers are not bound in. 14 x 21. hard cover. 63 63 70 100 72 80 & 80pp. B1780. A. Bryson & Co unknown
1837ABC_47224Paris 1837. Folio ca. 35 x 26.5 cm. Dauty Contemporary half sheepskin maroon watered silk sides title in gold on the front board. With an engraved title-page and 11 of 23 engraved botanical prints: 4 showing 5 kinds of fruits each 3 showing 9 types of flowers each and 4 showing flower bouquets. All prints are stipple engravings and coloured by a contemporary hand some parts glazed with egg white. 12 ll. Extremely rare botanical print series showing both European and exotic fruits and flowers engraved by Jean-Baptiste Huet the younger 1772-1852 after designs of Benoît-Louis Prévost 1735-1804 or Jean-Louis Prévost 1760-1810. It also includes four plates showing bouquets from Europe America Asia and Africa. Only one complete copy is known at the Bibliothèque nationale de France we have traced no copy in sale or auction records and it is not mentioned in the usual botanical bibliographical works. The BnF copy is described in the Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 where the series consists of 23 prints issued all together under this title. The BnF and the IFF date the work ca. 1837-1839 but it is more likely that it is ca. 1837-1838 as Dauty died in 1838 and he printed at Rue de Bibliothèque no. 16 only in 1827 and 1835-1838. The BnF ascribes the designs for the prints to Benoît-Louis Prévost but Jean-Louis Prévost remains a possibility for he produced another famous print series of flowers and fruits in the same style of stipple engravings Collection des fleurs et fruits 1805.With a contemporary inscription "A M.elle Vincent" on the first free endleaf dedicating it to or belonging to the famous French 19th-century botanical painter Henriette Vincent 1786-1834 who was a student of Gerard van Spaendonck and Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Head and foot of the spine damaged and spine slightly worn boards a little rubbed edges slightly worn corners bumped. Some light browning and foxing throughout title-page a little more browned and with a light marginal water stain. Lacking 12 plates according to IFF. Otherwise in good condition. An extremely rare botanical print series vividly hand-coloured.l BnF FRBNF40503621; IFF Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 Huet p. 518; not in Nissen BBI; Pritzel; Stafleu & Cowan. hardcover
