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788A11London: The Winston Churchill Statue Committee 1973. First edition. Cloth. Fine. 15" by 10.5" . None . An extremely scarce and bright remarkable large paper manuscript containing the list of sponsors and subscribers for the appeal of Winston Churchill Memorial Statue in 1970 inscribed in ink by Mr W.A. Brake. A very scarce large manuscript volume comprising a list of subscribers and contributors to the appeal of £30000 for the Winston Churchill Memorial Statue launched on the 27th February 1970 by the Lord Mayor of Westminster through an Executive Committee representing Peers and Commoners of which Sir John Tilney was Chairman. The idea of a memorial statue for Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was conceived originally by a few members of the Parliament. In 1969 Harold Wilson promised the availability of a site in Parliament Square if a Committee were successful in raising sufficient funds. This book contains the names of four thousand four hundred and ten contributors who subscribed £32104. The realisation of the twelve-foot statue was then commissioned to Mr Ivor Roberts Jones.The Statue was unveiled in 1973 in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen. A very scarce copy rarely found on the market. This large manuscript book was issued in a handful of copies inscribed by W. A. Brake. No limitation is given. S. Bray gave the paper and binding for this book which was bound free of charge by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full cloth with Winston Churchill's family crest in gilt to the front board. This volume comes with a vinyl recording the 'Unveiling of Sir Winston Churchill's Statue at Westerham 23rd July 1969.' Sculpted by Oscar Nemon. In the original publisher's full cloth binding with Churchill's family crest stamped in gilt on a morocco label to the front board by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only. Loosely inserted a vinyl recording the 'Unveiling of Sir Winston Churchill's Statue at Westerham 23rd July 1969.' Internally firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Inscribed in ink by W. A. Brake. Fine The Winston Churchill Statue Committee hardcover
1951AQ29517London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1951. xi 1 280pp. With 39 maps and four charts. Contemporary cream cloth contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece. Original publisher's printed green wrappers bound in. Lightly rubbed and marked. With later bookplate 'From the Library of the Earl of Avon' i.e. Sir Anthony Eden loosely inserted. Presentation copy inked inscription to verso of upper wrapper: 'To Anthony in memory of his very gallant son from Dickie'. A poignant and significant presentation copy of the definitive HMSO report of the Burma campaign during the Second World War inscribed by the author Louis Mountbatten first Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900-1979 whom Churchill had appointed as Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command SEAC in the summer of 1943; to then Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden whose eldest son Simon Gascoigne Eden - a navigator with the 62nd Squadron RAF VR - had been serving in Burma when his plane went missing in June 1945. His death was confirmed the following month just before the 1945 General Election. From the library of Sir Anthony Eden 1897-1977 Lord Avon British foreign secretary 1935-38 1940-45 and 1951-55 and Prime Minister 1955-1957. Following active service in the First World War Eden read Oriental languages at Oxford. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1923. In 1935 he was appointed foreign secretary a position he resigned in 1938 to protest Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Nazi Germany. When Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940 he was named secretary of state for war and later during the Second World War once more served as foreign secretary. Eden succeeded Churchill as Prime Minister in 1955. In 1956 his failure to respond effectively during the Suez Crisis and the subsequent loss of party and public support ultimately led to his resignation from office in 1957. He was knighted in 1954 and created earl of Avon in 1961. . First edition. Quarto. His Majesty's Stationery Office hardcover
175520474AB1755. Tha Hague Duren 1755. 20 : 165 cm. 4 leaves 420 pages with 103 engraved illustrations. Contemporary calf on 5 raised bands spin gilt back lable. The Spectacle of Human Life: Or Lessons in Wisdom is a book written by Jean Le Clerc in 1755. This book is a collection of reflections on human life and the lessons in wisdom that can be drawn from it. The author addresses topics such as death loneliness love family religion and morality. He also offers practical advice on how to lead a happy and fulfilling life. The book is written in a clear and accessible style making it an enjoyable read for anyone seeking to better understand life and find answers to the most profound questions of human existence. - On second leaf the Dutch title: 'Schouwtoneel des menschelyken leevens' the explanations to the engravings are in Latin German French and Dutch. The engravings in the text are after Otto van Veen - The two title-pages verso with annotations which show through to the main title the first and the last four pages with some stain inside fine with the engravings in strong impressions ca 1 cm of top of spine missing joins a bit rubbed. - Still a desirable copy of this scarce oeuvre. hardcover
186328153London: Macmillan and Company 1863. First edition without the L'Envoi leaf as is almost always encountered as the author had it removed from all but the first 200 or so copies. With two full page plates by J. Noel Paton and with a number of small illustrations used throughout as opening initials. 8vo in a very fine and very handsome Bayntun of Bath binding of full navy crushed morocco the covers decorated with handsome all-over geometric gilt framework tooling the spine with gilt tooled raised bands separating compartments with matching geometric gilt decorations two compartments gilt lettered wide gilt decorated turn-ins and marbled endpapers a.e.g. The publisher's original green cloth preserved and bound in the rear the upper piece with central gilt Water Baby vignette the spine piece gilt lettered. Also retained is the original half-title. Now all in preserved in a blue cloth slipcase with chemise. 350 pp. A very beautiful and very handsome copy the text wonderfully bright and clean for this title the fine binding pristine and perfect. SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN A WONDERFUL BINDING BY BAYNTUN OF BATH. Kingsley's WATER BABIES was extremely popular and remained a mainstay of English children's literature for many decades. Kingsley wrote the work as part satire in support for Darwin's 'Origin of Species' which Kingsley had been one of the earliest public figures to praise. Within the tale Kingsley alludes to debates among biologists of its day satirizing and at various times referring to Sir Roderick Murchison Professor Richard Owen Professor Thomas Henry Huxley and of course "Mr. Darwin" They and the science of the period become explicitly part of the story.<br> The story is also thematically concerned with Christian redemption and Kingsley also used the book to argue that England treated its poor badly and to question child labour. Unfortunate common prejudices of its day particularly in reference to Americans Jews blacks Catholics and the Irish have led to the story's fall from popularity. Macmillan and Company hardcover
18531955Boston: John P. Jewett and Company 1853. First Edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. viii 263 pages. Bound in original green cloth over boards with spine titled in gilt both boards stamped in blind pale yellow endpapers. Browning to spine with fading to gilt. Hinges sound some light scattered foxing within textblock. Fading to spine binding shows minor extremity wear. Pencilled ownership signature of Azariah Smith dated August 1853 on preliminary blank leaf with his small name label on front free endpaper. Three wood-engraved plates with tissue guards. Important collection of anti-slavery testimonies by eminent authors. Includes facsimile signatures of most contributors which include Horace Mann William Seward Charles Sumner Annie Parker Gerrit Smith Miss C. E. Beecher and many others. <br /> <br /> Most importantly however this collection contains the only piece of fiction published by Frederick Douglass. This short story titled "The Heroic Slave" is based on an actual slave insurrection led by Madison Washington in 1841 aboard the slave ship Creole while enroute to New Orleans from Virginia. This important Douglass item occupies pages 174-239 in four parts with his signature in facsimile at the end.<br /> <br /> Other important contributions by African American writers include the poem "How Long" by James Madison Whitfield and James McCune Smith's biographical sketch "John Murray of Glasgow."<br /> <br /> A handsome and quite sound copy of this elusive Frederick Douglass item in its original cloth binding. <br /> <br /> Ref. BLOCKSON 9204; DUMOND p.62; BAL 11172. John P. Jewett and Company unknown
2080502106500116Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 3 Not Available paperback
19772091502135309523Shibunkaku 1977. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 30 Shibunkaku paperback
1969168709N.p.: N.p. 1969. Archive of 29 original photographs from The Living Theatre performances dating between 1959 and 1969 including 27 borderless photographs and eight double weight photographs. <br /> <br /> Four photographs with Gianfranco Mantegna photographer stamps on the versos six photographs with Horace Dimayo photographer stamps on the versos two with "L'Express/Manuel Bidermanas" photographer stamps on the versos and one with a "Photo Pic" stamp on the verso.<br /> <br /> The archive includes:<br /> <br /> One borderless photograph from the January 13 1959 premiere performance of William Carlos Williams' "Many Loves" on The Living Theatre Playhouse's opening night.<br /> <br /> Three borderless photographs of the June 29 1966 performance of "Mysteries and Smaller Pieces" 1964 at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe in Paris.<br /> <br /> Three borderless photographs from the September - October 1966 performances of Jean Genet's "The Maids" 1947 at the Berliner Festwochen including two double weight.<br /> <br /> Seven borderless photographs from the July 1968 performance of Bertolt Brecht's "Antigone" 1948 performed at the Avignon XXII Festival at the Cloître des Célestins.<br /> <br /> Two double weight borderless photographs of Julian Beck and Judith Malina being interviewed in 1968 at the Avignon XXII Festival at the Cloître des Carmes.<br /> <br /> Six borderless photographs from the October 1969 performance of "Mysteries and Smaller Pieces" 1964 at the Circo Medini in Milan.<br /> <br /> Two photographs from the October 1969 performance of "Paradise Now" 1968 at Teatro Alfieri in Turin.<br /> <br /> One borderless photograph of Julian Beck from Bernardo Bertolucci's segment "Agonia" from the 1969 compilation film "Love And Anger."<br /> <br /> Lastly four borderless photographs we have been unable to definitively identify including a photograph of a stage set a photograph of a performance of three actors a photograph of Jean-Jeacques Lebel and a photograph of a woman in profile possibly Living Theatre actress Mary Mary. The latter two photographs are likely from the 1968 Avignon performance of "Paradise Now."<br /> <br /> Founded in 1947 in New York by Julian Beck and Judith Malina The Living Theatre is the oldest active experimental theater group in the United States. In the fifties and sixties the company became an epicenter for revolutionary culture performing both original and repertory works. The company produced often radical stage productions and adaptations of works by artists and writers such as Bertold Brecht Gertrude Stein Jean Cocteau William Carlos Williams T.S. Eliot Pablo Picasso Luigi Pirandello and Federico García Lorca among others and laid the foundation for New York's robust underground art scene in the ensuing decades. <br /> <br /> The Living Theatre and its founders were the subject of the 1983 documentary "Signals Through the Flames" directed by Sheldon Rochlin.<br /> <br /> Photographs generally 7 x 5 inches to 12 x 8 inches. Near Fine overall five with light toning. All housed in a 9.75 x 12.17 inch Near Fine black folder with a "The Living Theatre" sticker on the front board. N.p. unknown
105791Oxford : At the Clarendon Press. As New. N.D. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine & unmarked -- No date Circa 1786 Sold by D. Prince and J. Cooke Oxford: G. Robinson J. F. And C. Rivington and T. Cadell London. The letter to Adam Smith is paginated and has a separate title page which bears the description 'The fifth edition'. The letter to Adam Smith is paginated and has a separate title page which bears the description 'The fifth edition'. -- with a bonus offer-- . Oxford : At the Clarendon Press hardcover
159950394Oldenburg Warner Berendts Erben 1599. Folio. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel gone. Engraved ornamental title-page. 8649418 incl. 2 blank. Profusely textillustrated with engravings and woodcuts among them the full-page portrait of the author a full-page view of Oldenburg 3 folded genealogical tables and the double-page engraved elevated plan of Oldenburg. Internally clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First edition. Hamelmann's Chronicon is the first book to be printed in Oldenburg Brunet and it is the historical source work for the "House of Oldenburg" whose descendents became kings of Denmark and emperors of Russia. -Adams H 30. </em> unknown
0821VD70H6NHardcover. Very Good. hardcover
190823422Published By The Reilly & Britton Co. Chicago I 1908. Hardback NODUSTJAKCET 1908 1ST EDITION 2nd Printing VG-/VG- AS-IS. NO JACKET Cover is Brown black & White Slight SOIL & Darkening SPINE COVER Front has slight Rub Scuff Tiny Chips Extremities & Wear Scuff word THE on Front Cvr Lettered in Black on Spine 12 mo. with three titles liSted on page PRECeDing Contents. Ending with in Egypt Interior nice tigHT Light FOX Wear. 310 pgs ADS Aunt Janes Nieces Very good- condition Light edgewear tan. 8vo Decorations and lettering on boards is still strong and easy to reAd. Interior few Pencil Marks drawings Pages slightly age tonedSize oF book is about 5 1/2 and 7 1/2. . First Edition . One of the scarcer titles in the series and one especially hard to find in collectible condition. .This is Very Scarce Title. First Edition. Hard Cover. Published By The Reilly & Britton Co., Chicago I hardcover
1936209211Privately Printed 1936. First. hardcover. fine. 2 volumes Thin 8vo limp brown cloth. Privately Printed b y W.E. Rudge from type set by Bertha Goudy. Limited First Editions.<br/> <br/> The first volume is one of only 200 copies; the second is one of 300 and bears a "compliments slip from Bruce Rogers with a holograph note. Also included are two long autograph letters signed from Bruce Rogers to reviewer Lewis Gannett presenting the books." I will not say a `book' as it violates most of my ideas of bookmaking".He writes about T.E. and his translation of The Odyssey."I really think he likes me as much as he ever did any one." and quotes for Gannett's delectation one of the passages he had to leave out of the book for fear of a libel suit. Letter 24.xi.34 referring to a contretemps with the President of the University of Missouri. Fine.<br/> <br/> Privately Printed unknown
1800003804Printed By W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row St. James's for the Author; and Sold By G. And W. Nicol Booksellers to His Majesty Pall-Mall; and Messrs. J. And J. Boydell Cheapside 1800 COMPLETE with 8 engraved plates 5 of which are hand coloured. Title continues: Exemplified by Suitable Sketches and More Finished Paintings. As This Work is Chiefly Intended for the Mere Beginner The Rules Are Both Familiar and Progressive. To Which Are Added Instructions For Executing Transparencies In a Style Both Novel and Easy. 4 36pp bound in paper vellum and marbled paper over boards deckled page edges with binding and hinges tight. Covers show edge/corner wear small paper label on front cover some pages uncut offsetting from plates occasional light foxing on the preliminary pages. SCARCE. Printed By W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's, for the Author; and Sold By G. And W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Ma hardcover
1952140946365no place: The Pullman Company 1952. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. Brad-bound printed sheets in black leatherette covers with one volume stamped in silver and the other gold. Near Fine with light wear to metallic stamping dulling to gold stamping; light toning to contents. Rare guidebooks produced for the largely African-American staff of the Pullman Company. <p>Shortly after the Civil War The Pullman Company became notable for hiring thousands of African American men-including many former slaves-to serve white passengers traveling across the country on the company's luxury railroad sleeping cars. Following meticulous rules and procedures as evident by those in this guidebook these men became pillars of the African-American community who as a result of their training maintained the highest standards of personal and professional decorum. Though they were underpaid overworked and endured never-ending racism on the job the Pullman porters would eventually help to fuel the Great Migration shape a new Black middle class and help launch the civil rights movement. The Pullman Company unknown
1903ST20279Paris: Librarie A. Roquette 1903. No. 92 OF 150 COPIES on Japon and another 10 copies on vellum paper. 251 x 160 mm. 9 7/8 x 6 1/4". 2 p.l. 67 1 pp. 2 leaves followed by additional suite of etchings. <br/> HANDSOME TAN CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT BY THE CLUB BINDERY stamp-signed and dated 1905 on front turn-in covers framed by gilt strapwork and multiple fillets raised bands spine compartments with similar gilt tooling gilt lettering densely gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers top edge gilt. In a modern slightly ill-fitting suede-lined gray linen clamshell box backed with blue morocco. Illustrated throughout with elegant borders and scenes surrounding the text colored with pochoir. With an additional suite of illustrations printed in black before letters. Front pastedown with morocco ex-libris of Robert Hoe and with bookplate of the Robin Collection. Spine uniformly a bit darkened text margins with a hint of browning because of paper quality but still a very pleasing copy with virtually no signs of use.<br/> <br/> Bound by one of America's greatest binderies and once owned by the renowned collector Robert Hoe this is a charming adaptation of a Medieval legend illustrated with delicate pochoir images by a popular French Art Nouveau artist. Originating in the 13th century the story here concerns a pious sacristan whose faith is tested when she falls in love with a young noble. The pages are adorned with attractive borders inspired by nature along with images from the story all colored in soft hues that evoke an angelic ethereal quality that fits perfectly with the themes of the legend. Our artist Henri Caruchet 1873-1943 was a sought-after illustrator in the bibliophilic world producing work for authors such as Octave Uzanne Theophile Gautier and Anatole France. The present work also contains a suite of uncolored illustrations printed before letters allowing the viewer to appreciate how much the pochoir coloring does to enliven Caruchet's designs. Our binding is a product of the esteemed Club Bindery founded by Grolier Club members and other wealthy collectors to provide close to home fine quality binding work rivalling what was available abroad. The workshop provided bindings that tended to be traditional in style--though frequently with elaborate decoration--and that lived up to its patrons' expectations in terms of excellence. The first members of the staff of the Club Bindery were the Englishmen R. W. Smith and Frank Mansell. They were subsequently joined by a number of French binders chief among them being Léon Maillard who had worked previously for Cuzin Gruel and Marius Michel. The Club Bindery was in operation until 1909 with Robert Hoe 1839-1911 being its most influential manager and client. Hoe was also the founding member and first president of the Grolier Club and according to Beverly Chew his library was "the finest America has ever contained." He acquired illuminated manuscripts early printing he owned a Gutenberg Bible on paper and one on vellum fine bindings French and English literature and Americana; when his library was sold in 1911-12 it fetched nearly $2 million a record that held until the Streeter sale more than 50 years later. Librarie A. Roquette unknown
1894ST17640-G031894-1946. 17 separately published works. <br/> 1 BRANGWYN FRANK Illustrator. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. London and Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis 1911 175 x 145 mm. 6 7/8 x 5 5/8". Original vellum with gilt titling top edge gilt others untrimmed. Eight tipped-in color illustrations by Frank Brangwyn. Slightly splayed and very minor soiling; near fine. Uncommonly seen in vellum. <br /> <br /> 2 BULL RENE Illustrator. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Banbury England: Hodder and Stoughton 1913 275 x 205 mm. 10 7/8 x 8 1/8". Brown cloth front cover elaborately decorated gilt titling on spine. Illustrated by Rene Bull. Sidney L. Nyburg bookplate. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> 3 CARR HAMZEH Illustrator. THE RUBAIYAT OF UMAR KHAIYAM. London: John Lane the Bodly Head Limited 1924 257 x 180 mm. 10 1/8 x 7". Translated from the French of J. B. Nicolas by Frederick Baron Corvo. Edited by Edward Heron-Allen. Tan cloth with original dust jacket. With 16 plates in color by Hamzeh Carr. Printed with facing French text. Volume fine dust jacket with front joint torn and inexpertly repaired. <br /> <br /> 4 DODSON BERT Illustrator. SELECTIONS FROM OMAR KHAYYAM'S RUBAIYAT: A PORTFOLIO OF DRAWINGS BY BERT DODSON. Norwalk Connecticut: Fairfield Graphics Incorporated n. d. 458 x 330 mm. 18 x 13". Not signed but probably one of 700 copies. Very large envelope-like portfolio with embossed title 39 unnumbered printed plates 19 black ink drawings by Bert Dodson alternating with their associated printed quatrains. An unusually clean copy of a very easily soiled item. A very appealing collection of charmingly surrealistic illustrations by Dodson b. 1938 the illustrator of more than 70 children's books. <br /> <br /> 5 DULAC EDMUND Illustrator. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. London: Hodder and Stoughton 1909 285 x 225 mm. 11 1/4 x 8 7/8". FIRST EDITION. White cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. Bookplate of Mae Borg. With a laid-in notice of an exhibition of Dulac's illustrated works to be held at the Leicester Galleries including watercolors for "Omar Khayyam" from 16 October to 20 November 1909. Potter 131. White cloth inevitably with slight soiling but still nearly fine. <br /> <br /> 6 FISH ANNE HARRIET Illustrator. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company 1922 292 x 235 mm. 11 1/2 x 9 1/4". FIRST EDITION. Original black orange and white paper boards laid down on new black cloth spine with simple gilt titling original dust jacket panels bound in at front and back. Illustrated by Fish. Potter 118. Jacket repaired and somewhat soiled the volume fine though binding refitted. <br /> <br /> 7 HANSCOM ADELAIDE Illustrator. THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. New York: Dodge Publishing Company 1905 268 x 198 mm. 10 1/2 x 7 3/4". Publisher's beige cloth top edge gilt others untrimmed. With 28 tissue gravures including frontispiece printed in brown from photographs by California pictorialist photographer Adelaide Hanscom. Back cover somewhat soiled otherwise very nice. <br /> <br /> 8 JAMES GILBERT Illustrator. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. London: Adam and Charles Black 1909 255 x 197 mm. 10 x 7 3/4". White cloth with gilt titling and elaborate blue and green decorations. White cloth a little soiled as expected otherwise excellent. <br /> <br /> 9 LUNDBORG FLORENCE Illustrator. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. New York: Doxey's at the Sign of the Lark 1900 215 x 160 mm. 8 1/2 x 6 3/8". FIRST EDITION. Dark brown cloth with gilt titling and black decorations. Illustrated by Florence Lundborg. Potter 240. Fine Copy. <br /> <br /> 10 PALMER DORIS M. Illustrator. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. London: Leopold B. Hill 1921 305 x 230 mm. 12 x 9". FIRST EDITION. Original tan cloth with gilt design and black titling. Illustrated by Doris M. Palmer. Pencil gift inscription on fly leaf. Potter 117. Spine faded binding just a bit soiled but better than very good. <br /> <br /> 11 POGANY WILLY Illustrator. THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. London: George G. Harrap and Company 1909 285 x 197 mm. 11 1/4 x 7 3/4". FIRST EDITION. Brown cloth and elaborately decorated paper boards. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Potter 69. Very good plus. <br /> <br /> 12 ROBINSON CHARLES Illustrator. THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press 1928 280 x 200 mm. 11 x 7 7/8". Red leather with gilt decorations and titling. Excellent condition. <br /> <br /> 13 SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE Calligraphers and Illustrators. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. London: Siegle Hill and Company 1910 320 x 240 mm. 12 5/8 x 9 3/8". FIRST EDITION. White cloth with elaborate gilt frame enclosing a gilt peacock gilt titling with intricate gilt decoration on spine top edge gilt others untrimmed. "Reproduced from a Manuscript Written and Illuminated by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe." Potter 81. Corners bumped otherwise very fine--unusually clean for white cloth. <br /> <br /> 14 SETT M. K. Illustrator. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons and Company 1946 292 x 230 mm. 11 1/2 x 9". Hardcover consisting of a portfolio containing one 12 pp. booklet 16 unbound cards printed in red and green on heavy stock and a set of 15 unbound cards of full-page black & white illustrations. In the original dark green cloth portfolio gilt title on cover. Illustrated by M. K. Sett. Browned because of poor paper stock but still very good. <br /> <br /> 15 SULLIVAN EDMUND J. Illustrator. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company 1914 260 x 187 mm. 10 1/4 x 7 3/4". First American printing with these illustrations following British edition of 1913. Red cloth with elaborate gilt decorations. Illustrated by Edmund J. Sullivan. Long calligraphic birthday gift inscription on fly leaf from Dryden Phelps to his sister Celeste dated 1920. See Potter 101. Endpapers a bit browned otherwise fine--very clean with bright gilt. <br /> <br /> 16 TAGORE ABANINDRO NATH Illustrator. THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Company n. d. 245 x 170 mm. 9 5/8 x 6 3/4". Publisher's brown suede with gilt titling on front cover and spine large gilt emblem on upper board top edge gilt others untrimmed. Seven tipped-in color illustrations by Abanindro Nath Tagore. Intermittent browning but still excellent. <br /> <br /> 17 VEDDER ELIHU Illustrator. RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Boston: Houghton Mifflin And Company 1894 215 x 165 mm. 8 1/2 x 6 3/4". Original gray cloth with elaborate gilt decoration original--seldom seen--printed dust jacket. Illustrated by Elihu Vedder. Volume with slight bubbling to the cloth otherwise fine; dust jacket stained and a bit frayed but still intact and unrepaired. unknown
195629570HBDJ 1956 on Copyright pg EARLY BRITISH ISSUE 606TH THOUSAND VG AS-IS INNER DJ FLAP 8 S. 6D. NET CATALOGUE # 3418/U. The signature is in blue ink. B/ W DECORATIONS BY E. H. SHEPARD with illustrations on the front of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh. BACK DJ FLAP MENTIONS WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG WINNIE POOH & NOW WE ARE 6 SMALL GREEN Illustrated Boards NEAR excellent with Good gilt FIGURES ON FRONT. Dust Jacket Illustrated Inscribed Clean no significant bumps or rubs .7 1/2 X 5 IN APPROX . GREEN ILLUSTRATED CLOTH CVR Binding tight WITH BRIGHT GOLD GILT FIGURES no loose or missing pages. Feels only lightly read. Page block clean and bright with no marks. Light age tone to text block edge as you would expect in a book of this age. Top of text block coloured green and has retained its colour. The dustwrapper is NEAR excellent. GREEN TOPSTAIN. 4mm closed tears to top and bottom of front cover/ flap The spine is only very lightly sunned.<br /> Methuen & CO. LTD LONDON hardcover
1896ABC_48884Colophon: Amsterdam 1896. Large folio ca. 51 x 33 cm. Calligrafie und Druck von Johan. K. Koning Contemporary gold-tooled burgundy leather the front board with a large gold-stamped monogram as a centrepiece the intertwined initials of the couple: AJ and EdR with the date "24-26 August" above and the year "1896" below lettered in gold both boards show a single fillet frame along the outer edges gold-tooled turn-ins beige watered silk endleaves. Wedding album comprising five manuscript texts of occasional plays 4 in German 1 in Dutch written in a neat cursive in blank ink on thick laid paper each illuminated with a 4-line decorated initial in red blue and white on a gold/bronze field richly decorated with penwork in black ink extending down into the inner margin. Each text is preceded by a letterpress title leaf set in neo-Gothic type also used for the general title several text leaves and the colophon. Further with 1 gouache illustration on grey paper sheet size ca. 32 x 24.5 cm mounted on the first leaf showing a bouquet of flowers 14 printed ephemera relating to the "Polterabend" wedding-eve party and the wedding on single or double leaves in various sizes the wedding announcement/introduction to the wedding-eve party and attached is a photo of the couple in a circular frame of red wax 5 menu cards the lyrics to 6 German songs a musical score by the German composer Wilhelm Aletter 1867-1934 and an announcement of the comic opera Des Teufels Antheil by the French composer Daniel Auber 1782-1871 performed by the Frankfurter Opernhaus on 25 August 1896 in Frankfurt am Main. Also with two manuscript wedding speeches in German written in black ink on paper two mounted albumen prints the first showing two actors dressed as a Frisian farmer and his wife and the other showing a man in Chinese dress 56 large ornamental vignettes printed in red or blue throughout 17 ornamental tailpieces printed in black blue and red and some dried flowers mounted on several leaves. 60 ll. A sumptuously executed wedding album presented to the Dutch groom August Janssen 1865-1918 and his bride Ella de Ridder 1877-1951 produced in honour of their wedding celebrations which took place on 24-26 August 1896 in Frankfurt am Main Germany. Most of the album concerns their "Polterabend" the wedding-eve party similar to present-day bachelor-/bachelorette parties except for the bride and groom joining together in the festivities. The main event now associated with a Polterabend is the smashing of porcelain by the wedding guests in order to bring luck to the couple's marriage but in general the evening is filled with plays and songs written and performed for the couple by their family and friends.A few performing actors were members of the Janssen-family a Dutch business family who had amassed their fortune with the tobacco cultivation in the former Dutch East Indies. They were also known for their generosity and philanthropic activities in the Netherlands. At the head of this family was the German-Dutch merchant Peter Wilhelm Janssen 1821-1903 one of the founders of the Deli Maatschappij in Sumatra and father of the groom who was his second son. His eldest son Christian Wilhelm Janssen 1860-1927 was married to Susanna Dorothea Anna Rehbock 1862-1933. Her brother the Dutch merchant Heinrich Carl Rehbock 1865-1938 was married to Caroline Janssen 1871-1951 one of the five daughters of Peter Wilhelm Janssen. Among the other actors were the brother of the bride Gustave von Ridder 1874-1956 the German playwright Hermann Otto Rudolf Presber 1868-1935 the German lawyer Paul Roediger 1859-1938 and his Dutch wife Julie Louise Charlotte Elink Schuurman 1875-1961 the sisters Anna Maria Humser 1876-1974 and Elisabeth Else Humser 1872-1967 daughters of the German lawyer and politician Gustav Adolph Humser 1836-1918 who was chairman of the Frankfurt city council at the time of the wedding celebration.The groom August Janssen 1864-1918 started his business career at trade offices in Bremen and London. He subsequently left for the former Dutch East Indies where he founded several enterprises. His wealth enabled him to engage in philanthropic activities. For example the municipality of Baarn benefited from his generosity he erected two public swimming pools there at his own expense. The bride Ella Elisabeth de Ridder 1877-1951 was the only daughter of the Belgian-German merchant August Cornelius de Ridder 1837-1911 known for his distinguished art collection of mainly Dutch and Flemish paintings of the 17th century which he built at his house at Kronberg near Frankfurt am Main. The famous Anglo-Hungarian artist Philip Alexius de László 1869-1937 painted Ellas portrait in 1903 in Baarn at the house of Hendrik Cornelis van den Honert 1854-1916 the successor of Peter Wilhelm Janssen as director of the Deli Maatschappij in 1898. De László had also painted her mother Johanna Elisabethe Louise May 1853-1942 around 1898 and two of her children in 1908.A unique wedding album of two members of prominent German-Dutch business families written and printed in 1896 as a special single copy publication. The album was produced in Amsterdam by Johan K. Koning who took care of the calligraphy of the texts and the printing of the divisonal titles explanatory leaves and vignettes.The spine and edges and corners of the boards show signs of wear with some minor loss of material at the foot of the sipne and the tips of the corners of the boards the leather is somewhat faded adn scratched all without affecting the general clarity of the tooling or the integrity of the binding. The watered silk on the first free flyleaf is torn some offsetting to the blank versos of the leaves and some glue residue on the leaves with dried flowers. Otherwise in good condition. hardcover
1550L7NAYKM7EWW1Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé colophon: printed by Philibert Rollet 1550. 19th-century marbled boards manuscript spine label. 8vo. With Rouillés woodcut device on the title-page eagle on a globe flanked by 2 snakes numerous woodcut decorated initials and an arabesque decoration below the colophon. Well-made but popularly priced Lyon 8vo edition of Mesues three seminal pharmacological works including his great pharmacological handbook the principal model for the European pharmacopoeias translated into Latin by Jacques Dubois/Jacobus Sylvius 1478-1555 who taught anatomy at Paris his students including Vesalius and Gesner. Dubois first published it in a Paris folio edition in 1542. Speaking of the artisanal epistemology crucial to the European scientific revolution De Vos calls Mesues present works a conduit for the Arabic contributions to that epistemology and its subsequent development and impact describing them as the most dominant source of pharmaceutical writings and by far the most influential in the subsequent development of European pharmacy with Duboiss new Latin translation of particular note pp. 668 670 673. It is by far the most detailed and extensive mediaeval book of pharmacological recipes far surpassing the 12th-century Antidotarium Nicolai which had been the standard work in Europe. Not only does it include 432 recipes for compound medications compared with Nicolais 85 it arranges them by the kind of medicine rather than alphabetically and unlike Nicolai it gives detailed instructions for their preparation. It largely superseded Nicolai in Europe in the late 1300s and early 1400s. Although Mesue and his present works have fallen into undeserved obscurity in the general public they went through more editions than Ibn Sina Avicenna Galen or Discorides.If the attribution to Joannis Mesuae Damasceni is correct the author must be Yahya = Yuhanna ibn Masawaih al-Mardini ca. 925-1015 known in the West as Mesue the younger.Provenance: 1 owners inscription in ink dated 1636 struck through and difficult to decipher on front paste-down; 2 another dated 21 August 1818 on back paste-down also difficult to read; 3 19th-century ink owners inscription of Arthur Rénaux on front paste-down. Occasional browning; an owners inscription erased on the title-page with slight loss to authors name. Binding rubbed; hinges cracked and minor chips in the spine.l Baudrier IX 176; Durling 3144; USTC 150499; Wellcome 4280; cf. Hirsch I 171f; not in BMC STC French; for Mesue and the present works: Paula De Vos The Prince of Medicine: Yuhanna ibn Masawayh and the foundations of the Western pharmaceutical tradition in: Isis 104 2013 pp. 667-712; Prioreschi History of medicine IV Byzantine and Islamic pp. 290-291. Guillaume Rouillé (colophon: printed by Philibert Rollet), hardcover
1862ST16794Boston: Printed for the Author for private distribution 1862. 235 x 175 mm. 9 3/8 x 6 7/8". 35 1 pp. <br/> HANDSOME BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO BY THE ROSE BINDERY OF BOSTON stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in covers with wide frame of multiple gilt fillets curling leaf tools and daisy tools raised bands spine gilt in triple-ruled compartments with two leaf tools at center turn-ins framed by gilt rules and daisy tools light brown moiré silk doublures and endleaves top edge gilt. Original wrappers bound in. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 25 PLATES including steel engravings copperplates etchings a mezzotint and a woodcut all depicting people and events from the text. Front flyleaf with morocco bookplate of Frank Deering; original front wrapper with ink presentation inscription: "Mr. Wm. B. Trask / with the regards of / the Author." Text leaves with light even toning occasional faint offsetting from plates or tissue guards one plate with mild foxing otherwise a lovely copy the text and plates clean and fresh and THE HANDSOME BINDING LUSTROUS AND UNWORN.<br/> <br/> This short overview of the life of the Elizabethan courtier and explorer is most attractively bound and extra-illustrated with portraits of Raleigh Queen Elizabeth Francis Drake and other members of the court as well as friends and rivals of the book's subject along with a view of the Tower of London where he was imprisoned the battle with the Spanish Armada and the famous scene in which Raleigh gallantly placed his cloak over a puddle for the queen to cross. The text is an anomaly in the writings of antiquarian and genealogist Samuel Drake 1798-1875 who wrote primarily about early New England including several accounts of Indian captivities. Drake presented this copy in its original wrapper to his fellow editor at the "New-England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal" William Trask. The book was later extra-illustrated and elegantly bound for distinguished Maine collector Frank Deering 1866-1939 by the Rose Bindery in Boston a firm that catered to bibliophiles. <br /> <br /> Around the turn of the 20th century Boston was home to a number of hand binderies formed as part of the American embrace of the Arts & Crafts Movement. Hoping to stand out from the competition the Rose Bindery did not advertise but published a small booklet outlining the services they offered for "the owners of libraries but more especially of rare volumes first editions unique books that require new bindings or where the present binding should be repaired so as to preserve or restore its original character and beauty." The booklet also explained the bindery's creative approach: "It has been truly said that a great deal more thought should be put into what is left out of the design than to what is put into it; dignity and character should always be uppermost in the mind of the designer." Our binding embodies this philosophy with restrained and elegant tooling with an unusual curling leaf tool thoughtfully deployed. <br /> <br /> Deering was head of a lumber company and also served in his state's legislature. History was his main area of interest and his library contained an impressive collection of early Americana. According to his obituary in the journal of the American Antiquarian Society "One of the prominent features of his library was the almost complete collection which he gathered of Indian narratives and captivities in which field his collection was un-rivalled in the country." It seems likely he knew of Samuel Drake due to their shared interest in this topic. The special treatment he commissioned for this book adds greatly to its allure as does the pristine condition of the binding. Printed for the Author for private distribution unknown
AQ30000Single leaf mulready letter- sheet folded addressed to 'Mrs Clive Sanderstead Croydon Surrey' postmarked Frome with the 306 duplex cancellation to folded front and further post-marks of Croydon and Frome dated September 1844 to folded verso. Some tears to folds margins without loss of text remains of opened wax seal and old paper repairs to recto. The earliest of several known variants of this rare plea for donations for the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilization of Africa printed on the reverse of a 'Mulready' penny postal stationary sheet. First issued on 1 May 1840 in parallel with the world's first stamp - the Penny Black - these pre-paid self-folding letter sheets featured an engraved design by John Thompson after William Mulready 1786-1863 and were valid for use from 6th May. Much to postal reformer Rowland Hill's surprise unlike their adhesive philatelic counterpart the Mulready covers quickly proved unpopular both with customers and stationers - who relied upon the sale of writing paper for letters - alike. They were superseded by the introduction of simpler postal stationary with impressions akin to stamps in the top left hand corner in 1841; Mulready sheets were subsequently withdrawn from sale during the early 1840s. Despite their unpopularity soon after issue the promotional opportunities provided by advertising on the verso of the Mulready letter-sheets were seized upon by commercial and voluntary associations alike. Insurance companies banks newspapers publishers and religious institutions are all known to have advertised in such a manner; many made this stationary available in quantity at a discounted rate to ensure wide circulation to the writing desks of the literate across Britain. Advertisements for The Society for the Extinction of the African Slave Trade are known to have featured on nine slightly different advertisements to the verso of the Mulready one- and two-penny letter-sheets; this is the earliest known advertising that 'Shortly will be Published' an Abridgement of Buxton's The African Slave Trade London 1840 implying that these were issued in the very first year of the stationary's use. The fact that no fewer than four works published by John Murray are also advertised could indicate that the cost of producing these pre-paid advertising letter sheets was borne by the publisher. 'A subscription of One Guinea and upwards per annum constitutes an Annual Member. A donation of Ten Guineas and upwards constitutes a Life Member Subscriptions and donations of a smaller amount will be thankfully received.' Founded by English politician Fowell Buxton 1786-1845 in June 1839 with the aim not only of finally extinguishing the Slave Trade in Africa some decades after the original abolition of the Trade in Britain her colonies and the United States but also to 'watch over and befriend the interests of Africa' and form a commercial 'Company which shall cultivate portions of her soil'. As noted in this advertisement which sought 'subscriptions and donations' this included persuading the British Government's sending an expedition see item number 36 led by the Royal Navy to explore the Niger river which despite the death of a full third of the those involved largely to fever did secure the signing of several treaties against the slave trade with tribes in modern day Nigeria. As this advertisement - signed by secretary Irish clergyman and missionary John Trew 1792-1869 notes further expeditions 'into the interior of Africa' were envisaged at 'considerable expense' to the society; however the Society was acrimoniously dissolved in 1843 - the year before this letter-sheet was used - before any such expeditions could be repeated. Stanley Gibbons Queen Victoria Vol. 1 Pt. 1 SG MA480a. Dimensions unfolded: 220 x 200 mm; folded: 133 x 88 mm. unknown
17396829G. Smith In Stanhope-street near Clare-market et al 1739. 1st Edition . Book Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. G. Smith In Stanhope-street near Clare-market et al 1739. 1st Edition . Good/No Jacket. Seven of the ten volumes of this set published in 1739 and 1740 these volumes. Volume 1 contains the alegorical frontispiece indicating that no branch of natural philosophy is foreign to the society. In addition each volume has thirteen numbered engraved plates mostly folding of which plate 5 in volume 4 and plate 9 in volume 5 are missing apparently never having been bound in. Contemporary full calf with simple gilt panelling on the covers and rules across the spine simple blind-embossed borders within the panels raised bands and volume numbers in gilt arabic numerals on spine "BADDAM'S MEMOIRS" on red Morocco labels gilt bordered. All page edges red-sprinkled. The condition of the bindings is worn with some splitting of joints and parting of paper at hinges but still strong with no incipient detaching of boards. Occasional loose free endpaper. Text pages and plates with little if any foxing. Pagination: vi5168; 5164; 1-512489 mis-numbered page 5137;5066;5145blank; 515blank 4; 5164.Usual double free endpapers of this period. The provenance going back through time is indicated by the bookplates of a recent FRS of John Hallifax displaying his arms as granted in 1788 and finally the pioneer inventor and mill-owner Jedediah Strutt who partnered Richard Arkwright in the world's first water-powered cotton mill in CromfordDerbyshire which still largely survives as a shell and later set up giant mills of his own in Belper and Milford sadly almost completely lost in the carpet demolition of the 60's. His small ornate-lettered "Jedh. Strutt" bookplate is attached to the top corner of each front pastedown. G. Smith, In Stanhope-street near Clare-market, et al hardcover
122650London Jonathan Cape 1935. . First trade edition limited issue number 519 of 750 copies; 4to 25.5 x 20 cm; folding maps printed in red and black 54 plates including portrait frontispiece slight age-toning to text leaves as usual otherwise near-fine; publisher's pigskin-backed brown buckram boards gilt gilt crossed swords device to upper cover slight bumping to corners and minor mottling to fore-edges of boards otherwise very good-plus.<br /> A handsome copy of T.E. Lawrence's classic memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom from the collection of Lt. Cdr. Geoffrey Ingleton 1908-1998 one of Australia's foremost maritime historians and his son the noted Tokyo publisher and book dealer Nick.<br /><br />Following his extraordinary military and diplomatic career in Arabia and having already become a legendary figure in the public imagination T.E. Lawrence purchased his Dorset cottage retreat Clouds Hill in 1924 to write his book about the war. The first draft of Seven Pillars was completed by November 1919 but was soon lost according to the author at Reading Station. A second draft was finished during 1922 and finally appeared as a private edition reflecting Lawrence's love of fine printing in 1926.<br /><br />'Subtitled "A triumph" its climax is the Arab liberation of Damascus a victory which successfully concludes a gruelling campaign and vindicates Lawrence's faith in the Arabs. In a way Seven Pillars is a sort of Pilgrim's Progress with Lawrence sustained by his faith in the Arabs successively overcoming physical and moral obstacles' ODNB.<br /> O'Brien A042. London, Jonathan Cape, 1935. hardcover
1917170261London: Constable & Co. 1917. With the additional signed plate Signed limited edition number 443 of 525 copies signed by the artist. The limited edition included an "extra plate" being a duplicate of "He hurried away with long strides" signed by Rackham and this is present here in the original printed envelope. A review in The Bookman noted that "Here is an ideal conjunction of author and artist - the fairy and folk tales of the Brothers Grimm could not have a more fitting illustrator than Arthur Rackham nor he more suitable authors to illustrate." Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates mounted on grey paper black and white illustrations in the text all by Rackham. With additional plate. Original grey cloth spine lettered in gilt front cover lettered and decorated in gilt on white background pictorial endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed. Housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase with white morocco opening. Extremities a little bumped minor tear to top of front joint front hinge split but firm some foxing and browning minor creases to two plates light soiling and creases to envelope: a very good copy. Latimore and Haskell pp. 46-7; Riall p.129. The Bookman December 1917 p. 156. hardcover
