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1967B30978fParis: Leonce Laget 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Reprint of 1776 original 1967 folio 5 pages of text 20 engravings all loose sheets in gray cloth chemise illustrated in b&w. Book ex-library with only indications being sticker to front pastedown of chemise and pocket to bottom flap contents show mild foxing to front title page otherwise clean bright and unmarked. No DJ. Text in French. THIS LARGE HEAVY BOOK WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING FEES. Leonce Laget hardcover
188928035<p>Longman's Green London Printed by Stottiswoode & Co. 1889. Inlaid Slip Announcing Illustrated by Caton Woodville Reproduced by Permission of Proprietors of Illustrated London News Pictorial Endpapers Decorated Swans & Ships Introduction HB NODustJacket 1889 on Title pg. First edition. VG/VG AS-IS NOJACKET Bound Dark Black cloth with Beveled Edges & Gold Gilt on Front Bright & spine cvr has Gilt Egyptian decorations with tiny end Tears With 336 pages and 16 pages of ads dated January 1889 and 29 full page plates. Cover light rub wear tiny Chips Tears Extremities Slight Lean Interior nice Tight FOXing Some rubbing and bumping to the corners and spine ends binding is tight solid copy. Slight Roll to spine. Wear to extremities. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edward Whymper J. D. Cooper & B. Lloyd .</p> Longman's Green , London , Printed by Stottiswoode & Co. hardcover
1960177507Peking.: Foreign Languages Press. 1960. Post card booklet containing 12 colour postcards of 20th century Chinese woodcuts each 15.5 x 10.5cm left edge perforated coloured pictorial wrappers. Very good condition. Artists include: Hung Chen-shan Shao Keh-ping Ku Yuan Li Huan-min Liu Kuang Cheng Shuang Chao Yen-nien Teng Ko Chao Tsung-tsao Tung Chi-chung Hsiu Chun Tu Chi and Li Ping-fan. . Foreign Languages Press. unknown
1872195548New York.: Harper's Weekly. 23 November1872. Five engravings in three columns 23.5 x 10 cms; on a single newspaper leaf 28.7 x 40.8 cm unrelated text on the verso lower margin creased with a small central tear affecting the caption no loss the image sin very good condition. Engravings from Harper's Weekly in November 1872 all centred on the quinine production in Darjeeling. Production began in the 1860s from seeds sent by the famed botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. Quinine proved indispensable to British rule in India and they invested heavily in plantations to sure up supply.The anti-malarial was vital for colonial expansion "quinine coursed through the bloodstream of empire" Townsend Middleton "Becoming after: The Lives and Politics of Quinine’s Remains" in Cultural Anthropology Vol. 36 Issue 2 pp. 282-311 2014 although probably known more to the readers of Harper's Weekly as an essential for gin and tonic. <br> <br>The five engravings: <br>Foot-Bridge over the River Rungbee <br>Buttress of Suspension Bridge over the River Teestah <br>Cinchona Succirubra Thirty Feet High signed but indecipherable <br>Native of Sikkim <br>Cane Suspension Bridge over the Great Runjeet. . Harper's Weekly. unknown
1857179688London.: Illustrated London News. January 101857. Two half-page engravings 14.5 x 23 cms incomplete descriptive text on a single newspaper leaf marginal spotting and edge-wear but in very good condition. Tranquil views of Canton Guangzhou months prior to the attack on and four year occupation of the city by allied British and French troops during the time of the Second Opium War. <br> <br>From the Estate of the late collector and scholar Arthur Hacker with his pencilled catalogue note lower right. . Illustrated London News unknown
1802219553London.: W. Miller. 1802. Hand-coloured engraving 34.7 x 25.9 cms sheet including plate-mark edge toning but in very good condition. Attractive large image of a Dervise or Dervish prepared as Plate XXX for Dalvimart's work "The Costume of Turkey". <br>"Dalvimart's is one of the basic works on Turkish costume which has provided the prototypes for numerous other illustrative material. It is known that Dalvimart travelled in Turkey and Greece in 1797-8" Atabey. . W. Miller. unknown
1802219551London.: W. Miller. 1802. Hand-coloured engraving 34.7 x 25.8 cms sheet including plate-mark edge toning but in very good condition. Attractive large image prepared as plate 17 for Dalvimart's work "The Costume of Turkey". <br>"Dalvimart's is one of the basic works on Turkish costume which has provided the prototypes for numerous other illustrative material. It is known that Dalvimart travelled in Turkey and Greece in 1797-8" Atabey. . W. Miller. unknown
1802219552London.: W. Miller. 1802. Hand-coloured engraving 34.7 x 26 cms sheet including plate-mark edge toning but in very good condition. Attractive large image prepared as Plate IV for Dalvimart's work "The Costume of Turkey". <br>"Dalvimart's is one of the basic works on Turkish costume which has provided the prototypes for numerous other illustrative material. It is known that Dalvimart travelled in Turkey and Greece in 1797-8" Atabey. . W. Miller. unknown
1987BIB317555London: The Hermit Press. 1987. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good condition. Illustrated with lovely wood-engravings by Anthony Christmas. Limited edition of 250 of which this is no. 238. A charming book printed by hand at the Hermit Press on Zerkall mould-made paper using an 1834 Imperial Press. The book is bound by Woolnough Fine Binding the boards are covered in a genuine Curwen pattern paper. Unpaginated. A short excerpt from the narrative length poem originally published in 1926. . Limited Edition. Hardback. The Hermit Press hardcover
1870313561The National Publishing Co. 1870. Hard Cover Half Leather -- Fair -- Other than replaced front cover and wear to spine and back cover book is clean and tight -- Printing date 187 -- 851 pages with illustrations throughout -- The Light in the East: A Comprehensive Religious Work embracing the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and the Lives of His Holy Apostles and Evangelists. Together with the Lives of the Patriarchs and Prophets and of the Most Eminent Martyrs Fathers and Reformers. To which is added the History of the Jews from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. And a History of the Religious Denominations of the World. Half-Leather. Fair. The National Publishing Co. Hardcover
19659900038062Kansas City MO: Excalibur Press 1965. Hardcover. etchings. Unpaginated. Large 4to. Small rubber stamp of Carnegie Public Library to copyright page and evidence of pocket removal from rear free endpaper. Slight trace of accession number to base of spine. No other such markings. Contents clean and tight. Corners of boards bumped. Slight wear to edges of boards. Else in good plus to very good condition. Each plate numbered and signed by the artist with limitation of 50 noted in pencil. This book is one of only 50 copies produced. The text was set in Bulmer and printed on a Chandler and Price hand press on Rives lightweight; etchings are intaglio: inked wiped and printed by hand on a Charles Brand etcher's press using dampened Rives heavyweight. Binding is sewn on cords and covered with Fabriano and raw linen. Headbands hand-sewn. Printed and bound by Louise A. Moss Excalibur Press in 1965. Excalibur Press hardcover
1933002536Heiliger Berg bei Olmütz Czech Republic: Otto F. Babler 1933. Paperback. Very Good . Michalík Rudolf. 24 p.: frontispiece and 1 additional full-page woodcut; 20 cm. Plain off-white wrappers with wrapper title. Hand-colored initial article. "Mit Holzschnitten illustriert und auf der Handpresse gedruckt von Rudolf Michalik. Herausgegeben vom Übersetzer auf dem Heiligen Berge bei Olmütz als 2. Bändchen der Edition Heliotrop in 125 Exemplaren. Der erste Besitzer dieses Büchlein ist Zdenek Vojacek." -- colophon. Signed by the translator on the colophon. In Very Good Condition: wrapper is slightly soiled; otherwise clean and bright. Otto F. Babler paperback
18890054051889. Very Good. 2 albumen prints. The first Rouen -- Fontaine de la Grosse Horloge is 255 x 199 mm. on a cardboard mount 297 x 239 mm. Caption printed in photograph in lower right: "54. Rouen_Fontaine de la Grosse horloge." Written in ink at lower edge of image: "Rouen August 25/89." Written in pencil next to photograph on mount: "Printed by the house of T. Herlyison." The fountain was designed by Jean-Pierre Defrance and built next to the famous Gros Horloge in 1743; the bas relief depicts the mythological scene of the river Alpheus and the nymph Arethusa and Cupid flying above them. This photograph includes a man waiting for a bucket to fill at the fountain and a woman carrying a bucket and moving off to the right. The window to the right of the fountain says "Debit de la Fontaine." The second photograph 209 x 270 mm on the other side of the card mount is an albumen print identified along the lower mount edge as only "Rouen." It shows the Fontaine Sainte-Marie built in 1879 with the original lights on either side. In Very Good Condition: lower right-hand corner of Fontaine de la Grosse Horloge slightly creased; both photographs are clean and bright. unknown
1937V71297London: Trustees of the British Museum 1937. Hardcover. Very Good-. Plates from the museum collection 104 examples on 43 leaves. The frontispiece is tinted in green and rose. Folio green cloth gilt titled to spine with library numbers to foot of spine/slight wear to head & f-oot of spine 34pp plates. Ex Library with neat 18mm circular stamp to all blank versos of the plates and also surrounding the plate number plus 6 more to the preliminaries & text.Neat shelving number to back of titlepage and with Cheltenham Reference Library label to pastedown. Facing this is a presentation plate "from the Trustees The British Museum dated 20th May1937". A clean neat copy with fine large illustrations. Trustees of the British Museum hardcover
0701139382.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19192020020Ditchling Sussex: S. Dominic's Press 1919. First edition. Paperback. fine. 24mo 47 pages stiff brown wrappers untrmmed unopened inked name from 1934 on front blank. <br/><br/> Gill ERIC GILL BIBLIOGRAPHY 371. Illustrated with one wood-engraving: "The Last Judgement" P107 . Issued as Welfare Handbook No. 4. S. Dominic's Press paperback
188621521Mrs. Frank Leslies NY Leslie 1886. HB NODustJacket Issued1886 1st edition Pictorial color Cover of Pyramids & East cover with small chips tears pieces to Extremities & Up & Down spine strip almost all Missing & Wear Interior Rub wear FoXing some smudges O/W relatively tight FRAGILE VG-/G- AS-IS NODJ 311 pages Last few pages Probably Missing 4to - over 934" - 12" tall Back & Front Hinges slightly Separating Travel adventures with added history and legends relating to the places being visited. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Mrs. Frank Leslies NY Leslie hardcover
1870mon0000090526The National Publishing Co. 1870-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good. in x in x in. Black Leather Cover - Gold Lettering.rn1870 - The National Publishing Co.rnGilded pagesrnClean unmarked textrnTight binding. The National Publishing Co. hardcover
192019018Good. c. 1920. Hardcover. Collection of 5 antique lithographs. Lithos are toned with folds as issued and tears and chips in the margins as shown but clean and in good condition. Lithos of totems masks and effigies are 17.25" x 11". The tool lithos are 14" x 10.5". . hardcover
199538028New York: Weatherhill/ Phoenix Art Museum 1995. Thick 4to. x 2 313 1 pp. 100s of colour and blk & wht plates illusts. some large folding. Brown cloth gilt lettrng w/ d.j. NF/NF. First edition of this beautifully illustrated catalogue of the deluxe Japanese woodblock prints owned by Frank Lloyd Wright which were only recently discovered in the 1980s. Weatherhill/ Phoenix Art Museum, hardcover
1883D2341London: Macmillan and Co. 1883. Hardcover. Good. Original pictorially stamped cloth; illustrated throughout. Cloth frayed or chipped at corners spine tips and here and there along joints; crack in the gutter at pp. 40-41 with binding just a bit shaken. Still a good reading copy with charming illustrations and details. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co. hardcover
1990002551San Francisco: Alan Wofsy 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Folio <br/><br/>Published at $295. Engravings. Alan Wofsy hardcover
1954064381Great Britain: The Golden Cockerel Press 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 158 pages 4to. No DJ. Missing prospectus. Shelfwear: scuffing along edges and covers many smudges and some staining on cover boards light tanning and foxing. Tight binding. Volume is in Very Good condition. The Golden Cockerel Press Hardcover
199520053005London: Frances Lincoln Publishers 1995. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Published by Frances Lincoln Publishers. First printing thus. About 10 x 8 inches bound in green cloth with title information to spine in gold. With beautifully rendered and printed wood engravings throughout. NEW. Not read. Binding firm and square. All corners pointed. Without bumps or creases. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. Dust jacket same. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed. <br/> <br/> Frances Lincoln Publishers hardcover
19620008021Chicago: R. Hunter Middleton ca. 1962. New edition. Fine. Thomas Bewick. 4to measures 7.25 x 9.75 inches / 18.5 x 25 cm image size of 10.5 x 8.2 cm. <br/><br/>This was print no. 1 in the series of Thomas Bewick's wood engravings which were exhibited at Letterio Calapai's Studio in Glencoe IL. in 1969. In editions of Bewicks BRITISH BIRDS prior to 1847 this bird was mis-identified as a Ring-tailed Eagle and not as now Golden Eagle Immature. This impression was made from Bewick's original wood block by R. Hunter Middleton at Chicago. R. Hunter Middleton unknown
