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172944168London: Printed for J. Tonson 1729. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Duodecimo. 1 plate 24pp. 1 plate 348pp. 11 plates with tissue guards. 19th century three-quarter calf with gilt lettering on black label of spine over marbled boards with guilt ruling; raised bands protected by modern mylar. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving. Historiated and decorative head and endpieces. Decorative initials.<br /> <br /> Content: Sapho to Phaon; The Fame wholly translated by Mr. Pope; Canace to Macareus Edward Poley; The same by Ed. Floyd; Hypermnestra to Linus; Ariadne to Theseus; Hermione to Orestes; Leander to Hero; Hero to Leander; Laodamia to Protesilaus; O Enone to Paris; A Paraphrase on O Enone to Paris; Paris to Helen; Helen to Paris; Penelope to Ulysses; The Fame by Mrs. Wharton; Hypsipyle to Jason; Medea to Jason; Phaedra to Hippolytus; Dido to Aeneas; The fame by another hand; Briseis to Achilles; Dejanira to Herculus; The fame by another hand; Acontius to Cydippe; Cydippe to Acontius; Ulysses to Penelope; Demophoon to Phillis; Paris to E Enone; Ovid's Amours. In Three Books. Illustrated with thirteen steel plate engravings with tissue guards. Binding with some scuffing along edges. Block somewhat age toned. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. Printed for J. Tonson hardcover
1959031990Los Angeles: Anais Nin 1959. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover Issue Beige Wrappers Printed In Black; Unpaginated. Inscribed By Nin To A Female Friend And With The Friend's Signature. Wear Foxing To Covers Spine Bowed Still Very Good. <br/> <br/> Anais Nin paperback
178023Mid 19th Century. 12 hand-coloured engravings laid onto card rounded corners each approx 11.3 x 7.8cm title text in English Italian French and German slight toning and edgewear one with a chipped corner but overall in good condition. Single figure costume engravings likely prepared for an educational work for children these a larger format than those by Bauer the German family of globe makers. Ten of the cards are paired male and female examples: Spanish Russians "Black Peter" Gipsies a pair from Syria and two of female figures from the Tyrol and Greenland. <br> <br>This item is held off-site. Please note there may be a few days delay while it is brought into our shop for viewing or mailing to you. Thank you for your understanding. . unknown
BN316199Editions Opéra. Softcover. L'héraldique & ses arcanes <br/><br/>L'héraldique & ses arcanes Claude René d' Estampes Editions Opéra paperback
7545All five prints 'Publish'd by Robt. Sayer No. 53 Fleet Street London as the Act directs 1st. Septr. 1772.'. Each of the five on a piece of good laid paper roughly 15 cm square. Wide margins with indentation of plate 9.5 x 8 cm. All five good with occasional light creasing to margins. The second and third items more aged that the others but all good and suitable for framing. Delicately engraved and skillfully coloured. Item One: 'Mr. Bellecour. 3 Comed. Franc. Le Joueur. dans la Comédie du même nom.' Item Two: '19 Comed. Franc. Michau et Henri. dans la Partie de Chasse d'Henri IV. Qu'êtes-vous allons qu'êtes-vous' Item Three: 'Made. Favart. 22 Coméd. Ital. La Vieille. dans la Fée Urgele Acte III.' Item Four: 'Mrs. Trial & Clerval. 29 Coméd. Ital. Bertrand et Monteauciel dans le Déferteur. Voulez-vous bien chanter quand on vous en prie' Item Five: 'Mr. Laurette 30 Coméd. Ital. Jean Louis. dans le Déserteur.' Presumably from Whirsker's "The Metamorphoses of Melpomene and Thalia or Dramatic Characters of the French and Italian Comedies." London: Robert Sayer n.d. but circa 1770. 30 plates. Cohen 1066. Lewine 356 copy on with 19 of the 30 plates at $3000: Micahel Hollander. See Image. All five prints 'Publish'd by Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street London, as the Act directs, 1st. Septr. 1772.' unknown
1733biblio311Amsterdam: Chatelain 1733. <p>Gravure sur cuivre La feuille = 310 X 460 mm la cuvette = 255 x 352 mm quelques rousseurs en marge image propre</p> Chatelain unknown
52102Hamburg B. S. Berendsohn ca. 1850. . Schrägansicht des Gebäudes mit figürlicher Staffage im Vordergrund. - 1824 gründete der Hamburger Weinhändler Georg Andreas Knauer 1759-1828 in Eppendorf einen Brunnenbetrieb künstlicher Mineralwässer der sich bald schon zu einem "mondänen" Gesellschaftstreffpunkt entwickelte. Den Mittelpunkt des Betriebes bildete das hier dargestellte 1828 Ecke Eppendorfer Landstr./Loogestieg errichtete "Konversationshaus" nach Knauer "Andreasbrunnen" genannt. Nach 1850 verlor der Kurbetrieb an Bedeutung u. wurde eingestellt; an seine Stelle trat ein Gartenrestaurant. Im Zuge der Industrialisierung wurde dann das alte Konversationshaus zum "ersten Reihenhaus" Eppendorfs umgebaut u. 1910 abgerissen. - Zu dem Maler Julius Gottheil 1850-1864 in Hamburg siehe Der Neue Rump S. 148. Hamburg, B. S. Berendsohn, [ca. 1850]. unknown
52093Hamburg B. S. Berendsohn ca. 1845. . Frontal-Ansicht des von dem dänischen Arzt Otto Martin Emil Langgaard geb. 1815 1844 am Rothenbaum No. 57 errichteten Orthopädischen Instituts das er bis 1860 leitete. - Zu dem Maler Julius Gottheil 1850-1864 in Hamburg siehe Der Neue Rump S. 148. Hamburg, B. S. Berendsohn, [ca. 1845]. unknown
195720127Nancy Frankreich France: Berger-Levrault 1957. Fine/VG. Two Fine Volumes In Very Good Case. TEXT IN FRENCH. Text by Pierre Frieden with 17 tissue-guarded engravings by Albert Decaris. Case has some surface spotting with a couple of short tears; else a fine copy in a very good case of a SCARCE first edition first printing. Pierre Frieden 1892-1959 was a Luxembourg politician and writer. HEAVY 2.6KG PLEASE CONTACT US ABOUT POSTAGE. ORDERS OUTSIDE OF UK MAY INCUR EXTRA COST. First Edition First Printing. Fine/Very Good. Berger-Levrault unknown
189217616Raphael Tuck & Sons. Very Good. 1892. Print. Original antique color chromolithograph from the rare and highly sought "The Voyage of Columbus." The print is lightly toned with soiling in the margins but illustration is clean and overall in very good condition. Current overall size including margins: 15.75" x 12" trimmed down slightly from original size to clean up edges. Chromolitho size: 13" x 9.5". . Raphael Tuck & Sons unknown
1957003740New York: Museum of Modern Art 1957. Paperback. Near Fine. 28 p. 2 leaves of tissue plates: six wood engravings and one woodcut; 26 x 29 cm. Stitched blue-grey wrappers with label printed in red and black. Within original portfolio covered in the same glue-grey paper with matching printed label on the front and a spine label printed in red. Designed illustrated and printed by Leonard Baskin at the Gehenna Press Nov. 1957. Handprinted in Perpetua type. "The illustrations have been printed from six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut on Amalfi Italian hand-made paper and on Moriki and Mending Tissue both hand-made in Japan." This is no. 635 of a limited edition of 975 copies from an edition of 1000; signed by Leonard Baskin. It was honored as one of the "Fifty Books of the Year 1957" by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Book is in Near Fine Condition: front wrapper lightly creased from upper corner along fore-edge; clean and crisp. Portfolio is in Good Condition: both front sections are starting to separate along the front joints from the tail; color is faded; lacking small part of spine label; front label is complete and bright. Museum of Modern Art paperback
188356228Paris: P. Roquette Librairie 55 Passage Choiseul 55 1883. 4to. 9.25 x 12.5 in. 4 vii 1 34 pp unpaginated. Engraved frontisp. w/ tissue guard including 16 engravings. Original printed softcovers preserved in contemporary three-quarter morocco over marbled boards binding by Enry - Jose Pierson t.e.g. minor scuffing edgewear light wear to corners still VG copy w/ interior in NF condition. First edition thus of this beautiful series of engravings wonderfully executing Scarron’s picaresque novel relating the occasionally ribald adventures of a company of strolling players. Tiburce de Mare was a noted French portrait painter and engraver and son of Johannes de Mare who frequently contributed to the Gazette des Beaux Arts. P. Roquette Librairie, 55, Passage Choiseul, 55, paperback
197016615SANTA CRUZ: KAYAK. 1970. Fine with no dust jacket. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Fine in printed wrappers. Trace of rubbing on printed price at rear cover. One of a 1000 copies. . SANTA CRUZ: KAYAK. 1970 paperback
96510<p>Paris circa 1805 through 1814. . Very good. - A suite of 18 plates by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux engraved on creamy white stock measuring between 10-1/2 inches by 8 inches and 11 inches by 8-1/2 inches with large margins there is one smaller exception. The images depict the various cries of Paris merchants. All but three are signed "JDB" in the plate. Most of the images are identified and titled in French in pencil by a previous owner. The collection is as follows:</p><p>"Marchand de gravures etalagiste" portrays street vendors of engravings offering their merchandise to customers some of whom are handling the prints. Several prints hang from a wire stretched between poles in the background and a large blank canvas hangs from the center of the pole. In some editions what is here a blank canvas bears the printed title "Suite de Marchands ambulants de Paris par J.D. Bertaux" and serves as frontispiece to the work. The image measures 3-1/4 inch high by 2-1/4 inch wide within 4 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide plate marks. The edges are very slightly creased with two tiny tears to the left edge and a couple of tiny stains or spotting to the bottom margin of the page.</p><p>"Decrotteur et ramoneur" portrays a man shining the shoes of an officer as chimney sweeps and other shoe-shiners are pictured in the background. A small dog stands at the side of the officer. The image measures 2-1/4 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/4 inch high by 4 inch wide plate marks. There is some minor faint foxing.</p><p>"Parade de comediens ambulants" portrays traveling actors performing and parading on the porch of a house with spectators in the foreground. The image measures 2-3/8 inch high by 3-3/8 inches wide within 3-1/2 inch high by 4-1/4 inch wide plate marks. There is light foxing throughout.</p><p>"Colleur d'affiches" portrays a bill-poster perched on a ladder pasting a poster or bill to the corner wall of a building. Another worker stands around the corner and a family looks on with their dog. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-3/8 inches wide within 3 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There are some minor faint stains and minor foxing to the margins.</p><p>"Gagne petit" portrays a knife grinder or sharpener carrying his grinding wheel on his back with a dog at his side. Another knife grinder wheels his equipment in a wheelbarrow. A house and people are pictured in the background. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There is minor foxing to the margins.</p><p>"Remouleur" although the title differs the image is identical to the prior one. "Gagne petit" and "remouleur" both translate to knife grinder or sharpener. There is some scattered foxing and the paper is lightly darkened.</p><p>"Titre" possibly the title page to the work. The image portrays men filling water containers from a city's monument fountain with water pouring from the mouth of a troll. The image measures 2-1/2 inches high by 3-3/8 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. The edges of the plate are darkened with a short tear to the top edge and just a hint of foxing to the margins.</p><p>"Serrurier" portrays a locksmith grinding keys near the open gate leading to a mansion. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-3/8 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There is a minor crease to the bottom right corner with just a hint of foxing to the margins.</p><p>"Cardeuses de matelats" portrays mattress carders. 3 women are seated with their carding tools and sections of stuffed fabric. The image measures 3-3/8 inches high by 2-3/8 inches wide within 4-1/4 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide plate marks. There are minor creases to the corners with a couple of faint specks to the margins.</p><p>"Menuisiers" portrays carpenters working on furniture at their work table. The image measures 2-1/4 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There is light scattered foxing mostly to the margins.</p><p>"Marchands de parapluies et de soufflets" portrays an umbrella merchant carrying several on his back and a bellows merchant with several fireplace bellows attached to this clothing. The image measures 3-1/4 inches high by 2-3/8 inches wide within 4 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide plate marks.</p><p>"Batteurs de platre" portrays plaster beaters. A man is beating away at plaster spread out upon the ground as another carries a basket of plaster to spread over it. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-3/8 inches wide within 3-1/4 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There is some minor foxing to the margins.</p><p>"Charrons" portrays wheel builders constructing wooden carriage wheels. The image measures 2-1/4 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide plate marks. There is some minor faint foxing throughout.</p><p>"Scieurs de bois" portrays sawyers at work as an empty horse-drawn cart rides away and another stacks wood upon a ramp leading to a barn's loft. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 4 inch wide plate marks. There are some minor sports of foxing or browning to the print.</p><p>"Lingere au petit crochet" portrays an elderly woman cloth merchant carrying her linens in a basket on her back. Several dogs are near her and another cloth merchant can be seen speaking to a man in the background. The image measures 3-3/8 inches high by 2-3/8 inches wide within 4-1/8 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide plate marks. There are minor creases to the edges.</p><p>"Porteur d'eau" portrays a water carrier and his wife pulling a large barrel of water on a cart. Another water cart and houses are depicted in the background at left. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/4 inches high by 3-7/8 inches wide plate marks. There is creasing to the bottom right corner and some foxing to the margins.</p><p>"Tomeliers" portrays coopers at work constructing wooden barrels to which they affix metal rings. The image measures 2-3/8 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/8 inch high by 3-3/4 inch wide plate marks. There is some minor foxing throughout.</p><p>An untitled image portrays barbers working on customers hair and beards and a wigmaker at her loom. Several wigs hang from the wall. The image measures 2-1/4 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide within 3-1/2 inch high by 4-7/8 inch wide plate marks. This print is engraved on a sheet which is slightly smaller than the others measuring 7-3/8 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide. There is a piece chipped from the bottom left corner with some foxing and darkening to the margins. The artist's name here spelled "Duplessis-Berteaux" by an early owner is penned on the verso.</p><p>The engravings are in overall very good condition with a paper tab mounted along one edge of the verso of each print.</p><p>The French painter and draughtsman Jean Duplessis-Bertaux 1747-1819 produced etchings and burin engravings. Having taken part in the French Revolution Duplessis-Bertaux produced a series of prints entitled "Scenes de la Revolution" followed by "Campagnes de Napoleon" which illustrated scenes from Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian campaigns engraved after paintings by Carle Vernet. He also produced a series of engravings portraying the street cries of Paris "Cris de Paris". Duplessis-Bertaux also collaborated on some prints with Jean-Louis Delignon and produced several pornographic prints many of which were printed anonymously but were later re-attributed to him. The work entitled "Recueil de cent sujets de divers genres" published in 1814 gathered together in one volume 100 of Duplessis-Bertaux' engravings from eight of the suites including military scenes and those from his Cries of Paris which had previously been distributed seperately.</p> Paris, circa 1805 through 1814. hardcover
1947AM2329<p>Great Northern Railway Co. Very Good. 1947. No Edition Stated. Stapled wraps. Includes 12-page book 24 color prints and original envelope book and prints are in VG condition envelope is Good; Book has light toning front cover has small crease and several light soil spots; prints have light toning bottom right corners very lightly bumped one print is creased couple tiny tears couple small creases; envelope is toned and wrinkled and scuffed flap is creased and curling two 1" tears and couple smaller tears to edges; 12 pages .</p> Great Northern Railway Co. paperback
197754000El Paso: Ei Paso Public Library Association 1977. 1977. TEXAS MEXICO. First edition. 4to. Limited edition of 3000 copies and the plates destroyed. Designed by Carl Hertzog. 11 3/4' x 12 3/4" maroon cloth titles stamped in gilt on front cover and spine front and rear endpapers decorated with the repeated words "Otis A. Aultman Commercial Photographer" xiii 1 100 1 pp. introduction illustrated from photographs portraits acknowledgments. 100 striking full-page photographs taken in and around El Paso Texas Columbus New Mexico and northern Mexico during the time of the Mexican Revolution. Non-authorial inked gift inscription on the half title page else a fine copy without dust jacket as issued. Ei Paso Public Library Association, 1977. hardcover
200012345Lewisburg PA: The Press of Appletree Alley 2000. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Large octavo 69pp. illustrated. From The Bucknell University Fine Editions: A Series in Contemporary Poetry edited by Cynthia Hogue. A near fine copy in the publisher's abstract paste paper boards. Boards just a tinge warped in the same direction and the spine a tinge cocked; else lovely. The colophon reads: "This book was hand-set in 14 pt. Spectrum monotype with titling in Open Kapitalen both Van Krimpen types. Designed and set by Jason Urban and Juanita Bishop this edition was printed by Barnard Taylor and Juanita Bishop in Rives lightweight mouldmade paper with a Vandercook No. 4 press. The wood engravings were printed directly from the blocks. Each book has been hand-bound by Don Rash in cloth and paper over boards using an original abstract paste paper." This is number 35 of 125 limited copies each of which is SIGNED by Weaver and Richards on the colophon. A striking production. Laid-in is a letter from the previous owner to the publisher enclosing a check for his copy and lamenting the then-imminent demise of the press. The Press of Appletree Alley hardcover
19547400London: Golden Cockerel Press 1954. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto. 2 158 pp. frontis plates. Limited edition number 205 of 260. As issued in paper over boards backed in buckram; 8 full page wood engravings and two in-text vignettes. Generally an attractive copy; spine a trifle sunned; tail of the spine bumped; bookseller's pencil notes to front free endpaper; bottom edges of many pages are just a bit toned quite subtle; a beautiful copy. <br /> <br /> "First published in 1603 in Latin this very early picaresque novel immediately became a European best-seller. Written by a Scotsman who was born and bred in France it was reprinted in Latin twenty times with the first seventy years and was also translated into French Dutch and German. It was never translated into English although the original was widely read in England at the time. Our translation was thus the first to introduce Euphormio's bizarre and unpredictable adventures to the ordinary reader" Cock-A-Hoop 196. Golden Cockerel Press unknown
1805046033New York: John Low 1805. Please read complete description. Scarce single plate volume XXI for Low's encyclopedia first such reference published in the United States in seven volumes from 1805 to 1811. Heavily worn volume containing 46 plates original total unknown numbered by section not consecutively with the following subjects: Scenography incorrectly identified as stenography on front cover; Sculpture; Shadow; Ships; Short Hand; Silk Manufactures; Steam Engine; Stereotomy; Stocking Frame; Stone Henge; Sugar Mill; Surgery. Paper covered boards with remains of leather spine two blanks at front and at rear about 10.75 x 8.5 inches. Covers heavily worn and detached spine chipping away blanks and final plate detached paper very age-browned and somewhat brittle especially nearest the edges some stray spots closed tear to one of the Steam Engines plates another plate with repair to reverse side generally very worn. . Hard Cover. Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Low Hardcover
18952092902141000046Kokka-sha 1895. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B4 Kokka-sha paperback
19282092902141000629Takashimaya 1928. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B3 Takashimaya paperback
1840lib55342BC5Charles Tilt 1840. Hardcover. Good. original orange binding with gold design 3o engraved views by Cooke Charles Tilt hardcover
1929Lib29183BC6mhThe Golden Cockerel Press 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. Book is in very good condition. Red boards with black spine gilt lettering on spine. Clean text with tight spine. Foxing to front fly page and rear page fortunately text is clean. 156pp. Limited edition 154/500 copies. The text is in the original formatting of the 1824 text. Some chipping to the top and bottom of the spine. The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
1835000819London Eng: Whittaker & Co 1835. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good -. 2 volumes: xxiv 379 5 p.; 389 5 p.: hand-colored frontispiece and hand-colored title vignette in each volume 18 hand-colored plates several in-text drawings in each volume; 21 cm. Original dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine titles and decoration; all boards have blind-stamped decoration. Yellow endpapers. In Good- Condition: front hinge of vol. 1 completely separated and front free endpaper and frontispiece of vol. 1 detached but present text block is otherwise solid and binding is in one piece; spines are sunned; cloth lacking at ends of spines; corners are bumped; covers are slightly soiled; title pages are foxed; otherwise only occasional light foxing; pages and plates are otherwise clean and tight. Whittaker & Co hardcover
56996Wien Editio Totius Mundi ca. 1970. . Blick nach Norden von der Elbe über den unbebauten Grasbrook auf das Panorama der Stadt. Mit 2 Kartuschen 2 Wappenmedaillons u. reicher Schiffsstaffage unter durchgehender Titelzeile. - Zu dem Stecher siehe: G. Kowalewski Petrus Kaerius in: Mitth. Hamb. Gesch. XXVII 1907 S. 549-557. - Zu dem Verleger siehe: Simon Maria Claes Jansz. Visscher. o.O. Freiburg u. Hamburg 1958. Diss. - Winzige Druckstelle im weißen Rand; sonst gutes sauberes Exemplar. (Wien, Editio Totius Mundi, [ca. 1970]). unknown
