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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
0701139382.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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
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
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
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
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
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
197517362Avon CT: The Limited Editions Club 1975. Limted Edition. Hardcover. Book condition is Near Fine bound in patterned cloth covered boards ; housed in a Very Good brown slipcase. Some rubbing and scuffing to slipcase. Slight edge wear to boards. Text is clean and unmarked illustrated throughout. ; 8vo. 10 1/2"h x 7 1/4"w. Limited to 2000 copies signed by the artist Lynd Ward of which this is copy 313. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
185023334D. Appleton & Company New York 1850. HarDBACK nODuStJacket 1850 1st EditioN Small Brown embossed LEATHER COVER with TITled PapeR Label oN Spine Lettered IN Black Light Rub Wear Scuff Cover VG/VG- NOJacket 184 PGS ADS Interior Nice Tight with Some FOX & SMALL Stains & light Rub Wear slight wrinkiling some pgs Aging some tiny dogeared pages SpIne labEl slight FoX 6 1/4 X 4 in. Approx Light wear to tHE corners and spine ends and some light rubbing to the covers. The binding is solid and tight with no cracking and no loose or missing Pages There is mild foxing throughout the book but otherwise the pages are clean with no marks names creases TeARs or fingerprint smudges. Contains three separately paginated books with two facing tissue-guarded full page enGraved illustrations As frontispieces for each one last pair is missing the tissue-guard: My Autobiography 176 pagES Who Shall Be gReAteST 178 pageS and Which is the Wiser or People Abroad 184 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. D. Appleton & Company, New York hardcover
192684817New York: The John Day Company 1926. First Edition. One of 3000 copies. Publisher's typed note regarding 25 copies with signed engravings laid in. Quarto 28cm; black cloth-covered boards with paper title label on spine; lower edge untrimmed; 54pp; eight wood engravings at frontispiece and throughout text. Previous owner's name inked to front endpaper. Shelf-soil to covers and interior with small nick to title label rubbing and peeling to spine ends and board edges with 3" crack to rear lower spine hinge; Good. In supplied slipcase with light shelf-wear and soil; Very Good. Cabell's collection is organized into four parts including Madoc in modern time on the moon and in the old time with Underwood's illustrations throughout. 84817. The John Day Company unknown
1970011151Barre MA: Barre Publishers 1970. 1st Edition Lim. Hardcover. VG. This one of 100 copies that has a suite of single-sheet engravings each signed by the artist in envelope on pastedown at rear of book not one of the 1000 as usually seen. Quarter leather over marbelized boards which is slightly sun-faded else near fine. Signed by the artist on colophon. Barre Publishers hardcover
193015344The Macmillan Company 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. This old book with Original slipcase is clean solid and in great shape! This is a Signed Limited Edition hardcover book with 318 pages including many illustrations. This book is #310 of 350 copies printed. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The author and illustrator both signed the second end paper. The pages are clean with no soiling writing or tears. The copyright page shows 1930 as the published date. The black slipcase shows just a hint of edgewear and some light soiling. The covers are clean and in great shape. This old book with slipcase looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box! The Macmillan Company hardcover
443825Canadian Publishers. Hardcover. Good. Signed copy. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Summary: Semi-fictitious account of the lives of Newfoundland sealers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. - From the Jacket - "They were a people out of time- a breed of men whose certainty and hardihood whose courage ad tenacity liked them more closely to the ancestors of our species than ourselves. They were one with nameless and long forgotten beings to whose essential qualities we owe our dominance. They were essential Man. Thus Farley Mowat describes the Newfoundland men of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who set out in flimsy ships to hunt seals on the treacherous North Atlantic ice fields. Their heroism an Canadian Publishers hardcover
188917539Very Good. 1889. Etching. This antique etching is lightly toned with the metal border plate mark as expected with this intaglio printmaking technique. Overall size: 12" x 9". Etching size: 6" x 3.85". . unknown
1970210213036Sky Prints Corp 1970-01-01. Spiral-bound. Like New. 0x0x0. 1970-1979 and 1981 Like New inside and Out! Clean & Crisp Pages. Excellent book.Fast Shipping!11 books total Sky Prints Corp unknown
18771409090049E. A. Seemann 1877-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. 2 volume set. 2 Bande. Publisher's red cloth with gold lettering and black decoration. Hardcover. Spine chipped and worn with loss. Covers worn/chipped. Bindings shaken. Hinges cracked. Clean unmarked pages. Numerous illustrations. I. Halfte. Bogen 1-120. Baukunst und Bildnerei der Griechen und Romer der Aegypter und vorderasiatischen Volker des Mittelalters und der Renaissance. 2. Abdruck. 1878. II. Halfte. Bogen 121-246. Bildnerei der Renaissance Schluss. Bildnerei des 17. u.18.Jh. Kunstgewerbe u. Decoration vom 3. bis 18.Jh. Malerei des Alterthums des Decoration alters und der Neuzeit bis Ende des 18.Jh. 1879 This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US. E. A. Seemann hardcover