326 résultats
1983110471983. VG. Color wraps. 24 pp. 23 bw plates. With sections on the twin brothers' lives style and technique and subject matter this slim volume contains some exquisite renderings of their unique animal art as well as a catalogue of 40 annotated works. paperback books
1845BL4669Providence R.I.:: B.F. Moore printer 1845. 1845. Small 4to. 53 1; 13 pp. Original printed wrappers; lacks back cover stitched some edge wear. Very good. Rare. B.F. Moore, printer, 1845. unknown books
196946193Boston: New England Free Press 1969. First Edition. One-sheet newsletter offset printed on blue stock folded twice to create an eight-panel publication; measures 45.5cm x 43.25cm 17 15/16" x 17" when fully-opened. Hint of sunning to folds else very Near Fine. New England feminist publication printing lengthy statements from Lucia Montague and Diana Gerrity; the newsletter opens into an illustrated poster printing letters quotes poems women's lib news items and movement events. A list of suggested literature appears on rear wrapper. New England Free Press unknown books
19201500Lowell MA c. 1920. Hardcover. 68 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Prefaced by the poem - A Recipe For a Day. Boards rubbed and bumped. BROWN 1433. <br/><br/> hardcover books
165726937London: Printed by Henry Hills and John Field Printers to His Highness 1657. 1st edition Wing E-1046. Not in Gabler nor Goldsmith. Printed self-wrappers. VG split developing along fold. Now housed in archival mylar sleeve. 2 2 pp. Commonwealth seal to t.p. Folio: 2. 10-5/8" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>Gabler though not listing this item does briefly discuss & list divers tracts & pamphlets written in the early 1640s voicing public outrage over a contract between Charles I and the Vintner's Company of London- under said contract the Vintners agreed to pay a 46 shilling tax on every ton of Spanish & French wine & also agreed to annually buy a certain amount from English importers. In return the vintners were permitted to sell cooked victuals a proviso not in their original charter & allowed to recoup the tax by charging a penny a quart more that the officially published price. The ultimate effect was to give the Vintners' Company a monopoly on the wine trade all the while enriching the coffers of Charles I. Needless to say wine drinkers were livid. Parliament eventually responded in the consumers' favor. Gabler pp. 2-3. This act of Cromwell's establishes limitations on prices for Spanish & French wines a proclamation issued perhaps in memory of the Vintner's Company earlier attempts at profiteering Printed by Henry Hills, and John Field, Printers to His Highness unknown books
1997044324Toronto: Published for the Centre for Medieval STudies By the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 1997. Edited from Wolfenbüttel Herzog August Bibliothek Codex Guelferbytanus 185 Helmstadiensis by Aaron E. Wright Toronto medieval Latin texts 25. Published for the Centre for Medieval STudies By the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies unknown books
1934220477New York E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1934. 1934. First edition so stated. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of William Lamb 2nd Viscount Melbourne and 9 other illustrations. Index. Original gilt stamped maroon cloth uncut. Dust jacket unclipped. Fine fresh copy. No signatures or bookplates. F. Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. [1934]. hardcover books
18679351NY HARPER 1867 1867. ORIGINAL DARK GREEN CLOTH FIRST AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NY, HARPER, 1867 hardcover books
18679352TORONTO CHEWETT 1867 1867. ORIGINAL DARK GREEN CLOTH FIRST CANADIAN EDITION VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. Hardcover. TORONTO, CHEWETT, 1867 hardcover books
1961160053NY FARRAR STRAUS & CUDAHY 1961 1961. DUST JACKET UNCLIPPED LARGE CHIP TO FRONT COVER FIRST AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NY, FARRAR, STRAUS & CUDAHY, 1961 hardcover books
108053Rare wax Great Seal of Queen Victoria presented with a large elaborately illustrated patent granted to William Edward Newton. Housed in a custom metal case the patent measures 7 inches in diameter and depicts Queen Victoria on the Royal Throne flanked by two ladies in waiting. The seal is affixed to the patent with a red braided twine. Partially printed on vellum the patent is dated 1858 and grants William Edward Newton the rights to his invention which made "improvements in the hanging and arranging of cylindrical conical or spiral steel railroad springs for Railway carriages" with elaborate engraved royal and botanical headpieces and borders and the original blue paper seal. Housed in the original royal presentation box with gilt royal coat of arms. In near fine condition. hardcover books
1803WRCAM35404Washington 1803. pp.195-316ivlxxxv pp. plus index. Half title. Original plain wrappers. Some old waterstaining at top of many leaves. Overall good untrimmed. The 85pp. supplement contains treaties of the United States in their first Congressional printings. The treaty with France had attempted to reconcile the many commercial problems the United States had with the French republic; promulgated in 1800 it was ratified by John Adams in one of his last acts as President. The British convention of 1802 was an attempt to settle the commercial differences arising from interpretations of Jay's Treaty although this measure did not solve the problems which drove Jefferson to the Embargo a few years later. This volume also contains U.S. treaties with the Chickasaws Creeks Choctaws and Senecas. MALLOY pp.496 610. unknown books
180228715London: Pub. for John Reeves pr. by W. Bulmer 1802. 8vo 24 cm 9.5". vi 694 pp. <br><br>There were minor differences between the Prayer Books of the Church of England and the Church of Ireland up until 1801 the year that the churches merged; the various 1801 BCPs were the first to use the "United Church" designation. John Reeves had been appointed king's printer in 1800 and edited his own version of the BCP of which this is the second edition; the separate title-page following the preliminary matter is dated 1801. That preliminary matter offering historical and liturgical commentary is extensive and interesting.<br>Â Â Â Â Fore-edge: This beautiful example bears a subtly shaded => fore-edge painting showing Westminster Abbey in the background behind a waterfront view with sailboats.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: Full straight-grain dark olive green morocco covers framed in elegant feather and pearl twist gilt roll turn-ins with floral gilt roll. Stone-pattern marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Griffiths Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer 1802/1. Binding as above mild rubbing overall with some abraded areas consolidated joints and extremities subtly repaired aesthetically appropriate endbands supplied. Title-page with inked ownership inscription dated 1803 "The gift of my beloved husband." Intermittent faint spots of foxing mostly confined to early leaves. One inked marginal annotation in an early hand three psalms 14547 with small inked emphasis marks pages otherwise clean. Pub. for John Reeves (pr. by W. Bulmer) unknown books
180727530Dublin: George Grierson 1807. 12mo. 158 54 ff. <br><br>Irish BCP: Dublin edition from a prominent printing dynasty here with "A New Version of the Psalms." This 1807 issue is particularly uncommon with only one U.S. and one U.K. institution reporting holdings.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front fly-leaf with inked inscription of William Johnston dated 1808 with subsequent later additions; outer closed edges with inked inscription of Charles Johnston dated 1823; pastedowns endpapers and some pages with additional Johnston inscriptions. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Griffiths Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer 1807/15; NSTC L1854. Contemporary leather covered over with paper some time ago; original leather much cracked and abraded paper darkened chipped and torn. Front hinge inside cracked; text block starting to pull away from spine with front fly-leaf separated and early leaves loosening. Pages lightly age-toned with occasional faint stains; a few pages trimmed very closely. Two dried flowers laid in. A much-loved much-used copy. George Grierson hardcover books
1876116309London Edinburgh and New York: T. Nelson and Sons 1876. Octavo original bevel-edged decorated brown cloth stamped in black gold and blind. First edition. Short stories written by A.L.O.E. after her arrival in India "to amuse and through amusement to instruct the people of the country of her adoption" author's preface. Charlotte Maria Tucker 1821-1893 was "one of the most successful writers of fiction for Victorian children. In 1848 Charlotte underwent a conversion to strict evangelicalism. Her father died in 1851 and she never married devoting herself to a life of useful spinsterdom. Tucker was active in helping the London poor before 1851 but did not publish any fiction until after her father's death. Her first work was the unabashedly didactic CLAREMONT TALES OR ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BEATITUDES 1852. The last years of Tucker's life were extraordinary. At the age of fifty-four she went to India as a missionary having taught herself Hindustani and spent the last eighteen years of her life as a Zenana visitor i.e. calling on secluded Indian women. She was also an active educationalist converting the natives to Christianity as she taught them. She eventually died at Amritsar having long been weakened by illness in 1885. Some of her later work. has an Indian setting and flavor of narration." - Sutherland Victorian Fiction pp. 641-42. The correct first printing; early gift inscription dated 1877 on half title page. Several faint stains to cloth mostly rear cover a very good copy. #116309 T. Nelson and Sons unknown books
1860132051Boston: Published by Henry Hoyt 1860. 12mo frontispiece original blue cloth stamped in gold and blind cream endpapers. Later edition. An early U.S. edition of THE MINE; OR DARKNESS AND LIGHT 1858 the author's fifteenth book. Spine ends chipped sound internally clean a very good copy. Scarce. OCLC reports no holdings of this edition and no edition earlier than this one. #132051 Published by Henry Hoyt unknown books
183111716Washington 1831. 8vo. 4 pp. <br><br>An overview of pioneering efforts in the education of the blind in both Europe and the United States. The memorialists state "A few years ago a deaf and dumb person was considered non compos mentis in law and incapable of exercising the rights or duties of a citizen. The degree of knowledge to which some individuals of this description have lately attained would have been incredible had we not witnessed it. In Europe it has been demonstrated that the blind are capable of still greater attainments." Government document: 21st Congress 2d Session. Doc. No. 20. Ho. of Reps. Removed from a nonce volume; inner edge slightly irregular. Very light foxing. Title-page with number inked in upper margin by an early hand. unknown books
19131316Rochester NY 1913. Hardcover. Brown illustrated boards. Good. 44 pages 12 blank for recipes. 19x 15 cm. A charming cookbook including recipes for popcorn sandwiches bacon sandwiches and everyone's all time favorite anchovy sandwiches saltines anchovy paste and cayenne pepper. Covers rubbed interior clean. BROWN 2250 <br/><br/> hardcover books
19462561Boston: The Somerset Hotel 1946. Cards. Green illustrated cards with yellow string tassel. Near fine. Unpaginated 4 pages. 30.5 x 21.5 Dinner dancing and music at this 1940's Boston social event hosted by the who's who of Boston's upper class - including Miss Katherine Winthrop a top-ranked American tennis player. Full page listing the Girls' Clubs of Boston's Board of Directors Dinner Dance Committee and office holders - all filled out by the wives of privileged class. Music by Ranny Weeks and his Orchestra. Menu highlights a choice of Lobster Newburg or broiled tenderloin. Last page describes the Island of Bali highlights religious customs government and various facts or most likely fiction. Clean crisp copy. <br /> The Somerset Hotel books
1937287417Oxford London: Oxford University Press William Clowes and Sons 1937. Full Leather. Very Good binding. An early 1937 edition of the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer with the Forms of Prayer used at the Accession of George VI to the throne in the prior year. Most likely a rushed early reprint after the abdication of King Edward VIII with most mentions of the King as 'King GEORGE' but also with at least one misprint see p. xxxx where "in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth" is not corrected. Dated 1936 in pencil on the copyright page by a contemporary owner but also with "GIVEN at Our Court at Sandringham the Twenty-second day of January 1937; In the First Year of Our Reign." on p. 627 the end of the accession service. Bound together with Hymns Ancient and Modern. With previous owner's names and inscriptions on the front flyleaf. Wear to the front joint and edges of the boards. Full brown morocco with gilt lettering and raised bands. All edges gilt. Very Good. Very Good binding. Oxford University Press | William Clowes and Sons unknown books
1987181040Edinburgh: Talbot Rice Gallery 1987. Softcover. VG/G front covers has rub mark along crease. Pages clean. Blue wraps. 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations. Catalog of an exhibition held at Talbot Rice Gallery University of Edinburgh May 16-June 13 1987 and Graves Art Gallery Sheffield June 27-July 26 1987./ Includes bibliographical references. Talbot Rice Gallery unknown books
200026930Memphis: Towery Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 1881096831 . Color photographs throughout. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Towery Publishing hardcover books
198730315Boston: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. Near Fine. 1987. Paperback. First edition paperback. About fine in pictorial wraps. . Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities paperback books
197239941Bristol England: Royal West of England Academy 1972. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A near fine copy. Unpaged 7 pp. 8vo. Royal West of England Academy unknown books
19396316London: His MajestyÕs Stationary Office 1939. Hardcover. Very good-/Good. London: His MajestyÕs Stationary Office 1939. Copious b/w photographs line drawings plans and folded map in rear pocket. 244 pp. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Gray cloth. Extremities bumped and rubbed with small spots of fraying to heel and bottom edge of front board. Light foxing throughout heavier at endpapers. Former ownerÕs gift notation to front free endpaper. Else very good in a worn and chipped dust jacket. A thorough work. Very good-/Good. His MajestyÕs Stationary Office hardcover books