Maurice Thomas.ABAA
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180137101London: for the author by H.L. Galabin 1801. Second separate edition 8vo pp. 4 17-460; folding copper-engraved frontispiece of Vishnu Brahma and Seva plus 5 other folding copper-plates; contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards; very good and sound. Without the 2-leaf Advertisement in the first separate edition of the previous year and with the pagination gone awry at 2E1. Essentially an offprint from the author's larger work Indian Antiquities 7 vols. 1793-1800 but "revised newly arranged and divided into chapters." DNB calls him "one of the first to popularise a knowledge of the history and religions of the east." <br/><br/> for the author by H.L. Galabin hardcover books
188554074London & New York: George Routledge and Sons Broadway Ludgate Hill 1885. Number 437 of 550 copies printed by H. Launtte Librairie Artistique Paris for George Routledge. With 12 full-page photogravure plates "by the Goupil process" and numerous sketches throughout the text by Maurice Leloir. 1 vols. 4to 12 1/2 x inches. Bound in full blue contemporary morocco gilt lettered spine gilt dentelles t.e.g. original chromolithographed wrappers bound in. About fine. Leloir Maurice. Number 437 of 550 copies printed by H. Launtte Librairie Artistique Paris for George Routledge. With 12 full-page photogravure plates "by the Goupil process" and numerous sketches throughout the text by Maurice Leloir. 1 vols. 4to 12 1/2 x inches. A Modern French Master Illustrator. Fine attractive copy of this beautifully illustrated book masterfully incorporating his drawings with the text in style of Johannot. Leloir 1853-1940 was one of the true professionals in the history of French illustration. Books with his designs appeared over five decades. Working by preference with stories laid in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries he was at pains to make his costumes as accurate as possible. It was his celebrity in this field indeed which led Douglas Fairbanks to bring him to Hollywood as artistic director of The Iron Mask 1929. His illustrations are abundant precise and objective." -Ray French Illustrated Books.<br/><br/>As for A Sentimental Journey one of his masterpieces Ray observes that "every episode in Sterne's short text finds its appropriate visual commentary." Ray 292 French ed. George Routledge and Sons, Broadway, Ludgate Hill unknown books
188414879New York: J.W. Bouton 1884. First American edition thus. With 12 full-page photogravure plates "by the Goupil process" and numerous sketches throughout the text by Maurice Leloir. 210pp. 1 vols. 4to. Full dark blue pebbled morocco gilt lettered spine original chromolithographed wrappers bound in. Very Good. Leloir Maurice. First American edition thus. With 12 full-page photogravure plates "by the Goupil process" and numerous sketches throughout the text by Maurice Leloir. 210pp. 1 vols. 4to. A Modern French Master Illustrator. Fine attractive copy of this beautifully illustrated book masterfully incorporating his drawings with the text in style of Johannot. Leloir 1853-1940 was one of the true professionals in the history of French illustration. Books with his designs appeared over five decades. Working by preference with stories set in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries he was at pains to make his costumes as accurate as possible. It was his celebrity in this field indeed which led Douglas Fairbanks to bring him to Hollywood as artistic director of The Iron Mask 1929. His illustrations are abundant precise and objective . " -Ray French Illustrated Books.<br/><br/>As for A Sentimental Journey one of his masterpieces Ray observes that "every episode in Stern's short text finds its appropriate visual commentary . " Ray 292 French ed. J.W. Bouton unknown books
188439857New York: J.W. Bouton 1884. Folio 31.1 cm 12.25". Add. col. t.-p. xvi 210 2 pp.; 12 plts. illus. <br><br>First American edition with Leloir's illustrations: beautiful production of a fictionalized travelogue that Sterne 171368 finished just weeks before his death inspired by his real travels through France and Italy. Narrated by Sterne's alter ego Mr. Yorick these deeply personal adventures brought new subjective life to a genre that had typically relied on objective writing and paved the way for a flourishing of the style in the late 18th century.<br>Â Â Â Â First published in 1768 the work appears here in a lavish edition with a prefatory life of the author and sporting an additional chromolithographic title-page. The text is decorated with => twelve full-page photogravure illustrations done by Leloir and reproduced "by the Goupil process" and numerous sketches throughout the text. Ray cites these illustrations as possibly => even better than Leloir's much-acclaimed work for Manon Lescaut.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: From the library of Robert L. Sadoff M.D. sans indicia. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Ray French Illustrated Books 292 for French first ed. Contemporary half brown morocco and brown cloth leather edges ruled in single gilt fillet spine with gilt-stamped title and author gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-framed compartments binding done by W. Roach Co. of New York; edges and extremities showing moderate rubbing middle cloth portion of outer edges of covers with small area of light discoloration. All edges gilt. => A clean attractive unfoxed copy. J.W. Bouton hardcover books
186219190New York 1862. 303-348 2 pp as issued. Caption-title as issued. Plain front wrapper dustsoiled worn lacks back wrapper. Stitched. A blank corner chip to last leaf. Good. "Since the preceding Letters have been published the United States of America have been dissevered and a new federation under the name of Confederate States of America formed." Sabin 51330. Not in Bartlett Nevins. unknown books
1900WRCLIT72134Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Co. 1900. Pictorial olive green cloth decorated in blue brown and gilt. Extremities a bit rubbed slight cracking to front inner hinge slightly musty bookplate of C. Waller Barrett tipped to front free endsheet small mark on rear pastedown where dispersal sticker was removed; spine a shade sunned; a good sound copy in cloth wrapper with gilt label. First edition earliest printing with page one numbered and page 420 blank. This copy also has the running heads in bold caps. Russo & Sullivan delineate these as well as a wider array of features of what they denote the earliest "issue" to which this copy conforms but they are all characteristics of separate printings rather than a question of "issue." WRIGHT III:5445. RUSSO & SULLIVAN pp. 220-6. BAL 20052. Bowen-Merrill Co. hardcover books
1900223334Indianapolis The Bowen-Merrill Company 1900. 1900. First edition. 8vo. Color frontispiece and 5 plates by F.C. Yohn. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and brown light blue dark blue and white with a scene of a fort. Fine fresh. Enclosed in a 1/2 green morocco slipcase with red leather labels on spine and folding chemise. Heraldic bookplate of Francis Dana on the front pastedown. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Indianapolis, The Bowen-Merrill Company [1900]. hardcover books
189687677N.P.: L. Clouzot 1896. self paper wrappers removed. Fillon Benjamin. small 8vo. self paper wrappers removed. 8 pages. Removed from L'Intermédiaire de L'Ouest Revue Bibliographique Mensuelle 4th Year No.26 April 1896. Prospectus for work which was to be published for 8 francs 200 copies followed by a list of the works of Benjamin Fillon 1819-1881 for sale by Clouzot. (L. Clouzot) unknown books
190040119No place France ca. 1900. 8vo 20 cm 7.875". 1 f. <br><br>Item in in French. Includes translation taken from Allyn K. Fords files. Writing to a lady telling her where she can get a book she wants. Boutet de Monvel was a painter.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: ExAllyn K. Ford Collection Minnesota Historical Society recently deaccessioned. Thin cream-colored sheet with black ink; very faint horizontal crease through the center. unknown books
18943355Paris: Imprimerie Generale Lahure for: Librairie de L. Conquet 1894. 12mo. Contemporary burgundy levant morocco gilt extra by H.E. Laskine: triple gilt fillet around sides enclosing a blue morocco inlaid frame turn-ins similarly gilt and inlaid silk moire pastedowns and endpapers the verso and the recto opposite of comb-marbled paper original hand-colored wrappers bound in top edges gilt others untrimmed. Text and wrappers inexplicably foxed throughout see images and priced accordingly; apart from extremely minor abrasions at head and tail the binding is superb state. PRINTED FOR THE ARTIST HIMSELF Maurice Leloir as stated in letterpress on the verso of the half-title on Japon paper with an extra suite of all the illustrations hors-texte bound in. <br/><br/>Charles Nodier 1783-1844 author insatiable book collector and long-serving librarian of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal was the progenitor of the kind of bibliophily practiced in France to the present day. He was also an unrivalled seller of books by auction. In 1838 he declared that God had made him rich enough five times to buy books and five times so poor that he had to sell them again. He sold his books for the first time in 1802 at the age of nineteen and sold reconstituted collections or parts of them at auction in 1809 1813 1817 1827 and 1829. In advance of forthcoming sales Nodier aroused a great deal of excitement by publishing his own literary and bibliographical investigations into the books to be offered in the form of "Mélanges" and "Nouveau Mélanges." It is a remarkable fact that Nodier wrote nearly all the descriptions that appeared in the posthumous sale catalogue of his library Techener 1844.<br/><br/>Nodier was in the forefront of those French collectors who had simple contemporary bindings on old books ripped off and replaced by modern more elaborate bindings; among his favored butchers were Koehler and Thouvenin. <br/><br/>Our copy does not contain any statement of limitation which was bound in ordinary copies; instead on the verso of the half-title the name of the special recipient is printed: "Exemplaire tire pour Monsieur Maurice Leloir." We have seen mention that the edition was limited to 150 numbered copies on Japon from a total edition of 500. The number of "named" hors-serie copies has not be determined but it must have been extremely small.<br/><br/>The binder H.E. Laskine clearly possessed a high degree of artistry and technical abilities; and yet very few bindings by him/her have been located: only three examples are listed in RBH's Rare Book Transactions database which currently holds more than 10 million records sic. Laskine remained unknown to Flety. [Imprimerie Generale Lahure for]: Librairie de L. Conquet unknown books
18984333London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1898. First edition. First edition. Finely bound by W. Root & Son in green calf inlaid design intricately tooled in gilt and red comprising four gilt leaf designs linked by geometric ruling and red circles onlayed along the ruled lines spine decoratively tooled with raised bands red morocco spine labels gilt-tooled inner dentelles; marbled endpapers all edges gilt; red cloth slipcase. A bit of light rubbing to slipcase; uniform sunning to spine; ownership signature and chop stamps to front pastedown; else near fine. With 1929 photograph of garden stylized "Pan"laid in. <br/><br/> John Lane, The Bodley Head hardcover books
18983198Florence & Leipzig: Printed in Berlin by Otto Von Holten for: Verlag von Eugen Diederichs 1898. Autorisierte Ausgabe. Square 4to 210 x 170 mm. 105 pp. With stylized art-nouveau typography and large ornamental initials in red and black throughout. Vernacular binding of slightly later decorated burlap cloth patterned with lily pads; green cloth onlays depicting three fish their eyes made of sequins other sequins adorning seaweed fronds; green floral endpapers inner hinges cracked. Original printed wrappers bound in. Front joint worn crown chipped; early ownership inscription of "Lillie C. Schleiser" dated "Christmas Munich 1903" on front wrapper. Text evenly toned extremities with some chipping here and there on account of the paperstock. First edition of the first fully realized book design by Melchoir Lechter 1865-1937 a triumph of Jugendstil / art-nouveau typography which perfectly complements the mystical essays by the famed Belgian Symbolist Maurice Maeterlinck. The type used herein is now known as Lechter-Schrift after the name of its designer. According to Schauer this book defines the beginning of German book arts of the twentieth century and is justly considered "a great book in which everything is dark colorful and primeval." Upon publication it was widely praised as the most beautiful German book of the day O. Grautoff. Ordinary copies our bound in wrappers designed by Lechter. Our copy has both wrappers bound into a remarkable German vernacular binding of burlap cloth with cloth onlays of green fish adorned with sequins all adhered to art-nouveau patterned cloth of lily pads and fronds. The early ownership inscription reveals that the book was acquired by an English or American woman named Lillie C. Schleiser in Munich in 1903. Perhaps the present volume was bound there <br/><br/>As is stated in the colophon: "Cover design ornaments headings numbers initials and typography arrangement by Melchior Lechter under whose artistic direction this book was printed in the year 1898 by Otto Von Holten Berlin." "Bei seinem Erscheinen vielfältig als das schönste deutsche Buch gepriesen" O. Grautoff. Lechter is best known for his book design glass paintings drawings calendars catalogues ex-libris designs and posters. He also designed furniture carpets wallpaper and stained glass windows. <br/><br/>This is the trade edition of the first authorized German translation of "Le Trésor des Humbles" 1896 / "The Treasure of the Humble" 1897 containing an essay on Ralph Waldo Emerson not found in the English edition. It was created on the occasion of the 1898 Maeterlinck exhibition of the same name. As is well known Maeterlinck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911. <br/><br/>References: Transfer und Modifikation: Mario Zanucchi Die französischen Symbolisten in der deutschsprachigen Lyrik der Moderne 1890-1923 Abb. 2. Grautoff p. 14. Raub A20 p. 67; Rodenberg 240; Schauer Vol. 2 12. [Printed in Berlin by Otto Von Holten for]: Verlag von Eugen Diederichs unknown books
18845054Paris: E. Plon Nourrit 1884; 1890. First Editions presumed. Hardcover. Good. Light shelf/edge wear light even toning to cloth gilt toned joints starting ownship marks in pencil at ffeps light toning to text blocks sporadic pencil scribbles in CdFPlPF else bright and unmarred. Red and blue/grey cloth boards with a floral print both bound in the same pattern cloth though color varies chromolithographic plates. Oblong 8vo. 47pp; 47pp. Illus. color plates. <br/><br/>First book wholly designed by Louis-Maurice de Boutet de Monvel. Archtypical of the period of French illustration and later adopted by Kate Greenaway. There are dozens of songs across the two volumes along with musical notation and lyrics surrounded by beautiful color illustrations on each page. E. Plon Nourrit hardcover books
189619867Paris: Ernest Flammarion 1896. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good. Steinlen. 260 pages. 18. 5 x 11.5. Cover illustration by Steinlen host of black and white illustration hors texte by Steinlen. Music by Marcel Legay. Text browned. Modest extremity wear. Ernest Flammarion unknown books
1892275175London: Isbister 1892. hardcover. very good. Railton Herbert and Quinton A. Almost 50 illustrations by Herbert Railton and A. Quinton. xii 203pp. 4to gilt-lettered and decorated blue cloth; lightly rubbed bumped at corners and spine ends. London: Isbister & Company 1892. A very good copy of this handsome book.<br/><br/> Isbister unknown books
189238321London: Isbister. Very Good. 1892. Hardcover. -; Very Good. No dust jacket. Top half-inch of spine chipped; else very good. . Isbister hardcover books
1894161501Paris: Revue Illustree 1894. Original Edition not a reprint. Paperback. Good contents but front covers is edge-worn and back cover if there was one is missing. Also front cover and first two pages are detached and one plate appears to be missing as there are only 23 and 24 were apparently published. Color-illus. front cover/wraps stapled. Twenty-three single-sided bw illustrations. A collection of 24 humorous drawings depicting the painters of the period and their art by "Lourdey" who was Maurice Lefebvre-Lourdet a French painter and illustrator. Revue Illustree paperback books
189145484Paris: Librairie Plon; E. Plon Nourrit et Cie 1891. 3 volumes large 8vo; recent brown morocco-backed marbled silver and gilt paper; art-nouveau-style gilt spines library call numbers stamped in gilt on upper cover leather; t.e.g. marbled endpapers; a very nice set. Bookplates on front pastedowns. <br/><br/> Librairie Plon; E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie hardcover books
189744900Paris: Imprimerie Nationale 1897. Paperback. Fair. 51p. Softcover. 25cm. Cover browned and worn. Three small stitch holes near spine. Ex lib. At head of title: "Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Section des Sciences Religieuses." French text. <br/><br/> Imprimerie Nationale paperback books
189526229London: J. M. Dent & Co 1895. 1st edition NCBEL IV 601. Limited to 500 cc. Green linen cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. TEG. Gd spine sunned with some fraying at the ends. xi 1 179 pp. Frontis. 12mo. <br/><br/>Author's first book. J. M. Dent & Co hardcover books
18881227025Quebec: A. Cote 1888. First;. Thin octavo in dark green cloth; spine with gold letters and exl-library number; covers with some soiling and moderate shelf wear; ex-library stamp sticker and pocket; binding strong; front hinge glued to title page; back hing slightly detached; paper faded from age but clean; text in small print clean; pp. 280. 1227025. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. A. Cote unknown books
183433774London: Richard Bentley New Burlington Street 1834. 1st edition NCBEL III 1392; Sadleir 1672. Not in Wolff. 19th C. maroon morocco-style half-leather binding by Budden with marbled paper boards. Elaborate gilt-decorated spines. Marbled paper eps. AEG. Joints professionally strengthened. Bookplate. Townshend's signature at base of t.p. in each volume. A VG set. 3 volumes 4 300; 4 311 1 blank; 2 288 pp. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 4-5/8" <br/><br/>Author's first book and apparently only published novel issued anonymously. Maurice named the villian of his novel "Captain Marryatt" which was as Sadleir termed it "an error of judgement which brought Maurice a challenge to a duel." Uncommon on the commercial market. Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street hardcover books
1894275193New York.: F. Rullman. 1894. green stapled wrap. good with discoloration on cover and some edge wear. 8vo. F. Rullman. unknown books
188020961London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1880. First and only edition 8vo xiv & 269-270pp. plus 32-p. publisher catalogue at the back; slanted else very good. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title. Interesting look at Minnesota by a Londoner. With a printed proclamation from Governor Pillsbury at the end of the Preface appointing the author "agent for the promotion of immigration to this state by lecturing and otherwise diffusing information in Great Britain." <br/><br/> Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington unknown books
188022450London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1880. First and only edition 8vo pp. xiv & 269-270; original green cloth stamped in black and gilt some wear to extremities with boards occasionally showing corners bumped and scattered white spots still a reasonably attractive copy. Interesting look at Minnesota by a Londoner. With a printed proclamation from Governor Pillsbury at the end of the Preface appointing the author "agent for the promotion of immigration to this state by lecturing and otherwise diffusing information in Great Britain." <br/><br/> Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington hardcover books
