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18405270AGHildburghausen, Bibliographisches Institut, 1840 (ca.). Stahlstich von Mayer nach Reynold, aus "Meyer's Conversationslexikon", Darst. (H) (excl. Text) 8,9 x 10,7; Bll. 14,4 x 21,2. Auf Wunsch Digitalaufnahme in jpg-Format erhältlich- photo in jpg-format available. Je nach Versandart können die Portokosten bis zu 2 ? weniger als angegeben betragen.
189926561ABBern, K.J. Wyss, 1899. 8°. 115 S. Halbleinenband der Zeit (bestossen, gebräunt und stockfleckig).
189926561ABBern, K.J. Wyss, 1899. 8°. 115 S. Halbleinenband der Zeit + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden + (bestossen, gebräunt und stockfleckig).
1883243963St.Petersburg, 1883-84. 4°. M. 2 Ktn. u. mehr. Tab. 112; 219 S. In 1 Hlwdbd. m. Rsign. St. u. Sign. a. Tit. Stellenw. stockfl.
1885600583St. Petersburg, Kirsbauma, 1885-86. 4°. M. 13 farb. Ktn., mehr. Abb. 5 Bl., 167, 43 S., 4 Bl., 113, 17 S., 5 Bl., 159 S. In 1 Hlwdbd. St. u. Sign. a. Tit.
1851ABE-72800608248 PAGES-LA CORSE/2P/GRAVURE LAC SUR UNE MONTAGNE-EXCURSION AUX BAINS DE PANTICOSA DANS LES PYRENEES ESPAGNOLES/2P-LA TONTE DES MOUTONS/GRAVURE-L'ARCADIE POEME PAR BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE/2P/GRAVURE-HANNAH SNELL/GRAVURE
180142718(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1801). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1801 - Part I. Pp. 139-144 and 1 engraved plate.
1830ST15812London: Edward Moxon 1830. FIRST EDITION. 188 x 118 mm. 7 3/8 x 4 5/8". vii 1 150 pp. 1 leaf ads. <br/> SUPERB NAVY BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT AND INLAID BY DE SAMBLANX-WECKESSER stamp-signed on front turn-in covers with intricate gilt frame of trumpet vines bearing 36 inlaid scarlet flowers and buds raised bands spine gilt in compartments with inlaid trumpet flower at center gilt titling turn-ins framed with gilt vine navy blue moiré silk endleaves marbled flyleaves all edges gilt. In a slightly worn marbled paper slipcase. Title page with engraving of a putto composing verses. Front flyleaves with bookplates of Edwin Holden dated 1894 and John Whipple Frothingham. Wise Ashley Cat. III 52; Thomson p. 76. A hint of rubbing to front joint occasional mild browning due to paper quality but A FINE COPY clean and fresh internally and in a lustrous binding.<br/> <br/> In a lovely Art Nouveau binding by a Belle Époque master this is a collection of poems assembled by essayist Charles Lamb 1775-1834 to launch the publishing career of his friend and future son-in-law Edward Moxon 1801-58 to whom he dedicated the work. Composed of rather slight verses composed for the amusement of Lamb's friends and of more substantial works previously printed in periodicals this first book bearing Moxon's imprint did well enough to attract the business of other prestigious poets many of them friends of Lamb. Moxon who married Lamb's adopted daughter Emma Isola in 1833 went on to print the works of Wordsworth Shelley Tennyson and other luminaries of the Victorian era. The graceful binding is by Belgian master craftsman Charles de Samblancx or Samblanx 1855-1943 who began his binding career at age 11 as an apprentice to Coppens. He eventually established his own firm though from 1889-1909 his gilder Jacques Weckesser was in partnership with him. His binding career extended over several decades and he worked in a variety of period styles sensitively reproducing the bindings of previous centuries. His work often involving great complexity of design is invariably executed with the highest degree of skill. Our copy was once owned by American bibliophile and Grolier Club president Edwin Holden 1861-1906. Edward Moxon unknown
1823ST19567-072London: Taylor and Hessey 1823. FIRST EDITION First State imprint with single address for publisher. 200 x 125 mm. 8 x 5". 2 p.l. 341 1 pp. 3 leaves ads. <br/> VERY PRETTY DARK GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO ELABORATELY GILT BY RIVIERE & SON stamp-signed on front turn-in covers with double frames formed of floral sprigs drawer handles and other small tools raised bands spine panels densely gilt with stippling floral tools radiating from small central flower gilt lettering turn-ins with floral garlands at corners olive green watered silk endleaves top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Ashley III 50; Tinker 1457. Spine darker green than the covers though not at all noticeable in the four compartments that are almost solidly gilt front joint a little rubbed and with two-inch thin crack at top final leaf of ads with repaired curving two-inch tear into text isolated small stains or faint foxing but still very attractive--clean and fresh internally in a very lustrous binding sparkling with gilt.<br/> <br/> This is a handsomely bound copy of Lamb's largely autobiographical essays that embrace the broad subject of mankind at large as seen through the author's own experience and impressions. As Oxford Companion says Lamb's essays "present with exquisite humor and pathos and in a brilliant and inimitable style characters that the author has known . . . the productions of a playful or melancholy fancy . . . and general comments and criticism." The name "Elia" as Lamb says was "clapt down" on these essays in honor of a fellow clerk at South Sea House a building of commercial offices and the subject of the first essay. A second collection "The Last Essays of Elia" appeared in 1833. Charles Lamb 1775-1834 worked in the office of the East India Company and wrote poetry essays and plays. With his sister Mary he was the author of "Tales of Shakespeare" a flowing and lucid prose rendition of 20 of the bard's dramas that helped rekindle 19th century interest in the plays. The strikingly attractive binding done in an elaborately gilt style reminiscent of the Roger Payne era is the work of Riviere one of the foremost names among English binderies partly because the firm did consistently fine work and partly because it was so long in business. Robert Riviere began as a bookseller and binder in Bath in 1829 then set up shop as a binder in London in 1840; in 1881 he took his grandson Percival Calkin into partnership at which time the firm became known as Riviere & Son and the bindery continued to do business under the Riviere name until 1939 when it was acquired by Bayntun. Taylor and Hessey unknown
1900ST14309Boston: R. H. Hinckley Company ca. 1900. Edmonton Edition. No. 56 OF 100 COPIES on Japanese vellum. 240 x 150 mm. 9 3/8 x 5 7/8". 12 volumes. <br/> HANDSOME DARK PURPLE CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT triple gilt-ruled border with sprays of flowers in each corner and along the sides raised bands compartments with gilt lettering and tooling top edge gilt RED MOROCCO DOUBLURES bordered in purple border featuring several gilt rules and scrolling gilt tools in panel corners red watered silk endpapers. With portrait frontispieces and numerous gravure plates. Limitation statement of first volume with the initials of the printer D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press; flyleaf of each volume with morocco ex-libris of Francis Kettaneh. Extremities with the occasional tiny nick spines slightly sunned covers with a few negligible scratches a few pages with light thumbing in the margins but all of these blemishes trivial. A FINE SET INSIDE AND OUT.<br/> <br/> This finely bound finely printed and strictly limited set includes the biography prose letters essays and poetry of "the prince of English essayists." According to Day Charles Lamb contributed to the essay form by concentrating on feeling rather than thought by projecting a fuller sense of self into the work and by imbuing his text with a poetic or lyrical quality. Lamb was also an accomplished poet writing in both rhyming and blank verse as well as a friend to many of the leading literary figures of the Romantic period--his correspondents include Wordsworth Southey Hazlitt and Coleridge whom he had known since childhood. Lamb's letters by turns witty and meditative reveal a life of intense reading and writing at a time when British literature was undergoing a radical transformation. Charles Lamb 1775-1834 was educated at Christ's Hospital and at 17 joined the East India House where he worked from 1792-1825. In 1796 Lamb's sister Mary stabbed and killed their mother with scissors in a fit of insanity. Charles took on her care as well as serving as sole support for a dying aunt and a prematurely senile father. Nonetheless Lamb and his sister were devoted to one another and lived long and productive lives publishing together the wildly popular "Tales from Shakespeare" 1807 and "Mrs. Leicester's School" 1809 both of which are included here. Though unsigned the bindings are extremely attractive and fittingly luxurious for the limited-edition contents--the thick gilt tooling luxurious doublures and red silk endpapers housing tactilely pleasing Japanese vellum make this set a delight both to have and to hold. R. H. Hinckley Company unknown
186648431George Routledge 1866. Early Edition. Hardcover Quarter Cloth. Good Condition. Newly rebound with green cloth spine with original label and marbled boards. With coloured illustrations by John Gilbert. Original but faded marbled decoration to edges and some light foxing throughout. Size: Small Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Inventory No: 48431. . George Routledge hardcover
181820674C& J Ollier 1818. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. First edition in two volumes raised bands on spine with black label and gilt lettering contemporary leather Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 20674. . C& J Ollier hardcover
18378988Paris: P. C. Lehuby. Very Good. 1837. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. 285 pp.; 16mo; double titles with engraved title and frontis as II edition followed by title page and dated imprint 5th edition. Bound in full brown marbled calf; spine lettered and decorated in gilt; red leather spine label; all edges marbled; marbled endpapers & pastedowns; illustrated with four full page engravings in the text. Moderate rubbing at edges; some foxing to pages facing the last two plates. Text in French. Translation of the Lamb's Mrs. Leicester's School first published in 1809. . P. C. Lehuby hardcover
1838341920Philadelphia: Adam Waldie 1838. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. 4 iv 416pp. and issue numbers 1-26 of the weekly "Journal of Belles Lettres" bound in at the back: July 3–December 25 1838. Contemporary half-calf and marbled paper boards. Lacks the front board back board detached else good or better with some browning only to the pages of the weekly Journal at the back. Contains "Mrs. Leicester's School" by Mary Lamb sister and collaborator of Charles Lamb "Wedding Slippers" by Mary Mitford various lectures delivered before the Athenian Institute and Mercantile Library and popular literary works of the day. Adam Waldie hardcover
1874462662Wilbraham Massachusetts 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. Autograph Album 6 ½†x 4â€. Contemporary morocco over boards with a decorative design stamped in gold on the front cover and spine white moiré endpapers all edges gilt. The boards are rubbed with wear to the edges and corners front joint is partially split head and tail of spine back bumped and torn about very good. Contains over fifty manuscript entries most dating from 1874-77 when the album’s owner “Emma†was a student at Wesleyan Academy in Wilbraham Massachusetts. Also included are later entries dating up through the early 1880s and two or three final entries from the 1920s. Most of the entries are by fellow students and teachers at Wesleyan including a terrific 1877 pen & ink sketch by Emma’s fine arts teacher Watson F. Lamb. The sketch depicts the campus and various whimsical scenes including women in silhouette playing croquet and a portrait of a young man the artist in uniform with a bat and ball in hand titled: “Wesleyan B.B. No. 1â€. The album also features an accomplished calligraphic sketch of a bird and other decorated autograph entries. An attractive album dating from the decade when Wesleyan was the primary center of Methodist education in New England. hardcover
1890621247New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Edited with an introduction by Rev. Alfred Ainger. 16mo. 395pp. Illustrated in black and white. Blue cloth boards affixed to the front board is a plastic panel with a floral relief gilt decoration along the spine and all page edges gilt. The plastic panel has caused the front board to bow a bit rubbing to the rear board dulling to the spine front hinge starting and the title page is coming detached still very good with the relief fully intact. A unique binding. Thomas Y. Crowell & Company hardcover
181396763Philadelphia and New York: Published by Bradford and Inskeep; and Inskeep and Bradford 1813. 1813. Fair. - Octavo 6-7/8 inches high by 4-3/8 inches wide. Two volumes uniformly bound in early brown calf with gilt titled leather labels and gilt rules on the spines. The warped covers are rubbed and scuffed and the leather is splitting along the joints. There is heavy chipping to the second volume's spine with partial loss of that volume's title label. 283 pages & 305 pages respectively illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of William Shakespeare engraved by Edwin after a painting by Zoust at the front of the first volume. The hinges are cracking and there is a small piece out from the top of the front endpaper of the first volume. Several signatures are slightly pulled. The edges of the first and last few pages of each volume are darkened and there is scattered foxing throughout with occasional light dampstaining. A complete set which collates perfectly with Welch 744 including the presence of the half-title at the front of the first volume. <p>First American edition.<p>RARE. Shaw & Shoemaker 28900; Rosenbach 476; Welch 744 locates the following copies: PP Free Library of Philadelphia Rosenbach Collection; MH Harvard University; MA American Antiquarian Society volume 1 only; NN New York Public Library lacks the first volume's half-title; PPL Library Company of Philadelphia.<p>Printed by J. Maxwell this work contains 6 pieces by Charles Lamb and 14 by Mary Lamb.<p>"It has been the general sentiment that the style in which these Tales are written is not so precisely adapted for the amusement of mere children as for an acceptable and improving present to young ladies advancing to the state of womanhood. They therefore now offer to the public an edition prepared with suitable elegance." - Quoted from the Advertisement to this edition. Philadelphia and New York: Published by Bradford and Inskeep; and Inskeep and Bradford, 1813. hardcover
1802ST20800Paris: L'Imprimeries de la République An X 1802. Third Edition. 220 x 137 mm. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2". lxiv 536 pp. <br/> Contemporary blue marbled paper boards flat spine edges untrimmed four quires UNOPENED. WITH 22 ENGRAVED PLATES by Patas after Fossier. Rear endpaper with 19th century price calculations in ink. Small inconsequential tears to ends of joints and spine backstrip creases and chafing minor scuffing to boards but AN ESPECIALLY FINE COPY the insubstantial unsophisticated binding entirely solid and with very little soiling and the interior REMARKABLY CLEAN FRESH AND BRIGHT.<br/> <br/> With a suite of 22 illustrations this comprehensive work on sheep husbandry "Instructions for Shepherds and Flock Owners" is offered here in a remarkably well-preserved fully contemporary copy in its original fragile paper boards. Our author anatomist and naturalist Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton 1716-1800 had collaborated with Buffon on his "Histoire Naturelle" for which he provided anatomical descriptions of 182 quadrupeds earning as a result a reputation as an expert in comparative anatomy. In the present work first published in 1782 he focuses on sheep a subject in which he had a vested interest having introduced the Merino breed to France in an effort to improve the country's wool industry. The text covers all aspects of sheep breeding anatomy and husbandry and is accompanied by engravings of cheerful shepherds at their work the processing of wool dissected sheep organs and related images. These are attractively rendered offering visual appeal as well as scientific and agricultural data. Our third edition the first published following Daubenton's death includes an introductory biography by Étienne de Lacépède which he had delivered as a speech at the National Museum of Natural History. While "Instruction Pour les Bergers" appears in the market with some regularity the present exceptionally bright wide-margined partly unopened copy in contemporary boards is an unusually appealing copy of this work. L'Imprimeries de la République unknown
1813ALEX361Robert Desilver Philadelphia: . 1813 pp. xxi 1-130 Engraved frontis. Foxed. Browned but not brittle. 24mo. 145 mm. Title continues: 'And Her Descendants Near Four Hundred Years. Now Dedicated To Master Samuel Irelaunde And Patrick Lyon'. Binding broken text good. James White 1775-1820 was an English advertising agent author and lifelong friend of Charles Lamb. White developed a fascination with the character of Falstaff and was even known to dress up and go about 'in character'. This led to him writing and publishing this his only known book in 1796. For Charles Lamb's supposed part in the book: Cf. L.S. Livingston's and J.C. Thomson's Bibliographies of the writings of Charles and Mary Lamb. First American Edition. Scarce. S&S/AI 30526. 1st Edition. Robert Desilver, Philadelphia: . unknown
1820333195Lisboa: Na Typografia Lacerdina 1820. First edition. 72 pp. 16mo. Stitched lacking the wrappers. Title page and final page are unevenly tanned and lightly soiled. First edition. 72 pp. 16mo. Magic and Other Superstitions Unmasked procedes as both a catalogue of superstitions and popular beliefs including witches astrology spells and enchantments and Jacobinism. The bulk of the text is a history of magic starting with the pagans then the early Christians the belief in miracles and divination through papal decrees treating diabolical pacts the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Portugal and the damage it wrought against the Portuguese citizenry.<br /> <br /> Manuel Borges Carneiro 1774-1833 was a major legal and political figure in Portugal. Published in the year of the Liberal Revolution of 1820 the upheaval of which brought the Portuguese Imperial Court back from Brazil where they had fled from Napoleon this book is an enlightened scientific treatise against the belief and practice of magic and its works.<br /> <br /> Issued as 'A Magia.' complete as issued; a 'Part 2' was separately published as an appendix Appendice sobre as operações da Santa Inquisição Portugueza ou parte segunda do discurso sobre a Magia e mais superstições desmascaradas Lisboa concerning magic and superstitions during the Holy Inquisition in Portugal. Silva I.F. da. Diccionario bib. portuguez V p. 380; OCLC lists 6 holdings 2 in the US U Penn Brown Na Typografia Lacerdina unknown
1823177057London: Thomas Davison for Taylor and Hessey / Edward Moxon 1823. 1st Edition. Leather. 2 vols. 341p; 283p. FINE BINDINGS BY BAYNTUN. A set of two hardcover books bound in full golden-brown calf with gilt-decorated spines gilt dentelles gilt foredges and marbled endpapers. Very good condition overall! Edges of spines barely rubbed; the gilt detailing remains shiny and unmarred. In the ELIA volume there are some tiny ink spots in the margin of page 7 and pages 285-290 have tiny closed tears which have been delicately repaired. Tiny orange smudge on the side foredge. Light tanning along the edges of the free endpapers. Both volumes' pages have mild age-spotting and tanning but are otherwise unmarked and securely bound. Both volumes have two attached ribbon page markers. This copy of ELIA is the rare first edition from 1923. THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA is the first British edition from 1833; an unauthorized American edition was published earlier. Thomas Davison, for Taylor and Hessey / Edward Moxon unknown
18351004W3London: Edward Moxon 1835. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A pair of uncommon essay titles published under the pseudonym 'Elia' bound in half calf. An uncommon collection of essays written by Charles Lamb under his eponymous pseudonym.Lamb was a close personal friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and was also in the circle of many other noted writers such as Percy Bysshe Shelley William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt.Bound in half calf and marbled boards and decorated with marbled endpapers and text block edges red morocco spine labels and elegant gilt tooling along the spines.Bookplates of a Thomas Appach to the front paste downs. Bound in half calf and marbled boards. Externally smart. Mild shelf wear. Small closed tear to paper at vol2 board fore edge. Small surface loss to leather at vol1 top front spine tip. Vol1 hinges starting between blanks. Gift ink inscription to front blank of both volumes. Bookplates to front paste downs. Internally firmly bound with occasional mild strain. Pages generally bright and clean with areas of spotting towards the very front and rear of the works. Slight fading to joints. Vol1 front free endpaper has been pasted to vol1 front blank. Slight dusting to text block top edges. Very Good Edward Moxon hardcover
1899324138London: Macmillan 1899. Leather. Good. 425p. FINE BINDING BY BICKERS & SON OF LEICESTER. A hardcover book bound in full brick-red leather with gilt decorations on the spine gilt trim on the boards and marbled edges and endpapers. Boards just starting to crack off from the top down but still well enough attached for mindful handling. Spine is a bit bleached by the sun. Corners are just starting to wear through. Foredges are rubbed making the marbling less vivid. Small scuff on front free endpaper where a price label was peeled off. Early owner's gift inscription on first blank page dated Christmas 1917. Front endpapers foxed; a few tiny yellow droplet stains on title page. Otherwise pages clean and tightly bound. Good condition overall. Introduction and notes to this edition by Alfred Ainger. Macmillan unknown
18356796London: Taylor and Hessey and Edward Moxon 1835. First edition and second edition. Fine. Lamb's Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia finely bound by Riviere & Son in full dark brown morocco with a dark green morocco pull-off case. Two volumes octavo. vi 341; xiii 295 pp. complete. Elaborate gilt spines in six compartments with raised bands. Gilt rule to boards and gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Teal coated endpapers. Small twentieth-century bookseller's ticket to lower flyleaves. A Fine fresh set in a beautiful binding.<br /> <br /> First edition second issue of Essays of Elia with both the Fleet Street and Waterloo addresses in the imprint bound without the terminal publisher's ads. Second edition of Last Essays of Elia which was first published by Edward Moxon in 1833.<br /> <br /> Lamb's accessible and conversational essays were published under the pseudonym Elia inspired by an Italian man that Lamb had known at the South Sea House and had appeared serially in The London Magazine between 1820 and 1825. Despite his struggles with mental illness Charles Lamb 1775 - 1834 would be celebrated for his literary contributions producing a range of material from essays to poems. Lamb belonged to an active literary circle which included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Fine. Taylor and Hessey [and] Edward Moxon unknown
18086413London: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1808. First edition. Fine. A fine copy. Octavo 7 1/8 x 4 1/4 in; 181 x 108 mm. xii 484 pp. Designed and bound c. 1920 by Root & Son stamp-signed in full brown crushed morocco with double fillet and a secondary gilt-rolled frame with gilt corner-pieces and inlaid dots in green. Gilt decorated compartments top edge gilt.<br /> <br /> A delightful anthology of Elizabethan poets including Thomas Sackville Thomas Kyd Christopher Marlowe Thomas Decker Ben Jonson William Rowley John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont among many others. The texts were compiled by Charles Lamb who although he worked for the East India Company also published articles essays and poems. He was a good friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge contributing sonnets to his publications and moved in a political literary circle that included Shelley Byron Hazlitt and Hunt Gertz. This copy has been artfully bound by Root & Son. The London-based firm of W. Root & Son was active in from the late-19th until the 1941 Blitz destroyed their premises. The bindery was known for both fine leather bindings trade bindings and sets. Here their talents are displayed with a "Jansenist Style" binding that was first popular in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries identifiable by a plain exterior and elaborately tooled doublures. Fine. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme unknown
