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19392DC Comics 1939. none. Very good. Original hand corrected typescript. The complete story from Detective Comics no. 30 here titled "The Batman and the Diamonds of Death" the title was changed when it was published to "The Return of Dr. Death". 6 pages on 5 leaves 8" X 13" 1500 typed words plus 196 words of handwritten ink and pencil changes additions deletions and corrections including a rewrite of the final scene on the last page accompanied by a pencil drawing of a gliding Batman. Very good condition no mending tape or repair. This is Dark Knight incunabulum and as rare as a one ended stick. No other Batman manuscripts from this vintage or even from near this vintage is known. In fact any and all DC superhero manuscripts before 1945 except this one are impossible. Ex-Bob Kane. Ex-Mario Sacripante part of a dispersal of Kane's abandoned papers that included some page proofs and sketches but only this one manuscript. And by the way the printed Detective Comics no. 30 with our story in it sold for $19120 at auction in 2012. And the world record at auction for any issue of Detective Comics May 1939 graded 7 is $1500000 HA 2020 and for any Batman comic Spring 1940 graded 9.4 is $2220000 HA 2021 4 times the price of the most expensive imaginable hardbound 20th century 1st edition so something big and real is going on here. And both those prices are for a single comic of which dozens are known making our unique manuscript seem not to be very expensive and the chances of finding something even vaguely like it are the same as the chances of sitting in a chair with your mouth open and having a nicely roasted duck fly into it. Batman is the model for all modern superheroes without superpowers. Fueled by his superior intellect and powered by his fabulous toys he first showed up in Detective Comics no. 27 in a story written by Bill Finger and illustrated by Bob Kane. Finger also wrote the second story. When DC noticed its popularity they called in Gardner Fox who took over and wrote the next 4 including this one. Finger and Fox collaborated on the 7th story Detective Comics Nov. 1939 then Fox wrote the 8th one alone. Then with the exposition settled he turned it back to Finger and moved on to a long and influential career at DC co-creating Flash The Sandman Hawkman and the first superhero team-up with The Justice Society of America forerunner of The Justice League and it was Fox who conceived the Multiverse and introduced it to DC in 1961. First of all don't doubt it for a minute comic books are books. And this is the only early manuscript from the 2nd most valuable run in all of 20th century books Superman is the most valuable his debut in Action comics no. 1 selling for $3200000 2014 the world record for any 20th century book. Our manuscript will be looked back on in 10 years with regret captured in the thought "Why didn't I buy that" The answer is because there were no comps comparables or price points and only the most experienced enlightened and self-reliant collectors can calculate value without comps. From a more general perspective collector insight changes. Collector taste changes. The clues that point direction are only obvious in reflection. Some more stubborn booksellers continue holding to their view of what is in demand from a generation ago while other more cunning booksellers strategize to direct the insight and taste that drives demand towards obscurities that they can buy for cheap so as to extract large profit margins but the best collectors are immune to both the illusion of market rigidity and the deceit of bookseller manipulation because the savviest among them know that the market isn't static and watch carefully as the deck is shuffled and then focus on the center of the new radar. Whichever is the cause all but the nimblest booksellers get ambushed and in the confusion and isolation ensuing from their own folly they blame their disorientation on the collapse of enthusiasm for book collecting Book Code. DC Comics unknown books
00654London: Printed by T. Ilive for Edward Brewster 1701. Early English Edition of the Reynard Fables<br/><br/>REYNARD THE FOX. The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox. Newly Corrected and Purged from all grossness in Phrase and Matter. Augmented and Enlarged with sundry Excellent Morals and Expositions upon every several Chapter. To which may now be added a Second Part of the said History: As also the Shifts of Reynardine the Son of Reynard the Fox Together with his Life and Death &c. London: Printed by T. Ilive for Edward Brewster 1701.<br/><br/>Bound together with:<br/><br/>REYNARD THE FOX. The Most Pleasant and Delightful History of Reynard the Fox. The Second Part. Containing Much Matter of Pleasure and Content. Written For the Delight of young Men Pleasure of the Aged and Profit of all. To which is added many Excellent Morals. London: Printed by A.M. and R.R. for Edward Brewster 1681.<br/><br/>And:<br/><br/>REYNARD THE FOX. The Shifts of Reynardine The Son of Reynard the Fox Or a Pleasant History of His Life and Death. Full of Variety &c. And may fitly be applied to the Late Times. Now Published for the Reformation of Mens Manners. London: Printed by T.J. for Edward Brewster and Thomas Passenger 1684.<br/><br/>Three parts in one small quarto volume 7 5/16 x 5 9/16 inches; 186 x 141 mm. 156 2 table of contents 2 publisher's advertisements; 111 1 publisher's advertisements; 8 160 pp. Mostly black letter with titles and side notes in roman letter. Sixty-two woodcuts in the first part printed from thirty-nine blocks and fifteen woodcuts in the second part five repeated all repeats from the first part. Most cuts signed "E.B." Edward Brewster. Woodcut on C1 recto Part I printed upside down.<br/><br/>Contemporary sprinkled sheep. Covers ruled and decoratively tooled in blind spine decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with two red morocco gilt lettering labels. Minor restoration to covers. Some browning occasional light dampstaining and soiling. Part I with tiny puncture marks in the lower blank margin through gathering I just touching one letter in the imprint on the title-page six small holes in I3 and one tiny hole in I4 causing loss of a couple of letters. Part III with paper flaw in the upper blank corner of A3 and A4 tiny tear 1/4 inch in the lower blank margin of F4 and paper flaw in the lower blank corner of I2 none affecting text. Armorial bookplate of Gloucester on front free endpaper. Bookplate of Hugh Cecil Lowther 5th Earl of Lonsdale 1857-1944 on front pastedown his sale 12 July 1937 lot 445. An excellent copy. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell box.<br/><br/>Reynard the Fox "hero of several medieval European cycles of versified animal tales that satirize contemporary human society. Though Reynard is sly amoral cowardly and self-seeking he is still a sympathetic hero whose cunning is a necessity for survival. He symbolizes the triumph of craft over brute strength usually personified by Isengrim the greedy and dull-witted wolf. Some of cyclic stories collected around him such as those telling of the wolf or bear fishing with his tail through a hole in the ice are found throughout the world; others like that of the sick lion cured by the wolf's skin are derived from Greco-Roman sources. The cycle arose in the area between Flanders and Germany in the 10th and 11th centuries when clerks began to forge Latin beast epics out of popular tales. The main literary tradition of Reynard the Fox descends from the extant French ‘branches' of the Roman de Renart about 30 in number nearly 40000 lines of verse. The facetious portrayal of rustic life the camel as a papal legate speaking broken French the animals riding on horses and recounting elaborate dreams all suggest the atmosphere of 13th-century France" Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature.<br/><br/>"Caxton's immediate successors as printers of the Historye of Reynart the Foxe Wynkyn de Worde and Richard Pynson both published illustrated editions using the same woodcuts. Although neither a de Worde nor a Pynson edition survives intact there are fragments and there is circumstantial evidence to show that a Wynkyn de Worde edition of about 1495 or earlier was illustrated by a series of 43 woodcuts.apparently newly made for that edition.The earliest nearly complete fully illustrated History of Reynard the Fox to come down to us probably dates from the period 1560-1586. It survives in a unique copy.sometimes described as the ‘Anonymous' edition because it lacks the first few and the last few pages were we would expect to find the name of the printer and the place of publication. It contains 39 of the 43 Wynkyn de Worde cuts. To judge by their worn state.they had been much used since they were first made. This Anonymous edition also contains a series of 19 smaller artistically inferior pictures.They too are quite worn and may date from soon after the earliest illustrated editions.I have ascribed this Anonymous edition to the period 1560-1586. It is therefore just possible that it is either the lost William Powell edition of 1560-1561 or the lost Edward Allde edition of 1586 for both of these are mentioned in the Stationer's Register but neither survives" Kenneth Varty Reynard Renart Reinaert and Other Foxes in Medieval England: The Iconographic Evidence Amsterdam: 1999 pp. 98-99.<br/><br/>"From William Caxton's first edition 1481 to Thomas Gaultier's only edition 1550 the story is divided into 43 chapters. This may explain why the Wynkyn de Worde picture cycle contained 43 vertical cuts though in fact some chapters were not illustrated and some were illustrated with more than one picture. In the period before the appearance of the Anonymous edition we know.of only three illustrated editions: the one by Wynkyn de Worde sometime before or in 1495 and the other by him c. 1515; and the one by Richard Pynson somewhere between 1501 and 155. In the Anonymous edition between 1560 and 1585 the story is divided into 58 chapters. This may account for the frequent repetition of the vertical cuts as space-fillers and even for the introduction and occasional repetition of the smaller horizontal cuts. For most of the seventeenth century the story now short-titled The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox is divided into 25 chapters but this does not result in any noticeable reduction in the number of cuts used of either the vertical or the horizontal kind nor in the introduction of new illustrative material. In short the same cuts go on in much the same order apart from space-filler repetitions illustrating the same episodes. The first seventeenth-century edition to continue this picture cycle tradition is Edward Allde's 1620 followed by Elizabeth Allde's 1629. It continues in the two editions published in 1640 by Richard Oulton one for John Slater and the other for John Wright; also in the editions published by Jane Bell in 1650 1654 and 1656; and in the first edition published by Edward Brewster in 1662. By this date the Wynkyn de Worde blocks had become so worn and damaged that it is not surprising to discover a totally new set closely modelled on them and on the sixteenth-century horizontals and that this set should appear in an edition made for the publisher who last owned the de Worde blocks; that is in Edward Brewster's second edition in 1671 of The most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox.The forty different cuts which illustrate this edition all prominently display his initials EB. He published further illustrated editions in 1676 1681 1694 and 1701. In 1671 Brewster gave a new lease of life to the old picture cycle and in 1672 he grafted new life onto the old story with A Continuation Or Second Part Of The Most Pleasant and Delightful History of Reynard the Fox.In due course this new story about Reynard was to attract new illustrations but in this volume Brewster makes do with a sprinkling of fifteen cuts from his new cycle bearing the initials EB and he uses them again in his 1676 edition of the old story now called Part One and in his 1681 edition of both Part One and Part Two.In 1684 Brewster marketed a further sequel to this Continuation. Since Reynard was dead the chief role in this new story is given to one of his sons the one called Reynardine. It is entitled The Shifts of Renardine The Son of Reynard the Fox.Edward Brewster was not the only late seventeenth-century publisher of the Beast Epic to feel the need to renew it. His contemporary John Shurley sometimes spelled Shirley also felt that need and in 1681 he published his Most Delightful History of Reynard the Fox in Heroic Verse.Unlike other earlier renovations of the story it was never reprinted perhaps because the verse form was unpopular and because the illustrations were poor and few" Varty pp. 254-257.<br/><br/>Brunet IV cols. 1228-1229. Lowndes p. 2076. Varty Appendix Three: "A Short-Title List of All Extant Illustrated Histories of Reynard the Fox from Wynkyn de Worde c. 1495 to A. Soulby c. 1800 which are kept in United Kingdom libraries based on H. Menke Bibliotheca Reinardiana" 24 18 and 21. Wing S3512 Part II and S3436 Part III. London: Printed by T. Ilive, for Edward Brewster, 1701 unknown books
1684WRCLIT66732London: Printed by T.J. for Edward Brewster . and Thomas Passenger . 1684. Three parts bound in one volume. 80 leaves A-U4; 56 leaves A-O4; and 8160pp. Quarto. Modern blind paneled calf raised bands gilt label. First two parts illustrated with spirited woodcuts. Occasional foxing and mild spotting marginal smudges to first title usual tanning lower forecorners of E2-3 in first part torn away and replaced with a few letters and a few words in the sidenote in ms a few upper margins dust-soiled last three gatherings in third part supplied from another copy and trimmed slightly shorter at lower margin; a good sound copy neatly bound. First edition of the third part. An omnibus gathering of these three separately printed editions each with independent register and with the title of the first part taking into account the presence of the latter two. The terminal advert leaf to the first part is present. Wing attributes the text of the first part to John Shirley and that for the third is occasionally attributed to the publisher Edward Brewster. The first part is illustrated with 62 woodcut illustrations signed 'E.B.' of which 23 are repeats; the second part includes 15 woodcuts all of which appear as well in the first part. The first part was first printed in this form in 1667 and the second in 1672; the first part was reprinted again in 1701. Among the most widely adapted of the beast fables the tales of Reynard the Fox originated in the 12th and 13th centuries with early versions in French Dutch Latin and German being notable. Caxton printed a translation based on a Flemish text in 1481. The character of Reynard an anthropomorphic fox and trickster has since become almost an archetype in the literatures of several languages. ESTC R24532 & R218371 & R40614. WING S3513 & M2912 & S3436. BRUNET IV:1228. LOWNDES VII:2076. Printed by T.J. for Edward Brewster ... and Thomas Passenger ... hardcover books
184152094London: Printed by J. & H. Cox Brothers 74 & 75 Great Queen Street Lincoln's-Inn Fields 1841. First edition. 4to. 4 pp. Aside from a few faint pinpoint spots of foxing this is a fine as new copy. Housed in a custom made cloth chemise and slipcase titled in gilt along the spine. Shortly after the presentation of his paper before the Royal Society on 31 January 1839 Talbot at his own expense printed the text as a pamphlet of 14 pages; "Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing."became the world's first separate publication on photography. Through this process an ordinary piece of writing paper was immersed in a sensitizing solution dried placed in a camera and exposed in daylight to a subject for upwards of an hour or longer. Upon examination a tonally reversed rendering of the subject was visible. It was then soaked in a solution of salt and washed and dried then the process was essentially repeated exposing the first print to the new sensitized sheet reversing the tones to produce an image with the tonality as in nature. Through a series of further experiments over the next months Talbot discovered that a "latent" image always existed and that through chemical development it could be brought to life. This allowed for speeding the exposure in the camera to be cut to a mere 30 seconds and the enriched chemical solutions would produce a sharper and tonally richer image. This process he first called the Calotype from the Greek kalos - beautiful. <br/><br/>On June 10 1841 Talbot presented the Calotype process at a meeting of the Royal Society and at his own expense he published a four page description of his process. Unlike his earlier publication on Photogenic Drawing here he states in detail the full process. <br/>Upon the urging of John Herschel and David Brewster he began to call his process the Talbotype rather than Calotype. His intention was to license this process and likely this printed description was printed to distributed to potential licensees. <br/><br/>Aside from changing the name from Calotype to Talbotype in the title of this publication and the slight alteration in the printer's imprint the text of the two issue are identical - the word Calotype remains in the body of the text This is the foundation stone of the negative-positive process that has been in use since it was first published.<br/><br/>This printing is much rarer than the Calotype variant with WorldCat locating only Harvard University - Houghton Library and Cornell University. Gernsheim Incunabula No. 655 listing only the Calotype variant. Roosens and Salu No. 10285 listing only the Calotype variant. Weaver HENRY FOX TALBOT SELECTED TEXTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY No. 87 listing only the Calotype variant. <br/><br/> Printed by J. & H. Cox, Brothers, 74 & 75, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields hardcover books
WALTER-FILM000325No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 41 x 27 103 x 68 cm. one sheet poster USA. Gene Tierney Clifton Webb Dana Andrews Judith Anderson Vincent Price dir: Otto Preminger; Twentieth Century Fox. One of the rarest and most desirable of all posters for this classic film noir one of the finest and best remembered of the genre. Perhaps the most romantic and one of the most haunting of all noir posters. Story of a beautiful girl in a painting who is believed to have been murdered the police investigator who falls in love with her image and her jealous Svengali. Lovely portrait of the iconic Tierney. On linen there has been touch-up to the fold lines and touch-up to one tiny tear near the right edge middle fold near Vincent Price shoulder. Immaculate colors a really clean copy ABOUT FINE. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000093No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 41 x 81"" 102 x 202 cm. three sheet poster style A USA. Ronald Colman Joan Bennett Colin Clive Nigel Bruce Montagu Love dir: Stephen Roberts; Twentieth Century Fox. The title for the film originated in the popular 1892 song of the same name. This is the story of Paul Gallard Colmen a once artistocratic Russian prince called White Russian displaced during World War I who is living in Paris and earns his living driving a taxi. Traveling to Monte Carlo he gambles with money supplied to him by his compatriots. Fortunately he wins breaking the bank. The casino loves the publicity it could bring them particularly should he return to the tables but instead he warns the public of the hazards of gambling. The film was highlighted by Colin Clive's villainous performance. Film was made at the time of the merger between Twentieth Century and Fox Pictures. Stunning portraiture of Coleman and Bennett with scenario of Coleman at the gambling table. On linen NEAR FINE. unknown books
1904447631904. <p>Curtis Charles 1853-1928; Walter Fox 1858-1934. Archive of 21 autograph letters 18 by Curtis 3 by Fox signed to James Kortright Birch 1850-1927 plus a watercolor sketch of orchids and additional materials; list available on request. Penang Botanic Gardens Malaysia 12 December 1892 - 23 November 1904. Various sizes. Pin-holes in most of the letters one letter with a small portion of the margin cut away not affecting legibility a few edges frayed but very good.</p> <p> Remarkable scientific archive consisting primarily of letters from British botanist Charles Curtis the first superintendent of the famous Penang Botanic Gardens in Malaysia and the one primarily responsible for the Gardens' beautiful design. All of the letters in this archive deal with the identification of tropical plant species including orchids ferns flowering trees and shrubs fruits etc. They document Curtis's encyclopedic knowledge of both local and exotic species as well as his collecting activities and his collegial relationship with Kew Gardens in London. The recipient of the letters was James Kortright Birch a colonial governor of Penang and "a very keen gardener with considerable technical knowledge" who "did much to make the Penang Botanical Gardens the beauty spot that they are" obituary from The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser 15 June 1927.</p> <p> Curtis gained his knowledge of tropical plants as a plant hunter for the well-known nursery firm of James Veitch & Sons. He traveled to Madagascar Borneo Sumatra Java and Mauritius to find new and rare botanical species some of which are named for him. In 1884 Curtis was appointed assistant superintendent of the Forests and Gardens Department in Penang and shortly afterwards was put in charge of the newly established Penang Botanic Gardens. During his 18 years as head of the Gardens Curtis worked tirelessly to transform the garden site an abandoned granite quarry into a beautiful park stocked with thousands of native and exotic plants intended to serve as a recreation area a botanical repository and a center for the cultivation of various species. In his spare time he put together his own collections of plants from Penang Burma and neighboring coastal areas sending samples to Kew Gardens in London and to Veitch & Sons. Curtis retired from the Penang Botanic Gardens in December 1903; he was succeeded by horticulturalist Walter Fox another expert on tropical plants who is also represented in this archive. </p> <p>. unknown books
1929133042New York: E.P. Dutton 1929. First Edition. First Edition in English and first edition in hardcover preceded by the French edition "Les mains d'Orlac" in 1920. With the publisher's wraparound band. <br/><br/>A seminal horror novel rare in dust jacket written by one of the most important French genre fiction writers of the early twentieth century. The basis for several films including the classic German silent film starring Conrad Veidt "Orlacs Hande" The Hands of Orlac 1924 and its American rival the sound version starring Peter Lorre "Mad Love" directed by emigre Karl Freund for MGM in 1935 and today considered one of the greatest horror films of the 1930s. <br/><br/>Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with the publisher's wraparound band "The Dutton Prize Mystery for November". The jacket's deco design is bright and striking with some toning to the spine jacket and band a chip at the crown affecting a portion of the title "The Ha" and part of "n" a portion of the publisher name at the heel the "Du" in "Dutton" and a few tiny chips nicks and closed tears. <br/><br/>Barron 1999 4-125. Bleiler 1948 US. Clute & Nicholls US. Hubin 1994 US. Locke US. Reginald 12140. Senn US. E.P. Dutton unknown books
18032175London: Printed for Thomas Cox 1803. First Edition. Quarto 10 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 275 x 225 mm. viii 100 13 explanation of plates 1 blank pp. Presentation copy from the author on a slip tipped in at the head of the title-page which reads "Mr. Pitt with best respects/from the Author". With thirteen copper-plates.<br/><br/>Contemporary half calf over marbled boards rebacked with original spine neatly laid down. Spine with green calf spine label. Label lettered in gilt. Spine tooled in gilt. Calf ruled in blind. Newer endpapers. Some mild oxidation mainly to title-page and first few leaves as well as some mild foxing to a few plates but mainly along edges. A small wormhole at the very edge of the lower margin not affecting text. Overall a very good copy.<br/><br/>"Fox's classic treatise on the teeth is the first to include explicit directions for correcting dental irregularities. It is the first work on orthodontics"--Garrison-Morton 3679.<br/><br/>"In the spring of 1799 Fox began a course of lectures on the teeth to students at Guy's and he continued as a lecturer there until his death. This was certainly the first series of lectures specifically on dentistry to be given in Britain and probably in the world. On them he based his two books The Natural History of the Human Teeth 1803 and The History and Treatment of the Diseases of the Teeth 1806 which were the first important dental works in English to have illustrations of operative dental procedures and of pathological dental conditions. Fox was also the first to give specific instructions for the correction of irregularities of the teeth. There were three English editions of his works two American editions and a French translation by Lemaire. These works were the first true textbooks on dentistry for students and practitioners and for the next fifty years they were the most quoted ones in the English-speaking world." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.<br/><br/>Garrison and Morton 3679. Norman Library 825. Printed for Thomas Cox unknown books
180367960First Edition Of The First Work On Orthodontics FOX Joseph. The Natural History of the Human Teeth. Including a Particular Elucidation of the Changes Which Take Place During the Second Dentition and Describing the Proper Mode of Treatment to Prevent Irregularities of the Teeth. To Which is Added An Account of the Diseases Which Affect Children During the First Dentition. Illustrated with Thirteen Copper-Plates. London: Printed for Thomas Cox 1803. First Edition. Quarto 10 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches; 275 x 225 mm. viii 100 13 explanation of plates 1 blank pp. Presentation copy from the author on a slip tipped in at the head of the title-page which reads "Mr. Pitt with best respects/from the Author". With thirteen copper-plates. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards rebacked with original spine neatly laid down. Spine with green calf spine label. Label lettered in gilt. Spine tooled in gilt. Calf ruled in blind. Newer endpapers. Some mild oxidation mainly to title-page and first few leaves as well as some mild foxing to a few plates but mainly along edges. A small wormhole at the very edge of the lower margin not affecting text. Overall a very good copy. "Fox's classic treatise on the teeth is the first to include explicit directions for correcting dental irregularities. It is the first work on orthodontics"--Garrison-Morton 3679. "In the spring of 1799 Fox began a course of lectures on the teeth to students at Guy's and he continued as a lecturer there until his death. This was certainly the first series of lectures specifically on dentistry to be given in Britain and probably in the world. On them he based his two books The Natural History of the Human Teeth 1803 and The History and Treatment of the Diseases of the Teeth 1806 which were the first important dental works in English to have illustrations of operative dental procedures and of pathological dental conditions. Fox was also the first to give specific instructions for the correction of irregularities of the teeth. There were three English editions of his works two American editions and a French translation by Lemaire. These works were the first true textbooks on dentistry for students and practitioners and for the next fifty years they were the most quoted ones in the English-speaking world." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Garrison and Morton 3679. Norman Library 825. HBS 67960. $3500 Printed for Thomas Cox hardcover books
1803121495London: Printed for Thomas Cox 1803. First edition of the first work on orthodontics. Quarto bound in full leather with morocco spine label lettered in gilt five raised bands to the spine stamped ruling to the panels illustrated with thirteen copper plates. From The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine with Norman's bookplate to the pastedown. In near fine condition. An exceptional example with noted provenance. "Here English dental surgeon Joseph Fox discusses the major causes of malocclusion in the permanent teeth and described his method of correcting these by means of a fixed metal band and silk ligatures. Fox's orthodontics marked a great improvement over the method of Fauchard and Bourdet and his system of treatment found favour for nearly half a century" Norman. "Fox's classic treatise on the teeth is the first to include explicit directions for correcting dental irregularities" Garrison-Morton. Printed for Thomas Cox hardcover books
1803218202London: Thomas Cox 1803. hardcover. very good. The Natural History of the Human Teeth Including a Particular Elucidation of the Changes which Take Place during the Second Dentition. viii 100pp followed by 13 copper plate engarvings. London: Thomas Cox 1803. AND: The History and Treatment of the Diseases of the Teeth the Gums and the Alveolar Processes with the Operations which they Respectively Require. iv 170pp followed by 9 copper plate engravings lightly foxed and stained. 4to with wide margins bound in full diced calf well-rubbed but sound. London: Thomas Cox 1806.<br/><br/> Landmark work on orthodontics. Two classical treatises by the pioneering London dental surgeon. Fox was first to give explicit directions for correcting dental irregularities as well as instructions for various surgical procedures. Weinberger History of Dentristry Vol. I; pp. 340-4. In 1799 Joseph Fox pupil of John Hunter received the appointment of dental surgeon to Guy's Hospital the first hospital to add a dental surgeon to its staff and the first to institute a special course of dental lectures. GM 3679; 3671.1. Campbell 54 and 59.<br/><br/> Thomas Cox unknown books
1920148871Paris: Editions Nilsson 1920. First French Edition a trade softcover original preceding the first English language edition by nine years. Text in French. Cover illustration by Maggy Monier. Rare.<br/><br/>A seminal horror novel written by one of the most important French genre fiction writers of the early twentieth century. The basis for several films including the classic German silent film starring Conrad Veidt "The Hands of Orlac 1924 and its American rival the sound version starring Peter Lorre "Mad Love" directed by emigre Karl Freund for MGM in 1935 and today considered one of the greatest horror films of the 1930s. <br/><br/>Very Good in illustrated wrappers. All edges uncut. Slight lean some vertical wrinkling to the spine small chips at a couple of corners and wrappers foxed particularly rear wrapper.<br/><br/>Barron 1999 4-125. Bleiler 1948 US. Clute & Nicholls US. Hubin 1994 US. Locke US. Reginald 12140. Senn US. Editions Nilsson unknown books
19282221596<p>"Wm Fox" to Jesse Lasky at Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. Times Square New York City on the new processes of producing talking films. 11" x 8 1/2" on his William Fox Fox Studio West 55th Street New York City letterhead August 21 1928. Very good closed file holes at top edges.</p><p>In part: ".You already know of my great interest in the successful development of talking motion pictures. I am anxious therefore too see your company produce movietone pictures that are as near perfect as it is possible to obtain from the experience we have gathered. I realize that one of the things that would retard your progress would be improper printing - and there is more danger of failure here than in any other step of the work. The only one that thoroughly understands the proper development and printing of sound pictures today is our laboratory."</p><p>Fox 1879-1952 was born in Hungary; originally named Wilhelm Fried. He founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s.</p> books
18479675n.p. 1847. 1 vols. Folio. Sewn into original brown wrappers worn. 1 vols. Folio. 215 ORIGINAL SPORTING DRAWINGS. The artist from internal evidence seems to be Rev. H.L. Bennet--clearly an ardent and well-connected sportsman as most of his sketches are portraits and caricatures of well-known hunting men and women of the day many of whom are identified. These include a portrait of Lord Jersey who Nimrod called "perhaps the most elegant rider for hounds the world has ever seen" and many others. The drawings are skilfully executed and are often amusing. A unique production of one of the golden ages of British sport.<br/><br/>Including : Examples of 2 pages 7 images: Mrs. Rowley's Groom on his Compact Mare Rush Esq Farthgghoc Col. Joddsch Lord Anson's steward M-- Wyatt. J.H. Jr T.T.D.<br/><br/>Another: 2 pages; Rev. G. Loyd T.T Darke Esq. 2 others<br/><br/>Another: 2 pages; Col. Goodell 4 others Mr. Drakes Grey's horse. unknown books
1931Embry 114913Charles Scribner's Sons 1931. Number 337 of 500 deluxe copies signed by N. C. Wyeth. Fine with soft crease to upper spine in original publisher's glassine wrapper with a tear to front spine fold in near fine original publisher's lidded box with two broken short seams some light rubbing to edges the both enclosed in the original publisher's shipping carton with a small portion of one side panel replaced and seams expertly strengthened and finally the whole enclosed in a new custom cloth clamshell slipcase with a leather label from Handbridge Bindery. Parchment backed blue cloth titled in gilt. Signed by N. C. Wyeth. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Number 337 of 500 deluxe copies, signed by N. C. Wyeth. hardcover books
1780017670Bushy Park: Manuscript 1780. Book. Very good condition. Unbound. Signed by Authors. First Edition. One folio page 18-line handwritten document dated July 17 1773. Signed by: North as Prime Minister; C. Townsend; C.J. Fox Newcastle; Hardwicke; Thomas Coutts attorney. It concerns payment to James Lord Forbes. American Revoluton; Revolutionary War; Frederick Lord North 1732-1792. Manuscript Paperback books
173913984Amsterdam: Renard 1739. Copper-engraved sea chart with full orginal colour in very good condition. A highly decorative sea chart of the English Channel by the master-engraver Renard.<br/> <br/>The marine atlases of 17th and 18th century Holland were best sellers. The nation that led the world in overseas commerce also led in the arts of engraving and cartography. Plus there was a large audience of mariners and mariners' parents who needed to study the obscure straits and recently discovered island groups their sons were seeing. Louis Renard 1678-1746 was from a Huguenot family. He moved from France to the Netherlands and became a book dealer and publisher in Amsterdam in 1703. Louis Renard first published Atlas de la Navigation et du Commerce qui se fait dans toutes les parties du monde in 1715. It was re-issued unchanged by the Ottens in 1739. The charts were printed from plates made by Frederick de Wit in 1675 Orbis Maritimus ofte Zee Atlas. These were corrected by Renard using primarily van Keulen.<br/> <br/>Koeman Atlantes Neerlandici Ren 1. Renard unknown books
184753117London: John Murray 1847. First edition. 8vo. vii 492 pp. with 16 pp. of advertisements dated July 1846. Publisher's cloth decorated in blind and titled in gilt on the spine. Tips slightly curled and rubbed; a clean tear at the rear joint and at the spine crown have been expertly repaired and are barely noticeable. Original owner's neat signature on the front pastedown. Polymath William Henry Fox Talbot inventor of the negative/positive photographic process the photogravure printing process which afforded reproduction of images from life to ink on paper translator of Assyrian cuneiforms and etymologist of the English language here states "in giving the opinion of previous inquirers I have frequently quoted Johnson and also Thompson's Etymons of English Words. But it is evident that Johnson had no taste for etymology so that the assistance to be derived from him is usually rather meagre."<br/><br/>Limited to 500 copies. <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
6050Title framed within typographical ornaments. 4 p.l. 219 1 p. 4to orig. decorative brown morocco with gilt armorial device and mottos on upper cover corners a trifle rubbed flat spine gilt a.e.g. N.p.: Chiswick Press "Privately Printed" 1883. One of forty copies of this rare catalogue in the deluxe presentation binding. Fox Strangways 1847-1905 possessed a vast collection of family portraits and Old Master paintings spread across a house in London at 42 Belgrave Square and three country houses Melbury House and Abbotsbury Castle in Dorset and Redlynch House in Wiltshire. The catalogue was compiled by his mother Amelia Fox Strangways. The 4th Earl William Thomas-Horner Fox Strangways 1795-1865 uncle of the 5th Earl and a prominent diplomat was posted throughout Europe most notably Italy where he was an early proponent of artists from the period of Giotto and Cimabue. Despite his enormous contributions to the family collection the 4th Earl's name is curiously not found in this catalogue. In 1913 a fire destroyed Abbotsbury Castle and its contents making this an essential record of that part of the collection. Many of the paintings purchased by the 4th Earl were bequeathed to Christ Church Oxford and to the Ashmolean Museum. The catalogue lists 352 paintings arranged by house then by room. Many have lengthy descriptions about the artists and provenance. Fine copy lacking the errata slip. unknown books
19312987New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1931. First edition. First edition. IN ORIGINAL BOX AND CLEAR GLASSINE WITH ONE PRINTED PAPER INSIDE PANEL AS ISSUED. Original black cloth with gilt spine and full size color cover insert on cover. "A" and Scribner's seal denoting first issue. Illustrated title page endpapers and 14 superb full page color plates by N. C. Wyeth. The rare boxed first edition with color pictorial insert on box both top and bottom of box in tact some chipping a little paper loss to cover insert but very good. Has exceedingly scarce original clear glassine clear wrappers intact laid in with the printed list of seven titles. Vanishingly scarce. Book is fine. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
014799London; 1684 & 1641: for Company of Stationers. Folio. "Foxe's Magnificent Books of Martyrs" Two Volumes: The Second Volume of the Ecclesiastical History: Containing the Acts and Monuments of Martyrs: with a general discourse of the later persecutions horrible troubles and tumults stirred up by Romish prelates in the Church with divers other things incident to this realm of England and Scotland. London for Company of Stationers 1684. 551pp. with ninth book beginning new pagination.38 textual illustrations one full page illustration. p. 53-55 and p. 79 chipped edges affecting only a few side-notes . p. 179 bottom corner with old repair touching image p. 243 short closed tear to upper edge p. 379 mis-numbered 387 p. 435 mis-numbered 453 The Ninth Book containing the Acts and Things Done in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth. 131pp. half page illustration p. 26 mis-numbered 120 p. 131 with wear and tears to outer margins with no textual loss some damp staining. Bound in full contemporary calf handsomely rebacked to style red leather label gilt compartments decoratively stamped in blind renewed endpapers. The Third Volume of the Ecclesiasticall Historie:.Recognized and enlarged by the author John Foxe. Company of Stationers London 1641. 1030pp. double column black letter and regular type 71 textual illustrations 2 full page illustrations 1 inserted between pages 502 & 503 and 1 inserted between pages 770 & 771 Title page with piece torn away from upper corner p. 46 mis-numbered 49 p. 49 mis-numbered 47 pg. 59 -66 mis-numbered p. 73 closed tear to lower margin p. 223 closed tear to lower margin p. 367 mis-numbered 370-372 p. 545 mis-numbered 55p. 621 closed tear to bottom margin extending into last paragraph pgs. 623-627 closed tear to bottom margins not affecting text p. 699 closed tear to bottom margin p. 893 about half a page torn away A Continuation of the Histories of Forreine Martyrs: From the happy reign of the most renowned Queen Elizabeth to these times.Printed by Ric. Hearn for the Company of Stationers 1641. Engraved title page with upper corner torn away with little loss of illustration A4-B3 printer's mark 1-108pp. with pages 107 and 108 mis-numbered 105 & 106 and with page 107 repaired lacking half a page and page 108 repaired. Bound in bound in early marbled paper covered boards beautifully rebacked in brown leather red leather spine label gilt compartments decoratively stamped in gilt endpapers renewed wear to corners. for Company of Stationers unknown books
1870165341870. Watercolour and pencil signed "Phiz" and inscribed as title. 1 vols. 7 1/4 x 13 1/4. Browne or "Phiz" was a noted illustrator of Dickens and for Punch. The present work was probably engraved for Punch about 1870 when the artist specialised in sporting cartoons. Watercolour and pencil signed "Phiz" and inscribed as title. 1 vols. 7 1/4 x 13 1/4" Cf. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting pp. 64-5 unknown books
1870165361870. watercolour and pencil signed "Phiz" and inscribed as title. 1 vols. 6 3/4 x 10. Browne was a noted illustrator of Dickens and for Punch. The present work was probably engrvaed for Punch about 1870 when the artist specialised in sporting cartoons. watercolour and pencil signed "Phiz" and inscribed as title. 1 vols. 6 3/4 x 10 unknown books
1973146779Universal City: Universal Pictures 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. <br/><br/>Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel about the titular professional assassin hired by a militant French underground organization to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Paris Versailles and Hautes-Alpes. <br/><br/>82 x 24 inches. Rolled. Very Good with no restoration. Several vertical creases with some cracking three closed tears measuring tow four and five inches several small closed tears in margins otherwise bright and unfaded.<br/><br/>Penzler 101. Universal Pictures unknown books
