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1924007589Berkshire England : The Golden Cockerel Press 1924. #333 of 380 copies 350 of which were for sale. Vellum spine over handmade patterned paper boards gilt lettering at spine Near Fine petite period bookplate front paste down the usual toning to front and rear end pages. An essay taken from "Walden or Life in the Woods" by Henry David Thoreau 46 pp. with wood engravings in blue by Robert Gibbings. A lovely tight copy that feels unread. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Vellum Over Handmade Paper Boa. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Limited Edition. The Golden Cockerel Press Hardcover books
1931135672London: Golden Cockerel Press 1931. Limited edition 360/500 copies this one bound by Sangorski and Sutcilffe. Hardbound. VG very faint evidence of small label at base of leather spine faint. Half-leather with patterned cloth-covered boards. 66 pp.6 large and small engravings. Signed by the author on the Limitation page. Very nice copy. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
66656E-160. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Edwd. Orme London UK. 1813. 12 pgs. Illustrated with a set of four whaling prints originally found in Williamson's "Foreign Field Sports." Bound by Zaehnsdorf in 3/4 leather and matching cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A complete set of four fine colour aquatints depicting whaling in the early 19th century. Fine original colour. The titles of each plate : 'Whale Fishery Plate 1 A Ship's Boat Attacking a Whale' 'Whale Fishery Plate 2 Boats Approaching a Whale' ''Whale Fishery Plate 3 A Whale Brought Along-Side a Ship' 'Whale Fishery Plate 4 Shooting the Harpoon at a Whale'. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover
19799920Sierra Trails Kernville CA Bound by National Bindery Book format designed Sagebrush Press 1979. HB NODJ ISSUED 1979 1st Limited SIGNED edition #211/250 copies Brown patterned cloth with Lable lettered in Gold Gilt & Brown F/F NODJ. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Sierra Trails Kernville CA Bound by National Bindery , Book format designed Sagebrush Press hardcover
193076478[ca. 1930]. Auf starkem Kupferdruckbütten. Bildgröße 9 x 7 cm. Unter Feinkartonpassepartout.
1976Q-0877791015G. & C. Merriam Co 1976-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! G. & C. Merriam Co hardcover
19302104300050Lewis Historical Publishing Co 1930-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 volume set. Quartos. Bound in publisher's 3/4 black cloth over green cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Unmarked pages. Some discoloration to rear cover of v.1. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Lewis Historical Publishing Co hardcover
554p. + Plus frontis and color folding map. Full page text half-tone engravings from photographs. Title page printed in red and black. Paper beginning to brown but not brittle. 4to. Original full cloth binding with pictorial design of British soldier, Boer soldier and an African tribesman. Binding slightly soiled. Nice copy. AFRICA/2
1835007569A.Asher, Berlin Und St. Petersburg 1835. Goldgeprägter Gewebe Einband Solide Und Ordentlich
196824593Prairie Press Iowa 1968. HBDJ 1968 1st Edition Dates Match on Title & Copyright pg VG/VG Red cloth spine and pictorial Decorated ivory paper-covered boards Titled on spine in Gold Gilt nice condition light wear 12mo; 44 pages. DJ light rub wear FOX. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Prairie Press Iowa hardcover
198138169Norwalk CT: Heritage Press 1981. 1st edition. Hardback in variegated cloth boards in cardboard cream slipcase. New in New slipcase. Deluxe special edition of this nature classic illustrated with numerous engravings made at Walden Pond. Latd-in is Sandglass descriptive folder. Perfect unread copy. <br/><br/>5-1/2 x 8-1/4 335 pp b/w engravings - many full-page. Heritage Press hardcover
187577407[Leipzig, Alphons Dürr, 1875]. Bildgröße 14,5 x 20 cm. Unter Klarsichtfolie auf Karton montiert, unter Passepartout.
19579011607New York: Museum of Modern Art 1957. Hardcover. Fine condition in a very good folder. Leonard Baskin. Wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. Bound in publisher's original wrappers in a paper covered folder. The folder is sunned and has closed tears to the extremities and water stains to the back cover. <br/><br/> Museum of Modern Art hardcover books
17846495Amsterdam et Paris, 1784 ; in-8 ; cartonnage rigide de papier bleu de l'époque, non rogné ; XVI, 591 pp., 2 gravures hors-texte d'après Marillier.
18754432<p>One of 170 numbered copies on Hollande paper. Bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards gold gilt top edges silk bookmarks. In very good condition sturdy and sound decorative bookplates on front pastedown of each volume some wear at spine and edges small chip at edge of half title page of volume 2</p> Édition Jouaust hardcover
1931PHO-988Paris, Duchartre , 1931 Deux volumes in-8,relié demi chagrin et coins , dos à nerfs avec auteur , titre et tomaison , couverture conservée XVI-366pp + 478pp, - Avant-Propos de A. t' Serstevens, nombreuses illustrations n/b de l'époque .
1725PHO-1469Rouen, J.B. Machuel 1725. 1 vol.(2) in-8,582pp., illustré d’un frontispice et 9 planches , relié plein veau, dos à 5 nerfs ornés, tranche rouge, reliure de l'époque, frottements , coins usés, feuillets déréglés.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Maroon leatherette cover with gilt lettering. Tears on edge worn dust jacket. Map endpapers. 144 pages. 6 1/4"w x 9 1/4"h.
1798PHO-1492Paris, chez Buisson, an VII (1798),4 volumes ; Texte 3 volumes in-8 demi percale et un Atlas in-4, demi cuir époque, dos lisse avec auteur et titre ,44 planches, certaines en double page ou dépliantes, gravées par Antoine-François Tardieu d'après John Gabriel Stedman, la planche 25 détachée, mouillure claire en marge sur 4 planches, frottements coins et coupes usés, exlibris Aldo Maffey, journaliste et écrivain italien.
170018867Utrecht: Anthony Schouten; Hermannus Ribbius 1700. Second edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Folio 15 6/8 x 10 2/8". 42 844 36pp Index 4 845-1716 36pp Index. Text in Dutch. Contemporary blind-stamped vellum with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Raised bands. Additional engraved allegorical titles by Gilliam van der Gouwen after Wilhelmus Goeree and Philip Tideman. Title pages in red and black lettering. Decorative initials. Originally published in 1690 this work is an extensive encyclopedical study of Jewish Biblical life and times and of the Ancient Near East incl. Egypt. This complete two-volume set is embellished throughout with no less than 87 engraved plates including 29 folding and 36 in-text engravings. The magnificent engravings depict numerous Biblical scenes as well as the ancient coins of the period; the Enoch Hebrew Assyrian Phoenician Egyptian Copte Armenian and Chinese alphabets; astronomical observations; views of Jerusalem; scrolls and writing instruments; the first 13 Assyrian kings; footwear in Antiquity; mosaic floor tiles; Solomon's Temple etc. Moderate and sporadic rubbing along edges. Gold partly and slightly faded on spines. Light and minor water-staining along margin of very first leaves in first volume. Title page remargined not affecting text. Front free endpaper fly-leaf additional engraved title and title of second volume slightly and partly chipped along edges not affecting text or illustration. Very minor and sporadic foxing/age-toning throughout. A nearly fine amply-magined copy with clean plates throughout. Anthony Schouten; Hermannus Ribbius hardcover
170018870Utrecht: Anthony Schouten; Hermannus Ribbius 1700. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good-. Two volumes folio 12 6/8 x 8 1/4". Text in Dutch. 42 844 36pp Index 4 845-1716 36pp Index. 19th-century half calf over burgundy cloth with gold lettering and tooling to spines. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Additional engraved allegorical titles by Gilliam van der Gouwen after Wilhelmus Goeree and Philip Tideman. Main title pages in red and black lettering. Decorative initials. Originally published in 1690 this work is an extensive encyclopedical study of Jewish Biblical life and times and of the Ancient Near East incl. Egypt. This complete two-volume set is embellished throughout with no less than 87 copperplate engraved plates including 29 folding and 36 in-text engravings. The magnificent engravings depict numerous Biblical scenes as well as the ancient coins of the period; the Enoch Hebrew Assyrian Phoenician Egyptian Copte Armenian and Chinese alphabets; astronomical observations; views of Jerusalem; scrolls and writing instruments; the first 13 Assyrian kings; footwear in Antiquity; mosaic floor tiles; Solomon's Temple etc. Moderate and sporadic rubbing along edges. Binding of second volume partly water-stained. Head and tail of spines rubbed with minor closed tears. A 3" closed tear at lower margin of page 59/60 of first volume. Light water-staining along upper gutter of second volume slightly affecting text in the very last leaves of the Index. Pages somewhat rippled in second volume else a very good set. Anthony Schouten; Hermannus Ribbius hardcover
172130780Londini London: Typis Gulielmi Bowyer 1721. Very Good-. Londini London: Typis Gilielmi Bowyer 1721. First Edition. Octavo 24cm; contemporary paneled calf gilt spine in six compartments all edges speckled; 6646444pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece and two leaves of plates including one other portrait and a folding table. Leather quite scuffed and rather dried joints rubbed with exposure of spine chords spine gilt mostly effaced 20th-century ownership inscription to front free endpaper else a Good to Very Good internally clean and sound copy. Preliminary text includes the extensive list of subscribers.<br /> <br /> Posthumously-published biography of the late Dean of St. Paul's John Barwick 1612-1664 by his brother Peter 1619-1705. "Begun in 1671 Vita was clearly intended as more than simply a memoir of Barwick's brother; it is perhaps better understood as a statement of his own commitment and lifelong zeal for the restored Anglican church and its royal head" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.<br /> <br /> ESTC T088503. Typis Gulielmi Bowyer unknown
163011321Antverpiae, Joan Galle, (circa 1630) ; F. Ioannes Nys invenit, Peter de Jode figuravit, Theodor Galle sculpsit et excudit ; titre gravé, portrait et 32 planches légendées. SUIVI de 4 planches gravées par JOAN GALLE : I- Prudentia, II- Justitia, III- Fortitudo, IV- Temperantia (les 4 vertus cardinales). SUIVI de 14 planches de sujets religieux, gravées par CORNELIUS GALLE le Vieux : Silva sacra, Fugit familia sacra, S. Barbara, S. Ianvarius Neapolis patronis, S. Lucia, S. Leontius martyr miraculis gloriossus in Muris Helvetiorum, S. Iacobus Maior, Benedicite omnes bestiae et pecora domino, S. Hieromymus, Vierge à l'Enfant, etc. Soit en tout 52 planches, reliées en 1 volume petit in-4 ; plein vélin ivoire, titre au dos, tranches rouges (reliure du XIXe).
190138254Genève Geneva: Cercle des Arts & des Lettres 1901. A stunning suite of TWENTY LARGE FOLIO WOOD ENGRAVINGS by Maurice Baud after paintings executed by Auguste Baud-Bovy between 1886 and 1898 depicting 19th-century Alpine life and landscapes in all of their picturesque austerity. 28 pages plus 20 full-page hors-texte wood-engravings. Complete with detailed letterpress descriptions. Edition limited to 171 copies of which this is number 41 one of 150 on fine wove paper printed for M.C. François and SIGNED BY BAUD. Absolutely complete with ALL PRINTED TISSUE-GUARDS PRESENT. Large folio 51.9 x 39.7 cm. Loose as issued in publisher's attractive cloth portfolio. Half-title spotted last leaf wood engraving no. 20 with some small marginal tears else FINE AND BRIGHT. A rare and important collection of Alpine prints. <br/><br/> Cercle des Arts & des Lettres hardcover
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear, tiny edge tears only. Very large book: 14" H x 9/12 " wide, 300 pages not including index with full page b&w illustrations on each page: elevations, floor plans, interior views, composite views, full exteriors, sections, details of capitals, niches, spires, doorways, entrances, in fine line and/or scaled drawings. Book comprises a selection of buildings actually erected in Britain during the years of Queen Victoria's reign and illustrated in comtemporary architectural journals: The Builder, The Building News, The Architect and the British Architect, with designs by the likes of Orlando Jewitt, T. Heaviside, J.C. Laing, H.B. Brewer, in styles such as Gothic Revival, High Victorian , Arts and Crafts, Italianate, Queen Anne, Neo-Grec; (from the intro).
