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Bank of Love. Promise 67579 to pay to you on demand 67579 the entire Love of the supplicant who sends this. 1868 Feb.y. 14. Temple of Hymen 14 Feb.y 1868. For the Gov.r and Compy:a of the Bank of Love. Cupid.
London 1868. 130 by 210mm. 5 by 8.25 inches. Cashing in at the Bank of Love Bank note creased a few tears skilfully repaired. A Valentine's Day promissory note published for the 14th February 1868. The note is in the form of the five pound bank notes issued by the Bank of England in the nineteenth century. Whereas the bank of England promised to pay the bearer of the note five pounds worth of gold. The bear of this note can expect "the entire Love of the supplicant who sends this". The note is endorsed by none other than Cupid Chairman of the Bank of Love who's head office is located at the Temple of Hymen. unknown
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[Anonymous]
Basilika Basilika - Anonymous ∑ Hand-Colored Original Lithograph ∑ München 1835
München 1835-40. Other. Altkoloriertes Albumblatt allseitig knapp auf die Einfassungslinie bzw. Bildlinie beschnitten. Gut erhalten und in dekorativem Altkolorit. 145 by 185mm 5 by 7 inches. 145 by 185mm 5 by 7 inches. Hand-Colored Original Lithograph by Anonymous depicting Basilika. Published München 1835. Sheet: 145 by 185mm 5 by 7 inches. A fine and original hand-colored example of Anonymous's celebrated cartographic work documenting this region of Germany with the precision and decorative artistry characteristic of the 18300s. Anonymous was a cartographer active in the 1800s working in the tradition of European copper-engraved cartography. Their maps are valued by collectors for their historical accuracy and decorative quality.This original lithograph with original hand coloring depicts the region of Basilika published in München 1835-40. The map records the political and geographic boundaries of the region as understood in 1835-40 offering a fascinating window into the history of German territorial organization. Sheet measures 145 by 185mm 5 by 7 inches. In good condition showing expected signs of age. Ready to frame. unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 28785
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[ANONYMOUS]
Beasts & Birds in Pictures & Words
New York: McLoughlin Bro's 1891. First Edition. Boards. Very good. PICTURE BOOK. First edition. 4to 12 ½" x 10"; 120pp; glazed color pictorial boards red cloth shelf-back; b&w vignette two lions on the title page; 52 full-page lithographed illustrations with titles other illustrations in text; scuffing to edges corners bumped with loss some age toning; pg 93/94 with closed tear through ¾ of the page now with an archival repair; very good minus. OCLC locates this first edition in 4 libraries 3 in the U.S. and 1 in Canada. Scarce in the marketplace in any condition this large-sized McLoughlin picture book was printed with at least two different cover illustrations. The detailed black and white lithographic illustrations picture animals in their natural environment many of them shown hunting and eating. McLoughlin Bro's unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 1775
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[Anonymous]
Belagerung und Bloquade der Stadt Prag durch die Königl. Preussische Armee 1757. Neues Kriegs-Theater oder Sammlung der Merkwürdigsten Begebenheiten des Gegenwaertigen Krieges In Teutschland in accuraten in Kupfer gestochenen Vorstellungen
Leipzig 1757. Other. In excellent condition. 175 by 250mm 7 by 9¾ inches. Original copper engraving hand colored when published. Original map from the famous seriesNeues Kriegs-Theater. This plan depicts the battle in Prague with the Prussians in 1757. unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 30036
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[Anonymous]
BINDING - PHILADELPHIA CA. 1865. The Photograph Album
Philadelphia: W.W. Harding 1865. Album 5 x 6 x 2.5 in. Title-page a little foxed verso blank Index to portraits 2 pp. followed by 25 thick cards creating 50 slots; all are filled with 47 cartes-de-visite 2 views and one chromolithograph a little foxed. Bound in original blue-green roan over deeply embossed carved boards covers and spine gilt edges dazzlingly gilt and gauffered each board with four porcelain beads two working catches and clasps with luxuriously wrought mounts and two porcelain beads moire pastedowns and endpapers. Minor scuffing to binding extremities. SUPERB CIVIL WAR ERA PHILADELPHIA BINDING THE GILT AND GAUFFERED EDGES GLEAM AMAZINGLY. <br /> <br /> The assemblage of the present album may be localized to Minnesota or neighboring Wisconsin owing to the surprising inclusion of two small views by Benjamin Franklin Upton 1818-1910 of the St. Croix River which demarks the two states. One of the images is entitled "Views of the Dells on the St. Croix River" a stereoscopic copy dated 1865 is at the Getty; the other is a log jam downriver from the bridge with a group of loggers posed in the foreground two stereoscopic copies of this scene are view held by NYPL Photography Collection. <br /> <br /> While it is not certain that the family who assembled the album are from either Minnesota or Wisconsin it seems self-evident that the St. Croix River was of considerable significance. Was the last name of this family "Quincy" We are perplexed by a third surprising inclusion namely a chromolithograph of a "Quince Blossom" probably not at random. The present album is far more luxurious than Harding's more common and much more inferior "Universal Photograph Album" 1861 and ours is distinguished by its exceptional condition. W.W. Harding unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 3882
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[ANONYMOUS]
Birmingham Electrical and Industrial Exhibition International 1889 Programme of Concerts Given in Bingley Hall On Thursday August 1st 1889 at the Opening of the Exhibition by Lady Randolph Churchill. Artistes - Miss Constance Bellamy and Mr. J. W. Turner. Gilmer's Military Band
Birmingham: printed by J. Upton for the venue 1889. Concert Programme ORIGINAL SILK PROGRAMME. Octavo bi-fold printed on all sides 22 x 15cm. Cream silk printed in dark blue. Heavy fraying to edges especially fore-edge with one large brown mark to the front cover as well as a few much small spots. Wear and creases showing that the programme has been folded twice more. Some evidence of basic repairs to the lower half of the spine fold. A fair copy of an extremely rare and fragile item. Birmingham: printed by J. Upton for the venue, 1889 unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 56082
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[Anonymous]
Bonnie Soldier Laddie of the Rank and File and Write me a Letter from Home
London: H. Such Machine Printer & Publisher 177 Union Street Boro'. S.E. 1885. About very good with some minor tears to edges and evidence of folding with minor holes from same. Scarce with one copy on OCLC as of April 2024. Broadside Ballads Online Bod5857. H. Such, Machine Printer & Publisher, 177, Union Street, Boro'., S.E. unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 364
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[Anonymous]
Botanical Photograph Album
British Columbia: no publisher 1940. Near Fine. A lovely vintage photograph album containing plants that are either native or endemic to the Pacific Northwest likely British Columbia neatly assembled by an amateur botanist. Most images are taken in the wild while several are of pressed plant specimens shot against a white background. The last three images differ from the theme: One depicts a black bear attempting to get into a barrel of Swift'ning Shortening lard a Chicago-based company whose product was later sold in a Canadian shop in Manitoba under the name Swift Canadian Co. a cluster of Lymantria dispar caterpillars on a leaf and a freshly caught trout. <p>Oblong. 8 x 5.5". Commercial string-bound black leatherette photo album with upper cover lettered in gilt. Canadian Kodak Co. "No. A Eaton Special" label to rear pastedown. 78 neatly arranged silver gelatin prints 21 of which are hand-colored ranging in size from 6cm x 8.5 cm to 17.5cm to 12.5cm. Images are corner mounted 5 mounted with glue typically with mounted typed captions at bottom margin. Lacking two photos. Near Fine with light rubbing to covers of album some images silvered. A beautiful collection of images. The first comprehensive field guide to plants of the Pacific Northwest was not published until 1973. [no publisher] unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 140948117
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[Anonymous]
Boys and Boys: A Story for Boys
Boston / Dover: D. Lothrop & Co. / G. T. Day & Co 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. 60pp. Green cloth stamped in blind on the sides spine decorated in gold. Engraved frontispiece title vignette illustrations. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper. Front hinge a bit weak small scrape to spine heel small faint stain affecting the top edge of the first five leaves. A very good copy. ; 24mo. D. Lothrop & Co. / G. T. Day & Co hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 31906
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British Legation Peking.
Peking c1900. map 340 by 261mm. 13.5 by 10.25 inches. Manuscript map 227 by 175mm in pencil and coloured pencil with ink annotations minor foxing pasted on paper. Contemporary newspaper clipping affixed to upper left corner with pin. Two photographs 86 by 295mm pasted to verso sun-spotted bleached and toned. Separate sheet with two photographs pasted to front one to verso in same condition. This unique manuscript plan of the Peking Legation Quarter records the positions of the two opposing sides during the most tense conflict of the Boxer Rebellion. <br/><br/>The Yihetaun Movement was a violent uprising in China at the turn of the twentieth century inspired by the proto-nationalist sentiments of United in Righteousness a militant group commonly referred to as 'Boxers'. They condemned the presence of colonial and Christian influences in the country and were incensed by the disruption that had resulted from the growth of foreign powers. Their activities grew increasingly violent throughout the late1890s until against a background of severe drought Boxer rebels converged on Beijing then known as Peking. They marched on the city with the aim of "supporting the Qing government and exterminating the foreigners". In fear of extermination foreigners and Chinese Christians fled to the Legation Quarter the foreign diplomatic centre in the city. Their panic was justified as Empress Cixi sided with the Boxers and issued an imperial decree declaring war on foreign powers. <br/><br/>Combined forces from Japan the United Kingdom America France Russia Germany Italy and Austria-Hungary formed the 'Eight-Nation Alliance' to combat the Chinese attacks. The Boxers responded by besieging the Legation Quarter in the summer of 1900 during which the head of the British diplomatic embassy Claude MacDonald later stated that the 13th July was "the most harassing day". The present plan maps the movements of both sides during this engagement with an annotation explaining that "all north of blue line taken by enemy between 20th June - 10th July". A newspaper clipping attached to the map recounts how the allied forces led by British Lietenant-General Gaselee liberated the Legation Quarter the following month with the British the first to breach the Boxers' siege lines. The rebellion was formally ended in 1901 with the Boxer Protocol a settlement under which China was forced to pay a large indemnity to the foreign powers and accept that "the quarter occupied by the legations shall be considered as one specially reserved for their use and placed under their exclusive control in which Chinese shall not have the right to reside and which may be made defensible". <br/><br/>Included alongside the map are five photographs taken inside the Legation Quarter helping to illustrate what life was like for the British troops stationed in Beijing during the conflict. One shows a tennis court set on the mountainside which is referenced in the account of Wilkinson a student interpreter at the British Legation. He records that "in summer there was tennis on the Legation lawn and in the grounds of the residence of the young European employees of the China Maritime Customs as well as garden parties at the American Legation". Two other photographs capture the Quarter's extensive gardens filled with trees bridges and pavilions. Wilkinson concedes that "it was an attractive place in which to stay. Only the water-tower and the dingy brick power-plant spoilt the pleasant effect of trees and lawns and flowering shrubs. The large extent of the grounds deadened the noise of the city outside as well as attracting various wild birds - crows cuckoos magpies hoopoes woodpeckers and orioles." A further photograph shows a line of Indian soldiers standing to attention in front of their barracks; as part of the British Empire Indian forces played a key role in its military engagements. The final photograph appears to have been taken from a boat leaving or arriving at the U.S. Quarantine Wharf in the port of Tianjin which was the main maritime gateway to Beijing. Tianjin was central in the conflict since the Boxers cut the railway line between the port-city and Beijing in order to completely isolate the latter making it difficult for the Eight-Nation Alliance to coordinate an organised attack. <br/><br/>The picturesque scenes shown in the photographs seem far removed from the very real dangers posed by the rebellion a contrast acutely captured by this intimate and unique collection of contemporary documents. <br/><br/> Conger 'Letters from China with Particular Reference to the Empress Dowager and the Women of China' Chicago 1909; Cranmer-Byng 'The old British Legation at Peking 1860-1959: Based on a Lecture Delivered on 20 August 1962' Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 1963; Preston 'The Boxer Rebellion' New York: Berkley Books 2000; Thompson 'William Scott Ament and the Boxer Rebellion' Jefferson NC 2009; Wilkinson '"Where Chineses Drive" English Student-Life at Peking. By a student interpreter' London 1885. unknown
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[Anonymous]
Buntes ABC
Stuttgart: Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl 1904. Undated German abecedary with a gift note dated 1904 but likely earlier. No author or illustrator mentioned. Fantastic full color chromolithograph illustrations accompanying short lists of words beginning with each letter of the alphabet with a few brief verses; including a Bear Clown Duck Ente Hen Hahn Hunter Jaeger Teacher Lehrer Luftballon Nutcracker Peacock Pfau Turkey Truthahn Cyclist Velocipedist and Goat Ziege. Two letters per page with j as a variant of i and x y z on the final page. Each page is printed on one side only. Hardcover narrow quarter red cloth over full color front board plain grey rear board. Shows some edgewear & minor staining gift note inside front; main body of the book is detached leaving the first and last leaves AB & XYZ attached; minor staining & edge tears to a few pages; illustrations bright and crisp. 12 leaves 12 printed pages. First Edition. Quarter Cloth. Fair. 8¼" by 11¼". Loewes Verlag Ferdinand Carl Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : u3210
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[ANONYMOUS]
Bye-Baby-Bye Stories for Little Folks Tit Bit Story Series
New York and London: Thos.Nelson & Sons and S.W. Partridge & Co 1882. Wraps. Very good . New York: Thos. Nelson & Sons 42 Bleeker Street and London: S.W. Partridge & Co. 9 Paternoster Row <br /> <br /> 48mo 3 11/16" x 2 7/8"; 22pp; stiff color pictorial wrapper title on front series and publisher on rear wrapper; gift inscription on recto fp dated 1882; color fp; silhouette vignette of a bird on title page; text and 12 illustrations printed in blue; light hand-soiling; very good plus. OCLC locates 2 copies one in the U.S. and one in Canada. Eleven blurbs with corresponding illustrations on the facing page. Two have a religious theme one cautioning against drink. Four of the illustrations are silhouettes. Probably written and first published in the U.K. as some of the text has British subject matter. Thos.Nelson & Sons and S.W. Partridge & Co unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 1740
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[Anonymous]
Campagne des Russes contre les Perses en 1796 par un secrétaire de l’ambassade autrichienne
France Late 18th–early 19th century. Manuscript in French written in brown ink with corrections and deletions protected with a somewhat later added cover-page. From the collection of General Martin de Vignolle. Light stains and occasional dog-earing otherwise in fine condition. Manuscript in French written in brown ink with corrections and deletions protected with a somewhat later added cover-page. 21 pages in-folio. <p><br /> Unpublished French account of the 1796 Russian campaign against Persia written by a secretary of the Austrian embassy.<br /> <p><p><br /> A contemporary or near-contemporary draft mémoire in French by a secretary of the Austrian embassy possibly in Paris describing the Russian campaign against Persia in 1796. The manuscript appears to be unpublished. The title identifies the author as attached to the Austrian diplomatic service suggesting a perspective shaped by contemporary European diplomatic observation.<br /> <p><p><br /> Known as the Persian Expedition of 1796 this campaign was launched by Empress Catherine II of Russia in retaliation for Persia’s invasion of Georgia the previous year. Commanded overall by Count Valerian Zubov with senior officers including General Paul Potemkin Russian forces advanced into the eastern Caucasus capturing key cities in present-day Dagestan and Azerbaijan including Derbent and Baku. The expedition ended abruptly when Catherine died in November 1796 and her successor Paul I ordered a withdrawal.<br /> <p><p><br /> Provenance: from the collection of General Martin de Vignolle 1763–1824 Count of the Empire as noted on a somewhat later added cover-page inscription by a family member identifying the manuscript as coming from his papers and indicating the writer’s familial connection as his son-in-law.<br /> <p>. unknown
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[Anonymous]
Carta Topografica Dei Contorni Di Milano del Gircuito di ventiquatro piu Miglia. Si vende in Milano presso i negozianti di Stampe Anonymous – Milan & Lombardy · Copper Engraving Uncolored · published Milano · 1807
Milano: Negozianti 1807. Other. Very clear and strong printed example in excellent condition. 540 by 733mm 21 by 28 inches. 540 by 733mm 21 by 28 inches. Original antique copper engraving uncolored published 1807. Depicting Milan & Lombardy this map is a fine example of 0s European cartography. Image: 540 by 733mm 21 by 28 inches. An attractive and historically significant 19th-century map for the discerning collector. This engraving was published anonymously by a professional publisher of the period. While the engraver's identity is not recorded the quality of the work reflects the high standards of professional printmaking of the era.A fine and unusual map depicting Northern Italy with Milan in its center. The map includes Bergamo towards Brescia also it extends in the west towards the Lago d' Orta and the Lago Maggiore. Rare map of Northern Italy individual published and printed in Milan.A fine example from published Milano sought after by collectors of antique maps of Italy antique maps of Milan and antique copper engraving uncoloreds for sale. In very good condition. Light age-toning as expected for an 19th-century map. Colors vivid. Negozianti unknown
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[Anonymous]
Carte Comparative de L Espagne Ancienne et Moderne.
Paris 1810. Other. In excellent condition. 223 by 280mm 8¾ by 11 inches. 223 by 280mm 8¾ by 11 inches. Copper engraving hand colored in outline. unknown
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[ANONYMOUS]
Catholique et de Monseigneur le Dauphin.
Paris: I.F. Benard 1743. 252 by 184mm. 10 by 7.25 inches. Prints""Nicolas de Fer Geographie de sa Majeste Nicolas de Fer Engraved portrait. Portrait of Nicolas de Fer 16461720 who was apprenticed to Parisian engraver Louis Spirinx and made his first map at 23. In 1687 his father's printing firm was passed on to Nicolas who rapidly expanded the cartographical side of the business. Perhaps de Fer's greatest work 'L'Atlas curieux' was published from 1700 until 1705 at which point it spanned four volumes and contained 113 maps and views many of which focused on the regions and monuments of France. The entire work can be considered a celebration of the French empire under the reign of King Louis XIV from whom de Fer received a royal privilege in 1703. During de Fer's period as official geographer to the King de Fer continued to produce a great number of impressive maps which eventually won him the even more prestigious post of official geographer to the Pope to which he was appointed in 1720. The portrait served as the frontispiece of 'Les frontieres de France et des Pais Bas' at atlas by de Fer published by I.F. Benard in 1743. It shows de Fer in a high powdered peruke and elaborately flowing robes holding a pen in his left hand. In the oval frame around him his name and official roles are identified while the plinth below reads: """"A server le Public j'ay employé mes jours En habile Geographe j'ay parcouru la terre. Et si par mes travaux j'ay pu le satisfaire Qu'il demande poour moy le Celeste sejour"""". Flanking the plinth are all manner of geographical and astronomical equipment. I.F. Benard, unknown
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[Anonymous]
Charte von Bambuk nach Compagnon´s Zeichnung und mit dessen Reiseroute mit Zuziehung seiner und anderer Berichte entworfen. - Weimar. Im Verlage d. L. Industr. Comptoirs 1803.
Weimar: Industrie Comptoire 1803. Other. In excellent condition. 178 by 170mm 7 by 6¾ inches. 178 by 170mm 7 by 6¾ inches. Copper engraving uncolored as published. Detailed map of Bambuk based on Compagnons sketch and travel route. This small map shows the confluence of the river Senegal and Falme further its shows details of roads rivers and gold mines. Industrie Comptoire unknown
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[Anonymous]
Cherokee Examiner 4 No. 4 1969
<p>South Pasadena CA: Cherokee Examiner 1969. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. Near VG. 4to 36pp stapled wrappers. Uncommon radical journal of Native American politics from 1971. Unmarked copy a little tearing to back cover.</p> South Pasadena, CA: Cherokee Examiner paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : M7191
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[ANONYMOUS]
Chess and Backgammon Board. History of Scotland volumes I and II
Game Board VINTAGE CHESS BOARD. Disguised as a pair of folio volumes 45 x 25 x 8cm closed on a shelf. A wooden box with metal hinges covered in variously coloured leather depicting a chess board on the outside and a backgammon board inside. Moderate general wear and scuffing inside and out. Attractive and sturdy. Very good. unknown
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[Anonymous Juvenile Artist]
CHILDREN'S BOOK. A manuscript album of colored drawings and b/w sketches of Africans Native Americans and Aboriginal Australians
s.l. Germany or Austria s.d. late 19th or early 20th century. Poor. 64mo 70 x 55 mm. Homemade binding cloth spine loosening front cover perished; back cover: board covered with glazed paper present on the pastedown inside detaching but the glazed paper on the outside is torn away. VERY WORN see the 44 IMAGES on our website the back cover becoming unstable but all the leaves are attached. Preserved in a fine cloth case which is perfectly fitted to allow the manuscript to be correctly removed and completely protected. HIGHLY CURIOUS LILLIPUTIAN ALBUM CONTAINING JUVENILE DRAWINGS OF THE MOST UNLIKELY ASSEMBLAGE OF UNDER-REPRESENTED PEOPLES NAMELY AFRICANS NATIVE AMERICANS AND ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ALL DEPICTED IN THEIR NATIVE HABITATS AND INDIGENOUS ATTIRE. <br /> <br /> We have never encountered a manuscript such as this one either in permanent collections on in the trade. Our album contains 41 colored drawings and b/w sketches on 35 leaves with a number of blanks bound in. They include:<br /> <br /> AFRICANS: 28 drawings and b/w sketches including hunting scenes some on horseback; nude and partially clothed Africans; African landscapes with lions tigers and great birds some devouring each other; an African child being saved from a tiger by an angel; and a man and woman dancing in a garden; three Africans cultivating grapes; several Africans fighting and much more. Some of the drawings feature palm trees and rounded huts. The caption on one of the drawings reads "In die Jagt" sic.<br /> <br /> NATIVE AMERICANS: 9 drawings and b/w sketches including hunting scenes with the hunters in full headdress with feathers; in one of the drawings a group of three men are in combat with a tiger who leaps from a large tree. Interestingly some of the drawings likewise feature palm trees. The caption on one of the drawings reads "Zweiter Theil vom dem Ameriganer oder Idianer."<br /> <br /> ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS: 4 drawings and b/w sketches the most remarkable being a scene of two men seated beneath a tree a large dinosaur bird flies immediately above and in the sky a peaceful sun sees all. The caption on one of the drawings reads "Dritter Theil von dem Australiener." <br /> <br /> GNOME: 1 b/w sketch. The gnome wears a backpack and carries a gnarled walking stick his conical hat bearing a heart-shaped ornament in the background a laughing sun peers over the horizon.<br /> <br /> That Parts II and III have a divisional title suggests that there were one or more leaves at the beginning of Part I as well now no longer extant. Nonetheless this is a fascinating little children's manuscript and remains A REMARKABLE SURVIVAL. <br /> <br /> CATALOGUER'S NOTE: We are grateful to Dr. Claudia Bubenik for helping us transcribe the juvenile German inscriptions. unknown
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[Anonymous]
Chinese watercolour from around 1850. Oliva Angaria Merica etc.
A fine watercolour depicting shells on pith paper. Oblong 15.0 x 23.0 cm. Glass covered. In simple but elegant frame of 27.0 x 34.0 cm. = Delicately water-coloured images of shells by an unknown artist. The genera are usually very recognizable except for the volutid; species-level identification is less easy but that of course has not been the aim of the artist who painted the gastropods as mirror images. Some light foxing but not very distractive. A unique item. unknown
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[Anonymous]
Chinese watercolour from around 1850. Cypraea Glycymeris Babylonia muricid.
A fine watercolour depicting shells on pith paper. Oblong 15.0 x 23.0 cm. Glass covered. In simple but elegant frame of 27.0 x 34.0 cm. = Delicately water-coloured images of shells by an unknown artist. The genera are usually very recognizable except for the volutid; species-level identification is less easy but that of course has not been the aim of the artist who painted the gastropods as mirror images. Very small tear in upper right part and thin tear to upper middle margin some light foxing but not very distractive. A unique item. unknown
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[Anonymous]
Chinese watercolour from around 1850. Oliva Fissurella Arca Fulgonaria etc.
A fine watercolour depicting shells on pith paper. Oblong 15.0 x 23.0 cm. Glass covered. In simple but elegant frame of 27.0 x 34.0 cm. = Delicately watercolour images of shells by an unknown artist. The genera are usually very recognizable except for the volutid; species-level identification is less easy but that of course has not been the aim of the artist who painted the gastropods as mirror images. Small tear to lower middle part and some light foxing but not very distractive. A unique item. unknown
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Chinese watercolour from around 1850. Ficus Anadara Neritina Buccinum etc.
A fine watercolour depicting shells on pith paper. Oblong 15.0 x 23.0 cm. Glass covered. In simple but elegant frame of 27.0 x 34.0 cm. = Delicately water-coloured images of shells by an unknown artist. The genera are usually very recognizable; species-level identification is less easy but that of course has not been the aim of the artist. A few light spots are present; a few short marginal tears in the paper but not too distractive. A unique item. unknown
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Chinese watercolour from around 1850. Cassis Conus Haliotis Nerita Venus.
A fine watercolour depicting shells on pith paper. Oblong 15.0 x 23.0 cm. Glass covered. In simple but elegant frame of 27.0 x 34.0 cm. = Delicately water-coloured images of shells by an unknown artist. The genera are usually very recognizable; species-level identification is less easy but that of course has not been the aim of the artist. A few thin tears and some light spots are present but not very distractive. A unique item. unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 54649
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Chinese watercolour from around 1850. Babylonia Pusio Tonna with hermite crab turbinid operculum.
China ca. 1850. Oblong 15.0 x 23.0 cm. Glass covered in simple but elegant frame of 27.0 x 34.0 cm. = Delicately watercoloured images of Chinese shells by an unknown artist. Most shells are from marine environments South Chinese Sea and large and colourful. The genera are usually very recognizable species-level identification is less easy but that of course was not the aim of the artist. Some light spotting and a few tiny dents but not very distracting. A unique item. unknown
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[Anonymous Work]. A Presbyter Of The Church Of England
Christian Ethics and Wise Sayings / by a Presbyter of the Church of England
London : James Nisbet 1883. First Edition. Hardback. Good to very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 276 pages; Physical desc. : viii 276 p. ; 22 cm. Subject: Christian ethics - Quotations maxims etc. Includes index of subjects under which citations are arranged. London : James Nisbet hardcover
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[ANONYMOUS]
Cincinnati Commonbook circa 1915
Cincinnati Ohio 1915. Boards. Good . SCRAPBOOK. 8vo 9½" x 6½"; 34 unnumbered leaves; three-quarters green calf; blind-stamped "Scrap Book" and hubs on spine; marbled boards; sewn-in bindings; commercially sold scrapbook with Daniel Slote & Co. book trade label on front endpaper; 1 ½" split to spine; fragile without wrinkling or odors; good plus. Approximately 200 newspaper clippings 170 pasted or laid-in; 16 loose clippings covering topics of household and garden presumably collected by a young woman circa 1915. Among tips for raising fowl pork and dairy cows recipes for all seasons and "Comforts for Sick People" and "For the Invalid's Tray" two laid-in clippings offer competing remedies for "blackheads miscalled 'flesh worms' by many a young miss." Eleven of the loose clippings document a record-breaking cold snap in Cincinnati in summer 1915. Each leaf contains two columns of gummed lines on the front and back. The scrapbook was produced by Daniel Slote & Co. under a patent held by his close friend Mark Twain see Slote featured as Twain's roommate in The Innocents Abroad 1869 and advertised as "the only gummed Scrap Book made: always ready for use without extra gum or paste." This particular scrapbook highlights articles of note and hints helpful to a young woman some of which remain timeless. unknown
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[Anonymous]
Clara Woodward and Her Day-Dreams
London: Knight and Son 1857. Only a good copy in publisher's worn blind and gilt stamped maroon cloth lacking flyleaf and heavy wear to front hinge. Presumed first edition per OCLC dating. Featuring four hand-colored plates. A moral story about a girl who dreams/intends to become a "child of god" but perpetually gives into temptation but after visiting a family member and the death of a friend Clara finds that "there is no place where I can better serve God than in my own dear home."<br /> <br /> 16mo 2 186pp. 2 advertisements. Scarce with only two copies located on Worldcat as of May 2021. Knight and Son unknown
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[Anonymous]
Clarisse or The Old Cook
London: Methuen & Co 1926. Second-hand hardcover. <p>Anonymous. Clarisse or The Old Cook. FIRST EDITION Methuen & Co: London 1926. 8vo 165x130mm qtr bnd black cloth red dec bds xii1782pp. preface by A B Walkley; translated by Elise Vallée eps lightly offset toned; owner name to ffep; t.e dusty</p> Methuen & Co unknown
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[Anonymous]
Collection of photos from the 1995 New York City Gay Pride Parade
New York: no publisher 1995. Near Fine. A large collection of approximately 300 color photographs documenting the 1995 New York City Gay Pride parade with images typically depicting floats parade marchers banners signs and crowds. Most images appear to be taken from the crowd. Those depicted marching in the parade come from a broad range--from local establishments such as bars or gyms and activist organizations such as GLAAD and PFLAG or for causes such as AIDS/HIV religious affiliations to those marching with clever signs.<p>Photos measure 12.5cm x 9cm. Bound in nine Qualex Photo Galaxy drugstore albums with silver card wraps printed in black bound at top edges with clear plastic brackets. Near Fine light wear to covers one bracket semi-lose at top. A fantastic glimpse into mid-nineties gay culture and the issues the community was facing at the time. [no publisher] unknown
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[ANONYMOUS]
Collection of Poems on Religion and Moral Subjects. Extracted from
1797. ANONYMOUS. A Collection of Poems on Religion and Moral Subjects. Extracted from the Most Celebrated Authors. Collecta Revirefeunt. 18th-century full calf gilt-lettered red morocco spine label gilt ruled spine. Elizabeth-town NJ: Printed by Shepard Kollock for Cornelius Davis 1797. First edition. Evans 31953. Felcone 54. An anthology of poetry including Thomas Gray's "An Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard" Robert Blair's "The Grave" Young's "The Last Day" and other poems. Some light scattered foxing and toning else a very good copy. unknown
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[ANONYMOUS]
Coloured Plates of the Latest Fashions London & Paris
No place listed: Not stated 1830. Full leather. Fine. FASHION ALBUM. Spine title: Coloured Plates of the Latest Fashions<br /> 8vo; horizontal ribbed brown Morocco with gilt borders and ornaments; 5 banded spine with gilt ornaments red leather title label; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles heavy marbled endpapers; frontispiece 54 hand-colored engraved plates 50 mounted to cream-colored stock with tissue guards 5 larger plates not mounted but bound-in; fine. The album appears to have been compiled as a personal collection of women's fashions with each plate carefully excised and mounted on heavy cream-colored paper stock with a debossed border plate line. Twelve prints with dated titles on the illustrations begin with "Morning Dress for Jan.y 1801" and end with "Afternoon Dress for June 1801." These are followed by fifteen plates dated 1805-1807 printed by Vernor Hood and Sharp Poultry. This publisher is sometimes identified as only Vernor & Hood and later as Vernor Hood and Sharpe and was located at 31 Poultry in London from 1799-1809. One plate is hand-dated 1826 and two are dated 1831 in small neat pencil. Eleven plates follow with no date or publisher then five more lacking dates but marked with the printer's name Joseph Robins Bride Court London. There are four illustrations from Ladies Pocket Magazine 1831. The album concludes with five bound-in plates lacking date but marked "Invented by Mrs. Bell No. 26 Charlotte Street Bloomsbury." Mrs. Bell was the proprietor of Magazine des Modes as well as a milliner dress and corset maker. Allen 2020 <br /> <br /> The album is an extraordinary collection of early 19th century fashions of well-dressed English women. Not stated unknown
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[ANONYMOUS]
Complete Life of The Right Honourable Winston L. Spencer Churchill. Life-Stories of Success No.2 Soldier and Statesman
London: The Self-Help Press no date circa 1910. Self-Help / Political Biography RARE ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo 19 x 13cm pp.96. Publisher's paper covers illustrated with a photograph by Elliott and Fry stapled twice and priced at 2d. Crumbling to dust as you read this; as brown as they come and dreadfully brittle. How does it even still exit Front cover and first leaf loose. There is only one copy in UK libraries at the National Library of Wales according to Library Hub Discover successor to COPAC. Poor but unlikely to be found in better condition. That's right you too could take part in the last British cavalry charge and have a hand in creating the Welfare State! Number two in a series of pamphlets giving a potted history of the exploits of various 'successful' people most seem to be politicians. London: The Self-Help Press, no date [circa 1910] unknown
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[ANONYMOUS]
Coney Island and Brooklyn N.Y. Illustrated
New York NY: Manhattan Post Card Co. no date circa 1900. Coney Island EARLY POSTCARD IMAGES. Octavo pamphlet. Dichromatic printing on clay paper with colour-illustrated card covers stapled. 16 double-sided black and white photographic plates totalling 64 individual images. Some small losses to edges of first and last leaves. Rubbing to edges with one closed tear to front cover and a tear to head of spine. A rare survival. Very good. A collection of early postcard images of 'the playground of New York'. New York, NY: Manhattan Post Card Co., no date [circa 1900] unknown
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[Anonymous: Opie Read]
Confessions of a Negro Preacher
Chicago: Canterbury Press 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Orange cloth stamped in black. A couple of paper remnants on the front board else near fine in faintly stained very good dust jacket with a couple of small chips. Fictional autobiography of an African-American preacher from Chicago almost certainly written by the white journalist and writer Opie Read. In nicer than usual jacket. Canterbury Press hardcover
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[Anonymous]
Constantinopoli - Türkische Residenz - Patriarchen. Kirch. - Zu den siben Thürmen
Germany 1700-20. Other. Still in very good to excellent condition. The four small engravings each ca. 78 x 115cm pasted down on an atlas page. 78 by 115mm 3 by 4½ inches. 78 by 115mm 3 by 4½ inches. Copper engraving uncolored as published. Shown are Constantinoples Turkish residence Sieben Thürmen and the Patriarchen Kirche. unknown
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[ANONYMOUS]
Contes de Fées Album D'Images Textes En Anglais / Fairy Tale Picture Album Text in English
Epinal France: Imagerie D'Epinal 1888. Boards. Very good . HUMOR RACIST CARICATURE. Folio; 56pp; pages numbered 1-60 printed recto only on very thin paper stock lacking pp15 16 17 and 19-SEE NOTE BELOW; red pictorial boards on front rear has green and white patterned boards green cloth shelf-back; "Printed expressly for the Humoristic Publishing Company Kansas City Mo." on the foot of each page; cartoon-style hand-colored lithographed illustrations; light scuffing to boards at edges and bumped corner age-toned paper fragile 3pp with closed tears extending into text: 9&10 from fore-edge and 31 from bottom; very good plus. OCLC only locates two copies in English at Yale and Princeton and two in France in French. Although the cover title is in French the cartoon text is all in English. Published in France by the old and revered Imagerie D'Epinal founded by the Jean-Charles Pellerin family in 1796 and continuing today it was printed for the Humoristic Publishing Company in Kansas City Missouri. Famous stories and tales many moralistic are included in comic strip form one story to a page. Included are: William Tell Little Tom Thumb Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella.<br /> <br /> Fifty-six hand-colored cartoons printed one side only. Overstreet states that "All copies known only have 50 of the 60 known of these broadsheets." And "All known copies were collected with sheets 15-20 23 24 47 and 48 missing." In this volume pages 15 16 17 and 19 only are lacking. Overstreet 366. Imagerie D'Epinal unknown
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[ANONYMOUS]
Coronations A complete account of the ceremonies observed in the coronations of the kings and queens of England. Containing I. The form of the royal letters of summons . II. The usual disposition of the Horse and Foot-Guards and their respective habits parades and stations on the coronation-day. III. The apparelling and robing of the King and Queen . IV. The marshalling and conducting into Westminster-Hall . V. Their Majesties entring the said hall and the ceremony of presenting the regalia &c. to the King. VI. The grand proceeding to the coronation . Vii. The usual ceremony of the coronations as performed in the Church. Viii. The manner of their Majesties return to Westminster-Hall. IX. The ceremony of the champion’s challenge and of the heralds proclaiming the King’s style in Latin French and English. X. A description of the royal and sacred ornaments and of the crowns and scepters &c. . XI The ceremony of the proceedings at the coronations of King William and Queen Mary of Quee
London: Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane; J. Stagg in Westminster Hall; and D. Browne without Temple-Bar 1727. Quarter-bound Leather. Near Fine. Third Edition with price 2s. 6d below imprint in square brackets. Full of fascinating information relating to the etiquette and procedure of royal ceremonies. Small 4to 210 x 155mm: 80pp with large folding copper-engraved frontispiece "Procession of Kings and Queens with over 150 robed figures" measuring a full 440 mm x 350 mm a second folding engraving "The Manner of the Champions performing the Ceremony of ye Challenge" and 12 woodcuts in the text depicting various ceremonial objects including crowns maces scepters and coronation rings. Bound in early possibly contemporary quarter sheep with marbled boards red morocco lettering piece gilt all edges marbled. Bookplate of Buddle Atkinson to front paste-down. A sturdy unsophisticated copy frontispiece slightly spotted along folds sporadic light soiling and browning binding rubbed along spine and corners but an excellent example of a scarce book. ESTC Citation No. T113877. Lowndes 526. Bindley pt. vi 1039. Not in Halkett & Laing. Buddle Atkinson's bookplate appears in Hugo's Catalogue of Thomas Bewick's works but it is in fact engraved on steel not wood and came from the workshop of Mark Lambert one of Bewick's pupils. The plate was designed and engraved by George F. Robinson who joined Lambert's workshop in 1841 and who in the course of 50 years became chief engraver and director of all art works carried out by the firm. The plate was produced when Atkinson b.1841 was a young child perhaps for putting in books that had been owned by his father John Buddle so it likely dates from 1845-1850. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Printed for J. Roberts, in Warwick-Lane; J. Stagg, in Westminster Hall; and D. Browne, without Temple-Bar unknown
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[Anonymous (Mrs V P Boggs?)]
Cover title: Casted Out
Pittsburgh: Freedmen's Department of Woman's Board of Home Missions 516 Market Street 1910. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 24mo. 11pp. Stapled white printed self-wrappers. Few sewn marks along spine where once bound with other publications else a very good copy. Freedmen's Department of Woman's Board of Home Missions, 516 Market Street unknown
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[Anonymous]
cujus ope Locus medius Solis Lunae ejusdemque Nodorum Solis Declinatio Lunaeque Latitudo Simplex atque ejus Argumentum necnon Novitunia et Plenitania Ecliptica simul inveniuntun.
c1800. 470mm in diameter. Instruments""Planispherum Lunare A unique manuscript lunar astrolabe Ink and polychromy on paper over pine. The instrument comprises a circular base plate and three rotatable cardboard volvelles and a brass radius pointer attached to each other in the centre. A brass ring is attached to the base plate for suspending. All four paper covered discs are finely inscribed in manuscript with various scales and symbols. Content 1. The smallest volvelle bears a scale covering 12 hours on its outer ring. It also shows the ecliptical motion of the Sun the Moon's orbit the line of nodes and the arguments of latitude in other words the distances from the nodes. 2. On the second volvelle a scale covers the years from 1801 to 1825. each year is subdivided in twelve months with the abbreviated name written for each month. 3. The following volvelle carries a series of scales showing a monthly calendar a zodiac calendar with skilfully drawn pictures and the symbols of the signs. Below the zodiac is a scale for the declination of the sun throughout the year set in four sequences of three. 4. On the outside rim of the volvelle is another calendar scale in which the months are unevenly distributed. This scale presumably was to be used in conjunction with the outer scale on the circular base plate. In addition the volvelle holds two brass studs that most probably helped the user turn the disc to the desired position. This latter scale gives the days subdivided in hours. The days are numbered I to XXXI with the number I coinciding with XXVII and 8 hours the sidereal period of the Moon which results in a double numbering from XXVIII to XXXI. Below this scale for days there is a series of dates all confined to the period 1801 to 1825 presumably for solar eclipses. The brass rule or pointer holds a horizontal scale from 5 to 0 LA-southern declination and from 0 to 5 LB-northern declination indicating the latitude of the moon with respect to the ecliptic. The closer to 0 at new moon or full moon the likelier an eclipse is to occur. The rule is engraved with """"Locus Lunae"""". The circular scales serve to set the moon's position and node relative to the sun from which the user can then infer the lunar phase and whether an eclipse will occur at new moon or full moon. Manuscript instruments of this type are rare especially in such good condition as no other exact copy is recorded to date. Similar instruments were produced at the end of the sixteenth century mostly in brass. Sir Robert Dudley 1573-1649 see item 17 had a lunar calculator made by Charles Whitwell c. 1568-1611 a brass disc of 72 cm diameter overall which was the most complex instrument made during the sixteenth century. Inscribed 'Sir Robert Dudley was the inventor of this instrument' its purpose was to calculate the place of the moon over a period of thirty years. It is now in the Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence Italy. Another similar paper device was printed with detailed instructions in 1786 in Vlissingen Flushing in the Netherlands advertised as a """"Starkundige Maan-Wyzer en Almanach"""" Astronomical Moon Pointer and Almanac by Henricus Schortinghuis. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Webster Roderick and Marjorie 'Western Astrolabes' Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum 1998; Museo di Storia della Scienza Florence Italy unknown
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[Anonymous Indian Artist]
CURIOSA. A matching pair of strange Indian erotic paintings of exceptionally high quality
n.d. 19th or 20th century. Two illuminations on thin India paper some vertical creasing professionally matted and framed. Ad 1 priapus: 300 x 250 mm frame size 198 x 140 mm visible 147 x 93 mm size of illumination. Ad 2 she-devil: 306 x 231 mm frame size 205 x 140 mm visible 150 x 83 mm size of illumination. Sold as a pair. TWO WEIRD EROTIC INDIAN ILLUMINATIONS THE LIKES OF WHICH WE HAVE NEVER BEFORE ENCOUNTERED AND ARE UNLIKELY TO ENCOUNTER AGAIN. <br /> <br /> Popular in Roman decorative art the winged priapus is uncommon in Indian iconography. Our illumination is of particularly high quality and depicts a beautiful Indian woman riding a reined priapus perhas twice her size. The priapus is depicted with avain feet and giant wings. The environment is like a strange dream: in the foreground a grey pool with pink flowers; behind are dark green hills with eerie trees and vegetation. In the sky at sunset are what appear to be rain clouds touched in white. We have been unable to transcribe the text but there is writing on the verso. <br /> <br /> The second illumination depicts a grotesque she-devil with fangs horns and a long tongue naked save for pearls around her wrists ankles and biceps. Above her waist her speckled skin is light purple and below dark green. The monster clutches to a strange tree on which four priapus grow and with it engages in sexual relations. She reaches toward a basket of several other priapus which are positioned on an upper branch. As with the accompanying illumination in the foreground we find a watery pool and pink flowers and dark green hills studded by surreal trees. The setting is at twilight. <br /> <br /> HIGHLY CURIOUS AND MUST BE SEEN TO BE FULLY APPRECIATED. unknown
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[ANONYMOUS]
D. der Arzneykunde und beruhmter Naturforscher geb. 1672 gest. 1733.
Augsburg: Bürglen 1805. 185 by 144mm. 7.25 by 5.75 inches. Prints""J. J. Scheuchzerus Johann Jakob Scheuchzer Engraved portrait. Johann Jakob Scheuchzer 1672-1733 published 34 original works and numerous articles on the subjects of history science and travel; his subscribers included some of the most notable names of the day such as Isaac Newton and Hans Sloane. After extensive journeys throughout his native Switzerland he published a four sheet map of the country in 1712 the same year that a civil war toppled the Old Swiss Confederacy and ended Catholic hegemony. Until the end of the eighteenth century Scheuchzer's map was the most accurate cartographical representation of Switzerland in existence. Additionally Scheuchzer was appointed senior town physician in Zurich in 1733 and for this reason his portrait was included in George Wihelm Zapf's 'Abbildungen berühmter & besonders' a collection of 180 portraits of famous physicians. Bürglen, unknown
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[ANONYMOUS]
Daily Express New Road Book of Great Britain. Maps by George Philip and Son Ltd
London: The Daily Express no date c.1937. Early Road Map EARLY EDITION. Quarto 28 x 21 pp.128. A gazetteer with eight loose map cards with the original wrap-around band stating 'Important First - turn to page two!'. Publisher's navy leatherette boards with titles blind to upper board. Light outer rubbing with some browning to gazetteer. A near fine example likely never used. London: The Daily Express, no date [c.1937] unknown
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[ANONYMOUS] -
Dame Partlet’s Farm: containing an Account of the Great Riches She Obtained by Industry the Good Life She Led and Alas Good Reader! Her Sudden Death; to which is added a Hymn written by Dame Partlet just before her Death and an Epitaph for her Tomb Stone. and Epitaph
Philadelphia: Published and for Sale by Johnson and Warner No. 147 Market Street and at their Bookstore in Richmond Virginia and Lexington Kentucky 1810. . 59 1pp. 12mo. Woodcut illustrations some signed "A" Alexander Anderson in the block; variable spotting especially at the beginning. Original printed stiff gray wrappers; stitching partly defective with a pirce of the backstrip missing but intact. Second American edition not so stated first published in London by John Harris in 1804 and by Johnson in Philadelphia in 1806; a manuscript note in a copy of the London edition says the book "was written by Dr. James Hodson." The illustrations are particularly fine though not printed on especially good paper. Dame Partlet is said to have been a very near relation to that renowned person Goody Two Shoes so well known to every good child who would rather read in pretty books than waste their time in idle play. . . . Welch American Children’s Books. . . Prior to 1821 253.2 this copy Welch’s "reissue" with the publisher’s address on the cover given as 171 Market Street. Pomeroy Alexander Anderson 190b. Philadelphia: Published and for Sale by Johnson and Warner, No. 147, Market Street, and at their Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia unknown
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[Anonymous]
Delices Satyriques ou Suitte du Cabinet des Vers Satyriques de ce Temps
Paris: Henri d'Arthez 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi 160p. Rebound in recent 1/4 leather. 17cm. French text. Copy No. 194 of 475 copies "sur papier verge d'Arches" out of an edition of 500 numbered copies. Henri d'Arthez hardcover
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[anonymous]
Der Liebe Lust II The Love Desire II Vintage graphic erotica. Vier erotische Bilderfolgen aus dem Biedermeier
Dortmund: Die Bilbiophilen Taschenbucher 1983. Pictorial Wraps. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Dortmund: Die BibliophilenTaschenbucher 1983. IN GERMAN AND FRENCH. Erotica. 16mo. 6.5" x 4.75". Blue wraps with illustration pastedown on front cover. Unpaginated. Minute edgewear else fine. A collection of full color erotica taken from 19th century French miniature lithographs showing "libertines" of that era engaged in all sorts of.sports. Though vintage in nature these are all a little too HC for presenting scans here the cover image which see being pretty much the only one suitable for that. Although the book was produced in Germany being installment #149 in Die Bibliophilen Taschenbucher's aggregation of similar offerings and has a bit of text in German the lithographs reproduced all have short French captions - my personal favorite being "L'asperge a la sauce blanche" "Asparagus with white sauce". In fact quite collectible both because it is an assortment of the miniature erotica that Parisian street artists and lithographers produced for extra income - selling these to the leisure-elite gentlemen of Paris around 1840 - and because it is a fine example of one of a prodigious array of such titles produced by DBT several pages at the end are devoted to the cataloging these. In far better condition than one is likely to find another. L85 <br/> <br/> Die Bilbiophilen Taschenbucher paperback
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[anonymous]
Diary Spanish language transcribed poetry from 1935
Mexico City: publisher unknown 1935. <p dir="ltr">6.5" x 9" pp. 382 270 pages contain handwritten entries black and tan boards with red appliqués stamped "Copiador" = "Copier". This is a Spanish language diary entry containing a compilation of poems written in verse and belonging to various authors. Diary journal is dated Jan. 2 1935. Approximately 4 leaves are removed in the middle of the text block. All likely transcribed poems not original to the diary's author. </p> . [publisher unknown] unknown
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[Anonymous]
Die elegante Stickerin oder Pracht-Muster im neuesten Modegeschmack zum Sticken und Weissnähen nebst dem vollständigen Alphabet in lateinischer und gothischer Schrift und einer Anweisung wie eine Stickerin ohne zeichnen zu können sich selbst jedes Muster ab - und aufzeichnen und fortführen kann. Ein Geschenk für das schöne Geschlecht.
Meissen F. W. Goedsche no date but circa 1820. 8vo. 4 pp. instruction leaf; 13 leaves with floral patterns four double-sized. In original marbled paper covered slipcase 22.2 x 13.2 cm with mounted pictorial title leaf. = A charming "Biedermeier" style pattern book being a guide in decorating clothes. An ephemeral publication intended to be used; as the leaves would become damaged in the process it is very rare indeed to see it in this near pristine state. Only the leaves with letters are wanting. Board edges a bit rubbed otherwise in a very good clean condition. hardcover
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[Anonymous]
Die Environs von London zwölf Meilen in der Runde Prag 1810.
Prague 1810. Other. In excellent condition. 210 by 201mm 8¼ by 8 inches. 210 by 201mm 8¼ by 8 inches. Copper engraving uncolored as published. unknown
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