‎Collectibles‎

‎Porter, Captain David, of the American Frigate, The Essex‎

‎A Voyage in the South Seas in the Years 1812 1813 and 1814 with Particular Details of the Gallipagos and Washington Islands Accompanied by SIGNED‎

‎London: Sir Richard Phillips & Co. 1823. Book. Fine. Half-Leather. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original edition custom-bound in dark green 1/2 leather green cloth 5 raised bands lettered and decorated in gilt marbled endpapers. 126 pp. illus. w/ 3 engraved plates frontis. portrait cutaway views of islands opposite p. 5 capture of the Essex opposite p. 121 engraved folding map of Galapagos Islands opposite p. 35. Leather nicely preserved; offset tanning at corners of flyleaves. Accompanied by order of payment slip approx. 8" x 4 1/2" signed by Porter dated Washington D.C. 25 Jan. 1820. Sir Richard Phillips & Co. Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 066458

‎Porter, Eliot; Wallace Stegner; Page Stegner [Peter Mathiessen]‎

‎American Places.‎

‎New York: E.P. Dutton 1981. First edition of collection of musings and photographs of the American landscape depicting all aspects of American life from the Rocky Mountains to the state of Maine. Square quarto original publisher's cloth profusely illustrated with color photographs. From the library of writer Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction The Snow Leopard 1979 and fiction Shadow Country 2008. In addition to his literary achievements he was a co-founder of The Paris Review in 1953 a landmark literary magazine that became renowned for publishing emerging writers and for its influential “Art of Fiction†interview series which featured major figures such as Ernest Hemingway William Faulkner and T.S. Eliot and helped shape modern literary discourse. The magazine also played a key role in introducing new voices to a wider audience and has received numerous literary honors over the decades. More than 70 years after its founding in 1953 The Paris Review is still a major ongoing literary magazine with new issues and contemporary contributors now published by the Paris Review Foundation. A prominent environmental activist Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. As critic Michael Dirda observed “No one writes more lyrically than Matthiessen about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops savannas and the sea.â€Â Near fine in a very good dust jacket. American Places by Wallace Stegner and Page Stegner is a reflective work that explores the landscapes and cultural history of the United States through a series of essays on significant natural and historical sites. Traveling from Maine west to the Pacific Northwest and south to Florida across the Mississippi the Plains and the Rocky Mountains through the Canyon lands to California the authors examine how geography memory and human experience intersect to shape national identity. E.P. Dutton hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 151565

‎Porter, Horace [Ulysses S Grant]‎

‎Campaigning with Grant.‎

‎New York: The Century Co. 1897. First edition of Horace Porter's Civil War memoir. Octavo original cloth illustrated with portraits and maps. In good condition. First editions are rare. American soldier and diplomat Horace Porter served as a lieutenant colonel ordnance officer and staff officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and personal secretary to General and President Ulysses S. Grant. He also was secretary to General William T. Sherman vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company and U.S. Ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905. From 1869 to 1872 Porter served as President Grant's personal secretary in the White House. The Century Co. hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 132638

‎Porter, John R‎

‎Living in Style: Fine Furniture in Victorian Quebec‎

‎Montreal: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1993. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. 12.5x9.8x1.7in. Published on occasion of the exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts March 4 - May 16 1993 and the Musée de la civilisation Quebec City October 19 1993 - April 24 1994. With 490 black and white illustrations and 60 color plates. <br>527pp 6.99lb 12.5x9.8x1.7in <br>EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES NECESSARY The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 10885 ISBN : 2891921615 9782891921619

‎Posin, Daniel G‎

‎Mendeleyev: The Story of a Great Scientist‎

‎New York / Toronto: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc. 1948. First Edition . Grey Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. Photographs. A Novelized Biography Of Mendeleyev With Great Detail And A Good Chronology And Index At End. This Copy Inscribed By The Author To "Jim-With My Best". A Good Book For The Student Of The History Of Science And Scarce Inscribed. Dust Jacket Lightly Chipped Along Top Edge With 1/2" X 2" Chip Along Top Rear Flap Fold No Loss Of Lettering Or Design. <br/> <br/> Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 020331

‎POSTER FOR THE FIRST CULTURAL EXCHANGE PERFORMANCES IN THE US‎

‎The Performing Arts Company of the People's Republic of China. 中華人民共和國藝術團‎

‎No publication details. 1978. Colour poster for performances of the 中華人民共和國藝術團 in 1978 at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium. 106.5 x 76cm text in both English and traditional Chinese characters. The printed poster image is in red blue green black and white and the performance venue and times beneath the image appear to have been stencilled on later in black ink. The left edge minor creasing and a few small tears left edge not affecting image; some soft creasing in places tiny thumb tack holes in corners. Good condition with colours still vibrant. This landmark tour in 1978 by the Performing Arts Company of the PRC marked the first cultural exchange between China and the U.S. after the normalisation of relations just a few months earlier.The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles California at 665 W. Jefferson Boulevard was the location of the third major city performance on the tour after New York and Washington. It notably featured a mix of traditional Chinese opera acrobatics and folk dances. . No publication details. unknown‎

Referencia librero : 219152

‎POTIER‎

‎Catalogue raisonné des tableaux desseins et estampes des plus grands maîtres qui composent le cabinet de Monsieur Potier avocat au Parlement‎

‎1757. Fine. 1757 9.50 x 16 cm relié First edition illustrated with a frontispiece representing a cabinet by Baudouin. Full marbled blonde sheepskin binding. Spine with raised bands decorated. Red morocco title-label. Headcaps torn. Upper joint cracked at foot and head. Corners bumped. Rubbing. The particularity of this sale is noted for its large quantity of drawings notably from the French school with Le Sueur Poussin. Each section of the sale contains an introductory notice. A manuscript note on the front endpaper from the 19th century specifies that Potier had this catalogue and sale made with the aim of varying his collection and buying other things with the proceeds from the lots sold but that his expectations were so demanding that many drawings and paintings were not sold. M. Potier was undoubtedly from the Potier de Noyon family an illustrious family of lawyers. hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 61809

‎Potter, Ambrose George‎

‎A Bibliography Of The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Together With Kindred Matter In Prose And Verse Pertaining Thereto‎

‎London Uk: Ingpen And Grant 1929. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Xivb 314 Pp. Cloth Spine Lettered Gray Boards. First Edition. #199 Of 300 Numbered Copies. No Marks; Small Bookseller's Label. Fine. <br/> <br/> Ingpen And Grant hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 055248

‎Potter, Beatrix‎

‎The Tailor of Gloucester‎

‎New York: Frederick Warne and Co. 1903. First American Edition . Hardcover. Good. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Beatrix Potter. 85pp. Brown publisher's cloth pasteon illustration to cover color frontispiece. Chipping along spine and 1/2 inch piece missing from head of spine loss of one letter from spinebinding a bit tender but holding text is mildly age-toned all color illustrations clean and sound. First American Edition published in 1903. <br/> <br/> Frederick Warne and Co. hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 004715

‎Potter, Frank N‎

‎The Book of Moxie‎

‎Collector's Books 1987. Large hardcover red buckram in pictorial dust-jacket. 303 pages. Price guide appended. First edition. Illustrated with color and monochrome photographs. No writing no book-plate. Small round blind-stamp ownership stamp on title-page of Phillip Stock. Two very small closed tears along bottom edge of rear cover dust-jacket panel Front free end-paper shows old vertical crease else a fine copy of an exceedingly scarce book in a near fine dust-jacket. Overall a very good copy in a like jacket. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Collector's Books Hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 004408 ISBN : 0891453482 9780891453482

‎Potter, John‎

‎ARCHAEOLOGIAE GRAECAE:‎

‎Oxford: Abel Swall at the Unicorn 1697. 1st Edition . Hardback. Vg. 8vo. OR THE ANTIQUITIES OF GREECE 2 Books in 1.424pp index xxvii errata i ii pub. list. ii. nb p328 and p327 mis-numbered Volume the First Book 1 The Civil Government of Greece. Book II The Religion of Greece. Engraved title-page and 2 plates only of 9 called for. Original full calf panelled binding with raised bands to the spine. John Potter M.A. and Fellow of Lincoln College Oxon. The first title-page is a general title with an engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theatre; the second is the volume title-page for 'Volume The First' with the imprimatur of Fitz-Herbert Adams Vice Chancellor of Oxford dated May 15 1697 on the verso. Volume II was not published until 1699 <br/> <br/> Abel Swall at the Unicorn hardcover‎

Referencia librero : GT241

‎Potter, L A [and] Rev Robah Bumpass‎

‎Methodism in Beaufort North Carolina Manuscript Book‎

‎North Carolina: N.p. Manuscript 1889. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Folio. 27 pages plus 6 other handwritten page and 3 typed pages laid in loosely and paper-clipped together. The binding measures about 15 1/2 inches tall by 11 inches wide. Bound in half leather with cloth-covered boards. The spine has completely disintegrated and the boards are just barely holding on. Corners rubbed and chipped. Paper label on the front cover has "Methodism in Beaufort" handwritten in ink. The original ledge was for the "Queen Fire Insurance Company of Liverpool England" with the office in New York. Three leaves have been cut out at the front but this may have been of different material. The first page reads "Methodism in Beaufort." and serves as a title page. The front pastedown has pasted down a letter from C. P. Jones entitled "Brief Historical Statement" which is about 3 pages long. The page after the title page begins the history and there are 15 pages of this narrative with about 325 words per page. The following pages are a series of notes sometimes historical notations in paragraph form and listings of ministers elders etc. The rear pastedown also has several letters or notes to Brother Bumpass. One is from T. Page Ricaud and is dated Wilmington North Carolina in 1894. Another is dated Chapel Hill in 189 and is signed by J. B. Martin. Another portion of a letter is signed by T. W. Gautier. <br/> <br/> N.p. (Manuscript) hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 033006

‎Potter, P‎

‎The Infantry Exercise of the United States Army Abridged For the Use of the Militia of the United States.‎

‎Poughkeepsie: P. & S. Potter Printers 1817. First edition of this classic work of military instruction. Octavo bound in full contemporary calf morocco spine label lettered in gilt illustrated with 13 plates. From the library of Ensign Edmond Hopkins of Penn. Service 1813 to 1821 with his ownership inscription. Accompanied by three Civil War era covers and an autograph letter signed dated March 23rd 1864 to James Judson Hall 28th Regt. Wis. Vols. Co. C Cairo IL. Hall a resident of Oconomowoc WI mustered into the 28th Wisconsin Volunteers in August 1862 and mustered out in Brownsville TX in late August 1865 from E.L. Kellogg. In very good condition. First editions are rare. P. & S. Potter, Printers unknown‎

Referencia librero : 132610

‎Potthast, August [rare 1862 first edition]‎

‎Bibliotheca Historica Medii Aevi Wegweiser durch die Geschichtswerke des Europaischen Mittelalters von 375-1500 Vollstandiges Inhaltsverzeichniss zu Acta Sanctorum Der Bollandisten‎

‎Berlin: Hugo Kastner & Cie 1862. This is the original 1862 first edition -- NOT print on demand edition or modern reprint. Good condition. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Original wraps chipped and soiled. Spine and lower corner of front wrap in margin only reinforced with green paper. Internally VERY GOOD but for moderate wear to outer edges of first few leaves no text is affected. Pages are slightly age toned but NOT brittle. Previous owner's name on title page and blind stamp to rear cover. Some scattered very light brown spots i.e. minor foxing. Otherwise all pages are clean and unmarked. Guide to Historical Works on European Middle Ages 375-1500. Has complete Table of Contents for Acts of the Saints by the Bollandists. Appendix which contains sources for the History of European States in the Middle Ages. Full title: 'Bibliotheca Historica Medii Aevi Wegweiser durch die Geschichtswerke des Europaischen Mittelalters von 375-1500 Vollstandiges Inhaltsverzeichniss zu Acta Sanctorum Der Bollandisten Anhang: Quellenkunde fur die Geschichte der Europaischen Staaten Wahrend des Mittelalters." This is one of the most complete bibliographical guides to the printed sources on mediaeval history. Bound in the original olive green wraps printed in black. Graesse V 428. First Edition. Softcover. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 1010pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Hugo Kastner & Cie Paperback‎

Referencia librero : 022963

‎Pottle, Frederick‎

‎Frederical Pottle remembers William Edwin Rudge drop title‎

‎Rochester NY 1981. Edition limited to 500 copies; single sheet folded twice to make 4 pages 4to enclosed in a green paper portfolio with 'W.E.R.' printed on the front; fine. Extracted from Herman W. Liebert's talk "Ralph Isham's Big Red Books" given at the Typophiles Christmas Luncheon December 9 1981 printed at the Melbert B. Cary Jr. Graphic Arts Collection School of Printing Rochester Institute of Technology by Herbert H. Johnson and Archie D. Provan. The "Big Red Books" refer to The Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle. In the collection of Lt.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham in 18 volumes. Rudge the printer died half way through the project. unknown‎

Referencia librero : 52071

‎POUGET Anne‎

‎Le pourquoi des choses - tome 2: Origine des mots expressions et usages curieux‎

‎Le Cherche Midi 2007 125 pages 10x2 4x15cm. 2007. Broché. 125 pages.‎

‎Bon état‎

Referencia librero : 500153104

‎POULBOT‎

‎Des gosses et des bonhommes‎

‎Paris: H. Chachoin 1916. Fine. H. Chachoin Paris 1916 14 x 20.50 cm broché First edition on ordinary paper. Illustrated with 100 drawings by the author. Some restorations to the spine small traces of paper lacking to inner margins of the upper cover and outer margins of the first few leaves. Inscribed and signed by famous Montmartre illustrator Poulbot to his friend Taupin with an original drawing of a smiling boy wearing a red cap. H. Chachoin unknown‎

Referencia librero : 87383

‎Pound, Ezra‎

‎Antheil And The Treatise On Harmony With Supplementary Notes‎

‎Chicago: Pascal Covici 1927. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 150 Pp. Red-Brown Cloth Stamped In Black. First Printing Thus"Antheil And The Treatise On Harmony" First Published In Paris In 1924 In An Edition Of 400 Copies In Soft Cover This Edition With Supplementary Notes By Pound 1927 Date On Title Page. Near Fine Book Traces Of Rubbing At Corners Decorative Green And Black Bookplate Of "The Burkhardts" With Cactus At Center. Dust Jacket Priced $2.00 Wear With 1" Tear At Top Of Front Flap Fold Light Chipping Particularly Along Top Edges But No Loss Of Lettering Spine Browning With A Little Browning To Edges Of All Panels Two Small Exterior Tape Repairs And Much Interior Tape Reinforcement Along Top Edges And Small Reinforcement Around Bottom Edge Of Spine. <br/> <br/> Pascal Covici hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 043813

‎Pound, Roscoe‎

‎Contemporary Juristic Theory Three Lectures: The Revival Of Absolutism The Give-It-Up Philosophies The Possibility Of A Measure Of Value‎

‎Claremont: Ward Ritchie / Friends Of The Colleges At Claremont 1940. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Viii 83 Pp. Green Cloth Gilt. Fine In An Unworn But Slightly Aged Dust Jacket PRiced $1.50. <br/> <br/> Ward Ritchie / Friends Of The Colleges At Claremont hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 056880

‎POUQUEVILLE,FChHL F C h H L‎

‎Grèce par M. Pouqueville membre de l'Institut Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres ancien Consul Général de France au Levant.‎

‎Paris Firmin Didot Frères 1835. 8vo. IV448 p. 112 engraved plates 2 folding maps. Contemporary hardback. 22 cm Details: Original decorated brown and blue publisher's binding Condition: Cover slightly worn at the extremities. Partly foxed especially the first 80 p. Note: We quote Ioli Vingopoulou's article on this book which is to be found on the website of the Aikatirini Laskaridis Foundation 'Travellogues Travellers views; Places - Monuments - People; Southeastern Europe - Eastern Mediterranean Greece - Asia Minor - Southern Italy 15th - 20th century': 'François-Charles-Hugues-Laurent Pouqueville 1770-1838 was a French physician diplomat writer and ardent Philhellene. He was born in Normandy. He joined the seminary and became a deacon but soon in 1794 moved to Paris to study Medicine. In 1798 as a surgeon Pouqueville joined the Commission of Sciences and Arts of Egypt organized by Napoleon. As he was sailing back to Europe in December of the same year with his health damaged he was taken captive by pirates and abandoned with other fellow Frenchmen in Navarino. From there they were taken to Tripoli in the Peloponnese as war prisoners of the Turks. Pouqueville stayed in the Peloponnese till the spring of 1799. Subsequently he was transported to the prison of Yedi Kule in Istalbul where he remained imprisoned with other Frenchmen for twenty-five months. Pouqueville returned to France in 1801. A few years later he published his first three-volume work which appealed widely to the public and was soon translated into six European languages. As a physician he was able to come in contact with the local population during the years of his captivity and learned both Classical and Modern Greek. This book dedicated to Napoleon was Pouqueville’s credentials for his appointment as General Consul of France in Ioannina and Patras from 1805 to 1816 and as chief mediator in Ali Pasha’s negotiations with the French.§ The second period Pouqueville was in close contact with Greece was during the years from 1805 to 1816. His five-volume “Voyage dans la Grèce” 1820-21 later expanded and republished in six volumes as “Voyage de la Grèce” 1826-27 undoubtedly became an invaluable guide for all subsequent travellers. With careful consideration Pouqueville studied the Greek land in depth. He made it known to the rest of the world and wrote what is probably the most consistent text on geography and morphology of these territories. Pouqueville matches ancient place names to modern locations using classical sources church archives and Ottoman records; he is an impartial narrator of military events and gives a clear picture of the economic sizes in every region. Thus Pouqueville’s can be considered as among the most profound studies of the historical landscape of continental Greece. § This edition of 1835 'Grèce' is on ancient Greek history and was a big editorial success. It was translated into German and Italian and was republished in French three times. In this text which is written in narrative form but is nevertheless very well-documented Pouqueville begins his overview from the mythological era enumerating military events and campaigns and citing information on religious worship and culture from Greek literary sources. The historical part from archaic times on to the Hellenistic era includes chapters on the Persian wars the time of Pericles philosophy and theatre. Pouqueville also provides data on the history of Thessaly Epirus and Macedonia. Of special interest are the chapters on military tactics and equipment monuments religious practices vases and furniture dress and coiffure private life weddings births diet music and dance which are an integral part of ancient Greek civilization. The illustrations include drawings originally made by L. Dupré F. Didot W. Gel J. Stuart Ed. Dodwell and plates from editions by .-G.-F.-A. Choiseul-Gouffier and the Expédition Scientifique de Morée'. eng.travelogues.gr/collection.phpview=23 § It was the first part of the series 'L'Univers pitoresque histoire et description de tous les peuples' hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 130338

‎Poutney BIGELOW‎

‎Mes souvenirs de Prusse‎

‎Paris: Payot & Cie 1917. Fine. Payot & Cie Paris 1917 19.50 x 19.50 cm broché First French edition established by M. Henriot-Bourgongne one of 10 numbered copies on Holland paper the only deluxe copies. Scandalous anti-Semitic and pro-German autograph inscription by the author dated 1936. One joint cracked at head and foot. First gathering detached light foxing without serious concern affecting mainly the deckled edges. A full-margined copy. Payot & Cie unknown‎

Referencia librero : 24347

‎POWELL DAVID M.‎

‎Arizona gathering II 1950 - 1969: an annotated bibliography‎

‎Tucson: University of Arizona Press 1973. First edition 8vo pp. vii 1 207; a fine unused copy in like dust jacket. 2060 entries with index. <br/><br/> University of Arizona Press unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 30797

‎Powell Lawrence Clark‎

‎.and Brown A chronicle of B.F. Stevens & Brown Ltd. Library and Fine Arts Agents of London with emphasis on the years since 1902‎

‎London: Privately Printed 1959. 12mo pp. 24; 7 black & white photographic illustrations; early inscription on front free endpaper London bookseller ticket on lower corner of front pastedown fine in marble paper-covered boards backed in maroon cloth lettered in gilt paper label on upper cover. <br/><br/> Privately Printed hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : 46418

‎Powell Lawrence Clark‎

‎LIBROS CALIFORNIANOS or five feet of California books. By Phil Townsend Hanna‎

‎Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 1958. Revised and enlarged edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Powell 12mo pp. 8 & 87-88; presentation copy with inscription on front free endpaper dated 1958 extremities soiled at edges and spine else very good in orig. yellow paper-covered boards red paper labels on upper cover and spine. The best California books in the eyes of Henry R. Wagner; Glen Dawson & Warren Howell; Robert E.Cowan; Leslie E. Bliss; Hanna; and Powell. <br/><br/> Zeitlin & Ver Brugge hardcover books‎

Referencia librero : 36972

‎POWELL LAWRENCE CLARK‎

‎Make mine a small one‎

‎Berkeley: Peacock Press 1965. First separate edition reprinted from the N.Y. Times 12/6/64 16mo pp. 15 5; frontispiece; with a presentation label from the press affixed to the inside upper wrapper; fine in orig. orange paper wrappers. <br/><br/> Peacock Press unknown books‎

Referencia librero : 22020