‎English‎

‎( Tarzan - Littérature en Anglais ) - Edgar Rice Burroughs - Harold Foster - Rex Maxon.‎

‎The Library of American Comics, number 7, 1929 : The Original Newspaper Adventure Strip Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes picturized from the novels by Harold Foster and Rex Maxon.‎

‎Etats-Unis, Editions IDW 2015. In-4 cartonnage éditeur à l'italienne de 320 pages au format 30 x 3 x 11,5 cm. Couvertures illustrées. Dos carré. Plats et intérieur frais malgré un tout petit tassement au bord supérieur de la couverture. Préface de Henry G. Franke III. Ce livre contient la première adaptation du roman d’Edgar Rice Burroughs " Tarzan of the Apes " en bande dessinée quotidienne au format strip par Harold Foster, suivi de : Le retour de Tarzan, Tarzan et Les bêtes, Le Fils de Tarzan par Rex Maxon. Dessins en noir et blanc. Luxueux tirage. Très bel état général de fraicheur. Rare édition originale américaine, épuisée.‎

‎Vente exclusivement par correspondance. Le libraire ne reçoit, exceptionnellement que sur rendez-vous. Il est préférable de téléphoner avant tout déplacement.Forfait de port pour un livre 10 € sauf si épaisseur supérieure à 3 cm ou valeur supérieure ou égale à 100 €, dans ce cas expédition obligatoire au tarif Colissimo en vigueur. A partir de 2 livres envoi en colissimo obligatoire. Port à la charge de l'acheteur pour le reste du monde.Les Chèques ne sont plus acceptés.Pour destinations extra-planétaire s'adresser à la NASA.Membre du Syndicat Lusitanien Amateurs Morues‎

Bookseller reference : 31021

‎(Anglais), Burkard‎

‎Jenseits von Kreml und Rotem Platz. Bilder aus Rubland‎

‎Schirmer /Mosel Verlag Gm. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition First Printing. Published by Shirmer/Mosel 1995. Quarto. Gray cloth boards stamped in white. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with light shelf wear and light scratches on back panel. A fine copy of this book of 122 full-color photographs by German photojournalist Hans-Jurgen Burkand. Text is in German. 192 pages. ISBN: 388814727. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles libraries collections. Message us if you have books to sell! Schirmer /Mosel Verlag Gm hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 101833 ISBN : 3888147727 9783888147722

‎(Atkinson, William).‎

‎CORRECT LIST OF THE NAMES OF AND MONEY SUBSCRIBED BY ALL THE MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE BRIDGE STREET INQUISITION. Sixth Edition.‎

‎16 p. 8vo. Disbound. William, Atkinson (1758-1846), was ordained priest in 1782, and in 1784 was appointed lecturer at the parish church of Bradford, Yorkshire. At Bradford he was embroiled in various controversies, poetical and political. He kept a printing press in his home and often issued pamphlets of his own on ecclesiastical and political topics under the name of the Old Inquirer. Between 1794 and 1829 he published a further twenty-five pamphlets, all of which took an increasingly reactionary approach to a variety of political, religious, and economic subjects. A consistent target was dissent; at one time he brought out a small serial called The Looking Glass, in which he bitterly expressed his views on this topic. He engaged in a short pamphlet war with `Vindex' (Edward Parsons) on the loyalty of dissenters. Atkinson was described as a `man of rare scholarly attainment, but of somewhat eccentric character' (Venn, Alum. Cant.). He was said to have been of Herculean build. We suspect that the subscribers' list here and the large sums pledged may be fictitious, and part of Atkinson's pamphlet war with a supposed 'Constitutional Association, for Suppressing Seditious Publications'. This pamphlet is VERY SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGLAND BOX 5‎

‎(Bakst, Leon) Elisabeth Ingles:‎

‎Bakst: The Art of Theater and Dance‎

‎-Parkstone Press 2000-. First Parkstone Press edition first impression 2000. 184 pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Pictorial boards. Near fine in dustjacket. Leon Bakst 1866-1924 was a painter illustrator stage designer and costume designer. He is universally acknowledged for representing a synthesis of creative energy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Bakst travelled widely throughout Europe and in 1890 joined the World of Art journal circle which numbered many artists among its members the most famous being Benois and Diaghilev. This book illustrates the wealth of Bakst's contribution to the world of theatre and dance. His best known work includes sets for Stravinsky's Firebird and Weber's Spectre de la Rose. We are specialists in Artists Monographs Catalogues and Illustrated items. All items are as described and dispatched within 24 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with nearly 40 years experience you may order with confidence. Other titles by this artist maybe in stock please ask for our list or link. Bakst: The Art of Theater and Dance Russian artist 1859954995 -Parkstone Press (2000)- hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 30641 ISBN : 1859954995 9781859954997

‎(Bible in English) Dearden, Robert R., Jr.‎

‎An Original Leaf from the Bible of the Revolution. And an Essay Concerning It … by Edwin Grabhorn‎

‎San Francisco: Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for John Howell at the Sign of the Open Book 1930. From an edition limited to 580 copies this is one of 515 copies in the "Colonial Edition. Inserted leaf from the Bible printed by Robert Aitken Philadelphia 1782 from Deuteronomy; and 8 illustrations. 34 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original half leather and paper boards spine gilt. Bottom corners and head and foot of spine rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Very good. From an edition limited to 580 copies this is one of 515 copies in the "Colonial Edition" Inserted leaf from the Bible printed by Robert Aitken Philadelphia 1782 from Deuteronomy; and 8 illustrations. 34 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. From an edition limited to 580 copies this is one of 515 copies in the "Colonial Edition" printed for John Howell Books by the Grabhorn Press and containing an essay by Edwin Grabhorn on typography in America in 1776. This volume contains an original leaf from a copy of the Aitken Bible one of the most celebrated American bibles being the first complete English Bible printed in America. During the colonial era the monopoly on printing English bibles belonged to the Royal Printer and the colonies were supplied entirely with bibles printed in England. The only Bible printed in the British colonies in America was the famous Eliot Indian Bible in Algonquian issued in Cambridge in 1661-63 and reprinted in 1680-85. With the Revolution this monopoly naturally ended and the embargo on goods from England acted to create a shortage. Aitken a Philadelphia printer undertook the task producing the New Testament in 1781 and the Old Testament in 1782. On completion he petitioned the Continental Congress for their endorsement and received it in September 1782. Because of this official endorsement and the reasons behind its production the Aitken Bible is often referred to as "The Bible of the Revolution" Grabhorn Bibliography 131 Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for John Howell at the Sign of the Open Book unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 253119

‎(Bible in English); W. Russell Flint‎

‎The Book of Tobit and the History of Susanna Reprinted from the Revised Version of the Apocrypha‎

‎London: The Haymarket Press 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Illustrated with four color plates by W Russell Flint. Thin 4to. 47pp. One of 100 copies; this is number 8. Limp vellum spine and upper board with title in gilt. General light soil to the vellum and ties else a very good copy.<br /> <p><br /> The extra suite of plates has been mounted on blank pages leaving a small adhesive discoloration on the margin of the plates and on the supporting page.<br /> <p>. The Haymarket Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 23537

‎(Bible in English)‎

‎The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments: together with the Apocrypha‎

‎Worcester: Isaiah Thomas 1791. First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible. 50 engraved plates. 4 460; 2 461-1012pp. Text in two columns. 2 vols. Folio. Contemporary calf panelled in gilt and blind spine with raised bands in six compartments tooled in gilt on either side of each band red and black morocco labels expert repairs. Moderate to heavy foxing repaired tears to text leaves and plates. First Edition of Isaiah Thomas's Folio Bible. 50 engraved plates. 4 460; 2 461-1012pp. Text in two columns. 2 vols. Folio. "The two Thomas Bibles of 1791 were without doubt far in advance of any other publications of the same kind that had appeared in America in point of typography excellence of paper binding and general execution" Wright.<br /> <br /> Dubbed “the Baskerville of America†by Benjamin Franklin Isaiah Thomas issued a folio and a quarto Bible almost simultaneously. Published immediately after the ratification of the Bill of Rights the folio edition arguably his magnum opus opens with a note from Thomas situating it as an important accompaniment to this national development: "The civil authority hath set an example of moderation and candor to all Christians by securing equal privileges to all; and it must be their ardent and united wish independently of foreign aid to be supplied with copies of the sacred Scriptures the foundation of their Religion — a religion which furnishes motives to the faithful performance of every patriotic civil and social duty."<br /> <br /> In preparing the work Thomas compared the language of “not less than eight†significant English Bibles most but not all of which were printings of the King James translation and then had every page of the present edition examined by “the Clergymen of Worcester and … other capable persons.†<br /> <br /> In keeping with his patriotism all the plates are by American engravers an expensive undertaking: the majority by Joseph Seymour with others by John Norman Samuel Hill and Amos Doolittle. It is unusual to find complete copies with all fifty plates. The plate list often lacking is present in this copy. The work was issued either in one volume or in two volumes as here the latter including an additional general title page for the second volume bound in as a cancel.<br /> <br /> A celebrated American Bible from one of the young country’s most important printers. Evans 23186; Hills 29; ESTC W4497; Sabin 5172; Wright Early American Bibles pages 74-88 Isaiah Thomas unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 373866

‎(Bible in English)‎

‎The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New . Issued with: Book of Common Prayer and Whole Book of Psalmes‎

‎Cambridge: Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel 1638. Large paper copy. Ruled in red throughout. Roman letter in two columns. Engraved title page within architectural border featuring Biblical characters a vignette of the 'Last supper' and printer's device. 12 642 151 3 202pp. Bound with preceding the Bible: The Book of Common Prayer. 104pp. And with following the Bible: Whole Book of Psalmes. 8 1 2-90 10 pp. Folio 17 x 11 inches. Contemporary black morocco gilt covers panelled with roll tool borders and central arabesque design in gilt flat spine gilt with marching morocco labels gilt edges minor wear at joints lower corners bumped. Provenance:Webb early inscription on the front pastedown; Maggs Brothers item 827 in unidentified mid-20th century catalogue clipping laid in; General Theological Seminary bookplate. Large paper copy. Ruled in red throughout. Roman letter in two columns. Engraved title page within architectural border featuring Biblical characters a vignette of the 'Last supper' and printer's device. 12 642 151 3 202pp. Bound with preceding the Bible: The Book of Common Prayer. 104pp. And with following the Bible: Whole Book of Psalmes. 8 1 2-90 10 pp. Folio 17 x 11 inches. This edition contains the first major revisions of the King James version standardising the use of italics and altering several readings. "This remained the standard text until the publication of Dr. Paris' Cambridge edition of 1762" Herbert.<br /> <br /> A lovely example bound in contemporary English black morocco and measuring 430x280mm is considerably larger than the dimensions cited by Darlow & Moole 402 375x234 mm and Darlow & Moole 403 for a "large thick paper" copy 397x270 mm. Bible: Herbert 520; Darlow & Moule 402 and 403; ESTC S123371; STC 2nd ed 2331. Common Prayer: Griffiths 1638:2; STC 2nd ed. 16410; ESTC S902. Psalms: STC 2nd ed. 2682; ESTC S122380 Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 371824

‎(Bible in English) Aitken, Jane, printer; Charles Thomson, translator‎

‎The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Covenant . Translated from the Greek by Charles Thomson Late Secretary to the Congress of the United States‎

‎Philadelphia: Printed by Jane Aitken 1808. First edition. 512; 490; 444; 472pp. 4 vols. 8vo. Contemporary full black morocco gil likely bound by Jane Aitken minor wear at joints one spine splitting but holding. First edition. 512; 490; 444; 472pp. 4 vols. 8vo. "Charles Thomson 1729-1824 made the first translation of the Septuagint into the English language and the first English translation of the New Testament in the western hemisphere. Thomson spent twenty years in making the translation. The books called Apocrypha which are included in the canon of the Greek Old Testament but not in the Hebrew were omitted in his translation. After copying the manuscript four times he had it published at Philadelphia by Jane Aitken the first woman to print any part of the Holy Scriptures in America and the daughter of the printer Robert Aitken. It is of interest that the name 'Cha. Thomson' appears as the signer of the Congressional resolution in the front of the 1782 Aiken Bible" Hills.<br /> <br /> Charles Thomson emigrated to America from his native Ireland in 1739. On recommendation of Benjamin Franklin he served as a tutor at the College of Pennsylvania later the University of Pennsylvania. He later left teaching for business in which he prospered. "Because of his reputation for fairness and integrity he was chosen by the Indians to keep their record of proceedings at the treaty of Easton 1757 and in the following year he was adopted into the Delaware tribe with a name meaning `man who tells the truth'" DAB. He was an early and ardent supporter of the Revolution and was unanimously elected Secretary to the Continental Congress serving in that post from 1774 to 1789. Thomson "was the very man in Philadelphia with whom John Adams busily probing the minds of all and sundry on the vital questions involved would wish to have as he did have 'much conversation.' 'This Charles Thomson' Adams wrote 'is the Sam Adams of Philadelphia the life of the cause of liberty they say.'" DAB. Thomson resigned his post when he was offered no part in Washington's inauguration ceremonies nor any post in the new administration. He devoted the next twenty years to his monumental translation.<br /> <br /> Jane Aitken continued her father Robert's business after his death in 1802. "She had in 1810 a printing house in Philadelphia. She obtained much reputation by the productions which issued from her press" Thomas. In addition to being one of the first American female printers Jane Aitken was also a bookseller bookbinder businesswoman and employer. The typeface Aitken used for the Thomson Bible was an attractive and utilitarian type developed in 1796 by two Scotsmen Binney and Ronaldson at their Philadelphia type foundry. The Thomson Bible is considered her greatest printing achievement and the first Bible printed by a woman in America.<br /> <br /> This set in a very unusual American full morocco gilt binding likely bound by Aitken's shop. See Spawn Willman and Carol Spawn “The Aitken Shop: Identification of an Eighteenth-Century Bindery and Its Tools†in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America vol. 57 no. 4 1963 pp. 422–37. Darlow & Moule 1005; Herbert 1514; Rumball-Petre 184; O'Callaghan 1808.2; Wright p.113; Hills 153; Thomas History of Printing in America p.402 Printed by Jane Aitken unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 354112

‎(Bible in English)‎

‎The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments: together with the Apocrypha . Embellished with Ten Maps and Forty Historical Engravings‎

‎Philadelphia: Mathew Carey No. 122 Market-Street 1811. 4 1080 72pp. Complete with 50 illustrations plate at p. 916 is detached and tattered at edges and plate at 932 is detached and with considerably trimmed. Early entries on the family register by the Mingle family. Sectional titles for the OT and NT 1811 Apocrypha and Brown's Brief Concordance as issued. 4to. Contemporary calf. Worn upper cover nearly detached. Foxing. Early inked stamp of P.A. Johnson Bookseller & Stationer Morristown N.J. on front pastedown and with ownership inscription on ffep: "Henry Mingle's Bible bought of Peter A. Johnson in Morristown October 28 1812. 4 1080 72pp. Complete with 50 illustrations plate at p. 916 is detached and tattered at edges and plate at 932 is detached and with considerably trimmed. Early entries on the family register by the Mingle family. Sectional titles for the OT and NT 1811 Apocrypha and Brown's Brief Concordance as issued. 4to. In 1804 Carey first published a new edition of the quarto Bible from standing type and including the Apocrypha. A consummate promoter and bookseller Carey re-issued the Bible on a variety of paper stocks and with various numbers of engraved maps and plates over the next decade. An 1809 advertisement listed 34 variations of his "Family Bible" priced between $3.50 and $12 however none of those listed include more than 30 engraved maps and plates suggesting this issue with 50 engraved maps and plates and including the Old Testament New Testament Psalms Apocrypha and Brown's Concordance to be among the most deluxe version yet issued by Carey. We find no record of Carey's quarto bible with 50 plates as here.<br /> <br /> With an early Morristown New Jersey bookseller stamp and provenance to the Mingle family of Warren County New Jersey. Hills 174; O'Callaghan 1810.1. See Clarkin 622 8 plates and 623 1 map 10 plates; this issue not recorded Mathew Carey, No. 122 Market-Street unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 320096

‎(Bible in English)‎

‎The Holy Bible …‎

‎Cambridge: John Archdeacon Printer to the University 1769. 2 vols. 12mo. Bound in contemporary green morocco covers with outer dog-tooth roll border surrounding floral roll border spines in five compartments with raised bands a.e.g comb-marbled endleaves light rubbing to extremities binder’s blanks removed from both volumes. 2 vols. 12mo. Archdeacon was University Printer from 1766 to 1793. Darlow & Moule 889; t95018. Provenance: Mary Carlton contemporary bookplate; Nancy Barr gift inscription “given her by her aunt Mary Carlton†John Archdeacon, Printer to the University unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 254985

‎(Bible in English)‎

‎The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Translated out of the Original Greek: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty's Special Command‎

‎Cambridge: printed for the British anf Foreign Bible Society 1842. 1 vols. Small 8vo 2 1/4" x 3 3/4" x 5/8". Brown cloth blind-stamped panel binding gilt lettered spine a.e.g. Owners' inscriptions. Some minor rubbing to extremities else fine. 1 vols. Small 8vo 2 1/4" x 3 3/4" x 5/8". <br/><br/> printed for the British anf Foreign Bible Society hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 33603

‎(Bible, English)‎

‎The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New: Translated out of the Original Tongues and With the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised‎

‎Birmingham: John Baskerville Printer to the University 1763. The third variant of the Subscriber's list with the most names ending with that of the Hon. Charles York Esq Attorney General. 1146 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Bound in full dark blue straight-grained morocco covers tooled in gilt with wide Greek key and drawer handle border with floral cornerpieces narrow gilt filet-bordered rectangles tooled all over with drawer handle and sunburst tools and semé off small dots with central gilt-stamped L with crown spine with six double raised bands titled in one compartment stamped with owner's name "Frederic Powys" in another and the rest richly gilt a.e.g. pink endsheets by Staggemeier and Welcher with their circular pink paper label on front pastedown. Front joint and headcap with conservation repairs of the highest quality light foxing to text. The third variant of the Subscriber's list with the most names ending with that of the Hon. Charles York Esq Attorney General. 1146 pp. 1 vols. Folio. The 1763 edition of Baskerville's Bible has always been recognised as his masterpiece and is one of the high-points in the history of printing in Britain. This beautiful and monumental binding can be closely dated because Thomas Powys formerly MP for Northamptonshire was created Baron Lilford in 1797 and Staggemeier & Welcher are recorded in partnership on Villiers Street as of 1799. By 1810 Welcher was in business alone at that address. The Hon and Rev. Frederic Powys whose name appears on the spine was the third son of the first Lord Lilford; he married in 1807. Whether the binding was commissioned for his taking holy orders or on the occasion of his marriage can only be conjectured. A landmark of printing in a splendid binding. Nixon p. 184; Gaskell Bibliography of John Baskerville 26; Ramsden p. 135. Provenance: Frederic Powys his name tooled in gilt to spine Lilford Library booklabel John Baskerville, Printer to the University unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 306680

‎(Bible, English)‎

‎The Holy Bible. The Authorized or King James Version of 1611 now reprinted with the Apocrypha‎

‎London: The Nonesuch Press 1963. With reproductions of 105 of the 16th Century woodcuts of Bernard Salomon. 3 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Fine. 3. With reproductions of 105 of the 16th Century woodcuts of Bernard Salomon. 3 vols. 8vo. <br/><br/> The Nonesuch Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26395

‎(Bible, English)‎

‎The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments with The Book of Common Prayer‎

‎London: Eyre and Spottiswoode 1850. 2 vols. Thick 12mo 4-1/2 x 2-3/4 inches. Bound in full crimson red contemporary morocco heavily gilt all edges gilt. Fine in original full pebbled crimson morocco box. 2 vols. Thick 12mo 4-1/2 x 2-3/4 inches. The Book of Common Prayer is inscribed "Frances Mary Henrietta Hawkesworth from her affectionate Godfather Rich. S. Hawkesworth 27th August" 18 The year has been effaced. A beautiful set. Eyre and Spottiswoode unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 39772

‎(Bible, NT., English) N. T.‎

‎The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Translated out of the Original Greek: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty's Special Command‎

‎Oxford: Oxford University Press 1842. 1 vols. Small 8vo 2 1/4" x 3 5/8" x 5/8". Full black pebbled morocco gilt lettered spine a.e.g. Signatures. Light rubbing to joints else fine. 1 vols. Small 8vo 2 1/4" x 3 5/8" x 5/8". <br/><br/> Oxford University Press unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 33602

‎(Bible. English, Authorized, 1640)‎

‎The Holy Bible. Containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly translated out of the originall tongues‎

‎London: Barker 1640. New Testament with ornamental title page dated 1639. Text in Black letter in two columns. Calendar Almanac list of holy days and table of contents sigs. C & D are printed in red and black. Collation: A-Bâ´ CⶠDⴠ²A-6Dâ¶. General title page in facsimile. Apocrypha and N.T. bound as vol. 2. 2 vols. Folio. Twentieth century half brown morocco and marbled boards. Minor rubbing. General title page in facsimile; dedication leaf remargined at gutter. Very good plus. New Testament with ornamental title page dated 1639. Text in Black letter in two columns. Calendar Almanac list of holy days and table of contents sigs. C & D are printed in red and black. Collation: A-Bâ´ CⶠDⴠ²A-6Dâ¶. General title page in facsimile. Apocrypha and N.T. bound as vol. 2. 2 vols. Folio. Sound attractive copy of the folio Authorzed edition of the English Bible printed in large black leeter type published in successive editions the first in 1611 followed by 1613/11 1617 1634 and this edition: all five “closely resemble each other … These agree so closely that the corresponding leaves practically always end with the same word†Darlow & Moule note.<br /> <br /> The New Testament has a separate titlepage dated 1639; the register is continuous. Darlow & Moule 421 “last of the folio editions in large black letter printed etween 1611 and 1640â€; ESTC S90554. Provenance: General Theological Seminary bookplates blindstamps Barker unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 375287

‎(Bible. English. Illustrated:) McCallum, Gilbert (ed.); Francis Frith (photographer)‎

‎The Holy Bible. The Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty's Special Command. Illustrated with Photographs by Francis Frith. The Queen's Bible especially produced in honor of Queen Victoria and the finest photograpically illustrated bible ever produced With 57 albumin prints.‎

‎Glasgow Edinburgh and London: William Mackenzie 1862. Deluxe Edition. Two volumes folio 450 x 330 mm published between 1862 and 1863. 16 1344pp. 57 unnumbered leaves of albumin prints 230 x 160mm mounted on card stock. Crimson morocco over wooden boards elaborately tooled in gilt and blind; edges mounted in brass double brass clasps with thistle motif; covers with a broad blind-stamped border around a recessed central panel with the crowned cipher of Queen Victoria in gilt; gilt tooled spine with 5 raised bands; a.e.g. marbled endleaves with gilt dentelles. Covers with some mild traces of use; single crease in each marbled endleaf partially detached in second volume; occasional light to moderate foxing mostly confined to the plate mounts; albumin prints in fine condition often with foxing extending about 5mm from the edges into the mount. Overall a very good set with a fine series of photographs notable for their technical achievment.<br /> <br /> Deluxe edition one of 170 copies complete with all 57 albumen prints. Produced for the 1862 International Exhibition and dedicated to Queen Victoria then recently in mourning for the death of Prince Albert this work appeared at a time when photography though still a laborious and expensive process was just beginning to become a popular activity. Victoria herself was an amateur photographer and "the royal couple had been enthusiastic supporters of photography in England from the beginning; in 1853 they became founding patrons of the Photographic Society Club" K. Fiedorek. Francis Frith 1822-1898 the devout Quaker whose photographic images grace the present work was one of the best-known photographers to work in the Near East and the most commercially successful photographer of the nineteenth century. Finding his elementary studies tedious Frith left school at the age of ten apprenticed with a grocer and eventually started his own business. He later went into printing sold the grocery business to a competitor at a substantial profit and went on to devote himself to photography. "The growing Victorian interest in the East and its exotic and historic attractions caught the attention of this astute businessman" Perez. Between 1856 and 1860 Frith made three photographic expeditions to Egypt Ethiopia Sinai and the Levant accompanied by the engineer Francis Herbert Wenham who provided technical assistance in mechanics and optics. While Perez notes that Frith's "approach was always a strictly commercial one and his concern was to make truthful and accurate views of the area" he readily concedes that "the technical quality of Frith's photographs is superior." Frith employed the new wet collodion process in which glass plate negatives were sensitized exposed and developed while still wet. While technically demanding the process yielded rich detail and broad tones. "Frith's were the first original wet-plate photographs of Jerusalem and the Holy Land to reach a wide English-speaking audience and his pictures of the small Palestinian towns were most likely the first published anywhere" Nir p.66.<br /> <br /> Perhaps the most novel aspect of this celebrated edition of the Bible and certainly a harbinger of things to come was the way in which the photographer "presented the radical possibility of seeing photographs of the biblical sites alongside related verses of scripture. he sought to defend and promote his faith by conscripting the veracity of science and materialism to his cause and considered photography to be the most effective medium for his campaign" Foster et al. This vision is manifest even in such details as the re-captioning of prints previously offered for sale so that the new descriptions would more clearly reference the King James text. It should be noted that while the printing was still done by hand this was one of the earliest books for which machinery was used for composing. Original publisher's price = 50 guineas. Another version of this work was published at London in 1860-1862 by Eyre & Spottiswoode; sometimes confused with the present work it was issued in 20 parts each containing a single photographic print by Frith.<br /> <br /> K. Fiedorek A Photographic Bible Fit for a Queen NYPL Blog 2014. Foster Heiting and Stuhlman Imagining Paradise pp. 68-69. Gernsheim Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 1839-1875 p.36 no.184. Herbert The English Bible 1940 1217. Y. Nir The Bible and the Image The History of Photography in the Holy Land 1939-1899 esp. chap. 3: "Early Traveling Landscape Photographers". N. Perez Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East 1838-1885 pp.163-165. William Mackenzie unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 49952

‎(Bible: English). Cullen, Paul‎

‎The Holy Bible Translated from the Latin Vulgate diligently compared with the Hebrew Greek and other Editions in divers languages. The Old Testament first published by the English College at Rheims A.D. 1582. With Annotations references historical and chronological Index & c. The whole revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate & The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Translated from the Latin Vulgate diligently compared with the Original Greek; and first published by the English College at Rheims A.D. 1582. With annotations references and an historical and chronological Index. With the approbation of his Grace the most Rev. Dr. Cullen WITH STRIKING FORE-EDGE PAINTING‎

‎Dublin: James Duffy & Co 1865. Later edition. Hardcover. g to g. Large quarto. 2 764 222pp. Finely gold-stamped and gold-tooled contemporary black leather. All gilt edges. Striking fore edge painting of landscape with antique church complex. Silk-moire endpapers. Handwritten family registry in front. Frontispiece of Old Testament reproduction of a painting in monochrome by W. & A. K. Johnston. Frontispiece engraving in New Testament. "This New Edition of the English Version of the Bible printed with our permission by James Duffy.carefully collated by our direction with the Clementine Vulgate; likewise with the Douay Version of the Old Testament of 1609 and with the Rhemisch Version of the New Testament of 1582 and with other approved English Versions." Illustrated with 12 full-page monochrome plates in sepia-tone 2 full-page engravings as well as many b/w in-text illustrations. Some age wear and staining on binding. Wear along front joints and corners. Gutters at front and rear endpapers reinforced with fine red cloth band. Inscription on blank leaf following front endpaper: "Gift from Stephanie to Tom on the eve of their marriage October 3rd 1983." Sporadic foxing throughout. Overall good condition. James Duffy & Co hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 30602

‎(BINDING, English) Fenelon, M. de‎

‎Les Adventures de Telemaque / Avventure di Telemaco. Facing texts in French and Italian‎

‎London: C. Clarke 1805. Nouvelle Edition réimprimée après celle de Didot. With 12 full-page engraved plates. 255 3; vi 246 1 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Full contemporary English straight-grain red morocco gilt classical border of Greek key and acanthus design on upper and lower covers panelled spine gilt with similar motifs a.e.g. hinges and extremities slightly rubbed occasional foxing but overall fine and attractive. From the library of Marshall Field with his engraved armorial bookplate on each pastedown. Nouvelle Edition réimprimée après celle de Didot. With 12 full-page engraved plates. 255 3; vi 246 1 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. C. Clarke unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 13759

‎(Binding, English) Northcote, James‎

‎One Hundred Fables Original and Selected‎

‎London: Geo: Lawford Saville Passage. Printed by J. Johnson 1833. Third edition. Engraved frontispiece 183 wood-engraved vignettes and 100 wood-engraved initials after Northcote and William Harvey. 1 vols. Lg 8vo 10 1/8 x 6 1/2". Contemporary full brown morocco with elaborate giit-decorated covers incorporating gilt urns fans and clover leaves richly gilt spines with raised bands and black and red leather labels a.e.g. each volume stamp-signed on the front pastedown "Bound by J. Mackenzie Binder to the King. Third edition" Engraved frontispiece 183 wood-engraved vignettes and 100 wood-engraved initials after Northcote and William Harvey. 1 vols. Lg 8vo 10 1/8 x 6 1/2". Splendid set of Northcote in bindings by this London craftsman cf. Spawn & Kinsella TICKETED BOOKBINDERS FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN #s 485 & 486 who was active from 1803 -1833. Ray 55 Geo: Lawford, Saville Passage. Printed by J. Johnson unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 238562

‎(BINDINGS - CUNEO). (COLOR PLATE BOOKS, ENGLISH AQUATINTS). HARDY, JOSEPH‎

‎A PICTURESQUE AND DESCRIPTIVE TOUR IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE HIGH PYRENEES‎

‎London: R. Ackermann 1825. FIRST EDITION. 236 x 144 mm. 9 1/4 x 5 3/4". vii 1 84 pp. <br/> STRIKING DARK GREEN MOROCCO VERY ELABORATELY GILT BY CUNEO stamp-signed on lower front turn-in for Mildred B. Davey named stamped on upper front turn-in covers with geometric Art Deco frame smooth spine in compartments with triangle ornaments gilt lettering git-ruled turn-ins marbled endpapers. Housed in matching green morocco-backed clamshell box lined with fleece. Engraved map and 24 FINE DELICATELY HAND-COLORED PLATES inlaid on heavy stock as issued; original tissue guards. Verso of front free endpaper with engraved bookplate of Mildred Davey and red morocco ex-libris of Paul Edward Chevalier; front flyleaf with 19th century ink owner inscription of William Mitchell. A Large Paper Copy. Abbey Travel 210; Tooley 245; S. T. Prideaux "Aquatint Engraving: A Chapter in the History of Book Illustration" p. 229. See Peter Thorold "The British in France: Visitors and Residents since the Revolution" p. 64. A very small ink spot just intruding on very bottom edge of a handful of leaves a few vague spots of foxing to map isolated faint offsetting from illustrations but A VERY FINE COPY in all other ways--the text clean fresh and bright the plates immaculate the margins spacious the binding lustrous and sparkling.<br/> <br/> This is a lovely copy of a work with plates Prideaux considers "among the most beautiful to be found in aquatint engraving" and it comes in a handsome binding commissioned by Mildred Benson Davey and later owned by Paul Chevalier. Issued by a publisher known for his lavishly illustrated travelogues the volume takes us on a journey through the scenic French Pyrenees escorted by Englishman Joseph Hardy who adds his insights on the local population and government gives recommendations on the best mineral baths and describes in word and image the breathtaking scenery. The views are small measuring approximately 90 x 70 mm. but as Abbey notes "part of their charm is certainly in their small size." Sarah Prideaux praised their composition: "The ground is exceedingly fine and there is no line whatever. The colouring is most delicate and all the twenty-four illustrations are exquisite." We can only be impressed by the achievement of the colorist; the detail is cleanly executed the colors are luminescent and the images do not disappoint even under magnification. Thorold notes that this work was "a great success" and was later translated into French. Our copy was bound in a bold modern design at the Chicago workshop founded by in 1926 by John Cuneo 1884-1977. Cuneo hired fine British craftsmen like the Englishman Leonard Mounteney to create bibliophile-quality bindings for American collectors. After apprenticing at the bindery of G. & J. Abbott in Nottingham and studying ornamental design at the Battersea Polytechnic Mounteney worked as an exhibition finisher for Riviere before emigrating to Chicago where he initially worked with Alfred de Sauty at the R. R. Donnelley bindery before joining Cuneo's hand bindery. The present binding was a commission for Mildred Benson Davey 1890-1953 daughter of the founder of Benson & Rixon men’s clothiers. Cuneo also bound books for Chicago retail magnate Marshall Fields. Later our binding was appreciated by distinguished connoisseur Paul Chevalier whose library of beautiful volumes was uniformly characterized by outstanding workmanship and superb condition. The sale of his books in 1990 represented one of the best collections of 20th century bindings brought to auction in the past half century. Laid in is Christie's slip from Chevalier's 9 November sale where this appeared as lot 23 selling for $935. R. Ackermann unknown‎

Bookseller reference : ST20491

‎(BINDINGS - FINELY BOUND SETS). (CLASSICAL TEXTS IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION)‎

‎BREVIARY TREASURES‎

‎Boston: Privately Printed by Nathan Haskell Dole 1903-05. No. 2 OF 26 COPIES OF THE HELLENIC EDITION printed on Royal Japanese vellum. 230 x 165 mm. 9 x 6 1/2". 10 volumes. <br/> SUPERB CONTEMPORARY INDIGO CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT AND INLAID covers with gilt rule border central panel framed by 20 inlaid lighter blue morocco tulips interspersed with tiny gilt stars raised bands spine with three panels inlaid with sprays of dark red and citron morocco tulips and lilies accented with small tools two panels with gilt titling SKY BLUE MOROCCO DOUBLURES featuring an indigo morocco frame inlaid with red morocco lilies at corners central panel inlaid with eight teal morocco tulips and a large red morocco lily on graceful gilt stems a sprinkling of gilt stars above them ivory watered silk free endleaves all edges gilt. LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED by artists including A. G. Learned and E. F. Bems with decorative frame on limitations and title pages NINE FRONTISPIECES 97 HEADPIECE VIGNETTES 95 DECORATIVE TAILPIECES AND 269 THREE-QUARTER FRAMES ALL HAND COLORED and 675 black & white three-quarter frames. With engraved bookplate of George Clinton Ward on front flyleaf most now loose. Spines with just a hint of dulling a whisper of shelfwear to a couple of volumes isolated small marginal smudges from the printing process but A VERY FINE SET WITH VIRTUALLY NO SIGNS OF USE.<br/> <br/> This superb set features English translations of important Classical texts handsomely printed on Japanese vellum extravagantly illustrated and sumptuously bound. It contains "The Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius" "The Eclogues of Vergil" "Sayings of Epictetus" "Selections from Gesta Romanorum" "Odes of Anacreon Anacreontics and Other Selections from the Greek Anthology" "The Satires of Horace" "The Story of Odysseus in the Land of the Phacians Being the Sixth and a Part of the Seventh Book of the Odyssey" "Selections from Aristophanes and Lucian" "The Olympic and Pythian Odes of Pindar" and selections from the Koran translated by George Sale. The project was undertaken by writer translator and editor Nathan Haskell Dole a popular member of the Boston literary set. Educated at Philips Andover and Harvard he was much influenced by family friends like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. He showed an early facility for languages teaching himself to read French German Greek and Latin. Our set was designed by Dole to be the crown jewel of a library combining beauty and luxury with Classical erudition. The bindings here are unsigned but are very similar to those on a copy of this work in the Phoebe Boyle sale bound by the Adams Bindery. Ralph Randolph Adams was along with Henry Stikeman and a handful or others one of the great American art bookbinders of his era. His workshop produced bindings of notable beauty and craftsmanship. The New York Times 11 October 1902 described an Adams binding as "so exquisite in design and execution that those long skeptical of the ability of Americans to bind artistically should now be convinced of their error. . . . It is to be hoped that all American binders will be encouraged to strive toward producing designs like Adams' that are in a measure original and which show more of the individual touch of the artist.". Privately Printed by Nathan Haskell Dole unknown‎

Bookseller reference : ST19464

‎(BINDINGS - EARLY 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH). COWPER, WILLIAM‎

‎POEMS‎

‎London: J. Johnson 1808. New Edition. 220 x 135 mm. 8 5/8 x 5 3/8". Two volumes. <br/> VERY PRETTY CONTEMPORARY SCARLET STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO covers with gilt-ruled frame decorated with multiple overlapping gilt door handle tools and floral cornerpieces central panel with gilt-ruled lozenge enclosed by gilt rules and blind floral rolls raised bands compartments gilt wide turn-ins ruled in gilt and with repeating flower motif in blind and small gilt circles in the centers green inlaid cornerpieces with gilt tooling blue watered silk endpapers all edges gilt. With eight plates after Henry Fuseli including frontispiece to each volume. Verso of front free endpaper with armorial bookplate of Lewis Way. â—†Spines a little sunned corners a bit worn and tending to turn inward light scuffing to extremities plates lightly foxed but the text extremely clean and the pleasing bindings with minor issues only.<br/> <br/> This is an attractively illustrated and handsomely bound edition of the finely crafted poetry of William Cowper 1731-1800 the most notable English poet before the Romantics in terms of a tendency to be confessional in one's verse. Given the fact that he was institutionalized and that he several times attempted suicide these self-revelatory poems can easily be seen as a kind of therapeutic experience and it is testimony to the complexity of his personality that so much of Cowper's verse is light conversational and epigrammatic. His poems range widely from religious reflections to translations of Homer to poetry inspired by a lady's suggestion that he could write on any topic including a sofa see vol. II p. 1. The plates here were designed by Henry Fuseli 1741-1825 a Swiss-born painter who lived mainly in England. He was best known for his paintings exploring the supernatural as well as his influence on the young William Blake. DNB calls him "A superb and intensely dramatic draughtsman . . . notorious for his sensational demonic irrational and bizarre subjects" leading "the surrealists to claim him as a forerunner." Though unsigned the bindings here are extremely attractive with tasteful gilding and luxurious touches such as wide decorative turn-ins and watered silk endleaves. This copy was previously owned by Lewis Way an Evangelical reverend who made it his mission to promote Christianity among the Jews. It was his particular belief that returning Jews to the Holy Land would fulfill a biblical prophecy and to this end he secured several audiences with Tsar Alexander I in the attempt to persuade him to the cause. His home at Stansted Park reportedly contained a library that included rare Judaica and Hebraica. J. Johnson unknown‎

Bookseller reference : ST15731c

‎(BINDINGS - ENGLISH, 19TH CENTURY)‎

‎THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER . . . TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID‎

‎London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1820. 142 x 80 mm. 5 5/8 x 3 1/8". 510 pp.; 80 2 pp. <br/> VERY FINE CONTEMPORARY STRAIGHT-GRAIN PURPLE MOROCCO ELABORATELY GILT covers with frame of gilt rules and anthemion-and-flower roll central panel with arabesque corners central sunburst medallion containing the Tetragrammaton within a triangle from which the dove of the Holy Spirit descends raised bands spine panels gilt in a floral and arabesque design gilt titling turn-ins with zig-zag gilt roll orange endpapers all edges gilt. Front pastedown with large morocco bookplate of Louisa Smyth dated 25th Dec. 1821 and signed with the initials E. P. Front flyleaf inscribed: "Harriet E. Thorpe / From her affectionate / Brother-- / As a remembrance of / her dear Aunt L. Dickens. / Nov. 1841." Griffiths p. 246. â—†A breath of rubbing to corners but A BEAUTIFUL COPY with no signs of use--clean fresh and bright internally and in a sparkling ORNATE binding.<br/> <br/> Bound in somber purple but with religious imagery in bright gilt this pretty little prayer book is very typical of an era in which such luxurious volumes were popular gifts among the moneyed classes as was the case here. Miss Louisa Smyth must have treasured this Christmas gift from "E. P." as its condition clearly indicates it was seldom if ever used for daily devotions. It likely served as a perfect accessory for Louisa's Sunday finery and perhaps she carried it at her 1831 wedding to Lt. Col. Thomas Mark Dickens of the Royal Engineers. After Louisa's 1841 death the book passed to Harriet E. Thorpe wife of Louisa's nephew Rev. William Smyth Thorpe. Both families are well documented in the county of Norfolk where their eminent lineage goes back generations. Whoever inherited our prayer book from Harriet continued to care for it assiduously as it appears little changed from the days when Louisa first held it in her hands. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan unknown‎

Bookseller reference : ST15600