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1976Best.-Nr. WN5466Kennett Square PA: KNA Press Inc. 1976. Pictorial yellow green cloth with black lettering. Minor foxing to top edge. Number 1176 of 2000 copies signed on limitation page. Book and jacket are excellent. Very complete history well illustrated of this township in suburban Philadelphia. Signed by Author. Limited/Numbered. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. KNA Press Inc. Hardcover books
1982Best.-Nr. W0723CKennett Square PA: KNA Press Inc. 1982. Original beige cloth decorated with water marks and with dark brown lettering. Faint red marks at bottom of upper cover. Dust jacket repeats pattern on book covers. Small closed tear at top edge of jacket and some chipping elsewhere. A couple of small brownish stains on lower panel of jacket. No. 410 of 1000 copies signed by the author. Limited/Numbered. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. KNA Press Inc. Hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 1591296277-11-1Publishamerica Inc. Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Publishamerica Inc unknown
Best.-Nr. 55772395Brand New. unknown
1747Best.-Nr. 91802n. l.: s. n. 1747. Fine. s. n. n. l. 1747 10 x 16.8 cm Relié First edition of this work published by the Société du Bout-du-Banc the celebrated literary salon presided over by Mademoiselle Jeanne-Françoise Quinault and the Comte de Caylus. This intimate circle originally comprising eight members would gather on Mondays at dinner to exchange ideas and to write; at the close of each meal every distinguished guest was required to set down a few lines whether in the coarse poissard style or in a more refined vein on paper. It was in this context that Les Fêtes roulantes ou les regrets des petites rues came into being in the wake of the celebrations held in Paris in honour of the Dauphin's second marriage to Marie-Josèphe de Saxe. Pastiche binding in plum half-shagreen spine with five raised bands framed by gilt dotted fillets and six compartments decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons marbled paper boards gilt top edge pastedowns and endpapers in shell-pattern marbled paper. Some minor rubbing to the paper of the lower board corners slightly bumped. ""In his youth the Comte de Caylus had paid considerable tribute to the literature of fairy tales which the translations from Arabic and Persian by Galland and Pétis de la Croix had brought into fashion; one does not find him again in these artificial creations to which he returned when he was nearly seventy. But in the intervening years his character as a writer emerged and declared itself in accordance with his manners and tastes and in how propitious a milieu! The Société du bout du banc that academy of Gallic ribaldry presided over by Mademoiselle Quinault; those suppers at which an inkwell served as centrepiece and which La Chaussée d'Armenonville Voisenon Moncrif the Grand Prior of Vendôme Duclos Salley and Crébillon fils enlivened with their bawdy and bantering wit. All men of letters with little taste for philosophy all content to let the world go its own way and finding it perfectly satisfactory as it was all of that sacred flock of Epicurus somewhat transformed by Circe in which each member is satisfied or very nearly with what their presiding lady declared sufficient for Duclos the least fastidious among them. The popular literature of the eighteenth century that is to say literature which took the common people as the subject of its observations and tableaux was born within this company of mirth and folly and the Comte de Caylus was its natural father and its foster father; it took its first lively flights in those ""Écosseuses"" 1739 those ""Étrennes de la Saint-Jean"" 1742 those ""Mémoires de l'Académie des colporteurs"" those ""Avantures des bals des Bois"" those ""Fêtes roulantes"" 1748 a veritable magic lantern of Parisian popular life ."" Avertissement ""Mémoires et réflexions du comte de Caylus"" 1874 s. n. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 004827kMansfield Centre CT: Martino Fine Books No date given. Martino Fine Books hardcover
1991Best.-Nr. 009378-TUniversity of Pittsburgh Press 1991 Hardcover bound in green cloth no apparent flaws. Dust jacket is sun-faded along spine with a thin line of stain on back fold. No indication of subsequent printing. University of Pittsburgh Press hardcover
1917Best.-Nr. 971P7London: The Chiswick Press 1917. First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 11" by 8.5". Various. The first edition of this very scarce study on the depictions of the British Royal Family though published engravings from the sixteenth to eighteenth century. The first edition of this very scarce work limited to only one hundred copies.This concise work explores the engravings of the royal family from 1521 up to the end of the eighteenth century looking at the varying depictions of the royals as they appeared in publications.The books referenced in this volume include Holinshed's 'Chronicle' Speed's 'The History of Great Britaine' 'Baziliwlogia' Taylor's 'A Briefe Remembrance of all the English Monarchs' Sandford's 'Genealogical History of the Kings of England' Evelyn's 'Numismata' and more.Illustrated with a frontispiece and one-hundred and nine plates. Collated complete.By Howard Coppuck Levis who accompanies each plate with a brief description of the work and its representation of the royal through the engraving. In a half morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally smart with a few light marks. Gift inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with a few scattered spots. Near Fine The Chiswick Press hardcover
1998Best.-Nr. x-0521621615Cambridge Univ Pr 1998. Hardcover. New. 246 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
2015Best.-Nr. x-1118314476Blackwell Pub 2015. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 552 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. Blackwell Pub hardcover
2018Best.-Nr. x-1108416624Cambridge Univ Pr 2018. Hardcover. New. 300 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
2015Best.-Nr. x-1137514582Palgrave Macmillan 2015. Hardcover. New. 206 pages. 6.00x4.00x1.00 inches. Palgrave Macmillan hardcover
2022Best.-Nr. x-1639890327States Academic Pr 2022. Hardcover. New. 338 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.98 inches. States Academic Pr hardcover
2020Best.-Nr. x-3030482391Palgrave Macmillan 2020. Hardcover. New. 429 pages. 8.75x6.25x1.25 inches. Palgrave Macmillan hardcover
2017Best.-Nr. x-1138523666Taylor & Francis 2017. Hardcover. New. 262 pages. 9.01x5.98x0.79 inches. Taylor & Francis hardcover
1976Best.-Nr. 100116726Jules tallandier 1976. très bon état de conservation dorure en tête intérieurs propres . in8. 1976. Reliure editeur. 6 volumes. Jules tallandier unknown
2010Best.-Nr. x-0202363694Aldine De Gruyter 2010. Paperback. New. 289 pages. 8.90x5.90x0.60 inches. Aldine De Gruyter paperback
1810Best.-Nr. 161693Paris: P. Didot l'Ainé 1810. First edition of this intriguing work of futuristic fiction imagining a visit to Europe in the early 20th century by a Chinese couple. The work marks the first use of the narrative device of a pull-out newspaper from the future - in this case the Journal du Déjeneur recounting world events on 15 September 1910. Les Voyages de Kang-Hi is intended "partly to describe present French manners from a distancing perspective. and partly to show plausible developments in technology" Alkon pp. 198-9 and it emulates the form of Montesquieu's Persian Letters. The author 1764-1830 was the son of Marshal Francis de Gaston and a politician and intellectual. During the French Revolution following the dissolution of the National Constituent Assembly of which he was a member he fled to England. 2 vols duodecimo 168 x 97 mm. With 3 folding plates. Near-contemporary quarter sheep smooth spine divided by gilt scrolling rolls compartments tooled with gilt five-pointed stars red and green labels red sides pale blue endpapers edges yellow and speckled blue. Near-contemporary ownership label of one L. Perrin fils on front pastedowns. Losses to spines worming to two boards and final 30 leaves of vol. II slightly affecting text first plates in vol. I slightly proud were sometime incorrectly refolded. An acceptable copy with contents presenting nicely. Cordier 2nd edition p. 639; Lust 1280; Versins p. 534; not in Löwendahl. Paul K. Alkon Origins of Futuristic Fiction 2010. hardcover
2000Best.-Nr. x-0787952133Jossey-Bass Inc Pub 2000. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 355 pages. 10.75x8.25x1.25 inches. Jossey-Bass Inc Pub paperback
Best.-Nr. 60717London: Printed for the author for private distribution only at the Chiswick Press 1914. Family History LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto 22 x 18cm pp.xx; 113 3. With 32 black and white plates including a photogravure frontispiece. One of just 50 copies printed. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with black titles to spine and light blue paper over boards. All edges untrimmed. A clean copy largely unopened. Moderate wear to boards with toning to spine. Very good. London: Printed for the author for private distribution only at the Chiswick Press, 1914 unknown
2013Best.-Nr. x-1906764174Littman Library of Jewish 2013. Hardcover. New. 246 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. Littman Library of Jewish hardcover
1813Best.-Nr. FIN3-C-17Paris: Chez Ant Aug. Renouard 1813. Leather. Very Good. 5.5" by 3.5". None. Three uniformly bound volumes of Antoine Hamilton's work. Antoine Hamilton's Contes or Tales to the first two volumes with his 'Zeneyde' and 'Des Facardins' bound to the end of volume II. Volume III is his Works which include his 'Lettres et Eptres' his 'Poesies Diverses' and his 'Chansons'. Collated complete. All three volumes are written entirely in French. Antoine Hamilton was an Irish classical author of Scottish ancestry who wrote in French. His literary characteristics are those of a French author and his 'Memoires du comte de Gramont' made him one of the classical writers of France. Hamilton was raised in France as his family fled after the execution of Charles I. In half calf bindings with gilt stamping to the spines. Externally smart with rubbing to the joints and the head and tails of the spines. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown Clonmore. Internally all volumes are firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned to edges with spotting throughout. Very Good Chez Ant Aug. Renouard hardcover
2004Best.-Nr. x-1845450132Berghahn Books 2004. Paperback. New. 320 pages. 8.75x6.25x0.75 inches. Berghahn Books paperback
2018Best.-Nr. x-1108404014Cambridge Univ Pr 2018. Paperback. New. 300 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr paperback
2019Best.-Nr. x-1119055261Blackwell Pub 2019. Paperback. New. 552 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.25 inches. Blackwell Pub paperback