1923ref. 884591923. WOODBLOCK PRINTING CLAUDEL Paul. SAINTEGENEVIEVE Poeme Par Paul Claudel. Tokio Chinchiocha A.D. 1923. #610 of 1000cc. Tall folding album 32.5 x 13.5 cm bound in paulownia wood kiri. An illustration by Tomita Keisen and a page reproducing Claudel's script were cut into woodblocks by the master Igami Bonkotsu as well as the title design by Noemi Pernessin and a series of text illustrations by Audrey Parr. The rest of the text which is entirely in French is typeset. A lovely French-Japanese collaboration created at the moment that Tokyo was crushed by earthquake and fire. In the original publisher's clasped chitsu case. Near fine. unknown books
1858ref. 822591858. London: Barnett Printer Highgate c.1858. London: Barnett Printer Highgate c.1858. An Interesting Piece of Printing History Broadside. Trial and Sentcnce sic of Dr Barnard This Day Guilty Transported for Life. London: Barnett Printer Highgate c.1858. 9-3/4" x 7-1/2" broadside mounted to later backing sheet. Moderate toning faint residue and small tears to corners from former mounting text affected at lower left and upper right corners loss to one word of text and to final letter of "and" in title "D" carefully filled in with ink. $1250. Riddled with printing errors and stock phrases this broadside provides an excellent example of the economical and often generic nature of this kind of popular literature. References to the "unfortuuate sic and illfated victim" the "cold and wanton murder" the "dissipated and irregular habits" which led to the crime and of course the "authenticity of the important information" this broadside contains would have all been familiar to contemporary readers but the text contains no real details of any particular crime. The printer may have sought to capitalize on the high-profile trial of French surgeon Simon Francois Bernard one of the conspirators in the 1858 Orsini plot to assassinate Napoleon III. This broadside also demonstrates the readiness with which printers of popular material imitated each other's work. The only other known broadside printed by Barnett has the conveniently generic caption title Full Particulars of this Dreadful Murder! and text seemingly identical to that of this broadside. At least two other broadsides we located published by London printers T. Rigdon and J. Lucksway have identical text under the Full Particulars title. This is a rare item. OCLC and Library Hub locate 3 copies British Library National Library of Australia State Library of New South Wales. unknown
1858ref. 822591858. London: Barnett Printer Highgate c.1858. London: Barnett Printer Highgate c.1858. An Interesting Piece of Printing History Broadside. Trial and Sentcnce sic of Dr Barnard This Day Guilty Transported for Life. London: Barnett Printer Highgate c.1858. 9-3/4" x 7-1/2" broadside mounted to later backing sheet. Moderate toning faint residue and small tears to corners from former mounting text affected at lower left and upper right corners loss to one word of text and to final letter of "and" in title "D" carefully filled in with ink. $1250. Riddled with printing errors and stock phrases this broadside provides an excellent example of the economical and often generic nature of this kind of popular literature. References to the "unfortuuate sic and illfated victim" the "cold and wanton murder" the "dissipated and irregular habits" which led to the crime and of course the "authenticity of the important information" this broadside contains would have all been familiar to contemporary readers but the text contains no real details of any particular crime. The printer may have sought to capitalize on the high-profile trial of French surgeon Simon Francois Bernard one of the conspirators in the 1858 Orsini plot to assassinate Napoleon III. This broadside also demonstrates the readiness with which printers of popular material imitated each other's work. The only other known broadside printed by Barnett has the conveniently generic caption title Full Particulars of this Dreadful Murder! and text seemingly identical to that of this broadside. At least two other broadsides we located published by London printers T. Rigdon and J. Lucksway have identical text under the Full Particulars title. This is a rare item. OCLC and Library Hub locate 3 copies British Library National Library of Australia State Library of New South Wales. unknown books
1885ref. 159653Toronto 1885. Vol. 1 Nos. 1-18 April 4 - August 1 1885. Hardcover. Poor. 152 p. interspersed with unpaginated illustration inserts. 46 cm. 15 double-page unnumbered insertes in partial colour numerous illustrtions in text some tinted. Additional partial colour insert only 40 cm featuring Maj.-Gen. Middleton and officers. Map of Battle of Batoche on p. 104. Burgundy leather spine with black cloth boards. Gilt impressing. Book is split in two at spine. Numerous tears and chips. Many pages disbound. First leaf missing edge with loss of text. Thumbing and soiling. A much-read copy of the Illustrated War News covering the North-West Rebellion. The newspaper provided Canadian readers with descriptions of battles like Fish Creek lists of killed and wounded the murder of Thomas Scott capture of Riel at Batoche etc. Considerable amounts of Toronto advertising. Includes 4 p. Honour Roll Supplement at rear. hardcover
1919ref. 176501Shanghai: Privately printed by Kelly & Walsh Ltd for G.S.J. 1919. A Shanghai expat's otherwise unrecorded tribute to his goddaughter inscribed by the author on the first blank "To Irene from Stewart with all good wishes. 22nd October 1919 Shanghai". G. Stewart Jones "G.S.J." in the imprint ran the Shanghai office of the chemicals giant Brunner Mond & Co. Jones composed his poems in Shanghai Tianjin on the Yangtze River and in England. His collection is a rare surviving example of the bespoke luxury printing and bookbinding service provided by Kelly & Walsh Asia's largest publisher-printer. Octavo pp. 16. Contents printed in blue. Original decorative black and blue brocade front cover lettered in gilt edges untrimmed binder's ticket on rear pastedown. Boards lightly rubbed and bowed foxing to endpapers and edges: a very good copy. hardcover
1896Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original leather bdg. with traditional decorative embossing and gilt lettering of the title on boards. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 15 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters) and Persian. 480 p. Traditionally framed text. First volume, all published. Early edition of this exceedingly rare Persian-Turkish lexicon, which was one of the earliest Persian dictionaries in the Islamic world, written by Hasan Suuri Efendi from Aleppo, one of the finance officers of the Ottoman Empire. First edition was printed in 1742 and was the last book in two volumes of the first Islamic printing house founded by Ibrahim Müteferrika. This copy is the second edition. All published. Özege 5625.; 780172767, 39832974 (Seven printed copies in American libraries: Concordia Theological Seminary, Virginia Tech, Butler University Libraries, Concordia College Library, Morningside University, Dallas Theological Seminary, and Princeton University Library).
ref. ST20972b-cParis: Nicolas Vivien early 16th century. 197 x 130 mm. 7 3/4 x 5 1/8". Single column 28 lines gothic typeface. Ruled in red two one-line initials and two three-line initials painted in gold on red or blue ground and A LOVELY ANIMATED FULL PAINTED BORDER done by hand with trompe-l'oeil flowers one leaf also with a moth on painted gold ground. Top margin a little small light soiling to vellum borders with a couple superficial scratches and tiny smudges but in excellent condition overall. These beautifully embellished leaves from a printed Book of Hours demonstrate the enduring demand for manuscript illumination in the incunabular period and beyond. While the text here was completed on a printing press the initials and borders were done entirely by hand adding luxury and luster to otherwise unadorned pages. Although these leaves likely belonged to a Book of Hours printed in Paris possibly an edition printed for Nicolas Viven in or around 1503 the trompe-l'oeil style seen in the borders was particularly popular among Flemish and Netherlandish illuminators of the period. Because of the artist's use of subtle shading to indicate shadows the large blossoms here seem to pop off the page and one of the leaves contains a delicate little moth--attracted perhaps by the gleaming painted gold ground. Nicolas Vivien(?) unknown
ref. ST20972b-cParis: Nicolas Vivien early 16th century. 197 x 130 mm. 7 3/4 x 5 1/8". Single column 28 lines gothic typeface. Ruled in red two one-line initials and two three-line initials painted in gold on red or blue ground and A LOVELY ANIMATED FULL PAINTED BORDER done by hand with trompe-l'oeil flowers one leaf also with a moth on painted gold ground. Top margin a little small light soiling to vellum borders with a couple superficial scratches and tiny smudges but in excellent condition overall. These beautifully embellished leaves from a printed Book of Hours demonstrate the enduring demand for manuscript illumination in the incunabular period and beyond. While the text here was completed on a printing press the initials and borders were done entirely by hand adding luxury and luster to otherwise unadorned pages. Although these leaves likely belonged to a Book of Hours printed in Paris possibly an edition printed for Nicolas Viven in or around 1503 the trompe-l'oeil style seen in the borders was particularly popular among Flemish and Netherlandish illuminators of the period. Because of the artist's use of subtle shading to indicate shadows the large blossoms here seem to pop off the page and one of the leaves contains a delicate little moth--attracted perhaps by the gleaming painted gold ground. Nicolas Vivien(?) unknown books
Second edition, 3 vols., royal 8vo (235 x 155 mm), large paper copy, [4], 425, [1]; [4], 434, [2]; xl, 420, [4]pp., with half-titles and engraved frontispiece portrait to first and second volumes as called for, 10 facsimile plates, 6 of which are double-page or folding, some occasional light spotting to text (mainly prelims), marbled endpapers, cont. red morocco, spines gilt extra, marbled boards, spines just slightly faded, uncut, t.e.g. an attractive set. This famous bibliography of the output of the Manutius family and their Aldine Press, 1494-1598, has remained the standard work on the subject and has been praised as a classic of its kind. Over 1,500 entries given. Provenance: From the library of Charles Butler (1821-1910), Warren Wood in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. The majority of the library was sold at Sotheby's, London, on 5 April 1911.
First edition, 3 vols., bound in 4, 4to (279 x 185 mm), ONE OF 100 COPIES PRINTED ON THICK AND LARGE PAPER WITH EXTRA PLATES, [4], xxv, [7], 462,lxxix, [1]; [2], 555, [1]; [2], 298; [2], 299-622, lxiipp., with the author's wood-engraved device on each title-page, a wood engraving of the elaborately-quartered coat of arms of the Roxburghe Club on the dedication page, 85 engraved plates ((including the private plate of 'Diana de Poictiers' in vol. 2, which was apparently destroyed after only 50 copies had been printed, and a proof of the 'Prater' plate in vol. 3), 62 illustrations printed on fine and thin "India" paper and mounted on the text leaves, 55 other illustrations in the text, with the additional sixty engraved plates on 52 leaves from Lewis' Series of Groups bound in at the appropriate places as designated by Lewis in his 'Directions to the binder', contemporary notes in pencil to several endpapers and a few within the text, text and plates have staining of varying degrees, pale stain to many lower margins, a little damage to endpapers where bookplates have been removed, full red hard grain red morocco,,covers waterstained, spines lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Unfortunately this handsome large paper copy has suffered from water damage sometime in the past, additional photographs are available upon request. This set with the additional set of etchings on india paper by George Lewis, of a classic work of the utmost importance for its wealth of eye-witness information and anecdotes about printed books, manuscripts, buildings, other artefacts and people, both from past centuries and from the author's own day, for the extraordinary collection of illustrations, mostly drawn during the tour itself, and finally as a sumptuous piece of book production. As soon as the book appeared, leading scholars derided Dibdin for his lack of scholarship, especially concerning early manuscripts and printed books. But one must distinguish between the extensive and extremely useful information about things and people Dibdin saw during his 1818 tour, and his own interpretations and conclusions, which now serve only as a window to the attitudes of the time. Dibdin's enthusiasm, readable style and entertaining anecdotes, moreover, caught the mood of his age, making the book extremely popular and influential. Lewis' A Series of Groups... was intended to accompany Dibdin's Tour but was rejected by Dibdin as unworthy of his book. Lewis, most perturbed, issued them at his own expense and presented his case in the eight-page Advertisement which was separately printed. Jackson 48; 56; 56n: Windle & Pippin A38a; A44; D13.
1653ref. 42295Leyde, Jean et Daniel Elzevier, 1653. In-16 de 381 pp., 1 f.bl., titre-frontispice gravé, maroquin fauve doublé de maroquin rouge orné d'une frise dorée d'encadrement, dos à nerfs, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, filet à froid d'encadrement sur les plats, tranches dorées sur marbrure (reliure de l'époque).
1692ref. 42505Paris, André Pralard, 1692. 4 vol. in-8 de (48)-638-(58) pp. ; (8)-470-(8) pp. ; p. 471-892-(19) ; (40)-676 ; (20)-664 (i.e. 660) pp., maroquin rouge janséniste, dos à nerfs, tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque).
1804ref. 21904Besançon, Girard, 1804; 2 parties reliées en un tome in-18 (145 mm), demi-veau brun, dos lisse, pièce de titre rouge (renouvelée), plats cartonnés avec papier à l’éponge bronze marbré, tranches rouges (reliure de l’époque) ; [4], 329, [1 bl.] pp., [1] f. blanc ; [4], 268 pp. (sign : ( )2, 1-9-18, 10-4, la dernière blanche ; ( ) 2, 1-7-18, 8-8).
1835ref. 002107Blois s.n., Imprimerie de Félix Jahyer 1835
1927ref. 66711927 Aubenas, imprimerie Clovis Habauzit, 1927 / 1943, ensemble de 5 volumes in-8 94+261+219+326 (+23)+190 pages. Dessins en noir in et hors texte essentiellement dans le premier volume. Quelques blasons en noir. Tirage à 100 exemplaires (excepté le tome III annoncé à 150 exemplaires).Exemplaire non numérotés. Edition originale complète en 5 volumes. De toute rareté.Superbe reliure demi chagrin bleu , travail non signé : bel objet
15324to. 8 unnumbered ff. With large title woodcut and ornamental woodcut initial. Disbound, with marbled paper spine (c. 1800). Lists the entire domain of the united Spanish kingdom, as well as all its clerical and secular princes. Also identifies the exact tributes to be paid by the various lieges and their estates, including the 140,000 ducats to by paid by the "Isles whence the gold cometh". - Trimmed very closely throughout: first line of the title clipped almost entirely; full-page coat-of-arms slightly touched by binder's knife at right and lower edges. Occasional slight browning and fingerstaining. VD 16, E 3913. Not in Halle or Gilhofer (Zeitungen). Not in Sabin or Howes.
1546ref. 6335Lyon, Sub scuto Coloniensi (Joannes et Franciscus Frellonii fratres), 1546 ; in-16 ; vélin souple de l'époque ; 862 pp., (29) ff. d'index, la dernière page "Lugduniexcudebant Ioannes et Franciscus Frellonii fratres 1546".
1546ref. 11249Venise, Hieronymus Scotas, 1546 ; in-folio ; plein vélin ivoire en partie manuscrit (reliure de l'époque) ; (6) ff., 142 ff. recto-verso, (3) ff. le dernier, blanc, a été découpé.
15244to. (20), 391, (1) pp. With woodcut printer's device on final leaf and several woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum with faded handwritten title to spine. Rare Latin edition of the famous work. The Greek editio princeps was not to be published until 1533 (Froben). The translation is based upon that of the Camaldolese priest Ambrosius Traversari (1386-1439) and had been already printed in 1472; the present edition (edited by Curio and Michael Bentinus) is the first of the 16th c. and the first one to be printed in the German-speaking countries. “In Valentin Curios Planung seiner noch jungen Offizin, zudem aber vor allem erstmals in textlicher Revision und Ergänzung nach einer griechischen Handschrift” (Hieronymus). - Some waterstaining to the margins throughout, unattractive damage and small wormhole to edges near end (occasionally touching the printed marginalia). Several contemporary manuscript marginalia and underlinings. VD 16, D 1837. Adams D 486. BM-STC German 244. Hieronymus, GG 92. Schweiger I, 97. Hoffmann I, 568.
1648ref. 4220Lyon, Gérôme de La Garde, 1648 ; in-12 ; bradel cartonné moderne avec étiquette de titre sur le plat ; titre, 99, (11) pp. de table des matières.
ref. 18190Paris Ch. Lorilleux et Cie, sans date (1896) 1896 in 4 (32x24,5) 1 volume reliure demi basane marron de l'époque, dos lisse orné de filets dorés, XXIV et 358 pages. Avec 28 planches, dont plusieurs en couleurs, la plupart tirées en lithographie (dont Chéret: La saxoléïne). Nombreuses illustrations dans le texte. Ouvrage publié en 12 fascicules (reliés ici en un seul volume). Rare. Bel exemplaire
1790ref. PHO-2142Paris, de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1790. 2 volumes in-8° (20 × 13,5 cm), reliés en cartonnage postérieur, dos lisse avec pièces de titre, d’auteur et de tomaison, (6)-VII-1-280 pp. ; 4 ff., 380 pp., VI pp. d’errata. Illustré de deux cartes dépliantes (Kamtschatka ; Route de M. de Lesseps) et d’une planche dépliante (Caravane kamtschadale). Petits défauts, réparations aux faux-titre, titre et 1er feuillet.
15794to. 14 ff. With architectural woodcut title border. Later chestnut-brown morocco in contemporary style; covers and spine blindstamped; giltstamped title to spine. Second edition (first published in Mantua in 1561). - "A book of morals, discussing love, charity, humility, etc. in separate sections, all developed from faith" (cf. Fürst). Norzi (1520-83), from a wealthy Northern Italian family of bankers, served as Rabbi in Ferrara and Mantua. - Closely trimmed (loss of a few page numbers). Slightly browned; ownership notes on t.p. unattractively obliterated by green ink. Last f. has Hebrew ownership note in ballpoint pen on reverse (with traces of an erased stamp). Steinschneider 6804, 2. Fürst III, 40. Habermann 51. Not in Adams or BM-STC Italian.
1807ref. 19815Paris, Léopold Collin ; La Haye, Immerzeel ; (Imprimerie de la Vve Jeunehomme) 1807 ; 2 tomes in 8, demi veau marbré, dos lisse très décoré et doré, pièces de titre rouge et de tomaison vert-empire ; [4], XVI, 468 pp., 16 pp. de Catalogue ; 520 pp., portrait de Noverre par Guérin, gravé à la manière noire par B. Roger.
1826ref. 21434[Paris, Ambroise Dupont et Cie, 1826 (Paris, imp. J. Tastu)] ; in-8 (247 mm), demi maroquin à grain long à coins bleu-outremer, dos à grands décors de rocaille dorés, titre doré, filet doré sur les plats, tête dorée (Thierry succ. de Petit) ; [1] f. de titre, 344 pp., vignettes gravées sur bois dans le texte, celui-ci est dans une large bordure végétale gravée.
