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réf. 0870686844.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 0950016578.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 1436829445.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 373405334X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1651réf. 1006702 volumes 4to however one volume is slightly larger than the other modern calf and boards printed in black leter and Roman types 2 1369-1417 & 2 1677-1689 pp. Last leaf in both volumes moderately worn and some repairs to one of those leafs pages in both volumes creased in the middle library plate on both front pastedowns early owners inscrpition on back of last leaf in one volume normal aging and browning; otherwise very good. This is a scarce item that was probably removed from a larger work however the sjubect is the same. Basically these acts focus on the seizure of lands during the English Civil War following the execution of Charles I in 1649 and just before the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1653. The text is primarily lists of nobility who remained loyal to the crown and whose lands were forfeited to the commonwealth for "treasons against the parliament and the people of England." John Field, hardcover
réf. 1459613422.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 1162804548.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 8563'The Drawing-Room Palace Hotel Buxton. Thursday Evening August 19th 1880.'. 4to 8 pp. Stitched pamphlet on grey paper. Text clear and complete. Good though somewhat creased and a little stained. In small type. Divided into two sections: 'Selections from the opinions of the London press' and 'Selections from the opinions of the provincial press'. In a long quotation on the front page: 'Charles Dickens made the practice famous and Mr. Joseph Hatton has begun his platform career in the same modest careful and unpretentious way .'. p.1 'From General Press Notices'. 'The Drawing-Room, Palace Hotel, Buxton. Thursday Evening, August 19th, 1880.' unknown
réf. 8386Without date or place. London 1850s. Printed on one side of a piece of wove paper 32.5 x 24 cm. Text clear and complete on aged paper with chipping and closed tears to edges. The only copy of this title on COPAC is at the British Library folio 4 pp published by Zenas T. Purday where it is ascribed to Blewitt and tentatively dated to around 1850. Six eight-line stanzas with chorus 'Jump high jump low jumping we go.' Possibly written with satiric intent. Begins 'In Turkey there dwelt such a mighty Bashaw That whatever he did or said it was law; And he vow'd that his daughter should give her fair hand In marriage to one of a famed foreign land.' The second stanza explains that ' 'Mong the guests was a German Von Baron Bohmbig Who in Holland had purchased his shoes for this rig Which in speed should outvie even Mercury's wings And of Indian Rubber were made and with springs.' In the last stanza we learn that 'the Turks they do say His skeleton's jumping to this very day: - . And believe it or not for prove it I can 'Twas this which gave rise to the flying Dutch-man.' Without date or place. [London, 1850s?] unknown
réf. 9492824566.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1988réf. 176061Ignatius 1988. Tapa blanda. 2ª Mano. . . Portada deslucida sobada. Publicado por Ignatius Press. . Tapa blanda 18x12cm 254pp. Ignatius unknown
1901réf. 25533Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company. Very Good- with no dustjacket. 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Small stain on the front cover. Historical society marks on the endpapers else the pages are very nice and clean. Very sound. ; SIGNED by the author dated 1902. Has several photos of Masons. Great history of the lodges. Includes: Center Marion Capital City Ancient Landmarks Mystic Tie Oriental Pentalpha Logan Veritas Concordia Teutonia lodges; Indianapolis Masonic Relief Board Indianapolis Masonic Burial Ground Association Indianapolis Chapter of Royal Arch Masons Keystone Capter of Royal Arch Masons Indianapolis Council of Royal and Select Masters Raper Commandery of Knights Templar Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Valley of Indianapolis Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection Saraiah Council Princes of Jerusalem Indianapolis Capter of Rose Croix Indiana Sovereign Consistory Murat Temple Queen Esther Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star and Naomi Chapter of OES. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 297 pages . The Bowen-Merrill Company hardcover
1859réf. 2221734Sixth edition. Octavo. Title page in red and black. B/W illustrations by Richard Doyle John Leech and Alfred Crowquill. 3/4 gilt stamped tan calf minor rubbing t.e.g. Very good. 256 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Includes Spanish American and Miscellaneous Ballads. William Blackwood and Sons hardcover
1980réf. 16020555Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira Memoria Brasileira 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio size 124 pp. inscribed by Claudio Arrau. A little-known work on the great coffee plantations of the nineteenth century in the area around Rio de Janeiro. Coffee first started to appear in the area around 1760 and by 1822 there were plantations in the area with more than fifty thousand coffee plants with massive tracts of rainforest being cleared first from the vicinity of Rio and later Sao Paulo for coffee growing. The families owning the plantations built huge homes some of them almost small castles - one of which the Parque Sao Clemente had ceilings so beautiful that special reclining chairs were installed so that they could be better admired. This book explores those fazendas both inside and out to provide a glimpse into this glittering past. The text of the book is in Portuguese and an accompanying softcover book has the English translation. This volume was previously owned by Claudio Arrau 1903-1991 a Chilean pianist widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter tan cloth with black paper boards pictorial paste-down of one of the plantation houses inset into the front board with titlte in silver brown lettering on the spine decorative endpapers of stylised palm trees title page in red and black with a small tipped-in photograph tipped-in colour photographs throughout drawn map towards the rear of the book showing the location of the fazendas along the Rio Paraiba do Sul; folio size 13.75" by 10.5" pagination: i-iii 1-2 3-111 112-121 inscribed by Claudio Arrau "Rio de Janeiro 1981" on the first flyleaf. Please note the text is in Portuguese. Accompanying English translation in English a softcover booklet in black paper wraps stapled at the spine with gold lettering and publisher's device on the front cover 19 pp. In a slipcase covered in green paper with stylised palm tree pattern and a pictorial paper label on the front board. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with clean boards a strong square text block with solid hinges straight corners with no rubbing the interior is clean and bright with the only prior owner markings in both volumes being the name written of Claudio Arrau as noted above and each of the tipped-in photographs is in fine condition; some light stray soil marks on the spine and a small old dampstain on the bottom edge of the spine a few of the final pages have some minor rippling from the old damp else fine. The accompanying English translation is also near fine clean overall with a few shallow creases on the wraps. The slipcase is very good strong and sturdy clean overall some minor overall edge wear and it appears to have gotten wet at some point as the back is warped and the paper coverings are rippled. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Nova Fronteira Memoria Brasileira hardcover
1912réf. 3206London: Arthur L. Humphreys 1912. Cloth. Good. FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY EDITOR. Large 8vo incl. frontis portrait of Lady de Rothschild with Elfie her Yorkshire terrier. Original lavender cloth lettered and ruled in gilt. Top edge gilt other untrimmed. Extremities bruised and worn cloth rubbed gently soiled stain to head of spine. Feps heavily tanned some foxing "Orotava Library Dec. 1920" inscribed in brown ink to front pastedown "B.R.32" in black pen to ffep and on verso inscribed by Battersea in brown ink: "To Mrs Boreham from Constance Battersea in remembrance of memories in common Villa dei Cipressi Varenna May 13. 1913". Good An understandably well-handled first edition copy of extracts from Louisa Lady de Rothschild's notebooks edited and inscribed by her daughter the society hostess temperance campaigner and philanthropist Constance Flower Lady Battersea to her fellow benefactor Mary Boreham the founder of Orotava Library now known as the English Library Tenerife: "in remembrance of memories in common Villa dei Cipressi Varenna May 13. 1913". The philanthropic pair seem then to have met and forged a connection during a visit to Varenna Lake Como Italy. Now known as the British Library of Puerto de la Cruz the Orotava Library began life in the eclectic book collection that Mary and Walter Boreham brought with them to Tenerife in 1890 and began to lend to fellow British expats living in the Orotava area. The Library opened in 1903 and upon Mrs. Boreham's death in 1917 it received her private collection of 4000 books. A book sale followed at some point with other books being lost to the climate. Arthur L. Humphreys hardcover
1931réf. ST20201Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press 1931. No. 352 OF 500 COPIES the first 12 on vellum. 343 x 241 mm. 13 1/2 x 9 1/2". 1 p.l. 268 2 pp 1 leaf colophon. Original white half pigskin and buckram sides by Sangorski & Sutcliffe stamp-signed on front pastedown raised bands top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT with four large wood engravings on section titles and scores of striking large and small woodcut illustrations decorative elements and initials BY ERIC GILL. Printed on Batchelor handmade paper. The front pastedown with the engraved armorial bookplate of Albert and Constance Ramsay-Cohn the bookplate of Louis W. Black and the bookplate of "Downsland Court Ditchling Sussex." Chanticleer 78; A Century for the Century 26. Buckram boards somewhat freckled as usual very faint printer's smudges in one margin otherwise A VERY FINE COPY the pigskin--almost always found soiled and/or damaged--quite clean and pleasing and virtually pristine internally. This is an especially appealing copy of the chief work produced by one of the foremost English private presses. One of Eric Gill's outstanding achievements as an illustrator and one of the Golden Cockerel Press' great books the "Four Gospels" has been called by Franklin the finest of all private press books printed between the wars. The success of the work has much to do with Gill's ability to create a harmonious integration of woodcut illustration and typography his Golden Cockerel typeface one of the most important ever cut specifically for private use is introduced here. At the same time that the work achieves an aesthetic balance it also takes risks with the emotional nature of the woodcuts and with its unjustified page layout. As Franklin observes Gill's "pictures beautifully explain their letters as leaves spring from branches. This work is a wonderful extension of typography." Founded in 1920 with the intention to print fine editions of important well-known books as well as new literary works of merit from young authors the Golden Cockerel Press was purchased in 1924 by the illustrator and wood-engraver Robert Gibbings. "Under his direction" says Cave the Press was "transformed into the principal vehicle for the renaissance of wood-engraved book illustration" up until the beginning of World War II. In addition to doing wood engravings himself Gibbings employed a stable of eminent artists including among others Gill John Nash John Farleigh David Jones Eric Ravilious and Blair Hughes-Stanton. Our copy has been owned by two notable collectors and scholars of illustrated books. An early owner was British art historian Albert Mayer Cohn who wrote the catalogue raisonné of George Cruikshank's work. Later the volume passed into the hands of Boston collector Louis W. Black whose Aldine-related bookplate was designed by celebrated wood-engraver Leonard Baskin 1922-2000. Regarding the other bookplate here we have been unable to trace exactly who resided at Downsland Court in Ditchling but it is worth noting that Gill's Sussex artist's community was centered in Ditchling where he lived from 1907-24; it is certainly possible that our copy belonged to someone associated with this group. Golden Cockerel Press unknown
1740réf. 002032London: John Watts 1740 Book. Good. Full-Leather. 2nd edition. xxiv 488p. 8vo. Title page printed in red and black. Lacks portrait frontis. Stain to p67. Page edges red. Bound in very worn full leather boards almost detached sections of spine missing as is lettering label. Signs of a bookplate having been removed from the front pastedown. Jaggard p708. John Watts hardcover
réf. 000894London: Simpkin and Marshall Book. Good. Half-Leather. 12mo. Contains a W.Shakespeare Richard the Third a tragedy. 1818. iv ii 68p. Jaggard p372 b T.Otway Venice preserved a tragedy. 1820. iv ii ii ii 56p. c P. Massinger A new way to pay old debts a comedy. 1818. odd pagination to prelims then 7 - 78p d Bickerstaff The hypocrite a comedy. no date. v iii 63p. e A.Cherry The soldier's daughter a comedy. 1819. 3 v 72p. f T.Holcroft Deaf and dumb an historical drama. 1819. iii v 60p. g S.J.Arnold The shipwreck a comic opera 1820. ii ii 27 1p h S.Beazley Is he jealous an operetta. 1818. ii iv 25p. i T. Knight The honest thieves a farce. 1820. iii iii 28p. j The magpie or the maid of palaiseau a melo-drame. 1820. ii ii 36p. k M.G. Lewis Rugantino; or the bravo of Venice a melo-drame. 1820. ii ii 30p. Signs of original stab sewing to each play. Occasional spotting and browning. Some marks small tears and creases. Titles and final pages of each play slightly soiled. Bound in half leather with very worn marbled boards. The leather in excellent condition and attractive - decorative gilt spine and green lettering label - Plays. Some slight wear to spine edges. Stamped with small R in circle to front and rear pastedowns. No frontises present. Simpkin and Marshall hardcover
1779réf. 000210London: Harrison and Co 1779 Book. Fair. Full-Leather. Full leather but very very worn. Interesting book plate to front pastedown initials WS and crest of hand holding a pistol above this printed name William Clarke. Contains a Nath. Lee Theodosius; or the force of love. 15p. Ink owner's name to title. b Sir John Vanbrugh. The city wives confederacy. 24p repair to title. c Solomon an oratorio. 4p. d Mr Havard King Charles I.14p. e Mr Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair being the sequel of the trip to the jubilee. 19p. f Saul an oratorio. 6p. Small hole to inner margin of last page. g Altered from Beaumont and Fletcher. Philaster. 16p. h Ben Johnson Jonson Every man in his humour. 23p. i Shakespeare. Coriolanus. 22p. j Beaumont and Fletcher. The chances. 1780. 21p. k Jephtha a sacred drama. 4p. l Esther an oratorio. 4p. m W Whitehead The roman fathers. 14p. n Mr Moore The foundling. 18p. o Colley Cibber The school-boy; or comical revival. 8p. p Theobald Electra. 14p. q Brome and Roome. The jovial crew. 17p. r Samuel Foote The englishman returned from Paris. 10p. s Dryden and Lee. Oedipus 22p. t Dryden and Hawkesworth Amphitryon 20p. u Theodora an oratorio. 5p. v Shakespeare Timon of Athens 19p. w Richard Steele. The funeral or grief a la mode. 20p. x Henry Fielding The Covent Garden tragedy. 6p. y Shakespeare Macbeth 19p. browned. z Smauel Foote The patron. 13p. aa Hawkesworth Zimri an oratorio. 5p. All with foxing and staining some more severe than others. No frontis present to any of plays original stab holes visible to inner margins of most pages. Ms list of contents at front. This and ffep almost detached. a - f published 1779 g - aa published 1780. See ESTC for details of which were published together. Harrison and Co hardcover
1933réf. ST15997Montgomeryshire Wales: Gregynog Press 1933. No. 37 OF 250 COPIES one of 110 in this binding accompanied by three additional plates on Japon EACH ONE OF 12 SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. 390 x 255 mm. 15 1/4 x 10". 15 leaves. Fine original dark slate blue Oasis morocco device in blind on front cover blind titling on front cover and spine. In the original paper slipcase somewhat worn and browned but sound. Wood engraved title with device and 21 wood engravings in the text five of them full-page chapter openings by Blair Hughes-Stanton and WITH THREE ORIGINAL SIGNED WOOD ENGRAVINGS ON JAPANESE VELLUM--"The Man Mourns I" 5/12 "The Man Mourns II" 4/12 and "Destruction" 5/12--attractively matted. Printed in blue and black on Japanese vellum; with an additional half-page engraving from chapter I laid in. Harrop 29; De Zilverdistel Cat. II 29; Hughes-Stanton 21. ◆A breath of fading to the spine negligible signs of wear to the binding but a fine copy with only trivial condition issues and the additional engravings pristine. This is in Harrop's words "one of the most spectacular books to come from this or any other press" our copy with the bonus of three limited edition wood engravings from the work signed by the artist. "Lamentations" was designed and illustrated by Blair Hughes-Stanton 1902-81 who studied at the school of Leon Underwood at Hammersmith and had a long and productive career producing sophisticated woodcuts as an avant-garde artist. Although he was encouraged to make his expressive sometimes even savage images look more like those of Eric Gill he resisted and successfully established his unique personal style as an illustrator. The three extra engravings here are excellent examples of his dramatic emotional technique; "The Man Mourns I and II" effectively convey overwhelming grief while "Destruction" inspires a feeling of impending doom. From 1930 through 1933 Hughes-Stanton worked for the Gregynog Press in Wales helping to design text layout providing woodcut illustrations and designing bindings. The press was founded in 1922 by two spinster sisters Gwendoline 1882-1951 and Margaret 1884-1963 Davies using a substantial inheritance from their industrialist grandfather; it produced 42 works between 1923 and 1942 eight of them in Welsh. Cave says that the books printed by the Gregynog Press "more than bear comparison with the work of any other private press" and "in the design and execution of bindings the Gregynog Press was far superior to any the Doves Press included.". Gregynog Press unknown
1581réf. ST15633London: Printed by H. Middleton for George Bishop 1581. 168 x 110 mm. 6 5/8 x 4 1/4". 4 p.l. 792 pp. Contemporary flexible vellum yapp edges flat spine with ink titling front hinge reinforced with paper. Title page with early ink inscription of Richarde Grosvenor; front pastedown with engraved armorial bookplate of Grosvenor's descendant Hugh Duke of Westminster dated 1884; front free endpaper with bookplate of the Fox Pointe Collection. STC 11448; ESTC S112728. ◆Vellum somewhat soiled small chip to head of rear cover a little soiling to title page isolated faint foxing or small rust spots but an unusually clean and fresh copy internally in a serviceable binding with antique appeal. This is an infrequently seen polemical treatise from the English Reformation addressing theological arguments over Purgatory and transubstantiation one of 21 such works Fulke 1528-89 produced to refute Roman Catholic attacks on the doctrines of the Church of England. According to DNB "Fulke conceived the project of answering all works of controversy written in English by papists since 1558 and of doing so by the technique of exhaustive rebuttal answering every point large and small made in the writings of his opponents. . . . Fulke was well equipped for this role by his vast erudition especially in patristic literature and his command of biblical and classical languages as well as his painstaking concern for accurate detail and the rules of logical argument." During the last decade of Fulke's life "no year passed without the appearance of one or more books by him in defence of Protestantism and in confutation of the church of Rome. His language was unmeasured and even in that age he was conspicuous for the virulence of his invective against his opponents. His learning was however extensive and sound and he was an able master of controversy." Our copy resided in the Grosvenor family library at Eaton Hall for more than 200 years and later passed into the Fox Pointe Collection of Howard Knohl who in the 1980s began collecting English language first editions from before 1700 amassing a library of more than 4000 titles one of the largest privately owned collections in this subject area. This is a rare book: ABPC and RBH find no other copies at auction since 1975; ESTC and OCLC locate just two copies in North American libraries. Printed by H. Middleton for George Bishop unknown
1869réf. 5iiiAb0036New York: Leypoldt & Holt 1869. Book. Illus. by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Frontispiece. Very Good. Decorative Hardcover Canvas. 12mo or 12° Duodecimo: 6¾" x 7¾" tall. 334 pp. A rare hard-to-find out-of-print scarce true collectible gem! A wonderful copy! Considering a more than 150-year-old copy the book is still in great shape. Gold lettering on cover board and spine. Mildly brittle pages. Solid binding. Scuffing and rubbing on top and bottom of spine. Rubbed corners. Clean text. No dust jacket. . Leypoldt & Holt Hardcover
réf. 0810839709.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 333732245X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 1462072852.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
