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1875ref. 31440London: 56 Regents Park Road 1875. 2 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. On a stub attached to a larger colored sheet some discoloration of larger sheet folds else very good. 2 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. Writing to Youmans that he is sending the last corrected revise of his lecture as asking for the earliest insertion into the magazine continuing that he will be giving his lecture on Human Automatism at Belfast on the 27th "which wil be rather supplemental to thatn an repetition of my Glasgow lecture. If it is well reported as I expect it will be in one of the Belfast papers would a revised Report be of any value to you" Carpenter was noted for his research in botany microscopy zoology and physiology and was a co-leader of the research team in 1868-70 on the deep sea scientific expedition aboard the "Lightning" and "Challenger." Youmans was the founder of "Popular Science Monthly' and planned the "International Scientific Series" he was a noted lecturer on science and author of several works. Provenance: From the autograph collection of W. P. Webster 56 Regents Park Road unknown books
1795ref. 212574London: Robinson; T.N. Longman; T.N. Longman 1795. First editions. Engraved frontispiece to third playe Windsor Castle. 4 86 1; 8 84; 8 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter blue polished calf gilt spine t.e.g. Covers detached. First editions. Engraved frontispiece to third playe Windsor Castle. 4 86 1; 8 84; 8 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Robinson; T.N. Longman; T.N. Longman unknown books
1693ref. 1278861693. ENGLISH LAW. Manuscript Book of Precedents. England 1673-93. Quarto modern full brown morocco; 53 leaves. $2500.17th century manuscript legal book of precedents with entries dated between 1673 and 1693 citing legal opinions generally relating to trade.This manuscript in a clear readable hand with a manuscript index contains opinions by thirteen different legal experts including William Jones Robert Stephens and Francis Pemberton. The cited opinions generally regard trade and mention corn imported flowers wine wool fish sarsaparilla vinegar gloves cattle and stockfish among other goods; there is a particular emphasis on laws regarding trade with England's growing empire: entry number 99 is ""The East India Companys Charter"" and others focus on goods specifically from Ireland or the Caribbean. First leaf misbound text complete; tape repair to top corner of first leaf. An intriguing piece of legal history. unknown books
1937ref. 1267221937. San Francisco: Book Club of California 1937. Slim folio i xxii 2 pp. original leaf from the Apocrypha tipped in between pages 16 and 17. Double columns printed in red and black throughout initials hand-illuminated in red blue yellow and gold. Original quarter cloth paper backstrip label. A very good copy touch of foxing to boards fine internally. § One of 300 copies. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. The leaf contains the text of 2 Maccabees 14:36 to the end including the show-stopping death of Razis the triumph of Judas and the death of Nicanor. "An extremely handsome book which drew praise from both contributing essayists and many Club members some of whom found in this volume a relief from the Western Americana theme which had predominated in the Club's publications of the past five years." Magee 51. unknown books
1990ref. acs324Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Department of Anthropology 1990. University of Pittsburgh Latin American Archaeology Reports No. 1. Octavo softbound stiff illus. brown wrappers 97 pp. All text presented in both English and Spanish. From Introduction: In 1986 the INAH’s Yucatan Regional Center was funded by the State of Yucatan’s Regional Development Program and the Agreement of the Programming and Budget Secretariat to carry out two archaeological projects at Uxmal. The first project was devoted to restoring most of the northern portion of the Great Platform of the Palace of the Governor and all the southern stairways leading to the Nunnery Quadrangle. The second one dealt with the ecological preservation of the area between the Palace of the Governor and the Nunnery Quadrangle and adjacent areas. University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology, 1990. University of Pittsburgh Latin American Archaeology Reports No. 1. paperback books
1681ref. 1278921681. ENGLISH LAW. Proceedings Upon Impeachments from the year 1666 to the year 1681. Manuscript. No place circa 1681. Quarto modern full brown calf raised bands red morocco spine label. $3200.Original manuscript from the late 17th century with the parliamentary impeachment proceedings against 14 individuals during the reign of Charles II.The accountsÑwritten in legible script with an index at frontÑbegin with the proceedings against Viscount Mordaunt charged with raping the daughter of the surveyor of Windsor Castle when Mordaunt was the castle's constable. Although they include a number of cases including that of William Penn in 1668 the clear focus is on the Popish plot a supposed conspiracy promulgated in 1678 that led to the arrest and trial of five Catholic lordsÑBaron Arundell the Marquess of Powis Baron Belasyse Baron Petre and Viscount StaffordÑall of which are recounted in this manuscript. As anticatholic hysteria waned and it became increasingly clear that the ""plot"" was a fiction the fallout entrapped more of the players: the impeachment of William Scroggs who served as the Chief Justice during the trials is detailed as is that of the Lord High Treasurer the Earl of Danby who was charged with concealing the plot and Edward Fitzharris who had attempted to implicate Danby in Sir Edmondbury Godfrey's murder in 1678 an event which fanned the flames of anticatholic hysteria. Armorial bookplates; inkstamp of the Grotius Society.Spine toned; text clean. hardcover books
1914ref. 7040London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to the Medici Society 1914. First thus. Fine. One of 500 copies on paper twelve copies on vellum were also produced printed by C.T Jacobi and published for the Medici Society by Philip Lee Warner. Original full limp vellum binding titled in gilt and retaining the original fore-edge ties. Quarto. xv 1 88 pp. Printed on handmade paper in the signature Riccardi Press typeface. With ornaments and ten mounted color plates including frontispiece by Frederick Cayley Robinson 1862 - 1927 each with a printed tissue guard. Title-page lettering by Edith M. Engall. Ink gift inscription dated 1918 and mid-twentieth century ink ownership signature to upper flyleaf. A Fine bright copy. Frederick Cayley Robinson 1862 - 1927 was an accomplished painter and illustrator. His painting The Death of Abel held at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris is considered his most enduring work. "This work was the source of an illustration for The Book of Genesis published by the Riccardi Press in 1914; together with another masterpiece The Death of Rachel it constitutes his finest achievement as a book illustrator" ODNB. Robinson's illustrations for The Book of Genesis epitomize his melancholy style which reflected the influence of both ornate art deco aesthetics and the somber clarity of the Symbolist movement. Fine. Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society unknown books
1812ref. ST19567-094Bungay: C. Brightly and Co. and T. Kinnersley 1812. Sixth Edition. 215 x 133 mm. 8 1/2 x 5 1/4". viii xl 376 pp. Sympathetic light speckled half calf over marbled paper boards raised bands red and black morocco labels. With 54 hand-colored plates including frontispiece illustrating plants discussed in the text. A couple of ink corrections in a contemporary hand. Johnston 760. Variable foxing with perhaps a fourth of the text noticeably foxed but the plates almost entirely unaffected a few stains to the gutter from pressed flowers now absent other trivial defects but a perfectly readable copy with quite attractive plates in a pleasing virtually unworn retrospective binding. First published as "The Useful Family Herbal" in 1764 this popular work provides a description of British plants helpful for at-home remedies. The highlight of the volume is the well-drawn and richly colored plates which Nissen tells us were drawn by the important natural history illustrator Sydenham Edwards 1769-1819 whose work DNB describes as "among the best scientific illustrations of the day." Hill 1716-75 was a perplexingly self-destructive personality who nevertheless managed to produce useful books. He was a surgeon an unsuccessful actor and an apothecary who made considerable money selling quack medicines; he published several books including some botanical works of substantial value like the present one and a steady series of usually abusive periodicals; he was constantly scheming to make money and to raise his reputation above its rightful altitude; and he was always embroiled in controversies because of his ungovernable proclivity toward impertinence and derision as well as his overweening vanity. This last quality together with Hill's direct attacks on Garrick and his friends prompted the latter's memorable epigram reflecting the doctor/actor's reputation among his detractors: "For physic and farces his equal there scarce is:/ His farces are physic his physic a farce is." After publishing some not insignificant scientific writings including a supplement to Chambers' "Dictionary" Hill tried to obtain admission to the Royal Society but his unprincipled character blocked any hope of membership. Despite his reputation "The Family Herbal" offered here in its sixth edition was obviously viewed as serious and significant enough to be reprinted a half century and later after its first appearance. C. Brightly and Co. and T. Kinnersley unknown books
1795ref. 6211London: R. Bowyer 1795. First thus. Near Fine. Two large quarto volumes 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches; 318 x 248 mm. Unpaginated. Text in double columns. With two copper-engraved title-pages with a separate title-page for the New Testament and sixty-two plates including two frontispieces from the works of Dürer Rembrandt Van Dyck Rubens and others. Lower corner of 3H3 possible paper-fault torn away with no loss of text. Some foxing to a few of the plates otherwise remarkably bright and fresh. Contemporary English full dark blue straight-grained morocco. Covers with two gilt borders surrounding blind-stamped Greek key design. Spines with five double raised bands ruled in gilt blind-stamped Greek key design and lettered in gilt in compartments. Board-edges decorated in blind elaborate gilt decorated turn-ins gray liners and endleaves all edges gilt. Gift signature to front flyleaf in volume one dated 1841 and a tipped-in square of paper with another nineteenth century gift inscription. Some light scuffing to the boards otherwise near fine. A spectacular example of the large paper edition this Bible sometimes called the "Killer Bible" for its typographical error in Mark 7 verse 27: "Let the children be killed" rather than "filled." It was richly illustrated by James Fittler 1758-1835 an esteemed British engraver of portraits and landscapes who served as marine engraver to King George III. He produced illustrations for the Boydell Shakespeare and Dibdin's Aedes Althorpinae. In this edition Fittler based his engravings on Old Master paintings befitting the gravity of the text. The printer Thomas Bentley produced large editions for Thomas Macklin Rudolph Ackermann and Paul Colnaghi all publishers of plate books; he also printed several of the earliest books for the Roxburghe Club. ESTC lists three editions of the Bowyer and Fittler Bible: this one which ESTC describes as the large paper edition; the regular two-volume quarto edition also 1795; and a: two-volume twelvemo edition 1796 which was issued in parts. ESTC T95050. Near Fine. R. Bowyer unknown books
1823ref. ST19567-137London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1823. 142 x 83 mm. 5 1/2 x 3 1/8". 22 510 pp. 1 leaf blank 81 1 pp. VERY ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY RED STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO BY RUSSELL'S OF GUILDFORD their ticket on front pastedown covers with central sunburst medallion containing the Tetragrammaton within a triangle from which the dove of the Holy Spirit descends surrounded by a blind-tooled roll and multiple gilt rules foliate cornerpieces raised bands gilt-ruled compartments with floral cornerpieces gilt-rolled turn-ins all edges gilt. Housed in a very nice felt-lined cloth folding box with red morocco back gilt lettering. For the binding: Ramsden p. 144. A little soiling to leather and a couple of trivial imperfections internally but a very fine copy inside and out. This pretty little prayer book is a lovely example of provincial English bookbinding and very typical of an era in which such luxurious volumes were popular gifts among the moneyed classes. The Russell firm is recorded by Ramsden as operating in Guildford in southern England and the ticket in the present book notes that they were also booksellers stationers printers cutlers and silversmiths in addition to binders. This charming devotional work has been carefully looked after by its previous owners and comes down to us in excellent condition. George Eyre and Andrew Strahan unknown books
1927ref. vas5272Lake Junaluska NC: Auspices Literary Department Junauska Woman’s Club 1927. Octavo burgundy cloth hardcover gilt letters 252 pp ads. Near-Fine with lightly rubbed edges. Auspices Literary Department, Junauska Woman’s Club, (1927). hardcover books
1903ref. 50282sLondon: S. H. Bousfield & Co. Ltd. 1903. Octavo blue cloth hardcover gilt letters full-color illus. paper label 223 pp. Good with speckling to covers foxing to endpapers former owner signiture missing ffep. Illustrated. S. H. Bousfield & Co., Ltd., [1903]. hardcover books
1937ref. 30375sTallahassee FL: State Department of Public Instruction 1937. Octavo green wrappers softbound viii 807 pp. Good with former owner signiture age darkened covers several small chips to edges of spine rubbing to covers. State Department of Public Instruction, 1937. paperback books
1964ref. 23305Park Forest: The Prairie School Poets 1964. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 69 pp. This copy is signed by English on the first blank page. Very good there is a paper clip indentation in a very good rubbed jacket. Park Forest: The Prairie School Poets, hardcover books
ref. 68623New York: nd ca. 1942-1943. 12mo. 2-pages approximately 40 words. Accompanied by a contemporary snapshot of three men in a park Beecham identified in ink in the lower margin seated on a bench with the newly arrived Nikolai Malko a well-known Soviet conductor. Very good. For the pair nd [ca. 1942-1943] unknown books
1857ref. 65602Philadelphia PA: T. M. Scroggy Publisher No. 443 Vine St. above 13th 1857. Broadside. 24.5 x 15 cm. Five stanzas of eight lines enclosed in a decorative border. A few tears and chips with some loss at left margin outside the border not affecting text. English lived in New Jersey and supposedly wrote the song on a hunting trip to Tazewell Virginia. T. M. Scroggy, Publisher, No. 443 Vine St. above 13th unknown books
1980ref. 62609Boulder CO: Pruett Publishing Co 1980. Second printing same year as the first. 4to. 10 333 pp. Illustrated from photographs and old ephemera tables diagram maps two folding in pocket at rear illustrated endpapers. History of the Norfolk & Western Railway and its steam locomotives. Very good. Burgundy cloth gilt spine title color illustrated dust jacket price-clipped. 9410. Pruett Publishing Co unknown books
1980ref. 62608Boulder CO: Pruett Publishing Co 1980. First edition. 4to. 10 333 pp. Illustrated from photographs and old ephemera tables diagram maps two folding in pocket at rear illustrated endpapers. History of the Norfolk & Western Railway and its steam locomotives. Small owner's label on front pastedown but a very good copy. Burgundy cloth gilt spine title color illustrated dust jacket. 9405. Pruett Publishing Co unknown books
1997ref. UENGOLI00acmfSimon & Schuster 1997. Very Good. English Todd. The Olives Table. Sampson Sally. NY: Simon & Schuster 1997. 367pp. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumping. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gentle bumping. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1972ref. ULAOTAO00jknVintage Books c1972. Very Good. . Tao Te Ching. English Jane; Feng Gia-Fu. New York: Vintage Books c1972. Illustrated. Bibliography. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: . Vintage Books paperback books
2023ref. 38300Barcelona: Associacio de Bibliofils de Barcelona 2023. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 10 of 50 copies of the English edition of which twenty-two are numbered 1 to 22. There were three deluxe copies marked as A B and C; There were 25 copies numbered 26 to 50 for the Catalan edition. This is a powerful and ever relevant history of the development and evolution of the concept and adoption of the tenets of freedom of the press. "The French Revolution led to modern democracy. Terms like left-wing and right-wing revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements freedom censorship and silencing intellectual discourse were introduced and remain relevant. The texts of Condorcet 1776 and Bonald 1826 allow us to comprehend the debate that occurred in those times. Historian Albert Corbeto provides a background for the facts and contrasts them recounting from a neutral standpoint the historical events that had a substantial impact on French and European society. There are many parallels between the past and present controversies. In today's geopolitically volatile world there is a renewed and disturbing discussion about the nature and limits of various liberties including freedom of the press.The French Revolution led to modern democracy. Terms like left-wing and right-wing revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements freedom censorship and silencing intellectual discourse were introduced and remain relevant." Stanford University Library Albert Corbeto is a professor of Typography and Book History in the Postgraduate degree on Advanced Typography and Typographic creation in Design Degree. He is in charge of publishing and other cultural activities at the Reial Academia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona and also cooperates with the Associació de Bibliòfils de Barcelona. He has published several articles and monographs on Spanish typography as well as on other aspects of printing and book history. The illustrator Elies Plana is a Barcelona based book artist and printer who has been working in the field for the last 15 years. After studying fine arts at the art school of Olot he joined the workshop of his father Miquel Plana. He learned the craft and the different techniques by helping and assisting his father in the production of over 100 fine books. He not only learned the love for the books but also for the craftsmanship involved in every stage of producing them. In 2008 he started his own projects that vary from editions book prints and special commissions. He works with different techniques from linocuts and woodcut to etching and uses lead and wood types to print the texts Bound with marbled paper boards with brownish orange spine and cover edges. Title in black to spine and with a title lable affixed to the front cover. The book is printed ono Fredigoni paper at Gràfiques Marti. The text has been composed with the font families Linotype Didot and Adob Garamond. Housed in a slipcase covered with the same orange cloth as the book's spine which is in turn housed in a brown cardboard folder with brown fabric ties. It is in fine condition. Measures 8.8 x 13 inches. 160 numbered pages. ARTB/030226. Associacio de Bibliofils de Barcelona hardcover books
1962ref. ST15876Frankfurt am Main: Ars Libri Verlag Gotthard de Beauclair 1962. No. 93 of 250 COPIES IN ENGLISH SIGNED by the illustrator and designer. 494 x 320 mm. 19 3/8 x 12 5/8". 40 pp. 2 leaves.Designed by Gotthard de Beauclair. FINE RED CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ROLAND MEUTER signed "R. Meuter Ascona" on rear turn-in upper cover with gilt lettering underlined with four gilt rules smooth spine with gilt titling leather hinges. In the original linen clamshell box backed with matching morocco. With 30 lithographs in the text by Gerhart Kraaz and one additional lithograph in a portfolio. ◆Slight discoloration from a bookmark in the lower gutter of colophon opening otherwise in perfect condition. Handsomely bound and beautifully designed and printed this very large folio first publication from the Ars Libri Press later called Ars Librorum exemplifies the kind of high quality work for which leading German publisher and book designer Gotthard de Beauclair was known. Beauclair 1907-92 began his career at Insel Verlag where he rose to art director and according to the Oxford Companion to the Book "turned inexpensive Insel books into collectors' items with excellent typography." He also founded three different publishing houses where he produced special limited editions that made full use of his excellent design and typographical skills. The present item is one such work recognized by the Association of German Book Artists as one of the most beautiful books of 1962. Gerhart Kraaz 1909-71 studied painting and worked as a graphic designer before becoming a serious book illustrator. The present title is considered his first major work in the realm of bibliophilic editions. His illustrations in charcoal are sensuous and shadowy capturing the romance and allure of the most beguiling Old Testament book. This edition in English appeared the same year as the German language edition but is much rarer--apparently the publisher cancelled a number of copies and very few ever made it to market. The binding characterized by an elegant simplicity is appropriate for the subject matter and for the stately large-format volume. Our binder Roland Meuter maintains an atelier in Ascona Switzerland where he continues to produce imaginatively designed bindings that attract considerable attention. Ars Libri Verlag, Gotthard de Beauclair unknown books
1959ref. 2222109Ninth printing March 1959. Octavo. Dust jacket unclipped; short tear; nicks designed by William Belcher. Very good. 640 pages 6 pages of ads for other Doyle works. Bookplate of E. Raymond Lake. Printed by Butler & Tanner Ltd. Frome and London. First issued in 1929 - The various later editions have different dust jacket designs ads and printers. John Murray hardcover books
1919ref. 2222114First edition. Octavo. Pictorial dust jacket unclipped; short tears; small chips. Very good. 404 pages 6 pages of ads.Enclosed in green 1/2 morocco slipcase the spine faded to brown.Small label of New York dealer House of Books Ltd. on rear pastedown. William Heinemann hardcover books
1917ref. RGORSHI00LAWAlfred A. Knopf 1917. Good. Gorky Maxim. The Shield. Andreyev Leonid; Sologub Fydor; Walling foreword William English; Yarmolinsky translator A. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1917. 1st edition. 209pp. 12mo. Yellow cloth with cobalt lettering. Book condition: Good with lighlty bumped corners lighlty smudged extremities synagogue library envelope & slip adhered to rear pastedown and synagogue library stamps on title page and top edge of textblock. Ex-Synagogue library copy. Rare. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
