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1860ref. 140948358Norfolk UK: No publisher 1860. Very Good. Two large herbaria with hundreds of plant specimens collected in 19th-century Norfolk England pertaining to flowering plants and mosses. Bound in contemporary half leather over marbled boards with morocco spine labels stamped in gilt. British Plants contains approximately 90 specimens with no manuscript identifcations. British Flowers contains 186 specimens with manuscript Latin identifications. 276 specimens all together. Each 15 x 10 x 4.5". Folios. Very Good with rubbing at extremities of each binding toning to marbled boards split at rear joint of Flowers bookplates of Norfolk history enthusiast noted bibliophile and collector of Admiral Lord Nelson materials Ronald C. Fiske d. 2018 on front pastedowns. Plant roster in old hand laid in front of Flowers. All specimens intact with only a few spots of loss heavy rodent gnawing to British Plants at mid-gatherings affecting some plates at edges and manuscript notations. Carefully compiled by an anonymous botanical enthusiast over the course of nearly 25 years each mount is artfully arranged and beautifully preserved. Herbaria of this size from the 19th century are increasingly scarce particularly hailing from one single location. [No publisher] unknown books
1844ref. 67691John Churchill 1844. Hardcover. Used very good. First edition MDCCCXLIV" on title page. Rebound in like new attractive dark red cloth with gold lettering and two thin double bands on spine 390pp. Interior in generally nice condtion. Small stamp of the Working Men's College on title page and first page of text; pencil notes on FFEP won't quite completely erase; signed presentation in neat old script dated March 1866 on title page not Chambers; page edges very lightly soiled; text pages in very nice condition with just a few age spots. We are a small family business selling fine new and pre-owned books online since 1999. We provide professional service and individual attention to your order daily shipments and sturdy packaging. John Churchill , hardcover
1760ref. 052729London: D. Chamberlaine 1760. The Third Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jackets. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 2vol.set: v1: 136&138pp. v2: 148&170pp. HBs full leather w/red&gilt-5 bands; covers detached ft.coverv1; both coversv2; rubbedscuffed&worn; staining on endpapers; ft.endpaperv2 detached; PON Geo. King 1779; cleantight pgs. Sterne's experimental fiction about fiction writing D. Chamberlaine hardcover
1900ref. 31842ca 1900 1900 Album de 49 photographies 23x17 cm, montées sur un support cartonné un peu gauchi, marges brunies, sous chemise à lacet, la plupart lég. à la main. Certains clichés pâles, quelques rousseurs ou ternissures éparses. Mais bon ensemble.
1789ref. 89656Batini | Bastia 2 juin 1789 | 16.3 x 22.4 cm | Broché
1850ref. 59765Ensemble de 53 dessins et esquisses au crayon réalisées d'un séjour en Espagne vers 1850 (plusieurs dessins sont datés de 1850), sous portfolio d'époque, format général approximatif : 32 x 25 cm : [ Description de certains dessins, la plupart des dessins ne sont pas situés, les titres sont les nôtres : ] Vue de l'Alcazar et du pont d'Alcantara à Tolède - Aqueduc, vue de la ville et encombrements [ Ségovie ? ] - Noria et pêcheur à la ligne - Portail d'Eglise à Ségovie - A Tolède. La Boucherie. - Cathédrale de Ségovie - Marché très populeux à Valence - Eglise Saint Jean des Rois à Tolède - Cathédrale de Ségovie - Esquisses Madrid 1850 - Le Tage à Tolède - Couvent de la Merced - Alcazar de Ségovie (4 dessins) - Aqueduc et vue de la ville [ Ségovie ] - Berger allongé - Fuente Anton Martin à Madrid avec marché 1850 [ Fontaine de la Fama ] - Puerta del Cambron à Toledo - Pont d'Alcantara à Tolède -Xeres [ Jerez de la Frontera ], etc. etc.
1920ref. 734821920 | 16 x 19 cm | Album en accordéon sur soie
1819ref. 3652France Late 18th–early 19th century. Manuscript in French written in brown ink with corrections and deletions protected with a somewhat later added cover-page. From the collection of General Martin de Vignolle. Light stains and occasional dog-earing otherwise in fine condition. Manuscript in French written in brown ink with corrections and deletions protected with a somewhat later added cover-page. 21 pages in-folio. Unpublished French account of the 1796 Russian campaign against Persia written by a secretary of the Austrian embassy. A contemporary or near-contemporary draft mémoire in French by a secretary of the Austrian embassy possibly in Paris describing the Russian campaign against Persia in 1796. The manuscript appears to be unpublished. The title identifies the author as attached to the Austrian diplomatic service suggesting a perspective shaped by contemporary European diplomatic observation. Known as the Persian Expedition of 1796 this campaign was launched by Empress Catherine II of Russia in retaliation for Persia’s invasion of Georgia the previous year. Commanded overall by Count Valerian Zubov with senior officers including General Paul Potemkin Russian forces advanced into the eastern Caucasus capturing key cities in present-day Dagestan and Azerbaijan including Derbent and Baku. The expedition ended abruptly when Catherine died in November 1796 and her successor Paul I ordered a withdrawal. Provenance: from the collection of General Martin de Vignolle 1763–1824 Count of the Empire as noted on a somewhat later added cover-page inscription by a family member identifying the manuscript as coming from his papers and indicating the writer’s familial connection as his son-in-law. . unknown
2024ref. Gyan-9788121271196Gyan Publishing House 2024. 27 Vols. In 58 Bindings. Paperback. New. x x 163.821 cm. English Gyan Publishing House paperback
2024ref. Gyan-9788121271196Gyan Publishing House 2024. 27 Vols. In 58 Bindings. Paperback. New. x x 163.821 cm. English Gyan Publishing House paperback
1745ref. MSA6746London: J. Fuller At the Dove. Poor with no dust jacket. 1745. Hardcover. Hard cover published by J. Fuller at the Dove in London in 1745. No dust jacket. Both covers are detached. Title page is with front cover. Rear endpaper is with back cover. Leather covers. Spine has creases lengthwise and has wear at the ends. Corners of covers are bumped and worn. Pages have some tanning and spotting and some pages have foxing. Several pages at beginning of book have a cut in them near bottom. Book is in acceptable condition. 396 pages .8 lbs.; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 396 pages . J. Fuller At the Dove hardcover
1739ref. 53481A Paris Chez Prault Fils Quay de Conty vis-a-vis la descente du Pont Neuf a la Charite MDCCXXXIX 1739. TITLE CONTINUED: Mais principalement a l'usage des personnes qui sont curieuses de scavoir donner a manger a d'etre servies delicatement tant en gras qu'en maigre suivant les saisons et dans le gout le plus nouveau. FIRST EDITION 1739 divided into three parts French text. Small book 12mo approximately 165 x 90 mm 6½ x 3¾ inches engraved frontispiece by Le Bas. Pages: xlviii 1-275 title printed in red and black bound in contemporary French mottled calf gilt lettered label and decoration to spine marbled endpapers blue bookmark still present first pastedown with small label of the Corner Book Shop of cookery fame 102 Fourth Avenue New York owned and run Eleanor Lowenstein and author of: Bibliography of American Cookery Books 1742-1860. Binding and hinges rubbed hinges partly cracked but holding firmly on the cords covers affected by the treatment used for the mottling causing surface loss to leather gilt on spine dull minor pale stain affecting engraved frontispiece title page and following 2 leaves small pale brown spot affecting last 4 leaves ink manuscript notes to recto of last blank free endpaper and small pasted in clippings from bookseller's catalogues to verso minor pale staining affecting several pages and an occasional small spot old ink name to head of first free endpaper 2 ink spots blank side of last endpaper. A very good copy. See: Gerard Oberle Les Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus page 88 No. 108 " Ce personnage est L'auteur de L'un des plus importants recueils de recettes du xviii siecle. Francois Marin cuisinier fameux ami de coeur do roi protege par madame de Pompadour dirigea d'abord les fourneaux de madame de Gesvres. II occupa ensuite les fonctions de maitre d'hotel chez un epicurien notoire le marechal se Soubrise L'ouvrage est precede d'un important avertissement sur l'histoire de la cuisine redige par deux jesuites Pierre Brumoy et G.H. Bougeant" Oberle also shows an images of the title page; Andre L. Simon Bibliotheca Gastronomica page 97 No. 1001; William R. Cagle A Matter of taste page 216 No. 301; Katherine Bitting Gastronomic Bibliography pages 307-309; G. Vivaire Bibliographie Gastronomique pages 284-285. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED. A Paris, Chez Prault, Fils, Quay de Conty, vis-a-vis la descente du Pont Neuf, a la Charite MDCCXXXIX [1739]. hardcover
1850ref. 89124s.l. : S.n. 1850. Fine. 44 coloured plates of Breton costumes S.n. s.l. s. d. ca 1850 30.5 x 40.5 cm Relié Album comprising 44 plates of Breton costumes the first two drawn in pencil the others delicately watercoloured mounted on heavy paper some with captions unsigned.Bound in contemporary half green sheep spine decorated with gilt and black fillets gilt garlands and fleurons some rubbing to the spine embossed cherry-red cloth boards bumped corners a few scuffs along the edges.A handsome album of Breton costumes in the manner of Hippolyte Lalaisse and his Galerie armoricaine of 1848.Particularly focused on the Breton-speaking departments Western Morbihan and Finistère: 1. Seated bagpipe player. 2. Peasant dance. 3. Woman from the Auray area Morbihan. 4. Young shepherd from Morbihan. 5. Woman from Plouay Morbihan. 6. Man from Faouët Morbihan. 7. Women from Josselin Morbihan. 8. Woman from Pluméliau Morbihan. 9. Women from Ploemeur Morbihan. 10. Woman from Ploërmel and nearby farmer Morbihan. 11. Woman from Auray Morbihan. 12. Woman from Lanzac Morbihan. 13. Man from Lanzac. 14. Woman from Guémené near Pontivy Morbihan. 15. Woman from Elven Morbihan. 16. Milkmaid from St-Paterne in Vannes Morbihan. 17. Woman from Douarnenez Finistère. 18. Man from Pont-lAbbé Finistère. 19. Woman from Pont-lAbbé. 20. Fisherman from Douarnenez Finistère. 21. Milkmaid from Douarnenez. 22. Bride from Kerfeunteun Finistère. 23. Man from Châteauneuf-du-Faou Finistère. 24. Women from Plougastel near Brest Finistère. 25. Man from Plougastel. 26. Woman from Locmaria near Quimper and farmer from Elliant Finistère. 27. Peasant from Riec Finistère. 28. Young girl from Bannalec Finistère. 29. Man from Saint-Thégonnec Finistère. 30. Women from the area of Pont-Lannay Finistère. 31. Bride and groom from Kerlouan Finistère. 32. Men and women from the area of Pontcroix Finistère. 33. Farmer from Saint-Évarzec Finistère. 34. Woman and two children. 35. Presentation of a newborn at a calvary. 36. Woman from Ploëne near Moncontour Côtes-du-Nord. 37. Woman from Antrain Ille-et-Vilaine. 38. Man and woman from Cancale Ille-et-Vilaine. 39. Woman from Saint-Servan and Dinan near Saint-Malo Ille-et-Vilaine. 40. Young ladies from Pornic Loire-Inférieure. 41. Man from Bourg-de-Batz in festive costume Loire-Inférieure. 42. Woman from Bourg-de-Batz in festive costume. 43. Bride and groom from Bourg-de-Batz. 44. Young salt-workers in working attire.Copy from the library of Léon Noël with his ex-libris label pasted on the front endpaper. S.n. hardcover
1741ref. 82479Paris: S. n. 1741. Fine. S. n. Paris septembre 1741 19.50 x 25 cm relié Journal du siège de Carthagène en Amérique Diary of the Siege of Cartagena in America n.p. Paris September 1741 4° 195x25cm 16 pp. bound. First edition of the French translation. Originally published in Spanish a month before. Translated by Luis Reggio Branciforte and Colonna Prince of Campoflorido Spanish ambassador in France. Later half camel cloth binding boards in caillouté paper the first one with a gilt black morocco label. Spine-top a little rubbed white end-papers shaded. Contemporary handwritten notes on the upper part of the title page. Extremely rare copy of this diary about one of the greatest naval campaigns of the British Navy and its bitter defeat against the Spanish Treasure Fleet West Indias Fleet. S. n. hardcover
1933ref. 67432Shanghaï Shanghai: North China Daily NewsHerald limited 1933. Fine. North China Daily News Herald limited Shanghaï Shanghai 1933 100 x 74 cm une feuille rempliée Rare original folding colored map of the city of Shanghai printed on heavy paper and including the street names in English as well as an extensive grid to find locations. It was published under the authority of the Shanghai city council in 1933. A skillfully repaired tear touching the index. There is a variation of this map in existence without the grid or the key of which an example is preserved in the University of Chicago library. We have not otherwise been able to find any other example of this map. This very detailed map still shows the old town under the name «Chinese City.» Each district or foreign concession particularly the French one is marked out and named in a miniaturization on the bottom right of the map these concessions will finally be returned in 1943. Significant places and places of interest are shown as well as the railway lines. Maps of Shanghai before the Battle of Shanghai are rare and sought after. North China Daily NewsHerald limited unknown
1850ref. 73724Chine China 1850. Fine. Chine China s. d. 1850 S.d. 19 x 25.40 cm Album en accordéon China probably 19th century undated. An album of twelve erotic paintings in ink and colour on paper each mounted on silk and depicting a couple in an amorous scene either in a domestic interior or in a garden or outdoor setting. Each painting measures 16 x 19.2 cm. Accordion-fold album 19 x 25.4 cm the boards covered in green silk patterned with polychrome crosses over a diamond lattice the endpapers in figured cream silk. Small losses of fabric along the edges of the boards two further small losses to the rear board and one fold of the accordion partly split. The twelve paintings retain a remarkable freshness of colour. The traditional attribution to the nineteenth century remains plausible particularly by comparison with several albums of twelve erotic paintings on paper or silk assigned to this period but no dated material evidence or inscription in the present album allows the date to be established with certainty. A degree of caution is therefore appropriate and a somewhat broader dating within the Qing period cannot be excluded. Albums of this kind belong to the genre commonly known in China as chungonghua literally ""Spring Palace paintings"". James Cahill notes the related term chunhua ""spring pictures"" written the same characters used for the Japanese term shunga. The association of spring with sexuality and of such pictures with the intimacy of the palace belongs to a long Chinese literary and pictorial tradition. The tradition itself is ancient although its material history is difficult to reconstruct. Written sources refer to erotic paintings from early periods of Chinese history and attribute such works to artists of the Tang and Song dynasties. References become more numerous under the Ming but early attributions are often uncertain and securely surviving works belong chiefly to the period from the late Ming onwards. Albums of the seventeenth eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries therefore constitute the principal surviving body of material through which the genre can now be studied. The album was one of its favoured formats. Unlike the handscroll which is progressively unrolled its leaves can be revealed individually and immediately concealed again. Cahill emphasises how well this form lends itself to close and private viewing with the pictures remaining hidden except while actually being examined. From the late Ming onwards the album became the predominant format for Chinese erotic painting. The twelve compositions in the present album belong fully to this culture of intimacy. Lovemaking is never isolated from its surroundings. Furniture curtains beds tables clothing trees and architectural details construct carefully articulated domestic or garden settings around the couples. The eye consequently moves between bodies and interiors between the amorous action and the objects that frame it. The finest Chinese erotic paintings characteristically combine explicit subject matter with close attention to gardens furnishings dress and the material signs of cultivated domestic life. One detail recurs throughout all twelve scenes: the women retain their small shoes even when much of the rest of the body is exposed. These indicate bound feet the celebrated ""golden lotuses"" whose diminutive form carried both social and strongly erotic associations. In premodern Chinese painting the shoe could thus suggest what the foot itself continued to conceal. The Metropolitan Museum similarly draws attention to the erotic charge of the tiny shoes indicating bound feet in an eighteenth-century Chinese painting. The absence of a signature or seal is in no way exceptional. Chinese erotic painting is overwhelmingly anonymous and Cahill stresses that works of this kind bearing reliable artists' signatures or seals are comparatively uncommon. Famous names were sometimes added retrospectively to erotic paintings in hardcover
ref. 26281. Palau 29755 one record in OCLC: Northwestern; 2. Palau 80255 no OCLC records; 3 4 5 6 7. Palau 259767 NUC records NYPL Hispanic Society no locations in OCLC. NOTE: Palau calls for 13 plates but the two copies listed in the NUC contain only 11; this copy has 12. separate issues: 4. Palau 193624; 5. Palau 156972 20 pp.; 6. Palau 156973 19 pp.; 7. Palau 156974; 8-9. Palau 259934 separate record for 9: Palau 156976 12 pp. Rare illustrated collection of nine ephemeral fête programs documenting three generations of royal entries into Barcelona: Charles III in 1783 his son Charles IV in 1802 and grandson Ferdinand VII in 1827. This group of pamphlets affords a comparison between royal entries staged before and after the French occupation of Catalonia 1808-1823.LIST OF TITLES:1. Bilingue Obsequiosa Consonancia en 92. decimas… y las vistosas Mascaras Moxiganga Luminarias Adornos afectuosas públicas y privadas Festivas Alegrias que tributa al Rey Supremo y al de Espana la Inclita y Fidelisima Barcelona en los dias 8 9 y 10 del mes de Dbre. de 1783. Barcelona Imp. Viuda Piferrer 1783. 31 ff. 2. Epitalami à las Reals Bodas dels serenissims senyors princep y princesa de Asturias Don Fernando y Dona Maria Antonia y dels serenissims senyors princep y princesa de las dos Sicilias Don Francisco y Dona Isabel. Barcelona Imp. Thomas Gorchs 1802. 28 pp. 3. Relacion de las Diversiones Festejos Públicos y otros acaecimientos que lan ocurrido en la ciudad de Barcelona desde el 11 de Setiembre hasta principios de Noviembre de 1802. Barcelona Compania de Jordi Roca y Gaspar 1802. 35 1 pp. with 1 folding plate. 4. Noticia Individual de la Entrada de los Reyes Nuestros Senores y real familia en la ciudad de Barcelona la tarde del once de Setiembre del presente ano de mil ochocientos dos. Barcelona Jordi Roca y Gaspar 1802. 30 pp. 1 blank leaf. 5. Máscara real para la primera noche. Cinco de Octubre. Barcelona Jordi Roca y Gaspar 1802. 12 pp. 5 plates. 6. Máscara real para la Segunda Noche. Seis de Octubre. Barcelona Jordi Roca y Gaspar 1802. 13-23 1 pp. 5 plates. 7. Máscara real para la Noche siete de Noviembre. Barcelona Jordi Roca y Gaspar 1802. 1 f. 6 pp. 1 plate. 8. Relación de la entrada de los Reyes nuestros Senores en la ciudad de Barcelona la manana del 4 de diciembre de 1827 y de los demas festejos públicos. Barcelona la Viuda de D. Agustín Roca 1828. 25 1 pp. 5 plates. 9. Máscara real para la noche del 6 de enero de 1828. Barcelona Imp. Vda. de Agustín Roca 1828. 10 pp. 3 ff. 3 plates. The printing house of Jordi Roca and Gaspar was active in the latter years of the 18th century; its tradition of printing topical works continued at least until the 1830s under the helm of Agustín Roca's widow. Agustín Roca published clandestine leaflets during the Napoleonic invasion and was forced to flee to Tarragona and Mallorca. According to Palau the pamphlets pertaining to both the 1802 and 1827 festivities were issued separately as well as in the collected editions found here. A more detailed description of this item can be supplied on request.
ref. 26281. Palau 29755 one record in OCLC: Northwestern; 2. Palau 80255 no OCLC records; 3 4 5 6 7. Palau 259767 NUC records NYPL Hispanic Society no locations in OCLC. NOTE: Palau calls for 13 plates but the two copies listed in the NUC contain only 11; this copy has 12. separate issues: 4. Palau 193624; 5. Palau 156972 20 pp.; 6. Palau 156973 19 pp.; 7. Palau 156974; 8-9. Palau 259934 separate record for 9: Palau 156976 12 pp. Rare illustrated collection of nine ephemeral fête programs documenting three generations of royal entries into Barcelona: Charles III in 1783 his son Charles IV in 1802 and grandson Ferdinand VII in 1827. This group of pamphlets affords a comparison between royal entries staged before and after the French occupation of Catalonia 1808-1823.LIST OF TITLES:1. Bilingue Obsequiosa Consonancia en 92. decimas… y las vistosas Mascaras Moxiganga Luminarias Adornos afectuosas públicas y privadas Festivas Alegrias que tributa al Rey Supremo y al de Espana la Inclita y Fidelisima Barcelona en los dias 8 9 y 10 del mes de Dbre. de 1783. Barcelona Imp. Viuda Piferrer 1783. 31 ff. 2. Epitalami à las Reals Bodas dels serenissims senyors princep y princesa de Asturias Don Fernando y Dona Maria Antonia y dels serenissims senyors princep y princesa de las dos Sicilias Don Francisco y Dona Isabel. Barcelona Imp. Thomas Gorchs 1802. 28 pp. 3. Relacion de las Diversiones Festejos Públicos y otros acaecimientos que lan ocurrido en la ciudad de Barcelona desde el 11 de Setiembre hasta principios de Noviembre de 1802. Barcelona Compania de Jordi Roca y Gaspar 1802. 35 1 pp. with 1 folding plate. 4. Noticia Individual de la Entrada de los Reyes Nuestros Senores y real familia en la ciudad de Barcelona la tarde del once de Setiembre del presente ano de mil ochocientos dos. Barcelona Jordi Roca y Gaspar 1802. 30 pp. 1 blank leaf. 5. Máscara real para la primera noche. Cinco de Octubre. Barcelona Jordi Roca y Gaspar 1802. 12 pp. 5 plates. 6. Máscara real para la Segunda Noche. Seis de Octubre. Barcelona Jordi Roca y Gaspar 1802. 13-23 1 pp. 5 plates. 7. Máscara real para la Noche siete de Noviembre. Barcelona Jordi Roca y Gaspar 1802. 1 f. 6 pp. 1 plate. 8. Relación de la entrada de los Reyes nuestros Senores en la ciudad de Barcelona la manana del 4 de diciembre de 1827 y de los demas festejos públicos. Barcelona la Viuda de D. Agustín Roca 1828. 25 1 pp. 5 plates. 9. Máscara real para la noche del 6 de enero de 1828. Barcelona Imp. Vda. de Agustín Roca 1828. 10 pp. 3 ff. 3 plates. The printing house of Jordi Roca and Gaspar was active in the latter years of the 18th century; its tradition of printing topical works continued at least until the 1830s under the helm of Agustín Roca's widow. Agustín Roca published clandestine leaflets during the Napoleonic invasion and was forced to flee to Tarragona and Mallorca. According to Palau the pamphlets pertaining to both the 1802 and 1827 festivities were issued separately as well as in the collected editions found here. A more detailed description of this item can be supplied on request. books
1925ref. TB33810n.p.: n.p circa 1925. First Edition. Good in its original 1/4 red paper and gold jacquard printed covered boards with blue and red text and decorations on the front board. An oblong small octavo of 7 1/2 by 8 3/4 inches with wear to the paper covering all around the edges of the boards. The text is printed on a thin and extremely fragile paper stock which is well tanned with a number of closed tears and minor chips to the margins. All eight cocktail napkins are present and in fine condition in bright colors. 18 pages 17 numbered rectos mounted with illustrated hand-colored cocktail napkins versos with cocktail recipes. Nothing known of author publisher or date or place of publication. However it is rather obvious that this volume was published during the era of Prohibition Jan. 1920 to Dec. 1933 as all of the cocktail recipes call for nonalcoholic beverages. The modified Prohibition ready recipes are for: Manhattan Blue Blazer Deadwood Duck Rip Van Winkle Sleeper Belmont Park Alabama Barbary Coast and New Orleans Drip. The dedication in the book asserts its tongue-in-cheek intent: To Serious Drinkers Everywhere. Of particular interest is the fact that a small 7/8 by 5/16 inch slip of paper with blue and red printing with the word "France" is pasted to the upper fore corner of of the front paste down for each copy that has come to market. The importation laws in the US at the time required all foreign goods to have some indication of where they were coming from. This title was therefore printed in France. The Internet site of Barina Craft in their essay on Barbary Coast Cocktails includes a footnote which reads: "Americana Recipes And The Histories Of Eight Famous Drinks is a rare bartending book not only because of the limited number of copies of its first and only edition but also due to its binding and illustrations. Each of the eight cocktails . were depicted by a hand colored woven fabric cloth cocktail napkin with tassel ends." This rarity is borne out by OCLC reporting only one copy is held by an institution Bowling Green State Univ. n.p hardcover
1925ref. TB33810n.p.: n.p circa 1925. First Edition. Good in its original 1/4 red paper and gold jacquard printed covered boards with blue and red text and decorations on the front board. An oblong small octavo of 7 1/2 by 8 3/4 inches with wear to the paper covering all around the edges of the boards. The text is printed on a thin and extremely fragile paper stock which is well tanned with a number of closed tears and minor chips to the margins. All eight cocktail napkins are present and in fine condition in bright colors. 18 pages 17 numbered rectos mounted with illustrated hand-colored cocktail napkins versos with cocktail recipes. Nothing known of author publisher or date or place of publication. However it is rather obvious that this volume was published during the era of Prohibition Jan. 1920 to Dec. 1933 as all of the cocktail recipes call for nonalcoholic beverages. The modified Prohibition ready recipes are for: Manhattan Blue Blazer Deadwood Duck Rip Van Winkle Sleeper Belmont Park Alabama Barbary Coast and New Orleans Drip. The dedication in the book asserts its tongue-in-cheek intent: To Serious Drinkers Everywhere. Of particular interest is the fact that a small 7/8 by 5/16 inch slip of paper with blue and red printing with the word "France" is pasted to the upper fore corner of of the front paste down for each copy that has come to market. The importation laws in the US at the time required all foreign goods to have some indication of where they were coming from. This title was therefore printed in France. The Internet site of Barina Craft in their essay on Barbary Coast Cocktails includes a footnote which reads: "Americana Recipes And The Histories Of Eight Famous Drinks is a rare bartending book not only because of the limited number of copies of its first and only edition but also due to its binding and illustrations. Each of the eight cocktails . were depicted by a hand colored woven fabric cloth cocktail napkin with tassel ends." This rarity is borne out by OCLC reporting only one copy is held by an institution Bowling Green State Univ. n.p hardcover books
1726ref. 61963No place but Hamburg no printer 1724 - 1726. 4to. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Light wear to extremities. A few leaves closely trimmed slightly touching text but generally nice and clean. 321 ff. No. 1 - 156. All that was published. Exceedingly rare first edition fully complete of the famous Hamburg-journal “Der Patriot” – it was the most significant German weekly journal at the beginning of the 18th century and served as an important platform for the emerging Enlightenment. It was published weekly in Hamburg from 1724 to 1726. Due to its popularity it saw four reprints until 1765 and was also translated into Dutch and French. The genre of moral weeklies was inspired by English periodicals particularly the highly successful publications edited and written by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele which appeared three times a week or even daily The Tatler The Guardian and The Spectator. Unlike some other German moral weeklies Der Patriot had an independent editorial team that did not simply translate English counterparts but instead selected and developed its own topics. Many German scholars and writers contributed to Der Patriot but all published their articles under pseudonyms. Their true identities were not revealed until three years after the last issue was published. “In the course of the seventeenth and especially the eighteenth centuries Hamburg’s press evolved from a mere supplier of information to a vehicle of public opinion. During the first half of the eighteenth century Hamburg’s growing print culture was closely connected to the development of the city’s enlightened reform movement embodied in the first Patriotic Society 1724–1726. For example Hamburg’s own moral weekly Der Patriot a product of the Patriotic Society informs both the rise of periodical press and the spread of enlightened ideals. Modeled on British periodicals The Tatler and The Spectator Der Patriot contained instructive essays on a variety of subjects generally articulating middle-class norms and values. By appealing to a wide audience and disseminating useful knowledge and enlightened philosophy such journals aimed to reorient the reader’s moral outlook and lifestyle in particular to raise the intellectual and moral standards of its readers. Hamburg’s Der Patriot ran from 1724 until 1726 and was so popular that it was published in book form several times between 1728 and 1765. It was the most influential of the German moral weeklies. Der Patriot seeking to enlighten and influence the morals of its readers set itself in direct competition with the church. Aiming to “root out or at least expose all ridiculous or dangerous actions mistakes abuses and harmful habits through the orderly use of human reason” Der Patriot's elevation of reason over faith angered Hamburg’s strong orthodox Lutheran church which initiated a “pamphlet war” denouncing the journal. Der Patriot found both a multitude of detractors and supporters; roughly thirty-five pamphlets against and twenty-one in favor of the periodical appeared. This ‘battle of the pens’ certainly encouraged popular interest in Der Patriot and caused the publisher to print six thousand copies instead of the four hundred initially planned reflecting both an expanding readership and growing popular interest in Enlightenment tenets. Der Patriot furthermore reflects the republic’s civic morality as it strove to promote the common good. If its attitude toward Hamburg’s governance was generally positive it openly presented concrete proposals for improvement in the republic as well as the dangers of extravagance and excess the loss of civic-mindedness and political apathy. Indeed Der Patriot asserted both the right and the duty of Hamburgers to speak out on any question regarding the welfare of their city-state.” Aaslestad Place and Politics. hardcover
1960ref. 43382np 1960. Very good. An extraordinary and unique handmade artist's book elaborately assembled by an anonymous artist. A kinky but lighthearted celebration of female flagellantism the book appropriates quintessentially 1960s fashion models and recontextualizes them in dozens of original collages so that they are weilding whips switches and various similar tools. Paired with self-referential and irreverant texts as well as black-and-white hand-penned drawings presumably by the assembler of bondage spankings and other S&M-themed scenes the book humorously imagines Mod Girls as doms - a perhaps intentional visual pun. The collages many spanning across page spreads and including one fold-out exhibit a strikingly skillful and stylish retraint suggesting an ambition and audience beyond the merely pruriently personal. An outsider book of rare sophistication and wit: the Swinging Sixties meets Dada. Yeah baby. 6.5'' x 9.25''. Likely commercial scrapbook but possibly ad-hoc collages boards. Containing 66 pages plus covers and one fold-out all mounted both recto and verso with color collages consisting mainly of magazine models with occasional textual elements in German many typed. Spine appears perished. But otherwise sound and apparently complete. Very good. Housed in custom Talas archival clamshell box. unknown
1960ref. 43382np 1960. Very good. An extraordinary and unique handmade artist's book elaborately assembled by an anonymous artist. A kinky but lighthearted celebration of female flagellantism the book appropriates quintessentially 1960s fashion models and recontextualizes them in dozens of original collages so that they are weilding whips switches and various similar tools. Paired with self-referential and irreverant texts as well as black-and-white hand-penned drawings presumably by the assembler of bondage spankings and other S&M-themed scenes the book humorously imagines Mod Girls as doms - a perhaps intentional visual pun. The collages many spanning across page spreads and including one fold-out exhibit a strikingly skillful and stylish retraint suggesting an ambition and audience beyond the merely pruriently personal. An outsider book of rare sophistication and wit: the Swinging Sixties meets Dada. Yeah baby. 6.5'' x 9.25''. Likely commercial scrapbook but possibly ad-hoc collages boards. Containing 66 pages plus covers and one fold-out all mounted both recto and verso with color collages consisting mainly of magazine models with occasional textual elements in German many typed. Spine appears perished. But otherwise sound and apparently complete. Very good. Housed in custom Talas archival clamshell box. unknown books
1659ref. 53907London printed for Jo. Crooke and are to be sold at the Ship in St. Paul's-yard 1659. A CHARACTER OF ENGLAND title continued: As it was lately presented in a letter to a noble man of France. SECOND EDITION 1659. The second edition is one of three printed in the same year. The editions are easily recognised the title page in the first edition has present-ed and a small "s" after London and a different collation the second edition has present-ted and a comma after London the third edition states it on title page. 12mo small thin book approximately 120 x 60 mm 5 x 2½ inches pages: 6 1-66 collation: A-C12 6 leaves in section "B" have paper fault to lower margins with slight loss of paper no loss to text see attached image and all leaves in this section have pale age-browning see ESTC R213652. A PERFECT DESCRIPTION of the PEOPLE and COUNTRY of SCOTLAND London printed for J.S. 1659. Anonymous James Howell or Sir Anthony Weldon see Library Hub Discover. Pages: 2 1-22 last page blank pale age-browning throughout including title page ESTC R204012. Bound together in polished calf covers with old amateur repair to spine marbled endpapers engraved bookplate James Brindley Esq M.A.F. S.A to first pastedown. Spine rubbed corners worn at tips first inner paper hinge cracked. A good tight copy. The Noble Man of France finds London to be a city with narrow streets and without fountains or running water. He admires St. Paul's and the Banqueting-house at Whitehall but is disgusted at the meanness of their surroundings. He then returns to complaints about the inconveniences of London and of the 'cloud of sea-coal'. . He has much to say of the national practice of drinking in Ale-houses and of the vile manners of the ladies and being Gaudy. He dislikes English social manners at dances at dinners in Hyde-park and in the Spring Garden. He is very difficult to please." - see full article in Geoffrey Keynes John Evelyn A Study in Bibliophily with a Bibliography of his Writings page 60-67 No. 15: "A True first edition of A Character of England containing 42 leaves and 71 numbered pages is an exceedingly rare book. It was soon reset and reprinted on 36 leaves with 66 numbered pages as our copy and this is also very uncommon"; Christie's The Evelyn Library Part iv page 87 No.1682 listing a third edition; Sotheby's The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volume I page 217 No. 354 listing the second edition; Bloomsbury Auctions The Cetus Library page 40 lot No.118 this is the same copy as the Pirie copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. Postage at cost and all parcels sent fully tracked and fully insured. London, printed for Jo. Crooke, and are to be sold at the Ship in St. Paul's-yard, 1659. hardcover
1719ref. 53512Paris rue de la Harpe Chez Laurent d'Houry imprimeur-libraire vis-à-vis la rue S. Severin au Saint-Esprit MDCCXIX.1719. FIRST EDITION 1719. Small 8vo bound in fours and eights approximately 155 x 90 m 6 x 3½ inches head- and tailpieces small decorated initials 6 engraved plates 4 folding pages: 8 1-227 10 - Table and Privilege du Roy bound in half modern calf over marbled boards gilt lettered label and gilt rules and decoration to spine new endpapers pictorial bookplate to blank endpaper of L.L.D.DEUZEL. Slight rubbing to upper hinge tiny rust hole to page 183 with loss to 1 letter on verso ink library stamp to titile page 2 folding plates have small closed tears repaired on blank side no loss to image 1 folding plate slightly dusty page 146 wrongly numbered 142 occasional small brown spot pale age toning throughout. A very good copy. First edition of this work on cocoa and sugar. It is said to have been composed by a certain D. Quélus or de Chélus and corrected by Nicolas Mahudel according to Barbier. The first part is devoted to the description of the cocoa tree plantation and cultivation in general the properties of the seed it "promptly repairs dissipated spirits and exhausted strength" cocoa is "very suitable for preserving the health and prolonging the life of old men". In the usages the author gives the recette "of cocoa in jam"; chocolate its origin and preparation the uses that could be derived from chocolate for the use of medicine cocoa butter plasters for curing ulcers and other ointments. The second part deals with sugar: origin and cultivation manufacture of all kinds of sugar remedies that can be extracted. At the end there is a Digression on the Balsam of Copahu and the Manner of Making Lemongrass or the Water of Barbados taken from ALDE on Google. See: G. Vicaire Bibliographie Gastronomique page 444-445; The Wellcome Medical Library Volume 4 page 455; Barbier and Querard Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Works ii. 818; A Short Title Cataloogue of 18th cent. Books in the National Library of Medicine page 367; The Kress Library of Business and Economics page 162 No. 3113; CCFR Catalogue Collectif de France. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED. Paris, rue de la Harpe, Chez Laurent d'Houry, imprimeur-libraire, vis-à-vis la rue S. Severin, au Saint-Esprit, MDCCXIX.(1719). hardcover
