Anon [Wilhelm von Lenz] and with a preface by Baron Arnstein [Isaiah Berlin] [Manoug Parikian]Biblio.com
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1850rif. 62042Wien: Carl Gerold 1850. 8vo. 226 pp. Contemporary quarter sheep over marbled boards. Ex-institutional library of Bibliothek der Musse Riga with usual markings. Rubbing to spine and board edges. Internally clean. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Manoug Parikian British concert violinist and professor at the Royal Academy of Music London. Loosely inserted are three TLS by Isaiah Berlin dated 1972-73 on 'Headington House Oxford' letterhead in which he thanks Parikian for the loan of the book and then apologises for not returning it in a timely manner as the book had become buried somewhere in his library. The author Wilhelm von Lenz was born in Riga and studied with Liszt and Chopin in Paris. He is best known for his research on Beethoven. The final chapter in this book deals with Beethoven's violin concerto as performed in St. Petersburg by Vieuxtemps. Text in German. . Good. 1/4 Sheep. 1850. Carl Gerold 1850 unknown
1827rif. 7229Paris: Hector Bossange 1827. First Edition. Three volumes in full red morocco. Very Good. Three volumes. 12mo. Pp. viii 1 2-284; 1 2-310; 1 2-312. Half titles present. Marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. In later full polished calf decoratively bordered in gilt spine with gilt rules lettering and flourishes. Inner dentelles. Contemporary owner initials on free endpapers. Spines a tad faded negligible rubbing to covers. Interior quite fresh. First edition of Cooper's early novel of the sea following The Pilot involving a Rhode Island setting and importantly characters of African background. His first novel to be published overseas this printed exceptionally well by Lachevardiere perhaps owing to Cooper's presence in overseeing the effort. Predates the London edition. Scarce: Last offered at auction in 1996 Swann. A charming well preserved set. BAL 3837. Hector Bossange unknown
1827rif. 7229Paris: Hector Bossange 1827. First Edition. Three volumes in full red morocco. Very Good. Three volumes. 12mo. Pp. viii 1 2-284; 1 2-310; 1 2-312. Half titles present. Marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. In later full polished calf decoratively bordered in gilt spine with gilt rules lettering and flourishes. Inner dentelles. Contemporary owner initials on free endpapers. Spines a tad faded negligible rubbing to covers. Interior quite fresh. First edition of Cooper's early novel of the sea following The Pilot involving a Rhode Island setting and importantly characters of African background. His first novel to be published overseas this printed exceptionally well by Lachevardiere perhaps owing to Cooper's presence in overseeing the effort. Predates the London edition. Scarce: Last offered at auction in 1996 Swann. A charming well preserved set. BAL 3837. Hector Bossange unknown books
1912rif. 3283641912. Large oblong folio. Japanese style lacquered covers inland with mother of pearl in the design of a bird and a snake. Inside includes a water color of Mount Fuji & irises. Some cracks in the cover and staining but otherwise in very good condition. Photos start with portraits of the likely owner a German commander. 129 photographs 4 large 9 x 11 1/2" arranged and mounted in a cream leaf photo album. Company printed photographs include Port Arthur N. China Beijing and German Samoa are some of the many places included in this WWI era Military Vernacular album. Circa 1901-1912. unknown
1912rif. 3283641912. Large oblong folio. Japanese style lacquered covers inland with mother of pearl in the design of a bird and a snake. Inside includes a water color of Mount Fuji & irises. Some cracks in the cover and staining but otherwise in very good condition. Photos start with portraits of the likely owner a German commander. 129 photographs 4 large 9 x 11 1/2" arranged and mounted in a cream leaf photo album. Company printed photographs include Port Arthur N. China Beijing and German Samoa are some of the many places included in this WWI era Military Vernacular album. Circa 1901-1912. unknown books
1900rif. CAT0007261900. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 3 1/4" x 6 1/2" silk covered card covers worn 192 pages most filled with watercolors of confections with scattered text pages and a few blanks. Undated ca. turn of the century Meiji period. A remarkably lovely collection of illustrations of sweets. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000726. unknown
1609rif. 15082Erffordt Erfurt: Jacob Singe 1609. First Edition. Disbound. Some overall toning; occasional catch word trimmed but otherwise very good. 8vo. A vignette title page and text illustration. 56 pp. - with one printer error in signing. A succinct manual of plant distillates 'waters' and chemistry that are proposed as cures for various ailments. General directions for the use of the botanic remedies is given under headings for individual ailments e.g. used as a wash for an affected limb taken as a drink applied with a bandage drunk warmed up. The author is unknown noted only with the appellation ' . einem furnemen sic Medico .' Remedy manuals of this vintage rarely survive. Unlocated. Absent from VD17 but the same title has one holding in VD16 dated 1600 and a different place of publication. Jacob Singe unknown books
1700rif. EXP3-A-2Brussels: Francois Foppens 1700. Leather. Good Only. 5.5" by 3.5". Not Stated. A scarce illustrated edition of the features of the Netherlands. A general description of the seventeen provinces the main cities and places renamed in the situation they are from Ryswyck. Printed in French with fold out illustrations and maps. In a full calf binding. Externally sound with rubbing and bumping. Front joint cracked and hinges tender with reinforcement. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright with spotting throughout. Good Only Francois Foppens hardcover
1670rif. 601L7London: E Okes for William Whitwood 1670. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 6". None. The first edition of this scarce tract on Ralph Wallis a nonconformist pamphleteer known as 'the Cobler of Gloucester'. This tract appeared following the death of Wallis and focuses on Wallis' ideas and his pamphleteering. Wallis' biographer states to this work that 'His complexion was of a sunburnt gipsy colour and his skin was rough and tawny like singed bacon; his hair was brown and bristly upon his head but his locks were weather-turned like a barber's show periwig'. Despite his Nonconformist views Wallis was raised by Roman Catholic parents. His parents were 'church papists' meaning they conformed to the demands of the Church of England enough to escape persecution. It is believed that Wallis began writing his pamphlets against the government in the 1650's but these early works have not survived. Wallis was apprehended by the government following his dispersion of pamphlets and he was held in custody. He admitted authorship of the works but declared to be in religion 'a Christian' and so was released. His pamphlets were frequently of a scatological tone and featured entertaining anecdotes regarding clergymen whose names and addresses he knew. DNB This work is the ESTC no. R20134. Collated complete. Rebound in full cloth. This biography provides further insight into the political and religious turbulence of the seventeenth century. Rebound in a full cloth binding. Externally excellent with little to no shelfwear. Internally firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned to edges. Scattered spotting to the first and last few pages with just the odd spots to margins. Very Good E Okes for William Whitwood hardcover
1708rif. 000568Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier Librarie 1708. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo 4 x 6.5 165 pages bound together with "Les Avantures d'Apollonius de Tyr" by Mons. Le Br. 130 pages. Tightly bound. Full Leather binding is intact but needs treatment appropriate oils/leather treatments mostly on the spine. Pages are foxed but supple remarkably well preserved for something that has existed for more than 300 years. Pierre Mortier, Librarie hardcover
1710rif. 000569Rotterdam: Jean Hofhout 1710. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo 4 x 6.5 130 pages bound together with Journal Historique du Siege de la Ville et de la Citadelle de Turin l'Annee 1706 avec le Veritable Plan 165 pages. Interestingly there is a one page advertisement between the two: "Catalogue des livres nouvelles imprimees chez Pierre Mortier. Tightly bound. Full Leather binding is intact but needs treatment appropriate oils/leather treatments mostly on the spine. Pages are foxed but supple remarkably well preserved for something that has existed for more than 300 years. Jean Hofhout hardcover
1805rif. 11760London: Tabart and Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1805. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Front & back covers are loose and the spine is missing. ; Note that this is five books bound as one. Wilkinson's first book is a first edition. "Visit to a Farm-House" is a second edition also dated 1805. "The Benevolent Widow" is a third edition. "Prince Lee Boo" is undated and page 31/32 is clipped. "Hamlain" is not a first as it is dated 1804 and I believe the work was published in 1799. It may however be a first Irish printing as it was done in Dublin. All plates seem to be present with the possible exception of the one missing page. All in all five scarce works bound in one volume. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 628 pages . Tabart and Co. hardcover
1741rif. 12839The Netherlands Finished 8 April 1741. 88pp. manuscript cookbook with each page filled with recipes for 59 dishes all written out in a very legible hand. With 7 drawings of table settings. 20 x 16.2 cm. 8vo. bound in the original red roan backed marbled paper covered boards. Rather rubbed and a little bumped but generally a good well preserved volume.The book begins extremely promisingly; in translation - “First one will make the bouillon or broth as it is the mother of all foods”. This is clearly someone who knows what they are doing. Among the 59 recipes 56 is used twice are Dutch specialities like Beef stew with koninginnesoep Queen’s soup stuffed pike apricot Schnapps Dutch stewed pears butter biscuits and eel in green herb sauce amongst many others. There is a very clear index and the recipes are easy to read and follow. In addition there are some good drawings of tables of dishes. With the bookplate of the Dutch collector Leopold Kolisch. Excellent legible 18th century Dutch recipe book with double page drawings of table settings hardcover
1919rif. 6983New York: Privately Printed 1919. Octavo 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Handsomely bound by the French Binders signed in gilt pallet front lower dentelle: The French Binders Garden City N.Y. in full maroon crushed morocco with attactive six-line gilt fillet border grouped together and a two-line grouping at outer edge on both covers single gilt ruling on edges of boards all sides gilt-ruled motif on spine. Dentelles with similar gilt ruling marbled endsheets. The French Binders a later iteration of the Club Bindery were established in New York City in 1918 and continued to early 1920's led by key artisans including Henri Hardy and LÈon Maillard with many later working with American binder Edith Diehl. Frontispiece tipped-in photograph of Lowman curiously signed by "same" on facing tissue guard. Fine condition. Scarce thus. Privately Printed unknown
1919rif. 6983New York: Privately Printed 1919. Octavo 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Handsomely bound by the French Binders signed in gilt pallet front lower dentelle: The French Binders Garden City N.Y. in full maroon crushed morocco with attactive six-line gilt fillet border grouped together and a two-line grouping at outer edge on both covers single gilt ruling on edges of boards all sides gilt-ruled motif on spine. Dentelles with similar gilt ruling marbled endsheets. The French Binders a later iteration of the Club Bindery were established in New York City in 1918 and continued to early 1920's led by key artisans including Henri Hardy and LÈon Maillard with many later working with American binder Edith Diehl. Frontispiece tipped-in photograph of Lowman curiously signed by "same" on facing tissue guard. Fine condition. Scarce thus. Privately Printed unknown books
1780rif. 21044Unique. ca1780. Contemporary half leather over paper covered boards. The paper exhibiting a delicate floral design. Very good; some cover wear. Small 4to 114 pp. appx. 195 x 160 mm. Written in German gothic script on laid paper no watermark. Although this volume bears the signature of a John Shank and several lines in English establishing his ownership on January 29 1836 it dates from about 50 years before. It is continental in origin with no record of how Shank came to own it. The opening pages provide recipes for various color inks including the green used to record one other recipe later in the manuscript. It then moves on to colors. coloring metals writing on various surfaces the brazing of non-ferrous metals etching etc. At one point the writer addresses the dyeing of vellum and paper and the use of Lapis lazuli - both exotic topics not encountered in American manuscripts. There are occasional miscellaneous recipes recorded e.g. Dutch gin. The manuscript exhibits little wear or staining and one assumes Shank could not read the exotic text and had it as a keepsake. hardcover books
1793rif. 20083Ephrata: attributed to S Mayer 1793. Later printing. Original plain blue wrappers. Very good; a one inch tear into the text throughout probably caused by a thin string used to bundle this pamphlet with other items no loss. 12mo 24 pp. - printed on a thick Cloister paper. One of several printings in the 1790s and perhaps the scarcest with Arndt #881 locating only two obscure holdings. It is absent from the comprehensive Austin bibliography of American medical imprints. Rare in such nice condition - for any printing. [attributed to S Mayer] unknown books
1930rif. 190901930 - 1933. Commercial albums. Fine. Three oblong folio commercial albums. 332 identified captions in French black and white photographs 125 x 175 mm with an additional 11 fold-out photographic panoramas. A detailed photographic record of the engineering construction of the Mole d'Escale du Verdon the albums omit the art-deco finished appointments of passenger lounges. This multi-year harbor project was planned before WWI but only begun once German war reparations began to be paid to France. The reparations financed this project. The pier was designed as a long gradual arch out into the Gironde River and incorporated the most up-to-date technology e.g. hydraulic dampers for docking ships. In conjunction with this the SNCF undertook the extension and electrification of rail connections not depicted. The photographs offer an elaborate and meticulous record of engineering work and appear to have benefited from unlimited access to the site. This would indicate official sanction but there is no record of this in the albums. Great care was taken to identify and date each of the photographs. unknown books
1825rif. 789L7London: Sherwood Jones and Co 1825. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 9" by 5.5". Not Stated. A scarce copy of this first edition of the collected edition of the penny dreadful 'The Terrific Register' a crime magazine enjoyed by Charles Dickens. A very scarce work. The first edition of this sensational periodical. Incomplete being pages 417 to 820 of Volume I labelled part II to the spine and the complete text of Volume II. The title page for volume I has been bound to the start of volume II. Issues 27-51 to the first volume and issues 53-104 to volume II. The final leaf of volume I reads 'end of vol I' and the first issue of volume II starts at page 1. 'The Terrific Register' was a weekly penny dreadful published from 1823 to 1825 sold for a penny each containing sensational and melodramatic stories that gave accounts of murder brutal executions torture incest ghosts cannibalism and more. The magazine was enjoyed by Charles Dickens during his teenage years a fact which doesn't come as a surprise due to his later novels. He said that the stories used to 'frighten the wits out of his head'. The 'Register' came about due to the thriving production of cheap reading materials for the working classes. Illustrated with in-text engravings throughout. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Volume I 'Sir Richard Burton'. With the motto 'Vigilans' to the bookplate. This bookplate has been identified as being that of Sir Richard Burton 1755-1855 of Sacketts Hill House Isle of Thanet Kent. A very scarce and influential penny magazine. Volume I is in a half crushed morocco binding with marbled paper and volume II is in a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally generally smart. Rubbing with some loss to the head and tail of spine to volume I. The hinges to Volume I are tender. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Volume I 'Sir Richard Burton'. Internally volume II is firmly bound. The last couple of pages of Volume I are working loose. Pages are bright with the odd spot a little heavier to Volume I. Very Good Sherwood, Jones, and Co hardcover
1987rif. 1954Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt 1987. Hardcover. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 700 copies of which this is numbered 262. Two volumes in presentation box one is the commentary hardcover and the other is the red velvet covered facsimile edition. Fine condition Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt hardcover
rif. 84521 6 11 47 folding leaves. Large 8vo orig. yellow patterned wrappers wrappers a little soiled orig. block-printed title label on upper cover new stitching. Korea: 1870s. A rare anonymous manual for the general education of writers of classical Chinese from late ChosÅn Korea. The term “bamboo slips” originally referred to the material supports of writing in antiquity. In classical Chinese usage of later ages — and in this title — the phrase was used metonymically in reference to the implements and genres of classical Chinese writing. This book covers the four “rites” of capping marriage funerals and sacrifices. Each rite had specific genres associated with it which a reader of the book would learn to practice. Ample advice is included for writing letters to parents children teachers and friends — and words to use when referring to these individuals — as well as servants and slaves. While focused on the acquisition of everyday writing skills in classical Chinese this book brings to mind a larger genre of so-called “daily use encyclopedias” Ch.: riyong leishu 日用類書 which flourished in East Asia from at least the 16th century onward but had older antecedents. Those books provided readers even from lower social strata with information for use in a variety of areas. Our book with its national viewpoint and inclusion of elements of elite writing such as classical Chinese verse probably envisaged a rather more elite readership or at least one that had aspirations of social advancement. Who actually used this book is another question of course and the Compilation offers some hints: the pictured page from the list of “state taboos” contains marginalia that is written in part in vernacular Korean in the han’gŭl alphabet with nouns written in Chinese characters. From what we see of the text it appears that it concerns the ritual of entering the tablet of a recently deceased ancestor to the temple. This is also referred to in the printed text below in the context of the succession of kings and consorts. Vernacular writing was widely practiced within the ChosÅn elite but the brushstrokes — for whatever reason — look a bit hesitant. On the basis of the phrases used in the list to refer to the ChosÅn kings and royal consorts researchers have concluded that the edition dates from the reign of King Kojong but before the death of Queen MyÅngsÅng that is sometime between 1864 and 1895. A very good copy. Marginal worming in the final 14 leaves. Our copy agrees with the Harvard copy WorldCat accession number 40692963. unknown
rif. 84521 6 11 47 folding leaves. Large 8vo orig. yellow patterned wrappers wrappers a little soiled orig. block-printed title label on upper cover new stitching. Korea: 1870s. A rare anonymous manual for the general education of writers of classical Chinese from late ChosÅn Korea. The term “bamboo slips” originally referred to the material supports of writing in antiquity. In classical Chinese usage of later ages — and in this title — the phrase was used metonymically in reference to the implements and genres of classical Chinese writing. This book covers the four “rites” of capping marriage funerals and sacrifices. Each rite had specific genres associated with it which a reader of the book would learn to practice. Ample advice is included for writing letters to parents children teachers and friends — and words to use when referring to these individuals — as well as servants and slaves. While focused on the acquisition of everyday writing skills in classical Chinese this book brings to mind a larger genre of so-called “daily use encyclopedias” Ch.: riyong leishu 日用類書 which flourished in East Asia from at least the 16th century onward but had older antecedents. Those books provided readers even from lower social strata with information for use in a variety of areas. Our book with its national viewpoint and inclusion of elements of elite writing such as classical Chinese verse probably envisaged a rather more elite readership or at least one that had aspirations of social advancement. Who actually used this book is another question of course and the Compilation offers some hints: the pictured page from the list of “state taboos” contains marginalia that is written in part in vernacular Korean in the han’gŭl alphabet with nouns written in Chinese characters. From what we see of the text it appears that it concerns the ritual of entering the tablet of a recently deceased ancestor to the temple. This is also referred to in the printed text below in the context of the succession of kings and consorts. Vernacular writing was widely practiced within the ChosÅn elite but the brushstrokes — for whatever reason — look a bit hesitant. On the basis of the phrases used in the list to refer to the ChosÅn kings and royal consorts researchers have concluded that the edition dates from the reign of King Kojong but before the death of Queen MyÅngsÅng that is sometime between 1864 and 1895. A very good copy. Marginal worming in the final 14 leaves. Our copy agrees with the Harvard copy WorldCat accession number 40692963. unknown books
1986rif. 1955Akademische Druck - u. 1986. Hardcover. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 1000 copies of which this volume is numbered 310. Fine condition two volumes in presentation case. First volume is commentary volume and is red cloth hardcover. Second volume is miniature black eather with gilt decoration. Akademische Druck - u. hardcover
1888rif. 82711London: James Hogg and Sons 1888. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Publisher's original grey cloth covered boards titled and decorated in polychrome; 63pp. A handsome copy lightly rubbed on covers and with a touch of foxing to pastedowns but still quite bright and clean in the lovely polychrome cloth bidning; Very Good to Near Fine and most unusual thus. The author's rare first book a rollicking bit of railway-based melodrama of a type much beloved of the Victorians published in the year of the London Matchgirls Strike and the reign of Jack the Ripper. Far and away the finest copy we've handled of this early Queen's Quorum title uncommon in any condition. The binding has been recorded in a variety of cloth colours and colour variations with no known priority. QUEENS QUORUM 13. James Hogg and Sons unknown
1888rif. 82711London: James Hogg and Sons 1888. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Publisher's original grey cloth covered boards titled and decorated in polychrome; 63pp. A handsome copy lightly rubbed on covers and with a touch of foxing to pastedowns but still quite bright and clean in the lovely polychrome cloth bidning; Very Good to Near Fine and most unusual thus. The author's rare first book a rollicking bit of railway-based melodrama of a type much beloved of the Victorians published in the year of the London Matchgirls Strike and the reign of Jack the Ripper. Far and away the finest copy we've handled of this early Queen's Quorum title uncommon in any condition. The binding has been recorded in a variety of cloth colours and colour variations with no known priority. QUEENS QUORUM 13. James Hogg and Sons unknown books
