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1971réf. 592552New York: Praeger Publishers 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Preface by Donald Kirk. xviii 270pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Board edges just a bit sunned else fine in a near fine dust jacket with a light crease on the front flap and faint foxing in the interior spine. Praeger Publishers hardcover books
1778réf. 375380London: Printed for J. Rivington and Sons J. Dodsley S. Crowder G. Robinson T. Cadell and T. Evans 1778. A New edition. Frontispieces in vol. 1. 5 vols. 8vo. Bound in three-quarters red morocco with marbled paper boards gilt borders and spine. Edgewear but very good. A New edition. Frontispieces in vol. 1. 5 vols. 8vo. Reprint of the standard English edition. Sully was renowned for his reform of 17th century French finance and for his promotion of agriculture. He opposed "the theory of the mercantile school and anticipated by more than a century the doctrines of the physiocrats" Palgrave. Coquelin & Guillaumin II 684 ff Printed for J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, S. Crowder, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, and T. Evans unknown books
1810réf. 297949London: William Miller 1810. hardcover. very good. 5 volumes. Frontispiece copperplate portraits in each volume some browning offset from the frontispieces. 8vo 1/2 brown morocco marbled boards all volumes are worn and crackled on the spines hinges on volume 3 are reinforced and spine is faded. London: William Miller 1810. Very good. William Miller unknown books
1815réf. 34134Philadelphia: Murray Draper Fairman & Co. and J. Webster 1815. Hand-coloured engraving. This example is beautifully printed in the mid 20th-century from the original 19th-century copper plate with wide margins on hand-made paper. The Battle of Lake Erie was the first naval engagement of the War of 1812. The British had gained control of the lake in August 1812 when General Hull surrendered at Detroit. Among those captured was a master ship-builder from Erie Pa. named David Dobbins. After his release from custody Dobbins went to Washington and persuaded the U.S. Government to literally build a naval fleet on Lake Erie in order to challenge the British for its control. Dobbins then went immediately to Erie and rapidly constructed six ships. Meanwhile five more ships were sailed to Erie making a fleet of eleven. In September 1813 Oliver Hazard Perry took command of nine of these ships and set off to engage the British fleet which was captured after three hours of fierce battle; whereupon Perry sent his historic message: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." In May 1814 Commander Perry wrote approvingly to the publishers about the accuracy of this print: "I have no hesitation in pronouncing them a correct representation of the engagement at those particular moments." Stauffer American Engravers Upon Copper and Steel 2288; Grolier The United States Navy 1776-1815 121; Olds Bits and Pieces of American History 241. Murray, Draper, Fairman & Co. and J. Webster unknown books
1939réf. 140943340A Vulcan Publication 1939. Very Good. Science fiction fanzine. Side-stapled sheets. Very Good with toning and wear light creases. A Vulcan Publication unknown books
2001réf. 300408New York: Rizzoli 2001. hardcover. fine/fine. Many color photographic illustrations by Steven Brooke. Square 4to black cloth d.w. New York: Rizzoli 2001. First Edition. Fine. Rizzoli unknown books
réf. 6919THOMAS SULLY 1783-1872. Thomas Sully was an English-American portrait painter. He painted in the style of Thomas Lawrence and has been referred to as the Sir Thomas Lawrence of America. He produced over 2300 paintings during his 70-year career with his subjects including Thomas Jefferson John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson Marquis de Lafayette and Queen Victoria. In addition to portraits of wealthy patrons he painted landscapes and historical pieces such as the 1819 The Passage of the Delaware 1819. His work was adapted for use on United States coinage most notably the Seated Liberty and Gobrecht dollar designs used from 1836 to 1891.Signature. N.d. N.p. A signature Thos. Sully. The autograph is framed under a reproduction of Sullys Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely. The signature is in very good condition. unknown books
2017réf. 411176New York: Rizzoli 2017. First edition. Jacket with some very minor shelf wear; generally a clean and crisp copy. 11.25 x 9.75 inches. 288 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards; dust jacket. This volume features the recent projects of McAlpine one of the country's most highly respected architecture and interior design firms renowned for its timeless houses exemplifying the charm and elegance of traditional and vernacular English American and European styles blended with a modern sensibility. Following from their first book The Home Within Us this book profiles twenty stunning projects from a stone tower folly standing in the gardens of a Tudor-style house to a humble yet elegant wooden lakeside retreat. Through his poetic voice Bobby McAlpine narrates the story of each residence pointing out its unique qualities. Featured are an exotic Florida Panhandle beach house; a Tuscan-style horse farm; a rambling Colonial Revival compound; and a miniature European manor house among others. These dwellings are classically understated and welcoming. With its gorgeous photography of inspiring interiors and exteriors Poetry of Place will appeal to those interested in design romancing the past" the publisher. Rizzoli unknown books
1877réf. 2346728London: Henry S. King & Co 1877. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Formerly Westminster College's Paton Library copy with bookplate and ink stamp inside edges lightly worn. 1877 Hard Cover. xv 477 3 pp. James Sully was a founding member of the British Psychological Society and wrote some of the first English-language psychology textbooks. This is his second book preceding the 1881 Illusions which was admired by Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Wundt. Sully later became a leading figure in the Child Study movement. Here he discusses optimism and pessimism with an analysis of the life and character of Arthur Schopenhauer Edward von Hartmann and other well-known thinkers of the era and descriptions of the basis of pessimism in science and experience. Also included are a lengthy discussion of pleasure and happiness and appendices on consciousness and the physiology of pleasure and pain. Henry S. King & Co hardcover books
1891réf. 2346729London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd 1891. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Second edition includes new preface. Edges rubbed ink name and date on front endpaper. 1891 Hard Cover. xv 477 3 pp. James Sully was a founding member of the British Psychological Society and wrote some of the first English-language psychology textbooks. This is his second book preceding the 1881 Illusions which was admired by Sigmund Freud and Wilhelm Wundt. Sully later became a leading figure in the Child Study movement. Here he discusses optimism and pessimism with an analysis of the life and character of Arthur Schopenhauer Edward von Hartmann and other well-known thinkers of the era and descriptions of the basis of pessimism in science and experience. Also included are a lengthy discussion of pleasure and happiness and appendices on consciousness and the physiology of pleasure and pain. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co. Ltd hardcover books
1974réf. 198380CA: American West 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good Book rubbed on edges. American West hardcover books
1638réf. 182049Amstelredam.: Alethinosgraphe de Clearetimelee & Graphexechon de Pistariste. No date but circa 1638. Contemporary full mottled calf raised bands gilt spine decorations marbled edges. Good corners bumped spine ends worn title pages and a few other sheets browned light dampstains affecting mostly the margins very little foxing a good copy in a nice contemporary binding. folio. French text. 2 engraved and hand colored title page devices showing three virtues and a crown of amaranth. Alethinosgraphe de Clearetimelee & Graphexechon de Pistariste. hardcover books
réf. 3541Philadelphia: Childs and Inman Lith. 1833. Lithograph 10.5" x 8.5" plus margins. A scarce and very fine lithographic portrait of Fanny Kemble as Julia in James Sheridan Knowles' play The Hunchback after a painting by Thomas Sully. Kemble and her father toured the United States in 1832-1833 immediately following her much acclaimed performance as Julia in London. Both Sully's painting and this lithograph reproducing it were executed in 1833. The painting is owned today by the Rosenbach Museum and Library. Philadelphia: Childs and Inman, Lith., 1833 unknown books
1819réf. 9032703Edinburgh: Printed for Stirling and Slade and Archibald Constable et al. 1819. Hardcover. Very Good. In English. Originally published in 1756 this is the first edition with an appendix. "A New Edition Carefully Corrected Embellished With Portraits." Bound in half-calf with tan cloth boards spines stamped in illustrated gilt and red spine labels. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated portrait frontispiece in each volume. Text blocks are mostly in very good condition clean and bright with sunning to endpapers and very occasional and minimal foxing. Volume four has light water damage along bottom edge to roughly an inch in height not affecting text. Minimal wear to extremities barely through calf on less than half of the corners. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. Printed for Stirling and Slade, and Archibald Constable, et al. hardcover books
1819réf. 291640Edinburgh: Stirling 1819. hardcover. very good. 5 volumes. Frontispiece copperplate portraits in each volume. 8vo full contemporary brown crushed morocco ornately gilt spines marbled page edges. Hinges on volume 1 and 5 reinforced. Edinburgh: Printed For Stirling and Slade And Archibald Constable. 1819. A New Edition Carefully Revised. First published in English in 1756 this is the first edition with the appendix. A handsome set. Stirling unknown books
1757réf. ST14844London: A. Millar; J. Dodsley; and W. Shropshire 1757. Second Edition. 222 x 140 mm. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2. Five volumes. Contemporary gray paper boards backed in sheep with unusual wavy edges raised bands black morocco labels with gilt titling. Front pastedowns with armorial bookplate of Francis Eyre of Warkworth Northamptonshire. Corners slightly bumped and edges a little tattered one spine with minor loss to leather in one compartment boards a bit rubbed but overall the contemporary bindings very sound and in excellent condition; the occasional small blemish a few marginal open tears one closed tear minimally affecting text but internally very well preserved in general. This is the first English translation of the memoirs of French statesman Maximilien de Béthune Duke of Sully undertaken either by Samuel Johnson or by best-selling female novelist Charlotte Lennox and offered here in the original unsophisticated and unusual bindings. A Huguenot of noble family Sully 1560-1641 was presented to the Protestant King Henri of Navarre when he was 11 years old and became permanently attached to that monarch until the king's assassination in 1610. Sully although a lifelong Protestant himself encouraged Henri to convert to Catholicism in order to become King Henri IV of France arranged for the marriage of Henri to Marie de Medici and served as a lifelong advisor and confidante to the king. His insider's views of this crucial period of French history make his "Memoirs" of continuing interest to scholars. Originally published in French in 1638 the first edition in English appeared well over 100 years later in 1756 a year before our second edition. The ESTC notes that the translator may have been Samuel Johnson but the book itself as well as later editions credits Charlotte Lennox ca. 1729-1804 author of popular women's adventure novels including "The Female Quixote." She was born in the American colonies but spent her working life in England where literary friends and supporters included the aforementioned Johnson. The bindings here are not extraordinarily attractive but they are interesting as specimens of an unusual slightly rustic design: the wavy edges where the leather and paper meet are clearly purposeful and add a playful element not usually seen in modest bindings such as these. A. Millar; J. Dodsley; and W. Shropshire unknown books
1761réf. 35115London: A. Millar; R. and J. Dodsley; W. Shropshire 1761. Third edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. xxxii 540 viii 555 vii 406pp Index. Original full calf with with gilt lettering and ruling on spine; raised bands. Red edges. De Bethune was the Prime minister to Henry the Great. History of life and reign of the monarch and his administration including the trial of Ravaillac for the murder of Henry the Great. Translated from the French. Binding rubbed with some scuffing along hinges edges and at corners. Hinges weakened at all 3 volumes. Corners lightly bumped. Ex Libris on inside cover of all 3 volumes. Offsetting and some foxing on first and last few pages of each volume. Sporadic light foxing at times heavier. Binding in overall good interior in good condition. A. Millar; R. and J. Dodsley; W. Shropshire hardcover books
1763réf. 23297London: printed for A. Millar et al. 1763. 6 volumes 12mo 2 engraved portraits and a folding map in volume I; full contemporary calf gilt-decorated spines maroon morocco labels; spines a bit soiled front hinge on volume I cracked small chip from the bottom of the spine on volume VI but generally good and sound or better. Translated by Charlotte Lennox and first published in quarto 1756. printed for A. Millar [et al.] unknown books
1756réf. 44515London: Printed for A. Millar in the Strand; R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and W. Shropshire in New-Bond-Street 1756. Fine. First edition in English extra-illustrated copy of this "instant classic" Carlile the autobiography of the minister and advisor to King Henry IV of France. Charlotte Lennox was born into a well-to-do Scottish family that fell upon hard times. Well educated and distinguished early for her poetic precocity - but left to fend for herself financially she turned to a career in writing. After publishing two novels THE LIFE OF HARRIOT STUART based heavily on her own experiences in the American colonies and voyage back to Britain; and THE FEMALE QUIXOTE for which she is best known today Lennox took up translation work in hopes of finding a more stable source of income. Among Lennox's most successful productions in her long publishing career this translation of the Duke of Sully's MEMOIRS also led to an offer of a royal pension for Lennox in gratitude for literary services performed. She turned it down in favor of her patron finding a government position for her husband instead. The Duke of Sully 1560-1641 was viewed by many in the Georgian period as an ideal Enlightenment-era statesman and his MEMOIRS has been read as a literary political treatise. It influence was broad including on the American Founding Fathers: it features in the 1783 list of books to be imported for the use of Congress compiled under the leadership of James Madison. This copy has been generously supplemented with nearly 200 engravings primarily of portraits and landscapes of the figures and places described. As a 17th-century text via an influential 18th-century translation in a characteristically deluxe 19th-century extra-illustrated binding it is a lovely hybrid artifact. Three quarto volumes 10'' x 7.75'' each. Nineteenth-century full maroon straight-grain morocco by Bayntun raised bands elaborately gilt-tooled spines large gilt cornerpieces and triple-gilt rules to boards. Gilt dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Extra illustrated with 193 additional plates: portraits landscapes dramatic scenes inter alia. Half titles in first two volumes. 4 540; 4 viii 555 1; viii 408 pages plus index. Only light rubbing to joints. Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand; R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; and W. Shropshire, in New-Bond-Street unknown books
1638réf. 1353033Amsterdam Château de Sully: Alethinosgraphe de Clearetimelee Château de Sully 1638. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio 6 8 535 pages 8 448 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Full calf repaired with banded spine and gilt lettering. Boards show light wear to edges light plus bumping to top corners and light shelf-wear overall. Text-block has light plus soiling to top- and fore-edge and very light uneven age-toning. Hand-colored Author's devices on title-pages of each volume. Authentic first edition from the author's private press in the Chateau de Sully Sully's poem "Paralella Caesaris Et Henrici Magni" appears in both Latin and French in non-italic font not one of the many forgeries issued around the same time. RW Consignment. Shelved in Room A Oversized. 1353033. Special Collections. Alethinosgraphe de Clearetimelee [Château de Sully] hardcover books
1752réf. 55941a Geneve: Chez Barrillot & Fils 1752. Nouvelle Edition revûe & corrigée. 8 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf gilt spines tan and green title labels. Bookplate. Nouvelle Edition revûe & corrigée. 8 vols. 12mo. " Sully 1560-1641 was an agrarian in the fullest sense of the term. He believed that cattle breeding and agriculture constituted the only true wealth of France. He therefore encouraged land clearing undertook irrigation projects and constructed roads and canals. His principal work was concerned with financial administration. He reconstructed an administration which had been dislocated by 30 yrs of civil war. He established a rigorous control. The economy realized in the reduction of the public debt and in the correction of abuses served to provide for the protection of the national frontiers and to furnish the army with an effective artillery" Encyclopdia of Social Sciences Volumes 13/14 p. 460. Chez Barrillot & Fils unknown books
1883réf. 24980Paris: Germer Baillère 1883. First edition in French 8vo pp. 8 264 32 ads; spine a little faded else a good sound copy in orig. purple cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. The anonymous translation of Illusions: A Psychological Study was done by Henri Bergson 1859-1941 one of the most famous and influential French philosophers of the late 19th century and early 20th century and who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927; this constitutes his first work published in book form. Issued as no. 42 in the publisher's Bibliothèque scientifique internationale series. Germer Baillère unknown books
1775réf. 263037Amsterdam: Chez tous les Libraires de Paris & du Royaume 1775. hardcover. very good. Small vignette with NB initials on titles and several other engraved headpieces throughout. XLVIII 180 188; 4 181-304 189-442 pages. 2 volumes 8vo bound in full contemporary brown calf; simple gilt-ruled spines with black leather labels worn at ends and with small ex-library tickets affixed; marbled endpapers. Amsterdam: Chez tous les Libraires de Paris & du Royaume 1775. Nouvelle edition par M. l'Abbe Baudeau. A very good copy clean and tight. Scarce - OCLC lists only 7 copies. Each volume is in two separately paged sections numbered continuously between volumes: Memoires 304 pages; Observations 442 pages. Chez tous les Libraires de Paris & du Royaume unknown books
réf. B266723-2Paris Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et des Sites 1977. 168pp. Prof. illus. Sm. sq. 4to. Wraps. Paris (Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et des Sites), 1977. paperback books
1965réf. 1854NY: Reinhold Publishing Co 1965. Hardcover. VG/G- pages are crisp and clean. Dust jacket has light soiling and wear tear in dj at top of spine. Color illustrated boards with black spine and gilt lettering; tan dust jacket with brown lettering; illustrated end pages xxiii 46 pp. 10 bw plates. Karpel I-1351 states ".Describes materials and procedures for portrait painting. Sully's handbook reveals many of the techniques used by himself and his contemporaries including Allston West Leslie and Trumbull in the preparation of varnishes canvases and flesh-tones." This copy is a reprint with a 23 page biographical introduction written by Faber Birren. The contents have been reset but the text is the same with minor spelling corrections. Reinhold Publishing Co hardcover books
