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1950ref. WRCLIT78275Preston Hertfordshire: Cupid Press 1950. Cloth-backed Cockerel boards gilt label. t.e.g. others untrimmed. Tinted folding frontis. Decorations. Fine in lightly worn glassine. First edition of this selection with illustrations and decorations by Rex Whistler. One of 660 numbered copies printed in the Fell types on Arnold & Foster's mould- made paper by Charles Batey at the Oxford University Press. Cupid Press hardcover books
1895ref. 50035Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1895. 12°. Mit einigen Holzstich-Vignetten. XII S., 2 Bll., 83 S., Blindgepr. OLwd. m. goldgepr. Deckeltitel.
1971ref. 80468Firenze 1971. 3 Bll., Mit zahlr. Abbildungen auf 20 Tafeln. 41 S., 1 Bl. Gr.-8vo. OBrosch. mit hs. RTitel.
vi + 59pp., in the series "Index lectionem quae in Universitate Friburgensi per menses aestivos anni 1891… habebuntur", 28cm., text in latin, softcover
Sm. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in blue and black; original blye buckram, ivory buckram back, gilt back, uncut, backstrip moderately browned (but all lettering wholly legible) else a very good, crisp, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 326 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE TRANSLATOR (THIS COPY NO. 17).
Spine slightly browned. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Includes a letter from Carl Schlam to Roger Hornsby; 9.25 x 0.25 x 6.25 Inches; 61 pages
Minor shelfwear. ; Privately printed on electronic typewriter by M. G. Dickson. Numbered copy 66 out of 100. ; 53 pages
Mm 270x335 Volume in copertina rigida con sovraccoperta, 261 pagine profusamente illustrate con figure in nero lungo l'intero testo. Copia in buone-ottime condizioni. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
44 pages. Features include: Ballooning; EH-101 Canada's New Shipborne Aircraft; Cessna - Living Memorial to BCATP; Airforce Cupid - Overseas Romance; Air Cadets; Defence Minister Explains Budget Cuts; Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Solid copy. Book
Features: Vivillo, The Brigand; Walrus Hunt in the Arctic; Sporting Stories - iv - Corker's Alligator - v - A Brush With a Bear - vi - Man v. Python; Guardians of the Wilderness; The Legend of the Wailing Woman; Mountaineering by Telescope; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - III; Some Experiences in Malaya; "Jack Ashore"; A Daring Voyage Down the Grand Canyon; A Romance of Two Islands - II; Courtship and Marriage in Savage Africa; The Capture of Antonio Barracola; Barmaid's Steeplechase; The Greatest Horse-Race on Record; The Promotion of Petroff; The Humours of a Rectorial Election; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - I; Climbing in the "Land of Fire"; The Spider's Web; Dolphin-Hunting; A Tragedy of the Nile; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - I; Recollections of a Texas Ranger; Short Stories - My Adventure at Arad, The Horror in the Pit; The Cruise of the "Crocodile"; Propitiating the Weather; The Affair at Greenville; The Terror in the Sanctuary; Across America by Airship; Fighting a Typhoon; A State Trial in Montenegro; Crossing the River; A Belgian Smoking Competition; The Adventures of "Wide World" Artists - II; Hunting the Hippopotamus; The Tale the Doctor Told; A White Woman in Cannibal-Land - II; Short Stories - A Bluff that Worked, and The Yellow Fiend; My Experinces in Algeria - I; My Alaskan Christmas; Short Stories - Whave v. Sharks, A Battle in Mid-Air, Up in a Balloon; Some "Freak" Memorials; Down the Chute; Where Women Wear Trousers; Retribution; Mountain Tragedies of the Lake District; Cupid and the Dentist; My Experiences in Algeria - III; Ways that are Dark - My Adventures in 'Frisco, A Sharp Lesson, Seeing it Out; In the Land of the Reindeer; "Tapu"; The Finches' Festival; The Fight at the A-T Ranch; How I Got My Jaguar Skin; Out of the Skies; A Night Adventure in Yokohama; Ten Lions in a Day!; My Friend Dalton; Two Girls in Japan; The Last Creek; The Romance of Wild Animal Catching; How We Captured the Rebel Chief; Round the World with a Billiard-Cue; When "Tenderfeet" Go Hunting Bears; The Life of a Steeplejack; The Longest Chase on Record; The Land of Superstition; and more. Average wear. Binding intact. Several pages partially loose, otherwise a sound copy. Book
Features: More Queer Fixes - A Meeting with a Meteor, In the Dark with a Mamba; A Night Attack; The Shot-Pickers; The Underground Pirates; Housekeeping Troubles in Annam; "In the Name of the Czar!" - I - A Subterranean Duel; Across Africa By Boat - I; Cupid and the Wire; Fallen Among Thieves; Remarkable "Follies"; Through the Black Canyon; Across Australia on a Bicycle; The Crop that Failed; Eight Days on an African Farm; Across Africa by Boat - II; More Queer Fixes - A Ride With Death - Sixteen Days Entombed - Lost in a Swamp; On the Roof of the Western World; Black Magic - A Weird Experience - Tambooze the Zulu; Life in the Sulphur Mines of Sicily; A Fight for Life Under Water; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger"; The Present that Went Astray; The Menace of the "Black Hand"; The Wreck of the "Dundonald"; The Experiences of a "Jackaroo"; The Story of Jasper Brown; Sporting Stories - A Brush with Elephants - The Senator's Tiger - A Ride on a Rhino; Buried Treasures in England; Six Months on a Drifting Ice-Floe; Through New Ontario on a "Jigger" - II; A Deal in Diamonds; Elk-Hunting in Sweden; How I Found My Wife; Across Africa by Boat - III; More Queer Fixes - an up and down affair - a battle with a shark; The Romance of Hermann Ochs; The "Night Riders" of Kentucky; "Captain Starlight"; More Queer Fixes - Imprisoned Under a Ship's Keel - A Motor-Boat in a Cyclone - An Uninvited Guest; A War Against a River; A Railway Stowaway; The Kauri Timber Industry; "Who Am I?"; My Ascent of Aconcagua; Running the Gauntlet; Eight Years in Babylonia - I; The Secret of the Castle; Ruined!; An Island in the Making; A Duel of Brains; Across Africa by Boat - IV; An Encounter with a Waterspout; The Ship that Disappeared; A Mountain of Gold; The "Vultures of Paris"; Eight Years in Babylonia - II; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - I; Caribou-Hunting in Newfoundland; More Queer Fixes - An Actor's Adventure - A Shifted Cargo; Through France in a Yacht; The Keeper of the Light; Flooded Out; The Bridge-Builders; Five Days in a Blizzard; A Holiday in Crete; A Short Cut; A Lion-Hunt in a Sewer; The Carriers of the Thames; How I Visited the Gouliot Caves; A Day with the South Sea Prince; More Queer Fixes - A Race Against a Leak - Two Hours in a Crevasse - The Millionaire's Messenger; The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg; The Wassmann Diamond; On the Frontier at Gibraltar;; A Romance of Two Islands - I; A Railway Smash to Order; The Ghost of the San Jose Mine; Up the Athabasca with the Fur-Traders; Our Adventures at "Simplicity Hall" - II. Average wear. Modest lean to spine. A sound copy. Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Hundred Thousandth phone installed - lengthy article; Essentials of good maintenance; Statement of Development - number of phones per exchange in the province; B.C. Telephone Company takes over East Kootenay System; Prompt service aids with Sidney fire; The office boys dream; Telephone assists in Vancouver Stock Exchange (VSE) Rush - great photo; Automatic phone system installed at Hammond; Keeping the electrons on the proper path; Photo of J.P.D. Malkin takes part in first Vancouver-London phone call; Shell Oil operator; Health Tips; Greater Vancouver can now talk to the European continent; Cable damaged by anchor; Radio interference putting music on phone lines; Production of phone directories - 4 pages with photos; Laying cable through Stanley Park; Direct Route to West Vancouver completed - 5 pages of interesting text and photos; Langley Prairie phone service restored during the fire - article with photos; Phone given as wedding gift in Vancouver; F.C. Paterson; Vancouver Power House Fire; Mr. George H. Halse becomes Chairman of the Board; Close-up photos of splicing job; Transatlantic phone service still expanding; photo of horse-drawn 'drop wagon'; Photo on Cordova St. after fire 42 years ago; There's more to installation work than just placing a telephone - 4 pages with photos and text; Good-bye to operating when Dan Cupid comes along; Sending news stories to Vancouver from California over phone wires; We are linked with 80% of the world's phones; photo of conduit laying on forty-first ave; The Monophone - advertisement; B.C. Tel. acquires government lines in the Interior; New trans-atlantic long distance mark; Photo montage of vehicles used by the Plant Department; B.C. Box Factory Fire; Baby causes problem by teething on phone cord; Chilliwack phone system now affiliated with us; Regular fire drills; Photo of Premier Tolmie participating in first call from Vancouver to Calgary - with detailed related story; The longest circuit in the system of the B.C. Telephone Company; A new radiotelephone company will be organized; New Fraser River Cable serves South Westminster Subscribers; Eleven european countries with telephone reach of Vancouver; Now installing a new type of telephone typewriter; New faster system for handling telegrams; Benefits of new telephone ownership are evident in 500-mile circle; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Significant wear to backstrip with some chips missing. Book
Features: Polish Nested Dolls; The Gerber Doll - Yesterday and Today; The Gerber Baby Today; Valentine Cupid; Ginny - 35 Years of Charm; The Aftermath of Anne Baby; Wonders of a Doll & Toy Museum Auction; Turnip Toys and Starfish Hands; Gueniever's Dolls; 1950's School Girl Wardrobe; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Pages 1-66. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Nice Prescott Pianos ad inside front cover; My Secret (poem); Alaska; The passing of Spain; Officers of Company K (poem); Jack and Pirie; Sleighing (poem); Cupid - Song (poem); Unlukikus Loses His self-poise; The Cocheco (poem); Channing Folsom; The Country Depot (poem); Some Old Tales and Traditions of the White Mountains; Harriet Beecher Stowe (poem); Java and the colonial system of the Dutch; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
90 pages. Articles: How to Beat the Communists - by UAW (United Auto Workers') chief Walter Reuther; Walter Winchell - Aan American Phenomenon - a study of the fastest talker on the airwaves; Our Lights are Going Out - electrical power shortage; John N. Garner's Story (part 2) - the former Vice-President tells of his most serious disagreement with Mr. Roosevelt; Hot-Sun Hockey - The Pacific Coast goes for hockey in a big way - article with color photos including the Fresno Falcons playing the Los Angeles Monarchs; Boys at Work - this school reforms tough kids. Fiction: Jason Hazard's Swim; The Female Circumstance; Cupid Up the Bayou!; The Farmer's Face; The Mysterious Way; Interruptions, Interruptions. Nostalgic ads include: Old Thompson Whiskey; Packard cars; GMC trucks (nice!); Nash cars; Oldsmobile two-page color ad; Dodge Trucks; Lord Calver liquor ad featuring one-page color photo portrait of Richard C. Kettles, Jr. and his boxer Worlord; Chrysler color centerfold features cowboy scene; Chevrolet trucks; Botany 500; Samson card tables; Kleenex (featuring Little Lulu); Wow! - two-page color ad for Roma Wines features large image of Jane Russell; Camel cigarette ad on back cover features rodeo star Jerry Ambler, fisher Dorothy Allan Newstead, polo star Cecil Smith and table-tennis star Mary Reilly. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
70 pages. Articles: Scandals in Veterans' Housing (part 1 of 2); The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 6) - Roosevelt's Greatest Dilemma; Six Artists and a Model - Edith Franklin's posing is a steppingstone to her stage career; Good-Time Street - the most raucous and colorful block in New York; Truman's recent troubles hurt his chance of election; The Hot-Potato Olympics - what price international amity at this year's Games in London; How to Catch a Husband - Mr. Lamb's job is to bringem' back when they stray. Fiction: Cupid with Celluloid Wings; Guirls Like Me; Squaw Medicine; The Bramble Bush (part 4 of 5); Sweet revenge; Errors of Judgment. Ads include: Old Thompson Whiskey; Pepsodent - with photo of Mary Louise Shine; Western Electric; Schlitz; beer; the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE); Ford cars (2 pages); Macmillan Oil - featuring Douglas Moone of San Antonio, TX; Samsonite Luggage; Pontiac cars; Milky Way chocolate bars (back cover). Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's winter dresses illustrated on front cover; Dress - Ancient and Modern; Medical Severity; New York Fashions - Fancy Costumes; Personal; illustrations of suits for girls; Illustrations of frocks for young boys; Hannah (continued); The Burst Pipe - with illustration; On Healthful Family Bread - by Catherine E. Beecher; Society in Ancient Greece; Sayings and Doings; Great full-page illustration presents six Ball and Evening Toilettes; Lovely sleeve, veil and good illustrations; Scissors! - a Valentine Tale; Folding Gothic Screens; The Wonderful Lamp; "Slow Work" - illustration shows young man and woman seated and awaiting cupid to activate; Lovely blouse, apron, talma and underwaist illustrations; Boarding-House cartoons on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Spring Tailor Gowns - cover illustration; A Case of Survival; Women and Men - women as household decorations; Family living on $500 a year - VIL; New York Fashions - spring millinery, shapes of bonnets and hats, beads, gauze and crapes, ribbons, spring colors, flowers, laces, lace and silk jackets; Personal; Full-page illustration "Retaliation" shows cupid and his firing squad; Article and Illustration of King Theebaw and his wife; Illustration of Rangoon Burmese ladies; The Heir of the Ages - continued; Great centerfold illustration "The Nurses' Seat at the Orphanage of St. Valery" - from the picture by Paul Delance in the Paris Salon of 1885; The Orphanage of Saint Valery; Paston Carew, Millionaire and the Miser, by E. Lynn Linton - continued; Paris Fashions; Sketches at Monte Carlo; Muffs;;; Figaro Jacket; Bordered Wool Costume; House Toilettes; The Grand Old Palm-tree of Cos; humor. Average wear. Some yellow staining. Cover fold mostly open. Fore-edge tears to last two pages. A worthy copy. Book
A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Cover illustration of Wedgwood Medallion, 'Cupid Shaving His Bow'; A Pennsylvania Illuminated Manuscript (frontispiece editorial); Josiah Wedgwood, Disseminator of Classic Art; Be My Valentine; The Hornbook for Collectors - The ABC's of Staffordshire; ; B is for Book; Antiques in Domestic Settings - The Pennsylvania Home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Stogdell Stokes; Design in Yankee Butter Molds; Holmes Weaver, Cabinet- and Chairmaker of Newport; The Birth of an 'Antique'; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 97-160. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers detached but present. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Book
A miscellany on books and book collecting. Signed inscription from author on front free endpaper. Brown red cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Dust jacket faded on spine and creased on lower front corner. Page edges foxed and browned.
Acquaforte misure: mm 80 x 243 Incisore e disegnatore, si dedicò sporadicamente alla pittura. Il padre Francesco, scultore allievo di Giambologna, morì prematuramente ma riuscì ad avviare tutti i suoi figli a mestieri d’arte. Stefano fu il solo ad eccellere, ebbe i primi insegnamenti presso botteghe di dimenticati orefici i quali ebbero tuttavia il pregio di fargli prender dimestichezza con il bulino. Fu sostanzialmente un autodidatta. Le fonti bibliografiche affermano che egli si esercitava a disegnare figure curiosamente partendo dai piedi e a copiare le incisioni di Jacques Callot avendo come unico confronto l'incisore Remigio Cantagallina. Fu notato poi dal pittore Giovan Battista Vanni che lo prese nella sua bottega e gli diede i primi insegnamenti di pittura e del disegno. La vocazione di Della Bella fu sicuramente l'incisione e già le sue prime opere rivelano i temi a lui più cari: scene di vita contemporanea, feste, battaglie e le decorazioni. Lo studio delle incisioni e dei disegno di maestri antichi, la conoscenza e il confronto con i maestri fiorentini e fiamminghi a lui contemporanei allora presenti alla corte medicea furono furono di grande stimolo. Egli è considerato un grafico puro, grazie ai suoi numerosi viaggi tra Roma e Parigi e grazie alla protezione dei Medici maturò un proprio linguaggio grafico, in vita e per tutto il XVIII secolo fu ricercato e collezionato in Francia e in Italia. Questa è la tavola numero 7 della serie Ornamenti di fregi e fogliami, composta da sedici stampe. In questo foglio troviamo una scena molto intima e dolce; al centro, in una sorta di ghirlanda circolare c'è Cupido assopito e, dietro una tenda scostata, Venere che lo contempla e veglia il suo sonno. Dalla ghirlanda centrale si diramano girali di fogliame dalle quali, sia a destra che a sinistra, sembra generarsi una ninfa che abbraccia un putto, come un madre il suo bimbo. In basso, inciso nel margine inferiore, "Stef. della Bella inu & fec.", "N. Langlois excu", "Cum Priuil Regis" e numero. Impressione eccellente. Ottimo stato di conservazione. Ampi margini oltre la battuta del rame. Stato: III/VI con l'indirizzo N. Langlois (Vienna 1640 - 1703). Bibliografia: De Vesme-Massar 993, pag. 216.
Acquaforte misure: mm 77 x 241 Incisore e disegnatore, si dedicò sporadicamente alla pittura. Il padre Francesco, scultore allievo di Giambologna, morì prematuramente ma riuscì ad avviare tutti i suoi figli a mestieri d’arte. Stefano fu il solo ad eccellere, ebbe i primi insegnamenti presso botteghe di dimenticati orefici i quali ebbero tuttavia il pregio di fargli prender dimestichezza con il bulino. Fu sostanzialmente un autodidatta. Le fonti bibliografiche affermano che egli si esercitava a disegnare figure curiosamente partendo dai piedi e a copiare le incisioni di Jacques Callot avendo come unico confronto l'incisore Remigio Cantagallina. Fu notato poi dal pittore Giovan Battista Vanni che lo prese nella sua bottega e gli diede i primi insegnamenti di pittura e del disegno. La vocazione di Della Bella fu sicuramente l'incisione e già le sue prime opere rivelano i temi a lui più cari: scene di vita contemporanea, feste, battaglie e le decorazioni. Lo studio delle incisioni e dei disegno di maestri antichi, la conoscenza e il confronto con i maestri fiorentini e fiamminghi a lui contemporanei allora presenti alla corte medicea furono furono di grande stimolo. Egli è considerato un grafico puro, grazie ai suoi numerosi viaggi tra Roma e Parigi e grazie alla protezione dei Medici maturò un proprio linguaggio grafico, in vita e per tutto il XVIII secolo fu ricercato e collezionato in Francia e in Italia. Questa è la tavola numero 14 della serie Ornamenti di fregi e fogliami, composta da sedici stampe. Nel fregio superiore, al centro, un putto con le ali di farfalla doma e accarezza due leoni dai cui corpi partono volute di fogliame. In quello inferiore le allegorie delle quattro stagioni: all'interno di girali di fogliame, frutti, fiori e serpenti troviamo le teste di Inverno, Primavera, Estate e Autunno. In basso, inciso nel margine inferiore, "Stef. della Bella inuenti et fecit", "N. Langlois excu", "Cum Priuil Regis" e numero. Impressione eccellente. Ottimo stato di conservazione. Ampi margini oltre la battuta del rame. Stato: III/VI con l'indirizzo N.Langlois (Parigi 1640 - 1703). Bibliografia: De Vesme-Massar 1000, pag. 218.
Acquaforte misure: mm 164 × 130 Pittore ed incisore allievo di Guido Reni e di Giovanni Andrea Sirani dai quali spesso ha desunto i soggetti delle sue incisioni. Più noto come incisore che come pittore segue i modi classicisti del maestro Guido Reni adottando un segno chiaro e sciolto; è oggi considerato uno dei protagonisti del panorama grafico bolognese di pieno Seicento; a lui vengono ricondotte venticinque lastre in tutto secondo Bartsch nelle quali si evince qualche incertezza nelle morsure. In questo foglio viene raffigurato cupido colto in una posa classica che teneramente giace su dei cuscini lasciati a terra, la scena si svolge all'interno di una tenda lasciata aperta in modo da mostrare allo spettatore il paesaggio sullo sfondo caratterizzato da un esile arbusto e da delle rocce. Il dio dell'Amore è assopito, ha gli occhi chiusi e la bocca aperta e a terra possiamo notare abbandonati l'arco e le frecce. Buona impressione nello stato unico, foglio rifilato lungo l’impronta del rame, carta ingiallita, una macchia nell’angolo superiore destro del foglio e un piccolo foro sul ventre di cupido. L’incisione è applicata in antico su una pagina di album (databile al secolo XVIII). Bibliografia: Bartsch, “Le Peintre Graveur”, vol. 19, pag. 91, n° 20; The Illustrated Bartsch, vol. 42, 20 (176).
ref. 201604651S.l., Dupuis, 1996 ; in-4, 48 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. T.8.
ref. 200704300Bruxelles, Dupuis, 1989-9000 ; in-4, 48 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. N°2.
