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1982réf. 3950CBGraz, Akademische Verlagsanstalt, 1982. 4°. (2) l. Bl., 105 Bl., 3 l. Bl. mit Textillustr. nach Tuschzeichnungen; Kommentar: 108 S., 4 Bl. Roter Orig.-Lederband in solidem Pappschuber.
1925réf. 20349Paris, chez F. L. Schmied, 1925. In-folio en feuilles de [8]-104-[4]pages, couverture illustrée, chemise, étui.
1944réf. 049447Calcutta India: The Book Emporium / Sasadhar Chakravarty / Kalika Press 1944. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 51 Pp. White Boards. First Printing 1944. Very Scarce Worldcat Shows Only Four Institutional Holdings. Light Usage. Dust Jacket Priced Rs 6/- 7S6d. Dust Jacket Worn Small Chips At Edges. Book Inscribed At Length By Yeh Chien-Yu And Dated April 1947 In New York City Ny With Much Additional Text In Chinese And The Artist's Red Stamp. Also With An Extra Set Of Pp. Iii-Vi The Foreword And Introduction Which Apparently Were Used As A Prospectus For The Book.Ye Qianyu Or Yeh Ch'ien-Yü; Born Ye Lunqi ; 1907 -1995 Was A Chinese Painter And Pioneering Manhua Artist. In April 1927Ye Qianyu Together With Fellow Cartoonists Huang Wennong And Lu Shaofei Released A Publication Dedicated To Manhua Called Shanghai Manhua Or Shanghai Sketch. The Original Three Joined By Eight More Artists Including Zhang Guangyu Ding Song And Wang Dunqing Formed The Shanghai Sketch Society Also Translated As Shanghai Cartoon Association In The Autumn Of 1927 China's First Association Dedicated To Manhua. The Association Successfully Relaunched The Shanghai Manhua On 21 April 1928. Ye Drew Several Covers For The Magazine And The Back Page Of The Publication Carried His Comic Strip Mr. Wang. Inspired By The American Strip Bringing Up Father And Portraying The Daily Life Of The Middle And Lower Classes Of Shanghai Mr. Wang Became One Of China's Most Famous Cartoons Eventually Being Made Into 11 Films In The 1930S And 40S. In June 1930 Shanghai Manhua Was Merged Into Modern Pictorial Of Which Ye Became An Editor While Continuing His Mr. Wang Series. When Japan Invaded China And Occupied Shanghai In 1937 Ye Qianyu Together With A Group Of Fellow Shanghai Cartoonists Formed The "National Salvation Cartoon Propaganda Corps" Which Included Well-Known Artists Zhang Leping Lu Zhixiang Te Wei And Hu Kao. Ye's Lover Liang Baibo Was The Only Female Member. It Was Funded By The Kuomintang Government. Ye Went To Hong Kong Prior To Its Fall To The Japanese In December 1941. In 1943 He Temporarily Worked For The Us General Joseph Stilwell As A War Correspondent In India. Throughout His Travels He Drew Many Sketches Of Wartime Scenes Including A Series Entitled Escape From Hong Kong. After The Surrender Of Japan In 1945 Ye Qianyu Went To The United States Where He Held A Series Of Exhibitions To Show And Sell His Artworks. In 1947 Ye Became A Professor At The Beijing Art Academy. When The Cultural Revolution Began In 1966 Ye Qianyu Was Accused Of Being A Kuomintang Kmt Agent And Was Imprisoned For Seven Years. Ye Qianyu Was Politically Rehabilitated In 1979. Ye Qianyu Was Married Three Times. In 1940 Ye Qianyu Met The Dancer Dai Ailian In Hong Kong. Dai Ailian Lived Until 2006 And Is Now Known As The "Mother Of Chinese Ballet". Ye's Last Wife Was Wang Renmei A Famous Actress Who Had Been Previously Married To The "Film Emperor" Jin Yan. Amiya Chandra Chakravarty 1901-1986 Was Literary Secretary To Rabindranath Tagore From 1924 To 1933. He Was Also A Close Associate Of Mahatma Gandhi Walking With Gandhi In The Salt March Of 1930. Following His 1933 Journey With Tagore He Left India To Study At Oxford University And In 1937 Earned A D.Phil. He Moved Back To India In 1940 To Become A Professor Of English At The University Of Calcutta. In 1948 Chakravarty Moved To The Us To Join The Department Of English In Howard University Became A Fellow Of The Institute For Advanced Study In Princeton During 1950-51 And A Professor At Many Universities. He Wrote Both Poetry And Prose And A Number Of Articles In Journals. He Wrote Many Verse Collections In Bengali. His Poetry Reflects Idealism Humanism And A Great Love Of Nature And Beauty. He Served As A Delegate To The United Nations For India Chakaravarty Edited A Number Of English Translations Of Tagore's Works. The Book Emporium / Sasadhar Chakravarty / Kalika Press hardcover
1923réf. 1223Warszawa Warsaw: E. Gitlin 1923. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated blue cloth printed in gold. Ownership stamp on title page and on p. 35. Cover rubbed bumped at corners. The first episode title p. 6 restored no effect on text. Stains occasionally throughout pages yellowed due to aging. Overall in very good condition. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated blue cloth printed in gold. 313 7 p. Polish translation of Opatoshu’s iconic novel “In poylishe velder” originally published in Yiddish in 1921 in New York and adapted to screen twice 1929 1971. Joseph Opatoshu 1887–1954 was a Polish-born Jewish Yiddish writer lived most of his life in the US known as one of the most important Yiddish-American authors. Tales of the Polish Forest is a story of Jewish smugglers and horse thieves carrying out their trade on the Tzarist Russian-German border together with Poles the novel is showing the Jewish rootedness in Poland. Opatoshu’s story was adapted to screen first by Jonas Turkow 1929 as “In die poylishe velder” with Yiddish intertitles and the 1971 adventure film Romance of a Horsethief which is partly and loosely based on Opatoshu’s novel. The cover and the title page identical were designed by Wladyslaw Ze’ev Weintraub the Expressionist graphic artist and painter associated with Polish Yiddish avant-garde movements and magazines such as “Khalyastre” and “Albatros”. . E. Gitlin unknown
1930réf. 11201JEWS WITHOUT MONEY Boni & Liveright 1930 first edition second printing near fine in vg William Siegel illustrated dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and chipping with woodcuts by Howard Simon. An autobiographical novel of Jewish culture in the lower east side of New York soon after the turn of the century. Considered by some the prototype for the American proletarian novel. Gold an ardent communist published in 'The Masses' and 'The Liberator' which he later edited as well as 'The New Masses' where he was a founding editor. This copy INSCRIBED with a full page inscription by the author dated at time of publication to Harry Hansen famous journalist editor literary critic and historian one month after the first printing. Very scarce thus. Highly praised by H. L. Mencken Samuel Ornitz William Soskin Upton Sinclair John Dos Passos & Lewis Gannett. Contrary to what you may have heard this title is not a fantasy novel. Boni & Liveright unknown
1930réf. 11201JEWS WITHOUT MONEY Boni & Liveright 1930 first edition second printing near fine in vg William Siegel illustrated dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and chipping with woodcuts by Howard Simon. An autobiographical novel of Jewish culture in the lower east side of New York soon after the turn of the century. Considered by some the prototype for the American proletarian novel. Gold an ardent communist published in 'The Masses' and 'The Liberator' which he later edited as well as 'The New Masses' where he was a founding editor. This copy INSCRIBED with a full page inscription by the author dated at time of publication to Harry Hansen famous journalist editor literary critic and historian one month after the first printing. Very scarce thus. Highly praised by H. L. Mencken Samuel Ornitz William Soskin Upton Sinclair John Dos Passos & Lewis Gannett. Contrary to what you may have heard this title is not a fantasy novel. Boni & Liveright unknown books
1777réf. 56912'MILESTONE IN THE EARLY LITERATURE OF GAS ANALYSIS' first edition tall 8vo. 2 title ii editor's 'advertisement' v-viii 471pp frontispiece plate advertisement leaf a cancel . bound after PRIESTLEY Joseph A Familiar Introduction to the Study of Electricity. The Third Edition.London: Printed for J. Johnson tall 8vo. 4 half-title & title 5-85 3 advt.pp. 5 plates 4 folding The two items bound together in contemporary calf spine paneled by gilt highlighted raised bands russet morocco title label the first plate in the Priestley cropped by the binder at the fold and thus missing the right-hand half else a nice copy. Very neat contemporary signature on title "Edw. Roche". Magalhaes: ESTC t74551 Dictionary Scientific Biography Vol. 9 p.5-6The leaf following the title page pages i-ii is a cancel: 'Advertisement of the editor relating to the use of the simple glass machines for making mineral waters'. The pagination picks up a p.v and the book is complete thus. Magellan Aveiro Portugal 1722- 1790 took to science while an Augustinian monk in Coimbra but he later left the order and moved to England and later Protestantism. Although he "produced no scientific work of serious consequence . He is known for his a wide circle of scientific acquaintances and for acting as an intermediary in disseminating new information. . He was a fellow of the Royal Society and a member of several European academies of science. . He wrote more about scientific instruments than about any other subject" D.S.B. This book is the first edition of "an important milestone in the early literature of gas analysis. . an account of his researches on gases addressed to his friend Joseph Priestley. The glass apparatus for impregnating water with fixed air carbon dioxide is described in detail. Newly improved by 'Mr. Parker' the apparatus was superior to that used by Priestley and described by him in 1772. Carbon dioxide was prepared by dissolving marble calcium carbonate in dilute sulphuric acid. Magellan also describes three new types of eudiometer he had designed; these and the apparatus for making carbonated waters are illustrated in the frontispiece" Neville II p.125. Further editions followed in 1779 and 1783.Priestley: ESTC t35302 Crook Priestly Bibliography S/473 To illustrate this work Priestly used plates nos. 2367 and 8 from his The History and present state of electricity and "it was not thought necessary to change the numbers of them" preface. Printed for W. Parker .. and sold by J. Johnson .. and W. Brown hardcover
1909réf. 0002367CULLMAN CEDAR BLUFF ALABAMA. Fair. 1909. On offer is a fascinating naïve group of eight 8 original ledgers once owned and handwritten by we believe a doctor named J.P. Wilson of Cedar Bluff Alabama as per an inscription in the 1909 book. That said we cannot be certain as to ownership as there are two possible ownership inscriptions the other in the 1916 book of J. D. King of Cullman County Alabama. Local researchers should undoubtedly be able to confirm the author. Through the years 1909 1910 1912 1916 1918 1920 1924 to 1927 readers will find a trove of date regarding this doctor's practice in Northern Alabama. The information includes a daily tally of patients seen prognosis medicines given and amount what he charged for his services how much the patient paid and the balance owed to him. These also show some of the trades he made for his services. Many of the births and deaths are recorded. All told the books make for what would through forensic analysis of the records a super picture of the available medical care types of treatments ailments and remedies in this rural area of Alabama. Genealogists will no doubt have a fair bit of information. Overall the books are legible though the covers and bindings for the most part are in rough shape. Overall Fair .; Manuscript; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF CULLMAN CULLMAN COUNTY CEDAR BLUFF NORTHERN ALABAMA SOCIAL HISTORY THE DEEP SOUTH ALABAMIAN SOUTHERN AMERICANA MEDICAL HISTORY HISTORY OF MEDICAL SERVICES HUNTSVILLE BIRMINGHAM J.D. KING J.P. WILSON DOCTORING EARLY 20TH CENTURY MEDICINE RURAL ALABAMA AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG PRIMARY SOURCE FIRST HAND ACCOUNT SOCIAL HISTORY PERSONAL STORIES LIVING HISTORY ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPELBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL NARRATIVES . unknown
1839réf. ST16660aPhiladelphia: Lea & Blanchard; New York: Harper & Brothers 1839-42. Various Editions as described below. 16 pp. ads 2 leaves 13-212 pp. 8 leaves inserted ads; viii 13-403 1 pp.; 92 pp. 2 leaves ads. Three separately published works. Oliver Twist in publisher's purple-brown cloth smooth spine with gilt title and depiction of Oliver; "Nicholas Nickleby" in original tan paper boards backed with dark brown buckram smooth spine with paper label; "American Notes" in original brown paper wrappers printed in black in modern green buckram chemise and slipcase red morocco label. Oliver Twist with 24 plates by Cruikshank; "Nicholas Nickleby" with two plates by Phiz Hablot Knight Browne. Oliver Twist with the ex libris of W. Miller/ Dickensiana to the front pastedown additionally with the pencilled ownership inscription "J. B. Finlay Esq. Woodlea Saratoga Springs New York 1864" and an additional ink ownership inscription "Beekman Finlay" to the front flyleaf. "Nicholas Nickleby" with illegible early ink inscription to the front flyleaf. "American Notes" with the early ink ownership inscription of Marshall Whittemore and the pencilled inscription of M. A. Lebbette to the title. Oliver Twist: Wilkins p. 15; Podeschi A31. "Nicholas Nickelby": Podeschi A43; Wilkins p. 17. "American Notes": Podeschi A67; Wilkins p. 24. Bindings rather sunned; "Notes" with the wrappers a bit chipped and soiled "Notes" also rather foxed internally because of poor paper quality though the other two works generally quite clean scattered light stains plates with overall mild toning other trivial defects but all still perfectly acceptable in their solid unrestored original bindings. This is a pleasing group of three early American Dickens printings all in their original publisher's bindings and well preserved when considering the poor state of bookmaking in the United States at the time. Of "Oliver" one of the author's most famous works Day says "the novel's lasting achievement is the symbolic power of the dark underwolrd of the poor. The pitiful figure of Oliver holding out his little bowl and asking for more is an ineradicable symbol of all the needy children in the world pleading for sustenance. In such universalizing lies the magic of Dickens." The work first appeared in America in two volumes published by Lea & Blanchard previously Carey Lea and Blanchard in 1838-39. Our single volume edition followed shortly in 1839 initially in a state containing only two frontispiece etchings and shortly after with the full 24 as here. This copy which retains the original ads before and after the text is from the library of an important Dickens scholar: William Miller was a founding member of the Dickens Fellowship and helped create their journal "Dickensiana." He published a Dickens bibliography "The Dickens Student and Collector" in 1946 and had a large collection of Dickens' works and related ephemera particularly focusing on musical adaptations of Dickens' works. Our copy also belonged to John Beekman Finlay 1810-69 an early president of the First National Bank of Saratoga Springs and a justice of the peace. "Nicholas Nickleby" written during the same period as "Oliver" follows the eponymous character's attempts to get by and to protect his virtuous sister Kate from poverty suitors with evil motives and the pair's cartoonishly cruel uncle Ralph. Day writes that while the plot is "rather hopeless" in this novel "Dickens creates some of the most extraordinary scenes in English literature" with deliciously comic and highly theatrical juxtapositions of character and scene. Originally released in 20 parts by Lea & Blanchard from 1838-39 the present version is the first complete edition released in the United States. Apparently two concurrent states were released one with all 39 of the Phiz illustrations and the second as in our copy with two frontispiece illustrations only. The third work here is probably the most unfavorably received of all of Dickens' books particularly in the States. "Notes" reflects the hearty dislike the author developed for America during his tour there in the winter and spring of 1842. He was disgusted with the Americans' rough-hewn lack of sophistication and especially with the toleration of slavery and the book clearly shows his antipathy. Ours was one of three editions released in November of 1842; there is some disagreement about which of these is truly the first American edition but they all were issued within a few days of each other. Lea & Blanchard; New York: Harper & Brothers unknown
1839réf. ST16660aPhiladelphia: Lea & Blanchard; New York: Harper & Brothers 1839-42. Various Editions as described below. 16 pp. ads 2 leaves 13-212 pp. 8 leaves inserted ads; viii 13-403 1 pp.; 92 pp. 2 leaves ads. Three separately published works. Oliver Twist in publisher's purple-brown cloth smooth spine with gilt title and depiction of Oliver; "Nicholas Nickleby" in original tan paper boards backed with dark brown buckram smooth spine with paper label; "American Notes" in original brown paper wrappers printed in black in modern green buckram chemise and slipcase red morocco label. Oliver Twist with 24 plates by Cruikshank; "Nicholas Nickleby" with two plates by Phiz Hablot Knight Browne. Oliver Twist with the ex libris of W. Miller/ Dickensiana to the front pastedown additionally with the pencilled ownership inscription "J. B. Finlay Esq. Woodlea Saratoga Springs New York 1864" and an additional ink ownership inscription "Beekman Finlay" to the front flyleaf. "Nicholas Nickleby" with illegible early ink inscription to the front flyleaf. "American Notes" with the early ink ownership inscription of Marshall Whittemore and the pencilled inscription of M. A. Lebbette to the title. Oliver Twist: Wilkins p. 15; Podeschi A31. "Nicholas Nickelby": Podeschi A43; Wilkins p. 17. "American Notes": Podeschi A67; Wilkins p. 24. Bindings rather sunned; "Notes" with the wrappers a bit chipped and soiled "Notes" also rather foxed internally because of poor paper quality though the other two works generally quite clean scattered light stains plates with overall mild toning other trivial defects but all still perfectly acceptable in their solid unrestored original bindings. This is a pleasing group of three early American Dickens printings all in their original publisher's bindings and well preserved when considering the poor state of bookmaking in the United States at the time. Of "Oliver" one of the author's most famous works Day says "the novel's lasting achievement is the symbolic power of the dark underwolrd of the poor. The pitiful figure of Oliver holding out his little bowl and asking for more is an ineradicable symbol of all the needy children in the world pleading for sustenance. In such universalizing lies the magic of Dickens." The work first appeared in America in two volumes published by Lea & Blanchard previously Carey Lea and Blanchard in 1838-39. Our single volume edition followed shortly in 1839 initially in a state containing only two frontispiece etchings and shortly after with the full 24 as here. This copy which retains the original ads before and after the text is from the library of an important Dickens scholar: William Miller was a founding member of the Dickens Fellowship and helped create their journal "Dickensiana." He published a Dickens bibliography "The Dickens Student and Collector" in 1946 and had a large collection of Dickens' works and related ephemera particularly focusing on musical adaptations of Dickens' works. Our copy also belonged to John Beekman Finlay 1810-69 an early president of the First National Bank of Saratoga Springs and a justice of the peace. "Nicholas Nickleby" written during the same period as "Oliver" follows the eponymous character's attempts to get by and to protect his virtuous sister Kate from poverty suitors with evil motives and the pair's cartoonishly cruel uncle Ralph. Day writes that while the plot is "rather hopeless" in this novel "Dickens creates some of the most extraordinary scenes in English literature" with deliciously comic and highly theatrical juxtapositions of character and scene. Originally released in 20 parts by Lea & Blanchard from 1838-39 the present version is the first complete edition released in the United States. Apparently two concurrent states were released one with all 39 of the Phiz illustrations and the second as in our copy with two frontispiece illustrations only. The third work here is probably the most unfavorably received of all of Dickens' books particularly in the States. "Notes" reflects the hearty dislike the author developed for America during his tour there in the winter and spring of 1842. He was disgusted with the Americans' rough-hewn lack of sophistication and especially with the toleration of slavery and the book clearly shows his antipathy. Ours was one of three editions released in November of 1842; there is some disagreement about which of these is truly the first American edition but they all were issued within a few days of each other. Lea & Blanchard; New York: Harper & Brothers unknown books
1982réf. 3950CBGraz, Akademische Verlagsanstalt, 1982. 4°. (2) l. Bl., 105 Bl., 3 l. Bl. mit Textillustr. nach Tuschzeichnungen; Kommentar: 108 S., 4 Bl. Roter Orig.-Lederband in solidem Pappschuber. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, 3950CB
1676réf. 12766Hamburg, Gottfried Schultze, 1676. 8vo. Mit 1 Kupfertaf. m. 5 Figuren. 2 Bl., 128 S., 1 Bl., S. 129-204, 2 Bl. Pgt. d. Zeit. Blauschnitt.
1604réf. 175871604 (Cologne 1604),106 gravures montées sur feuilles XVIIIe s.,numerotées au crayon 1 a 105 et une sans numero ,avec texte,coupées court,sans marge,texte en latin a double colonne.Cette série de fines tailles-douces incomplete ? a été dessinée et gravée par le buriniste hollandais Crispin de Passe (1564-1637)(Maarten de Vos or Crispijn de Passe).. Publié pour la première fois à Cologne en 1604, 1602 pour la planche 54, (=1604),date indiquée a la planche 76,quelques-unes avec monogramme ou initiales,bon etat.
1895réf. 015739Paris Léon Vanier 1895 In-12 Demi-reliure Edition originale
réf. Z1-W-018-01476BiblioLife. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. This is a reproduction of an out of print title. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. that were either part of the original artifact or were introduced by the scanning process. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. BiblioLife unknown
réf. Z1-A-004--03931The Stationery Office Books. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Shows some signs of wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. The Stationery Office Books unknown
réf. Z1-K-014-02282Academic Press. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Academic Press unknown
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réf. 51-6404London: Printed by J. Gold Naval Chronicle Office and published by Joseph Mawman 39 Ludgate Street 1815. 8vo. 14.5 x 23.5cm. vi 579pp. Contemporary English binding full long-grain blue morocco wide gilt borders framing the covers spine with 5 raised bands with decorated compartments gilt-stamped letter “S” on the covers gilt edges borders of the same morocco inside and endpapers of blue silk with gilt borders. Superficial crack along spine.Presentation copy in French from Smythe . “offered as a token of esteem and friendship by the publisher an associate member of the Royal Academy of Sciences Arts and Belles-Lettres of the city of Caen". Exemplaire “offert en témoignage d’estime et d’amitié par l’éditeur membre associé de l’Académie Royale des sciences arts et belles-lettres de la ville de Caen”. . Folding map as frontispiece by R. Rowe. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:230578317:Notes:Frontispiece is folded plate: chart on Mercator's Projection exhibiting Crusoe's trackEmbellished throughout text with maps and engravings. Cannot find any references to John Spencer Smythe in biographies and OCLC omits his name from the book! London: Printed by J. Gold Naval Chronicle Office, and published by Joseph Mawman, 39 Ludgate Street, 1815 hardcover
réf. 16-6339Mid-late 19th Century. . Watercolor and gouache. 31 x 22cm. Annotated with artist's name verso and collection number. .Compare to Morgan Library Dept. of Drawings and Prints. Record ID:109832.Notes:The artist's fame stems from his sketches of Parisian society for which Baudelaire dubbed him “the Painter of Modern Life” in the pages of Le Figaro 1863. Widely traveled and a regular contributor to the growing corpus of illustrated journals such as Illustrated London News and Punch he worked swiftly and captured the sense of movement synonymous with modern urban life.This group of figures appears to be gathered in the foyer of a theater or cabaret judging from the row of gas lamps along the upper margin. The women wear small bonnets one a cape the other a jacket over voluminous crinolines a stiff underskirt introduced in 1855 and unfashionable by 1867. They speak to two men in top hats while a third seems indifferent to their presence; other similarly attired men mill about and walk through the background.Provenance:Né en 1906 à Lezay Deux-Sèvres Jacques Cathy a exercé d’abord la profession de caricaturiste à l’hebdomadaire « Le Rire ». Il a rejoint vers 1927 l’équipe du Cabaret « La Vache Enragée » conduite par Roger Toziny. Jacques Cathy poursuit sa carrière de chansonnier après le décès de Toziny en 1939 et après la guerre il conduit parallèlement une carrière d’acteur dans le cinéma. Jacques Cathy était le 3ème Maire de La Commune Libre de Montmartre à partir de l’élection en 1949.Final provenance: Les Collections Aristophil - 164 bis avenue Charles-de-Gaulle 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine. Mid-late 19th Century. unknown
1733réf. 76597London: Johannes Pine 1733. Hardcover. The second issue with the corrected Caesar medallion in the second volume. Octavo two volumes. In contemporary burgundy calf bindings with a black leather spine label five raised bands elaborate gilt stamping ornamental dentelles and marbled endpapers. Period ink notation to the first blank leaf in the first volume. The bookplates of Sir Robert Peel 2nd Baronet FRS 1788-1850 and noted collector Francis A. Gaskill appear on the front endpapers. The spines are darkened with a bit of wear to the extremities. A tour-de-force of 18th century book design Pine's Horace is entirely engraved both text and illustration and liberally supplied with initials head- and tailpieces and vignettes exhibiting a harmony and delicacy reminiscent of the best French printing of the period. Johannes Pine hardcover
1480réf. 007085Low Countries 1480. No Binding. Fine. Vellum leaf 187 x 132 mm 20 lines in Gothic textura script. A superb illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours produced in the Low Countries during the late 15th century a period when the workshops of Bruges Ghent and Utrecht were creating some of Europe's most exquisite devotional manuscripts. The text written in a fine dark Gothic textura hand is in Middle Dutch and forms part of a prayer to the Virgin Mary most likely from the Hours of the Virgin or Suffrages. The opening words "Naudige vrouwe dijns heeren soens verdiente te worde." Gracious Lady though the merits of your Son." speak with intimate devotion in the vernacular tongue offering a poignet glimpse into private medieval piety. The leaf is richely adorned with a large historiated initial "D" painted in burnished gold and lapis blue enclosing a minature of a dragon set within a field of gilt tracery. A full bar border extends along the left margin with radiant sprays of acanthus leaves curling tendrils and seed pods in blue green rose and gold a classic feature of Flemish illumination. Red rubrics and alternating red and blue intials punctuate the text. On vellum of fine quality the surface smooth and well-preserved. Ink remains crisp and legible gold retains a soft brilliance. Minor toning and of few small age spots at the outer margins faint cockling along edge. No tears or losses. Middle Dutch Books of Hours are scarcer on the market than their Latin counterparts and leaves with complete borders and historiated intials are particuly desirable. Overall a beautifully preserved and highly decorative leaf suitable for display. Unmatted and unframed unknown
1932réf. 76557Paris: L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza 1932. Hardcover. From an edition of 2500 copies this is one No. 2046 of 2200 printed on Velin Chiffon. Exquisite edition of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights with a French translation by Orientalist J.C. Mardrus 1868-1949. Mardrus's version of the Arabian Nights is mentioned explicitly in the pages of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Features 144 color plates by Léon Carré as well as gilt decorated chapter title pages borders and initials by Racim Mohammed. Quarto: twelve volumes in six. In three-quarter green morocco over green cloth bindings with blue mororcco spine labels five raised bands and decorative gilt stamping. The original printed paper wrappers are bound in. A lovely set. L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza hardcover
1935réf. 206117Privately Constructed: no publisher an Artists book 1935. Hardcover. VG light signs of age-toning to sheets. Tan paper spine is hand-lettered attached to green paper-covered boards. Inscribed and decorated endpaper in front hand-lettered and color-painted title-page followed by 12 hand-lettered pages inter-leaved with 10 hand-painted illustrations 9 of them being full-page. This book is a unique birthday present crafted for and presented to Juliana Force by Eirene Mungo-Park or Mungo Park in an undated inscription which reads as follows: "To Juliana Force a tribute from one of the birds the "English Robin". Provider of my utmost needs Baths and Sanctuary and feeds. God bless you dear for I would be Thin and grubly but for thee." This inscription is on the front free endpaper and is accompanied by a watercolor painted Robin with a crown of flowers perched upon a branch. The other watercolor illustrations in the book are primarily of birdfs as seen on the title-page and of birds and other beats gathered in or around an elevated circular water-bath or bird-bath in a yard. A few rudimentary human figures and other animals are present and there is a very nice end illustration exclaiming Happy Birthday with a young Shirley Temple-ish girl surrounded by a circluar frame of flowers at the end. A unique artist's book by Eirene Mungo-Park for her benefactor Juliana Force. Mungo-Park was a member of the Whitney Studio Club in the late 1920s and her works were purchased by Demuth Bluemner and others and Bluemner took inspiration from some of Mungo-Park's poetry noteably The Sonnet Series in the mid-1930s. no publisher, an Artists book hardcover
1598réf. 001041London: Thomas Creede 1598. First English language edition. . Hardcover. See Description. Small folio. Lacking preliminary blank leaf thus pp. 10 310 292 4. Page numbering is erratic. Leaf Ee3 is mis-signed as F3 but all leaves are present and in order. The title page contains a woodcut vignette/device. Each chapter begins with a woodcut decorative head piece and an initial. Bound in full dark brown modern calf with blind tooled borders and stamps after an early period style. The upper part of the title page is age-toned / tanned; a professionally sealed 7 cm. tear runs from the gutter part way across the upper portion of the title and is difficult to detect on first sight; a couple of tiny chips on the top edge are restored. Interior pages are generally attractive but with occasional mild age-toning and periodic faint marginal damp staining. A small repair patch is present on the inner margins of leaves A6 and V6. A tear on leaf V6 also carefully sealed extends vertically about 8.5 cm from the lower gutter and part way into the text but causing almost no obscuration. Printed by Thomas Creede who is best known for issuing dramatic works including some of Shakespeares plays. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is a translation of "Recueil des choses mémorables avenues en France sous le règne de Henri II François II Charles IX Henri III et Henri IV." This work is generally attributed to either Simon Goulart or Jean de Serres and was first printed in French no place or publisher in 1595 and again in 1598 expanded to include the reign of Henri IV up to the year 1597. See Brunet IV 1161-1162. The second part with new pagination provides translated selections from Pierre Matthieus 4 part "Histoire des derniers troubles de France" first published in Lyons 1594-95. A section at the end is titled "a brief recitall of the most memorable things which came to passé in Fraunce under the raigne of Henry the fourth until the middle of the Yeare 1598" which if written by Matthieu may possibly represent the first printing of some amendments which Matthieu later added to the second edition of his "Histoire" printed in 1600. This collection provides interesting testaments to the wars of religion in France during the 16th century. A separate 4 page tract at the end is titled: "A true discourse concerning the deliverie of Brittaine in the yeare 1598." ESTC S121331; USTC 513796; Lowndes p. 831; Hazlitt Biblio. Collections 2nd Series p. 231. Thomas Creede hardcover
