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1915rif. BOOKS23670New York NY: MacMillan Company. Very good condition/No Dustjacket. 1915. 3rd. Printing. 8vo. 390 pp. . MacMillan Company unknown
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Book is in excellent condition with light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 285 pages, maps, b&w illustrations.
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1696rif. H2NF22FJOYPMLondon: Richard Chiswell Benjamin Walford Matthew Wotton George Conyers printing probably shared by 2 printers one possibly Samuel Roycroft 1696. Gold-tooled red goatskin morocco by Robert Riviere in London ca. 1875/80 with 5 false bands on the spine each board with a double frame of double and triple fillets and 2 different sets of 4 corner pieces author and title in gold in 2nd and 3rd of 6 spine compartments the others with gold-tooled decorations and the date and place of publication at the foot gold-tooled turn-ins gold fillets on board edges straight-combed endpapers gilt edges stamped on the back of the free marbled endleaf in sans-serif capitals: "Bound by Riviere". 4to 19.5 x 15.5 cm. With a woodcut ship on the title-page with a griffin on the sail and about 60 woodcut illustrations in the text mostly about 5.5 x 8 cm plus about 10 repeats each with a thick-thin border. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. A rare 17th-century English edition with about 60 different woodcut illustrations of a classic and partly fictional 14th-century account of travels presented as voyages of Sir John Mandeville through Turkey Egypt Ethiopia Syria Persia Arabia India and the East Indies. It was originally written in French and is thought to have been compiled from various sources by Jehan d'Outremeuse 1338-1400 of Liege. It includes many well-known stories and illustrations of monstrous people and animals in exotic lands: a man with only one enormous foot that he can use as a parasol a dog-headed man a man with his face in his chest a girl who turns into a dragon griffins nine-meter giants ants that gather gold diamonds that mate and give birth to baby diamonds and much more that spoke to the imagination. The book also includes genuine descriptions of the regions covered and gave many Europeans their first notions of the Near East Middle East India and East Indies. The part on Arabia includes an account of the birth of Mohammed.With early owner's inscription and bookplates along with a loosely inserted signed autograph letter ca. 1900. 8 leaves with their margins extended at the fore-edge and foot the title-page and last page somewhat worn and dirty but further in good condition with a few minor fedects. The spine is slightly faded but the binding is still very good.l Arber Term catalogues II p. 593 item 8; ESTC R217088 5 copies; J.O. Halliwell ed. Voiage and travaile of Sir John Maundevile 1866 p. xvi item 2 from the Grenville library; Wing M417 same 5 copies; cf. for the story in general: Cambridge history of English literature 1976 pp. 78-87. Richard Chiswell, Benjamin Walford, Matthew Wotton, George Conyers, [printing probably shared by 2 printers, one possibly Samuel unknown
1887rif. 293400London: Pickering 1887. hardcover. near fine. Edited Annotated and Illustrated in Facsimile by John Ashton. 289 pages with untrimmed edges. 4to Original pale blue boards rubbed and somewhat discolored with vellum spine. London: Pickering 1887. Limited edition. Endpapers a bit foxed otherwise a beautiful pristine copy. Number 28 of 100 copies printed in Large Paper. Based on a reprint of the unique Pynson edition the oldest English printed version extant in the Grenville Library of the British Museum. ".Grenville and Dibdin believe the Pynson edition to be earlier than that of Wynken de Worde's" See Cox I p. 319. Pickering unknown books
1727rif. 244219London: Woodman Lyon and C. Davis 1727. Reissue of the 1725 edition with cancel title-page. xvi 8 384 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half dark brown polished calf and cloth red leather spine label. Title and final leaf backed title page a little toned otherwise a clean crisp copy. Reissue of the 1725 edition with cancel title-page. xvi 8 384 8 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Translation of a French manuscript of Mandeville's Itinerarium. and for centuries a standard book for travellers. "Mandeville is said to have set out on his travels in 1322 and after visiting Egypt Palestine Tartary India the Indian isles etc. returned home in 1355. His death is set at 1371." Cox I 319. This is the second issue of the "best English edition" Lowndes and "the completest edition up to date" Cox. Woodman, Lyon and C. Davis unknown books
1928rif. 527461928. MANDEVILLE John. Itinerarium English. The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile Kt. Which treateth of the way to Hierusalem and of marvayles of Inde with other ilands and countryes. 4 156 1 pp. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts and illuminated initials by Valenti Angelo. Folio bound by William Wheeler in recent half morocco. New York: Printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for Random House 1928. The superb Grabhorn edition of Mandeville's Travels originally written in Anglo-Norman French in 1356-7. "It claims to be a guide both geographical and ethical for pilgrims to the Holy Land but it carries the reader far off course to Turkey Tartary Persia Egypt and India. It was an important influence on subsequent English writers from Chaucer to Shakespeare and was the prototype in English of the popular genre of the fabulous travel book" Osborne Oxford Companion. The illustrations were drawn by Valenti Angelo from those in early editions and manuscripts. The type was designed by Rudolph Koch here used for the first time in America. The text of this Grabhorn edition is taken from that of the English edition of 1725. One of an edition of only 150 copies. Ransom p. 302 no. 12. unknown books
1928rif. 236765New York: Printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for Random House 1928. No. 56 of 150 copies SIGNED by Angelo. With 34 decorative initials hand-illuminated in red gold and blue and 31 illustrations by Valenti Angelo redrawn from early editions and manuscripts. 1 vols. Folio 362 x 235 mm. Original Philippine mahogany boards brown morocco back spine tooled in blind by William Wheeler; very slight wear to spine ends else Fine. Angelo Valenti. No. 56 of 150 copies SIGNED by Angelo. With 34 decorative initials hand-illuminated in red gold and blue and 31 illustrations by Valenti Angelo redrawn from early editions and manuscripts. 1 vols. Folio 362 x 235 mm. A superb example of the Grabhorn expertise one of the Fifty Books of the Year; Rudolph Koch's Gothic type Bibel Gotisch is used here for the first time in America. The Grabhorns intended to offer the book for direct sale but after viewing proofs Bennett Cerf bought the entire edition for Random House. One can see why. Heller & Magee 107 Printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for Random House unknown books
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