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1805rif. 1317131London; Edinburgh: William Miller; The Letter Press by James Ballantyne 1805. Hardcover. Quarto iii 197 pages; VG; bound in period blind and gilt calf newly rebacked with brown leather paneled spine with a black label and gilt lettering; marbled text block and endpapers; mild rubbing and wear to boards; bookplate of the Countess of Beauchamp on the ffep; ownership stamp on sfep; with 4 engraved plates and an engraved headpiece vignette; wide margins. Shelved Room A Oversize. The History of Rasselas Prince of Abissinia originally titled The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale though often abbreviated to Rasselas is an apologue about happiness by Samuel Johnson. Early readers considered Rasselas to be a work of philosophical and practical importance and critics often remark on the difficulty of classifying it as a novel.1 Johnson was a staunch opponent of slavery revered by abolitionists and Rasselas became a name adopted by emancipated slaves. wikipedia. 1317131. Special Collections. William Miller; The Letter Press by James Ballantyne hardcover
1956rif. 29076illustrated with prints by John Woodhouse Audubon and others. HBDJ 1956. 1st edition 8vo; VG/VG- Beautiful pictorial green 7& Black cloth covered boards; hardcover; 210 pages; B/W illustrations; illustrated with prints by John James Audubon John Woodhouse Audubon and others. Supplemented with drawings by Paul Galdone; a very good clean tight copy in a rubbed pictorial dust jacket WITH Much Rub to Back of DJ. TRAVELED AROUND WITH THEIR Father meeting Hunters trappers & Voyageurs Often spe nding a Nite with INDIANS They shuttled Back & Forth Across Atlantic Ocean To LONDON TO SUPERVISE PLATE-MAKING & to Paris. NY: Lothrop. Lee & Shepard Co INC hardcover
rif. 139760Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith New York NY 1930. First Edition. 1st Printing. Unpaginated pages. Nice Firm copy ! Previous owner names. Size: 8vo. Fiction Modern::Crime/Mystery/Suspense 5923 hardcover
1810rif. A46018Paris: Chez Osterwald L'aine 1810. First Edition. Wraps. Paperback . Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo.14 by 10.5cms pp 36 with 16 portraits by Bosselman and 5 pages text. Tissue guards to portraits with some slight foxing to tissue and plates. Original publisher's printed grey blue covers slightly chipped at spine ends o/w vg pleasing copy. World Cat dates this book as 1810 possibly from the engravings. Portraits of the Royal family Napoleon Bonaparte Lucien Bonaparte Prince Eugene Napoleon Francois Marie Louise D'Autriche Duchesse D'Angolueleme etc. No date c.1810. Chez Osterwald L'aine, paperback
1815rif. 005400London: J. Jenkins 1815. Near Fine. 1 hand-colored aquatint etching 262 x 329 mm image is 156 x 224 mm; mat is 14 x 17 inches. Published Oct. 1 1815. From The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies from 1799 to 1815. In Near Fine Condition: very lightly soiled in margins; image is clean and bright. J. Jenkins unknown
rif. 0701139382.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. 71318E-386. Very Good. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Bob Riley Studios New Orleans LA. Unknown Date 1943 . 115 pgs. Illustrated. Revised Edition. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. French Quarter bohemians designed The Bachelor in New Orleans as an unauthorized guidebook before unauthorized guidebooks. Over forty marvelous block prints illustrate a remarkably jaunty text delivering a portrait of New Orleans nightlife unlike any other. The Bachelor in New Orleans discusses among other things: absinthe the Ramos Gin Fizz Cafe Brulot Bourbon Street The Sazerac Bar Court of the Two Sisters Pat O'Brien's The Monteleone Hotel Bar art Cafe Lafitte Tujague's Bar The Walnut Room Micky Finns Antoine's Galatoire's Dinkelspiel salad lonliness Mardi Gras drinking jazz and sporting houses. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . paperback
1870rif. 21524Good. Antique woodcut lithograph plate is toned with modest foxing. Overall size: 16" x 12".; Prints . 1870. unknown
1942rif. 21003Good. Color lithographs published by The Chicago Sun have soiling in the margins tack holes in margins and general wear. Please see photos up close for condition. 14" x 10" each.; Prints . 1942. unknown
1870rif. 21533Good. Antique woodcut lithograph plate is toned with modest foxing. Overall size: 16" x 12".; Prints . 1870. unknown
1925rif. 28143London:: The Studio Limited 1925. Limited Edition. A Very Good copy with lightly mottled boards and fading to the spine. This is one of 1750 copies issued. Contains 115 plates many in color including ship portraits and scenes portraying sea battles The Studio, Limited, hardcover
1900rif. D9232c. 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. Mottled cloth; oblong 170 x 140 mm; contains 50 photographs mounted direct to the recto and verso of black leaves. Most are silver prints plus a platinum a large image of breaking waves and a cyanotype; average size about 4 x 2.75 inches with some a bit smaller or larger. Backstrip torn; a few leaves detached. Taken by or related to an artist who appears to have specialized in architectural ornamentation. Includes snapshots depicting figures and buildings from different vantage points views of the studio including a close-up of drawings pinned to the wall a besmocked artist in front of an easel scenes of family a besmocked artist in front of an easel. And kittens! Plus a cyanotype of a classroom. hardcover
1740rif. 28414Germany 1740. Good overall. 3 German copper plate engravings of glass blowing with German text. B&w approx. 6 x 4" toned mat burn where previously framed. unknown
1989rif. 327176San Francisco: North Point Press 1989. 56p. illustrated signed by Berry on the title page first trade edition hardcover bound in decorative boards and green quarter-cloth slight toning to top quarter of the boards otherwise in very good condition. Originally published in a limited edition of 150 copies by the Press of Appletree Alley. North Point Press unknown
1989rif. 18591Lewisburg PA: The Bucknell University /The Press of Appletree Alley 1989. Signed by the author and artist on the colophon page. First edition / First printing. Limited Edition.Number 6 of 130 copies. Oatmeal cloth. Very fine. Though no owner name is present this is the copy of Northwest Poet Joan Swift. A student of James Wright and Theodore Roethke at the University of Washington in the early 1960's. She mentored Tess Gallagher and was friends with Richard Hugo and Sister Mary Gilbert later known as Madeline DeFrees. The Bucknell University /The Press of Appletree Alley, hardcover
1937rif. 48349NY: Holiday House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1937. Hardcover. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Miniature format. Spine gap mid volume the occasional minor spot. Slight sunning/edgewear to boards spine sunned. 40pp. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall . Holiday House hardcover
1964rif. 240569Iowa City: Printed for the author at The Stone Wall Press 1964. Hardcover. 20p. 8x5 inches landscape layout preface woodcuts tissue guards rubricated title page #169/250 limited first edition thus in sewn blue boards and gilt. Printed for the author at The Stone Wall Press hardcover
1945rif. 35382London: The Golden Cockerel Press 1945. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited edition of 100 bound in 1/4 white morocco with this being number 44 1945. SIGNED by O'Connor and Whitfield on colophon. Stamp "Bound by S & S London" inside front cover Sangorski & Sutcliffe were binders to Cockerel Press. A Very Good copy. 8vo. 109 pp. bound in 1/4 white morocco and marbled cloth with title in gilt on spine top edge gilt. Very minor soiling to morocco with slight rubbing at base of spine. Text is unmarked engravings are clean and bright. A beautiful book. The Golden Cockerel Press hardcover
rif. 52242Hamburg B. S. Berendsohn ca. 1845. . Graphik #37510. - Blick von Osten über das rege Treiben promenierender spielender Waren feilbietender Menschen zwischen "Circus Gymnasticus" links im Vordergrund u. Buden unter Bäumen der Reeperbahn; im Hintergrund die St. Trinitatiskirche vgl. # 52145. - Zu dem Vorzeichner für Stahlstich Maler u. Lithographen Heinrich Jessen Mitte des 19. Jhdts. in Hamburg tätig siehe Der Neue Rump S. 212; zu dem Zeichner u. Radierer James Gray ebenfalls Mitte des 19. Jhdts. in Hamburg tätig siehe ebda. S. 150. - Im weißen Rand wenig stockfl. sonst gutes Exemplar Hamburg, B. S. Berendsohn, [ca. 1845]. unknown
1874rif. 028924Paris: Paul Ducrocq 1874. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 598 2 Pp Table At End. Third And Final Enlarged Edition No Date But Preface To This Edition Dated 1874.Lether Spine Over Green Boards Gilt And Embossed Silk Endpapers All Edges Gilt. Well Made And Well Bound Light Fraying At Tips And Spine Leather Split 1 3/4" Along Top Front Spine Edge Binding Still Strong And Secure. International Postage About $62 By Usps Priority Mail Box. Per Wikipedia Adolphe De Lescure 1833-1892 Was A French Writer And Historian Paul Ducrocq hardcover
1818rif. 18667London: John Murray. Very Good. This original 1818 map is toned with 2 clipped corners in the margins and a couple short tears in the margins but overall in very good condition. 4 fold lines as issued. 20" x 10.5"; Map . 1818. John Murray unknown
1818rif. 18654London: John Murray. Very Good. This original 1818 aquatint is toned with very faint modest soiling near the exterior edge of the margin and shadow of text from page it faced in book but overall in very good condition. 10.5" x 8.25"; Prints . 1818. John Murray unknown
1818rif. 18656London: John Murray. Very Good. This original 1818 aquatint is toned with very fain modest thumbing in margins and faint shadow of text from page it faced in book but overall in very good condition. 10.5" x 8.25"; Prints . 1818. John Murray unknown
1818rif. 18657London: John Murray. Very Good. This original 1818 aquatint is toned with very faint modest thumbing in margins and faint shadow of text from page it faced in book but overall in very good condition. 10.5" x 8.25"; Prints . 1818. John Murray unknown
1818rif. 18658London: John Murray. Very Good. This original 1818 aquatint is toned with very faint modest thumbing in margins and faint shadow of text from page it faced in book but overall in very good condition. 10.5" x 8.25"; Prints . 1818. John Murray unknown
