MONCRIF (François-Augustin Paradis de).Livre Rare Book
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1738Best.-Nr. 0037061738 Amsterdam, Changuion, 1738. In-16 (82 X 132 mm) veau blond, plats ornés d'un encadrement de triple filet doré avec armes dorées au centre, dos lisse orné et cloisonné de filets dorés, guirlandes dorées, pièce de titre grenat, roulette dorée intérieure, tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque) ; frontispice, (2) ff. de faux-titre et titre imprimé en rouge et noir, (10) pages, (1) f. blanc, 362 pages, (1) f. d'approbation. Dos habilement refait.
1920Features: Satanism and the World Order - Professor Gilbert Murray explains how "The spirit of hatred, which rejoiced in any wide-spread disaster that was also a disaster to the world's rulers, is perhaps more rife today than it has been for a thousand years"; Santo Domingo - The Land of Bullet-Holes - Photo-illustrated article by Harry A. Franck describes how, crossing between Haiti and Santo Domingo, he found striking differences in the two peoples; Paradise Shares (fiction); The Making of a Book-Collector - William Harris Arnold; From a Door-Step in Leinster (Life in small Irish towns), I. The Door-Step, II. A Girl for the Kitchen; The Strange Paumotu Atolls - Frederick O'Brien describes his visit; Aaron Harwood (fiction); The Tide of Affairs - Comment on the times; Quaint Old Boston - Photo-illustrated article; Georgios Venizelos and Hellas; Her Promised Land (fiction); Mecca's Revolt Against the Turk - An explanation of current difficulties in the Middle East subsequent to Emir Feisal setting himself up as king of all Syria in March, 1920 - article with photos of Mecca, Medina, T.E. Lawrence, and The Emir Feisal; The Success of the Season - Theatre business is growing; Musical Adventures of the Season; Where is America Going? - The third (and final) letter by American reporter Webb Waldron to Bernard Roberval, French historian and philosopher; Investment and Banking; Colour frontispiece illustration "The Painted Desert", by Albert Groll. pp. 289-432, 56 [ads]. Includes a particularly wonderful assortment of nostalgic ads, with full-page color ads for Old Colony Trust Company of Boston (featuring John Hull, the mint master of the Massachusetts Bay Colony), W. & J. Sloane (rugs) of Fifth Ave., NYC, Indestructo Trunks, The Jordan Silhouette motor car, The Templar Motor Company, Mercer Motors Company, The Pantasote Company, Macbeth-Evans Glass Company, Kellogg's Krumbled Bran, G-E (General Electric) Fans, Davey Tree Surgeons, and Beech-Nut Ginger Ale. Somewhat above-average external wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Lacking back cover. A sound copy of this fascinating and informative vintage issue. Book
1966Best.-Nr. 2082702114602572Japan National Railway Chugoku Branch 1966. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Japan National Railway Chugoku Branch paperback
Best.-Nr. 697204093Taylor & Francis Group . Hardback. New. pp. 327 Taylor & Francis Group hardcover
Best.-Nr. 6705860ABC-Clio Incorporated . Hardback. Used. pp. 1840 Index ABC-Clio, Incorporated hardcover
1923Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Kidnapped by the "Gavilleros"- the British administrator of a large sugar estate on the West Indian island of Santo Domingo is kidnapped; An Island Paradise - photo-illustrated article on the 'progress, civilized, and thoroughly lovable people' of Fiji; Looking Backwards - 25th Birthday of this publication; An Adventure With a Mad Buffalo; Jimmy's Reformation - Jimmy Boncelek used to be the terror of Stigler, Oklahoma; Seeking the Copper Mountain - photo-illustrated account of an eventful journey through the little-known province of Veraguas, part of the Republic of Panama; A Woman in Unknown Albania - Part II - Rose Wilder Lane describes her adventures among the remote northern mountains, a picturesque country where the tribal blood-feud still flourishes - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - Part V - a tramp with a donkey cart, avoiding all modern luxuries; The Tobacco Smugglers of the Belgian Border - photo-illustrated report; A Soldier of Fortune - Part II - remarkable personal narrative smuggled from a man presently incarcerated in a French prison; Splitting the Herd - A cowboy adventure from the Texas plains; Photos of Chinese cave temple at Gunong Rapat in the federated Malay States; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1951Cover Painting by William Winter shows a joyous last day of school. Features: Colour photo Studebaker Commander V-8 ad inside front cover; Nice colour ad for George Weston Limited shows bride-to-be with family; Spyglass on Sweden - the Welfare State; If the Russians Attack Canada - article with photos and interesting map of likeliest Canadian targets; Wide Open, Excellency, by Lesley Holmes; How the Stock Crooks Operate, by Fred Bodsworth - how the 'blower boys' peddle worthless stocks via long-distance phone; The Long Ordeal of Mrs. Tak Sook Kyun - the Korean War has taken her home near the Manchrian border, her husband, her baby, and tossed her up like driftwood on the crowded Pusan hills - article by Pierre Berton with sad photos; Banff - a paradise for Sultans and Stenos - article with great colour photos; The Ups and Downs of Alan Young - originally from West Vancouver, he fought his way to the top in radio and movies; What it's Like to Live in the Dark - Larry Bartlett was blinded by a German shell; Boswell of the Brooks - Writer Roderick Haig-Brown milks a cow every day and gets called "Your Worship" - article with photos; The Secret Behind The Fiery Phantom that Sails Bay Chaleur; Nice colour illustrated ad for Allis-Chalmers Rumely, Ltd showing a grader levelling a country road; Attractive colour ad for the Hillman Minx Convertible; Colour illustrated Coke centerfold shows store display and picnic lunch packed and ready to eat; Colour Chevrolet ad featuring a 2-door Bel Air; Nice colour photo ad for Snyder's Fine Furniture; Colour illustrated ad for the Ford Custom Deluxe Convertible; Nice 2-colour ad for the Austin A-40 Devon auto; Nice colour Parker Pen ad inside back cover features endorsement by Mazo De La Roche; Colour Margene ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy of this particularly wonderful issue. Magazine
1906Features: The Shwebo Dacoities; The Oldest Industry in England; The Doctor's Escape; Travel and Adventure on the 'Roof' of the World - II; The "Freshmen's Banquet"; On the High Seas - I; A Narrow Shave; Fortune-Tellers of Many Lands; The Secret of Hadfield House; District Life in India; "Held Up" by a Shark; A Feast of Blankets; "Black Jack"; The Man-Hunting Dogs of America; A Modern Free-Lance - I; Eventful Engagements; The Ordeal of Malek Chand; My Adventures on Suwarrow; A Modern Free-Lance II; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - I; The Love of Count Erbach; Showing Him Round; On the High Seas - II; Some Fishing Experiences; A Ten-Thousand-Mile Race; The Woman in Black; Across Mexico on Horseback - I; The Gasparini Mystery; A Snake Hunt in Florida; On the High Seas - III; The Baron's Wooing; An African Slave-Market; A Modern Free-Lance - III; Among Insurgents and Brigands in Crete - II; The Tragedy of Manipur; The Last Buffalo Hunt; The New Hand at the Creek; The Sturgeon Fishers of Russia; My Two Days' Holiday - I; Our "Home from Home" in Rhodesia; The Captain's Bride; Across Mexico on Horseback - II; An Interrupted Tour; In the Service of the Sultan; Unique in the Annals of Crime; Through Arctic Seas; The Kidnapping of Eddie Brathwaite; A Village of Basket-Makers; My Two Days' Holiday - II; Some Sporting Experiences - I & II; The Chief's Bow; Across Mexico on Horseback - III; The Long Arm of Coincidence; Hunting the Great Sea-Slug; A Motor-Car Holdup; On the High Seas - IV; The "Mecca" of China; Three in a Tree; The Festival of the "Whale Guest"; The Director's Peril; Witches and Witchcraft in Brittany; On the High Seas - VI; In the Swirl of the Pentland; The "Luck" of the Lozinsky's; The Smuggler's Paradise; The Conversion of Dodge City; Untrodden Paths - II; My Adventure in Germany; A Doctor in the Bush - II; The Abduction of Eva Carson; A Motor-Car Hunting Trip; Down the River; Where Walking-Sticks Grow; The "Yellow Devil"; and more. Book
Best.-Nr. 409212 tomes.Garnier frères. In-4 Carré, 12 volumes imposants relié dans un demi chagrin rouge en parfait etat .Nouvelle édition, précédée d'une étude littéraire sur Chateaubriand par Sainte-Beuve. Tome 1: Etude sur Chateaubriand, Essai sur les révolutions anciennes et modernes. Tome 2: Génie du christianisme. Tome 3: Atala, René, Le dernier Abencerag, Les Natchez, Poésies. Tome 4: Les martyrs. Tome 5: Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem. Tome 6: Voyages en Amérique, en Italie, au Mont-Blanc, Mélanges littéraires. Tome 7: Mélanges politiques, Polémique. Tome 8: Polémique (fin), Opinions et discours politiques, Fragments divers. Tome 9: Etudes historiques. Tome 10: Histoire de France des quatre Stuart, Vie de France. Tome 11: Le paradis perdu, Essai sur la littérature anglaise. Tome 12: Congrès de Vérone, Guerre d'Espagne, Table générale et analytique, nombreuses vignettes protegées par leur serpentes, tres decoratifs dans leur reliure , photos sur demande
1766Best.-Nr. 20601Florence Italy: Giuseppe Vanni 1766. Print. Very good condition. A somewhat bizarre example of tail feathers with an attenuated beak head and body attached of birds of paradise. Period hand-colored copper engraving from the Natural History of the Birds Treated Systematically and Adorned with Copperplate Engraving Illustrations in Miniature and Life-Size 1766-1777. The work carries some interesting historical importance according to Peter Dance: "The production of its five massive folio volumes must have been one of the most remarkable publishing ventures ever undertaken in Florence. Begun in 1767 and based on birds taken from the collection of Giovanni Gerini it was completed ten years later. It was larger better engraved and more vividly coloured than any previous work on birds but these are not its only claim to fame. The attitudes of the birds themselves give this book its unique character. Strutting parading posturing and occasionally flying.are birds whose real-life counterparts would surely disown them and not without reason for Manetti seems in these pictures to be depicting the human comedy the habits and mannerisms of contemporary Italian society. His book may still be rated among the very greatest bird books if only for its magnificent comicality" S. Peter Dance The Art of Natural History: Animal Illustrators and their Work. London 1978. Approx. 10 5/8 x 13 1/2" platemark on watermarked paper measuring 14 1/2 x 18". The original images were drawn by Lorenzo Lorenzi Violante Vanni or Manetti himself. Giuseppe Vanni unknown
1766Best.-Nr. 20598Florence Italy: Giuseppe Vanni 1766. Print. Very good condition. A somewhat bizarre example of tail feathers with an attenuated beak head and body attached of birds of paradise. Period hand-colored copper engraving from the Natural History of the Birds Treated Systematically and Adorned with Copperplate Engraving Illustrations in Miniature and Life-Size 1766-1777. The work carries some interesting historical importance according to Peter Dance: "The production of its five massive folio volumes must have been one of the most remarkable publishing ventures ever undertaken in Florence. Begun in 1767 and based on birds taken from the collection of Giovanni Gerini it was completed ten years later. It was larger better engraved and more vividly coloured than any previous work on birds but these are not its only claim to fame. The attitudes of the birds themselves give this book its unique character. Strutting parading posturing and occasionally flying.are birds whose real-life counterparts would surely disown them and not without reason for Manetti seems in these pictures to be depicting the human comedy the habits and mannerisms of contemporary Italian society. His book may still be rated among the very greatest bird books if only for its magnificent comicality" S. Peter Dance The Art of Natural History: Animal Illustrators and their Work. London 1978. Approx. 10 5/8 x 13 1/2" platemark on watermarked paper measuring 14 1/2 x 18". The original images were drawn by Lorenzo Lorenzi Violante Vanni or Manetti himself. Giuseppe Vanni unknown
1743Best.-Nr. 40308à Paris: Chez Bertrand Brunet 1743. Fine. Chez Bertrand Brunet à Paris 1743 9.50 x 16.50 cm relié First edition. Contemporary full marbled and glazed brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands attractively decorated. Thin split at foot measuring 0.5cm. 2 corners slightly bumped. Good copy. A mixture of critiques plays poetry and speeches. Contains notably ""Les Réflexions sur quelque ouvrages faussement appelés ouvrages d'imagination""; ""Les âmes rivales histoire fabuleuse""; ""Les abdérites"" and ""L'empire de l'amour"" plays; ""Discours de l'Académie française"" and other pieces. Chez Bertrand Brunet hardcover
Best.-Nr. 03-028420th cent. Color silkscreen. One of 37 signed numbered and titled impressions. 35 x 20 inches. 88 x 51 cm. 20th cent. unknown
1947Best.-Nr. 5237Paris, André Vial, 1947. 5 volumes in-8 en feuilles (308 p., 100 p., 148p., 196 p.,164 p.) sous couvertures rempliées, 3 chemises et étuis (le dernier avec deux discrets morceaux de scotch).
Best.-Nr. 3069Imprimerie Nationale, André Sauret Editeur, 1965, in-4, 22.5x28.5 environ, 525p+262p+312p+375p397p+349p+277p+343p, exemplaire numéroté sur vélin d'Arches filigrané, broché étuis-chemises à demi-reliure éditeur, dos ornés de la lettre "H" avec titres et tomaisons dorés, sous étuis cartonnés motifs tissage, quelques infimes frottis les dos des tome 8 et 6, Tome I. Le Vieil Homme et la mer, En avoir ou pas - Tome II. L'Adieu aux Armes - Tome III. Le Soleil se lève aussi - Tome IV. Mort dans l'après-midi - Tome V. Les Vertes Collines d'Afrique - Tome VI. Paradis perdu - Tome VII. Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro - Tome VIII. Pour qui sonne le Glas.
Best.-Nr. 20771Paris, Bernard Grasset, “Les Cahiers Verts”, N°1, 1921 ; in-12 (198 x 130 mm), bradel demi-maroquin prune à grain long, titre doré, couverture et dos conservés, non rogné (reliure un peu postérieure) ; 205 pp., [1] f. d’Achevé d’imprimer ; [4] pp. “Les Cahiers Verts” par Daniel Halévy, présentation de cette nouvelle collection.
1882Best.-Nr. LIT9270MRelié, 157 pages, paru en 1882 aux éditions Gustave Guérin, Librairie-Éditeur, livre en très bon état général, dos refait en demi-cuir bordeaux, quelques rousseurs. 45 x 35 cm.
1791Best.-Nr. 17206Paris, Maradan, 1791 ; 2 tomes in-8, demi veau blond à coins, dos à nerfs, caissons décorés à la grotesque, pièce de titre rouge, et de tomaison anthracite, tête dorée, tranches ébarbées (reliure du XIXe) ; VIII, 408 ; 484 pp. , portrait de Moncrif gravé par Duflos en frontispice et 4 figures ; portrait de Stanilas, Roy de Pologne, ajouté.
1809Best.-Nr. PHO-1531Paris, Chez Desray, 1809, in-folio, faux-titre, titre et 6 cartes à double page et montées sur onglets, relié demi toile, ex-libris en page de garde, frottements.
1765pp. [34], 531, [11]. Small 12 mo. 144 mm. German text, printed in old Fraktur type. Age stain. Apples in woven basket woodcut terminal device. Worn original full leather binding, with clasps. Johann Arndt (1555-1621) was among the most significant of Lutheran authors. He was sometimes referred to as the 'Father of German Pietism'. This work, also known as the 'Paradiess-Gartlein', served as a major source for the first Swiss-Mennonite prayerbook [Ernsthafte Christenpflicht]. GLP/USA 316; Evans 9907; Hildeburn 2304; Seidensticker p. 72. SCARCE. JUN_GER1
2007Trade paperback Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light Wear on cover. Pages a ll intact, clean, no tear and no writings. Stock Photo different from actual book cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 533 p. Audience: General/trade.
178812mo., on laid paper, with engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 engraved plates; contemporary calf, expertly rebacked in calf to style, original red lather label laid down, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. The frontispiece is Phinn's medallion portrait of the author, first published in Donaldson's edition of the Poetical Works in 1772. The plates (also by Phinn) are placed to head books IV, VIII and IX. This edition includes, in addition to the poem, the Preface (by Lackington), the Life (by Newton) augmented with extracts from Toland and Birch, Barrow's 'In Paradisum Amissam', Marvell's 'On Paradise Lost', a description of the verse and full index. This edition is selected for comment by Professor John T. Shawcross in his address celebrating the acquisition of the Robert J. Wickenheiser collection of Miltoniana by the Thomas Cooper Library of the University of South Carolina (2006), together with an even more elusive companion volume. EXTREMELY SCARCE. ESTC N32815. Not recorded by NCBEL. COPAC lists copies only at Auckland, BL and Harvard.
1980[12], 411 pages. Selected bibliography. Glossaries of family names and common russian terms. Many black and white maps and reproductions of archival photos. "The purpose of this work is to provide the general reader and particularly the interested descendants of the German colonists in South Russia with a cultural history of three major enclaves in the Odessa area, namely the Catholic mother-colonies of the Liebental, Kutschurgan, and Beresan districts. The product of almost two decades of research and study." - Foreword. This copy from the fourth printing of the 1973 second edition. Prior owner's details atop front free endpaper otherwise book unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Very heavy wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A worthy copy of this treasured genealogical reference. Book
1907Features: Robinson Cruesoe's Island; A Fight with a Leopard; The White Slaves of the Grand Banks; In Search of Pearls; The Guardians of the Yukon; The Adventures of a Miniature "Strong Man"; My Tour Through Java; An American "Oliver Twist" - II; The Tragedy of the Tower; In Quest of the Bird of Paradise; A Race with Death; Down the Crank-Pit; "The Land of Enchantment"; The Demon Snake; The Ghost of Musket Flat; Two Days in the Under-World; A Treasure-Hunt in the Arctic; Down the Grand Canyon; Father Raymond's Burglar; Stealing a Secret; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - I; My Friend the Leopard; The Convict's Story; Hunting the Wild Carabao; Six Days in a Swamp; Frog Farms; The Garo's Oath; Tracking the Wire-Thieves; A Tale of Two Tigers; A Lady in Far Fiji - I; "Bud" Turner of Missouri; My Motor-Trip to Constantinople - II; Dublin and I; Monsters of the Forest; How Hassan Captured the Battleship; The World's Model Prison; Beseiged by Monkeys; Christmas in Montenegro; The Poacher's Daughter; Through Friesland on Skates; A Speculation in Turkeys; Searching for Castaways; In the Land of the "Long-Lips"; A Chapter of Accidents; A Lady in Far Fiji - III; What Befell the "Kathleen"; The Tragedy of a Swiss Mountain; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - II; The Sea-Hedgehog Harvest; The Sheriff and the "Bad Men"; The Vanished Islands; On the Frontier in Central Africa - I; Running the Blockade; What Happened in Carpenter Creek; 'Twixt Ice and Sea; A Pedestrian's Predicament; Four on a Raft; The Perils of Walrus-Hunting?; The Story of Maungawahati; Sergeant Daley's Ordeal; On the Frontier in Central Africa - II; An Indian "Sherlock Holmes" - III; The Village of "Scissor-Grinder" Guides; "Slippery Letts"; The Company of Mercy; The Mummy Head; Wide World Picture Tours - I; Two Stowaways; The Mystery of the "Placer"; An Iceberg Ship; Life on a Dahabeeyah; Cornering a Cattle-Thief; Among Brigands and Wild Sheep in Mongolia; Two Men and a Shark; Through the United States on a Bicycle - I. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1984Best.-Nr. 013813Paris Paradis éditeur 1984 In folio, sous chemise illustrée à rabats.
