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1826réf. 316088Cumberland MD: Printed for the Author by J.M. Buchanan 1826. First edition. 8vo. Contemporary half roan and marbled boards spine lettered in gilt. Covers scuffed and worn small semicircular portion of rear cover fire damaged with loss wear extending into final 25 pages at top margin touching a few letters text foxed and faintly dampstained some contemporary pen annotations 1839 ownership inscription on front free endpaper. First edition. 8vo. First edition of this defense of colonial frontiersman Captain Cresap 1742-1775 whom Jefferson echoing others blamed for the murder of the family of the Mingo war chief James Logan during Lord Dunmore's War. Cresap has since been exonerated and the Virginian Daniel Greathouse is now blamed for the massacre of Logan's family. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in NOTES ON VIRGINIA.The immediate occasion for this now rare book written by the revolutionary officer later clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Joseph Doddridge in his then recently published NOTES ON THE SETTLEMENT AND INDIAN WARS OF THE WESTERN PARTS OF VIRGINIA & PENNSYLVANIA FROM THE YEAR 1763 UNTIL THE YEAR 1783 INCLUSIVE of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" Streeter. Streeter Sale 1335; Howes J32; Graff 2185; Sabin 35488; Siebert Sale 379 Printed for the Author, by J.M. Buchanan unknown
1826réf. 316088Cumberland MD: Printed for the Author by J.M. Buchanan 1826. First edition. 8vo. Contemporary half roan and marbled boards spine lettered in gilt. Covers scuffed and worn small semicircular portion of rear cover fire damaged with loss wear extending into final 25 pages at top margin touching a few letters text foxed and faintly dampstained some contemporary pen annotations 1839 ownership inscription on front free endpaper. First edition. 8vo. First edition of this defense of colonial frontiersman Captain Cresap 1742-1775 whom Jefferson echoing others blamed for the murder of the family of the Mingo war chief James Logan during Lord Dunmore's War. Cresap has since been exonerated and the Virginian Daniel Greathouse is now blamed for the massacre of Logan's family. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in NOTES ON VIRGINIA.The immediate occasion for this now rare book written by the revolutionary officer later clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Joseph Doddridge in his then recently published NOTES ON THE SETTLEMENT AND INDIAN WARS OF THE WESTERN PARTS OF VIRGINIA & PENNSYLVANIA FROM THE YEAR 1763 UNTIL THE YEAR 1783 INCLUSIVE of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" Streeter. Streeter Sale 1335; Howes J32; Graff 2185; Sabin 35488; Siebert Sale 379 Printed for the Author, by J.M. Buchanan unknown books
1826réf. 63685Cumberland MD: Printed for the Author by J.M. Buchanan 1826. In Defense of Captain Cresap First edition of this biography of Captain Cresap defending him against charges that he slaughtered Indians before the beginning of the Revolutionary War. In particular Cresap became infamous in the case of the Indian Logan and the murder of his defenseless family in 1774. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in Notes on Virginia.The immediate occasion for this now rare book written by the revolutionary officer later clergyman who had married Cresap's widow was the reopening of old sores by Joseph Doddridge in his then recently published Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia & Pennsylvania from the Year 1763 until the Year 1783 Inclusive of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" - Streeter. Each copy of this edition we have handled features largely identical contemporary manuscript annotations and corrections to the text suggesting that they are made in the hand of the author or publisher. The Streeter copy was bought by Sessler for $650 in 1968. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter roan over marbled boards spine gilt. Covers worn top outer corner abraded. 19th-century ownership inscription on front pastedown 19th-century gift inscription and authorship attribution on titlepage 19th-century inscription on rear pastedown. Top outer edge of text block abraded affecting only page numbers of first ten leaves. A few contemporary manuscript annotations in the text. Minor age-toning and a few minor dampstains. A decent copy. In a half morocco box. HOWES J32 "b." SABIN 35488. STREETER SALE 1335. FIELD 769. THOMSON 640. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 24967. DAB IV p.538 Cresap. hardcover books
2001réf. 514471Anchor Doubleday 2001. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. As pictured. Lot of 93 titles in the Anchor Bible Series. Some volumes have the owner's name on the front endpaper but all volumes are clean unmarked and with sound bindings; a few volumes lack the dust jackets; some dustjackets show some fading and/or staining to the spines. Uncommonly seen in this quantity since the series was never sold as a set but individually. This set includes a substantial number of the new and revised second series. Since being taken over by Yale most of the volumes in this series are no longer being printed in hardcover and have become quite scarce thus. Shipped professionally in sound sturdy boxes. Expedited and international delivery will require additional fees. Anchor Doubleday hardcover
1665réf. 55379Leiden: J. van Meurs 1665. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Folio. 6 10 290 1 134 1pp. 35 plates including engraved half-title and frontispiece. Bound in three-quarter brown leather over brown textured paper-covered boards. Half-title engraving. Frontispiece engraving. Missing China folding map. The title page printed in red and black with framed engraved vignette. Historiated and decorative initials head- and endpieces. All but one folding plate engraving Ceremonies du Marriage are double-paged and bound in butterfly style. In addition the volume is profusely illustrated with 110 in-text engravings 4 1/4 x 6 1/8" placed at the top of pages. Part II is an illustrated general description of the Chinese Empire. Account of the first Dutch embassy from 1655-1657 by Messrs. Pierre de Goyer and Jacob de Keyser. It is illustrated with a highly accurate description of China and enriched with outstanding copperplate engravings. Compiled by Jean Nieuhoff steward of the embassy translated into French embellished and supplemented with a wealth of fascinating details by Jean le Carpentier historiographer. The goal was to establish a trade agreement on behalf of the Dutch East India Company providing a very accurate description of the cities towns villages seaports and other notable places in China. Text in French. Binding with some wear along edges more pronounced at tail of spine and along half of bottom edge of front cover. Very lightly starting at half-title engraving. Few minor notations in margins. Plate bound in between pp 98/99 with 4 1/4 x 1 3/4 chip at lower foredge not affecting image. Block very lightly age-toned. Binding in fair condition. J. van Meurs hardcover
1665réf. 55379Leiden: J. van Meurs 1665. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Folio. 6 10 290 1 134 1pp. 35 plates including engraved half-title and frontispiece. Bound in three-quarter brown leather over brown textured paper-covered boards. Half-title engraving. Frontispiece engraving. Missing China folding map. The title page printed in red and black with framed engraved vignette. Historiated and decorative initials head- and endpieces. All but one folding plate engraving Ceremonies du Marriage are double-paged and bound in butterfly style. In addition the volume is profusely illustrated with 110 in-text engravings 4 1/4 x 6 1/8" placed at the top of pages. Part II is an illustrated general description of the Chinese Empire. Account of the first Dutch embassy from 1655-1657 by Messrs. Pierre de Goyer and Jacob de Keyser. It is illustrated with a highly accurate description of China and enriched with outstanding copperplate engravings. Compiled by Jean Nieuhoff steward of the embassy translated into French embellished and supplemented with a wealth of fascinating details by Jean le Carpentier historiographer. The goal was to establish a trade agreement on behalf of the Dutch East India Company providing a very accurate description of the cities towns villages seaports and other notable places in China. Text in French. Binding with some wear along edges more pronounced at tail of spine and along half of bottom edge of front cover. Very lightly starting at half-title engraving. Few minor notations in margins. Plate bound in between pp 98/99 with 4 1/4 x 1 3/4 chip at lower foredge not affecting image. Block very lightly age-toned. Binding in fair condition. J. van Meurs hardcover books
1700réf. BB1034T'Amsterdam / T'Utrecht: Daniel van den Dalen. François Halma. De wed. van A. van Someren / J. en Wilhelm vande Water. Boekverkopers 1700. Early Reprint. Vellum. Fine. Profusely illustrated edition of Cats's complete collected works first published in 1655. Two folio volumes bound in one each separately paged and signed and each with additional engraved title page bearing a portrait of the author as well as sectional title pages with engraved vignettes. 28666 i.e. 662: 183-184 repeated and 343-348 omitted10; 183906393-608611 pp with full-page portraits of the author and of Anna Maria Schurman three double-page plates and more than 400 superb copper-engraved half- and quarter-page plates most from the original designs of Adrian van de Venne numerous tailpieces of bouquets and historiated initials. Recent period-style full vellum binding by Fitterer mustard lettering piece decorated and lettered in gilt end papers renewed. An exemplary example in a magnificent vellum binding occasional spotting and minor marginal browning else fresh and bright with rich impressions of type and plates. Cats was a Dutch statesman and writer of emblem books a type of popular seventeenth-century literature consisting of woodcuts or engravings accompanied by didactic verses pointing a moral or presenting an ethical concern often related to love and marriage. Dutch artists of the Golden Age including Vermeer used such books as inspiration for motifs in their paintings and prints. The sources upon which Cats draws for this combination of emblem literature and love poetry are chiefly the Bible and the classics and occasionally Boccaccio and Cervantes. His first book Sinne-en minnebeelden "Portraits of Morality and Love" contained 96 emblematic engravings with text in Dutch Latin and French each emblem with a threefold interpretation expressing what were for Cats the three elements of human life: love society and religion. Perhaps his most famous emblem book written in a more homely style than his earlier works is Spiegel van den ouden en nieuwen tyt "Mirror of Old and New Times" with 128 emblematical engravings accompanied by quotations many of which have become household sayings. Two other worksHouwelyk 'Marriage' and Trou-ringh 'Wedding Ring' with 59 platesare rhymed dissertations on marriage and conjugal fidelity. Finally in one of his last books Ouderdom buyten-leven en hof-gedachten "Old Age Country Life and Garden Thoughts" with 27 plates Cats writes movingly about his declining years. Adapted from the Encyclopedia Britannica N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Daniel van den Dalen. François Halma. De wed. van A. van Someren / J. en Wilhelm vande Water. Boekverkopers unknown
1978réf. C94068Da Capo Pr. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine & unmarked tight to the spine - 257 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . 1978. 0306709864 . Da Capo Pr hardcover
1991réf. C87131La Renaissance du Livre. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 399 pages; 259 illustrations. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'Œuvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details; French Edition . 1991. 2871480311 . La Renaissance du Livre hardcover
1987réf. C94112Bucknell Univ Pr. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 239 pages; over 500 black and white illustrations. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . 1987. 0838751032 . Bucknell Univ Pr hardcover
réf. 66492Complete set of seven etchings van der Vinne realized when he was just eleven years old. All the plates are copied after Adriaen van Ostade's works and are in reverse. The set is stitched on the left as a small album. The set is signed on the first etching: 'Jacob Vander Vinne fecit et excudit / ANNNsic! 1699'.The frontispiece features three heads of old men the one in the middle in a square frame the ones on the sides in rounded frames. The second plate 'The seller of Spectacles' has been retouched with pen and brown ink on the fence of the window on the top left. The third plate 'The empty jug' shows three peasants in an inn conversing around a table looking at an empty jug. The fourth plate depicts a knife grinder working in the middle of the street. On the bottom of the fifth plate the 'Pater Familias' is an inscription in Dutch: 'Eet soete kintjes eet je livertjes sijne Reet'. The sixth plate shows a small concert as in an interior a man plays the violin while a woman sings and another man sitting opposite to the woman sings along with a glass of beer in his hand. The last plate from the set is a copy after a painting by Richard Brakenburg 1650-1702. Possibly this last impression is the same etching inv. RP-P-1934-600 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam reported as 'Anonymous copy after Brakenburg'.NL-Ab Van der Steur: 'Serie van zeven etsen inclusief een titelblad gedateerd 1699. Op 11-jarige leeftijd geëtst! Zeer zeldzaam. Nagler en Wurzbach kenden alleen het titelblad Nagler: ""Sehr geistreich radiert und aüsserst selten"". De overige zes etsen zijn copieën naar Van Ostade. Kramm kende deze alleen van exemplaren in bezit van afstammelingen en schreef ze toe aan Izak van der Vinne Suppl. 162. De etsen zijn aan elkaar verbonden door het oorspronkelijke stukje touw!' Etching on paper with Amsterdam watermark; plate mark: 1 59 x 135 mm 2 109 x 91 mm 3 105 x 81 mm 4 88 x 78 mm 5 130 x 92 mm bound horizontally 6 127 x 91 mm bound horizontally 7 241 x 125 mm bound horizontally; total: 166 x 209 mm; despite some smudges due to handling all the plates are in great condition with the original thread binding. Hollstein 1-7 van der Vinne and 1-copy Brakenburg. unknown
1890réf. 48301New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Lex 8vo. Original blue full clothWith title in blue to front board and blue and gilt lettering to spine. Spine and parts of boards lightly brownspotted. A bit of wear to capitaks and corners. But overall a very nice copy of this fairly fragile and delicate cloth binding (there is an original variant binding with cloth spine and illustrated boards, but no precidency between the bindings has been established). Internally very nice and clean. XV, (1), 304 pp. Wih numerous illustrations, most of them photographic.
1890réf. 48301New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1890. Lex 8vo. Original blue full clothWith title in blue to front board and blue and gilt lettering to spine. Spine and parts of boards lightly brownspotted. A bit of wear to capitaks and corners. But overall a very nice copy of this fairly fragile and delicate cloth binding there is an original variant binding with cloth spine and illustrated boards but no precidency between the bindings has been established. Internally very nice and clean. XV 1 304 pp. Wih numerous illustrations most of them photographic. First edition of this landmark work on the miserable living conditions of the poor immigrants in New York constituting one of the very earliest - and certainly the most popular and influential - attempts at making "the other half" i.e. the middle and upper classes aware of how the poor in New York actually lived. Riis's work created attention to the neglected and overseen community that was the underprivileged in New York. In the long run the great success of the work created attention to the status living conditions and general health of the poor and it initiated social reform movements in all major North American cities. Furthermore the work is regarded the very first example of "muckraking" journalism and was the first to extensively use halftone photographic reproductions in a book.Riis used a convincing combination of facts from Dr. Roger S. Tracy Registrar of Vital Statistics and his own talents as a photo journalist to make a hitherto unseen powerful description of the correlation between the high crime rate drunkenness and reckless behavior of the poor and their lack of proper homes. The statistical facts made it a relevant and sober work and lent it enough authority to the book's claims for it to be taken serious by city official. His groundbreaking photographs confirmed the dry numbers and "spoke directly to people's hearts". Pascal "Jacob Riis: Reporter and Reformer" p. 87. Unlike all previously works on the living conditions of the poor "How the Other Half Lives" offered concrete solutions on how to improve living condition how to make the tenants improve their buildings and finally how the politicians and city officials could make the appropriate and necessary juridical changes.The effect of the work was immediately seen and included: the tearing down of New York's worst tenements sweatshops and the reformation of the city's schools. The book led to a decade of improvements in Lower East Side conditions with garbage collection sewers and indoor plumbing all following soon after. Because of the present work Riis quickly rose to fame and in 1895 he became close friends with Theodore Roosevelt then a New York City official who wrote of Riis: "Jacob Riis whom I am tempted to call the best American I ever knew although he was already a young man when he came hither from Denmark". After Roosevelt became President he wrote a tribute to Riis that started: "Recently a man well qualified to pass judgment alluded to Mr. Jacob A. Riis as "the most useful citizen of New York". Those fellow citizens of Mr. Riis who best know his work will be most apt to agree with this statement. The countless evils which lurk in the dark corners of our civic institutions which stalk abroad in the slums and have their permanent abode in the crowded tenement houses have met in Mr. Riis the most formidable opponent ever encountered by them in New York City."The title refers to the French writer François Rabelais who famously wrote in Pantagruel: "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives". As a work of journalism and of social criticism Riis's book still stands as a truly seminal testimony to how the lower classes lived at the turn of the century. Due to this work attention was eventually paid to them and their conditions bettered. hardcover
1979réf. 30251Allanheld & Schram. As New. 1979. Hardcover. 0839002408 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - appears unread - 243 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Allanheld & Schram hardcover
réf. 138886aafZürich : M. Rordorf, 1732, in-4to, 2 Bll. + 68 Seiten, mit Holzschnittvign. a.d. Titel und 2 geflt. Tabellen, unbeschnittenes Exemplar Exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, späterer Pappband.
1751réf. 181135Lisbon: J. Bertrand and Sons after 1751. Early English grammar for Portuguese speakers Scarce first edition in Portuguese of this pocket English grammar book for Portuguese students in a contemporary Portuguese binding. Jacob de Castro Sarmento 1690-1762 was a Portuguese converso who after a degree in medicine moved to London in 1721 where he spent several decades. He first published his grammar in London in 1731 - "the earliest English grammar published expressly for the use of Portuguese learners" Marinho p. 139 - at a time when the Portuguese were becoming increasingly interested in learning English for business and commerce. The edition in English was reprinted several times in London. The work begins with sections on pronunciation capitalization punctuation and prosody then continues with grammar and syntax employing the terminology typically used for inflected languages. The final part comprises simple bilingual dialogues and a glossary of verbs grouped by semantic field. An appended section provides bilingual templates on "letters on business or mercantile affairs" such as bills of exchange or receipts. An ownership inscription on the initial blank reads: "Rob. Wm. Patrick / November 14th / 1805 / St Salvador" plausibly Col. Robert William Patrick c.17831809 born in Dublin Ireland. Patrick served in the Anglo-Portuguese Army during the Peninsular War and died at about age 26 defending the bridge at Amarante Porto. St Salvador was the contemporary English name for what is now Salvador Bahia Brazil. Provenance: Stephen C. Massey. Small octavo 140 x 100 mm pp. 8 269 1. Woodcut vignette to title woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled sheep flat spine compartments gilt-ruled edges sprinkled red. Nineteenth-century ink stamp EE to title. Rubbed lacks label spine creased with small loss at foot: a very good copy. F. Marinho "Imported Models" Revista da Faculdade de Letras vol. 12 1995. unknown
réf. 110511London A. Alexander 1773. . First edition; 4to 26.5 x 21.5 cm; missing the Hebrew and English title pages the Spanish title is present approbation leaf by Rabbi Moseh Cohen de Azevedo in Spanish and Hebrew; Hebrew English and Spanish index of the chapters and erratas; preface to the reader in Spanish and English; late calf-backed cloth spine rubbed and chipped; edges of first and last few leaves are browned and chipped with marginal chips affecting text on the last leaf; slight browning and staining to leaves; 26 183 1 pp. A scarce Talmud and holy scripture vocabulary published by the pioneer of Hebrew printing in London A. Alexander. Jacob Rodrigues Moreira was an educated Jewish author associated with the Haskalah movement. This lexicon is his only surviving publication. The work contains an approbation by Rabbi Moseh Cohen d'Azevedo 1720-1784 also known as the Haham of London the Wise Man of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation of London. This biblical lexicon arranged in triple column containing more than four thousand words/idioms each in Hebrew English and Spanish arranged in fifty-eight topical chapters. Moreira carefully arranged the Hebrew terms and phrases according to subject coining new terms where needed and translated them to Spanish. His son Haim Moreira translated the terms to English. The final 58th chapter contains an imaginary dialogue between the author and his son. Alexander Alexander Alexander ben Judah Leib was one of the pioneers of the Hebrew printing in London active in the 18th-19th centuries. He had established his Hebrew press in London in 1770 and published the first bilingual Hebrew-English Common Prayer-book and Haggadah. The engraved Hebrew title page of this volume is signed by M. Marrebeeck an 18th century Dutch print publisher that was most likely working in Amsterdam. Vinograd London 75; Alston XIV 197; ESTC T168924; Roth B15.40; Not in Vancil or Zaunmuller. London, A. Alexander, [1773]. hardcover
réf. 234516København Trykt paa Gyldendals Forlag 1786. 8vo. 16 292 4 s. 1 foldet kobberstukket kart. 1 foldet kobberstukket plansje. 1 tabell. Samtidig skinnbind med fem opphøyde bind og gulldekor på ryggen. Svak kantslitasje. Hjørner svakt støtt og oppskrapet. Skrift i gammel hånd på forsatsbladet. Samtidig navnetrekk på tittelbladet. Forsatsbladets nedre høyre hjørne med liten avrevet bit. . unknown
1963réf. C94113Faber and Faber. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine & unmarked tight to the spine - 448 pages; black and white images of 446 of Epstein's works. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . 1963. Faber and Faber hardcover
1958réf. PRINT15JT0308Various 1958. Pamphlet. Collectible; Very Good. First edition. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Offprint. Reprinted from various publishers 1958. Includes Sur le Determinism genetique des types sexuels chez Escherichia coli K 12 and Sur Les Processus de Conjugaison et de Recombinaison ches Escherichia Coli V. Le Mecanisme du Transfert de Materiel Genetique. First separate edition. Offprint. Original wrappers. Various unknown
2000réf. C86550University of Washington Press. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Corresponds to ISBN: 0295979631. TWO 2 VOLUME SET. Volume I is titled "Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence" and has 286 pages with many illustrations including 95 plates. Volume II is entitled "Jacob Lawrence: Paintings Drawings and Murals 1935-1999 " and has 344 pages approximately 800 color illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details; This two-volume set including Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence and Jacob Lawrence: Paintings Drawings and Murals 1935–1999 A Catalogue Raisonné is the definitive publication on the work of artist Jacob Lawrence. The result of six years of research by the Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonné Project led by Peter T. Nesbett and Michelle DuBois the books identify authenticate and document over 900 paintings drawings and murals created by Jacob Lawrence between 1935 and 1999—over half of them discovered by the project. Over the Line includes essays by eight distinguished art historians considering the ways in which Lawrence’s art speaks so powerfully to different audiences and examining for the first time the breadth and depth of his output. Intimate in scale and bold in content Lawrence’s candid portrayals of life in Harlem during the Depression and his epic multi-panel series painted in the late 1930s and early 1940s are the cornerstones of his aesthetic production. His paintings drawings and murals depict both critical moments in history and poignant struggles of everyday life. The subject matter ranges from unforgiving portrayals of racial injustice to compassionate scenes of family life from unnerving images of nuclear annihilation to visual celebrations of such heroic individuals as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. His use of the series format and his attention to pressing social issues accord him a unique position in the history of American modernism. Born in 1917 Jacob Lawrence spent his childhood in New York City attending classes at the Harlem Community Art Center and the American Artists School and later working for the Federal Art Project. While still in his twenties Lawrence exhibited his paintings at major museums across the country including the Phillips Collection the Metropolitan Museum of Art the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in New York where he became the first African American artist to have work represented in the permanent collection. He lived painted and taught in New York City until 1971 when he joined the faculty of the University of Washington. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the National Medal of Arts. The contributors to Over the Line include Lizzetta LaFalle Collins; Patricia Hills Boston University; Elizabeth Hutton-Turner the Phillips Collection; Paul Karlstrom West Coast Archives of American Art; Leslie King-Hammond Maryland Institute; Richard Powell Duke University; Lowery Stokes Sims Studio Museum in Harlem; and Elizabeth Steele the Phillips Collection. . 2000. 0295979631 . University of Washington Press hardcover
1946réf. 177107London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1946. With the illustrator's inscription First edition thus first impression inscribed by the illustrator on the front free endpaper "with very best wishes from Mervyn Peake April 1952". The inscription is shaky; during Peake's later years he became increasingly incapacitated by what was eventually diagnosed as a form of Parkinson's disease. Small quarto. Double-page colour title page 4 colour plates 56 black and white illustrations in the text. Original yellow cloth spine and front cover lettered and decorated in dark blue. With supplied dust jacket. Top of spine toned front board gently marked and bowed very light foxing to pages; dust jacket unclipped spine sunned with short closed tear at foot edges just lightly nicked slightly rubbed: a very good copy in like jacket. hardcover
1807réf. 90062Paris: Dentu 1807. Fine. Dentu Paris 1807 12.7 x 21.3 cm 2 volumes reliés en 1 First edition of the French translation illustrated with 18 engraved plates 10 of them hand-coloured cf. Blackmer 87; Atabey 68; Contominas 39; Monglond VII 654-655.The 18 plates include the two plates of musical notation and the large folding map at the end of the second volume.Contemporary green half sheep darkened smooth spines ruled in gilt with a narrow gilt roll at foot marbled paper boards speckled edges.Some foxing light rubbing to the joints a few gatherings browned. First and only edition of Auguste du Coudray's French translation of this account of a journey through Greece written in the form of letters. Jacob Levin Salomo known as Jakob Ludwig Salomon Bartholdy 1779-1825 a Prussian diplomat and connoisseur of art and antiquities was the uncle of Felix Mendelssohn.His account provides valuable information on contemporary Greek art and craftsmanship notably through two examples of dance music in musical notation and reproductions of Thessalian pottery.These illustrations form part of the 18 etched plates in the work including a « Carte de la Grèce et de l'Archipel dressée par P. Lapie ». Ten are hand-coloured and depict Greek costumes after drawings by George Christian Gropius 1781-1854 who accompanied his friend Bartholdy on what was then his first journey to Greece. He became so attached to the country that he remained there: later serving as consul for Great Britain Austria and Prussia in Athens Gropius stood at the centre of archaeological cultural and artistic life in Greece for almost fifty years.Bartholdy meanwhile settled in Rome in 1815 as Prussian consul and remained there until his death. Dentu hardcover
1679réf. 89345Lyon: Thomas Amaury 1679. Fine. Thomas Amaury Lyon 1679 8.5 x 15 cm Relié Very rare first edition. Some light foxing. Contemporary 19th-century modest half-grained cloth binding spine faded marbled paper boards with surface abrasions yellow endpapers and pastedowns marbled edges. Sole edition uncommon of this vindication by Jacob Spon 1647-1685 concerning his major travel account of the Levant Voyage d'Italie de Dalmatie de Grèce et du Levant fait aux années 1675 & 1676 published in 1678. Georges Guillet de Saint-Georges 1624 or 1625-1705 had a little earlier 1675 produced a description of the contemporary state of the city and monuments of Athens which Spon disputed in his own narrative even going so far as to question whether Guillet had ever travelled in Greece at all. Hence a quarrel of the kind scholars delight in: sharp and somewhat futile. Bookplate of a Greek educational institution affixed to a pastedown. Thomas Amaury hardcover
réf. #[59564]Portrait of Jan van de Velde at the age of 36 nearly half-length facing right wearing a ruff and waistband in an oval cartouche and decorated surround; above are two putti holding a quill pen and book and the other a tablet; illustration to Jan van de Velde's publication "Spieghel der Schrijfkonste inden welcken ghesien worden veelderhande Gheschriften met hare Fondementen ende onderrichtinghe" At left in the oval "Ætatis / XXXVI". Lettered around oval: "Lavoix Seperd l'Ecritvre Demevre." Lettered in cartouche below: "T'leeft al vanden Velde." Lettered with production details below: "I. Matham fecit". l Very nice impression trimmed edges engraving total: 200 x 150 mm; state II/2. New Hollstein 261 unknown
