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1984rif. SBBIH-TNTU4E6NL37XICOM Co-Publications 1984. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. ICOM Co-Publications paperback
rif. 9573Monterey KY: Larkspur Press 2006. Full Leather. Fine binding. Octavo. 4 36 4 pp. Limited edition number 9 of 75 copies on Somerset Book paper there was also an edition of 500 regular copies. Signed by Wendell Berry at the colophon; additionally noted by Fox the year it was bound. In full goatskin binding with a series of leather onlays tooled in gold and blind all creating a fantastic pictorial binding. Accompanying the binding is a fine paper portfolio with publisher's prospectuses samples and associated material; additionally some templates related to Fox's binding. All housed a custom clamshell by Fox. The text offers a lens into the 19th century view of how a native of region assesses the value of the natural wonders. Berry's commentary at the end of Allen's text brings the troubling viewpoint into a modern context: "The chapter is built upon a division of mind which in our time has become terrifying but which Allen believed to be no more than a simple equation. On the one hand in a sentimentally romantic fashion he was sensitive to the natural life of the area which was then still intact. And on the other hand he seems eager for the destruction of this virgin bounty that so inspired him. I say 'the destruction' and not 'the use' for his language is patently that of an exploiter intent upon 'conquering' nature." A sobering volume that will most surely always remain relevant. Larkspur Press unknown
1865rif. ST19156London: Longmans Green and Co 1865. FIRST EDITION. 222 x 146 mm. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4". Three volumes extended to six. Edited by Lady Theresa Lewis. EXCEPTIONALLY PRETTY CRIMSON CRUSHED MOROCCO HANDSOMELY GILT BY MORRELL signed on front inner dentelles covers bordered with double rules raised bands spines gilt in compartments featuring drawer pull and cinquefoil cornerpieces and elegant floral centerpiece elaborately gilt inner dentelles top edge gilt other edges rough trimmed. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH MORE THAN 275 ENGRAVED PLATES 30 of them views the rest portraits four of the plates folding and eight in color. One plate with small skillfully repaired tear at fore edge a few leaves and a dozen plates with sprinkled foxing isolated light offsetting and minor stains and soiling in the text but AN EXTREMELY FINE SET THE LOVELY BINDINGS UNUSUALLY BRIGHT AND VIRTUALLY UNWORN and internally very fresh and clean. This lavishly illustrated and handsomely bound set documents the very long and meaningful life of a spinster devoted to her father and her sister—and to literature. Mary Berry 1763-1852 grew up in a family of modest fortune yet she knew a great many important people including Princess Caroline of Wales the estranged wife of the Regent their daughter Princess Charlotte and the author Mme. de Stael who described Mary as "by far the cleverest woman in England." Mary met Lord Byron and Napoleon but her greatest friend was Horace Walpole the society wit letter-writer and builder of the neo-gothic extravaganza Strawberry Hill. Walpole who met Berry and her younger sister Agnes when they were in their twenties became so fascinated by their wit and wisdom that he persuaded them to settle with their father near him at "Little Strawberry Hill" which he bequeathed to them in his will. He left them his manuscripts as well and Mary Berry became the editor of his works. She also authored a play and a study of English and French society but our collection of her journal entries and letters put together by Lady Theresa Lewis 1803-65 is Mary Berry's most enduring legacy. The journal begins when Mary at 20 sets out with her father and Agnes for a tour of Holland Switzerland and Italy where she looks at paintings attends plays and records the ups and downs of stagecoach travel. The letters and entries in her journal written until her death give a rare picture of her times and her clever and endearing personality. At the same time some entries are melancholic in which she attributes falling short of achievements commensurate with the level of her abilities and never experiencing marriage and motherhood. Besides charming portraits of the Berry sisters the illustrations in our expanded set depict the authors they read Dryden for example the painters whose works they viewed the many notable figures they met or gossiped about royalty politicians actresses people of fashion and views of the places they visited. Our lovely set was produced by the London bindery of W. T. Morrell established about 1861 as successor to the firm begun by Francis Bedford who in turn had taken over the famous bindery of Charles Lewis. Prideaux in her "Modern Bookbindings" published in 1906 says that Morrell at that time had a very large business that supplied "all the booksellers with bindings designed by his men" bindings that were "remarkable for their variety and merit." The six volumes here look remarkably attractive on the shelf. Longmans, Green, and Co unknown
1977rif. 240208San Francisco: Sierra Club 1977. First edition. HC w DJ. VG/Good. Signed. VG/Good. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Navy blue cloth white spine titling blind-stamped front corners bumped edgewear soiling to edges soiling to endpapers front hinge cracked SIGNED in black ink to title page small tear/knock to bottom edge affects up to p. 30 binding sound unmarked. Unclipped DJ $8.95 edgeworn w chips/nicks 3" closed tear to top-edge loss to tips & bottom edge now in Brodart. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012. Sierra Club hardcover
1816rif. 832071816. First Edition. DE BERRY Duchesse DE RANC M. and THAULON Marie. LÕAnniversaire ou une journe de Philippe-Auguste. Paris: Cussac 1816. Slim octavo contemporary full straight-grain red morocco gilt gilt armorial coat of arms of La Duchesse du Berry on both boards elaborately gilt-decorated spine silk endpapers all edges gilt. $5500.First edition of the popular French play LÕAnniversaire from the library of La Duchesse de Berry with her gilt armorial coat of arms on both boards.This first edition of the French dramatic comedy LÕAnniversaire is from the library of Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile La Duchesse de Berry daughter of Francis I of the Two Sicilies and it contains her gilt coat of arms on both boards Olivier 2554. La Duchesse de Berry is well remembered for staging a brief rebellion against ÒKing Louis-Philippe in a vain attempt to gain the crown for her son Henri Dieudonn comte de Chambord. Her husband the Duc de Berry a son of Charles X of France had been assassinated in 1820. When Charles was overthrown in 1830 she tried to secure the succession for her son but was forced into exile. In 1832 disguised as a peasant she crossed the French border from Italy and made her way to the Vende where she succeeded in instigating a brief but abortive insurrection June 1832. She was arrested in NantesÉ but was freed in July 1833 with the discovery of her recent marriage to an obscure Italian nobleman Count Ettore Lucchesi-Palli an act that exempted her from the French throne. She lived in Austria and Italy until her deathÓ Encyclopaedia Britannica. This one-act play in verse by dramatists de Ranc and Thaulon premiered at Thtre-FranÂais on November 16 1816. Text in French. Qurard 450. With gilt morocco bookplate of bibliophile Pierre Guerquin a director of Muses Nationaux de France. Bookplate of collector N.A.C. Embiricos. Tiny bit of marginalia to blank verso of front free endpaper.A fine copy with an impressive provenance. hardcover
rif. 155015Lucerne: C. J. Bucher Ltd 1972. Remarkable and strangely moving First and sole edition one of 300 copies only privately printed. This example preserves the scarce brown wrapper with the printed word "Tenage" along one edge. "One intriguing photobook from the early 1970s was made by an elderly US diplomat stationed in Zurich named Byron Y. Berry. Photographed on the streets of various cosmopolitan cities Teenage Styles and Trends 1967-1971: A Retrospect 1972 is a series of street portraits of 'young lads' as Berry called them focusing in particular on the youths' long hair. The book is a recalling of the aged photographer's own lost youth a frank appreciation of beauty and a valuable photo-document of 1960s' street culture. At the time he made this remarkable and strangely moving book. Burton Y. Berry was in his sixties. The book moves us because it is so intimately connected with photography and time - youth and age. First and foremost this is a celebration of beauty. a unique snapshot of an era when it was especially exciting to be young. The subtle but unmistakable erotic undertones however add a personal level that is both beguiling and mysterious. the book is to be valued not only for its contribution to the gay photobook but to the literature of youth fashion and street culture" Parr & Badger. Quarto. 63 full-page black and white photographic illustrations. Original illustrated black and white boards lettered in white to front cover. Housed in a black cloth clamshell box spine lettered in gilt by the Chelsea Bindery. Top edge knocked; wrapper creased and roughly opened: a very good copy. Parr & Badger III pp. 77 and 80. hardcover
1816rif. 55305Paris: Vente 1816. Fine. Royal wedding edition of this popular pre-Revolution comedy issued on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Marie-Caroline and the Duc de Berry - and from the library of the Duchess herself who famously sold her books after her failed coup in 1832. The Duchess's wedding occurred only a year after the restoration of the royal House of Bourbon in 1815 following Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo. On that occasion a special performance of Andrieux's 1787 play was performed for the Duchess a devotee of the theater. This rare edition was printed as a memento of that event which was to have massive implications in French history. The Duchess's new husband was the king's brother; after the Duc de Berry's assassination in 1820 their son became the heir apparent to the French throne. But when the July Revolution of 1830 deposed the Bourbons the Duchess and her son went into exile. In 1832 however the Duchess of Berry clandestinely returned to France to lead a rebellion becoming "the most wanted woman in France" Samuels. Her coup failed and she was once again exiled; her story would later be dramatized in fiction by Alexandre Dumas as LES LOUVES DE MACHECOUL 1859. Realizing she would never return to her beloved library of some 8000 volumes at Chateau Rosny she made the decision to sell it. It was then one of the most famous libraries in France with a tremendous range in philosophy history travel science law theology fiction and theater. This copy's binding and bookplates mark its provenance from the library of the Duchess. It was bound by René Simier 1772-1843 who "had no superior and few rivals during his career" Ramsden 190 with his ticket announcing him as "Binder to the King to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Berry and to His Royal Highness the Duke of Bordeaux." The binding is in the style the Duchess regularly ordered from Simier featuring her gilt arms on the boards upon a carefully selected full morocco. It further bears the engraved bookplate of Rosny on the unusual pink endpapers. Books from the Duchess's library still appear with some regularity on the market today but rarely with such a close personal connection to the Duchess herself. Contemporary full honey morocco boards tooled in gilt with the arms of the Duchess of Berry bound by René Simier with his ticket "Relieur du Roi de S.A.R. Madame Duchesse de Berry et de S.A.R. Mgr le duc de Bordeaux". Pink glazed endpapers all edges gilt. 4 82 pages. Engraved bookplate of the Bibliothèque de Rosny on front pastedown; bookplates also of Alexis Rouart and Eugène Aubry-Vitet. Only trace rubbing and soil. Vente unknown
rif. 7758London: William Berry at ye Sign of the Globe between Charing Cross and Whitehall. 1680. No binding. Good. 575 x 885 mm. two sheets joined in early outline colour some professional repair to edge tears and reinforcement to lower corners not affecting the image with the accompanying page of geographical tables otherwise in good condition. A fine rare English double-hemispheric seventeenth century world map. In September 1678 Robert Morden fl. 1669 d. 1703 and William Berry 1639-1718 petitioned the crown for 'a licence to do all general and particular maps of the several parts of the world according to an alphabeticall manner'. Morden's connection with what appears to be the birth of the folio atlas is not heard of again. Berry began publishing a series of large two sheet maps with a group of the world and continents advertised in the 'London Gazette' from 1-5 July 1680. The world is also announced in the 'Term Catalogues' for the summer of that year. This only mentions the world map which would undoubtedly have been finished first and the continents would have followed. Berry did not advertise his next two sheet map that of England until February 1682. 'Through the 1680s Berry published nearly forty large maps of parts of the world sufficient to cover it all. From the late 1680s he clearly offered them bound together as a collection of maps as a handful of examples are known but this was clearly not the intention for the maps as none have borne any title page. Examples are known in the British Library the Library of Congress and the National Maritime Museum Greenwich all bearing either thirty-seven or thirty-eight maps. An example has been noted for sale by Maggs Brothers which bore sixty-nine maps the balance being made up of contemporary English maps by other cartographers dating the atlas to c.1704 and two further offered at Christies auctions in London in the 1980s' Burden. Cartographically the world map is drawn directly from that of Alexis-Hubert Jaillot 1674. Jaillot's map was in turn derived from Nicolas Sanson's geography who is here recognised in the running title above 'Described by Sanson Corrected and amended By William Berry'. Sanson had far more of a reputation in cartographic circles than Jaillot so it is natural that Berry would use his name. These 'amendments' include the patriotically named islands off Tierra del Fuego and 'New Albion' placed in California. New Guinea is distinctly an island and there is no southern continent. An ornate cartouche lower centre includes an effusive dedication to Charles II. Armitage 2012 pp. 41 & 99-100; Burden 1996-2007 532; Phillips 1909- 3442; Shirley 1984 501; Shirley 2004 T.Berr 1a; Tyacke 1973 p. 76; Tyacke 1978 no. 100 & pp. 109-10. William Berry at ye Sign of the Globe between Charing Cross and Whitehall. 1680 unknown
1996rif. SBBIH-SQOPSSUQK7XTMerlin Books Ltd 1996. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Merlin Books Ltd paperback
2003rif. 42820840Pre-publication printout. 2 356 pp. the published work was 446 pp. Comb-bound. Very good condition. Presentation copy inscribed by James Watson to Francis Crick and his wife: "For Francis and Odile from Jim 27 November 2002." This is the dedication copy with the printed dedication stating "To Francis Crick." Crick's wife Odile co-recipient of this presentation copy is famous for her drawing of the DNA molecule published in Nature in April 1953 and subsequently widely reproduced in textbooks scientific articles and popular literature. "It may be the most famous scientific drawing of the 20th century in that it defines modern biology" Terrence J. Sejnowski Salk Institute. "A remarkable alignment of the planets is occurring in 2003: the 50th anniversary of the double helix and the completion of the sequence of the human genome. As a defining figure in both land- mark events no other human being on the planet is positioned to write as authoritatively about all this as Jim Watson. In DNA: The Secret of Life he does so with clarity style and wit. If you really want to know what happened in the most important half-century of biology since the world began read this" Francis Collins. This splendid presentation copy represents the greatest scientific collaboration of the 20th century. The names Watson and Crick will forever be linked in the history of science. Provenance: Francis and Odile Crick inscribed to them by James Watson. [New York: Knopf] paperback
1680rif. 18434London: Sold by Will Berry at the Signe of the Globe between Chearing-Cross and White-Hall c1680. 425 by 480mm 16.75 by 19 inches. The first polar projection world map published by an Englishman Engraved map fine original hand-colour Ptolemaic Tychonic and Copernican diagrams of the solar system around map map of the ancient world below. The first world map on polar projection to be published by an Englishman. Polar Projection Polar projection is a type of azimuthal projection based on a plane perpendicular to the Earth's axis through the poles. On polar-centered azimuthal projections longitude is represented by radial straight lines and latitude by concentric circles or parallels. One of the earliest examples of a polar map of this kind is Mercator's 1569 world map on which the Arctic is shown in an inset map on a polar projection rather than included as part of the main image on the eponymous cartographer's projection. Other early double hemisphere world maps on north and south polar projections include Gerard De Jode's Hemispheriu ab Aequinoctiali Linea 1593; Isaac Habrecht's map of 1628; Janssonius' Typus Orbis Terrarum from the same year; Jean Boisseau's Nouvelle Description de toute la terre universelle of 1640; and Novus Planiglobe Terrestris Per Utrumque Polum Conspectus engraved by Joan Blaeu before 1672 the only extant example of which bears the later imprint of Gerard Valck published around 1695. The present map by Berry is an example of the first map on polar projection to be published by an Englishman. The Map Published around 1680 Berry's map shows both the north and south hemispheres on a polar projection at a scale of approximately 1:100000000 with both extending to the equator which is scaled. The coast of Australia is incomplete and California is shown as an island. Other cartographic myths include the massive single Great Lake and the Straits of Anian. The sizes of the Philippines and Japan are exaggerated and the southern tip of South America has been truncated due to the projection. At first glance the work would appear to be a copy of Blaeu/Valck Novus Planiglobe Terrestris Per Utrumque Polum Conspectus; and although Berry's English title is an almost direct translation of Blaeu's work it is no merely slavish copy. Berry has reversed the hemispheres and significant cartographic differences are evident especially in the depiction of South America. Surrounding the hemispheres are cosmological diagrams showing the Ptolemaic Copernican and Tychonic solar systems as well as a smaller map of the ancient world. This shows only Europe Asia and Africa and is divided into layers of "temperate zone" "frozen zone" "unhabitable" and "habitable by the Antients" regions. Ribbons ornament the upper left- and right-hand corners streaming from the ends of the simple title banner along the upper edge. The map was engraved by John Rich who also executed his road map of Great Britain the year before. William Berry 1639-1718 In his Printed Maps in the Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland 15791870 Thomas Chubb describes Berry as a bookseller geographer and engraver who was active between about 1670 and 1703. Berry was the son of a Warwickshire baker probably apprenticed alongside his future partner Robert Morden c1650-1703 to Joseph Moxon 16271691 an engraver mapmaker globe-maker and instrument-maker. His most enduring partnership was later with Morden and together they sold topographical works prints maps charts and globes. Among their shared works were A New Map of the English Plantations in America 1673 William Leybourn's An introduction to astronomy and geography: being a plain and easie treatise of the globes 1675 and Playing cards depicting the Counties 1676. In 1677 they petitioned the Attorney General for "a licence to do all general and particular maps of the several parts of the world according to an alphabetical manner and method first projected by them against any other undertakers". Although there are individual maps and globes prepared by the pair the larger project never came to fruition although Berry is best remembered as the "English Sanson" for the set of maps of the world that he corrected and amended after Nicolas Sanson which were issued separately between 1680 and 1689. Rare we are only able to trace one institutional example held at The Library of Congress and a smaller facsimile at the British Library. Not in Shirley; LC G3200 1675 .B4. Sold by Will Berry at the Signe of the Globe between Chearing-Cross and White-Hall,
