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1804Two Volumes. With 10 hand-coloured aquatint plates "Drawn by H. Repton. Engraved by Stadler.", title vignettes signed "H. Repton inv. & delin. H. R.Cook sculpsit." Offsetting. Plates age stained especially on verso. Decorated title pages. 185mm. Disbound. Early inked ownership of E.W. Spangler in both volumes and scratched out ownership on title pages. Edward Webster Spangler. (1846-1907) was from York, PA. During the Civil War he was a member of Company K, 130th Regiment PA Volunteers, Second Brigade, Third Division, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. After the War he was a lawyer in York for more than 40 years, president of the Spangler Manufacturing Company, and for a time publisher of the York Daily (Record). .Humphry Repton (1752-1818) was a great English landscape designer, and illustrator. These 'Odd Whims' were dedicated to his neighbour William Windham of Felbrigg Hall. Repton served as Windham's confidential secretary during Windham's very brief stint as Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGSETS BX 5
1931pp. xv, 367 + Frontis and full page plates. Map end papers and text maps and drawings. Book label of Dorothy K. Bond on front paste down. 240 mm. Original full orange cloth binding decorated in gold. Edges soiled. Original dust jacket, very worn with loss. The Guild selection for February, 1931. Hardbound. Good. W11
1761Two Volumes. pp. Frontis, Engraved Title, XVI (lacks 2 leaves in this section - apparently blanks), 611, [1]; Engraved Title, 493, [3] + Engraved frontis portrait of Boccaccio. Both title pages are fully engraved, each with a vignette showing Cupid sharing tales with Boccaccio as women wait on the veranda of a house in the background. Italian text. 8vo. 205 mm. Wide margined; uncut; deckle edges. Some slight age stain. Old tape repair at frontis hinge. No front free fly-leaf. Early vellum backed marbled boards binding. An attractive (if mis-leading) edition. The Decameron is a collection of novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). It is a 14th-century medieval allegory told as a frame story encompassing 100 tales by ten young people. Boccaccio probably began composing the work in 1350, and finished it in 1351 or 1353. The bawdy tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons contribute to the mosaic. In addition to its literary import, it documents life in 14th-century Italy - From Wiki. A false imprint - Because of its sometimes erotic nature, printers and publishers were often loathe to claim the Decameron as their own. Therefore 'Amsterdamo' appears in the imprint of this edition. It was not printed in Amsterdam, but almost certainly in Venice, by Antonio Locatelli. There are several similar, but different editions. They are identified by examination of the occasional ornaments and a notice at the very end of volume two, which in our example reads: "Si Vende Lire Venti Venete." (Sell this for 20 pounds). No priority noted for the variants. W118
1803pp. xxxvi, (3), 40-251, (1) [Publisher's catalogue]. Early manuscript ownership and note 'M. Canby Bot. at Auction price $33/100' on title page. Text browned but not brittle. 12mo. 170 mm. Original full leather binding, worn. Front board detached. Old clear tape repair covers spine and hinges. Title continues: "With The Life Of The Author. To Which Are Added, The Deserted Village; The Traveller; or, Prospect of Society: By Goldsmith. Elegy Written In A Country Church Yard: By Gray. The Hermit: By Parneli. The Snow-Storm: By Dr. Trotter." Preface and appendix to the Farmer's Boy, by Capel Lofft. "Rural Tales" has special title page. S&S/AI 3843 + 3846. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 2
1803pp. xxxvi, (3), 40-251, (1) [Publisher's catalogue]. Early manuscript ownership of A. McIlhenny, U.S. Army, on title page. XLib bookplate of the Union Philosophical Society of Dickinson College given to the library by L. McIlhenny. Text browned but not brittle. 12mo. 170 mm. Original full leather binding, worn. Original leather spine label. Front board detached. Title continues: "With The Life Of The Author. To Which Are Added, The Deserted Village; The Traveller; or, Prospect of Society: By Goldsmith. Elegy Written In A Country Church Yard: By Gray. The Hermit: By Parneli. The Snow-Storm: By Dr. Trotter." Preface and appendix to the Farmer's Boy, by Capel Lofft. "Rural Tales" has special title page. S&S/AI 3843 + 3846. Hardbound. AI BX 2
1832224 p. Foxed. Early manuscript ownership of Robert H. Fogel, Fogel's Mill PA, Sept. 19, 1874 on first fly leaf. Pink printed bookplate of S.C.B. Fogel, M.D. on front paste down. Unusual early XLib bookplate of A.& W. Blumer's Circulating Library, No. 36 ruled in circles, pasted on front board. 12mo. 190 mm. Original linen spine over paper covered boards. Paper spine label perished. Boards stained. Hardbound. Good. Early American anthology of wit and humor, from both domestic and foreign sources. Very Scarce: OCLC records holdings at just five libraries. S&S/AI 11923. First edition. PAIMP 25
1762Two Volumes. pp. xiv, [2], 268, [2], 8; [2], viii, [2], 306, [4], [9]-16 + Plus a remarkable group of elegant engravings, including: Two frontispieces by Fiquet, after Rigault and Vispre; over fifty vignettes and culs-de-lamp by Choffard; and 80 full-page plates after Eisen by - Aliamet, Baquoy, Choffard, Delafosse, de Longueil, Flipart, Le Mire, Lempereur. Leveau, Ourvrier, et. al. One plate is apparently from a different copy. Some slight age foxing. ALSO: Two plates that are often censored - Cas de Conscience & Diable de Papefiguiere - do not seem to appear at all in my examples. 12mo (in 8s). 185 mm. Attractive contemporary French red morocco gilt bindings, with only very slight defects. First Edition. Provenance: The set belonged to Edwin Wolf II (1911 1991) - famous as the Librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia, and as a collector, and an employee of the renowned Rosenbach Co. from 1930 to 1952. The Family Album purchased a large part of his collection of early books in 1992. About this work : The world famous tales and fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695), neatly printed in verse, are joined by a 'Dissertation sur la Joconde' by Nicolas Boileau Despreaux (1636-1711); and the best work of the great illustrators & engravers Charles Eisen (1720-1778) and Pierre-Philippe Choffard (1730-1809). Justly considered one of the greatest examples of French rococo illustration. The Fermiers Generaux, an entrepreneurial financial association responsible for gathering and banking certain kinds of taxes, commissioned this edition of La Fontaine's zesty tales. Determined that the book should be the best of its kind, they allowed their agent, the Chevalier d'Agincourt, unlimited resources. It is still provocative to consider that patronage of the arts by this new plutocracy produced the greatest monument and triumph of this renowned age of illustration. See: Cohen-de Ricci 558-571; Ray. 'Art of the French Illustrated Book' p. 54-56; Holloway. 'French Rococo Book Illustration' pp. 21-24; & Etc. THE IMMORTAL FERMIERS GENERAL EDITION OF THE TALES OF LA FONTAINE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SAFE ADD 1
1762One volume (of two). pp. xiv, [2], 268, [2], 8 [Directions to the Binder often lacking] + Plus a remarkable group of (40) elegant engravings, including two duplicates and a portrait frontis. Lacks the plate at p. 87. Many fine vignettes. Most of the plates are after Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (1720-1778). 12mo (in 8s). 185 mm. Some age stain, but generally clean. All edges gilt. Attractive contemporary French dark green morocco bindings, with only slight defects. Hardbound. Very Good. First Edition. The world famous tales and fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695), neatly printed in verse, are joined by the best work of the great illustrators & engravers Charles Eisen (1720-1778) and Pierre-Philippe Choffard (1730-1809). Justly considered one of the greatest examples of French rococo illustration. The Fermiers Generaux, an entrepreneurial financial association responsible for gathering and banking certain kinds of taxes, commissioned this edition of La Fontaine's zesty tales. Determined that the book should be the best of its kind, they allowed their agent, the Chevalier d'Agincourt, unlimited resources. It is still provocative to consider that patronage of the arts by this new plutocracy produced the greatest monument and triumph of this renowned age of illustration. See: Cohen-de Ricci 558-571; Ray. 'Art of the French Illustrated Book' p. 54-56; Holloway. 'French Rococo Book Illustration' pp. 21-24; & Etc. By offering this one volume we give you an addordable opportunity to acquire part of THE IMMORTAL FERMIERS GENERAL EDITION OF THE . TALES OF LA FONTAINE. Please check our other entries for the full set of this great work in fine condition. CHEST 2/1
1904Two volumes in one. Ca. 200 p. Sanskrit text, with German pencil annotations. 8vo. Contemporary cloth backed marbled boards. Edited by Narayana Balakrishna Godabole and Kasinath Pandurang Parab. Collected around the 13th and 14th Century A.D., these stories and fables in the Sanskrit language feature both animal and human characters. They incorporate maxims, worldly wisdom and advice on worldly and political affairs in simple, elegant language. The work has been widely translated. Little is known about its origin, and dating of the work has been problematic. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! INDIA BOX
2001215p. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. DJ. First Edition Very Good. REF 8
1998Book appears in mint unread condition. 202pp. Tales from the land of the Iroquois people of North America. The author was a friend of General Washington. Originally published 1938. Illustrated. Very scarce in the UK.
1994Book appears in mint unread condition. 83pp. Myths from the land of the Iroquois people of North America. Originally published 1883. Illustrated.
First (NAP) edition. Illustrated paper boards, quarter green cloth, thick paper issue. Large Post 8vo. pp. 143. VG+/No jacket. Slight dye loss to top of spine, traces of edgewear, one rear nick to boards, internally NF. [BL-En] Eight tales.
Hardcover and dustjacket, both a very nice clean copy. A Picture of the Painting Bailed Up by Tom Roberts, depicting an incident in the days of bushrangers, Illustrates the front cover. Pages 310. Size 8vo. The book contains pen drawings by Cedric EMANUEL. [P-15] Pictorial illustrated inside front and back covers with Australian Pictorial Symbols.
in-16, 375 pp, broché. Bel exemplaire. [LP-2]
in-16, 253 pp, broché. Bel exemplaire. [LP-2]
248pp. + adverts. B&W wood-engravings by Douglas Percy Bliss.- Some browning to margins of pages, paperback in original printed wrapps GOOD, no Marks, no Inscriptions. [LP-10]
199177 pages. "Tall tales with a big heart! A rollicking community of Hilarious characters in Canada's Vast Northern Prairie." - Nan Gregory, Storyteller. Author resides in Prince George, British Columbia. Book
1987433 pages. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper. Author has covered the world since 1946; his career has thus spanned four decades of the cold war. As an American Ambassador in two countries and at the U.N., as an editor of Look, as publisher of Newsday, and as a foreign correspondent for other publications, he has kept close to the principal events and personalities of his time. Now, he has created this uniquely intimate history of the cold war, from Churchill at Fulton, Missouri to Reagan at Reykjavik. Book
1986160 pages including bibliography. Presents a multitude of current restaurant menus and intriguing tales from Victoria's past, along with fascinating heritage photographs, many of which date back to the early 1900s. "Did you know that a prominent Victoria hotel was once host to an indoor, nine hold golf tournament? Did you know that a Victoria heritage building, now home to a French restaurant, gained notoriety when its Chinese cook jealously beheaded a prostitute with the kitchen fish slicer?" - from back cover. Unmarked with minimal wear to glossy decorated covers. Contents clean and crisp. An unusual and interesting volume in giftable condition. Book
2000288 pages. After flipping from the Stanley Cup Playoffs to Martha Steward, author resolved to follow Canada's best export to the rest of the world, to find out whether the true game still existed elsewhere. Weaves hilarious stories of encounters with odd-sized rinks and players of wildly different talents and experiences with tales of his travels and bang-on observations about the game and players in North America. As he discovers, the tropic of hockey connects players and fans around the world. A wonderful gift for your special hockey fanatic. Book
1966254 pages including glossary. Based upon interviews with Arne Johnson, Hjalmar Bergren, John McCuish, George Grafton, Edna Brown, and others who helped organize a woodworker's union in British Columbia. This work was begun in 1957 with the intent of recording a history of the woodworker's union in the Lake Cowichan area, of which so many oft-repeated tales have been heard. Intended to embrace only the camps and mills in the area, it grew to be a larger story, until the author was faced with a mountain of data on paper ad tape, and the necessity to draw a line. For this reason, the story is based on the Cowichan region, appropriately enough, since it was one of the vital areas in the establishment of the woodworker's union. Small address label inside front cover else unmarked. A little above average wear. Binding aging but remains intact. Remains a decent copy. Book
198855 pages. Clean, bright and unmarked in attractively illustrated glossy boards. Minimal wear. Excellent copy. Book
1997352 pages including index. Part memoir, part entertainment, part commentary on a life lived as art, Toller Cranston tells tales as only he can, including: The only skating show in Haiti; The Broadway triumph that failed; The pachinko wizard; Upstaging Joan Collins; The decimation of John Curry; Sex in Holiday on Ice; Golf among the Mambas; and other stories too strange not to be true! Clean, bright and unmarked with only the very faintest trace of handling. Splendid copy. Book
1971114 pages. "First published in 1915, Knulp was Hesse's most popular book in the years before Demian. This is the first edition in English." Knulp is an amiable vagabond who wanders from town to town, staying with friends who feed and shelter him. Refusing to be tied down, he even deserts the companion who might be considered Hermann Hesse himself the summer they go tramping together." - from back cover. Discard inkstamp upon top edge of text else unmarked. Not an ex-library copy. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
