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1935ref. 184174Qingdao: no stated publisher 1935. Water power First edition of this rare and extensively illustrated proposal for increasing freight traffic and other commercial transport along China's second-longest river and building new port facilities at the mouth in the Bohai Sea. The valuable maps and plans show infrastructure and key locations along the river as well as past and proposed improvements. Cui Shijie 1888-1970 was a government official in Shandong Province charged with regional economic development. Rivers were a core part of his vision for coastal and hinterland prosperity. He published his report four years after the devastating 1931 floods when China's major water systems burst their banks and claimed the lives of up to 4 million people the worst natural disaster ever recorded. The table of contents calls for two end plans that were seemingly not issued as they are present neither in this copy nor in the copy held by the National Library of China. Quarto 255 x 175 mm bound without author's portrait title page and 2-page preface. With all substantive illustrations including 32 maps and plans 12 folding 2 diagrams tables in text. Text in Chinese. Contemporary blue card covers traces of original spine front cover lettered in manuscript. Red pencil underlining in text; old Chinese bookseller's annotated ink stamp on rear cover. Rear cover reattached contents lightly and evenly toned maps plans and diagrams well preserved: very good. unknown
1937ref. 176095China: Hai Ho Conservancy Commission 1937. An imposing cartographic document A rare plan untraced institutionally produced on the cusp of the Japanese invasion of Tianjin showing the fruits of a multi-decade effort to turn the city into a major international port. "Connected with the sea by an artificial river Tianjin's status as a seaport was heavily dependent on the continuous conservancy efforts of the Haihe and its tributaries" "River Conservancy". Formed in 1897 the Hai Ho Conservancy Commission focused on opening the channel to shipping for example by straightening the channel and thereby cutting the route to the sea by 17 miles. This plan shows the river's winding course marked with hundreds of survey stones and the build-up of warehouses and wharves by the foreign concessions Tanggu and Xidagu. Also shown are the results of the most recent survey of the seabed at the river's mouth. Although Japan declared war on China in July 1937 it respected the integrity of Tianjin's foreign concessions and river management remained in the hands of the British French and American authorities until Pearl Harbor. At the same time Japan started development of Tanggu Xingang - the foundations of which blossomed into the present-day megaport at Tianjin. Diazoprint plan 67 x 274 cm printed in reddish brown text primarily in Chinese. Contemporary black ink and red crayon marking and annotations in Chinese and Japanese on both sides. Toned old folds a few small splits and losses neatly conserved with tissue: a very good example of a fragile document. "River conservancy and the undetermined future of the port of Tianjin" Open Rivers available online. unknown
1933ref. 165267Nanjing: Yangtse River Commission 1933. Richly illustrated with 130 elevations statistical graphs and plans First edition first printing of this report published in the wake of the devastating 1931 Yangtse floods. In 1930 the Yangtse River Commission focused on hydrological engineering and regulating the channel with surveys conducted at ten of the river's eleven bars. We have traced a single institutional copy of this detailed report held by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Natural Science Library. In keeping with the commission's Chinese and expatriate membership the same information is presented in both English and Chinese. This copy is bound without pages 39-44 of the Chinese-language portion with the corresponding data and text appearing on pages 26-31 of the English section. The bilingual plates employ both English and Chinese. While the English title page dates the report to 1931 this is more accurately a reference to when the text and data were compiled. Quarto 255 x 185 mm. With 130 plates tables in text. Text in English and Chinese. Near-contemporary brown card post-binder purple linen backstrip part of original front wrapper laid down on front cover rear wrapper bound in. Chinese-language section missing pages 39-44. Post-binder worn but still sturdy chipping to first leaf and rear wrapper text generally fresh. A very good copy. unknown
1700ref. 17363Amsterdam, de Wit, 1675 (recte um 1700). Ca. 49,5 cm x 57 cm. [4 Warenabbildungen]
ref. 013827Jean Ribit de la Rivière (ca.1546-1605), médecin genevois, protestant, premier médecin du roi Henri IV. P.S., 8 avril 1603, 1p in-4. Sur parchemin. Intéressant document certifiant la livraison de drogues et médicaments pour le roi et la chambre du roi par l'apothicaire du roi Raymond de La Livre pour le premier quartier de 1603. « Nous Jehan de La Rivière Con[seill]er & Premier Médecin du Roy Certiffions à tous qu'il ap[par]tiendra que Remond de La Livre appo[thicai]re & varlet de Chambre a fourny, baillé & livré tant po[u]r la personne du Roy que po[u]r le faict de sa Chambre et officiers domesticques, que plusieurs drogues médecines & aultres parties de sondict estatqu'il a faites & fournyes durant le quartier de janvier / febvrier/ & mars dern[ie]rs passés. Montant ensemble deulx mil soix[ant]e & dix livres [.] Le VIIIème d'apvril [.] en l'an mil six cens troys ». [328-2]
1867ref. 104124Paris, J. Rothschild, 1867-1868, in-8, 2 vol. in-4 : X-286 pp. 78 pl. + 242 pp. 81 pl, Demi-maroquin bleu canard, dos long orné de filets dorés, couverture conservée, Édition originale illustré de 159 pl. toutes en couleurs sauf pour 4 d'entre elles et très nombreuses vignettes dans le texte, d'après Riocreux, Faguet, Poteau et Yan'dargent. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage de référence sur les fougères qui paraît au plus fort de la "ptéridomanie" ou folie des fougères qui embrasa le Royaume-Uni dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle puis envahit le reste de l'Europe. L'ouvrage donne en premier lieu une histoire botanique puis des conseils pour la culture des fougères, répartis en trois groupes différents en fonction des températures idéales pour leur croissance. L'ouvrage se termine sur une Histoire botanique et horticole des sélaginelles de Roze. Infimes frottements, couvertures et la dernière garde du 1er vol. réparées au ruban adhésif, rousseurs, quelques pâles décharges. Couverture rigide
1937ix, [1], [1], 2-82, [1] pages. Glossary. Two-colour foldout map of The Yangtsze Kiang inside front board. Four-panel foldout map of the Yangtze River, Ichang to Chungking, inside back board. 8.75" x 6.75". Printed upon light tan glossy stock. Black and white sketches in text. Author served with Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. "Intended to provide the would-be visitor to this part of China with the precise information necessary to make the journey up the 'Great River' or 'Ta Kiang', as the Chinese mostly call it, as comfortably as possible." - Foreword. Mentions how changes of the last decade have rendered similar publications outdated. One can scarcely imagine the extent of the changes which have taken place along the river after China's all-world infrastructure development of recent decades. Light wear to chocolate brown patterned string-bound boards lettered in gilt. Yellowed tape remnants inside each board. Small bit of peeling from first foldout map. A high-quality copy of this pleasing vintage guide to travel along China's mighty Yangtsze-Kiang. Book
1942ref. 233601942. Internment camp copy of Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona from the Gila River Project School Libraries preserving the school library apparatus of a War Relocation Authority camp for Japanese Americans incarcerated in Arizona during World War II. The stamp "Property of Gila River Project School Libraries / War Relocation Authority" the "High School Library" date slip and the retained circulation card checked out to "Mrs. Young" on February 21 place this volume inside the camp's formal school system. Gila River was one of the War Relocation Authority camps created to confine Japanese Americans removed from the West Coast and this is one of the materials which circulated within that controlled educational setting. Gila River confined more than 13000 Japanese Americans and maintained a formal elementary and secondary school system under War Relocation Authority administration with separate school structures in the Canal and Butte camps. The stamp in this volume identifies the bureaucratic machinery through which education was organized inside wartime incarceration. Kearney Thomas H. and Robert H. Peebles. Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona. Washington D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture 1942. USDA Miscellaneous Publication 423. This copy was held by the Gila River Project School Libraries the school library system operating within the Gila River War Relocation Center under War Relocation Authority administration. 9" x 5" x 2" 1069 pages. The ownership stamp rear pastedown date slip marked "High School Library" and retained book pocket and circulation card identify the book as part of that internal educational bureaucracy rather than a later outside institutional holding. Thick octavo in original green cloth stamped in gilt. The title page identifies Kearney as Principal Physiologist and Peebles as Associate Agronomist in the Division of Range Research Bureau of Plant Industry. Preliminary leaves include a detailed table of contents with sections on ecological factors geographical relationships of the flora vegetation and an annotated list of species while the introduction notes Arizona's exceptional botanical diversity and the absence of any earlier comprehensive manual for identifying its flowering plants and ferns. The camp provenance distinguishes this copy. Gila River divided into the Canal and Butte camps on the Gila River Indian Reservation maintained elementary and secondary schools for incarcerated Japanese Americans and this volume preserves the lending mechanics of that system in unusually direct form through its stamp date slip and borrower record. Because the book is a substantial Arizona reference work rather than casual reading matter its use in a camp high school library points to organized classroom or instructional use within confinement linking federal scientific publishing to wartime educational administration inside the camp. Light rubbing to cloth; text block clean and sound; library pocket date slip and circulation card intact; institutional stamp strong and legible. Overall good condition. An internment camp school library copy with circulation evidence still present preserving the internal educational life of Gila River through the use of a federal Arizona flora. unknown
1942ref. 233601942. Internment camp copy of Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona from the Gila River Project School Libraries preserving the school library apparatus of a War Relocation Authority camp for Japanese Americans incarcerated in Arizona during World War II. The stamp "Property of Gila River Project School Libraries / War Relocation Authority" the "High School Library" date slip and the retained circulation card checked out to "Mrs. Young" on February 21 place this volume inside the camp's formal school system. Gila River was one of the War Relocation Authority camps created to confine Japanese Americans removed from the West Coast and this is one of the materials which circulated within that controlled educational setting. Gila River confined more than 13000 Japanese Americans and maintained a formal elementary and secondary school system under War Relocation Authority administration with separate school structures in the Canal and Butte camps. The stamp in this volume identifies the bureaucratic machinery through which education was organized inside wartime incarceration. Kearney Thomas H. and Robert H. Peebles. Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona. Washington D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture 1942. USDA Miscellaneous Publication 423. This copy was held by the Gila River Project School Libraries the school library system operating within the Gila River War Relocation Center under War Relocation Authority administration. 9" x 5" x 2" 1069 pages. The ownership stamp rear pastedown date slip marked "High School Library" and retained book pocket and circulation card identify the book as part of that internal educational bureaucracy rather than a later outside institutional holding. Thick octavo in original green cloth stamped in gilt. The title page identifies Kearney as Principal Physiologist and Peebles as Associate Agronomist in the Division of Range Research Bureau of Plant Industry. Preliminary leaves include a detailed table of contents with sections on ecological factors geographical relationships of the flora vegetation and an annotated list of species while the introduction notes Arizona's exceptional botanical diversity and the absence of any earlier comprehensive manual for identifying its flowering plants and ferns. The camp provenance distinguishes this copy. Gila River divided into the Canal and Butte camps on the Gila River Indian Reservation maintained elementary and secondary schools for incarcerated Japanese Americans and this volume preserves the lending mechanics of that system in unusually direct form through its stamp date slip and borrower record. Because the book is a substantial Arizona reference work rather than casual reading matter its use in a camp high school library points to organized classroom or instructional use within confinement linking federal scientific publishing to wartime educational administration inside the camp. Light rubbing to cloth; text block clean and sound; library pocket date slip and circulation card intact; institutional stamp strong and legible. Overall good condition. An internment camp school library copy with circulation evidence still present preserving the internal educational life of Gila River through the use of a federal Arizona flora. unknown books
1919ref. 2091502135500753Not Available 1919. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1873ref. 57738Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1873. Rare Early Report of a Major Western Railroad A rare and detailed report from the infancy of what would become one of the West's largest railway companies. The Denver and Rio Grande Railway D&RG headed by former Union General William Jackson Palmer was founded in 1870 and the first tracks were laid the following year. The goal of the railroad was to find an efficient path through Colorado and across the Rockies and then southwest to a terminus at Los Angeles. The company expanded with considerable aggression and speed and before long was the largest narrow-gauge railway network on the continent. This report touts the results in the year since the railroad reached Colorado Springs the rapid growth in population in towns along the line progress of their work natural resources including coal stone lime and lumber various connecting lines and the goal of taking the railroad into Mexico which greatly wanted for railroads at the time the venture into Mexico would prove to be a disastrous waste of money and manpower. The appendix discusses the virtues of narrow gauge railroads and there are also tonnage reports a list of buildings owned by the railroad in various towns brief descriptions of spur lines and more. From 1877 to 1880 the Denver and Rio Grande was engaged in a railroad war with the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway led by William Strong in which both companies used political maneuvers physical force and sometimes violent sabotage to get the upper hand. The D&RG continued operations in a variety of shapes all the way until 1996 when it merged with the Union Pacific. The folding map titled "Map showing the Property of the Central Colorado Improvement Company" depicts the assets of that company one of three D&RG subsidiaries that later merged to form the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company. It shows the boundaries of part of the Nolan and St. Vrain grants; some township range and section boundaries; locations of major natural resources; railroads constructed and proposed; and other details. Other railroads shown include the Kansas Pacific future nemesis the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe and the Arkansas Valley Extension R.R. The lengthy folding profile shows the route of the D&RG from Denver to Pueblo noting elevations as well as a profile of the Arkansas Valley Branch line. This copy is lacking the map titled "Denver and Rio Grande Railway and Connections" which was also published separately in larger format the same year. A rare and important early document from one of the west's largest and longest-running railroads. OCLC records only five copies at the Denver Public Library California Historical Society the Autry Museum Colorado College and the American Antiquarian Society. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers somewhat chipped and stained two small holes punched in gutter throughout. Ex-Denver Public Library with bookplate on inner front wrapper and deaccession stamps on titlepage verso. Soot-stains to edges and outer margins of many pages but on the whole quite clean internally. Good plus lacking one map. OCLC 71998109 1109396713. unknown
1873ref. 57738Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1873. Rare Early Report of a Major Western Railroad A rare and detailed report from the infancy of what would become one of the West's largest railway companies. The Denver and Rio Grande Railway D&RG headed by former Union General William Jackson Palmer was founded in 1870 and the first tracks were laid the following year. The goal of the railroad was to find an efficient path through Colorado and across the Rockies and then southwest to a terminus at Los Angeles. The company expanded with considerable aggression and speed and before long was the largest narrow-gauge railway network on the continent. This report touts the results in the year since the railroad reached Colorado Springs the rapid growth in population in towns along the line progress of their work natural resources including coal stone lime and lumber various connecting lines and the goal of taking the railroad into Mexico which greatly wanted for railroads at the time the venture into Mexico would prove to be a disastrous waste of money and manpower. The appendix discusses the virtues of narrow gauge railroads and there are also tonnage reports a list of buildings owned by the railroad in various towns brief descriptions of spur lines and more. From 1877 to 1880 the Denver and Rio Grande was engaged in a railroad war with the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway led by William Strong in which both companies used political maneuvers physical force and sometimes violent sabotage to get the upper hand. The D&RG continued operations in a variety of shapes all the way until 1996 when it merged with the Union Pacific. The folding map titled "Map showing the Property of the Central Colorado Improvement Company" depicts the assets of that company one of three D&RG subsidiaries that later merged to form the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company. It shows the boundaries of part of the Nolan and St. Vrain grants; some township range and section boundaries; locations of major natural resources; railroads constructed and proposed; and other details. Other railroads shown include the Kansas Pacific future nemesis the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe and the Arkansas Valley Extension R.R. The lengthy folding profile shows the route of the D&RG from Denver to Pueblo noting elevations as well as a profile of the Arkansas Valley Branch line. This copy is lacking the map titled "Denver and Rio Grande Railway and Connections" which was also published separately in larger format the same year. A rare and important early document from one of the west's largest and longest-running railroads. OCLC records only five copies at the Denver Public Library California Historical Society the Autry Museum Colorado College and the American Antiquarian Society. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers somewhat chipped and stained two small holes punched in gutter throughout. Ex-Denver Public Library with bookplate on inner front wrapper and deaccession stamps on titlepage verso. Soot-stains to edges and outer margins of many pages but on the whole quite clean internally. Good plus lacking one map. OCLC 71998109 1109396713. unknown books
1877ref. 42208St. Louis: A. Gast & Co. Lith. 1877. 1877. IOWA NEBRASKA. First edition. 8vo. 21.6 cm x 13.3 cm. Original printed yellow wrappers 31 1 pp. illustrated from two full-page pictorial plates three maps on verso of front cover and recto and verso of rear cover. Front map is of the great South Platte region. Map on inside rear cover is a map of Southern Iowa showing lands of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company that are available for sale Map on outside of rear cover is a map showing the leading through routes to the West and the land grants in Iowa & Nebraska of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy R. R. and Burlington & Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska. A scarce and interesting promotional for the sale of 1000000 acres of land owned along the routes of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. The Burlington and Missouri put out some of the most interesting and compelling railroad land promotionals in the genre nicely illustrated with maps and plates and this example is no exception. The maps show the lands for sale along the line of the railroad from Monroe Iowa to Omaha; lands in Nebraska from Omaha to Kearney along the South Platte; and a map showing railroad routes from Chicago. The plates are entitled "Looking Southwest from Lincoln Neb." and "Valley of the Big Blue South of Seward Neb." The text is devoted to detailed descriptions of the land including natural resources soil climate stock raising and homesteading opportunities and prices for land and for goods. This publication enjoyed some success; another promotional issued the next year advertised only 750000 acres of land left for sale indicating that the Burlington and Missouri had sold off a quarter million acres of land the previous year. Laid into this copy is a four-page "Circular of Rates on Tickets and Freight" for several railroads including the Burlington & Missouri. Not in Railway Economics nor in the Eberstadt or Decker catalogues. OCLC locates three copies at the American Antiquarian Society Harvard Business School Library and the DeGolyer Library. There is also a copy at Yale. This scarce promotional booklet has covers lightly soiled small chips to the covers covers holding but loose internally quite serviceable. Overall a very good copy. A. Gast & Co. Lith., [1877]. unknown
1659ref. 29260Lyons: Antoine Cellier 1659. First Description of Aortic Stenosis RIVIERE Lazare 1589-1655. Observationum medicarum & curationum insignium centurae tres. . . . Edited by Simeon Jacoz. 4to. 8 311 9pp. Lyons: Antoine Cellier 1659. 225 x 167 mm. Speckled sheep c. 1659 rubbed small wormhole in front cover. Some foxing browning & dampstaining old repair to one leaf. Very good copy. Old signature and notes on endpapers. First Edition. Riviere was the first to describe stenosis of the aortic valve from a case that he treated in 1646. GM 2727 cites Riviere's description of this condition in his Opera medica universa 1674 of which the present work is the first edition; the description appears here on p. 177 and is entitled "Cordis palpitatio & pulsus inaequalitas." Riviere also brought Paracelsian iatrochemistry into the curriculum of the University of Montpellier and it was under his auspices that Alexander Fraser introduced the Harviean theory of the circulation into the University's curriculum in 1636. An edition of the present work was published in The Hague in the same year as this Lyons edition. As Riviere was French it is reasonable to presume that the Lyons edition was first. Hirsch. Norman 1837. Willius & Dry p. 58. Thorndike VIII p. 518. . Antoine Cellier unknown
1659ref. 29260Lyons: Antoine Cellier 1659. First Description of Aortic Stenosis RIVIERE Lazare 1589-1655. Observationum medicarum & curationum insignium centurae tres. . . . Edited by Simeon Jacoz. 4to. 8 311 9pp. Lyons: Antoine Cellier 1659. 225 x 167 mm. Speckled sheep c. 1659 rubbed small wormhole in front cover. Some foxing browning & dampstaining old repair to one leaf. Very good copy. Old signature and notes on endpapers. First Edition. Riviere was the first to describe stenosis of the aortic valve from a case that he treated in 1646. GM 2727 cites Riviere's description of this condition in his Opera medica universa 1674 of which the present work is the first edition; the description appears here on p. 177 and is entitled "Cordis palpitatio & pulsus inaequalitas." Riviere also brought Paracelsian iatrochemistry into the curriculum of the University of Montpellier and it was under his auspices that Alexander Fraser introduced the Harviean theory of the circulation into the University's curriculum in 1636. An edition of the present work was published in The Hague in the same year as this Lyons edition. As Riviere was French it is reasonable to presume that the Lyons edition was first. Hirsch. Norman 1837. Willius & Dry p. 58. Thorndike VIII p. 518. . Antoine Cellier unknown books
1782ref. 8291Madrid: Imprenta Real 1782. First Edition Primera edición. Hardcover Tapa dura. Madrid Imprenta Real s.a. 1782. En folio. 31 h. 326 136 24 pp. 1 lámina. Encuadernación en pergamino a la romana de finales del siglo diecinueve planos con rueda gofrada y flor en los vértices lomera con tejuelo en marroquén y letrería también dorada. Primera edición de las Ordenanzas de Intendentes para el virreinato del Río de la Plata posiblemente las ordenanzas más importantes que se dictaron para América. Las primeras ordenanzas se dieron para los cuerpos de intendentes en España en 1718 que después sirvieron de ejemplo para las de América. Las Ordenanzas definen a los Intendentes en América como magistrados puestos para fomentar la agricultura promover el comercio estimular la industria y favorecer la minería; la legislación general para los intendentes se fue configurando a medida que se iban solventando las deficiencias que aparecían en el ejercicio diario de sus funciones. La primeras ordenanzas en América se establecieron en Cuba en 1764. Las presentes Ordenanzas para el virreinato de Buenos Aires o Río de la Plata fueron las primeras que se realizaron para el continente americano y son la base de las leyes relativas al comercio y la hacienda en América durante el reinado de Carlos III hasta el fin de la dominación española en América. La premura en este virreinato fue producto de la situación de crisis y conflicto que la sublevación indígena había conseguido establecer en gran parte de su jurisdicción especialmente en el Alto Perú. Este levantamiento indígena que se dio de manera simultánea en distintos lugares tuvo uno de sus focos en Chayanta Potosí liderado por los hermanos Kataris el cual extendiéndose por el altiplano terminó contactando con el movimiento de Tupac Amaru y alcanzando un importante impacto en ciudades como Oruro o La Paz. Una de las quejas de los indígenas sublevados fue la extorsión y abusos de los corregidores. La reforma administrativa a partir de la aplicación del régimen de intendencias contemplaba entre uno de sus objetivos acabar con la odiosa figura del corregidor de indios y sustituirla por los subdelegados. Ejemplar con extensas anotaciones contemporáneas en los márgenes y con dos folios manuscritos adicionales. La primera hoja que contiene la lámina con el escudo está restaurada en el margen interior pero sin afectar al grabado por lo demás es un magnífico ejemplar con muy amplios márgenes. Imprenta Real hardcover
1967ref. 192946Mexico D.F.: Editorial Meridiano 1967. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 101 vols. color illustrations wrps. most are unopened with age toning around the edges. 101 issues of an important mexican satire magazine by Rius spanning 2 years. Very scarce in this condition. There is no issue 41 since it was numbered 40.5 as a joke. Editorial Meridiano paperback
1923ref. 140945682Paris: Albert Lévy 1923. First edition. First edition. Complete in two imperial folio volumes immense illustrated boards with cloth ties containing loose sheets. Copy #52 of 300 total. Text in French. Ex-art museum library copies with tiny call numbers written on spines card pocket on paste down stamps on the verso of each color plate; despite this Very Good overall a few ties have perished typical age-toning to contents but generally bright and clean. A deluxe monograph about Chinese Korean and Japanese ceramics with large color plates. Please note: these volumes are exceptionally heavy and large and will require substantial additional cost if shipping outside of the USA. Albert Lévy unknown
1923ref. 140945682Paris: Albert Lévy 1923. First edition. First edition. Complete in two imperial folio volumes immense illustrated boards with cloth ties containing loose sheets. Copy #52 of 300 total. Text in French. Ex-art museum library copies with tiny call numbers written on spines card pocket on paste down stamps on the verso of each color plate; despite this Very Good overall a few ties have perished typical age-toning to contents but generally bright and clean. A deluxe monograph about Chinese Korean and Japanese ceramics with large color plates. Please note: these volumes are exceptionally heavy and large and will require substantial additional cost if shipping outside of the USA. Albert Lévy unknown books
1838ref. ST13648London: Richard Bentley 1838. FIRST EDITION Second State with frame around final plate "The Last Song". 204 x 125 mm. 8 x 4 7/8". With half titles and with 36 pp. of ads at the end of Vol. II. Two volumes. HANDSOME FOREST GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT BY RIVIERE & SON stamp-signed on front turn-in covers with French fillet borders raised bands spines gilt in delicately tooled compartments with scrolling centerpiece within a lozenge of small tools volute cornerpieces gilt titling turn-ins densely gilt with floral rolls and plain and decorative rules purple endpapers top edges gilt other edges untrimmed. Original purple cloth binding bound in. With 13 plates by George Cruikshank. Eckel pp. 140-42; Kitton pp. 177-83; Gimbel Collection B-64. ◆Spines evenly sunned to tan as usual with green morocco faint offsetting from final plate otherwise A VERY FINE COPY with only the most trivial imperfections internally and in a sparkling binding. This is an extraordinarily attractive copy of the biography of Joseph Grimaldi 1779-1837 called by Britannica "the most celebrated of English clowns" and generally considered without equal as a clown of pantomime. There has been much debate about the exact nature of Dickens' role in the writing of this book. Forster said that Dickens wrote only the introductory chapter; others have said that he edited the manuscript with the help of his father; and Bentley has stated in print that Dickens wrote a significant portion of the work. Eckel says "It is plain that the last chapter is in Dickens' style and that other parts of the book are his. Grimaldi laid the foundation for his memoirs but in a rough and diffuse manner. He gave the manuscript to Thomas Egerton Wilks who after some condensing sold the manuscript to Bentley who in turn passed it to Dickens for the purpose of embroidery." According to Kitton copies with the frame around the final plate as here are more valuable than others because of their relative scarcity; the border was added without Dickens' consent and when he expressed his displeasure it was quickly removed. The especially pretty Riviere binding is typical of the firm's first-rate work and use of the best materials. Richard Bentley unknown
1838ref. ST13648London: Richard Bentley 1838. FIRST EDITION Second State with frame around final plate "The Last Song". 204 x 125 mm. 8 x 4 7/8". With half titles and with 36 pp. of ads at the end of Vol. II. Two volumes. HANDSOME FOREST GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT BY RIVIERE & SON stamp-signed on front turn-in covers with French fillet borders raised bands spines gilt in delicately tooled compartments with scrolling centerpiece within a lozenge of small tools volute cornerpieces gilt titling turn-ins densely gilt with floral rolls and plain and decorative rules purple endpapers top edges gilt other edges untrimmed. Original purple cloth binding bound in. With 13 plates by George Cruikshank. Eckel pp. 140-42; Kitton pp. 177-83; Gimbel Collection B-64. ◆Spines evenly sunned to tan as usual with green morocco faint offsetting from final plate otherwise A VERY FINE COPY with only the most trivial imperfections internally and in a sparkling binding. This is an extraordinarily attractive copy of the biography of Joseph Grimaldi 1779-1837 called by Britannica "the most celebrated of English clowns" and generally considered without equal as a clown of pantomime. There has been much debate about the exact nature of Dickens' role in the writing of this book. Forster said that Dickens wrote only the introductory chapter; others have said that he edited the manuscript with the help of his father; and Bentley has stated in print that Dickens wrote a significant portion of the work. Eckel says "It is plain that the last chapter is in Dickens' style and that other parts of the book are his. Grimaldi laid the foundation for his memoirs but in a rough and diffuse manner. He gave the manuscript to Thomas Egerton Wilks who after some condensing sold the manuscript to Bentley who in turn passed it to Dickens for the purpose of embroidery." According to Kitton copies with the frame around the final plate as here are more valuable than others because of their relative scarcity; the border was added without Dickens' consent and when he expressed his displeasure it was quickly removed. The especially pretty Riviere binding is typical of the firm's first-rate work and use of the best materials. Richard Bentley unknown books
1935ref. 161360N.p.: N.p. 1935. Final script for the 1935 film seen here under the working title "Romance in a Glass House." Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. A famed stage diva wants her untalented lover as her leading man. To prevent this from occurring the producers select a handsome novice from the streets and declare him the new contracted lead in their production. Bound in full red leather with gilt titles on the spine and front board. Distribution page present stamped copy No. 4 noted as FINAL with receipt removed. Title page present dated 6/25/35 with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald Julius J. Epstein and Robert Hardy Andrews. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine binding about Fine. N.p. unknown
1935ref. 161360N.p.: N.p. 1935. Final script for the 1935 film seen here under the working title "Romance in a Glass House." Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. A famed stage diva wants her untalented lover as her leading man. To prevent this from occurring the producers select a handsome novice from the streets and declare him the new contracted lead in their production. Bound in full red leather with gilt titles on the spine and front board. Distribution page present stamped copy No. 4 noted as FINAL with receipt removed. Title page present dated 6/25/35 with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald Julius J. Epstein and Robert Hardy Andrews. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine binding about Fine. N.p. unknown books
ref. 4697Offered here is a rare and unusual collection of designs and drawings the work of what appears to be a single binder for Riviere & Son from the late 1920's with a very few possibly later. There are 8 large designs for spines with some drawings tool impressions two of which are in color; 4 smaller designs for spines; 7 small "snippets" of tooling designs; 7 front cover designs some drawings some with tool impressions; 26 rubbings of bindings covers spines etc. various sizes; 4 miscellaneous: a sheet of oasis leather samples used for the Andrew Lang Fairy Books tool roll samples for a set of Shakespeare a small piece of paper with what looks to be time studies for various bindings e.g. ìΩ Plain 50 minî spine design samples from various sets of English authors sheet with various pictorial tools used and which authors titles etc. to use them e.g. a witch on a broom and ìThe Arthur Rackham Fairy Bookî. A variety of paper has been used in these examples some thicker but much of it quite fine i.e. tissue quality. Some small tears and browning from being folded for decades but overall most pieces in nice shape. A most scarce archive of original bookbinding records from one of the most famous bookbinding companies in the history of modern bookbinding. unknown
ref. 4697Offered here is a rare and unusual collection of designs and drawings the work of what appears to be a single binder for Riviere & Son from the late 1920's with a very few possibly later. There are 8 large designs for spines with some drawings tool impressions two of which are in color; 4 smaller designs for spines; 7 small "snippets" of tooling designs; 7 front cover designs some drawings some with tool impressions; 26 rubbings of bindings covers spines etc. various sizes; 4 miscellaneous: a sheet of oasis leather samples used for the Andrew Lang Fairy Books tool roll samples for a set of Shakespeare a small piece of paper with what looks to be time studies for various bindings e.g. ìΩ Plain 50 minî spine design samples from various sets of English authors sheet with various pictorial tools used and which authors titles etc. to use them e.g. a witch on a broom and ìThe Arthur Rackham Fairy Bookî. A variety of paper has been used in these examples some thicker but much of it quite fine i.e. tissue quality. Some small tears and browning from being folded for decades but overall most pieces in nice shape. A most scarce archive of original bookbinding records from one of the most famous bookbinding companies in the history of modern bookbinding. unknown books
