The Century Dictionary And Cyclopedia ~ 10 Volume Set ~ Together With The Century Dictionary Supplement, 1910, 2 Volumes 12 Volumes In All. -

Rare copy of "A FAIRY GARLAND" - Being Fairy Tales from the Old French signed by the illustrator, Edmund Dulac. 1928 1st edition; Cassell & Company; London. The book features 12 wonder color illustrations by Dulac. Signed Limited Edition - this copy is #97 of only 1,000 copies printed. Edmund Dulac's signature appears in pen on the limitation page. Gilt top edge.The contents are as follows:* The Fairy SongTALES BY CHARLES PERRAULT* Riquet with the Tuft* Puss in BootsTALES BY MME. d'AULNOY* Bablet* Green Dragon* Fortunata* The Blue Bird* Princess RosettaTALE BY COUNT ANTHONY HAMILTON* MayblossonCondition:Light soiling to covers and spine; sharp corners. Tight binding. No loose pages. The blue cloth over the front board is peeling up just a bit along the top half of the left edge. Crack at front hinge between the pastedown and endpaper. The pages are in overall very good condition - mostly clean and white with only some occasional light foxing (though heavier on the front pastedown up to the title… Read More

Jacobi Gronovil, 1721. Hardcover. Fair. Bound in calf-skin vellum-- spine has 6 ridges with the words TACITUS Curante GRONOVIO (clearly done with quill and ink). It appears some text has worn away below this. The leather binding is an ivory color, more discolored along the spine, where it has begun to wear away at 2 of the ridges. Front and back are embossed with floral diamond design-- shows signs of shelfwear but nothing the sturdy vellum wouldn't handle. The binding is tight. Outer edges of pages very brown with age, dust and sun. Based on other book descriptions, I believe this is volume one of a two volume set. There's some foxing throughout the book, and yellowing around the edges of pages, as would be expected of a book this age. Paper is thicker than paper of later books, and you can see that each letter in the text was arranged by a typesetter. First pages (the introduction) begin with larger font that gradually reduces in size. 756 pages in all. The title page reads as follows: C. Cornelii… Read More

Oblong-folio plate volume from Robert von Spalart's multi-volume series on the costumes of ancient civilizations to medieval and modern times.Title on spine reads Spalart Kostum, Foliotafeln 1-5, but collection contains all 112 folio plates to Antiquity parts 1-5, plus 43 plates illustrating the Middle Ages.With allegorical frontispiece, and 154 fine handcolored copperplate engravings A to SSSSS (ancient world from Egypt to Rome including Pompeii and Herculaneum) and I to XLIII (Anglo-Saxon and Norman). Plates engraved by K. Ponheimer, Paul Weindl, after illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Julien-David Le Roy, Johann Just Winckelmann, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Antonio Jolli, Friedrich Justin Bertuch, Sir William Hamilton, Carsten Niebuhr, Jean Chardin, Cornelis Le Bruyn, Juan Bautista Villalpando, Alessandro Galilei, Antoine Augustin Calmet,Karl Gottlieb Guischardt, Gabriel Daniel, Johann Georg Graevius, Ferdinando Galiani, Jean-Claude Richard Abbé de Saint-Non, etc.Robert von… Read More

20 pages, including 16 plates. Title, text and plates with decorative rule frame and border. Publisher's printed blue wrappers. Upper cover with decorative frame and ornaments, lower cover with printer's advertisment. Oblong folio (320 x 240 mm). First edition. The Abbé Delaplace, a keen student of deaf education and almoner at the Institute of St. Médard in Soissons, produced this attractive illustrated alphabet for the instruction of deaf-mute students with mouth and tongue positions with phonetic descriptions together with detailed illustrations of the vocal organs and lungs. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Slipcase. Very Good. First edition, second state with illustration entitled "Titian's Moses." From the library of Eugene Field. 631 pp. plus a 1-page publisher's advertisement at the rear. Rebound in full morocco and decorative endpapers with raised bands. Gilt top edge. Light rubbing to book's extremities. Custom/matching slipcase rubbed on the corners. Original brown cloth bound into the back of the book The book appears to be signed by Mark Twain on the title page and Eugene Field on a rear flyleaf. The signatures, though quite convincing, are likely forgeries made by the famed forger Eugene "Pinny" Field II (1879-1946) and Harry Dayton Sickles, working in tandem. Field's father, Eugene Field (1850-1895), was a newspaper columnist, poet, and book collector. After his death, Eugene Field's book collection passed on to his son. The younger Field developed the ability to imitate the autographs of the authors his father had collected as well as the signature of his… Read More

12 mo. (7 x 4 1/2 inches) Glasgow, 1700. First Edition. (viii) 112 pages. Good condition: early nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, considerable wear to hinges (front hinge split, but holding), title in gilt on spine.

Walter Herries (or Harris) was a pamphleteer who participated in the first Darien "adventure." Upon his return to England, he was offered inducements by English politicians to write a book that would ruin the reputation of the members of the Darien Company. His book was "Declared by a royal proclamation to be a 'false, scandalous, and traitorous libel'."

This book, attributed to Ridpath, is an answer to Herries's book, and an attack on English politicians. Ridpath was a Scottish journalist who wrote and supported Whig interests against the Tories.

LONDON: Hodder and Stoughton, 1921. 1st Edition ONLY PRINTING. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket, as Issued. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. ATTWELL, MABEL LUCIE. TRULY RARE DELUXE FIRST & ONLY PRINTING!! FIRST BRITISH PRINTING, HODDER & STOUGHTON, FINE CONDITION!! EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE ORIGINAL 1921 "PETER PAN & WENDY" Illustrated by MABEL LUCY ATTWELL with 12 BEAUTIFUL FULL COLOR (COLOUR) HINGED PLATES. THIS IS THE DELUXE ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PRINTING, IN LOVELY ROBIN'S EGG BLUE CLOTH, EMBOSSED COLOR FRONT ILLUSTRATION with FRONT COVER & SPINE LETTERING IN BRIGHT GILT. THIS EXAMPLE IS NEAR FINE, COVERS EXCELLENT, BINDER TIGHT, FAINT FOXING ON A FEW PRELIMS & FINAL PAGES...VERY FAINT. SLIGHT COLOR VARIATION ON REAR BOARD!! ALL 12 COLOR HINGED (EDGE GLUED ON HEAVY DARKER STOCK) IN PERFECT CONDITION!! ____________________________ NOTE: THIS BOOK WAS ONLY PRINTED ONCE in the U.K. in 1921. "NOTE: THERE WAS ALSO A "CHEAP" VERSION OF THE FIRST RELEASED SHORTLY AFTER THE DELUXE. IT IS A SMALLER FORMAT, (THICKER MORE… Read More

Small octavo (7 5/8 by 5 1/2 inches) London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1607. sixth edition. 85 leaves (leaf 46 is misnumbered), text printed in black letter; nineteenth century marbled boards, half leather, raised bands, leather corners, title in gilt on red label on spine, author and date in gilt on brown label on spine, good condition (mild shelf wear not affecting contents) a few leaves with marginalia in a neat hand; ESTC S117811 (manuscript references in pencil on front fly leaf: "S.T.C. 23218; COPIES REPORTED ONLY AT Oxford, Huntington, and HARVARD.") Dedicated to "... his singular friend Nicholas Bacon, the Kings Attorney of his Court of Wards , and Keeper of the Great Seale of England." Bacon was the father of the philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon.

(This book is) "Concerned with the property rights of the crown rather than with constitutional principles. Fulbeck justly said of Stanford's books in 1600 that they were of: 'force and weight, and no common kind of stile; in… Read More

1549 GREEK Herodian Roman Histories Commodus Marcus Aurelias Poliziano RARE

Herodian's 'History of Rome' is a collection of eight books covering the period of the death of Marcus Aurelius to the beginning of Gordian III's reign. Herodian's account is first-person narrative of one of the most politically unsettled times of the Roman Empire. Important names covered in Herodian's 'History' include Commodus, Julianus, Severus, and Pertinax, as well as the history of Zosimus.

This 1549 Greek is incredibly rare and desirable. It features both the Latin and Greek translations by Poliziano. According to the USTC, there are only three examples in any institutional holding in American institutions! Very rare!

Item number: #24825
Price: $950

HERODIAN

Ηροδιανου ιστοριων βιβλια Η = Herodiani de Imperatorum Romanorum præclarè gestis libri VIII : Graeci & Latini

Basileae : Per Henrichum Petri, 1549.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [40], 647, [1]
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1640 ATLAS Nicolas Tassin MAPS Guyenne France French Geography Bayonne Cahors

Nicolas Tassin was a mid-17th-century French cartographer whose maps were some of the most thorough and accurate of the time. This collection of Tassin maps includes his maps and engravings of cities, towns, and villages, in Guyenne, France. Notable maps include: Bayonne, Bergerac, Blaye, Bourdeaux, Bourg, Cahors, Fronsac, Libourne, and Royan.

Item number: #24791
Price: $950

TASSIN, Nicolas

Plans et profilz des principales villes de la province de guyenne avec la carte generale & les particulieres des chascun governement d'icelles

[Paris: Tavernier, 1640.] 1st edition

Details:
· Collation:
o 23 leaves
o 20 engravings
· Language: French
· Binding: Softcover; tight and secure
· Size: ~6.5in X 9in (16.5cm x 22.5cm)
· Quite rare

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