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W. Bromley, Hammersmith, London.,1799FIRST EDITION. Folio.(17.4 x 11.2 inches). 14pp, 9 pages of plates. An early issue of this work, with paper watermarked 1796. Stipple engraved, hand coloured title page and seven full page, hand coloured plates, plus full page engraved speech from As You Like it, titled The ages of Man, featuring one of Shakespeare's most enduring and often quoted lines - All the world's a stage, and all the men and women meerly players- each printed by R. Fenner. The plates are engraved by William Bromley after Stothards drawings. . Fine recent binding of quarter red straight grained morocco, the spine, ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Red morocco tips to corners of boards. Some offsetting from the Illustrations onto the text pages and some staining to the margins only on 5 pages but overall a very good attractive copy of this scarce and beautiful work.
DAS NEUE NARRENSCHIFF VON SEBASTIAN BRANT. by (HOFFMANN, JOSEF) - 1911
by (HOFFMANN, JOSEF)
DAS NEUE NARRENSCHIFF VON SEBASTIAN BRANT.
by (HOFFMANN, JOSEF)
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Vienna: Concordia Druck Bruder Rosenbaum, 1911. Vienna: "Concordia" druck Brüder Rosenbaum, 1911. Narrow 12mo, illustrated booklet in pictorial paper wrappers bound with ribbon into a beautiful full pictorial red morocco case with metallic ribbons. Decorated endpapers. Slight rubbing. Lettered on back cover "Concordia Ball 1911". The morocco binding was designed by Josef Hoffmann, architect and designer. Along with Koloman Moser, he founded the Wiener Werkstatte in 1903, inspired by C. R. Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft. The book ,taken from Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools, is illustrated by various artists. Pictorial Wrappers, Morocco . Fine.. Illus. by Josef Hoffmann. Narrow 12mo.
- Bookseller Marilyn Braiterman Rare Books (US)
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- Publisher Concordia Druck Bruder Rosenbaum
- Place of Publication Vienna
- Date Published 1911
- Keywords ILLUSTRATED BOOKS & CHILDREN'S WIENER WERKSTATTE JOSEF HOFFMAN, WIENER WERKSTATTE, VIENNA, BALL SOUVENIR
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SHAKESPEARES SEVEN AGES OF MAN ILLUSTRATED
by STOTHARD. THOMAS.Illustrates.; SHAKESPEARE. WILLIAM
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[Emblem Book] Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata, imaginibus in aes incisis, notisque illustrata
by VEEN, Otto van [Otto Vaenius ], 1556-1629
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Bruxellis [Brussels]: Apud Franciscvm Foppens, 1682. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Near Fine+. First of the Brussels Foppens editions of Veen's enduringly popular "Emblems from Horace" (principally from the Odes and Satires), a classic of emblematic literature. 4to: [8],205,[3]pp, with full-page engraved coat-of-arms, portrait of "Octavio Vaenius," and 103 engraved emblems with mottoes in Latin and stanzas in French below each plate and verses in Latin, Italian, Dutch and French on verso of preceding plate. Contemporary sprinkled calf, very skillfully rebacked, spine in six compartments between raised bands with central printer's ornament in blind, recent blue morocco lettering piece gilt, title page in red and black with portrait medallion. Provenance: Crawfurd Antrobus (armorial book plate on front paste-down). An excellent, well-margined copy with several old well-executed paper repairs to short closed tears, mostly marginal; few marginal stains, else clean, fresh, and bright, plates in deep, rich…
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STORIA DELL'AUGUSTA BADIA DI S. SILVESTRO DI NONANTOLA AGGIUNTOVI IL CODICE DIPLOMATICO DELLA MEDESIMA ILLUSTRATO CON NOTE
by GIROLAMO TIRABOSCHI
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MODENA: PRESSO LA SOCIETA TIPOGRAFICA, 1784. In folio. cm. 38,5x27. Pp. XIX+526+(4). Splendida opera del 1784, la storia della Badia di Nonantola scritta da Girolamo Tiraboschi (1731-1794). L'opera era composta da due tomi, siamo purtroppo in possesso solo del primo tomo contenente tutte le incisioni e pagine ma mancante della carta.<BR>L'opera descrive i beni e le proprietà della Badia includendo quindi i territori di Modena, Bologna, Avellana, Solara, Frignano, Cremona, Pavia, Milano, Mantova, Piacenza, Parma, Ferrara, Valfabbrica nella diocesi di Assisi, Nocera Umbra, Sassoferrato. Una parte dedicata allo stato di Modena a partire dal XII secolo, Vescovi di Modena, storia della Badia di Nonantola dalla sua fondazione fino al presente (tra cui descrizione della biblioteca), Delle chiese e dei beni che il Monastero di Nonantola avea in diverse parti d'Italia. Alla fine del volume lista dei vescovi di Modena, Abati del Monastero di Nonantola, abati, vicari. Il testo è…
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QUALITY STREET. A comedy in four acts
by THOMSON, HUGH. Illustrates. ; BARRIE. J. M
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Hodder and Stoughton. London. -- No date. 1913. FIRST THOMSON EDITION. 4to.(10.5 x 8.4 inches). 22 mounted colour plates, each with a printed paper guard. A fine and clean copy in an early fine binding of half green morocco. The spine has two raised bands, each with decorative gilt tooling. Tan title label, gilt. Gilt ruled box designs. There is an illustrated multi coloured leather onlay design to the middle of the spine showing a couple walking in the rain, under an umbrella. Blue cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Previous owners colour bookplate to the front paste down. A fine copy in a fine binding. The binding is unsigned but certainly the work of a master bookbinder.
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Rule of Thumb.
by [Crooked Letter Press] Ellen Knudson.
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Gainesville, Florida:: Crooked Letter Press,, 2021.. Edition of 40. Dimensions closed: 11 x 6.5 x 1.5. Materials: colorplan 300 gsm paper, letterpress ink, tyvek, book cloth, metal brads and grommets. printed on and constructed from Colorplan paper, and letterpress printed from linoleum reduction blocks and photopolymer plates. Crooked Letter Press: "'Rule of Thumb' is a moveable book about the historical human obsession with ourselves and with approval from others. In the last 10 years, we have become obsessed with living online instead of actual living. We seem to only care about how many thumbs up, likes, or hearts we can accumulate on social media platforms. We practice a psychological social separation. We live virtual lives. Now, with the proliferation of the COVID-19 virus, we are living with the physical reality of social-distancing. How will we make it back? Can we make it back? 'Rule of Thumb' considers the ways in which humans have used our thumbs…
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The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious
by [Charles Molloy Westmacott, writing as] BLACKMANTLE, Bernard (c. 1788-1868); Robert Cruikshank (Illustrates)
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London: Sherwood, Jones and Co. [through 1826], 1825. First Edition. Supposed First Issue (with plate 28 , vol. I, misdated 1284 and p.222, vol. II, blank) of one of the finest English color plate books, complete in two volumes. (Abbey and Tooley disagree, with Abbey arguing that these points are without bibliographical value.) Royal 8vo: xiii,417; xv,[1],399,[1]pp, with 71 hand-colored aquatints by Robert Cruikshank, Rowlandson, and others; 1 uncolored woodcut plate and 74 wood engravings in text. Bound in full crimson levant morocco, covers framed with French fillets, elaborately gilt-tooled spines and dentelles, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. the binding exquisite. Light bumping and wear to several corners, mild offsetting from plates, very occasional foxing, still an excellent copy inside and out, the binding exquisite, the plates vividly colored. Abbey Life 325. Tooley 504. Prideaux, p. 310. Martin Hardie, pp. 191-92. Originally published in 24 monthly parts, The English Spy provides a…
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Asarum canadense (Wild Ginger).
by [Goodale, Rebecca] Cathleen Miller.
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Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2014.. Edition of 8. 7.5 x 7"; hybrid structure of 13 flag pages plus an 8-page pamphlet sewn into on fold. Accordion structure extending from back pastedown. 13 flag pages have 3 asymmetric flags per page. Silkscreen and hand painting. Printed on [Katie] MacGregor Handmade Paper. Letterpress text designed and printed by Scott Vile of Ascenius Press. Bound in cloth-covered boards. Numbered. Signed by artist and poet.. Another in Goodale's Threatened and Endangered series. Rebecca Goodale's heart-shaped flags are accompanied by Miller's poem. Wild ginger, a low perennial with two heart-shaped leaves, is listed in Maine's threatened flora category. Cathleen Miller: "I am a poet, herbalist, artist, dreamer, gardener, systems-thinker, and special collections librarian living in Portland, Maine. I am an observer, in poems and in life. I write about connection, desire, place, the natural world, and bodies in space".
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at low water: an intertidal memoir
by [Pie in the Sky Press] Rebecca Chamlee.
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[Simi Valley, California]:: Pie in the Sky Press,, 2017.. Edition of 60 + lettered copies. 5 x 8"; 64 pages. 10 and 12 point Deepdene and the California Old Style figures were cast by M & H Typefounders, while the 14 and 36 point Deepdene italic were cast by Swamp Press. Photographs taken by a Nikon 7100 digital SLR equipped with a 60 mm macro lens and a polarizing filter mounted on a monopod. The specimen images, created using photopolymer plates made by Boxcar Press, habitat spreads, and handset type were letterpress printed on thick Awagami Kozo with Niyodo Kozo overlays using a Vandercook Universal III abp Press. Written, designed, printed, and bound by Rebecca Chamlee. Signed and numbered by Chamlee. Standard edition (numbered 1-60): a drum leaf sewn-board style binding, gloved spine in Ginga backcloth, printed St-Armand Old Master paper covering the boards. Laid in a printed paper chemise. In slipcase of lightweight blue paper. Deluxe edition (lettered A-E): housed in…
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CRANFORD. With a preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie
by GASKELL. MRS. ; THOMSON. HUGH. Illustrates
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Macmillan and Co. London. 1891. FIRST THOMSON EDITION, Large paper issue. One of only 300 copies issued. Large 8vo. (10.5 x 7.4 inches). Illustrated throughout with 101 fine line drawings by Thomson. Finely bound by Cedric Chivers of bath in early twentieth century binding of full plum morocco. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Decorative line and floral design to both boards. Board edges double ruled in gilt. Mottled coloured endpapers. Turn ins with double ruled lines and floral design. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Two previous owner bookplates on the front paste down endpaper. A little fading to the spine but overall a very near fine copy.
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Picturesque views by Calvert.
by Frederick Calvert (Cork 1793-1852).
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Calvert's rarest print albumLondon, Hodgson & Co, 1823.
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(24 x 16,5 cm.). With 24 soft ground etched plates and title. Original publisher's half morocco with printed front cover. With original tissue guards.
Very rare plate album by Irish landscape painter Frederick Calvert, complete with 24 "picturesque views" and in the original binding. Calvert moved to England in 1815 and, besides painting, produced a number of print albums and model books, a.o. The young artist's instructor (London, Hodgson and Co., 1823) and Rural scenery (London, Hodgson and Co., ca. 1825). He designed plates for Picturesque views ... in Staffordshire and Shropshire (Birmingham, William Emans, 1830-1831), and for A new and compendious history, of the county of Warwick (Birmingham, William Emans, 1830). Perhaps his most famous work was for The Isle of Wight illustrated (1846).
The present work is the rarest of Calvert's published oeuvre, with just 4 copies recorded in WorldCat and none at auction. It formed the basis… Read More
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The Man Who Lost His Head
by Claire Huchet Bishop
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp
by William R. Gillis
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William R. Gillis. Goldrush Days with Mark Twain (H. Glintenkamp woodcuts). Copyright 1930. Albert & Charles Boni, NY. With an into by Cyril Clemens. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS 6 woodcut illustrations included, Twain frontis (Three old friends), and 5 other historic and realistic woodcut illustrations. MEMOIRS. HISTORY OF NEVADA GOLDRUSH. Summary: Mr. Gillis was a friend of American author/humorist Mark Twain and was with him at Virginia, Nevada in the Goldrush days. In 1859 placer miners in the Great Basin discovered the largest gold and silver strike that had happened in the United States up until that time. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS. Used. Good- Condition. 264 pages. Used. Good condition. First few pages are loose. Frontis is still affixed to binding. Green cloth boards gold titling. No titles left on spine. Spine is sunned.
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The DOs and DON'Ts of Yesterday: Little Book of Early American Know-How
by Eric Sloane
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Illustrated with pen/ink images Sloane is known for. (2) books,a yellow and an orange (18x12cm) with gilt title on covers and spines. Paper title on dark red slipcase with signature of author. Slipcase has very minor wear to bottom fore edge.
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The Professional Cosmetologist
by John W. Dalton
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West Pub. Co, 1981. 2nd. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. John W. Dalton's near definitive textbook of cosmetology. Professional level instruction covering all significant topics for students of cosmetology. Valuable resource for replicating ca. 1970's hairstyles, makeup, etc. A standard in its field. Expanded and revised second edition. 463 pp. 10" x 7 3/8". Tight copy with light rubbing to cover and scattered yellow highlighting. Small corner loss to front blank endpaper. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on request. All inquiries answered promptly.
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The Magyars; The Birth of a European Nation
by Gyorgy Balazs
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Budapest: Corvina, 1989. Gray Buckram Binding w/black and red lettering on spine, Crest on cover. Pictorial Endpapers,w/91 pages of full color photo illustrations from Hungarian National Gallery, National Szechenyl Library and private collections. Includes 2 page Genealogy of the House of Arpad. Book is in As New Condition w/Fine wrap around DJ. Also contains (2)Brochures osThe Danube Bend, Hungary, found in book. **Oversized-extra shipping charges may apply Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Karoly Szelenyi (photos).
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
by Dickens, Charles
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THE PICKWICK PAPERS. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. By Charles Dickens. Dodd, Mead 1935. 637 pages. Illustrated edition. Dark green boards, Gilt decorated spine. Titling still fairy. bright. . Illustrated by C.E. Brock. All colour plates including frontispiece are affixed to binding and are in nice condition. 16 colour plates in all. Used. Good Condition/ No Dj if issued. 637 pages 5 3/4 X 8 1/2. A nice copy. Will ship from Oregon. We consider offers.
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Mister Rogers' Plan and Play Book: Daily Activities from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
by Rogers, Fred
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032 Mister Rogers' Plan and Play Book: Daily Activities from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for Child Care Providers, Family Communications, Inc. Copyright 1983. 1985 2nd Edition Thus, Spiral bound. Pre-owned unused condition. ISBN 9789995253899 RARE IN THIS 2ND EDITION PRINTING. Large format 9 1/2 X 11 1/8. 333 pages, indexed.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Books, Inc. Edition)
by Hugo, Victor
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Hugo, Victor. Please excuse our group photo, but please see this item (in beige and red dust jacket) at bottom right. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Undated. Circa 1940. Books, Inc. VG/VG original Publishers price-clipped DJ. QUITE RARE THUS. Green leatherette boards. Beige dust jacket with red and yellow titling and ornamentation. Protected in a mylar wrap. 360 pages. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love.
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The Owl Tree, Choose Your Own Adventure #36
by Montgomery, R.A
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- 9780553154498 / 0553154494
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Montgomery, R.A: 1986 Bantam-Skylark: The Owl Tree, Choose Your Own Adventure #36. Softcover. Illustrated by Leslie Morrill. Number line CW 098765432. Used. VG condition. 50 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 5/8. Series. Keywords: Choose Your Own Adventure, Bantam-Skylark, Adventure, Series, Collectible. ISBN9780553154498
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RIP VAN WINKLE
by Washington Irving
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Philadelphia: DAVID MCKAY, 1921. Probable 1st edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Poor. Philadelphia: DAVID MCKAY, 1921. Probable 1st edition. Poor. N.C. Wyeth. Front cover has a badly bumped corner, spine is faded and soiled as is the rear cover. Front hinge is torn but cover is still attached, binding is loose. FFEP has some child's writing but otherwise contents are clean and the Wyeth illustrations are clean and bright .
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