Uncle Tom's Cabin: illustrated edition by Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1853

Washington D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1896. Hardcover. Excellent. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large octavo. Original green cloth, titles to upper board gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Corners and tail of spine bumped slightly affecting leaves, else a very fresh copy in excellent condition. First separate edition, first printing of the first publication on the discovery of argon, which led to Nobel Prizes for its co-discoverers. "Few discoveries have been as dramatic as the discovery of argon in the atmosphere by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay, professor of chemistry at University College, London. The discovery of argon involved a bitter public dispute concerning the legitimacy of a chemical element whose most important characteristic was its inertness, and which forced the chemists to reassess the very notion of a chemical element." Rayleigh had begun work to determine the densities of atmospheric gases in 1882. In 1892 he uncovered a strange discrepancy between the atomic weight of… Read More

179 pages. Rebound in full vellum; binding tight, all pages clean, no tears, no repairs, some pencil marks. Very slight foxing here and there and delicate age-tinting. Five raised bands, title stamped in gold on red leather label.Scholar, poet, musician, literary figure and Cardinal Pietro Bembo's (1470-1547) vernacular translation of his famous history of Venice (originally in Latin).

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

xii, 314 pp., 5 folding plates. Paper covered boards with gentle wear all around. No previous owners' names or other markings.

First and only edition. Ex Officina Huberti Antonii, Typographi Iurati, sub Aquila aurea. Bruxellae. M. DC. XXIIII. 1624. Stamp of the Antwerp publisher Philippum Lisaert below, not seen on other copies. Small quarto. Text in Latin and French. Title page with Horis Svis Quaeque Placet engraved horological vignette. Dedication a Seignour Jean de Montfort, Conseillier et Maistre. Lectori et Spectatori. Approbatio. 2pp. 23pp text, 207 emblems on 23 plates. Full leather, spine renewed in the original style, retaining the original seventeenth century boards. Original seventeenth century marbled endpapers. Small ink dots to upper corner of title page, occasional small spots and light toning. Endpapers darkened to edges. Original boards a little scarred with age, corners rubbed. Bookplate(s) to fep., an earlier plate obscured beneath the other. Provenance: From the library of Prince Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex, Son of George III, Kensington Palace. Armorial Bookplate by Perkins and Heath: coat of arms,… 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

Complete set of 8 volumes with 640 handcolored engravings of French costumes from the 5th to 19th century, from the reign of Clovis I to Louis-Philippe.Illustrated with all 640 handcolored plates by Leopold Massard (1812-1889), grandson of the famous engraver Jean Massard. Plates finely coloured by hand, with many finished in gold. The illustrations copied from authentic images on statues, bas-reliefs, tomb effigies, paintings, murals, miniatures, drawings, and prints. Vol. 1, 187pp of text, 80 plates, 5th to 12th century; Vol. 2, 172pp, 80 plates 13th century; Vol 3, 217pp, 80 plates 14th century; Vol. 4, 202pp, 80 plates 15th century; Vol. 5, 256pp, 80 plates 16th century; Vol. 6, 202pp, 80 plates 17th century; Vol. 7, 214pp, 80 plates 18th century; and Vol. 8, 221pp, 80 plates, early 19th century. Subjects include many kings and queens, nobles, famous historical figures, knights, ladies, soldiers, peasants and workers.Condition: Cloth bindings discolored and starting to fray, sporadic foxing to… Read More

Title page, 20 hand-coloured engraved plates with corresponding pages of explanatory text. Twenty fine hand-coloured engraved portraits by R. Cooper of famous contemporary actors and actresses after paintings by Harlow, Sharp, Clint, De Wilde, Waldeck, and others.Actors include Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth, Edmund Kean as Richard III, ballerinas Mlle. Lisa Noblet and Mlle. Felicite Hullin, ballet dancer Etienne Le Blond, opera singer Giuseppe de Begnis, Samuel Simmonds as Baron Munchausen, Henry Gattie and Mme. Maria Theresa Bland in the farce Monsieur Tonson, Sarah Booth, Frances Copeland, Charles Young, etc.Daniel Terry (1780-1829) was an English actor and friend of Sir Walter Scott, many of whose novels he adapted for the stage.Condition: Half honey-coloured leather binding with five raised bands, gilt leather title label, marbled boards. Interior clean and bright with fine hand-colouring, slight discoloration to title page.

Collection of 149 hand-colored copperplate engravings only from Pierre de La Mésangère's famous fashion magazine.Most women's fashion plates by the famous illustrator Louis Marie Lante, with 12 hat and bonnet plates by Victor Adam, taken from the issues February 1820 through to December 1821.Plates numbered 1878 to 2036, some missing and some out of order, total of 149 fine fashion plates. La Mésangère (1761-1831) was author, journalist and editor, and published the Journal from 1797 to 1839, covering the post-Revolutionary Directory era through the Napoleonic Empire and the Bourbon Restoration. Green leather spine, red leather labels with gilt decoration, boards with green marble paper. Condition: Binding scuffed but solid, plates clean and bright with slight spotting and usual crease down the centre (where the magazine was folded before binding).

Third edition, with amendments. Small octavo, pp xiv, 376, illustrated with 18 engraved plates, very clean and crisp internally, plain endpapers browned, pre-title page detached. Contemporary full polished calf, somewhat marked and worn, the spine gilt decorated with raised bands, gilt stamped decoration. A very attractive copy with a prestigious provenance:Image 4 shows the manuscript ownership inscription on 1st. FEP. This reads:Louis Odier. Dr & Prof. me. 1809Ex dono Dr . J. P. MaunoirOdier (see Wiki) was a prominent Doctor of Medecine and Professor at the University of Geneva, translator of the works of Jenner and steady promoter of smallpox vaccination. He was given this book by another prominent medical doctor: J.P.Maunoir