Search Results: Collectible and Rare Books from The Owl at the Bridge

New York, Heritage Press, [1963]. xix, 384 p., 16 color plates; 26.5 cm. First published in 1901, The Ambassadors "depicts the reactions of different American types to the European enviornment." Stock# 45,081 Vg, red cloth covers stamped in gold; in scuffed gold slipcase with Sandglass.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday Anchor, 1956. Soft Cover. xi, 346 p., illus., maps; 18 cm. "The Anchor Books edition is the first publication of The American Puritans, edited by Perry Miller." "Cover and typography by Edward Gorey." Good+, my former textbook with pencil underlinings in introduction, some use/ soft cover. Stock#47722.

Articles on the transfer of Icelandic manuscripts from Denmark to Iceland (page 5); "Western Book Roundup" (pages 6, 34-37) by "The Old Bookaroos"; "Des Esseinte's Library", an imagined fiction of a Huysman novel (pages 7-11); "Edmund Gorey, an American Gothic," by Thomas McDade (pages 12-17). McDade on Gorey is rare and desirable; includes bibliography and illustrations.40 pages, illustrated, 28 cm. Stapled; Good+. Stock#48209.

Paris, Michel Lambert, 1752. Cioranescu (18th Cent.) 49804. Translated, from Compendium historiae universalis of Jean Le Clerc, by Etienne-André Philippe de Prétot. Pages 8-24 (1st count) is "Livres les Plus Necessaires". Not found in American or British libraries. Hard Cover. Octavo; 24, 298, [4] pages; 17 cm. Bound in contemporary full leather, flaking, hinges starting; good. stock#NS0289.

Boston: James Loring, and Gould, Kendall & Lincoln. [©1832]. Hard Cover. xxiv, [176], [2], [110] p. Title continues: including All The Hymns Of Dr. Watts, Adapted to Public Worship. By James M. Winchell, A.M. Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston. Improved by the Addition of Two Hundred Hymns. Text only, no musical notes. Includes a Table of the Psalms; a Table of the Hymns; a Table of First Lines; an Index of Scriptures, Very Much Enlarged; an Enlarged Index of Subjects; and three indices for the Supplement. Isaac Watts, 1674-1748, English theologian & writer of hymns, sacred poems and metrical psalms, author of 'O God , our help in ages past.' 'No individual, it is generally allowed, has so perfectly preserved in verse, the pure genius of the Bible, or so closely imitated its doctrine and precept, as Watts. ...To perpetuate the use of his book may be one happy means of preserving in the Churches, and extending through the world, an animating view of the grace and glory of the… Read More

Unpaged. Glossy color illustrations of 175 items in this auction sale. Featuring "Architecture, Fine Livres d'Artiste, Modern and Private Press, Design, Applied and Decorative Arts, Printing and Book Arts, Rare Art History & Reference. Private Collections of Curiosa and Eric Gill." Stock#ofc0070.

J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia & NY [no date; after 1933]. Hard Cover. 187 p., 53 b/w & 8 color illus.; 22 cm. Twenty-three tales by Andersen, Grimm, Perrault, Irving, Southey, Villeneuve, and from the Arabian Nights and the English oral tradition. Stock# 44,556. Vg, grey cloth stamped in maroon with sprite on spine,witch & cat flanking cover title; spine (only) waterstained, fore edge foxed, no dj; internally clean.

Boston, Boston Public Library, 1970. Facsimiles of 18 documents relating to the Boston Massacre, from the collections of the Boston Public Library, with an essay on the event by John Eliot Alden, the BPL Rare Books Librarian. Soft Cover. [32] pages, xviii facsimiles; 28 cm.; VG. Stock#32217b.

NY, Parke-Bernet, 1964. Periodical. [vi], 81 p.; 25 cm.; 485 lots. Title continues: from the collection of Mrs Victor F. Schoeter, Bronxville, N.Y. Cover title: Rare Books and some Manuscripts. Stock#45220. Vg / soft cover.

Including (Part I) Gemology, Mineralogy, Travel & Exploration, Illustrated Books, Diamonds & Mining, French Crown Jewels, Rare Catalogues; (Part II) Gemology, Mineralogy, Travel & Exploration, History & Lore, Reference Works. With large sections on: Diamonds, Engraved Gems and Cameos, Gold and Precious Metals. Part II includes printed list of prices realized. Two book auction catalogs: 307 & 250 lots; softcover; VG+. Stock#ofc0105.

Boston, 1950 Printed by the Anthoensen Press, Portland. Soft Cover. ix, 17 p. 8 plates. 26 cm. By Walter Muir Whitehill. An exhibition of 36 rare books prepared by the director. Stock# 37,693. Vg/ paper.

Oxonii: Ex Theatro Sheldoniano, MDCCXXIII [-MDCCXLVIII] [1723 & 1748]. Hard Cover. Two quarto volumes bound as one: 2 p.l., 168 pages; 4 p.l., 151, [3] pages (2 ll., A-X4; 4 p.l., A-T 4, t2); 23 cm. Titles continue: in schola naturalis philosophioe publice recitata. Vol. 1 is edited by Charles Este and vol. 2 by Antony Parsons. Vol. 2 is dated 1748. College verse by students of Christ Church, Oxford. Bound in full leather by Dragonfly Bindery, George and Pat Sargent; very good. Stock#OB534.

Viking Press, NY, 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. [48] p., illus. incl. color, pictorial endpapers, 25.5 cm. Sixty-five-year-old manservant Baptiste finds a new master in the Count of the castle, who decides to re-name his dog, the cat, his bed, the stairs, the fire, and his new manservant, and how the Count came to change the names back as they had been. Green cloth stamped in gold; brown stain inside upper margin of pp. 28/9; color pictorial dj spine ends rubbed, rear slightly soiled, neat ink inscription; VG. Pomerance A6. stock#44623.

"English writer on the arts and sciences; a founding member of the Royal Society; now chiefly valued for the light which his letters and his diary (kept from 1641 to 1706) cast on the social, political and intellectual history of his times" (Wikipedia). "Comprising a collection of works by John Evelyn, Mary Evelyn and John Evelyn, Junior; with a selection of books containing contributions by John Evelyn, and an autograph letter from Evelyn to Pepys." 103 items; paper slightly browned; stapled in red-printed paper covers (map on rear cover); Very Good. Stock#ofc0475.

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First Edition. Hard Cover. 5p.l., 7-52 p., 2ll.; 18.2 cm. Lowell's long poem is his most ambitious verse. First edition. BAL 13135. Title vignette. Bound in green publisher's cloth with gold embossed title; some wear on edges; very good. Stock#OB549bis.

"In these pleasant essays and addresses Robert Taylor tells of his adventures in the world of books with wit, grace, and a ready smile. He is one of those rare collectors who actually reads his books and writes about them with distinction." xi, 164 pages, illus.; Very Good in dust jacket slightly wrinkled across top edge. Stock#ofc0397.

Providence: Reprinted by John Carter, M, DCC, XCII [1792]. Soft Cover. 30 p., 1 leaf (signatures: [A]⁴, B-D⁴, D4 verso blank); 18.5 cm. "The dignity of the soul, arising from its immortality," p. [31]. Evans 24272; Alden 1272. Tear in bottom half-inch of title-page with loss of imprint date; top deeply trimmed; good+. Stock#OB893.

London: H. G. Bohn, 1842. Hard Cover. Two volumes: 1 leaf, x, [4], cxvii, 117; vi, 279 p., 143 plates; 30 cm. Title continues: "to the Present Time... To which is Prefixed an Introduction, containing a General Description of the ancient habits in use among mankind, from the earliest period of time to the conclusion of the seventh century by Joseph Strutt. A new and improved edition with critical and explanatory notes, by J. R. Planché..." Plates are not bound in the order in which they are numbered. Colas 2825; Brunet v. 5, 566; Lipperheide Gca14. Bound in full red leather with armorial bookplates; very good. Stock#OB590b oversize.

Providence, Rhode Island, Copper Beach Press (1982), 1982. 1 sheet, illus.; 84 x 21 cm. folded to 8 x 21 cm. Consists of a strip formed from two joined sheets, folded accordion-style to form 22 pages on each side, with Honig's poem and part of Zaleski's illustrations on the inside and the remaining illustration on the outside. First & last outside page attached to tan stiff-paper covers with label mounted on top cover. May be viewed and read as two-page spreads or as the unfolded whole. Issued in tan stiff paper slipcase. This copy belonged to Honig, who was also publisher of the Copper Beech Press. Stock#OB980. Vg as new / slipcase vg.

New York, Pantheon [1942]. First Edition. Masereel fled Belgium from the Nazi invasion and joined other refugees in a 300-mile march to safety. These 25 images reflect the bleak prospect which the coming of war brought to Europe. A brief biographical sketch of Frans Masereel, [4] pages inserted. This edition "consists of Five-hundred copies of which this is 281." Hard Cover. 1 leaf, 25 plates, 1 leaf; 35 cm. Bound in Navy cloth lettered in silver; spine split about halfway down from top, hinges weak; a decent, fair copy. Stock#OB662 oversize.