Search Results: Authors starting with A from Bull's Head Rare Books

London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co., nd. Early edition. John Leech. 2 vols. in one. 8vo. 20 hand-colored steel-engraved plates and 200 wood-engravings to text by John Leech. xviii, 320; 304 pp. Later full blue calf gilt, contrasting spine labels, a.e.g. by Bayntun; some foxing and toning, repairs to fore-edges of a few preliminaries, one plate creased REFERENCE: Abbey Life 434; Ray England 136 ("the element of comedy in the book is provided exclusively by Leech's illustrations")

[London]: Bradbury, Evans, and Co, nd. Early edition. John Leech. 8vo. 10 hand-colored steel-engraved plates, 98 wood-engravings to text and illustrated title printed in black and red by John Leech. xii, 308 pp. Near contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, contrasting morocco spine labels, marbled edges; extremities rubbed, chip to head of spine. Gift inscription in pencil, Dec. [18]72, on flyleaf

London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., nd. Early edition. John Leech. 2 vols. in one. 8vo. 20 hand-colored steel-engraved plates and 200 wood-engravings to text by John Leech. xviii, 320; 304 pp. Contemporary three-quarters brown morocco gilt and marbled boards, a.e.g.; joints rubbed, front hinge tender REFERENCE: Abbey Life 434; Ray England 136 ("the element of comedy in the book is provided exclusively by Leech's illustrations")

Paris, February-June 1949. Folio. 10 pp. pen and ink on musical staff paper, autograph note with French translation and guide to Hebrew pronunciation laid in A manuscript fair copy of five short pieces for solo voice and piano by the Jewish-Swiss composer and musicologist Claude Abravanel (1924-2012). Lyrics are in Hebrew and French, the titles of the five pieces in French are "Chant des Marins," "Chant pour le Sabbat," "Mélodie," "Chanson Religieuse," and "Hora / Danse Israélienne." The manuscript was completed in 1949 shortly after the founding of the state of Israel, an event referenced by the crossing out of "Palestine" in the title and its replacement with "Israël." Abravanel emigrated to Israel in 1951, teaching music theory at the Jewish Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem and serving as founding director of the Academy's music library. His published academic work focused on Claude Debussey — he wrote a bibliography of the composer — and the influence of the Bible on various styles… Read More

Miami, February 11, 1941. Vintage blueprint (22 x 23 inches), white on blue ground, 1/4" to 1' scale, with architect's embossed seal lower right; strong, unfaded image, with some minor edge and surface wear, old creases. Original blueprint plan for a shotgun house, a narrow single-family gable-front home in which the rooms are arranged in a single file (one theory for the name being that one could fire a shotgun through the front door and it would pass through the house and out the rear door). The blueprint, by Miami architect George A. Coffin, formalizes what was essentially a folk or vernacular style built to efficiently house working class poor on narrow urban lots. Though both blacks and whites lived in shotgun houses (Elvis was born in one in Tupelo, Georgia), it is here marketed specifically as a One Family Negro House. The plan's designer George A. Coffin (1896-1969), started his architecture practice in Miami in 1934 after some 12 years of apprentice and junior draftsman positions at various… Read More

Vintage albumen stereograph prints on printed card mounts (3-1/2 x 7 inches) Cotton is King, Plantation Scene, Georgia, U.S.A. New York: Strohmeyer & Wyman, Publishers, 1895. Sold by Underwood & Underwood. Fine"Wa's Done All Dis, 's Mornin'" (9506) and Plowing the Field for Cotton (6512). [Meadville, PA]: Keystone View Company,1905. With educational text on back of mount. Some fading and wear to images, edges worn or creased.With three additional later halftone printed cards depicting plantation and stereotyped Black scenes

London: Richard Bentley, 1840. First edition in book form. George Cruikshank. 8vo. Forty etchings in steel and 58 woodcuts by George Cruikshank. xvi, 439, [1] pp. Full green crushed morocco gilt, a.e.g., by Riviere & Son; a few small scuffs to spine and rear cover, a few plates foxed First edition in book form, following the monthly serialization, of Ainsworth's historical romance about the imprisonment, trial and execution of Lady Jane Grey. With the plates at pp. 16, 28 and 45 in second state.REFERENCE: Cohn 14

London: Richard Bentley, 1839. First edition. George Cruikshank. 3 vols. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece after R.J. Lane and 27 etched plates by George Cruikshank. viii, [2], 352; iv, 292; vi, 312 pp., with half-title in vol. 3 (misbound after title) as called for. Slightly later three-quarters red morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, t.e.g., by Tout; trifle wear to extremities, foxing to vol. I frontispiece, an attractive set First edition of Ainsworth's notorious "Newgate novel," condemned by some, including Thackeray, for its supposed glorification of crime. It was so popular that nine different theatrical versions were staged in the year of the novel's publication.PROVENANCE: Ormond G. Smith (book-label)REFERENCE: Cohn 12; Sadleir 14; Wolff 53

ca. 1925. 9 x 14 inches. Pen and ink and watercolor drawing on laid paper, signed and titled lower right ("Alastair — La Dame aux Camélias"), toned. Glazed and framed Original illustration by the enigmatic decadent artist Alastair from his series of illustrations of La Dame aux Camélias by Alexander Dumas fils. REFERENCE: see Fifty Drawings by Alastair (1925) for other drawings in this series

Burlington: Edward Smith, 1832. First edition. 8vo. 119, [1] pp. Publisher's blue cloth-backed pink boards, printed spine label; some wear to covers, contents foxed, rfep removed, a few annotations by a contemporary reader First edition of this collection of poems by the Vermont poet, stricken with deafness by a fever in her sixteenth year. The volume concludes with the antislavery poem "The African." The volume merited a second edition, published in 1835. Allen published her autobiography along with a collection of short stories in Sketches of Green Mountain Life, 1846. The author is not be confused with Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832-1911).PROVENANCE: Thomas Leigh (presentation inscription dated Jan. 1861 on ffep); Dr. E.B. Hamilton (signature to front cover); Hallowell Social Library (circulating library label on front pastedown)

Augusta, Maine: George Smith [Will Perkins, A.M. Hovey], June 1884-January 1885. 8vo (size varies, approx. 7 x 5 inches). 6 issues, each a 4-page bifolium, printed on various paper stocks and sizes, one with printed blue-gray wrappers, printed ads for local Augusta businesses; occasional light creasing and small tears A complete run of this amateur newspaper from Augusta, Maine, published in "the golden age of amateurdom" (AAS). Comprising short anecdotes of country life, fishing, baseball, an account of the forth semiannual convention of the New England Amateur Press Association held in Portland, trouble finding a printer (hence no issues for July and August of 1884), and a five-part story by George Smith entitled "The Fraudulent Deed." Internal evidence suggests that the editor George O. Smith and his colleagues, the associate editor Miss Mattie Brick, the printer Will Perkins, and others involved in the project, were, like most amateur newspapermen and women, young adults. The 19th-century… Read More

Basel: [for Hieronymus Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius], 1555. Third Froben edition edited by Erasmus. 4to. Vols. I-III in 1 only (lacking vols. IV & V). Titles with woodcut printer's device. [xliv], 176; 191, [1]; 366, [2, colophon] pp. Contemporary (Italian?) dark brown morocco over pasteboards, tooled in blind to a panel design using a variety of rolls, double- and triple-fillets, a small knot tool, and featuring a centerpiece medallionon both covers with a cross in the very center, spine in compartments with raised bands; portions of loss to the binding with old repairs using elements of another binding, front hinge tender, some references to Erasmus in the text struck out in ink. Volumes 1-3 of 5 only of the third Froben edition of the works of Saint Ambrose edited by Erasmus. An uncommon example of a full morocco binding of the period.REFERENCE: Adams A941; VD16 A 2182

London: Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1923. First edition. 4to. 6 plates (4 in color), illustrations to text. 544 pp. Publisher's half blue buckram and printed boards; covers lightly worn and darkened, previous owner's name to front cover and ffep, two book-plates.

[283 Washington St., Boston, Mass.], ca. 1893]. Oblong 8vo. 28 vintage albumen prints (approx. 4-1/2 x 6-1/2 in.) mounted on disbound stiff board album leaves, printed captions affixed beneath all but one image, mounts warped and chipped A selection from the inventory of some 400 to 500 images of historic Massachusetts homes offered by the Boston photographic firm of William Halliday.Includes Standish House (Duxbury), Alden House (Duxbury), Fairbanks House (Dedham), Wayside Inn (Sudbury), Whittier birthplace (Haverhill), Newgate-Yeamen Garrison House (Revere), Coffin House (Newbury), Royall House (Medford), Gov. Bradstreet House (North Andover), Quincy Mansion (Wollaston)

[Boston]: Printed for the proprietors [by Samuel Etheridge], 1800. 8vo. 34 pp. Contemporary sheep; upper board detached, ffep removed, in a custom chemise and slipcase. Scarce American price book for Boston carpenters, in contemporary sheep. Signed, as usual, by Thomas Stutson, secretary of the committee that drew up the rules, which were devised to establish a fair system of charges for services rendered. Prices are an early example of the use of dollars and cents. Rink lists previous editions from 1774 (1 copy), 1794 (no copy known) & 1795 (2 copies).PROVENANCE: William Reese (book-label on chemise)REFERENCE: Evans 37003; Rink 1760

Boston: William H. Halliday, for sale by Damrell & Upham, no. 283 Washington Street, 1895. First edition. 12mo. B/w photo illustrations throughout. [ii], 50 pp. + 7 ll. of ads for books on local history interspersed. Publisher's illustrated wrappers; covers toned, piece torn from lower corner of front wrapper, Damrell & Upham address crossed out in pencil and replaced with "50 Bromfield St, Room 30" Catalogue of the photographs of historic New England homes and buildings available for purchase from the Boston firm of William H. Halliday. “This collection of photographs is intended to embrace every building in Colonial and Provincial New England of importance, either in a picturesque point of view or for its historic or traditional value.” The catalogue lists some 400 to 500 photographs, grouped by location, and each with a short but often detailed description. The images were available as 6-1/2 x 8-1/2 inch prints at $.50 apiece."The Halliday Historic Photograph Company was a Boston firm… Read More

Albany: J.Buel, [1820]. First edition. 8vo. Pub boards, ex-library

Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Migneret, 1808. Second French edition. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 440, [2, errata], 4 (ads) pp., half-title. Contemporary half green calf and marbled boards, black morocco spine label; tips bumped, old library stamp to verso of title, spine shelf label, text toned and occasionally foxed "The greatness of Auenbrugger’s discovery of the value of immediate percussion of the chest as a diagnostic measure was not recognized until many years after he first published. His little book met with a cold reception, while a French translation by Rozière de la Chassagne in 1770 attracted little notice. But Auenbrugger lived to see the appearance in 1808 of J. N. Corvisart’s classic translation of the book, after which the value of percussion was universally recognized. It should be noted that recognition did not occur until nearly 50 years after Auenbrugger first published" (Garrison-Morton).REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 2672 ; Heirs of Hippocrates 955; Norman 83; Osler 1866; Waller 526; Wellcome… Read More