Search Results: Authors starting with B from Kama’aina Collection

London: Charles Tilt, 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. R.Garland, Archt.. None. None 4to - over 9¾ - 12"" tall. 169pp. Bound in 3/4 burgundy polished calf over accenting decorative papered boards with 6 compartment spine decorated with floral gilt and title. Attractive binding with corners bumped. Engraved title page dated 1836, publishers title 1837. Complete with all plates called for and all executed on heavier wove paper with corresponding tissue guards, all pages have toned lightly and equally. Several pages are heavily foxed. A near fine copy of this well illustrated (50 steel plate engravings) work on the architecture of French Cathedrals. Assumed first edition. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

New York: Scribner, Armstrong, And Company, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Gustave Dore. Signed Lyria M Edmonds in ink. From the French, By Prof. M. Schele De Vere, LLD Decorated American binding - Clean red leather boards with gold and black lettering and grapevines and man playing a harp with a woman leaning over the harp on cover, gold lettering, grapevines and squirrel on spine. Smooth, dark blue endpapers - no bookplates. Appears to have the original spine re-bound. Some wear to corners and spine ends. Binding is tight and square, pages are mostly clean, some pages have a water drop mark/stain on the edge, with gilt page edges all around. Spine is rebound, some splitting on the front lower left of cover. Size: 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches The Date on the Title page is 1875; the copyright date is 1874. While the dates do not match, This Edition is accepted as the First Edition. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to… Read More

munchen : Rogner und Bernhard, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+/Both: Fine. None. Two Volume set. German text. Light general signs of use to both volumes. Page edges a bit tanned and foxed. Light rubbing to d/ws. Very good in very good d/ws. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. Little evidence of wear. Printed jacket plus printed reverse.

London : Simpkin & Marshall, c.1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Thomas Barber. Three initials in blue ink.. None 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 110 pages; Physical description; [4], 110 p., [40] leaves of plates (some double) : ill., map ; 22 cm. Notes; Spine title: Barber's Isle of Wight. Includes index. Subjects; Isle of Wight (England) - Pictorial works. With an engraved titlepage. Plates engraved by H. Winkles, Thos. Barber, S. Barber, S. Fisher, E. Radclyffe, H. Bartlett, W. Wallis, J. Jones, Jas. Tingle, W. Westwood, and Jas. Bengley; after T. Barber, Thos. Barber, W. H. Bartlett, and H. Winkles. Front several pages heavily foxed, remaining pages clear and clean. Top page edge gilt. Spine and corners dark leather over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers as well. gilt title. Spine compartments uniformly blind-tooled. Bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and toned as with age. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gustave Dore. None. None Full Black Morroccan Leather Cover with five band spine. Impressed and guilt on cover, spine, and back cover. Very old leather repair strip between front cover and spine. Book shows some use/age cracking along each side of spine, but still solidly intact. Inside cover and and endpaper has a reinforced strip repair of strengthen the cover and spine connection. Some foxing throughout. Pages are bright and clean. Illustrations are crisp and not bleeding to opposite pages. Beautiful Marbled endpapers with Guilt floral patterns on the leather edges. Contains nearly 100 illustrate by Gustave Dore; and a New Map of the Pyrenees. “Map shewing the Principal Routes Described in The Pyrenees “. Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, London. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

London: ELLIOT STOCK, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. None. xxvi., 117 pages, frontispiece, engraved title page, & 58 illustrations. Some wear, bumping to covers, some age toning to pages. [661/695] Size: 265mm. x 215mm. Inside front cover gutter has cracked endpaper but cover is not separations. Cover is like new in color and gilt. Tight binding. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos.

New York : The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. None. Pages are tight and clean. Gilt on cover and spine. Small hole at bottom of spine. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. Some toning on the back side as well a a couple small tears along the fold lines. 1/2 inch train hole at bottom of spine area.

New York: A. W. Lovering, Unknown. First Edition, Edition De Luxe. Hardcover. Fair. Leopold Flemeng. None - inked over with blue ink. From the Italian Gilt and leather spine half bound on marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Edition Delux with 11 original etchings. Bottom of spine has some cracking. Water stains on some pages. Inscription inked over to cover. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

London : Truth Buildings London, 1885, 1886, 2887, 1888, 2989, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Bookplate inside front cover with a armorial coat of arms, Ex libris Laurentii Currie. This book was once part of Laurence Curries book collection. Laurence Currie, insurance broker and railway administrator, is better known for his collections of prints, paintings and furniture, which were the main object of his attention, than for the library which he also had at the same time. constituted. The books that belonged to him are identifiable by the presence of his ex-libris pasted on the upper counter guard or the first endpapers. Mark of possession: engraved emblazoned ex-libris, accompanied by the Latin mention ex-libris Laurentii Currie; his significant book collection was purchased by museums, libraries, and book dealers. Front endpaper separated at the gutter but still present. Two black ink stamps on reverse of front end paper appears to indicate the book’s location in the Currie… Read More

Italy : NOW PRINTED FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB AT THE OFFICINA BODONI VERONA, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair+. None. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY JOHN DRYDEN OF THIS EDITION OF VIRGIL'S GEORGICS, FIFTEEN HUNDRED COPIES HAVE BEEN MADE FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB BY GIOVANNI MARDERSTEIG AT THE OFFICINA BODONI IN VERONA, THE ILLUSTRATIONS HAVING BEEN ENGRAVED IN WOOD BY BRUNO BRAMANTI. This is number 1123. Untrimmed pages. Signed by the engraver and the publisher. Inside cover boards foxed bit the remaining book is tight and clean. Some insect holes in cover and spine. Also has a slipcase Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. Faded paper wrapper with water stain at top edge of spine. Foxing too. Insect holes.

London: John Murray, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. Finden. None. None Three volumes, leather gilt spine and leather corners over light brown fabric covered boards. Pages gilt on three edges. Page numbers and plate numbers added in Ink at some earlier date. Very nicely done. Some foxing on many pages throughout. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

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New York: The Century Co., 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. George Wooliscroft Rhead, Frederick Rhead, Louis Rhead. None. With an introduction by The Rev. H. R. Haweis Black & Wright Illustrations. Title: THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS From this World to That Which is to Come. With an Introduction by the Rev. H.R. Haweis. Embellished with Over One Hundred and Twenty Designs done by Three Brothers: George Woolliscroft Rhead, Frederick Rhead, Louis Rhead. 184 pages. Each text page is framed in a highly decorative border. Many powerful full page illustrations, and numerous smaller text illustrations. Original pictorial full pictorial cloth binding; soiled and dust spotted, but still nice. Folio. 335 mm. Hardbound. Very good. A high point from the Golden Age of English Book Illustration this is a collaboration of three distinguished brother artists: George Wooliscroft Rhead, Jr (1855-1920) who was a talented pottery painter, etcher, illustrator and art teacher; Louis John Rhead (1857-1926) who was… Read More

New York: Bretano’s, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. William Stranc. For William Nichols Platt, With love & good wishes for his second Christmas. From A.B.. None Beautifully bound in green cloth with gilt text and illustration. Spine has a beautiful cross with flowers and thorns. This edition features 13 etchings by William Strang printed by F. Goulding, London. Page edges are gilt on three sides. Text is printed with biblical references printed on the outer margins. Tight binding with little wear on bottom edges on boards. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR

London: A. Fullarton & Co. First Edition, Household Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. David & William B. Scott. None. With a Critical Essay on Bunyan and the Pilgrim’s Progress by Lord Macaulay David and William B. Scott (illustrator). A leather binding by Fullarton of this quarto containing the allegorical writings of John Bunyan, illustrated with plates by David and William B. Scott. Containing 'The Pilgrim's Progress' in two parts, 'The Holy War', 'The Life and Death of Master Badman' and 'Visions of Heaven and Hell'.'The Pilgrim's Progress' is one of the most published books in the English language, with 1,300 editions having been published by 1938, some two hundred and fifty years after the author's death. John Bunyan (1628-1688) was a Puritan preacher and writer, with the majority of his works being expanded sermons.Undated; dated from copies held on Jisc.Bound by A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh.Illustrated with seventy-four spectacular plates by David and William B. Scott. Collated,… Read More

New York: The Century Co., 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+. George Wooliscroft Rhead, Frederick Rhead, Louis Rhead. None. With an introduction by The Rev. H. R. Haweis Colored Illustrations. Title: THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS From this World to That Which is to Come. With an Introduction by the Rev. H.R. Haweis. Embellished with Over One Hundred and Twenty Designs done by Three Brothers: George Woolliscroft Rhead, Frederick Rhead, Louis Rhead. 184 pages. Each text page is framed in a highly decorative border. Many powerful full page illustrations, and numerous smaller text illustrations. Original pictorial full pictorial cloth binding; soiled and dust spotted, but still nice. Folio. 335 mm. Hardbound. Very good. A high point from the Golden Age of English Book Illustration this is a collaboration of three distinguished brother artists: George Wooliscroft Rhead, Jr (1855-1920) who was a talented pottery painter, etcher, illustrator and art teacher; Louis John Rhead (1857-1926) who was also a… Read More