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

London: Printed by C. Barnes ... for G. Virtue, 1830. First edition. Robert Cuikshank. 8vo. 36 hand-colored aquatints and 7 woodcuts to text by Robert Cruikshank. xvi, 368 pp. Full red morocco gilt, t.e.g., by Riviere & Son First edition of the last of Egan's popular "Life in London" series; the first issue with woodcuts on pp. 7, 40 and 42 and engraved title dated 1829.REFERENCE: Abbey Life 284; Tooley 197

Paris: Maurice Menier for Bernardo Torresano, sub Aldina Bibliotheca, 1554. 16mo. Woodcut Aldine anchor device on title and several woodcut initials. [vii], 334, [1, colophon] leaves. Collation: á^8 é^8 a-z^8 A-S^8 T^8(-T8, blank). Contemporary calf, tooled in blind to panel design, gilt medallion centerpiece, and gilt fleur-de-lys cornerpieces, rebacked; ffep removed, occasional faint staining, some foxing throughout, small worming lower margin of final few gatherings. Early illegible ownership signatures to title An uncommon Parisian Aldine; the first book of eighteen published by Bernard Torresanus, the grandson of Andrea Torresano, who was the father-in-law and successor of Aldus Manutius. The work is a posthumous collection of lives of famous Venetians by Giovanni Battista Cipelli (1473-1553), who wrote under the pseudonym Egnatius. Book 8 includes a note on Columbus.REFERENCE: Adams E82; Renouard 295-1; Ahmanson-Murphy 1043

Chicago: The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago, (1992). No. 4 one of 200 copies. 3 vols. Folio. 30 photographic prints from original glass plate negatives, each print mounted (16 x 20 inches). [viii] pp. booklet with explanatory text and list of plates for each volume (text by Peter F. Dorman, John Coleman Darnell, and Susan Lezon). Housed in three cloth clamshell boxes by Claudia Cohen. Small dampstain to volumes II & III box with some staining in vol. III to mounts and booklet confined to margin, some fading to clamshell boxes, prints fine with extraordinary detail and tonal gradation A portfolio of limited edition photographic prints from the Epigraphic Survey's archive of over eight hundred large-format glass plate negatives, taken in Egypt between 1880 and 1930 for the tourist trade by photographers such as Antonio Beato and the Zangaki brothers. Printed at Chicago House, the field headquarters of the Survey in Luxor. "Unlike other methods of reproduction, in which an artificial… Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, n.d. [ca. 1880]. Cabinet edition. 20 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarters red morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments, raised bands, t.e.g., by R.W. Smith; some scuffing and toning to spines, head of one spine chipped