Search Results: Authors starting with I from Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.

John Bell, 1850 Full contemporary calf, rebacked c.1900, spine gilt, corners worn.. Hardcover. Good.

Full contemporary calf, rebacked c.1900, spine gilt, corners worn.

Anton Koberger, Nuremberg., 1493 Woodcut illustration from sheet 275 of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Historic minor worm holes, virtually unnoticeable. Some very slight foxing. On verso are 37 lines of printed text, including a Lombardic style two-line initial and section title in larger typeface. Mounted on white art boards with blue marbled border. Image 23 x 19 cm. The text includes the following:Nobility & knighthood during the time of Emperor Charlemagne. The Saltzburg bishops. A thief being caught and hung from gallows to his death. Emperor Frederick. Austrian topography and history. A milestone in the history of publishing, the Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) of 1493 was a hugely ambitious book documenting the entire history of the world back to the Creation with a sprawling text by German scholar Hartmann Schedel and extensive woodcut illustrations. The financing, design, and production of this monumental volume over a five-year period involved many prominent members of Nuremberg… Read More

Anton Koberger, Nuremberg., 1493 Woodcut illustration from sheet 273 of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Historic minor worm holes, virtually unnoticeable. Some very slight foxing. On recto are 6 lines of text with a two-line Lombardic style initial and on the verso are 33 lines of printed text, including three Lombardic style two-line initials and section titles in larger typeface. Mounted on white art boards with blue marbled border. Image 23 x 23 cm. The text includes the following:Appollonia. The Emperor Augustus. Venetians. Noblest of all mountains, Olympus. Pliny. Helen. Homer, the poet. The violence of the Persians. Athens. Peleponese topography and history. A milestone in the history of publishing, the Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) of 1493 was a hugely ambitious book documenting the entire history of the world back to the Creation with a sprawling text by German scholar Hartmann Schedel and extensive woodcut illustrations.The financing, design, and production of this monumental volume over a… Read More

Circa 1904. 384,128,477,120,[29] printed pages (slightly age-toned). All edges gilt over red. Previous owner's ink inscription on front free endpaper. 69 x 90mm. Contemporary brown calf with "Knowledge in a Nutshell" on front cover in blind and titles of the books in gilt on spine (some vertical crazing, upper hinge cracked inside and beginning to feel loose, opening slightly at the bottom). Rounded corners. George Henry James & Co were makers of fancy de luxe cases and leather goods at 14,Newgate Street, London EC and, from c.1903, 48 Old Bailey, London. Provenance: William Usher Crookshank, from Johnstounburn, East Lothian -son of Chichester de Windt Crookshank M.P. Garbett, 17. Welsh, 4167. Welsh only locates Bryce edition - James edition unrecorded. The last three books have Bryce as the publisher & it is the first book that has a James imprint. This is a rare and unrecorded variant imprint of a classic David Bryce publication.