Search Results: Authors starting with L from The Owl at the Bridge

A Paris Au Palais, Chez Estienne Loyson, M. DCCIII [1703]. Universal History of Our Lord from 800 to 1700. Author from BN. Hard Cover. 6 p.l., 339 pages, 17 cm. Bound in contemporary full leather. Good+, wear to leather binding. stock#NS0184.

Barcelona, Casa Editorial Sopena [193-?]. Hard Cover. 153, [2] pages, 17 cm. These 16th-century essays on non-violent resistance and civil disobedience, by the two Bordeaux-born friends, are here revived, as they have been during times of political unrest. Between 1906 and 1908 Tolstoy used extracts from Boétie's Discourse of Voluntary Servitude in three of his books. In 1907 Gustave Landauer made the Discourse central to his German anarchist book, Die Revolution. This translation of the 1930s marks the Spanish Civil War. Contents include La Boétie's essay of 37 pages; seven Cartas de Montaigne relativas á La Boétie and several brief essays on friendship; and Traducción de los Ventinueve Sonetos de La Boétie. Bound in brown marbled paper over red cloth, red leather spine stamped in gold; spine spotted, some scuffing, bookseller label, pages darkened; good. Stock#38476.

"Portrait et fleurons dessinés et gravés sur bois par J.-L. Perrichon." "Exemplaire no. 1300." Two volumes. First published 1688; expanded fourth edition of 1689. "Table des noms" at end of vol. 2. Portrait of the author at beginning of Vol. 1; a coat of arms at beginning of Vol. 2. (See Wikipedia for a sketchy biography of the author and "sarcastic portraiture" of his contemporaries.) Handsomely bound, with original grey paper wraps, in dark-green leather, spines sunned to red, with gold spine lettering & marbled endpapers; top edge gilt; part unopened; near fine. Stock#Lopes027.

Hard Cover. xxvii, 739 p., 18 cm. Series: Bibliothèque de la Pléiade; 23. Bibliography: p. [731]-733. Contents: Les caractères de Théophraste.--Les caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle.--Discours prononcé dans l'académie Française.--Dialogues sur le quiétisme.--Lettres. Stock# 36,886. Good+, uncirculated ex-lib./ dj vg.

Genève, Droz, 1966. Series: Travaux d'humanisme et Renaissance, 80. Each page reproduces two pages of the Toulouse edition. Hard Cover. [792] pages, 22 x 30 cm. Vg/ no dj. Stock#37232.

La Haye, Chez les Frères Vaillant & N. Prevost. MDCCXXIV. [1724]. Deals with the establishment of Portuguese missions and the Roman Rite conflict in India. J.F. Bell Catalog L.29; Sabin 38810. Hard Cover. [16], 570, [54] pages, frontispiece, 2 plates, folding map, 16 cm. Bound in full contemporary leather. Vg, leather worn. Stock#NS0162.

A Paris: Chez Guerbart, libraire sur le Pont-Neuf, no. 19 [1791]. Pamphlet. Pages [1]-8; 19 cm. Title continues: "sur la Constitution du clergé." Caption title; imprint from colophon ("Fait le huit Janvier mil sept cent quatre-vint-onze."). Followed by Lettre et Déclaration De M. L'Éveque De Nancy A MM. les Administrateurs composant le Directoire du Département de la Meurthe. ..., pages [9] - 15 in continuous paging. One of a collection of 40 Royalist and counter-revolutionary tracts of the French Revolution. Stock#OB1041-11. In marbled paper wrappers.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1945. Hard Cover. Autobiographical writings of his youth and early military service in WWII. 30,826. 213 p. Good/no dj.

Coward-McCann, NY [1946]. Hard Cover. Book club dot on rear cover. 243 p.; blue cloth covers stamped in gold; slight wear, front cover has tiny spots; good+. With BOMC flyer. Novel of a September New England hurricane from several points of view. Stock#101148. 20th century American literature, fiction.

NY, Coward-McCann, MCMXXXIX [1939].. Hard Cover. 422 p.; grey cloth covers, spine stamped in silver, 22 cm.; no dj, bookplate; VG. They tell me, those who know the incredible mass/ Of mans recorded cries, that in each one/ Born to the burden of unasked existence/ There lives one story. Very well, heres mine/ Laid out in words, each verb a piece of me,/ Each noun an echo, every adjective/ Reflecting the hot circumstance of living... Stock# 101,149. 20th century American literature, epic poetry.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Novel of a Navajo boy torn between his native culture and dominant whites. A murder mystery and an ethnographical study in one. Hard Cover. 325 pages; 21.5 cm. Vg/ no dj. Stock#NS0137.

Paris, Chez Pillet, 1817. "Vie de la Fontaine," vol. 1, pages i-viii, by D. (i.e. L.-S. Auger). This edition is derived from the 1814 Lefevre edition, "la plus complète qui eut paru jusqu'alors" (Brunet III: 748). Portrait engraved after Ribault; plates after J. M. Moreau le jeune. Hard Cover. Two volumes: viii, 2-508; 653 pages, plates, portrait; 21.5 cm. Bound in contemporary half leather over marbled paper; covers scuffed; good+. Stock#MM004 / house.

A Paris, Chez Saugrain et Didot, L'An V. 1797. With a portrait frontispiece after Rigault and 8 plates after Moreau by Delvaux. The illustrations of Moreau le Jeune are reductions of those from the 1795 edition. Hard Cover. Two duodecimo volumes: 221, 284 pages. Bound in full leather, spines gilt. Front hinge of vol. 1 nearly loose. Stock#NS0015.

New York, Orion Press [1959]. Hard Cover. vii, 221 pages, color illus.; 25 cm. Tranlated from Quinze joyes de mariage, ascribed to Antoine de La Sale on the authority of an acrostic in the Rouen manuscript; however, this attribution is considered doubtful by some scholars. Stock#38285. Vg/ dj vg.

New York University Press, 1980. . Hard Cover. xx, 188 p. 9 plates, 23.5 cm. Seven essays by Joan M. Ferrante, Werner Gundersheimer, Margaret L. King, Paul Oskar Kristeller, Roland Bainton, Labalme, and Natalie Davis. Stock# 30,804. Vg/ dj vg.

Roma, Edizioni Di Storia E Letteratura, 1969. Hard Cover. Signed. xv, 354 p. 9 plates, 25 cm. Born of a powerful Venetian family, Giustiniani (1408-1489) was active in he the politics and diplomacy of Venice, but he was also a humanist who collected antiquities, translated classical texts and wrote a history of Venice. Stock# 30,787.. V clar plastic dj. g

Paris, Renaissance du Livre [1929]. Soft Cover. 186 pages, front.; 18 cm. Introduction, traduction, & notes Th. Labande-Jeanroy. Stock#42280 [40280]. Paper; wormholes in margins; pencil notes by Prof. Lewis Hall Gordon.

Paris, 1873; reprint Martino 1998. Hard Cover. xi, 277, 129 pages; 22 cm. The Ruggieri brothers of Bologna were considered among the most proficient and expert practitioners of the art of pyrotechnics of the 18th and 19th centuries. Throughout the 18th century they were responsible for the most elaborate and innovative displays of fireworks and were official court pyrotechnicians to the French Crown, illuminating many state occasions, weddings, births, coronations and funerals. The Ruggieris assembled perhaps the finest collection of fête books ever seen. Over 1500 books were included in the auction here catalogued. The Ruggieri catalog is important because no standard or complete bibliography of festival books exists. Until now even the Ruggieri has been difficult to use. Now a reprint edition is available in which every book is indexed -- including lots with multiple volumes bound in. The 129-page index provides author (some effort was made to more precisely identify authors) and title entries,… Read More

Cleveland State University [Erie, Pa.] & Penn State University-Behrend College, 1986. First Edition. Soft Cover. 247 p., facsim.; 22 cm. "Selected articles commemorating the 400th anniversary of Cervantes' La Galatea presented at the May 1985 Penn State-Behrend College Symposium." Bibliography: p. 235-245.  ISBN(10) : 0961305517.  Stock#45638. Vg / soft cover.

This collection of small poems about life at many levels is signed on the title-page by both author and illustrator, and appears to be a private printing. Title-page date is "Christmas 1993". 71 pages, small hand-colored illustrations throughout; 28.5 cm. Bound in maroon cloth with printed gold front-cover label. Tiny white spot on front cover; else Fine. Stock#ofc0858.