Search Results: Authors starting with P from Shapero Rare Books

W.H. Murray, Omaha, U.S.A. 1926 . Large 8vo. 48 pp, numerous maps and illustrations throughout; publisher's green printed pictorial wrappers, gilt lettered; a very good copy. This railway guide was published by The Union Pacific System which was and is the second largest railway company in the United States and is based in Omaha Nebraska. The guide covers Oregon, Washington and Alaska.

Toscolano, Paganino Paganini, 1523. . Second edition; 2 vols in one, folio (30.8 x 20.8 cm); title printed in red and black within a woodcut strapwork border, white on black woodcut initials (including a portrait of the author on A1), woodcut diagrams and illustrations throughout, L2r with full-page woodcut diagram with red printing, frontispiece with partially erased annotations, small tear to right-hand margin on frontispiece and a stain of acid ink puncturing the paper at the bottom of the frame, E4v - E6r with extensive marginal annotations, text underlined and annotated throughout (not affecting legibility of text), S3 with obvious oxidation spots that do not disturb the text, evidence of wormholes, occasional creasing of pages, marginal spotting, very occasional marginal dampstains; 18th-century full vellum, red title piece on spine with gilt border and lettering, warping to upper board, wormholes on boards and spine, some soiling to boards, corners slightly rubbed; [8], [1], 2-224; 76.… Read More

J.J. Weitbrecht, Petropoli, 1784-8. . Folio (45.7 x30.5 cm). Hand-coloured engraved title with vignette engraved by I. Bugreev, title, dedication page, VIII, 80 pp and 51 engraved plates by Karl Friedrich Knappe, coloured by hand and numbered in the plate. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt border and doule-headed eagle to covers, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments, contrasting morocco labels gilt-lettered to two, marbled endpapers, blue edges; slightly rubbed. beautiful, fresh copy of the first edition of this rare work, all plates with contemporary hand-colouring. Part one only, of two. In 1831 merely 25 plates were published to form a second volume, which was never printed. De Belder 261; Nissen DBB 1482.

London Colburn, 1818. . First edition in English. 4to., xxx, 467pp., uncut, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, modern half calf gilt, morocco lettering piece, marbled sides, a very good copy. Scarce. Notable for the fine coloured aquatint view of the Bay of Algiers.Pananti was captured by Barbary pirates and sold into slavery. After being ransomed, he provided this detailed account of the country and its people. Abbey (Travel), 302; Playfair Algeria 322; Playfair & Brown 520.

London, The Dreadnought Publishers, [1922]. . First and only edition, 8vo, 47, (1) pp., text browned, very short, closed tear to edge of half title, publisher's printed wrappers, advert on rear panel for the author's 'Soviet Russia, As I Saw It', light browning to spine, closed split to base of spine otherwise very good. A scarce collection of poems written by Pankhurst during one of her numerous terms in prison. Born in Old Trafford in 1882, Sylvia Pankhurst was influenced in her youth by the political activism of her parents, Emmeline and Richard Marsden Pankhurst, who were members of the Fabian Society and the Independent Labour Party and helped establish the Women's Franchise League. Wishing to become an artist, she attended Manchester Art School and, from 1904, Chelsea's Royal College of Art. Her work, which combined socialist realism and Pre-Raphaelite allegory, was influenced by her art teacher, Walter Crane. Following Pankhurst's arrival in London, her parents' friend, Keir Hardie, became… Read More

Wien, n.d. circa 1860. . Lithographed folding panorama on card in linen boards, (size: 117 x 6 inches); several neat repairs and a minor tear, gilt lettering slightly dull, a very attractive item. Semmerings is a town in lower Austria famous for skiing and its railway.

London, R. Ackermann, 1816. . First edition, 4to, pp. [4], list of plates, 159, 76 handcoloured aquatints including frontispiece, 5 folding, one with short split to fold, later maroon straight-grained morocco gilt, an excellent example. 'John Papworth was the architect responsible for the design of Ackermann's showroom at 101 Strand. He adopted the second name of Buonarroti after his friends acclaimed him as a second Michelangelo following his design for a Waterloo trophy. Before this, however, he had been writing a series of architectural notes for Ackermann's Repository illustrated by coloured aquatints and in 1816 Ackermann decided to reprint in volume form those that described contemporary London. Only the plate The Guildhall was additional and the showroom interiors from the Repository were omitted. The views are divided into two sections, the first dealing with places of worship, entertainment, and residences; the second dealing with mercantile and financial establishments. Of particular… Read More

London, Jeffs, 1861. . First edition, 8vo, vii, 136 pp., original blind-stamped brown cloth gilt, uncut, a fine copy. Rare. Intended as a limited edition for private circulation, the verso of the half-title has a printed line for the copy number (this copy unnumbered). 'The work consists of two sections, one on the state of the Turkish government in Damascus, and the other an account of the Christians in the Lebanon' (Blackmer). The Comte de Paris travelled in Syria in 1860. He was the son of the Duc d'Orleans. Chahine 3562; Blackmer 1226; Weber 584.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1891 . Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and boards lettered and decorated in gilt and ruled in black.

London, Harrison and Sons, 1857. . First edition. viii, 228pp., original printed blue wrappers, rebacked, light stains to covers, corner wear, a very good copy. Scarce parliamentary paper dealing with the Second Opium War. Includes papers by Sir Henry Pottinger, Sir John Davis, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Viscount Palmerston. Amongst the subjects covered are disturbances at Canton and the burning of factories; persecution of Chinese in British employ at Amoy; attacks on British at Foo-chow; affray between Americans and Chinese at Whampoa; etc.

Steventon, Oxfordshire, The Rocket Press, 1997. . First edition, number 48 of 250 copies, signed on the limitation page; oblong folio (310 x 415 mm, 12¼ x 16¼ in); 24 colour photographic plates tipped in, poems by Fergus Allen, Kate Clanchy, Phili Gross, Sophie Hannah, Geoffrey Hoare, Alice Oswald, Roger McGough, and Vicki Raymond; plain endpapers, Bognor Regis deckchair canvas-covered boards, blue cloth spine titled in blind, original blue cloth-covered board slipcase, titles stamped in blind on sides, light marking and dust-soiling, near-fine;l [64]pp. Martin Parr made these photographs in West Bay, a small Dorset seaside town near Bridport, over the 1996 August Bank Holiday weekend. West Bay was the first series where Parr employed his now characteristic combination of a ring flash and a macro lens. The edition is stated as 250 copies, but according to the publisher, only 175 copies were completed as the bindery went into receivership during production.

Wallasey, Promenade Press, 1986. . First edition, signed on first page; oblong 4to (230 x 297 mm, 9 x 11¾ in); colour photographs printed in offset; illustrated wrappers, printed in blue green, orange, yellow, and red, fine; [88]pp. Martin Parr made this series of colour photographs between 1983 and 1985 in New Brighton, a British seaside town near Liverpool, using a medium format camera and daylight flash. They are an early example of his characteristic use of saturated colour.

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. . First edition, first printing; large 4to (360 x 300 mm.); colour plates and vignettes by Maxfield Parrish; publisher's cloth with onlaid colour pictorial title, a few minor scratches, slight rubbing, but overall a very good copy. The first edition of an American children's classic, The Knave of Hearts by Louise Saunders, featuring the splendid colour illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, here vibrant and without blemish.

Countrywide Editions, 2005. . Landscape folio (27,5 x 31 cm), 241 pp, 66 colour illustrations. Green cloth gilt, dust jacket. New. An important and comprehensive account of the mapping of East Indian Islands, with valuable information on the maps made from classical times to the beginning of the nineteenth century. An important and relevant reference work for map collectors.

London, Murray, 1821 & 1824 . First edition. 4to., [viii], xxx, [ii half-title], 310, [ii], clxxx pp., errata slip at end, 20 engraved or aquatint maps and plates; [viii], [clxxxi]- cccx pp., half-title, 6 engraved plates, contemporary diced calf gilt rebacked preserving spine, rubbed, large chart with tear repaired, offsetting from plates to title and text, light spotting etc. to plates, a very good copy. The rarely found supplement makes good the omissions from Journal. Books on Ice 2.8; Hill (2004) 1311; Sabin 58860 & 58861; Staton & Tremaine 1205.

London, John Murray, 1824 & 1821. . First editions, 2 vols, with two works bound in vol.I; 4to, [viii], [clxxxi]-cccx pp., both works inscribed by Parry, half-title, 6 engraved plates; xii, 132pp., both works complete with half-titles, vol.II: [viii], xxx, [ii](half-title), 572pp., inscribed by Parry on the title page, 31 engraved or aquatint maps and plates, 4 folding engraved charts, occasional offsetting of plates; both volumes bound uniformly in contemporary calf, spine panelled in gilt and blind, double green labels, covers bordered in gilt and blind, marbled endpapers and edges. all three works inscribed on the title-pages to Acheson Maxwell, the first 'A. Maxwell Esq. with Captain Parry's best regards', the second 'Acheson Maxwell Esq. with Capt Parry's best regards' and the third with 'A. Maxwell Esq / with the Author's kind regards'. Acheson Maxwell, was a friend of Parry's father, and also of John Barrow, through whom Parry obtained the commission to lead his first Arctic expedition.The… Read More

Bombay, India, The Port of Bombay, dated 12 Dhiil Qa'dah 1270 AH (6 August 1854 AD). . Single volume, lithographed on paper, complete, 8vo (245 by 165 mm); printed from a manuscript copied in single column, 15 lines nasta'liq, headings and banners to separate chapters of the text, some leaves lightly browned else clean and crisp condition, boookplate of Firuz to upper pastedown; contemporary half leather over diced cloth-backed boards, covers lightly rubbed and soiled, remains of paper library label to spine. Bahram ibn Farhad Parsi, also known as Adhar Keyvan, was a Zoroastian high priest from Fars that emigrated to India with a wider Parsi community in 1570 AD. This is a historical treatise that accounts for events in line with the Zoroastrian religion and is divided into four chapters as follows: 1. Cosmogony and traditional history of the prophet-kings of ancient Iran, from Hushang up to Kay Qobad; 2. The Kayanid kings, from Kay Khosrow b. Kay Qobad up to Lohrasp, the prophet Zoroaster and the… Read More

Endicott & Co., New York, [1860-70s]. . Lithograph printed in colour (image 50 x 84 cm; sheet 63 x 94,5 cm) after a drawing by Parsons; small tear in right margin, anciently laid-down but in fine condition. An early work by a master of the genre: a fine example, with wide margins, of this beautiful chromolithograph.Before serving as the art director for Harper's Weekly and Magazine from 1863 to 1889 and as such being instrumental in the development of the art of American illustration, Charles Parsons (1821-1910) apprenticed at 15 to the New York lithographic studio of George Endicott (1802-1848). Through Endicott's studio he worked directly for the famous firm of Currier & Ives, and deserves credit for many of the best marine lithographs ever produced. Before he left for Harper's he was made a full partner and it was undoubtedly his marines which earned him the position and drew the most public attention. He chose to revisit nautical subjects when he returned to watercolours and lithography in… Read More

Moscow, P.P. Riabushinskii for Lirika, 1914 [but 19 December 1913]. . First edition, one of only 200 copies; small 4to (17 x 12.7 cm); foreword by Nikolai Assev, original printed wrappers, stains to covers, cover detached from spine, text block detached from covers, without any restoration, in a custom make black morocco and cloth clamshell box, text in gilt to spine. Scarce collection of poems by one of Russia's most famous literary figures, it was only after Bliznets v tuchakh was published that Pasternak considered writing as a serious career. Both the author and his friend Nikolai Aseev who wrote the preface were relatively unknown at the time and the book was not well received by Maykovsky or the First Journal of Russian Futurists. Pasternak later said that of this criticism that 'everything I did a long time ago was unacceptably revolutionary, overturning all my contemporaries' conceptions of poetry'.

London, Longman, 1844. . First edition. 8vo., viii, 309 pp., 32 pages ads at end dated September 1844, original dark green blindstamped cloth gilt, a very good example. A 'very interesting work' (Blackmer), containing long accounts of Beirut, Damascus and Aleppo, as well as detailed accounts of the Druses. A career diplomat, Paton (1811-1874), acted as private secretary to Colonel George Hodges in Egypt from 1839-1840, and was afterwards attached to the political department of the British staff in Syria under Colonel Hugh Henry Rose (afterwards Baron Strathnairn). He was given the rank of deputy assistant quartermaster-general. Blackmer 1268.