Search Results: Titles starting with D from Voewood Rare Books

Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha Ltd 1999, 1999. 21 - 18.5 cm. pp. [140], unpaginated. Numerous colour illustrations. White illustrated soft cover in dye-cut jacket. Slight bumping to top and tiny tear to foot of spine. Otherwise a fine copy.

London: Sampson Low Marston & Co 1912, 1912. First edition. Large 8vo. pp. vi, 180. Coloured portrait frontispiece. 154 coloured plates. Numerous black and white illustrations. An illustrated history of fashion. Date taken from Preface. Original green cloth, top edge gilt, gilt author's monogram and lettering on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt. One illustration loose. Partially unopened. Yellow pictorial dust-jacket, lettered in black on upper cover and spine. Torn with loss at head of spine and edges, closed tear on upper joint, lower flap loose. A very good copy. An oversize book please ask shipping costs before ordering, particularly to locations outside Europe.

Leipzig and Berlin: Verlag und Druck von B.G. Teubner 1922, 1922. Fourth trade edition. pp. [4], 159, [1 adverts]. Green paper covered boards with green cloth spine. Lettered in black to upper cover and spine. Protected with mylar wrapper. Corners a little bumped and worn, hinges slightly loose with the front free endpaper semi-detached but otherwise in very good condition throughout. A nice copy of this important collection of papers on the special and general theories of relativity.

Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland 1981, 1981. Presentation copy to legendary photo-editor of Life Magazine and New York Times: "To John Morris with best wishes. Sara Stevenson." 4to. pp. 220. Numerous illustrations. Soft brown illustrated cover. Gilt lettering to upper cover and spine. An oversize item: please ask shipping costs before ordering, particularly to locations outside the U.K. . A fine copy.

London: Thames and Hudson 1974, 1974. First edition. 264x234mm. pp. 14, 120 black and white photographs. Introduction by Ainslie Ellis. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt with publisher's device to upper cover. Light rubbing to head and foot of spine. Original black and white photo illustrated dust-jacket, text printed in black. Slight toning to spine but otherwise a near fine dust jacket. Internally excellent and overall a very good copy of a seminal work of social commentary. A Day Off was published posthumously in 1972. It is a part-finished study dealing with that favourite subject of the English - social class. Tony Ray-Jones uses images of the English at play - from beauty contests in Margate to the opera at Glyndebourne - to show how we divide along class lines. "I want my pictures to bite like the images in Buñuel's films which disturb you while making you think. I want them to have poignancy and sharpness but with humour on top...My aim is to communicate something… Read More

London: Richard Tottell. (apud Richardum Tottellum). 1569. First edition. 4to. 290x195mm. [16], 172, 175-444 leaves. (leaf 439, misnumbered 437). Pagination is as called for by ESTC, collates complete. Imprimatur at foot of title page, "Cum privilegio". Early 17th century full legal calf, blind ruled to covers. Raised bands to spine, author's name in manuscript on second compartment. Foot of the spine has some worm holes and wear with loss. Some rubbing and scuffing to covers. Internally excellent. Slight waterstaining and worm holes to the head of the gutters and worming to the lower right corner of last forty leaves. Tear to corner of leaf 3C4 with no loss of text, and a clean tear to leaf 3G4 covering the last ten lines of text but there is no loss of text. Contemporary ink annotations to initial blank and head of title page. Ownership inscription (scored through but clearly legible) to head of title page: "Daniel Dun, prec (i.e. price) xi.6". An excellent copy with an important provenance of the… Read More

n.p. R.E.Pine 1779, 1779. Mezzotint of the death mask of David Garrick against a black background with the eyes articulated. The text "Publish'd April 4th 1779 by R.E.Pine" in scratch letter on plate, within platemark below the image. Initials J.L.G.D handwritten in brown ink. Pencil inscription to lower margin: "The Death Mask of David Garrick with the eyes painted in". Platemark, 240x155mm. Sheet, 305x246mm. Some surface soiling, foxing and a small rubbed patch to the margin. The image itself is in excellent condition. Death mask prints are extremely rare and this is thought to be the only death mask portrait print in mezzotint. It is likely that this print "may have been created more as an act of homage than a commercial venture since few early impressions are known" (Heather McPherson. Garrickomania: Garrick's Image). Since 1902, only three examples of Pine's Garrick Death Mask mezzotint have appeared at auction, the last being Christopher… Read More

London: Printed for C&J Rivington. 1826-1828, 1826. First edition. Volume I published by C&J Rivington, the other two volumes by John Murray. 8vo. 212x130mm. pp. Vol. I: xvii, [3], 498 (lacking half-title); Vol. II: [vi], 534, errata leaf; Vol. III: [x], [2], 541. Half calf, marbled paper covered boards. Maroon morocco label to spine, lettered in gilt. Some slight rubbing to edges and to small areas one the spines (particularly to the foot of volume II) but overall in very good condition. Internally fine. A very nice set. This first edition of volume I is rare, no copy being recorded at the BL. Warton was, in fact, William Wood, a High Anglican Priest from Fulham. Although the work is presented as advice for a parish priest on how to administer to the dying and support the bereaved, it is written in a such a direct and personal way that it can be read as a sort of novel.

Berlin Pergamon-Verlag . Ernst Schertel (1884 - 1958) was a German writer and journalist, antiquarian and religious scholars, pioneer of naturism and specialist in occultism and remote areas of sexuality, with special emphasis on sadomasochism. Some wear to the cover. Profusely illustrated throughout.

Zurich Der Kreis 1954, 1954. Hardcover. One hundred photographs of the male figure from ten years of Der Kreis magazine. A very good copy in green linen boards. There is some watermarking on the front cover which has affected the fore-edges the pages inside (which are slightly stained and crinkled) but generally this is a very good copy. As the introduction says, "This book of photographs is not available in bookstores; it is intended as a private edition for our comrades all over the world". The photographs "were chosen simply from the point of view of youthful charm and manly beauty. Varied as the pictures may be, we believe that they harmonize to form a hymn in praise of the masculine body". This copy comes with a bookplate "Ex Libris Carl Van Vechten". Van Vechten was a music and dance critic, photograher and novelist. He was also an early admirer of Gertrude Stein and her literary executor. He was instrumental in bringing into print her unpublished writings. Edward White's 2014 biography of Van… Read More

n.p. n.p. n.d.. Original architectural drawing by Thomas Sandby showing a neo-classical domed octagonal temple with baroque details. Pen and grey and black and pale blue and grey watercolour on laid paper with watermark "C&Honig". Sheet 497x258mm, window mount support (with ruled brown ink border) 478x333mm, taped at left edge onto heavy cream card 558x404mm. Slight spotting, otherwise in excellent condition. Although there are important institutional holdings of Sandby's architectural drawings, they are rare in commerce and this is a particularly fine example. � Although no buildings designed by Thomas Sandby (1723-1798) survive, he was one of the finest architectural draughtsmen and theorists in an age of great architects. Sandby's family background was modest and he led a simple life despite working in the grandest circles, principally in the household of George II's favourite son, William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. Sandby produced military plans and drawings for the Duke's campaigns in… Read More

London: Open Gate 1971, 1971. First edition. 8vo. 246x190mm. 96pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated dust jacket. The dustjacket has a small closed tear to the top edge of the lower cover and bottom edge of the front cover and some slight creasing to edges but overall is in very good condition particularly as it is rare to find this book in hardback with its dustjacket. "This collection of [McCullin's] best work is a statement of man's inhumanity to man - and is a more poignant and more powerful statement than could be made in a hundred books of words or a hundred films. The stark black and white of McCullin's pictures compel one's total attention and leave room for nothing but reality".

Paris: Charles Moreau [1925], 1925. First edition. [4], 48 black and white photographic plates of shop fronts and interiors. 323x250mm. The plates are loose and housed in a portfolio (337x255mm), backed with brown linen, boards covered with dark brown paper lettered and illustrated with a minimalist, modernist design. Ribbon ties. Lacks plate one but otherwise complete. The contents are in excellent condition, near fine. The front board has some wear and there is a tear to the linen spine. A superb collection of modernist shop designs some of which are by Herbst himself. Introductory essay by Herbst. Born in Paris in 1891, René Herbst studied architecture in London and Frankfurt from 1908. In 1919 Herbst began work in Paris as a furniture designer and interior decorator. He founded Établissements René Herbst to produce the pieces he designed. In 1925 René Herbst designed several exhibition stalls for the Paris "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et… Read More

London: Printed and sold by J. Hodges, J. Robinson, J. Wilcox and J. Brindsley (Vol. II printed for T. Waller) 1741 and 1742, 1741. First edition in English. In two volumes (the second without the attribution to M de M***). 12mo (Vol I, 12mo in 6s). 164x91mm. pp. xii, iv, 276; x, 254. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary calf, double fillet in gilt to covers, rebacked with most original spines laid down., compartments decorated with double fillet in gilt, red morocco labels, lettered in gilt. Corners bumped and rubbed. Internally very good with a little marking in places and a small hole to the title page of volume two, not affecting legibility. Edges sprinkled red. Of the four variants described by ESTC, this is the first, containing the misnumbered preliminary pages, vii and xii instead of viii and xi respectively. Front pastedowns have armorial bookplate of Henry Corbet A.M. and the label of Richard Corbet, Adderley. Sir Henry was the Rector of Adderley and the last of the Corbet Baronets of… Read More

London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1912, 1912. Presentation copy. First edition. 8vo. 192x130mm. pp. viii, 424. Original green cloth, title and author stamped in dark green on upper cover, lettered in gilt to spine. Minor shelfwear and very slight rubbing to joints. Foxing, heavy at the beginning and end but otherwise in very good condition. Front free endpaper is inscribed: "To Miss L.E.Shovelier from her respectful adviser, brother-in-law, & guide, the Author P.Wren. May 1914". Dew and Mildew is Wren first work of fiction, a collection of linked but separate short stories (hence semi-detached) of the supernatural at the heart of which is a haunted bungalow by the alarming name of Sudden-Death Lodge.

New York Simon & Schuster 1966, 1966. 8vo, 252pp, near-fine in near-fine covered DJ. SIGNED by the author to the title page

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc. 1971. First edition. 226x146mm. pp. xi, [3], 305 [1bl]. Original quarter white cloth, black cloth covered boards, spine lettered in black and red. Original dustjacket, protected by plastic wrapper. Dustjacket with short closed tear to upper cover, slight creasing to top edge and some toning. Internally near fine. A very good copy of this cult classic about a psychiatrist who experiments with making decisions based on the roll of dice.

Salzburg: In Commission der Mayr'schen Buchhandlung 1850, 1850. First edition. 8vo. 220x140mm. pp. viii, 191, five folding tables. Text in German and Latin. Uncut in original pale brown paper paper wrappers, rebacked, title reprinted within wide decorative border on upper cover, imprint within same border on lower cover. Wrappers rather soiled and chipped, tears to upper cover at the joints, light browning and spotting. But overall a good copy considering that it is a fragile publication. Rare first edition of this historical survey of Salzburg charitable institutions and hospitals. Tettinek is described in the title as "Bürger un Magistrats-Secretär in Salzburg". Worldcat locates only three copies, at BNUS in Strasbourg, and at Harvard and Stanford.

Augspurg: Johann Christian Leopold [1732]. Oblong folio. 208x330mm. ff. [9], 83 engraved plates each with three oblong rebus stories from the Bible. Part Two. ff. [11], 84 engraved plates. 83 have three oblong rebus stories from the Bible and the final leaf title "Hieroglyphisches Beschluß Gedichte", [1]. With two exuberantly engraved title pages. The engraver is Hans Georg Bodenehr. Front pastedown has an inscription by an Anton Pruska (c1900) who was a sculptor and teacher. The first two leaves of part one have been coloured by hand. Text printed in red and black. Bound in half pigskin, paste paper covered boards. Edges coloured red. Covers rubbed and worn. Internally very good with some foxing and browning but overall a very good copy of Mattsperger's "Rebus" Bible intended to introduce children to Bible stories by telling them through pictures accompanied by short simple texts. In addition to Biblical texts, there are proverbs and moralising secular tales. To us these appear charming,… Read More

Lutetiae [Paris] Ex officina Roberti Stephani [Robert Estienne] 1551, 1551. First edition. 4to. 252x166mm. pp. 357, [3]. Red morocco, single fillet gilt border, spine lettered in gilt. Gauffered edges. Marbled endpapers. Verso of front free end paper has the book label of John Sparrow and a manuscript shelfmark and, in pencil (in Sparrow's hand) the inscription "The editio princeps from the Lamoignon Library". This was one of the great French libraries belonging to generations of the Lamoignon family of statesmen, lawyers and scholars with close connections to the French monarchy. Corners slightly worn, joints rubbed and hinges a little weak but overall a very good and internally excellent, a lovely crisp copy, beautifully printed. There are some marginal notes in pencil and loosely inserted is a handwritten note by a previous owner (S.Fuller) describing the book and also stating that "This was in Lamoignon's Collection at Payne's", a reference to the great sale in Paris of the collection in the early… Read More