Search Results: Titles starting with D from Bull's Head Rare Books

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

The Hague: Pieter de Hondt, 1746. Coypel. 4to. Title in red and black with engraved vignette, 31 engraved plates after Charles-Antoine Coypel (28), Le Bas (1) and Trésmoulièrs (1), wood-engraved initials and tailpieces. [ii], xxvi, 420 pp., text in Dutch. Modern half leather and cloth, spine label; crease to title-page corner, text toned, occasional light foxing and spotting, previous owner's initials in ink to upper corner of title-page First edition of this Dutch edition of Don Quixote, published simultaneously in a French language edition, with Coypel's celebrated illustrations. The original horizontal configuration of the scenes was necessarily cropped to fit the vertical quarto format and the original large scale of the engravings, printed 1723-4, was much reduced here. Still, this edition "assured wide circulation" (Ray) of Coypel's illustrations. "It is not too much to say that the pictorial tradition associated with Cervantes' masterpiece owes as much to Coypel as to any other artist"… Read More

(New York): Reprinted by the Grolier Club, from the First Edition by Robert Barker, 1637, (1884). No. 78 of 150 copies. 8vo. Hand-colored seal on title-page. Publisher's gilt-printed stiff wrappers; foxing to rear endpapers, else fine. In a custom red cloth slipcase and chemise A fine copy in original wrappers of the first publication of the Grolier Club. Printed by Theodore L. De Vinne in the year of the Club's founding.PROVENANCE: Robert Woods Bliss & Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks (bookplates with deaccession stamps)

London: Ackerman & Co., 1836. First edition. 4to. Engraved title-page and 27 engraved plates with captions printed in red (additional hand-coloring to title-page). Publisher's green cloth with large engraved paper label on front cover; some wear to cloth, foxing to title and occasional foxing to plates, hinges starting or cracked, tape repair to rear hinge. Previous owners' signature and book-label First edition of this Gothic pattern book by the architect and proponent of the preservation of medieval English buildings, Augustus Pugin (1812-1852).REFERENCE: Belcher A4.1

1780. Folio. Manuscript score in pen and ink by copyist N.G. Vigittil. [4 (title, libretto), 101 (score), 1 (blank)] pp. Contemporary paste-paper wrappers, printed label on front cover; some wear to covers with loss at lower spine end, first few leaves lightly soiled and worn, occasional foxing and toning, some unobtrusive pencil annotations, book-plate A fine contemporary copyist manuscript of Homilius's Christmas oratorio, first published in 1777 in Frankfurt. Complete score in an accomplished hand comprising decorative calligraphic title, libretto, and the complete parts for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, organ, strings, woodwinds, brass and timpani, notated in brown ink on up to twenty single-stave systems per page. RISM records 10 partial or complete manuscript copies of the Christmas oratorio dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. The present example is unrecorded and the copyist, N.G. Vigittil, does not appear in any RISM records.Homilius (1714-1785) was a German organist and composer,… Read More

Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1923. First edition. 8vo. Nine woodcuts by Frans Masereel. 271, [3] pp. Publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards; spotting to covers, lower corner of textblock bumped. Translated by Hans Mardersteig

London: Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1923. First edition. 4to. 6 plates (4 in color), illustrations to text. 544 pp. Publisher's half blue buckram and printed boards; covers lightly worn and darkened, previous owner's name to front cover and ffep, two book-plates.

Paris: Hachette, (1929). First edition. Felix Lorioux. 4to. Illustrations throughout in color by Felix Lorioux. 72 pp. Publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards; a few scuffs to cover, near fine French children's edition of Don Quixote with humorous and vibrant illustrations by Felix Lorioux.

London: Blackie & Son, 1900. No. 97 of 100 copies on Japanese vellum signed by Edward A. Parry. Walter Crane. xii, 245, [1] pp. Color frontispiece, title-page, 10 full-page color plates and 19 half-page b/w illustrations to text by Walter Crane. Publisher's cream paper-over-boards, titled in gilt on front cover and spine, decorated trade edition covers and spine bound-in at front; small tear at lower spine, else fine in custom cloth chemise and slipcase

London: J. watts, 1734. First edition. 8vo. Printed music in text to 15 songs. [16], 64 pp. Later drab wrappers; sporadic foxing First edition of Fielding's ballad opera, begun in 1728 while he was studying literature in Leiden and dedicated to the Earl of Chesterfield. A second edition was published in 1754; this first edition is uncommon on the market.REFERENCE: Cross, III, p. 298

New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 1999. First edition. 4to. Illustrated with 35 plates. Publisher's grey cloth, illustrated dust-jacket; fine Signed ("Kelly") by the artist on the title-page

[Colophon:] London: Printed for A. Baldwin, [1712]. Folio. 4 pp. Unbound and uncut bifolium; creased and toned, edges worn, in cloth folding case, worn and split First edition of this "reply, in defence of Marlborough, to The Fable of the Widow and the Cat … in which Swift had a hand" (Rothschild) which has been variously, and erroneously, attributed to Prior and Swift, as well as Arthur Mainwaring.REFERENCE: Ashley IV, p. 77; ESTC T52367; Foxon W384; Rothschild 1690; Teerink 1299PROVENANCE: Jerome Kern (book-label, his sale 1 January 1929, lot 969)