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

Paris: J.-J. Dubochet et Cie, 1836. First edition thus. Tony Johannot. 2 vols. 4to. Additional decorative title-pages, wood-engraved frontispieces on papier de chine and some 800 illustrations (plates, head- and tailpieces, initials, vignettes) throught by Tony Johannot, inserted engraved folding map at rear of vol. II showing the route of Don Quixote's travels. [iv], 744; [iv], 758 pp., with half-titles. Contemporary half red morocco gilt and marbled boards; vol. II front joint cracked, some foxing throughout Translated into French and annotated by Louis Viardot. Ray commends this edition ("a wonder of Romantic bookmaking") for Johannot's illustrations highlighting the "sad profundity" of Don Quixote, whereas previous illustrators had made the knight a figure of ridicule. The volume I frontispiece portrait of Don Quixote exists in two states, with mustache (as in this copy) and without.REFERENCE: Carteret, III, 136-7; Ray French 182; Rius 542; Vicaire, II, pp. 155-6

Paris: J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1881. First edition. 8vo. Photo frontispiece. Contemporary quarter green calf.

ca. 1925. 9 x 14 inches. Pen and ink and watercolor drawing on laid paper, signed and titled lower right ("Alastair — La Dame aux Camélias"), toned. Glazed and framed Original illustration by the enigmatic decadent artist Alastair from his series of illustrations of La Dame aux Camélias by Alexander Dumas fils. REFERENCE: see Fifty Drawings by Alastair (1925) for other drawings in this series

8vo. 563 pp. Contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards by Belz-Niedrée. Book-plate Bibliotheque de Mouchy and arms in gilt on spine

New York: Charles Wells, 1836. First American stereotype edition. 12mo. xvi, [1], 18-493, [1] pp. Contemporary American straight-grained black morocco, covers with gilt roll border and elaborate cartouche centerpiece, gilt-lettered and tooled spine in four compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, a.e.g.; front joint rubbed and starting with some evidence of repair to hinge, front cover tips worn, some spotting and toning to text A circa 1836 New York binding with a distinctive Romantic cartouche centerpiece. Lacon, a collection of hectoring and pious platitudes, was a popular Victorian gift book. This 1836 New York edition is sometimes found in an embossed panel binding by Barrit & Co. of London (see Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, no. 76 and the AAS copy). As Wolf conjectures, the books were not bound in London, but rather the publisher Charles Wells, who was also a bookbinder, imported the plates from London and bound the volumes locally. The present binding may have been done by Wells… Read More

Paris, ca. 1851. Oblong 8vo (6-1/2 x 10 inches), text in French and English printed in black and red on onionskin paper, with ms insertions, ink stamp and authorizing signatures of the Director, London agent and committee member; light creasing Evidence of French investment in the California Gild Rush, a collection of 9 shares certificates, each certificate for 5 shares of 25 francs each

Mantua: Francesco Osanna, 1578. 12mo. Architectural woodcut title-page vignette, initials and head- and tailpieces. [6], 9-56 ff. Collation: A^6 B-G^8. 18th-century patterned paper wrappers; wrappers chipped and coming loose, text toned and lightly soiled, corners worn, some small dampstains Italian translation by Alfonso Bonaccioli of the first two books of Martianus Capella's 5th century didactic allegory De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii ("On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury"). With the ownership inscription of Italian poet, author and lawyer Antonio Beffa Negrini of Mantua. In 1606, the printer of this work, Francesco Osanna, published Negrini's history of the Castiglione family (Elogi historici di alcuni personaggi della famiglia Castigliona). It includes the first biography in print of Baldassarre Castiglione, author of ll Cortegiano.PROVENANCE: Antonio Beffa Negrini, 1532-1602 (ownership inscription on title-page, "Di Antonio Beffa Negrini")REFERENCE: Edit 16, CNCE 27517

Paris: Pierre Billaine, 1635. First edition. Engraved title-page vignette, engraved table of heraldic symbols on p. 420, title-page printed in red and black. [viii], 421, [1], [20] pp. Collation: 4 A^4 A-Z^4 2A-2Z^4 3A-3G^4 3H-3R^2 (with 3R2 blank). Near contemporary full calf, covers with double fillet gilt border, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, red morocco spine label in one, the rest gilt with double fillet borders and small floral tool; spine darkened, chip from tail end of spine and front joint cracked, front pastedown lifted revealing vellum manuscript spine lining visible at front hinge, occasional light finger-soiling and creasing to text, closed tear to margin Z4 First edition of this work on heraldry by the Jesuit Marc Gilbert de Varennes (1591-1660). A second edition followed in 1640. PROVENANCE: Sir William Baird, 1st Baronet of Newbyth, 1654-1737 (armorial bookplate)REFERENCE: Saffroy 2129

Augusta, Maine: George Smith [Will Perkins, A.M. Hovey], June 1884-January 1885. 8vo (size varies, approx. 7 x 5 inches). 6 issues, each a 4-page bifolium, printed on various paper stocks and sizes, one with printed blue-gray wrappers, printed ads for local Augusta businesses; occasional light creasing and small tears A complete run of this amateur newspaper from Augusta, Maine, published in "the golden age of amateurdom" (AAS). Comprising short anecdotes of country life, fishing, baseball, an account of the forth semiannual convention of the New England Amateur Press Association held in Portland, trouble finding a printer (hence no issues for July and August of 1884), and a five-part story by George Smith entitled "The Fraudulent Deed." Internal evidence suggests that the editor George O. Smith and his colleagues, the associate editor Miss Mattie Brick, the printer Will Perkins, and others involved in the project, were, like most amateur newspapermen and women, young adults. The 19th-century… Read More

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1826. First American edition. 8vo. iii, [5], ii, 480 pp. Uncut in publisher's boards, printed spine label; some loss to spine ends, front hinge reinforced, sporadic foxing, in custom gray cloth slipcase and chemise First American edition of these works by the British Romantic poet Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), whose poetry was immensely popular in the United States and brought a stream of American visitors to her Liverpool home. Publication was overseen by the Boston Unitarian Andrews Norton, who "hailed Hemans's work as forwarding a liberal, disestablished protestantism" (ODNB). Andrews continued to publish Hemans's works in uniform style over the next several years, a plan he outlines in the Advertisement. (In anticipation of his plan, the half-title indicates "Vol. I.") Norton also notes that many of the miscellaneous shorter poems are here published for the first time, the manuscripts having been delivered directly from Hemans. An attractive copy,… Read More

New York: William Wood & Co., 1878. First American edition. 8vo. 2 chromolithograph plates by A. Karmanski. x, 100 pp., errata slip. Publisher's plum cloth, cover titled in gilt; extremities worn, some fading to cloth, spine titled in ink, book-plate, New York doctor's inscription, 1899, on title-page First American edition, a translation of Leçons sur les maladies du foie, des voies biliaires et des reins (Paris, 1877). "Charcot defined 'scarlatinous nephritis' and 'amyloid kidney' as distinct pathological entities" (Garrison-Morton).REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 4216.2

Boston: Richardson, Lord and Holbrook, 1829. First edition. 8vo. 135, [1], [12, ads] pp. Uncut in publisher's cloth-backed boards, printed spine label; light scuffing to covers, near fine First edition of the first American book on pedagogy, a collection of thirteen lectures addressed to prospective teachers. Hall (1795-1877) was a founder of the American Institute of Instruction and a leader of the school reform movement. He advocated for teachers to be rigorously trained, adequately compensated for their labor, and equipped with useful educational tools and supplies (Hall popularized the use of the chalkboard in schools). “The object, in lecturing and writing, has been to present the nature of their employment, to those who are preparing themselves to instruct; and to impress them with the importance of being properly qualified, and faithful in their employment, as well as to give such directions for governing and teaching as might be useful to them” (Preface). Hall imagines a primarily male… Read More

Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1874. Second edition. 8vo. Publisher's plum cloth; spine sunned, rubbed, foxed "Charcot inaugurated a course of study of geriatrics, at the Salpêtrière, in 1866; his lectures are embodied in the above work" (Garrison-Morton)REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 2222

Paris: J.B. Baillière et Fils, 1855; 1856. First edition. 2 vols. bound in 1. 8vo. 520; viii, 510, [2] pp. Later maroon half morocco, publisher's printed wrappers bound in, uncut; a few scuffs to covers, occasional foxing "Claude Bernard made strenuous efforts to introduce experimental methods into physiology. The above includes his classic work on the function of the liver, pancreas, and gastric glands" (Garrison-Morton).PROVENANCE: Emil Starkenstein, 1884-1942, Czech-Jewish pharmacologist (book-label)REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 615 & 812.1; Heirs of Hippocrates 1792; Osler 1507; Waller 954

Paris: G. Masson, 1892. First edition. 8vo. 3 colored lithographs by Roussel after Metchnikoff, 65 illustrations to text. xi, [1], 239, [1] pp. Contemporary half tan morocco and marbled boards; joints rubbed, pages toned, previous owner's inscription to flyleaf, book-plate First edition of Metchnikoff’s “classic lectures on inflammation” (Garrison-Morton) and phagocytosis, delivered in French at the Pasteur Institute in 1891. Metchnikoff states that, even though phagocytosis in man and higher animals has been the focus of study, a similar process also takes place in lower forms of life, both plant and animal. Therefore, it is important to make a comparative study of inflammation” (Heirs of Hippocrates).REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 2307; Heirs of Hippocrates 2079; Waller 6413

Paris: J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1877. First edition. 8vo. Tables and one illustration. viii, 576 pp., with half-title. Publisher's printed wrappers, unopened; spine ends chipped First edition in publisher's wrappers. "Bernard, in this work, first showed that one of the primary signs of diabetes is an excess of sugar in the blood and usually in the urine. Much of Bernard's experimentation and research had a direct relationship to clinical medicine" (Heirs of Hippocrates).REFERENCE: Cushing B320; Garrison-Morton 3942; Heirs of Hippocrates 1800; Osler 1515; Waller 958

Paris: Chez la veuve Gervais Clouzier, 1681. First edition. 12mo. Engraved head-piece and intial. [8], 343, [5] pp. Nineteenth-century half red morocco, marbled boards, spine richly gilt; fine First edition of this account of Jewish religion and customs by the French Jesuit historian and teacher Claude Fleury (1640-1723) "one of the most impressive of the anciens" (New Oxford Companion to Literature in French). His Moeurs des chrétiens followed in 1682.PROVENANCE: J.A.M. Gritton du Plessis (arms in gilt at foot of spine, cf. d'Olivier plate 510); P. de la Morandière (book-plate)

London: Printed by J.G. for R. Royston, 1657. First edition in English. 12mo. Additional engraved title by Robert Vaughan. [22], 504, 405-409, [7] pp. COLLATION: A-Y12 Z6 (complete with blank A1 and errata and catalogue at rear). Contemporary blind-ruled sheep; rubbed with some surface loss; occassional light staining to text, some small paper flaws, with flaw on K5 costing a few letters Anonymous translation, sometime incorrectly ascribed to John Evelyn, of Pascal's 18 Lettres provinciales (1656-1657), an attack on the Jesuits in defense of Jansenism, an ascetic reform movement within the Catholic Church that Pascal had joined in 1654. "This is one of the great polemical works of French literature, ranging in tone from ironical mockery to angry denunciation and using a number of very successful argumentational devices and tactics" (New Oxford Companion to Literature in French). "Pascal's weapon was irony, and the freshness with which the gravity of the subject contrasts with the lightness of the… Read More

Lille: A. Marquant, n.d.. 4to. Frontispiece portrait. 212 pp. Publisher's wrappers printed in black and red; some wear and soiling to covers

London: Published for the author, by R. Ackermann, [1816]. First edition. 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Napoleon, 2 engraved plates (1 folding, facsimile of Napoleon's handwriting). viii, 215 pp., with half-title. Later three-quarters green morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt with Napoleonic emblems; some foxing and toning, occasional paper flaws First edition of Napoleon's table talk transcribed by William Warden, surgeon on the Northumberland which conveyed Napoleon to St. Helena. A popular work that extended to several editions within the first few years of publication.PROVENANCE: Spencer MacKay (signature on title and occasional pencil annotations to text); Loren Griswold du Bois (armorial book-plate); Frank C. Deering, noted Americana collector, 1866-1939 (morocco book-label)