Search Results: Titles starting with M from St. Wulfstans Books

New York: Merrill & Baker, [c. 1890-1897]. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 7 1/8 x 10 3/8 inches. Full page map colored in red and blue. Very lightly toned. Evidence of binding along left (inner) margin which is closely cropped. A very nice map, originally appearing in one of the "History Series" By Mary Elise Thalheimer, and early female American historian and hymn writer. John Clark Ridpath (1840-1900) was an American educator, historian and editor. He was a descendant (through his mother) of Samuel Matthews, a colonial governor of Virginia. In 1869, he was elected Professor of English Literature at Asbury College, where he served as faculty member and later vice-president, and was largely the originator of the measures by which that institution was placed under the patronage of Washington C. DePauw, from which it takes its current name (DePauw University). His volumes of history were popular and reissued many times by Merrill & Baker (1890-1897) and The Jones Brothers Publishing Co.… Read More

Reutlingen: Ensslin & Laiblins Verlagbuchhandlung, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches. 24 + 24 + 24 + 24 + 24 + 24 + 24 + 24 + 24 + 24 pages. Pages uniformly lightly toned. Otherwise, pages clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in publisher's pictorial hardcover. Covers lightly soiled and worn. Spine loose. A very good copy of this scarce heavily illustrated period historical treatise on World War I.

Milan: Cromo N.B., [20th Century]. Loose_leaf. Fine. 2 3/8 x 4 inches. Front: image, caption and printing information with traces of very thin gilt border. Back: blank. Series: FP 1. Cromo N.B. was founded in Milan in 1927 by Nino Basevi. In 1988, Cromo N.B. moved from its historical headquarters in Milan to Bareggio. Many significant (traditionally mostly Italian) artists have worked for Cromo N.B. All the designs published by Cromo N.B. are original.

Milan: Cromo N.B., [20th Century]. Loose_leaf. Fine. 2 3/8 x 4 inches. Front: image, caption and printing information with traces of very thin gilt border. Back: blank. Series: FP 5. Cromo N.B. was founded in Milan in 1927 by Nino Basevi. In 1988, Cromo N.B. moved from its historical headquarters in Milan to Bareggio. Many significant (traditionally mostly Italian) artists have worked for Cromo N.B. All the designs published by Cromo N.B. are original.

n.p.: n.p., [c.1950]. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 2 1/2 x 4 inches. Front: sepia toned image with gold border. Back: Blank. Series: 265. Edges lightly worn. A nice holy card with an image of the Madonna after the famous painting by Raphael.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921. Original Cloth. Very Good. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. 451 pages. Edges lightly stained. Old notes to endpaper. Otherwise pages bright and clean and free of marling and soiling. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with title, author and publisher in yellow to front cover and spine. Edges very lightly rubbed. A very good copy of this important novel.

Paris: Boumard Fils, [early 20th Century]. Loose_leaf. Fine. 2 5/8x 4 9/16 inches. Front: image and text. Back: blank. Series: TO 908. Boumard Fils, also known as Boumard et Fils, was a family-run publisher of religious art, active at the beginning of the twentieth century. Boumard Fils was located in the Saint-Sulpice neighborhood of Paris, the center of the religious printing industry in France. The artwork on their earlier cards is exemplary of the Saint-Sulpician style. 

Salford: Printed by J. Roberts, 1873. 3/4 leather. Near Fine. 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. 75 numbered pages. Pages bright and clean and free of marking or soiling. Bound in 3/4 black calf with marbled boards and matching marbled endpapers. Author, title and date in gilt lettering to spine. Corners and edges very lightly worn. Provenance: bookplate dated 1893 of Henry Blackwell and binder's stamp on ffep "Bound by Blackwell. A very nice copy of this scarce Welsh volume which was bound and owned by the noted New York bookbinder responsible for the bindings of several volumes belonging to John Augustin Daly, the Victorian American theatre manager, playright and bibliophile, which were sold at auction after his death.

Regensburg: Stahl's Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches. 483 + 38 + [8]. A few pages loose and chipped at margins. Uniformly lightly tones, but otherwise pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in red cloth with black lettering and decoration. Spine lacking. Covers firmly attached. Else, covers lightly worn and soiled. A very interesting illustrated German cookbook.

Gotha: Friedrich Andreas Berthes, 1883. Original Cloth. Very Good +. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. 2 vols. Vol. 1: vi + 336 pages with engraved frontispiece. Vol. 2: v + 319 pages. Separate title page dated 1884. Bound in brown cloth with deeply embossed borders and central portrait of Luther. Gilt lettering to spine. Covers lightly worn. A wonderfully bound matching set of the two volumes of this collection on Luther.

Philadelphia: P.W. Ziegler & Co., 1881. First edition. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 5 x 8 inches. Full page sepia toned engraving from Philip Schaff's The Revised Version of the New Testament. Printed on coated paper. Back: blank. Margins dampstained and a little ragged. A nice Victorian Biblical scene, suitable for framing.

Italy: Fratelli Bonella, [c. 1970]. Loose_leaf. Fine. 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Front: image printed with gilt highlights on cardstock. Back: blank except for printing information. Series: Milano 16. Fratelli Bonella is a publisher of Catholic devotional materials. It was established by brothers Egidio and Aristide Bonella in the early twentieth century in Italy (ca. 1930). It has continued to be a family-run business for three generations, and remains one of the leading producers of religious images in the world.

Italy: Fratelli Bonella, [c. 1970]. Loose_leaf. Fine. 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Front: image printed with gilt highlights on cardstock. Back: blank except for printing information. Series: Milano 19. Fratelli Bonella is a publisher of Catholic devotional materials. It was established by brothers Egidio and Aristide Bonella in the early twentieth century in Italy (ca. 1930). It has continued to be a family-run business for three generations, and remains one of the leading producers of religious images in the world.

Italy: Fratelli Bonella, [mid-20th Century]. Loose_leaf. Fine. 2 1/4 x 4 inches. Front: image printed with gilt highlights on cardstock. Back: blank. Series: 101-19. Fratelli Bonella is a publisher of Catholic devotional materials. It was established by brothers Egidio and Aristide Bonella in the early twentieth century in Italy (ca. 1930). It has continued to be a family-run business for three generations, and remains one of the leading producers of religious images in the world.

Belgium: KV, [c. 1970]. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Front: Color image of Mary and Jesus in the manger. Rear: Printed note regarding Christmas novena of masses by The Sisters at Holy Apostles Convent. Ink inscription. Series: LW 312 A very nicely printed prayer card.

Italy: Fratelli Bonella, [c. 1970]. Loose_leaf. Fine. 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Front: image printed with gilt highlights on cardstock. Back: blank except for printing information. Series: Milano 3. Fratelli Bonella is a publisher of Catholic devotional materials. It was established by brothers Egidio and Aristide Bonella in the early twentieth century in Italy (ca. 1930). It has continued to be a family-run business for three generations, and remains one of the leading producers of religious images in the world.

n.p.: n.p., [c. 1910]. Loose_leaf. Very Good. 4 x 4 1/4 inches. Front: Verse and meditation for January 5 inside red single ruled border. Rear: Meditation. Lightly toned. A nice prayer card in German.

New-York: Amerikanischen Traktatgesellschaft, [c.1890]. Original Cloth. Very Good. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. 64 pages, each with large engraving. Several are hand-colored with varying degrees of skill. Otherwise pages clear and free of marking, soiling and staining. Bound in contemporary blue cloth with embossed geometric border surrounding gilt title and lozenge depicting child with book. Light wear at spine and edges. Spine very slightly discolored. A nicely bound child's picture book with interesting depictions of Victorian immigrant life and Bible scenes.

Paris: Bossange Freres, 1824. 3/4 leather. Very Good +. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. 458 pages with foldout map of the Campaign of 1814. Pages clean with no staining, soiling or marking. Scattered light foxing. Title page bears the neat contemporary inscription in blue ink as follows: "[To] Baron von Neumann [From] Lady Georgiana Codrington." All page edges speckled rouge. Bound in 3/4 brown leather with marbled boards. Hinges starting, and boards with light wear. Fain was the secretary to Napoleon from 1806 to 1814, and his works are considered of primary historical importance - a "source de tout premier ordre pour l'histoire de l'Empire. This copy belonged to the family of the Duke of Wellington's aides-de-camp at the time of his Iberian campaign and the Battle of Waterloo. The giver of the book is Lady Georgiana Charlotte Anne Somerset (1817-1884), the second daughter of Major Henry Somerset, seventh Duke of Beaufort (1792-1853), and aide-de-camp to Sir Arthur Wellesley, the… Read More

Newark, NJ: Advertiser Steam Printing House, 1879. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 5 15/16 x 9 1/8 inches. 18 pages. Pages bright and clean and free from marking, soiling and staining. Bound in original light gray wraps which are lightly soiled. Slight vertical crease. A very good copy of this scarce pamphlet, a sermon by the first Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Albany on the occasion of a service in commemoration of Odenheimer, the first bishop of the Diocese of Northern New Jersey and a notable Anglo-Catholic.