Search Results: Titles starting with N from Kama’aina Collection

USA: Nigel Gosling, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. None. Black cloth boards with black front and silver spine titling. Unmarked. Lavishly illustrated with 339 classic b & w plates. First American Edition. Square, tight and with sharp corners. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. Laminate is separating, toning on edges and back

New York : D. Appleton And Company,, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Bookplate for: SAMUEL O SCHWEITZER. A collection of engravings from British Painters, in this work titled The New Gallery of British Art. Quarto, [two volumes]. Full leather, title in gilt on spine and cover of each volume, raised bands, embossed illustrations on covers. Touch of wear to covers, limited to bottom edge of spine. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Complete with 61 full page illustrations with tissue covers in Volume I and 60 in Volume II. All plates are clean. An exceptional collection of works from British Artists. This work was released in 1882 by subscription from D. Appleton and Company. It was completed by the publisher in 40 parts and sold for 50 cents each. Samuel O. Schweitzer, an artist and calligrapher who fashioned scrolls for American presidents and the Queen of England, among others, owned these books and designed his own bookplate. Schweitzer gained fame for the ornate scrolls and… Read More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & CO., 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gustave Dore. Christmas 1881 Augustus T Mauie (?) in pencil. None With over 300 illustrations from designs by Gustave Dore and others, this editions is filled with all sized illustrations. Blue Cloth Boards with impressed designs, Guilt titles and Decorations; Same with the Spine. The back cove has an unpressed design. The page edges are colored on three sides. No foxing throughout the book, however the front inside cover and page show foxing. Pages have a very slight darkening at the edges. Illustrations are crisp and clean with no bleeding images from one page to another. Binding is tight and original. Bottom edges of covers show shelf wear. Oversized or heavy volume, additional shipping charges will apply. Please ask for additional photos prior to purchasing. We are happy to send additional photos. 1LR