Search Results: Titles starting with P from Thorn Books

Paris: Isidore Lideux, 1892. First edition in English. Hardcover. Fine. First edition in English, later furtively reprinted. 5 text illustrations. Includes Freydier's Speech Against Their Use. Contemporary three quarter morocco, spine in 6 compartments, gilt; t.e.g. A fine copy of an extremely interesting historical and descriptive account of Girdles of Virginity and their use among the Greeks, Romans and other nations. Translated from the French.

Tucson: DeGrazia Studios, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Elephant folio. Twenty large 18 by 22 inch full color lithographs depicting the memorable events in the life of the popular, talented and heroic Eusebio Kino, SJ, sometimes called the most eminent and beloved Southwest pioneer. The images vary in size on the pages. Housed in a cream-colored cloth portfolio with the author and title printed on the upper board; the whole in the publisher's slipcase in matching cloth and with the author's name printed on the upper board. There is a four page description of the same size as the prints, with entries by Raymond Carlson of Arizona Highways; Carl Schaeffer Dentzel of the Southwest Museum; Thomas Hart Benton, Artists; and Ross Santee, Artist. The rear page contains an original full color illustration by DeGrazia captioned "Midnight Sketch Tucson Arizona USA 1962 3AM" and signed thereunder. In fine condition. Included in this collection are: "Raiding Indians Steal Horses from Kino's Village"… Read More

Leipzig & Gera: Wilhelm Heinsius, 1798. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. lxviii,271(i); viii,342,(ii)pp. Early, probably original, speckled paper over boards, small lettering label, gilt. Light wear to the edges and hinges, else a very good copy. Text in German.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910. First edition. Wraps. Near fine. 8vo. 133,(1)pp. Printed wraps. Paper and wraps toned with age else a near fine copy. First compilation of our knowledge of 25 papers transcribing the council and peace treaty proceedings in the years indicated. Scarce. .

Paris: Pillet Aine, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 240pp. Contemporary full marbled sheep. Spine tooled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Neat ownership name on the half-title. The final three pages constitute the publisher's catalogue. Edges well worn as is the text block, but still a good copy. The guide takes the reader from France through the Scandinavian countries, Russia, Turkey, Italy, Swizerland, across the German countries, the Low Countries, British Isles, Portugal and ends in Spain. Rare. OCLC finds only one record. In Spanish.

Manila: Gobierno General, 1890. Leaf. Very good. Single sheet printed on two sides granting free and secure passport to Eduardo Curnar for passage to Hong Kong, Manila, December 13, 1890. Signed by Weyler as Governor. Witnessed by the Secretary. The reverse, bearing the number 694, skips personal charactistics of the applicant. Five /20 stamps totaling one peso are affixed and canceled with the stamp of the Gobierno General. In Spanish. Very good condition with only a single fold across the center. Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, a native of Majorca or Cadiz, the son of a Prussian doctor, was the First Marquis of Tenerife and was Governor of the Philippines under Spanish rule from 1888-1891. He was later Minister of War in Madrid, and served as Governor-General of Cuba in the Spanish-American War.

Paris: Georges Servant, 1924. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated by Jean Droit.. 8vo. (150)pp. Finely bound in half deep blue morocco. Spine in six compartments with title in gilt. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. Original wrappers bound in. A fine copy. Illustrated with brilliantly colored aquarelles of Jean Droit. One of 375 numbered copies from a total edition of 400. This is number 160. In French.

Trenton, NJ: Privately Printed, 1935. First edition. Stapled wraps. Near fine. 8vo. Green stiff printed wraps. 11pp plus (9)pp. with tipped-in 'decalomanias'. Also laid in are two additional decal sheets titled 'Novelty! Transfer Picture-Album' One of 50 copies; probable only edition. Inscribed by the author on the inside of the front cover: "Presented to Oliver Westling. 1936." Small closed repaired marginal tear to the front wrapper else in fine condition with fine examples of the decalomanias. The laid-in Novelty sheet is in good condition only.

Lutetiae (Paris): Fédéric Morel, 1578. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. (16),118,(8 blanks). Recent full brown leather spine in six compartments, gilt; antique marbled paper in a non-pareil design inlaid on the boards; double marbled endpapers. A fine copy. With Toscano's tribute to Marcilhac-sur-Célé, the Cryptae Massiliacensis Topographia, present at pp. 119-124. In Latin Blank pages at the end, apparently added later, are an index of authors in a contemporary hand. One leaf seems to be excised. Contains epigrams on 200 Italian writers, poets, scholars, etc. from Dante Alighieri to Giovanni Carga, each with a short biography of the person honored. It is considered a valuable source of information on Italian culture and intellectual life in the 16th century. It is also a work of art in its own right, with its elegant Latin prose and its insightful and often witty portraits of the individuals it celebrates. It was later reprinted in Hamburg in 1730. The book is dedicated to Antonio… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918. First US edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. 98pp plus 6pp of ads. Green morocco spine, gilt titles, vellum tips. Cockerell green marbed paper sides, endpapers of Griffin handmade paper embedded with shamrocks. A fine copy. With the bookplate of Mathilde Nathan. Wade 121.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 2 volumes. 8vo. xxiv, 639; xii,653pp. Contemporary half green morocco. Spines in four compartments, the lowest taking up half of the spine and tooled in a decorative floral design, which starts in the first compartment. The other two compartments contain the title and author. Spanish wave marbled paper boards and endpapers. Illustrated throughout, and with maps in text as well as a large folding map in a rear pocket of volume one. Light rubbing else a near fine set. Curzon was commissioned by The Times to write several articles on the Persian political environment, but while there he decided to write a book on the country as whole. This two-volume work covers Persia's history and governmental structure, as well as graphics, maps and pictures (some taken by Curzon himself). Curzon was aided by General Albert Houtum-Schindler and the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), both of which helped him gain access to material to which… Read More

Not Published, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Original cloth, gilt title. Cloth sunned to tan on spine, slight fading at top of front cover; waterspot. Born in Connecticut, Stephen Johnson Field was practicing law in New York when word of the Gold Rush arrived. He sailed to California in 1849, crossing Panama at Chagres. He soon became a leader of the California bar, going on to sit on both the State Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. His book focuses on his first years in California, centering on his experience as practicing attorney and the first alcalde for the mining town of Marysville, 1850-57. In the second section, he relates anecdotes of his later career as justice, first of the California Supreme Court, then of the U.S. Supreme Court. Very scarce first edition, in original binding (later reissued with additional material). A very good copy. Cowan, p. 208; Howes F-117.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First US edition. Hardcover. Fine. With Drawings by Arthur Rackham, A. R. W. S.. 4to. Superb binding of half green morocco, spine in six compartments, gilt, green cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. The binding is unsigned but is reminiscent of Bayntum-Riviere or Sangorski & Sutcliffe. All plates are present with their tissue guards, and all but the frontispiece are bound after the text. A fine copy with only traces of age and rubbing. Latimore & Haskell, p. 27. .

New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1938. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. vi, 153pp. Brick colored buckram, gilt spine title. Wear to edges and corners; inner hinges cracked but firm, else a very good copy. Extensively annotated in pencil by a former owner. Inscribed in pencil on the half title by Jacob BLanck to Milton Starr. One of 500 copies. .

Toronto: Irwin & Gordon, Ltd, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Good. Small 4to. 153pp. Gray cloth printed in black on the spine and in black and silver on the upper board. Large folding map in the rear. Neat ownership name and sticker else a near fine copy with only traces of fading and wear. The map is in fine condition. The dustwrapper is present, but is rough along the top, split at the upper fold and lacks the top inch of the spine (provided in facsimile), so it appears very good. Peter Pond (d. 1807) was among the most notable of the first British fur traders in Canada. Innis used Pond's own journal to develop this treatment. .

New York: Epstein & Carroll, 1961. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Blue cloth printed in white; map endpapers. Illustrated by Jules Feiffer. A neat ownership name on the upper margin of the front free endpaper, lengthy gift inscription on the reverse dated 1961, and a stain at the bottom of the spine, else a very good copy. In a first state dustwrapper with author's photograph on the rear cover. It is not price-clipped ($3.95), but is substantially repaired and noticeably restored. Still is gives a very good appearance. .

Philadelphia: Isaac Peirce, 1813. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. iv, [3], 8-99, [1] pp. Printed paper boards. Boards worn and soiled, spine partially perished, textblock untrimmed, but still a good copy of an elusive title in the original binding. Contains much of medical interest, including suggestions on the care of the sick in almshouses, on the care of infants and the aged, on dispensaries, on therapy in mental diseases, and on medical education. Concerned especially with Philadelphia institutions. Shaw & Shoemaker 29505; Austin, Early American Medical Imprints, 1540. .

London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 476pp. Illustrated with six copper engraved folding plates (including the frontispiece). Contemporary full calf. Sine in 6 compartments, gilt; red lettering label, gilt. Upper hinge neatly and strengthened; wear at spine tips and corners; else a very good copy. ESTC T84447.

Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Green cloth printed in black on the spine and upper board. Illustrations by Sears Frank. Color frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, text illustrations in black and white. Cloth sunned around edges else a near fine copy. The dustwrapper has chips at the spine tips, along the stop of the front panel and at the base of the upper flap fold, has separated cleanly at the folds, else is in very good condition and presents a verey good appearance. Presentation copy: "To Lee, with love, Edna, 1-12-42." .

London: J. Hassell, 1817. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two leather bound volumes with spines in 6 compartments, red labels, gilt titles. As so often happens with early 19th century books the collation of these two volumes matches neither the 'directions for placing the cuts' as found at the end of each volume nor the collation as given in the reference. Numerous plates are bound in locations other than indicated, four listed in Tooley (Epsom, Holland House, Melrose Hall and Guildford) are missing and one (Holland House Crouch) which is not listed in Tooley, but is in the directions to the binder is present. It appears that the intent was that the two volumes were each to have 60 plates. Volume One of this set contains 62 plates and volume Two has 55. Having looked carefully at the two volumes it seems possible that the 'missing' plates were not ever present. A lovely set with charming little plates.