Search Results: Titles starting with P from Calix Books

Flatman, Thomas. POEMS AND SONGS. BY THOMAS FLATMAN. THE THIRD EDITION WITH ADDITIONS AND AMENDMENTS. ME QUOQUE VATEM DICUNT PASTORES, SED NON EGO CREDULUS ILLIS. VIRGIL. Octavo, 7.1 x 4.6 inches. 1686, Third edition, with sixteen new poems appearing for the first time. A8, a-b8, B-K8, L7, M8. (Complete, collating just as the Grolier copy, with the signature L7.) The engraved portrait frontispiece of Flatman which appears for the first time in this edition is present in this copy. It is bound in period calfskin, with spine repair that is tastefully done. The first few gathers are loose from the book (9 full pages). Book collates and all pages present. Has the bookplate of Edward Parker of Brownsholme in the County of York, along with signatures of other owners. The spine is very neatly and tastefully done, and looks quite well on the shelf. The contents are occasionally lightly browned and spotted, with no extraordinary defects. 44 libraries have copies.

New York: Review of Review Corp.. Very Good. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. All 10 volumes of the Semi-Centennial Memorial Photographic History of the Civil War. Published in 1911 on the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the war. Condition of each volume is Fine. Covers have slight wear, very light rubbing and some spotting. Top page edges on all 10 volumes gilt which is in very nice shape. Gilt lettering and decorations on all 10 spines also bright and intact. Inside pages, including hundreds of photographs, are clean and bright with no spotting or foxing. All 10 volumes bound in blue boards, no DJ. Each volume is slightly oversize and contains about 300 pages of photographs and text for a total of about 3,000 pages of photographs and explanatory text for the set. A heavy set that will require extra postage. Please contact us for postage prices. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . endpapers are blue with gold top edges. This is the first edition of this epic work and has thousands of scenes photographed from… Read More

Sabartes, Jamie: Picasso - 1937. Milan: All'Insegna del Pesce D;Oro, 1937. 32 pages numbered 185 from a total of 250 copies. Paper wrappers, loose from wrappers but interior holding. 9.5 x 7.5 cm. Test in Italian about Picasso.
Jamie Sabartes was Pablo Picasso's secretary until his death. The were good personal friends and Picasso painted him in his 'blue' phase in 1901.

Cotton, Charles. (1630-1687) Poems On several Occasions. Written by Charles Cotton, Esq. London: Printed for Tho. Basset, at the George in Fleet-street; Will. Hinsman and Tho. Fox, in Westminster-Hall, 1689.
Octavo, 7.1 x 4.4 in. First edition. A4, B-Z8, Aa-Zz8. This copy was formerly the property of Wadsworth Library 1868 and has its blind stamp on the title; library numbers appear on the verso of the title. The contents are cleaned and in good condition throughout, and the book is now bound in full handsome speckled calfskin in the style of the seventeenth century English binding.
Charles Cotton:
English poet and country squire, chiefly remembered for his share in Izaak Walton's The Compleate Angler.
Cotton made a number of translations from the French, including, in 1685, the often-reprinted Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, Corneille's Horace (1671), and several historical and philosophical works. Following the French fashion, he wrote Scarronides (1664, 1665), which is a coarse burlesque… Read More

13 lightly penciled numbered pages, on watermarked Allen Paper (with the dove and sprig in its mouth). Signed by her hand in light elegant ink and later light pencil; "Elisa Hickling, Nov. 6, 1837."
Page 3: Lucy by Wordsworth
Page 4: Personal Poem: No title but it is about a bird
Page 5-8: Oliver Wendell Holmes poem of 1831
Page 9: Two paragraphs on the world and God
Page 9: Bottom pencil entry by S. Reed on a man and his ambition
Page 10: Another quote of S. Reed
Page 10: Personal note that all the earths' mysterious principals are mere clothing of the divine
Page 11: Personal muse of the death of a child and the hope that one day the mother and child will be reunited
Elisa (Elizabeth) Edes (Brown) Hickling (Wife) (1825-1916). There is a burial plot in Boston with Elizabeth Hickling but there is no date of death. She married Charles Hickling in 1841 and their son was born in 1845. There is also a suggestion in this writing that she also had another child and lost that child.
Charles Hickling… Read More

Gertrude the Great, Saint. (1256-1302) Pratiqve Des Exercices Spiritvels, Tirée Des Oevvres de Sainte Gertrvde. Vtile & profitable à l'Ame devote, qui desire s'avancer à la perfection. Avec plusieurs Meditations & salutaires enseignmens, tant pour les personnes seculieres, que pour la Profession Religieuse, & la renovation des Vœux. Nouvelle Edition, reveuë, corrigée, & mise en la pureté de nostre langue. Et enrichie de plusieurs figures en taille douce. Paris: Chez Iean Covterot, ruë S. Iacques, au petit Iesus, prés les Mathurins, 1668. An extremely rare book. No copies found in any of the libraries. Copies of Jean Couterot's works only hold small numbers in libraries across the world. His publications were very small runs and a limited number have survived. Saint Gertrude the Great:8vo, 5.94 x 3.25 in. a8, e2, A-Z8/4, Aa-Zz4/8; lacking the engraved frontispiece (of Saint Gertrude), but with twenty one full-paged engravings, and four full-paged engraved tables. The engraving on page 272… Read More

Rochester: The Printing House of Leo Hart, 1947. cloth, dust jacket. UPDIKE. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 141 pages. First edition. Jacket chipped. A tribute to Updike and review of his work, and that of the Merrymount Press.

OCLC Number 3051007; 2000 copies printed November, 1936, on Hermes extra strong book paper. xiv, 133, [1] pages : frontispiece, illustrations, diagrams ; 24 cm
by William Bond Wheelwright ; with foreword by Otto G. Kress.
A fine copy with numerous illustrations and explanations of the papermaking process. A good book for the beginning collector to learn about how paper is made for printing. Crisp and clean throughout with very small exterior bumping on corners of the boards. No cove present or was issued with this book (probably glassine wrapped for shipment). Also a signed letter from David T. Pottinger, Associate Director of the Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, dated August 1st, 1939 thanking 'Bill' for his lecture. Folds to letter with nice logo and chip with loss of paper top left corner, not affecting text.
OCLC Shows: 5 editions published in 1936 in English and held by 144 libraries worldwide

Colinis, Simon de (c. 1480– c. 1546). Proverbia Salomonis. Ecclesiastes, Cantica canticorum, Liber Sapientiat, Ecclesiasticus. Parisiis, Ex Officina Simonis Colinaeis. 8vo; [New Blank], a8-i8; k8-t8; v8-x8; [New Blank]. 168 numbered leaves ; 12 cm. Monsieur Nocolaus Dieu with filigree emblem and OVOD DEI DEO (God) on back board, plus gilt spine and cover. 1524. First edition. OCLC Number: 82770805; "Hieronymi praefatio in libros Salomonis."--Verso of the title page, and following leaf. Criblé and outline initials. Reprinted by Colines in 1526, 1527, 1535, 1539 and 1542. Red lined with type perfectly placed. Some cropping on rebind close to words but no loss of words. Fresh clean interior. Excellent condition. Early use of page numbers and chapter headings.
Simon de Colines (c. 1480 – c. 1546), a Parisian printer, one of the first printer type of the French Renaissance. He was active in Paris between 1520 and 1546. Colines used elegant roman and italic types and a Greek type, with accents,… Read More