Search Results: Titles starting with P from Aardvark Rare Books

Dublin, Ireland: Reprinted by Hibernia-Press Company, 1810. Reprint. Leather-bound. Very Good. Three Volumes in Two Bindings: Quartos, 10.8 in. x 6 in. Illustrated with frontispieces of Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Totness, and eighteen additional plates, seventeen of which are foldouts. Full calf with floral frame stamped and triple-ruled in blind to front and back boards. Rebacked with gilt title on black panels, five raised-bands, six compartments ruled in gilt, with gilt fleurons. Marbled edges. Rubbing to extremities. Replaced endpapers. Ink-written mis-attribution of author's name (Thomas O'Grady, Berehaven) to both title pages. The inscriber's confusion must have originated from the fact that Standish O'Grady wrote a two volume history of Ireland (1887 & 1880), and edited the 1896 edition of Pacata Hibernia. Reverend O'Grady was actually the Church of Ireland rector of Castletown Berehaven and with his wife, Susanna Dowe, the parents of noted author Standish O'Grady. Pages are bright;… Read More

Washington, 1859. Hardcover. Good Plus and Maps: Very Good. Octavo, 9 in. x 5.7 in., pp. 125. Illustrated with six fold-out maps. Green colth boards with gilt title to front. No title to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Light sunning to right side of front board. Unmarked interior. Light age-toning and occasional spotting to maps. Map 1: 22.75 in. x 35.5 in., "El Paso and Fort Yuma Wagon Road." 3 in. closed tear at fold. Map 2: 22.75 in. x 35.5 in. "Map No. 2 of the El Paso and Fort Yuma Wagon Road." 1 in. closed tear at fold. Map 3: 22.75 in. x 35.5 in., "Western Division of the Fort Kearney, South Pass, and Honey Lake Road." 4 in. closed tear at fold. Map 4: 21 in. x 34 in. Central Division of the Fort Ridgley & South Pass Road. Several 1 - 2 in. closed tears at edges on seams. Map 5: Map detached but present. 19 in. x 32.5 in., "Fort Ridgely and South Pass Road". Two 1 in. closed tears at edges on seams. Map 6: 26 in. x 24.5 in. "Map of the Wagon-Road from Platte River Via Omaha Reserve and Dakota… Read More

Boston, Mass: W. G. Corthell, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. 12mo.pp.[2], xv, 285, [3]. Decorated dark-mustard color cloth boards, in black stamped design, with a seven-storey gilt pagoda to front board. Gilt lettering to spine, ruled in black. General shelfwear and rubbing to extremities, and still very tightly bound. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Stab-holes (for stitching) visible along both front and rear hinges. Frontis of eight Chinesemen and women, engraved by Russell and Richardson of Boston, and 15 additional illustrations throughout. At its face, appears to be a standard, nineteenth-century culture-theft by a "superior" Christian, who slums amongst the fascinating "heathens". Chapters include (but are not limited to): The Status of women; Child-Life in Cathay; Foot-Binding; Habitations; The Inconvenience of Heathenism; Spiritism; The Kitchen God; The Origin of a Fete; Buddhist Nuns; Loan-Associations; Native Female Evangelists; Orchid Loses Seven-Tenths of Her… Read More

New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1962. Paperback. GOOD. Softcover, black printing on blue green paper. Some sunning and rubbing to extremities. Corners nudged. Bump and small closed tear at top of spine. 421 pp. and 28 b+w plates. Volume 49: Part 2 of the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. Theodore Schwartz studied and worked closely with Famous Anthropologist Margaret Mead.

Paris: Pierre Le Petit, 1677. Leather_bound. Good Plus. 241 pages. Title page vignette, vignette to dedication and preface. Full calf leather, 12mo [approximately 6 1/2 by 4 inches] Corners bumped, small chip to head and tail of spine, five raised bands to spine, cracking to spine and title faint. A few small spots to rear board, some scratches and discoloration to cover, textblock square, binding tight. Interior clean with uniform light toning. French translation of Pliny the Younger's Pangeric to the Emperor Trajan.

Paris, France: Pierre le Petit (Libraire du Roy), 1677. Leather-bound. Good. 16mo. Full speckled calf. Leather to spine cracked and slight separations to front board (cocked), but not loose. Ship to leather spine label. Chips in leather to spine caps. Red marbling to all edges. Translated by Jacques Esprit (1611-1677).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Second Edition Revised & Enlarged and Printed from New Plates. Hardcover. Good Plus. Quarto. Blue buckram-covered boards. Every historical/cultural aspect of creation of paper is meticulously covered and illustrated in this now-classic volume: 317 illustrations, plus a tipped-in map at the rear. Publisher's red topstain, and a wee bit of light spotting to edges. Solidly bound. For more than forty years (previous to the 1947 of this edition) the author has been "assembling material relating to the ancient craft of papermaking...[he writes, further]: "My researches have taken me to all parts of the world, travelling hundreds of thousands of miles in this elusive study...". "Rags Make Paper Paper Makes Money Money Makes Banks Banks Make loans, Loans. Make Beggars, Beggars Make Rags (Author Unknown, circa Eighteenth century).

London, England: John Sharpe, 1819. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. 16mo, 4 x 6.6 in., pp. unpaginated, 64, 39, 7, 188. Illustrated with 10 engraved drawings with tissue guards. Dark green leather with gilt double-border and a progressive series of etched frames in blind to front and back, surrounding a central panel of "tree-bark" style leather. Gilt tooling to board edges. Gilt title, four raised bands, and repeated framed harp design to spine. Spine and hinges tight. Marbled edges and endpapers. Original bookseller's ticket (D.F. Gardiner) from Dublin to top of front pastedown. Tissue-guarded engraving to half-title of "Milton found sleeping by an Italian Lady", below which is listed the place of publication, the publisher, and the publishing date of 1816. Light foxing, especially tto pages near engravings. Absolutely lovely binding. Includes five texts: Paradise Regained (unpag.), Samson Agonistes (64), Comus (39), Arcades (7), and The Minor Poems of John Milton (188). Samson Agonistes, Comus, and… Read More

London, England: George Philip and Son, 1892. First English Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Octavo, 7.8 in. x 5.2 in., pp. xiii, [1], 243, 1-4 (advertising). Illustrated with frontis and twelve additional full-page black and white photographs and large color map of Paraguay (24 in. x 23 in.) in pocket on rear pastedown. Dark blue cloth boards with frame stamped in blind, gilt title and gilt coat of arms to front; gilt title to spine. Rubbing to extremities; sunning to spine. Chips to headband. Black sticker remnant to base of spine. Ex-library from "Manchester Geographical Society" with library stamp to pastedowns, front and back free endpaper, and verso of map. Color map of Paraguay in VG+ condition. The map was drawn by the author, Dr. E. de Bourgade "based on his own observations made 1887-88, the unpublished Documents of the Boundary Commission of 1871-73, and the maps of Mouchez & Toeppen, 1889."

Dublin, Ireland: A. Fullarton and Co, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Vary Good. A. Nicholl. Matching three volume set: Large Octavo, 10.25 in. x 6.75 in. Modern dark half calf with decorative ruling in blind over marbled boards. Gilt titles on black panels and four raised bands with gilt bandlines to spines. New endpapers. All engraved plates by A. Nicholl. Volume I: pp. clii, 560, illustrated with tissue-guarded, chromolithic frontis of the coat of arms of Ireland, five engraved plates, and two fold-out maps (Ireland and Connaught; each map is 19.5 in. x 15.5 in.). Spotting to maps. Three inch closed tear to Connaught map. Quarter page publisher's note bound between pages ii/iii. Publishers note wrinkled. Volume II: pp. 840, illustrated with six engraved plates and 19.5 inch x 15.5 inch fold-out map (Leinster). Spotting to map. Volume III: pp. 715, 2 (prospectus), 4 (advertising), illustrated with three engraved maps (Dublin), two of which fold out (Ulster and Munster, each 19.5 in. x 15.5 in.).… Read More

Garden City: Grosset & Dunlap, 1917. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Good Only.. Octavo. Mottled blue cloth over navy spine, gilt ruled. Blue design of horse-drawn bookwagon to front, plus lettering. Yellow lettering to spine. Shelfwear and staining to edges of boards. Moderate age toning. Author's signature to front free endpaper. This is a worn yet solid copy of a classic tale of a traveling bookstore, horse-drawn, and the protagonist's dealings with his sister. SIGNED by Christopher Morley, to front free endpaper. Christopher Morley, 1890 - 1957, was an American novelist. Morley's first novel, Parnassus On Wheels (1917) follows Roger Mifflin, a traveling bookseller, and his adventures with a bookstore on wheels.

Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1913. FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover. Good Plus. John R. Neill. Octavo, 9.25 in. x 7 in., pp. 312. Illustrated with twelve full-color plates and black and white ink drawings. Binding A: Publisher's spine imprint reads "Reilly & Britton." On p. 35, the red "CHAP THREE" is shifted to the left so the word "to" of the adjacent text is printed within the "C" of "CHAP." Advertisement on p. [343] begins "You Will Be Glad To Know..." (Bienvenue 52-53; Hanff 63-64) Light green cloth boards with title in dark green and red and dark green, yellow and red Patchwork Girl to front. Green title and green and red character with quill pen to spine. Rubbing to extremities; light soiling to boards. Light fraying to top/bottom of spine; light scuffing to front joint. Corners rubbed. Full color pictorial endpapers. Front and rear hinges tender. Unmarked interior.

Holborn, England: George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1868. Paperback. FAIR ONLY. Pages uncut and untrimmed. Original blue paper covers,Fading and wear to spine. Front paper cover VERY chipped and DETACHED. Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode of London. Paperback Original. At time of publication, the Indexes to Patents were, "so numerous and costly as to render their purchase inconvenient to a large number of inventors and others, to whom they have become indispensable. To obviate this difficult, short abstracts or abridgments of the Specifications of Patends under each head of Invention have been prepared for publication separately, (nearly 62,500) and so arranged as to form at once a Chronological, Alphabetical, Subject-matter, and Reference Index to the class to which they relate. This series embraces all Inventions relating to Saddles and saddlery, pillions and pack saddles, saddle cloths, housings, gambadoes, girths, stirrups, stirrup-bars, stirrup leathers, bridles, bits,… Read More

LONDON: T.N. Longman, 1796. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. Two separate books in one binding. The first book of this is the Eleventh Edition of what is commonly called PATERSON'S ROADS and was an indispensable resource which all coachmen carried to find their way through the towns, hills, dales and shires. 406 pp. includes index to County Seats. Later binding of rich vermilion calf, with raised bands, contrasting black spine label with gilt-stamped title and date. Marbled endpapers.Tight, bright copy. Bound together with the Seventh Edition of THE TRAVELLER'S DICTIONARY, consisting of 215 pp., and published in 1797. Eighteenth-Century editions are quite scarce. In the preface, the publishers thusly describe the companion volume to this single-bound volume, called The Traveling Dictionary: "Having thus, to the best of our Abilities, supplied the Traveller with a full and accurate Description of a much greater Collection of Roads than was ever before attempted; yet, as the different Routs which Travellers… Read More

Westminster England: Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd, 1902. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Undated publication. Wide Quarto, 10.3 in. x 14 in., pp. 47. Illustrated with eight color plates and numerous ink drawings. Rebound in three quarter calf with decorative rule in blind over designer brown, green and white paper boards. Gilt tile to black and burgundy panels, gilt bandlines and fleurons, and five raised bands to spine. Card-stock pages. Age-toning to pages. A sturdy, handsome copy! Edith Anna Œnone Somerville (1858 - 1949) was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as "E. Œ. Somerville". The eldest of eight children, Somerville grew up in Drishane, Castletownshend, County Cork, She is said to have dominated her sister and brothers in a family where women were encouraged to be bold. She received her primary education at home, and then attended Alexandra College in Dublin. In 1884, she went to Paris for the first of several trips to study art at the Académie… Read More

Westminster England: Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd, 1902. Hardcover. Good Plus. Undated publication. Wide Quarto, 10.3 in. x 14 in., pp. 47. Illustrated with eight color plates and numerous ink drawings. Contemporary gray-green cloth boards with black and green title and horse-rider and shamrocks design stamped to front. Light rubbing to board edges. Light bubbling to upper left of front board. Quarter-sized moisture stain to front board. One inch black stain to bottom of spine. Card-stock pages. Very light foxing throughout. Protected in mylar. Edith Anna Œnone Somerville (1858 - 1949) was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as "E. Œ. Somerville". The eldest of eight children, Somerville grew up in Drishane, Castletownshend, County Cork, She is said to have dominated her sister and brothers in a family where women were encouraged to be bold. She received her primary education at home, and then attended Alexandra College in Dublin. In 1884, she went… Read More

Lanham, MD: The Derrydale Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Quarto, 10.25 in. x 7.25 in., pp. x, 149. Signed by the author on the title page. Illustrated with color and black and white plates. Textured gray paper boards over brown spine. Gilt title to spine. Protected in mylar.

Boston, Mass: Greenough and Stebbins, 1807. First Edition. Removed. Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" x 5 1/2." pp. 43. Removed from a book of pamphlets. Original stab-holes present. Title-page browned with light damp-stains in upper and lower left-hand corners, seeped through first 5 leaves. Leaves 2-3 fully detached. Pages lightly tanned throughout with sharp print on clean paper. (Sabin 42455). This pamphlet by a "Yankee farmer" was penned by John Lowell, a notable member of the Federalist Party. The Chesapeake Affair of 1807 was a naval skirmish between the British warship HMS Leopard and the American frigate USS Chesapeake. The British ship launched an attack against and boarded the Chesapeake, allegedly in search of British deserters. The affair fanned the flames of British-American tensions and eventually led to President Thomas Jefferson's Embargo of 1807. Both the Chesapeake Affair and the Embargo are viewed as precipitating events to the War of 1812. (Wikipedia).

Dublin, Ireland: James Moore, 1789. Revised Edition. Leather-bound. Good Plus. Matching set of seven volumes: Octavo, 8.6 in. x 5.4 in. Volume I: pp. [6] (list of subscribers), [8] ("Preface to the First Edition" by John Lodge), [3] "Advertisement to the Present Edition," [1], [6] ("Peerage of Ireland" index), [83] (plates of Coat of Arms), 1 - 362, [45]. Illustrated with 165 half-page plates of unpaginated, labelled Irish Coat of Arms; Volume II: pp. 403, [19] ; Volume III: pp. 403, [26]; Volume IV: pp. 333, [28]; VOlume V: pp. 303, [28]; Volume VI: pp. 320, [26]; Volume VII: pp. 293, [29], [1], [1] (binder's instructions). Contemporary full calf. GIlt title and volume number on newer black and burgundy panels to spine. Original green tint to edges. Light rubbing to extremities; a few minor scars to the leather. A couple of lightly nudged corners. Volumes III: Light cracking along front joints. Volume IV: cracking to front and rear joints, and tape stains to covers. Volume VII: front board held… Read More

Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto, 11.6 in. x 8.7 in., pp. 376. Limited edition, No. 28, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Cushioned leatherette boards with gilt title to front and spine. A few scuffs and scrapes to leatherette, with open tears to spine headband and wear to corners. Previous owner's bookplate to verso of front free endpaper. Spine and hinges tight. Previous owner was M. L. Biscotti, an antiquarian bookseller with a passion for sporting literature.