Search Results: Titles starting with T from E. C. Rare Books [ABA / ABAC]

THE TALE OF KING COUSTANS THE EMPEROR. THE HISTORY OF OVER SEA.
One of a total edition of 545 copies
Kelmscott Press – (Morris William) Hammersmith 1894
Translated out of the ancient French into English by William Morris. Hammersmith 1894. With ornamented woodcut double title and numerous initials by William Morris. Original holland-backed blue-gray paper boards, black lettering on upper cover, untrimmed edges One of 525 copies on Batchelor laid paper (total edition 545). – Typeset from the Chaucer Type, the running titles and the publisher's imprint were printed in red. This is a particularly charming little anthology of two Medieval French romances translated by Morris into his special brand of archaic-sounding English. The love stories involve, first, a commoner's marriage to the daughter of the pagan emperor of Byzantium and, second, the adventures that befall French lovers who are taken prisoner by Saracens during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Peterson A 26. – Tomkinson 114, 26 (with full-page… Read More

THE THREE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK.

COOK, Capt. James (1728-1779)
Published by London 1773-1785. (1785)
ALL FIRST EDITIONS
OF COOK'S THREE VOYAGES PLUS ATLAS & Kippis Life of Captain James Cook,
Cook, James. Set of all three voyages, all in first editions, and a uniformly bound copy of the first edition of Kippis' LIFE. Atlas recently bound in period full calf.
ATLAS, 2 large folding charts & 61 plates with nearly all the original tissue guards in place. Recently bound in full calf expertly executed to match the text vols. A near fine set.

Together 8 vols. text, med. 4to, & folio atlas with original tissues, in all 202 fine, engraved maps, charts, portraits, costume plates, views, etc.; the text volumes uniformly re-backed in contemporary style,
First Voyage: AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES UNDERTAKEN BY ORDER OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY FOR MAKING DISCOVERIES IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, AND SUCCESSIVELY PERFORMED BY COMMODORE BYRON, CAPTAIN WALLIS, CAPTAIN CARTERET AND CAPTAIN COOK, IN THE DOLPHIN,… Read More

First English Illustrated Edition, with frontispiece and 120 illustrations from drawings by the author, (447 pages), hardback, spine lettered in gilt on brown leather, edges gilt, marbled blue endpapers, one page publisher's advertisements at end,
The first edition published in three volumes in 1894 was unillustrated, this well illustrated edition was published in 1896. George Du Maurier's plot for his Gothic novel 'Trilby' inspired Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel entitled 'The Phantom of the Opera'.
CONDITION: Very Good. The covers are very good, clean and the lettering is clear. The binding is tight and the interior is clean for age. Text is clear and sharp. Minor rubbing to reading edge of boards.

Bound in Pictorial Green cloth, small library mark to the lower spine, and a bookplate presenting this book to the officers of the National Fire Service. A nice clean copy. Woodruff, born in 1817, started riding professionally at the age of 13. He was best known for his rides on Dexter, a champion trotter in the mid nineteenth century. He was a rider, trainer, breeder and owner. Woodruff is considered to be the first representative figure of Standardbred training tradition. Edited (i.e., ghost-written) by Charles J. Foster and published after Woodruff's death. Memoirs of the famous trainer of Lady Suffolk and many other great harness horses; also, the first American work on training trotters. This "new edition" adds a long appendix, updating the original and adding many time records.

TENT WORK IN PALESTINE: A RECORD OF DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE. CLAUDE REIGNIER CONDER, R.E. Illustrated by J. Whymper. 1878. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bright gilt surveyor under umbrella on both front boards, and bright gilt titles on the spines. Housed in a slipcase. Handsome set, by the Palestine Exploration Fund, which was digging in the Holy Land to confirm Biblical truths.

[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]
THIRTY YEARS' CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN JOHN JEBB AND ALEXANDER KNOX
Edited by Charles Forster.
Published London: J. Duncan and J. Cochran, 1834.
2 Vols each with a fore-edge painting. Bound in full Maroon straight grain Morocco, bound by J. Hatchard's and son Piccadilly. A beautiful combination of blind and gilt tooling in excellent condition.
FORE-EDGE PAINTING'SScenes of Dorset – Lyme Regis – Ockford - Cattistock
This incredibly detailed Fore-edge painting on Vol I is a church and street view of Okeford fitzpaine. In 1086 in the Domesday Book Okeford Fitzpaine was recorded as Adford; it had 40 households, 16 ploughlands, 21 acres (8.5 hectares) of meadow and one mill. It was in Sturminster Newton Hundred and the tenant-in-chief was Glastonbury Abbey. Since then, it has been known as "Aukford Alured" and "Ockford Phippin", the latter echoing the modern colloquial "Fippenny Ockford" and its shorthand, "Ockford".
Vol. II is even more detailed and split into 3 individual scenes.… Read More

Thunder in Heaven Von Tempski, Armine Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1942 (1942) Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Second printing. Bound in beige cloth very good condition no wear to the binding slight browning of the spine, the text is very clean and bright.

Whymper, Frederick. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, Formerly Russian America – Now Ceded to the United States – and in Various Other Parts of the North Pacific. London: John Murray, 1868. 8vo (22 x 13.7 cm). Original red cloth. Collation [vii] viii-xix, [1-List of illustrations], [1] 2-331 pp. + folding map at rear. The binding is in very good condition. The title, author and publisher are in gilt on spine. Gilt vignette on cover illustrates travelers loading snow sled with resting dogs. Internal condition of book is very good and without marks. The title page has embossed stamp of presentation from publisher.

Printed for T Carnan and F New. Condition: Very Good. 1770. Paperback. 23pp. Disbound. Lacks half-title page. Slight dust soiling. With illustrated engraving by C. Grignion after painting by S. Wale on title page.

Magazine of Magazines, 1917. Magazine. TSAR NICHOLAS II OF RUSSIA ABDICATION PORTRAIT 1917. 'Magazine of Magazines' no.10, dated March 1917, on page 2 of this 16 page magazine. This magazine is like a flipboard of Russian history with interesting articles through-out and two pages of advertising at the end. The 100th anniversary of the end of the Russian royal family has just passed, with the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. (18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 - 17 July 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and titular King of Poland. At the end of the 'February Revolution' of 1917 (February in the Old Russian Calendar), on 2 March (Julian calendar)/ 15 March (Gregorian calendar) 1917, Nicholas II chose to abdicate. He first abdicated in favour of Tsarevich Alexei, but swiftly changed his mind after advice from doctors that the heir-apparent would not live long if separated from his parents, who would be forced into exile. Nicholas drew up a new manifesto naming his brother, Grand Duke… Read More

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas Melville, Herman Published by West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, No Place (1962) West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, West Virginia, 1962. Hardcover. Book Copyright date 1962, limited edition, in a slipcase, published by West Virginia pulp and paper company. Black skiver leather spine and paper covered boards with gold lettering and illustration on the front and on the spine. Pictorial inside covers front and back. Illustrated print as the frontice. Only flaws shown on the slipcase are Browning along the edges top of the slipcase, Text and illustration are bright and clean, binding is secure, hardly opened, a solid collectible first book of Herman Melville's.