Search Results: Titles starting with T from Shapero Rare Books

New York, Arrow Editions, 1938. . First edition, one of 500 copies, inscribed by Joseph Blumenthal to Harold Corbin; royal 8vo; bookplate to front pastedown, internally fine; publisher's cloth-backed grey paper boards, printed paper title label to spine, fore and bottom edges uncut, housed in grey card slipcase, edges browned, slightly rubbed, further housed in green cloth slipcase, printed paper title label to spine, spine slightly faded; a near-fine example. First edition of Duval's bibliography of T.E. Lawrence, printed at the Spiral Press in an edition of 500 copies. Inscribed by Joseph Blumenthal, the founder of the Spiral Press, to the author Harold Corbin: 'Inscribed in Salisbury for Harold Corbin - with pleasure. Joseph Blumenthal'. O'Brien E119.

Seattle, University of Washington Book Store, 1928. . First edition, one of 575 copies; 8vo; minor marks to fore-edge, else unmarked internally; original gilt stamped black paper wrappers, folded over stiff tan blanks, edges untrimmed, some chipping to edges, gilt slightly dulled, else very good. The first of Pound's translations of one of the great Chinese classics, attributed to both Confucius and Tsang Tsu. Gallup A28a.

St Petersburg, Obshchina Sviatoi Evgenii, 1910. . Landscape poster (36.5 x 28 cm); chromolithograph designed by Bilibin and dated 1910, pasted on to board, small loss of paper to top border, minor stain to right margin, wear to corners, a very bright and fresh example. A scarce and impressive piece of ephemera designed by Bilibin. The central panel features the most important religious saint days and feasts topped with the sun and moon and tailed with a winged hourglass. The two side panels contain the twelve zodiacs along with men representing each month of the year. Each figure is wonderfully adorned and illustrated with symbols reflecting the season. For example, the summer months carry flowers, a scythe, wheat, and fruit whilst December and January depict Christmas and Epiphany. The calendar is in the typical 'Bilibin' style of a magical and colourful world, firmly rooted in the stylised form of Russian folk and medieval art. As the very nature of calendars are ephemeral, examples of this… Read More

London, Samuel Bagster & Sons, 1842. . Second edition; folio, 4 fine coloured plates, each hand-coloured and inlaid with gold, silver and brass and protected with tissue guard; contemporary dark blue cloth embossed boards with gilt title, corners and spine rubbed. [3], ii, 2-36, [1] pp. The Tabernacle (called the Mishkan in Hebrew) was the portable sanctuary in which the Jews carried the Ark of the Covenant through the desert (as described in the books of Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers of the Hebrew Bible). This book contains detailed hand-coloured illustrations and explanations of the structure and function of the Tabernacle, with references to the scripture.William Graeme Rhind (1794-1863) was born at Gillingham, Kent, to a Naval family, and as such was destined for the Navy. In fact his name was enrolled as a first-class volunteer at the age of seven. At twelve he entered actual service as a midshipman, witnessed the horrors of war while fighting against the Americans. He was eventually taken… Read More

Paris, [c. 1795]. . Five superb engravings with original handcolouring, 440 x 530 mm (sheet size). Born in Montreal in 1757, Grasset de Saint-Sauveur studied in Paris from 1764 before following in the footsteps of his father and brother by joining the diplomatic corps. He is better known however for his depictions of the costumes and habits of peoples from around the world, indeed Prof. Bernard Smith refers to him as 'the finest of the costume encyclopaedists of the late eighteenth century' (European Vision and the South Pacific, p113). The first of this set of five engravings shows the islanders of the Pacific, as known from the voyages of both Cook and Lapérouse whose two vessels disappeared in the Pacific in 1788, their fate unknown for nearly 40 years until Capt. Dillon discovered remains at Vanikoro. Saint Sauveur was captivated like many of his contemporaries by the discoveries in the Pacific and he includes in this print people from across the breadth of the ocean, from the Northwest… Read More

London, Elkin Matthews, 1904. . First published edition; small 8vo (16 x 13 cm); 2pp. ads. to rear, ads. to insider of wrappers, very minor spotting to last leaf; publisher's blue pictorial paper wrappers, lettered in black, publisher's device to lower cover, edges uncut, spine rubbed, edges slightly worn; 60, ivpp. The first published edition of Yeats' The Tables of Law and the Adoration of the Magi, issued as no. 17 in Mathew Elkin's Vigo Cabinet Series. The work had previously appeared in 1897 in a private edition of 110 copies. 'I do not think I should have reprinted them had I not met a young man in Ireland the other day, who liked them very much and nothing else that I have written. W.B. Yeats' (Prefatory Note).Matthew Elkin (d.1921), of The Bodley Head and The Yellow Book fame, was a loyal friend to many of the poets and writers in the Imagist school, regularly counting himself the first publisher of works by Yeats, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound. Wade 25.

Amsterdam. 1658 . Double-page, engraved with fine original hand-colour. Attractive map by Jansson, showing the southern Duchy of Holstein in northern Germany. Central to the map is the historically important Hanseatic port of Hamburg. Decorative, rococo style embellishments complement this delightful map. 437 x 540 mm (17.25 x 21.25 inches). Koeman 1:428.1 (28c)

Amsterdam, n.d. [c. 1650]. . Hand-coloured double-page engraved map, centre fold as issued, with sea monsters, a sailing ship, two wind roses, two cartouches and the volcano Hekla, Latin text on verso; sheet size: 49.2 x 59 cm. An excellent example of Blaeu's map of Iceland, enriched with decorative cartouches, marine monsters and ships.

[Amsterdam, 1660s]. . Double page engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, French text on verso; a few brown spots, some short tears to margins. 546 mm by 647 mm A very good example, with wide margins, of Hessel Gerritsz's map of Russia, first issued 1613 and published by Blaeu after he acquired the plate following Gerritsz's death in 1632. The top left corner has an inset plan of Moscow with a 17-point key, which in 1662 Blaeu expanded and published as a separate plate; on the right is a prospect of Archangel, Russia's only northern port until the founding of St Petersburg in 1700. Three figures in Russian dress stand above. The title is within a martial cartouche. Extending west to east from Emden to Aspachan and north to south from Langenos to Trapesus.

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1954. . First edition, inscribed by the author; 8vo; bookplate to front free endpaper, else internally fine; publisher's teal cloth, gilt lettering to spine, extremities faintly rubbed, upper edge and spine sunned, with the original unclipped dustjacket, the faintest of abrasions at head of spine, else fine, housed in modern teal cloth clamshell box. Presentation copy of this first edition of short stories, for which there is no British equivalent, inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, 'For Frankie / with love from / Evelyn / Christmas 1954'.

Frankfurt am Main; Amsterdam, Heinrich Keller; H. Eisendrath, [1882]. . Small folio (39 x 29 cm); text in Dutch, plates laid onto thick card with ornamental red border, edges gilt, publisher's pictorial red boards gilt, floral ornaments, botanical endpapers and half-title slightly foxed, spine edges rubbed. A magnificent book illustrated with 20 reproductions of Oppenheim's oil paintings depicting a romanticised view of 18th-century German-Jewish life and customs; with an introduction by Rabbi J. Hoofien.Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1801-1882) was a German painter who is often regarded as the first Jewish painter of the modern era. He was inspired by his own Jewish cultural and religious roots at a time when many of his German Jewish contemporaries chose to convert to Christianity. He was born to Orthodox Jewish parents at Hanau and entered the Munich Academy of Arts at the age of seventeen. He later studied in Paris under Jean-Baptiste Regnault. In Rome he studied the life of the Jewish ghetto and… Read More

London, Frederick Warne, 1903. . First trade edition, first issue with date on title-page and a single-page endpaper repeated four times; 16mo; 27 full-page colour illustrations, title vignette and pictorial endpapers by the author; publisher's dark green boards with inset colour illustration, presented in later cloth solander box. An exceptional copy of the first Warne edition of The Tailor of Gloucester, of which the author & illustrator Beatrix Potter wrote 'my own favourite amongst my little books' (cf. Linder, The History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, 1987, p.121). Quinby 4.

Tokyo, Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1975. . First edition; oblong 4to (242 x 259 mm, 9½ x 10¼ in); black-and-white and colour photographs printed in offset, edited by Kitjima Noboru, toning to edges, foxing to preliminary and end leaves; photo-illustrated adhesive-bound wrappers, spine sunned, wear to extremities, creasing to covers, a good copy; [252]pp. Tomatsu Shomei first visited Okinawa in 1969, when the islands were still under American military occupation, and continued to photograph there through the reversion to Japanese control in May 1972. Having grown up near an American base in Nagoya on the mainland, he wished to explore the Americanisation of his homeland further. During the time he spent on the islands, he discovered that, on the whole, the people of Okinawa were able to preserve their customs and traditions in a way that many of those in mainland Japan had not, remarking that 'upon leaving the Okinawa Islands for Japan, that he had not really come to Okinawa but to Japan, and was not… Read More

[c.1880]. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition.

Bayid Persia (Baghdad), dated 13 Shawwal 401 AH (1010 AD). . Single volume, second volume only of the text, decorated manuscript in Arabic, complete in alternating quires of 8 and 12 leaves with a bifolium at the end to complete the text, 162 leaves (plus one contemporary and 3 later endleaves), 218 by 118 mm; single column of 11-12 lines in sepia naskh hand of the author al-Sharif al-Radi himself, title on recto of first leaf, colophon at end of text in same hand, on distinctively Persian dark-cream paper, most leaves with mould markings (of 7-8 laid reed lines per centimetre, and with no chain lines apparent), final free endpaper with numerous ownership inscriptions (pre-fourteenth century), occasional marginal commentary (also pre-fourteenth century), some early damp-staining and mottling to leaves to entirety of volume affecting upper and outer corners, a few repairs to preliminary leaves including a closed tear to first leaf, strip of modern paper pasted along length of pastedown (probably… Read More

London, Frederick Warne, 1910. . First edition, first or second printing; 16mo; colour frontispiece and 26 plates, some offset soling to lower margin of p. 46, less so onto p.47, neither affecting the illustration, otherwise very good; publisher's blue paper-covered boards with fielded illustrative paste-down of Mrs. Tittlemouse, slightly discoloured and dulled with age but in main, near-fine. This was published with the boards in either blue or cream but neither has priority over the other. Quinby 18.

New York, Kingston, Battledore Ltd, 1995. . First edition thus, number XXI of XXV hors commerce copies, from an overall limitation of 250 copies; 16mo; comprising printed introductory booklet signed & numbered in pencil by Maurice Sendak, with additional pencil signature of printing historian Iain Bain, in original printed wrappers, 34 line block illustrations printed in brown ink on Arches paper, each with pencil limitation details and printed monogram of Alecto Historical Editions on verso, with tissue guard, each loose in separate printed card sleeve; together housed in original cloth drop-back box with inset illustration on upper cover and gilt label on spine, a fine copy. An excellent production reproducing 34 of the original 41 plain illustrations from the edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit privately printed by Beatrix Potter in 1901. This edition was produced & designed by Iain Bain with Alecto Historical Editions, co-ordinated by bookseller Justin G.Schiller, and features an original… Read More

London, Frederick Warne, [Circa 1912]. . 16mo; inscribed on half-title and front and rear endpapers by Annie Maria Harris née Armitt; colour illustrations throughout, one leaf with vertical crease to right-hand side; publisher's green boards with inset rectangular panel to upper cover, pictorial endpapers, front free endpaper rubbed with slight surface loss to fore-margin, spine faded. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: 'Mary Mackenzie from Mrs. Stanford Harris, Rydal Cottage, August 1912' and with six stanzas of verse by Annie Harris née Armitt on the front free endpaper and rear endpapers, beginning 'In memory of Rydal/Where Mary lived awhile...', initialled 'A.M.H' on both pastedowns; the half-title additionally inscribed 'I think Jemima Puddle/Was a very foolish duck;/She made a wretched muddle,/And scarce deserved her luck. A.M.H.'Annie Maria Armitt (1850-1933), one of three gifted and well-educated sisters, was a novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist. Unusually for the time… Read More

London, The Nonesuch Press, [1925]. . First edition, first impression; oblong 4to; 22 full-page colour plates by Elinor Darwin, light toning to leaves, very occasional creasing; original brown pictorial boards printed in red, red blindstamped roundel to front cover, light wear to spine ends, corners slightly rubbed, some marks to boards, otherwise a very good copy. First edition of the first Mr. Tootleoo book. Bernard Darwin (1876-1961) was the grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He collaborated with his wife on their children's books, with Bernard providing the text, and Elinor the illustrations. Dreyfus 27.

London, Frederick Warne and Co., 1911. . First edition, first or second printing, with date to title, 16mo (160 x 110mm); colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 26 colour plates, pictorial endpapers, publisher's green boards with mounted colour illustration, spine slightly faded, still near-fine overall; preserved in custom-made solander box with upper board of book replicated on lid. The story of Timmy and Goody Tiptoes is the only Beatrix Potter story apparently set in North America - although this is implicit rather than stated anywhere in the book. All the main animal characters are indigenous to North America: grey squirrels, chipmunks and a 'large bear' but the waters are muddied somewhat by the presence of Yellowhammers (or Emberiza citrinella, the birds that sing 'Little bita bread and-no-cheese!') whose range includes Europe and much of Asia but not America. Linder p.429; Quinby 20.