Aubrey-Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian - 2008-2013: The Complete 20 Volume Collection

Hardcover. Original blue cloth, faded and worn; enclosed in blue cloth box. New Directions (New York, James Laughlin 1949). New (Offset) Edition. Gallup A27B. Presentation copy inscribed from Pound to a literary critic. "Mr. . . . Aug. 56 Ezra Pound." With the recipient's notes in the text. A nice copy.

Vol I: 799p, 31 pl. [i]; Vol. II: 799p, 60 pl. Pp 594-600 tear into text without loss; Vol III: 806p, 20pl.; Vol IV. 793p, 26 pl.; Vol V: 807p, 24 pl.; Vol VI: 794p, 22 pl.; Vol VII: 797p, 38 pl. Neatsfoot oil stained pages,; Vol VIII: 800p, 18 pl.; Vol IX: 800p, 31 pl. lacking plate 260; Vol X: 788p, 22 pl.; Vol XI:814p, 19 pl. Several neatsfoot oil stained pages, plate 299 bound in Vol XII on page 78; Vol XII: 799p, 35 pl.; Vol XIII: 799p, 32 pl.Deep neatsfoot oil stains to fore edge, ; Vol XIV: 797p, 16 pl.Initial and last pages with neatsfoot oil stains ; Vol XV: 799p, 41 pl. Several pages detached but present; plates 433-434 bound in Vol XVI; Vol XVI: 799p, 12 pl.; Vol XVII: 827p, 37 pl.Several pages detached but present,; Vol XVIII: 945p, 59 pl. 486 placed at end. Despite internal oddities, a handsome set in the original sturdy calf. Sabin 22555

Small 8vo. Bound in contemporary vellum. Printed by Jean Antoine Huguetan, Lyons 1638. (Colophon at end dated 1627; printing privilege dated 1626.) Second Edition of this comprehensive treatise on geomancy.Illustrated with numerous diagrams, schematic woodcuts and tables in text, as well as 10 plates, 1 of which is an engraved single-page plate, while the other 9 are fold-out woodcut diagrams or letterpress tables, some bound to face each other; plus large engraved printer's device with an armillary sphere on title-page; a few decorative woodcut head-pieces and initials.The Opus Geomantiae Completum "is divided into three parts devoted respectively to the theory, practice and questions taken from previous authors. The theory is largely astrological. Instead of jotting down four rows of dots at random, a wheel with sixteen projections is spun or whirled in order to obtain one of the sixteen geomantic figures. Fludd is cited more than once, also Arabic authors like Geber and Aomar, medieval Latins like… Read More

One of only 10 copies printed on Zerkall Litho for presentation in Artist's Bindings. Designed by the Spanish artist Antonio Veléz Celemín exclusively for the first edition, these copies are beautifully handbound in quarter cloth with exquisite hand marbling on both the book and the slipcase, joining two complementary patterns. To achieve this unique and specially commissioned design, the artist has combined Suminagashi (a Japanese technique dating back to 1055) using only black ink, and the classic western pattern of 'wavy thorns'. These are our 'top copies': they marry the finest in printing art with a rare fine-binding. The First Edition of  FINN'S HOTEL by James Joyce. Edited, arranged and with a preface by Danis Rose, introduced by Seamus Deane, with eleven illustrations by Casey Sorrow. Designed and printed letterpress by Michael Caine for Ithys Press, Dublin. The Preface and Joyce's text have been handset by Caine in Van Dijk, Kis-Janson and various early 20th Century typefaces and the… Read More

Author: Unknown.Title: Réglement de la Confrerie de l'Adoration Perpétuelle du S. Sacrement et de la Bonne Mort. Erigée dans l'Eglise Paroissiale de Ville-Marie, en l'Isle de Montréal, en Canada. Nouvelle Edition...Language: Text in French.Publisher: Montréal, F. Mesplet & C. Berger, 1776. Casey, Catalogue of Pamphlets 1536; Dionne 18; Lande, Rare Canadiana 153 ("considered the first Canadian imprint in Montreal"); Tremaine 231. An earlier edition of this work is believed to have been prepared by Mesplet in Philadelphia. He had emigrated to America on the advice of Franklin, and had moved from Philadelphia to Montreal in 1776 when commissioned by the Continental Congress to accompany Franklin, Chase and Carroll for the purpose of establishing a French press.Size: 5.5 "X 4 ".Pages: 40 pages.Binding: Attractive and good original boards, covered in figured wallpaper (spine worn but hinges still tight, overall worn and scuffed - as shown) in a quarter morocco leather cover with a nice ex-libris of… Read More

A rare and beautiful copy of Orthodox Evangelion with luxury purple velvet binding with brass clasps and corner and center ornaments. Woodcut printed text and hand-colored illustrations. The book contains multiple hand inscriptions that are only partially legible.The pencil inscription on the front flyleaf contains references to Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, as well as the years: 1911 and 1914. It is possible that the text in some way refers to the Bosnian crisis which served as a prelude to WWI. But, since we have not been able to translate the entire text, we cannot be certain of the context. In the Romanian language, in old Cyrillic script.Pp. /6/ + 344 (Cyrillic numeration); 4 hand colored illustrations, vignettes; initials.Size: 31.2 x 21 cm.Binding: Luxury purple velvet binding with two brass clasps and brass decorations on the covers. Renewed leather spine and renewed endpapers. The front cover was damaged along the edges, with stains and candle wax. Metal decorations… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's light grey cloth stamped in black. Very Good with light toning to spine and top edges, light foxing. Pages toned and lightly musty. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with light edge wear, toned at the spine and top edge. A lovely copy.

Beautifully signature-bound in publisher's raw tan linen; front board & spine decoratively lettered; decorative endpapers. Generally, a very good or better set with signature satiric & anarchistic illustrations. One of the most important illustrated radical periodicals. Artists include but are not limited to: A. Roubille, Gustave-Henri Jossot, Konrad-Wagner, Valery Muller, Hermann-Paul, Leonetto Cappiello, Jules Cheret, Juan Gris, Jules-Alexandre Grun, Jossot, Frantisek Kupka, Paul Iribe, Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Orazi, Adrien Barrere, Poulbot, H. G. Ibels, Kees van Dongen, Armand Gallo, Ricardo Flores, and many others. Being a periodical that did not shy away from less attractive topics, they covered such topics as crime, economy, leisure and travel, politics, current events, international relations, religion, health and even the Press itself. Color and black and white illustrations copiously throughout. Vol. 1, 2, and 9: front board and spine are beginning to detach but are still sturdy. 10 1/4… Read More

Tres obras en un solo volumen:
CLAUDIANUS (Theod. Pulmani Craneburgii)"Diligentia, & fide summa, è vetustis codicibus restitutusAntverpiae, Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, 1571.
JUNTO CON: Ad. Cl. Claudiani V. C. Opera Martini Antonii Del Rio Notae.Antverpiae, Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, 1572.
JUNTO CON : AVIANI, Flavio. "Aesopicarum fabularum liber" (A Theod. Pulmanno Craneburgio ex membranis in lucem editus)Antverpiae, Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, 1572.
16º. I : 353, [7] pp. II : 80, [4] pp. III : 29, [3] pp. Cada parte con página de título y numeración independiente, todas con el sello del impresor (Plantin) que es el compás de oro manejado por la mano de Dios, y la leyenda "Constancia y labor". Encuadernación en piel de cerdo, con el sello de Caspar Odontius grabado a mano al frente, con fecha grabada 1580. Al reverso, detallado grabado del suicidio de Lucrecia. Era una mujer noble de la antigua Roma que fue violada y luego se suicidó apuñalándose, lo que, según la… Read More

London: Thomas Harper, 1633. Thick square octavo, pp (6), 702, (66), printed in black letter. The title page is mounted and heavily restored from a much earlier time; it is age-toned and there is much staining of the surface, possibly from the glue used to repair ? The first few pages are fragile at the leading edge and lacking a few small pieces; the remaining pages are age-toned and occasionally slightly marked or stained, certainly used but overall quite sound with no tears or loss. Later calf with simple gilt decorated line, with some cracking and wear, fairly recently re-backed with a new calf spine, blind-stamped. Front and rear hinges cracked, but no weakness. The front endpaper has a tiny neat inscription dated 1917, and also the heraldic bookplate of Lady Violet Beaumont. [Second edition of this charming guide to herbal remedies with the plants "set down in order of the Alphabet, so that thou mayest without any difficulties finde them by the titles of the pages" ("To the… Read More