Rare books from Rare Books Honolulu

New York, Tokyo: Horizon Press and A.D.A. Edita, 1982. Limited Edition. Loose Leaf in Solander Boxes. Very Good/3 Solander cases. Very Good. A Complete Set of the Magnificent Selected Drawings Portfolio by Frank Lloyd Wright. New York and Tokyo: Horizon Press and A.D.A. Edita, 1977, 1980, 1982. Highest quality color reproductions of 50 Wright drawings in each portfolio. Introduction by Mrs. Wright. 50 plates (525mm X 384mm) in box. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. outstanding full and complete set of 3 huge limited edition elephant folios each portfolio is boxed. Portfolio's w/shipping boxes and in . clam-shell cases. --- Shipping weight of all 3 volumes over 120 lbs. Ships from Hawaii and you still pay only $3.99. The real freight cost is part of the purchase price for shipping within the US, a $400-$800 value!. ---. First editions of all three volumes of this enormous work. Volume I is the Tokyo issue, one of 220 copies (numbered C. 065), volume II is the New York issue, one of 700 copies… Read More

Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, 1921. First edition. Number 50 of 70 copies on Japon paper, with three states of each illustration. Superbly bound by Myriam (Marie de Jouvencel) for Mabilde. G. A. Mossa. Anatole France. Les Sept Femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et Autres Contes Merveilleux. Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, 1921. First edition. Number 50 of 70 copies on Japon paper, with three states of each illustration, including one in black. Thick quarto (9.75 x 6.25 inches; 248 x 159 mm). Illustrations by G. A. Mossa. Superbly bound by Myriam (Marie de Jouvencel) for Mabilde in full red levant richly grained morocco with deeply impressed gilt strapwork, vine and flower pattern with concentric ruling and stippling on both covers, spine with four prominent bands, two towards the top and two towards the bottom leaving five panels, the central of which carries over the cover motif. Exquisite full gray morocco doublures with four concentric gilt rules and one stippled rule, blue silk free endpapers backed by… Read More

Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons, 1901. No 3 of a Limited edition of five copies: Edition Magnifique of Chefs-d'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain. Full morocco leather binding. near fine. Emond Rudaux (each plate in four states). The Devil's Pool. Philadelphia: Printed only for subscribers by George Barrie & Sons, [1901]. Limited edition of five copies of which this is number three, Edition Magnifique of Chefs-d'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain, Romanticists, bound for Adelia R. Carr. Octavo. 209 pages. Illustrated after Emond Rudaux, each plate in four states. Full chocolate levant morocco, triple ruled in gilt with stag's head crest and Latin motto in gilt to upper board, spine decorated in gilt with 5 raised spines. Front joint starting. Inlaid levant doublures in green and terra cotta, decorated in gilt and black. Cream silked free endpapers with gold design, binder's stamp to rear doublure. Internally generally clean and tight, all edges gilt; minor intermittent thumbsoiling, Housed in brown Japanese… Read More

London: George Allen, 1912. Full Leather Library Edition in 39 volumes. Full leather hardcover. very good/no dj's as issued. 39 volumes. Edited by E.T. Cook & Alexander Wedderburn. With numerous gravure plates from drawings, paintings, photographs and other sources, some in color; many illustrations in the text. 24x16 cm (8 x 5.5 inches), full decoratively embossed burgundy goatskin, spines lettered in gilt; tooled with a gilt peacock figure, gilt inner dentelles, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. One of 2062 sets, printed at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh. The full leather Library Edition was only a very small part of this edition. The sumptuous and sought-after Library Edition of Ruskin's works, presenting the full range of his literary, artistic, and philosophic genius, superbly printed on fine paper, in the desirable full morocco binding. Includes all of his known works with many letters and previously unpublished material up to that date and forms a tremendous record of the achievement of one… Read More

Paris: Société des Médecins Bibliophiles, 1941. Deluxe Edition, no 22 of a total edition limited to 150. unbound in wrappers, original chemise, without slipcase, custom morocco-backed folding case. very good. SCHMIED, Francois-Louis. Société des Médecins Bibliophiles, Paris, 1941. 4to (330 x 252 mm). 38 wood-engraved pochoir illustrations by Schmied, engraved by his son Theo. Publisher's illustrated wrappers, original chemise, without slipcase, intermittent foxing (almost entirely in the margins), custom morocco-backed folding case. DELUXE EDITION, number 22 (printed for 'Docteur Loup') of 100 copies (of a total edition of 150). Schmied's last work, engraved and printed by his son Theo after his death in January 1941. Carteret IV, 151. A refined and effective modern edition of the ancient myth. Ships from Hawaii well packaged and with Priority Mail within US. Buyer pays only $8.00. (Please inquire for international rates).

Paris: L. I. (Louis Icart), 1940. 1st edition limited to 147 copies. in original wrappers, marbled folder and slicpcase. very good. Louis ICART. LOUYS, Pierre - ICART, Louis: CHRYSIS. Tale of Pierre Louÿs illustrated with Fifteen etchings by Louis Icart. IN FRENCH. Publisher: L. I. - 1940, 2 sheets, 28 pages, 2 sheets. With 15 (5 full-page) colored etchings by Louis Icart. Nearly all with tissue guards. Text and plates loose, as issued. (Pages slightly browned and foxed.) Quarto (11.25 x 8.375 inches; (29 x 20.5 cm), .-. Printed in 147 copies; this one n° 97 of 125 on cream vellum copies, numbered from 23 to 147. Cover with undamaged, original pergamine cover (very slightly browned and foxed), inserted in original, undamaged marbled cardboard folder, in original marbled cardboard slipcase (edges rubbed). Paris, Monod 7397. -- Edition published under the direction of Charles Meunier, with the etchings of Louis Icart printed in intaglio by the master printer Manuel Robbe. - "Icart's etchings have… Read More

London: Folio Society, 2011. No 59 of an edition limited to 1000. Hardcover in slipcase. LIKE NEW/no dj as issued, slipcase with faint shelf wear. Birds of Paradise - Monograph of the Paradiseidæ or Birds of Paradise and Ptilonorhinchidæ, or Bower-Birds. -- Folio Society 2011. Edition limited to 1,000 copies (this is no. 59). Foreword by David Attenborough. Plate Volume with 79 color plates, dimensions: 21½" x 15" (550mm x 380mm). (Text volume was published separately,) Quarter-bound in goatskin leather. Canvas cloth sides blocked with a design by Neil Gower. Gilded top edge, Ribbon marker. Very solid cloth-bound slipcase, Blocked in gold. The original prospectus and some sales material are included. Condition: Book like new, slipcase with some faint shelf-wear. --- Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail or UPS upgrade within US !!! --- Please inquire for international rates. -- The Folio Society is proud to reproduce, for the first time, all 79 plates of Sharpe's Birds of Paradise in book… Read More

London: Printed for the author, 1778. 1st edition. Hardcover. very good/no dj as issued. Printed for the author, 1778. [20], 543, [1] pp. A beautiful copy with 2 copper-engraved maps, frontispiece portrait of Carver and 4 additional copper-engraved plates. 23.3x15 cm (9¼x6"), rebound in burgundy 19th century half-morocco and gilt-ruled, marbled paper-covered boards, spine tooled and lettered in gilt amidst raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. First Edition. Gilt fading on spine, light rubbing at extremities; title page trimmed slightly with small puncture near gutter, hints of foxing; minor stub tears to maps (not affecting images); ownership marks of Cha.M. Wallace on preliminary blank, dealer label on verso of front free endpaper; very good or better. --- Association copy with bookplate of noted bibliophile and collector of bookplates Clifford Nickels Carver. Scarce first edition of this important account of exploration into the interior of North America by an Englishman seeking a… Read More

Honolulu, HI: Bishop Museum Press, 1911. Custom Hardcover binding. very good/no dj as issued. Ka Hana Kapa: The Making of Bark-Cloth in Hawaii - Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History, III, 1911 -- iv, 273, iii. Illustrated with plates, chiefly black and white in main volume and supplemental portfolio of color plates bound in at rear. 29.5x23 cm (11½x9"), later half calf, rebacked with new spine, raised bands, lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. Original wrappers bound in. -- Very rare and important publication of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Here with the normally separate and very hard to find color plates bound in. -- Important study of this uniquely Hawaiian craft, complete with color plates, originally issued separately but here bound in, with binder's instruction leaf. The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawai'i State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district… Read More

Bologna: Bernia for Tebaldinus, 1645. 4th edition. Full leather binding. very good. Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605), Italian natural scientist and physician. From 1553 professor in Bologna, where he founded a Botanical Garden and a Museum. He started producing a very extensive summary of natural sciences, but published only four of the volumes himself. He employed writers and woodcutters and prepared almost 600 publications, fully knowing that most would be published after his death. The 'Opera omnia'. was published from 1599-1668 in 13 volumes. This is the 4th edition of one of the volumes, published in 1645. --- Bernia for Tebaldinus 1645. Folio, (14" x 10", 35,5 X 24cm) With engraved title and approx. 130 mainly full page woodcuts. 716 pages., 8 sheets.1 page with woodcut printer´s device. Later full leather binding with gilded spine in 6 compartments (small damage. and missing text). Ebert 388 note - Fourth Bolognese Edition, by Ambrosinus posthumously edited. In contrast to the copies of the… Read More

Asnieres, France: Etablissements Georges Bertrand, 1930. good - very good. Etablissements Georges Bertrand". Sample catalog with Art Deco designs for the cover papers and interior decoration for hat and other jewelry and gift boxes. With approx. 200 patterns in gouache, watercolor and colored paper, some in stencil color. Asnieres-sur-Seine, around 1930. Oblong folio. On 47 sheets of original cardboard sheets. tipped-in original illustrations. Magnificent, colorful Art Deco designs in round, oval and square for cover papers for candy, hat, chocolate and other boxes. - -- The patterns from the French company "Etablissements Georges Bertrand" in Asnieres near Paris (some with the signature stamp "GBertrand" in the edge), whose large, brightly colored structures capture the viewer's eye, show elegant women, dogs, exotic birds and fish, butterflies, lanterns, sailing boats, bucolic scenes, Asian, oriental and rococo motifs, park landscapes, hunting scenes, city views (Venice) as well as geometric… Read More

101 Strand, London: R. Ackermann, 1821. First Edition. Full-Leather Hardcover. near fine/no dj as issued. Aquatint engravings are unsigned.. A History of Madeira with a Series of Twenty-seven Coloured Engravings, Illustrative of the Costumes, Manners and Occupations of the Inhabitants of that Island,1821. v, 118, [2] pp. Illustrated with 27 full-page hand-colored aquatint plates, and hand-colored title vignette. 27.5x19 cm (11x7½"), full red morocco with double gilt rule to covers and turn-ins, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. First Edition. Illustrated record of the ways of life among the peasantry, elites, and religious figures in the Portuguese-controlled island of Madeira in the early 19th century. Aquatint engravings are unsigned. Each plate is accompanied by a text with information about the people and their occupation in the image. At the end of each text is a poem. - The text is lighthearted in admiration of the comparatively simplistic way of life… Read More

Cologne: TASCHEN, 2023. sold-out Edition limited to 1000. Hardcovers. NEW in publisher's packaging. designer: M/M (Paris). TASCHEN, 2023, (sold out at Taschen) -- NEW, unopened in publisher's packaging. -- Collector's Edition of 1,000 numbered copies Box with 2 volumes and an ephemera set including facsimile reproductions and original artwork booklets, 36.5 x 42.4 cm (14.4 x 16.6 in.), 19.9 kg (43.8 lb), 2198 pages -- In 1966 Stanley Kubrick told a friend that he wanted to make "the world's scariest movie." A decade later Stephen King's The Shining landed on the director's desk, and a visual masterpiece was born. This definitive compendium of the film that transformed the horror genre features hundreds of never-before-seen photographs, rare production ephemera from the Kubrick Archive, and extensive new interviews with the cast and crew. The World's Scariest Movie The making of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece of modern horror "The Shining may be the first movie that ever made its audience jump with… Read More

New York: Victor Gifford Audubon, 1854. First quarto edition. Leatherbound Hardcovers. J.J. and J.W. Audubon. New York, Victor Gifford Audubon, 1849, 1851, 1854, First Octavo Edition, Full leather binding Half-title pages present in vol 1 and 3, not in vol 2. Illustrated with 155 hand-colored lithographed plates with tissue guards present after J.J. and J.W. Audubon, drawn on stone by W.E. Hitchcock, lithographed & colored by J.T. Bowen; tissue guards. (Large 8vo) 10½x6¾" (26.5x17 cm), tight, full black leather binding, front with gilded squirrel on a tree on all three volumes, back cover with the same image cold-pressed without gilding. Gilt decorations on all sides incl. inner dentelles, spines lettered in gilt, white endpapers, all paper edges gilt. Most tissue guards with more or less foxing. Hardly any foxing on the pages and when, only in the margins. Paper very slightly browned and with the occasional finger smudges in the margins of the plate pages. Famed collaboration between Audubon and… Read More

Paris: Chez L'éditeur, Boulevard Montmartre No. 1, 1927. 1st. edition. Half morocco over marbled boards. very good/no dj as issued. Paris, Chez L'éditeur, Boulevard Montmartre No. 1.1927, First edition. Folio (13 1/8 x 9 1/2 inches; 33 x 24 cm.). Letterpress half-title, letterpress title. List of plates. .Complete with all seventy full page hand-colored plates engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine, each with a leaf of explanatory text opposite the plate. Contemporary 1/2 red morocco over marbled boards. Spine with gilded decorations, title and publication year. Marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to boards, lower corners bumped. Light scattered foxing mainly to margins to some plates. A very nice complete suite, in very pure colors, preserved in its elegant decorated binding of the… Read More