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DEREME, Tristan. L’ESCARGOT BLEU.
Paris: Editions Bernard Grasset, (1936). 8vo, 280pp. Green quarter morroco over marbled boards & endpapers, raised bands, title in gilt, orig. printed wrappers bound in, light wear to spine but a very good copy.
First Edition, one of 16 numbered copies on Velin pur Fil, this copy warmly inscribed by the author to his friend, the renowned publisher and bibliophile, Edouard Champion. With an additional letter and one postcard from the author to Champion and two newspaper articles about “L’Escargot Bleu” bound in.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 1564   details     inquire
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DEREME, Tristan. SONGES DU POETE.
Paris: Editions Emile-Paul Frères, (1931). 8vo, 27pp. Orig. green printed wrappers, a very nice unopened copy.
First Edition, with a long signed inscription to Edouard Champion, and additional initialled by the author on the limitation leaf. Dereme (pseud of Philippe Huc) experimented freely with modern literary forms. Talvart & Place 39.
Price: USD 30.00 other currencies   order no. 1566   details     inquire
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(Bewick, Thomas). SOMERVILLE,William. THE CHASE; A Poem.
London: William Bulmer, [for] T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. 8vo, preliminary title dated 1804, xxiii, 105pp, title-page vignette & 12 wood engravings. Half blue polished calf, cloth sides, marbled endpapers, teg. Very good.
First Edition, with illustration by John Bewick engraved on wood by his brother Thomas, and handsomely printed by Bulmer at the Shakespeare Printing Office. The Chase was intended as a follow-uo to Bulmer’s famous edition of Parnell and Goldsmith’s Poems. William Martin’s types “are charming transitional Roman fonts, both delicate and spirited, and so thoroughly English that Bewick’s engravings seem completely in harmony with them” (Updike). There were also 75 copies printed in quarto format.
Price: USD 300.00 other currencies   order no. 1574   details     inquire
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REED, R. D. and R. D. Reed & J. S. Hollister. GEOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA [with] STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Tulsa: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1958. 2 vols in 1, 8vo, xxiv, 355, frontispiece, 60 b/w illus., 27 tables; xix, 157pp, 57 figures, 15 plates, 6 tables,1 foldout map in rear pocket. Blue cloth, gilt lettered, very good.
Reprints of the authors’ scarce classics of geological literature first published in 1933 and 1936 respectively. Reed is considered one of the great geologists of the modern age.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 1621   details     inquire
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BYRON, John. [with] THICKNESSE, Philip. THE NARRATIVE OF THE HONOURABLE JOHN BYRON (Commodore in a Late Expedition Round the World) Containing An Account of the Great Distresses Suffered by Himself and His Companions on the Coast of Patagonia, From the Year 1740, Till Their Arrival in England, 1746. With a Description of St. Jago De Chili, and the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants. Also a Relation of the Loss of the WAGER Man of War, One of Admiral Anson’s Squadron.
London: Ptd. for S. Baker and G. Leigh, 1768. [Bound with] OBSERVATIONS ON THE CUSTOMS AND MANNERS OF THE FRENCH NATION…by Philip Thicknesse. London: Ptd. for Robert Davis, et al, 1766. 8vo, viii, 257, frontispiece, 115, (1) as adv. pp. Original 18th-century full calf backstrip over repapered boards, red and black morocco spine labels, gilt lettered, wear to joints, interior unusually bright and clean, overall very good.
Second edition, issued in the same year as the first. John Byron (1723-1786), a Vice-Admiral, was the grandfather of Lord Byron the poet. As a young midshipman, Byron was attached to the Wager, a storeship in Commodore Anson’s squadron. While rounding Cape Horn, the Wager shipwrecked on the southern coast of Chile, and the survivors endured dreadful, grueling hardships before making their way back to England. In Don Juan, Lord Byron wrote: “His sufferings were comparative/To those related in my grand-dad’s narrative.” Philip Thicknesse (1719-1792) was a lieutenant-governor of Landguard Fort, Suffolk, and was painter Thomas Gainsborough’s patron for over twenty years. A prolific writer, his books on Georgia colony, Jamaica, and continental Europe are considered quite interesting. Lowndes’ I, p.34. Heawood, History of Geographical Discovery in the 17th and 18th Centuries p. 202.
Price: USD 600.00 other currencies   order no. 1627   details     inquire
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(Bradley, Will). ALEXANDRE, Arsene; M.H. Spielmann, H.C. ... THE MODERN POSTER.
New York: Charles Scibner’s Sons, 1895. 8vo, (xvi), 117pp, plates throughout. Orig. cloth with decorated spine and peacock design on front, both by Will Bradley who also contributed the frontispiece. Very good.
First Edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies. Bambace A8.
Price: USD 275.00 other currencies   order no. 1681   details     inquire
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CUMMINGS, E.E. TOM.
New York: Arrow Editions, [n.d., 1935]. 8vo, 37pp, frontispiece. Brown cloth, silver lettered, minor dappling, otherwise fine.
First Edition, limited to 1500 copies, of Cummings’ ballet-libretto based upon “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Commissioned by the American Ballet Theater, the work was ultimately rejected by ABT Director George Balanchine who found the libretto too vebose. With color frontispiece by Ben Shahn. Firmage A15.
Price: USD 125.00 other currencies   order no. 1696   details     inquire
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WASHBURN, Frank. RIESENBAUTEN NORDAMERIKAS. 64 Bauten Eingeleiten und Erläutert von…
Zürich - Leipzig: Orell Füssli, 1930. Sm 8vo, 24pp, 69 b&w photoplates. Cloth backstrip over photo-illus. boards, library bookplate, light browning, otherwise very good.
First Edition, Schaubücher 15. A well-illustrated survey of early American skyscrapers in New York, Louisiana, San Francisco, St. Louis, Tulsa, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Miami, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Atlantic City, with full descriptions and commentary.
Price: USD 35.00 other currencies   order no. 1698   details     inquire
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HITTEL, John S[hertzer]. THE RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA. Comprinsing Agriculture, Mining, Geography, Climate, Commerce, Etc. Etc. and the Past and Future Development of the State.
San Francisco: A. Roman, 1863. 8vo, xvi, 464pp. Publisher’s original brown cloth, gilt lettered, bookplate, bookseller’s label, gilt dulled, otherwise a clean, very good copy.
First Edition. The author was historian of the Society of California pioneers. Cowan p.284.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 1715   details     inquire
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PREVOST, L’Abbé. MANON LESCAUT… With an Introduction by J. Lewis May. Illustrated by John Austen.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1928. 4to, ix, 142pp, with a color frontispiece and 11 full-page color plates and black-and-white drawings in the text. Original quarter velin, blue boards, light wear to spine, very good.
One of 500 numbered copies signed by the artist. One of Austen’s more elaborate and ambitious books, nicely printed and bound. P&M p. 23.
Price: USD 120.00 other currencies   order no. 1721   details     inquire
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(Spallanzani). PRANDI, Dino. BIBLIOGRPHIA DELLE OPERE DI LAZZARO SPALLANZANI...
Firenze: Sansoni Antiquariato, 1951. Tall 8vo, wrappers, board slipcase. Very good.
First Edition, 666 copies printed.
Price: USD 40.00 other currencies   order no. 1744   details     inquire
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[BARRETT, Robert and Katherine Le Moyne]. Gypsy Davy and ... THE HIMALAYAN LETTERS OF…Written on a Pilgrimage to the High Quiet Places Among the Simple People of an Old Folk Tale. With Maps. Decorations by the Ballad Singer.
Cambridge: W. Heffer, 1927. 8vo, xii, 280pp, 3 foldout maps within text, 1 map in rear pocket. Green cloth, white lettered, pictorial board, illus. endpapers, tight, clean, bright, unusually very good.
First Edition, Presentation Copy, with the author’s compliments slip laid in. Barrett, an American, includes an epistolary account of his journey from Leh to Srinagar in 1923-24. Yakushi D66.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 1749   details     inquire
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ANDERSON, Timothy, Eudorah Moore & Robert Winter (eds) CALIFORNIA DESIGN 1910.
Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, (1980). 4to, 143pp, profusely illustrated. Cloth with dust jacket.Very good.
Third revised edition, with a new foreword by the editors, published on the 15th anniversary of this landmark exhibition.
Price: USD 60.00 other currencies   order no. 1756   details     inquire
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[BRUNET, Pierre Nicolas]. ABREGE CHRONOLOGIQUE DES GRANDS FIEFS de la Couronne de France; Avec la Chronologie Des Princes et Seigneurs Qui les Ont Possédés Jusqu'à Leurs Réunions à la Couronne: Ouvrage Qui Peut Servir de Supplément à L'Abrégé Chronologique de l'Histoire de France, par M. le Président Hénault.
Paris: Chez Desaint & Saillant, Chez J. Th. Hérissant, 1759. 8vo, xxvi, (6), 536, (6)pp. Full catspaw calf, gilt lettering to maroon morocco spine label, raised bands, gilt compartments, French fillets, marbled edges, bookplate, some rubbing, crackling and wear to spine extremities, otherwise a nice, tight, very good copy.
First Edition, with page 536 incorrectly numbered 436, cancellandum and cancellans both present in gathering B, and inserted leaf in gathering C. Scarce. Barbier I, column 17. Brunet I, column 14.
Price: USD 175.00 other currencies   order no. 1791   details     inquire
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JEFFERS, Robinson. GIVE YOUR HEART TO THE HAWKS and other poems.
New York: Random House, 1933. 8vo, 199pp. Orig. brown linen, front board & spine lettered in gilt, very good.
First Edition, from the library of Robin Lampson and Margaret Fraser, signed and dated Berkeley, 1934. Of this book Jeffers wrote: “I think the title-poem grew largely from the landscape, of Sycamore Creek, Froseis Point (Pfeiffer’s Point on the maps), and the coast Southward, which impressed me much.” Alberts 75.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 1809   details     inquire
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(Beardsley). HOBBES, John Oliver. THE DREAM AND THE BUSINESS.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906. 8vo, 444, (4 as adv.)pp. Cream and blue pictorial cloth, red lettered spine, teg, some sunning to spine, some soiling, otherwise very good.
First Edition, with cover design in color by Aubrey Beardsley. Lasner 76c.
Price: USD 40.00 other currencies   order no. 1819   details     inquire
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COOK, Wm. Wesley. PRACTICAL LESSONS IN HYPNOTISM AND AUTOSUGGESTION…
New York: Willey Book Co., (1927). 8vo, 272pp. Orig. cloth, extremities worn, otherwise very good.
Third edition. Crabtree 1468 (first ed., 1900).
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 1836   details     inquire
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MASON, R[ufus] Osgood. HYPNOTISM AND SUGGESTION in Therapeutics, Education, and Reform.
New York: Henry Holt, 1901. 8vo, viii, 344pp. Orig. cloth, stamped in black & gilt, a very good copy.
First Edition. Crabtree 1492. Not in Caillet.
Price: USD 30.00 other currencies   order no. 1839   details     inquire
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WAITE, Arthur Edward. SONGS AND POEMS OF FAIRYLAND. An Anthology of English Fairy Poetry. Selected and Arranged, With an Introduction by…
Nottingham: C.J. Welton, [n.d., ca. 188?]. 8vo, 420pp. Burgundy cloth, gilt lettering and vignette,gilt ruled borders, lt wear to extremities, otherwise near fine.
Later Edition, with cancelled title, from the sheets of the London, Walter Scott, 1888 first edition. Waite had been invited to compile this collection for the Windsor Series of Poetical Anthologies by William Sharp, the editor of the series. Among the contributors are Poe, Richard Garnett, Thomas Lake Harris, Coleridge, Kinglsey, et al. This edition not in Gilbert. Scarce.
Price: USD 65.00 other currencies   order no. 1845   details     inquire
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MEADOWS, Don. BAJA CALIFORNIA 1533-1950. A Biblio-History...
Los Angeles: Reprinted courtesy of Glen Dawson, 1954. 12mo, (3), 32, (1 map)pp. Decorated cloth. Very good.
Inscribed by Meadows on the title. A re-issue of the 1951 edition made as a keepsake for a conference on Northwestern mexico at Occidental College.
Price: USD 40.00 other currencies   order no. 1904   details     inquire
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(DICKENS, Charles). PEARL-FISHING. Choice Stories from Dickens’ Household Words. First Series.
Auburn: Alden, Beardsley. Rochester: Wanzer, Beardsley, 1854. 8vo, 351, (1 as adv.)pp, engraved frontispiece. Publisher’s original cloth, gilt lettering and decoration, blindstamped decoration, wear to extremities, mild sunning, an occasional foxed spot, contemporary owner’s signature, otherwise a tight, nearly very good copy.
First Edition, first state. A collection of tales that originally appeared in Household Words, the London periodical edited by Dickens from 1850 to 1853, but which was not published collectively in England. Though the Publisher’s Notice suggests that Dickens wrote the stories, he, in fact, did not but his strong influence as editor is manifest in each. Podeschi D22.
Price: USD 125.00 other currencies   order no. 1960   details     inquire
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SURIUS, F. Laurentium. COMMENTARIUS BREVIS RERUM IN ORBE GESTARUM, Ab Anno Salutis M.D. Usque In Annum MDLXVIII Ex Optimus Quibusque Scriporibus Congestus, & nunc Recens Multis Locis Non Parum Auctus & Locupletatus.
Coloniae: Geruuinum Calenium & Johannis Quentel, 1568. Tall 12mo in 6s, 548, (28 as index)pp. Laterquarter calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered spine, some stains, neat repairs to leaves, contemporary marginalia, rubbing to extremities otherwise good.
Second Edition, originally issued in 1567. Adams 2098. This ed. not in OCLC.
Price: USD 600.00 other currencies   order no. 1974   details     inquire
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VERNIER, Charles. AU QUARTIER LATIN. 30 Lithographies.
Paris: Charivari, [ca, 1850]. 4to, lithographic title and 28 lithographic plates. Original red cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, upper joint repaired, occasional light foxing but quite a good copy.
Only Edition. A collection of caricatures on the people and customs of the Latin Quarter by the famous lithographer and caricaturist Vernier (1831-87) whose work for Charivari is especially well known.
Price: USD 875.00 other currencies   order no. 2002   details     inquire
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WHITMAN, Walt. DEMOCRATIC VISTAS. Washington D.C.
(New York: J.S. Redfield), 1871. 8vo, 84pp. Orig. pale green coated wrappers. Small dampstain affecting bottom of last signature and back wrappers, very light edge wear, otherwise a remarkably good copy, partially unopened.
First Edition, one of about 500 copies printed. “No book of Whitman’s is more honest than this one, and only Leaves of Grass is more important” (Mark Van Doren in The Portable Whitman). BAL 21402
Price: USD 4,000.00 other currencies   order no. 2014   details     inquire
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ROSENBAUM, Jeanette W. MYER MYERS, GOLDSMITH 1723-1795.
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1954. Tall 8vo, 141pp, frontispiece, 30 plates. Quarter black cloth over patterned boards, pale green lettering and device, illus. endpapers, fine.
First Edition. Definitive monograph on the great 18th century American goldsmith, his life and his work.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 2015   details     inquire
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TERRY, Henry. AMERICAN CLOCK MAKING. Its Early History.
Waterbury: [By the Author], 1870, (1885). 8vo, 19pp, frontispiece. Printed wrappers, staple-bound, rear wrapper starting, some age-toning to wrappers, owner’s sig., otherwise very good.
Revised edition of 1885, with new appendix.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 2018   details     inquire
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GREEN, Thomas. MEMOIRS OF HER LATE ROYAL HIGHNESS CHARLOTTE-AUGUSTA of Wales, and of Saxe-Cobourg; Containing an Account of Her Juvenile Years - Education - Marriage With Prince Leopold - Accouchement - Death - and Funeral. To Which is Prefixed, A Concise History of the House of Brunswick Brought Down to Present Time; Shewing the Actual State of the Succession to the Throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
Liverpool: Caxton Press Printed by Henry Fisher, [n.d., 1818]. 8vo, viii, 576pp, engraved frontis and t-p, 9 engraved plates, woodcut text illus Contemporary full mottled calf, gilt lettering, dec. and ornaments, gilt dec. ruled borders, some loss at spine head, occasional light foxing and embrowning (especially at plate margins), a good, attractive copy.
One of two Caxton Press editions issued in the same year; ascendance unknown. Biography of the only legitimate child of George IV, born 1796 while her father was Prince of Wales.
Price: USD 85.00 other currencies   order no. 2019   details     inquire
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MILLER, Henry. JOURNEY TO AN ANTIQUE LAND.
Big Sur: Big Ben Press, [n.d., 1970]. 16mo, (32)pp, 31 drqawings. White staple-bound wrappers, red lettered, some foxing to wrappers, occasionally within, otherwise near fine
First Edition, limited to 2000 copies with line illustrations by Bob Nash. Miller’s musings, compelled by a visit to Greco-Roman ruins near St.-Remy, on the delicate drawings of Nash. Shifreen & Jackson A133a.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 2027   details     inquire
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BOTTA, Paolo Emilio. OBSERVATIONS ON THE INHABITANTS OF CALIFORNIA 1827-1828. Translated by John Francis Bricca.
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1952. 8vo, (4), 20, (1 as colophon)pp. Quarter gray cloth over gray boards, gilt lettered spine, illus. endpapers, very fine.
First Edition, limited to 140 copies printed by Los Angeles printer Will Cheney. With portrait of James Kirker, printed by Muir Dawson for subscribers of Dawson’s Early California Travels Series, laid-in. Scarce.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 2045   details     inquire
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LOTI. Pierre. MADAME CHRYSANTHEME.
Paris: Collection Marpon, (1921). 8vo, iii, 338pp, frontispiece, 29 woodcuts as plates, head and tailpieces. Contemporary 3/4 tan crushed morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering, raised bands, custom marbled endpapers, original wrappers preserved, fine.
Limited Edition of 1200 numbered copies, this one of 1100 on Vergé d’Arches, with woodcuts by the noted caricaturist Auguste Jean-Baptiste Roubille. Loti’s classic of a Frenchman in Japan and his affair with a Japnese woman.
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(Movies). SHANNON, Robert T. THE SAGA OF TOM HORN. Original Story and Treatment. Based on the Published Autobiography “The Life of Tom Horn.”
N.p.[Los Angeles]: Private Copy, [n.d., ca. 194?]. 4to, 172pp. Leatherette cloth, gilt lettered, some rubbing to joints and edges, soiling, owner’s labels, otherwise internally clean, very good.
Personal Copy of Louis B. Mayer, MGM’s founder and president, of a treament for a movie apparently not produced by MGM but later filmed by Warner Bros. in 1979 from a screenplay by novelist Thomas McGuane. With Mayer’s name gilt-stamped to cover.
Price: USD 300.00 other currencies   order no. 2053   details     inquire
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D’ANNUNZIO, Gabriel. LA LEDA SANS CYGNE. Récit de la Lande Suivi d’un Envoi a la France. Traduit de L’Italien par André Doderet.
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1924. 8vo, 289pp. Contemporary red roan over marbled boards,gilt lettering, raised bands, gilt orn. compartments, teg, minor wear otherwise fine.
Attractively bound edition, one of 1650 numbered copies on vélin du marais.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 2072   details     inquire
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COBDEN-SANDERSON, Thomas James. THE IDEAL BOOK OR BOOK BEAUTIFUL. A Tract on Calligraphy, Printing & Illustration & on the Book Beautiful as a Whole.
Berkeley: The Arif Press, 1981. 12mo, 29 (4)pp, with colored wood-block prints throughout.Printed boards. Fine.
150 copies designed and printed by Wesley Tanner. Cobden- Sanderson first published this essay at his Doves Press in 1900.
Price: USD 30.00 other currencies   order no. 2079   details     inquire
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ROLIN, Jean. POLICE DRUGS, Translated with a Foreword by Laurence J. Bendit. With an Appendix on Narcoanalysis by Edward V. Saher.
London: Hollis & Carter, (1955). 8vo, x, 194pp. Cloth, bookplate, very good.
First Edition in English of Drogues de Police, a ground-breaking treatise on the questionable ethics involved in using pentothal, methyl-amphetamine, and scopolamine, and the procedure of narcoanalysis, to obtain confessions. Phantastica 245.
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 2080   details     inquire
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OPIE, Mrs [Amelia Alderson]. SIMPLE TALES.
George Town: Joseph Milligan, 1810. 2vols, 328, 305pp. Contemporary full tree calf, gilt lettering to red morocco spine labels, some rubbing, toned throughout, otherwise a very good set.
Second American Edition. Shaw & Shoemaker 20959.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 2083   details     inquire
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BORUP, George. A TENDERFOOT WITH PEARY.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1911. 8vo, xvi, 317pp, frontispiece, 45 b&w photo-illus. Pictorial cloth, light wear to extremities, otherwise a bright, very good copy.
Second Edition of March, 1911, lackinig the map at rear.
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 2084   details     inquire
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NAPIER, Sir Charles James. A LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR J. HOBHOUSE, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL ON THE BAGGAGE OF THE INDIAN ARMY.
London: Edward Moxon, 1849. 8vo, 65pp. Modern wrappers, bookplate, glue repair to t-p with offset, otherwise very good.
Second edition. Napier’s plan to reorganize the transport of army baggage in India into a distinct baggage corps went through four editions in 1849. All have become scarce.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 2152   details     inquire
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AZEGLIO, Massimo d’. NICCOLO DE’LAPI Ovvero I Palleschi e I Piagnoni.
Firenze: Felice Le Monnier, 1850. 8vo, 594pp. Quarter green roan over patterned boards, gilt lettered, raised bands, gilt dec. compartments, some rubbing, bookplate, otherwise a tight, very good copy.
Fourth edition of the celebrated Italian historical novelist and statesman’s second novel, originally published in 1841. Rare in all editions.
Price: USD 35.00 other currencies   order no. 2181   details     inquire
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[SWAN, Charles]. GESTA ROMANORUM Or, Entertaining Stories Invented by the Monks as a Fire-Side Recreation; and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses From the Pulpit. New Edition, With an Introduction by THomas Wright.
London: John Camden Hotten, [n.d., 1871]. 2 vols, cxlviii, 388, (8), 545pp. Quarter cream paper over blue pasteboards, paper spine label, raised bands, untrimmed, spine shelf darkened with wear at head and tail, some cornerwear, upper boards detached, otherwise internally clean, near very good.
Reissue by Hotten from the sheets of the 1824 Swan modernization of the popular medieval English text.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 2200   details     inquire
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CONNELLEY, William Elsey. DONIPHAN’S EXPEDITION and the Conquest of New Mexico and California. War With Mexico, 1846-1847. Portraits, Maps, and Illustrations. Includes a Reprint of the Work of Col. John T. Hughes.
Kansas City: Bryant & Douglas, 1907. 8vo, xiv, 670, frontispiece, 27 illus., 8 maps, 29 portraits.Gray clooth, gilt and black lettered, laid-on b&w illus., mild wear, some sunning to spine, otherwise a very good copy.
First Edition. Howes C-688. Dobie p.76.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 2207   details     inquire
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(Kokoschka). OSKAR KOKOSCHKA. 6. Juni - 3. Juli 1927.
Zürich: Kunsthaus Zürich, 1927. 8vo, 35pp. Pprinted wrappers, stain to front wrapper, otherwise very good.
Auction catalogue of 260 works by Kokoschka.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 2236   details     inquire
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(Enschedé). SCHLEIERMACHER, Friedrich. IDEE ZU EINEM KATACHISMUS DER VERNUNFT FUR EDLE FRAUEN.
(Heidelberg: Richard Weissbach), [n.d., ca. 1930s]. Oblong 12mo, (11 x 17cm), (12)ff. Boards, paperlabel, label mildly browned boards mildly soiled, otherwise near fine.
Fourth edition (first published in 1900) of Schleiermacher’s Idea Towards a Catechism of Good Sense for Noblewomen, a collection of ten aphorisms on love and emotion. Finely printed by Joh. Enschedé of Haarlem.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 2253   details     inquire
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(Surrealism - Abstraction). SURREALISME + ABSTRACTION. Choix De La Collection de Peggy Guggenheim.
Bruxelles: Palais Der Beaux Arts, [n.d., ca. 1960]. 4to, unpaginated, 46 b&w plates. Printed wrappers, mild soiling otherwise very good.
First Edition, Stedelijk Museum catalogue 77. Text in French and Dutch.
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(Masereel). PHILIPPE, Charles-Louis. DER ALTE PERDRIX.
München: Kurt Wolff, 1923. 8vo, 271, (1)pp, frontispiece, 1 full page, 10 headpiece wood engravingsby Frans Masereel. Illus. cloth, black lettered, some spotting to cloth, a few spots of foxing to frontis and t-p margins, owner’s sig., otherwise very good.
First Edition in German of Philippe’s Le Pere Perdrix (Father Partridge or The Old Bird) with woodcuts by Frans Masereel. Gabelentz C45. Ritter C a28.
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MARIVAUX, [Pierre Carlet de Chamblain] de OEUVRES DIVERSES …
Paris: Duchesne, 1765. 4 vols, 12mo. Contemporary full mottled calf, gilt lettering to morocco spine labels, raised bands, gilt dec. compartments, gilt tooled edges, bookplates, very good.
First Edition. Marivaux (1688-1763), whose works were characterized by charm and light romantic fancy “made Marivaux extremely popular for a time, but he outlived the period of his vogue…The term Marivaudage, coined from his name, is used to signify the analysis of the delicate sentiments of the heart and the subtle, affected style used by Marivaux to this end” (OCFL). Contains La vie de l’Auteur, Le Dom Quichote moderne, L’Iliade en vers burlesques, L’Éducation d’un prince, La voiture embourbée, and quelques autres pièces posthumes de l’auteur. Scarce; only three copies in OCLC.
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VIRGIL. LES GEORGIQUES DE VIRGILE, Traduction Nouvelle en Vers François. avec des Notes; par M. Delille.
Paris: Claude Bleuet, 1780. 8vo, 348pp, frontispiece, head and tail pieces. 19th century full brownmorocco, gilt lettered, gilt lettered, gilt dec. compartments, gilt ruled borders, gilt corner devices, dentelles, aeg, some rubbing, otherwise near fine.
Nouvelle Edition, revue & corrigée of “cette excellente traduction” (Brunet) by Delille. With text in Latin to versos. Cf. Graesse VII, 359; Brunet V, 1303.
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SCOTT, G. Laughton. THE MORPHINE HABIT AND ITS PAINLESS TREATMENT.
London: H.K. Lewis, 1937. 8vo, vii, 105pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettered, blindstamped ruled borders, dust jacket, fine in very good dj.
Second edition, first issued in 1930. The author, a physician at the London Neurological Clinic who had become addicted to morphine, describes a cure based on his own experiences.
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(Ariosto). OPERE VARIE DE LODOVICO ARIOSTO.
Parigi (Paris): Presso Michele Lambert, 1776. 3 vols, 12mo, xvi, 358, 449, 321, (5)pp. Contemporaryfull French crimson morocco, gilt lettered, gilt dec. and orn. compartments, French fillets, gilt rolled edges, dentelles, aeg, light wear to corners and one headcap, otherwise fine. Signature of an Elisabeth Manningham, 1803, at top of title.
Handsomely bound set containing Cinque Canti, Le Commedi, Le Rime, Le Satire, I Versi Latini. In Italian and Latin. No copies in OCLC. Graesse I, p.203.
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[ABELARD, Peter]. LETTRES ET EPITRES AMOUREUSES D’HELOISE ET D’ABEILARD.
Genève: [Cazin], 1777. 2 vols, 18mo, xxiv, 178, frontispiece, head- tailpieces, viii, 194pp, frontispiece, head- tailpieces. Contemporary full French crimson morocco, gilt lettering to green morocco spine labels, gilt dec. spine, French fillets, dentelles, aeg, bookplates, lt cornerwear, otherwise near fine.
Nouvelle Edition, one of the many attractive 18mo productions printed and published by Cazin. Freely translated from the original Latin by Le Comte de Bussy Rabutin, M. Colardeau, etc. With a life of Abelard and Heloise, and engraved portraits by Boilly. Not in Brunet, Querard, or Graesse. Only five copies in OCLC. Un Cazinophile [Brissard-Binet], Cazin Sa Vie et Ses Editions, p.64. Scarce.
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WOODWARD, George E. WOODWARD’S ARCHITECTURE AND RURAL ART. No. 1. 1867.
New York: Woodward, 1867. Sm. 8vo, 144pp, 58 wood-engraved illus of landscapes and houses. Green cloth, gilt spine. One leaf torn without loss, light wear to spine ends, a little dusty, otherwise very good.
Second edition, distinguished by 24 additional pages and without Francis W. Woodward’s name as joint author on the title. Intended as an annual, only two issues were published. Hitchock 1421.
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O’HARA, John. AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Random House, (1968). 8vo, ix, 336pp. Green buckram, gilt lettered, publisher’s slipcase,spine lightly sunned with sm stain to foot, otherwise near fine in fine slipcase.
Limited Edition of 300 copies, Signed and numbered by the author. Scarce.
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KENT, Rockwell. GREENLAND JOURNAL.
New York: Ivan Obolensky, (1962). 8vo, (x), 306pp, illustrated. White buckram, with separate portfolio of 6 loose plates, both in slpcase. Fine in very good slipcase.
One of 1000 copies, with the lithograph “Peace on Earth” signed by Kent.
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HUNT, Leigh. A DAY BY THE FIRE; And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected.
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1870. 8vo, [5]-368pp. 19th century half calf, marbled boards, light wear, a good, clean copy.
First British Edition (preceded by the Boston edition of the same year), with the bookplate of Hunt bibliographer Luther Brewer (see My Leigh Hunt Library p.292). Brewer has annotated in pencil the pieces for which he owns the manuscripts. The papers were first published in The Reflector, The Examiner, The London Journal and other periodicals with which Hunt was involved; they treat genii and fairies, satyrs, nymphs, mermaids, giants, aeronautics, the bull fight, etc.
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TARDOS, Tibor. A U.S. WRITLING BOY-CHRONICLE OF AMERICA SOP.
Paris: Réclame, 1949. 8vo, unpaginated. Printed wrappers, very good.
First Edition, limited to 900 copies, the text in French. Extremely scarce: no copies in KVK; only one copy in OCLC at NYPL, one in Bibliothéque National.
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(BETJEMAN, John). AN EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF SIR JOHN BETJEMAN From the Collection of Ray Carter in the Art Gallery of St Paul’s School February - March 1983.
London: Warren Editions, 1983. Narrow 8vo, (26)pp, misc. illus. Blue printed wrappers, fine.
Catalogue of the exhibition of poet Betjeman’s books, noted for their topography, design and visual verve. One of 300 copies on Mohawk paper. Introduction by Philip Larkin.
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BYTHERIVER, Marylee. THE GRID.
(Oakland): Lunation Press, 1990. Sm sq 8vo, 21pp. Spiral-bound wrappers, fine.
Limited to 30 copies, this is copy No. 15, signed and numbered by the artist. One of the Rounce & Coffin Club’s Western Books of 1991.
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COLBY, F.T. LITTON CHENEY 1877. With a Latin Translationi by E.D. Stone and an Introduction by Reynolds Stone.
(London): Warren Editions, 1976. 12mo. Wrappers, printed title label, fine.
Limited to 500 copies.
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BOEHN, Max von. MINIATUREN UND SILHOUETTEN UND SILHOUETTEN. Ein Kapitel aus Kulturgeschichte und Kunst.
Munich: F. Bruckmann, (1919). 8vo, 207, (1)pp, frontispiece, 158 b&w illus., 34 color plates. Half vellum over marbled boards, t.e.g., slightly soiled, spine label chipped, gift inscript., a very good copy.
A technical analysis & cultural-historical study of the English, French & German schools of miniatures from the 16th-19th centuries.
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(Bellows, George Wesley). ATKINSON, Scott D. & Charlene S... AN AMERICAN PULSE. The Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows.
San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art. 1999. Sm 4to, x, 86pp, 60 b/w plates. Photo illus. wrappers, a few tiny rubbed spots, otherwise fine.
First Edition. Published in conjunction with the George Wesley Bellows exhibition held at the San Diego Museum of Art in 1999. Includes essays, chronology, bibliography, annotated check list & index.
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BEAUMONT, John. GLEANINGS OF ANTIQUITIES. Containing, I. An Essay for Explaining the Creation and the Deluge, According to the Sense of the Gentiles. In a Letter to a Learned Person. II. A Discourse of Oracles, Giving and Account of the Sibylline Oracles; with an Uncommon Explication of Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue, and Some Other Parts of his Works Relating to Them. To Which is Added, An Account of the Oracles Delivered at Delphos, and in the Other Temples of the Gentiles; and of the Rise and Cessation of Oracles, Both Among the Jews and Gentiles. III. Some Notes Concerning Familiar Spirits.
London: W. Taylor, 1724. 8vo, vii, (1), 206pp, 1 woodcut in text, initials, head- and tail-pieces by F. Hoffman. Disbound, first few leaves frayed at corners, clean copy with some scattered browning of the first 12 leaves.
First Edition. Apparently intended by Beaumont as a continuation of his Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcraft, and other Magical Practices of 1705. Cf. Lowndes, vol I, p.138.
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(MACDIARMID, Hugh). GLEN, Duncan. A SMALL PRESS AND HUGH MACDIARMID. With a Checklist of Akros Publications 1962-70.
Preston: Akros, 1970. 4to, 28pp. Blank wrappers, printed dustjacket, fine in like dj.
First Edition, limited to 335 copies.
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(Armenian Miniature painting). [Title in Armenian and Russian] HIN HAYGAGAN MANRANGARTSUTIUN. Old Armenian Manuscript Miniatures.
Yerevan: Armenian S.S.R. Government Publisher, 1952. Folio (19x15 in.), unpaginated, ca. 50pp, 60 full-color plates. Quarter cloth over tan pictorial boards lettered in brown and orange, mild soiling, light wear, inner margin damp stains throughout encroaching on some images, otherwise good.
First Edition. Art-historical text including detailed descriptions of 60 manuscript illustrations from the 10th through 17th centuries. The fine color plates boldly shimmer with blue, red and gold. Text in Russian and Armenian. Quite scarce.
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THURN, Hans Peter. DER KUNSTHANDER. Wandlungen eines Berufes.
Munich: Hirmer, (1994). 8vo, 296pp, 93 b/w illus. Green cloth, lettered in gilt, very fine in like dj.
First Edition. This scholarly work traces the history and changing roles of the art dealer from classical times through the 20th century.
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RUSSELL, Bertrand. OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD As a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy.
Chicago: Open Court, 1914. 8vo, ix, 245pp. Blue cloth, light wear.
First American Edition of Russell’s Lowell Lectures for 1914,
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FLOR CASANOVA, Noe de la. MADRE REVOLUCION. Insurgencias Liricas de…
Mexico: (Talleres Gráficos de la Escuela Industrial…), 1936. 8vo, 19, (4)pp. Illus. wrappers, very good.
Edicíon Popular of songs of the Mexican Revolution warmly Inscribed by the Author “A Rubén Alfaro, mi nuevo, querido y noble amigo. Cordialmente, 1947.” Flor Casanova was an acclaimed poet and revolutionary writer from the Mexican state of Tabasco whose other works include Díaz Mirón y Otros Poemas, Prólogo de Francisco J. Santamaría, Desde el Trampolín de Venus (poemas), and Rebeldías Tabasqueñas - Prosas de Combate. The edition under notice was preceded by another earlier in the same year; both quite rare, with only five copies in OCLC.
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(Mexican History - Oaxaca). RELACIONES DE SANTA CRUZ Y DE TETIQUIPA OAXACA.
Mexico: Biblioteca de Historiadores Mexicanos, 1955. 8vo, 34pp. Red boards, mild wear, spine sunned, otherwise tight, very good.
Limited Edition of 75 copies, this being copy 38.
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MENDOZA, Moises, Jorge Coca Perez y J. Jesus Quesada. LA TRANSFORMACION DE LOS FERROCARRILES NATIONALES DE MEXICO. Por los Periodistas…
Mexoco, D.F.: n.p. (1946). 8vo, 128pp. many b&w photo-illus. Photo-illus. wrappers, very good.
First Edition. The story of the Mexican National railway service 1906-1946.
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GILLESPIE, Gregory. GREGORY GILLISPIE. Recent Paintings. The Real and the Imagined. March 1-29, 1986.
New York: Forum Gallery, (1986). 8vo, 12pp, 8 color plates. Photo illus. wrappers, very mild soiling, otherwise near-fine.
First Edition. This catalogue accompanied the 1986 exhibition in New York at the Forum Gallery and includes two works on the wrappers making a total of ten.
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(VAN VECHTEN, Carl). CUNNINGHAM, Scott. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITIGS OF CARL VAN VECHTEN. With an Overture in the Form of a Funeral March by Carl Van Vecten.
Philadelphia: Centaur Book Shop, 1924. 8vo, 52, (1 colophon), (13 blank)pp, frontispiece portrait. Green paper boards, printed title labels, some rubbing to edges, labels, sunning to spine, otherwise tight, very good.
Limited Edition of 300 numbered copies, this being copy 190. With frontispiece portrait by Miguel Covarrubias.
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OPPENHEIMER, Joel. NOTES TOWARD THE DEFINITION OF DAVID. Illustrated by Pati Scobey.
(Minor Confluence, WI): Perishable Press, 1984. Tall 8vo, unpaginated, frontispiece. Plain shadwell“onionskin” wrappers, sm vignette, fine.
Limited Edition of 210 copies, this copy signed by the author.
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KIPLING, Rudyard. LE SECOND LIVRE DE LA JUNGLE. Avec Douze Gravures Imprimées en Colours de M[aurice]. De Beque.
Paris: Editions Kra, 1930. 8vo, 267, (3), (1 colophon)pp, frontispiece, 11 colored engravings. Printed wrappers, glassine, unopened, near fine in very good glassine.
Limited Edition of 3300, this being copy 1149. Not in Monod. Scarce.
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(Schreber, Daniel Paul). KATAN, Maurits. (2 offprints) Schreber’s Delusions of the End of the World, from the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, XVIII, 1, Jan. 1949; and Schreber’s Hallucinations about the “Little Men,” from the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, XXXI, parts 1 & 2, 1950.
1949.
Between bouts of insanity, when he was confined to the Leipzig Clinic, Schreber was a highly respected lawyer and a presiding judge in Saxony’s highest court. His case was extensively analyzed by Freud, who, though he never met Schreber, printed a study of him in 1911. Schreber was a text-book example for Freud, since Schreber’s paranoid delusions linked almost seamlessly to Freud’s theories regarding the influence of father on son, even though, amazingly, Freud did not know of Schreber’s father’s use of painful and cruel machines for postural correction of his children, including Daniel Paul.
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FORLONG, Major-General J.G.R. SHORT STUDIES IN THE SCIENCE OF COMPARATIVE RELIGIONS Embracing All The Religions of Asia.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1897. Large 8vo, xxviii, 662, (1 errata)pp, 12 b&w text illus., 3 foldoutmaps. Publisher’s original green cloth, gilt lettered, foxing to top and fore edge, hinges hint at starting, neat owner’s sig., otherwise a bright, very good copy.
First Edition of Furlong’s acclaimed volume, an important companion to his 1881 magnum opus, Rivers of Life. Scarce in the marketplace.
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(Prayerbook). QUINZAINE DE PAQUES. En Latin et en Francois, a l’Usage du Diocese de Reims... Contenant les Prieres du matin & du soir, les Prieres pendant la Messe, de Practiques pour la confession & la Communion, avec l’Office propre pour la Metropole & les Eglises Paroissiales.
Reims: Chez Jeunehomme, 1776. 12mo, xxviii, 3-731, (3 index), (2 errata)pp, 4 leaves from another liturgical text tipped in following p730. Full crimson morocco gilt, French fillets, with fleurons and dentelles, gilt-tooled spine, a.e.g., mild wear to corners, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, some mild embrowning, a very good copy in a handsome binding.
Late 18th century Catholic prayerbook for the fortnight of Easter. Produced for the diocese of Reims, this full-service text contains the morning and evening prayers, Mass, confession and communion, both for the metropolitan as well as the parish churches. Four leaves from another liturgy have been inserted following page 730, including the prayer “Pour la Reine” later specified as “Marie.” The French and Latin texts have been printed in parallel columns.
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(Belgian Art). L’ART EN BELGIQUE I. XXme Siecle de James Ensor a Constant Permeke.
[Brussels]: Cultura, [n.d., ca. 1960]. 4to, (12)pp, 50 full-page color plates. Faux carmine moroccoover genuine morocco spine, blind-stamped and lettered in gilt, faux morocco slip case, original wrappers bound-in, fine in like slipcase.
First Edition. The paintings of James Ensor, Constant Permeke, and 12 other artists including Louis Thevenet, Rik Wouters, and Jean Brusselmans are presented in fine color reproductions. A time line and brief biographical vignettes are included.
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Bernardin de SAINTE-PIERRE, J.H. PAUL & VIRGINIE. Avec Notices et Notes par Anatole France.
Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1877. 8vo, 328, (4)pp, 2 engraved portrait frontispieces, extra-engraved titlepage, 11 engraved plates by E. Hédouin, and G. Cobould after designs by H. Cobould. Contemporary full crushed Levant emerald morocco, gilt lettered spine, blindstamped compartment borders, wide dentelles, gilt tooled edges, teg, custom marbled endpapers, original printed vellum wrappers preserved, bookplate, sm rubbed spot at spine foot, shelf-darkening to spine and perimeters, an occasional bit of foxing, otherwise near fine.
First Edition with preface and notes by Anatole France of the 1787 classic. Attractively printed on handmade paper by A. Quantin of Maison J. Claye, and handsomely bound by Louis Pouillet.
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(Wiser, Henry Xavier de). LE TRIOMPHE DE L’INIQUITE TOURNE EN TRIOMPHE DE LA VERITE PAR LA GRAC DE DIEU ET LA JUSTICE IMPERIALE.
[N.p.: n.p.,] 1718. 12mo, 228pp. Contemp. full mottled calf, gilt dec. compartments, marbled edges,spine heavily rubbed, library tape replacing spine label, foxing/toning throughout, owner’s stamps, otherwise a tight, good copy.
First Edition. The persecution, imprisonment in le Chateau de Montjoie, and ultimate exoneration of Baron Henry Xavier de Wiser. Not in OCLC, Barbier or any of the standard references; only 2 copies located in KVK.