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A Bibliography of American Children's Books. Printed Prior to 1821.
American Antiquarian Society and Barre Publishers, 1972. First edition. Hardback in green cloth, with gilt title to spine. Both book and contents in fine condition. lxvi, 495 pp. + index. 260 x 190 mm (10¼ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 3693More details Price: £30.00 -
A Catalogue raisonné of the Works of the most eminent dutch, flemish, and french painters. with a copious description of their principal pictures. a reference to the galleries and private collecions. to which is added, a brief notice of the scholars & imitators of the great masters of the above schools.
London: 1908. Limited edition (1250 copies) of Smith's seminal work by Sands & Co. 9 volumes (complete) in burgundy buckram with paper labels to spine. Ex library copy with the usual stamps and marks. Fading to the spines of each volume and some marking / nicking to the spine edges (particularly vol. 9). still useful reference guide for the history of the origins and developments of European painting and painters. It provides an extensive listing of the more celebrated Dutch, Flemish and French painters of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Attractive black and white plates with tissue protection. A heavy set (12kg packed) additional shipping will be required at cost, outside of Europe.
Book ID: 3427More details Price: £150.00 -
A Complete Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of John Ruskin LL-D. With a list of the most important Ruskiniana. Volumes I & II
London: Printed for subscribers only, 1893. Two volumes. Limited to 250 copies. Ex-library hardback in dark blue half morocco binding, with library logo embossed to front and back. The boards and spine are bumped and rubbed. Blue marbled endpapers have library label to front pastedown of each volume. Parts 1 - 18 included, part 19 was issued at a later date so is not present. Volume one has tissue guarded frontis portrait of Ruskin. Top edge gilt. Page edges darkened. Usual signature and stamp to front and sporadic small stamps throughout. Overall good. Volume I: xxvii, 329 pp. Volume II: xi, 263 pp. 260 x 210 mm (10¼ x 8¼ inches).
Book ID: 3554More details Price: £190.00 -
A Newly Discovered Treatise on Classic Letter Design printed at Parma by Damianus Moyllus circa 1480 reproduced in Facsimile with an Introduction by Stanley Morison
Paris: At the Sign of the Pegasus, 1927. First Edition. White spine with gilt titles. blue/grey boards with gilt design. Internally clean and tidy throughout. An very nice copy. This edition of the Alphabet of Damianus Moyllus of Parma, consisting of 350 copies, of which 300 are for sale, all on Arches paper, with text in Poliphilus and Blado types has been printed by the Officina Bodoni, Montagnola Switzerland 1927. Unpaginated. 190 by 130mm (7½ by 5 inches).
Book ID: 3432More details Price: £225.00 -
An Investigation Into the Language of Robinson Crusoe as compared with that of other 18th century works.
Almqvist and Wiksell, 1910. First edition. Hardback linen cloth boards with red morocco label to spine, stamped gilt title to this label. In very good condition both inside and out. XXXVII, 124 [1] pp. 250 x 170 mm (9¾ x 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 3530More details Price: £28.00 -
British Book Illustration Yesterday and Today
London: The Studio, Ltd, 1923. First Edition. Original beveled and blind stamped dark cloth hardback boards. Gilt stamped title and decoration to front and spine. Top page edges gilt. Boards only lightly rubbed. Neat gift inscription to half-title page. Pages a little age toned, and some foxing to first and last few, but overall in good condition. viii, 175 pp. 106 plates (16 of which are in colour). 295 x 205 mm (11½ x 8 inches).
Book ID: 2508More details Price: £30.00 -
Catalogue des Livres Rares et Precieux Manuscrits et Imprimes provenant de la Bibliotheque de Feu M. Benzon
Book ID: 2735More details Price: £110.00 -
Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum ( Natural History)
Book ID: 2265More details Price: £70.00 -
Catalogue of the Mycological Library of Howard A. Kelly.
Baltimore: Privately Printed, 1924. Hardback, with quarter cloth spine. Gilt titles to spine. Half title, Title. Slip asking for corrections. x, 260 pp. 285 x 220 mm (11¼ x 8¾ inches).
Condition: Externally the book is in very good condition. Clean and tidy, with just a little bumping. Internally clean and tidy throughout.
Book ID: 2626More details Price: £50.00 -
De Cabbalisticis Inventis Libri Duo avec une introduction et des notes de François Secret
Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1978. First Edition. Nice copy of this bibliography of Cabbalistic works. Part of the Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica series (vol. XXV). Green cloth with gilt titles. Clean and tidy inside and out with no significant marks. 79 pages. 250 x 165 mm (9¾ x 6½ inches). Federico Borromeo was an Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan.
Book ID: 3384More details Price: £30.00 -
Dutch Emblem Books: A Bibliography.
Utrecht: Haentjens Dekker & Gumbert, 1962. Catalogue of 261 emblems. In dark brown cloth. xii, 96 pp. 265 x 170 mm (10½ x 6¾ inches).
Condition: Cover has some bumps to bottom edge, and a handmade paper label to the spine. Inside the book has a little foxing to the title page, and some small ink marks / crosses next to certain listings. Otherwise in a good condition.
Book ID: 2630More details Price: £30.00 -
English Books & Readers 1475 to 1557 Being a study in the history of the book trade from Caxton to the incorporation of the Stationers' Company
Cambridge University Press, 1969. Second edition. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles. No dust wrapper. Very clean and tidy boards. Internally clean, but with library stamp (and withdrawal mark) to the title page. Evidence of removal of the slips from the inside board and front end paper. Otherwise in very good clean condition. A little staining to the closed page edge (bottom) of the book. xiv, 338 pages.
Book ID: 3282More details Price: £22.00 -
Handbuch der Original-Graphik - Register Band in deutschen Zeitschriften, Mappenwerken, Kunstbüchern und Katalogen (HDO)
Düsseldorf: Editions GS, 1994. First edition of this index / Register of the six volumes of this handbook. Limited to 600 (unnumbered) copies. Clean grey linen with black titles. No wrapper. Internally clean and tidy throughout. Glossy paper. 42pp with a handful of black and white illustrations to the final pages. 285 by 215mm (11¼ by 8½ inches).
Book ID: 3629More details Price: £125.00 -
Histoire de l'origine et des premiers progres de l'imprimerie
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1778More details Price: £650.00 -
John Crome the Elder. I Text and a critical catalogue II Illustrations.
Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1978. Two volumes of this Catalogue Raisonné of Crome's work. Both volumes First Edition. Cream cloth in dust wrappers. Both of the wrappers are in good, sound condition, with a little fading to the top edge only. Slight water staining to the bottom part of the spine. No chips or tears. Cream cloth is in good, clean condition. Internally clean and tidy throughout - nice copies. xxv, 1-321,. 166 pages. Vol I. includes 16 full page colour plates. Vol II gives 242 images of Crome's work, portrayed in sepia. 290 by 220mm (11½ by 8¾ inches).
Book ID: 3255More details Price: £50.00 -
Literary Blunders. A Chapter in the "History of Human Error"
London: Elliot Stock, 1893. Large paper edition. On of a small (but unspecified) number of copies on superior quality paper. Half leather. The spine has cracking to the edge of this, and across the back. Has been lightly repaired with archival glue. Green buckram boards. End papers are somewhat darkened, but the rest of the book is in good clean condition. xii, 226, [ii]. pages.
Book ID: 3348More details Price: £70.00 -
Manuscrits et Livres Imprimes Concernant L'Histoire des Pays-Bas 1475-1600.
Bruxelles: Bibliotheque Albert, 1962. Bibliography of 159 early books in the Bibliotheque Nationale D'Autriche, with photographic examples. Softback. Clean and tidy inside and out, with very slight darkening to the page edges. A very good copy. XIV, 112 pp + 66 black and white plates. 255 by 185mm (10 by 7¼ inches). Bibliographie de 159 livres anciens de la Bibliothèque Nationale d'Autriche, avec des exemples photographiques. Couverture souple. Propre et bien rangé à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur, avec un très léger assombrissement des bords de la page. Un très bon exemplaire. XIV, 112 pp + 66 planches en noir et blanc. 255 par 185 mm
Book ID: 3235More details Price: £18.00 -
Robinson Crusoe: A Bibliographical Checklist of English Language Editions (1719-1979)
New York, Westport, Connecticut, London: Greenwood Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardback in publisher's green cloth with gilt stamped title to spine and front board. No dust jacket, as issued. In very good condition. 240 x 165 mm (9½ x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 3518More details Price: £45.00 -
The House of Warne. One hundred years of publishing
London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1965. First edition. Cream decorated cloth with gilt titles. Plastic protective covering. The plastic has a couple of closed tears to it. The book is in Fine condition inside and out. X. 108. pages. 225 by 145mm (8¾ by 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2461More details Price: £15.00 -
The Ideal Book - Private Presses in the Netherlands 1910-2010
Nijmegen: Vantilt & Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 2010. Hardback exhibition catalogue. Emergence, history, decade by decade, practitioners, bibliophile series and clandestine publications, varieties of, and changes in, production; five essays, illustrated throughout, list of presses. First edition. Almost as new condition with virtually no handling. 252, (4) pp. 320 by 250mm (12½ by 9¾ inches).
Book ID: 3402More details Price: £45.00