[CRICKET]. The Real Thing. By Tom Stoppard. A Broadside Monologue. Folio sheet, 297 x 210 mm matted. London: s.n, n.d.
Limited Edition of 500 copies, SIGNED by Tom Stoppard. This excerpt from Stoppard's play, The Real Thing, is a monologue by Henry on the importance of cricket bats. Immaculate...
Item nr. 47648
Price: $150.00
AUTOMOBILES. Chevrolet for 54. America's first choice car. [Dealer's showroom sample catalogue]. Two parts in one volume. 101, [1] pp. many of them large double-page fold-outs, some with mylar overlays. Over 200 colour illustrations, colour plates (some folding), text illustrations, diagrams, several mylar overlays, 1 paper-engineered illustration with shifter for.....
Item nr. 155565
Price: $1,500.00
PRUDHOMME, Louis. Dictionnaire des Individus envoyés à la mort judiciairement, révolutionnairement et contre-révolutionnairement pendant la Révolution, particulièrement sous le règne de la Convention Nationale... avec des gravures et des tableaux. Two volumes. lxxxviii, 496; [4], 516 pp. Illustrated with 2 folding plates and 5 folding tables. 8vo., bound in publisher's.....
Item nr. 148563
Price: $1,750.00
TURLOT, A. Spécimen Genéral de la fonderie Turlot, Henri Chaix, gendre et cie. 7, 15, 128, 8, 7, 8, 12, 183, 48, 20, 8 pp. Folio, 315 x 242 mm, bound in publisher's light green cloth, black printed lettering, art-nouveau border on cover. Paris: Fonderie Turlot, ND [1916].
A splendid art.....
Item nr. 145596
Price: $2,500.00
MASCAGNI, Pietro. Cavalleria Rusticana. Melodramma in un Atto di G. Targioni-Tozzetti e G. Menasci. Riduzione per Canto e Pianoforte di Leopoldo Mugnone. XVI, 168 pp. Plate number 492 throughout. Folio, 307 x 230 mm., bound in contemporary Italian half brown morocco, matching marbled paper over boards. Milan: Edoardo Sonzogno, 1890.
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Item nr. 125045
Price: $3,500.00
[LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasil'evich]. [Jean-Baptiste CHARPENTIER]. Elemens de la langue russe ou Methode courte et facile pour apprendre cette lanuge conformement a l'usage. [16], 368 pp. 8vo., contemporary sheep, smooth spine with gilt fleurons, red morocco lettering-piece "Grammaire Russe". St. Petersburg: Academie Imperiale des Sciences, 1768.
First Edition. A key publication in.....
Item nr. 121950
Price: $2,500.00
EXCEPTIONAL DELUXE BINDING
KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works of Rudyard Kipling. Twenty-seven volumes expanded to fifty-one. 8vo., 237 x 152 mm, bound in full deluxe red morocco, elaborate gilt borders, spines elaborately gilt, silk moire endleaves, turn-ins inlaid with blue morocco, gilt extra with wide dentelles composed of small ornamental tools and.....
Item nr. 117290
Price: $25,000.00
[STANLEY, Henry, editor and English translator]. LIONNE, Artus de, Bishop of Rosalie. Chinese Manual. Sse tse ouen tsien-tchou … Four words literature (with) commentary (or) explication … Recueil des phrases Chinoises composées de quartre caractères et dont les explications sont rangées dans l'ordre alphabétique francais. viii, 75 pp. Folio, bound.....
Item nr. 110041
Price: $1,500.00
EAST ASIA. An Official Guide to Eastern Asia. Trans-Continental Connections between Europe and Asia. Vol. I: Manchuria & Chosen. Vol. II: South-Western Japan. Vol. III: North-Eastern Japan. Vol. IV: China. Vol. V: East Indies. Five volumes. I: [2], LXXXVI, 350 pp., illustrated with 17 colour folding maps, 16 black and.....
Item nr. 153804
Price: $3,500.00
INDIA SILK BROADSIDE. Theatre Royal. Secunderabad 1867. The officers of the Amateur Dramatic Club have the honour to announce that their next series of performances will take place as follows...Grand Cantonment Night. On which occasion will be presented the comic drama in two acts by Charles Dance Esquire of A......
Item nr. 142853
Price: $2,250.00
WHITE, Herbert C. Peking the Beautiful: Comprising Seventy Photographic Studies of the Celebrated Monuments of China's Northern Capital and Its Environs Complete with Descriptive and Historical Notes. Introduction by Dr. Hu Shih. 155 pp. Illustrated with 71 tipped-in photographic plates, as well as head and tail pieces. Folio, bound in.....
Item nr. 166814
Price: $8,500.00
DEPEW, Chauncey M. [editor]. One Hundred Years of American Commerce. 2 Volumes. xxxii, 336; xii, 337-678 pp. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece and 99 black-and-white photographic portraits in the text. Folio, bound in recent half black morocco. New York: D. O. Haynes & Co., 1895.
A classic work on the great.....
Item nr. 156624
Price: $975.00
BELLINI, Vincenzo. Norma. Lyric Tragedy in Two Acts. 270 pp. 8vo., bound in publisher's green cloth. New York: G. Schirmer, ca. 1972.
Signed by Beverly Sills, James Morris and Antonia (Kitsopoulos). Since these three signed this copy, we are assuming this is from a performance of Norma given on January 11.....
Item nr. 162606
Price: $500.00
LOEF. Schiffsmodell-Bauplaene. Mappe 1. 16 folders each containing a folding blueprint. NP. ND.
The folders contain blueprints for a wide variety of vessels in the German navy of which the Tirpitz is the best known.The portfolio and folders bear the stamp of Marine-Archiv Jahn and are dated 27.12.1943...
Item nr. 161853
Price: $375.00
PLATO. Plato and Socrates. 262 pp. 8vo., bound in full contemporary brown morocco gilt, raised bands on spine. London: Humphreys, 1907.
$675.00
A fine printing in an elegant binding containing four of Plato's classic dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo.
Item nr. 145332
Price: $675.00
SANDBURG, Carl. Abraham Lincoln. The Prairie Years. Two volumes in one. Abridged Edition. 8vo., bound in deluxe half blue morocco, over boards. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1929.
First Edition of this version. signed by Sandburg on the half-title. The one volume edition of the first part of Sandburg's monumental classic life.....
Item nr. 141749
Price: $575.00
WHARTON, Edith. Ghosts. xii, [2], 406 pp. 8vo., original blue publisher's cloth, gilt. London; New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1937.
First Edition. A collection of 11 eerie tales of the supernatural. According to Wharton, "if it sends a cold shiver down one's spine, it has done its job and done it.....
Item nr. 166979
Price: $175.00
GREECE - Literary Voyage. Voyage Litteraire de la Grèce, ou Lettres sur les Grecs anciens et modernes, avec un parallèle de leurs moeurs. By Pierre-Augustin Guys. Two volumes. xvi, 420; iv, 244 pp. 12mo., 160 x 95 mm, bound in French contemporary beige half calf, light brown and pale green.....
Item nr. 166953
Price: $1,500.00
GOBELIN, Abbé. Le Jardinier Royal, qui enseigne la manière de planter, cultiver, & dresser toutes sortes d'arbres. Avec une briefve méthode pour bien greffer tous fruicts à noyau, ensemble le moyen de faire pépinières, & eslever des arbres pour espaliers, contr' espaliers, buissons, & toutes sortes d'autres arbres fruictiers. [12].....
Item nr. 166952
Price: $5,850.00
ENGLISH MOSAIC BINDING. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches; and.....
Item nr. 166931
Price: $5,500.00
ADVERTISING. Citrus Fruit Labels. 60 labels. Laid into a linen bound album. Labels average 250 x 195 mm. VP. VD. [ca. 1950].
A highly unusual collection of colourful Italian post-war citrus labels from Southern Italy, including Naples, Catania and Sicily. Printed on flimsy paper, not many can have survived, especially as.....
Item nr. 165934
Price: $2,500.00
MALLARMÉ, Stéphane. Les Dieux Antiques, Nouvelle Mythologie Illustrée. Translated by Stéphane Mallarmé from the English of George W. Cox. xvi, 320 pp. Illustrated with 260 wood engravings throughout. 8vo., 211 x 140 mm, bound in publisher's maroon cloth stamped in black and gold. Paris: J. Rothschild, 1880.
First Edition of one.....
Item nr. 157971
Price: $1,250.00
POPE, Alexander. Of the Uses of Riches, An Epistle to the Right Honorable Allen Lord Bathurst. [2], 20 pp. Folio, 325 x 195 mm, bound in new red morocco with gilt lettered spine. London: Lawton Gilliver, 1732.
First Edition of one of the earliest books tracts dealing with philanthropy in architecture.....
Item nr. 157574
Price: $2,500.00
VOLTAIRE, Francois Marie Arouet de. The Philosophical Dictionary. [8], 336 pp [pp.33-40 repeated]. Small 8vo., 160 x 95 mm, bound in original sheep, in a new grey cloth box. Catskill, N.Y.: Printed by T.& M. Croswel for selves and J. Fellows & E. Duyckinck, 1796.
First American edition? The Dictionnaire was.....
Item nr. 156396
Price: $495.00
HOWARD, Alexander. Howard's Guide to Jerusalem and vicinity. With map of Palestine. 140 pp. Illustrated with folding map. 8vo., bound in publisher's red cloth, recased with new end papers. Jaffa and Jerusalem: Howard's Hotel, [1895].
Chevalier Alexander Howard, otherwise known as Iskander Awad, was a local proprietor of two hotels in.....
Item nr. 156286
Price: $850.00