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 well."
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.
$2500.00
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
STOPPARD, Tom. The Real Inspector Hound. [48] pp. 8vo., original grey wrappers, in a new cloth box.. London: Faber and Faber, 1968.
First Edition, unorrected proofs. One of Stoppard's most inventive and witty plays, The Real Inspector Hound is a play-within-a-play which parodies the conventions of the stage thriller. A fine...
Item nr. 164214
Price: $1,750.00
POPE, Alexander. Of the Uses of Riches, an Epistle to the Right Honorable Allen Lord Bathurst. [2], 20 pp. Folio, 335 x 210 mm, bound in modern boards. London: Lawton Gilliver, 1732.
First Edition, first issue, with the errata uncorrected). Pope's Epistle to his friend Bathurst is an insightful discourse, full...
Item nr. 158722
Price: $1,250.00
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. Mallarme's need...
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 [NY]: Printed by T.& M. Croswel for selves and J. Fellows & E. Duyckinck, New York, 1796.
First American edition? The...
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
AUCHER, P. Paschal. A Grammar of Armenian and English. 231 pp. 8vo., bound in contemporary boards. Venice: Printed at the Armenian Press of St. Lazarus, 1832.
The second improved and enlarged edition. "In the present edition will be found some specimens of Armenian Poetry, and some translations of Lord Byron from...
Item nr. 156100
Price: $1,250.00
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
BASEL. Guide To Basle and Environs. Published by the Basle Hotelkeepers' Association. 100 pp. Illustrated with photographs and a double-sided colour fold-out map. 12mo., bound in publisher's white pebbled cloth pictorial binding with black design and lettering. Basle: Printing-Office E. Birkhauser, 1895.
A pocket sized guide to Basel with photographs of...
Item nr. 154626
Price: $75.00
MANSFIELD, Comins. Adventures in Composition: The Art of the Two-Move Chess Problem. Edited by Alain White. xiii, 216pp. 8vo., 247 x 170 mm, bound in recent red half morocco, black leather spine label gilt. Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1948.
From a total edition of four hundred copies printed in Centaur and...
Item nr. 154152
Price: $375.00
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
ROLLS-ROYCE. Rolls-Royce, Phantom III. Introduction by Wilfred Gordon Aston. 44 pp. Illustrated with 7 colour images of cars, one large folding plate showing the top and side view of the 40-50 H.P. chassis, four full-page photographic images of a showroom, service depot, and classroom, and engine and car diagrams throughout...
Item nr. 153712
Price: $1,250.00
DE BOFARULL, Antonio, ed. Guia-Cicerone de Barcelona. 282, [2] pp. 8vo., 186 x 125 mm, bound in quarter green morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled endpapers. Barcelona: Imp. Hispana de V. Castanos, 1855.
"Cicerone" refers to a tour guide who leads visitors, especially tourists, through historic sites. The term derives...
Item nr. 153247
Price: $550.00
DUBLIN. The Picture of Dublin or Stranger's Guide to the Irish Metropolis. [16], 352 pp. Illustrated with an engraved title-page, 12 plates and a large folding map on blue paper. 8vo., 170 x 100 mm, bound in publisher's green cloth with printed paper spine label. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and...
Item nr. 152775
Price: $875.00
LEISRAEL, Keren Kayemth and Keren HAYESOD. A Guide to Jewish Palestine. 73 pp. Illustrated with photographs and a double-page map. 8vo., bound in original light blue wrappers in a new blue cloth folding box. Jerusalem: Jewish National Fund, 1927.
At once a practical guide to Palestine for visitors interested in ancient...
Item nr. 152725
Price: $495.00
HOLY LAND. Reports of the Experts Submitted to the Joint Palestine Survey Commission. 741, [1] pp. By Frank Adams, et al. Illustrated with numerous photographs, three folding charts and two maps (including one folding). 8vo., bound in original printed wrappers, in a new blue cloth folding box with gilt leather...
Item nr. 150694
Price: $750.00
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Nature. 86, [2] pp. Title-page and foliated initials in red and black. 4to., 275 x 190 mm, bound in quarter vellum over red and black speckled boards, author and title gilt on spine, red textured paper wrappers and matching red slipcase. Top edge gilt, fore- and bottom...
Item nr. 149882
Price: $750.00
SHAKESPEARE, William. Sonnets. Illustrated with wood engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. 4to., bound in original cloth-backed boards in matching slipcase. London: The Acorn Press, 1982.
One of an edition of 350 copies printed at the Whittington Press. Each sonnet is preceded by one of Weissenborn's charming coloured wood engravings. Weissenborn, a German-born...
Item nr. 149456
Price: $325.00
MONTAIGNE, Michel de. Love and Marriage, being Montaigne's Essay "Sur des Vers de Virgil." 88 pp. 8vo., bound in half blue morocco. Florence: Tipografia Giuntina, [ca. 1900].
One of 250 copies. Montaigne's essay "Upon some Verses of Virgil" in a very readable translation by Constance Vera Norman. Of marriage, Montaigne writes...
Item nr. 149455
Price: $300.00
ROXBURGHE CLUB. The Works of John Chalkhill. Edited with an Introductory Essay, Commentary and Appendices by Charles Ryskamp and Scott D. Westrem. 220 pp. 8vo., 300 x 200 mm, bound in publisher's red half Morocco. London: The Roxburghe Club, 1999.
The contents are as follows: Preface; John Chalkhill: The Man, the...
Item nr. 149354
Price: $350.00