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
AUGUSTINE, Saint. De Civitate Dei. 305 ff. of 306 (missing final blank). [a-b8 c-z10 A-G10 H10 (-H10, final blank)], with three blanks (ff. 1, 16, 305). 46 lines, gothic type (2:84) printed double-column, roman headline (4:110). Folio, 286 x 202 mm, bound in contemporary Venetian calf over wooden boards paneled...
Item nr. 166923
Price: $87,500.00
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
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
BAYER, Theophilus Gottlieb Siegfried. Museum Sinicum in quo Sinicae Linguae et Literaturae ratio explicatur. Two volumes bound in one. [22], 146, [2], 190; [2], 263, 263-372, [2] pp. Illustrated with 74 engraved plates of Chinese characters with many engraved characters and few illustrations in text. 8vo., 205 x 120, bound...
Item nr. 145436
Price: $7,500.00
CHINESE GRAMMAR. Elemens de la grammaire chinoise, ou, Principes generaux du kou-wen ou style antique, et du kouan-hoa. By Jean-Pierre (Abel) Remusat. xxxii, 214, [2] pp. Illustrated with 2 folding plates and innumerable Chinese characters executed in woodcut throughout. 8vo., 230 x 155 mm, bound in contemporary calf with the...
Item nr. 145265
Price: $4,750.00
[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
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
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
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
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
MANCHURIA. Saishin Manshu shashincho [The latest Manchuria photograph album]. By Kin'ichiro Yamazaki. Illustrated with two fold-out colour maps and 86 photographic plates (some hand-coloured) printed on various coloured papers interleaved with descriptive text in Japanese and English. Oblong 8vo., 135 x 195 mm, bound in publisher's pictorial cloth, two-hole binding...
Item nr. 145211
Price: $2,250.00
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
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of The Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of The Church, According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland. Text with decorative border printed in red and black. Contemporary vellum gilt, watered-silk doublures and free...
Item nr. 142982
Price: $1,250.00
McMAHON, Bernard. The American Gardener's Calendar. Adapted to the Climates and Seasons of the United States. Containing a Complete Account of All the Work Necessary to Be Done in the Kitch-Garden, Fruit-Garden, Orchard, Vineyard, Nursery, etc. [1], 648 pp. plus folding table and [18] pp. index. 8vo., bound in contemporary...
Item nr. 142664
Price: $2,750.00
ADAMS, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 528 pp. Illustrated and signed by Samuel Chamberlain. Bound in rust colored buckram. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1942.
Designed and printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press.
LEC 133.
Item nr. 46586
Price: $375.00
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
LUCRETIUS. On the Nature of Things. Translated from the Latin into English Verse by Sir Robert Allison. 275 pp. 8vo., bound in new deluxe blue half morocco. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1919.
A handsome modern edition of Lucretius. This is the classic work by the Roman philosopher who asserted that although...
Item nr. 145334
Price: $575.00
MITCHELL,General William. Skyways, A Book on Modern Aeronautics. 314 pp. With 76 illustrations from photographs and drawings. 8vo., bound in publishers sky-blue dustjacket with art deco airplane designs. Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1930.
First Edition of this attractive book that investigates the key aspects of the history of aeronautics...
Item nr. 119480
Price: $575.00
TURPAIN, Albert. La Lumiere. 304 pp. Illustrated with 136 drawings and photographs. 4to., 290 x 195 mm, bound in publisher's polychrome binding, purple cloth with gold, black and green designs. Paris: Ch. Delagrave, 1913.
Albert Turpain was a french physicist, inventor and author of teaching books and scientific books for the...
Item nr. 145906
Price: $750.00
INDIA. Selections from Calcutta Gazettes of the Years 1784 to 1823, Showing the Political and Social Condition of the English in India. By W.S. Seton-Karr and H.D. Sandeman. Five volumes. Illustrtaed with a large folding map of Hindustan in a pocket in the back of volume one. 8vo., bound in...
Item nr. 133452
Price: $1,200.00
DANIEL, George. Love's Last Labour Not Lost. vi, 294, [2] pp. 8vo., 162 x 105 mm, bound in full contemporary green crushed morocco, all edges gilt. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1863.
First Edition. One of 250 copies. A Unique Copy, being from the author's own renowned library, and extra-illustrated by him...
Item nr. 104437
Price: $975.00
MAYNARD, Felix. Voyage et Aventures au Chili. [4], 308 pp. Paris: Libraire Nouvelle, 1858. WITH:
-----. De Delhi à Cawnpore: Journal d'une Dame Anglaise: Pages de l'Insurrection Hindoue. [4], 301 pp. Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1859.
-----. Un Drame dans les Mers Boréales: Souvenirs du Kamtschatka. [4], 307 pp. 18mo., 178 x....
Item nr. 88696
Price: $750.00