Authors starting with Q from Rulon-Miller Books

Tokyo & Osaka: Rinyoken. 1871. 8vo (approx. 7" x 5"), 36 leaves printed and sewn in the Oriental manner, printed pastedown at the back, orig. blue wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover, preserving the original wrap-around sleeve; about fine throughout. Not found in OCLC. Osaka Joshi Daigaiku Library, Selected Catalogue on Dutch and English Studies, E-9. A Critical Bibliography of Materials for English Studies in Japan. Collected by Osaka Women's University, 1962, no. 87. ... more information

Tokyo: Fukuji-do. 1884. 8vo, pp. [2], 226, [2]; Japanese title printed on pink paper; orig. printed paper-covered boards, recased and rebacked in black cloth; all else very good. Basic course in English for the beginning Japanese student. Not found in OCLC. ... more information

Detroit: Algonquin Club. 1956. First edition, printed at the Lakeside Press, 8vo, pp. 52; photographic frontispiece portrait and 1 plate; but for a small 1/4" scrape on front cover, a fine copy in original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Bibliography, chronologically arranged, of the historian- librarian's books, periodical articles, and book reviews. ... more information

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1936. First edition, 12mo., pp. [2] ix, [3], 13-145; map end-papers, frontispiece portrait, 9 illustrations from photographs on 5 plates; fine copy in original blue cloth lettered in orange, signed by author on front free end-paper, dust jacket with significant chips and pieces out at bottom of spine and front and back panel. An account of a trip from Rio and Sao Paulo to Uruguay across Argentina to Santiago and up the west coast of Chile to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colu... more information

London. 1931. 4to, pp. [8], 157; color frontis, 36 plates (1 folding) often with illus. on both recto and verso; very good in orig. printed paper-covered boards. 161 important mss. plus a group of facsimile mss. and works on paleography - 530 items all together. ... more information

Paris: Germer Baillière. 1870. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 378; occasional spotting of the text, and extremities a little rubbed, else a good, sound copy or better in publisher's brown morocco-backed brown cloth, gilt stamp on upper cover, gilt decorated spine. Among those cited by the author as precursors of Darwin are De Maillet, Robinet, Buffon, Lamarck, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Bory de Saint-Vincent, and Charles Naudin. ... more information

Paris: L. Hachette et cie. 1861. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], xvi, 420; very good, sound copy in orig. red morocco-backed red cloth, gilt lettering direct on gilt-paneled spine. Garrison-Morton 164: "De Quatrefages was one of France's most eminent anthropologists." ... more information

Milano: Francesco Sonzogno. 1829. First edition of Francesco Longhena's Italian translation of Quatremère de Quincy's Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de Raphaël, first published in Paris in 1824; 8vo, pp. [18], xii, 847, [1]; engraved title and 22 engraved plates (several folding), plus a folding facsimile letter; as perfect a copy as one could find in original blue printed paper-covered boards, green silk bookmark. The illustrations in this edition are all new and reproduce paintings... more information

London & Totowa, NJ: David & Charles & Barnes & Noble Books. [1983]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 256; illus.; corner's bumped, else fine in original green cloth, brown cloth spine label lettered in gilt, dust jacket. Bookplate of Jacob L. Chernofsky on the front pastedown. Review copy with slip laid in. ... more information

Boston: Little, Brown. 1926. "New edition," but the first with Howee's introduction; 8vo, pp. xvi, 347; 32 plates; fine copy in original blue cloth, printed paper label on spine, dust jacket with a few chips at the extremities, and with one larger (thumbnail-size) chip from the lower front panel. A "book of reminiscences based on journals kept during the early years of the nineteenth century" in an around Boston. ... more information

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [1953]. First edition, 8vo, very good copy in original dust jacket, minor cracking at spine head, chipping, with Gwin Kolb's signature and stamp on front endpaper. ... more information

Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 1964. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 240; portrait frontis; fine copy in the jacket. ... more information

Louisville: Filson Club publication no. 21. 1906. First edition, large 4to, 172pp., portrait frontis, map and 10 plates; fine in original stiff printed wrappers. "Originally prepared as the basis for a historical novel, to be called The Strong in Heart, in which the tragic fate of Crittenden and his men, and the dauntless heroism of the Liberators generally, were to be exploited; though the fictional background of the story was to be in Kentucky. In order to secure a correct historical framework for th... more information

Louisville: Filson Club publication no. 21. 1906. First edition, large 4to, 172pp., portrait frontis, map and 10 plates; later blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine; original printed wrappers neatly preserved; fine. "Originally prepared as the basis for a historical novel, to be called The Strong in Heart, in which the tragic fate of Crittenden and his men, and the dauntless heroism of the Liberators generally, were to be exploited; though the fictional background of the story was to be in Kentucky. In o... more information