![Album of designs of decorative objects, lamps, clocks, architectural elements, cartes-de-visite, and ornaments. [Nouveaux Desseins de Differens Ornemens de Meubles Inventés et composés par Jean Baptiste Hagenauer]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/526/072/1721072526.0.l.jpg)
Album of designs of decorative objects, lamps, clocks, architectural elements, cartes-de-visite, and ornaments. [Nouveaux Desseins de Differens Ornemens de Meubles Inventés et composés par Jean Baptiste Hagenauer]
by HAGENAUER, Johann Baptist, artist
[Vienna, 1783. 4to (241 x 176 mm). 432 etched and/or engraved plates of decorative objects (platemarks 171-177 x 131 mm.), comprising parts (Cahiers) VI to XLI, by various engravers after Hagenauer. Printed on thick laid paper, watermark crown & shield with fleurs-de-lis watermark. (Overall discoloration due to paper quality, some spotting and finger-soiling, one or two short marginal tears, a few old ink splashes from users.) Bound ca. 1900 in brown morocco-backed boards, spine blind-tooled and with gilt-lettered title,... Read More
Offered by Musinsky Rare Books, Inc.
Journal of the Last Voyage Perform'd by Monsr. de la Sale, to the G.
by JOUTEL, HENRI
1714. JOUTEL, HENRI. A Journal of the Last Voyage Perform'd by Monsr. de la Sale, to the Gulph of Mexico, to Find Out the Mouth of the Missisipi River.... London: For A. Bell, B. Lintott, and J. Baker, 1714. 8vo. [2], xxi, [9], 191, 194-205, [5] p. Engraved folding map (short closed tear). Contemporary calf. Extremities rubbed, top of spine a bit worn, else a lovely untouched copy, the text clean and fresh and entirely unfoxed. Peter A. Porter... Read More
Offered by Joseph J. Felcone Inc.
The Seven Deadly Sins
by PENCZ, GEORG
np, 1541. Very Good. RARE SET OF 1541 ENGRAVINGS THAT PIONEERED THE USE OF ANIMALS AND WOMEN TO SYMBOLIZE ALL SEVEN DEADLY SINS. The seven deadly sins have provided creative fodder for a diverse group of artists ranging from Dante's The Divine Comedy to the Hollywood film Seven. A lesser known, but equally significant representation of the seven deadly sins dates back to German engraver Georg Pencz in 1541. Georg Pencz's set of seven engravings that we have on offer... Read More
Offered by Manhattan Rare Book Company
The Royall Game of Chesse-Play. Sometimes The Recreation of the late King, with many of the Nobility. Illustrated with almost an hundred Gambetts. Being The study of Biochimo the famous Italian
by CHESS. Greco, Gioachino (1600-1634); Lovelace, Richard (1618–1658)
London: Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Anchor, in the lower walk of the New Exchange, 1656. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A very good, crisp, complete copy of this rare book, bound in contemporary English sheepskin, ruled in blind, rebacked, boards heavily worn. Metal-cut t.p. rule shaved on two sides, portrait leaf with small repair to lower left corner, just entering the blank corner of the... Read More
Offered by Liber Antiquus, Early Books & Manuscripts
An Autograph Album Signed by Walt Disney and Two of His Foremost Artists/designers, with a Drawing of Donald Duck by One
by Walt Disney
3/3/56. The father of the boy who secured the autographs - and who signed for his son - was Philip S. Hench of the Mayo Clinic, who won the 1950 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for developing cortisone The boy's uncle John Hench was a Disney illustratorThe autographs album of twelve year old John B. Hench, 6"" x 4 3/4"" maroon cloth, taken on a family trip to California in early 1956. Young Hench has signed, dated it March... Read More
Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC
The Essential Ernest Hemingway: On the Sea, Fish, Writing Books and Screenplays, Filming His Book “The Old Man and the Sea”, Cuba, and Containing a Certain Proposition
by Ernest Hemingway
29/07/1955. “You need an awful lot of luck when working with the sea and with fish.” A fascinating, unpublished letter obtained by us directly from the recipient’s familyOn HemingwayAfter covering the Spanish Civil War, in 1939 Hemingway purchased Finca Vigía (“Lookout Farm”), an unpretentious estate outside Havana, Cuba. In 1940 he published “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, which many consider his best book. All of his life Hemingway was fascinated by war - in “A Farewell to Arms” he focused... Read More
Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC
ONNA DAI RAKU TAKARA BEKI: GREAT PLEASURE FOR LADIES ON OPENING THEIR TREASURE-B
by [TSUKIOKA, Settei.]
Japan [1751], np. New green silk cloth-covered boards, 113 double-folded leaves, woodblock printed by hand on hand-made paper, first few pages later amateur color, thumbed, else as issued, illustrated on nearly every page, 18 x 25 cm. RARE ! *** *** *** . . . EXCEPTIONALLY RARE & EARLY, STUNNINGLY EROTIC . . . PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED HARU BON [Erotic Book] . . This is a famous book, inspired by another famous work by the great Kaibara Eikken: "PARODIES OF... Read More
Offered by Rare Oriental Book Co., An Art and Intellectual Property Company Since 1967, ABAA, ILAB
THESAURUS ANATOMICUS -- ANATOMISCH CABINET
by (ANATOMY - 18TH CENTURY, BIZARRE). RUYSCH, FREDERICK
Amsterdam: Joannes Wolters, then Jansson-Waesberg, 1701-14; 1715-16. FIRST EDITIONS. 224 x 168 mm. (8 3/4 x 6 1/2"). 4 p.l., 62 pp., [1] leaf (errata); 2 p.l., 98 pp.; 2 p.l., 70 pp.; 1 p.l., 55 pp.; 1 p.l., 54 pp., 2 p.l., 30 pp., [1] leaf, 92 pp., [2] leaves, 44 pp., [4] leaves, 68 pp., [8] leaves, 72 pp., [1] leaf (errata), [12] leaves, 78 pp. 10 parts in one volume.. Contemporary stiff vellum, smooth spine... Read More
Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts
Antibarbarorum ... liber unus
by (Antibarbari) Erasmus, Desiderius
Basel: Froben, 1520. First edition, printed in May. Woodcut borders to title leaf and dedication by Hans Holbein, printer's device on last page. 150, [2, imprint] pp. 4to. Eighteenth-century marbled boards, ink label. Some toning to spine. Very good, fresh copy. First edition, printed in May. Woodcut borders to title leaf and dedication by Hans Holbein, printer's device on last page. 150, [2, imprint] pp. 4to. Ignorantiam esse superbiae matrem. Eruditionem contra modestiam parere. [Ignorance is the mother... Read More
Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.
His Band and the Street Choir (Original artwork assemblage for the 1970 album)
by [Photography] [Album artwork] Van Morrison (subject); David Gahr (photographer)
Los Angeles: Warner Brothers Records, 1970. Original photographic artwork assemblage for Van Morrison's classic 1970 album, , with original double exposure photograph by David Gahr, designed by Janet Planet and used by Warner Brothers Records as shooting artwork for the album cover. Production annotations, in manuscript marker and pencil, at bottom of board below the image. Annotations on verso noting, "Van Morrison 'Cover' 1884," in manuscript marker, with the "1884" being the album catalogue number, and "the band... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; in the Years 1789 and 1793. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Fur Trade of That Country
by Mackenzie, Sir Alexander
London: T. Cadell, W. Davies, Cobbett and Morgan, and W. Creech, 1801. First edition. Engraved portrait by Condé after Lawrence and 3 large folding engraved maps (one colored in outline). viii,cxxxii,412,[2]pp. 1 vols. 4to. Modern full red calf in antique style by Aquarius, spine gilt extra. Minor dampstaining, occasional minor offsetting. One map with small marginal tear not affecting image. Untrimmed. First edition. Engraved portrait by Condé after Lawrence and 3 large folding engraved maps (one colored in... Read More
Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.
![CASTELLI, E PONTI CON ALCUNE INGEGNOSE PRATICHE, E CON LA DESCRIZIONE DEL TRASPORTO DELL' OBELISCO VATICANO E DI ALTRI DI D. FONTANA. [bound with] CONTIGNATIONES AC PONTES NICOLAI ZABAGLIA](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/780/142/1599142780.0.l.jpg)
CASTELLI, E PONTI CON ALCUNE INGEGNOSE PRATICHE, E CON LA DESCRIZIONE DEL TRASPORTO DELL' OBELISCO VATICANO E DI ALTRI DI D. FONTANA. [bound with] CONTIGNATIONES AC PONTES NICOLAI ZABAGLIA
by (ENGINEERING - OBELISKS). ZABAGLIA, NICCOLA, and DOMENICO FONTANA
Rome: Crispino Puccinelli, 1824. Second Edition with the Addition of Later Machines and Premises. 520 x 370 mm. (20 1/2 x 14 1/2"). 4 p.l., XXIX, [1], 46; [4], 48 pp. Two volumes bound in one. Edited and with notes on the life and work of Zabaglia by Filippo Maria Renazzi. SPLENDID CONTEMPORARY RED MOROCCO, VERY ATTRACTIVELY GILT, covers with frames formed by thick and thin gilt rules filled with alternating fleuron tools above an undulating ribbon roll,... Read More
Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts
Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems, With other Delights of the Muses. By Richard Crashaw, some-times of Pembroke Hall, and late Fellow of S. Peters Coll. in Cambridge
by Crashaw, Richard (1612-1649)
London: Printed by T.W. for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1646. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. This is the issue with the title page set within a decorative typographical border (no precedence is given.) An excellent, tall copy, unusually bright and clean. Bound in contemporary sheepskin (with some wear, abrasions and stains.) The best copy to come onto the market in many years. First edition of... Read More
Offered by Liber Antiquus, Early Books & Manuscripts
Ußlegen vnd gründ der schluszreden oder Articklen durch Huldrychen Zuingli Zürich uff den xix. tag Jenners im M.D.xxiij. jar ußgangen
by Zwingli, Huldrych (1484-1531)
Zürich: Christoph Froschauer, 1523. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 16th c.quarter calf over wooden boards (lacking clasps, catch-plates preserved; wear to spine with losses to the leather, light wear to boards. The leather ruled and tooled in blind in a diaper pattern with small floral stamps. Annotated throughout, with a four-page manuscript index at the front of the volume. The contents are in excellent condition. With title woodcut of Christ as the Man of Sorrows by master... Read More
Offered by Liber Antiquus, Early Books & Manuscripts
![The English Pilot. [The Fourth Book.] Describing The West-India Navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/211/705/1359705211.0.l.jpg)
The English Pilot. [The Fourth Book.] Describing The West-India Navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones.
by [AMERICANA / ATLAS]
THE FIRST ENGLISH SEA ATLAS OF AMERICA Folio (47.7 x 31 cm), 66 pp. (with pagination errors), with [26] engraved maps (21 of which are double-page or folding), the first chart with letterpress text attached (as called for), numerous woodcuts in the text. Bound in contemporary sheep, rebacked, blind-tooled borders to upper and lower covers. Minor rubbing to covers. Some spotting to the fourth map (Verner no. 62) and adjacent letterpress pages, small tear to fold of map 10 (Verner no.... Read More
Offered by Martayan Lan, Inc.
Typed letter signed
by HEMINGWAY Ernest
1949. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Typed letter twice signed ""Papa"" to Peter Viertel. Finca Vigia, Cuba, 29 September 1949. Quarto, two sheets of Hemingway's ""Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba"" stationery, each leaf measuring 8-1/2 inches by 11 inches, typed in black ink, single-spaced, on one side of each leaf for two full pages of typed text, heavily annotated in pen by Hemingway. $25,000.Extraordinary typed and heavily annotated letter from Hemingway in Cuba to friend and fellow author and screenwriter... Read More
Offered by Bauman Rare Books
Turn About
by FAULKNER, William
[NY]: Saturday Evening Post. 1932. A previously unknown Faulkner "A" item -- an offprint from the March 5, 1932 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. In long-accepted Faulkner lore, the first and only separate edition of Turn About was the 1939 edition published by W. L. Massiah of Ottawa, Canada, which has been considered Faulkner's scarcest "A" item, with approximately seven known copies. Offered here is a 1932 offprint -- 7 years earlier than the Massiah edition -- with no... Read More
Offered by Ken Lopez - Bookseller
The Rare Great Seal of Ferdinand and Isabella, On an Illuminated, Unique Document of Flemish and Spanish Art, Establishing a Commercial Center as a Reward to the Family of King John II's Bodyguard
by Ferdinand & Isabella
12/09/1497. We found no record for a great seal of the Catholic Monarchs having reached the market, nor any record of a document from the Court of the Great Monarchs of this ornate, illuminated nature from this early having come up for sale The large lead seal, attached with multicolored thread, shows Ferdinand on horseback; Isabella on the throne In 711, Muslim Moors crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and began their conquest of Southern Spain. So began Islamic rule in Spain... Read More
Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC
![Army Portfolio. By Capt. D. P. Whiting, 7th Inf'y, U.S.A. No. 1 [wrapper title, all published]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/865/824/1585824865.0.l.jpg)
Army Portfolio. By Capt. D. P. Whiting, 7th Inf'y, U.S.A. No. 1 [wrapper title, all published]
by Whiting, Daniel P., Lieut.-Col
New York: G. & W. Endicott, 1847. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on front upper wrapper in ink, in an unidentified hand: "Presented by Johnson Whiting. Five tinted lithographed plates by Chas. Fendrich, F. Swinton (2), and C. Parsons (2), after Whiting, printed by G. & W. Endicott. Each approximately 18 x 23 inches. Folio. Original wrappers, rebacked, some edge tears and staining to the wrappers. Expert restoration to the plates. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on front... Read More
Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.
The Old Man and the Sea
by Hemingway, Ernest
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. Second English edition, first printing, second issue; First illustrated edition. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard. 8vo. Half-cloth and illustrated paper boards. Some warping and foxing to boards and endpapers, endemic to books from the Caribbean, in dust jacket with some fading to spine, bit of edgewear and some closed tears along top edge, with a "With the Compliments of the Author" panel pasted to rear flap. Second English edition, first printing, second... Read More
Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.
![Chicago Illustrated. 1830. 1866. Literary Description by James W. Sheahan Esq. Illustrations by the Chicago Lithographing Co [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/527/959/1467959527.0.l.0.jpg)
Chicago Illustrated. 1830. 1866. Literary Description by James W. Sheahan Esq. Illustrations by the Chicago Lithographing Co [wrapper title]
by (Chicago) Sheahan, James W.
Chicago: Jevne & Almini, 1867. First Edition. 52 two-, three- or four-color tinted lithographed views after Louis Kurz. 52 text leaves describing each view (with a duplicate of one text leaf and the missing text leaf supplied in early manuscript facsimile). With a later typed list of plates inserted. Without title page, as issued. Early manuscript annotations to the plates. [With:] Letterpress broadside prospectus for the work, tipped in at the front. Oblong folio. Nineteenth century half morocco and... Read More
Offered by James Cummins Bookseller Inc.
Signed Family Letters
by VONNEGUT, JR., KURT
np: np, 1930. First edition. Custom box. Very Good. RARE AND REVEALING COLLECTION OF FAMILY LETTERS WRITTEN BY KURT VONNEGUT. This collection of 12 letters, most of which are addressed to Vonnegut's father, brother (Bernard), sister-in-law (Bow), and family as a whole, chronicle the life, rise, and development of one of America's most beloved writers. Taken together, these letters - in which he begins to test the possibilities of a career in writing - are a unique glimpse... Read More
Offered by Manhattan Rare Book Company
A fine original pen and ink drawing depicting Old Mr. Bouncer, Mr. Tod, Jemima Puddle-Duck and Hunca Munca
by POTTER, Beatrix, artist
n.p.: , 1912. A Wonderful Original Beatrix Potter Pen & Ink Drawing Featuring Old Mr. Bouncer, Mr. Tod, Jemima Puddle-Duck and Hunca Munca POTTER, Beatrix, artist. A fine original pen and ink drawing depicting Old Mr. Bouncer (Benjamin Bunny's father), Mr. Tod, Jemima Puddle-Duck and Hunca Munca. Signed "Beatrix Potter/Dec 4th 1912". Size 3 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 99 x 137 mm. Matted, framed and glazed. Framed size 15 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches;... Read More
Offered by David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Two Leaves from the Roman de la Rose, 14th century, Which Defined Love and Literature in the Western World
by Medieval History, Literature, Law|All Medieval Historical Documents
1350. This work takes its place on the lineage of great early works, along with the Arthurian tales These are exceptionally early witnesses to this most important literary text, the most popular secular work of the entire Middle Ages Appearances of this seminal text are uncommon, only a handful having reached the market in decades Linguistic variations suggest a non-Parisian scribe; evidence of re-use in the 17th century from manuscript markings[video width=""1920"" height=""1080"" mp4=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204130246/Roman-de-la-Rose.mp4""][/video] The influence of the Old French allegorical poem, the... Read More
Offered by The Raab Collection, LLC
![Autograph musical manuscript, consisting of musical incipits of the composer's 12 London Symphonies, together with an autograph musical sketch of the slow movement of the "Gypsy Rondo" from Haydn's Piano Trio No. 39. [Hob. I:93-104; XV:25]. London, 1795. Unsigned](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/893/870/1604870893.0.l.jpg)
Autograph musical manuscript, consisting of musical incipits of the composer's 12 London Symphonies, together with an autograph musical sketch of the slow movement of the "Gypsy Rondo" from Haydn's Piano Trio No. 39. [Hob. I:93-104; XV:25]. London, 1795. Unsigned
by HAYDN, Joseph 1732-1809
Large oblong quarto (241 x 309 mm.). Notated in dark brown ink on the verso of the second leaf of a bifolium (i.e., page 4) on 10-stave rastrum-ruled paper of British manufacture. Watermark dated 1794. Late spring or early summer, 1795 (see H.C. Robbins Landon: Haydn Chronicle and Works, Volume III, p. 495). With pencilled note in another hand to first page: "Haydn autograph notes of the 12 English Symphonies. Haydn misquotes the 2nd." Very... Read More
Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC