Proverbs Exemplified, and Illustrated by Pictures from Real Life. Teaching Morality and a Knowledge of the World; with Prints. Designed as a Succession-Book to Æsop's Fables
by [ Trusler, John ]
London: Printed for and Published by the Rev. J[ohn] Trusler, 1790/ First and only edition, a moral work by an author who is credited with publishing the first thesaurus to the English language (The Difference Between Words Esteemed Synonymous, 1766). Later nineteenth-century mottled tan calf, boards ruled in gilt, gilt spine in six compartments, each with a repeating floral design, red gilt-lettered leather label. Edges stained yellow, marbled endpapers, gilt turn-ins. . Sixteenmo. Fifty woodcuts, including vignette title-page, by John... Read More
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The Follies & Fashions of Our Grandfathers (1807). Embellished with Thirty-seven whole-page Plates Including Ladies' and Gentlemen's Dress (Hand-Coloured and Heightened with Gold and Silver); Sporting and Coaching Scenes (Hand-Coloured); Fanciful Prints, Portraits of Celebrities, &c. (many from original copper-plates)
by Tuer, Andrew W
London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press 1886/7 Number 234 of 250 large paper copies, signed "Field & Tuer." The large paper copies included the earliest impressions of the plates, with the costumes "extra carefully tinted" and heightened with gold and silver. Drab boards with embroidered linen labels. Embroidered ribbon marker. Quarto. Some wear along back joint, endpapers lightly foxed. A very good copy of a fragile book. The present work is "an illustrated digest of the most amusing and... Read More
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London Cries: With Six Charming Children printed direct from stippled plates in the Bartolozzi style, and duplicated in red and brown, and about forty other illustrations including ten of Rowlandson's humorous subjects in facsimile, and tinted; examples by George Cruikshank, Joseph Crawhall, &c. &c.
by Tuer, Andrew
London: Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Presse…New York: Scribner & Welford… [n.d., 1883]. Regular paper copy, priced at one guinea. There was also a Large Paper copy with Signed proofs (250 copies printed) and a Large Paper copy with signed proofs on satin (50 copies printed). Dove brown cloth over tan boards, paper label on front cover. . Folio (11 5/8 x 8 3/4"). . Plates, text illustrations (some hand-colored). Minor soiling. A very good copy.
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History of the Horn-Book. With three hundred illustrations
by Tuer, Andrew W
London: Published by the Leadenhall Press, 1897 First trade edition (preceded by a special edition in two volumes, published the previous year in an edition of 1,000 copies, which contained seven reproductions of horn-books and battledores). . Original brown cloth, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. . Large, squarish quarto. Engraved frontispiece, forty-six full-page illustrations, plus numerous partial-page illustrations throughout. Three facsimile horn-books in a back pocket, including one of oak, one of card and one of horn. Front... Read More
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Luxurious Bathing: (Second Edition). A Sketch…Eight Etchings by Tristam Ellis.
by Tuer, Andrew
London: Field & Tuer, 1880 Publisher's vellum with title in black on front cover. Oblong octavo. Copper-engraved illustration on title, and seven other full-page engravings. Title printed in red and black. Bookplate of Yeats (1831-1894), novelist and founder of the weekly society paper, The World. A few pages show minor chipping at fore-edge. A very good copy. Tuer's first book.
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Duncan Grant and the Bloomsbury Group
by Turnbaugh, Douglas Blair
Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart Inc., [1987] Boards. Large octavo. With 64 illustrations in black and white. Former owner's ink inscription on front free endpaper. Otherwise fine in fine d.j.
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Joseph, Baron Lister Centenary Volume 1827-1927
by Turner, A. Logan, ed
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1927 First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Plates A little spotting to covers. Very good in very good d.j. Jacket has a few small chips.
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The Cinema of Adventure, Romance & Terror,
by Turner, George E
Hollywood: ASC Press, [1989]/ Cloth. Quarto. First edition. Fine in fine d.j.
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Nineteenth-Century Scientific Instruments
by Turner, Gerald L'E.
[Berkeley:] Sotheby Publications, University of California Press, [1983] First edition. Brown cloth, gilt spine. Quarto. Color plates, black and white illustrations in text. Fine in fine d.j.
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Baudelaire: A Study of his Poetry
by Turnell, Martin
London: Hamish Hamilton, [1953] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Former owner's book label and small rubberstamp. Very good in price-clipped dust jacket with one tape repair.
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European Drawings 4. Catalogue of the Collections
by Turner, Nicholas
Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, [2001] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Wisth twenty color and 210 duotone illustrations. Fine in fine d.j. This volume constitutes the fourth catalogue of the drawings in the John Paul Getty Museum's collection. It reproduces and describes all the works acquired by the Museum between 1995 and 1998, a period when the collection of French drawings was enhanced.
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Pete Turner Photographs. Introduction by Owen Edwards
by Turner, Pete
New York: Abrams, [1987] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j.
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An Easy Introduction to the Arts and Sciencs..
by Turner, Richard.`
London: Printed for J. Johnson.. 1800 The seventh edition, "with considerable additions and improvements; particularly an abridgment of natural history, with upwards of twenty new cuts…" (p. iii). The first edition was published in 1783. The "additions and improvements" mentioned on the title-page of this work first appeared in the third edition (1791), followed by minor adjustments in subsequent editions. Per OCLC, the claim that the work is illustrated with "upwards of twenty new cuts" began with the fourth edition... Read More
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My Wife
by Tuthill, L.C. [Louisa Caroline[
Boston: William Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1846 First edition. . Publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt on spine. Pale yellow endpapers. Some foxing. Octavo. A very good, tight copy. In Woman's Fiction, Nina Baym writes, "My Wife (1846) contrasts a terrible marriage contracted by husband and wife on the basis of money and beauty, with an idyllic one based on mutual respect and shared values…[T]his one resembles John Ruskin's famous walled garden in its division of roles. The exemplary husband... Read More
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Selected Mark Twain-Hotwells Letters 1872-1910
by Twain, Mark
Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Minor shelfwear. Very good+ in very good d.j. Spine of jacket lightly browned.
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Mark Twain's Letters to his Publishers 1867-1895
by Twain, Mark
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good dust jacket. Spine of d.j. darkened.
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The Leading Facts of New Mexican History
by Twitchell, Ralph Emerson
Albuquerque: Horn & Wallace, 1963 Facsimile reprint of the author's 1911 2-volume work. Three more volumes followed later, but these two stand alone. Red linen buckram with gilt spines, top edge gilt. Two volumes, thick octavo. Plates and maps, including nine large folding maps. Fine condition.
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Prints of the West
by Tyler, Ron
Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, [1994] First edition. Black and white and color illustrations. Prints from the Library of Congress. Quarto. Fine in fine d.j.
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Paolo Uccello. Complete Edition
by [Uccello, Paolo]. Pope-Hennessy, John
New York: Phaidon, [1969] Second edition of this catalogue raisonne of the 15th century Italian painter. . Cloth. Quarto. Tipped in color frontis. and 5 tipped in color plates. 169 black and white illustrations. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has mild fading at spine and a portion of front cover. The standard reference work on Uccello. First published in 1949.
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Die Gotteslehre des Nikolaus Cusanus
by Uebinger, Joh
Munster und Paderborn: Druck und Verlag von Ferdinand Schoningh, 1888 First edition. Rebound in cloth, original front wrapper bound in. Octavo. Very good.
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Building Design: Improving Commercial Spaces
by Umlauf, Elyse, and Phil Schreiner
[New York:] The Library of Applied Design, [1990] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Light shelfwear. Very good in very good dust jacket with one tear near top of spine.
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[ Manuscript notebook recording folktales, legends, and axioms.]
by [ Underhill, John ]
[ Manchester, England: 1826 – 1833] [Bound with:] [Pollard, , John.] [Manuscript poetry and family history of the Underhill lineage by Pollard, the great-grandson of John Underhill.] [Manchester, England?: 1899 – 1900.] 2 inches by 4 inches. 1-64, 66, 66-69, 69-188, [5] pp. Despite inconsistencies in manuscript pagination, the various writings recorded here are each continuous. Text in two hands: John Underhill (pp. 1-95) and John Pollard (p. 96 and onward). About 50 pages throughout have been... Read More
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Order of Accurate Typists. In which is also included "As It Was in the Beginning," the matter written by J.N. Kimball for the International Typewriting Contests, held at the Annual Business Show in the New York, October 25th 1915
by [ Underwood Typewriter Company. Owen, Margaret B. ]
New York: Underwood Typewriter Company 1915 First edition. The text of the present item, "As It Was in the Beginning," was used as the sample text in the 1915 World's Typewriting Championship. The introduction explains that Margaret B. Owen took the World's Typewriting Championship trophy for the second time that year with a rate of 136 words per minute for an hour. She typed on an Underwood machine, which, according to this Underwood-published booklet, "responded to every touch of her... Read More
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Karolingisches Sakramentar Fragment. Codex Vindobonensis 958 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Faksimile-Ausgabe.
by Unterkircher, Franz
Graz- Austria: Akademische Druck u. Verlagsanstalt, 1971 Two volumes, consisting of a manuscript facsimile, printed in color and in gold and silver, and a text volume with black and white photographic reproductions. Both volumes are quartos, with the facsimile volume being [16] pp and the text volume being 28 pp. Text volume bound in printed white paper wrappers. Facsimile volume printed on simulated vellum. . A fine set in a very good leather clamshell case lettered and stamped decoratively in... Read More
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Memories of the Ford Administation. a Novel
by Updike, John
New York: Knopf, 1992 First edition. Signed by the author. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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