The Art of Dying Wool, Silk, and Cotton. Translated from the French
by Hellot (Jean), (Pierre-Joseph) Macquer, and Le Pileur d'Aplingy
London: R, Baldwin, 1789. First edition in English. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. x, (vii), 206, 209-508, pp. 6 engraved plates, 4pp. of descriptions and 12pp. of adverts. Sometime nicely bound in quarter leather, spine in six compartments tooled in blind with raised bands, red leather lettering labels, gilt, marbled paper boards. The soiled title page has been remargined, and there is occasional light staining, especially near the rear. Surplus stamp of the Library of Congress on the dedication... Read More
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The Complete Works of O. Henry
by (Binding: Maurin) O. Henry
Garden City: Doubleday and Co, 1953. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes, large 8vo. xiii, (1), 810; viii, (2), 811-1692pp. Finely cound in full crimson morocco by Maurin. Spine in 4 compartments with raised bands, gilt rules and titles, gilt gules on the boards and board edges, gilt inner dentelles, top edges gilt, ribbon markers, marbled endpapers. Stamped 'Maurin' in glt on the inner upper boards. A fine set in wonderful bindings. .
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The Gaucho Martín Fierro / El Gaucho Martín Fierro
by José Hernández
Buenos Aires: Instituto Cultural Walter Owen, 1978. Bilingual Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 12mo. 264pp. followed by an index. Illustrated. Bound in brown and cream cowhide with an illustration and the title impressed on the front board. Ribbon marker. In Spanish and English. Short gift inscription, and ownership initials and date else a fine copy. .
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Chart of Ancient Armour from ðe xi to ðe xvii Cent; Description of the Figures in The Chart of Ancient Armour
by Hewitt, John
London: George Bell, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Large folding chart approximate 18 by 30 inches printed in red and black and with a fine cloth backing, bound into a portfolio. The portfolio is covered in paper decorated with blue fleurs-de-lis in a repeating red diapeer pettern. Gilt title on the spine, and a bookseller ticket on the front pastedown. The chart was cut into nine sectiins to allow folding into the portfolio. Some wear to the... Read More
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The Life of Merlin, Sirnamed Ambrosius. His Prophecies, and Predictions Interpreted; and Their Truth Made Good By Our English Annals. ..
by Heywood, Thomas
London: J. Okes (Oakes), 1641. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Small 4to. (70)376pp. Contemporary leather boards, nicely rebacked to style with six compartments with raised bands, gilt title. Text lacks the dedication leaf and the 'To the Reader" leaf, otherwise complete. The frontispiece of Merlin is in an excellent facsimile. Original boards worn at edges, and aside from the rebacking, facsimile, and two leaves, a very good copy. Reprinted in 1812 and 1813 but scarce in this first... Read More
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The Life of Merlin, Sirnamed Ambrosius. His Prophecies, and Predictions Interpreted; and Their Truth Made Good by Our English Annals:; Being a Chronological History of all the Kings and Memorable Passages of this Kingdom, from Brute to the Reign of King Charles
by Heywood, Thomas
Carmarthen: Printed and sold by J. Evans, 1812. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. viii,324pp Contemporary half leather, marbled paper boards. Spine tooled in gilt; black leather lettering label, gilt. List of subscribers, index. Edges and corners worn else this is a very good copy. Reprint of the first edition of 1641 and scarce in its own right. Lowndes, p. 1064. With the armorial bookplate of Sir William Grace.
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The Life of Merlin, Sirnamed Ambrosius. His Prophecies, and Predictions Interpreted; and Their Truth Made Good by Our English Annals:; Being a Chronological History of all the Kings and Memorable Passages of this Kingdom, from Brute to the Reign of King Charles
by Heywood, Thomas
Carmarthen: Printed and sold by J. Evans, 1812. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. viii,324pp Contemporary marbled paper boards nicely rebacked in quarter leather, red leather lettering label, gilt. List of subscribers, index. Edges and corners worn else this is a very good copy. Reprint of the first edition of 1641 and scarce in its own right. Lowndes, p. 1064.
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The Story of Cloth: Compiled as a Practical Handbook for Men Who Sell Men's CLothing
by (Hickey-Freeman Co.)
Rochester, N.Y.: Hickey-Freeman Co, 1925. Hardcover. Very good. Thin 4to. 37pp. Brown cloth spine, gilt title, paper over boards with title embossed in gilt and dark brown on the upper board. With two pages (35 and 37) containing nine fabric samples each, with identification (e.g., homespun, Cassimere, Londonaire, etc.) and page reference to their discussions in the text. Light wear and soil to the binding, upper corner of front free endpaper clipped, else a very good copy.... Read More
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Pietas Londinensis: The History, Design, and Present State of the Various Public Charities in and near London
by Highmorre, A(nthony)
London: Richard Phillips, 1810. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. xxix,(i),984pp followed by 4pp. publisher's catalogue. Half-title present. Early binding of full polished calf; spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt. Gilt borders and inner dentelles to the boards. Nicely and nearly invisibly rebacked with the original backstrip laid on and retaining the original drab endpapers. A very good copy.
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Life and Times of Jo Mora, Iconic Artist of the American West
by Hiller, Peter
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2019. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Large quarto, 9" x 12.25". Quarter brown leather over linen boards. Portrait of Mora mounted on front board, gilt spine. With a paper portfolio of reproductions of two noted posters by Mora. All housed in a brown cloth publisher's slipcase with gilt lettered spine. One of 50 copies (the Deluxe Edition), signed by Hiller as well as editor Gail Jones and printer Norman Clayton. In addition,... Read More
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Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858
by Hind, Henry Youle
London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 2 volumes. 8vo. xx, 494; publisher's lists: (2); 24, dated 1859; xvi; 472pp. Illustrated with 20 chromoxylograph plates, 16 of which are in full color; 76 woodcut illustrations; 8 maps, hand-colored. Contemporary half polished tan colored calf, spines in six compartments, gilt; tan-colored cloth sides; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Light wear and soil; a very good copy. The illustrations were based on photographs taken... Read More
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Recollections of Past Life
by Holland, Sir Henry (Signed)
London: Longmans, Green, and CO, 1872. Hardcover. Very good. First edition after the privately printed edition of 1868. 8vo. viii, 346pp plus 2 page publisher's catalogue. Publsher's green cloth blocked in black and gilt on the spine and upper board; brown coated endpapers. Nearly imperceptibly rebacked; a very good copy. With an autograph letter form the author to Lady Pakington bound in. "...I feel grateful in learing that my little volume of Recollections has given you pleasure. Sir... Read More
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Observations on Electricity, Looming, and Sounds; Together with a Theory of Thunder Showers, and of West and North West Winds ...
by Hopkins, George F.
New-York: Hopkins & Morris, 1825. Wraps. Poor. 8vo. 40pp. Printed paper wraps, unsophisticated. Wraps well soiled and worn; binding nearly perished; pages rough and soiled along the edges but not affecting text. A fair copy only. Preserved in a custom clamshell case. Begins with a excerpt from Jefferson's Notes on Virginia and continues with sections on the effect of the atmosphere on electricity, vision and sound. "Looming" refers to distant objects sometimes appearing abnormally large, a... Read More
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Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera. Interpretatione & Notis Illustravit Ludovicus Despres ...
by (Horace)
Londini: C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, et al., 1783. Hardcover. Good. Editio Decima Quarta. 8vo. (20),631,(125)pp. Contemporary calf; spine in six compartments with raised bands, red leather lettering label, gilt. Title page in red and black. Hinges, corners and edges nicely repaired; leather and lettering label, including gilt, rubbed;some contemporary notes; some staining; else a good copy. Includes the Vita Horatii cum Dacerii Notis, ejusdem Chronologia Horatiana, & Praefatio De Satira Romana. ESTC N21945.
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The Ashendene Press Edition of Horace's Carmina Sapphica
by (Miniature) Horace
Boston: Anne and David Bromer, 1983. Fine. Hardcover. Miniature book. 1-7/16 by 1-3/16 inches. Copy No. 109 of 150 finely printed on the Ashendene hand press by Linnea Gentry from the original Ashendene pates used for the original printing for Queen Mary's Dollhouse in 1923. Bound in full niger morocco, spine in three compartments with raised bands, gilt; gilt rules on the boards; all edges gilt. Housed in the publisher's clamshell case, morocco spine, gilt, with cloth sides... Read More
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Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera
by Horatius Flaccus, Quintus [Horace]
London: John Pine [Iohannes Pine], 1733. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes. Contemporary full crimson leather, intricately tooled in a 'cottage' design on all boards. Sometime rebacked in matching leather. The reback is itself a work of art: The spines are in 6 compartments, separated by raised bands tooled in gilt. The second compartments contain the title bordered in simple gilt lines; the third contain the volume numbers surrounded by intricate gilt corners; and the remaining compartments... Read More
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The Birth of Galahad
by Hovey, Richard
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1900. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. Vellum spine, gilt; drab paper over boards. A Romantic Drama. A very good copy showing only light wear. First published in 1898, this is the second printing. BAL 9387. .
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Launcelot and Guenevere: A Poem in Dramas
by Hovey, Richard
New York: United States Book Company, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 263pp. MAroon cloth, gilt title on spine and gilt design on upper board. Top edge gilt. Corners and hinges worn,cloth lightly soiled, else a very good copy. BAL 9375. .
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Visits to Remarkable Places: Old Halls, Battle=Fields, Scenes Illustrative of Striking Passages in English History and Poetry
by Howitt, William
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes. 8vo. (xiii), 528; xi, (1), 610 pp. Full polished calf. Spine in six compartments, gilt, with red and brown lettering labels, gilt; gilt rules on the boards; blind inner dentelles; marbled endpapers and edges. Text illustrations. Light rubbing and aging else a near fine copy. The third edition. Blindstamp on the front free endpaper of J. Galt, Manchester, Bookseller to the Queen.
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Contemplations, Being Several Short Essays, Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Graphic Sayings Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (Signed )
by Hubbard, Elbert; Heloise Hubbard, ed
East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1902. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. (10),120,(2)pp. Finely bound by the Roycrofters in half morocco. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, intricately gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Frontispiece portrait. Printed in red and black throughout. One of 100 signed numbered copies printed on Japan Vellum. Signed by Hubbard on the limitation page. Only a trace of wear at the corners and edges; a few spots on the upper board... Read More
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To Far Western Alaska for Big Game
by Hubback, Theodore R.
London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 8vo. xiv, 232pp. plus publisher's ads. Green textured cloth blocked on the spine and upper board in gilt. Illustrated with photographs and two maps, as well as a large folding map in the rear. A fine, bright copy with only a trace of foxing on the upper edge of the textblock and the title and dedication pages. The scarce dustwrapper has a tiny nick at the base of... Read More
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Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest
by Hudson, W. W.
London: Duckworth & Co, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. 315, (1) pp. Bound by Bayntum of Bath in polished green calf, spine in six compartments, intricately gilt, red and black lettering labels, gilt, gilt rules on boards, gilt inner dentellers, all edges gilt, marbles endpapers. Original green cloth boards bound in, the rear board in first state binding without the publisher's device, and the upper board with the printed label of Day's Library. A trace of rubing... Read More
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The Miracles of Our Lord
by Humphreys, Henry Noel
London: Longman & Co, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. iv,(1),31,(2)pp. Thirty-two pages are chromolithographed by Humphreys, in addition there is a leaf of the illuminator' s remarks and one comprising an index of the miracles. Bound in the original black papier-mache covers designed to look like carved ebony. The binding was based on one carved in ivory in the 12th Century and has medallions of the principal miracles intertwined with ornate decorations and the title. The... Read More
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Dard Hunter & Son
by Hunter, Dard, II, and Dard Hunter, III
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. Black quarter morocco and Japanese cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on red leather spine. The text is was composed in Ehrhardt types and printed on Frankfurt mould made paper. Foreword and Notes by Henry Morris. Tipped-in original folio and quarto leaves from Mountain House books, 4 original light-and-shade watermarked papers made by all three Hunters, color photos, and 30 pages of black and white illustrations.... Read More
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Suite of Etchings from Faust, 1943
by Icart, Louis
(Paris): (Le Vasseur & Cie.), 1943. Loose plates. Near fine. Twenty-four black and white etchings and one full color etching, 5 by seven inches on pages measuring seven by nine inches. The color etching has an old tape repair on the reverse of the upper margin, not affecting either the image of the plate impression, else these are in fine condition. Each etching is signed in pencil by Icart at the bottom right. Protected in a custom clamshell... Read More
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