Sir Galahad: A Christmas Mystery
by Morris, William
(San Francisco): Bullnettle Press, 1996. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. [22]pp. Finely printed by Asa Peavy on Hahnemule German Ingres paper. Bound by Coriander Reisbord in patterned paper boards, cloth spine. With a wood engraving by John DePol. One of 90 copies. Printed in celebration of William Morris' centenary. Fine.
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De l'Influence Attrivuée aux Philosophes aux Francs-Maçons et aus Illuminés sur la Revolution de France
by Mounier, J. J.
Tubigen: J. G. Gotta, et al., 1801. First trade edition. Hardcover. Very good. Thin 8vo. 25pp. Contemporary half leather, spine ruled in gilt and gilt tooling, red leather lettering label, gilt, drab paper boards. Armorial bookplate. Upper portion of spine artfully replaced else a very good copy. A refutation of Augustin de Barruel's Memoires pour Servir a l'Histoire du Jacobinisme. Thatcher II, p. 70 (French Revolution). In French. Reprinted many times; brought into English as "On the Influence... Read More
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Dean & Son's Moveable Book of The Royal Punch & Judy as Played Before the Queen at Windsor Castle & The Crystal Palace
by (Moveable)
London: Dean & Son, 11 Ludgate Hill, 1859. Poor. Stiff card wraps. 4to. Bound in thin card with covers printed in color. 16 pp., printed on one side only, with eight full page hand-colored illustrations showing Punch and Judy, et al., in the upper portion with text and drummer below. Each plate has moveable parts operated by a lever at the foot which operates the movement in the upper window; in addition 3 of the drummers move when... Read More
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Red Riding Hood
by Dean's Moveable
London: Dean & Son, 1850. Hardcover. Good. 4to. Cloth spine, printed paper boards. Unpaginated, Eight full page hand-colored moveable plates telling the story of Red Riding Hood . All moveables are in good working order. Inner hinges have been neatly repaired, and a few rivets have been replaced; there is fingering and soil on the pages, the covers are rubbed and worn .Overall it is a very good copy of an extremely scarce early moveable. Montanaro,... Read More
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Minding my Own Business: An Autobiography
by Muir, Percy
London: Chatto & Windus, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt spine title. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price clipped. There are some chips at the head and tail of the spine, and a closed marginal tear at the top foid else in very good condition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Trevor, "who is already to be counted in the dramatis personae of the next volume. .
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Munchausen at the Pole; or the Surprising and Wonderful Adventures of a Voyage of Discovery...By the renowned Capt. Munchausen
by Munchausen, Baron
London and Dublin: J. Johnston; R. Milliken, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Original drab boards, gray paper spine, uncut. (10), 164pp. plus 4pp publisher's catalogue. Half-title, folding hand-colored etched frontispiece and 4 hand-colored plates, as called for. Boards well worn, text has spotting and soiling, frontispiece folds have been reinforced from behind,ink name and an erasure on the half title. Only a good copy. Surprisingly rare satire on Arctic exploration. Only a few copies noted in... Read More
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On Ne Badine Pas Avec L'Amour
by Musset, Alfred de
Paris: Conquet, 1904. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Morin. One of 200 numbered copies. 35 colored lithographs by Morin. Full crushed turqoise morocco binding by Beaumont. Spine gilt in an Art Noveau design; t.e.g.; inner dentelles, gilt; marbled endpapers and marbled preliminaries. Occasional light foxing; spine lightly sunned else a fine copy in a beautiful signed binding.
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The Handbook of Jamaica for 1892: Published by Authority, Comprising Historical, Statistical and General Information Concerning the Island
by Musson, S. P., and T. Laurence Roxburgh
London and Kingston: Edward Standford; Government Printing Officed, 1892. Hardcover. Fine. The Twelfth Year of Publication. 8vo. xvii, 94),6-542pp. Large folded map of Jamaica in color. Recent full red morocco, spine titled in gilt; all edges red. Original cloth upper cover, red blocked in gilt, bound in at rear. A fine copy.
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History of the Military Organizations of the State of Colorado, 1860-1935
by Nankivell, Major John H.
Denver: The W. H. Kistler Stationery Co, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. xxv, (1),533 pp. Blue victorian textured cloth, gilt spine title, gilt device on the upper board. Color frontispiece. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography. Index. Fine copy. Part One: Early Military History; Part Two: History of the 157th (1st Colorado) Infantry; Part Three: Cavalry and Artillery Units; Part Four: History of the 115th Engineers; Part Five: 115th Ammunition Train, Supply Train and Trench Mortar; Part... Read More
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Before Lewis and Clark; Documents Illustrating the History of the Missouri, 1785-1804
by Nasatir, A. P., ed.
St. Louis: St. Louis Historical Documents Foundation, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Two volumes. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt spine titles. Five folding maps in volume 1, as called for. Gilt dimmed with age else a fine set. The dustwrappers are lightly chipped at edges else near fine. .
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Frémont; The West's Greatest Adventurer
by Nevins, Allan
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Two volume. Large 8vo. Nay blue T-grain cloth, gilt spine and upper board titles. Illustrated. Index. Light rubbing to the upper board of volume I, else a fine, bright set. Errata slip present in the first volume. Howes N64. .
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The History of the Ancient and Royal Foundation, Called The Abbey of St. Alban, in the County of Hereford, from the Founding Thereof, in 793, to its Dissolution , in 1539.; Exhibiting the Life of Each Abbot, and the Principal Events Relating to the Monastery, During its Rule and Government
by Newcome, Peter
London: Printed, for the Author, J. Nichols, 1795. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. xiii, (i), 547,(i)pp. Engraved frontispiece of the abbey; folding hand-colored map of Hertford, and two folding plans of the abbey. Contemporary full calf, nicely rebacked to style in matching calf, red leather lettering label, gilt. Frontispiece mounted without loss, some offsetting and light soil, rebacked, else a very good copy. Apparently this is a reissue of the sheets of an edition printed in 1793-95;... Read More
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Rhymes for A. Wince
by Niles, John Jacob; John Michael Bruer
n.p. (Lexington, KY): University of Kentucky Library Press, 1971. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. (34)pp. Finely printed letterpress by Shelia Maybanks & Ashley Bullitt at the press of Gravesend in the Margaret I. King Library, Charmingly illustrated throughout by John Michael Bruer. Bound in decorated paper over boards with a printed title label on the spine. A very good copy. One of 100 numbered copies. This is number 23. .
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Fukuro: Meibutsu Gire (布久路: 名物裂)
by Ninagawa, Dalichi, ed
Kyoto, 1952. Hardcover. Very good plus. Third edition. Folio, bound accordion book. 32 leaves of heavy card printed. Fifteen full page illustrations in full color of fabric bags used to house tea jars or kettles for use in the traditional tea ceremony. Each plate contains four images with a facing letterpress explanation in Japanese. Both the plates and the letterpress printings are tipped in. The boards are covered in a printed paper with a paper label to the... Read More
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Wild Animal Stories: A Panorama Picture Book
by Nister, Ernst
London and New York: Ernst NIster and E. P. Dutton, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. First edition. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. With six large chromolithographed pop-ups and numerous black and white vignettes in text. Pictorial boards with brown cloth backstrip. Floral endpapers. Boards moderately worn at the edges with some scuffs and soiling. Front hinge cracked a few pages into text causing the text block to be a bit shaky. All pop-up illustrations are complete and in working... Read More
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The Airship Panorama Book
by Nister, Ernest
London, New York: Ernest Nister; E. P. Dutton Co, 1910. Only edition. Hardcover. Fine. Square 4to. (12)pp. Glazed pictorial paper over boards. Stories of airships told in verse, featuring four full color pop-up scenes; each scene with a pop-up airship on a color background drawing. Upper cover with a color drawing of an army airship rounding St. Paul's Cathedral in London and titles printed in red. A fine copy. Conjectural date range is based on the year... Read More
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Wanbilder Reliefs Plastiken (Signed)
by Noehles, Karl, and Gerhard Wind
Dusseldorf: Vier-Turme-Verlag, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Large square 8vo. 133pp. Brick red cloth covers with a repeating "WIND" motif on the upper board in black; black spine titles; patterned endpapers. Illustrated throughout with photographs of Wind's work, mainly in black and white with a few in color. A fine copy. Warmly inscribed to friends and dated November 11, 1979, and signed "Barbara + 4Wind". In German.
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Les Propheties de M. Michel Nostradamus. Recuës et corrigées sur la coppie imprimée à Lyon par Benoist Rigaud 1568
by Nostradamus [Michel], Vincent Seve, ed
Troyes) Languedoc: (Pierre de Rau) Chasteau de Chantilly, 1605. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (63), 56, (8) leaves. Modern half vellum , marbled paper boards, ink spine title. Woodcut portrait of Nostradamus on the title page, which is lightly rubbed and with a tiny repair on the top margin not affecting the text. Contemporary faded signature on the title page. A few pages with light dampstaining, A2 verso with a top corner touching one letter of text.... Read More
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
by O'Brien, Robert C.
New York: Atheneum, 1971. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Beige cloth, dark purple spine title and upper board illustration. Neat ownership stamp on the front free endpaper else a fine copy. The dustwrapper is not clipped. The dustwrapper is in fine conditon and without the Newbury Award sticker. Illustrated throughout in black and white by Bernstein. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. The story centers around Mrs. Frisby's efforts to move... Read More
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A Dialogue of Polygamy, Written Originally in Italian; A Dialogue of Divorce
by Ochino, Bernardino (Ochine, Barnardine; Ochini0
London: Printed for John Garfield, 1657. First edition in English. Hardcover. Very good. Rendred into English by a person of quality, and dedicated to the author of that well-known treatise call'd Advice to a son." 12mo. (22), 89. 61pp. Contemporary full leather, tooled simply in blind. The dialogue of Polygamy is followed by the dialogue of Divorce, which has its own pagination. The endpapers are filled with penciled notations of a former owner (C. Inglis,... Read More
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Annala Rioghachta Eireann: Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters
by O'Donovan, John
Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1851. First edition. Seven volumes, large 4tos. Contemporary half green morocco, green sand grain green cloth boards, marbled endpapers in a non-pareil pattern, all edges gilt, ribbon markers. Light wear to the bindings at the edges and hinges, else this is a very good set. With the bookplates of John Eacott Manahan and the arnmorial plate of H. L. A. The Annals are printed in the original Irish with English translation on the... Read More
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An Introduction to and an History of Ireland
by O'Halloran, S.
Dublin: H. Fitzpatrick, 1803. Early Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. 8vo. Two volumes in one. xxix,(1),411,(1);xlvii,(1),309,(15)pp. Frontispiece plus four engraved illustrations of which three are folding. List of subscribers. Newly bound in quarter green morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, green leather lettering label, gilt; green marbled paper sides. Library stamps on several pages, including the title page and the reverse of the first and third plates, with some bleed-through; partial separation on two folds of the plates,... Read More
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Obras de José Clemente Orozco en la Collección de Carrillo Gill - Mexico
by (Orozco)
México: Imprenta Nuevo Mundo, 1949. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Folio. 59pp of text (in Spanish) followed by the catalog of Pinturas y Dibujos (91 plates), Litografias (28 plates) and Grabados (12 plates). Many of the plates are printed in full color. Black cloth, gilt titles on the spine and upper board. A fine copy. The dustwsrapper is slightly darkened with age and a little rough along the top edge, else is in very good condition. ... Read More
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Manuscript on Vellum, Signed
by Ottoboni, Leonardo, Grand Chancellor of Venice (Leonardus Octobonus)
Venice: Ducal Palace, 1601. Leaf. Fine. Single page of vellum, 12 by 16 inches, folded and with cuts along two margins to seal the page. Five lines of manuscript, the first two in Latin, then two in Italian, and the last in Latin, identifying Marino di Carvallo as the Venetian Ambassador appointed by the Doge of Venice to the King of France, Henry IV of Navarre. Signed at the end in Latin "Leonardus Octobonus" for the Council of... Read More
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Original Pen and Ink and Watercolor Drawing on Paper
by Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul, (In the Style of)
n.p.: n.p., 1940. Fine. Signed with her name along the bottom left-center. 3½ by 5 inches mounted on card 9 by 11 inches, with a recent mat of the same size. A brightly colored charming illustration depicting an elf astride a small bird, another child mounting his, and the third child falling off a bird, with plants and mushrooms in a green vale with puffy clouds in the sky, We have not been able to authenticate this... Read More
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