Kafirs Illustrated, The
by ANGAS, George French
London: J. Hogarth, [1849]. Of the three works, The Kaffirs Illustrated is the most uncommon" (Tooley). With Thirty Beautiful Hand-Colored Plates ANGAS, George French. The Kafirs Illustrated, in a Series of Drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa Tribes; also, Portraits of the Hottentot, Malay, Fingo, and other races inhabiting Southern Africa: Together with Sketches of Landscape Scenery in the Zulu Country, Natal, and the Cape Colony. London: G. Barclay for J. Hogarth, [1849]. First... Read More
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Manuscript anthology of English poetry
by MANUSCRIPT POETRY ANTHOLOGY
England: , 1830. A Handsome Early Nineteenth-Century Poetry Anthology Manuscript Elegantly Written and Illustrated with Charming Wash Drawings [MANUSCRIPT POETRY ANTHOLOGY]. Manuscript anthology of English poetry. England, early-to mid-19th century. Square octavo (7 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches; 197 x 162 mm.). 115 manuscript pages followed by four manuscript pages of index and one blank leaf. Written throughout in a clear and elegant brown-ink cursive hand. Several pages embellished with attractive pen-and-wash drawings, including pastoral landscapes and... Read More
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Harold Arlen. Happy with the Blues
by ARLEN, Harold; JABLONSKI, Edward
Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow...' With a Signed Photograph of the Composer Harold Arlen [ARLEN, Harold]. JABLONSKI, Edward. Harold Arlen. Happy with the Blues. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. With a signed photograph of Harold Arlen dated "aug. - 14 - 72" pasted to the half-title. First edition. Octavo (9 1/8 x 6 inches; 232 x 152 mm.). [1-11], 12-286 pp.... Read More
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Works of Matthew Arnold, The
by ARNOLD, Matthew
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, Smith, Elder and Company, 1903. Ah, love, let us be true To one another..." Mathew Arnold's Edition de Luxe in an Elegant Binding by Rivière for Sotheran's ARNOLD, Matthew. The Works of Matthew Arnold. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, Smith, Elder and Company, 1903-1904. Edition de Luxe, limited to 775 copies. Fifteen octavo volumes (9 x 6 inches; 229 x 153 mm.). Title-pages printed in red and black throughout, with engraved... Read More
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![[In Japanese]. Setsu Kushi Hinagata [Patterns of Miniature Combs]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/079/095/505095079.0.l.2.jpg)
[In Japanese]. Setsu Kushi Hinagata [Patterns of Miniature Combs]
by [DECORATIVE ARTS]
[Tokyo]: [Japan Art Society], [1905]. Setsu Kushi Hinagata [Patterns of Miniature Combs] An Aesthetic Window into Japanese Decorative Tradition [DECORATIVE ARTS]. [In Japanese]. Setsu Kushi Hinagata [Patterns of Miniature Combs]. [Tokyo: Japan Art Society, 37th Year of the Meiji (1905)]. Octavo (9 1/2 x 5 3/4 in; 242 x 140 mm). 154 pp. A unique scrapbook of over 500 charcoal rubbings on rice paper of Japanese miniature comb and hairpin (koagi) patterns tipped-in to the... Read More
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Naval and Military Exploits Which Have Distinguished the Reign of George the Third, The
by ASPIN, Jehoshaphat
London: Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820. Complete with the Two Additional Plates ASPIN, Jehoshaphat. The Naval and Military Exploits Which Have Distinguished the Reign of George the Third. Accurately described, and methodically arranged. Embellished with numerous color plates. London: Printed for Samuel Leigh, by W. Clowes, 1820. First edition. Twelvemo (5 3/8 x 3 1/2 inches; 137 x 89 mm.). viii, [2], 784 pp. Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and thirty-five circular hand-colored aquatint... Read More
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Athenaei Dipnosophistarum sive Coenae sapientum Libri XV
by ATHENAEUS
Lyon: , 1556. Ancient Greek Dining Customs, including remarks on Ancient Taste in Music, Dance, Games, Court Behavior and other details of the Lifestyles of the Wealthy Classes ATHENAEUS. Athenaei Dipnosophistarum sive Coenae sapientum Libri XV. Natale de Comitibus Veneto nunc primùm è Graeca in Latinam linguam vertente... Lugduni: Apud Sebastianum Barptolomaei Honorati (Colophon: Jacobus Faure Excudebat), 1556. First Lyon Latin translation, published the same year as the Basel edition. Small octavo (6 5/8... Read More
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Sixteen Scenes taken from The Miseries of Human Life. By one of the Wretched
by ATKINSON, John Augustus
London: Wm. Miller, 1807. The Miseries of Human Life" Depicted in Sixteen Amusing Hand Colored Etched Plates [ATKINSON, John Augustus]. Sixteen Scenes taken from The Miseries of Human Life. By one of The Wretched. London: Published by Wm. Miller, 1807. First edition. Small oblong quarto (6 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches; 172 x 206 mm.). Hand-colored etched vignette title and sixteen hand-colored etched plates (one folding). At the top of each plate a reference is... Read More
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![Les Jeux de L'Enfance [with] Recueil de Cinquante Scenes de Grisetes [with] Recueil des Scènes Familiéres, et de Société de Paris [with] Les Sept péchés capital [with] Miscellaneous Prints](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/885/843/643843885.0.l.1.jpg)
Les Jeux de L'Enfance [with] Recueil de Cinquante Scenes de Grisetes [with] Recueil des Scènes Familiéres, et de Société de Paris [with] Les Sept péchés capital [with] Miscellaneous Prints
by AUBRY, Charles; BOILLY, Louis Leopold; [SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel] J.S.
Paris: Delpech, 1826 / 1824. Mischievous Children, Grisettes and Deadly Sins In Sixty Hand-Colored Lithographs AUBRY, Charles. BOILLY, Louis Leopold. [SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel]. J.S. Les Jeux de L'Enfance [with]Recueil de Cinquante Scenes de Grisettes [with] Recueil des Scenes Familiéres [with] Boilly Les Sept péchés capital [with] Miscellaneous Prints. Paris: Delpech, 1824-1826. Folio (13 3/4 x 10 inches; 349 x 254 mm.). Les Jeux de L'Enfance, eight hand-colored lithographed plates - complete; Recueil de Cinquante Scenes de Grisetes, twenty-eight... Read More
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Album Comique de Pathologie Pittoresque
by AUBRY, Charles; CHAZAL; BELLANGÉ; PIGAL
Paris: Chez Ambroise Tardieu, Editeur, 1823. Twenty Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Depicting Caricatures of Various Diseases AUBRY, Charles and others. Album Comique de Pathologie Pittoresque, Recueil de vingt caricatures médicales dessinées par Aubry, Chazal, Colin, Bellangé, et Pigal. Paris: Huzard-Courcier (for) Chez Ambrose Tardieu, 1823. First edition of this exceptionally rare satirical album illustrating imagined personifications of medical ailments through grotesque and darkly humorous lithographs. A remarkable early contribution to medical caricature, bringing together leading illustrators... Read More
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The Novels of Jane Austen
by AUSTEN, Jane; CHAPMAN, [R]obert [W]illiam, editor
Oxford: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1923. The Best Collected Edition of Jane Austen's Works AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels of Jane Austen. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes Indexes and Illustrations From Contemporary Sources. In Five Volumes. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1923-1932. One of 1,000 sets. Oxford Large-Paper Edition. [Together with:] Jane Austen's Letters to her sister Cassandra and others. Collected and Edited by R.W. Chapman. Oxford:... Read More
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Adelphi edition of the works of Jane Austen, The
by AUSTEN, Jane; SANFORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders
London: Martin Secker, 1923. The Adelphi Edition of Jane Austen Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe AUSTEN, Jane. The Adelphi edition of the works of Jane Austen. London: Martin Secker, [1923]. Seven small quarto volumes (6 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 171 x 124 mm.). Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Northanger Abbey; Mansfield Park; Emma; Persuasion; Lady Susan and The Watsons. Bound ca. 1923 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in three quarter orange Morocco over patterned... Read More
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Ou Diable L'Esprit Va-T-Il se Nicher
by BARIC, Jules Jean Antoine
Paris [&] New York: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, Roe Lockwood and Son , 1878. Silly Questions Depicted in Nineteen Humorous Lithographs BARIC, [Jules Jean Antoine]. Ou Diable L'Esprit Va-T-Il Se Nicher? Par Baric. [Where the Devil will the Spirit go?]. Paris [&] New-York: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, Roe Lockwood and Son [1878]. First (only?) edition. Folio (13 3/16 x 10 1/8 inches; 335 x 257 mm.). Lithographed pictorial title and eighteen numbered lithographed plates depicting the... Read More
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Les Autrichiens en Italie
by BARIC, [Jules Jean Antoine]
Paris: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, [1860]. Eighteen Hand-Colored Lithographs Depicting the Antics of the Austrian Army During the Italian Campaign of 1859. BARIC, [Jules Jean Antoine]. Les Autrichiens en Italie. Par Baric. Paris: Arnauld de Vresse, Editeur, [n.d., ca. 1860]. First (only?) edition. Folio (13 1/4 x 10 inches; 336 x 254 mm.). Pictorial hand colored lithograph title and seventeen un-numbered hand-colored lithographed plates depicting the antics of the Austrian army. The plates are captioned below. All... Read More
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Collection of Plays and Related Works, A.
by BARRIE, J.M.; HAMMERTON, J.A.
London: Various publishers, 1918. The Theatre of J. M. Barrie: A Finely Bound Zaehnsdorf Collection" BARRIE, J. M. A Uniformly Zaehnsdorf-Bound Collection of Plays and Related Works. London: various publishers, 1914-1938. Eleven octavo volumes (varying sizes between 7 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches and 6 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 200 x 136 mm and 170 x 117 mm). Uniformly bound ca. 1960 by Zaehnsdorf in three-quarter red morocco over red cloth boards, covers ruled in... Read More
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Peter Pan or the Boy who would not grow up
by BARRIE, J.M.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1928. The First Authorized Printed Edition of Peter Pan - In the Scarce Dust Jacket BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1928. First edition of the play in book form. Octavo (7 3/16 x 4 3/4 inches; 183 x 121 mm.). xxxiii, [1, blank], [1]-160 pp. Title-page printed in red and black. Publisher's original blue cloth, front cover... Read More
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A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases
by BATEMAN, Thomas
Philadelphia: Collins & Croft, 1818. Skin Disease Classification BATEMAN, Thomas. A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases. According to the Arrangement of Dr. Willan, exhibiting a concise view of the diagnostic symptoms and the method of treatment... First American, from the Fourth London Edition. Philadelphia: Collins & Croft, 1818. First American edition. Octavo (8 x 5 1/8 inches; 204 x 130 mm.). [1]-348 pp. Colored frontispiece "8 orders of Cutaneous Diseases". Title lightly foxed and... Read More
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Two Songs of Father Goose
by BAUM, L. Frank; DENSLOW, W.W.
Chicago & New York: The George M. Hill Company, 1900. A Rare Baum-Denslow Christmas Newspaper Supplement from the Great Oz Year of 1900 BAUM, L. Frank. DENSLOW, W.W. Two Songs of Father Goose. Christmas Music Supplement of The Examiner. Chicago & New York: The George M. Hill Company, 1900. First edition. Large folio newspaper supplement. Single sheet printed on both sides measuring 27 7/8 x 21 1/2 inches (708 x 546 mm), folded twice to make eight... Read More
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Magic of Oz, The
by BAUM, L. Frank
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1946. The Magic of Oz BAUM, L. Frank. The Magic of Oz. A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap'n Bill, in their successful search for a Magical and Beautiful Birthday Present for Princess Ozma of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., ca. 1946. Later edition. Quarto... Read More
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Grand Hotel
by BAUM, Vicki; HERSHOLT, Jean
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1930. A Fantastic First English Edition of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel Inscribed by Vicki Baum to Jean Hersholt "In Memory of our really nice time in Hollywood!" Jean Hersholt played Senf - The Head Porter of the Grand Hotel in the 1932 Movie BAUM, Vicki. Grand Hotel. London: Geoffrey Bles, [1930]. First edition in English of Vicki Baum's most famous novel - inscribed by her to Jean Hersholt. Octavo ( 7 1/4... Read More
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Edward Bawden
by BAWDEN, Edward; Bliss, Douglas Percy; [PENDOMER PRESS]
Godalming, Surrey: The Pendomer Press, 1979. One of 200 Copies with a Signed Lithograph by Edward Bawden [BAWDEN, Edward]. BLISS, Douglas Percy. Edward Bawden. [Godalming, Surrey]: The Pendomer Press, [n.d., 1979]. First edition, de luxe issue. Limited to 200 numbered copies (this copy being No. 40). Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 inches; 287 x 222 mm.). 200 pp. Eleven color plates and numerous black and white text illustrations. Pictorial title-page. "This book has been designed by... Read More
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Issue of Five Drawings, An
by BEARDSLEY, Aubrey
London: Leonard Smithers, 1906. Too Free for Circulation" Beardsley's Suppressed Juvenal & Lucian Drawings A Clandestine Portfolio of Decadent Eroticism, Limited to 120 Copies BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. An Issue of Five Drawings Illustrative of Juvenal and Lucian. London: [Leonard Smithers], 1906. Limited to 120 copies. Folio (13 3/8 x 8 15/16 inches; 340 x 227 mm.). [2, Title, verso blank], [2, Limitation statement, verso blank], [2, The Drawings, verso blank], five full page illustrations. In the... Read More
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Au Bal Masqué
by BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de
Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari, Maison Martinet, 1848. Charles-Édourd de Beaumont's Au Bal Masqué - At the Masked Ball BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de. Au Bal Masqué. [At the Masked Ball] Album par Beaumont. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari, Maison Martinet, [1848]. [First Series]. Quarto (13 1/4 x 10 inches; 336 x 254 mm.). Pictorial lithograph title-page and thirty superb lithograph plates. Some light foxing (mainly marginal) to a few plates, otherwise fine. Later violet cloth over boards,... Read More
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Les Jolies Femmes de Paris
by BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de
Paris: Chez Aubert, 1846. Forty Superb Lithographs by Charles-Édouard de Baeumont Depicting The Pretty Women of Paris BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de. Les Jolies Femmes de Paris. [The Pretty Women of Paris]. Paris: Chez Aubert, [1846]. Folio (13 1/8 x 10 inches; 333 x 254 mm.). Forty superb lithographs complete, all mounted on stubs. A remarkably clean example of this extremely rare title. Bound by Pagnant ca. 1890 in three quarter red scored calf... Read More
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Au Bal Masqué
by BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de
Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari, Maison Martinet, 1860. Charles-Édourd de Beaumont's Au Bal Masqué - At the Masked Ball BEAUMONT, Charles-Édouard de. Au Bal Masqué. [At the Masked Ball] Album par Beaumont. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari, Maison Martinet, [1860]. [Fifth Series]. Quarto (13 x 10 inches; 330 x 254 mm.). Pictorial lithograph title-page and thirty superb lithograph plates printed on strong white paper and mounted on stubs. Publisher's yellow pictorial wrapper bound in at front. The... Read More
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