![[AMERICAN "SHITPOST" 1852]. Life of Lord Timothy Dexter. [ISSUED WITH]: A Pickle for the Knowing Ones: or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/522/691/1770691522.0.l.jpg)
[AMERICAN "SHITPOST" 1852]. Life of Lord Timothy Dexter. [ISSUED WITH]: A Pickle for the Knowing Ones: or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress
by [Dexter, Timothy]. Knapp, Samuel L.
Newburyport: John G. Tilton, 1852. Later edition. Good. Together two parts in one volume. 12mo. Ad 1: viii, [1], 10-107, with a woodcut frontispiece of Dexter's mansion, a half-page woodcut of Dexter on p. viii, and a full-page woodcut of Jonathan Plummer on p. [108] opposite the facing title page; Ad 2: 36 pp., title-page vignette of Dexter and his dog (verso blank. Original stab-stitched self wrappers (both stained and darkened). Original publisher's brown cloth, upper cover with... Read More
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![[ASTRONOMY AND PHOTOGRAPHY]. Beitrage zur Fixsternenkunde [3 scholarly papers extracted from the 1846 Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Bohmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/461/222/1743222461.0.l.jpg)
[ASTRONOMY AND PHOTOGRAPHY]. Beitrage zur Fixsternenkunde [3 scholarly papers extracted from the 1846 Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Bohmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften]
by Doppler, Christian
Prague: Gottlieb Haase & Sons, 1846. First Edition. Very good. 4to. Together 3 papers in one volume. 1) Methode, die scheinbaren Durchmesser sammtlicher Fixsterne in Bogenmass zu bestimmen (pp. 623-634). 2). Gedanken uber die Moglichkeit, die absoluten Entfernungen und absoluten Durchmesser der Fixsterne auf rein optischem Wege zu bestimmen (pp. 635-641). 3). Methode, die Geschwindigkeit, mit der die Lichtmolekel bei der Wahrnehmung der Fixsterne am Orte des Beobachters schwingen, zu bestimmen (pp. 642-646, with one full-page diagram). Minor... Read More
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![[VOYAGE AROUND THE CAPE OF GOOD HORN]. Boston to San Francisco in Winter of 1862-1863](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/726/402/1701402726.0.l.0.jpg)
[VOYAGE AROUND THE CAPE OF GOOD HORN]. Boston to San Francisco in Winter of 1862-1863
by Drown, A.N.
S.l.: Privately Printed, 1919. Very good. 8vo. 76 pp. + one folding map at end (final page of text browned). Original stiff wrappers (fore-edges untrimmed as issued) a trifle dust-soiled, but a tight copy, signed "Compliments of W[illard] N. Drown," the author's son (and ghost editor of the book), and Francis L. Cooper. A SCARCE AND REMARKABLE ACCOUNT OF A 122-DAY VOYAGE AROUND THE CAPE OF GOOD HORN, UNDERTAKEN DURING THE CIVIL WAR. THE BOOK WAS PRIVATELY PRINTED... Read More
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![[WORLD MAP]. A New Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection with The Tracks & Discoveries of the Latest Circumnavigators &c](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/783/450/1397450783.0.l.0.jpg)
[WORLD MAP]. A New Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection with The Tracks & Discoveries of the Latest Circumnavigators &c
by Dunn, Samuel
London: Laurie and Whittle. No. 53, Fleet Street, 1794. Very good. Original copper-engraved map with contemporary hand-colored outline and rather hastily-applied wash which in some instances extends into the outer margins. Professionally matted (visible size: 420 x 320 mm; 16.5" x 12.5"), very handsome 20th-century wood frame. Original engraving, NOT a reproduction! Fine 18th-century map of the world, showing the exploration routes and circumnavigations of Bouvet (1733 and 1739), Bougainville (1768), Byron (1765) and Cook (1773-1779), with other... Read More
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![[ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY / WOMAN PRINTER]. Catalogue des livres imprimes et manuscrits, composant la bibliotheque de feu m. L.M.J. Duriez (de Lille). Sale dates: 22 janvier 1828 et seq](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/458/222/1743222458.0.l.jpg)
[ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY / WOMAN PRINTER]. Catalogue des livres imprimes et manuscrits, composant la bibliotheque de feu m. L.M.J. Duriez (de Lille). Sale dates: 22 janvier 1828 et seq
by Duriez, Louis-Marie-Joseph (Gallimard et Fournel, c.-p.)
Paris: [Mme Huzard for] J.-S. Merlin, 1828. First Edition. Very good. 8vo. x, 530 pp., 1 f. (advertisement), 5245 lots described. Bound by Kohler in contemporary smooth quarter calf, marbled boards (front cover bumped at fore-edge, flat spine divided by gilt fillets into six compartments, title and date lettered direct, marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Unidentified monogram on first blank leaf "F.J." (not in Lugt). PRICED COPY of the sale catalogue of the library belonging to the late Louis-Marie-Joseph... Read More
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![[INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. A Catalogue of Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine. TOGETHER WITH: A Catalogue of Incunabula and Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine, First Supplement](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/081/445/1322445081.0.l.0.jpg)
[INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. A Catalogue of Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine. TOGETHER WITH: A Catalogue of Incunabula and Sixteenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine, First Supplement
by Durling, Richard J. and Krivatsky, Peter
Bethesda, MD: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Library of Medicine; U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1971. First Edition. Together 2 vols. 4to (265 x 205 mm). Ad 1: xi, 698 pp. Ad 2: v, 51 pp. Original decorated gray cloth with black embossed roundel and black and gilt lettering on spines. Some soiling and fading to covers, internally very good. Loosely inserted: Pamphlet, "The Medical Department of Crear Library," by Herman H. Henkle. Reprinted from "The Centaur... Read More
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Die Incunabeln der deutschen Lithographie (1796-1821)
by Dussler, Luitpold
Heidelberg: Richard Weissbach, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, 315 pages, original cloth with gilt lettering. ¶ The first scientific catalog of the early German lithography, arranged alphabetically by the artist's last name. First published in 1925, this book is still considered an essential reference work.
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![[AMERICAN SCALEBOARD ("SCABBARD") BINDING]. Thoughts on God, Relative to His Moral Character, in Comparison with the Character, which Reputed Divines have Given Him](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/004/403/1701403004.0.l.0.jpg)
[AMERICAN SCALEBOARD ("SCABBARD") BINDING]. Thoughts on God, Relative to His Moral Character, in Comparison with the Character, which Reputed Divines have Given Him
by Dutton, Salmon
Weathersfield, Vermont: Eddy and Patrick, 1814. First Edition. Good. 12mo. 102 pp. (typical foxing, lacking final endleaf). Contemporary scaleboard binding: quarter sheep over scaleboard covered with drab blue paper (binding extremities and corners worn, lower fore-corner bumped and partially defective, back cover stained, with portions of the paper covering and leather worn away, 2" horizontal split in scaleboard). With substantive corrections in the hand of the printer or author on pp. [7], 24 and 27. EARLY AMERICAN SCALEBOARD... Read More
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![[ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY / LIBRARY SALE CATALOGUE 1886 - PRICED WITH BIDS IN CODE]. Catalogue des livres, composant la bibliotheque de feu M. Emile Egger, membre de l'Institut, professeur a la faculte des lettres de Paris, commandeur de la Legion d'honneur](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/241/734/1078734241.0.l.4.jpg)
[ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY / LIBRARY SALE CATALOGUE 1886 - PRICED WITH BIDS IN CODE]. Catalogue des livres, composant la bibliotheque de feu M. Emile Egger, membre de l'Institut, professeur a la faculte des lettres de Paris, commandeur de la Legion d'honneur
by Egger, Emile
Paris: Alphonse Picard, 1886. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. viii, 243 pp., INTERLEAVED and ANNOTATED throughout. 2,776 lots. Contemporary French black and brown mottled boards, black roan spine with four raised bands, lettered direct in the second compartment. Lower hinge and recto of final endpaper repaired, evidence of waterstaining and old mold (now inactive) on final five leaves and endpaper. Not a good copy, but priced accordingly. Priced, interleaved, and profusely annotated copy that almost certainly belonged to the... Read More
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![[PUNK ZINE]. [USED-BOOK TRADE IN NYC]. Cometbus #56: A Bestiary of Booksellers](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/649/117/1770117649.0.l.jpg)
[PUNK ZINE]. [USED-BOOK TRADE IN NYC]. Cometbus #56: A Bestiary of Booksellers
by Cometbus (Aaron Eliott)
New York: The Author, 2015. First Edition. As new. 8vo. 112 pp. Original illustrated wrappers. WE IMMEDIATELY READ THIS BOOK COVER TO COVER. IT IS A REMARKABLE AND VERY INTELLIGENTLY WRITTEN PUNK 'ZINE THAT IS TANTAMOUNT TO A LUC SANTE-INSPIRED, PARTLY TRUE, PARTLY FICTIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CYNICAL USED-BOOK SELLER IN GRITTY NEW YORK CITY. The author, Aaron Cometbus (pseudonym of Aaron Eliott) is best known for his Cometbus punk 'zines which began in 1981 and... Read More
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![[MEDICINE - HEALTHY BEVERAGES]. Der Menschen Zung und Gurgel Weid, Zur Notturfft und Ergözlichkeit vorgestellt durch die unterschiedliche Arten der Geträncke](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/445/006/1734006445.0.l.jpg)
[MEDICINE - HEALTHY BEVERAGES]. Der Menschen Zung und Gurgel Weid, Zur Notturfft und Ergözlichkeit vorgestellt durch die unterschiedliche Arten der Geträncke
by Engelbrecht, Martin (attributed)
Augsburg: Martin Engelbrecht, 1720. Folio (372 x 217 mm). Engraved title (ONLY) from a suite of 12 engravings. Inner margin strengthened. LIQUID MEDICAMENTS, being the sensational engraved title-page (only) from "The Feast of Man's Tongue and Throat, Presented for Necessity and Delight through the Different Kinds of Drinks," a justly famous and "impossibly rare" suite of 12 Baroque engravings which describe and illustrate imbibing in "healthy" beverages through every stage of life, literally from the cradle to the grave.... Read More
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![[MANUSCRIPT RECORD BOOK OF EPITAPHS, ca. 1876]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/566/056/1500056566.0.l.0.jpg)
[MANUSCRIPT RECORD BOOK OF EPITAPHS, ca. 1876]
by [Epitaphs]
England, 1876. Very good. 4to. Notebook ruled in plummet, containing 79 pp. of very neat written text (the remaining pages blank). Laid in are 4 additional leaves with 7 epitaphs written by other hands (see below). Bound and/or sold by by Abraham Johnson, Stationer, Hull: original flexible black roan, comb-marbled endpapers, marbled edges (extremities worn, internally excellent). PURE ENGLISH ANTIQUARIANISM: A VICTORIAN MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION OF MORE THAN 100 EPITAPHS FROM ALL OVER THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND. Included... Read More
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![[NURSERYMAN'S GUIDE / AMERICAN CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY]. [Nurseryman's Guide and Sample Book of Fruit Seeds / Catalogue of Trees, Ornamental Ivy and Hedges]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/082/846/1589846082.0.l.0.jpg)
[NURSERYMAN'S GUIDE / AMERICAN CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY]. [Nurseryman's Guide and Sample Book of Fruit Seeds / Catalogue of Trees, Ornamental Ivy and Hedges]
by Fairview Nurseries, Geneva, N.Y.
Rochester, NY: Rochester Litho Co, 1910. Very good. Album of 63 chromolithographs / half-tone prints overprinted in one or two colors depicting plants and flowers, in some instances in front of homes, also fruit specimens, all with full-page descriptive text on verso. Black cloth (light soiling, spine somewhat worn), front cover with name "Fairview Nurseries Geneva N.Y." printed in red. ART IN THE SERVICE OF COMMERCE: A NURSERYMAN'S FRUIT AND TREE CATALOGUE IN VIBRANT COLORS. SEED CATALOGUES SUCH... Read More
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![[PALEOGRAPHY, GERMAN 18th Century]. Erbteilung Kagelmann-Oldesloe (cover title). [Transcriptions of German documents dated 1776]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/460/498/1664498460.0.l.0.jpg)
[PALEOGRAPHY, GERMAN 18th Century]. Erbteilung Kagelmann-Oldesloe (cover title). [Transcriptions of German documents dated 1776]
by Kagelmann / Oldesloe / Sonnemann families
S.l.: Privately Printed, 1935. Very good. Folio. 18 ff. including 9 negative photographic reproductions on thin paper (curling) of manuscript documents, tipped in + 9 typescript pages facing the plates. Loosely inserted: 1 f. typescript "Ahnenreige Sonnemann / Kagelmann." Original boards covered with linen, stamped in blue: Erbteilung Kagelmann-Oldesloe. OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING HOW TO DECIPHER SEEMINGLY "INDECIPHERABLE" 18TH-CENTURY GERMAN CURSIVE IN THE FORM OF A (UNIQUE?) PRIVATELY PRINTED GENEALOGICAL RECORD. Of geniune interest are the... Read More
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The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800
by Febvre, Lucien and Henri-Jean Martin
London and New York: Verso, 2010. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo, 378 pages. ¶ Highly important study on the advent of moveable type and its subsequent impact on Western culture. Originally written in French, the present work was translated into English by David Gerard, and edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and David Wootton.
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![[FIRST EDITION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS]. Scritti de Leonardo Pisano Matematico del Secolo Decimoterzo: II Liber Abbaci; Practica Geometriae, Opuscoli](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/709/514/1586514709.0.l.0.jpg)
[FIRST EDITION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS]. Scritti de Leonardo Pisano Matematico del Secolo Decimoterzo: II Liber Abbaci; Practica Geometriae, Opuscoli
by Fibonacci, Leonardo (Leonardo Pisano or Leonardo of Pisa)
Rome: Tipografia delle Scienze Mathematiche e Fisiche, 1862. Very good. 2 vols., folio. Numerous diagrams; occasional light spotting and foxing. Modern brown morocco, uncut. In slipcases. EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THE WRITINGS OF FIBONACCI, THE GREATEST MATHEMATICIAN OF THE MIDDLE AGES, STILL THE ONLY COMPLETE EDITION PUBLISHED. IN THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS THIS UNABRIDGED EDITION OF THE LATIN TEXT IS ESSENTIAL, AND WAS THE VEHICLE BY WHICH FIBONACCI'S WORKS WERE DISSEMINATED THROUGHOUT MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE. Rare in... Read More
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![[AFRICAN-AMERICANA / EBONICS / SONG SHEET]. Bob-Tailed Nag (a.k.a. Camptown Races)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/578/056/1500056578.0.l.0.jpg)
[AFRICAN-AMERICANA / EBONICS / SONG SHEET]. Bob-Tailed Nag (a.k.a. Camptown Races)
by Foster, Stephen Collins
Philadelphia: T.M. Scroggy, 1857. Good. 8vo. leaflet (9.5" x 5.25"). Type surrounded by typographical border (paper toned). One of the best known American minstrel songs, "Camptown Races" (a.k.a. "Bob-Tailed Nag") has for us been memorialized by the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn, who sang portions of it many of his Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies appearances from 1946 to 1963. Who could forget his inimitable vocalizations: "Camptown ladies, sing dis song, Du da, du da..." Stephen Foster... Read More
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![[WESTERN AMERICANA]. The Journal of Jacob Fowler: Narrating an Adventure from Arkansas through the Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, to the Sources of Rio Grande del Norte, 1821-22. Edited and with notes by Elliott Coues](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/797/402/1701402797.0.l.0.jpg)
[WESTERN AMERICANA]. The Journal of Jacob Fowler: Narrating an Adventure from Arkansas through the Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, to the Sources of Rio Grande del Norte, 1821-22. Edited and with notes by Elliott Coues
by Fowler, Jacob
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1898. First Edition. Very good. 8vo. xxiv, 183 [1] pp., folding facsimile of a page of Jacob Fowler's original manuscript as frontispiece. Original royal blue publisher's cloth (lacking rare dust-jacket), otherwise a fine copy, most gatherings unopened. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 950 NUMBERED COPIES, OF THIS "IMPORTANT AND EARLY JOURNAL" OF THE FIRST AMERICAN TO TRAVEL OVER MUCH OF THE ROUTE. THIS PARTICULAR COPY IS PRESERVED IN FINE CONDITION AND IS LARGELY UNOPENED.... Read More
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![[FRENCH LAW, PROVENCE 1539]. Ordonnances du treschrestien [i.e. tres chrestien] Roy de france Francoys premier de ce nom, reduictes par tiltres et articles et ordre selon les matieres ordonnees estre gardees et observees en ces pays de Provence, Forcalquier et terres adjacentes](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/436/056/1500056436.0.l.0.jpg)
[FRENCH LAW, PROVENCE 1539]. Ordonnances du treschrestien [i.e. tres chrestien] Roy de france Francoys premier de ce nom, reduictes par tiltres et articles et ordre selon les matieres ordonnees estre gardees et observees en ces pays de Provence, Forcalquier et terres adjacentes
by [France, Provence. Law. 1539]
Avignon (and Lyon): Jehan de Channey (and reissued in Lyon by Thibaud Payen), 1540. Good. Small 4to. Collation: A-T6 (lacking two leaves at end, including colophon on T6v). Foliation: cv, [7] (of 9) ff. Woodcut title-border and initials throughout (see below). Bound in modern (Italian?) full vellum, title in calligraphic manuscript on spine in red and black, marbled endpapers, edges (at one time) stained red. Title-page with two small worm tracks in lower blank margin, diminishing through first... Read More
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![[WESTERN AMERICANA]. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44 [Senate 174, 28th Congress, 2nd Session]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/794/355/1534355794.0.l.0.jpg)
[WESTERN AMERICANA]. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44 [Senate 174, 28th Congress, 2nd Session]
by Fremont, John Charles and Jessie Benton Fremont
Washington DC: Gales and Seaton, 1845. First Edition. Good. Thick 8vo (23.5 x 16 cm). 693 [1 blank] pp., 5 lithographic maps (list below) including the huge 50" x 30" map, 22 lithographed plates (views, fossils, botany), 3 of the maps and 12 of the plates are attributed to Weber in image. Original blindstamped dark brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered (worn at extremities, particularly at head and tail of spine). Interior with moderate foxing and some browning, plates with... Read More
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![[CHASTITY BELTS]. Plaidoyer de Mr. Freydier avocat a Nismes, contre l'introduction de Cadenas, ou Ceintures de chastete. Reimpression sur l'edition originale de 1750 et augmentee d'un avant-propos](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/243/734/1078734243.0.l.1.jpg)
[CHASTITY BELTS]. Plaidoyer de Mr. Freydier avocat a Nismes, contre l'introduction de Cadenas, ou Ceintures de chastete. Reimpression sur l'edition originale de 1750 et augmentee d'un avant-propos
by FREYDIER, M.
Paris: Jules Gay, 1863. Hardcover. Very good. 16mo. xv, [1], 56 pp. (slightly toned). With 2 engraved plates depicting different models of "ceintures de chastete" i.e. chastity belts (trifle foxed). Bound by [Cyprien] Lhuinte of Grenoble, green half morocco over blue marbled boards (spine a little sunned, extremities slightly worn), top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Highly curious work containing a legal argument against forced use of chastity belts -- unknown to David Murray "Lawyers' Merriments." ¶ From the... Read More
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![[CONTEMPORARY OXFORD (?) BINDING - 1616]. Miscellaneorum theologicorum, quibus non modo scripturae divinae, sed et aliorum classicorum auctorum plurima monumenta explicantur atque illustrantur](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/157/333/797333157.0.l.3.jpg)
[CONTEMPORARY OXFORD (?) BINDING - 1616]. Miscellaneorum theologicorum, quibus non modo scripturae divinae, sed et aliorum classicorum auctorum plurima monumenta explicantur atque illustrantur
by Fuller, Nicholas
Oxford: Excudebat Iosephus Barnesius, 1616. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Small quarto. Collation: [par.]4 2[par.]4 A-3K4 3L*4 3L-4L4 4M2 (lacking final blank leaf 4M2). Without a binder's blank at the front, and at the back a stub bearing traces of MS annotations; this was excised at the same time as the bespoke integral blank 4M2. Pagination: [16], 439, 444-452, [8], 453-645, [1] pp. Contemporary English ivory vellum, triple blind fillets around sides, smooth spine edges stained red. Blindstamps... Read More
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![[WOMAN BOOKBINDER]. Le Roi Dagobert. Illustrations et gravures a l'eau-forte par Leon Lebegue](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/651/117/1770117651.0.l.jpg)
[WOMAN BOOKBINDER]. Le Roi Dagobert. Illustrations et gravures a l'eau-forte par Leon Lebegue
by Gebhart, Emile (author). Leon Lebegue (illustrator)
Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, F. Ferroud, 1911. Very good. 8vo. [iv], 25, [3] pp., engraved color-printed frontispiece, 6 color-printed vignettes, and 5 color-printed "insular" initials in the text. Contemporary red niger morocco, lower turn-in with gilt pallet-stamp "M. Marshall" (binding refurbished), upper cover with the monogram, crest and motto of the first owner Lily E.C. Routh, five raised bands on spine, title and date lettered in gilt in the second and sixth compartments, pale green and pink marbled... Read More
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![[WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR OF PAGAN EMBLEMS IN THE SERVICE OF PEDAGOGY]. Arabesques Mythologiques, ou les attributs de toutes les divinites de la fable [together 2 vols.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/642/117/1770117642.0.l.jpg)
[WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR OF PAGAN EMBLEMS IN THE SERVICE OF PEDAGOGY]. Arabesques Mythologiques, ou les attributs de toutes les divinites de la fable [together 2 vols.]
by Genlis, Madame de [Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis]
Paris: C. Barrois, 1811. First Edition. Very good. Together 2 vols., 8vo. Ad 1: [4], xxx, 266 (recte: 166) pp., inexplicably 1 leaf (pp. 111/112) has been supplied from another copy. Bound by Rosa in contemporary red diced morocco: single floral roll gilt round sides, smooth spine paneled into six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, signed REL[IE] P[AR] ROSA, old shelf label at the foot (likewise on vol. 2), blue and black marbled pastedowns and... Read More
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![[EARLY PRINTING REFERENCE / SPAIN]. Catalogo Descriptivo de los Impresos en Espanol, del Siglo XVI, en la Biblioteca "Jorge M. Furt" Publicaciones de Incipit, 1](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/799/426/1332426799.0.l.0.jpg)
[EARLY PRINTING REFERENCE / SPAIN]. Catalogo Descriptivo de los Impresos en Espanol, del Siglo XVI, en la Biblioteca "Jorge M. Furt" Publicaciones de Incipit, 1
by German Orduna and Lilia E. F. de Orduna. [Jose Martin Furt, collector]
Buenos Aires: Secrit, 1991. Near Fine. 8vo. [10], 54 pp. [5], pp. Original blue stiff wrappers. Extremely detailed catalogue of a small selection of important 16th-century Spanish books in the colleciton of Jorge M. Furt (1902-1971), an Argentine humanist and author. The extent of the cataloguing is attested by the 3-page collation of just ONE book, namely the 1533 Venice edition of the "Amadis de Gaula" (acquired from the antiquarian bookseller Rothstein in 1949 (see pp. 27-30; see... Read More
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