The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Tabula Nautica. Authors : Tabula Nautica. Date of publication : 1612 Description : Tabula Nautica. Copper engraving, by Hessel Gerritsz, 1612. 24 x 52 cm. If you have any information on this item, please contact Robert Braeken at rbraeken@gmail.com. [more Stolen: Tabula Nautica (1612)]
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This item was still reported missing as of June 4, 2019. The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Gone With The Wind Authors : Margaret Mitchell Date of publication : 1936 Description : Second edition, 1936, with one-off dust jacket - same colour as the curtain used to make the dress If you have any information on this item, please contact Ian Roelofsz at roelofsz@hotmail.com or 020 7439 3118. [more Stolen: Second Edition of 'Gone With The Wind']
The following items have been reported missing: 1. Milton, John. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. London, Printed by S. Simmons, next door to the Golden lion, in Aldersgate-Street, 1678, The Third Edition Revised and Augmented by the same Author. 8vo. , 331 pp. Portrait frontispiece by William Dolle. New full leather binding blind tooled in the 17th century manner. Gilt lettering on spine all by master binder Pat Bruno. Some toning to the printed pages, otherwise very good +. 2. Cableways, Tramways, Suspension Bridges, Inclined Planes and Cable Railways. Built by John A. Roebling's Sons Co., Trenton, New Jersey, John A. Roebling's Sons Co, 1905, 8vo. 110 pp. Profusely illus. in b/w. Pictorial Arts and Crafts wrappers. Fine. 3. Dolce, Ludovico. I quattro Libri Delle Osservationo Di Lodovico Dolce. Di Nuovo Da Lui Medisimo Ricorrette & Ampliate & Con Le Postille. In Vinegia, Appresso Gabriel Giolito De'Ferrari, 1562, Settima editione. Revised and corrected edition of the first edition of 1561. 12mo. 240 pp. Lovely woodcut initials throughout. Splendid printer's device on title page. Leather & boards, some scattered foxing. Very good +. 4. Hinds, John. Conversations On Conditioning. The Groom's Oracle, And Pocket Stable-Directory; In Which The Management Of Horses Generally, As To Health, Dieting, And Exercise, Are Considered, In A Series Of Familiar Dialogues, Between Two Grooms Engaged In Training Horses to their Work. With Notes And An Appendix Including Extracts From T... [more Missing Books from Richard L. Press Fine and Scholarly Books]
This item was still reported missing as of June 3, 2019. Title : De Necrosi Ossium. Authors : WEIDMANN, Johann Peter Date of publication : 1793 Publisher : Andreaeis, Francofurti ad Moenum Description : Folio, pp. (vi), 60, 15 fine engraved plates by Cöntgen, “Graveur de la Cour et de l'Université de Mayence”. Engraved vignette on title. Some minor foxing, and creasing in the fore-edge margins. Early 19th century cloth-backed boards, spine neatly repaired, edges of boards rubbed, original paper label, very good copy. If you have any information on this item, please contact Nigel Phillips at nigel@nigelphillips.com or 01264 861186 [more Stolen: De Necrosi Ossium]
The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Big Beasts and Little Beasts. Authors : Andre Hellé Date of publication : 1924 Publisher : Frederick A. Stokes, New York Description : First U.S. Edition . Oblong 12mo, about 7.25 inches (18.5 cm) wide,5.25 inches (13.5 cm) tall, in brown cloth with cover pastedown, a tiger incolor. 80 pages with full page color illustrations of 20 animals followedby a leaf (two pages) with text about the animal. An uncommon example ofthe French illustrator's work in an English language book. Published inFrance as "Grosses Betes & Petites Betes", that version has some black andwhite drawings and references to Noah's Arc that this one does not. Awonderful array of Art Deco images grace this small but lovely book. Clean,sound and bright inside and out with barely a hint of extremity wear.Hardcover. Near Fine If you have any information regarding this book, please contact Don or Sue Gallagher of Gallagher Books at books@gcbooks.com or 303-756-5821 (Toll Free 866-425-5225). [more Stolen: 'Big Beasts and Little Beasts' (First U.S. Edition)]
The following Books and a Print were stolen from Barking Dog Books and Art on December 11, 2011. Please contact Allan Linscott of the Marietta, OH Police at 740-373-4141 if you have any information about these items. 1. The Bewick Collector with Supplement (Two Volumes) Hugo, Thomas "A descriptive catalogue of the works of Thomas and John Bewick; including cuts, in various states, for books and pamphlets, private gentlemen, public companies, exhibitions, races, newpapers, shop cards, invoice heads, bar bills, coal certificates, broadsides, and other miscellaneous purposes, and wood blocks." Principal catalogue published 1866 xxiii, 562 pp "illustrated with a hundred and twelve cuts". Together with "A Supplement" published 1868 xxv, 353 pp "illustrated with a hundred and eighty cuts" Both volumes finely bound in burgundy leather with five raised bands and gilt lettering on spines. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Lightly rubbed along extremities. Faint erasures on half-title page of catalogue otherwise both volumes clean with bindings tight and square. Full-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 2. Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects ... Pozzo, Andrea; James, John (translator) Pozzo (1642-1709) was a baroque painter and architect best known for painting of ceiling at Church of St. Ignazio. This classic treatise on perspective is "Engraven in 105 ample folio plates and adorn'd with 200 initial letters to the exemplary discourses: printed f... [more Theft from Barking Dog Books and Art]
The following items have been reported stolen: 1. Title : 'Hamborch' Authors : Hamburg Description : Handwritten map 312 x 403 mm, with ink and watercolour, drawn on paper. There are many details: ramparts, ditches, roads, rivers etc. Water stains, some tears (in the folding), all reinforced on the verso, browning. Hamburg is located on the southern point of the Jutland Peninsula in Germany. The city is located on the river Elbe at the confluence with the Alster and Bille. The ramparts of Hamburg were built as a city fortification between 1616 and 1625. 2. Title : "Bois de Soigne" Zoniënwoud Authors: Brussels and surroundings Date of publication : XVII-XVIII century Description: Map manuscript 445 x 550 mm, with pen, pencil and watercolor, drawn on paper. The planconsists of three parts glued together. The details are precise streams, access roads, forest areas, settlements, walls etc.. Margins slightly chipped, partial separation between two parties, some foxing. Map showing the walls of Brussels and Vilvoorde and many hamlets such asMelsbroek, Halle, Lembeek, Duisburg, Genval, Waterloo etc.. The upper right corner contains additional information added in pencil. 3. Title : Map of St Gillain Authors : Saint-Ghislain (Hainaut) Date of publication : ca. 1670 Description : Map manuscript 475 x 678 mm, with pen, pencil and watercolor drawing on paper, rim in brown ink. The map is captioned along the left margin. The details are precise walls, roads, rivers, water mill, powder m... [more 3 Maps Stolen from Antiquariaat Marc Van de Wiele]
The following item has been reported stolen: Title : In the Shadow of the Rose . Authors : Bukowski, Charles Date of publication : 1991 Publisher : Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara CA Description : First Edition. ISBN: 0876858590. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON COLOPHON, LIMITED EDITION, #630 OF 750 COPIES. Quarto, about 10.75 inches (27 cm) tall, in black cloth backed white paper covered boards decorated in black, red, gray and teal. Plain teal dustjacket. 33 poems on 85 pages. The book is clean, sound, unworn. The jacket has a half inch closed edge tear, but it is otherwise crisp and bright. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket If you have any information regarding this book, please contact Don or Sue Gallagher at books@gcbooks.com or 303-756-5821 (US Toll Free 1-866-425-5225). [more Stolen: Signed, First Edition of 'In the Shadow of the Rose']
This book was still reported missing as of June 4, 2019. The following book was reported stolen: Surname: {DETMOLD Initial: E J} Title: THE ARABIAN NIGHTS Subtitle: Tales From The Thousand and One Nights Place Pub.: London Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Date Pub.: No date but 1924 Pages: 230 Size: 28 x 23 cms Binding: Original full vellum with a gold illustration and title to the spine and front cover Condition: The endpapers are foxed but otherwise this is a very good copy Illust: Contains 12 tipped in colour plates by Detmold Footnotes: This is number 22 in an edition of 100 copies signed by Detmold. If you have any information regarding this item, please contact Paul Feain of The Cornstalk Bookshop at books@cornstalk.com.au or 61 29 660 4889 [more Stolen: Detmold's Arabian Nights]
These items were still reported missing as of June 3, 2019. The following items have been reported stolen: 1. Title: Kim. Authors: Kipling. Rudyard. Publication date: 1901 Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo.(7.8 x 5.2 inches). Ten full page mono plates by J. Lockwood Kipling. A Very good copy bound in early craft binding of full brown Niger morocco, raised bands, gilt. Initials AH on front board in gilt. Inner boards with gilt rule and Thistle corner pieces. All edges stained dark green. A very good copy in an early craft leather binding. Identifying characteristics: Initials AH on front board in gilt. Date of theft: late August/early September 2011. Location of theft: Liberty's department store. London. Circumstances of theft: Stolen from Liberty's summer exhibition. 2. Title: The novels. Authors: Austen Jane. Publication date: 1901-1909. Description: FIVE VOLUMES. ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS. 8vo. All reprints of editions originally published between 1895 and 1897. Pride and prejudice Illustrated with 40 full page mono plates by Charles E. Brock. The other 4 volumes each illustrated with 40 full page mono plates by Hugh Thomson. 200 fine line engravings by two of the best book illustrators of the day. Publishers salmon coloured cloth with elaborate decoration to front boards and spines in dark red. All spines and front boards with gilt lettering. All edges gilt. Some minor fading of the spines but overall a very good, bright set.: Date of theft: End of August, beginning of September ... [more Two Books Stolen in London]