Commonplace book of original drawings, engravings and transcribed poetry
by (Binding, Comte de Caumont)
1814. Numerous engravings, mostly 18th-century portraits of royalty, some hand-colored, 10 ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS (3 x 2-1/2 in.) in the style of Henry Corbould, and one additional watercolor portrait (8-1/4 x 6-1/2 in.) of a young woman. 4to. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, covers gilt-tooled with a wide roll border, gilt ruled frame with corner decorations made up from small tools,... Read More
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Commonplace book, album of poetry, prints and watercolors compiled by Mrs. Priscilla Vickers of Bridgenorth, Shropshire, England
by (BINDING, De La Rue, Cornish & Rock)
[London: De La Rue, Cornish & Rock], 1832. 22 original drawings, numerous plates (some hand-colored) pasted-in, on variously colored leaves, some with embossed frames by De La Rue & Co, London, manuscript verses throughout. [57] ll. Square 8vo. Contemporary dark purple morocco, covers embossed in blind with large die of a rococo frame design surrounding a central diamond, gilt-ruled... Read More
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![Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle … Depuis le Commencement du Monde Jusqu’a l’Empire de Charlemagne [from: Collection des Auteurs Classiques François et Latins]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/152/796/761796152.0.m.jpg)
Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle … Depuis le Commencement du Monde Jusqu’a l’Empire de Charlemagne [from: Collection des Auteurs Classiques François et Latins]
by (Binding, Derome) Bossuet, [Jacques Bernigne]
Paris: Didot, 1784. One of 200 copies on papier vélin. [iv], 629, [3] pp. 4to. Contemporary red morocco, covers with ruled in gilt with triple fillet border, spine with 5 raised bands, titled in gilt in one, the rest gilt all over with a repeating lightning bolt or staircase pattern, a.e.g., gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, by Derôme the younger... Read More
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Schat, Uit Oud, en Nieuw, of Uitlegging des Briefs Pauli aan de Galaten; in Welke, de Gronden der Goddelijke Waarheid, Werden Opgehaald, en met haar Verwisselingen Getoond
by (Binding, Dutch) Steengracht, Johann
Middelburg: Gedrukt by Aäron van Poulle, en Gillis Horthemels, de Jonge, 1688. First edition. [26], 780 pp. 4to. Mid 18th-century Dutch binding of red Russia, a.e.g., tooled in gold to a panel design with corner pieces and center piece made up of volutes and small tools, spine with five raised bands and compartments richly gilt with corner- and centerpieces,... Read More
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Il Lamento di Cecco da Varlungo di Francesco Baldovini colle note d'Orazio Marrini, Edizione giusta quella de Firenze dell' anno 1755, Con l'aggionta di 25. Stanze del medesimo Autore scritte a Francesco Redi
by (Binding, Embroidered) Baldovini, Francesco
Bergamo: Francesco Locatelli, 1762. Engraved frontispiece portrait. lx, 279 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In contemporary binding of Italian white silk, the sides embroidered with gold thread in an ornamental pattern framing on the upper cover the arms of a member of the Royal House of Austria in gold, blue, and black threads; and, on the rear, a floral design... Read More
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![The Royal Kalendar; or Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year 1791 … [second title:] Rider’s British Merlin for … 1791](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/785/201/493201785.0.m.jpg)
The Royal Kalendar; or Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year 1791 … [second title:] Rider’s British Merlin for … 1791
by (BINDING, English) Rider, Cardanus
London: J. Debrett, 1791. iv, [ii], 281, [1] pp., interleaved. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, richly gilt in emblematic Rococco style, a.e.g., metal clasps, lacking connecting pieces. iv, [ii], 281, [1] pp., interleaved. 8vo. Goldsmiths’ 14607; ESTC T45338
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Manuscript music album
by (Binding, English)
[Thame, Oxfordshire, 1830. [50] pp of manuscript hymns, responses and chants with four-part vocals and organ accompaniment. Oblong 4to. Bound in full black morocco, covers blind-stamped and tooled in gold to a panel design with wide rolls, stamped with the initials “S.E.W.” on the front cover and “W” with a crown on the rear cover. [50] pp of... Read More
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Carte-de-visite photographic album with portraits of Queen Victoria and her children, Prime Ministers and MPs and other notable figures
by (Binding, English)
[London]. 35 albumen carte-de-visite photographs set in an album. 4to. Bound in green pebbled morocco, covers with black- and silver-ruled borders, set into an Indian carved and inlaid boxwood binding, metal clasps and catches, by Aspreys of London, some loss to spine ends and a few spots of loss to inlay. 35 albumen carte-de-visite photographs set in an... Read More
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One Hundred Fables, Original and Selected
by (Binding, English) Northcote, James
London: Geo: Lawford, Saville Passage. Printed by J. Johnson, 1833. Third edition. Engraved frontispiece, 183 wood-engraved vignettes and 100 wood-engraved initials after Northcote and William Harvey. 1 vols. Lg 8vo (10 1/8 x 6 1/2"). Contemporary full brown morocco with elaborate giit-decorated covers incorporating gilt urns, fans, and clover leaves, richly gilt spines, with raised bands and black and... Read More
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Les Adventures de Telemaque / Avventure di Telemaco. Facing texts in French and Italian
by (BINDING, English) Fenelon, M. de
London: C. Clarke, 1805. Nouvelle Edition, réimprimée après celle de Didot. With 12 full-page engraved plates. 255, [3]; [vi], 246, [1] pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Full contemporary English straight-grain red morocco, gilt classical border of Greek key and acanthus design on upper and lower covers, panelled spine gilt with similar motifs, a.e.g., hinges and extremities slightly rubbed, occasional foxing,... Read More
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Le Mérite des Femmes, Edition Nouvelle, Augmentée des Poésies Inédites
by (Binding, French) Legouvé, Gabriel-Marie-Jean-Baptiste
Paris: Louis Janet, Libraire, 1827. Engraved title with vignette, 12 engraved plates. viii, [2], 405. 8vo. Contemporary French romantic binding of full black morocco, covers stamped in blind and gilt to panel design with central gilt-stamped medallion, spines with raised bands, compartments richly gilt or titled, signed at foot "Jouis Janet", a.e.g. Slight rubbing to spine ends, contents foxed... Read More
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Librairie Damascène Morgand. Bulletin Mensuel. Nouvelle Série No.1-Juin 1904-No. 19, Mai 1914
by (French Bindings)
Paris: Librairie Damascène Morgand, Eouard Rahir, Successeur. Librairie se la Socièté des Bibliophiles Francois, 1914. illustrated with double-page plates of bindings. 5 vols. 8vo. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco and marbled boards. illustrated with double-page plates of bindings. 5 vols. 8vo. Fine run of this French bookseller's catalogues, with numerous plates of Renaissance bindings.
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Pensées sur le Royaume de Dieu, et sa Justice …
by (Binding, French)
Paris: Edme Couterot, rue saint Jaqcues, au bon Pasteur, 1691. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary full black French morocco gilt with arms of Adrien-Alexandre Hannivel, comte de Mannevillette, Marquis de Crevecoeur on boards, spine gilt with armorial motifs, citron morocco doublures, gold flyleaves, a.e.g. Bookplate of Lucius Wilmerding. Invisibly rebacked preserving original spine. Two leaves with paper repair in gutter.... Read More
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Traicté de la Forme et Devis Comme on Faict les Tournois par Olivier de la Marche, Hardouin de la Jaille, Anthoine de la Sale etc. Mis en Ordre par Bernard Prost Enrichi de 16 Planches, Dont 9 Doubles Coloriées au Pinceau Avec le Plus Grand Soin et Rehausées d’Or
by (BINDING, French)
Paris: A. Barraud, 1878. No. 8 of 258 (of 260) copies on papier vergé fort. 17 plates (16 hand-colored and heightened in gold), half-title and title printed in red and black. [i-ii], xix, [i], 259, [1], [iv] pp. 8vo. Contemporary vellum by Ch. & L. Hilaire, covers stamped in gilt with wide border of arabesque tools with initial “F”... Read More
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Marguerite d'Angouleme (Sœur de François 1er) Son Livre de Depenses (1540-1549) Etude sur ses Derniere Années
by (Binding) Ferriere-Percy, H. de la
Paris: Auguste Aubry, 1862. 1 vols. 8vo. Handsomely bound in hand-painted vellum, featuring ornate Gothic lettering on the spine with gilt, blue and red capitals, the covers lightly decorated with geometrical pattern of gilt diamonds, and an elaborate center monogram of Marguerite d'Angouleme in red, silver, green and gilt with floriated gilt tendrils on the upper cover, the lower... Read More
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The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn
by (Binding) Thoreau, Henry David
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. No. 458 of 500 copies. [31] pp. Printed at the Merrymount Press. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary tan pigskin, ruled in blind, boards with a central field bordered in blind and semé with gold dots, a.e.g. Front board detached. No. 458 of 500 copies. [31] pp. Printed at the Merrymount Press. 1 vols. 8vo.... Read More
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Dell’ Antico Ginnasio Napoletano. Opera Posthuma di …
by (Binding, Italian) Lasena, Pietro
Napoli [Naples]: Carlo Porpora, 1688. Second edition. Engraved title. [xx], 229, [3] pp. 4to. Mid-eighteenth century Italian polychrome enameled binding of full brown calf, covers with two gilt-rolled panells, central strap and scroll device built up from gouges, surrounded by pointellé flowers, with remnants of blue and red enamel, edges gilt, guaffered and painted with floral and hare design,... Read More
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![[Breviary] Das geistliche Seelenmahl oder Officium für die Abgestorbenen](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/707/226/657226707.0.m.0.jpg)
[Breviary] Das geistliche Seelenmahl oder Officium für die Abgestorbenen
by (Binding, Italian, Armorial)
Brünn: Johann Paul Krauss, 1760. Engraved title in each volume (vols. II-IV reading “Unser Lieben Frauen …”). 189; [2], 193-390; [2], 393-590; 190 pp. 8vo. Contemporary Italian binding of full brown morocco, covers gilt with two outer border rolls, corner-pieces, and arms (of Prince-Bishopric of Trent?), spine gilt in six compartments, a.e.g., Dutch gilt endpapers. Light wear to corners,... Read More
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Gemme d’Arti Italiane [Volume 13]
by (Binding, Italian)
Milan, Venice & Verona: P. Ripamenti Carpano, 1860. Volume 13 only. Engraved title and 9 engraved plates after contemporary Italian painters. xxxix, [i], 68, xv, [iii] pp. 4to. Bound in the publisher’s “chocolate box” style of white paper boards elaborately embossed and chromolithographed, front cover with a central die-cut oval revealing a hand-colored engraving of a woman pulling a... Read More
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![Missale Romanum … [with:] Missae Propriae … [and:] Missa Sacratissimi Rosarii …](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/172/648/512648172.0.m.jpg)
Missale Romanum … [with:] Missae Propriae … [and:] Missa Sacratissimi Rosarii …
by (Binding, Italian)
Venetiis [Venice]: Juntas, 1618. Title with engraved border, 11 full-page engravings, black chant notation on red four-line staves, [lxiii], [i], 557, [3]; 24; 14 pp., text in double columns, printed in red and black. 8vo. Bound in contemporary maroon morocco, richly gilt, black morocco inlaid panel border surrounding central inlaid entrelac design, rebacked, preserving original spine, lacking clasps and... Read More
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![Cursus mathematicus: or, a compleat course of the mathematicks... Now done into English, with additions and corrections by several hands. [Volumes 4 & 5: by J.T. Desaguliers]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/560/708/1447708560.0.m.jpg)
Cursus mathematicus: or, a compleat course of the mathematicks... Now done into English, with additions and corrections by several hands. [Volumes 4 & 5: by J.T. Desaguliers]
by (Binding) Ozanam, [Jacques]
London, 1712. First edition in English. 205 engraved plates. [6], x, 288; [24], 92, 156, [284]; [16], 215, [1 (blank)], [14], 204, [8]; [30], 185, [7], 72, [8]; [16], 166, [18], 131, [11]pp., half-title in volume 1. 5 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half vellum from scraps, with marbled paper panels on boards. Bookplate of George Craster. First edition in... Read More
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Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, By James Boswell, Esq. A New Edition ... by John Wilson Croker
by (Binding) Boswell, James
New York: James Dearborn, 1833. Plates. 566pp. 8vo. Contemporary straight grained burgundy morocco, by Desilver Jr., Herse & Lindsay with their ticket on the inside upper morocco hinge, covers elaborately panelled in gilt an blind with a central sunken panel, spine gilt in five compartments with the first, third and fifth compartments sunken, full morocco gilt doublures, silk endpapers,... Read More
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The Majesties' Servants" Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean. Edited and Revised by Robert Lowe
by (Binding) Doran, [John]
London: John C. Nimmo, 1888. # 203 of 300 printed on fine deckle-edge Royal 8vo paper, with two states of the plates. Extra-Illustrated. 10 vols. 4to. Full crimson morocco by P. B. Sanford, two sets of triple gilt fillet borders and gilt floriated borders on covers, backstrip divided into 6 panels with gilt floral designs and gilt lettering, uncut,... Read More
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L’Office de la Semaine Saincte, selon le Missel & le Breviaire Romain
by (BINDING, Maria Theresa)
Paris: par la Compagnie de Libraires, 1661. 5 engraved plates, 3 full-page illustrations to text. [iv], 832 (of ?) pp, incomplete at end. Text in French and Latin, ruled in red throughout. 12mo. Contemporary maroon morocco, covers stamped in gilt with repeating crowned monogram and arms of MARIA THERESA OF SPAIN AS QUEEN OF FRANCE, spine stamped in gilt... Read More
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Secunda pars Examinis decretorum Concilii Tridentini, Complectens Explicationem Locorum, De Sacramentis in genere, De Baptismo, De Confirmatione …
by (Binding) Chemnitz, Martin
Francofurti Ad Moenum: [Paul Reffeler], 1576. [8] ff., 1285, [1, blank] pp., [16] ff. (index). 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary pigskin stamped in blind, heads in medallions, central panel on upper board with monogram IWO and date 1579. Clasps perished, some toning. Very good. [8] ff., 1285, [1, blank] pp., [16] ff. (index). 1 vols. 8vo. Attractive dated example... Read More
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