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Material: Gold
Plus Ultra; or, The progress and advancement of knowledge ... Aristotle
Located in Middletown, NY
Glanvill, Joseph
Plus Ultra; or, The progress and advancement of knowledge since the days of Aristotle. In an account of some of the most remarkable late improvements of practical, u...
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17th Century French Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
The Works of Francis Thompson - FIRST EDITION (3 vols.)
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1913.
First Edition.
3 volumes, 8vo., 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. (195 x 133 mm); pp. Vol. 1, Poems, xi, 228i; Vol. 2, Poems, xv, 229; Vol. 3, Prose, x,...
Category
Early 20th Century English Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám – The Elihu VEDDER, SUPER DELUXE Edition
Located in Middletown, NY
A lavish production and VEDDER's MASTERPIECE, The Rubaiyat was a great success and helped establish Vedder as a major American artist.
Khayyám, Omar / Illustrated by ELIHU VEDDER / ...
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Late 19th Century American Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Collection of Leather Bound Classic Books, Easton Press & Franklin Library
By Easton Press, Franklin Press
Located in Peabody, MA
A collection of twenty-seven 1970s-1980s era leather bound and 22kt gold leaf classic novels. Nineteen by Easton Press, and eight published by Franklin Library. Many feature silk mo...
Category
1970s American American Classical Vintage Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Library of Antique Leatherbound Books
Located in Brønshøj, DK
This collection consists of 400 antique decorative books, mainly dating from 1850–1950, with most published before 1920. The books are bound in leather, many with fine gold leaf embo...
Category
20th Century Danish Victorian Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
$2,370 / set
Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains
Located in Middletown, NY
Among the most beautifully printed books on Chinese ceramics.
Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains
by: Bushell, Dr. Stephen W. and William M. Laffan
New York: Pr...
Category
Early 20th Century Gold Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Rider's British Merlin 1726; Adorned with many delightful Varieties and Useful.
Located in Middletown, NY
A precursor of Benjamin Franklin's famous and popular POOR RICHARD's ALMANAC
Rider, Cardanus
Rider's (1726) British Merlin; Adorned with many delightful Varieties and Useful Veritie...
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Early 18th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
The Book of Wisdom and Lies; A book of Traditional Stories From Georgia in Asia
Located in Middletown, NY
KELMSCOTT PRESS
Orbeliani, Sulkhan-Saba. Translated by Oliver Wardrop.
The Book of Wisdom and Lies; A book of Traditional Stories From Georgia in Asia
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, ...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Gold Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Silva: or a Discourse of Forest-Trees by John Evelyn
Located in Middletown, NY
Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's Dominions; As it was delivered in the Royal Society on the 15th day of October, 1662, upon Occa...
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Early 18th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, early edition 1786
Located in Middletown, NY
4th Edition of the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith.
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
London: A. Strahan and T. Cade...
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Late 18th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Illustrations of British Hawk Moths and their Larvae, by Theophilus Johnson
Located in Middletown, NY
One of the rarest English works on moths.
Johnson, Theophilus (1836-1919)
Illustrations of British Hawk Moths and their Larvae (including the Sesidae); with thirty-six original draw...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Persian Manuscript Page - Garden Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
Persian Manuscript Page depicting a garden scene. Circa 18th century.
Hand painted scene depicts a hilly outdoor landscape where people are congre...
Category
Late 18th Century Persian Islamic Antique Gold Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
$600 / item
Sketches On The Old Road Through France to Florence by A. H. Hallam Murray
Located in Middletown, NY
London: John Murray, 1904.
First, Limited Edition.
4to, 9 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (244 x197 mm); xxv, map, 328 pp. Wide margins, printed on hand-made unbleached Arnold paper. 48 full-pa...
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Early 20th Century American Gold Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, 1786 - 2 volumes
Located in Middletown, NY
A Dictionary of the English Language; In Which the Words are Deduced From Their Originals and Illustrated In Their Different Significant By Examples From the Best Writers. To Which are Prefixed a History of the Language and an English Grammar
London: printed by John Jarvis and sold by John Fielding...
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Late 18th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
A Parallel of Antient Architecture with Modern by John EVELYN
Located in Middletown, NY
Evelyn, John translator; Fréart, Roland de Chambray
A Parallel of Antient Architecture with Modern,; In a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who have Written upon the Five Orders, P...
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Mid-17th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
John Ruskin, OF KING'S TREASURIES
Located in Middletown, NY
Of Kings' Treasuries
London / Edinburgh: George Allen / Ballantyne Press, 1902. 8vo, 8 x 5 3/4 inches (203 x 145 mm), (4), 99, (1) pp. Printed on handmade Arnold paper with a flower...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Quality Street by J. M. Barri - FIRST EDITION, DELUXE, illustr. by Hugh Thompson
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913.
Illustrated by Hugh Thompson. First, Limited Edition.
4to, Deluxe Edition, 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (312 x 242 mm); pp. viii + 198 + 2. Twenty-two ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
The Essays of Francis Bacon in an elegant binding
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907.
12mo.; 6 3/8 x 4 3/4 in. (160 x 122 mm); pp. vii, 323, [6], rubricated title. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamped in gold at the bottom of fro...
Category
Early 20th Century English Gold Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Half Hours by J. M. Barrie, the creator of PETER PAN
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914. FIRST EDITION
Small 8vo., 7 3/8 x 5 inches (188 x 127 mm), pp. vi + 207. Beautiful red calf binding Red calf binding by Root & Son, with gold fill...
Category
Early 20th Century English Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
The Poems of John Keats – KELMSCOTT PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894.
Limited Edition
Octavo, 8 1/4 x 5.5 in (206 x 140 mm) 392 pp. Edited by F.S. Ellis. One of 300 copies on Flower paper, printed in red and black i...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Gold Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
A Rare Folio of Swiss Civil & Military Costumes after Hans Holbein the Younger
Located in Middletown, NY
Holbein, Hans the Younger (after) Chrétien de Méchel
Recueil de XII costumes suisses civils et militaires, hommes et femmes, du seizième siècle. Gravés d'après les dessins originaux ...
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Late 18th Century Swiss Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
19th Century French Leather Bound and Gilt Book of The Virgin Mary
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a shelf or a library with this beautiful antique red book named "La Sainte Vierge"; crafted in Paris, France, circa 1877, the religious book dep...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Murals of Tibet. Limited, signed by HH The Dalai Lama with Shigeru Ban bookstand
By Thomas Laird
Located in Los Angeles, CA
SUMO-sized Collector’s Edition limited to 918 copies (No. 81–998), each signed by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, with a bookstand designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Tibetan Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Rider's British Merlin 1774 + The Court and City Register
Located in Middletown, NY
Rider, Cardanus
Rider's British Merlin 1774 + The Court and City Register
London: R. and M. Brown / Company of Stationers & J. Jolliffe, G. Woodfall, an...
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18th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
The FIRST Canter Edition of AESCHYLUS
Located in Middletown, NY
Aeschylus. Edited by Willem Canter.
Aeschyli Tragoediae VII. In quibus praeter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium ratio hactenus ignorata, nunc primum proditur; opera Gulielmi C...
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16th Century European Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Thomas, Antoine Jean-Baptiste – Un an à Rome et dans ses environs....
Located in Middletown, NY
Thomas, Antoine Jean-Baptiste
Un an à Rome et dans ses environs; Recueil de dessins lithographiés, représentant les costumes, les usages et le cérémonies c...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
19th Century Album Containing Drawings, Memorabilia, and Botanical Samples
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely example of an intimate 19th century memorabilia album illustrating the era's sensibilities for nature and antiquities, and bound in an exquisite blank album with miniature v...
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Set Of Twelve Tooled Leather Bound Books Various Titles
Located in New Orleans, LA
A handsome set of twelve tooled and leather bound books.
Expert book binders have individually re-bound these carefully selected used books in fine leathers embossed and gold leafed ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Edwardian Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
$525 Sale Price / set
30% Off
An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare by Montagu, Mrs. (Elizabeth)
Located in Middletown, NY
Montagu, Mrs. (Elizabeth), 1718-1800
An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare; An essay on the writings and genius of Shakespeare, compared with the Greek and French dramat...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Gold Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Venetian Life; With Illustrations from Original Watercolors by Childe Hassam etc
Located in Middletown, NY
Howells, William Dean
Venetian Life; With Illustrations from Original Watercolors
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, The Riverside Press, 1892.
2 volumes, 8vo 7 x 4 3/4 inches (172 x 120 mm); viii, 279 pp; 287 pp. 18 illustrations from watercolors by Childe Hassam, Ross Turner, F. Hopkinson Smith, and Rhoda Holmes...
Category
Early 19th Century American Antique Gold Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Seven Men by Max Beerbohm – FIRST EDITiON
Located in Middletown, NY
London: William Heinemann, 1919.
First Edition.
8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches (190 x 140 mm); 219. [4 publisher ads]. Publisher's navy blue cloth with gilt title on cover and spine in ...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.
FIRST EDITION, 8th Printing.
8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches (190 x 130 mm); pp. vi, 305, printed in 11 pt Old Style type on wove paper. Dark blu...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Goldsmith's Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God M.DCC.LXXXIV. 1784
Located in Middletown, NY
Goldsmith, John
An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God M.DCC.LXXXIV. 1784
London: Company of Stationers, 1783, first edition
48mo, 4 x 2 1/2 in. (113 x 53 mm); pp. 48 + blank page...
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18th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Designs by Inigo Jones for Masques & Plays at Court; A Descriptive Catalogue
Located in Middletown, NY
Designs by Inigo Jones for Masques & Plays at Court; A Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings for Scenery and Costumes mainly in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K. G. ...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1796
Located in Middletown, NY
London, 1796.
64mo, 1 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (57 x 33 mm), 24pp. Very beautiful publisher's Venetian style mosaic style inlaid morocco in green, red, and blue, with gilt decorations, centr...
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18th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Preface by Thomas Carlyle
Located in Middletown, NY
The only book published by the Doves Press by an American author.
Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1906. Small 4to, 9 1/4 x 6.5 in (235 x 166 mm). Pp. xiv, 13...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
John Keats – Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of Saint Agners & Other Poems
Located in Middletown, NY
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS / Keats, John
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of Saint Agners & Other Poems; with Engravings by Robert Gibbins
Waltham St.Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928.
Limited Edition.
Quarto, 12 x 7 1/2 inches (305 x 190mm); pp. 104; with nineteen wood-engravings by Robert Gibbings (1889-1958); copy 178 of 345 copies printed Batchelor hand-made paper, special Cockerel watermark; red ink on title page, red and blue ink for incidental initials by Eric Gill and David Jones's colophon device; 1/4 brown sharkskin and green cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London; gilt titling; top edge gilt, others uncut; slight staining to head of spine, clean, fresh, and bright inside and out.
[Chanticleer 62; Ransom p. 298, no. 60].
An elegant and beautifully proportioned and illustrated version of John Keat's (1795-1825) famous poems, which constitute the final volume Keats lived to see, published in July 1820. From the Oxford text edited by H. Buxton Forman.
Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) was and Irish wood...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
The Poetical Works of the late Thomas Little, Esq. by Thomas MOORE
Located in Middletown, NY
A handsomely-bound collection of juvenile poetry by Thomas Moore (1779 – 1852), published under the pseudonym of Thomas Little due to the eroticism of their content, as Moore's celebration of kisses and embraces was regarded as improper. A relatively successful publication, which was put to an end with the Victorian tight sense of propriety. Thomas Moore was an Irish poet...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Mr. Knife Miss Fork by R. Crevel - Surrealist illustrations by MAX ERNST
Located in Middletown, NY
A striking and important Surrealist collaboration. A rare SINGED COPY.
Ernst, Max / René Crevel
Mr. Knife Miss Fork; Translated by Kay Boyle
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1931.
FIRS...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Costumes of Spain – ILLUSTRATED by Antonio Rodríguez, 1803
Located in Middletown, NY
Colección General de los Trajes que en la actualidad se usan en España: principiada en el año 1801
Madrid: Librarias de Castillo, 1801.
First Edition
8vo (12mo?); 6 1/2 4 1/8 inche...
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Early 19th Century Spanish Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Charles Baudelaire: Souvenirs, Correspondances, Bibliographie, pièces inédites
Located in Middletown, NY
Charles Baudelaire: Souvenirs, Correspondances, Bibliographie, suivie de pièces inédites
Paris: René Pincebourde, 1872.
First, Limited Edition, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED.
Small 8vo 8 12 x...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
12 Contes / 12 Stories by Mark Twain, illustrated by Jean Trubert
Located in Middletown, NY
A collection of twelve stories by Mark Twain, translated into French and amusingly illustrated in color by Jean Trubert (1909 – 1983) a well known and prolific comic strip designer a...
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Mid-20th Century French Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and its Vicinity by James Merigot
Located in Middletown, NY
A wonderfully illustrated collection of important Roman views.
Merigot, James
A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and its Vicinity ; Recently Executed From Drawings Made ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1783
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1782.
64mo, 1 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (57 x 33 mm), 24pp. Original cream morocco elaborately gilt and with decorative morocco inlays in red, w...
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18th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
La Chine en Miniature & Coup d'Oeil sur la Chine; ou Choix del Costumes, Arts ..
Located in Middletown, NY
A refined set, bound by Bayntun Riviere, with 108 hand-colored plates.
Breton de La Martinière, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1777-1852)
"La Chine en Miniature & Coup d'Oeil sur la Chine; ...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Sentimental Tommy, The Story of His Boyhood – J. M. Barrie, creator of PETER PAN
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Cassell and Co., 1896.
First Edition.
Small 8vo., 7 3/8 x 5 inches (188 x 127 mm), pp. viii + 452 + 4 of publisher's advertising. Red calf binding by Root & Son (stamp on f...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Poems of Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE, Third Edition, 1803
Located in Middletown, NY
London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803.
Third Edition.
12mo, 6 1/4 x 4 inches (160 x 114 mm); pp. xii + 202. Half-bound in tan calf with raised bands and gilt decorations, black l...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
John Ruskin, OF QUEENS' GARDENS
Located in Middletown, NY
London / Edinburgh: George Allen / Ballantyne Press, 1902
8vo, 8 x 5 3/4 inches (203 x 145 mm), (4), 68, (1) pp. Printed on handmade Arnold paper with a flower and vine border on eac...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
M. Tinnayre, La Maison Du Péché, with H. Jourdain Etchings, Mylander Binding
Located in Middletown, NY
This enriched, Extra Illustrated, exquisitely-bound copy of Marcelle Tinayre’s La Maison du péché, illustrated by Henri Jordan, is further enhanced by its esteemed provenance. It will make a distinctive addition to the library of a discerning collector.
Marcelle Tinayre, La Maison du péché.
Paris: Société du Livre d’Art. Imprimerie Nationale, 1909. Limited Edition.
4to, 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. ( 266 x 197 mm); pp. [6], iv, 355, ii, [6]; 67 colored etchings by Henri Jourdain...
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Early 20th Century French Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Geometrical and Graphical Essays by George Adams (1750-1795)
Located in Middletown, NY
Geometrical and Graphical Essays [and] Plates to the Geometrical and Graphical Essays.; By the late George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to his Majesty, & c.
London: W. & S. Jones, 1813. Fourth Edition. Two volumes, 8vo, 9 x 5 3/4 in. (228 x 145 mm). Text volume: pp. frontispiece, xii, 534, [16] ads; Plates vol.: pp. title page and 34 folding plates. Previous owner's name penned on the first free flyleaf. Uniform contemporary paper-covered boards, untrimmed, housed in a felt-lined custom clamshell box, 9 x 5 1/2 in. Occasional browning to the edges of some of the plates in Vol. 2, 1/2 inch tear to fold of Pl. VIII and 1 inch tear to the edge of Pl XIV, none of these minor flaws affecting the images. Frontispiece "The Great Theodolite, by Ramsden, Used by the late Gen.l Roy &c. in the great English Trigonometrical Operations." This is the "Fourth Edition, corrected and enlarged by William Jones, F. Am. P. S.
[ESTC T88416, 1791 edition].
The last chapter of these fascinating volumes includes conversion tables to various standard national measure ranging from the Paris foot to the Russian archine, to the Venice braccio, the Egyptian stadium to 'The mathematical foot of China'.
GEORGE ADAMS the younger (1750–1795) was an English scientist, optician and scientific writer. In politics Adams was a Tory, and as such was received with favour at court by George III, who made him his official mathematical instrument maker, succeeding his father George Adams in the post. George III was personally interested in instruments and had Adams produce items for him exclusively, many in silver. These instruments now form a collection which is housed in London's Science Museum Royal collection Adams was also known for making globes, and for inventing the lucernal microscope, a type of projection microscope where the image is projected on a screen by a large oil lamp...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Bowles's New Collection of English Moths and Butterflies by Benjamin WILKES
Located in Middletown, NY
Bowles's New Collection of English Moths and Butterflies; In Twelve Prints, All Drawn from Life Representing near 300 different Species of those Beautiful Insects. Elegantly and accurately Engraved and disposed in an Ornamental Order To each Print is added:-A Description of their Names, Food, and times of Change, By Benjamin Wilkes.
London: Carington Bowles, 1764.
Second Edition.
Folio, (15 1/2 x 11 3/4 in, 394 x 300mm) Second edition, 1 title page and 12 plates engraved and hand-colored, trimmed to plate-mark at fore-edge, lightly browned, some spotting, later 3/4 red morocco with title and fillets in gilt, rubbed and a little stained, rebacked, corners worn.
The plates were engraved by Henry Roberts as evidenced in the markings of each plate the first edition, but omitted in the second edition.
[Nissen 4411; Linsey 183].
EXTREMELY RARE, COMPLETE BOUND SET of...
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Mid-18th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Renée Mauperin by the Goncourt Bros., Original Tissot Etching, Signed
Located in Middletown, NY
A very rare DELUXE copy on Japon paper illustrated by James Jacques Tissot with a second set of signed illustrations, from the library of a distinguished French collector, enhanced with signed autograph letters
Edmond & Jules de Goncourt, and James Jacques Joseph Tissot.
Renée Mauperin; Edition ornée de dix composition à l'eau-forte par James TISSOT.
Paris: Charpentier, 1884. Limited Edition.
8vo 10 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (266 x 175 mm). No. 5 of 20 deluxe illustrated copies printed on imperial japon paper from a total edition of 550. This copy includes 10 original etchings, signed in pencil by James J. Tissot (1836 – 1902) and a second state of each etching, with page number and red ink stamp printed on holla...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (Laurence Stern)
Located in Middletown, NY
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928.
Limited Edition, numbered
8vo, 9 x 5 3/4 inches (230 x 145 mm); iv + 152 + ii pages, printed on English hand-made paper in 14 pt....
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Early 20th Century English Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
A Tillyloss Scandal by J. M. Barrie, creator of PETER PAN
Located in Middletown, NY
\New York: Lovell, Coryell and Company, 1893.
First Edition, Second Issue.
Small 8vo., 7 3/8 x 5 inches (188 x 127 mm), pp. 270. Beautifully bound by Root & Son in red calf with go...
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Late 19th Century American Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Le moyen de parvenir by François Béroalde de Verville, (1556-1626)
Located in Middletown, NY
Le moyen de parvenir; oeuvre contenant la raison de tout ce qui a esté, est & sera : avec démonstrations certaines et nécessaires, selon la rencontre des effects de vertu .
n.d. (ci...
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17th Century French Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Les Moeurs des Israelites by Claude Fleury
Located in Middletown, NY
A third edition in an attractive 19th-century binding of the influential work by the eminent French priest, historian and jurist Claude Fleury (1640 – 1723). It is an account of the ...
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Late 17th Century Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Monsieur Tonson by J. Taylor, illustrations by Robert CRUIKSHANK
Located in Middletown, NY
Beautiful illustrated Edition of this humorous short story in verse with Cruikshank's illustrations including frontispiece. This second edition was issued the same year as the first, with the imprint Alfred Miller...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
John Ruskin, OF QUEENS' GARDENS
Located in Middletown, NY
London / Edinburgh: George Allen / Ballantyne Press, 1902
8vo, 8 x 5 3/4 inches (203 x 145 mm), (4), 68, (1) pp. Printed on handmade Arnold paper with a flower and vine border on eac...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
A Voyage Round the World, In the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, By George Anson
Located in Middletown, NY
The Most Popular Book of Maritime Adventure of the Eighteenth Century
Anson, Lord George and Richard Walter
A Voyage Round the World, In the Years MDCCXI, I, II, III, IV, By George ...
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Mid-18th Century English Antique Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
Boccaccio – Douze nouvelles de Messire Jean Boccace Seigneur Florentin
Located in Middletown, NY
Boccaccio, Giovanni [Jean Boccace]
Douze nouvelles de Messire Jean Boccace Seigneur Florentin; Avec les illustrations en couleurs d'Alfred Le Petit
Paris: René Kieffer, 1925.
Limit...
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Early 20th Century Italian Gold Books
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Gold Leaf
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