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Item type: Antique and Vintage
Material: Animal Skin
Vaughan's Sermons, 1873-1874
By Rev. James Vaughan
Located in valatie, NY
Vaughan's Sermons 1873-74. Brighton: Brighton Pulpit office, no date. Calf bound hardcover. Unpaginated. Marbleized edges. A series of sermons preached by Rev. James Vaughan, M.A. between 1873 and 1874. David James Vaughan (1825-1905) was born St. Martin's vicarage in Leicester, England. He was educated at Trinity college at Cambridge and help found the Cambridge Philological Society. In 1853 he was ordained deacon and began his pastoral work in Leicester. His addresses were on social, industrial and religious themes to the working man. Sermons include "A New Year's Motto", "The Very Hairs on Your Head are Numbered", "The Light of the World...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
John Addington Symonds: A Biography, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
John Addington Symonds: A Biography, by Horatio F. Brown. Smith, Elder, & Co., London, 1903. 1st Ed Moroccan leather and cloth hardcover. Symonds was an English poet and literary cri...
Category
Early 20th Century American Animal Skin Books
Materials
Paper, Leather
J-M. Hérédia's Les Trophées with signed frontispiece portrait and EXTRAS
Located in Middletown, NY
This handsome SIGNED copy of Les Trophées comes from the celebrated library of the French collector and bibliophile Guy Bigorie, who often collected bibliographic "truffles", in the ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Poems for Alan Hancox, Whittington Press, Limited Edition
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely Whittington Press edition of POEMS by Seamus Heaney, Melvyn Bragg, D. J. Enright, U A. Fanthorpe, Michael Foot, Duncan Forbes, John Fuller, Seamus Heanery, Michael Horovitz, Ted Hughes, Adrian Mitchell, Jenny Joseph, P J Kavanagh, Laurei Lee, Ptere Levi, Brian Patten, Lawrence Sail, Jon Silkin, Jon Stallworthy, Charles Tomlinson.
POEMS FOR ALAN HANCOX
Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1993. First, Limited Edition.
Royal 8vo, 11 x 7 7/8 in. (280 x 200mm); pp. 41; Two wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor. Number XXXVIII of 50 specially-bound, signed opposite the title-page by each of the 19 contributors, with signed proofs of the two engravings on Zerkall cream wove paper (265 x 190 mm) in a pocket at the back. Set in Goudy Modern and printed in black, the wood-engravings in brown, on Zerkall cream smooth laid paper on the Heidelberg press. Quarter-bound at the fine Bindery in brown Oasis and Whittington printed paper-covered boards, gilt spine titling, headbands, top edge gilt, mauve Hahnenühle endpapers; matching paper-covered slipcase, reinforced in brown buckram at the head and foot. A fine copy in a fine slipcase.
[Butcher 118]
Condition: fine.
An elegant tribute to Alan Hancox was assembled by Alan Tucker...
Category
Late 20th Century English Animal Skin Books
Materials
Paper, Leather
Memoir of Baron Bunsen by Frances Baroness Bunsen, First Edition, 1868
Located in valatie, NY
A Memoir of Baron Bunsen by Frances Baroness Bunsen. Longmans, Green & Company, London, 1868. First edition hardcover with Moroccan leather and embossed paper with marbleized edges. ...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Paper, Leather
Italian Sketches and New Italian Sketches by John Addington Symonds
Located in valatie, NY
This set of antique books were published in England by Leipzig Gernhard Tauchnitz in 1883 and 1884. The two volumns contain Italian sketches by a ...
Category
19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Les Bambous: Fables de La Fontaine
Located in valatie, NY
Les Bambous: Fables de La Fontaine by Louis Jaham-Desrivaux. Paris: J. Peyronnet & Cie., 1931. French edition paperback rebound in blue calf-leather decorated with embossed bamboo impression in green and gilt. 246 pp. Hardcover in custom slipcase. Disguised as an old Creole patois commander, Fontaine was one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. Binding is signed by M. Lambert, a well-known leather book binder...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Animal Skin Books
Materials
Paper, Leather
Set of Old Bound Books 19th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Set of old religious books dating from the 19th century. From an old protestant library near Le Havre in France. These beautiful books are perfect to fill a nice library. Sizes may v...
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19th Century French Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
French Series of Childrens Books by Arnaud Berquin-Set of 10, c. 1829
Located in Ross, CA
Ten book series of The works of Arnaud Berquin. The set was put together by hand, has leather spines and covers with gilded lettering, decoration, and a lacework design with a hand p...
Category
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
R. H. Elkin - Old Dutch Nursery Rhymes - 1st Ed in English - in an Onlay Binding
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: ELKIN, R. H. (translator) - Rontgen, J. (tunes by) - H. Willebeek Le Mair - (illustrator).
TITLE: Old Dutch Nursery Rhymes.
PUBLISHER: London: Augener, Ltd., 1917.
...
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1910s British Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Douglas Sladen, The Secrets of the Vatican.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Douglas Sladen, The Secrets of the Vatican. Bound by Bayntun in 3/4 tan morocco and linen boards. The covers and raised band spine display gilt-tooled detailing. The top ed...
Category
Early 20th Century English Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Leather Bound Book Set of Seven by Barthelemy with Letter , Paris, c. 1840
Located in Ross, CA
A seven book series by Jean-Jacques Barthelemy titled "Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis". The books have Leather spines with gilt lettering, which is in French was published in Paris in 1...
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1840s French French Provincial Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Set of Old Books from 19th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Set of old bound books dating from the 19th century. From an old protestant library near Le Havre in France. These beautiful books are perfect to fill a nice library. Sizes may vary.
Category
19th Century French Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
John MORLEY. The Life Of William Ewart Gladstone - 3 vols. - IN A FINE BINDING!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: MORLEY, John.
TITLE: The Life Of William Ewart Gladstone.
PUBLISHER: NY: Macmillan Company, 1903.
DESCRIPTION: 3 vols., 9" x 6-1/4", frontis portrait plate, illustrated, ...
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Marseille Ancienne et Moderne - FIRST ED WITH THE GILT ARMS OF NAPOLEON - 1786
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: M. Guys [Pierre-Augustin].
TITLE: Marseille Ancienne et Moderne.
PUBLISHER: Paris: Veuve Duchesne, 1786.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION WITH THE GILT ARMS OF NAPOLEON. 1 vol....
Category
1780s French Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
GOULD, William - An Account of English Ants - 1747 - FIRST EDITION
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: GOULD, William.
TITLE: An Account of English Ants; Which Contains I. Their different Species and Mechanism. II. Their manner of Government,... III. The Production of their ...
Category
1740s British Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
"Centuries Et Autres Prophéties De Nostradamus", Ed. Anne Et André Barbault
By Michael Nostradamus
Located in Torino, IT
Collector's volume "Centuries et autres prophéties de Nostradamus".
Presented and commented by Anne and André Barbault.
Club du livre, 1980
ORIGIN
Club du livre
PERIOD
1980...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Spielmann & Jerrold, Hugh Thomson His Art, First Edition 1931 in a Fine Binding!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: SPIELMANN, M. H. & Walter Jerrold.
Title: Hugh Thomson His Art His Letters His Humour And His Charm.
Publisher: London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1931.
Description: Firs...
Category
1930s British Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Carl Sandburg, 'Henry Flannery', Bronze Wood, Limited Signed Edition, 1941
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Sandburg, Carl ( Henry Flannery ).
Title: Bronze Wood.
Publisher: San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1941.
Description: limited signed edition. 1 vol., 8-3/4" x 11-...
Category
1940s American Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Fabric
Fanny Burney, Diary & Letters of Madame D'arblay, in a Full Leather Binding 1854
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: BURNEY, Fanny - Madame D'arblay.
Title: Diary and Letters of Madame D'arblay.
Publisher: London: for Henry Colburn, 1854.
Description: NEW EDITION. 7 vols., 6-11/16...
Category
1850s British Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Edward FITZGERALD, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Golden Treasury Series, 1909
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: FITZGERALD, Edward. (Omar Khayyam)
Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The Astronomer Poet of Persia. Rendered into English verse.
Publisher: London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd....
Category
Early 1900s British Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Trollope, Home & Haunts of the Italian Poets, 2 Vols. 1st Ed 1881 Leather Bound!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: TROLLOPE, Frances Eleanor & T. Adolphus.
TITLE: The Home and Haunts of The Italian Poets.
PUBLISHER: London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1881.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION....
Category
1880s British Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
First Century of English Porcelain by Binns, 1906, in a Beautiful Binding!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Binns, W. Moore
Title: The first century of English porcelain.
Publisher: London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., 1906.
1 volume, small folio, 1...
Category
Early 1900s British Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Kitton, Frederic G.-Dickens and His Illustrators-in a Fine Leather Binding
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Kitton, Frederic G.
Title: Dickens and His Illustrators.
Publisher: London: George Redway, 1899.
Description: Second edition. 1 vol., small folio, 11-3/8" x 9-3/8", ...
Category
1890s Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
COTTON, Charles, The Wonders of The Peake, 1681, FIRST EDITION
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: COTTON, Charles.
TITLE: The Wonders of The Peake.
PUBLISHER: London: for Joanna Brome, 1681.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., 6-7/8" x 4-1/2", [ii]86pp., complete, bound in contemporary full speckled calf, covers ruled in blind.
CONDITION: Internally clean and bright, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine rubbed with some minor loss, overall VERY GOOD.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The dedicatee is Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire. Written in heroic couplets, this work by Cotton was one of the first landscape poems of a movement which only became significant under Queen Anne.
Charles Cotton published this satirical poem just five years after Thomas Hobbes' own "Wonders of the Peak" poem was translated into English. Cotton's poem recalls a visit to the 'Devil's Arse', nowadays known as Peak Cavern, in Castleton.
Cotton is also known for contributing a treatise on fly fishing for trout in the second edition of Izaak Walton's famous book, "The Compleat Angler".
Category
1680s British Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Bierbaum - Das Schoene Madchen Von Pao - Illustrated by Franz Von Bayros - 1910
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Bierbaum, Otto Julius.
Title: Das Schoene Madchen von Pao. Ein chinesischer Roman. Prachtausgabe mit Bildern von Bayros.
Publisher: Munchen: George Mullers, n.d. (1910).
Description: limited edition. 1 vol., 12-9/16" x 9-1/4", limited to 600 numbered copies this being #114, illustrated with 7 full page mildly erotic plates by Franz Von Bayros, bound in full blue morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers paneled in gilt, gilt dentelles, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, all edges uncut, as issued.
Condition: Internally clean and bright, no previous ownership markings or bookplate, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, a very good sharp copy.
Additional information: The binding work was done by Hubel & Denck in Leipzig based on designs by Paul Renner.
Category
1910s German Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
John Addington Symonds, the Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi, 1890, Leather Bound
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: SYMONDS, John Addington.
TITLE: The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi.
PUBLISHER: London: John C. Nimmo, 1890.
DESCRIPTION: LIMITED EDITION. 2 vols., 9-1/4" x 7", limite...
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1890s British Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
2 Volumes. S. Baring-Gound, Tragedy of the Caesars.
Located in New York, NY
2 Volumes. S. Baring-Gound, Tragedy of the Caesars. Bound in 3/4 wine morocco and marbled boards with the raised band spines faded to tan and decorated in gilt-tooling and green moro...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Trollope, Paul the Pope & Paul the Friar, First Edition 1861 Leather Bound!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: TROLLOPE, T. Adolphus.
Title: Paul The Pope and Paul The Friar. A Story of An Interdict.
Publisher: London: Chapman & Hall, 1861.
Description: First edition. 1 vol....
Category
1860s British Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Adolphus Trollope, Girlhood of Catherine De' Medici. 1st Ed 1856 Leather Bound
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: TROLLOPE, T. Adolphus.
TITLE: The Girlhood of Catherine De' Medici.
PUBLISHER: London: Chapman & Hall, 1856.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., 8" x 5-3/8", fronti...
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1850s British Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Gertrude Jekyll, Garden Ornament
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Gertrude Jekyll, Garden Ornament. First Edition. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco with linen boards. Floral gilt tooling on the raised band spine. Top edges gilt. Illustrated fro...
Category
Early 20th Century British Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume, Ernest Jones & Innis Brown, Swinging into Golf
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Ernest Jones and Innis Brown, swinging into golf. First edition. Bound in full green morocco with covers displaying a gilt double-ruled border. ...
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20th Century American Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Volumes. Blanchard Jerrold, The Life of Napoleon III.
Located in New York, NY
4 Volumes. Blanchard Jerrold, The Life of Napoleon 111. Bound in 3/4 green morocco, linen boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, raised bands, gilt panels, illustrated with front...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Antique Art Nouveau German Leather Bound Encyclopedia of Scientific Inquiry Set
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This five volume set of leather bound 1st Edition encyclopedias were done by Weltall and Menschheit of Germany in 1900 in the period Art Nouveau style. This set is completely in Germ...
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Early 19th Century German Art Nouveau Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Pair of Books of Universal History by Jean de Muller 19th Century France
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
From Greece, to the conquest of Macedonia or ancient Germania you will find in these two books the universal history of Muller with his reflections. These books were very successful ...
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Early 19th Century European Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Paper, Leather
Set of Old Bound Books from 19th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Set of old books dating from the 19th century. From an old protestant library near Le Havre in France. These books are called «Revue Chrétienne» (Chr...
Category
19th Century French Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Set of Old Bound Books 19th Century France
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Set of old books dating from the 19th century. From an old protestant library near Le Havre in France. These books are called « Memoirs of the bourge...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Paper, Leather
Pair of Early Leather Bound Ditzler Automotive Paint Chip Boxes
Located in Ferndale, MI
Early 20th century automotive color chip or sample container. Raised in the leather design the words Compose - Vogue - Series, and automobile colors with the Ditzier logo shown in th...
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Early 20th Century North American Art Nouveau Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
RARE ‘De Conjugio Episcoporum et Diaconorum’ by Johannes Bugenhagen – 1525
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING AN EXTREMELY RARE EDITION hardback copy of De Conjugio Episcoporum et Diaconorum ad uenerandum Doctorem VVolfgangum Reissenbush monasterii Lichtenbergensis Prae ceptorem ...
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16th Century German Renaissance Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
1 Volume. Lewis Carroll, The Works.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Lewis Carroll, The Works. First Nonesuch Edition. Bound in 3/4 green calf and linen boards. The covers and raised band spine are gilt-tooled with a tan morocco label. The t...
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Mid-20th Century English Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Eustache de Lorey & Douglas Sladen, Queer Things About Persia.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Eustache de Lorey & Douglas Sladen, Queer Things About Persia. First Edition. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco and linen boards. The covers and raised band spine are gilt-tooled....
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Early 20th Century Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Demosthenis Selectae Orationes by Richard Mounteney 1791 7th Edition
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a fabulously rare antiquarian book from 1791, namely, Demosthenis Selectae Orationes by Richard Mounteney 1791 7th Edition.
Leather Spine in very good condition. Leathe...
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18th Century English Classical Greek Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Trial of Moses Parker.... for the Murder of David R. Lambert. NY 1825
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: PARKER, Moses.
TITLE: Trial of Moses Parker, James Buckland, Joseph Wade, William Walker, Cornelius Holly, Abra Ham Potts and Noah Doremus,... for the Murder of David R. La...
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1820s American Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
2 Volumes. Henry M. Stanley, In Darkest Africa.
Located in New York, NY
2 Volumes. Henry M. Stanley, In Darkest Africa. Third Edition. Bound in 3/4 navy morocco and linen boards. The raised band spine is gilt-tooled. The top edges are gilt with marbled e...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Antique Books circa 1696, The Life of Leopold I Hapsburg
Located in Opole, PL
We present you three volumes in Spanish which describe the life of Leopold I Hapsburg.
Published in Milan in 1696.
All the volumes are decorated with various graphics by Pieter Bal...
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Late 17th Century Italian Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
The Boys of '76 by Charles Carleton Coffin, 1876
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Coffin, Charles Carleton. The Boys of ‘76. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876. First Edition. Illustrated. Octavo. Rebound in ¼ burgundy leather and cloth boards with raised bands, gi...
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1870s American American Colonial Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Paper
Set of Old Bound Books from 19th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Set of old religious books dating from the 19th century. From an old protestant library near Le Havre in France. These books are entitled « La France Protestante » (Protestant France...
Category
19th Century French Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Christopher Columbus Fascimile of His Own Book of Privileges 1502, circa 1992
Located in San Francisco, CA
Christopher Columbus Fascimile of His Own Book of Privileges 1502, Mexico, 1992
This rare book is a collection of Christopher Columbus archives that are found in the Foreign Offic...
Category
Late 20th Century Mexican Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
"Road Scrapings: Coaches and Coaching" by Captain M. E. Haworth, 1882
Located in valatie, NY
Road Scrapings: Coaches and Coaching. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1882. First edition Morocco and cloth bound hardcover. Captain Haworth writes about the world of coaching by telling anecdotes when coaching was at its peak. He describes fights among competitors and how one coaching company hired prize-fighters to keep the peace. He also explains how trains are safer for the public with the lack of competitive fist fighting...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Paper, Leather
3 Volumes. Isaac Disraeli, Curiosities of Literature.
Located in New York, NY
3 Volumes. Isaac Disraeli, Curiosities of Literature. Bound in full tan calf. The covers and raised band spines display gilt-tooling with brown and green morocco labels. All edges ar...
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Mid-19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
"Congress and the Nation 1946-1964" First Edition Two-Volume Set, Published 1965
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Congress and the Nation 1945-1964: A Review of Government and Politics in the Postwar Years. District of Columbia: Congressional Quarterly Service, 1965. First edition, two-volume se...
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1960s American Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam 3 Volumes Leatherbound
Located in San Francisco, CA
Hallam's View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages
complete in 3 leather bound octavo volumes with marbleized boards. Book plate of former owner with additional old inscript...
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1830s English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
The Works of Shakespeare Complete in Seven Leatherbound Volumes
Located in San Francisco, CA
The Works of Shakespeare Complete in 7 duodecimo 3/4 leather bound volumes with marbleized boards and end papers, top edges gilt. A charming set in attractive original condition. Fro...
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Early 20th Century American Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
1 Volume. Richard Henry Stoddard, The Loves and Heroines of the Poets.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Richard Henry Stoddard, The Loves and Heroines of the Poets. Bound in full brown morocco with the covers and raised band spine displaying ornate gilt and open-tooled detail...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
The Flag of the United States by Milo Milton Quaife, First Edition, 1942
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Quaife, Milo Milton. The Flag of the United States. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1942. First edition. Octavo. Rebound in ¼ leather and cloth boards, with raised bands and gilt embossed titles to the spine. Illustrated. Presented with a matching archival slipcase.
Presented is a first edition printing of The Flag of the United States by Milo Milton Quaife. The book was published in New York by Grosset & Dunlap in 1942. It is presented here rebound in ¼ leather and cloth boards, with raised bands and gilt titles to the spine, and a matching archival slipcase.
Quaife wrote The Flag of the United States in order to present “the true and authentic history of the United States.” Wading through the myths and stories surrounding the flag, he details the origins and evolution of the American flag, using careful research to determine fact from fiction. There are several chapters on the early flags of Spain, France, and Holland in America and Quaife traces the development of the American flag from its English predecessor. He articulates the twenty-nine word resolution of the Second Continental Congress that made the flag of the United States, then outlines the changes to the flag’s design made in 1795, 1818, and 1912. He has a chapter on Civil War flags, a chapter on flags of the Army, and several debunking the many myths surrounding the American flag.
This book was very well received upon its publication. “Quaife is entitled to a good deal of praise for having written a straightforward, and very readable, history of our flag” (Ralph W. Steen, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 1943). “To read this history of our flag is to read the history of these United States, not only in the years when we became an infant nation, but also in those later years variously devoted to territorial expansion, extending our commerce, and fighting other wars.” (Ardelia Olden Koch, Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1943).
Milo Milton Quaife (1880–1959) was a historian and writer, born in Nashua, Iowa. He received his education at Grinnell College, the University of Missouri, and the University of Chicago. Quaife was a published historian of the Great Lakes region, the Mississippi River valley, the Gold Rush, and President Polk...
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
1 Volume. Robert Frost, A Masque of Mercy.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Robert Frost, A Masque of Mercy. First Trade Edition. Bound in the publisher's blue cloth. Signed by the author. Housed in a 1/4 blue morocco and linen board slipcase with ...
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Mid-20th Century American Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Charles C. Perkins, Historical Handbook of Italian Sculpture.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Charles C. Perkins, Historical Handbook of Italian Sculpture. Bound in 3/4 white calf with linen boards. Ornate gilt-tooling and red label on the spine. Top edges gilt. Blu...
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Late 19th Century British Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
6 Volumes. Edited by P. Martin Duncan, Cassell's Natural History.
Located in New York, NY
6 Volumes. Edited by P. Martin Duncan, Cassell's Natural History. Bound in full black calf with ornate gilt-tooled crest and border on the covers. Gilt-tooling and red calf labels on...
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Late 19th Century British Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather
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