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Material: Animal Skin
Collection of 42 Swedish Early 20th Century Leather-Bound Books
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A collection of 47 Swedish decorative antique leather-bound library books from the from the 1930s-1940s.
The books are wrapped in leather-bound covers, comprised of a selection of w...
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Early 20th Century Swedish British Colonial Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
8 Volumes. William Shakespeare, The Plays of Shakespeare.
Located in New York, NY
8 Volumes. William Shakespeare, The Plays of Shakespeare. Bound in full tan calf with covers displaying gilt bordering. Raised band spine with panels displaying beautiful gilt detail...
Category
1830s English 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
Oscar Wilde, the Sphinx, First Edition, 1894, Illustrated by Charles Rickets
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: WILDE, Oscar.
TITLE: The Sphinx.
PUBLISHER: London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane at The Sign of The Bodley Head, 1894.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., 8-1/2" x 7",...
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1890s British Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
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 Animal Skin Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Book of Hours of Charles of Angoulême - One-Time Only Limited-Edition Facsimile
Located in BARCELONA, ES
This is a one-time only facsimile edition limited to 987 copies of an illuminated manuscript in Renaissance style, the Book of Hours of Charles of Angoul...
Category
2010s French Renaissance Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Cyrano De Bergerac, by Edmond Rostrand with Riviere Binding
Located in Middletown, NY
Cyrano's nose got in the way of his heart. A must-have for collectors of French classics.
Rostand, Edmond (1868 – 1918). Cyrano de Bergerac.
Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasq...
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Late 19th Century European Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Poems of Robert Fergusson
Located in Middletown, NY
This is the FIRST EDITION OF ROBERT FERGUSSON'S POEMS in a very attractive binding. It presents poems in both English (1-84) and Scots (80-121) and includes a Glossary of Scots words...
Category
Mid-18th Century Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Torquato TASSO, Gerusalemme Liberata
Located in Middletown, NY
An early illustrated edition of Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso (1544 – 1595)
"La Gerusalemme Liberata; Di Torquato Tasso – Figurata da Bernardo Castello – con le annotationi ...
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Early 17th Century Italian Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
2 Antique Miniature Leather Methodist Hymnal & American School Hymn Book
Located in Dayton, OH
Pair of antique mid-late 19th century Christian hymnals, one leather bound book of Methodist Hymns, impressed with the name Mrs. Rachel daugherty, and one blue cloth bound American s...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Paper
Lovely "Naughty" Book Illustrated by Clara Tice, with Famous B. Franklin Text
Located in Middletown, NY
Tice, Clara and Benjamin Franklin
ADVICE ON MARRIAGE
Philadelphia & Brooklyn: Harry Cunningham, 1925. Limited Edition.
Octavo, 9 x 6 1/2 inches (227 x 165 mm); number 40 of 50 copies on Japon, drawn, etched, and hand-coloured throughout by Clara Tice with pictorial title; 6 pictorial plates with tissue guards captioned in red by hand, 6 text pages within decorative borders, and pictorial colophon; printed on rectos only. Dedication copy: signed and inscribed by the artist "to Mr Carl Weeks, sincerely, Clara Tice" and with small sketch...
Category
Early 20th Century American Animal Skin Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Set of Old Bound Books, 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 entitled "Histoire du protestantisme français" (History of Fren...
Category
19th Century French Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
1 Volume, Mrs. Steuart Erskine, Beautiful Women in History and Art
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Mrs. Steuart Erskine, Beautiful Women in History and Art. Bound in full brown morocco with boards displaying gilt corner and border detailing...
Category
Early 1900s English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Rolex: The Impossible Collection
Located in NEW YORK, NY
For more than a century, Rolex stands apart as the most coveted and most legendary brand of watches in the world. A Rolex connotes many things: the quintessence of the luxury timepiece, a tool of power for movers and shakers, the symbol of passage into adulthood. New labels pop up, styles come and go, but the brand at the top never changes. Ever the record setter—the Daytona that had belonged to Paul Newman was auctioned by Phillips in New York in October 2017 for $17.8 million—it comes as no surprise that Rolex is the most collected watch label in the world.
The history of Rolex is rooted in the visionary spirit of its founder, Hans Wilsdorf. In 1905, young Wilsdorf founded a company in London for the distribution of timepieces, but his true dream was to produce wristwatches—in their infancy at the time, and not very precise—that would be technically durable and reliable, and supremely elegant. The company first concentrated on producing the highest quality movements, and this quest for precision rapidly led to the first wristwatch in the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Animal Skin Books
Materials
Metal
1 Volume, Dante Alighieri, The New Life
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Dante Alighieri, The New Life. Bound in 3/4 navy morocco and marbled boards, bordered in gilt. Raised bands gilt with panels displaying beautiful Egyptian floral gilt tooli...
Category
19th Century American Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Flora Conspicua by Richard Morris
Located in Middletown, NY
One of the most desirable of all nineteenth century color plate books. RARE.
Morris, Richard. Flora Conspicua; A Selection of the most ornamental flowering, hard, exotic and indig...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
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 ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Book of the Hunt by Gaston Fébus, One-Time Only Limited-Edition Facsimile
Located in BARCELONA, ES
This is a one-time only facsimile edition limited to 987 copies of a Medieval illuminated manuscript, the Book of the Hunt, by the Fren...
Category
2010s French Medieval Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Charles DICKENS, A Christmas Carol, 1940, IN A FINE ONLAY BINDING!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: DICKENS, Charles.
TITLE: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas.
PUBLISHER: Chicago: the Monastery Hill Press, 1940.
DESCRIPTION: 1 vol., 6-1...
Category
1940s American Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
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...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea / Ackermann, First Edition
Located in Middletown, NY
One of the great 19th-century English color plate books illustrating the scenery along the Seine.
Sauvan, Jean Baptiste Balthazar. Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea; with Particulars Historical and Descriptive.
London: R. Ackermann, 1821. First Edition.
4to, 13 1/2 x 11 (343 x 280 mm), pp. x, 177, title vignette and 24 hand colored aquatints, map. Later three-quarter yellow levant morocco with fillets, spine decorated in gilt with 5 raised bands and black title label; marbled boards and endpapers, a.e.g.. Spine and boards in very good condition, binding tight and square, text and plates with very occasional spotting.
[Abbey, Travel 90; Tooley 445; Bobins, Exotic and the Beautiful II: 548]
Condition: Near fine.
This is a first printing of one of the great nineteenth-century English color plate books illustrating the scenery along the Seine from Paris to Le Havre. Luminous impressions of the plates, beautifully hand-colored. Engraved by Thomas Sutherland (1785 – 1825) and Daniel Havell (1785 – 1826) from sketches and drawings by Augustus Pugin (1812 – 1852) and John Gendall (1790 – 1865), the illustrations also include a vignette on the title page representing the Château de Rosny (home of the Duchess of Berry...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
LES PASTORALES. Binding by René Kieffer with Original Wood Block.
Located in Middletown, NY
Les Pastorales by Theocritus / Théocrite, illustrated and with unique binding by Kieffer, René
Les Pastorales; Traduites intégralement par Gabriel Soulages. Bois originaux de J.-B. ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Wood, Paper
Guy De Maupassant, Sur L'eau with Illustrations by A.Le Petit. Kieffer Binding
Located in Middletown, NY
Sur l'eau by guy de maupassant, illustrations by alfred le petit.
Paris: A. G. Mornay / Kieffer, 1927. 8vo, 7 3/4 x 6 1/8 in. (197 x 156 mm); pp. ...
Category
Early 20th Century European Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
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 beautiful books are perfect to fill a nic...
Category
19th Century French Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Zapolya, a Christmas Tale" in Fine Leather Binding
Located in Middletown, NY
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Zapolya: A Christmas Tale; in Two Parts: The Prelude entitled "The Usurper's Fortune;" and The Sequel, entitled "The Usurper's Fate."
London: Rest Fenner, ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Sloane, the Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, New Revised Edition, in a Fine Binding
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: SLOANE, William Milligan.
TITLE: The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte.
PUBLISHER: London: The Times Book Club, 1912.
DESCRIPTION: NEW REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION. 4 vols., 8" ...
Category
1910s British Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
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
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...
Category
Early 20th Century French Animal Skin Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
All_vellum Copy of R. L. Stevenson's Virginibus Puerisque
Located in Middletown, NY
Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers.
London: Chatto & Windus for the FLORENCE PRESS, 1910. Limited Edition.
4to, 10 x 7 1/2 in. (253 x 189 mm); [6] leaves, including 1 blank + 120 pp + [2] leaves, including 1 blank. 12 chromolithographed plates by Norman Wilkinson, printed on plate paper and not included in the pagination, legends on tissue guards printed in red. This is COPY no. 4 OF 12 COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM, as noted on the limitation page, on verso of second leaf: «Of this edition of Virginibus Puerisque / have been printed on Aldwych hand- / made paper 250 copies, of which 235 are / for sale; on vellum 12 copies, of which 10 / are for sale. / Vellum Copy No. 4». Limp vellum binding with four green ties; gilt lettering on spine and upper cover, t.e.g. Very faint spotting to front free endpaper, slight offsetting of ties. Otherwise a pristine copy.
Provenance: William Russell Flint (from the family, by descent).
[Beinecke, Stevenson 79; Ransom 278:6; Tomkinson 85:6; Prideaux 13] Fine.
A splendid edition of Stevenson's first collection of essays which promote a spirit of playfulness in defiance of both the hardships of human life and the restrictions imposed by bourgeois callowness. The volume brought together essays that had been previously published in the Cornhill Magazine and Macmillan’s: “Virginibus Puerisque i” (1876); “ ii” (1881); “iii: On Falling in Love” (1877); “iv: The Truth of Intercourse” (1879); “Crabbed Age and Youth” (1878); “An Apology for Idlers” (1877); “Ordered South” (1874); “Aes Triplex” (1878); “El Dorado” (1878); “The English Admirals” (1878); “Some Portraits by Raeburn” (previously unpublished); “Child’s Play” (1878); “Walking Tours” (1876); “Pan’s Pipes” (1878); “A Plea for Gas Lamps” (1878)
The essays inspired Norman WILKINSON (1878 – 1971) to create the 12 striking and lyrical images that accompany the texts. Wilkinson was a British artist, renowned for his poster work and honored by the British Admiralty for coming up with the idea and design for “dazzle camouflage...
Category
Early 20th Century English Animal Skin Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Life of the Late King of France Lewis XIII by James Howell 1st Edition, 1646
Located in San Francisco, CA
An extensive biography of the life of Louis XIII king of France who ruled from 1610-1643. This volume is the first edition of Howell's work and retains its original full calf...
Category
Mid-17th Century English Louis XIII Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
First Edition of Historical Work on ". Indians of North America" by Paul Kane
Located in Middletown, NY
Kane, Paul (1810-1871)
Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America; From Canada to Vancouver Island and Oregon Through the Hud...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Very Early Illustrated Book on Birds, Giovanni P. Olina: "Uccelliera", 1622
Located in Middletown, NY
Giovanni Pietro Olina. UCCELLIERA; Overo discorso della natura e proprietà di diversi uccelli e in particolare di que' che cantano, con il modo di prendergli, conoscergli, allevargli...
Category
Early 17th Century Italian Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Collection of 47 Swedish 20th Century Leather-Bound Books
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A collection of 47 Swedish decorative antique leather-bound library books.
The books are wrapped in leather-bound covers, comprised of a selection of warm tones and gold leaf print ...
Category
Early 20th Century Swedish British Colonial Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
2 Volumes, John Keats, The Poems of John Keats
Located in New York, NY
2 Volumes. John Keats, The Poems of John Keats. Bound in 3/4 wine morocco. Linen boards. Decorative gilt tooling on spine. Raised bands. Top edges gilt. Mar...
Category
20th Century American Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Set of Old 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 « Life of Jean Wesley ». These...
Category
19th Century French Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
M.J. Pierpont Morgan Collection of French Porcelains, Personal Limited Edition
Located in Middletown, NY
Catalogue des Porcelaines Françaises de M.J. Pierpont Morgan
by M. J. Pierpont Morgan and Xavier R.M. comte de Chavagnac.
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1910.
Large 4to, 12 x 9 in...
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Virginia Woolf. the Years, First Edition, 1937 in a Fine Full Leather Binding
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Woolf, Virginia.
Title: The Years.
Publisher: London: The Hogarth Press, 1937.
Description: First Edition. 1 vol., 7-3/16" x 4-15/16", boun...
Category
1930s British Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Antique Handmade Qajar Persian Lacquer Photo Album Silver on Leather
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Late 19th century Middle Eastern photo album book, Qajar period, hand painted lacquer enamel with silver on leather large photo album. Painted enamel central plaque depicting a Mosqu...
Category
Late 19th Century Persian Islamic Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Alfred De Vigny, LES DESTINÉES, Illustrated, Signed and with Original Drawings
Located in Middletown, NY
Alfred de Vigny. LES DESTINÉES; Précédés de Moïse.
Paris: Edouard Pelletan, 1898. Limited Edition.
Quarto, 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 in (300 x 248 mm), 196 pp., red crushed morocco, boards ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Charles Dickens First Edition Our Mutual Friend 1865 Chapman & Hall Book
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique 1st Edition book titled Our Mutual Friend was authored by Charles Dickens and published by Chapman and Hall of England in 1865 in the period Victorian style with etchings by Hablot Knight Browne...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Novels 'Works & Letters' of Jane Austen, Winchester Edition, 12 Volumes
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: AUSTEN, Jane.
Title: The Novels (Works and Letters) of Jane Austen.
Publisher: Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911-12.
Description: The Winchester...
Category
1910s British Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Antique Charles Dickens First Edition Little Dorrit 1857 Chapman & Hall Book
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique 1st edition book titled Little Dorrit was authored by Charles Dickens and published by Chapman and Hall of England in 1857 in the period Victorian style with etchings by Hablot Knight Browne...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
1 Volume, Aeschylus, the Tragedies
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Aeschylus, The Tragedies. First Edition. Bound in full brown calf with the covers displaying a modern Cambridge-style paneled design, toned and s...
Category
18th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Val-Dieu Apocalypse - One-Time Only Limited-Edition Facsimiles
Located in BARCELONA, ES
This is a unique facsimile reproduction limited to 987 copies of a medieval manuscript, the Apocalypse Val-Dieu, owned by the British Library, mad...
Category
2010s French Medieval Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Liber Astrologiae - Albumazar Treatise - One-time only limited-edition facsimile
Located in BARCELONA, ES
This is a unique facsimile edition limited to 987 copies of a Medieval manuscript on Astrology, the Albumazar Treatise, also known as the Liber As...
Category
2010s Dutch Medieval Animal Skin Books
Materials
Sheet Metal
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...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Decorative Scandinavian Antique Leather-Bound Books
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A collection of 8 tall and larger size decorative Swedish leather-bound books from the 1950s. This set consist of 3 plus 5 books describing Swedish town in Swedish.
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Folk Art Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Charles Dickens First Edition Dombey & Son Bradbury & Evans Whitefriars Book
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique 1st Edition book titled Dombey & Son was authored by Charles Dickens and published by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars of England in 1848 in the period Victorian style with etchings by Hablot Knight Browne...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
4 Volumes, Cervantes, Don Quixote De La Mancha
Located in New York, NY
4 Volumes. Cervantes.Don Quixote De La Mancha.Edition Deluxe, limited to 25 Sets, this is #3. Translated From The Spanish By P.A. Motteux. Bound in 3/4 wine ...
Category
20th Century American Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Huge 19th Century Velum and Leather Bound Book
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Large 19th century velum and leather bound accounts ledger from The Angel Inn, Bury St Edmunds, 1811.
Made by John Williams - account book manufacturers London.
A wonderful, ol...
Category
19th Century Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Mary Robinson, Hubert De Sevrac a Romance of the Eighteenth Century, 1st Ed 1796
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Robinson, Mary.
Title: Hubert de Sevrac, a Romance of the Eighteenth Century.
Publisher: London: for the Author by Hookham and Carpenter, 1796.
Description: First edition. 3 vols., 6-13/16" x 4-7/16", errata at the end of each vol., advertisement leaf at the end of vol. 3, vol. 2 M6 with early repaired tear at foot, without the half-titles, bound in fine contemporary full speckled calf, floral gilt decorated spines, gilt lettered red and green spine labels, covers ruled in gilt.
Condition: Internally clean and bright, armorial bookplate of Sir John Eden to front pastedowns, extremely minor foxing to first and last leaves, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spines fine, a handsom set.
Additional information: An exceedingly rare gothic novel by Robinson (known as "the English Sappho") set during the French Revolution. In her lifetime Robinson was better known as an actress and lady of fashion as well as for a string of prominent affairs, including with George IV whilst he was still Prince of Wales whose portrait she wore encrusted with diamonds throughout her life but who she did not hesitate to blackmail for £5000 pounds when he cast her off. Her literary output, though derided at the time, has since been reassessed and Robinson herself now seen as a proto-feminist.
Mary Robinson was one of those independent 'viragos' who upset so many conventional men at the end of the eighteenth century. She was admired by Mary Wollstonecraft...
Category
1790s British Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Book of Hours of Henry VIII - One-time only limited-edition facsimile
Located in BARCELONA, ES
This is a one-time only facsimile edition limited to 987 copies of an illuminated manuscript in Renaissance style, the Bok of Hours of Henry VIII, owned by the Morgan Library & Museu...
Category
2010s French Renaissance Animal Skin Books
Materials
Metal, Silver
4 Volumes. Winston S. Churchill. A History of the English Speaking Peoples
Located in New York, NY
4 Volumes. Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. Bound in full red calf. Raised band spine gilt with panels displaying ornate gilt detailing. Labels on the...
Category
1950s English Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
MALORY / Rackham, The Romance Of King Arthur, SIGNED IN A FINE ONLAY BINDING !
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: MALORY, Thomas, (Arthur Rackham).
TITLE: The Romance Of King Arthur And His Knights Of The Round Table.
PUBLISHER: London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1917.
DESCRIPTIO...
Category
1910s British Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
Little America by Richard E. Byrd, First Edition, 1930
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Byrd, Richard E., Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, The Flight to the South Pole. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. Octavo. Presented in quarter royal blue Moroccan leather and cloth binding, with gilt titles and stamps to the spine, and a new archival slipcase.
Presented is the first edition printing of Richard E. Byrd's book, Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, The Flight to the South Pole. It was published in New York by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 1930. The book has been handsomely rebound in quarter royal blue Moroccan leather and cloth binding, with gilt titles and stamps to the spine, and a new archival slipcase.
Rear admiral Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957) was an American naval officer and recipient of the United States Medal of Honor. Byrd was also known as a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer...
Category
1930s American Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Antique Charles Dickens First Edition Nicholas Nickleby 1839 Chapman & Hall Book
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique 1st Edition book titled Nicholas Nickeby was authored by Charles Dickens and published by Chapman and Hall of England in 1839 in the period Victorian style with etchings by Hablot Knight...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Edgar Allan POE. The Bells & Other Poems. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY EDMUND DULAC
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: POE, Edgar Allan.
TITLE: The Bells And Other Poems.
PUBLISHER: London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d., (1912).
DESCRIPTION: LIMITED SIGNED EDITION. 1 vol., 12-5/16" x 10-1/2", limited to 750 numbered and signed copies by the illustrator Edmund Dulac...
Category
1910s British Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume, Sir John Skelton, Charles I.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Sir John Skelton, Charles I. Bound in 3/4 red morocco and linen boards double-bordered in gilt tooling. Raised bands, dotted in gilt tooling wit...
Category
19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
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The sought-after designer worked with the team at Hoffman Creative to produce a monograph that beautifully showcases some of Studio Shamshiri's most inspiring projects.
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Italian writer and collector Umberto Pasti opens the doors to his remarkable cave of wonders in North Africa.
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Whaam! Blam! Pow! — a New Book on Pop Art Packs a Punch
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The Sparkling Legacy of Tiffany & Co. Explained, One Jewel at a Time
A gorgeous new book celebrates — and memorializes — the iconic jeweler’s rich heritage.
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This sculptural art book has an epic backstory of its own.
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With a vast range of styles and perspectives, this global roster of talents represents the best of design.
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