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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 Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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The History of the Crusades for the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land
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 5...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Gold Leaf Books
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The History of Chivalry or Knighthood and Its Times
Located in Middletown, NY
Mills, Charles
The History of Chivalry or Knighthood and Its Times
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Greene, 1826.
2 volumes, 8vo, 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches (210 x 137 mm). Vol. 1...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Gold Leaf Books
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The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald – FIRST EDITION, First printing
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First Edition, First Printing.
8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches (190 x 132 mm); pp. x + 449 + 2, one unopened at the front of the book; 2-page adve...
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Early 20th Century American Gold Leaf Books
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Odd Whims and Miscellanies by H. Repton – First Edition, 1804, illustrated
Located in Middletown, NY
London: William Miller, 1804.
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes
Small 8vo.; 9 x 5 3/8 (226 x 140 mm); vol. 1: xii, [2], 171 [1 blank]; vol. 2: iv, 164, [1 blank] pp.; large paper copy. Ten h...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Gold Leaf Books
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Theatrum Machinarum Generale. by Jacob Leupold - FIRST EDITION
Located in Middletown, NY
The most complete compendium on the technical sciences of the era.
Leupold, Jacob
Theatrum Machinarum Generale. Schau-Platz des Grundes Mechanischer Wissenschaften, das ist: Deutlich...
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Early 18th Century German Antique Gold Leaf Books
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Theatri statici universalis by Jacob Leupold - FIRST EDITION
Located in Middletown, NY
THE MOST COMPLETE COMPENDIUM ON THE TECHNICAL SCIENCES OF THE ERA
Leupold, Jacob
Theatri statici universalis, sive Theatrum staticum, Das ist: Schau-Platz der Gewicht-Kunst und Waag...
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Early 18th Century German Antique Gold Leaf Books
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The Complete Newgate Calendar. Stories of sin, crime, criminals - 5 vol. illustr
Located in Middletown, NY
Rayner, J.L. and G.T. Crook, editors
The Complete Newgate Calendar; Being Captain Charles Johnson's General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murdere...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Leaf Books
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Cervantes - The Adventures of DON QUIXOTE - London, 1820 - 4 vols. illustrated
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Hurst, Robinson & Co., 1820.
Richard Westall illustrations
4 volumes, small 8vo; 6 3/8 x 4 inches (160 x 100 mm); xx, 371; 388; 367; 436 pp. Each volume contains an illustra...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Gold Leaf Books
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Aedium Farnesiarum Tabulae, Annibale CARRACCI, 1753 - oversized folio
Located in Middletown, NY
Carracci's frescoes at Palazzo Farnese in Rome
Rome: Venantius Monaldinus, 1753.
First Edition.
Oversized folio, 17 1/4 x 12 inches (438 x 304 mm); half title, engraved portrait o...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Gold Leaf Books
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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 a...
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Late 18th Century English Antique Gold Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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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...
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Early 20th Century Gold Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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Cours de danse fin de siècle, Illustrated by Louis Legrand
Located in Middletown, NY
The illustrations show Can-Can dancers rehearsing classic high kick positions.
Legrand, Louis, illustrations & Erastène Ramiro, text
Paris: E. Dentu, 1892
Large 8vo; 11 1/8 x 7 7/8 ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Gold Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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Mr. Chambers and Persephone by Christopher Whittled – Golden Cockerel Press
Located in Middletown, NY
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937.
Illustrations by Dorothea Braby. FIRST, LIMITED EDITION
8vo.; 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (226 x 160 mm); 63 pp.; 14 pt. Perpetual type; four wood-engravings ...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Leaf Books
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Journey From This World to the Next by H. Fielding – Golden Cockerel Press
Located in Middletown, NY
Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1930.
Illustrations by Denis Tegetmeister (1895 – 1987).
8vo, 9 x 6 in (229 x 153 mm); 175 pp., 6 copper engravings by Denis Tege...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Leaf Books
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Mambu et son Amour; Décors nègres de Jean Vergély – By Louis Charbonneau
Located in Middletown, NY
This attractive and beautifully-bound volume fits in the period's vogue for exploration of African exoticism, with decorative borders on each page inspired by native African designs....
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Early 20th Century French Gold Leaf Books
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L'Annonciateur by Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam – in special Art-Deco binding
Located in Middletown, NY
A rare and stunning binding sculpted in the Art-Nouveau style by Louis Déze, and illustrating the themes of the work. From the library of the eminent French bibliophile Guy Bigorie.
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Early 20th Century French Gold Leaf Books
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Bibliothecæ Alexandrinæ icones symbolicæ / elogiis illustratæ, by C. Giarda
Located in Middletown, NY
DISTINGUISHED PEDIGREE: from the libraries of Robert Hoe and John Barrymore.
Elegantly illustrated and bound copy with a famed pedigree that spans from Robert Hoe—the businessman, collector, and founding member of the Grolier Club in 1884— to "The Lamberts" (probably purchased in the epic Hoe library auction of 1911-1912), who gifted it to the colorful and famous actor John Barrymore. Their bookplates adorn the inside covers, will your bookplate be next?
Giarda, Cristoforo
Bibliothecæ Alexandrinæ icones symbolicæ … elogiis illustratæ
Milan: Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1628.
4to, 9 5/8 x 7 inches (244 x 178 mm); (xii) + 140 pp, not including plates and inscriptions. Engraved architectural title with Saints Peter and Alexander by Cesare Bassano, 16 copperplates of female figures; woodcut dropcaps and tailpieces throughout.
Later (circa 1890) red levant morocco binding by R. Petit (signed in gilt on front turn-in) with triple gilt frames on boards, raised bands, gilt title and decorative motifs in compartments; inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, professionally rebacked preserving original richly gilt backstrip in compartments; title and preliminaries stained, occasional spotting or light soiling and a few small light ink stains to covers.
[Praz p.349]
Provenance: Robert Hoe (blue morocco book label...
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17th Century French Antique Gold Leaf Books
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The Tunning of Elinor Rumming, a Poem by John Skelton
Located in Middletown, NY
Skelton, John
The Tunning of Elinor Rumming, a Poem
London: Printed for Isaac Dalton, and sold by W. Boreham at the Angel in Pater-Noster-Row, 1718. Second Edition. Octavo, 7 5/8 x 4 5/8 in. (194 x 117 mm). pp. [8], 31, [1]. From the title page: by Skelton Laureat. Original unbound, rebound in modern pink paper over boards, leather spine label with gilt title. Some toning to last few leaves.boards All text is legible, some spot tanning throughout. In near fine condition. Rare.
[ESTC N46064 ]
ESTC shows two U.S. copies only: Henry E. Huntington Library and Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; and two British Isles copies only: Oxford University Bodleian Library (both copies). This poem was printed multiple times in the 16th century, including by William Caxton's successor, Wynken de Worde. Rare as a separate volume. John Skelton (c.1463 - 1529) was a remarkable, unusual poet and priest, who had been the tutor of the Tudors, Prince Arthur...
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Early 18th Century English Antique Gold Leaf Books
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La femme demasquée ou l'amour peint selon l'usage nouveau – Quesnot de La Chênée
Located in Middletown, NY
Quesnot de La Chênée, Jean-Jacques
La femme démasquée ou l'amour peint selon l'usage nouveau
la Haye (The Hague): Jacob van Ellinckhuysen, 1698.
First Edition.
12mo, 5 x 2 3/4 inc...
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17th Century French Antique Gold Leaf Books
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Goethe's FAUST with Willy Pogany illustrations
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1908. First Edition. Small 4to 10 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches (265 x 190 mm); xx, 210 pp., rubricated decorated title page; 30 full-page color plates by Pogany, inc...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Leaf Books
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45 wood-engravers – WHITTINGTON PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
Lawernce, Simon WHITTINGTON PRESS
45 wood-engravers (Forty-five Wood-engravers); With an Introduction by John Lawrence.
Yorkshire, UK: Simon Lawrence printed by The Whittington Pre...
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20th Century English Gold Leaf Books
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Shelley at Oxford – Early correspondence of P.B.Shelley – GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
Shelley, Percy Bysche
Shelley at Oxford; The early correspondence of P.B. Shelley with his friend T.J. Hogg together with letters of Mary Shelley and T. L. Peacock and hitherto unpub...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Leaf Books
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A New System of Modern Geography by William Guthrie - 1782
Located in Middletown, NY
A New System of Modern Geography; or, a Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar; and Present State of the Kingdoms of the World. Maps engraved by Mr. Kitchin, C. Dilly and G...
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Late 18th Century English Antique Gold Leaf Books
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Sporting Novels (5) by Robert Smith Surtees
Located in Middletown, NY
A collection of the Sporting Novels; Handley Cross; or Mr. Jerrocks's Hunt; Hawbuck Grange or The Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott, Esq.; Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour; Ask Mamma or ...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Leaf Books
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Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso – Elegant French 18th C "pocket" edition
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Prault, 1768
2 vols, 12mo, 5 3/8 x 3 1/8 inches (136 x 80 mm). Vol. 1: front. title, 2nd frontispiece, iii, 326; Vol. 2: title, 333 pp. Text in Italian. Frontispiece by Godefr...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Gold Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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La Mouche by Alfred de Musset – Illustrations by Adolphe Lalauze
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, 1892.
Illustrations: Adolphe Lalauze (1838 – 1906)
Preface: Philippe Gille
Limited Edition
8vo, 9 1/8 x 6 inches (231 x 153 mm); xvi, 84, (3) pp.; pri...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Gold Leaf Books
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Le Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac / Les Bibliophiles du Palais
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Les Bibliophiles du Palais, 1924.
Illustrations: André Dignimont (1891 – 1965).
8vo, 10 1/4 x 7 inches (260 x 178 mm); 96, (8) pp., printed in black and red on Arches paper;...
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Mid-20th Century French Gold Leaf Books
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Les Plaideurs by Jean Racine / Les Bibliophiles du Palais
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Les Bibliophiles du Palais, 1932
Illustrations: Jean Bruller (1902 – 1991).
Limited Edition.
8vo, 10 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches 9260 x 180 mm); (10), 128, (18) pp., printed in black...
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Mid-20th Century French Gold Leaf Books
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La Puce de Madame Des Roches; ou Jeux poétiques
Located in Middletown, NY
Des Roches, Catherine & Etienne Pasquier, Claude Binet, Nicolas Rapin
La Puce de Madame Des Roches; ou Jeux poétiques composés aux grands jours de Poitiers , l'an MDLXXIX , par Cathe...
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Mid-20th Century French Gold Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches – J. M. Barrie, creator of PETER PAN
Located in Middletown, NY
Philadelphia: New York Publishing Company, 1892.
First Edition
Small 8vo., 7 3/8 x 5 inches (188 x 127 mm), pp. 180, printed on heavy laid paper and illustrated with a frontispiece ...
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Late 19th Century American Antique Gold Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke. With a Memoir
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1920. seventh impression.
8vo, 7 1/2 x 5 inches (191 x 127 mm); pp. clix (memoir) + 160 (poems); frontispiece portraits of the author at the beginn...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Leaf Books
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The Lord's Song: A Sermon by Eric Gill – GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS
Located in Middletown, NY
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1934.
Limited Edition.
Slim 8vo; 8 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (224 x 112 mm); (vi),16 pp., (vi); printed on Arnold paper, in black ink using Eri...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1783
Located in Middletown, NY
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1783
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1783.
64mo, 1 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (57 x 33 mm), 24pp. Original cream morocco elaborately gilt...
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18th Century English Antique Gold Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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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, 1784
48mo, 4 x 2 1/2 in. (113 x 53 mm); pp. 48 + blank pages for each mont...
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18th Century English Antique Gold Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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Shakespeare – Twelfth Night, or What You Will; engravings by Eric Ravilious
Located in Middletown, NY
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932.
Limited Edition.
Small folio, 13 1/4 x 9 1/4 in (330 x 235 mm); pp. v +76 + colophon. This in no. 94 of 275 copies printed on B...
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Early 20th Century English Gold Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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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...
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Mid-19th Century English Antique Gold Leaf Books
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The Workes of our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer
Located in Middletown, NY
Chaucer, Geoffrey
The Workes of our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed
London: Adam Islip, 1602.
Second Edition.
Folio, 13 x 8 3/4 inches (328 x 223 ...
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Early 17th Century English Antique Gold Leaf Books
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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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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...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Gold Leaf Books
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Lettres à une amie vénitienne, by Rainer Maria Rilke – OFFICINA BODONI
Located in Middletown, NY
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1941. Limited Edition. Vellum. Octavo, 9 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches (250 x 170 mm); title page vignette etched by Mario Vellani-Marchi with a couple of small spots,...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Gold Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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Mémoires et Observations Géographiques et Critiques by Samuel Engel (1702–1784))
Located in Middletown, NY
Mémoires et Observations Géographiques et Critiques sur la Situation des Pays Septentrionaux de l’Asie et del'Amérique d'après les relations les plus récentes; Auxquelles on a joint ...
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Mid-18th Century Swiss Antique Gold Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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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 Leaf Books
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Publishing house Assouline and writer Julie Belcove have teamed up to trace the history of the genre, from Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Yayoi Kusama to Mickalene Thomas and Jeff Koons.
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.
Tauba Auerbach’s Geometric Pop-Up Book Is Mighty Rare, Thanks to a Hurricane
This sculptural art book has an epic backstory of its own.
Step inside the Storied Mansions of Palm Beach’s Most Effervescent Architect
From Spanish-style courtyards to fanciful fountains, these acclaimed structures abound in surprising and elegant details.
A Heady Group of Industry Insiders Pick the World’s Top Interior Designers
With a vast range of styles and perspectives, this global roster of talents represents the best of design.