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Paris & Versailles: Chez l'Autheur, 1690. leather_bound. Later full brown calf. Aeg. Near fine. 260 pages. 18 x 12.4 cm. Later variant printed by Hansy. Dedication and with head-piece of sirens on p.210 revealing their breasts covered in later, our issue -- Second state headpiece on page 210, finely engraved throughout with ornamental borders, vignettes, head- & tail-pieces and pictorial initials. Exquisite calligraphic prayer book beautifully illustrated with charming decorations of flowers, birds et al. With no p.47 as correct p.223 is apparently numbered twice. BONACINI p.308. COHEN-de RICCI 487. Unsigned gilt armorial bookplate, inner dentelles and multi colored floral endpapers.

Washington, DC: New York Ave. Presbyterian Church, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. Signed by the author. Index. Bookplate. Orig. green cloth decorated in blind. Fine. 369 pages.

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth.. Rogers, Bruce. 115 pages. 21.5 x 16 cm. Printed in red and black with typography by Bruce Rogers. A vivid glimpse of life in the ninth century; a hitherto scarcely known piece of mediaeval literature. ROGERS 285.

London: Day & Son, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt, rebacked with most of original spine laid down. Aeg. Very good. Jones, Owen. Small folio, 28 x 22 cm. 52 chromolithograph plates on twenty-six leaves by Owen Jones and Henry Warren, on stone by Albert Warren. Each illustration and accompanying text in a distinct decorative border. GORDON N. RAY [The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914] notes that in his later years Owen turned to "original designs of his own." This mid-Victorian time period was the heyday of chromolithography printing with this a brilliant example. Embossed cloth decorated in gilt and green with gilt lettering. Lovely example of Victorian binding, beveled edges, endpapers toned, slight toning to a few fore-edges not affecting plates which are brilliant and clean. Endpapers renewed, front cover lettered and decorated in gilt with green rectangular border in gilt.

Philadelphia: Jesper Harding, 1851. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Aeg. Very good. 770 (54) (18). 30 x 25 cm. Illustrated with steel engravings of biblical events. Tissue guards of latter foxed with offsetting to text, affecting borders of the plates but not the images. "The Resurrection" plate from original by C.Vanloo. Register of Marriages, Births and Deaths of the Harrington family, the infant mortality rate a common reality. Presentation copy slip to Betsey W. Harrington from her brother Emerson Blood dated 1851. Two chromolithograph plates. Scattered toning. Binding with raised bands, spine panels and covers heavily gilt in floral and pictorial motifs with modest rubbing to back cover.

London: C. Hitch, G. Hawkins, et al., 1764. Second edition. leather_bound. Late 19th century three quarter green morocco and marbled boards. Teg. 2 vols. Near fine. Hogarth, William. 424 & 446 pages. 8vo, sixteen copper engraved plates by William Hogarth, many of which are fold-outs. Unpaginated Indexes in each volume -- 16pp and 23pp respectively. Notes by Zachary Grey. Hudibras is Sir Samuel Lake, a gentleman of Bedforshire, and a commander of note under Cromwell. The general design of Hudibras is borrowed from "Don Quixote." Here the Presbyterians tilt at windmills. DIBDIN called Gray's edition, "the best critical edition of this author." [see: DIBDIN'S LIBRARY COMPANION]. BRUNET Vol.I, p.1429. Raised bands, gilt spine motifs, modest age-toning, plates clean, chipping to preliminary blanks, minor surface rubbing, marbled endpapers.

Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige basket weave cloth, front cover printed paper label. Fine. 26 pages. 17 x 13 1/2 cm. Title page with wood-engraving in red and eight total-engravings, three by David Jones and six by Eric Gill -- containing two additional wood-engravings not noted in the GILL bibliography, opposite pages 15 and 19 -- a house floating at sea with the holy ghost as Dove, and a flowering potted plant, respectively. No.40 of of St. Dominic's Press publications. GILL 87. TAYLOR & SEWELL A111. Clean, very fresh copy. From the Library of Jacques Levy.

Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter black cloth spine and decorated boards with front cover paper label. Near fine. 26 pages. 18 x 13.5 cm. Title page with wood-engraving in red and eight total-engravings, three by David Jones and six by Eric Gill. No.40 of of St. Dominic's Press publications. GILL 87. TAYLOR & SEWELL A111. Clean, very fresh copy. Owner inscription free front endpaper.

Heganau: Thomas Anshelm for Johann Koberger, 1520. First edition. leather_bound. Later full vellum. Very good. 102 leaves (35 leaves) (1 leaf). Folio, 29.5 x 22 cm. General and diviinional titles within woodcut borders. The author, born in modern day Tunisia in 462. He became a monk writing works to help instruct the Chrisitans of Africa. As bishop of Ruspe in Tunisia he was later banished to Sardinia in 520 after complaints from the local Arian clergy. The editor, a German humanist and a leading Roman Catholic was an opponent of Martin Luther. Cochlaeus' early sympathy with Luther changed ca. 1520 into unremitting criticism. As adviser to papal nuncios and other ecclesiastical and secular dignitaries, he was prominent at several assemblies that strove to mend the religious split. Cochlaeus ranked among the most zealous theologians of his time, completely dedicated to his cause. His best known work was "Acts and Writings of Luther" (1549). Lower right corner stained, mostly marginal, contemporary… Leer más

Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1961. leather_bound. Orig. navy morocco covers decorated in gilt. Aeg. Fine. 63 pages. 7 x 5 cm. Illustrated with drawings. Printed on "Antiqua" paper by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland and bound by Albracht. As new copy. backstrip lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers.

Edinburgh, London, And Dublin: A. Fullarton & Co, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher cloth, yapp edges. Aeg. Very good. 231 pages. 30 x 25 cm. The word "kirk" is a Saxon term, and "manse" is an abbreviation of mansion, both are household terms in Scotland. The twenty-five tinted plates are bright and clean as is the text. Most specimens of ecclesiastical architecture in Scotland are Norman or Romanesque. Armorial bookplate of William Livingstone Jr., front pastedown cover. Front cover decorated in blind and gilt, spine lettered in floral and varying gilt motifs. Binding is solid, spine sunned.

Torshavn: Emil Thomsen, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper in the original decorated slipcase. 134 pages. 32 x 24 cm. Color and black and white illustrations present richly decorated church furniture from the first half of the 15th century of the Faroe Islands. The motifs on the furniture are especially associated with the liturgical practice of the Faroes.

Paris: G. Boudet (Libraire Artistique), 1896. Hardcover. Quarter tan calf and marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt. Teg. Near fine. Lunois, Alexandre. 152 pages (2). 31 x 25 cm. Seventy-five color lithographs, each recto page with color-printed lithographic vignette by Lunois, each verso text page with wood-engraved border after Lunois. Translated into French by H. Piazza. Limited edition, copy 199 on special wove paper initialed by Piazza and Lunois, from a total edition of 210.Gordon Ray [THE ART OF THE FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOK], p.407. "....famous medieval collection of saints' lives. The Middle East, rendered with sunlit charm, is the setting for most of his compositions, but Lunois' most memorable series illustrates the history of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (pp. 81-121), which he presents with gravity and compassion." Also, "Thanks to the current vogue of artists' lithographs of the turn of the century, the books illustrated by Lunois are… Leer más

Paris: Societe D'Editions Et De Librairie Henri Reynaud, 1926. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff printed wrappers with original glassine over wrapper. Fine. 203 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 319 of 343. Twenty miniature pochoir plates by Arthur Szyk produced by Jean Saude, master of pochoir. Title page and cover printed in red and black, all plates with tissue guards. Superb copy, partly unopened, portion of glassine lacking lower backstrip. Text in French.

Paris: H. Piazza, 1925. Nouvelle edition. leather_bound. Full dark purple morocco, front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Teg. Near fine. Szyk, Arthur. 49 pages in text. 32 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 179 of 775. French and Hebrew text. Printed in red and black. Decorative title in rose and gold, 19 color collotype plates with tissue guards, calligraphy, historiated initials and head- and tail-pieces, by Szyk. CARTERET IV, 241. MONOD, 7199. Gilt decorated spine panels. inner dentelles, double gilt border panels with gilt florets at corners, marbled endpapers, slight rubbing to extremities.

La Haye: Arnout Leers & Andrian Moetjens, 1681. First edition. leather_bound. Full vellum over boards. Near fine. 497 pages. 16 x 10 cm. First forty letters relate to correspondence with ministries in Germany and Denmark from 1589 to 1610. The next group of 184 are to Monsieur Camerarius, date from May 1588 to October 1598. Covers a tumultuous period of French history with political intrigue closely intertwined with the religious struggle between Catholic and Protestant; nevertheless, Henry IV united France and achieved peace at home and abroad. Remarkably fresh, clean and crisp copy. Modest soiling to covers.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth spine, decorated boards, front cover with gilt design, black leather spine label printed in gilt. Near fine. 182 pages. 28 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 1030 copies printed at the Riverside Press, designed by Bruce Rogers. Title page printed in red and black, ten photogravure full page plates with tissue guards.

Upper Mall, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893. leather_bound. Orig. limp vellum, yapp edges and cloth ties. Near fine. 287 pages. 20.8 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 250 printed in red and black in Golden type. Woodcut ornaments and initials designed by William Morris. Transcribed after the autograph manuscript of the author, now in the British Museum. PETERSON A14. Slight fade to gilt of "Life" on spine title. Interior contents very fresh and clean.

Cambridge: Corn. Crownfield, 1726. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary calf professionally rebacked in antique calf with green morocco spine label printed in gilt. Very good. 8vo, 23 x 14cm, (*4),A-Z8,Aa-Bb2,A1-K4, twenty copper-engraved plates, some are fold-outs. Appendix. Index. DIBDIN LIBRARY COMPANION p. 517. "Of the same class is Dr. Knight; whose`Lives of Colet and Erasmus' are in every well appointed library, and bring considerable prices; merely because they contain some interesting plates executed by the respectable burin of Vertue." LOWNDES 1285. Extremities rubbed, corner wear, all edges red, armorial bookplate back cover paste-down, text and plates very clean.

Avon Ct: Limited Editions Club, 1976. Hardcover. Covers in stain resistant cotton in an Indian pattern, green leather backstrip label stamped in gold leaf. Fine in fine brown slipcase. Ayres Houghtelling. 220 pages. 30 x 24 cm. With an introduction by Melford E. Spiro and illustrations by Ayres Houghtelling, eight full page watercolors, eight two color line drawings and 8 black and white illustrations. Printed by A. Colish. Limited edition, copy 1267 of 2000 signed by Hightelling. Laid-in the 8 page LEC Monthly Letter. NEWMAN & WICHE 497. Bright, fresh copy.