The Merry Piper; or the Magical Trip of the Sugar Bowl Ship de Gaze, Harold - 1925

Ludlow: Richard Jones , 1839. Edge worn, paper spine damaged with about 60% remaining. (See photos). Hand-colored frontispiece plate showing 30 different flies. Chapter head vignettes in black and white. Protected in a custom box, lined in watered silk. Chapters on trout, pike, perch, carp, tench, gudgeon, eel. Also fly-fishing, fly-making, worm and maggot fishing (including how to preserve maggots!), and much more. 154pp. . New Edition.. Printed Paper-Covered Boards. General Wear./No Jacket. Octavo.

France: Singer-Polignac Foundation with Trianon Press, 1966. cloth, dust jacket with a cardboard slipcase. Trianon Press. folio. cloth, dust jacket with a cardboard slipcase. not paginated. First edition. Printed in an edition limited to 388 unnumbered copies. This is the fifth in the series about rock painting in South Africa with a collaboration of Mary E. Boyle and a foreword by Roger Heim. This volume describes two expeditions made by Abbe Breuil to Rhodesia, then Southern Rhodesia in 1948 and 1950. His study reveals affinities with the White Lady, and traces of immigrants from the north several thousand years before the white settlers of our own time. Most of the paintings here have never before been published and are largely unknown. Regions include Dandabari, Chamavara, Mbara, The Chibi Reserve, the White Rhino shelter, and more. It is illustrated with 63 color plates, reproduced by the collotype and hand-stencil process by the Trianon Press, 19 photographs in monochrome collotype, and 3 line… Leer más

London: Grant Richards, [1902[ First edition. Original color pictorial boards with cloth spine. A bit of light rubbing to extremities. Oblong quarto. With 24 color-printed engraved plates included in pagination. Toning to endpapers. Lacking rear free endpaper. A very good, clean, and bright copy of an uncommon work. Wonderful England! is a facetious and seemingly satirical exultation of British manners and culture in the Edwardian era, told in verse paired with illustrations. The verse pokes fun at the lively caricatures of model British citizens and officials: for example, a drawing of an older man in a British naval uniform eats with a spoon from jars labeled "treacle" and "golden syrup" accompanies text that reads "The first Sea-Lord performs / A most difficult feat / It is said that he tastes / All the jam for our fleet!" (p. 34).

WEATHERFORD, Carole Boston. Box. Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom. Illustrated by Michele Wood. [Somerville, MA]: Candlewick [2020]. Oblong 8vo, [56]pp. Color pictorial boards. Black endpapers; color illustrations on nearly every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed). With a bookplate signed by Newbery Honor author Carole Boston Weatherford.
First edition. 2021 Newbery Honor Book! Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he "entered the world a slave." Put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next — as property – he lost his wife and children when they were sold away out of spite. But Henry Brown found hope — and help —in the form of the Underground Railroad. And escaped enclosed in a box!

Bath: William Mackenzie but Robert Frederick Limited, [N.D., circa 1880] but, 2004 . 3 volumes in one. A beautifully illustrated facsimile of the famous Library Shakespeare, a complete edition of Shakespeare's plays. Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert, George Cruikshank, and R. Dudley. The facsimile illustrations include many colourplates, numerous fine plates in monochrome, and many engravings throughout the text. A richly illustrated volume. Folio, (12 "x 10"), bound in full black leather, the spine and upper cover richly decorated and printed in red and gilt in all-over designs. All edges gilt, moire silk end-leaves. vi 396; 406, 476 pp. A pristine copy, as mint and unused. A STRIKINGLY HANDSOME EDITION WELL SUITED TO THE IMMORTAL WORDS WITHIN, and this in a binding of black leather gilt decorated. The colourplates are in the finest style of the period and set this edition apart from other library Shakespeare editions of both its time and ours.

N.P.: n.p., n.d.. Nason, Thomas W.. broadside (11 by 14 1/4 inches). Signed etching by Thomas W. Nason (1889-1971). Nason was a print maker from Lyme, Connecticut, known as the "poet engraver of New England." Nason became known for his poetic and somber observations of the rural New England landscape. According to a statement on the reverse, this is a limited edition for members of the Society of Pring Connoisseurs of Alexandria, Virginia.

This Medal of Honor-winning U.S. Marine Corps officer downed 21 enemy planes in World War Two, making him the fourth ranking USMC fighter Ace. PS, 8" X 10", n.p., n.y. Fine. Handsome, high-quality glossy modern reproduction of a candid WW2-era shot of a smiling Walsh standing in front of his plane, inscribed and signed boldly in black fineline at left center: "Ken Walsh CMH / Lt Col USMC (Ret.) / VMF-124 & 222 / 21- Victories." This is accompanied by an 11" X 14" print, a 1991 reproduction of a pencil portrait of Walsh, his fighter plane and his Medal of Honor, boldly signed in pencil at lower right by noted aviation artist Lonnie Ortega. Near fine.

New York, 1835. Broadsheet. Very good, folded vellum, edge worn, lightly soiled.. 1 sheet. 30 x 18 inches. The original document on the recto is a land indenture from George Ludlow to Gabriel W. Ludlow and his wife, Cornelia for the sum of $2,000, and is dated July 23, 1766 and signed by merchant, George Ludlow, and witnesses, Hugh Gaine and Benjamin Kissam. On verso, manuscript statement, dated January 31, 1835, providing evidence for allowing the Land Indenture to be recorded. Signed by the Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in New York City, Michael Ulshoffer. Hugh Gaine (1726-1807) was an American printer, bookseller, and newspaper publisher who moved his operations from New York City to Newark, New Jersey at the beginning of the American Revolution when the British occupied New York. He switch sides, turned loyalist, and published pro-British articles after deciding the British would win. George Ludlow (1734-1808) from an old line New York family, was a judge who remained loyal to… Leer más

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London: J. Baker at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, 1710. First. Very Good. Henry Sacheverell (1674 â€" 1724) was an English high church Anglican clergyman who achieved nationwide fame in 1709 after preaching two incendiary sermons attacking the Queen, Whigs and the Bishop of Salisbury, in every more powerful words He was subsequently impeached by the House of Commons and though he was found guilty by the House of Lords, his light punishment was seen as a vindication Widespread riots occurred ("the Sacheverell riots") in celebration and to attack dissenters who did not adhere to his High Church principles He became a popular figure in the country, contributing to the Tories' landslide victory at the general election later in 1710 This very good copy is in attractive panelled leather, with raised bands and gilt title and design on the spine There is some cracking at the joints and endpapers, but the binding is still solid and tight Minor scuffing at the corners and edges The endpapers are age… Leer más