Bird print - Saxicola frenata (Plate XIII ONLY) from Ornithologie Nordost-Afrika's
Cassel: T. Fischer, 1869-1874. Chromolithograph. Minor foxing. Minor browning. Size: 9.5 x 6.25 inches. PRINT/080520. Very Good. More
Cassel: T. Fischer, 1869-1874. Chromolithograph. Minor foxing. Minor browning. Size: 9.5 x 6.25 inches. PRINT/080520. Very Good. More
Cassel: T. Fischer, 1869-1874. Chromolithograph. Minor foxing. Minor browning to edges. Size: 9.5 x 6.25 inches. PRINT/080520. Very Good. More
Cassel: T. Fischer, 1869-1874. Chromolithograph. A particularly attractive bird. Minor foxing. Minor browning to edges. Size: 9.5 x 6.25 inches. PRINT/080520. Very Good. More
Cassel: T. Fischer, 1869-1874. Chromolithograph. Minor foxing. Minor browning to edges. Size: 9.5 x 6.25 inches. PRINT/080520. Very Good. More
Cassel: T. Fischer, 1869-1874. Chromolithograph. Minor foxing. Size: 9.5 x 6.25 inches. PRINT/080520. Very Good. More
Cassel: T. Fischer, 1869-1874. Chromolithograph. Minor foxing. Minor browning to edges. Size: 9.5 x 6.25 inches. PRINT/080520. Very Good. More
Cassel: T. Fischer, 1869-1874. Chromolithograph. Minor foxing. Minor browning to edges. Size: 9.5 x 6.25 inches. PRINT/080520. Very Good. More
Cassel: T. Fischer, 1869-1874. Chromolithograph. Minor foxing. Size: 9.5 x 6.25 inches. PRINT/080520. Very Good. More
Cassel: T. Fischer, 1869-1874. Chromolithograph. Minor foxing. Size: 9.5 x 6.25 inches. PRINT/080520. Very Good. More
Paris: Belin-Leprieur et morizot. Hardcover. no date. Circa 1870. Ex-library with evidence of stickers removed from spines and stamps partially removed from pastedowns. Red leather spines over red cloth covered boards with gilt titles and gilt decorations to spines. Heavy wear to corners of boards and to spine ends. Darkening to spines. Wear to hinges and to edges of boards. Occasional spots of foxing to interior, but clean overall. Chipping and a few closed tears to edges of some pages. The title pages in both volumes have torn corners, which have been repaired with paper from the same period. Filled with full page plates, several hand-colored. White silk moire endpapers and full gilt edges. 74Volume I: 494 pages; Volume II: 474 pages. FRE/112122. Very Good. More
Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger Security International, (2008). Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth covered boards with silver title to spine. Pristine interior. Blue and beige illustrated dust jacket with brown title to front panel and to spine. Index, 224 pages. Military. MIL/121808. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926. Hardcover. First Edition. The author states in the preface: "The following occasional papers were written because the writer, in the course of his work, became so enthusiastic about certain things that he wanted other people to be interested in them, too." Most of the subjects are related to artist's and works in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art including Durer, Daumier's lithographs, Holbein, illustrated books, etcings, etc. Navy blue cloth over navy blue paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Heavy chipping and wear to bookcloth along hinges. Wear to corners and edges of boards. Clean interior overall with illustrations. Occasional pencil notes in margins. 375 pages. BOB/020323. Very Good. More
Paris: Imprimerie De Ch. Lahure et Cie, 1862. Paperback. In Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Pamphlet lacks original wrappers. Very clean w/no foxing or fading; text is bright and clear. Light chipping along spine where strings once were. In French, with several diagrams. Also contains a fold-out spectrum in rear (Analyse Chimique), which is in color. Pages 61-91. SCI/021104. Very Good. More
Arcadia Publishing, 2005. Paperback. Inscribed by the A. M. Foley on the front free endpage. Clean and bright with photographic illustrations. 128 pages. MD/071719. Fine. More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1888. Hardcover. 8vo. Good+ yellow hardcover cloth covered boards with border designs. Gilt title to spine. Wear to exterior includes browning to spine and bumping to edges. Chipping to spine ends. Text is clean and bright. Includes illustrations, including full page frontis plate. Literature. LIT/3043. Good +. More
London: University of London / Athlone Press, 1960. Paperback. Lecture delivered 8 November 1960. Octavo in light grey side-stapled paper wrappers with black title to front cover. Clean and bright. Slight creasing along spine. 26 pages. ECO/090815. Near Fine. More
London and New Castle, DE: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, [2003]. Hardcover. A scholarly and detailed bibliography for the publisher's trade bindings in the mid-1800s. After the introduction and preface the bibliography is arranged alphabetically by the names of the designers of the bindings. They include artists such as Charles Henry Bennett, Walter Crane, Richard Doyle, Owen Jones, John Leighton, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and more. The bibliography is followed by a list of bookbinders' tickets, and 91 color plates arranged three or four to a page. Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and front cover. In near fine condition. Measures 8.75 x 11.25 inches. 324 pages. BOB/011621. Near Fine. More
Chicago: P.F. Volland and Co, 1913. Hardcover. Sixth edition. Very good in brown paper covered boards with black title and color illustration to front board. Chipping to foot of spine and minor wear to edges of boards. The head of the spine has been expertly restored. Decorative endpages and full color illustrations on every page. Occasional smudge marks and small spots of soiling to interior, but overall very clean and bright. Housed in a green leather backed box with wood grained paper covered boards. The interior of the box is lined in cloth. There is light sunning to the spine of the box and minor wear to the edges. Overall an attractive book. 96 pages. CHILD/102609. Very Good in very good box. More
Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1974. Hardcover. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. White dust jacket with green title to spine. Interior is clean and bright. New York. NY1/8040. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. More
Martinus Nijhoff, 1951. Hardcover. Vol. III. 4to. Very good+ in three-quarter black cloth binding with marble boards. Raised bands and very faint title on spine. Printed on beautiful paper with untrimmed edges, some of which are unopened. 96 pages. Dimensions: 10 x 6 1/2. German Language. GER109010. Very Good +. More
London: John Murray, 1836. First English edition of this important work of travel and exploration that was first published in France in 1836. The author was one of the first travelers to this region, and the first to spend enough time to document his trip with his writings, illustrations, and maps. Bound in contemporary blind stamped brown leather, with six spine compartments with debossing and gilt titling. Covers are scraped, rubbed, bumped and worn. Interior pages are in very good condition, with light occasional foxing and some offsetting from tissue guards, With folded map in near fine condition, 26 plates, and numerous text illustrations throughout. Octavo. 331 pages. TRAVEL/030921. More
c. 1859. A handsome small etching of a man drumming by the Victorian artist Matthew James Lawless (1837-1864).Frederick Smallfield (1825-1915). Smallfield was a Victorian artist best known as a watercolor painter. He was a member of the Junior Etching Club, whose members included Millais, Whistler, and Tenneil. They produced a number of anthologies with their works. This etching was done as an illustration for a poem titled "The Drum" included in the anthology Passages from Modern English Poets. Image is 4 x 6 inches and is printed on paper measuring about 11 x 16.5 inches. Some spotting, creasing and soiling not affecting the etching. Very good. ORIG/012015. Very Good. More
London: C. Cooke. Hardcover. 12mo. Embellished with "super engravings" which HAVE BEEN HAND-COLORED. Brown leather covered boards with maroon and gilt title label. Chipping to foot of spine. Cracking to exterior hinges and to leather on spine. Small white stain to front board. Wear to corners and edges. Minor foxing to some pages. Small tears to margins of a few pages. A few internal splits to binding. Text and illustrations are bright and paper is strong. Signed by previous owner on title page. A good reading copy. 250 pages. LIT/070305. Good +. More
London: Ward, Lock, and Co., No Date. Hardcover. 8vo. SCARCE. circa 1890. Blue cloth backed grey cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Minor foxing to first and last few pages, else the interior is very clean. Tight binding. 357 pages. ECO/083106. Very good Plus. More
London: Richard Bentley, 1849. Hardcover. First edition of this work, which remains one of the few first person accounts of the fur trade in the early 19th century. It is still considered a major source for historians. John McLean (c. 1799–1890) was a Scotsman who emigrated to British North America, where he became a fur-trapper, trader, explorer, grocer, banker, newspaperman, clerk, and author. He traveled by foot and canoe from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back, becoming one of the chief traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. He is also remembered as the first person of European descent to discover Churchill Falls on Canada's Churchill River and sometimes mistakenly credited as the first to cross the Labrador Peninsula [Wikipedia]. Bound in quarter brown leather with black pebbled leather covers. Brown leather is rubbed and chipped, covers have bumped corners. Free front endpapers in both volumes are loose as is the title page in volume II. Some raggedness to the fore edge of a few pages in each volume not affecting text. Bookplate of the Earl of Orrery affixed to front pastedown of each volume. Very good condition. Small octavo. Volume I: 308 pages; Volume II: 328 pages. Very Good. More