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A FINE EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN MAP OF CHINA IN ENGLISH<br>IN RICH ORIGINAL HANDCOLOR<br>Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. [London, 1606].

A FINE EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN MAP OF CHINA IN ENGLISH
IN RICH ORIGINAL HANDCOLOR
Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. [London, 1606]. by [China] ORTELIUS, A. / BARBUDA, Luis Jorge de.

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Title
A FINE EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN MAP OF CHINA IN ENGLISH
IN RICH ORIGINAL HANDCOLOR
Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis, nova descriptio. [London, 1606].
Creator
[China] ORTELIUS, A. / BARBUDA, Luis Jorge de.
Seller
Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Description
14 3/8 x 18 3/8 inches. Fine original hand color; slight split at centerfold, fine condition. A brilliant example in rich original hand color of the rare (and only) English language edition of the earliest printed, folio-size western map specifically of China and "the first to show the Great Wall"(Nebenzahl). "This map remained the standard type for the interior of China for over sixty years" (Tooley). Although 2 pocket-sized English language editions of an abbreviated version of Ortelius' Theatrum entitled Epitome were published previously in 1601 and 1603, with brief texts in English, the English text in the present edition runs to 2 large folio pages printed on the back of the map, giving an extensive description of China drawn from recent publications of observations by European travelers to the area, particularly Jesuits. With its three lushly designed cartouches and many illustrations of indigenous shelters, modes of transportation (i.e. the famous wind wagons) and animals, this is one of Ortelius's richest engravings and among his rarest. *Nebenzahl, Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond 4.6; van der Krogt 8410:31:051; Tooley, Maps and Mapmakers, p. 106, pl. 78 (p. 108); Walter, Japan: A Cartographic Vision 11F, p. 186.
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son] Fitzgerald, Edward (translator)

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Title
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Author
[Fine Binding - Riviere & Son] Fitzgerald, Edward (translator)
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Robt. Riviere & Son, 1928. Special edition. Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 204 x 137 mm.). [ii, blank], [iii-viii], 75, [1, imprint] pp. With twelve illustrations by Gilbert James hand-colored and heightened with gold, and printed with blue initials for each stanza. Caslon Old Face type on Studio hand-made paper, some light marginal foxing to plates, otherwise fine. Bound ca. 1928 by Rivière & Son (stamp-signed on front turn-in) in full blue crushed levant morocco. Front cover with a central oval panel with an onlaid brown-spotted serpent twining around a large gilt chalice. This central panel is surrounded by a floral border of inlaid green flowers on orange stems with bunches of grapes in purple. Inside a double-ruled gilt border on each cover is stanza number fifty-eight "Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness give - and take." Rear cover with a similar oval panel also surrounded by a floral border of inlaid green flowers on orange stems with bunches of grapes in purple, and with a single onlaid green flower and a central inlaid bunch of purple grapes. Spine with five raised bands decoratively bordered in gilt with inlaid purple morocco bunches of grapes in five of the panels and gilt lettered in the other, double gilt ruled board edges, elaborate gilt turn-ins, featuring a vine motif, marbled paper doublures and endleaves, all edges gilt. Upper joint expertly and almost invisibly repaired otherwise a near fine example of a late twenties Rivière 'Inlaid' binding. Engraved bookplate of Willsherr Lodge, the home of Samuel Clay Williams (1884-1949) lawyer and tobacco magnate, on front pastedown. "The Riviere Bindery was one of the most notable and prolific shops in London's West End from about 1840 through 1939" (Princeton). Bath-based Bayntun Bindery acquired the firm in 1939, transforming into the "Bayntun-Riviere bindery," which is still in existence and family owned. A similar binding (but without the quotations on the borders of both covers) was sold in the Chevalier sale at Christie's New York, Friday November 9th, 1990, lot 63; it had been previously sold to Paul Chevalier by David Brass and then later to another private collector. Loosely inserted in the Chevalier copy was a pencilled note, identified by a second description as being in the hand of George Napier, an Edinburgh collector who commissioned a number of bindings. Napier explains his purchase of the book from Rivière in 1932 and that he commissioned the special border now decorating the book. He adds that "George" at Rivière's explained that the chalice and serpent motif was designed by Alberto Sangorski, brother of George Sangorski the binder, and concludes with the mention of the "Great Omar", which sank with the Titanic. Fitzgerald attributed the original work to the famed astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyum, and this collection of quatrains rapidly became a favored text of the Pre-Raphaelites. "Like the Odyssey or the Vita Nuova [it] was once the most widely known and quoted work of Victorian poetry in the world," and its place in Western culture at the time was secured by Fitzgerald's "epigrammatic, sophisticated, often mordant verses [that] display Fitzgerald's adroitness in handling this stanza form" (Warner). Yet with rise of Modernism, the Rubaiyat fell out of style for a time, its lush and romantic orientalism considered out of step with the concerns of those who were living through a devastating World War. But the beautiful surviving copies in exceptional vellum, silk, and leather, alongside recently released critical editions, have helped draw attention back to the Rubaiyat's beauty and its role in inspiring so many monumental pieces of Victorian art and literature. Here illustrations by Gilbert James (1865-1941) illustrate the dramatic and sensorial prose.
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The Loco Logodaedalist In Situ: Selected Poems 1968-70. Embellishments by Joe Tilson. Notes by the Poet by WILLIAMS, Jonathan

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The Loco Logodaedalist In Situ: Selected Poems 1968-70. Embellishments by Joe Tilson. Notes by the Poet
Author
WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Seller
James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Fine copy.
Description
N. Y.: Cape Goliard Press in association with Grossman Publishers, 1972. First American edition, with price sticker on back of jacket. Jaffe A67. Signed by JW. Fine copy.. 8vo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine copy.
Sir Apropos of Nothing

Sir Apropos of Nothing by David, Peter

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Sir Apropos of Nothing
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David, Peter
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9781600104510
Condition
Near Fine/Fine
Description
New York: IDW Publishing, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Slim 4to., 136pp.plus 10 pages of additional artwork in the rear. Beautiful Unread Stated First printing with full number sequence of this compilation in book form of the first rive issues of the comic with the same title. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save some gentle bumping to spine ends. .No dust-jacket as issued. Signed by Peter David on the title page. A sharp collectable copy at of an uncommon item and more uncommonly signed.
Houseboat Days: Poems
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Houseboat Days: Poems by Ashbery, John

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Houseboat Days: Poems
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Ashbery, John
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Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
ISBN
9780374525903
Condition
Good
Description
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999-03-30. paperback. Good. 5x0x9. Clean, has good binding, no marks or notations, shelf wear to the cover, foxing to the edges. LF
Desert Wives: Polygamy Can Be Murder

Desert Wives: Polygamy Can Be Murder by Webb, Betty

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Desert Wives: Polygamy Can Be Murder
Author
Webb, Betty
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781590580301
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 300pp. Octavo [22.5cm]. Rust colored cloth over boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Spine is a touch rolled. Dust jacket mildly rubbed. "If Betty Webb had gone undercover and written 'Desert Wives' as a piece of investigative journalism, she'd probably be up for a Pulitzer. The factual details -- supported by research cited in an afterward -- are eye-popping." - The New York Times.
Death: A History of Man's Obsessions and Fears.
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Death: A History of Man's Obsessions and Fears. by WILKINS, Robert.

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Death: A History of Man's Obsessions and Fears.
Author
WILKINS, Robert.
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Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
ISBN
9780760700372
Description
New York:: Barnes & Noble, (1996)., 1996. 8vo. 90 illustrations, bibliography, index. Quarter black cloth over black paper-backed boards, dust-jacket. Fine. ISBN: 0760700370

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