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[ENGLISH RESTORATION BY "OWEN"]. Dieu et mon droit. The Holy Bible containing the Old and the New Testament [BOUND WITH]: The Whole Book of Psalms by Bible, English - 1663

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Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC

Title: [ENGLISH RESTORATION BY "OWEN"]. Dieu et mon droit. The Holy Bible containing the Old and the New Testament [BOUND WITH]: The Whole Book of Psalms
Author: Bible, English - 1663
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Description: London: Ad 1: John Bill and Christopher Barker; Ad 2: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1663. 8vo. Ad 1: Engraved title + A-4K8 [unpaginated]. COMPLETE, with OT ending on 3P2v and NT ending on 4K8v. Ad 2: 102, [2] pp. A-F8 G4, apparently COMPLETE. Some foxing and blemishes throughout the text. Bound by "Owen" in contemporary full black morocco, richly gilt all over with floral and leaf motifs, onlaid red and citron morocco pieces to covers and spines, a.e.g., fore-ege painted with flowers and "Search [the Scriptures]" two working silver clasps, joints beautifully repaired, fore-edge painting dulled and worn from clasps, some foxing throughout. Preserved in a protective cloth case. Suitable for exhibition and study. OF SIGNAL IMPORTANCE IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH RESTORATION BOOKBINDING: AN UNRECORDED AND UNPUBLISHED BINDING BY "OWEN" WHOSE WORK IS KNOWN FROM ONLY ONE OTHER EXAMPLE. In terms of 17th-century English bindings, this one in particular is of particular significance: the only other binding by "Owen" is in the Henry Davis Gift (British Library). Howard Nixon (English Restoration Bookbindings, p. 37 and plate 78) describes it in some detail: "It has been stated earlier that signatures on painted fore-edges followed by the word 'fecit' in the seventeenth century are those of binders or booksellers for whom the books were bound. The book in the Henry Davis Gift with the edges signed 'Owen fecit' and dated 1672 is a possible exception to this rule, as Owen cannot be traced. The tools used on this book have not, however, been identified elsewhere." Our binding is far more elaborate the that in the Henry Davis Gift, as it features a total of 26 onlays (red and citron), all elaborately gilt. The Davis Gift example is bound in a single piece of black goatskin. Due to the extensive and complex gold tooling, the present binding was not easily attributable to a known workshop, but it is now clear that all four major tools on it are identical to those on the "Owen" binding in the Davis Gift (see Mirjam Foot, Henry Davis Gift vol. II, no. 115 with full-page reproduction). While the fore-edge of our binding is worn, the word "Search [the Scriptures]" is just visible alongside depictions of flowers. Provenance: inscribed on recto of third blank leaf "John Pounds Carter 1864, bequeathed to him by his aunt Phoebe, who died July 14th 1852." This individual was almost certainly the same JPC who was born in Southwark, London in 1821 and died in Lambeth, London in 1896. Tipped onto the first blank is a small handwritten note which describes this as a "very fine binding by Samuel Mearne." References: Ad 1 (Bible): Darlow/Moule 539 (British and Foreign Bible Society copy lacks the Psalms altogether). Wing, STC (2nd ed.) B2267. Not in ESTC (!). Ad 2 (Psalms): ESTC R232588 recording one copy (National Library of Wales) containing an engraved plate, but neither the Yale copy (which is likewise bound with Bill and Barker's 1663 Bible) nor this copy ever had such a plate bound in. We are grateful for the assistance of Philippa Marks (British Library), and for supplying rubbings of the tools on their Owen binding.

The Airship Panorama Book by Nister, Ernest

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Title: The Airship Panorama Book
Author: Nister, Ernest
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London, New York: Ernest Nister; E. P. Dutton Co, 1910. Only edition. Hardcover. Fine. Square 4to. (12)pp. Glazed pictorial paper over boards. Stories of airships told in verse, featuring four full color pop-up scenes; each scene with a pop-up airship on a color background drawing. Upper cover with a color drawing of an army airship rounding St. Paul's Cathedral in London and titles printed in red. A fine copy. Conjectural date range is based on the year of first flight of airship Le Republique, illustrated on page [12], in 1908, and date of inscription on front flyleaf. "No. 3521" on title-page. "Printed in Bavaria" on page [12]. Illustrated with 4 color pop-up pages, each a different blimp or balloon that pops-up as the page is turned. Pictorial cover. Not found in Montanaro .

BIBLIOGRAFIE CESKÉ HISTORIE by Zíbrt, Cenek

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Title: BIBLIOGRAFIE CESKÉ HISTORIE
Author: Zíbrt, Cenek
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: Prague: Ceské akademie cisare Franktiska Josefa, 1912. later cloth library binding with original stiff paper wrappers bound in. large 8vo. later cloth library binding with original stiff paper wrappers bound in. xvi, 674+(1); xi, 1216+(1); 240, vii+(i), 241-480, vi+(1), 481-737; iv, vi+(1); 240, vi+(i), 241-480, iii+(i), 481-720, (2); iv, ii+(i); 320, iv + (i),321-640, iv+(i), xiii, 641-960+(1) pages. 5 volumes. First edition. A five-volume bibliography of Czech history, published in Prague between 1900 and 1912 (Besterman 1555). Despite the series strangely trailing off at the end of the seventeenth-century (perhaps because of the complicated historical and political circumstances in the Czech Republic at the beginning of the last century), it purports to present a fairly complete bibliography of Czech history for the years represented. Volume one contains general citations on a variety of topics, including printers and booksellers. Volume two contains citations on Czech history for the period leading up to the year 1419, when an age of religious upheaval and conflict with the Hussites was inaugurated with the death of King Wenceslaus IV. Volume three treats the years 1419-1600, an era that saw various foreign kings ruling, the introduction of the Hapsburg dynasty and continued religious controversy/schism with Catholic and Utraquist rites, breaking inexplicably before the end of the rule of Rudolf II in 1611. Volume four deals with the period from 1600 to 1632, when four different Hapsburgs held the throne and when important historical events like the Defenestration of Prague and the Battle of the White Mountain punctuated intense periods of debate, machination, and intrigue. Volume five, the last produced, contains the years 1632-1679, with one portion specifically devoted to Johannes Comenius, the seventeenth-century Czech scholar. Volumes three through five were originally issued in individual parts, covered in stiff paper wrappers, as is evidenced by their pagination, and were subsequently bound together. The content in those volumes is not treated as one monolithic unit, but broken down into smaller subdivisions, as noted on the original stiff paper wrappers bound into the later cloth. Volumes one and two have slice in cloth spine. Dark discoloration on lower right corners of pages of the five volumes. Ex-library set with markings.

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