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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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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 OF SIGNAL IMPORTANCE IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH RESTORATION BOOKBINDING: AN UNRECORDED AND UNPUBLISHED BINDING BY "OWEN" WHOSE WORK IS KNOWN FROM ONLY ONE OTHER EXAMPLE.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.

[HAWKS]. Two original lithographs from the Zoology / Ornithology section of the "Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean by Baird, Spencer Fullerton

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Title: [HAWKS]. Two original lithographs from the Zoology / Ornithology section of the "Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Author: Baird, Spencer Fullerton
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Washington DC: War Department, 1860. First Edition. Very good. Together two chromolithographs (287 x 212 mm), loose in mylar L-sleeve (plate XVI with short marginal tear at top, not affecting image). Our prints have VERY LITTLE offsetting which almost invarably spoils the illustrations of this publication and is SUITABLE FOR FRAMING. The are original prints, NOT reproductions! AN EXCELLENT PAIR OF AMERICAN HAWK CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS from the famed "Pacific Railroad Surveys" of 1853-1855. "The ornithological studies produced from the Railroad Surveys were of such outstanding quality that they were republished in 1860 under the aegis of the Smithsonian Institution. Entitled 'The Birds of North America,' the illustrations and text by Spencer Baird are still considered to be among the best of the early ornithological works on American birds." (Brown University, The Robert S. and Margaret A. Ames Collection of Illustrated Books, online). The plates here are: Vol. XII, Book 2, Plate XI: Falco Nigricepsl (Duck Hawk, or Peregrine Falcon); Vol. XII, Book 2, Plate XVI: Cooper Hawk, or "California Hawk.

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 .

Manuscript on Vellum, Signed by Ottoboni, Leonardo, Grand Chancellor of Venice (Leonardus Octobonus)

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Title: Manuscript on Vellum, Signed
Author: Ottoboni, Leonardo, Grand Chancellor of Venice (Leonardus Octobonus)
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Venice: Ducal Palace, 1601. Leaf. Fine. Single page of vellum, 12 by 16 inches, folded and with cuts along two margins to seal the page. Five lines of manuscript, the first two in Latin, then two in Italian, and the last in Latin, identifying Marino di Carvallo as the Venetian Ambassador appointed by the Doge of Venice to the King of France, Henry IV of Navarre. Signed at the end in Latin "Leonardus Octobonus" for the Council of Ten. He later held the post of Grand Chancellor of Venice. "Marino Gramani, Doge of Venice, sends greetings and affection to the Most Christian King through our noble and wise, faithful and beloved, Ambassador, Marino di Cavallo." It then references the decision of the Council of Ten, the Venetian Governing Body, and finishes with "Dated in the Ducal Palace, this 4th day of April...1601." The Doge, Marino Gremani, antagonized Pope Paul IV by trying two priests under Venetian, not canon, law, to which the Pope responded by placing Venice under Interdict. The Ottoboni were an aristocratic Venetian family which provided Venice with more than one Chancellor, and ultimately produced Pope Alexander VIII. Marino de Caballo was also from an aristocratic Venetian family and was a noted physician as well as an Ambassador, who believed that the most important aspect of his job was to provide an excellent chef and fine food. Finally, Henry IV of Navarre, a Huguenot, ruler of Navarre as Henry III, secured the throne of France by converting to Catholicism: "Paris is worth a Mass." Five years later he signed the Edict of Nantes, the landmark drecree granting religious tolerance to Protestants and which helped end the Wars of Religion. .

Verses by WHITE, T.H.

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Title: Verses
Author: WHITE, T.H.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: Alderney: Privately Printed for the Author, 1962. Full Description: WHITE, T.H.. Verses. Alderney: Privately Printed for the Author, at the Shenval Press, 1962. Limited edition, signed by the author. Limited edition of 100, this being number 20, dedicated to close friend Michael Howard, signed as Tim White, with a symbol of a heart with an arrow through in blue ink. Octavo (9 x 6 inches; 230 x 153 mm). 43, [5, blank] pp. In the original glassine. Quarter vellum over orange cloth. Boards ruled in gilt. The author's initials in gilt as a central device on front board. Spine lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Glassine chipped. Overall about fine. "T. H. White was an English novelist, social historian, and satirist who was best known for his brilliant adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's 15th-century romance, Morte Darthur, into a quartet of novels called The Once and Future King." (Brittanica). Verses is the last of White's books published in his lifetime. It contains 36 poems, including one to Julie Andrews, and one to Richard Burton. The dedicatee, Michael Howard was responsible for the photographic portrait of TH White on the cover of the bibliography by Sylvia Townsend Warner, as will as a few other images throughout the bibliography. In her acknowledgements she thanks Michael Howard "for encouraging me to undertake this book, providing much material for it, preparing the illustrations and allowing me to read the intimate diaries which White left to his guardianship." HBS 69450. $1,000.

Heart of a Continent by YOUNGHUSBAND, Francis

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Title: Heart of a Continent
Author: YOUNGHUSBAND, Francis
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: London: John Murray, 1896. Full Description: YOUNGHUSBAND, Francis. The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, Through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894. London: John Murray, 1896. First edition. Octavo (). [xx], 409, [1, blank] pp. With frontispiece and 17 additional black-and-white plates. With four folding maps, printed in color. One of which is stored in rear pocket. Publisher's full green deluxe cloth binding. Front board stamped and lettered in gilt. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Edges uncut. Decorative endpapers. Binding slightly skewed. Some rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. Map of Manchuria with a 3-inch closed tear, with no loss and edges a bit frayed. All other maps are about fine. Overall a very good copy. "Younghusband made his name as an exploring soldier and imperialist. His was a classic British imperialism, not shy of exercising brute power, but more typically presenting itself as a paternalistic endeavour, helping 'lower' races while furthering Britain's cause against imperial rivals. The empire exemplified his principle of 'unity in difference', in which the 'advanced' races dictated terms for all. In 1886 he accompanied a seven-month expedition to Manchuria. In Peking (Beijing) in March 1887 he met his superior Colonel Mark Sever Bell, and the two men obtained leave to return to India by separate land routes. Younghusband, alone with hired guides, spent seven months crossing the Gobi Desert to Hami, and over the Himalaya via Kashgar and the Muztagh Pass to Kashmir. The crossing of this 19,000 foot pass was a rite of passage which heightened his sense of being a lone Englishman carrying 'England's mission' into new territory. In a letter of 1901 to his friend Henry Newbolt he would write: 'The Empire must grow: we can't help it' (French, 156). On returning to London in April 1888 Younghusband lectured to the Royal Geographical Society; he was elected their youngest fellow, and awarded the founder's medal in 1890. In 1889-91 he consolidated his role as a trekking arm of empire in the border zones of British India, Russia, China, and Afghanistan, and recorded these journeys in The Heart of a Continent (1896)." (Oxford DNB). HBS 69160. $750.

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.

HASKELL F. NORMAN LIBRARY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, PART I: THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE/...PART II: THE AGE OF REASON/...PART III: THE MODERN AGE.|THE

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Title: HASKELL F. NORMAN LIBRARY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, PART I: THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE/...PART II: THE AGE OF REASON/...PART III: THE MODERN AGE.|THE
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Description: New York: Christie's, 1998. paper-covered boards. Norman, Haskell F.. small 4to. paper-covered boards. 263,(3); 475,(3); 411,(3) pages. 3 volumes. Three-volume catalogue for the sale of 1,384 items from the collection of H.F. Norman (1915-1996). Prices realized loosely inserted in all volumes. A fine set. Among items offered were an Aldine printing of the works of Aristotle, a first-edition Vesalius with Vesalius' own annotations, a copy of M. Curie's doctoral dissertation with a presentation to Ernest Rutherford, a 1475 medical text, the first entomology book, etc. etc. With many illustrations (the majority in black-and-white, but more than a few in color) of bindings, title/text pages, and book illustrations. Entries generally include provenances and other background information, and references. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included.

TO REMEMBER ME".|

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Title: TO REMEMBER ME".|
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Description: N.P.: n.p., but Black Cat Press, n.d.. self paper wrappers. Miniature Books. miniature book (7.4 by 5.8 cm.). self paper wrappers. (12) pages. Bradbury, Black Cat Press 88. Designed by Norman W. Forgue.

GUIDE TO THE COLLECTING AND CARE OF ORIGINAL PRINTS.|A by Zigrosser, Carl and Christa M. Gaehde

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Title: GUIDE TO THE COLLECTING AND CARE OF ORIGINAL PRINTS.|A
Author: Zigrosser, Carl and Christa M. Gaehde
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Description: New York: Crown Publishers Inc, 1976. cloth, dust jacket. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 120 pages. Later printing of 1965 first edition. Jacket spotted with piece missing.

UPON WHAT PRETEXT?: THE BOOK AND LITERARY HISTORY by Ziff, Larzer

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Title: UPON WHAT PRETEXT?: THE BOOK AND LITERARY HISTORY
Author: Ziff, Larzer
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Description: Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1986. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 23+(1) pages. The1985 James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture at the American Antiquarian Society. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Volume 95, Part 2, October 1985. Lecture on the history of the book, focusing on American literary history.

Catalogue of Ives Street Press publications

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Title: Catalogue of Ives Street Press publications
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Description: Mount Carmel, CT: Ives Street Press, 1986. Ives Street Press. broadside (8 by 16 inches). Ives Stret Press publications, 1986. Folded. With A.L.s. to Michael Peich offering congratulations of his starting a press.

The Wellcome Excavations in the Sudan. by Addison, Frank, et al.

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Title: The Wellcome Excavations in the Sudan.
Author: Addison, Frank, et al.
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Description: London (Oxford University Press), 1949-1951.. Vols. I - III, as follows: I-II: Jebel Moya. By Frank Addison with a chapter by A.D. Lacaille. 2 vols. xiv, 399pp.123 figs.; viii pp., 117 plates (partly in color). III: Abu Geili. By O.G.S. Crawford and Frank Addison, and Saqadi & Dar El Mek. By Frank Addison. xiii, (1), 182, (2)pp., 87 plates. 51 figs. Folio. Cloth.

French Drawing of the XVI Century. by Adhémar, Jean.

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Title: French Drawing of the XVI Century.
Author: Adhémar, Jean.
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Description: New York (Vanguard Press), 1955.. xxvii, (1), 139pp. 99 plates. 4to. Cloth. Ex-library.

ALONZO & MELISSA, ILLUSTRATING THE CHANGES OF FORTUNE, AND TRIUMPH OF VIRTUE. STEREOTYPE EDITION. ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, JAN. 2, 1844 by [Allen, Alonzo Giles]

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Title: ALONZO & MELISSA, ILLUSTRATING THE CHANGES OF FORTUNE, AND TRIUMPH OF VIRTUE. STEREOTYPE EDITION. ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, JAN. 2, 1844
Author: [Allen, Alonzo Giles]
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: [Enfield, Mass?: Printed by John Howe?, 1844. 4.75" x 6.25". [8] pp, folded sheet. Poem, caption title [as issued] within ornamental border, untrimmed. Minor wear, Near Fine. The story of the love between Alonzo, "a generous young man", and Melissa. "Near New-London city there dwelt in great fame,/ A farmer's fair daughter, Melissa by name!" AAS ascribes this piece to the Enfield Press of John Howe. Philip Gura, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Printing in Rural Massachusetts: John Howe of Greenwich and Enfield, ca. 1803-45,' in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 1991, v. 101, p. 50, 61. The printing was previously ascribed to Solomon Howe. Cf. 'Publications of the Howes of Enfield and Greenwich,' Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 1951, v. 60, p. 223. [AAS online Notes]. OCLC locates 12 copies under two accession numbers. Not located in American Imprints.

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