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CONTES ET NOUVELLES EN VERS by (FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). (BINDINGS - E. LUDWIG). LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: CONTES ET NOUVELLES EN VERS
Author: (FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). (BINDINGS - E. LUDWIG). LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: s.l.: s.n., 1777. 202 x 134 mm. (8 x 5 1/4"). Two volumes.. VERY PRETTY EARLY 20TH CENTURY PLUM-COLORED CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY E. LUDWIG OF FRANKFURT (stamp-signed at tail edge of rear board), covers framed by gilt fillets, bead-and-lozenge roll, and gilt dots, raised bands, spine compartments with central rose sprig surrounded by curled tooling and small circlets, gilt titling, turn-ins with cresting acanthus leaf roll, leather hinges, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With extra engraved title page by Vidal in both volumes, engraved portrait of La Fontaine after Rigaud in first volume, four vignettes (including two on the title pages), 43 tailpiece vignettes, and 80 FINE ENGRAVED PLATES AFTER EISEN. Cohen-de Ricci 569, 571-72; Lewine, pp. 280-81; Graesse IV, 75; Rochambeau 90. See also Ray 26 (describing the 1762 edition with our same illustrations). ◆Spines evenly sunned to hazel brown, small snag to edge of one board (touching gilt of frame), extremities lightly rubbed, occasional mild marginal smudging, other trivial imperfections, but a fine copy internally, clean and fresh with generous margins, with excellent impressions of the plates, in a lustrous binding. This is a handsomely bound pirated edition of the famous 1762 Fermiers-Généraux edition of La Fontaine's "Contes et Nouvelles," which is one of the very finest illustrated French books of the period, and a work that Ray calls "the collector's book 'par excellence.'" Cohen-de Ricci begins nearly six full pages of description on that edition by pronouncing that, "among the illustrated books of the 18th century, the original edition . . . as a whole is the most beautiful and the most agreeable." Our copy has the same plates as the 1762 edition, except that they are in reverse. The original group of images is generally accepted as the finest work of Charles Eisen (1720-78), Louis XV's Court painter, and drawing master to Madame de Pompadour. Bryan says that "almost all the important books published in France in his time contain his exquisite plates," which "he engraved with a light point and with striking originality." He "took his inspirations direct from nature, but add[ed] something of the ideal, after the manner of Watteau and Boucher." The substantial group of plates here, in Ray's words, is "the liveliest and the most adroit that [Eisen] ever drew. Thoroughly at home with the varied action of these lusty stories--their love passages, their intrigues, their practical jokes--he is also expert in choosing the moment in each that will best serve his purpose as an illustrator." The elegant bindings are the handiwork of Frankfurt artisan E. [Ernst?] Ludwig, who provided discerning German bibliophiles with fine hand-bindings during the first two decades of the 20th century. Many of the works he bound were strictly limited, bibliophile, or fine press editions; he is known to have created at least one binding in the style of Cobden-Sanderson for a Doves Press book. Our bindings have a distinctly French flair, and are well suited to a fine 18th century printing..

Mezzotint portrait by Johann Jacob Haid by Trew, Christoph Jacob

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Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

Title: Mezzotint portrait by Johann Jacob Haid
Author: Trew, Christoph Jacob
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: 1769. Trew, Christoph Jacob (1695-1769). Mezzotint portrait by Johann Jacob Haid (1704-67). N.p. [Nuremberg], 1769 or after. 531 x 356 mm. (image measures 406 x 268 mm.). Margins a little frayed (not affecting image), a few small marginal tears repaired, but very good. Excellent mezzotint portrait of German physician and botanist Christoph Jacob Trew, after whom the East Indian plant genus Trewia is named. Trew was the author of the lavishly illustrated Hortus nitidissimis omnem per annum superbiens floribus (1750-86) and Plantae selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini, in hortis curiosorum nutrita (1750-73), both with plates engraved after drawings by the noted 18th century botanical artist Georg Dionysius Ehret; the latter work has been described as "one of the great botanical iconographies" (Lazarus and Pardoe, p. 43). The present portrait appeared as a frontispiece to the Plantae selectae. Trew founded the periodical Commercium litterarium ad rei et medicinae scientiae naturalis, one of the first general medical journals, and from 1743 served as director of the Kaiserlich-Leopoldinisch-Carolingischen Akademie der Naturforscher. Trew's scientific correspondence, numbering over 19,000 letters, is the largest such collection known; his natural history library of 34,000 volumes is now at the University of Erlangen. Lazarus and Pardoe, Catalogue of botanical prints and drawings at the National Museums & Galleries of Wales (2003). .

Antique HALLOWEEN 1895 Cabinet Card Photograph VICTORIAN WITCH COSTUMES Pagan Women by American Photographer Joseph M. Appleton

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Seller: Blank Verso Books

Title: Antique HALLOWEEN 1895 Cabinet Card Photograph VICTORIAN WITCH COSTUMES Pagan Women
Author: American Photographer Joseph M. Appleton
Seller: Blank Verso Books (United States)
Description: Original Cabinet Card Photograph featuring two Victorian women dressed up as witches on Halloween. The Photographer is Joseph M. Appleton (born 1848) with the imprint of his atelier at 20 & 22 Third St. E. in Dayton, Ohio, and the logo Appleton's Portraits printed on the verso. The card measures 6.5" x 4.25". Dated October 31, 1895 in blue pen on the verso along with the witches names. VERY GOOD CONDITION: a touch of light wear, otherwise a bright and clean image.

GOREY CATS PAPER DOLLS by GOREY, EDWARD

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Seller: L'Estampe Originale

Title: GOREY CATS PAPER DOLLS
Author: GOREY, EDWARD
Seller: L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Description: San Francisco., Troubadour Press., 1982. First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Square 4to. 40pp. Illustrated with paper doll cutouts in black and white with a fold over back cover illustrated with 2 cut out cats in color. A very fine copy in fine condition.

Proceedings of the Annual Session of the R.W. Grand Lodge of Utah Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Seventh - Twelfth) by Odd Fellows [Right Worthy Grand Lodge of Utah]

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Title: Proceedings of the Annual Session of the R.W. Grand Lodge of Utah Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Seventh - Twelfth)
Author: Odd Fellows [Right Worthy Grand Lodge of Utah]
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Star Book and Job Printing Office, Tribune Printing and Publishing Company, Tribune Book and Job Printing House. Leather bound. Seventh Session [426-485pp.] Eighth Session [490-550pp.] Ninth Session [554-590pp.] Tenth Session [598-679pp.] Eleventh Session [686-752pp.] Twelfth Session [758-866pp.] 426-866pp. Octavo [20.5 cm] 1/2 tan calf over black pebbled boards. Red leather label on the backstrip with gilt stamped title. Light rubbing and discoloration to extremities of boards. Lower half of rear free endsheet torn with loss. Uncommon work. The Odd Fellows is a fraternal organization founded in the United Kingdom. The Odd Fellows is an organization run for the benefit of it's members and all income is given to the members in the form of services and benefits.

A Decade of American Sprorting Books & Prints By The Derrydale Press 1927 -1937 (2 Volumes: Limited Edition and the Trade Edition) by Connett II, Eugene V. (intro). (The Derrydale Press)

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Title: A Decade of American Sprorting Books & Prints By The Derrydale Press 1927 -1937 (2 Volumes: Limited Edition and the Trade Edition)
Author: Connett II, Eugene V. (intro). (The Derrydale Press)
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: NY: The Derrydale Press, 1937. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. The pair offered togther. The limited edition, 115 of 950 copies, red rough-weave cloth, gilt-pressed insignia fornt, titles to spine, xxiv + 71pages. Top edge a wee dustewd/soiled, titles to spine faded, internals fine, binding firm. Trade edition has paper covers with a short tear to cover. Laid in to limited edition is Derrydale book catalogue for 1941 (#31).

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Textile Art of Japan by YANG, Sunny and NARASIN, Rochelle M

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Title: Textile Art of Japan
Author: YANG, Sunny and NARASIN, Rochelle M
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780870407734
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description: Tokyo:: Shufunotomo / Japan Publications,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0870407732 . Color photographs throughout. First printing. Publisher's press release laid in. About fine in like dust jacket. .

Sentry by Canney, Heyward Emerson

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Title: Sentry
Author: Canney, Heyward Emerson
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj
Description: New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+ in Fair dj. 1928. 1st Edition (H-C). Hardcover. (price-clipped) [a good sound copy, a little fading to spine cloth, light shelfwear to bottom edges, tiny stain in front gutter with bleed-through on the first couple of pages, a couple of pages roughly opened with resulting slight raggedness to edges; the jacket is worn and age-toned, with a lengthwise crease in the spine (beginning to split), shallow chipping at the top of the spine, a small ragged tear with some associated surface-scarring at the top of the front panel, a small narrow chip at the base of the spine, and a one-inch diagonal closed tear at the lower left corner of the front panel]. Novel, "a sort of Enoch Arden romance of the Civil War," set in a New England village. The plot involves two men in love with the same woman; she marries the one, but really loves the other (who's a pacifist). The husband goes off to war, and after he's reported killed in battle, she and the first guy (who are already more or less shacked up -- "already too intimate for propriety," as a contemporary review delicately puts it) plan to marry -- but then hubby, not dead at all but having been confined to a Confederate prison camp -- returns home. Instead of booting the other guy out, however, he insists that his wife and the guy go on living together and notifies the man that "he'll kill him if he attempts to escape"; he takes up residence just across the road and assumes his "sentry" role (loaded musket at the ready), which (a) turns out to have been a plot of the husband's all along (based on some idea of his inflexible New England morality), and (b) takes a long, LONG time to play out: although this situation is put in place at the end of the Civil War in 1865, the novel doesn't actually reach its conclusion until 1927! One contemporary reviewer found it "the most original tale I have read in many years [and] one of the most arresting, [which] despite its extraordinary situations [is] wrought so deftly by the author that it seems natural and convincing." The Massachusetts-born author was reported at the time to be a private secretary in a Wall Street banking firm, a job he may well have held onto, given that this was his only published novel. (Another possible reason for its having been his solo effort: a contemporary news item reported that he suffered from "severe eye trouble," which made it necessary to dictate the greater part of the book to his wife.) .

Samuel Johnson And Moral Discipline by Alkon, Paul Kent

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Title: Samuel Johnson And Moral Discipline
Author: Alkon, Paul Kent
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: Fine Condition
Description: N. p.: Northwestern University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Bound in cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in red and gilt.

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