Bibliography of Newfoundland
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986. Size: large 8vo, Volume: 2, Category: Book Bibliography & Reference Books;. Size: large 8vo, Volume: 2, Category: Book Bibliography & Reference Books;.
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Collected Books: The Guide to Values
New York, USA: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1991. Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket, Illustration: No illustration, Pages: 636 pp, Category: Book Bibliography & Reference Books;. Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket, Illustration: No illustration, Pages: 636 pp, Category: Book Bibliography & Reference Books;.
الجاهليين الشعراء دواوين في الثمين العقد كتاب Or Kitāb al- ʻAqd at̲-t̲amīn fī dawāwīn aš-šuʻarā' al-ǧāhilīyīn Or Kitab Al-‘Aqd Al-Thamin Fi Dawawin al shu’ara al jahiliyin; (The Divans of the Six Ancient Arabic Poets) Or The Divans of the six ancient Arabic poets: Ennābiga (Nābighah al-Dhubyānī); 'Antara (ʻAntarah ibn Shaddād); Tharafa (Ṭarafah ibn al-ʻAbd.); Zuhair (Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmá); 'Alqama (ʻAlqamah ibn ʻAbadah); and Imruulqais (Imruʼ al-Qays)
Greifswald, Germany and London: Trubner, London in 1870 with additional text in English, c.1869 - 1870. Binding: Contemporary full calf, expertly rebacked; spine with five raised bands, compartments with central gilt ornament and horizontal double fillets; boards with double filleted borders, matching marbled pasted and free endpapers, all edges uncut.....
The Earth Delineated with Pen and Pencil
Charles Griffin and Co., c. 1870. Binding: Contemporary embossed gilt and blue. Gilt edges. Purple pasted and free endpapers. , Size: Large 4to(291x212mm). , Illustration: Illustrated with 200 black and white woodblock engravings of various places, peoples, costumes, wildlife and maps of the world. Black and white frontispiece of men.....
![Item #B5594 [Calligraphy of a Persian Poem from the Gulistan-e-Sadi]. Akbar Saboonchi Rad](https://alexandremaps.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/B5594.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1646687085)
[Calligraphy of a Persian Poem from the Gulistan-e-Sadi]
Iran: c.1979. Binding: One leaf., Notes: A beautiful work of Persian calligraphy from one of the important contemporary Persian calligraphist. The poem in Persian: اي قناعت توانگرم گردان که وراي تو هيچ نعمت نيست. گلستان سعدي/ باب سوم - در فضيلت قناعت , Size: 8vo (115x195mm)., Illustration: Persian text in.....
The D.H. Lawrence House at Chapala
The Paget Press, 1980. Edition: Limited Edition ,16 out of 44. , Binding: Original paper wrappers with tooled gilt lettering. , Notes: Designed by P.D.S. Brown and printed for the Paget Press in November of 1980 in an edition of 44 copies. Signed and numbered by the poet. , Size.....
Asmodeus; or The Devil on Two Sticks. By Alain Rene Le Sage. With a biographical notice of the author, by Jules Janin. Translated by Joseph Thomas; and illustrated by Tony Johannot.
Joseph Thomas, 1841. Binding: Original half morocco with tooled gilt rules,rebacked saving the orginal spine, spine with five raised bands in six compartments, tooled gilt lettering and floral design on the spine. Marbled pasted and free end papers., Notes: Ex Libris Abel E. Berland. "Light, entertaining material that has served.....
Aviation in Canada 1917-1918
Toronto: Rous & Mann Ltd., c. 1919. Edition: First Edition. , Binding: Original publisher’s quarter blue cloth with blue boards. Gilt text and illustration on boards. Gilt text on spine. , Notes: during the latter years of the First World War. Edward Alan Sullivan (1868 — 1947) was a Canadian.....
Voyage Pittoresque et Militaire de Willenberg en Prusse Jusqu’ A Moscou Fait en 1812
Munic: Chez Hermann & Barth. 1827. Binding: contemporary decorative black morocco rebacked expertly matching the boards, spine with 6 raised bands and decorative gilt motifs, title on red morocco label on spine, upper and lower board with gilt ruling and decorative central gilt motif. , Notes: An important plate book.....
George Cruikshank A Catalogue Raisonné of the Work Executed During the Years 1806-1877
London: the Bookman’s Journal. 1924. Binding: contemporary full red cloth over board, title in gilt on flat spine., Notes: George Cruikshank (1792 – 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other.....
The Wassail-Bowl
London: Richard Bentley, 1843. Binding: contemporary ½ morocco with marbled boards, spine with 6 densely gilt compartments of raised bands, gilt lettering on two and four, marbled paste down and free end papers, calf ex-libris on paste down end paper., Notes: Albert Smith was a British author and lecturer and.....
Island In The Sun
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. 1955. Edition: First Edition., Binding: Publisher’s full yellow cloth boards. Spine with black lettering and title in orange. Top edges orange. Front edges uncut. No dust jacket., Notes: Alexander Raban (Alec) Waugh (1898 – 1981) was a British novelist. Island in the Sun was.....
Island in the Sun
Cassell & Co., c.1956. Edition: Second Edition, Binding: Original paper boards, includes original dust jacket. , Category: Book Literature. Edition: Second Edition, Binding: Original paper boards, includes original dust jacket. , Category: Book Literature.
The Authentic Life of William McKinley, our Third Martyr President. Together with a Life Sketch of Theodore Roosevelt. Memorial Edition.
W.E. Scull. 1901. Binding: Full grey cloth boards. Upper lettered in gilt with portrait of McKinley framed in design of American flag. Spine with flag design and gilt lettering. No dust jacket. , Notes: Ex-Libris Lucinda Kolb Breslane (Ont., 1901), Eva Mae Howe (Haliburton, Ont.); inked ownerships on front free.....
Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; In the Years 1789 and 1793. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Fur Trade of that Country. Illustrated with Maps. By Alexander Mackenzie, Esq.
London: Cadell, 1801. Edition: First edition., Binding: Recent half calf with marble boards, spine in six compartments of raised bands and densely-gilt floral-themed compartments, gilt black morocco title label on two, edges tinted red, endpapers renewed. , Notes: “First and finest edition of the earliest expedition made by [Europeans] in.....
Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; In the Years 1789 and 1793. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Fur Trade of that Country. Illustrated with Maps. By Alexander Mackenzie, Esq.
London: Cadell, c.1801. Edition: First Edition., Binding: contemporary full calf, rebacked expertly, spine with 5 raised bands and elaborate gilt decorations, red morocco label on spine., Notes: “First and finest edition of the earliest expedition made by [Europeans] in this direction. His explorations, although pursued at so early a period.....
Essai Sur L’Homme.
c. 1736. Binding: Original full speckled calf, 5 raised bands in 6 compartments, tooled gilt lettering and floral design on spine, free and pasted marbled end papers. , Notes: Text in French.Ex. Libris. Abel Berland, Size: 12mo (95mm x 166mm) , Volume: 2 Volumes in 1., Pages: P. Blank, Title.....
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
USSR: Moscow: Progress Publishers. c.1975. Binding: contemporary paperback, title on the upper board, upper and lower boards with decorative coloured illustrations and devices., Notes: Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin was a Russian illustrator and stage designer who took part in the Mir iskusstva, contributed to the Ballets Russes, co-founded the Union of.....
American Ornithology, or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States.
Philadelphia: Published by Bradford and Inskeep, Printed by Robert Carr. 1808-14. Binding: ½ calf in burgundy, contemporary marbled boards, expertly rebacked, spine with 5 raised bands, title in gilt on two, spine compartments with decorative gilt ruling and central devices., Notes: Alexander Wilson (July 6, 1766 – August 23, 1813).....
American Ornithology, or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States.
Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, Printed by Robert and William Carr. 1808-12. Binding: Loose in recent quarter calf binding., Notes: Wilson published a collection of illustrations of all the birds of North America, He traveled widely, collecting and painting. He also secured subscribers to fund his work, the nine-volume American Ornithology.....
Souvenirs de Saint-Petersbourg
St. Petersbourg: Alexandre Pluchart, c. 1825. Binding: Contemporary full brown morocco, rebacked expertly. Gilt borders, rules and text on top cover. Spine in six compartments of raised bands. Gilt text on red morocco label on 2. Gilt rules and ornamentation on 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6. , Notes: A......
Nouvelle Iconographie Des Camellias Contenant Les Figures et la Description…
Gand (Ghent): Alexandre Verschaffelt, later Ambroise Verschaffelt, printed by C. Annoot-Braeckman. 1849-58. Binding: Full original dark morocco. Upper and lower bordered in gilt and blind. Spines with 4 raised bands, gilt bands, gilt lettering in 2nd compartment. Board edges scored in blind, blind dentelles. Marbled pasted and free endpapers....
Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson D.C.L., P.L. / Illustrated by Gustave Doré / With an Introduction by Henry C. Walsh, A.M. / Altemus’ Edition.
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1889. Binding: Contemporary ¼ white elaborately-gilt cloth with blue cloth boards, gilt title to upper board, flat spine with seven densely-gilt compartments of gilt-tooled bands, gilt text on two, all edges gilt, maroon and gold endpapers. , Size: Folio. , Illustration: Complete with 37 woodcut plates illustrating.....
Enoch Arden
London: Edward Moxon & Co., c. 1866. Edition: First Illustrated Edition., Binding: Original publisher’s full red pebbled cloth ornately decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. , Notes: "Enoch Arden" is a narrative poem published in 1864 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, during his tenure as England's Poet Laureate. The story on.....
The Holy Grail And Other Poems
Strahan and Co., 1870. Binding: Original full red morocco boards. Matching upper and lower with decorative design and paneling in gilt and blind. Spine with 5 raised bands in 6 compartments. Compartments with decorative gilt framing and motifs, gilt lettering and rules in 2 and 3. Bevelled edges. Gilt dentelles.....