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;.
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.....
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.....
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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 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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.
St. Petersburg: B.C. Balasheva. 1894. Binding: Half brown cloth over marbled paper boards. Spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label. , Notes: Text in Russian Cyrillic. Good example. Profusely illustrated. Volume 2 only. Count Aleksei Aleksandrovich Bobrinsky (Russian: Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович Бо́бринский) (1852 – 1927) was a Russian historian and statesman from.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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).....
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.....
London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot. 1832. Binding: Calf boards backed in morocco. Uppers with blind framing and Trinity College (Cambridge) gilt stamps. Spines with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering in compartments 2, 3, and 5, remaining decorated in gilt with 3 different bird motifs stamped in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Marbled.....
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......
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....
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.....
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.....
London: A. Millar, c. 1763. Edition: Large paper edition., Binding: Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine in seven compartments of raised bands. Gilt text on morocco label on 2. Densely gilt ornamentation on 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Gilt dentelles on all board edges. All edges speckled. , Notes.....