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[VALMONT, Auguste de, illustrator]. Histoire d'un comédien, en 12 planches par Auguste de Valmont. Paris: Chez P. Marino, [n.d., ca. 1825].
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The plates are captioned: "L'acteur faisant répéter les comparses," "Il tombe du haut de sa gloire," "L'hôpital," "Le succès au Mélodrame," "L'indisposition," "Le Comédien Marchand de Chansons," "L'infideelité," "La Consolation," "Vente de la garde-robe," "La Chûte," "La veille du Début," and "L'inspiration dramatique."
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[VALMONT, Auguste de, illustrator]. Histoire d'un comédien, en 12 planches par Auguste de Valmont. Paris: Chez P. Marino, [n.d., ca. 1825].
Folio (13 9/16 x 9 15/16 inches; 345 x 252 mm.). Twelve hand-colored lithographed plates. Plates lithographed by Senefelder.
Publisher's lithographed front wrapper, plain rear wrapper replaced with matching paper. A couple of plates with light marginal only foxing, otherwise a fine copy of this extremely scarce item. Housed in a felt-lined half black morocco over gray cloth boards clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt.
OCLC locates just two copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: Harvard University, Houghton Library (MA, USA); Morgan Library and Museum (NY, USA).
The plates are captioned: "L'acteur faisant répéter les comparses," "Il tombe du haut de sa gloire," "L'hôpital," "Le succès au Mélodrame," "L'indisposition," "Le Comédien Marchand de Chansons," "L'infideelité," "La Consolation," "Vente de la garde-robe," "La Chûte," "La veille du Début," and "L'inspiration dramatique."
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
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London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791-93. First Edition, First Issue of Boswell's Life Of Johnson Together With The Excessively Rare 'The Principal Corrections and Additions' Bound in at the End of Volume Two BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of his Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of his Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, during which He Flourished. In Two Volumes. London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791. First edition, first issue, with "gve" for "give" in the uncorrected state (line 10 on p. 135 in Volume I) and all of the errata uncorrected. Two quarto volumes (10 3/4 x 8 7/16 inches; 274 x 216 mm.). vii, [1, blank], [ix-xii], [16, "Table of Contents" and "Corrections and…
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Paris: Delpech, 1830. A Scarce Sampler of Social Pretensions The Jovial Spirit and Verve of Monnier On the Ridiculous, Freakish Vanities of Parisian Society MONNIER, Henri. Boutades [Jokes]. Paris: Delpech, n.p. [1830]. First edition complete as issued. Oblong quarto (11 1/8 x 14 3/8 in; 283 x 365 mm). Hand-colored pictorial engraved title-page and six superb hand-colored lithographs. Loose, as issued. The hand-colored lithograph title-page depicts a liveried black servant offering a group of caricatures for your consideration. Chemised in a half green morocco clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. An album of extreme scarcity, with no copies coming to auction within the last forty-six years. OCLC/KVK locate only one complete copy in libraries and institutions worldwide at The Getty Research Institute Library (US, CA). The Morgan Library and Museum (US, NY) - have an imperfect copy at the bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987, lacking title-page and plate 2…
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History of India, A.
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London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson Limited, 1936. A Cosway-Style Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with Two Fine Portrait Miniatures COSWAY-STYLE BINDING. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. DUNBAR, Sir George. A History of India from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson Limited, 1936. First edition. Octavo (7 15/16 x 5 3/8 inches; 202 x 137 mm.). [xxiv], 1-[632] pp. Erratum slip inserted facing p. [viii]. Thirty-four photogravure plates containing sixty-four illustrations. Sixteen colored maps including one large folding at end. Bound ca. 1936 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, stamp signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full red crushed levant morocco over beveled boards, covers richly decorated on gilt, spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, decorative gilt board edges, elaborate gilt turn-ins, gilt decorated blue morocco doublures, ochre watered silk endleaves, all edges gilt. With the gilt initials of Ohio collector B. C. Hoffman at…
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London: FORE-EDGE PAINTING. MISS C.B. CURRIE, artist. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With Biographical Introduction by Professor Masson. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. A Splendid Example of Miss Currie's Work FORE-EDGE PAINTING. MISS C.B. CURRIE, artist. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With Biographical Introduction by Professor Masson. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. The Globe Edition. With a very fine fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie of Lucan House, Dublin. Inserted limitation leaf at front "This is No. 157 of the Books/with Fore-edge Paintings/by/Miss Currie/The Painting under the gold/is a view of/Lucan-House, Dublin./Signed/ C.B. Currie" Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 180 x 121 mm.). [ii, Miss Currie signed limitation, verso blank], [i-v], vi-lx, [ii], [1]-695, [1] pp. Inserted photogravure portrait frontispiece of "Mr.…
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Roma: Vitale Mascardi, 1661. First Edition of One of the Rarest of Athanasius Kircher's Books "Post-Vesuvius Crosses" KIRCHER, Athanasius. Diatribe de prodigiosi Crucibus: quae tam supra vestes hominum, quam res alias, non pridem post vltimum incendium Vesuuij Montis Neapoli Comparuerunt. Roma: Vitale Mascardi, 1661. First edition. Small octavo (6 1/2 x 4 1/16 inches; 164 x 103 mm). [viii], 103, [1, blank] pp., one fold-out plate. Roman and italic type. Woodcut initials, head- tailpieces. Nineteenth century full vellum, spine lettered in manuscript. Slight burn mark affecting 1/4 x 1/2 inch of top blank margin of last three leaves of text and rear endleaves (not affecting any text). Later endpapers with original marbled endpapers bound in. An excellent copy of a very rare book. Housed in a fleece-lined half black morocco clamshell case. "During 1661 a further work was published by Kircher which brought a refreshingly rational approach to a problem worrying the people of Naples. Mysterious…
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London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791-93. First Edition, First Issue of Boswell's Life Of Johnson Together With The Excessively Rare 'The Principal Corrections and Additions' Bound in at the End of Volume Two BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of his Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of his Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, during which He Flourished. In Two Volumes. London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791. First edition, first issue, with "gve" for "give" in the uncorrected state (line 10 on p. 135 in Volume I) and all of the errata uncorrected. Two quarto volumes (10 3/4 x 8 7/16 inches; 274 x 216 mm.). vii, [1, blank], [ix-xii], [16, "Table of Contents" and "Corrections and…
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Paris: Delpech, 1830. A Scarce Sampler of Social Pretensions The Jovial Spirit and Verve of Monnier On the Ridiculous, Freakish Vanities of Parisian Society MONNIER, Henri. Boutades [Jokes]. Paris: Delpech, n.p. [1830]. First edition complete as issued. Oblong quarto (11 1/8 x 14 3/8 in; 283 x 365 mm). Hand-colored pictorial engraved title-page and six superb hand-colored lithographs. Loose, as issued. The hand-colored lithograph title-page depicts a liveried black servant offering a group of caricatures for your consideration. Chemised in a half green morocco clamshell case, spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. An album of extreme scarcity, with no copies coming to auction within the last forty-six years. OCLC/KVK locate only one complete copy in libraries and institutions worldwide at The Getty Research Institute Library (US, CA). The Morgan Library and Museum (US, NY) - have an imperfect copy at the bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987, lacking title-page and plate 2…
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London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson Limited, 1936. A Cosway-Style Binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with Two Fine Portrait Miniatures COSWAY-STYLE BINDING. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. DUNBAR, Sir George. A History of India from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson Limited, 1936. First edition. Octavo (7 15/16 x 5 3/8 inches; 202 x 137 mm.). [xxiv], 1-[632] pp. Erratum slip inserted facing p. [viii]. Thirty-four photogravure plates containing sixty-four illustrations. Sixteen colored maps including one large folding at end. Bound ca. 1936 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, stamp signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full red crushed levant morocco over beveled boards, covers richly decorated on gilt, spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, decorative gilt board edges, elaborate gilt turn-ins, gilt decorated blue morocco doublures, ochre watered silk endleaves, all edges gilt. With the gilt initials of Ohio collector B. C. Hoffman at…
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London: FORE-EDGE PAINTING. MISS C.B. CURRIE, artist. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With Biographical Introduction by Professor Masson. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. A Splendid Example of Miss Currie's Work FORE-EDGE PAINTING. MISS C.B. CURRIE, artist. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With Biographical Introduction by Professor Masson. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. The Globe Edition. With a very fine fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie of Lucan House, Dublin. Inserted limitation leaf at front "This is No. 157 of the Books/with Fore-edge Paintings/by/Miss Currie/The Painting under the gold/is a view of/Lucan-House, Dublin./Signed/ C.B. Currie" Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 180 x 121 mm.). [ii, Miss Currie signed limitation, verso blank], [i-v], vi-lx, [ii], [1]-695, [1] pp. Inserted photogravure portrait frontispiece of "Mr.…
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A diáspora da palavra: obras de autores portugueses impressas fora de Portugal, 1521-1550. Guia da exposição.
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The Butterflies Fly-Past. with illus. by Mandy Shepherd.
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Special Offers Entomology . 1st. Ed. Pub. Peregrine Books. 1994. pp.xviii, 127 with 8 coloured illus. 8vo. New hdbk. in new dw. RRP £20.00. A fascinating book describing the authors experiences of studying butterflies in the UK. All native British Butterflies are mentioned at some point in the text, which is handsomely supported by 8 watercolour plates by Mandy Shepherd.
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In Search of Nature.
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Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Peregrine Books. 2000. pp.xii, 249 with illus. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. RRP. £27.00. The distinguished naturalist, Derek Ratcliffe, passed away in 2005 aged 75. Born in 1929, this book tells the tale of his life from boyhood, when his interest in birds, butterflies, moths and dragonflies started to develop, through to the period in his life before 1970. Ratcliffe took the opportunity presented by writing this book of paying tribute to some of the people who helped him along the way and became lifelong friends.
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Native Plums (Prunus) of Gloucestershire. The Gloucestershire Pomona Series.
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Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Gloucestershire Orchard Trust. 2018. pp.vi, 50 with colour photography throughout. Large 8vo. New softback.
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A History of Whaling in Brazil. From royal fish to Japanese delicacy.
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Pequena., 2017. 1st. Ed.. pp.xxii, 234 with b/w. photos. 8vo. A new softback. This is the first book to describe comprehensively the history of whaling in Brazil, starting with traditional whaling as a Portuguese crown monopoly and culminating with the introduction of modern ships, equipped with harpoon guns in the twentieth century - an initiative led by a British company (Duder and Brother) in Brazil.
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Pears of Gloucestershire and Perry Pears of the Three Counties. The Gloucestershire Pomona Series.
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Special Offers Gardening . 1st. Ed. Pub. Hartpury Heritage Trust. 2013. pp.xiv, 214 with colour photography throughout. Large 8vo. New softback.
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Whaling in the Falkland Islands Dependencies 1904-1931. A History of shore and bay-based whaling in the Antarctic.
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Natural history Monographs . 1st. Ed. Pub. Pequena. 2006. pp.xvi, 363 with many illus. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. Signed by the author, Ian Hart. A fascinating account of the whaling industry in the Falkland Islands Dependencies. The sequence of events which led to the extension of British sovereignty in the Antarctic and the legislation & policing imposed by the Falkland Islands Government to control the burgeoning whaling industry are also discussed.
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Antarctic Magistrate. A life through the lens of a camera.
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Pequena., 2009. 1st. Ed.. pp.303 with many photographs. 8vo. New hardback in new dw. Signed by the author, Ian Hart. This volume is a celebration of the life of Edward Beveridge Binnie, (born on the Falkland Islands in 1884) the eighth child of immigrant Scottish parents. The book traces his rise from humble beginnings through Falkland Islands Government service to becoming the first Antarctic Magistrate.
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Austral Enterprises. A History of shore, bay-based and pelagic whaling and sealing in the Southern Ocean encompassing the Southern Whaling & Sealing Company, The Kerguelen Sealing & Whaling Company and their associated enterprises at South Georgia, the Antarctic peninsula, the South Indian Ocean and South Africa.
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Pequena., 2020. 1st. Ed.. pp.xx, 380 with b/w. photographs and illustrations throughout. 4to. New hardback in new dw. Print run of just 400 copies. Signed by author. There have been very few attempts to document British involvement in the whaling and sealing industry. This book describes, in detail, some of the major companies that undertook this trade and the profound effect this had on the whale and seal populations in the southern hemisphere.
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Teses Apresentadas ao II Congresso realizado de 4 a 11 de Setembro de 1960. 2º volume. Boletim da Sociedade de Estudos de Moçambique. Ano XXIX, N.º 125, Novembro a Dezembro.
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Lourenço Marques, [from rear cover] Composto e Impresso na Sociedade de Estudos, 1960.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, original pale blue printed wrappers (browned, short tear on spine). Illustrations, maps and tables in text. Some light dampstains. In good condition. Old faint circular stamp on front cover. (2 ll.), 11 pp., (1 l.), 9, (2) pp., (1 l.), 7 pp., (1 l.), 8 pp., (1 l.), 7 pp., (1 l.), 9 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 9 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 15 pp., errata slip, (1 l.), 4 pp., (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 23 pp., 2 folding tables, (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 11 pp., (1 l.), 10 pp., (1 ll. plates, printed on both sides, 1 blank l., 1 l.), 7 pp., (8 pp. illustrations, 1 blank p., 1 l.), 13 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 23 pp., (1 l.), 11 pp. including 3 full-page illustrations, (1 l.), 6 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 24 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), 5 pp., (1 l. with bibliography, 2 ll. plates, 1 l.), 17 pp., (1 l.), 14 pp., (1 blank l.). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The volume contains four brief…
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