Piokee and Her People by Theodora R. Jenness - 1894

London: Ernest Nister/ E.P. Dutton New York Printed in Bavaria No. 853, 1897 approx.. Hardcover. Good. Doublepage pop-up scenes (5) full of children - blind man's buff, boating, bicycling, farmyard etc.. Folio cloth spine pictorial boards (spine worn to head & foot/covers edge worn) 31pp. Titlepage torn without loss but with old cellotape marks, gutters of 3 leaves reinforced with newer linen tape, a few edge tears never touching printed or pop-up areas but 3 with old tape removal marks (less than 1" into margin). The pop-ups are all complete and in working order with only part of one stag's horn in facsimile. One pony's tail re-attached from the back & a few wrong folds strengthened on back (invisibly). All sorts of fragile pieces such as duck heads, ribbons flying, fingers etc are all intact. The text page edges have fared less well with some edge fingering and some edge chips but never affecting any print. The pop-up leaves are on thicker and better quality paper and have edge rubbing but no… Read More

Published by George C. Leighton, London, 1874. 620 numbered pages, illustrations and advertisements throughout, with 25 of 26 supplements. Content includes 33 double and many more single page engravings. Subject matter includes (along with many others..) The Tichborne Trial, Black Watch Forest Ashanti war, Portrait engravings of Gladstone and Disraeli, Royal Marriage - Duke & Duchess of Edinburgh, Fine Art Supplement 1874.2 copies available:Good to V.Good, spine rubbed but binding intact, pages clean with some light foxing, previously missing pages 123, 619, Nursery Tales (supplement) have been replaced with bound-in copies. Half red morocco spine, plum cloth sides, gilt year on spine of folio hardback.Fair, missing pages replaced with digitally reproduced copies bound in place.Note: This volume is heavy (42x32x6cm, approx 6kg). Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.

1868 Virtue Ldn h/b 12 vols Imperial 8vo gilted & blind-stamped cloth Maps good, & most of the content is remarkably clean & tight with only minor foxing here and there, an occasional loosening page, some light buckling from prior damp or 'too-tight' storage (without staining etc). But the set is externally very rough -- covers bruised, battered & stained, hinges broken or weak, some edges rubbed through, moth-eatenscarring, some backstrip missing on one or two books etc etc etc etc -- yet despite all faults appears to be a complete & substantially intact copy of a significant & RARE GENEALOGICAL TREASURE TROVE for England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales mid-1800's, just prior to the major colonial emigrations. The set comprises 3 official volumes (distributed over 12 actual volumes) Full SET 12 Gazetteer Britain & Ireland 1868

Harper & Brothers, New York 1938. NF/VG RARE First editonPrice of $2.75 on dj. Blue boards with gilt titles on front and spine. Also a white etching of a horse and buggy on front board. Book is in NF condition, tight, no marks, no smells, no foxing. Original b & w photos throughout depicting a physician's life in over 100 years ago. Rare dust jacket. Water color illustration on front of by Salter showing a physician in a horse and buggy traveling down a country lane. Normal edge and spine wear for a book nearly 100 years old. One small tear in dj at bottom of spine.Here in a book of enchanting intimacy and homely humor is the story of an American country doctor- of countless country doctors all over America. A colorful figure in the medical word today, head of the Hertzler Clinic at Halstead, Kansas, "Pop" Hertzler began his career forty years ago under conditions of pioneer hardship - when it was a case of "root hog or die" for children and adults alike.

First edition of Volume 1, 1737, London. Volume 1 of 2. Modern fine binding of quarter leather and marbled boards by Starr Bookworks. Interior is good. Library stamp on title page, some notations on preface, occasional pencil notes in text. Title page is backed with rice paper. Some edges chipped not affecting text. Last page is high quality facsimile. Paginates: [12], 420. Modern blanks. Extremely rare. OCLC locates 10 physical copies. Auction records do not find any sold at auction. Please see scans of the book you will receive. Feel free to inquire.

London: C Taylor; Sherwood, Gilbert And Piper; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; T Hughes; T Mason, 1825. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Splendid collection of 21 fine engravings of London buildings, with short accompanying descriptions. St Paul's, Westminster Abbey, 'Buckingham House', Horse Guards, Carlton Place, Pantheon, Bank of England and Westminster Bridge among the subjects. Some foxing and a little marking. Bound in half-leather with marbled paper boards, all heavily worn. Gilt titling to spine. Scarce. Folio. 20pp + plates.

London: John Walthoe and Tho Bever, 1717. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Printed by E Nutt. In VG order throughout. Very little marking. Pages crisp and clean with just a little offsetting. Full leather contemporary binding with five raised bands, a little worn. Titlepieces have been added. Additional photos on request. 8vo. xvi + 483pp.

(Amsterdam), apud Rod. & Jacob Wensteniuos & Guil. Smith, 1728. 4to. (xxvi), 356, (ii), 357-717, (i),239, (i) pp. With engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette, and half-page initial headpiece. Title in red and black. Contemporary full vellum binding, blindstamped. A nice copy.Third full Bentley edition (an abridged third edition in 8vo. was produced in Cambridge, 1713), according to Brunet. The present edition, and its Amsterdam predecessor, are distinguished by having Bentley's editorial notes on the same page as the text. Dibdin and Brunet therefore preferred them to the Cambridge first.

Good run of six monthly issues of this influential magazine, Third Series, Volume I, January to June 1823, bound in one volume. A fascinating view of the taste of London high society in the year 1823.Complete with 29 handcoloured engravings of fashion, landscapes, architecture and furniture, 6 engravings of needlework patterns, one engraved fold-out music score of a German waltz by Beethoven, and one engraved plate of a military trophy.Each issue typically with two handcoloured architecture plates, two handcoloured London fashion plates, one handcoloured interior plate (furniture, curtains, etc.) and one needlework pattern.The fashion plates unsigned but attributed to the Arbiter Elegantiarum (Thomas Uwins). The fashions include bonnets and hats, casual morning and promenade dresses as well as elegant evening wear and ball gowns, a few by Miss Pierpoint of 9 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, the others by anonymous designers. They show women lounging on a chaise longue playing an oud, wearing carriage… Read More

Very good triptych of a charming scene of court ladies celebrating New Year.
A lady brings in a lacquer tray with the second course of a sumptuous New Year meal in three lacquered bowls to two noblewomen seated on the floor.
A scene from the series Chiyoda no o-oku (Inner Palace of Edo Castle), published Meiji 28-29 (1895-1896).
All the women wear elaborately embroidered silk kimono decorated with symbols of good luck: cranes, turtles and plums (right), fans and camellias (middle), and peonies (left).
The room is decorated with winter ikebana (probably a winter-blossoming camellia) and a shimenawa (a Shinto decoration made of foliage and paper) hanging from the alcove wall. A hibachi decorated with cranes is on the floor in front of the ladies.
Chikanobu, 1838-1912, also known as Chikanobu Toyohara, Hashimoto or Youshu, was a prolific Japanese painter and printmaker of the Meiji era. He worked in many genres including battle scenes, historical pictures, beauty pictures, famous sites, portraits,… Read More