Recent Arrivals from John Atkins

8vo., frontispiece map, [4], 301, final leaf with errata. Boards heavily rubbed and scuffed. Board edges very worn with loss of paper. Corners bumped and rounded. Bottom board lower corner damaged. Top board hinge split but board firmly attached. Smaller split to lower board hinge. Loss to spine at top and bottom with a horizontal split in the lower part. Pages,… Read more about this item

A superb illustrated broadsheet (43.5 x 31.5 cm) Paper age-toned, centrefold (strengthened to the rear with archival tape), minor chipping to paper edges. Very good condition. Large vignette of the Virgin Mary appearing to two Saintly figures, very likely Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena. The instigation of the recitation of the Hail Mary accompanied by genuflections is attributed to Saint… Read more about this item

8vo., 283, [3] pages + 14 pages of advertisements Red cloth covered boards with black embossed title lettering. Some age-toning to end-papers, text clean and unmarked, top edge of pages a little dusty. Very good condition. In rare orange dust-jacket with black lettering. Age-toned and sightly rubbed with slight chipping to extremities. Good condition. The American Labor Year Book was a 20th century… Read more about this item

Regulae Societatis Iesu Romae, in Collegio Rom. eiusde Societat, Anno Dni M D C VII [1607] [48], 296, [2] p Title-page vignette with the Jesuit device along with a portrait of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Head- and tailpieces OCLC no. 23019026 Bound with Canones Congregationum generalium Societatis Iesv. Cvm Aliis Nonnvllis ad praxim pertientibus. Romae, in Collegio Rom. eiusde Societat. Anno Dni, M D C VI [1606] [14],… Read more about this item

Chevalier de Lescale, (Adam Scaliger), Alphabet de l'Eccellence et Perfection des Femmes. Contre l'infame Alphabet de leur Imperfection & Malice, Paris, chez Pierre Billaine, en rue S. Iacques a la bonne Foy, M.DC.XXXI [1631] Physical description : 43, [1], 479, [1] pages in 12 á12, é10, A-T12, V10 Leaves á6, á7, O6, and O7 (pages 11-14 and 326-329) are supplied in photocopy. Full calf binding… Read more about this item

Ribadeneyra, Padre Pedro de; Historia Ecclesiastica del Scisma del Reyno de Inglaterra. Recogida de diversos y graves Autores, por el Padre Pedro de Ribadeneyra, de la Compania de Jesus. Lo que se trata en esta Historia, se vera en la hoja siguiente. En Emberes [Antwerp], en casa de Christoual Plantino, Imprimidor del Rey. 1588. 8vo., ⴕ8, A-Z8 , a8, b7, a8-b7;… Read more about this item

Lebedev, Vladimir Vasilyevich. Russian Placards, Le Placard Russe, 1917-1922. 1st. part, Petersburg office of the Russian Telegraph Agency ROSTA. Petersburg branch of the News of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee ("Isvestia VCIK"), Petersburg, 1923. Executed by "STRELETZ" (The Archer). Small 4to (218 x 186mm.), 4 leaves and 23 coloured lithographs of posters produced by Lebedev, with accompanying tissue guard sheets carrying… Read more about this item

The History of the Life and Actions of Adm[iral] Christopher Columbus and of his Discovery of the West Indies Call'd the New World, Now in the Possession of his Catholic Majesty. Written by his Son D. Ferdinand Columbus. Text, complete in itself, is extracted from Churchill, Awnsham, and John: A Collection of Voyages and Travels (vol 2), printed, by assignment from… Read more about this item

Lando, Ortensio. Ragionament Familiari di Diversi Autori, non meno dotti, che faceti, et dedicati alla rara cortesia del molto Reverendo & illust. Signore il Sig. Andrea Mattheo d'Acqua Viua. In Vinegia [Venecia] al segno del Pozzo, 1550 8vo, A-Q⁴; 64 leaves. Large printer's device on title-page and historiated initials. OCLC 504326403 bound together with : Lando, Ortensio. Oracoli de moderni ingegni si d'huomini come… Read more about this item

SUBJECTS Michigan Ave, Chicago (November 1954 Chicago postmark; stamped postage insufficient for air mail dispatch) TWA Washington D. C. (February 1956 Washington postmark) Ventura Boulevard L. A. (February 1956 Pasadina postmark) Minneapolis : Mendota Bridge (5A-H1890) ; Lake Nakomis Park (5A-H1881); Skyline (5A-H1892); Basilica of St. Mary's (5A-H1878); Third Steet Bridge (5A-H1889); Shriners Hospital (OA4258) California : 563 Picking Oranges (3A-H990); 552 An Orange Grove… Read more about this item

The NORTH BRITON continued by several hands, Vol. I. Part I. [Numbers I - XLVI] Printed for W. Bingley, London, 1769 Number 1, June 5, 1762 to number 46, November 12, 1763, [plus] Index, [and] An Appendix to the First Forty-Six numbers of the North Briton ("A Full and Distinct Account of the Persecution carried on against John Wilkes Esq. With a… Read more about this item

(A) The London Bookshop. Being Part One of a Pictorial Record of the Antiquarian Book trade: Portraits & Premises with prefatory reminiscence by Percy Muir. Pinner, Private Libraries Association, 1971 Grey cloth covered boards with burgundy and gilt title band to cover and spine. Very minor evidence of rubbing to spine extremities and corners. Oblong (18.5 x 25cms), 95 pages, including many black and… Read more about this item

Vol 1: xxxii, 383, [1] pages; Vol 2: 403, [1, table des chapitres and errata for vol 1] pages; plus 20 engravings (7 folded). Boards rubbed at extremities. Lacking title page to volume 2. Rare spots of light foxing and feint water stain to bottom corner of first 16 pages in volume 2. Text and engravings clean, unmarked, and fresh. Ex-libris… Read more about this item

Pages numbered 1-32 (advertisements); xv, [1 blank], 632 pages; pages numbered 33-62 (advertisements). Cloth a little rubbed and slightly creased on the spine with a small dark mark to the lower spine. Bookseller's(?) pencil notation to the front free end-paper and top margin of page 1 of the advertisements. Internally clean and unmarked. Complete with plans and maps (6… Read more about this item

The frontispiece is an original lithograph by Pearl Binder. Number 20 of an edition of 33 copies only, signed by the author and artist. [10], 381 pages. Printed on Simili Japon paper. Cloth soiled with a light circular stain on the lower board. Buckram lightly rubbed at spine extremities. Cocked, corners lightly bumped. Paste-downs a little soiled. Minor foxing to pages 49-53,… Read more about this item

Attempted 'fake-news' to influence British opinion during the War of Polish Succession? viii, pages numbered [9]-62 Title-page and rear free end-paper a little darkened. Title-page with a small bookseller's notation in pencil. Slight fraying to rear lower edge of original cover. Very good condition. ESTC: T041409. The Gentleman's Magazine: or Monthly Intelligencer, vol. 5 for the year 1735, gives the date of publication… Read more about this item

Colloquies of Erasmus in Latin and English to help "Young Scholars" learn Latin xi, [blank], 250, [2] pages. Includes 3 pages with lists of other books printed. Leather worn with some slight loss to spine and the lower board, corners slightly bumped, some browning to end-papers. Residual tape marks(?) to the board hinges, the purpose for which is unclear as both hinges… Read more about this item

An Early 18th Century Female Writer and Translator, Suspected Spy, Prison Escapee, and Catholic Convert from Calvinism [4], [28], 269, [5] pages. Binding worn and rubbed with slight loss to upper board top corner. Corners bumped. End-papers a little dusty. Half-title and front free end-paper creased. Internally clean and unmarked. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper along with previous bookseller's pencil… Read more about this item

vi, [2], 303 pages. Cloth heavily soiled and marked, spine darkened with slight loss of cloth to the spine top. Corners and lower edge of rear board bumped. Small ex-libris sticker - Cheltenham Ladies College - to front paste-down. Bookseller's pencil marks to half-title and blank verso of page 303. Front end-paper torn at the joint with some loss (see photo).… Read more about this item

Cover design by William Grimmond. 72 pages, plus 16 pages of additional illustrations (including 7 pages in colour) Boards a little bowed with slight bubbling to the paper of the lower board. Internally clean and unmarked. Very slight paper-fault to pages 53-56 (see photos). The text, with in-text illustrations throughout, covers a description of book illustration processes with many examples of illustrators from… Read more about this item