Search Results: Titles starting with L from GEORGE HANCOCK RARE BOOKS (PBFA)

(En Madera.) Bosquejo De Sus Condiciones Y Rasgos De Su Evolución.
A Limited Edition, numbered 266 of 514 total copies, signed by the Author. Thick 4to, several plates and illustrations in the text, hand–coloured initials. Bound in the Publisher's half vellum gilt, uncut, decorative spine labels, decorative endpapers. Published in Madrid for the Author, 1920.
The corners of the binding a little rubbed, the hinges reinforced, clean internally. A very good copy.
This work is one of the finest productions on Spanish naval architecture and shipbuilding from the 16th to 18th century, and particularly documents the architecture of the old Spanish wooden battleships and galleons. It was following a series of conferences held at the Ateneo de Madrid in May 1914 that this work came to be published (Palau 1, 521.)
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First Edition. Quarto (28 x19 cm), xvi, 48, xvii-xxix, [3] pp. 48., index, original printed wrappers, "all rights reserved" discreetly stamped to the bottom of the front wrapper and title page (possibly by the Publisher), profusely illustrated throughout, text in french. Published by Bibliothèque de L'Art Culinaire (Paris), 1913.

A little wear to the wrappers, some gentle spotting internally. A very good copy.

A stunning work on the art of food presentation, containing detailed illustrations of dishes fit for a King's Banquet.

Exceptionally rare in the original printed wrappers. No Institutional holdings located at the time of cataloguing, and this work not referred to in Bitting, Cagle, Vicaire, Oberlé, etc.

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A Limited Edition, 1 of 550 copies produced, 2 Volumes, housed within presentation burgundy velvet drop back box. Published by Harvey Miller (London), 1990.

Volume 1: Quarto, pp 112. 78 half-page painted and gilded miniatures with additional illuminated decoration and initial letters, and 28 full-page coloured drawings of the Life of St John, Miracles of the Virgin Mary and other religious subjects; reproduced from photographic images of the original manuscript by James Austin of Cambridge. Bound in maroon morocco by Buchbinderei Richard Mayer of Stuttgart; raised bands, Lambeth Palace library armorial crest to upper board, metal corner pieces and clasps.

Commentary volume: Quarto, pp 383, plate section to end consisting of 222 monochrome images of Comparative Illustrations of Apocalypse Scenes in the Metz, Lambeth and Gulbenkian Manucripts, and 72 monochrome figures. Bound in quarter maroon morocco with black cloth-covered boards, maroon label with gilt titles, and border to upper board.

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A Limited Edition. 1 of 250 copies, Numbered and Signed by the Author, Publisher's grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt embossed motif to upper board, housed in Publisher's grey cloth slip-case, sealed in Publisher's cellophane. Published by Penguin, Viking, London, 2017.
A fine copy.
"After 25 years, Smiley is back.… Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carré has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." (Publisher's Blurb.)
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First Authorised Edition. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 9-251, [1], title, half-title, bound in contemporary calf, re-backed. Printed for A. Millar (London), 1749.

A clean copy, the boards a little worn; a near fine example.

Bolingbroke was an English Tory politician and political philosopher who supported the 1715 Jacobite rebellion of 1715 which failed to overthrow King George I. Following the failed rebellion, he escaped to France and wrote his political tracts, where he argued for political partisanship to cease and the balancing of the constitution. Initially written in 1738 for the Prince Of Wales, Bolingbroke entrusted his friend and English Poet, Alexander Pope with the manuscript. However, to Bolingbroke's anger, Pope secretly published 1,500 copies of "The Idea of a Patriot King". In this first authorised edition, without naming him, Bolingbroke reproaches Pope for his "breach of trust". Bolingbroke purchased the entire edition published by Pope and had it burnt in 1744; with only two flawed copies… Read More

A Program from a public reading at the Coolidge Auditorium by Robert Frost, held on May 2 1960, at 8:30p.m. Some of the poems read that evening included "The Tuft of Flowers", "Tree at My Window", and "The Death of a Hired Man".
Original envelope, 6*9 inches, 4pp. Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office (Washington D.C.), 1960.
Inscribed in blue pen by Robert Frost to his cousin Joseph Frost on the front cover, "Robert to Joseph".
WorldCat locates just three institutional holdings. Rare thus, and even more so inscribed with this noteworthy association.
A fine example.
Joseph William Pepperrell Frost (1923-2008) was a historian and writer from Maine who, throughout his life, would share a close bond with his cousin Robert. With about fifty years between them, the two first met when Joseph was a young boy during Robert and Elinor's visit to the Frost ancestral home in the late 1920s. Later, Joseph's college years would be marked with frequent visits to stay with his cousin, even accompanying… Read More

A Limited Edition. 1 of 750 copies, numbered and signed by the Author. 8vo., red and gold decorated boards, the spine and upper board lettered in gilt, decorated endpapers, map, housed in the Publisher's slipcase, pp. 454. Published by Hutchinson (UK), 2009.
A fine copy in like slipcase.
The Second Volume in Robert's Harris superb Cicero Trilogy.
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