ANZAAB Featured Books

London, UK: The Leadenhall Press, 1892. Second-hand hardcover.
Mew, James & Ashton, John. Drinks of the World. [FIRST EDITION] The Leadenhall Press: London, 1892. 8vo (225x145mm) dark blue cloth, gilt lettered bds, [2],362,[14 advts]pp. bds lightly rubbed & bruised; eps & a few pps lightly foxed; owner name to pd.
MEW, James (1837 - 1913) and ASHTON, John (1834-1911)Drinks of the World London: The Leadenhall Press, 1892. First Edition. Octavo (225x145mm) dark blue cloth, gilt lettered boards, [10 incl prelims],7-362,[14 publisher catalogue]pp. Frontispiece, one hundred illustrations.Lacks dust jacket (if issued); spine head and foot gently pushed; light shelfwear; corners lightly bruised; endpapers and pastedowns moderately foxed. Top edges a trifle dusty. Small closed marginal tear to p.90. Previous owner name to front pastedown.An exhaustive, intriguing, uncommon, somewhat magpie like history and discourse on all forms of beverages including beer, cider, wine, cocktails, coffee, tea, spirits,… Read More

York: G Peacock, 1790. Second-hand hardcover. Speechly, William. A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine. G Peacock for the author: York, 1790. 4to half bnd red morocco, marbled bds, xvi,[4],224pp. SPEECHLY, William (1735-1819) A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine: exhibiting new and advantageous methods of propagating, cultivating, and training that plant, so as to render it abundantly fruitful. Together with new hints on the formation of vineyards in England. York: printed for the author by G Peacock; and sold by G Nicol, bookseller to his Majesty, Pall-Mall; J Debrett and J Stockdale, Piccadilly; and E Jeffery, near Carleton-Place, London, 1790. First edition. Quarto (275x220mm) half bound, red straight grained morocco, marbled boards and end-papers, label to front board, spine and label lettered, ruled & decorated in gilt, xvi, [4 subscribers list],224pp; five steel engraved plates, three folding; four of the plates are signed by James Basire, engraver. Three plates are after originals by… Read More

Paris, [1926]: Chez L'Auteur et Chez J Meynial. Second-hand hardcover.
Nignon, Edouard. Le Plaisirs de la Table. [FIRST EDITION] Chez L'Auteur et Chez J Meynial: Paris [1926]. 4to (225x185mm) half bnd morocco, marbled bds, a.e red xiv,[3],18-333,[1]pp. [SIGNED with personal dedication]

NIGNON, Édouard (1865-1934)

Le Plaisirs de la Table: où sous une forme nouvelle, l'auteur a dévoilé maints délicieux secrets et recettes de bonne cuisine, transcrits les précieux avis de gourmets fameux et de fins gastronomes, conseillers aimables et sûrs en l'art de bien manger

Paris: Chez L'Auteur et Chez J. Meynial, [1926]. Printed by Jacoub & Aulard, Paris. Preface by M Robert de Flers. Illustration by P F Grignon. First Edition

Quarto (225x185mm) half bound burgundy morocco, marbled paper boards; all edges speckled red, xiv,[3],18-333,[1]pp. Spine in six compartments, gilt stamped and ruled. Verge Antique paper. Original wraps bound in.

Edges lightly rubbed; page edges lightly age-toned;… Read More

[Copenhagen] Denmark: Politikens Forlag, 2006. Second-hand hardcover.
Redzepi, Rene & Meyer, Claus. Noma Nordic Cuisine. [FIRST ENGLISH EDITION] Politikens Forlag: [Copenhagen] Denmark 2006. 4to (285x215mm) pict bds 183,[1]pp. (photography by Ditte Isager) + Danish Edition
REDZEPI, René (1977 - ) and MEYER, Claus [Claus Meyer Nielsen (1963 - )]Noma Nordic Cuisine/Noma Nordisk Mad
FIRST EDITION, first printing in English together with Danish third impression, SIGNED and with laid in ephemera

Both volumes ~ Quarto (285x210mm) pictorial hardcover boards, 183,[1]pp. Printed by the Narayana Press, [Odder] Denmark. Foreword by Claus Meyer, introductory essay and edited by Henrik Kerrn-Jespersen; photography by Ditte Isager; and with recipes by René Redzepi.

The English edition is the first edition, first printing, published December 2006. The Danish edition is the first edition, third printing, published 2007, signed and inscribed in English by René Redzepi "Dear Friends, Happy to see you in Cph,… Read More

SENECAE RHETORIS PHILOSOPHI OPERA. (Complete works and philosophy of Seneca). Senecae Rhetoris 1604. Seneca, The Complete Works in Latin & some ancient Greek Folio, hc. Armorial stamped in front cover, the arms of a knight of the Garter. Front cover has been expertly repaired and re-attached to book. Some light water marks through-out and some discolouration of pages near edge. Edge papers stained in red ink. Interior is in marvelous clear condition
Ex libris of Sir John Leveson-Gower, (1675-1709) A wonderful clear and still usable copy of a famous authors complete opus,

London: Hodder & Stoughton. No Date[1913]. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Tan boards with gilt and blue decorations. Light rubbing to spine ends and corner. Mild offset to free endpapers. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Nineteen 189 pages. Ten full page tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards intact. Nineteen inlaid small colour plates and numerous line illustrations in blue introduce each quatrain. Each quatrain is printed on a single page. The full-page colour plates are bordered with gold decorations and the inlays with black or blue decorations. All plates are present and in lovely condition. Rene Bull was a talented artist and cartoonist and was noted for his great abilities as a comic draughtsman and a brilliant illustrator of fairy tales. . 1st Trade Edition. Hardback.

Bernoulli, Jean, Tresaguet, Polini, Royal Academy of Sciences Awards in 1737 winners of the medals. Paris, 1737. Printed by the Royal Publishing House. 1 vol. in-4, 8vo (imperial) 159 pp. 20th century binding in glazed blonde leather on spine and corners, with marbling, spine gilt title on black leather with engraved jewels. In exceptional condition with very few minor spots. In French and Latin. A wonderful rare book with stunning fold-outs of smelting, casting and other techniques for making anchors, beautifully bound, a real treasure.

This book was translated from French by Warren R Dawson and is an early just pre the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb. One can imagine it was rushed to press in English to take advantage of the fever pitch of interest in Ancient Egypt in the 1920's.
Well illustrated and bringing up sites and art that is not generally talked about even today, with references to Borchardt, Petrie, Gardiner, Quibel ect this well researched book is both interesting and a delight to own.
Will only become more valuable.

Until this book I had thought I had seen all the books on the pyramids ever printed - I was wrong! This wonderful tome fills the period between the age of Petrie survey's and more modern works by Meddleson and Rehner.
With excellent black and white photos and maps, good comprehensive text of all the major pyramids, Abu Rauwash, Giza, Zawyet el Aryan, Abu Sir, Saqqara, Dahshur, Lisht and Maidum and the Faiyum are all covered well.
As an added bonus signed by the author with a short inscription to Mrs Lake Barnett.

Large & finely illuminated leaf in the style of a Book of Hours.
Recto: Double column text in Latin written in an assured gothic bookhand in black ink on parchment. Ruled in red, with rubrics in red. One splendid two-line initial 'S' in blue outlined in black with white penwork on a burnished gold ground, infilled with a foliate design. Beside the initial is a six-line marginal panel of coloured acanthus leaves, flowers and leaves in the style of a Book of Hours. Three two-line initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds highlighted with white penwork and alternating red and blue one-line initials.
Verso: As Recto, with three two-line illuminated initials, one with a marginal panel.
Origin: Spain or Southern France.
Date: Early part of the 15th century, c. 1425
Content: The initial 'S' beside the illuminated panel begins the mass for the Feast of St. Stephen. The text - taken from Psalm 131 (KJV 132) - reads: Sacerdotes eius induam salutari et sancti eius exsultatione exsultabunt. Memento,… Read More

Artist: Kuniteru II (1829 - 1874)
Title: "The First Steam Train in Japan".
Date:1872.
Medium: Colour woodblock print on washi paper.
Notes: This 2-4-0 tank engine was the one that started the railway age in Japan. It was one of a group of ten locomotives built by various manufacturers in Great Britain to work Japan's first railway opened between Shimbashi (Tokyo) and Yokohama in 1871. It was built by the Vulcan Foundry of Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, and still survives today in the Japanese railway museum. This woodblock print portrays it as it appeared when it first ran. It is widely believed that the Imperial Japanese Government Railways used a livery of light brown or golden ochre for its locomotives imported from Britain.
Japanese artists, including Hiroshige, were fascinated by this technological marvel and Kuniteru II produced several woodblock prints of this momentous event in Japan's history.
Condition: The print is in fair/good condition. The paper has darkened over the years, there are… Read More

Sienese easel painter and manuscript illuminator Sano di Pietro (1405-1481) was the head of a workshop that fulfilled the demands of civic and religious institutions in the city. His production, technically always of a very fine quality, was rich in decorative effects and characterised by a brilliant palette. His work as an illuminator is documented from the end of 1445 when he decorated a Psalter for Siena Cathedral.
Provenance: The dimensions and style of this leaf almost perfectly match those of a missal in Bruce Ferrini, Catalogue 1 (1987), no. 45, Use of Rome, illuminated by Sano di Pietro and doubtless from Siena.
Recto: Rubrics in red and capitals touched in yellow. Original foliation "XXIII" in red pen. Text written in two columns in black ink on vellum in Latin in a precise, gothic script. Three two-line decorated initials alternating in red with blue pen flourishes and blue with red pen flourishes and a number of similar one-line initials. One three-line illuminated initial 'F' in blue,… Read More

Bifolia are much scarcer than individual leaves. This is a very good example of an early 15C Italian decorated Missal.
The term "octave" is applied to a period of eight days, during which certain major feasts - such as the Ascension here - are observed.
Originally, several books were required for the celebration of Mass: the Sacramentary for the officiating priest, the Lectionary for the principal assisting ministers, and the Antiphonary for the choir. When these were assembled in one book, the volume was called a complete Mass-book (Missale plenum), the Missal.
Description: Rubrics in red. Text written in two columns of 26 lines on vellum in Latin in two sizes of a precise, gothic script. Eleven two-line alternating red and blue initials with contrasting penwork. Three such one-line initials. Capitals touched in yellow.
Origin: Italy.
Date: c. 1420.
Content: The text includes the Octave of the Ascension on the first folio, followed by rubrics for the seasonal instructions in red; the second folio… Read More

"afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, nor oppress them unjustly"
Recto: Latin text written in black ink on fine vellum in an extremely precise gothic minuscule script in two columns of 47 lines. Ruled in red, versal initials touched in red. Heading 'RE' (half of the abbreviated running title of 'IERE' (IEREMIAS), and chapter numbers in red and blue. One five-line initial 'H' and one two-line initial 'V' in blue and red with intricate red and blue penwork embellishments extending the full length of the page. Interestingly, in the right margin are words that the scribe originally omitted and has added later. (see Notes).
Verso: As Recto with the heading 'IE' and one two-line coloured initial 'V'. The decorative penwork from the initial extends the length of the page, as Recto.
Origin: Northern France, doubtless Paris.
Date: Mid-13th century, c. 1250.
Content:The text on Recto beginning Chapter 22 at the red initial 'H' reads:
Haec dicit Dominus descende in domum regis Iuda et… Read More

"Greatest is Catherine, Virgin of Siena..."
Recto:7 lines of music notation in square and diamond shaped neumes and text in Latin written in a gothic bookhand on parchment. Five line staves with a key signature. Rubrics in red. One large decorative initial, 'M' in orange with internal foliate designs.
Verso: As Recto, with a similar decorative initial 'O'.
Origin: Spain.
Date: c.1600.
Content: The initial ''M' on Recto begins the Magnificat antiphon to Catherine:
Maxima est catharine virginis senensis praestati a que incolumitatem languentibus et vitam mortuis restituere potuit, alleluia.
(Greatest is Catherine, Virgin of Siena, through whom He was able to restore safety to the sick and life to the dead, alleluia.)
Verso includes another antiphon to Catherine:
O Virgo maxima gloria a praestans...
(O virgin, outstanding with the highest honour, all the world celebrates on this day your appointed solemnities. The angels extol you with praises...)
Condition:The leaf is in excellent condition. Recto is… Read More