Your Country Worth Fighting For Recruitment WWI UK
Original antique World War One recruitment poster published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee - Your country's call Isn't this worth fighting for? Enlist Now - featuring a great image depicting a Scottish soldier in the foreground wearing his hodden grey kilt uniform and holding a gun in one hand, pointing with his other hand towards an idyllic rural landscape with thatched cottage houses bordering a small country road with flowers in the gardens and cows in the hilly fields leading to a cloud in the blue sky on the horizon, the text above and below in bold white letters against the brown border. Printed by Jowett & Sowry, Leeds. Very good condition, waving, faint creases and minor tears in margins. Size: 75x50.5 cm- $1,277
- $1,277
Hurricane Pilots WWII UK
Original vintage World War Two poster featuring a black and white photo of Hurricane pilots in uniform standing in front of a fighter plane with the caption reading - Pilotes Allies D?une Escadrille De ?Hurricanes? De Gauche a Droite: Americain, Australien, Canadien, Indien, Belge, Ecossais, Anglais et Tchecoslavique / Allied Pilots of a "Hurricane" Squad From Left to Right: American, Australian, Canadian, Indian, Belgian, Scottish, English and Czechoslovakian. Horizontal. Very good condition, creasing. Size: 38x51 cm- $504
- $504
Waste the Food Help the Hun Fougasse WWII
Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird) Original vintage World War Two poster - Waste the Food and Help the Hun - from the wartime propaganda series issued by the Ministry of Information. Artwork by the notable British cartoonist and illustrator Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird; 1887-1965) featuring an image of a smiling Hitler holding up his arm up resembling a Nazi salute to say thank you with the stylised lettering below set within a red border. Very good condition, restored paper loss on corner, backed on linen. Size: 37.5x25 cm- $1,008
- $1,008
Volkswagen Beetle Hole In The Roof
Original vintage car dealer showroom advertising poster for Volkswagen Beetle - Our most expensive option: A hole in the roof - featuring a great design showing a smartly dressed man wearing a suit and looking up to the viewer through the open sun roof of a VW Beetle with the VW logo and text below explaining the price of $1,675 that includes benefits of added extras such as a heater and de-froster with an optional $90 extra for the hand-fitted sunroof option that will bring sunshine and fresh air and a view of nothing but sky. The German automobile maker, Volkswagen ("people's car") was founded in 1937; the company's Type 1 two-door models were first manufactured in 1938, achieving a peak growth in sales and popularity during the 1960s hippie era. Very good condition, staining, creasing, backed on linen. Size: 104.5x77 cm- $2,353
- $2,353
India Elephant
S. Hall Original vintage travel poster for India featuring a colourful illustration depicting a regal elephant with a brightly coloured howdah carriage being ridden by two men in robes in front of traditional Indian architecture with a man walking in the foreground and the stylised title text above the sun and domes against the pink shaded sky. Good condition, restored tears, restored paper losses, backed on linen. Size: 95x65.5 cm- $1,008
- $1,008
Odessa USSR Intourist Black Sea
Original vintage Intourist travel poster for Odessa printed for the Soviet State travel company Intourist (founded 1929) featuring great artwork depicting people on the grand staircase leading from the city to the harbour below, the Potemkin Steps / Potemkin Stairs (opened 1841), looking towards ships at port on the calm sea with trains on a busy railway track and a large red Soviet flag with a hammer and sickle and star on it flying over the scene in the foreground, the ropes leading down to the bold stylised Art Deco lettering below, the Intourist logo and text in the border. Located on the Black Sea in Ukraine, the historic port city of Odessa ("the pearl of the Black Sea") is a popular tourist destination and major maritime hub. Printed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russia). Good condition, small restored tear, some creases, light staining, backed on linen. Size: 75x50 cm- $4,705
- $4,705
Yugoslavia Croatia Rab Island Beach
Prelse Sirok Original vintage travel poster for the island of Rab Jugoslavija / Yugoslavia (1921-1991; now part of Croatia) featuring a stylish young lady relaxing on a towel with a beach ball under a tree on the coast with a sandy beach leading towards the churches and bell towers in the historical town centre of Rab and a sailing boat on the calm blue Adriatic Sea in front of hills in the distance. Excellent condition, faint creases. Size: 69x48.5 cm- $1,008
- $1,008
Air France South America Lucien Boucher
Lucien Boucher Original vintage travel poster advertising flights to South America / America Del Sur by Air France featuring a colourful stylised design by Lucien Boucher (1889-1971) depicting historic buildings and city skyscrapers, jungle forests, palm trees, Sugarloaf Mountain, the Amazon River and the Andes mountain range on a map of South America with clouds and a large white bird wing in the same shape above marked with the airline's seahorse (pegasus / hippocampe aile) logo and a propeller plane flying over the white waves on the blue ocean background, the title text above and below. Very good condition, foxing, restored tear in margin, backed on linen. Size: 100x63 cm- $1,680
- $1,680
Observations diverses sur la sterilité, perte de fruict, fecondité, accouchements, et maladies des femmes et enfants nouveaux naiz .
BOURGEOIS [BOURSIER], Louise (1563-1636) 8vo (167 x 95 mm), ff [12] 12 [recte 3, without terminal blank], with fine engraved allegorical title and two engraved portraits (the author and Marie de Medici, Queen of France); a fine copy, in nineteenth-century French brown morocco, panelled in blind with gilt corner ornaments, spine gilt, slightly worn. First edition, first issue, very rare, of the first obstetrics book written by a woman to be published, and a work that founded obstetrics as a science. It was one of the most popular and influential textbooks of its day, and was credited by Jean Astruc with greatly advancing French midwifery. 'She was one of the pioneers of scientific midwifery; her Observations was the vade mecum of contemporary midwives' (Garrison and Morton).Louise Bourgeois became interested in midwifery after the birth of her first child, with the result that she studied medicine and obstetrics practice under her barber-surgeon husband, Martin Boursier, and his teacher the great Ambroise Paré. The guild of midwives tried to oppose her application for a licence, fearing her increasing reputation amongst Paré's circle of surgeons. Their opposition was of no avail, however, and she was summoned to attend the confinement of Marie de Medici, Queen of France, for the birth of the future Louis XIII. She thus became midwife to the French court for 27 years, and delivered all the children of Marie de Medici. The death by puerperal sepsis of the child of the Duchess of Orléans, the princess Marie de Bourbon-Montpensier, in 1627 brought an end to her reign at the age of 64, and as a result Louis XIV required that at all future royal births a surgeon should be present.Bourgeois drew on the practice of Paré and Guillemeau. She 'advocated the induction of premature labor for contracted pelvis and gave original descriptions of prolapsed umbilical cord and face presentation and their management' (Speert).The collation of this work is a8 e4 A-P8, Q4, with I8 cancelled, with numerous errors in foliation and two in signatures (D3 and E3); the work was reset correcting these errors in the later issue, which can be distinguished by having Q4 blank (or absent)Provenance: presentation inscription on front flyleaf 'Au Docteur L. Santé Amicitior memoria sacrum Langres 1915 Paris [infinity sign] Georges Grappe'; Georges Grappe (1897-1947) was an art historian and curator of the Rodin museumGarrison and Morton 6145; Cutter and Veits pp 73-76; Speert Iconographia gyniatrica pp 72-73; Krivatsy 1625 (imperfect); Waller 1365; OCLC records NLM, UCLA, Yale, Kansas, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Philadelphia College of Physicians, and UBC for North America (both issues, mostly the second)- $9,500
- $9,500
Gabinetto mineralogico del Collegio Nazareno descritto secondo i caratteri esterni e distribuito a norma de’ principi constitutivi.
PETRINI, Giovanni Vincenzo] (1725-1814) Two vols, 8vo (218 x 145 mm), pp LII 384 [2, errata and blank]; XXXIX [1, blank] 387 [1, blank]; some faint marginal waterstaining to first leaves of second vol, some corners of prelims crumpled, really a very attractive, fresh, and unpressed copy in contemporary Italian patterned boards (differing but both vols with the same provenance), slightly worn. First edition of this extensive catalogue of the mineralogical museum in the Collegeo Nazareno in Rome, founded by the author, Father Petrini and arranged by Scipione Breislak.'Rare. Extensive descriptive collection catalog of the mineral specimens held in at Nazareno College in Rome at the end of the 18th century. The preliminaries of the first volume provide some history of the formation of the collection and a synopsis of the new chemistry of Lavoisier. The catalog then commences, classifying the specimens into a standard structure of salts, earths, bitumens and flammable bodies, and metals. Volcanic objects and fossils are given their own classifications and are treated at the end of volume two' (Curtis Schuh, Biobibliography of Mineralogy online). The organiser of the collection, Scipione Breislak (1750-1826) was '. one of the founders of volcanology in Italy, Breislak was the first to determine that basaltic rocks were of extrusive origin; he also emphasised that the tufaceous deposits of Campania originated under water, and he reconstructed the evolution of Vesuvius' (DSB). He was the author of Introduzione alle Geologia (Milan, 1811).'Antiquarians and polymaths in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries pursued del Riccio's interest in the geological and geographic origins of marble with even greater scientific rigor. The secretary of the papal nephew Francesco Barberini, Cassiano del Pozzo, assembled a vast collection of drawings of the objects, buildings, and other material remains of the ancient world. This corpus of drawings, known as the paper museum (museo caraceo), included a catalogue of stones painted on paper. Dal Pozzo worked with the Venetian painter Jacopo Ligozzi and the director of the opificio fiorentino, Matteo Nigetti, in painting and compiling the samplings. Painted compilations such as Dal Pozzo's became the actual marble-sample panels of the eighteenth century: to this end Father Giovan Vincenzo Petrini (1725-1784) founded a mineralogical museum in the Collegio Nazareno in Rome' (Radical Marble, Architectural Innovation from Antiquity to the Present, J. Nicholas Napoli and William Tronzo, eds)Provenance: early ownership inscription 'C. Guicciardi' on both endleavesWard and Carozzi 1754; OCLC records Smithsonian, Chicago, Illinois, Oklahoma, McGill, and Cornell in North America- $3,250
- $3,250
Alcuni opuscoli filosofici . Al serenissimo, e reverendiss. principe il sig. cardinale de’ Medici.
CASTELLI, Benedetto (1578-1643) 4to (224 x 160 mm), pp [viii] 79 [1, blank], title with large vignette of the arms of the Medici dedicatee, engraved by Pietro Tedeschi, and five woodcut optical diagrams in text; a fine copy on thick paper, unpressed, in nineteenth-century calf-backed boards, minor wear to spine. First edition of this rare posthumous publication, containing Castelli's most important contributions to the field of optics. The text comprises miscellaneous pieces, including the first publications of two letters to Galileo (dated 27 June 1637 and 2 August 1638, pages 47-79) detailing experiments on the absorption and transmission of radiant heat by differently coloured surfaces.'Castelli's optical investigations were continued in a treatise sent to Giovanni Ciampoli in 1639 and published in 1669 [in the present work]. Included are many observations and conclusions with respect to the persistence of optical images, by which Castelli explained the perception of motion, the illusion of forked tongues in serpents, and other phenomena. In the same treatise he recommended the use of diaphragms in telescopes to impede transverse rays, anticipating Hevelius. His discussions of the camera obscura, the inversion of images on the retina, and of cataract (from which Galileo had recently lost his sight), although less novel, are not without interest.'More celebrated is Castell's discussion of heat in a series of letters to Galileo (1637-1638) and particularly his experiments with the absorption of radiant and transmitted heat by black and white objects. Two of these letters, in which the pursuit of experimental science is even more clearly described than in Galileo's work on bodies of water, were published in 1669 [in the above]' (DSB).In a treatise on the preservation of grains (pp 39-46) Castelli suggests keeping wheat in sealed containers so that pathogens are kept out, anticipating later discoveries by Francesco Redi in microbiology and the discrediting the theory of spontaneous generation.Carli and Favaro 322; Riccardi I 291 n 3; OCLC records Cal Tech, Huntington (Burndy), Yale, American Philosophical Society, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and UC Berkeley for North America- $16,500
- $16,500
De viribus vivis dissertatio .
BOSCOVICH, Ruggero Giuseppe] (1711-1787) 4to ( 221 x 164 mm), pp XLIX [1, blank], with folding engraved plates; a very faint occasional marginal spotting, a very good copy in plain wrappers.First edition, first issue of Boscovich's earliest published work on his dynamic point theory, and which was the precursor to his great Philosophiae naturalis theoria redacta ad unicam legem virium in natura existentium (1758), a work considered as the 'birth of atomic physics' and praised by Faraday, Maxwell, and Heisenberg. Boscovich stated in the Philosophiae naturalis theoria that his work originated in this 1745 publication.Boscovich's dynamic point theory 'was not only the first general mathematical theory of atomism . but more specifically it was the first scientific theory: to treat all the ultimate constituents of matter as identical; to employ finite numbers of point particles; to eliminate Newtonian mass as a primary quantity, substituting a kinematic basis; to postulate a relational basis for the mathematical treatment of inertia and of all space and time observations; to propose to derive all physical effects from a single law; to eliminate the scale-free similarity property of the Newtonian law, introducing natural lengths into continuous laws so as to determine unique equilibrium positions and other scale-fixed properties; to employ a power series to represent an observable.' (L. L. Whyte in Roger Joseph Boscovich . Studies of his life and work, London, 1961).'The Theory of Natural Philosophy is now recognized as having exerted a fundamental influence on modern mathematical physics . As the title of his book implies, he considered that a single law was the basis of all natural phenomena and of the properties of matter; that the multiplicity of physical forces was only apparent and due to inadequate mathematical knowledge' (PMM).Boscovich's 'heterodoxy in mechanics began to be apparent at least as early as 1745, when he published an important discourse on the subject of living force (vis viva) . This discourse contained the first statement of Boscovich's universal force law.'That law was inspired partly by Leibniz's law of continuity and partly by the famous thirty-first query with which Newton concluded the fourth edition of his Opticks. There Newton raised speculatively the question whether there might not exist both attractive and repulsive forces alternately operative between the particles of matter. From this idea Boscovich proceeded by way of an analysis of collision of bodies to the enunciation of a "universal law of forces" between elements of matter, the force being alternately attractive or repulsive, depending upon the distance by which they are separated. As that distance diminishes toward zero, repulsion predominates and grows infinite so as to render direct contact between particles impossible. A fundamental role is played by the points of equilibrium between the attractive and repulsive forces. Boscovich called such points "boundaries" (limes, the Latin singular). Some of them are points of stable equilibrium for the particles in them and others are points of unstable equilibrium. The behavior of these boundaries and the areas between them enabled Boscovich to interpret cohesion, impenetrability, extension, and many physical and chemical properties of matter, including its emission of light.Extended description upon requestThere are two issues of this publication, an academic one as here, and a commercial one, the latter containing a differing imprint and also naming Boscovich as the author. A comparison of the two makes clear that both were printed from the same standing type, apart from the title page. The commercial issue has the imprint 'Sumptibus venantii Monaldini bibliopole', and also a different title ornament.Manuscript corrections to the text on pages V, IX, and XXXIX, as in the BSB copyRiccardi I.1 174 n 21; Sommervogel I 1832 n 22; OCLC records Huntington, Smithsonian, American Philosophical Society, Harvard, Princeton, and Brown for North- $9,000
- $9,000
Flora: Seu, DeFlorum Cultura. Or a Complete Florilege, Furnish with All Requisites Belonging to a Florist.
Rea, John Brown call, re-backed. Engraved title-page and 16 (garden) plans on 8 plates. Sales receipt dated 1934 tipped onto front endpaper. Bookplate of former owner on front paste-down. Intermittent light imperfection (spotting, light dampstaining (not offensive), age toning to page perimeters, etc. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall- $1,800
- $1,800
Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening
Repton, Humphry 1/2 maroon morocco, maroon cloth. Complete with all plates - several with overlays. Bookplate on front paste-down and former owner's name and date in pencil on front endsheet. An exceptional copy of this seminal work on landscape architecture. Size: Folio- $10,000
- $10,000
The Theory and Practice of Gardening: Wherein is Fully Handled All That Relates to Fine Gardens, Commonly Called pleasure-Gardens, Groves, Bowling–Greens, Etc.
James, John (Trans.) Handsomely bound in 1/4 brown morocco, marbled boards, gilt ornaments in panels. First English Translation. Complete with 32 folding and double-page plates. Cuts-in-text. Some minor spotting and age-toning to page perimeters. Bookplate of former owner on front paste-down. Very scarce. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall- $2,750
- $2,750
Entartete Kunst. Austellungsführer
KAISER (Fritz) (Degenerate Art). KAISER (Fritz): Entartete Kunst. Austellungsführer. Führer durch die Austellung Entartete Kunst zusammengestellt von der Reichspropagandaleitung, Amtsleitung Kultur. Berlin: Verlag fur Kultur und Wirtschaftswerbung [1938]. 8vo., 30[2] pp.; printed pictorial wrappers, stapled spine (vertical crease where once folded in the middle, light soiling, otherwise in very good condition). The cover illustration The New Man by Otto Freundlich. This illustrated guide, written by Fritz Kaiser, an official in the Reich Propaganda Ministry, was issued as a souvenir of the vicious and defamatory 1937 show of modern art.- $1,200
- $1,200
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WEEK SPENT IN A GLASS POND
EWING, JULIANA HORATIA (ANDRE,R.)illus. A WEEK SPENT IN A GLASS POND by the Great Water Beetle by JULIANA HORATIA EWING. London: Wells Gardner Darton, no date [1883]. 4to (7 1/4 x 9 1/8"), cloth backed pictorial boards, 32p., edges rubbed and some finger soil, VG+. Beautifully illustrated by Andre with detailed chromolithographs on every page plus there is a stunning pictorial cover. Osborne p.984.- $440
- $440
SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARS
TIMLIN, WILLIAM TIMLIN,WILLIAM. THE SHIP THAT SAILED TO MARS. London: Harrap, no date [1923]. Large 4to (9 1/2 x 12 1/4"), gilt decorated vellum-backed boards, spine slightly darkened some tip and edge wear, a clean and VG+ copy. An incredible fantasy - science fiction tale. Every page of calligraphic text is individually mounted on heavy gray paper (47 pages of text). There are 48 mounted color plates by Timlin that are really magnificent. Timlin was born in England in 1893 but grew up in South Africa. A most fabulous and desired book.- $1,375
- $1,375
De inaequalitatibus quas Saturnus et Jupiter sibi mutuo videntur inducere praesertim circa tempus conjunctionis. Opusculum ad Parisiensem Academiam trasmissum et nunc primum editum .
BOSCOVICH, Ruggero Giuseppe] (1711-1787) 4to (200 x 127 mm), pp xxiv 187 [1], with woodcut ornament on title, woodcut initials and headpieces, and four folding engraved plates; a fine copy in contemporary Italian vellum, labelled in gilt on spine. First edition of Boscovich's work on the aberrations observed in the orbits of Saturn and Jupiter from the predicted Newtonian paths. Taking into account the Earth, this was a version of the classic three-body problem of determining the paths of three moving bodies which affect each other's gravitational field, and which has no rigourous algebraic solution, and requires approximation techniques.Isaac Newton had suggested in the second and third editions of his Principia (1713, 1726) that the observed perturbations in the motions of Jupiter and Saturn were a consequence of gravitational interaction, but neither he nor Flamsteed could devise equations to solve the problem. As a result the Paris Académie des Sciences had proposed a competition on solving the problem in 1748, 1750, and 1752, with Clairaut and d'Alembert acting as judges. They awarded the prize to Euler for the years 1748 and 1752, but the 1750 prize remained unassigned. Boscovich had submitted a paper on a proposed solution, which received an honourable mention and was considered for publication in the Mémoires of the Academy, but he wasn't awarded the prize. He decided to expand his paper, the result of which was the present work.Boscovich's approach arose from his study of comets and his method for determining parabolic orbits which, as DSB remarks, 'comes close to the classic method of H.W. Olbers (1797). An interesting treatise of 1749 concerns the determination of an elliptical orbit by means of a construction previously employed for resolving the reflection of a light ray from a spherical mirror. Boscovich employed this method again in 1756, in a treatise discussing the reciprocal perturbations of Jupiter and Saturn, which he entered in a competition on the subject set by the Academy of Sciences in Paris.'Riccardi I.1 179 n 9; Sommervogel I 1840 n 61- $5,000
- $5,000
Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intorno à due nuove scienze Attenenti all mechanica & i movimenti locali . con une appendice del centro di gravita à d’alcuni solidi.
GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642) 4to (190 x 137 mm), pp [viii] 306 [recte 314] [6], with numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text; a very clean, crisp copy in untouched contemporary English blind-ruled sheep, paper label on spine, hinges slightly rubbed and small chip to head of spine. First edition of Galileo's most important work, the foundation of modern physics.This work was Galileo's 'greatest scientific achievement ? Mathematicians and physicists of the later seventeenth century, Isaac Newton among them, rightly supposed that Galileo had begun a new era in the science of mechanics. It was upon his foundation that Huygens, Newton and others were able to erect the frame of the science of dynamics, and to extend its range (with the concept of universal gravitation) to the heavenly bodies' (PMM 130). 'Unable to publish this treatise on mechanics in his own country because of the ban placed on his books by the Inquisition, he published it in Leyden. Considered the first modern textbook in physics, in it Galileo pressed forward the experimental and mathematical methods in the analysis of problems in mechanics and dynamics. The Aristotelian concept of motion was replaced by a new one of inertia and general principles were sought and found in the motion of falling bodies, projectiles and in the pendulum. He rolled balls down an inclined plane and thereby verified their uniformly accelerated motion, acquiring equal increments of velocity in equal increments of time. The concept of mass was implied by Galileo's conviction that in a vacuum all bodies would fall with the same acceleration. Newton said he obtained the first two laws of motion from this book' (Dibner).The book has a dedication to the Comte de Noailles, French ambassador to Italy, dated Arcetri, 6 March 1638, in which Galileo praised the publishers for their taste and skill. With all his writings banned by the Inquisition, Galileo had given the manuscript to De Noailles with instructions to have it published in Leiden by the Elseviers, to whom Galileo owed a debt of gratitude for the publicity given to his earlier writings, the Latin translations of the Dialogo and Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina published in 1635 and 1636.The binding is a typical 'cheap' English binding of the period, with no pastedowns, leaving the pasteboards showing.Provenance: eighteenth-century engraved Hopetoun bookplateCarli and Favaro 162; Cinti 102; Dibner 141; Evans 27; Horblit 36; Norman 859; Parkinson pp 80-81; PMM 130; Sparrow 75- $150,000
- $150,000
BOO-BOOS AT HONEY SWEET FARM
ATTWELL, MABEL LUCIE ATTWELL,MABEL LUCIE. THE BOO-BOOS AT HONEY SWEET FARM. Dundee, London, Montreal: Valentine, no date, circa 1921. 12mo (4 1/4 x 5 1/2"), boards, pictorial paste-on, slight shelf wear, VG-Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Attwell with pictorial endpapers, 14 color plates plus many full page and partial page green line illustrations all featuring a little girl named Bunty and Attwell's fairy Boo-Boos. Very scarce.- $1,100
- $1,100
TOY VILLAGE
ROBERTS, GEORGIA PICTURE BOOK. THE TOY VILLAGE by Georgia Roberts. London & NY: Nister & Dutton, no date, circa 1906. Oblong 4to (11 1/4 x 9"), cloth backed pictorial boards, edges rubbed else VG+. This is a fabulous picture book with text in rhyme relating the tale of Noah and his crew after they came off of the Ark. Illustrated by Katharine Greenland with 20 full page chromolithographs portraying all of the characters as toys. See Peeps Into Nisterland p.281. This is a charming picture book.- $440
- $440
MENAGE CLAPOTIN AU PAYS DES CACTUS
BAILLY, LOUIS FRENCH. MENAGE CLAPOTIN AU PAYS DES CACTUS by Louis Bailly. Paris: Librarie Furne no date circa 1915. Folio, cloth backed pictorial boards, edges rubbed and new endpapers, VG. The adventures of Mr. Clapotin and his family when they travel to Tunis. Illustrated by noted artist Bailly with marvelous hand-colored illustrations throughout. See Dict. Des Illus. 1890-1945 p. 46-7.- $220
- $220
STORY OF THE WILD FLOWERS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH FLOWER ALPHABET
KEELEY, GERTRUDE ABC. (FLOWERS) THE STORY OF THE WILD FLOWERS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH FLOWER ALPHABET by Gertrude Keeley. NY: Hurst (1901, 1914). 4to (6 3/8 x 10 1/4"), cloth, pictorial paste-on, some slight cover soil else VG. Each of the 26 flowers from A-Z has 2 pages of text plus a poem, including some uncommon varities of flowers. Each letter is pictorially presented in color.- $165
- $165
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GRONNE SPILLEMAND [GREEN FIDDLER]
KALKAR (MOE,LOUIS)illus. DEN GRONNE SPILLEMAND [THE GREEN FIDDLER] by George Kalkar. Copenhagen: Henrik Koppels nd ca 1920's. Large obl. 4to, cl. backed pict. bds, light cover soil VG+. A fabulous book full of humanized insects, frogs and fairies. Illus., with 10 fine full page color plates and many detailed black and whites on text pages - similar to Elsa Beskow in style. A great picture book.- $220
- $220
KULIHRASEK S MAJDALENKOU
VOLESKA, MARTA CZECHOSLOVAK. KULIHRASEK S MAJDALENKOU verse by MartA Voleska. Praze: Gustav Volesky 1935. Oblong 4to (10 3/4 x 9 3/4"), cloth, pictorial paste-on, slight bit of cover soil, VG+. This is the fantasy trip of two little children who shrink to the size of insects and have adventures with the insect world. Beautifully illustrated by noted Czech artist ARTUS SCHEINER with bold colors on every page. See Illus. of Children's Books v.1 p. 136, 145 for others by Scheiner.- $220
- $220
LE BUFFON DES ENFANTS: LES OISEAUX DE CHEZ NOUS
ROY, BERNARD (LORIOUX,FELIX)illus. LE BUFFON DES ENFANTS: LES OISEAUX DE CHEZ NOUS by Bernard Roy. Paris: Marcus (1946). Square 4to (10 x 10"), pictorial boards, slight edge rubbing, near fine. Featuring the most absolutely stunning full page color illustrations by Lorioux of birds (rooster, stork, owl, peacock, pelican etc.) accompanied by his detailed and humorous humanized animals and insects. Beautifully printed with rich colors including pictorial endpapers.- $330
- $330
BEAST, BIRD AND FISH
MORROW, ELIZABETH MORROW,ELIZABETH. (D'HARNONCOURT,RENE) BEAST, BIRD AND FISH by Elizabeth Morrow. NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1933 (1933). 4to (8 1/4 x 13 3/4"), pictorial cloth, some cover soil else VG+, no dust wrapper. Stated 1st edition. This is an animal alphabet book with text presented in verse and including musical notation. Every letter has a very beautiful full page color illustration by RENE D'HARNONCOURT in his distinctive folk-peasant style and with his use of flat colors. A perfect alphabet book by the collaborators of the Painted Pig (Morrow was Anne Morrow Lindbergh's mother and wife of the American ambassador to Mexico). THIS COPY IS INSCRIBED BY ELIZABETH MORROW. Bader p.71. Very scarce.- $440
- $440
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
CARROLL, LEWIS CARROLL,LEWIS. (LAURENCIN) ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Paris: Black Sun Press 1930. Oblong 4to, white wraps, 114p., VERY FINE IN ORIGINAL GLASSENE, CHEMISE AND SLIPCASE (case scuffed with some minor wear and soil). LIMITED TO ONLY 370 COPIES FOR EUROPE, this is one of the 50 copies PRINTED ON JAPANESE VELLUM. Illustrated by MARIE LAURENCIN with 6 magnificent color plates. Quite scarce and a beautiful copy of a most desired book.- $5,500
- $5,500
LITTLE HOUSE
BURTON, VIRGINIA LEE BURTON,VIRGINIA LEE. THE LITTLE HOUSE. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1942 (1942). 4to (9 3/4 x 9"), pictorial cloth, Slight soil on top edge of cover else a clean, Fine copy in a fabulous dust wrapper (some practically undetectable small bits of restoration of dw). 1st edition (1st printing) of one of the rarest CALDECOTT AWARD WINNERS. and a children's classic. The story relates the conflict between an ever changing city life and tranquil country life, beautifully illustrated with color lithographs by Burton. See Bader p.201-2. Nice copies like this are very hard to find.- $12,650
- $12,650
EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON
(NIELSEN,KAY)illus. EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON. [London] Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1914]. Large 4to, (9 x 11 1/2"), blue cloth with extensive gilt decoration - a Very Fine copy with gilt bright. 1st edition of Nielsen's most desired book, illustrated with pictorial endpapers and featuring 25 magnificent tipped-in color plates with lettered guards as well as numerous detailed black and whites throughout the text. A beautiful copy of the first edition.- $4,950
- $4,950
TOMASO CACCIATORE
ACCORNERO, VITTORIO ITALIAN. TOMASO CACCIATORE testo e illustrazioni di Vittorio Accornero. Arnaldo Mondadori (1950). 4to, cloth backed pictorial boards, near fine in dw with tape mends. A dog and bunny tale set at Christmas time and illus. by the author with wonderful full and partial page color lithos.- $165
- $165
ALADIN: OMBRES CHINOISES EN QUINZE TABLEAUX
METIVET, LUCIEN ALADDIN. ALADIN: OMBRES CHINOISES EN QUINZE TABLEAUX poeme & images de Lucien Metivet. Paris: Flammarion (1904). Large obl. 4to, pict. boards, FINE IN PICTORIAL DUSTWRAPPER! Music for a theatrical production of Aladin is provided by Jane Vieu. The book is illustrated with magnificent, richly colored lithographs by LUCIEN METIVET - both full and partial page. The style and images are Chinese. This is a beautiful copy, rare in the pictorial dustwrapper which has served to preserve the pictorial cover. See Dictionaire des Illustrateurs 1800-1914 p.694 for entry on Metivet. A great picture book.- $550
- $550
OUR INDIANS: A MIDNIGHT VISIT TO THE GREAT SOMEWHERE-OR-OTHER
BRADLEY, LUTHER DANIELS BRADLEY,LUTHER DANIELS. OUR INDIANS: A MIDNIGHT VISIT TO THE GREAT SOMEWHERE-OR-OTHER. [NY]:Dutton 1899. Oblong large 4to, cl. backed pictorial boards, edges lightly rubbed light wear to front endpaper else a near fine, tight clean copy of this rare book. With text written in verse, the story is a dream fantasy trip taken by a little girl and boy (the girl based on Bradley's niece). They slip out at night in a flying canoe guided by an Indian who takes them to a quiet land of peace and harmony. Featuring striking full page chromolithographs (16 full page and 5 double page) - the artwork by Bradley as well. Luther Daniels Bradley, educated at Yale, was an editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News. In Image and Maker p.26-36 Helen Borgens notes : "Our Indians is a personal dream vision. Bradley depicted the Indians as expressing the qualities inherant in all human beings." yet he juxtaposed this realism with absurd images of Indians serving tea in china cups or performing a vaudeville act with band instruments to celebrate a victory. It is the combination of real and surreal that gives this book its unique quality. About the artwork, Borgens says that "the symmetry of individual illustrations reinforces the symmetry of the entire book." Altogether a wonderful book, quite rare and when found it is usually in terrible condition.- $1,320
- $1,320
Outlines of Tao-ism: the journeyings of the eight immortals beyond the seas
Shkurkin, P. V. Octavo (19.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed blue wrappers; [3], 50 pp. With a 2 pp. bibliography of the author's works. Three plates of illustrations, featuring traditional Taoist subjects and one painting by the author, on better stock. About very good; wrappers lightly creased and discolored along the edges; small nick to upper edge of rear wrapper. An abridged translation of the author's Ocherki daosizma (1926). Pavel V. Shkurkin (1868-1943) was a famous scholar of Far Eastern languages and cultures who taught in Harbin before emigrating to Seattle in 1927. Three black-and-white plates reproduce traditional Taoist subjects, as well as one painting by the author himself. KVK, OCLC show copies at the University of Minnesota and Washington only.- $318
- $318
Wynne. The Art of Al and Lou Wynne
Felix, Tracy. Co-Curator Denver, 2008 Denver: Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, 2008. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Very good. Catalog of the exhibition of fine art and pottery by Al and Lou Wynne held at the Kirkland Museum of Fine Art, Denver from Oct. 1, 2008 through Jan 4, 2009. Stapled pictorial wraps. 8" x 8" 56pp. Very good condition. Al Wynnes work has been featured in major exhibitions from Colorado to Washington D.C., south to Texas and north to Alaska. His work has been presented in both individual and group shows. Paintings, calligraphy, and sculptures are held in museums and in private collections around the world. Al was listed in Whos Who in American Art starting in 1959. In June 2013, the majority of Al's life's work was destroyed in the Black Forest Fire. All that remains are pieces held by the family and in collections.- $125
- $125
Political History of Slavery in the United States.
George, James Z. New York, 1915 New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with title, author and publisher in gold on the spine. This copy presented to his friend Col. Dillingham by William Hayne Leavell, United States Envoy Extraordinary Guatemala, who wrote the books foreword and financed its publication. Laid in is a handwritten letter from Leavell to Dillingham on paper embossed "Legation of the United States of America".Very good with minor foxing to last few pages and light shelf wear to cover.- $400
- $400
The Holy Bible Containing The Old and New Testaments, with Original Notes, Practical Observations, and Copious Marginal References
Scott, Thomas Philadelphia, 1804 Philadelphia: William W. Woodward, 1804. First American Edition. Full leather. Good. First American, From the Second London Edition. Complete in five volumes, with original cloth backed map accompanying the five. Contemporary full leather with five raised bands and dark red lettering piece to spines. Contains family history of the Thompson - Howell family of New York. Covers a little rubbed. Some toning and occasional foxing. A half page of family history excised. Hand colored "Map of Palestine or Holy Land from the Best Authorities" Engraved for Whiting & Watson's edition of Dr. Scott's Bible by Peter Maverick, Newark shows toning with some foxing.A fine example of a very early American printed Bible.- $1,250
- $1,250
Popular Manual of Phrenology
Bridges, Frederick London, 1860 London: George Philip and Son, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Small 8vo. 96pp. Green pictorial embossed cloth over boards. Light tanning throughout and old stain to rear end papers.A seemingly scarce volume on phrenology, a pseudo-medicine primarily focused on measurements of the human skull, based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules. Although both of those ideas have a basis in reality, phrenology extrapolated beyond empirical knowledge in a way that departed from science.- $100
- $100
Poker Face
Alberts, Ulvis Hollywood, 1981 Hollywood: Angel City Books, 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Special edition number 80 of 500 boldly signed by Alberts. Large square quarto hardcover. Gilt stamped green cloth with matching slip case. Book in very good condition with a little rubbing to spine. Slip case mottled and partially split on two edges. In the 1970's, there was only one tournament game the professional gamblers waited for all year and that was the "World Series of Poker" at Binion's Horseshoe casino in downtown Las Vegas. Alberts photographs of these events and his candid pictures of legendary players, including Johnny Moss, "Amarillo Slim" Preston, Stu Unger, Jack "Treetop" Strauss, Doyle Brunson, Benny Binion and many others, form the story of those iconic early years.- $2,000
- $2,000
Yes, No – One, Zero
Esso Standard New York, 1958 New York: Esso Standard, Division of Humble Oil & Refining Company, 1958. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. Near fine. Staple bound wraps. 15pp paginated in binary number system 0010 to 1111. 10 1/2" by 8". Fine condition.Prepared by the publisher for teachers in the nine states that Esso had offices this booklet provides an explanation of the binary system as a language for early computers and also asks questions such as "What are these devices? In what sense do they think? Will they replace the human brain? A fascinating glimpse into early electronic computer technology.- $125
- $125
A Letter to her Majesty the British Queen
Sutherland, Th. Jefferson Albany, 1841 Albany: Printed by C. Van Benthuysen, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. New York imprint concerning the Canadian Rebellion, noted for it's index of captive patriots imprisoned at Van Dieman's Land. 168pp in gilt titled brown cloth binding, areas of fade, lightly foxed endpapers showing dampstain. Otherwise neat, tidy.- $1,250
- $1,250
A History of the City of Red Wing Minnesota
Rasmussen, Christian A. Red Wing, Minnesota, 1934 Red Wing, Minnesota : Red Wing Advertising Co, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo [viii] 296pp + 16 plates. Blue cloth with dark blue lettering end red design. Previous owner's name to front free end paper otherwise clean throughout. Tight binding. Some wear to cover with some rubbing to spine.- $125
- $125
The Horse in Health And Disease; or, Suggestions on His Natural and General History, Varieties, Conformation, Paces, Action, Age, Soundness, Stabling, Condition, Training and Shoeing With a Digest on Veterinary Practice.
Winter, James W. London, 1846 London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans., 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarter bound brown leather over marbled boards. 8vo. Frontispiece [viii] pp 376 with nine b/w plates and one color plate. The author, James W. Winter was a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, and of the Association Litteraire D'Egypt and late Veterinary Surgeon to Mehmet Ali and Ibrahim Pasha.Overall good condition with some wear to the boards and light moisture marks to the plates. Two page corners professionally repaired. back free endpaper excised.- $500
- $500
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Bradbury, Ray New York, 1962 New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair. Stated 1st printing. Mustard colored boards with black lettering. Red top stain. Book in very good condition. Dust jacket shows heavy wear to edges with some closed tears. Original $4.95 price present.- $300
- $300
![Tserkov' i gosudarstvo i drugiia stat'i [Church and State and other essays]](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/30379673191-600x877.jpg)
Tserkov’ i gosudarstvo i drugiia stat’i [Church and State and other essays]
Tolstoi, L[ev] N[ikolaevich] Octavo (19.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; [5], 6-55 pp. Publisher's ads inside wrappers. Light tears to overlapping wrapper edges; text lightly toned; wrappers beginning to detach along spine head; still a sound, uncut and unopened copy. First edition thus. An émigré publication of a selection of Leo Tolstoy's religious essays, all of which were banned in the Russian Empire. After the great success of his "Anna Karenina" (1878), Tolstoy began to focus on religious writings, producing such works as "My Confession" (1879-1880), which led to his open conflict with the Orthodox Church. The conflict, fueled by his other writings, would eventually lead to his full excommunication in 1901. Among Tolstoy's many complaints against the church was its approval of the sovereign state, which inflicted violence and waged war, actions he believed incongruous with the teachings of the church and of Christ. Other works included in the collection are: "O tserkovnom obmane" (On Church Lies), Kak chitat' Evangelie i v chem ego sushchnost" (How to read the Gospels and what is their essence), "O religioznom vospitanii" (On religious education), "O veroterpimosti" (On religious tolerance). The title essay of this collection seems to have been written in 1882, and was never finished, nor was it approved by the author for publication. Tolstoy sent the unfinished (and untitled) essay to his friend, Gavrila Rusanov, who seems to have titled it and released it into underground circulation. The essay first appeared in Berlin, at the Cassirer and Danziger publishing house in 1891 with distortions and omissions. This edition was included in the internal catalog of the General Directorate for Press Affairs (the highest censorship body in the Russian Empire) for 1894 as "prohibited from circulation and re-printing in Russia." The essay was next published in the "Complete Works of L. N. Tolstoy, Banned in Russia", by the "Free speech" publishing house, in England (1904). In Russia, the essay would appear only after the 1905 Revolution when the censorship laws were slackened by the "Renewal" publishing house (St. Petersburg, 1906, No. 8). This edition contains a publisher's catalog to inside of front and rear wrapper. KVK, OCLC show print copies of this edition at Harvard, Duke, Princeton, Ohio, Wisconsin, Colorado, UCLA, Berkeley, UCL, UNSW (Sydney), and Melbourne.- $126
- $126
I tol’ko togda nastupil mir.: Zakliuchitel’naia glava populiarnoi vsemirnoi istorii Iubileinago izdaniia Gos. Akademii v Vashingtone lieta ot R. KH 2150-go, novoi ery 200-go. [.And only then came peace.: The final chapter of the jubilee edition of a popular world history of the national academy in Washington from the year 2150, of the new 200th era]
Seleznev-Skib, Leonid Octavo (23 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 87 pp. Light foxing to wrappers; slight water damage to rear wrapper, still about very good. First and only edition. A curious work of "utopian sociology," this text was likely self-published by a Russian émigré in New York shortly after WWII. The introduction to the text explains: "This book takes the reader into the distant future. In this book, the reader will find the history of the way the American people, soon after the end of the 2nd World War, solved the great problem of universal peace, and saved humanity from the impending catastrophe and laid the foundation for its future development in the spirit of universal understanding, and justice." The text then takes the reader through the failures of European politics of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the dominant social and economic orders such as monarchy, democracy, socialism and capitalism. The author finally explains how the United States came to European and world rescue. Scarce in the trade.- $190
- $190
![Zhenni Porten [Henny Porten]. Pamphlet produced by the Soviet state publisher for cinema](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/30379670393-600x777.jpg)
Zhenni Porten [Henny Porten]. Pamphlet produced by the Soviet state publisher for cinema, Kinopechat’, with a short biography of Henny Porten
URAZOV, I[zmail Alievich] and Naum SOKOLIK, illustrator Octavo (14.5 × 11.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers by Naum Sokolik; 16 pp. Photo-illustrations throughout. Light soil to wrappers; trace of moisture to upper right corner, not affecting text; still about very good. A NEP-era movie fan booklet dedicated to Henny Porten, the first German film star of the silent era, written by the film, theater and circus reviewer Izmail Urazov (1896-1965). The Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the subsequent Russian Civil War (1918-1922) devastated the Russian and Soviet film industry. Due to widespread film and equipment shortages, foreign productions came to dominate the Soviet screen, a fact often commented upon in the Soviet press. With the introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP), a hybrid of communism and capitalism meant to jumpstart the Soviet economy, German film companies among others, brought their films to the newly open Soviet market, with fan materials such as this booklet helping to popularize specific film stars and sell tickets to their films. An editor of "Circus" magazine and a prolific reviewer, Urazov wrote similar pamphlets dedicated to other German silent stars such as Greta Garbo, Asta Nilsen, Ossi Oswalda, and Harry Liedtke. This as well as Urazov's other pamphlets were published by the NEP-era publishing house Kinopechat' (1925-1927), later known as Teakinopechat (1927-1929), which published both serious theoretical film literature by formalist theoreticians such as Boris Eikhenbaum and Viktor Shklovsky and film directors such as Vsevolod Pudovkin, as well as popular film materials. Most of Kinopechat' profits came from the sales of fan posters, post cards and booklets of domestic and foreign film stars such as this one. By 1929 the sale of these 'bourgeois fan materials' caused a scandal at the publishing house and the publisher started printing literature on "kinofikatsiia derevni" (the spread of the cinema into the villages) which was more in line with the first five-year plan (1928-1932). Nevertheless, the publishing house was soon closed. KVK, OCLC show copies at Art Gallery of Ontario, British Library, Yale, UNC Chapel Hill, and Berkeley.- $380
- $380
![Za zakrytoi dver'iu: zapiski vracha-venerologa. S predisloviem Prof. B. Khol'tsova [Behind the closed door: notes of a venereal disease specialist]](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/30379669438-600x855.jpg)
Za zakrytoi dver’iu: zapiski vracha-venerologa. S predisloviem Prof. B. Khol’tsova [Behind the closed door: notes of a venereal disease specialist]
Fridland, L[ev Semenovich] Octavo (20.3 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Niklavs Strunke; 214, [1] pp. Wrappers lightly worn and chipped to corners; discrete Soviet Latvian bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; else about very good. Third expanded edition (first published in 1927 in Leningrad and Paris, with this Riga edition published the following year). Aimed at a popular audience, the book tells dozens of stories from the practice of a venereal disease specialist, Dr. Lev Friedland, who was intent on educating the broader public by unmasking the causes and spread of the various sexually transmitted diseases. According to the author, women and children were especially vulnerable to the spread of the 'unmentionable' diseases and he hoped to mend this by writing a popular text based on case histories. The book was Friedland's first literary venture and brought him immediate success, with four editions, including one in Estonian and one in Turkish, printed within the first few years after the initial publication. Perhaps because of the frank descriptions of human sexuality, the unflinching accounts of poverty and early Soviet sexual mores, the book was banned in the Soviet Union starting in 1930. The newest edition was published in 1991. The wrappers were designed by the Latvian avant-garde artist and illustrator Niklavs Strunke. Lev Friedland (1888-1960) was a Soviet doctor and author of popular medical literature. Initially educated at the Medical Academy in Kiev he graduated with a medical degree in Rostov-on-Don in 1918. From 1929 he switched his focus to writing entirely, authoring over a dozen popular medicine titles including books on medicine for children and young adults. KVK, OCLC show only two copies of this edition, at NYPL and UCLA.- $349
- $349
![Kubanskoe Kazachestvo. "Les Cosaques de Kuban". Istoriko-literaturnyi i illiustrirovannyi zhurnal [The Cuban Cossacks. A historical literary and illustrated journal]; Nos. 1-2 (of three published)](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/30379667617-600x815.jpg)
Kubanskoe Kazachestvo. “Les Cosaques de Kuban”. Istoriko-literaturnyi i illiustrirovannyi zhurnal [The Cuban Cossacks. A historical literary and illustrated journal]; Nos. 1-2 (of three published)
Obshchestvo Revnitelei Kubani, Kollegiia Kubanskikh Kazakov Octavo (24.7 × 18 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; 32, [2] pp. Illustrations throughout. Traces of former binding to spine of one issue; holes from binding to both issues; slightly resized to binding; else about very good. Two issues (of the three published) of the highly esteemed, though short-lived émigré publication of the Kuban Cossacks in France. The historian Irina Gorlova writes: "Among the impressive abundance of Cossack periodicals of the two interwar decades, the journal favorably distinguished itself through a good selection of authors, high-quality materials and a general high culture of the publication. This is explained by the fact that the Society of the adherants of Kuban acted as the publisher, uniting the amateur military historians of Kuban in emigration, and that the magazine was edited by the "College of Kuban Cossacks" with the active participation of the International Union of Kuban Writers and Journalists." In addition to comissioned articles and literary sketches, the issues contain abundant historical material, photographs, maps and reminiscences gathered by the journal editors through an open call, included on the last page of the publication. The journal ceased publication due to the internal conflict within the International Union of Kuban Writers and Journalists. Of special literary and historical interest are essays by S. A. Fedotov, F. Eliseev, A. Medianika, Gen. Lomako. KVK and OCLC show complete sets (nos. 1-3) only at Indiana and UNC, with NYPL and the British Library holding only the first issue.- $444
- $444
Kazaki zagranitsei. Donskoi ataman gen.-leit. Graf Grabbe v Bolgarii 17 oktiabria – 15 noiabria 1938 g. [Cossacks Abroad. The Don Ataman General lieutenant Count Grabbe in Bulgaria, 17 October?15 November 1938]
Octavo (23 × 15.5 cm). Original illustrated self-wrappers; 48, [2] pp. Gift inscription, apparently to General A. P. Arkhangel'skii (1872-1959). Slightly resized; else about very good. The final special issue of the annual White émigré publication "Kazaki zagranitsei", dedicated to the newly elected Cossack Ataman in Bulgaria, Count Grabbe. The issue is composed of Grabbe's speeches, decrees and descriptions of his business trips and meetings. Count Mikhail Nikolaevich Grabbe (1868-1942) was the last Ataman of the Don Cossacks, appointed to the position in 1935. In 1890, Grabbe graduated from a military academy in St. Petersburg, eventually distinguishing himself in WWI. After the October Revolution, Grabbe moved his family to Yugoslavia, resettling in Paris in 1925. A convinced monarchist, he took part in the First Monarchist Congress in Berlin in 1921 and was a member of the Society of the Adherents of Memory of Emperor Nicholas II. After the German attack of the Soviet Union in 1941, he was also instrumental in the creation of the Russian Protective Corps, made up of Russian émigrés who fought on the side of the German forces, with the aim of protecting White émigrés from the harassment by partisans who sympathized with the Soviet Union. Founded in Sofia in 1927, the "Kazaki zagranitsei" published annual reports on the life of the Cossacks in Bulgaria and other countries. Like many of the Cossack publications, its run seems to have been interrupted by the start of WWII, with this issue being the last. With a gift inscription to General A. P. Arkhangel'skii to the top of front wrapper, slightly cropped. KVK, OCLC show only one copy of this last issue, at UNC Chapel Hill.- $190
- $190
![God revoliutsii: vospominaniia ofitsera general'nogo shtaba za 1917-1918 goda [The year of the revolution: memoirs of an officer of the general staff of 1917-1918]](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/30379664824-600x714.jpg)
God revoliutsii: vospominaniia ofitsera general’nogo shtaba za 1917-1918 goda [The year of the revolution: memoirs of an officer of the general staff of 1917-1918]
Vertsinskii, Eduard Aleksandrovich Quarto (19.5 × 17 cm). Later brown buckram, original wrappers not preserved; 60, [1] pp. Stamps of Bibliotheque de l'union Galipoli, Paris, and Lycee Russe Empereur Nicolas II to title and first page. Light wear; overall about very good. First edition. The first of three memoirs by the White émigré officer Eduard Vertsinskii (1873-1941), this text describes his experiences in the first year of the Russian Revolution, under the command of General Kornilov and as the first quartermaster general of the Main Directorate of the General Staff. A nobleman, Vertsinskii began his service in the Russian Imperial Army in 1890 and took active part in WWI. After the fall of the White Army, Vertsinskii was forced to flee the Bolshevik regime, immigrating to Estonia in 1923. In 1929 he published this first memoir. His second memoir, dedicated to his experiences in WWI, "Iz mirovoi voiny: boevyia zapisi i vospominaniia komandira polka i ofitsera general'nogo shtaba za 1914-1917 gody" (From the World War: battle notes and memories of the regiment commander and an officer of the general staff for 1914-1917) was published in Tallinn just two years later. His memoirs provide invaluable information about the military actions by their immediate participant. After the annexation of Estonia by the Soviet Union in 1941, Vertsinskii was arrested and sentenced to death. Savine 17509. Scarce in the trade.- $286
- $286
![Odisseia: zarubezhnyi sbornik. Kniga pervaia [The Odyssey: an anthology of exile. Book 1] (all published)](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/30370281385-600x864.jpg)
Odisseia: zarubezhnyi sbornik. Kniga pervaia [The Odyssey: an anthology of exile. Book 1] (all published)
Octavo. Original decorative wrappers by Ivan Mozalevskii; 133, [1] pp. Fifteen titles and end decorations by S. Segal'. About very good; spine neatly repaired; hand-written label to spine strip; small stain to front wrapper. Contains prose by Gleb Alekseev, Aleksei Tolstoi, Vladimir Lidin, Savvatii, O. Savich, Aleksandr Drozdov, G. Magnitskii. KVK, OCLC show copies at University of Toronto, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and Wisconsin-Madison; and in Europe at Basel, DNB Leipzig, Ljubljana, Giessen, Stabi Berlin.- $127
- $127
![Skazki. Märchen. [Tales]](https://rarebookinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/30370278560-600x876.jpg)
Skazki. Märchen. [Tales]
Gor'kii, Maksim (Gorky, pseud. of Aleksei M. Peshkov) Octavo (19.5 × 13.5 cm). Original stiff cream wrappers; [4], 24 pp. With publisher's catalog on rear wrapper verso. Very good; wrappers lightly dust-soiled; original price of 50 Pfennig struck through and replaced by "Mk. 1" One of the earliest appearances of any part of Gorky's "Skazki ob Italii" ("Tales of Italy"), created 1911-1913, during the writer's first period of exile in Italy. The short texts are based largely on his own experiences traveling through the country, as well as on newspaper reports about the life of Italian workers. In Russia, the first book-length collection of the tales appeared in 1912. Some of the tales were censored, however, and could only appear in revolutionary and social-democrat periodicals. The present edition appears to precede the Russian book publication: published in 1911, it represented an early version containing only the first three segments. The fully expanded collection of tales was published a year later by Ladyschnikow, in 1912, bearing the same Russian title, but with the German subtitle "Märchen der Wirklichkeit."- $190
- $190
Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823 and 1824, by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton and The Late Doctor Oudney, Extending Across the Desert to the Tenth Degree of North Latitude, and from Korika in Bornou, to Sackatoc, The Capital of The Fellatah Empire. With and Appendix.
Denham, Dixon and Clapperton, Hugh London: John Murray, 1826. 1st Presentation Edition, Signed. Royal 4to -- 29.4cm. [lxviii], 336pp., [iv], 272 pp., Appendix. Two volumes in one. Original Tuscan-red boards, spine with a fine contemporary black morocco label, tooled and titled in gilt; with 37 fine engraved and etched plates, charts and maps, and one large fold-out map, of which 35 full-page plates are on India paper, mounted and, of which 28 are also present in 2nd state for a total of 63 plates in all, comprising a Proof State Before Letters, and also on India paper, mounted, wood-engraved illustrations. Binding is professionally re-backed with old spine laid down, inner hinges restored. Now contained in a specially constructed black solander box with integral flap-case -- NB: As a result of a binders error, this copy was bound without four leaves (signature C of Volume II) and noted at the time on the original incorrectly bound signature in a contemporary graphite hand: This is a mistake. These have been supplied from another copy of the first edition. A Very Good copy of the one of the most sought after issues of this masterpiece of African travel. Presentation Copy of the First Edition inscribed on the front free-endpaper, John Major from the Publisher. Lowndes: The most interesting and important work yet published on the subject of African researches. It is written in a plain and perspicuous style, and containing many particulars of an hitherto unknown country. This, one of very few copies printed upon thick paper for presents only. According to Lowndes, there were 2 lesser issues of the first edition: the regular issue; a special issue, with the plates mounted on India paper; and third issue for presents only (op.cit.) the issue that is listed here, which has the plates mounted on India paper. The engravings, after original drawings by Denham and Clapperton, are superbly engraved by Edward Finden, one of the finest steel-engravers in England at the time. Denham and Clapperton, in the company of Dr. Walter Oudney, travelled from Benioleed, near Tripoli, almost due south to Lake Tchad, with excursions in the mountains west of Mourzuk in Fezzan. Dixon attempted to follow the circuit around Lake Tchad but was unsuccessful. In the meantime, Clapperton and Oudney journeyed west from the lake toward the Niger River, but the doctor only made it about a third of the way, and died in Murmur. Clapperton continued west, but was prevented from passing beyond Sackatoo by the local Sultan. He and Dunham subsequently returned to Tripoli and crossed back to England. This exciting narrative is compiled from Denhams journal, with a chapter by Dr. Oudney on the excursion to the mountains west of Mourzuk. A final section by Clapperton relates to the westward journey form Lake Tchad to Sackatoo and includes an account of Oudneys death. Among the several appendices are translations from the Arabic or various letters and documents brought back by Denham and Clapperton, including a document relating to The Death of Mungo Park; a translation from Arabic of A Geographical and Historical Account of The Kingdom of Tak-roor, from a larger work composed by Sultan Mahommed Bello of Hausa; Vocabularies of Bornou, Begharmi, Mandara and Timbuctoo; appendices on the Zoology and Botany of the Regions based on samples collected by Dr. Oudney; a note on Rock Specimens; and a Thermometrical Journal kept at Kouka in Bournou. -- Lownnes I p. 629, Howgego D18 Vol. II.- $3,800
- $3,800
Adventure & A Visit to Nansen: Essays by Ernest Shackleton & Fridtjof Nansen
Whitehouse, JH London: Oxford University Press, 1928. 1st Edition. Adventure by Ernest Shackleton & A Visit to Nansen. 8vo, 22.7cm, [2], 23pp [5]. In Near Fine publishers green cloth backed boards with green cloth back strip, upper cover and spine with publishers paper labels lettered in black, two portrait front pieces. Uncut page edges. Near Fine condition internally with tight un-cracked hinges and no prior ownership markings. Scarce. This unique copy is signed by JH Whitehouse on a private library label inside the front cover. Spence 1255; Taurus 132; Renard 1691; Rosove 1343. The significance and importance of this publication to Antarctic exploration lies in the article by Ernest Shackleton entitled Adventure where he describes the spirit that moved him to explore. A well-written and interesting pair of essays by two of the most notable and accomplished polar explorers in the 19th and 20th centuries.- $450
- $450
Journal of a Tour in the Levant
Turner, William Esq. London: John Murray, 1820. First Edition. Complete in 3 volumes. 8vo 22.7cm. 22 engraved plates of which 6 are hand-coloured aquatints - 2 of which are fold-out panoramas and one being a double-sided facsimile, 2 fold-out engraved maps, illustrations in text. All half-titles and coloured frontis piece plates are present. Volume I: [xxiii], (2), 408pp. (1); Volume II: [vi], (1), 608pp - incl. Appendix; Volume III: [vi], (1), 546pp incl. Index, (1-Errata), (1). Later half burgundy morocco with marbled boards and matching marbled end leaves, top page edges gilt, spines with five compartments ruled in gilt with bright gilt titles. Bound by Worsford. A very attractive set inside and out. Near Fine+ and complete. Scarce. First edition of this important work, which contains the accounts of several journeys, not consecutive. Turner spent five years in the Levant with this being a fascinating record of the Levant in the early nineteenth century. Turner's travels, while he was attached to the British embassy at Constantinople, took him to Egypt, the Holy Land, Albania, Greece and numerous Greek islands, as well as Turkey. The plates show costumes and antiquities, as well as views of Smyrna, Patmos and Pergamus. Atabey 1251, Blackmer 1687, Weber 94.- $7,500
- $7,500
Topography of Troy, and Its Vicinity Illustrated and Explained by Drawings and Descriptions. Dedicated by Permission, to her Grace The Duchess of Devonshire.
Gell, William Inscribed and Signed by Lord Byron. London: C. Whittingham, for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804. First Edition. Folio 43.5cm. (iv), 124 pp. Title leaf with hand-coloured engraved vignette, dedication leaf, 28 hand-coloured plates including 3 fold-out plates and 2 hand coloured maps, 13 engravings in the text, all but 2 coloured -- the entire sequence numbered 1--45, one unnumbered plate at page 21. ¾ tan calf with red morocco spine label and bright gilt decorations on spine. A lovely and complete copy in Near Fine Condition. Rare. The production of this very handsome folio was intended to provide accurate illustrations of the scenery covering the whole region of Troy. William Gell visited the Troy in December, 1801 during his first trip to Greece. He used a camera lucida (an instrument in which rays of light are reflected by a prism to produce on a sheet of paper an image, from which a drawing can be made) to produce in a very short time extremely accurate small-scale sketches of vast landscapes and scenes. The final production of this very handsome folio with its forty-five plates was meant to supply accurate illustrations of the scenery covering the whole region of Troy. This is a very impressive publication. Travel, 399. Blackmer Library 660. Certainly the most beautiful book on Troy ever printed --A.K. Lascarides, The Search for Troy, 1553-1874, 1977 Inscribed and Signed by Lord Byron on the verso of the second blank front free leaf reading: Sir William Gells Topography of Troy cannot fail to insure the appreciation of every man possessed of a classical taste as well for the information. Sir W. conveys to the mind of the reader as for the ability & research the works display. Ld. Byron- $7,000
- $7,000