Authors starting with L from Michael Sharpe Rare & Antiquarian Books

[Paris]: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1790. First edition. Two parts in one volume (complete and continuously paginated). 172 pp. Printed entirely in red ink. Recent scarlet cloth with burgundy morocco gilt label. Small half-moon divet out of top margin of title page excised and professionally restored (causing the absence of the 'L' in 'Le'). A very good copy.This book was issued under the guise a government publication, but was really published to embarrass Louis XVI and finance ... more information

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Washington, D.C.: National Areonautics and Space Administration, 1964. First edition. Folio (14 x 10 3/4 inches). Complete with all 199 full page photographic illustrations plus numerous charts and other illustrations. Publisher's blue-green cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering. A very good copy. ... more information

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Paris: Connaissance et MŽmoires, 2004. Facsimile edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Large folio with 122 + 16 plates. Publisher's blind-stamped red cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering. As new.A fine series of picturesque views of French gardens, including Malmaison, Morfontaine, Ermonville, Mereville, Tracy, St. Leu, Raincy and Maupertuis, providing a valuable record of contemporary garden and park design. ... more information

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Paris: Chez Onfroy/Treuttel et Wurtz, 1792-1816. Six twelvemo volumes. Various editions, Illustrated. Contemporary quarter brown calf over blue boards, smooth spines with gilt decoration and red morocco lettering labels. Some cracking to joint extremities but overall a very clean and good copy.First volume, with six etchings after Moreau, is the second edition. Appears to be three sets of two volumes. ... more information

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London: Macmillan and Co., 1884. Six small octavo volumes. Comprising: Poems, Plays, and Miscellaneous Essays (1884); Mrs. Leicester's School, etc. (1885); Tales from Shakespeare (1886); The Essays of Elia (1887); and Letters of Charles Lamb (two volumes, 1888;). Bound by Rivire & Son (stamp-signed on front free endpaper) in tan polished calf. Covers with gilt triple fillet border and gilt corner ornaments, spines elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments with red and brown morocco... more information

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New York: Leo Hart Printing House, 1932. One of 950 copies signed by Wilfred Jones. Octavo. Illustrated in color throughout. Publisher's quarter vellum over boards with red kanji. Publisher's slipcase (with rubbing). A very good and clean copy. ... more information

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London: Goupil & Co., 1900. Limited edition, one of 1500 numbered copies. Folio. 300 [2] pages. Color frontispiece portrait of Prince Charles plus 47 tissue-guarded black and white and sepia plates throughout. Publisher's morocco-backed green linen boards, spine titled in gilt. Top edge gilt. Some scuffing to leather, owner signature to front pastedown, else a very good solid copy. ... more information

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Boston: J.G. Cupples Co., 1890. First edition. Inscribed by author; "N.P. Langford to J.B. Storr." Two octavo volumes. xxvi, 426; xiv, [2], 485, [1], [4, ads] pp. with all fifteen full page illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with bevelled edges, red lettering and pictorial designs to covers, gilt spine and cover lettering, floral-pattern endpapers, top edges gilt, rest uncut. Some light tip and spine end wear. Overall, a very good, inscribed copy. Adams-"One of the... more information

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London: C.W. Daniel, 1920. First edition. Octavo. 96 pp.Original orange thin boards, blue printed paper labels. Printed dust jacket (light edge chips). A little light endpaper browning. A near fine copy of this scarce and fragile book.Roberts A14. ... more information

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London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1939. First edition, first issue (with page 16 mis-numbered). Octavo. xii, [2], 291, [1] pp. With 111 plates of photographic illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Original brown dust jacket that is not price-clipped but with a bit of darkening to spine. An exceptionally clean copy. ... more information

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New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. First American edition. Octavo. xvi, [4], 335, [1] pp. with twenty-four full page illustrations and folding map at rear. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial endpapers. In original buff dust jacket printed in red and black. Red letters on jacket spine somewhat faded and some very small erosion to upper jacket spine, price-clipped. Small Jonathan Cape prospectus for this title laid in. A faultless copy in a very attractive dust jacket. ... more information

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Paris: Goupil & Co., 1900. Limited edition, one of 600 copies. Two volumes. Folio. Extra-illustrated. Color frontispiece, plus many engravings and portraits. Original front wrapper and spine for Catalogue volume bound in rear. Biography volume extra-illustrated.Very finely bound in full dark purple morocco, covers quadruple-ruled in gilt around central framework of gilt scrolling, six spine compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles with wide border of g... more information

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New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First American edition. Two volumes. Octavo. 326 + 32 ads; 373 [1] pages. Illustrated with many plates and intertextual illustrations, folding plans. Large fold-out map in volume two present. Original green cloth ruled and stamped in blind, spines lettered in gilt, front covers with large central gilt Assyrian monument design. Shallow chip to crown of volume two spine, light edgewear, some foxing to plates and pages, inner hinge split in gutter of volume one, else a fresh ... more information

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Paris: Georges Cre's et Cie, 1916. Early edition, Octavo. Marbled end papers. English translation laid in. Half red morocco with marbled boards. Spine tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands. Top edge gilt. A very fine copy. ... more information

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[New York]: [Lee Nordness Galleries], 1970. One of 300 copies. Lithograph, signed by John Lennon, from his infamous Bag One publication. 24 x 32 inches and signed by Lennon in the corner. Printed on Rives paper. Bag One was a suite of lithographs by John Lennon that were put out and exhibited by Lee Nordness Galleries, February 7 through February 28, 1970 in New York City. It is comprised of a series of fourteen original lithographs that were given by John to Yoko Ono as a wedding gift to celebrate their ... more information

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Paris: Perrin, 1905. First edition. One of 160 special copies. Octavo. Illustrated and extra-illustrated with the addition of fifty-three inserted portraits and views, inlaid to sized and placed appropriately. Handsomely bound by the Adams Bindery (gilt-signed on front turn-in) in full pebbled red morocco, owner's monogram on front, gilt paneled, lettered and decorated spine compartments, gilt turn-ns, marbled pink endpapers, top edge gilt, remainder uncut. Some joint wear but a clean and attractive co... more information

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Providence: Printed for the Author, 1873. First edition. Octavo. 40 pp. Uncut and unopened in original printed wrappers (with minimal edge chipping). Clean and excellent.A fine copy of a very scarce Yosemite pamphlet. John Erastus Lester, a Rhode Island lawyer, traveled west in 1872 in hopes of improving his health, visiting Yosemite and other areas. During his visit to Yosemite the author met several pioneers, including John Muir, Galen Clark, James Hutchings, James Lamon, and John Smith (of the... more information

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San Francisco: Colt Press, 1941. First trade edition. Octavo. Publisher's quarter blue cloth over floral patterned paper, printed paper spine label. A very good copy. ... more information

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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937. First edition of this now classic chess text. Quarto. Illustrated. Publisher's black cloth, original untouched dust jacket and original box. A lovely copy. ... more information

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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1965. Limited edition of 1,500 copies signed by illustrator Felix Hoffman (this being #1490). Folio (11 x 7 inches; 280 x 178 mm). xiv, 410, [1, blank], [1, colophon] pp. Title page printed in red and black.Black buckram backstrip over black cloth boards, pictorial centerpiece stamped in blind, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, top edge red. Overall an as-new copy housed in the original red cloth slipcase. ... more information

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