Titles starting with D from Michael Sharpe Rare & Antiquarian Books

Paris: L. Curmer, 1856. First (and only) edition. Quarto. [10], [xviii], [402], xiv pp. This volume contains the preface and is printed entirely in lush colors, with each page being surrounded by elaborate borders taken from medieval illuminated manuscripts, no two pages being the same. Many pages with miniatures. [Together With:] [SAINT THOMAS Ë KEMPIS, Association]. Appendice a LÕImitation de Jesus-Christ. Paris: L. Curmer, 1858. First (and only) edition. Quarto.... more information

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Rome: Lazzarini, 1797. First edition. Large Paper Copy. Folio (430 x 280 mm.). vii, xl, 266, [1] pp. With engraved title vignette, three headpieces (including a portrait of Pope Pius VI, the dedicatee), seven intertextual illustrations and eight folding plates by Roncalli and Antonini. Period-style full brown calf with blind-stamped borders, brown morocco gilt spine label, brown endpapers. Scattered light foxing. Previous owner's stamp to blank upper margin of title page. A very tall and clean copy.
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1930. One of 1500 copies signed by designer T. M. Cleland. Two small folio volumes. Publisher's terra-cotta cloth with black gilt spine labels. Original glassines present. Original slipcase lacking rear panel. Very clean and tight. ... more information

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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1918. First edition, limited. large quarto with 580 illustrations and twenty-seven full page color plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering, textile design in red and gilt in gilt enclosed panel on front. Some rubbing to extremities (no fraying though) and small mark to lower spine. A study and well preserved copy of this luxurious book. ... more information

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Tokyo: Toppan Printing, 1949. First edition of the author's first book. One of 1200 numbered copies, signed by Van Gulik. Octavo. xiii, [1], 237, [1] pp. Illustrated. Publisher's colorful pictorial boards with red cover and spine lettering (the front cover has a depiction of a panel of Chinese judges officiating over a nude woman who appears to be in a torture device and rear cover bears Chinese kanji). In the original plain dust jacket. The previous owner has affixed his bookplate to the front fre... more information

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Venice: Giunti, 1563. First edition of Volume II, third editions of Volumes I and III . Three folio volumes (11 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches; 300 x 210 mm.). [iv], 34, 394 [i.e. 395]; [vi], 28, 155, [1, colophon]; [vi], 36, 430 leaves. Complete with all ten double-page maps, numerous full page maps and plans, intertextual woodcut engravings and historiated initials throughout.Nineteenth-century binding incorporating very early antiphonal leaves (lined in red and decorated with gold and blue initials; and t... more information

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Brussels: Chez B. Le Franq, 1793. Second edition. Two octavo volumes. [2], 258, 119 [appendix], [1]; [2], 436 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Louis XVI in volume I and another of Louis XVII in the second. Engraved folding plan of Paris in Vol I. Contemporary past-paper boards, newer calf spines with gilt lettering labels. Some edge and corner wear. A contemporary scholar has inserted a holograph note concerning the frontispiece in each volume. Overall, a very good copy. ... more information

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Paris: Chez la Veuve Delaulne, 1730. An early edition of this indispensable guide book. Complete in eight twelvemo volumes. Title pages printed in red and black, Engraved frontispiece in first volume, Illustrated throughout with sixty-three fold-out maps and full page plates of important destinations. Contemporary French calf, spines densely gilt in compartments and with burgundy gilt morocco labels, marbled endpapers, edges stained red. In volume V the contents of pp. 39/40 have been deliberately excised... 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: P. G. Le Mercier, 1740. First and only edition of probably the single most famous fete book. Large folio (24 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches). [2, title], 22 pp. plus all thirteen full page engravings (of which are are double page) by Blondel after designs by Blondel, Gabriel, Salley, Rousset and Servandoni. Engraved vignette on title page and first leaf of text.Contemporary French full red morocco, gilt rolled borders to the covers with corner devices of fleur-de-lys, large gilt crest of the City of ... more information

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[San Francisco], ca. 1920. First edition. Octavo. 76 pp. Publisher's soft and flexible paisley cloth. Original glassine with printed title (some tears but text still present). A very clean and attractive copy. ... more information

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Paris: Bibliotheque de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, J. Rouam & Co. , n.d circa 1890. Two volumes. Quarto. 144, 144 pages. 164 gravures, 150 gravures. Finely bound in publisher's deluxe full brown morocco, gilt lettered in compartments, covers decoratively stamped in blind. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to joints else a fine set. Copiously illustrated. ... more information

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New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World [Jovanovich later eds], 1966-1980. First editions of all seven volumes. Octavos. Publisher's cloth with original dust jackets. Minor wear to jacket extremities. Overall, a very good set.This set belonged to an employee of A Different Light Books bookshop, a gay and lesbian bookshop active in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles in the 80s and was a friend of Rupert Pole, Anais Nin's "West-Coast husband". Mr. Pole, who was trained as an act... more information

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Paris: Briasson, 1753. First edition. Quarto (280 x 190 mm.). [4], 102, [2]. 107, [1] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title page. Contemporary French cat's-paw calf, spine compartments gilt, beige morocco gilt spine label, marbled endpapers, edges stained red. Old oil [?] stain to cover else a beautiful copy of this rare title.First edition of an eighteenth-century bibliography of anatomy which has escaped the notice of bibliographers from Peignot to Garrison-Morton. There is a copy in th... more information

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Edinburgh: Printed for R Buchanan, 1825. Third edition. Twelvemo. 180 pp. Uncut in publisher's printed boards. Spine split and boards with residue of old tape repair but a very clean copy of this fragile and scarce publication."The Dictionary of Love made its British debut in 1753, twelve years after Jean Franois Dreux du Radier's Dictionnaire de l'amour appeared on French bookshelves. Publisher Ralph Griffiths put a two-shilling price tag on the "pocket-size[d]" ... more information

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Graz: Akademische Druck, 1995-96. Facsimile edition; one of 980 numbered copies. Two volumes. The first being a facsimile in outstanding colors of the nine folio leaves of Pierpont Morgan manuscript 240. Bound in flexible parchment with gilt cover lettering and housed in a matching clamshell case. The second is an octavo volume of commentary by Hans-Walter Stork and it is bound to match the facsimile. Fine."Among the most fascinating creations of Gothic illumination are the manuscripts of t... more information

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Paris: Selon la copie imprimŽe ˆ Paris, 1649. Small octavo. 201, [1] pp. Nineteenth century quarter brown morocco over marbled boards , gilt spine lettering and decorations,marbled endpapers. Some very old notes (perhaps contemporary with the printing) concerning the book on the front endpaper (in French). Overall, a very good copy'"Modeled satirically on a Latin ÒSaintÕs lifeÓ or legenda, the Discours Merveilleux purports to expose the devious and perverse... more information

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Oxford: Clarendon Press , 1955 . First edition. Folio. With several intertextual illustrations and 37 photographic plates of the Dead Sea Scroll fragments from Cave I.Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Original printed paper jacket. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Jacket slightly soiled and with a few stains. A one-inch tear along the foldline where the spine panel meets the rear panel. Some very tiny bits of loss to lower spine panel, as well as where the lower flaps m... more information

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Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1880. First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of Bunnell, folding map of Yosemite, 331, [1] pp. With nineteen illustrations of the Valley (most full page). Publisher's plum cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt, chocolate endpapers. Aside from extremely minor extremity wear and a contemporary owner's signature on the front endpaper (small and discreet), an excellent copy."It is probable that the Walker party saw Yosemite Valley from its rim in 1... 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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