Titles starting with E from Michael Sharpe Rare & Antiquarian Books

Torrance]: Labyrinth Editions, 1980. First illustrated edition. One of 200 copies printed by Richard Bigus on Japanese Masa and Suzuki paper. Signed by Everson and Killion on the colophon. Folio (15 x 10 inches). 58 pp. (bound japanese style) with five Killion illustrations printed directly from the linocuts. Bound Japanese-style in quarter linen over marbled boards with thin leather ties, cover lettering in black. Original matching slipcase. Prospectus laid in. A very good copy. ... more information

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London: Robery Jennings, 1813. First Martyn edition with the color plates. Tall octavo (10 3/4 x 7 inches). 270, [1, plant index], [1], [8, book index and errata] pp. Text in Latin & English. Illustrated with thirty-seven hand-colored copper-engraved plates of plants and flowers mentioned in the Eclogues. Contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments and with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Some minor restoration to head of spine and usual r... more information

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Leipsic, London: Karl Baedeker; Dulau and Co., 1878. First edition. Small octavo. xiv, 527, [1] pp. Sixteen maps, twenty-nine plans, seven views and seventy-six vignettes. Original red cloth lettered in gilt, ruled in blind. All fold-out maps present. Small tear along the stub of the frontispiece color fold-out map, short closed tear to left margin of rear fold-out. Crack in the front hinge, some soiling to covers else a very attractive copy. This 1878 first edition is particularly scarce in the market. ... more information

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Oxford: Emberlin and Son, 1890. First edition. Wrappers and folded card with color lithograph of Alice on front and Cheshire cat on back, inside 12 compartments for stamps ranging in value from 1/2 d to 1s., (this copy with six of the stamp compartments filled in with stamps of appropriate values) with matching slipcase of linen backed paper. Preserved in original pink envelope printed in black. Very light edge wear to the envelope; otherwise a fine set. Housed in a full black morocco clamshell case.&... more information

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Oxford: Emberlin and Son, 1890. First edition. Wrappers and folded card with color lithograph of Alice on front and Cheshire cat on back, inside 12 compartments for stamps ranging in value from 1/2 d to 1s., (this copy with six of the stamp compartments filled in with stamps of appropriate values) with matching slipcase of linen backed paper. Preserved in original pink envelope printed in black. Very light edge wear to the envelope; otherwise a fine set. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell case.... more information

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London: The Saint Catherine Press , 1926. Limited Edition, one of 220 numbered copies. Folio. 319 pages. Edges untrimmed. Mounted color plates. Finely bound in full red morocco, covers triple ruled with star design ruling, gilt titles to spine. In original red slipcase. Few light abrasions to leather else fine copy. Slipcase with some wear. Slipcase reads: "The sum of ten guineas will be given to/Princess Louise's Hospital for Children/Kensington, in respect of every copy of/this volume sold"... more information

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Mexico: Imprenta de Galv‡n, 1834. Rare second edition. Three octavo volumes (6 1/4 x 4 1/8 inches; 158 x 105 mm). 414, [22]; 362, [22]; 351, [15] pp. Volume one with two lithographic plates of place settings, one of which is folding. Original full brown tree sheep, volumes one and three with spines lettered in gilt (volume two binding is not entirely uniform but nevertheless appears to belong to this set). Some wear to board extremities. Hinges starting but holding tight. Some signatures sl... more information

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New York: George P. Putnam; London: Richard Bentley, 1850. First edition. Two twelvemo volumes. xii, 251, [1, blank]; [2], 4, [2], 5-247, [1, blank], 17, 17A-43, [3] pp. With eight tinted lithograph plates.Original green blind-stamped cloth, title stamped in gilt on backstrips. Spines light, minor shelf wear, lower cover of Vol. II with quarter-sized abrasion (with some board visible). Text block of Vol. I at p. 168 split (but holding strong), plates with moderate to heavy foxing, light foxing to... more information

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New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1982. Nine large octavo volumes. Complete. Publisher's red cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering. As new. ... more information

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London: The Two-Horse Press, 1968. First edition. One of 300 copies signed by the artist and printed by the Carters at the Rampant Lion Press. A series of sixty-eight engravings (8 1/2 x 11 inches) printed directly from Mackley's blocks and housed in a terra-cotta paper wrapper. Together with a bound appreciation by Ruari McLean (18 pp.). The whole housed in a brown cloth clamshell case with a printed paper spine label. A fine copy. ... more information

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Bologna: Costantino Pisarro, 1715. First edition. Two volumes in one. Quarto (269 x 186 mm). [16], 143, [1], 179, [1 (blank)]; [4], 373, [1 (blank)] pp., title and some tables printed in red and black, illustration: woodcut device on title-pages, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams, fifteen (of which thirteen are maps) folding engraved plates.[With:]Novissimae ephemerides... tomus I (-II). Ex anno 1726 in annum 1737 (ex anno 1738 in anno 1750). Bologna: Costantino P... more information

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Wittenberg: [Excusa typis Iohannis Schwertelii], 1575. First edition compiled by Johannes Major. Octavo (6 x 3 5/8 inches; 153 x 93 mm). [148] leaves. With a woodcut device (a small portrait of Melanchthon) on title-page. Paste-paper lined boards, manuscript cloth tape label on spine ("Epigrams of Melancthon"). Pictorial bookplate of Ernest Dawson (founder of Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles' oldest bookstore in continuous operation) loose and laid in. Dawson's gift inscript... more information

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Venice: Agostino de Bindoni, 1538. Second Italian edition. Octavo (6 x 4 inches). [1-7] 8-344 pp. A-X8, Y4. Complete. With seventy-eight full page illustrations of palms, a large woodcut illustration on title and woodcut illustration of a teacher on the verso. Printer's device of a bull on the colophon. Contemporary vellum with manuscript spine lettering. Contemporary jottings on front endpaper. Light browning and foxing throughout. Title page a little dust soiled but, overall, a very clean a... 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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London: Printed at the University Press, Cambridge, Published at the Cambridge University Press Warehouse, Fetter Lane, London , 1906. Limited Edition, one of 250 copies on handmade paper. Small quarto. 281 pages. Vellum-backed light green paper-covered boards, printed paper label on front board. Moderate soiling to vellum and boards, presentation inscription on front free endpaper, else attractive. ... more information

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New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1910. Octavo. xxxiii, [1], 375, [1], 4 [ads] pp. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Aside from some very minor bumping to the upper corners, a very good copy.Inscribed by John Muir to his son-in-law Buel A. Funk just a few months after he married Muir's daughter Helen; "To Mr. B. A. Funk with the best wishes of John Muir. Martinez, California, February 6th, 1909".John Muir had two daughters; Wanda (1881-1942) and... more information

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Los Angeles: Jeff Hyland and Charles Lockwood, 1989. Second and preferable edition with enlarged section on Beverly Park. Oblong folio. 162, [8] pp. With photographic illustrations on every page (almost all in color). Publisher's cream colored cloth with light brown cover and spine lettering. In the original pictorial dust jacket. Aside from some very faint foxing to endpapers, a excellent copy ... more information

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New York: Macmillian, 1928. First edition. Octavo. Half green morocco over marbled boards, spine tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Some slight wear to caps and board extremities, else a very good copy. ... more information

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Santa Barbara: John T. Reynolds, 2002. First edition ['Presentation Edition']. One of 25 numbered copies, signed by the editor (John Reynolds), the binder (David Weinstein) and the printer (Patrick Merrill). Folio (12 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches). 72 pp. with ten original etchings (each with a separate sheet of explanatory material, a tissue guard and a reproduction of the plate). The 'Presentation Edition' also contains three tipped-in Borein Christmas cards and an invitation to Edward and Lucill... more information

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Windsor: Knight and Dredge, 1821. First edition. Ten issues of this college magazine bound in two volumes (complete), No. 1 states second edition but it still bears the date of 1821. Title pages with a center engraving of the king of clubs. Contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards, smooth spines with gilt rules and red morocco lettering labels. Some of the marbled paper has come off but a very clean and tight copy."W. M. Praed, while at Eton, edited the ten numbers of The Etonian;... more information

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