Titles starting with J from Michael Sharpe Rare & Antiquarian Books

London: Victor Gollancz, 1936. First edition. Octavo. Quarter blue morocco over blue boards, spine lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands. Some toning. Overall a very good copy. ... more information

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San Francisco: David Magee, 1965. First edition in this format. One of 365 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Folio. 32 pp. text booklet & folder of twelve collotype facsimile plates (11 charts & a title-page), several folding. Two volumes. 15 x 11 & 18 x 12 , wrappers, both housed in drop-back linen box with gilt-lettered black morocco spine label. Excellent reproductions of the charts which brought to Cook the first notice of his Naval superiors, and led to his being chose... more information

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San Francisco, California: The Greenwood Press , 1954. First edition. Limited to 350 copies. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. Paper-covered cinnamon boards, printed paper label, goat parchment spine stamped in gilt. Original mylar jacket chipped and wrinkled. ... more information

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Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1902. First edition. Two small octavo volumes with fifty photoengraved views of Japan. Publisher's red cloth, covers highly gilt in a Japanese motif (cranes on covers, chrysanthemums on spines, etc.), gilt spine lettering, top edges gilt. Publisher's red cloth chemises and original red cloth slipcase with paper spine label (label faded). Some offsetting from chemise flaps to front pastedowns (as always), but a truly beautiful copy and rare with the box and t... more information

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Tokyo: Domoto, Kumagawa and Perkins, 1939. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the publisher, Mr. Kaji, and signed by the author. Quarto (11 x 9 inches). [xiv], 302 pp. plus numerous full page photographic illustrations and plans of Japanese gardens. English text, printed on mulberry paper. Publisher's binding in the Japanese manner of green silk boards held by purple string ties, lettered in English on front in gilt and in Japanese on paper cover label. Original printed card slipcase (some wear and... more information

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Seattle: Dogwood Press, 1936. First edition. One of 700 numbered copies. Octavo with four pages of manuscript facsimile and black and green frontispice portrait. Publisher's tan cloth with black spine lettering. Original slipcase. Fine. ... more information

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New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1923. One of 510 copies designed by Bruce Rogers. Small octavo. Publisher's blind stamped black cloth with gilt spine lettering. In the original black slipcase with printed paper cover label. From the library of Los Angeles bibliophile Arthur Ellis (with his wife's bookplate). Very good. ... more information

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New York: Vangard Press, 1930. First edition. One of 210 numbered copies, signed by Held. Tall octavo. 124 pp. with numerous Held dog illustrations (many full page). Partially unopened. Publisher's gold buckram with gilt spine lettering and gilt-stamped oval on the front bearing a likeness of a dog, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. Original salmon and gold slipcase (some wear but sturdy still). A very good copy. ... more information

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Lonon: [Printed by] G. Woodfall, 1811. First edition, privately printed. Octavo. 39, [1, blank] pp. One folding table.Unbound, in a red cloth chemise. A fine copy of this very rare and pamphlet.In contrast to the more lyrical narratives on ballooning which had been published up to this point, this privately printed account of an early balloon ascent provides detailed scientific observations of the voyage. Beaufoy took readings with a watch, barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, electromet... more information

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San Francisco: Colt Press, 1947. One of 500 copies. Tall octavo with seven color plates by Mallette Dean. Publisher's quarter cram cloth over decorative boards, printed paper spine label. An excellent copy ... more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1863. First edition, first issue with "about" repeated on line 6, page 314. 337 [1] + 10 pages ads. Original embossed purple cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Yellow endpapers. Covers faded, particularly the spine, corners bumped a bit, mild foxing to terminal leaves, pencil drawing of a rose on rear blank, else very good copy. Howes K-70. ... more information

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London: Printed for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773. First edition. Quarto (13 5/8 x 10 7/8 inches; 348 x 278 mm). xxiii, [1], 212, [2, errata] pp. Engraved frontispiece and twenty-six engraved plates, including one map, all after Sydney Parkinson. Contemporary marbled boards, expertly rebacked with chocolate morocco spine, recornered in morocco, gilt lettered leather label on spine. Offsetting from a few of the plates. Rear endpaper creased. Darkening to very top right corner of front endpaper (offse... more information

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San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. One of 550 copies. xxvii, [1], 134, [9, notes], [1 colophon] pp. Initials in red and line drawings by Arvilla Parker. Publisher's tan cloth with red spine lettering. A very good copy."Francisco V‡squez de Coronado (ca. 1510 Ð September 22, 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and Governor of New Galicia, Mexico who between 1540-1542 visited New Mexico and other parts of the southwest of what is now the United States. He was born in Salamanca,... more information

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London: The Haymarket Press, 1928. First edition limited, one of 100 copies signed by Flint. Small quarto. Limp vellum titled in gilt, string ties. xvii [i], 49 [1] pages. Four tipped-in color plates by William Russell Flint. In original slipcase. Some soiling to vellum covers as usual, else a fine copy in a good slipcase with splitting and some paper loss. Arresting images by Flint. ... more information

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London: The Haymarket Press, 1928. First edition. One of 875 numbered copies. Thin quarto. Forty-nine [1] pages. Four mounted colour plates by William Russell Flint. Ivory paper-covered boards ruled and titled in gilt. In original yellow dust jacket lettered in black. A very good copy in very good dust jacket with some edgewear and soiling. Still, a bright very attractive copy in the rare dust jacket. ... more information

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