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London: T. Cotes for William Cooke, 1638. First edition in English. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. (134),327pp. Engraved frontispiece of Gildas by William Marshall. First edition in English, translated from the Latin by Thomas Habington. Early handwritten notes on the front blanks. Bookplate. Nicely bound in full brown morocco, spine in six compartments, tooled in blind and with the title in gilt; boards intricately tooled in blind. Marbled endpapers. Title page, frontispiece and preliminary blank remargined (no loss). Some contemporary names and notes mostly on the beginning and ending blanks. A fine copy. Gildas provides some of the earliest commentary on the war effort associated with King Arthur. The first edition of the original Latin was pubished as Opus de Calimitate, Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae in 1525. STC 11895. Potthast, I, 525. Sarton I, 455. Lowndes, p. 790. ESTC S103163.
The Royall Game of Chesse-Play, Sometimes the Recreation of the late King, with many of the Nobility. Illustrated with almost an Hundred Gambetts. Being the Study of Biochimo the Famous Italian by (Greco, Giochino) - 1656
by (Greco, Giochino)
The Royall Game of Chesse-Play, Sometimes the Recreation of the late King, with many of the Nobility. Illustrated with almost an Hundred Gambetts. Being the Study of Biochimo the Famous Italian
by (Greco, Giochino)
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London: Printed for Henry Harriman, 1656. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. (14),120,(2). Plate of chessboard present. Contemporary sheep, blind rules on the boards. Light dampstain across the top, the leather cracked and rubbed, especially at the spine, lacking the preliminary blank and the portrait of the King, else a very good copy. Makes one wonder if the portrait of Charles II was deliberately destroyed.
A translation by Francis Beale of Trattato del Nobilissimo Giuco degli Scacchi by Giachino Greco and consists of 94 chess gambits. Contains the first documented use of 'castle' as a chess verb, according to the OED.
ESTC R23418; Wing G1810.
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The Epistle of Gildas, the Most Ancient British Author: Who Flourished in the Yeere of our Lord, 546. ..
by Gildas
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Lawrence of Arabia
by Liddell Hart, Capt. B. H., and Sir Ronald Storrs
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London: The Corvinus Press, 1936. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Finely printed on Barcham Green "Medway" handmade paper. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe cloth spine, gilt title, handmade paper over boards with the Corvinus device block in gilt on the upper board. A fine copy. In the original strange glassine cover with paper flaps and in the publisher's nondescript slipcase. The book is in fine condition. The glassine has some splits and is a bit shorter than the book, its paper flaps with some foxing. The card slipcase is worn, especially at the top and bottom ends. One of 70 copies from a total edition of 128 copies. This is number 98 and is signed by both authors. Prints the authors' speeches made at a luncheon in memory of Lawrence about a month after his death. O'Brien E101. .
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The United States Chess Championship, 1985-1996
by Soltis, Andy, and Gene H. McCormick
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Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 1997. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Maroon cloth, silver titles on the spine and upper board. A fine copy. First published in 1986, this edition brings the narrative to 1996. Signed on the front endpapers by 22 chess masters, players and interested people, of which we have deciphered 18: Larry Cristiansen, Robert B Farmer (?), Jennie Franklakh, Esther Epstein, Vladimir (?) Samarov, Sharon Ellen Furtman, Alex Shabalov, Alrick Man, Irina Krush, (Boris) Gulka, Walter Browne, Joel Benjamin, John Fedorowicz, Gabriel Schwartzman, Dimitry Gurevich, Yasser Seirawan, Gregory Kaidonov and Carol Jarecki, .
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Morte Darthur Portfolio: Reproductions of Eleven Designs Omitted from the First Edition of Le Morte Darthur Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley ..
by Malory, Sir Thomas; Aubrey Beardsley
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London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Thin 4to. One of 300 copies on handmade paper, this is copy No, 76. Leather spine, gilt; vellum boards,the upper board tooled in gilt with Beardsley's iconic water lily design. A publisher's note is followed by a note on the designs by R. A. Walker, and note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance. The eleven omitted designs are followed by a reproduction of the Merlin illustration as well as a sketch for an unused cover design and the cover design used for the issued parts. Thus there are 14 designs in all. This is a near fine copy with only a trace of soil, a few tiny pinholes in the hinges, and some yawning of the boards. and free of the foxing that dogs this title. Scarce thus. The illustrations have offset to the facing pages as usual. Gaines, A14 c.1.b.
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A Civil and Natural History of California, Containing an Accurate Description of that Country..... Translated from the Original Spanish of Miguel Venegas...
by Venegas, Miguel
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London: James Rivington and James Fletcher, 17571759. First edition in English. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 8vo. (20),455 (8),387pp. Folding map of California in volume I; 4 copperplates (including frontispieces) each with two images, for a total of 8 images. Full speckled calf, nicely rebacked at an early date, retaining the original lettering labels. Light wear especially to the corners, the map with two closed marginal tears not affecting the image, else a very good set. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Joseph Copley, Bart, as well as small circular leather bookplate of 'CFH'. This is the first translation into English (or any other language) of Father Venegas' 'Noticia de la California', published in 1757 in Madrid (contrary to the 1858 date found on the title page of this edition.) Venegas' manuscript was written between 1734 and 1739. It went unpublished because the Spanish Crown did not want details of New Spain disseminated. But eventually another Jesuit, Padre Burriel, edited the…
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Theatre Catalog 1945
by Miller, Herbert J., ed
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Philadelphia: Jay Emanuel Publications, Inc, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. xx, 583pp. Maroon textured cloth, gilt. Table of Contents includes The War Years and Post-War Forecasts, Design and Construction with an article by Frank Lloyd Wright, Equipment, Management, Television. Post-War theatre plans include theatres in California and Hawaii (plus designs by S. Charles Lee),and proposals for drive-in theatres, and theatres using television as the projection medium. And a proposal to introduce popcorn as a revenue source. Fully illustrated with photos, drawings, blueprints, inserts and fold-outs. Light wear, wear and and aging to the gilt, else this is in very good condition.
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The Compleat Angler; The Lives of Donne; Wooton Hooker Herbert & Sanderson..
by Walton, Izaak
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Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrations by Thomas Poulton and Charles Sigrist.. 8vo. (6),x,631,(5) pp. plus 6 inserts. Full morocco. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt spine title. Gilt "I.W." within oval frame on the upper board. Inner dentelles wit simple gilt lines, Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt in the rough, Six copperplate engravings and ten line block drawings. One of 1600 numbered copies, This is no. 667. This is a near fine copy, with only traces of wear. While most copies of this title exhibit a sunned and/or darkened spine, this copy is neither sunned nor darkened. Bookplate of Carlos Nestler on the front pastedown. In publisher's marbled paper slipcase which exhibits wear at the corner and edges. Nonesuch Bibliography,. 61.
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Navaho Weaving
by Amsden, Charles Avery
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Santa Ana, CA: Fine Arts Press, 1934. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo, [ii], xviii-[xx], 261 pp.; 127 plates, 7 colored including the large folding frontispiece with coloring by Tom Lea. Map endpapers. Maps and illustrations in text. Light wear to the edges and inner hinges else a near fine copy. Part I describes the types of looms and their mechanics, the weaves, dyes, and types and uses of Navajo textiles. Part II describes the history of weaving in the Navaho culture. Howes A-225. .
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Capital, a Critique of Political Economy:The Process of Capitalist Production; The Process of Circulation of Capital; The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
by Marx, Karl, and Frederick Engels
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Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1933. Early U. S. Editions. Hardcover. Very good. Three volumes, 8vo. Red cloth blocked in gilt on the spines. Volume I is the 1909 printing; Volume II is the 1933 printing; and Volume II is the 1909 first printing. Inner hinges of volume I neatly repaired; spine of Volume III is rubbed in places, else this is a very good set. The Kerr edition is the first US edition of Marx's complete three volume work usually known by its German title, Das Kapital. Only the first volume was published in Marx's lifetime; it appeared in the US in 1890. Engels completed the work using Marx's notes and published them in Germany in 1885 and 1894 respectively. This American issue was translated from the third German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (Vol. I), from the second German edition by Ernest Untermann (Vol II), and from the first German edition by Untermann (Vol III). A PMM selection. .
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Powder River Invasion: War on the Rustlers in 1892
by Mercer. A. S, Rewritten by John Mercer Boots
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n.p. (Los Angeles): n.p., 1923. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 146pp.. Blue cloth, gilt title on the upper board. Light wear and soil. stain in front endpaper gutter, 1931 clipping pasted to front pastedown recounting the 1931 death of Edward Towne, a Cheyenne newspaperman, who in 1892, accompanied as a staff correspondent a group of stockmen and Texas gunmen into Johnson county to end cattle rustling. Previous owner name and address on front free endpaper in pencil. First issued by A. S. Mercer in 1894, the edition was mostly burned by "interested authorities". CFondisered the basic authority of the Johnson County War. HOwes, M-522; Six-Guns, 1478; Herd 1474; Grafg 2750.o .
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