Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser - 1900

Extra-illustrated with signed Walpole pension document dated August 1791; Dark blue crushed morocco; 5 raised bands; gilt inner dentilles; red moire pastedown and fly by Pfister. ; 8vo ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

A rare and beautiful copy of Orthodox Evangelion with luxury purple velvet binding with brass clasps and corner and center ornaments. Woodcut printed text and hand-colored illustrations. The book contains multiple hand inscriptions that are only partially legible.The pencil inscription on the front flyleaf contains references to Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, as well as the years: 1911 and 1914. It is possible that the text in some way refers to the Bosnian crisis which served as a prelude to WWI. But, since we have not been able to translate the entire text, we cannot be certain of the context. In the Romanian language, in old Cyrillic script.Pp. /6/ + 344 (Cyrillic numeration); 4 hand colored illustrations, vignettes; initials.Size: 31.2 x 21 cm.Binding: Luxury purple velvet binding with two brass clasps and brass decorations on the covers. Renewed leather spine and renewed endpapers. The front cover was damaged along the edges, with stains and candle wax. Metal decorations… Read More

D' après des documents inédits. Tome premier: xviii+276 pp. Tome second: 392 pp. 25,2x16,5 cm. Chez Jules Renouard et Cie, Libraires, Paris, 1854.
Mixtes techniques d'illustration. Un des premiers livres illustrés par la photographie, contenant deux calotypes sur papier fin monté. Il contient 7 pp. de fac-similé reproduisant une description d'Athènes par un anonyme vers 1460 + 24 gravures h.t. et quelques dans le texte, sur bois, cuivre ou lithographiées, dont plusieurs repliées, avec une eau-forte originale de Ch. Méryon représentant le couvent des Capucines à Athènes, spécialement gravée pour cet ouvrage.
--- Half-leather (private binding, morocco leather), marbled endpapers. Light edgewear. Occasianal foxing. Tight binding, original paper covers are included. Pages clean of underlinings or notes. Very impressive engravings, a rare edition. (More photos are available)
--- Simon Joseph Léon Emmanuel, Marquis de Laborde (1807-1869) was a French archaeologist and politician. At the… Read More

Beautifully signature-bound in publisher's raw tan linen; front board & spine decoratively lettered; decorative endpapers. Generally, a very good or better set with signature satiric & anarchistic illustrations. One of the most important illustrated radical periodicals. Artists include but are not limited to: A. Roubille, Gustave-Henri Jossot, Konrad-Wagner, Valery Muller, Hermann-Paul, Leonetto Cappiello, Jules Cheret, Juan Gris, Jules-Alexandre Grun, Jossot, Frantisek Kupka, Paul Iribe, Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Orazi, Adrien Barrere, Poulbot, H. G. Ibels, Kees van Dongen, Armand Gallo, Ricardo Flores, and many others. Being a periodical that did not shy away from less attractive topics, they covered such topics as crime, economy, leisure and travel, politics, current events, international relations, religion, health and even the Press itself. Color and black and white illustrations copiously throughout. Vol. 1, 2, and 9: front board and spine are beginning to detach but are still sturdy. 10 1/4… Read More

Bruxelles, 1724. Leather bound. Christophe Butkens - Trophées tant sacrés que profanes du Duché de Brabant, contenant l\'origine, succession & descendance des Ducs & Princes de cette maison, avec leurs actions les plus signalées Ensemble les généalogies de plusieurs Ducs, Princes, Comtes, Barons, Seigneurs, & Nobles leurs Vassaux & Sujets La description des villes, franchises & Baronnies du Brabant, avec la succession généalogique des Seigneurs qui les ont possedé La suite des Ducs de Limbourg & Luxembourg, Comtes de Dalhem, & Sires de Fauquemont Avec un recueil de plusieurs terres de remarque, situées hors du Duché de Brabant, toutefois mouvantes d\'icelle L\'institution du conseil souverain du Brabant, et autres cours résidentes à Bruxelles - 1 Tom I: 672 pp,235 pp - 1724, 2 Tom II: 572 pp - 1724, 3 Tom III: supplément: 444 pp, 33 pp, 508 pp - 1726 ( our ref 7A)

Hardcover. Original blue cloth, faded and worn; enclosed in blue cloth box. New Directions (New York, James Laughlin 1949). New (Offset) Edition. Gallup A27B. Presentation copy inscribed from Pound to a literary critic. "Mr. . . . Aug. 56 Ezra Pound." With the recipient's notes in the text. A nice copy.

Vol I: 799p, 31 pl. [i]; Vol. II: 799p, 60 pl. Pp 594-600 tear into text without loss; Vol III: 806p, 20pl.; Vol IV. 793p, 26 pl.; Vol V: 807p, 24 pl.; Vol VI: 794p, 22 pl.; Vol VII: 797p, 38 pl. Neatsfoot oil stained pages,; Vol VIII: 800p, 18 pl.; Vol IX: 800p, 31 pl. lacking plate 260; Vol X: 788p, 22 pl.; Vol XI:814p, 19 pl. Several neatsfoot oil stained pages, plate 299 bound in Vol XII on page 78; Vol XII: 799p, 35 pl.; Vol XIII: 799p, 32 pl.Deep neatsfoot oil stains to fore edge, ; Vol XIV: 797p, 16 pl.Initial and last pages with neatsfoot oil stains ; Vol XV: 799p, 41 pl. Several pages detached but present; plates 433-434 bound in Vol XVI; Vol XVI: 799p, 12 pl.; Vol XVII: 827p, 37 pl.Several pages detached but present,; Vol XVIII: 945p, 59 pl. 486 placed at end. Despite internal oddities, a handsome set in the original sturdy calf. Sabin 22555

1588 HUGE FOLIOS Pope Gregory Catholic Church Sacraments Miracles Vatican Sixtus

"There are some so restless that when they are free from labour they labour all the more, because the leisure they have for thought, the worse interior turmoil they have to bear."
― Gregory the Great

Pope Gregory I was one of the most important figures of the establishment and growth of the Catholic Church. He wrote several important works on his views of the church, sacraments, purgatory and heaven, antichrist, miracles, heresies, and much more. His book 'Regula Pastoralis' or 'Pastoral Care', is a work clearly explaining and describing the responsibilities of the clergy. It is often considered the most influential and important work written on the topic of the role of preachers and ecclesiastical fathers.

This impressive 16th-century edition of the works of Pope Gregory was published at the Vatican in 1588 during the papacy of Sixtus V.

Item number: #8788
Price: $3500
GREGORY I, Pope
Sancti Gregorii Magni Papae… Read More

Small 8vo. Bound in contemporary vellum. Printed by Jean Antoine Huguetan, Lyons 1638. (Colophon at end dated 1627; printing privilege dated 1626.) Second Edition of this comprehensive treatise on geomancy.Illustrated with numerous diagrams, schematic woodcuts and tables in text, as well as 10 plates, 1 of which is an engraved single-page plate, while the other 9 are fold-out woodcut diagrams or letterpress tables, some bound to face each other; plus large engraved printer's device with an armillary sphere on title-page; a few decorative woodcut head-pieces and initials.The Opus Geomantiae Completum "is divided into three parts devoted respectively to the theory, practice and questions taken from previous authors. The theory is largely astrological. Instead of jotting down four rows of dots at random, a wheel with sixteen projections is spun or whirled in order to obtain one of the sixteen geomantic figures. Fludd is cited more than once, also Arabic authors like Geber and Aomar, medieval Latins like… Read More

1691 ENGLISH 1ed Essays Thomas Pope Blount Philosophy Education Humanism Deism
Sir Thomas Pope Blount was a 17th-century was an English author known for his essays and collection biographical sketches and bibliographical repertoire lists. One of Blount's many works was his collection of essays, published under the title "Essays on Several Subjects". In these essays, Blount writes on good and effective education, on the interests of priests, being 'slaved' to the opinions of the ancients, on humane knowledge, and much more.
Item number: #22666
Price: $2500
BLOUNT, Thomas Pope
Essays on several subjects
London: printed for Richard Bently, 1691. First edition.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [6], 179, [1]
· References: Wing B 3348
· Provenance: Armorial bookplate – Sr. Richard Grosvenor
o Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor (1731–1802), known as Sir Richard Grosvenor, 7th Baronet was a British peer, racehorse owner and art collector. He is remembered for his shifting allegiances… Read More