WINSTON CHURCHILL THE WORLD CRISIS by Winston Churchill: 6 volume set full leather Easton

Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1923. FIRST and LIMITED EDITION, one of only 160 copies printed on handmade Fabriano Paper. With 21 plates, three of which are in beautiful full colour, with printed tissue guards. Also with fine engraved ititials and tables throughtout. 4to, publisher’s original half vellum over buff boards with small vellum corner-pieces. 24pp + plates. A very fine copy, near as pristine. SCARCE, LIMITED TO ONLY 160 COPIES. A study of the genealogical tables used to decorate Boccaccio's great mythological work, from manuscripts and the early printed editions. Genealogia deorum gentilium, known in English as On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles, is a mythography or encyclopedic compilation of the tangled family relationships of the classical pantheons of Ancient Greece and Rome, written in Latin prose in circa 1360 by the Italian author and poet Giovanni Boccaccio. The first printed edition was in Venice at the early date of 1472. By 1499, no fewer then eight… Read More

[Imola]: tipografia comunale per Gianbenedetto Filippini, 1811. First edition. A few tiny tears at folds else a fine, untrimmed copy.. Broadside. 49 x 38 cm. Announcing a series of celebrations of the baptism of Napoléon II (1811-1832), known from birth as the King of Rome, son of Napoleon and his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria. Issued in Imola, the original seat of the provisional government of the Cispandane Republic, later merged with the Transpadane Republic, forming the Cisalpine Republic, in turn merged into the new Italian Republic, and then 1805, following Bonaparte's assumption of the title of Emperor of the French, transformed into the Kingdom of Italy, Regno d'Italia, as it is here. After declaring that the people of Imola are second to none in their loyalty to Napoleon, the proclamation notes a series of activities: poems to be read, canon shots and the pealing of bells at dawn, cash prizes to those being married and those who gave birth on the King of Rome's birthday, food for… Read More

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Large 8vo. Original boards, in dust wrapper. London 1966. One of only 25 numbered copies, signed by Olson. Fine.

van onderen beginnende. S.l.n.d., [1787], 9,8 x 17,2 cm, 1 feuillet avec pliures ˆ rabat dissimulant une seconde image. Caricature gravŽe sur cuivre sur le corps libre patriotique (exercitiegenootschap), milice organisŽe ˆ la fin du XVIIIme sicle dans les Provinces Unies. OEuvre du graveur nŽerlandais Hendrik Willem Caspari (1770-1829), mais non signŽe, elle dŽcouvre progressivement en partant du bas un loup appuyŽ sur un b‰ton, derrire un patriote en uniforme brandissant son mousquet. Rare. Trs bien conservŽe.

4to. Modern half-calf over marbled boards, red leather label on spine. London: Printed for W. Nicoll and C. Etherington, 1767. First Edition. With a list of subscribers and a fold-out chart measuring rainfall in England for 1755-66. A fascinating set of contemporary statistics and observations on population patterns, cultural movements, food supply and meteorology in England for three hundred years – well within the life of Shakespeare. Therefore, it gives some implications for society in the time of Shakespeare. It is thought that Malthus may have used some of Short's methodologies; also it is known that Benjamin Franklin read the book. With the bookplate and perforated stamps of the John Crerar Library; minor bowing of the boards; light foxing on initial and final leaves; o/w a Fine Copy.

Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1923. FIRST and LIMITED EDITION, one of only 160 copies printed on handmade Fabriano Paper. With 21 plates, three of which are in beautiful full colour, with printed tissue guards. Also with fine engraved ititials and tables throughtout. 4to, publisher’s original half vellum over buff boards with small vellum corner-pieces. 24pp + plates. A very fine copy, near as pristine. SCARCE, LIMITED TO ONLY 160 COPIES. A study of the genealogical tables used to decorate Boccaccio's great mythological work, from manuscripts and the early printed editions. Genealogia deorum gentilium, known in English as On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles, is a mythography or encyclopedic compilation of the tangled family relationships of the classical pantheons of Ancient Greece and Rome, written in Latin prose in circa 1360 by the Italian author and poet Giovanni Boccaccio. The first printed edition was in Venice at the early date of 1472. By 1499, no fewer then eight… Read More

New York : Scribners, 1920. A First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Pages just slightly toned, else near fine, finely bound in recent full dark green morocco, raised bands with gilt title and decorations on spine. The spine and front board from the original binding bound in at the rear. A very nice copy of this first edition, in a very handsome binding.

van onderen beginnende. S.l.n.d., [1787], 9,8 x 17,2 cm, 1 feuillet avec pliures ˆ rabat dissimulant une seconde image. Caricature gravŽe sur cuivre sur le corps libre patriotique (exercitiegenootschap), milice organisŽe ˆ la fin du XVIIIme sicle dans les Provinces Unies. OEuvre du graveur nŽerlandais Hendrik Willem Caspari (1770-1829), mais non signŽe, elle dŽcouvre progressivement en partant du bas un loup appuyŽ sur un b‰ton, derrire un patriote en uniforme brandissant son mousquet. Rare. Trs bien conservŽe.

RARE VIENNA-PRINTED BREVIARY IN ORANGE VELLUMATTRACTIVELY PRINTED IN RED & BLACK 12mo. 322pp. ("312" in error), attractively printed in red and black throughout, 2 large woodcut designs, numerous large initial letters in red, contemporary orange vellum with narrow yapp fore-edges, lacks ties at fore edges, else a very nice fresh copy. Rare.Contemporary inscription "Monasterij Admonte" on title page.Not located by OCLC. KVK locates only in Österreichischen Landesbibliotheken. Both OCLC and KVK locate a single copy of another edition by the same Vienna printer in 1659."From a bibliographical point of view some of the early printed Breviaries are among the rarest of literary curiosities, being merely local. The copies were not spread far, and were soon worn out by the daily use made of them. Doubtless many editions have perished without leaving a trace of their existence, while others are known by unique copies" [Wikipedia article on the Roman Breviary].Admont Abbey is a Benedictine monastery… Read More

GOTHIC NOVEL IN A PARTICULARLY PRETTY COPYfirst edition 3 vols. 12mo. (iii)-xii, 306; [2 (title leaf)], 316; [2 (title leaf)], 367, [1 (blank)]pp. bound without half-titles, contemporary mauve half calf, smooth spines with two black morocco labels with richly gilt borders, the remainder of the spines blind tooled in a complex lattice pattern, marbled paper on sides, marbled endpapers,scattered light foxing, else a very nice fresh copy in a pretty binding. A particularly attractive copy.Early pencilled signature (before binding) on title page of vol. 3, "C. Vesey Lucan House" and the slightly later signature on early blanks of "W. H. Moore Hodder".St. Clair The Godwins and the Shelleys, p.440 Summers Gothic Bibliography, p. 398 Wolff 2588 Not in SadleirThis gothic novel, a study of madness, took Godwin over eight years to write. "Written like all his novels in the first person the book attempts to show how obsession leads to madness. Godwin sought to trace the breakdown of… Read More