Search Results: Authors starting with A from Shapero Rare Books

Paris, Abbé de Sainte-Rose, [1839-]1841-1843. . First edition. 3 volumes, folio (35.7 x 25.9 cm.) 300 fine stipple-engraved plates, partially printed in colour and finished by hand, contemporary navy calf with gilt romantic style decoration, spines gilt in compartments, pink watered silk endpapers, occasional light spotting. a few plates lightly toned. frieze23 An exquisitely bound copy of Berlèse's monograph on the camellia with superb coloured engravings, from the celebrated Fairhaven Library.Abbé Lorenzo Berlèse (1784-1863) was an Italian priest who became fascinated with the camellia plant upon his move to Paris, where he was to be a chaplain. Camellias captured the Western imagination when travellers to Japan and China would return with the so-called 'Japan rose'. It was named camellia by Carl Linneaus, and began to be cultivated successfully and in larger numbers toward the end of the eighteenth century.Berlèse accumulated a significant collection of camellias over twenty years,… Read More

San Francisco, Alan Wofsy Fine Art, 1991. . 4to., Frontispiece, title, xx, 399, [5] pp., 34 plates. Original cloth, dust wrapper, fine. Reprint of the 1952 first edition. "In this Bibliographical Catalogue, the word 'Scenery' is not strictly confined to landscape but includes architecture, and urban and social scenes. I have found it a fascinating subject and a field in which there seem to have been few serious collectors. Many of the illustrations are of real beauty, and the fact that a large number are from books of the greatest rarity and therefore known to few in their original form gives added significance to those which are reproduced in this catalogue. My original idea of recording all books of the period with illustrations printed in aquatint and lithograph printed in two colours has been extended to include examples in which special copies were coloured by hand after printing and, in the case of lithographs, I have included those coloured and even one or two outstanding books containing… Read More

Boston, Bowles and Dearborn, 1829. . First edition. 8vo., xv, 256 pp., original drab boards sometime rebacked with green cloth, boards rubbed and worn, internally clean and fresh. "Abiel Abbot (August 17, 1770 – June 7, 1828) was a prominent clergyman. He was born to John and Abigail Abbot in Andover, Massachusetts, and went on to study at Harvard University. He married Eunice Wales in 1796.He started working as a preacher in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1793, and remained there through 1803, after having been promoted to pastor in 1795. He then moved to Beverly, Massachusetts, and became a pastor there. He remained in that position through the end of his life.In 1828, he travelled to Cuba to recover his health, and died of yellow fever on his way back. He had one book published posthumously, "Letters from Cuba", in 1829.

New York, Columbia University Press, 1940. . First edition with a personalised ALS from Nelson Rockefeller on Rockefeller Center, Inc., headed paper; 4to (279 x 218 mm, 11 x 8½ in); black-and-white photographs printed in relief halftone; illustrated endpapers, green flock-covered boards, brown cloth spine, titles stamped in silver on spine, minor shelfwear, inlaid 'rivet' in silver card on upper side, illustrated dust-jacket printed in silver, spine and edges lightly toned, short tear and crease to bottom edge and crease to top edge of upper panel, an excellent copy; 45, [3]pp. The Last Rivet was produced to celebrate the completion of the Rockefeller Center. It contains photographs by Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Brown Brothers, J. Walker Grimm, Fritz Henle, Wendell Macrae, Newspictures Inc., New York Herald Tribune, Edward Ratcliffe, and Paul J. Woolf. While copies are often accompanied by a standard letter from John D. Rockefeller, this copy has a letter from Nelson Rockefeller… Read More

London, Madden, 1856. . Second edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, inscribed presentation copy, xx, 380; viii, 367 pp., contemporary full green morocco gilt extra, all edges gilt, light rubbing to spines, a fine set. Abbott was an officer in the Bengal Artillery and was sent on a political mission by the British envoy in Harat to the Khan of Khiva at a time when Russian troops were threatening and the Khan had requested British assistance. This is an account of his journey to and stay in Khiva, his capture by robbers on the return journey to Harat, and his ultimate escape. (Ghani). Ghani p2.

2019 . Suite of five relief prints, 2019, on Hahnemühle Aurora paper, signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 35 (there were also 8 artist's proofs), published by PACE NY, 100 x 75 cm. (39¼ x 29½ in.) Nina Chanel Abney was born in Chicago and currently lives and works in New York. Abney is known for her bold use of colours to represent a more violent every day consciousness that people of colour endure due to acts of racial abuse.Her work is included in collections around the world, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Rubell Family Collection, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Burger Collection, Hong Kong. Abney's first solo museum exhibition, Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, curated by Marshall Price, Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, was presented in 2017 at the Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina. It travelled to the Chicago Cultural Center and has been jointly presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the California African American Museum, and… Read More

Moskva, s 2007-go g. . The new leading specialized magazine in Russian, published by academics, collectors and dealers. Richly illustrated, it contains news, useful information for beginners, deeper details on specific editions and authors, portraits of collectors, analysis of the market, reviews of auctions and dealers' catalogues... It aims at quality and professionalism in the best bibliophile tradition and is issued 4 to 5 times a year.The first issue of 2009 was specifically dedicated to Gogol. Bernard Shapero Rare Books is proud to represent 'Pro Knigi - About Books' in the UK and abroad. Every issue is available from us, as well as subscription packages. Please feel free to contact us for any information.

[London], [circa 1784-1944]. . Archive of circa 50 documents including manuscripts, typescripts and printed materials in English and Hebrew, housed in a black oblong folio wallet (32 x 43 cm), MS label to upper panel. A unique insight into the life of a prominent London Jewish family over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The wealth of documents relate primarily to Victor Abraham (d.1848), an embroiderer of military and naval costume, and patriarch of the family. Newspaper clippings, articles of co-partnership, and a fascinating accounts book logging the price of various items of stock – four gold artillery epaulettes could be had for £8/8 in 1813 – attest to an immigrant family's success in building a thriving business in Victorian England.The archive also bears positive witness to the Abraham family's gradual immersion into London's social elite. A letter from Lady Charlotte Albemarle to Hannah Rothschild (1783-1850), the wife of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, dated 14th… Read More

Fano, Hieronymus Soncino, 10 April 1502. . First edition thus; 12mo (16.5 x 11 cm); deleted ink inscription to front free endpaper, Greek marginalia to a2, light dampstaining to terminal leaves, inner hinges reinforced, scattered light spotting; later vellum over boards, MS lettering to spine, light soiling to boards, lower edge rubbed, red speckled edges; collation: a-c8 d4. A collection of, for the most part, previously unpublished Latin poems of Christian interest. This work was the first published by Hieronymus [Gershom] Soncino after a pause of five years following his relocation to Fano, preceding the publication of the first Hebrew book by his press by just nine months. USTC 857787.

1953. . Silver gelatin print. Signed on verso in pencil, edition #8/10, printed on Agfa fiber paper.

London, Heinemann, 1964. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; light spotting to edges and endpapers, text block slightly toned; publisher's dark blue boards, gilt lettering to spine, publisher's device to rear cover in blind, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket, slight edge-wear, front panel slightly rubbed, light spotting and toning to flap edges, else very good. The third book in Achebe's African Trilogy, after Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease. Uncommon thus.

London 1836. . Hand-coloured engraving with aquatint, showing a bustling London street, a fine impression. Dimensions: 435 x 530 mm (17 x 21 inches).

London, R. Ackerman, 1816. . First edition; large 4to (34.5 x 28 cm); 2pp. subscriber's lists, 48 hand-coloured plates (44 aquatint views by Havell, Stadler, Bluck and others after Westall, Mackenzie, Pugin and others, 4 stipple and line engraved costume plates), some slight offsetting, green silk endpapers, a.e.g.; finely bound in orange morocco, doublures with green silk, boards gilt ruled with floral detail to corners, spine in six parts with raised bands, a little faded, gilt title and tooling, an excellent copy. This was the fifth of Ackermann's 'sumptuously illustrated volumes of English topography'. The finest pictorial record of the nine most famous schools in England, the artists include Pugin, Nash and Westall while the engraving was carried out by such masters of aquatint as Stadler, Bluck, Havell among others. The plates are chiefly of interior views with illustrations of gowned scholars. (Adams) Adams 116; Abbey Scenery 438; Tooley p6; Prideaux p126; Martin-Hardie pp106-7.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1985. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's brown boards, titles to spine gilt, with the dust jacket. Page stock browned as usual, spine just a touch rolled but a near-fine copy in the dust jacket with some sunning at the spine. In many ways Ackroyd's best book (though London remains my favourite!)

[London], [Charles Bill], [1702]. . Folio (27.5 x 17.5 cm); woodcut headpiece and initial, black letter; single leaf from 'Anno Regni Annæ Reginæ Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, primo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the thirtieth day of December... 1701' (acts of Parliament for the last year of the reign of William III, and the first year of Anne); unbound; 453-454pp. An act of Parliament 'To the end that sufficient maintenance be provided and allowed for the children of Jewish parents, who shall turn Protestants' (p.453). The law arose from the curious case of Mary de Mendez Berta, an eighteen-year-old who was disowned and expelled from the family home following her conversion to Protestantism. A petition was brought before Parliament in an attempt to make Mary's father, Jacob de Mendez Berta, pay for his daughter's upkeep, after which it was resolved that a bill be produced to address her case. The resultant act had some effect in the eighteenth century, and was considered by… Read More

London, Chatto & Windus, 1928. . First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed by the author; 8vo; publisher's orange cloth, titles to spine gilt, spine faded and a little cocked, boards slightly bowed. Overall a very good copy. A fine association copy of Harold Acton's first novel, with his signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'To dear Georgia [Sitwell] hoping to while away a fast and fleeting hour or so of her valuable time with love from Harold October 1928'. Georgia Sitwell (nee Doble, 1905-1980) was the daughter of a wealthy Canadian banker. She married Sacheverell, the younger of the Sitwell siblings, in Paris in October 1925. Harold Acton had been friends of the Sitwells from youth and was a central figure in the Bright Young Things of the 1920s, so brilliantly portrayed by Evelyn Waugh, who based his character Anthony Blanche partly on Acton and on Brian Howard.

Munich, Hermann, 1820-1833. . Landscape folio (40 x 54 cm); title-page with portrait of the artist and 24 lithographs mounted on thick paper, bound with a further 28 plates from a later work, some minor stains but overall very clean, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.; contemporary red morocco gilt, with gilt lettering to upper cover, edges rubbed and corners bumped. Albrecht Adam (1786-1862) was the official artist of Napoleon's Grand Armée on its Moscow campaign of 1812. He travelled with the IV Corps in a group of cartographers and draughtsmen under Prince Eugène de Beauharnais. He wrote, sketched and painted whilst witnessing the horrors of battles such as Borodino, making it to Moscow before returning home to Munich in December. In Munich he produced numerous large scale canvases as well as engravings from his sketches. The present work is an early and scarce example of Adam's memorable journey across Europe, depicting vast landscape views, river crossings, prisoners of war and military camps.… Read More

London, For the Author, 1764. . First edition; folio (545 x 390 mm); 61 engraved plates on 54 sheets, many double-page or folding by Bartolozzi, Zucchi and others, subscription list, occasional light spotting; contemporary calf gilt, rebacked, corners repaired, boards rubbed, a very good example; iv, [viii], 33, [i] pp. travel2023 In July 1757, in company with the French architect C.L. Clerisseau and two other draughtsmen, Adam visited Spalatro (Split) in order to explore and measure the ruins of the great Palace of Diocletian. He seems to have been travelling with the intention of producing a book which would establish his reputation 'with a great puff' and apparently chose Spalatro because of its residential character, so different from the Greek and Roman architectural monuments being illustrated by his contemporaries such as Stuart and Revett, Wood, and Le Roy. Also, Adam had more natural artistic flair than his contemporaries, so that he included more views and flourishes than are to be found… Read More

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, n.d. (c.1730 - 1740 / 1762 / 1811). . First edition, folio (55 x 38.4 cm.), Printed title, two leaves with 'List of the Plans, &c.' in double columns listing 160 plates and 180 engraved plates numbered 1 - 160, including the unnumbered plates 71 and 148 and 20 'bis' plates with duplicate numbers, 20 double-page and one large folding plate on two sheets; plates mounted on paper tabs (from sheets of the same work?) throughout, the title and text leaves on wove paper with the watermark '1809', the plates on laid paper with the watermark 'LLAR' and a fleur-de-lys countermark and others as per RIBA, the sheets retaining deckle edges throughout. Sheet size: c. 53.4 x 35.6 cm; double-page plates: c. 53.4 x 71.2 cm; title and text: 51.8 x 35.8 cm. Contemporary calf-backed marbled paper boards, later protective box. A beautiful unsophisticated copy of the notoriously rare Vitruvius Scoticus, the paramount source for the history of classical architecture in Scotland.What… Read More

London, John Murray, 1816. . 4to; [1], xi-xxi, [1], xxxiii-xxxiv, [6], 6-231, [1]pp.; with large folding map as frontispiece; later half calf gilt by Winstanley of Manchester, morocco lettering piece, a fine example. Robert Adams was an American seaman, the son of a New York sail maker and an Afro-American mother. His real name was Benjamin Rose. Having set sail from New York he was taken prisoner after the wreck of his ship, the Charles. He was fortunate to survive his experiences as a slave, but after three years the British consul at Mogador, Joseph Dupuis, managed (via an agent) to buy back Rose from his then owners and sent him on to the American consul-general at Tangier. Supposed to have travelled back to America from Cadiz, Rose somehow contrived to miss the boat and took ship instead with a British vessel bound for Liverpool. Discharged in Wales as being too sick to work, he managed to beg his way to London and though he was by this time using the name of Adams - perhaps because America… Read More