Search Results: Authors starting with B from Bibiliophilia Books

Siena: Lazzeri, 1947. Soft cover. Near Fine. Large 8vo. - (6),129 pp. - Original stiff beige paper covers, with title printed in black and orange, with floral decoration in orange. - Limited edition: No. 128 of only 300 copies printed. - Title-page identical to front cover. - With 25 illustrations on plates.

London: Harrison & Sons, 1889. First edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. - xi,(5),211,(1) pp., plus plates. - Contemporary dark brown 3/4- leather, title on leather label on spine, green boards, marbled endpapers. - Small amount of foxing on some pages, else fine - back of plates slightly browned, else fine. - With 25 full-page illustrations by Baden- Powell on plates. - Considered to be the first book dedicated to wild boar hunting in India, by the founder of the Boy Scouts Movement. - The first sentence of the Preface reads: "Pigsticking, a sport second to none and invaluable to our prestige and supremacy in India, deserves, what it has not had for years, a book to itself." - An excellent copy. Very Rare 1 Copy at the British Library (11/18)

Chicago: Studio Press, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine. Large quarto(33x25 cm). - [4 blanks], [35], [4 blanks] pages - Dark blue cloth, with title and illustration in red and gilt embossed on front cover, title in gilt on spine. =- Fine, except for a tiny knick at top of spine. - Interior uncut, very fine. - Title page printed in red and black. - With 7 full-page color woodcuts, with tissue guards. - Original color woodcuts by Bronislaw M. Bak. - 148 copies were printed, 130 copies were numbered and signed by the artist; 18 numbered I-XVIII are not for sale. - This is No IV, and INSCRIBED: "To Howard Albert for / for his service of a / Guardian Angel of / this operation / Hedi and Bruno / May 23 / 1967".

Madrid: Imprenta de viuda de M. Minuesa de los Ríos, 1895. Hardcover. Near Fine/not applicable. Inscribed by Author. Excellent condition. foxing browning of pages. See photos.

New York: Freundlich Books , 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. - [6], 300 pages. - Publisher's red wrappers, with title in typescript, along with other information; near fine. - The publication date is given here as December 1983., but the book was actually published in 1984.

Basel: Basler Missionsbuchhandlung 1874-1880, 1874. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. - 32 consecutive issues, with altogether 34 engraved illustrations, many full-page. All the illustrations are about the missionary activities of the Basler Mission in China, West Africa and India. Included are two views of Hong Kong, several pictures of African kings and warriors, pictures of Indian girls, Indian women, Indian festivities, Africans fleeing from the British, Papuan huts, etc. - There is also a 4-page report about the death of Livingstone: "Dr. Livingstone, den bis in den Tod getreuen Freund Afrikas". - Founded in 1815, the Basler Missionsgesellschaft was the oldest cooperative German-Swiss mission society formed by the Reformed Christian Church in Basel, Switzerland and the Lutheran Church in Baden, Germany. - The issues bound in this volume, "Neue Folge", No. 90, 1974 to No. 121, February 1880, include reports to the "Kollekte-Verein fur die Basler Mission", i.e., to the… Read More

Leipzig - Jenae et Lipsiae: Johann Christian Martini - Christ. Frid.. Gollner, 1742. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. 16mo (17.5x10.5 cm). - 26, 218, [12] pages and multiply folding plate; 16, 64 pages. - Contemporary 3/4 calf, marbled boards, spine with 5bands and title in gilt on gold label. (Corners and edges worn, lacks 1 cm piece at bottom). - The first work in German, the second one in Latin. - Christian Friedrich Bauer (1696-1752) was a professor at the University of Wittenberg, where he studied, among others, the Hebrew accent and its mathematical structure. (As stated later by others, Hebrew is a mathematical language in which there are no abstruse, sensory or other nuances.) - EXTREMELY RARE; WorldCat locates only 2 copies of the first title (Hannover and London), and only a single copy of this edition of the second one (Rostock).

Mexico, D. F., 1944. Soft cover. Near Fine. Quarto (30.5x23.5 cm). - 420 pages, 30 double-page folding color plates. - Original light brown wrappers, title in blue and black on front cover, in black only on spine. - Near fine. - Illustrated, in addition to the color plates, by a 66-page section of "Del Plan de CONSTRUCCION DE HOSPITALES Nuevas Obras en Proyecto", and a profusion of b/w photographs, mostly full-page. - A comprehensive description of the extremely well-planned and well-organized MEXICAN NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC ASSISTANCE SYSTEM. - Very rare: WorldCat locates only 2 copies (U. of Illinois, Stanford).

Berlin: Vossischen Buchhandlung, 1844. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo. - (6),344 pp. - Publisher's black patterned cloth, spine with 6 bands and title in gilt. - Very good; interior very fine. - Includes Beck's most famous poem: "An der Donau", with the last line of the first verse: 'An der schonen, blauen Donau", immortalized in music by Johann Strauss, Jr.

Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1859. Soft cover. Very Good/not applicable. Octavo (22x13.5 cm). - 96 pages and 2 plates. - Original printed wrappers, fine. - With many tables, and 5 engraved illustrations on a fold-out plate. - INSCRIBED in ink by Becquerel on the first page, and with small ownership stamp " Prof. Eld. Liechti' on front free end-paper. - Alexandre-Edmond (1820-1891) was a member of a distinguished family of physicists [his father, Antoine Cesar, worked for the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, and his son, Henri, was one of the discoverers of radioactivity]. - In 1839, he discovered the photovoltaic effect, the operating principle of solar cells. - The present paper describes his studies on the luminous effects resulting from the actin of light on bodies, especially of its intensity.

Paris: Ch. Lahure et Co., 1861. Soft cover. Very Good/not applicable. Octavo ( 22x14 cm). - 45, [3] pages. - In original printed light green wrappers, faded, slightly frayed.. - Inscribed on front cover, in ink: "A Monsieur Frican(?) ... E. Becquerel". - On first page, ownership stamp: Prof. Ad. Liechti (?)" - With 2 illustrations, showing the phosphoroscope invented by Becquerel.. - Alexandre- Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891) was a member of a distinguished family of physicists [his father, Antoine Cesar, worked for the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, and his son, Henri, was one of the discoverers of radioactivity. - In 1839, he discovered the photovoltaic effect, the operating principle of solar cells. - The present paper describes the result of his studies on luminous effects resulting from the action of light on bodies. - Quite rare: WorldCat locates only 3 copies of this publication (not the separately paginated offprint like ours, but only pp.… Read More

Gyoma: Kner izidor, 1916. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. DIVEKY JOZSEF. (20x13.5 cm). - 154,[6] pages. - Red half-cloth, grey boards illustrated in red and black. - Near fine. - with 6 full page illustrations by Jozsef Diveky. first edition - link to photos on request.

Ingolstadii: Adami Sartorii, 1605. Hardcover. Fine/not applicable. Thick 12mo. (17.5x12 cm). - [42],1566 pages. - Dated (1612) blind-tooled armorial hard vellum binding, with "G & B' on front cover, and with dark blue and gilt gauffered edges. Spine with 4 raised bands, title in gllt on (partly peeled-off) leather label. - Volume 3 {of 3} only. -- Title-page printed in red and black, and with large engarved ptinter's device. Many engraved initials. - Volume III {of 3) only of this monumental work, still influential, against the Reformation.

Antverpiae: Plantin, 1619. Hardcover. Fine. (17.5x10.5 cm). - [16], 552, [3] pages. - Contemporary hard vellum, title in ink on spine. - Very fine; interior fine (except for some dark spots on the bottom of the last few pages). On title page: "In Hoc Signo" vignette, on last page: Plantin's famous printer's device. - Bellarmino (1542-1621), Jesuit Cardinal, canonized in the 20th century, was an important figure of the Counter-Reformation, especially since he was the person who ordered Galileo to abandon the Copernican doctrine. - GALILEO AGREED TO DO SO. Link to additional photos available on request.

New Haven: Increase Cooke, 1803. Hardcover. Fair/not applicable. Small 8vo, - xiii,(1),[15]-388,(4) pp. - Contemporary full leather; on spine; 5 gilt bands, 5 gilt decorations, and title in gilt on chipped and worn leather label. Front joint cracked, small chips on front face. Some foxing. - THE FIRST AMERICAN, FROM THE FOURTH LONDON EDITION. Front cover and front free end papers are detached

Mantova: presso i fratelli Negretti, 1841. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto (28.5x23 cm). - 53, [3] pages, and plates. - Contemporary red-brown half-leather, marbled covers, title in gilt on spine. Edges and corners slightly worn, else fine. - Interior and plates very fine. - With 27 double-page plates, and 3 text illustrations. - WorldCat locates 7 copies, only one in the U.S. (Columbia).

Lipsiae (Leipzig): Abraham Lamberg, 1609. First edition . Hardcover. Fine/not applicable. 24mo. - (16),140,(4) pp. - Lamberg, Lipsiae, 1609. - Modern binding (imitation black leather and wooden boards, spine with gilt lettering). Fine. - With 12 simple engraved graphs illustrating marital relationships. - [EARLY MATRIMONIAL LAW] - . - WITH 12 GRAPHS ILLUSTRATING MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS. The Latin text is preceded by a text in German. - An important work on the Protestant position on marriage and matrimonial law, describing also the punishments meted out to trespassers. - Some of the chapter headings: "Von heimlicher unordentlicher Eheverpflichtung der Kinder / ohne vorwissen und willen der Eltern oder Vormundern", "Von Sipp und Magschafft", "Von Eheschiedung dess Ehebruche halben", "Von versohnung und zusammenthadigung der Eheleut". - Extremely rare: OCLC locates only the Harvard Divinity School copy. Contact us for link to more images.

A la Haye: P. Husson, 1723. Hardcover. Good. Title continues: " . Avec les Figures necessaires pour l'intelligence de ce Traite - Nouvelle Edition, revue, corrigee & augmentee." - Wide 8vo. (23 1/2 x 19 1/2 cm). - (8),389,(3) pp., plus plates. - Contemporary full polished calf; spine with 5 bands, and with floral decorations and title in gilt (corners and edges somewhat worn, small cracks in the edges of spine). - Interior and plates very fine. - Title-page printed in red and black. - With engraved frontispiece by D. Coster. - With many hundreds of illustrations on 30 folding plates. - With modern woodcut ex-libris of William Hugh Mitchell, label (white letters in a green field) of HARRISON D. HORBLIT, and old ownership signature (not legible), in ink, on front free endpaper. - "The best of the early classical treatises on mathematical instruments." - Smith: History of Mathematics, Volume II, 359/60. - Shelf No.: d 894.

Chicago: C. V. Ritter, 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/not applicable. Octavo (23x15.5 cm). - VIII, 21 pages. - Publisher's dark brown half-cloth, title on red label on spine; red marbled boards. Fine. -- With a multi-color frontispiece printed on heavy stock, entitled "The Visual Tetrad Color Chart". - Inscribed in ink on the front free end-paper: "To K. Dunlap / Sincerely, / Faber Birren / October 6, 1928". - With multiple small light stamps: "Property of Journal Comparative Psychology".

London: W. Wilkins and J. Waldhoe, 1718. Hardcover. Good. London, Printed by W. Wilkins for Jonas Browne at the Black-Swan without Temple-Bar; and J. Waldhoe, Jun'. over-against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill. MDCCXVIII. - 12mo. - xvi,477,(3) pp. - Full calf, covers with double gilt borders. Disbound, covers only fair, lacks spine. interior good. - First edition. - The only collected edition of Blackmore's poems. - Shelf No.: c 370.