Search Results: Authors starting with K from David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

Battle Creek, Michigan: Modern Medicine Publishing Co., 1892. 'Science in the Kitchen' Applying Scientific Knowledge to Everyday Life, Including Food and Nutrition. KELLOGG, E.E. Science in the Kitchen. By Mrs. E.E. Kellogg, A.M. A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and their Diabetic Properties together with a Practical Explanation of the... Principles of Healthful Cookery. Over Nine Hundred Choice, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes. Revised Edition. Battle Creek, Michigan: Modern Medicine Publishing Co., 1892. Large octavo (8 5/8 x 6 inches; 219 x 152 m.). [1]-487, [1, blank] pp. Thirty-six photgravure plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Publisher's white linen, front cover pictorially decorated and lettered in black, spine lettered in black, all edges marbled. Inner hinges repaired. A few leaves with creased corners otherwise an excellent copy. Science in the Kitchen contributed to the broader movement in the late 19th century that sought to apply scientific knowledge to… Read More

Paris: H. Delloye [&] Victor Lecou, Éditeurs, 1838. An Incredible Early Twentieth Century 'Portrait' Binding by René Kieffer Specially Bound for Gérard de Berny in Memory of his Father Gabriel de Berny First Illustrated Edition with an additional set of Proof Illustrations on 'Large Thick Paper' BALZAC, Honoré de. KIEFFER, René, binder. La Peau de Chagrin. Études Sociales. Paris: H. Delloye [&] Victor Lecou, Éditeurs, 1838. First Illustrated Edition, First Printing of the Vignette Illustrations. Specially bound by René Kieffer for Gérard de Berny in memory of his Parents. 'Thick Paper' copy with an additional 'proof' set of the illustrations. Large octavo (11 1/16 x 7 1/2 inches; 281 x 191 mm.). [iv], 402, [1, Table des Matières], [1, blank]. One hundred and one decorative engraved vignettes in the text by Baron, Janet-Lange, Gavarni, French and Marckl, plus one on the title, engraved on steel by Brunellière, Nargeot, Langlois, etc. Additional engraved portrait on India paper of… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1903. The Songs from Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories" KIPLING, Rudyard. The Just So Song Book. Being the Songs from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. Set to Music by Edward German. London: Macmillan and Co., 1903. First edition. Large quarto (12 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches; 311 x246 mm). [2], 62 pp. Music. Original dark red cloth pictorially stamped in black on front cover and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Small area of slight discoloration on back cover. Front hinge hints at starting. Title tissue guard slightly browned and with a short tear at lower margin. Otherwise a fine copy. "The texts of the twelve poems contained in the Just So Stories (1902) are here set to music by Edward German. The last song, ‘Rolling down to Rio,' is substituted for ‘I've never sailed the Amazon,' which is here omitted" (Stewart). Livingston 270 (describing the first American edition). Stewart 269-A.

Roma: Georgius Plachi, 1709. The Rare Catalogue of the Great Kircher Museum [KIRCHER, Athanasius]. BONANNI, Filippo. Musaeum Kircherianum, sive Musaeum a P. Athanasio Kirchero In Collegio Romano Societatis Jesu jam pridem incoeptum Nuper restitutum, auctum, descriptum, & Iconibus illustratum... Roma: Typis Georgii Plachi Caelaturam Prositentis, & Characterum Fusoriam propè S. Marcum, 1709. First edition of Bonanni's catalogue of the Kircher Museum in Rome. Folio (14 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches; 372 x 247 mm.). [xii], 1-39, [40, blank], [21 leaves of illustration numbered 40-60], 61-79, [80, blank], [4 leaves of illustration numbered 60-63], 84-115, [12 leaves of illustration numbered 116-127], 128-146, [147, blank], [14 leaves of illustration numbered 147-160], 161-183, [184, blank], [15 leaves of illustration numbered 184-197.2], 198-224, [225, blank], [2 leaves of illustration numbered 248-226], 225-247, [248, blank], [18 leaves of illustration numbered 284-300], 264-283, [21 leaves of illustration… Read More

Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge et Elizium Weyerstraet, 1667. The True First Edition of Kircher's China Monumentis KIRCHER, Athanasius. China Monumentis, qua Sacris quà Profanis, Nec non variis Naturae & Artis Spectaculis, Aliarumque rerum memorabilium Argumentis Illustrata. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonium á Waesberge & Elizium Weyerstraet, 1667. First edition. Large folio (14 3/4 x 9 9/16 inches; 375 x 243 mm.). [*4], [**4], 1-237, [238-248, index] pp; [*4], [**4], A4 - Gg3, index Gg4 - Hh4; 8 preliminary leaves (incl. the engraved title). Finely engraved allegorical frontispiece title-page (Amsterdam: J. Jansson à Waesberge & E. Weyerstraet, 1667), letterpress title-page with printers woodcut vignette, engraved portrait of the author. Twenty-three engraved plates (one of which is folding), two double-page engraved maps, and fifty-nine engravings in the text. Early vellum over boards, covers ruled in blind and with central blind-stamped device. Spine with five raised bands,… Read More

London: Printed for the Publisher, and sold by Thomas Woodward... and Charles Davis, 1728. One of the Most Important Eighteenth-Century Works on Japan The First Scholarly Treatment of Japan in any Language KÆMPFER, Engelbertus. The History of Japan: Giving an Account of The antient and present State and Government of that Empire; Of Its Temples, Palaces, Castles, and other Buildings; Of Its Metals, Minerals, Trees, Plants, Animals, Birds and Fishes; Of The Chronology and Succession of the Emperors, Ecclesiastical and Secular; Of The Original Descent, Religions, Customs, and Manufactures of the Natives, and of their Trade and Commerce with the Dutch and Chinese. Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam. Written in High Dutch...And translated...by J.G. Scheuchzer... With the Life of the Author and an Introduction. To which is added, Part of a Journal of a Voyage to Japan, made by the English in the Year 1673. Illustrated with many Copper Plates. London: Printed for the Publisher, and sold… Read More