Search Results: Authors starting with L from Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

[n.p.:] 1763 First edition? Several editions—all of them rare—appeared in 1763: we have been unable to establish an order of priority. Recently rebound in full sprinkled calf, raised bands, spine lettered gilt, new endpapers. . Small octavo. Paper flaw to p. [iv], affecting a few letters of text. A good, clean copy. The lawyer La Chalotais (1701-1785) was one of the leaders of the movement that led to the elimination of the Society of Jesus in France in the eighteenth century, and his Essai was written in part to provide a program of public education that would fill the gap caused by the closure of the Jesuit schools. A revolutionary work, it was one of the first to maintain that the principal aim of education is to ensure the effective functioning of society, and was widely acclaimed on its publication. Voltaire wrote to La Chalotais, "Vous intitulez l'ouvrage Essai d'un Plan d'Etudes pour les collèges [sic], et moi, je l'intitule: Instruction d'un homme d'Etat pour éclairer tous les… Read More

Paris: 1717, Contemporary calf, gilt spine with burgundy morocco label, edges stained red. Twelvemo. Top corners lightly worn, contemporary owner's signature on title-page. A little minor foxing. A very good, clean copy This is an interesting collection of four dialogues between the fictional Cléanthe and Euthyme: I. Sur les plaisirs & sur les passions en général; II. Sur les mauvais penchans, & sur l'amour du plaisir; III. Sur les merite des femmes, & sur leur sensibilité pour l'honneur; IV. Sur le jugement que les plus grands Hommes & les plus célèbres Nations ont fait des Femmes. The author, whose dates are not known, was "Secretaire au Traité de la Paix de Riswick." This refers to the Ryswick Treaty of 1697, which ended the Nine Years War and forced Louis XIV to give up some of his territorial acquisitions. The book is dedicated to the author's "Altesse Royale Madame," and Dupuy la Chapelle states that he intends his book to defend the honor of women, and to foster a strong tenderness… Read More

London: Williams & Norgate Ltd., 1925 One of 300 copies, signed by the translator. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Title printed in blue and black. A fine copy in good to very good d.j. Jacket has some light staining and chipping.

A Lausanne: Chez Hignou & Comp. Imprim. A. Fischer, Libraire, 1791 First edition. Later decorative blue boards. . Octavo. Binding extremities lightly rubbed and slight soiling to boards. Contemporary ink inscription on upper front board. Light foxing and light intermittent toning. Leaves in gathering B slightly loose. Bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy of a rare book, clean and tight. Marie-Elisabeth Lafite (1737-1794), who was born in Hamburg, became the wife of a Hugenot minister from La Haye. She collaborated with her husband to produce the periodical Bibliotheque des sciences et des beaux arts. She also wrote several books on education, including Nouvelle Idee Sur L'Education, strongly influenced by Madame de Genlis. The work is divided into several sections, including seven didactic dialogues between two girls, Pauline and Sophie, and their mother Madame de Sainval; each dialogue is followed by a series of questions relating to the informational content of the dialogues and their… Read More

[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta, Christmas 1975] One of about forty copies. "Printed. by Ward Ritchie in his first experiment with Nature Printing." . Green printed wrappers, stitched at spine. . Octavo. Illustrated with monochrome leaf designs. Some light soiling. Very good.

[n.p., Laguna Beach: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1982] One of "around sixty copies" printed by Ward Ritchie. Blue Cockerel paper wrappers. 6 x 8. Color-printed initials and two abstract vignettes. With "A Footnote to the Loves of MA" leaf laid in. Toning to first and last leaf and some offsetting from the initials and vignettes. A near fine copy. Ritchie's reminiscences of Merle Armitage (1893-1975), book designer, publisher, art collector, and theatre designer and executive. Armitage, who was born in Mason City, Iowa and began his career in New York, spent many years in Los Angeles, and was part of a circle which included Ritchie, Jake Zeitlin, and Lawrence Clark Powell. This is probably the longest publication of Ritchie's Laguna Verde Imprenta.

[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta], 1990 One of fifty copies printed by Ward Ritchie on an Albion hand press. This is Ritchie's penultimate publication. It is a collection of his own poetry, published under his long-standing pseudonym, Peter Lum Quince. Black paper wrappers with printed paper label. . Octavo. Illustrated by Paul Landacre with woodcut headpieces and an array of small geometric woodcuts on title-page. Text printed in black by Ward Ritchie on an Albion handpress. Illustrations in red, orange, green, brown, and blue. Wrappers a bit scuffed. Still a fine copy, inscribed on the half-title by Ritchie to Jake Chernofsky, longtime editor of AB Bookman's Weekly. A foreword explains the origin of Ritchie's "Peter Lum Quince" pseudonym: "The author obviously assumed his pseudonym from the Peter Quince created by Shakespeare. However, the irreverent printer, more interested in creating a pleasing title page…inserted the random letters LUM to balance the length of the wood… Read More

New York: Published on Murray Hill at the Port of New York by Farrar & Rinehart, 1933 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Light wear at head and foot of spine. Still, very good in dust jacket. The jacket lacks substantial pieces at the head and foot of spine, but is still bright.

Manchester: The Simon Archery Foundation, Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, 1974 First edition. Boards. Quarto. Fine in fine d.j.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848 First American edition. Original light brown blindstamped cloth with gilt spine. Three volumes, octavo. Binding partially faded, some light foxing. Old ink owner's notation in each volume. A very good, tight set.

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928 Limited to 500 copies. Quarter vellum over green boards, gilt spine. . Small octavo. Edges lightly foxed. Near fine.

London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1889 One of 500 copies, signed "Field & Tuer. Quarter vellum over blue-gray boards. . Octavo. Illustrated with nine hand-colored plates. Covers lightly soiled. Very good.

[London:] Methuen & Co., 1905 First edition of the two letters volumes of this seven volume set of the Lambs' works. This edition, edited by E.V. Lucas is still considered the definitve set of Lamb. Half azure morocco over blue cloth boards, gilt spines with raised bands, top edge gilt. . Two volumes, large octavo. . Twenty-four plates. Extra-illustrated with 173 additional plates, including views and portraits of important authors, statesman, scientists, philosophers, artists, etc., including Coleridge, Milton, Blake, Chatterton, Burns, William IV, Kosciuszko, Locke, Voltaire, Euler, Harvey, Wilberforce, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, etc. Bands, corners lightly rubbed. A very good, clean set.

[London:] Hutchinson, 1998 First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Over 500 color illustrations of various sizes. Fine in near fine d.j. Spine of d.j. very lightly toned.

A la Haye: Chez Pierre De Hondt, 1759 First published in 1740, this is an imitation of Marivaux's Vie de Marianne (1731-41), which was considered a great advancement in the novel form and influenced Rousseau, Restif de la Bretonne and Fielding. The author is Claude-François Lambert (1705-65), who published miscellaneous works, including an imitation of Abbé Prevost's Mémoires et avantures d'un homme de qualité, which he called Memoires et avantures d'une dame de qualité (1739). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine with burgundy morocco label. Edges stained red, marbled endpapers. . Ten parts in one volume, twelvemo. Two small cracks along front joint. A very good, clean copy. This edition is unknown to OCLC, which lists only the 1740 and 1772 editions. All editions are scarce; OCLC lists copies of the first edition at Harvard, Cal State Chico, and Oxford only.

London: F. Fayram, 1730 First edition. Contemporary paneled calf, expertly rebacked, . Twelvemo. A very good copy. Charles Lamotte (1681?-1741) is known almost solely for the present work; he receives no mention in the D.N.B. There is, however, a substantial entry on him in the Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Philosophers. John Valdimir Price writes: "Lamotte's concern…is with 'License' or what other aestheticians called decorum. Poets and painters are allowed 'some Degree of Licence,' but the analogies and linkings that they make should never venture into absurdity or anachronism. The proper enjoyment of painting or drama depends on an awareness of its fidelity to historical truth and of its consonance with the general experience of mankind." Price goes on, "…he never loses sight of the power of painting or poetry to corrupt and to deprave," but notes that "there is a refreshing lack of cant and proselytizing in his work." A second edition appeared in Dublin in 1742.

New York: Privately Printed, 1926 One of 175 copies, printed by Douglas C.McMurtrie. Clothbacked boards,. Folio. Frontispiece. Spine slightly faded, light shelfwear. Very good. With the bookplate of Porter Garnett.

London: Printed for the Author; and sold by L. Hawes…[et al.], 1764 First edition. Recent tan calf over marbled boards, Gilt-ruled spine with crimson morocco label. . Quarto. Five engraved folding plates. With list of subscribers. A little light foxing. A very good copy of a scarce book. John Landen (1719-1790) was the most notable British mathematician in the second half of the eighteenth century. At the time when British mathematics was held back by inadequate notation, an unfortunate consequence of the Newton-Leibniz dispute, he was the only Englishman to score major advances in mathematics and in the art of computation. In this, his most important work, he attempted to replace the fluxional calculus with an analytic method "founded entirely on the anciently received principles of algebra." A second volume was planned, but it never appeared. According to Lacroix, this was the first attempt to reduce the infinitesimal calculus to "purely mathematical notions" (Oxford DNB). Landen's writings… Read More

Cleveland: World Publishing Company, [1944] First collected edition. First serialized in the Saturday Evening Post in the same year. "This is a rollicking and uninhibited story of what happened when four Hollywood 'glamour girls' set out to entertain American fighting forces in Bermuda, Britain and Africa…They played in chilling rainstorms and under a burning desert sun, before wounded fighters and the crowned heads of Europe. In the midst of it all, Miss Landis even found time to fall in love and get married" (from the dust jacket). . Publisher's red cloth binding titled in teal on spine. Octavo. With two double-sided photo plates (including frontispiece) capturing stills from the Twentieth Century Fox film Two Jills in a Jeep (1944) and about two dozen charming text vignettes by Lily Cushing. Contemporary bookplate to front flyleaf. In the color-printed original dust jacket (a bit of creasing and a chip missing from back panel very good). A strip of toning to front pastedown. Otherwise, a fine… Read More

New York: Schirmer Books, [1990] Third printing. Clothbacked boards. Large octavo. Some soiling to boards. Very good in fine d.j.