Search Results: Authors starting with M from Honey & Wax Booksellers

Brooklyn: Green-Wood Cemetery, 1882. Nineteenth-century walking guide to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, founded in 1838, one of the first planned green spaces in New York City. The gilt-stamped upper board depicts the landmark brownstone Gothic Revival gate at the main entrance to the cemetery. "Objects of Special Interest" include the Firemen's Monument, the Civil War Soldiers' Monument, and the Brooklyn Theatre Fire Monument, as well as the tombs of prominent New Yorkers, among them governor DeWitt Clinton, publisher Horace Greeley, and Broadway impresario William "Billy" Niblo, who hosted parties at his Green-Wood mausoleum before he died. Although the lithographer is not credited, this is a variant of the Snyder & Black Green-Wood map, in continual use since the 1850s. A near-fine example, in splendid mauve cloth boards. Lithographed map, measuring 23.75 x 15.75 inches unfolded, housed in original mauve pictorial cloth boards, stamped and lettered in gilt, measuring 6.75 x 4.75 inches.… Read More

London: Printed for G. Robinson, and J. Bew, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1776. First edition of this epistolary novel, published two years after the posthumous appearance of Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman. In that controversial bestseller, Chesterfield advises his son to cultivate an open, inviting manner while steadily advancing his own interests: "take great care that the first impressions you give of yourself may be not only favorable, but pleasing, engaging, nay, seducing." Samuel Johnson remarked that Chesterfield's letters "teach the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing-master." Philip Sedley, the apt young hero of Pupil of Pleasure, takes "the divine Letters" as his gospel, moving to the spa town of Buxton to practice his pleasing, engaging, and seducing: "what our Garrick is to Shakespeare, I am resolved to be to Chesterfield - the living comment upon the dead text." But what begins as a comic novel, featuring a naïve… Read More

[Trento]: Alfieri, 1977. First edition of this exuberant survey of ecological issues, written and illustrated by Italian schoolchildren. In his introduction, designer Bruno Munari celebrates the emergence of "una educazione ecologica, un nuovo comportamento sociale, nuovi rapporti tra gli individui." The chapters cover sweeping subjects like "l'industria" and "l'acqua," and more local features like "le baite," the huts used by shepherds in the Italian Alps. The volume includes hundreds of full-color reproductions of children's artwork on ecological subjects, created by students in and around Trento. Text in Italian. A near-fine copy of a striking book. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 7.75 inches: 177, [3]. Glossy color pictorial wrappers; color illustrations throughout text. Lightest edgewear.