Search Results: Authors starting with T from Bibiliophilia Books

Calcutta, 1949. First edition . Soft cover. Good. 4to. - Large pictorial colorful wrappers, rope-bound. - With 30 numbered and many unnumbered pages, printed on heavy stock. - One color (front cover) and many b/w plates and text illustrations (QUITE A FEW EROTIC). - A profusion of advertisements (some illustrated). - Includes 9 essays on Tagore and on his art, also a bibliography. - The exhibition was sponsored by Lord Sinha of Raipur, on behalf of the East-West Friendship Society. - Laid in is a 6- page typescript, heavily corrected and revised in ink, of the address Elizabeth Crandall Lewis was to have delivered at the opening of the exhibition. In fact, according to a note (also laid in), it was given by her husband. (His wife was afraid that her voice would not be loud enough to be heard by all in the hall). - Slight wear on covers, else very good. - TAGORE was one of the founders of The CALCUTTA GROUP, a group of modern artists, formed in 1943. It was the first artistic movement of its… Read More

Venetia: Nvovamente stampati da Piero et fratelli de Nicolini da Sabio, 1551. No Binding. Fine. 24mo. - (8),115 leaves - Old stiff beige wrappers (with old blue endpapers); author's name in ink on white paper label on spine. Interior very fine.- In the colophon: "Il fine de gli otto libri D'Achille Tatio Alessandrino, tradotti per Francesc'angelo Coccio da Iano, et nvovamente stampati de Piero et Fratelli de Nicolini de Sabio in Venetia MDL". (On the title-page the date is MDLI.) - With printer's device on title-page, and with some engraved initials. - Printed in Italics. - Tatius of Alexandria was a Roman era Greek writer who lived in or before the 2nd century. Manuscript tradition assigns him to Alexandria (possibly just on the basis of the detailed description of the city found in the present work: the erotic romance "The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon"). - Extremely rare: OCLC lists only 3 copies (Yale, Amherst, Harvard [Houghton]), and not locating any… Read More

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo (23x15 cm). - 77 pages. - Publisher's full dark green cloth, with title in gilt on spine. - VERY FINE, except for being a withdrawn copy {although from one of the world's leading scientific libraries}. - With the engraved bookplate of "The John Crerar Library of Chicago" ( with the stamp "Withdrawn"), as well as two small markings on the binding. - THE TRUE FIRST EDITION. - NORMAN LIBRARY 2059. - PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 403. - The pioneering basic work on the optimization of productivity.

Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1840. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. (15.5x9.5 cm). - 117, 3 blank pages. - Contemporary 1/2-leather, spine with 4 bands and title in gilt. Worn. - With a multiply folding frontispiece map of America, and 78 illustrations on plates. Title-page with a vignette showing a Native American with headgear, and a ship (Columbus?) in the background. - (Illustration 39 with a small closed tear, Illustration 42 with a 1x3 cm piece missing from lower left corner.) - With inscription on front free end-paper, in old ink: "Presented / to Margaret G. .....(?) / By / Isaac Drew / February 20th, 1844". - Taylor describes for juvenile readers early travels and the discovery of America, including material about Columbus, Cortes, Native Americans, Lewis and Clark and the West Indies. - EXTREMELY RARE: surprisingly, WorldCat does not locate any hard copy of this edition.

New Orleans: The Daily Picayune, 1847. No Binding. Fair/not applicable. (53x40 cm)., folded twice. - 4 pages. - Edges worn; many brown spots. - Examples of ads: 1. "17 valuable NEGROES, comprising choice washers, ironers, cooks, house women, good house man, laborers, mechanics, etc." - 2. "... the following desirable family: the mistress CELIA, 30 years, an excellent cook, pastry cook, washer, ironer, and good house woman, trusty and intelligent, and her four children: Frank, 9 years, Henry; 7 years, and two infants, twins, 6 months". - Also, many other intriguing ads, such as: "LEECHES, first received by late arrivals from Europe, a well selected stock, of Hungarian and Spanish leeches (with ILLUSTRATION)) Link to additional photos available on request.

Venetia: I. Francesco de Francheschi Senese - II. Nicolo Moretti, 1589. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small folio. (36.5x24.5 cm). - Part I; [4], 47 [i.e. 49] pages , [4] leaves of plates, - Part II: [4], 86, 70, [2] ( blank) pages, [20] leaves of plates - Part I: Page 49 is printed on the recto of the first leaf of plates. - The second title dated 1588. - Contemporary1/2-vellum, with 4 raised bands, and title in gilt on leather label on spine. - Binding somewhat browned, else fine. - Pages evenly browned, 5 cm tear to Page 69, large brown spot to Page 25, else fine. - Large allegorical woodcut device on title-page, historiated initials and head-pieces. - With 13 double-page iplates, as well as many full-page and text illustrations, in woodcut - Theti served significant time in Munich, where he instructed Prince Maximilian in the art of war. - This is the best and most complete edition of Theti's famous work, after the short 1569 edition (30 pges only), and the1575 edition,… Read More

Prague: Nakladatelstvi? c?eskoslovensky?ch vy?tvarny?ch ume?lcu?, 1958. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Beautiful monograph on of the book covers of the great Czech Illustratator, Josef Capek. 184 color reproductions . First edition, no dust-jacket, tight copy. Covers are soiled, interior is very clean. See photos 290 pages

Lutetiae Parisiorum: apud Laurentium d'Houry, 1682. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo (16x10 cm). - [8], 106, blank leaf; [4], 72; [4], 100; [4], 144 pages (lacks Pages 73-88 of the fourth volume). - Contemporary full calf, somewhat damaged spine with 5 raised bands and title in faded gilt. - With 3 engraved title vignettes. - Surprisingly, on the colophon of the third book the printer uses Robert Estienne's famous device [a man standing by an olive tree, on which the words "Noli altum sapere" are shown]. - With the colorful bookplate of Conrad Edmund Goeldlin de Tiefenav. - An extremely rare work: WorldCat gives only 5 locations (and it appears that none for the last volume)

Oakland, Cala: Thos. H. Thompson ^ Co. , 1877. Hardcover. Fine. Wide folio (46x37.5 cm). - 102 pages. - Original dark brown cloth, blind-stamped in gilt. Corners slightly rubbed, else very fine. (Title on front cover: "New Historical Atlas of Sonoma County California Illustrated Thos H. thompson & Co. 1877"). - Interior and maps very fine. - First edition. - Profusely illustrated with MAPS (15 double-page, colored; 2 single-page, colored). LITHOGRAPHED VIEWS (10 full-page, 50 half-page nd 55 smaller), and 5 LITHOGRAPHED PORTRAITS of Sonoma County's earliest settlers.

Aureliane [Geneva]: Heredes Petri de la Roviere, 1626. Hardcover. Near Fine/not applicable. VERY HEAVY THICK QUARTO (33x21 cm). - 717, [28];{1}, 480, [2], [76] pages - Modern full black cloth, very good. - Interior fine, except for many tiny wormholes, mostly in Volume IV; and that the lower10x7cn corner of the last page is cut off, with the loss of only one number. - Both title-pages with large (12.5x8.5 and 8.5X10.5 cm) engraved printer's devices. - Title-page of Volume IV is dated 1630, and printed in red-and-black. - Many engraved initials. - An important source of information for the history of Europe during the second half of the 16th century, especially for France. - JACQUES AUGUST DE THOU (1553-1617) was a French historian and a President of the Parlement de Paris. - Quite rare: WorldCat locates only 6 copies (2 in Denmark, and 1 each in US, Mexico, Germany and Switzerland).

London: Bell and Daldy, 1852. Hardcover. Very Good. Crown octavo (19x12.5 cm). - xi, 270 pages. - Contemporary 3/4 calf, (marble paper covers), spine with 5 raised bands, title in gilt on red leather label, and decorations in gilt. Corners and edges worn. - Interior very fine. - Marbled end- papers (with some small imperfections), and with the engraved illustrated private bookplate of William Riedlin Schott. - With ownership signatures, in ink, by Ewe (?) Ward / 3 Upper Hyde Park Street / 1864, and William Riedlin Schott / Christmas ,1933. - Translated by Malwida von Meysenbug. - Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), author of "War and Peace (1869) and "Anna Karenina" (1877), established his fame already in his twenties, with this autobiographical first literary work. - The present volume is the first English edition. of Tolstoy's first literary work.

PARMA [PARMAE]: Bodoni, 1792. Hardcover. Fine. Folio (44.5X30 cm). - [16], 231 pages. - 3/4 marbled dark red morocco, red cloth covers, spine with 5 bands and title in gilt. - On the lower margin on verso of front cover, in very small letters in gilt: "Bound for Bernard Quaritch. Ltd. / by Sandorski and Sutcliffe" - Very fine. - Interior very fine. - Full-margined copy. - Engraved medallion portrait on title-page. - A 30x19.5 cm double-page leaf, with "Errata" in manuscript, in ink, tipped on the title-page, and continues on the blank after the last page (Page 231). - A 10x14.5 cm slip, with manuscript note laid in: "Sangorski $ Sutcliffe - do not bleach - Q never let them take a book apart - scornful of Riviere / Robert Trevor, Viscount Hampden". - Limited to 130 copies on carta velina. - A collection of 3 Latin poems by Hampden: the first on British topography, climate, customs , and contemporary affairs, the second a translation of… Read More

New York: Random House, 1989. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo (24x16 cm). - X, 246 pages. - Black cloth, with signature of Trump on front cover, and title on spine, embossed in gilt. - In an immaculate dust jacket, with color photo of Trump and title in gilt. - FIRST EDITION, later printing, with the number line on the copyright page of 3456789. - With 41 photos on 16 plates. - Boldly inscribed by Trump on the front free end-paper, with a blue felt pen.

Bela Vista, Angola: Tipografia do Dondi, 1953. Soft cover. Very Good/New. 12mo (17.5x12cm). - [2], 237, [1] pages. - soft light green covers, with title and biblical illustration on the front cover. - Strongly stapled. - Interior with slight uniform yellowing due to age, else fine. - With many text illustrations. - In Portuguese and Native Angolan - EXTREMELY RARE: not in WorldCat -

Philadelphia: Publication Department, A. M. E. Church, 1885. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. Crown octavo (19.5x13 cm). - XII, 342 pages. - Publisher's embossed dark brown cloth; title in gilt on spine, somewhat faded. Top and bottom of spine, and corners of covers, slightly worn. - Interior very fine. - With ownership signature on verso of front cover: "Rev. W. J. Broadly / March 27th 1902 / Pine Ridge, Miss." - On title page, in pencil: "Baltimore - Baltimore". - The AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH is the FIRST INDEPENDENT PROTESTANT DENOMIANATION to be founded by AFRICAN-AMERICANS.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Hardcover. Good. 12mo (18x12 cm). - [6], 233 pages. - Rebound in 1/2 leather with strong green cloth covers, title on spine in gilt. - Ex- library copy, with traces of the circulation card removed. - First edition, first printing, with the misprint "ciper" (for "cipher") present uncorrected on Line16 of Page 187.