Search Results: Titles starting with A from E. C. Rare Books [ABA / ABAC]

ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN DISCOVERIES BETWEEN ASIA AND AMERICA:To Which Are Added the Conquest of Siberia, and the History of the Transactions and Commerce Between Russia and China.
Coxe, WilliamPublished by J. Nichols for T. Cadell, London, 1780
xxii, 344, [16] pp., 5 folding plates (large frontispiece "General Map of the Russian Empire", view of the Frontier Town of Miamatschin, 3 additional folding maps); quarto (267 mm) contemporary marbled boards, later re-backing calf, maroon label. Some minor professional tissue repairs to maps and residue tape marks. An account of Russian voyages of discovery. Coxe combed the libraries of St. Petersburg for the journals of Russian explorers Nevodsikoff, Serebranikoff, Trapesnikoff, Pushkareff, Drusinin, Kulkoff, Korovin, Glottoff, Solovioff, Otcheredin, Krenitizin, Levasheff, Synd, Bering, Chirikov, et al, and the text is largely his translation of extracts of these journals.Book Plate of Wilbraham; George Wilbraham, FRS (8 March 1779 – 24 January 1852) of… Read More

Two Volumes. Tooled brown calf boards with raised blocks on spine. Gilded titles and lettering in black and red blocks. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong
The 'Appendix' in Vol. II has separate pagination and register. - With an index and two final advertisement leaves. Bookplate of previous owner in front covers of both volumes (Thomas Newton, Prospect Cottage).

Numbred. Limp Vellum. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats. London: (Chiswick Press for the Reed Pale Press), 1935. Small, slim quarto, original full limp vellum, top edge gilt, uncut, blue silk ties.Limited edition of Shelley's moving tribute to his fallen friend, the poet John Keats. Number 180 of 250 copies, printed in red and black by the Chiswick Press and bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.Composed as a pastoral elegy, specifically in the tradition of Milton's beautiful Lycidas, it was first published in the spring of 1821, immediately after hearing of Keats's death."Shelley's use of the classical pastoral elegy form was natural enough. He had studied and translated many classical elegies himself; he had also read and admired Milton's 17th century interpretation of the form in Lycidas. Most critics believe Shelley modeled Adonais upon Virgil's tenth Eclogue, Bion's elegy on the classical hero Adonis, and the anonymous elegy o Bion himself. It is a beautiful work and… Read More

ADVENTURES IN AMERICANA 1492 - 1897. HERSCHEL V. JONES. Vols. I & II, plus checklist (1473 - 1926). With a preface by Dr. Wilberforce Eames. 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Uniformly bound in cloth bindings. Externally in excellent condition, with some light shelfwear. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. A three volume set of works on Americana of Herschel V Jones. AMERICANA complete in two volumes with a supplementary checklist volume issued at a later date. With 300 photographic plates. Herschel V Jones was a publisher of the Minneapolis Journal for twenty years, and a noted book collector. He is best known for his collection of Americana. His collection of 1700 volumes, primarily first editions, covered 400 years of American history dating back to Columbus.

The American Navy, with Introduction and Descriptive Text, Reproductions of Photographs, Cuba and Hawaii Published by Geo. M. Hill & Company, Chicago (1898) Geo. M. Hill Company, Chicago, 1898. Cloth. Book Condition: Good. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. 3 Parts in One Volume. Part 2: Cuba and the Wrecked Maine; Part 3: The Hawaiian Islands "The Paradise of the Pacific". The America Navy at the prime era of the steel-hulled navy. Very impressive for that or any time. Many pictures of the ship and crew of the U.S.S. Maine. Part 2 shows scenes of Cuba, and the wrecked hulk of the "Maine". Part 3 highlights the harbors, volcanoes, farms, and cities of Hawaii. With the variant imprint of the Geo. M. Hill Co., before they began publishing Oz books. Oblong quarto, diagonal red and blue cloth, silver titles; Oblong Quarto.

ANTWERPEN UND DIE WELTAUSSTELLUNG. RENE CORNELI. Published by: Pfau Leipzig: Verlag Von Karl Fr. Pfau. 1887. Signed binding. Large folio (15.5in x 12in); brown leather binding richly decorated in the style of Grolier's 'Last Binder'; elaborate in-lay lacework and coat of arms in Belgian colours in the centre, embossed gilt vines and flowers, double gilt rule border. Spine decorated in gilt compartments between six raised bands, with gilt lettering. Full gauffered gilt edges, gilt dentelles. Condition of binding is in very good, mild chipping at head of spine. Paste-down and end papers patterned gilt paper. Stamped with possible previous owner, Dr. Rudolph Werner, München. Elaborately illustrated in black and white, including full-page frontispiece, plus 46 full-page plates, as well as extensive captioned illustrations and diagrams throughout. Main chapters feature chapter heading and end of chapter ornaments as well as large, black-and-white decorative letters at the start of chapters. 'An Outsize… Read More

Manchester: For the Author, 1793. First Edition. Paper Boards. Archery a Poem; 1793 arguably his most enigmatic work Ogden had served in the Manchester Archery Society, and archery was a curious mix of passionate expression of hie favoured sport and lyrical waxing on agriculture.Bound on its own in recent blue paper boards some soiling water staining and wear to text as expected in a once unbound extract. Usually bound with 3 titles.OGDEN, JAMES (1718–1802), author, born at Manchester in 1718, was a fustian cutter or shearer who in his early manhood travelled on the continent, resided for a year at the Hague or Leyden, and was a witness of the battle of Dettingen (1743). For a time he acted as master of a school in connection with the Manchester Collegiate Church, and in the course of years published a number of volumes of turgid verse, some of which have a local interest, besides an interesting and useful prose description of his native town. His intelligent assistance in the compilation of the… Read More

Limited facsimile edition. Small 8vo, 82pp, 2 coloured folding maps, red cloth backed printed Orange/brown boards. This facsimile edition is limited to 500 numbered copies. The original edition was published to coincide the first modern day Olympics in Athens in 1896 and is extremely rare. This well produced facsimile even has authentic foxing on the upper board.

Limited facsimile edition. Small 8vo, 82pp, 2 coloured folding maps, red cloth backed printed Orange/brown boards. This facsimile edition is limited to 500 numbered copies. The original edition was published to coincide the first modern day Olympics in Athens in 1896 and is extremely rare. This well produced facsimile even has authentic foxing on the upper board .Limited to 500 numbered copies this copy is un-numbered and inscribed from the publisher.

Lang, AndrewMaine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1896. Second Edition, Limited Edition. Zaehnsdorf. Lang, Andrew. Aucassin & Nicolette. Maine. Thomas B. Mosher. 1896. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. Old World Edition. This edition limited to 925 copies on van gelder, as stated. Original wrappers bound in. Oblong 12mo. Stained Turquoise calf with gilt ruling on front and back cover boards. Small floral design in corners. Floral pattern in gilt on spine. Five raised bands in six segments. Brown title label, as well as publishing year near tail of spine. Sound binding with solid joints. Decorative endpapers. Stamped by Zaehnsdorf on rear front free endpaper. Instance of poorly cut page on 16, resulting in small tear, as well as small knick out of fore edge of page 41. Aucassin and Nicolette is a French Medieval tale, thought to be published in the 12th or 13th century, and written anonymously. A combination of prose and verse, it is the only known chantetable, thought to be taken from only a single surviving manuscript,… Read More