Search Results: Titles starting with B from Butler Rare Books

Hardover, dustwrapper, 1st edition. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Pp xvi, 205, folding map to rear and photographic illustrations as listed.

A very good example, in an equally good dust jacket, covered in a glassine jacket. Unusual in this condition.

Amsterdam: Everardo van der Hooght, 1705. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo. 22cm x 14cm. 2 vols bound in 1. Engraved title page followed by typographic title page in red and black. Separate title page to 2nd vol. A fine copy. All edges gilt. Full brown calf, gilt lines to boards. Sometime finely rebacked in style, raised bands, gilt lettering. 334, 352, 44pp. Preface by Hooght in Latin. Main text in Hebrew. Darlow and Moule 5141.

Published Amsterdam, Petrum den Hengst, 1779. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 3 volumes, complete. Octavo. 21cm x 14cm. Twelve parts bound together in three vols. Each part has a title page; each volume has a general title page. General index to the 12 parts, in v. 3. Original full C18th calf rebacked in full gilt to spine with 6 labels. Raised bands. A lovely binding. Text is clean with some contemporary ink inscriptions

London: Printed by S.H. for R. Wilkin, 1707. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 20cm x 13cm. 8vo. Original full leather rebacked in leather with raised bands, label, attractive. Vol.1, but a second volume was never published. [68], 412pp Library plate to inside paste-down. Very good. Bray was well-known for establishing parish libraries in both UK and the colonies. His proposals are elaborated in this book and his activities sustained through the SPCK. The importance of this book should not be under-estimated in the history of the library (see Godly Reading by Cambers (pp 144-145)

Bifolium from a Vita Sancti Stephani, including an abridgement of Evodius, Miracula Facta Uzali, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[Germany (perhaps Rhineland), c. 1100] Bifolium (consecutive leaves and hence innermost leaves of a gathering), each leaf with single column of 30 lines of a rounded proto-gothic minuscule, with slightly tremulous aspect, an ampersand whose loops sit high above the baseline and trailing undulating pen strokes at beginning of some capitals, one large initial 'V' in red, reused in binding and hence slightly trimmed at foot of both leaves (text wanting at beginning and end), overall good condition with marginal prickings for ruling present, 220 by 170mm.; in cloth-covered binding Provenance: 1. Dr. Helmuth Wallach (1901-1989), of Munich and New York, the eminent antiquarian bookseller and art dealer. 2. Bernard Rosenthal (1920-2017), of San Francisco, California, his I/211, acquired in 1970. 3. Quaritch cat. 1147, Bookhands of the Middle Ages V, 1991, no. 87.4.… Read More

Parchment, c.175×140mm, i (paper) + 107 + i (paper) leaves; foliated in modern pencil i, 1 108; COMPLETE; collation: 16 (fols.1-6) | 28 (fols.7 14), 3 78 (fols.15 54), 84 (fols.55 58) | 9-138 (fols.59 98), 144-1 (last leaf cancelled with no apparent loss of text or decoration; fols.99 101), 158-2 (6th and 8th leaves cancelled without loss of text or decoration; fols.102 107); one catchword survives (fol.38v); prickings occasionally survive at the fore-edge; ruled in pink ink for 17 lines of text per page (33 lines in the calendar); written in a professional gothic bookhand in dark brown ink (occasionally with very calligraphic flourishes e.g. fols.16v, 17v), rubrics (often in French) and major feasts in the calendar in red, capitals stroked in yellow wash; the ruled space c.115×73 78mm; illuminated with TWELVE LARGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES FRAMED IN GOLD, typically above 5 lines of text (above 4 lines on fols. 45r, 48v, above 6 lines on fol.75r) and a 4-line initial (5-line initials on fols.7r, 24v,… Read More

1050. No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A single leaf on parchment 297mm x 215mm. The text is from the O.T. prophet, Amos Ch.5.22-8.3. Dates from the eleventh century. Double columns. Some shaving to the last line. A natural vellum hole. Significant worming holes especially heavy at the right hand foredge. On verso, a capital which appears to have been pencilled in. More browning on the verso. Sewing holes and a binding edge on the left hand margin. A good and acceptable example of an early full leaf.

Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and tooled in gilt on red ground. With dust jacket.

With 8 full-page illustrations by Ben Enwonwu. Neat ink ownership inscription on front pastedown ("W. Taylor, June 1960"). Trivial bump to ends of front joint and one corner, edges faintly foxed with
a few marks, cloth clean and bright. A very good copy indeed in like dustwrapper, spine darkened with a few nicks to head, shallow chip to foot of rear panel, a few marks to front panel, one corner creased, not price-clipped, very bright.

First edition, first impression. Tutuola, the celebrated author of The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952), was "among the earliest Nigerian fictional writers in English... who re-envisioned classic themes of African, particularly West African, storytelling and published them from the mid-twentieth century onwards in a written English that remains uniquely his" (Nyamnjoh).

[16], 382, [2]pp Frontispiece portrait of W McKinnon, tissue guard facing title page. Folding sketch map.

Hardback. Original dark olive boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board with crest to front. Slight wear to extremities, slightly rubbed. Overall a very good copy.