Search Results: Titles starting with C from Bibiliophilia Books

Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1670. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick octavo (22.5x13.5 cm). - [16], 918, [32] pages. - Contemporary full vellum; small remains of title on red label on spine; fine. - Uncut. - Title-page with engraved pictorial illustration, and with a small hole (1x6 cm) at the bottom, not affecting text or illustration. - With a multiply folding engraved map, and 4 engraved Illustrations on 2 plates. - Map and plates are very fine. - A later issue of Elzevir's classic edition of Caesar's collected works - and a fine example of Elzevirian printing;

Munchen: Verlag Kurt Desch. Soft cover. Very Good. Imperial quarto(28.5x20.5 cm) - [3], 52 pages. - Original dark brown wrapper, title printed within a frame. Small cracks in spine. - typescript, printed on cheap after-World War II paper. - "Published under authority of 6870 District Information Control Command license number: US-E 101. - Publication date not given. - VERY RARE: WorldCat locates only 3 copies (Erlangen, Karlsruhe, Munchen), and gives 2 different guesses for the date (1946 and 1950). Clearly, in view of being published under U.S. Army authority, the1946 date seems to be much more likely.

Carrara: Iginio Drovandi, 1880. Hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo (22.5x15.5 cm) . [4], VI, 414 pages . - With 9 (of 10) plates on heavy stock (including the frontispiece color map of Carrara). - Contemporary 3/4 red morocco, marbled covers. Spine with multiple decorations and title in gilt. Corners and edges very slightly worn. - Interior is fine. - Plates are very fine, and those present are: 1. Citta di Carrara (map), - 2. Panorama di Carrara e delle sue cave - 3. Duomo di Carrara. - 4. Panorama di Carrara. - 5. [Carrara] Fattacia principale del Teatro degli Animosi. 6. Torano e le cave di Crestola. - 7. Carrara Piazza Alberica. - 8. Carrara [Via Alberica]. - 9. Carrara, La Piazza d'Armi.

Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1869. Hardcover. As New/not applicable. 32mo (14x9 cm)., with the multiply folded 55.5x42 cm colored map. - 11 pages (with the title-page pasted to the verso of the front cover) [as issued?] - Original dark brown blind-stamped cloth, with title in gilt. - Blanchard (1821-1904) established his Chicago Map Store in 1854, and published high-quality maps and city guides of Chicago until his death. Those created before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 are often hard to find - as are all other pre-fire imprints, since most of those perished in the fire. - The folded lithographed map on bank note paper (colored in blue, yellow, pink, light green and dark green, with the city boundaries shown in red) is in pristine condition; as are the binding and the booklet, as well. - VERY RARE: WorldCat records only a single copy [Stanford University's David Ramsey Map Canter], while for the map issued in the same folder and the same year, but without the booklet, there are 12… Read More

Soft cover. Fine. [F. Lewiz]. No publisher, no place of publication, no year. [Apparently self-published, probably around 1971, in Chicago.] - Octavo (22x14.5 cm). - [2],156, [6] pages. - Paper-bound, with front cover illustration and title on spine. - Fine (covers slightly soiled, interior very fine). - On front cover, above an illustration showing a smiling African-American man (author?) behind bars: [$ 2.00 / ( COLOR-BLIND: ) NON-FICTION , NON-PROFESSIONAL: / WRITTEN AND ILUSTRATIONED (sic) BY THE AUTHOR: / KEEP-ON SMILING]. - On verso of back cover: a full-page photograph of the author at his typewriter, with an enormous collection of knives on his desk, and one in his hand. - Illustrated with drawings by the author, by reproductions of letters and documents, and by a profusion of newspaper clippings. - Life story of F. LEWIZ, born to a Chicsau Indian mother and a native Canadian Black father. Describes his childhood and youth in Mississippi, his work at a cotton gin,… Read More

New Tork: J. Carey, 1794. Hardcover. Good. 16mo (17x10.5 cm). - 224 pages. - Contemporary full calf, corners and edges worn. - Lacks title-page. - Works by Trumbull, Freneau, Humphreys, Dwight, Barlow, and many others

Urbana, Illinois: Clarendon Press, 1948. Hardcover. Fine. Medium octavo (24x16 cm). - xiii,424 pages. - Full dark blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Very fine. - With 6 plates, 9 tables, 129 figures and 3 appendices. - With ownership signature "S. Chandrasekhar" on the front free end-paper. - The Hungarian physicist LAJOS JANOSSY (1912-1968), adopted son of the renowned Marxist philosopher GYORGY (Georg) LUKACS (1885-1971), worked, focusing on astrophysics, in England and Ireland from 1936 to 1950. In 1950, he returned to Hungary to join the newly created Central Research Institute for Physics, which he directed from 1956 on. - The present work is based mostly on his pioneering experimental and theoretical work on cosmic rays. In 1950, he also published important research on particle showers, introducing the application of joint probability densities, now called Janossy densities, in the theory of random point processes. - SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR (1910-1995) is probably… Read More

Paris: Jombart, 1697. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. (19.5x11.5 cm). - [16], 191, blank,133, [10] pages; unnumbered plates - Contemporary full calf, spine with 5 bands and title. -Old library stamp, with shelf designation in red ink, on front free endpapr. Title-page , with vignette, printed in red and black. - Corner and edges somewhat worn. - With many tables, and 33 + 81 illustrations on plates. Binding scuffed. Interior fine. Link to photos available on request.

Budapest: Amicus, 1922. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. (24x17.5 cm). - 59 pages and plates. - Dark brown 1/2 cloth with faded gilt title on spine; brown boards with embossed publisher's logo in gilt - With 18 tipped-in illustrations (mostly full-page), and 3 text drawings. - The first book about the first Hunarian post-impressiionist. - For 14 years, Csontvary traveled all over Europe, as well as Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia and the Holy Land, and created fantastic and imaginative paintings.; as well as often enormous controversy - VERY RARE: WorldCat locates only 5 copies (New York, Budapest, Szeged, London and Berlin).

Budapest: A szerzo, 1896. Hardcover. Good. (24.5x16 cm). - [8], 129, [7] pages. - Gilt and black embossed red cloth, with image of Czinka Panna, and with title in gilt on front cover and spine. - Binding tight but soiled. Link to photos on request. - Ownership stamp on title-page; private inscription in English on front free end-paper. - A comprehensive listing of the most famous Hungarian Gypsy musicians (those of the past, as well as those active in 1896). - EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION: not in WorldCat.

Cadiz, Ohio: David Christy, 1835. No Binding. Fair/not applicable. missing binding but complete 411 pages 1835-1836 1 copy this edition/volume in WorldCat 10/18 Very rare Cadiz, Ohio imprint.

Salisburgi: Joannis Josephi Mayr, 1728. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio (42x29 cm). - [4], 226 pages. - Contemporary red calf, ornately decorated in gilt, spine also richly decorated in gilt, with ;6 bands; rubbed. - Marbled end-papers. - With pasted-on card: "Karl Wilhelm Kalassay / Embassy of the United States of America". - Printed in red and black throughout. - Title printed within engraved border. - Music with large notes printed on 4-line red rubrication. Some pages slightly soiled, loose; large closed tears of the pages 91-92 and 161-162. - Two full-page engravings by Philipp Kilian; text decorations in red. - Quite rare: WorldCat locates only 6 copies (4 in Germany and 1 in Italy and Poland each).

Madrid: Imprenta de viuda de M. Minuesa de los Ríos, 1895. Hardcover. Near Fine/not applicable. Inscribed by Author. Excellent condition. foxing browning of pages. See photos.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1884. Hardcover. Fair/not applicable. 431 pgs "Containing a classified list of all trades, professions and pursuits in the City of Chicago, alphabetically arranged together with city and county record, United States Offices, and churches. " Original binding. Front cover is separating from binding. Wonderful period business directory with a number of illustrated ads. RARE 1 copy in WorldCat (10/18)

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.

Paris: Ste?re?otype d'Herhan, de l'imprimerie des Fre`res Mame, 1807. Hardcover. Good. 24mo. - viii,298 pp. - Stereotype D'Hernan. De L'Imprimerie des Freres Mame: Paris, 1807. - Contemporary 3/4 leather, green boards, lacks latch. - Title in gilt on leather label on spine. - Overall wear, else very good.

London: W. Wilkins and J. Waldhoe, 1718. Hardcover. Good. London, Printed by W. Wilkins for Jonas Browne at the Black-Swan without Temple-Bar; and J. Waldhoe, Jun'. over-against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill. MDCCXVIII. - 12mo. - xvi,477,(3) pp. - Full calf, covers with double gilt borders. Disbound, covers only fair, lacks spine. interior good. - First edition. - The only collected edition of Blackmore's poems. - Shelf No.: c 370.

Paris: Maison Martinet (7) - Arnauld de Vredde (60. Soft cover. Very Good/not applicable. CHAM. (23x17 cm). - Not bound. - All profusely illustrated with title vignette. and 56- 60 cartoons and croquis.. - Some of the pamphlets have a few partially darkened and detaches pages. Link to additional photos available on request.

Franckfurt am Mayn: Schmied und Feyerabend, 1576. Hardcover. Very Good. Small folio (32x22 cm). - [10], 446, [36] leaves. - Contemporary1/2-calf, with 4 raised bands; marbled-paper covered old boards, worn. - - Title-page (with engraving showing Luther and his disciples at a table, and a group of small children looking on) , as well as the first few pages, somewhat soiled and frayed. - With engraved portrait of Luther, and medallion- portraits of Luther and Melanchton, at the beginning of the text. Many engraved initials. - Includes, as a Supplement, Georg Walther's "Propheceyung Doctoris Martin Lutheri", with a separate title-page, with engraved illustrations. including full-figure portraits of Luther and Melanchton. - Rare edition of Luther's table talks; recorded by Johann Aurifaber, and immediately shared with the participants; and later on collected and edited by him. - First published in 1566.

Chicago: C. V. Ritter, 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/not applicable. Octavo (23x15.5 cm). - VIII, 21 pages. - Publisher's dark brown half-cloth, title on red label on spine; red marbled boards. Fine. -- With a multi-color frontispiece printed on heavy stock, entitled "The Visual Tetrad Color Chart". - Inscribed in ink on the front free end-paper: "To K. Dunlap / Sincerely, / Faber Birren / October 6, 1928". - With multiple small light stamps: "Property of Journal Comparative Psychology".