Search Results: Titles starting with L from Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)

Le Mans. Imprimerie ch. Monnoyer. 1942. Soft cover. 8vo, 25cm, 168p., many tables & diagrams, original printed wraps, unopened, near fine copy, scarce.

Paris. A. Quantin, Imprimeur-Editeur. 1883. Soft cover. tall8vo, 25.5cm, iv,138,[2,pl]p., rubricated title, extensively one colour (sepia's) illustrated throughout from drawings and after paintings and water colours by Avril, most pages set in decorated frame borders, beautifully printed and bound in fine signed binding by "Pawson & Nicholson" in full green morocco, raised bands, gilt decorated spine panels and elaborate border decorations on the boards, wide inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, with the original colour decorated wraps bound in, some slight wear at the edges and bands but a very good to fine copy. (cgc) A wonderful illustrated treatise on the history of costume, especially umbrellas, parasols, gloves, and muffs. Paul Avril was one of the greatest book illustrators of the Nineteenth century.

Con Privilegio. In Venetia, Appresso Damian Zenaro, M.D.XCV. [1595]. 4to, 22x 16cm, The First Edition, [32],209,[3]p., signatures: t8, a-b4 (tavola), A-2B4, 2C6; folding, engraved map of Hungary by Girolamo Porro, dated 1595, in half Japon vellum over early paper boards, edges marbled in red and blue, decorative head-pieces & historiated initials, woodcut title vignette & printer's device of crowned salamander surrounded by flames, Pro Patria watermark on endpapers and paste-downs, small stain in margin of one leaf, printing is clear and bright (Lol). ~ Atabey 358. BLSTC (Italy 1465-1600), 219. Graesse II, 417. Edit 16- ICCU. ~ Giovanni Nicolo Doglioni was born in Venice and educated in Padua. He returned to Venice to take on administrative roles in the city, until the plague of 1576 decimated his young family. After his own recovery, he wrote major historical works on Venice, as well as this foremost account of Hungary's early history. Included in this work are descriptions of the Ottoman campaigns… Read More

Manuscript oblong vellum document. 18x 57cm, (7" x 22"), docketed, rolling top edge, very good to fine condition () ~ Being the final agreement in the Court of our sovereign Lord the King at Wesmin't . in the seventeenth year of the Reign of George the Second. between Richard Jolly and William Rigden and his wife, of usuage one barn, one stable, one limekiln, one chalkpit, one garden, one orchard & ten acres of Land. in Woodnesborough, [Kent] otherwise Winsborow. [legalese]. Richard hath given to the afores'd William & Jane sixty pounds sterling. ~ Part of a larger document relating to a land transfer in the Canterbury, Kent area of England in 1743. The background and need for the land transfer would have been taken to a high court at Westminster.

Montreal.Librairie Beauchemin, Limitee. 1906. Hardcover. 19cm, 158p., title-page vignette,frontis, 12 plates, errata lip tipped-in, red pictorial cloth, fine .Text in French. (Qc) A book published in celebration of the twenty-fifthanniversary of the formation of the Abbey of Notre-Dame-du-Lac at Oka,Quebec. Formed in 1881 by Trappist monks from France, the abbey is nowknown as the Cistercian Abbey or La Trappe d'Oka and is one of thelargest Trappist monasteries in the world.

London. Henry Colburn, Publisher. 1849. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 19.3cm, The First Edition, in 2 volumes, xvi,345,[2] & viii,326pp., (with 2 page errata leaf), with 2 vignette (beaver illus) title pages & 6 engraved plate views, (inc 2 frontis) & 2 engraved maps, 1 grounds plan in the text, in contemporary half light maroon/brown calf, gilt and blind ruled raised bands, black and red crushed morocco labels, marbled boards and endpapers, 4 plates have some foxing, two plates have closed tears, a very good to fine set, Rare with the errata leaf. (cgc) Of the fourteen references we located, none contained the two page errata leaf. T.P.L. 2950. Lande 3. Sabin 733. Morgan p7. Dionne II 1260. Guilbeault. 1873. Story p12. Waterston p82. "The witty and clear-sighted Colonel reminisces about the Rebellion of 1837, the first session of the Parliament of United Canada, and weaves into the story of his own travels a wealth of less dramatic scenes. A central and illuminating book, L'Acadie is concerned not… Read More

Tours. Alfred Mame et Fils. 1865. Hardcover. 8vo. 24cm, second edition, ii,551p., engraved frontis and numerous engraved plates and text illustrations, in quarter black morocco, raised bands, extra gilt decorations in the panels, gilt titles, cloth boards, a.e.g., edges rubbed and worn, a good to very good sound working copy (sgc).

Amsterdam. chez Abraham Wolfgang, pr‚s la Bourse. 1688. 24mo., 15cm, [ii](adveristment),331,[1]p., with 7 folding copper engraved maps, red speckled on the edges, full contempoary vellum, gilt spine titles in gilt decorated frame borders, slightly dust worn, a fine clean copy, rare thus.(cgc). Not in Lande; T.P.L.; Gagnon; Stevens, Henry. Historical Nuggets. p73, Howes B-546. Sabin 5970. J.C.B. Books printed 1675-1700, p186. Siebert V1-114. (English Ed). Walfdon p149 (Eng ed), Blome promotes European emigration to America through a review of the East coast of America from Newfoundland to South Carolina, particularly the Caribbean Islands, New England, and New York, including in his tract small, attractive, engraved regional maps. Contains an Indian captivity narrative. (Siebert). Eight pages in this survey of British colonies are devoted to Newfoundland. Blome refers to Sebastian Cabot and to subsequent British involvement and then desribes the native Indians, their belief, sexual mores, and burial… Read More

Paris. Editions Promodis. 1985. 4to. 29cm, 489p., abondamment illustr‚ ... partir des planches et illustrations originales grav‚es, dont 16 planches pr‚liminaires en couleurs, bibliographie, index, toile fauve, titres de dos dor‚s sur ‚tiquette noire, belle en jaquette presque fine, dans un ‚tui uni. (Tr). Une ‚tude d‚taill‚e de l'exploration et de la colonisation des Espagnols dans le Nouveau Monde : Christophe Colomb ; Vespucci; Magellan; beaucoup sur les Indiens; colonies en Floride, au Paraguay, au Mexique, au P‚rou ; j‚suites; Missions; soci‚t‚ coloniale. La bibliographie : ® Catalogie bibliographique des recuits des voyages des Europeen en Amerique espagnole ¯ : est trŠs d‚taill‚e avec des livres allant de Colomb (1493) ... Pedro de Angelis (1837) avec de nombreuses illustrations de pages de titre, de cartes et de feuillets de texte. Un travail impressionnant.

Montreal. Cie d'Imprimerie et de Lithographie Gebhardt-Berthiaume. 1893. Soft cover. 22cm, 91p., original printed wraps, very good to fine copy. (qc).

Toronto. W. J. Gage Limited. 1960. Hardcover. 20.5cm, 82p., references, original navy cloth with gilt titles, a fine copy (eds).

Montreal. Granger Freres Limitee. 1951. Soft cover. 24cm, 8th edition, 203, (2)pp., page head illustration, double-page map, half polished green calf, raised bands, gilt borders and decorations in the panels, gilt spine titles, blue cloth boards, marbled endpapers, original stiff wraps bound in, light spine sligthly toned (stamping clear), authors signed presentation copy, a fine copy. (Cdn) A finely bound history of Canada, for children, by Quebec author and historian, Jean Bruchesi (1901-1979). "Approuve par le conseil de l'Instruction publique du Manitoba". (title-page). With a large map of New France by Rene Chicoine.

Paris. Jacques Estienne. 1731. 8vo. 19cm, second edition, lxxiv,692,(4)pp., with 2 engraved portraits including frontis, Approbation & Privilege du Roi, in full contemporary calf, real raised bands, gilt borders and decorations in the panels, boards heavily worn particularly on the edges, upper outer hinge cracked, internally good copy (ds1). ~ Saint Francis of Sales (1567-1622) was the Bishop of Nicopolis (1599) and Geneva (1602). He was canonized 1665. The frontis is a engraved portrait of Saint Francis and an engraved portrait (with Preface) by the author Jean-Pierre Camus, Bishop of Belley (1584-1652). With Approbations and Privilege du Roi.

Montreal. Eusebe Senecal & Fils, Imprimeurs. 1891. Soft cover. 8vo, 22cm, 18p., original printed wraps, dust worn else very good to fine condition, signed (cn/qe).

Paris & Montreal. Libraire Masson & Libraire Beauchemin. Hardcover. 1935, tall8vo. 25cm, 366,336,577pp., with 125 plates, 77 maps and figures (some folding), index, blue calf, marbled boards, a near fine set (dt).

Quebec. Imprime par Hean Neilson. 1794. 8vo. 20cm, in contemporary full sheep, bands, no titles, with the following defects: wanting pp16-40 - pages 41-44 paper defected with text loss, wanting pp139-146 from the appendix, (bound with: De L'Influence de la Forme des Governemens sur Les Nations. Brussels. 1817. 114p.,), very good condition, very rare (cgc) - Tremaine 919. (Tremaine copy 16.3x 10cm) locates 4 copies, Lande S2330. Gagnon II-2286. Valch 1110. Dionne I-36. No auction or other recent records located. Not in Sabin; Not in Amtmann STC, Written by a well known English agriculturist and author of Travels during the years 1787-89, etc, in France. It is a work for landed gentry and husbandmen on the hazards implicit in an economy tolerant of republican principals. It includes a plan for the organization of national militia and is said to have been heartily approved by the English Whig administration, also by Edmund Burke'. It was published in at least four editions, and an abridgement, in… Read More

Paris. Au Siege de la Societe. 1868. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo, 22cm, first edition, 144p., rear folding colour polar map, bound in modern quarter linen backed pebbled dark blue cloth boards, gilt label along the spine, inner linen hinges, marbled endpapers with the original printed wrappers bound in, in fine condition thus, with John Bockstoce's bookplate. (ar) First book edition after the offprinted periodical issue. cf. A.B. 9632. The author in projecting a program of French polar exploration (which never materialized) here summaries polar exploration in general, current opinions on routes to the Pole, and scientific knowledge of the day. Lambert suggests an approcah to the North Pole via Bering Strait.

Amsterdam. Chez Jean Covens et Corneille Mortier, (After De L'Isle with updating & text after French Compagnie des Indes in 1739). 1740. No Binding. Near Fine. 47 x 53 cm. (18«" x 21"), plus good wide margins, original outline coloured, small library stamp on the verso, there is an area of slight foxing or transfer, about one inch wide and five inches long at the fold on the top half but overall a fine copy. Southern Hemisphere & Antarctica. From:Atlas Nouveau, contenant toutes les parites du monde. Parallel text in French and Dutch, in the margins. Small inset "Plan et vue des terres du Cap de la Circoncision [ie, Bouvert Island]. Cf. Phillips. Atlases. (3),595. Fitzgerald M-206.

Montreal. Boreal. 2003. 8vo, 23cm, 428p., many illustrations, illustrated stiff wraps, trade paperback, as new (gar).

Amsterdam. Andre de Hoogenhuyen. 1691. Hardcover. 16cm, 452,[18],[42]pp., index, notes, in contemporary speckled calf, real raised bands, gilt decorations in the panels, gilt spine title, edges wornm top spine edge chipped, bit shaken but sound, good to very good, (hman.1). ~ Nicolas Perrot, Sieur d'Ablancourt (1606 1664) was a French translator noted for his translations of the Greek and Latin into French. He was a member of the Academie francais. This second volume contains Annals, Germania and Agricola by Tacitus.