Search Results: Titles starting with O from Bibiliophilia Books

Amstelodami: Blaviana, 1683. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. Crown octavo (20x12 cm). - Three volumes:: [16], 832, [14]; 805,{10]; 810, [9] pages. - Full leather, spines with 5 raised bands; covers somewhat worn, spine of Volume I cracked - Volume I with a title-page; all three with engraved frontispieces, with more detailed titles. - Volume I with one full-page engraved plate (portrait of Ovid), Volume II with 15 detailed copper engraved plates. - EXTREMELY RARE: WorldCat shows only two locations for the complete set [Cambridge, UK, and Melbourne, AU] , and one for Volume II alone [Erfgoed, Antwerpen], and one for Volume III alone [Plantin-Moretus, Antwerpen].

Nurnberg: Endtner, 1729. Hardcover. Good. 16mo (17.5x11 cm). - 449, [61] pages. - Later half-leather, marble -paper boards; title "Alte Handwerke" on spine. - Very good. - Interior has quite a few soiled pages, and lacks title, as well as Pages 1-2 and 39-40. With almost page-long closed tear on Page 287-288, and tears with some loss on Pages 417-422 and 425-426. - With 148 (of 150) third-page size woodcuts, showingVarious trades, occupations, geography, botany, zoology, etc. - Many of the illustrations are crudely colored, clearly by a child. - The Czech pedagogue JAN AMOS KOMENSKY [Johann Amos Comenius (1592-1670)] revolutionized education by publishing this book for educating children with visual reinforcement, and in their native languages. In Latin and German.

Franckfurt am Mayn: Daniel Fievet, 1665. Hardcover. Good. Quarto (33.5x20 cm). - [10], 431, [13], blank, [12], 362, [16] pages . - 3/4 leather, marbled paper covers; front cover loose, back cover detached, spine in poor condition. Lacks end-papers. - With 47 portrait plates (13 of which contain 9 portraits each) - one on horseback. - With 46 inserted engraved views of fortifications, cities and battle scenes. - Both title-pages are printed in red-and-black (first laid down, and somewhat soiled). - With a separate engraved title-page, fully illustrated (with very small closed tears, also laid down). - Large (32.5x50 cm) multiply folded map (small part missing, laid down). - Third (and final, most extensive) edition of one of the most important works on the history of Hungary, and the principal work on the Turkish Wars. This description does not do this facinating book justice.

Chicago: La Verne Noyes, 1913. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. Licoes sobre o Evangelho de S. Marcos. 12mo (19.5x13 cm). - [117] pages. - Publisher's half-leather, mottled brown cloth, with title in gilt on front cover and spine. Spine rubbed. Marbled end-papers. - Frontispiece photo of Noyes. - Inscribed by La Verne Noyes, in memory of his wife. - Noyes also endowed the IDA NOYES HALL, which is now one of the most popular buildings on the University of Chicago campus.

New York: Harry Silverman, 1934. Soft cover. Very Good/not applicable. (28x24 cm). - 12 pages - Pamphlet with multi-colored front cover, and with Mussolini saluting. --Bback cover with quotation from Pietro Mascagni: "La Piu Importante Banda del Mondo". - Substantial cracks of spine. - Profusely illustrated. - Some pencil notations on several pages. - EXTREMELY RARE: not in WorldCat.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. - xiv,166,(5) pp. - Stiff beige wrappers, with printed title and color illustration. - top 1/5th of front cover and spine slightly darkened, else fine. - First edition (so stated). - Inscribed in ink: "To Jack, in Chicago, / with best wishes - / Kenneth Koch / April 1989". - Shelf No.: c 283. more images at photos.app.goo.gl/XJHcP3LgsEieGuRJ6 .

Mediolani [Milan]: Johannis Angelus Scinzenzeler, 1514. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. Imperial octavo (29.5x21.5 cm). - [8], CXXVI leaves. - Contemporary mottled calf; spine with 6 raised bands, embossed floral decoration in gilt, and title embossed in gilt on red leather label on spine. Corners and edges somewhat worn, else fine. - Title-page printed in red-and-black; with Scinzenzeler's famous printer's device: "An angel within a rectangle holding a disc - there are initials at he feet of the angel, and the words "IO IACOMO E FRAT DE LAGNANO" circumscribing a blazing sun, in the middle of which there is the monogram 'I. H. S.', under a cross." - Fine, except for a few small wormholes on the front free end-paper, two contemporary manuscript comments and a tiny smudge in the printer's device on the title-page; and a small damage (with some loss of text) on the last leaf. - Also, small (0.5x3 cm) tear without loss of text, at the bottom of… Read More

Parisiis: Apud Simonem Colinaeum, 1541. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. Two volumes in one. - 1541- [1542]. - Medium 8vo. (23x16 cm). - [4], 250 and 84 leaves. - Contemporary hard vellum; spine with 6 raised bands, and author's name in old ink. Somewhat worn, top and bottom of spine cracked (2-3 cm) on both sides; small hole (0.5 cm) on back cover, a brown spot (1.5x1.5 cm) on front cover. - Lacks front end-paper. Title-page somewhat soiled. - With engraved book-plate "Ex Libris Anciennes & Modernes, Vol.XL". - With Colines's famous satyr printer's device on the title-page in both volumes - Engraved initials in both volumes. - The first volume is printed using Roman letters, and Italics in the" Index", while the second is entirely in Italics. - Printed marginalia in the first work. - Three small slips with neat, very small lettered notes in old ink, are laid in. - The "Institutio Oratoria" of Marcus Fabius Quintilianus,… Read More