Search Results: Titles starting with S from Bibiliophilia Books

Leipzig: Nicolaus Wolrab, 1539. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. Quarto (32x20cm). - [17], CCLXIII, [107] leaves. - Contemporary highly decorated blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with 4 raised bands on spine. Corners worn, top 2 cm of spine missing. Lacks front free end-paper. Title-page soiled and worn, a 2 cm piece of lower right corner missing. - With a large engraving on recto of Leaf 3, as well another one on verso of last leaf. (A 6.5 cm blank portion of the last leaf is missing.) - With a profusion of marginal comments and drawings, as well as some underlining of text, in old ink. - A tight copy. - The Sachsenpiegel (Saxon Mirror) is by far the most important law book of the Holy Roman Empire - and, also, the first comprehensive law book written not in Latin, but in Middle Low German language. The manuscript was compiled and translated from Latin in the early 13th century by Elke von Repgow (1180-1233). - The present copy is a very early printing of the book: the first… Read More

n.p. [Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden)]: Ex Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1612. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. 16mo. (16.5x9 cm). - [24], 144, 154,{1] pages. - Contemporary full vellum, 5 cm closed crack between front cover and spine, and smaller ones at lower edges of covers. Lacks endpapers. - Binding with remnants of old manuscript on vellum, in red and black. - Title-page, with printer's device, printed in red-and-black (somewhat worn). - Printed in Latin and Greek. - First edition of the popular satire on contemporary "foolish scholars" by the Leiden professor Petrus Cunaes [van der Kun (1586-1638)], to which is added Cunaeus' edition of the "Satyra in Romanos Imperatores" by the Emperor Julian (331-363), in Latin and Greek; with a separate title-page, and an engraved portrait of Julian on Page 30. - USTC Reference No. 1033645.

Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1840. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. (15.5x9.5 cm). - 117, 3 blank pages. - Contemporary 1/2-leather, spine with 4 bands and title in gilt. Worn. - With a multiply folding frontispiece map of America, and 78 illustrations on plates. Title-page with a vignette showing a Native American with headgear, and a ship (Columbus?) in the background. - (Illustration 39 with a small closed tear, Illustration 42 with a 1x3 cm piece missing from lower left corner.) - With inscription on front free end-paper, in old ink: "Presented / to Margaret G. .....(?) / By / Isaac Drew / February 20th, 1844". - Taylor describes for juvenile readers early travels and the discovery of America, including material about Columbus, Cortes, Native Americans, Lewis and Clark and the West Indies. - EXTREMELY RARE: surprisingly, WorldCat does not locate any hard copy of this edition.

Hirschberg: Dietrich Krahn, 1736. Hardcover. Fine. FULL TITLE OF FIRST WORK continues: " . Welche von 1696. biss 1737. Theils daselbst den Allerhochsten zu preisen, theils die erstaunenden Wunder der Natur zu betrachten, theils sich eine Gemuthsvergnugung oder Leibes- bewegung zu machen, theils den beruffenen Riebenzahl auszukundschafften, von allerhand Liebhabers angestellet worden sind; Die sich denn zu einem bestandigen Andenken in die daselbst befindlichen SCHNEEKOPPEN-BUCHER Namentlich und meistens mit beyfalligen merkwurdigen Gedanken in gebundener Rede eingeschrieben haben. - Auf vieles Verlangen heraus gegeben, und mit einigen bekannten und unbekannten Historien von dem abentheurlichen RIEBEN-ZAHL vergesellschafftet. - Nebst einer Vorrede: Von den Wundern, Schonheiten, Vortrefflichkeiten und der naturlichen Beschaffenheit dieser Gebirge." - Wide crown octavo (20.5x16.5 cm). - [40],350;[2],97,[3] pp. - Modern full calf (slightly scuffed), title in gilt on leather label on spine.… Read More

London and New Ylork: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD, and DODD, MEAD and COMPANY, 1927. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. ALASTAIR. (32x26 cm). - 67, [1] pages, 8 plates. - Cream cloth, decoration embossed in brown, title in gilt. - Lacks bottom of spine [1cm], which has the title in gilt. - Covers somewhat soiled. - Color frontispiece. - Title-page printed in red and black. - No. 56 of 1050 copies. - Uncut and partially unopened. - SIGNED in pencil on the plate following page 30. https://photos.app.goo.gl/eD4pic1bE48BGbgC9

Nurnberg: Endter, 1657. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. (19x15 cm). - 1314, [39] pages; 104; [16],149, blank; 68 pages. - The famous monumental collection [1324 pages, 10 cm thick] of the German theologian Glassius (1593-1656). - VERY RARE; there are only 2 locations listed by WorldCat with exactly same title and pagination [ Dresden, Leipzig] Link to photos available on request.

Madrid: Blas de Villanueva, 1717. Hardcover. Fair/Poor. Imperial octavo 8(29.5x21 cm). - [29], 427 pages. - Soft vellum, title in old ink on spine. Soiled and worn;, spine with a few small holes, crumbled end-papers with tears. - Interior with many small wormholes and brow drops on a few pages. - Title-page within a beautiful frame of engraved floral illustrations. - Many engraved headpieces, initials and end-pieces.. - Printed in double columns. - Printed marginalia. - QUITE RARE: WorldCat locates only 5 copies [Barcelona (2), Granada, Madrid, Mexico, D. F.]

[New York]: Equinox, Published by Avon, 1975. Soft cover. Very Good. Tall crown octavo (27x13.5 cm). - 113 pages - Publisher's light grey boards, title printed in black. Small tear, without loss at bottom of spine, else fine. Small bend at the bottom. - Interior very fine. - UNCORRECTED PROOF. - Considered to be one of the most successful of the 5 African-American crime novels of the Virginia-born Pharr (1816-1912). - According to the Encyclopedia Virginia: "Although marred by Pharr's didacticism, The Soul Murder Case, a harrowing description of addiction and an explicit treatment of sexuality, featured a narrative and was considered the most successful of his later works.

Roma, 1935. First Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New/not applicable. (21x15 cm). - {3], 9 pages. - Pamphlet; cover with title and illustration. As new. - Very rare: WorldCat locates only 3 copies {Mattarello, Trento, and Frankfurt/Main] Link to additional photos available on request.

Brooklyn: Editions Hemispheres, 1843. Soft cover. Very Good. Octavo (24x15 cm). - 74, [6] pages. - Yellow boards, title on spine and printed material on both covers. - Very good. - With 4 surrealistic plates by ANDRE MASSON. - With contributions be ANDRE BRETON (2), ANDRE MASSON, YVAN GOLL (2), HENRY MILLER, CLAIRE GOLL, PHILIP LAMNTIA, and many others. - The renowned magazine of French surrealists in exile. In French and English.

Francoforti: Wolfgang Richter, 1605. Hardcover. Very Good. Crown octavo (19x14.5 cm). - 317, [31] pages. - Hardbound with marbled paper covers (old, but not contemporary); lacks top 5.5 cm of spine. - With a 4.5x3.5 cm engraved printer's device on title-page, as well as a headpiece and some initials. - Interior fine, except for being browned throughout. - Rare first edition of this important collection of documents of the "Schwabische Chronik" of the Middle Ages.

London - 17 Thavies Inn: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo (23x14.5 cm). - 76, [4] pages. - Original dark blue cloth, title printed in blue on white label on spine, label somewhat frayed. Bottom of spine slightly worn. - Free end-papers somewhat browned, rest of interior very fine. - Uncut. - First edition. - Printed by Richard Cobden-Sanderson. - Inscribed in ink om front free end-paper: " To Miss Paton (?) / the previous muse (?) / of my friend / William Force Stead". - Also signed in somewhat lighter ink: "Dartmoor's edge / Louis Golding / 23 - 6 - 22". - The American- born William Force Stead (1884-1967), a diplomat and a poet, became an Anglican clergyman and chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford from 1927 to 1930. - Stead was a close friend of T. S. Eliot, and during Eliot's 1927 religious conversion, Stead baptized him to the Church of England. - EXTREMELY RARE: surprizingly,WorldCat locates only an eBook… Read More

Paryz (Paris): Ivstytut Literacki, 1953. Soft cover. Fine. Crown octavo (21x13 cm0. - 156, {3] pages. - Original wrappers printed in brown and black; spine slightly faded and creased. Interior somewhat yellowed, else fine. - First edition. - The first poetry book published in exile by Milosz (1911- 2004), winner of the Nobel Prize in 1980.

Monterey, CA: Nail Press, 1973. Soft cover. As New/not applicable. (28x22 cm). - [26] pages. - Stapled hand-colored silk screen etched covers in blue, white, green and silver. - Almost as new. - Type-written poetry printed on green and yellow paper. Very fine. - Three full-page neostyle etchings by Fred Marchman (Dr.JoMo) - Typeset on a Recycled 1915 Underwood Standard Typewriter. Printed on a 1909 Rotary Neostyle Hand Mimeo.

Boston: Geo. V. Jones & Co., 1888. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. (24x16.5 cm). - Printed in double columns. - Profusely illustrated sample pages, concluding with Page 1593. followed by 8 pages of illustrated single column pages, with ads for other Scammell publications. - Embossed illustrated full dark yellow cloth; title embossed in gilt. - -Very good. - Title-page printed in red and black, with red margins. - An 8.5 cm wide sample leather of the spine,With title printed on black leather label, pasted to the verso of the front cover. - WorldCat lists 2 St. Louis and 2 Philadelphia editions with various dates, but NO BOSTON EDITION.

Hertenstein Presse, 1984. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. Interior condition fine. Copy #44 Signed by Author. More photos available on request.

St. Louis: J. H. Chambers & Co. , 1890. No Binding. Good. Title continues: " . Male and Female, Single and Married, the Curious and Thoughtful, for Thinkers, Lovers of the Lost Arts, for Believers in the Divine Science of Natural and Celestial Magic, Dreams, Omens, Spells, Charms Enchantments, Incantations, Etc, Etc." - 12mo. - (4),446 pp. - Original plain black wrappers (front cover, and some small pieces gone). - Interior very fine. - Profusely illustrated, with 22 full-page engravings (including frontispiece), small text vignettes, as well as head- and tail-pieces and initials. - VERY RARE: WorldCat locates only a single copy [Huntington]

Lubecae (Lubeck): Wiedemeyer, 1699. First edition . Hardcover. Fine/not applicable. 8vo. 922.5X17 cm). - (10),63 pp. - Wiedemeyer, Lubecae, 1699. - Leather over wooden boards (wood slightly broken on front and back covers, leather somewhat worn). Spine with 6 raised bands. Paper partially browned (but not affecting plate), else fine. - With a folding plate, showing both sides of 18 gold coins, each with the portrait of a Hungarian king, from Ludovicus through Leopoldus (1689). - With some initials and an elaborate endpiece. - In Latin. - Apponyi III, 1468.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1968. First edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Large 12mo. - 216 pp. - Inscribed by Gregory on front end-paper: " To you / from me / Dick Gregory". - Blue cloth, fine. D/j good only.

Cleveland Ohio: John P. Jewett & Company, 1856. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. Illustrated guided book. 225pp plus 41 page section of charming period advertisements, many illustrated. Very tight blue embossed binding, with very little foxing. Excellent copy.