Search Results: Titles starting with T from Butler Rare Books

19cm x 13cm. Original Victorian gilt cloth. Old Sunday School label to ffep. 338pp, + 22pp of publisher's adverts. A very good copy of a scarce original Spurgeon title.

The Death of Ptolemy, a miniature on a cutting from Laurent de Premierfait, Du cas des nobles hommes et femmes (his translation into French of Boccaccio's Latin De casibus vivorum illustrium) [France, probably Troyes, c.1470]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION AND MATERIALITY
Parchment, a cutting, c.105×80mm, with a miniature on one side and 17 lines of text on the other, ruled in pale red ink, written in a very fine lettre bâtarde script, capitals stroked in yellow, a gold paraph with blue penwork, with some minor flaking of pigments in the sky at the upper edge and in the ground near Boccaccio's feet.
Unlike most of the items in this catalogue, which have survived down through the centuries only through luck and good fortune (while the rest of the volumes from which they come have long-since been destroyed or discarded), the preset cutting represents a completely different kind of survival. In this case the text leaves of the parent manuscript have perhaps suffered the same fate as binders' waste, but the… Read More

1952, silver gelatin print 25.5cm x 20cm (10" x 8"). Right hand corners bumped, press caption and marks and stamps to verso of print including the Magnum Photo stamp. Dated 7 June, 1952. Window mounted in archival and acid-free mount size 38cm x 32cm

First edition: 2010Hardback with dustwrapper protected in mylar cover. A fine copy in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author to the half-title in black ink. Size: 295mm x 245mm

An original photographic print by the renowned Edwardian female photographer, (Mary) Olive Edis taken of Thomas Hardy in 3/4 length profile. Print size 36cm x 28cm. Frame size 56cm x 47cm. Edis took a series of portraits of Thomas Hardy at the same sitting. Our print is identical to that held by The National Portrait Gallery which is dated 1923.

Olive Edis was a successful British photographer who became Britain's first official war photographer in 1919. She was most famous for her studio portraits which included royalty, politicians and a series
of Norfolk fishermen. Some of her portraits are in The National Portrait Gallery in London.

SIGNED by the photographer to the title page in thick black ink. First printing, first edition. 116pp. Published in collaboration with Medicines Sans Frontieres. Text in French. The oversized paperback has no interior markings or damage. Very good condition. This is a very early publication by Salgado which was the result of a 15 month stint in the Sahara photographing starving refugees. [Together with] a Sebastio Salgado signed stiff gallery card 5 X 8 inches in size. Gallery card is beautifully printed.

1250. No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two bi-folia from a decorated manuscript Missal in Latin on parchment [probably French border with Low Countries, mid-thirteenth century] 4 leaves (2 bifolia) text not contiguous but leaves probably from same gathering, single column, 18 lines of professional early gothic bookhand, capitals touched in red, red rubrics, 2-line initials in red or blue with elaborate scrolling penwork in contrasting colour extending up and down border with leaf-like offshoots in same arranged along a coloured bar on either side of a coloured bar and terminating in tiny curling tendrils, some small spots and smudges, but overall clean and presentable 195 x 136mm. These leaves are from a handsome book, most probably produced for use in a monastic community dedicated to the Third Order of St. Francis, perhaps in the Low Countries where they were common. They include offices for the rare saint, Elizabeth, princess of Hungary on both bifolia ("Beata elyzabeth filia regis… Read More

A signed typed letter and an autograph postcard addressed to the English literary agent Douglas Maxwell. The letter from the renowned NY photographer, Helen Levitt, her NY address, 4 E. 12 St. New York, dated June 5 1986 and the postcard (illustrated by one of her own works) dated 5.18. Discussing possible book publications.

A signed typed letter and an autograph postcard addressed to the English literary agent Douglas Maxwell. Helen Levitt was an American photographer and cinematographer. She was particularly noted for her street photography around New York City (of which see our other items listed here). David Levi Strauss described her as 'the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time' 1913-2009. A signed typed letter and an autograph postcard addressed to the English literary agent Douglas Maxwell.

London : printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill at the Anchor and Bible in Pauls Church-yard, near the little north-door, 1657 [i.e. 1656], 1657. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Quarto. 180mm x 140mm. This is a variant issue of Wing V575. In this issue the first quire consists of the title page which is mostly in the same setting as Wing V575, and three leaves of verse signed by Richard Baxter. [16], 376, [4]pp Lacks the advertisements at the rear. A very good copy with crisp pages. Original C17th boards. Rebacked in period style with raised bands and label in lettered style