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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (Bernard Quaritch, London). Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1884. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Photo-lithograph plates (56) With ornamental Title-page and 56 magnificent full-page Illustrations by Elihu Vedder, reproduced by the Lewis phototype process. Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Medium brown flat-weave cloth over beveled boards; front cover with gilt-ruled borders, symbolist design of vase, vine, swirl and stars, and titling 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' and 'Drawings by Elihu Vedder'; rear cover without decoration; spine with gilt-ruled borders, floral ornaments, and titling 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'; illustrator's facsimile signature, gilt, on front cover, lower right "V."; grey coated endpapers with grapevine decoration; t.e.g.. Detailed collation: 2 Frontis; 3 Title; 6 Pictorial Imprint; 7 Pictorial dedication; 10 Pictorial Fly-title; 11-103 Text of Third… Read More

A rare and beautiful copy of Orthodox Evangelion with luxury purple velvet binding with brass clasps and corner and center ornaments. Woodcut printed text and hand-colored illustrations. The book contains multiple hand inscriptions that are only partially legible.The pencil inscription on the front flyleaf contains references to Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, as well as the years: 1911 and 1914. It is possible that the text in some way refers to the Bosnian crisis which served as a prelude to WWI. But, since we have not been able to translate the entire text, we cannot be certain of the context. In the Romanian language, in old Cyrillic script.Pp. /6/ + 344 (Cyrillic numeration); 4 hand colored illustrations, vignettes; initials.Size: 31.2 x 21 cm.Binding: Luxury purple velvet binding with two brass clasps and brass decorations on the covers. Renewed leather spine and renewed endpapers. The front cover was damaged along the edges, with stains and candle wax. Metal decorations… Read More

J. M. Dent and Co.. London. 1909. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. 4to. (11.5 x 8.8 inches). LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY RACKHAM. One of only 750 numbered copies. Beautifully illustrated with 13 mounted colour plates, the frontis with a tissue guard, two full page black and white plates, and 31 line drawings as chapter headings and tail pieces. Publishers white cloth with gilt lettering and illustration to front board. Spine lettered in gilt. Two sets of rose coloured silk ties, still present. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Decorative endpapers, printed on vellum style paper with a blue tint, with gold ink. Red silk book marker. A very small bump to the top outer corner of the front board otherwise a fine and bright copy. Uncommon in such nice condition. --- This deluxe edition includes one extra colour plate, an image of the Yahoos, that wasn't included in the regular trade edition. --- Riall. Bibliography of Arthur Rackham. Page 91 (incorrectly listing fewer line illustrations and the wrong title of the… Read More

Willughby, Francis, and John Ray. (1635-1672) The Ornithology Of Francis Willughby Of Middleton in the County of Warwick Esq.; Fellow of the Royal Society. In Three Books. Wherein All the Birds Hitherto Known, Being reduced into a Method sutable to their Natures, are accurately described. The Descriptions illustrated by most Elegant Figures, nearly resembling the live Birds, Engraven in LXXVIII Copper Plates. Translated into English, and enlarged with many Additions throughout the whole Work. To which are added, Three Considerable Discourses, [I. Of the Art of Fowling: With a Description of several Nets in two large Copper Plates. II. Of the Ordering of Singing Birds. III. Of Falconry. By John Ray, Fellow of the Royal Society. Psalm 104. 24. How manifold are thy works, O Lord? In wisdom hast thou made them all: The Earth is full of they riches. London: Printed by A.C. for John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Pauls' Church-Yard, 1678 Folio, 360 x 222 mm. First English edition.… Read More

Parisiis: Lodoicum Noel 1542. (Hardcover) iv, 117, 64, 36, 76, 48, 60 leaves.. Good. Brown leather, the front and back covers with double-ruled borders in blind and with rosette tooled in the center. The spine in seven compartments over double bands. Includes six sections each paginated by the leaf and with separate title pages inprinted Parisiis 1542. The title page of Primus Physicorum is hand-colored, illustrations. Cracking and tears to the spine, newer endpapers pasted over the old, the front endpaper with a hole in the center and the edge ragged. Newer paper pasted to the back of the introduction leaf IV and leaf 64 of Libri Quatour. Annotation throughout. Includes Aristotelis de Anima Libritres, Interprete Ioanne Argyropilo Byzantio., Aristotelis Libri Quiuulgo Parua Naturalia a Philosophis Appallantur..., De Generatione et Corruptione Aristotelis Libri Duo, Francisco Vatablo Interprete., Libri Quatuor Aristotelis de Coelo, Argyropylo Byzantio Interprete., Meteorologicorum Aristotelis… Read More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (Bernard Quaritch, London). Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1884. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Photo-lithograph plates (56) With ornamental Title-page and 56 magnificent full-page Illustrations by Elihu Vedder, reproduced by the Lewis phototype process. Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Medium brown flat-weave cloth over beveled boards; front cover with gilt-ruled borders, symbolist design of vase, vine, swirl and stars, and titling 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' and 'Drawings by Elihu Vedder'; rear cover without decoration; spine with gilt-ruled borders, floral ornaments, and titling 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'; illustrator's facsimile signature, gilt, on front cover, lower right "V."; grey coated endpapers with grapevine decoration; t.e.g.. Detailed collation: 2 Frontis; 3 Title; 6 Pictorial Imprint; 7 Pictorial dedication; 10 Pictorial Fly-title; 11-103 Text of Third… Read More

A rare and beautiful copy of Orthodox Evangelion with luxury purple velvet binding with brass clasps and corner and center ornaments. Woodcut printed text and hand-colored illustrations. The book contains multiple hand inscriptions that are only partially legible.The pencil inscription on the front flyleaf contains references to Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, as well as the years: 1911 and 1914. It is possible that the text in some way refers to the Bosnian crisis which served as a prelude to WWI. But, since we have not been able to translate the entire text, we cannot be certain of the context. In the Romanian language, in old Cyrillic script.Pp. /6/ + 344 (Cyrillic numeration); 4 hand colored illustrations, vignettes; initials.Size: 31.2 x 21 cm.Binding: Luxury purple velvet binding with two brass clasps and brass decorations on the covers. Renewed leather spine and renewed endpapers. The front cover was damaged along the edges, with stains and candle wax. Metal decorations… Read More

J. M. Dent and Co.. London. 1909. FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. 4to. (11.5 x 8.8 inches). LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY RACKHAM. One of only 750 numbered copies. Beautifully illustrated with 13 mounted colour plates, the frontis with a tissue guard, two full page black and white plates, and 31 line drawings as chapter headings and tail pieces. Publishers white cloth with gilt lettering and illustration to front board. Spine lettered in gilt. Two sets of rose coloured silk ties, still present. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Decorative endpapers, printed on vellum style paper with a blue tint, with gold ink. Red silk book marker. A very small bump to the top outer corner of the front board otherwise a fine and bright copy. Uncommon in such nice condition. --- This deluxe edition includes one extra colour plate, an image of the Yahoos, that wasn't included in the regular trade edition. --- Riall. Bibliography of Arthur Rackham. Page 91 (incorrectly listing fewer line illustrations and the wrong title of the… Read More

Willughby, Francis, and John Ray. (1635-1672) The Ornithology Of Francis Willughby Of Middleton in the County of Warwick Esq.; Fellow of the Royal Society. In Three Books. Wherein All the Birds Hitherto Known, Being reduced into a Method sutable to their Natures, are accurately described. The Descriptions illustrated by most Elegant Figures, nearly resembling the live Birds, Engraven in LXXVIII Copper Plates. Translated into English, and enlarged with many Additions throughout the whole Work. To which are added, Three Considerable Discourses, [I. Of the Art of Fowling: With a Description of several Nets in two large Copper Plates. II. Of the Ordering of Singing Birds. III. Of Falconry. By John Ray, Fellow of the Royal Society. Psalm 104. 24. How manifold are thy works, O Lord? In wisdom hast thou made them all: The Earth is full of they riches. London: Printed by A.C. for John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, at the Bell in St. Pauls' Church-Yard, 1678 Folio, 360 x 222 mm. First English edition.… Read More

Parisiis: Lodoicum Noel 1542. (Hardcover) iv, 117, 64, 36, 76, 48, 60 leaves.. Good. Brown leather, the front and back covers with double-ruled borders in blind and with rosette tooled in the center. The spine in seven compartments over double bands. Includes six sections each paginated by the leaf and with separate title pages inprinted Parisiis 1542. The title page of Primus Physicorum is hand-colored, illustrations. Cracking and tears to the spine, newer endpapers pasted over the old, the front endpaper with a hole in the center and the edge ragged. Newer paper pasted to the back of the introduction leaf IV and leaf 64 of Libri Quatour. Annotation throughout. Includes Aristotelis de Anima Libritres, Interprete Ioanne Argyropilo Byzantio., Aristotelis Libri Quiuulgo Parua Naturalia a Philosophis Appallantur..., De Generatione et Corruptione Aristotelis Libri Duo, Francisco Vatablo Interprete., Libri Quatuor Aristotelis de Coelo, Argyropylo Byzantio Interprete., Meteorologicorum Aristotelis… Read More