Search Results: Authors starting with B from Bull's Head Rare Books

London: Richard Bentley, 1840; 1842; 1847. First editions in book form. 3 vols. 8vo. Engraved titles printed in red and black, 17 etched plates George Cruikshank (8) and John Leech (9), and 2 engraved portraits. v, [3], 338, [2, appendix]; vii, [1], 288; vi, [2], 364 pp., with half-titles. Full brown-green morocco, spine gilt with red morocco onlays, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g., publisher's cloth bindings bound-in, by Riviere & Son; very slight rubbing to joints in places, vol. 3 with a small stain to fore-edge and few fore-edge rough. Bookseller ticket of Hugh Hopkins, Glasgow A handsome set of the first book appearance of The Ingoldsby Legends, following periodical printings in Bentley's Miscellany and the New Monthly Magazine in 1837.REFERENCE: Cohn 50; Sadleir 156b/e/f

New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2002. First edition. Oblong 4to. Color film stills throughout. Publisher's illustrated wrappers; fine Signed ("Matthew Barney") on the title-page

Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas, (1958). First edition. 8vo. Illustrated. xix, [1], 372 pp. Publisher's tan cloth; fine in slightly shelfworn dust-jacket

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece, illustrations to text. xvi, [2], 227, [1] pp. Publisher's red cloth; near fine in like dust-jacket Inscribed by the author on the title-page

New York: Published by the Author, No. 49 Delancy-Street, 1829. First edition. 8vo. xii, [13]-340 pp., errata slip affixed to front pastedown. Publisher's half cloth and boards, remnant of printed spine label; light wear and soiling to boards, sporadic foxing, tears to pp. 175-178 costing a few letters but not impairing legibility, a crisp, unsophisticated copy "Contains recipes for making about everything potable. The author promotes the domestic production of beverages so as not to be at the mercy of foreign powers" (Cagle). Includes sections on the making of artificial and imitation wines and spirits, brewing beer and cider, salting and curing meat and fish, pickling and preserving. A second edition, with modified title, was published in 1832.PROVENANCE: early ink signature of Anne A. Kimball on ffepREFERENCE: American Imprints 37732; Cagle 69; Gabler G12310; Rink 1504

London: Bemrose & Sons, nd (ca. 1870). First edition. 4to. Lithographed title, 52 fretwork designs on 31 leaves. 10, [2], [10, catalogue] pp. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt (with binder's ticket of Bemrose & Sons, Derby); extremities rubbed, front hinge starting Victorian pattern book with intricate designs for carved wood book rests, frames, bookshelves, window brackets, etc.PROVENANCE: Fred. F. Thompson (bookplate)

Boston: Published by the Author, R.P. & C. Williams and Annin & Smith, 1830. First edition. 4to. 64 copperplate engravings. viii, [9]-119, [1] pp. Contemporary sheep, red morocco spine label; binding scuffed, front cover holding by one cord, heavy toning to front matter, front and rear free endpapers loose, usual foxing and browning The first edition of Benjamin’s “fourth and most popular work” (Hitchcock, who lists 17 editions from 1830 to c. 1856). The title may be an homage or borrowing from British architect William Pain’s 1789 work of the same name, a book that Benjamin consulted early in his career and used as a model for the plates in his first book, The Country Builder’s Assistant. The Practical House Carpenter marks Asher’s adoption of the Greek over the Roman school in reaction to the emerging Greek revival trend. “Since my last publication, the Roman school of architecture has been entirely changed for the Grecian” (Preface). Many of the plates illustrating the orders are derived… Read More

Boston: Printed for the author by Munroe and Francis, 1814. First edition. 8vo. 32 engraved plates (1 double-page) by H.W. Snyder after Benjamin and by Wightman. 96 pp. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards, red morocco spine label; toning and staining throughout, first and last few leaves and plate 1 repaired at fore-margin, small tear to plate 29. The first edition of Asher Benjamin's third book, a course in architecture for the young student or apprentice.PROVENANCE: William Reese (book-label)REFERENCE: Hitchcock 143

Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1843. First edition. 8vo. 28 engraved plates. viii, [9]-232 pp. Publisher's cloth rebacked in roan; covers rubbed and stained, occasional light foxing First edition of Benjamin's final work, which Hitchcock notes was his least popular work and only appeared in two editions. Perhaps for that reason it is also one of Benjamin's scarcest titles. Of note is the section on the theory of carpentry, including "36 experiments made on various kinds of American timber; experiments made in various ways of European timber by European artists; and on the strength of iron, steel, copper, brass, tin, lead, stone, bricks, cement, etc."PROVENANCE: William Reese (book-label, purchased from Charles Wood)REFERENCE: Hitchcock 115

Boston: Published by the Author, and Carter, Hendee & Co., 1833. First edition. 4to. 60 engraved plates (plate 55 bound out-of-order). vii, [1], [9]-116 pp. Contemporary speckled sheep, red morocco spine label; spine darkened, foxing throughout as usual First edition of Asher Benjamin's fifth book, after his full embrace of the Greek Revival. The plates illustrate the Greek orders in close detail, as well as frontispieces, porticoes, door, windows, cornices, stairs and various elements of carpentry and construction, and concludes with a complete plan of a church. Plate VII illustrates an order of Benjamin's invention that does not conform to any existing classical model, reasoning that "more than one half of all the columns and entablatures erected in country situations, for either internal or external finishings, belong neither to the Grecian nor Roman system." PROVENANCE: Wm. C. Taber, New Bedford (bookseller's ticket); William Reese (book-label)REFERENCE: Hitchcock 135

Boston: R.P. & C. Williams, 1816. Third edition. 4to. 59 engraved plates. iv, [5]-104 pp. Contemporary sheep, rebacked, original red morocco spine label; typical foxing and browning of plates, minor worming in blank top margin and bottom fore-margin The third edition of Asher Benjamin's second book, with provenance from a Martha's Vineyard builder. The American Builder’s Companion “became the principal source for the Federal style for carpenters across the eastern half of the United States. Technically the plates were far superior to those in [Benjamin’s first book] The Country Builder’s Assistant, and the work was much broader in scope, including Roman versions of the five orders but also novel variants of capitals and bases. Plans and elevations included town houses, country houses, a courthouse, and a meetinghouse similar to Benjamin’s Old West” (ANB). The 1816 edition is largely as revised and expanded for the second edition (1811), with some few additional revisions to the text and one… Read More

Birmingham: M. Swinney, 1788. Second edition. 4to. li, [1], 498 pp. Contemporary half black calf and marbled boards, spine gilt; front cover detached, some toning and foxing to title-page, small tear to title-page at gutter PROVENANCE: James Darbishire (book-plate)

Paris: Au Cercle du Livre Précieux, (1965). No. 83 of 1,900 copies. 8vo. Publisher's blue morocco, gilt; fine Published in the Monumenta Medica series by Parisian bookseller Alain Brieux, with his card laid-in

Paris: J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1877. First edition. 8vo. Tables and one illustration. viii, 576 pp., with half-title. Publisher's printed wrappers, unopened; spine ends chipped First edition in publisher's wrappers. "Bernard, in this work, first showed that one of the primary signs of diabetes is an excess of sugar in the blood and usually in the urine. Much of Bernard's experimentation and research had a direct relationship to clinical medicine" (Heirs of Hippocrates).REFERENCE: Cushing B320; Garrison-Morton 3942; Heirs of Hippocrates 1800; Osler 1515; Waller 958

Paris: J.B. Baillière et Fils, 1855; 1856. First edition. 2 vols. bound in 1. 8vo. 520; viii, 510, [2] pp. Later maroon half morocco, publisher's printed wrappers bound in, uncut; a few scuffs to covers, occasional foxing "Claude Bernard made strenuous efforts to introduce experimental methods into physiology. The above includes his classic work on the function of the liver, pancreas, and gastric glands" (Garrison-Morton).PROVENANCE: Emil Starkenstein, 1884-1942, Czech-Jewish pharmacologist (book-label)REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 615 & 812.1; Heirs of Hippocrates 1792; Osler 1507; Waller 954

Paris: J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1881. First edition. 8vo. Photo frontispiece. Contemporary quarter green calf.

Paris: Masson et Cie, 1903; 1904. 2 vols. 4to. [4], 900; [4], 1068 pp. Contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards; corners bumped and worn, pages toned

Newcastle: Edw[ard] Walker, 1825. One of 100 proof sets. 2 vols. in one. 4to. Half-titles with engraved vignette, 302 proof plates before letters, contemporary manuscript captions in ink with common and Latin names: Land Birds, 156 (of 157) wood-engraved plates; Water Birds, 146 (of 157) (83 numbered twice) wood-engraved plates. Later 19th-century full dark green morocco gilt by Tout, t.e.g.; foxing to preliminaries, repaired closed tear Water Birds half-title, occasional spotting to a few plates, faint presentation inscription from Thomas Kerrick, 1826, on each half-title One of 100 sets of proofs of Bewick's British Land Birds and Water Birds. Roscoe quotes a letter from Bewick to J.F.M. Dovaston, dated 26 November 1825: "I, last summer printed 100 Sets 4to of Birds & Quadrupeds, without Type for the sole use of Artists (& when interleaved) of Naturalists..."REFERENCE: Roscoe 43 & 44

New York: Charles Wells, 1836. First American stereotype edition. 12mo. xvi, [1], 18-493, [1] pp. Contemporary American straight-grained black morocco, covers with gilt roll border and elaborate cartouche centerpiece, gilt-lettered and tooled spine in four compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, a.e.g.; front joint rubbed and starting with some evidence of repair to hinge, front cover tips worn, some spotting and toning to text A circa 1836 New York binding with a distinctive Romantic cartouche centerpiece. Lacon, a collection of hectoring and pious platitudes, was a popular Victorian gift book. This 1836 New York edition is sometimes found in an embossed panel binding by Barrit & Co. of London (see Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, no. 76 and the AAS copy). As Wolf conjectures, the books were not bound in London, but rather the publisher Charles Wells, who was also a bookbinder, imported the plates from London and bound the volumes locally. The present binding may have been done by Wells… Read More

London: Maggs Bros. Ltd, 1989. First edition, one of 300 copies. Folio. Frontispiece, 16 plates. xxi, [3], 446, [2] pp. Printed by Christos G. Manousarides at the Typographeio Manutius Publisher's gray cloth, titled stamped in black on front cover, by Sotiris Mavrikoglou; some sunning to spine and covers, else fine One of only 300 copies of this essential travel bibliography, containing 1947 detailed bibliographic descriptions. The American expatriate banker Henry Blackmer II (1923-1988) formed the most substantial modern collection of books concerning Greece and the Levant, filling his neoclassical Athens home with the spoils of his book- and art-hunting travels around the Mediterranean. The catalogue is an elegant piece of bookmaking by an all-Athenian team of craftsmen.