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

Mantua: Francesco Osanna, 1578. 12mo. Architectural woodcut title-page vignette, initials and head- and tailpieces. [6], 9-56 ff. Collation: A^6 B-G^8. 18th-century patterned paper wrappers; wrappers chipped and coming loose, text toned and lightly soiled, corners worn, some small dampstains Italian translation by Alfonso Bonaccioli of the first two books of Martianus Capella's 5th century didactic allegory De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii ("On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury"). With the ownership inscription of Italian poet, author and lawyer Antonio Beffa Negrini of Mantua. In 1606, the printer of this work, Francesco Osanna, published Negrini's history of the Castiglione family (Elogi historici di alcuni personaggi della famiglia Castigliona). It includes the first biography in print of Baldassarre Castiglione, author of ll Cortegiano.PROVENANCE: Antonio Beffa Negrini, 1532-1602 (ownership inscription on title-page, "Di Antonio Beffa Negrini")REFERENCE: Edit 16, CNCE 27517

Lewiston, Maine, ca. 1880. 4to (8 x 10 inches). Albumen print on beveled mount with studio imprint in silver. Foxing Studio photograph of men gathered around a table playing cards, drinking and smoking cigars

London: Duckworth & Co; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. No. 388 of 500 copies. 4to. Seventy-one portraits and fifteen autographs reproduced by Edward Bierstadt, printed tissue guards. [xiv], 439, [1] pp., printed at the De Vinne Press. Publisher's limp vellum, titled in gilt on spine; near fine

London: William Patterson, 1892. Adolphe Lalauze. 4 vols. 8vo. 37 etchings by Adolphe Lalauze. [iii]-xi, [1], xlii, 445, [1]; viii, [4], 484; x, [2], 512; ix, [3], 508 pp. Contemporary half calf gilt and marbled boards, t.e.g.; foxing to endpapers and some preliminaries, offsetting from plate tissue guards, a handsome set

Edinburgh: Denham and Dick, 1803. 4 vols. 12mo. [ii], 262; [ii], 246; [ii], 276; [ii], 285, [1] pp. Contemporary calf, contrasting morocco spine labels, extremities rubbed, spines dry, light soiling, toning and foxing throughout, vol. II ffep loose An uncommon Glasgow printing of Motteux's translation of Don Quixote. OCLC locates 5 copies.REFERENCE: Rius 658

London: Blackie & Son, 1900. No. 97 of 100 copies on Japanese vellum signed by Edward A. Parry. Walter Crane. xii, 245, [1] pp. Color frontispiece, title-page, 10 full-page color plates and 19 half-page b/w illustrations to text by Walter Crane. Publisher's cream paper-over-boards, titled in gilt on front cover and spine, decorated trade edition covers and spine bound-in at front; small tear at lower spine, else fine in custom cloth chemise and slipcase

London: D. Midwinter, et al, 1740. Third edition thus. Coypel. 4 vols. 12mo. 22 engraved folding plates by Gerard van der Gucht after Charles-Antoine Coypel, engraved head- and tailpieces. xxiv, [14], 264; [ii], 288; [ii], 288; [ii], 260, [36, index] pp. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style, red morocco spine labels; joints and covers rubbed, vol. 1 rust-stain to title and A2-11 loose, vol. 2 head chipped, vol. 4 front board detached, occasional foxing or toning Robert Shelton's translation, the first into English, with engravings after Coypel. ESTC identifies editions of Shelton's translation with Coypel's illustrations published in 1725, 1731, and 1740PROVENANCE: M. Haddock (contemporary ownership signature on title-pages)REFERENCE: ESTC T59502; Palau 52478; Rius 625

Madrid: La Imprenta Real, 1797-98. 6 vols. 12mo. Engraved author portrait after J. López Enguídanos and 48 engraved plates after Antonio Rodríguez. [iii]-lix, [1], 283, [1], lxi-lxiii, [1]; 418, [2]; 365, [3]; xiii, [1], 364; 374, [2, blank], [4];392, [4] pp. Contemporary tree calf, covers with gilt roll border, spines richly gilt, red morocco spine labels; a few small scuffs, flaw in leather to rear cover of vol. 2, one plate and a few leaves in vol. 5 worn at fore-edge A beautiful copy in contemporary Spanish binding of this royal printing of Don Quixote. Rius notes this is the first Spanish edition printed in small type and has high praise for the edition in general: "La impresión, muy buena; el papel, excelente, y el gusto tipográfico que en esta edición se nota, la colocan en el lugar de las bellas." With a biography of Cervantes by Manuel Quintana and 48 engraved plates after Antonio Rodriguez.REFERENCE: Osterc, Los Quijotes de la Coleccion Franz Mayer, 75 ("entre las más bonitas de… Read More

London: W. Strahan, et al, 1782. Fifth edition thus. 4 vols. 12mo. 28 engraved plates after Francis Hayman. [ii], xl, 293, [1]; [ii],314; [ii], xi, [1], 331, [1]; [ii], 322 pp. Contemporary stained calf, rebacked, black morocco spine labels; vol. 1 lacking one label; text toned, occasional light staining and foxing Fifth edition of the Smollett translation, first published in 1755, with plates after Francis Hayman — "his best book" (Ray).REFERENCE: ESTC T59488; Ray England, p. 5; Rius 647

Paris: J.-J. Dubochet et Cie, 1836. First edition thus. Tony Johannot. 2 vols. 4to. Additional decorative title-pages, wood-engraved frontispieces on papier de chine and some 800 illustrations (plates, head- and tailpieces, initials, vignettes) throught by Tony Johannot, inserted engraved folding map at rear of vol. II showing the route of Don Quixote's travels. [iv], 744; [iv], 758 pp., with half-titles. Contemporary half red morocco gilt and marbled boards; vol. II front joint cracked, some foxing throughout Translated into French and annotated by Louis Viardot. Ray commends this edition ("a wonder of Romantic bookmaking") for Johannot's illustrations highlighting the "sad profundity" of Don Quixote, whereas previous illustrators had made the knight a figure of ridicule. The volume I frontispiece portrait of Don Quixote exists in two states, with mustache (as in this copy) and without.REFERENCE: Carteret, III, 136-7; Ray French 182; Rius 542; Vicaire, II, pp. 155-6

London: George Routledge and sons, 1885. No. 10 of 50 copies with an extra set of etchings on India paper. George Cruikshank. 4to. 15 steel etchings by George Cruikshank, plates in two states (extra suite with plates on India paper, 30 plates total). [4], 531, [1] pp. Modern half black morocco and marbled boards, spine titled in gilt; fine

London: D. Midwinter, et al, 1743. Seventh edition thus. 4 vols. 12mo. 19 engraved plates, engraved head- and tailpieces. xviii, 303, [1]; [ii], 309, [1]; 310; [ii], 355, [1] pp. Contemporary three-quarters calf and marbled boards, gilt spines; a few joints starting, but in all an attractive set A handsome set of the seventh edition of the Motteux translation, revised and edited by Ozell. Rius notes that the plates are "unas malas copias de Coypel."PROVENANCE: George Beard (signature on vol. 2 title-page)REFERENCE: ESTC T59501; Rius 627

Paris: Hachette, (1929). First edition. Felix Lorioux. 4to. Illustrations throughout in color by Felix Lorioux. 72 pp. Publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards; a few scuffs to cover, near fine French children's edition of Don Quixote with humorous and vibrant illustrations by Felix Lorioux.

London: Alex Hogg, nd, ca. 1794. One volume ed. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and 11 engraved plates after Riley 519, [3] pp., text in two columns. Contemporary half speckled calf and marbled boards, morocco spine label; light rubbing to covers, adhesive stain to gutter of title, text toned, some staining and foxing A rather crude one-volume edition of Smollett's translation, previously published by Hogg in four volumes and in his New Novelist’s Magazine. The plates, which Rius signals out as this edition's one virtue, are dated 1794.REFERENCE: ESTC T59479 (2 copies); Rius 652

The Hague: Pieter de Hondt, 1746. Coypel. 4to. Title in red and black with engraved vignette, 31 engraved plates after Charles-Antoine Coypel (28), Le Bas (1) and Trésmoulièrs (1), wood-engraved initials and tailpieces. [ii], xxvi, 420 pp., text in Dutch. Modern half leather and cloth, spine label; crease to title-page corner, text toned, occasional light foxing and spotting, previous owner's initials in ink to upper corner of title-page First edition of this Dutch edition of Don Quixote, published simultaneously in a French language edition, with Coypel's celebrated illustrations. The original horizontal configuration of the scenes was necessarily cropped to fit the vertical quarto format and the original large scale of the engravings, printed 1723-4, was much reduced here. Still, this edition "assured wide circulation" (Ray) of Coypel's illustrations. "It is not too much to say that the pictorial tradition associated with Cervantes' masterpiece owes as much to Coypel as to any other artist"… Read More

Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1874. Second edition. 8vo. Publisher's plum cloth; spine sunned, rubbed, foxed "Charcot inaugurated a course of study of geriatrics, at the Salpêtrière, in 1866; his lectures are embodied in the above work" (Garrison-Morton)REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 2222

New York: William Wood & Co., 1878. First American edition. 8vo. 2 chromolithograph plates by A. Karmanski. x, 100 pp., errata slip. Publisher's plum cloth, cover titled in gilt; extremities worn, some fading to cloth, spine titled in ink, book-plate, New York doctor's inscription, 1899, on title-page First American edition, a translation of Leçons sur les maladies du foie, des voies biliaires et des reins (Paris, 1877). "Charcot defined 'scarlatinous nephritis' and 'amyloid kidney' as distinct pathological entities" (Garrison-Morton).REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 4216.2

London: T. Payne and Son, 1777. First edition, second state of c4. 8vo. Engraved facsimile manuscript plate by Strutt at p. 288. xxvii, [1], 307, [1] pp. Contemporary calf, red morocco spine label; front hinge tender, extremities rubbed, small shelf-mark ticket at foot of spine The Advertisement leaf, c4 is cancelled, with the text "and were probably composed by him" omitted.REFERENCE: Ashley X, p. 75; Hayward 188; Rothschild 589

[Guildford]: Circle Press Publications, 1979. No. "H.C. III" of 5 hors commerce copies (of 355 total copies), signed by the artist. Folio. Illustrated throughout with color silkscreen prints and manuscript facsimiles, with additional signed print. xi, [7], 59, [3] pp., printed letterpress. Loose as issued, in printed covers, laid in publisher's linen and blue morocco chemise with die-cut outer panel; fine

(New York): Reprinted by the Grolier Club, from the First Edition by Robert Barker, 1637, (1884). No. 78 of 150 copies. 8vo. Hand-colored seal on title-page. Publisher's gilt-printed stiff wrappers; foxing to rear endpapers, else fine. In a custom red cloth slipcase and chemise A fine copy in original wrappers of the first publication of the Grolier Club. Printed by Theodore L. De Vinne in the year of the Club's founding.PROVENANCE: Robert Woods Bliss & Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks (bookplates with deaccession stamps)