Search Results: Authors starting with M from Sanctuary Books

Florence: Alexandre Paperini, 1783. Hardcover. Very Good. Nineteenth-century half gilt-ruled red morocco and marbled paper, gilt-stamped lettering and ornament in spine compartments (5 raised bands), t.e.g.; 8vo;. pp. xxiv, 96, 96 ("Eloge Historique de Milord Contenant"), plus 5 engraved plates. Some light scuffing at spine tips, along joints, raised bands, and edges of boards; boards lightly rubbed. First and last few leaves a bit dusty and darkened; otherwise just a little foxing here and there.

Paris: Cordier, 1817. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Contemporary 1/4 leather, decorative paper over boards. Handsome copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Inscribed by the author. Two attractive bookplates. Spine a bit unevenly faded, but overall a nice copy.

Bologna: Clemens Ferronius superiorum permissis exudebat (Clemente Ferroni), 1628. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to (209 x 145mm). Pagination: 1-331pp., [5]. Signatures: A-Z(4); AA-TT(4). Engraved heraldic title page within typographical border, dedicatory plate of the crowned Virgin Mary and Christ Child in a landscape and 81 full-page emblematic engravings, including one of a corpse for the last emblem LXXXI, a memento mori. Some etchings signed with the monogram A(gustinus) P(arisinus); Florius Macchius; Oliviero Gatti. Text in Latin or Italian verse. Modern half vellum over decorative papers, spine ‘MACCII EMBLEMATA’; (few marginal dampstains, otherwise excellent). Some early ownership inscriptions on title, mostly effaced. Modern armorial bookplate of Bibliotheque I.G. Schorsch on front pastedown. First edition and one of the finest illustrated emblem books produced in Bologna during the Italian Baroque. Paolo Maccio’s Emblemata was the combined work of four important… Read More

Glasgow: Duncan Glen, 1965. Limited Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Stitched wraps; pp. 13. Number 22 from a limited edition of 50 copies, signed by the author. Light rubbing at spine tips and corners; bumped at fore-edge, resulting in slight wrinkle throughout.

London: printed by T.Bensley for Longman Hurst Rees and Orme, 1807. Hardcover. Good+. Large 4to. xiii, 577, [3], 29p. + 6p. ads, 4 engraved portraits. Contemporary calf, rubbed. Essays on Thomas More, William Cecil, Thomas Wentworth and Edward Hyde. Formerly in the collection of the College of New Rochelle Library with corresponding bookplate and perforated stamp to title. A few marks in pencil, but generally speaking text is clean and bright throughout. Housed in a handsome burgundy clamshell box with labels lettered in gilt.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and inscribed to him by MacEwan. Fairbanks (1909-2000) was an iconic American actor from Hollywood’s Golden Era (his credits include “Gunga Din”), and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II.

Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal de Francisco Luiz Ameno, 1759. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to (286 x 194mm). [4], [24], 216pp. Collation: *-*** (4s), A-Z (4s), Aa-Dd (4s). Engraved chapter initials, chapter head- and tail-pieces. Original calf, spine gilt. (internally bright, endpapers lightly browned, marginal dampstains, calf rubbed). First Edition. Work of brother Machado, his critical narrative on the body of Christ, famously a main work in the Portuguese language, or "mestre da lingua portuguesa."

1886. Hardcover. Very Good. N.p.: Privately printed. Portrait and 8 plates. 3/4 blue morocco gilt and blue boards. Rubbed along front joint of spine. Binding by Bayntun.

London: Aleksander ben Yehudah Leyb u-veno Yehudah Leyb, 1785. Hardcover. Very Good. Modern cloth-backed marbled paper over boards; complete set of 2 volumes, 4to (240x190mm); with engraved pictorial title-page in each volume, text in Hebrew. Spine tips and corners gently bumped; boards a little rubbed; text blocks a bit age-toned, but otherwise clean and unmarked. Rare English printing, in Hebrew, of the Mahzor, or Machzor, the prayer book used by Jews on the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. OCLC lists only three copies of this edition -- at the Newberry LIbrary, at Brandeis University, and at the Yivo Institute of Jewish Research.

New York: Macmillan, 1958. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Black cloth; in illustrated dust jacket by Vera Bock. Spine tips bumped; some light off-setting from jacket onto endpapers. Dust jacket lightly dust-soiled; light chipping at spine tips; light wear along the edges.

Akros Publications, 1967. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Paper-covered boards, backed in gilt-stamped brown morocco; spine with leather very worn; 4to; pp. [2], 67, illustrated. Number 8 from a limited edition of 50 copies, signed by the editor, the artist, the printer, and all of the poets. (Total limitation of 350 copies.) With laid-in prospectus. Spine tips and corners lightly bumped and scuffed; rear board rubbed; small, faint spot of soiling on front board. Internally bright and clean. Propspectus just a little bit dust-smudged along the edges.

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. pp. 431. Modern blue cloth. Uncommon edition. Sound copy.

London: W. H. and L. Collingridge. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. circa 1936. 4to. pp. 440 + index. Illustrated throughout. Original brown cloth in DJ. Nice copy of a scarce book, in even more uncommon dust jacket, brown on tan with a palm tree to front panel that is embossed in gold.

London: J. S. Virtue & Co., n.d. (19th century). Hardcover. Very Good. Full gilt-ruled morocco, gilt-stamped lettering on upper board, gilt-stamped lettering and ornament in spine compartments (5 raised bands), inside gilt dentelles; folio (13.25 x 18.5 inches); with 31 full-page tipped-on etchings, 61 head- and tail-pieces. Printed on heavy stock, in red and black throughout; and with tissue-guards printed in red. Etchings after original drawings by John Macpherson, specially for this work. Introduction and descriptive text by Fleay. Two tiny dents on front board; some light scuffing and small chips at corners, along joints and raised bands. Aside from just a little faint foxing here and there, and the occasional dust-smudge, text block is bright and clean. Shows Old Stratford Church, the cottages of Anne Hathaway and Mary Arden, Charlecote Hall, Shakespeare's house, Kenilworth Castle, and more. A lavish volume.

Dublin: Printed for Richard Fitzsimons, 1763. Hardcover. Good. 8vo (165 x 100mm) 266pp. Period calf (front cover loose but present). A scarce Dublin imprint, first published a year earlier in London. Ownership signature dated 1806.

Paris: Chez Favre, 1802. Hardcover. Very Good. 198 pp. Frontispiece and 35 engraved plates. Small 8vo., 150 x 105 mm, bound in modern half brown sheepskin over marbled boards, uncut. Paris: Chez Favre, 1802. Small 8vo., 150 x 105 mm, bound in modern half brown sheepskin over marbled boards, uncut. Paris: Chez Favre, 1802. Second Edition of this scarce guide to the sculptures in the Tuileries Garden, together with a description of the palace and the gardens by the French philologist Louis Philipon de la Madelaine (1734-1818). Rear 18 pages browned, but overall an acceptable copy.

New York: Edgar S. Werner, 1899. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps; pp. i-xvi, [2], 307-393, xvii-xix. A little light chipping and wrinkling along the edges, otherwise a nice, clean copy. Numerous articles by numerous contributors, on a variety of topics (stammering, music, reviews, etcetera).

America, 1947. Cloth-covered 3-ring binder (American manufactured), covers illustrated in black marker with drawings of top-hats, an ace of spades, an eight ball, faces, names, and maxims ("Flunk Early, Avoid the Rush," "Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry?"). The inside front cover bears our author's name ("Budd Leader, Sophomore, 1st half") as well as a cloud of girls' names (Joan, Ginger, Darlene, Sally, Betty, Roberta, et al), perhaps referring to his lovely assistants -- women who put birds back in their cages, who comforted newly hatless rabbits, who were sawn in half, or who otherwise gave themselves to magic. This distinctly American binder is bursting with 382 tricks, handwritten in ink in tidy script, on lined paper, most of them accompanied by careful pencil drawings (demonstrations of steps and techniques) on small leaves of onion skin paper, stapled to the trick they describe. Extremities bumped, and cloth a bit frayed; boards warped (see… Read More

New York: John Wiley, 1861. Third Edition, revised and enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good+. 12mo. Original brown cloth; small paper label added to spine. pp. 168 + ads. With folding plates showing various diagrams. Signature of E. L. Stone and a number of stamps of The Old Guard (New York). A sound copy of a standard work with good military provenance.