Search Results: Authors starting with N from Nudelman Rare Books

Hague: unknown, possibly London, 1803. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Half calf, vellum corners, marbled paper covered boards. Part I [all that was published]. 182pp, 6pp. postscript; "The Second Part of these Sketches, 12pp. Tall copy with wide margins, exceedingly scarce and precocious treatise on threat of Napoleon and the intricacies and strategies of war and how to avoid it, with special respect to Russia and also Great Britain. The author has remained unknown to this day, but from "The Edinburgh Review" of 1804 we have some inkling to his identity: "This is altogether a very singular work. The language is that of a foreigner pretty well acquainted with English, or of an Englishman who, by long residence abroad, has lost the free use of his native tongue." A most intriguing and exceedingly scarce volume on Napoleonic France, only one other copy located on the market. A superb copy with only light wear and discoloration to binding, near fine.

Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1895. First Edition. First Edition. Original publisher' blue-gray paper covered boards with cover illustration and lettering in black. One of only 125 copies printed. Five full-page illustrations, and one fully decorated border design surrounding a poem, with header illustration, all by Arthur Gaskin, noted 1890's illustrator, painter and and designer, and member of the Birmingham Group of artists. Gaskin produced woodcut illustrations for William Morris' Kelmscott press, the latter supplying a full-page introduction to this work, saying "...I cannot help saying [the pictures] have given me very much pleasure, both as achievements in themselves and as giving hopes of a turn towards the ornamental side of illustration, which is most desirable." A very good copy, often seen much worse, with slight paper loss to spine, slight cover soiling, near fine internally, hinges in tact, very clean. Quite scarce.

London: Faber & Faber, 1929. Oblong quarto, 7 x 10 inches. Publisher color illustrated paper covered boards, illustrated endpapers and 28 numbered pages of full color illustrations, all by William Nicholson. Spine chipped upper cover (1/2 inch), edgewear to covers, internally near fine.

Paris: Librairie A. Rouquette, 1903. 8vo (243 x 159 mm). Exquisitely bound by the Club Bindery in full tan crushed morocco with intricate rectilinear interlacing design consisting of ten separate gilt ruled lines forming rounded clover leafs and circular patterns, repeated on both covers and spine. A thoroughly pleasing and representative Club binding, with ornate gilt dentelles, signed with binder's pallet at bottom of front dentelle, "The Club Bindery 1905." With attractive marbled endleaves, top edges gilt. #92 of 150 Copies on Japan Vellum. 68 pp, each illustrated in pochoir, with decoration and borders. WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF ILLUSTRATIONS (58pp), before letters, and uncolored, bound in behind. Provenance: Robert Hoe (morocco booklabel to pastedown). FINELY BOUND IN THE FINEST STYLE OF THE CLUB BINDERY. A very scarce and desirable title with superb illustrations by Henri ...mile Caruchet (1873-1948), French painter, watercolorist, illustrator and poet, closely affiliated with the Art… Read More

Philadelphia: Robert P. Smith, 1853. Quarto. Three volumes. 10 x 6 3/4 inches. One of the greatest examples of a striped binding we have ever seen, in fine condition, and produced in small number for this classic color plate book. A classic treatise discussing and depicting the sylva (tree growth specific to an area) in particular areas of the US and Canada, and especially the Rocky Mountains, where American expansion Westward in the mid 19th Century had brought to light many new botanical discoveries, and herewith pictured in over 100 hand-colored lithographic plates. The bindings are expertly wrought with a fine woven dark green cloth that has lighter green horizontal lines every quarter inch, creating the celebrated "striped binding," which came into vogue briefly in the mid-1800, then disappeared. With a wonderful central bold heavily gilt depiction of a morning glory on a vine in bloom; the same image is blind-stamped onto the rear cover, and both covers have double-border embossed line design.… Read More

Oblong quarto (13 x 10 inches). Color pictorial original watercolor illustration on card paper. An exceptionally beautiful and expertly illustrated children's book executed by the artist probably in the 1930's with full-size original watercolor title-page and ten full-size original watercolor illustrations accompanying and associated with the text, which is marvelously written out by hand, including vignettes and page numbering in red. To our knowledge, the book was never published, and we are unaware of the artist who produced this wonderful children's lap book. Near fine. Most scarce thus. Housed in a superb dark gray cloth slipcase with matching overlapping cloth folders lined with very attractive handmade paper, by Sean E. Richards.