Search Results: Authors starting with N from Pazzo Books

Tokyo: Toho Shoin, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. Leather backed cloth, spine dry and hinges cracked, binding quite sound overall. Clean internally - 1094, 428pp. In the original, battered, cardboard box. Just a few copies in Worldcat - in Japanese throughout; scarce collection of proverbs and quotations. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Reference; Language & Linguistics. Inventory No: 045959.

Dublin: Joseph Ray, 1682. Second Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Very Good Condition. Rebound in contemporary leather, extensive contemporary notes to front endpapers, one endpaper with the upper right corner torn. Quite clean internally - in two parts, a third was published in 1689. (14), 70, (8), 154ppThe first and second parts of Ware's extensive and pernicious forgeries of church history intended to stir up anti-Catholic, anti-Irish and anti-Jesuit sentiment. They played a large role in the absurd stories surrounding the Popish Plot and many of Ware's creations continued to pollute reformation history into the 19th, 20th and even 21st centuries. Ware was the son of a prominent historian and used his father John's name to legitimize the documents that he "found" - one of the most long lived forgeries was a Cranmer letter at the beginning of part two which entered into Cranmer's works and was preserved for centuries through misattributions (by historians such as John Strype) and wishful… Read More

Venice: Ioannem Baptistam Ciottum, & Socios, 1592. Later Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum, a little bowed, minor wormholes on spine, some mild soiling, old stamps to refreshed endpapers, stamps and ink cross outs to title, a few old ink marks early on, mostly minor foxing, browning, a few light stains, marginal worming towards end - still about very good overall. Lacking the final preliminary leaf, a blank. (14 of 16), 834, (2)pp. Printed in two columns.A popular reference collecting classical works first published in 1503. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Reference. Inventory No: 046807.

Roxbury: Caxton Press, 1927. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Reprint of the title page and 2 pages of the original for a Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants dinner in November 1927 bound in full suede. With a roll call at the rear and a list of the dinner committee. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; Inventory No: 045072.

Mexico: Juan Navarro, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover (Imitation Leather). Good Condition. 2 volumes rebound in modern quarter leather, covers scuffed. Dampstains to first quarter of both volumes, heavier early on then fading but never obscuring text, small tear in gutter to title page to volume 2. Browning to text block. 758pp; 616pp. 1853-54 Arranged alphabetically and well indexed, the Enciclopedia Doméstica is comprehensive and wide ranging covering medicine, food, rural economy, science and everything in between. Dagueerotypes, livestock castration, fritters, artichokes, distillation, ice cream, the nature of fire, lithography, ham, wine, zebras. Just 4 copies in OCLC. Volume one is A-C and Vol two D-Z (c is exceptionally well covered). Though it says it is "extracted from the best French authors" most of the encyclopedia seems geared towards the New World. Size: 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Farming & Rural Life. Inventory No: CAT000902.

Boston: North Bennet Street School, 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Spiral bound cookbook, modest wear to cover, scattered light pencil marks to recipes (apparently marking favorites), old signature to half title. 137 recipes printed for the benefit of the North Bennet Street School. Second edition, the year after the first. 57pp. Advertisements at rear including one for Prince Macaroni which opened in the North End just up the street from NBS in 1912. The North Bennet School, one of the oldest trade schools in the US, opened in the North End in 1879, 9 copies of the two editions in OCLC. Many recipes for game, desserts, "Pizza alla Napolitana", Zabioni (aka zabaglione), a short pasta section "spaghetti, macaroni, ravioli". An interesting snapshot of early Italian American cookery. Size: 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000835.

Leiden: Elzevir, 1626. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. Contemporary vellum worn and darkened but intact, with engraved title and 9 plates but lacking the author portrait frontis. Modest browning, heavier in spots, light dampstain in bottom corner of first 35 or so pages and the plates in that section, just about very good overall and with the first depictions of tobacco harvest in the New World. (36), 256, (3)pp with rear but not initial blank. Neander's treatise lauded the medical uses of tobacco but warned of possible abuse. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Americana. Inventory No: 047802.

Amsterdam: Corneille Nicolas, 1601. First Edition. Disbound. Fair Condition. Disbound in later wraps. Lacking title, page 2 (with the map on the verso) and the second title for the vocabulary section. Upper corner of final vocabulary torn with loss to Javanese column and text on verso. All missing parts supplied in facsimile. Chipping at edges, general browning, small wormtrail near bottom margin touching some letters. 22 large engravings (of 25, lacking the two title woodcuts and one map), 2 woodcuts of plants. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 048514.

Hanover: Nicholas Förster, 1717. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. Early leather backed marbled boards, recornered in vellum. Wear at edges, front hinges a little rubbed but binding sound. Old ownership marks to title, scattered foxing and browning, heavier in spots. With the frontis from the French edition (1714) and 15 folding plates. [14],318,[10]pp. The first German edition, first published in French in 1714 (with only 12 plates). An important book on fireplace design and ventilation. Gauger's advances formed the underpinnings of the designs of Benjamin Franklin and Count Rumford. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Cooking, Wine & Dining. Inventory No: 045346.

Edinburgh: Martin & Wotherspoon, 1768. Later Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition. Later half leather binding, worn at edges and spine ends but intact and sound. 70pp plus unpaginated epilogue and ads. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 039492.

1939. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 5 Maison Nicholas catalogs all lavishly illustrated. The 1930s catalogs are smaller format with comb bindings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000872.

Neufchatel (et se trouve à Paris): Chez le Veuve Duchesne, 1788. Third Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Two volumes bound in one in contemporary leather backed boards, hinges dry and cracked, but binding still sound. Scattered minor foxing and browning, a few pages inperfectly opened with some loss in the margin, but a nice copy overall. 232pp, 222pp plus 2pp of ads. 14 plates (7 in each volume including frontispieces). The third edition, the first was 1779. Restif de la Bretonne author of a multitude of books (Les Nuits de Paris, Anti Justine, Le Pornographe), enemy of the Marquis de Sade and dinner companion of Grimod de La Reynière. La Vie de Mon Père functions as a foil to his other works, evoking a rural past and a moral tone that is nowhere present, save in reverse, elsewhere. Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; France; 18th century; Biography & Autobiography. Inventory No: 048430.

Olomucii in Metropoli Moraviae (Olomouc Czech Republic), 1765. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Original plain boards, rubbed, hinge cracked but binding sound, old bookseller stamp to endpaper, portrait frontis of Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress and last of the Hapsburgs. Small stamped number to title, scattered foxing and staining, generally quite clean and a tall, wide margined copy.Scarce Czech imprint, just two copies in OCLC. (32), 147, (4)pp. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 046877.

Leyden: J. Luchtmans. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary full calf prize binding with the "vicit vim virtus" crest of the city of Haarlem. Light wear, rubbing to hinges and spine. A fine binding. 614pp, errata, extra engraved title. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 048337.

Paris: Éditions de la Sirene, 1920. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Wrappers a little chipped, lacking glassine and with a plastic cover instead, fresh internally and mostly unopened; small bookplate on rear endpaper. 223pp Size: 12mo . One volume of the 3-volume set. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: dcoo; Inventory No: CAT000683.

Boston: J. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1797. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Good Condition. Contemporary leather backed boards, worn, spine rubbed and chipped, but generally sound. A number of torn pages, 2 pages trimmed but complete, one leaf with loss to a few lines of text, trimmed a little close at the fore edge in spots, otherwise complete. Two large woodcuts. 84pp. Skeel 670, Evans 33185, Sabin 102387 A rather charming look at popular aphorisms originally published in 1791 and much reprinted. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 045475.

Antwerp: Plantiniana - Balthasar Moreti (Plantin-Moretus), 1622. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. Contemporary overlapping vellum, wear at the corners and some soiling and discoloration. Notes to endpapers in an early hand, scattered light foxing and browning, otherwise quite clean internally. An attractive copy of the works of the early Christian convert and poet. 896pp plus index. Provenance: G. Loumyer (stamp on endpaper) Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Poetry. Inventory No: 044325.

Cologne: Maternum Cholinum, 1560. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. Contemporary full calf, varnished, hinges cracked, lacking ties; still a nice example of an early calf binding with gilt insets, edges gilt. Endpapers loose, old note to free endpapre, modest foxing and wear; sound and good overall. 705pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046658.

Antwerp: Petri Belleri, 1646. Third Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. Full contemporary blind tooled calf, well worn with loss to leather on the spine and corners. Scattered mild foxing, otherwise quite clean internally. The Crahan copy with his bookplate (item 181a in the 1984 sale at Sotheby's). Engraved title, stamp to first page of preliminaries. (22), 526, (1)pp. Cagle 19, Oberle 33, Crahan 181a (this copy).Originally published in 1627. Born in Anvers the son of a Portuguese doctor, Nuñez traveled widely through Italy and corresponded with Renaissance luminaries like Justus Lipsius. His Diaeteticon was widely influential, though it is largely a recapitulation of classical views on food. Size: 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Medicine & Health. Inventory No: CAT000291.

New York: Christies, 1998. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. 3 volumes, slight bumping to corners, otherwise bright and unmarked. Bringing together all three volumes of the landmark Haskell sale. Size: Quarto (4to). 3-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Reference; Books on Books. Inventory No: 041500.