Search Results: Titles starting with F from Bull's Head Rare Books

Np: Privately Printed, 2021. 100 copies signed and numbered, with an additional 26 signed and lettered copies reserved for the author. 8vo. Tipped-in frontispiece after photograph by Theroux, title-page, initial line and colophon printed in color. 19, [1] pp. Sewn stiff wrappers, plain dust-jacket with printed title label. A letterpress printed, signed and limited edition of Paul Theroux's autobiographical essay, in the tradition of Henry Miller's On Turning Eighty and V.S. Pritchett's The Turn of the Years. Written on the North Shore of Oahu with Ka'ena Point in the distance, Theroux's essay explores "the foliage of my life that I have not elaborated in my books."One of 100 copies, each numbered and signed by Theroux. An additional 26 lettered copies were produced for the author's use. Designed, letterpress printed and bound by Jesse Marsolais at The Marsolais Press in Harwich, Massachusetts, in July 2021.

Amsterdam: D. Elsevier & Paris: Thomas Jolly, 1678. 24mo. Engraved half-title and 6 engraved plates by Sébastien LeClerc. 168 pp. Contemporary green morocco, covers tooled in gilt with triple fillet border, spine in five compartments with raised bands, titled and decorated in gilt, a.e.g.; front joint starting at head of spine, covers warped, a few early ownership marks Elsevier printing of this pastoral poem first published in 1607.REFERENCE: Brunet I, 1088; Rahir 1673; Willems 1542

Amsterdam: D. Elsevier & Paris: Thomas Jolly, 1678. 24mo. Engraved half-title and 6 engraved plates by Sébastien LeClerc. 168 pp. Contemporary red morocco, front cover with later gilt supralibros, spine in five compartments with raised bands, titled and richly decorated in gilt, a.e.g.; fine, early ownership 1694 date on title-page Elzevir printing of this pastoral poem first published in 1607.PROVENANCE: Henry John Beresford Clements, 1869-1940, (gilt supralibros and book-plate)REFERENCE: Brunet I, 1088; Rahir 1673; Willems 1542

London: Chapman & Hall, [1847]-1855. Thackeray. 5 vols. Small 4to and 8vo. Uniform late 19th-century crushed green morocco, original glazed paper covers to each volume backed and bound-in, t.e.g., by Matthews; spines faded, light wear to extremities Mrs Perkins's Ball. London: Chapman and Hall, [1847]. Pictorial title and 21 plates (1 folding), all hand-colored, after Thackeray. [2], 46, [2] pp., with half-title. First edition. Our Street. London: Chapman and Hall, 1848. Frontispiece, pictorial title and 14 engraved plates, all hand-colored, after Thackeray. 54, [2] pp. First edition.Doctor Birch & His Young Friends. London: Chapman and Hall, 1849. Frontispiece, pictorial title and 14 engraved plates by Thackeray. [iv], 49, [1], [2, ads] pp. First edition, later issue with plates uncolored.The Kickleburys on the Rhine. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1851. Frontispiece, pictorial title and 13 engraved plates, all hand-colored, by Thackeray. [iv], xv, [1], 87, [1], [2, ads] pp., with half-title.… Read More

[Switzerland?], late 19th century. Oblong 4to. 100 pressed and mounted botanical specimens on 20 mounts, each with printed or manuscript caption giving the Latin name. Decorated green cloth album, bordered in black and gilt, titled on front cover in gilt, decorated endpapers; occasional light foxing to mounts, specimens generally in fine condition and the binding unusually bright and clean. With one additional mounted specimen laid-in an envelope with the manuscript note "Harebell. From highest point of Schybige Platte, Switzerland." A very handsome herbarium of alpine flora, with the specimens artfully mounted with narrow paper strips. The labels appear to have been taken from a variety of printed sources, as they mix lithographic printing with letterpress, and several are found in penciled manuscript. The specimens include examples of species of Anemone, Rhododendron, Ajuga, Potentilla, Azalea, Viola, Erica, Saxifraga, Carex, Campanula, Ranunculus, and others.

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)