Search Results: Titles 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.

London: John Murray, 1803. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Original light green boards with printed title on cover. Title-page with large woodcut illustration of angel statue in garden. Uncut. Boards soiled, corners rubbed, spine lacking. A nice copy, quite tight with both hinges intact. Scarce.

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1925. Large and wide folio, 15 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. [PRINTER'S COPY]. Publishers marbled paper boards, holland cloth spine. Nash's copy, with "Printer's Copy" written in red holograph script on limitation page, just below the "This copy is Number:" A limited edition of 400 copies were printed from etched plates by Howard J. Griffith. Foreword by Gottardo Piazzoni, and introduction and descriptive text by H. Bennett Abdy. Ten color plates of paintings by Rowena Meeks Abdy, etched by Howard J. Griffith. Near fine. Scarce thus.

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1929. First Edition. First Edition. Folio. Marbled boards with gilt stamped morocco label on the backstrip. 1/300 copies for private circulation. Frontispiece and ornamental borders by William H. Wilke. Jean Hersholt's copy, his renowned collection of Hans Christian Andersen housed at Library of Congress, with his private bookplate, signature and his personal collection accession number, on the front pastedown. Frontispiece and ornamental borders by William H. Wilke. Printed on fine woodblock paper. Captions, dedication and colophon. A very nice copy with some wear to edges of spine, internally fine.

Eugene: John Henry Nash Fine Arts Press, 1932. First Edition. First Edition. 4to. Publishers marbled paper covered boards, morocco label on spine with gilt lettering. Copy #24 of Only 50 Copies Printed. Fine copy.

San Francisco: Paul Elder; The Tomoye Press, 1911. First edition thus. First edition thus. 12mo. Original fine paper pictorial wrappers with cover stamped in light green, dark green and orange, silk ties. Attractive and scarce work, designed by John Henry Nash with wood cut designs. In original color printed envelope. Book and envelope are very fine. Scarce.

San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1925. First Edition Thus. First Edition Thus. Slim 4to. Publisher's floral paper covered boards, faux-vellum spine, deckled edges. Finely printed blue, green and back, portrait of Browning opposite title-page. One of 250 copies. Inscribed on front free fly: "To Count John McCormack From Doctor John Nash, March Sixth, MDCCCCXXXI." Near fine in very good slipcase.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California [John Henry Nash], 1916. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. Publisher's holland cloth backed over gray boards with printed label on spine. 1/300 copies. Printed by John Henry Nash in an edition of 300 numbered copies, of which this is copy 71. Includes the rare Gabriel Moulin original photograph of Millet's painting. Photograph is housed in a paper folder that was printed by Nash, "the Man with the Hoe, The Book Club of California...." Additionally, a printed letter from Markham to Albert Bender is laid in. Decorated by Ray F. Coyle, including orange initials. With Nash printed note from Markham inserted (12mo, 4pp, laid paper, with one side printed) A fine copy. No copies found on internet.

Eugene: John Henry Nash Fine Arts Press, 1937. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. Publisher's light brown paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. Limited to Only 100 copies, this is copy #29, written in holograph on limitation page at end of book. Printed by Nash as the printing project for the 1937 class in typography of the John Henry Nash Fine Arts Press at the University of Oregon under the direction of Robert C. Hall, with students actively engaged in the project. Only 14 copies in WorldCat, almost all local Northwest Library Collections. A fine. copy.

San Francisco: John Heny Nash, 1924. First edition. First edition. Quarter brown cloth, patterned paper covered boards, paper labels on cover and spine. Photographic frontispiece o Wheeler. Inserted photograph at very end, perhaps Wheeler as a young child. Very good.

London: Printed [by H. Bryer] for J. Harris, Successor to E. Newbery, 1807. First edition. First edition. 5 x 4 inches; iv, 16pp. Original printed tan wrappers with cover illustration of peacock, border design and lettering, in black. Copper-engraved frontispiece and five copper-engraved plates, all after William Mulready and dated "Sept. 1, 1807." In writing of this sequel to the ever-popular Butterfly Ball, the Gentleman's Magazine of September 1807 wrote, "after the exquisite little poem of Mr Roscoe... an attempt at a Sequel was indeed an arduous task. But the "Peacock at Home" has afforded us so much pleasure, that we cannot hesitate to class it with the original it professedly imitates" (Moon). Moon 215(1); Osborne page 61. Wrappers a bit soiled and toned, a few minor and neat restorations, top right corner of front wrapper and frontispiece renewed. Internally generally clean; minor scattered foxing and minor offsetting from plates, minor thumb soiling throughout, a few wrinkles, ink gift… Read More

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.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1859. Four scarce booklets in original wrappers, bound at spine and housed in a contemporary cloth slipcase with calf spine labeled, "Academy Notes." 48pp. 60pp., 64pp., 56pp., each with ads in back. Three are first editions, one is a stated second edition. Various soiling, very minor chipping to wrappers, but in all a very good, tight grouping of some of Ruskin's earliest printed art criticism.

London: Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1697. First Edition. First Edition. Tall quarto ((12æx7Ω"). [4], 342, [14] pp. Early full calf with double filet gilt ruling to borders front and back covers, spine with six raised bands, re-backed with morocco label on second panel and with embossed titling. A monumental treatise on numismatics by John Evelyn, a prolific author and produced books on subjects as diverse as theology, numismatics, politics, horticulture, architecture and vegetarianism, and he cultivated links with contemporaries across the spectrum of political and cultural life. Replete with engravings depicting examples of medals, Numismata is recognized as one of the most important 17th-century books on numismatics, as well as authenticity parameters. Interestingly, the content of Evelyn's treatise, as opposed to the title, focuses primarily on medals alone. The book however is concerned with more than just a study of medals, including a rather tangential piece on human physiognomy and its… Read More