Search Results: Titles starting with O from The Bookpress, Ltd.

RAPHAEL, Sandra. AN OAK SPRING SYLVA. Upperville, Virginia: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1989. 4to. Cloth, dust jack xxvii, 147 (1) pages. First edition. One in a series of catalogues by the Oak Spring Garden Library describing the sections of their library. This catalogue presents forty six of their books manuscripts on trees. An historical background of each book is presented alo with a bibliography. Color and black and white illustrations accompany each entry. With an index. Fine.

(MEDICINE) SANZ, Jose. OBSERVACION CHIRURGICO-MEDICA. (Mexico City): Doria Maria Fernandez de Jauragui, 1814. 16mo. Later red full-morocco. 39 pages. First edition. A rare Mexican imprint on hydrocele and testicular neoplasm found in hernias ruptures. OCLC only locates seven copies worldwide. Very good.

(BOOK COLLECTING) OBSERVATIONS ON SEVERAL AUTHORS AND BOOKS IN THE ENGLISH AN FOREIGN LANGUAGES WHICH ARE NECESSARY FOR THE FORMATION OF A SELECT AND SMALL LIBRARY. London: Valpy, 1813. 8vo. Disbound. 279-298 pages. Being an appendix to The Pamphleteer, a strange periodical that reprinted sca tracts of historical interest. This advice on forming a library was written a time of great bibliophilic interest by Thomas Frognall Dibdin and others.

DALLAWAY, James. OBSERVATIONS ON ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE. MILITARY, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND CIVIL. London: J. Taylor, 1806. 8vo. Publisher's boards. xii, 318, (12) pages. Firs edition. One of the earliest architectural studies of Gothic architecture in England f the Anglo-Saxon period to the sixteenth century. His focus is on the ecclesiastical examples. An exceptionally nice uncut copy with front hinge starting but firm.

SOCIETE D'AGRICULTURE. OBSERVATIONS SUR LE RAPPORT QUE LE CITOYEN BRULEY VIE DE PUBLIER. Turin: La Societe, An XII, (1804). 8vo. Later quarter-leather. x, 80 pages. First edition. A negative review of Augustin-Jean Brulley's study of exotic plants, Rapport les Essais de Culture de Plantes Exotiques. The report accuses Brulley of insulting the Society with his careless scholarship and lies. Very good in l nineteenth century binding.

DALLAWAY, James. OBSERVATIONS ON ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE. MILITARY, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND CIVIL. London: J. Taylor, 1806. 8vo. Nineteenth century full-calf. xii, 318, (12) pages. First edition. One of the earliest architectural studies of Gothic architecture in England f the Anglo-Saxon period to the sixteenth century. With focus on ecclesiastica examples. Binding rubbed; front hinge cracked but firm, else very good.

MICKLETHWAITE, J.T. OCCASIONAL NOTES ON CHURCH FURNITURE & ARRANGEMENTS. London: Incorporated Church Building Society, 1908. 8vo. Wrappers. 52, (1) pages, 1 plate. First edition. First published as a series of articles in Church Builder from 1899 to 1905, gathered here for the first time. Includes Micklethwaite's observations on pews, fonts, lighting, warming, and painted glass. Wrappers slightly chipped front wrapper loose.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS. THE OCTAGON. (Washington: American Institute of Architects), 1927. 4to. Stiff wrappers. Frontispiece, 55 pages. First edition. A brief history of this famous Washington, D.C. house is followed by plans to restore the residence and erect a library and administration building. Very good.

(OCTAGON HOUSE) EVANS, Quinn. THE OCTAGON, EXTERIOR RESTORATION. Washington: AIA Foundation, 1987. 4to. Wrappers, comb binding. (i), 25 leave First edition. Scarce in-house master plan report compiled by architect Quinn Evans for the on the most recently conducted restoration and repair work done to the exteri of the historic house in 1987. Includes photographs and architectural elevations detailing work to be conducted, with costs. Very good.

ROUNDS, Ruby M. OCTAGON BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK STATE. Cooperstown, New York: New York State Historical Association, 1954. 8vo. Wrappers. 22 pages. Revised edition. With seven photographs and one floor plan, one hundred and twenty six octagon buildings are listed by county. An index lists them by town and city. With intoduction entitled: "Fowler Was Right--Or Notes From the Heart of an Octago Dweller," by Carl Carmer. Light browning to the edges, tail of spine lightly creased, else very good. 22953.

Dyer, John. (STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS) GRAY, Thomas, John Dyer, John Cooper, and Robert G. ODES BY MR. GRAY, bound with THE FLEECE, bound with EPISTLES TO THE GREAT, FR ARISTIPPUS IN RETIREMENT, bound with THE DAY OF JUDGMENT: A POETICAL ESSAY. F works bound in one volume. (London): Strawberry Hill, 1757; London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1757; and Cambridge: J. Bentham, 1758. 4to. Later pebble cloth. 21 pages; (iv), 156 pag 48 pages; and 16 pages. First and third editions. A composite of English eighteenth century poetry with an association to an English general who served as royal governor of New York before the Revolutio Robert Monckton. He served in the British army in America where he distinguished himself during the French and Indian War and was with General W at the Battle of Quebec. He was also the British officer in charge of the deportation of the French citizens of French Arcadia in Canada to Louisiana during the war, and was appointed governor of New York in 1762 until 1765, bu returned to Britain… Read More

CHINARD, Gilbert. LETTRES INEDITES DE BEAUMARCHAIS. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1929. 8vo. Wrappers. First edition. Number 74 of 500 copies. A fine uncut copy.

SAMBIN, Hughes. OEUVRE DE LA DIVERSITY DES TERMES, DONT ON USE EN ARCHITECTU REDUICT EN ORDRE. Lyons: Durant, 1572. Small folio. Paste paper boards. 3-48, 53-76, (1) page First, and only, edition. [Fowler, 285; Berlin Catalog, 3920; Mortimer, 481; Brunet V, 104]. This work on columnar figures is one of the most decorative books of the Lyonnese school. It is especially interesting from the viewpoint of French Renaissance architectural history. Sambin, a French architect, cabinetmaker, and joiner was a pupil of Michelangelo. In the present work he explains by means of textual description and illustration eighteen pairs of "termes" base on the five orders with his own inventions. There are thirty-six fine and delicate full-page woodcuts showing decorated and detailed figures. Each pai becomes progressively more ornate or grotesque with the development of fruit flower motifs, masks, rams' heads, acanthus leaves, lions' heads, and satyrs. This copy lacks the title page and two additional leaves (pages… Read More

Janin, Jules Gabriel. MOLIERE. OEUVRES COMPLETES DE MOLIERE. Paris: Laplace, 1879. 4to. Red quarter-morocco. 649, (1) pages, 20 colored plates. Complete works of the noted French dramatists edited by Jules Gabriel Janin. Illustrated Illustrated with colored plates by Edmond Aime Florentin Geffrey. Bookplate, signature on front blank, else very good.

Grabhorn-Hoyem. (GRABHORN-HOYEM) PHILBRICK, Norman. OF BOOKS AND THE THEATRE. N.P.: Stanford University Libraries, 1969. Folio. Wrappers. Frontispiece, 19 (1) pages. One of 100 copies for the Roxburghe Club from a total edition of 1,000. Included is an essay by Dr. John Loftis, "Garrick & the Rise of Theatrical Scholarship." With a frontispiece of Garrick and facsimile of an unpublished letter by him. Fine.

BURLINGAME, Roger. OF MAKING MANY BOOKS. New York: Scribner, 1946. 8vo. Cloth. xvi, 349 pages. First edition. History of Scribner's publishing house. Very good.

(GARDENS) OF OXFORDSHIRE GARDENS. Oxford: Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1982. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. xii, 108 pages. First edition. Illustrated. Very good.

SAPHIER, Michael. OFFICE PLANNING AND DESIGN. New York: McGraw-Hill, (1968). Small 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. xii, 193 pages First edition. By the chairman of the space planning and design firm of Saphier, Lerner, Shindler, Inc. Spotting to top edge, else very good.

TRAVELERS PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. OFFICIAL PROGRAM; THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION...PORTLAND, OREGON, JUNE 14-19, 1920. (Portland): 1920. Tall 8vo. Stiff decorated wrappers. 23 pages. Scarce automobile souvenir program not recorded on OCLC. Official program fo the June 1920 annual convention of the travelers Protective Association of America held at the Multnomah Hotel in Portland, Oregon. It lists the office directors and chairmen of the national committees as well as the daily itiner and program of activities. It also includes "ladies' features" with list of their officers, directors and committee chair and attendees. Eight pages of advertisements in back. Very good.

WARDLAW, Georgia Dickinson. THE OLD AND THE QUAINT IN VIRGINIA. Richmond: The Dietz Press, 1939. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 328 pages, (3 plates. First edition. Wardlaw provides the history of numerous Virginia objects including a sampler silhouettes, ladies fans, china, silver, clocks and chairs, duelling pistols, and dolls. Well illustrated. With an index. Inscription on front free-endpaper, light browing to edges, light chipping to edges of dust jacket.