Search Results: Titles starting with P from Henry Sotheran Ltd.

[Istanbul, c. 1895]. Oblong folio. Original red pebble-grained cloth, rebacked, highly decorated and lettered in gilt; 10 concertina-style co-joint mounted albumen prints of original photographs forming a continuous panorama (25 x 340 cm); cloth a little rubbed, the images very well preserved. 'Pascal Sébah (1823–1886) was a photographer in Constantinople (Istanbul). He was born there to a Syrian Catholic father and an Armenian mother. In 1857, he opened his first photography studio, “El Chark Société Photographic,” in Constantinople at 439 Grande Rue de Pera. In 1860, the French photographer, Antoine Laroche, directed the studio. In 1873, Sébah opened another studio in Cairo. Pascal Sébah suffered a stroke in 1883 and his brother, Cosmi, took charge of the business until Jean (1872–1947), Pascal’s son who also became a photographer, was old enough to inherit the business. To profit from his father’s fame, he signed his photographs J. Pascal Sébah. In 1888, Jean went into… Read More

[Beijing, Distributed by Guozi Shudian. 1956]. 22 mounted and hand-coloured paper-cuts, each protected with a glassine sheet, plates measuring 227 by 158 mm, together with 5-page booklet on Chinese paper-cuts in general and one with 3 pages detailing the paper-cuts from Weihsin (text in Chinese, English, French and German), all housed in the original publishers folder of patterned boards, cloth-covered edges, bone pegs and textile ties; overall in very good condition with the colours surprisingly fresh. Paper-cutting is one of the oldest and most popular folk arts in China, and can be geographically divided into southern and northern styles, represented here by examples from Hebei Province.

[Beijing, Distributed by Guozi Shudian, 1956]. 23 mounted and hand-coloured paper-cuts, each protected with a glassine sheet, plates measuring 227 by 158 mm, together with 5-page booklet on Chinese paper-cuts in general (light trace of humidity to gutter of title) and one with 3 pages detailing the paper-cuts from Chien An (text in Chinese, English, French and German), all housed in the original publisher's folder of patterned boards, cloth-covered edges, bone pegs and textile ties; overall in very good condition with the colours surprisingly fresh.

1965. London; Curwen Prints. [1965]. Landscape large folio, 613 x 325mm; a white pictorially decorated folder printed in colours, lettered to flap in black, with a full-size photographic illustration to one side, containing 9 individual colour-printed posters on card, with text running boldly above in red and black, the whole forming an interchangeable panorama designed to be assembled in a multitude of combinations to form a variety of processions; the folder lightly soiled, dusted, and palely foxed, with small edge wear; internally all components present and in near fine condition; a rare survival. First, and sole, edition. An unusual and striking example of 1960s' graphic design. "How many ways can you use this parade? To start with you can read it and you can hang it up on the wall or lay it out on the floor and you can paste it up or cut it out or draw your own on the back with your own colours and flags and if that isn't enough you can make your own parade and march around, imitate the… Read More

1931. [Argenteuil, R. Coulouma and Paris, Cerbellaud & Jonnart for the artist and Devambez, May 25, 1931]. Large 4to (c. 330 x 250 mm). Loose and entirely uncut in the original printed wrappers; pp. [4, blank], [2, half-title and limitation], [2, blank], [2, title printed in red and black], 147, [3], 23 full-page etchings with aquatint (some colour-printed or tinted) in the text; spine of wrappers a little rubbed and worn, remnants of contemporary half-calf folder and slipcase; a few leaves with marginal blue ink spots. Privately printed, number XVI of the 23 copies on japon ancien reserved for the artist (total printrun 198 copies), with Chimot's aquatint etchings in the first state, second state printed in sanguine with remarques, the second state with remarques, printed in black, the final state, and one plate in all states (dossier), limitation signed by the artist, a few manuscript notes in the artist's hand on folder of the dossier. This set not only comprises the additional versions of… Read More

1909. London, Adam And Charles Black, 1909. Large 8vo. Publisher's red cloth panelled and decorated in black to spine and upper cover and lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed with dust-wrapper, not known to the bibiographer; pp. xii, 185. [3]; with a total of 75 fine coloured plates with captioned guards and line drawings throughout the text; the cloth, as to be expected very fresh, wrapper with a few marginal flaws and darkened to spine; internally a little spotted, and with offsetting from endpapers. First edition. Inman 64.

[Paris, Ledot Jeune, c. 1860]. Oblong large 4to. Original brown morocco-backed pebble-grained cloth, spine with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt, front cover ruled in blind and lettered in gilt; 50 tinted lithographic plates; light rubbing to extremities, front free endpapers renewed; first plate minimally spotted, one with short maginal tear; otherwise a very good, clean and complete copy. Very rare pictorial album of Paris during the the Second Empire, the Paris of Jacques Offenbach, urban mass culture and immense wealth and poverty, as described by Zola. The very few albums with that title we were able to trace contain fewer plates, sometimes 48, 45 or only 28. The numbering is not consecutive, which might indicate that the publisher Ledot compiled albums on demand and for different markets. Photography is certainly the basis for many images, with the speeding carriages and the moving crowd of Paris added by the artists.

London, Stanford's Georgraphical Establishment, c. 1910. Colour-lithographic map (72 x 56 cm), linen-backed and dissected into 20 sections folding back into the original cloth folder with Philip's, the Fleet Street map dealers' printed label on front cover; only light rubbing to folder and ms name to label, the map itself only lightly toned in places. This map with a scale of 1 : 5,274,720 covers the area South of the Guianas, part of the Mato Grosso down to Paraguay and Desterro on the Atlantic. The provinces are distinguished by colours, with the borders in red.

1924. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. 8vo.; publisher's dark red finely-ribbed cloth lettered in black to spine and upper cover, plain edges; pp. [iv], [5]-325 + [iii], publisher's adverts.; rubbed at corners and along spine; sporadic foxing, moreso to the prelims, a little to the outer edge; a very good copy, lacking the very scarce dust jacket. First edition of Forster's famous novel, one of 5000 copies. A Passage to India deals with the complex themes set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement during the 1920s. Despite being controversial on release due to its depictions of relationships between coloniser and colonised, the book went on to win the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and in modern days holds an important place in discussions of orientalist and postcolonial literature. Time magazine included the novel in its "All Time 100 Novels" list.

[San Francisco, Borden Printing], 1939. 4to. 'Plastic binding' illustrated boards; pp. 41, highly illustrated, including a fold out photographic birds-eye view of the exhibition island in the Pacific; well-preserved; provenance: ownership inscription by Florence Kekule, dated October, 1939 on title, together with letters aof appreciation by the Brazilian Commissioner adressed to Florence Dellos, the head waitress at the Brazilian pavillion, and a staff list of the pavillion. Very rare and beautiful. The exposition had the theme A Pageant of the Pacific and celebrated the completion of the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge with this exhibition, located on an artificial island in San Francisco Bay. The Brazilian pavillion, a masterpiece of modernism, contained some spectacularly designed features, such as a relief map of South America, and the snazzy Café Brazil, complete with band. Together with: Two 4to brochures of Rules and Regulations of the exhibition, with a few original press photos in large… Read More

[colophon:] Birmingham, printed by E. J. Whitehouse … Printer to his Majesty "The King of Albania", [1917]. 4to. Teal cloth-backed spine over illustrated boards; pp. [vi], 6-90, [2]; double-page illustrated leaf; wood-engraved illustrations in the text, text in lilac and black; rubbing to extremities, and marks on front and back boards; discolouration and marks on endpapers; front inner hinge strengthened; sparce foxing and marks throughout; a good copy of this incredibly scarce private publication of end-of-war predictions. This is book number 268 of a run unknown, with the name of the receiver inscribed as J. Lambour Esq. The text itself is comprised of entries written to the author E. W. Beston predicting the date for the end of the First World War, and includes Beston's own accompanying remarks to each prophecy. After receiving all entries, and after the end date of the war, Beston awarded a prize of £10 10s 0d to the closest guess at the Birmingham Bachelor's club, as illustrated… Read More

2005. San Marino, California: Huntington Library 2005. Folio, original grey cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper board. A fine copy. Facsimile edition, edited and with an introduction by Cyndia Susan Clegg. With textual commentary by Randall McLeod. "Holinshed's Chronicles", best known as one of Shakespeare's major sources, contains one of the few accounts of Elizabeth's reign written during her lifetime. A contemporary history, it was subjected to censorship by the Privy Council. In this facsimile edition, a compilation based on this portion of the "Chronicles" in copies in the Huntington's collection as well as the British Library and Cambridge University Library, censored and substituted passages are represented between two covers for the first time. Professor Clegg provides a historical introduction and demonstrates that the censorship took place in three stages. Libraries around the world will be able to identify and describe the copies in their own collections based… Read More

1973. Collins. 1973. 8vo. Publisher's cloth and dustwrapper; price-clipped, otherwise near fine. First edition. New Naturalist 56

1928. Berlin, Albertus Verlag, 1928. Small folio. Original blue cloth with illustrated wrappers; pp. xx; 200, full-page half-tone photographic illustrations numbered 1-200 with captions below in German, English, French and Spanish, and one map of Beijing; wrappers rubbed and chipped at edges, slightly marked, otherwise very good. First edition, probably the earlier issue in cloth with illustrated wrappers and not in boards with typographical wrappers, one erratum line on title-verso. A series of delicate and beautiful images of Beijing by the German photographer von Perckhammer (1895-1965), depicting the city's architecture, inhabitants, and landmarks, with polyglot titles beneath. Von Perckhammer had travelled through China and Macau in the 1920s, and, in addition to this work, also published Edle Nacktheit in China (Berlin: 1928; issued in English as The Culture of the Nude in China also published in Berlin in 1928) and Von China und Chinesen (Zurich: 1930), which was published in Britain under… Read More

1905. London, Lawrence and Bullen,, 1904. 8vo. Original green cloth gilt; pp. 359; numerous plates after maps, drawing and maps, two colour-printed maps on one lage folding sheet; one corner with a little bump, head of spine with a little wear, slight embrowning to endpapers, else a very attractive copy. First edition, very uncommon. An impressive overview of the subject, from Niebuhr to the 1890s by the archaeologist David George Hogarth who was from 1909 on keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and president of the Royal Geographical Society. During the First World War he worked at the Arab Bureau in Cairo, launching the Arab Revolt. Provenance: Royal Institution blind-stamp to title-page, release stamp on lower fly-leaf. Accessioned on March, 31, 1904.

London, Martin Secker, [1915]. 8vo. Original cloth, ornamented and lettered in gilt; pp. 263, 15 (publisher's catalogue}, frontispiece in photogravure with tissue guard; a litle ofseting from endpapers, evenly a little toned due to paper stock, as usual; a very good copy of a very uncommon work. First edition of this first-hand account of life among Yemenis, written by a British advisor in the Yemen and South West Arabia. 'I was inspired by a love of these Tribesmen of Al Yemen with whom I have worked for ten years, including a very close sojourn in their midast of three years' he writes in the preface (p. 7). One of the better insights into Southern Aranbian society, customs, family life, food and drink.

London, Horace Cox, 1904. 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt; pp. xii, [4], 180, plates after photographs; light browning to endpapers with offsetting to adjacent pages, name on half title, otherwise very good. First edition, very rare. The son of one of the most celebrated Victorian sculptors and medallists embarked on a rather unusual tour. In 1901 he travelled with a civil servant from the embassy at Constantinople 'to try a British subject in Baghdad' (p. vii). Off the beaten track he visits Muscat and Bahrain, Basrah and the Marsh Arbas, Baghdad, the Euprates and Kerbala, Amara, then hopping over to the Persian side of the Gulf, venturing inland before returning to Muscat. The second part of the book, starting on p. 105 is a journey from New Zealand to the South sea islands of Tonga, the Vava'u island group, Samoa, and Fiji, with encounters of cannibals and two plates depicting them going about their business. COPAC lists copies at SOAS, in the BL, at Oxford, in the London Library and… Read More

Calcutta, printed: re-printed in London, at the Oriental Press, by Wilson and Co. (The Persian Types cast by Vincent Figgins), 1801. Three parts in one volume, large 4to. Uncut in contemporary marbled boards with 20th-century brown crushed morocco back with red lettering-piece; pp. [vi], 106; 74; 82, 2 (publisher's advertisements), 32 engraved plates of Persian and Arbaic script; wear to extremities of the boards, occasional spotting, front fly-leaf with repair to gutter; late 19th-century ownership inscription Osias Edelman in Zubow bei Trembowla (Western Ukraine), with inscription in Arabic letters to front fly-leaf; bookplate of Charles E. Lawrence of New York inside front cover. First published in Calcutta in 1795 this Persian Scribe is a hands-on introduction to the Persian language, writing and correspondence for members of the East India Company and philologists, with many examples from the rich Persian literature. Francis Gladwin (died 1813) was a 'lexicographer and prolific translator of… Read More

[London], Published by the Hydrographer of the Navy, 1967. 8vo. Original blue cloth; pp. [4, on pink paper], x, 372, [2], tinted folding map, many views of coastlines based on the drawings done for the 1914 edition; a fine copy. This pilot guide had appeared first in 1870, and this is the last edition in this format, as the coastlines and coastal towns started to change beyond recognition. Apart from the obviously necessary information for navigating the Gulf the volume contains sections on trade, population, politics, languages, natural resources, and fisheries, including pearl fishing.

[Paris], C. Motte [for Arnault, c. 1825]. Original lithograph by Charles Champion after the 1804 oil painting by Gros, image size c. 31 x 42 cm; very clean and with wide margins. This print was published in Antoine-Vincent Arnault's monumental Vie Politique et Militaire de Napoleon, which appeared from 1822 to 1826. The playwright Arnault had been a companion of Napoleon since the Ionian mission and Egypt campaign of 1797, and was involved in Napoleon's coup d'état of the 18th Brumaire. The print shows Napoleon during a striking scene which is supposed to have occurred in Jaffa on 11 March 1799, when General Bonaparte visited his sick soldiers at the Armenian Saint Nicholas Monastery. Other sources claim that he ordered some soldiers to be 'put down' by opium overdose.