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

London: Whittaker and Co.,, 1837. First edition. George Cruikshank. 8vo. 6 etched plates and 2 vignettes (title-page and tailpiece) by George Cruikshank. [iv], xii, 203, [1] pp. Later 19th-century full crushed maroon morocco, t.e.g., gilt dentelles, original cloth covers bound in, by Bumpus; slight fade to spine and a few scuffs to rear cover, else fine PROVENANCE: Sir David Solomons (armorial book-plate)REFERENCE: Cohn 433

Lima, Peru, April 22, 1830. Oblong 8vo (6 x 8 inches), partly printed form with ms insertions, printed recto only, with engraved vignette of a woman playing a keyboard instrument at head, signed in type by Planel and with his ms flourish; some light crinkling and foxing Rare ephemera documenting an early opera performance in South America by European performers, a receipt for four performances delivered at Lima starting on May 8, 1830. The performances were part of a South American tour by Italian opera singers Teresa Schieroni, Margherita Garavaglia, Domingo Pizzoni, Giacomo Bettali and Mayorga and the Uruguayan violinist, conductor and composer Louis Theophile Planel (who acknowledges receipt of one ounce of gold from a Señor Daliphar). In addition to Lima, the tour included stops in Buenos Aires, Santiago, Valparaíso and after leaving South American, would continue with a six-month stop at Macao in China.REFERENCE: Rosselli, "Latin America and Opera: A Process of Interaction, 1810-1930,"… Read More

New York: A.T. De la Mare Printing and Publishing, 1898. First edition. Large 4to. Numerous illustrations and plans to text, 1 large folding plan and 1 folding chart. 118 pp. Publisher's blind- and gilt-decorated cloth, beveled edges; slight fading to cloth American residential landscape gardening at the turn of the previous century by the English landscape architect Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840-1906). Before emigrating to America, Johnson was the Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Belfast and operated a landscape gardening business in London. His first book, Natural Principles of Landscape Gardening, was published in Belfast in 1874. Johnson emigrated to America in 1885 where he continued his landscape practice; he was briefly superintendent of horticulture for Brooklyn's Prospect Park.The present work, with many useful illustrations throughout, is divided into three sections: the residential site, planting and introduction to undulations, and villa gardens and public grounds.

Boston: Printed for the author by Munroe and Francis, 1814. First edition. 8vo. 32 engraved plates (1 double-page) by H.W. Snyder after Benjamin and by Wightman. 96 pp. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards, red morocco spine label; toning and staining throughout, first and last few leaves and plate 1 repaired at fore-margin, small tear to plate 29. The first edition of Asher Benjamin's third book, a course in architecture for the young student or apprentice.PROVENANCE: William Reese (book-label)REFERENCE: Hitchcock 143

[Boston]: Printed for the proprietors [by Samuel Etheridge], 1800. 8vo. 34 pp. Contemporary sheep; upper board detached, ffep removed, in a custom chemise and slipcase. Scarce American price book for Boston carpenters, in contemporary sheep. Signed, as usual, by Thomas Stutson, secretary of the committee that drew up the rules, which were devised to establish a fair system of charges for services rendered. Prices are an early example of the use of dollars and cents. Rink lists previous editions from 1774 (1 copy), 1794 (no copy known) & 1795 (2 copies).PROVENANCE: William Reese (book-label on chemise)REFERENCE: Evans 37003; Rink 1760