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Old English Lustre Pottery

JOHN, W. D.; Warren Baker · 1951

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

Newport Mon R. H. Johns Ltd First Edition First Printing of this history of nineteenth century English pottery with metallic glazes. Royal 8vo (313 x 241mm): xx,132pp, with color frontispiece and 545 illustrations, of which 44 are in color. Publisher's pale yellow cloth, spine...

[Ornithology] Fine Bird Books 1700-1900

SITWELL, Sacheverell (1897-1988) · 1990

$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,429)

New York Atlantic Monthly Press First Edition thus First reprinting of the scarce 1953 edition of this classic reference for ornithological illustration. Foreword by S. Dillon Ripley. Royal 8vo (301 x 223mm): xi,180pp, with 52 full-page color plates. Publisher's navy blue clot...

The storm compass or, seaman's hurricane companion: containing a familiar explanation of the hurricane theory, illustrated with diagrams and accounts of hurricanes.

BECHER, A. B. (Commander Alexander Bridport, 1796-1877) · 1866

$649.00 (€588.83 | £491.24 | ¥103,637)

London J. D. Potter, sole Agent for the Sale of Charts and Works published by the Admiralty [from 1853] Beautifully preserved early printing, in original wrappers, of this rarity on the nature of hurricanes. Crown 8vo (180 x 119mm): viii,59,[5]pp, with lithographic frontispiec...

This Earth

FAULKNER, William (1897-1962); HECKMAN, Albert (Illustrates) · 1932

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

New York Equinox First Edition Only Printing of this poem, illustrated with drawings by Albert Heckman. Slim crown 8vo (203 x 131mm): [8]pp Publisher's string-tied tan paper wrappers printed in brown; wanting original unlettered white mailing envelope. A superlative copy, virt...

Old Art Books: Collected and Catalogued by Theodore Besterman

BESTERMAN, Theodore (1904-1976) · 1975

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

Maggs Bros. Limited Edition No. 238 of 300 copies signed by Besterman, cataloging his fabulous collection of fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth century art books. Medium folio (412 x 310mm): xiv,118,[2]pp, plus folding frontispiece and 149 additional plates (some folding). ...

[Sea Serpent] [Moby Dick] Reise durch einen Theil der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika in den Jahren 1844 bis 1846 [A trip through a part of the United States in the years 1844 to 1846]

KOCH, Albrecht C. (1804-1867) · 1847

$649.00 (€588.83 | £491.24 | ¥103,637)

Dresden und Leipzig Arnoldische Buchhandlung Scarce First Edition of this detailed account of a trip in search of the gigantic sea serpent, Zeuglodon. Text in German. Demy 8vo (225 x 145mm): [6],162pp, with frontispiece of dinosaur skeleton, hand-colored geological profile of ...

A Guide to the Windows of King's College Chapel Cambridge

JAMES, Montague Rhodes (1862–1936) · 1899

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

London C. J. Clay and Sons Scarce First Edition of this description and brief history of the stained-glass windows in King's College chapel, together with explanations of their symbolism. 8vo (): 38pp. Publisher's sage green paper wrappers printed in black. A Fine copy (except...

[Geology] II. On the Vertical Position and Convolutions of Certain Strata, and their Relation with Granite; [bound with:] IV. On the Revolutions of the Earth's Surface, Parts I & II [Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]

HALL, Sir James (1761-1832) · 1815

$649.00 (€588.83 | £491.24 | ¥103,637)

Edinburgh Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh and Cadell and Davies, London First Edition Two original articles disbound from Volume VII of Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (not a reprint, facsimile reproduction, or photocopy). Roman numerals preced...

[Angling] The Rod and the Line : Or, Practical Hints and Dainty Devices for the Sure Taking of Trout, Grayling, etc. [Joseph Delaplaine Bates, Jr.'s copy]

WHEATLEY, Hewett · 1849

$649.00 (€588.83 | £491.24 | ¥103,637)

London Published by Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans Scarce First (and only) Edition of "one of the most original books in the bibliography of angling." (AnAnglersBookcase online) Foolscap 8vo (172 x 105mm): 157,[2],32[ad]pp, with nine bright, detailed hand-colored plates of ...

A Green Bough [Signed]

FAULKNER, William (1897-1962); Lynd Ward (illustrates) · 1933

$949.00 (€861.02 | £718.32 | ¥151,543)

New York Harrison Smith & Robert Haas Limited Edition No. 205 of 360 copies signed by Faulkner in blue ink at the colophon. Demy 8vo (217 x 159mm): 67,[3]pp, with four wood engravings by Lynd Ward (including inlaid frontispiece and vignette in colophon) printed in green on lai...

Artemis To Actaeon And Other Verse

WHARTON, Edith (1862-1937) · 1909

$551.00 (€499.92 | £417.06 | ¥87,988)

New York Charles Scribner's Sons First Printing First (and only) Edition of Wharton's scarce second book of poetry, although the most obtainable. (Only a dozen copies are known of her first book of poems, Verses, privately printed and published anonymously in 1878, and only 13...

Dante [The Poets on the Poets]

ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965) · 1929

$626.00 (€567.96 | £473.83 | ¥99,964)

London Faber and Faber First Impression First Edition, ordinary copy (there was also a signed, limited edition of 125 copies), in the first-issue dust jacket (without excerpts from reviews on front flap and back panel). Crown 8vo: [8],11-69,[1]pp. Publisher's grey decorated pa...

[Angling] A Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England

CARTER, Robert (1819-1879) · 1865

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

Boston / New York Crosby and Ainsworth / Oliver Felt Early printing of this work on sport fishing, charting a voyage during the summer of 1858, when the author was Washington correspondent for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune. Foolscap 8vo (176 x 105mm): viii,261,[1]pp. Origi...

[Architecture] The dwellings of the labouring classes, their arrangement and construction, illustrated by a reference to the model houses of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes and other buildings recently erected, being an essay read January 21 1850 at the Royal Institute of British Architects. With plans and elevations of dwellings adapted to towns, as well as to the agricultural and manufacturing districts

ROBERTS, Henry (1803–1876) · 1850

$214.00 (€194.16 | £161.98 | ¥34,173)

London The Society for Improving the Condition of the laboring Classes, at No. 21, Exeter Hall, Strand First Edition of Roberts's "most important" publication, advocating philanthropic housing for the working classes. (ODNB) Royal 8vo (257 x 167mm): [8],34pp,35-47,[2]ff,2pp, w...

Venerie normande, ou L'ecole de la chasse aux chiens courants : pour le lievre, le chevreuil, le cerf, le daim, le sanglier, le loup, le renard & la loutre : avec les tons de chasse, accompagnés de chacun une explication sur l'occasion & les circonstances où ils doivent être sonnés : et un traité des remedes, un traité sur le droit de suite & un dictionnaire des termes de chasse, &c.

LE VERRIER DE LA CONTERIE, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques (1718-1783) · 1778

$1,249.00 (€1,133.21 | £945.40 | ¥199,449)

A Rouen chez Laurent Dumesnil, imprimeur-libraire, rue de l'Ecureuil Second Edition, the definitive text (considerably enlarged and augmented), of this classic work on the hunting of hare, roe deer, wild boar, wolf, fox, and otter, with a section on canine health, studies of h...

The Old Vicarage, Grantchester

BROOKE, Rupert (1887-1915) · 1916

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

London Sidgwick and Jackson First Impression First Separate Edition, with double-page woodcut by Noel Brooke, one of 2900 copies issued. Foolscap 8vo (170 x 124mm): 14pp. Stitched in publisher's stiff grey paper wrappers printed in black. Bottom edge of upper wrapper lightly s...

[Shooting] Gamonia: or, The Art of Preserving Game; and an Improved Method of making Plantations and Covers explained and illustrated [Edition de Luxe]

RAWSTORNE, Lawrence; PARKER, Eric (introduces); RAWLINS, T. J. (illustrates) · 1929

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

London Herbert Jenkins Limited Edition Deluxe Facsimile Edition, limited to 125 copies, of "the first treatise devoted solely to the subject of pheasant rearing, covert shooting, and the management of woodlands for the special purpose of preserving game." (from the preface) Pu...

[Fox Hunting] [Sports and Pastimes] A panorama of the progress of human life : fashionably displayed, illustrating "Shakespeare's Ages" and exhibiting the manners, costume, character and field sports of the English people ; the whole illustrative of modern character, in a series of many hundred moving figures [Signed]

ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851); C. F. G. R. Schwerdt (introduces) · 1930

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

London published by S. and J. Fuller, 34 Rathbone Place / privately printed [by Waterlow & Sons Limited] by the Author of "Hunting Hawking Shooting" First Edition thus First Paperback Edition of Alken's most detailed work, the forerunner of Nimrod's The Life of a Sportsman. Ob...

Umbra: The Early Poems of Ezra Pound. All that he now wishes to keep in circulation from 'Personae,' 'Exultations,' 'Ripostes,' etc. [Leolyn Louise Everett's copy]

POUND, Ezra (1885-1972) · 1920

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

London Elkin Mathews First Printing First Trade Edition (one of 1,000 copies), collecting previously published early poems ("All that he now wishes to keep in circulation") and some translations. Crown 8vo (190 x 138mm): 128pp. Publisher's fawn quarter-bound canvas over grey p...

[Roses] Histoire naturelle de la rose, où l'on décrit ses différentes espèces, sa culture, ses vertus et ses propriétés, suivie de la Corbeille des Roses, ou choix de ce que les Anciens et les Modernes ont écrit de plus gracieux sur la rose ; et de l'Histoire des Insectes qui vivent sur le rosier

GUILLEMEAU, Jean Louis Marie (1766-1853) · 1800

$551.00 (€499.92 | £417.06 | ¥87,988)

A Paris De l'Imprimerie de Vatar-Jouannet, rue cassette, No. 913 Scarce First Edition of the first monograph on roses published in French. 12mo (176 x 103mm): [8],ix,[3],340pp, with engraved folding frontispiece (depicting 10 botanical parts of the rose) and folding letterpres...