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A Treatise on Pocket Knives

CHENEY, Wm. M. (William Murray, 1907-2002) · 1964

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

Los Angeles [Printed at the Press in the Gatehouse] First Printing First Edition of this paean to the pocket knife, enumerating its benefits, shortcomings, and types (including the curved bistoury blade used by surgeons and the seventeenth-century typesetter's coping blade). F...

A Concise and Practical Treatise on the Growth and Culture of the Carnation, Pink, Auricula, Polyanthus, Ranunculus,Tulip, and Other Flowers; including a Dissertation on Soils and Manures, and containing catalogues of the finest and most esteemed varieties of each flower

HOGG, Thomas (1771-1841) · 1822

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

London Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria Lane Second Edition, very considerably enlarged, of this florist's treatise on "the finest and most esteemed varieties of each flower." Crown 8vo (189 x 112mm): [2],12,xxvii,[1],304pp, with six hand-colored plates (five litho...

[Frog] [Wunderkammer] Brief van Pieter Boddaert . . . aan den zeer weledelen hooggeleerden heere Johannes Oosterdyk Schacht .. . behelzende eene naauwkeurige beschrijving, en naar het leven vervaardigde afbeelding, van den twee-koleurigen kikvorsch . . . Johannes Albertus Schlosser [IV. Pieter Boddaert over den twee-koleurigen kikvorsch / Petrus Boddaert de rana bicolore]

BODDAERT, Pieter (1730-1796); Johannes Oosterdijk Schacht; Johann Albert Schlosser (d. 1769) · 1772

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

Te Amsterdam By M. Magérus, Boekverkooper First and only edition of Boddaert’s description of the nocturnal giant leaf frog (a native of the Amazonian rain forest that produces a poison traditionally used as medicine) from the Schlosser natural history cabinet, the first monog...

[Turtle] [Wunderkammer] Brief van Pieter Boddaert . . . aan den zeer weledelen gestrengen heere W. Roëll . . . behelzende eene naauwkeurige beschrijving, en naar het leven vervaardigde afbeelding, van de kraakbeenige schildpad . . . Johannes Albertus Schlosser [III. P Boddaert over de kraakbeenige schildpad / Petrus Boddaert de Testudine cartilaginea]

BODDAERT, Pieter (1730-1796); Johann Albert Schlosser (d. 1769) · 1770

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

Te Amsterdam by Kornelis van Tongerlo First and only edition of Boddaert’s description of the freshwater Southeast Asian soft-shell turtle (Testudine cartilaginea) from the Schlosser natural history cabinet, the first monograph on (and first illustration of) this species. Demy...

The Vein in the Marble

TENNANT, Stephen (1906-1987); Pamela Grey (1871-1928) · 1925

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

London Philip Allan & Company First Edition First (and only) Printing of this scarce book of verse, tales, and illustration, a collaboration between Tennant, "brightest" of the "Bright Young People," and Pamela Grey, Lady Glenconner (famously painted by John Singer Sargent) an...

[Hyacinths] Traité sur la connoissance et la culture des jacintes [offered with:] Traité des tulipes qui non seulement réunit tout ce qu'on avait précédemment écrit de raisonnable, mais est augmenté de quantité de remarques nouvelles sur l'éducation de cette belle fleur, par l'auteur du traité des Renoncules [Tulips]

ARDÈNE, Jean-Paul de Rome d' (1690-1769) · 17591765

$1,399.00 (€1,269.30 | £1,058.93 | ¥223,402)

A Avignon chez Louis Chambeau, imprimeur-libraire, près les RR PP. jésuites Two superb editions, on tulips (second edition) and hyacinths (first), in closely matched original bindings, each in twelve chapters with two folding copper-engraved plates. Hyacinths: 12mo (147 x 86)...

[Grangerized] On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening with Biographical Notices [Francis Henry Cripps-Day's copy]

FELTON, S. (Samuel, active 1780-1792) · 1830

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

London Published by Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange; and Joseph Onwhyn, Catharine Street, Strand Scarce extra-illustrated copy of this work on English writers on gardening and landscape design (in effect, a bibliography). Demy 8vo (224 x 134mm): xxxviii [2],221,[1]pp. Small,...

[Capri] Classical Excursion from Rome to Arpino

KELSALL, Charles (1782–1857) · 1820

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

Geneva Printed for the author by Manget and Cherbuliez First Edition of this rare, privately printed homage to Cicero, with account of his villas and proposals for a monument in the Amalthea at Arpino and a footbridge in his honor over the Fibrenus (both illustrated). Crown 8v...

Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in architecture, civil, architecture, naval, building and construction, early and ecclesiastical art, engineering, civil, engineering, mechanical, fine art, mining, surveying, etc. To which are added explanatory observations on numerous subjects connected with practical art and science

WEALE, John (1791-1862) · 1849

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

London J. Weale Scarce First Edition of this dictionary of architectural terms, summing up mid-century practice and terminology. Complete in four parts over two volumes. Foolscap 8vo (177 x 109mm): 4,276pp; 277-564pp, with frontispiece, tables, and numerous text engravings. Pu...

The advantages and method of watering meadows by art. The second edition, with two descriptive plates; and with occasional extracts and remarks upon Wimpey, Forbes, Boswell, and other writers on this subject

WRIGHT, Rev. T. (Thomas) · 1790

$514.00 (€466.35 | £389.06 | ¥82,079)

Cirencester printed by S. Rudder; and sold by Scatcherd and Whitaker, Ave-Mary-Lane, London Second Edition of this treatise on controlled irrigation, during which water is diverted from springs and streams along series of channels onto pasture lands, usually in early spring. C...

Sinks of London Laid Open. A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to which is added a Modern Flash Dictionary containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases now in vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves, the Whole forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging made easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens depicted, the Common Lodging House Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, etc. Embellished with Humorous Illustrations by George Cruikshank

[CRUIKSHANK, George, 1792-1878] · 1848

$439.00 (€398.30 | £332.29 | ¥70,103)

London J. Duncombe First Edition thus First Edition (under this title) of a colorful guide to London's underbelly in the mid-1800s. Crown 8vo (182 x 109mm): 131,[1]pp, with folding hand-colored frontispiece (dated March 22, 1822) and woodcuts throughout by George Cruikshank. O...

In Dickens's London: Twenty-two Photogravure Proofs Reproducing the Charcoal Drawings

SMITH, F. Hopkinson (1838-1915) · 1914

$1,324.00 (€1,201.25 | £1,002.16 | ¥211,426)

New York Charles Scribner's Sons No. 60 of an edition limited to 150 sets of 22 fine photogravures proofs (320 x 240mm) signed in plate ("Coffee-Room, George Inn" additionally signed by Smith in pencil at lower right of image), individually matted with tissue guard and origina...

Kirkcudbright : A Royal Burgh. A book of drawings with letterpress

KING, Jessie M. (1875-1949) · 1934

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

London & Glasgow Gowans and Gray Limited Publisher's pictorial Japon wrappers illustrated in color, original glassine jacket. 8vo (221 x 140mm): [40]pp, including engraved titled page and 18 full-page plates. Inscription to blank verso of front cover, else near fine or better....

[Hand-Colored] A practical treatise on gas-light : exhibiting a summary description of the apparatus and machinery best calculated for illuminating streets, houses, and manufactories, with carburetted hydrogen, or coal-gas / with remarks on the utility, safety, and general nature of this new branch of civil economy

ACCUM, Friedrich Christian (1769-1838) · 1815

$1,024.00 (€929.07 | £775.09 | ¥163,520)

London Stereotyped and printed by Davies and Michael, 19, Poppins' Court, Fleet Street; for R. Ackermann, 101, Strand: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster Row; and J. Hatchard, Piccadilly A superb survival, untrimmed in original b...

[Conchology] [Shells] The Young Conchologist's Book of Species. Univalves. Containing Descriptions of Six Hundred Species, and Illustrated by Many Figures

HANLEY, Sylvanus [Charles Thorp, 1819-1899] · 1840

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

London James Fraser, Regent Street Scarce First Edition of this field guide for the "youthful amateur in this pleasing science." Crown 8vo (194 x 124mm):viii,146,[2]pp, with tissue-guarded color lithograph frontispiece and 46 text woodcuts. Original blue cloth, paper label pri...

[Catholic Church] Per la erezione d'un momumento a monsignor Gabrio Maria Nava fu vescovo di Brescia posto nel giardino di recreazione dell'oratorio dell'Addolorata in Sant'Ambrogio : allocuzione letta ai giovani di quell'oratorio il 30 settembre 1838.

[NAVA, Gabrio Maria, 1758–1831] · 1838

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

Milano Tipografia e libreria Pirotta e C First and only edition, extremely rare, of this celebration of the memorial in honor of Gabrio Maria Nava, bishop of Brescia, with a splendid full-page lithograph illustrating the proposed monument. Royal 4to (320 x 240mm): 8pp, with fr...

[Nursery Rhymes] [Children's Literature] [Color Printing] The Baby's Opera. A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses; [offered with:] The Baby's Bouquet. A Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes & Tunes arranged and decorated by Walter Crane; [and with:] The Baby's Own Aesop, Being the Fables condensed in Rhyme with Portable Morals Pictorially Pointed by Walter Crane

CRANE, Walter (1845-1915); Edmund Evans (Engraves)

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

London Frederick Warne A beautifully preserved set of the so-called Triplets, three separately issued companion volumes, one of the most charming collections of children's songs and nursery rhymes set to music. Early issues (but see Unglow and Engen), all engraved and printed ...

Proses et bois originaux

BELOT, Gabriel (1882-1962) · 1919

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

Paris E. F. D'Allignan One of 300 numbered copies on Rives à la forme, from a limited edition of 347, of Belot's fourth book. Text in French. 8vo (285 X 210mm): [68]pp on double-fold sheets, divided into seven sections and profusely illustrated with woodcuts in black and illum...

[Hunting] [Falconry] La cacciagione de’ volatili, osia l’arte di pigliare uccelli in ogni maniera, con i rimedj per guarirli dalle loro malattie. Opera del roccolista Giovanni Pontini da Castelcucco di Asolo [Kurt Lindner Collection]

PONTINI, Giovanni · 1758

$1,999.00 (€1,813.68 | £1,513.09 | ¥319,214)

In Vicenza Giandomenico Occhi Librajo in Piazza  First Edition of this important work on the trapping of birds with nets, as still practiced today in the Veneto. Crown 8vo (180 x 121 mm): [10],11-110, [2] pp, with frontispiece, coat of arms of Count Ghellini, and 12 further p...

[Vinyl Record] [John Ciardi's Copy] [Beats] Allen Ginsberg Reads Howl and Other Poems; [together with] Howl and Other Poems [No. 4 in the Pocket Poets Series]

GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997) · 1959

$851.00 (€772.10 | £644.14 | ¥135,894)

n.p. / San Francisco Fantasy / City Lights Bookshop First Edition First Pressing of this 33 1/3 rpm (12-inch) LP phonograph record (numbered 7006 on sleeve and vinyl), on which the poet recites (screams, begs, urges) "Howl" and other poems. Transparent red vinyl (not the later...