Category: Fine Bindings

Ein kurzweilig Lesen vom Till Ulenspiegel.

Price: $1,378.13

Publisher: Leipzig, Insel-Verlag : 1913

Seller ID: Books014686

Binding: vellum

Condition: Very Good

125 pages. Selected by Chr. Heinrich Kleukens; with 57 hand-colored in-text woodcuts. Number 43 of 200 copies issued, this one in vellum - slightly bowed. A lovely example, with no inscriptions. 7.4 x 4.9 inches.
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Image for Novels of George Eliot. With Illustrations. : Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner; Scenes of Clerical Life; Romola; Felix Holt; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda

Novels of George Eliot. With Illustrations. : Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner; Scenes of Clerical Life; Romola; Felix Holt; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda

Price: $487.50

Publisher: Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons

Seller ID: Books015041

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

No stated date of issue : A New Edition. Complete: the eight works in seven volumes. Half leather, marbled boards, endpapers, and edges (faded). Extremities rubbed; foxing to first few and final few leaves. Bindings sound; no inscriptions. 7.5 x 5 inches.
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The First Book of Moses Called Genesis [The Book of Genesis]

Price: $792.42

Publisher: London, Philip Lee Warner / Riccardi Press : 1914

Seller ID: Books009959

Binding: limp vellum

Condition: Very Good

xv, 88, [iii] pages and ten plates with tissue guards titled in red. Paper Copy Number 106 of 500 [there were 12 copies printed on vellum of which 10 were for sale]. This copy bound in the more expensive limp vellum. Top edge gilded; ribbon marker intact, all ties secure. Jacket spine with VELLUM 106 handwritten, sunned. Jacket rubbed at head of spine and splitting for an inch from head of spine along upper hinge and from lower right corner up fore-edge. Pictorial bookplate of Gwendolen Jefferson to front pastedown; front pastedown bubbled. light offsetting to first free endpapers from jacket ...
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Image for The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : a fac-simile reprint of the celebrated Genevan Testament, M.D. LVII. with the marginal annotations and references, the initial and other wood cuts, prefaces and index

The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : a fac-simile reprint of the celebrated Genevan Testament, M.D. LVII. with the marginal annotations and references, the initial and other wood cuts, prefaces and index

Price: $910.00

Publisher: London, Samuel Bagster and Sons : 1842

Seller ID: Books014768

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

[30], 455, [1] pages. In a splendid contemporary binding, with all edges gilt and gauffered; marbled endpapers; no inscriptions. 6.8 x 4.7 inches.
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Image for [Mona Parsons' Dutch Bible, 1643] Biblia, dat is: De gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments : nu eerst, door last der Hoogh-Mog. Heeren Staten Generael vande Vereenighde Nederlanden....

[Mona Parsons' Dutch Bible, 1643] Biblia, dat is: De gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments : nu eerst, door last der Hoogh-Mog. Heeren Staten Generael vande Vereenighde Nederlanden....

Price: $3,445.31

Publisher: T'Amstelredam, Iacob Pietersz. Wachter : 1643

Seller ID: Books012481

Binding: leather

Condition: Good

[42], fol 292, [4], fol 128, [24], fol 146, [8], fol 68; with engraved title and seven folding maps. Six mispagings but complete and in order. Separate title page for New Testament and for Apocrypha, with 1643 Theunis Iacobsz. ende Ian Fredericksz. Stam imprint. Contemporary leather over board, with all eight corner supports, one working clasp and the remnants of the other. Front panel leather wormed (long ago). Unrestored binding is sound, with some loss to leather as expected. Endpapers and first title page grubby. Three first leaves excised: first leaf is the title page. Contemporary inscri...
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The Fables of Aesop

By: Aesop

Price: $357.50

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton : 1909

Seller ID: Books012448

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xvi, 152 pages, and all 23 plates with captioned tissue guards. No stated date of issue. Light fading to spine; extremities rubbed - particularly along top half of the rear joint. Binding is sound; no inscriptions.
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The Fables of Aesop [limited ed. in slipcase]

By: Aesop

Price: $2,480.63

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton : 1909

Seller ID: Books010102

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Cream cloth with gilt; top edge gilded, others untrimmed. Light handling to cloth, and foxing to spine. Interior clean and free of inscriptions; tanning to free endpapers. Number 481 of 750 issued, signed by Detmold. 25 gorgeous plates. The original slipcase is sturdy and complete without splitting: long ago covered in patterned book-covering paper (similar to thin wallpaper) that appears to be stuck to the slipcase only along fore-edges.
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Studies for Stories [The Cumberers, My Great-Aunt's Picture, Dr. Deane's Governess, The Stolen Treasure, Emily's Ambition

By: Anon. [ Jean Ingelow ]

Price: $447.89

Publisher: London, Alexander Strahan : 1864

Seller ID: Books012772

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

256; 279 pages. Finely bound in contemporary leather over marbled paper; edges and endpapers marbled. Scuffing to exteriors; foxing to first few and final few leaves. No inscriptions; bindings sound.
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A Hitnek Kulomb-fele agazatirol vetelkedo levelek, mellyekben foglaltatnak azok a fo indito okok, mellyek Felseges Hohenai Fridrik fejedelmet... Negyedik Resze.

By: Bene Ferentz

Price: $310.08

Publisher: Nagy - Szombatban, Jesus Tarsasaga : 1773

Seller ID: Books010551

Binding: half leather

Condition: Very Good

432 pages and 16 page table of contents at rear. Volume four only. Contemporary binding is sound, with small worming to spine. Attractive period endpapers; all edges red. Lacks frontispiece. Light staining throughout.
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Heroes of Modern Europe [fine prize binding : King's Hall Compton, Quebec]

By: Birkhead, Alice

Price: $482.35

Publisher: New york, Thomas Y. Crowell Company

Seller ID: Books014682

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

239 pages, frontispiece and the 15 plates called for. Finely bound in tree calfby Bickers & Son, London, King's Hall, Compton crest to upper board. Textblock edges and endpapers marbled (edges faded). June 1922 Senior History prize from Laura Joll, Lady Principal. 7.7 x 5.5 inches.
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Image for The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments.... WITH: A Companion to the Altar.... WITH: A New Version of the Psalms of David Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments.... WITH: A Companion to the Altar.... WITH: A New Version of the Psalms of David Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches

By: Brady, N.; N. Tate

Price: $1,095.61

Publisher: Edinburgh, Alexander Kincaid : 1761

Seller ID: Books012902

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

A1-P10, [2], A1-C12. Each work with self title page, all Kincaid 1761. Contemporary burgundy morocco with gilt decor, and all edges gilt (top darkened). Chip off spine label. Contemporary marbled endpapers, with nameplate of A.V. Radford to front pastedown. Binding sound; no inscriptions. A particularly pleasing example. 7 x 4.4 inches.
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The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci, with A Critical Account of His Works

By: Brown, John William

Price: $447.89

Publisher: London, William Pickering : 1828

Seller ID: Books010042

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

xv, 256 pages. Fine unsigned late C19 binding in red leather, marbled boards, gilt to spine and top edge. Frontispiece evidently not bound in. A handsome volume, with Last Supper headpiece at p. 179.
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The Romance of Invention : Vignettes from the Annals of Industry and Science [in prize binding]

By: Burnley, James

Price: $172.26

Publisher: London, &c., Cassell and Company : 1886

Seller ID: Books012770

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

viii, 376 pages, and the six plates called for. Fine Mercers School prize binding to C.R. Lock 1888. Edges and endpapers marbled. Spine faded; light occasional foxing.
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Image for Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, Together with the Adjacent Islands. Written in Latin by William Camden, Clarenceux, King at Arms: and translated into English, with additions and improvements.

Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, Together with the Adjacent Islands. Written in Latin by William Camden, Clarenceux, King at Arms: and translated into English, with additions and improvements.

By: Camden, William; Edmund Gibson

Price: $13,092.19

Publisher: London, W. Boyer, W. Whiston, T. Davies, W. Strahan, et al. : 1772

Seller ID: Books010647

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

liii, 496; [ii], 485, [122] pages. Complete, with frontispiece portrait, 51 large folding maps by Robert Morden, 9 plates of coins, one plate of curiosities. Numerous in-text illustrations. Full contemporary leather; hinges, spine, and edges professionally repaired with dyed Japanese paper. New rear pastedown to vol. I and new rear free endpaper and pastedown to vol. II. Toning and offsetting to maps (from folds). A remarkably clean interior, with obtrusive foxing only to pages 68-73 in vol. II. A particular advantage to this issue is the folding (vs the double-page] map format, and superior p...
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The Story of the Stars. Simply told for general readers. [ Bishop Spencer College prize binding]

By: Chambers, George F.

Price: $199.83

Publisher: London, George Newness : 1903

Seller ID: Books013911

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

192 pages. Attractively bound by Relfe Brothers, London, with their small stamp to front endpaper verso. Endpapers and edges marbled; binding sound. Prize plate to front pastedown; 1903 awarded to Gladys Carter. Bishop Spencer College, a Church of England school for girls, was located in St. John's Newfoundland. 5.8 x 3.75 inches.
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Poems by William Cowper, with a Memoir of the Author [Browning association]

By: Cowper, William

Price: $268.74

Publisher: London, George Nodes : 1845

Seller ID: Books010664

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

523 pages. Fine contemporary binding unsigned. All edges gilt. Chromolitho title page. Of particular interest is the Christmas gift inscription from Miss [Louisa] Browning to one of her pupils "for her improvement in music" at Dartmouth Row, Blackheath, 1846. Louisa Browning had a school there from the 30s through 1861. Professional repair to hinges; binding is sound. Newspaper clipping to front pastedown; 1923 inscription to verso of first front free endpaper.
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The Locks of the Oxford Canal

By: Craig, John

Price: $455.00

Publisher: Andoverford, The Whittington Press : 1984

Seller ID: Books012326

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Number 145 of the 300 copies bound in canvas cloth. Fine.
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Image for Phrenological Illustrations, or An Artist's View of the Craniological System Of Doctors Gall And Spurzheim. [bound with] Illustrations of Time [bound with] Scraps and Sketches : Part the First, Second, Third, Fourth

Phrenological Illustrations, or An Artist's View of the Craniological System Of Doctors Gall And Spurzheim. [bound with] Illustrations of Time [bound with] Scraps and Sketches : Part the First, Second, Third, Fourth

By: Cruikshank, George

Price: $5,200.00

Publisher: London, George Cruikshank : 1832

Seller ID: Books015172

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

Phrenological Illustrations: 1826. Illustrations of Time: 1827. Scraps I: 1828; II: 1829; III:1831; IV: 1832. The three works complete (without original wraps, tissue guards, adverts) including title page for each of the four parts of Scraps. Finely "Bound by Wood, London" stamped to front turn-in. All engraved plates coloured. Professional minor repair to a few closed tears. Endpaper hinges replaced with bookcloth. Rebacked with hollow and new kidskin spine created; old spine reattached. 10.4 x 14.5 inches.
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Chapel Street Torque

By: Crummey, Michael

Price: $172.26

Publisher: St. John's, NL, Running the Goat : 2002

Seller ID: Books012719

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated [4 pages, tissue guard, and cover]. Number 145 of 150 copies issued; signed by author and artist. Thread broken; dent top left.
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Image for The English Circumnavigators. The most remarkable voyages round the world by English sailors. With a preliminary sketch of their lives and discoveries.

The English Circumnavigators. The most remarkable voyages round the world by English sailors. With a preliminary sketch of their lives and discoveries.

By: David Laing Purves ed.

Price: $199.83

Publisher: London and Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo : 1874

Seller ID: Books012782

Binding: leather

Condition: Very Good

831 pages, with frontispiece, two title pages, and the four folding maps. Full leather with The Manchester Commercial Schools emblum on front panel and Christmas 1874 on rear. Edges and endpapers marbled. Light marginal foxing to frontis. and title pages; else clear. Text in double column. Binding is sound. Bookseller's small embossed blind stamp: J. Galt & Co., Manchester.
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Category: Fine Bindings