Oversized Manuscript Vellum Pages From Biblia Latina -

London, (1929): Jonathan Cape. First Edition. Octavo. 352pp. Signed by the author. The author gives us a picture of the Irish countryside consequent on the revolution and the overthrow of the feudal land owning system and to picture the local characteristics of this change. A system of growth of democracy and middle-class life. Bound in orange cloth, spine lettering gilt. A near fine copy in unclipped pictorial dust jacket showing some toning to edges, crease to rear flap.

Paris & Bruxelles,: G. Van Oest,, 1928.. [ii, blank], xii, 134, [ii] pp. Folio (27,5 x 36,5 cm.). Contemporary half green grained morocco; spine with 5 raised bands, gilt lettered, in compartments gilt decorated with floral motive; hand made marbled boards and marbled end-papers; top edges gilt; original printed wrapper bound in; preserved in a matching slipcase. With a coloured frontispice and one coloured plate (in chromolithography), and 100 fine plates in helio-engraving. Title printed in red and black. ¶ Henry Martin's last work. A superb, and finely bound large paper copy, being one of the 25 copies printed on "papier d'Arches à la cuve". There are only a few copies with the second coloured plate. Including a bibliography of Henry Martin's publications. A very fine faultless 'de luxe' copy.

Bruxelles & Paris,: G. Van Oest et Cie,, 1921.. 80, [iv] pp. Folio (27,5 x 36,5 cm.). Contemporary half green grained morocco; spine with 5 raised bands, gilt lettered, in compartments gilt decorated with floral motive; hand made marbled boards and marbled end-papers; top edges gilt; original printed wrapper bound in; preserved in a matching slipcase. With 103 fine plates in helio-engraving, depicting 153 miniatures. Title printed in red and black. ¶ A superb, and finely bound large paper copy, being one of the 25 copies printed on "papier à la cuve des Papeteries d'Arches". A very fine faultless 'de luxe' copy. Durrieu, “seigneur de l’histoire de l’art médiéval” was one of the greatest illuminated manuscripts specialist, who wrote many standard works in that field.

Manuscripts with thousands of producers and their villages in a paperback Dossier. In images you can see examples of prices (image_3) & villages (image_4). GREEK text.

1941. Hardcover. Good. Oblong Quarto. Second World War photo album compiled by American Red Cross worker Elizabeth Ridley, with three wartime Naval yearbooks & souvenir books owned by her sister Christine, a naval air mechanic in the WAVES programme. Oblong folio (340 x 260 mm). 1941-45. Contemporary dark blue skiver elaborately embossed in grey with military motifs including an American Eagle, planes, tank, battleship, artillery, and blimp. Bound with black nylon ties that may not be original. 80 black paper pages containing 219 photographs attached with photo corners. The photos range in size, with the majority measuring 90 x 60 mm, and the largest 255 x 200 mm. A few items, including some photos, a small colour Kodachrome, several negatives, and an unused Anchor Line trunk label are loosely inserted. Elizabeth has written her name and address on the front free endpaper and annotated many of the photos with white ink. The naval books owned by Christine Ridley include We Keep 'Em Flying: A Visit… Read More

1967. Lettersize 8 1/2" x 11" An original thirty eight line poem by Jack Hirschman not published until 1968 in Unicorn Folio, Series Two, Number One. On the lower right hand size of poem outside of text there is some crimping and a tiny chip else a fine copy.

London: Circa 1898-1978, 1898. 1st Edition . No Binding. Very Good. Small Archive Of Writings, Letters, And Ephemera By Dorothy Field, Mrs. Norman Dudley Short, English Writer, Editor, Musician And Activist Circa 1920-1960, Who Also Taught Music And Art. She Studied Music, Authored Old Men And Children Circa 1912, Authored The Religion Of The Sikhs In 1914, Married Caricaturist Norman Dudley Short In 1922, Reporter For Times Educational Supplement 1923-1927, Was An Activist And Later Local And National Officer Of The National Council Of Women Of Great Britain From 1930 Into The 1950'S And Authored Articles In Their National House Organ She Wrote The Children's Book Judy And The Magic Rocket 1933 (Now Scarce As Publisher's Works Were Bombed And Half Print Run Lost), Also The Green Man And The Girl Who Walked Side-Ways, School Readers, 1930'S, Also To Be Or Not To Be (League Of National Life), In Poet's Choice, 1944,Also Long Sections In The Eleven Religions, Circa 1946,Also… Read More

Dieppe: Pensionnaires Du College De Dieppe, 1775. Original Manuscript . Hardcover. Good. 140, [4]. Full Calf, Five Raised Bands, Morocco Spine Label, Covers With Gilt Borders And Corner Decorations,Edges And Turns Gilt, Page Edges Gilt. Dedication To Le Marquis De Manneville, Gouvernour Des Villes Et Chateaux De Dieppe Et D'arques. Four Uncolored Coats Of Arms On Front Endpaper, Four On Rear Endpaper, Another Larger Folding Plate Bound In Between Pages 8 And 9; Gilt And Colored Title Page And 47 Colored And Gilt Coats Of Arms Mounted With Text On Facing Pages. Lacking Pp 13-18, Which Have Been Excised (Possibly An Introduction, Immediately Following The Title Page). Rebacked Old On New, Conditioned, Corners Repaired, Furbished, New Morocco Spine Label.

Excellent condition, but missing the original map that was originally included. 11 fine chromolithographic and 11 lithographic plates. Publication of this report was originally intended for 1861, but the Civil War intervened and prevented publication for another fifteen years. The expedition under Macomb went west from Santa Fe across northern New Mexico and Arizona to the Colorado. The whole drainage of the San Juan had been traced and the relationship of that river with the Colorado clearly established. More important, they had also established that the Green River united with the Grand to form the Colorado. The entire maze of intricate canyon country had been threaded, and its geography revealed for the first time. In addition, Newberry was able to establish numerous stratigraphic columns, and to trace the Triassic, Jurassic, and Carboniferous strata far out across the Colorado River. Newberry.introduced a new level of sophistication into the study of western geology.

Bath, England, 1835. Fine (2) / Good + (1). 9" x 7.25", 9 pp., with usual mail folds, occasional light foxing, otherwise fine. 1835: Invites James to Bath as his plan to move to Brussels is dreadful due to the weather; critiques his own work as, "My verses are easy and conversational - not a transposition in them". 1836: Original verse praising Charles Elton, "Elton! What genius virtue leads along / Where the pure passions sing to sirens song"; Critques his own "The Death of Clytemnestra, "In the Death of Clysemestra I out to have written thee and thou throughout instead of you. In the Agammenon's not, beause a daughter to a father would rather use the respectfulness...Pray the correct the yous.". 1841; Top 1.5" separated from stress at fold, Shared pleasantries; Discusses his brother Robert, "Nothing is truly more ridiculous than to walk to a throne on stilts.", Inquires if Saunders and Otley have sent him the completion of his… Read More