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Haddon Heights, NJ: William Lewis Washburn, 1940.. Miniature (5 x 5 cm). Open-sewn gilt lettered vellum, with ribbon ties. Fine, in lightly smudged and soiled publisher's printed and numbered envelope. Copy #25 of an edition of 64 numbered copies handprinted by Washburn. BRADBURY (WASHBURN) 16.
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The " Petites Heures " of Charles VIII of France, Book of Hours (use of Paris); in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: THE "PETITES HEURES" CHARLES VIII OF FRANCE; TINY BOOK OF HOURS FOR THE PERSONAL USE OF A KING. In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, France, Paris, c. 1490-1493 (before 1494). Dimensions 73 x 49 mm., 206 folios, complete, written in dark brown ink in a cursive gothic bookhand on 14 lines, burnished gold initials throughout, 5 large initials with scrolls extending into the margins, ONE HERALDIC MINIATURE, 10 SMALL MINIATURES, 12 FULL-PAGE MINIATURES. BINDING: refined 18th-century(?) paneled gold-tooled brown morocco, 19th-century clasps and catches. ILLUSTRATION: Illuminated by the Master of the Chronique scandaleuse, a masterful artist who often received prestigious commissions from King Charles VIII and other members of the royal family. The successful illuminations in this very tiny manuscript demonstrates the Master of the Chronique scandaleuse's utmost mastery of color at a microscopic scale. Characteristic of his palette is a preference for strong vibrant colors, as well as the abundant use of liquid gold for the depiction of drapery and scenic elements. PROVENANCE: Written and illuminated in Paris before 1494 for Charles VIII, King of France (r. 1483-1498). Unquestionable evidence of the personal use of the present manuscript by Charles VIII is provided by the ex-libris and motto "plus. quautre." followed by his name "charles. viiie." (f. 41v). The present manuscript included, only five manuscript Books of Hours are known to have been made for the personal use of King Charles VIII; Paris, Librairie Auguste Blaizot, 1967-1969 (catalogue 326, no. 1681; catalogue 331, no. 387); Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 4 décembre 2000 (collection Serrier), no. 25. CONDITION: occasional tiny chips in paint of the colored background at edges of miniatures frames, very faint offsetting from fictive golden frames onto facing rectos, slight scuffing at joints, otherwise in excellent condition. Full description and images available. (BOH 182)
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THE THIRTY-SIXTH PSALM TWO VERSIONS
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Sacred Meanings.
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Cedar Falls, Iowa:: Islam Aly,, 2017.. Edition of 40. 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5" hexagon-shaped miniature book. Laser cut mould-made Johannot paper. Twenty sections of 4 folios per section. Handbound in laser-engraved plexiglass covers with Coptic binding of linen thread. Signed and numbered by the artist. Islam Aly: "Sacred Meanings is based on the hexagon, one of the main shapes in creating grids and patterns in Islamic art. The form of the book, its words, and its progression reveals the fading and development of a pattern. The book invites viewers to consider their experiences with the transcendent and indivisible. Sacred Meanings presents an encounter that deals with the dichotomies of life, fall and rise, suspicion and faith, disorientation and orientation, chaos and order.
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Fantastic Fauna.
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Cedar Falls, Iowa:: Islam Aly,, 2017.. Edition of 40. One book, 5 x 8 x 1.75", with ten sections of four folios, plus 5 miniature books attached by leather wrappings, each 1.5 x 1.5 x 0.75", with five sections of three folios. Materials: laser-cut mold-made Johannot paper; laser-engraved wooden boards. Coptic binding with leather wrappings connected to five small books. Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Islam Aly: "Fantastic Fauna is a bilingual book in English and Arabic, based on the tradition of having animal characteristics as caricatures of humans. The book was inspired from Ibn Al Mqufas's Kalila and Dimna, a ninth-century collection of animal fables, which came to Persia from India. Similar to George Orwell's political allegory Animal Farm, the stories are about people and politics. The animal characters were used to represent social inequality and oppression. "Fantastic Fauna shows animal images from medieval Islamic artwork that depict imaginary…
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Bryce's Thumb English Dictionary (Miniature)
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Comprising: Besides the ordinary and newest words in the language, short explanations of a large number of scientific, philosophical, literary, and technical terms. 386 pp. 5,8x4,5 cm. David Bryce and Son, Glasgow, n.d. (1890-1900) --- Full leather, gilt lettering on front cover. Some edgewear. All edges gilt, pages bright.
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PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER.
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Impensis Gul Pickering. Londini. (London). 1823 /22. MINIATURE BOOK. (3.3 x 2 inches). Portrait frontis, vi, 220pp. Two title pages, one dated 1822, the other 1823. A fine copy of this expertly printed little volume in a highly attractive leather binding of beautiful full plum morocco by Lanscelin. Spine with five raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments ruled, lettered and fully decorated in gilt. Boards with triple gilt ruled borders. Stamped monogram to the front board. Board edges double ruled in gilt. Turn-ins with elaborate gilt roll. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Orange, gold and green silk book marker sewn in. A fine copy, housed in a marbled paper covered slip-case. A marvellous piece of book production, both the text and the binding.
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Les Jeunes Bienheureux.
by M. L'Abbe C... [Carron, Guy-Toussaint-Julien (1760-1821)]
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First and only edition. Chez Louis Janet Libraire, successor de son pere. nd [c.1800]. 12mo. 212pp. Engraved title page, 12 engraved plates, with tissue guards. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary full red grained morocco, spine with gilt rules, lettering and embellishment. Boards with double gilt border rules, foliar and floral embellishment, edge tooling, inner foliar curlicues. All edges gilt, (gilding a little faded in places), green silk ribbon bookmark. Small area of surface loss to lower board (see photo). Corner tips lightly rubbed. Occasional light spotting, mainly to free endpapers. Text and plates crisp and bright.Guy Toussaint Julien Carron (1760-1821) born in Rennes. Educator, writer and philanthropist who founded a number of social and educational institutions: schools, libraries and pharmacies while in exile in England. Deported to Jersey (1792-1796), on the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, Carron returned to France and became head of the Institut de Marie - Thérèse.
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Metamorphoses 5.
by Aly, Islam.
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Cedar Falls, Iowa:: Islam Aly,, 2017.. Edition of 30. 2 x 2 x 1.5" miniature book. Laser-cut mould-made Johannot paper. Twenty sections of 2 folios per section. Handbound in laser cut and engraved wooden boards with Coptic binding of linen thread. Signed and numbered by the artist. Islam Aly: "In the Metamorphoses series, I am focusing on Islamic art and design. I want to reveal how patterns develop and morph in a book that makes the viewer experience their beauty, elegance, harmony, intricacy, and complexity. "Metamorphoses 5 represents a square that morphs into a star. The patterns in the book are combined, duplicated, interlaced, and arranged in multiple combinations that are precise, beautiful, and symbolic.
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Harold's Fairy Tale
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HAROLD'S FAIRY TALE, FURTHER ADVENTURES WITH THE PURPLE CRAYON. HARPER & BROTHERS FIRST EDITION. Exlib. Acceptable Condition. No Dust Jacket is included. RARE.
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A Picture For Harold's Room
by Johnson, Crockett
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Johnson, Crockett: A Picture For Harold's Room, A Purple Crayon Adventure. First Edition, Harper & Brothers 1960. Ex-lib. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Rare/scarce. 64 pages 6 1/4 X 8 3/4
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Harold's Trip To The Sky
by Johnson, Crockett
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Johnson, Crockett. Harold's Trip To The Sky. More Adventures With The Purple Crayon. First Edition. Harper & Bros., 1957. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Front cover sticker damage. A clean, solid copy. Please see our photos. Rare/Scarce.
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Petites heures dédiees à la sainte Vierge [Little Hours of the Blessed Virgin].: >>UNRECORDED ILLUSTRATED MINIATURE BOOK OF HOURS<<
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32mo. 208 printed pages. All edges gilt, with short ribbon marker & marbled endpapers. Inner gilt dentelles. Printed contemporary bookseller's label on front free endpaper for GOUJON, LIBRAIRE. DE LL. AÁ. ÀR. MADAME LA DUCHESSE DE BERRY. ET MADAME LA DUCHESSE D'ORLÉANS, RUE DU BAC, Nº 33, Paris. Contains a calendar of feast days; morning prayers, evening prayers, prayers before Confession, etc.; the Ordinary of the Mass, some Propers, etc. Illustrated with four black & white engravings of saints and the Blessed Virgin. Printed by J.-M. Eberhart. Text in French, with some Latin (very slight marginal browning). 50 x 82 mm. Original mottled calf, decorated in gilt with sunburst and cross-hatched flower designs within four compartments, roan spine label titled in gilt (moderate edgewear and rubbed corners). Not in Bondy, nor Houghton, nor Spielmann, nor Welsh. WorldCat locates no copies worldwide. Very scarce. No other copy traced in reference books nor in commerce.
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The Sad Tale of Bazouge
by Steinlen, Theophile-Alexandre (Illustrator)
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Boston: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston). Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1961. Booklet. Light crease at the spine of the front cover. ; A humorous tale of a crow or raven who successively, page after page, drinks and drains numerous glasses of spirits until its view of the world blurs, it stands, then falls on its back. Told wordlessly, with drawings only, and the story line is obvious. The stylized head and beak of the bird reoccur in Steinlen's book illustrations of crows and vultures. Swiss-born, creative polymath Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923) was painter, fabric designer, sculptor, periodical publisher, printmaker, and illustrator. Renowned for his turn-of-the-century, Art Nouveau-style, Steinlen produced drawings of Parisian street life, depicting average working-class people, actors, vendors, prostitutes, the upper class out of their element, criminals, and families, all in the urban environment. He was equally known for his many drawings of cats in both natural…
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Harold's Fairy Tale
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HAROLD'S FAIRY TALE, FURTHER ADVENTURES WITH THE PURPLE CRAYON. HARPER & BROTHERS FIRST EDITION. Exlib. Acceptable Condition. No Dust Jacket is included. RARE.
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The Beauties Of Washington Irving (Illustrated by George Cruikshank)
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THE BEAUTIES OF WASHINGTON IRVING. ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM TEGG, LONDON, 1866. 4 X 5/58. 373 5/8. pages, plus adverts. USED. Good condition. All gilting still visible on titling on spine. Foxed on a a few pages.
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A Picture For Harold's Room
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Johnson, Crockett: A Picture For Harold's Room, A Purple Crayon Adventure. First Edition, Harper & Brothers 1960. Ex-lib. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Rare/scarce. 64 pages 6 1/4 X 8 3/4
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Harold's Trip To The Sky
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Johnson, Crockett. Harold's Trip To The Sky. More Adventures With The Purple Crayon. First Edition. Harper & Bros., 1957. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Front cover sticker damage. A clean, solid copy. Please see our photos. Rare/Scarce.
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Gone is Gone: or The Story of a Man Who wanted to Do Housework
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GONE IS GONE, BY POPULAR CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATOR WANDA GA'G. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. 1935 Coward-McCann First Edition, Stated Twelfth Printing Thus. A crisp, clean copy in a nice yellow unclipped dust jacket. A nice find.
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(Miniature Book) Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1859, The Address by Carl Sandburg Before the United States Congres s
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Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1959. 38 pp. Letterpress by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland and binding by Proost en Brandt, Amsterdam. Gilt leather, decorative end papers, all edges gilt, one of 2,000 copies, with Lincoln 1 cent stamp. A Fine copy. Bradbury 16, p. 253. . Limited Edition. Leather. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 2 5/8" x 1 7/8" . Miniature.
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Equal Rites: Compact Discworld Novel
by Pratchett, Terry
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Complete text of Equal Rites printed in tiny print in miniature book. Third in this compact series that was "specially handmade by imps of the Counterweight Continent" (as the jacket states). Actually typeset in Great Britain and printed in China. Hard-to-find collectible for Pratchett lover.
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English-French French-English Midget Series Dictionary
by Burgess & Bowes Ltd [Editor]
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A very good+ red cloth bound softcover, completely revised and corrected.25.000 Words with Dialogues, ets. Containing Automobile Terms, Dialogues, Geographical and Christian Names, Photographic Terms, Etc.
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Hand-Carved Alpha-Bet [Miniature].
by [Abstract Orange] Lauren Emeritz
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Washington DC:: Abstract Orange,, 2016.. Edition of 300. 29 pages; 1.75 x 2". Case-Bound. Accordion extending from the back pastedown. Mulberry paper hinges. Letterpress printed. Bound in orange cloth boards with title on front cover. Signed and numbered by the artist. This is the miniature version of Emeritz's large format edition of "Hand-Carved Alpha-Bet". As with the larger version the miniature alphabet book was printed with letters that were hand carved in wood by the artist. Each letter is a capital letter printed in orange.
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