A Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage up the Red-Sea, on the Coasts of Arabia and Egypt, and of a Route through the Desarts of Thebais, Hitherto Unknown to the European Traveller in the Year M.DCC.LXXVII in Letters to a Lady. by Eyles Irwin - 1780

Tombleson. London. 1832, [1834]. 2 volumes. Royal 8vo. 190pp; 181, (4)pp. Engraved title pages. Folding panoramic map; folding map. 137 (68+69) engraved plates. Later half calf, marbled boards, raised bands to spine, in six compartments, gilt lettering and spine rules. Marbled boards with a little shelf wear. Upper hinges reinforced. Minor worm damage to lower edge of reps Vol.II. Occasional light foxing and offsetting. Signature of Edward Lock to fep of each volume. A handsome set, with all plates as listed.
William Tombleson (1795-1846) Artist, illustrator and engraver.

First English edition. Henry Colburn. London. 1828. 8vo. Title, xii, 428pp. Full marbled paper covered boards, 19th Century pseudo tree calf papier croisé pattern. Red spine label with gilt lettering and edge rules. Blue endpapers. Title page slightly toned. Lacking half-title. Rubbing to spine edges. A crisp copy of the rarer London first edition.
In making a Papier Croisé, the final step required that the paper be lifted up and carefully moved while still wet. This caused the characteristic knotting in the design.
John Ledyard (1751-1789) American explorer and adventurer. Ledyard accompanied Cook on the third and final voyage 1776-1780. Visiting the Sandwich Islands, Cape of Good Hope, the Prince Edward Islands off South Africa, the Kerguelen Islands, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Tonga, Tahiti, and then Hawaii. It continued to the northwest coast of North America, making Ledyard perhaps the first U.S. citizen to touch its western coast, along the Aleutian islands and Alaska into the… Read More

George Routledge & Sons Ltd., London, 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 229pp. Red smooth-weave cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The backstrip faded and with a touch of much lighter uneven fading to the margins of the rear board and a small area of light soiling to the base of the upper board. Top edge dust soiled and with a touch of spotting, also to the fore edge and, very lightly, to half a dozen preliminary leaves. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. The author's first book, a splendid travelogue with the increasingly relevant closing lines: "The world seemed larger now than it had done in 1909. Private school, public school, university; intermittent trips abroad, intermittent Wiltshire; and last of all this tour, had all intervened. Leaning forward to warm my hands over the logs, I experienced a new price of race: the pride of being, as well as English, European"..

New York Graphic Society, 1975. Blue cloth with embossed gilt lettering and illustration, hardcover in dust jacket. Slipcase is worn. Dj is in heavy folded-on vinyl protector, perfect condition. English text. First published in 1968.; 421pp., 30 full-page color plates, 85 full-page b/w plates, 60 drawings in color and b/w, 244 b/w catalogue reproductions. classic, detailed reference on Klimt's life and works.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/. Square Folio. Catalogue Raisonne.

Copy signed by Katherine Mayo and Lynn G. Adams— an original member of the Pennsylvania State Police. Book itself is in very good condition. Dust jacket is in good condition, with some tears on side of spine and jacket corners. Dust jacket has been wrapped in Mylar for the book's protection.

Item Description:Book is in Excellent condition for age. No DJAn anthology of fictional stories about several boys at the Axleford school for boys.Hard to find first edition, 1880, George Routledge & SonsNicely Illustrated by Gettie, Houghton, Fraser, Mahoney, Walker and French.Remarkably clean pages for ageSmall amount of separation at front / rear hinges, but minimalSome surface wear,Gift inscription at the front of the book in ink.

London: London: Printed for T.Cadell, in the Strand; and R.Baldwin, No.47, Pater-Noster-Row, 1791. Full leather. Good. Heath, Caldwell, Collyer et al.. Five volumes complete; octavo; [ii], 515, 574, 548, 510, 390, [unpaginated Index of c.150pp]. In full contemporary speckled calf (worn with loss to extremities, hinges cracked but secure), flat spines divided by gilt double fillets into six compartments, gilt-lettered spine labels in second compartments (but labels to vol.1 missing and partially absent to vols.2 and 4), volume number labels missing from fourth compartments, ink ownership inscriptions to free free endpapers, marginal wormtrack to first 50pp of vol.2 not affecting text, otherwise a sound complete set with a number of attractive engraved portraits. ESTC T55318, citing just four UK institutional locations.

As New. Montolivet: CERA, 1998. 371 pages. Hardback 30.6x25cms. ISBN: 2951039506. Introductory essays, notes and bibliography in French and English. Catalogue raisonné.

Tours: A. Mame et Fils, 1897. First Thus. Hardcover. Near fine in very good slipcase. Light shelfwear. Some loss of matter from base of slipcase-shelf, with wood showing; slipcase remains quite sturdy & sound. Bindings square & tight, texts clean & bright.. Two-volume set. 48mo. 2.75 x 4.875 in. 349; 320 pp. Teal marbled half-calf over marbled boards, titled & ornamented in gilt on spine, all edges gilt, with marbled endpapers and ribbon markers. Presented in Marian blue imitation leather display-shelf, lined in gold velvet or velveteen, with imitation dentelles. Both volumes printed in red & black, with rubricated capitals and decorative borders. Illustrated with several full-page reproductions of black & white drawings. Text in French, with some Latin. An charming, sumptuously bound set of A. Mame et Fils nos. 152 & 166, respectively.

Very good copy of Compte-Calix's suite of fashion plates of the French Directory era
Complete with all 15 very finely handcoloured fashion plates, 13 belles and two dandies
The women dressed in bonnets and gowns decorated with frills, bows and ribbons, a few Merveilleuses in Roman style robes. The gentlemen, or Royalist Incroyables, in tricorne or top hat, riding coat, gilet, breeches and boots, armed with cudgels.
All the plates drawn by Francois Claudius Compte-Calix, an artist who worked for the weekly fashion magazine Modes Parisiennes
Based on contemporary illustrations by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune, the French draftsman, illustrator and engraver whose career spanned the last years of the Ancien Regime and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras.
Finely engraved on steel by E. Bracquet, A. Carrache and Paul Lacourriere and very finely hand-coloured
With two-page explanation of the costumes bound in at rear
François-Claudius Compte-Calix (1813–1880) was a French genre painter and fashion… Read More