Search Results: Bookplates from Lux Libri

Armstrong rebus bookplate. Design features four arms in armor and the Latin motto Vi et Armis (By Force and Arms.) Evidently a 19th century plate. Approx. 3.75 x 3.25 inches. Unused in clean, unmarked condition. Possibly the bookplate of the Elliott Armstrong, Esq., listed in an historical compilation of noted British book collectors (A Roll of Honour by W. Carew Hazlitt. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1908.)

Five armorial bookplates by Karlovsky (1922-1995), a Czech-born heraldry scholar and author whose work included designing a new coat of arms for US President Ronald Reagan when he was governor of California. Fine, unused condition with Karlovsky's red ink stamp on the rear. Sizes range from 2.75 inches square to 3 x 4.25 inches. The five plates are: (1) the Czech coat of arms with the motto Veritas Vincet (Truth Prevails); (2) Ex Libris François d'Anethan. Appears to be an imaginary bookplate for François-de-Paule Henri Joseph d'Anethan, a Belgian baron and politician (1743-1802); (3) Ex Libris Didi Karlovská. Design features kangaroos and the motto, Courage to the Last. Possibly made for a family member; (4) Ex Libris Johannis Žižka de Trocnov. Imaginary bookplate of Czech national hero Jan Zizka (1360-1424.) With Latin motto Sacri Romani Imperii et Regni Bohemiae Equitis, signifying Zizka as a knight of the Holy Roman Empire and Kingdom of Bohemia; and (5) Ex Libris Hedda Krackow von Grafin.… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press, 1891. 1st edition. A guide to the work of Robert Browning (1812-1889), Victorian poet and playwright who was the husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. xvi, 450 pp. 8vo hardcover in smooth green cloth. Gilt spine lettering and top page edge. VG with modest wear. Sound binding. Menorah bookplate of Heman Packard Deforest (1839-1914), a graduate of Yale Divinity School and later an author, historian and Protestant minister in Massachusetts and Michigan.

Three unused bookplates, "From the Collection of Carl Van Vechten." 2x3 inches. Clean and unmarked. Blank, gummed versos. Provenance: Van Vechten estate. Van Vechten (1880-1964) was a writer, photographer, patron of the Harlem Renaissance, and literary executor of Gertrude Stein. His notable novels include Peter Whiffle, Firecrackers, and the controversial Nigger Heaven. He turned to photography later in life, making accomplished studio portraits of many leading artists, writers, and celebrities.