Search Results: Authors starting with C from Aardvark Rare Books

London, England: Chapman and Hall, 1843. Leather-bound. Very Good. Octavo. Smooth calf boards (8 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in.) gilt ruled border, with repeating leaf design stamped within. Four raised bands to spine (five compartments) with contrasting title label in dark red, with gilt lettering. Gilt designs to raised bands, and gilt chainlink design to spine caps. Marbled edges. Lovely marbled endpapers of Midnight blue, pale blue, with white, red and yellow veining. Rubbing and some scuffing to extremities, particularly spine. Evidence of past rebacking. Previous owner's name and date ( Elizabeth Gregor, 1844). Begins with Glossary of Spanish or Mexican words.book comprises fifty-four letters. [xiv], 437 pp., [3]. "The present work is the result of observations made during a two-year's residence in Mexico, by a lady, whose position there made her intimately acquainted with its society, and opened to her the best sources of information...It consists of letters written to members of her own family, and,… Read More

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906. Hardcover. VERY GOOD MINUS. FIRST EDITION. Foxing throughout but does not obstruct text or images. Sunning to spines. Some rubbing to edges and corners. Some corners worn through to cardboard. Hinges barely starting, Vol I & II. Top edges gilt. 72 color plates with tissue guards. Open tear to frontispiece tissueguard of Vol. 1. Vol. 3, 8p black and white engravings by Hollar ; Vol. 4, 15 drawings of George III costumes. Line-drawn figures all volumes. Gilt lettering and illustration of scissors to spine and front of blue, cloth-covered boards In-blind rules border front boards. 80 / 142 / 143 / 99 pp with advertisements to rear of books. Books measure 9 x 6.5". Tight bindings. Four volumes containing text and illustrations of men and women's dress from the time of William the First, 1066, through the Georgians, 1820.

London, England: Printed by John Nichols, for T. Payne and Son, Castle-Street, St. Martin's; and G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row, 1789. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio, 17 1/4 in. x 11 in. Volume III only (British Isles section): 760+pp. pp. [xi], 1-260, 257*-258*, 261-414. 414*-417*, 415-457, 460-484, 481*-488*, 485**-488**, 489-656, 661-665, 658-659, 668-672, 669-760, [54]. 49 plates, 17 maps, many in text illustrations. Three quarter black pebble leather over black cloth boards, moderately scuffed. Five raised bands, double ruled in gilt with decorative gilt tooling along bands. Gilt lettering "Camden's Britannia" and "Scotland and Ireland" to two panels. Leather starting to peel in two corners of one panel. Wear to top and bottom of spine. Rubbing to extremities. Recent reconstituting to corners. Army and Navy Club armorial bookplate to front paste down. Titlepage reattached, 2 closed tears to inner margin, one non-professionally repaired with tape, text unaffected. Club stamp to bottom of… Read More

London: Thomas Harper for John Waterson, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Crowne, 1637. Fifth Impression. Leather-bound. Very Good. Quarto. 5th edition. English text. Contemporary full calf, bordered with repeating stamped design, then double-ruled in gilt. Raised bands, contrasting spine label, red gilt title. Lacks front blank. [8], 420, [4] p. :  port. ;  4 . Elaborate engraved portrait frontispiece of William Camden. On titlepage, a past owner must have doodled by trying to outline with ink, the word "Britaine". 2 small library stamps (each) to verso title, and that of last leaf. Occasional browning. Elaborate dropcap Initials and headpieces, Exlib University College London. An interesting collection of remains, wise speeches, rebus or name-devises, knightly shields, epitaphs and an interesting treatise on the Elizabethan preoccupation with annagrammes. One page shows a small (upside down) pen trial - signature of a previous owner/user in… Read More

Frankfurt, Germany: Claudius Marnius, 1603. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Folio, pp [12], 898, [31], [1, printer's device], 2 full page woodcuts of portraits of kings of England and Normandy, bound in modern paper boards, text lightly browned throughout and with occasional waterstains, SECOND EDITION, an exact re-issue of the first of the previous year, of this collection of Latin chronicles edited by William Camden. Long, hand-printed historical and provenance statement mounted upon preliminary leaves.

Washington, 1859. Hardcover. Good Plus and Maps: Very Good. Octavo, 9 in. x 5.7 in., pp. 125. Illustrated with six fold-out maps. Green colth boards with gilt title to front. No title to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Light sunning to right side of front board. Unmarked interior. Light age-toning and occasional spotting to maps. Map 1: 22.75 in. x 35.5 in., "El Paso and Fort Yuma Wagon Road." 3 in. closed tear at fold. Map 2: 22.75 in. x 35.5 in. "Map No. 2 of the El Paso and Fort Yuma Wagon Road." 1 in. closed tear at fold. Map 3: 22.75 in. x 35.5 in., "Western Division of the Fort Kearney, South Pass, and Honey Lake Road." 4 in. closed tear at fold. Map 4: 21 in. x 34 in. Central Division of the Fort Ridgley & South Pass Road. Several 1 - 2 in. closed tears at edges on seams. Map 5: Map detached but present. 19 in. x 32.5 in., "Fort Ridgely and South Pass Road". Two 1 in. closed tears at edges on seams. Map 6: 26 in. x 24.5 in. "Map of the Wagon-Road from Platte River Via Omaha Reserve and Dakota… Read More

London, England: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1777. First London Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" x 5 3/4." pp. xvi, 476 + 6 plates. Contemporary tree calf. Neatly rebacked. Red morocco spine label, ruled and lettering in gilt. Armorial bookplate of Robert Hunter Esquire of Thurston to front pastedown (with slight offset to leaf following). Some light foxing to free endpapers, title-page, and final plate. Mispaginated in that two leaves (9/10; 13/14) repeated between pp. 470 and 471. Else contiguous. Pages clean throughout. Plates include: Ruins of Kilmallock, Round Tower at Kildare, Abbey of St. John in Kilkenny, Rock of Cashel, A Tumulus near Tipperary, an untitled plate showing relics. (ESTC T84447 describes a later edition). NOT PHILOSOPHY. Thomas Campbell (1733-1795), Irish clergyman and traveler, authored A Philosophical Survey to educate Englishmen about the social life, local traditions, ancient origins, and general history of Southern Ireland.… Read More

Dublin, Ireland: W. Whitestone, W. Sleater, D. Chamberlaine, etc., 1778. First Irish Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good Plus. Octavo, 5 x 8 in., pp. xvi + 478. Illustrated with two foldout and four additional engraved plates of buildings and artifacts. Rebacked. Full-calf. Gilt title on black panel and gilt bars to spine. Publisher's blue stain to top-edge, and blue-speckled stain to fore-edge and bottom-edge. Previous owner's bookplate and small inked number in upper left corner to front pastedown. Light foxing to title page. The 3 x 4 inch bookplate has a banner reading "Liverpool Reform Club" with a seascape in the background, and a floral design underneath. Thomas Campbell (1733-1795) was an Irish Protestant clergyman, best known as a travel writer and for his accounts of the circle of Samuel Johnson. This book was first published in London in 1777. "There is not much philosophy in this book, which is supposed to record the tour of an Englishman in the south of Ireland, and gives a description… Read More

Chicago, IL: Scott, Foresman and Co, 1960. Cards. Very Good. Set 1: 9 matching cards, 11" x 8." Colorful images on bright white cards. Set 2: 14 flash cards, 12" x 7." Colorful images to front, corresponding black text to back. Some light tanning and soiling to this set. Old push-pin holes to most cards in both sets. Dick and Jane primers for school children reached the height of their popularity in the 1950s. The simple storyline and vibrant watercolor illustrations helped first graders acquire reading skills. "The Dick and Jane primers have also become icons of mid-century American culture." (Wikipedia). The present set of cards introduced students to new words and their corresponding images. Likely used in the classroom.

Stirling, UK: Lomax Press, 2013. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Octavo, 9.5 in. x 6.25 in., pp. 206. Limited edition #149/300. Black cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Unmarked interior. Protected in mylar. First published in 1946 by John Westhouse (Publishers). This is the first re-publication. Ruthven Campbell Todd (1914-1978) was a Scottish scholar, poet and author, in US from 1947-1958, and then Majorca; his most important nonfiction work, Tracks in the Snow: Studies in English Science and Art (1946), effectively argued the imaginative power - when conjoined - of the two subtitled categories, instancing at length the work of William Blake (1748-1827) and John Martin; as R T Campbell, he wrote several detective novels, beginning with Unholy Dying (1945) [none contain fantastic elements, and are not listed below]; and as Todd, two metaphysical tales, both labouring under the 1930s misconception that Franz Kafka wrote allegories. The quest plot of Over the Mountain (1939),… Read More

London, England: John Westhouse, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. 12mo., 7.5 in. x 5 in., pp. 182. Beige boards with gilt title to spine. Rubbing to dustjacket edges; chips to top/bottom of dustjacket spine. Age-toning to pages. Slight spine lean. Protected in mylar. R.T. Campbell is the pseudonym for Ruthven Campbell Todd. Ruthven Campbell Todd (1914-1978) was a Scottish scholar, poet and author, in US from 1947-1958, and then Majorca; his most important nonfiction work, Tracks in the Snow: Studies in English Science and Art (1946), effectively argued the imaginative power - when conjoined - of the two subtitled categories, instancing at length the work of William Blake (1748-1827) and John Martin; as R T Campbell, he wrote several detective novels, beginning with Unholy Dying (1945) [none contain fantastic elements, and are not listed below]; and as Todd, two metaphysical tales, both labouring under the 1930s misconception that Franz Kafka wrote allegories. The quest… Read More

Dublin: Maunsel and Company, Ltd, 1917. First LImited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Good. Joseph Campbell (MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh). Octavo, 6 x 9.5 in., pp. 62. Limited edition, number 298/500. Illustrated with twenty-one black ink drawings. Gray cloth boards over white spine, with matching endpapers. Gilt title to spine. Deckled edges. Light rubbing to corners and edges. Signature of previous owner. dated 1919, to front pastedown. Dustjacket designer gray paper with black title to front panel and spine. Sunning to upper third of dust jacket; chips to top and one inch chip to middle of spine. Campbell, Joseph (1879-1944), poet and republican, was born 15 July 1879 at Loreto Cottage, Castlereagh Road, Belfast, seventh among ten children of William Henry Campbell (1842-1900), road-building contractor, and Catherine Campbell (née Canmer; d. 1918) of Belfast. From his father, a catholic and a Parnellite, he imbibed fervent nationalist politics, and from his mother, of mixed… Read More

Dublin: Luke White, 1789. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good plus. Octavo, 5.5 x 9 in., pp. xii + 418 + 1(Errata). Tastefully and recently fully restored in smooth dark three-quarters calf with gilt design over marble boards. Five-raised bands on spine, with gilt title on two black panels and gilt designs. Edges untrimmed. Owner's signature in ink to title page and p. 1. Pages are clean. (ESTC T150273). Campbell, Thomas (1733-95), Church of Ireland clergyman and miscellaneous writer, was born at Glack, Co. Tyrone, on 4 May 1733, the eldest son of the Rev. Moses Campbell (1695?-1772) and his wife, Elizabeth (née Johnston) of Tully, Co. Monaghan. He entered TCD in 1752, graduated BA in 1756, was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1761, and obtained the degree of LLD in 1772. Some minor clerical preferments were followed by the chancellorship of St Macartan's, Clogher, in February 1773. Between 1775 and 1793 he paid seven visits to England, during which he moved in Dr Johnson's circle. His… Read More

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980. First Edition. Paper. Very Good. Set of Two Staple-bound book: Octavo, 9.1 in x 6 in. Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: 96th Congress, Second Session. Light blue paper covers with black title in black frame to front. Sunning to spines. Light rubbing to extremities; a few brown stains and age-toning to covers (Is that Senator Cannon's coffee spill?). Unmarked interiors. "Parts 1 and 2" (May, 1980): pp. ix, [1], 1 - 264. Black title to spine. Lightly thumbed bottom corners. Light blue pages. "Part 3" (August, 1980): pp. iv, 265 - 379. Column of notes in ink to cover. Cover was placed 1/4 inch offset leaving fore-edge of cover shelf-worn. "Parts 1 and 2" was submitted by Eilene Galloway (1906 - 2009), an American researcher and editor. She was often called "The Grand Dame of Space" and described as "an influential force in the development and analysis of domestic and international space law and policy".… Read More

New York: A.A.Wyn, Inc, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Small octavo, 7.8 in. x 5.2 in., pp. 469. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Orange cloth-covered boards with black title to front and spine. Publisher's red topstain. Light rubbing to extremities. Shelfwear to top/bottom of spine. CLosed tear to margin of page 14. Age-toning to pages. Verso of dustjacket shows portion of Danish topographic map of Faaborg. Chips to top of dustjacket spine, and edgewear to bottom of dustjacket spine. $3.75 price intact to dustjacket front flap. Protected in mylar. Karel apek (1890-1938) is generally considered the greatest Czech author of the first half of the twentieth century. He was Czechoslovakia's leading novelist, playwright, story writer, and columnist, and the spirit of its short-lived democracy. His plays appeared on Broadway soon after their debut in Prague, and his books were translated into many languages. apek expressed himself in the form of accessible and highly… Read More

New York: Brentano's, 1930. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Good Plus / Good. Small octavo, 7.7 in. x 5 in., pp. 279. Red cloth-covered boards with angled gilt lines and black title to front, and horizontal gilt lines and black title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Several stains to front board. Age-toning to pages. Rubbing, age-toning, and some stains to dustjacket. Small chips to top/bottom of dustjacket spine and front corners. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. Karel apek (1890-1938) is generally considered the greatest Czech author of the first half of the twentieth century. He was Czechoslovakia's leading novelist, playwright, story writer, and columnist, and the spirit of its short-lived democracy. His plays appeared on Broadway soon after their debut in Prague, and his books were translated into many languages. apek expressed himself in the form of accessible and highly enjoyable writing, which works on many levels. (from Catbird Press).

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Good Plus / Good Plus. Small octavo, 7.75 in x 5 in., pp. 256. Dark blue cloth-covered boards with silver title and three horizontal stripes to front and spine. Publisher's red topstain. Light spotting to fore- and bottom-edges. Light spotting to endpapers and first twelve pages. Light rubbing to dustjacket; small chips to bottom of spine and front corners of dustjacket; crease along bottom edge of front. Price clipped. Karel apek (1890-1938) is generally considered the greatest Czech author of the first half of the twentieth century. He was Czechoslovakia's leading novelist, playwright, story writer, and columnist, and the spirit of its short-lived democracy. His plays appeared on Broadway soon after their debut in Prague, and his books were translated into many languages. apek expressed himself in the form of accessible and highly enjoyable writing, which works on many levels. (from Catbird Press) This is the second book in… Read More

New York: TOR, 1995. Stated First Trade Editions. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good Plus. Set of five titles: Octavo, 9.5 in. x 6.25 in. Paper boards over cloth spines with gilt title to spines. Volume I spine printed upside down, and top corners slightly nudged. Other books Near Fine Very light edgewear to all dustjackets. In this science fiction epic from Orson Scott Card, it is 40 million years in the future, and humanity long ago abandoned Earth, rendered uninhabitable by their destructive wars. Now, mankind survives on the planet of Harmony, where the Oversoul - an artificial intelligence - protects them from their own worst impulses. There are no wars, no dangerous technologies or weapons of mass destruction. But after so many millennia, the Oversoul is beginning to fail. Now, a group of humans must return to Earth and seek advice from the entity on which the Oversoul is modeled-the mysterious Keeper of the Earth. (from Macmillan Publishing) The Homecoming Saga is a science-fiction… Read More

Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1815. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Good. Stated Sixth edition, enlarged. 452 pages, appendix, index. Rebacked brown cloth spine over original boards. Paper label to spine, octavo. Corners chipped, chafing and edgewear, scratches and some stains to boards. Binding solid. Private library stamp to inside board and front endpaper, Redwood Library bookplate to inside board. Some minor pencilling to a few pages, scattered foxing to margins and some browning to text throughout. Lacks half-title or errata page. This was first issued in 1814 shortly after the British set fire to the White House. Carey calls on the various factions in Washington to work together to save the country. The book was immensely popular and by 1815 was in its sixth edition. Matthew Carey [1760-1839] was born in Dublin, worked as a publisher and immigrated to America in 1784 where he established his publishing firm in Philadelphia which published the first Catholic Bible in America [The Carey… Read More

Belfast, Ireland: Simms and M'Intyre, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Only. W. Harvey. Octavo. 8 in. x 5 1/2 in. A work of fiction about the Famine. Half leather, quite worn. Dark-green over blue marbled boards. Considerable rubbing to extremities. Spine leather cracked with some loss of leather. Five raised bands (one missing in action). Green endpapers. Publisher's red stain to all edges. Pages supple and bright, augmented by Harvey's powerful engravings. Newspaper clipping about Captain Boycott and the origins of the term, affixed to front free endpaper. Full page frontis drawing of Carleton's birth place.. A middle section shows where the bottom corner of the text block was dropped, which shows subtly through about 125 pp. Not overly obvious nor distracting. William Carleton, (born Feb. 20, 1794, Prillisk, County Tyrone, Ire.—died Jan. 30, 1869, Dublin), was a prolific writer who realistically portrayed the life of the rural Irish. Born the youngest of 14 children on a small farm,… Read More