Search Results: Authors starting with T from White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

Hartford, CT: T. Steele and Son; H. O. Houghton and Company, Printer, 1877. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. 62 +2 pp. More a soft-sell promotion than a standard trade catalogue, with suggested gifts at various price points, 50 cents to $25,000, of the company's product line, including jewelry, silver, cutlery, china, pottery, bronzes, music boxes, trophies, etc. Articles on various things such as the "Century Vase" by Gorham; pottery, including majolica; art bronzes; and gaming law. Quite rare. A bit of rubbing along front hinge, slight shelfwear, but very tight and clean. Very good or better copy.

Boston (also New York): Lee and Shepard (also Charles T. Dillingham), 1885. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. Oblong, 24.5 by 17 cm, 9.75 by 7.75 inches. Unpaginated, with sixteen chromolithographic plates, two with movable doors revealing things behind, and each of the plates accompanied by two text leaves, one carrying an apercu of verse from a famous poet and the other with a beauty hint or an allusion to some aspect of a woman's toilette. The book is a beautiful production, and while it fits squarely in the nineteenth century tradition of feminine gift books, it also stands apart from the genre in its shape, its focus, its tasteful arrangement of objects in the plates and then how the plates relate to the text. Arguably this is a gift book that can be viewed as a continuation of the then moribund emblem book tradition. Light wear to cloth by spine extremities and board corners. One chromo plate with edge roughness, tiny chip and repaired small closed tear. A light quarter… Read More

Lacquer, Calf Boards, Fabric covering box. Very Good Minus. N.d., circa late nineteenth century. 25 by 20 cm. With 24 hand-tinted and/or colored photographs, all embedded in very thick card leaves, which have gilt edges. The margin of each photo is embellished with traditional Japanese watercolors of flowers, trees, birds, including ducks, pheasants, cranes, fish, waves. The watercolors tend to be diagonally arranged, with the artwork predominantly occupying two kiddy corners. In some of the watercolors, the colors jump off the page with their brightness, and it is these that distinguish the use of watercolors from mere color printing. Overall, the watercolors are exquisite and set this album apart from most other albums of this ilk, plus this one comes with the original decorative box from K. Tamamura. (Kozaburo Tamamura (1856-1924) was a photographer based in Yokohama from 1883 on and an originator of "Yokohama Shashin", the kind of tourist photographs present in this album and reaching a… Read More

New York: Dover Publications, 1964 or later. Wraps. Very Good. Reprint. 8vo.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Grant, Gordon. 8vo. First edition, second state, with "sence" instead of "sense" on page 19 but page viii unnumbered. Light soilage and shelfwear to cloth binding. Picture on front board rubbed some but still clear. Very slight looseness to front hinge. Pages generally clean. Small tear by hinge edge of frontis.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. Soilage to barods but pictorial cover of young man and Neopolitan backdrop still vivid. Binding tight, pages clean, photo plates the same. VG

Venetia: Presso Gio. Battista Ciotti, 1598. Full Calf. Very Good. 768 pp. A near miniature book, 12mo, measuring 11 by 6 cm or 4.5 by 2.25 inches. Small postage stamp-sized woodcuts as header of each canto. Also decorative letter figures starting off each canto. Tight and notwithstanding some toning to leaves, text clear and crisp. Side margins tight, but this is how pages were cut. Later brown calf (probably 19th century) has some scuffs and rubbing but still sound.

Genoa: Girolamo Bartoli, 1590. 1st Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Castello, Bernardo; Agostino Caracci; Giacomo Franco. 8vo. First illustrated version of "Gerusalemme Liberata". 255, 69, 40, [8] pp. With 20 plates of illustrations and illustrated title page, along with decorative tail and header elements framing each canto. Quarto, 9.5 by 7 inches or 24 by 17 cm. Brunet V 665. Gamba 948. Govi 137. (Govi, I Classici Che Hanno Fatto L'Italia, giorgio Regnani Editore, Modena 2010.) Agostino Caracci, brother of the more famous artist Annibalee Caracci -- both worked on celebrated frescos of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome -- contributed to the ornamenting of the plates to Canto 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 16, 17, 19, 20. Bound in nineteenth century vellum, with also Victorian Era marbled endpapers. Soilage scattered throughout, yet text remains attractive. Plates are also quite vivid and bright, with some soilage in their margins. Prior owner stamped an oval seal on the base margin of… Read More

Firenze: G. Barbera, 1881. Vellum. Near Fine. 32mo, measuring 4 inches tall, or 10 cm. 659, [4] pp. Frontis portrait. Vellum clean. Slight starting at top of front joint, but inconspicuous and stable. Pages are age toned yet clean. Tiniest chip to red title label.

Firenze: G. Barbera, 1881. Vellum. Near Fine. 32mo, measuring 4 inches tall, or 10 cm. 659, [4] pp. Frontis portrait. Vellum clean. Small orange stain on upper spine. Pages are age toned yet clean.

New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1876. First Edition presumed. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. N.d., circa 1876. (Bearing an inscription from this date plus a single copy on OCLC dated as such.) [35] pages, paginated by sections, and with sixteen full pages of colored plates, some with two illustrations, other with one. Wordsworth wrote "Lucy Gray" contained herein. "Little Ann and her mamma", by Ann and Jane Taylor, is adapted from London to New York. Other poems included are "Hector the Dog", "Frisky the Squirrel", "The Kittens' Mishap", "The Robins' Christmas Eve", "The Wolf and the Seven Kids" and "Three Little Dogs", and these titles give a good hint of the content. Appropriately the inscription shows this was a Chirstmas gift. The illustrations capture our notions of High Victorian style and children's lives. This copy is mostly clean and attractive, notwithstanding wear in the corners and the spine extremities. Read More

New York and Chicago: J. L. Taylor. Leporello. Near Fine. N.d., circa early 1920s. 18 by 10 cm. Four panel leporello promotional circular for men's suits. Illustrations are rendered with color printing. The men are all wearing boaters, suggesting spring and summer weight suits. They are tall and very slender, with the chiseled looks that were the ideal -- not so different from a lot of male fashion models of today, really. The front of the fold-out features a cut-out or shaped young women of the era, and from her dress we can surmise that the circular was issued in the very early twenties. J. L. Taylor had a large tailoring operation in both Chicago and New York until the Second World War. Specializing in pure wool fabrics for men's clothing, it employed hundreds of tailors and seamstresses. Scarce, with no copies found on OCLC. An inked name of the recipient in space intended for such on front. Otherwise, minimal wear, especially considering this was mailed.

Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003. Hardcover. New/New Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾. 201 pp. Clean, pages age toned. Slight bumping to corners of green cloth.

Full Morocco. Very Good. An unusual subject for illuminated manuscript treatment, and pulled off with panache. Ten leaves of fine watercolor and ink illustrations, calligraphy and sublime ornament in the tradition of Victorian illuminated manuscripts, all with ship or boating interest. Oblong, 8.5 by 14 inches, 22 by 36 cm. Some artwork mounted, most done directly on card, all by the same hand, and presumably of Price, whose bookplate is mounted onto the FEP. Shelfwear to leather, heavy along edges. Rebacked. Leaves on heavy card, and these are clean and bright.

Colombo (Ceylon, now Sri Lanka), 1903. Half Morocco. Very Good. 8vo. 18.5 by 14.5 cm. iv, 44 pp., the leaves made of heavy card stock. The author, a colonial officer for the British army, would later publish "The Annals of the King's Royal Rifle Corps," which contained his color illustrations of uniforms, arms and equipment, and other works. From this work, it is clear he had artistic aptitude, and as an officer in Ceylon, undoubtedly a lot of free time to indulge in the creation of this work. It would seem that this work was written with an eye on possible publication, but that did not come to be. Few will not be charmed by the many vignettes of badges and coats-of-arms, mostly rendered in bright watercolors, with some done as ink drawings. Also illustrated are flags and banners. Some of the tissue guards are heavily foxed, while the cards proper sometimes have offsetting from this soiling. A large chipped loss to the leather spine, with a partial loss of one letter of title. Still a… Read More

Venetia (Venice): Giacomo Hertz, 1680. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. [24], 732 pp + [72] unpaginated index. 58 engraved plates, 3 folding maps. Libreria Vinciana (Autori Italiani del 1600) 499. History of Italian monarchs during darkest of the Dark Ages, or the period following the fall of the Roman Empire til around 1000 A.D., a period obscure to even most ardent history buffs and scholars. Consulted by Manzoni in his research of Longobardi, or the Lombards. Each of the plates of ancient kings decorated with emblems and baroque ornamentation. Contemporary vellum attractive. Binding tight. Light soilage at most to leaves -- mostly just age toning. Discreet very old writing below half title plate and backside of same leaf. A small wormhole in upper left affecting pages in the 200s but only a few pages where actual letters are lost, and even these pages reading loss is insignificant. Overall a very good copy.

Italy: Rizzoli, 1982. First American Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Folio.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858 and 1859. First Edition. Half Morocco, Marbled Paper Boards. Very Good. 8vo. Occasional light foxing, with plates more heavily toned and soiled, as a function of the paper stock used. Rubbing of the morocco along the joints and edges, with mild darkening of the spine.

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1866. Full Morocco. Near Fine. Extra-illustrated, with autographs of George I through George IV. 8vo. [5], 105, 105-226 pp., with 92 and 108 additional illustrations in the two volumes, respectively. Signatures of George I and II in the first volume, III and IV, in the second.