Search Results: Titles starting with B from Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books

1900 Walter Crane ART 2v Baby's Bouquet & Opera Nursery Rhymes Children's Tales

Walter Crane (1845–1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is one of the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation and one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the later 19th century.

This edition of "The Baby Bouquet" is a children's book filled with songs and illustrations depicting fairy tales by Walter Crane and color illustrations by Edmond Evans. In addition to 'Bouquet', this lot includes Crane's 'Baby's Opera' – a collection of nursery rhymes and music.
Item number: #11317
Price: $499
CRANE, Walter
Baby's Bouquet – Baby's Opera
London, New York: Frederick Warne & Co., [ca. 1890-1900].

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages: 2 tomes
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'Bouquet' – 56 pages
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'Opera' – 56 pages
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1908 1st ed Harrison Fisher ART Bachelor Belles Portraits Cosmopolitan Magazine

Harrison Fisher was a 20th-century American artist known for his drawings of women, portraits that regularly appeared on early 1900s editions of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine. 'Bachelor Belles' is a 1908 portfolio of Fisher's portraits – each beautifully colored. These 22 illustrations are paired with American poetry and short stories and illustrated page decorations by Theodore Hapgood.
Item number: #13402
Price: $499
FISHER, Harrison
Bachelor Belles
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1908. First edition

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o 22 full-page illustrations
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
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Original dust jacket
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Original hard shell
· Size: ~11in X 8in (28cm x 20cm)
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1881 Spanish Bachelor of Salamanca Vanillo Gonzales Le Sage Townsend Los Rios 2v

This 2-volume set includes both works 'The Bachelor of Salamanca' and 'The History of Vanillo Gonzales' by Alain Rene Le Sage. Le Sage began his career with a translation from the Greek, but became famous from his comic operas and his novels including 'Gil Blas,' and 'Devil on Crutches.' These two volumes consist of his translation of the Spanish novel 'The Bachelor of Salamanca' and his last written work 'The History of Vanillo Gonzales,' which resembles 'Gil Blas' in tone frequently utilizing fraud, debauchery, and rogues for entertainment.

These 1881 editions include 4 original etchings by R. de Los Rios are numbered 27 out of only 100 copies sold.
Item number: #10797
Price: $499
SAGE, Alain René Le
The Bachelor of Salamanca. Translated from the French ... by J. Townsend.
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The history of Vanillo Gonzales, surnamed the Merry Bachelor
London: J.C. Nimmo and Bain, 1881. Limited edition

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1889 HUNTING Shooting GUNS Sports & Game Hunt Dogs Falconry Illustrated 3v SET
'The Badminton Library' was perhaps the most important 19th-century encyclopedia published with the intent of providing the English public with reading on sports and leisure, skill improvement, and general knowledge of their favorite pastimes.
This lot from the 'Badminton Library' contains three books on hunting and shooting including "Coursing and Falconry" by Cox and Lascelles. These volumes feature fine illustrations depicting hunting scenes, hunting dogs, game birds and fowl, and even views of women shooting bows and arrows!
Item number: #23368
Price: $599
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The Badminton Library
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889-96.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes
o "Shooting" (1889) – [2], xiii, [1], 358
Lord Walsingham and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey
o "Coursing and Falconry" (1892) – xiii, [1], 413, [3]
Harding Cox and Gerald Lascelles
o "Poetry of Sport" (1896) – xxxvi, 420
Hedley Peek
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1889 FISHING Angling Whaling Salmon Trout Pike Illustrated FISH Whales 3v SET
'The Badminton Library' was perhaps the most important 19th-century encyclopedia published with the intent of providing the English public with reading on sports and leisure, skill improvement, and general knowledge of their favorite pastimes.
This lot from the 'Badminton Library' contains three books on fishing and whaling. It features Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell's treatise on fishing salmon, trout, and pike. "Sea Fishing" includes numerous treatises including 'Whaling' by Gore-Booth, and 'Tarpon' by Harmsworth. Note the impressive illustrations throughout with views of fish, fishing spots, and fishing gear.
Item number: #23369
Price: $599
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The Badminton Library
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1889-96.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes
o "Sea Fishing" (1895) – [2], xviii, 513, [1]
John Bickerdyke
o "Fishing, Salmon and Trout" (1895) – xiii, [5], 481, [3]
H. Cholomondeley-Pennell
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1796 Japanese Samurai Clan Geisha Wakisaka Gido Illustrated Uekawa Gido Tejima

An interesting 18th-century woodblock-print of 'Bai Boku Sensei Anraku Denju,' written by Wakisaka Gido. Gido was a student under Toan Tejima, a moral philosopher from the Uekawa clan in the mid-Edo era. This three-volume collection anecdotes of regular life with illustrations of samurai, geisha, commoners, animals and more! This rare 1796 edition is written in a column handwritten format.

Item number: #16318
Price: $750
Wakisaka Gido
脇坂 義堂

(Bai Boku Sensei Anraku Denju) 賣卜先生安樂傳受(ばいぼくせんせいあんらくでんじゅ)
[Kyoto: Kansei 8 1796].

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Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes
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References:
o Keio University, Japanese Culture Through Rare Books
o Iwanami, Kokusho So Mokuroku 100145794;
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Language: Japanese, Kanbun
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Binding: Softcover; tight and secure
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Size: ~9in X 6.25in (22.5cm x 16cm)
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1842 EXQUISITE 1st ed Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ballads & Poems Excelsior RARE

"For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain."
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was one of the most important and well-known American poets of the 19th-century. He is highly regarded for his works such as 'The Song of Hiawatha'. His ballads proved to quite popular as well, which were published here in this 1842 Cambridge edition contains ballads and several other popular poems. Notable works found in this book include:
· Excelsior
· God's Acre
· Goblet of Life
· The Skeleton in Armour
· The Wreck of the Hesperus
· The Luck of Edenhall
· The Elected Knight
· The Children of the Lord's Supper

Item number: #24767
Price: $950

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth

Ballads and other poems

Cambridge [Mass]: published by John Owen, 1842. First edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o xxv,… Read More

1856 ENORMOUS Ballou Pictorial Magazine Revolutionary War Boston Tea Party

Maturin Ballou was a 19th-century American publisher who is known for his work on periodicals, magazines, and journals. He is most famous for his 'Pictorial' which was highly influenced by the Illustrated London News. Ballou himself said of the work that it was to be
"a weekly literary mélange of notable events of the day. Its columns are devoted to original tales, sketches, and poems, by the best American authors and the cream of the domestic and foreign news; the whole well spiced with wit and humor." (issue 1)
This particular issue contains news and current events stories, but also includes essays on American history including a report on George Washington at Valley Forge and the famous Boston Tea Party!
Item number: #18532
Price: $599
BALLOU, Maturin M.
Ballou's pictorial. Jul-Dec, 1856.
Boston, Mass. : M.M. Ballou, 1856.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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416
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Language: English
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1848 Bandaging & Surgery 1ed Operations pre Civil War Blood Medicine Sargent

Sargent's 'On Bandaging and Other Operations of Minor Surgery' is a practical field guide to surgical and medical practices in the Civil War. Sargent's book includes:
· Instruments
· Surgical Dressings and their rules
· Water
· The Douche
· Bandages and their application
· Fractures and setting them
· Dislocations
· Bloodletting
· Phlebotomy
· Arteriotemy
· Counter Irritations
· Arresting Hemmorage
· Catheters
· Injections
· Pain Relief
· And more!

This rare 1848 1st edition includes black and white illustrations throughout.

Item number: #24862
Price: $499

SARGENT, F. W.

Bandaging and other operations of minor surgery

Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1848. 1st edition

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o xxvii, [1], 25-379, [5]
o 128 illustrated figures throughout
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1666 Lives of Popes 200 PORTRAITS Platina Catholic Sacchi Italian Panvinio

Bartolomeo Sacchi, or Platina, was a 15th-century Italian humanist who is most remembered for his book 'Vitae Pontificum,' or 'Lives of the Popes.' 'Lives' was an important work dedicated to the papacy of important Catholic popes, but Platina wrote the work through the lens of Roman history with obvious themes of paganism. This book was the first systematic handbook on papal history and praises the punishment of heresy throughout the Catholic Church.

This 1666 Italian edition includes an ecclesiastical chronology by Onofrio Panvinio and includes over 200 engravings!

Item number: #11702
Price: $599
SACCHI, Bartolomea [Platina]
Bartolomeo Platina. Delle Vite de'Pontefici dal Salvator nostro fino a Paolo II. accresciute con quelle de'papi moderni da Sisto Quarto fino ad Alessandro VII.regnante, da Onofrio Panvinio, Antonio Cicarelli, Giovanni Stringa, Abraamo Bzovio e dal Cav. Antonio Bagatta Benacense, con le Annotationi del… Read More

1721 Batrachomyomachia GREEK Homer Iliad Frogs & Mice Isaac Newton One of 204
"Batrachomyomachia" or 'Battle of the Frogs and Mice' is a parody of Homer's famed Greek epic poem the 'Iliad'. This story follows the tale of a mouse-prince who encounters the legendary Frog King. Originally thought to be written by Homer himself, numerous other figures are considered to be the author of this work, including Pigres of Halicarnassus, Lucian, or even the Queen of Caria.
This 1721 Maichael Maittaire edition was printed as part of a very limited print run, one of only 204 copies given to subscribers. Notable names included in the subscriber list include Richard Mead, the Bishop of Winchester, and even Isaac Newton!
Item number: #19496
Price: $599
HOMER [attributed]
Batrachomyomachia Graece ad veterum exemplarium fidem recusa: glossa Graeca ; variantibus lectionibus ; versionibus Latinis ; commentariis & indicibus illustrate
Londini. : Typis Gulielmi Bowyer., M. DCC. XXI. [1721]. Limited edition.

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1582 1ed Girolamo Muzio Battaglia Defense of Italian Language Literature Venice

Girolamo Muzio was a 16th-century Venetian author known for his works written in Italian. Perhaps his best Italian work was his 'Battaglia' – a book written to defend the use of vernacular Italian when it comes to language usage in prose and literature. This book contains numerous letters to Italian figureheads pressing the matter of not using Latin as the main written and publishing language.
Item number: #19206
Price: $750
MUZIO, Girolamo
Battaglie di Hieronimo Mutio Giustinopolitano, per difesa dell'italica lingua, con alcune lettere a gl'infrascritti nobili spiriti: cioé, al Cesano, & al Caualcanti. Al signor Renato Triuultio, & al clariss. signor Domenico Veniero
In Vinegia : Appresso Pietro Dusinelli, 1582. First edition.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o [24], 216 leaves
o Signatures: *10, A-Z8, 2A-2D8
· References: USTC 844037; Adams M 2075; STC 458
· Language:… Read More

1590 POPES Lives Platina Catholic Church Sacchi Italian Panvinio Venice Medici

Bartolomeo Sacchi, or Platina, was a 15th-century Italian humanist who is most remembered for his book 'Vitae Pontificum,' or 'Lives of the Popes.' 'Lives' was an important work dedicated to the papacy of important Catholic popes, but Platina wrote the work through the lens of Roman history with obvious themes of paganism. This book was the first systematic handbook on papal history and praises the punishment of heresy throughout the Catholic Church.

This 1590 edition of Platina was published in Venice by Girolamo Polo. This edition is notable for being revised and edited by Onofrio Panvinio.

Item number: #13557
Price: $950
SACCHI, Bartolomea [Platina]
Battista Platina delle vite de'pontefici : dal Saluator del mondo Giesv Christo sino a Paolo II : con l'aggionta delle vite de gli altri Pontefici, da Sisto Quarto sino a Sisto Quinto, scritte da Honofrio Panuinio, e da diuersi altri Authori, come al suo luoco si vede.
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1846 Charles Dickens 1ed Battle of Life Christmas Love Maclise Leech Doyle Art

Beginning with 'A Christmas Carol' in 1843, Charles Dickens wrote and published five Christmas books for the holiday season. The fourth title in this series of novellas is 'The Battle of Life.' Curiously, this title is the sole non-religious title of the Christmas Book series. The story is one of strife, misguided perception, and the significance of both romantic and familial love. This work includes numerous charming illustrations throughout provided by the collective work of esteemed artists Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, John Leech and Clarkson Stanfield.

Item number: #40874
Price: $550

DICKENS, Charles

The Battle of Life. A Love Story

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete
o [4], 175, [3]
o 13 illustrations
· References: Eckel pg. 121; Smith II, 8
· Edition Notes:
o Cupid carrying a scroll on the engraved title page vignette
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1846 1ed Charles Dickens Battle of Life Christmas Romance Maclise Illustrated

"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

'The Battle of Life' is one of Charles Dickens' famous 'Christmas Books'. First published in 1846, this short novel was published following 'Cricket on the Hearth' and follows the culture in an English village near the site of an historic battle. Dickens describes the struggles of life as a battle; though strangely, Dickens does not include any sort of supernatural or religious themes in this book – a style that differs from that of each of the other 'Christmas Books'.

Item number: #19930
Price: $550
DICKENS, Charles
The Battle of Life, a love story
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition.

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[6], 175, [3]
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13 illustrations
· Provenance: Handwritten – N. Yorke
· Language: English
· Note on edition:
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1846 Charles Dickens 1ed Battle of Life Christmas Love Maclise Leech Doyle ART

Beginning with 'A Christmas Carol' in 1843, Charles Dickens wrote and published five Christmas books for the holiday season. The fourth title in this series of novellas is 'The Battle of Life.' Curiously, this title is the sole non-religious title of the Christmas Book series. The story is one of strife, misguided perception, and the significance of both romantic and familial love. This work includes numerous charming illustrations throughout provided by the collective work of esteemed artists Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, John Leech and Clarkson Stanfield.

Item number: #40586
Price: $550
DICKENS, Charles
The Battle of Life. A Love Story
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete
o [8], 175, [1], [2 ads]
o 13 illustrations
· References: Eckel pg. 121; Smith II, 8
· Edition Notes:
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Cupid carrying a scroll on the engraved title page vignette
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1816 Battle of Waterloo NAPOLEONIC WARS von Blücher RARE Calcutta India Napoleon
"The Battle of Waterloo" is an intricate account of the famed confrontation on June 18, 1815, where Napoleon's French army was defeated by the Seventh Coalition, led by the Duke of Wellington and Field Marshal von Blücher. This pivotal moment, marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars, set the stage for a new era of peace known as the Pax Britannica. The book explores the strategic moves, battles, and aftermath, while also listing officers impacted and detailing honors bestowed upon units and individuals.
Remarkably, this unique edition, printed in Calcutta in 1816 from John Booth's original 1815 London publication, is an exceedingly rare find with no other known copies of this specific printing globally.
Item number: #41453
Price: $550
[BOOTH, John]
The Battle of Waterloo. With Circumstantial Details Previous and After the Battle. To Which is Added an Alphabetical List of the Officers Killed and Wounded, as Also an… Read More

1858 Battles of United States 1ed Sea & Land Dawson Chappel Illustrated 2v SET
Few 19th-century historical artists were as well-known as Alonzo Chappel. His illustrated portraits and historical scenes were published profusely in a variety of American works, including Henry Dawson's 'Battles of the United States, By Sea and Land' – a work describing American battles in the Revolutionary War, The French and Indian War, War of 1812, and the Mexican War.
Item number: #23879
Price: $750
DAWSON, Henry
Battles of the United States, By Sea and Land : Embracing Those of the Revolutionary and Indian Wars, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War
New York : Johnson, Fry, [1858] 1st edition
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages – 2 volumes
o Vol 1 – Revolutionary War
4, [8], 5-744
o Vol 2 – The Indian, French, and Algerine wars, the war of 1812, and the Mexican war. 1790-1847.
[4], 746
o Each volume illustrated with numerous steel engravings
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and… Read More

1621 Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe Tunisia St Augustine Philosophy Africa Sermons

Fulgentius of Ruspe was a 5th-century bishop of the Roman city of Ruspe in Tunisia. Known as Saint Fulgentius, and not to be confused with Fabius Planciades Fulgentius author of 'Mythologies', this lesser-known theologian wrote works following the teachings of Saint Augustine, giving attention to Arianism and Pelagianism. The surviving works simply include letters and sermons.
Item number: #14889
Price: $550
FULGENTIUS, Saint Fabius of Ruspe
Beati Fulgentii, episcopi Ruspensis in Africa doctissimi, Opera theologica : quae quidem adhuc extant, diligenter recensita: quorum series & argumenta, post dedicationem, cum praemissa authoris vita, reperientur
Basileae : Per Sebastianum Henricpetri, Anno 1621.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
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[48], 905, [39]
· Provenance: Bookplate – Josephi Courbon
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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Courbon (1748-1824) was a late 18th century French priest and seminary… Read More

1648 RARE Lanfranc 11th c. Archbishop of Canterbury Metaphysics Philosophy FOLIO
Lanfranc was an 11th-century Italian jurist known for his conversion to a Benedictine monk in Normandy. Lanfranc eventually became known as Lanfranc of Canterbury when he became the Archbishop of Canterbury. While few written works of Lanfranc exist today, his best-known book was 'De Corpore et Sanguine Domini' – a metaphysical work describing the differences between substance and accident. This, along with Lanfranc's other minor works, is included in this 1648 Lutetia edition.

Item number: #16057
Price: $950
LANFRANC
Beati Lanfranci Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi Opera omnia, qvæ reperiri potuerunt, evulgavit Lucas Dacherius ... : Vitam, et epistolas notis, et observationibus
Lutetiæ Parisiorum : sumptibus Ioannis Billaine, 1648.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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[18], 44; 386; [2], 107 (i.e. 97), [45]
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~15in X… Read More