Search Results: Titles starting with C from Rulon-Miller Books

Glasguae: excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, 1751. 8vo, pp. [4], 349, [3]; contemporary calf, spine in 6 compartments, brown morocco label in 1, red speckled edges; covers rubbed and bumped, upper joint starting, with the ownership signature of the antiquary Benjamin Forster (1753) on front free endpaper; good and sound. Gaskell 213.

Glasguae: excudebat Andreas Foulis, 1777. 8vo, pp. [2], 324 (lacking half-title); contemporary mottled calf, smooth gilt-ruled spine, red morocco label; boards toned, spine rubbed, joints just starting, bookplate of Sir John Trollope, text clean and sound; very good.

Birminghamiae: Johannis Baskerville, 1774. 12mo, pp. [2], 275 (i.e. 274); full contemporary green morocco, gilt interlocking borders on covers, smooth gilt spine laid out in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g.; fine copy. Signature 'O' is in Gaskell's state (b) - no priority. Ownership signature of "F. Baring- November 9 ~ 1817" on flylfeaf. Gaskell 55.

Birminghamiae: Joannis Baskerville, 1773. First Baskerville edition, 4to, pp. [4], 317; collating as in Gaskell though lacking final blank leaf (2R4); title page with star and lozenge rule; old signature on title of "Francis North, 1777" (Francis North, the first Earl of Guilford (1704-1790) and member of Parliament, for whom see DNB); with the Earl of Guilford armorial bookplate; edges rubbed, binding lightly soiled else a very good copy in a nice contemporary binding of full red roan, triple-rule gilt border on covers with small fleurons in the corners, smooth spine elaborately gilt, green morocco labels, a.e.g., and contained in a maroon cloth slipcase. Gaskell 51.

Lvgd. Batavorvm [i.e., Leiden]: ex officina Elseviriorum, 1640. First Elzevir edition, 12mo, pp. [12], pp. [24], 414 (but with a 10-p lacuna between p. 289 and p.300, as issued), [28]; printer's device on title page plus decorative initials and head- and tail-pieces throughout; early 19th-century half calf over marbled boards, gilt spine, all edges speckled, green silk bookmark; some rubbing and wear to extremities, the leather spine with some flaking, and dampstaining at gutter to first half of text pages; still overall a sturdy, not unattractive copy. Pliny's (62-113) letters cover topics ranging from dinner conversations to official correspondence with the Emperor Trajan, written while Pliny served as governor of Bythnia, and include his famous epistle on the treatment of Christians. His Panegyricus is the text of Pliny's speech given upon his elevation to the consulate in 100. Copinger 3646; Willems 506.

Nürnberg: Johann Paul Krauss, 1739. 8vo, pp. [46], 720, [94]; engraved frontispiece of a scribe working in a library; old vellum-backed boards, the spine almost perished and revealing the binding structure underneath; the binding a bit skewed, but sound. Pliny the Younger wrote hundreds of letters, of which 247 survive and are of great historical value. Some are addressed to reigning emperors or to notables such as the historian Tacitus.

Philadelphia: Philip H. Nicklin, 1814. In hac secunda editione americana pleraque Londiniense errata, 8vo, pp. xvi, 260; full contemporary sheep, gilt-ruled spine; extremities quite worn, hinges weak; lacking flyleaf, loss to top edge of b2 with loss of approximately 4 lines of text; contemporary owner Edgar Snowden, Columbia College, 1824, bookplate and manuscript notes throughout; 2 folding sheets of manuscript errata in a different, later 19th century hand, bound in rear. Shaw & Shoemaker 32707.

Avenione: apud Viduam Aubanel, an XIII, 1805. Small 12mo, pp. viii, [9]-244; contemporary full vellum, worn but sound. A pocket edition of Sallust designed for the younger student. OCLC locates only the University of Delaware copy.

London and New York: MacMillan and Co, 1891. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 325, [2] ads; 1 tinted folding map; pages slightly browned, small tears top of spine, else very good in original blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine. On the question of Canada as a political entity; whether as a British colony, an independent state, or annexed to the United States. Ex-MHS.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838. First edition, 18mo, pp. 2 (ads), xiii-[xiv], [13]-422, (6) ads; 114 engraved illus. throughout; orig. printed muslin worn, cracked at hinges, and with tear in cloth at corner of upper cover, spine perished; ex-MHS.

London, Paris & New York: Cassell & Co, 1883. First and only edition, oblong 8vo, pp. 52, [4] ads; 16 mounted chromolithographs showing various painted designs on assorted ceramic ware, 4 wood-engraved illustrations in the text; a very good copy in original maroon cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover.

West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House Press, 1984. 4½" x 6½" Invitation to CHP's Holiday Open House in West Branch, Iowa.

Amsterdam: Hendrik Vieroot, 1766. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 859 [i.e. 759], [9]; gap in pagination from 241 to 341; music throughout printed from type; contemporary full calf, double blindtooled borders on covers, fleurons in the corners, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, morocco label in ; lightly rubbed; very good. No copies in North America per OCLC.

London: Charles Whiting, 1846. 2 volumes, small folio, pp. x, 960 (continuous pagination); orig. green cloth; joints split, covers nearly loose on vol. I; ex-MHS. With long sections on the manufactures, agriculture, fisheries, whale fishery, m ining, climate, population, etc. of the U.S.A.

Maestricht: Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, 1775. 8vo, pp. [4], vii, [1], 170, [2]; later quarter brown calf over marbled boards, green morocco label on spine; spine rubbed, else very good. Twenty-four poetic tales of love, followed by a dozen miscellaneous verses. Not in NUC.

Tallahasse, Florida, 1983. Folio poster (approx. 17" x 10¾") printed in blue on a pink background. Signed "Allen Ginsberg" beneath his printed name.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, n.d. [ca. 1930's]. 8vo, pp. 592; pictorial endpapers showing ships' rigs, 63 plates, 415 illus. in the text; fine copy in the jacket. Volume XV in the Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games & Pastimes, edited by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Lonsdale and Eric Parker. Contains much on design, rig, navigation, yachtmen's lore, cooking afloat, yacht clubs, medicine afloat, etiquette, ocean racing, etc., and a glossary of sea terms at the back.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1925. First edition, 8vo, [8] & 634-[635]pp., frontispiece portrait of the author, 6 illus. in the text; slight wear to extremities else a near fine copy in orig. blue cloth. Follows the former University of Minnesota President (1885-1911) from his early days in Connecticut, his years at Yale where he was later to become professor of Rhetoric & English literature, to his arrival in Minnesota in 1884 to his death in 1922.

Remsen, NY: J. R. Everett, 1854. Small 4to, pp. 220; text illustrations; in sheets and loosely sewn at spine, title page soiled and dog-eared, light tide stains on lower gatherings, fair but sound. Translated by Hugh Williams, editor of "Cymro," and reviewed and revised by Robert Everett.

Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1975. Edition limited to 200 copies, oblong 12mo, pp. [36]; fine in original printed tan wrappers. Composition at the Arif Press. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. Artist's book of concrete poetry, with ruled headlines page numbers, and selected entry words from Heath's English-German Dictionary (1906), from 'bunk' to 'Joe Lewis.' The text of the book, including the title page, are solely the rubrics and page numbers appearing at the head of selected pages of that dictionary (the page numbers appear between the rubrics; thus, the title actually reads: Cafe 230 Charivari. Charlatan 231 Chrom.