Search Results: Titles starting with L from Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints

A fine edition of Maeterlinck's play L'Oiseau Bleu (The Blue Bird), featuring stunning artwork by French illustrator André Marty (1882–1974).
Description: Quarter sheepskin over marbled paper covered boards, with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Octavo: 20 × 14 cm; pp. 171, [3]. 27 full-page and in-text illustrations. Top edge gilt.
Condition: Spine ends somewhat nibbled. Pages slightly toned due to their age, one mark in the margin of page 103. No foxing. Else a very good copy.

Voltaire's notable critique of the prevailing conditions of his time.
Description: Contemporary burgundy calf, triple gilt fillet to sides, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Vigesimo-quarto: 11.5 × 6.5 cm; [3] ll., 300 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Joan of Arc, engraved by N.[icolas] Delaunay after a painting from the City Hall of Orléans. Gilt edges.
Condition: Binding a bit scuffed and bruised at corners and spine ends. Pages slightly toned with age, pp. 107-110 detached. Despite the occasional minor blemish, a very good copy.

Second, expanded edition of Nodot's translation of Petronius' Satyricon.
Description: 2 vols.. Contemporary calf, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Sextodecimo: 16 × 9 cm; [43]ll., 407pp.; [4]ll., 454pp. Each vol. with a frontispiece (repeating) and a total of 9 engraved plates. Edges speckled red.
Provenance: Bookplate of L. Gratien-Le Bon, on the front pastedown of the first vol.
Ref.: Brunet: iv, 576; Graesse: v, 239
Condition: Bindings a bit scuffed and worn. A tear of about 2 cm in the outer joint of vol. 2. Rear board of vol. 2 is scuffed over an area of approximately 1 × 4 cm. Inner joints of both volumes intact. Contents slightly browned due to age, sporadically somewhat browned, soiled and finger-stained. Still a good copy.
Notes: Only fragments of the original Satyricon have survived. François Nodot filled the gaps in the surviving text with imaginative forgeries and produced a French translation of the whole (1692–94). Brunet notes that the present… Read More

Second edition of the work first published in 1755. Undoubtedly one of the best general treatises on gnomonics of its time.
Description: Contemporary calf, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands. Octavo: 20 × 12 cm; pp. [6], xxii, 404, [4]. Engraved frontispiece by Gazot, a printer's device on title page, 34 fold-out plates and a map of France dated 1760, engraved after R. Bonne.
Provenance: An older small label on the front pastedown: M. Daupeley, propriétaire, Nogent. Neat ownership signature of Lanoir to verso of front free endpaper.
Condition: Some rubbing to extremities and slight wear to the spine, headcap is missing, outer hinges somewhat fragile with age. Front flyleaf with an open tear in the gutter area. Text with block occasional mainly marginal spotting and browning. Paper repair in margin of plate 25 and the 'Map of France'. Despite the described blemishes, still a good copy.

First edition. With the two loosely inserted original lithographs by Francis Picabia. Limited edition, number 336, printed on wove paper, from an edition of 365.
Description: Paperback, with a colour illustration by Picabia on the front cover. Quarto: 28 × 22 cm; pp. 33, [1]. 2 loosely enclosed original lithographs. Printed on wove paper.
Inserted: Loose enclosed the original publisher's subscription form.
Condition: Cover somewhat soiled, with some bumps and tears to the head and foot of the spine. Unfortunately without the glassine wrapper. Faint marginal toning to contents. Overall, however, a very good copy.
Notes: La loi daccommodation chez les borgnes (The Law of Accommodation in the One-Eyed), was conceived by Picabia as a screenplay for a three-part film in which the reader would "project the story onto the screen of his own imagination". Published in May 1928.

First edition in French detailing superstition and the cult of witchcraft in India. Translated into French by Thomas La Grue from the Dutch.
Description: Contemprary calf, gilt titles to spine and decoration in compartments between five raised bands. Octavo: 24 × 18 cm; pp. [7] ll., 375. With an engraved frontispiece plate and seven engravings, (five of which are full-page), and one fold-out plate.
Ref.: Graesse: xi, 147
Provenance: Handwritten bookplate of Stanislaj de Guaita and a small bookseller's label of the Librairie Sainte-Marie, Moissac, on the front pastedown.
Condition: Binding scuffed and bumped, front joint starting but firm, capitals with losses. The rear flyleaf removed. Textblock a little shaken, somewhat toned, stained and waterstained throughout. Quire H (pp. 57–66) is missing. Chip to pp. 67 not affecting text, paper repair due to loss of paper in outer margin on pages 357–373, not affecting text. A burned hole with minor text loss in quire Vu. Annotations in a early hand on… Read More

First edition of Baruffaldi's ode to tobacco, particularly snuff.
Description: Contemporary vellum, morocco label lettered in gilt to spine. Octavo: 21 × 15 cm; pp. 240. With the printer's mark of Pomatelli, 2 title vignettes and 2 text initials.
Ref.: opac.sbn.it: IT\ICCU\VIAE\001766
Provenance: On the front pastedown the bookplate of the Marchese di Salza; stamp of the Rothamsted Experimental Station (today: Rothamsted Research). On the rear pastedown the bookplate of John William Ward, Earl of Dudley (1781–1833).
Condition: Binding stained and wavy. Contents show light marginal browning and occasional staining, with small parts of the text missing on page 171.
Notes: Girolamo Baruffaldi (1675–1755) was a priest, scholar, poet, and dramatist. He established the Vigna Academy in Ferrara and served as the archpriest of the parish church of Cento in addition to holding the position of a professor of Sacred Scripture and Rhetoric at the University of Ferrara. Baruffaldi showed a keen interest in… Read More

First edition of Gill's final collection of essays outlining his distributist philosophy on the relationship between man and work, industry and art. With an introduction by Mary Gill.
Description: Orig. navy blue cloth, pictorial decoration (St Thomas's Hands, 1935) blocked in silver to front board, titled in silver to spine, orig. dust jacket, lettered in red and black. Duodecimo: 19 × 13 cm; pp. 93, with 5 illustrations by Gill (frontispiece, St Thomas's Hands on title page, 3 illustrations in the text).
Condition: Dust jacket shows some small tears at head and foot, light soiling. Binding and contents in very good condition.
Notes: "Last Essays" contains a collection of essays written by Gill, entitled as follows: Art. Work. Private property. Education for What? Peace and Poverty. Art in Education. FiveHundred Years of Printing. The Leisure State. Secular and Sacred in Modern Industry.
Please note: Due to the low weight, the shipping costs may be lower than indicated. Please inquire with us about… Read More

The first translation of the 'Commentarii' into French.
Description: Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink. Quarto: 25 × 20 cm; [18] ll., 623, [1], 64, [36] pp. Engraved frontispice.
Condition: Binding somewhat soiled and stained, title on spine somewhat faded. Occasional paper repairs to endpapers and cracked at head and tail. Pages slightly toned, light dampstaining to first few leaves. Some pencil notes and comments. Missing plate 'Pont de César'.

First edition of the famous 4-volume edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Pierre-François Basan (1723-1797) and Noël Le Mire (1724-1801), illustrated by Baquoy, Choffard, Duclos, Legrand and many others after Bocuehr, Eisen, Gravelot, Moreau, etc. "It is one of the most brilliantly illustrated of the entire century" (Cohen). Large paper issue.
Description: 4 vols., contemporary marbled calf, sides ruled with triple gilt fillet and decorative gilt roll to board edges. Spine richly gilt in compartments between five raised bands, with two brown morocco labels, lettered gilt. Marbled endpapers. Large square octavo: 25 × 19 cm; pag.: vol.1: [5]ll., pp. xc, [2 (approbation)], 264. vol.2: vii, 352. vol.3: viii, 360. vol.4: viii, 367, 8 (explication). With 140 numbered copper-engraved plates (No. 1 frontispiece, 2-140 with printed captions), 1 final plate (vol.4), 4 title page vignettes, 3 engraved dedication vignettes (vol.1), 30 engraved headpieces. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Bookseller's paper label… Read More

Rare edition by Officina Bodoni with songs by Robert Burns translated into Swiss German. Limited edition, number 69 of only 100 numbered copies. Dedication copy.
Description: Publisher's pigskin, double-ruled border to boards in black, gilt spine label, in original slipcase. Octavo: 20 × 13 cm; pp. 119, [2] ll. Title page with coloured woodcut vignette. Top edge gilt. Bilingual text: English-Swiss-German.
Provenance: Dedication by Georg Reinhart in his own hand on the front flyleaf, dated 1950.
Ref.: Schmoller: 93
Condition: Slipcase somewhat dusty. Spine somewhat faded. Binding, endpapers and textblock otherwise impeccable.
Notes: The volume presents a selection of poems by the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759–1796) compared with the original English text and the Swiss German translation by August Corrodi (1826–1885). Privately printed by order of the Winterthur patron Georg Reinhart and not published in the trade. With a manuscript dedication by Georg Reinhart.

A landmark in the literature of naval architecture and shipbuilding.
Description: Contemporary calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands. Contemporary marbled endpapers. Octavo: 25 × 19 cm; pp. [1] ll., xliv, 1-49, ii-xxix, [51]-484. With the frontispiece engraved by Chedel, and engraved by Nicolas Ozanne, 2 vignettes (one on the title page and one on the dedication page), 9 headpieces and 24 numbered plates (on 23 folding plates).
Ref.: Polak: 2859; Scheepvaart Mus.: ii, 747; OL-ID: OL24604183M
Condition: Binding shows some minor bumps and scuffs and a few surface abrasions. The joints are somewhat age brittle. Contents with occasional minor blemish but generally clean. Nonetheless a very good copy.
Notes: Duhamel du Monceau's manual is considered a milestone in the literature of naval architecture and shipbuilding. This second edition, with an additional chapter by the author himself, contains corrections and additional illustrations not included in the first edition of 1752.

One of the very few copies of this work. Complete with the handwritten addressed envelope. Limited edition of 111 copies, of which this is number xli.
Description: Sewn as issued in original printed wrappers and original glassine jacket. Quarto: 31 × 21 cm; [14] ll. (unpaginated). Printed from 16 pt Astrée on hand-made paper, edges uncut.
Enclosed: Original envelope with the address of the recipient of this print.
Provenance: Personal copy of Count E. da Silva Ramos (presumably father of racing driver Hernando "Nano" da Silva Ramos).
Condition: A few pages with a small spot of paper browning. Otherwise an excellent copy.
Notes: In its 16-year history, the Société de Bibliophiles Les Plaquettes has published only two works. The first was published in 1939, the second in 1943, and both works were only printed in small editions for members of the Société. This is the reason for the present edition of 'Éloge de la plaquette' being only 111 copies. In this text, Fernand Fleuret analyses the… Read More