Search Results: Titles starting with M from William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop

Boston, etc.: White-Smith, 1896. Revised Edition. . 4to., decorative printed boards, black cloth spine. 152pp. Inner hinges cracked, paper chipped from fore-edge of covers, some fraying to spine ends, a very good copy generally. First published 1884, this is the revised edition of 1896.

[London], Emanuel Wax for Pendragon Press, 1968. First edition.. Beige cloth with green linen spine lettered in gilt. Pale green end papers. Fine condition. Limited to 2000 copies, of which this is one of 1000 for the British Isles; copy # 776. Inscribed from the publisher.

[Paris: Delpech, c.1842]. . A lithographic portrait on wove paper of Princess Marie Joséphine of Savoy, by Delpech after Zéphirin Belliard. Hand-tinted (clothing & hair), with a facsimile of Marie Josephine's signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At lower left: "G. Lith. de Delpech". At lower right: "Z. Belliard". A clean and attractive image, light foxing. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Portraits des Personnes dont les noms se rattachent plus pariculièrement, soit par leurs actions, soit par leurs écrits, aux divers événements qui ont eu lieu en France, depuis 1789, jusqu'en 1829 : avec les fac-simile de l'écriture de chacune d'elles / / lithographiés par les plus habiles artistes, d'après les Peintures, Sculptures et dessins de MM. David [et al.] et plusieurs lithographiés d'après nature par MM. Hesse, Dupré et Maurin."

[Paris: Delpech, c.1842]. . A lithographic portrait on wove paper of French journalist and statesman Hughes-Bernard Maret, 1st Duc de Bassano, by Delpech after Hesse. Hand-tinted (clothing), with a facsimile of Maret's signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At left: "Hesse". At right: "G. Lith. de Delpech.". An attractive image, some light foxing. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Portraits des Personnes dont les noms se rattachent plus pariculièrement, soit par leurs actions, soit par leurs écrits, aux divers événements qui ont eu lieu en France, depuis 1789, jusqu'en 1829 : avec les fac-simile de l'écriture de chacune d'elles / / lithographiés par les plus habiles artistes, d'après les Peintures, Sculptures et dessins de MM. David [et al.] et plusieurs lithographiés d'après nature par MM. Hesse, Dupré et Maurin."

[Paris: Delpech, c.1842]. . A lithographic portrait on wove paper of French statesman and Prime Minister Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, by Delpech after Zéphirin Belliard. Hand-coloured (clothing & hair), with a facsimile of Martignac's signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At left: "Z. Belliard". At lower right: "Lith. de Delpech". A clean and attractive image, light foxing. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Portraits des Personnes dont les noms se rattachent plus pariculièrement, soit par leurs actions, soit par leurs écrits, aux divers événements qui ont eu lieu en France, depuis 1789, jusqu'en 1829 : avec les fac-simile de l'écriture de chacune d'elles / / lithographiés par les plus habiles artistes, d'après les Peintures, Sculptures et dessins de MM. David [et al.] et plusieurs lithographiés d'après nature par MM. Hesse, Dupré et Maurin." Read More

[Paris: Delpech, c.1842]. . A lithographic portrait on wove paper of French statesman and Prime Minister Louis-Mathieu Molé, by Delpech after Zéphirin Belliard, from an original by Ingres. Hand-tinted (clothing), with a facsimile of Mole's signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At left: "Z. Belliard". At right: "Ingre pinxt.". At center: "Lith. de Delpech". A clean and attractive image, some foxing. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Portraits des Personnes dont les noms se rattachent plus pariculièrement, soit par leurs actions, soit par leurs écrits, aux divers événements qui ont eu lieu en France, depuis 1789, jusqu'en 1829 : avec les fac-simile de l'écriture de chacune d'elles / / lithographiés par les plus habiles artistes, d'après les Peintures, Sculptures et dessins de MM. David [et al.] et plusieurs lithographiés d'après nature par MM.… Read More

[Paris: Delpech, c.1842]. . A lithographic portrait on wove paper of French statesman Jean-Pierre, Count of Montalivet, by Delpech after Zéphirin Belliard. Hand-tinted (clothing), with a facsimile of Montalivet's signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At left: "Z. Belliard / a' apres nature en 1839". At lower right: "Lith. de Delpech". A clean and attractive image, light foxing. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Portraits des Personnes dont les noms se rattachent plus pariculièrement, soit par leurs actions, soit par leurs écrits, aux divers événements qui ont eu lieu en France, depuis 1789, jusqu'en 1829 : avec les fac-simile de l'écriture de chacune d'elles / / lithographiés par les plus habiles artistes, d'après les Peintures, Sculptures et dessins de MM. David [et al.] et plusieurs lithographiés d'après nature par MM. Hesse, Dupré et Maurin."

[Paris: Delpech, c.1842]. . A lithographic portrait on wove paper of French General Jean Victor Marie Moreau by Delpech after Charles Emile Mauraisse. Hand-tinted (clothing & hair), with a facsimile of Moreau's signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At left: "Mauraisse / 1823". At right: "G. Lith. de Delpech.". An attractive image, some foxing. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Portraits des Personnes dont les noms se rattachent plus pariculièrement, soit par leurs actions, soit par leurs écrits, aux divers événements qui ont eu lieu en France, depuis 1789, jusqu'en 1829 : avec les fac-simile de l'écriture de chacune d'elles / / lithographiés par les plus habiles artistes, d'après les Peintures, Sculptures et dessins de MM. David [et al.] et plusieurs lithographiés d'après nature par MM. Hesse, Dupré et Maurin."

NY: Columbia Publications, [ca.1942]. First edition.. cat40a. 24pp. Original stapled white wrappers, designed and lettered in black. Published as Science Fiction Classics No. 3. Some dust soiling, small ink bookstore stamp on back cover, but a nice copy. Pictorial cover and one illustration.

cat40a. Baltimore: Saulsbury, (1919). First edition. Wine cloth, front cover lettered in gilt. Modest wear to corners, small bookstore stamps within, a clean very good copy. Signed by the author on the front fly leaf. 58 pages. The satiric autobiography of a monkey.

Watercolour & gold on paper. Fine condition. The image measures about 4 x 6 inches, matted and framed in a frame measuring 8.25 x 10.25 inches. Signed: Mukesh. This is a popular romantic image, representing the Ragini Madhumadhavi (the wife of Raga Megha), feeding a peacock in a leafy tree with honey from a cup. Finely executed. [This is an oversize item, and normal postage rates do not apply. Large framed artworks are sometimes available for pickup only.]

Leipzig: Arkstee und Merkus, 1748.. A copper engraved view on laid paper, uncoloured, from Volume 2 of Schwabe's Allgemeine Historie der Reisen (1747 - 1774). Image size is 14cm x 19cm. Text in German. Verso blank. In upper right: "No. 12." At lower left: "Cochin Filius inv." At lower right: "J. Punt sculp. & dir." Clean, very good condition. This view by Cochin first appeared in Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages. A depiction of the inhabitants of this island off the West coast of Africa.

NY: Brentano's, 1909. First American edition.. Blue cloth ruled and lettered in white. Ownership inscription from 1909, light shelf wear, a bright very good copy. A society novel, concerning a millionaire and his marriage to a young woman.

[Nuremberg, 1765]. . A folio engraving, coloured, on laid paper. This is plate LXIII from Christoph Trew's PLANTAE SELECTAE (1750-1773). This plate of the Magnolia is from part 7 (Decuria VII), published in 1765. Plate size is 29cm x 44cm, on a sheet measuring 33,5cm x 49cm. Some tiny marginal tears, a very clean and attractive copy with original colouring. Drawn by the eighteenth-century botanical artist George Dionysius Ehret, Trew's 'Plantae Selectae' is considered to be one of the greatest of eighteenth-century botanical books.

London, etc.: Longmans, Green, 1888. Thirty-First to Fortieth Thousand.. Black cloth lettered in red. Patterned end papers with the Longman swan/sailing ship design. No ads at rear. A clean & attractive copy. First published 1888, this is a very early printing in the same format as the first edition.

cat40a. London: Cape, (1976). First edition, uncorrected proof copy. Patterned wrappers, piece torn from spine affecting the title, spine a bit faded, small piece from outer edge of back cover, nice otherwise. An uncorrected proof of the first edition.

London & NY: Neely, (1898). First American edition. Blue decorative cloth, the patriotic Neely "Bulls-Eye" binding, with the American flag on the spine. Ownership signature on front end paper, modest shelf wear, a bright very good copy. The British edition appeared from Heinemann in 1896. A translation of the German work: "Die Krankheit des Jahrhunderts" (1887).

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1924). First edition, Colonial Issue (so stamped on the copyright page). Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in blind. Some pen marks and small marks to end papers; a bright and attractive copy. An anonymous epistolary work of fiction, consisting of letters from a woman to her love, Ronald, written in the 1920s. Touches on politics, love, social issues.

Toronto: McLeod, (1928). First Canadian edition. . Blue cloth lettered and ruled in red. A little rubbing to cloth, a bright very good copy. Based on the USA edition published by Harcourt, Brace. This Canadian edition is uncommon.

cat40a. NY: Henry Holt, 1878. Later printing. The first US edition was published by Holt in 1867. Brown decorative cloth, designed and lettered in black and gilt. Issued in the Leisure Hour Series. An unusually bright and attractive copy. Biological science fiction, a man is brought back to life after 46 years. A translation of L'HOMME A L'OREILLE CASSEE (Paris, 1862)