Search Results: Titles starting with O from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

Rungsted Kyst (Denmark): Anders Nyborg, 1973 In 8s (179 x 103 mm): Pp (pi)[i-vi], [i-ii], [1] 2-17 [18-32]. (Leaf [1]1 is laid down; pages [i-iii] are blank.) Publisher's patterned boards (suggesting bearspaw-prints), brown spine unlettered, plain wove lower endpapers, no headbands, all edges trimmed and plain. *** ONLY EDITION IN ANY EUROPEAN LANGUAGE; INCLUDING FOUR MORAL FABLES IN KALATDLISUT (GREENLANDIC) AND DANISH PROSE. The Kalatdlisut text was originally printed at Godthab (Nuuk, Greenland) in 1860. The present edition comprises a facsimile of the Godthab edition (pages [i]-[18]), together with a modern Danish translation by Frederik Nielsen (pages [19-32]). One of 1,200 copies. The author was the son of Peter Kragh (1794-1883), the famous Greenland missionary and translator of numerous Biblical and devotional texts 1822 &c. The younger Kragh was himself a missionary at Upernavik 1849-58; apart from the present work, he contributed to a volume of meteorological observations made in… Read More

Lincoln (Nebraska): University of Nebraska Press, 1986     ¶ An interesting reference to Wright's famous lipogram Gadsby, showing the deterioration of Wright's text as it is copied and recopied by writers who don't have access to the first edition (1939) -- which was, and is, almost unobtainable. On page 53 here, Motte quotes Queneau 1964 quoting Pierce 1961 quoting Wright 1939: Pierce had it right ("carolling", "No"), but now Motte has it wrong ("caroling", "no"). The conclusion seems obvious enough, that there is no substitute for the first edition.   ||| Collation: 228 x 151 mm: 112 leaves, paginated [i-vii] viii-xiii [xiv], 1-209 [210 blank].  Illustration: Diagrams, tables.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Very good.  .

Hamburg, 1999     ¶ Illustrations of twenty-nine manuscripts and miniatures ca 800 - 1560, together with nine printed books 1454/5 - 1552 and three arctic gouaches 1804; including an unrecorded bifolium from one of the oldest extant French manuscripts ca 800, an Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César ca 1370-80, a magnificent Italian Pliny 1446 with zoomorphic initials, an illuminated Gaston Phébus ca 1475, the Rendsburg fragment (130 leaves) of the Gutenberg Bible, and a colored Theurdank 1519; ex Ashburnham, Murray, Holford, Perrins, Beatty, Abbey, Esmerian, Ludwig, Schøyen, etc.   ||| Collation: 335 x 240 mm: Twenty-two leaves, paginated [1-44] (ie, not paginated).  Illustration: Forty full-page color facsimiles, eight smaller.  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine. .