Search Results: Titles starting with P from Shapero Rare Books

Circa 1935. . Silver gelatin print, mounted, framed and glazed, captioned below image on mount. Image size: 214 x 288 mm; framed: 281 x 348 mm. pont Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Petty Officer Edgar Evans, who died on the return journey from the South Pole. He first served with Scott on HMS Majestic as torpedo lieutenant, and sailed with him on the Discovery expeditionThe Terra Nova expedition was supposed to be the high-water mark of the Golden Age of Antarctic exploration; led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the expedition was to have been the first to reach the South Pole, marking the event with the planting of the Union Jack flag. However the more professionally equipped Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen got there first. Nevertheless Scott's expedition will always be the one best remembered on account of the tremendous courage and bravery shown by Scott and his companions, Wilson, Bowers, Oates, and Evans on their return… Read More

London Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios 1991 . Screenprint in colours, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77cm.

[c. 1890s]. . Albumen print; fine photograph with good tonal range. Title and photographer printed on image. Dimensions 23 x 28cm. Photograph showing the Paris National Opera House with carriages in front.

C.1720 . The former: inscribed lower left: ich ago garde du vizir / dans les Joutesthe latter: inscribed lower right: garde du vizir au campa pair, both oil on canvas Jean Baptiste Van Mour is recorded as having settled in Constantinople in 1699. It is thought that he was invited at the request of the French Ambassador Marquis de Ferriol, who commissioned the artist to paint 100 pictures of the local people. These were later reproduced as engravings, and consequently became very popular. Although the present two portraits do not appear to be after particular examples from this series, they are highly comparable in style.Each unframed: 33.6 x 24.4 cm.; 13¼ x 9 in.Each framed: 39.1 x 30.5 cm.; 15½ x 12 in.

London, Collins, 1976. . First edition, inscribed by the author; 8vo; unmarked internally; publisher's red cloth, silver lettering to spine, with the price-clipped pictorial dustjacket, spine slightly faded, minor creasing to extremities; a near-fine example. Inscribed by the author on the title page: 'for Bob Bluth / with kind wishes / from Patrick O'Brian'. As usual, O'Brian has crossed through his name printed on the title page.

W.H. Murray, Omaha, U.S.A. 1926 . Large 8vo. 48 pp, numerous maps and illustrations throughout; publisher's green printed pictorial wrappers, gilt lettered; a very good copy. This railway guide was published by The Union Pacific System which was and is the second largest railway company in the United States and is based in Omaha Nebraska. The guide covers Oregon, Washington and Alaska.

Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1929. . First edition, one of 425 copies; 8vo; publisher's device to title, minor offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally, partly unopened; publisher's cloth-backed blue boards, paper label to spine printed in black, black lettering to upper cover, blue endpapers, spine and extremities slightly toned, else very good. One of 425 copies, printed at the Cuala Press, with the date misprinted as 'MCMXXVIV' on the title page (as noted by Wade).The Cuala Press originally started out as the Dun Emer Press in 1903, founded by Evelyn Gleeson. Influenced by the Gaelic revival occurring in Ireland, it promoted Ireland's cultural heritage, while at the same time training women to work in a useful trade. Eventually the two sisters of W.B. Yeats took over the press, continuing Gleeson's work, and renaming it The Cuala Press in 1908. Wade 163.

Circa 1935. . Silver gelatin print, mounted, framed and glazed, captioned below image on mount. Image size: 215 x 290 mm; framed: 282 x 349 mm. pont Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Cecil Meares and Thomas Clissold the cook, packing sugar for sledging rations, with six wooden boxes stamped Henry Tate and Sons 'cube sugar' in the foreground of the shot. The daily rations, which were soon found to be insufficient to offset the energy used in hauling sledges in the Antarctic cold consisted of: 340g pemmican, 450g biscuit, 57g butter, 20g tea, 85g sugar, and 16g cocoa.The Terra Nova expedition was supposed to be the high-water mark of the Golden Age of Antarctic exploration; led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the expedition was to have been the first to reach the South Pole, marking the event with the planting of the Union Jack flag. However the more professionally equipped Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen got there first.… Read More

[c.1950's]. . Gelatin silver print. Dimensions: 19.5 x 17.2 cm. Photographer's signature and title in ink on reverse. Good tonal range and in good condition.

London, Secker & Warburg, 1993. . First edition, first impresison, signed by the author; 8vo; page stock somewhat toned, else unmarked internally; publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, red endpapers, with the unclipped pictorial dust jacket; near-fine. Signed by the author in blue ink on the title page and dated '18/5/93'. Winner of the 1993 Booker prize.

Istituto Poligradico Dello Stato, Roma 1955 . Small 8vo (19 x 13cm). pp. 70, with 35 b & w photographic illustrations from p.37 -67. Plans on both inside covers and pages 2 & 3. Pale blue paper covers. A nice clean copy. No. 84 of the Series of Guide-Books to the Museums and Monuments of Italy. With illustrations reproduced from photographs by the author and by the E.P.T. Salerno.

[c.1870]. . Albumen print. Good rich tones and in good condition. Photographer's credit in negative.

[c.1880]. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in fair condition, pasted on original mount.

[c.1869]. . Albumen print. Fair tonal range and in very good condition, photographer's credit and number in negative, title in manuscript.

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979. . First edition; 8vo; publisher's boards, a little minor bumping, dust-jacket, 'Book Club Edition' issue, with moody monochromatic artwork by Edward Gorey. A very good first edition of this collection of weird & supernatural tales by British writer Robert Aickman, grandson of Richard Marsh (of The Beetle fame) no less. This is the first time these stories were collected, with no equivalent UK edition. The collection includes 'The Waiting Room', one of his most well-known spooky tales. The jacket artwork by one of the best illustrators of all things weird sets the mood perfectly.

London, Secker & Warburg, 1958. . First edition of the author's first book; 8vo; frontispiece; publisher's brown cloth, damp-mottled, dust-jacket slightly rubbed at edges, vertical crease to spine, otherwise very good. The first published book by the English art critic, novelist, painter and poet John Berger, whose novel G. won the Booker Prize in 1972. The novel revolves around the disappearance of Janos Lavin, a fictional exiled Hungarian painter, and his diary's discovery by an art critic friend called John; it was withdrawn by the publisher under pressure from the Congress for Cultural Freedom a month after its publication. Relatively scarce in good condition dust-jacket.

India, Gujarat(?), late-18th century. . 16 leaves, watercolours on fibrous paper, each depicting a scene from the Jain vision of heaven or hell, each circa 115 x 265 mm; each image framed within red painted border, reverses blank, some light finger soiling and rubbing, overall bright and attractive examples; paired into two groups of 8, each mounted and framed under glass. islam24 37 Hell and purgatory in Jainism, called Naraka, are realms of cosmology that are characterised by great suffering. There are seven realms of this universe, that are all situated in the 'lower levels' (adho lok), and they are all inhabited by various types of hellish beings. These beings contribute to the various types of suffering one might endure in a vision of Jain hell, including bodily pain, soul colouring (as seen by the dark figures depicted thus), physical transformation and pain inflicted on one other and torture inflicted by mansion-dwelling demi-gods and animals (such as the demons, snakes and scorpions depicted… Read More

Beijing, Active 1880-1910. . Landscape album (35 x 26 vm), 96 hand coloured paintings on thin paper, each described in traditional Chinese and signed by the artist.some edge wear to album, internally fine. Zhou Peichun was a famous Beijing folk artist and export painter in the late Qing Dynasty.The present album t contains 96 pictures showing Chinese men and women engaged in various occupations. Accompanying each picture is a brief description in Chinese that explains what the picture illustrates.

New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990. . First edition, signed by the artist; 4to; 230 illustrations, including 110 colour plates, light marginal toning to leaves; publisher's brown cloth, white lettering to spine, with the pictorial dustjacket, slightly toned and marked, a very good example. First edition in the original dustjacket, signed by Wegman three times on the half-title.

India, Gujarat (?), late eighteenth century]. . three leaves, watercolours on fibrous paper, each depicting a scene from the Jain vision of hell, each circa 110 x 265 mm; each image framed within red painted border, lower edges lacking, reverses blank, some light finger soiling and rubbing, overall bright and attractive examples; three together floated in a window mount. Hell and purgatory in Jainism, called Naraka, are realms of cosmology that are characterised my great suffering. There are seven realms of this universe, that are all situated in the 'lower levels' (adho lok), and they are all inhabited by various types of hellish beings. These beings contribute to the various types of suffering one might endure in a vision of Jain hell, including bodily pain, soul colouring (as seen by the dark figures depicted thus), physical transformation and pain inflicted on one other and torture inflicted by mansion-dwelling demi-gods and animals (such as the demons, snakes and scorpions depicted in these… Read More