Search Results: Titles starting with R from Thorn Books

Pittsfield, Mass: E. P. Little, 1844. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 64 (i.e., 68) pp: Pp. 17-20 are repeated. Publisher's black cloth embossed in blind on the boards and in gilt on the spine. Edges and corners worn, binding and text stained but still a good copy. Second Sabbath School Series No. 1. Scarce; only four copies located in institutions worldwide. Uncommon but significant as it constitutes a very early description of the White Mountains and Franconia Notch, New Hampshire. .

Paris: Le Musée du Livre, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated by Ramiro Arrue.`. 8vo. 339, (3) pp. Half deep blue morocco, brightly decorative paper and endpapers. Spinetooled simply but effectively in gilt, with a small beige onlay. Top edge gilt. Original wrappers bound in. Trace of wear else a fine copy. Illustrated with designs and aquarelles by Arrue. One of 1200 copies on Rives laid paper, from a total edition of 1300 copies. This copy unnumbered. In French. .

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (10),227,(1),16pp, of which the final 12 are the publisher's catalogue dated November,1883. Blue cloth blocked in gilt on the upper board and spine. Chocolate-colored coated endpapers. Four full page plates. The board gilt is rubbed, light corner wear, and the inner hinges are neatly mended, else this is a very good copy. Howes A-110. Published in the US in the same year as "Life on a Ranch", but otherwise with the same collation. Publisher's Presentation copy, with the blindstamp on the title page, "Presentation by the Publisher"

Pasadena: Trail's End Publishing Co. n.d., n.d.. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. (62)pp. Full tan polished calf, gilt title on the upper board,m and gilt vignette on the rear board. Illustrations by C. M. Russell and others, including Joe De Young. A fine copy, unopened. One of 300 numbered copies of which this is No. 256. The colophon states that the plates were destroyed after printing. .

London: Longmans, Green, and CO, 1872. Hardcover. Very good. First edition after the privately printed edition of 1868. 8vo. viii, 346pp plus 2 page publisher's catalogue. Publsher's green cloth blocked in black and gilt on the spine and upper board; brown coated endpapers. Nearly imperceptibly rebacked; a very good copy. With an autograph letter form the author to Lady Pakington bound in. "...I feel grateful in learing that my little volume of Recollections has given you pleasure. Sir John knew well many of the public characters mentioned in it. .."

London: Dean & Son, 1850. Hardcover. Good. 4to. Cloth spine, printed paper boards. Unpaginated, Eight full page hand-colored moveable plates telling the story of Red Riding Hood . All moveables are in good working order. Inner hinges have been neatly repaired, and a few rivets have been replaced; there is fingering and soil on the pages, the covers are rubbed and worn .Overall it is a very good copy of an extremely scarce early moveable. Montanaro, p. 259, opines that this was probably published in 1857. Our copy has an inscription dated 1861. .

NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1887. First US edition. Hardcover. Very good. First US edition. 12mo. Original binding of cloth spine, gilt title, marbled paper boards. The edges are worn and the boards rubbed else this is a very good copy of a scarce work. The first English edition was published in London in the same year. See Wolff, 280.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842. Hardcover. Good. A New and Improved Edition with critical and explanatory notes buy J. R. Planché. Folio.iv, 152pp. 60 engraved full page monochrome plates, followed by twelve additional monochrome plates in the Supplement collected from ancient illuminated manuscripts. Contemporary half leather, marbled paper boards. orange endpapers. The binding is scuffed and worn but intact, and the boards are rubbed. There is occasional light foxing. With the engraved bookplate of Oswell Macleary. On the front free endpaper is pasted a chromolithographed picture of a person who, from his clothing, is a Renaissance lawyer. .

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842. Large Paper Edition. Hardcover. Good. A New and Improved Edition with critical and explanatory notes buy J. R. Planché. Folio.iv, 152pp. 60 engraved full page monochrome plates, followed by twelve additional monochrome plates in the Supplement collected from ancient illuminated manuscripts. Contemporary half leather, marbled paper boards. marbled endpapers. Spine in six compartments, gilt. The binding is scuffed and worn, especially at the edges, but intac;, the upper hinge has a neat repair; and the boards are rubbed. The binding is good only, but the textblock is very good and fresh. Large Paper edition: 9½ by 12 inches. With the engraved bookplate of Justin Austin Sperry. On the front free endpaper is pasted a chromolithographed picture of a person who, from his clothing, is a Renaissance lawyer. .

London: Printed for Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1746. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. Extracted from third edition of Churchill's Voyages, VI, pp. 671-718. Bound to style with leather spine, marbled paper boards, leather lettering label, gilt. Light aging and some foxing on a couple of pages, else a near fine copy. The author was a Swedish nobleman sent to Constantinople to remove the fears of the Porte over the Swedish successes in Poland. Cox 1, p. 223. .

Paris: Daniel Horthemels, 1688. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. (14),251,(13)pp. First French edition, preceded by an edition in Leyden the previous year and followed in Paris by an expanded edition the same year. Engraved vignette on the title page, and a woodcut of an examination in progress on page 1; six engraved plates, of which three are folding. Early full polished calf; spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt and blind tooled, leather lettering piece, gilt. Neat repair to the upper hinge else a very good copy. The author was a French physician imprisoned in Goa by the Inquisition. He was sentenced to a galley ship, later returning to France where he published the account of his ordeal. A scarce glimpse into the workings of the Inquisition, and of Goan history and culture. In French. This title placed on the Index of Prohibited Books in 1690. Cox, 1699 (note). Caillet 2954.

New York: Harper & Row, 1975. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. 8vo. 287pp. Blue cloth spine, gilt title; green paper over boards. Trace of sunning along the top else a near fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped, has a trace of wear, but is near fine as well. Inscribed by Armand Hammer to Dolores and Bob Hope "with deepest gratitude and warmest regard" and signed by Hammer "Frances and Armand Hammer". Laid in is a letter from Hammer to Hope: thanking writing Judge Jones on Hammer's behalf in connection with his sentencing on political contribution issues. The letter is on Hammer's Occidental Petroleum letterhead, is folded and lightly creased, and signed simply 'Armand". Accompanied by a letter from the Bob and Dolores Hope Charitable Foundation certifying that this copy came from the Hope library.

n.p.: Carl Zeiss, 1960. Hardcover. Very good. Two ring binder filled with stiff printed cards. Illustrated throughout with diagrams of field glasses; some of the cards are folding. The index shows that the kinds covered are 8x30, 6x30, 7x50, 8x50, 10x50, 15x60, 8x39B and 7x50B. Some of the cards are dated 1957; most are 1960. A very good example. In German. Together with Felix Auerbach, "The Zeissworks", London, W. & G. Foyle, n./d., but with a foldout photograph of the Zeiss factory dated 1926. Illustrated. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Cloth worn at edges and spine tips else a very good copy. Illustrated. In English. .

London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1852. Hardcover. Very good. First collected edition. 8vo. 22, 32, 37,38,61pp. Five full page plates. Contemporary cloth in a watered silk pattern. Black leather lettering label, gilt. This is the first collected edition of Corbaux's articles in the Journal of Sacred Literature, Vols. I, II, and III, New Series. A member of the Royal Society of British Artists, the author took up scriptural research as a pastime, publishing, first a treatise on the physical geography of the Exodus, then this treatise on the connection between the Rephaim and the Egyptians in the years leading up to the arrival of the Israelites into Goshen. Presentation copy. Tipped onto the front free endpaper is a note in the hand of Corbaux: "To The Council of the Chronological Institute, from the Authoress." The front pastedown bears a plate acknowledging the book as a gift from Corbaux, signed by the Society's Registrar and Librarian, William Henry Black and dated 1852. The book later became the… Read More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. Contemporary half leather, cloth boards, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with photographs and charts, some folding. The leather is worn, hinges neatly repairs, cloth rubbed, else in very good condition with the contents in fine condition. Senate Document No. 247, 55th Congress, 2d Session.

Washington: Richard Armstrong, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Senate Issue. 8vo. Original brown ribbed cloth blocked in blind on the boards and spine and with the title in copper on the spine. Spine sunned and title dulled, with wear to the edges and corners, else this is a very good copy with the textblock in near fine condition and seldom seen so. All plates present as issued. Note, however, that the Bird plate No. 2 was not issued; the Reptile plate 12 is misnumbered XIII. And, as Graff notes, the Landscape plates numbered 14-20 are misnumbered 15-21; all issued plates are here present. The large folding map is present. It is in good condition, with only a few separations at the folds, and a closed tear where it is detached. It is laid in at the rear. The Sitgreaves Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers in 1851 was a combined American scientific and military mission to explore the Zuni River, the Little Colorado River and the Colorado River in 1851. Setting out from… Read More

Washington: Printed at the Union Office, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Complete with all plates as issued (i.e., without plates numbered 2, 21,39). Later black cloth, gilt spine title. Plates foxed; the large map has old repairs on the reverse at the folds and with some fold separation (no loss). Howes J-178. .

London: Cassell, 1972. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Purple cloth, red lettering label, gilt. . A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper that is not price-clipped. Index. Inscribed on the dedication page "For my dear friend Dinald....Alec." and with the bookplate of Donald Beswick on the front pastedown. .

London: George Newnes, Limited, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo Dark blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine and upper board. A fine copy with only a trace of wear at edges and corners. Bookplate of former owner on front pastedown. With 'George Newnes Limited' at base of spine. Green A29. .

London: T, Cadell, 1770. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 8vo. Fullk contemporary polished calf, spines in six compartments, red leather lettering labels, gilt. Hinges partially crfacked but strong else this is a fine sewt. With the curious engraved bookplate of Sir George Douglas showing the crowned heart beneath three stars, but one of the stars has been replaced with a severed left hand. Contemporary observations beginning with the English, then moving through the French, Italians, Spaniards, Germans and Dutch. .