Search Results: Titles starting with T from Bernard Quaritch Ltd

A privately printed tribute to T.S. Eliot, limited to 250 copies signed by Ted Hughes. The text comprises an address given by Hughes on 26 September 1986, at the unveiling of Eliot's blue plaque at Kensington Court Gardens.8vo, pp. [13], [3 (blank)], with photographic illustration pasted in, limitation signed 'Ted Hughes'; printed in black and grey on Frankfurt Cream paper; uncut in blue Fabriano Roma wrappers with printed dust-wrapper of the same, preserved in glassine and card envelopes with printed label; a few marks to outer envelope, otherwise an excellent copy.

8vo, pp. 224, [1], with parallel English and French title-pages; frontispiece engraving of Mother Goose telling stories to three children, and eight engraved plates; 'The Discreet Princess; or the Adventures of Finetta. A Novel' has separate title-pages in English and French, dated 1764; text in English and French on facing pages throughout; a few leaves slightly dusty, but a fine copy, uncut,
in contemporary (Italian?) boards, spine ruled in blind, covers somewhat stained, joints and edges worn.
First parallel-text edition of Perrault's famous fairy tales, in English and French, with fine illustrations after Hendrik Immink. Perrault has long been eclipsed in fame by that of his stories – 'Little Red Riding-Hood', 'Blue Beard', 'Sleeping Beauty', 'Puss in Boots', 'Cinderilla', 'Tom Thumb' – which have become archetypes of the fairy tale. They first appeared in French in 1697 and then in a translation of 1729 by Robert Samber, Histories, or Tales of… Read More

32mo in 8s (72 x 49 mm), pp. 95, [1]; a very good copy in contemporary vellum.The first miniature Foulis edition of Epictetus in Greek, and the first Foulis Epictetus in Greek only; it had been preceded by a larger format, duodecimo (1748) edition in Greek and Latin. A 1765 reissue was, according to ESTC, reset.Gaskell 190.

[bound with:]—. Tomus secundus disputationum theologicarum, in academia Wittebergensi ab anno 1606 usq[ue] ad 1611 publice habitarum ... Cum quadruplici indice. Wittenberg, Christian Thamm, 1623. A collection of twenty-eight disputations held at the University of Wittenberg by Lutheran theologians and their students between 1600 and 1611. The disputations cover much ground, including the Eucharist, Church councils, canonical scripture, predestination, original sin, Christ's ascension, the antichrist, heretics, the Trinity, baptism, the Church Militant, sin and blasphemy. Among those named as 'praeses' are several staunch Wittenberg Lutherans such as Leonhard Hutter, Salomon Gesner, Aegidius Hunnius, David Runge, Georg Mylius, Friedrich Balduin, and Wolfgang Franz, while the respondents include Matthias Hoë, Hermann Samson, Balthasar Meisner, Aegidius Strauch (three times a respondent), Nicolaus Hunnius, and Johann Behm. Both volumes are equipped with substantial indexes. This sammelband… Read More

Second edition (first 1823) of this account of the Scandinavian travels undertaken by Brooke (1791-1858) in 1820, illustrated with attractive lithographs, several after drawings by the author.'A person ... will find in the North much to gratify his curiosity, and interest his feelings. If his eye be tired of the charming repetition of scenery in the southern parts of Sweden ... he will find ample variety amid the Norwegian mountains, where nothing is wanting to combine the romantic with the beautiful. If he pursue his course along the wild rocks of the western main ... he will view with mingled admiration and astonishment those giant features of creation, around the heads of which ... the whirlwind of the North howls in concert with the roaring billows below. Should he turn his steps to the boundless forests and wastes of Lapland ... he will in every direction meet with scenery worthy of his pencil, and subjects that cannot fail to arrest his contemplation' (pp. vi-vii).Upon graduating from… Read More

[with:]—. The Tribes of the Upper Xingú River. Washington, United States Government Printing Office, 1948. [and:]—. The Nambicuara. Washington, United States Government Printing Office, 1948. [and:]—. Tribes of the Right Bank of the Guaporé River. Washington, United States Government Printing Office, 1948. A set of offprints of four articles by Lévi-Strauss from the Smithsonian's Handbook of South American Indians, inscribed by the author. In each article Claude Lévy-Strauss (1908–2009) provides an illustrated introduction to an Amazonian group, recording their history, social and political customs, religion, dress, food, and manufacture, as well as critically discussing earlier anthropological accounts. In exploring familial and marital structures, the articles are important texts in the development of Lévy-Strauss's structural anthropology.4 works, 8vo, pp. 1: [2], 299-305, [1 (blank)], pll. 24-26, 2: [2], 321-348, pll. 27-34, 3:[2], 361-369, [1 (blank)], pll. 36-37, 4:… Read More

8vo, pp. 32, [2 (ads)], 33-64, [16 (blank, annotated)], 65-117, [1 (blank)], with 4 pp. printed advertisements as endpapers (perhaps lacking front free endpaper); advertisements with woodcut illustrations; lightly browned, a small marginal chip to rear free endpaper, otherwise a very good copy; in the publisher's black cloth, title blocked in white to upper cover; covers very lightly worn; early twentieth-century pencil inscription of Mary Swoboda to title ('Mary Swoboda // 477 So 14 St // Lincoln // Nebr.') with a few pencil markings and 14 pp. of recipes added in pencil, nineteenth-century photograph of a boy (24 x 18 mm, lower corner chipped) and contemporary advertisement for shredded wheat (printed in blue and orange on pink-backed paper) loosely inserted.
First and only edition of a very scarce Nebraska recipe book, printed for the Ladies Mite Society in Lincoln,… Read More