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OFICIO DIVINO PARA TODOS LOS DIAS DE FIESTA Y PRECEPTO EN LATIN Y CASTELLANO. IN PRECURSOR COSWAY BINDING

By: CATHOLIC CHURCH

Price: $3,250.00

Publisher: Paris, Libreria de Belin-Leprieur et Morizot/Au. Laplace: 1850

Seller ID: 3037

Binding: Silver-gilt

Condition: Very Good

Paris: Libreria de Belin-Leprieur et Morizot/Au. Laplace, 1850. First Edition. 12mo (5?” x 4”). pp. 552. Latin and Spanish Language.

Blue velvet binding mounted with identical silver-gilt* covers engraved with an elaborate gothic style frame and floral motifs on the front and rear boards; the front plate is inset with a oval gold-framed portrait of a young woman dressed in a turban and medieval clothing playing the harp likely painted in gouache on ivory. The spine is mounted with three filigree silver pieces; one each near the spine head and tail and one plate 2/5ths of the way fro...
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LA CITTÀ MORTA (THE DEAD CITY)

By: D'ANNUNZIO, GABRIELE

Price: $1,320.00

Publisher: Milan, Fratelli Treves: 1898

Seller ID: 3013

Binding: Crushed Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

Milan: Fratelli Treves, 1898. First Edition. 8vo (7?” x 5?"). Second Thousand. Italian language.

Full crushed red morocco featuring an Arts & Crafts diapered flower and leaf pattern with surrounding gilt dots in diagonals on both boards. Spine with five raised bands, with the titles in one compartment; the remaining compartments decorated with a quaternary pattern composed of the flower, leaf and dot motif used on the covers. Gilt ruled inner dentelles with matching floral cornerpieces; marbled eps in red, green, yellow, black and white.

La Città Morta is a five act tragedy w...
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RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM; THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA

By: FITZGERALD, EDWARD; VEDDER, ELIHU (binding design, endpaper design and illustrations)

Price: $780.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1894

Seller ID: 2546

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good +

First Thus. 8vo (6 1/2” x 8 1/2”). Holiday Edition; Third printing. 58 unpaginated French fold illustrated leaves + 61 pp. text. IN EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET.

Signed binding by Elihu Vedder; t.e.g. Includes black and brown illustrated endpapers and 59 full page illustrations by Elihu Vedder. The original paper dust jacket repeats the cover and spine designs in black on brown paper.

Vedder's masterwork and the first fully illustrated version of the Rubaiyat incorporating both Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist sensibilities.

A very good + copy w...
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Image for A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE OLD FRENCH FAIENCE and A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF ENGLISH EARTHENWARE AND STONE WARE IN LA BELLE SAUVAGE BINDINGS.

A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE OLD FRENCH FAIENCE and A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF ENGLISH EARTHENWARE AND STONE WARE IN LA BELLE SAUVAGE BINDINGS.

By: [LA BELLE SAUVAGE BINDERY]; SOLON, M. L. [MARC-LOUIS] (French Faience); BURTON, WILLIAM (English Earthenware and Preface to French Faience).

Price: $1,125.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Company: 1904 and 1903

Seller ID: 3036

Binding: Full levant

Condition: Very good

London: Cassell & Company, 1904 and 1903. First Edition. Small 4to (9 7/8” x 6 5/8”). 2 volume set. The Connoisseur Edition, limited to 250 sets from distributed type.

Both volumes bound identically by La Belle Sauvage Bindery in full deep rose levant morocco decorated in gold with an elaborate lattice and floral festooned frame; spine with four raised bands, two compartments with titles, one compartment with an urn and others with floral festoons. Doublures of green crushed levant with an ornate gold framework border that includes a vase in each corner inlaid in brown levant, and a...
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Image for SAMMELBAND VOLUME OF WILHELM GOTTLIEB KORN PUBLICATIONS: Johann Friedrich Burg, Allgemeines und vollständiges Evangelisches Gesang-Buch für die Königl. Preuß. Schlesis. Lande (1745), Bound Together withreligion Geistliches Beth-Opfer (1773) AND Die Augspurgische Confession (1773).

SAMMELBAND VOLUME OF WILHELM GOTTLIEB KORN PUBLICATIONS: Johann Friedrich Burg, Allgemeines und vollständiges Evangelisches Gesang-Buch für die Königl. Preuß. Schlesis. Lande (1745), Bound Together withreligion Geistliches Beth-Opfer (1773) AND Die Augspurgische Confession (1773).

By: [SAMMELBAND]; BURG, JOHANN FRIEDRICH; THE (LUTHERAN) DIET OF AUGSBURG

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Bresslau (Wroclaw), Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, : 1745 and 1773

Seller ID: 2910

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Very Good +

Bresslau (Wroclaw): Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 1745 and 1773. First Edition. Thick 12mo (7" x 4 3/8”).

Sammelbande. 3 volumes: Allgemeines und vollständiges Evangelisches Gesang-Buch für die Königl. Preuß. Schlesis. Lande. pp. 1158, [58] - Note: lacks title page and frontis. Geistliches Beth-Opfer: oder: Auserlesene Gebethe pp. 144, [16]. Die Augspurgische Confession pp. 32.

18th century German red-stained vellum tooled in gold (alloy, oxidized) with a central lozenge composed of curls, tulip and other floral tools, fleurons, pomegranate and acorn tools as well as poi...
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THE BALLAD OF BEAU BROCADE AND OTHER POEMS OF THE XVIII CENTURY WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY HUGH THOMSON

By: [THE FRENCH BINDERS (binder); THOMSON, HUGH (illustrator)]; DOBSON, AUSTIN

Price: $625.00

Publisher: London, Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.: 1892

Seller ID: 2619

Binding: crushed morocco

Condition: Good+

Royal 8vo (6¾” x 9 ”). pp. 89. RARE HAND-PAINTED COPY OF THE LIMITED LARGE PAPER EDITION.

Signed binding by the French Binders (previously the Club Bindery 1895-1908) decorated in gold with a central floral filigree design on red crushed levant. Spine with five bands and the titles in gold. Full red crushed levant doublures with a single rule and a hatched border; cream watered silk eps; original hand-painted vellum wraps bound in; a.e.g.

Includes with 26 hand-colored plates on Japan vellum and 24 additional hand-painted vignette illustrations by Hugh Thomson on hand-mounted...
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EVELINA TOGETHER WITH AN ORIGINAL HUGH THOMSON PEN AND INK DRAWING USED FOR ONE OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS

By: [THOMSON, HUGH (binding design and illustrations)]; BURNEY, FANNY(MADAME D'ARBLAY); DOBSON, AUSTIN (introduction)

Price: $1,625.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co.: 1904 (1903)

Seller ID: 2652

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very good +

London: Macmillan and Co., 1904 (1903). Second Printing. C8vo (7¼“x 5¼”). pp. 477 + 2pp.

Publisher's advts. Elaborate Arts and Crafts publisher’s binding by Hugh Thomson in gold on green cloth of a woman beneath a tree penning a letter on the top of an urn bearing the titles.

Includes frontis. with tissue guard and over 70 b/w line block illustrations by Hugh Thomson, including headpieces, tailpieces, historiated initials and textual vignettes. a.e.g.

WITH

Single sheet (12¾” x 10½”) original drawing by Hugh Thomson (see p.[113]) in ink...
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THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD (INCLUDES SUPPRESSED PLATE AND DOBSON ALS)

By: [THOMSON, HUGH (Illustrator)]; [ZAEHNSDORF (binding design)]; GOLDSMITH, OLIVER; DOBSON, AUSTIN (preface).

Price: $625.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1890

Seller ID: 1948

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

London: Macmillan & Co. , 1890. First thus. C8 (5 ¼ x 7 ¼). p. xxxv; 305. AUSTIN DOBSON ALS BOUND IN.

Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full, gold-stamped crimson levant, with dentelles, crimson silk endpapers and a.e.g. In a deep red cloth slipcase with red and brown marbled paper side panels and interior. Frontispiece and 181 vignette illustrations by Hugh Thomson, and includes the suppressed plate seen only in this issue on p. 95 that features a maid reading a handbill while seated on the back of man bending over. ALS from Austin Dobson on Board of Trade letterhead tipped in verso to the sec...
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THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD WITH A PREFACE BY AUSTIN DOBSON AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY HUGH THOMSON

By: [Thomson, Hugh. (Illustrator)]; Goldsmith, Oliver; Dobson, Austin (preface)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1890

Seller ID: 203

Binding: Half calf

Condition: Very good

C8 (5 ¼ x 7 ¼). p. xxxv; 305. +6pp.advts. Green half-calf ruled in gold over black, tan and white marbled boards in the feather pattern.Spine has filigree rules in gold with two red morocco labels with titles in gold. t.e.g; marbled eps. Frontispiece and 181 vignette illustrations by Hugh Thomson, and includes a suppressed plate seen only in this edition on p. 95 that features a maid reading a hand-bill while seated on the back of man bending over. Original binding mounted and bound in rear. VG. Light shelf wear to edges and light rubbing to front joint; bookplate of Georgiana Erdmann and p...
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