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Couverture souple. Condición: Très bon. Edition originale. Charles MAURRAS Inscriptions sur nos ruines Paris, À la Girouette, 1949 Bois gravés par Roland Brudieux. Édition originale 208mm x 179mm 88 pp + 4 suites pp Un des 24 exemplaires numérotés sur grand vergé à la forme d'Arches avec 4 suites, ici le n°25, premier papier après un exemplaire unique sur Japon. Broché sous couverture rempliée. Étui cartonné. Très bel état. AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH : Charles MAURRAS Inscriptions sur nos ruines Paris, À la Girouette, 1949 Wood engravings by Roland Brudieux. First edition 208mm x 179mm 88 pp + 4 suites pp One of 24 numbered copies on large handmade Arches paper with 4 suites, here No. 25, the first paper after a unique copy on Japan. Broché with folded covers. Cardboard slipcase. Very fine condition.

Bramah, Ernest The Wallet of Kai Lung London: Grant Richards, 1923. New edition, one of 200 large paper copies signed by the author. xii, 299 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth backed boards, leather spine label. Fine copy without dust jacket (some light mot Ilustrador. Bound in a gray linen spine with a leather label; tan paper-covered boards. With typical foxing to the spine and a touch of soiling to the top edge. Very clean and tight throughout with some offsetting to the endpapers; with browning and tanning to the front and rear endpapers especially.Wear to the corners. This copy is signed #8 of 200 copies printed on high quality paper. 1923. New edition, one of 200 large paper copies signed by the author. This is copy #8.

Vellum. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: good. The Large-Paper, deluxe edition of Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, signed by Joel Chandler Harris. A presentation copy to German Crown Prince, Friedrich Wilhelm in 1896. Ilustrador. Deluxe Edition. Octavo, xxi, [3], 265pp, [3]. Publisher's white vellum, title and illustrations in gilt. Top edge gilt. Uncut fore-edge. Closed tear on two leaves [199-202], with prior tape repair. Complete with frontispiece portrait and ten full-page illustrations by A.B. Frost, all with captioned tissue covers. Includes the publisher's white paper dust jacket, in delicate condition, title and printed illustrations. Both hinge flaps detached, chip from front cover, scarce in any condition, with only one other known example to appear at auction. (BAL 7131) (Grolier, 100 American) Housed in a custom beige cloth clamshell, marbled interior, title stamped in gilt on the spine. From a signed limited edition of 250 copies, this being number 109. Signed by the author after the dedication: "Joel Chandler Harris," with an excerpt from the book: "Han' me down my walkin' cane." This copy was a presentation copy from D. Appleton & Company to the 13-year old, German Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, the last German Crown Prince and Crown Prince of Prussia, before the abolition of the monarchy. The first edition of Uncle Remus was published by D. Appleton in 1881. This New and Revised edition was issued in red buckram as a trade edition. (Provenance: Estate of Actor and Comedian, Arte Johnson, purchased in 2025). This work includes a letter from Freiherr von Lyncker, the Baron von Lyncker (Lieutenant Colonel and First Military Governor), regretting that the gifts for the Crown Prince cannot be accepted, and the book must be returned. Here is a full translation of the letter: "Pl?n in Holstein, 27 August 1896 / Dear Mrs. Franklin, I am honored to write to you in response to your letter of the 24th of this month addressed to General von Deines, and to express my sincere gratitude for sending the Uncle Remus book. At the same time, I have to inform you that gifts to His Imperial and Royal Highness the Crown Prince are not accepted as a matter of principle. I therefore regret to inform you that I am obliged to return this lovely book. / Yours sincerely, Freiherr von Lyncker / Oberstleutnant and Erster Milit?r-Gouverneur.".

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Fernández, Luis. Tratado instructivo, y práctico sobre el arte de la tintura : reglas experimentadas y métodicas para tintar sedas, lanas, hilos de todas clases, y esparto en rama. Madrid, En la Imprenta de Blas Roman, 1778. Folio (350 x 225 mm). xxx + 250 pages + 13 engraved plates (last folding). Typographical vignette on title, ornamental initial & some typographical head- & tail pieces. Full contemporary red morocco, gilt, royal arms gilt-stamped in centres of sides, decorative gilt border in outer margins, gilt-stamped green morocco title label on spine, edges gilt; minor traces of old ink-stains. The first methodical Spanish manual on the theory and practice of dyeing with firm guidelines on an industry formerly based on mere tradition, a magnificently illustrated book. Fernández, a dyer s son from Toledo learnt his trade in a textile factory in decline; he decided to improve fabrics and dyes by intense study of foreign techniques and by 1753 set up a factory in Valencia, where he sufficiently impressed the local trade board with his industry and enthusiasm and managed to obtain financial aid and advancement. He finally became master-dyer and director of the Royal Factory of Dyes in Madrid, where he produced his well-written and beautifully designed and printed book from his experience as a master-dyer. The work is divided into three parts discussing the treatment of silks, wools and yarns, the preparation of textiles and the different stages of the colouring process. Instructions are given for applying methods and natural pigments required to achieve a particular desired colour. The engraved plates show multiple operations of the Madrid Royal Factory with workmen engaged in various tasks for dyeing fabrics with their tools and equipment such as vats, tables and kilns.The large folding engraving at the end represents a layout of the factory floor offering a panorama of the activities and processes involved. In recognition of his efforts the author was appoint ed Inspector General of Dyes for Valencia in the year of publication. A large paper copy with royal arms for presentation; light offsetting from binding in blank margins of title and at end, otherwise in fresh condition. Moshe Ron, Bibliotheca Tinctoria 371; see also: Pere Molas Ribalta, La politica del tinte en España del siglo xviii (1994).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Fernández, Luis. Tratado instructivo, y práctico sobre el arte de la tintura : reglas experimentadas y métodicas para tintar sedas, lanas, hilos de todas clases, y esparto en rama. Madrid, En la Imprenta de Blas Roman, 1778. Folio (350 x 225 mm). xxx + 250 pages + 13 engraved plates (last folding). Typographical vignette on title, ornamental initial & some typographical head- & tail pieces. Full contemporary red morocco, gilt, royal arms gilt-stamped in centres of sides, decorative gilt border in outer margins, gilt-stamped green morocco title label on spine, edges gilt; minor traces of old ink-stains. The first methodical Spanish handbook on the theory and practice of dyeing with firm guidelines on an industry formerly based on mere tradition. Fernández, a dyer s son from Toledo learnt his trade in a textile factory in decline; he decided to improve fabrics and dyes by intense study of foreign techniques and by 1753 set up a factory in Valencia, where he sufficiently impressed the local trade board with his industry and enthusiasm and managed to obtain financial aid and advancement. He finally became master-dyer and director of the Royal Factory of Dyes in Madrid, where he produced his well-written and beautifully designed and printed book from his experience as a master-dyer. The work is divided into three parts discussing the treatment of silks, wools and yarns, the preparation of textiles and the different stages of the colouring process. Instructions are given for applying methods and natural pigments required to achieve a particular desired colour. The engraved plates show multiple operations of the Madrid Royal Factory with workmen engaged in various tasks for dyeing fabrics with their tools and equipment such as vats, tables and kilns.The large folding engraving at the end represents a layout of the factory floor offering a panorama of the activities and processes involved. In recognition of his efforts the author was appoint ed Inspector General of Dyes for Valencia in the year of publication. A large paper copy with royal arms for presentation; light offsetting from binding in blank margins of title and at end, otherwise in fresh condition. Moshe Ron, Bibliotheca Tinctoria 371; see also: Pere Molas Ribalta, La politica del tinte en España del siglo xviii (1994).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Fernández, Luis. Tratado instructivo, y práctico sobre el arte de la tintura : reglas experimentadas y métodicas para tintar sedas, lanas, hilos de todas clases, y esparto en rama. Madrid, En la Imprenta de Blas Roman, 1778. Folio (350 x 225 mm). xxx + 250 pages + 13 engraved plates (last folding). Typographical vignette on title, ornamental initial & some typographical head- & tail pieces. Full contemporary red morocco, gilt, royal arms gilt-stamped in centres of sides, decorative gilt border in outer margins, gilt-stamped green morocco title label on spine, edges gilt; minor traces of old ink-stains.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Quarto. [iv], 266, [2]pp. With the half-title present. Large-paper copy. Small-paper copies were in black-and-white. Errata printed on bottom of recto of last leaf. Original boards, rebacked in cloth. With sixteen hand-colored aquatint plates. This finely produced guide to fashionable Bath 'contains sixteen hand-coloured aquatints of much merit' (Martin- Hardie). All sixteen of the plates were aquatinted by Hassell, fourteen being taken from his own drawings with one after Laporte with one after Ibbetson. In a further eight drawings Ibbetson also inserted the figures into the landscapes. Abbey, Scenery 38; Prideaux, p. 339; Martin-Hardie, p. 140; ESTC T54291; Toovey 277. Although not credited the text is very probably also by Ibbertson, he describes a journey from London and with some flair he details the chief places of interest in and about Bath.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Large quarto. xxi, [2], 526pp. a8, b4, B8-LL8. Large-paper copy. With an additional title-page engraved and a final advertisement leaf. Modern half green morocco over marbled boards. Additional title-page engraved by Girtin. Universal Catalogue of Books on Art I, p. 368; ESTC T141212. Some foxing.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Folio. Two volumes. I: lxii, [ii], 436pp.; II: xv, 466pp. I: []2, a4-g4, h2, *B4-Z4, AA4-ZZ4, 3A4-3I4, 3K2; II: []4, a4, B4-Z4, AA4-ZZ4, 3A4-3N4, 3O2. Large-paper copy. With the half-titles present. Contemporary brown diced morocco, spines repaired. With 2 frontispiece portraits, a map of Greece and 7 engravings in volume I and 5 engravings in volume II. From the libraries of Mark Masterman Sykes, with his arms on the upper cover and his ink note on the front free endpaper, and the Earl of Carysfort, and his Elton Hall bookplate. Sykes, Catalogue of the Splendid, Curious, and Extensive Library of the Late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart., 296.

First edition. Engraved frontispiece and 19 plates with tissue guards. 4to (13 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches), pp. vi:(2, list of subscribers):100:xvi, old half morocco, very rubbed & worn, prelims. foxed. Internally very clean & with wide margins MS note pasted to front fly "Presented to Benj. Ferrey by the Executors of C. Starbridge [?] Tavistock [?] Bedford Sq".

Paris, de l'Imprimerie de P. Didot L'Ainé, 1815, in-folio, large paper copy, 462 x 304 mm, vii pp + (1)(bl) + 50 pp + (2)(bl) + 1 leaf (engraved title) + 109 leaves each with a line engraved architectural illustration, printed on recto side only. Bound in 19th century half vellum, marbled boards, raised spine with red leather title label, uncut copy, nothwithstanding some marginal ink stains and some sparse marginal foxing a fine complete copy on large paper ( exemplaire sur grand papier) of the rare first imprint which was published in 18 installments over nearly 10 years (1806-1815). The architects modelled their publication on Percier and Fontaine's highly successful book on the architecture of Rome. It remained a major source for the study of Tuscan architecture throughout the 19th century. (Cat. British Arch. Library). It was the first publication to stress the importance of Florence in the development of Renaissance architecture ( Weinreb cat. 40 item 167.).

Paris, Nyon Fils, 1747. 4to. Bound in a fine contemp. full mottled calf. 5 raised bands, richly gilt back. Marbled edges. A paperlabel pasted on lower compartment. Titlepage with a stamp and a small hole after erasing an old name, no loos of text. Engraved frontispiece. LIV,(2),496 pp.13 engraved plates and 3 fine textengravings. Printed on good paper, internally clean and fine with very broad margins so that this work normally have 8vo- size now appears in 4to size (25,5x20 cm.). Second edition of this treatise of fireworks for celebration, the first edition issued in 1706. There was a pirated edition in 1741. Frezier was encouraged by this pirated edition and he issued his second edition, which appeared in 1747 in three different versions by different printers. (Chris Philip F 110.5).