Search Results: Authors starting with S from D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)

New York: George Braziller, [1967]., 1967. 4to. pp. 127. 100 b/w illus. biblio. index. cloth-backed bds. dw. (bit scuffed & tattered).. Hardcover.

New York: Random House, [1958]., 1958. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 423, [1]. many illus. on 16 double-sided plates. index. cloth. dw. (short tear to upper front, extremities soiled). Third Printing.. Hardcover.

New York: Reinhold Publishing Company, [1948]., 1948. 8vo. pp. xxi, [1 leaf], 354. 16 plates. cloth.. Hardcover.

Düsseldorf: Richter Verlag, [1993]., 1993. folio. pp. 248, [2]. profusely illus. (most colour). biblio. wrs. (extremities slightly worn). Exhib. Cat..

[Munich]: Prestel, [1991]., 1991. folio. pp. 223. 187 illus. biblio. cloth. dw. Exhib. Cat. First Edition of the English Translation (Abridged from the German).. F. Hardcover.

London: Printed for S.Austen, 1727. First Edition of this particular English Translation (an earlier one had appeared in 1705). A satirical discussion of ancient and modern authors, including Apuleius, Camoes, Dante, Erasmus, Góngora, Horace, Mendoza, Socrates, Tasso, and Lope de Vega. Saavedra was a Spanish diplomat and man of letters, best known for his anti-Machiavellian emblem book Idea de un Príncipe Político Christiano (first published in 1640). 12mo. pp. 1 p.l., xxviii, 186. woodcut ornaments & initials. disbound (some pen scoring on 2 pages)

New York: Rizzoli, [1986]., 1986. 8vo. pp. 132. Essays by Serge Sabarsky, Oskar Kokoschka & Achille Bonito Oliva. 93 illus. (many colour). biblio. wrs..

New York: Rizzoli, [1985]., 1985. 4to. pp. 224. illus. throughout (most colour). biblio. bds. dw. First American Edition.. F. Hardcover.

Nassau County, NY: Nassau County Museum of Art, 1989., 1989. 4to. pp. 239. profusely illus. in colour & b/w. biblio. wrs. Published in conjunction with an exhibition..

Paris: Éditions Cercle D'Art, [1958]., 1958. folio. pp. 18, [4], ff. 23-135, [3]. 135 tipped-in plates (some colour). bds. (joints & spine ends chipped). First Edition of the French Translation.. F.

Amsterdam…Toulouse: Laporte, 1775., 1775. 4 Volumes. 12mo. pp. xxxvi, 271; 1 p.l., 338; 1 p.l., 307; 1 p.l., 269. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary mottled calf, gilt backs (spine ends & corners worn, split in lower rear joint of Vol. I, some dampstaining to lower margins). Third Edition, corrected and enlarged. Quérard VIII 294-95. cfBarbier IV 851. cfBrunet 30557. cfCioranescu 57994-96.. Hardcover.

Geneva: 1771., 1771. 8vo. pp. xii, 245, [2]. with half-title. woodcut tailpiece & title vignette. Uncut in 19th century stiff wrs. (spine chipped). Published the same year as the first edition, probably in Holland according to the BNF. The work is ridiculed in the Nouvelle Biographie Générale: "En s’attaquant à un géant, ce pygmée littéraire produisit le livre le plus médiocre qui soit sorti de sa plume, un ramassis de sottises et de calomnies…où la méchanceté et l’envie se montrent à découvert." Voltaire responded with a violent pamphlet entitled Lettre d’un Père à son Fils Faisant l’Auteur et le Bel Esprit à Paris. Barbier IV 630. cfCioranescu 57966. cfQuérard VIII 294.. 1st Edition.

Venezia: Istituto Universitario di Architecttura di Venezia, [1998]. 1997-1998 Graduate Thesis. 2 vols. 4to. pp. xiv, 134; 229. Italian text. Spiral bound wrs. (couple of smudges to covers)

[Mansfield Centre: TT: Martino Fine Books, 1998]., 1998. 2 Volumes. oblong 4to. text in 4 columns. cloth. Reprint of the microprint edition, Limited to 200 copies.. Hardcover.

London: Printed by Richard and E.Taylor, 1838. First Edition. “Sabine was distinguished from his many contemporaries who collected similar data by his successful promotion and administration of a world-wide effort to gather terrestrial magnetism observations, designated the ‘magnetic fever’ or the ‘magnetic crusade’ by observers.” (DSB) Presented to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1837, Sabine’s report tabulates the results of magnetic intensity observations of scientists in all parts of the world. The work contains material relating to observations in the Arctic, North and South America, and notices of the contributions of Humboldt, Lutke, King, Ross, Fitz Roy, Freycinet, &c. Wheeler Gift 945. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., 85, [1 leaf]errata. 2 engraved plates & 3 folding maps. many tables in the text. untrimmed in original cloth, rebacked with spine mounted (extremities bit frayed, scattered light foxing, edges of maps bit tattered). Burndy… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown And Company, 1864., 1864. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xii, 608; 1 p.l., 600. Uncut in original bds. (joints cracked, front cover of Vol. II detached, spines partly defective). Second Enlarged Edition. A valuable historical work, based on many years of research and study, these sketches include a great deal of material on the Loyalists who settled in Canada, particularly New Brunswick. Gagnon I 3117. Howes S-3. North York Bib. 389. Sabin 74773. cfTPL 4752 (1st Edn.).. 1st Edition.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., [1988]., 1988. 8vo. pp. xi, [1], 276. numerous colour illus. index. cloth (owner's inscription on half-title). dw. First Edition.. F. Hardcover.

[New York]: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., Distributed By Crown Publishers, [1985]., 1985. square 8vo. pp. ix, [1], 300. colour illus. throughout. index. cloth (previous owner's signature). dw. First Edition.. F. Hardcover.

New York, London & Paris: Abbeville Press, [1998]. First Edition. 4to. pp. 215. colour illus. biblio. index. cloth. dw.

Montreal: John Lovell, Octobre, 1839., 1839. 8vo. pp. 136, [2]errata. original printed wrs. (rear wr. detached & defective, corners curled). Signed Presentation Copy. First Edition. "Signed Sabrevois de Bleury, Réfutation De L’Écrit De Louis Joseph Papineau, an indictment of 136 pages, was pprobably dictated by Sabrevois and drafted by Hyacinthe Poirier Leblanc de Marconnay, the editor of Le Populaire. In this pamphlet Sabrevois de Bleury developed the argument that Papineau had "prepared, wanted, and even forseen armed resistance," and must now accept responsibility for the country’s misfortunes. A well-written piece enlivened with pungent judgements on men and events, this now forgotten pamphlet created a great stir in its day. Scandalmongers asserted that the signatory owed to it his appointment on 20 June 1839 as a member of the new Board of Works, and the following year his nomination by Governor-General Sydenham as alderman for the town council of… Read More