Search Results: Titles starting with A from George Robert Minkoff, Inc.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Illustratedw with 6 original colored lithographs by Marie Laurencin. 4to. Original printed wrappers, glassine dust wrapper slightly torn, in publisher's box. The Black Sun Press, Paris 1930. One of 350 numbered copies for the United States, printed on Rives paper. Minkoff A-39. Fine.

1768. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with a New and Accurate Map of Corsica. 8vo. 20th century marbled half-calf; spine with 5 raised bands. Glasgow, Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, London. (1768). First Edition. One of the most wonderfully written travel accounts in English from the 18th century. The book is divided in two parts, the first giving a detailed description and history of Corsica, and the second containing a journal of Boswells voyage to the island. It was especially this latter part that excited the public, being a lively account of Boswells quixotic adventures in Corsica and his association with General Paoli. Pascal Paoli was a Corsican patriot, who in 1755 succeeded in liberating the island from Genoese oppression and was chosen president under a republican constitution. In 1769, however, his troops were defeated by the French, and fled to England. Boswell brought Paoli to London, introduced him to the circle of… Read More

PRINTED WITH THE MUSIC8vo. Full late 19th century English speckled calf by Rivière; intricate gilt design on spine; 5 raised bands; original brown morocco label; aeg. London: Printed for J. Watts. 1733. First Edition. Printed with the music for each song. Gay's Achilles was produced posthumously, 5 years after the great success of The Beggar's Opera. It is a burlesque of classical myth in which Achilles is dressed as a woman to infiltrate the court of Lycodemes and woo Deidama, only to have Lycodemes fall in love with him. With the bookplate of John Whipple Frothingham. Leather on spine slightly scuffed; edges and corners worn; half-title toned; o/w a fine copy, complete with half-title and 3 final leaves of advertisements.

Early English treatise on maritime laws, namely navigation, shipping, tonnage, customs, and trade, printed in both Roman and black letter fonts.With an early engraved bookplate of Marques of Tweeddale. Also with the signature of Nathaniel Westland, dated 1675. Westland, a prominent merchant from Burlington, New Jersey, was appointed agent for the sale of land by the West New Jersey Society, a great land company organized in London in 1691. Being a merchant, Westland would have had much use of this book to check shipping rates on cargo from England. Small 8vo. Leather binding, rebacked, leather label on spine. In the Savoy: Printed by the Assigns of J. Bill and Chr. Barker, 1675. First Edition. Fine.

Elisha B. Perkins. Address Delivered Before the Peace Society of Windham County at Its Annual Meeting in Brooklyn. August 20th, 1828. 8vo. Brooklyn, Con. Advertiser Press - William H. Bigelow, 1828. Second Edition. 32 pages. Original self-cover, disbound.Some light foxing, o/w Very Nice.

THURBER, JAMES. Alarms and Diversions. Illustrated. 8vo. Original cloth, in dust wrapper. New York, Harper & Brothers (1957). First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed in a bold hand, "For Old Mort Bodfed affectionately James Thurber." Two small chips to top spine of dust wrapper, o/w Fine.

First Edition.The first book by Frances Wright (later D'Arusmont). Wright began writing the play in Scotland, but did not publish it until she moved to the United States in 1818. In the Preface she comments on the friendly reception she has received in the U.S., as a young, unknown author, and how it would have been difficult for her to publish and have performed such a play in England. Wright's sentiments were with social reform and progressive movements, and she became an influential abolitionist and promoter of feminist causes.8vo. Modern green cloth, dark green morocco label on spine, gilt lettering. Philadelphia: Published by M. Carey and Son, 1819. First Edition. (American Bibliography 50175; Wegelin, Early American Plays, page 82; Hill, American Plays, 334). Text somewhat browned and foxed.

Presentation copy inscribed by Hoover to Stanford ProfessorFrontispiece. 8vo. Original cloth, in dust wrapper. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Printing, with Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. Presentation copy inscribed by Hoover on the front endpaper, "To Prof. Eliot Jones (and Mrs. Jones) With the wishes for a Happy New Year (if any) Herbert Hoover." Eliot Jones, author of five books, was a professor at Stanford (Hoover's alma mater) for 35 years. Dust wrapper slightly chipped at edges, with 1½-inch tear to top of front cover; 1-inch tear to middle of spine; o/w Fine.

1626. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with engraved title within border of musical instruments and other emblems, and 48 engraved emblematic plates by Gillis van Schoor and Michael Snyders, all within border frames heightened in gilt. Small 8vo. Bound in 18th-century mottled cats paw sheep; spine with 4 raised bands, gild designs and red morocco label. Antwerp: Michael Snyders, 1626. First Edition of this anonymous collection of emblems on human and divine love, published a few years after Vaenius Amores divini emblemata. 39 numbered plates have Latin captions and French couplets opposite; 9 emblems are without text. (Landwehr, Low Countries 36; Praz, pp. 254). With De Croix 1843 purchase note on rear pastedown; bookplate of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow. Spine joints rubbed and slightly chipped; edges worn; o/w very nice

ONE OF 26 LETTERED COPIES, INSCRIBEDIllustrated. 4to. Original pictorial cloth, in pictorial dust wrapper; enclosed in publisher's slipcase, pictorial label. Congdon and Weed, New York (1983). First Edition. One of 26 lettered copies, signed by Gorey. This copy inscribed "For Isobel" on the colophon page. Isobel was a very good friend of Gorey's who became the dedicatee of his book The Water Flowers. A compilation of 17 books including The Utter Zoo, The Blue Aspic, The Epiplectic Bicycle, The Sopping Thursday, The Grand Passion, Les Passementeries Horribles, The Eclectic Abecedarium, L'Heure Bleue, The Broken Spoke, The Awdrey-Gore Legacy, The Glorious Nosebleed, The Loathsome Couple, The Green Beads, Les Urnes Utiles, The Stupid Joke, The Prune People, and The Tuning Fork.Dust wrapper price clipped, some white staining on front of slipcase, o/w a fine copy. Scarce.

Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated with 1 large folding lithographed plate and 12 double-page lithographed plates. 4to. Modern ¾-blue cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt ruled spine bound in antique style, with gilt lettering and designs in compartments. London: Published by R. Ackermann, 1820. First Edition in English, with additional material. Engineering techniques of the mid-19th century were very sophisticated and many British engineers, such as Henry Maudsley and William Donkin, accepted that Lanz and Béttancourts seminal work had greatly influenced them. The work was originally published in 1808 by Jean Nicholas Pierre Hachette as a text for his engineering students. It complemented his own Programme du cours élémentaire des machines. Hachette taught at the Ecole Polytechnique, the first school that instilled rigorous mathematical training for engineers, and occupied an important role in engineering education in the 19th century. Minor wear to covers and spine; title page… Read More

FOUNDED BY ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER (sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe) Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, Held at Hartford, September 9, 1870. With a Report of the Executive Committee by Isabella B. Hooker, Chairman."Tracts of the Connecticut Woman suffrage Association. No. 2." The CWSA was founded by Isabella Beecher Hooker, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher. She states in her report: "Because this is a crisis, at which our nation is called to choose between moral life and death, I am bold to address women themselves and especially educated ladies. . .. It is a grievous fact, that men possessed of political power, and fully aware of things concerning which we fear to speak very plainly, have enacted in a course of many centuries just enough law against these horrors to salve their own consciences, but never have so enforced any enactment as to make the law a reality. . . I boldly say that History, and the voice of God sounding through its miserable… Read More

Johannes Dryander. Annulorum trium diversi generis instrumentorum.Illustrated with large woodcut of an armillary sphere on title-page and the divisional title to Regiomontanus; verso of title-page with a large woodcut of "Dryander's astronomical rings" suspended from a hand in the clouds; numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text; woodcut printer's device on pi4v and verso of final leaf; several large historiated woodcut initials. Text in Latin (a few passages in Greek). Slim 4to. Modern ¼-vellum (using old material) over marbled boards; printed paper title-label in gothic script pasted on front cover. Printed in Marburg by Eucharius Cervicornus, 1537. First Edition of this important assembly of texts on a popular Renaissance astronomical instrument: the astronomical ring-dial, a precursor of the equatorial. (Adams D940; BM STC German p 255; Houzeau and Lancaster 2459; Honeyman Collection 930; Zinner 1661)The ring-dial was intended as a navigational aid and could be adjusted for different… Read More

ANYTHING GOES IN SWEDEN!Signed Memorandum of Agreement for the Swedish production of "Anything Goes"Agreement among Cole Porter, the librettists, and Lars Schmidt of Gothenbrug, Sweden, to: "produce the said play on the spoken stage in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland in a first-class manner as that term is theatrically understood . . ." 4-page typed carbon Agreement on onionskin paper. 8½ by 13 inches, folded. Dated (New York) May 8, 1953. Signed on last page by composer and lyricist Cole Porter; librettists P.G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton (as Attorney in Fact), Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Also signed by Lars Schmidt. The musical introduced such songs as "Anything Goes," "You're the Top," and "I Get a Kick Out of You." Professional repair to small tear on last page; o/w Fine.

GENTHE, ARNOLD. As I Remember. Illustrated with 112 photographic illustrations by the author. 4to. Leather-backed blue cloth, gilt letters and gilt design on spine; enclosed in publisher's cloth slipcase, chipped and frayed at edges. New York (1936). First Edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by the author. This copy #58. Presentation copy inscribed, "For Mrs. H.H. Timken With all good wishes from an old friend. Arnold Genthe. New York 1936." Fine.

André Verdet. Au Parvis de l'Avril. Poèmes. Illustrated with an original etching and 2 prints by Jean Lurçat. 8vo. Loose signatures laid into white printed wrappers; enclosed in burgundy folding sleeve and slipcase. Aux Dépens des Amateurs. (Nice 1966). First Edition. Limited to 150 numbered copies on BFK paper. This is copy #2. Fine.