Search Results: Titles starting with B from Howard S. Mott, Inc

A LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL SIGNED AND DATED WEST INDIAN PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF THE BRITISH GENERAL WHO CONQUERED MARTINIQUE IN 1809 & GUADELOUPE IN 1810 COMMANDING NATIVE TROOPS ---PAINTED IN MARTINIQUE SHORTLY AFTER THE CONQUEST BY A FINE FEMALE FRENCH ARTIST: A UNIQUE EXAMPLE OF THE ARTIST'S WORK?
MARTNER, Mme, née Charlotte Gertrude Hélène Daniel (1781-1839), painter, painter in miniature and sculptor of the Antilles. BECKWITH, Sir George KCB (1752/3-1823), British General who saw very active service in America during the Revolution; conqueror of Martinique and Guadeloupe. Curved, half-length portrait in miniature of Beckwith in uniform standing in a dark hall with Grecian columns behind. A LARGE MINIATURE, 3 ¾ x 3 ¾" (9.5 x 9.5cm), glazed and framed. [Front Royal, Martinique:] Signed and dated "Mme Martner 1809". A lovely, vividly colored and beautifully executed portrait… Read More

INSCRIBED TO PINEROSHAW, [George] Bernard. Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch. 8vo, original cloth, fore and bottom edges uncut. London: Constable and Company, 1921. First English Edition. Significant inscribed copies in dust wrapper are scarce. Shaw's series of plays were published in London 22 days after the American edition, an edition whose misprints irritated the author. A significant association copy, presented one day before publication to one of the leading playwrights of the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras, inscribed on half-title: "To Arthur Pinero from Bernard Shaw. 22d June 1921." The two were friends, but Shaw would shortly be critical of Pinero as he "preferred to notice only Pinero's failings, finding him too timid in treating social problems and accusing him of opportunism in the way he introduced and handled them. Shaw's strictures were accepted, repeated and expanded upon, in the… Read More

[BAKING MANUSCRIPT, GERMAN MILITARY]. Back-oefen und Anlagung der feld=Bacherey. 1782. Original Manuscript. Folio, old marbled boards (edges worn), cloth back, pp. 53. N.p., [Germany or Austria] 1782. German military back-oven regulations.

[ROUX DE ROCHELLE, Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard (1762-1849). French Minister to the United States]. CARUSI, [Gaetani]. Proprietor of Carusi's Assembly Rooms. Ball to Mr. Roux de Rochelle. 8vo broadside, 7 7/8 x 5". N. p., n.d. [Washington, DC: March 15, 1831].
An invitation for a "Miss Bell" to attend a ball "in honor of His Excellency M. Roux de Rochelle, late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the United States from the King of the French," upon his recall to France. "When the foreign representative was recalled by his government, the town meeting was convened at which the Mayor presided. A committee was formed to arrange to speechify and banquet him...At the ball, the 15th, the supper table was elegantly and abundantly supplied by Joseph Letourno, the celebrated restaurateur [for Letourno see, David P. Shields, The Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American… Read More

ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE BIBLEWEIGEL, Christoph (1654-1725), Engraver. A collection of 680 engraved Bible illustrations. 2 thick vols., oblong 4to, early cloth backed boards (worn & rubbed), 680 engravings pasted in, some with titles in German, some in both German and Latin. The largest plates measure 4 3/4 x 3 1/4". [Augsburg 1695? or 1730?].
Plates from Weigel's remarkable Biblia ectypa Bildnussen auss Heiliger Schrifft Alt und Neuen Testaments... The full work was issued with 831 engravings on 211 leaves, four engravings on each page, all depicting scenes from both Old and New Testaments, with chapter and verse citations in Latin and German. We don't know whether these plates come from the edition of 1695 or that of 1730. Weigel studied different branches of engraving in Frankfort, Vienna, Augsburg, and other artistic centers. He settled in Nuremberg as an engraver and print dealer. These great Bible illustrations represent his life's work as an engraver. With early wax seal inside… Read More

A TOUR THROUGH THE LOW COUNTRIES

[LOW COUNTRIES]. Billets in Low Countries, 1814 to 1817. In a Series of Letters, Embellished with Colored Plates.
8vo, full gilt bordered polished brown morcco, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, inner gilt dentelles, marbled end papers, pp. 228, [2] ads + 4 colored plates (including frontispiece), t.e.g, uncut. London: Printed for J. J. Stockdale, 1818.
First Edition. The unsigned colored aquatints are attributed to George Cruikshank, although three of them in Cohn's copy were autographed by him as "Not by me GCk." They are possibly by Isaac Robert Cruikshank. The fourth is possibly his. An account of an interesting tour around the Low Countries at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The color plates are of a Dutch peasant, a shrimp-catcher in swimming gear, a flying bride, and a Dutch minister exhorting his parishioners from his pulpit. The leaf of ads is misbound at the end instead of as pp. [11]-[12]. Minor offsetting from the plates, still a fine copy, scarce on… Read More

MAUND, B[enjamin], F. L. S., editor. The Botanic Garden; consisting of highly finished representations of many ornamental flowering plants, cultivated in Great Britain; with their names, classes, orders, history, qualities, culture, and physiological observations. Large 4to, 16 volumes in 11 (complete set), including The Frutist, The Floral Register, and Auctarium, mid-19th century dark blue calf, gilt, foliate border with triple (and quadruple) fillet borders gilt, spines in 6 compartments, elaborately gilt, gilt lettered red calf title and numbering pieces, inner gilt dentelles, cover edges gilt, marbled end papers, marbled edges, with 15 engraved titles of Baldwin and Craddock, and Simpkin & Marshall; dedication leaf "To the Lovers of Botany" in volume I, engraved dedication to the Queen in volume III, 9 (of 10) "Prefaces," "Farewell" in vol. XIII (physical vol. XI) + 312 hand colored floral plates (1248 illustrations numbered consequtively, 4 illustrations to a plate), 4 leaves of text for each… Read More

FISH, Helen Dean.
The Boy's Book of Verse. A Treasury of Old and New Poems. With an Introduction by Franklin K. Mathews. 8vo, original dark red cloth (gilt lettering on spine slightly faded), colored pictorial label on front cover, pp. xviii, 406. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1923.
First Edition. Fine copy in an excellent example of the dust jacket, which has the same illustration as the front cover label. The jacket is not price-clipped, the top edges have a few short tears, and there is a bit of blank paper missing at the top of the spine, not affecting any lettering. A delightful anthology meant to introduce boys to the pleasures of poetry. "...the anthology is a ripping read" in which the verse "explored themes of courage, daring, and honor as well as tragedy, death, war, and responsibility...Fish even included poems that did not appeal to her own sensibilities..."-Christine Rosen, Poetry Without Pandering, Sangamore Institute, July 15, 2003. Fish (1889-1953) was… Read More

LE CANNE DE COMBAT COLORED BROADSIDE SIGNED BY 14 "PROFESSORS" OF THE SCIENCE OF SELF-DEFENSE[LE CANNE DE COMBAT]. NAUDET, Caroline (1775-1839),engraver. Gloire aux Arts. Amer son Dieu. Honneur aux Maitres, et servir son Pays. Brevet de Canne. Folio hand colored engraved diploma, 16 1/2 x 18 1/4", inside mat (framed), signed "C. Naudet 1833." Paris: chez Jean, 1833. The Canne de Combat is a French style of martial arts using a cane. Alhough stick fighting is as old a humanity, this form is from 19th century France, "when the cane was an indispensable fashion accessory doubling as a fairly powerful self-defense weapon," as one expert wrote. It was a way to practice sword play without the sword, thus fewer injuries. Here we have the inside of a "combat" school a large blue curtain at the back, depicting a teacher in a duel with a student, and 13 professors watching, six on one side, seven on the other, each side flanked by a Roman bust sculpture on a pedestal, underneath one is "C.… Read More

WILLIAMSON, John. The British Angler: or, A Pocket-Companion for Gentlemen-Fishers. Being a New and Methodical Treatise of the Art of Angling...Together with Supplemental Discourses...Also, Excellent Reciepts for Dressing of Fish...Illustrated with Copper-Plates Curiously Engraved. The Whole compiled from approved Authors, and above Thirty Years Experience. By...who has added a Versification of the principle Heads...12mo, contemporary speckled calf (slight cracking at joints; one corner rubbed), red morocco lettering piece, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, engraved frontispiece by George Bickham Jr., pp. viii, 318, [10] Index + 3 fine folding plates engraved by Benjamin Cole. London: J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass on London Bridge, 1740.
First Edition. An unusually nice copy of a book most often found either rebound, repaired or worn. "One of the best of the… Read More

A DVANCE COPY
GRAHAM, R[obert] B[ontine] Cunninghame. Brought Forward. Thick 8vo, original printed green wrappers (spine wear, including a small chip mising; a few corners mildly rounded), pp. xiv, 205, [1] blank, 16 ads. London: Duckworth [1916].
Advance Issue of the First Edition, and scarce. Essays and travel sketches, some about South America. Paraguay, Argentina, etc. The Preface begins, "Luckily the war has made eggs too expensive for me to fear the public will pelt me off the stage with them. Still after years of wriring one naturally dreads the cold potato and the orange-peel..." who thinks "like your true Scot..." "Nobody who has read such moving character studies...as his sombre narrative of the passing of James Keir Hardy in Brought Forward...but must respect and admire him for his contribution to English Letters."-H. M. Tomlinson in DNB. NCBEL IV, 1318.

PEPPERMINT AS PATENT MEDICINE WHICH WAS USED AS A CURATIVE ON THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
JUNIPER, J[ohn]. Nottingham chemist & apothecary.
By His Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. Essence of Pepper-Mint. [caption-title]. Small 4to, single leaf folded to make 4 pp., unbound, as issued. N.p., n.d. [Nottingham? ca. 1765].
First Edition. "Prepared and sold by J. Juniper, Patentee, at Nottingham, in bottles…" John Juniper (1722-1798) was a chemist and apothecary from Nottingham who later removed to Soho, London, where he died in 1798. The first Royal Patent granted for medicine was awarded in 1711, followed by; a steady stream of such awards for patent medicines throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The Royal Patent for essence of Pepperming was awarded to Juniper in 1762, and the essence continued to be sold well into the 20th century. Juniper notes that botanist John Ray was the first to identify Peppermint as a distince species in the "Supplement to his History of Plants" [1696]. The… Read More

[TRADE CARD]. [SHOEMAKER]. LIMEBEER, W[ILLIAM] (1773-1812). By the King's Patent. Boots & Shoes by the Patentee on an entire new Construction, particularly calculated for Durability. Instructions for Gentlemen in the Country to take their own measure. 1. Round the Joints…6. Length of the Foot. Bo[ugh]t of W. Limebeer, 58, Cheapside, London. Illustrated left and right by two different styles of boots, with a diagram below for measuring, giving "Instructions for Gentlemenn in the Country to take their own measure." Royal arms at top flaked by a lion and horse in the middle. Large engraved trade card on thick paper, 4 ¾ x 7. [London: late 18th or early 19th century]. William Limebeer (1773-1812), died March 8, 1812, aged 39. We have found that he gave testimony at the Old Bailey 19th September 1810, about 12 pairs of boots he said had been stolen from him by an apprentice. He lost the case. WE HAVE AN ASSORTMENT OF LATE 18TH AND EARLY 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH TRADES CARDS. PLEASE… Read More