Search Results: Titles starting with C from William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA

Scarce framed albumen silver portrait of MacDonald in Roman attire. Signed "War! Sincerely, W.H. MacDonald" to base of image. MacDonald studied opera under leading masters in Europe with his debut in Italy, later coming to the United States to perform for the Emma Abbott Grand English Opera Company and subsequently joined the Boston Ideal Opera Company in 1880 (Who's Who in America, 1899). Dark wood frame; cabinet card mounted within window and adhered to mat board. Frame: 11 3/4 x 14 inches; Window: 9 3/4 x 12 inches; Card: 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority mail.

Blue embossed canvas. Signed by around half a dozen recruits to their photos and a signature to the front endpaper. Tear to front endpaper. A clean copy with no defacements. Scarce.
8 x 10.75 in

Bright salmon wraps with text and decoration to front wrap. Organized into several sections: Essai d'Une Definition de la Mentalite Haitienne, Croyances Concernant le Corps et l'Ame, La Toilette Mortuaire, La Veillee, L'Enterrement, La Neuvaine, Le Deuil, Le Cimetiere et Son Symbolisme, and Les Guedes, Dieux des Morts. (English translation: Test of a Definition of Haitian Mentality, Beliefs concerning the body and soul, the mortuary toilet, the eve of the burial, the new year, the mourning, the cemetery and its symbolism, the [Guedes], Gods of the Dead.) French text throughout. Light spotting and creasing to wraps (see image). 173 pp. 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches.

Original lithograph hand colored by J.T. Bowen in Philadelphia from the first book edition of Cassin's Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America plt 2.

92 (of 100) very large (24.5 x 35 inch) hand colored plates. All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

Silver photograph of the Miami Beach Rod & Reel Club at the Stiltsville Calvert Club circa August 1938. The photograph measures 14 x 10.5 in. Photographer's stamp to rear, along with pasted remnants to side of rear. Minor tears to edges (see image).

670pp., + [58]pp. plates + foldout map. Green publisher's cloth with gilt titling to spine. ; Cambridge History of India; Vol. 4; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 670 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

Typed manuscript of [iii], 57 sur blanc leaves. green cloth covered boards, gilt particulars to cover and spine. Includes typed bound-in letter signed by author to Guillermo Tamayo dated June 1967. Manuscript (circa 1967) chronicles the Naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela) that took place July 24,1823, last battle of the Venezuelan War of Independence. This manuscript was commissioned by Rear Admiral Daniel José Gámez Calcaño and Rear Admiral Pablo Cohen Guerrero as tribute from the "Instituto National de Canalizaciones" to the Naval Academy on the inauguration of their new building.

Complete five volume set. Dark green cloth covered boards. Gilt titles on front covers and spines. Clean copies with no previous owners' names or other markings. Please expect possible extra postage as this is a thirty pound set excluding necessitated sturdy packaging.

Wear to head of spine, previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 495 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

London: Robert Havell. Very Good. 1836. First. Etching. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring on J Whatman hand-made paper watermarked 1836. Unusually wide, untrimmed margins showing the pulls from the binder's signatures on the left margin and the original gilt to the top edge. "I have found this species of Jay breeding in the State of Maine, where many individuals belonging to it reside the whole year, and where in fact so many as fifteen or twenty may be seen in the course of a day by a diligent person anxious to procure them. In the winter, their numbers are constantly augmented by those which repair to that country from places farther north. They advance to the southward as far as the upper parts of the State of New York.... Now, to my eye, the Canada Jay is as elegant in its movements, whether perched or on wing, as any other of our Jays, although its apparel is certainly very homely. It is joyous and lively at all times, even when, pushed by extreme hunger, it… Read More

Handcolored lithograph Plate XLIV from John James Audubon's Quadrupeds of North America.The image measures 9 x 6 in (23 x 15 cm) with the shrinkwrapped matte measuring 18 x 15 in (46 x 38 cm).

Limited edition: #2265 of only 2500 copies comprising the first Bruneschelli edition (which is larger than the later Brunelleschi editions). Paper wraps with illustration to front and spine. Wraps protected in mylar. There are 16 hors texte pochoir plates, and 23 black culs-de-lampe throughout. French text throughout. Pages bright and clean. Previous owner's name written small to top of first free page, otherwise no markings. Creases to spine (see image). 164 pp., [i]. 8 x 10 1/2 inches.

Original lithograph hand colored by J.T. Bowen in Philadelphia from the first book edition of Cassin's Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America.

Original hand-colored copper-plate engraving, this being plate 141 from William Woodville's Medical Botany. No names or other markings. Full title: "Medical botany containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh...." Light image transfer from adjacent plate and light thumbing (see image). 6.25 x 8.5 inches.

1 of only 250 copies. Recent green faux morocco with original wrappers bound in. Particulars in gilt to spine. Fold out map of Newfoundland. A very nice, clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii; 492 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.

Signed by author to first free page and dated 6-2-80; original addressee, Leigh, whited-out but ink is still visible (see image). Black cloth with gilt text to spine; pictorial dust jacket with text. No previous owners' names or other markings. Dust jacket not price clipped. 29 pp. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches.

Patterned teal boards. Pictorial dust jacket; textured yellow endpapers. Copiously illustrated in both full color and black and white by several different artists with very high quality printing throughout. Sunning to board edges and spine (see image). Signatures have detached from spine with one section still attached to boards; last 2/3 of signatures detached from spine. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. 10 x 12 1/2 inches. Please expect extra postage as this is a heavy book.

Brown textured paper boards; pictorial dust jacket by Mentor with design to back; colorful textured endpapers. Copiously illustrated in both full color and black and white by several different artists with very high quality printing throughout. Interior contents separated from spine, although signatures still intact with supple binding, and first free page detached. Bumping to head and tail of board spine with small closed tear at hinges (see image). Light wear to dj with small loss from head of dj spine (see image). No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. 10 x 12 1/2 inches. Please expect extra postage as this is a heavy book.

Pictorial board with map to front board and color design to back. Copiously illustrated in both full color and black and white by several different artists with very high quality printing throughout. Interior contents separated from spine, although signatures still intact with supple binding. Wear to boards and closed tears at spine (see image). No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. 10 x 12 1/2 inches. Please expect extra postage as this is a heavy book.