Search Results: Titles starting with L from Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

London: Jonathan Cape, 1956. A critical study. Pp. x+158(last blank), frontispiece portrait; lower edges of boards a trifle bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper; light foxing; University College, Leicester/Cape, London, 1956. First edition.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966. The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627). With ethnological introduction, appendix, and other documents by G. S. Parsonson. In two volumes. Pp. xviii+270+xvi+[271]-446, folding frontispiece plus 12 plates (including maps and charts, one folding), 3 full page text maps, 3 tables (2 folding), appendices, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, lettered & decorated in gilt and ruled in blind, top fore-corner of lower board Volume II faintly bruised; price-clipped dust wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed and split, the backstrips slightly faded; a little light foxing; The Hakluyt Society/Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1966. Hakluyt Second Series, Volumes CXXVI and CXXVII. *De Quiros sailed in 1595 as chief pilot in the ill-fated Spanish expedition to the Solomon Islands, returning to the 'Austral Lands'… Read More

Paris: Editions Ozanne, 1956. [Text in French]. Pp. 320(last colophon, verso blank), 2 plates, 12 maps (4 folding, 8 full page); printed paper wrappers, slightly foxed and browned, edges a trifle worn, the backstrip slightly creased, short split at foot of upper joint; uncut; dust wrapper featuring portraits of 8 French & English military personnel (including Churchill and De Gaulle) on the flaps, slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split, with closed tears at backstrip extremities and a longer (5cm.) closed tear from top edge into front panel; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper wrapper, pages browned, piece torn from fore-edge pp. 55/6, scattered light foxing; Editions Ozanne, Paris, 1956. First edition. *The Battle of Dakar, in September 1940, was an unsuccessful attempt by Allied forces to capture the strategic port of Dakar in French West Africa. The hope was to overthrow the colony's pro-German Vichy French administration and replace it with a pro-British Free French one under… Read More

no place: no publisher, 1964. [Text in French]. Avant-Propos (Preface) by Major-General R. Timmerman. Pp. 244, 12 plates; small cr. 4to; fore-corners of boards bumped; dust wrapper, worn, soiled, edges worn and split, with 5 cm. closed tear from foot of backstrip into front panel, foxed on reverse; leaves a trifle browned, edges slightly foxed; no publisher, no place, [Hoogstade, Belgique], 1964. *From the library of Ray Petitfrere, with his armorial bookplate and later from the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label, both on upper pastedown. With loosely inserted 'Explication des abreviations', browned and foxed.

Paris: Plon, 1913. [Text in French]. Pp. [vi]+xxx+636(last blank), 6 double page maps, large folding map at end; med. 8vo; printed paper wrappers, 6 cm. tape repair along lower portion of upper fold; glassine wrapper; uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper wrapper, some foxing, mainly to edges of leaves; Plon, Paris, 1913..

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1947. A brief biography. Pp. 36, l2 collotype reproductions after paintings by Francois Boucher; roy. l2mo; half dark blue morocco and crimson buckram boards, lettered and decorated in gilt; t.e.g., others uncut; within pale blue/grey cloth slipcase, which is faintly soiled and a trifle rubbed at edges; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, The Golden Cockerel Press, London, n.d.[1947]. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies on mould-made paper, this being one of 100 copies specially bound, and signed by the author. Cockalorum l73: 'A biography of the Irish imp who fascinated Louis XV, and was model to the painter Boucher. . . .'.

Bruxelles: Rozez, 1871. jusqu'au 1er Septembre. Par un Officer de l'armee du Rhin. [Text in French]. Pp. 156(last blank), 10 folding maps at end, tables; demy 8vo; bound in later navy buckram, spine lettered in gilt; later endpapers; small split at bottom edge and name in ink at head of title page, some foxing (mainly of outer leaves and edges); Rozez, Bruxelles, n.d.[1871?]. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label on upper pastedown. Bound without the original printed paper wrappers. This copy has 10 folding maps, as called for, but map 3 (Bataille de Woerth) is missing, replaced by a second copy of map 8, and the caption has been almost completely cropped from the top edge of map 9.

Paris: Editions S.E.D.E.P., 1950. Pp. [126](last blank), full page black & white text illustrations, erratum slip bound in at the front; oblong roy. 8vo; blue boards, lettered and decorated in cream & red, screw binding, the boards worn, scuffed and soiled, fore-corners bruised; bookseller's sticker on the upper pastedown, endpapers lightly foxed and soiled, title page and some fore-corners of leaves creased, edges worn; Editions S.E.D.E.P., Paris, 1950..

Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1890. Le Drame de Metz. Ouvrage illustre de 20 gravures hors text inedites par M. Dunki et de 4 cartes. [Text in French]. Pp. [iv]+384, frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 19 plates, 4 full page maps, the half-title and title pages printed in red & black; super roy. 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, boards decorated in blind, slightly scuffed, the fore-corners a trifle bruised; a.e.g.; marbled endpapers; hinges starting, scattered light foxing; Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie., Paris, 1890. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label on upper pastedown.

Paris: Librarie Plon, 1911. Causes et responsabilites. Avec carte et fac-similes. [Text in French]. In two volumes. Pp. [iv]+xx+39(last blank)+[iv]+434, 3 folding facsimiles, 1 folding map; demy 8vo; printed paper wrappers, lightly foxed, edges slightly worn; uncut, several leaves unopened; leaves browned, some light foxing; Librarie Plon, Paris, 1911. Volume I, fifth edition; Volume II, fourth edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his bookplate on verso of upper wrappers.

Paris: Aubert et Cie, 1847. Le geste et la physionomie demontres par 120 portraits, sujets et compositions graves sur acier. Dispositions innes - etudes sur l'expression. Application du systeme phrenologique a l'observation des caracteres. Aux relations sociales, a l'education, a la legislation, a la domesticite. Par Hte Bruyeres, peintre, beau-fils du Docteur Spurzheim. [Text in French]. Pp. iv+516+[4](last blank), 90 engraved plates, most with tissue guard; cr. 4to; half green leather, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards, worn, spine faded and grazed, joints tender; marbled edges; patterned endpapers, bookplate on upper pastedown, hinges cracked, the upper hinge broken, a few pages loose and at least one plate neatly reinserted, several tissue guards browned, scattered light foxing and soiling; Aubert et Cie, Paris, 1847. First edition. Wellcome II, p. 259. *All plates are present, but a couple are not in correct order. German physician Johann Gaspar Portheim (1776-1832)… Read More

Paris: Dumaine, 1871. Garde Mobile du Tarn. [Text in French]. Pp. 96; small cr. 8vo; bound in later navy buckram, spine lettered in gilt, the boards a trifle bowed; uncut; later endpapers; the original printed green paper wrappers bound in, slightly soiled and foxed, with tiny chip near bottom fore-corner of upper wrapper; binder's sticker at foot of lower pastedown, scattered light foxing; Librairie Militaire de J. Dumaine, Paris, 1871. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his bookplate on upper pastedown. The author, Edouard Fuzier-Herman (1847-1901) is described as 'Lieutenant au Regiment' [i.e. the Mobile Guard] on the title page but is listed as 'Capitaine' by Palat.

London: Picador, 2000. [Poem]. Pp. [vi]+42(last blank); demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in silver; Picador, London, 2000. First edition. *A long poem, which 'extends the boundaries of the elegy' [wrapper blurb].

London: Probsthain & Co, 1904. Traduit par Frederic Pepin. Pp. 28; demy 8vo; printed stiff grey paper wrappers, stapled, the staples rusted, with portion of contents loose; leaves lightly browned; Probsthain & Co., London, 1904. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label on verso of upper wrapper.

London: The Folio Society, 1998. Introduction by Mervyn Horder. Illustrations by Shirley Bellwood. Pp. xviii+414(last blank), frontispiece, plus 15 plates; tall demy 8vo; qr. green cloth, spine blocked in black and lettered & decorated in gilt, pale green papered boards, with decorative border in darker green; top edges green; within green card slipcase, edges a trifle faded; The Folio Society, London, 1998. Folio 60/963.

Suva, Fiji: University of the South Pacific, 1999. Pp. 210(last blank), numerous text figures and tables, appendices, references; small cr. 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, slightly marked and worn; corners of a few leaves lightly creased; University of the South Pacific, Suva, 1999. First edition.

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1950. Pp. [4], title page printed in brown and black, title page device, full and half page drawings in brown & black by Dorothea Braby, prospectus; 25.2 cm. x 16 cm.; white wove paper; two light horizontal creases, leaves lightly browned; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1950. Cock-a-Hoop Pl86.

Milano: Arnoldo Mondardori Editore, 1988. [Text in Italian]. Pp. 302(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, glossary, bibliography, index; super roy. 4to; dust wrapper; within plain card slipcase, backstrip slightly split and bruised; lower fore-corners of leaves slightly bruised, light crease in lower free endpaper; Arnoldo Mondardori Editore, Milano, 1988.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1933. Cupid's changeling; A stitch in time; Love's progress. With nine illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky. Pp. [iv]+108(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), pictorial title page plus 9 full page illustrations; demy 8vo; marbled papered boards with printed silver title label on spine, edges of boards lightly rubbed, the spine slightly faded and browned, label rubbed; uncut; within matching marbled papered slipcase, edges and label lightly worn; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers offset, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1933. Limited edition, being one of 300 numbered copies printed at the Fanfare Press on Batchelor's handmade paper. McKitterick 88. *Omnibus edition, with the addition of a third 'moral verse', Cupid's changeling, or the lady's Mistake. (A Stitch in Time and Love's Progress were published by The Nonesuch Press in 1927 and 1929 respectively). An unlimited edition was also issued.

Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. By A. F. (1838). With engravings by Hester Sainsbury. Pp. [x]+56(last blank)+[2](colophon, blank), 4 plates, title page decoration; f'cap. 8vo; qr. parchment, spine lettered in gilt, floral patterned pink papered boards, a trifle foxed, parchment faintly discoloured; fore and bottom edges uncut; ribbon marker; free endpapers lightly offset, a couple of spots of foxing; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1928. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies on English hand-made paper. Chanticleer 56. *Attributed to Arthur Freeling. From the library of Sir Thomas Ramsay, with his discreet ownership stamp in blind on the upper free endpaper. Later from the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on the upper pastedown. 'Despite the passage of time and the inevitable slight variations in manners, the publishers feel that the precepts laid down in this small book for the young lady of 1838 will still hold much interest for her… Read More