Antique & Collectible Books

Published in 1999, Hallwylska Museet (Stockholm). Like New. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes [katalogredaktion, Eva Helena Cassel-Pihl, Kersti Holmquist och Marie Jansson-Lohse = The Hallwyl collection of silver / [catalogue editorial department, Eva Helena Cassel-Pihl, Kersti Holmquist och Marie Jasson-Lohse]. 311 p., 32 p. of col. plates. SWEDISH & ENGLISH. Fine. * rm

London: John Murray, 1847. Octavo (183 x 115 mm). Contemporary prize binding of green morocco, spine gilt in compartments, title, single-line rules, elaborate crests to boards, acorn and oak leaf roll to turn-ins, and all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. 5 folding plates on tissue, diagrams within the text. Prize and ownership bookplates to the front endpapers. Binding lightly rubbed with a few mild scuffs and some light wear at the extremities, a little faint spotting to the folding plates. Very good condition. Second edition with additions, first published in 1839. An attractively bound prize copy awarded by the Royal Military College at Sandhurst to Henry George White for "attention to, and progress in, military drawing". With White's later bookplate giving his rank as Major General. Author George Dominicus Burr (d. 1855), was for forty years an esteemed professor of military surveying at the Royal Military College, and it is presumably he himself who presented this prize volume. The contents cover… Read More

Military and religious life in Europe in the middle ages and the Renaissance by noted French bibliographer and author, Paul Lacroix or Bibliophile Jacob (1807-1884). Chapters include Military Orders, Charitable Orders, the Crusades, Chivalry, Heresies, the Inquisition, Graves and Funeral Rites. Profusely illustrated with 14 chromolithographs by Franz Kellerhoven, Felix Elie Regamey and E. Allard, and 410 woodcuts, many full page, in the text by Etienne Huyot and his son Jules Huyot.Bound in red buckram with intricate gilt embossing on the covers and spine, decorative black and gilt endpapers, AEG. Text in French. v, 577pp. 4pp. of publisher's advertisements. Condition: spine repaired, rear board starting, interior fresh and clean with very slight foxing. Heavy book, additional shipping charges required.

First edition of this rare colour plate book in the medieval chivalric genre.With 24 handcoloured copperplates attributed to Thomas Rowlandson, and doggerel verse in the style of frequent collaborator William Combe. Probably inspired by the success of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe published in 1819 and the Regency craze for all things medieval Gothic.A ripping yarn with Sir Ethelbert romancing the fair Adelaide, despite the evil machinations of rival knight Gondibert. The plates depict knights in armour in combat at tournaments, sword-fighting duels, dastardly deeds, pageantry and courtly love.Condition: Both plates and text with spots of foxing, title page with closed tear, 2cm hole in text page 37, childish scribbling on rear of Plate 13, general signs of use throughout. Binding with gilt decoration on spine, red title label, five raised bands. some scuffing to edges. Printed for William Sams, bookseller to H.R.H. the Duke of York, 1 St James's-Street, 1823. His plate books such as A Tour Through Paris… Read More

Published 1806, printed by B. Graves for the author. Hardback, cover as shown with this listing is rubbed, scuffed and chipped. Text has experienced some water damage (see sample) and is badly mottled. Binding is loose, foldout chart is torn but still readable. Handwriting on front matter pages. Price reflects condition, despite the flaws this is a fascinating piece of gardening history and it needs a good home. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (F2)

Dust Jacket: The bottom corner and edge of the front title panel have small rubs. The remainder of the DJ is pristine.Book: Dent on the LR front board (photo). The remainder of the book is "As New' condition. No marks or entries. All pages and illustrations are present. No page toning, Binding is strong and firm (photo)."Exalted in the nineteenth century as virtuous exemplars of a prod pioneering spirit, and condemned in the twentieth as crude oppressors of a peaceful Native people, the Pilgrims' unavoidable importance in the narrative of Americans is reinforced annually in Thanksgiving Da's mythic commemorations."Highly acclaimed research and literary presentation.

Very good suite of five (of six) woodcuts from this scarce edition of the Dance of Death.Five large dramatic anti-socialist engravings accompanied by lettered verses by Robert Reineck, inspired by the revolutionary uprisings suppressed by the military in Germany in 1848.The five plates are: Death rises from the grave to be greeted by Liberty, Equality and Fraternity; Death holding scales in front of a crowd at a tavern; Death delivers a sword to the people; Death stands on a barricade; and Death as victor riding on horseback over corpses. (Missing plate 2, Death on horseback riding into town). The woodcuts after Rethel's designs were supervised by Hugo Burkner, executed by Carl Friedrich Robert Berger 1, (Richard Julius Jungtow 2, not present), Oskar Friedrich Schmidt 3, Gustav Richard Steinbrecker 4, Carl August Zsheckel 5 and August Gaber, and printed by F. A. Brockhaus. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, it was for his Dance of Death, "executed in a technique founded upon that of Durer, and… Read More

Very good copy of Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection of intimate family sketches12 charming portraits on steel, hand tinted to give the impression of pastel sketchesFrontispiece engraved bust, engraved title page and 12 hand-coloured engraved plates.A snapshot of the family and friends of the most popular portrait artist in Georgian EnglandThe subjects include:Lady Emma Hamilton, scandalous mistress of Lord Horatio Nelson, in see-through dress and turban, looking up most ravishingly.Self-portrait of Sir Thomas Lawrence, and portraits of his innkeeper father Thomas Lawrence and mother Lucy Read, depicted close to death. Cute portraits of his nephews Thomas Lawrence Bloxam, Rowland Bloxam and Henry Bloxam, all in dresses and ribbons.Two depictions of his niece Mary Isabella Bloxam, as a young girl and once again as a young woman.The Calmeady children in an embrace.Two unknown girls, one in a lace bonnet. His niece Lucy Meredith.Lady Augusta Lowther, Countess of Fane, wife of the 1st Earl of Lonsdale. Sir… Read More

Tan cloth binding with gilt title on the spine and front board. This is Number 38 of the issue.

En Suisse, chez les Libraires Associés, 1780.. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION 1780, 2 volumes bound together in 1 volume. Text in French. Thick 8vo, approximately 190 x 120 mm, 7½ x 5 inches, 3 folding plates at the end of each volume, bound in half roan over speckled boards, gilt lettered label to spine, gilt rules between raised bands, blue speckled edges, pages: [2], 1-344; [2], 1-364, patchy fading to spine, covers rubbed with some loss to surface, spine pasted down, slight minor pale browning to 3 plates, endpapers age-browned, ink name and number to first pastedown, occasional small spot otherwise text clean, good tight copy. Guillaume Le Gentil was born in Coutances and intended to enter the church before turning to astronomy. He discovered what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus). On his voyage to observe the transit of Venus he had many… Read More

Green calf spine with gilt title and decoration. Green marbled boards.

Very good copy of one of two volumes on West African ornithology from Sir William Jardine's ambitious Victorian series The Naturalist's Library
Birds of Western Africa, William Swainson, Vol. II, 34 steel plates by William Lizars after illustrations by William Swainson, 32 hand-coloured, plus hand-coloured frontis and engraved portrait of French explorer Francois Levaillant
With list of volumes (up to Vol. XIX), half title, frontispiece portrait of Levaillant, hand coloured vignette title page with ring-necked parakeets, two title pages, advertisement 2pp, contents 6pp, memoir of Levaillant, text 263pp and 32 hand-coloured plates
Sir William Jardine (1800-1874) was a Scottish naturalist. He is best known for writing and editing the 40-volume series of natural history books, The Naturalist's Library from 1833 to 1866. "In addition to the description and depiction (mostly finely coloured plates) by various well-known contributors to almost the whole range of the subject, the series is supplemented by… Read More

Recently rebound. Tan calf spine with red title plate, gilt banding and lettering. Maroon cloth boards.

Dark brown cloth binding with gilt title on the spine. A pre-Second World War book published by Times of India which outlines the British importance to India.
The British Raj (was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947. The rule is also called Crown rule in India, or direct rule in India. The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and areas ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British subsidiary alliance or paramountcy, called the princely states. The region was sometimes called the Indian Empire, though not officially. As "India", it was a founding member of the League of Nations, a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936, and a founding member of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945. This system of governance was instituted on 28 June 1858, when, after the Indian… Read More

Navy calf spine and corners, blue marbled boards. Gilt banding, titles and emblems on spine.
A superb set Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847). Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature". Lamb's first publication was the inclusion of four sonnets in Coleridge's Poems on Various Subjects, published in 1796 by Joseph Cottle. The sonnets were significantly influenced by the poems of Burns and the sonnets of William Bowles, a largely forgotten poet of the late 18th century. Lamb's poems garnered little attention and are seldom read today. As he himself… Read More