Search results for: 'mage'
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MAGENS, Magens Dorrien. An Inquiry into the real Difference between actual Money, consisting of Gold and Silver, and Paper Money of various Descriptions.London : 1804
First edition of Magens's pamphlet on coinage. The son of merchant banker and East India Company director John Dorrien, Magens Dorrien Magens (c.1768-1849) was a London banker and Tory MP. He was a partner in Dorrien, Magens, Mello & Co (which went through a succession of different names as partners came and went). "His interest in the silver coinage... Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 130556
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COMMAGER, Henry Steele. The American Mind.New Haven : 1950
First edition, first printing. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author: "Mr. Katzenbach with good wishes Henry Steele Commager". Commager (1902-1998) was one of the most prolific American historians of his time, whose works helped define American liberalism. The present work, one of his most famous, argues that the American mind is rational,... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 124213
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(WAIN, Louis; Joseph Pennell; Selwyn Image.) A Book of Drawings.London : 1891
A unique and copiously signed copy of this collection of illustrations published by Eleanor and Frederick Trehawke Davies to raise money for "the poor of St Pancras", bound together with a 28-page bookseller's catalogue entitled "Works of Art and Antiques" the cover of which was designed by Selwyn Image, and several pages of ephemera and correspondence... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 104518
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BURTON, Richard F. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.London : 1855-6
First edition. Fewer than half a dozen Europeans had made the hajj, or pilgrimage to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, forbidden to non-Muslims, and lived. Of those only the Swiss explorer J. L. Burckhardt had left a detailed account. Burton made the pilgrimage in complete disguise as a Muslim native of the Middle East, an exploit of linguistic... Learn More£4,850.00Stock Code: 126964
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SMITH, W. Eugene. Japan - a Chapter of Image.Tokyo : 1963
First edition, first printing. Signed by W. Eugene Smith on the title page and dated October 1964. A superb collection of images - stark at times, harsh even, but never prurient. Learn More£4,750.00Stock Code: 78775
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SMITH, W. Eugene. Japan: A Chapter of Image.Tokyo : 1963
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy from the authors, inscribed on the title page: "Dear Harvey, here then, with all its mistakes (and its errors) - - on your 100th anniversary, Gene Smith and Carole Thomas". An excellent association copy: Harvey Zucker was the owner of the legendary bookshop The Photographers Place in SoHo, New York. A... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 104479
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CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. Images à la Sauvette.Paris : 1952
First edition, first printing. "The Paris-based Greek publisher, Tériades (Stratis Eleftheriadis) - renowned for making deluxe books with such artists as Matisse, Miró and Léger, and for his magazines Minotaur and Vervehad planned a book with Henri Cartier-Bresson in the late 1930s. The war intervened, and following the photographer's successful... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 140037
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BOUCHER, Lucien. Images de la Vie des Prisonniers de Guerre.Paris : 1920
First and only edition, number 72 of 175 copies "sur papier de luxe". An extremely delicately produced piece, with each leaf mounted on a thin paper stub, unsurprisingly just five copies on OCLC - BnF, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster, Dartmouth College, Yale, and NLA - and no copies traced at auction. A superb eyewitness record, in words... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 135857
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BURTON, Richard F. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.London : 1855-6
First edition. Fewer than half a dozen Europeans had made the hajj, or pilgrimage to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, forbidden to non-Muslims, and lived. Of those only the Swiss explorer J. L. Burckhardt had left a detailed account. Burton made the pilgrimage in complete disguise as a Muslim native of the Middle East, an exploit of linguistic... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 119481
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SAUNDERS, Ann. The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945London : 2005
First edition. "During the Second World War the War Damage Section of the Architect's Department of the London County Council recorded the degree of damage due to enemy action to buildings across the 117 square miles of the Administrative County of London. Using the relevant sheets of the 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey maps, the Architect's staff hand-coloured... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 104909
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ROLFE, Frederick, Baron Corvo. In His Own Image.London & New York : 1901
First edition, first printing, first issue binding, with the highly scarce jacket, Wolff noting "no copy traced". The sheets were printed in the US, with 1,500 sets imported to the UK, where the book was published on 5 March 1901. It was released in the US one month later, on 6 April 1901. Copies issued in the US were bound in purple silky cloth, and... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 100920
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(RIMBAUD, Arthur.) VIEILLARD, Roger. Hommage A Rimbaud.Paris : 1945
First edition, first printing, inscribed in pencil "à Ralph Kirkpatrick pour 'les possibilités harmoniques' Roger Vieillard amicalement" inside the first blank, including two musical drawings, further drawings on the title page with the caption "pour Ralph Kirkparick" signed with Vieillard's "RV" monogram and dated "1942-1971-1982". This copy number... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 135463
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BLUNT, Lady Anne. A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race.London : 1881
First edition of the classic account of Lady Blunt's trip with her husband Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in Northern Arabia and the Nejd, "the highlands sacred to all Syrian Bedouins as their ancestral homeland" (Howgego). In Lady Blunt's copious journals "her scientific interests are manifest in the mass of aneroid readings, barometric pressures, and compass... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 138761
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(BRIEUX, Eugene.) SINCLAIR, Upton. Damaged Goods.Philadelphia : 1913
First novelised edition, first printing. Learn More£60.00Stock Code: 85766
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BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen. A New Pilgrimage,London : 1889
First edition, number 15 of 50 large paper copies signed by the printer. The bookplate of H. Bradley Martin, one of the greatest book collectors of the 20th century, is on the front pastedown. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 124872
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URIS, Leon. Armageddon.London : 1964
First UK edition, first impression, of the author's novel, set in Berlin in the aftermath of the Second World War. Originally published in the US the preceding year. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 102255
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LABOUREUR, Jean-Émile. Petites Images de la Guerre sur le Front Britannique.Paris : 1917
First and only edition, limited to 120 signed copies, this copy numbered 10 at the limitation leaf and in pencil on all plates; the printing-plates were destroyed on completion of the edition. Inevitably highly uncommon, just 8 locations on OCLC. This copy inscribed on the second blank; "à Raoul Dufy en toute sympathie, J.E. Laboureur, 1917". A close... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 120160
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BOULDING, Kenneth E. The Image.Ann Arbor : 1956
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author, "To Rusty, with affectionate greetings, Kenneth" on the front free endpaper. This work was "the 'product' of Boulding's sojourn at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences in Palo Alto, California. There he met many of his contemporaries, who, he says, had a profound influence... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 124812
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ADAMS, Ansel. Images 1923-1974.Boston : 1974
First edition, first printing. With the original packing box. Learn More£525.00Stock Code: 85762
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ROLFE, Frederick, Baron Corvo. In His Own Image.London & New York : 1901
First edition, first printing, first issue binding, with the highly scarce jacket, Wolff noting "no copy traced". This work expands Rolfe's earlier collection of short stories describing the travels of a group of young saints, Stories Toto Told Me (1898), from six to thirty-two. The sheets for this work were printed in the US, and 1,500 sets... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 131348
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LABOUREUR, Jean-Émile. Petites Images de la Guerre sur le Front Britannique.Paris : 1917
First and only edition, limited to 120 signed copies, this copy numbered 106 at the limitation leaf and on all plates; the printing-plates were destroyed on completion of the edition. Inevitably highly uncommon, just 8 locations on OCLC. Superb suite depicting off-duty scenes on the British Front including "Les Tambours et Fifres", "Les Soldats et la... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 108171
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GILBERT & GEORGE. Pink Elephants. An eight part 'Postal Sculpture', where each recipient received a Pink Elephant (a signed greeting card from Gilbert and George with an image on the front).London : 1973
Edition size unknown. Each card signed in red ink by Gilbert & George. Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 112973
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PURCHAS, Samuel. Purchas his pilgrimage,1617
Third edition of Purchas's first published compilation of travel literature, first published in 1613. By this time Purchas had already become acquainted with Richard Hakluyt, his great predecessor in the memorializing of English travel narratives, who lent books and some manuscripts for the expanded second edition, published in 1614. A later edition... Learn More£2,100.00Stock Code: 31204
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KENT, Rockwell. Voyaging Southward from The Strait of Magellan.New York : 1926
Presentation copy from the author, inscribed in pencil at the head of the dedication page, "To my friend Nat Horwitt this 'voyage' (so far the only one we've sailed together on) is inscribed by me Rockwell Kent Au Sable Forks, March 1929". The recipient was the celebrated industrial designer Nathan G. Horwitt (1889-1990), "Horwitt is best known for... Learn More£1,925.00Stock Code: 60017
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(DUNCAN, Isadora.) YORSKA, Lottie. Hommage à Isadora Duncan.[Paris] : 1927
Rare first and only edition of this pamphlet calling readers for funds to save Isadora Duncan's house in Neuilly, France, from being sold to pay off her debts. The theatre director, Lottie Yorska, had taken it upon herself to make the news known outside of the US and had contacted the magazine Comœdia to raise funds for the purchase of the house. Duncan's... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 140856
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WALRAS, Leon. Note sur la Réfutation de la théorie anglaise du fermage de M. Wicksteed;Lausanne : [1896]
First editions of two scarce papers of the two leading figures of the Lausanne School of Economics. The first paper contains Walras' criticism of Wicksteed's An Essay on the coordination of the laws of distribution, (1894) and occupies pages 1-11 of the Recueil. Pareto's paper, printed on pages 371-87, adds substantial material to his theory of distribution.... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 118574
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KENDALL, Carol. The Gammage Cup.New York : 1959
First edition, first printing. An ALA notable children's title, also 1960 Newbery Honor title.
This fantasy novel for young adults returned to the spotlight in 1999 during a legal dispute over J. K. Rowling's invention of the word Muggles in the Harry Potter series. Muggles is a character in this novel, although Carol Kendall was more amused by... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 89563
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KREMENTZ, Jill. The Writer's Image.Boston : 1980
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy from the photographer, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Linda Stevens, with best wishes, from Jill Krementz, July 30th 1981". Perhaps Krementz's most important book, containing portraits of many writers, including: Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Saul Bellow, Doris Lessing, John Cheever, Philip... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 100279
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CAPINAUD, [Antoine]. Hommage aux mânes de Mirabeau.Lyon : 1791
First and only edition of this scarce verse tribute to Mirabeau. OCLC records just two copies in institutions worldwide, in Harvard and BM Lyon. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 126494
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(SIKH WARS.) Facts and Reflections by a Subaltern of the Indian ArmyLondon : 1849
First and only edition of this scarce and acidulous eye-witness account of military service in India and the First Sikh War, written by a disaffected officer of the 50th (Queen's Own) Foot, who remarks in his brief preface "if the result of his labours should deter one individual from venturing in to Company's Service under the impression that talent... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 127423
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(NEWTON, Isaac.) ALGAROTTI, Francesco. Il Newtonianismo per le dame ovvero dialoghi sopra la luce e i colori.Naples [but Venice] : 1737
First edition of the Italian polymath's enormously successful work, here in a well-preserved contemporary vellum binding, arguably the most famous example of a Newtonian text aimed at a female readership and "a landmark in the popularisation of Newtonian philosophy" (Mazzotti, p. 119).
In this important contribution to the emerging literary genre... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 126501
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CARTWRIGHT, John. The Preachers Travels.London : 1611
First edition. John Cartwright, identified on the title page as "sometimes student in Magdalen Colledge in Oxford", is invariably referred to as "The Preacher" after the title of this book; his name is often listed as being employed by the Levant Company in that capacity. Yet one of the oddest features of his fascinating travel tale is that Cartwright... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 128759
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KORÖSI CSOMA, Sandór. Essay towards a Dictionary, Tibetan and English. Prepared, with the Assistance of Bandé Sangs-Rgyas Phun-Tschogs, a learned La'ma of Zangska'r, during a Residence at Kanam, in the Hima'laya Mountains, on the Confines of India and Tibet. 1827-1830.Calcutta : 1834
First editions of the first Tibetan-English dictionary and grammar, remarkably scarce in commerce, with no copies of the Dictionary appearing on auction records and only three of the Grammar (1955, 1998, and an incomplete ex-library copy in 2017). This set has an excellent provenance: from the library of Thomas Herbert Lewin (1839-1916), army officer... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 122418
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(CHINA.) Second Opium War.An enthralling and richly detailed journal of a decade at sea with the US Navy during the 1850s, recording back-to-back cruises on three sloops-of-war, seeing action in three different arenas: on the Cyane, which shelled Greytown, Nicaragua (1854), the Preble during the Paraguay Expedition (1858) - a flexing of muscle by the US Navy that concluded peaceably... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 127365
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(THATCHER, Margaret.) MAY, Paul. Mrs Thatcher's Bag.London : 1978
A humorous take on Thatcher's image and her infamous handbag, produced during her opposition period, the year before she was elected Prime Minister. Thatcher supposedly tells the buyer: "I have gathered together in this stylish handbag a most useful collection of practical tips so that even the most deprived of you who have the will and the enterprise... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 131394
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(ECONOMICS.) ASTOR, Viscount, & Keith A. H. Murray. Land and Life: the Economic National Policy for Agriculture.London : 1932
First edition, first impression.
Provenance: from the publisher's archive of Victor Gollancz (1893-1967), one of the revolutionary figures of 20th-century publishing. Everything about Gollancz was distinctive, from his business practices - he flouted convention, backed newcomers extravagantly, and held unique sway over the Book Society choices -... Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 96190
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(ECONOMICS.) WALLACE, Doreen. The Tithe War.London : 1934
First edition, first impression. A study of the tithe laws - part of Wallace's campaign against their imposition, and a call for reform.
Provenance: from the publisher's archive of Victor Gollancz (1893-1967), one of the revolutionary figures of 20th-century publishing. Everything about Gollancz was distinctive, from his business practices - he... Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 96335
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JAMES, William. Pragmatism.London : 1907
First edition, UK issue from the American sheets (published the same year). "Like many of his other texts, James's Pragmatism... contains both a manifest and a latent image. On the surface level, it is a 'method only'. James describes it as a corridor with various topics leading to different rooms by our asking 'What difference does it make?' if a given... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 129632
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BERGSON, Henri. Le Rire.Paris : 1924
Later edition in book form, presentation copy to the Swedish diplomat and Francophile Count Albert Ehrensvärd, inscribed by Bergson on the half-title, "à Monsieur le Comte Albert Ehrensvärd en dévoué hommage H. Bergson".
Having served as Sweden's envoy to the Netherlands, Belgium, the United States, and Switzerland between the years 1908-18,... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 129302
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RILKE, Rainer Maria. Die Sonette an Orpheus.Leipzig : 1923
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on what is believed to be the original binder's blank, "Â Madame Cella Delavrancea Lahovary, hommages dévonés Rainer Maria Rilke (Paris, en mars 1923)". Cella Delavrancea was a Romanian pianist and member of Rilke's literary coterie; a sketch of him is included in her collection of writings... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 132293
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WAIN, Louis. [Kaleidoscope cat.]c.1930s
A rare, superbly coloured "kaleidoscope" cat by the beloved "asylum artist" Louis Wain, presumed to have been created during his later years at Napsbury Asylum when his fluctuating psychological state was profoundly transforming his art. In this case, the image retains the realistic form of a mischievous cat but with the psychotic gleam and unnaturally... Learn More£18,500.00Stock Code: 125094
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GRIVAZ, Eugene. The World Awheel.New York : 1896
First and only edition. Extremely uncommon, just 8 copies listed on OCLC, all in North America, no copies traced at auction. Wonderful Gibson Girl-style illustrations on a cycling theme. The twelve images, originally published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company in their Cycling World Calendar, represent bicyclistes of different nationalities; "they... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 133637
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(KAZAKHSTAN.) KULITOV, Dzhek Galiakparovich) (ed.) Dvadsat' let Kazakhstana.Leningrad : 1940
First edition of just 4,100 copies, extremely uncommon, OCLC locates copies at the universities of Kansas and Hawaii only. Edited by the then first secretary of the Kazakh Communist Party, this is a spectacular, if fragile, visual celebration of the establishment of Soviet Kazakhstan, originally founded as the Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 133938
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PEPPER, John Henry, "Professor". The True History of the Ghost;London : 1890
First and only contemporary edition, this copy inscribed by the author on the title; "Mr. John Bailey, July 25 1893, With the Author's kind regards, J.H. Pepper". Pepper (1821-1900) was born in Great Queen Street in Westminster and educated at King's College School, becoming a pupil of the chemist John Thomas Cooper. In 1847 he gave his first lecture... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 133346
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SENDAK, Maurice Max and the Wild Things Hanging from Branches. [From Where the Wild Things Are.]London : 1971
Edition of 1000. This image from Where the Wild Things Are was created in 1971 as part of a project with 19 different images from eight different books comprising Maurice Sendak's favorite images that he felt could exist on their own without text, for framing or hanging on the wall. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 133907
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(AFRICA: IVORY COAST.) Remarkable photographic archive of American life and mercantile enterprise in French West Africa during the 1930s.Ivory Coast : 1932-6
A unique and vivid archive of extraordinary breadth, comprising nearly 1,200 images that provide a striking panorama of colonial life in the Ivory Coast during the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of Brents Rowlett Gruber, wife of Lewis H. Gruber, an American entrepreneur from Louisville, Kentucky, who was involved in the logging industry and ran a Chevrolet... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 119443
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ORWELL, George. Inside the WhaleLondon : 1940
First edition, first impression, one of 1,000 copies printed. The publisher's retained copy with their rubber stamp to the half title leaf. Orwell may well have been the finest essayist England produced in the entire century. Despite his radical credo in his essays he remains the last of the great Victorian prose stylists. Besides the title essay, this... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 124300
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DU CAMP, Maxime. Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie:Paris : 1852
Extremely rare first edition complete, illustrated with 125 salt prints from wet paper negatives mounted one to a page. Du Camp's monumental work was the first archaeological survey to be extensively illustrated with photographs.
A young man of independent means, Du Camp took up photography in 1849 in preparation for his second journey to North Africa.... Learn More£300,000.00Stock Code: 124632
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(BALLETS RUSSES.) Collection of eight souvenir programmes.Paris & New York : 1911-1939
Attractive and highly desirable collection of uncommon and superbly produced souvenir programmes and commemorative publications offering an excellent panorama of the two decades of the Ballets Russes.
Souvenir programme: Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt Mai-Juin 1911. Grande Saison Russe: Opéras et Ballets. Organisée par "L'Association pour la Propagation... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 118426
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(MacDONALD, Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre.) ROUSSET, Camille (ed). Souvenirs de Maréchal Macdonald, duc de Tarente.Paris : 1892
First edition, presentation copy from the author, inscribed boldly across the half-title in purple pencil, "À Monseigneur le Duc de Chartres hommage respectueux de l'editeur Camille Rousset". The recipient was Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres (1840-1910), his gilt crowned monogram stamped at the foot of the spine. Chartes served briefly on McClellan's... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 122621
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(DAVIS, Miles.) Signed postcard photograph of Miles taken at Salle Pleyel, Paris, 1969.Paris : 1989
Fine example of the great trumpeter's signature, signed "Miles" boldly across the image in thick-nibbed marker pen, the looping flourishes of the signature framing his torso and face. This is a superb image of Miles - captured at Salle Pleyel by the Magnum photographer Guy de Querrec - lit from below, trumpet poised on lips, watching from the wings... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 123134
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(WEIGHTS & MEASURES.) GUYON, S., Architect. Tableau des poids et mesures.Paris : c.1875
A splendid lithographed wall chart after an original drawing by the architect S. Guyon, giving detailed images of weights, measures and coinage under the metric system. Learn More£825.00Stock Code: 131972
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BEATON, Cecil. Near East.London : 1943
First edition, first impression, presentation copy. With the author's presentation slip "To James with love from Cecil" mounted to the front free endpaper, presenting the book to his friend James Pope-Hennessey, and with the latter's booklabel to the front free endpaper. Pope-Hennessey and Beaton collaborated on several books around this time, including... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 138630
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(DISNEY, Walt.) Original artwork for the Walt Disney Song Book: "Cinderella".[1971]
An original gouache illustration for the Walt Disney Song Book (1971). It features an appealing image of Cinderella getting ready for the ball, featuring several key characters and elements of the animated film, including the Fairy Godmother, the Pumpkin Coach, and the Castle. In the late 1940s Walt Disney Productions was on the brink of bankruptcy... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 133724
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(CARROLL, Lewis.) TENNIEL, John. Original illustration for Alice in Wonderland: "The Gryphon".1865
Tenniel's original drawing for the sleeping Gryphon, used by the engravers for the 1865 first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, where it appears on p. 138. Carroll gave Tenniel the exact measurements of each image as they were to fit on the page around the text. The drawings were then traced onto woodblocks and engraved by the Dalziel... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 138680
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BRAUTIGAN, Richard. Please Plant This Book.San Francisco / Santa Barbara : 1968
First edition, sole impression, scarce complete set of these eight poems by Richard Brautigan printed on the back of coloured seed packets; from the library of Marshall Efron, an American actor, humorist, and author associated with the art and literary scene in San Francisco and New York, particularly the Beat community, and a one-time clerk at Ferlinghetti's... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 132879
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(TIRAH CAMPAIGN.) BULL, René. Black and White War Albums No. 3: The Tirah Campaign.London : [1899]
First and sole edition of this excellent visual record of the Tirah Campaign (1897-1898), prosecuted on the North-West Frontier against the Afridi; four of these "War Albums" were issued by the Black and White, a popular illustrated weekly: another two on the Sudan campaign and a naval number completing the series. René Bull is better known as an illustrator... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 139178
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SÉBAH, Jean Pascal & Policarpe Joaillier. Panorama de Constantinople pris de la Tour de Galata.Istanbul : c.1888
Superb panoramic view of the city taken from the Galata Tower looking over the Bosporus towards the Asian side; across the Golden Horn can be seen the Topkapi Palace, and the great mosques of the city, Haghia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, the Yeni Mosque, and the Süleymaniye. In 1857 Pascal Sébah opened one of the first photographic studios in Constantinople.... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 139037
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MAUNDRELL, Henry. A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, at Easter, A.D. 1697.London : 1817
Very scarce edition gathering three important Middle Eastern narratives; Library Hub lists one copy only among British and Irish institutional libraries (Manchester), WorldCat adding Haifa Faisal, Harvard, Cleveland, Oberlin, Missouri. Maundrell's account was first published in 1703. In December 1695, the general court of the Levant Company elected... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 139291
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ÉLUARD, Paul, & Max Ernst. Les malheurs des immortels.Paris : 1945
Second edition, number 1,729, one of 500 on vélin rose, from a total edition of 1,860. The first edition was printed in an unspecified "small number of copies" (rear of volume).
This is Ernst and Éluard's second joint publication and first genuine collaboration: for Répétitions, published earlier the same year as Les Malheurs... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 139596
