Engraved Initials, Used (13 results)

No Binding. Condition: Poor. Engraved Dedication Plate, Headpieces, Tailpieces, Initials; No Other Illustrations Or Plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. Ex-Breaker Copy, Bound At Spine But No Covers, Consisting Only Of Half-Title, Title, Full Page Engraved Title Page, (I)-Xii, 2 Page Alphabetical List Of Plates, 2-3-6-7, 10-11, 24-25, Etc. Missing Alternate Pages Through P 170(End), + Complete 12 Page Index At End, And With The Imprimateur Page.

Fifteenth Edition. Poor copy in the original cloth over colour-printed, paper-wrapped boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Stains to boards. Text block and binding completely separated from one another, but both remain present. Very slight discolouration to page edges, but text remains bright and clear. Physical description; 53 pages, 24 cm x 15 cm. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint, 1948 Edition. Very Good. Limited Edition to 300 copies printed. "Mliss, a story from Bret Harte is from "The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches" first published in 1870 and now reprinted in an edition of 300 copies with initials and illustrations engraved by Mallette Dean". Lacks dust jacket. Hardcover printed boards with a red cloth spine. Boards at rubbed at and bumped at corners; scuffed at back board and lightly bumped at edges. Pages are clean and crisp. Illustrations are bright. NO markings in text. Binding is solid. A very nice copy. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Ransohoffs/Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1948. 50 pgs. One of 300 copies printed with hand-set Goudy Modern type. Initials and 4 full-page illustrations in color, engraved by Mallette Dean. Signed by Ed Grabhorn on the verso page. Bound in half red linen and decorated boards, printed paper spine label. Spine ever so slightly faded, but a very fine copy. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid Originally first published in 1870 as part of "The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches." The full-page color illustrations by Mallette Dean were inspired by mid-Victorian American primitives, and printed from various materials including textiles, sand paper, leather and linoleum. A handsome publication. Included in the Exhibition of Western Books. Ransohoffs was an elite women's department store who catered to the affluent of the Bay Area. The Grabhorn Press founded in San Francisco in 1920 was "one of the foremost producers of finely printed books in twentieth-century America." EB; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 50 pages.

Fifteenth Edition. Poor copy in the original cloth over colour-printed, paper-wrapped boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Stains to boards. Text block and binding completely separated from one another, but both remain present. Very slight discolouration to page edges, but text remains bright and clear. Physical description; 53 pages, 24 cm x 15 cm. 1 Kg.

Invoice, 125 x 205 mm.

Condition: Good. Engravings on Laid Paper, Most with text to verso. Most 5 x 5 cm. & smaller. Very Good.From the Collection of Hon. Gerald Henry Brabazon Ponsonby (1829 - 1908), Private Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; son of the 4th Earl of Bessborough.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Text set in Caslon, Poliphilus, Blado, Perpetua and Fell and printed on Sommerville, Zerkall and Hahnemuhle papers. One of 855 (950) copies bound in card covers and printed wrappers. Photographs and specimens reproduced by offset lithography by CTD Printers and the Regency Press, Cheltenham. A fine copy. Articles include: Robin Kinross 'Outsiders Chasing Dreams: Guido Morris and Anthony Froshaug'; William Peterson, Sydney Cockerell and the Kelmscott Press; Brian Hanscomb, From Croxley Moor to Bodmin Moor; Martin Andrews, Sweet Cork of Thee, and the Popular Books of Robert Gibbings; Ward Ritchie, Paul Landacre and the Ward Ritchie Press; Roderick Cave, The Making of The [Golden Cockerel] Mabinogion, 1944-8.

~ Le Petit 328; Rothschild 1177; T chemerzine IV, 826; Oxford. Contents: Amphitryon Comedie. Par J.B.P. De Moliere. Représentée pour la premiérefois a Paris, sur le Theatre du Palais Royal, le J3, du mois de Janvier 1668. Par la Troupe du Roy; L'Avare, Comedie. Par .].B.P. De Moliere. Representée pour la premiérefois cl Paris, sur leThedtre du Palais Royal, le 9, du mois de Septembre 1668. Par la Troupe du Roy; George Dandin, or le Mari Confondu, Comedie. Representée pour la premiere fois a Versailles, le 15 de Juillet 1668. & dupuis donnée au Publica Paris, sur leThedtre du Palais Royal, le 9, Novembre de la méme année J 668. Par la Troupe du Roy; La Gloire du Dome du Val-De-Grace. Poe'me sur la Peinture de Monsieur Mignart. Par Mr. de Moliere. en l'année 1669. Of the many early publications of Moliere's complete works, theonly compilation that contains these works in volume four is Les Oeuvres de Monsieur de Moliere Paris, chez Denys T hierry, Claude Barbin, et Pierre T rabouillet, MDC.L)C/KXYI (1682). However, the three engraved frontispieces are somewhat modestly executed, unlike those originally signed by Pierre Brissart and Jean Sauvé (fl. 1660-1691) in the known J 682 edition, leading us to suppose that our copy is a contrefacon. The texts of the plays and poem follow the ?rst editions of each work. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin was a lawy r in Orléans before he discovered his life-long vocation in the theatre. He founded a troupe called de L'Illustre Thédtre, assumed the name Moliére and travelled throughout France performing his plays, which are still universally appreciated for their satirical humour. The bookplate, by French engraver Isidore-Stanislas-Henri Helman (1743 - c.1809), indicates provenance of the family of French novelist Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), whose nom-deplume is an anagram of Crayencour. Mme. Yourcenar, a well- respected member of the Academie franeaise, spent her later years in Maine. in contemporary full mottled calf, real raised bands, gilt decorations in the panels, double leather labels, (title stamping not entirely clear), Wanting volume title page, contemporary signature in black ink on front free fly, Engraved armorial bookplate of Cleenewerek de Crayencour, signed Helman, 1768., a very good sound copy (ds1).

Hardcover. Condition: Gut bis sehr gut. Baegert Jacob, Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien, 1772 BAEGERT, Jacob (1717-1772). Nachrichten von der Amerikanischen Halbinsel Californien, mit einem zweyfachen Anhang falscher Nachrichten. Geschrieben von einem Priester der Gesellschaft Jesu, welcher lang darinn diese letzere Jahr gelebt hat. Mannheim: Churfürstliche Hof- und Academie-Buchdruckerei, 1772. 8o (167 x 100 mm), VIII, 358 pp, 1 page, 1 engraved map. Errata leaf at end. Engraved folding map of Baja California and 2 engraved plates of native Californians, by E. Verelst, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, ornamental woodcut initials. Original publisher's binding. Provenance: Zur Breitenbauchschen Bibliotheck (with exlibris). The book was refunded from the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle, Germany to the heirs of Breitenbauch and sold to the present owner. FIRST EDITION. Baegert was a Jesuit missionary in Lower California from 1751 until the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1768. In this account he seeks to disprove the prevailing myth of California as land of plenty, emphasizing instead the merciless heat, dangerous animals, hostile terrain, and untrustworthiness of its inhabitants. The book is nonetheless filled with valuable ethnographical and historical information. The map shows the location of the many Jesuit missions in Baja California and the route taken by the author in his journeys to and from the region. It is derived from Consag's important 1746 delineation of the peninsula. The two plates are not included in all copies. Cowan, p. 9; de Backer/Sommervogel 760; Graff 137; Howes B-29; Sabin 4363; Streeter sale IV, 2441; Wagner Spanish Southwest, 157.

Invoice, 250 x 200 mm.

Fragile handbill, 120 x 180 mm.

Roma, typ. Nicolai & M. Palearini, 1742. 4to. xx,475 pp. Halfvellum (Paper on covers a bit rubbed; spine a bit dusty, stamp on title-page) Giusto Fontanini (1666-1736), Italian archaeologist of the first order in the 18th century. After he fell in disgrace with pope Clémens XII, Fontanini started writing a Histoire littéraire du Frioul. He completed only the part about Aquileia, which was published posthumously by his nephew Dominique Fontanini. Provenance: M. Tydeman, handwritten on flyleaf; (Graesse II/612).