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Botany and the search for the source of the Nile
GRANT, James Augustus.
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A Walk Across Africa, or Domestic Scenes from my Nile Journal.
Edinburgh
1864
In 1846 Grant obtained a commission in the 8th native Bengal infantry and during his time in India he met John Hanning Speke, they became…
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Very rare first edition of Allix’s alphabet book
ALLIX, Susan.
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A-Z. Old Fashioned Rhymes.
London
Susan Allix as the Willow Press
1985
The alphabet book was intially printed in a very few copies in 1985, this being one of them. Later Allix turned up the linocuts again…
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With a bookmark inscribed by Hermann Zapf.
ZAPF, Hermann.
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ABC-XYZapf. Fifty Years of Alphabet Design.
Offenbach / London
Bund Deutscher Buchkünstler / The Wynken de Worde Society
1989
A festschrift for Hermann Zapf, being collection of essays on his professional and personal life, with contributions by Max Caflisch, John Dreyfus, Jerry Kelly, Giovanni…
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“the climax of Nash’s representational wood engravings”
NASH, Paul. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
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Abd-Er-Rhaman in Paradise by Jules Tellier.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1928
The first translation into English from the original French of Jules Tellier’s ‘Les Deux Paradis’.
Nash’s wood-engravings are fine examples of his work, Clare Colvin in…
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“the climax of Nash’s representational wood engravings”
NASH, Paul. GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS.
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Abd-Er-Rhaman in Paradise by Jules Tellier.
Waltham St. Lawrence
Golden Cockerel Press
1928
The first translation into English from the original French of Jules Tellier’s ‘Les Deux Paradis’.
Nash’s wood-engravings are fine examples of his work, Clare Colvin in…
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B. MARTIN, Edward Sandford.
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Abroad with Jane.
Boston
Privately Printed
1918
American journalist Martin’s sprightly travel book chronicling his journey to England and Europe.
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RAHDA PANDEY, book artist.
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Absence.
Iowa City
Rahda Padney
2017
Influenced by ‘A Nievve Herball or Histoire of Plantes’ by Gerard Dewes, 1598, Rahda Pandey has created an enigmatic and exquisite book. She found a…
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GRABHORN PRESS. MILLER, Henry.
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Account of a Tour of the California Missions, 1856. The Journal & Drawings of Henry Miller.
San Francisco
printed at The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California
1952
Includes 19 early images of missions including Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara etc.
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A sumptuous hand-illuminated communion mass made as a first communion gift
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT c. 1880.
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Actes et Prières pour la Communion.
[Paris]
c.1880
An elaborate first communion book which were sold with the text and elementary borders of each page lithographically printed. Subsequently the plain, printed pages were…
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By the founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B. HIGGINSON, Henry Lee.
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Addresses by Henry Lee Higginson on the Occasion of Presenting the Soldiers' Field and the Harvard Union to Harvard University.
Boston
The Merrymount Press
1902
Alumnus and Civil War veteran Higginson’s address upon gifting 31 acres of land to Harvard College. Higginson founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1881.
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One of 100 copies, designed by Jerry Kelly.
KELLY WINTERTON PRESS. VIRGIL.
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Aeneas in the World of the Dead.
Jamaica
The Kelly Winterton Press
1990
With the original prospectus inserted loose.
Translated from the Latin by Sir G.K. Richards. This section from Virgil’s masterpiece, the ‘Aeneid’, deals with Aeneas’ encounters important…
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Frink’s first illustrated book with 4 original signed lithographs
FRINK, Elisabeth.
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Aesop's Fables.
London
Alistair McAlpine & Leslie Waddington
1968
Frink’s first illustrated book. She was later to work on the monumental Canterbury Tales with Waddington, her main dealer, and an edition of Homer.
Elisabeth Frink…
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PETER JONES, designer bookbinder. PETER PAUPER PRESS.
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Aesop's Fables for modern readers.
New York
Peter Pauper Press
1955
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WINDHOVER PRESS. TRUEBLOOD, Ernest V.
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Afternoon of a Cow. A Pseudonymous Story by William Faulkner.
Iowa City
Windhover Press The University of Iowa
1991
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FLEECE PRESS. MILLER PARKER, Agnes. ROGERSON, Ian.
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Agnes Miller Parker, wood-engraver and book illustrator, 1895-1980 with recollections of the artist by John Dreyfus.
Wakefield
Fleece Press
1990
Born in Scotland, Agnes Miller Parker attended the Glasgow School of Art where she met, and later married, the artist William McCance. They lived in…
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Book-embellishment in the 1960s with original hand-painted ornamentation, illustrations and binding by the artist Powilewicz
NIETZSCHE, Frederic. POWILEWICZ, A.K.
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Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra.
Paris
Georges Cres et Cie
1919
On the verso of his hand-painted and written colophon Powilewicz writes in ink that the designs have been inspired by Persian miniatures and rugs from…
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One of 200 copies
![Alexander Anderson. His Tribute to the Wood-Engraving of Thomas Bewick. by [BEWICK, Thomas]. THOMPSON, Lawrence.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/8573---200.jpg?v=1653071551)
[BEWICK, Thomas]. THOMPSON, Lawrence.
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Alexander Anderson. His Tribute to the Wood-Engraving of Thomas Bewick.
Princeton
Princeton University Press
1940
Alexander Anderson was the first to spread Bewick’s techniques in America after seeing Bewick’s History of Quadrapeds in 1795 at a bookstore in New York.…
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MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE, D.B. STARRETT, Vincent.
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All About Mother Goose.
The Appellicon Press
1930
With The Merrymount Press label and ‘The Updike Collection of Books on Printing’ book label to front endpapers. A history of Mother Goose and her…
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SCHANILEC, Gaylord, b.1955
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Along The Hudson.
2011
Original wood engraving for ‘The Bicycle Diaries; One New Yorker’s Journey through September 11th’ by Richard Goodman, which was illustrated and printed by Gaylord Schanilec…
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[PRINTING]. DIRINGER, David.
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Alphabet Exhibition.
London
Staples Press
1953
![Alexander Anderson. His Tribute to the Wood-Engraving of Thomas Bewick. by [BEWICK, Thomas]. THOMPSON, Lawrence.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/8573---800.jpg?v=1653071551)
![Another image of Alexander Anderson. His Tribute to the Wood-Engraving of Thomas Bewick. by [BEWICK, Thomas]. THOMPSON, Lawrence.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/8573_2---800.jpg?v=1653071551)
