Category: Biography & Autobiography

The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D., Carefully Compiled from Reliable Sources

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London and Newcastle-on-Tyne, Adam & Co. : 1878

Seller ID: 000087

Binding: Three quarters leather. Calf spine. Morocco

Condition: Very Good

4to. 31 by 24 cm. 1st Ed presumed, circa 1878, undated. x + 973 pp. 28 full color plates, including color map of South and Central Africa, plus full color title page. Color plates, and number of plates, as well as the length of the text, make this copy unique and entirely different from any other copy available. Other copies with fewer plates and only tinted lithographs. At least one of the color plates in this copy also has additional tinted lithograph. Color of plates really makes these plates come alive, with such subjects as rhino hunt, band of captives, attacked by a lion, etc. C...
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The Discoverers

By: Boorstin, Daniel Joseph;Luce, Clare Boothe;Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., Random House Inc : 1983

Seller ID: 000945

ISBN-13: 9780394402291

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Plus

DJ has one inch close tear and back crease on back, and one tiny chip. Front cloth board has tiny spot of rubbing to raw point.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chrononlogical Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence, and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons, and Various Original Pieces of His Composition

By: Boswell, James

Price: $375.00

Publisher: London, J.F. Dove, Printed for R. Baynes; J. Bain; W. Crawford, Etc. : 1824

Seller ID: 000689

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good Plus

8vo. 4 volumes. Engraved portrait frontispiece in Volume 1; folding facsimile plate in Volume 2. Period diced full calf, modern calf rebacking, morocco spine labels. Some light wear to board edges; very good, handsomely rebacked.
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Richelieu

By: Cahu, Theodore

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Paris, Combet & Cie. (Ancienne Librairie Furne) : 1901

Seller ID: 001091

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. iv, 84 pp. Lavish color illustrations, many full page, others underlaying the text as was a winsome feature of this series of young adult biographies of French heroes and leaders from the early twentieth century. The Maurice Leloir illustrations for this biography of Cardinal Richelieu are arguably the finest of this series. A few tiny blisters on the decorated boards. Top corner with bumping. A very good copy or better.
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Josiah Wedgwood: Master Potter

By: Church, A. H.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Seeley and Co. Limited : 1894

Seller ID: 000412

Binding: Wrappers

Condition: Very Good Plus

4to. 104 pp., profusely illustrated with photographs. Blue wraps, bibliography. Early study of Wedgwood. Discreet library stamp of Bradford Library and Literary Society on title, and lower plate margins and backs. Stamp hardly noticeable and doesn't detract. Otherwise, fine,
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English Furniture and Furniture Makers of the 18th Century. Illustrated

By: Clouston, R. S.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Hurst and Blackett : 1906

Seller ID: 001259

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

xii, 362, [2] pp. Useful source because chapters devoted not just to the likes of Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Sheraton and Robert Adam, but also to Robert Manwaring, Ince and Mayhew, Mattias Lock, Robert and Richard GIllow, and others, designers who also were influential with their pattern or design books as well as in the case most obviously of Gillows, actual manufacturing. Also written in an almost conversational style, notwithstanding what now might come across as a quaintness of phrasing, inviting to the non-specialist. Throughout photographic illustrations of furniture and patterns. Th...
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Charles De Gaulle: A Biography

By: Cook, Don

Price: $20.00

Publisher: E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A., Putnam Pub Group : 1984

Seller ID: 000951

ISBN-13: 9780399128585

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Some wear, closed tears along top edge of DJ, nothing major.
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Noel Coward

By: Fisher, Clive

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A., St Martins Pr : 1992

Seller ID: 000267

ISBN-13: 9780312070441

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Book.
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Jeanne D'Arc

By: Funck-Brentano, F.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Paris, Combet & Cie. (Ancienne Librairie Furne) : 1912

Seller ID: 001092

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 84 pp. Lavish full page color illustrations virtually every other page. Part of series of young adult biographies of French heroes and leaders from the early twentieth century. Soilage on white decorated boards. One page with close tear, about 1.5 inches, in margin. Overall a very good copy.
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Trollope: A Biography

By: Hall, N. John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A., Oxford Univ Pr : 1991

Seller ID: 000289

ISBN-13: 9780198126270

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Slight bump in upper front corner. Otherwise, like new. Appears unread, untouched.
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Mein Leben Dem Gesang: Errinnerungen

By: Hempel, Frieda

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Berlin, Argon Verlag : 1955

Seller ID: 000565

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 319 pp., autobiography of early twentieth century German opera soprano and star of Met, Frieda Hempel, with many photos included, plus index. Superb description of opera world as it was then, with also interesting walk ons by many other celebrities of the day. With index. In German.
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Hill's Album of Biography and Art: Containing Portraits and Pen-Sketches of Many Persons Who Have Been and are Prominent as Religionists, Military Heroes, Inventors. . .

By: Hill, Thomas E.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Chicago, Hill Standard Book Company : 1886

Seller ID: 000794

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

4to. 587 pp + 6 pp pub ad. 8 full page chromolithographic plates, each 11 by 8.5 inches. Principal title of this book is somewhat misleading because it is much more of a single volume encyclopedia or atlas with substantial pieces on home decoration, farm animals (chickens, horses, etc.). Treats animal cruelty, which would mark it as a real pioneer. This is a substantial specimen of Victoriana and Americana, and one can dip into time and again with enjoyment. Leather of binding has considerable rubbing, esp. in corner tabs. Slight looseness to FFEP. Otherwise, tight and clean copy.
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April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici

By: Martines, Lauro

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A., Oxford Univ Pr : 2003

Seller ID: 000957

ISBN-13: 9780195152951

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Like New

8vo - over 7¾.
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The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Three volumes)

By: Morley, John

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan and Co., Limited : 1903

Seller ID: 000128

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

8vo. Three volumes, first American ed. with brown cloth. Condition VG + to fine. All volumes clean and tight. Minor soilage on some boards. Vol 3 has some minor loose seams. This was considered the definitive biography of Gladstone.
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The Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire . . . Reprinted (with considerable Additions) from the New Sporting Magazine

By: Nimrod, Pseudonym for Charles James Apperley; illustrator: Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins

Price: $1,200.00

Publisher: London, Rudolph Ackermann : 1837

Seller ID: 006124

Binding: Cloth. Full morocco pull-off case.

Condition: Very Good

4to. 24.5 by 15.5 cm. xii, 206, [10] pp. (Final 8 pages are publisher's catalogue list.) With18 magnificent hand-colored, aquatint plates by Alken. Original publisher's green pebbled cloth stamped in gilt on front and spine. Custom full red morocco pull off case, with five raised bands, gilt lettering and ruling, the latter on both the spine and the boards. First state of the binding with the date at foot of spine. This edition contains 6 plates more than first edition, and also has three replacement plates, for a total of 9 new plates. The title page is also engraved. Tooley 67. Abb...
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The Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire . . . Reprinted (with considerable Additions) from the New Sporting Magazine

By: Nimrod, Pseudonym for Charles James Apperley; illustrator: Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins

Price: $475.00

Publisher: London, Rudolph Ackermann : 1851

Seller ID: 006125

Binding: Full Calf. Slipcase and chemise.

Condition: Very Good Plus

4to. 24.5 by 15.5 cm. ix, [1], 218, 8 pp. (Final 8 pages are publisher's catalogue list.) With18 magnificent hand-colored, aquatint plates by Alken. Full red calf binding by Bayntun. With original publisher's green pebbled cloth, stamped in gilt on front and spine, bound in. Modern custom slipcase and chemise, both with morocco trim and spine title label. Slipcase with plain paper pastedown, the chemise, with a marbled paper pastedown. This edition contains 6 plates more than first edition, and also has three replacement plates, for a total of 9 new plates. The title page is also eng...
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The Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq. of Halston, Shropshire . . . Reprinted (with considerable Additions) from the New Sporting Magazine

By: Nimrod, Pseudonym for Charles James Apperley; illustrator: Henry Alken and T. J. Rawlins

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.

Seller ID: 006369

Binding: Three Quarters Morocco

Condition: Very Good Minus

N.d., circa 1900. 4to. 26 by 17 cm. xxvi, 234 pp. 20 color plates. Condition: leather rubbed, and somewhat raw along edges. Corner chip to leather on rear board. Slight drabness to leather besides. Interior: light foxing to prelims and fore-edge. Otherwise, clean and tight.
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. . . . With Lord Braybrooke's Notes, Edited with Additions By Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A. (10 volumes)

By: Pepys, Samuel; Henry B. Wheatley

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, George Bell & Sons : 1893

Seller ID: 005257

Binding: Half Morocco. Marbled Boards.

Condition: Very Good

Oral History of Modern Architecture : Interviews with the Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century

By: Peter, John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams : 1994

Seller ID: 001245

ISBN-13: 9780810936690

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original gray cloth boards with silver lettering on spine in pictorial dust wrapper. Approx 11.5 by 9 inches. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. A thematic study of modern architecture in the recorded words of its creators. Includes bibliographical references and index. CD in pocket at rear as issued. Near fine in all respects.
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Thorvaldsen: His Life and Works, Translated from the French By I. M. Luyster, Illustrated By Two Reproductions from Steel Engravings . . . And 35 of the Master's Compositions Drawn By F. Gaillard and Engraved on Wood By Carbonneau

By: Plon, Eugene

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Roberts Brothers : 1892

Seller ID: 000921

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - over 7¾. xvi, 319 pp. First important work considering life and output of Bertel Thorwaldsen (also spelled Thorwaldsen and seen other ways as well). In his day Thorwaldsen was considered the greatest living sculptor, often compared favorably with Michelangelo. Today he is probably best known for the Lion of Lucerne, for which he drew up the plans but did not actually execute the carving of. Yet in some ways this was an atypical work of a sculptor whose style was in the neo-classical mode and who concentrated mostly on human figures, often presented as gods in the vein of ancient Rome...
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Category: Biography & Autobiography