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Journal, etc., of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia (with plates and plans). 1894 C.E. Bristow, Government Printer, October, Adelaide 1896 - Foolscap folio, 32 pp., with 13 full page photogravure plates and four larger folding maps and sheets bound in (including the large map measuring 1290 x 1290 mm., and a plan of the Hermannsburg mission measuring 822 x 587 mm.); a fine copy in polished brown half calf by Sangorski, spine label. The report suppressed by Horn. First edition of 1896 publishing the results of the Horn scientific expedition and completing the series of inland exploration accounts published by government printer Charles Edwin Bristow in Adelaide throughout the 1890s. The verso of the title page lists the cost of printing, revealing that 650 copies were published (of which a significant proportion were withdrawn). The expedition was privately financed by wealthy Adelaide speculator and philanthropist William Austin Horn. When this report appeared by order of the parliament of South Australia, Horn personally requested that it be withdrawn given his rights of ownership of the cartographic and scientific data collected during the expedition. His request was granted, leaving a limited number of copies in circulation. Winnecke published the results the following year against Horn's wishes (see catalogue no. xxxx) using the four maps and sheets lithographed for this parliamentary report, including the enormous and impressive map of central Australia. This is an excellent copy of a scarce book, one of the last nineteenth-century milestones in inland exploration and scientific research. Given the acrimony surrounding the publication of the expedition's findings, this first edition is significant for the inclusion of two images of the members of the expedition. The first portrait is a formal sitting with Horn alongside Winnecke, Baldwin Spencer and the scientists. The second image depicts Horn with his men at the Alice Springs camp, interestingly the group includes two turbaned (and presumably Afghan) cameleers and an Aboriginal companion. [Attributes: First Edition] [Bookseller: Hordern House Rare Books] 
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Poems Roberts Brothers, Boston 1896 - First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's green cloth spine with white cloth covered boards known as the publisher's "A" binding. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a wonderful copy housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Quintessential Rare Books, LLC]
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The Effect of Magnetisation on the Nature of the Light Emitted by a Substance, in Nature, Vol. 55, 1897 FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AND INFLUENTIAL DISCOVERIES OF THE LATE 19th CENTURY, the Noble Prize winning discovery and announcement of the Zeeman effect: the splitting of a spectral line into complicated multiple patterns when in the presence of a static magnetic field. "The Zeemann effect not only opened a new world of facts which interest the physicist, the chemist, and even the astronomer, but the study also contributed - to an extent much greater than the study of the Stark effect - to the conceptual development of quantum theory" (Jammer). "In 1896, at the request of Lorentz, [Zeeman] began investigating the effect of magnetic fields on a light source and discovered what is now known as the Zeeman effect. This discovery proved Lorentz theory of electromagnetic radiation… It is by way of the Zeeman Effect that astronomers cam measure the strength of the magnetic field on the surface of the sun, or other stars. Scientists were not able to fully understand the Effect until the development of quantum mechanics in the 1920s. In 1902, Zeeman and Lorentz were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, for their research into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomenon" (Pieter Zeeman Website). Today, the Zeeman Effect is one of the principles that underlie nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, electron spin resonance spectroscopy, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and Mossbauer spectroscopy. Zeeman's paper was first presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam in a paper entitled "Over den Invloed eener Magnetisatie op den Aard van het door een Stof uitgezonden Licht" in 1896. The 1896 original and this first English translation includes his Zeeman's understanding of "small molecular elements charged with electricity," and a rough calculation of the charge to mass ratio of these ions" (Nature Physics Portal). In 1902, Zeeman and Lorenz were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena" (Nobel Prize Portal). CONDITION & DETAILS: London: Macmillan and Co., Volume 55 (November 1896-April 1897). 4to (10.5 x 8 inches; 263 x 200mm). Complete. Ex-libris bearing only a small stamp on the half title and no spine markings whatsoever. Beautifully rebound in recent dark orange cloth designed to replicate Nature bindings. The front board is ruled and lettered in black. The spine is also black ruled and lettered, with the volume number and date in gilt. Tightly and very solidly bound. New endpapers. Light age toning in the upper margin of some pages, as well as to the title. An occasional light age spot here and there. Otherwise bright and very clean throughout. Very good condition. [Bookseller: Atticus Rare Books]
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California Theatre - La Loie Fuller - Original 1896 Performance Programme San Francisco: California Theatre,, 1896. Small octavo (173 × 130 mm) Bifolium, printed all four pages. Front cover with image of Fuller in her Serpentine Dance costume. Pale uniform browning and some light creasing. A remarkable survival, a flimsy folded single-sheet programme produced for Fuller's two shows at Al Hayman's California Theatre in November 1896. Fuller's Serpentine Fire Dance had made her the toast of avant garde Paris, earning her the respectful soubriquet "La Loie Fuller"; drawn by Rodin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Whistler, and Chéret and celebrated in words by Georges Rodenbach, Robert de Montesquiou, and Stéphane Mallarmé who called her "the theatrical form of poetry par excellence". Her many technical innovations in lighting, colour, costume and choreography created effects which seem to have profoundly affected her audiences, musicologist and historian of the dance Félicien de Ménil described how "One feels subtly transported into the strangest regions of the dream … in these astonishing apparitions, something satanic and demonic, but of a gentle Satanism, of a poetic and suggestive demonality, which sets one on the starry and luminous path of hashishian dreams …" This may be difficult to relive through the scant surviving filmed evidence of her work, another of her innovations was to allow herself to be filmed by the Lumière brothers, but her lasting influence is undeniable; "Fuller's work came to be seen as a bridge between Romanticism and modernism, between ballet and the multiple forms of "new dance," and between the nineteenth- and twentieth centuries. Fuller both prepared the way for and to some extent was contemporaneous with better-known innovators in dance, such as Diaghilev, Fokine, the Ballets Russes, and Isadora Duncan. Her innovations in movement and stagecraft were unique and inspiring but never fully reproduced by the dance pioneers who followed her" (Carolyn Slinsky, The Modernism Lab at Yale University). The oddly contrasting supporting acts were the popular Tobins trombone duo, The Treble Clef Quartette performing "Now is the Month of Maying", and Prof. Chas. F. Graeber's Banjo, Mandolin, & Guitar Club. A footnote draws attention to the fact that "Stearns' Yellow Fellow Bicycle is used by La Loie Fuller", a celebrity endorsement rather than a performance note … we hope. [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]
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Java geographisch, ethnologisch, historisch. 2e druk bewerkt door J.F. Snelleman en J.F. Niermeyer. Haarlem, Erven F. Bohn, 1896-1907.4 volumes. Contemporary half morocco (sl. rubbed), spines gilt. With portrait, 4 folding maps (1 in photocopy) and some illustrations.* Second and best edition. - Standard work on Java, much more concerned with the history and culture of the Javanese rather than with geography or natural history. - Fine set.Tiele 1157; Cat. KITLV p.15. [Bookseller: Gert Jan BESTEBREURTJE]
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Phil May's Gutter-Snipes 50 Original Ketches in Pen and Ink London Leadenhall Press 1896. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Slightly sunned and rubbed. Elaborately tooled inner edges with marbled eps. Bookplate. Very small circular insignia of a man on a stool on rear board in gilt. Aeg. Inscribed by previous owner on eps First Edition Leather maroon cover 280mm x 220mm (11" x 9"). [50pp. Early sketches from the famous 'Punch' illustrator. [Bookseller: Barter Books]
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Floating Island or The Pearl of the Pacific Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd, 1896. Hardcover. Fair/No Dustjacket. 1896. 382 pages. No dust jacket. Green pictorial boards. Hinges are cracked exposing the binding netting but text block still firm. Cream pages with fingerprint marks throughout. Inscriptions to ffep, title page, endpaper and back pastedown. 'College Library' stamp to last and first text pages. B&W illustrations throughout. Moderate foxing and area of loss to the frontis piece tissue guard. Moderately soiled and rubbed boards with heavy tanning and surface wear. Moderate edge rubbing, scuffing and wear with light corner bumping. Moderate tanning, lean and rubbing to the spine. Small area of loss to the bottom spine. [Bookseller: The World of Rare Books]
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Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted Hammersmith Kelmscott Press 1896 - The Magnificent Kelmscott Chaucer, One of Approximately Fifty Copies Bound by the Doves Bindery. And with a Rare Bifolium Proof with Variant Typsetting for the Opening Page and it's Conjugate Leaf [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted. [Hammersmith: Printed by.William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1896]. One of 425 paper copies, out of a total edition of 438 copies. Large folio (16 5/8 x 11 3/8 inches; 423 x 288 mm.). [4], ii, [2], 554, [2, blank] pp. With eighty-seven woodcut illustrations after Sir Edward Burne-Jones, redrawn by Robert Catterson-Smith and cut by W.H. Hooper. Woodcut title-page, fourteen variously repeated woodcut borders, eighteen variously repeated woodcut frames around illustrations, twenty-six nineteen-line woodcut initial words, numerous three-, six-, and ten-line woodcut initial letters, and woodcut printer’s device, all designed by William Morris and cut by C.E. Keates, W.H. Hooper, and W. Spielmeyer. Printed in black and red in Chaucer type, the titles of longer poems printed in Troy type. Double columns. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Included with this is a rare bifolium proof with two conjugate trial leaves with variant typesetting for the opening page of the Chaucer and its conjugate leaf. These trial pages were set using one size smaller type then is found in the final production. By using the smaller type, one extra line of text has been added to the first page. Also included with this is a proof leaf again of the opening page, but with the text area blank. All these leaves have Burne-Jones woodcuts and these leaves in and of themselves are quite rare. Publisher’s white pigskin, elaborately tooled in blind after a design by William Morris. The front cover blind-lettered "Geoffrey Chaucer" at head and "Kelmscott" at foot, with a central panel diagonally ruled into lozenges containing stylized flowers enclosed by a frame of stylized grapevines and a border of small floral tools, the back cover diagonally ruled into lozenges containing stylized oak leaves, the spine in five compartments, each blind-tooled in a foliate design with central fleur-de-lys, two clasps, all edges gilt on rough, by the Doves Bindery (stamped "Doves Bindery on lower rear paste-down). A fine copy in this superb binding. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Housed in a quarter black morocco clamshell. In a printed notice issued on 26 February 1896, Morris announced his intention to provide four special bindings for the Chaucer: two full and two half pigskin designs, one of each style to be executed by the Doves Bindery and by J. & J. Leighton. Because of a debilitating terminal illness (Morris would die on 3 October 1896), the present full pigskin binding by the Doves Bindery was the only special Chaucer design Morris completed. It was, moreover, one of only four binding designs he ever created and one of the last designs of any kind that he made. Only approximately fifty copies were bound by the Doves Bindery from Morris’s design and stamped on the lower rear paste down "The Doves Bindery"; these were bound over a period of years starting just after publication. These were the only books ever issued by the Kelmscott Press in bindings other than quarter holland over blue paper boards or limp vellum with silk ties. The Kelmscott Chaucer is "the most famous book of the modern private press movement, and"—especially when bound after Morris’s own design—"the culmination of William Morris’s endeavor" (The Artist and the Book). Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp. 46-48. The Artist & the Book 45. Peterson A40. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 329, no. 40. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 258. Sparling 40. Tomkinson, p. 117, no. 40. HBS 65739. $225,000 [Attributes: Soft Cover] [Bookseller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA]
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Sermonen op die ewangelien mitten text vanden sonnendagen des ghehelen iaers ende vanden groten hoechtiden.Den Hem, Monastery of the Regular canons, 1501, 20 March. Small folio (ca. 20 x 26 cm). With woodcut initial of 5 lines, one of 11 lines. 41 lines to a page, printed in 2 columns. Modern vellum over boards. Nijhoff & Kronenberg 1896; STCN (3 copies, incl. 1 incomplete); for the woodcut initials: Nijhoff, Art Typographique, II, 5, 1. Rare edition by the Regular Canons in Den Hem of a collection of Sunday sermons for the whole year, sometimes attributed to Jacob de Voragine. One of the most beautifully printed books from this small printing press, set up in the monastery of the Regular Canons at Den Hem, near Schoonhoven in South Holland. Their publications, mostly of liturgical texts, starting in 1495 and, with some 20 editions by the end of the 15th century, continuing well into the next decade, are all rare. With an early 16th-century ownership's inscription on the title page: "Desen bouck behoort toe Barbele Watervliet".Lacking the leaves a4 and a5, with the title-page slightly soiled and some skilfully executed repairs at the top inner corners at the beginning and at the end. Good copy. [Bookseller: ASHER Rare Books (Since 1830)]
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THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE AN EPISODE OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR London: William Heinemann, 1896.. Olive green cloth, stamped in bluish-white. Pictorial title preceding the half-title. Pictorial bookplate on front pastedown, minor rubbing, extremities slightly bumped; a very good copy. First British edition, post- dated and actually published in November of 1895. Published in both cloth and pictorial wrappers in the publisher's "Pioneer Series." The clothbound copies, as here, retained as an extra pictorial title leaf the original pictorial front wrapper utilized for the wrapperbound issue. WILLIAMS & STARRETT 4. BAL 4071n. [Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-]
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Mary Hart Memories and Letters Printed for Private Circulation only by Butler & Tanner, Frome & London First and Only Edition . 1896. - First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green water-marked silk cloth covers, gilt title lettering to the spine, all page edges gilt, charcoal black end papers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [vi] 340 printed pages of text with 5 leaves of plates showing 3 illustrations and 2 photographs, each leaf with a red border line and with a small Maltese Cross to each corner. Chapter headings: Childhood and School Days - Home Life and Voyage to China - First Year in Hankow - 1894 Joy and Sorrow - Closing Months - Last Letters, Illness, and Death - Appendix. Tipped-in note from Miss Harris, South Place, Calne, referring to friends wishing to obtain a copy of this book. Rubbing to the spine ends and corners, spine very slightly darkened, contents in very near Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. MISSIONARIES [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Little Stour Books PBFA]
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Autograph Letter Signed, 8vo, on personalized printed address stationery, London, May 15, 1947 To Ruth Gordon, (1896-985), American actress, screenwriter and playwright, referring to his play in which he was starring in London, "Present Laughter," her play, "Years Ago," and her husband, writer and director Garson Kanin (1912-1999). "Dearest Ruth, I was so touched and pleased that you sent me your play, which...I loved. I shall read it with great nostalgia. If you and Garson don't come to England & see me in 'Present Laughter before I close on July 12th I may never speak to you again...." He signs boldly, "Noel." Coward was leading the cast of the first London revival of his play, "Present Laughter." At the same time, Gordon's play, "Years Ago," directed by Kanin, ran in New York on Broadway until May 31, 1947, leaving less than two weeks for the couple to see Coward's performance. [Bookseller: Schulson Autographs]
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Die Insel Tenerife. Wanderungen im canarischen Hoch- und Tiefland. Leipzig, Hirzel, 1896.. VIII, 328 SS. m. zus. 33 Textabb. u. 4 farb. Karten, gr.- 8°, Hldr. - Bd. mit Rückenschild.. Palau 167.671; Henze III, 456. - Erste Ausgabe. - Die Seite 29/30 unten ohneTextverlust beschnitten. Sauberes und nahezu fleckenfreies Exemplar. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Nikolaus Struck]
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German Social Democracy, six lectures with an Appendix on Social Democracy and the Woman Question in Germany by Alys Russell, Longmans, Green & Co. London, New York and Bombay, 1896. - OTTOLINE MORRELL'S COPY OF RUSSELL'S FIRST BOOK. In November 1895 Russell and Alys went to Berlin where they were given a warm welcome by the leaders of the Social Democrats, August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht. The latter was imprisoned during their visit when the German police cracked down on left-wing activity. Russell's horror at this repression fed into these lectures which he then turned into his first book. 'Its general view of the relative merits of Marxism and Liberalism has stood the test of time remarkably well, and, some might say, has been entirely justified by the political history of the twentieth century' (Ray Monk). This copy's first owner, Lady Ottoline Morrell, didn't become Russell's mistress until 1911. She remained his close friend and confidente until her death in 1938. 8vo, xiv, 204 pp., original maroon cloth with one small blemish, blind stamped lettering on sides, very light wear at spine ends, corners sharp, ownership inscription 'Ottoline Morrell, Oct 1906' on front free endpaper, isolated faint pencil marks in a few margins, a very good association copy of the first edition. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Rudi Thoemmes Rare Books]
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DAILY RESOLVES Ernest Nister; E.P. Dutton & Co., London; New York 1896 - 24mo., (15)pp., illustrated on each page in bright red, green, grey, blue, gilt, etc. chromolithographs. Bound in pebbled cloth backed glossy paper over boards, chromolithographs. The spine's cloth is torn at its crown, with loss. Light to moderate soiling to the covers. Internally clean and bright. A Very Good copy. **** Author's first book. "Booker T. Washington" on the title page. Part of the Gem series. *** [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Frey Fine Books]
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Original Illustration Art The younger brother of noted English artists Henry and Sidney Paget was also a well-known illustrator of books and magazines, often remembered for illustrating novels by Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Walter Scott; chosen to illustrate the first Conan Doyle "Sherlock Holmes" stories, a mixup resulted in his brother Sidney receiving that choice commission; one source described "Wal" Paget's subjects as "easy-to-view scenes of country life, soldiers and girls, and courting couples." Original watercolor in greys and dark hues, 6½" X 5", n.p., n.y. [turn of the century]. Near fine. Mild age toning. Titled (on verso) "Atkins & his Tawny Wife," this scene was published on page 313 of an edition of Daniel Defoe's "Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" published by Cassell and Company in London in 1896, featuring 120 illustrations by Paget. It features all of the qualities mentioned in the "source" cited above: Crusoe and an Indian maiden recline in a meadow in the left foreground, with two soldier-like figures in the distance at right. Matted in grey and framed in an ornate black and gilt 3/4" frame (overall dimensions 13½" X 12") using archival, acid-free materials. A choice example of this artist's work from one of his best-known commissions, superbly presented. [Bookseller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, AB]
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India. Photographs and Drawings Of Historical Buildings. 100 Plates Reproduced By W.Griggs From the Collection in the late Office of Curator of Ancient Monuments in India London: 1896. First Edition. Including architectural details and/or plans of the Tomb of Akbar, Sikandra; the Tomb of Itmad-Ud-Daulah, Agra; Gwalior; Diwan-I-Am In The Fort, Delhi; Diwan-I-Khas In The Fort, Delhi; Rajputana, Palace at Udaipur in Mewar; Chittor; Buddhist Tope, Sanchi, Bhopal State; Madura, Madras, Great Temple to Siva and his Consort; Great Temple to Vishnu on the Srirangam Island, Trichinopoly; Jambuishwar Temple near Trichinopoly; Shahdara, near Lahore; Lahore Fort; Shahlimar Gardens, near Lahore; Golden Temple, Amritsar; Badshahi Sarai at Nurmahal, near Jalandhar; and the Buddhist Sculptures of Gandhara. Griggs invented colour-photolithography and was chromolithographer to Queen Victoria and King Edward VII. Although he does not mention this particular work, Martin Hardie in English Coloured Books (pp. 255-56) notes that William Griggs was for some time in charge of all the photo-lithographic work done for the Indian Government at Whitehall and that he was responsible for the reproduction of Indian textiles and decorative arts in chromolithographs ìof extraordinary beauty and fidelityî in The Textile Fabrics of India (1874-80) and Journal of Indian Art (1886- ). He also did striking work reproducing illuminated manuscripts and bookbinding. ìBut for the brilliant and painstaking work of Mr. Griggs, chromo-lithography as a means of illustrating books would be almost a lost art, like that of coloured aquatint.î (Idem). folio. [ff. 13]. 100 lithographed plates (12 folding; incl. 47 chromolithographs, 9 of which are folding). original gilt-stamped cloth (extremities frayed, a few short marginal tears, bookplate removed from front paste-down, lacking front blank) [Bookseller: D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)]
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Summer Woodcock Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1896 - A stunning hunting print from one of America's most celebrated sporting artists. Arthur Burdett Frost (1851-1928) is remembered as one of America's best-loved sporting artists. His evocative hunting and shooting prints capture the drama of the sport and provide an invaluable visual record of rural America. Frost was an incredibly successful artist, he illustrated more than ninety books and produced thousands of illustrations for Harper's Weekly, Scribner's and Life magazines. Although born in Philadelphia, he spent the majority of his working career in New Jersey where he produced some of his most noted work. Frost's most desirable and rare prints are the twelve chromolithographs from the portfolio entitled "Shooting Pictures", depicting various shooting scenes from upland gunning to waterfowling. The portfolio, which was printed on separate sheet and tipped onto card backing boards, was reproduced by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1895. This dramatic image is a wonderful example from this famous series and demonstrates why Frost is considered one of America's most celebrated sporting artists. Chromolithograph. In excellent condition. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA)]
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Spiritual Poems, Chiefly Done Out of Several Languages., (London: Hacon & Ricketts,1896.) - 5 x 7 1/2. cxiii pages. Woodcut frontis and title border by Charles Ricketts. Contemporary wine morocco by Macdonald, triple gilt rules on covers & turn-ins, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt, lavender marbled endpapers. Light wear at upper joint and extremities., but fine. One of 210 copies in Rickett's Vale type on handmade paper. Printed at the Ballantyne Press under Ricketts direction. [Attributes: Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Veatchs Arts of the Book, ABAA]
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PICTURES FROM GREEK VASES, THE WHITE ATHENIAN LEKYTHI. A series of twelve Polychrome Plates representing the paintings on typical examples of the White Athenian Lekythi London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1896.. FIRST EDITION 1896, oblong 4to, approximately 400 x 300 mm, 15½ x 12 inches, 12 polychrome colour plates with loose tissue guards, 22 text illustrations, 18 pages of text, original publisher's beige cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, oval gilt decoration to upper cover, gilt top edge. Binding very slightly dusty, endpapers have some pale brown staining and light foxing, some light foxing to the blank side of the plates and some occasional light foxing to blank margins of plates, some tissue guards slightly damaged and creased with the occasional brown stain to corner or edge, otherwise a very good clean copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. [Bookseller: Roger Middleton]
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A New Booke of Drawings ONT>, 1896 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A scarce facsimile of this illustrated guide to the works of Jean Tijou. Illustrated throughout with twenty plates (collated complete). Jean Tijou was a French Huguenot ironworker. He is known solely through his work in England, where he worked on several of the key English Baroque buildings. He arrived in England in c. 1689 and enjoyed the patronage of William and Mary for whom he made gates and railings for Hampton Court Palace. He produced the screens and grilles of St. Paul's Cathedral for Sir Christopher Wren, and worked at country houses such as Easton Neston, Burghley and Chatsworth. At Chatsworth his surviving works include the balustrade of the upper flight of the grand staircase and the set of gates known as the Golden Gates, which were moved to their present location at the north entrance to the park in the 19th century. Tijou published his New Book of Drawings in 1693 and continued to work in England until around 1711. Condition: In a paper-covered binding. Externally, rather worn, with some loss to the backstrip and some dampstaining to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, though with some light foxing to the endpapers and some handling marks throughout. Overall: FAIR with a VERY GOOD INTERIOR.. [Bookseller: Rooke Books]
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The Case of Wagner; London: H. Henry and Co. Ltd.,, 1896.. Nietzsche Contra Wagner; The Twilight of the Idols; The Antichrist. Translated by Thomas Common. Octavo (235 x 148 mm). Original dark green cloth, art nouveau floral decoration to upper board and spine in blind and titles gilt, black endpapers. Ownership inscription to half-title. Spine ends a bit bumped, minor wear to head, a few small light marks to the front board. An excellent copy. First UK edition, first impression of the first English translation. [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]
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Maggie D. Appleton and Company, 1896-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. New York: D. Appleton and Co, 19896: First Edition, First Printing, First State with matching dates of 1896 on both the copyright and title pages. First State with letters on the title page printed in both capital and lower case letters; later states are in all capital. In Very Good condition. Clean pages, lightly age toned with a reading crease to the corner of page 17. Light staining to about three pages, as shown above at the top of the title page. Cloth shows light wear, light soiling and rubbing. Bumped corners. Stamping on spine is rubbed. A nice copy, well preserved. [Bookseller: Burnside Rare Books]
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Histoire de la Langue et de la Litterature francaise des Origines a 1900. Tome I - Tome VIII, Contient: Tomes I-II: Moyen Age, III: Seizieme siecle, IV-V: Dix-septieme siecle, VI: Dix-huitieme siecle, VII-VIII: Dix-neuvieme Siecle Armand Colin & Cie, Editeurs, Paris 1896 - History of the French Language and Literature from Its Origins to 1900 Decorated with Inset Color Plates in 8 Volumes. 1896-1899. Bound in marbled boards with morocco spine, gilt titles and decorations, marbled endpages, silk markers. The bookplate of Julia Folger Corson, from an etching by J. WINFRED SPENCELEY, front pastedown each volume. All volumes Very Good or better, some rubbing to morocco. A quite handsome set indeed ! Varying in length from 408 to 928 pages , also a heavy set that will require additional postage. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Dale Steffey Books]
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Verses and Sonnets. Ward and Downey 1896 - FIRST EDITION, printed on stiff paper, small brown drip-spot on opening text-page and facing verso, pp. 64, 12mo, original ribbed green cloth with one or two small bubbles, small black mark to leading edge of upper board with a small bump to foot of same, backstrip lettered in gilt now dulled and softened at tips, t.e.g., others untrimmed, bookplates of Simon and Judith Nowell-Smith to front pastedown, custom cloth box, very good Inscribed by the author to the flyleaf: ‘To Stewart Miller, from the Author, King’s Land, June 1906’. Belloc has made corrections to the text on pp. 54, 55, 59, & 63. The author’s first book was published shortly after he graduated from Balliol, but withdrawn shortly after - a scarce proposition, even without the additional interest of the author’s corrections and inscription. (Cahill 1) [Bookseller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA]
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Autograph Note Signed 1896 - Beautiful note to Henri Leyret, Zola' spublisher at Charpentier et co. Together with Zola's addressed envelope. On Zola's business card with his Paris address "Rue de Bruxelles" [Bookseller: Sterling Books]
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Schlesisches Bonifatius-Vereins-Blatt: eine Zeitschrift zur Förderung der Interessen des Bonifatius-Vereins in Deutschland (KONVOLUT aus: Jg. 37 (1896) - Jg. 76 (1935); einheitlich gebunden in 15 Bänden; ES FEHLT Jg. 64 (1923) und Jg. 65 (1925); ansonsten KOMPLETTE aufeinander folgende Jahrgänge bestehend aus jeweils 12 Heften) Selbstverlag des Diözesanvorstandes des Bonifatius-Vereins; 1896 - 1935.. je Jahrgang 12 Hefte; Gebundene Ausgabe. SELTEN/ RARITÄT!!! Die hier angebotenen Bände befinden sich ein einem ordentlich erhaltenen Zustand; Buchschnitt und Seitenränder alters-/papierbedingt angebräunt; Orgi. Halbleinen; KOMPLETTPREIS für 15 Bände; bei Versand ins Ausland erfragen Sie bitte zuerst die Versandkosten!! [Bookseller: Petra Gros - Versandantiquariat]
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Eigenh. Postkarte mit U. [Berlin, 10. XII. 1896].. 1 S. Qu.-8vo.. An den Hofphotographen Wilhelm Höffert am Leipziger Platz: "Zum Zweck einer photographischen Aufnahme möchte ich mich morgen Mittwoch Vormittag zwischen 11 u. 12 Uhr einfinden, falls dieses Ihre geschäftlichen Dispositionen erlauben [...]?". - Leicht fleckig. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Inlibris, Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH]
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Tagebuch einer Reise in Inner-Arabien. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1896, 1914.. 2 Teile in einem Band. VIII, 251, 9 nn. S. / XIII, 303, 2 S., zahlr. Textabb. , Tafeln und Karten Gr.-8°, HLeder der Zeit. Henze II, 186. - Exlibris, Stempel auf Titel, [Bookseller: Antiquariat Galerie Joy]
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HINDU ASTRONOMY. London, Chas. Straker & Sons, Ltd., 1896.FIRST EDITION 1896. SIR WILLIAM CHRISTIE'S COPY, ASTRONOMER ROYAL. Tall 8vo, approximately 265 x 155 mm, 10¼ x 6¼ inches, 11 plates and 2 illustrations in the text, diagrams in the text, pages: xiv, 329, original publisher's cloth, bevelled boards, black decoration to covers and spine, gilt lettered spine, dark brown endpapers. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly worn, spine edges a little rubbed, tiny bump to top corner of upper cover, edges slightly foxed and occasional fox spots just showing in margins, contents very nice. Printer's error slip tipped in at page 256 explaining misnumbering, book is guaranteed complete. A very good copy. Chapters on: Prehistoric Astronomy of the Aryan migrating tribes; Early Hindu Periods; The Hindu Ecliptic; The Hindu Months; Theory regarding the cause of the Planetary Motions; Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geometry of the Hindus; Hindu Astronomical Instruments; Early Hindu Astronomers; Rise of the Buddhist Heresy, and its Effects on Hindu Astronomy; Astronomical Works of the Hindus; Description of the Surya Siddhanta. This copy was presented to William Christie, Astronomer Royal from 1881 to 1910 from Rajendra Nayayan Rai Bahadur with a presentation slip, dated 1896 tipped in on the title page (we bought several books from Christie's library). Under Christie the Royal Observatory at Greenwich not only continued its work in positional astronomy but also began a programme of stellar photography and one of making daily records of solar activity. The Observatory also took part in a number of international collaborative projects such as the Astrographic Chart and Carte du Ciel project of mapping the entire sky in both catalogue and photographic form. Eighteen Observatories were involved in this project from all over the world. Christie was also responsible for a number of additions to the Observatory which included purchasing the 28" telescope still in working order today. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. [Bookseller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A.]
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Narrative of James Murrells ' ("Jemmy Morrill") Seventeen Years' Exile among the wild blacks of North Queensland,and his life and shipwreck and terrible adventures among savage tribes; their manners, customs, languages, and superstitions; also Murrells' rescue and return to civilization Edmund Gregory, Brisbane 1896 - Small octavo, 45 pp., two photographic reproductions, first very toned but the paper otherwise good; original printed blue paper wrappers, very worn at the spine; preserved in a silk-lined green morocco box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. 17 years with the Aborigines of North Queensland. Rare 19th-century edition of an important account of the shipwreck of James Murrells and the subsequent seventeen years he spent living with an Aboriginal tribe near Mount Elliott on the Queensland coast south of Townsville. First published in 1863, this 1896 edition has an interesting foreword by the editor and Government Printer of Brisbane, Edmund Gregory. 'In 1846, the ship Peruvian was wrecked on her way from Sydney to China. A raft conducted seven of the survivors to the shore near Cape Cleveland. Three died before they had been landed a fortnight. The others were then discovered by the blacks. When both sides had recovered their mutual astonishment and alarm, they made each other's acquaintance. The natives appeared to have treated them with kindness and consideration? After seventeen years wandering with the blacks, he eventually (in 1863) approached the fence of a sheep-yard? and, upon being challenged by the settlers, was able to find words to the effect that he was a shipwrecked seaman. His story was obtained from him with great difficulty, owing to his reticence. Examined by the Police Magistrate of Rockhampton "he contented himself with monosyllabic replies, and augmented rather than satisfied the thirst of his audience for information".' (Ferguson). [Attributes: Soft Cover] [Bookseller: Hordern House Rare Books]
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Mary Hart Memories and Letters Printed for Private Circulation only by Butler & Tanner, Frome & London First and Only Edition 1896. 1896. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green water-marked silk cloth covers, gilt title lettering to the spine, all page edges gilt, charcoal black end papers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [vi] 340 printed pages of text with 5 leaves of plates showing 3 illustrations and 2 photographs, each leaf with a red border line and with a small Maltese Cross to each corner. Chapter headings: Childhood and School Days - Home Life and Voyage to China - First Year in Hankow - 1894 Joy and Sorrow - Closing Months - Last Letters, Illness, and Death - Appendix. Tipped-in note from Miss Harris, South Place, Calne, referring to friends wishing to obtain a copy of this book. Rubbing to the spine ends and corners, spine very slightly darkened, contents in very near Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. [Bookseller: Little Stour Books PBFA]
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PICTURES FROM GREEK VASES, THE WHITE ATHENIAN LEKYTHI. A series of twelve Polychrome Plates representing the paintings on typical examples of the White Athenian Lekythi. London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1896.FIRST EDITION 1896, oblong 4to, approximately 400 x 300 mm, 15½ x 12 inches, 12 polychrome colour plates with loose tissue guards, 22 text illustrations, 18 pages of text, original publisher's beige cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, oval gilt decoration to upper cover, gilt top edge. Binding very slightly dusty, endpapers have some pale brown staining and light foxing, some light foxing to the blank side of the plates and some occasional light foxing to blank margins of plates, some tissue guards slightly damaged and creased with the occasional brown stain to corner or edge, otherwise a very good clean copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. [Bookseller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A.]
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The Tailless Batrachians of Europe London: The Ray Society 1896-7. Two volumes, with 24 plates (of which 16 are coloured), plus folding maps and text illustrations, pp iii, 210; (211-376), 31; neat and tiny owner's signature and stamp on front endpaper of each volume, original dark blue decorated cloth. [The first volume is becoming weak internally, otherwise this is an exceptionally clean copy in a very bright binding. Very scarce.] . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. [Bookseller: Mike Park Ltd]
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The Well at the World's End. Hammersmith. Kelmscott Press 1896. 4to. Vier Doppeltitel von Edward Burne-Jones, 495 S. mit hunderten Orig.-Holzschnitt-Bordüren, Initialen u. Zierstücken von William Morris. Orig.-Pergamentbd. mit Rückentitel. . . Handkoloriertes Exemplar! Hervorragend schöner Druck der Kelmscott Press in 350 Exemplaren auf Bütten, zweispaltig aus der Chaucer Type gesetzt und in Schwarz und Rot gedruckt. Dieses Exemplar durchgehend handkoloriert. Mit Hunderten von Holzschnitt-Bordüren, Initialen u. Zierstücken in prächtiger Farbigkeit. Die vier doppelblattgroßen Holzschnitte von E. Burne-Jones sowie zahlreiche Initialen zusätzlich in Gold gefasst. Makellos und fleckenfrei erhalten. Ehemals Sammlung Lynval Davidson. - Tomkinson 39. [Bookseller: Antiquariat Schmidt & Günther Einzelunte]
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Histoire de la Race Chevaline Boulonnaise. De son Évolution depuis ses Origines il y a deux mille ans. Ornée de Dessind de Maitres réputés, Hors Concours du Salon des Artistes Francais et honorée de la Médaille d'Or de l'Académie d'Agriculture de France. Malfait & Cie.,, Arras, 1896 - Arras, Malfait & Cie., o. J. [1896]. V + VIII + 204 S. Priv. HLd. der Zeit, mit eingebundener OBrosch. u. Goldschnitt. 2. Aufl. In franz. Sprache. Mit der doppelseitigen Karte und allen 14 Tafeln sowie Abbildungen im Text und dem Porträt des Verfassers. - Leichte Gbrsp., Schn. etw. stockfleckig, schönes Expl. Prämienband. Französisch Priv. HLd. der Zeit, mit eingebundener OBrosch. u. Goldschnitt. [Attributes: Soft Cover] [Bookseller: Antiquariat Weinek]
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Winston S. Churchill. Companion Volume I. Part 1, 1874-1896. Part 2, 1896-1900. In two volumes 96. Part 2, 1896-1900. In two volumes, 1967. 96. Part 2, 1896-1900. In two volumes, 1967 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. The first companion volume to the official biography of Britain's wartime Prime Minister, in two parts spanning over a quarter of a century. First Editions. Condition: In cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dustwrappers. Externally, excellent, justa little shelfwear. Internally, firmly bound and bright and clean, with just some light marks to the textblock edges. Overall: FINE inNEAR FINEdustwrappers.. [Bookseller: Rooke Books]
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Richmond on the Thames London - Seeley and Co., 1896. London - Seeley and Co., 1896 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A beautifully illustrated introduction into the history of the affluent town of Richmond, which was historically part of Surrey. Charmingly illustrated throughout with four engraved plates with their original tissue guards. As well as various illustrations throughout the text. The Thames is a major contributor to the interest that Richmond inspires in many people. With John Trinks Spalding's armorial bookplate to the front free endpaper. Condition: In original cloth binding with decorative gilt design to the front board. Externally, sound, with some very light rubbing to the front board and spine. Internally, generally firmly bound and bright. Instances of scattered foxing throughout and armorial bookplates to the front pastedown and front free endpaper. Overall: GOOD, due to foxing. [Bookseller: Rooke Books]
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The Hymenoptera Aculeata of the British Islands - a descriptive account of the families, genera and species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, with notes as to habits, localities, habitats etc London: L. Reeve & Co, 1896. London: L. Reeve & Co, 1896. With 3 plain and 51 colour plates, slightly age-toned, quarto, pp xii, 392, new endpapers, original cloth slightly rubbed, slightly more so at the joints, spine slightly marked. Seventeen of the plates have a paper production crease horizontally, and two plates have a slight mark on the facing letterpress page which has transferred to the plate - see illlustrations for examples. [Ray Palmer's copy, with his two-page manuscript "additions" list bound in at the front and a few neat manuscript pencil notes internally. Also with the signature of Charles Fredk Knight.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good. [Bookseller: Mike Park Ltd]
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Heart of the World London - Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. London - Longmans, Green and Co., 1896 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition. A first edition of this adventure novel set in a pre-Aztec city. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates. Condition: In a green cloth binding. Externally generally smart, though with some sunning and bumpingto the spine. Splitting to the cloth on the rear joint. Front hinge slightly strained. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, though with the occasional patch of spotting. Overall: VERY GOOD.. [Bookseller: Rooke Books]
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Sagesse Humaine Neuchatel - Attinger Freres, 1896. Neuchatel - Attinger Freres, 1896 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Full vellum binding with attractive floral design to front board. Each page is also decorated with a lovely purple floral border. French text. Large collection of quotations from a range of authors on a variety of subjects including friendship, love, courage and virtue. Condition: The binding is tight and firm and both covers are firmly attached. There is some wear to the extremities, including some small marks to the front board and the spine is slightly worn. Internally the book is clean and bright apart from some isolated spotting affecting the end papers only.. [Bookseller: Rooke Books]
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Vier eighd. ein- bzw. zweiseitige Briefe (DIN A4 und 5) mit Signatur, dat. Schloß Englar im Eppan 29.4.1896, 11.10.1896, 22.10.1896 und 29.10.1896 sowie drei eighd. Kuverts und eine eighd. Postkarte, alle auf Briefpapier mit Briefkopf "Schloß Englar im Eppan" (bis auf einen Brief). Eppan, 1896 - Eppan, 1896. Faltspuren, angestaubt, leichte Gbrsp. - Bierbaum, (1865 - 1910), studierte Rechtswissenschaften und Philologie, daneben auch Chinesisch, um sich auf den diplomatischen Dienst vorzubereiten. Nach dem Bankrott des Vaters 1887 schrieb B. zur Finanzierung seines Studiums (das er 1889 ganz aufgab) Feuilletons und Rezensionen u.a. für die Münchener "Neue Freie Presse". 1889 verlegte B. seinen Wohnsitz nach München, gründete 1891 seine erste literarische Zeitschrift "Modernes Leben [.]" und gab den von Franz Stuck illustrierten "Modernen Musenalmanach auf das Jahr 1893" heraus. Nach dem Umzug nach Berlin 1893 redigierte er u.a. "Die freie Bühne" und gehörte zu den Gründern und Herausgebern der Zeitschriften "Pan" sowie "Die Insel". Nach verschiedenen Reisen 1898-1909 wieder in München lebend, war B. u.a. am Kabarett "Die elf Scharfrichter" tätig. Er veröffentlichte vielgelesene Lyrikbände (Irrgarten der Liebe, 1900), Romane (Stilpe [.], 1897) und Dramen. (DBE) Deutsch [Bookseller: Antiquariat Weinek]
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Advanced (Third Grade) Perspective: Comprising Angular and Oblique Perspective, Shadows and Reflections. Specially prepared for the use of Art Students. In two volumes London - Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox, 1896. London - Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox, 1896 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A scarce late Victorian technical drawing manual for art students, concerning perspective. The seventh edition. Volume I concerns 'Angular and Oblique Perspective', and Volume II 'Shadows and Reflections'. Featuring 70 plates,many fold out. A number of the plates have tabs. With an introduction by John Sparkes, 'Head Master of National Art Training Schools, South Kensington'. H. J. Dennis is described as 'Head Master Lambeth School of Art, Dulwich College, Stockwell College, etc'. Condition: In half cloth bindings. Externally, some shelfwear. Internally, loose (ascommon with a gutta percha binding), with the majority of pages detached. Occasional light foxing prominent to just the first and last few pages, with occasional marginal dusting and handling marks. The plates are generally clean. Occasional ink library stamps, ink shelfmarks to titlepages, lending bookplates to front pastedowns, and worn shelfmark label to spine of Volume II. Overall:GOOD ONLYdue to binding.. [Bookseller: Rooke Books]
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THE NOVELS, TALES AND SKETCHES OF J.M. BARRIE Charles Scribner's Sons, Hodder & Stoughton 1896 - 1st 1896. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. 8 volumes. Green cloth, gilt titles. Gilt decoration to spines. B/w frontis to each volume. Spines browned. Boards slightly marked. Three spines have small patches of ewear. Contents in general very good. [S] [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA]
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Thus Spake Zarathustra: London: H. Henry and Co. Ltd., 1896. London: H. Henry and Co. Ltd.,, 1896. A Book for All and None. Translated by Alexander Tille. Octavo (230 x 147 mm). Original dark green cloth, art nouveau floral decoration to upper board and spine in blind and titles gilt, black endpapers. Ownership signature to front flyleaf. Spine gently cocked, spine ends slightly bumped, and a few minor scuff marks to boards. Otherwise an excellent, bright copy. First UK edition, first impression of the first English translation. Originally published the same year by the Macmillan Company, New York. [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]
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The Exploration of the Caucasus Edward Arnold, London 1896 - 2 vols. Large 8vo. Pp xxiii, 278; x, 295. Collated - perfect, with all the plates, maps and panoramas called for. Original cloth, gilt. Teg. Beveled edges. Spines darkened. Occasional bump and mark to boards. Crack between half tile and frontis vol 1. Scattered foxing. No inscriptions. A nice copy, very satisfactory. Postage will be at cost. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover] [Bookseller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd.]
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LES CELLIERS CONSTRUCTION ET MATIRIEL VINICOLE AVEC LA DESCRIPTION DES PRINCIPAUX CELLIERS DU MIDI, DU BORDELAIS, DE LA BOURGOGNE ET DE L'ALGERIE . Zustand: Excelente Einband: Encuadernacion de tapa dura. Montpellier. 1896. Holandesa. VIII+518Pag+6h. 25X17. Profusamente ilustrado con fotografias y grabados. Magnifico ejemplar, muy apreciado. Ref 4.7 Biblioteca A [Bookseller: Libreria Anticuaria Marc & Antiques]
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