Catalogue 110 - Recent Purchases
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Graham York Rare Books Catalogue 110 - Recent purchases Wilhelm Altzenbach. DIE STATT AACHEN. No date, circa 1678, Cologne, double folio, intaglio engraving, bird's eye view of Aachen linen-backed. [Beineke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, BrSides Double Folio 2013 116, in a similar condition] The arms and insignia of Leopold I, the Holy Roman Emperor, amongst a double-headed eagle, surrounded by Charlemagne (Charles the Great) holding his Cathedral, and Hildegard of Vinzgau (his second wife) holding Louis the Pious, his successor. Attached beneath this are engravings of the names and insignia of the Monks and Canons of Aachen. Printed by Altzenbach, surmounted by the arms of Charlemagne, showing the single-headed half body of an eagle as the symbol of the German emperors next to fleurs-de-lis as the symbol of the Kings of France on an impaled shield. [See William Ottley. NOTICES OF ENGRAVERS AND THEIR WORKS...London 1831. " Wilhelm Altzenbach and Gerard Altzenbach...Their works are not of frequent occurrence"] Inset amongst these is ALLMANACH AUFF DAS JAHR 1678, Cologne, Johann Peter Richerman. Almanacs of this period and size are extremely rare. The British Museum department of prints has only one example of a different work printed by Altzenbach and nothing printed by Richerman. £4750.00 01404 41727 [email protected] Page 1 Full image size 570mm x 1170mm, laid on canvas, some holes, repairs and chips. 01404 41727 [email protected] Page 2 INSCRIBED BY A SURVIVOR Bill Alexander. BRITISH VOLUNTEERS FOR LIBERTY: SPAIN 1936-1939. 1986, London, Lawrence and Wishart, pp288, black and white illustrations and map, pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by the author. Very good. £65.00 Bill Alexander worked as an industrial chemist before volunteering to fight in Spain, where he served as Political Commissar of the Anti-Tank Battery and then as Commander of the British Battalion. [From our stock of over 500 books on the Spanish Civil War] 01404 41727 [email protected] Page 3 COPPER MINING IN MEXICO Don Miguel Joseph de Azanza [Broadside]. PARA PROPORCIONAR A LOS DUENOS DE LAS MINAS DE COBRE.... 1799, Mexico, large folio broadside (300mm x 430mm) printed on recto only, establishing detailed values of types of copper and in each region. Azanza (1746-1826) was the Viceroy of Mexico from 1798-1800. Very scarce item. Faint foxing, fold marks, otherwise very good. £395.00 01404 41727 [email protected] Page 4 Natalie Benjamin (Edited by). RECUERDOS. BASQUE CHILDREN REFUGEES IN GREAT BRITAIN. 2007, Oxford, Mousehold Press, ppvi + 368, black and white illustrations, pictorial wrappers. Signed on the title page by Natalie Benjamin, and the rear endpaper by a dozen or more of the surviving evacuees. Very good. £50.00 3840 Basque children were evacuated from Bilbao to Southampton in 1937, accompanied by 80 teachers, 120 helpers and 15 Catholic priests. These refugee children were encourage to come by the Basque government for their own safety, leaving their homes and parents behind. Some of them returned or joined family elsewhere, but by the beginning of the Second World War there were 400 left in Britain who had no home to go back to - there parents were in prison, concentration camps or dead. This book, marking the seventieth anniversary of the children's arrival, was the first book published in Britain to devote itself entirely to their testimonies. [From our stock of over 500 books on the Spanish Civil War] 01404 41727 [email protected] Page 5 James Britten. EUROPEAN FERNS. 1888, London, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 4to, ppxliv + 196 + 8, 30 colour lithograph plates complete, black and white illustrations, original publishers' green pictorial cloth, blocked in gilt and black. An unusually good copy. £450.00 [From a recently acquired natural history collection] 01404 41727 [email protected] Page 6 Christo and Jeanne-Claude. BLACK AND WHITE. 2 MARCH - 8 APRIL 2000. 2000, London, Annely Juda Fine Art, 4to, unpaginated, black and white and colour illustrations, printed wrappers. Signed by the authors. Very good. £125.00 [Dean's Rag-Book]. WINDMILL LAND. No date, circa 1900, London, Dean's Rag Book Co., Ltd., no. 154, Pictured by R. James Williams, printed in colour on cloth, pp10, including an advertising slip for Dean's Rag Books. Exceptionally fine condition. £200.00 01404 41727 [email protected] Page 7 MONUMENTAL REFERENCE WORK. Engelen and Marx. LA SCULPTURE EN BELGIQUE A PARTIR DE 1830. 2006, 7 volumes, Louvain, thousands of black and white illustrations, dustwrappers in a matching pictorial box. ".....est un monument, un ouvrage de reference quasi exhaustif, unique dans le domaine de l'edition par l'etendue de sa documentation photographique et biographique inedite; outil de travail indispensable au collectionneur et au marchand d'art, autant qu'a l'artiste et au critique d'art, cet ouvrage encyclopedique aura sa place dans chaque bibliotheque". A fine set, as new. £250.00 01404 41727 [email protected] Page 8 SCARCE DUBLIN COOKERY Mrs. Frazer. THE PRACTICE OF COOKERY, PASTRY, PICKLING, PRESERVING, & C. CONTAINING FIGURES OF DINNERS, FROM FIVE TO NINETEEN DISHES AND A FULL LIST OF SUPPER DISHES: ALSO, A LIST OF THINGS IN SEASON, FOR EVERY MONTH IN THE YEAR, AND DIRECTIONS FOR CHOOSING PROVISIONS: WITH TWO PLATES, SHOWING THE METHOD OF PLACING DISHES UPON A TABLE, AND THE MANNER OF TRUSSING POULTRY, & C. 1791, Dublin, printed for Messrs. R. Cross, G. Burnett, P. Wogan, J. Moore, W. Jones, J. Rice and R. Mc.Allister, ppxv + 248, 2 black and white plates, full contemporary tree calf, red label. A very attractive copy indeed. £750.00 Maclean:p.55; Oxford: p.120; Bitting: p.166 [not the Dublin edition]. This Dublin edition is scarce, published at the same time as the Edinburgh edition, which is also not common. ESTC locates 3 copies of this Dublin edition in the UK - NLI; NLS; Leeds, Brotherton. 3 copies in the USA - Colonial Williamsburg; Harvard, Schlesinger; University of British Columbia. [We have a large collection of cookery books in stock] 01404 41727 [email protected] Page 9 Goethe. FAUST. EINE TRAGODIE. 1907, Leipzig, Schmidt & Gunther, miniature book, 30mm x 40mm, pp630, full burgundy morocco, lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Spine a little rubbed, otherwise good. £75.00 Oliver Goldsmith. THE WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH: COMPRISING POETICAL WORKS, DRAMAS. VICAR OF WAKEFIELD, CITIZEN OF THE WORLD. PRESENT STATE OF POLITE LEARNING. THE BEE. ESSAYS. LETTERS. WITH INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR BY WILLIAM SPALDING. No date circa 1890, London, Charles Griffin & Company, pp xxxvi, (iv), 366, (ii), black and white illustrations, full green morocco, gilt decoration in compartments, ornate gilt borders on front and back boards. Slight internal foxing, half title removed, otherwise very good. £125.00 01404 41727 [email protected] Page 10 David Hume. THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE AND RACE OF DOUGLAS AND ANGUS. WRITTEN BY MR. DAVID HUME OF GODSCROFT. 1743, Edinburgh, printed by T. W. and T. Ruddimans for L. Hunter, two volumes, 12mo, ppxxiii + 6 page subscribers' list + 388; iv + 422, bookplates of H. J. S. Douglas, Auchincruive, contemporary full calf, blind stamped, lettered in gilt. Small stain on 341 and 342 of volume one, otherwise very good. £450.00 [Memorial Souvenir]. BRITISH BATTALION XV INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE. No date, circa 1938, London, Marston Publicity, pp80, black and white illustrations, printed wrappers. Staples rusted, otherwise very good. £90.00 [From our stock of over 500 books on the Spanish Civil War] 01404 41727 [email protected] Page 11 John Alexander Miller. MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOK DIARY. 1902-1937, folio, 285 pages, full green vellum. A detailed household account book beginning with an index, a description of the newly- married couple's wedding presents, household and personal expenditure, income tax, holidays and excursions, tailoring bills. Miller was a forage merchant in Whitechapel - business seemed to be good and financed a prosperous middle class existence with household staff and investments on the stock exchange. The names of the family, the finances of their daughters and the costs of their home at 14 Fillebrook Road in East London are meticulously recorded. Good. £250.00 01404 41727 [email protected] Page 12 [William Morris.]. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY WILLIAM MORRIS AT THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES TO STUDENTS OF THE BIRMINGHAM MUNICIPAL SCHOOL OF ART ON FEB. 21, 1894. 1898, printed at The Chiswick Press, pp (iv), 25, (iii), original paper-covered, printed boards, buckram backstrip. Slight foxing on boards, slightly frayed top and bottom of spine, otherwise very good. £100.00 [New Penny Handbook]. CRICKET. CONTAINING HINTS ON BOWLING, BATTING, FIELDING, AND CAPTAINCY. ALSO THE RULES FOR THE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP, AND THE LAWS REGULATING THE GAME ETC., ETC., No date, but 1898, London, Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, pp86 + (viii), black and white illustrations, pictorial wrappers. Wrappers chipped, contents browned. £75.00 01404 41727 [email protected] Page 13 Art and Laurie Pepper. STRAIGHT LIFE. THE STORY OF ART PEPPER. DISCOGRAPHY BY TODD SELBERT. 1979, New York, Schrimer Books, ppxii + 516, black and white illustrations, blue cloth in dustwrapper. Tape repair at top of dustwrapper, otherwise good. Straight-shooting and harrowing autobiography of the seminal bebop alto saxist. £20.00 01404 41727 [email protected] Page 14 A.N. Prentice. RENAISSANCE, ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENT IN SPAIN. A SERIES OF EXAMPLES SELECTED FROM THE PUREST WORKS EXECUTED BETWEEN THE YEARS 1500-1560. MEASURED AND DRAWN TOGETHER WITH SHORT DESCRIPTIVE TEXT. No date circa 1893, London, B. T. Batsford, elephant folio, ppx + 16 + 60 full page black and white plates, original green buckram, blocked in gold on upper cover, rebacked preserving original spine. (In 1972 according to pencil notes on the fly leaf).