Sam Gatteño Books: Decorative Bindings, Nineteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books
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Companion Poets: Whittier's National Lyrics, Bryant's Voices of Nature, Holmes's Humorous Poems.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Brown morocco; boards and spines stamped in dark brown; gilt-lettered spines; gilt-tooled board edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Bound by William Matthews, and signed by him. Illustrated. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2366
USD 550.00 [Appr.: EURO 513.75 | £UK 440.25 | JP¥ 87019]
The Evergreen. A Christmas, New Year, and Birthday Gift.
New York: Leavitt & Allen, n.d. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 252pp. Bound in black morocco with floral designs in blind and a gilt panel stamped in floral design with a rose and gilt centerpiece. Title, "The Evergreen" written in middle. Pattern repeated on lower cover. All edges gilt. Flat spine, with gilt and blind decorations. Illustrated. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2376
USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 140.25 | £UK 120.25 | JP¥ 23733]
The Knickerbocker Gallery: a testimonial to the editor of the Knickerbocker magazine [i.e. Lewis Gaylord Clark] from its contributors. With forty-eight portraits on steel ... engraved expressly for this work.
New York: S. Hueston, 1855. 0. Hardcover. Large octavo. 1ff. [ix]-xiv, 15-505pp. Added title-page engraved with vignette. Lacks last few leaves. Bound in red morocco. Illustrated with 49 portraits, including the frontispiece. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2390
USD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 373.75 | £UK 320.25 | JP¥ 63287]
The Ladies Wreath, a Souvenir for all Seasons.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, n.d. [c. 1855]. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 288pp. With an extra lithographed title-page and presentation pages. Bound in red morocco with gilt pictorial design on both covers. All edges gilt. Flat spine, gilt. Repaired. With four full-page engraved plates. Not in Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings 1825-1855; Faxon 457a. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2391
USD 190.00 [Appr.: EURO 177.5 | £UK 152.25 | JP¥ 30061]
Sketches of Life and Character.
Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, 1850. 0. Hardcover. Large octavo. vi, 7-416pp. Second edition. Contemporary red cloth, with 3 rules in blind. A floral design in blind surrounds a gilt floral design in the center of both covers. Spine decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. On the lower cover, in the center of the bottom rules, blindstamped by the binder's mark: "Nicholson & Cook, Binders. Philada." With 16 engravings and a portrait of the author. First edition was published in 1849. Presentation copy. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2353
USD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 280.25 | £UK 240.25 | JP¥ 47465]
The Sons of the Temperance Offering for 1850.
New York: Nafis & Cornish, 1850. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 320pp. Red sheep in imitation of morocco, lavishly gilt-stamped front and back with a large fountain in the midst of foliage, olive branch-bearing doves, and arabesque swags; spine pictorially gilt-stamped with a figure of Justice, another fountain, and a man and woman taking the pledge of temperance. All edges gilt. With 9 plates engraved by W.G. Jackman of New York and a colored frontispiece. Faxon 761 & 762 for known editions; Sabin 87106. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2354
USD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 280.25 | £UK 240.25 | JP¥ 47465]
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron.
New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1866. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 829pp. Bound in brown calf, gilt in blind. Byron's name in gilt in central panel. All edges gilt. Illustrated. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2362
USD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 373.75 | £UK 320.25 | JP¥ 63287]
The Josephine Gallery.
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1859. 0. Hardcover. Large octavo. 287pp. First edition. Green morocco, heavily decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. With eight full-page colored lithographic portraits by J. Champagne. The lithographs represent Josephine, Mlle Columbier, Charlotte Corday, Mme Roland, Mme Tallien, Mme Junot, Pauline Bonaparte, & Mlle Lenormand. Bennett in his reference on American plate books describes this book thus: "Elaborate lithographed portrait of Empress Josephine in bright colors as frontispiece, other portraits, all having the same fine quality both of drawing & colors of women celebrated during the French Revolutionary & Napoleonic periods." Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2363
USD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 280.25 | £UK 240.25 | JP¥ 47465]
The Vision: or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri.
New York & Philadelphia: D. Appleton & Co. & Geo. S. Appleon, 1851. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 587pp. Publisher's original blindstamped green cloth. Spine gilt, but faded. With a frontispiece portrait of Dante, and 12 engravings from designs by John Flaxman. With a bookseller's ticket: "W.M. MURRAY'S/Cheap Book Store,/Kramph's Building 2(?),/North Queen st./Lancaster, Pa." Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2364
USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 140.25 | £UK 120.25 | JP¥ 23733]
The Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the Lives and Sufferings of His Holy Evengelists and Apostles.
Philadelphia: Published by Bradley & Co. 1866. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. Bound in red morocco stylized design in blind; Christ's bust stamped in gilt on upper cover. Design repeated on lower cover, but all in blind. Spine with stylized design in blind, title stamped in gilt within a circle. Christ on the cross below, also in gilt. Illustrated. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2377
USD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 280.25 | £UK 240.25 | JP¥ 47465]
The Deserted Village. Illustrated by the Etching Club.
New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1859. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 46, 2pp. Bound in dark brown hard grain morocco with large leafy and arabesque border enclosing the title and source of illustration in gilt with leafy flourishes and binder's (?) initials, L. J. within leafy flourish. Design repeated on lower cover. Spine delicately gilt. Very much in the style of bindings done by E. H. Butler & Co. except that their work, as shown in Maser, dates from a later period. Illustrated. In Maser's books, reference is made to E. H. Butler & Co.'s bindings as, "incorporating the drap color and simple spines with heavily ornamented boards." One contemporary writer referred to Butler & Company's "inventive genius in the art of ornamentation, capable of bringing forth continually new styles of elegant embellishment." Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2381
USD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 187 | £UK 160.25 | JP¥ 31643]
The good natur'd man: a comedy. As performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. By Mr. Goldsmith
London: printed for W. Griffin, in Catharine-Street, Strand, 1768. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. vi, [ii], 74, [ii]pp. With a half-title and an epilogue. Half-title lacking in this copy. New edition. Todd's '3f' impression. Page [75] has pressfigure 1. Prologue by Dr. Johnson. Disbound. ESTC T1549; Todd, W.B. 'The first editions of The good natur'd man and She stoops to conquer'. Studies in Bibliography 11, 1958: 133-142. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 003079
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 | £UK 40.25 | JP¥ 7911]
She stoops to conquer: or, the mistakes of a night. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. Written by Doctor Goldsmith.
London: printed for F. Newbery, at the Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1773. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 106, [ii]pp. With the half-title present. Fifth edition. Todd's 6 impression. A reimpression of the text of the first edition, with the pagination corrected. The preliminary leaves have been reset in part and include a half-title. Disbound. ESTC T128278; Roscoe, A197 (7); Todd, W.B. 'The first editions of The good natur'd man and she stoops to conquer'. Studies in Bibliography 11, 1958: 133-142. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 003078
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 | £UK 40.25 | JP¥ 7911]
The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, a Christmas and New Year's Present.
Boston: Otis, Broaders, & Company, 1840. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. viii-304pp. Brown morocco, triple fillet border in blind. Within, a central harp with two cupids around it; in each corner two cupids holding onto a large leaf. Pattern repeated on both covers. All edges gilt. Flat spine, decorated in gilt with leafy arrangement. A lyre on the bottom and a young girl with a flower in her hand in the middle. Title and date stamped in gilt. Illustrated. Not in Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed Leather Bindings 1825-1855. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2382
USD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 373.75 | £UK 320.25 | JP¥ 63287]
The Sacred Poets of England and America for Three Centuries.
New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1857. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 552pp. Contemporary brown morocco. All edges gilt. With several engraved plates. Good.
Sam Gatteño BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 2383
USD 475.00 [Appr.: EURO 443.75 | £UK 380.25 | JP¥ 75153]