Ali Baba: ... Arabski Prikazki.

Sofia: Izdava Chemus A.D. 1927. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 32 pages. Biblioteka Detska Radosty 36. Illustrated. Green cloth. With original black-and white wrappers bound in. Upper retained only. Bound with: Gabe, Dora, Zvuncheta: Stikhove Za Desta; Busch, Wilhelm, Maks I Moritz; Karaliichev, Angel, Mecho: Razkazi Za Detsa; Dedovoto Monichence: Narodna prikazka; Prerazkazana. Violino Primo; Kirilov, Ivan, Bashtino ognishte; Spadkodumna Baba: Narodni Prikazkni Prerazkazd Edin Pdin. Seven children's tales, all from the 1920s and 1930s, either original or in translation, retaining their original covers and some with illustrations. A rare find. Good.

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Book number: 1675

Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Juvenilia

Keywords: Children's Books, Bulgarian

Alphabets through the Ages.

Denver: The A.B. Hirschfield Press, Inc. 1950. 0. Soft cover. Square quarto. No pagination. Original printed stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated. Good.

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Book number: 1858

Catalogue: Books about Books, Illustrated Books, Calligraphy

Atlas Elementar. metodo nuevo, breve, facil y demostrativo para aprender la Geografia por si mismo, ó enseñarla aun á los Niños.

En Madrid: en la Oficina de Pantaleon Aznar, 1786. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Two parts in one volume. I: [x], 222pp.; II: [ii], 44, [ii]pp. A4-Z4, Aa4-Ff4, A4-F4. "Nuevo tratado de la esfera," has separate title-page and separate pagination. Contemporary sheep, rubbed. With 22 maps and 2 plates of spheres, all hand-colored. With an ink stain in the middle of page one of part one. Good.

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Book number: 1928

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Travel, Illustrated Books

The beggarly boy. A religious parable. [Cheap Repository. Sunday Reading.].

[London]: Sold by J. Marshall (printer to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts) no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, & no. 4, Aldermay Church-Yard, & R. White, Piccadilly. By S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath. [1795]. 0. Soft cover. Duodecimo. 22, [ii]pp. A12. Disbound. With the woodcut on the title-page hand-colored by a contemporary hand. With a final leaf of advertisements; those on the last page list publications issued from 1 July to 1 November 1795. On bluish paper. ESTC T48879. Last leaf waterstained. Good.

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Book number: 700

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Juvenilia

The biographical magazine; or, complete historical library. A work replete with instruction and entertainment, and accompanied with such embellishments as have not hitherto appeared in any publication of Europe. By a Society of Gentlemen ...

London: printed for F. Newbery, 1776. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [iv], 812 [i.e. 808, [ii]pp.] A2-Z2, AA2-ZZ2, AAA2-ZZZ2, AAAA2-ZZZZ2, AAAAA2-ZZZZZ2, AAAAAA2-ZZZZZZ2, AAAAAAA2-ZZZZZZZ2, AAAAAAAA2-ZZZZZZZZ2, AAAAAAAAA2-UUUUUUUUU2. With a final leaf of errata. Pages 453-456 omitted. Modern half calf over marbled boards. With portraits. Roscoe, A39; ESTC T98528. Even though a number of British libraries have copies of this book, only a handful institutions in the US have it. Illustrated with small circular portraits, I have not been able to find a bibliography noting all the peculiarities of this work. Since it was published in parts (per ESTC), there is nothing to determine the number of plates that are supposed to be present. I have not had access to Roscoe's book, 'John Newbery and his successors,' which may possess the information I am lacking. I contacted an institutional library and asked specifically (a) how many plates there were and (b) whether each author had a corresponding portrait. They provided the following information: (a) there are 27 engraved portraits, and (b) each author does not have a corresponding portrait, inclusive of the portrait of the King and Queen. The portraits are small oval portraits set in the centre of a full-page and engraved on much thicker paper than paper used for the book. My copy differs slightly from this institutional library copy and considerably from the digitized University of Pittsburgh copy, which has only 19 portraits, inclusive of the royal portraits. The portrait of the King is cut out in my copy, but mounted on similarly thick paper; the Queen's portrait is missing, and there are 26 portraits of authors. These differences lead me to believe that this book, originally printed in parts, was compiled and gathered together based on the whims of the bookseller and the collector. A very good copy. Good.

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Book number: 2533

Catalogue: First Editions, Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Book of Martyrs, an Account of Holy Men who died for the Christian Religion.

[Bath]: sold by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious & Moral Tracts,) at Bath; by J. Marshall, at the Cheap Repositories, No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheap-Side, & No. 4, Aldermary Church Yard; & R. White, Piccadilly, [1795]. 0. Soft cover. Duodecimo. 24pp. A12. Issued between March and May, 1795 (Spinney). Disbound. With a woodcut on the title-page. "The martyr's hymn": p. 22. Advertisements on pp. 23-24. ESTC T9343. Staining throughout. Good.

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Book number: 710

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Juvenilia

The Boston Almanac and Business Directory, 1882, Vol. 47.

Boston: Sampson, Davenport & Co. 1882. 0. Hardcover. Small octavo. 592pp. Cloth. Both inner hinges cracked. The map is not present. Illustrated. Fair.

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Book number: 2129

Catalogue: Nineteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

"Byblis;" miroir des arts du livre et de l'estampe.

Paris: A. Morance, 1922-1924. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. II-IV Année. 3 volumes. Edition limited to 600 copies; this set one of the 'de luxe" edition limited to 100 copies on Arches paper. In half calf bindings. Illustrated with original artwork. With 29 original signed prints by Brangwyn (2), Masereel (2), Vertès (2), Beltrand (1), Willaume (2), Achener (1), Amédée-Wetter (1), Gusman (2), Lombart (1), Carlègle (1), Bardet (1), Gobéô (1), Jouas (1), Frélaut (1), Simon (1), Rambousek (1), de Hérain (1), Bouroux (1), Laboureur (2), Broutelle (1), Vox (1), Meheut (1), and Coubine (1). Very Good.

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Book number: 1218

Catalogue: Artbooks, Illustrated Books, Signed and/or Presentation Copies

Keywords: Original Art

Cheap Repository. Husbandry moralized; or, Pleasant Sunday reading for a farmer's kitchen. Part I.

[London]: sold by J. Marshall, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious & Moral Tracts) No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside. & No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, & R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath, [1795]. 0. Soft cover. Duodecimo. 12pp. Disbound. With the woodcut on the title-page hand-colored by a contemporary hand. ESTC T36874. Minor staining to the title-page Good.

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Book number: 711

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Juvenilia

The Chinese Traveller containing a Geographical, Commerical and Political History of China.

London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1775. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. Two volumes. I: vii, 267pp.; II: iii, [300]pp. I: a4, A12-L12, M2; II: []2 A12-M12, N6. Second edition. Modern light blue half goatskin. Spine slightly darkened. With 6 plates & map. Map mounted, due to slight damage to gutter & foreedge. Frontispiece of Confucius & folding plate of Vegetation & Chinese language list in vol I. Folding map of China, Silk Manufacture scenes & Catching Water Fowl plates in vol II. Good.

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Book number: 1946

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Travel, Illustrated Books

The column, called the monument, described, erected to perpetuate the dreadful fire of London in the year 1666; of the rebuilding the city, under the inspection of that great architect Sir Christopher Wren, Knt.

London: printed by J. Bryan, Grocers' Hall Court, Poultry; for Charles Chapman, Keeper of the Monument, [1800?], 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 22pp. Disbound. With a frontispiece. Good.

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Book number: 2485

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

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.

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Book number: 2366

Catalogue: Decorative Bindings, Nineteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Curiöse Beschreibung der auserlesnesten Merckwürdigkeiten, so in denen dreyen Welt-Theilen Asia, Africa und America zu Finden, ...

Augsburg: Zu finden bey Andreas Brinhausser, 1765. 0. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [4], 362, [18]pp. A12-Q12. Contemporary quarter vellum over marbled boards. Three leaves of plates. With engraved frontispiece by J. Bäck and 2 folding engraved plates [1721 first edition]. Sabin 17986 (1784 edition); not in Cordier. Good.

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Book number: 1951

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Travel, Illustrated Books

Dainty desserts and confections flavored with Burnett's pure extracts and tinted with Burnett's standard color pastes.

Boston: Joseph Burnett Co. [between 1894 & 1914]. 0. Soft cover. Tall slim octavo. 30pp. paper wrappers, Upper cover soiled; lower cover with some loss of text. Pasted to the inside of the upper cover, a double-page spread on "Jell-O Ice Cream Powder" in color, described by 'The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Culinary Collection,' in the Special Collections of Michigan State University Libraries as: "The front features Rose O'Neil's "The JELL-O Girl" in a pink dress carrying two servings of ice cream on a tray. A couple is seated in the background. At the top, the title "JELL-O Ice Cream Powder" is state din brown and red lettering. Back cover features an illustration of a "Strawberry Brick" with a box of Ice Cream Powder in the lower right corner. The inside panels contain numerous promotions written in blue and red lettering for JELL-O Ice Cream Powder," and dates c. 1906. A clean tear through the upper part of the first page of the spread. Good.

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Book number: 1380

Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Gastronomy

Daniel in the Den of Lions. [Cheap Repository. Sunday Reading.]

[London]: sold by J. Marshall, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts) no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, & no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, & R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository) at Bath, 1795, 0. Soft cover. Duodecimo. 24pp. A12. Disbound. With a woodcut on the title-page. Spinney, G.H. 'Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.' In Library, 4th series, volume 20 (1939-1940) number 3, 28a; ESTC N505454. In this edition, the second line of the imprint ends "and Religious", and price (in upper and lower case) begins "Price 1d. each." This form of imprint was used between May 1795 and January 1796 (Spinney). Price from imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Below imprint in square brackets, in black-letter: Entered at Stationers Hall. Entered in the Stationers' Register 29 June 1795. ESTC records only two copies; one at the BL and the other at the Bodleian. Good.

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Book number: 2693

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Religion