ACKERMANN, R.,

10 Prints By R. Ackermann + One Other Print Together 11 Prints, All Framed

. A collection of 10 Ackermann prints , all framed and all from the walls of Thornton's Bookshop in Broad street (1835 - 2002) namely: University and Queen's colleges. High street / Oriel college / St. Peter's church / Hall of Exeter college / Merton Chapel Queen's College Chapel / A view of Magpie Lane / The Old Tower / View of Oxford taken from New College tower: (damaged bottom margin) / All Souls College, taken from the top of the Radcliffe Library From A History of The University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. London: R. Ackermann, 1814. After David Loggan's Oxonia, Ackermann's History of Oxford is the best known of works on that great university. The plates from this volume are justly known as perhaps the aesthetically finest views of the city and its colleges, halls, etc. Their interesting compositions, many showing students, travelers, dons, and so on, are finely depicted with the excellent engraving and vivid, rich colour for which these prints are known. + one other print (not Ackermann) View in Broad-Street in Oxford. J. Farington R.A. delt. J. C. Stadler Sculpt. Pub. June 1, 1793, by J. & J. Boydell, Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90, Cheapside. Sepia aquatint. 320 x 220mm. From the 'History of the River Thames'.Abbey: 432. PAYMENT VIA BANK TRANSFER ONLY. COST OF FORWARDING AND INSURANCE IN UK VIA UPS. WE CANNOT SEND THIS COLLECTION ABROAD.

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Book number: F3276

Catalogue: Oxford

Keywords: Oxford Prints

AKHMATOVA, A. - SHILOV, L. (ED.)

Anna Akhmatova V Portretakh I Fotografiyakh. Buklet-Katalog. Vyp. 1

. Moskva: Gos. literaturnyi muzei, 1989. 12 4to sized b/w portraits and photographs by D.Bushen, Yu.Annenkov, K.Petrov-Vodkin, N. Tyrsa, G.Vereiskii, N.Kogan, A.Tyshler, M.Nappel'baum, V.Vinogradov, N.Punin, N.Glen; quarto sized collection of photographs on stiff carton in slipcase.

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Book number: WO040-R

Catalogue: Slavic

Keywords: Weblists2 Russian Literature Slavic Thornslav Portraits Akhmatova

AUDEN, W.H.,

Good and Evil in the Lord of the Rings.

. Oxford, 1993, 16pp. including the stiff front cover, issued originally as free insert for the 1992 catalogue Tolkien and Friends number 4, issued on the occasion of the centenary celebrations at Keble college, Oxford. there were 26 copies marked A - Z for friends of the publisher, never made available in the trade. Printed on single sides, A-4 with front cover in 3 colours (initials W and A) on conqueror paper, This edition has a colophon which did not appear in the regular edition. Actual year of publication was 1992. this copy in loose sheets is stamped below the colophon: Uncorrected proof copy followed by the title. [ Tolkien inklings Oxford ].

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Keywords: Tolkien Tolkien

BOHODOGON

Terra Infinita

. Paros, 2022, 30pp. richly illustrated in full colours, softback, coloured cover, this is the copy in A-5 format. See also the entry for the A-4 format copy.

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BOHODOGON

Terra Infinita

. Paros, 2022, 30pp. richly illustrated in full colours, softback, coloured cover, this is the copy in A-4 format. See also the entry for the A-5 format copy.

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CARROLL, LEWIS [DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 2 Editions and Through the Looking-Glass

. 3 editions on offer here: Alice in Wonderland, 75th thousand 1883 and .83rd thousand 1886 AND Through the Looking-Glass 58th thousand 1887. All three volumes rebacked and held in a new box with inlaid Alice designs . A separate box 2 is included in case you are not happy with box 1. ASK FOR FULL DESCRIPTIONS.

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Book number: F3249

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Oxford Alice in Wonderland

CHERIE CHEN

The Winter Wassail

. 2018, 40pp. The Winter Wassail' is a decorative, festive children's book (for ages 5-8) based on the ancient pagan practice of orchard wassailing, which marked the celebration of the winter solstice. In the story, the children and their forest friends make merry to wake up Old Magick and bless the health of the forest at midwinter's first full moon. The intricate illustrations and the use of Tudor costume are designed to reflect a traditional, wintry fairytale ambience. (ISBN: 978191608130) .

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Book number: F3260-2

Catalogue: Children's

Keywords: Children's Juvenile 978191608130

CLARK, WILLIAM LESLIE

Wine-Dark Seas

. Oxford, Mouette press, 1977, 56pp. printed wrappers [ poetry] One of a limited edition of 226 copies, this is number 2.

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Book number: F2802

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry Literature

COULSON, ROBERT

One Day in the Life of a Dickensian Bookseller: Un Petit Roman-à-Clef

. Grasmere Publications (2001), 14pp. coloured wrappers, The author worked at Thornton's Bookshop in Oxford. 978-0952273189. (ISBN: 0952273187) .

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D'IAKONOVA, ELIZAVETA ALEKSANDROVNA [ 1874-1902 ]

Dnevnik Elizavety D'iakonovoi 1886-1902 G. : Literaturnye Etiudy, Stikhotvoreniiya, Stat'i, Pis'ma.

. Izdanie 4-e, znachitel'no dopolnennoe. Pod red. i s vstupitel'nymi stat'yami A.A.D'yakonova. Moskva, izdanie V.M.Sablina, 1912; 836PP. bound in new cloth, title page repaired as right bottom corner was missing , new end papers and title label
¶ D'iakonova came to fame posthumously, as the author of a diary which was frequently compared to Bashkirtseva's. The diary's success was due to the author's frankness, the timely "woman question' issues that it touched on, and the view of many that she 'typified" young women of her generation. D'iakonova was bom into a merchant family in the village of Nerekhta in 1874. In her diary she describes her mother as despotic and unloving. She completed secondary school in laroslavl' and then wanted to continue her education at the university level, but her mother was strongly opposed to her attending. D'iakonova was forced to wait four years to apply for entrance into the Higher Courses for Women in SPb. when she would no longer need parental approval. Even then her mother was able to block her acceptance for a while. The courses had been her escape, and their reality proved to be a great disappointment. While still a student, she began her literary career with the publication of a translation. Then she published an article, "Women's Education" (Zhenskoe obrazovanie), in the journal Women's Came (ZhenD) and several fictional sketches under the pseudonym E. Nerekhtskaia/D'iakonova graduated from the courses in 1899, She rejected an earlier idea of going to work as a rural schoolteacher. Instead she traveled around Russia. In 1900 she went 10 Paris and started law school at the Sorbonne. She used her life abroad in Paris and London as the basis of several semi-fictional pieces which she published in the journals Kitvite (KievI) and Northern Land (Severnyi krai). While at the Sorbonne, D'takonova developed an obsessive crush on a French doctor and psychologist. She visited him under the pretext of having a psychologically caused illness. These efforts came to nothing. In 1902, at the age of twenty-eight she committed suicide [ DL 3/5 ].

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Book number: R71047

Catalogue: Russian Rare

Keywords: Wim Meeuws Russian Literature Thonslav Russian-Lot

DEMIDOFF, ANATOLE, PRINCE OF SAN DONATO.

Voyage Dans la Russie Méridionale & la Crimée Par la Hongrie, la Valachie & la Moldavie Exécuté En 1837. . . Par Mm. De Sainson, le Play, Hout, Léveillé, de Nordmann, Rousseau Et Du Ponceau 2 Volumes

. Dédié à Sa Majesté Nicolas Premier, Empereur de toutes des Russies. Dessiné d'après nature et lithographié par (Auguste) Raffet. With 100 tinted lithographs printed on India paper, by Auguste Raffet and printed by Auguste Bry (including additional lithographed title, and 9 other lithographed section titles), all with tissues. Half-title, illus. lithogr. title to face the title-page, with a plate list on verso numb. 1-100. 2 unn. pp. (half title), pp. 3- 64 with descriptive text for the plates nos. 1-87 (no description for the text of the plates 88-100 as usual, so complete). Large folio (530 x 350 mm). Contemp. black half chagrin, back gilt. With heraldic bookplate Louis Mondanton. Paris: Publié par Gihaut Frères, [1838-1848 ] First edition of this rare and complete album of an expedition through Hungary to southern Russia, returning by way of Constantinople and Smyrnia. Plates nos. 1 (frontispiece) - 8, Hungary; nos. 9- 19, Wallachia; nos. 20- 24, Moldova; nos. 25- 30 Bessarabia; nos. 31- 54 Crimea, 1st part; nos. 55- 68, Camp of Vosnessensk, inter alia portrait of Nicolas I; nos. 69- 80; Crimea, 2nd part; nos. 88- 100 show the portraits of the members of the expedition. The present huge work describes and illustrates scenery and exotic architecture, not only of the Russian meridional region, and depicts also uniforms, military camps, costumes, professions, festivities, trade, custom and manners of Armenians, Cossacks, Gipsies, Jews, Russians, Tartars, Turks, etc. An interior of a coffee shop is shown. This scientific journey to southern Russia and the Crimea, etc. was organized by Count Demidoff (1812-70) on behalf of the government. 22 scholars (of which Jules Janin wrote the descriptive text), and artists (of which Raffet was the most important one) accompanied the expedition. Opposite plate 93, (portrait of J. J. Huout) is a 3- page A.L.S. by his son Paul dated Colmar, 1 July 1868 . Prince Demidoff was a famous art collector. His collection was sold in Paris in 1870.- 2 small stamps and stamped number on title, a few slight spots, and some light smudging to margins at the beginning. A nice association copy on large paper. Brunet II, 583; Vicaire III, 167; NBG 13/14, p. 559 & NBG 25/26, p. 578; cf. Atabey 337 (later ed.); not in Blackmer.+ A de Démidoff: Voyage dans La Russie meridionale et la Crimee, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie, execute en 1837. Paris, 1840.in half blue morocoo binding, gilt titling. 7+621+(3) pp. pag. 64 plates by affet. Frontispiece: Nicolaas I on horseback . PAYMENT FOR THESE 2 VOLUMES ONLY VIA BANK TRANSFER.

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Book number: F2901

Catalogue: Russia

Keywords: Russia Rare Russian History Travel

ESCHER ( MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER 1898 - 1972 )

Frogs.

. Postersize, about A-3, enlarged woodcut printed in green with Latin and Dutch texts by Hoogewerff . Latin at the top: Silentium omni strepitu maius. Dutch at the bottom: De kwakerschaar doorrijt den zomernacht om't zeerst; toch welft de stilte wijd,roerloos, en overheerscht. Godefridus Johannes Hoogewerff (Amersfoort, June 20, 1884 - Florence, March 25, 1963) was a Dutch art historian and professor at Utrecht University. In 1932 he published under the pseudonym "A.E. Drijfhout" together with graphic artist M.C. Escher, with which he very was a friend, the booklet "XXIV emblemata dat zijn zinne-beelden", with proverbs written by him (in Latin) and poems (in Dutch) with prints (woodcuts) by Escher. He made sure that Escher, whom he admired but who had not yet gained any fame at the time, got this through organizing exhibitions and making contacts. we can send a photograph.

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Book number: F0036

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Teh Hague Dutch Art

FOUQUET, JEAN,

Das Stundenbuch Des Etienne Chevalier. Musee Conde, Chantilly

. Vorwort von Charles Sterling. Einleitung und Bildlegenden von Claude Schaefer. Uebertragen aus dem Amerikanischen von Dr. Irmgard Hutter. Muenchen, Wien, zuerich, Edition Praeger, 1971, With 47 tipped-in illustrations in full colour and gold with full explanations (in German) on the opposite pages [6] pp. 7-26 preface by Sterling, introduction by Fouquet. Fine red cloth hardback in very good cloth covered slipcase with one of the miniatures pasted to recess on front board.

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Book number: WO077-E

Catalogue: Medieval

Keywords: Medieval Facsimile

FREYTAG, GUSTAV, CLARENCE DAY, PAUL OTLET, COMENIUS

Poster ( 55 X 44 Cm ) in Einer Einmaligen Auflage Von 100 Exemplaren AnläßLich Der 25. Frankfurter Buchmesse Gedruckt

. und vorzüglich denjenigen Verlagen gewidmet, die seit 1949 ununterbrochen an dieser Messe teilnehmen. Kalligraphie: Hermann Zapf, Darmstadt. Dies ist das Exemplar für Friedrich Wittig, Hamburg, Vorsteher des Börsenvereins des Deutschen Buchhandels, Frankfurt am Main, 1962 - 1965. Signiert von Hermann Zapf, Sigfred Taubert und dem Vorsitzenden des Aufsichtrates der ausstellungs- und Messe GMBH. Auf Bütten gedruckt. einmal gefalten in der Mitte, Rand rechts gebräunt. In 4 Farben gedruckt mit Sprüchen über Das Buch, wie z.B. Freytag: Bücher sind die großen Schatzhüter des Menschengeschlects .. und 3 weitere von Clarence Day, Paul Otlet und Comenius. 2 kleine risse unten rechts.

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Book number: F3262

Catalogue: Publishing

Keywords: Bibliophile Typography Printing Books

FRISHMAN, MARCEL,

Drawings

. Oxford, Bruno Cassirer, 1957, twenty-five tipped-in black and white plates. folio, number 62 of a limited edition of 500 copies. In a wonderful contemporary full red crushed full morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe and described as a special copy on the last page In a matching slip case, also quarter bound (spine and edges) in red morocco . All edges gilt. the spine of teh slip case very slightly sunned. Marcel Frishman was born in 1900 in Lodz and died in 1952. He studied at the Berlin Academy in the early 1920s under Hans Meid and in 1926 joined the staff of the political and satirical weekly 'Simplicissimus' as a cartoonist. When the magazine was taken over by the Nazis in 1933, he was compelled to leave Germany, working in Copenhagen and then, in 1937, Australia where he remained for 13 years, working in factories. In 1950 he returned to Europe with deteriorating health to continue his work.

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Book number: F3003

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Art Limited Leather