Minature Books For Sale
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Eleanor Bulley. Alexandra Queen and Empress.Wells Gardner Darton and Co. 1902
Description
Gilt edges, Portrait frontis and other illustrations and 185pps.+ads. In a Deluxe polished leather binding with the title within a crowned shield on the front cover and spine.A very nice binding.
Dimensions
74mms.x 62mms.
Price
£60.00
Common Prayer with Hymns Ancient and Modern. 2 vols in i.Henry Frowde and William Clowes. c.1925
Description
Gilt edges, Two items in one, each with a pictorial frontis. 688pps. and 861pps. Bound in black leather with a silver hall marked plaque picturing a group of cherubs within a floral frame.
Dimensions
59mms.x 48mms.
Price
£135.00
Calendario Per L'Anno 1846. Della Stamperia Dell'Irride. Napoli (1846)
Description
Gilt edges Bound in covers of decorated silver foil over boards with a new spine. An unusual binding and rare.Welsh locates only a taller copy for 1826.
Dimensions
69mms.x46mms.
Price
£85.00
Bijou Picture of Paris. Rock and Co. London. c.1850
Description
Gilt edges, Bound in flexible gilt stamped leather with an engraved title and 31 excellent engravings of Paris. One of a series of miniature books that includes London, The United States and the Holy Land. Bondy p.152 describes them as delightful.
Dimensions
30mms.x 25mms.
Price
£250.00
Emberi Hivatasok. Jan es Casper Luyken.
Description
Bound with a linen spine and wooden boards. The front cover has a brass plate containing he title. Copiously illustrated.
Dimensions
60mms.x 47mms.
Price
£25.00
Adlai Stevenson's Veto. 1949.
Description
Privately printed in Amsterdam 1971. English language. One of 250 copies. Bound in polished calf with gilt decoration on the front cover and the title in gilt on the spine. The so called 'Cat Bill' which Adlai Stevenson vetoed.
Dimensions
51mms.x 49mms.
Price
£25.00
The Illustrated Bible also Verses Entitled Railway to Heaven.
Description
Published by T.Goode, London. c.1860. Illustrated, bound in black paper wraps, the front cover titled and decorated.
Dimensions
60mms.x 40mms.
Price
£35.00
The Smallest English Dictionary in the World. David Bryce + Son, Glasgow. c.1900
Description
Portrait frontis of Dr. Johnson, adverts for Dixon's Cruicibles at both ends, 384pps. Bound in red flexible leatherwith gilt titles on both covers and spine. Preserved in a silvermetal case with a magnifying glass set in the cover.
Dimensions
28mms.x 20mms.
Price
£95.00
Dante.Alighieri. La Divina Commedia. .
Description
SAG Barbera, Editore. Firenze 5th. Octobre 1942. All edges red. Portrait frontis and 455pps. Bound in brown leather and lavishly gilt stamped on both covers and spine. Decorated end papers, Printed in Italian in four and a half point Diamant Antiqua. Bondy does not mention this wartime production which closely follows the Vade Mecum
Dimensions
65mms.x 50mms.
Price
£90.00
Metal book shaped souvenir of Oxford
Description
Souvenir of Oxford c. 1900. The brass 'pages' contain six photographs of interesting places in Oxford It has a clasp to close and the blue front cover shows a gilt decorated title.
Dimensions
18mms.x 15mms.
Price
£25.00
Fritiofs Saga Sweden 1959
Description
Fritiofs Saga by Esaias Tegner. Published by Allhems Tryckerier. Malmo Sweden 1959.gilt top rdge 146pps. printed in Swedish. Bound in gilt stamped sheepskin and preserved in a decorated card slipcase. An excellent copy.
Dimensions
54mms.x35mms.
Price
£80.00
Banyaszat Kohaszattortenet. The Medallions of the Technical University
Description
A Hungarian publication.1 of 25 copies with a silver plaque on the front cover. 175pps. with illustrations. Bound in green leatherwith a title on the spine
Dimensions
52mms.x40mms
Price
£50.00
faust. Eine Tragodie von Goethe. Schmidt and Gunther. Leipzig.
Description
Two volumes, Original publisher's bindings vol.1 in blue leather and vol.2 in black leather, both with gilt decoration and title. Gilt edges.
Dimensions
51mms.x 38mms.
Price
£75.00
Gems of Sacred Poetry. Printed for the RTS. 6th. edn. London
Description
Gilt edges. Printed at the Chiswick Press. 256pps. Bound in polished red leather with gilt ruled borders and with a gilt title and decoration on the spine
Dimensions
66mms.x 54mms.
Price
£45.00
Des Devoirs Des Hommes
Description
Par Silvio Pellico. Published by Casterman. Paris and Tournai. 1862. 260pps.+ads.Printed in French and bound in dimpled brown cloth with new end papers.
Dimensions
68mms.x 47mms.
Price
£45.00
Chautopsen.. A German Language Dewdrops.
Description
Gilt edges,128pages,an American publication for German speaking children living in the U.S. Bound in decorated blue publisher's cloth. Decorated end papers. St Paul's Sunday School printed on the front free end paper. A good copy.
Dimensions
55mms.x 37mms.
Price
£40.00
The Book of Common Prayer with the Psalter. or Psalms of David
Description
Gilt edges, 671pages +a table. Printed on fine India Paper by the Oxford University Press. circa 1910. Bound in brown leather with gilt titles and decoration, and preserved in a matching slip case. A very good example of the 'Finger Edition'
Dimensions
89mms.x 30mms.
Price
£45.00
Fragrent Flowers. Eyre and Spottiswoode. London. circa. 1886
Description
Printed in blue and gold with a coloured flower for every month. Bound in decorated cloth. A fine example of colour printing.
Dimensions
80mms.x 80mms.
Price
£45.00
Decalogus.The Ten Commandments by Jan and Jarmila Sabota. 1999.
Description
On hand made paper and printed in gold. One of an edition of 100 signed and numbered copies In several languages. Bound in leather and with cloured onlays that add to the effect of this cross shaped book.
Dimensions
73mms.x 52mms.
Price
£150.00
Manuscript. The Lord's Prayer
Description
An illuminated scroll. The Lord's Prayer in English, with large initials decorated in red, blue and gold,and a short piece of music similarly presented. A unique item.
Dimensions
8"x 1 1/4"
Price
£95.00
Prayers and Hymns. Andersons Booksellers. Dunkeld..c.1880.
Description
Lacking the title page but sold as a fine binding. Gilt edges, a red morocco spine ,gilt decorated and titled. In a mauchline binding, the front having a view of The Hermitage on the Braan, Dunkeld, and the back bearing the legend, Made of Dunkeld Wood.
Dimensions
98mms.x 60mms.
Price
£65.00
The Miniature Copy Book of Felix Chapman. American. c.1836
Description
Sixteen pages of manuscript thoughts, eg map of Conecticut, Receipes, Riddles, Naive drawings He seems to have been of a Mathematical bent.
Dimensions
3"x 1 3/4" (77mms.x 46mms.)
Price
£45.00
Hamburgischer Tatchen Kalender auf das Jahr 1823. J.E.Reinte. Published by F.H.Nestier. Hamburg.
Description
Gdichte von Schiller has a separate title page and 16 pages bound in at the end. Seven hand coloured plates, one of the double. Bound in light blue paper over boards, highly decorated overall.An excellent copy
Dimensions
85mms.x 55mms.
Price
£400.00
Tashen-Kalender fur das schalt-Jahr 1828.,bei Schreibers erben. Leipzig
Description
Engraved title page, pictorial frontis and two scenic plates at the back.Each month is headed by a very attractive vignette picturing a scene of domestic or agricultural life suitable to that time of year.Bound in decorated orange paper over card.
Dimensions
48mms.x 38mms.
Price
£200.00
Shakespeare. Three embroidered panels.
Description
Three lozenge shaped panels commemorating, in 1864, the tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth. They depict variously his birthplace, the church in Stratford on Avon and his portrait.
Dimensions
94mms.x 58mms.
Price
£25.00
Silver and mother of pearl Almanack cover.(empty)
Description
Mother of pearl covers with a silver spine, studs and clasp. Waiting for the right sized almanack to fit it.
Dimensions
66mms.x 33mms.
Price
£225.00
General Sebastian Vizcayno. Jornada Principal de las Californias. 1963
Description
Libreria Anticuaria Mexico. A special edition published by Dawson's Bookshop. Los Angeles.80 pages. Bound in red leather with gilt pictorial decoration on both covers and leather titles on the spine.
Dimensions
45mms.x 38mms.
Price
£35.00
Testamento del Pensador Mexicano. Mexico 1963.
Description
Jose Joaquin FernandezDe Lizardi.Libraria Anticuaria.A special edition published by Dawson's Bookshop in Los Angeles. 66pps. Bound in leather with gilt designs on both covers and coloured leather titles on the spine.
Dimensions
61mms.x 45mms.
Price
£30.00
Petit Almanach Postal 1872.
Description
Lithographed by Oberthur and Fils. Rennes.for P.Dubois. In a yellow paper binding, with decorative titles and designs on both covers.
Dimensions
64mms.x 42mms,
Price
£20.00
A Compendium of Simple Arithmetic; In Which the First Rules of that Pleasing Science are made Familiar to the Capacities of Youth. Printed for J.Wallis. London. 1801..
Description
With an engraved pictorial frontis and 64pps.Rebound in light blue sugar paper over boards. A volume from the 10 vol. Library of Youth.
Dimensions
98mms.x 58mms.
Price
£95.00
The Mother's Gift by A Lady.
Description
Printed by J.Kendrew. York (c.1840) 16pps which includes the wraps. Each page has a short moral poem illustrated by a charming woodcut. The covers are printed within decorated borders. A rare ephemeral item.
Dimensions
95mms.x 65mms.
Price
£40.00
Scripture History; or a Brief Account of the Old and New Testaments.
Description
Printed for J.Wallis No.16 Ludgate St. London. 1801. An engraved title page, a pictorial frontis and 32pps. Rebound in blue sugar paper over boards with the original paper label on the front cover. A volume from the Library of Youth. Not in Welsh.
Dimensions
100mmsx 60mms.
Price
£95.00
INS ALBUM DER FREUDIN. G.Weise, Stuttgart. 1896.
Description
57 pps printed in Gothic lettering. Bound in brown decorated card with the title on the front cover. Has the bookplate of Doris Varner Welsh/Kathryn I Rickard. Welsh 3835 locates a similar copy only, described in an article "Miniature Books in the State Library at Odessa" See Bondy p.207.
Dimensions
45mms.x 32mms.
Price
£95.00
BIBLE in MINIATURE or a Concice History of Both Testaments. Printed for J.Harris, late Newberry and for Darton and Harvey. (c.1805)
Description
Gilt edges, 254pps and 15 engraved plates. Bound in red morocco with gilt decoration overall and with both covers bearing the sacred initials IHS on a green oval onlay.
Dimensions
30mms.x44mms.
Price
£300.00
TERENCE. Publius Terentius Afer. Impensis Gul. Pickering. 1823.
Description
Gilt edges, Portrait frontis with an extra title page dated 1822. 220 pps.printed in Latin Bound in full green leather with raised bands and a gilt title on the spine.The endpapers are merbled and there is a green silk page marker. An excellent binding. Spielmann 476.
Dimensions
83mmsx 54mms.
Price
£250.00
THE ADVOCATE and FRIEND of WOMAN., Compiled From Various Authors.
Description
Printed and sold by G.Nicholson, Poughnill Nr. Ludlow. Frontis and 190pps. Chapters include Difference in the Sexes, Coquetry, Dress, Occupations of Women, Amusements etc. Bound in half calf with the spine relaid and with old marbled boards.
Dimensions
92mms.x 59mms.
Price
£90.00
London Almanack for 1806.
Description
Printed for the Company of Stationers. Gilt edges,engraved throughout and with a folding view of London Docks. Bound in red morocco in the wallet style with a silver catch and plate to close. A good copy.
Dimensions
58mms.x 38mms.
Price
£200.00
The History of England, From the Conquest to the Death of George II. Printed for J.Wallace. London.1801
Description
Wood engraved pictorial frontis with 66pps and a hand coloured portrait of every monarch. Rebound in light brown sugar paper over boards and with the original paper label. A volume from the Library of Youth.
Dimensions
98mms x 58mms
Price
£95.00
Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists by the Revd.John Wesley. AM.
Description
Printed for and sold by T.Blanchard. London (nd 1854) Gilt edges, portrait frontis and an engraved pictorial title page. Bound in red morocco in the wallet style with a gilt decorated flap to close. A presentation inscription reads "Susanna Veal Dec. 25. 1854" A very fine copy
Dimensions
68mms x 44mms
Price
£145.00
Le Rime Del Petrarca.
Description
A Spesi Di C Pickering. Londra 1822. Gilt edges engraved portrait frontis and 237 pps. plus index. Bound in full dark green leather with ruled borders and corner decoration on both covers. Gilt decoration and title on the spine and with a silk page marker. Printed throughout in Italian and with the Chatsworth library bookplate. A very fine Pickering Diamond Classic.
Dimensions
83 mms x 48 mms
Price
£250.00
Mythology or Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Deities
Description
Printed for J. Wallis.London 1801. With an engraved pictorial frontis, 63 pps. and a list of the titles from the set, the ten volume Library of Youth. Rebound in grey sugar paper over boards. Welsh 5202 locates the Spielmann copy only.
Dimensions
98mms x 58mms
Price
£95.00
Terence. Publius Terentius Afer
Description
A Pickering Diamond Classic. London 1823. 220 pps. Printed in Latin. A Portrait frontis and an extra title page. Bound in full leather.
Dimensions
88 mms x 53 mms
Price
£125.00
A MAUCHLINE McBETH TARTAN NOTE BOOK. (c.1870)
Description
Gilt edges. A blue leather spine, tartan sides and green and gilt patterned end papers. With the original bone pencil and a brass clasp to close. In fine condition
Dimensions
2 ½”x 1 ¾” (65mms.x 42mms.)
Price
£150.00
HAMER,J. The Smoker’s Text book. Published by Chatto and Windus. London. 1874.
Description
A finely engraved extra title and 107pps printed within green ruled borders. Illustrated. Bound in original gilt decorated green publisher’s cloth. Bondy, page 141, describes it as a finely produced volume
Dimensions
2 ¾”x 2 ¼” (69mms.x 55mms.)
Price
£275.00
DANTE. The New Life. Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Published by R.Rosen. Venice. 1907
Description
Portrait frontis and 272pps. Bound in cream boards with titles and dates printed in red and black on both covers and spine. Closed with leather ties.
Dimensions
2”x 2 ¾” (52mms.x 70mms.)
Price
£65.00