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32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera
For passionate collectors and researchers, 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera discovers and preserves the authentic stories of cultural history. We provide a meticulously curated collection of over 13,000 rare books and ephemera items from pivotal social movements, scientific and artistic achievements and underrepresented voices, making significant historical artifacts accessible to all.
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Edith Wharton with Pictures by Maxfield Parrish Italian Villas and Their Gardens
$700.00
New York: Century, 1904. Hardcover. 4to. 270 pp. With 52 illustrations, 26 of them by Maxfelld Parrish, most of them in color. Green cloth stamped in gold with elaborate coat of arms with two [2] lions and escutcheon and painted garden scene on front boards. Top edge gilt. Fully illustrated with color plates of Parrish and black and white photos. Very Good with a tiny bit of edge wear at the extremities. Text block solid, illustrations clean. A nice copy. Item #700142
A seminal work on garden design and a statement to the passionate connoisseurship of one of Americas greatest writers. This comprehensive look at the history and character of Italian garden architecture and ornamentation explores more than seventy-five villas, capturing what Wharton calls their “garden-magic” and illuminating the intimate relationship between the house, its formal gardens, and the surrounding countryside.
This elegant collaboration between one of America’s foremost literary stylists and one of its most celebrated illustrators captures the grace, symmetry, and romance of Italy’s classical gardens. Wharton’s text, informed by her keen architectural sensibility and lifelong love of European design, provides a thoughtful and erudite tour through the villas of Tuscany, Lombardy, and the Roman countryside. Parrish’s luminous color plates and delicate drawings complement her prose with scenes of tranquil terraces, sculpted hedges, and sunlit fountains. Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, this first edition exemplifies early 20th-century bookmaking at its finest, with gilt-decorated green cloth covers and high-quality paper stock.
A landmark in travel and design literature, ‘Villas’ helped shape the American appreciation of classical landscape architecture. Copies in well-preserved condition are increasingly scarce, especially those retaining Parrish’s vibrant plates. A cornerstone volume for collectors of Wharton, Parrish, or fine illustrated books of the period.
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Royal signature and Zaehnsdorf binding
HRH The Prince Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh; James Fisher Wildlife Crisis [Signed Limited Edition]
$931.92 *
* estimated currency conversionThe Arcadia Press / Hamish Hamilton; London, 1971. Signed by Prince Philip to title page (late Duke of Edinburgh and father of King Charles III). A specially bound limited edition of the standard trade volume, with additional half title, advertisement, title and limitation page. This being copy numbered 231 of 265 published, of which 251-265 were not for sale. In VG+ internal order, bar light toning to the edges of the endpapers. Gilt to all edges of block and handsome Zaehnsdorf blue full leather binding with gilt and colour leather ‘globe’ decoration inlaid to front board. Light shelfwear and a little fading to spine with gilt titling and gilt-on-red leather titlepiece. 4to. [4] 256pp.
Offered for Sale by: Dodman Books -
First English continental handbook for travelers
James Howell Instructions and Directions for Forren Travell … (Second Ed.)
$1,500.00London: Printed by W.W. for Humphrey Moseley, 1650. Second Edition. Binding: Hardcover (Full Leather). Book Condition: Very Good+ Condition. Size: 5″-6″ – Vigesimo-quarto (24mo). 140 pages. ESTC Citation R202463; Wing (2nd ed.), H-3081; Thomason, E.1374[2]. 140 p. (Illustrated title, title, portrait of Prince Charles). James Howell (c.1594-1666) was an author of political and historical works who traveled widely in Europe and produced this book, which is often described as the first continental handbook for travelers. The full title is: “Instructions and Directions For Forren Travell. Shewing by what cours, and in what compas of time, one may take an exact Survey of the Kingdomes, and States of Christendome, and arrive to the practicall knowledge of the Languages, to good purpose. With a new Appendix for Travelling into Turkey and the Levant parts.” The appendix (pp. 129-140) draws heavily from Sir Henry Blount’s account of his trip in 1634-36. It describes ways of getting to Constantinople, touches briefly on travel to Egypt and compares and contrasts Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Of the later Howell writes, “Now ’tis thought that this Religion is like to be of long continuance, because there is no nation where the Church man is more powerful and of greater esteem, in regard that all their Judges and Ecclesiastiques, and so have power o’er the body [and] soule” (p. 135). Neatly rebacked in sheepskin with the title “Howell on Forren Travell” in gilt on a red morocco panel, along with the year 1650 at the foot of the spine. There is shelf wear around the edges, with the board peeking out of the bottom corner of the front cover and the top corner rounded off. The text block is tight and only slightly toned. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This copy is missing the four leaves of advertisements at the end that are reported in the copy at Yale’s library. The title page is supplemented by an additional facing title page, engraved and signed by W[enceslaus] Hollar. There is also a portrait of Prince Charles. Someone along the way has underlined some words or short phrases in red ink on 19 or 20 pages. A previous bookseller has written some notes on the front end papers in pencil. An early book sale entry for the book clipped from a catalog is laid into the book.
Offered for Sale by: Quaint Book Shop -
THE ROSENTHALS: FAIR BUT INTERESTING FUN
Kunstgewerbemuseum Zurich Um 1900: Art Nouveau Und Jugenstil; Kunst Und Kunstgwebe Aus Europa Und Amerika Zue Zeit Der Stilwende.
$45.0048 pp. 8vo; Illustrated white wrappers; illustrated with 24 plates of black & white photographs. Felix Rosenthal’s copy. With an interesting defect: The back cover has a 2.5 x 1.75″ piece out, with some nibbling to plate foredges 19-24. Attached inside back cover is a 4 x 8″ piece of lined note paper covering the loss, with a holograph inscription: ” Pfafffhausen. A pair of discriminating field mice started a household behind the book in October 1983, while I was touring Egypt. They managed to eat only off the rarest, in this case the almost irreplaceable catalogue of the first museum show in which ‘JUGENDSTIL’ was finally elevated to an authentic art movement. Felix Rosenthal. On page 45 in the section on Leihgeber (Lenders) the name Herr Alfred Frauendorfer, Zurich is underlined in blue pencil with an X; small title on spine in blue pen; white back cover with moderate soil. Felix R. Rosenthal (1917-2009) , emigrated to Chile during WWII, before finally settling in Berkeley to join his brother, Bernard Rosenthal, who had moved his antiquarian bookselling firm from New York in 1970. In the early 1970s, Felix moved to Zurich, Switzerland, to help manage the family’s antiquarian book business “L’Art Ancien”, which had been founded by his father in 1920. What was to be a very short temporary stay turned into a thirteen-year activity as antiquarian bookseller before Felix returned to the Bay Area in 1982.
Offered for Sale by: G. F. Wilkinson Books -
Rontgen Ray
Borden, W. C. THE USE OF THE RONTGEN RAY BY THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN (1898)
$300.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Apparent 1st printing. 4to blind-stamped cloth with gilt titles on spine. 98pp. XXXIII plates plus 26 figures. Charts. Statistics. “Prepared under the direction of Surgeon-General George M. Sternberg, United States Army. Borden was “Captain and Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army.” Ink stamp of Dr. Oliver C. Melson on front paste down. Melson was a physician in Little Rock, Arkansas. Science Magazine, Sept. 9, 1927, reported that Melson, of the Mayo Clinic, was appointed Head of the Dept. of Medicine at the University of Arkansas. Title actually has the spelling, “röntgen. “Good plus copy with some edgewear and moderate fading to spine. Scarce.
Offered for Sale by: Gene W. Baade Books on the West
