A double sided leaf from the 'Nuremberg Chronicle' depicting a Lightning Strike Upon Istanbul (1490) and the Fall of a Meteorite in Alsace (1492). Hand-colored woodcut engraving. Published in 1493. Sheet size: 17 inches x 12 inches. Plate 257. The 'Nuremberg Chronicle' is the most famous of Incunabula (pre-1500 book) and was written by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514), being published in a Latin version (Liber Chronicarum) in 1493 and then later in the same year in a German language edition...

This large (12 7/8" x 11 1/4") and beautiful volume was published in 1985 by Office Du Livre, Fribourg Switzerland, printed in Italy, with French text. Authored by Jean Soustiel, with the collaboration of Charles Kiefer, and a preface by Henry-Pierre Fourest, the book provides a very comprehensive view of Islamic ceramics, from Spain, the Middle East, Near East, India, and other regions where Islamic pottery was created...

A scarce first printing of Totem Poles Volume 1 and 2 by Marius Barbeau. This set on Canadian West Coast totem poles has 880 pages over the two volumes, both with maps, notes and multitudes of black and white photographs. They were published by the National Museum of Canada and Edmond Clautier in 1950...

A Paul Duval Group of Seven Drawings art book. This 11-7/8" x 10-1/4" art reference book by Paul Duval entitled GROUP OF SEVEN DRAWINGS was published by Burns and MacEachern, Toronto in 1965. This first edition has black and white illustrations with capsule biographies towards the back. It has the original dust cover, and this book is in excellent conditon with the dust cover taped under plastic...

A fine copy of the 12-1/2" x 9-1/2" art book ALEX COLVILLE DIARY OF A WAR ARTIST by GRAHAM METSON and CHERYL LEAN. Published by Nimbus Publishing Limited of Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1981, this 159 page book features matte finish textured watercolour style paper with copious black and white and colour illustrations...

DPRK / North Korean Book: Koryo Dynasty Celadon / Bronze

The great leader President Kim Il Sung said: "The people of Koryo greatly developed the printing industry by inventing metal type for the first time in the world and manufactured the Koryo ceramics which the world values as treasures because of their distinctive colours, patterns and models. All these made our country famous".

Part of the introduction to this book. The Koryo Museum complex is at the foot of Mt...

This is the Book: THE MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST by G. STRATTON-PORTER. 369p; 7 1/4" x 9 5/8"; MULTIPLE B&W Photos and COLOR Illustrations; some edge and corner wear; light interior foxing; some page end darkening due to 80+ years of use; grade is VG to VG+. . This Book is being offered for the first time on the Open Market, uncirculated to the general public and the secondary market until now...virtually "off the Shelf" from an Exceptional Virginia Estate of Antiques and Collectibles...

 

 

Dickens, Charles, Autograph letter signed, 2 pages, the first leaf printed with the words Office Of All The Year Round A Weekly Journal Conducted by Charles Dickens; Tues 31 May 1859, London, to John Hollingshead. Matted, framed and engraved portrait of Dickens. Lower right corner pencil sketch of his eldest daughter.Handwritten beneath 1861, Mamie Dickens-Eldest Daughter in good overall condition...

The ILLUSTRATIONS make this BOOK EXCEPTIONAL and they are NUMEROUS. Title page reads as follows: THE/ POETICAL WORKS/ OF/ THOMAS MOORE./ Illustration of an Angelic Figure with Exotic Winged Bird/ COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME./ Illustrated/ NEW YORK: P.F.COLLIER. Leatherbound Antique; 639p; 6.75" x 9.25" X 1.75"; many Unique FULL PAGE PLATES; some corner, edge and pull wear; bottom exterior spine wear; looseness couple front endpapers incl...