Minature Books For Sale
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Les Parfums de Mury. Paris. 1929.
Description
An advertising diary. Wonderfully printed in blue and gold,it presents information concerning European agencies along with decorated diary pages.Several bottles of perfume are pictured and the floral covers are enchanting. A very fine production of the Art Deco Period.
Dimensions
80mms.x 45mms.
Price
£125.00
Pictorial History of England. Published by T.Goode. London. (circa 1840)
Description
Each page has a biography of a king or queen with an engraving. Bound in purple wraps showing signs of wear,as is often the case with these Goode publications, and there is an untidy contemporary ownership inscription on both free endpapers,however this item is still very acceptable.
Dimensions
50mms.x 40mms.
Price
£30.00
Le Nouvel Almanache de Poche Pour l'An 1848.
Description
Imprimerie de Blocquel. Lille. A rare almanac for an historic year.Full of information and engravings.Each month has an engraved heading and there are portraits and other illustrations with biographies of the principal sovereigns of Europe ( some about to be deposed)Bound in printed pictorial wraps.
Dimensions
93mms.x 41mms.
Price
£95.00
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 Koran Holder
Description
Made of silver metal with two loops to take a carrying cord, and a raised crescent and moon on the front.The top slides into the bottom part that preserves the Koran.
Dimensions
26mms.x 22mms closed
Price
£45.00
Thought Treasures of Carlyle. Published by Valentine and Anderson Ltd. (c.1915)
Description
Portrait frontis and 64pps. Bound in green cloth with the front cover having a striking plaquette bearing the title and Coat of Arms of Bewdley. An unusual binding.Not in Bondy
Dimensions
76mms.x 61mms.
Price
£25.00
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 Eve of St.Agnes by John Keats. Published by Anthony Treherne and Co. Ltd. London. 1904.
Description
Gilt edges and 61pps. Bound in brown leather the front cover having the title in very attractive lettering in the Arts and Crafts style. One of the Waistcoat Pocket Classics.
Dimensions
65mmsx 53mms.
Price
£45.00
Friendly Visit to the House of Mourning by the Late Rev Richard Cecil. R.T.S. London (c. 1845)
Description
Gilt edges and 128pps. Bound in red leather with gilt decoration overall. An attractive binding.
Dimensions
70mms.x 57mms.
Price
£65.00
Brevario Infantil. Editorial Valles. Barcelonia. Spain (ca. 1958)
Description
119pps. plus index and with illustrations. Printed in Spanish and bound in cream boards with an attractive pictorial front cover
Dimensions
59mms,x 45mms.
Price
£20.00
The Book of Common Prayer...together with A New Version of the Psalms of David fitted to the tunes used in the churches by N.tate and N Brady.
Description
The University Press, Oxford. Both items 1836.Gilt edges, Bound in green morocco with raised bands and gilt decoration overall. Preserved in a leather case with a flap to close.
Dimensions
88mms.x 55mms.
Price
£95.00
Ricordi Di Roma. Ediz E Verdesi. Roma. (c.1950)
Description
Twenty sepia views of Rome, each with a red title, fold up accordian style, into a red card cover.
Dimensions
56mms.x 45mms.
Price
£15.00
HOMER. The Iliad.Published by William Pickering. 1831.
Description
Gilt edges, 351pps. printed in Greek with a portrait frontis, engraved title and half title [Homeri Iliasea Odyssea Tom 1]Bound in brown polished calf with raised bands and the title in gilt on the spine. Sun bleach affects part of the colour on the back board. Marbled end papers. Enhanced by an excellent FORE EDGE PAINTING of the Colosseum.
Dimensions
86mmsx 53mms.
Price
£325.00
Sonnets From the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Description
Published by S.Rosen. Venice 1906. 104pps. printed in red and black, with a portrait frontis of E.B.B.and an engraving of her tomb in Florence.Bound in cream coloured boards with printed titles in red and black. Closed with leather ties, one of which is missing.
Dimensions
68mms.x 52mms.
Price
£55.00
The Smallest English Dictionary in the World. David Bryce and Son. Glasgow. (c.1900)
Description
Yellow edges, 384pps. printed on India Paper with a portrait frontis of Dr.Johnson. Bound in flexible red roan with gilt titles. Preserved in a hinged metal locket with a magnifying glass set in the top cover.
Dimensions
27mms.x 20mms.
Price
£95.00
A Set of Six Books Published by Walter Scott. London. (c.1880)
Description
The six titles are, The Compliments of the Season or Words For All Times, The Land of the Leal, In Fun and in Earnest, Selections in Prose and Verse, Home Sweet Home, On Business Only and Sketches by Great Masters. In different coloured cloth bindings and all have bright pictorial front covers. Pages are printed within red decorated borders and all of them have a neat presentation inscription dated 1883.Preserved in a leather box with a brassclasp.An extremely bright and attractive set.
Dimensions
88mms.x 64mms.
Price
£120.00
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1822.
Description
Printed for the Company of Stationers. London. Bound in red morocco in the wallet style. An example of the smallest size in which these almanacks were published.
Dimensions
34mms.x 32mms.
Price
£85.00
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
The History of Sam Wood. Published by R.Taylor. London. (c.1850)
Description
Engraved title page, one other illustration and 16pps. The book is well used and both card covers have a vertical crease. Naive ownership inscription in ink on the endpapers. Welsh 3377 locates only an item published in Manchester, featured in a 1963 Bondy catalogue. Rare.
Dimensions
61mms.x 46mms.
Price
£75.00
Diamond English Dictionary.
Description
Published by David Bryce and Son. Glasgow.[1896] Top edge gilt, 860 pps printed on India Paper, with a portrait frontis of Dr. Johnson. Bound in dark red roan with a gilt title on the front cover and a decorated spine. The binding shows minor signs of use but still a very acceptable copy.
Dimensions
53mms.x 35mms.
Price
£45.00
From the Second Collection Minescule. La Gracieuse.
Description
Five volumes, published by Pairault. Paris. 1895/1897.(1)Jules Claretie, Boum-Boum. Illustrated and bound in red printed wraps.(2)Charles Nodier, La Filleule du Seigneur.Illustr. bound in fawn printed wraps. One side of spine split but mendable.(3)H.Buffenoir, Jeanne d'Arc. Illustr. bound in brown printed paper wraps.(4)Hegesippe
Moreau,La Souris Blanche, Illustr and bound in pale blue printed wraps. (5)Madame d'Aulnoy, Fortunee. Illustr and with 5 pages of ads. Bound in fawn printed wraps.
Moreau,La Souris Blanche, Illustr and bound in pale blue printed wraps. (5)Madame d'Aulnoy, Fortunee. Illustr and with 5 pages of ads. Bound in fawn printed wraps.
Dimensions
38mms.x 30mms.
Price
£145.00
TAFELTJE STA; EZEL IA KNUPPELTJE SLA.
Description
Published by A.Tjaden. Deventer (c.1870)22 pages printed in Dutch and with 9 coloured plates. Newly rebound in old marble paper over boards. Has the bookplate of I.A.A. Oosting. The plates are mounted, within borders,onto the pages. Not found in the usual references so I have been unable to collate it.however it is clearly a rare childrens book in fine condition.
Dimensions
54mms.x 69mms.
Price
£125.00
LONDON ALMANACK for the Year of Christ 1779.
Description
Gilt edges, engraved throughout and with a four page view of aaaThe New Offices in the Strand, formerly Somerset House. The title is pared at the bottom and a piece is cut from the first page,hardly affecting the view. Bound in red morocco with green and fawn onlays and with elaborate gilt designs overall.Preserved in a matching slipcase. Both parts have been professionally improved and old marbled endpapers have been used. A very attractive item.
Dimensions
56mms.x32mms.
Price
£290.00
DAME WIGGINS OF LEE and her Seven Wonderful Cats. Circle Press. 1992.
Description
Gilt edges, Based on Ruskin's version of this childrens tale. A fine illustration to every page.One of 65 numbered copies of a special edition, bound in white lamb,with a gilt pictorial title on the front cover.
Dimensions
67mms.x 47mms.
Price
£35.00
CALENDARIO PER l
Description
gilt edges, 64pps. The binding of paper over boards is heavily gilt decorated , with a painted flower in each corner and a spray within an oval frame at the centre.The design is replicated on both covers and the spine is similarly decorated. A sumptuous binding. Welsh1585 locates only a similar copy for 1826. Not in Bondy.
Dimensions
72mms.x 52mms.
Price
£450.00
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
SING BIRDIE SING. Dickie Birds and Birds Dickey. What the World Says About Them .R.Hyder and Co. Camberwell, London. 1909.
Description
An advertising bird book. 28 pages including 14 full page coloured lithographs with other illustrations in the text.Bound in pictorial covers. A very good example of an advertising booklet and in fine condition.
Dimensions
73mms.x 62mms.
Price
£60.00
THE SUNWATCH. The Ansonia Clock Co. London and New York City. 1922.
Description
This is, in essence, a portable sun dial.The brass container opens to reveal a compass, a dial and a table of latitudes.The accompanying book gives examples of how it can be used.
Dimensions
75mms.x 50mms.
Price
£75.00
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
LES FLEURS. Almanach des Dames. Published by Challamel Paris. ( 1845)
Description
Gilt edges, containing an almanack with each month having an engraved headpiece, a Language of Flowers, a Vocabulaire, a Horloge De Flore and a Botanique. 155pps printed in French with illustrations in the text. Bound in blue publisher's cloth with pretty gilt decoration on the covers and spine. A nice copy. Not in Bondy or Welsh.
Dimensions
84mmsx 65mms.
Price
£125.00
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
OMAR KHAYYAM. The Rubaiyat In English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald.
Description
Published by David Bryce and Son Glasgow crca. 1904. Gilt edges, 59 double pages each with a decorated border. Bound in green flexible calf with the upper cover and spine decorated over all in gilt, in an oriental design.
Dimensions
53mms.x 35mms.
Price
£150.00
SILVER BOOK COVER. Dutch. 1892.
Description
Both covers have scenes in repusse,of children concerned in various activities.The front has a naval background and the back is set in the countryside. The spine has nine bands with a ring to carry, fixed to the top.There is a Dutch silver mark for 1892, and a clasp to close.
Dimensions
44mms,x 38mms, (cclosed)
Price
£150.00
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
APPARECCIO per li SS Sacrementi. Per Anessio Nobili Pesaro. 1826
Description
Marbled edges with an engraved frontis and 328 pps. Bound in polished calf with gilt decoration and a red leather label. There is an additional paper library label with a manuscript title on the spine and the booksellers ticket of Baudry, Paris, inside the front cover. The marbled rear end paper has been cut close to the gutter otherwise a very decent copy.Only found in a Bondy catalogue of 1955.
Dimensions
67mms x 50mms
Price
£200.00
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
Commemorative Souvenir. London 1935
Description
Seven Royal photographs fold, in panorama fashion, into a bookshaped container made of what appears to be coloured glass. The metal lid has a repouse portrait of the King and Queen within an oval frame, and the title 'To Commemorate The Silver Jubilee 1910 - 1935'
Dimensions
34mms x 28 mms
Price
£25.00
Hand Kalender auf das Jahr 1790
Description
Engraved throughout and printed in red and black. Published by Schreiber Leipzig. Engraved frontis of Fridrich Augustus. Each month is headed by a vignette, with scenes of domestic and agricultural life. Rebound in contemporary marbled paper.
Dimensions
43 mms x 37 mms
Price
£225.00
Pictures of Roman History
Description
Designed by Alfred Mills.London 1809. 96pps + 48 full page engravings. Bound in red morocco with gilt decoration and title on the spine. Presentation inscription to Caroline Wedan from her aunt the Duchess of Marlborough. 1st Edition.
Dimensions
63mms x 60mms
Price
£145.00
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
Bibliotheek in Miniatuur. De Kruidkunde (Flowers)
Description
Published by Westerman and Zoon. Amsterdam. 1834 Printed in Dutch with 4 engravings of Flowers. Bound in pink boards with printed titles on both covers. From the series Bibliotheek in Miniatuur.
Dimensions
78mms x 64 mms.
Price
£45.00
Kalender fur das Jahr 1903. G.Ruger Wien.
Description
Gilt edges printed in red and black and bound in full leather with a gilt floral decoration. Closed with the original pencil having an ivory top.
Dimensions
3” x 1” (77mm x 28mm)
Price
£85.00
The London Almanac for the year of Christ 1820
Description
Gilt edges with a folding engraved view of the London Institution.
Bound in red morocco in the wallet style with a flap to close.
Bound in red morocco in the wallet style with a flap to close.
Dimensions
2 ¼” x 1 ¾” (60mm x 37mm)
Price
£175.00
Asprey’s Annual Jotting and Engagement Book for 1922.
Description
Gilt edges and bound in full red leather with ruled borders . The front cover has sumptuous gilt floral decoration over all. Closed by the original ivory topped pencil, held within three loops. The bookplate of Stanley Marcus.
Dimensions
2 ½”x 2” (65mms.x 54mms.)
Price
£125.00
Les Feeries Morales. Published by Marcilly. Paris. (c. 1836ew book
Description
127pps. Illustrated. Bound in buff coloured boards with embossed decoration. Respined at some time and rubbed
Dimensions
3”x 2” (75mms.x 50mms.)
Price
£95.00
Petite Excursion en France. Published by Marcilly. Paris. (c.1825)k
Description
Illustrated with fine engravings of Provincial Costumes. Bound in embossed boards with a decorative title on the front cover. Preserved in a plain slip case.
Dimensions
3”x 2” (73mms.x 52mms.)
Price
£175.00
Izaak Walton. The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Henry Frowde at the Oxford University Press (c. 1900)
Description
Gilt edges, 585 pages with illustrations. Bound in black leather with rounded corners and gilt titles. The bookplate of Cal Levitan
Dimensions
2 ½”x 2” (60mms.x 49mms.)
Price
£145.00
Madame de Chatelaine. Lilliputian Library No.2 Published by Joseph Myers and Co. London (c.1850)
Description
Gilt edges, Four volumes, Babyland, Night Laundresses, Up Horse and Pot Luck., each with two charming coloured plated. Each bound in a different cloured cloth binding with gilt decoration and preserved in a titled slip case.
Dimensions
3 1/4x 2” (84mms.x 53mms.)
Price
£200.00
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
SIX CODES FASHIONABLES par Horace Raisson. Charles Sedile, Editeur. Paris 1830
Description
76 pages + table. Contains codes Civil, de la Toilette, Epicurien, Galant, de l’Amour and Conjugal. Bound in paper with a splendid engraved pictorial front cover
Dimensions
3 ½”x 2 ¼” (87mms.x 55mms.)
Price
£30.00
COMMON PRAYERTogether With the Psalter or Psalms of David. Printed at the Oxford University Press. (c.1920)
Description
Bound in calf with a gilt decorated spine. The covers are of French Ivory, with rounded corners, and the initials H.I.S, in silver, are fixed to the front cover.
Dimensions
Gilt edges, 2”x 1 ¾” (56mms.x 45mms.)
Price
£45.00
THE DIAMOND TEXT BOOK
Description
Published by G E Petter. Cheapside London. (c.1850) Gilt edges and bound in dark red leather with gilt decoration overall.
Dimensions
2”x 1 ¼” (48 mms.x 31mms.)
Price
£85.00