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[DRIESENS, Jan Francis, et al.]. Practizyns Dag-Wyzer, ofte Gemakkelyken Kooplieden Hand- en Zak-Boek… Gend/Gent: J. Begyn, [1816-19, 1825-28, 1831-32, and 1835]. 11 vols., 12mo. All in original vellum wallet bindings with envelope enclosure and pockets, one with ties.
![[DRIESENS, Jan Francis, et al.]. Practizyns Dag-Wyzer, ofte Gemakkelyken Kooplieden Hand- en Zak-Boek… Gend/Gent: J. Begyn, [1816-19, 1825-28, 1831-32, and 1835]. 11 vols., 12mo. All in original vellum wallet bindings with envelope enclosure and pockets, one with ties.](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/ZARB_eleven_day_books_1.jpg)
A remarkable series of eleven day-books produced specifically for use by merchants, the majority of these owned by a single businessman: Jan Francis Driesens of Drongen (a submunicipality of Ghent), with his manuscript notes throughout, occasional doodles, and his red wax seal “JFD” still intact on rear endpaper of one volume. In each of the…
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The Hyman Kaplan Collection of Playing Cards, ca. 1845-2015 (SOLD).
Expansive collection of playing card decks, from a single collector, bearing witness to nearly 175 years of transportation history, technological innovation, race interpretation, advertising trends, international travel (U.S., African, Asian, Canadian, Cuban, European, Hawaiian, Russian) and politics, depicted on 709 decks of playing cards. Collector Hyman Kaplan (d. 2018) was an engineer and author (Paradise…
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Barbara Parsons, “Taking Flight,” Mayacamas Press, 1993
This is a special portfolio indeed and that is scarcely available to the trade. O.C.L.C. lists a total of six copies in toto, complete, three being located in California, two in Massachusetts, and one in Rhode Island. This is copy #53 of only 75 copies, comprised of 30 prints struck on only one side, and…
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Handsome set of the dozen volumes that comprise an important, influential early addition to English women’s history, to English politics and the monarchy, to Great Britain’s Court and courtiers, and to its Kings and rulers, Queens and fortunes.
The O.D.N.B. entry for her notes that the work evidences the author’s turn in the 1830s (and that of her sister, the co-author, Elizabeth) towards biography, history and the original manuscripts that she and her sister were shown in the British Museum Library. This is the New Edition, with Corrections and Additions, published by Henry…
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Falk Wiesemann, The Esther Scroll, published by Benedikt Taschen, Koln, Germany, 2015.
New condition, straight from the publisher. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being currently only two copies available and beginning at $1,100. Esther was a real mensch. Spectacular books need spectacular homes and loving hands. The Book of Esther and the Song of Songs are the only two books of the Hebrew Bible that do…
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Lafcadio Hearn, History of English Literature, complete in two volumes; R. Tanabe and T. Ochiai, compilers and editors, published by Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, Japan, 1927.
Not seemingly otherwise available to the trade in this state and condition insofar as it is a set complete in two Fine condition burgundy-colored, pebbly leatherette hardcover volumes and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spines and gilt devices to front covers. Top edges gilt. Illustrated, printed paper dust wrappers, sunned moderately and soiled…
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G. Maspero, History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, A.H. Sayce, ed., translated by M.L. McLure, published by The Grolier Club, New York, 1903.
Still a particularly lovely exemplar of a set, complete in 13 volumes, of G. Maspero’s monumental historical survey of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria. The title page registers Maspero’s affiliations with Queen’s College, Oxford, he being a member then also of the Institute and Professor at the College of France. Augmented with over 1,200…
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Margit J. Smith, The Medieval Girdle Book, Oak Knoll Press, 2017.
Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap. I am proud to consider the author, Margit Smith, a librarian and hand bookbinder who retired in 2010 from the Helen K. and James S. Copley Library at the University of San Diego, a personal friend. Bound in an Imperial octavo hardcover format, with a brilliant, illustrated dust jacket and that is…
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Alexandris (Cajetanus de), Confessarius Monialium: commoda, brevi, & practica methodo instrus, published by Balleoniana [Paolo Balleoni], 1728.
![Alexandris (Cajetanus de), Confessarius Monialium: commoda, brevi, & practica methodo instrus, published by Balleoniana [Paolo Balleoni], 1728.](https://finevirtualfairs.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Alexandri-4.jpg)
Good condition. The title continues: “Circa earum Obligationes, Privilegia. Editio quarta, pluribus in locis locupletata.” Thus, the Fourth edition, the First Edition having been published in 1706 and another several after the author’s death in 1730, two years after publication of this volume. Designed as a how-to manual for priests who would hear and pronounce…
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Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Exploration, in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, ’54, 55, published in Philadelphia by Childs & Peterson, 1857.
Two-volume set, complete, Good condition, but with two different title pages for each volume, the first saying 1856 and the other, 1857, as the dates of publication, thus not likely to be a First Edition. Bound in brown cloth boards, blind-stamped titles and illustrations to covers and spines, bumping to spine heads and feet, scuffing…