Wednesday, February 25, 2015

1895 L'ABBE CONSTANTINE BY LUDOVIC HALEV ~ ILLUSTRATED BY MADAME MADELEINE LEMAIRE ~ RARE ANTIQUE ART NOUVEAU GILT FINE BINDING

1895

THE ABBE CONSTANTINE
BY LUDOVIC HALEVY,
A MEMBER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY

ILLUSTRATED BY MADAME MADELEINE LEMAIRE

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ BEAUTIFUL ART NOUVEAU FINE BINDING ~ ILLUSTRATED ***

New York and Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, 1895.

• measures about 6.75'' x 4.75''
• beautiful original publisher's decorative olive green cloth Art Nouveau fine binding
• detailed embossed gilt stamping
• textblock top edge gilt
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• vignette title page
• illustrated with full-page engraved plates

Thursday, February 12, 2015

CA. 1905 ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY CHARLES DARWIN ~ RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ PUBLISHER'S LEATHER FINE BINDING

CA. 1905

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
BY CHARLES DARWIN

RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ LEATHER FINE BINDING ~ CLASSIC

New York: Hurst & Company, no date, circa 1905.

• measures about 7.5'' x 5''
• beautiful original publisher's half green morocco leather binding with marbled paper over boards
• ornate embossed gold gilt tooling and lettering to spine