CA. 1885 STORIES FOR THE HOUSEHOLD (FAIRY TALES) BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN ~ BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED VICTORIAN FINE BINDING

CA. 1885

STORIES FOR THE HOUSEHOLD (FAIRY TALES)
BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ ENGRAVINGS ~ CLASSIC ***

Publisher:
Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, no date, circa 1885.

Features:
• measures about 7.5'' x 5.25''
• beautiful publisher's original decorative Victorian cloth fine binding
• embossed gold gilt and black stamping
• brown coated endpapers
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• illustrated with full-page engraved plates

1909 GULLIVER'S TRAVELS BY JONATHAN SWIFT ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM - 1ST EDITION THUS

1909

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD
BY JONATHAN SWIFT

ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ BEAUTIFUL ELABORATELY GILT STAMPED FINE BINDING ~ COLOR PLATES ~ PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED ~ CLASSIC ***

Publisher:
London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1909.
Printed in Letchworth at the Temple Press.

Features:
• measures about 9.25'' x 6.75''
• beautiful publisher's original decorative blue ribbed cloth fine binding
• bright detailed pictorial embossed gold gilt stamping (signed-binding, "H.C")
• textblock top edge gilt
• pictorial endpapers
• 12 color plates, as well as monochrome plates and part-page illustrations, all by Rackham

1925 SEVEN WONDERLANDS OF THE AMERICAN WEST BY THOS. D. MURPHY ~ ILLUSTRATED BY THOMAS MORAN AND HENRY H. BAGG

1925 FIRST EDITION

SEVEN WONDERLANDS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
BEING THE NOTES OF A TRAVELER CONCERNING VARIOUS PILGRIMAGES TO THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, THE YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, THE GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, ZION NATIONAL PARK, GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK, AND THE PETRIFIED FORESTS OF ARIZONA

BY THOS. D. MURPHY

WITH 32 REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOR FROM ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY THOMAS MORAN AND HENRY H. BAGG
AND 24 HALFTONES FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
ALSO MAPS OF THE NATIONAL PARKS COVERED BY THIS BOOK

*** RARE OLD BOOK ~ PICTORIAL FINE BINDING ~ EXQUISITE COLOR AND PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONS ~ AMERICAN OLD WEST ~ NATURAL WONDERS ~ NATIONAL PARKS ~ TETONS ~ WILDERNESS ~ CANYONS ~ LAKES ~ GEYSERS ~ CLASSIC US TRAVEL AND HISTORY ~ MAPS ***

Publisher:
Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1925.

Features:
• First Edition - First Impression stated on copyright page, no additional printings listed
• large book measures about 9.5'' x 6.5''
• beautiful publisher's brown ribbed decorative cloth hardcover fine binding
• pictorial embossed gold gilt and green pictorial stamping
• textblock top edge gilt
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• illustrated with 56 full-page plates in color and halftone as well fold-out maps

1921 VITALOGY; OR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HEALTH AND HOME ADAPTED FOR HOME AND FAMILY USE BY GEO. P. WOOD AND E. H. RUDDOCK

1921

VITALOGY

OR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HEALTH AND HOME
ADAPTED FOR HOME AND FAMILY USE

BEACON LIGHTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG, SHOWING HOW TO SECURE
HEALTH, LONG LIFE, SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS, FROM
THE ABLEST AUTHORITIES IN THIS COUNTRY,
EUROPE AND JAPAN

BY GEO. P. WOOD AND E. H. RUDDOCK

*** RARE BOOK ~ HANDSOME OLD LEATHER BINDING ~ COLOR PLATES ~ HOME REMEDIES ~ HERBAL MEDICINE ~ FOLK RECIPES ~ TREATMENT OF WOUNDS AND DISEASE ~ CLASSIC MEDICAL ***

Chicago and New York: Vitalogy Association, 1921.

• large book measures about 10'' x 6.57''
• handsome publisher's decorative 3/4 leather binding
• embossed gold gilt stamping
• marble patterned endpapers
• illustrated with full-page color and monochrome plates, a layered die-cut "manikin" showing bones, tissues, muscles, arteries, veins, and internal organs, as well as a layered die-cut head showing internal cranium physiology and a phrenologist's head

1887 ATALA BY FRANCOIS-RENE DE CHATEAUBRIAND ~ ILLUSTRATED BY GUSTAVE DORE

1887

ATALA
BY FRANCOIS-RENE DE CHATEAUBRIAND

TRANSLATED BY JAMES SPENCE HARRY
FROM FIRMIN DIDOT'S EDITION OF THE VISCOUNT'S WORKS

ILLUSTRATED BY GUSTAVE DORE

*** RARE LARGE ANTIQUE BOOK (13'' X 10'') ~ BEAUTIFUL FINE BINDING ~ ENGRAVINGS ~ EXQUISITE NORTH AMERICAN WOODLAND SCENERY ~ NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN WARS ~ SEMINOLE, MUSKOGEE (MUSCOGEE, CREEK) TRIBES ~ CLASSIC AMERICANA ***

Publisher:
Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1887.

Features:
• large book measures about 13.25'' x 10''
• beautiful publisher's decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
• ornate embossed gold gilt and black stamping
• beveled edges to boards
• textblock all edges gilt
• patterned endpapers
• illustrated with 30 full-page engraved plates, plus a few part-page engravings, by Gustave Doré

1911 RESURRECTION BY LYOF N. TOLSTOI ~ ILLUSTRATED ~ STUNNING ART NOUVEAU FINE BINDING

1911

RESURRECTION
BY LYOF N. TOLSTOI
(LEO NIKOLAYEVICH TOLSTOY)

TRANSLATED BY ALINE P. DELANO

ILLUSTRATED

TWO VOLUMES IN ONE BOOK

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ STUNNING ART NOUVEAU FINE BINDING ~ FULL-PAGE PLATES ~ RUSSIAN CLASSIC ***

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1911.

• measures about 8'' x 6''
• beautiful decorative light gray cloth Art Nouveau fine binding
• ornate embossed gold gilt, blue, and orange stamping
• textblock top edge gilt, deckle edges otherwise
• high-quality paper throughout
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• extra vignette title page
• illustrated with full-page plates (18 in total)