Bound in lead and issued in a lead slipcase with scelle fils de laiton soude etain., Illustrated with 15 etchings by Didier Mutel., No. 23., One of 40 copies printed., and Translated from the German by A. Hella and O. Bournac. Cf. colophon.
Publisher:
[Didier Mutel],
Subject (Name):
Bournac, Olivier, 1885-, Hella, Alzir, and Mutel, Didier
Siegfried Sassoon's copy of the first, unexpurgated issue of Robert Graves's Good-bye To All That (1929), annotated and with clippings. Sassoon's annotations include personal comments, many critical, and factual corrections, most relating to Graves's account of his service in the war. Clippings, pasted in and loose, include reviews, illustrations, and letters to the editor. With one typescript reply to Sassoon from publisher Jonathan Cape, dated November 1929, identifying corrections to be made, at Sassoon's request, to the remaining, undistributed copies of the first issue.
Description:
Chiefly in English; some clippings in Swedish, Dutch, and French., Purchased from Christie's on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection Fund, 2007., Robert Graves (1895-1985), English author., and Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), English author.
Subject (Name):
Graves, Robert, 1895-1985. Good-bye to all that., Graves, Robert,--1895-1985., Jonathan Cape (Firm), and Sassoon, Siegfried,--1886-1967.
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, English.
Unnumbered copy of limited first edition of Jean Cocteau's L'ode à Picasso (Paris: La Belle Edition, 1919), heavly annotated by Cocteau. Laid in: business card of Louis Broder, with autograph manuscript note, signed.
Description:
Formerly owned by Louis Broder. Purchased from John McWhinnie on Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008., Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French author and filmmaker., and Title devised by cataloger.
Baradère, H. abbé 1792-1839 Dupaix, Guillermo Lenoir, Alexandre, 1761-1839 Warden, David Bailie, 1772-1845
Published / Created:
1834-1844.
Call Number:
1995 Folio 14
Image Count:
4
Alternative Title:
Antiquités Mexicaines : relation des trois expéditions du colonel Dupaix, ordonnées en 1805, 1806 et 1807, par le roi Charles IV, pour la recherche les antiquites du pays, notamment celles de Mitla et de Palenque : avec les dessins de Castañeda ... : suivie d'un parallèle de ces monuments avec ceux de l'Égypte et de l'Inde par m. Alexandre Lenoir ... : d'une dissertation sur l'origine et sur la linguistique des populations primitives des deux amériques, d'un historique des diverses antiquités et des fossiles du double continent, par m. Warden ... : avec un discours préliminaire des travaux et documents divers de mm. de Chateaubriand, Farcy, Galindo, de Humboldt et de St. Priest ... .
Description:
Volume 2 has separate title page and date 1834.
Publisher:
Au Bureau des Antiquités Mexicaines,
Subject (Geographic):
Mexico--Antiquities, Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico)--Antiquities, and San Pablo Villa de Mitla (Mexico)--Antiquities
The text, attributed to Paolo Paciaudi (cf. Brooks & Melzi), describes the symbolic meaning of the monument erected on the occasion of the visit of Joseph II in Parma and of the announcement of marriage of Ferdinand, Infant of Spain, Duke of Parma.
Description:
Engraved title vignette depicting the two sides of a portrait medallion, commemorating the visit of Joseph II. in Parma, with caption: "Adventvs Avg. Felicissimvs Parm. Iosephvs II. Roman. Imp. CICICCCLXVIIII.", engraved by Benigno Bossi after Petitot. Large head-piece on p. [V], engraved by Tommaso Baratti after Petitot, and large tail-piece on p. XI, engraved by Antonio Baratti after Petitot. Two engraved pictorial initials., Final p. blank., Full-page ill. of the monument, with scale, engraved by Simon François Ravenet (the son) after Petitot., Text in French and Italian in parallel columns, t.p. and inscriptions in Latin., The text, attributed to Paolo Paciaudi (cf. Brooks & Melzi), describes the symbolic meaning of the monument erected on the occasion of the visit of Joseph II in Parma and of the announcement of marriage of Ferdinand, Infant of Spain, Duke of Parma to Maria Amalia, Archduchess of Austria. The monument was designed by the French architect Edmond Alexandre Petitot., and Year in title printed as CICICCCLXVIII, the thrid and fifth Cs reversed.
Publisher:
Giambattista Bodoni,
Subject (Name):
Baratti, Antonio, 1724-1787., Baratti, Tommaso, fl. 1769., Bodoni, Giambattista, 1740-1813, printer., Bossi, Benigno, 1727-1800?, Ferdinand,--Infant of Spain, Duke of Parma,--1751-1802--Marriage., Joseph--II,--Holy Roman Emperor,--1741-1790--Monuments., Maria Amalia,--Archduchess of Austria, consort of Ferdinand, Infant of Spain, Duke of Parma,--1746-1804--Marriage., Petitot, E. A. (Edmond Alexandre), 1727-1801., and Ravenet, Simon François, 1748-ca. 1814.
Subject (Topic):
Monuments--Italy--Parma--Early works to 1800. and Royal visitors--Italy--Parma--Early works to 1800.