The following items have been reported stolen: Title : Manière de bien bastir pour toutes sortes de personnes Augmentations de nouveaux bastimens faits en France. Authors : LE MUET Pierre. Date of publication : 1647 Publisher : François Langlois dict Chartres, Paris Description : Part I: -113 pages of text with a title, an allegorical engraved title to the address of PierreMariette, an Epistle and a foreword. 53 engraved figures in full page, with reported 2 and 1double page. Part Two: title followed by 31 engravings by Jean Marot, including 22 doublepage and folding 9. Second edition of the first part (the boards are the same as in the first edition of 1623) and the first edition of the second party submitting the plans and elevations of buildings constructed by ¸ The Mute: Tubeuf and Davaux hotel in Paris and the castles ofChampagne bridge, and Tanlay Chavigny in Touraine. Title : Le Premier tome de l'architecture de Philibert de L'Orme Authors : DELORME Philibert. Date of publication : 1568 Publisher : Frédéric Morel, Paris Description : Full sheepskin speckled modern taste in the eighteenth century. one layer for the title with the lien on the reverse, Preliminary pages (Letter and table lacks the white layer e6), 283pages (without layer 248), 205 figures engraved on wood with 74 full-page and 7 to double page. If you have any information on either of these items, please contact Librairie PICARD at livres@librairie-picard.com, or by phone at 01 43 26 96 73 [more Two Items Stolen from Librairie Picard]
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The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium Authors : Joao Barbosa Rodrigues Date of publication : 1903 Description : 2 volumes If you have any information on this item, please contact Tony Fothergill at Ken Spelman Booksellers at either tony@kenspelman.com or +44 (0)1904 624414 [more Stolen: Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium]
This item was still reported missing as of June 10, 2019. The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Foxes Book of Martyrs Authors : Foxes Description : Description from a recent NADFAS inventory as follows: "Foxes Book of Martyrs. Very poor condition. Faded brown leather cover. Gothic printing with black & white woodcut illustrations throughout. Entries date from 1555 to 1558, but the first ten pages & the last unknown number of pages are either missing or very badly damaged." If you have any information on this item, please contact Patrick McCanlis at patmac778@hotmail.com or +44 (0)20 7439 3118 [more Stolen: Foxes Book of Martyrs]
The following items have been reported missing: 1. Aesop Naturaliz'd; in a collection of fables and stories from Aesop, Lochman, Pilpay, and others. London: printed for D. Midwinter, 1711. Third edition, "with the addition of above 50 fables." Octavo. Contemporary sheep, rebacked, reddish-brown morocco spine label. With ink annotation on front free endpaper with the dates 1723 and 1726. Seven copies worldwide on ESTC. 2. Cebes. . Cebetis Tebani Tabula, Graece & Latine, multis in locis restiuta ex MSS. codicibus...Amsterdam: apud Henricum Westenium 1689. First edition as edited by the Dutch scholar Jakob Gronovius. Small octavo. Contemporary cloth, paneled in blind, brown morocco label. Joints a bit rubbed. Ink signature on the front flyleaf of Robert Raymond, dated 1692. 3. Tasso. L'Aminte du Tasse. Edition nouvelle, revue & enrichie des Tailles douches. Traduite de l'Italien. A la Haye: Chez Levyn van Dyk, 1679. Twelvemo. Contemporary vellum, lightly soiled, lacking ties. 4. Hierocles, of Alexandria. . Commentarius in aurea Pythagoreorum carmina. Paris: Nicolaum Nivellum 1583. Twelvemo. Contemporary limp vellum with title in manuscript on spine. If you have any information on these items, please contact Michael R. Thompson Rare Books at (323) 658-1901 or mrtbooksla@pacbell.net [more Several Books Missing from Michael R. Thompson Rare Books]
The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Tabula Nautica. Authors : Tabula Nautica. Date of publication : 1612 Description : Tabula Nautica. Copper engraving, by Hessel Gerritsz, 1612. 24 x 52 cm. If you have any information on this item, please contact Robert Braeken at rbraeken@gmail.com. [more Stolen: Tabula Nautica (1612)]
This item was still reported missing as of June 4, 2019. The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Gone With The Wind Authors : Margaret Mitchell Date of publication : 1936 Description : Second edition, 1936, with one-off dust jacket - same colour as the curtain used to make the dress If you have any information on this item, please contact Ian Roelofsz at roelofsz@hotmail.com or 020 7439 3118. [more Stolen: Second Edition of 'Gone With The Wind']
The following items have been reported missing: 1. Milton, John. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. London, Printed by S. Simmons, next door to the Golden lion, in Aldersgate-Street, 1678, The Third Edition Revised and Augmented by the same Author. 8vo. , 331 pp. Portrait frontispiece by William Dolle. New full leather binding blind tooled in the 17th century manner. Gilt lettering on spine all by master binder Pat Bruno. Some toning to the printed pages, otherwise very good +. 2. Cableways, Tramways, Suspension Bridges, Inclined Planes and Cable Railways. Built by John A. Roebling's Sons Co., Trenton, New Jersey, John A. Roebling's Sons Co, 1905, 8vo. 110 pp. Profusely illus. in b/w. Pictorial Arts and Crafts wrappers. Fine. 3. Dolce, Ludovico. I quattro Libri Delle Osservationo Di Lodovico Dolce. Di Nuovo Da Lui Medisimo Ricorrette & Ampliate & Con Le Postille. In Vinegia, Appresso Gabriel Giolito De'Ferrari, 1562, Settima editione. Revised and corrected edition of the first edition of 1561. 12mo. 240 pp. Lovely woodcut initials throughout. Splendid printer's device on title page. Leather & boards, some scattered foxing. Very good +. 4. Hinds, John. Conversations On Conditioning. The Groom's Oracle, And Pocket Stable-Directory; In Which The Management Of Horses Generally, As To Health, Dieting, And Exercise, Are Considered, In A Series Of Familiar Dialogues, Between Two Grooms Engaged In Training Horses to their Work. With Notes And An Appendix Including Extracts From T... [more Missing Books from Richard L. Press Fine and Scholarly Books]
This item was still reported missing as of June 3, 2019. Title : De Necrosi Ossium. Authors : WEIDMANN, Johann Peter Date of publication : 1793 Publisher : Andreaeis, Francofurti ad Moenum Description : Folio, pp. (vi), 60, 15 fine engraved plates by Cöntgen, “Graveur de la Cour et de l'Université de Mayence”. Engraved vignette on title. Some minor foxing, and creasing in the fore-edge margins. Early 19th century cloth-backed boards, spine neatly repaired, edges of boards rubbed, original paper label, very good copy. If you have any information on this item, please contact Nigel Phillips at nigel@nigelphillips.com or 01264 861186 [more Stolen: De Necrosi Ossium]
The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Big Beasts and Little Beasts. Authors : Andre Hellé Date of publication : 1924 Publisher : Frederick A. Stokes, New York Description : First U.S. Edition . Oblong 12mo, about 7.25 inches (18.5 cm) wide,5.25 inches (13.5 cm) tall, in brown cloth with cover pastedown, a tiger incolor. 80 pages with full page color illustrations of 20 animals followedby a leaf (two pages) with text about the animal. An uncommon example ofthe French illustrator's work in an English language book. Published inFrance as "Grosses Betes & Petites Betes", that version has some black andwhite drawings and references to Noah's Arc that this one does not. Awonderful array of Art Deco images grace this small but lovely book. Clean,sound and bright inside and out with barely a hint of extremity wear.Hardcover. Near Fine If you have any information regarding this book, please contact Don or Sue Gallagher of Gallagher Books at books@gcbooks.com or 303-756-5821 (Toll Free 866-425-5225). [more Stolen: 'Big Beasts and Little Beasts' (First U.S. Edition)]
The following Books and a Print were stolen from Barking Dog Books and Art on December 11, 2011. Please contact Allan Linscott of the Marietta, OH Police at 740-373-4141 if you have any information about these items. 1. The Bewick Collector with Supplement (Two Volumes) Hugo, Thomas "A descriptive catalogue of the works of Thomas and John Bewick; including cuts, in various states, for books and pamphlets, private gentlemen, public companies, exhibitions, races, newpapers, shop cards, invoice heads, bar bills, coal certificates, broadsides, and other miscellaneous purposes, and wood blocks." Principal catalogue published 1866 xxiii, 562 pp "illustrated with a hundred and twelve cuts". Together with "A Supplement" published 1868 xxv, 353 pp "illustrated with a hundred and eighty cuts" Both volumes finely bound in burgundy leather with five raised bands and gilt lettering on spines. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Lightly rubbed along extremities. Faint erasures on half-title page of catalogue otherwise both volumes clean with bindings tight and square. Full-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 2. Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects ... Pozzo, Andrea; James, John (translator) Pozzo (1642-1709) was a baroque painter and architect best known for painting of ceiling at Church of St. Ignazio. This classic treatise on perspective is "Engraven in 105 ample folio plates and adorn'd with 200 initial letters to the exemplary discourses: printed f... [more Theft from Barking Dog Books and Art]