TENDER < Back to Terminology List TENDER Defect Refers to a hinge beginning to come loose. The binding is still together but there is some movement in the board. Previous Next

Continue VISIT WEBSITE The Book Block OWNER: Bruce Barnett Member since: 2024 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 20 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): Inquire@thebookblock.com 847 913 5160 847 913 5160 PO Box 742523 , Boynton Beach , Florida , 33474, United States More about this bookseller The Book Block began in 1979 in Greenwich, Connecticut. Later, the main office was moved to Lake Forest, Illinois while maintaining an office and bookbindery in Greenwich. In 2008, the Greenwich facilities were closed. Since May 2014, we have been based in Boynton Beach, Florida. Bruce began collecting illustrated books in is teens. During his 20s, he and his wife, Sherry, were antiques dealers with a shop in Connecticut. Trained in law and finance, Bruce has been a practicing attorney and chief financial officer of a biotechnology company. Bruce continues to be a member in good standing of the New York State Bar. Bruce provides appraisal services and owing to Bruce's background as a tax attorney, he is particularly knowledgeable about IRS rules and regulations. Bruce has lectured and written about changes to the US tax rules governing appraisals. His article entitled So You Think You're an Appraiser! was published in the Spring 2007 edition of The ABAA Newletter. The Book Block is interested in buying individual items and complete collections of books, manuscripts, and other items of graphic interest. 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Quiet Friends OWNER: Dennis & Janet Seekins Member since: 2017 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: % COUPON CODE (if applicable): dseekins@rochester.rr.com 585.765.9337 PO Box 448 37 Maple Ave, Lyndonville, NY, 14098-0448, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

Stories from Hans Andersen Signed by Edmund Dulac PRICE $ 3,750 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Stories from Hans Andersen Signed by Edmund Dulac DULAC, Edmund. Stories from Hans Andersen with Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. London, Hodder and Stroughton: 1911. First edition. Limited to 750 copies, signed by Dulac, of which this is copy number 82. With 28 gorgeous tipped-in colour plates by Dulac. Quarto. Beautifully bound in full vellum, ornately gilt-stamped on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Yellow silk ties. Decorative endpapers. An almost fine copy with no previous owner's notations. Contains seven Hans Andersen Tales including, "The Mermaid" and the "The Emperor's New Clothes." A scarce and desirable title, especially in such fine condition. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Weinstein & Daughters Rare Books Stories from Hans Andersen Signed by Edmund Dulac See Item The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio. See Item

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Geoffrey's Rare Books OWNER: Geoffrey A. Goers Member since: 2010 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 20 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): rarebooksgg@outlook,.com 972-289-1053 713 Lee St. #4, Mesquite, TX, 75149, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

A Chinese physician accidentally ending up in Amsterdam in 1861 PRICE € 3750 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile [A photographic portrait of Chinese medical doctor Lau Noni, or Liu Noni sinsiang (劉奴年先生)]. [Amsterdam or Leiden?], 1861. Oval albumen print (26,3 x 20,2 cm), mounted on card (42 x 32,1 cm). At the back the sitter is identified in pen: “Lau Noni / v. Soa tau, an̄. 26. / 1861”. And in Chinese Characters (an autograph signature?): 劉 / 奴 / 年. Some typical fading and highlight yellowing, otherwise in very good condition. An impressive and large albumen print showing Chinese medical doctor Liu Noni, who visited the Netherlands in 1861. Noni’s visit to Holland was the result of an interesting turn of events. He had served as a doctor on a ship to Cuba, presumably in late 1860. However, after his arrival in Havana, he failed to find a ship back to China. He was making a living selling dried fruit when he happened to meet a Dutch captain who invited him to join his ship to The Netherlands. Working on the ship as a steward, Noni arrived in Amsterdam in April 1861 , where he stayed for over six months. He was the first Chinese visitor to the Netherlands in 30 years, and news of his arrival spread quickly. The Leiden scholar Johann Joseph Hoffmann (1805-1878) , who studied Japanese and Chinese, was keen to meet him. Interestingly, Hoffmann did not speak Chinese , but could write it. When the two met in Leiden, Hoffmann wrote down a Chinese greeting, whereupon Noni, who had been unable to communicate in Chinese for months, nearly cried with joy. Two of Hoffmann’s students later accompanied Noni on a ship to Batavia, from where he embarked for China. Noni's visit was reported in several Dutch newspapers. The most extensive article was by the popular writer Pieter Harmen Witkamp, who met Noni briefly and wrote about him in the Nederlandsch Magazijn . Witkamp's article is still the most comprehensive source about Noni's visit to the Netherlands. The present photograph was most likely taken in Amsterdam or Leiden. It appears to be listed in Frederik Muller's 1882 sales catalogue Les Indes Orientales under number 3398. Muller notes "avec signature autogr., en Chinois", which suggests that Noni's name in Chinese characters is indeed an autograph. Number 3399 in Muller's catalogue is the same photograph, but reduced in size. It is possible that the present photograph is the only surviving image of Noni. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Black Dog Rare Books "Go and enjoy yourself!": Sex tourism in Paris See Item Collected poems by Jo Corsen, including poems in Papiamento See Item Marriage of Ludwig Gutmann and Rosette Pinkus: manuscript with 8 watercolours See Item First Russian translation of the first major theoretical treatise on cubism See Item A young girl's adventures in decadent Paris, illustrated with photographs See Item A Yiddish children's book by a shining star of Russian Jewish literature See Item A Chinese physician accidentally ending up in Amsterdam in 1861 See Item Book of Common Prayer, from the library of Liverpool slave trader Moses Benson See Item A religious tract on the Great Comet of 1811, printed in Boston See Item

STARTING < Back to Terminology List STARTING Defect Hinges or joints beginning to show signs of tearing, either through wear or defective binding. Previous Next

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) < Back to Terminology List AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) General A letter written entirely in the hand of an individual and signed by them. The image depicts a hand-written, signed college acceptance letter. Previous Next

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Continue VISIT WEBSITE Nick Bikoff OWNER: Nickolaus Bikoff Member since: 2015 NICK BIKOFF ANTIQUARIAN & RARE BOOKS (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 20 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): Trade discount available on Biblio.com or through direct contact. bikoffbooks@gmail.com 973-575-5744 9736528183 19 Birchtree Drive, Fairfield, NJ, 07004, United States More about this bookseller Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. All books for sale are in-stock on premises. 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale Books are conservatively described. Full refund within 20 days. Books mailed upon notification of sale. Books sold by direct payment to bookseller will be shipped after receipt of check or notification of paypal payment. Oversize books may require additional shipping charges. All books/ephemera are securely packaged to assure safe arrival at their destination.

1717 Red-Ruled First Edition John Baskett Vinegar Bible PRICE 14975 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues: And with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. By His Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches. The famous and monumental “Vinegar Bible” also known as the “Baskett full of errors,” and generally acknowledged as the most magnificent Bible printed in England. The text is the King James Version of the English Bible and was printed in large folio by John Baskett at Oxford in 1717-16. The volume is adorned with numerous beautifully engraved head and tailpieces depicting scenes from the Bible (about 60 in total, about 1/4 of a page each), further adorned with engraved initials. Includes the famous typographical error in the headline of Luke XX that reads “The Parable of the Vinegar.” Collation: (*)2, *2, a-b2, c1, A-Z^6, Aa-Zz^6, Aaa-Zzz^6, Aaaa-Pppp^6, Qqqq^4, (Old Testament) [A]-[X]^6, Y^4 (New Testament). Complete. Comprises the complete text of the Old Testament, Apocrypha, and New Testament, along with the two title pages and the preliminaries. Both titles display beautiful engravings, with the general title showing a particularly fine view of Oxford. Bound in polished black calf with elaborate gilt tooled border design. Gilt fillet rolls and central gilt lozenge on covers. Spine with six raised bands and extensive gilt tooled compartments. A red gilt tooled label with the words “Holy Bible”. Plain endpapers. Herbert (942) calls it "A magnificent edition, printed in large type. With many plates at the beginning and end of books, engraved in steel from the designs of various artists. Some of the initial letters are similarly engraved ... " This edition is the more elaborately illustrated 'A' variant with Two general titles, the first one - engraved by Du-Bose- represents Moses writing the first words of Genesis. Famously, John Baskett set out to print the most beautiful, largest, and finest illustrated Bible ever printed, and he largely achieved his vision with this masterpiece of typography and illustration, printed in 1717 (Old Testament and Apocrypha) and 1716 (New Testament). Harry Carter, the historian of Oxford printing, states that "only Baskerville's Bible is its equal among English Bibles for beauty of type, impression, and paper." Equally famously, however, the glory of the typography was not matched by the accuracy of the proofreading, and the text is filled errors. The most famous of these errors was the misprint in the headline of Luke XX, which ought to have read “The Parable of the Vineyard.” Instead, the text reads “The Parable of the Vinegar.” As a result, this edition of the Bible has, since its first appearance, been known as the “Vinegar Bible.” The bounteous nature of the edition’s misprints has also led to its appellation as the “Baskett full of errors” (playing upon the printer’s name). Overall Condition is VERY GOOD PLUS. Infrequent foxing, mostly to margins. Some browned leaves on occasion. Qq5 small ½” piece loss to margin. Bbb3 with 3” closed tear to tail impacting a few letters. [g]6 with 1” taped tear to head. [s]1 with 1” small tear to margin at tail. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from 1603 Quarto Illustrated Geneva Bible by the Squirrel Binder See Item 1582 Rhemes NT and 1609-10 Doway OT – First Edition Roman Catholic Bible See Item 1660 Octavo King James Bible with 176 Hand-Colored Plates by the Naval Binder See Item 1717 Red-Ruled First Edition John Baskett Vinegar Bible See Item 1550 John Marbeck First Bible Concordance in English See Item

MIMEOGRAPH / MIMEO < Back to Terminology List MIMEOGRAPH / MIMEO General A mimeograph, abbreviated mimeo, is a paper copy created by a duplicating machine that forces ink through a stencil and onto the sheet. The stencils could be typed on a typewriter or hand cut. Generally used for printing in small quantity, the process is mimeography and the resulting copies do not have archival properties. The first example image is from a 1941 school handbook mimeographed by students. The second example is from a 1955 "zine," with stencils made by the author. Previous Next