Rare books from Pelargos Bookstore, MBS

With a preface by Théophile Homolle. Translated from the French by Charles Frederic Hardy. First english language edition. 132 pp.+ 40 full-page photogravure plates with printed tissue guards and 86 illustrations in the text. 39x31 cm. Éditions d'Art Fred. Boissonnas, Genève, 1920. There are printed of this work on fine hand-made paper, prepared specially for this edition, 300 copies, of which this copy is No. 15. (Additional postage due to heavy weight) --- François Frédéric Boissonnas, nicknamed Fred (1858-1946) came from a Swiss family of photographers. An enthusiastic trekker, he started out on his journey from Geneve together with his inseparable friend and travel companion, Greek scholar Daniel Baud-Bovy, rector in the Geneva school of Fine Arts. From their first journey in 1903 until 1920, carrying a baggage of stereotypes on Greece passed on by travellers of the previous centuries, they toured and took photographs everywhere, from Epirus to the Peloponnese and from Ithaca to Olympus and… Read More

A Delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country. With illustrations of steel and wood, by eminent American artists. Edited by William Cullen Bryant. 2 Vols. 33x26 cm. Vol.I: 568 pp.+ 25 full-page engravings on steel h.t. Vol.II: vi+576 pp.+25 full-page engravings on steel h.t. Numerous engravings in-text. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1872-1874.
--- Contemporary full leather binding with gilt letters and decoration. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Very tight binding, repaired by professional bookbinder. Previous owner name written on the first two pages of each volume. Some foxing, sometimes affecting engravings. A few pages have traces of water (more photos available upon request - additional postage due to heavy weight).
--- "Picturesque America was a conspicuous presence in the popular culture of the United States in the post-Civil War years. First published as a magazine… Read More

viii+831 pp. 23,5x15 cm. Librairie de Victor Masson, Paris, 1853.
--- Text in french. Half-leather (private binding). Wear at corners and spine ends. Very tight binding. Small engravings in text, occasional foxing.

Illustrations de Jacques Boullaire. 126 pp., in 4to. Robert Laffont, Paris, 1945. Edition numérotée, No 772/900, sur vélin de Rives.
--- En feuillets, sous double emboîtage illustré de l'éditeur. Illustrations de Jacques Boullaire en bistre dans le texte et frontispice. Lettrines et culs-de lampe. Tirage limité à 900 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin de Rives. 1er emboîtage légèrement passé et coins émoussés. Légère éraflure sur la chemise. Très bel état du livre.

Notes et introduction par Eugène Muller. 235 pp. 24,5x16,5 cm. "Voyages dans la Grèce ancienne" / Librairie Ch. Delagrave, Paris, 1894.
--- Cloth-bound (Prix municipal), with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover and spine. Some wear and marks of discoloration on the covers. Pages and engravings are clean, unmarked. Very tight binding.

Orné de nombeuses illustrations obtenues par la photographie dont 16 planches hots-texte en tons et en couleurs. 25,5x18 cm. Bonvallot, Photographe-Éditeur, Paris, s.d.
(c.1900) --- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth). Gilt lettering on front cover. Some wear at corners. Pages bright and clean.

The Boy Travellers in the Far East - Part fifth. Illustrated. 473 pp.+1 colour plate h.t. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1884.
--- Pictorial cloth gilt. Some wear at corners and spine ends (see photos). Pages bright and clean. A dedication written on a blank page. Richly illustrated with engravings. Tight binding.

xviii+99 pp. 17,5x11 cm. Small Books on Great Subjects / William Pickering, London, 1844. Ex libris of Edward J. Sowerby.
--- Cloth bound. Light wear at corners and spine ends. Pages bright and clean.
--- An introduction to Greek philosophy, published anonymously but known to be written by Caroline Frances Cornwallis (1786-1858). She was born in Wittersham, Kent. She devoted herself to scholarship and learned many languages. After a brief residence in Italy she returned to Kent and lived in Goudhurst. Cornwallis wrote the majority of the titles in Pickering's "Small Books on Great Subjects" and later made a name for herself as an advocate of women's emancipation, including the debate on married women's legal rights.

Traduction de Louis Fabulet & Ch. Fountaine-Walker. Illustrations de Ch. Fouqueray. Troisième édition. 279 pp. 28x23 pp. Librairie Delagrave, Paris, s.d. (c.1930)
--- Half-leather and marbled boards. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Wear to the edges and corners of the covers (see photo). Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. A dedication written on first blank page. All other pages are bright and clean. B&W full-page and in the text illustrations. Text in french.

Compris La Chartreuse près de Pavie et escursions de cette capitale aux lacs de Como, de Lugano, au lac Majeur et à Varèse, exposées à l'usage des voyageurs... 264+viii pp.+1 plan, 1 carte et 1 gravure h.t. 14,5x10 cm. Chez Epimaque et Pascal Artaria, s.d. (1830-1840)
--- Three-quarter leather + marbled covers.Wear at corners and spine ends. Very tight binding. Name written on title page and frontispiece. All other pages, including the folding map, the folding plan and the folding engraving, are bright and clean.

322 Old Dixie Recipes. Compiled and Edited by Lillie S. Lustig, S. Claire Sondheim, Sarah Rensel. Decorations by H. Charles Kellum. 48 pp. 23,5x16 cm. Culinary Arts Press, 1939.
--- Wooden covers, curved and painted. B&W illustrations. Unmarked.

Comprising: Besides the ordinary and newest words in the language, short explanations of a large number of scientific, philosophical, literary, and technical terms. 386 pp. 5,8x4,5 cm. David Bryce and Son, Glasgow, n.d. (1890-1900)
--- Full leather, gilt lettering on front cover. Some edgewear. All edges gilt, pages bright.

Album Odysséen. Photographies de Fred. Boissonnas. 1ère édition. 8 pp. + 265 héliogravures + 1 folding map h.t. 26,4x22,5 cm. Librairie Armand Colin, Paris, 1933.
--- (...) Les photographies qui sont reproduites dans ce volume sont l'oeuvre de Frédéric Boissonnas. C'est avec lui qu'au printemps de 1912, songeant à donner une nouvelle édition de ses Phéniciens et l'Odyssée, Victor Bérard entreprit de refaire le périple d'Ulysse dont, par une patiente étude, il s'était efforcé d'identifier toutes les étapes. Dans cette Méditerranée où rien ne change, il put retrouver intacts les sites et les paysages qui rendaient tout leur sens aux descriptions du Poète. (...)
Jean Bérard
--- Text in french. Captions in ancient greek, translated in french. A spot on front cover. Otherwise the book is fine.

Two volumes in one. 320+317 pp. 11x7,8 cm. Cassell & Company, Limited, London, n.d. (c.1890)
--- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth). Gilt decoration on spine. All edges gilt. Previous owner name written on front endpaper - all other pages bright and clean. Some wear at the edges and the corners of the covers and spine ends.

455 pp.+ 1 plate h.t. 6,5x4,5 cm. G. Barbèra, Editore, Firenze, 1919.
--- Text in Italian. The book is complete. Full leather contemporary binding, with rich gold decoration on covers and spine. Some edgewear. All edges red – discolouration on top-edges. Some notes on endpapers – all other pages are bright and clean.