Nathan haskell dole transl (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Hardcover in fair condition, large 8vo, pages: viii,[i],5-773. Green cloth with titles in gold, decoration in gold, green and red, dark green rules, top edge gilt, extra engraved title page with Tolstoi portrait, frontis portrait and title page illustration plus 10 (of 12) black-and-white plates (2 plates missing; pp 536 and 764), inner hinges cracked (reinforced with water-reversible tape), spine ends and tips worn and frayed, board edges worn, spine dulled, bookplate of Martha Platt Falconer, 1862-1941, Ohio-born social reformer and advocate for delinquent and homeless young women. Bookseller accession no.: 24002. Additional postage may be required for international shipment of this heavy volume.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. A nice-looking lot of different editions of the Sufi poet's best-loved, classic epic poem, and illustrated beautifully by a range of different artists and in multiple formats. The poet, Omar Khayyam (or Khayyami) was born, likely at Nishapur, in the Persian northeast, somewhere between about 1025 and 1050 A.D. His surname Khayyam means "tent-maker" in Persian, which might, like St. Paul/Saul, denote his father's vocation and major income-source. The bibliography consulted is Ambrose G. Potter, A Bibliography Of The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Together With Kindred Matter In Prose And Verse Pertaining Thereto, published by Ingpen and Grant, London, 1929. The lot is comprised of the following: 1) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [FitzGerald's Version], translated by Edward FitzGerald, and illustrated beautifully by Abanindro Nath Tagore. Ex-library, bound in quarto format, 12 1/2" tall x 9 1/2" wide, brown buckram cloth over boards, gilt-stamped title to spine, and complete with 12 plates tipped onto stiff, heavy cardboard plates at book's end. Toned tissue-protected, red title-captioned, and with considerable page-edge toning especially at rear. Former owner's bookplate, embossed library stamps, ink-stamped to all three edges, and scattered pencil-markings, slight waffling to text-block, still quite attractive; single page present but detached; printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode of London. The illustrator Abanindranath Tagore CIE (7 August 1871 ? 5 December 1951) was an Indian painter who was the principal artist and creator of the Indian Society of Oriental Art in 1907 and founder of the influential Bengal school of art (Wikipedia). 2) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer Poet of Persia, translated by Edward FitzGerald, with coloured plates from drawings by Abanindro Nath Tagore, published by Leopold B. Hill, London, n.d. Bound in a pebbly burgundy leatherette cover, 9" x 6 1/2" tall and wide, respectively, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Overall Very Good condition, heavy toning to front and rear endpapers, but clean and unmarked, fairly bright interior throughout. Fine coloured plates, pp. 7-17 of an uncredited essay on Omar Khayyam, poet-astronomer of Persia and then several pages of notes. 3) Rubaiyat of Omar Khammam, translated by Edward FitzGerald, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing, 1937, illustrations by Edmund Dulac, Near Fine condition examplar of the De Luxe Edition in octavo format, handsomely bound in illustrated buckram cloth over boards, fine gilt ruling, lettering to spine over burgundy label. Housed in a Good condition, tape-repaired slipcase, paper illustration thereover. Previous owner's bookplate inside front flap, faint shadowing of tape removal to pastedown, brilliant illustration of Quatrain I at frontis, pulling to first signature, then 15 more, plus a biographical Preface devoted to Edward FitzGerald, xxxviii [2], 42-197 pp. All in, quite a fine exemplar; 4) Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam: a new metrical version rendered into English from various Persian Sources, by George Roe, Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1906, First Edition Thus, stated, a Very Good condition short hardcover example, decorated paper over boards, previous owner's signature at first free endpaper, a quite rare edition indeed, and with an Introduction and many notes and references, list of abbreviations, and an original "Ode to Omar." 77 [1] pp.; 5) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGerald, illustrated by Jeanyee Wong, Mount Vernon, New York: The Peter Pauper Press, n.d. Near Fine condition skinny octavo hardcover format, decorated paper over boards, pink, red and black, with a Good condition reproduction thereof of a paper dust wrapper, with some edgewear and light chipping. Unpaginated, but roughly 40 pp. and with over a dozen fine, colorful illustrations; 6) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGerald, drawings by Edmund J. Sullivan, New York: Illustrated Editions Company, n.d. Long essay by Edmund J. Sullivan, and with his fine black-and-white illustrations. Bound in blue cloth over boards, tan cloth-backed. Split to bottom inch of backstrip, toning to pastedowns and endpapers, else clean and unmarked. Unpaginated, but roughly 45 pp.; 7) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, with Preface by Nathan Haskell Dole, Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1904, Sixth Edition thereof. Short, skinny 16mo format, printed paper over boards, fits into a breast-pocket. 55 [1] pp., plus a vocabulary; 8) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGerald, New York: Dodge Publishing Company, n.d. Short, skinny 16mo format, pebbly, textured paper over boards, gilt border. 51 pp. All in, a nice start on a soon-to-grow collection of an important book in multiple editions.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets. …

First, Limited Edition. One of 445 copies. Two large octavo volumes (24cm). Publisher's parchment over boards, titled in gilt on spines; fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; 224,213pp; illus; printed on Italian mold-made paper. Bindings slightly toned with age, somewhat darker on spines; faint foxing to prelims and tissue-guards, but the text remains fresh and clean, mostly unopened. Far better than is typically seen, as the Bibliophile Society publications were notoriously prone to foxing. The first translation into English of Marat's Lettres Polonaises, a satirical epistolary novel that was never published in the author's lifetime. Though uncredited in the publication, the translation and substantial biographical introduction are by the Boston author and translator Nathan Haskell Dole (1852-1935).…