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Paperback. (GUIDE BOOK) C., C.L.W. A GUIDE TO BATTLE ABBEY. Battle: Ticehurst, (late 19th century). 12mo. Wrappers. (iv), 75, (v) pages, (1) fold-out plate. New and improved edition. Includes a fold-out plan of the Abbey. Spine heavily chipped, wrappers rubbe a good copy. ... more information

1901. (TRADE CATALOGUE) DOULTON Y CA. CATALOGOS DE APARTOS SANITARIOS. (London: 1890) 4to. Cloth backed pictorial boards. 98 pages. Rare trade catalogue not recorded on OCLC. A spectacular, early catalogue fo indoor plumbing apparatus. Included are various toilets, with ingenious flushing mechanisms; sinks in Eastlake style cabinets, urinals and troughs; showers and tubs, etc., all fully illustrated including four chromolithograph plates. The firm started in 1815 fabricating stone ware bottles and sewe... more information

1961. CABEEN, D.C., and others, (editors). A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FRENCH LITERATURE. Four Volumes, complete. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1947-1961. 8vo. Cloth. Volume I, "the mediaeval period"; Volume II, "the sixteenth century"; Volume III, "the seventeenth century"; Volume IV, :The eighteenth century." Comprehensive annotated bibliography. Very good. ... more information

1927. Paperback. (CABELL, James Branch). POOR JACK. Richmond: N.P., 1906 (but Chicago: Ben Abramson, 1927 (?)). 12mo. Wrappers. pages. The famous Cabell forgery, adapted from his Love Letters of Falstaff. Cabell denied knowledge of this piracy, which he called "a forgery sadly bungled." fine, unopened copy. ... more information

1930. CABELL, James Branch. BETWEEN DAWN AND SUNRISE. New York: Robert M. McBride, 1930. 8vo. Cloth. xxvii, 291 pages. First editi Very good, with an introduction by John Macy. ... more information

1938. CAHILL, Holger, and others. MASTERS OF POPULAR PAINTING. New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1938). 8vo. Cloth. Frontispiece, 169, (2) pages. First edition. ``Modern Primitives of Europe and America,'' with contributions by Maximilien Gauthier, Jean Cassou, Dorothy C. Miller, and others; illustrated, with a bibliography. Ex-library copy, else very good. ... more information

1966. CAIRNS, Huntington and John Walker (editors). A PAGEANT OF PAINTING FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Two volumes. New York: Macmillan, 1966. Folio. Cloth, dust jackets. xviii, 254 pages; vii 263 pages. First edition. Featuring 255 full color plates of artwork found in the National Gallery of A Along with each plate is "a quotation appropriate to the painting, the artist his philosophy, his period, or his subject", as well as a comment on the work itself by the editors. Very good in rubbed... more information

1972. CALAHAN, Sean (editor.) THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1972. Folio. Cloth, dust jacket. First edition. An illustrated monograph. Very good. ... more information

1951. CALDWELL, John Edwards. A TOUR THROUGH PART OF VIRGINIA, IN THE SUMMER OF 1808. Richmond, Virginia: Dietz Press, 1951. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. xxii, 61 pag Facsimile of the 1809 edition, a Howes item. Very good. ... more information

1820. (WEST POINT) (CALHOUN, J.C.) LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR.... Washington, D.C.: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1820. 8vo. Disbound. 16 pages, (15) fold-out plates. First edition. ....Transmitting a Statement Shewing the Whole Amount of Moneys Expended, by Government, on the Military Academy at West Point. Includes lists of the num and names of cadets, and the states, districts, and territories from which th came. The fold-out plates show the various costs, and expenditures of the academy. Uncu... more information

1989. Paperback. CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA. INTERCHANGE. Volume II. Pomona: (1989). 8vo. Wrappers. Published by the College of Environmental Design. Very good. ... more information

1926. Paperback. BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. San Francisco: 1926. 16mo. Wrappers. (13) pages. First edition. Van Allen Bradley's copy with his signature. Light cover wear. ... more information

1908. (CALLOW) CALLOW, William. WILLIAM CALLOW, R.W.S., F.R.G.S. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. 8vo. Cloth. Frontispiece, xxiv, 181, ( pages, 31 plates. First edition. Autobiography of famed British artist with twenty-two colored and ten black a white plates of his work--list of paintings in back. Owner's signature on fr board. Very good. ... more information

1977. (EHRET) CALMANN, Gerta. EHRET: FLOWER PAINTER EXTRAORDINARY. Oxford: Phaidon, (1977). Small folio. Cloth, dust jacket. 160 pages. First edition. The definitive biography of Georg Ehret (1710-1770) who had a genius for painting flowers; illustrated with sixty-four pages of plates, many richly colored; with a bibliography of his printed works. Very good. ... more information

CALVIN, Jean. THE INSTITVTION OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION. London: Reginalde Wolffe, 1574. 4to. Contemporary full-calf. (viii), 472, (5 leaves. Third English edition. First published in Latin in Geneva in 1536, and first translated by Thomas Norton into English in 1561, this is considered the seminal work on Protestan systematic theology. Norton was the son-in-law of Archbishop Thomas Cramner is considered the founder of the Anglican church and who also was greatly influenced by Calvin, Luther and the other lea... more information

1962. CALVSEI, Maurizio. LES TRESORS DU VATICAN. (Geneve): Skira, (1962). Folio. Cloth, dust jacket. xv, 216 pages. First edition. Treasures examined are taken from the "Basilique de Saint-Pierre, Galeries et Musees Pontificaux, Tresor de Saint-Pierre, Grottes Vaticanes et Necropole, Palais du Vatican". There are one hundred and twenty plates of which eighty-five are in full color. With the card of Henry de Maillardoz of the C du Vatican tipped-in with a paper clip. There is off-setting from t... more information

1959. Paperback. CAMAC, C.N.B. CLASSICS OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. New York: Dover, (1959). 8vo. Wrappers. Reprint of 1909 edition. Very good. ... more information

1977. CAMBER, Richard (editor). COLLECTORS & COLLECTIONS. (London): British Museum Publications Limited, (1977). 4to. Cloth. 276 pages First edition. The British Museum Yearbook 2. Well illustrated. Bookplate. Very good. ... more information

2001. (BRADSHAW) A CATALOGUE OF THE BRADSHAW COLLECTION OF IRISH BOOKS IN THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY CAMBRIDGE. Three Volumes. Mansfield Center: Martino, 2001. 8vo. Cloth. x, 690; (iv), 691-1340; (iv), 1341-1696 pages. A reprint of this 1916 annotated bibliography of the collection covering publications between 1602 and 1882, with more than 8,700 entries, fully index Fine. ... more information

1989. (BAILLAIRGE) CAMERON, Christina. CHARLES BAILLAIRGE, ARCHITECT & ENGINEER. Montreal: 1989. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. xxvi, 201 pages, 8 plates. First edition. This is the first full biography of the mid- nineteenth century Canadian architect and engineer, Charles Baillairge, who was noted as introducing the Gothic and Greek Revival styles to Quebec City. There are numerous illustrations throughout the text, including eight color plates. ... more information