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Paris: Loudmer, , 1992.. 4to, 313pp, illustrated throughout. Red cloth, dust jacket, front hinge cracked but sound, otherwise very nice.. Lavish catalogue of the Fritsch colleciton of books on wine and winemaking compiled by the bon-vivant bibliophile Gerard Oberle (with his presentation card laid-in). ... more information

Bozen: Stadt Bozen,,. 4to, 472pp, 46 plates. Boards. Fine.. Thirteenth & fourteenth century manuscripts from Bozen described and illustrated. ... more information

Paris: Olympia Press,, (1960).. 12mo, green wrappers. Except for a crinkle on the back cover a fine tight copy.. First Edition of O'Connor's colleciton of erotic tales set in London. ... more information

Paris: Emile Offenbacher, [ca., 1933].. 8vo, wrappers, backstirp perished, contents very good.. Catalogue Number One, with 341 items issued from 10 rue Pasquier, Paris VIII. Offenbacher (1909-1990) was born in Munich but emigrated to Paris to avoid the Nazis; in 1941 he moved to New York where he continued to specialize in science and medicine. Duveen was a steady customer for many years. (NB: Offenbacher's June 11th birthday is shared by three other rare booksellers.) ... more information

Mexico City Imprenta Universitaria, 1955.. 4to, 114pp, 13 plates. Printed wrappers. Very good.. ... more information

The Author,, 1912.. 8vo, 32pp, 15 illustrations. Orig. cloth, good.. First Edition, a ssigned presentation copy from the author. This beautifully printed and produced book sold out almost immediately and the second edition, in smaller format, is much less desirable. ... more information

New York: Random House, , (1968).. 8vo, ix, 336pp. Green buckram, gilt lettered, publisher's slipcase, spine lightly sunned with sm stain to foot, otherwise near fine in fine slipcase.. Limited Edition of 300 copies, Signed and numbered by the author. Scarce. ... more information

Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art,, 1999.. 4to, 160pp, illus throughout. Illus. boards. Fine. . ... more information

Berlin: Limpert,, 1944.. 4to, 46pp, 208 plates. Orig. paper-backed boards, very good.. Rare study of Finnish art, published in Germany during World War II. ... more information

Lima: (Editorial Litografica 'La Confianza,'), 1980.. 16mo, 58pp, 24 hors-text b/w plates. Orig. white wrappers, lettered in black. Mild soiling at wrappers, otherwise a nearly fine copy.. First Edition of this generously illustrated little study. ... more information

New York: Columbia University Press, , 1947.. 8vo, viii, 227pp. Orig. printed wrappers, 1/2' chip to last three leaves, otherwise a good copy.. ... more information

Mount Kisco: n.p. [For the Author by Blaylock Printing Co.],, 1939.. Tall 8vo, 150pp. Black cloth, black lettering to white spine and board labels, chip to spine label, soiling to board label, mild soiling to cloth, bookplate, inked note to gutter of front fly, otherwise very good.. First Edition, Inscribed by the Author, one of only twenty copies distributed out of twenty-five copies printed. Oliver was the bibliographer of Isaak Walton. ... more information

Lima: Archivo Arzobispal de Cuzco/Asociacion Multidisciplinaria de Investigacion y Docencia en Poblacion,, 1983.. 4to, 36pp, map, charts throughout. Yellow wrappers, lettered in brown. Very good.. First Edition of this detailed study. ... more information

Paris: A. Barraud,, 1876. Royal 8vo, xi, 271pp, 40 engravings by Cattelain after designs by Gilbert, 22 tailpieces after Choffard. Later half maroon morocco over patterned boards, raised bands, gilt lettered, teg, marbled endpapers, original wrappers preserved, a few leaves toned, an occasional offset and scattered foxing, otherwise a near fine copy.. First Edition thus, one of 300 large paper copies on Hollande, this being no. 66, the copy of sexual folklorist G. Legman with his dated signature. First p... more information

New York: Dix & Edwards,, 1856.. 8vo, xv, 723pp. Original cloth, gilt. Very good.. First Edition Frederick Law Olmsted (1822 , 1903), widely recalled as a landscape designer and the architect of Central Park, had a significant career as a journalist. In 1852 he was commissioned by the forerunner of the New York Times to embark on an extensive journey through the American South and Texas to research slavery and his dispatches were collected in this and two other books. His writings informed and helped to... more information

New York: Doxey's At the Sign of the Lark,, 1900.. 8vo, (119)pp french-fold, each page with an elaborate border by Lundborg, 2 vignettes hand-colored, endpapers by Lundborg. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt by Lundborg. Inscription dated 1904, very light wear to to spine ends, otherwise fine. . Noted painter and muralist Florence Lundborg was born in San Francisco in 1871. She studied with Arthur Mathews at the School of Design and with Whistler in Paris in the early 1900s. She illustrated several books... more information

New Rochelle: Independent Publishing, , [1933].. Slender 12mo, 20pp. Printed self-wrappers, darkened, a few tiny chips, otherwise very good.. Scarce humorous essay, described by Salisbury as 'a dissertation upon the comedies of Eugene O'Neil.' ... more information

Oxford- New York: Oxford University/Justin G. Schiller,, (197).. 8vo, xvi, 115, (1)pp, 24 b&w plates. Blue cloth, gilt lettered, publisher's mylar dust jacket, fine in like dj.. Limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by the authors, this being copy 166. Originally published in 1973 as the catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Book League in May 1973. Second edition, revised and expanded. Scarce. ... more information

(Minor Confluence, WI): Perishable Press,, 1984.. Tall 8vo, unpaginated, frontispiece. Plain shadwell 'onionskin' wrappers, sm vignette, fine.. Limited Edition of 210 copies, this copy signed by the author. ... more information

Leipzig: Franz Deuticke,, 1935.. 8vo, x, 298pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Spine chipped, still good, with the author's inscription to the front wrapper.. Sixth improved and expanded edition, inscribed by the author to Albin Oppenheim, the inventor of the orthodontic rubber band. This work is the most influential of all dermatological assessments of venereal diseases. Moritz Oppenheim (1876-1949) developed, with Rudolf Müller, the complement-fixation test for the diagnosis of gonorrhea (known as the Müller ... more information