Titles starting with L from Margolis & Moss

Lugduni Batavorum: Elzevir, 1638. Engraved title-page + [8], 336, [16] pages. Sixteenmo (5 1/2 x 3 inches); early full vellum; vellum starting to 'spring,' staining to rear cover; still a tight, sound copy. The second of the two editions published the same year. Roman history edited by Claudius Salamasius. ... more information

Mexico: Editorial Jus, 1957. 95 pages. Octavo, quarter calf with red and green leather labels; original wrappers bound in; small stain from an old sticker on title-page. Second edition. A beautifully bound copy of number 11 of the series "Figuras y Episodios de la historia de Mexico." [We have seventy other titles from this series uniformly bound. Please inquire]. ... more information

Paris: W. Baumann et Cie, 1937. Trade catalog for mostly Kentwood furniture. 40 pages. 6 x 9 1/2 inches. Wrappers of a stiff wood grained paper. Excellent condition. In French. The catalog is addressed to institutions and businesses. Most of the furniture is seating, but there are also tables, desks, hat and coat racks, wheel chairs, banquettes, and furniture for children, including highchairs, cribs, regular chairs, playpens and chairs that convert from highchairs to play stations. Wonderful furni... more information

Buenos Aires: El Nacional, 1876. . 135 pages, lithographed birds-eye view and a long, folding mounted albumen photograph of a new, large penitentiary. The image measures 6 x 11 3/4 inches. Octavo, 8 x 5 1/2 inches. Modern green cloth, with the ownership hand-stamp of Alberto Posse on the title. The lithograph and photograph show the new Carcel Nueva in Buenos Aires, and are credited to "Fotografia y Fotolitografia de la Concepcion, de Emilio Halitzky... Buenos Aires." The first "... more information

Mexico: Editorial Jus, 1958. 118 pages. Octavo, quarter calf with red and green leather labels; original wrappers bound in. First edition. A beautifully bound copy of number 63 of the series "Figuras y Episodios de la Historia de Mexico." [We have seventy other titles from this series uniformly bound. Please inquire]. ... more information

(Spain): Junta de Extremadura, 1998. 102 pages. Profusely illustrated. Quarto, 11 x 9 1/2 inches. Pictorial wrappers. In excellent condition First edition of this graphic overview of the Spanish American war, as seen through political cartoons of the day. Includes work from Argentina, Cuba, Spain, Europe, The United States, Mexico and Venezuela. ... more information

Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, A. & F. Ferroud, 1924. 36 pages. With hand-colored illustrations by Gustave-Adolphe Mossa. Octavo, 7 1/4 x 5 inches. Pictorial wrappers, very light stain in lower margin of title-page. One of 1500 numbered copies. A fine, bright copy. ... more information

(Bruges): De Brouwer et Cie, 1940. Delightfully illustrated in color by Jeanne Hebbelynck. 9 1/4 x 12 inches. Cloth backed pictorial boards; A fine, bright copy. ... more information

Mexico: Imprenta de J. Vincente Villada, 1886. 43 [3] pages. Illustrated with a large, folding chromolithographed plate showing the ground plan and elevation of the new penitentiary. The lithograph measures 22 3/4 x 26 inches and is titled "Proyecto de Penitenciaria Para el Distrito Federal. 1886." Octavo, 9 x 6 inches. Cloth backed marbled boards with a manuscript paper label; original printed blue wrappers bound in. With the bookplate of Frederick Starr, "ex libris Mexicanis. With th... more information

Paris: Charles Mendel, (1903). 232 pages. With six original silver photographs, 4 1/4 x 6 inches tipped to stiff leaves pus numerous halftone photographic illustrations. Quarto, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Modern red polished calf backed boards. This book is devoted to the science and technique of forensic photography. The images show photographic methods for identifying forgeries, fingerprints and footprints, crime scene photography, criminal photo identification, examination of written documents ( making ... more information

Mexico: Herrero Hermanos Sucesores, 1928. 107 pages + index. Illustrated from photographs and with colored maps. 7 x 9 1/2 inches. Cloth backed printed boards. A fine copy. ... more information

Paris: J. Rothschild, 1865. 44 pages of text with an introduction by Comte le Couteulx. With 36 mounted albumen photographs on printed mounts. Each image measures 2 1/2 x 3 inches (63 x 76 mm.). The photographer was Leon Cremier, "Photographe de la Maison de l'Empereur." Oblong quarto, 9 x 12 inches (229 x 305 mm.). Leather backed gilt pictorial green cloth; lightly rubbed. One of only 50 copies "pour les auteurs" from an edition of 250. Hunting with dogs in France has a six hundred... more information

Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1919. 692 pages. Portrait. 4to, half-crimson calf; original wrappers bound in; lightly rubbed Later printing of this biography written by Pasteur's son-in-law. Inscribed by the author to Miss Lilian Gilbert, 1925. ... more information

c. 1880. A beautiful large (8 x 11 3/4 inches) European linen label with gold ink embossed heraldic symbol of two crowned eagles. ... more information

Wonderful label for cognac. "APERITIF NORMANDIE" c. 1925. 6 1/2 x 4 inches. ... more information

New York: Rizzoli, (1989). 192 pages. Profusely illustrated, including 92 in color. Quarto, 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. Red cloth with pictorial dust jacket. First English language edition, originally published in France the previous year. A beautiful book. ... more information

New York: Harry Abrams, (1990). 192 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Quarto, 12 x 9 1/4 inches. Black cloth with dust jacket. An excellent copy. First English language edition, originally published in France in 1988. A beautiful and informative book, illustrated with historic paintings and detailed examples of fine lace. ... more information

Paris, 1894. A fold-out trade catalog from the paris firm of A L'amour Maternal featuring lovely children's fashions for the summer season of 1894. Measuring 9 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches when folded, the catolog unfolds to 18 1/2 by 34 inches. ... more information

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1879. [35] pages, printed on rectos only. Wood-engravings after James D. Smillie. Square 12mo, gilt-pictorial brick-red cloth; a bright copy Bruce, who graduated Yale in 1867, became a noted lecturer before lyceums and associations on literary subjects. The above, first published the previous year contain sixteen delightful illustrations by Smillie. ... more information

(Santa Fe): New Mexico Highway Dept., 1939. Folding map measuring 20 x 16 1/2 inches. A beautiful, bright copy The cover photograph shows the noted San Ildefonso potters, Maria and Julian Martinez. ... more information