Titles starting with R from marilyn braiterman rare books

Paris: Vve. A. Morel et Cie. 1874. 4to. H Morocco and Boards. Fine. 4to, half red morocco and marbled boards; spine gilt-decorated and lettered. Joints skillfully repaired. Forty color lithograph plates, two lithograph plates, 56 figures in the text and twelve plates of French flags, standards and banners from the Middle Ages until 1789 of the army, navy and royal insignia. Vivid chromolithography by Lemercier et Ciel, Paris. Followed by "Tableaux Militaire des Drapeaux, Etendarts et Guidons des Troupe... more information

Philadelphia. 1859. Small 4to. S Original Cloth. Fine. (Philadelphia 1859). Second Edition. Small 4to, original embossed dark brown pebbled cloth with gilt sphinx vignette on front and back covers. Spine professionally rebacked in comp atible cloth with original spine title laid down. Catalogue of members of the Society at end . A monument of American scholarship, the hieroglyphic text was translated by three University of Pennsylvania undergraduates, Charles R. Hale, S. Huntingdon Jones and Henry Morton. T... more information

Paris. 1833. Large 4to. F 1st Edition.. H Marbled Boards. Very Good.. Paris 1833. Two volumes. Large 4to text volume and folio atlas volume. The text volume is bound in contemporary ½ green morocco and boards, scuffed at joints and edges. The atlas volume is in contemporary marbled boards with new gilt-lettered leather spine. Scattered light to occasionally moderate foxing in both volumes. First edition with thirty eight engraved plates (three double page) of plans of royal residences at the beginnin... more information

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates. 1898. 8vo. H Cloth, Gilt.. Fine.. Travel & Exploration Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, n.d. (1898). New Edition, Revised and Corrected. Two volumes. 8vo, navy cloth with elaborate gilt floral decoration and lettering on spines and fron t covers. Brilliant s et in the original cloth dust jackets with gilt- printed spines. Tissue-guarded lettered gravure plates. Folding map. Binding is Gilt Pictorial Cloth. ... more information

Zurich-Leipzig: Orell Fussli. 1930. 12mo. H Cloth and Boards. Fine.. Architecture & Landscape Design Zurich-Leipzig: Orell Füssli, 1930. Number 15 in Schaubücher series. 12mo, tan cloth and photographically illustrated boards. An order form for the series is laid in. W ith 23 pages text including desc ription of skyscrapers and 64 photographs of work by contemporary architects in New York, Louisiana, San Francisco, St. Louis, Tulsa, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Miam i, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia... more information

Couture Parisienne Syndicate. 1945. 4to. S Printed Wrappers. Fine.. (1945). 4to, printed wrappers, silk cord. Inexpensively produced because of immediate post-war restrictions, but a quite charming production of the Couture Parisienne syndicate and the Union-Nationale des Intelletuals. Clothes by Balenciaga, Balmain, Fath, Grès, Lanvin, Ricci, Patou, Schiaparelli, et al. Two full page perfume ads laid in, one in color for Riccis Coeur de Joie. ... more information

Moscow: Moscow: I.N.Knebel, 1913. 1913. 4to. S Color Pictorial Wrappers. Fine.. Fine. Illustrated by Dmitri Mitrokhin. Moscow: I. N. Knebel (1913). 4to, color pictorial stiff wrappers. Extremely nice copy of this translation of the medieval French epic poem "La Chanson de Roland". Four full page color illustrations and color vignettes on text pages. Mitrokhin was a member of the Mir Isskustva (World of Art) movement and lived a long life in Paris and in the Soviet Union as an illustrator and decor... more information

London: Faber & Faber. 1938. Small 4to. H Cloth... Fine.. Performing arts London: Faber & Faber (1938). Small 4to, silver cloth with gilt-lettered pink and green label. About fine in lightly soiled, else excellent, pictorial dust jacket; partly unopened. Wit h 316 pages text and annotated catalogue, index and 81 full page collotype plates, of which nine are stencilled in color and tipped in. Collection of nearly every lithograph of the Romantic ballet, 18 32-1850, depicti ng Taglioni, Elssler, Grisi... more information

London: William Heinemann.. 1922. 4to. H Cloth. Fine. Fine. in J Fair dj. Literature London: William Heinemann, 1922. 4to, gilt- lettered blue cloth. Fine, bright copy in dust jacket split at spine with some loss (printed parts of the jacket, including re ar wrapper with advertisements, are present). A humorous tribute to the Rossetti family and their circle, including Wilde, Ruskin, Millais, Ford Madox Brown, Swinburne, et al. Twenty two color plates mounted on art paper with amusi ng descriptive tissue gu... more information

Paris: Printed By Gely & Pernet. 4to. S SILVER WRAPPERES.. Fine.. Fine. No place, no date but probably Paris, circa 1920s. 4to, silver wrappers with two stylized faces with bright red lips, block lettering, silver string tie. Fine copy of a very stylish promotional piece for the products of Ritz: lipstick, rouge, powder, creams, self-tanning lotion, perfume stick and nail polish. One blank and two preliminary pages printed in red; seven pages depicting the products in black, various pinks and reds and f... more information

8vo. H Board Portfolio. Fine. Fine. Publicity & Trade Catalogs Np, nd. 8vo, simple board portfolio with string-tied spine containing eleven hinged pages with mounted ribbon samples for bookmarks for missals and trimming for vestme nts. Brief printed descriptive no tations and 69 examples in silk, cotton and rayon of patterns in vivid colorways including crosses, heraldic beasts, wheat, lilies, Celtic knots and symbols of the Ev angelists. ... more information

London J. Taylor .. 1810. 8vo. H Contemporary Boards. worn. Architecture & Landscape Design London: J. Taylor, Architectural Library, 1810. 8vo, contemporary boards, worn; original paper spine label rubbed but legible. An 1819 ownership signature and a m odern small bookplate.Fourth edition, enlarged; first published in 1789, the fifth edition appeared in 1821. Eileen Harris, pages 399-400: "(its popularity) demonstrates the demand by people ?of taste and reading?." Eleven engraved plate s. Wi... more information

St. Petersburg. Large 4to. Fine. St. Petersburg: 1902-1905. Large 4to, modern clamshell box with gilt- lettered leather spine label. Remarkable complete collection of 95 color lithograph plates of dancers, choreographers, musicians and ballet-masters of the Imperial Russian Ballet, which is now known as the Mariinsky or Kirov Ballet. Minor toning to plates, which are bright and attractive. Brief pencilled descriptions on versos of plates by a previous owner. A double portrait of the Legat brothers serves as... more information

St. Petersburg. Large 4to. Fine. St. Petersburg: 1902-1905. Large 4to, cloth portfolio case with gilt- lettered leather spine label. Small snag near lower edge of upper board. With 93 (of 95 )color lithograph plates of dancers, choreographers, musicians and ballet-masters of the Imperial Russian Ballet, which is now known as the Mariinsky or Kirov Ballet. About ten are dampstained but not unsightly and overall are bright and attractive. A double portrait of the Legat brothers serves as a frontispiece or t... more information