Luxty Juventus
Oxford: Printed for the Malone Society by Vivian Ridler at the University Press, Oxford, 1971 The Malone Society Reprints edition. Cloth/boards. Small quarto. A fine, unopened copy. Reprint of a sixteenth-century play.
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The New Cambridge Modern History. Volume II: The Reformation 1520-1559, edited by G.R. Elton
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1958 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Former owner's rubberstamp. Very good in lightly chipped d.j.
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Jack Upland, Friar Daw's Reply, and Upland's Rejoinder. Edited by P.L. Heyworth
[London:] Oxford University Press, 1968 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Former owner's ink signature, a little light pencil. Very good+ in like jacket, with a little browning to spine.
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The Polite Instructor; or, Youth's Museum. Consisting of moral essays, tales, fables, visions, and allegories. Selected from the most approved Modern Authors. With an introduction, containing Rules for Reading with Elegance and Propriety, to the whole is added, a Collection of Letters. With Rules prefixed, useful for supporting a genteel epistolary correspondence.
[ London: T. Becket, 1761 ] First edition.The present work is a conduct guide written specifically for young men — though the ownership signatures in this copy indicate girls' interest in this work as well — to instruct them in becoming the right kind of gentlemen. The "approved" authors include Pope, Milton, and Locke.. Contemporary dark brown sheep with five raised bands on spine. . Twelvemo. Engraved half-title with border and floral vignette. Binding rubbed and front hinge cracking but... Read More
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Precisionism in America 1915-1941: Reordering Reality
[New York:] Abrams in association with the Montclair Art Museum, [1994] First edition. Boards. Quarto. With 165 illustrations, including 65 in full color. Fine in fine d.j.
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The Shogun Age Exhibition from the Tokugawa Art Museum, Japan
[Tokyo:] Shogun Age Exhibition Executive Committee, [1983] Wrappers. Quarto. Color illustrations and descriptions of 273 items. Fine.
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Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum. Catalogus der Bibliotheek.
Amsterdam: Cornelis Schuytstraat, 1960 First edition. Dark blue cloth with gilt spines. 2 vols., quarto. Plates, including two tipped in color plates. Text illustrations. A very good set. The catalogue of the library Amsterdam's great maritime museum. The museum houses paintings, scale models, weapons, maps, books, and artifacts associated with shipping and sailing. Highlights include works by the famed seventeenth-century cartographers Willem and Joan Blaeu and a first edition of Maximilan Transylvanus' work, De Moluccis Insulis, the first... Read More
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Franco Assetto: anthology
[Milan:] Fabbri Editori, [1985] First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Assetto in 1986, with a bold inscription spanning across the front endpapers. Pictorial boards. Oblong quarto. Black and white and color illustrations. Minor shelfwear. Near fine.
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[Botanical Watercolor Illustrations].
[n.p., Pau, France?] 1877 In cloth-backed leatherette boards with gilt stamped cover. 1877. Together with separate sheet, 14 in. x 11 inches, mounted on cardboard, of four drawings of a similar size to those in the album, which apparently had become loose and are here displayed separately. The album was sold by stationer L. Ribaut in Pau, overlooking the Pyrenees in Southwest France. The contents of the album may or may not been assembled in that region, though that seems... Read More
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Bibliographica. [Edited by A.W. Pollard.]
Westport, CT: Greenwood Reprint Corp., [1970] Reprint of the 1895-7 edition. Cloth. Three volumes, quarto. Fine. A classic periodical on the book arts. Contributors include Robert Proctor, Sarah Prideaux, Andrew Lang, Octave Uzanne, Falconer Madan, Laurence Housman and William Morris.
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Art of the Printed Book 1455-1955. Masterpieces of Typography Through Five Centuries from the Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, [1973] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Fine in fine d.j.
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A Mother's Portrait: Sketched Soon After Her Decease, for the Study of Her Children, by Their Surviving Parent
London: Printed for Knight and Lacey, 1823 First edition. Original drab boards, printed paper spine label. . Octavo. Engraved frontispiece. Binding extremities a bit rubbed, boards sligthtly soiled. Front hinge and rear joint cracked, but sound. 2.5" inches worn away from lower spine. A few chips and tears to spine label, with loss of a single letter. Light foxing, minor offsetting from frontispiece. Contemporary ink inscription on half-title. A very good cop We were unable to find any... Read More
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Typographic Design Production.
[New York:] Madison Square Press, [1993] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Color illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.
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The Art of Chanouyu: The Urasenke Tradition of Tea. March 7th-30th, 1986. The Doizaki Gallery, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles: The Urasenke Foundation, [1986] Wrappers. Quarto. Exhibition featuring 72 items, with color illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.
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Little Frank's Almanack, to Show Little Boys and Girls Their Play Days.
Portland [Maine]: Bailey & Noyes, [1860-1875?] Illustrated paper wrappers. Miniature book, 3.5" x 2.5." . Nineteen woodcut engravings. Wrappers lightly worn and sewn binding slightly loose, but sound. A near fine copy of a fragile work. Little Frank's Almanack, was published as part of a chapbook series; there were twelve separate volumes (some of the other titles from the series include Vol. 3: The Soldier Turned Farmer, Vol. 8: The History of Birds, and Vol. 11: History of Beasts. Little... Read More
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Bo Bartlett
Columbus, GA: The Columbus Meusuem in association with Marquand Books, [2004] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j.
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Carl Larsson
New York: Brooklyn Museum/Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1982] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Black and white and color illustrations. Fine in fine d.j. Foreword by Michael Botwinick.
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Old Testament Miniatures. A Medieval Picture Book with 283 Paintings from the Creation to the Story of David
New York: Braziller, [1975] First edition. Cloth. Folio. Fine color illustrations. Very good+ in lightly edgeworn dust jacket with a couple of small tears.
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Madeleine Rouart 1896-1986. M.R. Post-Impressionist
[Los Angeles: William Ward III, 1989] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 108 color illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.
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Tomas Taveira: Architectural Works and Designs. Introduction by Geoffrey Broadbent
[London:] Academy Editions/St. Martin's Press, [1990] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Over 440 illustrations, mostly in color. Fine in fine d.j.
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Zamorano Club Programs 1928- 1991.
Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1992 First edition, one of 200 copies printed for the 21st Joint Meeting of the Roxburgh and Zamorano Clubs. Designed and set by Old Mill Graphics, South Pasadena. Clothbacked decorative boards, gilt spine. Small folio. A fine copy. Laid in is a keepsake meant as a companion piece to the book, with an original program from a 1959 program for a talk by John S. Galbraith on the Hudson's Bay Company in Old Oregon.... Read More
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Big Table, Number 1
Chicago: Spring, 2959 Volume I, Number 1 of this influential periodical. Wrappers. Octavo. Spine browned, a little rubbing. A good, tight copy. Includes poems by Cirso; Kerouac's "Old Angel Midnight"; Dahlberg's "The Garment of RA"; plus, an episode of Burrough's "Naked Lunch".
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Notice abrégée des collections dont se compose le Musée de l'Artillerie.
Paris: De L'Imprimérie de Bachelier 1833 Together with: Notice des tableaux exposés dans le Musée Royal. Paris: Vinchon, fils et Successeur de Mme. Ve. Ballard, Imprimeur des Musées Royaux, 1834. 250, [8] pp. [with:] Nouveau guide Populaire au Parc et aux Jardins de Versailles…Versailles: Chez Klefer, [n.d.]. [24] pp. Large engraved folding plan of Versailles. Three volumes in one, twelvemo. Half green calf over marbled boards, gilt flat spine with burgundy morocco label. Boards rubbed (especially around the edges), a... Read More
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Almanach dedié aux Demoiselles.
Paris: Louis Janet, 1812-14-18 These almanacs were printed from 1812 to 1826. The literary editor was Charles Malo (1790-1871), who was known for publishing various series, often aimed at women. In addition to almanachs, he published popular volumes on natural history and geography. The 1812 volume is in original blue glazed boards; the 1814 is in contemporary (original?) red silk, gilt; and the 1818 volume is in original pink glazed boards. All edges gilt. All three are in matching... Read More
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Christiane Kubrick Paintings
New York: Warner Books, [1990] Firstedition. Cloth. Folio. With 76 color reproductions. A little wear to fore-edge of front free endpaper. Otherwise fine in fine d.j. With a flyer laid in from a Kubrick exhibition at Portals, Ltd. in Chicago.
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