George Chinnery 1774-1852 Artist of the China Coast; with Foreword by Alice Winchester
by Berry-Hill, Henry & Sidney
Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 56 pages in text. 29 x 22 cm. Limited edition, one of 500. Signed presentation [both authors] copy to James S. Copley with his bookplate. 76 plates, many with multiple images per plate. Bibliography. An English painter who spent the major part of his adult life in the Orient. He was also influential among the painters of Dublin at the... Read More
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La Lithographie Originale En France
by Bersier, Jean E.
Paris: Librarie des Arts Decoratifs, 1960. First edition. Paperback. Orig. printed gray wrapper portfolio. Very good.. 16 pages in text. Folio, 30 x 23 cm. Fifty-two plates, a few in color loose as issued. Lithographs by major French artists -- Ingres, Daumier, Manet, Dore, Renoir, Lautrec, Bonnard, Matisse et al.
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Robert Duncan A Descriptive Bibliography
by Bertholf, Robert J.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Orig.illustrated boards and cloth. Fine. 491 pages. Preface by Robert Creeley. Approximately sixty illustrations. Limited edition, Copy 5 of 176 signed by Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley and Robert J.Bertholf. These special copies were handbound by Earle Gray and designed by Barbara Martin.
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Les Rois Et Reines De France En Estampes, Ou Abrege Historique Et Chronologique De Chaque Regne, Suivi Du Tableau Des Moeurs Et Usages Des Francais Sous Chaque Race
by Bescher, M.
Paris: Alexis Emery, 1825. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. vellum backed pictorial boards with moderate wear. Very good. 139 pages. Landscape octavo, 13 x 22 cm. 28 hand-colored plates, all with multiple images per plate, depicts the history of the French monarchy in costume, beginning with the reign of Pharamond through to Louis XVIII. Chronological Table of the Monarchy -- the Merovingiens, Carlovingiens, and Capetiens. Mild dampstain title and last few leaves at lower corner. Plates fresh and bright,... Read More
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Liebesverse
by Bethge, Hans & Georg A. Mathey
Leipzig: Privatdruck, 1922. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. full red morocco. Teg. Very good. Unpaginated. 29.3 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 12 of 20 Deluxe leather bound copies signed by Bethge and Mathey (from total edition of 150). Etched title vignette and six full page etchings signed by Mathey, and printed in Haenel-Antiqua on Zanders-Butten hand made paper. Privately printed at the Werkstatten der Staatlichen Akademie fur Graphische Kunste und Buchgewerbe zu Leipzig. From the collection of Crosby... Read More
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A Connoisseur's Guide to Chinese Ceramics; Translated by Katherine Watson
by Beurdeley, Cecile & Michel
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First American edition. Orig. cream patterned cloth. Fine in nicked, very good dust wrapper. 317 pages. 33 x 28.5 cm. 111 tipped-in color plates, more than 350 black and white illustrations, plus drawings and maps. Printed in Switzerland. A definitive study of Chinese ceramics from the Neolithic period to the 20th century. Catalogue, Appendices, Bibliography and Index.
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L'Assiette au Beurre -- Les Anglais Chez Nous; No. 92 -- 3 January 1903
by Paris. L'Assiette au Beurre
Paris: E. Victor, 1903. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good. Sancha. 16 pages. 31 x 24 cm. A satirical journal illustrated frequently by Anarchist and radical socialist artists, founded by Samuel Schwarz, a naturalized Hungarian Jew. Each issue contained 16 full page designs in color and black and white. This issue illustrated all in color by Sancha. The anglo visitors spoofed. Backstrip reinforced with archival tape.
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A History of British Birds. Volume I: History And Description Of Land Birds & Vol. II: History And Description of Water Birds
by Bewick, Thomas
Newcastle: Sol, Hodgson, For Beilby & Bewick, 1804. First editions. leather_bound. Rebacked, full brown diced morocco covers. Very good. 2 vols. Bewick, Thomas. 335, 400 pages. 24 x 14.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated with wood-engravings. The first volume of this work was published in 1797 for which Beilby furnished the written descriptions with Bewick providing the text of the second volume. Gordon N. Ray [ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND, ETC.] "Bewick's use of end-grained blocks was widely imitated... Read More
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Select Fables; With Cuts, Designed And Engraved Buy Thomas And John Bewick, and Others, Previous To The Year 1784: Together With A Memoir; and a descriptive Catalogue Of The Works Of Messrs. Bewick
by Bewick, Thomas & John
Newcastle: S. Hodgson, For Emerson Charnley, And Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1820. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary tree calf, red leather spine label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Fine. Bewick, Thomas. 332 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Illustrated wood engraved frontispiece Thomas Bewick, 336 wood engraved vignettes by the Bewicks. GORDON N. RAY 52: notes "Bewick deplored this well-produced volume, which to his mind could only serve `to feed the whimsies of bibliomanists,' but he tolerated... Read More
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Camera Ed Inscrizioni Sepulcrali De' Liberti, Servi, ed Ufficiali della Casa di Augusto Scoperte nella Via Appia, ed illustrate Con le Annotazioni
by Bianchini, Francesco
Roma: Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1727. First edition. leather_bound. 19th century three quarter calf and marbled boards. Very good. (8) 87 pages. 35 x 24 cm. Seven copper engraved plates, six are fold-outs, title page in red and black with engraved vignette. A study of funerary inscriptions of slaves, freedmen, and other officials in the household of the Roman Emperor Augustus excavated on the Appian Way, with plates engraved by Buonamici after Rossi. The author, a philosopher and scientist... Read More
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The First Christmas Story From The Gospel According To Luke (2: 1-18)
by Bible
Santa Cruz: The Good Book Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter brown calf spine and marbled boards. Fine. 6 leaves. 23 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 99 of 100 hand printed using Centaur type and hand bound. Five wood engravings by Donna Thomas on hand made paper by Peter Thomas. As new copy.
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![The self-pronouncing New Testament [of] Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : translated out of the original Greek and with the former translation[s] frequently compared and revised ; the smallest in the world. [MINIATURE BOOK]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/313/722/1430722313.0.l.jpg)
The self-pronouncing New Testament [of] Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : translated out of the original Greek and with the former translation[s] frequently compared and revised ; the smallest in the world. [MINIATURE BOOK]
by Bible
Np: Np, 1900. leather_bound. Orig. brown leather. Very good. 185 unnumbered pages. 3 x 2 cm. Illustrated. As miniature as one can possibly imagine.
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A Bibliography of The First Editions In Book Form Of The Writings Of James Russell Lowell
by New York. The Chamberlain Bibliographies
New York: Privately Printed, 1914. First edition. Boards. Orig. thick charcoal boards with red spine label. Lovely copy. Fine in glassine wrapper in worn slipcase. 136 pages. Compiled largely from the Collection formed by the late Jacob Chamberlain with the assistance from his notes and memoranda by Luther S. Livingston. Limited edition,copy 109 of 500 printed on Old Stratford Paper. A complete, and fully annotated bibliography arranged chronologically by date of publication.
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Bicknell's Village Builder A Victorian Architectural Guidebook
by Bicknell, Amos Jackson
Watkins Glen: American Life Foundation & Study Institure, 1976. Reprint. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. 146 pages. 36 cm. One color plate, fifty-five plates drawn to scale. With a new introduction and commentary by Paul Goeldner. Reprint of the 1872 edition.
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Detail, Cottage And Constructive Architecture Containing 75 Large Lithographic Plates.; Showing a Great Variety of Designs For Cornices, Brackets, Windows, Window Caps, Doors, Plazzas, Porches, Bay and Dormer Windows, Observatories, Towers, etc...
by Bicknell, Amos Jackson
New York: A.J. Bicknell & Co, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pebble grained brown cloth, backstrip gilt designs bright and fresh. Front cover lettered in black. Near fine. Unpaginated. Folio, 35 x 27 cm. Seventy five lithographs plates (most with multiple images) plus lithographic frontispiece -- many plates are tinted, Included are forty-five perspectives, elevations and plans of designs for cottages with details, eighteen elevations of Summer Houses, Villas, Sea-Side-Cottages and Country Houses; together with fourteen designs for... Read More
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Architectural Drawing Framed: Art Deco Design
by French School: "Bijouterie
NP: NP, ND. Fine. 21 x 16 inches, gouache on paper of Art Deco jewelry shop designed by R. Tailliard.
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![Sestritsa Alenushka i Bratets Ivanushka, Belaya Utochka. [Sister Aloynushka and Brother Ivanushka; and The Little White Duck.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/964/359/1272359964.0.l.0.jpg)
Sestritsa Alenushka i Bratets Ivanushka, Belaya Utochka. [Sister Aloynushka and Brother Ivanushka; and The Little White Duck.]
by Bilibin, Ivan Yakovlevich (Illustrator) & Aleksandr Nikolaevich Afanasiev (Illustrator) & Aleksandr Niolaevich Afanasiev
St. Petersburg: State Printing Company for Securities [Expeditsii Zagotovleny Gosudarstvennukh Bumag], 1903. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers rebacked. Near fine. 12 pages. 32.5: 25.5 cm. Original cover chromolithograph, 8 chromolithographed illustrations (including 3 full-page), decorative borders printed in brown, all after Bilibin. Commissioned by the Tsarist government in 1899, this series of skazki [fairy tales] established Bilibin internationally as the foremost interpreter of Russian folk tales. Perforated library stamp lower front cover, small six digit... Read More
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Skazka ob Ivane-carevice, Tsar-ptice io serom volke
by Bilibin, Ivan Yakovlevich (Illustrator) & Aleksandr Nikolaevich Afanasiev
St. Petersburg: State Printing Company for Securities [Expeditsii Zagotovleny Gosudarstvennukh Bumag], 1901. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated chromolithographic front cover and back covers. Near fine. 12 pages. 32.5: 25.5 cm. Original cover chromolithograph, three full-page chromolithographs, four smaller chromos in the text, plus decorative borders. Bilibin was inspired after visiting the visiting the exhibition in the winter of 1898, where he had seen pictures of Viktor Vasnecow fairy-tale motifs. In the summer of 1899 he spent his... Read More
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Late 20th Century
by Binding
Np: Np, Nd. leather_bound. Green morocco with matching marbled endpapers. Fine. 25 x 30 cm. Blank book interleaved with tissue guards. Full green morocco by Dan St. John in Art Deco motif, offset marbled cover medallion in swirls of green and yellows, two matching morocco onlay orbs, vertical gilt double-rule. Endpapers by Chena River Marblers (Dan & Regina St. John).
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Late 20th Century
by Binding
Np: Np, Nd. leather_bound. Brown morocco with matching marbled endpapers. Fine. 25 x 30 cm. Blank book interleaved with tissue guards. Full brown morocco by Dan St. John in Art Deco motif, offset marbled cover medallion in swirls of copper, gold and browns, three rays of matching morocco onlay rays extending around a flat spine. Endpapers by Chena River Marblers (Dan & Regina St. John).
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Backwater Voyage
by Binns, Archie
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's beige cloth spine and dark salmon boards. Fine in slightly nicked gray slipcase. Edward A. Wilson. 68 pages. 21 x 14.4 cm. Limited edition, copy 225 of 280 signed by Archie Binns and Edward A. Wilson, the tipped-in color lithograph drawings by Wilson. Typography on gray stock by Robert Josephy. Bright, fresh copy, slight mar lower backstrip.
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The Sirens An Ode
by Binyon, Lawrence
Chelsfied: Stanton Press, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter brown cloth and decorated boards, front cover paper label. Near fine. 38 pages. 31.5 x 19.5 cm. Signed by Lawrence Binyon in ink, dated November 1926. Laid-in an ALS dated 7 Aug: 1924 to Louis Vernon Ledoux, American lyric poet and noted authority on Japanese prints. Binyon replies to Ledoux's invitation to visit New York and thanks him for the purchase of this title and describes the delay in... Read More
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Anselm Kiefer
by Biro, Matthew
London: Phaidon Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray pictorial white boards. Fine in fine original clear dust wrapper. 145 pages. 25 x 18 cm. Illustrated in color and black and white on high gloss stock. List of Works, Phaidon's Focus Series on acclaimed modern artists.
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Isabel Bishop Prints And Drawings 1925-1964; Text by Una E. Johnson & Research by Jo Miller
by Bishop, Isabel
Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated cream boards. Fine in slightly nicked original glassine overwrapper. 63 pages. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Monograph No.2 in the series: American Graphic Artists of the Twentieth Century. 77 illustrations, signed in blue ink by Isabel Bishop on free front endpaper.
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American Decade 68 Poems for the First Time in an Anthology; Edited By Tom Boggs
by Bishop. Elizbeth et al.
Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. sky blue cloth backstrip lettered in silver. Near fine in ragged dust wrapper lacking spine. 93 (3) pages. 25 x16 cm. Limited edition, copy, one of 475 printed by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press.
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