The New York Times War Map:
by C. S. Hammond & Co.
New York: C. S. Hammond & Co., 1917-18. Five section map, each section 82 x 57 cm, each section divided into four folding parts mounted on linen backing. The five sections fit together to create a grand cartographic image 168 x 130 cm (51 x 66 inches). Scale 1:316,800 (five miles per inch). Stock toned along folds and edges, yet state of preservation is remarkably good. Sheets published weekly over a five-week period between December... Read More
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Fotografický obzor. Collection of photo supplements.
by [Czech Photography] Skarda, Augustin, ed.
Prague: A. Majital; Svaz Ceskoslovenských klubu fotografu amatéru, , 1930-1937. Very Good. 2 volumes, 27 cm. Title page (from 1930 issue), and 630 gravure reproductions of photographs that appeared as an 8-page supplement to each monthly issue of Fotographicky Obzor for the years 1930-1937, collected and specially bound in two quarto volumes. Pagination, where present, is not consecutive because signatures from different numbers have been interleaved for binding purposes. Bound in half cloth over decorated... Read More
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Awangarda i mit racjonalizacji: fotomontaz polski okresu dwudziestolecia miedzywojennego
by Czekalski, Stanislaw.
Poznan: Poznanskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciól Nauk, 2000. 24 cm; 349 pages, including 182 illustrations. Text in Polish with English summary. Bound in illustrated wraps. Spine somewhat canted and creased, but still in very good used condition. No bumps, tears, marks or blemishes. History of Polish avant-garde photomontage and surrealist, avant-garde aesthetics between the wars.
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John Law: Père de l'inflation.
by Daridan, Jean.
Paris: Editions DenoÎl, 1938. Illustrated Wraps. Good. 23cm; 243 pages. Text in French. Front joint tender. Well-researched biography of John Law in his later years.
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The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex.
by Darwin, Charles.
London: John Murray, 1871. First edition, second issue of volume 1, seventh thousand of volume 2.. Good+. 2 volumes octavo (20 cm). Original green cloth. Spine cocked somewhat on volume 1. Both volumes well-read, but quite good. Owner's name in pencil on title page of volume 1. References: Norman 599; Garrison-Morton 170; Corrections to the text in volume 1 mark this printing as the first edition, second issue. Volume 2 is... Read More
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The journal of a voyage in H.M.S. Beagle.
by Darwin, Charles; .
Cuildford: Genesis Publications in association with Australia & New Zealand Book Co., 1979. Limited to 500 copies signed by the author's grandson, G.P. Darwin.. Fine. 35 cm; 843 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates, illustrations. In half polished black leather over green cloth, with red leather roundel on upper board within a stamped gilt lozenge; facsimile autograph in gilt on lower board. Spine in six compartments with red leather title label and gilt ornaments. All edges... Read More
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The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication.
by Darwin, Charles.
London: John Murray, 1868. First edition. Fine. 2 volumes octavo (23 cm). First issue points: 5 errata on 6 lines in Vol. I, and 9 errata on 7 lines in Vol. II. LACKS ADS, apparently discarded when bound by Henry Southeran. Bound in full tan polished calf, double-ruled in gilt; six-compartment spine tooled in blind and gilt, with black title labels. Marbled edges and endleaves. Ticket of Henry Southeran. A... Read More
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The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. With Illustrations.
by Darwin, Charles.
London: John Murray, 1877. First edition. Very Good. Octavo (20 cm); viii, 352, 32 (ads) pages. Ads dated March 1877. Original green cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Foxing to endleaves and to fore edge, else clean and unblemished. In his eye-opening re-appraisal of Darwin's botanical books, Oliver Sachs wrote that Darwin's botanical studies were "engines of war, great missles of evidence lobbed at the skeptics of his theory of natural seledtion" (The... Read More
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The Expression Of Emotions In Man And Animals.
by Darwin, Charles.
London: John Murray, 1872. First edition, second issue. Very Good. Octavo (19 cm); vi, 374 pages including 21 text illustrations, and seven photogravure plates, three of them folding, . Lacks half title and ads. In custom prize binding for the London School of Dental Surgery, polished red calf ruled in gilt, with gilt emblem of the school on upper board, gilt-tooled spine in six compartments with green leather title label; marbled edges and endleaves, by... Read More
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The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom.
by Darwin, Charles.
London: John Murray, 1876. First edition. Fine. Octavo (20 cm); viii, 482 pages. Advertisements for other works of the author on the verso of the title, 3-line errata slip tipped in prior to Chapter One. Original cloth. Owner's name in ink and old bookseller notations in pencil on front free endpaper. Else a fine copy in remarkably fresh condition. Reference: Freeman, 1249. In his eye-opening re-appraisal of Darwin's botanical books, Oliver Sachs wrote that... Read More
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Arab Art: As Seen Through the Monuments of Cairo from the 7th Century to the 18th.
by Prisse D'Avennes.
Paris and London: Le Sycomore; Al Saqi , 1983. Cloth. Very Good. 34 cm; 265 pages and 176 plates, many in color. Bound in decorated cloth. No blemishes. Contents: Portrait of Egypts nature, soil, and climate, and of the various human races its population comprises -- Historical prolegomena : First period; The caliphs; From the conquest of `Amr to the Ayyubids--8th to 13th centuries -- Historical prolegomena : Second period; The Mamluks -- Historical prolegomena :... Read More
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La peinture égyptienne ancienne.
by Davies, Nina M. (1881-1965); Alan H. Gardiner; Albert Champdor (trans.).
Paris: A. Guillot, 1953-54. Very Good. 34 cm; 5 volumes, 50 color plates tipped in. All leaves loose in five separate portfolios, as issued. Portfolios in fine condition, all in original wraps with glassine jackets, gathered in publisher's slipcase. Slipcase splitting at edges and somewhat bowed. French translation of Ancient Egyptian Painting, which first appeared in English in 1936.
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The birds of Ohio.
by Dawson, William Leon.
Columbus: The Wheaton Publishing Company, 1903. Author's Edition," signed by Dawson. Acceptable. 27 cm; 671 pages, black-and-white photogravure frontispiece and 80 color plates, numerous half-tone illustrations in text. Original green buckram, a bit shelf-worn, text block a bit shaken in binding. Upper hinge split but holding. Heavy volume will require extra shipping charges at cost.
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![Stanze dedicate al distinto merito dell'ornatissimo signore Alessandro Paganelli Zicavo ingnegnere [sic] di prima classe in occasione di sue nozze colla pregiatissima signora Giuseppa Rosetta.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/963/309/1398309963.0.l.jpg)
Stanze dedicate al distinto merito dell'ornatissimo signore Alessandro Paganelli Zicavo ingnegnere [sic] di prima classe in occasione di sue nozze colla pregiatissima signora Giuseppa Rosetta.
by D.B.P.".
Rovigo: Miazzi, 1808. Original edition. Very Good. Octavo (22 cm); [2 blank], 9, [5 blank] pages. Bound in polychrome woodblock-stamped paper wraps. Wrapper detaching at fold. Poetry in heroic meter (rima ottava) written for the wedding of Alessandro Paganelli and Giuseppa Rosetta, together with a sonnet for Giuseppa's mother, Angela Patella Rosetta. Printed in the Venetian satellite city of Rovigo, the name of the poet ("D.B.P.") and the site of the wedding are not stated.... Read More
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The Bashford Dean collection of arms and armor in the Metropolitan museum of art.
by [Dean, Bashford]; Carl Von Kienbusch; Otto Kretzschmar; Steven V. Grancsay.
Portland, Maine: Southworth Press for the Armor and Arms Club of New York City, 1933. First edition. 31 cm; 270 pages, frontispiece, and 63 plates. #243 of an edition of 250 copies. Bound in cloth stamped in gilt with the crest of the Arms and Armor Club of New York City. Fine.
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Die Schrift:
by Degering, Hermann.
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1929. First edition. Very Good. 32 cm; xl pages followed by the 240 full-page plates in photogravure. Original black cloth titled in gilt on upper board and spine. Bookplate of Walter Petschek. Fresh, sound and entire.
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La catatonie expérimentale par la bulbocapnine:
by De Jong, Herman Holland; Henri Baruk.
Paris: Masson & Cie.,, 1930. First edition. Good. 24 cm; 135 pages. Half-tone photographic illustrations, tables and graphs. Disbound, with original printed wraps present. Text block entire. Owner's blindstamp on front blank. Few instances of ink underlining, and ink bibliographical notes. Hard-to-find study of the use of plant alkaoids to induce catatonia.
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Super aphorismos....
by Della Torre, Giacomo da Forlì (i.e., Jacopo Foroliviensis); Hippocrates.
Venice: Giunta, 1547 (colophon: 1546). Very Good. Folio (33 cm); [10] 191 [1 blank] leaves. Woodcut Giunta device on title page. Woodcut initials. Text in double columns in roman type. Shoulder notes. In limp vellum, titled in manuscript on spine; lace strips exposed; spine lining old manuscript on vellum, exposed. Small holes in first and last blanks, and inner margin of preliminary leaves. Some dampstaining on last 6 leaves, otherwise a... Read More
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Demosthenous, kai Aischinou, hoi Peri tes parapresbeias
by Demosthenes; Aeschines; Libanius; Hieronymus Wolf.
Cambridge: Typis academicis , 1769. Ex-Library. Leather. Very Good. Two volumes, octavo (23 cm); [2], 405, [2], 478. Text in Greek and Latin, the Greek in fine characters. Bound in contemporary red crushed morocco, gilt borders, with library blindstamp on lower boards. Rebacked in contemporary style with red leather, gilt, probably in the early 20th century. Binding scuffed along extremities, and on lower board of volume 1. Libary bookplates, and Dewey classification code on... Read More
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Delle Rivoluzioni d'Italia, libri venticinque.
by Denina, Carlo (1731-1813).
Florence: Piatti, 1820. Good. 22 cm; 5 volumes. Mezzotint portrait frontispiece in first volume. Publisher's plain wraps. Untrimmed, unsophisticated copy. Wraps perishing along spines from sunlight; threads weak. Upper wrap of volume one not present. Scattered light foxing. First published in three volumes between 1769 and 1772, this comprehensive history of Italy covers the many invasions, revolts, conspiracies and power struggles that marked Italian politics from Roman times until the Enlightenment. ... Read More
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La celestina Ed. Julio Cejador y Frauca.
by De Rojas, Fernando.
Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1972. Wraps. Very Good. 2 vols., 263, 232 p. Wraps. Unopened. Small stain on cover of volume 1.
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Principia philosophiae; Dissertatio de Methodo; De passiones animae
by Descartes, René.
Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1685. Editio ultima. Good. Quarto (22 cm); Three works in one volume, each with separate title page and pagination. [6]; [36], 222, [2 blank]; [16], 248; [24], 92, [4] pages, including engraved portrait frontispiece. Title pages with Blaeu's armillary device. Woodcut illustrations in text, many of them full-page. Shoulder notes. Occasional reader's notes in margins contemporary hand, and occasional underlining. In contemporary polished vellum over boards, stamped in blind with arabesque cartouche on both boards. Hinges,... Read More
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Designer Bookbinders in North America:
by Designer Bookbinders; David ; Philip Smith.
London: Designer Bookbinders, 2000. First edition. 34 cm; 59, [3] pages. 47 color illustrations. Price list laid in. Bound in ochre wraps. Not quite fine, but very good. Traveling exhibition of work by contemporary British craft bookbinders.
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The Golden Age of Naples: Art and Civilization under the Bourbons, 1734-1805.
by Detroit Institute of Arts; Art Institute of Chicago.
Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1981. Wraps. Very Good. 30 cm; 2 volumes. 16 color plates and many half-tone illustrations in text. Wraps.
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Erercitationes [sic] physico-anatomicae, de nutrimenti in corpore elaboratione.
by Deusing, Anton.
Groningen: Typis Francisci Bronchorsti, 1660. Very Good. Ubi de chylificatione, et chyli motu; sanguificatione; depuratione alimenti; itemque spiritibus. Quibus adjecta appendix, in qua examini ac judicio aliorum subjiciuntur varia de chyli motu, et nutrimenti in corpore elaboratione. Nec non de admiranda anatome ... D. Ludovici de Bils. 12mo (13cm); [10], 368 pages (lacks two blank leaves at end). Woodcut device on title page, woodcut initials and tail piece. Bound in recent full calf blind tooled in 17th-century... Read More
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