A passage to Egypt :
by Frank, Katherine.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. Very Good. 24 cm; xi, 398 pages. Boards in dust jacket. No blemishes. Recounts the life of an extraordinary Victorian woman whose Letters from Egypt enchanted British readers.
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Gualtiero.
by Fraticelli, Pietro, 1803-1866.
Florence: Insegna di Dante [printed by Felice Le Monnier], 1842. Edizione di proprietà dell'Autore. Good. Octavo (205 mm), 91, [3] pages. In original printed blue wraps. Pink paper backing . Well-read copy, with penciled ownership inscription of Patrizio Muschi, who was a prominent figure in literary circles in Siena in the middle of the 19th century. Occasional light foxing. This five-act tragedy in verse by the19th-century historian and Dante scholar Pietro Fraticelli is... Read More
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Ramesses the Great.
by Freed, Rita E.
Boston: Boston Museum of Science, 1987. Very Good. Cloth in pictorial slipcase.
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[Collection of color plates from:] Gusi rossii.
by Frohawk, Frederick William (1861-1946); P.P. Sushkin; [S. N. Alferaki].
Moscow: I.N. Kushnerev i Ko, 1904. Good. Oblong 355 x 255 mm; 25 color lithograph plates extracted from Alferaki's Gusi rossii and bound together in plain blue leather veneer boards. Captions in Cyrillic and Latin. Frontispiece plate (by Sushkin) a little dusty and discolored at the margins; one other plate rather foxed; all others quite clean and unmarred. Boards a bit bowed. The frontispiece plate by P.P. Sushkin shows a lakeside scene with flocks of... Read More
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The sign of Babinski. A study of the evolution of cortical dominance in primates.
by Fulton, John F., and Allen D. Keller.
Springfield and Baltimore: Charles C. Thomas, 1932. First edition. Good. 25 cm; 165 pages, frontispiece with glassine overlay, folding plate. Bound in original blue cloth. Covers blemished somewhat, but contents quite good.
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L'arte della pelle / the art of leather.
by Gabrielli, Nazareno.
Tolentino: Nazareno Gabrielli, 1977. Private edition not on sale to the public.. Very Good. 30 cm; 67 pages, about 30 of them color illustration of leather work and bindings. Original gilt-stamped leather book mark laid in. Bound in cloth stamped in brocade pattern in gilt and blind. Protected in original slipcase. About fine.
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La sculpture au Congo Belge.
by Gaffé, René .
Paris, Bruxelles: Éditions du Cercle d'art, 1945. First edition. Fine. 27 cm; 65 pages, [4] leaves, and 32 half-tone plates with letterpress on opposing pages. Bound in original decorated wraps. Edition limited to 1500 copies of which this is number 1131.
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Simone de Beauvoir.
by Gagnebin, Laurent.
Paris: Fischbacher, 1968. Wraps. Very good. 185 p. Wraps a little scuffed, with a creased corner at upper left.
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Mélanésie.
by Galerie Robert Burawoy.
Paris: Galerie Robert Burawoy, 1976. First edition. 28cm, [16] pages, mostly full-page high-quality photo illustrations, some in color, some with tissue guards. Bound in illustrated stapled wraps. Some mild discoloration at edges of lower wrap, else fine. Exhibition catalogue of the gallery installment of February and March 1976.
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Les mille et une nuits, contes arabes.
by Galland, Antoine, trans.
Paris: Ledentu, 1825. Nouvelle edition. Good. 8 volumes 12mo (15cm). 36 fine copperplate engraved plates. Charming, unsophisticated copy in original publisher's wraps, untrimmed. Paper labels. Edges worn, and many corners rounded; paper labels partly missing from first two volumes. Scattered moderate dampstaining and spots, yet very good condition overall. Galland not only translated the Arabic text (which derived from an earlier Persian model, now lost), but he added a few stories of his own, including Alladin and his... Read More
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Obras Ed. T. Navarro Tomas.
by Garcilaso de la Vega.
Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1970. Wraps. 269 p.
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Pomponii Gaurici neapolitani, ... De sculptura seu statuaria:
by Gaurico, Pomponio (1481-1528).
Antwerp: Ioannes Grapheus, 1528. Second Printing. Very Good. Octavo (16 cm) [64] leaves, signed a-h in 8s. Full-page "Charity" printer's device (thought to have been designed by Pieter Coecke van Aelst) on last page. Italic type. Title page elaborated at an early date in ink with image of a chalice or urn. Several ownership inscriptions in ink on title page. Marginal notes in manuscript on a4r and in lower margin of f3v.... Read More
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Grand album Gavarni. 40 des plus jolies caricatures de Gavarni.
by Gavarni, i.e., Sulpice-Guillaume Chevallier.
Paris: Beauger et Cie; Lith Coulon et Cie, n.d. (about 1850). Acceptable. 35 cm; Lithographed title page and 40 full-page lithographed plates with captions. Bound in plain black morocco with leather backstrip decorated in gilt. Head and tail worn with loss. Corners and edges worn with some fraying. Light scattered foxing. One of the great masters of lithography," says Gordon N. Ray.
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The Tears of the Heliads.
by Slezi Geliad.
Moscow: Planeta, 1991. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 33 cm; 175 pages, chiefly illustrated. Text in English and Russian. Bound in cream-colored cloth stamped in gilt with the image of a dragonfly. Original illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket a bit chipped and frayed, but text and binding are unblemished.
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Nel ritorno da Roma del sig. cavaliere Pietro Benvenuti direttore dell'Accademia delle Belle Arti in Firenze Canzone.
by Getti, Albina (?).
Florence: Tipografia all'insegna di Dante, 1827. First edition?. Good. 90 x 115 mm; VI [2] pages. Portrait frontispiece. Printer's mark (portrait of Dante) on 7th page. In wraps with engraved figure of roses with typographical border. Lower right corner of upper wrap torn away. Unrecorded publication of a canzone dedicated to the Florentine painter Pietro Benvenuti. The only recorded appearance of the text shows it as part of a larger collection of verses by... Read More
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Le arti e le tradizioni popolari d'Italia: La poesia popolare a stampa nel sec. XIX.
by Giannini, Giovanni, ed.; Luigi Sorrento; Comitato Nazionale Italiano per le Arti Popolari.
Udine: Istituto delle edizioni accademiche, 1938. Original edition. Very Good. 2 volumes in one, continuously numbered. 25cm, 766 pages. In sturdy old buckram with leather title labels on spine. Ownership inscription in ink on front blank. Pages yellowed at edges, as is typical for Italian book stock of the period. Accepting that, the book is unblemished. Exhaustive bibliography of the fugitive, ephemeral issues of occasional poetry published throughout Italy in the 19th century.
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The Tyler-Clay controversy over the National Bank Bill. Autograph letter, signed.
by Giddings, Joshua Reed (1775-1864).
Washington: September 6, 1841. Very Good. 20 x 25 cm; 1 page, addressed to "Addison. This letter was written in the House of Representatives by Giddings (Whig, Ohio) while voting on the Clay-Benton Bank Bill, which was twice vetoed by President Tyler. A few days after this letter was written, Tyler's entire cabinet resigned (except for Daniel Webster) over the vetoes. The text of the letter is immediate: "It is now a quarter... Read More
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Correspondance, 1891-1938.
by Gide, Andre, and Albert Mockel.
Geneva: Droz, 1975. soft cover. 351 p. Plasticized wraps.
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Foreword to a treatise upon the craft of wood engraving.
by Gill, Eric.
Vancouver: The Library, University of British Columbia [Wil Hudson], 1967. Very Good. 26 cm; [12] pages, sewn in self wraps. Upper wrap printed in red and black. Includes original wood engraving of "Grouse Mountain in Wintertime" by Vancouver artist George Kuthan. Some slight crimping at bound edge due to inattentive storage. The text first appeared as the foreword to "Wood Engraving," by R. John Beedham, in 1921. It was printed here by the legendary... Read More
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Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States: monocotyledons.
by Godfrey, Robert K ; Jean W Wooten.
Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1979. Very Good. 24 cm; 712 pages, illustrated. Bound in sturdy green cloth. Minor shelf wear. On wetland grasses and grass-like plants.
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Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil.
by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
N.p.: Mimeograph typescript, 1934. 27 cm; [2], 169, [1], pages, dedication leaf, and original pencil and chalk title leaf with portrait of a grinning Mephistopheles, by Michel Fingesten (Michl Finkelstein), signed in pencil, protected by glassine leaf. Dedication "für HANS ARNOLD geschreiben, Weihnachten 1934," signed in ink by Grete Scholz. Text mimeographed typescript on Crown Van Gelder. Bound in half vellum over buckram cloth-covered boards, with buckram endleaves. Title stamped in gilt letters on... Read More
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A sign and a witness:
by Gold, Leonard Singer.
New York and Oxford: The New York Public Library and Oxford University Press, 1988. Very Good. 30 cm; 224 pages illustrated. Paperback. Edges bumped slightly, else fine.
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The Deserted Village.
by Goldsmith, Oliver; H.W. Bicknell.
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1912. Fine. 26 cm; 23 pages. Engraved title page signed in pencil by A.N. MacDonald, and with six copperplate engravings (five of them portraits) with tissue guards, all signed in pencil by Bicknell. Printed on Japan vellum paper. Bound in smooth calf ruled in gilt, preserved in double buckram slipcases. Title label on outer slipcase somewhat sun-darkened; minor abrasions to edge of inner slipcase. Bookplate removed from front pastedown, else... Read More
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Reminiscences of Leonid Andreyev.
by Gorki, Maxim; Katherine Mansfield, trans.; S.S. Koteliansky, trans.
London: William Heinemann, 1922. Edition limited to 750 copies, of which this is #510. Cloth. Very Good. 23 cm; 118 pages. Title page with blue printer's ornaments. Extra title page in facsimile of Katherine Mansfield's handwriting. Bound in original black cloth, somewhat discolored at edges. Lacks dust jacket. Deckled fore-edge a bit toned. Slight abrasion between pages 6 and 7, else without blemish. The authorized English translation.
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Sermoni.
by Gozzi, Gasparo (1713-1786).
Milano: Giovanni Silvestri, 1826. Very Good. 17 cm; 91, [1] pages, and engraved portrait of Gozzi by Ester Silvestri. Bound in original printed wraps. Unopened, untrimmed. Pages still bright and clean. Shelf wear only. Venetian journalist and public intellectual, Gozzi was a keen observer of the tension between traditional thought and Enlightenment (illuminismo) in the roiling 18th-century. The "Sermoni" are poetic satires in which Gozzi stabs at contemporary Venetian social customs and political... Read More
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