The Harkness Collection in the Library of Congress: Calendar of Spanish Manuscripts Concerning Peru, 1531-1651
Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1932. Hardcover. Near Fine. Ex-library. Book is in fine condition except for light rubbing to extremities, library stamps on title, copyright, and final pages. 7 1/4 x 10 inches. 336 pages.
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Rgveda Smahita. 4 Volumes
Delhi: Oarimal Publications, 2001. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. Parimal Sanskrit Series No. 45. Second revised edition. Sanskrit text, English translation and notes according to the translation of H.H. Wilson and Bhawya of Sayanacarya. Edited & revised with an exhaustive introduction and notes by Ravi Prakash Arya and K.L. Joshi.
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San Francesco di Rimini. (print)
London: Henry Bohn, 1843. Very good condition. Original tinted lithograph of this fifteenth century church from Henry Gally Knight's The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy from the Time of Constantine to the Fifteenth Century published in 1843 by Henry Bohn in London. Image size is 15 1/2 x 11 inches. Sheet size is 14 1/2 x 21 1//2 inches. Drawn by Domenico Quaglio II (German, Munich, 1787 - 1837) and printed by G. Moore. Dampstain in lower right corner... Read More
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Orinoco-parima; Indian Societies In Venezuela; The Cisneros Collection
Germany: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 264 pages with 293 illustrations, 139 in color. Fine condition in fine dust jacket.
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Terek Book Cloth Sample Book
Athol, MA: Athol Manufacturing Company, 1950. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine and cover stamped in black, with two binding screws. Contains over one hundred book cloth samples in varying colors, finishes, and textures, separated by tabs. 8 x 4 1/2 inches.
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William Faulkner And Southern History
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper covered boards with the spine stamped in black. Fine dust jacket.
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Mexico : Splendors Of Thirty Centuries
Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Bulfinch Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 712 pp. with 550 illustrations, more than 400 of which are in full color. A landmark publication to accompany a major exhibition about the 30,000 year history of Mexican art.
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The Korean Relics in Western Europe
Seoul: Korea Foundation, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original dark green cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt, and printed endpapers. Profulsely illustrated with plates, most in color, of Korean artifacts found in western European museums. Text is in both Korean and English. Leaf size 11 1/2 x 8 inches. Printed slipcase in fine condition.
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The Rowfant Club Yearbook 1977
Cleveland, Rowfant Club, 1977. One of 300 numbered copies. Cloth. Fine condition.
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Hali magazine; Issues 1-164 & 166-176 (1978-2013)
London: Hali Publications, 2010. Softcover. Fine. London-based international quarterly devoted to antique carpet and textile art. Every issue from the first 36 years of publication, lacking only #165 (Autumn 2010). Bound in publisher's original illustrated wrappers. Lavishly illustrated with full color photography throughout. Includes 30 library cases bound in maroon cloth with spines stamped in gilt. Cases manufactured by publisher and did not come stock with issues, originally cost £31/$39 each, and are no longer in production. Each... Read More
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The Penny Magazine Of The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge. 1834.; Vol. no. 113 for January 4, 1834 through vol. no. 176 for December 31, 1834
London: Charles Knight, 1833. Hardcover. Volume Three of the collected publications. Bound in contemporary quarter brown pebbled cloth and marbled paper boards with the title stamped in gilt on a leather label on the spine. Rubbing and chips at the extremities, otherwise very good condition.
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The Holy Bible, In Bengali, With References.; i.
Calcutta: Bible Translation Society, 1897. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Translated out of the original tongues by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries, with Bengali assistants. First edition of the revised edition with footnotes at the bottom of each page. Rebound in brown cloth with a red leather spine label stamped in gilt. All edges red. Darlow & Mouole, 2119.
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The Tombs of the Scaligers, Verona. (print)
London: Henry Bohn, 1843. Very good condition. Original tinted lithograph of these fourteenth century tombs from Henry Gally Knight's The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy from the Time of Constantine to the Fifteenth Century published in 1843 by Henry Bohn in London. Image size is 15 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches. Sheet size is 21 1/2 x 14 1//2 inches. Printed by G. Moore. Dampstain in lower left corner easily matted out.
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Scene of life in Tokyo with comic figures
by Ikkei Shosai (active 1870s - 80s)
Very good condition. Tryptich in three panels each measuring approximately 9 x 14 inches (22.86 x 35.56 cm). All three panels matted with separate openings to 19.5 x 35 inches (88.9 x 49.53 cm). Predominantly green background with a bright red splash of color across the middle of each panel. Ikkei Shosai was a pupil of Hiroshige III. Roberts, Laurance P. A Dictionary of Japanese Artists, p. 52.
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Matisse; In Search of True Painting
by Aagesen, Dorthe and Rebecca Rabinow, editors
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, 2012. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. With essays by Aagesen, Stephanie D'Alessandro, Cecile Debray, Isabelle Duvernois, Jack Flam, Claudine Grammont, Remi Labrusse, Doina Lemny, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Kasper Monrad, Rebecca Rabinow, Samantha Rippner, Katherine Segal, Hilary Spurling and Alastair Wright. 203 illustrations, including 150 in ful color. Includes bibliiographical references and index.
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GraceLand: A Novel
by Abani, Chris
New York: Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 2004. 1st. Paperback. Fine condition. Uncorrected proof of the author's first novel. Signed by Abani on the title page.
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Hands Washing Water
by Abani, Chris
Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2006. 1st. Paperback. Fine. This is Nigerian author Abani's fourth book of poetry. Signed by the author on the title page.
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Tomboys: A Literary And Cultural History
by Abate, Michelle Ann
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. Bound in the publisher's original cloth with the spine stamped in silver.
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Desert Images: An American Landscape
by Abbey, Edward; photographs by David Muench
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. A Chanticleer Press Edition. Photos by David Muench and text by Edward Abbey. Bound in publisher's original beige cloth with the spine stamped in orange and in a beige cloth covered slipcase with the covers stamped in orange. Folio measures 17 by 10 5/8 inches. Slipcase measures 17 5/8 by 10 7/8 inches.
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Hayduke Lives!
by Abbey, Edward
Boston: Little, Brown, 1990. 1st. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Bound in the publisher's original orange quarter cloth and tan paper over boards, spine stamped in gilt, front board stamped in blind. Dust jacket and boards rubbed at edges, one small closed tear to bottom edge.
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Confessions of a Barbarian
by Abbey, Edward
Boston: Little, Brown, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter red paper and blue boards with the spine stamped in gilt.
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The Serpents of Paradise; A Reader
by Abbey, Edward
New York: Henry Holt, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and grey boards with the spine stamped in gilt.
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The First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the Great Rebellion
by Abbot, Stephen G.
Keene, NH: Sentinel Printing Company, 1890. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Illustrated with engraved and photographic portraits and wood engravings in the text. Minor wear to head and heel, and extremities. Text block in fine condition. 5 3/4 x 9 inches. 511 pages.
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The Comic History Of England (two Volumes) & The Comic History Of Rome (one Volume)
by A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
[London]: Punch Office, Bradbury and Evans, 1852. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Three volume set. ENGLAND is illustrated wIth 20 hand coloured steel engravings, and 240 woodcuts and ROME is illustrated with 10 hand coloured steel engravings and 98 woodcuts by John Leech. Bound by Birdsall in full red morocco with the covers and the spines stamped in gilt. Dentelles and edges of the covers are stamped in gilt. Five raised bands on the spines. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers.... Read More
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The Way West
by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
New York: William Sloane, 1949. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Bound in publisher's original quarter green cloth with gray boards and spine stamped in silver. Dust jacket has wear to extremities. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. 340 pages.
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