Historia de Tlaxiaco (mixteca) (Dishá)
by Aquino, Alejandro Méndez
Oaxaca: Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes, 1996. Softcover. vg. 8vo. 426pp. Original pictorial red wrappers with red, black and white lettering to wrappers and spine. Very minor scuffing and rubbing to wrappers and spine. Red endpapers. Great work on the history of Tlaxiaco, Mexico. Profoundly illustrated with many b/w photographs. In Spanish. In near fine condition.
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Ma‘arikh ha-ma‘arakhot (Survey of the Orders): Dictionarium absolutissimum
by Aquin, Philippe d’ (Aquinas; formerly Mordechai Cresque)
Paris: Antoine Vitré, 1629. First edition. Hardcover. Good+. Folio. Signed: a4, e2, A-3B6, 3C4 (= 298 leaves). [12], 584pp. Paginated from right to left. Full title and imprint in both Hebrew and Latin, with woodcut printer's device; title within decorative letterpress border; woodcut lettrines and head-pieces; printed marginalia. Text in two columns. Eighteenth-century calf, scuffed, especially at front cover; spine with raised bands and gilt morocco morocco labels; edges stained red; green silk ribbon marker. Title leaf skilfully... Read More
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Qur'an section: Juz 29 [MANUSCRIPT]
by (Qur'an: Arabic)
Turkey, 1900. Contemporary morocco. Very good. Small oblong folio (16 by 30 cm). 28 leaves. Quranic manuscript in Jali Diwani script; gilt text recto and verso, 3 lines per page, on polished cream paper, interleaved with onionskin protective leaves. Contemporary deep brown paneled morocco wallet binding (rubbed), tooled in gilt and blind; decorative paper pastedowns. Binding skilfully rebacked to style; neat professional repair to tear at front cover panel. Light marginal tidemarks; notable old ink marks (continuous line)... Read More
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The Dead Sea and Its Surroundings: Geological and Limnological Research : Bibliography
by Arad, V. and M. Beyth, Y. Bartov, I. Gavreli
Jerusalem: Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, Geological Survey of Israel, 1998. Second edition. Softcover. Near fine condition. Quarto. (6), 277, (1)pp. Double column text. Light salmon wrappers, spine a bit sunned. Indices and a list of oil wells at rear. An update to the first edition published in 1984. "...includes selected papers and reports on the Dead Sea, published since the beginning of the nineteenth century up to November 1997.,, The geographical area encompassed by these publications extends... Read More
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. . . All Relevant Resolutions. . ." Chairman Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Search for Peace
by Arafat, Yasser
Washington DC: ROOTS, 1988. Softcover. g. 8vo. 55 pp. White and blue wrappers. Some smudging of blue onto the white. Small red stain on bottom of book, but inside is unaffected. Book is in good condition. Includes Address of Mr. Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, delivered at the invitation of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France 1988. ". . . Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Executive Committee... Read More
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Sefer Ha-Pizmonim: shiru le-H. barakhu shemo, ʻedat ḳodesh.
by Araki, Eliezer b. Aaron Saadiah Ha-Kohen
Calcutta: Araki, 1856. Hardcover. f to g+. Octavo. 73 leaves. Black paper covered boards. Contains pizmonim (liturgical songs), intercessions and prayers. Vignette with Levitic hands at last page. Text in Hebrew. Binding with minor wear at edges. Sporadic foxing at end papers. Reinforced and renewed title page en facsimile, page 16 reinforced with library tape. Extended handwritten personal ink manuscript notes on back of pp 15, 19 and 37 and sporadic notes throughout block. Age-toning through block, waterstains... Read More
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Nobuyoshi Araki: Shino (Arakiss 10)
by Araki, Nobuyoshi
Tokyo: Gurafikku-sha, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. Ouarto. unpaginated. Original boards in original photo-illustrated dustjacket with white and red lettering on spine; obi with white lettering. Publication with erotically charge photographs, dedicated to Araki's favorite model Shino. With more than seventy photographs in various settings, both, in color and b/w.
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Viaggio Sentimentale
by Araki, Nobuyoshi [photographer]; Bruno Cora and Filippo Maggia [editors]
Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000. First edition. Softcover. Fine. Large quarto. 240pp. Text in Italian and English. Softcover. Photographic wrappers with red spine lettered in Roman and Japanese. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white (including erotic nudes). A fine, as new copy. Catalogue of the exhibition held in Prato (Italy), Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Apr. 15-June 25, 2000.
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Tokyomania
by Araki, Nobuyoshi (Photography); Germano Celant (Preface)
Paris: Galerie Kamel Mennour, 2000. First edition. Softcover. Near fine condition. Quarto. 96pp. Original photo-illustrated stiff wraps with red lettering on cover and spine. Photo-illustrated front endpapers. Frontispiece photograph. "Araki's formative years were spent in 60s Japan; a world in which all that was sexual was obscured and silenced. In order to break free from this realm of sexual complexes and denial, he began taking photographs that burst virulently out of the confines of it somber, nocturnal world.... Read More
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To The Past [LIMITED EDITION]
by Araki, Nobuyoshi
Little Big Man, 2012. First edition, limited. Hardcover. Near fine condition. 347/350. Unpaginated. Original gray cloth with title embedded in de-bossed foil stamped rectangle and two lizzards screen printed on plastic, pink and black, in de-bossed field on cover. Housed in folding slipcase, photo-illustrated on top wing and covers, abstract design on second wing, silver lettering on spine and encased by large yellow belly-band with black lettering. The limitation, publisher and the year of publication on printed label... Read More
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Higan Nite
by Araki, Nobuyoshi
Tolyo: AaT room / Eyecencia, 2001. First edition. Softcover. Near fine.. 4to. Unpaginated. Flexible white boards lettered in gold. Pictorial color wraparound dustwrapper.Roman letter title page with a translucent overlay in Japanese. Illustrated throughout with color photos of Tokyo street scenes and people, as well as numerous nudes. Very minor bump at bottom fore-corner, but still a fine, as new copy.
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Araki. Self - Life - Death
by Araki, Nobuyoshi; Akiko Miki; Yoshiko Isshiki; Tomoko Sato (eds.)
London - New York: Phaidon Press, 2005. Luxury Edition. Hardcover. Near fine to fine condition. 1767/3000. Large Quarto. 719 (1)pp. Original grained cream leather with blind-stamped lettering on covers and spine, housed in protective chemise with brown lettering on spine. Black endpapers with glossy Japanese lettering. Portrait photograph of Araki as frontispiece. Extensive account of Araki's photography in color and b/w, published as a companion to the exhibition Nobuyoshi Araki: Self, Life, Death, 6 October 2005... Read More
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Tokyo Comedy
by Araki, Nobuyoshi
Kyoto: Korinsha Press & Co, 1997. First edition. Softcover. Very good- to fine condition. Quarto. unpaginated. Original stiff light yellow wraps, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket with yellow lettering on cover, orange and black on spine. With text sections at front and back of volume, printed to yellow paper. "The artist Nobuyoshi Araki works without a safety net, so to speak, every utterance turns into the spontaneous and irrevocable expression of his loneliness vis-à-vis the wilderness of sexuality" (Werner... Read More
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Araki By Araki: The Photographer's Personal Selection. 1963-2002 [SIGNED]
by Araki, Nubuyoshi (荒木 経惟)
Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2003. First edition. Softcover. near fine. Large quarto. 407pp. [1]. Multicolored glossy photo-illustrated dust jacket, text in on the spine in red and black. Glossy b/w photo-illstrated wrappers, with white text on the spine. Illustrated endpapers in blue and silver. Photo-illustrated title page. Signed by Araki, "Arakiss" in black sharpie with an illustration, opposite the title page. "Araki by Araki is a record of the career of Nobuyoshi Araki, self-styled "photomaniac" and permanent enfant... Read More
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L'Architettura Arabo-Normanna e il Rinascimento in Sicilia
by Arata, Giulio V.
Milan: Casa Editrice D'Arte Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio. 120 annotated plates. Gilt decorated green cloth portfolio with two ties to the fore edge. Spine sunned. Magnificent photographic account of the architecture of the major Sicilian cities under the influence of the Arabs and the Normans. Many details. In near fine condition.
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English School and Family Reader, Containing Selections in Prose and Verse, Historical Accounts, Biographies, Narratives, Notices, and Characteristics on Judaism, Past, Present and Future
by Arbanel, H.
Cincinnati: The Bloch Publishing and Printing Company, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Fair-Good. Quarto. [6], VIII, 441, [1]pp. Original blind-stamped pebbled cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Publisher's logo on title page. Collection of short texts and essays in a variety of subjects destined to "inculcate sound morals and good manners: so as to aid in forming a literary taste for Hebrew lore, and to impress upon the student the usefulness of the Hebrew language." Binding rubbed along edges.... Read More
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Schönheit des Wohnens: Ein Bildwerk über deutsche Wohnmöbel
by Herausgegeben in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Reichsheimstättenamt der deutschen Arbeitsfront
Freiburg im Breisgau: Karl Kopp Verlag, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. g. Oblong folio. Unpaginated. Three-quarter gray cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards. Age wear and some staining to binding. Gutters at front- and rear endpapers expertly reinforced with white binders tape. Interesting work looking at the style of furniture used in Germany in the early 1940's. In his foreword, Dr. Steinhauser states that the houses in Adolf Hitler's Germany should not be designed on individual taste but should represent... Read More
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The Chester Betty Library: A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, Volume I. MSS. 3001 to 3250; Volume II. MSS. 3251 to 3500 [INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ALFRED CHESTER BEATTY]. 2-vol. set
by Arberry, Arthur J.
Dublin: Emery Walker Ltd, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto (10 1/4 x 8"). x, 125, [1]pp (Text), 35 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 1); [6], 135, [1]pp (Text), 36-70 leaves (Plates) (Vol. 2). Original burgundy cloth, with gold lettering to spines. Front free endpaper of first volume inscribed and signed by Alfred Chester Beatty, and dated July 4th, 1955. Illustrated with 70 leaves of plates, this two-volume set contains the descriptions of 500 of the several... Read More
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Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph
by Arbus, Diane; Doon Arbus
Millerton, New York: NP, 1972. True First Edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. 15pp., 160 plates. Photo-illustrated paper-covered boards with black lettering on spine in photographic dust jacket. Diane Arbus (1923-1971) was noted for her portraits of people on the fringes of society such as prostitutes, transvestites, dwarfs, giants, as well as ordinary working class citizens in unconventional poses and settings. This work was published in conjunction with the 1972 retrospective staged by MoMA curator John Szarkowski which attracted more... Read More
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Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph [RARE VARIANT]
by Arbus, Diane; Doon Arbus & Marvin Israel, Editors
New York: Aperture & The Museum of Modern Art, 1972. First edition, Second printing. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. 15pp., 160 plates. Photo-illustrated paper-covered boards with black lettering on spine in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Square spine (not rounded spine as normally found on the first printing and the replacement second printing). Illustrated with full-page duotones of photographs by Arbus, as well as one photo of herself. Rare variant of the second print run, containing an image that was later withdrawn... Read More
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Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills. A Survey and History of Pahari Miniature Painting. Foreword by Sherman E. Lee. Volume I Text [Volume II Plates] (2 VOLS)
by Archer, W. G.
London and Delhi: Sotheby Parke Bernet and Oxford University Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. near fine to fine. Folio. 2 volumes. xxxiv,448;vi,335,(1)pp. Index, glossary and concordance. Black pictorial dust jackets. Red cloth, gilt. Volume I with 2 mounted color plates and a double-page map. Volume II with a color frontispiece and over 900 black & white examples of miniature paintings. A near fine set. A work of great scholarship. From the 17th to the 19th centuries the... Read More
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Archipenko-Album
by Archipenko, Alexander (Art); Theodor Däubler; Iwan Goll (Introductions); Blaise Cendrars (Poem)
Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer, 1921. First edition (1. bis 3. Tausend). Hardcover. Very good condition. Quarto. 16pp. (text), [30]pp (plates), [2]pp. Original gray-green paper-covered boards, black lettering on cover. Frontispiece. Cream endpapers. Remarkable publication documenting the work of the renowned Ukrainian sculptor. Associated with the cubist movement, Archipenko departed from the neo-classical sculpture of his time and used negative space to create a new way of looking at the human figure, showing a number of views of the... Read More
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Der schöne Mensch in der Neuen Kunst. Internationale Ausstellung (The Beautiful Human in the New Art. International Exhibition)
by Archipenko, Alexander; Hans Surén; Rudolf von Laban; Paul Westheim et al.
Darmstadt: Darmstadt Mathildenhöhe, 1929. First edition. Softcover. Very good+. Small Quarto. 81pp., 20 plates, (12)pp. Original cream stiff wraps with modern design and typography in two color and light brown, white and black lettering on cover. The cover of this catalog is illustrated with a depiction of a female human body by Archipenko, courtesy of Gallery Flechtheim, Berlin. Catalog of the international exhibition organized by the constituency of progressive artists in Hesse: Darmstadt Secession and Darmstadt Group, from... Read More
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Aret I: Testi Amministrativi: Assegnazioni di Tessuti (Archivio L. 2769)
by Archi, Alfonso
Roma: Missione Archeologica Italiana in Siria, 1985. Softcover. vg. Lg. 4to. xvi,322,55pp. Original wrappers. Minor scuffing to wraps. Universita Degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Archivi Reali di Ebla, Testi V." Illustrated with 55 full page b/w tables. Text in Italian. Very good condition. Rare.
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Microspace Globaltime: An Architectural Manifesto
by MAK Center for art and Architecture
Vienna: NP, 1999. vg. Oblong 8vo. 31pp. Original red mylar. Exhibition catalog. Illustrated with color reproductions of photographs. Fine.
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