Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, volume XXVI.
by American Research Center in Egypt.
[New York]: American Research Center in Egypt, 1989. Very Good. 28 cm; 262 pages. Printed wraps.
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Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, volume XXIV.
by American Research Center in Egypt.
[New York]: American Research Center in Egypt, 1987. Very Good. 28 cm; 166 pages. Printed wraps.
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Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, volume XXV.
by American Research Center in Egypt.
[New York]: American Research Center in Egypt, 1988. Very Good. 28 cm; 257 pages. Printed wraps.
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Drawings of the Masters: Italian Drawings.
by Ames, Winislow.
New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1963. Cloth. Very Good. 25 cm. Illustrated. Cloth in slipcase.
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Roald Amundsen's "The North West passage"; being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Gjöa" 1903-1907.
by AMUNDSEN, Roald (1872-1928).
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1908. First American edition, published from the London sheets.. 24 cm; 2 volumes. Frontispieces, 3 color maps, two of them folding; 139 black-and-white photo illustrations. Publishers original black cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt with a map tracing Amundsen's route from Norway to Nome, Alaska (different from the design on the British edition). Top edge gilt. Very minor wear at spine edges, else fresh, crisp, and blemish-free. References: Tourville, 227... Read More
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My life as an explorer.
by AMUNDSEN, Roald (1872-1928).
London: Heinemann, 1927. First British edition (from US sheets). Good. 24 cm; 282 pages with facsimiles and maps. Bound in original dark blue cloth with publisher's chop on lower board. Lacks dust jacket. Cloth slightly buckling on spine and on edges; stain on fore-edge. Pages lightly toned. Early owner's signature on front blank. Sound copy, if used.
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![[In Greek]: Anakreontos Teiou Mele. Anacreontis Teii Odaria](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/381/905/1532905381.0.l.jpg)
[In Greek]: Anakreontos Teiou Mele. Anacreontis Teii Odaria
by Anacreon; Giovanni Cristoforo Amaduzzi, ed.
Parma: Ex Regio Typographeio [i.e., Giambattista Bodoni], 1785. Very Good+. Quarto (32 cm); [4]. xciv, 100, [2] pages. Engraved title vignette, engraved vignette of the arms of Don José Nicolás de Azara (by Domenico Cagnoni). Text in Latin and Greek. Printed in capitals on blue paper. In contemporary dark green-brown speckled calfskin, ruled in gilt and bordered with a frond and flower tool, all edges gilt. Spine in six compartments titled in gilt and gilt... Read More
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Zoology of Egypt, volume 2: Mammalia.
by Anderson, John; and W.E. de Winton.
London: Hugh Rees, 1902. First edition. Very Good. 34 cm; xvii, 374 pages, photogravure portrait frontispiece, map, and 63 plates (55 of them colored) by P.J. Smit, 3 photogravure reproductions of radiographs, and 7 photogravure illustrations in text. In original green cloth, worn along joints and edges, with 3cm peel along joint near head, yet sound and entire, with some reinforcement. Text and illustrations in excellent shape, free of foxing or other blemishes. ... Read More
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Lettere della Signora Isabella Andreini Padovana,
by Andreini, Isabella.
Venice: Giovanni Battista Combi, 1620. Very Good. Octavo (163 x 105 mm). Two parts in one volume, each with separate title page (second title reads: "Fragmenti di alcune scritture..." ). [24], 268, [4 blank]; 180, [4 blank] pages. Printer's device on title pages. Large woodcut initials. Bound in 18th century in plain leather over pasteboard, spine in six compartments decorated with gilt tools and stamps, raised bands, red leather title label. Edges... Read More
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Il secolo d'oro.
by Anelli, Angelo.
Milano: Giovanni Giuseppe Destefanis, 1815. First edition, signed.. Very Good. Octavo (23 cm); [2], 44 pages. Signed by the author on verso of title page, with a brief hand-written note in apparently the same hand at the base of page 56. Pages untrimmed. In red and green woodblock-printed wraps in the style of Remondini paper designs. References: Gamba 2533; DBI volume III. The prolific librettist Angelo Anelli (1761-1820) wrote nasty, unbridled satires that tended to... Read More
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Hieronymi Angeriani Neapolitani Erotopaignion ...
by Angeriano, Girolamo (ca. 1480-1535).
Florence: Filippo Giunta, 1512. First edition. About fine.. Octavo (17cm); [80] pages. Italic type. In 18th-century polished red morocco, both boards double-ruled in gold with triple-ruled panel mitered at corners with fleurons. Gold-tooled spine in six panels, title stamped in gold. Gold edges and turn ins. Decorated "carta dorata" endleaves. References: EDIT 16,CNCE 1881; Camerini, Giunti tipografi editori di Firenze, I:2, p. 246, # 3; BM Italian, p. 30. Not in Renouard or Adams (Adams... Read More
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Testimone in Egitto.
by Angioletti, G. B., And Piero Bigongiari.
Florence: Edizioni d'arte il Fiorino, 1958. First edition. Very Good. 34cm; 110, xxxiv pages, and 17 tipped-in color plates, 216 plates in photogravure. Photography by Elena Bigongiara. Cloth in dust jacket. Quite good with shelf wear and yellowed endleaves only evidence of age. Dust jacket chipped and frayed.
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Spanish and Portuguese 16th-Century Books in the Department of Pinting and Graphic Arts:
by Anninger, Anne.
Cambridge: The Houghton Library, 1985. First edition. Very Good. 95 pages, illustrated. In pictorIal wraps. Some slight blemish to wrappers. Else fine.
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The new Bath guide: or, Memoirs of the B-N-R-D family. In a series of poetical epistles ...
by Anstey, Christopher.
London: Printed by C. Whittingham ... for the Associate Booksellers, Vernor and Hood (etc.), 1800. New edition. Very Good. 16cm; viii, 155 pages, and 5 engraved plates illustrating comic scenes from the text after Baynes. Bound in 1/4 calf over marbled boards, decorated in gilt on spine with interesting winged pelican motif. Joints tender. Occasional light foxing. Early owner's name in ink on front blank (Nathaniel Micklethwaite) and armorial bookplate. Satirical letters in... Read More
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Mit Rahineh 1955 [and] 1956.
by Anthes, Rudolph.
Philadelphia: University Museum, Univ of Pennsylvania, 1959, 1965. Cloth. Very Good. Two volumes bound together. 29 cm; v, 93 pages, 45 plates, map in pocket; ix, 170 pages, 69 plates. Sturdily bound in buckram cloth. Binding a bit blemished, but contents clean and bright.
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Mit Rahineh 1955.
by Anthes, Rudolph.
Philadelphia: University Museum, Univ of Pennsylvania, 1959. Very Good. 29 cm; v, 93 pages, 45 plates, map in pocket. Original printed wraps, a bit discolored.
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Poeti minori del trecento Ed. Natalino Sapegno.
by [Anthology].
Milan and Naples: Ricciardi, 1952. Cloth. Very Good. xvii, 1179 p. Cloth, lacks dust jacket.
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L'art océanien: sa présence.
by Apollinaire, Guillaume; Tristan Tzara; Madeleine Rousseau; Cheikh Anta Diop.
Paris: APAM, 1951. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 27 cm; 138 pages, illustrated with maps and half-tone illustrations. Lithographed wrapper by Roger Falck. Corners and extremities slightly worn. Spine reinforced with strong Japanese paper. Preserved in custom-built clamshell case. Owner's inscription of the late Australian artist Helen Lempriere, who endowed the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award. Collection Le Musée vivant, #38. Seminal study of Oceanic art, with texts taken from surrealist poets Tristan... Read More
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Storia letteraria d'Italia: Dante, Storia della 'Commedia' 2nd. Edition.
by Apollonio, Mario, and others.
Milano: Vallardi, 1954. Good. 2 vols. 1370 p. continuously numbered. Wraps, edges brittle and brown. Comprehensive literary history.
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De bellis civilibus Romanorum cum libro per quam eleganti qui Illyrius,
by Appianus Alexandrinus; Pietro Candido Decembrio; Lucio Paolo Rosello.
Venice: Bernardinus de Vitalibus, 1526. Very Good. Octavo (161 x 115 mm); 372 leaves. Title within elegant woodcut vine scroll border with figures. Sixteenth-century Italian brown leather over pasteboard, panel binding tooled in blind on both boards and on spine with rules and a small X-shaped tool used in repeating pattern to form the shape of a Roman cross within multiple borders, which may be considered an odd decoration for a secular text. Titled in... Read More
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The Golden Ass. Translated by William Adlington, MDLXVI.
by Apuleius, Lucius.
New York: Chiswick Press; Privately Printed for the Scott-Thaw Company, 1904. #110 of 220 copies, signed by the publisher.. Very Good. Folio (36 cm); 359 pages. Woodcut architectural title page and portrait frontispiece by Dutch artist W[illem] L[eendert] Bruckman (1866-1928). Woodcut initials; title and headings printed in red throughout. Printed on substantial laid paper manufactured by hand in the mills of Arnold & Foster and bearing the Chiswick Press watermark. Bound in original brick-red... Read More
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![[Asinus aureus.] Apuleius cum commento Beroaldi & figuris noviter additis.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/369/399/1526399369.0.l.jpg)
[Asinus aureus.] Apuleius cum commento Beroaldi & figuris noviter additis.
by Apuleius, Lucius; Filippo Beroaldo (1453-1505).
Venice: [Giovanni Tacuino] Ioannis Taciuni de Tridino, 1516. Very good with faults as described.. Folio. [14 ], 168 leaves. 35 column-wide woodcut vignettes in text, numerous woodcut decorated letters. Signatures: a\8 b\6 A-EE\6. Title in gothic type; main text printed in large roman type, surrounded on three sides by commentary in smaller roman type; marginal notes in small roman type. Index on preliminary leaves. Bound in circa c19 re-used plain vellum, with... Read More
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![Tertia pars summe sancti Thome [i.e., Summa theologiae, III; BOUND WITH] Opuscula Sancti Thome: quibus alias impressi nuper hec addidimus videlicet Summam totius logice. Tractatum celeberrimum de usuris nusque alias impressum.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/022/880/1376880022.0.l.jpg)
Tertia pars summe sancti Thome [i.e., Summa theologiae, III; BOUND WITH] Opuscula Sancti Thome: quibus alias impressi nuper hec addidimus videlicet Summam totius logice. Tractatum celeberrimum de usuris nusque alias impressum.
by Aquinas, Thomas, Saint.
Venice: Boneto Locatelli for Ottaviano Scotto ("Summa"); Giacomo Pencio da Lecco ("Opuscula"), 1493; 1508. Very Good. Two editions bound together. Chancery folio (33 cm); Summa part III: 220 [5, of 6] leaves. Lacks final leaf C6 with device of Ottaviano Scotto. Signatures: a-z8 [et]8 [con]8 [rum]8 A-C6. Gothic type in two columns. Woodcut initials. Marginal notes in contemporary hand. Manuscript table on title page. Hole in title leaf with loss of two letters.... Read More
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Versi sciolti di tre eccellenti moderni autori.
by [Arcadia] Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni; Francesco Algarotti; Saverio Bettinelli.
Bassano: Remondini, 1795. Good. 16cm; 298 pages. Bound in original publisher's boards. Boards worn with worm trails present at joints and extending to first two leaves of text. Text somewhat shaken in binding. A few leaves are dog-eared, but text is generally clean. Book bears several manuscript ownership marks of Carlo de Herra (fl. 1800-1850). De Herra apparently owned the book in his youth, and claimed it by writing his name... Read More
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Unselfish Freddy, and other stories.
by Archie Vernon's Library".
New York: T.W. Crowel, n.d. (1890?). Original edition. Very Good. 16 cm, 124 pages, and several full-page illustrations with tissue guards. In green cloth stamped in black with deco/Empire design, surmounted by a mounted color vignette of children playing a game of blind man's buff, and the legend "Archie Vernon's Library" in gilt reverse. Titled in gilt on spine. Vertical scratch on upper board; ownership inscription in pencil on front pastedown, and ink stamp on... Read More
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