The Emerging Harmony of Forms
by Woo, Nancy Chu
Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, 1993. First edition. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy.. 119 pp. 49 color plates and 4 b/w plates. Large trade format. Catalogue of her 1993 exhibition at the Fung Ping Shan Museum. Text in Chinese and English.
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A Second Letter to the Rev. William E. Channing, on the subject of Unitarianism. By Samuel Worcester, D.D. Pastor of the Tabernacle Church, Salem
by Worcester, Samuel
Boston: Printed by Samuel T. Armstrong, 1815. First edition. Removed. A very good copy, trimmed, scattered foxing.. 44 pp. 8vo. Sabin 105312. Shaw & Shoemaker 36640.
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![Annual Report of the Water Commissioner of the City of Worcester for 1866 [with] Annual Report of the City Engineer of the City of Worcester for 1867 [and] Water Works, Sewers, Sewerage, &c. Annual Report of the City Engineer of the City of Worcester for 1868](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/011/298/1038298011.0.l.jpg)
Annual Report of the Water Commissioner of the City of Worcester for 1866 [with] Annual Report of the City Engineer of the City of Worcester for 1867 [and] Water Works, Sewers, Sewerage, &c. Annual Report of the City Engineer of the City of Worcester for 1868
by [Worcester]. Water Commissioner; City Engineer; City of Worcester
Worcester: Printed by Tyler & Seagrave, 1868. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Overall very good copies. 1866 copy with some chips to wrappers and spine; 1868 with soiling to rear wrapper; all with mail fold, clean contents.. 14 pp.; 24 pp.; 25 pp. 8vo. OCLC locates only a single copy of these issues: Trinity College.
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LXXV Sonnets
by Wordsworth, William. [Bruce Rogers, designer]
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1910. First edition thus. Blind-ruled brown cloth over brown paper covered boards. Paper label. Cloth chipped and worn at head and heel of spine else a very good clean copy. A nice production.. 75 leaves. 8vo.[22 cm.]. Printed at the Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin. Designed by Bruce Rogers American typographer and book designer (1870-1957). Limited edition of 440 copies of which this is 331. Printed on verso only.
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![The Plays of Moliere. [Six Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/826/875/69875826.0.l.jpg)
The Plays of Moliere. [Six Volumes]
by Moliere. Trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1909. Novelist's Library, edition de luxe. Three quarter dark red morocco over light red cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, gilt designs and titles to spines. Wear to head and heel of spines with minor loss, spine of volume one rubbed and a bit brittle, otherwise a very good tight handsome set.. Illus. with b/w drawings. 8vo. Limited edition of five hundred numbered sets. Introduction by Balzac. V. l. The misanthrope. Le... Read More
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![Den Norske sjofarts historie fra de aeldeste tider til vore dage. II Bind. 1, 2, 3 del [Three Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/083/797/144797083.0.l.jpg)
Den Norske sjofarts historie fra de aeldeste tider til vore dage. II Bind. 1, 2, 3 del [Three Volumes]
by Worm-Muller, Jacob Stenersen, ed. Alexander Bugge; Fredrik Scheel; Roar Tank
Oslo: Steenske Forlag / J.W. Cappelens Forlag, 1951. First edition. Cloth. A very good+ copies, light browning to edges, in the scarce dust jackets which are edgeworn, chipped, with one jacket split at the spine.. 705; 442; 595 pp. Profusely illustrated. 4to. In Norwegian. Naval history of Norway. The complete second volume in three parts.
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![Den Norske sjofarts historie fra de aeldeste tider til vore dage. III Bind. 1, 2 halvbind [Two Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/050/797/144797050.0.l.jpg)
Den Norske sjofarts historie fra de aeldeste tider til vore dage. III Bind. 1, 2 halvbind [Two Volumes]
by Worm-Muller, Jacob Stenersen, ed. Alexander Bugge; Fredrik Scheel; Roar Tank
Oslo: Steenske Forlag, 1929. First edition. Cloth. Very good+ copies, light browning to edges, in the scarce dust jackets which are edgeworn and chipped, one jacket split at the spine, and one with a large diagonal chip on the rear panel.. 330, xxxv; 517, xxxvi pp. Profusely illustrated. 4to. In Norwegian. Naval history of Norway. The complete third volume (in two parts).
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Die Altdeutsche Buchillustration
by Worringer, Wilhelm
München: R. Piper & Co., 1921. Third edition. Paper covered boards. A very good copy, spine and boards darkened, illustrated bookplate on free front endpaper, scattered foxing mostly to fore edge.. 152 pp. Illus. with 105 b/w woodcut reproductions. Sm. 4to. 15th century German book illustration.
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![[ALS] Treasurer of Portland, Connecticut Writes the State Comptroller James W. Manning, to Settle Debt with the New Haven Middletown & Willimantic Rail Road](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/820/760/1675760820.0.l.jpg)
[ALS] Treasurer of Portland, Connecticut Writes the State Comptroller James W. Manning, to Settle Debt with the New Haven Middletown & Willimantic Rail Road
by Worthington, John
Portland, CT, 1871. Very good, folded, faint soiling, contents clean.. [1] pp. 5 x 8 inches. September 13th, 1871. John J. Worthington, Town Treasurer, writes to the State Comptroller James W. Manning, to clarify what the Town of Portland owes to the New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic Rail Road. "Will you please write me sertifying whether the Town of Portland [owes] in your office one hundred and Eight Thousand Dollars of the Second Mortgage Bonds of... Read More
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Max. Februar. 1996. Erotik Special
by Wrede, Andreas, ed
Hamburg: Max-Verlag, 1966. First printing. Paper wrappers. A near fine copy.. Illus. with color & b/w photos. Large trade format. Article by Heidi Fleiss and articles and images on telephone sex, erotic activities, and a portrait of Linda Fiorentino. The usual bizarre blend for this German language periodical. A great cover.
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Land and Motherland. Eighteen Talks on the Indian Question
by Wrench, G. T.
London: Faber and Faber, 1947. First edition. Cloth. Accession numbers on spine else unmarked; a very good copy.. 147 pp. Sm. 8vo.
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Speech of Mr. John C. Wright, on the subject of Retrenchment. Delivered in the House of Reps., Feb. 6, 1828
by Wright, John C.
Washington, D. C.: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1828. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Untrimmed, front leaf soiled with a small tear, leaves lightly browned at the edges, still about very good.. 44 pp. 8vo. John Crafts Wright (1783-1861) was the representative from Ohio; he would lose his re-election bid the following year. In this speech he answers attacks on Adams, the tariff issue, and the supposed profligacy and "extravagant expenditures of the Administration," by the Jacksonians. Shaw... Read More
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The Arts in America. The Colonial Period
by Wright, Louis B, et al.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966. First edition. Cloth. A near fine copy in a very good chipped dust jacket.. xvi, 368 pp. Illus. with 267 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. "Authorative general essays as well as a good pictorial survey of American Art in the colonial period. Includes: From Wilderness to republic by L.B. Wright; Architecture by G.B. Tatum; Painting by J.W. McCoubrey; and The decorative arts by R. C. Smith". Artzen I468.
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The Illustrated Family Christian Almanac for the United States, for the Year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1854, being the Second after Bissextile. And Until July 4th, the 78th Year of the Independence of the United States. Calculated for Boston, New York, Washington, and Charleston, and Four Parallels of Latitude. Adapted for use Throughout the Country. With Valuable Statistical Information Chiefly from Original Sources. Astronomical Calculations in Equal, or Clock Time
by Wright, Samuel H.
New York: American Tract Society, 1854. First edition. Paper wrappers. Lacking wrappers, still a good copy with some soiling on the title page, small hole punch near upper corner, scattered foxing.. 48 pp. Illus. with b/w engravings. 12mo. Includes engraving of John Ericsson's Hot-air driven ship. Sabin 34334n.
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Womankind in Western Europe from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century
by Wright, Thomas
London: Groombridge and sons, 1869. First edition. Full red morocco with raised bands, elaborate gilt decorations and rules. All edges gilt. Bands, edges, and corners rubbed and scuffed, small tear to head of spine and rear gutter, marbled endpapers heavily scuffed with loss especially at gutters, hinges started but still tight, light scattered foxing, plates bright, leaves crisp. A good solid copy in an elaborate binding.. xii, 340 pp. Illus. with 10 chromolithographs and extensive b/w drawings. 8vo.... Read More
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Colored Plates of the Butterflies of the West Coast Being Actual Photographs, Life- Size, and in All Their Natural Colors
by Wright, W. G.
San Bernardino: Printed for the Author, 1907. First edition thus. Black stamped maroon cloth. A very good+ copy, faint spotting to the boards, hint of browning, otherwise quite clean and bright.. Port. frontis, [1], Plates [23], Index [2]. Illus. with color plates. Sm. 4to. The original edition of the larger work was first published in 1905, most copies then lost in a fire, followed by another edition the following year; this volume contains the complete plates, but not... Read More
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Secretario de Cartas Familiares sobre diversos assumptos, que comprehende Maximas, E. Conselhos, que divertem, e instruem. Ajuntam-se as regras do Estilo Epistolar
by [Letter Writing]
Lisboa: Na Imprensa Nacional, 1834. Full tree calf, spine decorated in gilt, black morocco lettering piece. A very good copy, head of spine with two narrow chips, small splits to the top and bottom of the front joint, wear at corners.. x, 164 pp. 24mo. An introduction on lettering writing, grammar, rules, etc, followed by 150 examples. Scarce. No copies on OCLC nor at the BN Portugal or BN Brazil.
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Some Early French Guiana Tracts
by Wroth, Lawrence C.
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1926. Offprint. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good or better copy.. 20 pp. Sm. 4to. Reprinted from the proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for April, 1925.
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Bibliografia Antropologii Polskiej. Do Roku 1955 Wlacznie. Tom I. Bibliografia Abecadlowa i Przedmiotowa
by Wrzosek, Adam
Wroclaw: Polska Akademia Nauk, 1959. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good unopened (uncut) copy, spine ends with large tears, edgewear, back wrapper sunned.. 468 pp. Sm. 4to. Polska Akademia Nauk Zaklad Antropologii. Materialy I Prace Antropologiczne Nr. 41. In Polish. 4854 entries.
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The Original Orphan of China
by Wu-chi, Liu
Comparative Literature, 1953. Offprint. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy with soiling on the wrappers.. [193-212] pp. Sm. 4to. Reprinted from Comparative Literature, Vol. V, No. 3, Summer 1953.
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Uber das Verhaltnis des Malayo-Polynesischen zum Indochinesischen
by Wulff, Kurt
Kobenhavn: I Kommission hos Ejnar Munksgaard, 1942. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good mostly unopened [uncut] copy, small tears on spine, sticker residue on front wrapper, owner's name on title page, and marginalia on 3 pages.. 157 pp. 8vo. Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Historisk-filologiske Meddelelser XXVII, 2.
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Catalogue 4. A Selection of Fine & Rare Books
by Wyer, William
Williamstown, MA: William Wyer, 1983. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good+ copy with sunning on spine and front wrapper.. Unpaged. Illus. with b/w plates and in-text reproductions. Sq. 8vo. 100 items.
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Catalogue Three. A Selection of Rare Books
by Wyer, William
Williamstown, MA: William Wyer, 1984. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good+ copy, clean, crisp, and unmarked, with minor wear at spine ends.. Unpaged. Illus. with b/w plates and in-text reproductions. 16mo. 78 items.
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Catalogue Two. A Selection of Fine & Rare Books
by Wyer, William
Williamstown, MA: William Wyer, 1982. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good+ copy with minor rubbing on wrappers.. Unpaged. Illus. with b/w plates and in-text reproductions. 16mo. 53 items.
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Catalogue One. A Selection of Fine & Rare Books
by Wyer, William
Williamstown, MA: William Wyer, 1982. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good- copy a large chip to inner corner of back wrapper and with a mailing label.. Unpaged. Illus. with b/w plates and in-text reproductions. 16mo. 42 items listed.
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