ROSARIUM POLITICUM SIVE AMOENUM SORTIS HUMANAE THEATRUM, DE PERSICO IN LATINUM VERSUN & NOTIS ILLUSTRATUM
by Sa'di. Georg Gentius, translator
[s. n.], 1655. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Recent full calf. [24], 372 pp. *6, A12-P12, Q6. All edges gilt. 12 engraved plates. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light bleedthrough to versos of plates, some light soiling at fore-edges. Most of rear board discolored, with some discoloration to the rear joint as well. Except as noted very good. The 1651 edition of the work was the first printed edition of Gulistan and was bilingual.
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Toward the Millennium: Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (Studies in the History of Religions) (Numen Book)
by Schäfer, Peter
Brill, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Cloth. 446 pp. Superficial shelfwear, else near fine in a near fine jacket.
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BIRDS OF THE AUSTIN REGION
by Simmons, George Finlay
University of Texas Press, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Red buckram. 387 pp. Occasional black and white illustrations. Light shelfwear. Boards slightly bowed. Offsetting to endpapers. Light toning to page edges. Very good, no jacket.
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ASCETICS OF KASHI: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
by Sinha, Surajit, and Baidyanath Saraswati
Varanasi, 1978. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Cloth. 286 pp. A few black and white illustrations. Light shelfwear, jacket with light wear and some small tears at edges, else very good in a very good minus jacket.
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COINS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE TURKISH REPUBLIC: A DETAILED CATALOGUE OF THE JEM SULTAN COLLECTION
by Sultan, Jem
B & R Publishers, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited edition, number 125 of 1000. Two volume set. 8vo. Green cloth with slipcase. Volume I, TEXT, 457 pp. Volume II, PLATES, 353 b/w plates. Both volumes signed by Sultan on the verso of the half title. Light rubbing to board edges. Faint musty odor. Occasional dog-eared pages. Overall very good in a very good slipcase.
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Kabuki isho to funso [Kabuki Costumes and Make-ups]
by Hiroshi Soma and Kiyonobu Torii
Kodansha, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 4to. Bound in purple pictorial cloth, laid into gray folding case with ivory clasps. 172 pp. Text in Japanese, with a 17 pp. English-language supplement included. Lavishly illustrated with color tipped-in plates with tissue guards, as well as black and white illustrations in the text. Front free endpaper and half title with light foxing. Gutter partially exposed at p. 66. Book otherwise with minimal wear. Slipcase with light shelfwear, as well as... Read More
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THE AUCHMUTY FAMILY OF SCOTLAND AND AMERICA
by Townsend, Annette
The Grafton Press, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good. Edition limited to 500. 8vo. Blue cloth. 215 pp. Black and white illustrations. Rubbing and wear to edges and corners, with some chipping and fraying to head of spine. Spine cocked and slightly faded. Light toning to page edges. Very good, no jacket.
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THE JEWS IN GENOA: 507-1799
by Urbani, Rossana, & Guido Nathan Zazzu
Brill, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volume set. 8vo. Cloth. 1138 pp. in toto, continuously paginated. Light shelfwear. Some soiling to top of textblock in volume I. Jackets with superficial shelfwear. Very good plus in very good plus jackets.
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The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh
by John Vanbrugh
The Nonesuch Press, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited edition, number 88 of the special edition of only 110 printed on English hand-made paper. Four volume set. 8vo. Quarter vellum over decorative paper-covered boards. Minor shelfwear, else very good plus.
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A GENEALOGY OF THE VAN VORHEES FAMILY IN AMERICA OR THE DESCENDANTS OF STEVEN COERTE VAN VOORHEES OF HOLLAND AND FLATLANDS, L.I.
by Van Voorhis, Elias W.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1888. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 4to. Green cloth. 725 pp. With frontispiece, coat of arms, and two maps. "Limited Letterpress Edition." Rubbing to joints, edges, and corners, with some scuffs to covers. Front hinge tender. Light toning to page edges. Very good, no jacket.
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HENRY MOORE: SCULPTURE AND DRAWINGS 1921-1986 (COMPLETE SET IN SIX VOLUMES)
by Various
George Wittenborn / Lund Humphries / Zwemmer, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good. Mixed six volume set. 4to. Cloth. Volume 1, SCULPTURE AND DRAWINGS 1921-48, 1968 revised fourth edition Wittenborn printing. Jacket with slight chipping to head and heel of spine and corners, and some light rubbing to edges. Volume 2, SCULPTURE & DRAWINGS 1949-1954, 1968 Wittenborn printing. Jacket with wrinkling and slight chipping to head and heel of spine, and light soiling. Boards with light wear to edges. Volume... Read More
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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WARINGS
by Waring, R. N.
n.p., 1898. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth over paper-covered boards (hardcover). 60 pp. Two blueprint illustrations and a number of genalogical charts. Rubbing and wear to exterior. Front hinge exposed. Musty. A few pencil notes. Very good minus.
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OSCAR ZARISKI: COLLECTED PAPERS (IN FOUR VOLUMES)
by Zariski, Oscar. Edited by H. Hironaka and D. Mumford
The MIT Press, 1972. Hardcover. Good. Four volume set. 8vo. Cloth. Volume I, FOUNDATIONS OF ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY AND RESOLUTION OF SINGULARITIES, 543 pp. Volume II, HOLOMORPHIC FUNCTIONS AND LINEAR SYSTEMS, 615 pp. Volume III, TOPOLOGY OF CRUVES AND SURFACES, AND SPECIAL TOPICS IN THE THEORY OF ALGEBRAIC VARIETIES, 786 pp. Volume IV, EQUISINGULARITY ON ALGEBRAIC VARIETIES, 651 pp. All volumes with light shelfwear. Volume I with remainder stamp to bottom edges. Volume III with no dust jacket, and... Read More
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UNTERSUCHUNGEN UBER DIE MIKROSKOPISCHE ZUSAMMENSETZUNG UND STRUCTUR DER BASALTGESTEINE
by Zirkel, Ferdinand
Bei Adolph Marcus, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half morocco over marbled paper, edges speckled blue, marbled endpapers. 208 pp. plus three folding plates. Text in German. Light shelfwear. Some scuffing to the front joint. Small puncture (the size of a pinhole or slightly larger) at upper margin through p. 71. Interior clean. Very good plus.
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