Orlando Furioso:
by Ariosto, Lodovico; John Hoole (trans.).
London: Printed for the author, etc., 1783. First edition of this translation.. Good. Octavo (23 cm). Five volumes. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume, after Angelica Kauffman, Thomas Stothard (engraved by William Blake), Gertrud Metz, and William Hamilton. Engraved portraits of Hoole and Ariosto in volume 1. Illustration of Ariosto's chair and inkwell in volume 1. Errata and subscriber list bound in at end of volume 5. Complete collation upon request.... Read More
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Ludovico Ariosto: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1956-1980.
by [Ariosto] Rodini, Robert J., and Salvatore Di Maria.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984. Cloth. Very Good. xii, 270 p. Cloth in dust jacket.
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Sammlung von Initialen Band I, herausgegeben von Arnold u. Knoll.
by Arnold, Xaver; Edouard Knoll; Joseph Anton Messmer.
Leipzig: Ludwig Denicke, [1867]. First edition. Hard cover. Good. 35 cm; [2],[2], and 30 color lithograph plates, including title page. Collation includes prospectus (dated 1867) and the preface by Joseph Anton Messmer (also dated 1867). All plates interleaved with blank tissue. Bound in calf over pebbled morocco, quite worn but sound and entire. Scattered foxing, more on tissue guards. First volume of a projected five-volume series on decorated initials from Medieval... Read More
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Russian folk toys / Le jouet populaire russe / Russisches Volksspielzeug / Juguete popular ruso.
by Art Education Museum of Toys, USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.
Zagorski: Khudozhestvenno-pedagogicheskii muzei igrushki, Akademiia pedagogicheskikh nauk SSSR, [1980]. Wraps. Very Good. [48] pages. Cataogue of the Art Education Museum of Toys at Zagorsk, Russia. Text repeated in Russian, English, French, German and Spanish. 41 color illustrations.
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Self-portrait in a convex mirror.
by Ashbery, John (1927-2017).
New York: Penguin Books, 1976. First paperback edition. Very Good. 18cm; 83 pages. SIGNED by Ashbery on title page. First appearance of the cover photo of the poet by Darragh Park. Lower right corner of upper cover bumped, crease off the top edge near spine, affecting photo. Lower corner slightly bumped on both outer corners. Part of lower joint abraded, without weakness. A very good copy withal, not dogeared, not marred, not... Read More
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Isotopes.
by Aston, F.W.
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922. First edition. Acceptable. 22 cm; 152 pages. Original cloth. Presentation certificate to St. Batholomew's Medical College mounted on front pastedown. Ink stamp of the college's Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry on front and rear free endpapers. Finger tear at top of spine.
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Dance of death.
by Auden, W.H.
London: Faber and Faber, 1933. First edition. Very Good. 23 cm; 38 pages. Original green printed boards. Lacks dust jacket. Joints chipped; lower joint beginning to split. Auden's first published play, widely interpreted in its day as pro-communist but now seen as satirical in nature.
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Camille Bryen: poèmes et dessins Jepeinsje.
by Audiberti, Jacques; Camille Bryen; Giovanni Scheiwiller.
Milano: All'insegna del pesce d'oro, 1959. Fine. 12 cm; 60, [1] pages. 13 black-and-white reproductions and one in color. In origianl green boards, with color image mounted to upper board, preserved in original slipcase stamped with artist's autograph. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies, this copy inscribe "V.S." in place of series number ("Volume Speciale," that is, special copy out of series), inscribed on front free endleaf by publisher Giovanni Scheiwiller in English, dated at Milano,... Read More
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Du commerce maritime, de son influence sur la richesse et la force des états, démontrée par l'histoire des nations anciennes et modernes; situation actuelle des puissances de l'Europe, considérées dans leurs rapports avec la France et l'Angleterre; réflec.
by Audouin, François Xavier.
Paris: Baudouin, an IX, [1800]. Very Good. 8vo (21 cm); 2 vols. [4], 280, [2]; [4], 258, [4] pages. Half titles present. Bound in contemporary half sheep over marbled paper-covered boards. Red and green labels on spine. Few contemporary annotations in margins in ink. Rubbed at edges, but clean, sound and entire. Cf. Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; no. 18002.1. Not found in bibliographies of Americana, yet text includes extensive comment on the American War of Independence... Read More
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Il microscopio reso necessario.
by Author not stated.
Venice: n.p., 1749. Very Good. 18cm; 62, [2 blank] pages. Woodcut vignette on title page. In plain pastepaper wraps, titled in manuscript on lower wrap. Untrimmed, wide-margined copy, bright and fresh. Light waterstain affects lower marginal corner of three leaves. The microscope of the title is more or less metaphorical. In the introductory remarks, the author claims to be an man of advanced age and poor eyesight. The microscope, he says, is an extraordinary instrument that permits him... Read More
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Catalogue and price list: Volunteer, Monarch, All-Right, Hormey & Page Safety Steam and Hot Water Heating Boilers.
by Author not stated.
New York: William H. Page, 1912. Good. 19 cm; 67 [1] pages, illustrated. Gray and red printed wraps. Upper and lower wraps creased, frayed along spine. Some pencil annotations. Still, a sound and entire copy of this unusual survival. Information-laden catalogue of steam and hot-water boilers.
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Paris et ses environs. Photogravures de N.D. Phot.
by Author not stated. "N.D.".
Paris: publisher not stated , 1915 ca. Good. 275 x 190 mm oblong. [1] leaf and [54] photogravures printed on card stock showing views of Paris, St. Cloud, Versailles, and Trianons during the years of transition from horse-drawn to motorized vehicles. Captions in French and English. Bound in blue cloth decorated with polychrome lozenge of a wind-powered sailing ship. All edges gilt. Upper covers a bit soiled and discolored, with some fraying along right edge. Owner's inscription in... Read More
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La cortigiana: poemetto romantico di C.R.R.
by Author not stated (initialed C.R.R.).
Italia: n.p., 1835. Very Good. 19 cm; 20 pages (three blank), including 7 full-page illustrations with captions. Text and illustrations lithographed throughout. Bound in (later?) plain wraps. Not in Melzi. No copies located. Apparently unrecorded booklet with text and illustrations produced completely in lithograph. The text reproduces an italic calligraphy that must have been lettered in reverse on stone, or written out on transfer paper before being applied to the lithographic stone. ... Read More
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Zombies, puff fish, frog skin, poison arrows, and more: a collection of 38 scientific papers on plant- and animal-derived toxins and their applications.
by Various authors.
Various journals, 1963-1997. Fine. Folder of published papers on plant and animal toxins collected over four decades, consisting primarily of offprints but also including a few articles pulled directly from the journals in which they appeared. At least one complete issue of a journal (dedicated to arrow poisons). Approximately 700 pages total. Topics include toxins derived from amphibians, reptiles, insects, anthropods, fish, and plants, including arrow and dart poisons, zombie powder, botox, paralysing applications, insecticides, and... Read More
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Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus.
by Backer, Augustine de; Aloys de Backer; Carlos Sommervogel.
Mansfield Centre: Martino, 1998. Facsimile reprint. About fine.. 23 cm; 9 volumes cloth. Some volumes still in shrink wrap. Insignificant puncture in spine of volume 4. Ehaustive bibliography of Jesuit writingh. Extra shipping charges will apply at cost.
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The Great Archaeologists.
by Bacon, Edward, ed.
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 31cm; 428 pages. Richly illustrated. Very Good in Good DJ ; pages lightly toned at edges. The modern world's discovery of ancient civilizations as originally reported in the pages of the Illustrated London News from 1842 to the 1970s.
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The essays,
by Bacon, Francis (1561-1626).
London: M. Clark for Samuel Mearne, 1680. Very Good. Octavo (16cm); three titles each with title page, paginated consecutively, [8], 222, [14], 28, [12], 111, [3] pages, signed continuously A-Cc. Lacks blank leaf Cc4. Re-backed in full leather in period style with older, possibly contemporary boards. Small surface chip on upper board. Pages generally toned, with stronger vignetting to title page and few following leaves. Old ownership autograph on title page. ... Read More
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Essays, moral, economical, and political.
by Bacon, Francis.
Chiswick: C. Whittingham, 1822. Very Good. 12mo (13 cm); 168 pages. Extra engraved title page. Full polished tan calf, with gilt cornices on both boards, elaborately gilt spine in five compartments, and black leather title label. Marbled edges and matching endleaves. Some scuffs and scrapes on lower board, some discoloration on upper board. Jacket-pocket collection of Bacon's essays in a lovely 19th-century binding.
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De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum.
by Bacon, Francis.
Paris: Pierre Mettayer, 1624. Second Printing. Quarto (22 cm); [16], 540 pages. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Roman and italic type. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page. In contemporary full brown plain leather boards, spine with five raised bands, compartments decorated in gilt, with title stamped in gilt directly on spine ("Verulami de Augm. Sc."). Ownership inscriptions on title page (dated 1724). Text unmarred. References: Gibson, "Bacon," 130. Second printing after the... Read More
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Canaletto.
by Baetjer, Katharine; J.G. Links.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, 1989. Fine. 25 x 28 cm oblong; 385 pages, mostly consisting of color illustrations. In stiff illustrated wraps. About fine.
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Egyptian Papyri and Papyrus Painting.
by Baikie, James.
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1925. Very Good. 23 cm; 324 pages and 32 plates, some in color. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, no dust jacket. Some light foxing at fore edge and on end leaves.
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A history of Egypt from the earliest times to the end of the XVIIIth dynasty.
by Baikie, James.
London: A. & C. Black, limited, 1929. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 2 vols. 23 cm. With illustrations and maps. Somewhat soiled, spine faded.
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The story of the Pharaohs.
by Baikie, James.
London: A. and C. Black, 1917. Second edition. Cloth. Good. 22cm; xv, 379, [1] pages, with 32 full-page illustrations from photographs, 49 illustrations in the text, and two maps. Shelf worn and sunned.
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Piero della Francesca.
by Bairati, Eleonora.
New York: Crescent Books, 1991. Cloth. Fine. 31 cm; 98 pages, illustrated. Cloth in dust jacket. In the "Masters' Gallery" series. Extra shipping charges may apply.
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The Indian ducks and their allies.
by Baker, E. C. Stuart .
[Mumbai]: Bombay Natural History Society, 1908. First edition in book form. Very Good. 28 cm; xii, 292 pages, and 30 chromolithograph plates of ducks. In sturdy green buckram binding. Early owner's bookplate. Appeared in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society earlier in the same year, here presented in book form with corrections and additions.
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