The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran Arabs.
by Baker, Samuel White.
London: Macmillan, 1868. Second edition. Good. 23cm; xii, 596 pages, and 24 wood-engraved plates, two colored maps (one folding). Bound in later half tan polished calf over marbled boards in period style. Endleaves renewed. Light to moderate foxing. Repair to folded map.
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Ismailïa ;
by Baker, Samuel White.
London: Macmillan, 1874. First edition. First edition. 2 volumes. 23cm; 447, 588 pages, 2 maps (one folding), and 50 wood-engraved plates. Bound in half red straight-grain morocco over marbled boards. Hinges and cap ends reinforced for strength, along with upper joint on volume 1. Scattered foxing. Map abraded near title, and one panel fold split. Explorer, social liberal, abolitionist, Samuel Baker was appointed by khedive Ismail the Magnificent to lead a military force up the... Read More
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The French in America during the War of Independence of the United States, 1777-1783.
by Balch, Thomas Willis.
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1891-95. Very Good. 2 volumes. 25 cm; 243; 252 pages, folding map. In original blue-green cloth. Paper title labels faded, spine ends frayed, else very good.
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Vogel-, Fisch- und Thierbuch, 1666.
by Baldner, Leonhard.
Stuttgart: Müller und Schindler, 1973-74. 4 volumes. Small oblong folio, 2 facsimile volumes in leather-backed textured boards, rubbed; commentary and introduction in wrappers; slipcase. Complete facsimile of a natural history manuscript richly illustrated with zoological watercolors, now in the Kassel Library.
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Rime estemporanee di Amarilli Etrusca; Saggio di versi estemporanei.
by [Bandettini-Landucci, Teresa] Amarilli Etrusca.
Verona: Nella stamperia Giuliari, 1801. First edition. Good. Octavo (20 cm); 127, [2], 39 pages, and engraved frontispiece portrait. Engraved publisher's device on title page. Engraved head-pieces and tail-pieces in text. In original green, pink, and black woodblock printed wraps with paper title label on spine. Lower portion of original spine perished. Original wraps protected in contemporary or slightly later improvised dust jacket in woodblock-printed floral pattern. Missing portions of dust jacket... Read More
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Per l'aguste nozze delle altezze reali Massimiliano Giuseppe Maria Duca di Sassonia con l'infanta Donna Luisa Carlotta di Borbone Principessa di Lucca.
by Bandettini Landucci, Teresa (1763-1837).
Lucca: Tipografia Ducale, 1825. Original edition. Fine. Octavo (20 cm); 8 pages. In stiff green marbled-paper wraps. Epithalamion by the celebrated improvisational poet, Teresa Bandettini, who packed theaters and thrilled audiences with her spontaneous verses accompanied by dance. The marriage--between the 62-year-old Prince Maximilian of Saxony and the 23-year-old Maria Luisa Carlotta--took place in Lucca by proxy without the bride being present! (They had a second ceremony in person in Dresden later that year.) ... Read More
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La Teseide.
by Bandettini Landucci, Teresa.
Parma: Luigi Mussi, 1805. First edition. Very Good. Quarto (31 cm); 2 volumes. [8], x, 272; 322 pages, and full-page engraved frontispiece of the author (after Angelica Kauffmann, mispelled "Kaufmnan"). Bound in publisher's pasteboard decorated in tortoise shell patterns ("carta tartarugata"), with printed paper labels on spines. Pages bright, fresh, and untrimmed. Binding somewhat abraded along joints, with some slight separation at tail of volume 1. Remarkably well-preserved set in unsophisticated state. References: Ferri, "Biblioteca Femminile Italiana," p.... Read More
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Alle faustissime nozze della nobil donzella M. Francesca Cosi del Vollia col nobil si. cav. March. Antonio Viviani
by Bandettini, Teresa, and others.
Lucca: Dalla tipografia Bertini, 1826. Original edition. Fine. Octavo (22 cm), xiv, [1 blank] pages. Printed on wove paper with Bodoni-style type. In stiff plain paste-paper boards. Remarkable fresh and fine. A collection of epithalamia for the wedding of Francesca Cosi del Vollia to the noted engraver Antonio Viviani in the city of Lucca. The collection opens with a sonnet by Lucca's most famous poet, Teresa Bandettini, who had settled in her home town... Read More
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La Morte d'Adone.
by Bandettini-Landucci, Teresa (1763-1837).
Modena: Presso la Società Tipografica, 1790. Original edition. Very Good. Octavo (22 cm); 117, [1] pages, and four full page engraved plates hors texte by Antonio Rosaspina. Half-page vignettes by the same artist close each of the four cantos. Engraved roundel on title page. LACKS final blank leaf G/12. In plain paper covers attached to texblock with codex stitching revealed along spine. Remains of manuscript title on spine ("Bandettini"). Corners bumped.... Read More
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Birds of the Atlantic Islands.
by Bannerman, David A; W. Mary Bannerman; D. M. Reid-Henry, etc.
Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1963-68. First edition. Very Good. 4 volumes, 28 cm. Volume 1: The Canary Islands and the Salvages; Volume 2: Madeira, the Desertas, and the Porto Santo Islands; Volume 3: the Azores; Volume 4: The Cape Verde Islands. Cloth in illustrated dust jackets, all volumes fine or nearly fine (slight tear in dust jackets of first two volumes).
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Birds of Cyprus.
by Bannerman, David A.; and W. Mary Bannerman.
Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1958. Very Good. 28 cm; lxix, 384 pages. Illustrated with plates by Roland Green and D.M. Reid-Henry, text figures and folding map. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt title to spine. Matching textured dust wrapper with plate illustration to front. Minor edge wear to dust jacket only. About fine.
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Lettres de Madame la marquise de Pompadour
by Barbé-Marbois, François, marquis de; Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Pompadour, marquise de.
Londres [but Paris?]: chez G. Owen; Fleet-Strett [sic]; & T. Cadell, dans le Strand, , 1772. References: Quérard, La France Littéraire, I, 173; Weller, Die falschen und fingirten Druckorte, II, 189.. Very Good. 12mo (16 cm); 2 volumes in one. [12],179,[1] ; [4],163,[17] pages. Bound in contemporary vellum over boards with paper title label on spine. Red-spotted edges. Binding a bit soiled but sound and entire, hardly worn. Paper a little toned at... Read More
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Totem poles of the Gitksan, Upper Skeena River, British Columbia.
by Barbeau, Marius.
Ottawa: F. A. Acland, 1929. First edition. Good. 25 cm; vi, 275 pages, including map and 33 half-tone plates. Bulletin, National Museum of Canada, no. 61; Anthropological series, no. 12. Good condition, with shelf wear, toning at edges, spine tanned, hinges reinforced with linen tape.
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Ville, ô ma ville.
by Barbeau, Victor, ed.; La Société des écrivains canadiens.
Montreal: Société des écrivains canadiens. , 1941. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies.. Very Good. 29 cm; 405 pages. Headpieces and initials in color silkscreen by Alfred Pellan. 6 half-tone illustrations hors texte, including a portrait of Chomedy de Maisonneuve by Adrien Hébert. Bound in original illustrated dust jacket (designed by Madeleine Kehoe) and protected in embossed translucent paper wraps and buckram slip case with blue leather spine, titled in gilt. Dust jacket frayed... Read More
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A contribution to the zoogeography of the West Indies, with especial reference to amphibians and reptiles.
by Barbour, Thomas.
Cambridge: The Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1914. Original edition. Good. 31 cm; 361 pages and one plate (includes folding tables). In original wraps, marred at fore-edge and splitting at spine. Title page stained at fore-edge. Contents unopened. Very scarce study of the herps of the Caribbean basin.
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Cuban Ornithology.
by Barbour, Thomas.
Cambridge: The Nuttall Ornthological Club, 1943. Original edition. Fine. 29 cm; 144 pages, and two photogravure plates with tissue guards. In green cloth. Sequel to the author's 1922 "Birds of Cuba," based on annual travels to the island. Barbour notes many observed changes in habitats and species density.
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The birds of Cuba.
by Barbour, Thomas.
Cambridge: The Nuttall Ornthological Club, 1923. Original edition. Very Good. 29 cm; 141 pages, and four photogravure plates with tissue guards. In cloth, with scarce original plain blank dust jacket. Fore-edge a little spotted, dust jacket dusty, else fine. In constrast with the somehwat drier scientific prose of American ornithologists such as Baird and Beebe, Barbour like to draw in his affective observations of bird behavior, as well as discussions of weather, landscape, the company he keeps, and... Read More
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Easy phraseology, for the use of young ladies, who intend to learn the colloquial part of the Italian language.
by Baretti, Giuseppe (1719-1789); Samuel Johnson.
London: Printed for G. Robinson, ... and T. Cadell, 1775. First edition. Leather. Good. Octavo (22 cm); iv,[3],vi-xv,[1],424 pages. Signature Bb (pages 185-192) supplied in facsimile. Full sheep, stamped "Yale College Library" on upper board. Rebacked with new leather spine. Original leather label retained. Corners rebuilt, endleaves renewed. Bookplates of Yale University Library (with withdrawal stamp) and Arthur Gordon Rippey. Contents basically clean, with occasional scattered foxing on title and early... Read More
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La frusta letteraria.
by Baretti, Giuseppe ; Luigi Piccioni, ed.
Bari: Laterza, 1932. Good. 22 cm; 2 volumes, 430, 467 pages. Bound in original brown printed wraps. Some shelf wear; wraps a little frayed at edges, especially volume 2.
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The immortal child: a Christmas letter to an unknown friend.
by Barnard, Leslie Gordon.
Montreal: Privately printed, 1941. Boards. Very Good. 25 cm; 24 pages including frontispiece illustration. Edition limited to 270 copies. Bound in decorated paper-covered boards and matching slipcase. Spine discolored by sunlight; slipcase discolored along edges.
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Grammatical Fundamentals of the Innuit Language as Spoken by the Eskimo of the Western Coast of Alaska.
by BARNUM, Rev. Francis (1849-1921).
Boston: Ginn & Co., 1901. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 26 cm; xxv, 384 pages. Bound in original gray-green cloth, lacking paper label on spine. Binding clean and strong, with a 1 cm abrasion in cloth on spine. Light wear. Reference: Arctic Bibliography, #1084; Tourville, Alaska, #402. The author served as a Jesuit missionary for several years in the region between Nushagak and St. Michael, which includes the Yukon Flats.
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The Christian World.
by Barraclough, Geoffrey (editor).
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981. First American. Cloth. Very Good. 4to. Dust jacket bumped at top edge, else fine.
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La Salle in the Valley of St. Joseph
by Bartlett, Charles H.; Richard H. Lyon.
South Bend: Tribune Publishing Company, 1899. Original edition. Very Good. 140 x 200 mm; 118 pages, and numerous half-tone plates. Text figures, map. Maroon cloth. Gift inscription on front blank dated 1912. Corners bumped, but excellent condition overall.
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Preziosi frammenti di vita: Antonio Battistini.
by Battistini, Antonio (1941-2012).
Urbino: La Stamperia d'arte Ca' Virginio, printed by Carla Luminati, 2012. Edition limited to 70 copies, of which this is number 12.. Soft cover. New. 36 cm; [52] text pages (including blanks), and 5 original aquatints (one in color) with tissue guards, signed and dated by the artist just prior to his death in 2012, and authorized on verso by the artist's son. The whole enclosed in an illustrated printed portfolio numbered by the printer. Urbino, the... Read More
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The Uncollected Work of Aubrey Beardsley.
by Beardsley, Aubrey; C. Lewis Hind.
London and New York: The Bodley Head; Dodd, Mead & Co., 1925. Not numbered or limited. Cloth. Very Good. 30cm; [4], xxvi, [4] pages, 162 plates, some in color, all with printed and numbered overleaf. Bound in decorated cloth and (rare) dustjacket, protected in mylar. Somewhat toned but unblemished.
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