Descartes, His Moral Philosophy and Psychology. Translated, and with an Introduction and a Conceptual Index, by John J. Blom
NY: New York University Press, 1978 lst English ed. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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Festschrift Ernst Kyriss. Dem Bucheinbandforscher Dr. Ernst Kyriss in Stuttgart-Bad Canstatt zu seinem 80. Geburtstag am 2.Juni 1961 gewidmet von seinen Freunden.
Stuttgart: Max Hettler Verlag, [1961] Cloth. Large octavo. Full- and partial-page illustrations. Essays in English, German, and French, honoring the binding authority, Ernst Kyriss. With many essays on bookbinding history by Ferdinand Geldner, Jacques Guignard, Hellmuth Helwig, A.R.A. Hobson, Sten G. Lindberg, Tammaro de Marinis, Howard Nixon, J.B. Oldham, Lawrence Thompson, et al.
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America: Art and the West. Exhibition and catalogue sponsored by United Technologies Corporation
New York: American-Australian Foundation, distributed by Abrams, [1987] First edition. Cloth. Oblong quarto. Fine in fine d.j.
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Matisse in Morocco: The Paintings and Drawings, 1912-1913
Washington: National Gallery of Art/Harry N. Abrams, [1990] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 255 illustrations, including 50 in color. Fine in fine d.j.
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The Great Lambeth Bible. With introduction and notes by C.R. Dodwell
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, [1959] lst U.S. edition. Cloth. Quarto. 8 tipped in color plates. Fine in fine d.j.
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The Happy Shepherd; or, Rural Retirement; a Moral Tale. To Which is Added the History of a Coxcomical Fellow. Also the Disappointed Lovers; a Tale. Embellished with Elegant Cuts.
Gainsborough: Printed by H. Mozley, 1809 Second edition. Both the first edition and the present edition are very scarce. OCLC lists only two copies of the first edition (one at the British Library and one at the Morgan Library) and two copies of the present edition (one at UCLA and one at the Huntington Library). . Original drab boards. Eighteenmo. With engraved frontispiece and two text illustrations, which Thomas Hugo attributes to John Bewick in the 1866 descriptive catalogue The... Read More
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The Art of the Motorcycle
[New York:] Guggenheim Museum, [1999]. Cloth. Quarto. Lavishly illustrated in color and black and white. Fine in fine d.j. Describes and illustrates over 100 spectacular bikes.
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Caravaggio and his Followers
Leningrad: Aurora [1975] Cloth. Quarto. Full-page color plates including close-up detail views. Bookplate of the Getty Trust. Near fine in fine d.j.
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Novum Testamentum Graece. Cum apparatu critico curavit Eberhard Nestle. Novis curis elaboravit Erwin Nestle
Stuttgart: Privileg. Wurtt. Bibelanstalt, [n.d., ca. 1960s] Cloth. Two volumes, octavo. Some spotting to edges. Very good.
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Catalogue Raisonné of Books Printed at the Curwen Press 1920-1923. With an introduction by Holbrook Jackson
London: The Medici Society Limited, 1924 Finely bound by C. and C. McLeish in full reddish-brown morocco, ruled in gilt. Spine with raised bands and title in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. . Octavo. 27 pp. + [9] sample pages, some with color illustrations. Spine faded, minor rubbing to edges. A very good copy. Charles McLeish the elder (1859-1949) was a finisher for the Doves Press, and this binding is indeed reminiscent of the work of the... Read More
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Great Drawings of the Louvre Museum. The Italian Drawings by Roseline Bacpi; The French Drawings by
New York: Braziller, 1968 Cloth. Three volumes, quarto. Color, tinted, and black and white illustrations. Slight foxing to endpapers. Very good+ in price-clipped dust jackets. Jackets are very good, with some soiling and light browning to spines. Lacks the slipcase.
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Dickens v. Barabbas. Forster Intervening. A Study Based Upon Some Hitherto Unpublished Letters. With Facsimiles
London: Charles J. Sawyer, 1930 One of 100 copies on handmade paper. Original full green linen buckram with gilt spine and front cover. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Large octavol. Folding facsimile frontispiece. Spine sunned, as usual, small rubberstamp on front free endpaper. A very good, clean copy. First publication of these letters between Dickens and his publishers.
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Studies in Philosophy and Psychology: By Former Students of Charles Edward Garman
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Minor shelfwear. A remarkably fine, bright copy.
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Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Herausgegeben von der Kommission fur den Gestat-Katalog der Wiegendrucke
Stuttgart/New York: Anton Hiersemann/H.P. Kraus, 1968-, Cloth. Seven volumes, quarto. A fine set. The first seven volumes of this massive bibliography of incunables, which now extends to eleven volumes and is still in progress.
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Miquel Barcelo 1984-1994. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London: 23 September-20 November, 1994
London: Whitechapel 1994 First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Quarto. With 108 color and 17 monochrome illustrations. Fine. With a foreword by Catherine Lampert, an article about Barcelo's art, "De Rerum Natura," by Enrique Juncosa, and a chronology.
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Renaissance Engravers: 15th-16th century
[London: Sirrocco, 2003] Boards. Quarto. A catalogue of 125 masterpieces, with full-page illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.
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Devis Grebu: Through an Artist's Eye
New York: Rizzoli, [1988] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 150 illustrations, 100 in color. Fine in fine d.j.
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The Infant's Daily Sacrifice. A book of short hymns for children. [By Cousin Clara.]
London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1830 First edition. Nineteenth century reddish-brown half calf over marbled boards. . Sixteenmo. With a lithograph frontispiece and twenty-one plates. Joints somewhat tender and some rubbing to calf. Twentieth century armorial bookplate to front pastedown, 1960 ink signature to recto of front flyleaf, and 1871 ink signature to verso of front flyleaf. A few plates neatly reinforced on versos. Light occasional dust soiling. A very good, very clean copy of a scarce work. In the... Read More
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These Eventful Years: The Twentieth Century in the Making. As told by many of its makers. Being the dramatic story of all that has happened throughout the world during the most momentous period in all history. With 160 Full-Page Illustrations and Numerous Maps
London: The Encyclopaedia Britanica Company, Ltd., [1924] First edition. Green cloth, stamped in black. Two volumes, octavo. A very good, clean set, in dust jackets. Top of dust jacket to Volume I has a half inch chip. Scarce in dust jackets. Also with the scarce 'These Eventful Years' bookmark laid in. A remarkable collection of essays, including new material by Freud, Bertrand Russell, Bernard Baruch, H.G. Wells, Marie Curie, James Henry Breasted, Colonel House, etc.
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Bibliotheca Lindesiana: Catalogue of English Broadsides 1505-1897
[Aberdeen:] Privately printed, 1898 One of 100 copies. Blue-green cloth, gilt spine, gilt crown device on front free endpaper. . Quarto. With list of printers, publishers, and booksellers, and index. Light shelfwear, pine lightly faded, fly-leaves browned. A very good copy. With the bookplate of Palo Alto bookseller William P. Wreden. Catalogue of over 1800 items, dating from 1505 to 1814, from one of the great private libraries, formed by the family of Alexander William Lindsay (1812-1880) and James Ludovic... Read More
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Joan Almond: The Past in the Present
[West Hollywood:] St. Ann's Press, [2002] First edition (limited to 1,500 case-bound copies). Cloth. Quarto. With 59 black and white photographic reproductions. Fine. Inscribed by the photographer on the half-title.
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Monte Carlo. Visions Photographiques Par W. Vennemann. 1936
[ Cannes: Robaudy, 1936 ] Pictorial wrappers, with some light browning. Quarto. With 44 fine black and white photographic reproductions/ A few ink marks on back wrapper, short tear in front pastedown. A very good copy overall. Introduction by Maurice Bedel.
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Folklore of the Santal Parganas
London: David Nutt, 1909 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Edges lightly foxed. Very good. he Sanatal Paganas is a district 150 miles north of Calcutta.
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Iren Stehli: Libuna: A Gypsy's Life in Prague. Texts/'Texte: Anna Farova, Milena Hubschmannova, Martin Heller. Introduction and Interview...Franca Camalini
Zurich: Scalo, [2004] Boards. Quarto. Fine.
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Nouvelle Bibliotheque des Enfants, divisee en quatre parties: Premieres Notions; Melanges; Choix de Fables; Sur quelques grands Hommes.v 3eme edition
a Paris: la veuve Devaux, [n.d., circa 1800] Third edition. All editions of this work are rare. We have not seen the first edition, but the text of the second edition is considerably smaller than that of the present edition. Contemporary stiff vellum with a brown, gilt lettered leather spine label. Edges stained red. Twelvemo. Copper engraved frontispiece; added engraved title page, as well as printed title; two additional copper engraved plates. Gentle lean to spine. Binding extremities slightly rubbed... Read More
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