Vocabolario, Grammatica et Ortographia della lingua volgare d’Alberto Acharisio da Cento con ispositioni di molti luoghi di Dante, del Petraca, et del Boccaccio
by ACCARISI, Alberto (1497-1544)
Venice: alla bottega d’Erasmo di Vicenzo Valgrisio, 1550. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to (205 x 145cm). [viii], 316pp., including errata leaf. Printer’s mark on title. Wood-engraved initials, some historiated. Italic type. Contemporary vellum; (slightest dampstaining at lower right corner before p.16; lacking ties, otherwise good, clean pages). Ex-Libris stamp of Umberto Banzi, Dottore, to front free endpaper and title. Accarisi’s seminal work on Italian grammar and vocabulary. A native of Cento, Alberto Accarisi was a well-known Doctor of Law,... Read More
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Grapes from Thorns
by ACHESON, Dean
Boston: Norton, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 253 pp. 8vo. Bookplate of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Inscribed to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr from Alice Acheson.
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Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life.
by Ackroyd, Peter
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by the author.
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Trattato ... della historia, natura, et virtu delle droghe medicinali....
by ACOSTA, CRISTOBAL DE.
Venice: : Francesco Ziletti, 1585. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. 342 pp, woodcut device on title page, 47 woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum, gilt titles on spine. Browning, dampstaining to several leaves, mostly in margins, slight worming to last several leaves, not affecting text. Provenance: M[aria] L[udovica] Borromeo Arese and M[assimiliano] Favia del Core (bookplate); Ladislaus von Hoffmann, (An Important Botanical Library Part II, Christie's New York, 5 June, 1997, lot 161). First Italian Edition of Acosta's... Read More
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Prince Isidore
by Acton, Harold
London: Methuen, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo; original cloth in lightly worn dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout by Feliks Topolski.
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An Indian Ass
by Acton, Harold
London: Duckworth, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo; original cloth, dw. pp. 80. An uncommon book of poetry.
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The Corporal Segundo
by Adams, Andy
Austin, TX: Encino Press, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Number 27 of an edition of 750 copies. Additionally inscribed by the designer and signed by the editor.
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Photographs of the Southwest. With: Typed Letter Signed by Ansel Adams
by Adams, Ansel
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. Wrappers edition (modest wear) of this monograph by Ansel Adams. Laid in is a typed letter on a Yosemite Ansel Adams greeting card, written to his doctor and signed by Adams. Greeting card is creased but the content is excellent (if you like medical reports).
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Collection of 7 Typed Signed Letters from Ansel Adams to Nick Dean
by Adams, Ansel; Dean, Nick; [photography, TLS]
San Francisco and Honolulu, 1958-1962. Fine. A Collection of 7 Typed Signed Letters from Ansel Adams to Nick Dean, presented in three custom boxes, as follows: Group of 5 Typed Letters, Signed by Ansel Adams, in custom box. Hawaii and California, 1958. Five typed letters, all of them signed by Ansel Adams, with his handwritten corrections and asides. (And, too charming not to mention: Where letters have punch-holes for a 3-ring binder, Adams doodles faces around the... Read More
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Folding brochure for The Redwood Empire Exhibit of Photographs by Ansel Adams at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1965. Signed by Ansel Adams.
by Adams, Ansel
San Francisco, 1965. Very Good. An uncommon piece of Ansel Adams exhibition ephemera. Signed by Adams. The program with a vertical crease down the middle.
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Collection of 7 Typed Signed Letters from Ansel Adams to Nick Dean
by Adams, Ansel; Dean, Nick; [photography, TLS]
San Francisco and Honolulu, 1958-1962. Fine. A Collection of 7 Typed Signed Letters from Ansel Adams to Nick Dean, presented in three custom boxes, as follows: Group of 5 Typed Letters, Signed by Ansel Adams, in custom box. Hawaii and California, 1958. Five typed letters, all of them signed by Ansel Adams, with his handwritten corrections and asides. (And, too charming not to mention: Where letters have punch-holes for a 3-ring binder, Adams doodles faces around the... Read More
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Extraordinary typed letter Signed from Ansel Adams to his Doctor
by Adams, Ansel
Np, 11 October 1980. Near Fine. Typed letter (with some handwritten corrections) Signed, "Ansel," to "Dear Dr. Chamberlain," on a folded greeting card. The card, shows a reproduction of his photograph, "Dogwood Blossoms" (1938). Adams expresses concern about the possibility of Ronald Reagan becoming president, worrying that such a presidency would place business above more important priorities and bring about a world war:". . . I am seriously worried about Reagan. My concern is separate from the Party!... Read More
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Theodore M. Lilienthal
by Adams, Earl; Monihan, William J.; Magee, David; Crahan, Marc; Powell, Lawrence Clark
Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs / Grace Hoper Press, 1972. Limited edition of 150 copies (total limitation of 250). Paperback. Near Fine. Stitched wraps. Covers a little sunned and wrinkled along spine and edges, otherwise fine.
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Observations on Morbid Poisons, Phagedaena and Cancer....
by ADAMS, JOSEPH. 1756-1818.
London: J. Johnson, 1795. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 328 pp. Contemporary half russia and marbled boards, marbled endpapers. Edges of boards worn; stain to top edge of text block, but still a VG copy of a scarce book in the first edition. This copy with withdrawn stamp of Wellcome Library.
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On Diseases & Injuries of the Joints: 4 Papers (Abnormal Conditions of the Ankle-Joint, Elbow-Joint, Hand, Hip-Joint)
by Adams, Richard
London: Marchant, Printer, Ingram-Court, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Unique copy of these 4 papers by Adams, presented by him to the Library of Barrington Hospital (as noted on a bookplate to front pastedown). Each paper with its own pagination, illustrated throughout, bound in brown cloth (some fading and spotting) with gilt title to front board.
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Addison's Essays. Chosen and Edited by John Richard Green.
by Addison, Joseph
London: Macmillan, 1913. Hardcover. Good. 377 pp. Small compact volume in the Golden Treasury Series. This one bound in full red calf; a.e.g. by Morrell for John Wanamaker. Bookplate of Edward L. Durgin. Rear board joints are cracked along spine.
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The Works of the Late RIght Honourable Joseph Addison (Vol. I-IV, Complete)
by Addison, Joseph
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1739. Hardcover. Good. Full leather. Boards scuffed and chipped along joints and edges; spine tips chipped or perished; spines a bit dry; hinges starting; armorial bookplate of William Downes on front paste-downs. Second edition, with engravings (frontispiece portrait, medals) and index. An excellent working set.
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Remarks on Several Parts of Italy in the Years, 1701, 1702, 1703.
by [Addison, Joseph] [William Gosse]
London: Jacob Tonson, 1705. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Complete with the half-title. William Gosse's copy of Addison's enormously popular account of travel through Italy, a classic in the 18th century Englishman Grand Tourist genre. The preface begins: "There is certainly no place in the World where a man may travel with greater pleasure and advantage than in Italy." First edition, with the usual error of p. 125 misprinted 215. Full contemporary calf; Cambridge style; front and rear... Read More
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Single incunable leaf of Lucanuss M. Annaei Lucani Phrasalia. Liber Secundus
by EARLY VENETIAN PRINTING -- MARCUS LUCANUS (39-65 AD)
Venice: Bevilacqua, 1494. Paperback. Very Good+. Printed gloss. (Size: 300 x 210mm).
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Artie: A Story of the Streets and Town
by Ade, George; McCutcheon, John T. (illus.)
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Decorative buckram; 12mo; pp. [193], [7] (blanks, ads), plus frontispiece, title-page printed in orange and black. Cloth a bit scuffed and foxed; spine tips and corners bumped and frayed; text block just a little bit rolled. Internally clean and unmarked.
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Breaking Into Society
by Ade, George
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. Hardcover. Fair. Decorative cloth (grey, with green ivy pattern); 12mo; pp. 208, illustrated in b/w. Cloth a bit soiled; spine faded, wrinkled, water-damaged; some light marginal soiling. Certainly not a pretty copy, but a charming book. Sold as is.
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Unique Binding from the Library of Estelle Doheny. Les sculptures grotesques et symboliques: Rouen et environs / cent vignettes et texte... par Jules Adeline; préface par Champfleury
by ADELINE, Jules (1845-1909) CHAMPFLEURY (Jean Fleury) (1821-1889) -- FINE BINDING
Rouen: E. Augé, 1878. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo (245 x 160mm). [xvi (preface)], 418pp. (with tables). Pictorial printed wrappers and title printed in red and black. Double etched frontispiece by Jules Adeline. Preface by Champfleury (the pseudonym of writer Jean Fleury [1821-1889]). Édition de luxe, numbered 2 of 220 and initialed by Jules Adeline JA; issued as the first 20 on papier de Chine with a double suite of etchings in black and white and sepia. 127 vignettes... Read More
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Gamiani ou Deux Nuits d'Exces
by A. de M.; Jean de Guethary (illus.)
Paris: Chez un Bourgeois, 1845. Paperback. Very Good+. Original wraps; 4to; illustrated throughout, with untrimmed edges. Number 42 from a limited edition of 110 copies. Covers wrinkled and lightly chipped along the edges; spine tips chipped. Internally bright and clean.
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Four leaves from the "Justinian Code" printed in Saint Gervais
by JUSTINIAN I (482-565 AD)
Saint Gervais (near Geneva): Officina Vignoniana, 1602. Paperback. Very Good+. Cols. 653-668. Given new world expansion, 17th-century jurists in England and France were enormously interested in the codification of existing common law. In a longstanding attempt to establish a single legal code, their aims required the reprinting of several classic texts, which they hoped could influence contemporary and later opinion on prominent social issues ie. the morality in holding slaves. Double column and ruled borders. Extensive printed gloss.... Read More
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12 typed, signed letters by various Hollywood fat cats congratulating Buddy Adler on sweeping the Oscars with "From Here to Eternity"
by Adler, Buddy
1954. Ephemera. Near Fine. 12 typed, signed letters by various Hollywood fat cats congratulating Buddy Adler on sweeping the Oscars with "From Here to Eternity."
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