Les Mille et un Jours Contes, Persans, Turcs et Chinois Traduits par Petit de la Croix, Cardonne, Caylus, Etc. Augmentes de Nouveaux Contes Traduits de l'Arabe
by Ajpot, Sainte-Croix; de la Croix, Petit; Cardonne; Caylus (trans.)
Paris: Pourrat Freres, 1844. Hardcover. Very Good+. Cloth, backed in elaborately gilt-stamped morocco. Spine sunned; edges of boards scuffed; some faint, light browning here and there throughout text block, but overall nice and clean, with hundreds of engravings in text.
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Kunst der Scenik in asthetischer und okonomischer Hinsicht. Theoretisch, praktisch und mit Planen, wie auch als Beispiel des verfahrens durch eine ganz scenirte Oper Iphigenia in Tauris erlautert als Handbuch fur Intendanten, Privat-Direktoren, Kompositeu
by AKATS, Franz Von, genannt Franz Gruener
Vienna, 1841. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 8vo. xiv, 158 pp., with two sections of diagrams in back with 8 and 23 plates respectively, plus one double-folding plate in text. A manual of stagecraft by the Vienna Opera House's scenic designer. Includes the complete mise en scene for Gluck's "Iphigenia In Tauris". An extremely rare little book. This copy is in excellent condition in contemporary or, perhaps, original cloth.
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The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside and Nicholas Rowe. Three volumes in one. Odd volume in Bell's Poets.
by Akenside, Mark; Rowe, Nicholas
London: George Cawthorn, 1793&1801. Bell's Edition. Hardcover. Good. Pocket edition. 3 vols in one. Contemporary calf and marbled paper over boards. Front board detached.
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U samogo moria [By the very sea]
by Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna (1889-1966); [Gorenko, Anna Andreevna]
Petersburg: Alkonost, 1921. First Edition, one of 3000 copies. Paperback. Very Good+. Original wraps; pp. 36, with ads. Covers lightly soiled; spine scuffed. An extended poem in four sections -- this copy unique for the manuscript poem that occurs at the first section break. Purple ink, 10 lines, dated 14/ii/23-1/ii/23 [sic], a gesture in verse by a young lover to his girl, a ring extended. Akhmatov's hand was famous among poet friends for slanting... Read More
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Uroki muzyki, stikhi [Music Lessons, Poems]
by Akhmadulina, Bella Akhatovna
Moskva: Sovetskii pisatel, 1969. Paperback. Near Fine. Original wraps; pp. [160], with author portrait. Spine tips lightly chipped, else fine. The author's first collection of poems.
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La Coltivazione, del sig. Lvigi Alamanni, et le Api, del s. Giovanni Rvcellai,... Con aggiunta delli epigrammi del medesimo Alamanni, et di alcune brevi annotazioni soprà le Api (da Roberto Titi)
by ALAMANNI, Luigi (1495-1556) RUCELLAI, Giovanni di Paolo (1403-1481) TITI, Roberto (1551-1609)
Florence: Filippo Giunti, 1590. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo (155 x 100mm). [8], 1-308pp., [4], register and printers mark of putti flanking fleur-de-lis on final verso. Signatures: *4; A-T8; V4. Text in italic. Woodcut chapter initials. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine La colvi-vazion-de Luigi Alamani, (some intermittent browning and few wormholes not severe, a minor early cancelled inscription on front flyleaf; a solid copy of this rare Florentine printing). Letter receipt of 1950 from antiquarian booksellers Davis... Read More
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The Three-Cornered Hat
by Alarcon, Don Pedro Antonio de
Los Angeles: The Limited Editions Club, 1959. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. Signed by illustrator, Norman Tealby. Excellent, bright copy in slipcase. Well-preserved.
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Albany Law School Class Album
by [Albany]
New York, 1866. Hardcover. Very Good+. Full morocco, "Autographs" stamped in gilt on upper board; 8vo (130 x 195 mm); contains 138 small albumen photographs (oval, each about 32 mm at the longest diameter) of law students and faculty, mounted to the recto and verso. All are signed by the subject, sometimes also listing his birthplace, religion, and political affiliations, and sometimes including an inscription. The first 3 leaves are signed by the founders of the school,... Read More
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Tiny Alice
by Albee, Edward
New York: Atheneum, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Black cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. [11], 190, [3]. Front board very faintly rubbed, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket rubbed; some light wrinkling and a few small closed tears along the edges. An excellent working copy, with relevant articles and reviews laid-in.
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Everything in the Garden
by Albee, Edward; Cooper, Gary
New York: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Black cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 201. Nice copy of the book in a DJ with a tears to front panel and taped label to base of spine (covering the word garden).
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Tiny Alice
by Albee, Edward
New York: Atheneum, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Black cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. [11], 190, [3]. A nice copy in price-clipped DJ.
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I Giochi Numerici Fatti Arcana
by ALBERTI, GIUSEPPE ANTONIO.
Bologna: Nella Stamperia di Bartolomeo Borghi, 1747. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. 16 engraved plates. Modern Italian boards, to style. Light staining to leaves, but still a servicable copy of a scarce book
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I Giuochi Numerici Fatti Arcana Palesati
by ALBERTI, GIUSEPPE ANTONIO.
Venice: Presso Giuseppe Orlandelli per la dita del fu Francesco Di Niccolo Pezzana, 1795. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 16 engraved plates. Modern cloth backed paper boards. Scattered spotting, but still a most servicable copy of a scarce magic book.
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Nus
by Albin-Guillot, Laure; Amson; Auradon, Jean-Marie; Auradon, Pierre; et al
Paris: Editions Sun, n.d., circa 1945. Paperback. Near Fine/Very Good+. Plain white wraps; b/w photo-illustrated dust jacket (by Lucien Lorelle). With b/w photo-illustrations throughout, mostly nude women, the occasional male torso. Contributions from numerous photographers. Some faint dust-soiling throughout text block, inoffensive, visible only in the white margins. Dust jacket a little chipped and torn along joints and edges. Nicely printed in gravure.
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Gallerie der Menschen: Ein Bilderbuch für die Jugend zur Erweiterung ihrer Kenntnisse und Befriedigung ihrer Wissbegierde. Zweiter Theil
by [ALBRECHT, Erdmann Hannibal -- SEIDEL, Karl August Gottlieb (1754-1822)]
Leipzig: Friedrich August Leo, 1799. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 4to (140 x 106mm). [iv], 91pp. 29 finely hand-colored engraved plates fully captioned depicting costume and peoples of the world. Period boards backed in cloth; (some light outer wear, early ownership signature in ink on top edge of front free-endpaper and title page, light, marginal thumbsoiling of plates; else contents are clean; very good). Children’s book of Continental costumes printed in Leipzig at the turn of the 19th century.... Read More
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Nevskii Almanakh #2 [Neva Almanac]
by Briullov; Stepanov; Bet; Davidoff; et al
Petrograd: For the Victims of the War, 1917. Paperback. Very Good. Original wraps; pp. 212. Spine perished and binding split, but all present and accounted for (complete); covers chipped along the edges. An excellent candidate for re-binding, with nice, bright plates in b/w and color. Anthology of writers and artists, with illustrations by Briullov, Stepanov, Bet, and Davidoff; plus a facsimile letter from Tolstoy.
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The White Squadron. Souvenir from the Woolson Spice Co., Manufacturers of Lion Coffee
by [album]
Toledo, Ohio: Woolson Spice Co., n.d. (early 1900s?). Paperback. Good+. Wraps; oblong 12mo; features 10 color lithographs of American ships (printed on the recto only), with facing text (verso). A promotional album distributed by Woolson Spice Co., available by mail for consumers who send in 15 Lion Heads from Lion Coffee wrappers. A bit soiled and creased, but lithographs are mostly unscathed.
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Beer / Brewery
by [beer; scrapbook album]
Hamburg, 1955. Hardcover. Fine. Deep green leather, embossed logo of Holsten-Bauerei on front board; 310 x 215 mm; pp. 48, just the last few leaves blank, the rest full colorful beer labels from varieties of European beers (principally German and Danish), along with photographs, ephemera, original artwork, and well wishes and signatures from numerous contributors. Presented to T. W. Hartas, Esq., a "business partner," on the occasion of his returning to London. Spirited, jovial, and handsomely... Read More
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Album of Hand-Painted Lithographs, French Romantic Prints
by [album]; [Deveria]; [Grenier]; [Cuassade, Charles]; et al
France, c. 1820-1840. Hardcover. Near Fine. Ornately blindstamped tan morocco; oblong folio (243x328mm); 60 leaves, containing 76 brilliantly hand-painted prints, of which at least 68 are lithographs, each trimmed to the plate and inlaid; ranging in size from about 66x60mm to 250x215mm. We can ascribe 29 to Deveria (many signed in the plate); 32 to Grenier (many signed in the plate); and one to Bellange (signed and dated 1827); others may be ascribed to Lami and Colin.... Read More
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Civil War Era Student Autograph and Photo Album
by [Civil War; photo and autograph album]
Northeastern United State, 1862-1863. Hardcover. Good. Original gilt stamped leather binding; 8vo; contains more than 50 photographic portraits (gem-size oval albumen prints and one tintype, each about 1 inch in diameter), many accompanied by charming period sentiments, contributed by numerous hands. Backstrip chipped and partially detached; several pages loose, with staining from the adhesive used to mount the photographs. A contribution by William Hancock begins, "These photographs will ere long lose their brightness; the Autographs will fade;... Read More
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EXTRAORDINARY WORLD WAR I ALBUM OF THE BELGIAN FRONT.
by [Album - World War One] BEAUFORT, J.M. DE (JACQUES ALBERT UILENBROEK).
Album, 60 pp recto and verso, "Autographs and Sketches" stamped in gilt to front cover, with approx. 35 gelatin silver prints laid in and letters, maps, diagrams, postcards, and foreign press clippings tipped in, label "J.M. de Beaufort / Author, Soldier, War Correspondent, late with the Belgian Army" attached to front cover, de Beaufort's business card taped to inner front cover, photographs laid in to front and back covers. Many pages loose or stained, some loss to three leaves,... Read More
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Road Trip 1910, or "Motoring through Paris, Reims, Brussels, Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Cologne, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Carlsbad, Regensburg, Munich, Innsbruck, Regatz, Lucerne, Lausanne, Geneva, and Tonnerre -- Driver's record, 3684 Kilometers"
by [manuscript; travelogue; photo album]
1910. Hardcover. Very Good+. Suede over flexible boards (oblong, 15 by 11.5 inches), with tie closures at fore-edge; contains 35 grey heavy cardstock leaves with original b/w photographs neatly labeled by hand and mounted direct to the rectos only, plus a manuscript title-page and 16 pages of text at the rear (8 leaves, handwritten on rectos and versos, in English). Records a road trip taken August 5th to September 2nd, 1910 -- naming cities, landmarks, and hotels... Read More
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Friendship Album: Manuscript Collection of Poetry, Numerous Contributors from St. John's Training College
by [manuscript album]
primarily York, 1870s. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cloth, "The Windsor Album, Contributions Poetic, Dramatic, Literary & c." stamped in black and gilt on front board; about 8-by-10.5 inches; approx. pp. 80, full with handwritten poems (some original, some copied from Tennyson, Pope, Sewell, and more), a few drawings, 8 full-color paintings (mostly botanical), 4 sepia albumen prints (one a folding panoramic landscape, showing sailboats at harbor beneath a cliff), an acrostic, a hand-drawn map entitled "How We Were Scattered... Read More
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Turn of the Century Manuscript Album, Friendship Book
by [manuscript album]
England, 1890s. Ephemera. Very Good+. Text block only, comprised of different color leaves, edged in gilt; approx. pp. 150, with handwritten poems and prose, plus original artwork, from numerous contributors, scattered throughout. Includes 20 pieces of poetry or prose (Edmund Burke, Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, et al), and 18 pieces of original art, primarily ink and gouache, with some pencil sketches thrown in for good measure. The artwork is nicely accomplished, and ranges from a comic... Read More
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Who's Who and What's What in Nineteenth-Century England
by [manuscript; scrapbook; album]
Late 1890s. Hardcover. Very Good+. Marbled paper over boards, red leather backstrip; 4to (about 7.5-by-9.5 inches); approx. pp. 119 (numbered by hand), with articles and images from numerous sources neatly mounted to the recto and verso. Boards scuffed; spine chipped and torn at tips, with gatherings exposed. Contains hundreds of articles on -- and portraits of -- authors, composers, heads of church and state, royalty, and more. This was, at some point, a ledger or... Read More
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