Arts et métiers du livre
by [Book arts] Faton, Jeanne, ed.
Paris: Editions Technorama, 2010-2014. Range from #280 to #301 with gaps). 18 numbers, each 30 cm and approximately 100 pages, with variation. Richly illustrated on high-quality glossy paper. Text in French. All numbers very good to fine condition. A heavy ream, extra shipping charges will apply at cost. Includes the following numbers: 280 (September-October 2010) through 287 (November-December 2011) consecutive; 289 (March-April 2012) through 296 (May-June 2013) consecutive; 298 (September-October 2013); and 301 (March-April 2014). ... Read More
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A history of bookplates in Britain: catalogue of the Bookplate Society's fourth exhibition.
by Bookplate Society; Victoria and Albert Museum.
London: The Bookplate Society, 1979. First edition. 26 cm; [48] pages. Printed wraps. Shelf wear, old price sticker residue. Very good.
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Log of the Auxiliary Schooner Yacht Northern Light.
by Borden, John.
Chicago: Privately printed by the Lakeside Press, 1929. First edition. Very Good. 28 cm; unpaginated; frontispiece, printed in red and blank, decorated initials, 11 photogravure reproductions. One of 100 copies, this copy out of series and not signed. Bound in original printed blue and tan cloth. Cloth a bit dusty and frayed along the seams, with a stain on the upper joint. Title label has a chip at the corner. Ownership stamp on... Read More
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Exposition de la doctrine de l'eglise catholique sur les matieres de controverse. .
by Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne .
Paris: Se´bastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1686. Seventh edition. Very Good. 12mo (15 cm) ; 188, [4], 214, [2] pages. In brown mottled calf, decorated in gilt on spine. Only slightly worn.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides...
by Boswell, James; John Wilson Croker, editor.
London: John Murray, 1831. Octavo (23 cm); 5 volumes. Extra-illustrated with 197 (give or take) black-and-white engravings (some folding) and 16 color stipple engravings including portraits, facsimiles, scenes, and a map. Handsomely re-cased in 20th-century tan buckram with leather labels on spines titled in gilt. Some offsetting onto text pages from opposing plates, but otherwise the text is in excellent condition. Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is a book that names names. Johnson, during his... Read More
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Hochelaga depicta, or, The history and present state of the island and city of Montreal.
by Bosworth, Newton.
Montreal: W. Greig, 1839. First edition. Cloth. Acceptable. 20 cm; 248 pages, engraved frontispiece, extra engraved title page, 19 engraved plates, and 2 folding maps. Bound in original cloth blindstamped with arabesque motif, titled in gilt on spine. Binding somewhat discolored, with significant flap splitting from spine (but present). Some foxing to engraved title page, and stock lightly toned, but contents generally very good. Pictorial bookplates of the Canadian journalist and newspaper editor C.... Read More
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Egyptian painting and the ancient East.
by Boulanger, Robert.
London: Heron Books, 1966. Very Good. 27 cm; 207 pages. Illustrated. Cloth in dust jacket. No blemishes. Translation of La peinture égyptienne et l'Orient ancien.
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Late Antiquity: a guide to the Postclassical World.
by Bowersock, G.W.; Peter Brown; Oleg Grabar, eds.
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. About fine.. 27 cm; 780 pages. In red cloth in original dust jacket, protected in mylar. With contriburtions by leading scholars on a wide variety of subjects relating to the post-classical period in Europe.
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Oxyrhynchus Papyri 45 3209 3266.
by Bowman, A. K., ed.
London: Published for the British academy by the Egypt Exploration Society, 1977. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.
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Lettres cabalistiques,
by Boyer d'Argens, Jean Baptiste de, Marquis .
La Haye: Pierre Paupie, 1741. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de LXXX nouvelles lettres..... Good. Six volumes 12mo (16 cm). Title pages in red and black. Vignettes on title pages. Frontispiece portrait and full-page engraved allegory of Truth lifting the veil that conceals the Afterlife. Bound in full mottled calf, spines in six compartments decorated with gilt. Marbled edges and endleaves. Title labels no longer present. Spine ends worn and joints tender. ... Read More
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Identifying Audubon Bird Prints:
by Braun, Robert.
Fairfield: American Historical Print Collectors Society, 2001. Very Good. 16 pages illustrated. Stapled wraps. Upper right corner knocked.
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Pioneer to the Past : The story of James Henry Breasted.
by Breasted, Charles.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Very Good. 24cm; x, [2], 436 pages, frontispiece (group portrait, map. Inscribed to DeForest and Cornelia Grant. Dust jacket frayed at crown and reinforced with cello-tape. Inscribed by the author
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Egyptian Servant Statues.
by Breasted, James H., Jr.
[Washington and New York]: Bollingen Foundation / Pantheon Books, 1948. First edition. Very Good. 32 cm; xii, 113 pages, 99 plates, and author's query leaf laid in. Cloth in price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket discolored and frayed along top edge; cloth unblemished; contents evenly toned. Author's obituary notice (apparently from New York Times) hinged onto query leaf. The query leaf appeals to readers to send information about any single servant statues not included in the monograph.
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The Threepenny Opera Trans. Desmond Vesey; with an introduction by Eric Bentley.
by Brecht, Bertholt.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Very Good. 4to; 155 p. Illustrated, with an original lithograph on Rives, by Jack Levine. Signed on colophon by artist, Jack Levine, and author of introduction, Eric Bentley. Black cloth in slipcase; VG+. Slip case dusty. One of 2000 copies.
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A history of the birds of Europe
by Bree, Charles Robert.
London: Groombridge and Sons, 1866-1867. First edition. Very Good. 4 volumes octavo (26 cm). 238 hand-colored lithographs of birds and eggs. Recased in sturdy buckram with original upper boards, stamped in gilt with a vignette of wading birds, laid down. A corner of the binding bumped on volume 3. Occasional light foxing, otherwise a nearly fine set. Reference: Wood, p. 254; Fine Bird Books, p. 81, noting variations in date on title... Read More
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Catalogue 102: Books, Manuscripts, Fine Bindings, Autograph Letters
by Breslauer, Martin.
London: Martin Breslauer, [1972]. About fine.. 182 pages with black and white illustrations, followed by 26 color plates.
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French salon artists, 1800-1900.
by Brettell, Richard R.
New York: The Art Institute of Chicago and Harry Abrams, 1987. First edition. Cloth in dust jacket. Very Good. 30 cm; 119 pages. Illustrated. Extra shipping charges may apply.
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Facing the New World: Jewish Portraits in Colonial and Federal America.
by Brilliant, Richard, ed.
Munich and New York: Prestel Verlag; The Jewish Museum, 1997. Original edition. About fine..
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A trooper with Custer.
by Brininstool, E.A.
Columbus: Hunter-Trader-Trapper Co., 1925. First edition. Very Good. 23 cm; 214 pages, ads. Illustrated with numerous half-tone plates in text. In original pictorial mustard-color cloth, a little dusty. Pencil inscription dated 1929 on front blank. Little evidence of wear. Published in the author's "Frontier Series.
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The Pigorini Museum.
by Brizzi, Bruno, and others.
Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 1976. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 32 cm; 424 pages, with 120 photo reproductions in color and 460 in black-and-white. Text in English. Bound in cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Some very slight discoloration at edges of dust jacket, but still about fine. The Pigorini Museum in Rome has one of the world's most important collections of prehistoric and ethnographic material. "With the publication of The Pigorini Museum, a large body... Read More
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The Soviet Worker: Labor and Government in Soviet Society.
by Brodersen, Arvid.
New York: Random House, 1966. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Original edition, published in paperback format by Random House for the National Science Foundation "Studies in Labor" series.
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Isis. Dendera.
by Zangaki Brothers.
ca. 1880. About fine.. Albumen-silver photograph, 210 x 263 mm. Signed and titled in plate. Titled on verso in pencil. Lightly toned to sepia. Not matted or framed.
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The Life of Sir John Falstaff. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. With a biography of the knight from authentic sources.
by Brough, Robert B.; George Cruikshank.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. First edition thus. Very Good. 26 cm; xx, 196 pages, and 20 plates "drawn and etched by George Cruikshank." Bound in half polished brown morocco over marbled boards, with title and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and gilt rules on boards, by P.B. Sanford. Marble endleaves; top edge gilt. Occasional light scattered foxing, primarily in margins. Bindingly lightly scuffed at edges. Armorial bookplate (ca.... Read More
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Sonnets from the Portuguese.
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.
Mt. Vernon: Golden Eagle Press, [1945]. Good. 22cm; [48] pages, each with full-page floral border designed by Bernard Salomon and printed in rose; text desgined by George W. Jones and printed in blue. Bound in violet paper-covered boards, decorated with silver and rose title. Spine faded from sunlight. Gold paper-covered slipcase.
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Intradiscal Therapy: Chymopapain or Collagenase.
by Brown, Mark D.
Chicago: Year Book Medical Pub, 1983. First edition. Textbook Binding. Very Good. 26cm; xv, 173 pages, and [12] leaves of color plates.
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