Wild orchids of the Southeastern United States, north of Peninsular Florida.
by Brown, Paul Martin; Stan Folsom.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. First edition. Fine, but for a bit of dust on top edge.. 24 cm; 394 pages illustrated. Stiff wraps.
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Spitsbergen:
by BROWN, R. N. Rudmose (1879-1957).
London: Seeley, Service, , 1920. First edition. 23 cm; 319 pages, 22 half-tone photographic plates, text illustrations and folding map. Bound in original gray cloth with stamped illustration of walrus hunters on a sled on upper board. Bookplate (designed by Leo Wyatt?) of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society. Few pencil notes on table of contents, else about fine. Reference: Arctic Bibliography, 2331. A comprehensive history of exploration and development, physical features and resources.
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Description des beautés de Génes et de ses environs
by Brusco, Giacomo ; Carlo Giuseppe Ratti.
A Génes [i.e., Genova]: Chez Yves Gravier, 1773. Very Good. Octavo (18 cm); [2], 155, [1] pages, and [13] folded leaves of engraved views, maps, and illustrations. Engraved crest of Genoa on title page. Text within typographic border. Bound in woodblock-printed floral polychrome wraps. Mottled edges. White background of wraps rather toned. Second, much expanded edition of this architectural guide to the city of Genoa, intended, one supposes, for French and Francophone tourists. (The... Read More
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The flood of years.
by Bryant, William Cullen.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1879. Very Good. VG in somewhat faded pebbled cloth. Illustrated by W. J. Linton. GIft inscription on front blank.
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Personality and Nature in Modern Medicine.
by Buchner, Franz.
New York and London: Grune and Stratton, Inc., 1958. Very Good. 36 p. printed on sage green paper, with gift slip laid in. Number 391 of an unspecified edition. Black cloth with brown paper wrappers. A "spiritual" approach to medical thinking.
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The sarcophagus of Anchnesraneferab, Queen of Ahmes II, King of Egypt.
by Budge, Ernest Alfred Wallis.
London: Whiting, 1885. First edition. Good. 26cm; 134 pages and 1 plate. Text in hieroglyphic characters, transliteration and English translation. Includes glossary of hieroglyphs. Bound in cloth decorated with Egyptian figures in gilt. Light to moderate foxing, especially on plate and title page. Early owner's stamp on title page; another ownership mark rubbed out. One corner bumped. Front joint split two inches at top. Ibrahim Hilmy, I, 103: "The... Read More
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Oxyrhynchus Papyri 49 Graeco Roman Memoirs Pt 49
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by Bulow Jacobsen Adam, ed.
London: Published for the British academy by the Egypt Exploration Society, 1982. First Edition. Cloth. Fine.
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The Pilgrim's Progress
by Bunyan, John; Thomas Scott.
London: Scott, Webster, & Geary, 1841. Very Good. 12mo (14 cm); xviii, 423 pages, engraved frontispiece and extra engraved title page. Half-title present. Bound in half green pebbled leather over marbled boards. Marbled edges. Edges a little scuffed, some discoloration to marbled boards. Contents clean and bright.
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Bilderpossen:
by Busch, Wilhelm.
Leipzig: Insel, 1956. Very Good. Oblong 185 x 120 mm; 64, [4] pages, chiefly cartoon illustrations. Text in black letter. Bound in original decorated paper-covered boards with paper title label.
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Il rinascimento parla ebraico.
by Busi, Giulia; Silvana Greco, eds.
Milano and Ferrara: Silvana editoriale and il Museo Nazionale di Ebraismo Italiano, 2019. Original edition. Fine. 24 cm; 304 pages, illustrated. Stiff wraps. With contributions from scholars on a variety of topics related to Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. From the introduction: "There is no Italian Renaissance without Judaism, and we cannot imagine Italian Judaism without the Renaissance." Generously illustrated. Text in Italian.
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Portrait of a Chinese Paradise: Erotica and Sexual Customs of the Late Quing Period.
by Byron, John.
London: Quartet Books, 1987. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 27 cm; 82 pages and 45 full-page color plates. Cloth in dust jacket.
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Figures of Earth :
by Cabell, James Branch.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1925. Cloth decorated with gilt illustration and lettering. No dust jacket.. Good. 25 cm; xvii, 257 pages. 11 only (of 12) plates. Title printed in red and black.
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L'abate Parini e la Lombardia nel secolo passato.
by Cantù, Cesare.
Milano: Cooperative editrice Italiana, 1892. Inscribed by the author. Very Good. 20 cm; viii, 435, [1] pages. Bound in recent polished half calf over marbled boards, raised bands with gilt rules on spine. Original wraps bound in. Very light scattered foxing; few old cello-tape repairs on last 3 leaves. Owner's book plate. Inscribed by the great 19th-century poet and historian on front wrap, dated 5 October 1894, 5 months before his death.
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Thebes; the glory of a great past.
by Capart, Jean ; Marcelle Werbrouck ; trans. by Wallace E. Caldwell.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1926. First English edition. Very Good. 33cm; 362 pages, including frontispiece and 257 half-tones and figures in text. Bound in recent utility library buckram, with original wraps bound in. Upper wrap loose, with chip in lower right corner; lower wrap corners repaired; else very good condition.
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Lectures on Egyptian Art.
by Capart, Jean.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1928. First edition. Good. 26 cm; xxxii, 290 pages, illustrated. Bound in original decorated cloth. A little shaken and worn, but still quite good. Owner's stamp on half title. The lectures were delivered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1927, and published here without significant change.
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The Tears of Isis.
by Carrington, Richard.
London: Travel Book Club, 1959. Cloth. Very Good. Dust jacket a little sunned.
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D'une Chine à l'autre.
by Cartier-Bresson, Henri; Jean-Paul Sartre.
Paris: Robert Delpire, 1954. First edition. Buckram. Good. 28 cm;[20] text pages and 144 pages of half-tone reproductions of Cartier-Bresson's photographs. Text by Jean-Paul Sartre. Bound in cloth, lacks dust jacket. Spine somewhat sun-darkened. Very slight fissure along joint at heel. Owner's blind stamp on front blank.
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Le Bossu desenchante: etude sur Le Jeu de la feuillee.
by Cartier, Normand R.
Geneva: Droz, 1971. Wraps. Very Good. 208 p. Wraps. Unopened. On Adam de la Halle's cardinal play.
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La Felicità, idillio di M. Leonard.
by Casalini, Alessandro; M. Leonard.
Rovigo: Miazzi, 1814. Very Good. 21 cm; 12 pages. In block-printed pink and black decorated wraps. A verse essay on frienship.
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Tabulae anatomicae & De formato foetu tabulae.
by Casserius, Julius.
New York: Editions Medicina Rara, [ca. 1971]. Limited facsimile edition. About fine.. Folio (42 cm); 95 leaves, pp. 28-45, [1], chiefly plates and tables. One of 2,800 copies, this copy numbered 1,307. Bound in Quarter cloth ("Seta-Rips," according to colophon) over paper-covered boards, preserved in slipcase. Facsimiles of the edition 1627.
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Men and Nature:
by Caudwell, Christopher (i.e., Christopher St John Sprigg).
New York: Oriole Chapbooks, [1970]. 19 cm; 42 pages. Printed self-wraps. The author (1907-1937) died in the Spanish Civil War covering the retreat of his manchine-gun section in the Jarama River battle. "Caudwell acutely exposes and dissects the sources of infection common to all aspects of modern bourgeois culture.
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Hands on the Past
by Ceram, C.W.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First American edition. Cloth. Very Good. Lacks dust jacket. Bright and clean with minor shelf wear only.
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Entremeses Ed. Miguel Herrero Garcia.
by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.
Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1973. Wraps. Very Good. xx, 243 p. Wraps.
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Saggi sulla filosofia delle lingue e del gusto....
by Cesarotti, Melchiorre.
Milano: Silvestri, 1821. Fair. 17 cm; xxxvi, 393, [3] pages, and engraved portrait frontispiece. Untrimmed. Bound in original orange printed wraps, worn, spine perishing and text block beginning to split at several junctures, yet holding.
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Cyclopaedia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences:
by Chambers, Ephraim (~1680-1740).
London: printed for D. Midwinter, [etc., including 16 additional firms], 1738. The second edition, corrected and amended; with some additions. Text, very good; boards, acceptable. Two volumes folio (420 x 280 mm), continuously signed. Titlepages in red and black. Folded engraved frontispiece and 21 engraved plates, eight of them folding. In contemporary speckled calf over boards, double ruled in gilt, spine in seven compartments, title labels missing, volume numbers applied directly in gold, and gilt... Read More
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