The Poetic of Aristotle. Translated from the Greek with notes by Henry James Pye, Esq.
by Aristotle
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1788 First edition of Pye's translation of Aristotle's Poetics. This translation was revised and corrected and appended to Pye's A Commentary Illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle (1792), a work which is "valuable in the history of aesthetics and literary theory for its sensible and pertinent applications of Aristotle's theory to English writers from Shakespeare to Sterne" (John Valdimir Price). This first edition of his translation is far scarcer than Pye's Commentary…; ESTC lists only... Read More
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The Works of Aristotle. Translated into English Under the Editorship of W.D. Ross. Volume II
by Aristotle
Oxford: Clarendon Press, [1970] Cloth. Octavo. Minor soiling. Near fine in like d.j. Contains: 'Physica' by R.P. Hardie and R.K. Gaye; 'De Caelo' by J.L. Stocks; 'De Generatione et Corruptione' by H.H. Joachim.
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Aristotle on the Constitution of Athens. Edited by F.G. Kenyon. Second Edition.
by Aristotle
[London:] Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, Sold at the Museum, 1891 Cloth. Octavo. Bookplate. A very good, bright copy, tight and clean.
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Aristotelis Aliorumque Problemata: cui de Novo Accessere Jul. Caesaris Scaligeri Problemata Gilliana
by [ARISTOTLE. Doubtful or Suppositious Works, "Problemata"]
Amsterdam: Jodocum Janssonium, 1643 Contemporary stiff vellum with title in manuscript on spine. Twelvemo. Engraved title-page. A few pages a little browned. Generally a very good, clean copy. Scarce: OCLC lists five copies, two in North America.
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Armenian Costumes Through the Centuries
by [Armenian Relief Society, Sophia Chapter, Fresno, California]
[Fresno: [Armenian Relief Society, Sophia Chapter,designed and produced by AM/PM Publishing, San Francisco, 1985] First edition. Boards. Folio. Offsetting from a pressure-sensitive label on front free endpaper. Very good+ in price-clipped but otherwise fine d.j. Armenian, English, and French text. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105).
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Notes on Modern Printing
by Armitage, Merle
New York: William E. Rudge's Sons, [1945] First edition. Cloth. Large octavo. Fine in slipcase.
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Art Nonsense and Other Essays,
by [Armitage, Merle]. Gill, Eric
London: Cassell & Co., LTD. & Francis Walterson, 1929 First trade edition. A limited edition of 100 copies bound in maroon cloth was also published. Blue buckram with gilt-lettered spine and bevelled edges. Octavo. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. Spine has some light toning and fading. Bookplate of Merle Armitage on front pastedown. Pages untrimmed. Holographic Eric Gill letter written to Merle Armitage and dated 6/3/31 laid in. Gill writes: "I would sign your book for you with / pleasure if... Read More
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Homage to the Santa Fe: Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
by Armitage, Merle
Yucca Valley, California: Manzanita Press, [1973] Boards. Octavo. Illustfated. Fine in lightly soiled, price-clipped d.j.
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Merle Armitage Was Here! A Retroscpective of a 20th Century Renaissance Man
by [Armitage, Merle]. Purcell, Robert M
Morongo Valley, California: Sagebrush Press, 1981 Limited to 474 copies. Black cloth over yellow decorative boards. . Quarto. Frontisportrait and sixteen pages of half-tone illsutrations. Contains an annotated bibliography of 113 works written and/or designed by Merle Armitage. A little fading to front cover. Very good/near fine in publisher's acetate dust jacket. Inscribed by the author: "Lucille and George—Dearest of friends, Lucy, the greatest vocal coach I have known—George, who enjoys life and laughs at adversity—Enjoy re-meeting our... Read More
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Alphabets and Others.
by [ Armstrong Press. Slow Loris Press. Clement, Walter B. and Ian L. Robertson, compilers. ]
[Notasulga, Alabama: The Armstrong Press. Fairhope, Alabama: The Slow Loris Press, 1988 One of 125 copies. Dark red cloth with printed paper label. 17 in. x 7 in. Printed throughout, in black and in color, with specimens of nineteenth century American wood types and borders. With more than twenty typefaces represented. Text and descriptions printed in Caslon Oldface. Set, printed, and bound by Walter B. Clement and Ian. L Robertson, who provided the types from their presses. With an envelope... Read More
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Robert Motherwell
by Arnason, H.H
New York: Abrams, [1977] First edition. Pictorial cloth. Oblong quarto. With 325 illustrations in black and white and in color, including tipped in color plates. A little light soiling. Very good+, without d.j., as issued,
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La Logique ou L'Art de Penser. Contenant, Outre les Regles Communes, Plusieurs Observations nouvelles, propres a former le jugement
by [Arnauld, Antoine and Pierre Nicole.]
Paris: Chez la Veuve Savoye, 1775 Nouvelle edition. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt. Lightly browned, occasional faint spotting, otherwise a very good, tight copy. 12mo., xlviii, 430 pages. Although Arnauld and Nicole were strongly Cartesian in their emphasis on method rather than the theory of pure logic, their work forged a revolution in the study of logic, leaving behind both inadequate scholastic and outmoded Ramesian approaches. The most famous logic text of the seventeenth century, known as the Port-Royal Logic, it... Read More
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Refutation de la fausse relation du P. Ferrier Jesuite…
by [ARNAULD, Antoine, and Noel de la Lane, abbe de Valcroissant].
[n.p.:] 1764 [Bound with:] [NICOLE, Pierre]. Les pernicieuses consequences de la nouvelle heresie des jesuites contre le Roy & contre l'Estat. Par un Advocat en Parlement. Seconde edition. [n.p.: n.d]. Quarto. 47 pp. This is a curious work. It is undated, and there is no indication of publisher or place, but it is labeled "second edition." The first edition must have been published before 1666, when an English edition translated by John Evelyn appeared. The only edition listed by OCLC... Read More
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La Logique ou L'Art de Penser. Contenant, Outre les Regles Communes, Plusieurs Observations nouvelles, propres a former le jugement.
by [ARNAULD, Antoine and Pierre Nicole].
Paris: Chez la Veuve Savoye, 1775 Nouvelle edition. . Contemporary mottled calf, gilt. . Twelvemo. Lightly browned, occasional faint spotting, otherwise a very good, tight copy. Although Arnauld and Nicole were strongly Cartesian in their emphasis on method rather than the theory of pure logic, their work forged a revolution in the study of logic, leaving behind both inadequate scholastic and outmoded Ramesian approaches. The most famous logic text of the seventeenth century, known as the... Read More
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Arnoldi. Foreword by Frank Gehry
by Arnoldi, Charles
Santa Fe: Radius Books, 2008 First printing limited to 2000 copies. Signed with the year on the half title page by the author. . Light blue boards with artistic design and the author's name blindstamped on the spine. Quarto. Color illustrations and color photographic reproductions A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with some minor creasing at the upper extremities and a very small pencil mark on the front
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Handbook (With Footnotes)
by Arnold, Eve
[London:] Bloomsbury, [2004] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Color illustrations. Fin e in fine slipcase.
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All in a Day's Work
by Arnold, Eve
New York: Bantam Books, [1989] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j.
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Slate Pictures in Six Parts
by [Education. Art.]
Boston: Prang & Co., 1863 First edition. These are the first two volumes in a set of six. OCLC records seven institutions with at least parts of the set: the Morgan Library, Library of Congress, Winterthur Museum, University of Florida, Cincinnati PL, Library Co. of Philadelphia, and Penn State. Not all of these institutions have full sets, and at least one of the libraries (LOC) holds a copy that lacks leaves. Publisher's green paper wrappers. . Two volumes,... Read More
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Introspective 1972-1982
by Arth, Michael E
[Austin, TX:] Linnaea Graphics [1983]/ First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author with a drawing of a desk, dated "30 April 1983. Cloth. Quarto. Bottom corners lightly bumped. Near fine in like dust jacket. Jacket has a little light edgewear. Exhibition catalogue featuring 107 items.
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No Mean City
by Arthur, Eric
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [1965] Many black and white illustrations. Quarto. A little residue from label on front free endpaper. Near fine in fine d.j. A handsome book telling the story of Toronto's architectural and social past from its beginnings.
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Remembrances of Things Worth Seeing in Italy Given to John Evelyn 25 April 1646. Edited with Notes, Introduction, and an Extract from Evelyn's Diary by John Martin Robinson
by Arundel,Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of.
London: The Roxburghe Club, 1987 Quarter burgundy morocco over scarlet cloth boards. Gilt lettering on spine, gilt arms on front cover. Covers ruled in gilt, top edge gilt. . Octavo. Tipped in frontisportrait and manuscript facsimile, red ornamental border on title-page. With a list of Roxburghe Club members. This copy belonged to Frederick B. Adams, and his name is printed in red in the membership list. A fine copy. This volume was produced for the Club by the Duke of... Read More
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Glass: Art Nouveau to Art Deco
by Arwas, Victor
New York: Abrams, [[1987] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With approximately 475 illustrations, including 338 plates in full color. Slight fading near top edge. Near fine in fine d.j.
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Art Deco
by Arwas, Victor
New York: Abrams, [1992] Revised edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 436 illustrations, including 339 plates in full color. Fine in fine d.j.
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The Mental Magazine: or, Young Lady's Repository of Arts and Sciences
by Ashe, Sarah
Dublin: A Stewart, 1801 First edition. The present work "was first intended for the instruction of young ladies [the author] had the honor to educate. The questions on scripture, astronomy, heathen mythology, and heraldry, are all taken from the best authors; and an attempt made by some alterations, to reduce the language to the level of youthful capacities…[Y]oung minds receive stronger impressions of instructions, conveyed under the semblance of amusement, than from the most serious precepts," (preface). The work, which... Read More
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Old Times: A Picture of Social Life at the End of the Eighteenth Century. Collected, and illustrated from the satirical and other sketches of the day. With Eighty-Eight Illustrations.
by Ashton, John
London: John C. Nimmo, 1885 First American edition. Half red morocco over marbled boards. Gilt spines, top edge gilt. . Octavo. Eighty-eight tinted plates. Spines a bit darkened, corners and joints lightly rubbed. A good, clean copy. Ashton (b. 1834) is the author of a number of valuable books on English popular culture, including Real Sailor-Songs (1891), A History of English Lotteries (1893), and A Righte Merrie Christmasse! (1894), all published by the Leadenhall Press. Other publications include Chap-Books of... Read More
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