Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Volume IV: Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1966/68
Dordrecht: D. Reidel Pub. Co., [1969] First edition. Cloth. Thick octavo. Fine in dust jacket with several short tears. D.j. good to very good.
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Cow Parade Kansas City
New York: Workman Publishing, [2001] First edition. Boards. Oblong quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j.
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Sinbad the Voyager; Robin Hood Ballads; and Other Stories
London: Routledge, 1853 Routledge Illustrated One Shilling Juveniles. Original dark blue cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Small octavo. Engraved frontispiece and three woodcuts in text. A little edgewear, old pencil signature. A very good copy of a rare item. OCLC lists only modern editions with the Harvey illustrations. This book includes: 'Sinbad the Sailor,' 'The Eve of St. Agnes: A Poem by John Keats,' 'The True History by Lucian of Samosata', and 'Robin Hood Ballads' ... Read More
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Catalogue d'une collection unique de volumes imprimees par les Elzevier et divers typographes hollandais du XVIIe Siecle redige par Edouard Rahir
Paris: Damscene Morgand, 1896 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. A couple of leaves poorly opened. Overall very good.
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Illustrated Catalogue of Acts and Laws of the Colony and State of New York and of the Otehr Original Colonies and States Constituting the Collection Made by Hon. Russell Benedict, Justice of the Supreme Court of New York To be Sold without reserve or restriction by order of Judge Russell Benedict on Monday, February 27th, 1922 at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and 8:15 in the evening
New York: American Art Association, 1922 First edition. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Corners lightly worn. Very good. Great collection of early American legal rarities, with good descriptions.
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Zamorano Club Programs 1928- 1991.
Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1992 First edition, one of 200 copies printed for the 21st Joint Meeting of the Roxburgh and Zamorano Clubs. Designed and set by Old Mill Graphics, South Pasadena. Clothbacked decorative boards, gilt spine. Small folio. A fine copy. Laid in is a keepsake meant as a companion piece to the book, with an original program from a 1959 program for a talk by John S. Galbraith on the Hudson's Bay Company in Old Oregon.... Read More
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Tomas Taveira: Architectural Works and Designs. Introduction by Geoffrey Broadbent
[London:] Academy Editions/St. Martin's Press, [1990] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Over 440 illustrations, mostly in color. Fine in fine d.j.
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Luxty Juventus
Oxford: Printed for the Malone Society by Vivian Ridler at the University Press, Oxford, 1971 The Malone Society Reprints edition. Cloth/boards. Small quarto. A fine, unopened copy. Reprint of a sixteenth-century play.
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The New Cambridge Modern History. Volume II: The Reformation 1520-1559, edited by G.R. Elton
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1958 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Former owner's rubberstamp. Very good in lightly chipped d.j.
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Jack Upland, Friar Daw's Reply, and Upland's Rejoinder. Edited by P.L. Heyworth
[London:] Oxford University Press, 1968 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Former owner's ink signature, a little light pencil. Very good+ in like jacket, with a little browning to spine.
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Sigmar Polke. Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish
Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, [1996] First edition. Pictorial boards. Quarto. With 263 four-color and duotone reproductions. Bookplate of A&M Records. Fine.
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Paul Cezanne. Paintings from the Museums of the Soviet Union. The Hermitage, Leningrad. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, [1985] Cloth. Folio. Color and black and white illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.
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The Khoja. Tales of Nasr-ed-din.
New York: Appleton, 1924 Cloth. Octavo. Text illustrations. Very good, without d.j.
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The Progress of Industry.
[n.p., London?: n.d., ca. 1840?.] No date or edition specified. The present work may have been derived from a book titled The Edinburgh Alphabet & The Progress of Industry (M.J. Godwin, ca. 1810). The illustrations in The Edinburgh Alphabet, four of which are reproduced in a January 1898 Strand Magazine article describing the book, appear to be versions of the illustrations in the present item drawn by a different hand but with the same subjects and basic design.... Read More
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Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum. Catalogus der Bibliotheek.
Amsterdam: Cornelis Schuytstraat, 1960 First edition. Dark blue cloth with gilt spines. 2 vols., quarto. Plates, including two tipped in color plates. Text illustrations. A very good set. The catalogue of the library Amsterdam's great maritime museum. The museum houses paintings, scale models, weapons, maps, books, and artifacts associated with shipping and sailing. Highlights include works by the famed seventeenth-century cartographers Willem and Joan Blaeu and a first edition of Maximilan Transylvanus' work, De Moluccis Insulis, the first... Read More
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Franco Assetto: anthology
[Milan:] Fabbri Editori, [1985] First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Assetto in 1986, with a bold inscription spanning across the front endpapers. Pictorial boards. Oblong quarto. Black and white and color illustrations. Minor shelfwear. Near fine.
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George Caleb Bingham [By] Michael Edward Shapiro Barbara Groseclose Elizabeth Johns..
New York: The Saint Louis Art Museum in association with Abrams, [1990] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 85 illustrations, including 50 in color. Fine in fine d.j.
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[Botanical Watercolor Illustrations].
[n.p., Pau, France?] 1877 In cloth-backed leatherette boards with gilt stamped cover. 1877. Together with separate sheet, 14 in. x 11 inches, mounted on cardboard, of four drawings of a similar size to those in the album, which apparently had become loose and are here displayed separately. The album was sold by stationer L. Ribaut in Pau, overlooking the Pyrenees in Southwest France. The contents of the album may or may not been assembled in that region, though that seems... Read More
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Bibliographica. [Edited by A.W. Pollard.]
Westport, CT: Greenwood Reprint Corp., [1970] Reprint of the 1895-7 edition. Cloth. Three volumes, quarto. Fine. A classic periodical on the book arts. Contributors include Robert Proctor, Sarah Prideaux, Andrew Lang, Octave Uzanne, Falconer Madan, Laurence Housman and William Morris.
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Art of the Printed Book 1455-1955. Masterpieces of Typography Through Five Centuries from the Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, [1973] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Fine in fine d.j.
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A Mother's Portrait: Sketched Soon After Her Decease, for the Study of Her Children, by Their Surviving Parent
London: Printed for Knight and Lacey, 1823 First edition. Original drab boards, printed paper spine label. . Octavo. Engraved frontispiece. Binding extremities a bit rubbed, boards sligthtly soiled. Front hinge and rear joint cracked, but sound. 2.5" inches worn away from lower spine. A few chips and tears to spine label, with loss of a single letter. Light foxing, minor offsetting from frontispiece. Contemporary ink inscription on half-title. A very good cop We were unable to find any... Read More
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Houn Ohara. Ikebana: The Creative Tradition
Tokyo: Kodansha International Limited, [1970] Cloth. Folio. Mounted color illustration on title-page, 50 mounted color plates. Fine in near fine d.j. D.j. shows minor shelfwear,
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Precisionism in America 1915-1941: Reordering Reality
[New York:] Abrams in association with the Montclair Art Museum, [1994] First edition. Boards. Quarto. With 165 illustrations, including 65 in full color. Fine in fine d.j.
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Madeleine Rouart 1896-1986. M.R. Post-Impressionist
[Los Angeles: William Ward III, 1989] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 108 color illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.
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Escada: Spring / Summer 2001
[New York:] Escada, [2001] Cloth. Folio. Color illustrations Fine, without jacket, as issued. Fashion illustrations on various themes.
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