The Art of the Motorcycle
[New York:] Guggenheim Museum, [1999]. Cloth. Quarto. Lavishly illustrated in color and black and white. Fine in fine d.j. Describes and illustrates over 100 spectacular bikes.
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Wisdom in Miniature: or, the Youth's Pleasing Instructor, Being a Collection of Sentences, Divine, Moral, and Historical, Selected from the Writings of Many Pious and Learned Authors, Both Ancient and Modern. Intended not only for the use of schools, but as a pocket companion for the youth of both sexes in America.
New York: Printed and Sold by Mahlon Day, 1822 First edition. Quarter red morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine. Edges stained yellow. Sixteenmo. Binding extremities lightly rubbed with some wear. Marbled paper and pastedowns very slightly curling at the edges and corners. Light foxing and intermittent light toning. Minor creasing to lower gutter margins and two small holes to pp. 203-206 with partial loss of text. Bookplate on front pastedown. A good copy of a scarce work... Read More
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Great Drawings of the Louvre Museum. The Italian Drawings by Roseline Bacpi; The French Drawings by
New York: Braziller, 1968 Cloth. Three volumes, quarto. Color, tinted, and black and white illustrations. Slight foxing to endpapers. Very good+ in price-clipped dust jackets. Jackets are very good, with some soiling and light browning to spines. Lacks the slipcase.
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Dickens v. Barabbas. Forster Intervening. A Study Based Upon Some Hitherto Unpublished Letters. With Facsimiles
London: Charles J. Sawyer, 1930 One of 100 copies on handmade paper. Original full green linen buckram with gilt spine and front cover. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Large octavol. Folding facsimile frontispiece. Spine sunned, as usual, small rubberstamp on front free endpaper. A very good, clean copy. First publication of these letters between Dickens and his publishers.
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American Architecture of the 1980s
Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Architects Press, [1990] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Minor shelfwear. Near fine in fine d.j.
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Rara Arithmetica: A Catalogue of the Arithmetics Written Before the Year MDCI with a Description of Those in the Library of George Arthur Plimpton of New York..
[Mansfield Centre, CT: Maurizio Martino, [n.d., 1996] Reprint of 1908 edition. This edition consists of 100 copies. Cloth. Octavo. Fine.
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Footsteps to Natural History. [Vol. I. No. I].
Boston: Leonard C[rocker] Bowles, 1830 Apparent first edition. A companion volume (No. II) was published in the same year. Publisher's printed paper wrappers. . 5.5 x 3.5." . Engraved frontispiece. Rear wrapper is printed with publisher's ads. Covers lightly rubbed and soiled with a few small tears and creases. Slight foxing and intermittent minor soiling, short closed 1" tear to title-page, touching text on verso, but not affecting legibility. Contemporary presentation inscription to a young woman from her... Read More
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Ushijima Noriyuki ten =sono seihitsuna fukei-- jojo = Exhibition of Noriyuki Ushijima
[Tokyo:] Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 1978 Pictorial wrappers. Oblong quarto. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Fine. Catalog of an exhibition hekd at Kanazawa Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, Apr. 15-May 28, 1978; and Gunma Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, June 13-July 23, 1978.
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Joan Almond: The Past in the Present
[West Hollywood:] St. Ann's Press, [2002] First edition (limited to 1,500 case-bound copies). Cloth. Quarto. With 59 black and white photographic reproductions. Fine. Inscribed by the photographer on the half-title.
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May Day; or, Anecdotes of Lydia Lively. Intended to Improve and Amuse the Rising Generation. By the Author of "La Bagatelle."
London: Printed, by Assignment of John Marshall, for Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1816 Fourth edition. Three previous editions were published under the John Marshall imprint (in 1787, 1793, and 1797). The present edition is the first under the Darton, Harvey, and Darton imprint. All previous editions are scarce. Original paper-covered boards with green roan spine lettered in gilt. . Twelvemo. With a copper-engraved frontispiece. Some rubbing to extremities and some foxing and dampstaining throughout. Some light pencil markings on a... Read More
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Caravaggio and his Followers
Leningrad: Aurora [1975] Cloth. Quarto. Full-page color plates including close-up detail views. Bookplate of the Getty Trust. Near fine in fine d.j.
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Chinese Arts and Crafts
Peking: Light Industry Publishing House, Foreign Languages Press, Cloth. Quarto. With 232 color illus. Fine in near fine dust jacket (verso of d.j. lightly foxed), in publisher's cardboard slipcase.
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Matisse in Morocco: The Paintings and Drawings, 1912-1913
Washington: National Gallery of Art/Harry N. Abrams, [1990] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 255 illustrations, including 50 in color. Fine in fine d.j.
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Monte Carlo. Visions Photographiques Par W. Vennemann. 1936
[ Cannes: Robaudy, 1936 ] Pictorial wrappers, with some light browning. Quarto. With 44 fine black and white photographic reproductions/ A few ink marks on back wrapper, short tear in front pastedown. A very good copy overall. Introduction by Maurice Bedel.
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: A Manuscript in the British Library
New York: Braziller, [1983] First edition. Boards. Octavo. Twenty-eight full-page color illustrations. Fine in publisher's slipcase.
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The World of M.C. Escher
New York: Abrams, [1971] Cloth. Quarto. With 300 illustrations, including eight in color. One tiny spot on front pastedown. Else fine in very good d.j. with light crease near top.
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Photo Annual 1998: The International Annual of Photography. Publisher and Creative Director: B. Martin Pederson
New York: Graphis, 1998 First edition. Boards. Quarto. Color and black and white illustrations. Corners lightly rubbed. Near fine in fine d.j. Selected largely from an international competition, this collection represents some of the most exciting work of 1998.
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Descartes, His Moral Philosophy and Psychology. Translated, and with an Introduction and a Conceptual Index, by John J. Blom
NY: New York University Press, 1978 lst English ed. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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The Guide, or Counsellor of Human Life; Containing Miscellaneous Pieces, on a Variety of Useful and Entertaining Subjects
Springfield: Printed by Edward Gray, 1794 First edition of a moral guide book that serves to impart virtue and advice to readers on a variety of subjects: taste, time management, study, the cultivation of reason, friendship, aging, death, the "different and absurd notions which men entertain of God," of the duty of parents in education, children, good and evil, business, the omnipresence of God, and much more. . Contemporary full sheep. . Sixteenmo. Binding extremities have some wear and light... Read More
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Laquer: An International History and Collector's Guide. [By]Jonathan Bourne, Anthony Christie, Craig Clunas...[et al.]
London: Bracken Books [1984] First edition. Boards. With 330 illustrations, 135 in color. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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Miripolsky: a Retrospective Exhibition 1975-2000
Los Angeles: Vincent Price Gallery, 2000 Heavy paper covers, spiral-bound. Folio. Color illustrations throughout. A fine copy.
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Renaissance Engravers: 15th-16th century
[London: Sirrocco, 2003] Boards. Quarto. A catalogue of 125 masterpieces, with full-page illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.
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Novum Testamentum Graece. Cum apparatu critico curavit Eberhard Nestle. Novis curis elaboravit Erwin Nestle
Stuttgart: Privileg. Wurtt. Bibelanstalt, [n.d., ca. 1960s] Cloth. Two volumes, octavo. Some spotting to edges. Very good.
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The Great Lambeth Bible. With introduction and notes by C.R. Dodwell
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, [1959] lst U.S. edition. Cloth. Quarto. 8 tipped in color plates. Fine in fine d.j.
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The Three Kittens.
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Designed in England, Printed in Germany, [n.d., ca. 1895]. First printing? The present item was probably part of the Panorama Toy Booklets series published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. The title-page indicates that it is "No. 25." A set of twelve of the Panorama Toy Booklets were published in a box set as the Youngsters Library, though The Three Kittens was not included in that set. . Bound in accordion format. Joints... Read More
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