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1662043191Amsterdam: Johannes van Ravesteyn 1662. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum a bit discolored. 10486 18 118 14pp. Portraits of Henrik and Cosimo de Medici. 2 works bound in one by the eminent Dutch historian and playwright. Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; History. Inventory No: 043191. <br/><br/> Johannes van Ravesteyn hardcover books
1834008945Boston / Raleigh: Charles Bowen / Turner and Hughes 1834. Presentation Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED at front paste down "Presented to Joseph Hyde Pratt 6/18/1926 Burnham S. Colburn" with the bookplate of Burnham Standish Colburn beneath the inscription. A great North Carolina Association Copy Burnham Colburn assisted in organizing the Biltmore Estate Company which developed Biltmore Forest. He was also a prominent banker in Asheville and a noted mineral collector instrumental in the founding of the Southern Appalachian Mineral Society Joseph Hyde Pratt was a noted North Carolina geologist conservationist state and civic leader and World War I hero. In the original patterned cloth binding gilt lettering and decoration back Very Good 1/4" loss of cloth at top edge of spine end papers toned moderate toning throughout. Howes J234. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. First Edition. Patterned Cloth . Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Presentation Copy. Charles Bowen / Turner and Hughes Hardcover books
1817046073Madrid: Repulles 1817. Third Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 4 volumes in contemporary acid calf modest wear at edges corners worn a little dry in spots surface scrapes to leather in spots; scattered minor dampstains foxing browning old embossed stamp to title binding for vol 3 not quite uniform. Clean and sound overall. 489pp; 586pp; 493pp; 563pp Size: Octavo 8vo. 4-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Military & Warfare; History. Inventory No: 046073. <br/><br/> Repulles hardcover books
1935044928London: Jonathan Cape 1935. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/Very Good. The first trade edition. Fading to the rear board apparently from damp but with no other damage. Clean and bright otherwise illustrated with tipped in plates in text illustration and 4 maps. Light wear and a few short tears and very minor chipping to jacket edges; unclipped. Size: Quarto 4to. Slight foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Exploration; History. Inventory No: 044928. <br/><br/> Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1796001121Rome: Presso I Lazzarini 1796. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xii 502 pp. Full and rich history of Ariccia and surrounding towns on the outskirts of Rome to the Southeast of the City by Castel Gandolfo the Papal Summer Residence. Ariccia is one of the most ancient cities in Italy dating to at least the ninth century B.C. This history concentrates mostly on the seventeenth and eighteenth century when it was ruled by the powerful Savelli Chigi family which produced one pope Alexander VII and built a grand residence in the town that has been used many a time as a movie set such as in Visconti's "Il Gattopardo" "The Leopard". While it is over two millenia since the town yielded to Rome's preeminence as a city Ariccia continued to be the next most important city in Lazio for long stretches of history owing to its propitious location on the Via Appia the first way station on the road between Rome and Naples and its pleasant salubrious climate in contrast to malalial Rome made it a favored resort for the powerful of Rome in prior centuries. This copy of the history a model of municipal histories in its day is very good. There is some light and occasional foxing yet little that could be considered disconcerting. The exception would be the four places where a prior owner presses leaves which left a residue and in one instance may have created a tiny wormhole type of hole. However the small amount of loss has no effect on readability where it occurred. The vellum has an attractive mottled almost tiger striped design. Book is tight. Occasional light pencil notes a word or two in each case affecting a handful of pages. Still a very good copy. <br/><br/> Presso I Lazzarini hardcover books
1849007981Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1849. Published 1849-1855 eight volumes in contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards the backs with five raised bands and gilt lettering with gilt tooled floral decorations marbled end papers ribbon markers. Near Fine small rubs at corners. Frontispiece portrait of Macaulay located in Vol. IV. A quite pleasing and well-bound set of this classic history. Collection of British Authors Vol. CLXXII. . Copyright Edition. Quarter Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Bernhard Tauchnitz Hardcover books
1969008620Waltham UK: National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA 1969. A collection of 22 Apollo 11 and 12 photographs 20 color and 2 black and white. 2o of the photographs Near Fine to Fine 2 are Very Good with moderate toning. With one of the 2 original mailing envelopes. An UNCOMMONLY large collection of these iconic NASA photographs suitable for framing. . First Thus. Photograph. Near Fine. 11" x 14". National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Paperback books
2005006434Faber and Faber 2005. Book. Fine. Cloth. Signed by Authors. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in like jacket.True First Edition.Signed on the Title Page.Beautiful Copy of this Pulitzer Prize Winner's "Memories of a City.". Faber and Faber Hardcover books
188521040New York: Knapp Co. 1885. While publicizing the images as 'photographic' under examination they are printed according to a lithographic process on a glossy paper stock in deep sepia tones clearly made to closely resemble and compete with the much-admired photographs of Carleton Watkins and others who had popularized Western American and world views and brought out the artistic uses of photography; Images approximately 8 3/4" x 12 1/2"; Contents: Part 1: United States 9 of 10 - lacking Pike's Peak images: Giant Red Wood Trees California Niagara Falls Falls of the Yosemite Rapids below Niagara Falls Mammoth Hot Springs Yellowstone Lower Falls of Yellowstone Shoshone Falls Cathedral Spires Garden of the Gods and a very dramatic The Old Carreta Laguna New Mexico Native American & pueblo scene. Part 2: England - 4 views Ireland -2 Scotland - 3 Wales-1 view; Part 3: Switzerland - 3 Greece-2 Germany-3 Spain-2; Part 4: Spain-1 France-3 Italy-6 views; no publisher photographic studio place or date noted circa 1885 - however each image with number and the title and with several of the photos having the Knapp Co. imprint as well; A total of 39 of 40 images in the four parts; all other parts collated complete according to the lists found on the front of each wrapper; original printed paper wrap covers with lettering and ornamentation border decorations printed in red and black; some edgewear and chipping to covers dustiness; one back cover lacking others detached or nearly so; wraps in good condition; photos with light wear and in very good condition an interesting group of large U.S. and world views and an intriguing process; an OCLC search at time of cataloging did not reveal any holdings institutionally for this series. . Soft Cover. Very Good. Knapp Co. Paperback books
1940004245New York: Columbia Univ Press 1940. Fine in a Very Good Plus dustjacket 1" closed tear top edge front panel 2 tiny chips at spine tips 1/2" triangular chip top edge rear panel at spine and tiny tear bottom edge rear panel. A truly lovely copy ! Brown cloth at spine over silver-stamped green velveteen in original dust jacket. Endpapers are illustrated with silver rivets as is dustjacket. Frontispiece. With in-text black and white photographs by Berenice Abbott Margaret Bourke-White J. Walker Grimm Brown Brothers Fritz Henle Newspictures Inc. Wendell MacRae New York Herald Tribune Edward Ratcliffe and Paul J. Woolf. SCARCE in collectible condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good Plus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Columbia Univ Press Hardcover books
165728752Lugd. Batav: Apud I. Elzevirium 1657. 2nd Elzevir edition Willems 803. Period full vellum with faint hand-inked titling to top of spine. Yapp edges. Spine a bit darkened with some discoloration along top edge. Smudge at base of t.p. Withal a VG copy. 8 336 16 pp. Index at rear. Engraved t.p. Head- tailpieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 24mo: 4 A - O12 P8. 5-1/2" x 3" <br/><br/> Apud I. Elzevirium hardcover books
195321187Oxford: Clarendon Press 1953. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. From the corrected sheets of the first edition." Three volumes in original green cloth illustrated with b/w plates indexed. Minor rubbing to extremities offsetting from the dust jacket flaps to the endpapers; else a fine set. Dust jackets have some chipping to the lower edges and spine ends and there is some spotting to the front panel of Volume II and spine of Volume I. Overall still a very attractive set of this comprehensive and influential work. Rostovtzeff defines the "Hellenistic World" as that "created by Alexander's conquest of the East which existed as long as the States into which it disintegrated retained their political independence and the Greeks in those states held the leading role in all spheres of life; that is to say approximately from the time of Alexander to Augustus." Additional shipping charges will be requested for priority or international orders. Clarendon Press hardcover books
185542709.1New York: Herrmann J. Meyer 1855. 1st edition Howes D45; Sabin 18396. Not in Cowan. Original printed buff paper wrappers. General wear & soiling to wrappers with fore-edge chipping/curling. Prior owner signature of "Luther Calvin" to front wrapper right margin. Foxing. A VG item. 20 pp. 4 full page steel plate engravings depicting the geographic area featured. 4to. 12-3/8" x 10" <br/><br/>From a preliminary advertisement in Part I EAST "In commencing the serial issue of a work which it is hoped may be long continued the Publisher and Editor deem it proper to say that their object will be to render it in every respect worthy of its title and deserving of the National patronage. . The Volume of the work to which the part herewith published belongs will be exclusively devoted to views in the Seaboard states from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico. The West will be illustrated in another Volume which though issued simultaneously with this and in the same style can be procured separately as Subscribers may prefer." Comprised of "Lake Itasca" "Falls of St. Anthony" 2 plates "San Francisco" early view of the bay from a western hilltop. Herrmann J. Meyer unknown books
189335582New York: American Sports Publishing Company 1893. Printed grey stiff-stock paper wrappers stapled. 1st edition. Not in Drazin though see A96 where a later 1895 edition is noted as the "First Edition" though Drazin does question this status. Wrappers darkened. Extremity wear. Paper yellowing. An About VG copy of a rare work on the subject. 33 15 pp. Adverts last 15 pages. Illustrated with 7 drawings on 6 pages. Adverts illustrated with cuts. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>OCLC records no institutional holdings. American Sports Publishing Company unknown books
1972047073Delacorte 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. R. Crumb. Slight shelfwear tiny tear to dj t head of spine jacket price clipped and inner flap a little rumpled. Signed and inscribed by Stepanian "Mike" on the half title. Tips for avoiding prosectuion by America's foremost dope lawyer. Full page and vignette illustrations by R. Crumb. Size: Octavo 8vo. Illustrator: R. Crumb. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 047073. Delacorte hardcover books
1695045250Amsterdam: J. Louis de Lorme 1695. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Full contemporary calf worn at the spine ends but sound. First signature loose and with a light dampstain to one corner scattered light foxing and occasional light dampstain in the right margin but mostly clean internally. The first French edition the same year as the English. With an engraved frontis and 24 plates of English kings at the rear. 8 310pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045250. <br/><br/> J. Louis de Lorme hardcover books
195821146Djakarta Indonesia: Manuscript 1958. A folding 'book' of 10 panels titled in crisp black lettering on the cover and in the same bold lettering throughout; with a short list of the material and equipment needed and small pen drawings of these items; followed by explanatory 'pages' each with a 7 1/2" x 10 1/2" tipped-on cloth with pinked edges example of the technique shown following the production of batik in the regular manner and also a special and more laborious technique wherein the wax applied to the design is scraped off by hand in order to provide yet another color: I. Reng. Rengan. "The first drawing on the white material with melted wax in a "chanting" to give the outlines of the design." II. Terusan showing reverse drawing & dyeing III. Tembokan "The spaces in the design which have to be white are covered with wax." IV. Tjelepan or Wedelan "The basic color dark blue is applied by soaking the painted material in wedel which is a vegetable color made of the leaves of the "indigo" plant."V. Kelengan or Lorodan cleaning by boiling in water also 'ngerak' the alternative process VI. Riningan or Biron covering spaces with wax or not if 'ngerak' process VII Sogan "The result after the dying process with soga the brown color made of the "bark" of various mentioned plants VIII Babara Satria Manah "The last process on the material by boiling in water and by scraping out the wax"; each example also has a numbered & typed strip of white cloth sewn-on identifying the piece with the last finished example noting "Made by Mrs. Sudirman Banjurmas"; the final panel noting "Presented by Virginia F. Cutler Djakarta"; a remarkably energetic and talented woman who overcame difficulties associated with an early widowhood childrearing duties and the Depression Dr. Virginia Farrer Cutler 1905-1993 American educator author lecturer professor and head of the Home Economics Dept at the University of Utah created the Family Home Living Center there was educational advisor for the State Dept.'s International Cooperation Admin. in Southeast Asia first in Bangkok Thailand for two years and then in Djakarta Indonesia for five years - we speculate that it was at this time that the "Batik" item was created. Eventually she returned to Utah from Djakarta and became the dean of the College of Family Living at BYU awarded the Fulbright Fellowship to the U. of Ghana in Legon and retired in 1970. Honors include: U.S. delegate to the World Forum on Women Brussels 1962; American Association of University Women Woman of the year 1966; first distinguished professor at the Brigham Young University 1967 and many more. information from the BYU site - their special collections hold a few Cutler items; item not dated and circa 1958; made in one continuous fold each panel approx. 12" x 14 1/2" size with a continuous length of over 12 feet; created on one side only of the panels; we assume that Dr. Cutler collected the work of Mrs. Sudirman in an effort to present it to other English-speakers; the colors rich and vivid on each panel as is the final design; with some of the panels bearing their content of raised wax as appropriate to that stage of the process; each panel on 'manila' cardstock; some edgewear and soiling closed tear to back panel of covers; batiks in very good condition; an impressive visual statement of the technique and the process of this ancient art form. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Manuscript Paperback books
1702041193Amsterdam: Henricum & Viduam Theodori Boom 1702. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. Full calf gilt decorated spine hinges cracked but attached by cords modest wear at edges and spine ends with some chipping to leather. Some browning to endpapers and title and notes to front endpaper but otherwise clean and bright internally. Old spine label and bookplate from a seminary library and a few embossed stamps internally otherwise unmarked. 9 tipped in plates and numerous engravings in the text. A worn but attractive copy of this review of religion among the ancients by the great enemy of superstition - he discusses the origins of bull sacrifice bacchanals Archons and priests among the Greek and Romans and other ancient superstition. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Religion & Theology. Inventory No: 041193. <br/><br/> Henricum & Viduam Theodori Boom hardcover books
1647046538Amsterdam: Elzevirium 1647. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Attractively rebound in modern full calf old ownership marks and a long pen mark to title modest foxing and age toning to pages clean overall and a nice copy. 8 80 192 119 1 60pp; 8 62 8pp. <br/> Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046538. Elzevirium hardcover books
1651046537Leiden: Joannis Maire 1651. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary calf neatly rebacked. Scattered foxing and browning old catalog entry pasted to endpaper signature on title. A nice clean copy overall. 830pp index. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 046537. Joannis Maire hardcover books
1819228266London: Effingham Wilson 1819. First Edition. Half Leather. near Very Good binding. Backed in sheep with corners this copy has been tastefully rebacked in japanese tissue with original backstrip laid down; the paper that once covered the boards is oddly lost so that bare board is visible . which is not as bad as it sounds; general shelf wear with some soiling to the endpapers. First Edition of Anderson's London Commercial Dictionary and Sea-Port Gazetteer and assesses the relative quality of various products coming from different places or regions. It contains over 2900 entries some on places others on products and often on the processes of commercial transactions -- weights currencies regulations import and export restrictions and the like. With handsome frontispiece elevation of the South Front of the New Custom House. Bound together with Anderson's Consolidated Duties 1819. Duties of Excise and Customs. Digital images available upon request. near Very Good binding. Effingham Wilson unknown books
1865006220Morrisania NY: Press of J.M. Bradstreet 1865. #56 of only 100 copies printed and SIGNED by Henry B. Dawson. SCARCE in collectible condition. Rebound in black cloth with grey end pages and without the original wrappers. Cloth is untitled with light rubbing armorial bookplate of Thornton Walbridge front paste down. The original book is Near Fine light foxing to endpages faint crease rear end page. "The following Tract concerning a very important event in the War of the American Revolution was written by WILLIAM GRAVES EFQ. the eldeft brother Admiral THOMAS GRAVES and privately circulated for the purpofe of defending the latter from the ferious charges which were brought againft him fubfequent to the furrender by LORD CORNWALLIS at Yorktown". 39 pp. Revolutionary War. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition. Press of J.M. Bradstreet Hardcover books
19222222169<p>Second edition revised and enlarged. Thick octavo. With six maps & plans and 24 illustrations from photographs by Mr. A. J. Waller Original orange silk cloth stamped gold and black. Dust jacket unclipped; chips; nicks. Very good. 523 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Printed and published by Kelly & Walsh Ltd. Shanghai China.</p> Kelly & Walsh. Limited hardcover books
46788Los Angeles n. d. Ca 1910. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Slight bow to mount with some edgewear not for the most part affecting the image bump to lower right corner. Yellowing to image which has a small chip to right side primarily in margin. Some unobtrusive staining & spotting to verso. Overall Very Good. Single b/w albumen photograph with dark brown mount. Verso blank. Landscape orientation: 10-1/4" x 13-3/4" <br/><br/>NB. We were able to locate an early 20th C. advert "Land of Sunshine" v. 12 for this firm which at that time listed its address as 235 S. Spring Street. <br /> <br />Research suggests the firm was relatively short-lived as we found no listings for it in LA Business Directories for 1905 & 1915 with the 1910 directory giving an address for the firm of 235 S. Spring Street. unknown books
18111793London: John Murray 1811. Second Edition. Hardcover. Brown leather Very good. 440 pages. 16.5 x 10 cm. A comprehensive household manual filled with what seems to be very helpful receipts and some of a dubious nature. Chapters filled with constructive advise on rearing livestock making butter brewing and the management of malt liquors the management of plants seeds and the greenhouse while other advice such as using a bush held by a rope to clean a chimney as opposed to employing a child children will damage the interior bricks seem a bit outdated. Accredited to Mrs. Rundell of New Systems of Domestic Cookery fame but there are many who think this is a false theory due to her well published falling out with the John Murray. All edges gilt dentelle edging and blindstamped Missing 1 cm. of leather at the head of spine. Interior crisp and clean. Owners signature present on front boards 1819. <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
