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In -4°, 56 cc. Cartonato. Frontespizio inciso con bordura ai quattro lati; secondo frontespizio compreso entro bordura di quattro legni. La prima parte del libro è in latino, la seconda in spagnolo. Esemplare particolarmente fresco e marginoso, cartonato d’aspetto (cm. 20 x 15,4). Engraved title page with border on sides; the second title page is included in wooden border: the first part of book is in latin, the second in spanish. A very fresh and wide margined copy, boards.
In -4°, pp. (8), 220; con 17 tavv. di cui quattro ripiegate e una doppia, tagli dorati. L’impaginazione delle tavole è apparentemente disordinata, ma corrisponde a quella riscontrata in altre copie: libro completo e in ottime condizioni. Legatura alle armi del vescovo John Ernest Emmanuel von Harrach. Binding with arms of Harrach Bishop.
In-12°, (24cc), 560pp, (4cc), occhietto, fregi e iniziali xilografiche, bellissima legatura in marocchino rosso alle armi dell’Arcivescovo di Tarso Francesco Maria Febei su entrambi i piatti, titolo in oro al dorso, fregi, nervature, tagli in oro. Esemplare di dedica allo stesso Arcivescovo Febei. Si tratta dell’opera più famosa del giurista umbro Antonstefano Cartari. In-12°, (24cc), 560pp, (4cc), half-title, wooden engraved ornaments and tail ornaments, splendid red morocco binding, gilt coat of arms of Archbishop of Tarsus Francesco Maria Febei on both sides, gilt title at the spine, ornaments, bands, gilt edges. It is the most known work of Umbrian jurist Antonstefano Cartari. Dedication copy to the same Archbishop Febei.
In -4°, pp. (16), 557, (9) - errore di numerazione alle pp. 120-23; antiporta incisa in rame; legatura in pelle con fregi in oro alle armi di Benedetto XIV. Tagli dorati. Calf binding with golden ornaments, gilt edges.
In -folio, pp. (42), 489, (71); frontespizio inciso in cornice, con vignette che raffigurano cinque concilii. Manca un ritratto all’antiporta. Legatura alle armi del Cardinale Barberini. A portrait missing at frontispiece; binding with Barberini coat of arms.
In -8°, pp. 45, (1) ma manca un ritratto calcografico a piena pagina di Santa Elisabetta, appena dopo il frontespizio. Manca anche la carta B7 che è stata manoscritta e riinserita. Legatura in marocchino alle armi Savoia. A portrait of Saint Elisabeth is missing just after the title page. Also B7 leaf is missing: it has been hand copied and reinserted. Morocco binding at Savoia arms.
Prima e unica edizione.
In -folio, pp. (8), 125, (3); frontespizio in cornice calcografica, un’incisione a piena pagina raffigurante Clemente XII precede il testo, due grandi testate incise in rame. Legatura in pergamena alle armi Falconieri, tagli spruzzati. Vellum binding with Falconieri arms; marbled edges.
In -4°, pp. (8), 468; vignetta calcografica al frontespizio, ritratto in rame inciso da G. Federico Pesca. Legatura in piena pelle alle armi Carafa della Stadera. Full calf binding with arms of Carafa della Stadera.
In -4°, pp. 533 (3); il volume pubblica le prime tre parti; la numerazione comprende il primo frontespizio inciso. Legatura in marocchino rosso alle armi del cardinale Chigi. “Seconde édition augmentée”. Red morocco binding at Chigi arms.
In -4°, pp. (8), 126, (2), 200, 254 (i.e. 256). Legatura in marocchino rosso con stemma inciso ai piatti di Jacques-Nicolas de Colbert, tagli spruzzati. Al frontespizio nota di possesso manoscritta (“Bibliotheca colbertina”); ex libris “Wican free public library”. Ex libris Biblioteca Colbertina. Red morocco binding witha arms of De Colbert, marbled edges.
In -4°, pp. (24), 542, (6), front. in rosso e nero. Legatura alle armi Pamphilj (probabilmente Cardinale Benedetto P.), tagli spruzzati. Binding with Pamphilj arms, marbled edges.
In-4°; pp. (8), 148, 27, (1), 24, (2), 130, (6), (20), 58, (2 colophon e grande marca tipografica). Ai frontespizi legno tipografico; capilettera figurati incisi su legno. Le Lettere di Bessarione scritte a principi d’Italia intorno al collegarsi et imprender guerra contro al Turco, volgarizzate dal signor Pigafetta, hanno un proprio frontespizio, Firenze, Giunti, 1594. Prima edizione delle due opere insieme e edizione originale delle Orazioni. Legatura coeva in piena pergamena. Contiene: L’orazione a Sisto V sulla guerra contro i turchi, una alla nobiltà napoletana per spronarla ad ingaggiare la guerra contro i turchi in Ungheria, Filippiche al re cattolico Filippo di Spagna, Orazioni a Clemente VIII tra cui la cosiddetta Clementina terza, l’Orazione in morte di Francesco de Medici, Il Rota ovvero delle imprese (dialogo tra il vescovo di Otenza Nino de Nini, Bernardino Rota, Alfonso Cambi e Bartolomeo Maranta). Alcuni quaderni leggermente bruniti, alle ultime carte ingialliture a macchie.
Série complète de 4 tomes (tout ce qui a paru) richement illustré dans le texte et avec des planches hors-texte coloriées et teintées (blasons, gravures des églises, plans,…), Contenu: Serie I: Eglises paroissiales Gand. Parochiekerken - Gent (2 volumes: 341 + xi,234pp.), Serie II: Eglises conventuelles Gand. Kloosterkerken Gent (vol.1: 302pp.), Serie III: Eglises des communes. Paroisses du doyenné de Gand, Extra muros. Buitengemeenten. Parochiekerken der dekenij van Gent. extra muros (vol.1: viii,315 + 25pp.), brochures muettes d'époque, qqs.rousseurs (surtout aux tranches), bon état, rare, OCLC: 55564008, poids total/gewicht: 10kg., B77284
2 vols., sm. folio, with half-titles and titles in red and black, and 229 fine plates of crests; original brown buckram, bevelled boards, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, green endpapers, backstrips chafed at heads and tails, joints minimally rubbed, corners lightly bruised, second volume neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the armorial bookplate of Wilfred Storr Park on front paste-downs.
viii, 212 pages. Index. Footnotes. Generously illustrated with informative black and white reproductions of photos. "Provides a standard reference to the serious researcher and collector and gives to everyone an interesting insight into many aspects of what has made the Force what it is today. Most of the illustrations are being published for the first time." - Foreword. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Includes replica dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A high-quality copy of this unsurpassed reference. Book
In-8°; bella antiporta incisa su rame + pp. (24), 336, (22) con la Table des noms des maison dont les armoiries son contenu en cet ouvrage, 28 tavole a piena pagina incise su rame con numerosissimi esempi di stemmi, e nel testo numerosi legni illustrano le spiegazioni dei termini dell’arte del blasone. Trattato tecnico sull’arte araldica, in cui si illustra la storia, e l’importanza di quest’arte, e ogni metodo di partizione, terminologia e scelta degli emblemi per fare gli stemmi; l’interesse dichiarato dall’autore è quello di fornire scientificità a questa tecnica. Legatura in piena pelle con tassello, titolo e fregi in oro al dorso.
Pages 173-212 + xxiv ads. Features: Nostalgic photo-illustrated ad for the Coldwell Lawn Mower Company; The Garden in Your Town - Prize Competition; Homes of American Artists - "Fernbrook,", the Summer Home of Thomas Shields Clarke, Lenox, MA - great photo-illustrated article; Practical Suggestions for Domestic Ventilation; A Small Brick House at Concord, MA - Built for Mr. Charles Francis Adams - A Leanto House of the 17th Century Reproduced in Brick; Flower-box Beauty; The Porch Sitting-Room - a wonderful centerfold compilation of twelve photos of Pleasant Outdoor Resting Places; Creating a Small Country Home; Historic Mansions of the Rappahannock River - "Sabine Hall" - one of the famous Carter Homesteads in Virginia - article with marvelous photos; Watercress Culture in France - wonderful photo-illustrated article; A House Built for J.L. Johnson, Esq., at Hackensack, NJ; Ants and Bees as Pets; "Penllyn House", the Residence of Arthur King Wood, Esq., at Ardsley-On-Hudson, NY; The Best Twenty Annuals for the Flower Garden; Nice one-page illustrated article for Wm. Knabe & Co. pianos; Photo-illustrated ad for the Grand Trunk railway system promotes Temagami, Northern Ontario, "A New Place to Shoot and Fish"; Illustrated ad for Elkhart (horse-drawn) Buggies; Interesting photo-ad for the Clinton Wire Cloth Company shows a 15,000 gallon concrete tank built for Edmund Tatham of Katonah, NY; Sensational color back cover ad for The Hartford Rubber Works Co. shows lady watching cars speed by; and more. Average wear and external soiling. Minor moisture exposure. Chip from upper left corner of front cover. Middle eight pages loose but present. A worthy copy of this charming vintage issue. Book
Pages 93-108 (16 pages in this issue). Features: Why the Money Trust Wants War - Part IV, by Charles A. Collman - connections betwen Trust companies and munitions makers; President Wilson Should Take Counsel Against England Also for Violated Dignity, by William Bayard Hale; The War of 1920 (continued); United States Senator G.M. Hitchcock's Plea for an Embargo on Arms; Bravo Dr. Dumba!; The Sinking of the Hesperian - False Flag Attack?; Credit Where Credit is Due - President Wilson has resisted the demands of the war manufacturers to join the war; Pope Benedict renews his efforts to restore peace; Professor John A Walz Endorses this publication; News from Germany - floating hospitals; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
96 pages. Index of advertisers. Features: Cover photo of the vessel 'Orient City' fully loaded with lumber; Two-color ad for Broderick yellow-strand wire rope inside front cover; Nicely logging-theme illustrated Timken bearing full-page ad; American Tiger Brand Wire Rope ad features great photo (circa 1885) of steam (bull) donkey and many loggers; R.G. LeTourneau ad features photo of their bulldozer and a Willamette-Hyster arch at work; Full-page two-color photo ad for Caterpillar features A.E. Baker of Fruit Growers Supply, Susanville, CA; Durable Douglas Fir Cross Arms used on telephone poles by the British Columbia Telephone Company - article with photo; Hand Methods Must Give Way to Mechanization in Eastern Canada - article; Photos of sawmill scenes in Sweden and Finland; Novel Effects in Wood at Paris Exposition - article with photos; Unique Power Plant of Vancouver Island Lumber Operation - Nootka Wood Products, Ltd. mill at Port Tasis (Tahsis) is driven by wood gas - article with photos - including photo of John P. Blenkinsop and Harry Smith and another photo of plant manager Lute D. Rogers with George M. Cornwall of this publication; Fantastic two-page two-color illustrated ad for the Ross Lumber Carrier, Model 90; S.A. Woods Machine Company ad features their new 412 planer and matcher; Magnificent full-page ad for Disston precision ground cross-cut saws includes photos of fallers at work with this two-man saw; Distinct saving shown to be possible with two-man bucking crews - article; Plywood's outdoor uses are increasing - photo-illustrated article; Meeting of the Wooden Box Association at San Francisco; Mark Markkula and his logging Bunks and Chunks - article with photos of products and Mr. Markkula; Nicely illustrated one-page ad for Hercules Engines of Canton, Ohio; Logging in Tillamook - article with photos; Super one-page photo ad for Feenaughty Machinery Co.'s FWD trucks - with photo showing a massive load being hauled; Nice truck-logging themed photo ad for Waukesha engines; Awesome photos of Allis-Chalmers tractors at work for the Big Lakes Box Company in Klamath Basin; Fantastic full-page ad with photos of the Washington Diesel Yarder made by Washington Iron Works; Crazy photo of trucks driving 132' logs across the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills' narrow old logging bridge above Skykomish, WA; Photo of a Dow low stump power saw at work; Small illustrated ad for P. Sharkey & Son Horse Collars; Photo of an FWD truck at work for Mr. W.S. Jeans of Culp Creek, OR; Superheaters - their use on Donkeys and Locomotives - article; Oriental strife affects Pacific Lumber Trade - article; France decides between steel and wood rail cars; Foreign Lumber Fleet - list of lumber vessels visiting Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia - and their capacities; Three Bamfiled, B.C. photos accompany brief article about Pacific Cable and Wireless, Ltd. and their cable which extends from Bamfield to New Zealand; Photo of G.L. Graiff with redwood charcoal experimental wood gas-powered truck - Hammond Redwood Co. of Samoa, CA; Reunion of pioneer members of the Southwestern Washington Lumber Manufacturers Association - with photos of T.H. MacLafferty, C.A. Doty, Charles Gilchrist, W.C. Miles, Jerry Startup, S.S. Somerville; Obituary of August K. Berter; Nice illustrated ad for the Warren Axe and Tool Co. of Warren, PA.; and more. Unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear. Chips missing from backstrip. Binding intact. A rare surviving issue of this highly informative vintage lumber periodical. Magazine
Pages 265-352 plus 24 pages of great vintage ads. Features: My Adventures in the World War - a startling and thrilling contribution upon the great conflict by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; The Vengeance of the "Stroapers' - exploring for gold in Guiana leads to adventure and death; In the Land of the Lapps - great photo-illustrated narrative of Frank Butler's travels throughout Lapland; The Secret Press of Belgium - how 'La Libre Belgique' had the courage to tell the Belgian people the truth and counteract the evil influence of their brutalizers; Trooping Cattle in Paraguay - taking 1,000 cattle from the ranch of Zanja Moroti to the ranch of San Antonio; The Strangest Republic in the World - interesting photo-illustrated account of a recent visit to the Mount Athos Peninsula; Historic Crime and Mysteries - The Iron Judge of Malt; My Firework Display in China; In the Jaws of the Alligator - woman is pulled from the arms of her husband in Papua; Doctoring War Dogs - touching photo-illustrated account of a visit to the Countess Yourkevitch's hospital for wounded dog soldiers at Neuilly/Paris; The State Documents - How a great german spy system was laid bare in Rome; A Man-Hunt in the Arctic - A Royal North-West Mounted Police patrol from Fort Norman up the Bear River was the longest in the history of that famous organization; The Tragedy at Ras Elka - Sudanese stevedores revolt and pay dearly; Moderate wear. Openings to backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy of this exquisite issue. Book
112 pages. Reprint of the 1928 first Chinese edition. "Here, for the first time, martial artists were encouraging and openly teaching the Chinese people how to stand on their own and regain pride in their country... Huang's book is often quoted in martial arts literature. This is due, for the most part, to its significance as a manual for training military personel in unarmed and armed combat applications of hsing-i ch'uan. Somewhat above-average wear externally. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Usual library markings. A sound reference copy. Book
Roy. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a fine coloured frontispiece, a coloured plate, 11 plates (5 large and folding) in monochrome, and 13 illustrations in the text, black endpapers, neat inscription on front free endpaper verso; original cloth, sides with double frame border enclosing corps badge elaborately blocked all in gilt, back gilt extra, gilt top, bevelled edges, uncut, a very good, bright, firm copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 200 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY OUT-OF-SERIES). This copy was formerly in the library of Conwyn Mansel-Jones who won the Victoria Cross in South Africa on 27 February 1900. He went on to serve in WWI and was also awarded the DSO and the Legion d'Honneur. Mansel-Jones became CMG and was a member of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from 1920 until his death in 1942. A letter confirming his purchase of this copy is loosely inserted. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT UNIT HISTORY. White, p.255.
Minor browning to pages. Front inner hinge slightly cracked/ Now protected in plastic. Bottom of spine is edgeworn. Wear to extremities. Top of spine has 1cm cut on other side. ; Provides in one volume a comprehensive study of Roman armour. ; 200 pages
viii,306 + 25 + 12pp.richement illustré dans le texte (blasons, etc.) + 31 planches hors-texte coloriées et teintées, Manque: 1 planche (nr.F) & pp.307-315 (= partie des tables), brochure muette d'époque, qqs.rousseurs (surtout aux tranches), bon état, rare, OCLC: 55564008, [ce volume traite sur les communes Afsné (pp.1-24), Saint-Amand-lez-Gand = Sint-Amandsberg (pp.25-38), Bottelare (pp.39-68), Sint-Denijs-Westrem (pp.67-86), Destelbergen (pp.87-114), Desteldonck (pp.115-125), Dorenzele (pp.127-131), Drongen = Tronchiennes (pp.133-160), Everghem (pp.161-185), Gentbrugge (pp.187-215), Gontrode (pp.217-234), Gysenzeele (235-245), Heusden (pp.247-262), Landscauter (pp.263-274), Ledeberg (pp.275-285), Lemberge (pp.287-303), Melle (12pp.), Melsen (pp.13-25) & Vinderhaute (12pp.)], B77285