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110 + xi + cclxxi pp., 25cm., softcover, text in Italian, Academic dissertation (Tesi d'abilitazione presentata alla R. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), stamp at verso of title page, pages still uncut, G110215
2 vols., 8vo., Third Edition, with frontispieces toned in sepia (one original tissue guard present), titles in red and black, with 43 sepia-toned plates, a large folding plan [of the Sistine Chapel], and 6 detailed pedigrees (4 folding), endpapers lightly browned; original red cloth, gilt backs, gilt tops, uncut, a very good, clean set. Symonds' standard biography was first published in 1893. Babington 57; NCBEL III, 1502 (recording the first edition)
Boards with light rubbing to extremities and slight sunning to spine. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. ; Color fold-out map in front. Rear ad section; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 118 pages
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dustjacket with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. The jacket has two tiny closed tears to the top edge. Jacket now protected in mylar. 240 black & white illustrations, including at least 50 published here for the first time. Bibliography. 11" high X 9" wide, 358 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
corporativismo e consenso politica a Firenze nel trecento.
43 + 51pp., 31cm., publisher's cart. hardcover (spine bit repaired, light staining), text in Latin, text clean and bright, [on the Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order (O.S.M., founded in 1233 in Florence), canonized in 1888 by pope Leon XIII], R96584
36 pages. Features: Nice cover photo of J.C. Penney warehouse, St. Louis; Great vintage photo full-page ad for the Koehring Dandie cement mixer; Great photo ad for Gypsteel shows construction of the Convention Hall at Atlantic City - the world's largest single span roof; Skilsaw ad; Interesting illustrated ad for Kernerator incineration systems; The New Paxton Hotel in Omaha is featured in an ad for Meyer Steelforms; A residence is constructed beneath a temporary winter shell - the Henry C. Ulen residence in Indiana - article with photo; Bookkeeping for the contractor - II; Improving bidding standards; The contractor and the courts; New Koehring weighing cement mixer; Latest material prices; construction activity this week; sealed proposal announcements; back cover photo ad for high-early-strength universal concrete used to make 50 foot long piles used beneath a highway bridge at Florence, Illinois; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. These nostalgic topics and images are certain to intrigue modern-day contractors. Magazine
This is a very good gardcover copy bound in red paper covered boards, faded a bit at the spine. Completely clean. Binding firm, all pages still attached. Text by D.Seylan. Illustrated in black & white with a selection of Florence Henri's Bauhaus era photographs. Red velveteen endpapers. 11" high X 8" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
Mm 230x280 Atene, The National Art Museum and Alexander Soutzos Museum, December 22, 2003 - March 31, 2004. Edited by Mina Gregori. English text. Due volumi nella loro brossura originale con bandelle, 608 + 584 pagine con numerose figure in nero (circa 1800) nel testo. Opera in condizioni di nuovo - brand new. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
98 pages of titillating cartoons with tempting black and white photos of Jeanne Williams, Florence Sterling, Maria Stinger, Christine Maybach, Lisabeth Nielsen, Lili St. Cyr, Anita Gamble, Betty Page, Joyce Nizarri, Joy Lansing, Monique Van Vooren, Dorothie Blunck, Frances Beck, Roberta Roark, Marion Fuchs, Suzanne Fisher, Betty Blue, Joan Tylor, Dany Saval, Audi Ragona, and Pat Clawson. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. 7.25" x 5.5". (Sloane page 522) Magazine
28 pages. Features: Nice one-page photo of Lineman Gordon MacDonald, of New Westminster, at work on a pole near Cloverdale; One-page appeal for operators - jobs available; Lovely one-page photo of beautiful twin-sister operators Phyllis and Dorothy Harper at work; Photos of mother and daughter at work as operators - Annabelle Corriveau and Florence Corriveau; Photo of Norma and Christine Laughton workking together; Photo of Shirley Sinclair working with her mother Agnes; Great photos of elaborate B.C. Tel. parade float in Vancouver; Photos of operators who recently assisted in various rescue operations; Photos of employees at work in the Victoria Plant Building; Many great annual picnic photos from Bowen Island, including a photo of the huge group; Farewell to George Pawson, William Smith, Mickey O'Brien, and Al Scott; much social news with photos; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
400 pages. Features: Kari Duke; Mostafa Keyhani; Adele Campbell Fine Art Gallery; Crescent Hill Gallery; Gainsborough Galleries; The Westland Gallery; Andy Donato; Florence Roberge; Snapper Creek Residence; Gordon Harrison; Angus Wilson; Humberto Pinochet; Jim Nedelak; Angela Morgan; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Enter the European - II - Into Brazil - Half of South America; Photo study of an air flight between Fort McMurray and Fort Good Hope; North Shore Naturalist - Comte Henri de Puyjalon; The Tsimshian; The Radford and Street Murders - famous crime at York Factory over forty years ago; Little P.G.E. (Railway) Goes Somewhere - travel article by Florence and Francis Jaques; The Fur Trade Party - conflict between 'wintering partners' eighty years ago; Northern Wildflowers; The Bells of the Turrets Twain - the bells of St. Boniface were heard across Canada on the occasion of the present Queen's coronation; Calling the 'Columbia' - article on the floating hospital-chapel-theatre serving the people of B.C.'s rugged coast; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
London, John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1927, in-8 piccolo legatura editoriale in piena tela con titolo sulla copertina anteriore e sul dorso, pp. XI, [1], 144, [4]. Con 61 deliziose illustrazioni in nero di Averil Burleigh, comprese nella paginazione. Prima edizione, con annotazione autografa dell'autrice sulla prima pagina bianca: "Leolyn Louise Everett, Villa Razzolini, Firenze 1949: Peace! and [parola non decifrata] again Peace!". Ex-libris Gwendolen Mary Spranger. "Leolyn Louise Everett was the daugther of Henry A. Everett, a railroad industrialist who introduced the street railway to Cleveland. After returning from Italy in 1914 she met the composer Timothy Mather Spelman (1891-1970) in New York and they married in 1915. They settled in Florence in 1919. In 1921 they bought the Villa Razzolini and their home became a meeting place for intellectuals visiting Florence. From the mid 1930s they lived in Switzerland, New York and Dublin, but in 1947 they returned to their villa in Florence. After her death in 1971 the villa was left to the John Hopkins University". Lievi fioriture esterne.
Paris, Librairie Renouard - H. Laurens Grand in-8, (25,5 X 17,5 cm). XXXII-220 pp plus 2 ff tables. Demi chagrin rouge, filets dorés sur les plats, dos lisses ornés de décorations dorées, tête dorée Très bel exemplaire, en parfait état et illustré d'une vue de Florence et 11 planches hors-texte sous serpentes légendées en rouge.
Aquatint etching by Gallo Gallina with original hand coloring on wove (vellin) paper. Original blindstamp at bottom right image. Sheet size: 26 x 36 cm.; image size: 14 x 16,5 cm. Framed around 1900. Old collection stamp.
398 pages. Author's signature upon page ii. A large collection of stories based upon columns the author wrote for local newspapers. Each story is a fragment of Whitby's history. Taken together, they make truly fascinating reading. Abundant archival black and white illustrations. Examples of the many dozens of stories include: The Day the Railway Came to Whitby; The Day Brooklin was Nearly Washed Away; Gun Fight at Myrtle Station; Tom Thomson Learned his Art From Whitby's Florence McGillivray; Whitby Fared Better Than Most Communities in the 1918 'Flu Epidemic'. Mr. Winter has spent nearly 40 years studying and compiling the history of Whitby, Ontario. Beautiful copy. Gift quality. Book
154 pages. Features: Incredible two-page colour ad for Green Giant canned vegetables, featuring the bottom half of the Green Giant himself; Many great full-page ads for products such as Avon cosmetics, Pond's lipstick, Wabasso bedding, Carnation Milk Powder, Pond's ad featuring Elsa Martinelli, Pacific canned milk, Crane plumbing fixtures, Arborite, GE appliances, Heinz tomato products; The Quiet Revolution of Chinese Women - article with photos; How Close are We to Test-Tube Babies? - article by Christina McCall Newman; The Queen's Other Family - Recently Elizabeth added her husband's name to her own, and thereby raised a question - just who are her in-laws? - a scattered family the world hears so little about? - article with photos; House-Warming - story by Jean Loggie; How the Kesners Came to Canada - Jo and Fred Davis are involved in bringing a refugee family to Canada; - photos and article; Have Gun Will Shoot, by Sheila MacKay Russell; Death Comes to the Island - novel by Florence Ford; A Chatelaine Guide for Women Who are Going back to Work; Dos and Don'ts of Dressing for the Job; Special 14-page Homes '60 section featuring decorating news, housing, furnishings, etc.; Ad for Minute Spanish Rice inside back cover. Nice colour photo Red Rose tea ad on back cover shows lady in white dress pouring tea. Somewhat above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Binding intact. A worthy copy particularly worthwhile for its lengthy illustrated 1960 Home Fashion section. Book
Cover art by Franklin Arbuckle shows firemen preparing toys for Christmas. Features: Nice colour photo ad for Parker Pens featuring Bob Hope inside front cover; Black and white photo ad for the Polaroid Land Camera; Colour ad for the Custom Royal auto by Dodge; June Callwood's story of the Queen's Visit - with many photos; The Silly Splendid World of Stephen Bosustow - this Canadian-born film maker is winning Oscars and revolutionizing TV commercials - includes 6 pages of colour Mister Magoo cartoons; Lois Smith and David Adams and their Life Sentence with the Ballet - story with photos; The Hottest Treasure Hunter in History - Hans Torkel Frederik Lundberg found ore worth five billion dollars - story by Peter C. Newman with photos; Florencia Bay (Conclusion), by James McNamee; Why Red Ryan's Shadow still hangs over every prison yard - with 19 convictions this prison lifer turned altar boy, so they set him free - and he went on a gory binge... story with photos; How we nursed a farm back to health - Herbert and Viola Watson of Red Haven Farm in the Caledon Hills of Peel County - story includes lovely photo portrait of the farmers; Super colour photo 2-page ad for the 1958 Oldsmobile; 1-page colour photo ad for the 1958 Chrysler; William Stevenson recalls a champagne breakfast with doomed Indo-Chinese warlord Ba Cut; Colour centerfold ad for Sheaffer's Pens; Two-page colour illustrated ad for Carling's Red Cap Ale - "Snappa Cappa Red Cap"; Nice colour ad for 1958 DeSoto cars; Colour 2/3 page ad for Thistle (Lines Brosthers) steel toys - now highly sought collectibles; Black and white 1958 Studebaker-Packard auto ad; Colour photo back cover ad by the Watchmakers of Switzerland. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
LEGATURA IN BROSSURA EDITORIALE COLOR VERDE CON DECORI, INTERNO UNA TAVOLA PIANTA DELLA CITTA' PIU' ALTRE 19 TAVOLE numero pagine: 287 formato: 17X10.4 stato conservazione: ABBASTANZA BUONO, MINIME TRACCE D'USO IN COPERTINA
8vo., 4 leaves with single fold, a near fine copy. Written and signed on Army & Navy Club stationery, the letter is dated 19 February 1904. The writer apologises for a delay in meeting due to an attack 'of my old enemy - malaria' . He is now back to 'War Office business' and eagerly awaits a forthcoming meeting: 'I want another talk with you very much'. Field Marshal Sir John Denron Pinkstone French (1852-1925), 1st Earl of Ypres, distinguished himself in both the Nile Campaigns and the Boer War. In the Great War he commanded the British Army on the Western Front from 1914-1915 until succeeded by Douglas Haig. Florence Henniker (1855-1923), well-known novelist and socialite. Daughter of Richard Monckton Milnes, she married a British army officer (referred to briefly in the letter) but is perhaps best remembered for her long and close relationship with Thomas Hardy with whom she collaborated on two volumes of short stories.
2 vols., 8vo., Third Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece, some occasional mild spotting (mainly marginal), contemporary and later signatures on front paste-down; contemporary half calf, marbled boards, handsomely and neatly rebacked in calf gilt and blind to style, original leather labels gilt preserved, an unusually crisp, clean copy. With the nineteenth century engraved trade label of Cowing Bookbinder and Printer of Barnet on front paste-down.
12 pages including covers. Undated but appears to be circa 1920. Charming illustrated covers show front and back views of cute dolly. Balance of book includes text and illustration(s) on each page, with five of the illustrations in beautiful color. Features young girls and their dolls in Holland, Japan, Scotland, and Russia. Author not explicitly stated but is most likely also the illustrator whose initials, F.L.N., appear on the page three illustration. Above-average wear. Faint gift greetings upon lower right corner of front cover, otherwise unmarked. Covers loose but present. A worthy vintage copy of this utterly adorable doll collectible. Book
In-4°; pp. XXXVI, stemma inciso su rame al frontespizio, nel testo fregi tipografici incisi su legno; frontespizio stampato in rosso e nero. Legatura in cartonato. Due piccoli timbri a stampa al frontespizio. feste nozze gratulatorie firenze florence poesia matrimonio wedding
Book shows bumped corners, otherwise very clean and in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows edge wear, sunnng to spine, closed and taped tear lower front corner. Content include intro, ( The manuscripts, The editions, Authorship and date, Problems 1. the Vita, the Huomini Singhularii, and the Pazzi Chapel 2. Manetti's reliability as a source, Scope and influence) notes, critical text. Eight b&w pages of glossy photos at front of buildings and pages of the text from the 1400's. Text of the Vita (page 34 on) contains English translation on the L. page and Italian on the R., heavily noted. 176 pages. Brunelleschi's "bvision created the first architecture of the Renaissance. His works in Florence, such as the great dome of the Cathedral, The Pizzi Chapel, The Church of San Lorenzo and the Foundling Hospital are among the chief ornaments of that city."