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184216953London: Printed for the Camden Society 1842. Decorative Cloth. Very Good . The very uncommon 1842 1st edition of this original publication of "two curious documents concerning Dr. John Dee" the great 16th century occut philosopher 1527-1609 who devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy divination and Hermetic philosophy. 1 "His Private Diary written in a very small illegible hand on the margins of old Almamacs discovered a few years ago by Mr. W.H. Black in the library of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford". 2 "A Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts made by himself before his house was plundered by the populace and now preserved in the library of Trinity College Cambridge". This 1842 volume a slim octavo in its original chocolate-brown boards has held up very nicely. Solid and VG with decorative blindstamping to the panels and still-bright gilt-titling and flourishes along the spine. Just a touch of light bubbling to the rear panel small neat former owner name and 1940 date at the front free endpaper. Apart from this clean as could be with no other writing or markings of any kind internally and a strong very sturdy binding. By any measure an impressive copy of this rare mid 19th century examination through his diary and his personal library of manuscripts of the mind of Dr. John Dee. <br/><br/> Printed for the Camden Society hardcover books
2000174676Ostfildern-Ruit/ New York: Hatje Cantz/Distributed Art Publishers 2000. Hardcover. VG/VG slight shelf wear to corners. Bright red cloth boards with black stamped lettering on front cover and spine gray dust jacket with color illustration 634 pp 997 illustrations 104 in color. Text in German and English. Volume I 1905-1922. "The first volume includes early and little known workds from the period prior to World War I as well as the Merz works up until 1922 and a detailed illustrated biography of the artist." -dust jacket. Hatje Cantz/Distributed Art Publishers hardcover books
1848012807John Russell Smith 1848. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Gorgeous Fine Copy In Original Brown Boards With Beautiful Spine Gilt.First Edition 1848 Very Rare in This Condition.Amazing Copy. John Russell Smith Hardcover books
185129370London: For Private Circulation Only 1851. 1st thus. Limited to 75 cc. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Pale yellow eps. Professionally rebacked with 60% of the original spine laid-down. Occasional spot of foxing. A VG copy. 8 236 pp. T.p. printed in Red & black. Facsimile t.p. for 2 editions of "Riddles". 4to. <br/><br/> For Private Circulation Only hardcover books
186038010London: Printed for the editor colophon: by Whittingham & Wilkins at the Chiswick Press 1860. 24mo 14.7 cm 5.75". 19 1 pp. <br><br>An "exceedingly curious early poetical dialogue" between personified summer and winter edited by noted Shakespearean scholar son-in-law to bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps and history of science collector James Halliwell-Phillipps who speculates that "some dialogue such as the present one suggested to Shakespeare the conclusion of his drama 'Love's Labour's Lost'." This is the first appearance of Halliwell-Phillipps's edition; the production was => limited to 30 copies and is neatly printed.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Pencilled signature of prominent Bostonian book collector Henry Gardner Denny on half-title margin; pencilled collation note at rear from the Quaritch firm; later rubber-stamp reading "F.S.H. Dupl." at back. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Winsor Halliwelliana 1860:14. Quarter roan in imitation of morocco with chocolate papercovered boards spine gilt-lettered; gently rubbed with some loss of leather at joints and paper at corners/edges. Provenance marks as above; light pencilling on endpapers and title-page. Printed for the editor [colophon: by Whittingham & Wilkins, at the Chiswick Press] hardcover books
194515064Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana 1945. Former owner's signature slightly discolored at the spine heel; a very good copy in a very good jacket chipped at the spine heel lightly edgeworn. Uncommon in jacket. First Edition. Quarto. Prologue by Luis E. Valcáral translated to English in the rear. 148 images of Andean rituals captioned in Spanish and English. Printed in a washed-out but alluring gravure. The Latin American Photobook p. 8. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana unknown books
193717636London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd. 1937. Near fine in a solid very good jacket with a few small nicks and tears but bright and complete. First Edition. Small quarto. Foreword by Robert Burnett. 48 black and white plates of Polynesian people and rituals. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. unknown books
184821686London: Henry Colburn 1848. Hardcover. Late 19th century three quarter calf and marbled boards matching marbled endpapers and edges. Near fine. 2 vols. 403 477 pages. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Engraved frontispieces. Letters starts 1190 Richard I the Lion Hearted ends 1649 during the Civil Wars. Raised bands spine panels richly gilt with arabesques leather spine labels in brown and black lettered in gilt. Modest surface war. Henry Colburn hardcover books
1996159751Paris and New York: Revue Noire and D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Inc 1996. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Text in English and French by Jean Loup Pivin and Pascal Martin Saint Leon. Includes numerous black and white images. A clean and tight very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. A terrific retrospective look at this underappreciated French photographer. Revue Noire and D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Inc unknown books
1852746851852. HALLIWELL James Orchard. A DICTIONARY OF ARCHAIC AND PROVINCIAL WORDS. Obsolete Phrases Proverbs and Ancient Customs From the Fourteenth Century. London: John Russell Smith 1852. 2 volumes. Second edition. 8vo. navy cloth title label to spine. Ex-library; bookplate to front pastedown and no other library marks. Pencil ownership to ffep. Spine and boards are rubbed. Spine coverings are nearly detached; 2 inch tear and loss of crown to spine of volume 1. Solid hinges; crisp and clean within. A good set. unknown books
200227569Brasil: Fundacao Pierre Verger 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall hardbound quarto. Issued without dustwrapper. Text in English and Spanish by Jean Loup Pivin and Pascal Martin Saint Leon. 235 pp. Illustrated in vivid black and white. Intriguing monograph on this mid 20th century photographer. Slight bumbing to board edges. A handsome very good copy. Fundacao Pierre Verger hardcover books
1996232068Paris: Revue Noire 1996. Second. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Verger Pierre. Edited by Jean Loup & Pascal Martin Saint Leon. Illustrated throughout with large duotone photographs. 240pp with text in French & English. Thick 4to pictorial boards d.w. Paris: Revue Noire & New York: D.A.P. 1996. Second printing first American edition. Rear corner slightly bumped still a very near fine copy in dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Revue Noire unknown books
192159511Los Angeles: California Orchard Company 1921. Very good. Mimeographed on nine sheets of 8 ½" x 11" paper with the company letterhead at the top of the first leaf. Annual report to the stockholders of the California Orchard Company of Los Angeles at the time owner of "1900 acres of California's finest fruit lands." Begins with a two-page summary by C. Thorpe Manager in which he notes "While the past year has been a season of light rainfall it has given us an opportunity of thoroughly testing out our pumping plants and irrigation systems. Ample water for irrigation is an invaluable asset to any California orchard property." Thorpe's overview is followed by a profit and loss statement. The remaining pages feature a total of six tipped-in photographs of the company's apricot almond pear apple and walnut orchards accompanied by brief comments about plantings and yields. The first of the mimeographed leaves is printed on California Orchard Company letterhead. Bound together with a paperclip at the top left corner. Housed in the original mailing envelope which is addressed to J.M. Quint of Los Angeles. Mild toning and creasing with a bit of edgewear to the envelope; otherwise very good. Scarce no copies in OCLC. California Orchard Company unknown books
1839106426Slim 8vo. London: J.W. Parker 1839. Slim 8vo 18 1pp. With a plate at the front. In brown papers wrappers. Extracted from a volume of pamphlets at some time. § First edition of this scarce little paper on early mathematics by the infamous Halliwell-Phillipps whose entire life was dogged by financial problems and accusations some apparently fairly well based of theft and fraud. His life was well chronicled by Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman.From DNB: “Phillipps James Orchard Halliwell- 1820–1889 antiquary and literary scholar was born on 21 June 1820 at 94 Sloane Street Chelsea the sixth of the seven children of Thomas Halliwell 1777–1849 a prosperous linen draper from Chorley Lancashire and his wife Charlotte Ann 1789–1849 daughter of Esau Marsh of London. He took the additional surname Phillipps in 1872 following the death of his father-in-law Sir Thomas Phillipps.†J.W. Parker unknown books
1887JHP001Brighton: Printed By John George Bishop 1887 First edition first printing. A good copy with the original front cover in the publisher's paper cloth with some smudging along the edges slight chipping on the hinge lacking the rear cover panel with a loss to the bottom corners of the first pages of text pages starting to break from the binding although the signature is still intact otherwise clean and uncut pages. A nineteenth century pamphlet containing reproduced letters between James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips a noted 19th century British Shakespearean scholar and founder of the Percy Society and members of the executive committee of Shakespeare's birthplace at Stratford-upon-Avon specifically the librarian Richard Savage. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Brighton: Printed By John George Bishop paperback books
1844305352London Printed For the Camden Society 1844. 1844. Small 4to. Original dark green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Very good-fine. 312 pages. Bookplates of John Alger Flick and Edward H. Hamilton on the front pastedown. Spine title reads: The Thornton Romances. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. London, Printed For the Camden Society, 1844. hardcover books
1956179521New York: Universe 1956. hardcover. very good/very good. Numerous black & white photographic illustrations in color & in black & white. Slim 4to white cloth d.w. New York: Universe Books 1956. Very good.<br/><br/> Universe unknown books
200278657Salvador Brazil : Fundação Pierre Verger 2002. 33 cm. 236 p b/w plates cat. bio/chron. bibl. b/w pict. boards. OCLC: 52376845 The book presents 200 extraordinary selected shots of a larger collection; amassed over fifty years by master photographer Verger 1902-1996 considered one of the pioneers of ethnological photography. Superb black and white photographs shot during his trips to Africa Asia and the Americas portraying the dignified faces and ethnic traditions of different races native and those transported during the period of the slave trade from Africa. Includes portraits of famous people met including: Leon Trosky Diego Rivera Chang Kay-Chek Ernest Hemingway Pere Yacouba. The original edition was published in Paris in 1993 10 years before the publishing of this bilingual ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE language version. Fundação Pierre Verger hardcover books
200266318Salvador Brazil: Fundação Pierre Verger 2002. 33cm. Editores Raul Lody e Alex Baradel et al. 228p b/w plates bio. b/w pict. d.j. Retrospective exhibition on the photography of Pierre Fatumbi Verger b. Paris 1902-1996. The photographer who often made is base in Salvador in Brazil traveled the world taking photographs most of his work was done 1933-1958. Most of the photographs b/w of people and landscape in the present volume are of Brazil. Large b/w plates. A basic reference for Brazilian 20th century photography. ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE TEXT. Fundação Pierre Verger unknown books
200681160Rio de Janeiro: Fundaçâo Pierre Verger Museo de Arte Moderna 2006. 29 x28.5 cm. Concepção e organização. textos de Antonio Nobrega tradução Lisa Earl Castillo 251 p b/w plates. ports. The book presents the 1940's and 1950's Brazilian popular culture as celebrated by the photographer and ethnologist Verger b. France 1902-1995 and especial selected to reflect the Brazilian reality of the post-war period while making evident the profound contrast between rural and urban life. The earliest pictures are dated 1946 and revel the cultural diversity and the social contrasts of Brazil through black images of everyday life traditions and specially the poverty and social differences reflected in images that include the festivities of Bahia Todos os Santos in northeastern Brazil the carnival of travesties folklore the architecture of the city of São Paulo in the 1950's the various Afro-Brazilian ceremonies and rituals the cordel popular pamphlets tradition along with others selected from the collection of the archives of the Fundação Pierre Verger. The book accompanies an exhibition. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT Fundaçâo Pierre Verger, Museo de Arte Moderna unknown books
1956248346Paris. : Robert Delpire. 1956. . 1st Edition. Tan cloth copper spine title. . A very good copy in a dustjacket with edgewear and short closed tears. . 4to. Introduction by Manuel Tunon de Laura. B&W photographs. Robert Delpire. hardcover books
1841779251841. HALLIWELL James Orchard ed. THE BOKE OF CURTASYE an English Poem of the Fourteenth Century. London: Printed for the Percy Society 1841. viii34 pp. Octavo publisher's printed paper wrappers. Nineteenth-century ink library stamp on front and back cover but no other marks. General light dust-soiling to wrappers which show light edgewear and are starting at heel and crown but clean within and very good overall. unknown books
1841779261841. HALLIWELL James Orchard ed. THE MEETING OF GALLANTS AT AN ORDINARIE: OR THE WALKES IN POWLES. From an unique black-letter Copy in the Bodleian Library. London: Reprinted for the Percy Society 1841. viii40 pp. Octavo unopened in publisher's printed paper wrappers. Nineteenth-century ink library stamp on front and back covers but no other marks. Negligible light dust-soiling on wrappers else clean within and ner fine overall. unknown books
191683008New York: The Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation 1916. 1st ed. Paperback. Very Good. photo map 53p. Wrapper. 26cm. Cover edges chipped. Contributions from The Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation Vol. IV No. 1. <br/><br/> The Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation paperback books
2006115211Cologne Germany: Dumont 2006. Hardcover. VG As new. Color illus. paper-covered boards; 247 pp.; Profusely illustrated with color and bw figures and photos. Text in German; Accompanied the exhibition of the same name which appeared at the Sprengel Museum Hannover and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam in 2006 and 2007; Includes ten essays by various authors; Besides works by Schwitters also featured are pieces by Hannah Hoch Thijs Rinsema Theo van Doesburg El Lissitzky Paul Klee and more. Dumont hardcover books
