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Encyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain 1800-1960

Cameron, Elisabeth · 1986

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)

New York, Facts on File Publ. 1986. First edition. Cloth. 366 pp. Illus. with 32 color and 450 b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Alphabetical arrangement and cross-referenced with 2,500 entries on factories, potters, decorators, designers, materials, techniques, styles, ceramic marks conce...

A Treatise on Practical Surveying; Which Is Demonstrated from Its First Principles. Wherein Every Thing That Is Useful and Curious in That Art, Is Fully Considered and Explained: Particularly Three New and Very Concise Methods for Determining the Arreas [Sic] of Right-Lined Figures Arithmetically, or by Calculation, As Well As the Geometrical Ones Heretofore Treated of : The Whole Illustrated with Copper-Plates... . with Alterations and Amendments Adapted to the Use of American Surveyors

Gibson, William · 1798

$400.00 (€362.91 | £302.72 | ¥63,882)

New York, Printed by William A. Davis & Co. for Gaine & Ten Eyck, T. Allen, S. Campbell, E. Duykinck & Co. N. Judah, T. & J. Swords, B. Gomez, New York, M. Carey, Philadelphia, and C.R. & G. Webster, Albany, 1798. Eighth edition. Brown calf with red morocco spine label, gilt t...

Mollie Pride

Martin, Beverly S. · 1991

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

London, Macdonald & Co. 1991. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. Warmly inscribed to Bill, to whom the book is dedicated. "..Steamily, sexy glitter-romance..A grabber.. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new.

John Tabor's Ride

Day, Edward C. Illus. by Dirk Zimmer · 1989

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First edition. Illustrated paper-covered boards. [4], 30 pp. Illus. with color drawings. 4to. Inscribed by the illustrator. Based on Tabor's 1846 whaling exploits. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with faint sunning to the inner edges of ...

Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia: Scientific and Popular Treasury of Useful Knowledge. Illustrated with Maps, Plans, and Engravings (Four Volumes in Eight)

Barnard, Frederick A. P., ed · 1880

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.90 | ¥15,172)

New York, Alvin J. Johnson & Son, 1880. Later printing. Three quarter morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, boards beveled. Illus. Sm. 4to. First published in 1874. This is the eight volume set (originally published in four).It contai...

Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburh: A Bibliography

Fry, Donald K. · 1969

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Charlottesville, Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia / Univ. Press of Virginia, 1969. First edition. Cloth. xx, 222 pp. 8vo. 2280 citations pertaining to the scholarship of "Beowulf" and "The Fight at Finnsburh. A near fine copy, spine ends lightly rubbed. No...

The 46th Gutenberg

Leslie, Frank P. · 1960

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Menomonie, WI. Vagabond Press, 1960. First edition. Cloth. 21 pp. 8vo. A description of all the Gutenberg Bibles and their provenances up to the time of publication. Boards foxed else a very good clean copy.

Illustrated Catalogue of Master Works of the Early English, Dutch, French, and Flemish Schools Belonging to Eugene Fischhof, Paris, and T.J. Blakeslee, New York, to Be Sold at Absolute Public Sale at Chickering Hall... March 9th and 10th . .

American Art Association. Fischhof, Eugene and Blakeslee, Theron J. · 1900

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

New York, American Art Assoc. 1900. First edition. Gray card stock in folded gray wrappers. Stamped red title. Front edge deckled. Unpaged [181 pp.]. Illus. with 36 b/w plates. 4to. #256 of 300 copies printed. 165 works by 109 artist including: Allori (Bronzino), Bassano, Copl...

A Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press with a Record of the Prices at Which Copies Have Been Sold Including a New Supplement. Together with a Bibliography and Census of the Detached Pieces

Hazen, A.T. · 1973

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

New York / Folkestone, Barnes & Noble / Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1973. First edition thus. Cloth. xxxiv, 300 pp. Illus. with 48 b/w facsimiles. Sm. 4to. The supplement has been added to the original edition published in 1942. A fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket.

Horace Walpole's Correspondence with David Dalrymple. (the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence: Vol. 15

Walpole, Horace. Lewis, W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon) and Bennett, Charles H., eds · 1951

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

New Haven / London, Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1951. First edition. Cloth. liv, 395 pp. Illus. Sm. 4to. Also includes correspondence with Conyers Middleton, the Earl of Buchan, Daniel Lysons, Samuel Lysons, William Robertson, Robert Henry, Will...

Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria

Jastrow, Morris · 1971

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

New York, B. Blom, 1971. Reprint of the 1911 ed. Bright orange paper wrappers (paperback). xxv, 471 pp. With 54 illustrations and a map. Trade format. American lectures on the history of religions, 9th series, 1910; chronological lists of the rulers of Babylonia and Assyria. T...

Graphik Und Handzeichnungen Alter Meister: Bronzebuste Voltaire Von Jean Antoine Houdon Von 1778... Auktion 167

Kornfeld und Klipstein · 1978

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Bern, Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1978. First edition. Bright red paper wrappers (paperback). 44 pp. + Plates [28]. Illus. with 28 b/w plates & 8 b/w reproductions. Large trade format. Catalog of the auction of 235 items held in Bern June 9, 1978. Introductory material also in Fre...

Jean Cocteau: The Collection of Louis Shorenstein. Thursday, November 29, 1984

(Cocteau, Jean). Christie's (Christie, Manson & Woods) · 1984

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Christie's (Christie, Manson & Woods), 1984. First edition. Paper wrappers. 65 pp. Illus. with 1 color 131 b/w plates plus photo frontis. Large trade format. Faint crease to front wrapper else a near fine copy.

Folk Art of Black Africa

Griaule, Marcel · 1950

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Paris / New York, Les Editions du Chene / Tudor Publ. Co. 1950. First edition. Tan linen with green lettering and device. 126 pp. Illus. with 4 color & 113 b/w photos. 8vo. Photos by Emmanuel Sougez. The evolution of arts and crafts of Africa relating them to tribal customs an...

English Goldsmiths and Their Marks: A History of the Goldsmiths and Plate Workers of England, Scotland, and Ireland. With over Thirteen Thousand Marks Reproduced in Facsimile... And Other Hall-Marks Used in the Used in the Assay Offices of the United Kingdom

Jackson, Sir Charles James · 1921

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.90 | ¥15,172)

New York, Macmillan Company, 1921. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Cloth. xvi, 747 pp. Illus. 4to. Bookplate of R. Gilbert Jackson. Boards rubbed at extremities, endpapers toned, edges of frontis with a few tears, but still a very good clean copy of this excellent refere...

Important Japanese Works of Art. Wednesday March 20 1985 and Thursday, March 21, 1985. Six Volumes

Christie's (Christie, Manson & Woods) · 1985

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

New York, Christie's (Christie, Manson & Woods), 1985. First edition. Illustrated paper wrappers in slipcase. 39 pp.; 63 pp.; 55 pp.; 60 pp.; 67 pp.; 121 pp. Illus. with 300+ color & b/w plates and over 500 images. Large trade format. 967 lots were offered in this two day set ...

Siembra Poemas

Yunes, Joaquin · 1976

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Caracas, Editorial Sucre, 1976. Second edition. Paper wrappers. 64 pp. 8vo. A very good+ copy.

The Greville Memoirs (Second Part and Third Part). A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1852; in Three Volumes. A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1852 to 1860; in Two Volumes

Greville, Charles; Reeve, Henry, ed · 1887

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1887. First editions. Cloth. 8vo. Greville (1794-1865) was clerk of the Privy Council. This is "an invaluable and very lively historical record." The first part (3 volumes) covers the reigns of King George IV and King William IV. Matthews p.184....

Ermyntrude and Esmeralda

Strachey, Lytton. Illus.. by Erte · 1969

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York, Stein and Day, 1969. First American edition. Cloth. 77 pp. Illus. with 18 drawings. 8vo. Intro by Michael Holroyd. Strachey's satirical epistolary novel originally appeared in this edition in Playboy Magazine and in a limited edition by Anthony Bond. A very good+ cop...

London North of the Thames. [Survey of London]

Besant, Walter · 1911

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.44 | ¥27,949)

London, Adams & Charles Black, 1911. Original burgundy blindstamped pebbled cloth with gilt titles. xii, 682 pp. 128 b/w illus. + six panel folding map. 4to. The second of the topographical volumes in the Survey of London series published between 1903-12. Light bumping to extr...