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Mainz: Schmidt, 2011. 4to. Printed boards. FIRST EDITION.
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Amazonia Brasileria Catalogo da Exposiçao
Rio de Janeiro: Biblioteca Nacional, 1969. 8vo. Plates. Original printed wrappers. Minor shelfwear. FIRST EDITION.
HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin. Horae in Laudem beatissimae virginis Mariae, ad usum Romanum
Paris: Regnault and Claude Chaudiére, 1549. 4to (230 x 158 mm). Collation: a-y8. 176 leaves. Roman types, printed in red and black. Ruled in red. Renaissance woodcut title-border of termini and festoons, printers' device (Colines' Time with his scythe); 14 FULL-PAGE WOODCUTS, combining illustration and architectural frame on a single.....
HORAE, use of Rome, in Latin. Horae in laudem beatissime virginis Marie: secundum consuetudinem ecclesie parisiensis
Paris: Simon Du Bois for Geoffroy Tory, 22 October 1527. 4to (196 x 139 mm). Collation: a-r8 s4. 140 leaves, bâtarde type, title printed in red and black, initials and headings printed in red throughout, printer's "pot cassé" device (Bernard, no. 9) on title and on verso of last leaf.....
Le dix-neuvième siècle. Les Moeurs, Les Arts, Les Idées
Paris: Hachette, 1901. First edition. Folio (12 1/4 x 8 1//2 inches). 436 pp. 19 plates, some printed in color, black-and-white illustrations in text. Fine French binding by P. Affolter, three-quarter red morocco, marbled boards, smooth spine richly gilt with floral and other tools, top edges gilt. Slight touches to.....
New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America
Turner, 2014. 4to. 264 pages. Decorated cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "New Territories examines creative practices in today's globalized world, in which disciplines overlap more than ever before. Looking in particular at countries such as Brazil, Cuba, Panama, Columbia, Mexico, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Chile, this volume discusses.....
Revista do Instituto Genealogico da Bahia. Ano 1. N. 1
Bahia: Imprensa Oficial, 1945. 8vo. 134pp. Plates, some in color. Original printed wrappers. Some dampstaining. FIRST EDITION of the first issue of this journal.
Roteiro de Todos os Sinais na Costa do Brasil
Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1968. Oblong folio. Maps and full-page illustrations. Original printed boards. Boards worn and soiled. FIRST EDITION.
Snap
Tokyo: Victor Entertainment, 2001. 8vo. Profusely illustrated. Pink printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, signed and dated in 2001 by "NT"(?).
A Sufi Prayer
N.p. The Society for Experimental Studies, 1978. 8vo. [12] pages. Arabic words facing the text in English. Sewn in original printed wrappers, illustrated with a diagram from the manuscript of Ibn al-Arabi. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, one of 150 copies only. Scare: no copies in Worldcat/OCLC.
Lalanne(s)
Flammarion, 2008. Folio. 352 pages. Lavishly illustrated. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of this definitive study of the Lalannes.
Compendium of Landshells: A Full-Color Guide to More than 2,000 of the Worlds Terrestrial Shells
Burlington: American Malacologists, 1989. 4to. 240 pages. Color photographs. Boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. A very in-depth and interesting guide to over 2000 of our world's shells.
Pathological and Practical Researches on Diseases of the Brain and the Spinal Cord
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1831. First American edition. 8vo. xxii, 464 pp. Contemporary sheep. "First textbook of neuropathology. Originally published in a series of articles in Edin. med. surg. J., 1818-19, and first collected into book form in the German translation, with appendix, by C. Nasse, Bonn, E. Weber, 1821".....
Walk Through Walls
New York: Crown Archetype, 2016. 8vo. 370 pages. Pictorial boards; die-cut slipcase. FIRST EDITION, DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, number 275 of 1,970 numbered copies, signed by the artist on the front cover.
Pour Bunuel
[Paris]: l'A.G.E.T., November 1962. First edition. 8vo. Four photgraphic illustrations on central gathering. Original printed wrappers. A scarce pamphlet.
Nolde: The Painter's Prints
Boston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1995. First edition. 4to. 308pp. Profusely illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers.
80 Portraits de Flaubert
[Paris]: Musées de Sens, Éditions du Linteau, 2002. 4to. 139, [2] pp. Black-and-white illustrations, deluxe issue with original etching. Text and plates laid loose as issued in original printed wrappers, red printed chemise and slipcase. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED DELUXE ISSUE, number 1 of 60 copies with an original etching.....
An Introduction to Hawaii
San Francisco: 5 Associates, 1964. Folio. 69 photographic plates, of which 16 in color. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
Autograph letter signed ("John Adams") to Theophilus Parsons, Braintree, 2 November 1788
One and a half pages, 4to, with integral address panel. Loss where seal removed just touching signature. A very fine letter shedding light on the political conflict arising several months after the Massachusetts ratification of the constitution and the establishment of the so-called “new government.” Here John Adams asks, or.....
Famous Caves and Catacombs
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1888. 8vo. xii, 204 pages. 40 illustrations in text. Original blue gilt- and black-decorated cloth. FIRST EDITION. An account of the most famous caves and cave-temples in the world.
Bernhard Schobinger: The Rings of Saturn
Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2014. 8vo. 250 pages. Illustrations and photographs. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. "This overview of rings made by the Swiss Bernhard Schobinger illustrates why he is considered as one of the most expressive, critical and inspiring contemporary exponents of art jewelery" (the publisher).
Recital
Saratoga Springs, NY: The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, 2017. Folio. 300 pages. Lavishly illustrated. Original pictorial boards. TRUE FIRST EDITION, released prior to the trade edition released the same year by Prestel. "This first career-spanning volume of dynamic artist/musician Terry Adkins surveys three decades of multimedia.....
Terry Adkins: The Smooth, The Cut, and The Assembled
New York: Lévy Gorvy, 2018. 8vo. 96 pages. Color illustrations. Printed boards. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held 10 January to 17 February 2018.
Henry Van de Velde: Passion, Function, Beauty 1863-1957
Berlin: Lannoo Publishers, 2014. 4to. 304 pages. Pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. "Few artists have been as versatile as Henry van de Velde (1863-1957). Trained initially as a painter, he then developed as an architect, interior designer, designer and art advisor. He created a highly impressive oeuvre; with his furniture, silverware.....
Selections from Aesop's Fables Illustrated with Reproductions of Fifteen Century Woodcuts
[Mount Vernon, NY]: A. Colish, 1988. Introduction by Kit Currie. 8vo. 52, [2]pp. Printed in red and black. Original patterned paper boards. Near-fine save two tiny areas of wear at foot of spine. One of 1500 copies designed by Jerry Kelly. Publisher's letterpress announcement laid in.