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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.
The Archive of Bernard Taylor. Selected and edited by Peter Ward
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY: Understory Books, 2021. 10 x 8 inches. 144 pages. 80 duotone photographs; with maps, postcards, and other illustrations. Hardcover with tipped-in image. Forthcoming: available for pre order now, for shipping in February 2021. In his preface, filmmaker Peter Ward describes acquiring the archive of Bernard Taylor, an enigmatic.....
The Book of Jonah
Seal Harbor, ME: High Loft, 1981. 8vo. 21, [2] pages. Four woodcuts by Elaine Young, with commentary by David H. C. Read. Original quarter vellum, patterned paper boards. Number 25 of 200 copies, presswork by T. R. Coleman, binding by Gray Parrot.
The Dyer and Colour Maker's Companion: containing Upwards of Two Hundred Receipts for Making Colours on the Most Approved Principles, for All the Various Styles and Fabrics Now in Existence, Together with the Scouring Process and Plain Directions for Preparing, Washing-off, and Finishing the Colour
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1855. New Edition. 8vo. 104 pages, 32 pages advertisements. Publisher's brown cloth. Henry Draper's copy, with his signature on front free endpaper. Draper was an American doctor and amateur astronomer, best known for his pioneering work in astrophotography from his home in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
Fighting the Whales: Or, Doings and Dangers of a Fishing Cruise
New York: D. Appleton & Co, Library of Travel and Adventure, 1871. A later printing. 12mo. 169 pages. 4 color plates. Original crimson embossed cloth.
Hillside: Further Selections from The Archive of Bernard Taylor. Edited by Peter Ward
Ardsley, NY: Understory Books, 2020. Chapbook. 8 x 5.5 inches. Stapled in wrappers. This chapbook contains three poems and fifteen black-and-white photographs not included in the previous collection, The Archive of Bernard Taylor, Selected and edited by Peter Ward. The photos were all taken in Hillside Woods and Park, in.....
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.....
The Lengthening of Niagara Falls
Buffalo: Companies Associated wth Buffalo, Niagara and Eastern Power Corporation, n.d. [circa 1930]. 8vo. 32 pages. Color and black-and-white plates. Brown paper over boards.
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.....
Petit Glam No. 6
Tokyo: 2001. Oblong. In original printed plastic folding case. The Future Interior issue.
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.
Throb No. 1
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Student Publication Board, [1972]. 12.5 x 8.5 inches. 22 pages. Stapled as issued in self-wrappers. A journal of poems, music, cartoons, and a wall poster. With contributions by Neil Macdonald, G. D. Trevelyan, Brian McCabe, James Wilkinson, Kenneth Ross, and others. Scarce: Worldcat/OCLC list only four copies.....
032c: Us vs. Them: How to Find Truth in an Age Without Facts (32nd Issue, Summer 2017)
Germany: 032c, 2017. 10.75 x 8 inches. 285 pages. Quarter cloth; wrappers. Iron-on version of the cover laid-in. With "West Berlin 1980s" by Michael Schmidt.
032c: An Innocent Mind Has no Fear: Manual For Freedom, Research, and Creativity (30th Issue, Summer 2016)
Germany: 032c, 2016. 10.75 x 8 inches. 286 pages. Quarter cloth; wrappers.
Royal Flowers of the Netherlands
Tielt: Lannoo, 2009. 13.5 x 10 inches. 190 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland In Aquatint and Lithography 1770 - 1860 from the Library of J. R. Abbey: A Bibliographical Catalogue
Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972. 4to. Cloth; dust jacket.
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".....
The Canadian Journal of Lady Aberdeen 1893-1898
Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1960. 8vo. Plates and maps. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. One of 600 copies of volume XXXVIII of the Publications of The Champlain Society.
Marina Abramovi : 8 Lessons on Emptiness with a Happy End
Luxembourg: Galerie Guy Bärtschi, 2008. 11 x 8.5 inches. 123 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original green cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition.
Korean Folk Art and Craft
Seoul: Seoul International Publishing House, 1993. 11.5 x 8.5 inches. 142 pages. Fully illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards.