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Np: Np, Nd. Stiff Wraps. Brown roan spine and brown paper covers with tan printed label. Very good. 15 x 24 cm. Unpaginated, 39 plates printed recto only. OCLC provides no data for this issue which does not contain text. Flaxman was a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism. Owner inscription inside front cover. Plates generally clean,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: G.P. Putnam, 1849. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's brown cloth embossed in gilt and blind. Very good. 2 vols. 326 & 373 pages. 24 x 15 cm, two tinted lithographed frontispieces, five folding maps and plans, and a host of plates and woodcuts in the text. Index. BLACKMER 968. The author, English archaeologist whose excavations greatly… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1805. First American edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full calf.Very good. 160 pages. 17 x 11 cm. Scattered foxing, ownership signature dated 1807 and pencil notations on back free endpaper and pastedown dated 1806. Nicks to corners and backstrip head and foot.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth lettered in gilt. Near fine in very good dust wrapper nicked head and foot. 198 pages. 20 x 15 cm. Wilder creates a study of Julius Caesar and of Rome during the last year of the latter's life. Signed by Wilder on title in ink, New… Saber más sobre este artículo

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Hardcover. Orig. Three quarter brown morocco back strip lettered in gilt. Teg. Near fine. 82 pages. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 194 of 350. Printed by Robert & Moira Gibbings, A.C. Cooper the Pressman. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. CHANTICLEER 80. Bright, fresh copy with wide text margins, raised… Saber más sobre este artículo

Amsterdam: Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith, 1732. First Picard Edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full tree calf. Very good. Two Vols. in one. Picard, Bernard. 524 (4) pages. Folio, 47.5 x 30 cm. Title page in red and black, engraved allegorical frontispiece, lacks half title. 130 half page copper engraved plates by Bernard Picart, Charles Le Brun, Maas, Romain… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1933. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. vellum-backed green boards, white corner tips, gilt device front cover. Near fine. 163 pages. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. Limited edition of 310 copies. Printed in red and black in Ptolemy type. Initials hand-colored in blue by Graily Hewitt, wood-engravings throughout by Gwen Raverat. HORNBY XXXIX. This edition was initially… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paris: Quillau, 1718. First printing. Hardcover. Contemporary olive green cloth spine faded to brown. Aeg. Very good. (6) Preface. 164 pages. 16.5 x 10 cm. Limited edition of 250 copies. Engraved frontispiece by B. Audran after A. Coypel, 28 plates, thirteen are double-paged after Philippe d'Orleans, engraved by B. Audran. and with engraved headpiece by J.B. Scotin plus six engraved… Saber más sobre este artículo

Parma: Bodoni, 1785. Hardcover. Contemporary marbled paper over pasteboard with paper spine label. Very good in red cloth clam shell box. [6], LXXXII, 103, [1]. 30.5 x 23 cm. Engraved title followed by a second page with engraved vignette at head, the entire work printed in capital letters. Wide text margins. Latin commentary followed by Greek text. Commentary… Saber más sobre este artículo

Oxford: Etheatro Sheldoniano, 1697. leather_bound. Contemporary cambridge style binding in full brown calf. Very good. Folio,*6, A4-Ppp4, Qqq-Pppp, Qqqq2-Zzzz2, Aaaaa-Mmmmm. The first English edition of the Greek text edited by Richard West & Robert Welsted. Engraved portrait of Pindar by M. Burghers facing the title page. DIBDIN II, 289. "a beautiful and celebrated edition... on the whole, we… Saber más sobre este artículo

Amsterdam: Sumptibus Societatis, 1702. leather_bound. Contemporary gilt ruled speckled brown calf. Very good. 3 Vols. 832, 805, 810 pages with Indices at the end of each volume. 20 x 12.5 cm. Additional engraved titles, portrait and 15 plates. DIBDIN, Vol. II, p.110. "This is emphatically called the variorum edition, and is professed to be an improvement upon N.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Wittenborn & Co, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher pale blue boards, spine lettered in gilt in matching dust wrapper. Fine in very good original black slipcase with mottling to spine. Roesch, Kurt. [76] pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates. 41 x 26.5 cm. Limited edition, copy XX of XXXV numbered and signed copies designed by… Saber más sobre este artículo

San Francisco: Arion Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth with triangular front cover paper label. Fine. 32 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Keepsake of an Essay for subscribers and friends in which Hoyem explains the profundity of Solomon in a one page laid-on introduction. As a Lutheran, Hoyem became first interest in the Apocrypha as a… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Faber, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light tan cloth lettered in blind, beveled edges. Fine in fine brown cloth slipcase. Jones, David. 111 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 136 of 150 signed by Jones with frontispiece illustrated by him. Title page printed in yellow and black. Jones, Welsh by birth, artist and painter, he… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1959. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth, front cover illustrated in gilt. Teg. Very good. 264 pages. 31 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 93 of 200, an edition by Gwyn Jones with eleven collotype reproductions, mostly full-page. Printed in Caslon Old Face, a selection of the great folio verse translation by Dryden, Congreve, Addison, Pope,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Np: Np, 1935. Hardcover. Orig. brown boards lettered and decorated in gilt. Near fine in original, slightly nicked glassine. 12 leaves. Small folio, 31 x 23 cm. Limited edition, one of 100 privately printed in New York. The original letter cannot be traced but the greater part of this epistle was first published in 1536 and established in… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston: Riverside Press, 1904. Hardcover. Orig. decorated boards, vellum spine. Fine in slipcase lacking lower panel. Rogers, Bruce. 110 pages. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 61 of 330. Bookplate of Louis V. Ledoux, prominent American author and poet. Wide text margins, bright, very fresh copy. WARDE 50.

London: W.H. Dalton, 1839. Second edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter black morocco over dark green cloth covered boards stamped in blind and gilt. Very good. 8 pages in text. 27.3 x 22 cm. Illustrated with large folding map, 27 x 268 cm., a lithographic panorama by Bracebridge sketched from Nature and on Zinc. Originally published 1836, a fund for building… Saber más sobre este artículo

Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1978. First edition. Orig. two-toned brown cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 221 pages. 26 x 18 cm. 138 photographs. A review of the influence of Egyptian themes on American architecture -- designs by Latrobe and others were inspired by Egyptian revival architecture. Bibliography. Index.

Philadelphia: Jesper Harding, 1851. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Aeg. Very good. 770 (54) (18). 30 x 25 cm. Illustrated with steel engravings of biblical events. Tissue guards of latter foxed with offsetting to text, affecting borders of the plates but not the images. "The Resurrection" plate from original by C.Vanloo. Register of Marriages, Births and Deaths of the… Saber más sobre este artículo