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Amsterdam: Apud Guili I. Cresium, 1628. Hardcover. Very Good. [12] 609 [1] 221 [7]. Handsome pocket edition. Contemporary calf, cracking to spine, but still a solid copy. Old bookplate.

[Heidelberg]: Ex typographeio Hieronymi Commelini, 1592. Hardcover. Very Good+. Pagination: [2], 516pp. Collation: pi(1), A-Z(6), Aa-Pp(6), Qq(8), Rr-Tt(4), Vv(6), Xx(4). Title with printer’s device of Jerome Commelin: Truth in her Glory, holding the sun in her right hand and open book and palm in the other, surrounded by a garland and personifications of Religion and Justice. Text by Marc-Antoine Muret (Muretus). Finely bound for the Spanish bibliophile Don Joaquin Gómez de la Cortina, Marquis de Morante (1808-1868), in 19th century full brown calf with his gilt arms and legend on both covers: “J. Gomez de la Cortina et amicorum / Falitur Hora Legendo;” marbled endpapers, and his armorial bookplate of Bibliotheca Cortina on front pastedown. Binding hinges repaired; cracking. Title stamped with ink unidentified “H,” unidentified arms, and the rubber stamp of Ludovicus de Lassus (pp. 505, 515), another stamp of the University of Liège (pp. 277, 453); (text block… Leer más

1900. Very Good. Gilt-ruled quarter morocco and mottled cloth over boards, with lettering stamped in gilt on upper board and spine; contains hundreds of pages of handwritten notes, charts, diagrams, schematics, graphs, and mathematical computations, with numerous folding blueprints and 18 cyanotypes (5” x 7”). Boards scuffed, mostly along the edges; small tear at head of spine; hinges cracked. Internally bright and clean. An account of Barrow’s test of the Payne Throttling Engine, Triple Expansion Engine, High Pressure Cylinder, the Penberthy Injector Test, the Ohio Gasoline Engine, and other experiments at Sibley College, Department of Experimental Engineering.

Vienna: Nationalbibliothek / Piper, 1925. Very Good. Published ca. 1925. 20 wonderful color plates, loose as issued in oblong folio boards portfolio. Portfolio quite worn, but plates in excellent condition. Introduction and annotated descriptions by Joseph Gregor.

[Londres]: Robert Freemann" [i. e2, Geneva], 1762. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Modern leather, scuffed, light discoloration on covers; starry endpapers; contents with varying spotting throughout. Bookplate of Francis John Hughes.

Amsterdam: Chez Louys & Daniel Elzevier, 1669. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 parts in one volume. Elephant folio (385 x 260 x 130mm). Collation: first part: [lxxxiv], 732pp., (paginated 366), 3 folding maps; second part: [iv], 324pp. (paginated 162); third part: [iv], 404pp. (paginated 202), 2 folding maps; fourth part: 140pp. (paginated 70). Signatures: *(4); a-e(6); f(8); A-Z(6); Aa-Zz(6); Aaa-Ppp(6); A-Z(6); Aa-Cc(6); Dd(8); *(2); A-Z(6); Aa-Kk(6); Ll(4); A-L(6); M(4). Engraved frontispiece (363 x 226mm) signed N. Berchem Invent.” & Matham [sic] Sculp” depicting two female figures holding “La Sainte Bible;” together with two cherubs, one holding the Ten Commandments and “Le Saint Evangile;” the latter with his foot on a skull. This spectacular frontispiece combines the works from three profound engravers of Dutch 17th century publishing activities. There are numerous engraved illustrations throughout the text, plus five added maps and plans. Four of these (Paradis… Leer más

Paris: Gallimard, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Two books offered together. L'Amant is Paris, 1984. The regular edition following 106 copies on special paper. Both books in original wrappers with light wear only. L'Amour had a small limited number of 45 copies on special paper. As with L'Amant, this is one of the regular copies. Perforated stamp S.P. at the back flap of L'Amour, extending to the last leaf of text.

New York: William Targ, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. One of 250 copies SIGNED by Norman Mailer. Additionally inscribed by the publisher, William Targ. A still-timely ecologically driven nightmare of a story, first published in Esquire Magazine in 1962. Decorative paper boards with red quarter cloth spine, tissue dustwrapper (a few nicks).

Paris: Les Editions Nationales, 1935. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Green morocco, gilt-ruled marbled paper onlay, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, t.e.g.; preserving original wraps. Illustrated throughout (drawings and aquarelles). Number 69 from a limited edition of 500 copies. Aside from some very light rubbing along joints, book is fine. With matching slipcase (a bit scuffed along the edges).

Paris: A. Barbier, 1848. Hardcover. Very Good+. Mottled cloth, backed in morocco, gilt-stamped lettering on spine. With numerous illutrations in text, 25 plates (10 of which are in color), and a folding map. Vignettes by Philippoteaux, T. Johannot, E. Bellange, Isabey, E. Lamy, K. Girardet, Morel Fatio, C. Nanteuil, H. Baron. Boards rubbed; spine a bit scuffed; small library stamp (blue ink, "Colonie Suisses de Setif, Algerie, Geneve") on front flyleaf, half-title, title-page, and first page. An excellent copy.

Paris: Andre Balland, 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Yellow cloth, lettering stamped in orange on upper board and spine; illustrated dust jacket; 12 x 12.5 inches; pp. [152], richly illustrated in b/w and full-color throughout. Book is fine. Dust jacket just a little wrinkled along the edges, else fine. A delight -- showing postcards humorous, religious, political, military, fantastic, erotic, and much more. Indexed.

Paris: Les Editions de la Roseraie , 1926. Limited Edition. Paperback. Fine. Lithographies originales en couleurs de Marcel Vertes. Inscribed by Hesse on the front flyleaf. #214 or 250 copies, this one printed on Velin D’Arches. 11 color lithographs. Superb copy not often found inscribed. In original acetate tissue wrapper (torn at front).

Paris: Editions Galilee, 2005. Paperback. Near Fine. Inscribed by the author and signed "Helene".

Paris: Trois Magots, 1928. First Edition, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Printed cardstock wraps with glassine dust jacket, loosely held in original custom boards with gilt-stamped lettering in burgundy morocco spine label; in slipcase; pp. 298, text printed in two colors on Arches paper, illustrated throughout with b/w line drawings, along with 7 full-color plates and one tipped-in etching. All in near fine condition, with occasional light off-setting of drawings onto facing page. First edition, very limited original printing of 134 copies, comprised of three separate editions of differing paper stocks with different types of illustrations. This one lettered "F," from a select extra hors commerce printing of ten copies. Signed by the editors at Trois Magots, R. Denoel and A. M. Blanche. A lavish production, with wide margins, chapters and pages set in deep orange ink, all on Arches paper, with extraordinary illustrations by the Belgian artist Jean de Brosschere.

Bassano: Giuseppe Remondini, 1787. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (214 x 146mm). 63pp., pls: (A.1-A.10), (B.I-B.8), (C.1-C.8), (D.1-D.8), (E.1- E.8), (F.1-F.14). Signatures: A-D8, A10, B-E8, F14. 56 full-page engraved copper-plates depicting various parts of architecture including columns, arches, friezes and diagrams for measurements. Later marbled boards, leather backstrip, marbled edges; (lacking frontispiece, occasional foxing and stains, light toning; rubbed, corners bumped). Third Edition. First published in 1748, the work of Giovanni Ziborghi, architect of Villa Manin (1738), who compiled his observations to be the source for a new way of thinking about ornament. Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola was an architect and architectural theorist and one of the most important exponents of the Mannerist style in Italy during the Renaissance. His important studies on the orders of architecture and rules of perspective helped articulate the canon of the classical style as we know it today. Finely… Leer más

Paris: Vincent, Fréal & Cie., 1928. Hardcover. Very Good+. Simply but handsomely bound in quarter dark red leather, red cloth boards, raised bands on spine in compartments gilt, titling to spine gilt, original wrappers with upper illustrated by Tchekhonine printed in colour bound in. 38 pp. text + 192 illustrative plates printed in black-and-white. Wrappers slightly stained, with repair at extreme inner margin. Uniform light internal toning to the pages; overall, a nice copy. First Edition. OCLC 250399471.

Amsterdam, 1690. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick 12mo. 526 pp. Numerous illustrations and folding plates throughout. Complete. Very good copy in contemporary calf, rubbed and a bit worn, but still very sound. An uncommon Amsterdam printing of this influential French artillery handbook, first published in 1683, and with six editions by the end of the century. "Blondel used the three solutions for establishing the practical rules which he formulated in his L'Art de jetter les bombes, the printing of which was delayed until 1683 by order of Louis XIV, who hardly cared to have the enemy profit by it."-D.S.B., II, p. 202. Blondel (1618-1686) was a French mathematician, architect, engineer, and topographer.

Paris: G. Masson, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Later half morocco and marbled paper over boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, t.e.g.; 4to (282x197mm); pp. [2] (title-p., blank), viii, 888, plus frontispiece, 11 chromolithograph plates, and 520 illustrations in text; complete. Spine tips lightly scuffed; top corners lightly chipped. Library stamps on front flyleaf (Astor, New York Public) and on the verso of the plates; the occasional blindstamp in text; overall, internally bright and clean. An excellent copy. Shows garden lay-outs, labyrinths, landscape architecture, scenes.

Les Editions Paris-Plaisirs, n.d. (c. 1920s?). Paperback. Very Good+. Staple-bound full-color illustrated wraps; 4to; pp. [36], with b/w and full-color illustrations throughout. Covers rubbed; spine lightly scuffed; corners a bit thumbed. Images from Casino de Paris, Moulin Rouge.

Milano: Bertieri e Vanzetti, n.d. (c.1920). Hardcover. Good+. Decorative paper over boards, paper label on front board; folio; pp. 173, plus 25 plates (facsimiles of title-pages) with description on facing page, and 66 illustrations in text (including a tipped-on facsimile holograph). Boards detached and backstrip lacking; text block just a little faintly foxed here and there, with tape remains on FFEP; otherwise tight and clean, neatly separate from the boards. An excellent candidate for rebinding.