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Rome: Desclee, Lefebvre & C., 1903. Testo only. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and boards. Published Rome: Desclee, Lefebvre & C., 1903. Folio, 12" x 16", xix+549pp., illustrated with 54 reproductions within the text. Text in Italian. Libro Primo, Libro Secondo, Supplemento Primo, Supplemento Secondo. Splitting to the outer cloth along the hinges, some scuffing to rear cover, light foxing along front edge of portion of page block, else very good. Text clean, bright, unmarked, binding tight. Not ex-library. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Folio.

London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787. First English Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English. xxxii, [4], 476pp (with one pagination error); [4], 463, [1]p. Contemporary full calf, spine in compartments with red and green leather labels lettered and decorated in gold. The board edges are also decorated in gold. Map of Mexico and twenty-four inserted plates in volume I; map of the lakes of Mexico and one inserted plate in volume II. The appendix includes a list of Mexican Years from the foundation to the conquest of Mexico, compared with Christian years, a Mexican calendar, and more. With the neat bookplate of mining engineer Franklin Wheaton Smith, designed by Robert W. Hyde. Front joint of volume I and rear joint of volume II partially split, title of map in volume I cut out, wear to corner tips, light scuffing and rubbing to covers. A very good set. Graesse II.196-197. Sabin 13519. Streeter Sale I:194.; Quarto.

Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea. Very Good+. 1823. Hardcover. A two-volume first edition of an account of the Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains by expedition botanist and geologist Edwin James. Compiled from the notes of Major Stephen H. Long, Mr. T. Say, and other gentlemen of the party by Mr. James. This rather scarce set presents the account of the experiences of the Stephen H. Long expedition of 1819-1820, in which Long was sent to find the source of the Platte River in the Rocky Mountains. Lacks the separate accompanying oversize atlas which was issued in 1822 per Howes J.41, who remarks [the expedition was notable in that it supplemented] ". . .earlier discoveries of Pike and of Lewis and Clark, and pronouncing the plains region as nothing but a desert, incapable of cultivation!". --- In maroon half leather and marbled paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling, four raised bands to spines and marbled endpapers. --- A very nice set, with bright, mostly… Leer más

Hibiya Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1976 Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. English text; 2 hardcover volumes with dust jacket in slip case.; 27.5 x 41 x 7 cm; 5.2 kg; The 2 volumes comprise: TEXT with 98 pages and PLATES with 87 colour plates (174 images, showing the front and rear of each piece).; Volume I, minor signs of wear on the exterior. Interior in very good condition apart from a few lines on three pages from the introduction that were highlighted with a green marker.; Volume II, minor signs of wear on the exterior. Interior in very good condition.; The slipcase shows signs of wear and a small crack on top.; LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 733. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR HUGH MOSS.; "In this book I believe Hugh Moss has made a quite conclusive case for the authenticity of the yu chih marked porcelains. By doing so he has corrected a far-reaching error of recent Western scholarship in the field of Ch'ing porcelain. An essential part of his case… Leer más

Pittsburg, PA: Providence Art Club, 1938 8 by 10 inches, oil on canvas board, 10 by 12 inches framed. Signed by Norwood MacGilvary near bottom left corner. Board edges rubbed, else very good condition.

London: R Baldwin, 1755. First UK printing of these two volumes giving the history of the British Settlements in North America. 568 pages in first volume and 416 pages in second, light to medium foxing on some pages, a little heavier on endpapers, lengthy neat ink comments on front endpaper, few other ink notations on endpapers and ink annotations on a few pages. Bookplates of John Peyto Verney and Robert John Verney, both Lord Willoughby de Broke, in each volume.. Original fold out map opposite title page in volume one, this map is in very good condition. Both volumes bound in full leather which is worn with splits on outer hinges but binding is holding. A good two volume set of a scarce work SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First UK Edition. Full-Leather. Good Plus/No Jacket. 8 ¼ x 5¼ Inches. Hardcover.

Various publishers, various places 1973-2009. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. An archive of over 100 items, from the collection of the late Julian Andrews, a long-term supporter and enthusiast of the artist, Head of the Fine Arts Department of the British Council and the author of the primary reference source 'The Sculpture of David Nash'. The collection comprises over forty (primarily solo) exhibition catalogues from shows all round the UK, Europe, the US, Japan, Korea and Australia, and includes the catalogues for his first three solo shows, each written and designed by Nash; various studies and monographs; circa forty exhibition handbills and private viewing invitation cards; plus several books by Nash himself and various ephemeral bits and pieces. Seven of the items bear the artist's signature or inscription. A signed copy of Julian Andrews' exhaustive reference work is also included. A fascinating and wide-ranging archive which would now be virtually impossible to… Leer más

London: George Virtue, 1840. First edition. 2 volumes bound in 3/4 green leather with raised bands, all edge gilting, marbled endpapers. Published London: George Virtue, 1840. Large 4to., 8 3/4" x 11", 140pp.,+map+66 engravings+engraved title; state A of volume 2, with contents page numbered, 106pp.,+53 engravings+engraved title. Magnificent views of the Eastern United States before industrialization altered the landscape. Bartlett was a skilled landscape artist with a keen eye. He travelled extensively in the U.S. and Canada. Ocassional foxing to the plates and tissue guards, Light wear/rubbing to extremities, faded area to the cloth of volume two, mild outer hinge starting. Very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Illus. by William H. Bartlett. 4to.

New York: Baker & Godwin, 1863. First Edition. Octavo. 117 pages, Index. Inscribed: "To David C. Acton, with the esteem and respect of his friend, David M. Barnes, July 1864." Acton had been made President of the Board of Police Commissioners in New York in 1860, a position he held until the outbreak of the Civil War. He was replaced by John G. Bergen and John Kennedy who became incapacitated in July 1863 as the mob protesting the draft began to cause mayhem (burning down the Colored Orphan Asylum, p. 117). Acton re-assumed command for the next five days and did not sleep as he quelled the riot. He himself was left with severe health problems for the next five years. Pastedown on verso of Dedicatory page, handwritten note: "Times of August 16, 1863" with newspaper column printing letter to Gen. Harvey Brown which in the later reply from Gen. Brown gives the credit for subduing the riot to Mr. Acton. This book has his name stamped in gilt on the front cover as "Hon. Thomas C. Acton"). One of the great… Leer más

12 etchings by and after Salomon Gessner, plates numbered 2-12, first plate unnumbered, with imprint in lower right corner (= complete). Cont. plain wrappers. Oblong folio (370 x 250 mm).Leemann-Van Elck p. 267/268 nos. 2-12 ; Lonchamp. Manuel du Bibliophile Suisse 1215 ("Suite de paysages avec le puits sur la première feuille"). First edition, second state, with the number '4' in lower right corner, of this suite of etchings (c. 200 x 150 mm), with classical landscape views, printed on thick laid paper. Excellent impressions on the complete sheet with clear platemark and deep blacks. A few smudges in margins. A wide margined and well preserved set.