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Versailles: A. Bourdier, [c. 1921]. Oblong quarto. 20 lovely color plates (8 1/4" X 11 3/4") with accompanying text in English and French. Preface by Fernand Sabatte. Bound in black-printed red wraps. More
Versailles: A. Bourdier, [c. 1921]. Oblong quarto. 20 lovely color plates (8 1/4" X 11 3/4") with accompanying text in English and French. Preface by Fernand Sabatte. Bound in black-printed red wraps. More
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, (1990). First edition. Quarto. Unpaged. Illustrated in color by the author. Gilt-titled bronze cloth. A beautiful children's book. More
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1658. Folio. [xviii], 75p, [xii], 192p [i.e. 194, additional pages numbered 29a and 30a], [viii], 132p [i.e. 134, additional pages numbered 91a and 92a], [x], 103p, [viii], 54p, [viii], 46p. Engraved title page with pictorial vignettes and designs, head-piece and historiated initial. Illustrated with 587 large..... More
Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino, [1998]. Reprint of the 1875 edition. Reprint limited to 200 copies. xi, 312p. Gilt-titled red cloth. Describes 3696 books on Northern Africa and Arabia, including books on travel, exploration, geography and philosophy. A standard reference. More
London: Faber & Faber, (1960). First UK edition. 96p. Gilt-titled black cloth. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. Play with an all Black cast. More
Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, 1867. Nouvelle Edition with the plates colored by M. Maubert. Two volumes. Quarto. [iv], 339p, [iv]; [iv], 324p, [ii]. Illustrated with 52 hand-colored plates. Publisher's leather spines gilt, the paper sides replaced by another owner with green and black paper of florid designs with matching slipcase..... More
Rouen: J. Lemonnyer Libraire, 1881. A fine later issue of the famous 1773 edition, considered one of the most beautiful books of the 18th century. Four volumes in two. Tall 8vo. Text and music entirely engraved in copper by Moria and Mlle Vendome. Illustrated with titles and frontispieces after by..... More
New York: The Quadrangle Press, 1948. First edition. Quarto. 88p. Translated by Eunice Clark. Illustrated throughout from line drawings by Alexander Calder. Title page in red and black. In the publisher's binding of aqua paper-covered boards with spine titles in red and black and a large image of a snake..... More
Paris: Editions Rombaldi, (1943-47). Each volume numbered from limitations ranging from 910 to 990 copies. Eight volumes containing seven titles from the collection. Beuatifully illustrated. Uniformly bound in maroon crushed morocco, t.e.g., the spines with gilt titles and overall stylized crosshatched gilt designs. Original wrappers bound in. Titles: La Varende..... More
London: J. Rodwell, 1815. "A New Edition, Corrected" (2nd edition). Three volumes. xli [ii], 223p; [iv], 272p; [ii], 304p. Selected and translated by G.L. Way, with preface, notes, and appendix by G. Ellis. Illustrated with woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, 24 large and 25 vignettes. Bound in quarter dark green morocco..... More
London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1796. First edition. xxxvii, (iii), 280p, Selected and translated by G.L. Way, with preface, notes, and glossary [by G. Ellis]. Illustrated with woodcuts by Thomas Bewick. With an accomplished and well-detailed fore-edge painting of a coaching scene. In a contemporary binding of full black morocco..... More
Paris: Galerie Louise Leiris, 1963. Illustrated catalog of 29 sculptures by A. Beaudin. In stitched stiff wrappers with color cover. Square format (6 1/2"). Louise Leiris succeeded Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler selling the paintings of prominent artists in the 40's forward, notably Picasso and Salvador Dali. More
Scatopolis (Leipzig): Chez les Marchands d'Aniterges, (1970). Reprint of the 1849 Paris original. xxi, 144p. Text in French. A rather hilarious frontispiece. Gilt-titled brown cloth. More
London: C. W. Beaumont, 1930. xiii, 169p. Illustrated. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine titles and decorations. More
Lexington, KY: The Anvil Press, (1986). No. 19 of 100 copies. Quarto. 10, (ii), 51p, colophon. Illustrated plates not included in the pagination. Printed throughout in red and black in Victor Hammer's American & Andromaque uncial types, the tableaux printed at the Windell Press. Foreword by Desmond Flower. Bound in..... More
Switzerland: Edita Lausanne, 1967. Illustrated, including many tipped-in color plates. Folio. . Red cloth stamped in gilt, decorated endpapers. English Text by D.B.Tubbs. More
Darien, GA: The Ashantilly Press, 1958. No. 12 of "about" 100 copies. Quarto. 40p. Printed in Verona type on "Tovil" hand made paper with decoration in blue. Bound in white wrappers with title in black on spine and upper cover. With printed presentation card laid inscribed Jean & Stanton [Jean..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, (1980). "Collector's Edition" xviii, 635p. Edited by A. S. B. Glover. Illustrated by William Sharp. Bound in full gray leather with watered silk endpapers, a.e.g., the spine and covers stamped with gilt designs. More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1955. No. "F.W.L." of 1500 copies signed by William Sharp. xvii, 635p. Edited by A. S. B. Glover. Illustrated by William Sharp with drawings in the text. Bound in quarter gilt-titled brown leather over marbled boards. LEC Monthly Letter laid in. More
Tours: Ad Mame et Cie, 1862. "Nouvelle Edition" (Bibliotheque des Ecoles Chretiennes. 3rd Serie.). 12mo. 140p. Engraved frontispiece of Rome. In the cartonnage binding of aqua paper-covered boards with elaborate overall gilt decorations, featuring a central chromolithograph scene of a man painting in plein air. A laid in and a...... More
Tours: Alfred Mame et Cie, 1874. 12mo. 143p. Engraved frontispiece. In the cartonnage binding of blue and white paper-covered boards with elaborate overall gilt decorations, featuring a chromolithograph scene of a lady with two small children. Gumuchian no. 1435 for the 1881 edition. More