Original printed wraps bound in blue cloth boards with gilt particulars to spine. Two foldout maps of "Yang Tseu Kiang de Chang-hai aux gorges d'Yi-tch'ang" and Nankin (Nanjing). A very nice, clean copy of a hard to find guide. ; 5 x 7 in; xix, 253-383,8 pages; View More...
Inscribed by the author to half title. Red cloth with accompanying worn but intact dust jacket. Some additional loose newspaper clippings are included. Some fading to half title, but otherwise a clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
London: Richard Bentley. Very Good. 1858. Chiefly founded on von Hammer's German language history of the Turks. Two volumeslored map of the empire. Frontis engraved view of Malta. Spine panel faded from verdant green to olive. ; [xv],413,(1),548, [1] pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . View More...
Blue pebbled cloth with gilt particulars to spine. The personal copy of Columbia and U. Penn Sanskrit professor Royal W. Weiler whose signature is neatly penned to front fly. Oxygen darkening to front and end fly papers, otherwise, a very nice, clean copy without further markings. ; Oriental Translation Fund New Series; 8vo ; 344 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. View More...
Paper pictorial wraps. Numerous colored photographs throughout. No previous owner's names or other markings. In both English and Chinese text. View More...
Oversize volume (13.75 x 12.75 inches). Unpaginated. String-bound pictorial wraps. Accordion fold textblock. Bump to lower right corner. Housed in tri-fold chemise. Quarter cloth over pictorial boards with cut out, please see image. Some wear to corners.Otherwise, a very nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. View More...
Full deeply grained red morocco. Gilt particulars to front, rear, and spine. Gilt dentelles. Gilt edges. Inscription "From the author March 1857." on verso of front fly. Written by the late chief-justice of Bombay. Occasional foxing to first and last pages. Otherwise nice copy without previous owners' names or marking. viii, 277pp. 4.3 x 6.6 in. View More...
Blue cloth with bright gilt armorial decor to front boards. Modest chip to spine of Volume 2. Slight foxing to fore edge. Contains pull-out map: 'Map of the Portuguese Territory of Goa showing also the principal places of Sattari'. A very bright, clean set.; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition. View More...
Dark blue cloth boards with a gilt particular to front cover and gilt title to spine. Inscription to front pastedown and previous owner's name nicely written to title page. Many black/white photographs and illustrations throughout. Gilt to top edge. Wear to top and bottom of spine (see image). View More...
Nice clean copy with the bookplate of proverb collector de Guinzbourg; without other writing or other owners' names. Fine dust jacket together with publisher's box. Blue-black cloth with nicely embossed decor & gilt title to spine. Small tape residue to front endpaper. ; 1159, 254 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Dust jacket present. View More...
Traditional Yotsume Toji (four-hole) binding with hand-painted limp boards and red cloth label in Kanji to front board, and decorative silk spine caps. Entirely Japanese calligraphy throughout. Profusely illustrated in both color and black and white woodblocks; color illustrations are a combination of woodblock and hand-painted color. General wear to exterior and slight insect predation to top and right exterior edge of pages--not effecting interior of book (see image). Begins with 10 full color illustrations, then 50 full color leaves (100 pp.) of waka from Hyakunin Isshu (One Hundred Poets, ... View More...
Nicely bound in quarter black morocco over moire beveled boards, gilt particulars to cover and spine, dark green end papers, 40 leaves of plates, some folded, some color, illustrations and photographs; frontispiece with tissue guard: photograph by Rev A. E. Owen titled "Crooked-Stern" Junk, 96 pages plus epilogue. Government publication, narrative of the various types of junks operating on the waters of the Upper Yangtze (Above Ichang) and its affluents. View More...
Full calf with raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Losses to leather at hinge. Bookplate remnants adhered to front pastedown. Slight foxing throughout. Gaspar believed that Syro-Chaldaean was the language spoken by Adam in the Garden of Eden. 11" - 13" tall; 278, [2]pp pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition. View More...
Limited to 300 copies, in which this is number 202. Carefully selected, representative masterpieces of great art of Japan including: Imperial Majesty, Emperor of Japan treasures from the Imperial Palace Collection as well as from the Imperial Household Museum. Included in the Exhibition: screens, paintings, sculptures First Edition. View More...
Decorative black cloth boards with gilt decoration to boards, as well as gilt decoration to spine. 2 hors texte etchings with tissue guards present as well as frontispiece. French text throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Front board detached and first pages somewhat loose, but still intact to binding. Foxing throughout. 380 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches. View More...
Very Good. 1911. Full blue cloth. Gilt particulars to spine. The personal copy of Columbia and U. Penn Sanskrit professor Royal W. Weiler whose signature is neatly penned to front fly. Penciled scholia throughout. Notes of previous owner loose to book. A clean, serviceable copy. ; tall 8vo; xiii, 304 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . View More...
Original woodblock print. 5a artist signature and seal to bottom left corner as well as signed and titled in pencil at bottom edge. Title also in Japanese on bottom left edge. Oban tate-e format. Two small scratches in sky at upper portion of print and one at center, both unnoticeable unless intentionally looking for them. Matted with window mat: Overall: 15 x 20 inches; Window: 11 x 16 inches; Print: 10 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches. View More...
Bright yellow cloth with accompanying dustjacket wrapped in mylar. Gilt title on spine. Photographs by Andre Roosevelt throughout. A nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. Pagination ends at pp.292 with multiple photographs from Roosevelt thereafter. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Hertford: Stephen Austin for the East India Company. Very Good. 1851. Half red moroco over marbled boards nicely bound by Bennett in New York in for Guillermo Tamayo whose name appears at foot spine. ; 4to ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . View More...
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