Blue cloth boards with gilt particulars to front board and spine, and image adhered to front board. Comes with DVD of Erwin Olaf Selected Films. Full color photography throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Damage to bottom of pages 69/70 with slight impression to adjacent pages (see image). 10 18/4 x 13 1/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. First Edition. View More...
Yellow cloth boards with silver particulars to front board and spine; image adhered to front board. Full color photography throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. 10 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. First Edition. View More...
Number 4 in the Bollingen Series XXXV. Blue cloth boards with gilt decoration to front board, and black cloth spine with gilt particulars. Organized into 9 sections: Physical Existence; Individuality; Duration; Ontology of Paintings; The Causality of Form; The World of Paintings; Painting and Language; Imitation and Creation; and The Significance of Modern Painting. Black and white illustrations throughout text; over 100 illustrations. Light sunning to top and right exterior edges of boards. No previous owners' names or other markings. Bookseller's ticket, Cleveland Antiquarian Books, to front... View More...
Number 250 of only 600 numbered copies and 50 copies hors commerce. Loose as issued in publisher's chemise. Toning to spine, otherwise a very bright clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. Housed in acetate slipcase. ; Large 8vo ; [xv], 44 pl. pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Dust jacket present. View More...
Full dark brown morocco with embossed decoration to boards, 5 raised bands with debossed decoration and gilt particulars to spine. All edges gilt. Stated in the preface to this edition: "The whole of the sheets of the last imprint were destroyed by a fire at the bindery, wither they had been sent for collation; but fortunately the French copper-plates were in another building. This has enabled the new publishers to issue the work in a much improved style, and has allowed for opportunity for additional notes and remarks." Michaux's volumes contain 156 hand colored plates, all protected with tis... View More...
Original hand-painted print from The Royal Game of Golf with printed artist's signature to bottom left; publisher's circular blind stamp to bottom right corner, which indicates this an originally hand-painted print published 1901. Royal coat of arms of Queen Victoria, put into use in 1837, to top right corner. Print depicts a woman in a rose print dress with a floral bonnet and holding a gold club by a golf ball. Light spotting and toning throughout, as well as light foxing to subject's face (see image). Framed in silver coated wooden frame. Frame: 21 x 29.75; Window: 13 x 21.75 inches. First ... View More...
Pictorial boards with text and design encased in original publisher's protective shrink wrap. Very scarce publication. As described on the back: "...over 100 sparklingly, human, previously unpublished photos--from the Keystone Collection--is to witness 'in person,' from 1900 to 1960, the flowering of this mythical metropolis." Most likely published with both English and French text as is indicative of the synopsis being in both languages on the back wrap. 2 areas lightly bumped; at the tail of spine, and top edge of back wrap. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean... View More...
Dark blue cloth boards with embossed text and Botero imagery to front board. Full color photographs throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. First Edition. View More...
Engraved portrait of the Schoonhaven and 74 engraved emblematic illustrations by Crispin van de Passe; 150 x 197 mm Full yapped vellum. Front hinge separating, light occasional foxing, else a fine copy. View More...
Cream paper wraps with black and red illustration and text, and black and red design to back wrap. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Light soiling and toning to wraps, and creasing to wrap where it extends past pages (see image). 7 x 10 1/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. First Edition. View More...
Red and black paper covered boards. Front top corner is bumped. No previous owner's name or other markings. Lined indentation to front cover (see image). 5.5 x 7.5 in First Edition. View More...
Stipple etching depicting a scene from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Hinge matted to cream mat board. Captioned: "Cry, Trojans, cry! Lend me ten thousand eyes, and I will fill them with prophetic tears." Scene: Troy -- Cassandra raving. Mat: 23.5 x 29.5 inches; Window: 17 x 22.75 inches. First Edition. View More...
Full title of where print originates: "Flora Londinensis, or, Plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London : with their places of growth, and times of flowering, their several names according to Linnæus and other authors : with a particular description of each plant in Latin and English : to which are added, their several uses in medicine, agriculture, rural ?conomy and other arts." Slender Spiked Carex. Framed hand colored engraving by Sansom. Mahogany frame with gilt rule. Frame: 17.75 x 25.5 inches; Window: 10.5 x 18 inches. First Edition. View More...
Full title of where print originates: "Flora Londinensis, This is Plate 60 from Volume 4 of this series. Great or Common Carex. Framed hand colored engraving by Sansom. Mahogany frame with gilt rule. Frame: 17.75 x 25.5 inches; Window: 10.5 x 18 inches. First Edition. View More...
Full title of where print originates: "Flora Londinensis," This is Plate 62 from Volume 3 of this series. Smaller Catstail. Framed hand colored engraving by Sansom. Mahogany wooden frame with gilt rule. Frame: 17.75 x 25.5 inches; Window: 10.5 x 18 inches. First Edition. View More...
Full brown speckled calf with 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Published in Spanish and French text side-by-side in dual columns throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. Small loss of calf to 3 of the 4 corners (see image). [viii], 356 pp., [1]. 4 x 6 1/2 inches. View More...
Half title page signed with artist's illustration of a man's face and inscription "To Ellen Edwards with best wishes" dated 1/11/77. A nice, clean copy without previous owners' names or any other markings. ; Oblong 8vo ; 96 pages; Signed by Author & Illustrator; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company. Very Good. 1881. Third Edition. Gilt title on red cloth board with decorative border. Sixteen black and white photographs along with six illustrated plates throughout. Gilt edges, patterned endpapers. Spine is sunned. Third edition of the biography of Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, an artist well known for his paintings of animals which is showcased through photographs within the book.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; [xii], 116 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . View More...