Professionally rebound with quarter black morocco over marbled boards with title label to front board. New endpapers. No previous owners' names or other markings. 6.25 x 8 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority insured mail. First Edition. View More...
English title: Under Fire, Battle at the Marne. Grey-blue cloth boards with gilt particulars to front board. Original wraps bound in. All three parts bound in one. Part 1 wrap has taped repairs, light soiling and closed tears. Black and white photography throughout, as well as occasional maps. Unpaginated, although previous owner has written in page number at top exterior corner. Occasional marginal notes in both pencil and red ink. Spotting to boards and light wear (see image). Unaccountably scarce. 14 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches. View More...
614 folio pages covering the first half of 1900. Includes early reporting of the Boxer Rebellion; imperialist movements including extensive coverage of the the Boer War. The Paris Exhibition including its famous Eifel Tower. Merciless caricatures of the populist presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, The KLondike, America's new possessions in the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii & Cuba. Hunan Province. Includes Rudyard Kipling's disappointing "On the Sin of Witchcraft" relative to his contempt for less-than-loyal (to Britain) Cape Colonists. Great Fire of Honolulu etc. Bound without the a... View More...
Full green cloth with gilt decor to cover and spine. This set professionally rebacked about fifty years ago. Light capillary moisture mark primarily to initial pages of both volumes (see image). Two colored maps, the larger of which has a tape repair (see image). Complete in two volumes: Volume 0ne: viii, 477, 55 (publisher's advertisements) 39 illustrations and folding map; Volume Two: viii, 558, map and 31 illustrations View More...
Cover of Satyr and Maenad by Georges Lepape . Articles by Aldous Huxley and many others. Discreet Binghamton, Library stamp on cover & within. Full page Rockwell Kent "Bringing Home the Christmas Tree" as well as "A New Gain for Poets" by G. K. Chesterton & Steichen's iconic photograph of Greta Garbo. Full page photograph of "Gunboat Johnson in his corner," Harold Nicholson's Where Women make a Mistake, an attempt by an English author to account for the growing dislike of women the civilized world over. 9.75" x 12.75".(much larger than its modern descendant). Library stamp to cover and rando... View More...
Publisher:
Jerusalem, Palestine Art Publishing Co : [1930]
Seller ID: 8297
Elaboratley embossed full padded morocco binding. 12 x 16.5 inches.Forty-seven full page sur blanc lithographs. [4], [94]. inobtrusive worming to gutters; owner's inscription to front blank fly; some captions clipped by binder View More...
Quarter worn morocco over ribbed cloth boards (see image 2). Contains 61 recto only folio plates. From the library of H. Bradley Martin with his plate to upper left paste-down. First Edition. View More...
Brown cloth boards with black stamped rule and text to front board; gilt particulars to spine. Organized into 7 chapters: The Mechanical, Physical, and Chemical Theories of the Ancient Hindus; Hindu Ideas on Mechanics (Kinetics); Hindu Ideas on Acoustics; Hindu Ideas About Plants and Plant-Life; Hindu Classification of Animals; Hindu Physiology and Biology; and, Hindu Doctrine of Scientific Method. Previous owner, Royal W. Weiler--a previous Sanskrit professor at Columbia and UPenn, to first free page, otherwise no other previous owners' names or other markings. Light foxing to edges of last f... View More...
Full calf with gilt detail; rprofessionally rebacked. Five raised bands with red leather label and gilt particulars to spine. Two volumes in one. Bright and clean in a supple binding. No previous owners' names or other markings. viii, 388 pp., vii, 399 pp., [1]. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. First Edition. View More...
Half burgundy morocco. Contains map of both Merrimack and Belknap counties. Scores of tissue guarded lithograph portraits of prominent individuals. Original printing. Gilt particulars on binding. Gilt design on cover. Moisture markings on some papers. General overall wear; darkening to front board (see image). Approx. 8 x 11 inches. View More...
Publisher:
Cairo, Imprime? par l'Imprimerie de l'Institut franc?ais d'arche?ologie oriental pour la Socie?te? royale de ge?ographie d'Egypt : 1922
Seller ID: 8326
Mémoires de la Société Royale de Géographie d'Egypte. Cream linen-covered boards; morocco labels to spine. vii, 149, [1], viii plates. Eight folding maps, six of which are colored. Small loss to cartouche of plate four & Tables des Matieres (nether affecting text). Foxing & thumbing to covers; losses to fore-edge (see images). 10 x 13.9 inches View More...
Light green cloth boards with dark brown stamped image and text to front board. Pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. No previous owners' names or other markings. Toning and foxing to pages (see image). Shipped through USPS Priority insured mail. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Dust jacket present. View More...
Hand-colored lithograph from John James Audubon's second octavo edition of Birds of America published in 1856. Sheet size: 6.5 x 10.25 inches. View More...
Collection of fashion looks created by Jaenicke. Color photographs throughout. Materials used in looks include, but are not limited to: Cashmere, metallic linen, and cotton. No previous owners' names or other markings. 24 pp. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. View More...
