1881. (ARCHITECTURE). ZEISCHRIFT DES ARCHITECTEN- UND INGENIEUR-VEREINS ZU HANNOVER. Neue folge des Notizblattes. Herausgegeben von dem Vorstande des Vereins. Redigirt von Keck, Professor an der Technischen Hochshule zu Hannover. Volume 27, No. 1 - 4. Hannover: Schmorl & Von Seefeld, 1881. 4to., three-quarter crushed morroco with marbled boards. Spine is..... More
(ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE). Musee de Sculpture Comparee (Palais de Trocadero). LES CHEFS-D'OEVRE D'ARCHITECTURE ET SCULPTURE DU XIIe AU XIXe SIECLE. Paris: Librarie Generale de L'Architecture et Des Arts Decoratifs, [n.d.]. 4to., 120 black & white photographic plates [complete] housed in a grey cloth-covered string-tied portfolio. Some soil, slight pencilling, bumps..... More
1890. THE ARCHIVIST. Vol. 3, No. 10 - Vol. VII, No. 27 (July, 1890 - September, 1894) London: "The Archivist" office. A small run of the "quarterly journal devoted to the study of historical documents, manuscripts, and autographs." 17 consecutive issues, lacking one: Vol. 3, No. 12 (January, 1891). Edited..... More
1923. ARISTOPHANE. ARISTOPHANE. Texte etabli par Victor Coulon et traduit par Hilaire van Daele. Paris: Societe d'Edition "Les Belles Lettres", 1923. First thus. Complete in four volumes. 8vo., cream wrappers printed in black. Dogeared, chipping to some edges. Mostly unopened. A good copy of this set. Greek poetry in French..... More
1775. Aristotle. Poetics; or Discourses concerning Tragic and Epic Imitation. London: Privately printed for J. Dodsley and Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart, 1775. First Edition 107p. Includes first English translation of Julius Pollux's "Extracts concerning the Greek Theatre and Mafks." Missing original boards, Aristotle and Pollux sections are detached. Previously bound..... More
1929. (ARKITEKTEN UGEHAEFTE). ARKITEKTEN UGEHAEFTE. Meddelelser Fra Akademisk Arkitektforening. Kobenhavn: Akademisk Architekforening, 1929. A run of 53 issues of this Danish architectural weekly, volume 31, for the year 1929, as follows: Parts 1-52, (plus one extra issue out of series in November) Jan. 2-Dec. 25, 1929. 4to., wrappers; many issues..... More
1928. (ARKITEKTEN UGEHAEFTE). ARKITEKTEN UGEHAEFTE. Meddelelser Fra Akademisk Arkitektforening. Kobenhavn: Akademisk Architekforening, 1928. A slightly interrupted run of 51 issues of this Danish architectural weekly, volume 30, for the year 1928, as follows: Parts 1-52, Jan. 4-March 7, March 21-Dec. 31, 1927, lacking issue number 11. 4to., wrappers; many issues..... More
1944. ARMOUR, Richard. PRIVATES' LIVES. Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., (1944). 8vo., beige decorated boards w/dj. Slight age browning to pages, else fine internally, in a moderately soiled and chipped dust jacket. More
1732. ARNAUD, George d'. GEORGII D'ARNAUD DE DIIS PAREDROIS, SIVE ADSESSORIBUS ET CONJUNCTIS, COMMENTARIUS. Hagae Comitum, apud Petrum de Hondt, 1732. First edition. On the title-page paredrois is in Greek; the text is written in both Latin and Greek. [6], 206, [15] pp. 4to., full speckled calf, skillfully rebacked, with..... More
ARNDT, Johann. SECHS BUCHER VOM WAHREN CHRISTENTHUM/PARADIESGARTLEIN. Philadelphia: Schafer and Koradi [n.d. ca. 1832]. 8vo., original calf, awkwardly rebacked in darker leather (which is chipped and charred). 941 pp. + 232 pp. Joints cracked, boards worn. Front flyleaf through title page detached. Many engravings. Block sound. In German. Mystical theology..... More
1811. ARNOLD. THE CUSTOMS OF LONDON, OTHERWISE CALLED ARNOLD'S CHRONICLE; containing, among divers other matters, the original of the celebrated poem of The Nut-Brown Maid. Reprinted from the First Edition, with the Additions included in the Second. London: F.C. and J. Rivington [et al.], 1811. Quarto: lii,300 pp. Quarter bound..... More
1892. BLUM, Robert. ARNOLD, Sir Edwin. JAPONICA. Illustrated by Robert BLUM. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. 2nd printing, originally published in 1891. xv + [1] + 128 pp. Tall 8vo., half green morocco with gilt rules, raised bands, gilt spine lettering and ornaments, with green marbled paper covered boards..... More
1894. ARNOLD, Edwin. WANDERING WORDS. London: Longmans, Green, 1894. 8vo, xii + 372 pp. + ads., 22 plates, further ills. in text; red cloth. Lacks flyleaf, hinge cracked, some foxing and dampstaining; rubbed. Good only. More
1864. ARNOLD, Matthew. A FRENCH ETON; Or, Middle Class Education and the State. London and Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., 1864. First edition. 12mo., burgundy cloth over limp boards; lettered in gilt. Library bookplate to fpd; no other library marks. Ink ownership to ffep, verso. Some bubbling, rubbing to cloth; boards..... More
1970. (ART). THE ART OF CYPRUS. By Tony Spiteris. Translated from the French by Thomas Burton. New York: Reynal and Co., [1970]. 4to., decorated paper-covered boards, spine in gilt. Illustrated with photographs throughout. A very good copy in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Ink ownership at ffep... More
1940. (ART). AN EXHIBITION OF PRE-COLUMBIAN ART. January 15 through February 10. Arranged by the Peabody Museum and the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum. Cambridge, MA: William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, 1940. Pink printed wrappers. Some soiling to covers. Small closed tear to heel of spine. Text and plates are..... More
1990. (ART). GEORGE TSUTAKAWA. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1990. 4to., illustrated paper wraps. Illustarted with colour photographs throughout. A fine copy. More
1938. (ART). JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY. American Portraits in oil, pastel and miniature with biographical sketches by Barbara Neville Parker [and] Anne Bolling Wheeler. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1938. First edition. 8vo., blue cloth, spine in gitl. A near fine copy with just a hint of rubbing at the spine..... More
1975. (ART). MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MINIATURES from the National Gallery of Art. Compiled by Carra Ferguson, David S. Stevens Schaff and Gary Vikan under the direction of Carl Nordenfalk.. Edited by Gary Vikan. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1975. 4to., illustrated paper wraps. Illustrated throughout. A fine copy... More
1980. (ART). PRINTMAKING IN CANADA. The earliest views and portraits. [by] Mary Allodi. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, (1980). 4to., illustated paper wraps. Illustrated throughout. A fine copy. More
[ART] ROUMANIAN PEASANT ART. Bucharest: [n.p, n.d. ca. 1940s?]. Unpaginated [36 pp.]. Oblong 8vo., color illustrated wrappers. Light soil to wrappers, corners slightly creased, nicked at heel and crown. Color and monochrome illustrations. More
1925. [ART DECO] THE JOHN PLAIN BOOK [1925]. Chicago: The John Plain Company, 1925. 97 pp. 4to., quarter brown cloth with brown paper covered boards, color pastedown label to front cover. Spine worn at heel and crown with small tear to top section. Light wear and a few pale spots..... More
[ART DECO] Morinaga. DAISANKAI MORINAGA KYARAMERU GEIJUTSU-SHÔ. n.p. [Tôkyô c.1930]. A heavy bronze plaque, 22.0 x 21.0 cm, a bas-relief image of a man mounted on a winged horse. The plaque itself is mounted on a hardwood plank 42.1 x 35.5 cm. This momento of a "Prize for the Third..... More
1970. ART GALLERY, University of Notre Dame and University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton. THE AGE OF VASARI. Notre Dame, Indiana and Binghamton, New York: Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame and University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton, [c.1970]. A Loan Exhibition..... More