1981. BLISS, Carey. JULIUS FIRMICUS MATERNUS AND THE ALDINE EDITION OF SCRIPTORES ASTRONOMICI VETERES. Los Angeles: Kenneth Karmiole, 1981. Folio. Numbered 39 of 164. This study of the Aldine Edition contains a 1499 Aldine leaf in Roman type, paragraph markings printed in red and blue as well as a 3-line..... More
1933. BLOCK, Andrew. KEY BOOKS OF BRITISH AUTHORS 1600-1932. London: Denis Archer, 1933. 384 pp. 8vo, terra cotta cloth. Ex-library with embossed title page, few other markings, else fine. Dust jacket good with light soil and a few small closed tears, price-clipped. Scarce. More
1958. BLOCK, Herbert. HERBLOCK'S SPECIAL FOR TODAY. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1958. First edition. Large 8vo.; illustrated. Near fine, in a slightly soiled and edgeworn dust jacket. More
1959. BLOOM, Harold. SHELLEY'S MYTHMAKING. New Haven: Yale, 1959. First edition of author's first book. 8vo., red cloth. Fine, in a lightly spine-sunned dust jacket. More
1786. BLUMENBACH, Johann Friedrich. INTRODUCTIO IN HISTORIAM MEDICINAE LITTERARIAM. Gottingen: Jo. Christ. Dieterich, 1786. First edition. xvi + 462 pp. 8vo., library binding of half black morocco, quite worn and chipped, backstrip partially detached, corners chipped. Black marbled paper covered boards. Ex-library with usual markings. Hinges cracked, block sound, light..... More
1864. [BLUNT, Geo. W., John D. JONES AND J. A. STEVENS, Jr.] REPORTS OF THE NEW YORK HARBOR COMMISSION, OF 1856 AND 1857. Republished by order of The Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York. New York: C. S. Westcott & Co., printers, 1864. vi + 316 pp..... More
1977. BLY, Robert. THIS BODY IS MADE OF CAMPHOR AND GOPHERWOOD. Prose Poems. Drawings by Gendron Jensen. New York, etc.../Harper & Row, (1977). First edition, review copy. 8vo., grey paper-covered boards. Fine, in a jacket with just a touch of soil. Publisher's solicitation laid in... More
1902. (BOAS & HUNT). KWAKIUTL TEXTS. Part Two. Recorded by George Hunt and edited and revised by Franz Boas. Publications of The Jesup North Pacific Expedition. New York: Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, December 1902. Whole Series, Vol. V. Anthropology, Vol. IV. Folio, grey wrappers lettered in..... More
1902. (BOAS & HUNT). KWAKIUTL TEXTS. Part One. Recorded by George Hunt and edited and revised by Franz Boas. Publications of The Jesup North Pacific Expedition. New York: Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, January 1902. Whole Series, Vol. V. Anthropology, Vol. IV. Folio, grey wrappers lettered in..... More
1972. BODROGI, Tibor. KUNST IN INDONESIEN. Leipzig: VEB E.A. Seemann Verlag, (1972). 4to., grey decorated cloth. Illustrated throughout. 93pp + index + plates. A very good copy; clean and bright in an edgetorn dust jacket. More
1863. BOECKH, Richard. DIE GESCHICHTLICHE ENTWICKELUNG DER AMTLICHEN STATISTIK DES PREUSSISCHEN STAATES. IM AUFTRAGE DES DIRECTORS DES KONIGLICHEN STATISTISCHEN BUREAUS HERRN. DR. ENGEL DARGESTELLT VON RICHARD BOECKH. Berlin: Konigliche Geheime Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei (R. Decker), 1863. [iv], 105 pp. 4to., original wrappers printed in black. Social statistician Edward Jarvis' copy, thoroughly annotated..... More
1970. BOESIGER, Willy. LE CORBUSIER: LAST WORKS. New York: Praeger, 1970. 208 pp. Oblong 4to., natural cloth with red spine and cover lettering. A fine copy, in good pictorial dust jacket with several one inch chips and closed tears to edges. Text in German and English. B/w and color illustrations..... More
FE. BOGAN, Louise. ACHIEVEMENT IN AMERICAN POETRY 1900-1950. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1951. First edition. 8vo., blue cloth. Very good, with slight foxing to fore-edge, in remnants of a sunned, price-clipped dust jacket. More
FE. BOGAN, Louise. ACHIEVEMENT IN AMERICAN POETRY 1900-1950. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1951. First edition. 8vo., blue cloth. Very good, with slight foxing to fore-edge, in an edgeworn, slightly soiled dust jacket with sun to spine. More
1932. BOGEN & LOOMIS. TOBACCO TAR: AN EXPERIMENTEL INVESTIGATION OF ITS ALLEGED CARCINOGENIC ACTION. By Emil Bogan and Russell N. Loomis. Reprinted from The American Journal of Cancer. Vol. XVI, No. 6, Nov., 1932. Printed wrappers. Covers lightly soiled at edges, still a very good copy... More
1929. BOGEN, Emil. THE COMPSITION OF CIGARETS AND CIGARET SMOKE. Reprinted from The Journal of the American Medical Association Oct. 12, 1929, Vol. 93, pp. 1110-1114. Chicago: American Medical Association, 1929. Blue stampled wrappers. Light soil to covers, else fine. More
2006. BOGH, Mikkel, ed. PER BAK JENSEN: THE UNSEEN IMAGE. Klampenborg: Bjerggaard, 2006. 351 + [1] pp. Oblong 4to., black cloth stamped in white. About 48 pp. bumped at bottom corner, not affecting text, slightly affecting a few images. In very good color pictorial dust jacketwith a few small closed..... More
1975. BOISSELIER, Jean. THE HERITAGE OF THAI SCULPTURE. New York: Weatherhill, (1975). First English Edition. 4to., rose/white cloth w/dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Fine, in a slightly rubbed dust jacket. More
1905. (BOLIVIA). MISSIONARY PIONEERING IN BOLIVIA, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF WORK IN ARGENTINA. London: H.A. Raymond, [c.1905]. 8vo., green cloth lettered in gilt, spine in gilt. Illustrated with photographs throughout; full-colour folding map. A very good copy that shows only light rubbing at extremities and a tear at the folding..... More
1957. Boller, Willy. MASTERPIECES OF THE JAPANESE COLOR WOODCUT: Collection W. Boller. Boston Book and Art Shop, [1957]. Folio, 187 pp., with numerous plates of which several are in color. Boards and cloth. Slight soiling in and out. Tape marks on cover, else very good. More
1957. Boller, Willy. MASTERPIECES OF THE JAPANESE COLOR WOODCUT: Collection W. Boller. Boston Book and Art Shop, [1957]. Folio, 187 pp., with numerous plates of which several are in color. Fine, in a lightly soiled dust jacket. More
1957. Boller, Willy. MASTERPIECES OF THE JAPANESE COLOR WOODCUT: Collection W. Boller. Boston Book and Art Shop, [1957]. Folio, 187 pp., with numerous plates of which several are in color. Boards and cloth. Near fine. More
1947. BOLLER, Willy. MEISTER DES JAPANISCHEN FARBHOLZSCHNITTES. Mit photographien von R. Spreng. Bern: Herausgegeben im Urs Graf- Verlag, (1948). 4to., purple cloth-backed, tan paper-covered boards; 174pp. Near fine, in a lightly edgeworn jacket. More
1938. BOLLETTINO D'ARTE. CORPUS DELLA MAIOLICA ITALIANA II. Le Maioliche Datate dal 1531 al 1535, a Cura di Gaetano Ballardini. Volume two only. [Rome]: Libreria dello Stato, (1938). First edition. 4to., white paper boards. Illustrated from photographs in color and black and white. Ink ownership to front pastedown. Over-opened in..... More