Chicago, Illinois: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Publishers, 1889. First Edition. Hard Cover. 351 pages; with a useful index. Black and white illustrated throughout, with scenes, maps, views and an extensive advertisement section; laid-in is a folding color map of the "Denver and Rio Grande Railroad System" approx. 15" x 18".....
Venetiis: Typis Remondinianis, 1752. Editio Postrema Veneta Emendatissima. Leather. xxxii + 496 pages, with a few woodcut initial letters and tailpieces. The medical work of Giorgio Baglivi (1668 - 1707) an Armenio-Italian physician and scientist. This copy does not have the author's portrait; Pages 231-232 with woodcut figures; Dissertatio VI.....
London, England: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1777. First Edition. Hard Cover. Twenty-two issues of this yearly British almanac, bound in one volume; consecutive and inclusive from the 1777 issue to 1797. These are printed in red & black, have the tax stamps on the margins of the title.....
Chicago, Illinois: L. Schick, 1891. First Edition. Flexible Cloth. Folding frontispiece plan of the inner city + 510 pages + (1) city plan showing the burned district of the Chicago Fire + (1) blank + 48 pages concerning the Suburban Stations, ports, cable rates, growth statistics, street railways & other.....
A Geneve: Chez J.J. Paschoud, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1807. First Edition. Leather. Complete in three volumes: xvi + 471 + (2) + 402 + (4) + (1) errata + (2) + 347 pages; all three volumes with their half-titles present. French text. Jean Senebier (1742-1809) Swiss botanist and naturalist who demonstrated that.....
New York, NY: Collins & Co. Published Under the Authority of the Physicians and Surgeons of That Institution, 1816. First Edition. Hard Cover. x + (2) contents + 180 + (2) Table IV (Finis) pages (last page blank). Title page with the ownership signature of James R. Wood at top;.....
New York, N.Y. G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1831. First Edition. Leather. 258 pages; with a folding map frontispiece of the Mulgrave Islands. Hiram Paulding (1797- 1878) U.S. naval officer with a long and sometimes very distinguished and controversial career, on this occasion "... exhibited extraordinary bravery and presence.....
Santo Domingo: Imprenta De Garcia Hermanos, 1878. First Edition. Soft Cover. 79 pages; with a folding plate illustrating inscriptions of Don Cristobal Colon and several line drawings of the Catedral de la Santo Domingo depicting the changes in the building plans over the centuries, as well as a few other.....
Santiago Chile: Imprenta De La Libreria Del Mercurio De Orestes L. Tornero, 1872. First Edition. Soft Cover. 101 pages. Spanish text. In three sections: Las Propiedades de los jesuitas en el distrito de Santiago; Adquisiciones de los jesuitas en las provincias de Chile; Diversas industrias de los jesuitas. Part of.....
Shanghai, China: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1874. First Edition. Leather. xxiv + 440 pages. William S. Frederick Mayers (1838 - 1878) British Sinologist; "...an accomplished Chinese scholar and wrote many lengthy works on Chinese government and society...a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; member of the Royal Asiatic Society of.....
United Kingdom: Various, 1857. Ephemera. Leather. United Kingdom: various dates and publishers, as below. Group of speeches and political pamphlets, bound in one volume; as they appear and including: Rules and Regulations of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom. 1863. 31 pages; first and.....
Edinburgh, Scotland: No Publisher Stated, 1699. First Edition. Soft Cover. (4) + 57 + (1) blank pages. Title page location noted as "Edenburgh" (Edinburgh) and the OCLC record notes for this version of the book that the Dedication to the King is "signed: Philo Caledon, i.e. Andrew Fletcher. (c. 1653-1716)".....
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1880. First Edition. Soft Cover. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1880. First Edition. 48 pages; with folding plates of the boiler of the steam yacht "Javelin" a plate depicting the workings of the boiler system of the steam yacht "Kelpie"; both built by Herreshoff in.....
Sao Paulo, Brasil: Theodor Preising, 1930. Photographs. Not Bound. Group of thirty-six (36) small-format photographs, three "series" of 12 each, all of Rio de Janeiro and environs by the photographer Theodor Preising. With the original paper packet-covers having the studio imprint of Photo Rotativo TP Sao Paulo on each. The.....
Constantinople, Turkey: W. Sender, 1915. Postcards. Not Bound. Group of forty (40) real photo postcards of Constantinople (Konstantinopel) with two original paper packet-covers; both having the studio stamp of W. Sender Artiste Peintre Atelier Photographique, artistique, Peinture et dessin Specialite photographie technique et archaeologique Constantinople, Pera Rue Cabristan No. 147.....
Arequipa, Peru: Vargas Hnos. 1930. Postcard. Not Bound. Real photo postcard, with the blind-stamp of the notably artistic and innovative Vargas brothers' studio in Arequipa at lower right. Not dated, circa 1930; not mailed; divided back. Slight wear; in very good condition.
Paris, France. G. Di San Lazzaro Editor, 1939. First Edition. Soft Cover. Black and white illustrated, with a 12-plate section by E. Blumenfeld, printed on heavy paper stock as is an 8-plate selection of sculpture of the Musee de l'Homme. With articles on sculpture, including by Kandinsky and George Duthuit.....
Paris, France. Publiee Sous Les Auspices Du Conseil Des Musees Nationaux, 1953. First Edition. Soft Cover. 67 + (3) pages; black and white illustrated throughout, with a color lithograph on heavy paper stock of an ancient Greek portrait of a woman recently acquired by the Louvre. French text; articles and.....
New York, New York: David A. Schorsch Incorporated, 1989. First Edition. Soft Cover. 189 pages; variously tone-printed & black and white illustrated throughout, with a useful index. Front endpaper with a handwritten presentation in ink from the author in the year of publication, "for Mary Abbott with best personal regards.....
New York, New York: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rizzoli New York, 1993. First Edition. Soft Cover. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the architect-designer's works at the SF MOMA in 1993. 139 pages; color, black and white illustrated throughout. Includes an interview with the architect, bibliography.....
New York, New York: Oxford University Press - Nierendorf Gallery, 1941. Paul Klee. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Including two color serigraphs; a photo-portrait of Paul Klee by Joseph Albers 1929; introduction by James Johnson Sweeney, notes by Karl Nierendorf; with a useful bibliography. Previous owner name in pencil on endpaper.....
New York, New York: Erich S. Herrmann, 1944. Degas. First Edition. Spiral Bound. With a one-page preface by Walter Mehring. Black and white illustrated throughout with the drawing work of Edgar Degas. Previous owner name of painter (Randolph Lewis) Teague on the title page edge. Approx. 9 3/4" x 12.....
New York, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1984. Joan Miro. First Edition. Slipcase. The George Braziller reproduction of the 1958 original by Eluard & Miro; with the separate essay on the making of the book and its background by Anne Hyde Greet. Approx. 10 1/4" x 13 1/4" size; illustrated.....
Flanders, New Jersey: Railroad Avenue Enterprises. Photograph. Not Bound. Black and white image of this locomotive, approx. 7 3/4" x 10" overall size. Back with identification and Railroad Avenue Enterprises stamp; they held negatives and reprinted these images, as this; we purchased a group of these vintage reprints from a......
Flanders, New Jersey: Railroad Avenue Enterprises. Photograph. Not Bound. Black and white image of this box car, approx. 7 3/4" x 10" overall size. Back with identification and Railroad Avenue Enterprises stamp; they held negatives and reprinted these images, as this; we purchased a group of these vintage reprints from.....
