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.....
London, England: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1873. First Edition. Hard Cover. vi + 338 pages; black and white frontispiece illustration and illustrated title page. Robert Gosset Woodthorpe (1844 - 1898) English military officer and amateur artist, writing of this British Indian Army expedition to the Lushai, in north-eastern India. The.....
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. Revised Edition, Illustrations and Map. Hard Cover. Two volumes; xxv + 836 + xii + 775 pages; with useful index for both volumes at the back of Vol. II, along with map in the back pocket, approx. 19 1/4:" x 25" size. Folding.....
London, England: Trubner & Co., 1887. First Edition. Hard Cover. (6) + 215 pages + (20) pages of publishers' announcements at back, all concerning the Oriental Series of which this volume was part. Frederic Henry Balfour (1846 -1909) British book editor, essayist, author, wrote mainly on the Tao Te Ching.....
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: The Art Digest, 1953. First Edition. Soft Cover. 31 pages; black and white illustrated throughout. Belle Krasne, editor; associate editors included Dore Ashton, Margaret Breuning, Hubert Crehan. Magazine with current news of the day in the arts, coast to coast and internationally, auctions, shows, museum openings.....
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.....
New York, New York: Livermore and Rudd, 1856. First Edition. Hard Cover. 428 pages + (10) pages of occasionally illustrated publishers' announcements at back. A somewhat darkly humorous novel, unsparing in its sarcastic wit concerning prostitution, political corruption, slavery, forlorn love, the ridiculous behavior of the gambler, the ego driven.....
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.....
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 streetcar system, 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.....
Flanders, New Jersey: Railroad Avenue Enterprises. Photograph. Not Bound. Black and white image of this streetcar system, 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.....
Flanders, New Jersey: Railroad Avenue Enterprises. Photograph. Not Bound. Black and white image of this streetcar system, 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.....
