New York: Mini-Print Corp. [1967]. Hardcover. 2 volumes, oblong quartos, original brick-red cloth, unpaginated. The original publication of this massive work began with a first volume produced in 1868 and was completed with volume 29 in 1936. This micrographic reproduction presents the entire work in facsimile in reduced format with... More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, (1989). First edition. Hardcover. xii, 260 pp., 270 illustrations, including 87 in color; quarto, original brown cloth, pictorial jacket. An in depth study of the graphic work of influential French artist Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947). More
New York: Dover Publications, (1941). Later printing. Hardcover. [8] pp. 212 plates; folio (13.5 x 9 inches), original beige cloth, jacket. Fine facsimile reproduction of one of the most important calligraphic specimen books. More
New Castle, DE and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, (1998). First edition. Hardcover. xvi, 536 pp., illustrated; quarto, original brown cloth with gilt title, pictorial jacket. More
Irvine: Irvine Museum, (1996). First edition. Hardcover. (200) pp., profusely illustrated with color plates throughout, color pictorial jacket. A study of the impressionist movement throughout California from the mid-19th century to 1930. This volume was produced as a companion to a public television documentary series. More
New York: Abbeville Press, (1998). First edition. Hardcover. 284 pp., 256 illustrations, mostly in color, many full-page; quarto, original orange cloth, pictorial jacket. A study of the impressionist movement in California from the late 1800s through the 1930s. More
Paris: Bibliotheque de l'Image, 2000. First edition thus. Hardcover. (224) pp. including 102 color plates; quarto, brown cloth and marbled boards, pictorial jacket. Color reproductions of William Blake's illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy. Introductory text and accompanying commentary on each plate in English, German, and French. More
NY: Knopf, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Original black and beige cloth, quarto (8.5 x 10.75 inches), pp xviii, 314, xi (index). 48 b/w photo plates, 12 color plates, 112 illustrations in the text. A comprehensive survey of the origins and arts of the indigenous people of the Americas. More
San Francisco: Overland Monthly Publishing Co., 1899. First edition. 2 volumes, rebound in half morocco and brown cloth (Vol. 33) and half morocco and marbled boards (Vol. 34). Vol. 33 bound with original front wrappers from each issue but not rear wrapper or advertisements; Vol. 34 bound with front and... More
Peking: Pekiing International Women's Club, 1938. Second edition. Hardcover. xvii, 144 pp., frontispiece and 4 plates from photographs, tissue guards, dustjacket. First edition was published in 1935. Recipes and ingredients for all sorts of entrees and desserts. The restaurant guide includes menus and prices. Scarce in jacket. More
New York: S. S. McCLure Co., 1901. First edition. (6 issues). 584 pp., publishers black cloth with gilt title and cover ornament. London's story was published in book form in 1902 in the short story collection "Children of the Frost." More
Roma: Nella Stamparia della Reu. C.A., 1676. Early reprint. 663 pp., octavo, contempory vellum. There were many editions of this popular dictionary following its first publication in 1588. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1946). Later printing. Hardcover. Original black cloth with gilt spine, octavo, 311 pp. Likely a book club edition of this title. With a new introduction by the author. More
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. xx, 263 pp., profusely illustrated, including b/w photo plates, line drawings, map endpapers, and a 23 x 17-inch color plate folded and laid in; octavo, decorative cloth covers. The standard work on Navaho weaving. Color plate is described on page... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. xi, [3], 312 pp., octavo, original maroon cloth with title and cover ornaments in gilt and black, dustjacket. ". . . an attempt to present the Highest Common Factor of all theologies by assembling passages from the writings of those saints... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1946). Later printing. Hardcover. Original reddish brown cloth with gilt spine, octavo, 311 pp. Harper & Brothers printing code "L-D" on copyright page, indicating November, 1954 as the date of printing. With a new introduction by the author. More
New York: Harper & Row, (1946). Later printing. Hardcover. Original black cloth with gilt spine, octavo, 311 pp. Likely a 1970s printing of Huxley's most popular novel; jacket price is $10.95. With a new introduction by the author. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1954). Early reprint. Hardcover. 79 pp., octavo, original black and blue cloth, dustjacket. "A vivid, arresting and first hand description of the effects of mescalin, a little known drug of unusual qualities." (from jacket front panel). In May of 1953 at his Los Angeles home... More
Pleasant Hill, OR: Walking Tree Press, (1998). First US edition. Folio (15.5 x 10.75 inches), text volume in pictorial wrappers, 92 pp. profusely illustrated in color; together with 17 double page color facsimile maps loose in green cloth folder and glossy slipcase. Fine facsimile of the rare Mercator "Atlas Europae"... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., (1985). First edition. 2 volumes: full-color facsimile in half dark blue morocco and marbled boards; 30-page text volume in pictorial wrappers., slicpase box with flap closure. A faithful facsimile of the artist's sketchbook, including the 2 ragged stubs from 2 torn out pages. Published... More
London: Scolar Press, (1980). First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 volumes, complete, large quartos, mauve and beige boards, cloth-covered slipcase and publisher's cardboard case. First volume contains xl-page introduction in English followed by 82- page facsimile. Second volume with xxiv-page introduction, 8 color plates, 123 pp. English translation and illustrations. Facsimile... More
Portland, Oregon: Collegium Graphicum, (1972). Facsimile of the 1491 first edition. Large quarto, decorative yellow wrappers; unpaginated (+/- 700 pp), 96 full page reproductions of the original woodcut illustrations by Michael Wolgemut, initial letters printed in red and blue, slipcase. Text in German. Fine facsimile of this important and early... More
London: Andre Deutsch, (1984). First edition. 144 pp., 75 illustrations, including 50 color plates; large folio (15 x 12 inches), original blue cloth, pictorial jacket. A survey of antique celestial maps with fine reproductions and accompanying text. More
New York: Abbeville Press, (1981). First US edition. Hardcover. 148 pp., 68 color plates; large folio (15 x 12 inches), original green cloth, pictorial jacket. A survey of antique maps with fine reproductions and accompanying text. More
New York: Harper & Row, (1971). First edition. Hardcover. xi, 220 pp., 60 full-page color plates, many more illustrations in the text; folio (14 x 11 inches), original white coth, pictorial jacket. "During the first and second decades of this century, Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) was generally regarded as the... More