Citta Del Vaticano: Pontifico Istituto Di Archeolgoia Cristian, 1978. Thick Quarto. . 2 volume set. Volume I. 685 pages, Vol. II, 603 pages. Plates, charts, photographs. Besides the set in the Vatican the only other recorded copy is at the Univ Complutense de Madrid. One of the great conferences on..... More
Rio De Janeiro: 1952. First Edition. Quarto. Text in Portuguese. 296 pages, limited to 4500 copies. The present copy is #2489. Illustrated in color and in black and white. This work was designed and guided by the director, Professor Leonidio Ribeiro, under the auspicion of Instituicao Larragoiti, Devoted to indigenous..... More
Paris: Guillamin, 1849. Small Octavo. In two volumes: Text in French. Vol. I, 428 pages, index. Vol. 2. 386 (1) pp (4) pp. publisher's ads. Major Studies on Contemporary Reformers or Modern Socialists especially emphasizing utopian concepts: Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier, Robert Owen, and Jeremy Bentham. This sixth edition has the..... More
Paris: Societe Francaise D'imprimerie et De Librairie, 1907. Quarto. Inscribed by Olivier to Julien Bertheat. Portrait frontispiece, viii, 347 pages, 66 unnumbered leaves of plates with descriptive tissue guards. A student of Voltaire and a follower of his social and aesthetic views, Le Kain was the outstanding actor of enlightened..... More
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Berlin: Walter De Gruyter and Co., 1927. Quarto. Two volume set, [German text] with contributions by J. Kirchner, A. Korte and A.K. Orlandos. The text volume, 333 pages, with the plate [Tafein] volume having 44 plates and 112 textual illustrations. The author developed a major understanding of the architectural state..... More
Paris et Bruxelles: Les Editions G. Van Oest, 1927. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to 750 copies on Rives laid paper, large paper format. The present copy is #154. Portrait frontispiece, ix, 132 pages, 96 plates (including frontispiece and portraits). Dacier and Limay organized the Exposition in Paris (1927). Although several..... More
Boston; (1914): Seaver-Howland. 3 1/2 "x 5 1/2" Portrait frontispiece, 16 pages. In Emerson's essay on "Gifts," he illustrated the power of gifts to bind one person to another. The best gifts are those which are a part of oneself. The poet presents a poem, the farmer that which he..... More
(London, 1978): John Murray. Octavo. 186 pages, glossary. An account of an Armenian child's escape during the Turkish atrocities during the First World War. The men had been exterminated so it was mainly the women and children who made their way despite crossing through freezing mountain passes and across waterless..... More
Paris; 1883, 85, 86, 88 and 89: Aux Beureaux De L'Artiste. Quarto. Preface by Jacques Foucart, 5 fascicles bound into 2 volumes. There were reprints of this item in the 1970's but the originals with all five parts are very scarce. Chennevières, who collected and was associated with the major..... More
London; (1960): Faber & Faber. Frist Edition. Octavo. . 191 pages. After being discharged from the British Armed Forces at the end of the Second World War, Hugh Allen-and his widowed sister Babs-decided on impulse to settle down on an estate in Mandikhera, an obscure village in central India, hoping..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928. Second Edition. Octavo. 308 pages, index. illustrated with 18 plates. The significance of the Second Edition is that it has an important section added on Hawking which deals with the Goshawk, and others. Colonel Stewart originally prepared these extensive studies so those newly appointed..... More
Berkeley, California; (1973): University of California Press. Thick Octavo. Second edition, viii, 1085 pages, index. 30 unnumbered pages of plates. Nearly every life form found among North American flowering plants is represented in Arizona. This amazing diversity is partly explained by the fact that the altitudinal range extends from a...... More
(New York 1976): Delacorte Press. First Edition. Octavo. First trade edition after the limited edition. 243 pages. Vonnegut said that though his father had passed away seventeen years earlier, he was often called junior by family and friends. Now he said love is not so important, so he is choosing..... More
(New York, 1991): HarperCollins. First Edition. Octavo. . 193pp., Inscribed by the author: (A Very Merry Christmas/to Philomena/with Love/ from Ursula, December 9) another small note below author's name which is undecipherable…. and ? all the West? Le Guin's Searoad is also about the people who settled in the West..... More
(New York 1996): HarperCollins. First Edition. Octavo. 207pp. Inscribed "for Philomena [Guillebaud} with love, from Ursula*, Happy Birthday! July 11, 1996. Her asterisk adds: "and from Martha, an narrative American, see page 95. Le Guin demonstrates her sensitive and intimate relationship with the English language and her capacity to bring..... More
Warminster, England; (1973): Aris & Phillips. First Edition. Octavo. 525 pages, 12 maps, plans, diagrams, and index. K.A. Kitchen, has solved many of the seemingly unsurmountable obstacles on this era. He subjects the conflicting chronological data for this period to a systematic and penetrating scrutiny. Piecing together with meticulous care..... More
Cologne [Koln] (1975): Rheinland-Verlag. First Edition. Small Quarto. Inscribed to Professor Dr. Francois Gaeushof (?) with best wishes" 1976. In 2 volumes. Vol. I, 330 pages, with multiple folding plates at end [with folding map in pocket] Vol. 2. 519 pages with folding maps. This work shows the expansive settlement..... More
New York; (1960): Citadel Press. First Edition. Octavo. 314 pages. While known both for his marriage to Friede Kahlo and his remarkable murals, here is a remarkable story as he dictated his memoirs to Gladys March. His frankness and his multiple affairs, his relationship with Trotsky, his expulsion by Stalin..... More
London; (1957): George Allen & Unwin. First Edition. Octsavo. Frontispiece, 190 pages and (2)pp colophon and publisher's ads, illustrated, index. Translated by E.W. Dickes. The author writes of his experiences in hunting in the Dutch East Indies bagging elephant, wild boar and panthers. One of the best on describing the..... More
London: Macmillan, 1914. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, 351 pages. Later printing. A book that led Teddy Roosevelt to invite him to the White House and has influenced hunters and writers for over a century. Paul Theroux and a host of modern readers refer to it again and again. Patterson writes..... More
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1909. First Edition. Octavo. . 398 pages, maps, photographs. After opening with his experiences with man-eating lions, Patterson details his work during the expedition into the great northern game reserve of British East Africa which he penetrated into the little known regions. His sketch maps..... More
New York City: The American Museum of Natural History, 1928. Octavo. [81]-392pp. illustrated. Volume XXIX, Part III. The Havasupai are a small and obscure group of Yuman-speaking Indians living in the neighborhood of the Grand Canyon in north central Arizona. Our earliest knowledge dates from their discovery in 1776 by..... More
Milano, Italy; (1964): Gorlich. Quarto. In two volumes. continuous pagination; 168 and [168]-367. nicely illustrated in color and in black and white. The text of the present edition was mostly drawn from the notes of Giuseppe Morazzoni in 1958. Illustrated with tables, stands, statues, frames for mirrors made of wood..... More
Antwerp: Uitgave De Sikkel, 1949. Large Octavo. cviii, 457(1) pp., including index, illustrated, unopened. Volume 5 of the series. This volume describes Flemish artists and their works of the 17th century. A very good copy bound in stiff paper wraps lettered in black, spine lettering black, minor wear to spine..... More
Stockholm and London: Norstedt and Sons and William Pickering, 1842. Octavo. 115pp. Translated from the Old Norse by George Webbe Dasent. A classic collection of Norse myths of the Icelandic people believed to have been written or compiled by Icelandic scholar and historian Snorri Sturluson around the year 1220. Bound..... More