Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. LVII, [1], 333, [1]pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Transcripts of several surviving records of the voyage for Cathay sponsored by the Privy Council..... More
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1970. First edition. Softcover. Small quarto. [6], 122pp. Original printed wrappers. Captivating monograph on Boston architecture. The illustrations in this book direct attention to what is visually remarkable in Boston, be it the excellent, the appaling, or the unique. The accompanying text provides background. But..... More
London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt, University College; Bernard Quaritch, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 1/4 x 10"). xxxix, [3], 70pp (Text), [43] leaves (Plates). Original 3/4 burgundy cloth over printed paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Discovered in 1923 about 27 miles south of Asyut..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. Hardcover. Small folio. (xii), 596pp. Illustrated green dust jacket, white lettering on front cover and spine. Grey cloth boards with blue lettering on spine. "This volume unites groundbreaking texts by eminent American and European scholars with the most complete visual presentation ever of Ingres's..... More
Lipsiae (Leipzig): Giesecke et Derient, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (11 1/2 x 9"). l (50), 284pp. Contemporary full calf, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Title page in red and black lettering. Constantin von Tischendorf's celebrated edition of the renowned Greek manuscript of the New Testament..... More
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Mexico: Imprenta Universitaria, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 1/1500. Quarto. 219, [3]pp. Half spotted calf over brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Decorative endpapers. Original wrappers bound in. Printer's device on front wrap. Ribbon marker. Fly leaf inscribed and signed by Francisco de la Maza. Francisco eduardo Tresguerras (1759-1833) was..... More
Melbourne: The Lee-Pratt Press, 1939. First edition. Softcover. Quarto (10 1/8 x 7 1/2"). [16]pp (Text), [12]pp (Plates). Original decorative wrappers. Photo-illustrated title. Official catalogue of the International Camera Pictures exhibition held in Melbourne, Australia, in August 1939. This catalogue features the b/w photographic reproductions of 12 of the 351..... More
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1906. First UK edition. Hardcover. Quarto. LXI, [1], 416, 564pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spines. Top edges gilt. This remarkable work is a masterpiece of Protestant theology, both in form and contents. The author's arguments gathered in this book are a powerful..... More
Berlin-Schöneberg: Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto (9 1/2 x 13 1/2"). [2] leaves (Title and Dedication); [1] leaf (Photogravure portrait of German field marshal Alfred Ludwig Heinrich Karl Graf von Waldersee, after a photograph by J. C. Schaarwächter); 70pp (Photogravures); 1 folding map of Beijing..... More
London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVII, [2], 176pp. Original blue cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover. Remarkable transcription of Doctor William Brownrigg's casebook containing a variety of cases, observations and letters dating from 1737 to 1742. It also contains..... More
Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1949. First American edition. Softcover. Octavo. XVII, [1], 188pp. Original printed wrappers over green cloth with gold lettering on spine. The three essays here translated reveal an aspect of Max Weber's thought which has not yet been presented at first hand to the English-speaking public..... More
Oxford, Rutgers and Jerusalem: Oxford University Press; Rutgers University; Israel Universities Press, 1968-1984. First edition. 8vo. Series A. 20 volumes (of 23, lacking vols. 14, 15 & 17). Series B. 2 volumes (complete). Each volume of Series A approximately 400 pp., each with an index and frontispiece of Chaim Weizmann..... More
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto. XXI, [1], 632, [2], 287, [3]pp. Original illustrated dust-jackets over turquoise cloth with gold lettering on spines. Half-title of first volume inscribed and signed by Robert L. Welsch. Photo-illustrated title pages. This two-volume work, based around the field diaries and..... More
Edinburgh: G. D. Robinson, 1932-1933. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 245, [3], [2], 262pp. Contemporary olive cloth, with gold lettering on spines. Paul Burnford's Ex Libris on inside of each front cover. Complete collection of the first eight issues (two years) of "Cinema Quarterly" a film magazine published in Edinburgh..... More
Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. LXIV, [2], 445, [1]pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers over burgundy cloth with gold lettering and borders on spine and blind-stamped lettering on front cover. Although several translations of Simmel's articles have appeared in the United States, the present volume is..... More
Nendeln (Liechtenstein): Kraus Reprint Limited, 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. XCIII, [1], 314pp. Original blue cloth, with gold lettering and blind ruling on spine. Frontispiece. Collection of translated Spanish official documents pertaining to English voyages to Spanish America in the late 16th century. This volume is complete with all its plates..... More
Mockba (Moscow): «История фабрик и заводов» (History of Factories), 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (10 1/4 x 7 1/4"). 505, [3]pp. Original grey pebble cloth over red cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Ribbon marker. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated double title page in red and black lettering. Engraved..... More
St. Petersburg: Вторая государственная типографин (Vtoraia gosudarstvennaia tipo, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (lxxii) 422pp. Original green printed wrappers bound into a patterned tan faux-vellum binding. The publication is a historical survey of the activities of government run Jewish schools in Russia from the 1820s through the 1850s. The text..... More
東京 (Tokyo): 二松堂書店 (Nishodo Shoten)/ 佛像研究會 Butsuzo Kenkyukai, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (4) 12pp. [192 plates]. 50pp. Dark blue buckram boards with blind-stamped ruling on the front cover, and blind-stamped publisher's device on the back cover. Spine with gilt lettering and a red label. The book which was produced..... More