London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxvi, 453pp., 2 plates, one of them folding, the other frontispiece. Original brown cloth with black lettering on cover and spine and gilt lettering on red leather label of spine. Frontispiece and publisher's device on title page. With an introduction..... More
Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1924. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/900. 8vo. 274pp. Rebound. Guilt stamped brown cloth over marbled boards in original dj. Head and tail of spine bumped. Some water staining around bottom corners of boards. Some rubbing and discoloration to boards. Wear to edges and corners. Chipping, minor tearing and..... More
New York: Virtue and Yorston, ND (ca 1870). Later edition. Hardcover. Folio (14 3/4 x 11"). [2], 1622pp (Old and New Testaments), [2], 80pp.(Index and Concise Dictionary of the Bible). Original black and gilt-embossed morocco, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Dentelles. Tissue-guarded..... More
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London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt, University College; Bernard Quaritch, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (12 1/4 x 10"). vii, [1], 26pp (Text), lxxi leaves (Plates). Original 3/4 burgundy cloth over printed paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. This first part of Flinders Petrie's "Beth-Pelet" documents the archaeological..... More
London: Michael Joseph, Ltd., (1951). W. Russell Flint. Hardcover. 8vo. 76 pp. Peach cloth binding with dj. 31 illustrations. Dj price clipped. Binding lightly worn at corners. Dj chipped at edges and corners. With clean illustrations, in very good condition with good dj. More
London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to the Medici Society/ Riccardi Press, 1909. Authorized Edition [Limited edition]. Hardcover. 1/17. Quarto. [7 leaves] 16pp. [23 leaves]. Limp vellum binding with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Green string ties. Copy #6 from a limited edition of 17 copies printed on..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1940. First American edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVIII, 474pp. Original printed dust-jacket over grey cloth with gold lettering on spine. In this powerful work, the author makes an apocalyptic diagnosis of the German evolution in the 19th century. He emphasizes the inevitable dialectic movement in the..... More
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. xvi, 360pp. Original illustrated red dust jacket with black and white lettering on covers, red lettering on white spine. Plum colored cloth boards with debossed gilt stamped motif on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. End papers illustrated with a...... More
Kansas: Coronado Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 53 pp + 28 pp of facsimile reproductions of cuneiform text. White wrapped boards with black lettering on front cover and spine. This small new book is a helpful publication, which makes available tablets from three rather inaccessible collections. The author is..... More
Tokyo: Yoshio Yoshida, 1992. First edition. Softcover. Signed and inscribed to Lynn O'Leary-Archer by Foster on page 7. Quarto. 156pp. Original illustrated wraps with white lettering on cover, b/w on spine. This special issue exclusively devoted to Richard Meier's proposal for the Getty Center was issued for one reason: the..... More
Schwäbisch Hall: Journal-Verlag Schwend, (1999). Hardcover. 4to. Volume III of IX volumes. 414pp. Original gold-stamped blue paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers. The most detailed work on Prussian-German rifles and bayonets ever published. Includes dates, facts and other important details of each weapon. Profusely illustrated with color..... More
Schwäbisch Hall: Journal-Verlag Schwend, (2000). Hardcover. 4to. Volume V of IX volumes. 609pp. Original gold-stamped blue paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers. The most detailed work on Prussian-German rifles and bayonets ever published. Includes dates, facts and other important details of each weapon. Profusely illustrated with color..... More
München: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, ca. 1925. Hardcover. 12mo. 236pp. Gold decorated orange cloth with gold lettering on spine. Spine slightly sunned. Small stamp of "African Studies Center" on free front endpaper. Frontispiece of Pascha loose with tape residue on top and bottom of portrait. Few markings in pencil throughout..... More
New York and London: R. R. Bowker Company, 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. XIX, [1], 293, [1]pp. Original black and green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. This important sourcebook, first published in 1941, traces the the history of bookbinding in America. The numerous illustrations bring together the..... More
Paris: H, Hoffmann, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Vol.I: xvi. 105pp. of text followed by 40pp. of plates. Vol.II: 80pp. of plates. Decorated gray boards. Four inches of midsection, and one inch on tail of spine of backstrip on vol.I missing. Some chipping to spine on vol.II. Minor scuffing and..... More
München: Zeltverlag, 1931. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. 40pp. Original illustrated wrappers with woodcut reproduction on front cover. This double issue of "Das Zelt" dedicated to the art of Walter Dreesel is exquisitely illustrated throughout with numerous color and b/w illustrations. Text in German. Wrappers and interior in overall very good..... More
Dessau: C. Dünnhaupt K.G., 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 8 1/4"). 81, [1]pp. Original printed dust-jacket over parchment covered boards. Pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece. Lavishly illustrated throughout with numerous in-text photogravures, a full-page pen and ink drawing and 6 color plates after watercolors by Helmut Schöbel, this..... More
Copenhagen: Rhodos, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 590pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over blue and burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Decorative endpapers. Though small in numbers, the Jews in Denmark were prominent members of the Danish cultural elite. Not only did they produce significant works of..... More
Boston: The Colonial Medical Press, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. XI, [1], 280pp. Original black cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. The purpose of this remarkable work is to demonstrate what one Roentgen clinic has accomplished toward establishing a method for exact diagnosis in the common surgical..... More
Berlin: AHDE-Verlag, 1981. Second edition. Softcover. Large octavo. 30, [2]pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Originally published in 1932 by anarcho-syndicalist Gerhard Wartenberg* under the pseudonym of HW Gerhard, this fierce anti-Nazi pamphlet describes the true nature of Nazism and castigates the Communists and the Social Democrats for enabling the rise of..... More
Andover: Printed for the Author, at the Godman Press, by Flagg and Gould, 1828. Hardcover. 8vo. iv. 210 (1) pp. Contemporary calf with label. Ex library. Two columns at each page. According to the Hebrew alphabet, but from left to right. With preface at beginning and list of abbreviations at..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. XXIX, [1], 297, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over burgundy with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped printer's device on front cover. This remarkable study presents statistical data of the daily wage rates of common labor, for the most part agricultural workers..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875-1876. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. IX, [1], 168, 96, 44, 4pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Fascinating work compiling three tracts on Church power, and of its "monstruous exageration" into Papal Power. Minor shelf-wear. Inside of front cover darkened, due to remnants..... More
Oxford: At The Clarendon Press, 1896. Hardcover. Ex library. 2 volumes. 8vo. Vol. I: xxxvii, 461pp. The Analogy of Religion Natural and Revealed to the Constitution and Course of Nature. Vol. II: x, 464pp. Sermons by Joseph Butler, D.C.L. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Head and tail of..... More
London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1914. Hardcover. Large quarto (12-3/4" x 10-1/2"). xlvii, (1), 150, (2)pp. Plus 50 black & white plates (most with multiple images). Red buckram lettered in gilt, over beveled boards. Additionally illustrated with a frontispiece facsimile of the Burlington Fine Arts Club founding document, dated 1703..... More