Los Angeles: Monolith Portland Cement Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [8]pp., [1] 144 plates with one page intro for each of fourteen chapters. Original brown leatherette with gilt lettering and blind-stamped vignette and decorative ruling on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Title page printed in red and black with..... More
London: Trübner & Co, 1860. First English language edition (British). Hardcover. Small Octavo. xxxi [i], 255pp., 6 hand-colored plates. Original red leather Bayntun Binding rebacked with original spine and covers laid to red leather with colored inlay of Owlglass and decorative ruling on covers, gilt lettering and decorative ruling on..... More
Berlin-Charlottenburg: Verlag "Schwellen" [1923]. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio (13 1/4 x 19 1/2"). [2], III-XXXI, [1] leaves. Rebound in 3/4 blue buckram, with the retained original illustrated dark blue velvet-covered boards laid down. Ryback's powerful images were created as a memorial to the Jewish villages ("shtetlekh") - including his..... More
Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1923. Fifth edition (10.-14. Thousand). Hardcover. Small Quarto. 331 [1]pp., 4 plates as called for, with captioned, decorative tissue guards, plus 2 original lithographs in text. Original black paper-covered boards, gilt-illustrated, framed and lettered on cover and spine. Top edge black. Tan endpapers. Frontispiece etching by Max..... More
Moscow: State Museums of the Kremlin, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 28 [7]pp. Original red buckram with gilt lettering on cover and spine, in original color-illustrated dustjacket with white lettering and publisher's device on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Gray/white title page with large emblem on title page. The objects presented..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. 194pp. Original black cloth with white lettering on spine, in original color-illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine. "Buccellatti: a name that connotes jewelry throughout the world. Jewelry worthy of the great Renaissance goldsmiths, yet completely up to date, unmistakable. The secret..... More
Paris: Editions du Regard, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 142 [2]pp. Original red cloth with blind-stamped lettering on cover and spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, red and black lettering on spine. Black endpapers. Half-title and title page printed in red. Color frontispiece. Beautifully illustrated with magnificent Marchak designs in color..... More
Paris: Editions d'art Monelle Hayot, 1991. New enlarged edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 160pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, in original color-illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Color frontispiece, Photographic head and endpieces. Reza is considered to possess the finest collection of precious stones..... More
New York: The Vendome Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (13-3/4" x 10-1/2"). 205 [3]pp. Original off-white buckram with silver lettering on cover and spine in photo-illustrated dust jacket with black spine lettered in white. Red endpapers. B/w frontispiece. Profusely illustrated with photographs (most in color), and a map of..... More
London: Printed for C. Cooke, ca.1790. Later edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. VI, 7-718pp., 53 plates plus frontispiece emgraving by Charles Grignion. Bound in blue buckram. Accentuated initials and decorative tailpieces. Marginalia. Remarkable edition of the works of Flavius Josephus, providing crucial information about the First Jewish-Roman War and an important..... More
Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1920. Fourth expanded and revised edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. [8] 279pp., 6 plates as called for, incl. frontispiece, 5 with captioned tissue guards. Original black paper-covered boards, gilt-illustrated, framed and lettered on cover and spine, protected by modern mylar. Top edge black. Tan endpapers. Frontispiece etching by..... More
Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1919. Third expanded and revised edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. [8] 275pp., 6 plates as called for, incl. frontispiece, 5 with captioned tissue guards. Original black paper-covered boards, gilt-illustrated, framed and lettered on cover and spine. Top edge black. Anthracite endpapers. Frontispiece etching by Max Liebermann, Amsterdamer Judengasse..... More
Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1912. Second expanded and revised edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. [8] 246 [1]pp., 6 plates as called for, incl. frontispiece, with captioned, decorative tissue guards. Original black paper-covered boards, gilt-illustrated, framed and lettered on cover and spine. Top edge black. Gray endpapers. Frontispiece etching by Max Liebermann, Amsterdamer..... More
Berlin: Otto Beckmann Verlag, 1910s. First German edition. Hardcover. 218/500. Large Folio. 8pp., 43 plates. Original vellum portfolio with gilt lettering on cover. Inside cover and flaps with decorative color printing. Half-title of string-bound text pamphlet printed in red and black. Title page in red and black with decorative black..... More
Los Angeles: Monolith Portland Cement Company, 1926. First edition. Loose leaf. 426/1000. Special Architects Edition. Folio. 8pp., 144 numbered plates. Original brown leatherette string-tied portfolio box with embossed color image and lettering in three separate decorative embossed frames on cover, two with lettering on spine. A portfolio of one hundred..... More
New York: Waldon Press, 1956. Hardcover. Octavo. 644pp. Half black cloth over gray cloth boards with gray lettering and ruling on covers and on spine. Memorial volume for the Jewish community of Vitebsk in Belarus. Analyzes the community from a sociology and economic perspective. Includes significant material on R. Shneur..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. iv pages, 98 plates. Original burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped emblem on cover and gilt lettering on spine. Brown endpapers. Frontispiece photograph. Coat of arms on title page. A photographic survey of Spanish architecture of all styles. Photographs of the..... More
Berlin: Malik-Verlag, 1923. First edition, Edition C. Softcover. Folio. [4] 84 b/w plates, XVI color plates. Original stiff tan illustrated cotton wraps with brown lettering on cover. Title page printed in orange. Sixteen watercolors reproduced in high quality color offset and eighty-four drawings reproduced lithographically. The content of edition C...... More
Palermo: Editrice de "Il Vespro" 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 219 [21]pp. Bound in original corrugated cardboard with color screen print and blue lettering on cover. Lithographed vignette on title page. Text and illustrations printed to rough oatmeal paper. 20 volumes of the "In Bocca" series were published by Editrice..... More
Palermo: Editrice de "Il Vespro" 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 267 [21]pp. Bound in original corrugated cardboard with color screen print and blue lettering on cover. Lithographed vignette on title page. Text and illustrations printed to rough oatmeal paper. 20 volumes of the "In Bocca" series were originally published by..... More
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1901. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 240 plates with steel engravings. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Tope edges gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Additional b/w title page for volume one bound in. Black endpapers. Historiated woodcut endpieces for each subject..... More
Washington , D. C. Supreme Court of the United States, 1938. Original document. Loose leaf. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5"). 1 leaf. Original letter on Supreme Court stationary to his second cousins in Vienna, Betty Brandeis (1892-1973) and Louise Brandeis (1903-...), marked personal in upper left corner, with postmarked envelope..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [8] 303 [1]pp. Original orange-brown cloth with gilt-framed facsimile signature on cover, gilt lettering and decorative ruling on spine. Publisher's device on title page. The text of this book was set on the Linotype in Baskerville type. The book was..... More
Paris: Atelier des Blancs Manteaux, [1974]. First edition, limited. Loose leaf. 58/120. Elephant folio (20 3/4 x 13 1/2"). Original blue cloth clamshell box with gilt lettering on cover. Limited edition of 25 etchings (five in color) on Arches with introduction by Henry Bulawko and the "Song of Songs" in..... More
New York: Privately printed, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. 101 [1]pp. Original light brown cloth with gilt lettering on cover. Gray endpapers. Color frontispiece. Beautifully illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of tapestries: A fourteenth century Gothic tapestry, King Arthur; A fifteenth century Gothic tapestry, Hector and Andromache, in..... More