Blaise Cendrars
Roma: Bulzoni Editore, 1991. Scritt di F. Bruera, et al. 281p., b/w front., original stiff printed wrappers (Quaderni del Novecento Francese, 12). More about Blaise Cendrars
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Kruptadia; recueil de documents pour servir à l'étude des traditions Populaires
Darmstadt: J. G. Bläschke Verlag, 1970. 12 volumes complete, original red cloth. Title begins in Greek. Reprint of the 1883-1911 edition of this important compilation of secretive folktales and erotica from all of Western, Southern, Northern and Eastern Europe, in numerous languages. The final volume with the indices bears the... More about Kruptadia; recueil de documents pour servir à l'étude des traditions Populaires
Post-medieval Archaeology. Volumes 1-29 (1967-1995)
London: Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology. 1968-1996. 29 volumes (plus two separate index volumes covering v. 1-5 (1967-1971) and v. 6-10 (1972-1976)), b/w illus., maps, original stiff wrappers, very clean set throughout. More about Post-medieval Archaeology. Volumes 1-29 (1967-1995
Ta Chung-hua; the Great China
Taipei: Hsin Chen Publication Co., 1979. 4 volumes (453; 405; 485; 375p.), many colored and b/w illus., text in Chinese and English, large folio format, dj. More about Ta Chung-hua; the Great China
The original Water-Color Paintings By John James Audubon for The Birds of America
New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1966. Reproduced in color for the first time from the collection at the New-York Historical Society. Introduction by Marshall B. Davidson. Original edition. 2 vols. (iv, 746p.), colored port. front., 431 colored plates, b/w illus., large quarto format. Original publisher's slipcase (one edge of... More about The original Water-Color Paintings By John James Audubon for The Birds of America
Werke
Ann Arbor: J. W. Edwards, 1947. Vols. 1-46 (in 47), original red cloth, music, folio format. Reprint of the Bach-Gesellschaft Leipzig series, 1851-1899. Contents: v..1-2, Kirchencantaten, Bd. 1-2. v. 3, Clavierwerke, Bd. 1 v. 4, Passionsmusik nach dem Evangelisten Matthäus. v. 5:1, Kirchencantaten, Bd. 3. v. 5:2, Weihnachts-Orattorium nach den... More about Werke
O ke kumu leomele, no na himeni a me ha halelu e hoolea aku ai i ke Akua
Oahu, HOnolulu: Na na Misionari, 1834. 2 vols. bound in one and paged continuously (360p.), music, 19th-century marbled boards with rebacked half-leather. Page 57 is the added t.p. for the second part: Na himeni Hawaii, me na leomele; oia ka lua o na hapa i ke kumu leomele, with imprint... More about O ke kumu leomele, no na himeni a me ha halelu e hoolea aku ai i ke Akua
The Life of Samuel Johnson
New York: Printed for Gabriel Wells By Doubleday, Page and Company, 1922. Temple Bar edition. 10 volumes complete, engraved front., t.e.g., deckle edges, original half-vegetable vellum and publisher's stiff boards. No. 442 of 785 sets (of which thirty-five were not for sale). Splendid set of Boswell's great study of Samuel Johnson. More about The Life of Samuel Johnson
Sämtliche Werke; Ausgabe der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien
Ann Arbor: J. W. Edwards, 1949. 26 vols. complete, music, original cloth, large quarto format. Vols. 1-10, edited by Hans Gál; vols. 11-26 edited by Eusebius Mandyczwski. Reprint of the 1926 Leipzig edition. Contents: Bd. 1-2, Symphonien für Orchester I-II. Op. 68, 73, 90, 98. Bd. 3, Ouventüren und Variationen... More about Sämtliche Werke; Ausgabe der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien
Department of Manuscripts. Facsimiles of royal & other charters in the Vol. I: William I-Rich ard I. Edited by George F. Warner and Henry J. Ellis.
London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1903. [v p., 95 leaves] 19p., 50 facsimile plates with transcriptions and commentary text, large folio format, original cloth in very nice condition, deckle edges. Only volume ever published. More about Department of Manuscripts. Facsimiles of royal & other charters in the Vol. I: William I-Rich...
L'Écolier de Barcelone
Paris: A. Desesserts, 1842. Avec une préface de M. Louis Desnoyers, suivi du Fils du braconnier et Le petit noir. vi, 214p., b/w text illus., 8 full-page chromolithographs, half-leather with marbled boards. More about L'Écolier de Barcelone
De l'art de la comédie, ou détail raisonné des diverses parties de la comédie, et de ses différents genres; suivi d'un traité de l'imitation ou l'on compare à leurs originaux les imitations de Moliere & celles des Modernes
Paris: chez Fr. Amb. Didot ainé, 1772. 4 volumes completes, uniformly bound in mottled calf with spine labels and gilt lettering. More about De l'art de la comédie, ou détail raisonné des diverses parties de la comédie, et de ses...
The lives of the Painters
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1969. 4 volumes complete, colored and b/w plates, original green cloth. Contents: v. 1, Late Gothic to High Renaissance. v. 2, Baroque. v. 3, Neo-classic to post-Impressionist. v. 4, Plates and index. More about The lives of the Painters
Sønderjyske Stednavne. Vols. 1-19
København: G. E. C. Gad. 1933-1944. Total of 19 fascicles, original stiff printed wrappers with yapped edges, mostly unopend. The series was terminated during W.W. II. More about Sønderjyske Stednavne. Vols. 1-19
La France Littéraire Contenant Les Auteurs Français De 1771 à 1796
Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1971. 5 vols. complete, original blue cloth, ex libris. Reprint of the 1796-1806 Hamburg edition. Contents: t. 1, A-D. t. 2, E-N. t. 3, O-Z. t. 4, 1e supplément. t. 5, 2e supplément. More about La France Littéraire Contenant Les Auteurs Français De 1771 à 1796
Index Aeschyleus
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1964. Editio altera correcta et aucta curavit S. L. Radt. xii, 345p., original blue cloth, quarto format. More about Index Aeschyleus
Ladies' Mistakes: Cupid's Changeling; A Stitch in Time; Love's Progress
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1933. With nine illustrations by Thomas Lowinsky. 106 [1]p., 9 b/w drawings, original stiff marbled boards (slightly rubbed on the extremities), spine label, deckle edges. "Of this edition on Batchelor's hammer and anvil paper three hundred copies have been printed and made in England at the... More about Ladies' Mistakes: Cupid's Changeling; A Stitch in Time; Love's Progress
Fasti ecclesiae anglicanae, 1300-1541
London: University of London, Institute of Historical Research, Athlone Press. 1962-1967. 12 volumes complete, original green cloth. Contents: v. 1, Lincoln Diocese, compiled by H. P. F. King. v. 2, Hereford Diocese, compiled by Joyce M. Horn. v. 3, Salisbury Diocese, compiled by Joyce M. Horn. v. 4, Monastic cathedrals... More about Fasti ecclesiae anglicanae, 1300-1541
Die Abenteuer des Chevalier Faublas erzählt von Louvet de Couvray
München: Georg Müller, 1910. 4 vols., erotic etchings by Karl Walser, half-leather with decorative printed boards, with the original green tissue-guards over the etchings. No. 1329 of 1500 sets of this translated erotic novel by the young French writer and revolutionary (1760-1797). Near fine condition. More about Die Abenteuer des Chevalier Faublas erzählt von Louvet de Couvray
Luthers Werke in Auswahl
Berlin: Walter De Gruyter & Co. Unter Mitwirkung von Albert Leitzmann herausgegeben von Otto Clemen. 6e, durchgesehene Auflage. 1959-1966. 8 volumes complete, original cloth. Contents: Bd. 1, Schriften von 1517 bis 1520. Bd. 2, Schriften von 152 bis 1524. Bd. 3, Schriften von 1524 bis 1528. Bd. 4, Schriften von... More about Luthers Werke in Auswahl
The Correspondence of Marcello Malpighi
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1975. Edited by Howard B. Adelmann. 5 vols. complete, original burgundy cloth, in the original publisher's stiff-board slipcase. Contents: v. 1, 1658-1669. v. 2, 1670-1683. v. 3, 1684-1688. v. 4, 1689-1692. v. 5, 1693-1694. More about The Correspondence of Marcello Malpighi
Tartuffe or the Hypocrite
Leipzig: Printed By Poeschel & Trepte for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1930. Verse translation by Curtis Hidden Page; introduction by Brander Matthews; lithograph illustrations by Hugo Steiner-Prag. 117 [2]p., plus Stein-Prag's b/w lithographs, quarto format, deckle edges, original plain dj slightly chipped at the foot of the... More about Tartuffe or the Hypocrite
The Life and Works of Thomas Paine. Patriots' Edition
New Rochelle: Thomas Paine National Historical Association, 1925. 10 volumes in original brown cloth with leather spine labels, b/w frontispiece in each volume. Contents: v. 1, Life of Thomas Paine, by William M. Van der Weyde with an intrdocution by Thomas A. Edison. v. 2, Early essays; Common sense; The... More about The Life and Works of Thomas Paine. Patriots' Edition
Gilbert Stuart; an Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. With an account of his life by John Hill Morgan and an appreciation by Royal Cortissoz. 4 vols. (982 [1]; 606p.), b/w plates, front. tissueguards, original blue cloth with gilt trim. near fine condition. More about Gilbert Stuart; an Illustrated Descriptive List of His Works
[Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia]
Roma: per Zachariam Calergi Cretensem, 1515. Quarto format, collates complete. Printed in red and black. Zacharias Kallierges brought the font from his earlier typographical work in Venice and prepared this important textual edition of Pindar at the press of the wealthy banker Agostino Chigi. Bound in half-vellum with freckled stiff... More about Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia