Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals
New York, Etc. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1990. 5 vols. complete, colored illus., original cloth, quarto format, ex libris. More
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Methods in Enzymology
New York, Etc: Academic Press. Volumes 1-390 (1955-2004), original green cloth, ex libris (former library stamps, card pockets, but internally clean throughout). Complete early half-century run of this important journal in the field. More
Précis de l'histoire d'Égypte par divers historiens et Archéologues
Cairo: Imprimérie De l'Institut Français d'Archéologique Orientale Du Caire. 1932-1935. 4 vols. complete, half-leather with black cloth (upper backstrip on two volumes slightly chipped), imprint varies. Very nice study of Egypt from the ancient origins through the 19th century. Contents: t. 1, Égypte préhistorique, pharonique et gréco-romaine, par le Père..... More
Skanda-Purana, a Sanskrit manuscript from Nepal containing the Kasi-khanda
New Delhi: S. Rani, 1978. Reproduced by Sharad Rani from the collection of Raghuvira. [iv] 303p., with the complete b/w facsimile (two-leaves per page), original green cloth, oblong quarto format (Sata-pitaka series, 242). More
Atti
Firenze, Etc. Accademia Italiana Della Vite e Del Vino, Siena. 1954-1967. Vol. V(1953)-XI(1959), XIII(1961)-XIX(1967). 14 vols. total (lacking v. XII), all in the original stiff wrappers. Later imprints at Treviso. Each year with 400-600 pages on the Italian wine market, diseases, vintages, etc., including both colored and b/w illustrations. Scarce..... More
Les Prisons de l'Europe
Paris: Administration De Librairie, 1845. Bicêtre, la Conciergerie, la Force, la Salpêtrière, le For-l'Évèque, Saint-Lazare, le Chatelet, la Tournelle, l'Abbaye, Sainte-Pélagie, Pierre en Cize, Possy, Ham, Fenestrelles, le Chateau d'If, Chateau Trompette, le Mont Saint-Michel, Clairvaux, les Iles Sainte-Marguerite, la Tour de Londres, Pignerolles, le Speilberg, les Plombs de Venise..... More
Eine Erzaehlung Vom Glueck
Wien Und Leipzig: Avalun-Verlag, 1922. 97 [1]p., with the full original etchings of Karl M. Schultheiss, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Faded full green calf, with gilt trim and a leather spine label. Printed by Jakob Hegner of Hellerau; the etchings were printed by Heinrich Wetteroth in Munich, under the supervision..... More
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
Boland's Masterpieces in the Game of Checkers
Brooklyn: Ben Boland, 1947. 208p., b/w board drawings, original black cloth, SIGNED by the author. More
Illuminated Manuscripts of the Divine Comedy
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. 2 vols. (xx, 378p.; xxii, 539p.), b/w illus., dj, small folio format, original publisher's slipcase. Contents: v. 1, Text. v. 2, Plates (Bollingen series, 81). More
Denkwürdigkeiten
Berlin: Verlag Ullstein. Herausgegeben von Franz von Stockhammern. 1930-1931. 4 vols., b/w illus. (some folded), original blue cloth, quarto format. Contents: Bd. 1, Vom Staatssekretariat bis zur Marokko-Krise. Bd. 2, Von der Marokko-Krise bis zum Abschied. Bd. 3, Weltkrieg und Zusammenbruch. Bd. 4, Jugend- und Diplomatenjahre... More
Glauben und Verstehen; gesammelte Aufsätze
Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck). 7e, unveränderte Auflage. 1965-1967. 4 vols., (336; 293; 212; 198p.), dj. Bd. 2 "vierte, unveränderte Auflage; Bd. 3 "3e, unveränderte Auflage"; Bd. 4, "2. unveränderte Auflage" More
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
Nouveau traité élémentaire de perspective à l'usage des artistes et des personnes qui s'occupent du dessin, précédé des premières notions de la géometrie élémentaire, de la géometrie descriptive, de l'optique et de la projection des Ombres
Paris: Bachelier, Librarie (successeur de Mme Ve Courcier), 1823. viii, 333 [1]p., plus the 85 engraved plates of the "Atlas" interspersed in the copy. 19th-century brown half-leather with marbled boards (the marbled paper on the rear panel lightly chipped along the leather edge), faded gilt lettering on the upper spine..... More
The dramatic Works of John Crowne with Prefatory Memoir and Notes
Edinburgh: William Paterson; London, H. Sotheran & Co. 1873-1874. 4 vols. complete, deckle edges, original cream cloth slightly aged toned, former library bookplate inside the front covers. One of 450 small paper copies, issued by subscription. (Dramatists of the Restoration). More
The Camille De Rose Story
Chicago: De Rose Publishing, 1953. 348p., b/w illus., original burgundy cloth. More
International Photography; George Eastman House Index to Photographers, Collections, and Exhibitions
New York: G. K. Hall & Co.; London, Etc., Prentice Hall International, 1998. 3d Enlarged Edition. 3 vols. (xxi, 951; xi, 615; 657p.), original black cloth, quarto format, ex libris. Contents: v. 1, Photographer. v. 2, Collections. v. 3, Exhibitions. More
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England
London, etc: Cassall and Company. 1921-1922. 4 vols. (ix, 314; 349; 377 [1]; 391 [1]p.), b/w text illus., original blue cloth with gilt trim (one-inch cloth nick at head of spine of the second volume), light foxing on the endpapers. Contents: v. 1, 1841-1857. v. 2, 1857-1874. v. 3, 1874-1892..... More
Correspondence of Thomas Gray
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935. Edited by the late Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley. 3 vols. (lx, 454; xxxvi, 455-910; xxxiv, 911-1360p.), original burgundy cloth, t.e.g. Contents: v. 1, 1734-1755. v. 2, 1756-1765. v. 3, 1766-1771. More
Histoire des colonies françaises et de l'expansion de la France dans le Monde
Paris: Société de l'Histoire Nationale, Librairie Plon. 1929-1933. 6 volumes complete, colored plates, b/w text illus., maps, burgundy buckram, thick quarto format, ex libris. Contents: t. 1, Introduction générale, par Gabriel Hanotaux; l'Amérique, par Ch. de la Roncière, et al.. t. 2, L'Algérie, par Augustin Bernard. t. 3, Le Maroc..... More
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Made Under Direction of the Navy Department.
Washington: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853. Part I, by Lieut. Herndon. 414p., iii p., b/w illus., half-cloth with marbled boards, slightly rubbed on the edges (U.S. Congress, 32d, 2d Session. House of Representatives. Executive, 43). More
Les Eschéz d'Amours. A critical Edition of the Poem and Its Latin Glosses
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2013. Edited by Gregory Heyworth, Daniel E. O'Sullivan, with Frank Coulson. xi, 684p., original stiff printed boards (Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts, 10). More
OPera
Glasgow: In aedibus academicis, excudebat Jacobus Mundell, 1796. Cum schocliis veteribus castigavit, et notis illustravit Guilelmus Baxterus, varias lectiones et obbservationes addidit Jo. Matthias Gesnerus, quibus et suas adspersit Jo. Carolus Zeunius. Editio nova prioir emendatior. xxx, 575p., quarto format, full green leather with gilt trim, a.e.g., two very discreet..... More
The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life, By Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep, &c. And Peptic Precepts, Pointing Out agreeable and Effectual Methods to Privent and Relieve Indigestion, and to regulate and Strengthen the Action of the Stomach..
London: Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co; Edinburgh, A. Constable and Co., 1822. 4th Edition, Enlarged. [viii] 336p., deckle edges, bound in stiff paper boards, with a paper spine label. More
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