At Home with the Presidents
by Blodgett, Bonnie & D.J. Price
New York: Overlook Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 256 pages. 125 black and white photographs and drawings, and fifty-eight color photographs. Index. An architectural and social tour. Bookplate.
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A History of French Architecture From the Reign of Charles VIII Till the Death of Mazarin Till The Death Of Louis XV 1661-1774; With Drawings By The Author And Other Illustrations
by Blomfield, Reginald
London: George Bell & Sons, 1921. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Teg. Very good. 2 vols. 219 & 233 pages. 28 x 19.5 cm. Total of 200 plates, most with plans and drawings to scale. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J167. "A standard work of French classical architecture." CHAMBERLAIN 846. LUCAS p53. Printed by the Chiswick Press, small owner label and... Read More
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A History of Renaissance Architecture in England,1500-1800
by Blomfield, Reginald
London: George Bell & Sons, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. two-toned cloth. Very good. Teg. 2 vols.. 431 pages in total. 28 x 20 cm. Approximately 250 plates. Title page printed in red and black. General Index. This was Blomfield's second work, which the DNB called "masterly," and noted they were, "learned, admirably written and well-illustrated." This work... Read More
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De La Distribution Des Maisons De Plaisance, Et De La Decoration Des Edifices En General
by Blondel, Jacques-Francois
Paris: Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1738. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary French cat's paw calf, edges stained red. Very good. 2 vols. 198 & 180 pages. 28.5 x 21.2 cm. 155 engraved plates, title page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece and 44 engraved plates in Vol. 1 (42 folding) ; 111 engraved plates in Vol. 2 (12 folding),... Read More
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May Day With The Muses
by Bloomfield, Robert
London: For The Author; and For Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1822. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary half polished brown calf, marbled boards, red leather spine label printed in gilt. Very good. 100 pages. 16 x 10 cm. Title vignette, head and tail pieces, Bewick style wood engravings. A lesser poet of humble circumstances, a farm boy, who died mad,... Read More
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The Modern Metropolis It's Origins, Growth, Characteristics, and Planning
by Blumenfeld, Hans
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper. 377 pages. Edited by Paul D. Spreiregen. Foreword by S.B. Zisman. Photographs, plans, and drawings. Index. A clear, comprehensible and readable book on thegrowth of modern cities and their planning. POWELL 899.
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Collection des Orchidées les plus remarquables De L'Archipel Indien et Du Japon
by Blume, Karl Ludwig
Amsterdam: C.G. Sulpke, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter black morocco and marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers. Teg. Very good. 190 pages in text. Folio, 43 x 28.6 cm. Presents the first major work on the orchids of Japan and Malay Peninsula. Half-title. Additional hand-colored lithographic by Lauters depicting dancing Balinese maidens surrounded by a wreath of orchids... Read More
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To Themis Poems on Famous Trials With Other Pieces
by Blunden, Edmund
London: Beaumont Press, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. basket weave cream cloth and patterned boards. Near fine. 58 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition copy 125 of 405 on hand made paper, frontispiece and and title page designed by Randolph Schwabe, typography and binding by Cyril William Beaumont. Laid-in Richard D. Friedlander bookplate and letter of Gordon... Read More
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To Nature New Poems
by Blunden, Edmund
London: Beaumont Press, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark beige cloth spine, patterned boards. Fine. 50 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition copy 271 of 390. Initial letters designed by Randolph Schwabe, typography and binding by Cyril William Beaumont. Bookplate. Bright, crisp copy.
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Masks Of Time A New Collection Of Poems Principally Meditative
by Blunden, Edmund
London: Beaumont Press, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. basket weave cream cloth and patterned boards. Fine. 58 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition copy 202 of 390 on hand made paper with initial letters designed by Randolph Schwabe, typography and binding by Cyril William Beaumont. Bookplate of Richard D. Friedlander. Bright, crisp copy.
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The Cheyne Book Of Chelsea China and Pottery
by Blunt, Reginald (Editor)
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter beige spine and blue boards, front cover paper label. Near fine. 132 pages in text. 26 x 19 cm. Color frontispiece and 49 plates printed recto only. 484 items noted. Fresh, bright copy.
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Esther: A Young Man's Tragedy: Together With The Love Sonnets Of Proteus
by Blunt, Wilfred Scawen
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. Hardcover. Orig. parchment paper spine and plain cream boards. Very good in dust wrapper with lettered spine. Very good. 203 pages. 20 x 15 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 on Dutch handmade paper (of 550) with title page, border, and initial letters, designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. Printed at the University Press.... Read More
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Days Of The Dandies
by Boaden, James; Burney, Fanny; Cibber, Colley; Woffington, Peg; Fitzgerald, Percy; Gronow, Captain; Molloy, J. Fitzgerald; Montague, Mary Wortley; Goldsmith, Oliver; Walpole, B.C.
London: Grolier Society, Nd. Edition Definitive. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco, marbled boards and matching endpapers. Teg. Fine. 15 Vols. 23 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 5 of 50 for L. Dean Holder and noted as "Edition Definitive" (Printed for the members of the Union Club Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. 1902). Bookplates of Virginia Hawley Holden descendent of... Read More
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Clerical Salaries in the United States 1926
by New York. National Conference Board
New York: National Conference Board, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Graphs, Tables and Charts. Orig. navy cloth. Near fine. 59 pages, 23 x 15.5 cm.
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Adriaen Van Ostade Die Radierungen des Meisters in original-getreuen Nachbildungen mit einer Einfuhrung
by Bock, Elfried
Berlin: Amsler & Ruthhardt, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. full vellum, spine and cover lettered in gilt. Fine. Van Ostade, Adriaen. 5 pages in text. 37 x 29 cm, Limited edition, copy 7 of 16. Fifty plates. Van Ostade, a painter and etcher was a pupil of Frans Hals. Best known for his good humored scenes of peasant... Read More
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Giambattista Bodoni Opera Typographica MDCCLXIX-MDCCCXXXIX
by Bodoni, Giambattista
Munchen: Weiss & Co. Antiquariat, 1926. First edition. Paperback. Orig. white wrappers with dark salmon overwrapper, portions of latter chipped with small portion lacking at spine. Very good.. 125 pages. Large 8vo, this catalogue comprises a collection of approximately 500 different works of Stamperia Reale of Parma, directed by Bodoni from 1768 until his death in 1813.There are... Read More
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Die Officina Bodoni; Das Werkbuch einer Handpresse in den ersten sechs Jahren ihres Wirkens
by Bodoni, Giambattista. [Masereel, Frans (Illustrator)]
Paris: Pegasusverlag, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth with Bodoni gilt logo front cover. Very good in nicked dust wrapper. Masereel, Frans. 80 pages. 30 x 21.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 180 of 350 of the German edition on Lafuma Rag Paper in the original types of Giambattista Bodoni. Host of tipped-in specimen pages, plus twelve full... Read More
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The Officina Bodoni; The Operation of a Hand-press during the first six years of its work
by Paris * New York. Editiones Officinae Bodoni
Paris & New York: At The Sign of The Pegasus, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. basket weave cream cloth, gilt Bodoni logo front cover. Near fine in worn dust wrapper lacking small portion of lower spine. 80 pages. 30 x 21.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 229 of 500 of the English edition, on Lafuma Rag Paper in the... Read More
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Rembrandt The Richard Harris Collection
by NY. C.G. Boerner
NY: C.G. Boerner, 2003. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 40 pages. 8 1/2 x 11". Illustrated in color.
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Hiroshige Birds and Flowers
by Bogel, Cynthia J. (Introduction)
New York: George Braziller in association with The Rhode Island School of Design, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. salmon cloth lettered in white and black. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Hiroshige. 192 pages. 36.5 x 25.5 cm. 192 full page color plates with descriptive text. Commentaries on the plates by Israel Goldman. Poetry translated from the Japanese by... Read More
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Album Boileau de 23 Eaux Fortes; d'apres les tableaux de Cabanal Bonnat Ch DeLort Fr. Flameng Gerome Vilbert etc. etc.
by Album Boileau
Paris: Np, 1891. leather_bound. Full black morocco. Aeg. Near fine. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 25 cm. Original watercolor title page by J. Ostolle, text lettered in gilt. Twenty three full page etchings with lettered tissue guards by French academic painters. Frontispiece by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard with additional full page contributions by Alexander Cabanel, Leon Bonnat, Charles De Lort, Francoise Flameng,... Read More
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Masterpieces of The Japanese Color Woodcut
by Boller, Willy
Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop, 1957. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige boards and maroon cloth spine. Very good in worn dust wrapper. 174 pages. Voluminously illustrated, mostly in black and white with five full-page color, and two-toned plates. Original German version printed by Urs-Graf Verlag; Bern, Switzerland. A survey and history of the Japanese color woodcut... Read More
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The Architecture of Robert & James Adam (1758-1794)
by Bolton, Arthur T.
London: Country Life, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Aeg. Very good. 2 vols. Adam, Robert & James. Approximately 15" x 12"; 636 illustrations, photographs and drawings to scale. Spiers Index of Drawings inThe Soane Collection. Index of Clients' Names. General Index. An important work, magnificently illustrated. COLVIN p31. "...contains a catalogue of the principal works of... Read More
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Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons
by Bolton, Theodore
New York: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. boards and cloth. Fine in original worn glassine wrapper. 111 pges. Thirteen illustrations. Index: Names of Artists. Index: Names of the Sitters. A listing of portrait draughtsmen in crayons, both native American and foreign artists working in America, from the earliest times until 1860. Limited edition, one of... Read More
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Came to Oxford
by Bone, Gertrude
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1953. Hardcover. Orig. sky blue cloth. Fine in Near fine dust wrapper. Bone, Muirhead. 133 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Illustrated with a host of black and white and color plates-- thirty two in all. Bright, very fresh and clean copy.
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