Choice Recipes From Miss Farmer's Slips
by Colt, J.N. (Compiler)
Boston: John W. Schaeffer & Co. (Boston, Mass.) printer, 1926. Wraps. Light green wrappers front cover border and text printed in blue. Very good. 3 unnumbered leaves, 41 leaves. 22 x 15.5 cm. OCLC: 1236247373. "Imprint date suggested from manuscript inscription on title page. Some recipes include wine or liquor as ingredients." Nicks to back cover fore-edge, interior... Read More
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Creatures by Padriac Collum; With drawings by Boris Artzybasheff
by Colum, Padriac
New York: Macmillan, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth spine and decorated boards. Very good. Artzybasheff, Boris. 56 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Drawings, full-page, and text decorations by Boris Artzybassheff illustrate Collum's creatures.
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Creatures by Padriac Collum
by Colum, Padriac
New York: Macmillan, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth spine and silver boards. Fine. Artzybasheff, Boris. 56 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 218 of 300 signed by Colum and Artztybasheff. Full page drawings and text decorations by Boris Artzybassheff illustrate Collum's creatures.
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A History Of Madeira. With A Series of Twenty-seven coloured Engravings, Illustrative Of The Costumes, Manners, And Occupations Of The Inhabitants of that Island
by Combe, William
London: R. Ackermann, 1821. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark green roan and brown boards, backstrip lettered and decorated in gilt. Very good in very good green cloth clamshell box with brown leather spine label. 118 [2] pages. 28 x 19 cm. Hand colored title vignette and 27 aquatint full page plates (all vignetted, except No. 27). This is... Read More
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Doctor Syntax In Paris Or a Tour in search of the Grotesque by William Combe
by Combe, William
London: W. Wright, 1820. First edition. Boards. Contemporary brown boards with remnant of original paper spine label. Very good. William's, Charles. 318 pages. 26 x 16 cm. Eighteen hand-colored aquatints plates with tissue guards. Plates are by Charles William's, styled with vibrant coloration.Originally issued in parts, and on completion in boards; this copy with wide text margins as... Read More
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State of New York At The Panama-Pacifc International Exposition San Francisco, California February Twentieh to December Fourth 1915
by New York (State). Panama-Pacific Exposition Commission
Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth lettered in gilt with New York seal in glit front cover. Fine. 488 pages. 27 x 20 cm, Almost as new copy. Approx. 75 illustrations, two large fold-out plates at rear cover. Index. Owner stamp in lower margin of title page.
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A Comprehensive Report On The Regional Plan Of Highways; Section 4 Long Beach-Redondo Area
by County of Los Angeles. The Regional Planning Commission
Los Angeles: County of Los Angeles, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. olive green cloth, map in gold of Los Angeles County front cover. Near fine. 206 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Thirteen fold-out map inserts, some with coloring, and a plethora of maps, plans and photographs in black and white. Schedule of Major and Secondary Highways. " The... Read More
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Ohio An Empire Within An Empire
by Ohio Development and Publicity Commission
Columbus: Ohio Development & Publicity Commission, 1944. Hardcover. Approximately fifty-four maps, many fold-outs, some in full color. Backstrip rubbed. Orig. cloth. Very good. 212 pages.
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Tan Three-Colored Pottery, Parts I and II
by Five Thousand Years of Chinese Art (Editorial Committee)
Np: Five Thousand Years of Chinese Art, Nd. Hardcover. Orig. pebble grained light olive boards lettered and decorated in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrappers. Unpaginated. 30.5 x 21.5 cm. Profusion of full page color plates in Vol. I and similarly in Vol. II with full page black and white plates. Text in Chinese. Approximately 60 pages in... Read More
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New York State Republican Committee -- 1952 Yearbook
by New York State Republican Committee
New York: New York State Republican Committee, 1951. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. 164 pages. 33 x 25 cm. Illustrated. Thomas E. Dewey was Governor. With fund raiser contribution pledge laid-in. A who's who of Republicans in the State. Nice copy with slight loss backstrip foot.
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Interesting Houses of Old New England
by Boston. Burroughs & Company
Boston: Burroughs & Co, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth worn at backstrip extremities. Very good. 70 pages. Seventy photographs of old homes, mostly in Massachusetts. This is photographic essay with no text. Many of the houses depicted are no longer extant.
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The Romance Of Exploration And Emergency First-Aid From Stanley To Byrd
by Burroughs Wellcome and Company
New York: Borroughs Wellcome & Co, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth boards with cover lettered and illustrated in gilt. Teg, silver endpapers with embossed star design. Fine, almost as new.. 160 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. Describes every explorer, traveler, and missionary that carried with them a Tabloid Medical Kit. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs... Read More
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Audience: Quarterly Review of Literature and the Arts.; Vol II, Nos. 1-6, January/February - November/December 1972
by Boston. Hill Publishing Company
Boston: Hill Publishing Company, 1972. First Editions. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Fine in publisher fine black thick board slipcase. 30.5 x 23.5 cm. A complete set of this periodical for 1972. The magazine targeted to hip intellectuals and literary arts aficionados. The publication presented literature and illustrations by novelists, short story writers, poets and screenwriters, including six Nobel... Read More
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Wood Fibre Carvings Catalog 122
by Chicago. Decorators Supply Company
Chicago: Decorators Supply Corporation, 1941. Original Wraps. Orig. stapled and decorated wrappers. Very good. 12 pages. 30 x 22.5 cm. Profusely illustrated, multiple images per page with price list. Illustrates carvings for mantels, cabinets and architectural trim, reproductions of hand carved patterns. Letter from the company dated March, 1941 laid-in. Front and back cover slightly toned, interior clean,... Read More
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The Book of a Hundred Houses; A Collection Of Pictures, Plans And Suggestions For Householders
by Chicago. Herbert S. Stone & Company
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated tan cloth. Very good. 403 pages. 22 x 18 cm. Hundreds of halftone illustrations. Presents fifty-four essays by various authors: Joy Wheeler, Claude Bragdon, Harriet Monroe, Edgar Metcalf, Ralph Adams Cram, et al. Printed by the Lakeside Press. Covers a host of American homes from Colonial... Read More
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An impartial vindication of the English East-India-Company, from the unjust and slanderous imputations cast upon them in a treatise intituled, a justification of the directors of the Netherlands East-India Company
by East India Company
London: J. Richardson for Samuel Titmarsh, 1688. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown calf, marbled boards rebacked. Near fine. 6, 223, [1]. 81, [1], 34 pages. 18 x 12 cm. The anonymous author of this work attempts to refute the "slanderous imputations" of the work Justification of the Directors of the Netherlands East-India Company (reprinted here in full,... Read More
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Criminal Trials, Illustrative Of The Tale Entitled "The heart of Mid-Lothian," Published From The Original Record: With A Prefatory Notice, Including Some Particulars of The Life Of Captain John Porteous
by Edinburgh. Archibald Constable And Company
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable And Company, 1818. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter blue morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Near fine. 344 pages. 19 x 11 cm. Included herein: trial of Andrew Wilson, William Hall, and George Robertson, before the High Court of Justiciary.; Authentic extract of the proceedings in the trial of Captain John Porteous.; Proceedings in the trial... Read More
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Twelve Parables Of Our Lord
by London. Macmillan & Company
London: Macmillan, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, backstrip crudely rebacked, front cover lettered and gilt decorated. Aeg. Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 31 x 25 cm. Twelve chromolithograph full page illuminations to the parables by H.R. McEntry. Frontispiece by John Jellicoe, and the illuminated borders are from the Bevario Grimani. The illuminated texts and title-page designed by... Read More
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A Souvenir Of The Anchor Line Agents Excursion On The Steam Steamer California August 14 1872
by New York. Anchor Line Steamship Company
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green pebbled cloth. Fine. 112 (2) pages. Small folio, 32 x 25 cm. Engraved frontispiece of the Anchor Line offices in New York at Bowling Green, nine more engravings and five engraved vignettes, folding map of the Anchor Line's steamship routes to the United Kingdom and Continental... Read More
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The Chinese Porcelain Company A Dealer's Record 1985-2000
by New York. The Chinese Porcelain Company
New York: The Chinese Porcelain Company, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth lettered in red. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 257 pages. 32 x 23.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color plates printed on high gloss stock. Bibliography.
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Cuba The Pearl Of The Antilles And Garden Spot Of The World; A Brief Description Of Its Agricultural Resources
by New York. Cuban Land And Steamship Company
New York: Cuban Land And Steamship Company, 1902. First edition. Wraps. Orig. gray stapled wrappers, cover printed in red and black. Very good. 32 unnumbered pages. 23.5 x 15 cm. Illustrated with photo engravings. An attempt after the Spanish-American war to sell "liberated" Cuban real estate to the US public. The publisher calls Cuba "The Garden Spot Of... Read More
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The Floral Art Old Japan: Being A Second And Revised Edition Of The Flowers Of Japan And The Art Of Floral Arrangement.; With Illustrations By Japanese Artists
by Conder, Josiah H.
Tokio: Printed By The Shiuyei Sha & Published By Kelly and Walsh, 1899. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's green cloth lettered and illustrated in gilt. Very good. 142 text pages [Appendix VIII]. Half title, 72 black and white plates, 39 text illustrations, and 14 full page color lithographs with lettered tissue guards. With K. Ogawa he published Landscape... Read More
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The Chicago School of Architecture; A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925
by Condit, Carl W.
Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1964. Hardcover. Orig. medium blue cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 238 pages. 26.5 x 18 cm. 196 illustrations, black and white photographs. An expanded version of "The Rise of the Skyscraper," published in 1952. Clean, fresh copy.
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The Roots & Routes of Art in the 20th Century
by Cone, Michele
New York: Horizon, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light beige cloth. Fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 252 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Bibliography. Index of Names in the text. A narrative guide-map to the key moments of avant-garde art and activity in the 20th century, surveying the movements and the intellectual ferment which formed them. ... Read More
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The Roly Poly's Dream Or Around the World With Santa Claus; Supplement To The World Christmas Number. Sunday Dec.14 1902
by New York. The Press Pub. Co
New York: The Press Pub. Co, 1902. First edition. Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 8 leaves. 13.5 x 26 cm. Color lithographs covers with interior copy lettered and decorated in green. Uncle Sam in full cover at back cover.
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