Miscellanies In Prose and Verse
by Dennis, John
London: Printed for James Knapton, 1693. First edition. Hardcover. Modern green cloth, back strip lettered in gilt. Very good. 144 pages. 16.5 x 12 cm. Complete with half title, and with imprimatur on verso of half-title. Dennis was the first professional literary critic, and best remembered as the leading critic of his generation, and as a pioneer of... Read More
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Le Barbier De Seville by P.-A.C. de Beaumarchais; Decors & Personnages Par Andre Derain
by Derain, Andre (Illustrator)
Paris: Nouveau Cercle Parisien, 1963. Hardcover. Loose as issued in original printed wrappers. Fine in fine chemise in fine beige board cloth in near fine matching cloth slipcase. Derain, Andre. 153 pages. Folio, 37 x 29 cm. The watercolors and lithographs printed by Mourlot Freres. Limited edition, copy CXX of 270 printed for Madame Therese Moncey on velin... Read More
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Le Satyricon by T. Petronius Arbiter
by Derain, Andre [Illustrator]
Paris: Np, 1951. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. quarter vellum and illustrated cream portfolio, vellum backed. Near fine in very good slipcase. 291 pages. Folio, 45 x 35 cm. Copy 161 of a total edition of 280 copies. 33 engraved plates and numerous woodcut vignettes. Engravings were printed by Georges Leblanc on the presses of Marthe Fecquet and... Read More
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Historical Monuments in Hungary Restoration and Preservation
by Dercsenyi, Dezso
Gyoma: Corvina Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. 98 pages in text. 27 x 23 cm. 136 black and white plates, plus additional color plates in the text. Some text underlining.
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Louis XIV And Regency Furniture and Decorations
by De Ricci, Seymour
1929: William Helborn Inc, New York. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark green cloth, back strip and front cover lettered in gilt. Fine. XXIII, 215 pages. 29.5 x 23.5 cm. A bright, fresh almost as new copy. Interior clean, printed on high gloss stock. Contents: Louis XIV, Boulle Furniture and Regence. Originally published in Germany.
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Varie Lectiones Veteris Testamenti Ex Immensa Mss. Editorumq. Codicum Congerie Haustae Et Ad Samar. Textum, Ad Vetustiss. Versiones, Ad Accuratiores Sacrae Criticae Fontes Ac Leges Examinatae; With Supplement: Scholia Critica In V.T. Libros Seu Supplementa Ad Varias Sacri Textus Lectiones
by De-Rossi, Johannes Bern
Parma: Ex Regio Typographeo, 1798. First edition. Boards. Modern, uniform light brown boards with paper spine labels. Fine. 5 vols. 29 x 21 cm. Bodoni Press production; bibliographic and critical commentaries concerning the Old Testament, textual studies from sources hitherto unknown. De Rossi devoted himself to three chief lines of investigation—-typographical, bibliographical, and text-critical -- on the collection... Read More
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La Vie Des Peintres Flamands, Allemands Et Hollandois, Ave Des Portraits Graves en Taille-Douce, une indication de leurs principaux Ouvrages, & des Reflexions fur leurs differentes manieres & (Voyage Pittoresque De La Flandre Et Du Brabant)
by Descamps, Jean Baptiste
Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1759. First Editions. leather_bound. Contemporary full tan calf. Teg. Very good. 5 Vols. XVI-429-[11], [4]-480-[8], XVI-402-[6], VIII-302-[24]. 21.5 X 14 cm. Title pages printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece by Lebas and two headpieces by Lemire after Decamps. 168 portraits by Ficquet, Gaillard, Legrand E.A. after Descamps, Eisen and Campion showing I.A. Quinten Metsys,... Read More
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Hartung
by Descargues, Pierre
New York: Rizzoli, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated white cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper. Hartung, Hans Heinrich Ernst. 357 pages. 30 x 25 cm. 307 illustrations, 154 in color. Hartung, an outstanding example of the School of Paris was a pioneer of abstract expressionism.
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Gaudi The Visionary
by Descharnes, Robert & Clovis Prevost
New York: Viking, 1971. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. Gaudi, Antonio. 251 pages. 30 x 25 cm. 228 illustrations including large-scale photographs, many of them gatefolds and tip-ins. Preface by Salvador Dali. Foreword and Bibliography by George R. Collins. Index. Guidi's Artistic and Religious Vision by Francesc Pujols.
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Auguste Rodin
by Descharnes, Robert & Jean-Francois Chabrun
New York: Viking, 1967. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. Rodin, Auguste. 283 pages. 31 x 26 cm. Profusely illustrated: black and white and tipped-in color plates. Bibliography. Index. FREITAG 8296.
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The World of Salvador Dali
by Descharnes, Robert
New York: Harper & Row, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light beige cloth, spine and front cover lettered in brown. Near fine in very good illustrated dust wrapper in publisher slipcase. Dali, Salvador. 228 pages. 30 x 25 cm. Translated by Albert Field. Introduction by Theodore Rousseau. Fifty-two full-color tipped-in plates. With color and black and white illustrations.... Read More
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Seasons at The New Yorker Six Decades of Cover Art
by National Academy of Design
New York: United Technologies Corporation, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper nicked at head. XVI pages in text. 34 x 25.5 cm. Eighty full page color plates with dates. Artist Index. Introduction by John H. Dobkin, Director National Academy of Design.
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Twenty Four Nature Pictures; Produced in Facsimile
by Detmold, Edward Julius
New York & London: E.P. Dutton & Co. & J.M Dent Sons Ltd, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. three quarter brown cloth and thick board portfolio lettered in black and red. Very good. Folio, 53 x 40 cm. 23 (of 24) large mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards. Limited edition, copy 452 of 500 (of 50 copies... Read More
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The Portrait of Mr. O.W.
by Devoe, Alan
New York: The Union Square Book Shop, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Fine. 32 pages. 21 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 219 of 275 with a portrait frontispiece of Oscar Wilde by the author. Wide text margins, bright copy. Gilt lettered, in the form of book book label of Philip Van... Read More
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A Ride To India Across Persia And Baluchistan
by De Windt, Harry
London: Chapman And Hall, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth, illustrated front cover. Very good. 339 (1). 4 pages of adverts. 23 x 15 cm. Library bookplate and small stamp title page. With illustrations by Herbert Walker and sketches by the author. Large folding map at rear and Appendices at rear. List of illustrations in black and... Read More
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La Theorie Et La Pratique Du Jardinage, Ou L'On Traite A Fond Des Beaux Jardins apelles communement Les Jardins De Plaisance Et De Proprete, etc......
by Dezailler D'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph
Paris: Jean Mariette, 1713. New Edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full French calf. Very good. 293 [1] [XII] pages. 25.5 x 19.5 cm. 38 engraved plates by Mariette and C. Lucas after Dezailler and Alexandre Le Blond, including 29 double-page and 9 folding, mostly mounted on guards. Enlarged second edition of the important French treatise on garden design, first published... Read More
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Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp...in resonance; Texts by Ecke Bonk, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Walter Hopps, Don Quaintance, Ann Temkin. Chronology: Susan Davidson
by D'Harnoncourt, Anne (Introduction)
Germany: Cantz Verlag, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. In original publisher protective plastic wrapper. Cornell, Joseph, Marcel Duchamp. 343 pages. 28.5 x 24 cm. Over 200 color and black and white illustrations. Exhibition "Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp...in resonance" Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 8, 1998 - January 3 1999, and The Menil Collection,... Read More
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Le Decor Des Soieries D'Art Anciennes et Modernes; Documents Originaux en couleurs du Musee Historique Des Tissus De Lyon
by D'Hennezel, Henri
Paris: Editions Nilsson, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. thick tan boards, backstrip reinforced in black cloth with cloth ties. Very good. 12 page introductory text in French. Folio, 40 x 30 cm. 56 tipped-in plates on board stock are autochromes in photogravure. Wear at backstrip extremities.
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Theatre Serge De Diaghilev Les Facheux; Georges Braque * Jean Cocteau * Louis Laloy * Georges Auric
by Diaghilev, Serge Pavlovich
Paris: Editions Des Quatre Chemins, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Rebound in green cloth, corners and backstrip extremities rubbed, black leather spine label lettered in gilt. 2 vols. Very good. Approx. 22 pages in text. 28 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 193 of 425 on Arches from a total edition of 500. Two volumes in one. Volume I:... Read More
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A Biographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour In France And Germany
by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
London: Printed For The Author By W. Bulmer And W. Nicol, 1821. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary calf ruled in gilt, raised bands, black leather backstrip title and volume labels lettered in gilt, rebacked with original spines laid-down. Aeg gilt. 3 Vols. Very good. 462 (lxxIx), 555, 621 (lxii). 28 x 19 cm. 83 engraved plates, one hand-colored, two... Read More
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The Holly Tree
by Dickens, Charles
East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1903. Suede. Brown suede covers decorated and lettered in gilt. Yapp edges. Near fine. 66 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Bright, clean copy. Silk moire inside front and back covers. Borders designed by Samuel Warner, typography by Newell Q. White and presswork by George Parker.
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The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club; Forty-Three Illustrations, By R. Seymor And Phiz
by Dickens, Charles
London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary half green morocco, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt and marbled boards. Very good. 669 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Charles Dickens's first novel was published by Chapman & Hall in monthly installments from March of 1836 until November 1837. The publisher had just started a series of... Read More
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The Chimes A Goblin Story Of Some Bells That Bang An Old Year Out And A New Year In [MINIATURE BOOK]
by Dickens, Charles
London: Leopold B. Hill, 1900. leather_bound. Orig. full reddish bown suede, brown leather backstrip label printed in gilt. Aeg. Very good. 248 pages. 9 x 6 cm. Not in OCLC, although there are more than 200 titles by this publisher listed in OCLC. Half title, marbled endpapers, worn leather book label at rear cover of Brierley. Bond Street.... Read More
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Our Mutual Friend; Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No.CLXIX-CLXXXVII
by Dickens, Charles
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. printed wrappers, very good housed in two fine red cloth slip cases with black leather spine labels printed in gilt.. Stone, Marcus. 26.2 x 16.8 cm. Wood engraved portrait of Dickens after Marcus Stone and 34 parts in 19 vols. This was the first American periodical in... Read More
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Dealings With The Firm Of Dombey And Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation
by Dickens, Charles
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Modern three quarter brown calf and marbled boards. All edges marbled. Fine. H.K. Browne. 624 pages, 23 x 15 cm. First edition in book form. Thirty eignt full-page plates by Hablot K. Browne [Phiz]. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the addition of 12 engraved plates interleaved throughout (some plate spotting). Early issue with... Read More
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