Les Boulevarts de Paris
by Lancel, Paul
Paris: Imp. Lemercier, 1855. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's blind stamped brown cloth lettered in gilt. Very good. 24 leaves. 12 x 20 cm. 24 captioned concertina- bound black and white lithographs of Parisian street scenes, the prominent boulvards of Paris in leperello style, the entire publication extending 182 inches, the first depiction is the Boulevart De La Madeleine... Read More
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Picasso From the Musee Picasso, Paris
by Landis, Hubert (Foreword)
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1980. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Picasso, Pablo. 144 pages. Exhibitions February 10 - March 30, 1980. Illustrated in color and black and white. Four essays by experts.
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In the Forbidden Land An Account of a Journey into Tibet Capture by the Tibetan Lamas and Soldiers, Imprisonment, Torture and Ultimate Release brought about by Dr. Wilson and The Political Pehkar Karak Sing-Pal
by Landor, A. Henry Savage
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth decorated in gilt and blind. Very good. 2 vols. 307, 250 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm, With one photograph, eight colored plates, 50 full-page and about 130 text illustrations, and a large fold-out Map from Surveys by the author located at the rear of... Read More
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The Architecture of Minard Lafever
by Landy, Jacob
New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown two-toned cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. Lafever, Minard. 313 pages. 25 x 17.5 cm. 109 illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Lafever's Gothic Revival style was his major contribution to the development of New York architecture during its formative years. KARPEL B1125. "The major study, thoroughly documented. ... Read More
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The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, In England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments.; A New Translation From The Arabic, With Copious Notes
by Lane, William Edward (Translator & Editor)
London: Charles Knight, 1841. First edition thus. leather_bound. Black polished calf. Teg. Fine. 3 Vols. (XXXII) 618, 643, 763 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. Hundreds of engravings on wood by William Harvey. Index. Lane, a noted Oriental scholar resided many years in Egypt in the early 19th century also authored a valuable Arabic lexicon. "William... Read More
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Aucassin & Nicolete
by Lang, Andrew (Translator)
Portland: Thomas Mosher, 1896. Second edition thus. Paperback. Orig. decorated wrappers, yapp edges. Near fine. 88 pages. 18 x 10 1/2 cm. Limited edition one of 925 copies printed on Japanese vellum. Frontispiece. Bright, clean copy.
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Memoirs Of Mrs. Fitzherbert; With An Account Of Her Marriage With H.R.H. The Prince Of Wales Afterwards King George The Fourth
by Langdale, Charles
London: Richard Bentley, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco, marbled boards and matching marbled endpapers. Fine. 202 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Mrs. Fitzherbert, a Catholic widow secretly married the Prince of Wales in 1785. George later denied it and married Princess Christina prompting something of a scandal and a good deal of "blimey". Mrs. Fitzpatrick... Read More
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The Picture Book of Becky Sharp; A Play In Four Acts
by Langdon, Mitchell
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1899. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. stapled gray wrappers. Very good. Unpaginated. 30 x 23.5 cm. Illustrated with a host of photographs captioned with text excerpts from the play. The Marquis of Steyne part acted by Tyrone Power, father of the Hollywood star, and Maurice Barrymore (father to the Hollywood Barrymore's) plays... Read More
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Sheet Metal Craftsmanship: Progress in Building
by Chase David & Carolyn Laray
Washington, DC: National Building Museum, 1988. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. 48 pages. 9 x 11". 84 black and white illustrations. Bibliography.
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Boyhood Photos of J.-H. Lartigue The Family Album of a Gilded Age
by Lartigue, Jacques Henri
Lausanne: Edita S.A., 1966. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. burgundy cloth, decorated in floral art deco designs, front cover pictorial inset. Fine. Lartigue, Jacques Henri. 128 pages. Landscape 4to, 24 x 30 cm. Plethora of tipped-in reproductions of photographs by Lartigue who began picture taking at the age of seven, during the frivolous spirit of France's Belle Époque... Read More
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English Inn Signs
by Larwood, Jacob & John Camden Hotten
London: Chatto & Windus, 1951. Hardcover. Crimson cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very good. 336 pages. This is a revised and modernized version of "History of Signboards," written in 1866. With a chapter on the modern inn sign by Gerald Millar. With sixteen illustrations of Billheads and sixty-four pages of illustrations. An essential work of reference for the... Read More
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A Selective Checklist of the Published Work of Aubrey Beardsley
by Lasner, Mark Samuels
Boston: Thomas G. Boss, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Beardsley, Aubrey. 128 pp. Illustrated in black and white. List of Abbreviations. Index. This guide serves as a single source of accurate information, resolving long-standing ambiguities, corrects oft-repeated errors, and offers insightful new data regarding the published work of Aubrey Beardsley. ... Read More
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Lautrec
by Lassaigne, Jacques
Geneva: Skira, 1960. Hardcover. Orig. beige linen cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper in fine slipcase. Tolouse-Lautrec, Henri. 119 pages. Plethora of tipped-in color plates. Translated by Stuart Gilbert. Chronological Survey. Bibliography. Index. 3rd title in "The Taste of Our Time" series.
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Rudolph Ruzicka: Speaking Reminiscently; Informal Recollections Recorded & Edited
by Lathem, Edward Connery
New York: Grolier Club, 1986. First edition. Boards. Orig. navy spine and gray boards. Fine. 150 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Illustrated with various works by Ruzicka. Index. Llimtied edition, one of 750.
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Spirit Of Han
by Lau, Aileen (Editor)
Sigapore: Sun Tree Publishing Co, 1998. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth lettered in silver. Fine in fine dust warpper. 190 pages. 31 x 23.5 cm. 211 illustrations in color and black and white printed on glossy stock. Ceramics for the After-LIfe. Catalogue. List of Lenders. Glossary.
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Science At The Fair
by Lauerence, William L (Editor)
New York: New York World's Fair Corp, 1964. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. Wraps. Orig. embossed and decorated stiff wrappers. Fine. 62 pages. 31 x 23 cm. Prefatory notes by Robert Moses and Paul R. Screvane. Illustrated with photographs. Bookplate.
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A Bouquet Of Pheasants Collective Terms
by Launchberry, Jane (Illustrator)
Brighton: Beehive Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's half brown morocco spine and matching thick brown boards lettered in gilt. Fine. Unpaginated. Seven leaves. 38 x 28.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 7 of 30 signed by Jane Launchberry. Images are black and white lithographs printed on cream 12 cartridge Somerset paper. In lay terms, very heavy, thick paper.... Read More
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W. Saroyan Contes
by Laurens, Henri & William Saroyan
Paris: Bibliophiles de France et D'Amerique, 1953. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. wrappers. Very good in fine chemise portfolio in near fine slipcase. Laurens, Henri. 67 pages. 28 x 20 cm. Color wood engravings by Laurens. Printed in a Limited edition, copy 42 of 147 signed by Laurens and the President of the Bibliophile Society. Laurens, one of... Read More
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La Tentative Amoureuse ou le Traite du vain desir by Andre Gide
by Laurencin, Marie (Illustrator)
Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1921. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. pink wrappers printed and illustrated in black. Very good in worn glassine overwrapper. Approximately 40 pages. 24 x 20 cm. Limited edition, copy 287 of 400 on papier Lafuma-Navarre. Four full-page colored wood-engravings plus additional colored vignettes by Laurencin. Associated with the Cubist literary and artistic group, but... Read More
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Villas of the Veneto
by Lauritzen, Peter & Reinhart Wolf
New York: Abrams, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 200 pages. Folio, 35 x 27 cm.21. 188 illustrations including 150 photgraphs in color. Foreword by Sir Harold Acton. List of Villas. Bibliography.
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A History of British And American Etching
by Laver, James
London: Dodd, Mead, 1929. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Very good. 195 pages in text. Large 8vo, Eighty-four, full-page, black and white plates. Index of Artists' Names. Bibliography. KARPEL K171. "This work contains chapters on satirical etching, and sporting prints in Britain; eighteenth, and early twentieth-century British etchers; and a comprehensive chapter on American etching from... Read More
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A Complete Catalogue Of The Etchings And Dry-Points Of Arthur Briscoe
by Laver, James
London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth, beveled edges. Teg. Near fine. Briscoe, Arthur Trevor. 30 page in text. 28.5 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 76 of 250 with an original signed etching by Arthur Briscoe. A marine painter and etcher who studied at the Slade Art School, he was elected an... Read More
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Love's Progress Or The Education Of Araminta
by Laver, James
Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1929. Hardcover. Orig. marbled boards, front cover paper label. Very good. 30 pages. Limited edition, copy 1378 of 1525, printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge.
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Victoriana
by Laver, James
New York: Hawthorn Books, 1967. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 256 pages. With 263 black and white plates.Bibliography. Index. An intelligent and entertaining guide by a noted social historian about the customs, styles and fashions of 19th century knick-knacks that stood on innumerable Victorian what-nots.
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Costume
by Laver, James
London: Cassell, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in slightly chipped dust wrapper. 135 pages. 4to, profusely illustrated in black and white and in color from contemporary sources, and reproduced from authentic documents. The author traces the history of fashion from primitive times to the present, and presents answers to the question: what is fashion? ... Read More
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