The Courtship of Miles Standish; And with pictures by N.C. Wyeth
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. Hardcover. Orig. olive illustrated cloth. Fine. N.C. Wyeth. 148 pages. 24 x 17.5 cm. With an Introduction by Ernest W. Longfellow. Full page illustrations titled and printed recto only. Wide text margins, an almost as new copy with pictorial inset front cover, title printed in a gilt frame. Decorated endpapers, book... Read More
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A Cyclopaedia Of Works Of Architecture In Italy, Greece And The Levant
by Longfellow, William P.P. (Editor)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green buckram. Fine. 546 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 383 of 500. Illustrated with full page photogravure and 256 illustrations in the text. Bibliography and Glossary. This nephew of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an architect and often worked together with another H.W. Longfellow nephew... Read More
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The Works Of Dionysius Longinus, On the Sublime: Or, A Treatise Concerning the Sovereign Perfection of Writing. Translated from the Greek. With Remarks on The English Poets; By Mr. Welsted
by Longinus
London: Sam Briscoe, 1712. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf. Near fine. 192 [XIV] pages. 19 1/2 x 12 cm. [A4,a4, B -O8] CHEL. Vol. IX, p.188. "Leonard Welsted, a Westminster and Cambridge man, wrote a good deal of verse and , indeed, hardly deserved, though he had provoked it, his place in the "inferno" of THE DUNCAID even... Read More
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French Provincial Furniture
by Longnon, Henri & F.W. Huard
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated tan cloth. Near fine. 166 pages. Seventy-one illustrations and one map. Foreword by Richardson Wright. Index.
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Les Amours Pastorales De Daphnis Et Chloe
by Longus
Paris: Quillau, 1718. First printing. Hardcover. Contemporary olive green cloth spine faded to brown. Aeg. Very good. (6) Preface. 164 pages. 16.5 x 10 cm. Limited edition of 250 copies. Engraved frontispiece by B. Audran after A. Coypel, 28 plates, thirteen are double-paged after Philippe d'Orleans, engraved by B. Audran. and with engraved headpiece by J.B. Scotin plus... Read More
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Les Amours Pastorales De Daphnis Et Chloe; Traduction de Messire J. Amyot editee et corrigee par Paul-Louis Courier
by [ASHENDENE PRESS] Longus
Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1933. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. vellum-backed green boards, white corner tips, gilt device front cover. Near fine. 163 pages. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. Limited edition of 310 copies. Printed in red and black in Ptolemy type. Initials hand-colored in blue by Graily Hewitt, wood-engravings throughout by Gwen Raverat. HORNBY XXXIX. This edition was initially... Read More
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Steichen The Master Prints 1895-1914 The Symbolist Period
by Longwell, Dennis
Boston: Museum of Modern Art, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. medium brown cloth front cover lettered in gilt. Fine in very good dust wrapper. 180 pages. 328 x 23.5 cm. 73 plates, sixteen in color and 18 text illustrations. His time consuming printing techniques have been mostly forgotten. The time period here Steichen lived in France.
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The Folk Arts and Crafts of New England
by Lord, Priscilla S. & D.J. Foley
Philadelphia: Chilton, 1966. Hardcover. Orig. tan cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. 282 pages. Over 500 illustrations with some in color. Very extensive bibliography. Index.
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Cerceaux 'sorcellent Jean Dubuffet
by Loreau, Max
Bale & Paris: Editions Beyeler & Jeanne Bucher, 1967. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine in fine black cloth slipcase. Dubuffet, Jean. Unpaginated. 27 x 22 cm. Approx. 60 pages, illustrated with twenty-one original silkscreens by Dubuffet, most are colored. French text. Limited edition, copy 184 of 800. FROM MANET TO HOCKNEY 140. MONOD... Read More
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Le Fortificationi Di Buonaiuto Lorini, Nobile Fiorentino. Nuouamente Risampate, Corrette & Ampliate di tutto quello che nacaua per la lor compita persettione; con L'Aggiunta del Sesto Libro
by Lorini, Buonaiuto
Venice: Francesco Rampazetto, 1609. leather_bound. Contemporary mottled calf, all edges red. Very good. [12] 1-56, 61-303 [1] pages. Folio, 34.5 x 24.5 cm. 2 parts in 1, titles with large woodcut device of cannon, full-page engraved portrait of the author by W.Kilian, woodcut head- & tail-pieces, initials and diagrams at beginning, 171 woodcut illustrations of which 7 double-page... Read More
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A Memorial Of Alexander Anderson, M.D., The First Engraver on Wood in America
by Lossing, Benson John
New York: Printed for the Subscribers, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards with matching endpapers. Teg. Near fine.. Anderson, John. 103 pages. 27 x 17 cm. Thirty-eight plates includes engraved frontispiece of Anderson. Index. Read before the New York Historical Society, Oct. 5, 1870. Bewick"s influence on Anderson was profound. KARPEL K771.... Read More
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Treasures of Ancient America; The Arts of the Pre-Columbian Civilizations from Mexico to Peru
by Lothrop, Samuel Kirkland
Geneva: Skira, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. vermillion cloth. Near fine in nicked dust wrapper lacking small portion at front cover head. 229 pages. Small folio, 145 illustrations, eighty-five tipped-in color plates. Index of Names and Places.
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An Icelandic Fisherman; Translated from the French by Guy Endore, Illustrated with lithographs by Yngre Berg
by Loti, Pierre
Stockholm: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Quarter white canvas, beige boards decorated with fish motifs. Teg. Fine in very good backstrip darkened slipcase. Berg, Yngre. 207 pages. 27 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 3 of 1500 signed by Yngre Berg, printed on rag paper by P.A. Norstedt & Soner. Full page black and white lithographs of an early... Read More
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The Ladies' Flower-Garden Of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants
by Loudon, Mrs. [Jane C. Webb]
London: William S. Orr & Co, 1849. Second edition. Hardcover. Three quarter green morocco and green cloth. Teg. Very good. 215 pages. 30 x 25 cm. Forty-two lithographic plates printed in colors and finished by hand, tissue guards. With no entry level manuals for gardening available in her day, she pioneered gardening as a suitable occupation for women.... Read More
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Aphrodite
by Louys, Pierre
Paris: L'Intermediare Du Bibliophile, 1929. Wraps. Contents loose as issued in original printed wrappers with glassine overwrapper. Near fine. Chimot, Edouard. 258 pages. Folio, 33.5 x 26 cm. Limited edition, copy 294 of 300 (of a total of 325) on Papier de Rives, inscribed and signed by Edouard Chimot. 16 colored engravings by Chimot. The Greek goddess of... Read More
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La Femme et le Pantin
by Louys, Pierre
Paris: Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1922. leather_bound. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Near fine. 254 pages. 18 x 11 cm. Illustrated. Text in French. Lovely binding, raised bands, spine labels in green morocco lettered in gilt. Bookplate.
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More Small Italian Villas & Farmhouses
by Lowell, Guy
New York: Architectural Book, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Near fine. Lowell, Guy. 140 pages. Folio, 18 x 12". 140 black and white plates, photographs and sketches made by Edgar I. Williams and by Harold R. Shurtleff. Interior clean and fresh, binding tight. All plates printed recto only on high... Read More
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Printing Arts In Texas
by Lowman, Al
Austin: Jenkins Publishing Co, 1981. Reprint edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 107 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Foreword by Stanley Marcus. Bibliography. Index. First edition published in 1975 and limited to 350 copies. KARPEL G117. "Illustrations include facsimiles of covers and title pages and photos by Edwin B. Hill, Carl Hertzog,... Read More
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Strawberry Mansion First Known As Somerton The House of Many Masters
by Lowrie, Sarah Dickson
New York: Harbor Press, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth, gilt escutcheon front cover.Teg. Near fine. 224 pages. 25.5 x 18 cm. History of Somerton, an 18th century mansion near Philadelphia, occupied by Charles Thompson, Secretary of the Continental Congress, rebuilt in 1798, and acquired by the Fairmount Park Commission after the Civil War, restored in 1931.... Read More
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Strawberry Mansion First Known as Somerton The House of Many Masters
by Lowrie, Sarah Dickson
New York: The Committee of 1926 of Pennsylvania, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Teg. Very good. 224 pages. Sixteen illustrations. A social and architectural history of a Strawberry Mansion saved from demolition in1820, and restored in 1926. A loving tribute to a colonial house.
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Art In The Early Church
by Lowrie, Walter
New York: Pantheon, 1947. First edition. Orig. black cloth. Near fine. 268 pages in text. 153 black and whiteplates. Bibliography. Index to Text and Illustrations. Chronological Table. CHAMBERLAIN 531. "Based on the author's earlier work, `Monuments Of The Early Church,' but does not entirely supersede the first work....." LUCAS p32.
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Building a National Image: Architectural Drawings For The American Democracy, 1789-1912
by Lowry, Bates
New York: Walker, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 228 pages. 25 x 32 cm. 107 color plates, and ninety-one text figures. Bibliography. Extensive notes on the plates. Excellent photographs, well-crafted color plates and quality printing -- a lovely monograph.
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Piero Manzoni Works 1957-1961
by London. Karsten Schubert Ltd
London: Karsten Schubert Ltd, 1989. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. dark red stiff wrappers. Manzoni, Piero. 15 pages. 27 x 21.5 cm. Photograph of Manzoni, and illustrations in black and white. An Italian Avant-Garde artist whose career was cut short by an untimely death at 30 years of age.
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The Colophon Part Eight 1931
by New York. The Colophon Ltd
New York: The Colophon, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Near fine. Cleland, T.M.. Unpaginated. 27.5 x 22 cm. One of 3000. T.M. Cleland designed the cover. Articles by Willa Cather, Stanley Morison, A.E. Coppard et al.
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The Colophon Part Eight 1931
by New York. The Colophon Ltd
New York: The Colophon, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Very good. Unpaginated. 27.5 x 22 cm. One of 3000. Articles by Joseph Hergesheimer, John Carter, John T. Winterich et al.
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