A Modest Enquiry Concerning The Election Of The Sheriffs of London And The Right of Choosing Demonstrate To belong unto, and to have been always adjudged to reside in the Lord Mayor, And the Common-Hall
by London. Printed for Henry Mead
London: Henry Mead, 1682. First edition. Hardcover. Modern quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Fine. 46 pages. 20 x 15.5 cm. A fascinating tract about the election of London's sheriffs, written during the Exclusion Crisis in the late seventeenth century. This was a period of intense political turmoil between Whigs and Tories over whether Charles II's brother, James,... Read More
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Induction And Intuition In Scientific Thought; Jayne Lectures for 1968
by Medawar, Peter Brian
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1970. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper in clear mylar cover. 62 pages. 24 x 16 cm. The author, Sir Peter Medawar winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1960. Memoirs Of The American Philosophical Society Vol. 75.
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Avant Garde Magazine (All Published)
by New York. Avant Garde Media
New York: Avant Garde Media, 1971. First edition. Wraps. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. Very good/Near fine. 28.5 x 28 cm. 15 issues, a complete set with 2 copies of issue No. 2 with cover illustration of Marilyn Monroe. A colorful potpourri on life during this period: drugs, sexual mores, politics, cultural turmoil, illustrated with photographs, serigraphs and colorful graphics.... Read More
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The Renaissance Of Italian Gardens; Text in association with Giuppi Peitromarchi Photographs by John Ferro Sims
by Medici, Lorenza de
London: Pavilion, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 192 pages. 26 x 26.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Bibliography. Plant Index. The author is also a well known food writer.
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Museo de las Artes, Universidad de Guadalajara
by Medina, Dante
Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara, 1994. First edition. Paperback. Orig. ruby printed wrappers. Near fine. 105 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Host of color plates.
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The Will To Function A Philosophical Study
by Meek, Charles
Bisley, Gloustershire: Published by him & printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. red buckram, gilt lettered spine. Teg. Near fine. 135 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 8 of 300, Meek's eschatology is surmised in his "So long as man, as we know him, exists, religion will exist." Clean, crisp copy,... Read More
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Italian Architecture 1750-1914
by Meeks, Carroll L.V.
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. olive cloth. Near fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 546 pages. 28.5 x 21 cm. 266 illustrations: many from unique unpublished sources, include drawings and plans as well as photographs. Bibliography. Index. A definitive study. Slight toning to endpapers and fore-edges.
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Humoristiche Blatter IV. Band
by Meggendorfer, Lothar
Esslingen bei Suttgart: J.F. Schreiber, 1891. First edition. Stiff Boards. Orig. flexible stiff cream wrappers, illustrated and decorated in colors. Near fine. 104 pages. 29 x 21 cm. Satiric and humorous hand colored and monochrome wood-cuts, This publication published in 57 issues starting 1888, Meggedorfer being influential in content and appearance, some stories in pictorial form a la... Read More
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Apron Full of Gold The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco, 1849-1856
by Megquier, Mary Jane
San Marino: Huntington Library, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. 99 pages. Edited by Robert Glass Cleland. Illustrated. The wifeof one of the first American physicians to open an office in San Francisco. Life of San Francisco society in the early days of the Gold Rush.
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The Exhibition Of The Works of Meissonier
by Meissonier, Ernest
Paris & Philadelphia: Georges Petit & CH.-F Haseltine, 1893. First edition. Wraps. Orig. tan wrappers. Very good. 343 (3) pages. Folio, 35 x 27 cm. Limited edition, copy 5 of 50 on Japanese paper with etchings on parchment. Preface by Alexandre Dumas. Painter and sculptor famous for his depictions of Napoleon, his armies and military themes. He documented... Read More
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The Rohan Master A Book Of Hours; Bibliotheque Nationale , Paris (M.S. Latin 9471) Introduction and Commentaries By Marcel Thomas
by Meiss, Millard (Introduction)
New York: Braziller, 1973. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth spine decorated in gilt. Fine in very good, nicked slipcase. 247 pages. 29.5 x 21 cm. Excellent color reproductions of this Book of Hours. 127 color plates. Translated from the French by Katherine W. Carson. Bibliography. Bright, fresh copy.
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The Visconti Hours; National Library, Florence
by Meiss, Millard & Edith W. Kirsch
New York: Braziller, 1972. Hardcover. Orig. faux navy leather decorated in gilt. Fine in near fine slipcase. 262 pages. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. Excellent color reproductions of this Book of Hours commissioned by Glangeleazzo Visconti, born in 1351. Bibliography. Bright, fresh copy.
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The Paul Mellon Collection
by Mellon, Paul
London: The Tate Gallery, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. crimson cloth. Fine in very good, chipped dust wrappers. 4 vols. A series of four volumes as follows: "Books on the Horse and Horsemanship 1400-1941" by John B. Podeschi; "British Sporting and Animal Drawings C. 1500-1850" by Judy Egerton & Dudley Snelgrove; "British Sporting and Animal Prints 1658-1874" by... Read More
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Typee A Romance Of The South Seas; With An Introduction by Raymond Weaver And Illustrations By Miguel Covarrubias
by Mellville, Herman
New York: Heritage Press, 1963. Hardcover. Orig. decorated cloth. Fine in fine in fine slipcase. 409 pages. 24 x 16 cm. List of Illustrations in color. As new copy with four page Sandglass insert.
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Dubout
by Melot, Michel
Paris: Editions Michele Trickvel, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper.. Dubout. 295 pages. 28 x 22 cm. 286 illustrations in color and black and white. Preface by Frederic Dard. Limited edition, one of 1000. Survey of the work of the zany, often scatological French caricaturist.
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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life during a Four Months' Residence in the Valley of the Marquesas with Notices of the French Occupation of Tahiti and the Provisional Cession of the Sandwich Islands to Lord Paulet
by Melville, Herman
New York & London: Wiley And Putnam, John Murray, 1846. First American edition. Hardcover. Early three-quarter black morocco over marbled boards, the spine gilt lettered and with gilt rules, housed in a chemise and in a morocco-backed slipcase also lettered in gilt. Very good. 325 pages. [ xv, 166, [4], [167]. 18 x 12 cm. Two parts in... Read More
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The Charlatanry Of The Learned (De Charlataneria Eruditorum, 1715) by Johann Burkhard Mencken; Translated From The German By Francis E. Litz
by [Mencken, H.L]
New York & London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. salmon cloth, printed paper label at spine. Fine. 178 (X1) pages. 20 x 14 cm. Notes and Introduction by H.L. Mencken. One of 1475 copies designed by W.A. Dwiggins, a signed presentation copy to Harry Richel in ink on front free endpaper by Mencken, dated 1937.... Read More
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Amerika Bilderbuch Eines Architeckten; Mit 100 Meist Eigenen Aufnahmen Des Verfassers
by Mendelsohn, Erich
Berlin: Rudolf Mosse, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. taupe boards lettered in black with black cloth spine lettered in blue. Very good. 222 pages. 35 x 24 cm. 4 page Forward by Mendelshohn and all text in German. Approx. 100 plates with last few leaves depicting the structures illustrated -- New York, Chicago, Detroit and Buffalo landmarks. Along... Read More
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Millstone Valley
by Menzies, Elizabeth G.C.
New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Near fine in good dust wrapper. 308 pages. 4to, profusely Illustrated with photographs. Index. Chapters on the dwelling houses, barns and churches of the area. Bookplate.
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La Vie au Temps Des Trouveres Croyances, Usages et Moeurs Intimes des XI, XII & XIII Siecles D'Apres Les Lais, Chroniques, Dits et Fabliaux
by Meray, Antony
Paris & Lyon: A. Claudin, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. Half black morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Fine. 329 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Uncut, printed on quality rag stock with original tan wrappers printed in red and black bound-in. Bound by G. Gauche, Paris. Elegant binding, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs.
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Ismail Merchant's Florence; Filming And Feasting In Tuscany
by Merchant, Ismail
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 152 pages. 26 x 23.5 cm. 54 illustrations, with 50 plates in color with 70 recipes on Tuscan cuisine, and a pamphlet in Italian from "Riso Gallo" with rice recipes laid-in.
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Cosmos, And Other Poems
by Mercur, Anna Hubbard
Buffalo: Paul and Brother, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and pictorial boards. Very good. 215 pages. 20 x 17 cm. Frontispiece, a color lithograph, tissue guard for latter foxed. A Souvenir of the Columbian Exposition, 1893. Covers and extremities rubbed.
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Turkish Miniatures
by Meredith-Owens, G.M.
London: British Museum, 1963. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine.. 32 pages in text. 21 1/2 x 14 cm. Twenty-five plates in color and black and white.
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Sexualforschung Stichwort Und Bild
by Mergen, Armand
Hamburg: Verlag Fur Kulturforschung, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter beige decorated spine and blue cloth. Fine. 2 Vols. 1036 pages. 24 x 17 cm. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white, many are full page. A comprehensive sexual study contemporaneous and historical. Text in German. Index. Clean, very fresh copy, almost as new. The German "stichwort," translated... Read More
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Carmen. Translated and illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett, with a memoir of the author by Louise Imogen Guiney
by Merimee, Prosper
Winchester MA: De Vinne Press, 1896. Vellum. Full vellum with brass clasps, one lacking. Teg. Very good. xxx,111 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 1 of 50 on Japanese vellum signed by Garrett in ink. Orig. full page watercolor painting on half title signed by Garret in pencil, entitled "A Street in Granada." Plus seventeen copperplate... Read More
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