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Ascona: Artibus Asiae, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth lettered in gilt. Very good. 191 pages in text. Folio, 32 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 18 of 350. Sixty-one full page plates. extensive List of References, Index of Subjects and Places. In myths from China and Japan, the phoenix does not emerge from a fire but instead causes itself to be reborn during times of good fortune. Cultures in northern Europe and Asia credited birds with establishing their social orders, especially kingships. The Japanese believed that sacred birds guided their second emperor in conquering his enemies before the founding of his dynasty.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1929. First edition. Paperback. Orig. tan wrappers. Very good. 203 pages in text. 24 x 15 cm. 75 plates, many with multiple images. Index. BAE Bulletin 148. A world-wide collection of religious objects.Fresh, clean and crisp copy; a few nicks at backstrip foot.

London: W. & G.Foyle, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth chipped at backstrip extremities. Very good. 303 pages. Introduction by Sisley Huddleston. Elaborately illustrated in color and black and white -- more than 150 in total.Bibliography. Index. An in depth study by a well-respected scholar into the origins of clothing, utilitarian and otherwise.

London: Np, 1766. Wraps. Near fine. 22 x 19.5 cm. Engraving. The judgment of Paris y, fecit et a cere incidit 1766. "Outside a thatched cottage, partly visible on the left, Paris, a loutish peasant, hands the apple to an old harridan holding a fan and wearing a very wide hoop.

Zurich: Drucke von Josef Stocker, 1984. leather_bound. Orig. full navy morocco lettered in lighter blue, front cover illustration blocked in white, Near fine. Erni, Hans. 56 pages. Folio, 51 x 41 cm. Limited edition, copy 103 of 150 with four original prints each signed by Erni housed in a rear pocket. Text in French and German with numerous black and white lithograph drawings by Hans Erni. The original French text from Editions Gallimard, 1963. Bestiary, made popular in the Middle Ages, particularly in England and France, the symbolic language of animals was often accompanied by a moral lesson; however, the earliest examples can also be found in early Greek texts. Leonardo da Vinci created his own bestiary. Clean, fresh copy, slight dings to corners and backstrip extremities.

Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1966. First edition. Paperback. Publications: Folklore Studies. Vol. 16. List of Abbreviations. Bibliography. Orig. printed wrappers. Fine.

St. Petersburg: State Printing Company for Securities [Expeditsii Zagotovleny Gosudarstvennukh Bumag], 1903. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers rebacked. Near fine. 12 pages. 32.5: 25.5 cm. Original cover chromolithograph, 8 chromolithographed illustrations (including 3 full-page), decorative borders printed in brown, all after Bilibin. Commissioned by the Tsarist government in 1899, this series of skazki [fairy tales] established Bilibin internationally as the foremost interpreter of Russian folk tales. Perforated library stamp lower front cover, small six digit number in blue lower front cover. Interior, bright, clean and fine.

London: William Reaves, 1830. Hardcover. Three quarter brown calf and marbled boards. Fine. 420 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Bound by Baynton of Bath. Illustrated with 140 engravings, in which are represented most of the popular diversions; selected from ancient paintings. For first edition commentary [see: BRYAN'S DICTIONARY OF PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS Vol.V, p.138]. BRUNET Vol.V, p.138]. Faded owner inscription title page. Text generally clean and fresh. Raised bands decorated in gilt, red leather spine label printed in gilt.

Zurich: Ltd. Editions Club, 1951. Hardcover. Orig. decorated beige boards, brown cloth spine with crossbow in gilt front cover. Fine in fine brown slipcase. 163 pages, 27 x 20 cm. Illustrated by Charles Hug. Translated from the German in the meter of the original by Theodore Martin. With an Introduction by Thomas Carlyle. Limited edition, copy 440 of 1500. Signed by Charles Hug. Typography planned by W. Diethelm, and printed by the Fretz Brothers, Zurich. The illustrations were lithographed on stone by Mr. Hug. NEWMAN & WICHE 216.