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London: C. W. Beaumont, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth spine and decorated boards. Near fine. 39 pages. 23 x 14.5 cm. The second book published by the press, typography and binding by Cyril William Beaumont, binding by Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe, limited edition copy 65 of 250. Printed in red and black on gray stock.

London: William Heinemann, 1931. Hardcover. Orig. full vellum, beveled edges. Very good. 2 vols. Gooden, Stephen. 235 & 336 pages. 26 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 98 of 525 signed by Edward Marsh and Stephen Gooden. Marsh, sponsored the Georgian school of poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. 26 copper engravings with tissue guards set in Monotype Garamond, and printed on hand-made wove paper. Very bright, fresh set.

Los Angeles: Privately Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr., 1928. Hardcover. Orig. navy morocco spine and thick blue boards. Fine. Approx. 24 pages. 29.5 x 20.5. Limited edition, copy 79 of 100, text from a scarce edition printed in Belgium, 1776, plates by Bertin and Sarvart. Ornamental borders by Clara Ortiz Troan. Almost as new copy.

New York & London: Random House & William Heinemann, 1931. Hardcover. Orig. full vellum with beveled edges in plain white dust wrappers. Vol. 1, near fine & Vol. 2 very good in fine matching brown cloth portfolios housed in near fine matching quarter brown leather slipcases, spines lettered in gilt. 2 vols. Gooden, Stephen. 235 & 336 pages. 26 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 446 of 525 signed by Edward Marsh and Stephen Gooden. Marsh, sponsored the Georgian school of poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. 24 copper engravings with engraved pictorial titles (tissue guards}, set in Monotype Garamond, and printed on hand-made wove paper, uncut edges. Covers of volume two toned.

Paris: Leclerc Fils, 1861. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown morocco. Aeg. Fine. 2 Vols. 260 & 301 pages. 18 x11 cm. Limited edition, copy 7 of 20. Ttitle pages in red and black with engraved portrait vignettes, seventy-one steel engraved text illustrations of extraordinary detail. ROCHAMBEAU 153. "Jolie edition complete des Contes." Lovely binding, raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, a few pages minor age-toning. Interior contents bright and fresh.

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter black roan and midnight blue speckled boards Very good. Lafever, Minard. 139 pages in text. 27 x 18 cm. Forty-eight engraved plates. The rare first edition. This monograph consists of a section entitled "Architectural History" extracted from Elmes's DICTIONARY, a glossary of names and terms used in architecture from the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANICA, and a series of elegantly drawn and engraved designs for doors, windows, and partitions, the orders, etc. Also of interest is a new Greek order of Lafever's own invention [illustrated in HAMLIN, pl.XCI]. "It is in THE BEAUTIES that the true talent of Lafever reaches final maturity....here Lafever's genius appears at its fullest." -- HAMLIN, "Greek Revival Architecture in America," pp.351-352. HITCHCOCK 687. Scattered foxing throughout, wear to corners and two inch loss at head of front cover.

New York: William D. Smith, 1841. leather_bound. Orig. brown roan rebacked with original black spine gilt label. Very good. 119 pages in text. 30 25.5 cm. Small folio, frontispiece, plates 1-53, 56-88. Glossary of Technical Terms. HITCHCOCK 693. KARPEL B107. "Asher Benjamin and Minard Lafever were the two architectural authors most influential in the development of the Greek Revival in America. Both had minds of compelling creative power; Lafever's was perhaps the most imaginative. The present book shows his mature style, with its characteristically delicate rosettes, anthemions, and favored Ionic order. This work contains the first appearance of the two house designs of the `temple-type with wings,' which exerted an enormous influence all over the United States." All editions are scarce. Owner inscription title page head and bookplate of E.K. Milliken. Some toning located mostly at fore-edge and at head and tail margins. Front cover repair.

Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco, marbled boards. Very good. 4 vols. 271, 329, 310, 299 pages. 16 x 10.5 cm. Two large engraved fold-out maps, 2 engraved frontispieces. Lamartine remains the most renowned Orientalist in Lebanon and the Middle East; he was also instrumental in the founding of the Second Republic of France, Extensive Index. Modest, intermittent text toning, more pronounced first few and last leaves, raised bands, spines lettered in gilt.

London & New York: Field & Tuer, Scribner & Welford, 1889. Hardcover. Three quarter white vellum and gray boards lettered in gilt. Near fine. 31 pages. 20 x 15.5 cm. Nine hand colored plates. Bright, very fresh copy, wide text margins. Lamb's fairy tale in verse for children. Small owner inscription free front endpaper.

London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. royal blue cloth. Near fine in rubbed dust wrapper. 211 pages. Twenty-four pages of plates and more than sixty text figures. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Lamb writes, "This book brings under one cover the theoretical, contractual, and technical aspects of drawing for illustration.

Berlin: Konrad Wittwer, 1891. Hardcover. Orig. three quarter brown morocco and board portfolio, spine stamped in gilt, three sets of cloth ties. Near fine.. No text. Folio, 41 x 31 cm. Sixty color lithograph plates printed recto only with black and white plans for each design -- one family, duplex and fourplex structures. -- luminous, quality lithographs in subtle tones. Kanter & Mohr, Buchhandling fur Architektur und Kunstgewerge label (Distributors) at title page and front cover, skillfully placed. OCLC notes two copies only. Plates clean and bright, slight front cover toning.

New York: Yale Univ. Press, 1986. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Rodin, Auguste. 242 pages. 28.5 x 25.5 cm. Color and black and white plates. 241 entries with descriptive text in depth. Foreword. List of Lenders. Notes to the Text. Selective Bibliography.

New York: Walton W. Rawls, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Orig.black linen cloth with leather spine label printed in gilt. Fine. 292 pp. 4to, 216 illustrations in color and black and white and all, elegantly printed in Japan on quality stock. Index. Errata slip.Introduction by Alan Priest. Notable are the surprising number of houses and gardens in the last part of the 19th century which were either direct copies or more often, modifications of Japanese original designs.

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 -- others include, Boulevart St. Martin, St. Denis, Poissonniere, Italiens, Montmarte et al. Some light foxing, one plate creased.

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.

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 Vol. II. Printed on heavy glossy stock. Appendix dealing with specific events of his capture and imprisonment. He was known for a witty writing style, he also aided in the British World War I designing tanks and planes.

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.

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 Harvey (1796-1866) was Bewick's favorite pupil, and by all accounts, a most amiable man, one who reached the top of the tree as both engraver and artist." Lane added abundant and scholarly notes, elucidating terms, explaining customs and illustrating points of Islamic faith, which were later assembled to form a book entitled Arabian Society in the Middle Ages. The translation was almost entirely from the Arabic edition of the text published at Bulaq in Cairo in 1835. He was unquestionably the most eminent English Arabist of his time. Raised bands, panels elaborately decorated in gold motifs with a center oval in brown,… Read More

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.

Portland: Thomas B. Mosher, 1907. Full contemporary crushed navy morocco with intersecting gilt cover frames. Upper cover gilt lettered with gilt leaf motifs. Aeg. Fine. XX1V, 62 (5) pages. 18 x 9.5 cm. Engraved frontispiece on Japan vellum and three woodcut designs by Jacob Hood. First Mosher limited issue on Van Gelder paper of the "Old World Edition" that reproduces the 1887 edition. Bound by Hatchards of Picadilly with raised bands, spine panels in gilt, gilt doublures.