Search Results: Titles starting with L from Austin's Antiquarian Books

Paris: Auguste Picard, Editeur, 1927. First edition. Paperback. Good +. Quarto, original printed paper wrappers in glassine jackets. Two volumes; volume II is pictured. 544, 604pp. Very good. Glassine is quite chipped along spines. llustrated. Black and white plates. A postumous work of De Lasteyrie, published under the care of Marcel Aubert. Inscribed by Aubert to a noted art historian and critic. Also laid in is an inscribed photo of the author dated 1935 while at Yale University.

Paris: Editions A. et J. Picard, 1949. First edition in French. Hardcover. Very good.. First edition in French of The Creation of the Rococo (Philadelphia 1943), translated by Jeanne Marie. Quarto, original printed paper wrappers. Includes extensive bibliographical references in the footnotes and index. "The basic pioneer work on the Rococo style with special attention to its creation during the last years of louis XIV and the Regency period. Treats the Rococo as a French style only distantly related to Italian Baroque. A difficult book for the student and the general reader, most rewarding for the specialist" Arntzen & Rainwater, p.42. Ehresmann 1247. Wittenborn Book Seller's tag at rear. This copy from the library of noted art critic and educator, S. Lane Faison. It has his stamp, is signed by him and there are some notes, marginalia in his hand. Illustrated. Two hundred seventy-four illustrations on plates.

Dorchester Ma: General Food Corporation, 1932. Wraps. Good +. 24mo; pp; 60, index; illustrated with twenty-three color photographic illustrations including centerfold; original printed paper wrappers;. Chocolate!Chocolate!Chocolate!Chocolate!Chocolate!Chocolate!Chocolate!Chocolate!Chocolate!Chocolate!

Paris: Club Alpin Francais, 1932. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Small quarto; pp; (vi), 337-384 (vii-xii); illustrated with photographs; original printed pictorial wrappers;. Articles on mountaineering, interesting ads;.

Paris: Club Alpin Francais, 1933. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Small quarto; pp; 40 viii; illustrated with photographs; original printed pictorial wrappers;. Articles on mountaineering, interesting ads;.

Paris: Club Alpin Francais, 1932. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Small quarto; pp; (iv), 145-192, (v-viii); illustrated with photographs; original printed pictorial wrappers;. Articles on mountaineering, interesting ads;.

Paris: Club Alpin Francais, 1932. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Small quarto; pp; (x), 241-288 xi-xviii); illustrated with photographs; original printed pictorial wrappers;. Articles on mountaineering, interesting ads;.

Paris: Club Alpin Francais, 1932. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Small quarto; pp; (vi), 335-388 (vii-x); illustrated with photographs; original printed pictorial wrappers;. Articles on mountaineering, interesting ads;.

Sevilla: Boletin de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, 1998. Wraps. Near fine. Octavo; pp. 61-72; original brown textured wrappers with a label at top center of the front wrapper;. An offprint of this article dealing with TR and a free Cuba.Text in Spanish only.

Paris: Editions Bossard, 1923. Second Edition. Wraps. Very good +. Two volumes; Octavo; pp; I; xvi, (5), 6-518, tables; II; (5), 6-597, tables; Illustrated, eighty-eight text illustrations, sixty-six photogravures, twenty-two maps, seven special designs, (dessinees); original publisher's printed paper wrappers; To avoid any confusion, this edition is in french; Some minor edge wear, overall a very good or better copy. Émile-Joseph Lauvrière was a French historian of Acadia. Emile Lauvrière started his studies in Paris and completed them in London. Upon studying Evangeline, Longfellow's poem which follows an Acadian girl during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. Lauvrière discovered, on this occasion, the history of the Acadian people, and reoriented his scholarly interest. This new research subject led him to publish La Tragédie d'un peuple; histoire du peuple acadien de ses origines à nos jours (Paris: Bossard, 1922). Lauvrière was to spend the next three decades studying Acadian… Read More

Vatican City: L'Illustrazione Vaticana, 1935. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Folio; pp; 42; illustrated, one color and thirteen monotone plates, including a folding plate of the entire ceiling; original printed tan paper wrappers; The text is in French; Some edge wear to erappers, else very good. The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope, in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored it between 1477 and 1480. Since that time, the chapel has served as a place of both religious and functionary papal activity. Today it is the site of the Papal conclave, the process by which a new pope is selected. The fame of the Sistine Chapel lies mainly in the frescos that decorate the interior, and most particularly the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment by Michelangelo. Beautiful Plates.

New York: Modern Age Books, 1937. First Modern Age Edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo; pp; (x), 195, (ii), index, ads; illustrated with eight black and white photographs; original printed pictorial paper wrappers, paperback. The Lafollette Commission, strikebreaking etc. Great content, mid-depression era.

Warwick: Henry H. Lacy, Publisher & Printer, 1897. Wraps. chip to bottom corner of the wrapper else very good. Duodecimo; pp; 32; twenty-one illustrations including photographs, cuts, and line drawings; original printed blue paper wrappers;. A lovely 19th century tourist's guide.

New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co, 1873. Hardcover. very good to near fine and appear to have never been read. Small octavo; pp; (xii), 397, (vii), ads; folding map, frontispiece and twenty-nine black and white plates; original pictorial terra-cotta cloth, stamped in black and gilt; Taylor compiled and arranged this volume and was the Editor of the Series. A remarkable relic of Gilded Age publishing offering a look at the unknown places of the World. Taylor compiled and arranged this volume. The Library Of Travel, Exploration & Adventure Edited by Bayard Taylor. Includes exploration of David Livingstone & John H. Speke, Richard Burton, Samuel W. Baker.

New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co, 1873. Hardcover. very good to near fine and appear to have never been read. Small octavo; pp; (xii), 397, (vii), ads; folding map, frontispiece and twenty-nine black and white plates; original pictorial terra-cotta cloth, stamped in black and gilt; Taylor compiled and arranged this volume and was the Editor of the Series. A remarkable relic of Gilded Age publishing offering a look at the unknown places of the World. Taylor compiled and arranged this volume. Bears the bookplate and signature of Leon G. Bagley of Rutland Vermont. Bagley was a prominent citizen and manager of the Western Union Telegraph Office. The Library Of Travel, Exploration & Adventure Edited by Bayard Taylor. Includes exploration of David Livingstone & John H. Speke, Richard Burton, Samuel W. Baker.

Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine lightly faded else a very good solid copy. Octavo; pp; (x), 354, index; illustrated with twenty-six black and white plates and a double page map; decorated beige cloth lettered in red. A good history of the land in the 19th century with interesting Theodore Roosevelt content.

Eliot Maine: Landward League, 1909. First & Only Edition. Wraps. Ex-New York State library but barely marked. Very good. Octavo; pp; 28; original printed brown paper wrappers;. Long quote from TR on the cover and repeated on the first page. TR speaks of citizens being stong self-reliant economic units. This organization appears to be a back to the land movement. TR quoted throughout the piece. Unrecorded.

Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 2009. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo, pp. (x), 102; photographs, maps; original pictorial paper wrappers. Very good. Jackson's impacted Lee's Army not just emotionally but also tactically. He had proved himself a great asset in the early days of the War.

London: Phaidon Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto; pp; 282, index, concordance; Illustrated with a tipped on color frontispiece and numerous photographs in color and in black and white; decorated blue cloth, gilt in a dust jacket;. A lovely collection presented in a lovely fashion.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Second printing, Scribner "B" on the copyright page. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Octavo; pp; xiii, (i), 344; black cloth with gilt title tiles lettered in black in a pictorial dust jacket;. Epic of the California Gold Rush and subsequent settlement, written in "free hexameters" (see author's note). A beautiful copy.