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Paris: A. Belin, 1818. Reprint. Hardcover. g. Octavo. XV, [1], 416pp. Original full calf with gold lettering and decoration on spine. Marbled endpapers. Printer's device on title page. Ribbon marker. This work contains La Bruyère's masterpiece, the "Caractères", as well as La Bruyère's discourse of admission at the Academy, and his "Dialogues sur le Quiétisme." The plan of the book is thoroughly original, if that term may be accorded to a novel and skilful combination of existing elements. The treatise of Theophrastus may have furnished the first idea, but it gave little more. With the ethical generalizations and social Dutch painting of his original La Bruyère combined the peculiarities of the Montaigne Essais, of the Pensées and Maximes of which Pascal and La Rochefoucauld are the masters respectively, and lastly of that peculiar 17th century product, the "portrait" or elaborate literary picture of the personal and mental characteristics of an individual. The result was quite unlike anything… Read More

Paris: Garnier Frères, 1885. Illustrated. Hardcover. g- to g+. Large quarto (11 x 7 1/2"). [4], xxxii, 667, [1]pp. Original half burgundy crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Allegorical frontispiece. Illustrated title page. Decorative headpieces, initials and tailpieces. Ribbon marker. Book housed in its custom-made linen covered slipcase. Delightful edition of Jean de la Fontaine's fables splendidly illustrated throughout with numerous witty illustrations by Jean-Jacques Grandville (1803-1847). Some soiling to spine. Binding rubbed along edges. Minor to heavy foxing throughout. Text in French. Slipcase in overall good, binding in good-, interior in good to good+ condition.

Paris: Libraires Associes, 1778. Hardcover. poor. 12mo. xl. 254pp. Original calf with gilt decorated spine. Raised bands. Gilt decoration faded. Parts of backstrip on head and tail of spine missing. Heavy age wearing throughout binding. Chipping to edges and parts of boards. Front board almost detached but present. Faded red page edges. Marbled endpapers. Color frontis. Age yellowing and sporadic water staining throughout pages. Some welling to pages due to damp exposure. Text in French. In poor condition.

Londres: NP, 1770. Hardcover. g. 12mo. XVIII, [19]-122, [10], 118, [2], [4], V, [3], [7]-129, [9], 132, [2]pp. Original spotted calf with gold lettering on spines. Two engraved frontispiece portraits of La Fontaine. Decorative head- and tailpieces. Remarkable edition of La Fontaine's "Contes," lively stories in verse, grazing and sometimes transgressing the bounds of contemporary moral standards. They are magnificently illustrated with 84 engravings by Martinet after the illustrations of Charles Dominique Eisen (1720-1778), Louis XV's Court painter, and drawing master to Madame de Pompadour. The substantial group of plates here, is the liveliest and the most adroit that Eisen ever drew. Thoroughly at home with the varied action of these lusty stories--their love passages, their intrigues, their practical jokes--he is also expert in choosing the moment in each that will best serve his purpose as an illustrator. This copy is a smaller size of the famous Fermiers généraux edition originaly published… Read More

Paris: Chez Laporte, 1786. First edition. Hardcover. fair to vg. Octavo. 2 leaves, 56pp., 1 folding map, 558pp., 2 plates. Original full calf with gilt lettering, tooling and ruling on spine; raised bands. Red edges. Decorative endpapers. Title page with publisher's device. Decorative, historiated headpieces. This travelog of Captain Cook's third voyage contains most remarkable, most useful and proven facts of the countries described. It includes descriptions of customs of the inhabitants, religion, arts, science, commerce, manufactures, and is enriched with a geographic map of the Northern part of the Pacific, and two plates, depicting an indigenous man and a young woman of Tahiti. Text in French. Binding with some wear, chips and holesfrom bookworms along edges, some scuffing and rubbing. Some water staining along foredge of last fifty pages. Binding in overall fair, interior in very good condition.

Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Hardcover. g. Carroll C. Snell. 8vo. 172 pp. Orange cloth binding with dj. With b&w illustrations by Carroll C. Snell, including frontispiece and foreword by Walter Damrosch, Tells the story of a girl named Alice in the kingdom of Orchestralia, and in showcasing the instruments who guide her, details the forces in putting together a symphony concert. Dj torn along edges and with large tear across back (approximately 4 inches). Some fading to dj. Interior text and illustrations clean. With former owner's inscription present. Overall, in good condition with fair dj.

Amsterdam and New York: N. Israel and Da Capo Press, 1968. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good condition. Quarto. (2),539,(1); (2),531,(17)pp. Index. Plus facsimiles of the original 1799 title pages and 56 facsimile pages of the original prefaces and introductions. Publisher's mylar dust jackets. Faux vellum boards with gilt lettered blue labels on front covers and spines. "Bibliotheca Australiana #27 and #28." The text is complete in two volumes, but this set lacks the atlas volume and is priced accordingly. Mylar with wear, small chips and tears, some tears larger.

London: L. and G. Seeley; J. Hatchard and Son; and R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. [4], V, [9], 256pp. Contemporary 3/4 crushed morocco over cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece. Remarkable series of engravings depicting the Holy Land, illustrative of Scripture, and selected from the travels of Ainslie, Buckingham, Forbin, Laborde, Le Brun, Niebuhr, Parsons, Sir R. K. Porter, Wittmann, and others. The drawings from these originals have been executed by William Harvey and Samuel Williams; and the engravings by Thompson, Jackson, S. Williams, T. Williams, Powis, Smith, Gray, Landells, Branston, etc.. The maps are engraved by Thomas Starling. Moderate rubbing along edges of binding. Fore-edge of covers damp-stained (not affecting pages). Ex library copy with library stamp on bottom edge and fore-edge of pages. Blind stamp on title page. Very minor age toning along paper margin. Binding in overall fair to good-, interior in good+ to… Read More

London: L. and G. Seeley; J. Hatchard and Son; R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. V, [9], 256pp. Original 3/4 green crushed morocco over green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Engraved frontispiece protected with a tissue-guard. First edition of this fascinating work on the History and Setting of the Bible. It is profusely illustrated with 84 steel and wood engravings of scenes, views and maps illustrative of scripture scenes. Each plate is related to a passage of the Bible and is protected with a tissue-guard. Slight rubbing along edges. Previous owner's inscription on fly leaf and dated 1845. Binding in overall good+ to very good, interior in very good condition.

London: Merrell, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/as new. Quarto (11" x 10"). 160pp. Index. Color photo dust jacket, white spine lettered in black and blue. White boards patterned in black. Illustrated with 155 color photographs and a black & white frontispiece portrait. A fine, as new copy. "... The first significant study of the work of Sottsass for over a decade - emphasizes the continuing diversity and innovation of his professional life while illuminating his personal design philosophy, his belief in the intimate relationship between design and the individual, and his fundamental humanity and joie de vivre. Drawing in particular on the work of the two decades since Sottsass left the Memphis collective, this book reassesses his relationship to Modernism and Postmodernism, analyzes the increasing importance to Sottsass of his own architectural practice, and considers both his acceptance and his rejection of the traditional use of materials. In a series of interviews specially undertaken for… Read More

Paris: De L'Imprimerie Impériale, 1805. First complete French edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Quartos. Vol.1: (xcvii) 528pp, 31pp. Vol.2: 460pp, 84pp. Black leather over dark blue marbled paper boards. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spines. The first full French translation of compiled research from the Asiatic Society of Bengal, originally published in English as the periodical journal "Asiatick Researches" from 1788- 1839. The text throughout contains a vast array of information in various realms of scientific, historical, philosophical, religious and/or cultural topics, from different authors. Volume 1 contains a total of 33 plates of copperplate engravings (including 2 fold-out), while volume 2 contains 11 plates, plus 2 folding tables (one one which, a table of Persian grammatical influence on North India, printed on blue-toned Arches papers measuring 22 1/4 x 28". Some of these plates contain illustrations, while others contain geometric figures, mathematical calculations, astrological… Read More

Trieste: NP, 1950. Softcover. g. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original wrappers. Creasing and staining to wraps. Some tearing on head and tail of spine. Some age browning to outer edges of pages. Interesting report of the suffering of the Istrian population in the Venezia Giulia Territory after the end of W.W.II. Illustrated with fold-out maps in brown and white at rear of book. Overall good condition.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Limited First edition. Hardcover. vg to fine. Folio. 152pp. Original photo-illustrated glossy paper covered boards. Book housed in its illustrated slipcase designed by Japanese graphic artist Tadanori Yokoo. Pictorial endpapers. Color frontispiece. This striking and colorful collection of 151 cutting-edge photographs blend fifties kitsch and nineties cyberculture, as they capture the worlds of fashion, advertising, Hollywood, and music. "In the afterword to this dizzying collection of his photographs, fashion and celebrity photographer LaChapelle says: "If there's an exhibitionist left who wants his or her picture taken, I'll be there." His pictures of the famous and not-so-famous in outrageous poses and situations bear this out. Following Truman Capote's dictum that "good taste is the death of art," he shoots Faye Dunaway flat on her back on top of a limousine, Tom Jones hanging off a truck in a pink cat suit, a porn star in Times Square on an overstuffed chair… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Sm. 4to. xx,49,118pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine. Some scuffing and discoloration to boards. Signature of previous owner to free front endpaper. Volume XIV of Harvard Semitic Series. Texts from excavations at Nuzi conducted by the Semitic Museum and the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, with the cooperation of the American School of Oriental Research at Baghdad. Nuzi was an ancient city near Kirkuk, in today's Iraq. Minor browning to pages. Very good condition.

Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 1957. Second edition. Hardcover. Good + to very good condition.. Large octavo (9-12/" x 7"). 2 volumes 513, (1); 650pp. Titles in English and Hebrew, text in Hebrew. Vol. I in red & yellow dust jacket over brown paper with faded gilt lettering, over faux pigskin. Vol. II in purple and yellow dust jacket over brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Vol. I with bookplate of Rabbi Sanford M. Shapero on front pastedown. Both dust jacket spines a bit faded and with small chips at head of spine. The Zohar (Hebrew "Splendor, radiance") is widely considered the most important work of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. It is a mystical commentary on the Torah (the five books of Moses), written in medieval Aramaic and medieval Hebrew. It contains a mystical discussion of the nature of God, the origin and structure of the universe, the nature of souls, sin, redemption, good and evil, and related topics. The Zohar is not one book, but a group of books. These books include scriptural… Read More

Munich: Prestel, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Folio. 303 (1)pp. Original color-illustrated cream cloth with gilt-stamped initials of title and black lettering on cover, b/w lettering on spine, in original burgundy slipcase. Burgundy endpapers. Color frontispiece. Burgundy ribbon marker. Francis I of Austria was the last ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. This beautiful compendium is dedicated to one of the emperor Francis' passion, his gardens. "Atop the bastion next to his palace, His Majesty the Emperor (Franz) possesses a small garden immediately adjacent to his cabinet to where he may retire unseen by the people. It contains a truly imperial treasure of succulents that are splendid..." Illustrated with one hundred and twenty beautiful renderings of plants and flowers from the Royal gardens by Matthias Schmutzer who was commissioned by the emperor to paint portraits of every flower in his garden. Contains bibliography. Following the 120 plates we find notes on the plants, an essay… Read More

Paris: Editions Cosmopolites, 1937. Limited edition. Softcover. Fine condition. This copy is number 73 of 21-120, printed on van Gelder paper. Signed Stephan Lackner on colophon. Housed in a modern grey cloth clamshell box. Original tan illustrated wraps with black lettering on cover and spine, in original glassine. Illustrated title page. Hofmaier 323-329 B. - Schauer, Bd. II,117. Laid in, squared paper label with printed number 73. Text in German. Stephan Lackner, born Ernest Gustave Morgenroth, was a German-born author, the son of the Jewish merchant Sigmund Morgenroth. He met Max Beckmann first when in High School at a formal party at the home of his friend Bernhard Heiden. An exhibition of Beckmann's work in Erfurt that had been banned by the Propaganda Ministry, but Lackner managed to see Beckmann's work in the Museum storage and bought Beckmann's painting "Mann und Frau" on this occasion. In the following years he used the name Lackner as a pseudonym for his journalistic activities and in… Read More

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, 1964. Reprint. Hardcover. g. Large 8vo. xix, 520 pp. Magenta cloth with dj. Reprint of 1870 book published under The Arts in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance. Corners bumped. Dj slightly faded. Over 400 wood engravings. Dj lightly chipped to edges. In very good condition with good dj.

Paris: Librairie De Firmin Didot Freres, 1873. Second edition. Hardcover. vg. F. Kellerhoven; L. Allard; Regamey;. 4to. v. 572pp. Brown cloth with title plate. Rebacked. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Minor foxing throughout not affecting text or plates. Decorated page edges. Color frontispiece. A detailed history by Paul Lacroix (1806-1884) of military and religious life from the middle ages to the renaissance. Illustrated with 14 full-page color chromolithographs and 409 b/w wood engravings. The color plates are tissue guarded. Text in French. In very good condition.

Philadelphia: The Peter Reilly Company, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. g. Sm. 8vo. 95pp. Olive cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Minor bumping to edges, front board slightly bowed. Thoughtful and suggestive little book on 'Pessimism.' Good condition.