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New York City: Mayflower Books, Inc, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. Unpaginated. Paper-covered boards in dust jacket. Some water staining to dj. "In From A to Z Karen M. Jones brings together an engaging play of art, prose, and poetry in which the rhymes and rhythms of the ABC books of the past are threaded throughout the pictures and the commentaries on them." Delightfully illustrated with color reproductions of paintings. Dj in good, book in very good condition.

Paris: Librairie Catholique de L.-F. Hivert; J. Vermot, 1849. Second revised. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto. VIII, 352pp. Original half black morocco over decorative black cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. Ribbon marker. Steel engraved frontispiece protected with a tissue guard. Detailed account and observations of the authors's journey to the Holy Land, exquisitely illustrated with 48 fine steel engravings and a large folding map. Each plate is captioned and protected with a tissue guard. The map is captioned in French, Spanish and Italian. Moderate rubbing on spine and along edges of binding. Minor and sporadic foxing throughout. Text in French. Binding in overall good, interior in good+ to very good condition.

Berlin: Hermann Barsdorf, 1913. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. vii,198pp. Illustrated blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Letters on spine faded. Age wear to binding. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped. Volume IV of the series "Geheime Wissenschaften. Eine Sammlung älterer und neuerer Schriften über Alchemie, Magie, Kabbalah, Rosenkreuzerei, Freimaurerei, Hexen- und Teufelswesen usw. Unter Mitwirkung namhafter Autoren herausgegeben von A. v. d. Linden." Text in German, Gothic script. Binding in good, interior in overall very good condition. Elias Artista (Elias the Artist), the mythical "Master of Alchemy", is referred to in Hermetic literature as a symbol of the end of times, where his appearance will bring about the clarification of all the secret magic(k)al teachings of the universe.

München: Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, 2003. Softcover. vg. 8vo. 73,[2]pp. Original illustrated wraps. Text in German. Illustrated with few b/w photographic reproductions. Minor scuffing and creasing on wraps. Wraps in very good, interior in near fine condition. Themen Bd. 78 von Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. New edition. Hardcover. Good- condition. Octavo. 210pp. Original three-quarter textured green leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering on spine, gilt tooling on raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. First title page with black frame, second with framed illustration. With illustrations throughout, original and from the Antique, drawn on wood by George Scharf, Jun. Contains list of illustrations at rear. Binding with light wear along edges, some scuffing along front hinge. Damp-staining on endpapers, title pages and last two pages, else only in margins.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto (10 1/2 x 7"). xvi, 838pp. Contemporary gilt-stamped full calf, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Dentelles. School binding. St. Edmund's seal in gilt to front cover. Marbled endpapers and paper edges. Originally published in 1848, "The History of England from the Accession of James the Second" (1848) covers the 17-year period from 1685 to 1702, encompassing the reign of James II, the Glorious Revolution, the coregency of William III and Mary II, and up to William III's death. Head and tail of spine rubbed, with some minor abrasion to leather. Prize bookplate on inside of front cover. Binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. vg. 4to. Unpaginated (32pp). Half cloth over blind-stamped paper-covered boards in original dust jacket. Signed and dated by MaCaulay on title-page. Delightful children's book with intermingling episodes, illustrated with color reproductions of drawings by D. MaCaulay. Minor wear to bottom edge of front and back board. Some scuffing and staining on dj. Slight foxing on title page. Dj and binding in very good, interior in near fine condition.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. 18th printing. Hardcover. vg. Folio. 74, [6]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over green cloth with gold lettering on spine. Illustrated title-page signed by David Macaulay and dated 2002. Fascinating work in which the author traces the step-by-step planning and construction of a 13th century imaginary castle and town from the hiring of a skilled master engineer to the actual test of castle defenses when hundreds of Welsh soldiers launched a direct attack. Numerous b/w illustrations full of explicit details and unusual perspectives masterfully combine with the straightforward and lucid text to guide the reader through the engrossing exploration. Dust-jacket, binding and interior in overall very good condition.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 8vo, xiii, 366 pp. Grey cloth binding with dj. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Small stain to page bottom edge. Spine of dj sunned. "The first systematic study of the politics of five crucial years of the puritan revolution between 1643 and 1649." A tight copy in very good condition.

Glasgow: Andrew Duthie, 1865. Hardcover. vg to vg+. Quarto. 125pp. (interleaved with 12 photographic plates). Original period green buckram boards with gilt lettering, decorative tooling and ruling on the covers. Beveled edges. Edges of book block in gilt. Brown endpapers. Photographic frontispiece. Gilt stamp of Glasgow bookseller McPhail on the interior front cover. "Days at the Coast", a poetic travelogue of locations around the the Firth of Clyde*, by Glasgow-area writer Hugh MacDonald (1817-1860) was first issue in 1857 and became a local bestseller. A number of subsequent editions were issued over next twenty years, but the most sought after and scarce of these is this very special edition issued in 1865, which most notably includes 12 original evocative landscape photographs of the area by pioneering Scottish photographer Thomas Annan (1829-1887). Each image (including the frontispiece) is captioned underneath, mounted on heavy stock paper and protected with a tissue guard. Text throughout… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. x. 155pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Gilt faded. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly bumped. Minor scuffing to boards. Signature of previous owner to front endpaper. "This book, considered on one side, is a supplement to my The Hebrew Literary Genius, expanding the two chapters there on Philosophy and on Ecclesiastes. For it is, also, on another side, an attack on a widely prevalent dogma that the Hebrew had no philosophy, being by their very nature incapable of philosophy". In very good condition.

London: Henry Frowde, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. xv,352pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine. Early 20th century publication containing grammar and a complete dictionary of the language of Efate, New Hebrides. At the time the language was spoken by app. 50 million inhabitants on islands in the Indian and Pacific Ocean. Deckled page edges. Heavy staining, scuffing and some age wear on binding. Head and tail of spine bumped. Signature of previous owner on free front endpaper. Fold-out map in front creased. Binding in fair, interior in overall very good condition.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. x. 155pp. Black buckram cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Ex-libris sticker of prior owner on interior front cover. "This book, considered on one side, is a supplement to my The Hebrew Literary Genius, expanding the two chapters there on Philosophy and on Ecclesiastes. For it is, also, on another side, an attack on a widely prevalent dogma that the Hebrew had no philosophy, being by their very nature incapable of philosophy". Head and tail of spine and corners slightly bumped. Minor scuffing to boards. Sunning to spine. Interior pages with age toning to the edges. Binding in very good-, interior in good+ to very good- condition overall.

New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. xxii, 334 pp. Brown cloth with "Echad Eloheinu" (Our God is One) in Hebrew in red lettering on front cover, gold lettering on spine. Stories are set in the Podolian Ghetto, in modern day Ukraine. Some minor scuffing to boards and yellowing of pages. Ex library copy. In English, translated from the German. Book is in good condition.

New York: Metropolitan Museum, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Good to very good condition. 1/1000. Folio. xxii, 132pp., 35 plates, three of them and frontispiece o restored anthropoid coffin, chromolithographs. Original half leather over textured brown, paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Gilt top edge. Publication of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition. Frontispiece chromolithograph; printed tissue guards. First of the museum publications relating to its excavations in Egypt. "The tomb described in this volume was found during the winter of 1906-7, in the course of our first season's work at Lisht... The tomb is published as a unit in itself, and there will be no discussion in the present volume of its relation either to the other tombs in the cemetery, or to the mastaba within the enclosure walls of which it was situated." (Introduction). Little is known about this woman who lived at the end of the 12th Dynasty. In her undisturbed tomb records were found… Read More

New York: Arno Press, 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. vg. Lg. 4to. Orange cloth with brown lettering on front board and gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece b/w reproduction of anthropoid coffin. Illustrated throughout with very detailed b/w reproductions of drawings and photographs of the site and its artifacts. Facsimile reproduction of the original text, complete with all the illustrations. Included in the text is a preface, table of contents, list of illustrations, and an introduction by Mace, an appendix (Notes on the Mummy by Dr. G. Elliott Smith, F.R.S), an Index of Names of Objects from the Painted Coffins, Index of Authorities Cited, a General Index, and Plates. Chapters include The Site and the Tomb, The Clearing of the Tomb, The Coffins and Canopic Box, The Jewelry, The Ceremonial Staves, Miscellaneous Objects, Including the pottery, and finally, Date of Tomb and Comparison with Tombs on Other sites. Overall very good condition.

New York: Metropolitan Museum, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Goo to very good condition. 1/1000. Folio. xxii, 132pp., 35 plates, three of them and frontispiece o restored anthropoid coffin, chromolithographs. Original half leather over textured brown, paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine, protected by modern mylar. Gilt top edge. Publication of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition. Frontispiece chromolithograph; printed tissue guards. Documentation of the excavation of the undisturbed tomb of Senebtisi. "The tomb is published as a unit in itself, and there will be no discussion in the present volume of tits relation either to the other tombs in the cemetery, or to the mastaba within the enclosure walls of which it was situated." (Introduction). Dedication in pencil on front free endpaper: "Presented to John Ha. Slecum by Marshall C. Lefferts, March 26, 1923." Little is known about this woman who lived at the end of the 12th Dynasty. In her undisturbed tomb… Read More

Mexico: Editoral Herrero, 1970. Hardcover. vg. Sm. folio. 431pp. Decorated tan cloth with dust jacket. Minor creasing to dj. Small closed tear on head of spine on dj. Illustrated endpapers. "Arte Colonial. 171 illustraciones a todo color, 206 en blanco y negro, 32 planos de monumentos, 1 cuadro cronologico." Text in Spanish. Dj in good, book in very good condition.

(London): (Morland Press, Limited), 1924. Hardcover. g. Hesketh Hubbard. 8vo. 88 pp. White cloth spine over brown boards. With 26 b&w plates by Hubbard, as well as an appendix listing his paintings and his etchings in public collections. Many pages uncut. Boards slighlty frayed along edges. Light wear to head and tail of spine. Boards gently sunned at edges. Else, in good condition with text and images clean.

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. g. 8vo. x, 209pp. Half vellum over paper covered boards. Interesting book on poetry. Untrimmed page edges. Book is in good condition.