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London Hamilton, 1966, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing in U.K. (1966 same year as U.S.) Translated from French by Daphne Woodward. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine (very faint soil top-edge) with near fine dust jacket (barely discenrable darkening of white spine; tiny crease in flap). [Stories]

New York Da Capo Press, 1970, hardcover. Unabridged republication, with new introduction by W. Knight Sturges. -- "Including, Illustrations of Iron Architecture made by the Architectural Iron Works of the City of New York, Daniel D. Badger, President [original was 1865, with 102 plates], and, Cast Iron Buildings: Their Construction and Advantages, by James Bogardus [original was 1856]." All plates present, including the color ones. -- Oversize, heavy hardcover, 11.5x14 inches, tan cloth. Condition: very good (there is a slight wave to the text block, apparently from bindery; no jacket). ISBN 306710390

Osijek Galerija Likovnih Umjetnosti, 1993, hardcover. There are 183 numbered color reproductions, plus photographs and other visuals. Text in CROATIAN, with summary in English and in French. 219 pages, 9.5x13 inches. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine (corners lightly bumped) with near fine dust jacket. -- Ivan Rein studied with prominent Croatian painters at Zagreb and then Paris. His art evolved through the classical European forms and his Croatian training, to a more personal style in Paris 1930s, "Rein was a painter of intimacy." These more "mature" paintings also reflected his disturbance at the Spanish Civil War and encroaching fascism from Germany. His art and life ended when he became active with the Yugoslav resistance in World War II.

Santiago de Chile Fondo Historico y Bibliografico Jose Toribio Medina, 1952, hardcover. Second edition. -- Includes Primera and Segunda series, paged and indexed consecutively. Original wrappers bound in. Text in SPANISH. 500 pages, 8x11x1.7 inches. -- Attractive hardcover, quarter red leather, raised bands on spine. Condition: very good (light wear to spine bands, corners). -- Nice copy of this phenomenally prolific Chile scholar, publisher, bibliographer.

Lisboa Imprensa Nacional, 1910, hardcover. SIGNED, inscribed on title page by author Rocadas, who was Portuguese Minister of War. This book is unofficial daily chronicle of the army campaign against the Cuamatos tribal peoples, Angola, 1907. -- Half the pages have photographs, including local combatants, weapons, cattle, huts, enclosures, etc. Annexos include weather charts, wound and disease types, provisions, medicines, names lists. There are 17 large fold-out maps/plans, some in two parts, and 5 additional fold-out charts. -- Text in PORTUGUESE. Hardcover, half leather over printed boards, printed on poor, fragile paper. Condition: good (paper as noted; extruding parts of the fold-outs are creased; edgewear to cover edges and spine). Pages are clean and binding tight.

Innsbruch Felizian Rauch [?], 1936, hardcover. No publication date given: 1936? -- Black-and-white reproductions of the art done when she was 5 to 15 years old. Texts in GERMAN, English and French. 143 pages, 9.5x11 inches. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (cover has soil, spine lettering rubbed, but pages are clean and bright).

[Poland] Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1953, hardcover. Beautifully made book of selected 16th and early 17th century Polish music, including facsimiles of the original manuscripts and woodcuts, plus nice page decorations. -- Text in POLISH. Errata sheet tipped in. -- Hardcover, 10.5x13 inches. Condition: near fine (spine cloth foxed, else really nice) with bright, very good minus dust jacket (edgeworn).

Oxford Clarendon Press, 1927, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition 1927 as "newly translated from the Latin of the Elzevir edition of 1633" by Edward Seymour Forster. -- Includes 3 plates (one is title-page of the Elzevir edition) and one folding map (illustrating Busbecq's travels). -- Hardcover, ownership is pencil dated 1927. Condition: very good minus (cloth over thin boards is bumped at corners, some wear spine crown; spine slanted). -- Pages are bright and clean, overall a nice copy of this SCARCE and significant book.

Oxford Printed at the Theater in Oxford and are to be sold by George West, 1671, hardcover. Whitby's early work published 1671 addresses "false uncertain Mammon" and includes significant amount of his Latin and Greek references for his theory. 411 pages, plus bound in are an Addenda and Errata. -- Hardcover, nice later rebinding 3/4 leather over marbled boards; inner margins are tight but readable. Condition: very good (light scuff to raised bands; text has light damp-stains; a few early blue-pencil marks). -- Collated and complete; several pages are misnumbered but the catchwords are correct.

Milan Italy Panton Education, 1977, paperback. Colloquial expressions in five languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian) illustrated with humorous cartoons. -- Softcover, 681 pages. Condition: very good (spine crease).

New York Macmillan, 1951, hardcover. Published 1951, this is seventh printing 1955. -- SIGNED, inscribed to [name] with a personal note by the author on July 6, 1960. Laid in is the program "The Many Faces of Art" at The Brooklyn Unitarian on the same date at which Marianne Moore gave a reading. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (spine tips rubbed; endsheets discoiored; no jacket).

Philadelphia John C. Winston, 1952, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing of the author's FIRST BOOK. Hardcover, red cloth with space-images endsheets. Condition: very good minus (corners bumped including text block; printed on poor paper with tanned margins) with bright, very good dust jacket, flap intact 2.00 (light edgewear spine tips and flap folds).

New York McLoughlin Brothers, 1885, hardcover. Illustrator not identified for these bright color prints on heavy board pages. There are 86 illustrations, called "indestructible," on 12 unnumbered rigid "pages" -- Hardcover, printed boards, pages are attached and bound with cloth. Condition: fair only (the prints themselves are quite bright, with some stains and marks in white background; the cover is worn and cloth binding frayed

Nurnberg: Joh. Christoph Weigel circa, 1720, hardcover. No publication date in book, circa 1720 supplied. -- Text in gothic GERMAN. -- Auffs neue zum fleissigsten ubersehen, mit unterschiedenen nothigen Regeln vermehret und mit 50 rissern in Kupffer. -- There is a publisher's catalog at the beginning of this book, appears same paper but probably later (as some titles are circa 1780s). -- Collation: [4] catalog pages, title page, blank, [1]-28, [50 copper engraving plates, of which 5 are folding]. The last plate has been repaired with the reverse of a ? ledger sheet and with contemporary name written. -- Hardcover, modern buckram binding, spine: Architecture, J. R. Fasch, and library numbers; ex-library stamps on title page. Condiiton: good (the pages are generally bright with just a little spotting and edgewear; library marks as noted; modern binding tight and sharp). -- Pretty nice early copy of the German version of Vignola's Renaissance treatise on five orders of architecture, with… Read More

London George Kenning, 1878, hardcover. Both preface and title page are dated 1878. **This copy has two sepia photographs pasted in, opposite to and on verso of title page, with the handwritten names of George Kenning and of A F A Woodford; these are in different hands, but it is not known if they are actually signatures of the two men** Woodford compiled and edited the book, which is a condensation of the immense work by Mackey; Kenning sponsored and published the work. Alphabetical. Includes list of subscribers. Publisher's catalog at rear. -- Hardcover, blue cloth with gold and black embossed decorations, front cover and spine, including gold portraits of three Grand Masters. Condition: very good overall (bright cover with clean pages, with endsheets cracked but still sound binding; spine just faintly darkened, with light rubbing at tips and edges; pp,16-17 soiled apparently in the printing process; edges lightly foxed).