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BALZAC, Honore de. LES TROIS CLERCS DE SAINCT NICHOLAS... Illustres et Enlumines par Alfred le Petit...
Paris: chez Maistre Rene Kieffer..., 1926. 8vo, (6), 94, (3)pp, 4 full-page pochoir illustrations, pochoir vignettes, borders, and initials throughout. Half brown morocco over cloth, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Joints and corners a bit worn, a very good, fresh copy with bright illustrations.
Limited edition, one of 500 (of 600 total) numbered copies “sur velin de cuve.” This comic tale by Balzac is richly illustrated in bold faux-mediaeval pochoirs.
Price: USD 200.00 other currencies   order no. 6029   details     inquire
offered by: William Dailey Rare Books Ltd   (USA)
EPICTETUS. LONG, George (trans). THE DISCOURSES OF EPICTETUS.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1902. 2 vols. bound in one, 8vo, viii, 282, (2); viii, 266pp. Full rose niger morocco, elaborate gilt borders, gilt spine in compartments with raised bands, a.e.g., gilt inner border, printed endpapers. Light wear at spine ends and corners, spine and outer edges of covers sunned, a very good copy with fine, fresh text, handsomely bound.
Deluxe Edition, limited to 250 copies printed on hand-made paper by the Chiswick Press. Bound for the J.W. Robinson Company by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with original price ticket at rear free endpaper.
Price: USD 150.00 other currencies   order no. 6033   details     inquire
offered by: William Dailey Rare Books Ltd   (USA)
MILLER, Henry. TROPIC OF CANCER.
(Shelton, Connecticut: First Edition Library), (1962). 8vo, 323pp. Fine copy housed in fine publisher’s orig. tan buckram clamshell box, with gilt leatherette spine lables.
Excellent facsimile of the first edition, originally published by the Obelisk Press of Paris in 1934.
Price: USD 325.00 other currencies   order no. 6035   details     inquire
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NABOKOV, Vladimir. LOLITA.
(Shelton, Connecticut: First Edition Library), (1983). 2 vols, 12mo, 188; 223pp. Fine copies housedin fine publisher’s orig. tan buckram clamshell box, with gilt leatherette spine lables.
Excellent facsimile of the first edition, originally published by the Olympia Press of Paris in 1955.
Price: USD 575.00 other currencies   order no. 6036   details     inquire
offered by: William Dailey Rare Books Ltd   (USA)
PALGRAVE, Francis Turner (ed.). THE GOLDEN TREASURY of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language, Selected and Arranged with Notes...
London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1890. Sm. 4to, xii, 448pp. Full black morocco, gilt-stampedborders, gilt spine in compartments with raised bands, a.e.g., gilt inner borders and marbled endpapers. Mild wear along upper joint and raised bands, bookplate at front pastedown (same removed at rear), else a fine copy, handsomely bound.
Deluxe edition of this classic anthology, limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by the editor at the limitation page, in a signed binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Price: USD 350.00 other currencies   order no. 6038   details     inquire
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IRWIN, Wallace. Typed letter signed in pencil, Feb. 25, 1926, on Hotel Leonori letterhead.

To “Dear Redman, I enclose the suggestions I made to you over the telephone. If you’ll read over the last 100 pages of the book you’ll find plenty like it. Also there is a chapter about a discussion between Martin and Corless on Darwin - possibly that might stir up something/ Wallace Irwin.” Newspaper man and verse writer Irwin (1875-1959) is remembered for his Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum (1902)
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 6060   details     inquire
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BERMAN, Wallace. WALLACE BERMAN RETROSPECTIVE...
Los Angeles: Otis Art Institute, 1978. Post card 5-1/2 by 7-1/2 inches, with Berman image and exhibition announcement on verso. Nearly fine.
The image, a hand with cabalistic symbols superimposed, is “Untitled, 1972, Verifax with Letraset;’ beneath the image is a printed inscription to Joan, 1972.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 6126   details     inquire
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HARRISON, Jane Ellen. EPILEGOMENA TO THE STUDY OF GREEK RELIGION.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1921. 8vo,
First Edition of Jane Harrison’s sequel to her twoepoch making books on Greek religion, Prolegomena (1903) and Themis (1912). Interestingly, she acknowledges the works of both Juung and Freud for this new material.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 6129   details     inquire
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(Queen Alexandra of Denmark). QUEEN ALEXANDRA: A Pictorial Biography 1844-1925. With Literary Accompaniment by Viscount Cecil fo Chelwood, Count P. Ahlefeldt-Laurvig and C. Brudenell-Bruce.
London: Andrew Melrose..., 1925. 4to, 3, (2), 5-44 ff (printed verso only), tipped-in photo-illus. frontisportrait, 44 plates (many with multiple images), 6 add’l tipped-in photo-plates mounted on heavy tan stock. Orig. cream cloth with gilt-stamped vignette and facsimile signature, t.e.g. A bit of mild soiling to cloth, slightest bump at bottom corner front cover, still a fine, uncut, copy.
First Edition. Intended as a birthday homage to be published on 1 December 1925, this generously illustrated biography of Queen Alexandra, sister of Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, had to be issued as a memorial volume, instead. With a facsimile of Tennyson’s poem issued on the occasion of the Queen’s arrival in England.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 6150   details     inquire
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MILLIUS, David. Davidis Millii MISCELLANEA SACRA: Jesaiæ Caput LIV. Psalmos CXXI. & CXXII. Aliaque argumenta tam theologica quam exegetica enucleantia & exponentia ; inter illa eminent duæ dissertationes, quarum altera demostrantur obligatio hominis Christiani ad sacram coenam. Altera complectitur errores virorum doctorum in delineando tabernaculo Mosis; figuris æneis illustrata & ornata; binis orationibus adjectis.
Amstelodami: apud Adrianum Wor, 1754. Sm 4to, (11), 326, 329-414; (2), 329-402, (I)-XCVIII, (6), 403-438, (4)pp, title in red and black with engr. device, 6 engr. folding plates. Contemp. blind-stamped vellum, manuscript title at spine, bookplate at front paste-down. Occasional faint dampstain at bottom inner margin, else a very good copy with clean, fresh text and fine plates.
Only Edition of a very scarce work. Beautiful engraved plates depict the construction of the Israelite tabernacle and its paraphernalia. Walch, Bibl. Theol. Selecta IV, p.834.
Price: USD 450.00 other currencies   order no. 6200   details     inquire
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ROBERTSON, John. THE TRUE AND ANTIENT MANNER OF READING HEBREW WITHOUT POINTS: And the whole art of the Hebrew versification deduced from it. Both laid down in so plain a way as to be easily learned in a few days.
London: printed by J. Bettenham and sold by M. Cooper..., M.DCC.XLVIII. [1748]. 8vo, (6), 172, (2 contents & errata)pp. Disbound, very mild spotting at outer leaves, a nearly fine copy.
Second Edition. ESTC - T152337.
Price: USD 250.00 other currencies   order no. 6207   details     inquire
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FENWICK, George. THOUGHTS ON THE HEBREW TITLES OF THE PSALMS, and on some of those in the Septuagint, endeavouring to discover the meaning, and point out the use of them.
London: printed for T. Longman... MDCCXLIX. [1749]. 8vo, 120pp. Disbound. Mild dampstain at first two leaves, light soiling at final leaves, else a nearly fine, clean copy.
First Edition. ESTC - T123066.
Price: USD 250.00 other currencies   order no. 6211   details     inquire
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HOLLOWAY, Benjamin. REMARKS ON DR SHARP’S PIECES ON THE WORDS ELOHIM AND BERITH. Among which, in shewing the absolute unfitness of the Arabic tongue to give a root to the divine name Elahim, some account is given of the Chaldee, Syriac, Samaritan, and Arabic dialects; shewing them to have been all anciently one language: as also what that language was: with a word on the Hebrew and Samaritan alphabets, proving that those alphabets could not have been chang’d, the one for the other, in copying the Hebrew scriptures, after the Babylonish captivity, as hath been pretended
Oxford: printed at the Theatre, MDCCLI. [1751]. 8vo, 35, (1)pp. Disbound. Nearly fine, crisp copy.
First Edition. ESTC - T139802.
Price: USD 250.00 other currencies   order no. 6213   details     inquire
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(Old Testament Engravings - Chanukah). [THESAURUS SACRARUM HISTORIARUM VETERIS TESTAMENTI, Elegantissimis Imaginibus Expressum Excellentissimorum in hac Arte Virorum Opera: Nunc Primum in Luce Editus].
Antwerp: de Jode, 1585. 8 engraved plates, measuring apprx. 30.5 by 22 cm, tipped onto sturdy 18th-cent. paper by folding over two edges of each plate, leaving 1-2 cm margins beyond the platemark. Fine set.
Complete series of eight, late 16th-century engraved plates from De Jode’s Thesaurus, depicting scenes of the sack of Jerusalem, the Jewish war against Antiochus Epiphanes and the rededication of the Temple. Latin quotations from Books 1 and 2 Maccabees appear as captions below each illustration. The images are notable for their bold sense of movement, unabashed brutality, and hightened foreshortening, curiously suggestive of modern comic book illustration styles. (Images available upon request).
Price: USD 2,250.00 other currencies   order no. 6220   details     inquire
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(Kreissig, Theodor). DIE NEUE ZEIT IN DER DEKORATIONSMALEREI, aus den Kunstgewerblichen Werkstaetten Theodor Kreissig Dresden (Leiter und Mitinhaber: Kunstmaler Paul Mayenfisch).
Dresden: Theodor Kreissig, (1929). Lg. 4to, (2), 32 full-page color plates, final page of prices. Orig. printed wrappers (soiled), backed in cloth, some plates with marginal stains and a few small marginal tears, a good set with bright plates.
Edition for 1929 of Kreissig’s beautifully colored interior painting schemes and decorative motifs for the home, complete with printed price-list.
Price: USD 400.00 other currencies   order no. 6243   details     inquire
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PLUTARCH. THE LIVES OF THE NOBEL GRECIANS ROMANES… Translated out of the Greeke into French into Englished, by Thomas North. Decorated by Thomas Lowinsky.
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1928. 8 vols, 8vo, title-page portrait of Plutarch repeated in eachvolume, & 64 other illustrations (mostly half-page portraits) drawn in line by Thomas Lowinsky. Original half-black morocco and cloth. Very good set.
One of 100 sets printed on handmade paper, signed by the artist and specially bound by Morley of Oxford.
Price: USD 2,000.00 other currencies   order no. 6253   details     inquire
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AGER, Carolus [Charles Kellogg Field]. FOUR-LEAVED CLOVER. Being Stanford Rhymes. Reprinted from the Student Publications with Sundry Truthful Picturings, By Donald Hume Fry, '95, and an Apology by David Starr Jordan.
San Francisco: William Doxey, 1896. 12mo, 117 pp. Green buckram, decorated in silver and red. Light fading to edge of green cloth, otherwise very good copy, with a handsome old bookplate.
Second edition, one of two hundred fifty copies signed by the poet. Hinkel II, 97.
Price: USD 40.00 other currencies   order no. 6282   details     inquire
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CARMICHAEL, Sarah E. POEMS. A Brief Selection, Published by Permission of the Authoress, For Private Circulation.
San Francisco: Towne and Bacon, Publishers, 1866. 12mo, 72pp. Blue cloth. A fine copy in later marbled slipcase. With the pencil signature of Jacobs Bacon dated in the year of publication.
Second edition. Cowan 105. Hinkel II, 50.
Price: USD 150.00 other currencies   order no. 6283   details     inquire
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DALI, Salvador. HOMMAGE A MEISSONIER. Lithographies Originals de Salvador Dali.
Paris: Hotel Meurice, 1967. 4to (38)pp, illustrated. Wrappers. Very light edge wear, very good copy.
First Edition, with 4 original lithographs by Dali, this copy boldly signed by Dali on the title.
Price: USD 600.00 other currencies   order no. 6284   details     inquire
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GANSON, Eve. DESERT MAVERICKS, Caught and Branded; or, Who’s Who on the Desert.
Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, 1928. 8vo, (10), 54pp, illus. throughout. Maroon cloth, lettered ingreen. Corners lightly rubbed, otherwise very good.
Only Edition of this hysterical collection of illustrated poems on desert animals. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.96.
Price: USD 35.00 other currencies   order no. 6292   details     inquire
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(Casanova). RIVES CHILDS, J. CASANOVIANA. An Annotated Bibliography of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt and of Worlds Concerning Him.
Vienna: Christian Nebehay, 1956. 8vo, viii, 396pp, portrait frontispiece. Publ. crimson cloth, lettered in gilt. Fine copy.
First Edition, limited to 500 copies. With publisher’s original wrap-around band, and Author’s Announcement laid in.
Price: USD 375.00 other currencies   order no. 6293   details     inquire
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(Dickens). WILKINS, William Glyde. FIRST AND EARLY AMERICAN EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS.
Cedar Rapids: Privately Printed, 1910. Tall 8vo, 51pp, title page facsimiles. Original quarter brown buckram over grey boards, deckled edges. Light soiling and edge-wear. A very good copy, with clean, fresh text.
First Edition, one of 200 copies printed at the Torch Press.
Price: USD 100.00 other currencies   order no. 6295   details     inquire
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(Franklin) FORD, Paul Leicester. FRANKLIN BIBLIOGRAPHY. A List of Books Written by, or Relating to Benjamin Franklin.
New York: [n.p.], 1889. 8vo, lxxi, (3), 467pp, printed on the rectos only. Quarter maroon cloth, rebacked in black cloth, gilt-lettered spine, new endpapers, t.e.g. Good copy, with clean, fresh text.
Unnumbered copy of a limited edition of 500.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 6297   details     inquire
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(Pyramid Scheme). SCHIPKOWSKY, Julius. God’s Plans of Perfection, His Kingdom Come on Earth. THE MILLENNIUM SYSTEM: A Perfect Equilibrium for All Fellow Men and Their Existence.
(Los Angeles:) Julius Schipkowsky, 1914. Sm. 4to, 171, (2)pp, frontisportrait, b/w illus. throughout. Black wrappers, lettered and bordered in gilt, with white illus. vignette. Fine copy.
Only edition of this pyramid scheme couched in the fantastic hybrid parlance of Christian messianism and populism with communist undertones - a characteristic document of early 20th-century Los Angeles, the cultic capital of so many snake oil salesmen with spiritual pretensions. Mr. Schipkowsky (in top hat and tails) appears in two photo-plates beside his elaborate symbolic charts illustrating the differences between the present order and the “millennium system”. Several pages have decorative borders suggestive of currency or stock certificates. Must be seen to be appreciated.
Price: USD 150.00 other currencies   order no. 6301   details     inquire
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ADAMS, Frank. IRRIGATION RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA AND THEIR UTILIZATION... Prepared under the Direction of Samuel Fortier...
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1913. 8vo, 95pp, b/w photo-illus. plates, 9 large color folding maps. Orig. wrappers. Upper cover detached, rear cover lacking, else a very good, clean copy.
USDA Office of Experiment Stations Bulletin 254, complete with nine beautifully detailed color maps.
Price: USD 175.00 other currencies   order no. 6312   details     inquire
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(Beckford, William). CHAPMAN, Guy A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BECKFORD OF FONTHILL.
Folcroft Library Editions, 1974. 8vo, green cloth, very good.
Orginally published London: Constable, 1930.
Price: USD 35.00 other currencies   order no. 6318   details     inquire
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(Restif de la Bretonne). JACOB, P.L. BIBLIOGRAPHIE ED ICONOGRAPHIE DE TOUS LES OUVRAGES DE RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE...
New York: Burt Franklin, 1971. Small 8vo, 510pp. Gray cloth. Very good.
Reprint of 1875 edition.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 6321   details     inquire
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(Berlin Catalogue). KATALOG DER ARCHITEKTUR UND ORNAMENTSTICH- SAMMLUNG. Teil 1: Baukunst England. By Marianne Fischer.
Berlin: Hessling, 1977. 4to, 183pp. Illustrated. Cloth. Fine.
The only section of the Berlin Catalogue to be revised, covering English books on architecture and decoration, pattern books, cottage books, etc. About 125 titles published before 1820 are described in great detail.
Price: USD 45.00 other currencies   order no. 6342   details     inquire
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[WILKINSON, Lupton]. AN OXFORD THESIS ON LOVE. In Which L. Erectus Mentulus, Ph.D., late fellow of Oxford College, Draws From His Various Experiences for the Instruction, Entertainment and Greater Zest of His Collegues, Friends and Admirers.
Taos, NM [N.Y.C]: By the Hand of the Author, 1938. 4to, 122pp, rectos only, 7 full page original explicit watercolors. Blue cloth, several sheets for illus. have paste action and tears where illus. have been removed, some offsetting and glue remnants, othewise very good.
First Edition, one of only 100 copies mimeographed from the typed manuscript of the author, a Hollywood publicist and contributor to movie fanzines who bound and clandestinely distributed the copies himself. Considered to be one of the finest American erotic manuscripts ever written, it is a comic view of the “pubic war,” “a series of diverting and edifying dialogues in which it is conclusively shown that fornication is not as simple as it has frequently been considered.” In grand irony, Wilkinson, three years prior to issuing this book, was an executive with The Hays Office, the movie industry’s censorship board. Lacks the original color frontispiece by Emile Ganzo, and without the tipped-in photographs described in the Parke-Bernet Libertine Literature Auction Catalogue at number 19, nor the original wrappers. Yet copies seen by the present cataloguer have variant illustrations, and the present copy’s original watercolors (not reproductions) by an unknown hand are not without their erotic charms; clearly the artist was a trained, skilled illustrator. One of the scarcest pieces of erotica extant. Kearney Private Case p.52.
Price: USD 350.00 other currencies   order no. 4226   details     inquire
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AAGAARD-MOGENSEN, Lars (ed.). THE IDEA OF THE MUSEUM: Philosophical, Artistic and Political Questions.
Lampeter, (Wales): Edwin Mellen Press, (1988). 8vo, 228pp, b/w text illus. Publ. forest green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine.
First Edition of this collection of 15 essays by Hubert G. Alexander, Rolf Gilberg, Else Mogensen, Teddy Brunius, John Fisher, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Monroe C. Beardsley, Goran Schildt, E.H. Gombrich, Harold Rosenberg, Nelson Goodman, Charles Altieri, Joseph Margolis, Stephen Leacock, and Lars Aagaard-Mogensen.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 4512   details     inquire
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LARSSON, Carl. DAS HAUS IN DER SONNE.
Taunus: Langewiesche, 1922. Lg.8 vo, 67pp, 16 color plates, illustrations throughout. Orig. decorative wrappers, very good.
Larsson’s (1853-1919) tale of domestic life is illustrated with color plates after his distinctive paintings of interiors and family scenes.
Price: USD 85.00 other currencies   order no. 98   details     inquire
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BELL, Geo[rge] W. MR. OSEBA’S LAST DISCOVERY.
Wellington, NZ: The New Zealand Times Co., 1904. 8vo, viii, 225pp, with 27 photographic plates. Cloth, gilt. Very good.
First Edition of this fictionalized account of New Zealand (Zelania) as utopia. Sargent p.67. Not in NUC
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 149   details     inquire
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MENANT, Joachim. INSCRIPTIONS DES REVERS DE PLAQUES DU PALAIS DE KHORSABAD traduites sur le texte Assyrien.
Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale, 1865. Slim folio, 23pp. Contemp. quarter calf, worn at head, otherwisevery good.
First Edition of this rare typographic exoticum, with the cuneiform inscriptions printed letterpress along with the Latin and transliterated Assyrian; the text is translated into French in the introduction. Cuneiform was, until Rawlinson's astonishing work in 1846, the last culturally significant script to be entirely undeciphered and it was to be many more years before the four stages of cuneiform writing were all understood (cf. Diringer); thus this work is very early in the field and is a significant typographic specimen. Neither Birell and Garnett nor other standard bibliographical sources cite any example of cuneiform printing.
Price: USD 350.00 other currencies   order no. 323   details     inquire
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(Dwiggins, W.A.). WALDMAN, Milton. AMERICA CONQUERS DEATH.
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928. 8vo, 30, (1)pp, title in 4 colors, 3-color initial, text in black & red. Orig. paper boards, cloth spine, gilt, gilt label to front board. Light wear to one corner, otherwise fine, in glassine jacket.
First edition of Waldman’s thoughtful essay on Americans’ cultural indifference to death, one of 500 copies printed on Navarre paper by Rudge. Dwiggins contributed the typography and exquisite decorations. One of the AIGA’s Fifty Books. Agner 28.12.
Price: USD 55.00 other currencies   order no. 409   details     inquire
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KNEIPP, Sebastian. MON TESTAMENT. Conseils aux malades et aux gens bien portants. Traduit de l’allemand par un ancien professeur.
Kempten, Bavaria: Jos. Koesel, 1896. 8vo, (10), 494pp, frontisportrait, approx. 13 plates. Orig. cloth, spine gilt. Slight wear to head of front joint, other light external wear, light browning, otherwise very good.
Third edition in French, includes information on the water cure, lotions, flatulence, and diet. (1821-1897) C.W. Post studied with him.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 522   details     inquire
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STEELE, Richard, ed. POETICAL MISCELLANIES, Consisting of Original Poems and Translations by the Best Hands.
London: Jacob Tonson, MDDCXIV [i.e. 1714]. 8vo, (16), 318pp, frontis. Contemp. calf, recently rebacked with gilt title and rules, marbled endpapers; rubber stamp & signature to title, light even browning, otherwise very good.
First Edition, including three poems by Alexander Pope not previously printed: “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue,” “Prologue Designed for M.D–’s last play,” and “The Arrival of Ulysses in Ithaca.” Several pieces by Gay, as well as Parnell’s famous “Homer’s Battle of Frogs and Mice with the Remarks of Zoilus,” also make their first appearance in print. This is the first issue of the Poetical Miscellanies, with a six-page table of contents and an impossible imprint date. In the second issue the Table is condensed to four pages and the date is corrected to MDCCXIV. Case 279. Wise, A Pope Library, p.11 (inaccurately guessing that this is the second edition).
Price: USD 550.00 other currencies   order no. 546   details     inquire
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REID, Captain Mayne. THE PLANT HUNTERS, Or Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains.
London: J & C Brown, 1858. 12mo, viii, 482pp, twelve plate illus. including frontis. Contemporary half blue calf over marbled boards, gilt tooled spined, raised panels, red morocco label, school prize bookplate with inscription & private library bookplate, binder’s stamp, some wear to boards, very good.
First Edition, illustrated by William Harvey. Cf. Sadleir & Wolff 5752.
Price: USD 60.00 other currencies   order no. 726   details     inquire
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FUNCK-BRENTANO, Frantz. LES NOUVELLISTES. Avec la Collaboration de M. Paul D’Estrée.
Paris: Hachette, 1905. 8vo, (8), 331, (4)pp, frontispiece, 6 plates (1 folding), and with 8pp publisher’s catalogue. Orig. yellow printed wrappers, chipped & dust-soiled, spine extremely rubbed, interior very good.
Second Edition, Inscribed by the Author. Cf. Cabeen 3381.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 795   details     inquire
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MAXIM, Hudson. THE REAL PEN-WORK SELF-INSTRUCTOR IN PENMANSHIP. Real PenWork Self-Instructor in Penmanship. Greatest means ever known for learning to write an elegant hand. Nothing like it ever published before.…
n.p.: Knowles & Maxim, 1881. Oblong 4to, (102)pp. Orig. dark red boards printed in gold, cloth back, boards slightly worn, later endpapers. Very good.
Illustrated throughout with striking examples of 19th century penwork, both calligraphic and illustrative. Not in 2000 Years of Calligrpahy.
Price: USD 150.00 other currencies   order no. 1262   details     inquire
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NERVAL, Gérard de. DREAMS & LIFE. Le Rève et la Vie… Translation by Vyvyan Holland.
London: First Editions Club… & Boar’s Head Press, 1933. Tall 8vo, (5), 87, (1, colophon), 2-page woodcut title & 1 woodcut. Orig. black cloth decoratively dribbled in red & green, spine lettered in gilt. Fine.
One of 450 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered. Designed by Christopher Sandford, a partner of the Chiswick Press, the attractive volume was bound by Messrs. Nevett, one of Britain’s oldest trade-binders, and published jointly by the Boar’s Head Press and the First Editions Club. The work, which is here translated by Oscar Wilde’s son, is a remarkable record of Nerval’s visions and the phases of his mental derangement, a record which has earned him a place as a precursor of much of the consciously hallucinatory writing of this century. The matter is so delirious and the language so lucid that Gautier characterized the work as “la Raison écrivant les mémoires de la Folie sous sa dictée.”
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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE.
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. 8vo, (4 publisher’s ads), 288pp. Original brown cloth, gilt lettered, blocked in blind, tear at spine tail, spine head chipped, backstrip wear along front joint, occasional mild foxing, otherwise very good.
First American Edition, binding state A with July, 1852 catalogue, and spine imprint state A. BAL 7611.
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FRASER, Claud Lovat. CLAUDE LOVAT FRASER, SIXTY-THREE UNPUBLISHED DESIGNS, With an Introduction by Holbrook Jackson.
London: The First Edition Club, (1924). 12mo, handsomely printed on yellow-orange paper and bound in decorated boards. Very good.
One of 500 numbered copies, printed at the Curwen Press. A charming collection of 63 designs drawn by Fraser for a variety of projects.
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WODEHOUSE, P.G. THE PRINCE AND BETTY.
New York: W.J. Watt & Co., (1912). 8vo, (8), 300pp, frontispiece and plates. Orig. black cloth, gilt title & two color portrait onlays. Holmes Bookstore Los Angeles stamp on endpaper & their small blindstamp on title, light edge wear, otherwise very good.
First Edition, preceding the British (which is, in fact, a different story). This is the first issue, with “Published January” on the copyright page. McIlvaine A15a.
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DOLENT, Jean. MONSTRES. Lithographie par Eugène Carrière.
Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1896. 8vo, 199pp. Quarter cloth, marbled boards, title lettered in gilt, orig. printed wrappers bound in, a very good copy form the library of Edouard Champion.
First Edition, inscribed by the author. The plate after Carriere is titled Femmes en Visages Cache. Talvart & Place 11.
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LIEBERMANN, Max. DIE PHANTASIE IN DER MALEREI. Vierte Auflage.
Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1916. 8vo, 63pp. Quarter cream cloth over brown boards, gilt vignette, bookplate, very good.
The noted Impressionist painter Liebermann’s study of the role of fantasy in painting, initially published in 1916 with at least four editions issued in that year. Cf. Freitag 5622
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SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry Rowe. ALGIC RESEARCHES, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians.
New York: Harper & Bros., 1839. 2 vols, 12mo, 248, 244pp. Modern brown cloth, gilt lettered, foxing, some staining throughout, vol 2 trimmed closer than vol 1, externally near fine, internally good.
First Edition. Ethnologist, explorer, geologist, Indian agent, and Superintendant of Indian Affarirs in Michigan, author Schoolcraft collected these Indian tales and legends - “specimens of an oral imaginative lore among the North American aborigines” (Preface) - which later inspired Longfellow when writing Song of Hiawatha in 1855. Howes S180. Scarce.
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O’FLAHERTY, Liam. THE WILD SWAN and Other Stories... with a Frontispiece by P.V. Moon and a Foreword by Rhys Davies. Being No. 10 of the Furnival Books.
London: William Jackson Ltd./Joiner & Steele, 1932. 8vo, 60pp, frontispiece. Brown cloth, gilt lettered, owner’s signature, otherwise near fine.
First Edition, limited to 550 copies (500 for sale), Signed by the Author, with Joiner & Steele’s tipped-in slip to titlepage cancelling Jackson.
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GOLDSMITH, Oliver. THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. A Tale.
London: Sammells & Ritchie, 1792. 2 vols in 1, 8vo, 215pp, 6 copper-plates after Stothard, engravedby J. Parker. Full brown polished calf, gilt spine, dentelles, glazed endpapers, t.e.g., spine ends chipped, otherwise a very good, uncut copy.
“Before the end of the eighteenth century there was published an edition of ‘The Vicar of Wakefield’ with illustrations by Stothard, which is, undoubtedly, the handsomest edition issued in that century of this tale. Copies are not common, especially in good states...”Temple Scott, Oliver Goldsmtih Bibliographicall and Biographically Considered, pp.182-3.
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STEGNER, Wallace. SECOND GROWTH.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1947. 8vo, 240pp, double-page map. Cloth, dust jacket, near fine in good dj.
First Edition, Signed by the author on the title-page. Colberg A9.1.a.
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(Mestrovic). BRINTON, Christian. THE MESTROVIC EXHIBITION. Introduction and Catalogue by…
(New York): (Mestrovic Exhibition Committee), (1924). 8vo, (26)pp, frontispiece, 33 b&w illus. Green illus. wrappers, rubbing, spotting, lacks spine, occasional pencilings, otherwise good.
Catalogue and introductory essay on the great early 20th century Croatian sculptor.
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(Japanese Art). Society of Friends of Eastern Art (comp.). INDEX OF JAPANESE PAINTERS. Compiled by…
Rutland - Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, (1968). 8vo, 160pp, foldout chart at rear. Green linen, gilt lettered spine, paper title label, mild bump to upper front corner, otherwise fine.
Handsomely produced reprint of the 1940 first edition. Fourth printing.
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(Architecture). PALLISER’S AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE: Or Every Man a Complete Builder. By Pallister, Pallister & Co., Architects.
New York - Chicago: J.S. Ogilvie, 1888. Folio, 104pp, 40 b&w plates, misc. text illus. Brown cloth,black lettered and dec., wear to spine, corners, shelf-darkening and damp stain to upper board fore and upper margins, age-toning to t-p and final leaf with damp stains to fore and top margins, lacks half-title, front hinge hints at starting, otherwise a good copy.
First Edition. Features 50 home design plans for the budding home owner/builder of the era, including projected costs.
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STEINER, Rudolf. THEOSOPHY, An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man.
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1910. 8vo, xix, (1), 230pp, with notes and amplifications. Green cloth, gilt, edges rubbed, with 1-inch dent near head, small stain at lower gutter throughout first half of text, some pencil notes and underlining, otherwise good.
From the library of Hereward Carrington (without indication) with “Mahdah 1917” pencilled on endpaper and with book plate of prior owner Vance Thompson.
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CANN, Joh Allen. LEMURIAN RHAPSODIES.
Santa Barbara: Mudborn Press, 1976. 8vo, (20)pp, 7 full page drawings. Illus. wrappers, mild soiling, toning to spine, otherwise near fine.
First Edition of 500 copies, with drawings by the poet.
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EDWARDS, Charles. THE HISTORY AND POETRY OF FINGER-RINGS...
New York: Redfield, 1855. 8vo, 239, (1), (12 ads)pp, frontispiece, b/w illus. throughout. Red cloth, ruled in blind, gilt spine, very mild soiling, slight chip to spine cap, spine and upper board lightly sunned, owner sig. and gift inscrp. at ffeps, mild marginal embrowning, otherwise very good.
First Edition of an “interesting, scholarly, and in its day, the principal treatise on rings and the gemstones mounted in them” (Sinkankas). Edwards treats a wide variety of topics, devoting separate chapters to rings associated with the exercise of power, those endowed with magical properties, rings connected with remarkable events or personages, and famous tokens of love and friendship. Preceeding the Englishman William Jones’ well-known 1877 Finger Ring Lore, Edwards’ History is the first major work on the topic by an American writer. Sinkankas 1861.
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NELSON, James H., Louis Hurwitz and David G. Knapp. MAGNETISM OF THE EARTH.
Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962. 8vo, iv, 79pp, 39 b&w figures. Printed wrappers,bump to lower corner and spine head, otherwise near fine.
U.S. Department of Commerce, and Coast and Geodetic Survey Publication 40-1. An excellent primer on the subject.
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DAVID, Wm. K. SECRETS OF WISE MEN, CHEMISTS AND GREAT PHYSICIANS ILLUSTRATED. Comprising an Unusual Collection of Money-Making, Money-Saving, and Health-Giving Prescriptions, Receipts, Formulas, Processes and Trade Secrets Secured at Considerable Expense From a Multitude of Thinkers and Workers in Practical Affairs.
Philadelphia: Wm. K. David, 1903. Sm 8vo, (6), 125, (2 adv.)pp, portrait frontispiece, misc. b&w illus. Publisher’s original green cloth, black dec. lettering, very good.
Later edition of this 19th century Hints From Heloise/Suze Ormand/Jane Brody/Martha Stewart self-help volume, includes tips on home remedies, i.e., a relief from asthma preparation involving belladonna and hyoscyami leaves soaked in opium extract and cherry laurel water, then dried, rolled and smoked as cigarettes (2-4 a day); relief from bile stones via a preparation of pure chloroform, tincture of opium (Laudanum), cinnamon, and wine spirits - five to thirty drops per day; etc. Symptomatic relief indeed!
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VAUDOYER, Jean-Louis. RAYMONDE MANGEMATIN.
Paris: Librairie Plon, (1925). 12mo, (6), 247pp, title vignette. Pale yellow wrappers, lettered in black, vignette, inscrpt. at half-title, light, marginal embrowning, a nearly fine, unopened copy.
First Edition, inscribed by the novelist, poet, and essayist Jean-Louis Vaudoyer (1883-1963) to Parisian publisher and bibliophile Edouard Champion. With original publisher’s shipping label and advertisment for the present work (including a photo-illus. and biographical sketch of Vaudoyer) laid-in.
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NANSEN, Fridtjof. THE FIRST CROSSING OF GREENLAND. Translated From the Norwegian by Hubert Majendie Gepp. With Numerous Illustrations and a Map.
London and New York: Longmans, Green, 1895. 8vo, xii, 446, 32 as catalogue pp, frontispiece, misc. b&w text illus. Maroon cloth, silver lettered, lt wear to extremities, bumped corners, some rubing to spine, otherwise very good.
Later edition, an abridgement of the 2-volume 1890 first editi0n in English.
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(Fashion). IDEAL STYLES OF SHOES.
Chicago: David L. Streeter, (1884). Oblong 8vo, 32pp, b&w illus. throughout. Color illus. wrappers,1 lt crease, 1 sm rubbed spot to rear, otherwise a crisp, very good copy.
Rare catalogue for Streeter, a Chicago shoe manufacturer of reknown, contains drawings and descriptions of mid-late 19th century American men’s and women’s footwear.
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BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. THE MASTER MIND OF MARS. Being a Tale of Weird and Wonderful Happenings on the Red Planet.
London: Methuen, (1952). 8vo, ix, 142pp. Cloth, maroon lettering, dust jacket, very good in like djwith sm chips to extremities.
Reprint of the 1939 Methuen edition of the Burroughs tale, here in the rare, beautiful dust jacket illustrated by G.P. Micklewright.
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COHEN, William K. ART OF OUR TIME IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. A Guide to the Documentation of Contemporary Art.
New York & London: Garland, 1986. 8vo, xi, 132pp, 13 hors-texte b/w plates. Publ. green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, a fine copy.
First Edition. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (Vol. 657).
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DOYLE, A. Conan. THE LOST WORLD.
New York: Hodder & Stoughton - George H. Doran (1912). 8vo, 309pp, frontispiece, 15 full page illus. Brown cloth, gilt letered, front hinge starting, lt weat to spine extremes, otherwise very good.
First American Edition. Green & Gibson A37e. Wolff 1908a.
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(Maurras, Charles). “M. Charles Maurras et la Guerre” [In:] LES HOMMES DU JOUR, No.414, 4 Mars 1916 [and] LE FEU, Nouvelle Série, No.9, 1er Mai 1918 [Issue dedicated to Maurras].
2 parts in one, 4to, (16)pp, b/w illus. throughout; (iv), 128-150, iv-viii ads pp, tipped in portrait (as issued). Green cloth, gilt morocco label at spine, texts lightly embrowned, very good copies, stoutly bound.
Two wartime periodicals, the first containing an article on Maurras, the latter dedicated to him. Reacting against the Symbolist movement, the poet and essayist Charles Maurras (1868-1952) founded along with Jean Moréas, Maurice du Plessys, and others the Ecole romane. After the Dreyfuss affair he espoused the monarchist cause; in later years his mostly political writing grew increasingly reactionary and polemical in character.
Le Feu No.9 contains (as issued) a tipped-in sepia portrait of Maurras. From the collection of renowned Parisian publisher and bibliophile Edouard Champion.
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ELDER, Paul. THE OLD SPANISH MISSIONS OF CALIFORNIA... Illustrated Chiefly from Photographs by Western Artists.
San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1913. 4to, 89pp, numerous tipped-in photographic plates. Orig. quarter linen, illustrated boards. Nearly fine copy of a fragile book.
Attractive work with photographs by Vroman, Dassonville and others. Cowan p.193. Levin & Morris, Art of Publishers’ Bookbindings, 88. Cowan p.193.
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VASSOS, John & Ruth. HUMANITIES, John Vassos Illustrates with the Text by Ruth Vassos.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1935. 4to, 105pp, with 24 monochrome plates. Original light blue and red cloth, very good.
First Edition. Vassos was a Greek emigrant who became a noted deco illustrator and industrial designer. Written during in the 1930’s when Europe was at war and America in depression, here he presents a skeptical view of his contemporary world through a series powerful dark images. This work differs from his earlier pictorializations which were futuristic, symbolic and romantic in nature.
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(Chinese Painting). OERTLING, Sewall. CHINESE PAINTINGS FROM THE HENRICKSEN COLLECTION.
(Ithaca, N.Y.): Cornell University, (2002). Sm. folio, 79pp, 32 color illus. plates. Pictorial wrappers. Nearly fine.
First Edition of this finely illustrated exhibition catalogue, limited to 800 copies.
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MANTEGAZZA, Prof. Paolo. ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES IN THE SEXUAL RELATIONS OF MANKIND.
New York: Falstaff Press, (1937). 8vo, (10), 258, (4 blank), (108)pp, 500 illus. in cyan and sepia.Quarter cloth over illus. boards, owner’s sig., wear to extremities, lt soiling, a few stains to boards, lt dampstaining to lower fore edge of rear ff, otherwise a tight, not quite very good copy.
Special Edition of James Bruce’s English translation of Mantegazza’s Gli Amori degli Uomini (1885), with an anthropological cabinet if 500 racial photographs and illustrations compiled by Robert Meadows. With Bruce’s 16 page pamphlet, The Natural Method of Birth Control laid in. From publisher Ben Rebhuhn, who was granted the copyright by Panurge Press publisher Esar Levine after Levine was indicted for obscenity. Rare edition of a fairly common book; the Cabinet is usually seen separately.
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GUYS, Constantine. FEMMES PARISIENNES.
New York: Pantheon, (1924). Folio, (4)pp text, 24 collotypes mounted on heavy stock paper, loose asissued. Orig. green cloth portfolio folder, gilt, spine letters faded, exterior a bit worn, otherwise very good; plates in nearly fine condtion.
The lovely reproductions of Guys drawings are accompanied by a 2 page text by Baudelaire.
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STRACHEY, [Evelyn] John St. Loe. A PROGRAMME FOR PROGRESS.
London: Gollancz, 1940. 8vo, 352pp, boards, very good.
First Edition. Strachey (a cousin of Lytton Strachey) was one of the three men who ran the Left Book Club during the thirties and did much to explain socialist ideas in clear terms to the British public. While all the pages are present, those from 320 to the end are out of order with every other page reversed.
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CAMPBELL, Elizabeth W. Crozer. THE PINTO BASIN SITE.
Los Angeles: The Southwest Museum Papers No. 9, 1935, reprinted 1963. 8vo, 51pp, 15 plates, 2 folding maps. Wrappers. Good copy.
A study of the Pinto Basin, now part of the Joshua Tree National Park. Campbell identifies the Basin as ‘an ancient aboriginal camping ground in the California desert.’ Edward, Enduring Desert, p.40.
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MEINZER, Oscar Edward. LARGE SPRINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Washington: GPO, 1927. 8vo, vii, 94pp, photos & folding tables. Wrappers (stamped State Geological Survey). Very good.
Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 557, covering first magnitude springs issueing 100 second-feet or more of water. Springs in Texas, Arkansaw, Idaho, Oregon, and the Sacramento River basin in California are detailed.
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MALLARME, Stephen. HERODIAS, Translated, with an Introduction and Commentary, by Clark Mills.
Prairie City: Press of James A. Decker, (1940). 8vo, 37pp, frontis. by Kurt Seligmann. Gray linen with label on front cover. Near fine.
First Edition in English, one of 80 copies.
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MENDENHALL, Walter Curran. PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE GROUND WATERS OF SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908. 8vo, 52pp, folding map. Orig. brick red wrappers, lettered in black. Top cover creased, light soiling, a good copy.
First Edition. Water-Supply Paper 222.
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(Ashkenasi Synagogue of Amsterdam). DE TWEE GROOTE SYNAGOGEN der Hoogduitsche Jooden, en het Oude Zyds Huiszitten Aalmoesseniers Huis, van agteren, in ‘t verschiet...
[N.p.: n.d., ca. 1760]. Obl. folio. Wide-margined engraved view after J. de Beyer, illustrated surface measuring approx. 24.75 x 27 cm. A bit of light soiling in the margins, else a nearly fine copy.
Eighteenth-century view of the Ashkenazi synagogue complex of Amsterdam (now the Jewish Historical Museum). A.L. Shane Collection 362. Jewish Hist. Mus. of Amsterdam 07545.
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CRUTCHER, Charles W. TALES FROM TOPANGA.
[N.p., the author] 1927. Sm 8vo, 139pp, green paper covers decorated in black. A very good copy.
First Edition of eight California short stories. “The Beautiful Hoax” is set in Topanga, and “An Old Story” is set in Hollywood. Baird & Greenwood 581.
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