WONDER Of The AGE. Master Painters of India 1100 - 1900.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (2011). 1st Edition. 224 pp. Illustrated in color. 10-7/8" x 9-5/8". Green cloth binding. Color pictorial glossy paper dust jacket. More
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REPENTANT MONK. Illustion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou.; Appendix by Jude Jaw.
[Berkeley, CA]: University of California Press, (2017). 1st Edition. 196, [2] pp. Publisher presentation letter laid-in. Illustrated. 11-3/4" x 8-1/2". Hardback. Dust jacket. Includes essays by Tamara H. Bentley, Patricia Berger, Hiromitsu Kobayashi, Shi-yee Liu, and Richard Vinograd. More
A LETTER To The PRIME MINISTER, And FIRST LORD Of The ADMIRALTY, From A CAPTAIN In The ROYAL NAVY, on the Extension of the NAVAL ESTABLISHMENTS of the Country.; With an Engraved Sketch of the Body of FALMOUTH HARBOUR; wherein it is Proved that this Harbour, from the combination of Situation, Safety, Ease of Entrance, Capacity, and extreme susceptibility of improvement, is the First Harbour in Great Britain for all Naval Purposes connected with the Atlantic Ocean.
London: Printed for J. Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1810. 1st Edition. 50 pp. Large folding plate, "A Sketch of the Body of Falmouth Harbour, and its Deep Channels", as frontispiece. 4to. 8-5/8" x 6-3/4". Later plain black cloth binding. Somewhat uncommon work on the subject, with OCLC only showing a handful of..... More
A MAGIC WORLD. New Visions of Indian Painting.
Mumbai: The Marg Foundation, 2016. 1st Edition. 129, [3] pp (including Index). Illustrated in color. 12-3/8" x 9-5/8". Color pictorial composition binding with dust jacket that replicated binding graphics. More
SRINGAR. An Exhibition Celebrating Divine and Erotic Love. 23 October - 23 November 2007.
London: Francesca Galloway, 2007. 1st Printing. 136 pp. Illustrated in color. 12-7/16" x 9-5/8". Full color pictorial paper covers. More
INDIAN MINIATURES And PAINTINGS From the 16th to the 19th Century.; The Collection of Howard Hodgkin.
Milan: Electa, 1997. 1st Edition. 150, [2] pp. Illustrated in color. 11" x 9-13/16". Color paper cover. More
JEWISH POLITICS In VIENNA 1918 - 1938.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1991). 1st edition. 272, [6] pp. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
The ANANDA - VANA Of INDIAN ART. Dr. Anand Krishna Felicitation Volume.
Varanasi: Indica Books, 2004. 1st Edition. 605, [3] pp. Profusely illustrated. 10-7/8" x 8-5/8". Red cloth binding. Dust jacket. More
GODDESS DURGA. The Power and the Glory.
Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2009. 1st Edition. 200 pp. Illustrated, primarily in color. 12" x 9-3/4". Hardback. Red & black dust jacket. More
RATURE. The Art of Indian Textiles.
New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2011. 1st Edition. 244 pp (including Index) Illustrated, primarily in color. 12-1/2" x 9-1/2". Hardback. Dust jacket. More
The MYTH Of RITUAL MURDER. Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, (1988). 1st Edition. 248 pp (including Index). The occasional illustration. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
The FOREIGN POLICY Of SOVIET RUSSIA. 1929 - 1941.; Volume I 1929 - 1936. Volume II 1936 - 1941.
London / New York / Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1952. Vol I: 3rd printing. Vol II: 2nd printing. xii, 261, [1]; viii, 434 pp. Index. Maps. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4". Maroon cloth bindings. Maroon topstain. Dust jacket(s). More
PATTERN And ORNAMENT In The ARTS Of INDIA
London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. 1st Edition. 256 pp. Illustrated with 223 color photographs & 89 drawings. 12" x 8-1/8". Yellow & hot-pink decorative hardback. More
BORN With LOVE. Color Drawings of the Conservation Buildings of Ramat Gat.
Ramat Gan: The Museum of Israeli Art, (2004). 1st Printing. Text in English & Hebrew. Photographs by Shai Ben Efraeem. 9" x 9-3/8". Grey composite binding with color graphics to front board. More
IMAGES Of MALMÖ
Malmö: J R Hain AB, (2000). 1st Edition. 261, [3] pp. Text in English. 9-1/4" x 9-1/4". Blue cloth binding. Blue dust jacket. More
GOLDEN GATER. Souvenir Edition. September 24, 1945. Vol. 2. No. 23.
[At Sea]: 1945. 1st printing. 8 pp. Illustrated with cartoon drawings. 13" x 8". Self-wrappers, mimeographed sheets, stapled on left side. Front cover with map of the ship's homeward journey. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. This "final issue" published while aboard the S. S. Cape Victory, enroute Seattle..... More
The NEW MAP Of The WORLD. The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1999). 1st Edition. xviii, 267, [3] pp (including Index). 8vo. Hardback. Pale yellow dust jacket. More
The SECRET HISTORY Of MACBETH, King of Scotland; with Interesting Memoirs of the Ancient Thanes. (Originally from a very old MS.) Addressed to the Right Hon. The Earl of Fife as Thane of Fife.
Peterhead: From the Press of the Editor, 1828. 1st Edition (Jaggard, p. 35). vii, [9] - 150, [2] pp. One page advert follows text, last page blank. Tailpiece, p. 150. Crown 8vo, gathered in 4s. 7-9/16" x 4-13/16". Period grey paper spine over blue paper-wrapped boards. Macbeth "was King of..... More
NAINSUKH Of GULER. A Great Indian Painter from a Small Hill - State.
New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2011. 1st edition thus, i.e., by this publisher, initially published in 1997. 304 pp. Many color illustrations. 12" x 9-1/4". Hardback. Dust jacket. More
WAGON WHEEL. Waikiki's Unique Garden Restaurant. Sunday, May 9, 1943.
Honolulu: 1943. 1st Printing. Light brown card stock, printed in rgreen folded vertically, to form a 4 panel bifolium menu. Mimeo leaflet, with "Today's Dinner Suggestions", affixed therein. P. 2 with printed menu of standard fare, e.g., "Ham or Bacon and Eggs. .65" Front cover with an image of two..... More
PICTORIAL ARROWHEAD. Occupation of Japan by Second Marine Division.
(Japan?): (n. d.). Ca late 1945. Unpaginated, though 40 ll (not including covers). Most leaf rectos with half-tone photographic images, printed in blue. Map. Landscape format: 10-1/4" x 14-1/4". Printed paper covers, pink ribbon tie on left. Here offered a pictorial review of the time the 2nd Marine Division spent..... More
A HOUSEHOLD MANUAL Of Hygiene, Food and Diet, Common Diseases, Accidents and Emergencies, and Useful Hints and Recipes.
Battle Creek, Mich. Published at the Office of the Health Reformer, 1877. 1st edition thus. vi, [7] - 172, [4] pp. Adverts last 4 pp. 3 figures in text. Wood engraving of Battle Creek College in the adverts. 12mo. 7-1/8" x 4-5/8". Original publisher's green cloth binding with black stamping..... More
The EGYPTIANS In The TIME Of The PHARAOHS. Being a Companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian Collections.; To Which is Added an Introduction to the Study of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs. By Samuel Birch.
London: Published for the Crystal Palace Company by Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street. 1857. 1st Edition. xvi, 282, [2] pp. 1 page publisher advert follows text. 1874 newspaper extract, Bayard Taylor on Early Egyptian Literature, laid-in. Color frontispiece. Tissue guard. Color plate ["Dress worked in colours"] after p. 42..... More
The AUTOBIOGRAPHY Of JOSEPH Le CONTE.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903. 1st edition (Cowan, p. 387; Howes L-174). The Berkeley Edition, LIMITED to 500 copies, of which this is no. 266. xvii, [1], 337, [9 (blank)] pp. Frontis of Le Conte & inserted plates of b/w photographic reproductions within. 9-3/8" x 6-3/8". Half-bound reddish-orange..... More
DECCANI PAINTING.
London / Berkeley & Los Angeles: Sotheby Publications / University of California Press, 1983. 1st Edition. 296 pp (including Index). Profusely illustrated, with some color. 11-5/8" x 8-3/4". Hardback. Dust jacket. More