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John Abbott
The Iranians How They Live and Work
New York NY: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers 1977. A tight clean new book in a fine jacket. Seemingly unread. A well-researched study of Iranian life. Published in the 'How They Live And Work' series. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good . Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001254
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Walter Miles
Designs for Craftsmen
Garden City NY: Doubleday 1962. Book in VG condition with small glue residue on inside front board and ffep else would be fine. Jacket has normal shelf/edge/corner wear. Mended tears on edges. Work by leading graphic designers of the time are represented. Applications of the design ideas are dramatized in photographs. Anyone searching for fresh approaches to applied design for any purpose will find a world of inspiration in this book. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good. Doubleday Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001245
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John Gowlett
Ascent To Civilization The Archaeology of Early Man
New York NY: Alfred A Knopf 1984. The world of prehistoric man of the three million years between the time the first human ancestor walked upon the earth and the beginnings of what we call civilization. Book with marginal corner/edge wear. . Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Alfred A Knopf Paperback
Bookseller reference : 001236
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Muriel P. Turoff
How to Make Pottery & Other Ceramic Ware
New York NY: Gramercy Publishing 1949. Book and jacket in VG tight clean condition. Clear and practical book of instruction showing how to design make decorate and handle articles of clay. Pottery throwing jewelry dolls and much much more. A period piece that is still clear concise and useful. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good . Illus. by Muriel P. Turoff. Gramercy Publishing Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001354
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Alistair Maclean
Captain Cook
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co. 1972. A lively account of this great navigator and his three circumnavigations of the globe. Pictorial jacket. Both book and jacket in excellent clean tight condition. . Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good . Doubleday & Co. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001175
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Peter Selz
The Work of Jean Dubuffet
New York NY: The Museum of Modern Art 1962. Profusely illustrated with color and monochrome plates. Texts by the artist. Descriptive catalog of the exhibition laid-in. Only wear is faint to the ends of the spine/bumped corners. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The Museum of Modern Art Paperback
Bookseller reference : 000815
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Intro By Rowland Elzea
Howard Pyle
New York NY: A Peacock Press/Bantam Book 1975. Oversize Trade Paperback. Fine/No dust jacket as Issued. First Paperback Edition. Art Book. Quarto. Pictorial wraps. 96pp 43 colour illus. Clean bright copy with few signs of use: bit of minor surface scuffing couple of teeny creases/dings. Pyle's 1835-1911 dramatic pictures of knights pirates patriots and gladiators graced the pages of his many stirring boy's books as well in such publications as Harper's Monthly Magazine Collier's Weekly etc. One of the most beloved of American illustrators. Excellent reproductions!. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good /No Jacket. A Peacock Press/Bantam Book Paperback
Bookseller reference : 000715
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Hendrik Willem Van Loon
The Arts
New York NY: Simon & Schuster 1939. Book in fine condition no fading on cover tight and clean. Jacket has shelf wear to edges corners spine VG-. Illustrated by the author this book explores the history of art from prehistoric times through the romantic mid-19th century period. 677 pp indexed. Includes a section on how to use and enjoy the book to its fullest. An art timeline is cleverly folded inside the dust jacket. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Simon & Schuster Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001221
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Selz, Peter Howard, and Museum of Modern Art
Emil Nolde
New York NY: Museum of Modern Art 1963. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Intact tight condition. Light tanning on edge/back. Exhibitions: the Museum of Modern Art New York March 4 1963; San Francisco Museum of Art May 28 1963; the Pasadena Art Museum July 27 1963. Illustrated by 67 Color & b/w Illustrations. Bibliography by Inga Forslund; biographical chronology and selective index. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good /No Jacket. Museum of Modern Art paperback
Bookseller reference : 000885
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Foreward By Pete Rozelle
The Super Bowl Celebrating a Quarter-Century of America's Greatest Game
New York NY: Simon & Schuster 1990. Book and jacket in VG condition previous gift inscription on ffep. Very light corner/edge wear on jacket. 1st Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 382 pages with color illustrations and photos. Provides detailed record and stats for each of the first 25 Superbowls. Complete with a large fold-out color artwork and color illustration of the game ticket for each of the first 25 Super Bowls. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good . Simon & Schuster Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000946 ISBN : 0671727982 9780671727987
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National Geographic Society
Great Religions of the World
Washington DC: National Geographic Society 1972. A volume in the Story of Man Library prepared by National Geographic studies five great faiths: Hinduism Buddhism Judaism Islam and Christianity. 370 photographs and illustrations 350 in full color 6 maps. Index. DJ lightly scuffed 2" scotch tape at top edge and corner. Cloth hardcover silver lettering and design. Fading to top of hardcover with chip missing from top of spine. Edgewear and tears on dj. All in all very good to very good condition. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good. National Geographic Society Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000806
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Lester Del Ray
Fantastic Science Fiction Art
New York NY: Ballantine Books 1975. In excellent condition with just a small crease at front bottom corner of cover. All else fine. Illustrated with 40 color plates. Covers period 1926-1965 from Frank R. Paul to Frank Kelly Freas. First Printing. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ballantine Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 000732
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Paul Duval
The Art of Glen Loates
Ontario Canada: Cerebrus Publishing Co. 1997. Book and jacket in excellent clean tight condition. Lovely illustrations. Large book. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good . Illus. by Glen Loates. Cerebrus Publishing Co. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000896 ISBN : 0920016057 9780920016053
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John Kieran
The American Sporting Scene
New York NY: Macmillan 1941. Staining to endpapers only. All other pages and illustrations intact and without issue. No Jacket. A stated first printing 1941. Decorative cloth binding. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Joseph Golinkin. Macmillan Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000789
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Barbara Milo Ohrbach
Antiques At Home
New York NY: Clarkson N. Potter Inc 1989. Stated First Edition. Filled with more than 300 photographs of beautiful old objects and rooms and provides a wonderful look at the world of collecting from flea markets to elegant stores. Includes tips on what to look for when buying antiques and ideas on how to decorate with them. 246 pgs. with index and photographs. Cloth binding. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000799
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Louise Ade Boger
The Complete Guide to Furniture Styles
New York NY: Charles Scribners' Sons 1969. Enlarged Edition. Cover creased. A useful handbook for furniture styles of all periods and countries in Europe America and the Far East. . Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Charles Scribners' Sons Paperback
Bookseller reference : 000944 ISBN : 0684176416 9780684176413
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William C. Seitz
Mark Tobey
New York NY: The Museum of Modern Art 1962. A excellent copy with prior owners mark on ffep else fine. The book was published in connection with an exhibition sponsored by The Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago and includes a catalogue of the exhibition which ran at three museums from September 12 1962 to March 24 1963. Seitz notes ithat much of the material in the book is based on a series of conversations he had with Mark Tobey during the spring of 1962. Softcover. Very Good /No Jacket. The Museum of Modern Art Paperback
Bookseller reference : 001136
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James Thomas Flexner
America's Old Masters
New York NY: Dover Publications 1967. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Benjamin West John Singleton Copley Charles Willson Peale Gilbert Stuart--four American masters whose paintings are part of any art-history education today. In excellent condition. . Softcover. Very Good /No Jacket. Dover Publications Paperback
Bookseller reference : 001160
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Dorothy C. Miller
12 Americans
New York NY: The Museum of Modern Art 1970. In VG condition only issue is tanning to edge of cover and very light shelf wear to spine/edges. 95 pp. illustrated with photographs of the artists and reproductions of art work in black and white and color. Artists represented include: Larry Rivers Grace Hartigan Seymout Lipton Sam Francis Franz Kline Jose de Rivera Philip Guston Ernest Briggs James Brooks Fritz Glarner Raoul Hague Ibram Lassaw. Includes statements and a brief bio for each artist. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good /No Jacket. The Museum of Modern Art Paperback
Bookseller reference : 000818
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E. C. Goosen
Stuart Davis
New York NY: George Braziller 1959. Prior owners ink line on inside front cover all else tight/clean. Minimal shelf wear. Softcover. Very Good /No Jacket. George Braziller Paperback
Bookseller reference : 001143
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Ellen Kaplan
Prints A Collector's Guide
New York NY: Coward McCann 1983. 256pp.Fully illus in b&w. Over 200 printmakers from the old masters to contemporary are given short biographical sketches together with an explanation of the different techniques of print-making. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Coward McCann Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000786 ISBN : 0698112466 9780698112469
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D. M. Campana
The Teacher of Water Color Painting
Chicago IL: D M. Campana Artist 1942. 112 Pgs plus deco ads and b&W pictures. Deco design blue softcover. Tight clean copy. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. D M. Campana, Artist Paperback
Bookseller reference : 000778
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John Plummer
Manuscripts from the William S Glazier Collection
New York NY: The Pierpont Morgan Library 1959. 33 pp of text plus plates 8" x 11" includes 6 color plates and 31 bw plates cover is lightly faded at edges else fine. This is the guide to an exhibition of the beautiful illuminated manuscripts collected by William S. Glazier and held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York in 1959. Softcover. Very Good /No Jacket. The Pierpont Morgan Library Paperback
Bookseller reference : 001182
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Walter Pach
Masterpieces of Art Catalogue of European & American Paintings 1500-1900 New York World's Fair May to October 1940
New York NY: Art Aid Corporation 1940. Official Illustrated Catalogue. Tight clean with minimal cover shelf wear/fading. A VG copy. Softcover. Very Good /No Jacket. Art Aid Corporation Paperback
Bookseller reference : 001144
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Ashley Kahn
Kind of Blue The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
New York NY: Da Capo 2000. 1st Edition Oversize PB Fine wraps Photographs 224pp. Bibliography Discography Notes Index. ISBN 0306810670. Offers the first take-by-take account of the sessions andanalysis of never-released fragmentary takes drawn from extremely rare access to the complete master tapes. First Printing. Softcover. Very Good /No Jacket. Da Capo Paperback
Bookseller reference : 000779 ISBN : 0306810670 9780306810671
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Peter Matthiessen, Eliot Porter
The Tree Where Man Was Born The African Experience
New York NY: E.P Dutton 1972. In this book two celebrated American naturalists- Peter Matthiessen our most acute observer of the natural world and Eliot Porter our best color photographer- join to evoke the African experience from the upper Nile in the little-known Sudan south through Tanzania northwest to remote Lake Rudolf on the Kenyan frontier. Book and jacket in excellent clean condition VG. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good . E.P Dutton Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001194
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Ben Nicholson
Ben Nicholson Recent Work
Zurich Switzerland: Galerie Gimpel & Hanovier 1966. Catalogue to accompany a 1966 exhibition in Zurich. 4to 8 30 b/w and color plates. Pictorial wrappers in VG condition no writing all intact. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good /No Jacket. Galerie Gimpel & Hanovier Paperback
Bookseller reference : 000709
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China Council
Chinese Paintings
Beijing China: China Council for the Promotion of International Trade 1983. A large album of gorgous masterpieces by contemporary artists that reflects tthe artistic style and features of traditional Chinese paintings. Dated February 1984 and printed by Jingme Printing House. Oatmeal cloth hardbound with gilt Chinese lettering on front cover.Very slight wear to cloth edges binding slightly loose at top edge. Slight rippling to inside cover paper due to nature of paper and design. Pages clean tight and unmarked. 139 pages with index of artists. There is very little text except for an editor's note in Chinese and English and the artist's name with each work and its title. Grey illustrated DJ has edgewear some wear to corners/spine edge. Nice copy of unusual publication. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good . China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000725
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Alan Houghton Brodrick
Prehistoric Painting
London England: Avalon Press Inc. 1949. First Edition. 40 pages 56 plates four in color a few b/w illustrations in text list of plates brief bibliography small 4to; black cloth. In excellent condition with prior owners ink on ffep. No jacket. Tight clean condition. Cloth binding. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Avalon Press Inc. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001167
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Georges Poisson
La Femme Dans La Peinture Francaise Moderne
Paris France: Plon 1955. Text in French. Has 86 plates 14 of them in full color. 95 pages. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Plon Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000790
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Ronald G. Pisano
American Paintings from The Parrish Art Museum
New York NY: The Parrish Art Museum 1982. Catalogue from the Coe-Kerr Gallery exhibition Dec 1 - 18 1982. VG condition with very light foxing on cover but all intact and clean interior. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The Parrish Art Museum Paperback
Bookseller reference : 001218
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Erwin O. Christensen
The Index of American Design
New York NY: Macmillan 1950. From the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC a selection of three hundred and seventy-eight illustrations which document American crafts and folk arts including toys signs furniture textiles an more. Introduction by Holger Cahill. Very good in slightly worn dust jacket. Ex-library copy with stamp on ffep and second page else no markings. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Ex-Library. Macmillan Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 001215
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Frank and Dorothy Getlein
The Bite of the Print
New York NY: Clarkson N. Potter Inc 1963. Presumed first edition. Book in excellent condition with light tanning to edges of pages. DJ has a two inch tear/missing piece on top of spine/front cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000744
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Joseph T. Mendola
15 Illustrators
New York NY: Joseph T. Mendola Ltd 1973. 119 p. b/w and color illus. This selection of illustrations is intended to promote 15 artists by their agent or "representative". Silver paper over boards. Cellophane covering paper is beginning to peel along spine. Slightly bumped corners. Still in VG condition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Joseph T. Mendola Ltd Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000729
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Albert Skira
The Great Centuries of Painting The Sixteenth Century From Leonardo to El Greco
Geneva Switzerland: Albert Skira 1956. Pages tanned at edges else fine. Torn/chipped/mended at corners elsewhere jacket intact. Decorative cloth binding. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Albert Skira Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000830
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Margaret Bevans
The Golden Book Picture Atlas of the World
New York NY: Golden Press 1960. Book 2; South America. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Golden Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000496
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John William Collier
Mending and Restoring Furniture
New York NY: Garnstone Press 1972. Here is everything you need to know about simple methods of mending and restoring broken furniture together with lists of the tools and materials necessary. It deals with breaks in furniture methods of refitting hinges bolts etc.Book is near fine jacket VG. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Garnstone Press Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000163
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Joan Parry Dutton
The Williamsburg Collection of Antique Furnishings
New York NY: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 1978. In terrific condition. A magnificent collection of period antiques all illustrated in color and accompanied by copius captions. ; 8 1/4" x 11"; 122 pp. 2nd Printing. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Paperback
Bookseller reference : 000582
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Terisio Pignatti
The Age of Rococo
London England: Paul Hamlyn 1969. Excellent book and jacket. A small guide to this refined and aristocratic style of architecture and interior design. Translated by Lorna Andrade from the Italian original Il Rococo Milan 1966. Hardback with d.w. . Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paul Hamlyn Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000539
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Donald Wilcox
Wood Design: A Contemporary Guide to the Technique of Design Sculpture and Carving in Wood
New York NY: Watson-Guptill 1968. Some residual glue on front cover of book.Otherwise in vg condition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Watson-Guptill Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000301
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Peter Selz
Max Beckmann
New York NY: Doubleday & Co. 1964. Beautiful fold-outs. In excellent condition. Small crease in bottom front corner. Prepared to accompany the Beckmann exhibition held at the sponsoring museums. This book is the result of some fifteen years of study and was published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of Beckmann's birth in 1884. Includes an Index. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Doubleday & Co. paperback
Bookseller reference : 000631
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Edited Kay & Marshall Lee, illustrations 350 full color & 289 B/W drawings & engravings by Kate Greenaway & Eugene Grasset, inne
Illuminated Book of Days The an enchanting day-by-day tour of the year filled with esoteric & exotic Facts recipes verses & words of Advice
G. P. PutnamS NY 1979. HBDJ 1979 green embossed cloth purple spine & gold gilt has small 1 inch darkening top cover F-/F- AS-IS. Hard Cover. G. P. PutnamS NY hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9385
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Photos/engravings
A Sporting Family of the Old South By Harry Worcester Smith With Which is Included Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman. Unknown Binding Smith Harry Worester and Illustrated
Unknown Binding. Very Good. SIGNED by the author Harry Worcester Smith with a dedication on the front fly to John Cary Randolph who when he rides is "a thoroughbred on a thoroughbred." Dr. Archibald Cary Randolph a landed surgeon whose family helped settle Virginia was hunt master of the Piedmont Hunt until his death in 1959. Very good red cloth brighter gilt and doecot on front board than on spine; No reader remainder or ex-library marks. first ed. 1st printing in no dustjacket. Foxing at textblock and dusting at top edge only. Illus. excellent throughout. unknown
Bookseller reference : 0504OTFRIWV
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Timothy T. Clark; Osamu Ueda
The Actor's Image
Art Institute of Chicago / Princeton University Press 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Thick 4to 503 pages red cloth <br/><br/> Art Institute of Chicago / Princeton University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6469 ISBN : 0691036276 9780691036274
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Estampes
UTAMARO
Paris: Haguette Beres. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1977. Paperback. catalogue of an exhibition held in March / April 1977. Text in French. Illustrated card covers slight foxing. NO INSCRIPTIONS. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT. With accompanying booklet foxed - addenda to the cataluge of the exhibition. English text.; 105790; 4to . Haguette Beres paperback
Bookseller reference : 105790
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[Rare Prints - London 1689]
Beschrijving der Eepoorten in 's Graavenhaage opgerecht tegen d'overkomst van William den III. Koning van Engeland Schotland Vrankryk en Ierland.
Amsterdam: Carel Allard 1691. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong broadsheets 295 x 380. Lacking title-page and without the 22 pp. accompanying text. 20 large unnumbered engraved plates one with 4 separate scenes etched plates by HUGO ALLARD 4 signed I. VANDEN AVELE 2 signed and JAN LUYKENone signedone with 2-inch tear repaired some minor marginal wear. Original marbled wrappers old paper cover label; cloth folding case. VERY RARE print series illustrating the history of the ascension to the throne of WILLIAM III 1650-1702 and MARY II 1662-1694. The series begins with the Seven Bishops being brought to the Tower of London with a view up the Thames followed by the birth of the Prince of Wales on 10 June 1688 through the entrance of William and Mary into The Hague on 5 February 1691. The series contains several scenes devoted to the festivities surrounding their coronation in London on 11 April 1689. This set of the engravings correspond to Landwehr and appear to have been issued in its original binding without the text; the title-page may have been removed or was not included. Muller considered the 20 plates as a series although he had not seen a bound set with title and the text. Landwehr Splendid Ceremonies 143; Muller 2692. <br/><br/> Carel Allard hardcover
Bookseller reference : D4443
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Cazort, Mimi (Curator Of Prints)
Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada
Washington D. C.: National Gallery of Art. Very Good. 1988. Softcover. 0894681206 . STiff clean book in bright card covers; touch of wear to top of spine and gallery sticker taped to spine. ; 10.70 X 9.10 X 0.70 inches; 311 pages . National Gallery of Art paperback
Bookseller reference : 47282 ISBN : 0894681206 9780894681202
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Kantor, MacKinlay and Tim Kantor. [design, Joan Stoliar; prints, Vincent Tcholak]
Hamilton County : A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist and His Photographer Son Capture the Essence of a Vanishing America in Our Ten Counties Called Hamilton
Toronto : The Macmillan Company 1970. 1970. Very Good. 288 pp. ; textured beige cloth in nicked dustjacket ; dustjacket clipped ; 1st edition 1st printing ; VG/VG [Toronto] : The Macmillan Company, 1970. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1751
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Jean de la Fontaine and anon. prints
The Tales and Novels of Jean De La Fontaine 1929 Privately Printed Hardcover Jean de la Fontaine and anon. prints
Hardcover. Very Good. VG overall two volume set. Privately Printed New York 1929. No reader's marks. Blue cloth sl. sun-faded on covers. 5 illustrations per volume. Heavy quality pages about 50% of them remain uncut. 2 vols 8vo 250 & 331pp. "Salon Edition" at foot of spine. Blue cloth no DJs. No reader's marks. Tight bright. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0422T961637
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Pierson, Hellen W.; b/w Engravings [Illustrator]
History of Germany: In Words of One Syllablert's One Syllable Histories Series
A.L. Burt 1899-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Nice looking book has edge wear. has tears on spine & cover faded. A.L. Burt hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2335181011007
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