1982rif. 156663Geneva: Regina-Film 1982. Collection of ten vintage color reference photographs from the 1982 adult film. Stamp of Regina-Film on the versos. A doctor begins to secretly film his sex-crazed patients in action. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with wide horizontal margins. Regina-Film unknown books
1968rif. 167259New York: Frank Caro Gallery 1968. Paperback. G. Covers are tanned more heavily near spine. Light creasing on front cover. Red writing from previous owner inside front cover otherwise clean and tight throughout. Cream stapled wraps with black lettering color illustrations. 29 pp. BW frontispiece and 9 BW 10 color plates. Cover title: Recent Paintings by Chang Dai-Chien. Catalogue for an exhibition held at Frank Caro Gallery October 5-26 1968; S.H. Mori Gallery in Chicago November 2-23 1968; and Alberts-Langdon Gallery in Boston November 30-December 14 1968. A Note on Chang Dai-chien written by Lin Yutang; Introduction to Exhibition of Paintings by Chang Dai-chien written by Wen Fong. Also contains a biography. This catalogue lists names and dimensions of 56 works of which 20 are shown one on cover. This is a beautiful rare catalogue of this prodigious Chinese artist published around his 70th birthday. Frank Caro Gallery paperback books
1771rif. 5647Mexico: Joseph Antonio de Hogal 1771. Good. 16144pp. Small octavo. Title page in red and black. Lacks two leaves of text D1-D2. Contemporary vellum manuscript spine title edges sprinkled red. Vellum with minor soiling light wear to edge and spine ends plus two flaws in rear cover. Front free endpaper loosening. A few minor wormholes; light tanning and scattered foxing. Scarce Mexican translation of Catholic works by St. Francis de Sales 16th- and 17th-century Swiss theologian. Sales was a prolific writer but the present work contains two treatises in letter form the first to an unnamed bishop on the proper manner of preaching and the second to the priests of the Genevan diocese on the methods of taking confession. He was canonized in 1665 and in the early-20th century was declared the patron saint of journalists and writers. The translator Lino Nepomuceno Gomez Galvan was a legal and religious official in Tampico and the surrounding area whose stated goal in the introduction of this work is that it might assist in the reform and improvement of Church ministrations in his region. Unfortunately lacking two leaves of text but neverthelass quite a scarce Puebla imprint from the Hogal family of printers with an attractive title page printed in red and black. Joseph Antonio de Hogal unknown books
1939rif. 55803New York: John Day Company 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Good to very good. Large Octavo. 13 815pp. Original black cloth with gilt Chinese lettering on cover tan lettering on brown leather label of spine; in original illustrated dustjacket with black lettering mylar protected. Signed on front free endpaper. Novel on China in the authentic manner of Chinese novelists. "The scene is a moving panorama of contemporary China covering nearly forty years from the terror of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 to the bitter excitement of the present Japanese invasion a period of great social change and adjustments in the lives of a teeming humanity." Publisher Dustjacket with light wear along edges small chips and closed tears two small chips in center of dustjacket back at top and bottom edge . Binding very lightly rubbed and two inch scuff at bottom foredge of back cover. This lightly rubbed. John Day Company hardcover books
1947rif. 173559Zurich: Amstutz Herdig & Co 1947. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. VG-. Oversized brown cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering with two ivory clasps. 12 pages. Eight facsimile reproductions in color. "The orignials of these pictures are painted on paper and silk in the water-colour technique customary only in China. They form part of The Lin Shih-Lu Collection at Foochow and are reproduced with the permission of their owner all except No. 8 appearing for the first time. The Chinse title was written by Professor Lin Chun: 'From the Shih-Lu Collection.' The red stamp on the third page is the stamp of the Lin family of Foochow: 'The Descendants of The Yin House.' This book was awarded a prize at the 1944 Swiss Book Exhibitino for the Artistic Excellence of its Production." Amstutz, Herdig & Co hardcover books
rif. 352996Singapore: Singapore Tyler Print Institute 2007. First edition; limited signed edition 679 of 1200. Unpaginated with 37 black and white plates. Signed and numbered on colophon. 4to 16 x 13.5. White publisher's cloth boards with stamped black text on spine fine in pictorial dust jacket with lightly bumped upper corner and slight rubbing near center spine; else a near fine copy. First edition; limited signed edition 679 of 1200. Unpaginated with 37 black and white plates. Signed and numbered on colophon. 4to 16 x 13.5. Singapore Tyler Print Institute unknown books
1937rif. 140945384New York: John Day in association with Reynal & Hitchcock 1937. First Edition. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Signed by Lin Yutang on a blank following the copyright page; former owner's penciled address above Yutang's signature and offsetting to that and the copyright page from a clipping formerly laid in. Bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in red and gilt. Very Good with lean to binding wear to extremities. Pages tanned. Former owner's penciled notations old price and bookseller ticket to rear endsheet. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear at the extremities and light sunning to the spine. One of the influential Chinese author inventor philosopher and linguist's best-selling work; rare signed. John Day in association with Reynal & Hitchcock unknown books
1845rif. 583371845. Bogota 1845. First edition. Bogota 1845. First edition. The "Celebrated" First Digest of the Laws of Colombia Colombia. Pombo Lino de 1797-1862 Editor. Recopilacion de Leyes de la Nueva Granada Formada I Publicada en Cumplimiento de la Lei de 4 de Mayo de 1843 I por Comision del Poder Ejecutivo por Lino de Pombo Miembro del Senado. Contiene Toda la Lejislacion Nacional Vijente Hasta el Ano de 1844 Inclusive. Bogota: Imprenta de Zoilo Salazar Por Valentin Martinez Febrero 1845. iv xxvi 541 pp. Text in parallel columns. Folio 12" x 8". Contemporary calf gilt fillets to boards lettering piece and gilt ornaments to spine ribbon markers marbled endpapers. Some rubbing with wear to spine ends and corners. Large woodcut arms of Colombia to title page internally fresh. $1850. This is the first digest of Colombia's laws since the nation became independent in 1821. It also includes the texts of treaties with England the United States France and the Netherlands with parallel translations. "By virtue of the laws of May 4 1843 and June 12 1844 the Congress of New Grenada Colombia specified the statutes then in force and ordered their compilation a task which was entrusted to senator Lino de Pomba. This celebrated collection popularly known as the Recopilacion Granadina contained the extant legislation from 1821 to 1844 inclusive arranged under appropriate headings and was a work of high merit for its time": Backus and Eder A Guide to the Laws of Colombia 125. unknown books
1853rif. 43554Tacubaya 1853. First edition. Loose leaves disbound from a later made-up volume. Overall very good. 77 pp. on 43 leaves some folded. Folio. Beginning on June 1 1853 shortly after Santa Anna's return to Mexico as dictator and ending December 29 1853 just two weeks after he extended his rule indefinitely and had himself given the title of "most serene highness" these documents cover a period of three leaders in the Ministry of War and Navy: Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil Juan Suárez y Navarro and Lino J. Alcorta; all prominent santannistas. Eight are issued by Tornel the most federalist of Santa Anna's advisors who fell ill and died in September 1853; ten are issued by Juan Suárez y Navarro chief administrator of the Ministry of War -the first document noting "por enfermedad de su S. E. J. Suarez Navarro" on September 10th- who coveted the position as Minster of War and Navy but broke with Santa Anna just three weeks later when Lino J. Alcorta was appointed minister in his stead and who issued the remaining twenty- nine documents. Thirteen of the documents are printed; 34 are in manuscript either originals or perhaps manuscripts reproduced by an early form heliography. Similar documents were described by Dr. W. Michael Mathes in a 2004 auction catalogue as "an early form of holography i.e. heliography using a concentrated beam of sunlight to transfer text a process employed in Mexico during a brief period between 1850 and 1856 for short runs and to avoid printing delays and costs. Lithography was impractical for such short-run imprints as it was extraordinarily costly took weeks and presented difficulties in reproducing the writer’s hand." In a few instances the date on the manuscript documents differs from that of the later publication. The documents are primarily concerned with bringing professionalism and discipline to the army and the nation stemming desertions and bolstering the draft though exempting indigenous peoples punishing theft and corruption building fortifications and other public works increasing weaponry and creating militias. OCLC locates no copies of any of these individual documents though some of the printed items are held at Berkeley and except for the auction noted above we could find no listings catalogue holdings or auction records for items reproduced in a similar fashion to those included. Detailed listing upon request. unknown books
