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1846rif. TB27062New York: S. Tuttle 1846. Reprint . Very good in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on a black leather label on the spine. The edges of the text block are marbled. A thick octavo measuring 8 3/4" by 5 1/2" with mild rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. The contents are clean and bright with no foxing or tanning to the pages. 608 pages which are illustrated with 230 engravings a frontispiece and 12 plates following pages 44 116 140 148 220 268 372 424 432 472 508 and 552 Howes calls for 10 plates and the map. The hand-colored yellow red green and blue fold-out map of the state following the front index page 12 is in fine condition with no tears or chips. Howes also does not note this reprint copy of 1846 printed in New York City. Several early prior owner's have penciled their names and made mathematical notes on the end pages. Considered by Howes to be "mildly scarce". Howes B-122; Sabin 3331 A tight handsome and thoroughly complete copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. S. Tuttle hardcover books
1841rif. TB26568New York: S. Tuttle 1841. First Edition. Recently rebound in dark brown cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine with gilt rules around the title. An thick octavo measuring 9" by 5 1/2". The pages are lightly spotted with foxing throughout particularly around the outside margins and there are occasional notations in ink by an early prior owner. 608 pages which are illustrated with 230 engravings a frontispiece and 12 plates following pages 44 116 140 148 220 268 372 424 432 472 508 and 552 all by the author. Howes calls for 10 plates and the map. The hand-colored fold-out map of New York following the front index page 12 is in very acceptable condition with a 3" long tear at the left margin and a 3" long closed tear at one of the lower folds of the map both professionally repaired. Several early prior owner's have penciled their names and made mathematical notes on the end pages. Considered by Howes to be "mildly scarce". Howes B-122; Sabin 3331 A tight handsome and thoroughly complete copy. S. Tuttle hardcover books
rif. 2324Barbier has sketched a multicolored fantasy seascape with a pastel toned mermaid at the center. Drawn on folio sheet with some show through of handwriting in an unknown hand on verso. The handwriting shows as soft arcs and fits in with the image. Signed in the middle of the drawing in small letters with date "GB Aug. 1929." Matted in gray and framed in silver toned wood. Frame measures 20 x 16 7/8 inches and matted drawing measures 13 x 9 1/4 inches. Additional images on request. Barbier is best known for his theater designs ballet costumes and particularly for his high fashion illustrations. He led a group of illustrators from the Beaux Arts School known for their flamboyance as much as their art. Barbier also created jewelry glass and wallpaper design and worked with Erté to design sets and costumes for the Follies Bergére. He died at the height of his career. In 1929 the year he created our drawing Barbier was the costume designer for the musical "The Street Singer. unknown books
1968rif. D3977Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Cloth. Boards a little rubbed else fine in price-clipped dust jacket with some light wrinkling along the edges. An installment in the Fountainwell Drama Texts. University of California Press hardcover books
1936rif. S5899Paris:: Hermann & Cie 1936. 1936. Series: Actualites Scientifiques et Industrielles 348 Exposes d'Astronomie Stellaire Publies sous la Direction de Henri Mineur VI. 8vo. 31 5 pp. Tables figs. Printed wrappers; fore-edge of top cover torn and wrinkled. Publisher's compliments slip laid in. Unopened. Good. Daniel Barbier was a French astronomer born in Lyon. Between 1930 and 1965 he published nearly 100 scientific papers on astronomy. Among his works were studies of stellar atmospheres and lunar occultations and eclipses. Hermann & Cie, 1936. unknown books
1827rif. 41340Washington City: Printed for the Author by S. C. Ustick 1827. 48pp in contemporary plain wrappers. Stitching absent unbound. Faint rubberstamp on title page gum label at lower spine. Good plus. This is the first part of what became a three-part book. Each is a separate imprint. Parts II and III were printed in 1828 and 1832. Part II like the first Part was printed by Ustick in Washington. Part III was printed in Frederick Maryland by Neilson Poe. "The conversion of the Barber family despite the prejudices of a Puritan education and environment was one of the most notable and far-reaching in its results of any recorded in the early annals of the Church in New England. Daniel Barber has left a 'History of My Own Times' Washington 1827 in which he states that his father and mother were Congregational Dissenters of strict Puritanic rule and he continued in that sect until his twenty-seventh year when he joined the Episcopalians. Previous to this he had served two terms as a soldier in the Continental army" "Barber Family" by Thomas Francis Meehan Catholic Encyclopedia website accessed May 01 2026. "Daniel Barber came from good Puritan stock and was a fine upstanding Congregationalist minister. Until some Episcopalians convinced him that Apostolic Succession matters when it comes to ministerial Orders. So he became an Episcopalian priest. He was a fine upstanding Episcopalian priest for many years. He and his wife Chloe raised three children as good Episcopalians. But eventually the question of Apostolic Succession came back to him and he realized that Episcopalianism didn't satisfy the question of Apostolic Succession - the Catholics actually had it and the Episcopalians didn't. Meantime his son Virgil had also become a fine upstanding Episcopalian priest. He and his wife Jerusha were in charge of a good school and had a comfortable life with their children. But a chance encounter with a pamphlet on the life of St. Francis Xavier fired his heart to seek the faith that motivated a man like St. Francis to do what he'd done. Eventually Virgil and Jerusha became Catholic. Then Chloe converted along with a number of other members of the family. And finally Daniel also became Catholic. The entire affair was very upsetting to fine upstanding New England Protestant sensibilities and caused a sensation" "Barber Family" by Thomas Francis Meehan Catholic Encyclopedia website accessed May 01 2026. FIRST EDITION. Parsons 922. Howes B117. Printed for the Author, by S. C. Ustick unknown books
1774rif. 90621774. BARBER FRANCIS 1751-1783. Elizabethtown schoolmaster Revolutionary War patriot killed by a falling tree in 1783. Autograph letter signed Little Duck Creek 24 February 1774. To an unnamed recipient on financial matters. 1 page quarto. Very good. unknown books
2008rif. 1416337London: Folio Society 2008. Limited Edition #926/1980. Hardcover. Quarto Two volumes. In Near Fine condition. Housed in publisher's clamshell. Facsimile volume bound in full red Nigerian goatskin blocked and lettered in gilt and colours accompanied by a commentary volume. Box with very light shelfwear. Shelved case 13. 1416337. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Folio Society hardcover books
1976rif. 627874New York: Dover Publications Inc 1976. Softcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Slim small quarto. 118pp. Illustrated with reproductions of 304 early woodcut views. Glossy wrappers with light edgewear and the spine and bottom edge of cover sunned very good. A collection of cuts reproduced from Barber and Howe's two Historical Collections first published in the 1840s. Dover Pictorial Archive series. Dover Publications, Inc unknown books
2005rif. 2353880New York: Levenger Press / Walker & Company 2005. 3rd Printing. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10x1x11. 3rd printing. Minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 2005 Large Hardcover. 360 pp. From the earliest of times maps have fired our imaginations and helped us make sense of our world from the global to the very local. Head of Map Collections at the British Library Peter Barber has here compiled an historic and lavish atlas charting the progress of civilization as our knowledge of the world expanded. Simply organized as a progression through time The Map Book collects some 175 maps that span four millennia - from the famed prehistoric Bedolina Italy incision in rock from around 1500 B.C. to the most modern digitally enhanced rendering. Many of the maos are beautiful works of art in their own right. From Europe to the Americas Africa to Asia north to south there are maps of oceans and continents charted by heroic adventurers sailing into the unknown as accounts spread of new discoveries shadowy continents begin to appear n the margins of the world often labeled 'unknown lands.' Other maps had a more practical use: some demarcated national boundaries or individual plots of land; military plans depicted enemy positions; propaganda treatises showed one country or faction at an advantage over others. So much history resides in each map--cultural mythological navigational--expressing the unlimited extent of human imagination. This is captured in the accompanying texts--mini essays by leading map historians--that are as vivid and insightful as the maps themselves. They make The Map Book as much a volume to be read as to be visually admired. Levenger Press / Walker & Company hardcover books
1928rif. 013579Paris: H. Piazza 1928. First Edition Limited. Soft cover. Near Fine. Limited edition. Printed paper covers with illustrations on front and back title on spine and tissue guards. Exceptionally rare this is numbered VI of XXV copies that were printed on imperial Japanese paper containing 20 colored illustrations by Barbier. The remaining two hundred copies numbered from 26 to 225 were printed on imperial Japanese paper containing a black version of the illustrations; and eight hundred copies numbered from 226 to 1025 were on pure vellum paper. In original glassine that is tanned and chipped. George Barbier 1882-1932 was a French illustrator in the early 20th century. He designed theater and ballet costumes illustrated books and produced haute couture fashion illustrations. Barbier led a group from the Ecole des Beaux Arts who were known as "The Knights of the Bracelet. H. Piazza unknown books
1863rif. List308N.p. 1863. Dark carved wood 11 ½ x 11 ½ x 1 inches with bone border and star inlays in corners an inlaid tree with carved names of Civil War battles as leaves. During the Civil War wounded or captured soldiers would often pass their time waiting to return to duty carving relics. The practice was fairly common with pipes being the most commonly carved object and the quality of the relics varied wildly depending on the talent of the soldier. A.H. Barber from Wisconsin was wounded at Antietam and most likely carved this memorial piece while recovering from his wounds. Each leaf notes a different battle during the 1861-1862 campaigns. Barber enlisted in Company C of the 2nd Wisconsin in 1861 and was discharged in 1863 following wounds suffered at Antietam. The trunk reads Battles for the Union and the four branches read Dept. of the South Army of Virginia & of the Potomac and Dept. of the West with twenty-nine leaves naming battles. The resultant plaque is exceptional in timeliness craftsmanship and overall aesthetic beauty. Barber’s metaphorically growing tree is particularly timely for the Union cause as the 1863 failure of the Maryland Campaign would serve as inspiration to Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Wonderfully preserved in excellent condition with no notable flaws. From the collection of Norm Flaydernman the noted Americana dealer who personally collected carved Civil War pipes and had been planning to write a book on the subject at the time of his death. unknown books
1989rif. 2351065South Melbourne: Matchbooks / The Magistra Publishing Company Pty Ltd 1989. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 0x0x0. McHugh Michael; Ross Sharon; Van Cleeve Michae. Sticker on back corner otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1989 Large Hardcover. 26 4 pp. A children's story in the Lost Forests series featuring Puggles who live in the Australian bush country. Color illustrations throughout. Matchbooks / The Magistra Publishing Company Pty Ltd hardcover books
1990rif. 2351176Blackburn Australia: Vega Press Pty Ltd 1990. Stapled Binding. Very Good. 0x0x0. Johnston Christopher. Minor blemish on front wrapper otherwise an excellent copy. 1990 Stapled Binding. 32 pp. A children's story in the Lost Forests series featuring Gigalot Possums the Irrelephant and other animals who live in the Australian bush country. Color illustrations throughout. Vega Press Pty Ltd unknown books
1991rif. 2351177Blackburn Australia: The Lost Forests Pty Ltd 1991. Stapled Binding. Very Good. 0x0x0. Johnston Chris. Minor abrasion to center of front wrapper. 1991 Stapled Binding. 32 pp. A children's story in the Lost Forests series featuring Catastrophe the Cat's various mishaps. Color illustrations throughout. The Lost Forests Pty Ltd unknown books
1928rif. 2313198New York: Robert M. McBride & Company 1928. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Loss from spine head front board lightly soiled ink name on front endpaper. 1928 Hard Cover. 85 sketches and diagrams glossary of terms etc. Includes: Prologue; Part I. The Elementary Principles Air Their Grievances; Part II. The Principles Having Settled Their Differences Finish the Job; Part III. The Great Test; Part IV. Cross Country; Chapter I. Flight; Chapter II. Stability and Control; Chapter III. Rigging; Chapter IV. Propellers; Chapter V. Maintenance; Chapter VI. Inspection; Glossary; Types of Airplanes. Robert M. McBride & Company hardcover books
2004rif. 2312006Berlin: Die Gestalten Verlag 2004. Signed Copy. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 9x1x11. Signed by author. Limited edition #352 of 1250. Signed by multiple contributors. A fine hardcover in a near fine publisher sleeve with CD included in sleeve on rear endpaper. 2004 Large Hardcover. Unpaginated. A monograph collection the typographic designs and graphic art of the influential studio. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Ken Barber is a professional lettering artist with over 25 years of experience in the field. As principal letterer at the distinguished design studio and font foundry House Industries he creates logos and wordmarks for people products companies and brands the world over. In his dual role as typeface design director he also curates the company's coveted retail font library. His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. Ken has been honored by the New York Type Directors Club Association Typographique Internationale and Design Museum London. He has taught design at many recognized schools including Maryland Institute College of Art University of Delaware and Moore College of Art and is currently an instructor at The Cooper Union in New York City. Ken also enjoys sharing his experience with the students in his hand-lettering workshops that he regularly conducts around the globe. Ken co-authored House Industries: The Process is the Inspiration Watson-Guptill 2017 and House Industries Gestalten 2004 with Andy Cruz and Rich Roat. His forthcoming House Industries Lettering Manual Watson-Guptill will be released in the spring of 2020." ABOUT HOUSE INDUSTRIES: "House Industries is a type foundry and design studio based in Yorklyn Delaware. The company was created in the 1990s in Wilmington Delaware by co-founders Andy Cruz and Rich Roat. The company is best known for its typeface creations which have appeared on television e.g. Nickelodeon's TV Land VH1's Best Week Ever in film e.g. Mission: Impossible III and on commercial products e.g. Ann Taylor garment tag Lucky Charms logo and Green Day's Dookie album. Founders Andy Cruz and Rich Roat met at Miller Mauro Group Inc. a Wilmington Del. marketing communications agency. They briefly worked for Swfte International a Miller Mauro Group client before leaving to form Brand Design Co. Inc in 1993. Cruz and Roat formed House Industries in late 1993. Popular typefaces sold by House Industries include Neutraface a geometric sans-serif Eames Century Modern inspired by the design work of Ray and Charles Eames and Chalet a set of designs inspired by common sans-serifs such as Avant Garde Grotesque Helvetica and its adaptations from the 1960s to the 1990s and a collection of revivals of the lettering of Ed Benguiat. Its SignPainter script font is bundled with macOS. The company goes to elaborate lengths to promote its typefaces including creating chairs pillows and various other items inspired by the typefaces they sell. In one promotion they created the fictional character Rene Albert Chalet and promoted him as the creator of a new typeface Chalet. In February 2010 LAS Magazine wrote about the company's Eames Century Modern Collection a project done in collaboration with the estate of architects Charles and Ray Eames. Its first ever West Coast exhibition showcasing its history is running at Chapman University's Guggenheim Gallery from February 6 to March 9 2012. It published a book House Industries: The Process Is the Inspiration with foreword by J.J. Abrams a fan of the company's work in 2017. Founder Rich Roat died suddenly on 29 November 2017 aged 52. Die Gestalten Verlag hardcover books
2002rif. 23993Hamilton And London: BC Decker Inc. Near Fine. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1550092227 . A Near Fine first printing of the first edition with some wear and soiling signed by author C. Barber Mueller; Evarts A. Graham: Life Lives & Times. tells the story of one of the most influential and controversial figures in American history. Mueller captures Graham's life story from his humble beginnings to his meteoric rise to become one of the most influential and powerful men of his day. With detailed descriptions of Graham's pivotal moments in history Mueller provides readers with an inside look at the man and the events that shaped his life.; 8vo; 494 pages; i-iv v-xvii 1 2-242 xix-xxxii 243-494; Signed by Author . BC Decker Inc. hardcover books
1968rif. 50694London: St. James's Place. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in an alike dust-jacket; Sinister Twilight: the Fall and Rise Again of Singapore is the story of Singapore from its beginnings as a British colony in the 1800s to its transformation into a modern thriving city-state in the 21st century. Barber takes readers on a journey through Singapore's tumultuous history from the bloody independence struggle to the meteoric rise of Singapore as a global financial hub.At its heart the book is a story of people and their relationships with one another. Barber delves into the personal histories of key political figures charting their ascent to power and the forces that drove them to do what they did. He also profiles the ordinary citizens who made Singapore what it is today from the billionaires who built the city to the workers who keep it running.Sinister Twilight is a compelling and nuanced exploration of one of the world's most fascinating and enigmatic cities.; 319 pages . St. James's Place hardcover books
1849rif. 625631Boston: G.P. Reed & Co 1849. Softcover. Good. Sheet music. Folio. Single bifoium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Notched and worn along the fold from once being bound within an album as a result the insert remains bound within the bifolium owner name in pencil on the front cover dampstain at the top left corner of the front cover affecting throughout and scattered foxing throughout complete but just a good or better copy. For voice and piano. Plate number 412 / 1519-3. OCLC locates only two physical holdings of this piece. G.P. Reed & Co unknown books
1921rif. 39602Paris: Meynial 1921. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 12mo. 4 137 1pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over decorative silk cloth. All edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. Hand-colored illustration on title page. Illustrated headpieces and decorative tailpieces. Book housed in its original illustrated cardboard slipcase. Published by Jules Meynial between 1916 and 1921 "La Guirlande des Mois" was a delightful five-issue series of almanacs embellished with striking in-text drawings and pochoir plates by George Barbier. Filled with calendars poems articles and fiction by noted cultural figures of the period they evoke a privileged world of elegant splendor. Illustrated with five in-text drawings and six splendid pochoir plates by George Barbier this fifth and last issue of "La Guirlande des Mois" contains a poem by René Boylesve Vers l'Absente and four short stories La Sphère Enchanté; La Guêpe; Madame Fleur; L'"Imbroïlle" de l'Opéra by respectively Albert Flament Gérard d'Houville René Bizet and George Barbier. This volume is complete with its 12-page 1921 calendar at rear as well as its eight Note pages left blank. Age-toning to slipcase. Dust-jacket sunned along spine with minor offsetting to covers. Binding slightly frayed at head and tail of spine. Text in French. Slipcase and dust-jacket in overall good binding in good interior in very good pochoir plates in near fine to fine condition. Protected in modern mylar. Meynial hardcover books
1959rif. M11927London:: H. K. Lewis 1959. 1959. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. vi 140 pp. Index. Gilt-stamped navy blue cloth dust-jacket; jacket head torn. Front pastedown book label. Near fine in good jacket. H. K. Lewis, 1959. hardcover books
1984rif. 626298Seattle Washington: Le Beacon Presse 1984. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 18pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Covers with a few small stains and faint toning very good. Although not marked in any way this copy is from the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Donald Justice. Le Beacon Presse unknown books
1981rif. SS62-4004London: Folio Society 1981. Hardcover. Fine. Cloth in publisher's slipcase. With a frontispiece and 9 full-color photo-lithographic plates details from the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries. Folio Society hardcover books
1999rif. 348544New York: St. Martin's Press 1999. 310p 6.5x9.5 inch hardcover with untrimmed textblock in photo-illustrated unclipped dust jacket; in very good condition. Signed by White on title page. A biography of the novelist. Notably this copy is signed by White rather than his biographer. St. Martin's Press unknown books
