Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965. First edition, 4to, extensively illustrated; slip with additional sponsors and errata laid in; fine in original brown cloth lettered in black and white. More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 2012. Edition limited to 99 copies, this the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery and out-of-series; 4to, pp. 15, [1]; title page printed in red and black, a handful of specimens and facsimiles tipped in; fine in original green wrappers; accompanied by a portfolio containing..... More
Zurich: W. Boesigner aux Editions Girsberger Zurich, 1955. Deuxième édition augmentée, oblong 4to, pp. 252; photographic illustrations (many in color), architectual drawings, & sketches, diagrams throughout; corners lightly bumped, minor toning, light spotting on spine ends, otherwise very good in original beige linen over boards, lettered in dark orange on..... More
[Burma: ca 1860s?]. One-page manuscript, 17.5" x 11" with six horizontal textile patterns divided by 5 narrower patterns, completed in pencil with accompanying ink annotations; old folds, neat repairs to one tear and another shallow closed tear along a fold touching some of the pattern, very good. Each pattern is..... More
[Japan: n.d.]. Fukurotoji, 10.5" x 7.5", pp. [82]; likely original stab stitched paper covers, brush illustrations throughout, mostly linework but a few toned paintings and two in color, some double page spreads; occasional minor worming, one leaf and the bottom of one page excised, very good. A well-executed collection of..... More
Taipei, Taiwan: National Palace Museum, [1969]. 4to, pp. [9], 110; colored plates, text in Chinese and English; Fine in original orange cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, publisher's pictorial slipcase. More
Philadelphia: 1899. Folio, pp. [4], 442; plates (each with a series of portraits); good and sound, or better, in orig. blue gilt-stamped cloth; complete account of the 17-day event, with texts of papers submitted and biographies of the foreign delegates; ex-MHS. More
Baltimore: [privately printed at the Press of Isaac Friedenwald], 1884. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 127, [1], [7] leaves of plates; original limp brown cloth lettered on gilt on upper cover and spine, a.e.g. Ownership signature of Laura Van Alstyne Sections include Chinese, Japanese, and Ancient & European pottery, porcelain, jade..... More
Holborn: J. Duncombe, Jun. [1812]. Broadside, approx. 36 x 22 cm; hand-colored engraving (approx. 10 x 14 cm), text in double column, original blank spaces in the text of poem have been identified and filled in by a contemporary hand, creased where previously folded, occasional spots, overall fine. A satire..... More
Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1936. 8vo, pp. 99; 2-toned illustrations throughout; original yellow pictorial wrappers (light soiling at bottom right-hand corner of upper cover) printed in red, French flaps; edge wear with shallow tears along edges not affecting text, bottom half of spine cracked, head chipped, small loss to foot..... More
[Amalfi: Andrea Fusco Dipino, ca. 1920s]. Oblong 12mo, 20 leaves of black and white photographic plates printed on rectos and versos, tissue guards; original white pictorial string-bound wrappers, yapp edges; tear to top upper wrapper edge affecting cover illustration, else very good and sound. Duke only in OCLC as of..... More
London: John Lane, 1907. 8vo, pp. xvi, 149 plus 223 plates; very good in orig. red cloth gilt, t.e.g.; ex-MHS. Issued in the publisher's Spanish Series. More
[London: Punch Office], 1928. 4to, pp. liv; plain and color plates of cartoons and advertisements; original pictorial staplebound wrappers detached but present, edges toned, textblock about fine. A holiday-themed issue. More
New York: published by Enshel, Adler & Sons, 94 Fulton Street, [ca. 1860s]. Hand-colored lithograph approx. 24½" x 20" (by sight, not examined out of frame); fine example with strong coloring; attractively matted and in a classic white frame. The steamboats Diana and Baltic are running side by side on..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1905. First American edition, 8vo, pp. x, 330; gravure frontis, many plates; very good in orig. blue cloth gilt, t.e.g.; ex-MHS. More
Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1971. First edition; 4to; pp. [50]; 13 illustrations; very good in original pictorial wrappers. More
Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1991. 4to, pp. 354; colored plates, text in Japanese and English; fine in original green and white pictorial wrappers; The exhibition contained approx. 250 items relating to artistic writing, paintings and applied art objects ranging from the Heian to Edo periods. More
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[Taipei: Society for Spirit-Calligraphy & Painting, 1995]. 4to, pp. 280; introduction in Chinese and English with captions in Chinese; a little over 200 full-color images of spirit paintings; full burgundy cloth, gilt title on cover and spine; flyleaf stuck to upper pastedown, top edge a touch spotted, near fine; addenda..... More
[French: n.d., ca. 1840]. Copper engraving approx. 7¼" x 4¾" on a sheet of mold-made paper approx. 11" x 17¼"; (approx. 19 x 12 cm on a sheet approx. 28 x 44 cm). Scafferlaty Tobacco is a centuries-old firm, still in existence today. "From the time of the Sun King..... More
[Saigon]: Review Horizons, 1973. 8vo, pp. 21, [2]; photographically illustrated throughout; very good in original orange decorative wrappers. More
c. 1830s. 8vo scrapbook, containing on 16 leaves assorted die cuts (a few quite intricate), note paper, engraved slips of commendation for students, blind embossed cards, and manuscript valentines, 15 items in all, tipped to blue and pink construction paper, which is folded and laid into a decorated embossed paper..... More
Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959. 8vo, pp. 48; 10 plates of photographs and one map; original white and green decorative paper over boards (a bit soiled), general shelf wear, endpages toned, else interior mostly fine. A brief introduction to Vietnamese arts and crafts, including basket-making, embroidery, and sculpture; divided..... More
[Paris]: C. de Lasteyrie, r[ue] du Bac no. 58, [1821]. Early lithograph view by Brocas after Edouard de Montulé of the harbor of Charlotte Amalie, approx. 11" x 13¼" overall (image approx. 6" x 9"); light wrinkles, very good. Plate no. 7 extracted from Montulé's Voyage en Amérique, en Italie..... More
[Minneapolis]: [Regis Center at the University of Minnesota], [2013]. First edition, sm 4to, unpaginated; profusely illustrated in color, text in Chinese & English; Fine in original black and white cloth, accordion style; Wang Youshen (b.1964), a Beijing artist featured at the Minneapolis Photo Center, where the exhibition follows Wang's theory..... More
Beijing: 2004. 4to, pp. [4], 55, [1]; text in Chinese and English; 36 full-color illustrations of Zhang Feng's artwork, primarily bronzes scupltures of abstracted human figures; signed by artist on flyleaf; fine. More
