Ancient Rome. History of a civilization that ruled the world
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1996. Folio, pp. 292; large color illustrations, many full-page, one folding; white cloth, fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket. More
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1996. Folio, pp. 292; large color illustrations, many full-page, one folding; white cloth, fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket. More
[Iowa City, Iowa: Penfield Press, 1981]. First edition, small folio, pp. [10], 28 photographic plates, [4]; original pictorial laminate boards; near fine. This copy inscribed "For Allan Kornblum - with best wishes, Joan Liffring-Zug." The photographs are largely of Iowa women taken 1957-1975. More
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1963. 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xxi, xvi, 645, [1]; xii, 840; illustrations in the text throughout, a number full-page; corners bumped, else a fine set in full blue cloth with gilt spine. The catalogue was originally issued in 32 parts. Several times reprinted, it is..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849. 8 vols., 12mo, contemporary full dark brown morocco, gilt-lettered direct and gilt-paneled spines; minor rubbing, very good. With 240 steel-engraved portraits of the most illustrious British citizens, many after Holbein, Titian, and Van Dyke, and others. More
Minneapolis & Stockholm: Midnight Paper Sales, 1994. First edition of 250 copies, this one of 50 specially bound and with an extra suite of plates, 8vo, pp. 62, [4]; illustrated with wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec; maroon quarter leather and marbled boards, housed in a gray cloth clamshell box, leather..... More
Minneapolis & Stockholm: Midnight Paper Sales, 1994. First edition limited to 250 copies, this one of 50 specially bound and with an extra suite of plates (this, copy 25); 8vo, pp. 62, [4]; illustrated with wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec; maroon quarter leather and marbled boards, housed in a gray..... More
Minneapolis & Stockholm: Midnight Paper Sales, 1994. 8vo, 5 multi-color wood engravings in a tan sleeve (approx. 9¾" x 6¾"), this being the extra suite of plates (only) to accompany the signed, limited edition of 50 which is not present. Each engraving titled, numbered, and signed by Schanilec. See Quarter..... More
New York: Pantheon, [1949]. First trade edition, 8vo, 174-[175]pp., illustrations from woodcuts throughout the text by Aristide Maillol. Fine copy in a slightly chipped jacket. More
[Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 1983.]. Edition limited to 50 copies (this, no. 25); tall 8vo, pp. [14]; 4 linocuts; original pictorial white wrappers with a large linocut on the front; fine. Printed by Marc Faré at the Yellow Barn Press. No mention of this in the Yellow Barn Press..... More
Hartford: Hale & Hosmer, 1813. First edition, 32mo, pp. [3], 6-30; lacking the final leaf of ads; 22 woodblock illustrations; original blue paper wrappers; spine effectively resewn, upper cover cracked along joint, some illustrations poorly imprinted, text generaly worn and soiled. American Imprints 28988; Welch 804.1. More
Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. First edition in English limited to 775 copies signed by the author, 8vo, pp. [2], viii, [4], 505; 12 woodcut plates; fine copy in orig. black cloth-backed paper boards, paper label on spine, publisher's box. More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Yohn illustrated edition, 4to, pp. viii, [2], 425; 10 illustrated plates including title; original black cloth, pictorial cover label, dust-jacket with some chips at edges and soiling, covers a bit bowed, else very good. More
New York: Macmillan, [c1896]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 185; elaborate pictorial dedication, title, and copyright pages, photographic portrait of Mabie tipped in, 26 plates after Edwards printed in brown, and head- and tail-pieces throughout; original dark green cloth-covered boards, pictorial front cover stamped and lettered in red and gilt, the..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton, [1989]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 338; many illustrations; fine in an unclipped dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. While Merker rarely marked his books, this one bears his ownership signature on the front free endpaper: "Kim Merker / 16 April..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1927. Edition limited to 300 copies signed by the author (this copy with the number neatly eradicated), small 4to, pp. 270, [2]; mounted portrait frontispiece after a photograph by F. H. Evans, and 51 full-page illustrations (some of them mounted), plus a few other illustrations..... More
Munchen: Nicolas Maier, 2010. 4to, pp. 415, [1]; parallel text in three columns in French, German, and English; 336 medallions illustrated and described, with biographies of their artists; pictorial paper covered boards; fine. Medallists such as Chaplain, Roty and Charpentier renewed medallic art in France during the nineteenth century, leading..... More
London: Philip Lee Warner, 1921. Small folio bifolium, printed in green and black, vignette title page; with specimen page, half-tone reproduction of a plate (detached and laid in) and a list of backstock. Old folds, very good. More
London: Peter Owen, [1966]. First edition, 4to, pp, 119, [1]; black and white photographs throughout; quarter vellum backing blue cloth boards, gilt title direct on spine, original dust jacket tipped in back, fine. Introduduction by Howard Nixon. More
Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop, [1966]. First edition, American issue, 4to, pp, 119, [1]; black and white photographs throughout; original red cloth, decorative dust jacket with remains of price sticker at the top of the front panel; ell else fine. Introduduction by Howard Nixon. More
Boston [et al.]: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown & Co., [1989]. First edition, 4to, pp. 114, [6]; illustrated with photographs throughout; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Patti Smith, Sigourney Weaver, Lisa Lyon, Isabella Rossellini, Susan Sarandon, Yoko Ono, and a host of other portraits of celebrity women..... More
London & New York: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1899, 1901. 2 vols., first editions, 4to, pp. [8], 18 text, 157 plates; [10], 173 plates; original cream cloth stamped in green (vol. I) and red (vol. II); bindings soiled, spines darkened, front hinge starting on vol. I and broken on..... More
Geneve: Trois Collines, [1948]. First limited edition, in French, pp. 5-196, [9]; eighty-seven reproductions of Chagall's work, many in color; additional illustrations throughout of Chagall and his sketches; original pictorial wrappers; slightly worn at extremities, head of spine chipped, bookplate, library markings on spine; very good or better. More
Berne & Lausanne: Societe Typographique, 1777. 8vo, 2 vols. in 1, as issued; pp. xxxvii, [1], 254; [6], 310; engraved frontis and 10 plates after Moreau; contemporary full mottled calf, gilt spine, red morocco label. Historical romance of the Incas, told by Marmontel (1723-99) a friend of disciple of Voltaire..... More
Paris: Lacombe, 1778. 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. xii, 320; 364, [1]; engraved frontispiece, 10 plates by Moreau and Duclos; early 19th century three quarter plum morocco over marbled boards, spines lettered and ruled in gilt; spines faded to brown, extremities rubbed and worn, cracks starting; modern bookplate on front pastedowns..... More
New York: George H. Doran, 1923. First American edition, 4to, pp. 223, [1]; numerous color plates tipped-in, map, original yellow pebbled cloth, lettered in red, color pictorial cover label, a bit slanted, else near fine in original printed jacket with light edge wear. More