Saru-e Naz: An Essay on Love and the Representation of Erotic Scenes in Ancient Iran by Surieu, Robert - 1967: Unknown Treasures - An Essay on Love and The Representation of Erotic Themes in Ancient Iran

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. 8vo., xi+227 pages, illustrated with tables, charts. Name on fly leaf, minor sun fade along botoom edge from dust jacket shift, else a very good plus, clean, bright, tight copy - no shelf wear, in a very good spine sunned dust jacket chipped at the crown.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. First edition thus. First illustrated edition. BAL 7541. Published Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905, first printing. 8vo., 6 1/2" x 9." Unpaginated [96 pp.]. Illustrated by Arthur Keller with full color, sepia and b/w plates and black and gilt page decorations, . Green and white patterned cloth with green titles and black and gilt inlaid cover pictorial, decorative endpapers, color frontis and title page, top edge gilt, captioned tissue guards over the color plates. Slight trace or rub to the cloth at heel and crown, small impression mark on the top edge gilt, else very good plus, clean, crisp copy.. 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 8vo.

Yesul Chunchu Sa, Seoul, Korea, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Very interesting book which includes lots of illustration, many of which are tipped-in (color and b/w). There are also 6 records with representative Korean music. Size: 4mo - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. 445 pp. Text is in Korean. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Spine working loose but still intact. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-5 pounds. Category: Art & Design; Non-English Language::Korean; Korea; Korean Language; Sociology & Culture. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001394. . Additional shipping charges may apply.

Léon Arnoult: La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts. Les phases ornamentales de la mode (The variability of taste in the arts. The ornamental phases of fashion). Printed and published by Devambez "À l'enseigne du masque d'Or". Paris, 1921. ARNOULT Léon - William ABLETT (1877-1937 illustrator). Preowned, Signed. A l'Enseigne du Masque d'Or, chez Devambez, 1921, in-4°, 87 pp + 7 plate illustrations, printed in 303 numbered copies. Sewn, original printed stiff wrapper over blind wrapper. Printed wrapper, interior fine, uncut and unopened copy. Two of the illustrations are mixed technique plates by William Ablett, one is signed in pencil by the artist: a circular engraving with a lithographic image printed on it and heightened with gold. Editorial paperback, Jacket with title to the framed flat, beautiful allegorical friezes, endpapers, eyelet, cover page with the same frieze (antique collection stamp). The quantity of circulation - 303 copies justified, and numbering - №120, a preface paper,… Read More

Fine Hardcover with dust jacket with jacket protector.Part of Set - see listing for Vol 1
Garnet is an independent British publishing house that has presided over a wide-ranging and thought-provoking list for over two decades. They maintain a special focus on Middle Eastern and North African issues, expanding from that particular expertise to include distinguished books on an extensive array of subjectsPrinted in Beruit

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1994. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Inst Pr., 1994. 8vo., 358 pages, illustrated b/w photos. Previous owner's blind stamp on title page, else near fine in near fine dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo..

Surtees. R. S., Handley Cross or Mr Jorrockss Hunt. By the author of Mr Sponges sporting tour, ask Mamma,2 etc.etc. With illustrations by John Leech. London, Bradbury, Evans and Co, 1854. 1st Edition. 8vo. Ribbed cloth, gilt decorations to front, gilt titles and decorations to spine. Pp550, 17 full page hand coloured engravings on steel, 84 vignette engravings on wood within text. Binding is faded and worn with some splitting and small loss to spine edges. Hinges are week but holding. Neat, early ownership mark on front free endpaper. All text and illustrations are tightly bound some age toning to page edges, otherwise in tight and bright. The hand colouring on the illustrations skilfully completed.

Léon Arnoult: La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts. Les phases ornamentales de la mode (The variability of taste in the arts. The ornamental phases of fashion). Printed and published by Devambez "À l'enseigne du masque d'Or". Paris, 1921. ARNOULT Léon - William ABLETT (1877-1937 illustrator). Preowned, Signed. A l'Enseigne du Masque d'Or, chez Devambez, 1921, in-4°, 87 pp + 7 plate illustrations, printed in 303 numbered copies. Sewn, original printed stiff wrapper over blind wrapper. Printed wrapper, interior fine, uncut and unopened copy. Two of the illustrations are mixed technique plates by William Ablett, one is signed in pencil by the artist: a circular engraving with a lithographic image printed on it and heightened with gold. Editorial paperback, Jacket with title to the framed flat, beautiful allegorical friezes, endpapers, eyelet, cover page with the same frieze (antique collection stamp). The quantity of circulation - 303 copies justified, and numbering - №120, a preface paper,… Read More

Fine Hardcover with dust jacket with jacket protector.Part of Set - see listing for Vol 1
Garnet is an independent British publishing house that has presided over a wide-ranging and thought-provoking list for over two decades. They maintain a special focus on Middle Eastern and North African issues, expanding from that particular expertise to include distinguished books on an extensive array of subjectsPrinted in Beruit

Ali Bey el Abbassi was a Spanish explorer, soldier, and spy in the early 19th century. This volume encompasses his travels in North Africa and the Middle East in the early nineteenth century.