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New York: Chiswick Press; Privately Printed for the Scott-Thaw Company, 1904. #110 of 220 copies, signed by the publisher.. Very Good. Folio (36 cm); 359 pages. Woodcut architectural title page and portrait frontispiece by Dutch artist W[illem] L[eendert] Bruckman (1866-1928). Woodcut initials; title and headings printed in red throughout. Printed on substantial laid paper manufactured by hand in the mills of Arnold & Foster and bearing the Chiswick Press watermark. Bound in original brick-red boards, with restored tan buckram spine; original paper title labels printed in red (the publisher included an "extra" title label folded into each copy of the book, and the "extra" label was applied to the restored spine). Title label on upper board dusty. Cloth a bit worn along edges and at corners. Some very slight toning near upper margin and along edges of text block. Numbered and signed "Scott-Thaw" on justification page.
Tenth annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-'89: by Powell, John Wesley; Garrick Mallery - 1893 Picture Writing of the American Indian
by Powell, John Wesley; Garrick Mallery
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Tenth annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-'89:: Picture Writing of the American Indian
by Powell, John Wesley; Garrick Mallery
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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893. First edition. Very Good. 30 cm; xxx, 822 pages : illustrations, plates. Original green cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped with image of a man in feathered headdress. Front hinge reinforced. Ownership stamp on front free endpaper of anthropologist Rudolf Martin (1864-1925), chair of physical anthropology at the University of Munich. Few age spots, little wear.
The definitive survey of petroglyphs and pictographs.
The definitive survey of petroglyphs and pictographs.
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- Date Published 1893
- Keywords Petroglyphs Pictographs American Indians Indigenous Americans First Peoples
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Offenbach: Kumm Verlag, 1962. 133 pages, and 20 lithograph plates by Kurt Steinel, and signed by him on justification page. Text in German. Bound in rich full ochre crushed goat, with painted pastepaper endleaves, green speckled edges, and custom quarter-leather cloth slipcase by Ruth Stein (unsigned). Very good. Delightful 20th-century interpretation of Goethe's Reynard the Fox in unusual luxury binding and slipcase. SIgned.
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New York: Inkwell Press, 1992. Very Good. Edited by Vincent Torre. 32 cm; [5], 17, [1] leaves. Title page and text pages within colored borders with ornamental block printed in green. Bound in purple straight-grain brocaded silk with green pebbled leather backstrip titled in gilt; with green textured decorative paper endleaves backed with Fabriano, by Ruth Stein (unsigned). One of 45 copies printed on Stonehenge paper and signed by Torre. Few subtle but annoying stains on upper board. According to a note by Torre, these poems were not published until 1931, and are printed here for only the second time (the first time in a separate issue). Offered here in a fine hand-made binding.
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Opera di A. Manzoni.
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Florence: Barbèra, 1923. Very Good. 9 volumes. Prestigious 19th century "Diamond" edition of the works of Alessandro Manzoni, including I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed), etc, all housed in a hand-made wooden box of Milanese craftsmanship of the 1920s, decorated with bas-relief figures, with the title carved in relief on the front panel. The box is open to the front exhibiting the gilt-titled spines of the small volumes, and the upper panel is hinged so it can be tilted up for access to the volumes. Some discoloration, and loss of the bas-relief carving on the upper surface. Reference: Parenti, Rarità bibliografiche dell'ottocento, I, p. 61, #122-128, and illustration p. 59 For the 50th anniversary of Manzoni's death, the house of Barbèra issued this collection in carved wooden housing to close out the entire "Diamante" series launched by Gasparo Barbèra in 1856. The "Diamante" editions were immensely popular Italian classics (with some oddballs too), edited by principal scholars, and…
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Zurich: Arcade Presse, 1963. #111 of an edition of 185 copies, signed by the artist.. Folio (43 cm); 26 leaves, including 17 monochrome and 9 two-color lithographs printed on the hand presses of Emil Matthieu, Zurich. (The lithograph stones were ground down after the edition was completed.) Letterpress text in 16-point Caslon. Loose in portfolio as issued, protected in vellum-backed cloth chemise, titled in gilt, and slipcase. Slipcase splitting along bottom seams. Else fine.
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New York: Chiswick Press; Privately Printed for the Scott-Thaw Company, 1904. #110 of 220 copies, signed by the publisher.. Very Good. Folio (36 cm); 359 pages. Woodcut architectural title page and portrait frontispiece by Dutch artist W[illem] L[eendert] Bruckman (1866-1928). Woodcut initials; title and headings printed in red throughout. Printed on substantial laid paper manufactured by hand in the mills of Arnold & Foster and bearing the Chiswick Press watermark. Bound in original brick-red boards, with restored tan buckram spine; original paper title labels printed in red (the publisher included an "extra" title label folded into each copy of the book, and the "extra" label was applied to the restored spine). Title label on upper board dusty. Cloth a bit worn along edges and at corners. Some very slight toning near upper margin and along edges of text block. Numbered and signed "Scott-Thaw" on justification page.
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New York: Inkwell Press, 1992. Very Good. Edited by Vincent Torre. 32 cm; [5], 17, [1] leaves. Title page and text pages within colored borders with ornamental block printed in green. Bound in purple straight-grain brocaded silk with green pebbled leather backstrip titled in gilt; with green textured decorative paper endleaves backed with Fabriano, by Ruth Stein (unsigned). One of 45 copies printed on Stonehenge paper and signed by Torre. Few subtle but annoying stains on upper board. According to a note by Torre, these poems were not published until 1931, and are printed here for only the second time (the first time in a separate issue). Offered here in a fine hand-made binding.
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Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-'89
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Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1888-89
by Powell, John Wesley
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Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1893. Good. Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1888-89, John Wesley Powell, Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., 1893, 11.5 x 8.5 inches, 822 pp. Dark olive green boards with gilt stamped illustration of an Indigenous person in a feathered headdress to front, gilt stamped lettering to spine, and blind stamped border to front and back boards. Spine and all corners bumped, moderately rubbed; light scuffing to front and back boards; top edge of text block and endpapers lightly foxed. Good condition. The United States Congress established the Bureau of Ethnology in 1879. Directed by surveyor, geologist, and U.S. Army Major John Wesley Powell, the Bureau collected European-American knowledge about Indigenous nations, motivated by the false "vanishing race" theory that Indigenous cultures and ways of life were naturally fading out of existence - though in reality they were being displaced by…
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