Recent Arrivals from Haec City / Also Books
Recent Arrivals from Haec City / Also Books
Original hand lettered alphabet from a pen work drawing and calligraphy manuscript from Laval, France.
by [original drawing, penwork, lettering]
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- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$300.00
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Very good. Single leaf, 9 x 14 inches, loosely housed in archival conservation matting, 16x20 inches. The image is a remarkably intricate calligraphic alphabet with subtle flourishes in purple ink and incredibly fine detail best observed with a magnifying glass. Paper has some age toning and minor soil, Very Good overall. The Immaculate Conception Carmel at Laval was… Read more about this item Item Price
$300.00
Abstract border design for ornamental penwork, France 19C
by [original drawing, penwork, lettering]
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- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$175.00
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Very good. Single leaf, 9 x 14 inches, loosely housed in archival conservation matting, 16x20 inches. The leaf comes from a pen work drawing and calligraphy manuscript located in Laval, France. The Immaculate Conception Carmel at Laval was established in 1856 by the Carmelite nuns of Le Mans. Given the overtly religious themes in other surviving pages from… Read more about this item Item Price
$175.00
Floral/topiary hand-painted "check paper" pattern for Jacquard woven tapestry, France 1911
by [textiles, original art]
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- Used - Good
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- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$125.00
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Good. Floral/topiary motif painted in gouache, 19 x 16.5 inches. In Good condition several small edgetears inconspicuously reinforced with archival tape from the back. Dated 1911, but with strong 8-bit video game graphic "vibes" for a timeless elegance. The photographs document the unbacked pattern (with a slight curl) and in a mylar sleeve, backed with matboard to show… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
Air Corps Basic Photography Training Manual TM 2170-5
by United States Government, War Department
- Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Published
- 1930
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$100.00
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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1930. Hardcover. Very good +. 8vo, 354pp. In an unusual but attractive binding of customized brown paper wraps with double screwposts, corners and underside of screws reinforced with tape. Very Good with small closed edgetears (one reinforced), previous owner's stamps to the cover and edge, manuscript title on spine. "Received Dec 16 1938"… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
Large hand-painted tulip motif "check paper" pattern for Jacquard woven tapestry, France 1910
by [textiles, original art]
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1910
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$225.00
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France: Made by hand, 1910. Good. Pattern for a repeating tulip motif painted in gouache, 21 x 25 inches. Wonderfully textured with some variations in toning from age. Dated 1910, France. In Good condition with a large tape repair and manuscript writing on the verso. Several small edge tears inconspicuously reinforced with archival tape. The photographs document the… Read more about this item Item Price
$225.00
Ornate pen and ink drawing of birds (France, 19c)
by [original drawing, penwork, lettering]
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- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$200.00
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Very good. Single leaf, 9 x 14 inches, loosely housed in archival conservation matting, 16x20 inches. The image is a remarkably intricate picture of a mother with three baby birds in a finely flourised decorative border accented with blue ink. The paper has some offsetting/age toning and minor soil, Very Good overall. The leaf comes from a pen… Read more about this item Item Price
$200.00
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Journal de Teinture de M. Reimann (Reimann's Färber-Zeitung) 1889
by Reimann, Max [textiles, dyeing]
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1889
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$650.00
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...organe de la teinture, de l'impression, du blanchiment, des apprêts, de la fabrication des produits chimiques, des papiers de fantaisie, de la droguerie, filature et du tissage ; organe de "la Société des Teinturiers" et de l'"Académie de Teinture" école supérieure de l'industrie tinctoriale, á Berlin…
French edition of Reimann's Färber-Zeitung, the premier trade journal for dyeing and textile producers.… Read more about this item Item Price
$650.00
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3000 Questions on Medical Subjects, Arranged for Self-Examination... (cover title: Self-Examinations for Medical Students)
by [medicine, study guides]
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1891
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$75.00
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Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1891. Hardcover. Very good. Flexible teal cloth hardcover, 4.25 x 3 inches. 144pp interleaved with blank pages for student work + 16pp publisher's ads at rear. Very Good with two discolored spots on the cover and modest overall rubbing wear, mild sunning. First two pages nicked at the fore edge, contents bright… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
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Autograph book with finely lettered dedication pages and attractive drawings, 1906-1920
by Cissy Graham [autograph books, drawing & lettering]
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- Used
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- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$100.00
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Padded cloth 12mo with a brushed finish. Rounded corners, all edges gilt. Contains laid paper in several tones, only a handful of which are used, but demonstrate a clear interest and aptitude for graphic art. The booklet includes work by at least three people: Cissy Graham, the original owner/recipient who's contributed two drawings in a cartoon style and one… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
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Blanco y Negro: revista ilustrada, Año 27, Números 1363-1383. Bound volume of 27 issues, complete consecutive run from July 1-December 30, 1917
by Prensa Española [periodicals, illustrated magazines]
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- Used - Very good +
- Published
- 1917
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$175.00
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Madrid: Prensa Española, 1917. Hardcover. Very good +. Quarter red leather hardcover 4to, n.p. 27 issues bound with original color covers. A hefty volume in Very Good+ to Near Fine condition with minor scuffing and a small abrasion to the spine. Uniformly trimmed with minimal loss. Series numbers inconspicuously penciled on covers. Copiously illustrated, including many color plates,… Read more about this item Item Price
$175.00
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DicKinS Sportswear, Designed by Cotto
by [trade catalog, sample book]
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Published
- ca. 1940
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$135.00
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New Bedford, MA: DicKinS, Inc., ca. 1940. Paperback. Very good. Softcover small 4to, [40]p. The first 22 pages feature illustrations of the available styles--all for women except one page for men's button-down shirts. The following 18 pages offer samples and explanations of the different fabrics' characteristics and uses, and a sample sheet of monograms. Very Good with mild… Read more about this item Item Price
$135.00
Two illustrated student manuscript notebooks for courses in Physiology and Zoology by a young woman in Oregon, 1910
by [manuscript notebook, student work]
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- Used - Good
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- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$200.00
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Good. Two illustrated manuscript notebooks dated 1910. Created by Ida Narkaus (b.1889), the daughter of two Finnish immigrants living in Oregon state. Married Henry Sunnari on July 28, 1917. They moved to Alberta, Canada, where Henry died less than three months later. Ida returned to live with her parents in Oregon, working as a teacher. In 1921, she… Read more about this item Item Price
$200.00
The Garden (Dean's Rag Book No. 105)
by Patricchio, Caterina
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- Used - Very good
- Published
- [nd]
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- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$100.00
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London: Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd., [nd]. Wraps. Very good. 6 cloth leaves overstitched along the spine. Printed single-sided on facing pages, once "butterfly folded" but fraying along the fore edge has opened the folds. 12.5 x 6.75 inches. A Good copy with well-embedded soil and discoloration showing their "indestructible" claim has been put to the test and… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
Mathematical Snapshots
by Steinhaus, Hubert
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition thus
- Published
- 1938
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$150.00
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New York: G. E. Stechert & Co., 1938. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Good. First English language edition, originally published in Polish as 'Kalejdoskop Matematyczny.' Cloth 8vo, 133pp. An adventure in recreational mathematics, profusely and dynamically illustrated in a variety of methods, including photographs, diagrams and anaglyphs. An about Good copy: The first 11 pages are a little wavy… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
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8 3 Special supplement for Shufu-no-tomo, March 1933 - Japanese magazine for repairing clothing (with 100 secret recipes for cleaning stains!)
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1933
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$130.00
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Japan, 1933. Wraps. Very good. Softcover 4to with two homemade protective covers sewn atop the outer wraps. A wonderful combination of colors, textures, illustration techniques and styles. With great period ads. Staining to the protective covers (which also have manuscript titles), printed volume with age toning and related discoloration, Very Good overall.
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$130.00
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Les eaux souterraines aux epoques anciennes: role qui leur revient dans l'origine et les modifications de la substance de l'ecorce terrestre
by Daubrée, Auguste
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1887
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$135.00
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Paris: Dunod, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarter red leather 8vo, 443pp. Copiously illustrated with plates (some color) and generous in-text illustrations. A Good copy with rubbing to boards and dramatic erosion to the back cover in a geometric shape that pleasantly echoes Figure 9 in the text. A late work by the eminent French geologist Gabriel-Auguste Daubrée… Read more about this item Item Price
$135.00
Recreations morales de l'Enfance, ou Entretiens... tome premier & second (2 volumes)
by Lemair, H[enri]
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- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1923
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$175.00
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Paris: Belin-Mandar, 1923. Wraps. Very good. ... de plusieurs enfans avec leur pere, sur ce qui fait le fond de l'education de la Jeunesse; contenant une exposition du systeme du monde, un abrege d'Histoire Naturelle, d'Histoire Universelle, de Geographie, etc., etc. Complete in two 12mo volumes with six [6] aquatint engravings, bound in the original pink pastepaper wraps… Read more about this item Item Price
$175.00
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Twentieth-century Nottingham lace specimen book with samples extending into the 1960s
by [fashion, textiles, sample book]
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- Used - Fair
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- Binder
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$950.00
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A generous twentieth-century sample book representing several decades of the Nottingham lace trade. Assembled in a purpose-made binder, 17 x 9.5 x 4.5 inches, ideal for adding, removing, and generally rearranging pages. 157 total samples, mostly half-page size (~8 x 6 inches). The tallest sample unfolds to 28" and several others extend between leaves up to 14 inches wide. Each… Read more about this item Item Price
$950.00
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The Story Book for Little Folks
by [juvenile, Mary Elizabeth Southwell Dudley Leathley]
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- Used - Good
- Published
- n.d.
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$135.00
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New York: T. W. Strong, 98 Nassau Street, n.d.. Hardcover. Good. Gilt stamped cloth 12mo, 126pp. No date, ca. 1850. Color litho printed frontis and eight hand colored engravings, 9 total color plates. Plate 7 has a hole in the paper with an old repair; worming affects the first nine leaves--the text is large enough that legibility is… Read more about this item Item Price
$135.00
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Large cabinet photo of a nobly aloof man in short-shorts on roller skates
by [photograph]
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- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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$150.00
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Good. Charming studio portrait of a man on quad roller skates, 8.5 x 6 inches, who appears to be glowing in stark contrast to the soil-spotted and generally roughed-up panel he's mounted on, 13.5 x 8.5. The photo is already lifting from the panel and could be easily removed, but we'll leave that decision to its next caretaker… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00