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Paris: Cahiers d'Art, 1984 New edition. First published in 1960. Wrappers. Quarto. A fine copy in original glassine wrapper. Volume 11 of Pablo Picasso's catalogue raisonné of paintings, pastels and drawings.

New York: Macmillan, 1915 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Corners, spine extremities lightly worn. Donor's inscription, dated 1925, contemporary bookplate. A good, tight copy.

Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, [1959] First edition. Cloth. Very good in dust jacket with a couple of short tears and one crease.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1970] First edition. Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

London: Leadenhall Press, 1898-9 First edition. Original navy cloth with front cover and spine decoratively stamped in gilt. Octavo. Text illustrations. With one tipped in sample of decorative paper. Binding extremities lightly rubbed, front hinge cracking but sound. A very good, bright copy. With tipped in publisher's card stating, amongst other things that "Mr. Tuer will be glad to have his attention drawn to early juvenile books which may have escaped his notice, more especially those with quaint and amusing illustrations.

London: Hollis & Carter, 1961 First edition. Boards. Octavo. Tape stain from publisher on title-page and verso. Very good in very good, price-clipped d.j.

Sotheby's / Sotheby Parke Bernet Pubns, [1989] Blackj cloth with gilt spine. Folio. Ninety-seven color illustrations, plus many black and white illustrations. With chronology and index. One dull spot on back cover. Otherwise fine in fine d.j.

[New York:] Pantheon Books, [1957] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Black and white plates. Bottom corners lightly bumped. Very good+ in like d.j. Jacket has some light wear at corners and joints.

New York: Knopf, 1997 First edition. Boards. Quarto. With 113 full-page color illustrations. Fine in fine d.j.

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1982 Octavo. Fine, with original prospectus Facsimiles of Atkyns' essay, 1664, and Caslon's 'A Specimen of Printing Types, 1764, with a commentary by Carey S.Bliss of the Huntington Library.

Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co., 1827 Contemporary vellum double ruled in gilt with a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Gilt turn-ins. . Quarto. Title page printed in black and red. Engraved frontispiece; engraved headpiece; large engraved initial letter on title page Binding extremities slightly rubbed and vellum lightly soiled. Offsetting from frontispiece. Very minor foxing. A very good copy of a scarce work. Lady Margaret Cunningham (d. 1622) was a Scottish memoirist and letter writer, who was married to Sir James Hamilton of Crawfordjohn. The marriage was an abusive one, and is described in the work A Pairt of the Life of Lady Margaret Cuninghame (1608). According to Elizabeth L. Ewan in The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, "[Lady Margaret Cunningham] was often forced to turn to her parents, her sister, Anne Cunningham (wife of James Hamilton, 2nd Marquis of Hamilton), and her in-laws for lodging and money. Evandale was physically and emotionally abusive to her;… Read More

[n.p.:L Landucci Mark Mogilner, 2004] First edition. Cloth. Large quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j. Exhaustive study of Mexico City's fine opera house.

Madrid: Joachin Ibarra, 1758 First edition. Contemporary limp vellum with title in manuscript on spine. Small quarto. Eighteen engraved plates. Includes a facsimile of a letter from Isabel I of Castile to Gómez Manrique (1412-1490) while he was Corregidor of Toledo. The plates show Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, and Greek text in a variety of calligraphic styles. Some wear to top edge of front cover and some soiling to vellum, including a small red stain at bottom edge of front cover, probably paint. Some light foxing, but pages are mostly bright throughout. A very good, clean copy of this handsome Ibarra printing. Terreros y Pando (1707-1782). was a Spanish Jesuit who taught rhetoric and mathematics. Amongst his other works is a four-volume dictionary of the Castillian tongue, also published by Ibarra. The present work tracks Catholic, Muslim, and Jewish influence on language in Spain, as well as the influences of North African populations, the Roman Empire, and classical Greek society. It includes… Read More

[Chelsea, New York: The Chocorua Press, 1929] Limited to four hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number 403. Signed by the author on the colophon. . Decoratively colored and illustrated linen. . Quarto. Illustrated by Rene Gockinga. Six pochoir plates and a pochoir enhanced title page, all of which have tissue guards. Black and white vignette. A few small stains on covers. A very good copy. An essay on painting by the author of Thunder on the Left (1925), Kitty Foyle (1939), The Haunted Bookshop (1919), and Parnassus on Wheels (1917).

Los Angeles: W.M. Cheney, 1953 Second edition, with a new preface. Wrappers. Octavo. Fine. Jones, 34.

Los Angeles: 1950 First edition. Wrappers. 12mo. 16 cm. Fine. A second edition, with a new preface, was published in 1953.

New York: Phaidon, [1969] Second edition of this catalogue raisonne of the 15th century Italian painter. . Cloth. Quarto. Tipped in color frontis. and 5 tipped in color plates. 169 black and white illustrations. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has mild fading at spine and a portion of front cover. The standard reference work on Uccello. First published in 1949.

[ Vancouver, British Columbia:] Byzantium, 2022 One of twenty regular copies. Ten deluxe and six hors commerce copies were also produced. Signed by Hodgson and Cohen on the colophon. . 8 x 12 in. With approximately 140 sample leaves of herbaria, drawings, and prints, plus a folder with extra oversized sample leaves from eleven different sources. The leaves originate from broken volumes of botanical texts from the last 350 years or were created by the authors for the present book. The prints include woodcuts, engravings, etchings, lithographs, photographs, marbling, and more. Explanatory text accompanies the imagery. The last five pages of the book comprise a comprehensive annotated bibliography. The text is set in Fournier, printed with a handpress on dampened Arches at by Rollin Milroy Heavenly Monkey in Vancouver, BC. Bound by Claudia Cohen in green leather over green-and-white striped pastepaper boards. Leather titled and tooled in gilt. Enclosed in a matching green leather and pale green cloth… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, [1959] First edition. Decxorative boards with gilt spine. Octavo. Line drawings in text, With two handmade paper samples. A little light foxing to endpapers. Very good+ in very good dust jacket. Jacket has a chip at top of front cover.

Leeds: E.J. Arnold & Son, [n.d., ca. 1899]. Third edition, revised. OCLC records only one copy of any edition (1899, at NYPL). It is unclear when the first edition was published. Publisher's gray cloth flexible boards. A couple spots of staining to cloth. Gray-green patterned endpapers. . Twenty-seven full-page diagrams (twenty-three in color) and seven half-page diagrams (three in color) illustrating paper-folding projects. Clean and bright within. A very good copy of a rare book on Froebel gift number seven (paper-folding). This wonderfully illustrated book gives detailed instructions and diagrams for kindergarten students studying the Froebel gifts. The A.L. Educational Series focused on children's creativity and the learning-through-play concept that was one of the central tenets of Froebel's educational method. Other titles in the series included Guide to the Drawing Examinations (1892) by D.E. Hillier and Paper-Flower Making (1897) by I.A. Williamson.