A Taste For Travel: An Anthology.
New York: Knopf, 1987. x + 435 pages, 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w.; dust wrapper price clipped. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
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Figue Blanche P. 218
Paris: 1768. Fruit Botanical. Stipple engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 13 1/4" x 10" Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) was an engineer, physician and a botanist based in Paris, France. He was commissioned by the French Academy of Sciences in 1728 to investigate a disease that was destroying the saffron plants in Gâtinais. His publication of the findings enabled him to become a member and later the president of the "Académie des Sciences". His constant desire for experimentation, to..... More
Bourdin P. 64
Paris: 1768. Fruit Botanical. Stipple engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 12 3/4" x 9 1/2". Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782) was an engineer, physician and a botanist based in Paris, France. He was commissioned by the French Academy of Sciences in 1728 to investigate a disease that was destroying the saffron plants in Gâtinais. His publication of the findings enabled him to become a member and later the president of the "Académie des Sciences". His constant desire for experimentation..... More
The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812
Boston: Little Brown, 1897. illustrated with some maps and battle charts. 2 volumes. 8vo, original blue cloth with gilt-stamped ship embel on covers (spine ends and corners are lightly bumped and worn with worn with neat repairs. Boston: Little Brown, 1897. Eighth edition. A very good copy Internally, a tight bright pair. More
USS Franklin Roosevelt (CVA 42) Seventeenth Mediterranean Deployment. [1967-1968]
Marceline: Walsworth, 1968. Profusely illustrated with thousands of photographs depicting life on the aircraft carrier, some in color. 364 pages. 4to, black pebbled boards with embossed gilt emblem on cover. Marceline MO: Walsworth, [1968]. One page with photo of 3rd division crew is intentionally torn at corner, otherwise a very good(+) copy. Includes a loose Holiday card with image of the carrier. Ownership information in red ink on preliminary page "Robert Bermudez, 3rd Div., 67-68 Med. Deployment" and names and..... More
Sectional Map indicating main Automobile Roads between Canada and United States; (Pacific Sheet)
Ottawa: Canada Department of the Interior, 1926. Map. Sheet measures 42" x 36". This extensive road map shows all major automobile roads connecting the United States and Canada. Part of a set of 4 maps divided by region, this map is the Pacific Sheet and depicts Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, California, Oregon, and Washington. It shows state and province boundaries, bodies of water, cities and towns, and national parks. A small inset map is..... More
We Japanese: Being Descriptions of Many of the Customs, Manners, Ceremonies, Festivals, Arts and Crafts of the Japanese, Besides Numerous other Subjects.
Japan: Fujiya Hotel, 1935. Packed with 355 small illustrations, some in spot color. 200pp. Printed Oriental-style on folded rice paper with side-sewn silk wrappers; folding cloth slipcase (sightly rubbed) with bone clasps. Japan: Fujiya Hotel, (1935). Second printing. A near fine copy in a very good folding case. More
We Were All Innocent Once
Paris: Galerie Nuke, 2009. Color photographic illustrations. Tall slim 8vo, stiff white wrappers (very slightly bumped at head). Paris: Galerie Nuke, (2009). First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Near fine. One of 1000 copies. This copy inscribed by Kost "For Bob, Thank you for your support!" More
All Over But the Shoutin'
New York: Pantheon, 1997. xxii + 329 pages, 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w.; dust wrapper lightly worn. New York: Pantheon Books, (1997). A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper. Memoir of growing up in Alabama. More
Jane's Fighting Ships 2005-2006
Coulsdon: Jane's Information Group, 2005. Thousands of images. 967 pages, folio, silver-gilt-lettered, black cloth. Coulsdon: Jane's Information Group, 2005. A fine copy. More
The New Botanic Garden, Illustrated with One Hundred and Thirty-three Plants, Engraved by SANSOM, from the Original Pictures, and Coloured with the Greatest Exactness from Drawings by SYDENHAM EDWARDS.
John Stockdale, 1812. Volume II only of 2, 4to brown leather with gilt spine rebacked, scuffing and corners bumped. Plates 30 to 60 only. 235-503pp. Beautiful engraved plates with lavish original hand coloring. Hard to find. Sydenham Teast Edwards was a natural history illustrator. This is a good example of his work. More
Speculum Lapidum Camilli Leonardi. Cui accessit Sympathia Septem Metallorum, ac septem selectorum Lapidum ad planetas. D. Petri Arlensis de Scudalupis presbyteri.; BOUND WITH: Magia astrologica. Hoc est. Clavis Sympathiae septem Metallorum & septem Selectorum lapidum ad Planetas. Opus tàm Astrologiis, quam Chymicis perutile & iocundum.
Paris: Sevestre & Gilles, 1610. 2 volumes with continuous pagination. Lacks main title page (supplied in contemporary manuscript facsimile) and frontispiece portrait. [40] , 244; [2], 345 [i.e. 245] - 499, [35 index] pages. Full engraved title page for part 2 with a wood engraving on page 259. Paris, Charles Sevestre et David Gilles, Jean Petit-Pas, 1610. BOUND WITH: Magia astrologica. Hoc est. Clavis Sympathiae septem Metallorum & septem Selectorum lapidum ad Planetas. Opus tam Astrologiis, quam Chymicis perutile &..... More
Militaris Ordinis Iohannitarum, Rhodiorum, aut Melitensium Equitum, rerum memorabilium.
Basel: Thomas Guarinus, 1581. Folio, vellum over boards with repair to spine and back cover. pp. title page has pencil notations (8), 386 of 387pp, (12). Pantaleon's history of the Christian orders and their deeds against Turks, Arabs, in various wars. Many beautiful woodcuts but first page with Jerusalem view missing, Tyre, and Damascus, maps of the Holy Land, Cyprus, the Nile delta, Greece, and the Balkans, and plans of Constantinople and other cities. More
Erinnerungen
Berlin: Morawe & Scheffelt, 1913. 90 black & white plates and 6 in color with tissue guards. 335 pages, tall 8vo, handsomely rebound in 3/4 black crushed morocco, ormately gilt spine, top edge gilt, marbled boards. Berlin: Morawe & Scheffelt Verlag, 1913. Fine. More
Collection Jacques Doucet. Dessins, pastels, sculptures, tableaux, meubles et objets d'art du XVIIIe siècle.
Paris: Georges Petit, 1912. Notices de Emile Dacier (dessins), Marcel Nicolle (pastels et tableaux). Volume 1 only: Dessins, Pastels. 91 full page sepia plates, original printed wrappers bound in, small folio, 3/4 brown morocco, marbled boards, top edge gilt. Paris: George Petit, 1912. Near fine. More
Minor Characters: A memior of a young woman of the 1950's in the Beat orbit of Jack Kerouac.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. 262 pages. 8vo, black cloth-backed boards, edgeworn d.w. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. First edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Inscribed and dated on the front endpaper "For Donna, from Old Barnard non-grad, Joyce Johnson." More
Vanity Will Get You Somewhere. An Autobiography.
San Francisco: Mercury House, 1987. Some illustrations. 235 pages. 8vo, black cloth-backed boards, d.w. (lightly edgeworn and scuffed). San Francisco: Mercury House, (1987). First edition. A very good(+) copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. Signed "For Donna Schwartz, Joseph Cotten" on the title page. More
All Night at Mr. Stanyhurst's
New York: Macmillan, 1963. Introduction by Ian Flemiong. Small 8vo, cloth, d.w. (light edge-wear). New York: Macmillan, (1963). First American Edition. Fleming encouraged his publisher to reprint this "lost book" More
Billlie Dyer and Other Stories
New York: Knopf, 1992. Thin 8vo, cloth backed boards, d.w. New York: Knopf, 1992. First Edition. Fine. More
In The Miro District.
New York: Knopf, 1977. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Knopf, (1977). First Edition. Fine. More
Devils & Demons; A Treasury of Fiendish Tales Old & New
Garden City: Doubleday, 1987. 8vo, two toned boards, d.w. Garden City: Doubleday, (1987). First Edition. Fine. More
The Cincinnati Kid
Boston: Little Brown, 1963. Thin 8vo, black cloth, d.w. Boston: Little, Brown, (1963). First Edition. Pristine copy of a novel about a gambler, the basis of a Steve McQueen film. More
The Orphan Master's Son
New York: Random House, 2012. 8vo, black boards, d.w. New York: Random House, (2012). First Edition. Fine. Signed by the author on a tipped in page. More
Journey to Poland and Yugoslavia
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. x + 118 pages, 8vo, yellow cloth; cover lightly soiled, lower corners bumped. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. A very good(-) copy. More
Pistol and Revolver Shooting
New York: Macmillan, 1928. Illustrated. 482 pages, 8vo, cloth; ownership signature inside front cover, rubbed, corners worn, small chip to top front edge. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. Internally clean, tight, overall a very good copy. More