The Chinese Potter, A Practical History of Chinese Ceramics
New York: Scribner, 1976. Illustrated in black and white. 288 pages, large 8vo, tan cloth, d.w. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. A very good copy. More
New York: Scribner, 1976. Illustrated in black and white. 288 pages, large 8vo, tan cloth, d.w. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. A very good copy. More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Fukutake, 1987. Complete 12 volume set. 4to, red cloth, d.w. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Fukutake, (1987). Fine in fine dust wrappers. Individual volumes in this series: The Pacific Islands, Africa, and The Americas; Egypt and the Ancient Near East; Greece and Rome; Europe in the Middle Ages; The Renaissance in Italy and Spain; The Renaissance in the North; Europe in the Age of Monarchy; Europe in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution;..... More
Drawing. Ink, gouache and charcoal on heavy paper. Image measures 7.5" x 11", sheet measures 9" x 13.5". Margins show paste marks from previous matting. Back shows stamp, "Ervine Metzl 210 Madison Ave. N.Y.C.". In very good condition. Image caricatures a western diner with Asian hosts offering bowls of rice. Ervine Metzl (1899-1963) was an American graphic artist and illustrator best known for his poster and stamp designs. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. Illustrated in color and in black and white. 182 pages. Square 4to, red leatherette, d.w. (edgeworn, torn). New York: Oxford University Press, (1981). First American edition. Very good in a very good(-) dust wrapper. More
Washington, D.C. Counterpoint, 1999. Black & white photographic illustrations. 646 pages, 8vo, two-toned boards, dust wrapper. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (1999). Near fine. More
Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1988. Translated from Russian by Ashkhen Mikoyan. Profusely illustrated in black & white color. 230pp. Tall 4to, decorative cloth, slightly edge worn d.w. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, (1988). A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. More
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1977. Illustrated. xiii + 585 pages, 8vo, cloth, d.w. (spine sunned). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1977). A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
Philadelphia: H. N. Burroughs, 1846. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Philadelphia: H.N. Burroughs, 1846. Image measures 12" x 15" This detailed first edition map of Asia extends from the Arabian Peninsula and Turkey to the Polynesian Islands. An inset in the lower left depicts Australia. The map is labeled with towns, rivers, and islands, and colored to depict European colonial claims and independent territories. In very good condition, with one prominent stain over the title. Toning and minor wear..... More
London: Hawkins, 1979. Illustrated in black and white. 640 pages. Tall & thick 4to, blue boards with gilt lettering at cover and spine. London: Hawkins, (1979). Lightly bumped at corners and tail. A very good(+) copy. More
London: Moll, Herman. Map. Uncolored copper plate engraving. Image measures 6 1/2" x 7 1/4". Sheet measures 12 3/4" x 7 7/8" This small map depicts the northern Asia or what was then known as Tartary and Japan and extends from the largely misshaped Caspian Sea eastward to Japan and from Korea or Corea (here depicted as an island) north as far as the Arctic Sea and Nova Zembla. Several important places from the era, including Tartary, Turchestan, Usbeck, Part..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990. Illustrated with a map of the USSR. 189 pages. 8vo, white cloth-backed gray boards with gilt lettering at spine, pictorial d.w. (lightly sunned). New York: Henry Holt, (1990). First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. More
New York: Knopf, 1975. xv, 336 pages. 8vo, gilt-stamped light blue cloth (spine sunned, spotted at upper page edge, ashesive residue at front paste-down endpaper). New York: Knopf, 1975. A very good copy. More
New York: Russell & Russell, 1967. With black-and-white illustrations, diagrams, and a map. 505 pages, 8vo, black cloth (gently edge-worn). New York: Russell & Russell, (1967). Third revised edition. Very good. More
New York: Harper, 1842. 452 pages. Thick 8vo, original blind-stamped tan cloth, recased with much of original spine preserved. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842. A very good copy, with library stamp on title page. Travel diary for the years 1834 through 1841 by this prominent New York surgeon. A contemporary review of surgery in this important embryonic period of American surgery. More
Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1552. Map. Uncolored woodcut. Sheet measures 12.5" x 16". This 1552 map of central Asia by Sebastian Munster is also one of the most famous monster maps of the 16th century. Spans northward from India and the Ganges River. Cartographically based on Claudius Ptolemy's "Geographia", the map includes the Ganges, Schythia, the Anthropophagi region and China. The regions of Scythia Intra Imaum and Scythia Extra Imaun are identified. The region of Scythia, as it was known during..... More
Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1552. Map. Original hand colored woodcut. Sheet measures 12.5" x 16". This 1552 map of central Asia by Sebastian Munster is also one of the most famous monster maps of the 16th century. Spans northward from India and the Ganges River. Cartographically based on Claudius Ptolemy's "Geographia", the map includes the Ganges, Schythia, the Anthropophagi region and China. The regions of Scythia Intra Imaum and Scythia Extra Imaun are identified. The region of Scythia, as it was..... More
Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1990. Text in English and German. Illustrated mostly in color. 248 pages, 4to, yellow pictorial wrappers. Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1990. A near fine copy. More
New York: Pantheon, 1979. Illustrated. Photographs by Gun Kessle. 292 pages, 8vo, cloth d.w. New York: Pantheon Books, (1979). A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. More
Translated by Paul Britten Austin. b/w photo illus., 246pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Pantheon Books, (1971). More
New York: Random House, 1998. xiii, 408 pages. 8vo, black cloth-backed boards, d.w. (lightly edgeworn). New York: Random House, (1998). First U.S. Edition. Near fine in a very good(+) dust wrapper. More
Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society, 1988. Map. Full-color lithograph. Sheet measures 22 1/2" x 36" Incredibly detailed topographical map of Mount Everest issued in 1988 by the National Geographic Society in a joint research effort with the Boston Museum of Science with the support of His Majesty's Government of Nepal, and the National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping the People's Republic of China. Extensively labeled, the map shows stone walls, shelters, and houses, trails, ruins, lakes, rivers, crevasses, moraines, rocks..... More
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, 2004. Beautifully and extensively illustrated. Photography by Kryzstof Pfeiffer. 160 pages, thin 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, (2004). Reprint. A fine copy. More
London: 1704. Copper plate engraving with modern hand coloring. Image measures 11.5" x 13.75". Johan Nieuhoff was a Dutch traveler with the Dutch East Indies and Dutch West Indies Companies, best known for his extensive trips through in Brazil, India and China. This piece is from the English posthumous edition of "Voyages and Travels into Brasil and the East Indies...". The National Library of Australia attributes this edition to A&J Churchill, publishers in London. View shows a busy day at..... More
London: 1704. Copper plate engraving. Image measures 10.5" x 7". Johan Nieuhoff was a Dutch traveler with the Dutch East Indies and Dutch West Indies Companies, best known for his extensive trips through in Brazil, India and China. This piece is from the English posthumous edition of "Voyages and Travels into Brasil and the East Indies...". The National Library of Australia attributes this edition to A&J Churchill, publishers in London. View shows a couple from Malabar, a region in South..... More
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