Journey Into China
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 518 pages. 412 color photographs. List of Authors. Bibliography and Index. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 518 pages. 412 color photographs. List of Authors. Bibliography and Index. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 386 pages. 29 x 23.5 cm. More than 460 illustrations in color and black and white. Glossary and Index. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 299 pages. 32 x 25.5 cm. Forty color pates, 350 in monochrome, plus documentary drawings and engravings to show how they appeared in previous centuries. Formal gardens in Europe and America are presented. More
New York: Rizzoli, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 327 pages. 32 x 24.5 cm. The German Cologne Museum houses masterworks by Matisse, de Vlaminck, Kandinsky, and Kokoschka and Russian avant garde artists, Dada and Surrealists. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. List of Illustrations. Index. Small stains lower front..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 160 pages. 29 x 24 cm. Profusely illustrated mostly in color. Presents botanical, contemporary and various garden styles, plus gardens open to the public. Index. Bibliography. More
London: Pavilion, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 192 pages. 26 x 26.5 cm. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Bibliography. Plant Index. The author is also a well known food writer. More
Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 167 pages. 33 x 26.5 cm. Mostly color plates printed recto only on high gloss stock. Laid in the invitation to his exhibition at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York, March 29 through April 23, 1983. More
Newark: Np, (1891). Braun, Max. Hardcover. 2 preliminary leaves, 110 pages illustrations (including music). 30.5 x 23 cm. Hand written text interspersed with drawings by Braun create a comic visual artifice. OCLC: 5109191. Interior contents very clean, fresh and bright. Text in German. More
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, 1980. Hardcover. 483 pages. 26.5 x 19 cm. Illustrated in black and white with text figures and 18 Charts. Bibliography and Index. Two small spots to front cover/. More
Edinburgh & London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown, 1814-1817. First edition. leather_bound. CXXVII, 209, CI (Appendix) & General Index Of Names And Subjects (6 leaves). 28.5 X21.5 cm. Frontispiece, two additional engraved titles, 92 engraved plates, all with tissue guards. Owner inscription free endpaper, Vol. II, and Morrell armorial..... More
London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, ca 1884. Greenaway. Hardcover. 19 x 25.5 cm. Color printed on card stock with adhesions to the verso. The entire year for 1884 with rather tiny type detailing a notable activity for each day. Right margin browned and nicked at corners. Assume..... More
Springfield: Will Bradley, May 1896 - January 1897. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Six of eight issues, and a duplicate of Vol.1#2 (June 1896. With issues as follows: Vol.1#1 [May 1896], Vol.1#2 [June 1896], Vol.1#3 [July 1896], Vol.1#4 [August 1896], Vol.2#2 [December 1896], Vol.2#3 [January 1897] . In the latter issue..... More
London: E. Harding, 1802. Hardcover. 112 pages. Folio, 33 x 25.5 cm. Printed at the Oriental Press. The first edition was printed in 1790 and considered a notable work on the subject. Clean, bright and very fresh copy with wide text margins. Marbled endpapers, raised bands, spine labels richly gilt..... More
London: Corporation of London, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 169 pages. 31.5 x 26 cm. Title page printed in red and black. Twenty six illustrations of medals with multiple images per page, all with tissue guards, printed on glossy stock. At rear an order sheet for Metals Struck by the Corporation..... More
London: Spink & Son, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. 483 (3). 26 x 20 cm. Seven color lithograph plates of Ribbons, and 17 full page black and white plates of Medals. Extensive selection of black and white illustrations in the text. Title page printed in red and black. Three pages of..... More
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. 286 (2) pages. 29 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 71 of 350. 36 fine auto gravure plates each with a facing leaf of descriptive text. King George V and Queen Mary The historical record of the coronation of their Majesties. London, 1911..... More
London: Archibald Constable And Co, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 617 pages. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. Color frontispiece and 35 color and chromolithograph plates, all printed in gold and silver, plus an additional eighteen other plates of medals, one plate of memorial brass. Appendix and Index. Decorated endpapers, raised bands, spine..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1878. Seventh Edition, Revised and Enlarged. leather_bound. 140 (18) pages. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. With Notes and Additions By Edwin W. Streeter, F.R.G.S. Illustrated with colored plates, map and tables. Map and plates are color lithographs. Appendix and extensive Index. Interior almost as new. Raised bands..... More
New York: Privately Printed [at the De Vinne Press], 1914. First edition. Hardcover. [6], v-xiv, [2], 174 pages. 34 x 27 cm. Fifty four tipped-in plates, frontispiece portrait of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant. Over 200 small black and whitee text figures. Limited edition, one of 300 copies, our copy not numbered with..... More
London: Robert Jennings, 1824. First edition. leather_bound. [2], 20, [2], lxxviii, [2], 206.; vi, 297, vi, 147, [1], [134] pages. 39 x 27.5 cm. 80 engraved plates, 70 are hand-colored embellished with gold or silver. and with historiated hand-colored initials heightened with gold for each chapter throughout. Extra engraved title pages..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Sendak, Maurice. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 29.5 x 22 cm. Signed by Sendak on the title page in black ink. Lettering by Diana Blair. With price $4.95 and 10/70 on front flap and 7 titles on the back flap. HANRAHAN A75. Interior illustrations as new, tan..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. 60 pages. 27 x 22.5 cm. Second printing. Fresh, clean and bright images and text. Black endpapers, rubbing to corners. More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. 44 pages. 21.5 x 26.5 cm. Color printing by Edmund Evans in his three color process. Twenty full page color plates printed recto only. Each letter of the alphabet with explication and illustration. Navy endpapers, backstrip head worn, front cover corner..... More
Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1750-1753. leather_bound. 304, 303 pages. 26 x 21 cm. Errata. Latin and English text with latter in smaller type at the foot of each page. Translated by William Dobson. Dobson was an academic from New College, University of Oxford, and his translation written on commission. One..... More
New York: Cuban Land And Steamship Company, 1902. First edition. Wraps. 32 unnumbered pages. 23.5 x 15 cm. Illustrated with photo engravings. An attempt after the Spanish-American war to sell "liberated" Cuban real estate to the US public. The publisher calls Cuba "The Garden Spot Of Our New Territory," with..... More