London: Thomas McLean, 1824. Alken, Henry. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 26 x 18 cm. No text, 20 engraved color plates printed recto only, depciting heads of people and animals, hunting scenes, dog and cock fights. One of the scarcer scrapbooks by Alken. Minor rubbing to boards, some marginal toning and..... More
London: Thomas McLean, [1824]. Alken, Henry. First edition. Hardcover. No text. 27 x 19 cm. 50 hand-colored plates, many with multiple images, of the fifty plates, twenty are full paged sporting scenes, well drawn and nicely coloured, and printed on heavy paper. All plates printed recto only. Bright, clean copy..... More
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1843. Alken, Henry. Second edition. Hardcover. 358 pages. 21 x 14.2 cm. First edition with colored plates -- 15 hand-colored aquatint plates, including the engraved title vignette. Each plate marked, drawn and etched by H. Alken (except the title which does not bear his name).TOOLEY 471. "First..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. [XX] 389, 318. pages. 9.2 X 5.5 cm. Errata in second volume rear. The preface indicates the writer is male, also, in the preface notes seeking advise from two friends, then throwing their suggestions in the round bin with..... More
New York: Aperture, 1984. Arbus, Diane. First edition. Hardcover. 175 pages. 29 x 24 cm. 151 black and white photographs. A collective portrait of sixties' style and culture. Bibliography, More
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1966. First edition. Paperback. More
New York: Doubleday Page, 1906. First edition. leather_bound. 467 pages. 29 x 19 cm. More than fifty black and white illustrations with lettered tissue guards. Limited edition, copy 34 of 100 printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper by the De Vinne Press. Clean, bright copy, covers slightly splayed. More
New York: Overlook Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 256 pages. 4to, 125 black and white photographs and drawings, and fifty-eight color photographs. Index. An architectural and social tour. Bookplate. More
Paris: Edouard Rouveyre, 1880. Malval. First edition. leather_bound. 178 pages. 8vo, 22 x 13 cm. Etchings in sepia and black and white by Malval. Limited edition, copy 70 of 100 on Whatman paper. Lovely binding by R.W. Smith, raised bands, gilt spine panel florets and lettering. More
New York: Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris, 1952. First American edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Folio, 37 x 27.5. 126 full-page photographs with cover designed and executed by Henri Matisse. This the American edition from the French edition by Verve, "Images a La Sauvette." Engraving and printing..... More
London: T. Payne and T. Cadell, 1796. First edition. Hardcover. xlviii 390 (4), 432 (4), 468 (4), 432 (4), 556 pages. 7 x 4 inches. List of subscribers, and six page manuscript review of the title: "Characters of the Principal Persons," in the first volume, the latter trimmed at fore-edge..... More
London: Seeley, 1893. Hardcover. 314 pp. Index. Explores the history of the beautiful countess who inspired Waller to write his greatest poems. More
Washington, DC: Cosmos Club, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 176 pages. More
London: George Newbold, (1851). Later printing. Hardcover. 242 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Ten engraved plates, several folding, and woodcut title page. Originally issued in parts by David Bogue. COHN 548. Plates and text clean, backstrip head nicked with small loss, wear at front joint, bookplates. More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1875. Cruikshank, George. Hardcover. 388 & 428 pages. 8vo, copiously illustrated, hundreds of illustrations by Cruikshank with many fold-out plates. Vol.I: Years 1835-43. Vol.II:Years 1844-53. Writers including Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert A'Beckett, The Brothers Mayhew, etc., contributed. The years 1835-1853 embrace the best period of Cruikshank's..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 384 pages. 28 x 21 cm. More than 500 illustrations. Index. More
Washington, DC: New York Ave. Presbyterian Church, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 369 pages. More
London: Jones & Co, 1821-1822. First edition. leather_bound. 656 & 668 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. 8vo, nineteen hand-colored plates Vol.I, and thirteen colored plates, Vol.II., with one (Tom and Bob catching a Charley Napping) of the two extra plates. These are colored aquatints and etchings reinforced by aquatinting. Illustrated..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1894. First edition. Boards. Approx. 12 pages. 30 1/2 x 25 1/2 cm. Six full-page color lithographs printed recto only by a prominent socialite of the time, her depictions of the smart set, the antithesis of Charles Dana Gibson's incisive, subtle parodies, but in the..... More
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1948. First edition. Paperback. More
Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrations. Glossary. Genealogyof the Li Family of Ho-fei. Bibliography. Index. An unofficial institution which personalized the bureaucratic central administration and eventually helped China to modernize, especially in the late 19th century. More
New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1979. Second edition. Hardcover. 218 pages. More than 400 illustrations. Map of houses described in text. General Index. Subject Index. The social context of the Victorian house is as interesting if not more so than the often eccentric styles of the buildings themselves. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER J210..... More
London: G. Tregear, 1831. Stiff Wraps. 26.5 x 33 cm. Color etching, with two men standing at entry one noting, "It seems we shan't have much to carry." The seated fellow refuses to pay the Crown taxes, stating "Tell his aforesaid Majesty I shant pay a farthing Old cockalorum, [a little..... More
London: Ackermann and Company, 1839. First edition. leather_bound. 42 pages in text. Folio, 37 x 27.5 cm. Twelve full-page chromolithographs, plus half-title chromolithograph (Coronation of Queen Elizabeth printed by C. Hullmandel) -- all printed recto only. Plates are clean save for the first three with light marginal toning only, plate..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 468 pages. 31 x 24 cm. Thirty-one color plates with lettered tissue guards and approximately 500 black and white illustrations. Extensive Bibliography. Index. Compiled and Illustrated from the old cards and books in the collection of the United States Playing Card Co. in..... More