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1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 40 cm x 40 cm colour plates (24 of them) on heavy board paper, strong art nouveau/Wiener Werkstaat and other Nordic folk ornamental influences, many plates having several examples of vivid designs per page, some plates lightly chipped and title page and #14 slightly chipped and darkened else VG bound in portfolio w/string missing, portfolio has bumped edges and rudimentary taping, no text. Illustrations usable as designs for carpets, ceramics, clothing, household effects and furniture ornamentation. The lithograph plates were struck by C. G. Roeder of Leipzig, renowned firm for this sort of artistic production. Date is a guess based on these vernacular aesthetic designs. Very rare.
Flora: Overo Cultura Di Fiori by Ferrari Battista, Giovanni - 1638
by Ferrari Battista, Giovanni
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Flora: Overo Cultura Di Fiori
by Ferrari Battista, Giovanni
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Roma: Pier Ant Facciotti, 1638. Small thick quarto, pp (12), 520, [26], illustrated with an engraved title page, an engraved frontispiece (though here bound in after the preliminary pages) and 45 plates (of 46 - lacking the plate which occupied pages 55/56), some age-toning and slight foxing throughout, the plates a bit more browned but without the intense browning often found in this book, overall quite tight internally, one preliminary page and pages 395-398 protruding slightly and a little chipped and frayed at the margins, full vellum binding (probably original), rather used and marked but quite sound and firm, the upper and lower cover a bit warped and bowed, the front hinge cracked but firm and showing traces of old glue. The first Italian edition. [Ferrari 1584 - 1655), was an Italian Jesuit and professor in Rome, and a botanist. He devoted himself till 1632 to the study and cultivation of ornamental plants, and published De Florum Cultura, which was illustrated with copperplates by, amongst others, Anna Maria Vaiani, possibly the first female copper-engraver. The first book deals with the design and maintenance of the garden and garden equipment. The second book provides descriptions of the different flowers, while the third book deals with the culture of these flowers. The fourth book, continues with a treatise on the use and beauty of the flower species, including their different varieties and mutations. The plants featured in Ferrari's research came from Cardinal Francesco Barberini's private botanical garden, the Horti Barberini, a garden which was under the care of Ferrari. Several Cape bulbs are illustrated for the first time - most notably Haemanthus coccinea, but also Amaryllis bella-donna, Brunsvigia orientalis and Ferraria crispa. Hunt Library Catalogue rather downbeat in its comment - "The fame rests more on the quality of the engraved plates than on their contribution to botanical knowledge". Perhaps so, but horticulturally I feel this is a fundamental work for its period. Nissen BBI 620; Pritzel 2877]. Vellum. Good.
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Nordischer und Volkstumlicher Zierat
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Iliad
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Homeri Opera graece et latine. Graeca ad principem H. Stephani, ut & ad primam omnium Demetrii Chalcocondylae editionem... Curante Jo. Henr. Lederlino, Stephano Berglero. 619 pp + Index in Iliadem + one engraving and one engraved map (Ab. Ortelii) h.t.. 14,7x8 cm. Ex Officina Wetsteniana, Amstelaedami, 1707. --- The Iliad of Homer (complete). Leather binding (pigskin), very tight. Name written on frontispiece. No foxing. Text in ancient greek and latin. Introduction and Index in latin.
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Rule of Thumb.
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Gainesville, Florida:: Crooked Letter Press,, 2021.. Edition of 40. Dimensions closed: 11 x 6.5 x 1.5. Materials: colorplan 300 gsm paper, letterpress ink, tyvek, book cloth, metal brads and grommets. printed on and constructed from Colorplan paper, and letterpress printed from linoleum reduction blocks and photopolymer plates. Crooked Letter Press: "'Rule of Thumb' is a moveable book about the historical human obsession with ourselves and with approval from others. In the last 10 years, we have become obsessed with living online instead of actual living. We seem to only care about how many thumbs up, likes, or hearts we can accumulate on social media platforms. We practice a psychological social separation. We live virtual lives. Now, with the proliferation of the COVID-19 virus, we are living with the physical reality of social-distancing. How will we make it back? Can we make it back? 'Rule of Thumb' considers the ways in which humans have used our thumbs…
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Consider the Oyster: with linoleum cuts by Martin Mazorra
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Prototype Press,, 2021.. Edition of 52. Consider the Oyster was printed on custom paper from the Saint-Armand paper mill. The book cover and clam-shell book box are covered in two additional papers from the mill. Quarterbound in white, foilstamped goat leather. A custom oyster shucking knife accompanies each book to assist with opening the book box. The typeface used for the text is 12pt Monotype Goudy Light. The blue headline typeface is handset Windsor Elongated in a variety of sizes. It is printed in an edition of 52 copies. Cast, printed and bound by the press. Mark Sarigianis: "I first discovered M. F. K. Fishers Consider the Oyster in 2018 while browsing the cookbook section of the Mills College library. It was a first edition, and given the reverence held for Fisher, especially in the bay area, it should have been in the special collections department. Even though it was written in 1941, I was immediately struck by the passionate foodie sensibilities with which she…
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Ancient Topography of London [bound with] Vagabondiana: Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers
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First editions of Ancient Topography of London Containing Not Only Views of Buildings, Which in Many instances No Longer Exist, and For the Most Part Were Never Before Published, but Some Account of the Places and Customs Either Unknown, or Overlooked by the London Historians and Vagabondiana, or Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers throught the Streets of London bound together in one volume. Ancient Topography of London, published at 4 Chandos Street, Covent Garden, London, 1815. Complete with 33 fine etchings by Smith from his own drawings, of buildings and interiors around London, plus frontispiece with hand-coloured heraldic devices of London guilds.Begun October 24 1810 (date of hand-coloured frontispiece) and completed in 1815 (date of title page). It was originally intended as "an additional accompaniment to Thomas Pennant's Some Account of London." Now valued for its detailed architectural drawings of Norman, medieval and Tudor buildings, many of which were already ruins or to be demolished in…
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The California Text-Book Containing A Grammar of the Spanish Language in English; of the English in Spanish; Conversational Dialogues in Both Languages, and a Full Description of California: Compiled chiefly from the grammar of Don Jose de Urcullu and the United States Surveys
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12 mo. (6 x 4 inches) San Francisco: Marvin & Hitchcock, 1852. First Edition. 2 [v]-viii, 258 pages, original quarter blind tooled red roan, good condition, cloth boards, with wear to lower spine (lower left hinge on front cover split, but holding), gilt title at head of spine, publishers name in gilt at foot of spine, original cloth boards showing evidence of old moisture splash or spill, minor foxing on preliminary and last leaves; contents clean, intact and unaffected. Old library label beneath old inked inscription "Placed in Library because of California history contained in the (the last word is un-readable)" on front pastedown.A fine unsophisticated example. The Norris catalogue refers to it as "The first text-book published in San Francisco."
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [SIGNED, Limited Edition of 525]
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NY: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1910. Signed first edition, limited to 525 numbered copies in England and America, #137, signed by Pogany on limitation page. Full brown morocco with gilt cover design, gilt spine titles, top edge gilting, pictorial end papers, sewn in silk bookmark. Published NY: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1910. Folio, 9 1/2" x 13", printed on Japan vellum, unpaginated, Illustrated by Pogany with 20 tipped-in color plates, calligraphic text, decorative borders plus illustrations in color and line throughout the text. A stunning work. Some scuffing, wear along the edges of boards, small, previous owner bookplate on front pastedown, internally near fine, pages clean, no foxing or markings, page block crisp, all plates present, binding tight. Rare.. Signed by Illustrator. 1st. Hard. Very Good. Illus. by Pogany, Will. Folio. Numbered, Limited Edition.
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Istoriia Russkogo Iskusstva [The History of Russian Art]
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Moscow, Knebel', 1909-1915. . First edition, 4 vols; 4to (29.5 x 22.5 cm); illustrated with 17 plates, 4 of which are coloured and tippped in, photographic illustrations throughout; original publisher's calf backed cloth, covers blocked in gilt, spines gilt, lightly rubbed to extremities, volume 6 is in bad condition but overall a fine set.4 volumes out of 5
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nesting.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:: Alice Austin,, 2022.. Edition of 15: Deluxe 1 -10; stnd 11-15. 8.25" x 7.75" x .75". Linoleum prints and handset type printed on Rives BFK heavyweight paper. Deluxe copy bound in goat parchment made by Pergamena. Signed and numbered by the artist. nesting" consists of five folios of different birds and nests, ending with a poem remarking on habitat loss and the wondrous joy of birdwatching.
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HISTORY OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: With Illustrations Descriptive of Its Scenery, Residences, Fine Blocks and Manufactories, From Original Sketches by Artists of the Highest Ability
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Quarto in oblong format (11 by 14 1/2 inches) Oakland, California: Thompson & West [Printed by Pacific Press Printing and Publishing House], 1880. First, Original Edition. [3] iv-vi [2], [1] 12-192 pages; eighty-seven full page lithographic views, including a double page bird's-eye-view of the Wolfskill Ranch; full page colored map showing the Western States of Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California dated 1878.Good condition: stamped-embossed original cloth over boards, with title in gilt centered on the front cover; professionally re-backed, with new corners, new endpapers to match the period; title in gilt on spine. Loss to lower right margin of one view, not affecting that image, archival repair to tear in margin of another plate, not affecting that image; another view, and pages 19-22, 37-38, 129-130 provided in facsimile, and are compatible to the contents - the book is in otherwise original condition, with binding and contents intact.
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Flora: Seu De Florum Cultura Book 4 (1664) (Latin Edition)
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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ICEBERGS AND GLACIERS
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New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Winter - Notes from Montana
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Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) G&D Hardcover w/DJ 1945
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Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. Unabridged. Please see our stock photo. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY.
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale
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Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, [1979]. Softcover book with pictorial wraps. 160p. B&W photos throughout text. This is the original printing, later reprinted by the University of Minnesota Press. Book has been well read and is in very good - condition with wear to the cover image along the edge and reading crease to front cover, corners bumped and shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked with light staining on the edge of a few pages. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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