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Firenze: FILIPPO GIUNTI. [ARTE - PRIMA EDIZIONE] (cm.22,4) buona legatura recente con piatti e dorso in tutta pergamena antica ben restaurata e conservata, con filetti e fiori angolari in oro. Piccolo fregio centrale al piatto posteriore, piccoli fregi sempre in oro, al dorso. -- cc. 4 nn., pp. 186, cc, 9 nn. Ritratto del Vasari, capilettera figurati, marca tipografica al frontis e in fine. L' opera è una delle più importanti della storiografia artistica italiana e veramente rara. Edizione originale pubblicata postuma dal nipote dell' autore. CICOGNARA: "è questa la vera prima edizione di tale opera". SCHLOSSER-MAGNINO:"questi dialoghi 7 di numero (come le singole sale) e che hanno luogo tra il principe (Francesco dei Medici) e lo stesso autore, sono oltremodo significativi per il tempo del Vasari e contengono una quantità di ammaestramenti sulla iconografia del periodo manieristico. In quest' opera cortigiana di nuovo stampo, in questa… Read More

Unbound. Fine. A magnificent archive consisting of 21 Typed Letters Initialed (as either "H." or "H.C.") from the elusive and fiercely private B. Traven, nearly all of the letters to the actress Ruth Ford, for whom he professes great love in many of the letters. Accompanied by three books, including a first American edition of *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre*, and assorted clippings. All of the letters Initialed by Traven as "H.C" or "H." as Hal Croves. Croves, one of several aliases used by Traven, was invented by the author in order to present himself as Traven's literary agent, and used mostly in his interaction with legendary film director John Huston throughout the development and filming of Traven's novel *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre*. The letters start in early 1947 and end in 1961, but the majority of them were written during 1947 and correspond with the production of the classic film. Many include references to day-to-day events of the film's production. These are dense letters,… Read More

Near Fine. A remarkable collection of 235 H.P. Lovecraft items with over 200 rare amateur press appearances dating as early as 1914 and nearly 20 miscellaneous appearance by Lovecraft or directly relating to his writing. While a couple items are bound in boards, the rest are bound in stapled or sewn wrappers, nearly all with the tiny book label of Black Sparrow Press founder John K. Martin on the rear pastedown or wrap. Overall near fine with exceptions noted in the detailed list.

Jorge Welsh Books, 2011 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; 3 hardcover volumes in slipcase; 1204 pages; 927 colour illustrations, 20 black and white illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm; 12 kg; The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's Vision is the most important new reference book on Chinese export porcelain to be published for many years. It provides the first comprehensive study of what is probably the world's best private collection of pieces for the European market and contains new research into the subject of Chinese export porcelain. The author Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos has been researching the RA Collection for 11 years and the result is a work of true scholarship providing the most up to date and complete account of the subject available. The three-volume set of hardcover books includes chapters on earthenware, stoneware and porcelain of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, works with Western shapes and decoration and armorial Chinese export porcelain.… Read More

Kodansha International Ltd, Tokyo, 1980 Book. Good. Hardcover. English text; Hardcover (cloth without dust jacket - as issued. In splicase.); Used books. The 11 volume set is in good condition with minor scuffs and signs of wear in the slipcases and hardcover cloths. The spines are slightly faded as usual (volume 11 - Metropolitan Museum is slightly more faded then the other volumes). Volume 5 (British Museum) and volume 9 (Freer Gallery of Art) show minor wear marks on the top of the slipcase. Far Eastern Ceramics is in very good condition showing minor signs of shelf wear, namely some marks on the front and back cover. The ribbon bookmark is slightly scuffed on the bottom. The interior of all volumes is as new.; A milestone in international ceramic documentation, this series is a brilliant presentation of the oriental ceramics collections of the world's major museums. Originally published by Kodansha in 1975 as a limited deluxe 12 volume set, this critically acclaimed and now scarce masterpiece… Read More

Engraved portrait front. of Cornelis Ploos van Amstel signed R Winkeles sculp. 1799 - J. Buys pinx. 1766. XXIV, (2), 319 pages; 227 (1), 82 pages. Priced throughout in a contemporary hand, including two manuscript total values at the end of each volume. Cont. Dutch red half vellum bindings, with gilt black morocco labels. First volume with printed original front wrapper with title mounted onto front cover. Lower spine end of volume I minimally frayed. (222 x 138 mm). Covers rubbed. Nagler, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, XIII, p. 28 and Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, II, p. 333. Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek VI, pp. 1139-1140. First and only edition of this sale catalogue of a remarkable collection of prints, drawings and paintings, illustrated books, Kunstkammer pieces, and optical and mathematical instruments and including a major collection of Rembrandt prints brought together by Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726 - 1798), a painter, engraver, printer and publisher… Read More

Rare books, documents, correspondence, and ephemera, 1964. Chambers, Whittaker: Witness: New York: Random House, 1952. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original black boards and red top-stain and original dust jacket (not price-clipped). Faint toning to endpapers and spotting and dusting to page block; minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, else near-fine. A bright and exceptional first printing of this notoriously brittle classic. Chambers, Whittaker: Cold Friday: New York: Random House, 1964. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original blue cloth with gold titling to spine and green top-stain and original dust jacket (not price-clipped). Small abrasion to front free endpaper and minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket with small closed tear to top hinge, else near-fine, which is uncommon for this increasingly hard to find book. Chambers, Whittaker: Can You Hear Their Voices? A Short Story: New York: International Pamphlets, 1932. First edition. Stapled pamphlet. 5 x 7 inches, 31… Read More

3 opere in tre volumi in-12°: (mm 123x70); cc.70, (2); marche tipografiche al frontespizio (Z537) e in fine (Z543); capilettera e fregi silografici; (mm 126x70); cc. 72; marche tipografiche al frontespizio (A117) e a c. F12v (Z543); capilettera e fregi silografici; (mm 126x72); cc. 112, (8); marche tipografiche al frontespizio (di Scoto, V464) e presso il colophon (di Marcolini, U 546). Eleganti legature tardo-ottocentesche in marocchino verde con impressioni in oro ai piatti, sguardie marmorizzate e taglî dorati. Belle copie (la terza con margini sobri).
A very nice set of of the first complete edition of the first bibliography of Italian literature. The first two volumes contain the first and the second edition of the first part of the "Libraria" (the first is distinguished from the second, published in the same year, for the notice to readers - longer and placed on page 44rather than 43v - and for the suppression of the name of Lodovico Domenichi, "against whom [...] the enmity of Doni had broken… Read More

Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; VOLUMES I, II and III, 3 hardcover volumes in slipcase; 1204 pages; 927 colour illustrations, 20 black and white illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm cm; 12 kg; ISBN: 9780955743238; Published by Jorge Welsh Books, 2011.; Limited edition of 900 numbered copies - 500 in English and 400 in Portuguese.; VOLUME IV: Hardcover in slipcase; 504 pages with 404 colour illustrations.; 26 x 35.5 cm; 4.7 kg; ISBN: 9780993506857, Jorge Welsh Research & Publishing, 2019.; Limited edition of 500 numbered copies.; VOLUME V: Hardcover in slipcase; 256 pages with 309 colour illustrations.; 26 x 35.5 cm; 2,9 kg; ISBN: 9781838216313; Limited edition of 400 numbered copies from I to XX and from 21 to 400.; VOLUME VI: Hardcover in slipcase; 392 pages; 312 colour illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm; 4.1 kg; Limited Edition of 400 numbered copies from I to XX and from 21 to 400.; The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's Vision is the… Read More

Kodansha Ltd., Japan , 1987 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Japanese text. Hardcover leather deluxe edition (2 Volumes in slipcase - inside a carton box); 26.5 x 37 cm without slipcase. Slipcase 28.5 x 39.5 x 10 cm; 9 Kg.; Volume I - ISBN 4062008130, 278 pages.; Volume 2 -ISBN 4062008149, 248 pages.: Colour and black and white illustrations throughout..; As new, with minor handling signs. The carton boxes show some handling signs.; LIMITED EDITION OF 1500 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 688. SCARCE AND VERY HARD TO FIND.; Japanese edition of Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul: A Complete Catalogue, which was published in 3 VOLUMES in English by Philip Wilson Publishers, London for Sotheby's Publications in 1986. The Japanese edition was supervised by Rakuji Hasebe and condensed in 2 volumes. The Japanese edition includes a few colour illustrations that were not included in the English edition. The texts included in the Japanese edition were carefully selected and adapted… Read More

Collections Baur-Genève, Switzerland Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and French text; 4 VOLUMES Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket) without the slipcases; 24 x 29 cm; 7.9 Kg; Each volume includes an introduction followed by an extensive catalogue with black and white and colour illustrations, each with caption.; Used books with signs of wear on the dust jackets and interior. Good condition overall. The dust jackets of volume I and III have tears (vol I on rear of the front cover and vol III on the top of the front cover and on the top of the back cover). All dust jackets are now protected with a clearcover. OUT OF PRINT. LIMITED EDITION OF 1100 COPIES, 50 DELUXE COPIES IN LEATHER NUMBERED FROM I to L; 1000 STANDARD COPIES IN CLOTH NUMBERED FROM 1 to 1000 AND 50 COPIES RESERVED TO EMPLOYEES, OF WHICH THESE ARE: VOLUME I: 889, VOLUME II: 934, VOLUME III: 160 AND VOLUME IV: 819; VOLUME I: Korean and Thai Wares; 1968; 1.9 Kg; 232 pages.; VOLUME II: Ming Porcelain and Other Wares; 1.8 Kg;… Read More

Faulkner was a noble prize winner for his book " Soldier's Pay, Sanctury". etc
The three volumes are in a box cover you can call it dust jacket has signs of age. However, the three books are in almost new condition. The hardcover has a glowiwng aura.
It is a collectors treasure. To be passed on to several generations.

Exceptionally rare early thaumatrope collection. The set is complete with 24 discs housed in the publisher's box. Each disc has hand-colored engravings and tied silk strings. Distributed on the cusps of the Georgian and Victorian eras by Alphonse Giroux, Paris, 7 rue du Coq Saint-Honoré. In remarkable antique condition with astonishingly vivid colors and all strings attached.
Subject Matter
The collection includes an interpretation of Henry Fuseli's painting "The Nightmare" (1782) with a woman in a vivid green gown, sleeping on a chaise, a demon perched upon her breast. Also, Harlequin (or Arlequin), the theatrical devil, is depicted dancing. (A reference to Armand d'Artois' "folie-vaudeville" Le Sultan du Havre, and reminiscent of Charles Malo's Almanach des Spectacles.) There is also a classic depiction of Napoleon and of Aesop's vanity tale Fox and Crow. Represented fashions span eras and nationalities (see, for example, the courting couple in possibly Regency Era costume; masquerade lady; sword… Read More

Philip Wilson Publishers, London for Sotheby's Publications, 1986 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket in slipcase).; 28 x 39 cm; 17 Kg.; 1381 pages with 5,000 black-and-white and colour illustrations, including 200 large-size colour plates.; 3 volumes comprising: Volume 1-Yuan and Ming Dynasty, Celadon Wares; Volume 2-Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains; Volume 3-Qing Dynasty Porcelains.; Used books with signs of wear on the slipcases, dust jackets and on the interior.; OUT OF PRINT SCARCE REFERENCE CATALOGUE. LIMITED EDITION OF 1500 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 819.; The Topkapi Saray Museum collection of Chinese Ceramics is one of the largest and most important in the whole world, yet comparatively little of it has ever been published. The wares assembled here present a continuous review of porcelains made for export from the 13th century to the 19th century which, in its range of styles and designs, is without equal in any other surviving… Read More

Azymuth Editions, 1994 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text. Title and captions in English and Chinese; Hardcover (cloth in slipcase); Limited edition of 1000 copies, 2 volumes (343 pages volume 1 plus 319 pages volume 2), 957 color illustrations, cloth.; 27 x 37 cm; 6.5 Kg; Signs of wear on the slipcase, namely wear marks. The first Chinese character on the slipcase is slightly faded. Minor signs of wear on the exterior of the two volumes hardcover cloth. The interior of both volumes is in good condition. However on volume 2: the top of the first pages have minor untrimmed edges, and one page a tiny tear and also two of the pages have signs of have been glued to each other.; CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. VERY HARD TO FIND.; "The first volume of this catalogue contains mainly earthenwares and stonewares from the Neolithic period to the Song dynasty (AD 960-1279), the second porcelains from the Yuan (AD1279-1368) to the Qing dynasty. Although the two volumes belong together, they are… Read More