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D’Amboinsche Rariteitkamer, Behelzende eene Beschryvinge van allerhande zoo weeke als harde Schaalvisschen, te weeten raare Krabben, Kreeften, en diergelyke Zeedieren, als mede allerhande Hoomtjes en Schulpen, die men in d’Amboinsche Zee vindt: Daar beneven zommige Mineraalen, Gesteenten… by RUMPF, Georg Eberhard

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Title: D’Amboinsche Rariteitkamer, Behelzende eene Beschryvinge van allerhande zoo weeke als harde Schaalvisschen, te weeten raare Krabben, Kreeften, en diergelyke Zeedieren, als mede allerhande Hoomtjes en Schulpen, die men in d’Amboinsche Zee vindt: Daar beneven zommige Mineraalen, Gesteenten…
Author: RUMPF, Georg Eberhard
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 1705. Added fine allegorical title, vignette on printed title, fine port. of Rumpf, five head- & tail-pieces, & 60 fine plates (all engraved; two small & unimportant wormholes in outer margin to the final 50 plates, not touching the images). Title printed in red & black. 18 p.l. (incl. added title & port.), 340, [43] pp. Folio, cont. blind-stamped panelled pigskin over wooden boards, Jesuit stamp in center of upper cover, orig. clasps & catches. Amsterdam: F. Halma, 1705. First edition, and a magnificent copy, of this notable cabinet catalogue, which describes Rumpf’s great collection of marine flora and fauna, minerals, and fossils. This is one of the most important of the early shell books: “A signal early modern publication on shells…The very title of The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet places the book in dialogue with collections of the time, whose curious contents redounded to the social, epistemological, and political credit of their owners.”–Claudia Swan, “The Nature of Exotic Shells,” in Bass et al., Conchophilia. Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe (Princeton University Press: 2021), p. 22–(Rumpf’s book is continually referred to throughout). Rumpf (1627-1702), went to Amboina, a relatively small island in the Banda Sea west of New Guinea, in 1653. There he gathered natural history specimens and experienced a remarkable series of disasters: he went blind, his wife was killed in an earthquake, the original drawings for his Herbarium Amboinense were consumed in a fire, and the manuscript of the first six books of the same work was destroyed during a French military action. “This remarkable man was employed by the Dutch East India Company and spent the greater part of his life on the island of Amboina (Ambon), a small but important trading centre in the East Indies, where he conducted innumerable observations on plants and animals…Day by day Rumphius accumulated manuscript descriptions and drawings of everything he observed. Alas, total blindness robbed him of the chance to publish his work himself…Even a cursory examination of the Amboinsche Rariteitkamer reveals the outstanding talents of its originator; for the ‘Amboinese Curiosity Cabinet’, despite its unpromising title, is full of accurate and detailed observations on the invertebrate animals encountered by him and molluscs are given special attention.…He was a brilliant field naturalist. He was also a man with a remarkable gift for descriptions.”–Dance, Shell Collecting. An Illustrated History, pp. 46-48. The finely engraved added title-page is a masterpiece. We see a shell museum with a group of scholars studying and arranging shells, with cabinets flanking and behind them. The room is viewed through an arch with a shell-cartouche, with “Arcimboldo”-like shell grotesques, flanked by statues of Cybele and Poseidon. Bearers bring baskets and boxes of shells and other specimens to the scholars. An East Indian landscape is in the background. The fine portrait shows the blind Rumpf at his desk, surrounded by books, shells, plants, and other natural history objects. Very fine copy. Most of the engraved plates are after drawings by Maria Sybilla Merian. ❧ Casey Wood, p. 545–“This rare folio is important because of its early descriptions and depiction of faunal (mainly marine) life in the Dutch East lndies (the Moluccas especially) at the end of the seventeenth century.” Schuh, Mineralogy & Crystallography: A Biobibliography, 1469 to 1920, 4210–“Rare.” Wilson, The History of Mineral Collecting 1530-1799, pp. 191 & 222.

Erläuterungen zu dem pneumatisch portativen Erdglobus .... by Cella, Philipp - INFLATABLE GLOBE

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Title: Erläuterungen zu dem pneumatisch portativen Erdglobus ....
Author: Cella, Philipp - INFLATABLE GLOBE
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Condition: Very good with three or four light brown spots (on the internal side) that are insignificant. The inflatable membrane within the
Description: Munich: P Cella, 1831. First edition.. As issued in a contemporary, sturdy, paste-paper box covered in paper with a printed paper label on the top.. Very good with three or four light brown spots (on the internal side) that are insignificant. The inflatable membrane within the globe has decayed over time. Surface in very good condition. There are NO rips, tears etc. Corners of the box with old external reinforcement.. An appx. 5 feet 4" in diameter (!) inflatable terrestrial globe. Printed on thin translucent, high strength milled paper ("Seidenpapier") and lithographically printed in vibrant color outline with some pastel shadings or "washes"; printed identification overall. Accompanied by the original 15 pp. pamphlet by Anton Klein (dated October, 1831) in blue printed wrappers and the original paper bellows air pump issued to inflate the globe. All in the original box.The text on the globe is primarily German but with substantial English covering voyages of discovery that are delineated, geographical features, rivers, harbors etc. The scale is not defined; prime meridian passes through Ferro Island. The original suspension point is also present. Cella had resided in the UK for many years when he encountered George Pocock, a preacher and keeper of a school. Pocock had developed the idea of an inflatable globe and manufactured it. Cella, impressed by the object, was inspired to produce his own grand version. He developed, enlarged - and improved - the globe, manufacturing this extraordinarily large terrestrial, inflatable globe that represented more features than Pocock's rendering. Cella's version is entirely original with superb lithography. Geographical details, notes on the passage to India, and notes on discoveries include, for example, those in the north polar region, close to Greenland, in Africa and for Tasmania. In the oceans, there are a number of islands with text. A number of other explorers are labelled, for example Magellan 1521, Bermuda 1522 and Cano 1526. There are the tracks of the voyages of 11 explorers, including, for example, Cook 1768, 1771, 1772, 1778, Clerk 1779 and Gore 1780. The place of the mutiny of the Bounty in 1788 is indicated. Eight oceans are named. American western and southwestern territories are marked and states are delineated. It also illustrates the beginning of the colonization of Africa through the delineation of European "spheres of influence" (a printed designation) beyond the coast in the otherwise blank interior of the continent. Dekker, Globes at Greenwich; Lanman, Der Globusfreund, June 1987, p. 39-43; Sotheby's, Travel...., Nov. 2010, #213; Allmayer-Beck, Modelle der Welt ...., pp. 129 & 200.

[BINDING - MADRID, FRANCISCO CIFUENTES]. Siglo de oro en las selvas de Erifile. [Bound as issued with]: Grandeza Mejicana [...] dirigida al Ilustrisimo y reverendisimo don Fray Garcia de Mendoza y Zuniga, Arzobispo de Mejico by Balbuena, Bernardo de

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Title: [BINDING - MADRID, FRANCISCO CIFUENTES]. Siglo de oro en las selvas de Erifile. [Bound as issued with]: Grandeza Mejicana [...] dirigida al Ilustrisimo y reverendisimo don Fray Garcia de Mendoza y Zuniga, Arzobispo de Mejico
Author: Balbuena, Bernardo de
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Madrid: Ibarra, Impresor de Camara de S.M., 1821. Very good. 8vo (183 x 125 mm). [1] f., xvi, 240, 99, [1] pp. With an engraved portrait of the author. Title-page with 6 inexplicable pin-sized wormholes, front flyleaf with one (present nowhere else in the volume). Contemporary Madrid binding by Francisco Cifuentes: sheep acid-stained in hues of green and brown, gilt roll border and a center device of Royal arms of Ferdinand VII, spine gilt extra (extremities and joints with some unobjectionable wear). Contents very fresh and clean, the binding suitable for exhibition and study. THE IDEAL COPY, BOUND BY FRANCISCO CIFUENTES, BINDER TO THE SPANISH COURT, BEARING THE ARMS OF FERNANDO VII KING OF SPAIN, AND PRINTED AT THE ROYAL PRESS BY THE HEIRS OF JOAQUIN IBARRA. THE BINDER Francisco Cifuentes is justly considered to be "one of the best binders in Madrid in the early 19th-century" alongside his contemporaries Santiago Martin and Antonio Suarez (Vicente Castaneda, "Etiquetas de Encuadernadores," in: Revista de la Bibliotheca Archivo y Museo, No. 2, 1935, p. 169). The sober elegance of our binding is very similar to the Santiago Martin example reproduced in "Great Bindings from the Spanish Royal Collections" fig. 140, on a copy of the 1795 Bodoni Rossi now in the Royal Library of Spain (RB VIII/2322). The reign of Ferdinand VII (1814-1833) represents the apogee of Spanish bookbinding, and is characterized by its Empire style, the luminous quality of the acid-treated "Valencia" style leather, and -- in some instances -- "cortina" designs. As one of the premier binders to the court, Cifuentes followed Antonio Suarez, Santiago Martin, and Pedro Pastor, and was succeeded by Tomas Cobo, Gabriel de Sancha, and Miguel Ginesta de Haro (see Mathilde Lopez-Serrano, "Le decor 'de cortina' dans la reliure espagnole de style Empire" in: Bulletin du Bibliophile, 1978, no. 1, p. 33). Cifuentes also executed bindings for the Royal Academy of History in San Fernando (see Yohana Yessica Flores Hernandez, "Los Encuadernadores de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando" in: RUIDERAe - Revista de Unidades de Informacion, no. 12, 2nd semestre 2017). Thirty-three bindings by Cifuentes are recorded in the Real Biblioteca (contact us for the census). Our specimen is decorated with the extremely distinctive outer roll that appears on Cifuentes's signed binding on the "Estatutos de la Real Orden de la Reina Maria Luisa" (RB I/F/356). Bindings by Cifuentes are rare in private ownership: we have located only two examples of his work on the market. The first is a Large Paper copy of the 1780 Ibarra Quixote, extra-illustrated with proofs, which appeared in Sawyer's 1944 Catalogue 175 (no. 77, GBP 40). NB: this may be the very set that earned Cifuentes a silver medal at the 1828 Junta de Calificacion de los productos de la Industria (NB: in 1833 it sold for 4000 Reales). The judges of the competition stated that Francisco Cifuentes "could be put at the level of the most illustrious bookbinders in Europe." (SOURCE: Memoria de la Junta de Calificación de los productos de la Industria, no. 138 and pp. 61, 67, 96, 191). The second is a copy of the four-volume 1780 Ibarra Quixote that sold in 2019 at Alcala Auctions Madrid, bound by Cifuentes in 1/2 vellum over boards. THE TEXT is one of the most interesting descriptions of Mexico, first published in Mexico City in 1604, being a pastoral novel in prose and verse. Our volume contains the third printing of the "Siglo de oro" and the second of the "Grandeza mexicana." The text was edited by Real Academia Espanola de la Lengua, and its authority may be relied upon. Shockingly, this edition is NOT listed in the catalogue of the Real Biblioteca (!) The "Grandeza" was Balbuena's first published work, appearing from the press of Pedro Ocharte. It pays homage to Mexico's resources and to its spirituality, society, and politics. The "Grandeza" is justly considered to be a major work of Novohispanic literature. The "Siglo de Oro" was the author's second published work; it first appeared in Madrid in 1608 and is composed of a series of 12 eclogues. THE AUTHOR was born in Spain in 1568 and at two years of age moved with his family to Mexico; there he was educated, and held his earliest administrative positions; in 1607 he returned to Spain for his doctoral studies. He held various ecclesiastical posts, and in 1622 was appointed the bishop of Puerto Rico (see: Archivo biografico de Espana, Portugal e Iberoamerica). In every way a superb Spanish book. Palau 22339. Sabin 2863. Medina, Mexico II, pp. 14-15. Simon Diaz 2286.

SPRINCHORN, CARL. "To Emphasize Space." Original Drawing with Text. Signed by SPRINCHORN, CARL

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Title: SPRINCHORN, CARL. "To Emphasize Space." Original Drawing with Text. Signed
Author: SPRINCHORN, CARL
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: CARL SPRINCHORN, Original Drawing Signed, titiled, "To Emphasize Space," with text incorporated into the artwork. The drawing accomplished in artists crayon measures 11.5 x 8.5 inches and is laid onto a 16 x 20 inch cream mat. Along the left edge and bottom left, the artist has written in pencil, "1. to embrace the mental as well as the visual 2-to emphasize space 3- life size on small canvas - a problem to solve." On the lower left corner, he continues, "on small canvas," and signs with initials in lower right corner, "C. Sp." The drawing is titled on verso in another hand.

Song of the Open Road by WHITMAN, Walt

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Title: Song of the Open Road
Author: WHITMAN, Walt
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: New York: Limited Editions Club, 1990. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Full Description: WHITMAN, Walt. Song of the Open Road. With Photogravures by Aaron Siskind New York: Limited Editions Club, [1990]. Limited to 550 copies, signed by the photographer Aaron Siskind on limitation page. This being number 219. Folio (27 x 14 5/8 inches; 435 x 370 mm). With six photogravure plates by Aaron Siskind. Printed by Heritage Printers on mould-made paper from Carterie Enrico Magnani, Pescia, Italy. With publisher's prospectus. Bound in publisher's quarter black Nigerian goatskin over green cloth with black goatskin fore-edge. Green morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. A fine copy. "The illustrations for 'Song of the Open Road' transform Whitman's symbolic journeyings into the language of modern urbanism... The photographer's interpretation lies in the pictures he took - not far from his home in Providence, R.I. - of tar poured into the cracks of light-colored concrete roads, forming swirls and curves and parallel lines, cheerful or brooding markings on a gritty surface that is rendered almost microscopically and enlarged into a striking textural background for each of the six photographs" (from the prospectus) LEC Bibliography. HBS 69358. $1,000.

Is There Something We Can Do by Zopp, Dudley

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Title: Is There Something We Can Do
Author: Zopp, Dudley
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Lincolnville, ME: Dudley Zopp, 2017. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 8 of 25 copies of a new limited edition book by artist and scholar Dudley Zopp. Signed and numbered by the book artist. Ms. Zopp graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.A. and M.A. and completed postgraduate studies in Drawing and Painting at the Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville. She now lives in Lincolnville, Maine. Zopp finds inspiration in geological processes and cultural histories of place. Her engagement with restoring habitat where she lives feeds directly into her work, which ranges from site specific installations to paintings, woodcuts and limited edition books. She has completed residencies at geologically significant sites in Newfoundland, Spain and Italy. She has exhibited widely at galleries, universities and museums in New England and the Midwest. Her work is included in university and museum collections nationally. This book is offered as both a limited edition deluxe set with one of the original signed drawings and as a slipcased set with a limited edition print. This is one of the 25 deluxe boxed copies with the original drawing for Day three and a blue marble. The book considers our relationship to the Earth in a sequence of annotated watercolors. It was originally presented digitally for a 2014 exhibition "Turning in Your Hand: The Blue Marble Project," at Waterfall Arts in Maine. Twenty artists were given a blue marble and asked to respond to the pale blue dot we call home. Dudley's images and notations provide a unique look into the oldest of concerns: our place in this world (artist's statement). The drawings began with a month-long daily ritual of erasing an earlier charcoal drawing and, using watercolor and ink, creating a new drawing in its place. As part of this Dudley noted the weather and the color of the ocean as seen from her studio. She also added a few lines adapted from ancient Buddhist texts. The resulting 31 watercolors were collected in a mystical and magical book that beautifully captures Dudley's artistic consideration of our place in the world. Design, typography, and assembly of books and cases are by Richard Reitz Smith. Text and images are printed as offset lithography by Penmore Lithographers. The book is presented in an accordion format and can be read in the round or displayed as sculpture.The book, watercolor drawing, and marble are housed in a dark blue cloth clamshell box. Book measures 5 x 7 inches. 82 pages. In fine condition. ARTISTSB/110317.

She Who Sleeps by Sax Rohmer

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Title: She Who Sleeps
Author: Sax Rohmer
Seller: Heartwood Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated First Edition. Red cloth, black stamping to spine and cover. Pictorial dust jacket. Book Condition- Near Fine: A firm square copy with fade and rubbing to the bottom quarter-inch pf the spine cloth otherwise bright. Dust Jacket Condition- Very Good: Rubbing and creasing to the jacket edges. Not price-clipped. Clear cover.

1948-1950 – Two mimeographed letters from a China missionary, one just after he returned to the country as the Nationalist Government was on its last legs and the other shortly after Mao Tse Tung’s Communist Government had taken over by George W. Hollister

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Title: 1948-1950 – Two mimeographed letters from a China missionary, one just after he returned to the country as the Nationalist Government was on its last legs and the other shortly after Mao Tse Tung’s Communist Government had taken over
Author: George W. Hollister
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Hinghwa, Fukien, China, 1948. Envelope or Cover. Very good. The earliest letter has two pages and is datelined “Hinghwa, Fukien / October 30, 1948 China” in the final days of Chaing Kai Shek’s Nationalist Government. The second has three pages and is dated April 6, 1950, shortly after Mao Tse Tung’s Communist Government had taken over. The mimeographed form letters were sent by George W. Hollister to Mrs. Fred C. Rice in Canton, Ohio. Both are enclosed in typically narrow envelopes, and both bear Nationalist stamps as the Communist had not yet produced any of their own. The letters are in nice shape; the envelopes show some postal and opening wear. Hollister and his wife, Mary Brewster Hollister, returned to China in 1948 after an 18-year absence. Both served at the Methodist mission in Hinghwa where George taught at the missionary school. Their chaotic arrival was, no doubt, directly related to the death-throes of the Nationalist regime. Their first letter to supporters reads in part: “Here we are back in Hinghwa, at last. . .. Arriving in Shanghai soon after the inauguration of the Chinese ‘austerity’ program, designed to stabilize Chinese finances, we found unusual difficulty in clearing . . . customs. Duty was sky high 150% on [some items.] They opened every piece of baggage and . . . each box taking out what they decided to tax. [All] were opened at one time and the contents hopelessly scrambled. . .. “Finally a small steamer was scheduled to sail [but] we were reused permission to get on board. [Then] at suppertime I [received] a telephone message to get on board that night as the boat would leave . . . early in the morning. . .. When we reached the boat, the customs officer said no baggage was allowed on board. [After he finally consented, he demanded to see} my re-export permit. [As we had none] I had to go to the customs house while the officer telephoned his superior, and then [once more through] the austerity ‘search’ group. . .. Will some of you suggest appropriate theological language for me to use under these conditions? “The first steamer . . . a freighter [had no accommodations for passengers [so] we rented a cabin from the crew [that had not] been cleaned for months. I sprayed the cabin with DDT but that only made the cockroaches more lively. My wife says two ran over her face [and] a rat ran over my legs. [Surprisingly] all fifty pieces of our baggage arrived in Hinghwa safely . . . without serious pilferage. [That] is an accomplishment these days. . .. “We found the government making a determined effort to [confiscate] gold and silver. . .. About three weeks ago [there was] almost a complete sellers’ strike [and] prices for most commodities have . . . tripled and many necessities are almost unobtainable except . . . at black market prices. The news from the fighting in North China is unfavorable [and] the bottom has fallen out from under the new currency. . .. We are headed for the worst economic conditions we have faced. . ..” Hollister’s second letter written shortly after the Communist had taken over shows considerable regret that the U.S. has not embraced the new government although he readily acknowledges the tyranny of Mao’s regime. “You will want to know something of the perplexities and uncertainties we face [but] I shall try to avoid all statements having political or military significance. . .. There has not yet been time to learn definitely what official [Communist] attitudes will be toward missionaries and work of the church [and] our problems . . . are multiplied by the refusal of the U.S.to recognize the present [Communist] government. The Chinese papers and vocal propaganda are bitterly anti-American. The attitude of the U.S. . . . puts all of us Americans under suspicion. . .. Now we must have passes whenever we want to leave the city. . .. Yesterday the chairman of the [church] committee meeting was quizzed almost two hours. The police wanted to know exactly who was present and what was discussed. . .. We may not be able to leave the city until Formosa has been ‘liberated’. . .. One who owns more than enough land to support a family is [now considered] an ‘oppressor’ of the poor [and] the government seeks to correct this form of inequality. [They claim] it is more important that the soldiers have food than it is for the orphans to eat [and] there is not enough [for us] to feed the children. . .. All land will be redivided this fall. . .. There is no freedom of thought in the class room. . .. on campus, even in dormitories or teachers’ homes. [When] one of our agricultural workers [tried to] warn the villagers against the disease of rice plants, [what he said was decried as] ‘American imperialism!’ [In revolutionary China] it is easy for those . . . without homes to turn against those who have; for those with no secure livelihood to turn against those with jobs; for those with inferiority complexes . . . to get minor positions in which they have a chance to satisfy repressed desires. . .. Pray for us that we may have the grace to recognize the present struggle as one of God’s gifts.” . Within a month or two of Hollister’s letter, the mission would be shut down and its missionaries deported back to the United States. A terrific pair of letters documenting the impact of China’s transition into a tyrannical Marxist state. At the time of listing, no other similar original source material is for sale in the trade or shown by the Rare Book Hub as having appeared at auction. OCLC records show that seven institutions appear to hold personal paper collection containing similar items. .

To Whom It May Concern: The Story of Victor Ilyitch Seroff by Werner, M.R.

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Title: To Whom It May Concern: The Story of Victor Ilyitch Seroff
Author: Werner, M.R.
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Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj
Description: New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith. Very Good+ in Fair dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice solid clean copy, slight fading to cloth at ends of spine; the jacket is a bit on the tattered side, with numerous small chips, tears, etc.]. Very uncommon account of the early life of Victor Ilyitch Seroff (1902-1979), whom the author (Werner) met in Paris in the late 1920s, and found so fascinating that he "laid aside other projects and devoted himself to writing [Seroff's] story." Seroff was a young musician who had escaped from Russia in 1920 "on the last American oil tanker to leave [Batoum, his birthplace in the Caucasus] before the Bolsheviks took it over." The book is written in the first person (i.e. narrated by Seroff himself), who describes "his desperate and sometimes humorous effort to gain self-support and continue an artistic career in Constantinople, Vienna and in Paris" during the 1920s. Of particular interest is the last chapter, which presents "a new and penetrating study of the late Isadora Duncan, [including] a moving narrative of her last years and death." (Isadora had attended a piano recital in Paris where she was impressed by Seroff's playing, and he soon found himself drawn into her circle of intimates.) He later became a musical biographer of some note, writing books about Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Berlioz, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel and others, as well as a biography of Isadora Duncan herself. .

Richard Serra Rolled and Forged by WINGATE, Ealan (editor)

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Title: Richard Serra Rolled and Forged
Author: WINGATE, Ealan (editor)
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9781932598353
Condition: A near-fine copy with some modest handling wear
Description: New York: Gagosian Gallary, 2006. A near-fine copy with some modest handling wear. 11 x 10 inches. 75 pages. Cloth; printed dust jacket. "In this volume, four distinct works by the important American sculptor Richard Serra are linked by a common theme: each is based on the relationship between the viewer and a horizontal or planar elevation on eye level. Elevations, Repetitions is a complex of 16 elements of different heights; Equal Weights and Measures is composed of six equal blocks of forged steel, rotated such that it's difficult to confirm that sameness. No Relief consists of two 60-foot, six-inch-thick horizontal slabs flush to the wall on opposite sides of a narrow room, compressing the elongated space. And Round is a forged steel work with a diameter of 84 inches and a weight of 50 tons, set on an unnerving slope. Serra's other recent projects include an eight-part permanent installation at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao and a Spring 2007 survey at The Museum of Modern Art" (the publisher).

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LEON FERRARI: LA BONDADOSA CRUELDAD

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Title: LEON FERRARI: LA BONDADOSA CRUELDAD
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
ISBN: 9789509282230
Description: Buenos Aires: Editorial Argonauta, 2000. b/w plates, port., bio., fldg. pict. wrps. LIMITED EDITION OF 1,500. Poems and photocopy art from this important innovator (b. 1920, Buenos Aires) of artist books, video and mail art within the contemporary scene in Argentina. This work explores the themes of torture and justice as expressed in Western society. Offers critical and anti-religious commentary through the juxtaposition of religious and political images.

Grundlagen der marxistisch - leninistischen Philosophie

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Title: Grundlagen der marxistisch - leninistischen Philosophie
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Germany: Dietz Verlag, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good or better in a Very good plus dust jacket. Book and dust jacket lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, book foredges lightly soiled, pages browned at edges, dust jacket lightly worn, in German.

The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession by Alder, Ken

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Title: The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession
Author: Alder, Ken
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780743259880
Condition: Very good
Description: NY: Free Press, 2007. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. xiv, 320pp+ index. Pages tanned, else a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

The war in Vietnam by [Jenness, Douglas and Robin Martin]

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Title: The war in Vietnam
Author: [Jenness, Douglas and Robin Martin]
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: Young Socialist, 1965. Pamphlet. 15p., 5x8 inches, very good in stapled wraps; introduction by Peter Camejo.

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