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Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori [The Lives of the Artists]

Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori [The Lives of the Artists] by VASARI, GIORGIO

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company
Title
Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori [The Lives of the Artists]
Author
VASARI, GIORGIO
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Florence: Giunti, 1568. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST COMPLETE, FIRST ILLUSTRATED, AND MOST SOUGHT AFTER EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN HISTORY OF ART. [The Second Edition overall.] An exceptional copy, very handsomely bound. Vasari's "book contains the biographies of Italian painters, etc. from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. They are based on earlier written and printed sources, on oral accounts, on his knowledge of works of art and his own collection of large drawings. Vasari traveled extensively to collect personal information, meeting most of the artists of his time... Michelangelo was his great hero. The Lives are freely laced with stories and anecdotes, some of which are certainly apocryphal... Vasari's excellent sense of narrative, however, and lively style combined with his wide personal acquaintance makes his 'Lives' a vital contribution to our understanding of the character and psychology of the great artists of the Renaissance, a term ('rinascita') which he was the first writer to use... It also contains an autobiography and a valuable treatise on the technical methods employed in the arts. It became a model for subsequent writings on the history of art... For its period it has remained the chief authority and new editions are published regularly" (Printing and the Mind of Man, 88). This second edition-the first illustrated and the preferred edition-comprises 161 lives, 28 more than the first edition of 1550 and it brings the biographies up to date from 1550 to 1568. The portraits were designed by the author himself (to his contemporaries he was first and foremost a painter and architect) and executed by or under the supervision of Maestro Christofano, probably either Christophoro Coriolano or Christoforo Chreiger. They are accurate and characterful representations of their subjects. Engraved with "architectural title-border, with figures and putti, on the title page of each of the three volumes... The inner border includes a shield with the Medici arms and a cartouche which contains... a view of Florence. The first volume of part three has a Giunta lily device on the title-page. On the verso of the title of the first volume is an allegorical woodcut... repeated at the end of part three. Portrait of Vasari printed as a plate... One hundred forty-four medallion portraits of the artists... set within borders with female figures representing the arts... There are six different border designs... [and] grotesque, arabesque and dolphin tailpieces" (Mortimer, Harvard).Florence: Appresso I Giunti, 1568. Quarto, early eighteenth-century full polished calf with elaborately decorated gilt spines. Three volumes. Light occasional foxing, title border a little shaved (as usual). Elegant early engraved bookplate in each volume. An early issue with illustrations in uncommonly strong, clear impressions. Third volume slightly smaller, light wear to bindings. All three volumes in exquisite uniform early calf.
A large-format scroll on paper, entitled on manuscript paper label on outside “Tsukuri giku oyoso sanjuppin” 作菊 凡 三十品 (“Cultivating Chrysanthemums, About 30 Varieties”), containing 30 colorful displays of the flower

A large-format scroll on paper, entitled on manuscript paper label on outside “Tsukuri giku oyoso sanjuppin” 作菊 凡 三十品 (“Cultivating Chrysanthemums, About 30 Varieties”), containing 30 colorful displays of the flower by CHRYSANTHEMUM SCROLL

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Title
A large-format scroll on paper, entitled on manuscript paper label on outside “Tsukuri giku oyoso sanjuppin” 作菊 凡 三十品 (“Cultivating Chrysanthemums, About 30 Varieties”), containing 30 colorful displays of the flower
Author
CHRYSANTHEMUM SCROLL
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Scroll (385 x 8590 mm.), inner front endpaper with rich sprays of gold, outer side covered with silk having a repeating pattern of the chrysanthemum flower, wooden core roller. [Japan: late Edo]. The chrysanthemum came from China to Japan as a medicinal plant in the Nara period (710-93) and soon became revered in Japanese culture as a symbol of longevity and rejuvenation. From the Kamakura period (1192-1333) to this day, the chrysanthemum has been the emblem of the imperial family. The Imperial or National Seal of Japan is called the Chrysanthemum Seal (菊紋, kikumon). In Japan, the flower has been the subject of selective breeding, precise cultivation, complex grafting, and creative pruning, allowing, for example, one plant to bear several hundred flowers. During the Edo period, there were frequent meetings and exhibitions centering on the chrysanthemum flower, called Kiku awase (matching contests) and Kiku taikai (exhibitions), reflecting a cultural obsession with the flower. Our fine scroll was artistically prepared for horticultural purposes. The accomplished artist has displayed 30 varieties of the chrysanthemum flower. For each variety, the artist has depicted the entire flower, a petal, and below, a printed leaf, using nature printing for the most part. The artist has described the appearance of each flower and petal, its quite poetic name, along with instructions for proper coloring and which materials to use in the pigments. In fine and fresh condition, preserved in a wooden box.
Inside, Outside; A Novel

Inside, Outside; A Novel by Wouk, Herman [Reiner, Carl]

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
Title
Inside, Outside; A Novel
Author
Wouk, Herman [Reiner, Carl]
Seller
The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
ISBN
9780316955041
Condition
Fine
Description
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Inscribed to Emmy Award-winning actor and writer Carl Reiner, signed limited edition of Inside, Outside by Herman Wouk.. Octavo, [10], 644pp, [4]. Gray cloth, title in gilt over blue label on spine. Top edge gilt. This copy appears unread. Housed in the publisher's acetate dust jacket and slipcase, both fine. From a limited edition of 1565 copies signed by the author, this being number 1139. Includes additional dedication on verso of half title: "For Carl Reiner, a memento of our act together for "The Will To Live On" - in... friendship and admiration. Herman Wouk. 5 March 00. Palm Springs." Note laid-in from the author to Mr. Reiner, offering additional thanks.
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Autograph letter signed to Mrs. John Paget by Carpenter, William B.

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Title
Autograph letter signed to Mrs. John Paget
Author
Carpenter, William B.
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Holy Island [Scotland], 1859. Bifolium. 4pp. 183 x 114 mm. A few pin-holes, small marginal tear but very good. From English physiologist and naturalist William B. Carpenter, who "helped shape the modern life sciences in Britain (Oxford DNB) through both his writings and his work as a teacher and administrator at what is now the University of London. Carpenter performed valuable researches in marine zoology, and was directly influential in persuading the British Admiralty to sponsor the Challenger expedition, the first major scientific study of the deep oceans. Carpenter is also recognized as one of the founders of the modern theory of the adaptive unconscious--he observed that the human perceptual system and the mechanism of human thought operates almost completely outside of conscious awareness. Carpenter's correspondent was the wife of police magistrate and author John Paget. On the death of his mother-in-law: I feel sure that you will be sadly interested in learning that we received two days ago the unexpected intelligence of the death of Mrs. Powell, which took place quite suddely on the night of the 30th. She had been failing for some time, and seemed to suffer much from disappointment in regard to the affair of the pension, having a great wish to be independent of the assistance of her friends, and strongly desiring that her father's service to the nation should be acknowledged . . . There was not the least indication of suffering, quite the contrary . . . So that I quite believe that she must have passed from the unconsciousness of sleep into that of death. For her, and for all those who were interested for her, I am satisfied that this will be felt the most desirable termination . . . .
Sulfamine p. patd. powder. Cromoflavine D. Chrome orange p. powder. And alizarine green b. patd. powder [cover title]

Sulfamine p. patd. powder. Cromoflavine D. Chrome orange p. powder. And alizarine green b. patd. powder [cover title]

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Sulfamine p. patd. powder. Cromoflavine D. Chrome orange p. powder. And alizarine green b. patd. powder [cover title]
Seller
Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
New York: C. Bischoff & Co, 1890. 8vo (227 x 140 mm.), accordion fold with 11 panels, each displaying 3 or 4 dye-cloth samples numbered 1-36, 2-leaf pamphlet describing the treatment of each sample tipped in to first panel; original white printed wrappers (stained); cloth samples a bit wrinkled, else a very good copy. "C. Bischoff & Co. importers of aniline and alizarine colors, dye-stuffs and chemicals. 87 & 89 Park Place, New York. No. 33." Does not appear to be in OCLC.
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Sport-Jahres-Meister Magazine: Olympia in Mexico 1968 (2 Issues) by Bahr, Gerhard (ed.);

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Title
Sport-Jahres-Meister Magazine: Olympia in Mexico 1968 (2 Issues)
Author
Bahr, Gerhard (ed.);
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
g to vg
Description
Nürnberg: Bahr KG, 1968. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. 4to. Original color-illustrated wraps. Ausgabe A (12.-18. Oktober): Nr. 4 - 20. Jahrgang - 20. Oktober 1968. Auflage 212,000. 48pp., including wraps. Ausgabe B (19.-27. Oktober): Nr. 5 - 20. Jahrgang - 28. Oktober 1968. Auflage 214,600. 46pp., including wraps. Both issues profusely illustrated with color and brown-toned reproductions of photographs showing athletes, events, officials, etc., at the XIX. Olympic Summer Games in Mexico. Includes advertisements, lists of winners and results. Compiled and collected by Gerhard Bahr with contributions by Paul Ludwig, Lutz Nebenthal, Werner Kirchner, Willi Schweinberger, Klaus Roger, and Hubert Brunsch. Photographs by Bahr-Presse-Bild and Schirner-Bild. Text in German. Minor creasing on wraps. Very good condition.
Four Dubliners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett (Advance Uncorrected Proof)

Four Dubliners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett (Advance Uncorrected Proof) by Ellmann, Richard

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Title
Four Dubliners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett (Advance Uncorrected Proof)
Author
Ellmann, Richard
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780807611852
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: George Braziller, 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo., Wraps 106 pp.. Beautiful Unread Uncorrected Galley Proof. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, tears or toning. Publsiher's presentation card stapled into the inside of front cover. Promotional letter also laid in. A sharp collectable copy at a great price.
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Gone Sailing. by ADAM, Helen.

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Title
Gone Sailing.
Author
ADAM, Helen.
Seller
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description
West Branch: Toothpaste Press,, 1980.. First trade edition.. [32 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Illustrated with drawings by Ann Mikolowski. One of 1000 copies. SIGNED by Adam on the colophon page, and additionally INSCRIBED to her close friend Ida Hodes, “For my dear Ida / fondest love / Helen / March 1980.”
Shostakovich
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Shostakovich by [SHOSTAKOVICH]. Kay, Norman

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Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC
Title
Shostakovich
Author
[SHOSTAKOVICH]. Kay, Norman
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
ISBN
9780193154223
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Oxford University Press, 1971. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 80 pp. With musical examples.

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