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Costume of the Russian Empire, The by ALEXANDER, William

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Title: Costume of the Russian Empire, The
Author: ALEXANDER, William
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Printed for W. Miller, 1803. First Issue of William Alexander's Costume of the Russian Empire In a Spectacular Neoclassical Binding in the Style of Staggemeier & Welcher [ALEXANDER, William]. The Costume of the Russian Empire, illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings. With descriptions in English and French. London: Printed for W. Miller, 1803. First edition, first issue with text and plates watermarked '1796'. Folio (13 3/8 x 10 1/8 inches; 340 x 257 mm.). [xviii], 73 leaves of text. Text printed in English and French. Seventy-three hand colored stipple-engravings, all with their original tissue-guards. Plates, text and tissue-guards watermarked "W. Elgar 1796". A few plates with very light and minor marginal discoloration, otherwise fine. The hand coloring bright and fresh. Full contemporary red straight-grain morocco in the Neoclassical style similar to that of Staggemeier & Welcher. Covers with a Greek key roll border surrounding a wide inlaid black morocco border decoratively tooled in gilt, in turn surrounding a gilt 'chain' pattern. Spine with five 'double' raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. The third panel has a small oval inlaid black morocco crest with a bull's head and an arrow and the motto in gilt 'Prodesse Quam Conspici' (To accomplish without being conspicuous). Decorative gilt edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges stained red, blue silk marker. A remarkable binding in superlative condition from the library of Cecil Bisshopp, 12th Baron Zouche. Cecil Bisshopp (1752-1828), 12th Baron Zouche, FRS was a Member of Parliament for New Shoreham who afterwards became the 12th Baron Zouche. "In the two former works of a similar nature to the present, - the Costume of Turkey, and the Costume of China, - the utility and advantage of such publications have been sufficiently dilated upon; and the approbation with which they have been honoured has evinced, that the opinion, the Publisher had formed of their value, was not ill-founded. This present work possesses all the advantages, which the former ones embraced, and has the further merit of rather a more systematic arrangement. The Russian empire is of an extent unknown to other modern nations, and hardly equalled by that of the Romans in the summit of their power. It embraces within its limits, nations the most various, with countries and climates the most opposite... The authenticity of the present work is undoubted, being in fact copied from a series of engravings begun at Petersburg in 1776, and finished in 1779... The descriptions to the plates have been derived from the most authentic sources, more particularly from Professor Müller's "Description de toutes les Nations de l'Empire de Russie -- Voyage en Sibérie, par D'Auteroche -- Description de Kamtshatka, par M. Kracheninnikow --Plescheëf's Survey of the Russian Empire -- Pallas's Travels through the Southern Parts of Russia -- Saür's Account of Commodore Billing's Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia," &c. &c. as well as from information procured from several gentlemen, who have been resident for some time in different parts of that empire." (Preface). "The fourth in the series of costume books issued by William Miller. The plates for this book are closely copied, but somewhat enlarged, from a book by J.G. Georgi published by Carl Wilhelm Müller in St. Petersburg, four volumes, 4to, 1776-80, under the patronage of the Empress. The text to this English edition is said to be by William Alexander." Abbey) Abbey, Travel, 244; Colas, Hiler & Lipperheide only mentioning the later edition of 1814.

The Complete Poker Player. A Practical Guide Book to the American National Game: Containing Mathematical and Experimental Analyses of the Probabilities at Draw Poker by Blackbridge, John

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Title: The Complete Poker Player. A Practical Guide Book to the American National Game: Containing Mathematical and Experimental Analyses of the Probabilities at Draw Poker
Author: Blackbridge, John
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. John Blackbridge, identified as 'Actuary and Counsellor at Law' provides a guide to 'The American National Game', combining a scholarly approach with the zeal of the committed player. Jessel 122. Brown covers with gilt title, author and playing cards, beveled edges worn. Wear to corners and edges of spine, with minor fraying of the latter. Previous owner's name on title page. 142 pages, 2 pages ads. 12 x 16 cm.

Commercial Residential: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range, 1968-1972 by ADAMS, Robert

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Title: Commercial Residential: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range, 1968-1972
Author: ADAMS, Robert
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Fine in a fine jacket, plain black slipcase (only issued for the deluxe edition).
Description: New York: PPP Editions, 2003. Fine in a fine jacket, plain black slipcase (only issued for the deluxe edition).. Deluxe Edition. Small oblong octavo. Number 40 of 50 numbered copies; SIGNED by Adams. 40 black and white images shot at the same time as Adams's landmark vision of suburban sprawl, The New West, published in 1974, but omitted from that book.

Die mikroskopische beschaffenheit der Mineralien und Gesteine by Zirkel, F - MINERALS - GEMS - MICROSCOPE

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Title: Die mikroskopische beschaffenheit der Mineralien und Gesteine
Author: Zirkel, F - MINERALS - GEMS - MICROSCOPE
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: Leipzig: W Engelmann, 1873. First Edition.. Modern binder's cloth.. Very good.. 8vo. There are text illus... A comprehensive guide to the information and literature of microscopy in regard to minerals.

Engraving of Persian Costumes, Published in 1720 by year 1720

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Title: Engraving of Persian Costumes, Published in 1720
Author: year 1720
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1720. Description of Persia Iran costumes for men and women. The way they smoke tobacco and their pipes, the "militia and their weapons", "offensive and defensive that soldiers" wear at war. [includes many illustrations, horses, period costumes, armor, women, hooka, calvary] there are four men in different traditional Persian costumes, a section on turbans, shoes, and female hairstyles, elaborate bow and horse. Original engraving from:Atlas historique Published: 1720, Sheetsize: 51 x 43 cm. Very good condition.

Fail Sure - Win Safe - I. by Beere, D.C[hessman]

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Title: Fail Sure - Win Safe - I.
Author: Beere, D.C[hessman]
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Del Mar: USP Press, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Inscribed by Beere on the title page. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed. Firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. The first entry in Beere's proposed series "concerning the imminent collapse and disappearance of Western civilization as we know it" as a result of government secrecy, with comments on his previous work USP--A Physics for Flying Saucers and photocopies of letters to and from government officials, including President Carter. From the collection of Tom Benson. [Eberhart 11266].

Roman Candle by Baldrige, Letita

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Title: Roman Candle
Author: Baldrige, Letita
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Condition: Near fine
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Inscribed by Baldrige on the front endpaper. Near fine in a very good jacket, clipped, lightly worn at the edges and corners, foxed on the verso. Red buckram with patterned paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound with a yellow top stain. Baldrige's memoir about her time as the "ringmaster" at the Villa Taverna, the residence of the American Ambassador to Italy. Warmly inscribed by Baldrige with her mentioning "Omaha was so good to come back to -- and it was wonderful seeing you!" Given Baldrige's attendance at the Sacred Heart Covent in Omaha, this is quite possibly an association copy.

Strike the Father Dead by Wain, John

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Title: Strike the Father Dead
Author: Wain, John
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Condition: Fine
Description: London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Wain on the front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (18s net), lightly rubbed and soiled. Red cloth, faintly rubbed at the bottom edges, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Wain's novel about a young jazz pianist and his efforts to avoid the war while making it as a musician.

Malone Dies by Beckett, Samuel

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Title: Malone Dies
Author: Beckett, Samuel
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Grove Press, Inc. Paperback. Good. Evergreen E-39. Translated by Beckett. Sixth Printing. Good. Wraps generally toned and soiled, rubbed and bumped at the edges. Square and firmly bound, a few faint stains at the edges, some marginalia on the contents page, former owner's stamp on the title page. The second novel in Beckett's trilogy.

Property From the Estate of Mrs. Nancy Sinatra: December 17, 2019, Beverly Hills, CA (Sale Number 1915) by Julien's Auctions

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Title: Property From the Estate of Mrs. Nancy Sinatra: December 17, 2019, Beverly Hills, CA (Sale Number 1915)
Author: Julien's Auctions
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Culver City CA: Julien Entertainment.com. Near Fine. (c.2019). First Edition. Hardcover. (pictorial covers; no dust jacket, as issued) [essentially as-new, the only flaws being a couple tiny nicks on the rear cover]. (color and B&W photographs) Lavishly-produced auction catalog, offering 588 lots of nearly every sort of thing that your average long-divorced wife of an iconic celebrity might have hanging around her very well-appointed home: furniture, clothing, artwork, jewelry, silverware, pottery, purses, shoes, etc. etc. -- even a few things that actually belonged to the celebrity in question (including some of his books). What must it be like, I wonder, to go on being known as "Mrs. So-and-So," when you've been divorced from Mr. So-and-So for decades? (In Nancy's case, since 1951.) But to give her and Frank their due, by all reports they remained close for the rest of their lives, through all Frank's many romances, affairs and marriages; Nancy herself never remarried, and outlived Frank by twenty years -- and from the evidence of this catalog alone, she never had to suffer any economic deprivation. (Sinatra himself, it should be noted, makes only intermittent appearances throughout this catalog, mostly in the form of photographs used to authenticate various personal items (cufflinks, books, etc.); not too surprisingly, there is no significant memorabilia on offer related more than glancingly to his professional career.) ****NOTE that additional postage charges for international shipping of this heavy volume; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. As always at ReadInk, domestic Media Mail shipping is FREE.**** .

The Film Journal (Spring 1971) [first issue] by (Atkins, Thomas R., ed.)

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Title: The Film Journal (Spring 1971) [first issue]
Author: (Atkins, Thomas R., ed.)
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: The Film Journal. Near Fine. 1971. (Vol. I, No. 1). Magazine. [nice clean copy with only minimal handling wear, minor bend at top right corner of front cover, very slight insect-nibbling at lower right edge of front cover] (B&W photographs) Inaugural issue of a magazine dedicated to presenting "original documents and critical evaluations that will be useful to scholars, teachers, students or anyone seriously interested in film." Contents of this issue include: a conversation with director Vilgot Sjöman and actress Lena Nyman, coupled with a compilation of reactions to their film I AM CURIOUS--YELLOW at the Hollins Cinema Conference, and a biography and filmography for Sjöman; an article by Rodger Larson about the making of the film THE REVENGE--TEENAGERS WESTERN STYLE, produced by the Young Filmaker's Foundation (including a brief catalog of other films available from the Youth Film Distribution Center); an analysis of Glauber Rocha's ANTONIO DAS MORTES; an interview with documentarian Frederick Wiseman; an article about the career of cinematographer Karl Freund. .

Annual Commencement, Catholic Colored High School, June 1, 1945, Louisville, Kentucky by Various

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Title: Annual Commencement, Catholic Colored High School, June 1, 1945, Louisville, Kentucky
Author: Various
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Louisville, Kentucky: By the authors, 1945. First Edition. Very good. Leaflet; 9 x 6; single sheet, pp. [2]; cream stock, printed in dark-blue; several faint crease lines, else minor wear; in very good condition.The Catholic Colored High School began its life as the St. Augustine School in 1921, uder St. Augustine Church in Louisville, Kentucky, the latter the oldest African-American Catholic church in the city and one of the first six in the country. Starting in the 1870s, the money for the church and the school would be raised by Father John Lancaster Spalding (1840 - 1916) - first Bishop of Peoria, author, and advocate for higher education. The high school would close down in 1958.

Arts and Crafts Affairs [Vol. Vi, No. 1] by Various

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Title: Arts and Crafts Affairs [Vol. Vi, No. 1]
Author: Various
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Description: S. l. [Berkeley]: California College of Arts and Crafts, 1937. First edition; 9 1/4 x 6; pp. 14; beige wraps printed in black; a bit of age-toning and a small rubbed spot to top edge of back wrap; very good condition.An issue of a magazine, published by a landmark institution in the San Francisco Bay Area and one of the premier fine arts and design schools in the United States, it contains articles and news on events, happenings, and students and members of the faculty. The university was established in 1907 under the name School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts, renamed in 1908 to California School of Arts and Crafts, renamed again in 1936 to California College of Arts and Crafts, and finally in 2003 it received its current name of California College of the Arts. The founder, Frederick Heinrich Wilhelm Meyer (1872 â€“ 1961), was an art educator and one of the most prominent figures in the Arts and Crafts Movement in the Bay Area.

WORKBOOK by BRANDFASS, Elisabeth

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Title: WORKBOOK
Author: BRANDFASS, Elisabeth
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: New York: Doones Press, 1976. First Edition. Very good.. A visual work, with many reproduced drawings. Published by Ray DiPalma's Doones Press. Not in Clay and Phillips. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled wraps. Very good. Light yellowing, tiny spot of soil to front cover. Interior bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. Unpaginated.

[AMERICANA] THE HISTORY OF THE SPONGE

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Title: [AMERICANA] THE HISTORY OF THE SPONGE
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Description: Tarpon Springs, FL. 7” x 5 1/2” 4pp orange pamphlet on the types of sponge and traditional method of retrieving them. Printed by/for Mac’s Gift Shop in Tarpon Springs, Florida, a town known for sponge harvesting and boasting the Tarpon Springs Sponge Museum. No given author or date, but the original seller is no longer extant.~~A unique title not seen elsewhere from “The Sponge Capital of the World”. Very good.~~.

The Mother's Friend: or Familiar Directions for forming the mental and moral habits of young children. by ABBOTT, Jacob (1803-1879) (editor).

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Title: The Mother's Friend: or Familiar Directions for forming the mental and moral habits of young children.
Author: ABBOTT, Jacob (1803-1879) (editor).
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: Cooperstown, NY:: H. & E. Phinney, 1841., 1841. 12mo. x, [11]-240 pp. Engraved frontispiece; some stains, browning. Original full calf, simple spine gilt-rules, black leather spine label; upper joint reinforced with kozo, rubbed. Good. Frederick A. Frye bookplate. Rare. American editor's notice: This volume is a republication of an English work, in a form considerably different from that in which it first appeared.--Page [iii]. The American editor was Jacob Abbott, who originally edited the work for Abbott's series [later Abbott's Fire-Side series]. / On child rearing and advice for mothering or parenting. Among the selections: Nature of the maternal trust, Early infancy, First formation of character, Influence of early associations, Temper, Justice and generosity, Activity, industry and perseverance, Manners and orders, Vanity and affectation, Fearfulness and fortitude, Early lessons and amusements, Truth, Obedience, Rewards and punishments, The nursery maid, Religious instruction.

WILLIE AND DWIKE; An American profile by ZINSSER, William

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Title: WILLIE AND DWIKE; An American profile
Author: ZINSSER, William
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ISBN: 9780060152758
Description: NY: Harper & Row, 1984. First printing. 8vo, pp. 170. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy in price-clipped and slightly scuffed dj. Willie Ruff (piano) and Dwike Mitchell (French horn and bass) were a jazz duo.

YOUNG MAN OF CARACAS by YBARRA, T. R.

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Title: YOUNG MAN OF CARACAS
Author: YBARRA, T. R.
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Description: NY: Ives Washburn, 1941. 8vo, pp. 324. Illustrated with photos. VG in wsorn dj. A story of Venezuela.

Riddler by Bamman, Henry A. and Robert J. Whitehead

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Title: Riddler
Author: Bamman, Henry A. and Robert J. Whitehead
Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: San Francisco: Field Educational Publications. Near Fine. 1962. First Printing. Hardcover. A rather nice copy of Volume Two of The Checkered Flag Series in Near Fine condition. Bumping to head and tail, limited soiling. Bound in black and white checkered cloth; The Riddler is a mysterious and cunning criminal who baffles Batman and the police. In this book, the Riddler challenges Batman to a series of puzzles that will lead to the location of a hidden treasure.; The Checkered Flag Series; Vol. 2; Color Illustrations; Thin 8vo .

American Art Marble: Artistic, Practical, Economical by American Art Marble Co., Philadelphia

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Title: American Art Marble: Artistic, Practical, Economical
Author: American Art Marble Co., Philadelphia
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Philadelphia: American Art Marble Co, 1909. Soft Cover. Very Good. Light stain to bottom margin of front wrapper and a few pages. 1909 Soft Cover. 60 pp. Includes color frontispiece, two-page color image of Blair County Court House, and numerous black-and-white photographs showing the uses and advantages of American Art Marble, with examples from throughout the United States.

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