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GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK: THE SUN DIAL PRESS, 1932 BENVENUTO CELLINI, 1500-1571, Italian sculptor, metalsmith, and author. His remarkable autobiography (written 1558-62), which reads like a picaresque novel, is one of the most important documents of the 16th cent. Cellini tells of his escapades with the frankness and consummate egoism characteristic of the Renaissance man. VERY NICE LOOKING BOOK, DARK RED COVER, GOLD DESIGN FRONT COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT ON SPINE, CLEAN, NO MARKINGS. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, GOLD IMPRINT ON THE SPINE OF TITLE AND AUTHOR. SOME WEAR TOP OF SPINE AND FADING OF LETTERS. COVER IS SLIGHTLY FADED WITH AGE AND CLEANING. TIGHT AND GOOD SHAPE. FORMER OWNERS NAME SIGNED IN FRONT IN PENCIL, NO OTHER MARKINGS. FRONTISPIECE SHOWS AN ART PICTURE OF LOUISE. Marie Louise, originally Maria Louise (Vienna, 1791-1847, Vienna), Empress of the French, was the eldest daughter of the Emperor Franz II. In 1810, possibly through the agency of Metternich, she was married to Napoleon, who had recently divorced the Empress Josephine. A proxy wedding took place in the Augustinerkirche in Vienna in March, followed in April by civil and religious ceremonies in Paris. In 1811 she bore a son, the King of Rome and later Duke of Reichstadt. In 1813 and 1814 she was regent of France during Napoleon's absence at war (see Napoleonic Wars). On Napoleon's fall she fled to Austria and refused to rejoin her husband on Elba. The Congress… Read More

NEW YORK: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892 VERY NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, RAISED WHITE DESIGN FRONT, GOLD IN DESIGN WITH PAINTER'S BRUSHES AND PAD, GOLD PRINT SPINE, INSIDE TIGHT, BOOK PAGES IN NICE CARD STOCK, FOURTEEN PHOTOGRAVURE ILLUSTRATIONS. NICE PICTURE OF LIPPI AS FRONTISPIECE, THE ARTWORK IS BEAUTIFUL. SLIGHT FOXING FRONT AND BACK. Fra' Filippo Lippi, O.Carm. (c. 1406 ¿ 8 October 1469), also called Lippo Lippi, was an Italian painter of the Italian Quattrocento (15th century). In 1421 he became a Carmelite monk at Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, where Masaccio was soon decorating the Brancacci Chapel with frescoes. Lippi himself painted frescoes in the church, much influenced by Masaccio's, then disappeared from the monastery in 1432. In 1434 he was in Padua, but in 1437 he returned to Florence under the protection of the Medici family and was commissioned to execute several works for convents and churches. His Madonna and Child (1437) and Annunciation ( 1442) show a… Read More

NEW YORK: A. L. BURT COMPANY, 1925 NICE LOOKING DARK BLUE COVER, BLACK DESIGN WITH BLUE PRINT FRONT, BLACK PRINT SPINE, BEAUTIFUL BOOK. FORMER OWNER NAME AND INSCRPTION FRONT. NO OTHER MARKINGS. COPYRIGHT 1916, NO PUBLISH DATE, ESTIMATE CIRCA 1925. King of the Khyber Rifles is a novel by British writer Talbot Mundy. Captain Athelstan King is a secret agent for the British Raj at the beginning of the First World War. Heavily influenced both by Mundy's own unsuccessful career in India and by his interest in theosophy, it describes his adventures among the (mostly Muslim) tribes of the north with the mystical woman adventuress Yasmini and the Turkish mullah Muhammed Anim. Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon) (April 23, 1879 ¿ August 5, 1940) was an English writer. He also wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt. Born in London, at age 16 he ran away from home and began an odyssey in India, Africa, and other parts of the Near and Far East. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: THE MODERN LIBRARY, 1928 VERY NICE LOOKING GREEN BOOK, BLACK AND GOLD DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE, NO OTHER MARKINGS. ESTIMATED PUBLISHED DATE 1928, NO DATE INSIDE. Symonds, John Addington (s¿m'¿nz), 1840-93, English author. Educated at Harrow and Oxford, constant ill health exiled him for the greater part of his life to Italy and Switzerland. MICHELANGELO Michelangelo Buonarroti (born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 1475¿1564), Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet. Michelangelo achieved such renown in his lifetime that he was celebrated as Il Divino, the 'Divine One'. In five hundred years, his fame has scarcely diminished.

NEW YORK: THE HAMPTON PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1928 BEAUTIFUL BOOK AND ARTWORK. RED TEXTURED COVER, PICTURE OF LINCOLN FRONT, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. VERY NICE DETAIL WITH BEAUTIFUL ART IN THROUGHOUT. ONLY MARKING IS AN INSCRIPTION IN THE FRONT WHERE IT WAS GIVEN TO THE FORMER OWNER FOR 10 YEARS OF PERFECT ATTENDANCE AT WILSON PRESBYTERIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL. Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 ¿ April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War¿its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis. Lucy Foster Madison (April 8, 1865 ¿ March 16, 1932) was an American novelist and teacher. Frank Earle Schoonover (August 19, 1877 - September 1, 1972) was an American illustrator who worked in Wilmington, Delaware. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY, 1899 NICE LOOKING LIGHT BROWN BOOK. BLACK AND ORANGE DECORATION FRONT COVER. BLACK DESIGN SPINE. WEAR AROUND EDGES OF BOOK AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS STICKER INSIDE, BOOKSTORE SOLD AT STICKER. CLEAN AND TIGHT OTHERWISE. 25 CHAPTERS. HISTORICAL FICTION, BIBLIOGRAPHY. Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 ¿ 2 January 1924) was an English Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, Lew Trenchard Manor near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Now the Day Is Over". ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

LOUISVILLE, KY: FAWCETT PUBLICATIONS, 1940 GOOD CONDITION MAGAZINE MADE FOR YOUNG WOMEN. SOME WEAR, VERY NICE SHAPE, TIGHT. True Confessions is a confession magazine targeted at young women readers. It was originally published by Fawcett Publications, beginning in 1922. With a cover price of 25 cents, the front cover of the October, 1922, issue heralded, "Our Thousand Dollar Prize Winner¿'All Hell Broke Loose'." During the 1920s, Jack Smalley was the editor, and early issues in the run sometimes featured cover illustrations by Norman Saunders. TERRIFIC MAGAZINE FOR WOMEN. WONDERFUL ADS, NOVEL OF THE MONTH, CONFESSIONS FROM LIFE, FASHIONS, BEAUTY, HOMEMAKING. BEAUTIFUL PICTURES AND ARTWORK. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: AMERICAN HERITAGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1973 THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, LEATHER ON THE SPINE, RED COVER, NICE DESIGN, RED WHITE BLACK SILVER DESIGN. WILL ROGERS PRINTED SIGNATURE INSIDE. FILLED WITH PICTURES THROUGHOUT. GREAT BOOK. Rogers, Will (William Penn Adair Rogers), 1879-1935, American humorist, b. Oolagah, Indian Territory (now in Oklahoma). In his youth he worked as a cowboy in Oklahoma, and after traveling over the world, he returned to the United States and worked in vaudeville as a cowboy rope-twirler, joking casually with the audience. He was an immediate success when he joined the Ziegfeld Follies in 1915. Rogers gained a wide audience, starring in more than 70 motion pictures, writing six books, appearing on dozens of radio broadcasts, and writing a popular syndicated newspaper column. His salty comments on the political and social scene made the "cowboy philosopher" widely known. A constant booster of airplane travel, Rogers made several long… Read More