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IIAMS, Thomas M. and T.D. Beckwith. NOTES ON THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF FOXING IN BOOKS. London: H.W. Edwards, 1937. 8vo. Cloth, paper label. 16 pages, 4 plates. Fir edition. The article originally appeared, sans plates, in Library Quarterly. Fine.

IIAMS, Thomas M. and T.D. Beckwith. NOTES ON THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF FOXING IN BOOKS. London: H.W. Edwards, 1937. 8vo. Cloth, paper label. 16 pages, 4 plates. Fir edition. A standard text on the subject. Ironically, this copy has slightly foxed endpapers; base of spine bumped, else a very good copy.

(AUTOMOBILE BOOK CATALOGUE) ILIFFE AND SONS, LTD. CATALOGUE OF BOOKS & MAPS FOR MOTORISTS AND MOTORCYCILISTS & BOOKS FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS. London: (circa 1912). 8vo. Printed wrappers. (14) pages, plus 4 folding attached inserts. Rare early 20th century book catalogue featuring automobile and motorcyle boo et al. for Iliffe and Sons in London. It features several newly published automobile titles each with title of book with author's name and description with price and six pages of books for photographers. Very good.

DOLLS ILLUSTRATED. St. Louis: Dolls Illustrated, n.d. 4to. Printed wrappers. (20) pages. First edition. The china doll is the focus of this catalogue. China dolls were most popular from the period 1800-1912. Very good.

(CONFEDERATE IMPRINT) ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PASSED IN 1861-1862, bound with, ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY...PASSED AT EXT SESSION, 1862, bound with, ORDINANCES ADOPTED BY THE CONVENTION OF VIRGINIA 1861, bound with THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. Four volumes, bound as one. Richmond: 1862. 8vo. Contemporary quarter-calf, marbled boards. First editio [Parrish & Willingham, 4368; 4386; 4387]. With information on taxes, railroad connections, defence and the "Home Guard, requisitions, appropriations, internal improvements, and more in Confederate Virginia. Some cover wear and waterstaining.

(INDIA) TEMPLES OF SOUTH INDIA. (Delhi:) Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, (1960.) 8vo. Wrappers. 52 pages, plates. Spine chipped.

(INDIA) 5000 YEARS OF INDIAN ARCHITECTURE. (Delhi:) Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, (1956.) Small 4to. Wrappe 52 pages. Third edition. Spine rubbed.

(INDIA) ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS, MONUMENTS, AND MUSEUMS. Two volumes. New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 1964. 8vo. Wrappers. First editio Lower spine and tips bruised.

(PATER) INGERSOLL-SMOUSE, Florence. PATER. Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, (1928). 4to. Boards. viii, 221, (3) pages, 230 illustrations. First edition. [Freitag, 7318.] The catalogue raisonne and biography of Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater (1695-1736 the noted sculptor and painter. Rebacked using the original paper spine as a overlay.

Black, A & C. INMAN, Colin. THE A & C BLACK COLOUR BOOKS. A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 1900-1930. London: Werner Shaw Ltd., 1990. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. xii, 307 pages, 17 pages of color plates. First edition. This study is the first attempt to record and classify the over 800 different titles in the 50 separate series of colour books published by A & C Black fro 1901 to 1930. It includes an index of authors and illustrators with biographical information. Illustrated.

INN, Henry. CHINESE HOUSES AND GARDENS. New York: Bonanza, (1950). 4to. Cloth spine, boards. 148 pages. Second editi This is a revised edition, edited by Shao Chang Lee, of the first edition originally published in 1940. With two hundred and sixty illustrations. Ver good.

(TRADE CARD) INSTON, Edward. EDWARD INSTON, BUILDER, &C. CARVER STREET, BIRMINGHAM. Birmingham: (circa 1840). Engraved illustrated trade card on card stock (2 1 x 3 5/8 inches). Edward Inston is listed in Birmingham business directories from about 1840 on His trade card is illustrated with a three-story building with work yard attached. His card emphasizes "repairs punctually attended to." Very good.

CHILD'S COMPANION AND JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR. (London): (The Religious Tract Society), n.d. (1888). Square 8vo. Publisher' cloth, all edges gilt. Colored frontispiece, iv, 192, (12) pages. Scarce children's book filled with stories, poems, history, adventure, and numerous woodcut illustrations. Included are twelve pages of advertisements various children's books. Published by the Religious Tract society in London Bright copy with polychromatic insert of boy pulling sled laid down within gi border on front board. Very good.

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL GUIDE - MOUNT RAINIER) UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, 1920, USEFUL HINTS TO MOTORISTS. (Washington, DC: 1920). Tall 8vo. Printed folded broadside (10 1/2 x 10, unfolded). Rare early twentieth century automobile guide to Mount Rainier National Park. Inside is colored map of the national park with an "automobile guide map show roads in the Mount Rainier National Park," delineating geological and geographical features, roads, natural sites and camp grounds. Printed insert warning about dangers of fire attached to inside. Back side gives history of national park. (40114).

(IPSEN, Ludvig Sandoe). THE BOOK-PLATES OF LUDVIG SANDOE IPSEN. Boston: Troutsdale Press, 1904. 8vo. Boards, top edge gilt. Unpaginated. Fir edition. One of 50 copies. With a foreword by Winfred Porter Truesdell, including one tipped-in bookplat as well as, printed examples. Covers sunned, tips bruised, else very good.

(MARBLE HILL PRESS). (MARBLE HILL PRESS) IRVING, Washington. THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE. New York: 1964. 4to. Paper wrappers, hand-sewn. (20) pages. One of 140 copie ``A Colloquy in Westminster Abbey, as recorded in the Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.'' Fine.

Allenholme Press. (ALNWICK) ISAAC, Peter. SOME ALNWICK CARICATURES; A NOTE AND A HANDLIST. Wylam: Allenholme Press, 1965. 8vo. Printed wrappers, 12 pages. First editi A handlist of some fifty Alnwick caricatures, with a biographical note. Including reproductions of four of the listed items. Fine.

(GROPIUS) ISAACS, Reginald. GROPIUS, AN ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY OF THE CREAST OF THE BAUHAUS. Boston: Little, Brown, (1984). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 344 pages. First English language edition. A comprehensive biography of Gropius. Fine.

ISACSON, Oscar L. ETT GOTEBORGSTRYCKERIS FORSTA KVARTSSEKEL. Goteborg: N.P., 1928. 8vo. Boards. Frontispiece, 96 (1) pages, 1 plate. Firs edition. Scarce item not recorded on OCLC. Swedish book on printing. Name in ink on front blank, else very good.

(TRADE CATALOGUE) ROCK ISLAND COMPANY. CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES. Rock Island, Illinois: 1885. 8vo. Publisher's wrappers. 62 pages. First edition. The thirteenth annual catalogue by this company. Illustrated, with price lis laid-in. The red covers are printed in gold. Some chipping and wear to spin.