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H.P. KRAUS. CATALOGUE 103: 175 PRINTED BOOKS. New York: H.P. Kraus, N.D. 4to. Wrappers. This catalogue of one hundred seventy-five items offered for sale is divided into two parts. Part I is titled, "From Early Printing to Modern Science," a Part II, "Illustrated Books." Descriptions and prices follow each title, and pictures are pasted throughout onto the pages by the publisher. Slight wear wrappers, else very good.

(MANTEGNA) PACCAGNINI, Giovanni. ANDREA MANTEGNA, CATALOGO DELLA MOSTRA.... Venice: Neri Pozza, 1961. 8vo. Cloth. xxiv, 219, (22) pages, 170 plates. Fir edition, third printing. A catalogue of an exhibition of the works of Mantegna held at the Ducal Palac in Mantova. Very good.

PACIFIC WORLD ARTISTS, INC. KABUKI. (New York: Program Publishing Co., Inc., 1969.) Square 4to. Wrappers. Unpaginated. First edition. A program for the Kabuki Tyheatre performances. Worn.

PACKARD, Wellman. EARLY EMIGRATION TO CALIFORNIA, 1849-1850. Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1971. 4to. Wrappers. viii, 25 pages of 500 copies. A reprint of the 1928 edition. Very good.

(JEFFERSON) PADOVER, Saul K., (editor.) A JEFFERSON PROFILE, AS REVEALED IN HIS LETTERS. New York: The John Day Company, (1956.) 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 359 pages. First edition. Letters selected and edited by Padover, with an index. Bookplate on front bl leaf. Dust jacket chipped, else very good.

(VIRGINIA) PAGE, John R. REPORT OF EXPERIMENTS IN WHEAT AND BEET CULTURE ON THE EXPERIMENTAL FARM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. Charlottesville: Chronicle Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1878. 8vo. Sel wrappers. 32 pages. First edition. This is a report for the year 1878, by Page, a Professor of Natural History, Experimental and Practical Agriculture. Chipping to extremities, rubbing to wrapper, browning to leaves, a good copy.

PAGE, Marian. HISTORIC HOUSES, RESTORED AND PRESERVED. New York: Whitney Library of Design, (1981). Small folio. Cloth, dust jacket 208 pages. Presents the results of restorations of eighteen historic houses, with discussion on the process of how each was restored. With illustrations. Ver good.

PAINE, Robert T., Jr. JAPANESE SCREEN PAINTINGS. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1935. 4to. Portfolio. 30 pages, 35 illustration on plates. First edition. An exhibition catalogue of birds, flowers, and animals in Japanese screen paintings from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Portfolio tattered, text and illustrations good.

(PAINT COMPANY TRADE ADVERTISEMENT) HEBRON PAINT COMPANY. (New York?: circa 1870's). Printed broadside (9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches) mounted board. A scarce nineteenth century printed broadside advertisement for the Hebron Pa Company headquartered in Boston (not found on OCLC) promoting their popular brownish red paint now available to the public in greater quantities with the expansion of their mining facilities in West Pawlett, Vermont. Ideal "for railroad depots, freight cars, bridges, hulls and decks of vessels, roofs of houses, farm buildings, or any use requiring durability and permancey of colo it has no superior." They advertise it available in "barrels containing 300 pounds" with names of patrons "who have used or dealt in Hebron Paint." "Ord to be addressed to H.B. Weterall, agent, no. 37 Milk St., Boston, or E.L. Pra agent at the mines, West Pawlett, Vermont." Illustrated with scenic view, presumably of the mine location and possibly the paint company. Mounted on cardboard, else very good.

PAINTING IN PARIS, FROM AMERICAN COLLECTIONS. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1930. 4to. Cloth spine, boards. (92) pages. Second edition. An exhibition catalogue, featuring the paintings of Braque, Chagall, Dugy, Picasso, Utrillo, and others. Ex-library copy, with appropriate markings, li cover wear.

PALLISER, PALLISER & CO. PALLISER'S AMERICAN COTTAGE HOMES. Bridgeport, Connecticut: Palliser, 1878. Folio. Later quarter-blue pebbled cloth over black silk moire. (iii), (7) pages, plus 40 plates with text on ve of previous plate. First edition, thus. [Hitchcock, 907; Holzenberg, # 56]. An appealing and influential book, the designs range from simple and inexpens to ambitious and pretentious. The American architectural firm of Palliser, Palliser & Company was founded in 1876. Like Shoppell's Co-Operative Buildin Plan Association, they specialized in the marketing of stock house plans. Th plans reflect the full-fledged Americanized Queen Anne style of Norman Shaw. Palliser's first book plans, Model Homes for the People, was published in 18 but it is the two volumes of cottages - Palliser's American Cottage Homes (18 and Palliser's New Cottage Homes (1887) - that capture the inventiveness and vigor of the American Queen Anne style. The illustrated title-page of this b is an outstanding example of… Read More

(PIAZZETTA) PALLUCCHINI, Rodolfo. PIAZZETTA. Milan: Aldo Martello, (1956). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 78, (14) pages, 225 illustrations on plates. First edition. A catalogue raisonnee of Giovanni Battista Piazetta's works, including 18 full-color illustrations. The text is written in Italian. Very good in a lightly chipped and creased dust jacket.

(CANALETTO) PALLUCCHINI, Rodolfo, and Guarnati, G.F. LES EAUX-FORTES DE CANALETTO. Venice: Daria Guarnati, (1945). Oblong folio (16 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches). Cloth spine, printed boards. 43, (1) pages, 18 plates. First edition, thus. A collection of the architectural etchings of Canaletto, with commentary. Moderate foxing. Boards browned, else very good.

PALLUCCHINI, Rodolfo. I DIPINTI DELLA GALLERIA ESTENSE DI MODENA. Rome: Casa Editrice, 1945. 4to. Cloth. 308, (4) pages, plates. First edition Written in Italian, this details the paintings in the Esteuse Gallery, Modena By one of the foremost scholars of Venetian art, with 238 illustrations. Ver good.

(TRADE CATALOGUE) PALMER COMPANY, I.E. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND TREATISE O HAMMOCKS... Middleton, Connecticut: 1916. 4to. Printed embossed wrappers. (iv) pages, 37 plates, mostly colored, (4) pages. Rare trade catalogue with only one copy recorded on OCLC - Connecticut Historical Society. A richly illustrated (mostly in color) of the variety of hammocks made by the I.E. Palmer Company located at Arawana Mills, outside of Middleton, Connecticut. The company was founded in 1859, and according to th title leaf in addition to the regular line of hammocks they include: "adjusta hammock supports, adjustable hammock awnings, hammock mosquito bars, anti-friction adjustable hammock hitch-hooks, hammock ropes, etc." Each plat displays from two to four samples, each with dimensions, accessories, and prices. With four pages of hammock accessories in back. With price list and letter from New Haven representative (Bronson & Townsend Hardware and Sportin Goods) loosely laid-in. Spine chipped and corners of wrappers… Read More

PANNELL, J.P.M. MAN THE BUILDER. New York: Crescent Books, (1977). 8vo. Boards, dust jacket. 252, (4) pages. Called ``an illustrated history of engineering.'' Fine.

PAPADAKIS, Andreas. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FOR TODAY. (Paris): Pierre Terrail, (1992). 4to. Boards, dust jacket. Frontispiece, 224 pages. Revised English edition. In collaboration with James Steele and the editorial staff of Architectural Design, with more than 160 color illustrations, including diagrams and drawin Fine.

PAPAGEORGIOU, Alexander. CONTINUITY AND CHANGE. New York: Praeger Publishers, (1971). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 185 pages. Fi English edition. A discussion on how the adaptation of historic areas to contemporary needs ca be achieved, with a preface by Frederick Gutheim; 335 illustrations. Rubberstamp on title page, dust jacket chipped at head of spine, else very go.

(PAPER) THE MODERN MANUFACTURE OF WRITING PAPER. Bangor, Maine: Eastern Manufacturing Company, n.d. (circa 1910.)4to. Cloth spine, boards. 28 pages. First edition. A story concerning the modern processes of manufacturing an ancient product, with some side-lights on its history. Name from rubber stamp on title page, else very good. A nicely printed and illustrasted trade publication.