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Nuremburg: Johann Daniel Tauber, 1672. Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Later quarter vellum and boards. Very good. 30.5 x 21 cm. [*3,12, 22, a-d6, B-P6,Q4]. Full page engraving of ship at sea by Boner, frontispiece portrait of Saar, title page in black and red, one leaf with two engravings, 12 engravings in the text, floriated chapter head designs. First published 1662, this an enlarged edition. Saar was employed as a mercenary for the East India Company, spending 15 years in South East Asia, including Indonesia and Ceylon. He died at age 38 in the battle of Mogersdorf. Most of Saar's descriptions relate to Ceylon. The publisher also added other contemporary accounts to help authenticate Saar's accounts. Scattered text toning, ex-library stamp effaced from head of title page, title page slightly chipped fore-edge and foot, dampstain lower corners M-M4.

Charleroi: Europalia 87 Osterreich, 1987. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff illustrated wrappers. Fine. Schiele, Egon. 205 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated in color and black white with many full page plates, and printed on quality glossy stock. Text in French and Dutch.

Hannover: Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1983. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Kokoschka, Oskar. 210 pages. 8 x 8". 91 plates, most in color.

Paris: Braun & Cie, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Orig, brick cloth. Near fine in slightly nicked clean dust wrapper. Picasso, Pablo. Unpaginaged. 27 x 21 cm. 24 full-page color plates. Text in French. Bright, fresh copy, crease to first free endpaper.

Barcelona: Sala Gaspar, 1980. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Picasso, Pablo. 4 pages in text. 23.5 x 19 cm. 30 plates, two in color with Index presenting size and date of each. Plates printed recto only. Text in Spanish.

Paris: Editions Cercle D'Art, 1958. First edition. Orig. illustrated boards in nicked clear plastic overwrapper. Very good. Picasso, Pablo. 135 pages. 33 x 25.5 cm. Fifty-six tipped-in color plates, two mounted plain plates [one folding], translated from the Spanish by Alfred Rosset. Color plates printed by Draeger Freres. The cover designs, lithographed in color were printed by Mourlot Freres. Text in French. Brilliant color reproductions. Spine bumped at foot. Orig. illustrated boards in clear plastic overwrapper with publisher's shipping slipcase. Nicks to backstrip extremities.

Princeton: D. Van Nostrand, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Near fine. 132 pages. More than seventy illustrations [drawings by the author and photographs by Hilda Borcherding]. The five main techniques, namely, Country Painting, Freehand Bronze, Stenciling, Floating Color and Gold Leaf are described.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 300 pages. Voluminously illustrated with color photographs by Guy Bouchet. Index. A lavish presentation artfully presented to justify the chic of its contents. 2nd copy no dj.

Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle, 1962. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper.. 140 pages intext, 122 black and white plates. Bibliography. Index. First published in 1941, this is a complete and unabridged reprint of the original edition. A seriesof excellent drawings show details of planning and construction photographs are unable to convey.

London: Golden Cockerel, 1930. Hardcover. Orig. quarter bound parchment and decorated boards. Teg. Near fine. Sainsbury, Hester. 41 pages. 18 x 11 cm. Limited edition. copy 101 of 500 on English hand-made paper. Printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings. Printed from the edition of 1750. CHANTICLEER 70. Spine slightly darkened.

Paris: L'Imprimerie De Monsieur, 1781. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, marbled endpapers. Aeg. Very good. 167 pages, 12mo, 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 cm. Originally published 1618. Clean copy, triple gilt cover border fillets, spine decorated in gilt with floral motifs, black morocco spine label lettered in gilt., inner dentilles, marbled endpapers, minor scuffing to covers and corners, owner stamp on half title. BRUNET Vol. V, p.59.

Paris: Ch. Massin & Cie, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. three quarter black cloth with ties and green boards lettered in gilt with front cover pictorial inlays. Near fine. 2 Vols. 23 pages. 44.5 x 32 cm. Title page printed in red and black. 44 collotype plates printed from photographs. Among the fine gardens here presented are those at Neuilly-sur-Seine and Chateau Bijou at Villefranche by landscape architect Jules Vacherot, Nanteau-sur-Lunain and the Parc de Valmirande at Montrejeau by Andre and the Hotel Cassini with a lattice-work tennis pavilion by architect Jacques Greber. Interior contents clean and bright.

London: The Studio, 1914. First edition. Paperback. Orig. tan wrappers. Very good. 264 pages. 29 x 21 cm. More than 200 black and white illustrations. Covers dusty, chips to backstrip extremities.

Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1962. First edition. Paperback. Publications in Culture and Society. Vol. 8. Bibliography. Index. Orig. printed wrappers. Fine.

Paris: Gallimard, 1997. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Mantegna, Andrea. 168 pages. 29.5 x 25.5 cm. 145 engravings in miniature, profusion of full color plates, catalog of his works, Biography and Bibliography.

New York: Abrams, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper in publisher's slipcase.. 214 pages. Folio, 30 x 24 cm. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER M312. "A good introduction to the important schools of Italian manuscript painting, written by a recognized authority......Excellent bibliography." Owner inscription.

London: John & Edward Bumpus, Ltd, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. vellum spine and gray boards. Teg. Very good. Gravelot. 83 pages text. 23 x 15 cm. 21 black and white plates. A French engraver, illustrator and designer whom GORDON RAY 22A, praises him for his tailpieces, allegorical frames as well as discussing other characteristics of his work. Includes a list of books illustrated by Gravelot.

London: Samuel Clark, 1760. First edition. Hardcover. Half calf and marbled boards. Very good. 275 (2) pages. Folio, 12 1/2" x 8". Early ink owner inscription head of title of Benjamin Grubb. Britain even today remains the most prominent grouping of Quakers in Europe. Covers the yearly meetings from Epistle I, 1675 through Epistle LXXXII, 1759. Many of the accounts also cover Friends in New Jersey, Long-Island, Virginia, Maryland, North-Carolina, and Barbadoes. Entire interior contents clean and fresh printed on wove paper, raised bands, maroon leather spine label printed in gilt, wear to lower corners and spine, chips to backstrip extremities with some loss, leather repair to lower front cover corner, binding tight and firm.

New York: H.M. Caldwell, Nd. Hardcover. Three quarter navy morocco. Teg. Near fine. 295 pages. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. The novel is one of Sand's best known takes place in the French countryside, a story about twins originally published in 1849. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs, slight nick to backstrip head.

Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1959. leather_bound. Orig. brown morocco front cover decorated and lettered in gilt. Aeg. Fine. 38 pages. 7 x 5 cm. Frontispiece is a tipped-in one cent United States postage stamp of Lincoln. Printed on "Antiqua" paper by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland and bound by Proost and Brandt, Amsterdam, Holland. Marbled endpapers. As new copy.