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wren. UHDE, Constantin. BAUDEN KMAELER IN GROSSBRITANNIEN. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1894. Folio. Disbound, slipcase. (viii), 21 pages, 17 plates. First edition. A comprehensive photographic survey of British architecture, showing the work Sir Christopher Wren, Inigo Jones, and others. It features St. Paul's Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, and those in Ely, Durham, and York; Windsor Castle, Bramshill, Hatfield House, and other estates are included, as well a photograph of Stonehenge. Plates 97 and 109 are supplied facsimile. Plate 132 is torn, some plates are lightly handled.

UHDE, Wilhem. FIVE PRIMITIVE MASTERS. New York: The Quadrangle Press, 1949. 4to. Cloth. 104 pages. First English language edition. First published in German in 1947, Uhde discusses Rousseau, Vivin, Seraphine, Bombois, and Bauchant. With four color plates tipped-in, and thirty-one blac and white illustrations. Inscription in ink on front flyleaf, else very good.

(ULLSTEIN) 50 JAHRE ULLSTEIN, 1877-1927. Berlin: Verglag Isteom. (1927). 4to. Boards. Frontispiece, viii, 411, (1) pages, plates. First edition. With contributions by Georg Sydow, Max Osborn, Paul Knoll and others; illustrated. Front hinge internally cracked, minor edge wear, else very good.

(PRINTED SPORTS FABRIC-1906) ULMANN, Bernard. Colorful Sports Fabric: Baseball, Football, Fishing, Fox-Hunting, Rowing, Fencing, Golf. (Woodside, New York: 1906). Colorfully printed illustrated cloth (21 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches). Brightly colored printed cloth with many of the pieces of equipment popular t sportsmen in 1906: Crossed golf club and fencing foil overlapping the fishing reel, tackle box and other sports equipment such as football, baseball, etc. Done in the manner of a coat-of-arms with pictures around the edges of a rooster, dog, fox hunt and rowing. The cloth was designed and copyrighted by Bernard Ulmann whose cloth manufacturing business in Woodside, New York was founded in 1867. They originally sold napkins and handkerchiefs printed with silk-screen designs. The company was known as Bernard Ulmann Company and was shortened to Bucilla, as acronym for the longer name. Very good. 39725.

ULRICH, Carolyn F. and Karl Kup. BOOKS AND PRINTING; A SELECTED LIST OF PERIODICALS, 1800-1942. Woodstock: William E. Rudge, 1943. 4to. Wrappers. 244 pages. First edition. The standand, annotated bibliography on the subject. One signature has been duplicated in the binding. The 20 missing pages are supplied in facsimile.

ULRICH, Carolyn F., and Karl Kup. BOOKS AND PRINTING, A SELECTED LIST OF PERIODICALS, 1800-1942. Woodstock: William E. Rudge, 1943. 8vo. Wrappers. xi, (i), 244 pages. First edition. With a foreword by Frederic G. Melcher. Wrappers worn, text very good.

(UMLAUF) CHARLES UMLAUF, SCULPTOR. Austin: University Art Museum, (1967. Cloth, dust jacket. 124 pages, with 16 photographs. First edition. A Presentation Copy, signed by the sculptor underneath the frontispiece. Wit foreword by Gibson A. Danes and and Introduction by Donald B. Goodall. Very good in chipped dust jacket.

KUNST UND KUNSTHANDWERK. (Wein: Artaria & Co., 1908.) Small folio. Wrappers. 67 pages, (12) plates. First edition. Featuring the contributions of H.E. von Berlepsch-Valendas, Th. Raspe, Julius Leisching, and others; illustrated. Wrappers lightly chipped, signature in pencil on front cover, else very good.

KUNST UND KUNSTHANDWERK. (Wein: Artaria & Co., 1911.) Small folio. Wrappers. 51 pages, 10 plates. Fir edition. Featuring the contributions of Hartwig Fischel, P.G. Konody, and others; illustrated. Wrappers lightly chippped, with a short tear at head of spine, name in pencil on front cover, else very good.

Singh, Madanjeet. (UNESCO) INDIA, PAINTINGS FROM AJANTA CAVES. N.P.: New York Graphic Society, (1954). Folio. Boards, dust jacket. 10, (6) pages, 32 color plates. First edition. Volume one of the Unesco World Art Series, with preface by Jawaharlal Nehru a introduction by Madanjeet Singh. Minor occasional foxing, else very good in worn dust jacket.

(CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY) EXCERPTA E STATUTIS ACADEMIAE CANTABRIGIENSIS.... Cantabrigiae: J. Smith, 1815. 8vo. Later wrappers. 30 pages, 1 folding plate Stating rules and costs for attending Cambridge University in 1815. Inscript in ink on title page, else fine.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES. THE HISTORY OF PRINTING FROM ITS BEGINNINGS T 1930. Four volumes. Millwood: Kraus, (1980). 4to. Cloth. First edition. Catalogue of the American Typefounders Company Library at Columbia, with an introduction by Kenneth A. Lohf. Fine.

UNSAL, Behcet. TURKISH ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE. London: Alec Tiranti, 1959. Square 12mo. Cloth. Frontispiece, vi, 118 pages, illustrations on plates. First edition. With a short glossary and bibliography; well illustrated. Ex-library copy, with appropriate markings, covers and spine rubbed, else very good.

UPCOTT, William. A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS RELATING T ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY, Three volumes in one. Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1978. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket, x, 1575 pages. A reprint of the 1818 edition of this county by county reference. Very good.

(MERRYMOUNT) UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley, and others. NOTES ON THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS & ITS WORK. San francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1975. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. "With bibliographical list of books printed at the press, 1893-1933," by Juli Pearce Smith; "to which has been added a supplementary bibliography of books printed at the press, 1934-1949," by Daniel Berkeley Bianchi. Limited to fiv hundred copies. Fine.

UPHAM, Nathaniel G. LETTER ON THE PRESENT CRISIS. Concord: McFarland and Jenks, 1861. 8vo. Wrappers. Very good.

URBINO, Madame L.B., and others. ART RECREATIONS. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1863. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Top edge gilt. Frontispie 336, (1), pages. New edition. Being a comprehensive art manual. Some of the topics are pencil drawing, antique painting, sign painting, moss work, papier mache, cone work, gilding bronzing, wax work, shell work, magic lantern, paper flowers, panorama painti and many more. Some minor cover wear.

URE, Andrew. A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND MINES. Two volumes. New York: Appleton, 1854. 8vo. Later brown buckram. xiv, 1118 pages; (ii), 9 pages. Revised edition. First published in 1839. Ure was a Scottish chemist and scientific writer. developed a course of popular scientific lectures for working men, the first its kind. This American edition is from the fourth English edition, the firs to appear after the 1851 Great Exhibition, containing a great deal of new information. Stain to tip of rear endpaper in Volume I, minor foxing throughout, else a very good set.

UZANNE, Octave. THE FRENCH BOOKBINDERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1904. 4to. Cloth spine, boards. 133 (1) pages, 20 plat First edition. One of 250 copies. [Mejer, 614; Brenni, 605]. Illustrated with six wash drawings by Paul Avril, fourteen facsimile binders' labels and twenty photographs of bookbindings. Divided into five chapters; t origin, first attempts at a decorative renaissance, the master binders, price tools, raw materials and a special chapter on the use of silk, embroidery, spangles, etc. as decoration. Very good.