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Fred DeFau & Company, Publishers. HARDCOVER. 1898. COMPBROWN :New York, Fred DeFau & Co., Publishers / copyright 1898, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. | This edition limited to 1000 copies, with this set of eleven numbered 267. Quatro. | All volumes are deckle edged on tail and fore edge. Head of pages are gilt-edged. Brown cloth boards with floral decoration at tail of spine. Previous owner's bookplate on pastedown of each volume. Frontispieces protected by velum sheets. Bindings are sound; no jackets (as published) and books are in Good or better condition. Individual pictures available on request. Mena and Women in a Balcony, Dramatis Personae, Balaustion, Aristophanes, The Ring and the Book (two volumes), Red Cotton Inn, Album, Two Poets, Strafford, Sordello, Lyrics, Romances, Christmas Eve, Agamemnon, La Saisiaz, Idyls, Jocoseria, Hohenstiel, Fifine, Pacchiarotto, Miscellaneous, The Ruses, Scutcheon, Colombe, Luria, Soul's Tragedy, Ferishtah, Parleyings, Asolando . G. #267 of 1000… Read More

Compania Litografica Nacional. HARDCOVER. 1991. 9586380319 :Medellin, Colombia: Sociedad Colombiana de Orquideolgia. Spanish language edition. Photography by Jorge Mario Munera B. Good in like jacket. Glossy leaves a little wavy, probably resulting from exposure to high-humidity but no adhesions nor musty odor. Pictorial Boards. Jacket a bit wavy and dust scratched but o/w Good, 288pp. 9586380319 . Good. 1st.

PAPERBACK. 0. :Publisher: Mennonite Church Canada, 2017.<br />Clean, unmarked copy. Small bump to the lower spine edge. Photo available upon request. . Very Good.

Barnard's Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way
Carnegie Institution of Washington. HARDCOVER. 1927.
A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way
RARE Vol. 1 original with a contemporary reprint of Vol. 2 included.
By Edward Emerson Barnard; Edwin B. Frost (ed.); Mary R. Calvert (ed.)
Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1927. Publication No. 247. Composed and Printed by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
This mixed set includes a scarce vintage copy of the lavish first volume containing 51 glossy, original photographic prints mounted on linen backing. It is in a sturdy binding of brown cloth, showing scuffs and lightly worn extremities. Scant pencil notations neatly throughout. (Very Good). Volume Two (a Near Fine leatherbound reprint**) features charts and tables. From the estate of radio astronomer Arthur Covington (1913-2001), by way of Astronomy contributor Alister Ling's collection.51 plates, 50 charts, and tables. Vol. I: 10 x 11 inches;… Read More