Publisher:
Philadelphia:, American Philosophical Society, 1961. : 1961
Seller ID: BL1156
FIRST EDITION. Series: Memoirs of the APS Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Vol. 54. 8vo. viii, 173 pp. 59 illustrations, including color frontis. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover and spine titles, dust-jacket; small corner tears to jacket, else fine. Burndy bookplate. First Edition. View More...
Publisher:
[no place]:, For Private Circulation Only, 1883. : 1883
Seller ID: AA3308
Folio. [32] ff. Frontispiece and 26 full-page mounted original photographic plates; hint of waterstaining to top edge (with related rippling). Original half brown morocco, marbled boards, morocco corners, raised bands, gilt spine title, a.e.g., bound by J. Leighton, Brewer St. [stamp on front fly-leaf]; neat minor repairs to extremities, corners a bit worn. Inscribed on the title-page: ?With Mr. Edward Joseph?s Kindest regards, New York 22, Dec. [18]83.? Bookplate of John Nolty (1851-1930)[?The Love of Books, the Golden Key That opens the Enchanted Door?]. Very good copy. RARE. LIMITED EDITIO... View More...
Facsimile reprint. [Series]: Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology, Extra Publication no. 2. 8vo. xv, [8], 41, [2] pp. Frontis. Black-stamped cream boards with paper label. Burndy bookplate. Near fine. Reprint from ". . .One of the earliest works by an English writer concerning the apparatus for the raising of water, and perhaps the first attempt at the classification and analysis of such machines. . ." - Christies (Sale 1201 lot 50. View More...
Small 8vo. 78, [2] pp. Plates, index. Printed wrappers; extremities worn, pieces of spine missing. Fair. Rare. Catalogue of the Museo Dell'Opera del Duomo. New edition, enlarged with documents. View More...
Publisher:
(Milan):, Edizioni Il Polifilo, 1980. : 1980
Seller ID: BL3162
ISBN-13: 9788870504040
Series: Libri Rari; Collezioni di ristampe con nuovi apparati, IV. 8vo. lxvii, 114, lxxxvii-xcviii pp. Illus. (1 double-page), glossary, index. Boards, green printed dust-jacket; jacket extremities chipped. Burndy bookplate, gift of Bern Dibner. Very good. Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Facsimile of this Florentine classic on the art of glass making; with supporting essay (Italian and English, translated by Mirella Pellegrini). ISBN: 8870504042 View More...
Large folio (407 x 340 mm) 73 pp. 92 text images (most in color, tipped in), 30 color plates (plates 1-4 as a folding panorama), 4 index images, paper watermarked "Istitito Grafico Bertieri Milano". Cream cloth boards, brown-stamped cover and spine titles, dust-jacket, cloth-covered slipcase; short tears to jacket without loss. Thirteen plates from the 1971 Olivetti calendar are loosely inserted. Very good. This deluxe art volume, Grandi Monografie d'Arte a cura di Paolo Lecaldano, is a scholarly and detailed examination of Mantegna's decorative artwork, The Camera picta ("painted chamber"), ... View More...
