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719. "Hiraki Collection Ukiyoe: Volume 4, Bird-and-Flower and Landscape Prints: I" by The Mainichi Newspapers Tokyo: The Mainichi Newspapers, 1965. Folio, volume 4 only. Fifty color woodblocks, tipped in within a paper slipcase, bound hardback in blue cloth with beige leather spine with gilt embossed lettering. Offered in hinged hard-case with red paper label. Apprx 19" x 15" x 2-1/2". Edited by Seiichiro Takahashi, the director of the Japan Art Academy. 500/800 Sold: $345.00 |
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720. "Quartiers Choisis, Promenade a Travers Quatre Arrondissements de Paris" Paris: Editions Galilee, 1974. One of 15 examples on Arches, this being number 4, signed by the artist Vincent Brunot. Text by Georges Perec with excerpts from "Especes d'espaces". Folio, hand made in slip case and hard-cover. Bound by Jill Oriane Tarlau. Apprx 13" x 13-1/2". 500/1,000 Sold: $1,178.75 |
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721. "Le Bateau Ivre" by Arthur Rimbaud, Illustrated by Thierry W. De Spont New York: Thornwillow Press 1992, 1992. First edition. Limited to 250 copies, this being numbered 160. Signed by the artist.Translated by Louise Varese. The drawings, full-paged and laid in loose behind a sheet of tissue, were printed by offset lithography in black and white. Artist bound in blue leather with 3-D sculpted tri-colored leather abstract cover. Offered in black cloth hard-case. Apprx 18" x 13" x 2". Fine. 500/1,000 Sold: $1,178.75 |
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722. "A Compilation of The Messages and Papers of The Presidents" New York; Bureau of National Literature, Inc., 1897, first edition. Complete set of 20 volumes in black pebbled cloth with gilt embossed boards with presidential logo, gilt embossed spines. Copyrighted by James D. Richardson. All clean and bright, near fine with light rubbing to the spines. 800/1,500 Sold: $230.00 |
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723. C. Julii Caesaris quae extant Ex emendatione Jos. Scaligeri. (Works of Julius Caesar: The Gallic War; Civil War, etc. edited by J. Scaligeri) Amstelodami [Amsterdam], apud Johannem Janssonium à Waesberge, & Elizaeum Weyerstraet, 1665. 4to vellum book, elaborately engraved titles page with Caesar on horse, next page with Caesar's profile right on coin. Two fold out maps, and many woodcut devices throughout depicting battle strategies. Ink inscription on fly paper. Water-spots on vellum. Apprx 5-1/2" x 3" x 1-1/4". 400/600 Sold: $356.50 |
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724. "Paradise Regained" by John Milton, Decorated by Thomas Lowinsky "The Seven Golden Odes of Pagan Arabia, Known also as the Mo-Allakat. Translated from the original Arabic by Lady Anne Blunt. Done into English Verse" by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt London: The Fleuron, 1924. Octavo, original green boards, black gilt-lettered cloth spine, uncut. Printed green dust jacket in wraps. Top and bottom of spine lightly rubbed, dust jacket minimally chipped at top and bottom with some soils on front. Decorated by Thomas Lowinsky. One of 350 copies, this is number 11. Adhered bookplate on interior front board. London: Chiswick Press for the Translators, 1903. First edition. Small 4to., original Holland-backed blue boards, paper label on spine. Fly page very toned with previous owners card inserted. Un-cut. Interior clean and bright. 150/300 Sold: $143.75 |
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725. "The Black Christ and Other Poems" by Countee Cullen New York: Harper Brothers, 1929, fourth printing, F-F. Inscribed by author on fly paper. Small 4to, hard bound dark blue cloth with perfect gold foil label on front cover and on spine. Book in fine condition. Printed DJ, toned with losses. decorated by Charles Cullen. 150/300 Sold: $115.00 |
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726. "The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems" by Lewis Carroll, "Robin Hood: A collection of all the ancient poems, songs and ballads..." Joseph Ritson Ed., and "History of Oliver Cromwell and the English Commonwealth: from the Execution of Charles the First to the Death of Cromwell" by M. Guizot 1) New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. First edition thus. Small quarto, xiii, 248 pp. With color frontis and 39 sepia-toned illustrations by Peter Newell, all witty; beautiful wide green borders on every page by Robert Murray Wright (stylized animals, birds, fish, etc.) Full ivory parchment paper covered boards with gilt letters on boards and spine. Gilt top edge; other edges deckled. This edition is collectible for the illustrations and beautiful book design. 2) "...Now Extant Relative to that Celebrated English Outlaw to which are prefixed Historical Anecdotes on His Life by Joseph Ritson, Esq." London: William Pickering, 1832. Numerous illustrations by Bewick in both volumes. Octavo, bound in olive-dyed calf, boards framed in gilt fillet, spines with four raised bands, ornate gilt and title in maroon. Vol.1 148 pp, Vol. 2 261 pp. 3) Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1854. viii, 426 pp plus advertisements; vii 511 pp. Translated from French by Andrew R. Scoble. American edition (also published same year by Richard Bentley, London, and in France and elswere). Olive blind-stamped cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Solid bindings. 250/500 Sold: $149.50 |
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727. "Ulysses" by James Joyce Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1924, 8 vo. 4th printing, January. Bookplate adhered to front cover with ink name inscription on fly paper, with date of purchase in Paris. Inferior paper quality, bound in full leather with simple embossed and gilt lettering on spine. Two pages in front have paste down newspaper articles about the ban of this novel. Interior pages toned, otherwise very good. 250/450 Sold: $322.00 |
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728. A Miniature Persian Koran Manuscript, ca. Early 20th Century A miniature persian Koran (Quran) illuminated manuscript, each page with gilt outlines and red pigment and gilt accents. Title pages elaborately decorated with bright polychrome gouache and gilt elaborate arabesques pattern. Bound in leather, boards decorated with hand-painted flower arrangements over brown background with bonze speckles. Fly leafs stamped with an (export?) stamp and a label "Made in Iran, No. 485". Measures overall approx. 3-1/4" x 2" x 7/8". 200/400 Sold: $759.00 |
