Four Figures, First Edition (24 results)

PAPERBACK. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. unpaginated, large square octavo paperback. mild wear to wrap edges yet clean, tight binding, interior clean.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Trade Sized Paperback. First Printing. ARC. Noted on back cover "UNCORRECTED PROOF-NOT FOR RESALE". Color illustrated cover. 253 pages. AS NEW. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding tight, without stress creases and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked in any way and very clean, glossy and bright. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Soft Cover, Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition First Printing. Folio. 113 pages, indexed, plus 130 plates. Hardcover bound in blue cloth. Prior owner has placed a clear plastic wrapper around the binding, secured with clear tape (not attacted to the book). Book shows light to moderate wear. Secure inner hinges and with clean text. Illlustrated with 130 plates at the rear.

First Edition. Missing covers, but is otherwise in very good condition. The four very large folding plates appear never to have been opened. We provide PROTECTIVE packaging. Photos of our books are always available upon request. SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS ON ABE SINCE 1997 AND IN OUR STORE IN THE BERKSHIRES FROM 1987 TO 2015.

First Edition. First Printing. Large wraps. Very Good condition.

1st. Edn. Tall 8vo. (26cm. tall 15cm.). pp. xii, 89. A very good plus hardback copy in the original brown buckram with gilt lettered spine. free from annotation or underlining.

BINDING - Rebound Half Leather. Condition: CONDITION - used/Average. 1st Edition. 386 Pages , 444 Pages , 468 Pages, 483 Pages. Vol 4 With Some Damp Marks. Few Minor Pinholes.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First edition. Read before the Newcastle Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Sciences, September 1916. 226 pages with four photographic plates, illustrations, general characters of the country, itinerary and descriptive account of vegetation, plant associations of the low mountain forest formation, systematic account of the plants collected, and index. Bound in orginal blue paper covered limp boards with lettering in black. Water staining to spine and a quarter into the covers, and along the interior gutters between the endpapers. The text is unaffected. Several corrections to the spelling in the text. A good copy of a scarce first edition. Book.

Volume: 1 25,5x17,5 cm., legatura in piena tela rossa, marca in oro sul piatto, fregi e titoli in oro su tassello al dorso, sopraccoperta illustrata a colori, immagini ripetute sui piatti del cofanetto, cofanetto, taglio superiore in colore, pp. XXV (5), 390; figures 110+ multiple, nel testo; plates 192+ multiple, in bianco e nero, fuori testo, prima edizione, in inglese, volume in ottimo stato, piccole abrasioni e normali segni d'uso e tempo cofanetto e dorso sopraccoperta.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small slim 8vo, original cloth, a few small chips along spine, [vi], 31pp. (oddly numbered in Roman numerals), 4 plates, publisher's ads. First Edition. A Good+ to Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo. 152 pp. Mauve cloth with gilt design and title, bevelled boards and blind stamped margins: clean with some fading to spine; also remain of ink mark to lower section and small hole thereto. Discrete Minnesota State College library stamps to FEPs and ditto to rear end paper with borrowing sheet removed from rear pastedown; discrete bookseller's stamp thereto also. Light foxing to prelims only. Clean throughout and entirely well bound. A rare late nineteenth century anti-Papist tract at once characterising a tradition of conspiracy fear and making its own bid to inhabit a non-conformist 'tradition'.

Cloth over boards. Condition: Very good. First English edition. Hardcover cloth (purple) over boards. 4to. [4] + 100 + 24 pp. Unillustrated. Includes the 24 page publisher's catalogue after the main text. The catalogue is a slightly different size than the main text block, and is mostly untrimmed. Three line border and an additional one line border blind stamped on the front and back boards. Half title stamped in gilt on the spine. Inscription in ink at the top of the title page reads: J. R. Earle Oxford. Bookseller's marks in graphite also on the title page. Text block shows slight age browning, but is otherwise clean, unmarked and square with a strong binding. Boards and spine show a little wear along the edges with slightly bumped corners. Slight fading along the head. Spine has been sunned from original purple to brown. Head and tail of the spine frayed.

First Edition. Good copy only in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Covers somewhat dust-dulled and rubbed, with absent ribbon fastenings. All pages present, but entirely disbound/loose. Some minor nicks and creases to margins, with faint and sporadic foxing; the overall condition of the individual leaves is strong. A serviceable reading copy. Physical description; viii, 50 pages, 24 plates ; 30 cm. Notes; With twenty-four plates and ten explanatory figures. Subjects; Anatomy, Artistic. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Good copy only in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Covers somewhat dust-dulled and rubbed, with absent ribbon fastenings. All pages present, but entirely disbound/loose. Some minor nicks and creases to margins, with faint and sporadic foxing; the overall condition of the individual leaves is strong. A serviceable reading copy. Physical description; viii, 50 pages, 24 plates ; 30 cm. Notes; With twenty-four plates and ten explanatory figures. Subjects; Anatomy, Artistic. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Worn copy bound in quarter leather over marble boards. Wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 52 pages ; 24 illus. Subjects; George Cumberland. Art. Sculpture. 3 Kg.

Softcover. Condition: Gut bis sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Leichtere Gebrauchsspuren. 1. Auflage. Watari Gallery, Tokyo; first edition. Illustrated booklet, 16 p., 11.8 x 30.5 cm, staple binding. In good condition with slightly rusted brackets and slight signs of age.

First Edition. Worn copy bound in quarter leather over marble boards. Wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 52 pages ; 24 illus. Subjects; George Cumberland. Art. Sculpture. 1 Kg.

First Edition. First edition. Small oblong softcover. [16 pages] Published for an exhibition that opened March 1, 1980 at Galerie Watarie. Includes 15 black and white drawings. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some very faint foxing and slight creasing to the bottom left corner.

Softcover. Condition: vg-. First edition. Thin octavo. 12pp. [ + 8 un-numbered plates]. Light brown staple-bound paper wrappers, with black text on the front cover. This scarce promotional publication produced by the Zionist Federation of Argentina, contains text, statistics and images relating to successful agricultural, construction and land development projects by Jewish immigrants to Palestine. The middle section includes 8 pages containing a total of 24 b/w photographic reproductions showing farming, building projects and land cultivation, including early images of the Rishon Letzion area, Kibbutz Degania, Ekron (Mazkeret Batya), Tel Aviv, Moshav Ben Shemen, Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, The Bezalel Art School, and plans for the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, among others. All images are captioned. The final page contains a short statement from British-Jewish industrialist, financier and politician Sir Alfred Mond (1868-1930). Text throughout in Yiddish. Wrappers with with stains rust stains along the staples, and some additional minor smudges and water stains to the covers. Light rubbing to corners. Interior with minor to light sporadic water stains, however images are all clean. Wrappers and interior in very good- condition overall. Yiddish title: ?????? ???????? ??? ??? ????? ???? ???? ?????????? ??????: ?????? ??? ?????? Publisher: ??????????? ????????? ??? ????????? This scarce edition is a variant of the slightly more common printing, published by the Karen Ha-Yesod organiztion in London the same year (1 holding on OCLC). The typefont and layout here are every so slightly different from the London edition, but the text and images remain the same. There are no copies of this Argentine edition on OCLC.

First edition. Oblong 8vo. Separate lithographed title and 43 lithographed plates with 198 figures. 40 pp. Publisher's full speckled sheep, title stamped in gilt on front cover; light rubbing to binding, front flyleaf and rfep starting, foxing throughout, small closed tear to lower margin of pl. 40. First edition of the first American furniture pattern book, presenting designs in the Empire or "plain style Grecian." The work opens with an illustrated treatise on perspective drawing, followed by some 175 patterns for a variety of mouldings, chairs, bookcases, tables, sofas, beds, etc. Little biographical information is known about Hall. He was born in England, ca. 1809, and immigrated to Baltimore by 1835, when a city directory lists him as a draftsman. Remarkably, he published three books in 1840: the present work on furniture design, and works on architecture (A Series of Select and Original Modern Designs for Dwelling Houses) and stairs (A New and Concise Method of Hand-Railing). Thomas Gordon Smith, in his introductory essay to the reprint of these works (John Hall and the Grecian Style in America, 1996), praises the books as presenting a unified expression of the Greek revival or Empire styles and as "indicators of taste during the antebellum period" (p. vi) in America.A rare work both institutionally and on the market. Rare Book Hub and ABPC do not record any copies at auction. PROVENANCE: ?D. Berry (early ink ownership stamp on front pastedown)REFERENCE: American Imprints 40--290.

Hardcover. Two volumes. London: Printed (vol. I: by B. M[otte]) for the Author, 17071725. Folio (13 3/8" x 9 ¾", 339mm x 247mm). With 285 engraved plates: 1 folding map and 284 plates, of which 28 are folding and 156 double-page. Bound in contemporary calf (re-backed, with the back-strip laid down). On the spine, six raised bands. Author and title gilt to roan in the second panel, number gilt to black roan in the third. Gilt roll to the edges of the boards. All edges of the text-block sprinkled red. Re-backed, with the back-strip laid down. Edges of the boards renewed. Scuffed generally, with some surface loss at the spine. Internally quite clean; scattered leaves or plates (a couple dozen, perhaps) are tanned, moderately at most. Mild damp-staining to the lower edge of vol. II from Xxxx1 through pl. 213, not affecting the text. 1" tear to the central four-way fold of pl. 216. Pressed leaves at I.d1.2 and I.q2-r1; offsetting from leaves to p. 188 of vol. I. The uncompleted library label of "Jared P. Kirtland,/ Cleveland, Ohio." to the front paste-down of each volume. With marginalia throughout. Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was a medical doctor by training and practice, and as personal physician to the second Duke of Albemarle, who has been installed as governor, he traveled to Jamaica in 1687. Albemarle died the next year, so perhaps Sloane is better remembered as an inveterate collector. Indeed, through his benefactions of property, money and specimens were founded the British Museum (progenitor of the British Library), the National History Museum and the Chelsea Physic Garden. His role in Britain's tradition of natural history is unrivalled. Sloane's account of his time Madeira (en route west) and the Caribbean islands -- but principally Jamaica -- established his reputation as an explorer and pioneer. The wealth of his observations about the climate, flora, fauna and people (including some interesting early Caribbean ethnomusicology) of these islands is matched by the staggering volume of engravings illustrating the work. The present work was the first to illustrate to Anglophone readers and cognoscenti the natural wealth of Jamaica and the Antilles more broadly. Sitwell calls it "a fundamental work for West Indian botany." The extensive marginalia (and occasional emendations) are quite curious. The ink and the graphite appear to be the same hand, which one would characterize as late-XVIIIc or early-XIXc. Although the majority are lectional aids the annotator does often provide the Spanish names for the plants and animals under discussion. In vol. II he shares a bit more of his own experience. E.g., in a discussion of the plantain tree the claim that "if one gathers the fruit before it is ripe or good to eat, the Branch will turn on him and give him a Blow on the Nose" (II.142) is countered with "I have gathered many unripe ones, and never have received such a blow." Can the annotator be the eminent naturalist Jared Potter Kirtland (1793-1877) whose book-label is in the front of each volume? There does not appear to be any record of Kirtland's travelling to the Caribbean himself, which rather goes against the first-hand comments. And yet the breadth of erudition and the command of the facts of natural history suggest a deeply learned commentator. Whether or not these are Kirtland's marginalia, his ownership of the set is distinguished indeed. He was in the first matriculated class of the Yale School of Medicine. He eventually moved to the Connecticut Western Reserve (now Ohio), where he was, like Sloane, a physician and founder of what would become the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. A friend of J.J. Audubon, he is perhaps best known as the namesake of Kirtland's warbler. ESTC T00752; Hunt 417; Nissen, ZBI 1854; Sabin 82169; Sitwell, GFB pp. 139-140.

15 black & white illus. [16] pp. Tall 8vo, printed wrappers (a little soiled), staple-bound. Tokyo: Galerie Watari, 1980. Uncommon Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) artist's book/exhibition catalogue, with reproductions of 15 wall drawings exhibited at Shizuko Watari's gallery in Tokyo. Near fine. ? Maffei & de Donno, Sol LeWitt Artist's Books (2009), p. 90 (pictured). Sol LeWitt: Libros, El concepto como arte (2014) Libros 53 (pictured pp. 132-33).

Half Calf. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 24 by 15.5 cm. 194 hand-colored plates. The plates are sensitively and sublimely realized and impart something visually that no photograph of the many insect species represented here could ever achieve. Hand-written two page exigesis on preserving specimens on two preliminary blanks of first volume, along with an insert piece of scrap paper with two sketches of insects -- we would consider these accretions a plus. Calf on spines with cracking, rubbing and wear, with a loss of one spine label, and the gilt detailing on one compartment of one volume is now lost with plain calf repair. All the volumes have had joint repairs, and on the first volume, one can see shadow remnants of tape which clearly was once used to hold boards. Notwithstanding these issues, the contemporary bindings remain handsome and should please most sensibilities. All text blocks are tight, and the interiors are generally clean, with only the most occasional light soiling.