![Item #30383 Cahier d'Entrainement a l'Ecriture [handwriting manual]; Anglaise Penchee --...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30383.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973573)
Paris: Magnard, n.d. [1960s]. No stated edition. Sewn soft cover. 24p, several line ills. and many handwriting examples. Printed in grey. Covers and pages age-browned. French elementary student's exercise book for learning to write cursive lowercase letters in the "sloping English" style. Sixth and last in the series. Each spread..... More
Westmoreland, NH: Bridge Press, 2016. Cohen, Brian D. Limited edition (200 signed copies). Soft cover. N.p., 25 pls. "Reproduces the first twenty-five etchings of the Emblem series," accompanying an exhibition in Brattleboro, VT. Inspired by Renaissance emblem books, Cohen depicts "mostly things I like, encounter, or dream of. They are..... More
Vienna: Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, 1986. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 30 black-and-white ills. mostly full-page pls. Cover handling soil. In German. Exhibition catalogue of 88 Baroque examples from the museum's library--sumptuous book bindings and book illustrations. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping..... More
![Item #30120 Julijs Feders [Fedders]: Monograph. A. Eglit, A. Lapin](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30120.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973510)
Riga, Latvia: Latvian State Publishers, 1958. Fedders. No stated edition. .Hardcover. No jacket, as issued. 160p, ca. 70 pls., 8 in color. Study of this early Latvian landscape painter. (1838-1909) With a checklist of his works. In the publisher's series, Materials on the History of Latvian Art. In Russian. Uncommon..... More
London: Whitechapel Gallery, 1991. Diebenkorn. First edition. Soft cover. 156p, 52 large color plates + several other ills. New York Times 1993 obituary laid in. Photo is a little cropped on the right. Handsome catalogue of a traveling exhibition. Includes many in the Ocean Park series. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace, n.d. [ca. 1939-40]. No stated edition. Hardcover. 46p. Jacket smudged, spine sunned. Endpaper hinges a little darkened from binding glue. Bookseller ticket of The Old Corner Book Store, Boston. An early printing of the U.S. edition in the first-issue dust jacket (price $1.50). Copyright 1939, no..... More
Munich: Emil Hirsch, 1929. First edition. Soft cover. 36p + 15 ills. on 8 pls. (bindings). Unused bid sheet laid in. In German. Auction catalogue of 372 lots, with author and artist index. Emphasis on American, English, and German fine printing--Ashendene, Bremer, Doves, Eragny, Ernst Ludwig, Kelmscott, Vale, Hundertdrucke, Insel..... More
New York: Ernest Dressel North, n.d. [1931]. First edition. 72p, no ills. Printed by The Southworth Press, Portland, ME. Bookseller's catalogue with short descriptions of hundreds of works. Chiefly fiction and poetry, also philosophy, history, etc., from the 1870s on. Also many earlier titles, including a 1542 Chaucer. Small; can..... More
![Item #30079 Catalogue of Famous First Editions Rare and Standard Books; [catalogue LXVII = 67]....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30079.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1648559180)
New York: Ernest Dressel North, 1923. First edition. Paperbound. N.p. (429 items), a few plates of fine bindings. Covers soiled inside and out, creased; upper rear cover corner chipped off. Chiefly literature. The plates show bindings by Cobden-Sanderson, Sauty, Bradstreet's, Riviere and Son, and two embroidered bindings (one from the..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 225p + over 200 plans and photos, many never before published. Jacket back is sunned. Photo is a little cropped. Detailed, insightful comparison of Rio and Brasilia, by a renowned architectural historian who spent much time there. "Both cities are typically..... More
Chicago: F.H. Revell, 1882 or 1883. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. Old handling wear; browned. Short closed marginal tear. Folded, ca. 2 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. . The outside advertises Revell's book and stationery departments (printing and binding was also offered). The inside presents the year's weekly lessons for Bible..... More
Lunenburg, VT: Meriden-Stinehour Press, 1988. Limited edition. Hardcover. 300p, many ills., some with flat color. No. 431 of 1200 numbered copies. Checklist of 1006 publications printed by the Press from 1950 through 1979, with an index of titles. Also with an appendix of 64 serial publications, everything from the Lancaster..... More
Gottingen: V & R unipress, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. 503p, over 100 ills., most in color. No d.j., as issued. Based on the publisher's archives, here is a comprehensive history of Bruno Cassirer's London and Oxford years and an annotated bibliography of almost every book the firm published then (some..... More
Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Over 60 pp., no ills. Covers darkened, stained. Front endpapers foxed. Binding is sound. Ca. 5 x 7 inches. Glossary of hundreds of words, arranged by category: tactics, weapons, fire, terrain and roads, map reading, billeting, staff duties, services, field engineering, ranks..... More
Providence: John Carter Brown Library, 1990. First edition. Soft cover. xvi, 16, 36p + 12 plates. Printed by Meriden Gravure-Stinehour Press. Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition The Book in the Americas, presented at the Americas Society Art Gallery, New York, in 1990. Describes and collates 12 supplemental books..... More
Boulder, CO: Four Rivers Books, n.d. [ca. 1999-2000]. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., several ills. + 22 in color including covers. Bookseller's catalogue of "fine and private press books, artists' books, Limited Editions Club books, books on books." 394 items with descriptions, chiefly British and American 20th century. Can be..... More
Paris: Goupil, 1911. Brun, Louis Auguste. Limited edition. Hardcover (buckram with leather label, original wrappers bound in). 150p, many ills. No. 73 of 1000 copies. Focuses on Brun's early career--portraits, landscapes, and a chapter of interesting studies of horsemen and horsewomen astride and aside. More
Milwaukee: Kalmbach Pub. Co., 1947. Fox, Charles Philip. First edition. Cardboard covers, plastic comb-bound. [36]p, many photos by Fox; one foldout page. How the circus "moves about from one city to another in a single night, and how in only a few hours it explodes from tightly packed wagons on..... More
![Item #31014 Catalogue 571: Atlases and Maps from the 15th to 20th Century [cover title]. Francis...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31014.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1658836804)
London: Francis Edwards, 1934. First edition. Soft cover. 103p + 3 pls. (maps by Ptolemy, Ortelius, Speed). Bookseller catalogue of 1453 items: "rare atlases, old maps and charts, original manuscript maps, facsimiles of early maps, road books [including the first known such], books of geographical interest. Single sheet and decorated..... More
London: Francis Edwards, 1968. Soft cover. Cover reads: Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift and Their Times. 69p, 1 ill. on cover. 69 items. "With Selections on The Bangorian Controversy, Banking and Coinage, Dr. Dover, William Higden, London, The Duke of Marlborough, Relations with Spain, The Standing Army, Union with Scotland, etc...... More
Paris: Francisque Lefrancois, 1931. First edition. Soft cover. 182p + many large plates, including bindings. Part 2 of 6, complete in itself. Some contemporary pencil notes, including one that seems to indicate that Rosenbach spent $720,000 at the first two sales. Lavish auction catalogue of wood-cut and engraved books of..... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press for Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 144p, 128 ills. Small MIT overstock mark on bottom fore-edges. Critical study of Dada and Surrealist use of "words, letters, and numbers in their works [which] altered perceptions of what a painting or an art..... More
Watkins Glen, NY: Century House, 1971. Prang, Louis. First edition (trade edition). Hardcover. 192p, many ills. + many ills. on 16 color plates. In the publisher's Library of Victorian Culture series. Jacket is soiled and torn, as shown. The first comprehensive account of Prang's life and work as art educator..... More
Innsbruck: Wagner'sche Universitat, 1891. First edition. Paperbound. 55p, 3 line ills. In German. On wood construction in antiquity--Assyria, Egypt, Greece--based on ancient texts and other evidence. Passing references to Gottfried Semper. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate. Reference copy... More
Frankfurt am Main: Societats-Verlag, 1930. Furhmann, Ernst. First edition. Hardcover. [8]p + 200 photos. Lacks dust jacket. Owner's old acquisition date of "Sep. 1931" in pencil on front endpaper. Introduction and captions by Fuhrmann. The close-up photos, which recall those of Karl Blossfeldt, illustrate the structure and life cycle of..... More
