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UPDATED: August 22, 2010RECENT ACQUISITIONS INARTTRAVEL & ADVENTUREBOOKS WITH HAND-COLORED PLATESSIGNED BOOKSMAPS and more ART
Olympic Portraits; Annie Leibovitz. New York, Bulfinch Press, 1996, 1st edition. $40. Stenberg Brothers: Constructing a Revolution in Soviet Design. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1997. Soft cover. $35. Rembrandt: The Master and His Workshop. Yale Univ. Press, 1991. Two Volumes: Drawings & Etchings; Paintings. Both volumes with dust jackets and in a slip case. $100. Masterworks in Berlin: A City's Paintings Reunited; Colin Eisler. New York, Bulfinch Press, 1996, 1st edition. Dust jacket. $55. Edouard Manet; Text by Pierre Courthion. New York, Abrams, 1961. No dust jacket, 48 tipped-in color plates. $35. Delacroix; Barthelemy Jobert. Princeton Univ. Press., 1997. Dust jacket. $100. Rembrandt Etchings; Arthur M. Hind. London, Methuen, 1912, 1st edition. Two volumes. No dust jackets. $125. George Caleb Bingham: Catalog Raisonne, E. Maurice Bloch. U. California, Berkley. Two volumes, still in shrink wrap. $100. Italian Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953. Glassine cover, in slip case. No. 516 of a limited edition of 750. $75. Uffizi Gallery Museum and the Pitti Palace Collection. Hugh Lauter Levin, 2006. Two volumes with dust jackets and in slip case. $100. Earlier Italian Schools. London, National Gallery, 1956. Two volumes of plates, no dust jackets, blue cloth. $100. Rembrandt: The Complete Etchings; K.G. Boon. New York, Abrams, 1963. Dust jacket. $50. Naked Festival. Photographs by Tamotsu Yato. New York & Tokyo, Walker/Weatherhill, 1968, 1st edition. Dust jacket. $50.
TRAVEL & ADVENTURE
Under the Roof of the Jungle: A Book of Animal Life in the Guiana Wilds. Charles Livingston Bull; Boston, Page, 1911. decorated green cloth; color frontispiece, 1st edition. $50. Hunting Big Game: An Anthology of True and Thrilling Adventures. Townsend Whelen, editor. Harrisburg, Military Service Pub. Cp, 1946. Two volumes ( Vol. 1: Africa and Asia; Vol. 2: America). Orange cloth boards with gilt design on top boards. $125. Hunting American Bears. Frank C. Hibben; New York, Lippincott,1950, 1st edition. Brown cloth. $70. From Shikar & Safari: A Big game Anthology. E.H. Baxter, editor. London, A.&C. Black, 1931. 1st edition, rare with dust jacket. $125. Trader Horn: Being the Life and Works of Alfred Aloysius Horn; Ethelreda Lewis, editor. Garden City, NY, 1927. With dust jacket. $65. Vanishing Wilderness; Lamonte and Welch. New York, Liveright, 1934. Orange boards. Color frontispiece. $25. The Roaring Veldt; Gretchen Cron. New York, Putnam, 1930. Maroon boards with gilt titling. $75. A Book of the Wilderness Jungle; F.G. Aflalo, editor. New York, Dodge Pub. Co., 12 color plates, including frontispiece. Maroon cloth. $65. Through Hell and High Water; By Members of the Explorers Club. New York, National Travel Club, 1941, 1st edition. Black cloth. $65. The Land of the Lion; W.S. Rainsford. New York, Doubleday, Page, 1901, Many black & white photographs; map present. Green cloth. $195. Lion: African Adventures with the King of the Beasts. Martin Johnson. New York, Putnam, 1929. With fold-out map in rear. Maroon boards. $65.
HAND-COLORED PLATES
Portraits and Characters of the Kings of England from William the Conqueror to George the Third. London, J. Harris, 1823. Parts I and II. 31 color plates all present. 1st edition. $295. Leaf and Flower Pictures and How to Make Them. New York, Randolph, 1857. All 8 color plates present. Bookplate of Maria R. Audubon. In scribed to maria Audubon from Florence Audubon. $175. Manual Containing Information Respecting the Growth of the Mulberry Tree. J. H. Cobb. Boston, Carter, Hendee, 1833, 2nd edition. All 3 color plates present. $125. The Tiny Picture Book. Charleston, G.W. Hobbs. 27 pages with hand-colored vignettes on each page. $95
MAPS New Guide for Travellers through the United States of America Containing the Railroad, Steamboat, Stage and Canal Routes. Boston, J. Haven 1851. Includes a fold-out map dated 1851 which states "United States of America to Accompany Doggett's Rail Road Guide" $500
National Publishing Company's New Railroad, Post Office, Township and COunty Map of New York with Distances Between Stations - 1901. Boston National Publishing Company 1901 . Folding map of New York State, linen-backed.oth boards. Includes inserts of NYC & Long Island. Overall size 39"X44". $300.
SIGNED BOOKS
Ah, Wilderness! Eugene O’Neill. New York; Random House; 1933. Edition limited to 325 copies (this is copy No. 5) on all-rag paper and signed by Eugene O'Neill. Full blue leather with two lettering pieces on spine. $200.00. The Longest Day Cornelius Ryan. New York; Simon and Schuster; 1959; 2nd edition. With dust jacket. Inscribed by Ryan and signed "Cornelius – Connie to you – Ryan December 1959." $250 Our Friend John Burroughs Clara Barrus. Boston and New York; Houghton Mifflin; 1914. Inscribed by both Clara Barrus and John Burroughs. $295. O Pioneers! Willa Cather. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1937.Limited edition of 937. This is copy number 159. Signed by Willa Cather. $450. A Man in Full Tom Wolfe. New York, Farrar Straus, 1st Trade Edition. signed by Tom Wolfe, $75. Henner's Lydia Marguerite De Angeli. Garden City, Doubleday Doran, 1936. Inscribed by Marguerite De Angeli. In Spite of Myself Christopher Plummer. New York, Knopf, 2008. Inscribed by Plummer to Evelyn and Leonard (? Lauder). $75
Charles Dickens - The Centennial Edition of His Collected Works. Heron, [1960}. 36 volumes. $195. The History of the Crusades. J.F. Michaud. George Barrie, Philadelphia. Two volumes, 3/4 leather. 100 full-page illustrations by Dore. $425.
The Campaigns of the One Hundred Twenty-Fourth (124th) Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. By G. W. Lewis. Published by The Werner Company, Akron, Ohio. 285 pages including (i) From Cleveland, Ohio to Manchester, Tenn.; (ii) Some Recollections of the Campaign of Chattanooga, and the Battle of Chickamunga; (iii) The Siege of Chattanooga, The Battle of Lookout Mountain, and the Storming of Missionary Ridge; (iv) The East Tennessee Campaign, and the March from Chattanooga to Knoxville; (v) The Atlanta Campaign; (vi) From Atlanta to Nashville; and (vii) The Roster, including the Roll of Honor. Black leather with gilt titling; decorative endpapers; marbled edges. Competently rebacked (original backstrip retained) so binding is tight. Little or no foxing or browning to pages or photographs. There are no markings in the book and all pages are present. $500
The Complete Works of Tolstoy. Boston; Dana Estes; 1904; The Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Volumes I through XXIV are translated from the Original Russian and Edited by Leo Weiner and are consecutively numbered. The final four unnumbered volumes are Tolstoy’s posthumous works with three edited by Hagberg Wright (The Light that Shines in the Darkness; Father Sergius; The Forged Coupon) and the fourth, Hadji Mura, translated by Aylmer Maude. Blue cloth with gilt design and spines and gilt signature on front board; TEG. $1,250
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