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Shanghai Commercial Press, Ltd, China, 1936 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and Chinese text; Hardcover (original blue cloth silk with gilt design - without dust jacket); 19.5 x 27.6 cm; 3.357 Kg; 4 volumes: 1. Bronze (101 pages); 2. Porcelain (3 parts) (244 pages); 3. Painting and Calligraphy (256 pages); 4. Miscellaneous (191 pages) (Tapestry and Embroidery, Jade, Cloisonné, Red Lacquer, Fans, Furniture and Writing Accessories, Archaeological Exhibits and Ancient Books); all with black and white illustrations.; Signs of wear in the hardcover cloth. Minor edgeworn. Minor scuffs on the front cover of the four volumes and on the back cover of the second and third volumes; The gilt designs on the front cover of the second and forth volume show minor yellowing marks. The interior is in very good condition with minor signs of wear.; REFERENCE EXHIBITION ON CHINESE ART.; Catalogue for the International Exhibition of Chinese Art held by the Royal Academy of Arts at Burlington House,… Read More

Jorge Welsh Books, 2011 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; 3 hardcover volumes in slipcase; 1204 pages; 927 colour illustrations, 20 black and white illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm; 12 kg; The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's Vision is the most important new reference book on Chinese export porcelain to be published for many years. It provides the first comprehensive study of what is probably the world's best private collection of pieces for the European market and contains new research into the subject of Chinese export porcelain. The author Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos has been researching the RA Collection for 11 years and the result is a work of true scholarship providing the most up to date and complete account of the subject available. The three-volume set of hardcover books includes chapters on earthenware, stoneware and porcelain of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, works with Western shapes and decoration and armorial Chinese export porcelain.… Read More

Jorge Welsh Books, 2011 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Portuguese text; 3 hardcover volumes in slipcase; 1204 pages; 927 colour illustrations, 20 black and white illustrations; 26 x 35.5 cm; 12 kg; The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector's Vision is the most important new reference book on Chinese export porcelain to be published for many years. It provides the first comprehensive study of what is probably the world's best private collection of pieces for the European market and contains new research into the subject of Chinese export porcelain. The author Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos has been researching the RA Collection for 11 years and the result is a work of true scholarship providing the most up to date and complete account of the subject available. The three-volume set of hardcover books includes chapters on earthenware, stoneware and porcelain of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, works with Western shapes and decoration and armorial Chinese export… Read More

West Baden Springs, Indiana: The Artist, 1976. ( 1976-1980 ) West Baden Springs, Indiana. 30 works ranging in size from 10" x 13" down to 3 1/2" x 5", 10 of the works individual watercolor, tempura, and ink paintings and 20 original watercolor, tempura and inks done as note cards. All SIGNED Lois A. Doane. Generally Near Fine or better. Along with an 8 1/2" x 11 1/2" card stock mounted with her portrait photo and a pricelist for her exhibition at the Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, Indiana, Nov. 7-27, 1976, and a mailer for another show she had at the Old Library, sponsored by the Bloomington Area Arts Council, Oct. 5-26, 1980. Lois A. Doane was born in 1894 in what was called the "Quaker Community" near West Baden Springs, Indiana. Self-taught, she often sold her works to the tourists who flocked to the historic West Baden Springs Resort Hotel. Subject matter ranges from portrait to landscape to fantasy. Always colorful and charming, of particular… Read More

London: William Pickering, 1825. Hardcover. Very Good. 3.5" x 2" Miniature edition of t he Plays of Shakespeare in 9 volumes, in custom slipcase. Vol 1: [vi] 306 p.p.; vol 2: 279 p.p; vol 3: 294 p.p; vol 4: 326 p.p; vol. 5: 321 p.p.; vol. 6: 348 p.p.; vol. 7: 320 p.p.; vol. 8: 315 p.p.; vol. 9: 279 p.p. [liv]. Full green morocco bindings, with some wear and scuffs. Spine rebacked with new black leather with original spine laid down on volume 1 only. Gilt titles on spines and gilt ruling on inner edges. 38 B&W plates, incl. frontis. engraved by Augustus Fox, from a picture painted by T. Stothard R.A. from the rare print by Droeshout. Browning to pages and illustrations, sporadic light foxing throughout. Water staining to volume 6, not affecting text. William Pickering was an English publisher notable for introducing cloth binding to British publishing. Dedicated to Earl R.H. George John Spencer, the 2nd Lord Spencer, noted for his interest in literature, particularly early examples of printing.… Read More

New York: Popular Science Publishing Company, 1931. 12 issues, the complete run for the year 1931. Very Good Plus to Near Fine, four with light wear at spine ends, pencil inscription front cover and ink inscription rear cover of January issue. The August issue of particular interest due to the first coverage of August Piccard and Paul Kipfer's hot air balloon expedition to the new height of 9.8 miles above the Earth's surface, thus becoming the first human beings to enter the stratosphere. A great time capsule of popular scientific thought, with numerous articles, photos, and advertisements, and those wonderful and colorful covers ! . First Printings. Magazine. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

198 lithogr. pages with columns for subject, volume-number, number of volumes, author, title, section and row. Pages 1-142 with manuscript entries, pages 143-198 blank. Cont. half leather, gilt spine and gilt title to front cover. Front paste-down a with stationary ticket of Jos. Levy & Bros.Co, New Orleans. Folio. Spine and corners renewed. Covers soiled. Library catalogue of Constantine Lawrence Lavretta (1858-1921), mayor of Mobile, Alabama from 1894 to 1897. A businessman, head of the firm begun by his father, Lavretta also served as a state legislator, a member of the board of public works, and an Alabama delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1900. He is considered the first Italian-American mayor of a major city in the United States. His catalogue is divided into 11 sections (headed 'groups') including history, heraldry, natural history, dictionaries, drama, literature, erotica, etc. containig over 5000 titles. 2 out of 3 leaves with typewritten contents of the various sections… Read More

Glasgow: The Author (?), 1914. Signed binding by MacLehose, Glasgow. of full calf, five raised bands with gilt lettering back, marbled end papers. The binding Very Good, spine darkened, joints and corners showing some wear, later owner name and inscription front marbled end page. A sammelband with title page, contents page, and 13 listed works dated 1896-1914 by George Neilson (1858-1923), the noted Scottish historian, antiquary and lawyer. Additionally a 4 p. ALS sent to Neilson by Joseph Barn (?), dated 1896, at least 4 other unsigned ms. notes, and numerous period newspaper clippings laid in. The contents are; 1. Old Annan, 1896. 2. The Motes in Scotland, in the Scottish Review, 1898. 3. Knight Service, Juridicial Review, 1899. 4. Scottish Serjeanties, Ibid, 1899 5. Garrison Theory (On some Scottish Burghal Origins), Ibid, 1899. 6. Dumfries Burghal Origins, 1914. 7. Burghs of Annandale, 1914. 8. Sir Hew of Eglintoun. 1900-01. 9. History in Golagros and Gawayne, 1901-02. 10. Crosslinks between… Read More

Engraved portrait front. of Cornelis Ploos van Amstel signed R Winkeles sculp. 1799 - J. Buys pinx. 1766. XXIV, (2), 319 pages; 227 (1), 82 pages. Priced throughout in a contemporary hand, including two manuscript total values at the end of each volume. Cont. Dutch red half vellum bindings, with gilt black morocco labels. First volume with printed original front wrapper with title mounted onto front cover. Lower spine end of volume I minimally frayed. (222 x 138 mm). Covers rubbed. Nagler, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, XIII, p. 28 and Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, II, p. 333. Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek VI, pp. 1139-1140. First and only edition of this sale catalogue of a remarkable collection of prints, drawings and paintings, illustrated books, Kunstkammer pieces, and optical and mathematical instruments and including a major collection of Rembrandt prints brought together by Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726 - 1798), a painter, engraver, printer and publisher… Read More

Terre Haute, IN: Self-published, 1926. An exceptionally documented and detailed scrapbook and photo album compiled by Edward Lathrop, a Lone Scout from 1917-1924 and a Scoutmaster and Camp Director at Camp Sandison, Turkey Run State Park, Terre Haute, Indiana from 1926-1930. Bound in a wood panel-sided 3 ring binder with Boy Scout decal front cover, prior owner name label verso front cover, Very Good, 106 pages with black card stock backgrounds, with 130 black and white photographs ranging in size from 2" x 3" to 5" x 8". The photographs are annotated in ink. Also with six Scouting publications, 15 programs, 21 letters, 12 Scout cards, seven certificates, one drawing, and numerous newspaper and magazine clippings. The bulk of the material is from the period 1931-1935, with later material as late as 1951. Lathrop was a Reverend in the Evangelical United Brethren Church. Of special interest is a US War Department Army Corps of Engineers Manhattan District certificate dated 6 August… Read More

Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Co., 1931-1937. First edition. 12 issues. Folio stapled paperwraps with color illustrated covers. Includes first appearances of 11 Fitzgerald short stories: "A NEW LEAF" in July 4 1931 issue (near fine with just a little darkening to edges); "DIAGNOSIS" in Feb. 20 1932 issue (near fine with address label); "FLIGHT AND PURSUIT" in May 14 1932 issue (good with address label and cover worn at fold, internally mended with archival tape, and detached but still present); "FAMILY IN THE WIND" in June 4 1932 issue (good to very good with partial address label and edge slightly tanned and lightly foxed); "WHAT A HANDSOME PAIR!" in Aug. 27 1932 issue (near fine with address label); "ONE INTERNE" in Nov. 5 1932 issue (very good to near fine with upper corners clipped from front and rear covers); "ON SCHEDULE" in Mar. 18 1933 issue (near fine with address label); "I GOT SHOES" in Sept. 23 1933 issue (very good with address label, foxing to upper front cover, and about ½" trimmed… Read More

The Coffee Gallery, 1353 Grant Av., San Francisco : Humble Publications , 1974. RARE. 25 separate numbers, 1- 18 and 20 - 26, plus "Festival of Poetry Summer Solstice" August, 1974, for a total of 26 publications. Lacking No. 19, which should have been published Oct. 2, 1974. Vol. 1, No. 1 published 1974 ( no month and day given), starting with Vol. 1, No. 2 published March 6, 1974, each copy dated by day and month up to Vol. 1, No. 26, December 11, 1974. All copies Fine except No. 4 , horizontal tear front cover appears to be a paper flaw, and No. 26, a 2" tear with chip top edge front cover, and a horizontal tear with paper loss rear cover, again appears to be a flaw in the paper. By 1974 "The Coffee Gallery", home to these Wednesday night poetry readings, had a long history as a Beat and Bohemian hangout, hosting the likes of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti reading poetry and featuring early performances by Janis Joplin and Grace Slick and the Great Society in its… Read More

Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1987 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English and Chinese text.; Hardcover (silk cloth without dust jacket - as issued. Two volumes in slipcase.); 27.5 x 37 cm; 5.5 Kg; Volume I with 364 pages and Volume II with 240 pages. Includes 400 colour illustrations including 59 panoramic views.; Used books. The spines are slightly faded as usual with minor signs of wear. The exterior of the hardcover show minor signs of wear. The exterior of the slipcase show signs of wear, and is worn at the top right corner. The interior of both volumes looks as new. Includes the pictorial paper wrapped around the slipcase, which has tears on the bottom and top.; Catalogue from the exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art of 163 objects, the majority are products of the imperial kilns of Jingdezhen.; "The Hong Kong Museum of Art is proud to present an exhibition of pieces selected from the Tianminlou Collection of Chinese porcelain, a collection that has been assembled over the last… Read More

Hong Kong University Press, 1981 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (3 volume set in slipcase with two clasps.).; 23 x 30.5 cm; 7 Kg; Black and white and a few colour illustrations throughout.; Volume I-Introduction, ISBN 962-209-004-4, 273 pages; Volume II-The Topkapi Palace Museum, ISBN 962-209-005-2, 282 pages; Volume III-The Ardebil Shrine Collection, ISBN 962-209-006-0, 372 pages.; Used books with signs of wear on the interior and exterior, as well as the slipcase. The lettering on the front cover and spine is slightly worn. Very good set overall. Interior as new, except for stamps from a previous owner on the rear of the front cover of each volume. The interior of the slipcase is also stamped.; "This volume, together with the one on the collection of Chinese porcelain from the Topkapi Sarayi in Istambul and the Ardebil Shrine in Tehran, was first published by Gakugei Shorin, Tokyo, in 1972 in a three-volume Japanese limited edition, now out of print. This… Read More

British Museum Press, London, 2001 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 640 pages with 1025 colour and 100 black and white illustrations; 22.70 x 28.5 cm; 2.75 Kg; Used book with minor signs of wear on the dust jacket. Interior as new. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; VERY HARD TO FIND.; Ming pottery and porcelain, dating from China's Renaissance period between the mid fourteenth and mid seventeenth centuries, has influenced the way people serve food and decorate their buildings from Europe to East Africa. In imperial China, ceramics were needed for the daily use of the emperors and their households as well as for the performance of sacred and secular rites. Inscribed vessels were presented to Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian temples, and pottery replicas were required after death to furnish the deceased with houses, servants and food for the afterlife. Glazed architectural ceramics have been found throughout China. Beyond its… Read More