PUCCINI, Giacomo. Manon Lescaut. Dramma Lirico in quattro atti. Riduzioni di Carlo Carignani. Plate number 95567. [10], 258 pp. Illustrated with a full-page photograph of Puccini by the Platinotipia Bertieri. Folio, 272 x 202 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated grey paper over boards. Milan: G. Ricordi & Co., [1909?].
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GUIGNES, Chretien-Louis-Joseph de. Dictionnaire chinois, français et latin. Publié d'après l'ordre de sa majesté L'Emperuer et Roi Napoléon le Grand par M. de Guignes, résident de France à La Chine, Attaché au Ministère des Relations Extérieures, Correspondant de la Première et de la Troisieme Classe de L'Institut. [8], lvi, 1112.....
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RUSCELLI, Giralomo et al. Del tempio alla divina signora donna Giouanna d'Aragona. [48], 388 [i.e. 404]; 159 [i.e. 147], [37] pp. With woodcut initials throughout. Small 8vo., 148 x 100, bound in contemporary vellum, title in manuscript on the spine. Venice: Per Plinio Pietrasanta, 1555.
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Item nr. 169673
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MENDOZA, [Juan Gonzales de]. Dell'Historia della China. [48], 380 pp. Small 4to., 210 x 150 mm, bound in later vellum. Rome: G.A. Ruffinello, 1586.
First Edition in Italian, of this popular and key Western text on Ming China printed the year following the original Spanish edition. Juan Gonzales de Mendoza (1545-1618).....
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CONFUCIUS. Confucius Sinarum Sive Scientia Sinensis Latine Exposita. cxxiv, 108, 160, xx, 20, 8, [2], 23-108, [2] pp. Illustrated with engraved portrait of Confucius and a map of China engraved by François de Louvemont from a drawing by the Belgian missionary Philippe Couplet. Folio, 335 x 225 mm, bound in.....
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CHINESE GRAMMAR. Elemens de la grammaire chinoise, ou, Principes generaux du kou-wen ou style antique, et du kouan-hoa. By Jean-Pierre (Abel) Remusat. xxxii, 214, [2] pp. Illustrated with 2 folding plates and innumerable Chinese characters executed in woodcut throughout. 8vo., 230 x 155 mm, bound in contemporary calf with the.....
Item nr. 145265
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DORÉ, Gustave. The Doré Gallery: Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures by M. Gustave Doré on view at 35, New Bond Street, London. By Francis Roubiliac Conder. 72 pp. 12mo., 130 x 105 mm, bound in publisher's pale blue printed wrappers. London: Fairless and Beeforth, 1882.
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Item nr. 168846
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AUTOMOBILES. Chevrolet for 54. America's first choice car. [Dealer's showroom sample catalogue]. Two parts in one volume. 101, [1] pp. many of them large double-page fold-outs, some with mylar overlays. Over 200 colour illustrations, colour plates (some folding), text illustrations, diagrams, several mylar overlays, 1 paper-engineered illustration with shifter for.....
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ROLLS-ROYCE. Rolls-Royce, Phantom III. Introduction by Wilfred Gordon Aston. 44 pp. Illustrated with 7 colour images of cars, one large folding plate showing the top and side view of the 40-50 H.P. chassis, four full-page photographic images of a showroom, service depot, and classroom, and engine and car diagrams throughout.....
Item nr. 153712
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CORMIER, Georges. Le Raid Pekin-Paris, 4000 lieues en Automobile. 286 pp. Illustrated with 160 black and white photographs. Paris: Ch. Delagrave, [1907]
The car rally from Beijing to Paris in 1907 told by Georges Cormier, one of the five participants. He was the official pilot, with Victor Colignon, of the brand.....
Item nr. 145908
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PRUDHOMME, Louis. Dictionnaire des Individus envoyés à la mort judiciairement, révolutionnairement et contre-révolutionnairement pendant la Révolution, particulièrement sous le règne de la Convention Nationale... avec des gravures et des tableaux. Two volumes. lxxxviii, 496; [4], 516 pp. Illustrated with 2 folding plates and 5 folding tables. 8vo., bound in publisher's.....
Item nr. 148563
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MASCAGNI, Pietro. Cavalleria Rusticana. Melodramma in un Atto di G. Targioni-Tozzetti e G. Menasci. Riduzione per Canto e Pianoforte di Leopoldo Mugnone. XVI, 168 pp. Plate number 492 throughout. Folio, 307 x 230 mm., bound in contemporary Italian half brown morocco, matching marbled paper over boards. Milan: Edoardo Sonzogno, 1890.
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[LOMONOSOV, Mikhail Vasil'evich]. [Jean-Baptiste CHARPENTIER]. Elemens de la langue russe ou Methode courte et facile pour apprendre cette lanuge conformement a l'usage. [16], 368 pp. 8vo., contemporary sheep, smooth spine with gilt fleurons, red morocco lettering-piece "Grammaire Russe". St. Petersburg: Academie Imperiale des Sciences, 1768.
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Item nr. 121950
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works of Rudyard Kipling. Twenty-seven volumes expanded to fifty-one. 8vo., 237 x 152 mm, bound in full deluxe red morocco, elaborate gilt borders, spines elaborately gilt, silk moire endleaves, turn-ins inlaid with blue morocco, gilt extra with wide dentelles composed of small ornamental tools and.....
Item nr. 117290
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[STANLEY, Henry, editor and English translator]. LIONNE, Artus de, Bishop of Rosalie. Chinese Manual. Sse tse ouen tsien-tchou … Four words literature (with) commentary (or) explication … Recueil des phrases Chinoises composées de quartre caractères et dont les explications sont rangées dans l'ordre alphabétique francais. viii, 75 pp. Folio, bound.....
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EAST ASIA. An Official Guide to Eastern Asia. Trans-Continental Connections between Europe and Asia. Vol. I: Manchuria & Chosen. Vol. II: South-Western Japan. Vol. III: North-Eastern Japan. Vol. IV: China. Vol. V: East Indies. Five volumes. I: [2], LXXXVI, 350 pp., illustrated with 17 colour folding maps, 16 black and.....
Item nr. 153804
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HERRICK, Robert. Poems Chosen Out of The Works of Robert Herrick. xiv, [2], 296 pp. 8vo., bound in original full vellum, four green ties. Hammermith: The Kelmscott Press, 1895.
The finest edition of the poetry of this seventeenth century poet who for a long time was more or less neglected, but.....
Item nr. 150516
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ALPHABET BOOK. Alfabeto da Phosphatina Falières. 8 ff. With 12 colour-printed illustrations by Timoleon Marie Lobrichon. 8vo., stitched as issued in original illustrated wrappers. Paris: Phosphatine Falières, n.d. [ca. 1905].
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The Portuguese edition of a charming "Abécédaire" which is not recorded in Gumuchian, or Osborne. The illustrations combine infants or children.....
Item nr. 149590
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BRUNHOFF, Jean de. A.B.C. de Babar. [48] pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. 8vo., 210 x 162 mm, bound in original publisher's decorated boards, decorated endpapers, in a new yellow cloth folding box. Paris: Editions du Jardin des Modes, 1934.
First Edition. A number of Babar's friends may be seen herein among.....
Item nr. 145089
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BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing The Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches. [2], 839, [1]; [2], 252, [2] pp. 12mo. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1810. WITH:
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MARKHAM, Gervase. The Pleasures of Princes or Good Mens Recreations. Together with The Experienced Angler by Colonel Robert Venables With a Preface By Horace Hutchinson. xix, 111 pp. 4to., bound in publisher's full limp vellum with ribbon ties. London: Cresset Press, 1927.
A handsome facsimile of two early English books on.....
Item nr. 101827
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WHITE, Herbert C. Peking the Beautiful: Comprising Seventy Photographic Studies of the Celebrated Monuments of China's Northern Capital and Its Environs Complete with Descriptive and Historical Notes. Introduction by Dr. Hu Shih. 155 pp. Illustrated with 71 tipped-in photographic plates, as well as head and tail pieces. Folio, bound in.....
Item nr. 166814
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SANDBURG, Carl. Abraham Lincoln. The Prairie Years. Two volumes in one. Abridged Edition. 8vo., bound in deluxe half blue morocco, over boards. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1929.
First Edition of this version. signed by Sandburg on the half-title. The one volume edition of the first part of Sandburg's monumental classic life.....
Item nr. 141749
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GREECE - Literary Voyage. Voyage Litteraire de la Grèce, ou Lettres sur les Grecs anciens et modernes, avec un parallèle de leurs moeurs. By Pierre-Augustin Guys. Two volumes. xvi, 420; iv, 244 pp. 12mo., 160 x 95 mm, bound in French contemporary beige half calf, light brown and pale green.....
Item nr. 166953
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GOBELIN, Abbé. Le Jardinier Royal, qui enseigne la manière de planter, cultiver, & dresser toutes sortes d'arbres. Avec une briefve méthode pour bien greffer tous fruicts à noyau, ensemble le moyen de faire pépinières, & eslever des arbres pour espaliers, contr' espaliers, buissons, & toutes sortes d'autres arbres fruictiers. [12].....
Item nr. 166952
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