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Brereton, William Travels in Holland The United Provinces England Scotland and Ireland 1634-1635.
Chetham Society 1844 I Brown cloth with stamping, gilt lettering. Ex-lib, usual lib markings. Part of spine cover missing. Quarto
Contains the rare canceled p. 114 but some of the text might be censored for some reason. 205 pp Travel diary; made up from notes; a Puritan's travels in Holland, United Provinces, British Isles; full descriptions of topography and social life. Early description of women's dress in Scotland in the period. Gives poor account of traveling in Scotland at that time.
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403 |
Bress, Helene The Weaving Book. Patterns and Ideas.
Scribners 1981. 0684156644 Hardcover in DJ. Good, owner inscription. Spot on corner of text block. Stain on fore edge. Good, some wear to dj. Clipped dj Quarto
548 pp "Nearly 3000 variations of plain weave, twill, overshot, monk's belt and Huck's weaves. "
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407 |
Brigden, Susan New Worlds, Lost Worlds. The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603.
Viking 2001. Hardcover in DJ Good/Good Octavo
433 pp. From the The Penguin History of Britain series. "No period in British history today retains more resonance and mystery than the sixteenth century. The leading figures of the time have become almost mythical, and the terrors and grandeurs of Tudor Britain form an essential background of even the least historically minded readers. New Worlds, Lost Worlds is a startilingly atmospheric tour de force."
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415 |
Bronicz, Stanislaw Stroj Pszczynski
Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze 1955 Softcover Former bookshop or library stamps, some wear. Octavo
80 pp photographs . 2 pp summary in English." In the Eastern borderland of Upper Silesia in the vicinity of the town of Pszcyna there existed in the nineteenth century a peasant costume which preserved its distinct character different from the dress of the villagers of other parts of Silesia."
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420 |
Brookes, John Gardens of Paradise : The History and Design of the Great Islamic Gardens.
New Amsterdam Books. 1987. 0941533077 Hardcover. Good, owner inscription on flyleaf. Quarto
240 pp "The author traces the origins of the Islamic garden through the image of Paradise in the Quran, to ancient irrigation methods, and to its spread into India, Persia, Turkey, Egypt, Sicily, North Africa, and Spain. Includes photographs, miniatures, engravings, and instructions for designing and maintaining a backyard Islamic garden."
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423 |
Brooks, Mary English Embroideries of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Ashmolean Handbooks.
Jonathan Horne Pub 2004 1854441922 Softcover Good Octavo
96 pp This handbook explores the Ashmolean Museum's collection of English seventeenth-century embroideries. Detailed photographs reveal the fine stitches and imaginative raised work embroidery techniques we well as the lavish use of metal threads and semi-precious stones. The book will appeal to all those interested in the life of seventeenth-century women as well as to textiles and embroidery specialists.
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431 |
Browne, G. Waldo Japan: The Place and the People
Dana Estes 1904 Hardcover . Some soiling of cover, slight crease of cover. Octavo
438 pp 300 colored plates, half-tones and photo illus. The full-page colored plates are A Buddhist Temple, a Map of Japan and Its Relationship to the Mainland, Walking Costume, Three Little Maids, Japanese Postman (who is heavily tattooed), Bridge at Arashiyama, Fujiyama-the Sacred Mountain of Japan, Jinrikishas,Wrestlers, Japanese Actors, A Cottage Garden, Kamakuta; Coolies Celebrating a Holiday, Tokio Castle Wall and Moat Filled with Lotus Plants, Whispering, A Kota Player, Writing a Letter and Tea-Pickers.
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432 |
Browning, Robert Justinian & Theodora.
Thames and Hudson 1987 0500250995 Hardcover in DJ Good, bookstore stamp on flyleaf Good Octavo
189 pp "Traces the life of the 6th century Roman Emperor Justinian and examines his relationship with his consort Theodora."
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Bruhl, Odette Indian Temples
Oxford University Press 1937. Half leather with batik boards. leather cracking Quarto
136 photographs + 8 pp of text by Sylvain Fascinating study of the monuments and relief art of the temples of the Indian empire.
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438 |
Brunello, Franco The Art of Dyeing in the history of Mankind.
Vicenza Neri Possa 1973. Hardcover in DJ Good Good Octavo
467 pp 178 black and white illustrations, 7 in color. In depth dictionary as well as bibliography. Contents include : Prehistory and Primitive Peoples, Ancient Extra-European Civilizations, The Classical Period, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance and the Seventh Century, The XVIII and First half of the XIX Century, The Revolution of Synthetic Dyestuffs. Phoenix Dyestuffs out of Ohio was responsible for sponsoring this book.
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439 |
Brunner, Herbert Old Table Silver : A Handbook for Collectors & Amateurs.
Faber and Faber 1967. 0800857259 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Quarto
223 pp 261 black and white photographs. First British translation, originally published in German as 'Altes Tafelsilber, Ein Brevier fur Sammler und Liebhaber'. " He classifies and describes the usage, form and ornament of beakers, jugs, coffee-pots, tea-pots, bowls, plates, knives, forks and candlesticks which stood daily on the tables of the Euopean countries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century."
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440 |
Brunschwig, Hieronymus. Das Buch der Cirurgia.
Medicina Rara. 1970 Limited and numbered facsimile edition. 822/2500. Hardcover, vellum spine in slipcase. Good, some soiling/Good, some soiling and wear to slipcase. Quarto
309 pp "Twenty eight hundred copies of this book were printed for the members of Editions Medicina Rara LTD at the presses of the Druckerei Holzer, Weiler im Allgau, West Germany, on a rag paper manufactured especially for this edition by August Kohler, Oberkirch , West Germany, and bearing the private watermark of Medicina Rara. The plates for this printing were made from the copy of the original 1947 Strasbourg edition belonging to the Niedersachsische Staats and Universitatsbibliothek Gottingen West Germany. Three hundred copies have been bound in full parchment and are numbered in Roman numerals I-CCC. Twenty five hundred copies have been bound in half parchment and Romerturm rag paper and are numbered in arabic numerals 1-2500. All were bound at the bindery of Richard Mayer, Stuttgar West Germany. This copy is number 822"
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441 |
Brutelle, Charles-Louis L'Heritier de Sertum Anglicum 1788. Facsimile with Critical Studies and a Translation.
The Hunt Botanical Library : 1963. 0913196045 . Limited edition to 2000 copies. Hardcover with marbled boards. Good Quarto
34 black and white single and double page illus. 36 pp text facsimile of 1788 publication, 98 pp text of explanation of abbreviations, English translation, the plants of…., the man and his work. IN English and Latin." Sertum Anglicum was chosen for the first publication in this series because it met several requirements; it is rare, since fewer than one hundred copies are believed to be published; taxonomically of considerable importance, since in it were described thirteen new genera and sixty-five new species; it is illustrated by Pierre Joseph Redoute and James Sowerby."
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443 |
Buchanan, Rita A Weaver's Garden.
Interweave Press. 1987. 0934026289 Hard cover with dust jacket. Good Good Octavo
230 pages 16 pages color photographs as well as many black and white illustrations. Contents include: Plant Fibers for Spinning and Stuffing, Dyes from Plants, Soap Plants for Cleaning Textiles, Fragrant Plants to Scent and Protect Textiles, Plant Materials used to make Textile Tools, Creating a Garden. "Discusses plants of use to textile artists for fibers, dyes, natural soaps, fragrances and textile tools, and describes how to plan and create a garden."
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Burgess, FW Silver, Pewter and Sheffield Plate.
Tudor 1947 Hardcover. Good Octavo
304 pp "This is a book for home connoisseurs who desire to know about their own treasures and the relics connecting them with good old families who were prosperous in the 18th century and earlier. Special prominence is given to silver because it is the metal mostly desired by the amateur collector, but Pewter and Sheffield Plate are also considered in this book in order to provide the reader with handy chapters of reference and to some extent explain the overlapping of domestic metal work of other materials and composite metals. This volume is a study of domestic silver as well as a review of earlier examples and those historic records of past peoples and ages almost forgotten, in which the beginnings of craftsmanship and commerce are found.".
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455 |
Burk, Bruce Game Bird Carving.
Winchester Press 1972. Hardcover in DJ. Good/Good Quarto
242 pp " A special section on the structural and dimensional characteristics of game birds will intirgue the naturalist as well as the carver: basic measurements and proportions for each species, hundreds of actual photographs of bills and feet . The carving projects included detialed instructions for coloring each part of the bird - as as the color plates in this book show, the realism that can be achieved is remarkable."
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458 |
Burke, Thomas Ireland's Case Stated in Reply to Mr Froude.
NY Haverty : 1873. Hardcover. Former seminary book. Part of spine cover missing. Needs a bookbinder's tender mercies. As is. Octavo
238 pp. "As an Irishman, I thought that Mr. Froude's was only one other utterance of those old anti-Irish calumnies which it has been the fashion of English writers to invent and repeat, and which have been discussed, answered, refuted a hun- dred times. My friends, however, urged their request, and Mr. Froude's lectures took a tone so damaging at once to the Irish character, and so bitterly hostile to the Catholic religion, that I felt justified in attempting to answer him in defense of my faith and my country."
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Burr, Grace Hardendorff Hispanic Furniture from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century.
New York The Archive Press: 1964 Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Hardback in DJ Beige boards with black inlay on fr Ink has ran from author's name at top of spine and has made a 1 Minor edge wear , corner wear Quarto
235 pages including 207 black/white plates of which 51 are new to this edition. Written by the former Curator of Furniture of the Hispanic Society of America, this book is an illustrated history of the furniture of Spain, from the Gothic fifteenth century to the close of the Rococo eighteenth century. The author has included a chapter on Spanish and Portuguese colonial furniture, and an illustrated catalogue of the furniture in the Hispanic Society collection, perhaps the finest in this Hemisphere. Despite the recent surge of interest in Spanish furniture, for more than two decades all of the standard reference works on the subject have been out of print in English. Probably the most authoritative of these books--and certainly one of the rarest--was the First Edition of Hispanic Furniture. Published in 1941 in an edition of only 1000 copies, it earned a place on the famous Harvard List, a selection of books basic to the study of the history of art. This second edition now stands as the definitive reference book for scholars, decorators and collectors of Spanish furniture.
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468 |
Burrows, Millar The Dead Sea Scrolls.
. Viking Press 1960. Hardcover. Good Octavo
435 pp Chapters include : Discoveries and Discussions, The Age of the Manuscripts, The Dates of Composition, The Community of Qumran, The Importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Translations.
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Butler, Richard Jacobi Grace, Kilkenniensis, Annals Hiberniae
Dublin The Irish Archaeological Society : 1842 Original cloth, back strip faded and ends frayed, Used Used Small quarto
182 pp Irish and Latin. This is an account of James Grace between 1537-1539 from Kilkenny. This annals lists mostly obits of the Lacys, Burkes, Butlers and Geraldines from 1326-1530's.
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Butterfield, L. edit. The Adams Papers : Diary and Autobiography of John Adams.
Belknap Press 1962. 0674203003 Hardcover in DJ. Ex-lib, usual lib markings octavo
Belknap Press 1962. 4 vols. 403, 365, 449, 458 pp VOLUME I Descriptive List of Illustrations, VOLUME I Descriptive List of Illustrations Introduction 1. An Articulate Family 2. History and Plan of The Adams Papers 3. John Adams' Diary and Autobiography: The Manuscripts and Earlier Publication 4. The Editorial Method 5. John Adams as Diarist and Autobiographer Acknowledgments Guide to Editorial Apparatus 1. Textual Devices 2. Adams Family Code Names 3. Descriptive Symbols 4. Location Symbols 5. Other Abbreviations and Conventional Terms 6. Short Titles of Works Frequently Cited Diary of John Adams, 1755-1770 VOLUME 2 Descriptive List of Illustrations Diary of John Adams, 1771-1781, with Notes of Debates in the Continental Congress, 1774-1776 VOLUME 3 Descriptive List of Illustrations Diary of John Adams, 1782-1804, with Fragmentary DiariesKept by Abigail Adams in 1784, 1787, and 1788 Autobiography of John Adams, Part One: "John Adams," toOctober 1776 VOLUME 4 Descriptive List of Illustrations Autobiography of John Adams, Part Two: "Travels and Negotiations," 1777-1778 Autobiography of John Adams, Part Three: "Peace,"1779-1780 Chronology of John Adams' Life and Public Service, 1735-1826 Index
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480 |
Byrne, Gay One Day in Ireland : Photographs by the People of Ireland on a Single Day.
Irish Cancer Society 1988 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Quarto
220 pp "This, the largest photographic even Ireland has ever seen, was the flagship to highlight a programme of events organized by the Irish Cancer Society in celebration of their first twenty-five years. The photographs, sorted into geographic areas, were submitted to a distinguished panel of judges, who selected the best and most evocative entries for publication in this book."
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Campbell, Mildred The English Yeoman in the Tudor and Early Stuart Age.
Augustus Kelly 1968. Hardcover in DJ. Good/Good Octavo
453 pp Reprint of 1942 edition. Chapters include: Forebears, Degree prioirity and Place, Land Hunger, Copyhold and Freehold, Earning a Living- and a Profit, Bed Board and Roof-Tree, Schooling and Placement, Parish Church and Village Green, For the Common Weal, The Measure of the Man. Appendix 1) Early Usage of the Word Yeoman, Appendix II) Table of Trades and Industries to which Sons of Yeomen were Apprenticed Appendix III) Assessments for the Privy Seal.
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488 |
Cantacuzino, Sherban New Uses for Old Buildings.
Whitney Library of Design 1975 Hardcover in DJ Ex-lib, usual lib markings. Quarto
263 pp 229 line illus. 520 black and white photo. "Cantacuzino has identified 10 different industrial and public building types...essential character of that type of building. Before describing and illustrating the 73 internationally selected examples, he gives an outline of the site, history and character of the building. Does not shy away from the technical and financial problems involved."
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489 |
Cantwell, Robert Alexander Wilson : Naturalist and Pioneer. A Biography.
Lippincott 1961. Hardcover in DJ. Good, very sl musty smell Good dj, sl rubbing. Quarto
319 pp 8 reproductions in full color and 12 in black and white. " Arthur Wilson - poet, painter, naturalist and pioneer was the first man to study the birds of America in their native forests, and his great work American Ornithology, remains unrivalled for the fidelity of paintings."
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491 |
Caravan, Jill American Covered Bridges: Pictorial History.
Courage 1561384720 1995 Hardcover in DJ Good Good, some wear and tears Quarto
80 pp "Featuring legendary examples of an unusual and popular architectural icon, a stylistic history highlights Vermont's Old Main Parker Bridge, Ohio's Wizard's Oil Bridge, and others, and provides commentary by famous writers."
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494 |
Carey, George edit. A Sailor's Songbag. An American Rebel in an English Prison 1777-1779.
University of Massachusetts Press 1976 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Octavo
Octavo 164 pp "Timothy Connor and his mates--some seventy thousand Yankee privateers--leveled a remarkable weight of destruction on British shipping during the American Revolution. Unlike the enfeebled Continental Navy, these common seamen were, in Thomas Jefferson's words, " a national blessing". Connor's ship, the Rising States, was eventually captured at sea by the British H. M. S. Terrible in April 1777. Transported to Forton Prison, Portsmouth, Connor remained a "dam'd Rebel" prisoner for two years. During that time he kept a book of some fifty-six songs he heard or read."
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495 |
Carley, Kenneth Minnesota in the Civil War.
Minnesota Ross and Haines Inc. 1961. Hardcover in DJ. Good Good, some soiling to dj. Octavo
168 pp Chapters include Gallantry at Gettysburg; Capture of Little Rock; Victory at Vicksburg; Breakthrough at Nashville; Hardship at Helena etc. plus Chronology, Roster, Minnesota's Civil War Monuments
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497 |
Carlyle, Thomas Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History.
Burt @1900's. Hardcover in DJ. Good/Good Octavo
302 pp Chapters include Hero as Divinity - Odin, Paganism, Scandinavian Mythology, Hero as Prophet - Mohomet and Islam, Hero as Poet - Dante and Shakespeare, Hero as Priest - Luther - Reformation and Knox and Puritanism, Hero as Man of Letters - Johnson Rousseau and Burns, and Hero as King - Cromwell, Napoleon and Modern Revolution.
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499 |
Carruth, Gorton The Harper Book of American Quotations.
Harper 1988. 0060159758 Hardcover in DJ. Good Good Quarto
821 pp "More than 8000 quotations grouped into 264 alphabetical categories where they are listed alphabetically by author. Valuable index includes authors and their quotations, the topic of quotations and familiar or key words."
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