ESCURSIONE NAZIONALE IN TRIPOLITANIA ORGANIZZATA DAL TOURING CLUB ITALIANO 28 Aprile - 11 Maggio 1914 by ARAGOZZINI Vincenzo / TOURING CLUB ITALIANO

Los Angeles: St. Ann's Press, 2003. Signed by Bruce Davidson. First St. Ann's Press edition / First printing. Published in an edition of 3,000 case-bound copies. Ivory cloth with photographic insert. Very fine in very fine acetate dust jacket.

New York: Longmans, Green , And Co., 1899. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xv+ 147 pages 7 1/2 x 10 in. Twenty-six plates and sixty-six diagrams. Red cloth binding with beveled boards, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD: Very light wear to covers and spine, minimal sun darkening to spine. Edges of text block lightly foxed, several pages in on front and rear are foxed, foxing appears at the edges of some pages, binding is tight.

Privately printed by Imprenta Gutenberg, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Lavish compilation of 45 ca. 1940 Ecuadorian photographic prints by Theodore Roosevelt's cousin Andre Roosevelt. Image topics include architecture, industrial installations, landscapes, native residents and more. Of special note is a rare photo of the Guayaquil Golf Club. Pages facing photos display explanatory, rubricrated captions. Inscribed and signed by author/photographer Andre Roosevelt to unnamed recipient thus: "To remind you that we are expecting | you back in Quito very soon - where | you will find peace and .... good investments. | We did have fun! | Andre Roosevelt." Foreword by Juan L. Gurrell. Bound in brown felt llama leather with finished versos. Stitched edges, gilt-stamped title and author to front panel and cloth tie. Letterpress printing on vellum. Limited Edition of 400 copies, 300 in English only and 100 with an additional index in Spanish. This copy, among the 300, states on page 100 that… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, And Rivington, Limited, 1888. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Original red cloth with gilt lettering front and spine, gilt decoration lower front cover. EX-Library with library stamp on title page, library bookplate on front free end-page, library card pocket on rear free end-page, library sticker pulled from spine leaving white patch (see photo), no other library marks. The plates are clean, not damaged, and do not have any library markings or stamps. Generally a clean, sound example of the book. The end-pages are the original coated green paper. The original tissue guards are present and browned as usual. The binding is sound and not loose or cracked. There is some foxing on some of the early pages and near the end, otherwise the book is mostly free of foxing. The book is complete with all pages and plates (nothing missing). The book measures 289mm tall x 209mm and has 180 pages, 22 photogravure plates of guide portraits on heavy stock paper… Read More

Brussels: Zeebrugge Museum Book. Illus. by Brusselle, Arthur ( Photographer ). Very Good +. Card Covers Sewn. Presumed First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Oblong. About fine but for minor bumping to peripheries, and a touch of rubbing to front cover title .3 hole string stitched binding. No date, ( circa 1917 - 1918 ). 24 pages of tipped in photos in excellent condition with tissue guards. . 42 photos. A few tissue guards creased.. Complete with notice page, in French and English, which relates the history of these remarkable photos, and identifies each one. A powerful documentation of submarine warfare..

New York: Longmans, Green , And Co., 1899. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xv+ 147 pages 7 1/2 x 10 in. Twenty-six plates and sixty-six diagrams. Red cloth binding with beveled boards, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD: Very light wear to covers and spine, minimal sun darkening to spine. Edges of text block lightly foxed, several pages in on front and rear are foxed, foxing appears at the edges of some pages, binding is tight.

London: Grey Editions, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for Prev. owner name in felt pen ( on ffep. ), minor bumping and slightest traces of edgewear to cover..

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, And Rivington, Limited, 1888. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Original red cloth with gilt lettering front and spine, gilt decoration lower front cover. EX-Library with library stamp on title page, library bookplate on front free end-page, library card pocket on rear free end-page, library sticker pulled from spine leaving white patch (see photo), no other library marks. The plates are clean, not damaged, and do not have any library markings or stamps. Generally a clean, sound example of the book. The end-pages are the original coated green paper. The original tissue guards are present and browned as usual. The binding is sound and not loose or cracked. There is some foxing on some of the early pages and near the end, otherwise the book is mostly free of foxing. The book is complete with all pages and plates (nothing missing). The book measures 289mm tall x 209mm and has 180 pages, 22 photogravure plates of guide portraits on heavy stock paper… Read More

Brussels: Zeebrugge Museum Book. Illus. by Brusselle, Arthur ( Photographer ). Very Good +. Card Covers Sewn. Presumed First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Oblong. About fine but for minor bumping to peripheries, and a touch of rubbing to front cover title .3 hole string stitched binding. No date, ( circa 1917 - 1918 ). 24 pages of tipped in photos in excellent condition with tissue guards. . 42 photos. A few tissue guards creased.. Complete with notice page, in French and English, which relates the history of these remarkable photos, and identifies each one. A powerful documentation of submarine warfare..

Italy: Skira, 2011. First edition, issued without dust jacket. Hard cover in pictorial boards. Published Italy: Skira, 2011, first printing. Text in English and Italian. Square 4to., 9 5/8" x 9 5/8", 112pp., illustrated with full color photographs. "At the Venice Biennale of 2001, the Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich exhibited his now famous installation, Swimming Pool. In what appeared to be a fully equipped pool, people could be seen under the water, standing, talking and moving around seemingly without any need to come up for air. In Carlo Rocchi Bilancini’s photographs, some of these people finally surface. Untouched by their underwater ordeal, they continue their subacqueous activities as if nothing had happened." Fine. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.