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Décors de A. Costa. 19 pp. 21,7x17 cm. A Beyrouth, Chez l'auteur, 1942. Edition numérotée, No.96/100.
--- Pages bright and clean. Edition in 100 copies.

Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu. 127 pp. 9,8x7 cm. No 5 - Bibliothèque miniature / Librairie Payot & Cie, Paris, s.d. (c.1930)
--- Soft leather binding, with gilt lettering on spine. Some fading is evident on spine. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Pages bright and clean. No foxing. Unmarked.

Edited by Ernest Boyd. Illustrated by Ralph Barton. Two volumes in one. 291+266 pp.+31 engravings h.g. 23,5x15 cm. Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1946.
--- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth). Some edgewear and a sing of scuffing on back cover. Pages bright and clean, tight binding. Beautifully illustrated.

Notes et introduction par Eugène Muller. 235 pp. 24,5x16,5 cm. "Voyages dans la Grèce ancienne" / Librairie Ch. Delagrave, Paris, 1894.
--- Cloth-bound (Prix municipal), with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover and spine. Some wear and marks of discoloration on the covers. Pages and engravings are clean, unmarked. Very tight binding.

With a preface by Théophile Homolle. Translated from the French by Charles Frederic Hardy. First english language edition. 132 pp.+ 40 full-page photogravure plates with printed tissue guards and 86 illustrations in the text. 39x31 cm. Éditions d'Art Fred. Boissonnas, Genève, 1920. There are printed of this work on fine hand-made paper, prepared specially for this edition, 300 copies, of which this copy is No. 15. (Additional postage due to heavy weight) --- François Frédéric Boissonnas, nicknamed Fred (1858-1946) came from a Swiss family of photographers. An enthusiastic trekker, he started out on his journey from Geneve together with his inseparable friend and travel companion, Greek scholar Daniel Baud-Bovy, rector in the Geneva school of Fine Arts. From their first journey in 1903 until 1920, carrying a baggage of stereotypes on Greece passed on by travellers of the previous centuries, they toured and took photographs everywhere, from Epirus to the Peloponnese and from Ithaca to Olympus and… Read More

Illustrations de Mario Prassinos. 1ère édition. 153 pp. Avec 7 dessins originaux de M. Prassinos. 18,8x14,2 cm. Librairie Stock, Paris, 1945. Edition numérotée (No. 1.422 de 26-2.225), sur Alfa Mousse des papeteries Navarre.
--- Partially uncut copy. Unmarked. Pages bright and clean.

The New Pastime of Reading Your Future in the Teacup. 39 pp. 10,5x7,5 cm. Ming, Inc., 1931.

The Story of the Klondike Rush. First edition. Illustrated by Duncan Macpherson. 147 pp. 21,5x14,2 cm. Great Stories of Canada / Macmillan, Toronto, 1954. --- Hardback. Some wear at spine ends. Illustrated endpapers, with some wear and a stamp of previous owner.

Extracts. 32 pp. 7,1x5,6 cm. Rebecca Press, Hyattsville, Maryland, 1988. Bound by Donald Brady. Limited edition (N.12/200)
--- Cloth-bound, with gold lettering on the cover. Illustrated. Marbled endpapers.

Their History from the beginnings to the present day. First edition. 221 pp. 21,7x15 cm. Sheppard Press, London, 1981.
--- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth), with dust jacket. Illustrated.

Tome 1 : 1872-1876. Au bord de la Mer - La Vie inquiète - Petits Poèmes. 234 pp.+1 portrait gravé de l'auteur. 15,3x10,3 cm. Alphonse Lemerre, Editeurs, Paris, 1885. Tome 2 : 1876-1882. Edel - Les Aveux. 306 pp. 15,3x10,3 cm. Alphonse Lemerre, Editeurs, Paris, 1887.
--- Leather binding. Engraved frontispiece. Wear on extremities and on hinges (see photo), but binding remains very tight. Top edges gilt. Unmarked. No foxing.

Illustrated by the author and with a preface by Sir Frederic Kenyon. First edition. xi+205 pp.+16 ills. h.t. 23,2x17,5 cm. J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1938.
--- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth). No dust jacket. Light wear to the edges and corners of the covers and the spine. Illustrated endpapers, but with a series of littles holes to the edges of the pages. All other pages are bright and clean, without damages. No foxing.

Album Odysséen. Photographies de Fred. Boissonnas. 1ère édition. 8 pp. + 265 héliogravures + 1 folding map h.t. 26,4x22,5 cm. Librairie Armand Colin, Paris, 1933.
--- (...) Les photographies qui sont reproduites dans ce volume sont l'oeuvre de Frédéric Boissonnas. C'est avec lui qu'au printemps de 1912, songeant à donner une nouvelle édition de ses Phéniciens et l'Odyssée, Victor Bérard entreprit de refaire le périple d'Ulysse dont, par une patiente étude, il s'était efforcé d'identifier toutes les étapes. Dans cette Méditerranée où rien ne change, il put retrouver intacts les sites et les paysages qui rendaient tout leur sens aux descriptions du Poète. (...)
Jean Bérard
--- Text in french. Captions in ancient greek, translated in french. A spot on front cover. Otherwise the book is fine.

Essais et fragments de théorie. Suivis de L'Optique et la Peinture par H. Helmholtz. Avec 39 figures dans le texte. 223+30 pp. Librairie Germer Baillière et Cie, Paris, 1878.
--- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth). Gilt lettering and decoration on front cover and spine. A lot of spots at covers, some edgewear. Foxing.

4.000 years of tiny treasures. 215 pp. 25x27,5 cm. Abrams, New York in association with The Grolier Club, New York, 2007.
--- Pages bright and clean. Unmarked. Very tight binding. All edges gilt.

Illustrated. Edited by Burton L. Fryxell, with foreword by John C. Reed. xxi+528 pp.+one folding map h.t. 23,5x16 cm. University of Alaska and the Arctic Institute of North America, 1953.
--- Cloth-bound (publisher's cloth). Some edgewear. Written name on the title page – all other pages are clean. B&W ills.

Dana Estes & Company, Publishers, Boston, n.d. (c.1870). Warwick Edition, limited to one thousand copies (Number 54). Ex libris of Gordon B. Tatum.
--- Cloth-bound. Top-edges gilt. Fore-edge and bottom-edges untrimmed.

In two volumes. Here only Vol. I. Third edition. xxi+356 pp.+1 colour plate h.t. Dana Estes & Company, Publishers, Boston, n.d. (1849). Warwick Edition, limited to one thousand copies (Number 54). Ex libris of Gordon B. Tatum.
--- Cloth-bound. Top-edges gilt. Fore-edge and bottom-edges untrimmed.

xxi+473 pp.+1 colour plate h.t. Dana Estes & Company, Publishers, Boston, n.d. (1852). Warwick Edition, limited to one thousand copies (Number 54). Ex libris of Gordon B. Tatum. --- Cloth-bound. Top-edges gilt. Fore-edge and bottom-edges untrimmed.

First edition (stated). 282 pp. Heinemann, London, 1961.
--- Hardback, with dust jacket. Wear, discoloration and tears on dust jacket. Pages bright and clean. Unmarked.