Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Rulon-Miller Books

[Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1989. First edition, folio, pp. [4], 342; illustrated throughout, much in color; 6 folding tables; original pictorial wrappers bound in gray cloth, gilt-stamped spine; fine copy.

Xiaman: Xiamen University Press, 1991. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 756, 49, [3]; fine copy in original pictorial laminate boards. CD-ROM laid in, as issued.

Xinjiapo: Xinjiapo you lian shu ju, 2012. First edition, small folio, pp. [2], 192; illustrated rhroughout, mostly in color; fine copy in original pictorial laminate boards. Qiu Guangming is a researcher on the measuring and weighing systems in China for more than 30 years.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872. 12mo, pp. 454, [2]; contemporary half black morocco over dark green cloth, decorative blind-tooled spine with gilt lettering; extremities rubbed and worn, interior fine. Publisher's advertisements printed on endpapers and bound in rear. Copyright date 1854.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. First edition, 12mo., pp. [2] ix, [3], 13-145; map end-papers, frontispiece portrait, 9 illustrations from photographs on 5 plates; fine copy in original blue cloth lettered in orange, signed by author on front free end-paper, dust jacket with significant chips and pieces out at bottom of spine and front and back panel. An account of a trip from Rio and Sao Paulo to Uruguay across Argentina to Santiago and up the west coast of Chile to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Columbia.

Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. square 8vo, pp. xx, 203, [1]; signed by the author on title page; a fine copy in original blue cloth-backed boards, in a fine pictorial dust jacket. Included authors are Willa Cather, Wright Morris, Mari Sandoz, Laure Ingalls Wilder, Frederick Manfred to name a few.

London, 1931. 4to, pp. [8], 157; color frontis, 36 plates (1 folding) often with illus. on both recto and verso; very good in orig. printed paper-covered boards. 161 important mss. plus a group of facsimile mss. and works on paleography - 530 items all together.

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1884. 8vo, pp. [5], 1966-2102, 18 (index); full red cloth, gilt titled spine; joints starting, small lot sticker at top corner of front cover, bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian, on pastedown; very good.

London: [Bernard Quaritch], 15 Piccadilly, 1868. 8vo, pp. viii, 1130; text in double column; half red morocco over red cloth, reinforced on joints and corners with paper, marbled endpapers and edges; endpapers chipped, gutter split, gatherings 2L and 2M loose but present, a few leaves dampstained on bottom edge but mostly clean, good. Categories include paleography, bibliography, theology, literature in many languages, fine art, antiquities, etc. Nearly 15,000 items offered for sale.

New York: Red Ozier Press, 1980. Edition limited to 150 copies "printed ... during various eruptions of Mount St. Helens," 16mo, pp. [6]; fine in original hand-made green paper wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker.

Paris: L. Hachette et cie, 1861. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], xvi, 420; very good, sound copy in orig. red morocco-backed red cloth, gilt lettering direct on gilt-paneled spine. Garrison-Morton 164: "De Quatrefages was one of France's most eminent anthropologists."

Milano: Francesco Sonzogno, 1829. First edition of Francesco Longhena's Italian translation of Quatremère de Quincy's Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de Raphaël, first published in Paris in 1824; 8vo, pp. [18], xii, 847, [1]; engraved title and 22 engraved plates (several folding), plus a folding facsimile letter; as perfect a copy as one could find in original blue printed paper-covered boards, green silk bookmark. The illustrations in this edition are all new and reproduce paintings in a dozen named Italian collections, including scenes from Raphaël's life and his portrait. Stunning artifact.

London & Totowa, NJ: David & Charles & Barnes & Noble Books, 1983. First edition, 8vo, pp. 256; illus.; corner's bumped, else fine in original green cloth, brown cloth spine label lettered in gilt, dust jacket. Bookplate of Jacob L. Chernofsky on the front pastedown. Review copy with slip laid in.

Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 1979. Small 8vo, pp. vii, 129, [1]; black and white illustrations; original blue pictorial wrappers, some shelf wear; interior fine. A history of Amrum Island; publication no. 47 of the Veröffentlichungen des Nordfriisk Institut.

New York: Viking Press, 1941. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 7-274; frontispiece and 9 plates; front endpapers with newspaper shadow, otherwise a fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket.

London: R. Dutton, W.J. & J. Richardsons [et al.], 1805. 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xxxii, 448; [4], 458, [1] ads; a little wear but generally a very good copy in original blue paper-covered boards, paper labels on spines.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 302; lacking the 8 pages of ads in back and lower free endpaper; original blue cloth, light scuffing to extremities, book plate of B. Homer Dixon on front endpaper with his signature on title page. Good and sound. Wright II, 1989.

Cambridge: published by John Owen, 1841. 8vo, pp. 29, [3]; stitched, as issued, light soiling to title page and last page, shelf mark and Providence Athenaeum stamp on title page, old fold, good or better. A proposal to limit compulsory Latin and Greek to one year. This appears to be in response to two reports that find the accomplishment of students in those fields to be lacking. American Imprints 41-4381; Sabin 67239.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1926. New edition, but the first with Howee's introduction; 8vo, pp. xvi, 347; 32 plates; fine copy in original blue cloth, printed paper label on spine, dust jacket with a few chips at the extremities, and with one larger (thumbnail-size) chip from the lower front panel. A "book of reminiscences based on journals kept during the early years of the nineteenth century" in an around Boston.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. 8vo, pp. 32; original printed tan wrappers; spine chipped, wrappers starting, text clean and sound, all else very good. "From the author" in ink at the top of the front wrapper. Josiah Quincy (1772-1864) was President of Harvard University from 1829-1845. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1805-1813 and the mayor of Boston from 1823-1828. Afro-Americana 8584; Sabin 67196.