Search Results: Titles starting with H from AARDWOLF Fine Books

C.S. Hammond & Co., Maplewood, NJ, 1964; Large fold out map of Vineland, New Jersey, plus Central Vineland Street Map and Southern New Jersey Road Map inset. Size 8 1/2" x 11" folded, 34" x 17" unfolded. Fine condition, clean, crisp, bright, no chips, tears, or staining.

Blackie & Son, Glasgow, Edinburg & London, 1856; Antique hand colored copper engraving of a grouping of pheasants: Common Peacock, Ring Neck Pheasant, Horned Pheasant, and Silver Pheasant. Plate #54 from Oliver Goldsmith’s "A History Of The Earth And Animated Nature," 1856. Drawn by James Stewart, engraved by J. Bishop. An original plate, not a reproduction. Hinged and matted acid free, ready for framing. Sheet size 6" x 9 3/4", outside matte dimensions 9" x 12". Fine condition. Clean, bright, colors vivid.

Blackie & Son, Glasgow, Edinburg & London, 1856; Antique hand colored copper engraving of four gallinaceous game birds of the Americas: Wild American Turkey, Crested Curassow, Galleated Curassow, and Red Curassow. Plate #55 from Oliver Goldsmith’s "A History Of The Earth And Animated Nature," 1856. Drawn by James Stewart, engraved by J. Bishop. An original plate, not a reproduction. Hinged and matted acid free, ready for framing. Sheet size 6" x 9 3/4", outside matte dimensions 9" x 12". Excellent condition. Clean, bright, colors brilliant.

Blackie & Son, Glasgow, Edinburg & London, 1856; Antique hand colored copper engraving of felines: lion, lioness, Bengal tiger, leopard, and jaguar. Plate #39 from Oliver Goldsmith’s "A History Of The Earth And Animated Nature," 1856. Drawn by James Stewart, engraved by J. Miller. An original plate, not a reproduction. Hinged and matted acid free, ready for framing. Sheet size 6" x 9 3/4", outside matte dimensions 9" x 12". Fine condition. Clean, bright, colors vivid. A beautiful print of the world’s big cats.

Blackie & Son, Glasgow, Edinburg & London, 1856; Antique hand colored copper engraving of five species of marsh bird: Common Crane, White Stork, Gigantic Crane, Common Heron, and Little Egret. Plate #67 from Oliver Goldsmith’s "A History Of The Earth And Animated Nature," 1856. Drawn by James Stewart, engraved by J. Brown. An original plate, not a reproduction. Hinged and matted acid free, ready for framing. Sheet size 6" x 9 3/4", outside matte dimensions 9" x 12". Fine condition, clean, bright, colors fresh and vivid. A beautiful print.

Blackie & Son, Glasgow, Edinburg & London, 1856; Antique hand colored copper engraving of a Two-Horned African Rhino, Muchoco White Rhino, Indian Rhino, Hippopotamus, and Malay Tapir. Plate #46 from Oliver Goldsmith’s "A History Of The Earth And Animated Nature," 1856. Drawn by James Stewart, engraved by J. Bishop. An original plate, not a reproduction. Hinged and matted acid free, ready for framing. Sheet size 6" x 9 3/4", outside matte dimensions 9" x 12". Fine condition. Clean, crisp, bright.

Blackie & Son, Glasgow, Edinburg & London, 1856; Antique hand colored copper engraving of a family of wild Asiatic elephants, with a brightly outfitted domesticated elephant bearing his mahout under a howdah canopy visible in the background. Plate #45 from Oliver Goldsmith’s "A History Of The Earth And Animated Nature," 1856. Drawn by James Stewart, engraved by J. Bishop. An original plate, not a reproduction. Hinged and matted acid free, ready for framing. Sheet size 6" x 9 3/4", outside matte dimensions 9" x 12". Fine condition. Clean, bright, colors fresh and vivid. A charming image.

Blackie & Son, Glasgow, Edinburg & London, 1856; Original hand colored copper engraving picturing six species of snake: Anaconda, Pedda Poda, Port Natal Python, Rattlesnake, Black Rattlesnake, and Cobra de Capello. Plate #68 from Oliver Goldsmith’s "A History Of The Earth And Animated Nature," 1856. Drawn by James Stewart, engraved by J. Bishop. An original plate, not a reproduction. Hinged and matted acid free, ready for framing. Sheet size 6" x 9 3/4", outside matte dimensions 9" x 12". Fine condition. Clean, bright, colors fresh and vivid.

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Oakland, CA, 1979; 4to, 26 pages; illustrated. Detailed guide to the safe and successful transport of cut flowers to distant as well as nearby markets via truck. Substantial information on handling, pre-cooling, truck refrigeration, loading patterns, in-transit temperatures, etc., plus a 5-page appendix at the back listing proper storage temperatures for cut flowers, florist greens, cuttings, bulbs, and miscellaneous nursery stock, all listed by species. Fine, in printed wraps.

James R. Osgood and Co., Boston, 1877; Author’s Edition From Advanced Sheets; 8vo, 170 pages; illustrated; tan cloth; gilt titles and decorations; colored end papers. Tennyson’s second play, which followed "Queen Mary," published the year previous. At first harshly received by the critics, "Harold" was withheld from production and not publicly staged until over fifty years later, in 1928. First American Edition, from author’s advanced sheets. Twelve full-page monochrome illustrations, each with guard tissue. Very Good Plus, clean, crisp, bright, binding tight, sound and square, corners sharp, all gilding brilliant. Previous owner signature in small neat hand on f.f.e.p.

Scholastic, Inc. / Arthur A. Levine Books, New York, 2005; First American Edition, First Printing, July, 2005; 8vo, 652 pages. Chapter heading drawings by Mary GrandPré. Very Fine, in a Very Fine dust jacket. A crisp and sparkling copy.

Focal Press, New York, 1972; Fourth Edition, revised; 8vo, 423 pages; illustrated. Complete Hasselblad user’s manual, plus detailed data for the new 500/CM, Super Wide C, and 500EL/M, as well as the older models. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Clean, crisp, bright, sharp, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.

J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1961; First Edition, second printing; 8vo, 283 pages. Malcom Lowry’s last book, an interlacing of three novellas and four short stories: "The Bravest Boat," "Through The Panama," "Strange Comfort Afforded By The Profession," "Elephant And Colosseum," "Present Estate Of Pompeii," "Gin And Goldenrod," and "The Forest Path To The Spring," each story bearing a relationship to the one that follows it. Lowry died suddenly in 1957 at age forty-eight, at the time he was adding final touches to this book. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket. Clean, crisp, and bright, no chips, tears, creases, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. Not price-clipped. A nice copy.

Pantheon Books, NY, 1987; First American Edition; 4to, 247 pages; illustrated. Remarkable collection of 191 portrait photographs, at times erotic, of some of the world’s most accomplished and vaunted celebrities. Revealing fifteen-page Newton interview with Carol Squiers, curator of New York’s International Center Of Photography, at the front. Two-page Newton bibliography, plus a Newton photo exhibition chronology at the back. Very Good Plus, in heavy wraps. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp. No ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.

Les Editions Du Chene, Paris, 1951; First Edition; tall quarto (11" x 15"). Large portfolio with 14 pages of commentary on post impressionist Henri Rousseau by legendary author and critic Joseph-Marie Lo Duca, co-founder in 1951 of the French magazine Cahier du Cinema, accompanied by 16 brilliant full-page laid-in color plates tipped onto heavy card stock, suitable for framing. Very Good Plus, clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, no chips or tears. All text and plates Fine. Text in French.

State Foreign Publications House, Moscow, 1962; sm 8vo, 721 pages. An extensive Hindi-Russian dictionary that includes a language instruction course at the back. Text in Russian and Hindi. Fine, in gray-blue cloth with embossed board decorations.

Abbeville Press, New York, 1987; First Edition; 4to, 260 pages; illustrated. Works of thirty contemporary artists, including Carlos Almaraz, Gronk, John Valadez, Frank Romero, Paul Sierra, Luis Jimenez, and Rudy Hernandez, with a lengthy 14-page introductory essay by Octavio Paz. Profusely and beautifully illustrated in full color, with a majority of the plates full-page. Artists’ biographies, bibliography, and full index at the rear. Near Fine, in a clean and sparkling Near Fine dust jacket that has no chips, creases, or tears. Small previous owner bookplate of Palos Verdes philanthropist Harriet Axelrad. A sparkling copy.

Editorial Porrua, Mexico, 1983; 8vo, 700 pages plus a 12-page publisher’s catalogue at the back. Legendary first person account of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico, by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, soldier in the army of Hernan Cortes. Transcribed from Diaz’s original handwritten manuscript, not from Fr. Alonzo Remon’s later altered version of 1632. Includes a substantive background preface by Joaquin Ramirez Cabañas, complete bibliography of all editions published to date, lengthy index of proper names occurring in the text, and a handy 16-page chapter summary. An entry in Editorial Porrua’s "Sepan Cuantos" series. Text in Spanish. Very Good, in wraps. Some light external surface wear.

Kern County Historical Society, Bakersfield, 1960; 4to, 11 pages; illustrated card wraps. A detailed chronology of historical events in Kern County, California, beginning with the first visit by Pedro Fages in 1772. Very Good, clean and sharp, no chips or tears.

Verlag Jurgen Schacht, Berlin, 1987; 4 Auflage; oblong quarto, 72 pages. An aerial history revealing the beauty and splendor of old Berlin. Sixty-eight full-page vintage aerial photographs spanning the period from 1900 to 1939, each accompanied by a detailed descriptive caption. Full page reproduction at the back of a 1710 Gabriel Bodenehr plan view drawing of the city of Berlin and its sister city Colln, expanding upon the 1652 drawing by Johann Gregor Memhardt. A marvelous photographic record of the superb architecture and landscape design of a breathtaking city that was destroyed forever by the devastating Allied bombing of WWII. Text in German. Fine, condition, in a clean and bright Near Fine dust jacket that has not been price-clipped.