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(TRADE CARD) T.H. WEBSTER, TEACHER OF ARCHITECTURE PERSPECTIVE &. (London: circa 1810). Engraved card. 2 5/8 x 3 7/8 inches. Webster (1772-1844) revised John Imison's Elements of Science and Art in 1808 On the blank verso, he has added his address: No. 6 Clipstone Street.

GOWEN, Al. T.J. LYONS: A BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICAL ESSAY. Boston: Society of Printers, 1987. 4to. Cloth. (x), 102 pages. First edition Printing for sixty-two years in the twentieth century, T.J. Lyons of Boston maintained the tradition of nineteenth century printing, using his vast collection of foundry types 1820-1890. Illustrated. Fine. At publication price.

(ROBERTSON, John.) TABLES OF DIFFERENCE OF LATITUDE AND DEPARTURE. Philadelphia: Joseph Cruikshank, 1790. 8vo. Later marbled wrappers. (i), 90 pages. Second American edition. [Evans, 22856; Rink. Technical America, 2375] Being a handy eighteenth century guide for the seaman and traveler. Robertso Tables was popular and was also included as an appendix to the 1792 edition o Robert Gibson's Treatise of Practical Surveying. Scarce.

PLICKA, K., and E Poche. TAGE IN PRAG 7. (Prag): Orbis, 1967. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. 213 (1) pages. First edition. "Photographischer Fuhrer durch die Stadt". With nearly five hundred photogra of buildings and interiors in Prag by Karel Plicka and text by Emanuel Poche. Very good.

BECKMAN, Max. TAGEBUCHER, 1940-1950. (Munich): Langen Muller, (1979). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. 443, (5) pages, (2 plates. [Freitag, 519]. This is the diary of German artist Max Beckman, kept over a ten year period. Small hole on front cover, else fine.

ASH, William. TAKE-OFF. New York: Walker & Co., (1970). 8vo. Paper over boards, dust jacket. 223 pag First American edition. The editor of a small literary review becomes involved in a guerilla movement when he tries to publish the poems of the revolutionary leader. Fine in rubbe dust jacket.

SCOTLAND, John. THE TALKIES. London: Crosby Lockwood, 1930. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. xvi, 194, (1) pages, plates. First edition. An early technical and historical survey of early talking pictures, with photographs of early equipment and movie sets. An attractive, bright copy.

(CARPETS, ETC.-TRADE CATALOGUE) DUMONT, E. TAPIS-BROSSES, TISSUS BEGETAIN, GYMNASTIQUE HAMACS,... Paris: (circa 1910). 8vo. Printed wrappers. (ii), 14 pages. Rare trade catalogue of carpets, matts, hammocks, gymnastic equipment, children's swings, and assorted accessories not recorded on OCLC. A fully illustrated color catalogue by the Dumont Company in Paris - a company who exhibited at the major expositions such as Paris (1900), Saint Louis (1904), Liege (1905), London (1908), and Brussels (1910). Each item named and number The front wrapper has a folding flap with can be folded into the back wrapper create a mailing envelope. Very good.

TAPISSERIES ET ETOFFES COPTES. (Paris: H. Ernst, n.d., circa 1900). Portfolio (15 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches). (ii pages, 48 colored mounted plates. A series of brightly colored plates of Egyptian Coptic textile samples. Each plate is mounted on grey stiff card stock. Respined in cloth; edges of board protected with tape.

(GUEULLETTE, Thomas-Simon). TARTARIAN TALES: OR, A THOUSAND AND ONE QUARTERS HOURS. London: J. and R. Tonson, 1759. 8vo. Contemporary quarter-vellum, marbled boards. Frontispiece, ix, 369 pages. Second English translation. First published in Paris (1714) and translated into English that same year, Tartarian Tales was advertised in The Virginia Gazette several times in 1771, along with the author's Peruvian Tales. The covers are worn, still a nice, un copy in an unsophisticated contemporary binding.

DWIGGINS. (DWIGGINS) DAUDET, Alphonse. TARTARIN OF TARASCON. Two volumes. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Small 8vo. Cloth spines, patterned pa over boards, slipcase. One of 1,500 numbered copies, signed by Dwiggins. [Agn 30.01.] One of W.A.Dwiggins's most pleasing works. The book was designed and illustrated by him and printed by Richard W. Ellis at The Georgian Press. Bookplate, else very good in a worn slipcase.

TAYLOR, Francis Henry. THE TASTE OF ANGELS. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. Frontispie xxx, 661 pages, plates. First edition. A review copy, being a history of art collecting from Rameses to Napoleon, wi illustrations. Bookplate, dust jacket chipped and creased, else very good.

MASKELL, Henry Parr. THE TAVERNS OF OLD ENGLAND. New York: John Day Co., 1927. 8vo. Cloth, xii, 235 pages, 8 plates. First edition. A tour of the taverns of England focusing especially on the history associate with the names and signs of the taverns. Includes photographs and drawings. Very good.

(FESTSCHRIFT) HUGHES, H. Stuart (editor). TEACHERS OF HISTORY: ESSAYS IN HO OF LAURENCE BRADFORD PACKARD. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1954). 8vo. Cloth. 372 pages. First editi Without historians the greatest deeds fall into nothingness. More than one hundred of Professor Packard's students at Amherst and Rochester went on to d graduate work in history. Sixteen contributors. Very good.

SNEIDER, Vern. THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON. New York: Putnam's, (1951). 8vo. Publishers cloth, dust jacket. 282 pages. First edition. First edition of the popular novel which became a successful Broadway play an also an equally successful Hollywood movie. It depicts the activities of US military government officers and personnel in occupied Okinawa following Worl War II. This is the author's first novel. Brightly colored dust jacket a little chipped, else very good.

THOMPSON, James S. THE TECHNICAL BOOK PUBLISHER IN WARTIMES. New York: New York Public Library, 1942. Small 8vo. Wrappers. 50 pages. Firs edition. The 7th R.R. Bowker lecture. Crease on front wrapper.

RICHMOND, L., and J. Littlejohns. THE TECHNIQUE OF WATER-COLOUR PAINTING. London: Pitman, 1925. 4to. Cloth. 73 pages, 31 color plates. First edition. An instructional guide for the art student. Spine slightly browned, else ver good.

(TRADE CATALOGUE) MACCORD, Charles Wheeler. THE TEETH OF SPUR WHEELS; THEIR CORRECT INFORMATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE. Hartford: Pratt & Whitney, 1881. Square 8vo. Original limp wrappers. 52, (1) pages. First edition. Scarce item in the trade. A stamped presentation from Pratt & Whitney, and pencil ownership signature of the great American mechanical engineer Ambrose Swasey dated 1881, with his note "preserve." Tipped in at the front is "Tabl of cutters for teeth of gear wheels, made by Pratt & Whitney Company...Novemb 1879," the year Swasey took over the department at Pratt & Whitney. Tipped i at the rear is a Pratt & Whitney advertisement. Not only was Swasey a mechanical engineer, he was also an inventor, entrepreneur, astronomer, and philanthropist. With Worcester R. Warner he co-founded the Warner & Swasey Company in 1880. While with Pratt & Whitnewy he developed a new technique fo making gear-tooth cutters. With Swasey's bookplate.

(INDIA) TEMPLES OF SOUTH INDIA. (Delhi:) Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, (1960.) 8vo. Wrappers. 52 pages, plates. Spine chipped.

LAWSON, William, and Charles D. Hunter. TEN YEARS OF GENTLEMAN FARMING AT BLENNERHASSET. London: Longmans, Green, 1874. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. viii, 408 pages, 2 colored maps. First edition. Scarce. Comprehensive account of a cooperative farm and utopian community, w statistical data on the results of agricultural methods. Extremities lightly rubbed else very good.