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Nice Collection of 18th Century Weathered Spanish Vellum Books
Located in Buisson, FR
Nice collection of three extremely weathered vellum books, Spain 18th century. Weathered and small losses
H:15,5cm W:3cm D:11cm each
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18th Century Spanish Antique Parchment Paper Books
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Parchment Paper
Gregory Colbert Photograph Ashes and Snow Selected Works Santa Monica Exhibition
By Gregory Colbert
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Gregory Colbert Photographs, Ashes and Snow Selected Works, 1992-2005.
Ashes and Snow by Gregory Colbert Santa Monica Exhibition Catalogue 2006.
Photographs: Gregory Colbert.
Publish...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Expressionist Parchment Paper Books
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Parchment Paper
8 Theological Leather Bound Books, by Franz Volkmar Reinhard, Published 1808
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
8 Theological Leather Bound Books, by Franz Volkmar Reinhard,
Germany, published in 1808
We are pleased to offer a rare and historical find with this exquisite collection of eight ...
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Early 19th Century Neoclassical Antique Parchment Paper Books
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Leather, Paper, Parchment Paper
19th Century German Baronship Document, Archduke Ludwig III of Hessen
Located in Vero Beach, FL
19th century German Baronship Document, Archduke Ludwig III of Hessen
Outstanding document bound with threaded rope in crimson red leather with burnished 24-carat gold embossed. A...
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19th Century German Antique Parchment Paper Books
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Leather, Parchment Paper
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Preface by Thomas Carlyle
Located in Middletown, NY
The only book published by the Doves Press by an American author.
Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1906. Small 4to, 9 1/4 x 6.5 in (235 x 166 mm). Pp. xiv, 13...
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Early 20th Century English Parchment Paper Books
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Gold Leaf
Nice Collection of 18th/ 19th Century Weathered Spanish/ Italian Vellum Books
Located in Buisson, FR
Nice collection of four extremely weathered vellum books, Spain/ Italy 18th / 19th century. Weathered and small losses
Measures: H:15-24cm W:1,5-5,5cm D:10,5-17cm
Measurements her...
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18th Century Spanish Antique Parchment Paper Books
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Parchment Paper
Miscellaneous Poems of Jonathan Swift / Golden Cokerell Press
Located in Middletown, NY
Miscellaneous Poems of Jonathan Swift; Selected and with an introduction by R. Ellis Roberts.
Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press,...
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Early 20th Century English Parchment Paper Books
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Paper, Parchment Paper
A Ballad Upon a Wedding – Eric Ravilious engravings / Golden Cokerell Press
Located in Middletown, NY
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS
Suckling, Sir John
A Ballad Upon a Wedding; With Engravings by Eric Ravilious
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Pr...
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Early 20th Century English Parchment Paper Books
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Paper, Parchment Paper
Aristitde Maillol Illustrated: Daphnis & Chloe
By Aristide Maillol 2
Located in Middletown, NY
According to Eleanor Garvey "The Artist and the Book" (p. 122) this work is "perhaps the most harmonious of Maillol's illustrated books."
Aristide MAILLOL, illus.; LONGUS author
Daphnis and Chloe; A Most Sweet, and Pleasant Pastoral Romance for Young Ladies, translated out of the Greek of Longus by Geo. Thornley.
London: A. Zwemmer [printed in Paris by Philippe Gonin], 1937. Limited Edition.
8vo, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (200 x 132 mm); pp. vi, 211,colophon,12;
Copy 21 of 250 numbered copies on hand-made Maillol paper and SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the colophon, with 52 original woodcuts, and 4 woodcut initials, printed in bistre; leading and bottom edges deckled. Full vellum with laced-in thongs, gilt lettering on spine, faint; pencil notations and tipped in label from earlier booksellers on inside front cover, edges stained on first 2 and last 2 blanks.
EXTRA SUITE of 45 WOODCUTS in a separate vellum portfolio, printed in black.
Fine copy in simple cardboard slipcase.
Colophon: "Aristide Maillol engraved with his own hand the wood-cuts which illustrate this book, The text is that of Thronley's translation of 1657, revised and augmented. Philippe Gonin of Paris undertook the achievement of this work, and printed it on his hand-press, for A. Zwemmer, London. Paris December 7th, 1937", followed by MAILLOL'S SIGNATURE IN PENCIL.
Garvey 174; Garvey Wick 22; BNF32393010
Condition: FINE
An ancient Greek novel written during the Roman Empire, the only known work of the 2nd century AD Greek novelist and romance writer Longus, translated by George Thornley...
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1930s British Vintage Parchment Paper Books
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Paper, Parchment Paper
Pair of 19th C. French Book Velum Containers
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Two containers made from antique velum books. They are triangular in shape, each adorned with a faded golden design against a lighter background. The diamond-shaped central motif, b...
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19th Century French French Provincial Antique Parchment Paper Books
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Parchment Paper
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