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1920s FASHION)
Art - Gout - Beaute. Feuillets de L'Elegance Feminine.
Paris. 07- 1923. No. 35. 3 e. Annee. Pochoir color plates and tipped in illustrations throughout, unpaginated, 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches, decorative string tied color pictorial wrappers. Lower corners of front cover chipped, light staining at lower left edge of front cover, split at head and tail of... Item #45825
Price: $425.00
AMERICAN LANDSCAPE ARTISTS)
Country Life. 1920 - 06.
Verress, J. Paul (cover illus).
Garden City, NY. Doubleday, Page & Co. 06- 1920. Vol. XXXVIII No.2. Illustrated magazine, 14 ½ x 10 inches; 152 pp. Magazine features extensive advertising in three high-end categories: costly real estate (for example, "The Castle at Greenwich"); show dogs ("Russian Wolfhounds," etc.) and automobiles... Item #54783
Price: $135.00
BEATLES - PORTFOLIO ON THE BEATLES)
Look Magazine. January 9, 1968. Beatle John Lennon by Avedon. A special issue on Sound and fury in the arts...
Avedon, Richard (color cover).
New York. Cowles Communications. 01-09- 1968. January 9, 1968 issue of the magazine, color and black and white illustrations, 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches, 78 pp, in color pictorial wrappers. Very good condition: covers lightly worn with light corner creases. Article on The Beatles with... Item #54748
Price: $110.00
CALIFORNIA - SOUTHERN - EARLY AVIATION)
A Cartograph of Southern California showing how the Land of Sunshine has become so air-minded that everybody flies hither and yon and yon and hither. (Cover title: Three Years Old!)
White, Ruth Taylor (illus).
Western Air Express. 1929. Color illustrated folding advertising card, 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, opening to color pictographic map with pop-up illustration, 9 1/4 x 10 inches (23.5 x 25.5 cm), in original mailing envelope. Pictographic map with pop-up illustration of propeller plane. From envelope... Item #37587
Price: $325.00
CHINA / JAPAN)
Asia. The American Magazine of the Orient. October 1921.
New Hampshire. Asia Publishing Company. 10- 1921. Volume XXI, Number 10. October 1921 issue of the magazine, black and white illustrations, black and white and color ads, 822-896pp, 12 x 9 inches, color pictorial wrappers as issued. Covers lightly worn, light soiling to back cover, a few short tears and... Item #41453
Price: $25.00
DISNEY)
The Walt Disney Annual.
Disney, Walt.
Racine, WI. Whitman. 1937. 8 color plates, 123 pp, 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches, color pictorial paper covered boards in color pictorial dustjacket. Light wear to extremities, light spotting to cover, light toning to edges of endpapers, interior clean and tight. Overall light foxing to dust jacket... Item #40115
Price: $895.00
ENCYCLOPEDIA VOLUME 11 "Kim" through "Kuz")
Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon.
Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut. 1905. Massive volume, 10 x 6 ¼ inches, 908 numbered pages. Ex-library volume: library stamp on spine, on verso of free end paper, and elsewhere, but not on illustrations. Numerous attractive maps and chromolithographic plates including fruit, hummingbirds, costume plates, coral reef, etc. Many additional black and... Item #54790
Price: $95.00
ENCYCLOPEDIA VOLUME 20 "V" through "Z")
Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon.
Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut. 1908. Massive volume, 10 x 6 ¼ inches, 1055 numbered pages. Numerous attractive maps and chromolithographic plates including plants, flowers, coats of arms, insects, cloud formations, etc. Many additional black and white plates. Contents in good clean condition (pp 431-434 torn but present). Heavy volume; extra postage likely. Item #54787
Price: $115.00
ENCYCLOPEDIA VOLUME 7 "Er" through "Fr")
Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon.
Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut. 1904. Description: Massive volume, 10 x 6 ¼ inches, 908 numbered pages. Ex-library volume: library stamp on spine, verso of front cover, and elsewhere, but not on illustrations. Numerous attractive maps and chromolithographic plates including flowers, game birds, fish, plants, insects, flags, etc. Many additional black and... Item #54789
Price: $95.00
ENCYCLOPEDIA VOLUME 7 "Fr" through "Gl")
Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon.
Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut. 1904. Massive volume, 10 x 6 ¼ inches, 904 numbered pages. Ex-library volume: library stamp on spine, verso of front cover, and elsewhere, but not on illustrations. Numerous attractive maps and chromolithographic plates including flowers, ornamental plants, poisonous plants, tropical fruit, insects, Mammoth Hot Springs, etc. Many... Item #54788
Price: $95.00
ENGLAND - CAMBRIDGE)
Philips' "Wayabout" Maps No. 1. Herein is a Pictorial Map Shewing the way about Cambridge. (Map title: Cambridge).
Hoffman, G. Spencer (cartographer).
London. George Philip & Son. 1929. Folding map of Cambridge, England, in brown paper wraps 8 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches, unfolding to 16 ½ x 20 ¾ inches. 1 ½ inch tear at left margin were map is attached to folder, entering map slightly. Full... Item #54801
Price: $375.00
FLORIDA)
Key West Florida. Cayo Hueso.
Suchy, Arthur B. (illus).
No date. Ca._ 1940. Pictorial map, modern handcolor, 21 1/2 x 30 inches (55 x 76cm) on sheet 25 x 32 1/2 inches. Fine condition. A rare and decorative Florida map of Key West, a community of central importance to American military and cultural history, by... Item #42351
Price: $475.00
GREAT WALL OF CHINA)
Panorama of the Great Wall of China.
Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society. 02- 1923. Folded photographic view of "The Great Wall of China near Nankow Pass." The view unfolds to a panorama 9 ½ x 45 ½ inches. Childish scribble on the back of one folded sheet (not impacting photo image) while folding sheet on extreme left... Item #54799
Price: $35.00
GREECE - ATHENS)
TWA Athens City Map
Fort Worth, Texas. TWA Airlines. 1953. Folded brochure 7 x 3 ½ inches unfolding to a colorful map of central Athens on a sheet size 13 ¼ x 10 ½ inches. Map readily locates primary tourist sites: the Acropolis with Parthenon, Theatre of Dionysos, etc. Key at bottom locates Monuments... Item #54759
Price: $35.00
HANDCOLORED ENGRAVINGS) Curtis, William.
The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden displayed...
Sowerby, J.
London. W. Curtis. Copyright 1793. This issue circa 1812. 2 volumes bound in one, 72 handcolored engraved plates each with facing page of text, 10 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches (26x17.5cm), decorative embossed cloth-covered boards. Plates on wove paper, generally very clean and bright, occasional light foxing or... Item #48009
Price: $1,650.00
Harte, Bret.
"Colonel Starbottle's Client" in The Newspaper Library (magazine)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Cramer, Aikens & Cramer. 03- 1891. Volume III, No. 3, of "The Newspaper Library," March 1891. Stiff card covers, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 32 pp. Very good clean condition. Volume contains "A Lying Vision" by the Irish novelist and politician Justin McCarthy, "Colonel Starbottle's Client" by... Item #54267
Price: $395.00
HAWAII - HONOLULU)
Honolulu Map and Guide. Map title: City of Honolulu--Territory of Hawaii.
Honolulu, Hawaii. Hawaii Tourist Bureau. 1939. Brochure unfolding to large map of the City of Honolulu 13 ¾ x 24 ½ inches. The map is signed (in facsimile) by James B. Mann, Engineer and Surveyor, and dated January 1939. The map is in very good condition, save for issues noted... Item #54760
Price: $60.00
HUNTING)
The Meet.
Fesch, C. A. (illus).
London. No date. Ca. 1880s. Color lithographic print 11 ¾ x 17 ¼ inches on sheet 17 x 23 inches titled "The Meet," presumably the first in a series of fox hunting scenes. No publisher information is provided on the print. Fresch’s signature appears in the... Item #54800
Price: $325.00
INTERIOR DESIGN / COLORING BOOK)
Alabastine Home Color Book.
Grand Rapids, Michigan. Alabastine Company. 1928. Rectangular coloring book for children 8 ¼ x 10 ¼ inches; 20 pp. including covers. The book features eight color images of various rooms in a home with, next to the image, a black and white replica of the room for a child to... Item #54794
Price: $38.00
IRAN)
Iran Highway Map. (Naqshah-ʼi rāhʹhā-yi Īrān).
Tehran, Iran. Ministry of Roads. 03- 1962. Double-sided color roadmap of Iran; English on one side and Persian on the other; folded to 9 x 4 inches. When open, map and decorative images measure 27 x 36 inches. Five inset maps, the largest (4 ½ x 6 ¼ inches) depicting... Item #54772
Price: $175.00
JAPAN - BEPPU) Fujiwara, T.
Beppu - Its Picturesque Environs. See Beppu, Then and Die.
Beppu, Japan. Beppu Research Society. 1928. Booklet, color pictorial card wrappers with string tie, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches (19 x 12 cm), 30 numbered pages, color folding map of the city, black and white photo illustrations. Very good condition. A most attractive publication presenting the hot springs resort... Item #54726
Price: $165.00
JAPAN - CHILDREN AT PLAY)
Japanese Children.
Tokyo. [Tokyo Toyodo]. No date. Ca. 1895. 10 double-page color lithographs, plus 8 (unpaginated) pages of text at the rear. Bound accordion style with paper-covered boards and color pictorial cover label. Boards are detached with paper loss at the corners, small area of light dampstaining at the lower left corner... Item #48378
Price: $950.00
JAPAN - CUSTOMS - CHILDREN'S BOOK)
Kingu Bukku. [World War II era Japanese children's book with scenes of life in contemporary Japan].
Showa 11. 1936. Color illustrated throughout, unpaginated (12pp plus covers), 13 x 9 1/2 inches, color pictorial thick card covers with cloth binding. Overall light soiling to covers, bump to two lower corners, scattered light soiling to margins, interior clean. This children's book provides a fascinating glimpse into life in... Item #51694
Price: $145.00
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JAPAN - IMMEDIATE POST-WORLD WAR II TOURISM)
Map of Japan for Sightseers.
Showa 21. 1946. Pamphlet, sheet 10 x 43 inches (25 x 110 cm) folding to 10 x 4 1/2 inches, color maps on both sides. Very good condition. On one side is a map of the islands of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu; on the verso are three maps: Hokkaido, Kansai... Item #54729
Price: $235.00
JAPAN - JAPANESE LANGUAGE)
Japanese Phrase Book. February 28, 1944. Restricted. TM 30-641.
Washington, D.C. War Department. 1944. viii+184 pp, 5 x 4 1/4 inches, wrappers (softbound). Very good condition: light foxing to cloth spine and rusting to binding staples. Includes phrases for landing a plane, reconnaissance etc. Item #54739
Price: $30.00
