'1421' Voyages. Fact & Fantasy
Ipoh, Perak Academy, 2004. An exposé of the pseudohistorical claims in Gavin Menzies's book '1421: The Year China Discovered the World' (2002). More
Ipoh, Perak Academy, 2004. An exposé of the pseudohistorical claims in Gavin Menzies's book '1421: The Year China Discovered the World' (2002). More
Ocean Pines, SkipJack Press, 1999. 'This book has been inspired by the collection of James C. Sorber of West Chester, Pennsylvania. It is the culmination of a lifetime of selective collecting of wrough iron pieces with a specific focus on signed and dated items from Pennsylvania and the Northeastern states'..... More
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1950 (first US edition). With the ink ownership signature of Australian historian Professor William Arthur Ridley ('Bill') Richardson. More
New York, Hyperion, 1995 (first edition thus)/ 1981. 'Three thousand five hundred copies of the first Hyperion edition of "The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation" have been specially bound with sixteen [reproduced] drawings by the authors, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston.... In addition, each copy has been numbered and individually..... More
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1938. Several chapters on herpetological matters. More
London, Hatchard and Co., 1865 (the first title); London, William White, 1856 (the second title); and Boston, Otis Clapp, 1860 (the third title). The contemporary blindstamp of the Adelaide bookseller W.C. Rigby is on the front flyleaf. More
New York, Abbeville Press Publishers, 1991. More
New York, Abrams, 2016 [first thus]. 'Through hundreds of exquisite photographs and reproductions of rare botanical art, this book celebrates NY Botanical Gardens' 125th year as a place of unparalleled beauty in New York City and as an internationally renowned leader in plant research and conservation. This revised edition includes..... More
Berkeley, Gingko Press, 2014. A monograph on the famous - and controversial - Australian street artist. More
Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1979 (second printing)/ 1978 (first thus)/ 1975 (third, revised, edition)/ 1962. More
Adelaide, Lutheran Publishing House, 1975. More
Ottowa, Research Branch, Canada Department of Agriculture, 1966. Research Branch, Canada Department of Agriculture Monograph Number 2. More
London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1887. Presentation copy. Inscribed ('from Grandpapa'), dated (September 1985) and signed in ink to a young Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1884-1930), biochemist and professor, with his scientific bookplate ('In Limine'). More
Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1935. More
New York, Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation, 1963. '... a shocking account of transport ills in the world today ...' (dustwrapper). More
London, Printed by W.T. Sherwin, 1817 and 1819 [mainly first editions thus]. Seven scarce separately-published pamphlets by Thomas Paine, including some of his most influential titles, bound in one volume, as issued. The titles, with the date of publication followed by the place and date of the original publication, are..... More
Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1910. 'In 1910-11 the distinguished German architectural publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued a pair of elegant portfolios covering the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to date. Among the most important architectural manifestoes of the twentieth century, the "Wasmuth folios" had enormous influence on the architects of the..... More
[Colorado?], Beaux Arts, [1975?]. Edward Curtis (1868-1952) published 'The North American Indian' in 20 volumes between 1907 and 1930. Plate numbers, date of the original negatives, and captions on the items in this selection are as follows. Plate 28: Cañon de Chelly - Navaho [1904]. Plate 56: Qahátika Girl [1907]..... More
Ramsey, Anubis Publishing, 2007. More
Manorville, Anubis Press, 2009. More
Neptune City, T.F.H. Publications, 1991. More
Lexington, Dog Fighting Investigation Publications LLC, 2009. More
Urbana, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and University of Illinois Press, 1991. A catalogue of an exhibition of Fehl's 'capricci', with an introductory essay by Maurice E. Cope. This is a presentation copy, with the front free endpaper inscribed and signed 'For Father Leonard Boyle, O.P. |..... More
[Chicago], Franklin Railway Supply Co., Inc., 1928. 'The Locomotive Booster makes it possible to use more of the weight of the locomotive on the rails to produce power'. More
Chicago, Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Company, 1946. 'From a research-development program over a period of several years Standard Railway Equipment Manufacturing Company has developed a machine to maintain wheels without removal from the car or diesel locomotive' (sub-title). More