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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. A clean, tight copy. Minor wear and tanning. Several tears to the jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Color and B/W Plates (illustrator). First Edition. 1342 Pp + 126 Plates In Color And B/W. Cloth. First Edition. Light Signs Of Use, No Fraying, Hinges Tight, No Damage. Nicely Inscribed, "Signed With Pleasure For My Old Friend And Pupil Ted Little, Boardman Robinson / Colorado Springs '46." Boardman Michael Robinson (1876-1952) Was A Canadian-American Painter, Illustrator And Cartoonist. Robinson First Studied Art At The Massachusetts College Of Art In Boston. He Would Later Go On To Study At The Académie Colarossi And The École Des Beaux-Arts, Both In Paris, Where He Was Influenced By The Political Cartooning Of Honoré Daumier, As Well As Forain And Steinlen. Upon Returning To The United States, Robinson Worked As An Illustrator, Drawing Cartoons And Theater Illustrations For The New York Morning Telegraph. He Freelanced For A Wide Range Of Other Popular Publications, Including Pearson's Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, Collier's, Harper's Weekly, And Others. In 1910, Robinson Took A Job On The Staff Of The New York Tribune Drawing Editorial Cartoons, A Position Which He Retained For Four Years. With The Eruption Of World War I In 1914, Robinson's Increasingly Radical Anti-Militarist Political Views Brought Him Into Conflict With His Employer And He Quit The Publication. In 1915, Robinson Travelled To Eastern Europe On Behalf Of Metropolitan Magazine Along With Journalist John Reed. The Pair Saw First Hand The Effects Of The European War In Russia, Serbia, Macedonia And Greece. In 1916 Reed's Account Of The Journey Was Collected In A Book Called The War In Eastern Europe, To Which Robinson Contributed Illustrations. On His Return From Europe, Robinson Worked At The Socialist Monthly The Masses. His Highly Political Cartoons As Well As The General Anti-War Stance Of The Masses Was Deemed To Have Violated The Recently Passed Espionage Act Of 1917, And The Masses Had To Cease Publication. Robinson, Along With The Other Defendants Were Acquitted On October 5, 1918. Following The Masses, Robinson Became A Contributing Editor To The Liberator And The New Masses, Working With Former Masses Editor Max Eastman. Robinson Would Later Go On To Teach Art At The Art Students League In New York City (1919-30) And Head The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (1936-47). Some Of His Students Include Duard Marshall, James Brooks, Bill Tytla, Edmund Duffy, Jacob Burck, Russel Wright, Eric Bransby, Rifka Angel, Mary Anne Bransby, Gerhard Bakker, And Esther Shemitz (Who Married Whittaker Chambers): Both Burck And Shemitz Contributed Illustrations To The New Masses As Did Their Mentor.) Robinson Is Also Known As A Muralist. Some Of His Mural Commissions Include Works At Rockefeller Center And The Department Of Justice Building In Washington, D.C. And A Nine-Panel Mural On The History Of Trade For Kaufmann's Flagship Department Store In Pittsburgh Completed In 1929. Robinson Also Illustrated Several Books, Among Them Editions Of Walt Whitman's Leaves Of Grass (1921), Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1933), Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology (1941), And Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1942). Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4. 142pp - 104 Plates (11 tipped-in) and in-text (3 tipped-in) illustrations. Monuments of Islamic Book Art by Dr.Adolf Grohmann (1887-1977) Austrian historian (Arabist and Semitist) professor at the Prague University and Thomas W. Arnold (1864-1930) British orientalist and historian of Islamic art. First edition, published in 375 copies (German edition), text in German language. Original Binding (black). Previous owner signature, in very good condition.

Folio (240:320 mm). XII, (4), 142, (4) pp., 104 plates. With numerous printed and photographic illustrations in the text. Contemp. green marbled half leather with giltstamped title to spine. Upper edge gilt. First edition; unnumbered copy. Meticulously produced standard work on Islamic book art, of which 375 numbered copies were issued. Part one by Adolf Grohmann, based on the famous collection of Archeduke Rainer (today in the Austrian National Library), covers the early Islamic period from the 7th to the 12th century. Part two by Thomas W. Arnold covers the 13th to the 18th century, arranged by regions. - Occasional slight brownstaining and foxing to lower edge; spine insignificantly scuffed. Altogether a fine copy. The English edition, published simultaneously with the German, sold for £2,600 at Sotheby's (Oct 14, 1999, lot 53: Burrell copy). - OCLC 13055751.

With 104 plates, 10 in color, each accompanied by a short description on a separate leaf, and 19 text-illus. XII pp., 2 leaves, 142 , (1) pp. Large 4to. Orig. half leather with spine label (corners somewhat scuffed). From the library of the Swiss orientalist Rudolf Tschudi. Florence, Pantheon, and Munich, Kurt Wolff, (1929). First edition. One of 375 numbered copies of the German edition of this well-produced standard work on Islamic book art. Part one by Adolf Grohmann covers the early Islamic period from the 7th to the 12th century; it is based on the famous collection of Archduke Rainer in the Austrian National Library Vienna; part two by Thomas W. Arnold covers the 13th to the 18th century, arranged by regions. ORIENT ;

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Viii, 221 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. Ownership Signature Of Physicist H. A. Kramers Of Leiden, Dated Jan 1929, And With Several Pages Of Finely Written Formulae And Notes, One Page Dated "11/4/27 Ii". Small, Probably Original Bookseller's Label (Berlin). Bookplate Of Kramer's Assistant At The Univ. Of Leiden, Physicist Jan Korringa.

Firenze, Pantheon, 1929. (XIV) 143 pp. + 104 plates. Cloth. Illustrations. *written text inside front cover, top spine and corners slightly damaged, otherwise in good condition* Die deutsche Ausgabe dieses Buches wurde in 375 Exemplaren gedruckt. Der Textdruck erfolgte im Jahre 1929 in der Buchdruckerei August Pries in Leipzig. Die einfarbigen Lichtdrucktafeln wurden von der graphischen Kunstanstalt F. Bruckmann A.G. München, die Tafeln in mehrfarbigem Lichtdruck von der Kunstanstalt Max Jaffé, Wien, hergestellt. Die Bindearbeiten besorgten die Buchbindewerkstätten Hübel & Denck in Leizig. Dieses Exemplar ist Nummer 267.

4°, XII(1),142 (1) S. und 104 Tafeln, Orig.-Leinen. Erste deutsche Ausgabe.- Eines von 375 nummerierten Exemplaren, hier ein Exemplar ohne Nummer.- Verso Titel ein kleiner Stempel eines Instituts (gelöscht), Einband etwas begriffen und hinten mit minimalen Resten eines Bibliotheksaufklebers, insgesamt ein wohlerhaltenes Exemplar.