introduction arthur dean (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. Half-title page and rear blank have light foxing to the edges. Covers have slight foxing to the margins. Rear cover has three short pen squiggles. Antique dealer's address ink stamp on each endpaper. ; Copy #168 of 1000. Published for The 22nd Wedgwood International Seminar, May 4-6, 1977, The Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Mild rubbing to the board edges, else a clean, tight copy still in its original binding. A collection of 22 prize winning essays on various wood working topics including practical hints on the operation of woodworking machines as well as floor plans and machine specifications for woodworking departments from the first quarter of the twentieth century in America. Indexed with some photo illustrations. 352pp. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. Mallette Dean (illustratore). Limited Edition. 18 x 13 cm, xxix, 26., colophon, pp PICTORIAL TITLE PAGE PRINTED IN RED, BLUE AND BLACK, initials in red, first page has picture printed blue green and black with initial in red, EARLY CALIFORNIA TRAVELS SERIES XXXIV, original beautiful black and white zoological design on paper covered boards and 1/4 red and white cloth spine with printed label and clear plastic dust jacket, no signs of wear or sunning. Zakahar Tchitchinoff was born joined his father, an employee of the Russian American Company, where he was employed on the Company's ships. Tchitchinoff's descriptions of his adventures in California give a good picture of Russian activities in the Farallones in the period of 1818-1828, which consisted mostly of hunting seals for their fur. For the men it was a life filled with deprivation, and Tchitchinoff gives us a first-hand insight into the hardships of their daily lives.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Dean, Mallette (illustratore). Limited Edition. One of 225 copies, duodecimo size, [71] pp. This the first time Fr. Vizcaino's diary was published; it was discovered by Woodward "among the hundreds of unknown manuscripts in Biblioteca Naconal de Mexico in Mexico City" in the summer of 1940. Fr. Vizcaino was one of the few passengers on the ship "San Antonio" which was commissioned to bring food and supplies to the earliest explorers of Alta California. He reports on their first sighting of land (San Clemente, in the Channel Islands), details on the canoes used by the Native Americans they encountered, and many other aspects of the Native Americans who lived in the region. Printed, illustrated and bound in paper boards by Mallette Dean, an eminent California artist and printer; the title page illustration being a linocut, the illustration on p. xviii a colour wood engraving, and the map (p. xxxii), illustration on p. xxxxii, and the patterned boards coloured linocuts. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter gray cloth with patterned paper covered boards, paper spine label, map endpapers showing the journey of the San Antonio, illustrated title page, one map, and two in-text illustrations all in two colours (grey and red); duodecimo size (7 3/8" by 5 1/4"), pagination: [i-iv], v-xxxxii, 1-27, [1 blank] [colophon], limited edition of 225 copies, unnumbered. ___CONDITION: Fine; the binding clean, the corners straight and unrubbed, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; clean, crisp, and as new. ___CITATION: Hawk no. 361. ___PROVENANCE: Available upon request. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply, please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Dean, Mallette (illustratore). Limited Edition. One of 225 copies, duodecimo size, [56] pp. Zakahar Tchitchinoff was born in 1802 in a town in Eastern Siberia; he joined his father, an employee of the Russian American Company, where he was employed on the Company's ships. Tchitchinoff's descriptions of his adventures in California give a good picture of Russian activities in the Farallones in the period of 1818-1828, which consisted mostly of hunting seals for their fur. For the men it was a life filled with deprivation, and Tchitchinoff gives us a first-hand insight into the hardships of their daily lives. Printed, illustrated and bound in paper boards by Mallette Dean, an eminent California artist and printer, with the colour wood engravings and the wood-engraved initials printed from the original blocks. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter orange and gray striped cloth with decorative paper covered boards, paper spine label, four color wood engravings by Mallette Dean including frontis; duodecimo size (7 3/8" by 5 3/8"), pagination: [i-iv], v-xxix, 1-26, [1 colophon], limited edition of 225 copies, unnumbered. ___CONDITION: Fine overall, the binding clean, the corners straight, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; a bare hint of rubbing to the corners, else fine. ___CITATION: Hawk no. 334. ___PROVENANCE: Available upon request. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply, please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.