London [et al]: V & A Publishing [et all], 2011. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Folio in multicolor jacket (blue spine); 296 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 30 cmbibliographical references (pages 256-260) and index. Maroon cloth case binding; illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers..... More
México: N.P., 1940. Paperback. Small quarto in color illus offwhite wraps; 246 pages : illustrations, plates (some color), music ; 23 cm. In Spanish. Very well illustrated. Uncommon. || Indigenous dance -- Mexico. Native American dance and ritual. Choreography, Music, Baile. Rhythm || "El principal objeto de este libro es..... More
Mexico: Secretaría de Educación Pública; Talleres graficos de la nacion, 1928. Hardcover. Quarto in offwhite printed & illus paper-backed boards; 351 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, music ; 24 cm. "Cien aires nacionales mexicanos para piano": pages [237]-341. In Spanish. Numerous b&w photo reproductions of historical interest. "Cien aires nacionales..... More
[San Francisco]: Pacific House, 1940. Hardcover. Loose elephant folio in printed cardboard case, with cloth tie and wood dowel; 31 cm. Six full-color high quality (probably stone lithograph) pictorial maps of the Pacific; four maps are 38 x 25 inches, and two are smaller, at 25 x19 inches. Six lovely..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Ar, 2012. First edition (unstated). Hardcover. Large folio in multi-color red, pink & black illus jacket; 376 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm ; bibliographical references and index. "In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia..... More
México: Sociedad de Investigaciones Históricas de México, 1966 - 1972. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Paperback. 19 white-orange volumes, 2-stapled binding: 12 p (one issue), and 18 issues at 16 pages each. In Spanish. Scarce, and more so thus, as 19-issue run. Publication dates: July 1966, November 1966..... More
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2005. Paperback. Small folio in white illus paper jacket and stiff paper wraps; 208 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm. "On the island of Naoshima off the picturesque coast of western Japan, Japanese architect Tadao Ando has built a spectacular structure comprised of basic..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 2006. First edition, second printing ("2"). Hardcover. Folio in dark blue cloth & color illus paper-backed boards; 176 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm. "Tadao Ando at Naoshima: Art, Architecture, Nature showcases the latest work in an on-going process of building by Tadao Ando..... More
New York, NY: Monacelli Press, 2005. First editoin. Glossy pictorial cover. Folio in sepia-tone photo illus jacket; 248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index. "This significant architect was raised as Southern California aristocracy, as an heir to one of the founders..... More
[Barcelona]: Ediciones Nobel, [2000]. Hardcover. Gold octavo, color illus to front board, colored endpapers, 222 pages, color illustrations ; 24 cm. In Spanish. Nice color illustration to front board of monk and two patients. Publisher order card included. No DJ, as issued. || Medicine, Medieval. Plants, Herbals, Botany, Ethnobotany. More
México: N.P., Circa [1900s]. First Mexico edition (unstated). Paperback. B&W illus duodecimo, pocket book, 188 pages ; 18 cm. Footnotes. In Spanish. Scarce thus in Series: Colección de raros y exquisitos. Scarce. || Naked women to covers. Erotic literature; erotica, Lesbiansim. More
México, D.F. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado, 1992. Primera ed. Hardcover. Octavo in white color illus DJ, cactus illus, 314 pages, color illustrations ; 22 cm. In Spanish. Only 3,000 copies. || Medicinal plants..... More
New York: Pointed Leaf Press, 2007. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Folio in white color photo-illus jacket; 216 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 31 cm. "Although Samuel Abraham Marx (1885-1964) was born at the end of the nineteenth century, he had the eye of a...... More
México, D.F. Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2003. Primera ed. Paperback. Red octavo, 297 pages, chiefly color illustrations (some b&w) ; 23 cm. In Spanish. Scarce. Only 2,000 copies. || Folk art -- Mexico, Symbolism. More
New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. 1st American ed. Hardcover. Folio in black photo color illus jacket; ix, 237 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 35 cm ; bibliographical references (pages 231-232) and index. Many excellent color photos of Europe's greatest gardens,. Translation of: De folie en folies. || Follies (Architecture)..... More
Mérida, Yuc. Impr. Oriente, 1946. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Paperback. Brown duodecimo, pocket book, 2-stapled binding, 16 pages, b&w illustrations, 17 cm. In Spanish. Rare. We locate no copy in WorldCat. || Folklore, Mayan. More
México, D.F. Lince Editores, 1971. 1st Mexican edition. Hardcover. Black octavo, gilt to spine, gilt and gilt design to front board, 284 p, b&w illus ; 22 cm. In Spanish. Limited edition. Presumably signed and inscribed by translator (difficult to read but appears tp be that of Malke Donatti). #80/93..... More