[London]: Duckworth, [1976]. First Edition. Slim octavo (25.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 128pp.; pictorial endpapers, text illus. throughout, including photographs. Small partially removed price sticker to front jacket flap, else in Fine condition. Historical and physiological account of Patrick Cotter, the "Irish Giant," whose hidden coffin was..... More
Hong Kong: Hua Hsia Publications, 1972. First Thus. Updated homage re-issue of initial 1966 edition. Folio (39x28cm); 523pp. Over 2000 photographs (conservatively estimated) in color and B&W. Six panoramas on three fold-outs that extend to over 1.25m in length, with landscape, monument, and architectural vistas. All text bilingually presented in..... More
New York: Arno Press, 1973. Reprint of the 1932 Metropolitan Museum of Art [MMA] Edition. Textured orange boards with spine stamped in gold over purple block. 496 pages plus 8 plates. Interior clean and unmarked. Pencil marking on rear pastedown. Binding is sound. Pen mark on front board, approximately one..... More
Toronto: The Clark Co., Yonge Street, [1904]. Revised Twenty-Third Edition. Octavo; [xii] + 1487pp. Half bound in sea-green leather with raised bands on spine and gilt-stamped ornaments within spine compartments; title gilt-stamped on burgundy ground. Sea-green, gold, and tan marbling front and back, endpapers, and on all textblock edges... More
Rochester, NY: Cruithne Press / Boydell & Brewer, 1994. Large Octavo. 356 pages. Illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket slightly creased at edges and crown, else fine. Binding is tight and square. Pages unmarked. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo (25.5x20x6.5cm); xlix + 918pp, including three bibliographies; index; romanization table; and chronology. Illustrated with 172 photographs (largely in color), maps, and reproductions of scroll- and line-drawings; 158 scientific charts and tables. Very Good. Dust jacket reproduces Taoist genii from a painted temple..... More
[New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor], 1875. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 28pp. Slightly ex-New York State Library with their contemporary rubber-stamp to title page, light soil, else Very Good. Includes the University's budget and a list of donations to the library and museums over the course..... More