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Featured Member
William Chrisant & Sons' Old Florida Book Shop
Fort Lauderdale, FLhttp://www.oldfloridabookshop.com
Scholarly, Illustrated, Fine Printing & Fine Binding. The Book as Artifact. Costume & Fashion: Haute Couture Magazines & Publications before 1949.
Selections from Member's stock
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Terminal Tower, Night View of Entrance, Clevelandby Margaret Bourke-White
Cleveland, Ohio 1930
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Kaonohi, Hawaii EtchingSigned First Editionby John Melville Kelly
1932
offered by William Chrisant & Sons
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Arrianou Periplous Euxeinou pontou ; Tou autou periplous tēs Erythras Thalassēs ; Annōnos Periplous Libyēs ; Ploutarchou peri potamōn kai orōn ; Epitomē tōn tou Strabōnos geōgraphikōn = Arriani & Hannonis Periplus ; Plutarchus de fluminibus & montibus ; Strabonis epitome.First Editionby Flavius Arrianus, [Arrian], Oppian, Proclus, Sigmund Gelen, Simon Grynaus (Grynäus), Adrien Turnebe (Turnèbe), Hieronymus Froben, Johann Walder
Basil : [Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius] , 1533
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Rodin, sa vie, son oeuvre: ouvrage orne de cent trente illustrations d'un bois de P.-E. Vibert, d'apres le buste en bronze de Rodin par Mlle Camille Claudel et deux hors-texte, dont l'un en coulers sur papier d'Arches, tires a cent exemplaires et representant deux dessins inedits du Maitre (Rodin, sa vie, son oeuvre: ouvrage orné de cent trente illustrations d'un bois de P.-E. Vibert, d'après le buste en bronze de Rodin par Mlle Camille Claudel et deux hors-texte, dont l'un en coulers sur papier d'Arches, tires a cent exemplaires et repreSigned First Editionby Armand Dayot, Octave Mirbeau, Camille Claudel, Auguste Rodin et al.
Paris : Editions Artistique de l'Art et les Artistes , 1914
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Calques des vitraux peints de la cathedrale du Mans. Ouvrage renfermant les calques ou les reductions, d'apres les calques, des verrieres de cette cathedrale les plus interessantes sous le rapport de l'art et de l'histoire (Calques des vitraux peints de la cathédrale du Mans. Ouvrage renfermant les calques ou les réductions, d'après les calques, des verrières de cette cathédrale les plus intéressantes sous le rapport de l'art et de l'histoire)First Editionby Eugene Hucher
Paris : Didron , 1864
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The Olympic and Pythian Odes of Pindar In scarce de Podesta binding.by Pindar; Abraham Moore (translator)
Boston : Nathan Haskell Dole , 1903
offered by William Chrisant & Sons
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