Imported for Sale by Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1953. 4to. 11-3/4" x 8-5/16". 135 pp. including index. Many black and white photographs. Book in fine condition. / Jacket has triangular chip 1" deep at top edge and two other small chips and a little ruffling at top and bottom of spine. (Protected by mylar dust jacket.).

Captions in English. All text in Japanese including publication information. (See photo for colophon info.). Item #1138

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. Stated First Edition. 4to.10-7/16" x 7-3/4" Black cloth covered boards. Pictorial endpapers. 125 pp. A touch of wear at top of spine, otherwise fine condition.

This book is addressed to everyone interested in the fine arts, to designers in all fields, and particularly to architects, architectural students, and draughtsmen. It constitutes the final distillation of many years of thought and experimentation along unusual lines. Naturally, I am desirous that it shall be read and pondered, but according to the habit of the day there are many who will only skim it and look at the pictures. Realizing this, I have tried to cram these as full of meaning and interest as possible, making them self-explanatory and provocative. Th this end I have had recourse to a most ancient device, one used by Dürer and Hogarth. It consists in many different presentations of the same symbolical character in situations and surroundings which are themselves symbolical - as in The Dance of Death, and The Rake's Progress. To my fictional protagonist I have given the name of Sinbad, not alone for the reason that this Arabian voyager had many strange adventures in strange lands, and might have unchronicled others, but the name seemed appropriate because -well, aren't we all? I mean, of course bad sinners. It is a synonym for Everyman, which is what I wanted - the reader, the author, the candlestick-maker: that is, more specifically, the artist. This is a sort of Pilgrim's Progress. John Bunyan's masterpiece is a serious book, but so entertaining that my mother used to read it aloud to me when I was a child. This is a serious book, but with Sinbad's help I have tried to make it amusing. The American Spirit, as Kipling says, is "stirred, like a child, by little things," and I have sought to honor this truth by a due observance. Item #838

Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, (1999). Second Printing. 4to. 10" x 7". Cream paper covered boards. Red cloth spine. 366 pp. including index. Fine. / Fine dust jacket.

THrough much of the Scientific Revolution, between 1650 and 1750, Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Constructed initially to solve the pressing problem of providing an unquestionable date for Easter, the instruments that made the churches' observatories also threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system. Within sight of the altar, they subverted Church doctrine about mankind's place in the universe. Measurements made in the oldest cathedral observatory, San Petronio in Bologna, in the heart of the Papal States, supported Kepler's revolutionary discovery that neither the sun's orbit, nor the earth's can be a circle, and thus indirectly favored ideas condemned at the trial of Galileo. A tale of politically canny astronomers and cardinals with a taste for mathematics, The Sun in the Church explains the unlikely accomplishments of the Church sponsored observers. Item #935

London: Sir Isaac Pitman, 1935. Illustrated with many diagrams, plans and charts. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-11/16". Green cloth covered boards stamped in gold. 146 pp. including index. plus 26 pp. publisher's ads. Extremities rubbed. Ex-library with pocket and withdrawn stamps. TIght, clean very good copy.

How to build dams, weirs, river sluices, river walls, radial gates in a flood-prevention scheme, a dinghy slipway on the Thames and other works, training walls on the Ouse by the Dutch Method and some odd notes. Item #1309

Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, (2006). 4to. 11-3/16" x 8-3/4". 448 pp. include extensive index and bibliography. Color photos of the lighthouses. Fore-edge color coded index dividing book into sections for each of the five lakes and divisions for Canadian side and American side of each lake. This book is in tight, clean and very good to fine condition. Dust jacket also is fine but the protective glassine is affixed with some adhesive to the paste down endpapers. I think they can be gently lifted without damage to endpapers but I do not want to try. There is one abraided spot at the bottom of the front free endpaper where a label has been removed. Otherwise the whole is very good to near fine. / This book weighs over 4 lb. so a little extra shipping may be charged.

The result of more than fifteen years of research and interviews, this comprehensive full-color encyclopedia features more than 650 lighthouses located on both the American and the Canadian sides of all five Great Lakes. As we drive along their shores today, these lakes may appear easy to navigate. but swift currents, hidden reefs and shoals, shifting sandbars, uncharted passages, and fierce, fast-moving storms made early navigation a mariner's nightmare. Tales of tragedy and triumph abound in this remarkable work. Though numerous regional lighthouse books have been written, this outstanding volume is the first to capture lighthouse history throughout the Great Lakes. ISBN: 9781550463996 Item #948