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With nine images of roses (some repeated) and one watercolor painting. The prints are hard and soft ground etchings, block-prints, air brushing, and hand-color. In Garamond, Castellar, and Script types.
Rosas: Roses Real and Imaginary, with Poems. Poems by Robert Herrick, Thomas Moore, William Blake and Edmund Waller, with other words, arrangements and prints by Susan Allix.
[ Allix, Susan, compiler and artist ].
London: 2009.
Price: $4,950.00
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Frontispiece and title within a printed red ruled border. With many woodcuts in text.
Bewick’s Select Fables of Aesop and Others. In Three Parts. I. Fables Extracted from Dodsley’s. II. Fables with Reflections in Prose and Verse. III. Fables in Verse. To Which Are Prefixed The Life of Aesop, and an Essay Upon Fable by Oliver Gold
Aesop.
London: Bickers & Son [n.d., 1871].
Price: $750.00
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Twelve unbound folios, laid into flexible parchment covers. Each folio has been painted by hand on both front and back using sumi ink and salt by Carolee Campbell, making each book unique. The text is printed letterpress.
The Persephones
Tarn, Nathaniel.
[Sherman Oaks, CA:] Ninja Press, 2009.
Price: $1,750.00
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Chromolithographed throughout in colors and gold, in the style of the illuminated manuscript, with full borders. Includes full-page illustrations, decorative titles.
Heures choisies de Dames Chrétiennes. Approuvées par M.S. l’Evèque de Dijon. Tirés des manuscrits du XIIe au XVIIe siècle provenant du Cabinet de Mr. H. Baudot, à Dijon.
[ Color printing ].
Dijon: E. Pellion, 1858.
Price: $950.00
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Decorated with six maps and over six hundred coats-of-arms and devices of English, Scottish, and Irish princes and knights, drawn by Paul Woodroffe and hand-colored.
Froissarts Cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlande, Bretayne, Flaunders & Other Places Adjoynunge; Translated out of Frenche by Sir John Boucher, Lord Berners.
Froissart, [ Jean ].
Stratford-upon-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, & published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1927-8.
Price: $2,000.00
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Half-title lacking in Vol. I, none apparent called for in Volume II.
Conversations on Intellectual Philosophy: or, a familiar explanation of the Nature and Operations of the Human Mind.
Marcet, Jane.
London: Edward Bull, 1829.
Price: $950.00
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Twenty-five tinted reproductions of maps, most double-page,two folding; twelve figures in text; colored title-page vignette and opening initial.
California as an Island. An Illustrated Essay..with Twenty-five Plates & a Bibliographical Checklist of Maps showing California as an Island 1622- 1785.
Leighley, John.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1972.
Price: $1,250.00
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Title-page in black and red.
A Collection of English Proverbs, Digested into a convenient Method for the speedy finding any one occasion; with Short Annotations. Whereunto are added Local Proverbs with their Explications, Old Proverbial Rhythmes, Less known or Exotick Proverbial Sent
[ Ray, John ].
Cambridge: Printed by John Hayes, Printer to the University, for W. Morden, 1670.
Price: $2,000.00
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Printed on mould-made paper at the Cambridge University Press. The text is printed from the First Folio, except in the case of Pericles, and the poems which were not included in the Folio and hence are reprinted from the Quartos.
Works. Edited by Herbert Farjeon.
Shakespeare, William.
New York: The Nonesuch Press [for] Random House, Inc., 1929.
Price: $3,500.00
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Text printed in Nonesuch Plantin with italics in Perpetua and Felicity types.
The History of Herodotus of Halicarnauss. The Translation of G. Rawlinson, revised and annotated by A.W. Lawrence. With nine wood engravings by V. Le Campion and a series of new maps by T. Poulton; to which is added a life of Herodotus and the Behistun In
Herodotus.
Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1935.
Price: $2,000.00
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Title-page of each volume in red and black. Two full-page woodcut portraits of Martin Luther. Gothic type. Charts and tables.
Register aller Schrifften des Ehwerdigen herm D. Martini Lutheri…Breslau: Crispinum Scharffenberg, 1563. [with:] SUEVUS [or SCHWOB], Sigismund. Index omnium scriptorum…M. Lutheri: accomodatus et d 19 tomos Viebergenses et 12 Jhenenses, etc.
Suevus ]or Schwob], Sigismund.
Vratislaviae [i.e., Wroclaw or Ex Officina Crispini Scharffenberg, 1563.
Price: $3,500.00
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Title-page extensively ruled in red, all text pages, and plates with red-ruled borders. Seventy-five fine engraved plates (unsigned).
The Book of Common-Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England; Together with the Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches.
London: Printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcombe, and Henry Hill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1678.
Price: $1,950.00
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Printed in Gothic Type with initials in blue, red and gold. Archival matting. Large embellished three-color broadside of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer, issued by the President as a Christmas gift in 1944 for a few of his close friends at a White House ceremony. Handsomely printed in Gothic type.
D-Day Prayer. From the White House—June 6, 1944.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Washington: [Government Printing Office:] Christmas, 1944.
Price: $17,500.00
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Printed in Gothic Type with initials in blue, red and gold. Signed by Truman. Archival matting.
A Proclamation by the President of the United States, signed.
Truman, Harry S.
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1945.
Price: $17,500.00
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Lithographic title and frontispiece
The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life.
Parkman, Francis.
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849.
Price: $6,500.00
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Two small stipple portraits on title-page and dedication. Printed on heavy paper with an “FP” watermark, horizontal chainlines. Text block is 20 mm. thick.
ANAKPEONTOåTHIOY MELH. [Odaria.] Praefixo Commentario quo Poëtae Genus Traditur et Bibliotheca Anacreonteia Adumbratur. Additis Var. Lect.
Anacreon.
Parma: in aedibvs Palatinis [Giambattista Bodoni]: 1791.
Price: $2,000.00
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Illustrated with powerful black and white woodcuts, full-page and smaller, by the artist-printer, Claire Van Vliet.
The Tragedie of King Lear. With Woodcuts by Claire Van Vliet.
Shakespeare, William.
Bangor: [The Janus Press for] The Theodore Press, 1986.
Price: $2,500.00
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Title-page in black and red, within a woodcut border representing the Tree of Jesse. Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I on verso of title. Every page within an elaborate woodcut border, engraved by Mary Byfield.
The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church…Together with the Psalter of David
London: William Pickering, 1853.
Price: $1,250.00
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Frontispiece and twenty-two mounted specimens of movable type (twenty facsimiles, two originals).
Specimen Pages of Korean Movable Types.
McGovern, Melvin.
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1966.
Price: $3,750.00
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California Hills And Other Wood Engravings From the Original Blocks. Foreword by Arthur Millier
Landacre, Paul.
Los Angeles: Bruce McCallister, 1931.
Price: $6,000.00
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