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Frontisportrait. Printed in green and golden-brown. Decorative title-page, initial letters, and running-titles designed by Dard Hunter.
Woman’s Work. Being an inquiry and an assumption.
[ Roycroft Press ]. Hubbard, Alice.
[East Aurora, New York: Roycroft Press, 1908
Price: $750.00
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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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The Bible: That is, The holy Scriptures contained in the Old & New Testament.
[ Bible in English ].
Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, [n.d., 1612].
Price: $7,500.00
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Text in double columns.
The Holy Bible. Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty’s Special Command.
[ Bible in English. ]
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1783.
Price: $3,000.00
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Title-page decorative border, headbands, tail-pieces, and initial letters designed by Dard Hunter and printed in three colors.
So here cometh White Hyacinths. Being a book of the heart…wherein is an attempt to body forth ideas and ideals for the betterment of men, eke women, who are preparing for life by living.
[ Roycroft Press ]. Hubbard, Elbert.
[East Aurora, New York: Roycroft Press, 1908].
Price: $950.00
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[204] pp., densely written in dark brown ink, on faintly lined paper, with numerous carefully drawn illustrations of machinery used in spinning, carding and weaving, together with some weaving patterns. The text illustrations are sometimes heightened in colors, and a few small illustrations are pasted in. In addition, there are some nine onlays of sketches of machinery on india paper.
Cours de Filature. [-Cours de Tissage].
[Textiles.]
[n.p., France: n.d., ca. 1850].
Price: $2,500.00
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Adele et Theodore, ou Lettres sur l'Education; contenant tous les principes relatifs aux trios differens plans d'education des Princes, des jeunes personnes, & des hommes.
[ Genlis, Stephanie Felicitie ].
Paris: M. Lambert & F. J. Baudouin, 1782.
Price: $950.00
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Engraved frontisportrait, plus an engraved portrait of Kant and Hume at the start of the Enquiry.
Metaphysical Works of the Celebrated Immanuel Kant, Translated from the German, with a Sketch of his Life and Writings, by John Richardson…Containing 1. Logic. 2. Prolegomena to Future Metaphysics. 3. Enquiry into the Proofs for the Existence of God,
Kant, Immanuel.
London: 1836.
Price: $2,500.00
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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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Includes a hand-colored illustration, 7 7/8” x 6 3/4,” of flowers in the sunlight, plus a hand-colored vignette of a bee.
Summer Sun. Illustrated by Carmen Voss.
Stevenson, Robert Louis.
[Fullerton, California:] Lyceum Press, [2001].
Price: $250.00
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A Treatise on Government. Translated from the Greek...by William Ellis.
Aristotle.
London: Printed for T. Payne...and T. Cadell... 1776.
Price: $2,500.00
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Indexed.
Of Bookmen & Printers: A Gathering of Memories.
Ritchie, Ward.
[Los Angeles:] Dawsons, [1989].
Price: $450.00
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Eighty full page black and white illustrations With a checklist of glasses engraved by Laurence Whistler, and by Simon and Daniel Whistler. Also with a list of main exhibitions, and a bibliography.
The Image on Glass.
[ Bindings. While, Garth. ] Whistler, Laurence.
[ London: ] John Murray in association with the Cupid Press, [ 1975 ].
Price: $1,500.00
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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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Unpaginated. Text in double columns. Illustrated with three copper-engraved title-pages and sixty-four copper-engraved plates by Fittler from paintings by Dürer, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens, etc.
Holy Bible Ornamented with Engravings by James Fittler From Celebrated Pictures by Old Masters. The Letter Press by Thomas Bensley.
[ Bible in English.]
London: R. Bowyer, 1795.
Price: $3,000.00
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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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With eleven copper-engraved folding plates, an engraved title-page vignette, and two engraved head- and tail-pieces.
Analyse des infiniment petits, pour l’intelligence des lignes courbes.
[L'Hospital, Guillaume François Antoine de.]
Paris: De l’Imprimérie Royale, 1696.
Price: $4,500.00
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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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Cosmogonie Intime / An Intimate Cosmogony. Poems by Yves Peyré. English translation by Elizabeth R. Jackson. Drawings by Ray Rice. Bookwork by Felicia Rice.
Peyre, Yves.
[Santa Cruz, California:] Moving Parts Press, 2005.
Price: $2,400.00
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