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Biographia Literaria or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions. Second Edition Prepared for Publication in Part by the Late Henry Nelson Coleridge. Completed and Published by his Widow.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.
London: William Pickering, 1847.
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Illustrated with moveable type designed and carved in cherry wood by the class and printed in various colors, digitized by the students, who named it NeoSchmidt in honor of lettering artist Hans Schmidt whose prints they studied. Text printed in metal 12 point Gill Sans, printed on gray Rives BFK.

Out of Sorts/All Sorted Out.
[Scripps College Press].
[Claremont, California:] Scripps College Press, 2012.
Price: $250.00
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Printed in Corvinus Light and Corvinus Light Italic on Barcham Green "Medway" paper, in black and red. German and English on facing pages.

The Flying Dutchman.
Wagner, Richard.
London: Corvinus Press, [1938].
Price: $500.00
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Frontisportrait and seven engraved plates.

The Lives of Dr. John Donne; Sir Henry Wotton; Mr. Richard Hooker; Mr. George Herbert; and Dr. Robert Sanderson…With Notes, and the Life of the Author. By Thomas Zouch.
Walton, Isaac [or Izaak].
York: Printed by Wilson, Spence, and Mawman; London: Sold by J. Robson…[et al.]. 1796.
Price: $850.00
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With five engraved plates (the variant plate of Thétis in vol. I); titles printed in red and black.

Emile, ou de l’Education...
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
The Hague: Jean Neaulme [i.e. Paris, Nicolas-Bonaventure Duchesne], 1762.
Price: $9,500.00
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Journal by Frances Anne Butler
[Kemble, Fanny]. Butler, Frances Anne.
London: John Murray, 1835.
Price: $500.00
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Illustrated with hand-painted drawings by Bonnie Sucec.

A Poet's Alphabet of Influences.
Strand, Mark, and Bonnie Sucec.
[Salt Lake City: Red Butte Press, [1993].
Price: $950.00
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Nine hand-colored initials and forty-seven border drawings by Mallette Dean. Printed letterpress on Rives handmade paper.

Four Poems of the Occult. Illustrations by Fernand Leger, Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy and Jean Arp. Edited & with introductions by Francis Carmody
Goll, Yvan.
[Kentfield, California:] The Allen Press, 1962.
Price: $3,000.00
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A portfolio with fifty-five color plates, printed on paper of various colors, showing the application of color theory to printing, together with 8 pp. of introductory material.

Cours de Coloris, Annee 1934-1935
[Color theory]. Roosen, Gerard, Leon de Moyter, Rene Detourney, and Charles Auvrain.
[Bruxelles:] Des Presses du Cercle 1935.
Price: $600.00
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Ideogrammes 1950-1953. Introduction by Michel Seuphor
Pillet, Edgard.
[Paris: 1954].
Price: $600.00
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Fine hand-colored engraved plate of two women at an embroidery table.

La Maitresse de Broderie. Petit Traite sur l'Art de la Broderie.
[Needlework] Legrand, Augustin.
Paris: A Legrand et Pelicier, 1816.
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Elizabeth; or, The Exiles of Siberia. A Tale Founded on Facts. From the French…[translated by] Mrs. Meeke.
Cottin, [Sophie Marie Ristaud].
London: Printed by Dean & Munday for B. & R Crosby, 1814.
Price: $350.00
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With ten engraved folding copper-engraved plates, each with multiple diagrams. Woodcut device on title-page.

Opuscula Mathematic.
Giannini, Pietro.
Parma: Ex Typographia Regia, 1773.
Price: $1,750.00
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A Collection of Memorials Concerning Deceased Ministers and Others of the People Called Quakers, in Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, and parts Adjacent, from Nearly the First Settlement Thereof to the Year 1787. With Some of the Last Expressions and Exhortations
[Quakers].
Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Cruikshank 1787.
Price: $350.00
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Biographium faemineum. The female worthies: or, memoirs of the most illustrious ladies, of all nations, who have been eminently distinguished for their magnanimity, learning, genius, virtue, piety and other excellent endowments…Containing (exclusive
[Women].
London: Printed for S. Crowder, and J. Payne…[et al.], 1766.
Price: $2,000.00
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The Spanish Gypsy.
Eliot, George.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1868.
Price: $300.00
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Cookery and Pastry. As taught and practised by Mrs Maciver, Teacher of those arts in Edinburgh...to which are added, Figures of Dinner and Supper Courses, from five to fifteen dishes. Also a correct list of every thing in season for every month in the yea
[Cookery]. MacIver, Susanna.
London: C Elliot and T Kay/ C Elliot, Edinburgh 1789.
Price: $500.00
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An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals.
Hume, David.
London: Printed for A. Millar… 1751.
Price: $8,500.00
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Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy.
Mill, John Stuart.
London: John W. Parker, 1844.
Price: $1,850.00
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Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain. Ouvrage posthume.
CONDORCET, [Marie Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de].
Paris: Chez Agasse, L’an III de la R&#x
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Fine engraved title by George Vertue (slightly stained). Bound with the half-titles. Letterpress titles with engraved vignettes.

[Opera]. Ex Recensione & cum Notis Atque Emendationibus Richardi Bentleii.
[Horace]. [Quintus Horatius Flaccus].
Cambridge: [University Press], 1711.
Price: $3,000.00
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With a scholarly introduction to the Stoic philosophers by the translator, an impressive list of subscribers, and an index and appendix of variant readings.

All the Works of Epictetus, Which Are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments. Translated from the Original Greek, by Elizabeth Carter. With an Introduction, and Notes, by the Translator
[Carter, Elizabeth]. Epictetus.
London: Printed by S. Richardson, and Sold by A. Millar...[et al.], 1758
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Busby's Street Scenes: Images of Street Hawkers and Criers in 19th-Century London and Paris. With a foreword by Henry Morris
Busby, Thomas, Lord.
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2013.
Price: $225.00
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Two engraved folding plates, one a generic map, and the other a group of geometrical shapes. Dedication to the Princess Royal. Bound with the half-title.

Mentoria: or, The Young Ladies Instructor, in Familiar Conversations on Moral and Entertaining Subjects: Calculated to improve Young Minds In the Essentials, as well as Ornalmental Parts of Female Education. The Fourth Edition, corrected.
Murry, Ann.
London: Printed by Frye and Couchman for Charles Dilly, 1785.
Price: $750.00
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Engraved frontispiece of a beehive, with a quote below from the Economics of Xenophon.

Manuel de la Maîtresse de Maison, ou Lettres sur l'économie domestique. Seconde édition, revue et augmentée.
Pariset, Madame.
Paris: Audot, 1822.
Price: $275.00
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With a fine colored plate of the colors of stars, and tables.

Sidereal Chromatics; being a re-print, with additions from the 'Bedford Cycle of Celestial Objects' and its 'Hartwell Continuation' on the colours of multiple stars.
Smyth, W.H.
London: Printed for Private Circulation by John Bowyer Nichols and sons, 1864.
Price: $450.00
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Let Me In! Introduction by Michael Roberts. Foreword by Nicole Kidman.
Testino, Mario.
[Koln:] Taschen, 2007.
Price: $650.00
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Hand-set in Bembo and printed on 200 gsm Arches Cover. Title-page with photogravure vignette and pochoir lettering in red. Fifteen photogravures by Jon Goodman from drawings by Walter Bachinski, one to illustrate each of the fifteen selections from Ovid's work. Pochoir initial letters in red on a gray background, by Walter Bachinski.

Stories from the Metamorphoses. Illustrations by Walter Bachinski. [
[ Shanty Bay Press ]. Ovid.
[Shanty Bay, Ontario:] Shanty Bay Press, 2013.
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Catalogo de la Biblioteca de Salva.
Salva y Mallen, D. Pedro.
[ Barcelona: Porter, 1963, reprint of the 187
Price: $150.00
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Engraved frontispiece and hand-colored vignette in each volume, numerous text illustrations.

History of the Horn-Book. Illustrated. In two volumes.
Tuer, Andrew.
London: Published by The Leadenhall Press…New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1896.
Price: $1,250.00
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The Art of Intaglio Produced on a Letterpress. With a Collection of Twelve Prints of 18th Century London Tradesmen’s Cards.
Morris, Henry.
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press. 2010.
Price: $600.00
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Building the Getty.
Meier, Richard.
New York: Knopf, 1997,
Price: $150.00
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Themes in My Poems.
Jeffers, Robinson.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956.
Price: $300.00
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A Pair on Printing. Atkyns' 'The Original and Growth of Printing'; William Caslon and the first English type specimen book.
Bliss, Carey S., ed.
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1982.
Price: $45.00
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Les femmes celebres de la Revolution.
Dubroca, Louis.
A Paris: Chez l'Auteur et Bonneville, 1802.
Price: $300.00
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New Sketches of Every-Day Life: a Diary. Together with Strife and Peace. Translated by Mary Howitt.
Bremer, Fredrika.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1844.
Price: $300.00
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De l’Allemagne...
Stael-Holstein, [Germaine], Madame de.
A Paris: A Paris: Chez J. Paschoud...et a Genève: Chez le meme, 1814.
Price: $450.00
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A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids. By a Friend of the Sisterhood…The Second Edition.
[ Hayley, William].
London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1786.
Price: $600.00
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The Art of Beauty. With numerous illustrations by the author.
Haweis, [Mary Eliza], Mrs.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1878.
Price: $300.00
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Maps of Los Angeles From Ord's Survey of 1849 to the End of the Boom of the Eighties.
Robinson, W. W.
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1966.
Price: $350.00
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The Salon of Madame Necker. Translated from the French by Henry M. Trollope.
Haussonville, Comte d’ [1843-1924].
London: Chapman and Hall, 1882.
Price: $250.00
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The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy.
Paley, William.
London: Printed for R. Faulder, 1785.
Price: $1,750.00
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De Consolatione Philosophiae. Libri quinque ad optimarum editionum fidem recensiti.
Boethius.
Parma: Ex Regio Typographeo, 1798.
Price: $2,500.00
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Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin, Chiefly During his Residence at Lichfield, With Anecdotes of his Friends, and Criticisms of his Writings
Seward, Anna.
Philadelphia: At the Classic Press, for the Proprietors Wm. Poyntell, & Co., 1804.
Price: $450.00
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Marble: A Town Built on Dreams.
McCollum, Oscard, Jr.
[Denver:] Sundance Books, [1992].
Price: $125.00
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On Wages and Combination.
Torrens, Robert.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster Row, 1834.
Price: $3,500.00
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Chromolithographic title and 111 chromolithographic plates.

The Grammar of Ornament. Illustrated by Examples from Various Styles of Ornament. One Hundred and Twelve Plates.
Jones, Owen.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1910.
Price: $850.00
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L'arte di Giambattista Bodoni. Con una notizia biografica a cura di Giuseppe Fumagalli.
Bertieri, Raffaello.
Milano: Con I Tipi di Bertieri e Vanzetti Editori [n.d., 1913].
Price: $500.00
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Complete with the two engraved titles and fourteen engraved plates.

The Bible in Miniuture [sic]…
[Bible in English].
London: E[lizabeth] Newbery 1780.
Price: $1,750.00
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Essai sur la première formation des langues, et sur la difference du genie des langues originals et des langues composes; Traduit de l’anglais d’Adam Smith. Avec des notes. Suivi du premier livre des Recherches sur la langue et la philosoph
Smith, Adam. [and Schlegel, Frederich von].
Geneva: Manget & Cherbuliez, 1809.
Price: $6,000.00
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