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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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The Etchings of Edward Borein: A Catalogue of his work...Compiled with the assistance of Warren R. Howell In collaboration with Harold G. Davidson.
Galvin, John.
San Francisco: John Howell--Books, 1971.
Price: $150.00
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Edward Borein Cowboy Artist: The Life and Works of John Edward Borein 1872-1945.
Davidson, Harold G.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1974.
Price: $250.00
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Four etchings, one hand-colored and one with a second shadow printing, one linocut, block prints and various borders, dots and signs. Printed letterpress, with new intaglio plates and linocuts and old printer’s blocks. on a variety of mould-made papers, including Arches, Somerset and Zerkall, which vary in size and sometimes have cutouts. Various typefaces are used, including Grotesque, Granby, Gill and Gallia, with Caslon, Bodoni, Engravers Roman and altered and un-altered wood letters.
Nonsense & Nonsense: A collection of verses and extracts by Mr. M. Prior Dr. S. Johnson, Mr. E. Lear, Mr. L. Carroll, the Sphinx, Mr. or Ms. Anon. etc with logical or nonsensical Typographic arrangements and visual promptings.
Allix, Susan, compiler.
[London: Susan Allix, 2008].
Price: $1,400.00
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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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The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer. With the original 87 illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. Together with an introduction by John T. Winterich and a glossary for the modern reader.
Chaucer, Geoffrey.
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, [1958].
Price: $150.00
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Six copper-engraved plates. Title printed in red and black, with a woodcut decoration.
La vie de Pedrille del Campo. Roman comique dans le gout Espagnol. Par Monsieur T*** G.D.T. avec les cantates & autres poesies du meme auteur. Le tout enrichi de figures en taille-douce.
[ Thibault, Gouveneur de Talmont].
Amsterdam: Michel Charles le Cene, 1720.
Price: $600.00
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Quaest. Foemina non est homo, videbunt publice Franciscus Henricus Hoeltich, Jr. Doctor, & Johannes Casparus Waltz…In Auditorio JCtorum, à D.XIV Decembris, Anno 1672.
Waltz, Johann Caspar.
Wittenberg: Typis Christiani Schrödteri, 1672.
Price: $500.00
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Essays on Practical Education...The third edition, in two volumes.
Edgeworth,Maria, and Richard Lovell Edgeworth.
London: Printed for J. Johnson and Co 1811.
Price: $1,250.00
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Plan d’etudes et d’education. Avec un discours sur l’education.
[ Sutaine, Gerard ].
A Paris: A.M. Lottin, 1764.
Price: $1,250.00
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La clef de la botanique.
[Education].
A Toulouse: chez Broulhiet & Meilhac, Imprimeurs 1796.
Price: $950.00
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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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Forty engraved plates. With the earliest issue points, as follows: with the misspelling "Capatin" on p. 324 in the last line; with "if" omitted in Line 9 of p. 426. However, with the pagination absent on p. 431. Lacks half-title.
Dombey and Son. With illustrations by H.K. Browne.
Dickens, Charles.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848.
Price: $600.00
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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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An Abstract of the Whole Doctrine of the Christian Religion. With Observations. From a Manuscript in Her Majesty’s Possession. The First Book Stereotyped by the New Process.
Freylinghausen, John Anastasius.
London: Stereotyped and Printed by A. Wilson..for Edward Harding. Sold by T. Cadell and W. Davies 1804.
Price: $1,250.00
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What the Owl Said. With relief prints by Claire Van Vliet.
Cortese, James.
Vermont: The Janus Press, 1979.
Price: $375.00
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Two frontispieces, 130 woodcuts, and twenty-five initials by Browne; one frontispiece and thirty-eight woodcuts by Cattermole; one woodcut each by S. Williams and Maclise.
Master Humphrey’s Clock...With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne
Dickens, Charles.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1.
Price: $750.00
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Memoirs of the Life of the Late Mrs. Catharine Cappe. Written by herself.
Cappe, Catharine.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1822.
Price: $850.00
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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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Autograph letter, signed, one page, quarto, undated, on brown-toned stationery, in black ink. Wilde writes from 9 Charles Street, Grosvenor Square to an unnamed correspondent stating in part: “I am very anxious to have the privilege of being present
Wilde, Oscar.
Price: $4,500.00
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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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With 112 illustrations including a number in color.
California on Stone.
Peters, Harry T.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1935.
Price: $450.00
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Sixty full-size reproductions of original letter sheets, one in the rear pocket.
California’s Pictorial Letter Sheets 1849-1869.
Baird, Joseph Armstrong.
San Francisco: David Magee, 1967.
Price: $300.00
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Mapping the Transmississippi West. 1540-1861.
Wheat, Carl.
San Francisco: The Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-1963.
Price: $3,500.00
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Frontispiece, fourteen maps, most folding, including two in back pocket. Extensive notes and bibliography.
Maps and Surveys of the Pueblo Lands of Los Angeles.
Harlow, Neal.
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1976.
Price: $350.00
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Job Printing in California. With four original examples of early California printing.
Ritchie, Ward.
Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1955.
Price: $350.00
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Specimens of Royal Fine and Historical Bookbinding, Selected from The Royal Library, Windsor Castle. 152 Plates, Printed in Facsimile by W. Griggs, Chromo-Lithographer to Her Majesty. With an Introduction and Notes by R.R. Holmes, F.S.A
Holmes, R.R.
London: W. Griggs & Sons, Limited, 1893.
Price: $1,250.00
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Themes in Aquatint
Franklin, Colin.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1978.
Price: $225.00
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A View of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy.
[Newton, Isaac]. Pemberton, Henry.
London: S. Palmer, 1728.
Price: $2,000.00
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The Double Image. Denise Levertoff.
Levertov, Denise.
Waldron Island: Brooding Heron Press, 1991.
Price: $150.00
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Catalogue of Books selected from the Library of An English Amateur.
[ Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope, Earl of].
London: [Privately printed at the Leadenhall Press], 1893-7.
Price: $600.00
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A History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability from the time of Pascal to that of Laplace.
Todhunter, Isaac.
Cambridge and London: Macmillan, 1865.
Price: $750.00
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Twenty-six full-page wood-engravings, one for each letter of the alphabet, with short prose statements on facing pages. Twenty-six smaller woodcut section titles in red.
Zebra Noise.
Wagener, Richard.
Berkeley: Peter Koch, 1998.
Price: $3,000.00
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Neighborhood Frontiers: Desert Country; Puget Sound Country; Yucatan Peninsula; Yaqui River, Barranca Country.
Gardner, Erle Stanley.
[New York:] William Morrow & Company, [1954].
Price: $200.00
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Two Sides of the Shield.
Yonge, Charlotte.
London: Macmillan, 1885.
Price: $350.00
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The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act: An Appeal to the Legislators of Massachusetts. Anti-Slavery Tracts, No. 9. New Series.
Child, L. Maria.
Boston: Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860.
Price: $375.00
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English-Gipsy Songs. In Rommany. With metrical English translations.
Leland, Charles G., E.H. Palmer, and Janet Tuckey.
London: Trübner & Co., 1875.
Price: $250.00
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A History of Magic and Experimental Science During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era.
Thorndike, Lynn.
New York: Columbia University Press, [various dates, 1934-58]
Price: $500.00
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Trade Tokens of British and American Booksellers & Bookmakers: With specimens of eleven original tokens struck especially for this book.
[Bird and Bull Press]. Morris, Henry, [compiler].
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1989.
Price: $450.00
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Leaving Cheyenne.
McMurtry, Larry.
New York: Harper & Row, [1963].
Price: $750.00
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The Contest in America. Reprinted from Fraser’s Magazine.
Mill, John Stuart.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1862.
Price: $200.00
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Queen Mary's Psalter: Miniatures and drawings by an English artist of the 14th century reproduced from Royal MS. 2.B.VII in the British Museum.
Warner, Sir George.
London: Trustees of the B.M. [Horace Hart], 1912.
Price: $450.00
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L'ancien regime et la revolution.
Tocqueville, Alexis de.
Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1856.
Price: $1,250.00
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The Life of John Milton. With conjectures on the origin of Paradise Lost. By William Hailey [sic].
Hayley, William.
Basil: Printed and sold by James Decker; Strasburgh: Sold by F.G. Levrault, 1799.
Price: $250.00
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Nicoll’s Birds of Egypt. Published under the authority of the Egyptian Government.
Meinertzhagen, Richard.
London: Hugh Rees Ltd., 1930.
Price: $950.00
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Letters and Poems by the Later Mr. John Henderson, with Anecdotes of his Life, By John Ireland.
Henderson, John.
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1786.
Price: $300.00
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Engraved frontispiece.
Epicteti Enchiridion Latinis Versibus Adumbratum. Per Edvardum Ivie...
Epictetus.
Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1715.
Price: $750.00
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The Fables of Aesop, and Others. With designs on wood, by Thomas Bewick
[ Bewick, Thomas ]. Aesop.
Newcastle: Printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and Son... 1818.
Price: $2,000.00
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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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