London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1788. First edition of Pye’s translation of Aristotle’s Poetics. This translation was revised and corrected and appended to Pye’s A Commentary Illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle (1792), a work which is “valuable in the history of aesthetics and literary theory for its sensible and pertinent.....
Frankfurt: Andreae Wcheli Heredes, Joann. Aubrium & Claudium Marnium, 1587. Two of the separate volumes of the collected works of Aristotle in Greek, edited by Friedrich Sylburg (1536-1596), the noted German classics scholar who was a pupil of Henry Estienne. The complete set is in eleven volumes, printed between 1584.....
Oxford: Clarendon Press, [1970]. Minor soiling. Near fine in like d.j. Cloth. Octavo. Contains: 'Physica' by R.P. Hardie and R.K. Gaye; 'De Caelo' by J.L. Stocks; 'De Generatione et Corruptione' by H.H. Joachim.
Amsterdam: Jodocum Janssonium, 1643. Engraved title-page. A few pages a little browned. Generally a very good, clean copy. Contemporary stiff vellum with title in manuscript on spine. Twelvemo. 350, [2] pp. Scarce: OCLC lists five copies, two in North America.
Prescott;: Office of the Arizona Miner, Official Paper of the Territory, 1865. First edition. No copy has been sold at auction since 1966. Woodcut of “The Seal of the Territory of Arizona” on the Certificate approved by Richard McCormick, Secretary of the Territory. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. Very minor foxing.....
[Fresno: [Armenian Relief Society, Sophia Chapter,designed and produced by AM/PM Publishing, San Francisco, 1985]. First edition. Offsetting from a pressure-sensitive label on front free endpaper. Very good+ in price-clipped but otherwise fine d.j. Boards. Folio. [107] pp. Armenian, English, and French text. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105).
Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin, 1929. One of 500 copies printed for Jake Zetilin by the Mayers Company in Los Angeles. The present work is the first book authored and designed by Armitage, Jake Zeitlin’s first imprint, and one of the first books to feature Grant Dahlstrom’s name. Note that Zeitlin.....
Yucca Valley, California: Manzanita Press, [1973]. Illustfated. Fine in lightly soiled, price-clipped d.j. Boards. Octavo.
New York: William E. Rudge's Sons, [1945]. First edition. Fine in slipcase. Cloth. Large octavo. [6], 74 pp.
Morongo Valley, California: Sagebrush Press, 1981. Limited to 474 copies. Frontisportrait and sixteen pages of half-tone illsutrations. Contains an annotated bibliography of 113 works written and/or designed by Merle Armitage. A little fading to front cover. Very good/near fine in publisher’s acetate dust jacket. Inscribed by the author: “Lucille and.....
New York: Abrams, [1977]. First edition. With 325 illustrations in black and white and in color, including tipped in color plates. A little light soiling. Very good+, without d.j., as issued, Pictorial cloth. Oblong quarto.
Paris: Chez la Veuve Savoye, 1775. Nouvelle edition. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt. Lightly browned, occasional faint spotting, otherwise a very good, tight copy. 12mo., xlviii, 430 pages. Although Arnauld and Nicole were strongly Cartesian in their emphasis on method rather than the theory of pure logic, their work forged a......
Paris: Chez la Veuve Savoye, 1775. Nouvelle edition. Lightly browned, occasional faint spotting, otherwise a very good, tight copy. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt. Twelvemo. xlviii, 430 pp. Although Arnauld and Nicole were strongly Cartesian in their emphasis on method rather than the theory of pure logic, their work forged a......
[n.p.:]: 1764. German armorial bookplate on front pastedown, old ink signature on title-page. A little light browning, but generally a very good copy. [Bound with:] [NICOLE, Pierre]. Les pernicieuses consequences de la nouvelle heresie des jesuites contre le Roy & contre l’Estat. Par un Advocat en Parlement. Seconde edition. [n.p......
New York: Bantam Books, [1989]. First edition. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Quarto.
[London:]: Bloomsbury, [2004]. First edition. Color illustrations. Fin e in fine slipcase. Boards. Quarto.
Amsterdam: Wetstenium, 1757. First edition edited by Georg Raphel, a revision of Gronovius’ 1704 edition. . Dibdin calls the present work “An excellent and commodious edition. The text of Gronovius is accurately corrected; the chapters are divided into sections; the more plausible conjectures of Gronovius admitted; difficult passages explained, and.....
[ Berkeley California: ca. 1930s]. A unique item. Block printing was a fixture of many school art classes during the 1910s-30s. California was a hub of block print making during the Arts & Crafts movement, with iconic California artists like Pedro Lemos (1882 – 1958) publishing art education books that.....
[Austin, TX:]: Linnaea Graphics. [1983]/. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author with a drawing of a desk, dated "30 April 1983." Bottom corners lightly bumped. Near fine in like dust jacket. Jacket has a little light edgewear. Cloth. Quarto. Exhibition catalogue featuring 107 items.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [1965]. A little residue from label on front free endpaper. Near fine in fine d.j. Many black and white illustrations. Quarto. A handsome book telling the story of Toronto's architectural and social past from its beginnings.
New York: Abrams, [1992]. Revised edition. With 436 illustrations, including 339 plates in full color. Fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Quarto.
New York: Abrams, [[1987]. First edition. With approximately 475 illustrations, including 338 plates in full color. Slight fading near top edge. Near fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Quarto. 384 pp.
[Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1903]. One of 150 copies on paper, 125 of which were for sale, printed by Hornby at the Ashendene Press with type set by Hornby and Meysey Turton. 25 morocco-bound copies on vellum, 20 of which were for sale, were also printed. With a woodcut of an.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. First edition. Many woodcut illustrations in the chapbook style throughout. With an extensive bibliography. Some rubbing to head of spine and some general shelfware. Dark green coated endpapers. Foxing and toning to edges. A very good copy. Original pictorial green cloth decoratively stamped in black.....
London: Leadenhall Press, 1891. First edition. With 32 facsimiles of nautical song broadsides mounted on brown paper stubs. With a total of 200 half-page illustrations, initials, headpieces, and tailpieces (some by Joseph Crawhall). Some yellowing to vellum, as usual. Some wear to seam where vellum meets paper on front board.....
