London: The Medici Society Limited, 1924. 27 pp. + [9] sample pages, some with color illustrations. Spine faded, minor rubbing to edges. A very good copy. Finely bound by C. and C. McLeish in full reddish-brown morocco, ruled in gilt. Spine with raised bands and title in gilt. Top edge.....
[n.p., London? n.d., ca. 1840?.]. No date or edition specified. The present work may have been derived from a book titled The Edinburgh Alphabet & The Progress of Industry (M.J. Godwin, ca. 1810). The illustrations in The Edinburgh Alphabet, four of which are reproduced in a January 1898 Strand Magazine.....
[Kentfield, California:]: Allen Press, 1977. One of 140 copies. Decorative Sanskrit running titles, decorations after the work of early Indian artists. Printed in four colors on all-rag paper, made by hand at St. Cuthberts mill in England, with the Allen Press watermark. A few light specks of foxing on endpapers.....
London: Susan Allix, 1999. One of twenty-two copies, numbered and signed by the author on the colophon. With nineteen intaglio prints (including one two-page print), which are the result of four years of sketch book observation and drawing, platemaking, and reworking the plates. Many have extra hand-coloring on the.....
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New York: Allen Brothers, 1869. A collected American edition of Andersen’s works with prefaces to two of the volumes and a memoir by British writers Charles Boner and Mary Howitt. Two of the volumes are dated 1869 with the others being undated. The binding title incorrectly refers to the tales.....
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, [1832]. Fifth edition, revised. Two editions were published in 1825, followed by one in 1827 and one in 1828. With a full-page illustration on page 27 and 3 additional half-page text illustrations. Some rubbing to boards and extremities. Contemporary ink signature on front pastedown mostly.....
![Broadside]. The Woman’s Bible. Editor Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Carrie Chapman Catt, President of...](/pictures/thumb/16932.jpeg?v=1615145644)
[ n.p.]: n.d., ca. 1920.]. First edition. Probably issued shortly before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in August of 1920. The latest event mentioned in the broadside occurred in May 1920, when “the women who invaded Connecticut to try to force Governor Holcomb to call a special session, met.....
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.....
[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: R. Bowyer, 1795. This Bible is remembered by many as the “Killer Bible” for its typographical error in Mark VII, verse 27: “Let the children be killed” rather than “filled.” However, it is more exemplary for its artistic design by some of England’s most skilled book artists of the.....
Paris: Rouveyre, 1888. First and only edition, limited to 1,000 copies. Eighty plates of bindings, executed by Aron Frères, with printed tissue guards. Fine in very good calf-tipped slipcase. Light wear to slipcase. Ink inscription on a preliminary blank: “Cécile Warnery, cadeau de Caroline Marie Warnery—Schlumberger.” We cannot be sure.....
![Le Roman d’une Americaine en Russie. Accompagné de Lettres Originales. By Fanny Lear [pseud.]....](/pictures/thumb/16768.jpg?v=1595111484)
Bruxelles: Lacroix et Cie, 1875. First eition. Edge of spine label a bit chipped. Some toning to tail edge of lower board and some rubbing to the marbled paper. Some rippling to leaves at fore-edge and tail edge. Leaves untrimmed. Toning to endpapers, half-title, and final page. Occasional soiling to.....
Northridge: Santa Susana Press, California State University Libraries, 1988. One of sixty-five copies, signed by Lawrence Clark Powell. Printed, designed, and produced by Joseph D’Ambrosio using a hand set Della Robbia type and a Vandercook No. 4 proof press, with photographs printed and mounted by Amanda Blanco. Twelve dry mounted.....
n.p., France: n.d., ca. 1880], Text in gothic style letters, with elaborate borders, initials, and miniatures in watercolor and gold, in a style reminiscent of the late Middle Ages. A fine and very interesting manuscript, featuring very delicate work of a rather varied nature. Pencil presentation inscription in French to.....
London: Printed for J. Roberts... 1724-7. First English edition of Calmet’s Discours et dissertations sur tous les livres de l’Ancien Testament (1715). The translator is Nicholas Tindal. Illustrated with three full-page copper engravings; copper-engraved initial letters, vignettes, and headpieces. Binding extremities a bit worn, minor soiling to rear board. Intermittent.....
London: Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co., 1851. First edition, a theatrical work for juveniles. Errata slip tipped in between half-title and title-page. . Cloth a bit soiled, very light rubbing to covers. Minor darkstain to gutter margins of some preliminary leaves and lower and upper margins of last few gatherings.....
Amsterdam, et se vend à Paris, chez De Bure l’aîné…[et] Ch. Ant. Jombert, 1755. First edition of one of the key works of Condillac (1714-80), French follower of Locke and Newton. The present work is a sequel to Condillac’s most important work, Traité des sensations (1754) and a significant contribution.....
![Elizabeth Jane. [Manuscript polar projection map of the Northern Hemisphere.] Esholt Hall...](/pictures/thumb/16875.jpeg?v=1605218970)
These are unique items, most likely based on the maps of contemporary English cartographers. A possible source is James Wyld the Elder (1790 – 1836), who was known for his prompt publications of newly updated maps. Also note that, while the polar projection of the Southern Hemisphere is signed with.....
London: 1731. First edition. Woodcut folding frontispiece of Anne Oldfield after portraits by Godfrey Kneller and J. Richardson; woodcut headpieces, vignettes, and initial letters. Binding extremities lightly rubbed with slight wear to corners. Very minor spotting to boards. Front joint starting to crack, but sound. Intermittent slight foxing. A near.....
[Sherman Oaks:]: Livre d'Art by D'Ambrosio, 1995. One of fifty copies printed letterpress on Lana Royal Classic paper. Signed on the title-page by D'Ambrosio. Printed letterpress in black and purple with woodcut backgrounds in various colors, several pages with embossed margins. A fine copy. Trapezoidal shape binding in quarter blue.....
New York: Educational Department, Tampax Incorporated, [n.d., ca. 1941]. Broadside printed with four diagrams of the female reproductive organs in black with red accents. Creasing where the broadside has been folded for storage. The paper on which the broadside is printed was cut imprecisely, leaving the top and bottom edges.....
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1880. First edition of the last novel the author published before his death. Cloth slight soiled and gentle lean to spines. Spines slightly toned. Front hinge slightly cracked in Vol. II. Intermittent very minor foxing. Gathering R in Vol. III loose, but holding. Small binder’s.....
[Boston: Mary Hemenway School Garden Club, 1918-19. The captions date the photos to 1918 and 1919, with the one invitation dated 1926. This album shows students at work in the garden; the Mary Hemenway School building; the student-run farmer’s market; gardening competitions; and the students’ participation in events like a......
Einstein turned seventy-five on March 14, 1954, and wrote this letter offering thanks for Andermann’s birthday gift of a Vivaldi record. The German text can be translated as follows: “You can rest assured that I have received all your letters including such enclosures. In the last years the mail has.....
[n.p.:]: 1955-57. 137 sheets of hand-drawn sketches (sixty-two on 9” x 11 ” sheets, 75 on 5 ” x 8 ” sheets). Most with handwritten design descriptions, notes, and accompanying fabric swatches pinned or taped onto the sheets. Also with price lists, inventories, and printed ads for the Candy Jr......
