Greenbrae, California: Produced by Hand; The Allen Press, 1982. One of 140 copies. Printed on all-rag handmade paper from the Richard de Bas mill in France. Title-page in red and black; running-titles in various colors. A fine copy in publisher’s acetate dust jacket. Original prospectus laid in, though it has.....
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.....
![Item #16932 [ Broadside]. The Woman’s Bible. Editor Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Carrie Chapman...](/pictures/thumb/16932.jpg?v=1652727620)
[ 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.....
![Item #17315 The Second Coming (Again)…[with] Paintings by Jodee Fenton. Aubergine Atelier,...](/pictures/thumb/17315.jpg?v=1666470250)
Seattle: Aubergine Atelier, Printed at the Windowpane Press, 2019. One of two deluxe copies (total edition of thirty). Designed by Jodee Fenton at Aubergine Atelier and printed by Bonnie Thompson Norman at the Windowpane Press. 36 ff., plus fourteen Japanese kozo paper leaves painted on both sides by Jodee Fenton.....
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 John Dunton, 1694. First edition of a book that has become scarce in commerce. Lacking the initial blank. Woodcut diagram on p. 145. Dedication to John Locke. Binding extremities rubbed, contemporary armorial bookplate on front pastedown partly torn away, nineteenth-century book label of Rev. John James partly.....
![Item #17397 The Literary Women of Italy. [Manuscript article.]. Alice Howard Cady](/pictures/thumb/17397.jpg?v=1679776145)
[ New Yok: n.d., ca. 1892.]. Both the article and the manuscript note are undated, but were likely written around 1892, when Alice Howard Cady (1855 – 1901) returned from a trip to Italy. During the trip, she met with Italian women writers and encouraged them to send their books.....
London: Effingham Wilson, 1834. First edition. Engraved frontisportrait by Thomas Lupton after a painting by Thomas Lawrence. Spines lightly faded, first and last few leaves of each volume foxed, minor foxing otherwise. A very good copy. Half early twentieth-century tan calf over marbled boards, gilt spine with tan and grey.....
Tours: Alfred Mame et fils, 1878-1881. First edition of this French missal published with the approval Charles-Théodore Colet (1806 – 1883), Archbishop of Tours at the time of publication, and former Bishop of Luçon. Each volume with an engraved frontispiece by Emile Berthiault. Pages bordered in red. Minor occasional foxing.....
![Item #16875 Elizabeth Jane. [Manuscript polar projection map of the Northern Hemisphere.] Esholt...](/pictures/thumb/16875.jpg?v=1630432961)
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.....
Four works by Danz, bound together in full stiff vellum, soiled with some stains. Remains of title in manuscript on spine, library numeral on a spine label but no other library markings. A little light foxing. These appear to be large paper copies (205 x 170 mm.), with very wide.....
[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......
[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......
[South Norwalk, CT: Winter 1994-1995]. One of ten copies, signed, printed by Frasconi on Hosho and Arches paper, brown Hosho endpapers. Earth tones represent the native Americans, contrasting with night-time colors of deep purple, black and silver. Frasconi's books are overprinted, adding layer upon layer of color, giving the prints.....
[ Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1496 ]. Text in double columns, rubricated throughout in red and blue. The decorative two-line title is from a woodcut. Contemporary ink manuscript notes on front pastedown, occasional contemporary ink marginalia. Remains of a medieval vellum manuscript leaf, used as binder's waste, in front and back.....
[Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales:]: Gregynog Press, 1935. One of 285 copies in pigskin out of three hundred total. With twenty-four woodcuts after drawings by Edward Burne-Jones, including two full-page and several half-page illustrations. Cut by Loyd Haberly and R. John Beedham and prepared for woodcutting by Dorothy Hawksley. Text printed in.....
[ Norwich: ]: Printed by Stevenson, Matchett, and Stevenson; For John and Arthur Arch, Cornhill, and London, 1819. First edition. Calf rubbed at corners and extremities. Rebacked with twentieth century calf spine with red morocco label. Marbled edges. Some light foxing but pages are very clean throughout. With a late.....
[ Vancouver, British Columbia:]: Byzantium, 2022. With approximately 140 sample leaves of herbaria, drawings, and prints, plus a folder with extra oversized sample leaves from eleven different sources. The leaves originate from broken volumes of botanical texts from the last 350 years or were created by the authors for the.....
Leipzig: Hermann Mendelssohn, 1853. First edition. Engraved title vignette of the Colorado River after Möllhausen. Seven chromolithographed plates, mounted on card and six tinted lithographed plates after Möllhausen, folding map after Henry Lange, ten wood-engravings in text. Introduction by Alexandeer von Humboldt. Front hinge neatly repaired. Occasional light foxing and.....
Basel: [ H. Petrus. 1551], First edition of Muenster’s final published work, lavishly illustrated. The text of the first part deals with geometry largely as applied to surveying and ballistics. The second part starting at p. 69 is an extensive treatise on sundials and horology. Some of the woodcuts are.....
[Sherman Oaks, California: Ninja Press, 1995 ]. One of 160 copies signed and numbered by W.S. Merwin (1927 – 2019). Eighteen lettered hors commerce copies were also produced. “The Real World of Manuel Córdova” was inspired by the experiences of Manuel Córdova-Rios, a vegetalista (herbalist and shaman in indigenous Peruvian.....
Zurich: L'Art Ancien S.A.,Antiquariat; München: Robert Wölfle, Antiquariat; Olten: Weiss-Hesse, Antiquariat, 1968. One of 200 sets. According to the colophon in the text volume, 100 of the copies were in German and 100 were in English, though a search of OCLC mentions only German language copies and reports six in.....
[ Philadelphia: 1922 ]. One of 500 copies, signed by the author. 250 copies comprised the international edition with translations in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese. The pages of the original manuscript were written and illuminated by the author from her notes made in preparation for the paintings from.....
