Kentfield, California: Allen Press, 1964. One of 139 copies, printed letterpress on handmade paper, in Romanée type. Hand-colored initial letters, and thirty-three woodcut illustrations from the original work by Caxton. Light spot on front of box. Otherwise a fine copy. Three sections of unsewn signatures in the French style, each.....
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.....
![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: Printed by J.F. Dove…for Richard Priestley, 1820. First octavo edition of the collected works of Berkeley, first published in quarto in 1784. See Keynes, Bibliography of George Berkeley, p. 262. Both the quarto and the octavo collected works are uncommon on the market. Volume II contains diagrams and an.....
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.....
![Elizabeth Jane. [Manuscript polar projection map of the Northern Hemisphere.] Esholt Hall...](/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.....
Amsterdam: 1755. First edition. Corners lightly worn, some joints just starting to crack. A very good, tight set. Contemporary mottled calf. Gilt-decorated spines with brown morocco labels, gilt triple-ruled borders on covers, marbled edges and endpapers. Three volumes in one, twelvemo. [6], 411, [1, errata]; [4], 347, [1, errata]; [2].....
Montpelier" Vermont Watchman and State Journal Press, 1887. First edition. In Divorce: An American Tradition, Glenda Riley notes that Corresponding Secretary of the NDRL, Samuel Warren Dike (1839 – 1913), wrote the annual reports (pp. 109-110). Some toning along spine and chipping at extremities. A very good, clean copy of.....
London: Printed for James Buckland, 1775. First edition. Engraved frontispiece in Volume I. Light foxing to first and last few leaves of each volume, old ink signature on title-page of Volume I. A very good, clean copy. Contemporary calf, lightly worn at spine extremities. Gilt spine with burgundy morocco label.....
[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......
London: Printed for Jonah Bowyer, 1713. First edition. Corners rubbed. A fine, unrestored copy. Contemporary panelled calf. Twelvemo. [2], xx, [14], 274, [2, ads] pp. Much of this popular little book is devoted to the author’s theories of education in general, and the art of teaching in particular, as well.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to “C.S. Putnam” on front pastedown. C.S. Putnam may have been of the Putnam publishing family, as Gilman’s book Oracle of the Poets was published by Putnam & Wiley in 1845. Some fading to the cloth at fore.....
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1883-95. A set of fourteen Kate Greenaway almanacs plus a facsimile, probably printed in 1973, of Greenaway’s 1885 Alphabet. Greenaway’s Almanacks were published between 1883 and 1897, though no almanac was published in 1896. Color illustrations throughout. Slight rubbing at edges and some rubbing on.....
[ 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.....
London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1909. First edition. Some stains, likely paint, to front cover. Contemporary bookplate to front pastedown and four contemporary ink ownership stamps of the National Council of Women (two to front flyleaf, one to half-tile, one to title-page). Toning to endpapers. A very good, tight, internally.....
London: John Long, [1929]. First edition. With twelve plates (including frontispiece) of black-and-white aerial photos. Some foxing to edges. Some toning to first and last few leaves. A very good copy of an uncommon book that is rare in the original pictorial dust jacket (printed in black and orange with.....
Lyon: Jacobo Hugetan, 1512. Title-page in black and red, with a 2 x 3" woodcut of Saint Jerome in his study. Numerous decorative woodcuts of varying sizes throughout. Text in double columns. Foot of spine lightly chipped, back joint starting to crack, but sound, remnants of off-white paint on spine.....
Frankfurt and Leipzig, [No publisher given], 1794. Fourth edition. Boards rubbed, some light foxing. A good, clean cop. Contemporary batik boards over modern calf spine; old calf tips. Edges stained red. Boards rubbed in several places, intermittent light foxing, but a very nice copy. Octavo. "If he had published nothing.....
Los Angeles: Bruce McAllister, 1931. First edition, signed by Landacre in the colophon. One of five hundred copies. One of the most important and influential illustrated California books, this is generally considered to be Landacre’s masterpiece. The wood engravings include views of Berkeley, UCLA, Malibu, Big Sur, Indio, Point Mugu.....
