!["Our Flag." [Broadside]. Artwork by Keith Achepohl. Carl Adamshick](/pictures/thumb/15599.jpg?v=1575396617)
Eugene, Oregon: Lone Goose Press, 2011. One of fifty-three copies, signed by the author and the illustrator. With illustrations of flags in red, blue, yellow, and green. ("The original artwork consisted of line drawings and etchings. The etchings were scanned and digitally manipulated to create relief plates to render the.....
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.....
Bologna: per Lelio dalla Volpe, 1769. First edition. A very rare collection of fourteen poems in honor of Conte Malvasia's successful term of office as Bologna's chief officer of justice. OCLC lists one copy, which is in France (Bibliotheque Nat. & Univ. Strasbourg). Engraved device on title page and fourteen.....
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.....
Venice: Francisco Lorenzini, 1563. A scarce edition of the esteemed Italian translation by Agostino Ortica Della Porta (active 1512, exact dates unknown). OCLC notes four copies in America: Berkeley, Duke, Columbia, and Yale. Not in Adams or the BL Italian STC. Woodcut publisher's device on title. With five full-page woodcuts.....
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.....
[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.....
[Beachwood, Ohio:]: Livre d’Art by D’Ambrosio, 1992. Copy Number 58 of 75 copies and ten artist’s proofs, signed by D’Ambrosio. An ingeniously designed book, employing cut-outs, three-dimensional effects, scalloped edges, and serigraph designs. Printed on Madeleine Pestiaux’s “Misty Rose” handmade paper, using a Vandercook No. 4 proof press, with Van.....
[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.....
![Scrapbook of a department store buyer. ]. Fashion, Caroline Frazier Jackson](/pictures/thumb/17037.jpg?v=1625686812)
[ New York: [1948-1974]. With eighteen ephemeral items and seven photographs (laid in and pasted down) interspersed with a detailed typewritten report chronicling the work history of Caroline F. Jackson from 1948 to 1974. Stick-on labels identify dates and describe each item. The items include an order form for clothing.....
[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......
[n.p., n.d., ca. 1940.]. These portfolios likely resulted from Doris Schnelder’s and G. Stommel’s work in a sewing course, likely in high school, junior college, or a design school. Schelder and Stommel probably studied at the same school, if not in the same course, as the two millinery fabric grids.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1976. One of 375 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom, Pasadena, California, and signed by both Harlow and Dahlstrom. Frontispiece, fourteen maps, most folding, including two in back pocket. Extensive notes and bibliography. Head and foot of spine lightly rubbed. Near fine. Quarter charcoal cloth over.....
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.....
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.....
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First edition of Lynch's scarce first book. Engraved title, and nine engraved plates, additional vignettes in text. Occasional light foxing, some old pencil on back endpapers, but a remarkably fine, bright copy, in what appears to be a gift binding. Original royal blue cloth.....
