Toledo, Ohio: The Merrill Press, [n.d., ca. 1900]. All versos blank. Alternating leaves are half-leaves that, when lifted, reveal a blank space for the reader’s notes. Decorative floral borders on every leaf and text ornaments on most leaves. Final leaf is printed with decorative borders but otherwise blank for the.....
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 #17456 [Wind-up picture alphabet book in a barrel.]. Alphabets](https://mrtbooksla.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17456.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1683670985)
[n.p., n.d., ca. 1880s.]. Companies like McLoughlin Bros. in New York and Milton Bradley in Massachusetts employed creative formats for alphabet books during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These interactive books were often printed on linen, and treated with oil, since fabric was more durable than the cheap.....
![Item #16932 [ Broadside]. The Woman’s Bible. Editor Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Carrie Chapman...](https://mrtbooksla.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16932.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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.....
London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davis, 1797. First edition of this groundbreaking and generally respected translation of the political and philosophical parts of Aristotle’s output. The analysis by ancient historian and classical scholar John Gillies (1747 – 1836) draws from Aristotle’s work a concept.....
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.....
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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.....
![Item #17397 The Literary Women of Italy. [Manuscript article.]. Alice Howard Cady](https://mrtbooksla.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17397.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&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: Printed by S. Richardson, 1758. First edition of the first English translation of the complete works of Epictetus. This esteemed work was the standard English version prior to Oldfather’s translation (1925-8). (See Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life, Oxford: 2002.). Some edgewear. Joints tender. Contemporary ink.....
Boston: The Stratford Co., 1924. First edition. Part of the Knights of Columbus Racial Contribution Series. Binding is bright and attractive aside from some slight darkening to spine and minor rubbing to corners. Minor marginal toning. A fresh, near-fine copy of a historical work that detailed the contributions of Black.....
[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......
Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1895. The Robert Hoe Copy, specially made for him and so stated on the limitation page in ink: "Exemplaire offert/à Monsieur Robert Hoe/ L. Conquet." Limited to 150 copies, of which this is number 68.This copy is distinguished as having two separate (and identical) suites of.....
[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.....
[ New York:]: [n.d., ca. 1910]. The samples included in these albums are executed with a remarkable level of skill, precision, and attention to aesthetics. The manuscript text explaining paper weaving patterns, plus the expertise on display in these albums, indicate that these were created by a teacher or a......
[ 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.....
[ 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.....
![Item #17453 [Korean title. Kajwa nongmin haggyo.] Scrapbook and photo album in Korean and...](https://mrtbooksla.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/17453.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1683403374)
[ Kajwa-dong, Gyeonggi, South Korea: Kajwa Farmers’ School, ca. 1948-1950.]. This unique scrapbook documents the work of students (mostly elementary- and middle-school-aged students, with some help from local high schoolers) and area residents to build a school and educational farm in Kajwa-dong from 1948-1950. The photographs preserved here show students.....
London: W. and J. Richardson for John Murray, 1773. Second edition, enlarged, of an important sociological and anthropological study by John Millar (1735-1801), Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow and friend of Hume, Adam Smith and other members of the Scottish enlightenment. The first edition, in quarto format.....
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.....
Paris: A Legrand et Pelicier, 1816. First edition. The rare first printing of this practical guide which went through at least four editions. It was intended to accompany a set of embroidery designs that was issued separately. Fine hand-colored engraved plate of two women at an embroidery table. Binding extremities.....
[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.....
