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.....
Retaud, France: Pre Nian Editions, 2014. Limited edition of 60 numbered copies, including 15 signed author's copies, of which this is number 8. Unpaginted and unbound, as issued. Silkscreen color illustrations by Pindaros Michaeledes and Bertrand Bracaval. Hand-set in Vendome and printed by letterpress. Comes with handmade slipcase by Jean.....
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[ 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: Macmillan, 1868. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. Intermittent light foxing and minor marginal tear on p. 96. First few gatherings have been re-inserted. Contemporary ink inscription on front flyleaf. A very good copy and an example of a vulnerable deluxe trade binding that has remarkably survived. Publisher's brown morocco. Front.....
[London:]: Nonesuch Press, 1927. One of 1,550 copies. “Most of the eighty-two drawings in this book have never been exhibited and were previously unknown even to Blake’s most studious admirers” (Nonesuch Century). With eighty-two collotype plates reproducing Blake’s drawings. Plates and text printed on Arches paper at the Chiswick Press.....
Paris: widow of Thielman Kerver [Yolande Bonhomme], 19 June, 1525. The text starts with B5, which is December of the calendar. B5-8, C-R8, R8 being a blank. Printed on paper in black and red, in gothic letter. Text within elaborate metalcut architectural historiated borders. With forty-five large metalcut illustrations, with.....
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.....
[Guildford, England:]: Circle Press, 1984. One of 150 copies. Signed by Ronald King on the colophon. A pop-up letter emerges from each pair of facing pages in the accordion binding. Each letter in an embossed border. Handmade paper from J. Barcham Green cut and folded by Ronald Green with assistance.....
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.....
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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: Harvey and Darton, 1825. First edition of the author's only book. The longest story here is "True History of a Little Black Cat," most of it is "supposed to be related by herself." Engraved frontispiece (upper margin slightly dampstained). Ink ownership inscription of a girl "Aged 11 years &.....
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: Sold by J.S. Dodge, [n.d., 1866]. Elizabeth Doten (1827 – 1913) was a poet, lecturer, and Spiritualist trance medium. She was also “considered the greatest female improvisator of the nineteenth century” (encyclopedia.com) and drew attention for her claims that she could channel the spirits of Edgar Allen Poe, Shakespeare.....
[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 des Amateurs, A. Ferroud—F. Ferroud, 1913. One of ninety-five copies on Japon vellum, with the plates in two states, out of a total edition of 1,000 copies. Twenty-two full- and partial-page etchings, in two states in this copy. Hand-colored title-page vignette and historiated initials. Spine a bit fadedformer.....
[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.....
Dundrum: The Dun Emer Press, 1905. One of 200 copies printed upon paper made in Ireland, and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Dun Emer Press, in the house of Evelyn Gleeson at Dundrum in the County of Dublin, Ireland. Text printed in black and red. One engraved illustration.....
[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.....
[Los Angeles: Richard J. Hoffman, 1975], One of fifty copies. This copy signed by Hoffman. Printed on all-rag paper, made by John Urabec and Richard Hoffman. A fine copy. White boards with gilt front cover and spine. Large octavo. 50, [2] pp. “…fifty-plus quotations of fifty pages celebrating fifty years.....
