London: John Baskett, 1717. This copy is described on page 144 of Griffiths’ The Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, several variants with engraved borders. This copy is another variant without engraved borders. Entirely engraved double-column text with dozens of silver plate engravings by John Sturt. Volvelle on page.....

London: Printed for A. Millar, W. Law...[et al.], 1792. A rare edition of a text that was first published in 1722. It went through numerous editions and was expanded several times during the eighteenth century. The charming woodcut illustrations are unsigned, as is the frontispiece. This edition is recorded in.....

[ 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.....

[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.....

[Northampton, Massachusetts:]: The Gehenna Press, 1976. One of 450 copies was printed on various interesting papers; this is copy 263. Illustrated terra cotta title page printed in red and black. Nineteen drawings printed from line cuts in red and black on rectos only. Binding extremities have some very minor rubbing.....

Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, L'An CCXX [2012]. One of 120 copies. Four wood engravings in text, two mounted photographic reproductions, and facsimile title-page. Printed on Arches laid paper, with decoration in red and blue. A fine copy, with original prospectus laid in. Quarter crimson morocco over dark blue Japanese.....

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.....

London: Dean & Son, [1855]. With 22 hand-colored engravings of children at play. First and last leaves pasted down to insides of wrappers, as issued. Some toning to wrappers. Small piece missing from rear wrapper, just slightly touching the text of the ad. Some toning and dust-soiling throughout, as well.....

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.....

New York: Educational Department, Tampax Incorporated, [n.d., ca. 1941]. Broadside printed with four diagrams of the female reproductive organs in black with red accents. Creasing where the broadside has been folded for storage. The paper on which the broadside is printed was cut imprecisely, leaving the top and bottom edges.....

London: Richard Griffin and Company, Publishers to the University of Glasgow, [1855]. First edition. A very good copy. Later marbled boards with printed paper spine label. Quarto. [12], vii, [1], 34, [2], 152, [2], 44, iii, [1], [2] , ix, [1], [2], [140] pp. George Edmonds (1788-1868) was an English.....

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.....

[ 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.....