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.....
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York: Printed by Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, and sold by C. Dilly…[et al.], 1796. First edition of this attractively printed translation of Anacreon’s Odes by Thomas Gilpin. The odes are translated into simple English prose, “designed for the use of those who have made no great progress in Grecian literature.”.....
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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.....
Newspaper clippings, posters, and other campaign promotional items laid in or pasted down on the first [90] pp., except for on a few blank pages. The remaining pages of the scrapbook are blank. Some of the items are in color and many of the newspaper clippings include photographs. Also with.....
Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press, 1998. One of two hundred copies designed, printed by letterpress, and hand-bound by Carol J. Blinn at Warwick Press. Signed on the colophon by Baskin, Blinn, and Perry Smith, and initialed by Harold McGrath. With eight wood engravings by Leonard Baskin, printed from the original blocks.....
San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin Co., 1912. First edition. Some rubbing to extremities and a bit of wear to spine. Flyleaves toned. Otherwise, very clean throughout. A very good copy of a book that is scarce in commerce. Publisher’s brown paper boards titled in dark brown. Octavo. 76 pp. In.....
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.....
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903. First edition of one of the author's most important works. Spine darkened, endpapers lightly browned. A very good copy. Cloth. Small octavo. Mary Boole (1832-1916), wife of pioneering mathematician and logician George Boole, was a largely self-taught scholar and educational theorist. She wrote and lectured for.....
London: Whittingham and Arliss, [n.d., ca. 1816]. Edition and date not given, though the publisher’s ad lists titles with dates of 1815 and 1816. The present book also appeared under the J. Arliss imprint, though no copies seem to bear dates. OCLC lists only four copies under the Whittingham and.....
[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.....
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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.....
Boston: Published by G.W. Cottrell, 1857. First Cottrell edition in this format. Later edition overall: the title-page identifies this work as the fifth edition, though previous editions are inconsistently numbered. The first was published by J. Buffum in 1849. OCLC records only two copies of this edition (AAS and University.....
Paris: 1717, Top corners lightly worn, contemporary owner's signature on title-page. A little minor foxing. A very good, clean copy. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with burgundy morocco label, edges stained red. Twelvemo. [20], 269, [3] pp. This is an interesting collection of four dialogues between the fictional Cléanthe and Euthyme.....
[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......
[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.....
London: By Daniel Dana, A.M. Newburyport: Printed for the Subscribers by Angier, March 1803. First edition, thus. Dana revised Thomas Gibbons' text, the first edition of which was entitled Female Worthies; or, the Lives and Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women (1775/1776)...because he felt that "certain obvious infelicities attached to the.....
[ 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.....
Hailsham, [England]: G. Breads, 1828. First edition. With the two leaves of subscribers and errata slip pasted down on otherwise blank page [xvi]. Dedicated to Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773 – 1843). Spine sunned. Some rubbing to extremities and to calf on lower board. Red coated edges. Marbled.....
[Vancouver, British Columbia: Heavenly Monkey, 2022. One of ten special copies in a total edition of forty. Twenty-seven regular copies and three hors commerce copies were also produced. The special and hors commerce copies were issued in the clamshell box. Signed by Cohen, Hodgson, and Milroy on the colophon. The.....
