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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[ 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.....
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[ Cambridge: Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, 1915 ]. First edition. This article is dated 1915 and was published that year but is often misdated because it was later reissued featuring a title-page dated 1916. With two zincographed plates. Some dust-soiling to front wrapper and small open tear at spine.....
London: John Harris, [n.d.., ca. 1823]. The text on the printed wrappers identifies this item as the second edition, though there is no edition statement on the title-page. OCLC provides the publication date of 1823, though a date is not specified in this item itself. With a hand-colored, half-page woodcut.....
London: Printed by J.F. Dove…for Richard Priestley, 1820. First octavo edition of the collected works of Berkeley, first published in quarto in 1784. See Keynes, Bibliography of George Berkeley, p. 262. Both the quarto and the octavo collected works are uncommon on the market. Volume II contains diagrams and an.....
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 John Dunton, 1694. First edition of a book that has become scarce in commerce. Lacking the initial blank. Woodcut diagram on p. 145. Dedication to John Locke. Binding extremities rubbed, contemporary armorial bookplate on front pastedown partly torn away, nineteenth-century book label of Rev. John James partly.....
First edition of the collected works of Clement I together with the first Latin edition of the works of Saint Justin Martyr. Large wood engraved device illustrating a printing press with three workmen on title page; engraved initial letters hand-colored in red, yellow, and blue; rubricated in red and blue.....
Paris: Dominique Wapler, [1946]. First edition thus. The total edition consisted of 350 copies. Twenty-two plates, plus text illustrations. This is one of fifty copies, numbered 22 - 71 (this being copy # 54), which is signed by both the artist, Marianne Clouzot, and the editor, Dominique Wapler, and contains.....
London: Printed by W. Lewis…Published by W.H. Reid…, 1820. First edition thus. Engraved title-pages, twelve engraved plates, and numerous vignettes in text. The illustrations are scenes from Cowper’s life and works. Spines a bit darkened, joints and corners lightly rubbed, some offsetting from plates. A very good copy in a......
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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.....
Southampton: Printed and Sold by T. Baker... 1794. First edition. A second edition was published by Rivington in 1801. The present work appears to be the author’s only publication. Some splitting to hinges at head and tail. Blue speckled edges. Some minor toning to leaves but overall a near-fine copy.....
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1880. First edition of the last novel the author published before his death. Cloth slight soiled and gentle lean to spines. Spines slightly toned. Front hinge slightly cracked in Vol. II. Intermittent very minor foxing. Gathering R in Vol. III loose, but holding. Small binder’s.....
[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......
London: Macmillan, 1874. First edition of this collection of fable-like short stories illustrating economic principles. In the preface, Fawcett credits Harriet Martineau for “the idea, which she made so popular thirty years ago, of hiding the powder, Political Economy, in the raspberry jam of a story.”. With a text diagram.....
[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.....
Sacramento: 1896. Twenty-three skillful samples of gift number fourteen in over a dozen colors of paper, including metallic gold, silver, and bronze. Light general wear and some light soiling to samples. A very good, remarkably precise and advanced example of a unique Froebel gift album. Accordion bound in original brown.....
[ 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.....
[ Vancouver, B.C.:]: Heavenly Monkey, 2020. One of thirty-six copies handpress printed by Rollin Milroy, bound by Claudia Cohen, and signed on the colophon by Aliquando Press proprietor William Reuter. Along with providing the original calligraphy and the hand-embellishments, Reuter also printed the three fold-out leaves at his own studio.....
London: Printed for the Author, [n.d., ca. 1787]. Stated second edition “With very considerable Additions.” The first edition, published in 1785 and recorded in ESTC in five copies, has two sets of pagination ending on p. 264 and p. 124, so the present edition is clearly longer. ESTC lists three.....
