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.....
![Broadside]. The Woman’s Bible. Editor Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Carrie Chapman Catt, President of...](/pictures/thumb/16932.jpeg?v=1615145644)
[ 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: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. First edition. Very good. Modern marbled boards with printed paper spine label. Octavo. xii, 372 + 32 pp. publisher's catalogue. Louisa Mary Barwell (1800-1885) was the daughter of inventor and writer on music, Richard Mackenzie Bacon (1776-1844), and from the age of eighteen.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1835. First edition. The present work is framed as a conversation between two girls, Ellen and Charlotte, and their mother. It provides an easy-to-understand guide to over half a dozen quite advanced illustration methods, with multiple informative plates representing each method. With color frontispiece and additional.....
London: R. Bowyer, 1795. This Bible is remembered by many as the “Killer Bible” for its typographical error in Mark VII, verse 27: “Let the children be killed” rather than “filled.” However, it is more exemplary for its artistic design by some of England’s most skilled book artists of the.....
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1885. First edition. Very minor foxing to preliminary and terminal blanks. A near fine copy of a scarce work. Publisher’s brown cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt on front board, gilt-lettered spine, floral patterned endpapers. Octavo. [3], [1, blank], 319 pp. Angelina Emily Grimké (1805-79).....
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.....
New York: Stone & Kimball, 1896. First edition of a scarce book of verse, with perhaps the only book cover design by the American impressionist painter, John Twachtman (1853-1902). Two full-page illustrations by C.E. Brock. Covers lightly soiled and a little worn. A very good copy. Publisher's color pictorial paper.....
![Elizabeth Jane. [Manuscript polar projection map of the Northern Hemisphere.] Esholt Hall...](/pictures/thumb/16875.jpeg?v=1605218970)
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: 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......
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.....
Lansing, Mich. Robert Smith & Co., 1891. Third edition, revised and expanded. The Lansing-based publishing company L. Thompson printed the first edition in 1887 and the second edition in 1888. The second edition was 96 pages and considerably expanded from the 85-page first edition; this third edition seems to have.....
[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: H.S. Nichols Ltd., 1898. First English language edition of this novel, one of the most influential novels of the nineteenth century, about a young man living through the Revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire. The first edition (L’Éducation sentimentale) was published in 1869. Illustrated.....
Jena: Friederich Fromann, 1874. First edition of Frege's qualifying dissertation for his job teaching at the University of Jena. Very scarce. This item is printed on acidic paper , which is lightly browned around the edges. The last leaf is beginning to chip at the top, with no text loss. A very.....
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1883-95. A set of fourteen Kate Greenaway almanacs plus a facsimile, probably printed in 1973, of Greenaway’s 1885 Alphabet. Greenaway’s Almanacks were published between 1883 and 1897, though no almanac was published in 1896. Color illustrations throughout. Slight rubbing at edges and some rubbing on.....
[ 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.....
London: John Long, [1929]. First edition. With twelve plates (including frontispiece) of black-and-white aerial photos. Some foxing to edges. Some toning to first and last few leaves. A very good copy of an uncommon book that is rare in the original pictorial dust jacket (printed in black and orange with.....
Lyon: Jacobo Hugetan, 1512. Title-page in black and red, with a 2 x 3" woodcut of Saint Jerome in his study. Numerous decorative woodcuts of varying sizes throughout. Text in double columns. Foot of spine lightly chipped, back joint starting to crack, but sound, remnants of off-white paint on spine.....
London: John W. Parker... 1848. First edition of the leading textbook of economics in the English-speaking world for the best part of fifty years. Complete with the initial blank in the second volume. A very good, crisp copy. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt-ecorated spines with burgundy morocco labels.....
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.....
