![Nursery Rhymes for “Jim” at Bed-Time. [Manuscript]. From: Aunt Edie](/pictures/thumb/16900.jpeg?v=1608847288)
[ London?:]: 1924. The classic nursery rhymes included here are “Jack and Jill,” “Little Miss Muffet,” “Simple Simon,” “Little Jack Horner,” and “Hey Diddle Diddle. Richly illustrated throughout in ink and watercolor with accompanying manuscript nursery rhymes and musical scores in ink. Some dust soiling and light foxing. In the.....
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.....
![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.....
Paris: Rouveyre, 1888. First and only edition, limited to 1,000 copies. Eighty plates of bindings, executed by Aron Frères, with printed tissue guards. Fine in very good calf-tipped slipcase. Light wear to slipcase. Ink inscription on a preliminary blank: “Cécile Warnery, cadeau de Caroline Marie Warnery—Schlumberger.” We cannot be sure.....
Northridge: Santa Susana Press, California State University Libraries, 1988. One of sixty-five copies, signed by Lawrence Clark Powell. Printed, designed, and produced by Joseph D’Ambrosio using a hand set Della Robbia type and a Vandercook No. 4 proof press, with photographs printed and mounted by Amanda Blanco. Twelve dry mounted.....
[Venice: Nicolo Zopino e Vicentio compagno, 1524. An early edition of this prose narrative by Boccaccio, interspersed with poems in terza rima, after the example of Boethius and Dante’s Vita Nuova. Written in 1341-2 while Boccaccio was in Florence caring for his elderly father and separated from his beloved Fiammetta.....
[ Chicago: ]: Dorothy A. Bond, 1945. First edition. OCLC records no copies. Illustrated with comic strips, printed in black, on every page. All illustrations by Dorothy Bond. Binding is bright and clean. Toning to title-page and final page. Two signatures on title-page: one ink signature, dated 1945, of “Annie.....
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.....
Westminster: The Roxburghe Press, [n.d., 1895-1900]. Neither an edition statement nor a publication date is specified in the present item. Most dates for the present item provided on OCLC and COPAC range between 1895 and 1900, and we cannot specify the edition of the present item with confidence based on.....
![Elizabeth Jane. [Manuscript polar projection map of the Northern Hemisphere.] Esholt Hall...](/pictures/thumb/16875.jpg?v=1630432961)
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: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908. First edition of this collection of seventeen stories, most with a fantasy or horror theme. Some corners lightly bent. A very good, bright copy. Original red pictorial cloth. Octavo. [8], 372 + [4] pp. publisher’s catalogue.
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.....
[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.....
[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.....
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.....
New York: Published for the Benefit of the Orphan Asylum... 1821. First edition of a work recording the history of the Orphan Asylum Society, New York City’s first private orphanage, in the fifteen years after its founding by Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757 – 1854), Isabella Graham, and Joanna Bethune. By.....
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.....
