London: F. Fayram, 1730. First edition. A very good copy. Contemporary paneled calf, expertly rebacked, Twelvemo. [2], 202 pp. Charles Lamotte (1681?-1741) is known almost solely for the present work; he receives no mention in the D.N.B. There is, however, a substantial entry on him in the Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century.....
Los Angeles: Bruce McAllister, 1931. First edition, signed by Landacre in the colophon. One of five hundred copies. One of the most important and influential illustrated California books, this is generally considered to be Landacre’s masterpiece. The wood engravings include views of Berkeley, UCLA, Malibu, Big Sur, Indio, Point Mugu.....
Edinburgh: For Archibald Constable and Company, 1817. First edition. Large folding table; numerous mathematical diagrams in text, showing methods of calculation, utilizing various number bases. Two gatherings foxed. Armorial binding. A very handsome copy. Contemporary full tan polished calf. In an armorial binding with a gilt insignia of a crown.....
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.....
London: Printed by J. Flesher, for W. Morden, 1660. First edition. Old ink signature (“P. Courthope”) on a preliminary blank, a little light marginal pencil. On the whole a very good, clean copy. Contemporary calf, nicely rebacked, red morocco spine label, new endpapers. Folio. xxx, 546, [28] pp. More (1614-87).....
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.....
[ Philadelphia: 1922 ]. One of 500 copies, signed by the author. 250 copies comprised the international edition with translations in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese. The pages of the original manuscript were written and illuminated by the author from her notes made in preparation for the paintings from.....
Aiken, S.C. Ye Palmetto Press, 1900. Limited to 250 copies. Title-page printed in black and red, within an ornamental border. Colophon in red. Printed on Whatman paper. The last blank leaf was creased in the press. With a specimen page from this work laid in. Also with the original paper.....
New York: Scribner's, 1925. First edition of the book that is generally considered the most outstanding example of the art of Parrish’s book illustration. Parrish’s biographer, Coy Ludwig states: “ the illustrations, printed in rich colors...were the highest quality reproductions that could be had.” (Ludwig, p. 48). [6], 46, [1].....
[Los Angeles: Printed for Dawson's Book Shop at Laguna Verde Imprenta by the author, 1989]. One of fifty copies. Illustrated with seventeen wood engravings by Paul Landacre, fifteen of them in black & white, one printed in red, and one in green. Miniature printed bookplate on front pastedown. A fine.....
London: Printed for James Rivington and James Fletcher, 1759. First edition in English of the first history of California, which “gave the English-speaking world its earliest thorough account of the little-known areas of the west coast of North America,” (Hill). The original Spanish edition was published in 1757. With four.....
London: Printed for John Clark and Richard Hett, 1725. First edition, presentation copy. Engraved headpieces, tailpieces, and initial letters. Slight offsetting and intermittent browning. Light creasing to a few leaves in in gathering H. The occasional minor stain. Inscribed by the author on the recto of front flyleaf: "To My.....
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[ n.p. ]: 1878. Text on versos only. 117 leaves, each illustrated in pen, ink, color wash, and other graphic processes with crests, arms, or flags in gold and color. Color and gilt title-page. Binding extremities lightly worn, two very small 2” cracks on lower front board. A few small.....
. Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 2001. One of 175 copies. With twenty-two color plates and fifty-eight illustrations, many of them John DePol’s wood engravings. Printed on Zerkall paper in Eric Gill’s Perpetua. A fine copy with the prospectus in a black cloth clamshell case. Quarter black Oasis goatskin.....
