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.....
Berlin: Chez Arnold Wever, 1786. An attractive Berlin edition of Leprince de Beaumont’s periodical for teenage girls, which first appeared in 1764. This edition is edited by C. Thiébault de Laveaux (1749-1827), who was professor of French at the University of Berlin. It includes engravings by Eberhard Siegfried Henne (1759-1828).....
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.....
New York: [Gaspara Stampa Inc., Russell Maret,], 2022. One of seventy-seven numbered copies. Twenty-five hors commerce copies were also produced. Designed and edited by Russel Maret and printed by Maret and Sarah Moody. Signed on the colophon by all the contributors to the project. Dispatches from the Lizard Brain chronicles.....
Zurich: L'Art Ancien S.A.,Antiquariat; München: Robert Wölfle, Antiquariat; Olten: Weiss-Hesse, Antiquariat, 1968. One of 200 sets. According to the colophon in the text volume, 100 of the copies were in German and 100 were in English, though a search of OCLC mentions only German language copies and reports six in.....
[ 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.....
[Flansham, Bognor Regis: The Pear Tree Press, 1937]. Number 17 of a purported 100 copies. OCLC notes seven copies only worldwide: Columbia, Stanford, Boston Atheneum, Trinithy College Dublin, Cambridge, the National Library of Scotland, and the British Library. 8 bifoliate leaves, printed on recotos only, comprising the half-title, frontispiece, title.....
[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.....
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2003. One of ninety copies. Signed by Kitty Maryatt and the seven students who contributed to the project. Color-illustrated on almost every page using a combination of linoleum block printing, ink, pochoir, and colored pencil, along with mounted fabric. Printed on Zerkall Book Laid paper.....
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.....
Berkeley: Peter Koch, 1998. One of seventy numbered copies, signed by Wagener. Designed and printed on Zerkall paper by Peter Koch and Richard Wagnener. Twenty-six full-page wood-engravings, one for each letter of the alphabet, with short prose statements on facing pages. Twenty-six smaller woodcut section titles in red. Fine in.....
London: W. Spilsbury, 1804. Fourth edition, revised, corrected, and augmented by the author, of this children’s encyclopedia that covers a vast array of subjects including art, science, anatomy, mythology, history, and geography. We are unable to determine what the revisions and additions are without being able to compare it with.....
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.....
