Vancouver, [British Columbia]: Heavenly Monkey, 2003. One of fifty complete copies of "Kuthan's Menagerie of Interesting Zoo Animals" published anew by Heavenly Monkey. The original edition of 130 copies was issued under the Nevermore Press imprint of Robert and Felicity Reid in 1960. Sixty copies were bound in quarter leather.....
London: Cassell, 1883. First edition of one of the earliest books on the subject. Sixteen mounted chromolithographs of designs, four wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Spine extremities rubbed. A near fine copy. Publisher's brown cloth with covers ruled in blind and title in gilt on front cover. Oblong quarto. 52.....
[ Chicago: Powers, Fowler & Lewis, 1896.]. Includes the explanatory books Pen Pictures from Genesis to Revelations (64 pp.) and Bible Study in Topical Form (63 pp.), plus color maps (4 pp.) of Palestine. [With:]. The Royal Scroll. [Chicago: Powers, Higley & Co., 1902.] Folio case, 17 x 16 x......
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.....
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 19 April, 1494. Fourth incunable and first Koberger edition. Also first quarto edition, notable for being small and easier for scholars to take with them. The Repertorium in postillam is not an edition of the Postilla but rather a subject index to it, organized in dictionary (A.....
[ 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.....
Paris: Chez Le Fuel, Libraire, [n.d., ca.11820]. No date or edition indicated in the present item, though Princeton notes a date of circa 1820. Aside from the Princeton copy, OCLC also lists six copies outside of the United States: one copy at the Bibliothèque Nationale of France, two in Germany.....
Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Verbrugge; San Francisco: Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1971. One of 193 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press, Los Angeles. Printed in red and black. With an original vellum leaf printed by Peter Schoeffer at Main in 1472, with hand-colored initials in red.....
Pasadena: Harry Ward Ritchie, 1930. Fine. Octavo. 32, [1, colophon] pp. One of 200 copies, printed by Ward Ritchie. This is an early Ritchie publication, produced from Pasadena, near where he grew up, and printed at the press of the Abbey of San Encino. Note that Ritchie uses his full.....
Genevae: Sumptibus Petri & Jacobi Chouët, 1621. First edition of the original Greek of the collected works of Sextus Empiricus, the single most import author in the history of skepticism, whose writings determined the course of modern thought, influencing such pivotal thinkers as Bruno, Montaigne, Descartes, Hume an Hegel. Sextus.....
London: Griffith and Farran, [n.d., 1850]. First edition. All pages are chromographically illustrated in colors and gold with elaborate borders and decorative titles. Also with a chromolithograph title-page and presentation page. Chromolithographed by Ashbee & Dangerfield. A slight rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners, but overall the.....
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885. First American edition, early issue. With the following points: "was" for "saw" on p. 57; illustration "Him and another Man incorrectly listed as at page 88; the second "5" in the folio on page 155 is missing, page 283 is a cancel, and the.....
London: John Murray, [1977]. With numerous wood engravings by Reynolds Stone on every page. Minor chipping to the red paint where it overlays the gilt accents and some smudging to the red paint on lower board. Spine also hand-painted in blue and titled in black. All edges gilt. A near.....
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1930. Light shelfwear. Near fine in dust jacket. The jacket is browned at the spine, and there is a tear along the front hinge, rendering it in two pieces, but the image of the Beardsley design on the front cover is bright and attractive.....
Seattle: The Windowpane Press, 2019. One of a small number of copies (no more than thirty) printed with hand-set type and bound by Bonnie Thompson Norman at the Windowpane Press. With 6 printed silhouettes; printed rule evoking the bars of a prison cell; and several styles of decorative paper, including.....
