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.....
Paris: Chez Vente Librairie, 1771. Five full-page engravings. Old ink annotation on a preliminary blank. A fine copy. Contemporary burgundy morocco, gilt flat spine, tooled in seven panels, gilt decorated borders on both covers, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Decorative endpapers, with gilt star pattern. Twelvemo. iv, [12], 140, [12].....
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.....
[Santa Cruz, California:]: Moving Parts Press, 2005. One of eighty-four copies with illustrations colored by pochoir, out of a total edition of ninety-six copies. There were also twelve copies hand-painted by the artist. Signed by the printer and the translator and initialed “rR.” The illustrator, Ray Rice, died in 2001.....
[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.....
[Shanty Bay, Ontario:]: Shanty Bay Press, 2013. One of sixty regular copies out of a total edition of seventy copies. Hand-set in Bembo and printed on 200 gsm Arches Cover. Title-page with photogravure vignette and pochoir lettering in red. Fifteen photogravures by Jon Goodman from drawings by Walter Bachinski, one.....
Glasgow: Printed and Published for the Authoress by George Watson, 1862. Lithographed frontispiece and title-page; fourteen engravings of various dishes, including a calf’s head, dressed ham, and fish entrees. Spine toned. Rubber blue ink stamp to lower margin of p. 49, not touching text. Light foxing, intermittent soiling and staining.....
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.....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1959. First publication of these two stories and illustrations. One of 450 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Colt Press. Designed by Jane Grabhorn. With a frontisportrait of Twain; a reproduced photo of his daughters; and two reproduced illustrations of cats.....
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.....
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.....
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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.....
