Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge – H. M. Fletcher, 1981. One of an intended 300 copies set in Monotype Janson and printed letterpress on Frankfurt Cream Paper by Patrick Reagh and Vance Gerry. A note from the publisher states that, given various publication mishaps, the final number was actually.....

Los Angeles: Printed by Patrick Reagh for] Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc., 1985. One of 159 copies. Title page printed in red and black. Original leaf from Compendium Theologiae Veritatis [c. 1478-81] inserted in a folder between the last leaf of the introduction and the half-title. Illustrated with four reproductions from.....

Florence: Fratelli Alinari, Instituto di Edizioni, 1960. One of 500 sets printed at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona. Heavily illustrated and featuring over 1,500 bindings. The set is illustrated with two color frontispieces, three tipped-in color illustrations, numerous text illustrations, and nearly 1,000 collotype plates, including nine folding plates printed.....

Paris: J. Langlumé, 1846. First edition. Engraved title and eleven plates, one to illustrated each of the tales in the book, all hand-colored. Plates lightly browned, intermittent light foxing. A very good copy. Contemporary blue decorative boards, with later blue decorative board spine. Twelvemo. [4], 188 pp. This is a......

[Mexico, Missouri: Missouri Printing and Publishing Company,], 1914. First edition. A record of important Iowa women dating back to settlers in the early nineteenth century, including figures like Carrie Chapman Catt and pioneer and educator Alice Bird Babb. This is a comprehensive record of women physicians, religious officials, suffragists, journalists.....

Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., [1904]. First edition of this charming blank recipe book. Title-page vignette, illustrated table of contents, and fourteen half-page illustrations (one for each of the chapters, e.g., breads, beverages, soups, and so on). Printed in black and orange. Otherwise, blank for readers’ notes. A fine.....

London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davis, 1797. First edition of this groundbreaking and generally respected translation of the political and philosophical parts of Aristotle’s output. The analysis by ancient historian and classical scholar John Gillies (1747 – 1836) draws from Aristotle’s work a concept.....

[n.p., France: n.d., ca. 1920.]. The present album focuses on one of the central tenets of Froebel’s theories: the translation of real-world objects into simple shapes and vice versa, which challenges students to think abstractly and creatively. Gifts fourteen (paper-weaving) and eighteen (paper-folding), along with Gift thirteen (paper-cutting), represent an.....

Strasburg, Virginia: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1931. First edition of this history of early aviation. With frontispiece and dozens of illustrations throughout, including many full- and half-page photo reproductions. Binding is clean and attractive. A remarkably bright and fine copy, signed by the author (“Jack Stearns Gray”), in the very good.....

Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1917. First edition. With over a hundred full- and half-page photo reproductions, particularly highlighting industry, manufacturing, and commerce in Berlin during the war. Includes many photos of women at work (as carriage drivers, mail carriers, surveyors, laborers, and more). Binding is clean and attractive.....

London: G. & W.B. Whittaker, 1824. Second edition of a work on botany for young readers. With chapters on the structure of a tree, sap vessels, the formation and function of leaves, names and functions of roots, descriptions of different kinds of flowers, and the dissemination of seeds. Mary Roberts.....

[Kernville]: Sierra Trails Press, [1968]. One of 107 copies, numbered in ink on the colophon. 35 folded sheets (unbound, as usual). Thirty-two tipped-in wood-engravings by Kirk Martin, a student of Paul Landacre, depicting the beauty and grandeur of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, each signed by the artist. Additionally inscribed by.....

London: R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1846. Third edition. First published by Seeley in 1832. With ten lithographed plates of shells. Preface by Charles Mayo, the author’s brother. Also, with the author’s preface to the second edition. Dustsoiling to cloth and some chipping to head and tail of spine. Very.....