[Milan, 1782]. Large folio (585 x 430 mm). 24 engraved ornamental illustrations by Giacomo Mercoli after Giocondo Albertolli (the last 4 on 2 plates), all with fine contemporary coloring, contemporary blue tissue guards. Contemporary Italian gilt-paneled sprinkled calf, artist's name gilt-lettered on covers. Some light staining to covers, a generally fine.....
Paris: circa 1560. The set of 46 engravings, plates 190 x 140 mm, sheets 320 x 210 mm, good impressions, watermark Edmond de (?), with margins. 19th-century calf gilt. Four plates re-margined, old reinforcements along gutters, occasional pale staining and paper toning, otherwise in good condition. Provenance: purchased from Librairie.....
New York: Mary Boone / Michael Werner, 1985. Text by Robert Farris Thompson. 4to. Unpaginated, 5 color plates. Original printed wrappers. Published in cooperation with the Bruno Bischofberger Gallery, Zurich, 1985. Scarce.
Paris: Israel Silvestre, circa 1645. Complete set of twelve etchings, plates 110 x 255 mm and similar, sheets 220 x 345 mm, including title, in the first state (of two). Fine impressions, wide margins, pale water stain to plates at center of volume, early ink inscription on title. 18th-century half-vellum.....
Paris: Labé, 1848. First edition. 8vo. Bernard's paper is on pp. 303-19. Entire volume: 512 pp. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards. "Bernard’s first communication regarding his investigation of the glycogenic function of the liver. Reprinted, with translation, in Medical Classics, 1939, 3, 552-80" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 995).
Leiden: Samuel Luchtmans and Theodor Haak, 1728. Fourth edition, signed by the publishers. 8vo. [8], 350, [12] pp. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary calf, morocco lettering-piece, initials AH in blind on front cover. Provenance: Robert Haaft? (signature on title); Henry Dixon (1805 inscription on pastedown, his figures on.....
[Paris: Israël Henriet, circa 1618]. Complete set of ten etchings, plus the frontispiece by Collignon, sheets 118 x 254 mm and similar, second states (of two or three), very good impressions, on fine laid paper, several with Triple Fleur-de-Lys in a shield watermarks (see Lieure watermarks 50). Trimmed close to.....
[Florence]: 1619. Etching, 282 x 210 mm plate, 353 x 287 mm sheet, on laid paper with a Cross of Lorraine watermark, a fine impression of the second state (of three), with wide margins, some minor mostly marginal foxing, taped to the backboard at three corners verso, otherwise in good.....
[Florence]: [1616]. Three etchings (from the set of four), comprising [Chariots and Characters] (L. 169 “Les chars et les personnages”), a very good impression of the rare first state (of three), watermark Fleur-de-Lys in Double Circle with Initial V –– Mostra della guerra d’amore (L. 170, “Le Défilé Entrée des.....
Leiden: Elzevir, 1657. 12mo. [2], [22], 558, [2] pp. Engraved title by I. Hackius, errata leaf at end. 18th-century mottled calf, smooth spine gilt. Provenance: Lewis Stephen Pilcher (1845-1934), founding editor of 'The Annals of Surgery' (bookplate). "De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written.....
One page, square 12mo (114 x 104 mm), a few pale stains, one short separation along fold. Cooper apparently returns a copy of a translation of Frithiof’s saga, or The legend of Frithiof by Esaias Tegner (London, 1835), edited and translated in part by Frye: “My dear Major, I send.....
Edinburgh: James Watson, 1711. Folio (335 x 214 mm). Fine engraved frontispiece portrait of the William Drummond of Hawthornden. Contemporary divinity calf. Some light wear, front joint partly split at top; some minor pale marginal dampstaining, occasional pale browning. Provenance: George Edward Dimock (bookplate); Fletcher and Maude Battershall (bookplate); purchased.....
Venice: Paolo Colombani, 1760. 4to (204 x 160 mm). 4 full-page engraved plates after Pietro Antonio Novelli (3) and Francesco Bartolozzi (1) by Antonio Baratti, title-page vignette, one head-piece and 5 tail-pieces, 5 ornamental initials. 19th-century quarter vellum, decorated paper boards. Some pale dampstaining to lower corners, generally crisp. Provenance.....
New York: MIT Press for the Museum of Modern Art, 1976. 4to. 110 pp. 48 color photographs and one black-and-white portrait of Eggleston. Original black bonded leather with gilt-stamped spine and cover onlay. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION (no date on the title-page; copyright page dated only 1976). Issued as.....
Verona: Plain Wrapper Press, 1976. Folio (335 x 240 mm). Etching by Fulvio Testa. 8pp. Sewn into dark brown Guido Reni Fabriano Roma paper wrappers and bound in stiff marbled covers made by Marcello Fornaro. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 33 of 71 copies signed by the author and artist.....
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Rome: Francesco Gonzaga, 1707. Two parts in one volume, 4to (236 x 171 mm). Roman and Hebrew types. Half-title. xvi, 61, [1]; 131 pp. Two woodcut initials, woodcut device on title. 18th-century Italian vellum over pasteboard. Some pale spotting, first few leaves with marginal dampstain and a few small marginal.....
Milan: Romeo Gigli, 1988. 12.5 x 9.5 inches. [72] pages. Reproducing designs by Gigli done in watercolor and photographs by Paolo Roversi, Steven Meisel, Maria Vittoria Corradi, Sarah Moon, Andrew Bettles, Torkii Gudnason, Peter Lindbergh and Max Vadukul. Style and design by Mats Gustavson, Christoph Radl and Nicoletta Santoro. With.....
Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1963. Large 4to (13.25 x 10 inches; 336 x 254 mm). 12 double-page gauffraged (embossed without inking) prints. Loose as issued in original soft red morocco portfolio, upper cover with embossed design after Hajdu; original cloth folding case, lettered on spine. LIMITED EDITION, an unnumbered copy from.....
Leiden [i.e. Naples]: circa 1771. 2 volumes in one, 8vo (210 x 130mm). 2 engraved titles, 70 engraved plates, good impressions with margins. Contemporary French red morocco gilt, edges gilt, in Derome style. Provenance: Robert Peyrefitte, with his bookplate; purchased from H.D. Lyon, 1994. FIRST EDITION of Hancarville’s collection of.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. 8vo. 57 pages. Original aquamarine cloth; printed dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Heaney's first commercially published book. One of 1,000 copies, using sheets from the UK edition published in the same year by Faber & Faber. An auspicious debut, not only did the.....
Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing Co. for A. Zeehandelaar, 1882. 8vo. 93, [3] pp., advertisements at beginning and end. Folding map by Rand, McNally after E. St. John, "New and Correct Map of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Ry. Popularly known as the Great Rock Island Route,".....
London: Richard Bentley, 1837. Three volumes bound in one, 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches). Contemporary half blue polished calf, marbled boards, citron morocco lettering-piece, spine gilt-ruled. Some modest wear to binding. Bound without half-titles. FIRST EDITION, relying heavily upon the accounts of Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796-1878).....
Paris: Edition du Mercure de France, 1894. 12mo (139 x 115 mm). 236 pages, woodcut head-piece to preface, 9 original woodcuts by the author printed in blue-green, brown and black, final leaf with printer's woodcut device, original dark green printed wrappers bound in at rear. Near-contemporary dark green cloth, spine lettered.....
Paris: Editions Seesam, 1979. 4to. [60] pages. Original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION of this very scarce photobook by Dominique Lauga, a relatively obscure photographer who documented Le Palace and the club's clientele. Includes stunning images of Karl Lagerfeld, Amanda Lear, Andy Warhol, Kenzo, Paloma Picasso, Paco Rabanne, Yves Saint Laurent.....
New York and Paris: Juliette Halioua Ltd. and Adrien Maeght Editeur, 1973. Leporello-style accordion-form color lithograph printed by Ateliers Arte, Paris, 73 x 12 inches; 1854 x 305 mm. Folding into original cloth portfolio with color lithograph mounted on cover. A FINE ARTISTS BOOK. The Swiss artist Warja Lavater is.....