Paris: Regnault and Claude Chaudiére, 1549. 4to (230 x 158 mm). Collation: a-y8. 176 leaves. Roman types, printed in red and black. Ruled in red. Renaissance woodcut title-border of termini and festoons, printers' device (Colines' Time with his scythe); 14 FULL-PAGE WOODCUTS, combining illustration and architectural frame on a single... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. 8vo. 162 pp. Black-and-white photographs on 32 leaves. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy with slight and minor wear at extremities of jacket, not price-clipped, fresh and bright. Owner's ink inscription on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION of this classic... More
New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc. [1921]. First edition. 8vo. 7 plates of Eugene Hutchinson's photographs of the clay impressions of Tennessee Mitchell. Original cloth; dust jacket; black cloth slipcase with morocco label. More
[Ann Arbor]: [early 1989]. 4to. 4pp. Stapled mimeograph. Light handling creases. SIGNED mimeograph of Brodsky's famed commencement address delivered at the University of Michigan on 18 December 1988, given just months after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It is now considered one of the most beautiful and timeless... More
[London]: Granta, [1981]. 8vo. 16pp., paged [215]-230. Stapled-as-issued. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT ISSUE, the title specially-printed on the recto of the first sheet. SIGNED by Carver. This appeared in Granta's 'Beyond the Publishing Crisis' issue in 1981, and was later included in the 1984 collection 'Cathedrals'. Reputedly one of only 25 copies. More
Rome: Jacob Mascardi, 1616. 4 parts in one volume, 4to (218 x 150 mm). Half-title. 3 engraved titles with the Colonna arms and putti, 152 full-page etched plates, most of plants, the remainder of shells, marine life, insects and a hippopotamus. Borders of typographical ornament. Contemporary vellum, manuscript F on upper cover... More
Albany: Weed, Parsons, & Company, 1880. Second edition. 8vo. 533, [2] pp. 29 lithographed plates, including three in color and three folding; 8 folding maps; one folding table. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Contains the following papers: COLVIN. "Winter Fauna of Mount Marcy," pp.363-74; LINTNER, J.A. "Lepidoptera of the... More
Paris: Imprimerie des Hospices Civils, an XI [1802-1803]. Three parts in one volume, 4to (250 x 197 mm). viii, 200; [2], 67; [2], 16 pp. Half-title. Folding table at end. Late 19th-/early 20th-century boards. Provenance: Bibliothèque Imperiale (inkstamp on some text leaves and table, duplicate stamp). FIRST EDITION. Contains a.... More
![Mémoire sur la nécessité de transférer et reconstruire l'hôtel-dieu de Paris, suivi d'un projet de translation de cet hôpital. [Bound with:] Supplément au mémoire. Claude Philibert COQUÉAU, Bernard POYET.](/pictures/thumb/403054.jpg?v=1516388948)
[Paris]: 1785-1786. 4to (231 x 183 mm). 44pp. Three large folding engraved plates. Late 19th-/early 20th-century boards. Intermittent foxing. Provenance: with contemporary ink annotations in French on the title identifying designers of other plans; Bibliothèque Imperiale (inkstamp on some text leaves and plates, duplicate stamp); Louis Greenbaum (bookplate). [BOUND WITH:]... More
New York: Salamander Editions, [1954]. 4to (5½ x 4¼ inches). Engraved vignette, small color image of the Manhattan skyline mounted on last page; original blue tissue preserved. Stapled in original printed wrappers. A virtually untouched example in a custom folding case. Provenance: Sylvia Pedlar (1900-1972), American fashion designer. A SUPERB... More
![Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, author of Evelina, Cecelia, Etc [Seven Volumes]. Madame D'Arblay, Fanny BURNEY.](/pictures/thumb/60058.jpeg?v=1469651751)
London: Henry Colburn, 1842ff. 7 volumes, 8vo. Late 19th-century red half morocco gilt, top edges gilt. Vol. 1 with front joint split, other light wear to extremities, overall a handsome set. FIRST EDITION. More
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1961. First edition. 4to. 272 pp. 150 photographs by Cris Alexander. Original pictorial wrappers. A fine presentation copy, inscribed by Patrick Dennis to actress Greer Garson (1904-1996) on the front free endpaper: "For Greer Garson with affection Patrick Dennis." Additionally inscribed by photographer Cris Alexander... More
Milwaukee: Casanova Press, 1932. Tall 8vo. 53, [1] pp. Photographic portrait of Faulkner mounted as frontispiece. Original printed wrappers, the rear wrapper printing Ernest Hemingway's poem "Ultimately"; publisher's board slipcase. Light rubbing to slipcase, a pale offset on endpapers; the book bright and fresh. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 483... More
Berlin and Munich: Julius Spriner and J. F. Bergmann, 1929. First edition. Thick 4to. Forssmann's paper is on pp. 2085-87, 2287. Entire volume: xi, pp. [1241]-2440, xlviii pp. Contemporary two-toned cloth; gilt-lettered on spine. "The first cardiac catheterization on a living person. Forssmann catheterized his own heart. In 1956 he... More
Basel: Michael Isengrin, 1543. Folio (377 x 242 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, large Isengrin device on final recto, full-page woodcut portrait of Fuchs on title verso, 517 botanical woodcuts by Viet Rudolph Speckle after Heinrich Füllmaurer and Albert Meyer, woodcut portraits of the three artists at end, woodcut... More
![Considerazioni Intorno alla Poesia Degli Ebrei e de i Greci. [Bound with:] Ragionamento in defesa delle considerazioni Sopra il Libro della Maniera di Ben Pensare]. Biagio GAROFALO.](/pictures/thumb/402992.jpg?v=1515162719)
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... More
Paris: Goupil and Manzi, Joyant, 1910. Limited edition, copy number 1 of 500 copies. Folio. Fifty photographic reproductions of Goya's works. Text printed in red and black. Text and plates loose as issued in five printed paper portfolios; half cloth portfolio. Introduction by Paul Lafond. More
Paris: Bulla; and Brussels: Borella, [1829]. Oblong folio (250 x 338 mm). Scarce one-leaf letterpress introduction signed Achille Comte. 72 hand-colored lithographic plates by Joseph Langlumé after Grandville. Early-20th-century blue half morocco, spine gilt-lettered. Some occasional foxing, plate 31 shaved at outer margin, possibly inserted from another copy. Provenance: purchased... More
Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1660. First Elzevir edition. 12mo. 6, 577, [107] pp. Title printed in red and black. Text in Latin and Greek. Contemporary vellum. Provenance: L. J. W. Smit (bookplate). The notes were prepared by John Jonston, Polish scholar and physician. Louis Duret's 1588 translation remained the standard until this... More
Reading, Connecticut: By the author, 1922. 4to (12 x 9½ inches). 259, [4] pp. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth. A fine copy with one small pale stain on the spine. FIRST EDITION, second issue, with pages 37-39 printed. When the first issue appeared, the pages for the song "Grantchester" were issued... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Large 4to (12 x 9½ inches). 382pp. 6 etchings and 20 reproductions of preliminary drawings by MATISSE, tipped in. Original gilt-stamped pictorial brown cloth from a design by LeRoy H. Appleton; printed slipcase. A fine copy, the slipcase with a few repairs and... More
![Extrait des registres de l'académie royale des sciences. Du 22 Novembre 1786. Rapport des Commissaires chargés ... de l'examen du projet d'un nouvel Hôtel-Dieu. [Bound with:] Troisième rapport. Antoine Laurent LAVOISIER, , other authors.](/pictures/thumb/403055.jpg?v=1516388954)
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1786, 1788. 4to (235 x 188 mm). 128, vi pp. Folding table. 20th-century leather-backed boards. Some intermittent pale foxing. Provenance: occasional ink annotations in a contemporary hand supplementing the information provided in the text; Bibliothèque Imperiale (inkstamp on some text leaves and table, duplicate stamp); later pencil... More
Mostly Paris: Pierre Mariette, N. Langlois and others, various dates (most mid-17th century). Small folio (295 x 190 mm). 180 engraved plates, good impressions, with margins, in generally fine condition. 18th-century vellum (earlier manuscript) over boards. Provenance: Heinrich Röttinger (art historian, who wrote a book on Dürer, Beham and Weiditz);... More
Vicenza: Giacomo Amadio, 1668. 2 parts in one volume, thick 8vo (215 x 158 mm). [16], 466, [6]pp.; [12], 376pp. Two etched and engraved titles and 15 folding plates by Jacopo Ruffoni. Contemporary vellum. An entirely original copy, unrestored, the binding worn and with losses; intermittent dampstaining throughout, several closed... More
New Haven: [NY: The Thistle Press for] Holland Roberts Melson Jr, 1958. 8vo. 94, [1] pp. Original pictorial boards with a portrait of Lustig on the front cover by Maya Deren; original glassine. A fresh and bright copy, the corners and spine slightly bumped, front joint with a few small... More