[Augsburg: Anton Zorg, not before 1483]. Folio (275 x 194 mm). 121 leaves (of 130) lacking p8 and q1-8. Gothic types. 35 lines. Space for large opening initial on a2r, a few four-line woodcut capitals in the Vita, spaces for initials with guide-letters in the rest of the book. Frontispiece... More
Parma: Ducal Press, 1690. 4to (216 x 168 mm). 14 (of 15) folding plates by Antonio Lorenzini, Ludovico Mattioli and other etchers after Domenico Mauro and Ferdinando Galli da Bibbiena. Contemporary Italian paper boards. Recased, lacking the large folding plate by Carlo Virginio Draghi, six plates with repaired tears crossing... More
[west-central France, late-15th century and southern France circa 1550]. 175 x 110 mm. 194 leaves, COMPLETE, 18th-century ink pagination 1-386 followed here, 18 lines in various bookhands in black ink between 19 horizontals and two verticals ruled in pink, text justification: 80 x 50mm, rubrics in red, one-line initials alternately... More
Strasbourg: Johann Schott, 1532-1531 [vol. II second colophon: 14 February 1532]. Two volumes bound in one (the appendix added to vol.II), folio (287 x 188 mm). Vol. I: Title within woodcut allegorical border, 4- and 5-part borders to several pages, woodcut arms of Strasbourg, ornamental and historiated initials, head- and... More
Florence: Amadore Massi and Lorenzo Landi, 1637. Two parts in one volume, 4to (236 x 172 mm). Etched title and seven double-page plates by Stefano della Bella after the set designs of Alfonso Parigi. 19th-century half roan, decorated paper boards. Some minor spotting, generally a fine copy. Provenance: purchased from... More
Vulgarités. Paris: Aubert, n.d. [1841-42]. 10 lithographs, 354 x 262 mm, and smaller. D.905-914. La Chasse. Paris: Aubert for Pannier, n.d. [1843-44]. 12 lithographs, 354 x 267 mm, and smaller. D.1072-1083. Both suites are assembled sets, some prints formerly bound or framed, some with gilt edges. Occasional chipping at edges... More
Paris: [Circa 1600]. Oblong 4to (188 x 278 mm). Four leaves letterpress, including the scarce "Extraict des Registres de Parlement." Engraved title and 31 calligraphic plates by Simon Wynhoutz Frisius. Old marbled wrappers. Some staining. Provenance: purchased from Marlborough Rare Books, 1981. FIRST EDITION of the second of Le Gangneur’s... More
Antwerp: Henrick Eckert van Homberch, 1503. Small folio (254 x 184 mm). Collation: A8 a-f6 g4 h-z 8 8 A-Z Aa-Gg6. 336 leaves. 41 lines, double columns. Gothic types. Title in nine lines (the first a xylographic block) over a cut of Salvator Mundi flanked by two blocks of architecture... More
Paris: Tèriade, 1950. Folio (425 x 275 mm). 100 color lithographs. Loose as issued in original pictorial wrappers; card slipcase lacking top edge. A few sheets with pale offsetting, wrapper lightly toned, otherwise in very good condition. LIMITED EDITION, number 954 of 1,200 copies signed in pencil by Matisse. The... More
Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1540. Folio (303 x 193 mm). Roman type, double column, index bound after first gathering. 27 maps of the ancient world and 21 of the modern world: together 48 double-page woodcut maps, each within a woodcut border, with contemporary coloring, some of the borders attributed to Hans... More
Paris: L. E. Herhan for Delachaussie et Garnery, 1805. Folio (506 x 332 mm). Half-title. Title with stipple-engraved vignette, 65 stipple-engraved plates by Bouquet, Jacques Chailly, Mlle. Delelo and others, after Redouté, printed in colors by Langlois. Contemporary marbled calf gilt, spine with red and tan morocco lettering-pieces gilt. Some light... More
Parma: [Giambattista Bodoni for] Regia typographia, 1775. Folio (360 x 238 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait and 42 engraved plates by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and others, including 21 outline key plates. Dedication binding: contemporary Italian red morocco gilt with central coat-of-arms of Ferdinand I Duke of Parma, triple fillet border and... More
Paris: [Imprimerie Henon for] A. Arnould, June 1896. 8vo (380 x 275 mm). 32 black-and-white plates. Pictorial wrappers with Toulouse-Lautrec’s lithograph [second state, with letters], folded as issued; glassine; morocco-backed chemise, slipcase. Minor splits to the spine, otherwise in very good condition. Provenance: purchased from Valette, 1977. Toulouse-Lautrec’s provocative lithograph... More
[Nuremberg]: 1750-1773. 10 parts in one volume, folio (518 x 353 mm). 3 mezzotint portraits of Trew, G. D. Ehret and J. J. Haid, one engraved general title, heightened in red and gold, 100 hand-colored engraved plates by Johann Jacob Haid and Johann Elias Haid after Georg Dionysius Ehret, each... More