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
![[Opera] Catullus et in eum commentarius M. Antonii Mureti.; Commentary by Marc-Antoine Muret ("Muretus", 1526-1585). ALDINE PRESS, Caius Valerius CATULLUS, B C. E.](/pictures/thumb/402203.jpeg?v=1539103987)
Venice: Paulus Manutius Aldus, 1554. First edition with Muretus' commentary. Aldine 8vo (152 x 96 mm; 6 x 33/4 in.). Collation: *4, A-Q8 R10. Large Aldine woodcut device on title and verso of final leaf. Italic type, occasional Greek and Roman types. 19th-century brown calf gilt, all edges gilt. Provenance... More
New York: The Fuck You Press, 1965. Square 8vo. [12] pp. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy with only minimal handling wear. FIRST EDITION. One of 300 copies of the "Trade edition" (there was also the "Rough Trade Edition" of 5 copies; an edition of 3 unnumbered copies; and the... More
Boston: J B Millet, 1897. Limited edition, number 445 of 750 copies. Volumes 1, 2, and 4 only (of 10), large folio. Photographic illustrations. Deluxe publisher's binding in Japanese style vari-colored brocaded silk over boards, with tassels and cords. With an essay on Japanese Art by Kakuzo Okakura, Director of... More
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... More
London: Westminster Review, 1840. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches). 60 pp. 38 illustrations in text. COPIOUSLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the addition of 121 etched and engraved plates on 112 sheets, of which 44 in color, inlaid to size or full-sheet, each identified in pencil beneath image. Red straight-grained morocco... 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
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. Limited large-paper edition, number 424 of 650 sets. 6 volumes, tall 8vo (10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches). Plates after Flaxman's drawings, the frontispieces each in two states: colored and uncolored. Contemporary brown three-quarter morocco, marbled boards, spines in six compartments in five... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981. Square 4to. 347 pages. 190 illustrations, of which 100 in color. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, signed by the artist and dated 1981 on the half-title. 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=1539106810)
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
Gelatin silver print, signed in pencil lower right "Arnold Genthe N.Y." 9 1/2 x 6 5/8 inches, mounted on card 12 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches. Inscribed on the mount to Mr. and Mrs. William E. Neumeyer "To the Neumeyers with fond love / Annette" and with their collection stamp on verso. More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1896. First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece and plates by Oliver Herford. Original decorated cloth, the front cover with full-panel block executed in black, green and gilt, black-lettered on spine (spine with slightest toning and minor wear at foot). FIRST EDITION. Though best known for his... More
Reading, Connecticut: By the author, 1922. 4to (305 x 242 mm; 12 x 9½ inches). 259, [4] pages. 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. “114 Songs [was] privately printed and distributed without copyright... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Large 4to (305 x 242 mm; 12 x 9½ in.). 382 pages. 6 etchings and 20 reproductions of preliminary drawings by Henri Matisse, tipped in. Original gilt-stamped pictorial brown cloth from a design by LeRoy H. Appleton; printed slipcase. A fine copy, the... More
Anchorage, AK: Salmon Run Press, 1995. 8vo. [8]pp. Sewn in original pictorial wrappers with a photograph by H. Jagerbauer. A fine copy. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 9 of 100 copies signed by Kinnell. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on the half-title to Dartmouth President James Freedman. The poem originally appeared... More
Paris: Pierre Horay, 1973. Oblong 8vo. Text in French. 75pp. Color and black-and-white photographs. Original beige cloth; dust jacket; with original woven tassel. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. More
Vicenza: Giacomo Amadio, 1668. 2 parts in one volume, thick 8vo (215 x 158 mm; 81/2 x 61/4 in.). [16], 466, [6] pages; [12], 376 pages. Two etched and engraved titles and 15 folding plates by Jacopo Ruffoni. Contemporary vellum. An entirely original copy, unrestored, the binding worn and with... More
New Haven: [NY: The Thistle Press for] Holland Roberts Melson Jr, 1958. 8vo (217 x 135 mm; 8½ x 5¼ in.). 94, [1] pages. 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... More
Black Sparrow, 1972. the advance long galleys. stamped "Uncorrected Proof" and numbered "Set #3" More
Padua: Seminario, 1807. First edition. Two parts in one volume, octavo (240 x 165 mm). 441 pages. Errata leaf at end. Contemporary Paduan red morocco, richly gilt, the arms of Padua at center of each side, a wide gilt floral border, spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece, edges gilt. A major... 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
![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. PARIS, Antoine Laurent LAVOISIER, other authors.](/pictures/thumb/403055.jpg?v=1539106819)
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
![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. PARIS, Claude Philibert COQUÉAU, Bernard POYET.](/pictures/thumb/403054.jpg?v=1539106818)
[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
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. 8vo. 256 pp. Original gilt-lettered brown cloth; dust jacket. A very good copy, the jacket unclipped, a few small nicks/losses at ends of front joint and spine panel, lightly toned. Owner's inkstamp on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION of Pym's fourth novel, concerned with the activities... More
