Nuremberg: Friedrich Peypus for Johann Koberger, 13 December 1521. 8vo (140 x 90 mm). Printed in red and black, gothic types, each page within narrow woodcut borders (scrolling foliage, classical columns, etc.), title-page with large woodcut of the Virgin and Child enthroned; Calendar, Saints Days, Lunar and Solar phases, and... 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
Paris: Israël Henriet, 1636. Folio (275 x 185 mm). 488 etchings (215 x 120 mm and similar) on 124 sheets including title with the arms of Richelieu, frontispiece, dedication and text. Contemporary vellum. Good impressions of the second states (the frontispiece third state), watermarks Posthorn (similar to Lieure 47). Occasional... More
New York: Committee to Defend the New York Black Panther, [1970?]. Broadside, 14 x 8 1/2 inches. Text in double-column. Two short tears at edges, a few soft creases, some light soiling. SCARCE BROADSIDE. Cleaver's manifesto against the execution of Bobby Seale during the 1970 New Haven Black Panther trials... 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. Provenance: Sylvia Pedlar (1900-1972), American fashion designer. A SUPERB COPY OF CORNELL'S SCARCE ARTIST'S... More
New York: Harper and Bros, 1840. 8vo. 20th-century blue morocco gilt, front cover with double-fillet border, anchor tools at the angles, surrounding a central gilt ship tool, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a floral panel with anchor tool in the remaining, all edges gilt... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1935. 8vo. 87pp. Original purple cloth; later slipcase. Lack dust jacket, front hinge cracked, some toning to boards, pencilings in text presumably by Perkins. FIRST TRADE EDITION. A PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Eliot on the title: "Inscribed for Dr. John Carroll Perkins by the author... More
Canterbury: H. J. Goulden, [1935]. 8vo. 38 pages. Original printed wrappers. Light spotting to endleaves; pale toning to edges of wrappers. FIRST (ACTING) EDITION. One of 750 copies printed and distributed at performances at Canterbury Cathedral in May 1935. The text is slightly abbreviated and altered from the text of... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. 8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket. As-new. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Frazier on the title-page. More
Augsburg: Johann Schultes and Mathias Rembold, 1641. Folio (300 x 203 mm). Letterpress title printed in red and black (torn and repaired), 15 double-page or folding engraved plates or plans by Matthäus Rembold (1629–1657), on guards. Contemporary vellum. Some plates trimmed closely. Provenance: purchased from Ars Libri, 1990. FIRST EDITION... 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
London: Methuen & Co. [1951]. Limited edition, one of 500 copies, this copy out-of-series and presented to George Macy. 4to. Color frontispiece and 11 color plates, mounted on letterpress leaves. Original white sheep, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; original publisher's slipcase with printed paper title label. A... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1874. First edition. 8vo. Gull's paper is on pp. 22-28, illustrated by three plates, each showing two women. Entire volume: [cxvii], 189 pp. Original cloth. Gull had first referred to the disease that he observed mostly in women, and characterized by extreme emaciation, in a.... More
Paris: Grégoire Dupuis, 1719. 8vo (261 x 195mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette on title, and 101 engravings in the text by Cochin, Gillot, Edelinck, Picart, Simoneau and Tardieu after Coypel, Gillot, Edelinck, Picart and Ranc. 18th-century gilt-panelled sprinkled calf. Rebacked; P4 with small tear with loss in corner not affecting... 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
London: T. Davies, J. Newbery and T. Payne, 1767. Two volumes, 12mo (171 x 101 mm). Contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-pieces. Some spotting and browning. Third edition. Courtney and Smith, p. 83-84. 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
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1922. First edition, second printing. Octavo. Frontispiece with original tissue guard preserved, decorated title-page and twenty full-page illustrations, one in color. Original decorated cloth, front cover with inset pictorial panel. The second work in Lofting's beloved series, and the second book to receive the... 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
Bologna: Clemens Ferronius, April 1628. 4to (199 x 141 mm). Roman and italic type. Engraved title within typographical border, dedicatory plate of the Madonna and Child, and 81 engraved emblematic illustrations in text, all surrounded by typographic borders. Contemporary limp vellum. Internal hole in G4 affecting text. Provenance: Lomace Le... More
[Paris: Printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantière for Contact Publishing Co.], [1922]. 8vo. 288pp. Original printed French-folded wrappers, uncut and unopened. A beautiful, fresh copy with only a few areas of palest discoloration along the spine. FIRST EDITION, one of approximately 300 copies privately printed of McAlmon's second book (preceded... More