BOOKS & PRINTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF ARTHUR & CHARLOTTE VERSHBOW
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![The Works of Nobuyoshi Araki [in 20 volumes]. Nobuyoshi ARAKI.](/pictures/thumb/404169.jpg?v=1539637539)
The Works of Nobuyoshi Araki [in 20 volumes]
Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1996-1997. 20 volumes, 8vo. Reproducing Araki's photographic work. Original printed wrappers; pictorial dust jackets; six volumes with original wrap-around bands. The collected works of the celebrated Japanese photographer. Comprising: Naked Faces; Bodyscapes; Yoko; New York; Chrysalis; Tokyo Novel; Sentimental Travelogue; Private Diary 1980-1995; Private Diary 1999; Chiro Araki... More
Londres et les Anglais
Paris: Gustave Barba, [nd]. [380] pp + 25 plates. 8-1/4 x 11-1/8. More
Elegy to John Donne and other poems
London: Longmans, 1967. 8vo (215 x 140 mm; 81/2 x 51/2 in.). 77 pages. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket that has slightest of toning. There is a pale shadow, probably from a bookmark, over the inscription. FIRST EDITION, presentation copy, inscribed on the... More
La religion du Médecin
N.p. 1668. 12mo (130 x 74 mm). Engraved title. [24], 360 pages. Contemporary vellum. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of the famous and influential treatise, Browne's 'Relgio medici,' and the only edition in French until the 20th century. "By turns credulous and skeptical, Sir Thomas Browne is one of the most... More
Where I'm Calling From
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1988. 8vo. Original gilt-decorated red leather, edges gilt. As-new in original shrinkwrap with publisher's prospectus. FIRST EDITION, one of an undesignated number of copies signed by Carver. More
Le Nozze degli Dei, favola... rappresentata in musica in Firenze nelle Reale Nozze de Serenismi Gran Duchi di Toschana Ferdinando II e Vittoria Principessa d'Urbino.; RONDINELLI, Francesco. Relazione delle nozze degli dei, favola alla serenissima Vittoria Principessa d'Urbino
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
Poetical Effusions, from Celebrated Authors
Edinburgh: Allan Bell and Co., and others, 1836. First edition. 12mo. 56 small wood-engravings after Cruikshank, each within decorated from borders illustrating texts by Goldsmith, Blomefield, and Cowper. Original flexible cloth, gilt-titled on front cover. Cohn 658. More
Tirage unique de trente-six bois
Paris: Jules Meynal, 1920. Letterpress title and 36 wood-engravings loose as issued in four cloth portfolios, each print with Schmied’s chopmark and numbered in pencil “2/25”, tipped to mount and matted. Overall 475 x 328 mm. SCARCE LIMITED EDITION, number 2 of 25 copies on Chine monté (there were also... More
The Antiquities of Warwickshire, Illustrated from Records, Leiger-Books, Manuscripts, Charters, Evidences, Tombes and Armes: Beautified with Maps, Prospects and Portraictures
London: John Osborn and Thomas Longman sold also by Robert Gosling, and William Ratten, 1730. Large-paper copy of the second edition. Two volumes, folio (17 x 10 3/4 in.). Titles printed in red & black. Etched frontispiece portrait of Dugdale by Wenceslaus Hollar, 19 engraved double-page or folding plates by... More
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. 8vo. Half-title. 16, [4] publisher's advertisements at end. 20th-century tree calf, gilt-lettered morocco lettering-piece, original cloth covers mounted as doublures, original spine bound in at end; morocco edged slipcase. FIRST EDITION. A fine copy including the half-title, and additional 2 leaves of advertisements for... More
New Kreüterbuch
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=1539106810)
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]
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
"On some morbid appearances of the absorbent glands and spleen".; In: Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, Published by the Medical and Chirurgical Society
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, et al, 1832. First edition. 8vo. Hodgkin's paper is on pp. 68-114. Entire volume: xxiii, 523 pp. Original embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, gilt crest on front cover. The first full description of lymphadenoma, now known as “Hodgkin’s disease”. Hodgkin’s historic paper was read before the society..... More
Fables nouvelles
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
Four Tales Told by an Idiot
Knotting, Bedfordshire: Christopher Skelton for Sceptre Press, 1979. Square 8vo. 4 pp. Stapled in original printed wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 46 of 100 copies signed by Hughes from an edition of 450. The colophon states that Hughes retained 50 of the signed copies for himself. With errata slip laid-in. Sagar and Tabor A63. More
114 Songs
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
Ulysses; Introduction by Gilbert Stuart
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
Song Through 21st Century Eyes: Yaozhou and Qingbai Ceramics
The Netherlands: Meijering Art Books, 2009. 4to. 456 pages. In Chinese and English. Decorated boards; brocade folding case in the Chinese style. FIRST EDITION, one of 1000 copies, signed by Kerr, and with her chopmark. An exquisite book designed by Irma Boom. "This book looks at two very distinct ceramic... More
![Autograph letter signed ("Rudyard Kipling"), to French politician and economist Monsieur [Yves] Guyot. Burwash, Sussex, 30 December 1921. Rudyard KIPLING.](/pictures/thumb/403589.jpg?v=1539106847)
Autograph letter signed ("Rudyard Kipling"), to French politician and economist Monsieur [Yves] Guyot. Burwash, Sussex, 30 December 1921
Together two pages, 12mo (193 x 67; 6 x 4 in.), on Kipling’s Bateman’s Burwash letterhead. Kipling met the French politician and economist Yves Guyot in 1905 through Louis Fabulet, one of the author’s earliest and most productive French translators. Kipling thanks Guyot for translating a piece (“my little absurdity”) published..... More
A Guide through London and the surrounding Villages
London: M.J. Godwin & Co., 1821. Hand-colored engraved map by Sidney Hall, dissected into 21 sections and mounted on linen, overall 30 5/8 x 20 7/8 inches, folding to 7 x 4 3/8 inches. In original publisher's board slipcase, pink printed title label on front. This large and handsome map... More
Compendi Historici in questa sesta impressione regolati, & accrescinti dall'Autore con aggionta de più memorabili successi di Europa, e Levante sino l'anno MDCLXVIII
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
Catalogue of Chinese and Japanese Objects of Art
[New York]: Tiffany Foundation, 1921. 8vo. [96] pages. 12 black-and-white plates. Original gilt-lettered wrappers. FIRST EDITION of this scarce catalogue of Chinese and Japanese decorative arts from the Tiffany Foundation. Carroll wrote the descriptions of the Chinese room and the objects in both the Chinese and Japanese collections. Matsuki wrote... More
The Collected Writings
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
War Games.
Black Sparrow, 1972. the advance long galleys. stamped "Uncorrected Proof" and numbered "Set #3" More