London: Susan Allix, 2011. 4to (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.). 13 color plates. Original cloth, mounted image on cover; original black corrugated folding case. LIMITED EDITION, number 14 of 15 copies, signed by the artist. Allix has made over forty artist's books since 1973. The text is letterpressed on.....
Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1638. 12mo (144 x 85 mm). [12], 518, [1] pages. Woodcut vignette on title, full-page engraved portrait of Badius on **6v. Contemporary vellum over pasteboard. Provenance: Arthur Atherly (1772-1844), English Member of Parliament (bookplate); Edward Heron-Allon (1861-1943), English polymath, writer, scientist and Persian scholar who translated the works.....
Paris: Labé, 1848. First edition. 8vo. Bernard's paper is on pp. 303-19. Entire volume: 512 pp. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards. "Bernard’s first communication regarding his investigation of the glycogenic function of the liver. Reprinted, with translation, in Medical Classics, 1939, 3, 552-80" (Garrison-Morton-Norman 995).
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. 8vo. 216 pages. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; printed dust jacket designed by Roxanne Cumming. FIRST EDITION, first printing. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the division title for the first work: "Jean Doreski, regards from Elizabeth Bishop / Harvard, December 4th, 1970." This.....
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869. 12mo. 122 pp., [4] advertisements at end. Original plum gilt-lettered cloth. Spine sunned, pale stain on front cover, pale dampstain in second half of volume. FIRST EDITION. A scarce and early guidebook published on the occasion of the opening of the Transcontinental Railroad, which.....
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. 8vo. viii, 87, [1] pages. Publisher's blue cloth, printed paper spine label. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 copies of Brooke's first collection of poetry, published when he was only 23 years old. The book was issued without a jacket. With his second book, 1914 and.....
[Florence]: 1619. Etching, 282 x 210 mm plate, 353 x 287 mm sheet, on laid paper with a Cross of Lorraine watermark, a fine impression of the second state (of three), with wide margins, some minor mostly marginal foxing, taped to the backboard at three corners verso, otherwise in good.....
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.....
[London]: [printed by John Grismond for Richard Royston], 1648 [i.e. 1649]. 12mo (165 x 95 mm; 6½ x 3¾ inches). Engraved double-page portrait by William Marshall. Early 20th-century half calf, marbled boards, all edges gilt, by Zaehnsdorf. Light wear to extremities; a few occasional pale stains, lacks terminal blank, generally.....
New York: Rapoport Printing for Larry Clark, 1971 [but 1979]. 4to. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. Slight shelfwear to jacket, front joint slightly rubbed. First edition sheets bound in cloth. SIGNED by the photographer on the title. Clark had copies of this – his first book – bound in cloth.....
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. First American collected edition. 8vo. 36 plates. Publisher's brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. The first edition published in London, 1829 included "one of the earliest descriptions of hyperplastic cystic disease of the breast, which Cooper referred to as 'hydatid disease'” (Garrison-Morton-Norman 5769). The present.....
New York: Salamander Editions, [1954]. 4to (140 x 107 mm; 5½ x 4¼ in.). 10 pages. 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.....
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.....
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San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1997. Introduction by Arthur Danto. 2 volumes. 8vo (12 x 9 inches) text volume containing one photogravure and a tipped-in photographic plate. 67, [1] pp. Separate accordion-folded album (16 x 12 1/2 inches) containing 18 mounted photogravure prints, all by Jim Dine. Both laid into.....
Paris: Egoiste, 2012. 2 volumes, large folio. Lavishly produced and illustrated. Original printed wrappers. TWO MINT COPIES OF THIS DELUXE CULT FASHION MAGAZINE. Keira Knightly was photographed by Ellen von Unwerth and James Thierrée by Paolo Roversi. "The most outstanding photographers and writers of their time (Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon.....
London: Faber and Faber, [1954]. 8vo. 134, [2] pages. Original blue cloth; printed yellow dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with misprint "Ihad" [for "I had"] on p. 7; first issue jacket priced "10s 6d". With a TLS from the bibliographer Donald Gallup laid-in detailing the issue points of the.....
Paris: La Tradition, 1943. 4to (11 x 9 inches). 282 pp. 33 fine etchings by Hertenberger in text, some full-page; DELUXE ISSUE WITH AN ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWING AND SUITE OF 66 PROOF IMPRESSIONS. Contemporary red morocco, gilt-ruled and -lettered on spine, top edges gilt, others uncut, original printed wrappers bound.....
London: David Nutt, 1913. Small, thin 8vo. ix, [3], [1]-50, [2] pages. Original tan printed wrappers (Binding D); cloth folding box. FIRST EDITION, second issue. The author's first book, preceded only by the legendary Twilight [1894] of which only one copy is known. Frost has the distinction of being one.....
![Considerazioni Intorno alla Poesia Degli Ebrei e de i Greci. [Bound with:] Ragionamento in defesa...](/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.....
Milan: Romeo Gigli, 1988. 12.5 x 9.5 inches. [72] pages. Reproducing designs by Gigli done in watercolor and photographs by Paolo Roversi, Steven Meisel, Maria Vittoria Corradi, Sarah Moon, Andrew Bettles, Torkii Gudnason, Peter Lindbergh and Max Vadukul. Style and design by Mats Gustavson, Christoph Radl and Nicoletta Santoro. With.....
London: Thomas Davison for the proprietors of the collection, 1815. Large 4to (263 x 168 mm; 103/8 x 65/8 in.). Title printed in red and black. Hand-colored woodcut frontispiece by Barriman showing John Lydgate presenting his book to Henry V (described in item 412 of the catalogue), engraved title vignette.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. 8vo. 256 pp, 4 pp advertisements at end. Folding lithographed frontispiece map. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A very good copy, spine slightly sunned, map with pale dampstain. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest – if not the earliest – books.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854. 8vo. 256 pp, 4 pp advertisements at end. Folding lithographed frontispiece map. Original red embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest – if not the earliest – books on Kansas, considered the best book on the.....
London: Macmillan & Co, 1880. 4to (314 x 222 mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, and 48 plates: 26 etchings by various artists and 22 heliogravures by Amant-Durand. Publisher's roan-backed cloth, edges uncut. Hinges split, rubbed. Provenance: John Hall (bookplate); purchased from Boston Book Company, 1959.....
Paris: J. Fr Valade, 1784. Two works in one volume, 12mo. 255; 271 pp, with errata leaf at end. Text in Greek and Latin. Contemporary French mottled calf, red morocco lettering-piece, smooth spine decorated in gilt. A beautifully-designed and printed edition, the Greek and Latin texts of the aphorisms on.....