London, Paris, New York: Cassell, n.d. [ca. 1880]. Two volumes, folio (14 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches). Illustrated throughout with engravings. Original gilt-lettered cloth, rebacked and recornered in matching morocco, all edges gilt. Translated from the Original German by Clara Bell. With an Introduction and Notes by S. Birch.
Hammersmith, London: Printed at the Chiswick Press for the Hammersmith Publishing Society [i.e. Annie and Thomas Cobden-Sanderson], 1905. 8vo. 39, [1] pages. Original vellum backed boards, black lettering on spines. Provenance: Richard D. Friedlander (bookplate). The trade edition, second impression, after the first trade impression of 1902. Laid-in: September 1903.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. Small 8vo. Preliminary advertisement leaf, engraved frontispiece and additional title after D. Maclise, 11 wood-engravings after R. Doyle, J. Leech, and C. Stanfield. Publisher's red cloth gilt, edges gilt. First edition, second state of the additional title with publisher's name outside the engraved border. Dickens's.....
London: printed for T. Thomson, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1729. 8vo. ix, [1], 62 pages; 16 pages engraved music. Three-quarter red morocco, red cloth boards, all edges gilt, by Riviere. Pirated edition published in the same year as the first, with p. 9, 44 lines;.....
London: Sold by J. Morphew, 1715. 8vo. 24 pages. Modern quarter calf, cloth boards. First edition. Sometimes attributed to William Oldisworth (1680-1734), a miscellaneous writer, but also to Defoe (by Trent, Hutchins, Moore and Novak; disputed by Furbanks and Owens). It is a reply to Thomas Burnet's ’The necessity of.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1962. 4 volumes, miniature format. Original pink cloth; printed dust jackets; pictorial slipcase. First edition, without price sticker. Undisputed children's classics, in miniature. Hanrahan A51. A well-preserved set.
Los Angeles and Miami: The Ward Ritchie Press, in conjuction with Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami, 1968. 4to. 128 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. First trade edition, inscribed with a self-portrait caricature sketch by Gropper on the half-title.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1955. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, a copy from Gropper's own library with his Croton-on-Hudson inkstamp. Gropper was a Leftist illustrator, and this work an early graphic novel about a tailor's pursuit of success.
![The Story of Cupid and Psyche (Bartsch 39-69)]. after Michiel Coxie I. MASTER OF THE DIE, fl](/pictures/thumb/407233_4.JPG?v=1651085764)
[Rome]: Antonio Salamanca, ca 1530-60. Suite of 30 (of 32) engravings, each approximately 200 x 238mm plate, 264 x 326mm sheets, on laid paper. 18th-century vellum with manuscript title on spine, sheet edges gilt, later endpapers. Provenance: Vittorio Querini (bookplate). A nearly complete set of this celebrated series of engravings.....
New York: Random House, 1967. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine, top edges stained blue; acetate wrapper (with some chips and losses); publisher's board slipcase. Special limited tenth anniversary edition, number 18 of 2000 copies signed by Rand on the limitation page at front.
![De vita et loribus Julli Agricolae liber; [Edited by J. W. Mackail]. DOVES PRESS – TACITUS](/pictures/thumb/408942.JPG?v=1650706509)
Hammersmith, London: Officina Columbarum [Doves Press], 1900. Small 4to. Pp. [iv]+32+[2](colophon, blank). Original limp vellum, spine lettered in gilt, Doves Bindery stamp at foot of lower pastedown. Provenance: Ulco Proost, Dutch paper manufacturer, whose library (including fine bindings) was sold by the Utrecht auction house, Beijers, in 1967. The first.....
Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1552. Folio (305 x 203 mm). Roman and italic types, double-column, woodcut figure of Ptolemy observing the stars on verso of title, 54 DOUBLE-PAGE WOODCUT MAPS, each with accompanying letterpress text on rectos, the majority with 4-part woodcut borders, 2 full-page and 4 woodcut text diagrams, woodcut.....
Paris: Philipe Le Noir, ca 1524. Folio (262 x 186 mm). 304 leaves. Collation: a-z6, &4, A-X6, AA-FF6. Bâtarde type. 49 lines, double-column. Title-page printed in red and black within a fine historiated woodcut border, signed with the Lorraine cross; 2 full-page, 2 three-quarter-page, one half-page, and 5 smaller woodcuts;.....
Colonial: circa 1760. Length 10 inches. The surface is tinted yellow except for the spout, which is of dark-colored horn carved with one ring. In the base is a wood plug that has a U-shaped iron stud for the shoulder strap at center. Provenance: Kenneth Nebenzahl. A FINE COLONIAL POWDER.....
Cambridge: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society [printed by Cambridge University Press], 1987. 8vo. Pages [491]-535. Portrait frontispiece. Original green printed wrappers. First edition, offprint issue, inscribed by Nobel laureate Maurice Wilkins (1916-2004) on the front wrapper to Samuel Devons (1914-2006): "S, Thank you for your help. I......
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. 5.25.x 4.25 inches. 32 pages. Pictorial wrappers, stapled. A SCARCE EARLY WORK BY DR. SEUSS. First edition, first inner rear wrapper variant reading "U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943 – 543637". This copy, with two staples, is considered the earliest. During World War II.....
![Saint George and the dragon]. Salvador DALI](/pictures/thumb/408839.JPG?v=1651001203)
Pen-and-ink drawing, 11 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches, on verso of printed sheet (possibly a printer's proof), inscribed at head to his attorney "Pour Miguel Angelo St[star]," undated but circa 1970s. Dali made a number of drawings of Saint George and the dragon, with the present executed in his characteristic.....
Paris: Editions Pierre Belfond, 1974. Folio (15 x 11 inches). Ten erotic drypoint etchings with gilding, on vellum Arches paper, each signed "Dali" and numbered in pencil, lower right. Loose as issued in printed wrapper; red cloth clamshell case. Limited edition, number CLXXVII of CC (200) copies on japon nacre.....
Paris: Centre Culturel de Paris, 1978. Folio (380x280 mm; 15x11 inches, sheets). 7 wood engravings, one collage hand painted with gouache on gold paper, and one etching with color. Publisher's gilt- and blind-stamped burgundy calf. Extra-suite of plates in folding portfolio. Slipcase. INSCRIBED WITH A FULL-PAGE DRAWING BY DALI TO.....
4to (11 x 8.5 inches). One page. Fair copy transcribed, signed and dated May 3, 1942 by Moore. Moore titles the poem at head, and writes its complete 27-lines in her characteristic neat, sinuous hand. She notes that it was made at the request of Thomas Brumbaugh of Greencastle, PA.....
Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1877. 8vo (215 x 132 mm). Large folding map at end (somewhat creased from folding). Full crimson straight-grained morocco gilt, all edges gilt, by Rivière, with a FORE-EDGE PAINTING BY C.B. CURRIE under the gold, a full-length (vertical) portrait of an officer of.....
Cambridge: The University Press, 1925. 8vo (180 x 117 mm). Full black straight-grained morocco gilt, all edges gilt, by Rivière, with a FORE-EDGE PAINTING BY C.B. CURRIE under the gold, of a view of Lichfield. In a black cloth folding case. Provenance: Sotheran's (with their inkstamp on verso of front.....
Paris: Printed by P. Didot, Sen and sold by E. Edwards and Sons, Halifax, 1791. 12mo (147 x 87 mm). Contemporary Etruscan style calf binding by Edwards of Halifax, outer Greek-key roll enclosing palmette border, gilt roll and central panel with an urn on both sides, spine in 6 compartments.....
Glasgow: Richard Griffin, 1824. 2 volumes. 12mo. 14 engraved plates. Bound in full black straight-grained morocco, covers bordered with gilt scrolling flowers, spines in five panels with four short raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a richly gilt panel in the remaining, gilt rolls on board edges and turn-ins, all edges.....
London: Edward Moxon, 1854. 8vo (202 x 134 mm). Frontispiece and 120 illustrations by George Scharf. Very fine binding and triple fore-edge painting by Fazakerley of Liverpool: full brown crushed levant morocco, the front cover with central oval cream calf panel inset, leather relief carving of Hyperion (reproducing the illustration.....
