A miscellany of 24 fine recently acquired books and manuscripts.
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-Allen (1861-1943), English polymath, writer, scientist and Persian scholar who translated the works.....
![Item #405113 Are Plants People? [With original photograph]. Mark BORTHWICK](https://riverrunbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/405113.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1557951659)
Paris: L'Esprit Frappeur / Purple Books, 1999. 6 x 4.25 inches. 64 pages. Black-and-white photographs. Printed wrappers. FIRST EDITION, with an original color Polaroid laid-in (4.25 x 3.5 inches), signed by Borthwick on the back. Borthwick spent the early 1990s in Paris, where he owned a nightclub and photographed for.....
2 pages, 4to, on recto and verso, in fine condition, creased at folds, with original holograph envelope addressed by Fields. A LENGTHY LETTER FROM A BITTER W. C. FIELDS, a lengthy outpouring to his estranged mistress: "I can't write you sensible letters because you don't even take time to read.....
Chicago: A Chicago Book, 1980. Oblong (5.25 x 8 inches). Color reproductions of six of Heinecken's SX-70 Polaroid images of couples; the text on lined paper mimicing index cards. Spiral bound. LIMITED FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED TO THE PHOTOGRAPHER RALPH GIBSON on the title, and with Gibson's ex-libris stamp on inner.....
Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1904. Small folio (305 x 228 mm). Black-and-white portrait of Royal de Forest Hawley, and 36 mounted plates, of which most in color; printed tissue guards preserved. Original red cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on spine. FIRST EDITION, number 1399 of 2000 copies. With a fine.....
Rutland, VT and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1962. Large folio (592 x 422 mm). With Ten Original Prints by Hiratsuka Un'Ichi, Maekawa Sempan, Mori Yoshitoshi, Watanabe Sadao, Kinoshita Tomio, Shima Tamami, Azechi Umetaro, Iwami Reika, Yoshida Masaji, Maki Haku, each signed by the artist. [1]-55, [1, colophon] pages. Original.....
Albuquerque, NM: Loujon Press, 1970. Complete suite: printed book in original comb binding and decorative paper wrapper, in sunken panel of wooden box with 12 color prints reproducing Miller's calligraphic watercolors (17 x 22 inches). Original subscriber's brass name plaque on sliding box cover. One of 385 copies of "Edition.....
Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1862. Large folio (580 x 410 mm; 22.5 x 16 inches). vii, [2], [2]-127 pages. 96 lithographs mounted on guards, of which 12 double-page, and two tri-fold. Publisher's cloth-backed boards, untrimmed. FIRST EDITION, of the first volume in the 'Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum': "The most extensive corpus of.....
I: Oxford; II: London: James Fletcher, 1750; 1751. Two works in one volume, 4to (9.5 x 7.5 inches). I: Half-title. 38, [2] index, [3] publisher's catalogue. II: 47, [1] index. Modern quarter calf preserving early marbled boards. Provenance: Edward Hamilton (gilt-morocco bookplate); Wigan Free Public Library (discreet blindstamp on second.....
