1927 (printed later). Original ferrotyped gelatin silver print (image size: 241 x 188 mm), signed in pencil and with the photographer's credit stamp on the reverse: "Photograph by Berenice Abbott / All Rights Reserved." Very slight curling, some very light superficial indentations visible only in raking light. Matte size: 500..... More

San Francisco: Louis Roesch Co., c. 1890s. Single leaf, red-brown color, some tears and small chips along the edges. Advertisement for a school children's "Play Day" at the Sutro Baths in San Francisco, which included bell ringing, acrobatic feats, dancing, and a special performance from the London Patomime and Comedy..... More

Paris: Chez Gogue & Nee de La Rochelle, 1785. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (195 x 130 mm). xxxvi, 366, 80 pp. (Index). Contemporary French green glazed boards, smooth spine gilt, brown lettering piece in second compartment, headcap chipped with loss, extremities worn all round, portion of outer blank margin of..... More

New York: George Braziller, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto, 118 number pages. Illustrated in both black and white and color. ¶ 40 vibrant color plates, predominantly full page, from the most important religious and secular works of the Italian Renaissance. Images are accompanied by text exploring the figurative and symbolic..... More

London: B.R. Howlette / John Murray, 1813. Second edition. 8vo. [2], 130 pp. Printed in Greek throughout on fine paper. Contemporary English red diced russia calf (rubbed and worn), tooled in blind, outer frame of gilt palmette rolls, all edges gilt, drab endpapers. Front endpaper waterstained; second blank leaf with..... More

Ethiopia: 1900-1925 (ca.). Manuscript on heavy parchment (115 x 80 mm). Collation: A12 (-A1) B10 C8 D8 = 37 (of 38) ff. Traditional Ethiopian coptic binding structure of hewn wooden boards, exposed string outside quires, looped and tied back onto the twine itself. Back board split vertically with old repair..... More

India: 19th or 20th century. Painting on manuscript leaf (ca. 270 x 160 mm), hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, matted (matte size: 367 x 250 mm, some spotting on the matte). Manuscript leaf with some damage outside painted area; a very attractive ornithological painting. A delicate..... More

India: 19th or 20th century. Two paintings on manuscript leaves (ca. 300 x 220 mm), both hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, both matted (matte size: 400 x 315 mm). Edges of manuscript leaves significantly worm-damaged, without loss to painting of the bull, but intruding in several..... More

India: Early 20th century (?). Large painting on a manuscript leaf (in Arabic) from the "Sharh al-Wiqayah" by Burhan al-Shariah, Mahmud ibn Ubayd Allah (SEE BELOW), 353 x 216 mm, hinged onto plexiglas mount with clear tape so that the text of the manuscript is visible from the back; matted..... More

Japan: 1920-1930s (early Showa period). One uchikake kimono. Measurements: collar to hem = ca. 163 cm; sleeve hem to sleeve hem = ca. 125 cm. With original price tag: "PRICE 176 着物 (打掛)" (Price, 176, Kimono / Uchikake," the meaning of which is unclear: an old price, shop item number..... More

s.l. (Pittsburgh?): 1940s (?). 7 glossy black and white prints on paper (3 3/16 x 4 1/2 inches), on versos the paper numbered M001, M220, and M349. Some general wear (creasing from handling, soiling on versos, one small tear). ODD, CLAUSTROPHOBIC INNER-CITY VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1940s. Depicted here are..... More

Philadelphia: W.W. Harding, 1865 (or after). Album 5 x 6 x 2.5 in. Title-page (a little foxed, verso blank), Index to portraits (2 pp.), followed by 25 thick cards creating 50 slots; all are filled, with 47 cartes-de-visite, 2 views, and one chromolithograph (a little foxed). Bound in original blue-green..... More

Berlin: Antiquariat Wolfgang Braecklein. First Edition. Softcover. Minor pencil notations. 196 pp including index. 562 items. Illustrated throughout. Original wrappers, no dust-jacket as issued. ¶ Scholarly, scarce German catalogue describing hundreds of rare Baroque books including works by Martin Opitz, Johann Rist, and many more. Wonderful black and white illustrations..... More