London: Printed by R. Young for John Bartlet, at the signe of the gilt Cup in Cheape-side, 1629. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 165 pp. including full-page woodcut plate bound as frontispiece (intended to be placed between pp. 50/51). COLLATION: A-Y4, without the final blank leaf, otherwise COMPLETE. Provenance: blindstamps..... More
![Item #1363 [PHOTOBOOK]. Cranium Architecture. Irving Penn](/pictures/thumb/1363.jpg?v=1553284503)
London: Hamiltons Gallery, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. Altogether 69, [3] pp. including 27 superb photographic plates, each with captions on opposite page. The new catalogue raisonne of Penn's astonishing "Cranium" series of Animal skeletons, valuable for forensic research, to say nothing of the extraordinary photographic celebration of each..... More
London: Miles Flesher and Robert Young, assignes of John More, 1639. 32mo in 8's. [24], 168 ff. = 192 ff., COMPLETE. Title-page and table of contents in English, Preface in Latin, text in Norman French. Contemporary calf in typical law trade binding fashion, joints cracked, later spine label, gilt floral..... More
![Item #1693 [ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY / LIBRARY SALE CATALOGUE]. Catalogue des Livres et Estampes...](/pictures/thumb/1693.jpg?v=1553284547)
Paris: (Jean-Baptiste) Gogue & (Jean-François) Nee de La Rochelle, 1776. First Edition. Hardcover. Dates: 22 January and following. 8vo. iv, 8 [Ordre des livres], xxxii [Avertissement + Table systematique], 382 pp., 4542 lots [livres] + 51 lots [estampes], of which 3059 lots are PRICED in a contemporary hand. French calf..... More
![Item #856 [ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY]. Bibliotheca bibliographica. Kritisches Verzeichniss der das...](/pictures/thumb/856.jpg?v=1589770826)
Leipzig: 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. xii, 939 pp. Bound in contemporary half vellum over comb-marbled boards (brilliantly rebacked preserving original spine and red leather morocco lettering piece). The B.H. Breslauer copy, with his penciled accession number circled. Ex-libris stamp in red of the acclaimed Roman bookseller F. Fratennali..... More
![Item #3079 [NATIVE AMERICANA / AMERICAN WEST OUTDOORS - ARCHIVE OF LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS]. "El...](/pictures/thumb/3079.jpg?v=1591118292)
Seattle (et al.): 1912-1925. 14 vols., large 4to., ca. 29 cm (tall) x 22 cm (wide) x 36 cm (linear), mostly in 3-hole side-stiched black leatherette covers, preserved in very good condition. Large and interesting literary archive of typescript stories and novels by "El Comancho," a popular author who specialized..... More
Paris: Pierre Beres, 1990. Softcover. 260 items thoroughly described. Illustrations throughout, some in color. Original wrappers, no dust-jacket as issued. ¶ A scholarly French catalogue of rare volumes, beautifully presented. Includes: works by Gustave Flaubert, Henri Murger, Arthur Rimbaud, and many more. More
![Item #2697 [ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY]. Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti magno cum studio...](/pictures/thumb/2697.jpg?v=1600272745)
Venice: Carolo Palese (sold by Lorenzo Basilio), 1787. First Edition. 8vo. 6 volumes. 54, 377 pp., 1 blank f., engraved frontispiece portrait of Pinelli ("F. Bartolozzi del. et sculp."); 4, 468 pp.; 4, 367 pp., 1 large folding plate ('Specimen scripturae in papyro') with small stain; 56, 471 pp.; 8..... More
New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. 8o. 195 pp. With a frontispiece portrait of William Caxton, and Original buckram. NOT ex-library! Groundbreaking approach to a biography of England's first printer, based on the evidence, and not mythology. First published in 1925, this is the facsimile reprint on "long-life paper." Plomer (1856-1928)..... More
![Item #331 [NEW YORK BINDING?]. The Course of Time: a poem. Robert POLLOK](/pictures/thumb/331.jpg?v=1553284705)
New York: Charles Wells, 1833. Hardcover. N.d. (ca. 1833). 16mo. [2], xiv, [3], 14-227, [4], 230-328, [1], iv-x pp. Contemporary beige calf elaborately gilt, a.e.g. Front free endpaper excised, binding with some minor refurbishment. Bound by Charles Well of New York (?) ¶ Charles Wells was described in New York..... More
![Item #3561 [THE FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE LIZZY BORDEN TRIAL]. The Fall River Tragedy: A...](/pictures/thumb/3561.jpg?v=1631807463)
Fall River: Press of J.D. Monroe, 1893. First Edition. 8vo. [2], 312 pp., numerous illustrations in the text including portraits, diagrams, and photographs of the crime scene (soiling and signs of age and use throughout). Title-page detached, lacking pp. 249/250 (facsimile leaf loosely inserted) otherwise complete with all illustrations. Original..... More
![Item #3165 [INCUNABULA REFERENCE - PORTUGAL]. Catalogo de incunabulos. Maria Valentina, compilers...](/pictures/thumb/3165.jpg?v=1595430252)
Lisboa / Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. 442 pp. + errata tipped in at end. With 16 plates of which two are printed in color. Original publisher's leatherette binding. NOT ex-library! Impressive catalogue of 1,359 incunabula preserved in the Biblioteca Nacional, which includes not only a copy of..... More
Paris: Chez la veuve Saugrain, et Pierre Prault, imprimeur des Fermes du roy, 1729. Unbound. 4to. 4 pp. (unbound, extracted from a binding, slight worming in blank gutter margin, not affecting text, top corner curled). At end: "Fait au Conseil d'Estat du roy, tenu a Versailles ... Signe, Coquille, avec..... More
![Item #2873 [EARLY AMERICAN "LAW BOOK" TRADE BINDING]. A Digest of the Probate Laws of...](/pictures/thumb/2873.jpg?v=1572653418)
Boston: John Weston, 1824. 12mo. [2], i-xiii, 14-216, [2] pp. Contemporary American mottled tree calf (or sheep?), red spine label, modest gilt rolls on the spine. Staining to outer margins at front and back as offsetting from the leather turn-ins, some browning as seems to be true in all copies..... More
2015. 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers. 46 pp. + Catalogue of 17 items. 31 illustrations (some printed in color). NOT ex-library: the text is unblemished and free from stamps and ugly markings! Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "In praise of Aldus Manutius (ca. 1452-1515)" held at PRPH..... More
![Item #3435 [1625 MAP OF WESTERN MEXICO, extracted from Purchas His Pilgrims]. "Hispania Nova" /...](/pictures/thumb/3435.jpg?v=1615903354)
London: William Stansby, 1625. Folio (32 x 22 cm). Single leaf (pp. 871/872), unmatted, unframed. Letterpress text on both sides (short tear in upper margin, touching a few letters). Engraved map (14 x 18 cm) in excellent state. ORIGINAL engraved map, not a reproduction! Early engraved of the Pacific coast..... More
Vratislaviae (i.e. Wrocklaw, Poland): [Privately published by] J.D. Grueson, 1830. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. 4to. 58 pp. COMPLETE with 18 lithographic plates. Original nineteenth-century boards (corners and tail of spine bumped), printed label on upper cover. Some minor foxing. An unsophisticated and partially unread copy, with many gatherings unopened. Important and..... More
![Item #2030 [BINDINGS REFERENCE]. Catalogue of Fifteen Hundred Books Remarkable for the Beauty or...](/pictures/thumb/2030.jpg?v=1553284584)
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. 222 pp., 1512 items described. Modern neat brown cloth (NOT ex-library). Still valuable for tracing the provenance of 1,500 notable bindings, this is the enlarged edition of Quaritch's famous Catalogue 93 (first issued in November 1888), here containing the addition of three..... More
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 144 pages, original cloth with dustjacket. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. ¶ An excellent survey of English literature, written for beginning and veteran book collectors. Quayle provides direction for the collector on what to seek, how..... More
![Item #2497 [VERNACULAR PHOTO ALBUM - RADIO TOWERS - New Jersey, 1940s]. Photo album containing 82...](/pictures/thumb/2497.jpg?v=1553284787)
New Jersey: 1940s. Photographs measure 4.5 x 3.25" -- preserved in a string-tied Album. ADDED: blueprint of an array of 5 radio towers. Curious and unusual vernacular photo album which documents, in remarkable detail, the interior and exterior construction of what seems to be an array of five (5) New..... More
![Item #3007 [GERMAN LITERARY MANUSCRIPT]. "Der Hinkende Pegasus" (unpublished). Richard Ferdinand...](/pictures/thumb/3007.jpg?v=1582353292)
1894-1899. 8vo. [4], 165, [6] pp., every page filled with manuscript. Divided into 6 sections of verse, lyric, drama, and prose, with 11 small vignette drawings of which two are heightened in watercolor. Numerous annotations and revisions in the text. Bound in contemporary roan leather with pewter clasp (back of..... More
![Item #2174 [BINDINGS - REFERENCE]. French Bookbinders, 1789-1848. Reprint Edition. Charles Ramsden](/pictures/thumb/2174.jpg?v=1553284606)
London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1989. Hardcover. xiv, 228 pp. 40 illustrations. Reprint edition; first published 1950. Original cloth, dust-jacket (price clipped, a little worn). Ownership inscription on first blank leaf. Indispensable, still unsurpassed. A work of an almost heroic nature that describes approximately 2,000 French bookbinders and binderies, arranged..... More
Cincinnati: Chase & Hall, 1875. First Edition. 8vo. 199 pp. Bound in original green publisher's cloth, title in gilt on spine with gilt floral ornament and triple ornamental roll in gilt at head and foot of spine. Corners slightly bumped, cloth rubbed away in bottom right corner of front cover..... More
![Item #1165 The Ides of March [SIGNED]. Rene](/pictures/thumb/1165.jpg?v=1553284483)
New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. 85, [1] pp. With 43 black and white macabre plates by the author. Original black cloth, original dust wrapper illustrated by the author. ¶ First and only appearance of these curious quatrains (ballad stanzas and clerihews) written by an otherwise unknown American author..... More
![Item #3513 [DISABILITY LITERATURE 1895]. Snatched from the Jaws of Death: A Thrilling Story of...](/pictures/thumb/3513.jpg?v=1622322109)
Philadelphia: Avil Printing Co. [for the Author], 1895. First Edition. 16mo. Engraved title-page (reproduced on front wrapper), 62 pp. including title-page with reproduction of a photograph of "Mary Anne, the Young Amanuensis" (slightly torn at the staples). Lacking wrappers. Worn, spine partially defective). Contemporary ownership inscription in pencil: "Benj[amin] Smith..... More
