Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, March 1928. Small 4to. iv, 103, [4] pp. With 35 illustrations in text. 192 incunables described, plus index. Original wrappers (front cover splitting, spine worn and partially defective, covers slightly soiled). NOT ex-library! Who today could even conceive of procuring 192 incunables and offering them in..... More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 320 pages, original cloth with gilt letter on spine, no dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in black and white and color. ¶ An authoritative survey of the world's greatest libraries and their holdings, profusely illustrated in black / white and color. Multiple..... More

S.l. n.d. Large original silver print (345 x 268 mm). Signed "T.S. Holden (c)." On stiff paper with a slightly yellowed back. Residue of hanging material on back at the top of the print, small stains along edges, pencil inscription on back. Preserved in a mylar L-sleeve with lig-free card..... More

London: Gul. Sandby, 1749. 2 vols., 8vo. Title-pages in red and black (both with large engraved portrait of the Horace), [x], 166; [2], 167-353 pp. With engraved dedication to George, Prince of Wales (later George III), and 35 full-page engraved plates (including frontispiece). Contemporary French red morocco, triple gilt rule..... More

Newport, RI: 1884. Four half-pages with mourning borders, each page filled with. A.L.S. from Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), American abolitionist and social reformer whose "Battle Hymn of the Republic" continues to be sung to the present day. The present letter contains excellent content relating to the death of her brother..... More

London: Ellis and White, 1880. First Edition. Together 6 vols. 4to. COMPLETE SET. vii, [1], 1830 pp. In vol. I the etched portrait of Huth by C.W. Sherborn (tissue guard a bit crinkled), 2 double-page folding illustrations in vol. 5. PRINTED ON THICK PAPER, the textblock remarkably crisp and white..... More

Omiya Kyusuke, 1867 (censor seal indicates year of the snake). Broadsheet (354 x 235 mm) with contemporary hand-coloring (several wormholes in the face of the robber and one above his head; portion of the paper on upper right defective, just touching text), affixed at upper corners to a sheet of..... More

Paris: 1969. 1 leaf (210 X 297mm), dactylograph on recto/verso, dated 30 September 1969. ¶ SCARCE ANTI-PSYCHIATRY MANIFESTO BY THE "GROUPE LETTRISTE," a French avant-garde movement which involved political theory, art, film, and poetry. "Lettrism" was founded in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian Isidore Isou. Lettrism was inspired by..... More

London: Printed for J. Wickins; and to be sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1695. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Octavo. COLLATION: A-B4 C-F8 G-Q4, COMPLETE. [2], 19-176 pp. Attractive half calf antique, marbled boards, red morocco label gilt, compartments gilt with small tools. ¶ FIRST EDITION of this important..... More

New York: Doubleday, 1996. Hardcover. Octavo, 470 pages, original cloth with dustjacket. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. ¶ The flowering of civilization, the rebirth of classical scholarship, and the emergence of some of the greatest artists and thinkers the world has known: this is the traditional view..... More

1886-1956. All in original wrappers, conditions vary from fair to very good (some wrappers chipped and worn; some textblocks browned and brittle on account of the WWI paper supply). One pamphlet is ex-Harvard (duplicate) with associated markings, another is a presentation copy. Small collection of 8 French pamphlets celebrating the..... More

Midlothian & Waxahachie, TX: Penn Jones Publications, 1983 (Jan. 22). Vol. 7 No. 6. Staplebound. Original photocopy, 20 pp., original texts mainly typescript, profusely illustrated with reproductions of photographs, diagrams, maps, charts, and published articles from newspapers or magazines. The Origins of "Deep State" Conspiracy Theories, Deep in the Heart..... More

Paris: Imprimerie veuve Berger-Levrault, 1845. First Edition. Large 4to (306 x 231 mm). 2 ff., 124 pp. With 17 plates lithographed by Delor after drawings by Joly. Bound in modern blue percaline cloth by Lobstein-Laurenchet, red morocco spine label gilt, original front cover wrapper preserved. Separate printing of the "Mémoires..... More