Ethiopia: 20th century. Illuminated manuscript on heavy parchment (ca. 170 x 130 mm), altogether 8 strips of parchment, sewn together to form a manuscript folded into 38 panels, producing altogether 78 "pages" of talismanic images and magical texts, with 40 on one side and 38 on the other (two panels..... More

India: 18th or 19th century (?). Three matted paintings (matte size: 323 x 266; leaf size: 215 x 145 mm; visible image: 170 x 115 mm), hinged to clear Plexiglas so that the manuscript texts on the versos are perfectly legible. Leaves with some soiling, edges slightly frayed along inner..... More

India: 19th or 20th century. Painting with extensive gold, applied on a partially printed leaf with some manuscript annotations (ca. 358 x 260 mm), hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, matted (matte size: 475 x 327 mm). Minor staining to the paper, but the painting is in..... More

India: 19th or 20th century. Two paintings on manuscript leaves (ca. 260 x 170 mm), both hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, both matted (matte size: 400 x 270 mm). Manuscript leaves significantly worm-damaged and repaired, nonetheless these are both ttractive paintings, beautifully rendered. Two delicate Indian..... 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

Amsterdam: By de weduwe van Joannes van Someren, de erfgenaamen van Joannes van Dyk, Hendrik en de weduwe van Dirk Boom, 1690. Hardcover. Broadside, 305 x 470 (visible image size), professionally matted and framed. ¶ A huge and extraordinary 17th-century anatomical engraving, justly celebrated by anatomists and artists alike for..... More

Philadelphia: E.C. Biddle, 1837 (?). Hand-colored lithograph by Lehman & Duval after Charles Bird King (445 x 338 mm). Full-length standing portrait of male Sioux chief holding a rifle, wearing brightly colored blankets, feathered headdress, necklace of grizzly bear claws, and red leggings decorated with bird feathers. Very mild uniform..... More

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Lloyd A. Kellam, 1925. First Edition. Folio. 5 pp., 1 p. (blank). Original self-wrappers, front wrapper with bold linocut illustration by Norma Virgen Sweringen printed in black and white (edges worn, some creasing, paper stock a little weak). EXTRAORDINARY GRAPHIC DESIGN BY A NATIVE NEW MEXICAN..... More

Kanda, Tokyo: Hasegawa Chūbei, 1885 (Meiji 18). First Edition. 8vo (182 x 119 mm). 19 double leaves (the makura preface has been woodblock-printed in color), COMPLETE. Condition notes: a number of fukurotoji leaf edges split, text with light browning, thumbing, and a few marks to leaves, small hole to margin..... More