![Item #3644 [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR, 1802]. Anacreontis Odaria ad textus Barnesiani fidem emendata....](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3644.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1641134587)
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
London: Roxburghe Club, 1998. First Edition. Large 4to. 22 pp., photocopy of the title-page of the Roxburghe publication loosely inserted. Original green wrappers (faintly creased on lower wrapper; ink inscription on p. 1). Bernard Breslauer's perceptive analysis of the masterpiece of Florentine woodcut books, Frezzi's "Quadriregio" (The Four Realms) of..... More
![Item #2600 [MEDICINE - 16TH CENTURY SURGICAL ILLUSTRATION]. Della cirugia [...] libri sette:...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2600.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553284546)
Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1574. First Edition in Italian. Folio. [18] ff., 296 pp. Collation: *8 **6 ***4 A-Z6 AA10, COMPLETE. Ziletti's device on title, 5 large woodcuts showing operations (2 on the battlefield), numerous woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments and heads with incisions, occasional staining or soiling; title with outer..... More
![Item #4422 [RENAISSANCE BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS]. Comedia di Dante Aligieri con la nova espositione di...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4422.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757547966)
Venice: Francesco Marcolini for Alessandro Vellutello, 1544. First edition thus. 4to. AA-BB8 CC10 A-Z8 AB-AZ8 BC-BI8 = 442 ff., COMPLETE with integral final blank. An early issue, without the ink-stamp (textual correction) on fol. V7. Illustrations: 87 woodcuts of which 3 are full-page (these illustrate the beginning of the Inferno..... More
![Item #4566 [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR OF PAGAN EMBLEMS IN THE SERVICE OF PEDAGOGY]. Arabesques...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4566.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781282863)
Paris: C. Barrois, 1810-1811. First Edition. Together 2 vols., 8vo printed on LARGE PAPER. Ad 1: [4], xxx, 266 (recte: 166) pp., complete with all 54 plates BEAUTIFULLY HAND-COLORED, one leaf (pp. 111/112) supplied from a small paper copy. Bound by Rosa in contemporary red diced morocco: single floral roll..... More
![Item #4318 [TECHNOLOGY]. Livre de prières tissé d'apres les enluminures des manuscrits du...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4318.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1783693627)
Lyon: J.A. Henry, fabricant, et A. Roux, 1886 (colophon dated 1887). First Edition. 4to (145 x 175 mm). [50] pp., each page within neo-gothic decorative borders, and four full-page illustrations, all inspired illuminated gothic manuscripts. Woven in black and grey on silver silk, mounted on card, unobtrusive gossamer silk threads..... More
![Item #3213 [BOUND BY SIMIER, RELIEUR DU ROI]. Fables de la Fontaine, collationnees et...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3213.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600274131)
Paris: Lefevre, 1836. Large 8vo. (243 x 155 mm). With 5 full-page steel-engraved plates printed on India paper and mounted on thick paper (tissue guards foxed as commonly, with offsetting on plates and text opposite). Contemporary French dark red polished calf, covers scuffed spine darkened and a little worn at..... More
![Item #4575 [RUSSIAN FUTURIST SPACE FANTASIES 1972]. Kosmicheskie Dali ("Space in the...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4575.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781282863)
Moscow: Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo, 1972. Folio (380 x 285 mm). Complete with 34 plates (of which 16 are double page), each of which has descriptive text in Russian on verso. TOGETHER WITH: 36-page booklet in Russian (cover with light brown offsetting from cardboard inside portfolio pocket). Original publisher's blue vinyl portfolio..... More
Paris: Leon Techener, 1877. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. [4], 83 pp. Recent sympathetic wrappers, edges untrimmed (some a little frayed). Copy no. 74 of 100 numbered copies, being one of the first celebrations of 17th-century French illustrated books, published when the craze for 18th-century French illustrated books was at its..... More
![Item #781 [WEIRD ELIZABETHAN THEOLOGY]. A short and sweete exposition upon the first nine...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/781.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553284671)
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 #1165 [SKELETON ILLUSTRATIONS]. The Ides of March [SIGNED COPY]. Rene](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1165.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729469406)
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 #3577 [Woman Author]. Collection de vingt portraits du siècle de Louis XIV que l'on...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3577.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1635091704)
Paris: J.J. Blaise, 1818. 8vo. 20 ff. + 20 full-page engravings. Contemporary French emerald-green glazed boards, red morocco spine label (trifle rubbed). PRINTED BY PIERRE DIDOT L'AINE (1761-1853). "Pierre published acclaimed editions of Virgil, Horace, La Fontaine, and Racine. Firmin designed the Didot typeface. He also invented stereotypes (plates cast..... More
![Item #4243 [JAPANESE SAMURAI / HOMOSEXUAL DEVOTION]. Hosokawa Chidaruma Jikki...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4243.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733175272)
Tokyo (Asakusa): Kinjudo, 1889 (Meiji 22). First Edition thus. One four-hole-bound (yotsumetoji) volume (179 x 118 mm) bound in the traditional Japanese style (fukurotiji). Complete with 24 engraved pages on 10 leaves (two of are double-page and folding). Original wrappers, lightly stained and creased, with small marks. Small tear to..... More
![Item #2638 [BINDING - MADRID, SANTIAGO MARTIN SANZ]. Historia de la conquista de Mexico,...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2638.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681219772)
Madrid: Antonio de Sancha, 1783-1784. 2 vols., quarto (255 x 200 mm). L (i.e. 50) pp. + [8] pp. (Subscribers), 489 pp.; [4], viii, 460 pp. Illustrated with 2 engraved portraits (one of Cortes, the other of the author) + 24 full-page engraved plates after designs by Titian (sic), Josef..... More
![Item #4092 [ALEXANDER ANDERSON WOODCUTS]. The Seasons. James . Anderson Thomson, Alexander, author](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4092.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696975871)
New York: S. & D.A. Forbes, Printers, 1830. 12mo. 192 pp. + [4] full-page woodcuts. Original publishers glazed boards (soiled but perfectly square and sound), edges sprinkled red (intermittent foxing throughout, most prominently opposite the rectos and versos of the engraved plates and on pastedowns and endpapers, final blank leaf..... More
![Item #4432 [CHILDREN'S BOOK PRINTED ON LINEN] Peek-A-Boo I See You (cover title) / Little...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4432.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757547966)
England (?): 1880-1900 (?). Small 4to (250 x 194 mm). [20] pp. printed on glazed linen, color printed text and illustrations throughout. Color printed wrappers backed with red cloth, with text and illustrations on both sides, affixed with three staples as issued. On front cover: a young child looking into..... More
