Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, F. Ferroud, 1912. 8vo. 54, [2] pp. Fine engraved frontispiece, vignettes by Leon Lebegue. Contemporary red niger morocco (upper cover with two light scratches), lower turn-in with gilt pallet-stamp "M. Marshall" upper cover with the monogram, crest and motto of the first owner Lily E.C. Routh..... 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

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

Paris: C. Barrois, 1810-1811. First Edition. Together 2 vols., 8vo printed on LARGE PAPER. Ad 1: [4], xxx, 266 (recte: 166) pp., inexplicably lacking one leaf (pp. 111/112) which has been supplied from a small paper copy. Bound by Rosa in contemporary red diced morocco: single floral roll gilt round..... More

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

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

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

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

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