New York: American Art Association, 1927-1929. First Edition. 8vo., together 3 well-used volumes in one. HOLMES: 989 lots, priced throughout in pencil, original wrappers bound in (a little soiled). PAULLIN: 3150 lots, many (but not all) prices in pencil, original wrappers bound in (a little soiled), back wrapper of vol..... More

Dublin: Printed and Published by A. O'Neil, at the Minerva Printing-Officer, 17, Chancery-Lane, 1816. 12mo. 35, [1] pp., edges untrimmed. Contemporary drab blue wrappers (added later?), bound into late 19th/early 20th century marbled boards (worn), paper label. First and last leaves dust-soiled, edges of textblock similarly so and also a bit..... More

Paris and Lille: Delarue / Castiaux, n.d. (ca. 1820). 12mo. 1 f. ("garde"), 1 f. (colored frontispiece), 1 f. (title-page), [5]-178 pp., 1 f. ("garde"). With 8 color woodcut plates, all depicting two scenes identified in cursive lettering. Modern sturdy half morocco over comb-marbled boards. Portion of text torn away..... More

London: 1975-1980 (ca.). Stapled pamphlet, xerographically-printed to A4 sheets. Cover sheet, followed by 5 leaves. London address stamped to verso, along with additional stamp to cover: "Warning: E.C.T. by H.M. Gov't. National Health Service damages your memory and health." Staples a little rusty. Preserved in a mylar sleeve. ¶ Marxist..... More

Mexico City: 1759-1941. Altogether 33 items (plus 14 duplicate pieces of religious ephemera). Includes 5 monographs dating from 1759-1941, various bindings, various conditions (see below). INTRIGUING "COLECCION RELIGIOSA MEXICANA" totalling 33 items (of which 5 are monographs dating from 1759, 1833, 1857, 1933, and 1941), with a goodly quantity of..... More

New York: J.J. Augustin, 1944. First Trade Edition. Small 4to. [10], 120 pp., color frontispiece of the Dresden Codex, 39 plates. Original cloth, original dust-jacket protected by Brodart. Apart from minor wear, an unspoiled copy in very good state: dust-jacket NOT price-clipped, NOT ex-library! First Trade Edition, Review copy, with..... More

Edinburgh: Printed For, And Sold By The Author, And By John Bell, Parliament Square, 1785. 8vo. xx, 412 pp., complete with 3 enraved plates. Contemporary Scottish polished calf, single gilt roll around sides, five raised bands on spine, in the compartments a single gilt fleuron, red lettering piece in the second..... More

1970s or after. Oblong 8vo. Manuscript on amate bark paper. In total 17 leaves, foliated in MS: 1-7, [1 unnumbered leaf with paper spirit doll], [1 leaf numbered "13" with paper spirit doll], 10-14, [unnumbered double-spread illustration with colorful glossy commercial papers], [1 leaf numbered "16"]. Bound in the codex..... More

Boston: B. Green, 1716. First Edition. Small 4to (207 x 153 mm). A complete copy would collate: A-P4 and be paginated: [2], ii., 120 pp. This copy is DEFECTIVE, lacking title [A1], most of the text of fols. A2-3, lacking fols. D2-3 (pp. 23-25), final leaf frayed. Numerous chips and..... More

Paris: Librairie Ch. Chadenat, 1889-1898. First Edition. Together 21 catalogues in two volumes, numbered 2-22 (no. 1 "does not exist" - see below), all original wrappers bound in (mostly folded vertically in half, some chipped or a little soiled). Contemporary blue half calf over blue cloth boards (extremities rubbed but..... More

Leiden: Officina Elzeviriana, 1627 (i.e. 1630). Second edition. 24mo. Engraved frontispiece + 282, [2] pp. Late 17th-century polished calf (minor wear to extremities), double gilt fillets around sides, four raised bands on spines all enclosed within double gilt fillets, second compartment lettered direct, the others with a small gilt sunwheel..... More

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

Denmark: 2019-2021. Portfolio (22 x 16 cm) containing one calligraphic title-page on boiled handmade tissue paper, and 32 pages of boiled botanical specimens on thick artist paper created by Merete Veian; each page with calligraphic musings and poetry by Camelia Elias. The entire ensemble is surrounded by a chemise of..... More