Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard College Library, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto, 190 pages, illustrated in black and white. Waterstain along fore-edge throughout but perfectly legible, some wear to covers. ¶ An important exhibition catalogue of illuminated manuscripts held by the Houghton Library and focusing on the period between 1350 and 1524..... More

Boston in New-England: Ad 1: Printed by B. Green, and J. Allen; Ad 2: B. Green, 1700 and 1722. First Edition and Second Edition. Ad 1: 16mo. Lacks pp. 1-14 (including title), and pp. 199-208, [2] at end. Bound in contemporary American sheep over scale-board (VERY WORN: SEE IMAGES). Preserved..... More

Faenza: Archi, 1726. First Edition. 8vo (227-172 mm). 185, [1] pp. Collation: A-Y4 Z6. With a printer's mark on title-page and p. 76 (Apollo with lyre) plus a large woodcut of Hercules and the Nemean Lion on final page. Contemporary "carta rustica" covered with brocade paper (somewhat chipped along the..... 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

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

Various places: 1896-1940s. Group of 25 photographs or photo postcards of boxing women in varied states of undress, all more or less postcard- sized (some were evidently extracted from an album as there is evidence of glue or tape residue). Each example is preserved in a mylar L-sleeve and laid..... More

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

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

New York and London: Wiley & Putnam, 1845. First Edition in book form. Thick 8vo. vi, [1], 6-512 pp., with some illustrations in the text (foxing throughout). Original publisher's brown cloth, rebacked with portions of the original spine laid down, binding extremities worn (SEE IMAGES). Inscription of Howard Bryan in..... More

Tokyo: Eisensha, 1885 (Meiji 18). 8vo (220 x 147 mm), stitched as issued in the four-hole yotsumetoji manner. COMPLETE with [26] woodblocks printed in color + 1 letterpress leaf (see below). Bound in the traditional Japanese fukurotoji binding style (original wrappers slightly soiled), with the original daisen mounted title-slip. In..... More

Japan: 1820-1830s (late Edo period). One large hanging scroll, signed and sealed "Jippensha Ikku" (unfurled: 1620 x 330 mm; 63" x 13"). Original thin Japanese paper backed and mounted on thicker paper in the maru-hyoso style. Browning and darkening, creases (one is significant, for which SEE IMAGES), light stains, original..... More

Ann Arbor and Detroit, MI: Free Mumia Coalition; Emergency Committee Against the Racist Execution, 1995-1998. Together 12 items (see below). Small collection documenting the nascent “Free Mumia” movement of the mid-1990s, which expressed outrage against the "racist" fraudulent conviction, and demanded a new trial for Abu-Jamal who was at that..... More

Ethiopia: 20th century. Small wooden amulet (105 x 78 x 23 mm); upper cover lid tied with twine, on its verso a seraph painted directly onto the wood; opposite this is a manuscript prayer painted onto parchment and laid down; top and bottom of amulet with deeply carved ornamental designs..... More