San Pablito Pahuatlán in Puebla state, Mexico. Square accordion format, handmade and handbound: 18 x 14 cm. 28 numbered "pages," all but three featuring cutouts of deities as issued. Both sides of the "accordion" with a pair of gold-colored ribbon. Excellent condition. An extraordinary hand-made Mexican book of Healing ritual... More about Otomí Manuscript on amate bark "paper"]. Historia de la curacion de Antigua de San...

S.l. s.n., n.d. (ca. 1900). Miniature brass "book," 1.1 inches tall (3 cm) containing a "leporello" folded to produce a frontispiece and 8 images depicting the life of Joan of Arc. Brass lightly dust-stained. Leporello folds lightly rubbed. Very good+. A miniature "leporello" enclosed in a tiny brass book-object with... More about La Vie de Jeanne d'Arc

Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1841. First Edition. 12mo. viii, [1], 18-322 pp. + 6 pp. of advertisements. Illustrated with frontispiece, engraved title, and six engraved plates with tissue guards (foxed throughout). Original publisher's tan leather binding, large central and corner ornaments gilt, a.e.g. Signed "S Moore Binder Phil." Binding sympathetically... More about The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1842 (contains Poe's "Eleonora"

Paris: George Cres et Cie. 1914. First Edition. Small 4to. Woodcut frontispiece printed in black and sepia by P.-Eug. Vibert. Contemporary Art-Deco binding by Madeline Gras: full smooth green calf, front and back covers inlaid with two rectangles of brown calf, gilt with the title (upper cover) and oblong ornaments... More about Lettres a l'Amazone

Dublin: Printed for Sarah and John Exshaw, 1750. 8vo., pp. [3], 112-164, woodcut vignette of London on title, text clean and bright, one page of engraved music. Attractive recent marbled wrappers. In this, the March 1750 issue of "The London Magazine," are valuable, strictly contemporary accounts of the earthquakes that... More about Earthquakes]. The London Magazine: or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer For March 1750

Marlin, Texas: Ca. 1944. Small promotional brochure, folded once to produce 4 pp., small illustration of the Majestic Hotel on the front panel. Scarce promotional brochure for the Torbett Clinic and Hospital, a private corporation founded in 1936 in Marlin, Texas, which was -- and is now -- famous for... More about Hygenic Rules for Your Health to Help You Get Well and Stay Well

Baltimore: 1920. First Edition. Small 4to. Complete volume 53. Library buckram, a little worn, original wrappers (soiled) bound in. Ex-library copy, priced accordingly. Groundbreaking experiments that earned George Whipple the Nobel prize for his discovery that liver fed to anemic dogs reverses the effects of the anemia, leading directly to... More about "Blood Regeneration following Simple Anemia" (Parts I-V, complete) in: The American...

Lyon: Benoit Bounyn & Jehan Planfoys, 1525. First Edition. 4to. 2 parts in one volume. 199, [1], 26, [6] ff. Collation: Ad I: a-z8 (u, w omitted), A-B8. Ad II: a-d8. COMPLETE. Full calf antique, blind tooled in the style of the early 16th-century. Title-page a little soiled (old repair... More about De Vigo en francoys sensuit La practique et cirurgie de tres excellent docteur en medecine...

Basileae (Basel): Thomas Guarinus, 1575. First Edition. Small 4to. [8], 185, [23] pp. Modern vellum, red and white mottled edges. Old shelf-mark (?) "4069" in ink on title. Light foxing throughout. Overall very good. "All Things Burgundian." This early and impressive Renaissance chronicle of Burgundy covers the years 408 to... More about Rerum Burgundionum Chronicon: In quo etiam rerum Gallicarum tempora accurate demonstrantur:...

Strassburg: Bernard Jobin, 1587. First Edition. 8vo. [8], 102 ff. + [2] ff. Register (unhelpfully arranged by first names). COMPLETE with 103 woodcut portraits after original designs attributed to Tobias Stimmer numbered [1] + 102. Title in red and black within woodcut border surrounding Jobin's device. Late 16th- or early... More about Contrafacturbuch. Ware und Lebendige Bildnussen etlicher [...] Manner in Teutschland

Ostfildern, German: Hatje Cantz, 2016. First Edition. Oblong folio, 34 x 28 cm. Unpaginated (69 full page color photographs). Original publisher's illustrated boards backed with cloth. An extraordinary work, being an eyewitness to the locations, buildings and figures of a rapidly vanishing world of Romania, while paying homage to the... More about Tamas Dezso: Notes for an Epilogue

Austin: Dancing Cat Bindery, 2017. First Edition. Softcover. Oblong 8vo (217 x 240 mm / 9.25" x 8.5"). Contains 16 illustrations, each with accompanying Haiku poetry and text on facing pages. Bound by Julia Sullivan in a modified version of a traditional Japanese four-hole, non-adhesive binding, Kyoseishi paper covers. The... More about Monster Zen: Art and Haiku Poetry

Union, New York: 1892. Softcover. Dates: 1892-1901. Plain brown leather portfolio. 52 printed receipts with manuscript entries and totals, recto only. Receipts: ca. 8.5" x 5.5" -- Portfolio: 32.5" x 8.5" unrolled; 4" x 8.5" rolled. Leather exterior worn and occasionally ink stained; all receipts folded in three, with varying... More about Leather Receipt Portfolio (manuscript on paper