Chicago: Gwindell Printing Co. for Pepsodent, 1935. Large folding map (38.5 x 50 cm) folded three times as issued; accompanied by original "handwritten letter" in Ebonics, in original mailing envelop with the faces of Amos and Andy on the front. The map and the insert letter are very condition. The..... More

S.l. n.d. (20th century). Watercolor on paper. Matted (visible 163 x 83 mm) and framed (257 x 150 mm). This weird and wonderful watercolor may be something we will forever regret selling at any price. It is unsigned, but clearly by an artist of considerable imagination. We find the image..... More

Paris: Michel Van Lochom, 1638. First Edition. Folio, 393 x 267 mm. Engraved title-page by Van Lochom, engraved portrait of Boyceau after De Vris, [8], 87, [1] pp. With 36 single-page engravings (including one with 2 engravings on the page), 24 double-page engravings, and 1 quadruple-page engraving, numbered in recent..... More

London: Printed by John Darby for the Author [Leoni], 1721. Second edition. Folio, four parts in one volume. [12], 54; [2], 57-93, [1]; [2], 37; [3], 41-90, [4] pp. With an engraved portrait of Palladio and an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Bernard Picart after Sebastiano Ricci, 203 architectural plates (some..... More

Leipzig and Dresden: Vos and Leo, Schulze, 1792. First Edition. 4to. 176 pp, with 40 engraved plates by J. A. Darnstet (with original tissue guards) and engraved vignette on title-page. A crisp and clean copy, plates uncut, possibly a large paper copy, in contemporary calf, richly gilt spine, small section..... More

Chicago: [Western Book Manufacturing Co. for] Filley & Ballard, 1867. Second edition. 8vo. 110 pp. (of 112, lacking final leaf) including 8 (of 8) plates on pale yellow paper. Stiched, original illustrated front wrapper present, paper along spine and back wrapper perished; lower blank portion of p. iv/v (Dedication /..... More

Madrid: Ruiz de Murga, 1700. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to (204 x 146 mm). Bound in contemporary Spanish vellum (WORN and cockled, quite darkened, textblock almost completely detached), traces of two pairs of leather ties, spine lettered in manuscript. 71 ff. (including title-page) + 210 pp. + 2 (of 3) ff..... More

Paris: 1969. 1 leaf (210 X 297mm), dactylograph on recto/verso, dated 30 September 1969. ¶ SCARCE ANTI-PSYCHIATRY MANIFESTO BY THE "GROUPE LETTRISTE," a French avant-garde movement which involved political theory, art, film, and poetry. "Lettrism" was founded in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian Isidore Isou. Lettrism was inspired by..... More

Sicily, Naples and Turin: 1733-1764. Together 6 items: 1 broadside (46 x 34.5 cm) + 5 bandi (folio sheets, each folded once, various sizes, various wear, some signatures clipped, others supplied in manuscript, assorted manuscript annotations, extracted from bindings). Small but very interesting collection of Bandi on the prohibition of..... 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, 1785. 8vo. xx, 412 pp., complete with 3 engraved 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, sprinkled..... More

Laleham (near London): 1810-1846. 4to. Manuscript compendium of recipes, written on Britannia paperstock dated "1804," altogether 182 handwritten pages, numbered 7-54, 56-88 (p. 55 skipped) followed by 99 unnumbered pages, the first 6 pages excised, the remainder blank save the final leaf which on the recto gives an index for..... More