![A matching pair of strange Indian erotic paintings of exceptionally high quality]. Anonymous...](/pictures/thumb/3217.jpg?v=1600273982)
n.d. (19th or 20th century). Two illuminations on thin India paper some vertical creasing, professionally matted and framed. Ad 1 (priapus): 300 x 250 mm (frame size), 198 x 140 mm (visible), 147 x 93 mm (size of illumination). Ad 2 (she-devil): 306 x 231 mm (frame size), 205 x...... More
![BOUND BY SIMIER, RELIEUR DU ROI]. Fables de la Fontaine, collationnees et accompagnees de notes...](/pictures/thumb/3213.jpg?v=1600274162)
Paris: Lefevre, 1836. Large 8vo. (243 x 155 mm). With 5 full-page steel-engraved plates printed on India paper and mounted on thick paper (tissue guards foxed as commonly, with offsetting on plates and text opposite). Contemporary French dark red polished calf, covers scuffed spine darkened and a little worn at..... More
![AFRICAN-AMERICANA]. The American Negro To-Day: Facts and Views of American and British Writers....](/pictures/thumb/3211.jpg?v=1600272848)
London: United States Information Service, 1957. First Edition. Square 8vo. 33, [4] pp. (text inside covers included in pagination), with reproductions of photographs throughout. Original wrappers, front cover with reproduction of an integrated school with children smiling and running. NOT ex-library! Suitable for exhibition and study. A penetrating but unintentionally..... More
Paris: Jacque (sic) Quillau, 1708. First Edition. 4to (270 x 200 mm). xxiv, 189, [3]. With three folding engraved tables, title-page with engraved monogram, four vignettes by Sebastian LeClerc showing games, 2 engraved illustrations of Trictrac boards in the text. Contemporary French speckled calf, spine gilt, red lettering piece, comb-marbled..... More
![RACISM / QUACK MEDICINE]. "Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Plaster. If your druggist cannot supply you...](/pictures/thumb/3204.jpg?v=1600272841)
St. Petersburg, Florida: n.d. (1960s?). Advertising card, 23 x 15 cm., printed on both sides on stiff card stock, stapled to a flat wooden stick, allowing for its use as a fan. Recto shows four black & white photo illustrations of two little boys, one African-American, one white, making use..... More
![WOMAN PRINTER / ANIMAL RIGHTS]. Keeper's Travels in Search of his Master. Edward Augustus Kendall](/pictures/thumb/3203.jpg?v=1600272839)
Philadelphia: [Printed by Lydia R. Bailey for] Johnson & Warner, 1808. 12mo. vi, 87, [3] pp. Engraved frontispiece of a boy carrying his dog through the snow. Text evenly toned, minor wear to binding extremities, but AN EXCELLENT, UNSOPHISTICATED COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS, suitable for exhibition. ¶ PRINTED BY A...... More
![BINDINGS - EMBROIDERED / JEWISH BOOKBINDER]. Allgemeines Evangelisches Gesangbuch für das...](/pictures/thumb/3199.jpg?v=1600272834)
Darmstadt: Im Verlag der Großherzoglichen Invalide und Soldaten-Waisen-Unstalt / Gedruckt vei L.C. Wittich, 1831. 8vo. (155 x 93 mm). viii, 532, [9] pp. Contemporary green morocco by Simon Stiebel of Marburg (ticket on recto of free endpaper), both covers inset with petit-point embroidery: a flower at center enclosed by a...... More
![SCOTTISH BINDINGS]. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and The New Newly Translated out...](/pictures/thumb/3087.jpg?v=1600272830)
Cambridge: John Archdeacon, 1767. Two vols. (6.75 x 4.25"). Contemporary Scottish black morocco, spine in six compartments, red morocco lettering pieces in the second, others with gilt saltire with small flowers, covers framed with distinctive interlocking tool impressed individually. Red and black PRINTED book labels of Elisabeth Hall (dated 1769)..... More
![ASTRONOMY]. [MEDICINE]. [HOROLOGY]. Calendarium Romanum magnum, Caesareae maiestati dicatum....](/pictures/thumb/3078.jpg?v=1600272820)
Oppenheim: J. Kobel, 1518 (March 24). First Edition. Folio (textblock: 310 x 210 mm; binding: 315 x 220 mm). [14], 74, [50] ff., COMPLETE. Illustrated with a fine historiated woodcut border on the title-page, and on the Dedication to the Emperor Maximilian with the armorial devices of the chief states..... More
![CZECH MODERNIST PHOTOGRAPHY]. Ceskoslovenska Fotografie. Complete Set of all 13 volumes,...](/pictures/thumb/3076.jpg?v=1600272810)
Prague: Svaz Ceskoslovenskkych Klubu, 1939-1941, 1946, 1949. Only Edition. 13 volumes, large 4to (ca. 275 x 220 mm). With more than 800 photographic plates by Avant-Garde Czech photographers. Original publisher's bindings: vols. 1-9 in decorated cloth with Avante-Garde designs by KAREL TEIGE in black, red, and gray; vols. 10-13 in..... More
![ENAMELS - MANUSCRIPT]. Notice des Emaux Exposes dans les Galleries du Musee du Louvre [and]...](/pictures/thumb/3065.jpg?v=1600272804)
Paris: Vinchon, 1852-1853. First Edition. Together 2 vols. 8vo. 348; Ex-library markings on spines, perforations on title-pages and other leaves, bookplates, accession stamps. Vol. I: contemporary quarter morocco over mottled boards, somewhat worn, front joint mended, headcap chipped, binder's blanks brittle, overall a good copy in a sound binding, the..... More
![Traite Complet du Jeu de Trictrac [i.e. Tric-Trac]. avec figures; contenant les principes et...](/pictures/thumb/3051.jpg?v=1600272801)
Paris: L. G. Michaud et Chez Delaunay, 1816. First Edition. 8vo. [4], 310, [2] = 316 pp., COMPLETE. Bound in contemporary red straight-grained morocco, elaborately gold tooled, gilt floral roll border with double roll around sides, smooth spine with gilt ornamental tools, monogram "J.B." crowned with a wreath, in gilt..... More
![ALDINE PRESS / GIGLIO PRESS]. Together 2 volumes: I. Lettere Volgari di diversi nobilissimi...](/pictures/thumb/3049.jpg?v=1600272795)
Venice: Domenico Giglio; Paolo and Aldo Manutius, 1558; 1564. Ad 1: 8vo. Part 1: [1], 2-138, [4] = 142 ff. Part 2: [1], 2-122, [2] = 124 ff. Contemporary limp vellum with "yapp" edges, title in MS on spine, singular "1" at bottom of spine indicating the first of two..... More
![LGBTQ / QUEER PUNK]. Absolutely Queer Issue (#109 / June '92). Matt “Smith Maximum Rock n....](/pictures/thumb/3036.jpg?v=1600272789)
San Francisco: Maximumrocknroll, 1992. Large 4to. 144 pp., profusely illustrated, printed on newsprint. Staple-bound self-wrappers (215 by 274 mm). Covers are detached and have light creases; the newsprint is lightly yellowed, otherwise good. The first ever “Absolutely Queer" of Maximum Rocknroll, and likely the first substantial Queer Punk magazine ever..... More
![DOG TAX, 1796]. The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the...](/pictures/thumb/3035.jpg?v=1600272785)
London: J. Debrett, 1796. First Edition. 8vo. [10], 839 pp. Bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards (leather very dry, front cover nearly detached but cords holding). Bookplate of the Fraser Institute, which sold more than 5000 books to Livresse (Gatineau, Quebec), from whom we purchased the present volume..... More
![Bindings - Early American Tree Calf]. [Samuel Bradford, Printer]. The Letters of Junius, with...](/pictures/thumb/2996.jpg?v=1600272781)
Philadelphia: Samuel F. Bradford. Vol 1 printed by H. Maxwell; vol 2 printed by Robert Carr, 1804. 8vo in 4's. 2 vols. 219 x 143 mm. Pagination: I: vi pp., 1 f.. blank, 313, [7] pp. II: [4], 466, [3] pp. Collation: vol. I: [A]4, B-3G4 3H8 (-3H8, a blank)..... More
Faenza: Archi, 1726. First Edition. 8vo. 185, [1] pp. Collation: A-Y4 Z6 (lacking final blank leaf 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. Some early corrections on pages 50, 55. Original..... More
![RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPT / SONNETS / Canzoniere]. "Poesie. Manoscritto antico d’ignoto autore"...](/pictures/thumb/2973.jpg?v=1600272769)
Venice: 1510 (25 January). 8vo. in fours. Collation: A-Q4, COMPLETE. 64 ff. (some signatures written in contemporary MS, several erroneously, neat modern foliation in pencil). Paper size: 155 x 105. Watermarks: Northern Italy, ca. 1480-1520 (see below). Bound in late 18th century Italian sprinkled ochre boards, upper cover with title..... More
London: Printed by The Edinburgh Press; Published by Sands & Co., 1898. First Edition. Oblong folio. 300 x 230 mm. 30 ff. Paper boards, original pictorial cover, yellowed, edges bumped with small tears in the paper covering, boards and spine scuffed. With 15 full-page illustrations in color opposite printed text..... More
![Promena [Metamorphosis - First Czech edition]. Together with: Promena, Sestero Konfigurací k...](/pictures/thumb/2905.jpg?v=1600272757)
Stara Rise (Czech Republic): Josef Florian, 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Together 2 volumes, large 4to and 8vo. PORTFOLIO (310 x 235 mm). Half-title SIGNED by the artist, title-page, 2-page translation of Kafka's "Ein Traum" into Czech by Gustav Janouch, list of plates, and statement of limitation printed in red and..... More
London: Robert Barker, 1611. First Edition. Folio. 7 leaves: Z3, Z5, Z6, Aa1, Aa2, Aa3, Aa4. Contents: 3 John 1:7-14, Epistles of Jude (complete book); Revelations Chapter 2:21 through Chapter 18:12. Margins frayed, soiling, old repairs, portions of texts defective (SEE IMAGES). With faults, and priced accordingly. Highly interesting, nearly..... More
![ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY]. Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti magno cum studio collecta, a...](/pictures/thumb/2697.jpg?v=1600272745)
Venice: Carolo Palese (sold by Lorenzo Basilio), 1787. First Edition. 8vo. 6 volumes. 54, 377 pp., 1 blank f., engraved frontispiece portrait of Pinelli ("F. Bartolozzi del. et sculp."); 4, 468 pp.; 4, 367 pp., 1 large folding plate ('Specimen scripturae in papyro') with small stain; 56, 471 pp.; 8..... More
![Della cirugia [...] libri sette: ne' quali si contiene la theorica et la vera prattica. Giovanni...](/pictures/thumb/2600.jpg?v=1600272741)
Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1574. First Edition in Italian. Folio. [18] ff., 296 pp. Collation: *8 **6 ***4 A-Z6 AA10, COMPLETE. Ziletti's device on title, 5 large woodcuts showing operations (2 on the battlefield), numerous woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments and heads with incisions, occasional staining or soiling; title with outer..... More
Charterhouse School: 1871. Hardcover. Dates: 1871-1877 and 1910. Small 4to. 37 ff., mostly with newspaper clippings neatly pasted in on both sides + 4 ff. in manuscript ("Summary of Scores" from 1871-1877 and 1910). Several leaves excised; it is possible that the present album had been re-purposed. On a few..... More
London: Printed by Luke Hansard [...] for J. Johnson [et al.], 1799. 8vo. xxiv, 355, [5] pp. Original publisher's drab boards; recent light brown paper spine, title ("Perkins Metallic Tractors") and date lettered direct (corners and extremities of boards worn); textblock toned and somewhat foxed or spotted here and there;..... More
