New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 2004. 8vo. 198 pp., describing items 446-1369. Original blue printed wrappers. This volume is tantamount to a bibliography of Incunabula Reference works, very well described, and featuring a useful 15-page index. The reference library of the august antiquarian bookselling firm of H.P. Kraus was legendary..... More

Paris: G.-P. Maisonneuve & Larose, 1962. 4 vols. 8vo. [8], ccxxviii pp., 2 ff., 320 pp., 1 f.; lxxvii pp., 1 f., 453 pp., 1 f.; xi, 516 pp., 1 f.; xliii, 395 pp., some illustrations in the text. Original blue publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Facsimile reprint of the 1885-1906..... More

Baltimore (i.e. Florence): Privately printed, 1906. First Edition. 4to (255 x 190 mm). vii, 522 pp., 1 f. (colophon). Color frontispiece, 1 plate, numerous reproductions in the text, partly printed in black and red. Bound by C. Tartagli in original polished light-brown calf, spine with three raised bands, three straps..... More

Leipzig: Faber & Faber, 2005. Large 4to (305 x 230 mm). 239, [1] pp. With 140 color illustrations. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, original printed dustjacket. Catalogue of 1,448 items. With "Zur Geschichte der Sammlung" (Karla Faust); "Die Buchenbande" (Andreas Wittenberg); Widerspruchlichkeiten (Holger Nickel); Zeittafel..... More

Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Sons, 1883. First Edition. Large 8vo (265 x 175 mm). iv, 654 pp. 1 f., 2 color lithographs, 49 figures in text. Polished brown half calf, marbled sides, red morocco lettering piece with gilt lettering, top edges gilt, all original wrappers bound in. Front joint..... More

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950. First Edition. Large 8vo (260 x 175 mm). 82 pp. Original grey paper wrappers (trifle soiled; overall very good). From the famed library of B.H. Breslauer (Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana, Third Portion, 28 June 2005, lot 1300) with his circled accession number in pencil..... More

London: Privately Printed and Not For Circulation, 1898. First Edition. Softcover. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). viii, 64 pp. Softcover, original paper wrappers (chipped and worn, spine defective), detached from textblock. Rare, privately printed catalogue of a collection of 499 Continental incunables formed by Walter A. Copinger. The catalogue is..... More

Together seven three-ring binder notebooks (binders worn, boards on vol. VI broken off) -- retained by us as out of "respect du fonds" -- containing approximately 876 typescript and manuscript pages. TOGETHER WITH: 29 file folders of articles, ideas, proposals, and miscellaneous publishing materials, consisting of approximate 300 typescript and..... More

Paris: Tableaux de Guerre, 1914 (Autumn). Two volumes, large 4to (302 × 289 mm). Contains 82 original WWI photographs. Vol. I numbered 1-40 (plus 2 duplicates, #28 and #46); Vol. II numbered 41-80), corners of photos slip-mounted onto brown paper leaves with accompanying duplicated typescript captions below, a few with..... More

Berlin: Ad 1. Ad 2: Verlag Bruno Hessling, 1936-1939 and 1977. Together 2 vols. Ad 1: xv, [5], 782, 2] pp. With 77 b/w illustrations in the text. Attractively (and very sturdily) bound in contemporary red quarter morocco over glazed red boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, all original wrappers..... More

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

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

London: Gul. Sandby, 1749. 2 vols., 8vo. Title-pages in red and black (both with large engraved portrait of the Horace), [x], 166; [2], 167-353 pp. With engraved dedication to George, Prince of Wales (later George III), and 35 full-page engraved plates (including frontispiece). Contemporary French red morocco, triple gilt rule..... More