Paris: Pierre Didot, l'aine, 1799 [An VII]. First Edition. 4to., 300 x 220 mm. 2 ff., 83 pp., COMPLETE with 9 folding engraved plates (one loose, another with short tear), and with the "Projet d'arrete du département de la Seine sur les sepultures" (pp. [73]-83) which is certainly not present..... More

Boston: The Author, 1842. First Edition. Small oblong 4to. 52, [2] pp. including engraved title-page (reproduced on cover), engraved dedication leaf, 1 letterpress leaf ("Preface"), engraved plates numbered 3-24, then commencing with letterpress pages numbered 27-54 followed by an unnumbered letterpress leaf advertising Dearborn's engraving and printing services. COMPLETE as..... More

Paris: [Yves Klein], 1960. First Edition. Original 4-page broadsheet newspaper (557 x 380 folded; 1114 x 380 unfolded). In upper margin of page 1 is written the number "10." Age toning as is true with all copies. Folded ONCE (horizontally), minor browning along fold, overall in excellent condition, suitable for..... More

Paris: P. Blanchard, 1810. 32mo (65 x 53 mm). Engraved frontispiece after Raphael's "La Vierge," engraved title-page showing a young boy dressed in a tunic and praying in a garden. 189, [1] pp. Contemporary French full red morocco by a very competent binder, decorated with a central wheel design, framed..... More

Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1827-1833 (ca.). Together 2 works in one volume, 24mo. Ad 1: 22 pp., text illustrations, including two full-page woodblock prints. Ad 2: 35, [1], pp., steel-engraved vignette at end. Contemporary marbled boards backed in black cloth, binding extremities worn, light foxing, a very good and sound..... More

Parma: Bodoni, 1786. 4to (300 x 218 mm). Engraved title-vignette and head-piece, [8], lxxiii, [3], 164 pp. Preliminary leaves: title-page with engraved vignette, verso blank + dedication leaf to Jose Nicolas de Nibiano, verso blank + 2 unnumbered leaves dedication to Anton Raphael Mengs with half-page engraving signed "Lucatelli inv..... More

New Hempstead, Long Island, NY: 1811. Large folio (337 x 200 mm), stitched, folded once vertically and twice horizontally, presumably extracted from a larger volume (two leaves excised, both likely blank). 10 pp. on paper clearly watermarked "1808" / Britannia (not in Gravell-Miller), modern pagination in pencil. Altogether handwritten 9..... More

[Edinburgh?]: 1830s (ca.). Small octavo (185 x 120 mm), contemporary cloth-backed stiff wrappers (a little worn), inside front cover with small binder's ticket of "Campbell, Stationer & Bookbinder, 17 Leith Street, Edinburgh," contemporary presentation inscription to free-endpaper "Miss L. J. Wilson from Papa Pa." CONTENTS: engraved title and [37] engraved..... 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