London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1781. Together 7 almanacs in one volume, 8vo (165 x 90 mm), each almanac with 48 pp. (see below). Bound by John Baumgarten in London: contemporary red morocco, richly and elaborately gilt with arabesques and floral and foliate motifs on both covers surrounded..... More

Ethiopia: 20th century. Small wooden amulet (105 x 78 x 23 mm); upper cover lid tied with twine, on its verso a seraph painted directly onto the wood; opposite this is a manuscript prayer painted onto parchment and laid down; top and bottom of amulet with deeply carved ornamental designs..... More

[London and Paris]: 1851. Together 2 vols., folio. Vol. I: 127 pp. manuscript written on rectos only, with insertions of the author's Port of Entry, various MS slips, maps, a folding letterpress plan of the British Museum, and a large folding depiction of the Museum of Practical Geology. Vol. II..... More

Bologna: Vittorio Benacci, 1591. First Edition. Small 4to (horizontal chainlines). [4] pp. Later Italian decorated wrappers, old (19th-century?) label on front cover. On title-page old ink inscription "84," on verso of final leaf the faint ink inscription of "85" (in reverse) suggesting that our pamphlet was at one time bound..... More

Baltimore: Printed and published by Joseph Robinson, 1818. 12mo. 360, 105, [3] pp. Contemporary Baltimore "Spanish calf" binding, single ornamental gilt fillet around sides, smooth spine panelled into 5 compartments, black title-label in the second, sprinkled edges (some wear along binding extremities and spine). Text with some foxing as commonly..... More

Oxford: John Baskett, 1717. 8vo. Parallel text in French and English. Bound by John Baumgarten in London ca. 1765-1780: tree calf, covers tooled in gilt to a rococo design, with Chippendale birds, insects, grapes, flowers, columns and diaper-pattern motifs, spine with raised bands with 6 compartments tooled in gilt with..... More

Paris, Grenoble, and elsewhere: 1761-1764. Contemporary mottled calf; spine tooled in gold; red edges; marbled endpapers. The first Grenoble imprint lacking the first leaf (half-title?); both Grenoble imprints cropped close, just shaving some text; occasional light foxing. Text block splitting from the bottom between two of the pamphlets, roughly two-thirds..... More