![Item #3277 [CHILDREN'S CHAPBOOK / BOOKSELLING]. The Shipwreck; or, Humanity Rewarded. New Haven -...](/pictures/thumb/3277.jpg?v=1673876896)
New-Haven, CT: Sidney's Press for J. Babcock & Son, 1820. 32mo. (103 x 60 mm). Woocut frontispiece, title-page, alphabet on verso with uppercase roman and italic type, pp. [5]-30 + 1 p. ads for J. Babcock & Son. Contemporary (original?) American "Dutch" gilt floral wrappers, stitched (overcase stitching at a...... More
![Item #3895 [AMERICAN CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY]. [ARCHIVE OF 12 NURSERYMAN'S GUIDES]. Nurseryman's Guides](/pictures/thumb/3895.jpg?v=1666718469)
Rochester, NY: Rochester Lithographing Co., 1867-1936. Together 12 nurseryman's guides + one 1861 American pomology guide (see below). SIXTY YEARS OF ART IN THE SERVICE OF COMMERCE: AN EXCEPTIONAL COLLECTION OF 12 AMERICAN NURSERYMAN'S SEED CATALOGUES DEPICTING, IN VIBRANT COLOR-STENCILED CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS, FRUITS, TREES, AND FLOWERS. THESE WERE HEAVILY USED AS..... More
![Item #3882 [BINDING - PHILADELPHIA CA. 1865]. The Photograph Album. Anonymous](/pictures/thumb/3882.jpg?v=1666718379)
Philadelphia: W.W. Harding, 1865 (or after). Album 5 x 6 x 2.5 in. Title-page (a little foxed, verso blank), Index to portraits (2 pp.), followed by 25 thick cards creating 50 slots; all are filled, with 47 cartes-de-visite, 2 views, and one chromolithograph (a little foxed). Bound in original blue-green..... More
![Item #3875 [ALBUM AMICORUM MANUSCRIPT - AMERICAN CALLIGRAPHY 1872-1882]. "Autographs" (cover...](/pictures/thumb/3875.jpg?v=1666718338)
Poughkeepsie, NY: Eastman National Business College, 1882. Oblong 8vo. (100 x 170 mm; 4" x 7"). 102 leaves (fol. 12 blank, fol. 98 loose). "Autographs" album bound in contemporary full green morocco (spine expertly rebacked). ALBUM AMICORUM MANUSCRIPT FROM THE HUDSON VALLEY, NEW YORK, CA. 1872, FEATURING FIVE EXCEPTIONAL EXAMPLES..... More
![Item #3832 [SAMOAN SIAPO / TAPA BARK CLOTH "PAPER"]. Large circular Siapo decoratively painted...](/pictures/thumb/3832.jpg?v=1666718147)
Samoa: 1900-1940 or earlier. Tapa bark cloth 65 cm. diameter (approximately), painted in both sides. Worn, with bark surfaces rough, edges frayed and partially separating, Tapa curling, some small unobjectionable holes visible. SAMOAN TAPA BARK CLOTH "PAPER" WITH BOLD GEOMETRIC PATTERNS, WITH CURIOUS TONGAN FLORAL MOTIFS ON THE BACK. Polynesian..... More
![Item #3827 [BOUND BY TIMOTHY ELY]. 1961. Georges Hugnet](/pictures/thumb/3827.jpg?v=1666718131)
Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1961. First Edition. Bound by Timothy Ely (stamp-signed inside front cover): full black morocco, upper cover with raised onlay remarkably tooled to suggest a "ribbon tied in a bow," two raised bands onlaid onto spine, relief chased metal date of "1961" on front cover, top edges stained..... More
Scotland and Northumbria: 1852-1853. Oblong 8vo (126 x 223 mm). Contemporary tartan-patterned boards, modern leather spine very well executed, lower cover stained (presumably an ink blot), contents clean and unblemished, all specimens in excellent condition. Suitable for exhibition and study. Stretching our comprehension of the book as a physical object..... More
![Item #3765 [PAPERMAKING - MEXICAN TABASCO TREE]. Informe acerca de la explotacion del tejido...](/pictures/thumb/3765.jpg?v=1666717959)
Mexico City: Tip. de la Secretaria de Fomento, 1890. First Edition. Small 4to. 31 pp. + 1 full-page illustration. Original printed wrappers (detached, spine worn, paper stock a trifle browned and brittle). PRINTED ON PAPER MANUFACTURED FROM 25% "JOLOCIN" (MEXICAN TABASCO TREE) PAPER AND 75% RAGS. This is an early..... More
![Item #3868 [FOLK ART - WOMAN CALLIGRAPHER]. [Spencerian Calligraphic Pen and Ink Drawing of a...](/pictures/thumb/3868.jpg?v=1665083011)
s.l. 20th century. On paper (585 x 460 mm), mounted to what is no doubt acidic board, formerly matted and framed (drawing paper browned along matte lines). Preserved in a mylar sleeve. LARGE, ACCOMPLISHED AMERICAN FOLK ART CALLIGRAPHY BY AN OBSCURE (NORTH TEXAS?) WOMAN CALLIGRAPHER. The artist incorporated the initials..... More
![Item #3726 [BODONI - DAPHNIS AND CHLOE 1786. In Greek]: Longus. Poimenikon ton kata Daphnin kai...](/pictures/thumb/3726.jpg?v=1648946167)
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
![Item #3674 [DECORATIVE PAPERS]. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Block-Printed Papers from the 18th...](/pictures/thumb/3674.jpg?v=1642877762)
Copenhagen: Museum of Decorative Arts, 1958. First Edition. 4to. Typescript. Unpaginated (but 33 ff.) typed on rectos only, with a title-page, Introductory Notes (1 f.), list of Collections from which the exhibition was assembled and respective abbreviations used in the Catalogue (1 f.), plus 30 ff. descriptions of 260 Block-Printed..... More
![Item #3668 [MEXICAN PAPER - REVIEW COPY]. The Aztec and Maya Papermakers. Victor Wolfgang von Hagen](/pictures/thumb/3668.jpg?v=1642868763)
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
![Item #3650 [GERMAN RENAISSANCE WOODCUTS, 16TH CENTURY]. Kirchen Postilla. Doct. Mart. Luth. Hans...](/pictures/thumb/3650.jpg?v=1641504303)
Wittenberg: Lorenz Seuberlich, 1598. 4to. Album (263 x 195 mm) containing 62 woodcuts by Hans Brosamer, various sizes but generally 140 x 140 mm, each with Fraktur titles above, tipped onto blank leaves (some woodcuts printed on two sides and thus hinged) + title-page as above printed in red and..... More
![Item #3643 [MINIATURE ARTIST'S BOOK]. Boxing the Compass (North, South, East, West). Marvin R....](/pictures/thumb/3643.jpg?v=1641134681)
San Francisco: Juniper Von Phitzer, 1996. First Edition. Box assemblage (approximately 2.5" x 2.25" x 2.25"), with 4 side-panels that open flat. In the center is a working compass, and 4 small booklets for each the four points of the compass. Trifle wear to box lid; small scratch to outside..... More
![Item #3640 [EARLY AMERICAN BOOK CURSE / SCALEBOARD BINDING 1826]. Second Class Book; Principally...](/pictures/thumb/3640.jpg?v=1640978643)
Brookfield, Mass. E. and G. Merriam, 1828. 8vo. 222 pp. Woodcut frontispiece + 2 full-page woodcut plates (found opposite pp. 108 and 144). Original SCALEBOARD binding: quarter sheep over thin scaleboard, both boards covered with blue printed papers (both quite rubbed, affecting legibility, board bowed). One half of the rear..... More
![Item #3623 [CONTEMPORARY MADRID BINDING BY FRANCISCO CIFUENTES, 1821]. Siglo de oro en las selvas...](/pictures/thumb/3623.jpg?v=1638895443)
Madrid: Ibarra, Impresor de Camara de S.M., 1821. 8vo (183 x 125 mm). [1] f., xvi, 240, 99, [1] pp. With an engraved portrait of the author. Title-page with 6 inexplicable pin-sized wormholes, front flyleaf with one (present nowhere else in the volume). Contemporary Madrid binding by Francisco Cifuentes: sheep..... More
