![MINIATURE "BLOOK" BOX MADE OF SILVER]. Creazioni Orafe Sacchetti, Gianfranco Sacchetti](/pictures/thumb/3505.jpg?v=1621869963)
Arezzo, Italy: Sacchetti, n.d. Miniature silver "blook" (28 x 22 x 7 mm), with blue enamel "covers" and red enamel "spine labels," hinged at front cover which opens to reveal a tiny compartment, edges of "textblock" appropriately striated, and the latch on the "fore-edge" in perfect working order. Excellent, and..... More
![1770 SPANISH "CAT'S PAW" BINDING]. Kolouthou lukopolitou thebaion peri tes Elenes arpages...](/pictures/thumb/3498.jpg?v=1621298342)
Madrid: Antonio Marin, 1770. First Edition. 4to. (230 x 156 mm). [22], 174, [1] pp. Contemporary Spanish "cat's paw" patterned calf with gilt spine, very light wear to corners and joints, front flyleaf has been pasted to pastedown, making the first blank the new flyleaf. Contents extremely fresh and clean..... More
![PENNSYLVANIA "DUTCH" GERMAN BINDING]. [WOMAN OWNER]. Geistliche und erbauliche Briefe....](/pictures/thumb/3453.jpg?v=1617395343)
Lebanon, PA: Joseph Hartman, 1819. First American edition. Thick 8vo. Two parts in one volume, both with separate title-pages: [8], 458, [2], 426, [2] pp. Text foxed as is true in all copies, but COMPLETE and UNMARKED. Binding: original Pennsylvania binding by a workshop that was closely associated with Joseph..... More
!["BLOOK" / AMERICAN FOLK ART]. Hand-hewn, hand-painted wooden Blook with "secret compartment" wood...](/pictures/thumb/3415.jpg?v=1614787683)
Elmira, NY or Auburn NY: 1900. Wooden blook (4.75 x 6.25"). A hand-made wooden box in the shape of a 12mo book with a compartment carved from the interior and lined with blue velvet. In very good condition with a 1" x 3" section of varnish removed on the front..... More
![BIBLIOMANIA]. Le Bibliomane. Vingt-quatre compositions de Maurice Leloir. Charles Nodier, Maurice...](/pictures/thumb/3355.jpg?v=1610557501)
Paris: [Imprimerie Generale Lahure for]: Librairie de L. Conquet, 1894. 12mo. Contemporary burgundy levant morocco gilt extra by H.E. Laskine: triple gilt fillet around sides enclosing a blue morocco inlaid frame, turn-ins similarly gilt and inlaid, silk moire pastedowns and endpapers, the verso (and the recto opposite) of comb-marbled paper..... More
London: Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, 1632. [The Second Impression]. Folio (305 x 210 mm; 12 x 8"). Paginated 277-303. Large woodcut headpiece. Bound by Bernard Middleton in full calf antique, tooled to a Cambridge design: contrasting paneled boards with outer frame and inner panel sprinkled, fillets and corner ornaments..... More
![SECOND FOLIO 1632]. "Romeo and Juliet" (bound with: Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, and Troylus and...](/pictures/thumb/3326.jpg?v=1609739462)
London: Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, 1632. 106 pp. Collation: aa-hh6, ii5 (sic. cc signed "bb"). Text printed in two columns. One column of fol. gg4 (p. 79/80) in Titus Andronicus with 4.5" x 4" facsimile, affecting 24 lines of text and the running title of the play, extended into..... More
New York: Appleton and Company, 1884. Twelfth edition. 8vo. Frontispiece engraved by Bobbett-Hooper, 274 pp. + [2] pp. advertisements. Original publisher's brown cloth, gilt, decorated endpapers. Cloth covers with some minor blemishes, lower corner of back cover inexplicably abraided. Overall in excellent condition, the gilding glowingly bright, without any cracks..... More
![AMERICAN FOLK MAGIC / GRIMOIRE]. Der lange verborgene Freund, oder Getreuer und Christlicher...](/pictures/thumb/3270.jpg?v=1605064867)
Harrisburg, PA: s.n., 1840. Stated Third Edition (but see below). 12mo, 84 pp. Contemporary patterned paper over boards, contemporary sheep spine (binding worn but perfectly sound; damp-staining at the foot of the gutter for the first several gatherings; textblock a bit foxed as is true in all copies). Completely unsophisticated..... More
![COLONIAL BINDING - CONNECTICUT, 1760]. A Confession of Faith Owned and Consented to by the Elders...](/pictures/thumb/3262.jpg?v=1604930525)
New-London [CT]: Printed by Timothy Green, 1760. 16mo. [2], 118 pp. Collation: A-P4. With the Articles for the Administration of Church Discipline bound in with its own title page and the Timothy Green 1760 imprint, but the pagination and signatures continuous. Bound in contemporary American calf over thin wooden "scaleboard."..... More
![COLONIAL BOSTON (?) BINDING ca. 1747]. No Cross, No Crown. A Discourse Shewing the Nature and...](/pictures/thumb/3261.jpg?v=1604894806)
Boston: Printed and Sold by Rogers and Fowle, 1747. Seventh Edition (but First American). Small 8vo. Two volumes in one. [24], 287; [5], 184, [4] pp. Contemporary American tooled calf. Flaw to the title page affecting one word and a small tear to one lower outer corner on leaf E1..... More
!["The Odyssey" (of a Prisoner). [Vernacular "Illuminated" Manuscript / Brass Binding]. Unnamed...](/pictures/thumb/3253.jpg?v=1604469470)
Luhansk, Ukraine: 1970s. Large 4to. (310 x 260 mm / 12" h x 10" w). 64 pp. of thick cardboard, of which 28 are completely filled with artwork, and the remaining 36 pages are blank. Elaborate vernacular brass binding a la repousse, the front cover bearing a soldier (Odysseus) with..... More
