London: Quaritch, 1889. First Edition. Thick 4to (ca. 27.5 x 21 x 5 cm). Bound in contemporary blue crushed levant morocco after a Grolier binding depicted on Plate [23] of the present catalogue: gold line fillets with ornaments in corners; inside borders gold-tooled; blue-green watered silk endleaves and pastedows; spine..... 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

London: B.R. Howlette / John Murray, 1813. Second edition. 8vo. [2], 130 pp. Printed in Greek throughout on fine paper. Contemporary English red diced russia calf (rubbed and worn), tooled in blind, outer frame of gilt palmette rolls, all edges gilt, drab endpapers. Front endpaper waterstained; second blank leaf with..... More

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

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

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