Paris: Ch. Bosse, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. Small 4to. xvi, 235, [3] pp. Bound in original wrappers, as issued. Preserved in a protective cloth case. The essential resource for the study of provenance of medical books, still unsurpassed. Ours is one of only 50 on fine Velin paper, rare thus..... More

Austin, Texas: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 27 numbered pages, original cloth binding. No dustjacket. Woodcut illustrations. ¶ Bibliographical Monograph Series No. 7, a lecture given at the [Harry Ransom] Humanities Research Center on collection development specifically within the scope of manuscripts..... More

Palermo: Centro di studi filologici e linguistici siciliani, 1978. First Edition. Large 8vo. 263, [4] pp. Original wrappers, edges almost entirely uncut. Illustrated with 18 full-page photographic plates of high quality. NOT ex-library! Scarce catalogue of fifteenth century books in the Municipal Library of Palermo, a formidable collection of 1,038..... More

London: Printed by John Darby for the Author [Leoni], 1721. Second edition. Folio, four parts in one volume. [12], 54; [2], 57-93, [1]; [2], 37; [3], 41-90, [4] pp. With an engraved portrait of Palladio and an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Bernard Picart after Sebastiano Ricci, 203 architectural plates (some..... More

New York: S. Hand and H. Garson, 1796. Softcover. 12mo. 23, [1] pp. Crude title-page woodcut vignette, with caption: "I'll shave 'em like a punish'd soldier, DRY. No killing Swine shall make a sweeter cry." Collation: [A]6 B6. Complete. Modern sympathetic wrappers. Lightly toned, but the paper stock strong. Evidence..... More

Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Burnham, 1848. 2 vols. Original publisher's black leather bindings, stamped in gold, all edges gilt, endpapers plain. A few very minor, unobtrusive repairs. Occasionally heavy foxing throughout, as commonly. GORGEOUS COPY. The elaborate center- and cornerpieces on the present binding must be seen to be fully..... More

Brussels: De l'Imprimerie de Weissenbruch, Imprimeur-Libraire et marchand de musique, place de l'Egalité, ci-devant de la Cour, No. 1085, 1803. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. Recent sympathetic wrappers. 47 pp. On paper faintly tinted blue. 158 lots of paintings, priced in a contemporary hand + 46 lots of non-paintings (unpriced), which..... More

Paris: Guerin et Delatour, 1762. First Edition. Hardcover. Dates: 1762-1766. Quarto. Eight volumes in seven, COMPLETE THUS, with 202 folding engraved plates, illustrating more than 4000 coins and medals (!). The eight volumes contain numerous elaborately engraved vignettes, head- and tailpieces throughout. Collation: pp. iv; 220; 22 engraved folding plates..... More

London: Hamiltons Gallery, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. Altogether 69, [3] pp. including 27 superb photographic plates, each with captions on opposite page. The new catalogue raisonne of Penn's astonishing "Cranium" series of Animal skeletons, valuable for forensic research, to say nothing of the extraordinary photographic celebration of each..... More

London: Miles Flesher and Robert Young, assignes of John More, 1639. 32mo in 8's. [24], 168 ff. = 192 ff., COMPLETE. Title-page and table of contents in English, Preface in Latin, text in Norman French. Contemporary calf in typical law trade binding fashion, joints cracked, later spine label, gilt floral..... More

Leipzig: 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. xii, 939 pp. Bound in contemporary half vellum over comb-marbled boards (brilliantly rebacked preserving original spine and red leather morocco lettering piece). The B.H. Breslauer copy, with his penciled accession number circled. Ex-libris stamp in red of the acclaimed Roman bookseller F. Fratennali..... More

Paris: Pierre Beres, 1990. Softcover. 260 items thoroughly described. Illustrations throughout, some in color. Original wrappers, no dust-jacket as issued. ¶ A scholarly French catalogue of rare volumes, beautifully presented. Includes: works by Gustave Flaubert, Henri Murger, Arthur Rimbaud, and many more. More

New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. 8o. 195 pp. With a frontispiece portrait of William Caxton, and Original buckram. NOT ex-library! Groundbreaking approach to a biography of England's first printer, based on the evidence, and not mythology. First published in 1925, this is the facsimile reprint on "long-life paper." Plomer (1856-1928)..... More