1927 (printed later). Original ferrotyped gelatin silver print (image size: 241 x 188 mm), signed in pencil and with the photographer's credit stamp on the reverse: "Photograph by Berenice Abbott / All Rights Reserved." Very slight curling, some very light superficial indentations visible only in raking light. Matte size: 500..... More

Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, F. Ferroud, 1912. 8vo. 54, [2] pp. Fine engraved frontispiece, vignettes by Leon Lebegue. Contemporary red niger morocco (upper cover with two light scratches), lower turn-in with gilt pallet-stamp "M. Marshall" upper cover with the monogram, crest and motto of the first owner Lily E.C. Routh..... More

Pennsylvania: 1940s. Original drawing on ruled notebook paper (194 x 124 mm = 7.6" x 5") preserved in 11" x 14" frame with museum glass and 8-ply archival mat (edges frayed and with some light browning as is true with almost all surviving examples of this artist's work). EMBLEMATIC AMERICAN..... More

Belton and Dallas, TX: Hillyer Photographers, 1889 or after. Original photograph CDV (162 x 105 mm) on Hillyer stock (extremities worn, one small tear in photograph, for which see images). Interesting Texas photograph of a young woman; on the verso in an inscription (in extremely faint pencil) "Odna M. Chappell..... More

Paris: [Mme Huzard for] J.-S. Merlin, 1828. First Edition. 8vo. x, 530 pp., 1 f. (advertisement), 5245 lots described. Bound by Kohler in contemporary smooth quarter calf, marbled boards (front cover bumped at fore-edge, flat spine divided by gilt fillets into six compartments, title and date lettered direct, marbled pastedowns..... More

Paris: C. Barrois, 1810-1811. First Edition. Together 2 vols., 8vo printed on LARGE PAPER. Ad 1: [4], xxx, 266 (recte: 166) pp., inexplicably lacking one leaf (pp. 111/112) which has been supplied from a small paper copy. Bound by Rosa in contemporary red diced morocco: single floral roll gilt round..... More

COMPLETE SET of 11 vols. Large 8vo., vols. 1-9 and 11 bound in leather, vol. 10 in cloth. Very light blemishing to pastedowns, endpapers, edges of textblock, and in some instances on the covers of the Keepsakes. Binding on vol. 4 very slightly bowed. The leather binding on Vol. 11..... More

Osaka, Japan: Sekizenkan, 1893 (Meiji 26). First Edition. 8vo (220 x 150 mm). Double page colour woodblock frontispiece by Sensei Toshinobu (i.e Taguchi, or Toshinobu II, very finely embossed to convey different textures; three double page illustrations by Maeono Kazuhiro (versos browned as are some adjacent pages). Original color-printed wrappers..... More

Japan: 1820-1830s (late Edo period). One large hanging scroll, signed and sealed "Jippensha Ikku" (unfurled: 1620 x 330 mm; 63" x 13"). Original thin Japanese paper backed and mounted on thicker paper in the maru-hyoso style. Browning and darkening, creases (one is significant, for which SEE IMAGES), light stains, original..... More

Paris: Widow De la Tour for Auguste Grange, 1747. 12mo (150 x 90 mm). lxviii, 224 pp., illustrated with engraved title-page vignettes, culs-de-lampe, and head- and tailpiece vignettes throughout. Fine 18th-century French blue morocco, smooth spine gilt in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece (repaired?) in the second compartment, edges..... More

Mendville, PA (etc.): Keystone View Company, 1934 (after). Sterograph (176 x 85 mm), on gray card mount identified as "Tex 45" and "No. 34163." Ink number "9" on upper right corner. Scarce stereograph view "Texas State College for Women" as it became known in 1934 (the name was changed to..... More

San Francisco: Printed by the San Francisco Co-Operative Printing for Sumner Whitney & Co., 1871. Small 4to. 4, [2], 325, [1], xvii pp. The two portraits are in facsimile, otherwise complete. Some page numbers at top margin shaved; front blank with repaired tear; final page torn and backed. Inherent spotting..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. First Edition. 32mo. 94 pp. (including integral 4-page advertisements for Harper's Half-Hour Series) + 2 pp. at end (advertisements for Wilkie Collins and Thackeray). Contemporary brown linen cloth, leather spine label (defective); paper stock toned; browning on first page of advertisements from offsetting of..... More