![Item #3644 [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR, 1802]. Anacreontis Odaria ad textus Barnesiani fidem emendata....](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3644.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1641134587)
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
![Item #4258 [NATIVE AMERICAN CHIEF AND A RABBI]. John Dorn Promoter. Charles Eugene BANKS](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4258.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729469294)
Chicago: Monarch Book Co., 1906. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Illustrations by August Abelmann. Original brick-red publisher's cloth, blocked in gilt, ochre, and black. Some dust-soiling on the top edges and front binder's blank, otherwise unmarked and free from ugly stamps. A lovely copy, the text and binding in crisp and fresh..... More
![Item #4422 [RENAISSANCE BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS]. Comedia di Dante Aligieri con la nova espositione di...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4422.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757547966)
Venice: Francesco Marcolini for Alessandro Vellutello, 1544. First edition thus. 4to. AA-BB8 CC10 A-Z8 AB-AZ8 BC-BI8 = 442 ff., COMPLETE with integral final blank. An early issue, without the ink-stamp (textual correction) on fol. V7. Illustrations: 87 woodcuts of which 3 are full-page (these illustrate the beginning of the Inferno..... More
![Item #4602 [AMERICAN "SHITPOST" 1852]. Life of Lord Timothy Dexter. [ISSUED WITH]: A Pickle for...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4602.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781791686)
Newburyport: John G. Tilton, 1852. Later edition. Together two parts in one volume. 12mo. Ad 1: viii, [1], 10-107, with a woodcut frontispiece of Dexter's mansion, a half-page woodcut of Dexter on p. viii, and a full-page woodcut of Jonathan Plummer on p. [108] opposite the facing title page; Ad..... More
![Item #4419 [POST-INCUNABLE ~ 1517: ALDINE PRESS]. Epigrammata. Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4419.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757547966)
Venice: Heirs of Aldus Manutius, 1517. Small 4to. Collation: A-Z &8, COMPLETE. 190, [1] pp. Title-page and verso of final leaf with Aldine dolphin and anchor device (text with staining, two inscriptions washed out, one below colophon, the other above the printer's device on verso of final leaf). Seventeenth-century sprinkled..... More
![Item #4421 [POST INCUNABLE ~ 1508]. De modo epistolandi ("The Art of Writing"). Francesco Negri,...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4421.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757547966)
Venice: Ioannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 1508. Small 4to. 32 ff. (some stains and repairs). Later inscriptions in Italian on final blank page. Bound in 20th-century French crushed niger morocco, five raised bands on spine, title lettered direct in the second compartment, turn-ins gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, edges plain. An attractive..... More
![Item #3660 [HENRY JAMES]. The Tender Recollections of Irene Macgillicuddy. Laurence Oliphant](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3660.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1642554216)
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
![Item #4078 [TAMERLANE]. The North American Review (Volume XXV) containing a notice for "Tamerlane...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4078.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696975913)
Boston: Frederick T. Gray, 1827. First Edition. Large 8vo. [6], 491, [1] + "Proposals for publishing by Subscription the Works of George Washington" by Jared Sparks. Waterstains throughout, some of which are ugly (SEE IMAGES) but the paper is strong. Contemporary American sheep, dry and worn, upper joint cracked and..... More
![Item #331 [NEW YORK BINDING?]. The Course of Time: a poem. Robert POLLOK](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/331_3.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553284637)
New York: Charles Wells, 1833. Hardcover. N.d. (ca. 1833). 16mo. [2], xiv, [3], 14-227, [4], 230-328, [1], iv-x pp. Contemporary beige calf elaborately gilt, a.e.g. Front free endpaper excised, binding with some minor refurbishment. Bound by Charles Well of New York (?) ¶ Charles Wells was described in New York..... More
![Item #1165 [SKELETON ILLUSTRATIONS]. The Ides of March [SIGNED COPY]. Rene](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1165.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729469406)
New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. 85, [1] pp. With 43 black and white macabre plates by the author. Original black cloth, original dust wrapper illustrated by the author. ¶ First and only appearance of these curious quatrains (ballad stanzas and clerihews) written by an otherwise unknown American author..... More
![Item #4434 [EARLY WOMAN PUBLISHER ~ 1736]. De la maniere d’enseigner et d’etudier les belles...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4434.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1757547966)
Paris: Chez la Veuve Estienne, 1736. Nouvelle edition. 12mo. Complete set of 4 volumes (some age toning to the text). Bound in contemporary French mottled calf, five raised bands on spine, red morocco lettering pieces in the second and third compartments, edges stained red, marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Some lower..... More
![Item #4543 [Carcel de Amor - Italian, 1518]. Carcer Damore. Tradotto dal [...] Lelio de Manfredi...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4543.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776103385)
Venice: Georgio de Rusconi, 1518. Small 8vo (145 x 97 mm). [48] ff. Collation: A-F8, COMPLETE (some soiling, traces of damp in outer margins of D1-F8 for which SEE IMAGES). Old (18th-century?) vellum. In excellent unsophisticated condition. ITALIAN POST-INCUNABLE EDITION OF THE CARCEL DE AMOR, THE MOST IMPORTANT SPANISH NOVEL..... More
![Item #4542 [Carcel de Amor - Italian, 1525]. Carcer Damore. Tradotto dal [...] Lelio de Manfredi...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4542.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776103754)
Venice: Gregorio di Gregorii, 1525. Small 8vo (143 x 95 mm). [44] ff. Collation: A-E8 F4, COMPLETE (title-page with light toning, fols. A1-2 with unimportant wormholes in blank gutter margin). Very attractive late 19th- or early 20th-century blue embossed boards, gray cloth spine. In excellent condition, the paper crisp and..... More
