India: 19th or 20th century. Painting with extensive gold, applied on a partially printed leaf with some manuscript annotations (ca. 354 x 164 mm), mounted on card, matted (matte size: 460 x 278 mm). Each painting has a scratch to the surface area (SEE IMAGES), overall in very good condition..... More

Black semi-flexible vinyl portfolio album (625 x 485 mm) containing 48 mylar sleeves, of which 46 contain decorated paper specimens (132 altogether). Some paper specimens have adhesive on verso from previous mounting and/or previous binding. Overall in excellent condition. AN OUTSTANDING SELF-CONTAINED ARCHIVE OF AN UNUSUALLY BROAD ARRAY OF DECORATED..... More

Philadelphia: Printed by Edward Stern & Co., Inc., [1918]. First Edition. Quarto. [144] pp., mostly illustrations (some in color), reproducing advertisements, illustrations from books, and examples of typography; seven leaves with mounted paper samples showing different colored ink. With full-page biographies of the nearly thirty artists and designers whose work..... More

London and New York: Verso, 2010. Softcover. Octavo, 378 pages. ¶ Highly important study on the advent of moveable type and its subsequent impact on Western culture. Originally written in French, the present work was translated into English by David Gerard, and edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and David Wootton. More

Boston: Joshua Cushing, 1808. 12mo. 196 pp. Contemporary American tree-calf, smooth spine with gilt horizontal fillets, red lettering piece ("Grove"), two original binder's blanks at front and back, sprinkled edges (text FOXED as is true with all copies, for which see images; short marginal tear on pp. 5/6; lower fore-corner..... More

New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original publisher's mustard cloth, stamped in black adorned with a spider's web in which is perched a long-armed spider. ¶ First Edition in English and the First American edition. The first title was translated by Mrs. Sophie M. Butts;..... More

Poughkeepsie, NY: Eastman National Business College, 1882. Oblong 8vo. (100 x 170 mm; 4" x 7"). 102 leaves (fol. 12 blank, fol. 98 loose). "Autographs" album bound in contemporary full green morocco (spine expertly rebacked). ALBUM AMICORUM MANUSCRIPT FROM THE HUDSON VALLEY, NEW YORK, CA. 1872, FEATURING FIVE EXCEPTIONAL EXAMPLES..... More

S.l. Privately Printed, 1935 (ca.). Folio. 18 ff. including 9 negative photographic reproductions on thin paper (curling) of manuscript documents, tipped in + 9 typescript pages facing the plates. Loosely inserted: 1 f. typescript "Ahnenreige Sonnemann / Kagelmann." Original boards covered with linen, stamped in blue: Erbteilung Kagelmann-Oldesloe. OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITIES..... More

Venice: Domenico Giglio; Paolo and Aldo Manutius, 1558; 1564. Three volumes in two, 8vo. Ad 1: Part 1: [1], 2-138, [4] = 142 ff. Part 2: [1], 2-122, [2] = 124 ff. Contemporary limp vellum with "yapp" edges, title in MS on spine, singular "1" at bottom of spine indicating..... More

Paris: J.J. Blaise, 1818. 8vo. 20 ff. + 20 full-page engravings. Contemporary French emerald-green glazed boards, red morocco spine label (trifle rubbed). PRINTED BY PIERRE DIDOT L'AINE (1761-1853). "Pierre published acclaimed editions of Virgil, Horace, La Fontaine, and Racine. Firmin designed the Didot typeface. He also invented stereotypes (plates cast..... More

New York: The Grolier Club, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. 52 pp. with illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Checklist of an important Grolier Club exhibition held November 17, 2004 - January 14, 2005. More

Rochester, NY: Stecher Lithograph Co. et al. 1887-1898 (ca.). Album of 91 chromolithographs, principally by Stecher Lithograph Co. of Rochester. Later flexible smooth calf, inner hinges exposed. Plates with some wear or light soiling. ART IN THE SERVICE OF COMMERCE: AN AMERICAN NURSERYMAN'S FRUIT SEED CATALOGUE DEPICTING FULLY MATURED FRUIT..... More

Paris: Jacques Lecoffre & Cie / E. Lefranc, Imprimeur-libraire, 1852-1858. First Edition. Together 2 vols., folio. Paper stock untrimmed. Bound in contemporary French blue quarter basane over blue marbled endpapers (headcaps of both vols. chipped, that of vol. 1 partially defective, some wear to covers and binding extremities). In vol..... More