Ethiopia: 1900-1925 (ca.). Manuscript on heavy parchment (115 x 80 mm). Collation: A12 (-A1) B10 C8 D8 = 37 (of 38) ff. Traditional Ethiopian coptic binding structure of hewn wooden boards, exposed string outside quires, looped and tied back onto the twine itself. Back board split vertically with old repair..... More

Philadelphia: W.W. Harding, 1865 (or after). Album 5 x 6 x 2.5 in. Title-page (a little foxed, verso blank), Index to portraits (2 pp.), followed by 25 thick cards creating 50 slots; all are filled, with 47 cartes-de-visite, 2 views, and one chromolithograph (a little foxed). Bound in original blue-green..... 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

Heidelberg: Richard Weissbach, 1955. Hardcover. Octavo, 315 pages, original cloth with gilt lettering. ¶ The first scientific catalog of the early German lithography, arranged alphabetically by the artist's last name. First published in 1925, this book is still considered an essential reference 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

Paris: Perrigot-Masure, n.d. (ca. 1922-1924). Folio (290 x 215 mm / 8.5" x 11.5"). An original sheet of mould-made wove paper, folded once to create a bifolium, edges untrimmed. Portrait of Dard Hunter as a young man expressed as a watermark on the right half of the sheet, his name..... 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

Lyon: 1901. Thick folio (445 x 305 mm; weight: 5 kg). Contemporary quarter black roan (abraiding but COMPLETELY SOUND), pebbled buckram boards (scuffed, corners bumped), original exposed sewing, three leather labels pasted on, marbled endpapers. Each facing page is protected by original tissue guards (some wrinkled or -- less frequently..... More

London: The Artist for the Members of the Art Union of London, 1896. Size: 490 x 243 (including buckle and protruding pin). Three pierced silver electroplate panels plus hinged buckle. All three pieces engraved at foot of the upper, lower and spine panels "ART UNION OF LONDON 1ST JANUARY 1896."..... More

San Pablito Pahuatlan in Puebla state, Mexico: 1981 (after). Crown 8vo (18 x 14 cm). Original handmade paper wrappers with muñeco illustration on front, with manuscript title, place, date of original composition, and the genuine signature of Alfonso Garcia Tellez. Handmade and handbound codex, folded accordion style, red ribbon ties..... More