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

Middletown, Connecticut: Edwin Hunt, 1834. First Edition. 8vo. (6" x 3.75"): 1 f. (frontispiece), [iv] 5-227, [1] pp. (final unnumbered page = Index), COMPLETE with all eleven full-page woodcut plates of which one is the frontispiece (foxing throughout as is true in all copies on account of the paper stock..... More

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

London: The Evening News, 1918. Newsprint broadsheet (643 x 444). 2 pp. (not examined outside sleeve), printed in black with red "6:30" edition (?) stamp. Toned, particularly along the two folds, some evidence of staining and marginal tears (not objectionable). A remarkable survival, preserved in very good condition. ONE OF..... More

Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, F. Ferroud, 1911. 8vo. [iv], 25, [3] pp., engraved color-printed frontispiece, 6 color-printed vignettes, and 5 color-printed "insular" initials in the text. Contemporary red niger morocco, lower turn-in with gilt pallet-stamp "M. Marshall" (binding refurbished), upper cover with the monogram, crest and motto of the first..... More

London: 1834. Commemorative medal, silvered white metal (41 mm diameter). Not formally "graded" but in very good condition and NOT a reproduction! SERVITUS NUMISMATICA! A VERY LITTLE KNOWN ABOLITIONIST COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL, CELEBRATING THE EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT IN WHICH COLONIAL SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED BY THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT AND ROYAL ASCENT IN 1833, AND..... 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

Basel: Nicolaus Kessler, 1502. 4to (235 x 160 mm). 260 ff., COMPLETE. Lovely flourished Lombard initials rubricated throughout (some quite large), headings rubricated and underlined (some insignificant thumbing to first leaves, slight marginal worming to last 8 ff., unimportant spotting here and there). Contemporary Bamberg blind-tooled pigskin binding over bevelled..... More

Moscow: Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo, 1972. Folio (380 x 285 mm). Complete with 34 plates (of which 16 are double page), each of which has descriptive text in Russian on verso. TOGETHER WITH: 36-page booklet in Russian (cover with light brown offsetting from cardboard inside portfolio pocket). Original publisher's blue vinyl portfolio..... More

Magnificent TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Southern Christian Leadership Conference letterhead, 3-hole punch on left side, folded twice, evidence of rusty paperclip on upper left, boldly signed in blue ink by MLK Jr. TOGETHER WITH: copy of 2-page letter from the recipient, Earl Loganill, farm labor activist of McPherson..... More

Uppsala: Excud. L.M. Hojer, Reg. Acad. Typogr. 1755. First Edition. Small 4to (185 x 140mm). [4], 11, [3] pp. Collation: [pi]2, A4, B3 = COMPLETE. In Latin, French, Swedish. Woodcut headpiece vignette on p. [1], depicting the Tetragramaton, large 9-line woodcut initial. Stab-stitch sewn dissertation pamphlet, later gilt marbled spine..... More

Rio de Janeiro / Baltimore: 1849. Manuscript on paper. Folio (310 x 195 mm). Stitched in contemporary marbled stiff wrappers (worn and partially defective, shaken). 63 pp. numbered in MS. TOGETHER WITH: working collapsible brass spyglass (likely contemporary), three draws, lens cap no longer present, clearly damaged but FULLY FUNCTIONAL..... 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