![Item #3224 [FRENCH GOTHIC COFFRET CA. 1560 WITH CONTEMPORARY WOODCUT IN SITU]. Anonymous French...](/pictures/thumb/3224.jpg?v=1601261704)
(Lyon or Paris): Ca. 1550-1570 (?). The coffret measures (in mm) ca. 280 (long) x 190 (wide) x 115 (high): around sides are four looped metal fittings for leather straps, all five original hinges on back, on front the original iron hasp facade with forged "pine leaf" decoration, keyhole &..... More
![Item #3899 [LAMOIGNON COPY]. Memoirs of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, from the year 1581 till her...](/pictures/thumb/3899.JPG?v=1668859204)
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1754. First Edition. 2 vols., 4to. Elegant contemporary French blue morocco, smooth spines gilt (faded to chestnut brown), vol. 1 with special label at the foot of the spine gilt with the author's name, place of imprint, and date, inner dentelles gilt, marbled pastedowns and..... More
![Item #864 Responce [i.e. response] d'un notable serviteur du roy a un sien amy, sur le discours...](/pictures/thumb/864.jpg?v=1553284741)
Tours: Chez Jamet Mettayer, Imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, 1594. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 33 pp. Mettayer's wodcut device on title-page with motto: "Omni praestantior arte." Sympathetically bound in the antique style: recent quarter calf over speckled boards, red morocco label; small blemish on title; four leaves (including title) with blind-stamp..... More
![Item #584 [SCOTTISH RESISTANCE 1682]. A serious expostulation with that party in Scotland,...](/pictures/thumb/584.jpg?v=1584884763)
London: Printed by J[ohn] D[arby] for Richard Chiswell, 1682. First Edition. Softcover. Small quarto. Collation: A-H4 (final verso blank), COMPLETE. Pagination: 63, [1] pp. Recent sympathetic wrappers. Small 19th-century printed booklabel on upper left corner of title-page ("1047"). Unobtrusive blind-stamp of the Theological Institute of Connecticut (now known as the..... More
![Item #691 [SAMMELBAND - FRENCH REVOLUTION]. [Sammelband of four rare texts concerning the...](/pictures/thumb/691.jpg?v=1553284729)
Paris: 1790. First Edition. Hardcover. Dates: 1790-1794. Together 4 texts in one volume, bound for Comte de Hennezel d'Ormoy: early 20th-century half basane over marbled boards, spine gilt aux armes (see below). ¶ Legal judgments from the French Revolution, all first editions, all of great rarity. Includes the sentencing of..... More
![Item #565 [GLORIOUS REVOLUTION / ABDICATION OF JAMES II]. The debate at large, between the House...](/pictures/thumb/565.jpg?v=1584829864)
London: Printed for J. Wickins; and to be sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1695. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Octavo. COLLATION: A-B4 C-F8 G-Q4, COMPLETE. [2], 19-176 pp. Attractive half calf antique, marbled boards, red morocco label gilt, compartments gilt with small tools. ¶ FIRST EDITION of this important..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1996. Hardcover. Octavo, 470 pages, original cloth with dustjacket. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. ¶ The flowering of civilization, the rebirth of classical scholarship, and the emergence of some of the greatest artists and thinkers the world has known: this is the traditional view..... More
![Item #3671 [COLLECTION OF 8 JEANNE D'ARC / JOAN OF ARC PAMPHLETS, IN FRENCH, 1886-1956]. Joan of...](/pictures/thumb/3671.jpg?v=1642864044)
1886-1956. All in original wrappers, conditions vary from fair to very good (some wrappers chipped and worn; some textblocks browned and brittle on account of the WWI paper supply). One pamphlet is ex-Harvard (duplicate) with associated markings, another is a presentation copy. Small collection of 8 French pamphlets celebrating the..... More
![Item #30 [ANCIENT FUNERALS]. De funeribus Romanorum libri quatuor cum appendice. Accessit et...](/pictures/thumb/30.jpg?v=1553284700)
Leiden: apud Hackios, 1672. Romeyn de Hooghe. Hardcover. 12mo., 2 parts in 1 volume: 23 ff., 649 pp. (wrongly numbered 641), 22 ff.; 24 pp. With fine etched frontispiece and 4 etched folding plates by Romeyn de Hooghe. Woodcut printer's device on both titles. Many passages in Greek. BOUND WITH..... More
![Item #3158 [REFORMATION]. Johannes Zwick und die Reformation in Konstanz / Quellen und...](/pictures/thumb/3158.jpg?v=1595430184)
Gutersloh, Germany: Gutersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, 1961. First Edition. 8vo. 308 pp. pp. Original cloth (a trifle dusty). NOT ex-library! The definitive, critical biography of Johannes Zwick (ca. 1496-1542) who with his brother Konrad, and Ambrosius and Thomas Blarer, implemented the Reformation in Constance and "deputized" other brothers in other..... More
![Item #1779 [BOOK THIEF / BOOK THEFTS]. Scientist, Scholar & Scoundrel: A Bibliographical...](/pictures/thumb/1779.jpg?v=1589687433)
New York: The Grolier Club, 2013. Softcover. Octavo, 176 numbered pages, illustrations in both black and white and color. ¶ Biographical and bibliographic account of Count Libri, known for his activity as a book collector and book thief. More
![Item #564 [SCOTLAND, 1703]. Some thoughts on the present state of affairs. Humbly offered to the...](/pictures/thumb/564.jpg?v=1553284717)
[Edinburgh]: 1703. First Edition. Softcover. Together two volumes, small quarto. 12 pp., COMPLETE. Stitched in old blue paper wrappers at a recent date. Contemporary (or near-contemporary) author attributions in ink on title-pages, faint blind-stamps on first and final leaves of both pamphlets. BOTH editions of Sinclair's pamphlet recommending Scottish parliamentary..... More
![Item #3877 [UKRAINE - TWO UNRECORDED NAZI WEHRMACHT FIELD PRINTINGS OF KYIV]. "Blick v.d. Lissa...](/pictures/thumb/3877.JPG?v=1666718343)
Kyiv: 1941 (before Nov. 3). Together 2 views (205 x 325 mm; 8" x 13") printed on cheap, thin paper (Ad 1: long closed tear through image without loss, light staining creasing, edges a little frayed; Ad 2: short closed tears along edges, two small holes in blank area at..... More
![Item #3632 [MEXICAN SOCIALIST ANTI-FASCIST BROADSIDE, 1930s] "Atencion Mexicanos" Union General...](/pictures/thumb/3632.jpg?v=1639666804)
Broadsheet (297 x 200 mm). Printed in red on inferior paper (creased, frayed at margins). Preserved in a mylar sleeve. RARE MEXICAN SOCIALIST ANTI-FASCIST / ANTI-FALANGE BROADSIDE, PRINTED ON THE CHEAPEST PAPER POSSIBLE, INEXPLICABLY PRESERVED FOR AT LEAST 80 YEARS. The dating of the broadside can be determined by the..... More
![Item #3272 [SOVIET DESIGN / PROPAGANDA]. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics / New York World's...](/pictures/thumb/3272.jpg?v=1605064871)
[New York]: Pavilion of the U.S.S.R. at the New York World's Fair, 1939. First Edition. Tall pamphlet (230 x 105). 12 pp., stapled as issued, original wrappers printed in red and black. Remarkable but little known Soviet graphic design, intended for liberal distribution at the 1939 New York World's Fair..... More
Basileae (Basel): Thomas Guarinus, 1575. First Edition. Small 4to. [8], 185, [23] pp. Modern vellum, red and white mottled edges. Old shelf-mark (?) "4069" in ink on title. Light foxing throughout. Overall very good. "All Things Burgundian." This early and impressive Renaissance chronicle of Burgundy covers the years 408 to..... More
