Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co., ca. 1915? Square 4to., stapled as issued. COMPLETE: 6 leaves (12 pp.) including front cover and back cover, all printed on soft linen. Front and back cover plus 4 other pages printed in color, the rest monochrome (printed in blue/green) allowing for hand-coloring. Very worn..... More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003. Hardcover. Quarto, 247 numbered pages, with dustjacket. Profusely illustrated with 200 color photographs. ¶ A photographic tour of twenty-three of the world's most precious libraries, representing twelve countries and ranging from the great national monuments to scholarly, religious, and private libraries. De Laubier..... 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

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio, 104 pages, original quarter cloth over marbled boards. Illustrated with 16 colored plates. ¶ Pioneering and still essential history of aquatint illustration, limited to 500 copies, SIGNED by the author on the title page. More

Frankfurt: 1925. Hardcover. Calligraphic manuscript on paper: 10 pages, including an original watercolor by the artist, and bound by her. Written on Flinsche Paper (Frankfurt). Large "modernist" watercolor illustration on first leaf (evidence of deep pencil scratch in outer margin), on the recto a manuscript dedication (dated June 1925) being..... More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 320 pages, original cloth with gilt letter on spine, no dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in black and white and color. ¶ An authoritative survey of the world's greatest libraries and their holdings, profusely illustrated in black / white and color. Multiple..... More

Venice: Nicholaus Jenson, 1478 (before 6 May). First Edition. Four folio leaves (ca. 320 x 238 mm) extracted from a printed book, each leaf preserved in mylar L-sleeve. 2 cols., 48 lines, printed in red and black; 2-line initials in manuscript alternating in red and blue, and long, thin decorative..... More

Venice: Domenico Giglio; Paolo and Aldo Manutius, 1558; 1564. Ad 1: 8vo. 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 the first of two..... More

2015. 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers. 46 pp. + Catalogue of 17 items. 31 illustrations (some printed in color). NOT ex-library: the text is unblemished and free from stamps and ugly markings! Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "In praise of Aldus Manutius (ca. 1452-1515)" held at PRPH..... More

Oppenheim: J. Kobel, 1518 (March 24). First Edition. Folio (textblock: 310 x 210 mm; binding: 315 x 220 mm). [14], 74, [50] ff., COMPLETE. Illustrated with a fine historiated woodcut border on the title-page, and on the Dedication to the Emperor Maximilian with the armorial devices of the chief states..... More

London: Farrand Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 374 pages, frontispiece and 282 figures illustrating the text. Original cloth, gilt. ¶ The definitive statement on the subject, meticulously researched by the acknowledged authority of book illustration processes. Herein the author seeks to introduce a little-known area of book design and..... More

Boston: n.d. (1795). 12mo. Bifolium. Unpaginated but [4] pp., final page blank. Toned, edges a little worn. Preserved in a mylar sleeve. This diminutive advertisement is a remarkable survival, and seems to represent a separate issue of the advertisement that appears in David West's 1795 publication of "Catechism of Nature..... More