![FRENCH GOTHIC COFFRET CA. 1560 WITH CONTEMPORARY WOODCUT ILLUSTRATING COURTLY LOVE]. Anonymous...](/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
![CALIFORNIA]. Sonoma County and Russian River Valley Illustrated. TOGETHER WITH: Map of Sonoma...](/pictures/thumb/3393.jpg?v=1612466834)
San Francisco: Published by Bell & Heymans, 1888. First Edition. Folio (350 x 258 mm). 86, ix, [1] pp., including fascinating advertisements. Original wrappers (chipped and foxed). Wrappers with two-color lithographs + 44 b/w lithographs illustrating the text (some extending over 2 pages), all by Britton & Rey, San Francisco..... More
![INCUNABULA REFERENCE]. Early Dutch, German, and English Printers' Marks. Jean Philibert Berjeau](/pictures/thumb/2218.jpg?v=1592542345)
London: E. Rascol, 1866. First Edition. Large 8vo (260 x 165 mm). Contemporary Roxburghe binding, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine and binding extemities somewhat worn, 3 cm. crack at top of front cover). Inside back cover an early bookseller's label of the firm of [William] Downing, The Chaucer's Head..... More
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
1785. Two vols., 12mo. xxiv, 422, [2]; [2], 400, [2] pp. Both vols. uncut, vol. II partially unopened. Contemporary "temporary" binding of patterned paper over flexible boards, all-over decoration of green and pink leaves, traces of original paper labels on spines lettered in MS, inside all 4 covers are printed..... 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
![BOOK ARTS]. Small Teaching Collection of five (5) Gold-printed Brocade Relief Paper specimens....](/pictures/thumb/3075.jpg?v=1591066587)
Augsburg and Nuremberg: 1720-1820. A quantity of five sheets, the largest being 28.5 cm x 19 cm, the smallest 18 cm x 16.5 cm. The specimens offered here are smaller portions of what once were larger sheets. One of the samples was apparently used as a back wrapper at some..... 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
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
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 123 pages, original cloth, gilt. With 24 color illustrations. ¶ Bamber Gascoigne offers a broad historical survey of advancements in colour printing from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. From Marie Korey's review in PBSA: "Gascoigne provides an overview of the..... More
Cambridge: University Press, 1931. First Edition. Large 4to. Engraved frontispiece ("La belle ecriture demande un esprit gai"), xl, 226 pp. 81 plates. Original light-brown quarter cloth over decorated ("marbled") cloth boards (very small abrasion at tail of spine). Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Dust-wrapper soiled and defective, inside lined with..... 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
![SPIDER WEB BOOKBINDING]. Spring Floods and A Lear of the Steppe. Ivan Turgenev, Turgenieff](/pictures/thumb/1270.jpg?v=1553284498)
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
![INCUNABULA - PRINTED ON VELLUM]. Breviarium Romanum (16 consecutive pages / ENTIRE GATHERING)....](/pictures/thumb/3425.jpg?v=1615178703)
Venice: Nicholaus Jenson, 1478 (before 6 May). First Edition. Folio (ca. 320 x 238 mm) printed on vellum. The entire gathering "z" comprising 16 consecutive pages, printed on four parchment sheets, each folded once to produce 8 folios (conjugate), extracted from a printed book, medieval (?) sewing thread visible in..... More
![CHIVALRIC ROMANCE - GUY OF WARWICK]. The Renowned History (or the Life and Death) of Guy Earl of...](/pictures/thumb/3373.jpg?v=1611322213)
London: Printed by A.M. for C. Bates, at the Sun and Bible (etc.), 1710 (circa). Quarto (189 x 155 mm). 79 pp. + 1 p. ads. Illustrated with 16 woodcut illustrations (4 of the woodblocks are repeated). Last line of imprint cropped with loss of the words: "Spur-street, and by..... More
![ALDINE PRESS / GIGLIO PRESS]. Together 2 volumes: I. Lettere Volgari di diversi nobilissimi...](/pictures/thumb/3049.jpg?v=1600272795)
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
Chicago: Old Dutch Cleanser, 1933 / 1934. First Edition. 8vo. 8.75 x 6" -- 32 pp. Original color-printed wrappers, stapled as issued. Illustrated throughout in green and black. Excellent condition. This is easily the most "Art Deco" of all hygienic promotional materials known to us, with its severe and stylized..... 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
!["BLOOK" / AMERICAN FOLK ART]. Hand-hewn, hand-painted wooden Blook with "secret compartment" wood...](/pictures/thumb/3415.jpg?v=1614787683)
Elmira, NY or Auburn NY: 1900. Wooden blook (4.75 x 6.25"). A hand-made wooden box in the shape of a 12mo book with a compartment carved from the interior and lined with blue velvet. In very good condition with a 1" x 3" section of varnish removed on the front..... 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
![Creations Cointreau. [A quantity of 3 menu cards printed in chromolithography]. Nicolas ....](/pictures/thumb/2984.jpg?v=1582353006)
Paris: Imp. des Arts Industriels, 1900 (ca.). 3 sheets (250 x 170 mm). These curious fin-de-siecle Parisian chromolithographs were created by the noted designer Francesco Nicolas Tamagno and are a joy to behold, as well as being perfectly suited for instructional purposes. Tamagno (1851-1933), an Italian by birth, lived in..... 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
Unbound. Undated (Late 19th-century). In a large 4to. binder. The condition is clean and quite fresh. A collection of curious Victorian "Cross Writing" examples. "Cross Writing" was usually reserved for love letters or close family members; it was initially a technique to maximize the amount of text that could be..... More
![MEXICAN LITHOGRAPHY]. La Destruccion de Pompeya. Obra escrita por Niceto de Zamacois. Niceto de...](/pictures/thumb/3432.jpg?v=1615760702)
Mexico City: Ignacio Cumplido, 1871. First Edition. 2 vols. 4to (27.8 x 19.8 cm). Vol. I: [4], [i] ii-v [1, blank], [1] 2-248 pp., 12 lithograph plates (including frontispiece portrait of author); Vol. II: [1-3] 4-464, [2] pp., 26 lithograph plates. Total 38 lithograph plates of views and archaeological scenes..... More
