New York: Transcribed and Illustrated at Cooper Union, 1952. Small folio (261 x 167 mm). Calligraphic manuscript on paper. [2], 8 pp. Loosely inserted ink and watercolor drawing. Original hand-sewn blue wrappers; stitched to upper wrapper is a paper label lettered in manuscript: "The Harper and Other Fables." Old scribbles..... 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

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

Arezzo, Italy: Sacchetti, n.d. Miniature silver "blook" (28 x 22 x 7 mm), with blue enamel "covers" and red enamel "spine labels," hinged at front cover which opens to reveal a tiny compartment, edges of "textblock" appropriately striated, and the latch on the "fore-edge" in perfect working order. Excellent, and..... 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, PRESENTATION COPY from the author to Bernard Breslauer, signed on the half-title..... More

New York: J.J. Augustin, 1944. First Trade Edition. Small 4to. [10], 120 pp., color frontispiece of the Dresden Codex, 39 plates. Original cloth, original dust-jacket protected by Brodart. Apart from minor wear, an unspoiled copy in very good state: dust-jacket NOT price-clipped, NOT ex-library! First Trade Edition, Review copy, with..... 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

New-Haven, CT: Sidney's Press for J. Babcock & Son, 1820. 32mo. (103 x 60 mm). Woocut frontispiece, title-page, alphabet on verso with uppercase roman and italic type, pp. [5]-30 + 1 p. ads for J. Babcock & Son. Contemporary (original?) American "Dutch" gilt floral wrappers, stitched (overcase stitching at a...... More

Brookfield, Mass. E. and G. Merriam, 1828. 8vo. 222 pp. Woodcut frontispiece + 2 full-page woodcut plates (found opposite pp. 108 and 144). Original SCALEBOARD binding: quarter sheep over thin scaleboard, both boards covered with blue printed papers (both quite rubbed, affecting legibility, board bowed). One half of the rear..... More

Denmark: 2019-2021. Portfolio (22 x 16 cm) containing one calligraphic title-page on boiled handmade tissue paper, and 32 pages of boiled botanical specimens on thick artist paper created by Merete Veian; each page with calligraphic musings and poetry by Camelia Elias. The entire ensemble is surrounded by a chemise of..... More