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

Philadelphia: W.W. Harding, 1865 (or after). Album 5 x 6 x 2.5 in. Title-page (a little foxed, verso blank), Index to portraits (2 pp.), followed by 25 thick cards creating 50 slots; all are filled, with 47 cartes-de-visite, 2 views, and one chromolithograph (a little foxed). Bound in original blue-green..... More

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

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

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

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

Wittenberg: Lorenz Seuberlich, 1598. 4to. Album (263 x 195 mm) containing 62 woodcuts by Hans Brosamer, various sizes but generally 140 x 140 mm, each with Fraktur titles above, tipped onto blank leaves (some woodcuts printed on two sides and thus hinged) + title-page as above printed in red and..... 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 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

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