Paris: La Bibliotheque des Arts, 1990. Fernando Botero. Limited edition. Hardcover. Folio. 161,(3)pp. Red cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board, the latter having an illustration of a bull in addition to the title. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white, with 74 illustrations on full..... More
NY: American Tract Society, n.d., ca. 1850. Hardcover. Original cloth, gilt and blind. spine 7 full page plates. Lightly foxed and a little cocked else a very good copy. More
n.p., The Chivalry Bookshelf, (2001). First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 123,(1)pp. Printed wraps. Originally translated into English by Caxton, and now rendered into modern English from a copy in the British Library. Also includes the Anonymous Ordene de Chevalerie. A fine copy. More
London: The Scolar Press, 1976. Limited edition. Hardcover. Three volumes, 4to. Issued in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the introduction of printing into England by William Caxton. Each volume is bound in full calf in period-style by the Eddington Bindery. Spines in five compartments with raised bands. Titles..... More
London: Printed by Tho. Hodgkin, and are to be sold by John Newton, 1687. Hardcover. First Illustrated Edition in English. Folio. 18], 616 [i.e. 612], [3] pp. A7 (3rd and 6th l. signed: A2), c2, B-R4, S3, T-2O4, 2P3, 2Q-4I4, 4K2. Translated by John Phillips. With copper-engraved frontispiece & 8..... More
London: Blackie & Son, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xii, 245, (3)pp, including a 2 page publisher's catalogue. 11 full page color plates, illustrated title page, 19 half page illustrations by Walter Crane. Publisher's dull red cloth blocked on the spine in black and tan, and on both boards in..... More
NY: OUP, (1937). First edition. Hardcover. Charming b&w illustrations, some full page, of this zoo hippopotamus on his first birthday. Printed cloth. Trace of soil at edges else a near fine copy; dustwrapper has a chip at head of spine else about fine. More
London: John Murray, 1824. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vii,(1),208pp. Original drab boards, cloth spine. Engraved frontispiece of James I and a large folding engraving of a charter by him in his own hand. Boards worn at edges, but text block totally uncut (as expected), though there is some light..... More
n.p. (Portland, OR): The Chamberlain Press, 1980. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Unpaginated [22] pp. Marbled paper-covered boards with brown leather spine with dark brown spine titles, gray endpapers, rough cut fore-edge. The type is handset Goudy Bold and the paper is Hosho. Sarah Chamberlain designed and printed the book and..... More
London: B. and S. Tooke, 1723. Hardcover. London, 1723. 'The Six and Twentieth Edition of the South Part, call'd England, and Fifth of the North Part, call'd Scotland; with Improvements, and more correct and larger Additions in the List of the Officers, etc. than in any former Impression; together with..... More
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1927. Hardcover. 8vo. 299pp. Green cloth. Gilt titles on spine and upper board. Index, bibliographical note; extracts of chronicle records. Spine faded, gilt rubbed, else very good copy of a respected work. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1895. First English edition. Hardcover. First English edition. 12mo. Original brown cloth blocked in gray and black. Top edge gilt. 314pp. followed by a 6 page publisher's catalogue. Lacks ffep, cloth has a couple of small bubbles, else this is a very good to near fine..... More
Irongate, Derby: J. Drewry, ca. 1790. Wraps. 12mo. 16pp. Illustrated with 12 woodcuts. Self wrappers. Likely the first edition. Uncut and unbound: A single sheet printed on both sides, folded for binding, but never cut or bound. Rare in this condition. Osborne ascribed a date of c. 1790, a similar..... More
(London): J. Pitts, Printer and toy warehouse, n.d. (ca. 1810). Early Edition. Disbound. Disbound. 8pp. Woodcut of beehive on title page. Contents listed on the first page: 13 items, beginning with "She Lives not a Mile from the Meadow". Date of printing, based on Todd from the imprint address, is..... More
London: James Flesher, 1662. Emblem frontispiece of the Royal Arms; Engraved title by Hertochs; 3 double-page engravings. Original full leather boards tooled in a Cambridge design; modern reback in matching leather, 6 raised bands, spine in 7 compartments, red leather lettering piece, gilt. The textblock is darkened around the..... More
London: Printed for the Limited Editions Club, 1934. Limited edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Tall 4tos. Rendered into modern English verse by Frank Ernest Hill. White buckram spines printed in black; gray paper sides with Chaucer's arms printed in black and red. One of 1500 copies finely printed by George W...... More
Santa Fé: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, (2016). Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. 59pp. plus colophon. One of 80 numbered copies. Printed letterpress at the Palace Press by Tom Leech and James Bourland on handmade wove Spanish paper from the Garza Paper Mill. The typeface is digital Bodoni..... More
New York: The James A. McCann Company, (1922). Illustrations by Robert Lawson. First edition. Hardcover. 4to, (10 1/2 x 12 1/8”), blue-grey gilt and pictorial cloth. Each page of text has pale green line illustrations by Lawson. There are pictorial headpieces done in black, decorative initials, pictorial endpapers plus 6..... More
London: J. Dodsley, 1774. First edition. Very good. First edition. Two volumes. 4to. [4], vii, [1], 568; [4], 606, [1]pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Second state (Type B) with text at I, 55, corrected. Contemporary full calf; spines in six compartments, gilt; gilt titles. Portrait lightly offset to title page. Both..... More
London: J. Dodsley, 1774. Second edition. Hardcover. Second edition. 8vo. Four volumes. Contemporary binding of full polished calf; spines in 6 compartments with simple gilt rules; red morocco lettering pieces, gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the Earl of Chesterfield in volume one. Hinges cracked but firm; light edgewear; closed marginal..... More
French: n.p., ca. 1825. 11 engraved cut-out figures or objects including ferryman, three couples, wolf, goat, cabbage and boat, to be slotted into boat, , original box with engraved pictorial label colored by hand, A rare children's game, possibly printed by the Parisian publisher Nepveau. Contained in the box measuring..... More
Chefoo, China: Temple Hill Cut-outs, c. 1930 or earlier. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Eight leaves of handmade heavy paper interleaved with text leaves printed on glassine. Each page has a silhouette intricately cut out of black paper and mounted. Bound in a Chinese-style binding with woven tapestry covers depicting a stream..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 321pp. Red cloth printed in black on the spine, Illustrated with a facsimile of the manuscript. Index. A fine, as new copy. The dustwrapper is fine as new as well. Mayan Christian copybooks, Chilam Balams and native..... More
late 1800's. Original Victorian Christmas and New Year's cards dating the the late 19th century. Generally single sheets, folded, about 3.25 x 5 inches to a little larger The fronts are chromolithographed; two have an applied fringe. Friendship verses. Faint soil but generally in very good. condition and unused. Two..... More
New York: McLoughlinBros. 1898. Folio. (12pp.) Cloth spine, stapled card wraps. Six pages of bright chromolithographs. Most of the book is devoted to the story of the 3 little kittens, but this is followed by half a dozen illustrated nursery rhymes. Cloth spine is later; book is soiled with some..... More
