London: Thomas Hookan, 1829. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 240pp. Full polished calf by Riviere & Son. Spine in six compartments, gilt, with red and green lettering labels. Boards riled in gilt. Gilt inner dentelles. Top edge gilt; other edges untrimmed. Coated endpapers. A few scuff marks to the leather, minor... More
London: Longmans, 1929. Hardcover. Index. 16 photographs of hitherto unread manuscripts. The first Latin text taken direct from the earliest manuscripts together with the first literal translation of a parallel Welsh Chronicle. With a discussion of Geoffrey's Native Sources and the Ancient British Book which he claimed that he translated... More
Chicago: n.p., 1907. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Unpaginated. One of 100 copies of which this is number 51. Recent fine binding of full purple morocco, top board tooled in gilt. Frontispiece and titles pages illustrated by the author, as well as several initials in the text. Paste paper endpapers. The... More
St. Petersburg: Dmitry Sayenko; Nikodim, 2018. Limited edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, folio. Slipcased. One of 20 copies signed by Owens and Sayenko in the colophon. Prospectus laid in. The volumes are in fine, as new condition; the slipcase has a tiny bump on one corner else is fine. The main... More
n.p. Sup. Educ. Assn. (1930). Illustrated by M. E. Webb. Stiff card 6½ by 9½ inches, printed in color on the obverse and in black on the reverse. This card dates from about 1930 and was distributed by the New York Schools system as a teaching aid for various subjects... More
n.p. Sup. Educ. Assn. (1930). Illustrated by M. E. Webb. Stiff card 6½ by 9½ inches, printed in color on the obverse and in black on the reverse. There are two light creases along the right side else the card is in very good condition. This card dates from... More
n.p. Sup. Educ. Assn. (1930). Illustrated by M. E. Webb. Stiff card 6½ by 9½ inches, printed in color on the obverse and in black on the reverse. This card dates from about 1930 and was distributed by the New York Schools system as a teaching aid for various subjects... More
n.p. Sup. Educ. Assn. (1930). Illustrated by M. E. Webb. Three stiff cards 6½ by 9½ inches, printed in color on the obverse and in black on the reverse. These cards date from about 1930 and were distributed by the New York Schools system as a teaching aid for various... More
n.p. Sup. Educ. Assn. (1930). Illustrated by M. E. Webb. Stiff cards 6½ by 9½ inches, printed in color on the obverse and in black on the reverse. The cards date from about 1930 and were distributed by the New York Schools system as a teaching aid for various subjects... More
Gloucester: Board of Trade, (1909). Wraps. Oblong 8vo. (84)pp. String bound. Upper wrapper printed; lower wrapper plain. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Text covers Gloucester history, fisheries, catching fish, recipes, schools, etc., With a foldout panorama of Gloucester harbor, 4½ by 32 inches. Light wear and spotting,. panorama reinforced at... More
New York: Lange, Little & Co., Printers, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. (2),209pp. Publishers green cloth. No spine title. Cloth spotted, mainly on the front board, and some wear to edges and corners else this is a very good copy. Inscribed by Arnoux on the front preliminary blank to... More
n.p. Rebecca Press, 1986. Limited edition. Hardcover. 2 by 2½ inches. Unpaginated. Every other set of facing pages blocked in a letter of the alphabet in gilt, the letters artfully surrounded by fairies or putti and foliage. One of 200 copies, this one unnumbered. Bound in full honey-colored morocco, the... More
New York: White, Stokes, & Allen, 1887. Illustrated by Virginia Gerson. First edition. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Unpaginated (24pp.) Each page with a full page chromolithograph and the famous poem on the facing page. Red cloth spine, glazed pictorial boards, patterned endpapers. Boards scratched & rubbed and worn at edges... More
Hyattsvilole, MD: Rebecca Press, (1988). Hardcover. 2 by 2½ inches. Unpaginated. Each page with a historiated letter of the alphabet. Full black morocco with the upper board tooled in a rainbow of colors and type font marching off the edge. Decorative endpapers. This copy uniquely hand colored by Þ, who... More
New York: Arthur Lee & Company, c. 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 218pp. Green cloth with gilt spine title and blocked in gilt on the upper board. Illustrated with 4 full page photographs. Title page lacks bottom corner and has a small neat stamp of previous owner after title... More
(Westminster): (Wynkyn de Worde), (1527). Leaf. A single leaf on laid paper, 7½ by 11 inches printed in black. A small rubber stamped date (Dec. 2 1936) is impressed in the lower left corner margin of the first leaf, light corner stain, an erasure on the bottom margin, else this... More
(Westminster): (Wynkyn de Worde), (1527). Leaf. Two leaves, the first on watermarked laid paper, 7½ by 11 inches printed in black. A small rubber stamped date (August 2, 1928) is impressed in the lower left corner margin of the first leaf, some glue staining at the binding edge else this... More
(Westminster): (Wynkyn de Worde), (1493). Leaf. A single leaf on laid paper, 6½ by 10 inches printed in black. The top corners are browned and chipped, affecting the Folio number on the obverse and two letters on the reverse. The leaf is archivally mounted on a tissue frame for protection... 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
London: W. Strahan, et al. 1783. Hardcover. The seventh edition, corrected by the author. Two volumes bound in one. Half calf, spine in six compartments, gilt title and blind tooling, marbled paper boards. The binding is probably 19th century, and is signed by Sotheran. Some foxing throughout, with the first... More
London: A. Strahan and T Cadell, 1788. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 8vo. Early half calf, marbled papers boards, marbled endpapers, all edges stained yellow. Red morocco spine labels, gilt. Hinges cracked but firm. A very good set. With the bookplate of Charles Wells in each volume. And with newspaper... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. Drawings by Paul Woodroffe engraved on wood by Clemene Housman. Hardcover. 12mo. (4), 106pp. Contemporary full sheep in a pleasing light blue color, spine title in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Four full page woodcuts and several text vignettes. A trace of rubbing and... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxix,(1),132pp. Cloth spine gilt title, drab green paper over boards, top edge gilt. Light wear and a crease to the spine, a few pencil marginalia, else a very good coy. The is the French original of a lost Elizabethan translation... More
Santa Fé: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, 2018. Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo accordion book. Finely printed on Arches Cover Cream. The text is set in Packard typeface, designed by Baumann's Chicago friend Oz Cooper. Six postcard designs printed form Baumann's original woodblocks in celebration of the... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Tan cloth printed in black. Harper's Family Library No. CVI. Second issue with the dot over the eye missing and broken type on page 9. The rear board is also second state, listing 121,37,27 titles. Upper hinge cracked but firm;... More
