Bath:Printed by S. Hazard for J. Johnson [etc.], 1795. 2 vols. 8vo, xii, (2), 248 (Preliminary Discourse), 266; viii, 519, (12, index)pp. Engraved fold-out map of Arabia, three genealogical tables (two folding), and a plate illustrating "The Temple of Mecca." all from the 1735 first edition.Old calf rebacked, a good... More about The Koran. Commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, translated from the Original Arabic; with...

No date [circa 1810-1825]. 7 original watercolors on individual sheets (c.180 x 220 mm), handwritten notes in ink on versos recording the name of the animal in English, French and Latin, and, in some cases, comments on its appearance and habits, matted alike. Marginal browning, seemingly caused by the mats... More about Seven original watercolors of birds and animals.

December 20, 1841. 4to, 1 pp., 10 lines in ink on lined paper. Old crease marks, very good and entirely legible. Custom quarter leather portfolio case with inset portrait. A letter from Lyell to the eminent American geologist William Barton Rogers, dating from Lyell's first visit to North America in... More about Autograph Letter Signed to W. Rogers.

Paris (1768). Folio, 253 x 393mm. 30 pages of descriptive text & 47 loose plates with their accompanying 2 text sheets from the volume of plates. Slight browning to margins, a little spotting otherwise very good. The 47 plates and descriptive text for the entry of Histoire Naturelle, Regne Minéral... More about Histoire Naturelle, Regne Minéral (Fossils and Minerals)Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire...

Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1909. Large 8vo, (20), 332, (8, index) pp. Illustrated throughout. Original green paper over boards stamped in gilt on both covers, dust-jacket, slipcase, a fine copy with the Joseph Halle Schaffner bookplate. Number 302 of 370 copies on handmade paper printed in red and black in... More about Geofroy Tory Painter and Engraver: First Royal Printer: Reformer of Orthography and Typography...

San Francisco: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, 1994. Each leaf is contained in a cloth-backed boards portfolio with an inserted 4-page essay printed at the Arion Press. The leaf is loose so it can be removed for framing or display. Portfolio boards a little soiled, leaf fine will some minor soiling... More about A Leaf from the Kelmscott Chaucer With an Essay on its Commercial History by John Windle.

San Francisco: John Howell, 1929. Thick large 8vo, xxxii, 422pp., including the appendix, bibliography, and index. Illustrated with numerous plates of facsimile letters, reproductions of engravings, photographs, etc., folding facsimile of the California Star, March 15, 1848 (1st Local mention of gold discovery). Bespoke de luxe binding by Root and... More about Seventy-Five Years in California. A History of Events and Life in California: Personal, Political...

San Francisco: Roxburghe Club, 1930. 8vo, 14, [1]pp. Original full vellum, title in gilt to front cover. Bookplate on front pastedown: “Ex Libris / Carl I. Wheat.” Fine. This is number 6 of ten copies on vellum. Printed on the occasion of the visit of George W. Jones and William... More about The Book Beautiful.

London: Constable, 1924. Large 8vo, xv, 487 pp. With a frontispiece and one plate. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. A very fine copy, with George Goyder's bookplate and notes. First edition. Goyder, the Blake collector and scholar of renown, noted at the front: "...after long search". Bentley 1455: “the... More about William Blake His Philosophy and Symbols.

New York: The Grolier Club, 2001. Roy. 8vo, (6), 121, (1)pp, illustrated throughout with b/w photos. Original qurter red cloth, marbled boards, as new. 350 unnumbered copies printed by Scott Vile at the Ascencius Press. The photos include several of prominent Grolier Club members, many of whom are still with... More about The Grolier Club Iter Veneticum.

London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1785. Sm. 8vo, iii-vii (lacks half-title), [1], 524, [1]pp. Modern full diaper calf panelled in gilt, backstrip stamped and lettered in gilt with 4 raised bands, a lovely retrospective binding by Dusel. First edition, mixed issue; E3, E4 and M4 are cancels, as usual;... More about The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. By James Boswell, Esq....

London: Soncino Press, 1931. Sm. folio, x,136 pp. and inserted leaves. Original beige buckram a little soiled despite being in the original slipcase (worn), internally clean. Number 106 of 275 copies printed in red and black on mould-made paper (with inset leaves on blue paper) and decorated throughout with printers'... More about The Curwen Press Miscellany. [With a "Catalogue Raisonne of Books printed at the Curwen...

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. 12mo, 80 double-fold pages, designed, illustrated, and hand-illuminated by Valenti Angelo. Original yellow blind-stamped morocco, black slipcase. As issued. Number 701 of an edition limited to 1500 copies, signed by the illuminator, Valenti Angelo. A lovely little edition incorporating some of Valenti Angelo's best work. More about The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam... a Definitive Text carefully selected from his Five differing...