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, 422 pp., 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... 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

Providence: Brown University Press, 1965. Royal 8vo, xii, 460 [461-463] pages; 12 plates (including 2 double-page maps), some with accompanying keys. Original cloth, a very good copy. Bookplate of George Goyder. First edition, presentation copy inscribed: "To George to be read at leisure with the affection of Foster". "This enormous... More about A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake

[Meriden CT]: Bayberry Hill Press, 1971. Slim folio, (5), 22, (1, colophon)pp. Original quarter red cloth with red marbled boards, printed title label on the upper cover, board tips worn, large ding to the top edge of the lower board, internally fine. Number 42 of approximately 80 copies. Includes a.... More about Bookman's Holiday. Drawings by Richard Brzozowski

Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1905. 4to, 386 pp., printed in red and black, with notes, running side-titles, and numerous initials printed in red. Original limp vellum lettered in gilt. First Doves Press edition, one of 300 unnumbered copies. Early examples of the Doves Press’ graceful design, decorative use of red initials... More about Paradise Regained. A Poem in IV Books. To which are added Samson Agonistes & Poems both...

Bicester: Primrose Hill Press, 2003. Large 4to, xii, 426 pp., with 396 illustrations. Marbled boards, cloth backstrip, slipcase, as new. De luxe edition limited to 30 copies with a print (Shoveler Duck) from the original woodblock printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. Self-evidently rare. More about The Life and Work of Robert Gibbings

London: Methuen & Co., 1908. 8vo, (6), 302 pp., frontispiece by Graham Robertson with tissue guard. Original blue green cloth with pictorial gilt designs on backstrip and upper cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Recased, backstrip relined, new endpapers, small stain in the top right margin up to p. 71... More about The Wind in the Willows