London: H. Humphr[ey]ies, 6 April 1813. Broadside, 8 x 12 3/4” hand-colored etching, title information printed below. Mounted, minor foxing to outer edges; very good. § Probably an early proof. Satirical portrait of a stout gentleman on horseback, unsigned but likely by James Gillray. Hannah Humphrey was the sister of..... More
Paris: chez Basset... [circa 1796]. Broadside 13 1/4 x 16 5/8”, hand-colored engraving 11 1/4 x 15 1/2”, blind stamp of a bee to the lower left corner, mounted. Small chip to right edge, otherwise very good. § Likely published close to the date of the Battle of Lodi. Top..... More
New York: n.d. [1896]. Broadside 12 x 18”, color lithograph, text in black. Upper left corner is chipped, some small tears and foxing to outer margins; good. § Original print, shows an artist painting a life size woman on a large canvas. LOC 2015647299. More
n.p.:n.d. 12 x 15” color paintings and a map on papyrus; like new. § A printed modern reproduction of the “Oldest Map in the World According to Herodotus 450 B.C. After Bunbury, History of Ancient Geography.” A hand painted reproduction of a scene from the Eighteenth Dynasty tomb of Rekhmire..... More
San Francisco: Amaranth Press, 1978. Folio, 10 1/2 x 16 1/2”, color printed calendar, loosely bound at the top-edge with string. § Limited edition. “The material in this calendar has been adapted from original Egyptian antiquities as identified in their captions...”. More
1930. 7 3/8 x 9 3/4” watercolor on paper, artist initials and date in lower right corner; very good. § Original watercolor painting from the American School, signed in initial. More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1975. Slim 4to, [32]ff. Illustrated throughout entirely with color plates within b/w elaborate borders. Original quarter cloth and illustrated boards, dust-jacket, as new. § First American edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author in 1977 in Japanese and English. Commended runner-up for the Kate Greenaway..... More
[ca. 1890]. Oblong label from an apple crate. 4 1/2” tall x 14” wide. Full-color illustrations. Some chipping to corners. Moderate spotting with a crease from top to bottom. § A charming Victorian chromolithographic label depicting two children standing under an apple tree with six more children peering over the..... More
London-Paris-New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Co. Ltd. n. d. [circa 1890-1900]. Small slim 8vo., [8] pp., in-text illustrations including two chromolithographed illustrations, staple bound linen with chromolithograph wrappers, cover title. Cover slightly darkened, edges slightly frayed, some stains; good. § Father Tuck’s “Dolly Dear Series,” Artistic Series No. 2802..... More
London-Paris-New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Co. Ltd. n. d. [circa 1895]. Small slim 8vo, [8] pp., text and illustrations printed in brown excepting two chromolithograph illustrations, staple bound linen with chromolithograph wrappers, cover title. Some pages creased, cover slightly discolored, joint has a tear, some stains; good. § Father..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. 8vo, (vi), 242, (1) pp. Original quarter cloth with blue boards lettered in gilt, a few light marks to the backstrip. Original unclipped dust-jacket, spine panel faded, some worming, largely to the rear panel. § First US edition. Based on the New Zealand novelist’s..... More
Philadelphia: J. T. Bowen, n.d. [circa 1856-71). Stone color lithograph 5 x 7 1/2”, with printed title information, mounted; very good. § Original lithograph from a later printing of the octavo edition of The Birds of North America , this is No. 29 Pl. 141. The background is tinted blue..... More
Philadelphia: J. T. Bowen, n.d. [circa 1856-71). Stone color lithograph 5 x 7 1/2”, with printed title information, mounted; very good. § Original lithograph from a later printing of the octavo edition of The Birds of North America , this is No. 13 Pl. 61. The background is tinted blue..... More
Leipsic: Karl Baedeker Publisher, 1894. Small 8vo., xliii, 411 pp., 9 color maps including many fold-outs. Full red pebbled cloth, stamped in blind, with gilt title, marbled edges. Backstrip slightly rubbed; otherwise very bright clean copy. Ex-library copy with call number written in white on the backstrip, library bookplate to..... More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker Publisher, 1910. Small 8vo., xxxviii, 430 pp., 47 color maps including many fold-outs. Full red pebbled cloth, stamped in blind, with gilt title, marbled edges. Backstrip slightly rubbed; otherwise very good. § Fifteenth revised edition. The maps and travel plans are meant to aid the traveler so..... More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker Publisher, 1911. Small 8vo., xxxiv, 554 pp., 69 color maps including many fold-outs. Full red pebbled cloth, stamped in blind, with gilt title, marbled edges. Backstrip slightly rubbed; otherwise very good. § Seventeenth revised edition. The German first edition of The Rhine was published in 1828, and..... More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker Publisher, 1907. Small 8vo., xxx, 335 pp., 30 color maps including many fold-outs. Full red pebbled cloth, stamped in blind, with gilt title, marbled edges. Backstrip slightly rubbed, lacking the front fold-out map; otherwise good. § Tenth revised edition. In earlier editions Southern Germany was combined in..... More
London: MacMillan & Co., LTD, 1945. 8vo, x, 146, [2]pp. plus frontispiece and 15 plates in black and white. Original black cloth titled in gilt to backstrip; frontispiece from an engraving, with 15 black-and-white plates. Some staining and rubbing to boards, slight bumping to bottom right corner. Signed by author..... More
San Francisco: Schmidt Label & Litho Co., The Wasp, Aug. 15, 1885 Folio 13 3/4 x20 1/4”, pp. 7-10, two-page color lithograph 11 1/2 x 18 1/8”, text to verso. small tear along center fold, chipping and foxing to edges; very good. § From the original edition of this issue..... More
V.p., v.d. -Single leaf, 11 1/2 x 16 1/2, printed on both sides, oval portrait to recto, color facsimile to verso; very good. -Folio, 10 1/4 x 15”, with photographic frontisportrait inlaid, facsimile of a handwritten letter tipped in, printed in black and red, deckled fore- and lower edge; very..... More
Berlin and New York: Bruno Hessling, n.d. [circa 1900]. Folio, title-page, 36 b&w heliotypes tinted with yellow. Disbound plates housed in a quarter blue cloth portfolio with beige paper boards printed in raw umber with floral illustrations, and cloth ties. Portfolio is a bit rubbed around the edges, some minor..... More
New York: Viking Press, [1975]. 8vo, (7), 487pp. Original printed yellow wrappers, tiny stain on backtrip, edges just browned. § Advance reading copy with insert from the publisher. Signed by Bellow, who won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year. The novel..... More
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London: Robert Barker, 1613. Single leaf 15 1/2 x 11”, printed on both recto and verso in two columns, with woodcut initials. Mounted; very good. § From the second edition, with 72 lines as opposed to 52 for the first edition. “John: 11:1, Christ raiseth Lazarus...” One of the most..... More
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London: Robert Barker, 1611. Single leaf 15 1/2 x 11”, printed on both recto and verso in two columns, with woodcut initials. Foxing to outer margins, top-edge has some tears and curling; good. § From either the first or second state of the first edition. Ecclesiasticus: 27:1-30, 28: 1-26, 29:1-6..... More
[Novus Atlas: 1643]. Folio 20 x 24”, hand-colored engraving 15 x19 1/2”, two cartouches with pastoral figures and putti, the Royal coat of arms, the local coat of arms, and a plumed crown with "Sche Diene" along the rim, Latin text to verso. § From an early edition of Blaeu's..... More
