1826. Boston: Christian Register Office, 1826. 12mo, 48pp. lacking covers. Chipping to front free endpaper with folds at top right corner. Tear along front hinge about 1-inch from bottom. Inscription to front free endpaper, and notes throughout. In a new cloth folding box. § Inscribed by Percy Loring to the..... More
1975. San Francisco: Valenti Angelo, 1975. Small booklet (16 x 15 cm), [16] pp., with 7 hand-colored geometric decorations by Angelo. Original wrappers with printed paper label. Fine. § Limited to 100 copies "printed for the friends of Valenti Angelo" and signed by him. The text is a poem by..... More
1738. Londres [i.e. Amsterdam?] : Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1738. 12mo, (4), 179pp. Title- printed in red and black. Ink signature “Carteret Harvey” on A1. 19th-century blue cloth, red label, red edges, very good. § OCLC: 12073708: “Miscellany, comprising a grotesque fairy tale, a philosophical epistle and a series..... More
1670. London: printed by S[arah]. G[riffin]. and B[ennet]. G[riffin]. for William Lee, and are to be sold at his shop, at the sign of the Turks head in Fleetstreet over against Fetter Lane, anno Domini 1671. Thick folio, [12], 17, [1], 192, 187-255, [3], 99, [19], 8, [2], 16, [2]..... More
1801. [London : Dalla Stamperia di Gul. Bulmer, 1801]. Thick 4to, [2], [1], 1-721 pp. Printed in English and Italian. Contemporary red straight-grained goatskin, flat spine banded with double gilt rules, single gilt rule to the margins of the boards, all edges gilt, some foxing to the preliminaries, binding repaired..... More
1935. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935. Large 4to, text, illustrations including 63 color facsimile plates, in six fascicles in original wrappers with labels; near fine copy, small stain to one wrapper, enclosed in the original blue cloth box, rather worn. § A magnificent production, showing for the first time..... More
1785. London: C. Dilly, 1785. 8vo, (4), 310, (1, ads.) pp. Original or contemporary American calf, red morocco label, a bit worn with hinges splitting but quite sound. Foot of the first leaf cut away below the text to remove an inscription. § First (London) edition, apparently no US printing..... More
1824. New York: N. Bangs and T. Mason for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1824. 8vo, ix, 432 pp. Full sheep, flat spine, red label on backstrip. Considerably worn, foxed, and stained, frontispiece torn. A good copy only. § First American edition, published the same year by J & T Clarke..... More
1350. Tuscany: c. 1350. Folio, 430 x 308 mm. Single leaf. With four-line staves of music on both sides with five (recto) and six (verso) lines of text beneath. With a very fine initial ‘A’ in Tuscan colors. The top edge has been repaired (perhaps at the time) with a...... More
1275. France, probably Paris: c. 1275. 183 x 120mm. Two columns, text and music (four staves), ruled in red, with decorative initials in red and blue; in fine and fresh condition. § Origin and prior provenance unknown (possibly Maggs inventory number on verso); from a private California collection. An interesting..... More
1500. German: c. 1500. Single leaf, 132 x 155 mm. Very good, matted. § An intriguing painting, showing the instruments of the Passion, a crowing cock, the head of Judas, the thirty pieces of silver &c. A somewhat surreal piece, with the head and some of the instruments floating in..... More
1718. Dublin: Edwin Sandys, for John Hyde, Bookseller, in Dame’s Street. MDCCXVIII [1718]. Small 8vo, 76, (1, ads) pp. Disbound, lacking half-title, top edge trimmed with occasional loss of page numbers. § First published the previous year in London. One of three pamphlets William Law (1686-1761) contributed to the "Bangorian..... More
1935. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1935. 12mo, 10 pp. Original marbled paper covered boards and printed backstrip label. Label browned, otherwise a fine, unopened copy. § One of a hundred copies printed for private circulation. A celebratory printing by Nash of an account of the church service held upon..... More
1935. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1935. 12mo, 10 pp. Original marbled paper covered boards and printed backstrip label. Label browned, otherwise a fine copy. § One of a hundred copies printed for private circulation. A celebratory printing by Nash of an account of the church service held upon the..... More
1718. Wittenbergae recusa: Literis Jo. Godofredi Meyerus, 1718. Sm. thin 4to, [88]pp. Later blue-grey wrappers, browned throughout. § Only edition, very rare, of this treatise on the history and technique of foot-kissing the Pope. Two copies in the USA, Concordia and Chicago. No copy located as ever having been sold..... More
1930. London: E. Lahr, 1930. Small 8vo, 13pp. Original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black, frontispiece illustration, numbered and signed by the author. Some fading to the wrappers as usual, else very good. § Edition of 500 (this is number 276), signed by the author. Blue Moon Booklets No..... More
1967. Paris: The Trianon Press, 1967. Folio, (23) ff. Full green crushed morocco over boards. 8 full-page original color lithographs by Shahn, as well as an original print signed and numbered by Shahn. Fine in a slipcase. § Limited to 200 copies on Arches rag paper this being unnumbered. Manuscript..... More
1967. Paris: The Trianon Press, 1967. Folio, (23) ff. Full green crushed morocco over boards. 8 full-page original color lithographs by Shahn, as well as an original print signed and numbered by Shahn. Fine in a slipcase. § Limited to 200 copies on Arches rag paper this being numbered XIII..... More
1967. Paris: The Trianon Press, 1967. Folio, (23) ff. Full green crushed morocco over boards. 8 full-page original color lithographs by Shahn, as well as an original print signed and numbered by Shahn. Fine in a slipcase. Minor wear to tips of slipcase. § Limited to 200 copies on Arches..... More
1966. Paris: The Trianon Press, [1966?]. Folio, (23) ff. Full green crushed morocco over boards with slip case. Slipcase is white boards with discolored photograph of the cover illustration glued on, but detaching. Rough photographs and facsimiles of the pages, once glued in place, now mostly detached. Glue stains and..... More
1967. Paris: The Trianon Press, 1967. Folio, (23) ff. Full green crushed morocco over boards. 8 full-page original color lithographs by Shahn plus additional material (see below). A fine copy in a sunned and lightly worn box with marbled boards and gilt-titled morocco backstrip. § One of 26 deluxe editions..... More
1908. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908. 4to, (2), 391-512 pp. Illustrations in color and b&w. Original green cloth titled and ornamented in gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown. Cloth a little rubbed at extremities, lower spine corner bumped and shaken, endpapers spotted, otherwise very good with nice clean plates. § "The..... More
1778. London: James Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street. And sold also by S. Leacroft, Charing Cross; T. Mills, Bristol; and E. Score, Exeter, MDCCLXXVIII [1778]. 4to, [2], lvii, [3], 412 pp. Early calf, modern rebacking, red morocco label, old ink signature on title, ink signature on front free endpaper "Susanna..... More
1850. New York: Burdick and Scovill, n.d. [1854-57?]. 8vo, pagination inconsistent, 12 colored and 11 uncolored plates and several pages of sheet music. Blue cloth once elaborately stamped in gilt but now dulled and darkened, board edges worn, title page foxed and stained, pages with toning, scattered foxing and occasional..... More
