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GCP 1934. [Catalogue of recently published titles.]
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Folio, pp. [16]; self-wrappers; illustrated throughout; fine. Delightful wood engravigs by Blair Hughes-Stanton, Robert Gibbings, and Eric Gill. More
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Historical atlas of Wisconsin embracing complete state and county maps city and village plats, together with seperate state and county histories, also special articles on the geology, education, agriculture, and other important interests of the state, illustrated
Milwaukee: compiled and published by Snyder, Van Vechten & Co., 1878. Folio, pp. 322; approximately 184 maps, general, state, county, city and village plats, most hand-colored; 74 illustrations of schools, homes, businesses and other establishments, 2 pages of governors' portraits and 45 additional portraits; state and local histories included along... More
The journey of making books by hand ... a slide lecture and documentary video
[Middletown, CT: Robin Price for The University of Commecticut and the Friends of the University Libraries, 1998. Broadside (approx. 9¾" x 12¾") printed in a limited but unspecified edition; printed in 2 colors from handset Bodoni book and Fortuna extra bold; fine. An invitation to a lecture held in conjunction... More
Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1861
New York: Harper & Bros., n.d. 12mo, pp. xxv, [1], 457, [1], 21 (appendix); some foxing to the endpapers, but generally a fine copy in original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Army regs at the start of the Civil War. More
![Favourite things no. 1: Boats. [With:] Favourite things no. 2: Tuktuks. Peter Allen.](/pictures/thumb/52846_1.jpg?v=1539710193)
Favourite things no. 1: Boats. [With:] Favourite things no. 2: Tuktuks
n.p. [France]: 2018. Edition limited to 50 copies each, printed on Arches Johannot velin; accordion foldouts based on Peter Allen's lively and colorful pouchoir illustrations, each approximately 6½" x 65"; loose, as issued in dust jackets. From Peter's website: "Originally from the UK; living in France close to Germany, Luxembourg... More
La défense de Bazeilles. Desseins inédits et croquis d'après nature de A. de Neuville et L. Sergent
Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 1884. First edition, 8vo, pp. 156; frontispiece and 5 plates of which one is double-page, drawings in text throughout; contemporary calf over marble boards, blind-tooled spine, bottom of hinges cracked; edges and corners rubbed; minor worm holes to bottom corners of first few leaves; rubber stamp and... More
La folle journee ou le marriage de Figaro, comedie en cinq actes, en prose
[Paris]: au Palais Royal, chez Ruault, 1785. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], lvi, 237; later full speckled calf, red morocco label on gilt decorated spine; slight wear at the top of the spine, else generally a fine copy. Contemporary ownership inscription of Alfred Vaux. Beaumarchais (1732-1799) aided the American cause... More
November twenty-six nineteen hundred sixty three
New York: George Braziller, 1963. Limited edition on Italian Fabriano paper, signed by author and artist; oblong 8vo; 14 reproductions of drawings by Shahn, one in color pasted down; original white buckram with black stamped lettering on upper cover and spine; fine in a lightly worn black slipcase. A lament for JFK. More
An Exmoor scolding; in the propriety and decency of Exmoor language, between two sisters, Wilmot Moreman & Thomasin Moreman, as they were spinning. Also, an Exmoor Courtship...
Exon [i.e. Exeter]: A. Brice and B. Thorn, 1771. Seventh edition, "wherein are now first added such marginal notes, and a vocabulary or glossary, at the end, as seems necessary for explaining uncouth expressions, and interpreting barbarous words and phrases." Slim 8vo, pp. [2], iv, 3-60; original drab paper-covered boards... More
Hieronymi Cardani Mediolanensis Proxeneta, seu, De prudentia ciuili liber; recens in lucem protractus, vel è tenebris' erutus
Lugd. Bat. [i.e. Leiden]: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1627. First Elzevir edition, small 12mo, pp. [16], 767, [1]; engraved title page, contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments; some wear along the spine, label wanting; all else very good and sound. The book was printed twice more by Elzevir under... More
The turning wheels.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1937]. 8vo, pp. 471, [1]; orig. brown printed wrappers; some spotting, very good. Advance proofs "photographically reproduced from uncorrected English proofs." His first novel, the importation of which was subsequently banned in South Africa, owing to its commentary on the Great Trek to the Transvaal in 1836... More
Calls, sounds & merchandise of the Peking street peddlers...With twenty-five wood engravings by Rosemary Covey
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1993. Edition limited to 200 copies, this the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, marked in pencil "binder's copy" and out-of-series; small 4to, pp. 156, [4]; dragon vignette on title page, 25 tipped-in wood engravings by Rosemary Covey plus text illustrations; original quarter red goat... More
John Evelyn's copy
Histoire universelle…comprise en trois tomes
Amsterdam [i.e.Geneva]: Heritiers de Hier. Comelin [i.e. Pierre Aubert], 1626. Second edition, revised and augmented; folio, pp. 20, 1189 columns, 744 columns (so paged), pp. [40]; top of spine chipped, 3 small worm holes through the upper cover and into the first few leaves; occasional light foxing, but generally a.... More
Memorials and letters relating to the history of Britain in the reign of James the First. Published from the originals
Glasgow: printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1762. Small 8vo, pp. [20], 151, [1]; contemporary full paneled calf, double gilt rules on covers enclosing a blindstamped panel with gilt fleurons in the corners, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, black morocco label in 1, a.e.g.; joints lightly rubbed, tiny crack at... More
Inscribed copy
Cent-vingt jours de service actif. Recit historique tres complet de la campagne du 65eme au nord-ouest
Montreal: Eusebe Senecal & Fils, 1886. 8vo, pp. 242; frontispiece, 7 plates and numerous text illustrations, contemporary quarter black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments with title gilt direct in 1; marbled endpapers with bookseller's label, speckled edges; light wear to extremities, very good. Inscribed by the... More
The eye of heaven: a narrative poem. Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy
Omaha: Abattoir Editions, University of Nebraska, 1982. Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 99), 4to, pp. 38, [2]; text in double column; 2 wood engravings by McCurdy; original brown paper wrappers, wrap-around label on spine and upper cover; fine. Printed by Harry Duncan on Japanese etching paper. More
Dictionarium latinogallicum multo locupletius, thesauro nostro recés excuso ita ex adverso respõdens, ut extra pauca quædam aut obsoleta, aut minus usitata vocabula, in hoc eadem sint omnia, eodem ordine, sermone patrio explicata: adiectis authoru appellationibus quas in superiore latinogallico prætermiseramus
Lutetiae: Roberti Stephani, 1546. Second edition, folio, pp. [4], 1376; [†2] a-b8 c10 d-z8 A-Z8 2a-2z8 2A-2R8; wood-engraved printer's mark and initials; 20th-century green marbled paper-covered boards, black gilt morocco spine label; tear to bottom fore-edge of title page has been recently repaired, 19th-century German institutional rubber stamp on upper... More
Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views, (relative chiefly to picturesque beauty) illustrated by the scenes of New-Forest in Hampshire
London: R. Blamire, 1791. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [4], vii, [1], 328, iv (translations of quotations), 7 (plate list, addenda, and errata), [1]; [4], 308, iii (translations of quotations), [1], xx (index), 30 (addenda by Sir John Mitford); double-page hand-colored map, and 32 plates (one plate is present... More
A lytell geste of Robyn Hode and his meiny. Reprinted from the edition by John Mathew Gutch following the Wynken de Worde and William Copland texts, by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for The Westgate Press
San Francisco: [Grabhorn Press], 1932. Edition limited to 280 copies (twenty-five of which were specially made for Herbert Lionel Rothchild (this, no. 203); small 8vo, pp. [8], 101, [1]; color pictorial woodcut title page and 17 color woodcut illustrations by Valenti Angelo; original calf-backed boards, spine lettered in blind; top... More
De l'homme, de ses facultés intellectuelles, et de son éducation.
Londres [i.e. The Hague]: Chez la Société typographique, 1773. 2 vols, 12mo, pp. [2], lxiv, 639; [2], 760, [2] errata; brown morocco-backed brown cloth boards, gilt lettering direct on spine; a good, solid copy. Edited by Alexander Gallitzin. Posthumously published. There are at least two separate editions, each with different... More
The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church ... together with the psalter of psalms of David ... translated into the language of the Cree...
London: Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, 1970. Facsimile edition, 2 volumes in 1; 8vo, pp. [4], 298, [2], 188, [2]; red cloth with gilt title on spine; light rubbing and bumping, very good overall. More
Blood on the doves.
New York: William Morrow & Co., 1965. First edition, 8vo., jacket price clipped & with 2 small tears & slight chipping at top of spine, still near fine. More
English etymology; or, a derivative dictionary of the English language: in two alphabets, tracing the etymology of those English words, that are derived I. From the Greek, and Latin languages; II. From the Saxon, and other Northern tongues.
London: Printed for G. Robinson, 1783. First and only edition, 4to, pp. [8], xlii, [2], unpaginated lexicon in double column, [30]; with a 6-p. list of subscribers and a full-p. specimen of 5 different alphabets; contains a table of chronological events and an extensive word index; full contemporary tree calf... More
Get Shorty.
New York: Delacorte Press, [1990]. First edition, 8vo., fine in like jacket. More
Linguæ latinæ liber dictionarius quadrapartitus. A Latine dictionary, in four parts
London: printed for T. Bassett [et al.], 1678. First edition, thick 4to, unpaginated lexicon in triple and quadruple column; [†2] A4 A-2C4 2D2 2E-2L4 A-3I4 3A-5D4 A-X4 5A-5E4 5F8; the second 3H missigned 2H, 4H3 missigned 4H2; engraved frontispiece of the Bibliotheca Palatine and 2 engraved maps (Ancient Rome and... More
