Venice: Aldus Manutius (for Leonardus Crassus), (December 1499). folio (308 x 212 mm). early limp vellum, yap edges, paper spine label with title and date. a-y8, z10, A-E8, F3. First edition of one of the most celebrated incunables, considered by many to be the most beautiful of all printed Venetian books of the Renaissance. The presumed author, Francesco Colonna, was a Dominican monk of the Zattere at Venice (the author's identity did not become evident..... READ MORE about HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI

Price: $250,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138928

Londini (London), United Kingdom: Petrus Short, 1600. 4to. quarter vellum, paste paper coverd boards, vellum tips, red and black leather spine label, gilt lettering on spine, clamshell box. [xvi], 240 pages. First edition. Gilbert's (1544-1603) De Magnete is "a remarkable work in the history of scientific discovery. Handwritten corrections, thought to be in Gilbert's own hand, on pp. 11, 22, and 47, but not on 14 or 63 as in some other copies. Minor soiling..... READ MORE about DE MAGNETE, MAGNETICISQUE CORPORIBUS, ET DE MANGO MAGNETE TELLURE; PHYSIOLOGIA NOVA, PLURIMUS...

Price: $37,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 131432

9 Volumes.
London, United Kingdom: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, and H. Hughs, 1773-1785. 8 volumes 4to., 1 volume, folio atlas. variously bound, all in later cloth clamshell boxes (except for the atlas). variously paginated. 9 Volumes. First editions of the first and second voyage, the second and superior edition of the third voyage, with a total of 205 plates. The voyages of Captain James Cook (1728-1779), Includes three volumes relating to Cook's circumnavigation of the globe..... READ MORE about COMPLETE SET OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK'S THREE VOYAGES, WITH ATLAS

Price: $26,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134550

Geneva: self published, 1574. small 8vo. Recently bound vellum, cloth slipcase. (8), 31, 120 pages. First and only edition of the printer's own laudatory account of the Frankfurt Fair based on his experiences selling books there the previous year. Adams S1768; Renouard Estienne, 139:2; Schreiber Estienne, 189; Simon, Bibliotheca Bacchia II, 235. Collation: *4, a-i8, k4, woodcut printer's device to title by Elhen von Wolfhagen, Tilemann (1347-1420), decorative head-pieces and initials. Water-staining to preliminary pages..... READ MORE about FRANCOFORDIENSE EMPORIUM, SIVE FRANCOFORDIENSES NUNDINAE. QUAM VARIA MERCIUM GENERA IN HOC...

Price: $16,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136913

Argentorati (Strasbourg), France: Johann Reinhold Dulsseker, 1738. 8vo. contemporary vellum in later half leather, marbled paper-covered clamshell box. (vi), 304 pages, plates. First edition. Brunet I, 803. With ownership inscription of P.C.G. Volkmar of Helmstadt. dated 1765 on front free endpaper. Ex-library with markings. Pencil and ink notations on endpapers. Else a near fine copy in a lovely later clamshell box. Text in Latin. Dedication, preface, table of contents. Bernoulli's epochal work on fluids and..... READ MORE about HYDRODYNAMICA, SIVE DE VIRIBUS ET MOTIBUS FLUIDORUM COMMENTARII. OPUS ACADEMICUM

Price: $12,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 131434

Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by: William Caxton. With engravings on wood by Agnes Miller Parker.
Newtown, Montogomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1931. 4to. Welsh natural sheepskin, spine titled in black, a signed binding by the Gregynog Press Bindery, later cloth clamshell box with cloth spine label with title printed in black. (viii), 146, (2) pages. Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by: William Caxton. With engravings on wood by Agnes Miller Parker. Limited to 250 numbered copies (Harrop 20). Some light wear and rubbing to the leather along the edges and edges..... READ MORE about FABLES OF ESOPE

Price: $11,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 107211

3 Volumes.
Dresden and Leipzig, Germany: Fridereici Hekelii, 1734. large 4to. full contemporary calf, six raised bands, leather spine labels, gilt lettering on spine. (16), 160, 165-452 pp., 25 engraved plates; (12), 164, (2), 165-386 pp., 26 engraved plates; (14), 534 pp., 72 engraved plates. 3 Volumes. All three volumes are the first edition. Condition notes are below following the description of each volume. Text in Latin. The works of philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenbourg (1688-1772). Dedication..... READ MORE about OPERA PHILOSOPHICA ET MINERALIA

Price: $11,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 131440

2 Volumes.
London: Fielding and Walker, 1778. 4to. half calf over marbled paper boards, five raised bands on spine, gilt on spine. iv, 596; 629, (1) pages, plus 50 (of 51) maps and plates (some folding). 2 Volumes. First edition of this scarce history of America by William Russell. SABIN 74383. HOWES R539. BELL R432. SERVIES 549. ESTC T114880. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 319. This copy has been rebound by the noted bookbinder, Jan Sobota, in a...... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, FROM ITS DISCOVERY BY COLUMBUS TO THE CONCLUSION OF THE LATE WAR. WITH AN...

Price: $10,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 137540

Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary
Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2008. 8vo. velvet binding with precious stones and gilded silver, clamshell case. 201, 336 pages. Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary. One of 980 numbered and signed copies, of which this is additionally stamped on the colophon 'Exhibition Copy'. The Libro d'Ore Durazzo, which takes its name from its last owner, is a small masterpiece by the painter and illuminator, Francesco Marmitta. This remarkable work is in two ways quite different from..... READ MORE about IL LIBRO D'ORE DURAZZO

Price: $9,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 105363

Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary
Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2009. Large Miniature. Bound by hand (gilded silver binding covers and spine), clamshell case. 30, 333 pages. Facsimile with accompanying hardcover commentary. One of 980 copies numbered and signed copies. With its extraordinary binding and highly elaborate illumination work, while very small, this precious Book of Hours must be considered an absolute masterpiece. The Commentary: The work is accompanied by a book with commentary, edited by Pier Luigi Mulas, with writings..... READ MORE about IL LIBRO D'ORE TORRIANI

Price: $8,750.00  other currencies  Order nr. 105361

"Painter Mary Heebner calls 'Silent Faces / Angkor' an artist's book, but it helps to think of it as a many-layered treasure chest. It's a celebration of timeless artistry." -Joan Tapper
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2012-2013. folio (68 x 35 in). four scrolls nestled in niches beneath a bronzed metal tray holding the accordion book 'Apsara'; and the bound codex book 'Silent Faces / Angkor', all housed in a handcrafted wooden box. "Painter Mary Heebner calls 'Silent Faces / Angkor' an artist's book, but it helps to think of it as a many-layered treasure chest. It's a celebration of timeless artistry." -Joan Tapper. Limited..... READ MORE about SILENT FACES / ANGKOR

Price: $8,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 139341

Philadelphia, PA: gedruckt und verlegt bey Benjamin Francklin und Johan Böhm, 1751. thick 8vo. original calf, five raised bands, two metal clasps. (xxiv), 8-page list of subscribers, 1356 pages. First and only edition. Evans, 6630, "This is the largest book printed in Philadelphia, up to this time, and one of the rarest of Franklin imprints although the subscription list contains 512 names..." Front hinge renewed, binding lightly worn. Several small marginal tears, lower corner torn..... READ MORE about DES HOCHERLEUCHTETEN THEOLOGI...WEILAND GENERAL-SUPERINTENDENTEN DES FÜRSTENTHUMS LUNEBURG,...

Price: $8,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 139113

Joni . Annie . Tracy.
New York, NY: Intima Press, 2022. small folio. aqua blue leather spine millimeter binding with letterpress printed covers on Crane’s white cotton rag 110 lb. paper, with a custom box in red cloth, The covers and labels are letterpress printed by Mindy Belloff, and sewn and bound by Celine Lombardi. 300 pages. Joni . Annie . Tracy. "The opposite of love is not hate but power. Power obliterates another's individuality." - Marion Woodman Limited to..... READ MORE about HESTER . EMMA . SONIA

Price: $7,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 139177

Philadelphia, PA: (John Dunlap and James C. Claypoole), 1787-1788. folio. unbound. unpaginated. Seven issues of The Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser. This set includes November 20, 1787 (No. 2743); November 21, 1787 (No. 2744); December 1, 1787 (No. 2753); January 23, 1788 (No. 2798); January 26, 1788 (No. 2801); February 2, 1788 (No. 2807); and February 9, 1788 (No. 2813) Each issue with four unnumbered pages, text presented in four columns. The major historical significance..... READ MORE about THE PENNSYLVANIA PACKET, AND DAILY ADVERTISER

Price: $7,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 133820

Mission, Canada: Barbarian Press, 1994. thick 4to. full blue leather, with patterned endpapers and contained in a drop-back box. Unpaginated (but approximately 340 pages). First edition, limited to 430 copies of which this copy is one of 50 special copies bound thus and containing a signed, tipped-in frontispiece by Rosemary Kilbourn. Contains an astounding 121 wood engravings chosen by the artists and printed directly from the blocks onto individual leaves. Printed and published by Crispin..... READ MORE about ENDGRAIN: CONTEMPORARY WOOD ENGRAVING IN NORTH AMERICA

Price: $7,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 49989

Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1897. 4to. original full vellum with silk ties, custom green cloth covered boards slipcase. (iv), 90 (2) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 308 copies of which this is from a series of 300 copies on paper. (Cockerell 52; Peterson A52, Walsdorf 52). A small abrasion to the limp vellum near the top front tie. Very small red ink stains near the lower front vellum panel and also near the..... READ MORE about LOVE IS ENOUGH, OR FREEING OF PHARAMOND: A MORALITY

Price: $6,950.00  other currencies  Order nr. 57837

Tübingen: Jäckle-Sönmez, 1995. 4to. full leather boards, cloth clamshell. (vii), 47 pages. Limited to an edition of 250, this is one of a few copies saved for binders. This copy has been bound in full white calf skin using French technic binding of laced-in boards. The calf skin boards represent the white sheet of a marbled paper and onlays with grey buffalo inspired by the shapes of traditional marbled paper. Embroidered silk end bands. Edge..... READ MORE about FROM EBRU TO MARBLED PAPER / VOM EBRU ZUM MARMORPAPIER

Price: $6,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135435

Rome: Salerno Editrice, 1998. folio. full stamped leather boards, acrylic slipcase. (92) leaves. Limited to 980 copies, of which this is one of 250 copies reserved for Salerno Editrice in Italian. Lacking the commentary volume. The bottom edge of the slipcase has been separated, but is present. Else in near fine condition. One of the masterpieces of French Gothic illumination, the Morgan Bible is an impressive reminder of the importance of biblical history for the..... READ MORE about LA BIBBIA DEI CROCIATI

Price: $5,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 137063

Excerpted from the Preface of Leaves of Grass, 1855 Edition, First Printing.
Tucson, AZ: Foolsgold Studios, 2022. square 4to. half leather with cherry veneer applied to the boards, cloth clamshell box. 42 pages. Excerpted from the Preface of Leaves of Grass, 1855 Edition, First Printing. Limited to 15 numbered copies, 1 deluxe artists proof variant, 1 prototype and 1 variant saved for fine binding, each signed by the author/publisher on colophon. Complete Instructions is conceived, edited and produced as a response to social and political American life..... READ MORE about COMPLETE INSRUCTIONS

Price: $5,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138150

Melbourne, Australia: Zimmer, 1997. square small folio. black paper wrappers, title in gilt, six loosely inserted wood-engravings, decorated patterned paper covered boards clamshell box. (iv), 15, (1) pages. Limited to 15 numbered copies signed by Tate Adams, of which this portfolio is unnumbered on the colophon. The five included plates are each numbered #6 of 15. A fine copy in fine clamshell box. Four full-spread and one smaller plate wood-engravings by Adams. The text was..... READ MORE about TATE ADAMS: TROPICAL WOOD-ENGRAVINGS

Price: $4,950.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136522

New York, NY: Russell Maret, 2021. folio. two volumes are bound in cloth covered boards, with the third volume bound in stiff paper with an exposed sewn spine. The clamshell houses the two similar volumes under a magnetic cover that holds the books in place while the third volume is housed under an acrylic see-through cover. unpaginated. Limited to 90 copies of which 87 copies are numbered. This copy is thus. Prospectus loosely inserted. All..... READ MORE about THREE CONSTITUTIONS

Price: $4,800.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135963

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1892. 8vo. original publisher's limp vellum with silk ties. Gothic calligraphic lettering in black ink on spine. (ii), 169+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 310 copies, this being one of 300 copies printed on paper. (Cockerell 5, Peterson A5, Walsdorf 5). Bookplate of George Hewitt Myers on front pastedown. Limp vellum lightly soiled, with minor spotting on the rear cover. All four ties are separated, with the remains of one..... READ MORE about THE DEFENCE OF GUENEVERE, AND OTHER POEMS

Price: $4,750.00  other currencies  Order nr. 58057

New York, NY: Intima Press, 2015. large 8vo. half leather over paper covered boards, chemise and full leather slipcase. unpaginated. First edition limited to 12 numbered copies signed by the printer / artist, Mindy Belloff. A fine copy in fine chemise and slipcase. In the Garden of Earthly Delights is based upon Hieronymus Boschs three-panel painting (1450-1516), which continues to entertain and delight. The book features eleven unique multi-colored etchings, with inks applied in a...... READ MORE about IN THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS

Price: $4,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136812

Five Volumes
Paris, France: G. Charpentier, 1878-1879. 5 x 7.5 inches. full embossed morocco with gilt tooling on covers and spine. Variously paginated. Five Volumes. A set of uniformly bound works by this nineteenth century French dramatist, poet and novelist. Fabulous and scarce set of five volumes by Musset, bound by the Guild of Women-Binders. Each volume signed by the Guild in their characteristic gilt pallet on front dentelle: "Guild of Women Binders." Marbled endpapers. Top edges..... READ MORE about COMEDIES ET PROVERBES with PREMIERES POESIES with POESIES NOUVELLE

Price: $4,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134203

(San Diego): Brighton Press, 2010. 18" x 13" paste paper covered boards, paper label on cover, Tray case covered in hand woven cotton. unpaginated. Limited to 33 copies, of which this is one of 30 numbered copies signed by the author and artist. A fine copy in fine slipcase. Extremely scarce. From the printer's website: "Prose poems by Peter Everwine; chine collé etchings with pochoir by Bill Kelly. Text hand set in Romulus and printed..... READ MORE about TRACES

Price: $4,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138513

(Montreal, QC, Canada): La Griffe D'Acier, (1987). 4to. leather with nested Lacunose, top edge cut, other edges uncut, in cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. unpaginated. Text in French. Limited to 38 numbered copies. Engravings by Louis-Pierre Bougie. Text by Gaston Miron. Signed by the author and engraver on colophon. Signed binding by Monique Lallier, russet goat skin. Pieces of Lacunose nested in the front cover encircled with onlays of green leather. Onlays of..... READ MORE about FORGER L'EFFROI

Price: $4,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134389

Translated by Robert Wells, Illustrated by Walter Bachinski.
(Shanty Bay, Ontario): Shanty Bay Press, (2007). folio. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, cloth slipcase. Book I: 17 pp., Book II: 18 pp., Book III: 19 pp., Book IV: 19 pp., plus Colophon. Translated by Robert Wells, Illustrated by Walter Bachinski. Limited to 67 copies of which 60 are for sale. Numbered and signed on the colophon by Walter Bachinski and Janis Butler, the designers, illustrators, and printers of the book. This is the fourth..... READ MORE about GEORGICS

Price: $4,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 100262

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1887. large 8vo. full leather. 154 pages. 'Great French Writers' series. Bookplate of J.A. Burnham on front pastedown. This copy has been beautifully bound by the notable binder Pétrus Ruban in full crushed blue morocco boards, gilt borders, ornaments, and fleur de lys on front and rear boards, five raised bands, gilt ornamentation on spine with title / author in second compartment, publication place / date in third compartment, gilt..... READ MORE about MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ

Price: $3,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136952

Paris: J. Barbou, 1759. 8vo. Full period French binding in Calf, five raised bands, gilt ornamentation on spine, author and title in gilt on red leather spine label in second compartment. 263 pages. First edition. (Bigmore and Wyman p.228). Minor soiling to the text block, else a fine copy. In this volume, Fournier sets out to prove that Gutenberg was not the inventor of the printing press by examining the history of printing. He believes..... READ MORE about DE L'ORIGINE ET DES PRODUCTIONS DE L'IMPRIMERIE PRIMITIVE EN TAILLE DE BOIS

Price: $3,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 137120

Paris, France: René Kieffer, (1924). 8vo. stamped leather, suede clamshell box with leather spine label. (x), 183, (3), illustrations. Text in French. Table of contents. Illustrations by Jacques Touchet. Signed binding by René Kieffer. Leather with gilt, green, blue, red, and orange stamping on both covers. A touch of humor in the depictions of birds, three trees, and grass on the covers. Spine gilt stamped with title, author, and decorations. Gilt decorated turn-ins with plaid..... READ MORE about MERVEILLEUSES HISTOIRES DE NASR' EDDINE

Price: $3,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134441

Two volumes.
Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1810. small 8vo. later half leather over marbled paper covered boards, five raised bands, gilt on spine, leather spine label. 487; 576 pages. Two volumes. First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman III, 9; S-K 3602 for binding references, Howes T168, Sabin 95405, Streeter 4176). All five plates are present (though bound in different locations than called for in some cases). An invaluable book to the student of American printing and certainly the cornerstone..... READ MORE about A HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA, WITH A BIOGRAPHY OF PRINTERS AND AN ACCOUNT OF NEWSPAPERS, TO...

Price: $3,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 42058

MIT JEDES CAPITELS KURTZEN SUMMARIEN, AUCH BENGEFÜGTEN VIELEN UND RICHTIGEN PARALLELEN.
Germantown (Philadelphia), PA: Christoph Saur, 1776. small thick 4to. full leather, five raised bands. ff, (4), 992, 277, (3) pages, ff. MIT JEDES CAPITELS KURTZEN SUMMARIEN, AUCH BENGEFÜGTEN VIELEN UND RICHTIGEN PARALLELEN. Third edition of this bible (the first in 1743 and the second in 1763). Evans 14663. Hildeburn 3336. Sabin 5194. Front hinge cracked, wear with some loss to the head of the spine and the lower front hinge. Rear hinge cracked. Moderate toning..... READ MORE about BIBLIA, DAS IST: DIE HEILIGE SCHRIFT ALTES UND NEUES TESTAMENTS, NACH DER TEUTSCHEN UEBERSETZUNG...

Price: $3,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 139101

Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1924. 4to. rough linen. 36 leaves containing 38 large wood-engravings by Gill. E.G. : Being a Selection of Eric Gills Engravings on Wood. Printed on one side only of handmade paper, with one engraving in red and black. One of 100 copies in an edition of 150. With the scarce dust jacket. No limitation statement in this copy. Dust jacket has some minor shelfwear to the top edge, else fine. The..... READ MORE about WOOD-ENGRAVINGS

Price: $3,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 43996

(Shanty Bay, Ontario, Canada): Shanty Bay Press, (2019). small folio. full cloth, paper illustration on front cover, hand-printed paper spine label, cloth slipcase. 60 pages. First edition, limited to 33 copies of which this is one of 30 numbered copies signed by both artists available for sale. Prospectus loosely inserted. A fine copy in fine slipcase. From the artist: "Our latest book, and also the most personal from my perspective, is about my approach to..... READ MORE about STILL LIFE

Price: $3,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138629

A Poem, paintins and a sketchbook ... an excavation of images and impressions from Chilean Patagonia.
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2011. large square 4to. hand-painted boards, sliced stone, wooden box. A Poem, paintins and a sketchbook ... an excavation of images and impressions from Chilean Patagonia. Limited to only numbered 20 copies signed by the artist, Mary Heebner. A fine copy. "Six of us ride horses through whirlpools of dust, rain and wind to the summit of Sierra de los Baguales, in Patagonia, where Chile borders Argentian. In the..... READ MORE about UNEARTHED

Price: $3,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 139343

Wittenberg: Hans Lufft, 1531. 8vo. modern boards. (10) leaves. First edition, second issue (the first issue was 1530). Benzing 2955. Title within woodcut historiated architectural border. Covers slightly warped; worming in blank lower inner corners, minor repair on C3. Contemporary signature on title of Wolfgant Linhart, marginalia in same (?) hand. Luther's sermon on angels originally delivered on 29 September 1530. A very rare Lutheran pamphlet. READ MORE about EIN PREDIGT VON DEN ENGELN

Price: $3,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 139085

West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1985. 4to. full green morocco. Accompanied by a linen-covered portfolio containing an extra set of the engravings, both enclosed in a linen-covered slipcase. (xxxiv), 419, (vii) pages. One of 350 copies signed by the artist Barry Moser. A near fine copy with the accompanying portfolio in fine condition. This edition was published on February 18, 1985 on the one hundredth anniversary of the publishing of the first American edition. It is..... READ MORE about ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. Illustrated by Barry Moser

Price: $3,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 44377

Austin, TX: Press Intermezzo, 1997. 12mo. half leather / half pewter, clamshell box. (54) pages. Limited to 175 copies. This copy is bound by Monique Lallier in pewter and purple goat skin leather with pewter making up the inside doublures. The design is of crushed pewter. Top edge graphite. Embroidered end bands with silk thread. Signed on the rear free-endpaper (leather). In a custom cloth clamshell box with leather spine label with the title stamped..... READ MORE about THE ENCHIRIDION OF EPICTETUS: A MANUAL FOR LIVING

Price: $2,950.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135447

N.P. n.p., n.d., but circa 1966. framed painting (34 by 28 inches). A framed painting depicting a guard at the fortress and monastic community at Qumran. Shraga Weil (1918-2009) was an Israeli artist. Born in Prague in 1918, he studied at the National School of Arts there. He served in the Hungarian resistance to the Nazis during World War II. After the war, he joined the exodus to Israel. He received training in monumental and..... READ MORE about THE MESSENGER

Price: $2,950.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129889

Endgrain Editions Three.
Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 2003. folio. quarter sienna leather with patterned paper-covered boards, gold-stamped leather label on spine, slipcase. 132 pages. Endgrain Editions Three. Privately printed in an edition of 190 copies, of which this book is one of 60 copies handbound by Simone Mynen and containing a signed and numbered proof of the frontispiece in a handmade paper folder. Prospectus loosely inserted. Fine in fine slipcase. With an introduction by Lazarov, a Publisher's Foreword..... READ MORE about PETER LAZAROV, A SELECTION OF ENGRAVINGS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE ARTIST

Price: $2,900.00  other currencies  Order nr. 74609

Invocations to a distressed planet in the form of prayers to EARTH. AIR. FIRE. WATER. AETHER.
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2020. large square 4to. flags sewn together with ribbon, journal spiral bound, housed in a handmade paper covering, loosely inserted into a acrylic slipcase. 22 pages. Invocations to a distressed planet in the form of prayers to EARTH. AIR. FIRE. WATER. AETHER. Limited to only numbered 20 copies signed by the artist, Mary Heebner. Instructions on handling loosely inserted. Fine in fine polished, beveled acrylic sleeve. Invocations of prayers..... READ MORE about PRAYER FLAGS & A TALE OF LONGING

Price: $2,800.00  other currencies  Order nr. 139342

(Shanty Bay, ON, Canada): Shanty Bay Press, (2010). 10 1/2 x 15 inches. quarter cloth with Japanese paper-covered boards, slipcase. (iv), x, 52, (6) pages. First edition, limited to 60 numbered and signed copies of which 55 were available for sale. Prospectus loosely inserted. Fine in fine slipcase. Completed in January 2011. The book is hand-set using Deepdene on 200 gsm Arches cover, it is quarter bound in cloth and Somegami paper and is housed..... READ MORE about CIRCUS. THE ARTIST AS SALTIMBANQUE

Price: $2,750.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138626

Uithoorn, Netherlands: Atelier de Ganzenweide, 2012. oblong 12mo. full leather, clamshell box. 151+(1) pages. Text in Dutch and English. Limited to 500 copies, of which this is one of the unbound and uncut copies of the revised and enlarged edition. This copy is bound in a full artist-binding by Monique Lallier, award-winning bookbinder from Greensboro, NC. The binding is a full crushed brown moracco with onlaid decorated leather panels on both the front and rear..... READ MORE about " DIRCK DE BRAY" A SHORT INSTRUCTION IN THE BINDING OF BOOKS

Price: $2,600.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135134

Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1955. 8vo. full crushed morocco, five raised bands, author and title stamped in gilt on spine in second compartment, morocco-tipped slipcase. 125, (7) pages. One of 140 copies, of which this copy is one of 125 numbered copies. Two very light rubbing marks to two of the leather raised bands one the spine, as well as to compartment four of the spine. Very light darkening to the endpapers from the leather turn-ins..... READ MORE about TRATELLO IN LAUDE DI DANTE

Price: $2,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 84970

(Buren, The Netherlands: Antiquariaat Frits Knuf, 1985). oblong 8vo. calf leather spine, harness leather covers with laced leather straps, paper slipcase. unpaginated. Text in English and Dutch. Limited to 100 numbered copies. English text translated from the Dutch by Roger Andrews, and Tanya and Hans Schmoller. Introductory comments, entitled "The Story," with tipped-in black and white illustrations. With thirty-four tipped-in specimens, produced during the summers of 1983 and 1984, of Frigge's work. Bound with a...... READ MORE about MARBLED PAPER

Price: $2,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129280

Wittenberg: Basle, Adam Petri, 1521. 8vo. full morocco, stamped in blink, five raised bands, gilt on spine. (6) leaves. First and only edition. Benzing 838. Bookplate on front pastedown from the Long Island Historical Society, gift of Alfred T. White. Small book label at the bottom of the rear pastedown near the gutter of William Salloch. Very minor toning to the textblock, else a fine copy in a lovely contemporary leather binding, signed by Alan..... READ MORE about EIN UNDERRICHT DER BEICHT/ KINDER UEBER DIE VERPOTTEN BIECHER

Price: $2,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 139089

Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1976. square 8vo. stiff marbled paper. unpaginated. Limited to 150 numbered copies signed by the author. Hamady 77. A fine copy. Illustrated by Arthur Thrall and printed by Walter Hamady. Bound in beautifully produced marblized paper, with hand made papers, with the typically fine letterpress design customary to the Perishable Press. Walter Hamady (1940-2019) was an American artist, book designer, papermaker, poet and teacher. He is especially known for his..... READ MORE about TRIUMPH OF THE WILL

Price: $2,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136253

Steamboat Springs, CO: Laura Wait, 2007. 8vo. leather spine over handpainted paper boards, gilt on spine, cloth clamshell box with paper spine label. 20 paper leaves, 8 pages of mylar. Limited to seven numbered copies. A fine copy. An artist's book by Laura Wait. Part of a series of seven unique books on the intertwined symbols of 'T' and the cross. Etchings, letterpress, handwriting and painting. Manuscript handwritten on the half title and repeated throughout..... READ MORE about T-CROSSED. #3

Price: $2,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136231

New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1985. 12 x 14. cloth of vibrant yellow, with title stamped in blue within a red triangle on front cover, housed in black clamshell box by Charriere. not paginated. Signed, Limited Edition, one of 125 copies only on Rives BFK, all signed by the author and artist, hand set in Janson, lithographs and etchings pulled by the Printmaking Workshop of Bob Blackburn. Bound by Gerard Charriere. In this play..... READ MORE about THE COTE D'AZUR TRIANGLE

Price: $2,450.00  other currencies  Order nr. 61433

London, UK: Geo. Bell, 1881. 8vo. original green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 82 pages, with 54 marbled paper specimens. Containing a full description of the nature and properties of the materials used, the method of preparing them, and of executing every kind of marbling in use at the present time, with numerous illustrations and examples.. Second edition. First published in 1854, this second edition is far superior in every respect, inasmuch as, while it..... READ MORE about THE WHOLE ART OF MARBLING AS APPLIED TO PAPER, BOOK-EDGES, ETC

Price: $2,450.00  other currencies  Order nr. 81686