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(Allix, Susan). Allix, Susan.

BENGAL STORY.

London: Susan Allix, 2006. square 12mo (11 x 12 cm). A fine Art Binding, bound in leather goatskin and mixed media, produced in its entirety by SUSAN ALLIX, housed in a handmade clam shell box. (27) leaves. Privately printed in an edition of 25 numbered copies signed by Susan Allix, of which this is one of a few on Magnani Aqueforti paper. A fine copy in fine publisher's decorated clamshell box. These three stories, from..... READ MORE about BENGAL STORY

Price: $3,500.00 Order nr. 141963

(Arctic). Tremaine, Marie (editor).

ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY.

16 volumes.
(Washington, DC): Department of Defense, 1953-1971. 8vo. cloth. 16 volumes. First edition prepared for and in cooperation with the Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., under the direction of the Arctic Institute of North America. A complete set. An annotated listing of 101.599 titles, making this by far the most comprehensive bibliography of Arctic books (Besterman 4919). Field work in all disciplines and in all sections of the Arctic region are represented, particularly in the 19th..... READ MORE about ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

Price: $400.00 Order nr. 107658

Order Nr. 134228 THE PRIVATE LIBRARY: THE HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND FURNISHING OF THE...

Byers, Reid.

THE PRIVATE LIBRARY: THE HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND FURNISHING OF THE DOMESTIC BOOKROOM.

First edition, third printing with corrections
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2021. 7 x 10 inches. cloth with dust jacket. xii, 540 pages. First edition, third printing with corrections. Books About Books Book of the Year Award winner, 2023 "From the get-go, two things are obvious: one, Reid Byers has done his research, and two, Reid Byers loves books and having books in the home... the book is never a dry read. Its contents are sliced and chunked so nicely..... READ MORE about THE PRIVATE LIBRARY: THE HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND FURNISHING OF THE DOMESTIC BOOKROOM

Price: $85.00 Order nr. 134228

Order Nr. 138376 TEXTUALISING THE EXPERIENCE - DIGITALISING THE TEXT: CYPRUS THROUGH TRAVEL...

Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister, Julia, Mary Roussou-Sinclair and Spyridon Tzounakas (editors).

TEXTUALISING THE EXPERIENCE - DIGITALISING THE TEXT: CYPRUS THROUGH TRAVEL LITERATURE (15TH-18TH CENTURIES).

Select papers of the 4th International Scientific Conference of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation
Athens, Greece: AdVenture SA, 2023. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. cloth. 255 pages. Select papers of the 4th International Scientific Conference of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation. "... a more than welcome addition to the study of travel literature, especially in relation to the history and culture of Cyprus over the centuries. The whole package is enticing... and all the contributions are of high quality." - Konstantinos Chryssogelos, Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies..... READ MORE about TEXTUALISING THE EXPERIENCE - DIGITALISING THE TEXT: CYPRUS THROUGH TRAVEL LITERATURE (15TH-18TH...

Price: $30.00 Order nr. 138376

Cloud, Gerald W. and Peter Rutledge Koch, (eds.).

THE CODEX PAPERS: VOLUME 3.

Berkeley, CA: CODEX Foundation, The, 2021. 6.75 x 8.5 inches. Smythe sewn, Letterpress printed wrapper. 120 pages. This issue features: - An Interview With In Cahoots Director Macy Chadwick. - Mastery and Making: craft in support of concept the third stream, with essays by Veronika Schäpers, Russell Maret, Tobias Lange, and Didier Mutel [Transcripts from the talks at the CODEX Effect Symposium panel] - Excavation, Metamorphosis, and Eternity: Artists as Global Ambassadors of the Book..... READ MORE about THE CODEX PAPERS: VOLUME 3

Price: $30.00 Order nr. 136782

(Color).

TWO COLOR ADVERTISING.

Its advantages and uses, with some examples of effective arrangement, combination and treatment.
Philadelphia, PA: Curtis Publishing Company, The, 1917. small folio. later cloth spine, original paper covered boards, paper label on front cover. 71 pages. Its advantages and uses, with some examples of effective arrangement, combination and treatment. A lovely book who's purpose was to show the opportunities which two color printing had to offer to national advertisers. Worn at corners of the boards, very light soiling to covers. Otherwise a lovely copy of this scarce book..... READ MORE about TWO COLOR ADVERTISING

Price: $125.00 Order nr. 138691

Order Nr. 104233 MARCEL DESTOMBES, CONTRIBUTIONS SELECTIONNEES A L HISTOIRE DE LA CARTOGRAPHIE ET...

(Destombes, Marcel).

MARCEL DESTOMBES, CONTRIBUTIONS SELECTIONNEES A L HISTOIRE DE LA CARTOGRAPHIE ET DES INSTRUMENTS SCIENTIFIQUES. SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS.

Utrecht: Hes Publishers, 1987. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 568 pages. Text in French with some English. Studies relating to the history of cartography and scientific instruments. Thirty-four articles and congress reports by Marcel Destombes are brought together in this volume. With a biography of the author, bibliography and black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Dust wrapper shows minor wear to the extremities and some rubbing to the boards. Several handwritten notations in the margins. READ MORE about MARCEL DESTOMBES, CONTRIBUTIONS SELECTIONNEES A L HISTOIRE DE LA CARTOGRAPHIE ET DES INSTRUMENTS...

Price: $235.00 Order nr. 104233

Order Nr. 47199 JOHN DONNE, 1572-1631 A CATALOGUE OF THE ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION OF FIRST AND...

(Donne, John). Pirie, Robert S.

JOHN DONNE, 1572-1631 A CATALOGUE OF THE ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION OF FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS OF HIS WORKS HELD AT THE GROLIER CLUB.

New York: Grolier Club, (1972). 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards. xv, 41, (3) pages. One of the 500 numbered copies (out of 650). An exhibition catalogue. A fine copy. READ MORE about JOHN DONNE, 1572-1631 A CATALOGUE OF THE ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION OF FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS OF...

Price: $100.00 Order nr. 47199

Order Nr. 141779 ERASMI ROTERODAMI ENCOMIUM MORIAE, I. E. STULTITIAE LAUS. LOB DER TORHEIT,...

Erasmus.

ERASMI ROTERODAMI ENCOMIUM MORIAE, I. E. STULTITIAE LAUS. LOB DER TORHEIT, BASLER AUSGABE VON 1515 MIT DEN RANDZEICHNUNGEN VON HANS HOLBEIN D. J. IN FAKSIMILE. MIT EINER EINFÜHRUNG HERAUSGEGEBEN VON HEINR. ALFRED SCHMID.

Two volumes
Basel: Basel Henning Oppermann, 1931. large 8vo. paper-covered boards, paper spine labels, slipcase. 96 pages, facsimile is unpaginated. Two volumes. Facsimile edition in two volumes. Volume II (facsimile) is cracked along the textblock just before the title page. Minor rubbing to the slipcase, else a near fine set. READ MORE about ERASMI ROTERODAMI ENCOMIUM MORIAE, I. E. STULTITIAE LAUS. LOB DER TORHEIT, BASLER AUSGABE VON...

Price: $150.00 Order nr. 141779

Order Nr. 126796 A SERMON DELIVERED DECEMBER 10, 1788, AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REV. JOHN...

Hilliard, Timothy.

A SERMON DELIVERED DECEMBER 10, 1788, AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REV. JOHN ANDREWS.

to the Care of the First Church and Society in Newburyport, as a Colleague-Pastor with the Rev. Thomas Cary.
Newburyport, MA: John Mycall "Published at the Desire of the Church and Society" 1789. 8vo. Removed from volume and inserted into early, black wrappers. (3), 52 pages. to the Care of the First Church and Society in Newburyport, as a Colleague-Pastor with the Rev. Thomas Cary. First edition (Evans 21888). Lacking the half-title page, else complete. Light foxing to the first and last leaf; small institutional stamp to the inner margin of the final page;..... READ MORE about A SERMON DELIVERED DECEMBER 10, 1788, AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REV. JOHN ANDREWS

Price: $1,900.00 Order nr. 126796

Isaac, Alan.

'MORRIS MARBLES': OXFORD'S PAPER MARBLER, EDWARD WEBSTER MORRIS (1842-1919).

Foreword by Sidney E. Berger 92 full-color images
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2023. 10 x 7 in. hardcover, sewn, dust jacket. 224 pages. Foreword by Sidney E. Berger 92 full-color images. When one sees a book covered in a particular paper, the question often arises: Who made that paper? This book helps us recognize certain kinds of marbled-paper decoration created by Edward Webster Morris (1842-1919), an Oxford printer. Morris was adept at the art of marbling, and, as Isaac shows, his..... READ MORE about 'MORRIS MARBLES': OXFORD'S PAPER MARBLER, EDWARD WEBSTER MORRIS (1842-1919

Price: $80.00 Order nr. 138603

(Limited Editions Club). Fielding, Henry.

TOM JONES, THE HISTORY OF A FOUNDLING.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1931. small 4to. limp full leather, slipcase. 870, (2) pages. Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by King (LEC 25). With illustrations by Alexander King and an Introduction by J.B. Priestley. Designed by George Macy and printed by E.L. Hildreth and Company. Slipcase shows minor spotting on rear panel. Tail of leather spine shows light leatherot, else a fine copy. READ MORE about TOM JONES, THE HISTORY OF A FOUNDLING

Price: $110.00 Order nr. 27463

(Miniature Book). Van Dyke, Henry.

THE TRAGEDY OF LITTLE RED TOM: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIGHT ABOUT NATURE-BOOKS.

(San Diego: Ash Ranch Press, 1988). miniature book (5.1 x 6.6 cm). leather, title and author gilt-stamped on spine, edges uncut; cloth slipcase, title and author gilt-stamped on spine. 78, (2) pages. Limited to 26 numbered copies and 26 lettered and signed by the printer. This copy is lettered and signed. (Bradbury, Ash Ranch Press 9). An essay from Days Off and Other Digressions (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907). Colophon includes a biographical sketch of the..... READ MORE about THE TRAGEDY OF LITTLE RED TOM: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIGHT ABOUT NATURE-BOOKS

Price: $150.00 Order nr. 116620

Order Nr. 55180 THE AUTOGRAPH MISCELLANY OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, INTERESTING DOCUMENTS, ETC.,...

Netherclift, Frederick.

THE AUTOGRAPH MISCELLANY OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, INTERESTING DOCUMENTS, ETC., EXECUTED IN FAC-SIMILE LITHOGRAPHY BY [F.N.], FIRST SERIES, CONTAINING 60 EXAMPLES.

London: Netherclift and Durlacher, Lithographic Artists and Printers, 1855. folio. original cloth. (102) sheets (each as a leaf or as two pages). Facsimiles of several lines to several pages of autograph letters and other examples of writing by sixty-one historical figures, mostly copied from documents in the British Museum. Transcriptions on lighter paper alternate with facsimiles on heavier stock, with the transcription(s) on the left-hand side and the facsimile(s) on the right. Printing is generally..... READ MORE about THE AUTOGRAPH MISCELLANY OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, INTERESTING DOCUMENTS, ETC., EXECUTED IN...

Price: $100.00 Order nr. 55180

(Plain Wrapper Press). Gill, Brendan.

WOOINGS.

Verona: Plain Wrapper Press, (1980). 4to. paper-covered boards. 7+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 155 numbered and signed copies. (Plain Wrappers Press 29). A fine copy with errata sheet inserted apologizing for the error on the colophon page. Five poems in English by Brendan Gill. Two of the poems, "Ferragosto" and "Norfolk," were written especially for this edition. "Easter" was previously published in Harper's magazine, and "In Wicklow" and "Voices" previously appeared in..... READ MORE about WOOINGS

Price: $450.00 Order nr. 57744

(Posters). Richmond, Leonard (editor).

THE TECHNIQUE OF THE POSTER.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1933. 4to. cloth. xii, 208, (iv) pages. A collection of essays about the art of poster design from ten different authors. Over a hundred black-and-white illustrations. It should have 77 pasted color plates, but 24 have been torn from the book. Former library book with usual markings. Several minor tears at the edges of pages and near the remaining pasted-down color plates. READ MORE about THE TECHNIQUE OF THE POSTER

Price: $185.00 Order nr. 96618

(Printing).

THE RATIO TABLES.

Key to Scale-Focusing. Theory of Halftone.
Glen Cove, NY: Chemco Photoproducts Company, (1926). slim large 8vo. publisher's cloth. 102 pages. Key to Scale-Focusing. Theory of Halftone. Second enlarged edition. Covers lightly rubbed. Front free endpaper nearly detached. Tape marks on rear pastedown. A very technical, and invaluable, resource for early 20th century photoengraving. Contains charts, graphs, and black & white illustrations. A beautifuly copy. READ MORE about THE RATIO TABLES

Price: $125.00 Order nr. 138872

Ridho, Abu.

THE WORLD'S GREAT COLLECTIONS: ORIENTAL CERAMICS. VOLUME 3.

Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International, (1982). folio. cloth, slipcase. 175+(1) pages. First published as a limited edition in 1977. Text in English, with descriptions of plates in Chinese and English. Volume 3 in a series, features collections of the Museum Pusat in Jakarta. 95 color, 329 monochrome plates. Table of contents, list of color plates, preface by I.B. Mantra, introduction by the author, notes to the plates. Includes Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Indonesian ceramics. READ MORE about THE WORLD'S GREAT COLLECTIONS: ORIENTAL CERAMICS. VOLUME 3

Price: $150.00 Order nr. 120570

(Shanty Bay Press). Virgil.

GEORGICS.

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. A fine copy in fine slipcase. Numbered and signed on the colophon by Walter Bachinski and Janis Butler, the designers, illustrators, and printers of..... READ MORE about GEORGICS

Price: $4,000.00 Order nr. 100262

(Solmentes Press). Armitage, Simon.

RESISTANCE.

Illustration and Calligraphy by David Esslemont.
Decorah, IA: Solmentes Press, 2022. 4to. illustrated paper covered boards, cloth clamshell box. unpaginated. Illustration and Calligraphy by David Esslemont. Limited to 30 numbered copies signed by the artist / printer. The typefaces used were created by designers with a connection to Ukraine. The front cover, title: Bifur - Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, digitized by Richard Kegler; the front cover, author: Arsenal - Andrij Shevchenko, Berdyansk; poem and colophon: Genau - Aleksey Popovtsev, Kyiv; and production..... READ MORE about RESISTANCE

Price: $800.00 Order nr. 138229

Tanselle, G. Thomas.

BOOKS IN MY LIFE.

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2021. 6.125 x 9.25 inches. cloth with dust jacket. xiii, 367 pages. "Books in My Life is a testament to an important scholarly career and a life well lived in the republic of books, but it also advocates for the book as a physical object that reveals so much about our shared past, as well as the joy of acquiring, accumulating, organizing, and studying them." - Geoffrey..... READ MORE about BOOKS IN MY LIFE

Price: $60.00 Order nr. 137254

Order Nr. 105950 BIBLIA SACRA, THE HOLY SCRIPTURE, 180 MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED EDITIONS FROM THE...

(Tenschert). 48.

BIBLIA SACRA, THE HOLY SCRIPTURE, 180 MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED EDITIONS FROM THE 13TH TO THE 20TH CENTURIES.

(Ramsen): Heribert Tenschert, 2004. 4to. paper covered boards in facsimile of a fine binding. 536 pages. A beautiful bookseller's catalogue (Number 48). Profusely illustrated in color. Two page essay by Martin Walser. Price list loosely inserted. READ MORE about BIBLIA SACRA, THE HOLY SCRIPTURE, 180 MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED EDITIONS FROM THE 13TH TO THE 20TH...

Price: $120.00 Order nr. 105950

(Tiessen). Schiller, Fredrich von.

DIE GESETZGEBUNG DES LYKURGUS UND SOLON.

(Neu-Isenburg, Germany: Edition Tiessen, 1980). 4to. paper-covered boards, paper spine label, slipcase. 41, (3) pages. Text in German. Limited to 25 copies numbered with Roman numerals. With an original etching by Ranier Zimnik. Prospectus laid in. Slipcase torn at fore-edge and lightly soiled. READ MORE about DIE GESETZGEBUNG DES LYKURGUS UND SOLON

Price: $145.00 Order nr. 126190

Vigil, José M.

CATALOGOS DE LA BIBLIOTECA NACIONIAL DE MÉXICO.

2 Volumes.
México: Oficina Tip. de la Secretaria de Fomento, 1891. 4to. cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine. 272, 575+(1) pages. 2 Volumes. Two volumes, identified as the Eighth Division, Philology and Belles Lettres and Ninth Division, History and Sciences. Table of contents. Arranged alphabetically by subject. Each entry includes full bibliographic information, including multiple editions. Rubbed at edges and corners. Tanning at edges of leaves. Second volume (Ninth Division) includes handwritten notes about books on navigation at..... READ MORE about CATALOGOS DE LA BIBLIOTECA NACIONIAL DE MÉXICO

Price: $125.00 Order nr. 114836

(Yale University). Richards, David Alan.

I GIVE THESE BOOKS: THE HISTORY OF YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, 1656-2022.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2022. 7 x 10 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 360 pages. "The book is thoroughly researched, making available a wealth of new information, and is well produced and illustrated... both Yale Libraries and the author are to be congratulated on the provision within a single volume of a history extending over 366 years of one of America's finest libraries." - Stephen Clarke, The Book Collector, Volume 72 No. 4 "The..... READ MORE about I GIVE THESE BOOKS: THE HISTORY OF YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, 1656-2022

Price: $85.00 Order nr. 134767

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