Paris: Edouard Rouveyre, 1888. large 8vo. half red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, five raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut. 246, (2), v, (3) pages. First and only edition, limited to 900 numbered copies. (Schmidt-Künsemüller no. 1537). A discussion of luxury bookbinding by the author is accompanied by the designs of J. Adeline, G. Fraipont, C. Kurner, and M. Perret. Each plate is protected by a guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Original wrappers bound..... READ MORE about LA RELIURE DE LUXE LE LIVRE ET L'AMATEUR

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4 volumes (of 5).
Zürich: bey Orell, Geßner, Füßli und Comp. 1789-1791. 8vo. half calf, cloth backed boards, leather spine labels, five raised bands, stained paper edges. xvi, 632 pages; (ii), 705, (3) pages ; (ii), 717+(1) pages; (ii), 774 pages. 4 volumes (of 5). First edition. (Vallée, 973; Besterman, 823). An ambitious bibliography of published works from the 15th to the late 18th centuries. All five volumes contain approximately 25,000 entries. Includes a foreword by the author, and..... READ MORE about HANDBOOK DER ALLGEMEINEN LITTERARGESCHICHTE NACH HEUMANNS GRUNDRIß

Price: $175.00  other currencies  Order nr. 75826

3 volumes.
London: T. Rickaby, 1793. large 4to. full leather, gilt turn-ins, gilt design and lettering on the spine, gilt rules on boards, marbled endpapers. (iv), xxxix, (i), 317+(1); (iv), 322-678, (2), 8; (iv), 495, 18+(1) pages. 3 volumes. Lowndes 1, 336. Limited to only two hundred copies, this copy being one of those with the illustrations in black- chiefly Hogarth cuts. Volumes one and three have engraved frontispieces, and all three have engraved title pages. Volume..... READ MORE about HUDIBRAS

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Aberdeen: J. and J.P. Edmond and Spark, 1885. small 4to. original blue polished cloth, beveled edges, top edge cut, others uncut. xvi, 98 pages. First edition limited to 550 copies, of which this is one of 50 numbered large paper copies printed on better paper. (6729 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 440). Covers soiled and rubbed with spotting at top of spine. Some yellowing of front endpaper. Overall a lovely copy of this scarce book..... READ MORE about INTRODUCTION OF THE ART OF PRINTING INTO SCOTLAND

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Athens, Greece: AdVenture SA, 2019. 17.5 x 24.5 cm. Hardcover, cloth. 175 pages. "This volume focuses on three distinct cartographical domains: the production of charts and atlases in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany at the time of Ferdinando II de' Medici (r. 1621- 1670), the quality of the information delivered by Ottoman charts, and finally the later improvement by an anonymous French traveller of the map first published by the Scottish consul and travel author..... READ MORE about MEDITERRANEAN CARTOGRAPHIC STORIES: SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MASTERPIECES FROM THE...

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Athens, Greece: AdVenture SA, 2014. 7 x 9.6 inches. hardcover, cloth. 260 pages. This volume (Athens 2014, in English) features 13 select papers from the 1st International Scientific Conference of the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation (Athens, October 2012), with an Introduction by the editors, Gilles Grivaud and George Tolias. Being a key geographic, strategic, commercial and cultural crossroad, Cyprus attracted the interest of travellers, pilgrims, scholars, scientists and men of action, who contributed to the production..... READ MORE about CYPRUS AT THE CROSSROADS: GEOGRAPHICAL PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS FROM THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

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Perugia: Presso Carlo Baduel, 1782. small 4to. contemporary patterned paper wrappers. (ii), xxii, (ii), 154 pages. An attractive festival book commemorating the return of Pius VI from a visit to Germany. The engraved title page was beautifully designed by Antonio Stefanucci and engraved by Raimondo Fauci, and the engraved frontispiece was designed by Petrus Labruzzi and engraved by Camillus Tinti. The decorative tail-piece is also by Stefanucci and Faucci. Carlo Baduel of Perugia printed the..... READ MORE about AL FAUSTO RITORNO DALLA GERMANIA DI PIO VI PONTEFICE MASSIMO

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Athens, Greece: AdVenture SA, 2016. 10 x 13.4 inches. hardcover, cloth. "Altogether, forty-four maps have been listed in chronological order. The final pages contain four Appendixes--one a highly original graphic key to the Shapes of Cyprus arranged in families--bibliographies and indexes. Everything has been done to ensure the reader gets the maximum benefit from the book. This is a comprehensive reference work for anyone interested in the history of cartography, for it places that island..... READ MORE about CYPRUS: THE BOOK OF MAPS, VOLUME 1: 15th-16th CENTURIES

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43 volumes.
Boston: G.K. Hall, 1969. folio. cloth. thousands of pages. 43 volumes. First edition of this extensive catalogue describing at least 373,262 volumes and 169,336 pamphlets. The library, founded in 1847, flourished under the beneficence of Dr. Samuel Smith Purple and has now grown to be the second largest medical library in the United States. Reproduced from the card catalogue. READ MORE about NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, AUTHOR CATALOG

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Athens, Greece: AdVenture SA, 2016. 10 x 13.4 inches. hardcover, cloth, in matching slipcase. 3 vols, 712 pages. This collectible catalogue in three volumes takes us on a journey through the history and culture of Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, with detailed descriptions of 782 of the most important rare editions and manuscriptsfrom the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation collection, one of the most significant private repositories of works on Cyprus worldwide. The remarkable wealth of information..... READ MORE about CYPRUS AND THE LEVANT: RARE BOOKS FROM THE SYLVIA IOANNOU FOUNDATION

Price: $410.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129776

Athens, Greece: AdVenture SA, 2007. 7.3 x 11 inches. hardcover. 357 pages. Manon, Aix en Provence, year 1785: Antonio Mondaini (alias Namindio or Namindiù) writes, in the Italian language, 14 significant letters on Cyprus. Travelling philosopher, keen observer, naturalist, geologist, antiquarian, scholar and poet, Namindiù thoroughly describes archaeological sites and presents the history of Cyprus as well as his experiences with the locals. The Cypriot countryside, its people and their habits are depicted in the..... READ MORE about LETTERS HISTORIC AND ENTERTAINING ON THE PAST AND PRESENT CONDITIONS OF THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS...

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Comprising Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes of Their Lives; and a Chronological Register of Their Publications, With the Number of Editions Printed; including Notices of some Foreign Writers whose Works have occasionally been published in England. Illustrated by a Variety of Communications from Persons of the first Eminence in the World of Letters.
London: Henry Colburn, 1816. 8vo. Full calf, re-backed with cloth. viii, 449 pages. Comprising Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes of Their Lives; and a Chronological Register of Their Publications, With the Number of Editions Printed; including Notices of some Foreign Writers whose Works have occasionally been published in England. Illustrated by a Variety of Communications from Persons of the first Eminence in the World of Letters. "Mr. [Frederic] Shoberl proceeded to assure me, in the presence..... READ MORE about A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE LIVING AUTHORS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

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From the Sylvia Ioannou Collection
Athens: Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, 2003. 9.75 x 12.5 inches. paperback. 240 pages. From the Sylvia Ioannou Collection. This book contains five units comprising the whole of the Sylvia Ioannou's collection of maps about her homeland, Cyprus. Each unit displays the development of cartography and the history of the island. The first three units encompass Frankish and Venetian rule. Maps and rare loose sheets illustrate the Frankish walls of Nicosia, the philosophical concept of the world..... READ MORE about SWEET LAND OF CYPRUS: THE EUROPEAN CARTOGRAPHY OF CYPRUS (15TH-19TH CENTURY

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New Castle, DE and Worcester, MA: Oak Knoll Press and the American Antiquarian Society, 2005. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, slipcase. 2600 pages. First Edition. This three volume, comprehensive bibliography focuses on the important American wood engraver, Alexander Anderson (1775-1870). The author has selected over 1,000 of Anderson's engravings to illustrate this major bibliography. This work begins with a well written and researched biography of Anderson. There are over 2,322 entries. By the early nineteenth..... READ MORE about ALEXANDER ANDERSON, 1775-1870, WOOD ENGRAVER AND ILLUSTRATOR, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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3 Volumes.
Paris, France: Villier, 1802. 8vo. marbled paper-covered boards. xxjv,472; 450, (6); x, 373+(1) pages. 3 Volumes. Text in French. Original work published in two volumes, but this set includes a third supplemental volume. Dedication, errata, prefatory comments, entries omitted, supplement, geographical notice, An alphabetical directory of bibliographical terms, places and people. The supplement includes an index of authors and corrigenda. First volume with three foldouts. Front board of supplemental volume separated. Spine either partly or..... READ MORE about DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNÉ DE BIBLIOLOGIE

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 133950

With an Introduction by Sofus Larsen and Anker Kyster
Copenhagen, Denmark & London, England: Levin & Munksgaard Publishers / Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930. 4to. cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label. frontispiece, 53 pages followed by the plates. With an Introduction by Sofus Larsen and Anker Kyster. First edition. (Brenni no.482). Inscribed on first blank page by Clara and Hardy Steeholm to the bookbinder Alfred Knight Potter. Lacking the dust jacket. Extremities lightly worn, label chipped with small piece missing (not affecting..... READ MORE about DANISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BINDINGS, 1730-1780

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 5730

Paris: Edouard Rouveyre, 1888. large 8vo. half red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, five raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut. 246, (2), v, (3) pages. First and only edition, limited to 900 numbered copies. (Schmidt-Künsemüller no. 1537). A discussion of luxury bookbinding by the author is accompanied by the designs of J. Adeline, G. Fraipont, C. Kurner, and M. Perret. Each plate is protected by a guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Original wrappers bound..... READ MORE about LA RELIURE DE LUXE LE LIVRE ET L'AMATEUR

Price: $225.00  other currencies  Order nr. 71467

(Chatillon-sur-Seine): n.p., 1824. 8vo. later cloth. pp. 68-228. Mairet's Essai sur la Reliure was the major portion of Notice sur la Lithographie. The lithographic portion occupied the first 67 pages and had 5 plates (lacking in this copy). The essay on bookbinding is very early for the subject (SK-7284; Pollard 52). It was added to this second edition of the lithography title and was first printed here. Our copy is excised from this book. A...... READ MORE about NOTICE SUR LA LITHOGRAPHIE, SUIVIE D'UN) ESSAI SUR LA RELIURE ET LE BLANCHIMENT DES LIVRES ET...

Price: $500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 102967

4 volumes (of 5).
Zürich: bey Orell, Geßner, Füßli und Comp. 1789-1791. 8vo. half calf, cloth backed boards, leather spine labels, five raised bands, stained paper edges. xvi, 632 pages; (ii), 705, (3) pages ; (ii), 717+(1) pages; (ii), 774 pages. 4 volumes (of 5). First edition. (Vallée, 973; Besterman, 823). An ambitious bibliography of published works from the 15th to the late 18th centuries. All five volumes contain approximately 25,000 entries. Includes a foreword by the author, and..... READ MORE about HANDBOOK DER ALLGEMEINEN LITTERARGESCHICHTE NACH HEUMANNS GRUNDRIß

Price: $175.00  other currencies  Order nr. 75826

3 volumes.
London: T. Rickaby, 1793. large 4to. full leather, gilt turn-ins, gilt design and lettering on the spine, gilt rules on boards, marbled endpapers. (iv), xxxix, (i), 317+(1); (iv), 322-678, (2), 8; (iv), 495, 18+(1) pages. 3 volumes. Lowndes 1, 336. Limited to only two hundred copies, this copy being one of those with the illustrations in black- chiefly Hogarth cuts. Volumes one and three have engraved frontispieces, and all three have engraved title pages. Volume..... READ MORE about HUDIBRAS

Price: $425.00  other currencies  Order nr. 94543

(London, England): The Oriental Ceramic Society and the British Museum, 1984. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 200 pages. Exhibition catalogue. Exhibition of Chinese ivories from the commencement of the Shang Dynasty (circa 1600 B.C.) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1911 A.D.) was organized by the Oriental Ceramic Society and the British Museum. Filled what, at the time, was "a notable gap in the history of Chinese art." Table of contents, foreword by Peter Fawcett..... READ MORE about CHINESE IVORIES FROM THE SHANG TO THE QING

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N.P. Decoration Bureau, 1965. folio. cloth, cardboard slipcase. 16, (2), 92 pages. With illustrations, in color, full page prints of Japanese decorations; Japanese and English text; book sections titles include: The History of Special Decorations and Awards in Japan; Orders, Medals of Honor and Silver or Wooden Cups, Rules For Wearing; Description of Illustrations, List of Recipients. Spine ends bumped. READ MORE about DECORATIONS OF JAPAN

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 107172

Aberdeen: J. and J.P. Edmond and Spark, 1885. small 4to. original blue polished cloth, beveled edges, top edge cut, others uncut. xvi, 98 pages. First edition limited to 550 copies, of which this is one of 50 numbered large paper copies printed on better paper. (6729 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 440). Covers soiled and rubbed with spotting at top of spine. Some yellowing of front endpaper. Overall a lovely copy of this scarce book..... READ MORE about INTRODUCTION OF THE ART OF PRINTING INTO SCOTLAND

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 2136

7 volumes.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1867. 4to. original cloth. (vi),822; (vi)786; (vi)833; (vi)815; (iv)874; vi,1017; (iv),468,(2) pages. 7 volumes. First edition. A complete list of works acquired by the Library of the Faculty of Advocates up to 1871. Presented in alphabetical order by author; or by title, key words, and subject for anonymous works. Includes a supplement containing those works published between 1860 and 1871, previously left out. All boards detached with one..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE PRINTED BOOKS

Price: $100.00  other currencies  Order nr. 56639

Wellingborough, England: Christopher Skelton, 1983. thick 4to. two-toned cloth with Gill engraving stamped in blind on the front cover, slipcase. xxiv, 545, (3) pages. First edition, limited to 1350 copies. Designed by Skelton and printed at Skelton's Press. Notes by the publisher, "Eric Gill: A Personal Record by Douglas Cleverdon," followed by a complete bibliography of Eric Gill's engravings with a check list of books containing the engravings. Over 1,000 engravings described and illustrated. READ MORE about THE ENGRAVINGS OF ERIC GILL

Price: $200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 120734

Perugia: Presso Carlo Baduel, 1782. small 4to. contemporary patterned paper wrappers. (ii), xxii, (ii), 154 pages. An attractive festival book commemorating the return of Pius VI from a visit to Germany. The engraved title page was beautifully designed by Antonio Stefanucci and engraved by Raimondo Fauci, and the engraved frontispiece was designed by Petrus Labruzzi and engraved by Camillus Tinti. The decorative tail-piece is also by Stefanucci and Faucci. Carlo Baduel of Perugia printed the..... READ MORE about AL FAUSTO RITORNO DALLA GERMANIA DI PIO VI PONTEFICE MASSIMO

Price: $425.00  other currencies  Order nr. 58718

2 volumes.
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1895, 1907. thick 8vo. original cloth, each volume enclosed in modern cloth slipcase with cloth chemise. xiv, 338; (iv), 67; v-xvi; 486, (ii), 28, 21 pages. 2 volumes. First editions with all supplements (Besterman 3235, Sheehy DE256). This important bibliography is a classified list of all books, essays and maps in European languages relating to Japan published in Europe, America and the East from 1859 to 93. The first volume covers from..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE, BEING A CLASSIFIED LIST OF ALL BOOKS, ESSAYS AND MAPS IN...

Price: $175.00  other currencies  Order nr. 107808

Helmstadt and Leipzig, Germany: J. G. Müllerxchen Buchhandlung, 1789. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 385-553, (17) pages. Text in German. Crell's Chemische Annalen, February 11, 1789. This is the first printed announcement of the purported discovery of uranium. Although the verity of this discovery of uranium was later successfully challenged, this work retains importance of part of the process of the ultimately discovery of that element. Nonetheless, Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817) did reduce by reduction..... READ MORE about CHEMISCHE UNTERSUCHUNGEN DES URANITS, EINER NEUENDECKTEN METALLISCHEN SUBSTANZ

Price: $600.00  other currencies  Order nr. 132764

N.P. n.p., n.d., but circa 1966. framed painting (34 by 28 inches). A framed watercolor 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 GUARDIAN OF QUMRAN

Price: $2,950.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129888

4 volumes
London, England: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Lepard and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821-34. folio. 19th century half leather, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, gilt tooling, four raised bands on spine, top edges gilt. irregularly paginated. 4 volumes. First edition. DNB XII: 57-9. Called his "chief work" by the DNB, Lodge commenced work on the first volume in 1814 and completed the project in 1834. Lodge (1756-1839) was a historical scholar and became..... READ MORE about PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES OF GREAT BRITAIN ENGRAVED FROM AUTHENTIC PICTURES, IN THE...

Price: $1,250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 122017

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893. 8vo. quarter parchment over cloth covers. xvi, 188 pages. First edition, one of 150 numbered large paper copies printed on Dutch handmade paper and bound thus. Parchment spine is soiled with chip in center. Preliminary pages show some foxing, otherwise a clean interior. A near fine copy. Part of the Books about Books Series edited by A.W. Pollard (Webber p.38). Eight illustrations which seem to be on..... READ MORE about BOOKS IN MANUSCRIPT, A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THEIR STUDY AND USE WITH A CHAPTER ON RECORDS

Price: $125.00  other currencies  Order nr. 9584

Dublin: Printed by W. Fold and Son, 1823. 8vo. original boards. (iv), v, (iii), 51+(1) pages. Limited to only fifty copies. An annotated catalogue of 125 books relating to Ireland printed from 1584 to 1820 under the broad headings of Antiquities, History, Biography, Topography, Statistical Surveys, Tourists, and Finance. Inscribed by the author on the half-title to the legal writer and antiquary Henry Joseph Monck Mason Esq., dated December 1825. Boards soiled and worn, back..... READ MORE about BIBLIOTHECA HIBERNICANA: OR A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF A SELECT IRISH LIBRARY, COLLECTED FOR THE...

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43 volumes.
Boston: G.K. Hall, 1969. folio. cloth. thousands of pages. 43 volumes. First edition of this extensive catalogue describing at least 373,262 volumes and 169,336 pamphlets. The library, founded in 1847, flourished under the beneficence of Dr. Samuel Smith Purple and has now grown to be the second largest medical library in the United States. Reproduced from the card catalogue. READ MORE about NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, AUTHOR CATALOG

Price: $374.50  other currencies  Order nr. 47973

(Shaker Heights, OH): Wind & Harlot, 1991. miniature book (7.5 x 5.7 cm). paper-covered boards, label on spine, marbled endpapers, fore-edge uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 74 numbered copies (Bradbury, Wind & Harlot Press 10). Hand-colored illustrations by Bonnie Baris. A whimsical work of poetry. READ MORE about THE JUMBLIES

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 118673

London: Edward Arnold, (1961). 8vo. cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards. xv, 289 pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Introduction by Spielmann followed by descriptions of over 500 miniature books. Well indexed. Red ink used to coat top edge has bled along edge of front and back pastdowns and along top edge of the first few pages. Scarce book. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF MINIATURE BOOKS COLLECTED BY PERCY EDWIN SPIELMANN. TOGETHER WITH...

Price: $100.00  other currencies  Order nr. 42150

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Erasmus Buchhandlung, (1966). miniature book (60 x 53 mm). stiff paper wrappers, cardboard slipcase. 95 pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies, of which this copy is in a lovely full leather and gilt binding with the original wrappers bound in. A charming little production with facsimles, illustrations (some color) and 13 engraved exlibris of Gianni Mantero. Bookplate on front pastedown of the well-known miniature book collector Kalman Levitan. Front hinge showing moderate..... READ MORE about MINIATUR EXLIBRIS

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 80035

(New Britain, CT: REM Miniatures, 1999. miniature book (6.7 x 5.7 cm.). cloth, paper cover label, slide-on paper slipcase, all enclosed in a box decorated in gilt and with a cover label with the limitation added in red ink. (44) pages. Limited to only 99 numbered copies (Bradbury, REM, 100). A tribute to this publisher of miniature books and broadsides. With a short-title list of all his publications. Six page prospectus loosely inserted as is..... READ MORE about EXQUISITRY OF WILLIAM LEWIS WASHBURN

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(Boston): privately printed, (1932). miniature book (4.0 x 3.5 cm). stiff paper wrappers, front cover gilt, slipcase with pull ribbon. (viii), 30, (2) pages. Limited to 250 numbered copies. (Bradbury, Paul and Betty Walcott 1). A book about publishing and collecting miniature books. According to Bradbury, this is the apparently the first miniature book about miniature books published in the United States. Slipcase torn along bottom edge. Gilding on front wrapper faded. Bookplates on front..... READ MORE about CHATS ABOUT MINIATURE BOOKS

Price: $225.00  other currencies  Order nr. 117238

GIVING A SHORT ACCOUNT OF MOST OF OUR HISTORIANS, EITHER IN PRINT OR MANUSCRIPT. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF OUR RECORDS, LAW-BOOKS, &c.
London: T. Evans and T. Becket, 1776. 4to. later cloth and taped spine, paper-covered boards, library markings on spine. xii,241+(1); (vi),114,(2); viii,90,(2) pages. GIVING A SHORT ACCOUNT OF MOST OF OUR HISTORIANS, EITHER IN PRINT OR MANUSCRIPT. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF OUR RECORDS, LAW-BOOKS, &c. "A new edition, corrected." Dedicated to Thomas Watson Wentworth, the Earl of Marchmont, and Geroge Stacpoole. Three volumes in one (England, Scotland and Ireland), originally published separately 1696-9, 1702 and..... READ MORE about THE ENGLISH, SCOTCH AND IRISH HISTORICAL LIBRARIES

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2 volumes in 1.
Paris: A.A. Renouard, 1806. 8vo. modern quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards. xl, 343+(1); (ii), 295+(1) pages. 2 volumes in 1. First edition. Text in French. Besterman 1455; Simmonet, Essai sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de Gabriel Peignot (Paris, August Aubry, 1863, 187). A bibliography of books burnt, suppressed or censored. Introductory letter to "M. B___" by the author. A descriptive bibliography, organized alphabetically by aurhor with explanatory text as to why the work was..... READ MORE about DICTIONNAIRE CRITIQUE, LITTÉRAIRE ET BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DES PRINCIPAUX LIVERS CONDAMNÉS AU FEU;...

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3 volumes.
New Castle, Delaware and Los Angeles: Oak Knoll Press & Heritage Book Shop Inc., 1997. small 4to. cloth. 1350 pages. 3 volumes. Limited to 700 copies. Originally printed and limited to only 150 copies, this legendary three-volume work describes over 1,300 English literary rare books and manuscripts in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, one of the foremost American collections of early English literature, now housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. The original catalogue..... READ MORE about CARL H. PFORZHEIMER LIBRARY, ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1475-1700

Price: $175.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129308

New York: Clark & Way, 1951. 8vo. full blue calf stamped in gilt. (60) pages. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies of which this is one of the 100 signed by Bruce Rogers and bound in leather. Printed on English hand-made paper by the Thistle Press in New York City with design and hand-setting by Bruce Rogers. (Blumenthal, p.182-183). Profusely illustrated throughout with illustrations for each month printed in a different color. A very..... READ MORE about TWELVE MONETHS AND CHRISTMAS DAY FROM 'FANTASTICKES'

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New York: William E. Rudge's Sons, 1943. 4to. original cloth-backed pattern paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, glassine wrapper, slipcase, inserted in cardboard mailer. (ii), ix, 187 pages. First edition, one of the 199 numbered copies signed by Rogers constituting the large-paper edition. The large-paper copy is in a different binding than the trade edition and contains four decorations in color, all executed by Rogers. It also features one of Rogers' printer's..... READ MORE about PARAGRAPHS ON PRINTING

Price: $375.00  other currencies  Order nr. 28113

London, England: D. Browne, 1720. small 8vo. contemporary half leather, cloth. (iv), 304 pages. First edition (Howes W39; Sabin 101050; New Cambridge Bibliography 2, 1460). "Advertisement," introduction. Appendix includes documents referred to in the text. Walker was commander of a British expedition against French Canada in 1711, during the War of the Spanish Succession, known as Queen Anne's War in the colonies. Walker sought to justify his conduct of the unsuccessful expedition. Walker was struck..... READ MORE about A JOURNAL: OR FULL ACCOUNT OF THE LATE EXPEDITION TO CANADA WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING...

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Manor Farm: The Whittington Press, 1985. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 70, (8) pages. Second edition of the first volume limited to 450 copies, of which this is one of 400 trade editions. Articles by Edward Craig, Paul Morgan, John Randle, Richard Kennedy, Glenn Storhaug, Brocard Sewell, and others. With an index to the first five issues of Matrix which is not in the original edition. Fine condition. READ MORE about MATRIX 01. NUMBER ONE, AUTUMN 1981

Price: $250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 42249

Manor Farm: Whittington Press, 1986. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, custom clamshell box with gilt lettering on spine. (viii), 166, (2) pages. Limited to 960 copies of which this is one of the 850 copies of the trade edition. (Butcher 92). Filled with tipped-in plates and other illustrations. Articles by Douglas Cleverdon on Morison and Gill, John Dreyfus on French Resistance printing, Sebastian Carter on Victor Hammer, Roderick Cave on Golden Cockerel, Ian Mortimer on..... READ MORE about MATRIX 07

Price: $112.50  other currencies  Order nr. 124979

Manor Farm: The Whittington Press, 1990. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 237 pages. Limited to 925 copies of which this is one of the 820 copies of the trade edition bound thus. (Butcher 106). Filled with tipped in plates and other illustrations. This year's articles include "Berthold Wolpe, 1905-89" by Montague Shaw, "Gerard Meynell and the Westminster Press" by John Dreyfus, "Stanley Morison and Jan van Krimpen" by Sebastian Carter, and "From a Cambridge..... READ MORE about MATRIX 10

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Manor Farm, Andoversford, Gloucestershire, England: The Whittington Press, 1990. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 237 pages. Limited to 925 copies of which this is one of the 820 copies of the trade edition bound thus. (Butcher 106). Table of contents. Filled with tipped-in plates and other illustrations. This year's articles include "Berthold Wolpe, 1905-89" by Montague Shaw, "Gerard Meynell and the Westminster Press" by John Dreyfus, "Stanley Morison and Jan van Krimpen" by Sebastian..... READ MORE about MATRIX 10: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES

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Manor Farm: Whittington Press, 1991. 4to. quarter leather, marbled paper over boards, in slipcase with separate bound copy of additional material. (v), 207, (14) pages. Limited to 955 copies, this being one of 105 copies bound thus. (Butcher 110). Filled with tipped-in plates, photographs and samples of private press items. Some of the articles in this issue are "Reynolds Stone and Cambridge" by Brooke Crutchley, "Stanley Morison and Jan van Krimpen, a Survey of their..... READ MORE about MATRIX 11

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Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1992. 4to. stiff decorated paper wrappers. (vi), 222 pages. Limited to 925 copies, this being one of 825 copies bound thus. (Butcher 116). Filled with tipped-in plates, photographs and samples of private press items. Some of the articles in this issue are "The Library of Emery Walker" by William Peterson, Simon Lawrence on "The Fleece Press", Roderick Cave on the "Ceremonial Papers of the Chinese, Part One," "Dennis Cohen and the Cresset..... READ MORE about MATRIX 12

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