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  other currencies  Order nr. 134228

(Kentfield, CA): The Allen Press, 1970. 4to. Original decorative green and gold hand-blocked cloth, paper spine label, decorated endpapers, top edge cut, other edges uncut, cloth slipcase. unpaginated. Limited to 140 copies. Spine a bit sunned, some offsetting to pastedowns, some dampstaining to slipcase. Still, a near fine copy. Prospectus loosely inserted. List of engravings precedes text. Illustrated with twenty-four wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. The King James translation of the Book of Genesis. Designed..... READ MORE about THE BOOK OF GENESIS

Price: $1,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 131216

Containing an Account of his Education, Travels, Adventures, Connections, Literary Productions, and pretended Conversion from Heathenism to Christianity; which last proved the Occasion of his being brought over into this Kingdom, and passing for a Proselyte, and a Member of the Church of England.
London: Printed for the Executrix; Printed for R. Davis; J. Newbery; L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1764. large 12mo. half leather with marbled paper-covered boards, 5 raised bands, top edge gilt, red leather spine label. frontispiece, (ii), ii, 364 pages. Containing an Account of his Education, Travels, Adventures, Connections, Literary Productions, and pretended Conversion from Heathenism to Christianity; which last proved the Occasion of his being brought over into this Kingdom, and passing for a...... READ MORE about MEMOIRS OF ****. COMMONLY KNOWN BY THE NAME OF GEORGE PSALMANAZAR; A REPUTED NATIVE OF FORMOSA....

Price: $2,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 55676

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