Paris: Montgredien & Cie, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. 324 pages. 38.5 x 28 cm. Nos. 1-38. Profusely illustrated with engravings, views and plans, some in color. Text in French, printed on paper with high acid content. Tables Des Gravures. The fair from April to November 1900 brought international attention to..... More
Paris: Editions Nilsson, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 38 x 28 cm. 88 of 100 hand-colored pochoir plates, ten parts in wrappers reflecting various styles with text in French (we offer the following English translation) Gallo-Roman, Monastic and Byzantine, Capes and Collars Renaissance, Doublets and Jerkins Louis XIII-Louis XIV, Refined..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, And Orme, 1810. Eighth edition. Leather Bound. 343 [196] pages. 27.5 x 21.5 cm. Fore-edge painting of two travelers at the Pass of Lennie, Grampian Mountains, Scotland. Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page, and six engraved plates. painting of two travelers. Covers with gilt floret borders..... More
London and New York: Macmillan And Co, 1871. The Globe Edition. Leather Bound. 509 pages. 17.5 x 12 cm. This edition, mostly in double columns bound by Caves & Wilson, Cambridge founded in 1832. Fore-edge painting of the Confederate frigate Nashville firing on the American merchant ship, the Harvey Birch..... More
Paris: Editions Orion, 1929. Alexeieff, Alexander. Printed wrappers. 81 pages. 25.5 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 101 of 365 on paper Sur Velin Blanc A La Cuve. B.K.F. Des Papeteries De Rives. There are 10 full page intaglio prints by Alexeieff: a Russian artist and prolific illustrator and filmmaker..... More
Paris: Jacques Schiffrin Editions De La Pleiade, 1927. Alexeieff, Alexander. Stiff Wraps. 122 pages. 24.5 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 57 of 300 printed on paper Sur Velin A La Cuve, 15 original etchings and 7 color woodcuts by Alexandre Alexeieff, a Russian artist and prolific illustrator and filmmaker..... More
Paris: Xavier Haverman, 1926. Mary, Eduard Marte. Stiff Wraps. 35 pages. 23 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 67 of 200 on Arches Paper (total edition of 275). This, one Marty's earliest works contains 14 full page etchings. The artist, famous for his Art Deco fashion designs was one of..... More
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1928. Alexander Alexeiff. Hardcover. 222 pages. 28.5 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 98 of 100 on Hollande Paper, the first illustrated edition with frontispiece and 13 color etchings by Alexandre Alexeiff, one of which is repeated on the cover. Alexeiff spent his childhood near Istanbul and..... More
Paris: Camille Bloch, 1929. Labourer, Jean-Emile. First edition. Hardcover. 225 pages. 22 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 149 of 285 on Sur Velin Blanc de Rives paper with 12 hand-colored plates of a total of 36 original compositions (23 in black and white) drawn and engraved on copper by..... More
London: Thos. Cook & Son, Nd. Stiff Wraps. 78 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Maps, photographs, timetables and excursion details -- Thos. Cook & Sons were undoubtedly one of the largest travel organizations worldwide at the time of this publication. 16 pages are adverts, mostly for hotels at the rear..... More
Paris: Les Arts et Le Livre, 1927. Vertes, Marcel. Stiff wraps. 245 pages. 20 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 156 of 1165. 15 black and white lithographs hors-texte by Marcel Vertès. Publisher's decorative paper wrappers. A collection of short stories illustrating life in Europe in the 1920s. Morand was..... More
Paris: Editions De La Maison Française, 1947. Dignimont, Andre. Hardcover. 225 pages. 28.5 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 111 of 500. Color illustrations by Andre Dignimont and engraved on wood in colors by Gerard Angiolini. Text in French. Andre Dignimont, in a career spanning over four decades, primarily worked..... More
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1928. Alexieff, Alexandre. First edition. Stiff Wraps. 74 pages. 23.5 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 836 of 850 on Papeteries de Rives. Five full-page etchings, all with tissue guards by Alexandre Alexieff. The author served France in two world wars, and his adventures as a pilot..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 80 pages. 30.5 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 990 signed by Troy Kinney.This is a Catalogue Raisonne of the etchings and drypoints of Kinney, a total of 50 are described in detail. Kinney was noted for his portrayal..... More
Amsterdam & Le Haye: Vereenigde Drukkerijen & Martinus Nijhoff, 1921 & 1956. First edition & Supplement. Hardcover. 598, 463 pages. 29.5 x 20 cm. A compendium of identifying marks used by museum and private collectors. Entries are arranged alphabetically, often with a biographical sketch of the owner and a description of..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2008. Hardcover. 331 pages. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 52 of 300. Planitin text with Brush Script handset -- the 82 publication of the press. Laid-in 24 page pamphlet: Notes For Tono-Bungay by Edward Mendelson from the Penguin Classics of this title -- presents..... More
New York: International News Company, 1884. First American edition. Hardcover. 13 unnumbered pages. 32.5 x 23.5 cm. Pop-up book, six full-page chromolithographed plates, (The cart horse -- The flock of sheep -- The little girl and the doves -- The student and the dog -- The fox and the chickens..... More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. Hardcover. 131 pages. 4to, 23 x 15 cm. Eight full-page engravings. Limited edition, copy 193 of 200 printed in Bell type on Japanese vellum. COOK-A-HOOP 201. Shelley's first printed work, published 1810. A melodramatic work filled with supernatural and macabre events. Bright, fresh copy... More
Newcastle: S. Hodgson, For Emerson Charnley, And Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1820. Bewick, Thomas. First edition. leather_bound. 332 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Illustrated wood engraved frontispiece Thomas Bewick, 336 wood engraved vignettes by the Bewicks. GORDON N. RAY 52: notes "Bewick deplored this well-produced volume, which to his mind..... More
Cosmpoli: Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1886. Hardcover. 216 pages 24 x 17 cm. Revised and corrected edition, apparently a pirate edition printed in Alencon. Probably written between 1410 and 1434, this work achieved a reputation in the Arab world akin to the "Arabian Nights." Burton made the..... More
London: John Murray, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. 544 and 508 pages. 22 1/2 X 15 cm. Two fold-out maps, twelve lithographed plates, and wood engraved text illustrations. Complete with half titles and folding tables. In 1835 the author made a geological tour of the Levant with Hugh Edwin Strickland, continuing..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1905. Hardcover. 182 pages. 28 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 1030 copies printed at the Riverside Press, designed by Bruce Rogers. Title page printed in red and black, ten photogravure full page plates with tissue guards. More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. Buckland-Wright, John. Hardcover. 48 pages. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. 12 wood engraved illustrations, including frontispiece and title vignette by John Buckland-Wright. Limited edition, copy 231 of 750. Printed in Perpetua 14 pt type on mould-made paper. COCKALORUM 178. "Fresh from his work on Keats' Endymion..... More
London: T. Gardiner, 1803. Second edition. Hardcover. 379, 306, 383, 353, 479 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. 15 folding maps and plans. Detailed accounts of the various campaigns including Names of Officers killed, wounded and missing. The one Preface appears in the final volume in which the author extends his..... More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. Hardcover. 64 pages. 22.5 x 14 cm. Foreword and 14 decorations by Averil Mackenzie-Brieve. Designed, produced and published by Christopher Sandford in Caslon's Old Face on Arnold's mould-madepaper. A rare 18th century book reprinted here. Limited edition, copy 301 of 500. PERTELOTE, III 179... More