Paris: H. Fournier Aine et Furne Et Cie, 1838. Hardcover. 279, 319 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. First printing with illustrations by Grandville containing 450 vignettes, wood engravings and four full-page wood engravings. GORDON N. RAY 192. [Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914]. "Frontispiece on `papier de..... More
Providence: Ziggurat Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. French leaved, approx. 15 leaves in accordian, Laperello presentation. 22.5 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 24 of 50, Walter Feldman copy with his blind stamp on title. Images, wood block prints designed by Feldman. The author is known mainly for the poems..... More
New York: M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., 1936. Forain, Jean-Louis. First edition. Hardcover. 67 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 293 of 500 printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Illustrated with reproductions of Forain's work. Almost as new condition. More
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. 25 pages in text. 28. 5 x 22 cm. Critical Notes by Adele Jenny. Forty-four plates. Double-page fold-out frontispiece in color, a lithograph of a sperm whale. Descriptive Catalogue of the Plates. The earliest trade cards here date from 1730, or..... More
Paris: Verve, 1948. Picasso, Pablo. First edition. Unpaginated. 35 x 27 cm. Dedicated to Picasso and his work at Antibes. Abundantly illustrated: eighteen tipped-in full-color plates and 21 black and white plates. Text in French. VERVE, p.182 ".... one of the unique qualities of "Verve" Nos. 19/20: a unity of..... More
Los Angeles: Bruce McCallister, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 14 leaves. 32 x 24 cm. Limited edition, one of 500, this out of series, signed by Paul Landacre in ink on the colophon page, but not the publisher. The fourteen leaves each contain one wood engraving. An unbound, unsewn copy in..... More
Paris: Chez F.-L Schmied, 1926. leather_bound. [X] [XXX] [XXVI] [x] pages. 26.5 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 70 of 150 signed by Schmied in pencil on the terminal colophon leaf. The production of this work was partially underwritten by the diplomat and politician Louis Barthou, the American financier Frank..... More
London: Essex House Press (Edward Arnold), 1902. leather_bound. 45 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Limited edition, copy 94 of 165 printed on vellum with front cover Arts & Crafts rose in blind, and entitled "Soul Is Form." Hand colored woodcut frontispiece, plus a central two panel plate, and elaborate colored..... More
Paris: Mourlot, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 246 pages. Folio, 32 x 25.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 146 of 800 on velin d'Arches. Twenty-five original lithographs (one silkscreen), nineteen in color -- with contributions by Masson, Matisse, Braque, Derain, Picasso, Miro, Cocteau, Villon, Chagall, Giacometti, Buffet, Vasarely, Delvaux, Wunderlich, Sutherland, et..... More
Venice: Francesco Rampazetto, 1609. leather_bound. [12] 1-56, 61-303 [1] pages. Folio, 34.5 x 24.5 cm. 2 parts in 1, titles with large woodcut device of cannon, full-page engraved portrait of the author by W.Kilian, woodcut head- & tail-pieces, initials and diagrams at beginning, 171 woodcut illustrations of which 7 double-page..... More
New York: Lockwood & Co, (1849). First edition. leather_bound. 23 leaves mounted on stubs. 25,5 x 20.5 cm. An excellent example of early American chromolithography. Whitman Bennett exclaimed, "The editor has been amazed at the variety and beauty of Mapleson's work, which seems to him . . ., both in..... More
London: W. Faden, 1783. First edition. Hardcover. [XX] 110 pages .27.5 x 22.5 cm. 2 folding engraved maps of Egypt and Syria/Iraq. This work by Capper is in two parts; one describing the route from India by way of the Red Sea, Suez and Egypt, the other from England by..... More
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Tall, thin Folio, 36 x 22.3 cm. Limited edition, one of 185, this copy not numbered. The illustrations were planned for a Kelmscott Press Bible but the project was terminated upon the death of William Morris. Printed D.B. Updike at the..... More
London: T. Jefferys, 1761. First edition. leather_bound. 275 [15] [48] [XIX] pages. 26 x 20 cm. With 13 engraved maps (12 folding) and 6 plates (3 folding). Directions for placing the plates at rear. LOWNDES: “valuable for its accuracy and authenticity” “a contribution to the chronicles of India only superseded..... More
Buenos Aires: Govone, 1947. 137 pages. 32 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 169 of 250 of a total edition of 311. Full page black and white illustrations by Lydis. Lydis was known for her lithographic depiction's celebrating lesbian and bisexual relationships. She was influenced greatly by Foujita whom she..... More
Newark, Vermont: Janus Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 23 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 56 of 225, signed by Thorne and Van Vliet. Printed in red and black, the text set in fourteen point Monotype on Barcham Green Dover paper and bound into Diana covers. Van Vliet received..... More
Newark, Vermont: Janus Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 18.5 x 14 cm. Limited edition, copy 57 of 150, signed by Lohf and Van Vliet. Printed in red and black, the text is Trump Medieval Italic set and printed by Nancy Reid on old Fabriano paper; the Japanese paper on..... More
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co, 1874. First American edition. Hardcover. 286 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Four leaves of adverts at rear. Forty two illustrations. The two tales, the first based on his own experience on a transatlantic voyage on the Great Eastern, the largest iron ship ever constructed..... More
London: John Murray, 1879. First edition. Hardcover. 444 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Four fold-out color maps. Index. 12 pages of adverts. Contains Burton's "Itineraries of the Second Khedivial Expedition: Memoir explaining the New Map of Midian made by the Egyptian Staff-oficers"; and, "A Visit to Lissa and Pelagosa." The..... More
London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773. First edition. Hardcover. 506 pages. 24.6 x 20 cm. With two folding engraved maps and 13 engraved plates. Ives traveled to India as surgeon of the Kent, the flagship of Vice-Admiral Charles Watts, commander-in-chief in the East Indies. The work includes an account and..... More
London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 220, 228, 224, 226 pages. 19.5 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 60 of 260. Forty hand colored etchings, including additional engraved half-titles with vignettes in each volume. A series of comic tales originally published in 1819-1820. Light rubbing to extremities. Raised..... More
London: James Robbins, 1826. First edition. Hardcover. 200 pages. 27 1/2 x 22 cm. Twelve hand-colored plates with additional 12 uncolored plates designed and engraved by Cruikshank, and sixteen woodcuts in the text. One page ALS dated January 6th 1846 signed (Geo Cruikshank) bound in after the free front endpaper..... More
NP: NP, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Fine etched circular triptych, 24 x 9 inches, neatly matted in glass fronted frame ready for hanging. One of 50 copies signed by Moser. More
Paris: Firmin-Didot Et Cie, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 886 pages. 28.5 x 21 cm. Elaborately illustrated edition, 14 color lithographs with tissue guards, 431 engravings and photogravures, plus 21 plans and maps. Text in French. Complete Index of color plates and ancillary illustrations. Clean, very fresh copy, binding decorated in..... More
Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. 125 pages. 22 1/2 x 15 cm. A spectacular example of Arts and Crafts details, and "more ambitious and successful than `When Hearts Are Trumps." Limited edition, copy 107 of 600, printed by John Wilson on handmade laid paper. The type is Jenson..... More