Weiler im Allgäu: Printed by Druckerei Holzer for the members of Editions Medicina Rara, no date. Facsimile of the 1535 edition. 40 leaves (80 pp.) + [7] index pp., illustrations from woodcuts.; octavo, full parchment paper over boards, clothbound clamshell box. Facsimile reprint of the 1535 Frankfurt edition. Edition of..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace , Jovanovich, (1981). First edition, as stated. Hardcover. Quarto, original beige cloth and rose boards, 45) pp., color illustrations throughout. This charming book won the Newberry Medal and was runner-up for the Caldecott Medal. More
New York: The Charles Renard Co., 1925. First edition. Hardcover. [vii], 108 pp., 7-page publisher catalogue at rear, 12mo, original brick red cloth, pictorial jacket. Scarce divination title from Charles Renard Co's "Popular Topics Library. OCLC/Worldcat finds only 3 copies in library holdings. NYPL catalogue listing ascribes authorship to Jean..... More
New York: The Typophiles, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 154 pp., 12mo, original burgundy cloth with gilt titles, jacket. Typophile Chap Book No. 58, designed by Abe Lerner. Edition of 1100 copies. More
New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1905. Eleventh edition. 231 pp. + several pages of publisher advertisements, folding plates; 6 x 3.75 inches, printed green boards. A comprehensive technical manual. No. 63 in the Van Nostrand Science Series. More
New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1990. Limited edition. Paperback. [11] pp introductory text + 50 leaves monochrome facsimile; printed wrappers, 5.5 x 3.75 inches. Edition of 250 copies printed at the Meriden-Stinehour Press. This copy un-numbered. More
New York: Anthroposophic Press, (1940). Second edition. Hardcover. 192 pp., octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles. Both institutional owners of this book were now-defunct private graduate schools. More
np: Royal Baking Powder Co., 1929. Hardcover. 100 pp., lavishly illustrated with color lithographs of various baked treats in the text, many pages of instructional illustrations from photographs; small quarto, original blue cloth with gilt cover title. A charming vintage baking book. More
NY: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. 2 volumes, original red cloth, octavos, 274; 359 pp. Illustrated. Author was Representative and Senator (1913-23) from Washington and appotinted by President Harding ambassador to Peru from 1923-28. More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1913. 18th revised edition. Light wear to covers, contemporary owner name to half-title page, overall about very good. Original limp red cloth stamped in gilt and blind, 4.25 x 6.25 inches, liv, 491, 58 pp. 14 maps and 41 plans. More
[North Hatfield Massachusetts: The Pennyroyal Caxton Press, 1999]. First edition. Paperback. Sewn parchment wrappers with title in gold, 10 x 8.5 inches; [16] pp., including 6 illustrations from wood engravings by Barry Moser, large folded speciment page with rubricated initial at rear. Laid in are 2-page detailed description of the..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1986. First edition. Paperback. [12] pp., mustard wrappers, 12 x 9 inches, 2 color plates from the book and double page color plate of Arion Press publisher Andrew Hoyem displaying the book, order form and letter to subscribers laid in. More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2000. First edition. Paperback. [15] pp., black wrappers, 13 x 9.5 inches, 4-page specimen sheet (single 26 x 18 inch sheet folded), order form and letter to subscriber laid in. Specimen sheet has examples from Genesis, Job, Psalms, and John. More
Birmingham: City of Birmingham School of Printing, 1940. First edition. Paperback. 12 pp., (plus colophon), text pages with decorative boarders, some printed in colors, frontispiece photograph of George Jones; folio, decorative wrappers. Printed by students at the City of Birmingham School of Printing and Allied Trades under the supervision of..... More
n.p. [Redwood Chappel], 1995. First edition, numbered, limited. portfolio. Portfolio, 12.25 x 8.25 inches; ribbon-tied folding portfolio covers with velcro closure and window cutout to mounted illustrated redwod plaque, 9 printed broadside sheets (complete). The Redwood Chappel was (is?) an organization of letterpress printers. Edition of 350 numbered copies, this..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1930. First edition. Hardcover. xiii, 304 pp + 19-page series catalog at rear; octavo, original blue cloth with gilt spine title and cover ornament. From "The History of Civilisation" series edited by C. K. Ogden. More
Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. ix, 117 pp. + 186 monochrome plates at rear; octavo, original brown cloth with gilt title. Text includes letterpress transcriptions of the verses. Plates reproduce the entire manuscript in facsimile. More
London: Luzac & Co., 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 215 pp., 7 folding maps printed in colors, octavo, original yellow cloth. More
Weisbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1972. Limited edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes (text volume and facsimile volume); small octavos, smooth russet calf spines with title stamped in blind and decorative boards; text volume 192 pp.; facsimile volume 45 leaves. Slipcase. Dating from around 1270 the manuscript book known as "DIE KLEINE..... More
Portland, Maine: Smith and Sale, 1924. Limited edition, #39 of 220 copies. Hardcover. xii, 107 pp.; octavo, white cloth and sea-green boards with gilt title and ornament. John Myers Ohara's translation of Sappho was originally published in 1907. This 1924 limited edition contains 13 additional poems, included here as "New..... More
Westport: Greenwood Press, (1976). First edition. Hardcover. xxiv, [1], 379 pp.; quarto, original black cloth. A comprehensive study of the instrument and its music. More
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1968. Second Revised and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. xii, 156 pp. + unpaginated plates at rear with 121 reproductions from photographs; octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles. Originally published in Dutch in 1927, this English-language edition adds considerable new material. More
Stanford University Press, 1963. First edition. 2 volume set, original brown cloth, quarto (9 x 11.5 inches), lxv, 317; lxv, 338 pp.. 30 monochrome plates in each volume. More
San Francisco: Printed for the Book Club of California by W. Thomas Tayler, Austin, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. [3] leaves, 37 pp., 2 full-page illustrations, original leaf mounted at rear, octavo, half red morocco and gray boards, publisher prospectus laid in. Original leaf is page 405/406 from the Book of..... More
Portland: Collegium Graphicum, (1972). First edition thus, facsimile of the 1525 original edition. Paperback. [184] pp., profusely illustrated; quarto, decorative card wrappers, slipcase. Durer's "Treatise on Measurement" intersects with the study of geometry, perspective, typography, and other disciplines. More