London: Theosophical Publishing House, (1928). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original blue cloth spine and cream boards, ix, 41 pp., pictorial dustjacket. Frontispiece and jacket illustration by Phoebe Stabler. The second book in the author's series of the angelic heirarchy. More
n.p. Papierfabrik Zerkall bei Düren Renker & Söhne, nd (1930s?). Paperback. Decorative wraps, 23.5 x 16.5 cm, 10 leaves including 4 with illustrations. Samples of text papers and card stocks. Illustrations depict papermaking and printing in old times. Scarce. OCLC/Worldcat finds 3 copies with this title and publisher though all..... More
London: Printed for H. Serjeant and G. Woodfall, no date (1880s?). Early reprint. Hardcover. (104) pp., small octavo, blue cloth spine and marbled boards. An irreverant look at matrimonial practices around the world and down through the ages, with the farcical "Adventures of Sir Harry Fitzgerald" for dessert. More
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1861. Fifth edition overall, first edition with Dore illustrations. Hardcover. Octavo, dark green morocco and boards, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, 3 fl, 363 pp., 3 fl. All edges gilt. 158 engraved illustrations by Gustave Dore, including 12 fine full-page illustrations. Slight wear..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1823. Second edition. Hardcover. Original tan and blue paper over boards, printed spine label, 12mo, viii, (9)-92, xxiii, [1] pp., title page engraving. Recipes for making wines from virtually every fruit available in Britain at the time. The first edition was published..... More
(Boston: P. R. Warren Co., Printers, 1906). First edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth, octavo, 303 pp., including several leaves of advertisements. Mild wear to covers, else fine. A basic book of home cooking offered by Acker. Merrall & Condit Company, a large grocery firm with several stores in New York..... More
Rome: Agapito Franzetti, [1816]. Original copperplate engraving, image size 7.25 x 9.25 inches on 10 x 15 sheet. Matted. Engraved by Giuseppe Acquaroni (1780-1847). Signed in the plate Gio. Acquaroni inc. Caption text also in French. More
Rome: Agapito Franzetti, [1816]. Original copperplate engraving, image size 7.25 x 9.25 inches on 10 x 15 sheet. Matted. Engraved by Giuseppe Acquaroni (1780-1847). Signed in the plate Gio. Acquaroni inc. Caption text also in French. More
Rome: Agapito Franzetti, [1816]. Original copperplate engraving, image size 7.25 x 9.25 inches on 10 x 15 sheet. Matted. Engraved by Giuseppe Acquaroni (1780-1847). Signed in the plate Gio. Acquaroni inc. Caption text also in French. More
Cincinnati: W. M.B. C. Press, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. 288 pp., 12mo, original dark brown pictorial cloth with cover design and lettering in gilt and black. Compiled from letters to "certain Eastern journals - chiefly to the Cleveland "Leader & Herald" written during 1884 and 1886. The author was a...... More
NY: Abrams, (1965). First edition. Hardcover. Original orange cloth, folio (10 x 13.5 inches) , xxxviii pp tex and 370 plates. 54 of the plates are in full color. More
Los Angeles: Adtype, (1956). First edition. Hardcover. Folio (14.5 x 13 inches), black cloth 4-ring metal-hinged binder; v, 498 pp. 2 index tabs at fore-edge. A massive mid-century type catalog. Text, display, and ornamental types of all sorts. OCLC locates only 6 copies. More
NY: McDowell, Obolensky, (1957). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Original blue cloth with title and cover ornament in silver and green, title page printed in blue, 339 pp. Mild wear to covers, small stain to bottom edge, else near fine in lightly edgeworn jacket. Typo on page 80: "Walking" instead..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California. Printed at the Allen Press, 1955. First edition, limited to 350 copies. Hardcover. Original white parchment and blue-gray boards printed in red; octavo; 79 pp. Map. Text was originally published anonymously in London in 1830 in reaction to (and borrowing freely from) Otto von..... More
(Kentfield): The Allen Press, 1974. Limited edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with a full-page reproduction from a wood engraving of Saint Anthony and 24 additional engravings from various sources, (83) pp; quarto (13.5 x 9.75 inches), bound in Fortuny cloth hand-blockedf in a Persian floral pattern; text handset in Menhart Unciala and..... More
San Francisco: The Press of Dorothy and Lewis Allen, 1942. Limited edition. Hardcover. Half calf and decorative boards, 12mo (7x 6 inches) (xv), 44, [1] pp., frontispiece and 2 full-page illustrations. Edition of 225 copies. The second book from the Allen Press. More
Kentfield: The L - D Allen Press, 1953. Limited edition. Hardcover. 90 pp., 6 full-page woodcut illustrations by Mallette Dean printed in 3 colors; 8vo (10 x 6.5 inches), bound in wood veneer over boards with rose Fabriano paper spine. Prospectus laid in. The 12th book from the Allen Press..... More
n.p. The Allen Press for the Roxburgh Club, 1968. First edition. Handset broadsheet with decorative woodcut initial by Malette Dean, 12.5 x 8.5 inches, mounted in double folded plain paper wrapper. Reprint of the 1900 Doves Press broadsheet as a keepsake for Roxburgh Club members for the April 16, 1968..... More
New York: C. M. Saxton, 1855. Third edition - enlarged and revised. 330 pp. + 6 pages adverts at rear, frontispiece and 2 engraved plates, many engraved illustrations in the text, small octavo, black cloth embossed in gilt and blind. John Fisk Allen is credited with producing and marketing the..... More
Boston: Dutton & Wentworth, 1848. Second edition - enlarged. 247 pp, frontispiece and 2 engraved plates, many engraved illustrations in the text, octavo, original printed wrappers. Originally published in 1847. John Fisk Allen is credited with producing and marketing the first hybrid between the native American grape "Vitis labrusca" and..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original decorative boards with paper spine label; xxiii, 192 pp., frontispiece and 10 monochrome plates. 17 letters written by Joseph Pratt Allyn (1833-1869) to the Hartford (Connecticut) Evening Press from various points in the West during the years 1863-1866..... More
New York: American Book Bindery-Stratford Press, nd (1930s?). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original pale brown boards with black cloth spine, gilt cloth lettering piece on front board, 79 pp. "This brochure is the advance showing of our 'English-cut Monotype Caslon and Baskerville' prior to the compilation of a type specimen..... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, (1833). Paperback. Original decorative printed wrappers, 6 x 3.75 inches, 24 pp., engraved illustrations. Copyright statement dated 1833./ The American Sunday-School Union was at this address from 1827 to 1853./ This title was listed in American Sunday-School Union catalogues from Jan. 1832 to Jan. 1858./ One..... More
Berkeley: University of California, 1959. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 9.25 x 6 inches; 477-567 pp., 2 color photo plates. Hilgardia: A Journal of Agricultural Science Published by the California Agricultural Experiment Station. Vol. 28, No. 18. June, 1959. Gabler 13370. More
Paris: A. Welter, 1902. Second edition. Hardcover. xvi, [1], 141 pp., octavo, original green cloth with gilt spine. Entire text is a photo-lithographic facsimile of the authors' manuscript tables. English Hittite scholar and Assyriologist O. R. Gurney's copy with his bookplate to front fixed endpaper. More