8vo, unpaginated full blue morocco with gilt lettering on front panel ("Westminster Hall 9 May 1935" ), raised bands on spine, gilt edging, b/w frontispiece, one b/w photograph with tissue guard. Matching d/w and slipcase. Absolutely pristine copy in fine d/w and very good slipcase. View More...
Librairie Gründ, Paris n.d. [1926]
4to, 4 page Introduction & 64 black & white loose b/w photographic plates (complete) in a folder with ties; Folder is brown paper over boards, with fabric spine, black titles on front and spine. Photographic plates of lacework [dentelles] from the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs Paris 1925. Librairie Gründ, also known as "Les éditions Gründ " was a French publishing house started in 1880 by Ernest Gründ and Émile Maguet, specialising in works about art. This work is more commonly found in an edition published in 1926 by A. Levy; there is no title or copyr... View More...
n.p. n.d. 4to, illuminated vellum wrappers; 52 leaves; stitched binding. Pen and ink calligraphy, illuminations with watercolor head and tail pieces, and in-text illustrations all on hand-made paper. The artist/author is unknown. Clean, tight and unmarked interior. Covers torn and chipped on all edges. Date unknown but probably from late 1950’s - early 1960’s. View More...
1st ed., large 4to Interior is clean and tight. Several small holes in front end-paper; binding is very sound but has numerous small scuffs and rubs. View More...
16 mo, grey boards, quarter leather. Blyenburg (1558-1668), a dutch poet, published this compilation of selections from modern Latin poets. A revised edition, first published the year earlier in 1599. CONDITION: Fair; Covers quite worn, but intact, with substantial staining. Title is inked onto the spine. Inked signatures on ffep; front hinge partially split. Inked number on title page; small inked library rubber stamp image on verso of title page. 1" x 2" damp stain at bottom center of inside front cover and extending into the first dozen pages or so and again at the back cover. Other damp s... View More...
Florence: Nella Stamperia di Giorgio Marescotti, 1579-1580. [The colophon is dated Florence, 1579, but the dedication to Francesco de Medici, is dated April 15, 1580.] 1st edition. Small 4to, 1/2 vellum and purple boards, inked title on spine.[38] 829 [1] pp. Text in Italian. Buoninsegni was a Florentine patrician, merchant and historian. Politically he held some of the city's most important offices and was a member of the broader circle of the early Medici regime. He spent the last ten years of his life completing this Historia Florentine; he died in Florence in March of 1466. The history ex... View More...
First edition, first printing. (1859 on title page; 1860 on front wrapper)
Imperial 4to, ¾ cloth with original paper wrappers bound in. Color plates engraved on steel by Ch. COLIN after RAFFET.
171 pp. Frontispiece, title vignette on India paper and 20 colored plates by Raffet. Text in French by Eugene Fieffe. The color plates show the uniforms of the various regiments of the Imperial Guard; frontispiece of Napoleon in uniform on horseback. The last 80 pp. are a list of all the officers of the Imperial Guard in 1813, the composition of the Guard on Elba Island, text of the decrees relat... View More...
War communiques, German atrocities, Holocaust, Soviet Annexation#####Published by the Czechoslovak Government Press Bureau, NY. Vol 4 nos. 1-103 [less issue 46] 102 issues in all; a near complete run of the final year of publication. 11x8.5", 4-8 leaves each. Offset printed from typed originals. Most, but not all, stapled in upper left corner. Each issue contains news about the progress of the war and the occupation, reports of the Holocaust and other German war crimes, reprints of important documents, and speeches by Jan Masaryk, Edvard Benes and others.#####Among significant topics:-Apparen... View More...
Avigon et Lyon, Seguin et chez l’auteur, 1777. 12mo, full vellum. 207 pp. An early guide to rare-book collecting; a priced-catalog of books sold by Jean-François de Los Rios, with annotations. de Los Rios (1727-1820) was a noted bookseller in Lyon, famously taking advantage of the dispersion of Jesuit libraries after the order was expelled from France in 1764. The Bibliographie instructive was one of his early works, published after more than 17 years as a bookseller in Lyon. The bilbiografía is organized as a directory with 639 entries briefly discussed and 190 references in the included supp... View More...
1st ed. 24mo, 2-5/8”x3”,78 pp. Limited to 2500 copies. Printed at The Little Press of Jack R. Levien. Bound in pictorial boards depicting a 10,000 mark note, paper label on frontis. ,Engraved half-title and frontispiece, b/w photos, and with several charts recording the daily value of the mark in relation to the dollar from 1919 to1923. A near-fine copy. Small, light stain on the front cover label, prior owner’s book seal at bottom of ffep. View More...
8vo. Original half linen over blue boards, decorated spine and cover; pp. [viii], 43, 15 (advertisements) ten hand-colored engravings; A facsimile of the 1815 publication “Letters from France: written by a Modern Tourist”, re-using the original copperplates which were then destroyed. A humorous look at life and society in Paris during the brief period Napoleon's was on Elba. 'Who the author was is doubtful; but the writer [Henry Sotheran] has heard his father say that he was one Benjamin Rotch, a Middlesex Magistrate' (from the preface). No. 250 of 250 numbered copies, signed by H.C.Millard, S... View More...
1st ed. 12mo, 4 volumes. Contemporary calf, but heavily worn.
Contains a “Preliminary speech on French novels.” , excerpts from a variety of works, and an essay on the origin of novels invented before the Christian era. The Count of Tressan was a French soldier, physicist and writer, known mainly for his adaptations of medieval novels of chivalry. He was a childhood friend of Louis XV, then became lieutenant-general and aide-de-camp to the king at the Battle of Fontenoy. Appointed governor of Toul and called by King Stanislas to the court of Lunéville, he received the title of grand marshal.... View More...
Second edition; first published in 1701. 12mo, brown calf. 437 pp. plus front and back matter. Warwick fought on the Royalist side at Edgehill and served Charles I until the king's execution in 1658. He then went on to become a knight under Charles II, and the diaries continue into this period. Internally good with a tight text block and generally little foxing. Title page is worn and soiled as are a number of the pages in the adits at rear. Title page and fep partially detached but fully intact. Front hinge split but intact. Covers very heavily rubbed and chipped with most of the lettering ... View More...
Free World Magazine, 1944. 1st ed., 8vo, brown cloth. 28 pp. Several of Welles' political writings first published in FREE WORLD magazine between April-December 1994. Welles was an avid supporter of President Roosevelt and his views were often well in advance of political thinking of the time. Very rare: no others online, none in OCLC, no auction records. One copy, with a gift inscription to Welles, is in his papers at the University of Michigan. View More...
Handwritten notebook --author(s) unknown, comprising 22 pages on the above subject and 29 pp. on “Pyrolatry or Fire-Worship”.#####The article “An Arabic Pompeii [Medina Azzahra] documents part of a trip by the correspondents to Spain to trace the roots of Arabic art and architecture for a proposed book. While there, they heard rumors of the excavation of an early Arabic site. This site and its contents were kept secret by the Spanish government, and the writers of this journal detail how they stumbled upon the site, the problems they had in visiting, and the denial of permission to photograp... View More...
Broadside - Freiheit der Freimadchen [Freedom of the Free Girls]Vienna, J. N. Fridrich, July 1848. Folio 9"x15"], 1 leaf printed both sides.#####Rare broadside published during the March Revolution in Vienna, Austria, protesting against the public behavior of girls of easy virtue. And, as the author complains, even the good working girls of Vienna are acting too freely in public. The text is signed L.S., but the author's identity has not been established. #####Scarce; not in Flugschriften im Netz or Sammlung Friedlander. One copy in National Library of Austria https://digital.onb.ac.at/Rep... View More...
[Costume] F. Depech / Hippolyte LeComteCostumes Civil et Militaires de la Monarchie Francaise depuis 1200 jusqu'a 1820 [Civil and Military Costumes of the French Monarch from 1200 to 1820]An incomplete set of 80 lithographs depicting the robes and costumes worn by French aristocracy, clergy, and judiciary from the 13th - 19th centuries. From a series of 380 lithographs executed by Hippolyte Le Comte and published 1820-21 by Francois Delpech. Delpech operated the most popular lithographic print shop in Paris; LeComte was a French painter best known for his large scale historical paintings and... View More...
Folio, cloth backed portfolio. Limited to 259 signed copies, 250 of which for sale. This copy no. 109. A memoir of Salzburg, told through twenty large b/w lithographs by Lucie Sayler. One page intro by theater and film producer Reinhardt, signed at bottom. He is regarded as one of the most prominent directors of German-language theatre in the early 20th century.
Also signed by the artist Lucie Sayler. Title page browned from flap transfer with numerous edge tears; plates near fine overall -- but several with minor edge-nicks, several with light soiling at bottom edge; others with some damp-s... View More...
4to, Publisher's blue boards with bright gilt design and black lettering. 128 pp. plus folding map. The first only of two volumes; this volume for the winter olympics. Several hundred glossy photographs tipped-in to their pages; mostly b/w but some color. A good+ copy overall. Text block and photos are very good-fine with some light toning to page margins. Covers are rubbed at corners and top of spine with a 2" white crayon mark on front cover and some rubbing to the gilt logo. View More...
1st edition. 4to, 10-1/2”x15” , 559 pages. Bound volume of 69 weekly issues, each from 4-8 pages. 400 b/w gravure illustrations and maps depicting all phases of the war, weaponry, and significant events and persons. Afterword, Tables des gravures. Very good; A clean, tight copy, in relatively modern binding -- ½ buckram, marbled covers. Text block is fine with no foxing or tears. View More...
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