Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth, gilt letters on spine, 492 pp. Title on spine: U.S. Congress Acts. The interior reads "Laws of The United States, passed at the First Session of the Thirty-Eighth Congress." More
Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1878-2011. CAVE. Softbound. A combination of 32 bound volumes and 189 loose issues. An astounding accumulation of this quarterly journal (1878-2011), invaluable to researchers. The lot begins with bound volumes as follows: Vols. 2, 4-5, 8-26 bound in blue library buckram, and Vols. 27-39 (1915)... More
Madrid: Rosendo Naseiro, 2014. Hardcover. Sage cloth with color illus. laid on both covers, gilt letters on spine & front cover, 400 pp., color & BW illus. Text is in Spanish. Provides details of still-life paintings from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, as collected by Spanish businessman Rosendo Naseiro... More
Boston, MA: Bruce Humphries, 1931. Hardbound. Extremely ornate and detailed gilt tooled full black leather with 5 raised bands and exquisite compartmental tooling. Stiff silk endpapers. xxx, 230 pp., no illustrations. Custom bound by the Harcourt Bindery in Boston, this is one of 50 copies printed on Kelmscott paper and... More
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Signed by the Author. Leather bound. Dark chocolate leather/boards; gilt decoration on covers and spine with two raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. Moire end papers and matching stain place-holder ribbon. All edges gilt. 194 pages with color illustrations by Bob Dacey... More
Paris: 4 Chemins, 1934. Hardcover. White stiff boards portfolio with three cloth ties. 12 printed text sheets (including title page and limitation sheet), and 10 pencil-signed and pencil-numbered bw lithographs. This extraordinary portfolio, while diminutive in size, is large in importance. The twelve text sheets are repoduced in Cocteau's handwriting... More
Paris: Frazier-Soye, 1910. Hardcover. Green wraps, rebound into marbleized boards with mauve-colored cloth spine and beige title block with black letters on spine; unpaginated, 100 BW plates and 1 original color engraving. Text is in French. Volume 15 in Delteil's series about painter-engravers, this one showcases work by Corot. With... More
Berlin: Verlag Von G. Reimer, 1843-1845. Hardbound. In German. 240 plates, issued in sections, bound in two volumes. Black library buckram. Vol 2 contains an additional French title page and list of plates, as well as the original section wrappers bound in. Oversize. Compliation of achaeological line drawings based on... More
New York: Baker and Scribner, 1918. First Edition. Hardbound. Brown embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering; Vol. 1 - 348 pp. with 4 bw engravings; Vol. 2 - 312 pp. with 3 bw engravings. The lives of nearly 100 women instrumental in the American Revolution. More
Paris: Louis Carre. Softcover. Yellow wraps, glassine dust jacket, 62 pp., 7 color lithographs, 3 BW drawings. Text is in French. Subtitle on cover: Il construit un tableau, un epi, une rose, un visage, un sein nu. A tribute to the work of French cubist painter Jacques Villon, born Gaston... More
Fribourg, Switzerland: Office du Livre, 1974. Hardcover. Tan cloth over boards; Gilt titling at spine; 411 pp.; 482 plates and figures; 34 color plates tipped in; 448 bw figures. Text is in French; An expansive look at seventeenth-century still life painting in France. Includes works by Wilhelm van Aelst, Jacques... More
Williamsburg, Va. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1997. Softcover. Gray & illus. wraps, 248 pp., BW illus. Volume III of the series Colonial Williamsburg Historic Trades. Contains 15 papers presented at the 1994 conference: Woodworking Tools before 1700 / Philip Walker -- The Development of the English Toolmaking Industry during the... More
Parisiis (Paris): 1643. Original. Hardcover. All volumes: Brown leather/boards. 6 raised bands on spine. Gilt double lines on spine and covers with lettering on spine. Engraved bw frontis by Roussell in Vol. I. All title pages red/black-lettered title page with bw copper engraving of the ship Lutetia (the Gallic-Roman name... More
Moscow: Izdatelstvo "Kniga" 1989. Hardcover. Chocolate boards with red/white illustration and lettering; 159 pp. with bw and a few red/b/w illustrations throughout. Text in Russian but with the list of illustrations in both Russian and English. This edition is dedicated to the book designs of the husband-wife team of Russian... More
New York: Abaris books, 1980. Hardbound. Slipcase covered with grey cloth; Color plate affixed to the front; Grey cloth over boards; 205 pp. 30 color, 208 bw plates. Preface is ten pages long, followed by the color plates, and then the bw plates, which are annotated and described; Presentation copy... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932. Miguel Covarrubias. Hardcover. Brown leather over boards with black titling at spine and black decoration to spine and covers; 117 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw figures and color plates. A novel by Rene Maran illustrated by Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias; Wonderful illustrations; Signed... More
New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2013. Hardcover. Cream stamped boards, translucent parchment dust jacket, 55 pp., bw frontis photo of Kelly; color illus., 4 fold-outs. Issued in conjunction with a 2013 exhibition featuring 14 new paintings and 2 new sculptures by American artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), who turned ninety years... More
London: Simpkin & Marshall, 1825-1826, 1827-1828. Hardbound. Salmon library buckram. 192 plants are listed (96 per volume), and these are accompanied by 48 hand-colored plates. Each plate illustrated 4 examples, and most have tissue guards. There are 24 plates and 96 plants included in each volume. A very nice reference... More
Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1910. Softcover. Off white wraps. Volume 1: The Hydromedusae. pp. 1-230, followed by a 15-page Index to Volumes 1+2; Color plates 1-29; Figures 1-118. Volume 2: The Hydromedusae (cont.). pp. 231-498. Color plates 30-55, figures 119-329. Volume 3: The Scyphomedusae. pp. 499-735, figures 330-427 and color... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. First/First. Hardcover. Black cloth over flexible boards. Gilt-embossed decoration and green labels on spines. 966 pp. in 2 volumes. Signed by author, inscribed in May 1929 "To Henrietta Winston". Missing dust jackets and slipcase. Powys's fourth novel and first literary success. Wolf Solent is... More
Albany, NY: Erastus H. Pease & Co. 1847. Hardbound. Dark brown blindstamped cloth with gilt embossed spine design and title. xiv, [1], 498, [2], 12 pp. ads at rear. Color lithographed frontispiece, and color lithograph at page 425, folding map at the very front of the book, many figure drawings... More
Northampton, Mass. The Gehenna Press, 1964. Hardbound. full leather chemise laid in a cloth-covered clamshell box with a light tan leather spine. (ii), 83, (5) pages in addition to 21 etched portraits printed on special paper and loosely inserted throughout the text. This is copy C.108 of 250 printed in... More
Boston: Boston Public Library, 1981. Softcover. Rust-colored wraps, 289 pp., no illus. A public adaptation of Ulehla's master's thesis. Comprised of an index of members and exhibitors and an index of associate members, with additional information about the organization appearing in three appendices. More
Suffolk, England: Antique Collectors' Club, Ltd. 1995. 3rd edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, color DJ. 1070 pp. 47 color, 750 bw plates. From the DJ... "This fascinating Survey ranges over the early years of Victoria's reign and the vogue for literary genre, social realist and fairy paintings; analyses the brief life... More
