Pfintzing, Melchoir (ed.); Maximilian I. Die geuerlicheiten und eins teils der geschichten des loblichen streitbaren und hochberumbten helds und Rotters Twerdannckhs [Theuerdank]. Augsburg: Johannes Schonsperger, 1519. Second edition (first edition available to the public). Folio (13” x 8 5/8”, 330mm x 220mm): a8(–a8) b8(–b1) c8 d6 e–h8 i6 k–n8 o6.....
THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE PORTUGUESE ODYSSEY THE BOOTHBY–FANSHAWE-BONCHRISTIANO COPY London: [Thomas Newcombe for] Humphrey Moseley, 1655. First edition in English. Folio in 4s (10 7/8” x 7”, 276mm x 178mm): A4 a4 b4(–b4) B-Ff4 [$2 signed; –A1; Bb2 as “B2”]. 123 leaves, pp. [22] (title, blank, 3pp.....
Paris: l’Imprimerie Nationale for Editions d’Art Édouard Pelletan, 15 October 1920. Limited edition, no. 477 of 1,950. Duodecimo in 4s (6 1/8” x 4”, 154mm x 102mm): binder’s blank, printed wrapper, A4 B4 1-174 χ2 (χ2 blank), printed wrapper, binder’s blank [$2 signed; –91]. 78 leaves, pp. [6] (limitation, blank.....
Картины (Kartiny). Moscow: N.I. Grosman and G.A. Vendelshtein, 1900. Broadsheet folio (26 3/8” x 18 3/8”, 670mm x 467mm): 2 leaves, pp. [4] (lithographed title-page in red and black, blank, 2pp. contents). With 15 photographic lithographed plates mounted to card, each with a lithographed facsimile signature of Vasnetsov in black.....
Two volumes. Paris: Garnier Frères [imprint Édouard Blot], 1867. Revised and expanded edition. Quarto (10 5/16”, 6 11/16”, 263mm x 171mm): Vol. I: binder’s blank, π2 1–434 [$1 signed]. 174 leaves, pp. [2] (half-title, title) 1 2–7 8–9 10–339 [5] (blank, table of contents, blank, plate list, blank). With a......
“Make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is” Ex-coll. a prominent New Hampshire abolitionist Two volumes. Hobart and Robbins for Boston: John P. Jewett & Company and Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington; 1852. First edition in book form, first issue. Duodecimo in 6s (7 ½” x 4 5/8”.....
New York: J. J. Little & Co. for Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American edition, first state. Octavo (8 3/8” x 6 5/8”, 213mm x 169mm): binder’s blank, 18 (±12) 2-108 118 12-178 188 (±186) 238(–238 blank), binder’s blank [$1 signed]. 183 leaves, pp. 1-9 (half-title, frontispiece, title.....
THE BLACKMER SET of the GREAT FICTIONAL VOYAGE AROUND ANCIENT GREECE Five volumes. Paris: De Bure l’aîné, 1788. First edition. Voyage: quarto (11 5/16” x 8 7/16”, 287mm x 215mm).Vol. I[1]: binder’s blank, a4 b4 c2(–c2) χA4 χB-E4 Α-Zzz4 Aaaa2, binder’s blank [$2 signed]. 307 leaves, pp. i-v (half-title, blank, title.....
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1984. First edition. Folio (20 ½” x 14”, 520mm x 356mm): 50 leaves, pp. 2 binder’s blanks, [14] (half-title, frontispiece, title, copyright, limitation, 2pp. editors’ note, artist’s statement, 3pp. plate-list, blank, half-title, blank) [50] (50pp. plate descriptions and accompanying poems) [2] (colophon, blank), 2 binder’s.....
Paris: Tériade Éditeur, [1955]. First edition. Folio (16 ½” x 12 ½”, 420 x 320 mm): 66 leaves, 1–152 [4] (tribute to Gris, blank, limitation, blank). With 12 lithographs, of which 11 are printed in color (11 of which are included in pagination but unnumbered). Inlaid mosaic morocco binding in.....
![Item #JLR0831 [Tôn Diônos rhômaikôn historiôn eikositria biblia] Dionis Romanarum...](https://araderbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/JLR0831.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1772126167)
THE [DUPORT–BARROW–]HUTH–PARCÉ COPY of the EDITIO PRINCEPS of DIO’S ROMAN HISTORY with EXCEPTIONAL MARGINS Των Διωνος ρωμαικων ιστοριων εικοσιτρια βιβλια [Tôn Diônos rhômaikôn historiôn eikositria biblia] Dionis Romanarum historiarum libri XXIII, à XXXVI ad LVIII vsque. Paris: Robert Estienne, 31 January 1548. Editio princeps. Folio in 6s (13 5/8” x 9”.....
Leipzig [Berlin]: W. Drugulin [Manus Press], 1921. First edition. Portfolio (13 ¼” x 9 7/8”, 336mm x 251mm): 1 leaf, pp. [2] (title, imprint). With 24 woodcuts printed to India paper. Presented in the original issue vellum portfolio with gilt fold-ins. Title gilt to cover. Woodcuts hinged to their original.....
Two volumes. Brussels: A. Delavau, 1852. First Belgian edition in French. Quarto (9 5/16”, 6 7/16”, 244mm x 167):Vol. I: binder’s blank, π2(–π1) 1–344 354(–354) [$1 signed]. 140 leaves, pp. 3–5 6–282. With a hand-colored wood engraved pictorial title-page and 25 colored engraved plates.Vol. II: binder’s blank, π2(–π1) 14 2–334.....
Venice: apud Aldi filios, 1549. First Aldine edition. Quarto (8 1/8” x 5 ¾”, 206mm x 146mm): A-N4, binder’s blank [$2 signed; –A1]. 52 leaves, pp. [6] (title, blank, 4pp. dedication to Jean de Morvillier) [98] (97pp. text, blank). Bound in early (remboîté?) stabbed vellum (rebacked). “DEMOSTH: ORATION:” in ink.....
WITH a de LUXE POLYCHROME ONLAY BINDING by LEVITZKY Paris: l’Imprimerie nationale for Éditions d’Art Édouard Pelletan, 21 February 1911. Limited edition, no. 376 of 410, of a total edition of 444. Quarto (10 ¼” x 7 11/16”, 260mm x 195mm): 4 binder’s blanks, front wrapper, 2 binder’s blanks.....
London: Thomas Bensley for John Edwards and Edward Harding, 1797. Folio (14 3/16” x 10 1/8”, 360mm x 257mm): binder’s blank, π2 a–d2 e2 (–e2) B2–3P2 χ2 (–χ2), binder’s blank [$1 signed; –B1, H1, 2I1, 2R1, 3K1, 3Q1]. 164 leaves, pp. [4] (half-title, blank, title, blank) i ii–xviii (18pp preface).....
Venice: in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri (heirs of Aldus Manutius the Elder and Andrea Torresano the Elder); October 1518. First Aldine edition. Octavo (6” x 3 13/16”, 152mm x 97mm): a-q8 (q8 blank) r-z8 A-F8 G4 (G3 blank) [$4 signed; –a1; f3 as “e3”]. 236 leaves, foll. 1 (title, blank).....
PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER FROM THE COLLECTION OF CRUIKSHANK’S COLLABORATOR POCOCK London: Charles Baldwyn, 1824. Proof plates for the first edition, first issue. Octavo (leaves: 7 3/8” x 4 ½”, 188mm x 114mm; inner mounts: 8 15/16” x 6”, 228mm x 153mm; outer mounts: 15” x 11”, 380mm x 280mm): letterpress.....
EXCEEDINGLY RARE WORK OF WILLIAM BLAKE FROM THE COLLECTION OF MAURICE SENDAK London: Robert Noble for Richard Edwards, 1797. First edition. Large Quarto (16 3/16” x 12 3/8”, 410mm x 315mm): 54 leaves, pp. i–iii (title, blank, advertisement) iv–viii, [2] (Night the first, on life, death and mortality, blank) 1–16.....
Body-color on three sheets of vellum joined horizontally and mounted on panel, heightened in mordant-gilding. In a contemporary giltwood trophy frame (an earl’s coronet with additional black and red above, a Saracen’s head with additional red and black below). Glazed, with a modern wooden support behind. Small peripherally, as well.....
EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, INLAID TO QUARTO London: James Cawthorn, 1810. “Fourth edition,” the fourth authorized edition. Quarto (the printed book issued duodecimo; 12 11/16” x 10 5/16”, 323mm x 262mm): 3 binder’s blanks, Α-C12 D12(–D12) [$2 signed, the fifth leaf as “2”; –A1], 7 binder’s blanks. 47 leaves, pp. i-v (half-title.....
GEORGE BELLOWS ILLUSTRATES H.G. WELLS Breakfast is ServedConté crayon on card.Sheet: 26 5/16” x 20 ⅝”, 669mm x 526mm; ruled: 554mm x 449mm.Signed “Geo Bellows” at lower left (within the image).Titled as above and numbered (“-7-”) in graphite (below the image).1922. Mr. Barnstaple AwakesConté crayon on card.Sheet: 29 ⅛” x 22 ¼”.....
A SAMMELBAND OF ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY BY AND FOR RENAISSANCE HUMANISTS Solinus, Caius Julius; ed. Johannes Roserius. Iulii Solini Polyhistor. Cum Indice summatim omnia complectente. Vienna: Johann Singriener for Lucas Alantse, 1520. bound with Mela, Pomponius; Hermolaus Barbarus (comm.) and Joannes Camers (ind.). Pomponii Melae geographiæ, Libri tres. Hermolai.....
IN A CONTEMPORARY FANFARE BINDING FOR CARDINAL de FLEURY, CHIEF MINISTER TO LOUIS XV Paris: Jacques Collombat, 1727. Octavo (8 ½” x 5 ½”, 218mm x 141mm): binder’s blank, ã8 A-Pp8 Qq4, binder’s blank [$4 signed; –ã1]. 308 leaves, pp. [16] (title, text-frame, 4pp. preface, 4pp. prayer to God, 3pp.....
[Manuscript Book of Hours – Use of Rome.] Officium Beate Marie Virginis secundum Romanã Curiam. [Barcelona, ca. 1490.] Octavo (6” x 4 5/16”, 153mm x 110mm): 4 binder’s blanks (paper), 1 vellum blank, foll. 1-96 97 (blank) 98-113 114 (lineated only) 115-153 154-155 (both lineated only) 156-159 160 (blank) 161-215.....