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.....
VANISHINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION OF VADIANUS'S WORLD ATLASWITH AN EARLY COMPLETE OUTLINE OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONTINENT Zurich: Christoph Froschauer, 1534. First edition. Folio (11 9/16” x 7 15/16”, 293mm x 201mm): A6 Aa6 Bb–Cc4 B–X6 &6(–&6) [$4 signed]. 157 leaves, pp. [40] (title, verses, 8pp. foreward, 29pp. index, blank).....
Valladolid: Francisco Fernández de Córdoba, 1545. First edition, first state. Pot folium (13 3/16” x 9 1/8”, 335mm x 231mm): [d6] (recto: woodcut map, verso: text (chapter 7 of book 3) in two ruled columns with an initial and a woodcut diagram). Peripheral chips and losses, as well as some.....
THE EARLIEST WESTERN ACCOUNT OF TIBET Veiga, Manoel da. Relacam Geral do estado da Christandade de Ethiopia; Reduçam dos Scismaticos; Entrada, & Recebimé todo Patriarcha Dom Affonso Mendes; Obediencia dada polo Emperador Seltã Segued com toda sua Corte à Igreja Romana; & do que de nouo socedeo no descobriméto do.....
[Rome:] Jo. Jacobi de Rubeis[, 1674–1675]. Oblong folio (12 5/8” x 16 3/16”, 322mm x 411mm): with 55 engraved plates: an engraved title-cum-dedication, a portrait frontispiece (of Raphael) and 53 engraved plates, the first unnumbered and then numbered 1-52. Bound in contemporary half sheep over marbled boards (re-backed in calf).....
Allgemeine historische Weltbeschreibung, Ioannis Boteri, deß Benesers. In vier Bücher abgetheilt: Im ersten wirdt Europa, Asia, Affrica, und die Sitten, Reichthumb, Gewerb und embsigkeiten aller Nationen und Völcker, deßgleichen die beschaffenheit der Newen Welt, und biß dato erfundenen halb: und gantzen Inseln beschriben. Im andern wirdt die Macht und gelegenheit.....
THE TEGERNSEE ABBEY–SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS–PHILIP ROBINSON COPY Allgemeine historische Weltbeschreibung, Ioannis Boteri, deß Benesers. In vier Bücher abgetheilt: Im ersten wirdt Europa, Asia, Affrica, und die Sitten, Reichthumb, Gewerb und embsigkeiten aller Nationen und Völcker, deßgleichen die beschaffenheit der Newen Welt, und biß dato erfundenen halb: und gantzen Inseln.....
FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF NORTH DAKOTA London: J.E. Taylor and Co. for Trübner and Co., 1867. First edition. Octavo (9 15/16” x 6 13/16”, 263mm x 173mm): binder’s blank, A4 B-D8 E2 [$2 signed; –A1]. 30 leaves, pp. [8] (half-title, blank, title, blank, preface, blank.....
WITH THE VANISHINGLY RARE FOLIUM RESERVATUM Catlin, George. O-kee-pa: a religious ceremony; and other customs of the Mandans. Philadelphia: J.E. Taylor and Co. for J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1867. First American edition. with Geo. Catlin. [Folium reservatum.] [Philadelphia, 1867?] O-kee-paOctavo (9 15/16” x 6 13/16”, 263mm x......
GERMANTOWN, CRADLE OF GERMAN IMMIGRATION TO AMERICA FROM THE RUSSIAN HYDROGRAPHIC DEPOT LIBRARY Pastorius, Francis Daniel. Umständige Geographische Beschreibung Der zu allerletzt erfundenen Provintz Pensylvaniæ, In denen End-Gräntzen Americæ In der West-Welt gelegen, Durch Franciscum Danielem Pastorium, J. V. Lic. Und Friedens Richtern daselbsten. Worbey angehencket sind einige notable Begebenheiten.....
[Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Iohannem Iucundum], 1572. Octavo (6 7/8” x 4 ¼”, 175mm x 105mm): *8 A–Z8 a8 2*8 Aa–Zz8 [$4 signed; –*1, 2*1]. 392 leaves, pp. [16] (title, blank, 9pp. to the reader, 3pp. preface, verses, blank) foll. 1–184 [16] (11pp. index, errata, 4pp. blank) [16] (title, blank, 6pp.....
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.....
[Philadelphia] London: Andrew Bradford, 1738. First American edition. The Archbishop of Cambray’s dissertation on pure love with An Account of the Life and Writings of the Lady, for whose sake the Archbishop was banish’d from Court. And the grievous Persecutions she suffer’d in France for her Religion. Also Two Letters.....
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.....
De la Chine, ou description générale de cet empire, rédigée d’après les mémoires de la mission de Pé-Kin. Ouvrage qui contient la description topographique des quinze provinces de la Chine, celle de la Tartarie, des îles et des divers Etats tributaires qui en dépendent; le nombre de ses villes; le.....
Venice: [Domenico Farri,] 1598. Sexagesimo (16mo; 5 ½” x 3 ¾”, 139mm x 95mm): A16 B8 [8 signed in A, 4 signed in B; –A1]. 24 leaves, pp. [4] (title, list of authors, 2pp. dedication, text) 5-47 [1] (imprimatur). With a woodcut world map on the title-page signed “GIOSEPPE ROSATIO·F/1590·”.....
La Haye: Henri Scheurleer, 1737. First edition. Folio (20 15/16” x 15 9/16”, 531mm x 396mm): A–C2 [$2 signed; –A1]. 6 leaves, pp. [1–4] (title, blank, 2pp. advertisement) 5–12. With 42 engraved maps, of which 10 are double-page and 1 folding. Bound in modern quarter calf over marbled paper boards.....
Antwerp: Philippe Galle, 1596. First edition. Pot quarto (7 15/16” x 6 7/16”, 215mm x 164mm): 2 binder’s blanks, A-C4 D2, 2 binder’s blanks [$3 signed; –A1]. 14 leaves, pp. [6] (title, blank, dedication, blank, verse dedication, blank) [19] (9 text pages each blank verso, 1 text page) [3] (list.....
Nuremberg: Peter Conrad Monath, 1716. Second edition? Quarto (9” x 6 5/8”, 228mm x 169mm): binder’s blank, )(4(–)(4) )()(4 A–Qqqqq4 Rrrrr4(–Rrrrr4), binder’s blank [$3 signed; –)(1, A1, Dd3, Oo2; Dd3 signed “Bb3”]. 442 leaves, pp. [14] (title, blank, 2pp. dedication to Charles VI, 10pp. to the reader) 1–2 3–289 290–292.....
THE LAZARD COPY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH A UNIQUE VIEW OF JERUSALEM Paris: Guillaume Cavellat, 1554. Second edition, enlarged. Pot quarto (8 11/16” x 6 3/16”, 221mm x 157mm): 2 binder’s blanks (one new, one old), ã4 ê4 î4 a-z4 A-Gg4, binder’s blank (new) [$3 signed; –ã1; I3 signed “I iiij”, Ff2 signed.....
... von dem Ende dieser Welt und dem Jüngsten Gericht: von der Wiederbringung aller Dinge, und wie Christus sein Reich seinem Vater wieder überantwortet, und Gott hernach alles in allem ist und seyn wird, wie es war vor den Zeiten dieser Welt; und das Ende seinen Anfang gefunden hat. Erste.....
Mexico (City): Alejandro Valdés, 1828. Small octavo in 4s (5 ¾” x 4 1/8”, 147mm x 105mm): 14 2-64 [$1 signed]. 24 leaves, pp. 1-2 (title, blank) 3-48. With an engraved frontispiece by Navarro. Bound in contemporary purple paste-paper wrappers. Entirely unsophisticated. Chipping and sunning to the wrappers, with the.....
Einsiedeln: Charles and Nicholas Benziger; Prague: I.F. Marouschek, J. Pashmeyer; Ufer: N. Kremplsetzer, [ca. 1850]. Single cards (4 ½”x 3 ½”, 116mm x 86mm): 66 hand-colored lithographed cards, each with a flower-emblem tipped in to conceal the saint beneath. Each lithograph tipped on to a piece of colored cardstock, and.....
Darjeeling, ca. 1880-1930. Six albumen photographic prints (ranging from 152mm x 208mm to 199mm x 279mm, or the reverse): 4 captioned and signed by Thomas Paar in the negative, mounted recto and verso on card; 1 unmounted (attributed to Fritz Kapp in manuscript verso); and a group portrait on a......
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.....