Nancy, France: 1897-1925. 21.3x14.4cm: 60 leaves, 22 used on verso only. Bound in leatherette with metal monogram (MB) to upper left corner of front cover. Lovely gilt dentelles with gilt and maroon patterned endpapers. All edges gilt. Text mostly in French with one page in Spanish. Binder’s stamp of the.....
Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1887. 22.5x16.5cm: [i-iv], v-xi, 11-312pp. First Edition. Illustrated with over 120 black-and-white illustrations, including full page and in-text illustrations, diagrams, photographs, and a two page map titled “Colonies at the Time of Revolution.” Brown cloth-covered boards with illustration and titling in gilt and black. Spine and.....
New York: William R. Scott, 1938. 22.5x22cm: unpaginated, [20pp.]. First Edition. Illustrated by Clement Hurd. Original spiral-bound pictorial boards. Oxford Jct. Public School stamp with “1948” in pen on the inside of front cover. A half page promotional sheet bound in. Only about a third of the spiral binding is.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885 [1886]. 19.4x13cm: 180pp. plus 4pp. of publisher’s advertisements to rear. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with 36 black and white vignette and full page illustrations. Beveled boards in green cloth with stamped illustration in gilt and black. Gilt remains bright. A few spots of soiling.....
New York: Rand McNally & Co., 1932. 19.5x15.5cm: 183pp. Later printing of the 1904 edition. Illustrated with a map, 16 full-page, and 71 text drawings in half-tone by Howard V. Brown. Publisher’s tan cloth with decorative pictorial binding design in green. Boards soiled. Minor bumping to corners and head and.....
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1927. 19.5x15.5cm: 198pp. Later printing of the 1906 edition. Illustrated with 27 full-page and 87 text drawings in half-tone by Howard V. Brown. Publisher’s tan cloth with decorative pictorial binding design in green, stamped to front board and spine. Stamped TBH to lower right corner.....
New York: Home Book Company, undated [c. 1893-1896]. 15x10.5cm: 344pp. Venetian Edition, Volume II only. Turquoise cloth boards with decorative peacock feather embellishments in gilt to the spine and part of boards. Top edge of textblock gilt. Slight wear to corners, edges, and spine ends. Lower corners bumped. Beautiful floral.....
New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, March 1911. 19.5x13cm: 358pp. First Edition, presentation copy signed by author. Illustrated by Harvey T. Dunn, with four illustrated plates. Frontispiece in color depicting Barbara, other three in black and white. Green cloth boards with illustration and black titling to front cover. Lightly sunned.....
New York: Fashion Academy, 1930. 19.5x13cm: [47pp.]. Pictorial paper-covered boards with decorative endpapers. Illustrated throughout in pochoir, including one tipped-in color plate. Rather large chip to tail of spine with webbing showing, and lower third of front board starting to separate. Wear along edges and joints. Boards rubbed. Dampstain with.....
New York: Hurst & Company, undated (c. 1912). 19x13cm: v, 378pp. Tan cloth boards with a green color pictorial pastedown affixed to front board. Decorative spine with gilt and black lettering. Spine ends bumped. Mild soiling to boards with wear to corners. Spine slightly cocked. Previous owner's name on front.....
Woodbridge, Suffolk & Dover, New Hampshire: Boydell Press, 1985. 25x818cm: Two Volumes. Vol. I, [xc], 455, [3]pp.; Vol. II, [xxxvi], 457-990, [4]pp. Limited Facsimile Edition. One of 500 sets, this set unnumbered. Tan cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt on the spine and covers. Gilt lightly rubbed.....
Aurora, Colorado: Ravenpress, 2014-2020. Twelve Volumes, each 19x10cm: unpaginated, [4pp.] not including bound hand-pulled prints. Each volume is part of a small limited and variable edition, ranging in an edition size of only four to five copies per volume. Each volume is numbered and signed on the colophon by designer.....
New York: A. L. Burt Company, October 1910. 19x13cm: 229pp + 4pp of publisher’s advertisements. Bound in tan cloth with black titling. Cover illustration in green, black, red, and white of a cherub hanging on to the back of an automobile. Illustrated by C. M. Relyea and John Jackson with.....
Paris: H. Laurens, 1892. 15x22cm: 15 chromolithographic plates with gold ink embellishments. llustrated wrappers also with gold ink embellishments. Scattered foxing to wrappers. Internally clean and bright. Near Fine. Scarce, with OCLC showing only 6 institutional holdings. Beautiful book of ideas for decorating everyday items such as name.....
London: The Folio Society, 2011. 28x22.5cm: lxxxvii, 1546pp. + 8pp., in Three Volumes. Limited Facsimile Edition of which 1,000 were printed, this being No. 600. Illustrated throughout in black and white by Walter Crane. Beautifully bound in cream-colored full Nigerian goatskin blocked with a design based on Walter Crane’s original.....
Detroit: Lyman E. Stowe, 1884. 24x16.5cm: 319pp. First Edition. Green cloth-covered boards with beveled edges, decorated and illustrated in gilt and black. Victorian design stamped to rear board. Extensively illustrated, including a magnificent three-foot foldout woodcut view of Detroit’s waterfront from Windsor, Ontario. Rubbing to front cover and spine, causing.....
London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1881. 62x43.5cm: 57 photogravure proofs on India paper, laid down on large sheets of art paper numbered I-LVI with an additional limitation sheet signed by Crane in pencil. Limited Edition, First Proofs, this being No. 88 of 200 copies on India paper, signed by the.....
Athens: ΑΝΑΞΙΜΑΝΔΡΟΣ [Anaximandros Publications], 1954 - 1972. 21.3x15cm: Four Books in Six Volumes (Vol. I: [104pp.], 1-480pp.; Vol. IA: 481-848pp., + 214pp. of notes, tables, and indexes; Vol. II: [30pp.], 1-559pp., + 24pp. of interpretive notes; VIII: [32pp.], 1-608pp.; VIIIA: 609-1121pp., 32pp. of Engels’s Epilogue, + 95pp. of notes, tables.....