1800. Disbound. Persian manuscript with gouache on paper, likely from the epic poem The Shanameh. Some wear and age toning, minor stains; quite attractive overall. Undated but ca. early 19th century. 12" x 8 3/8" Scene of a group of women, possible planting seeds. Some discoloration and chipping to paint. Size... More
1947. 23 Savoy Menus from 1947-1980 - they show an interesting progression from Post WWII economy back to normalcy. A few pieces of correspondence, business cards, a receipt from the Palace Hotel St. Moritz along with a menu, Officers' Ladies Night Menu from 1954, a 1959 menu from the Hotel... More
Torino: Emporio Librario, 1864. Second Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Leather backed marbled boards, rubbing to spine, wear at corners. Wine, desserts, food and health recipes - a popular 19th century book of secrets. 791 recipes. 510pp Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine... More
![[Portuguese Religious Manuscript] Meditações da Paixao de Cristo Senhor nosso zepartidas para todos os dias de qualquer mez. Trauzidas de Italiano em Portugues. anon.](/pictures/thumb/045451.jpg?v=1450374360)
Hardcover (Full Leather). Portuguese religious manuscript - a translation of an Italian devotion - in a richly gilt black morocco binding, light wear at edges, heavy wear and damage at the spine ends, some worming and two bookplates to endpapers. 149 leaves, nearly all written on both sides in an... More
New York: Star Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shipping to jacket edges, small tear near spine, spine dulled, a little dusty - a bright copy, overall. 104pp. Written at the beginning of the first great American fascination with addiction - shortly after they proclaimed an anti-narcotic week and newspapers and... More
London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1793. Second Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). 3 volumes in modern calf backed marbled boards - volume 1 similar, but not identical, to the other two bindings. Scattered foxing and staining, signature to title, but a clean, bright, ample margined copy overall. The first issue... More
![Transactions Philosophiques de la Société Royale de Londres 1731-1736 [with] Table des memoires imprimés dans les transactions philosophiques de la Société royale de Londres: Depuis 1665, jusques en 1735. Bremond, trans.](/pictures/thumb/046431.jpg?v=1499365117)
Paris: Piget, 1739. Hardcover (Full Leather). 7 volumes bound in 4 in contemporary sponged calf. Joints a bit rubbed, wear at edges, old stamps on titles, occasional minor foxing and browning, a few tremoins, but very good overall and a nice group. Table des memoires, 1739, (8), 461, (1), lxxvi... More
Weimar: Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1823. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). 2 volumes in 19th century half calf over marbled boards - old seminary library spine label and stamp to titles, otherwise unmarked. Joints splitting but held by cords - bindings generally sound. Mild foxing, including to the 7 folding maps, plans, and... More
Padua: Josephus Cominus, 1737. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary vellum, light discoloration, small repair to the front board, spine label chipped. Small spot of bio-predation on the bottom edge affecting a few dozen pages, but otherwise quite clean and unmarked internally. Attractively gilt page edges. Volpi's is considered the finest scholary edition... More
London: John Hartley, 1703. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary paneled calf, worn and dry, rear board detached, scattered minor browning and foxing, generally quite clean internally. (16), 423, (1)pp. In a custom leather backed slipcase and chemise. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's book-plate on endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped... More
Leipzig: Weygand, 1792. Early Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary paper covered boards, paper torn on spine, hinges a little weak, but binding generally sound. Modest general foxing. (22),692, (14)pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Inventory No: 046044. More
New York: Walker and Company, 1973. Hardcover. Light wear to jacket edges, a few small tears to top back edge, otherwise bright. Inscribed by Rosey Grier to poet and songwriter Rod McKuen "Rod, I have read many of your thoughts - you have wisdom above & beyond that which is... More
Paris: Capelle et Renand, 1808. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary tree calf, a few small wormholes to binding, light wear to spine and hinges, a few surface marks - an attractive binding overall. Frontis and title lightly soiled, small repair to the verso of one plate, one plate and one page... More
Amsterdam: Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1662. Later Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Full contemporary vellum, a bit discolored. (10)486, (18), 118, (14)pp. Portraits of Henrik and Cosimo de Medici. 2 works bound in one by the eminent Dutch historian and playwright. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; History. Inventory No: 043191. More
![Expositio in psalterium [fragment; 8 leaves]. Ludolphus de Saxonia.](/pictures/thumb/044812.jpg?v=1450374181)
Paris: Gering et Rembolt, 1506. 8 continuous leaves disbound from an early Ludolphus Psalter, ca. 1506, comprising leaves clxix-clxxvi. 10" x 7". A few small wormholes, light spotting, generally clean. Attractively printed with numerous 4 line initials. Some degradation near the spine, light dampstain and some discoloration in the gutter... More
Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. 327 of 800 copies, half green morocco, front hinge cracked but joint intact. Light rubbing to spine, endpapers browned. Fine and bright internally. The first edition of one of Masereels early novels without pictures - a huge influence on later artists like Lynd... More
Lexington, KY: The Maxwelton Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Rebound in half brown leather, light wear and drying at edges, front hinge a little rubbed. Signed at limitation and at base of poem Daphnis by the translator. Copy 43 of 500. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped... More
Rome: Camerae Apostolicae, 1688. Hardcover. Contemporary vellum binding with piece torn from spine and small chip on front bottom, scattered soiling, wear at edges, significant along back cover edge, back hinge chipped through at center. Dampstains throughout, wear through part of page 4, light soiling, overall attractive interior. [16],142,[10]pp. Theological treatise... More
New York: The Overlook Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. New book, may have slight shop wear. Available inscribed, please email with inscription. More
West Roxbury MA: Brook Farm Press, 1845. Newspaper. 7 individual issues of the Brook Farm newspaper, issued weekly. Browning, occasional light dampstains, many pages splitting at the folds, chipping and wear and a few small tears to the edges of a few of the issues, scattered foxing, tear to the... More
Paris: Briasson, 1749. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 2 volumes in full acid calf, wear at the corners, spines a little dry and splitting at hinges, volume 2 with damage to the rear upper corner with subsequent damage to the upper corner of the last 30 pages; two bookplates on... More
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. One of a very few copies printed entirely on parchment, this copy inscribed to Harry Smith from the Bibliophile Society. Full parchment, a bit soiled but sound. With the negatives from the frontis portrait and letter laid in. Title page slightly rumpled... More
London: Jacob Tonson, 1715. Hardcover (Full Leather). 6 volumes in contemporary Cambridge style paneled calf, worn at corners, spines rubbed worn and dry, joints cracked and many of the boards detached. Scattered browning and offsetting but generally very clean internally. A nice illustrated edition of Spenser. 1758pp paginated continuously. 13... More
Amsterdam: Officina Wetsteniana, 1708. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary calf, hinges rubbed, rear hinge split but binding holding. Clean internally with light scattered foxing 9 full page plates and a lovely extra engraved title, scattered in text illustration. (xx), 476, index. Graesse T157. Size: Quarto (4to). Previous owner's book-plate inside... More
Rome: Typis Lazzarinii Typographi Cameralis, 1797. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Early half leather over marbled boards, corners worn, binding sound. Scattered minor browning and foxing - minor worming in the outer margins towards the beginning and through much of the volume in the inner margin, just touching some letters... More