![Complimentary Dinner to the Members of the New Jersey Legislature, Thursday, February 7, 1867 [silk menu].](/pictures/thumb/CAT000443.jpg?v=1477340326)
Jersey City: John H. Lyon, 1867. 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" printed silk menu from Taylors' Hotel for a complimentary dinner for the New Jersey Legislature. Slight staining - a remarkable survival. Green Turtle and Ox tail soups, boiled mutton, partridge roasted a l'Ancienne. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under... More
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" Night scene with five figures - light chipping to sky, one corner creased. Size: Folio. Quantity... More
Paris: Longis, 1557. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Early 18th century full morocco, corners worn, modest rubbing, still an attractive binding. Light age toning to pages, a few signatures a little loose and binding a touch shaken. An early printing of the French edition of book 7, originally published in... More
London: R. Simpson, 1693. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). The first English edition of Baillet's lasting biography of Descartes, published in two volumes in Paris in 1691 and abridged the following year. Later half leather, front board detached, old seminary library label to spine and embossed stamp to title, but... More
Venice: Cesarem Arriuabenum Venetum, 1518. Hardcover (Vellum). [16], 143, [1] ff. (8vo) 14.2x9.5 cm. Full early vellum with minor repairs and wear to the spine, a bit of worming to blanks. An attractive early copy of Bonaventure writing on salvation. Saint Bonaventure was canonized in 1482, but not made a.... More
![Robinson Crusoë [Dutch edition of Robinson der Jüngere]. Campe J. H.](/pictures/thumb/039127.jpg?v=1450373887)
Amsterdam: Ten Brink & de Vries, 1836. Later Edition. Hardcover (rebound in cloth). Rebound in burgundy cloth with the original cloth laid onto the front and rear. Text pages are foxed throughout, often heavily, but it remains legible. The hand colored plates have largely escaped damage. Campe's moral and educational... More
Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale, 1820. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Leather backed marbled boards. Light scattered foxing, 188pp with 6 folding plates at rear. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Archaeology; Inventory No: 046183. More
Bassano: A spese Remondini di Venezia, 1787. Later Edition. Softcover. Contemporary blue card wrappers, contents coming detached, scattered modest browning and foxing. Styled the third edition: In three sections, continuously paginated: Cuoco, Pasticciere, Confettoriere. 310pp. Originally published in French in 1651 and in Italian in 1682. Pennell 118-119 (1703 ed.)... More
Philadelphia: David Mckay, 1942. Willy Pogany. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Rebound in half red leather, light wear at edges and spine ends, front hinge lightly rubbed, slight sunning to top inch of boards and spine, endpapers browned - still an attractive copy. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: Willy Pogany. Quantity... More
1920. Softcover. Cloth backed marbled boards, 83 pages of recipes with 2 pages tipped in and a few loose recipes - most in a single hand. Dated October 11, 1920 and with a note "McCall's May 1927, so 1920s. Modern highlighter throughout. A neat and wide ranging cookery. Pastel de coco,Enchiladas... More
Paris: L'Arbalète, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Number 370 of 475 in beige cloth on Rives - light wear, faint soiling to boards - internally bright and largely uncut. The first edition of one of Genet's central works - along with Thief's Journal and the great short film Un... More
1902. Archive of items relating to Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Hay's involvement with the Mexico-California Party, a turn of the century group of travelers who staged reunions over the years. Included are menus from the reunions, photos and tickets from the trips, event announcements, carte de visites. 21 items in... More
Exeter: E. Grigg, 1788. Tenth. Hardcover (Half Leather). Later half morocco, new endpapers, slight occasional soiling, a very nice copy overall. Undated ca. 1788. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's book-plate on endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Inventory No: 045766. More
London: J. Walter, 1773. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Rebound in red calf, added endpapers on old paper. Small tear and stain to title, browning to last few pages, two pages in the middle with marginal paper repairs, old library stamp to the first page of the introduction -... More
Leipzig: Sax, 1572. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary full rolled pigskin, remains of clasps, much darkened, but still sound and attractive. Old and copious notes on endpapers and title, a few notes in preface, botton of front endpaper excised, modest general browning and scattered foxing, old ink burn through... More
Anaheim: Graphitti Designs, 1989. Hardcover. Published 1989-1991. Signed limited editions - each one of 1500. Light shelfwear to jackets, near fine overall. Published originally by Epic and Comcat. Size: Quarto (4to). 5-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Comics & Graphic Novels; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 045779. More
Paris: Trajets, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight bump to corners, fine otherwise. Inscribed by Moebius on the half title. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Comics & Graphic Novels; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 045773. More
New York: The Overlook Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. New book, may have slight shop wear. Available inscribed, please email with inscription. More
Basil: Froben, 1539. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary full vellum, some worming at edges, small tear to vellum at head of spine, rear hinge split and held by cords, front hinge just starting. Title stained with an old paper repair to bottom right, dampstain to bottom right corner through first... More
Brussels: François Foppens, 1724. Fourth Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary calf, worn, front hinge cracked but binding sound. Discoloration to bottom right corner throughout, not affecting text, degradation to bottom corner of title. 350pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1... More
![Sophoclis Tragoediae Septem ad Optimorum Exemplarium Fidem...Ex Editione Rich. Franc. Phil. Brunck [Fore Edge Paintings]. Sophocles.](/pictures/thumb/044333.jpg?v=1450374085)
Strassburg: Joannis Georgii Treuttel, 1786. Hardcover (Full Leather). Four tall (9.5") octavo volumes in full red morocco, gilt, spines a little rubbed, hinges dry, but bindings sound and attractive. Scattered foxing to the text, but a nice wide margined edition of Brunck's Sophocles in Greek with Latin notes. Each volume... More
Paris: Petri Chevalier, 1608. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full early calf, nicely rebacked. Some soiling in margins, tabs added and some have torn off, occasional early notes and underlining and a few small ink droplets. A nice, wide margined, scholarly edition of Tacitus and Velleius, with a host of notes from... More
London: R. Blamire, 1791. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Original 1/4 leather over cloth, hinges starting to split, modest wear to boards. Some soiling and discoloration to title and frontis, scattered slight worming, but otherwise quite clean internally. lx, 137pp. Cagle 1049, Bitting 485, Vicaire 873, Simon 1607. Two aquatints... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Green cloth, light wear at edges, corners very slightly bumped, spine lettering a touch rubbed - a nice, attractive copy. Previous owner's bookplate and with a signed inscription from Wescott "Inscribed to Ingle Barr with the author's best wishes... More
Paris: Julliard, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. With an interview and a portrait of Wright. One of 30 copies on Marais, this number 27. Faint wear to edges, in original glassine wrapper. Uncut. Wright lived in Paris from 1946 until his death in late 1960 - he became a French citizen... More