London: Richard Bentley, 1860. The correspondence of this Georgian statesman, who was a friend to Lord Nelson as well as King George III. In a handsome binding by Bickers, London in full crimson calf with raised bands, elaborate decorations in... More about THE DIARIES AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE ROSE. CONTAINING ORIGINAL LETTERS OF THE...

Bath: S. Hazard, for J. Johnson, Vernon and Hood; et al. 1795. Full Leather. New Edition. The “New Edition” of Sales’ important translation of The Koran, first printed in 1734, and certainly the best translation at that time. In recent..... More about THE KORAN: COMMONLY CALLED, THE ALCORAN OF MOHAMMED: TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL ARABIC: WITH...

Paris: Alphonse Jolly, (1949). One of 969 numbers copies, uncut in sheets, in patterned paper folder and slipcase. 15 watercolors (one for each chapter) and 15 watercolor tailpieces; reproduced by Duval and stenciled by colors. More about SYLVIE. SOUVENIRS DU VALOIS

London: Macmillan and Co, 1911. Illustrated by: Warwick Goble. Quarto. Vellum Binding. Limited Edition, one of 150 copies. Full vellum Limited Edition with a neat vellum reback with original backstrip laid down; boards and backstrip are a scuffed and soiled;... More about STORIES FROM THE PENTAMERONE [Edition de Luxe

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, 1889. Three Quarters Leather. First European Edition. First European Edition of The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris, edited by Anne Cary Morris, complete in two volumes. Preceded by the Scribner edition the previous year. Portrait... More about THE DIARY AND LETTERS OF GOUVERNEUR MORRIS. MINISTER OF THE UNITED STATES TO FRANCE; MEMBER OF...

Londres: 1852. A reprint of the original edition of 1608, this limited to “60 exemplaires pour le commerce”. Omitting the word “Tribades” from the sub-title. Offering to a small number of bibliophiles a work which they would probably never encounter..... More about BIBLIOTHEQUE BIBLIOPHILIC-FACETIEUSE. LE PREMIER ACTE DU SYNODE NOCTURNE DES LEMANES, UNELMANES,...

San Francisco: Charles R .Wood and Associatates, 1953. Pictorial Boards. Limited Edition. A nicely produced book with 36 full-page reproductions of Dore engravings. With pictorial boards backed in black cloth . A limited printing, this being #36 of 250 copies... More about SCENES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT

[Budapest]: Kossuth Press, [1986?]. Hard Cover. A miniature book, 7 1/2 cm. x 6 1/2 cm. “The volume was produced by the Kossuth Press ... for the company’s business associates. It is not sold commercially”. A clean copy without marks. More about ICONS. SELECTED FROM HUNGARIAN MUSUEMS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

[Girard, Kan.]: Haldeman-Julius, 1930’s. Stapled Pamphlet. Actually a scarce little item from the ubiquitous “Little Blue Book” series published by the socialist writer and social reformer E. Haldeman-Julius. We locate only one copy in OCLC. Chip to back wrapper (1”..... More about 1,836 Little Blue Books at 5[cent symbol] each

N.P., 1978. A remarkable festschrift honoring a remarkable printer. Harold Hugo’s contributions to the twentieth-century printing, through his work at the Meriden Gravure Company, were immense. Comprise of 36 numbered fascicles as wells the Foreward and Epilogue, housed in a...... More about A PORTFOLIO HONORING HAROLD HUGH FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TO SCHOLARLY PRINTING

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1913. Hard Cover. First Edition. A lovely copy of Harrison Fisher’s lovely book. The 16 mounted plates are beautiful -- several plates had slight creases at the edge, which have uncreased and show very... More about BEAUTIES

Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1905. Quarter Leather. Limited edition. A facsimile reproduction of the Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s translation of Hartmann von Aue’s Henry the Leper; the story inspired Rossetti due to its medieval romantic themes, and the strange Catholic morality..... More about HENRY THE LEPER [A SWABIAN MIRACLE-RHYME] (DER ARME HEINRICH

Dresden: Schriftguss A-G vorm. Bruder Butter, 1928. This is #45 of a limited printing of 100 copies, signed by Heinrich Wieynck. In paste-paper covered boards, backed in paper vellum, with titling in gold. Fine. More about ZEITGEDANKEN