Fine illustrated books including first editions of well known children's books both American and British, color plates books and photobooks.
Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1580. Plantin Press and the Copper Engraving. The first part is a visual telling of... Read More about Evangeliorium Dominicalium Summaria, Sanctorumq. Historiae paucissimis verbis expressae, iuxta...
Price: $1,500
Edmonton: John Pearson for Bernard Quaritch, 1884. One of 50 copies. Blake's ‘Daughters of Albion’: Muir Facsimile in Special Binding. Read More about Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Price: $4,000
[Edmonton: 1885]. No. 39 of 50 copies, on Hodgkinson wove paper. Muir Facsimile. Read More about Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Price: $7,500
London: A. Zwemmer, Charing Cross Road, 1929. First UK edition and first edition in English. Read More about Art Forms in Nature. Examples from the plant world photographed direct from Nature
Price: $2,000
Jersey City, N.J: H.C. Perleberg Publisher 314 Palisades, nd. Read More about Blossom Fruit and Foliage. Fifty Photographs
Price: $275
US Steel Chief Blough Praises Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Roger Blough became Chairman and CEO of US Steel, then the world's largest steel company, at the age of 48, when this was still a plum job of US industry. Here, he thanks Eisenstaedt for “A pleasant hour with an unusually effective..... Read More about Autograph Note Signed, n.p., n.d
Price: $150
Paris: Chez Oncelein, imprimeur-librairie, rue da Hurepoix, No. 17, 1801. Translated from the Italian into French by A. Sabatier de Castres (1742-1817). The engravings after Gravelot, Boucher, Eisen are slightly reduced copies of those in the Paris edition of 1757-61. Read More about Contes de J. Bocace; traduction nouvelle, augmentée de divers contes et nouvelles en vers...
Price: $600
Florence: Fratelli Alinari, 1909-1915. First edition thus. Read More about Il Decamerone di Messer Giobvanni Boccacio
Price: $500
Easthampton, Mass: Cheloniidae Press, 1988. Robinson, Alan James. From the edition of 107, this is A.[rtist P.[roof] I (with state proofs) signed by Alan James Robinson. One of 5 only for sale. ONE OF 5 COPIES. Read More about Atlantic Salmon. Salmo Salar … Essays by Stephen Bodio and Ted Williams
Price: $5,000
London: Printed for G. Robinson, No. 25, Paternoster Row, 1783. Second edition. The Spiritual History of Whipping. Second edition in English of this adaptation of Abbé Boileau's classic medical, theological and erotic study, HISTORIA FLAGELLANTIUM. first published in 1700. De Lolme's English version was first published in 1777, and again..... Read More about The History of the Flagellants: otherwise, of Religious Flagellations among different Nations,...
Price: $500
New York: January 4, 1947. A rare image of dancer/choreographer Todd Bolender (b. 1914), one of the icons of American dance history. There are no images at all of Bolender in the Library of Congress. Inscribed to Mauriber. Read More about Portrait photograph of Todd Bolender in Balanchine's THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS
Price: $1,100
[Paris: Bison Ainé with stamp of Mon. Alph. Giroux below, n.d. ca. 1867]. [Marie] Rosa[lie] Bonheur (1822-99) known best for her pictures of animals. Read More about Carte de visite showing Bonheur leaning on a chair with hand on hip
Price: $100
New York: Chas. Magnus, nd (c.)1863. Read More about "Bonnie Blue Flag" with Seal of Maryland on right
Price: $250
New York: Covici, Friede Publishers, 1928. Bosschere, Jean de. Number 176 of 275 copies, each with a special frontispiece and signed by the author/illustrator. Read More about Marthe and the Madman. Translated from the French by Pierre Loving
Price: $250
Lawrence, MA: 1935 (Printed c. 1998). Number 15 of 250 prints. Bourke-White's striking image of man and machine, reminiscent of her earlier work in the Soviet Union, was published in a FORTUNE story on the Lawrence, Massachusetts textile industry. Read More about American Wollen Co
Price: $300
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. First edition. Inscribed to Edward Steichen. Inscribed on the half-title: "For Edward Steichen/ I couldn't do a book/ without sending it to you./ Maggy" Read More about Halfway to Freedom. A Report on the New India in the Words and Photographs of …
Price: $6,500
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. Bourke-White, Margaret. First Edition, review copy with folio letter from The Inner Sanctum of S & S Pub, date June 29, 1942. Read More about Shooting the Russian War. Written and Photographed by …
Price: $300
![Item #242359 Sir Robert Montgomery's Camel Carriage in Government House, Lahore [pencil caption]....](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/242359.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669651129)
[Lahore: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. # 2126. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian views" (Pare, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE, p...... Read More about Sir Robert Montgomery's Camel Carriage in Government House, Lahore [pencil caption
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![Item #242357 “Group of Booteas” [pencil caption]. Samuel Bourne](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/242357.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669651129)
[Darjeeling: 1869]. Bourne cat. # 1904. Four upper-class Booteas, Tibetan-speaking inhabitants of Nepal. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian..... Read More about “Group of Booteas” [pencil caption
Price: $1,500
[India: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. #2065. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan region from 1863-1870. "[R]ecognized as an important landscape photographer, Bourne entered a partnership with Charles Shepherd" and "became a leading supplier of Indian views" (Pare, PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE, p. 251)..... Read More about Mundapum, with facade of carved horses
Price: $1,250
![Item #242356 Tibetan natives [pencil caption]. Samuel Bourne](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/242356.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669651129)
[Tibet: ca. 1865]. Bourne cat. # 1132B. A striking group portrait of six Tibetans, including a seated priest reading and fingering prayer beads and a woman, with her back to the camera, displaying an elaborate headdress. British-born Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) photographed the landscape and architecture of India and the Himalayan..... Read More about Tibetan natives [pencil caption
Price: $1,500
Zurich: Memory/Cage Editions, 1995. Number 18 of 40 copies, signed by both artist and author, with an original gelatin silver print photograph, signed and numbered by the photographer. ONE OF 40, SIGNED. Read More about The Time of Friendship. A Story. With Ten Photographs by Vittorio Santos and a Preface by the Author
Price: $1,000
Guilford: Charles W.Traylen, nd. Signed by Laver ON COLOPHON PAGE. Boys, (1803-1874). Read More about Original Views of London As It Is, Drawn from Nature expressly for this work and lithographed by...
Price: $425
London: Published by George Emmett, at the Office, Hogarth House, St. Bride’s Avenue, [ca. 1885]. Early edition. James & Smith tentatively attributed this boys’ adventure to George Emmett, who appears here as the publisher. The illustrations, at least one of which is signed “Phiz,” have been attribited to Hablot Knight..... Read More about Young Tom Wildrake’s Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America
Price: $350
London: Printed for John Booth, Duke Street, Portland Square by B.R. Howlett, 49, Brewer Street, Golden Square, 1812. Bradford, William. Sometime before 1816, John Richardson Latimer went to Philadelphia to receive training in a counting house, probably that of his uncle, George. George arranged for John and his son, James..... Read More about Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, made during the campaign,...
Price: $3,500