Item 236555Ravenna: a Background for Things of Beauty.
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[Watertown, New York: Knowlton Brother, nd]. Read More Item Details for Ravenna: a Background for Things of Beauty Add to Wish List
Item #236555
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[Watertown, New York: Knowlton Brother, nd]. Read More Item Details for Ravenna: a Background for Things of Beauty Add to Wish List
Item #236555
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[New York]: The Pierpont Morgan Library; Oxford University Press, [1976]. First Edition. An indispensable standard reference. Read More Item Details for The Illustrator and Book in England from 1700 to 1914 Add to Wish List
Item #35236
Price: $350
New York: Published for the Society of Illustrators by the Madison Square Pres, [1984]. Number 22 of 50 copies with an original tipped-in woodcut by John Held, Jr, signed by his wife and also signed by both authors. ONE OF 50 COPIES, WITH HELD WOODCUT. Read More Item Details for The Illustrator in America 1880-1980. A Century of Illustration Add to Wish List
Item #250657
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New York: Cambridge University Press, 1959. One of only 300 copies printed for presentation to friends in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the American Branch of the Cambridge University Press. Read More Item Details for Bruce Rogers and American Typography. A Paper Read to the Double Crown Club by John Dreyfus Add to Wish List
Item #52581
Price: $400
Cambridge: Dunster House, 1924. One of 350 copies printed by Bruce Rogers at the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, 1923. The designs were printed by Bruce Rogers from blocks prepared by Emery Walker based on the first edition of Dürer’s treatise on geometry, Unterweysung (1525), where they appear in..... Read More Item Details for The Construction of Roman Letters by Albrecht Dürer Add to Wish List
Item #367850
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[New York]: Museum Press, 1916. One of 200 copies on Batchelor hand-made paper. “[Henry Watson] Kent also asked Rogers for part-time help in the management of the [Museum] Press” (BR by Joe Blumenthal). With the bookplate of Lester Douglas. Read More Item Details for Amycus et Celestin Add to Wish List
Item #7166
Price: $550
Chicago: Privately printed For Subscribers, [1949]. Subscribers' Advance edition, one of 77 copies. ONE OF 77. Read More Item Details for Collecting First editions of Franklin Roosevelt. Contributions to an FDR Bibliography. With a Foreword by Samuel I. Rosenman Add to Wish List
Item #237071
Price: $200
Washington, D.C: Library of Congress, 1991. One of 300 special copies of the first edition. Read More Item Details for Vision of a Collector: the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress. With a foreword by James H. Billington, preface by Larry E. Sullivan and an essay on Rosenwald by William Matheson...with 100 essays Add to Wish List
Item #245369
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[East Aurora, New York]: The Roycroft Printing Shop, 1897. Inscribed by Elbert Hubbard. Read More Item Details for Love Ballads of the XVIth Century Add to Wish List
Item #43316
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New York: Parke-Bernet, April 9-10, 1942. Read More Item Details for The Angling Library formed by the late Dean Sage, Albany, N.Y. … inherited and augmented by his son, the present owner Add to Wish List
Item #351987
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Paris: Chez l'Auteur, [1794]. Catalogue of the Basan sale, held after the artist's death. Read More Item Details for Catalogue Raisonné d'un Choix Précieux de Dessins, et d'une nombreuse et riche collection d'Estampes Anciennes et Modernes, en feuilles, en recueils et en œuvres, livres à figures, sciences et arts, tableaux et autres objects curieux qui composoient le cabinet de feu Pierre-François Basan .. Add to Wish List
Item #244906
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Mailand: Ulrico Hoepli, 1930. Read More Item Details for Handbuch der Inkunabelpreise Add to Wish List
Item #223234
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Newtown, Pennsylvania: Bird & Bull Press, 1984. First edition, number 152 of 500 copies. Sir Harry Parks was sent to Japan by W.E. Gladstone, the English Prime Minister, to gather information on Japanese papermaking. His report, along with a large selection of handmade paper was sent to England in 1871..... Read More Item Details for Mr Gladstone's Washi. A Survey of Reports on the Manufacture of Paper in Japan. The Parkes Report of 1871 Add to Wish List
Item #306097
Price: $125
1939. Schuster founded Simon & Schuster with Richard Simon. Read More Item Details for ANS from M. Lincoln Schuster to Alfred Eisenstaedt with 2 others, Thomas Craven and Roy E. Larsen of Time-Life Add to Wish List
Item #301591
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Venice: Per Io. Baptistam Sessa, 1504. Ammonius Hermiae was a fifth-century Greek philosopher who taught at Alexandria for most of his life. The Sessa family of printers were an active printing family in Venice in the sixteenth century, whose printer's device featured a cat under a crown. This fragment of..... Read More Item Details for [Ammonius in quinque voces Porphyrii per Pomponium Gauricum Neapolitanum] [Fragment of book printed by Sessa of Venice] Add to Wish List
Item #261091
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London: Printed for Robert Triphook [B. M'Millan, Printer, Bow-street, Covent-Garden], 1824. With Five Cosway-Style Portraits Of the Author. Read More Item Details for An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints, Which, from the Decease of the Poet to Our Own Times, Have Been Offered to the Public as Portraits of Shakespeare Add to Wish List
Item #320586
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Most from Chicago: [1930s; last is dated 1969]. Early Letters from William Shawn. Excellent group of correspondence from William Shawn (1907-1992) Marshall A. Best was Editor of Viking Press. He came to Viking in 1925 when B.W. Huebsch was absorbed by Harold Guinzburg's Viking Press and became Chairman of the..... Read More Item Details for Collection of 3 Typed Letters, signed, and 4 Autograph letters, signed, to editor Marshall Best, all signed “Bill” Add to Wish List
Item #325620
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New York: Bangs & Co, 24-28 May 1897. Fine Collection of Shelley and Shelleyana. “Mr. Frederickson, about 20 years ago conceived the idea of having the larger portion of his buying concentrated on Shelley. We say…that this Shelley library is the most remarkable ever collected in this country” (Preface signed..... Read More Item Details for Catalogue of the Library of the late Charles W. Frederickson. A Carefully Selected and Valuable Collection of English Literature, comprising a large Number of First and Other Rare Editions, Especially of Byron, Fray, Keats, Lamb, Shakspeare, Scott and an Unrivalled Collection of the Works of Shelley and Shelleyana; Also Autograph letters and Manuscripts of the Greatest Intrinsic Interest and Value Add to Wish List
Item #21267
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London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1927. On India paper. Part of the Oxford editions of Standard Authors. On India Paper. This edition containing “all Shelley's ascertained poems and fragments of verse that have hitherto appeared in print.” It originally appeared in 1905. Read More Item Details for The Complete Poetical Works…Edited by Thomas Hutchinson Add to Wish List
Item #33062
Price: $250
Chicago: 1842. Chatty letters about Illinois politics, etc. "On July 7, 1897 Rev. P.S. Pratt welcomed Manchester’s “many lovers of good books” who had gathered to celebrate the opening of Mark Skinner Library. The library was celebrated as a “new and elegant edifice” which would be “made accessible to all..... Read More Item Details for 2 four page ALSs to Mr. Julius Wadswsorth, "Dear Wadsworth" in Paris France from Judge Mark Skinner in Chicago Add to Wish List
Item #263468
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London: American Art Association Anderson Galleries, 1930. Salomons, Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-, second baronet (1851-1925), mechanic, was born on 28 June 1851, at 18 Brunswick Terrace, Hove, Sussex, only son of Philip Salomons (1796-1867), gentleman-at-arms, and his wife, Emma Abigail (1830-1859), daughter of Jacob Montefiore, merchant of Sydney, New South..... Read More Item Details for Rare & Valuable Colored Plate Books. from the Library of the Late Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern Salomons, Bart, Broomhill Tunbridge Wells sold by the order of His Daughtere Mrs. Vera Bryce Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells Add to Wish List
Item #229034
Price: $350
Tubingen: Marmorierwekstatt und Verlag Tubingen, 1987. One of 230 numbered copies signed by the artists. Includes a preface by Peter Thiele, and articles by Emin Barin and Barbara Lipps-Kant. A lavishly illustrated on the history and tradition of the art of Turkish marbling. Read More Item Details for Turkisch Papier. Ebru. Turkish Marbled Paper. Katalog mit 38 farbigen Reproduktionen marmorierter Bilder 9 Schwarzweiss-Fotos zur Herstellunstechnil und einem Original Turkisch Papier Add to Wish List
Item #323615
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Boston: Published by Charles Williams [J. T. Buckingham, Printer], 1811 [boards dated 1812]. First American edition, later state of binding with 1812 dated boards. First published in 1805. First American edition. Read More Item Details for Metrical Tales and other Poems Add to Wish List
Item #33074
Price: $350
London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, (1923). First edition. A very nice copy of this indispensable - and fascinating - work. The first book devoted to Angling art exclusively. Read More Item Details for Angling in British Art Through Five Centuries: Prints, Pictures, Books. With A Foreword by H. T. Sheringham Add to Wish List
Item #228323