Bindings and library sets of first editions and rare books across genres such as literature, poetry, and philosophy.
[Paris: Pierre Bouchet, Decembre 31, 1932]. Number 46 of 65 of a total edition of 110 copies. This... Read More about Les Œuvres de Françoys Villon de Paris. Reveues et Remises en leur Entier
Price: $1,000
Napoli [Naples]: Carlo Porpora, [1688]. Second edition. A history of ancient sport and games in Italy, first printed in 1641. This copy in an elaborate eighteenth-century Neopolitan enameled binding with all edges gilt, gauffered, and painted. Read More about Dell’ Antico Ginnasio Napoletano. Opera Posthuma di …
Price: $2,750
![Item #257826 Gemme d’Arti Italiane [Volume 13]. Italian Binding](/pictures/thumb/257826.jpg?v=1669651773)
Milan, Venice & Verona: P. Ripamenti Carpano, [1860]. Volume 13 only. Volume 13 of this Italian art periodical, in a beautiful “chocolate box” style binding of embossed and chromolithographed paper boards. Read More about Gemme d’Arti Italiane [Volume 13
Price: $1,100
![Item #260692 [Breviary] Das geistliche Seelenmahl oder Officium für die Abgestorbenen. Italian...](/pictures/thumb/260692.jpg?v=1669651932)
Brünn: Johann Paul Krauss, [c.1760]. Italian Armorial Binding in Original Box. A beautiful Italian armorial binding of the mid 18th-century, similar in style to those promoted by the Salvioni firm, in the original pull-off case. OCLC locates only one copy of this scarce German breviary, in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Read More about Breviary] Das geistliche Seelenmahl oder Officium für die Abgestorbenen
Price: $8,000
Paris: NRF, 1927. No. 103 of 320 copies (of 373 total) on papier vélin pur fil teinté Lafuma. A fine art deco binding by the French bookbinder Geneviève de Léotard (b. 1899) "The excitement of de Léotard's avant-garde covers lay in their fierce linearity and choice of modern materials.… Her..... Read More about Thomas L'Imposteur
Price: $2,250
Paris: par la Compagnie de Libraires, 1661. This 17th-century printing of the Office of the Holy Week, following the Roman Missal and Breviary is striking because of its royal French binding for Maria Theresa of Spain as Queen of France. Read More about L’Office de la Semaine Saincte, selon le Missel & le Breviaire Romain
Price: $3,500
London: T. Nelson and Sons, N.d. [c. 1870]. Mauchline Ware Binding. A charming little volume in a lovely tartan binding. Read More about The New Testament
Price: $250
Paris: Éditiions Mornay, 1923. No. 983 of 950 copies on Guarro. Binding by Odette Pilon. Read More about La Sultane Daoulah
Price: $1,500
Paris: Belin-Leprieur, 1845. A ninteenth-century edition of La Bruyère’s classic work of sarcastic portraiture, in the publisher’s deluxe binding. Read More about Les Caractères ou les Moeurs de ce Siècle
Price: $750
Paris: Ernest Bourdin, [1850]. Ginain, Eugène. First edition. A stunningly fine copy in publisher’s binding, the gilt looking like it was stamped yesterday. “Le cartonnage spécial de l’éditeur est agréablement orné” (Carteret). Read More about Une Saison à Aix-les-Bains
Price: $1,000
Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1878. Nouvelle édition. A pristine copy in the publisher’s illustrated cloth. Read More about Voyage Autour du Monde
Price: $750
London: Ingraham, Cooke, & Co, 1853. Second edition. Read More about A Visit to Iceland and the Scandanavian North. Translated from the German of … with numerous...
Price: $150
![Item #307367 [Empty covers]. Rospigliosi Binding](/pictures/thumb/307367.jpg?v=1669652614)
Rome: ca.1650-80s. The Pope's Bookbinder. Empty covers from a binding by the Rospigliosi atelier of Rome, active from the early 17th through the early 18th centuries and patronized by a long procession of Church officials and foreign dignitaries. Foot lists more than 90 known bindings by the Rospigliosi workshop (Henry..... Read More about Empty covers
Price: $2,000
Paris: Ém. Paul, L. Huard et Guillemin, 1893. First edition, no. 9 of 20 large-paper copies on Japon Impérial, of a total edition of 650 copies. A classic work on early French bookbinding, comprising a history of the bookbinding trade in Paris, a study of the progression of binding styles..... Read More about Les Relieurs Français (1500-1800). Biographie Critique et Anecdotique Précédée de l'Histoire...
Price: $3,500
Paris: L. Curmer, 1836. In a Neo-Gothic Cathedral Binding by Simier. An elegant cathedral binding, signed on the spine “Simier. R. du Roi” — both René (1772-1843) and his son Alphonse (1796-1859) worked together at their workshop at rue St. Honoré 152. Read More about Les Saints Évangiles
Price: $2,250
Paris: Societatis Typographic Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici …, 1633. Bound by The French Binders, 1934. Beautifully bound in full red morocco by The French Binders, successors to The Club Bindery, and signed on the rear turn in by two of the firm's most distinguished binders, Henry Hardy and Gaston Pilon. The..... Read More about Caerimoniale episcoporum iussu Clementis VIII Pont. Max. reformatum. Omnibus ecclesiis praecipuè...
Price: $3,000
Paris: Chez l'Editeur, Rue de Sorbonne, No. 4, n.d. [ca. 1800]. A rare example of an odorless varnished binding ("reliure en vernis sans odeur"), a delicate and expensive technique in which layers of varnish were applied to covers decorated with either painted or engraved scenes. Albert Ehrmann, in his 1965..... Read More about Tablettes de Soirées
Price: $6,500
A Leide: chez les Elzevirs, 1648. First Elzevier edition. The celebrated memoirs of the foremost French Renaissance historian (1445-1509), notable as an important analysis of 15th century culture, politics and personality. "...The graphic style of his narrative and above all the keenness of his insight into the motives of his..... Read More about Les Memoires de Messire Philippe de Commines, Sr. d'Argenton
Price: $1,650
London: George G. Harrap & Co, [1930]. Brock, C.E. ‘Pickwick’ in Fine Onlaid Binding. Read More about The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Price: $4,500
London: William Phillips, George Yard Lombard Street, 1815. First Edition. Read More about Notes on a Journey Through France, from Dieppe through Paris and Lyons, to the Pyrennees, and...
Price: $200
London: The Religous Tract Society, 1894. First edition. Early travels by famous woman in Tibet. Read More about Among the Tibetans
Price: $300
London: George Newnes, 1900. First edition thus. Miss Isabella Lucy Bird, later Mrs. J.F. Bishop (1831-1904), left England to seek a better climate for her health in 1878, she returned to Japan in 1894 and 1896. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society..... Read More about Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An account of Travels in the Interior including visits to the...
Price: $250
Glasgow: James Macelhose and Sons, 1908. Privtaely Printed. Inscribed. Inscribed opposite tthe title-page: "John James Napier/ March 18 1917/ from the author." An account of the author's travels in India, Burma, Singapore & Johore, Canton & Macao, Shanghai & Far East, Up and Down in Japan, San Francisco & Monterey..... Read More about Winter Days in India and Elsewhere
Price: $150
Brooklyn, New York: Printed by Thomas Kirk, Sands-street, 1807. Fourth American Edition from the ninth and last London edition. Balir was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Here offered in edition by the first Brooklyn Printer of his lectures while he was the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles..... Read More about Lectures on Rhetoric and Belle Lettres
Price: $250