Bindings and library sets of first editions and rare books across genres such as literature, poetry, and philosophy.
Paris: P[ierre] Didot, Fils Aîné de F.A. Didot l’Aîné, 1790. One of 250 copies on papier vélin. One... Read More about Odes, Cantates, Epîtres et Poésies Diverses [from: Collection des Auteurs Classiques...
Price: $2,000
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1793. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates, first issue with the long 's' throughout. With 12 Plates by Blake. A tall copy in contemporary binding of the Stockdale edition of Gay’s Fables with 12 engravings by Blake, who freely adapted his source..... Read More about Fables … with a Life of the Author
Price: $1,750
London: Macmillan, 1880. Second Edition. A New and Enlarged Edition Illustrated from Blake's Own Works, with additional Letters and a Memoir of the Author. THE H. BUXTON FORMAN COPY. The original prints - three from the woodblocks for Virgil's Pastoral (in this second edition printed on India paper and thus..... Read More about Life of William Blake, with selections from his poems and other writings
Price: $2,500
London: T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806. First edition. A William Blake Milestone: the First Account of His Life. A book of paramount importance to Blake studies. Malkin was a personal friend of William Blake, with whom he shared an interest in radical politics, and on the..... Read More about A Father's Memoirs of His Child
Price: $1,500
New York: The Beechhurst Press, [1955]. First American edition. Read More about William Blake's Jerusalem. Foreword by Geoffrey Keynes
Price: $125
New York: The Beechhurst Press, [1955]. One of 2500 copies. Facsimile of the "Rinder" copy. Printed in France. Read More about Jerusalem. Foreword by Geoffrey Keynes
Price: $125
London: Nonesuch Press, 1925 & 1927. Blake, William. First edition, Number 1102 of 1500 copies of the Writings and #820 of the Life. With addendum to the Life. 4 pp. Read More about The Writings of ... Edited in Three Volumes by Geoffrey Keynes WITH: The Life of William Blake by...
Price: $650
London: W.W.Robinson, 69, Fleet Street, 1846. First edition. Read More about Hints on Angling, with Suggestions for Angling Excursions in France and Belgium, to which are...
Price: $225
London: W.W.Robinson, 69, Fleet Street, 1846. First edition. Read More about Hints on Angling, with Suggestions for Angling Excursions in France and Belgium, to which are...
Price: $150
Paris: Librarie du Figaro, Docks de la librairie, imprimerie générale de Ch. Lahure, n.d. [1870s]. Profusely illustrated edition in a handsome binding, of Blanc's monumental history of the French Revolution, which was originally published in 12 volumes 1847-1862. Read More about Histoire de la révolution Française
Price: $800
London: William Heinemann, 1921. First Edition. Read More about China Japan and Korea
Price: $200
New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers, [1972]. First edition. Inscribed "August 1974 To Jane (Engelhard) with keen anticipation of our long and fruitful association in the work of a Great University. Ed." Bloustein was the President of Rutgers. Read More about The University and the Counterculture
Price: $150
Oxford: Printed at The Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1934-1935. No. 132 of 325 copies. A handsomely bound copy of this modern fine press edition of the Decameron. Read More about Boccaccio's Decameron.The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conversation framed in Ten Dayes of...
Price: $2,000
London: Printed for and May be had of all Booksellers, 1845. Read More about The Decameron; or, Ten Days' Entertainment of Boccacci. Translated from the Italian. To which is...
Price: $150
London: Privately Printed for Members of the English Bibliophilists, nd. #20 of 100 copies. Read More about The Decameron
Price: $250
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
Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1933. First. Ronald Victor Courtenay Bodley, MC (1892-1970), a British army officer, lived in Japan in the early 1930s, and was considered by Westerners at that time to be a preeminent source of knowledge on the area, proving to be erroneous on whether the Japanese were..... Read More about A Japanese Omelette. A British Writer's Impressions on the Japanese Empire
Price: $200
London: Dent, 1928. Read More about Miniatures and Silhouettes. Translated by E.K. Walker
Price: $175
Paris: Desaint et Saillant .. 1752. First edition. Handsome copy of this curious retelling of Cortez in the third person that includes two folding engraved maps. Read More about Le Mexique Conquis
Price: $1,100
Marcham, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: The Alembic Press, 1997. Letter-pressed and hand-numbered 19 of 80 printed and bound by Claire Bolton. Triangular miniature book describing the different stages of a flax seed in the process to becoming paper. Read More about From Seed to Sheet
Price: $150
Paris: A. Quantin, nd. Read More about Les Récits de L'Oncle Paul
Price: $250
Cambridge: Stereoyped and Printed by J. Smith, Printed at the University. Cambridge Stereotype Edition. Read More about The Book of Common Prayer
Price: $400
