London: Kegan, Paul, Trench and Co, 1886. First volume of the Hobby Horse, publication of the influential Century Guild. Notable for the fine facsimile of the rare Blake broadside Little Tom the Sailor. The ballad is by William Hayley, and in the autumn of 1800, Blake engraved the two images..... Read More about Little Tom the Sailor [in:] The Century Guild Hobby Horse, volume I

[Pine Valley]: Privately Printed, 1928, 1933. First editions. Copies no. 49 of sixty-six numbered copies, the first printed by Rudge, the second by Edward Stern & Company. Copies were reserved strictly for presentation. The small printed slip that accompanied the errata for the first volume is laid in. Now in..... Read More about A List of the Writings of Lewis Carroll [Charles L. Dodgson] in the Library at Dormy House Pine...

[Waltham St. Lawrence]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. Gill, Eric. Number 473 of 488 numbered copies printed on Batchelor handmade paper, from a total edition of five hundred copies. Gill’s Masterpiece. One of Eric Gill's masterpieces as an illustrator. “Conceived in the fruitful mind of Robert Gibbings, this is the..... Read More about The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ According to the Authorized Version of King James I …

London: D. Brown, 1719. The second edition, with the addition of above three thousand words, not in the former. Very useful to all those that desire to understand what they read. Read More about Glossographia Anglicana Nova: or, A Dictionary interpreting such hard words of whatever language,...

New York: Grolier Club, 1894. One of 312 copies on hand-made paper. Printed by the De Vinne Press. With pencil note on pastedown by “CF” that it was from the library of Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946); bought at Dauber & Pine from a collection of Pinchot family books. Gifford..... Read More about Facsimile of The Laws and Acts of the General Assembly for Their Majesties Province of New York...

Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Press, 1950. Number 204 of 210 copies (200 for sale), signed by the author. Schlosser 41 "The last work of the Mountain House Press and the author's magnum opus, this book provides a history of American papermaking by listing and describing the first paper mill in..... Read More about Papermaking by Hand in America

Venice: Giovanii Bonadio, 1564. Early Italian edition of Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews, translated by M. Pietro Lauro Modenese. The first Italian edition published in Venice in 1560, with the Editio Prinseps in Greek published in Basel in 1544. Josephus' works provide a comprehensive history of the Jews from Creation..... Read More about Delle Antichita Giudaiche. Parte Prima [... Seconda]. Tradotto in Italiano per M. Pietro Lauro...

Reading: Printed and sold by J. Newbery and C. Micklewright. Also by Mess. Ware, Birt, Astley, Austen, Robinson, Dodsley, and Needham, booksellers in London, 1743. First edition. Martin (d. 1782) polymath, lexographer and maker of scientific instruments, here first published his lectures on natural and experimental philosophy, including much on..... Read More about A Course of Lectures in Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Geography, and Astronomy: in which...

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1848. First edition, exemplaire nominatif. Murat-Hopkinson Copy of the Revolutionary Constitution of 1848. The French Constitution written after the revolution of 1848, which ended the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy and established the Second Republic: the exemplaire nominatif for lawmaker Lucien Murat (1803-1878), who represented the Lot..... Read More about Constitution de la République Française précédée des rapports et decrets qui y sont relatifs

New York: The Grolier Club, 1927. One of 390 copies on antique wove rag paper. Champ Fleury by Geofroy Tory, one of the great Rennaissance treatises on letter form, was reprinted by Bruce Rogers on commission from the Grolier Club. Completed in October of 1927, it was "a massive accomplishment..... Read More about Champ Fleury. [Wherin is contained the Art & Science of the proper & true Proprtions of...

Boston: Rogers and Fowle for J. Blanchard, 1742. First American Edition. First published in London in 1738, this 1742 Rogers and Fowle Boston edition is the first American edition of this devotional. This example with early American female ownership to Abigail Bromfield, possibly Abigail Coney Bromfield (ca. 1700-1777) but more..... Read More about Devout Exercises of the Heart. Reviewed and Published ... Review'd and Published at her request,...

[Venice: Aldus Manutius, February 1495/96]. First Aldine edition, and the first complete edition of Theocritus (printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time); the first edition of HESIOD’S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; and first editions of most of the other minor works (enumerated..... Read More about Idyllia] [and other texts