[Neuville, France]: ca. 1880. Oblong 4to.  260 x 350 mm., [10 ¼ x 13 ½ inches].  56 leaves.  Illustrated with 23 hand drawn maps.  Title page is decorated with a floral frieze.  Bound in red cloth, joint cracked but sound, corners bumped, and cloth soiled in places; with the initials..... More

Paris: chez Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1775. 8vo.  195 x 120 mm., [7 ¾ x 4 ¾ inches].  iv, 500 pp.  Illustrated with 6 folding plates with numerous diagrams.  Bound in contemporary mottled calf, lightly rubbed at the edges.  A sound and attractive copy. First in French, originally published in Milan in..... More

London: Chapman & Hall, 1851. Small 8vo.  170 x 110 mm., [6 ½ x 4 ¼ inches].  vii, [1], 140 pp. + 36 pp. publisher's catalogue bound at the end of the volume dated 1851.  Original slate blue blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Near fine copy with no discoloration..... More

Various Printers, 1758-1785. Rare Series of Twenty-Four Festival Broadsides Celebrating the Accomplishments and Appointments of Members of the Dionisi Family of Verona During the Middle Years of the Eighteenth Century.  Including celebratory broadsides commemorating civil appointments, ordinations, taking of religious habits by the women of the family, retirements, and funerals..... More

[London]: Printed for the Author, [1813]. Small oblong folio.  260 x 355 mm., [10 ¼ x 14 inches].  11 pp.  Text entirely engraved by Thomas Skillern Jun.  Stitched as issued. First leaf and margins soiled by dust; edges curled at corners and spine.  Unsophisticated copy in original condition. First edition. ..... More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. 8vo. 230 x 145 mm., [9 x 5 ½ inches]. viii, 261 pp.  Printed on stiff paper stock.  Bound in publishers green cloth, decorated with fillet borders in black on the covers, title in gilt in spine; minor wear to the lower joint, a bit..... More

Venezia: Appresso Vincenzo Galgrisi, 1560. 12mo. 150 x 100 mm., [6 x 4 inches].  [32], 172, [2] pp., [printer’s mark followed by a final blank].  Bound in contemporary limp vellum; ties missing, small piece of vellum missing from spine, some minor restauration to the area.  Contemporary manuscript signature of a...... More

Lucca: Giovanni Riccomini, 1767. 8vo. 203 x 135 mm. (8 x 5 1/4 inches). 32 pp. Engraved title-page vignette of a putti and a dolphin; two woodcut decorative initial letters, head- and tail-pieces of putti and designed backgrounds. Original red Italian decorative paper wrappers; remnants of a paper label on..... More

Bologno: Dalla Tipografia Cardinali e Frulli, [1826]. Broadside folio.  425 x 313 mm., [16 ¼ x 12 ¼ inches].  Printed on a half sheet; previously folded, with a little dust soiling at foot of the broadside but in very good condition. Broadside published the year she retired from the stage..... More

Probably Illinois, ca. 1930. 4to.  280 x 230 mm., [11 x 8 ½ inches]  45 leaves, with 101 mounted samples Two ring binder of black paper over boards, with the word “Campus” embossed on the upper cover; corners of binder a bit chipped, small abrasion on upper board; body of..... More

Boston: David R. Godine, [2002]. 8vo.  230 x 150 mm., [9 x 6 inches].  [6], 373 [1] pp.  Illustrated with 24 half tone images from the Origo Archive at La Foce.  Publisher's blue boards with white linen spine, dust jacket.  Very good copy. Highly readable biography of Iris Origo whose..... More

Monaco (Milano): Nella Stamperia Trasupeti all’insegna del Portico aperto, 1774. 8vo.  180 x 125 mm., [5 x 7 inches].  [8], 100, [2 blanks], errata, [1 blank].Original publisher’s marbled paper wrappers.  Very good copy. Only edition of this poem, written by Francesco Pertusati, who signed the work with the pseudonym and..... More

Samarang [Java, Dutch East Indies], 1877-1880. 3 volumes. Small folio.  295 x 225 mm., [11 ½ 9 inches].  7 leaves; 7 leaves; 6 leaves.  Textured cloth limp covers; corners a bit bumped; hinges a bit weak, and the first volume loose in binding.  The first two volumes contain a nearly..... More