Romae: Ex Typographia Medicaea, 1611. Folio.  360 x 245 mm., [14 x 9 ¾ inches].  Printed in red and black throughout.  Illustrated with large printer’s devise on the title-page, one large woodcut of the Pope conducting a confirmation of a young boy, small woodcuts reflecting the rites of the Church..... More

London and New York: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1899-1901. Folio. 2 volumes. [viii], 18 pp., 2 photographic reproductions of portraits of Beardsley and 157 full-page plates; [xii], frontispiece and 173 full-page plates. Original white cloth decorated in gilt; some soiling to the binding, head of spine with tiny fraying..... More

St. Louis: Published for the Author, 1869. 8vo.  185 x 120 mm., [7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches].  100, [iv] pp.  Illustrated throughout with wood engravins.  Brown publisher's cloth, title gilt on spine.  Cloth somewhat faded and worn, text block partially loose in binding.First edition.  Post Civil War book of..... More

Allentown: Blumer, Busch, und Co., da. 1849. Manuscript birth certificate 430 x 340 mm., (17 x 13 1/4 inches). Text printed in German and infilled in legible hand. Great example of the “Empire Style Double Angel” printed form with woodcut images of two figures of angels set on either side..... More

Allentaun: Blumer Druckerei, ca. 1830. Folio broadside: 335 x 215 mm., [13 ¼ x 8 ½ inches]. Printed in two columns on blue paper; heavily stained, some tears at folds; expert paper repairs to folds. Rare broadside issued as part of a confirmation ceremony presided over by Andrew Zeller..... More

Chicago: P.L. Hanscom & Co., Printers, 1867. 8vo. 220 x 145 mm., [8 ½ x 5 ¾ inches].   76 pp., Illustrated with one image in the text and 5 plates. Orig. printed wrappers; some light soling and minor wear; sound and attractive copy.   Scarce genealogy of a pioneering family in..... More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1871. 4to. 290 x 230 mm. (11 1/2 x 9 inches). [4], 205 pp. Illustrated with 7 chromolithographic plates, 6 micro photographs and one lithograph. Bound in contemporary pebbled morocco spine and tips over marbled paper boards; edges rubbed, but a sound and attractive copy. First illustrated..... More

1954. Oil painting on board.  250 x 297 mm. (9 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches).  Signed in lower left corner in black paint and in black ink an inscription reads "Santa Monica, Calif. / A. Dahl 1954".  Label of Wallace Gallery, East Hampton, New York.Anton Dahl (1894-1967), Swedish painter who..... More

New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1898. Oblong quarto. 255 x 320 mm. (10 x 12 1/2 inches). [x], 95 leaves printed on rectos only. Full page and in text illustrations by George du Maurier, text and page decorations in red and black. Dark green cloth spine, over pale..... More

Philadelphia and Boston: Carey & Hart and Hill & Broadhead, 1847.  4to.  275 x 225 mm., [10 ¾ x 9 inches].  99 pp.  Illustrated with an engraved mezzotint title-page and 9 mezzotint engravings by John Sartain.  Brown publisher’s cloth, gilt title and decoration on the upper board and in blind..... More

Milano: dall Tipografia dell'Autore, 1828. 4 volumes. 8vo. 227 x 150 mm (9 x 6 inches). xvi, 332, [2] pp; 382, [2] pp. viii, 430 [2] pp. vii, [1], 304 pp. Illustrated with 34 aquatint illustrations by Angelo Biasoli, 3 genealogical tables, and illustrations in the text.  Uncut copy in..... More

(Rome): (Carlo Labruzzi), 1796. Folio. 415 x 302 mm. (16 ¼ x 11 ½ inches). 13 full-page etchings printed in sanguine on laid paper, each plate with a loosely inserted guard sheet (also of laid paper) with 5 dark pencil points marked as guides to the artists. Early 19th-century red..... More

Philadelphia: John B. Perry, 1845. 12mo.  145 x 95 mm., [5 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches].  131 pp.  Illustrated with five full-page woodcuts.  Brown publisher's cloth, decorated with embossed border design on both boards.  Cloth faded in parts, head and tail of spine a bit chipped; some light tide marks..... More