London, 1803. Second (and best) edition, with additions. Large Paper Copy (11 1/4 x 18 3/4). Portrait, title, (iv), xxiv, 240 pages, 32 plates (some hand colored). Original marbled board sides & marbled edges, with later calf spine & corners. Front endpapers discolored (from glue?); portrait has marginal foxing &..... More

Paris: Gruel & Engelmann, 1862. 5 x 6. CXCII pages, each richly illuminated by chromolithography in colors and gold + 12 full page illustrations, and terminal pages to record family births, marriages, etc. Each leaf is tipped to a hinge, allowing the book to be opened flat. Bound by Gruel..... More

(South Norwalk, Winter 1994-1995). 9 1/2 x 12. Twelve leaves of color woodcuts and xylographic text in brown. A full page portrait (head) of a native American in earth tones faces a full page owl in purple & black, followed by seven double-spreads of a poem and an owl, concluding..... More

[Mainz, 1460. But the second impression, ca.1469]. Folio (approx. 11 x 14). A single leaf from the "C" section of this dictionary/encyclopedia. Printed in two columns of 66 lines. Lombardic cap "C"s & paragraph marks drawn in red. Centered between the columns is the watermark of the Galliziani papermaking family..... More

Llandogo: The Old Stile Press, 2005. 10 x 15. 27 leaves with woodcuts throughout. The 40 woodcuts--many double page or full page -- are printed from the original blocks. Brown leather & a woodcut over boards. Fine. "How much is written of Pigme's, Fairies, Nymphs, Syrens, Apparitions, which tho not..... More

Newark, Delaware, 2014. 15 x 23. Twenty-seven leaves: Title, colophon, descriptive page, 23 daily posters for the Tour de France + 1 composite print of the entire bicycle race. Quarter linen tray case covered in a pastepaper illustration of a landscape traversed by bicycle wheels. Fine. A portfolio of 23..... More

NY, 2016. 10 x 14. 28 leaves printed in black, red, orange, brown, blue, and green. Some of the colors are subtle. Some are florescent. Orange morocco spine & boards printed with pinwheel ornaments. Fine in blue cloth slipcase with orange morocco label. "...the function of ornament is to make..... More

Ogdensburg: Caliban Press, 2020. 8 1/2 x 11. 44 leaves (some foldouts) including the covers. Red spiral binding. Laid in is a 2-page Guide to the wood type specimens. Fine copy of a delightful book. Wood type numbers printed on an accumulation of "found, left over, and scrap papers" from..... More

Midnight Paper Sales & Solmentes Press, 2003. 9 1/2 x 13. 153 pages. Illustrated with 14 color linocuts by Esslemont, 3 color wood engravings by Schanilec (including a 33-inch folding panorama), 10 tipped-in color ink jet images, and 6 original leaves. Bound by David Esslemont in laminated bevelled boards covered..... More