London, 1803. Second (and best) edition, with additions. Folio (11 1/4 x 18 3/4). Portrait, title, (iv), xxiv, 240 pages, 32 plates (some hand colored). Recent period-style half calf & marbled boards, original marbled edges. Front endpapers discolored (from glue?); portrait has marginal foxing & small dampstain; light old damp..... More

Paris, ca. 1770. 10 x 15 1/2. 17 pages of text followed by 25 engraved plates. Recent cloth. A few inconsequential spots, margins a bit toned, very good. The exotic alphabet section from the great Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers. The 25 fine plates..... More

Heavenly Monkey, 2017. 4 1/2 x 6. Title + 26 leaves+colophon, all printed (black) & calligraphed (red) on rectos only. Bound by Claudia Cohen in a non-adhesive limp vellum, gold-tooled at the edges, title calligraphed in red on the spine. The pastedowns are taken from old vellum manuscripts. Fine in..... More

Paris: Charles Panckoucke, ca. 1783. Twenty-five plates, 12 x 19 inches. Each plate is on a half sheet of paper (with deckles on 3 sides). They are mounted on hinges of the same paper, and bound sidewise (as they would have been originally) into recent black cloth titled "Oriental Alphabets."..... More

Paris: Chez l'autheur rue de bussey à la croix blance au Fauxbourg St. Germain, nd (1680s). 4 1/2 x 7. Title, (ii), 260 pages beautifully engraved throughout in imitation of a calligraphic prayer book, with lovely and numerous ornamental initials, vignettes, head- and tail-pieces, and title pages for the various..... More

Brussels, 1823. 7 x 9. Title, portrait, xii, (1), 303 hand-written pages. The wove paper is watermarked J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1822. Each page is within a pen-work architectural border (displaying great variety) with wide margins. A full page with wide ornamental borders opens each Season. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco..... More

West New York: Mark Batty, 2002. 8 x 11. 221 pages (including 150 color plates). Red cloth gilt. A separate portfolio contains six type and printing specimens created especially for this edition by Gudrun Zapf. Both in slipcase. Fine. One of 80 special copies, signed by Zapf. First major retrospective..... More