Louis Herman Kinder and Fine Bookbinding in America. A Chapter in the History of the Roycroft Shop. By Richard J. Wolfe & Paul McKenna
by BIRD & BULL PRESS
Facsimiles, photographs, & plates (fourteen in color). ix, [4], 161 pp., one leaf with colophon. 8vo, orig. black morocco-backed decorated boards. Newtown, Pennsylvania: Bird & Bull Press, 1985. One of 325 numbered copies printed in Van Dijck type on Arches text. Kinder, a German-born binder, was associated with Hubbard and the Roycrofters from 1897 to 1911. He later made custom bindings for Rudge and did restoration work for Dartmouth. Very fine copy.
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A Pair on Printing. Atkyns' The Original and Growth of Printing. William Caslon and the First English Type Specimen Book. Reproduced in Facsimile with Introductions by Carey S. Bliss
by BIRD & BULL PRESS
137 pp. 8vo, orig. linen over boards, printed label on spine. North Hills: 1982. Limited to 500 copies, printed on Frankfurt paper.
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![Taikai [or] Daie 大會 [libretto for the Noh play]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/930/955/1723955930.0.l.jpg)
Taikai [or] Daie 大會 [libretto for the Noh play]
by KŌETSU UTAI BON 光悦謡本 from the Saga Press
14 pages of text & two pages forming paste-downs of varying shades of pale pink & cream gofun biki torinoko (mica-printed) paper, all printed with mica patterns, endpapers printed with mica patterns of plum flowers on branches & autumnal weeds, bound in two “quires” & sewn together. Small 4to (240 x 180 mm.), orig. pale gray semi-stiff wrappers with mica woodblock-printed designs of hydrangea leaves, orig. printed label on upper cover. [Saga, near Kyoto: about 1608 or shortly thereafter].... Read More
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American English
by PRINCE, Richard
Full-bleed color illus. throughout. Unpaginated. 8vo, glossy pictorial semi-stiff wrappers, perfect-bound, title on spine. London: Sadie Coles HQ; Köln: Walther König, 2003. Scarce Richard Prince artist’s book published in conjunction with his exhibition of the same name at Sadie Coles HQ (23 April-31 May 2003); published in an edition of 1400 copies. It opens with Prince’s essay on his book collection, “Collecting: Bring It All Back Home.” The remainder of the book consists of photographs that juxtapose the... Read More
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![Shinchō. Kōchō ruien 新雕. 皇朝類苑 [Newly Carved. Categorized Garden of Historical Facts [or] A Library of Chinese Classics by Courtly Scholars]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/273/421/1733421273.0.l.jpg)
Shinchō. Kōchō ruien 新雕. 皇朝類苑 [Newly Carved. Categorized Garden of Historical Facts [or] A Library of Chinese Classics by Courtly Scholars]
by CHOKUBAN 勅版 (IMPERIAL PRINTING)
Collected & edited by Jiang Shaoyu 江少虞. Complete in 78 parts plus table of contents, bound in 15 vols. (full collation supplied in the Hyde catalogue). Large 8vo (286 x 215 mm.), early paper wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: chokuban [privately published by the Emperor Go-Mizunoo’s order], 1621. First edition and a fine complete set of one of the very few surviving “imperial editions” printed with movable type (kokatsujiban 古活字版). There is considerable modern debate, with no definitive... Read More
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cum Regulis confectis per Patres a Tridentina Synodo delectos, auctoritate Sanctiss. D. N. Pij IIII, Pont. Max. comprobatus. Cum Appendice in Belgio, ex mandato Regiae Cathol. Maiestatis confecta
by INDEX LIBRORUM PROHIBITORUM
Woodcut printer’s device of the golden compass on title. 119 pp. Small 8vo, 18th-cent. Belgian mottled calf (head of spine a little chipped, joints rubbed), sides gilt, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece on spine (label partly flaked away). Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1570. [as usual, bound after]: PHILIP II, King of Spain. Philippi II. Regis Catholici Edictum De Librorum prohibitorum catalogo observando. Woodcut printer’s device of the golden compass on title. 8 unnumbered leaves. Antwerp: C.... Read More
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Art & Project Bulletins 1-156, September 1968-November 1989
by (ART & PROJECT)
Many illus. 84 pp. Square 4to, pictorial softcover, printed flaps. N.p.: 2011. A useful reference on the legendary Art & Project bulletins. With an important essay by Clive Phillpot (“‘Everything Just Floating’ – The Art & Project Bulletins”) and an interview with gallerist Adriaan van Ravesteijn conducted by Ton Geerts. In fine condition. Edited by Louisa Riley-Smith and designed by Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié.
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Catalogue 247: art & project: everything but the bulletins, 1968-1978
by (ART & PROJECT)
Color illus. throughout. 109, [1] p. 8vo, gray printed covers, title on spine. New York: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., 2024. Bookseller catalogue presenting a complete run of exhibition materials produced by the Art & Project gallery in between their celebrated numbered bulletins from its opening in September 1968 through 1978. As shown through these documents, the gallery proprietors Adriaan van Ravesteijn (1938-2015) and Geert van Beijeren (1933-2005) quickly pivoted from “architectural research” to the championing of... Read More
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Quadripartitium. Centiloquium cum commento Hali
by PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius
1493. Eighteen woodcut diagrams in the text, numerous woodcut initials, & a woodcut printer’s device on recto of final leaf. Rubricated throughout in red. Gothic type, 66 lines & headlines. Two columns. 2 p.l., 152 numbered leaves. Folio (310 x 210 mm.), cont. blindstamped pigskin-backed wooden boards (spine a little rubbed, some unimportant worming at front & back), orig. or early clasps & catches. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for O. Scotus, 20 Dec. 1493. Second edition, enlarged with the... Read More
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![In hoc Opere haec continentur Nova translatio primi libri Geographiae Cl. Ptolomaei: quae quidem translatio verbum: habet e verbo fideliter expressum: Joanne Vernero Nurembergen. interprete [and other texts, see below]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/447/475/1615475447.0.l.jpg)
In hoc Opere haec continentur Nova translatio primi libri Geographiae Cl. Ptolomaei: quae quidem translatio verbum: habet e verbo fideliter expressum: Joanne Vernero Nurembergen. interprete [and other texts, see below]
by PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius
1514. Numerous fine woodcut diagrams & tables in the text. 68 unnumbered leaves. Small folio, attractive antique calf (title a little dusty), panelled in gilt & blind. [Nuremberg: J. Stuchs, 1514]. First edition of a very scarce and little-known book (because of its rarity, I think), which is of great importance in the history of cartography, navigation, and astronomy. It contains, amongst much else, the first published direct translation of any part of Ptolemy’s Geography from the original... Read More
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The New York Amsterdam News
by BLACKMASS PUBLISHING
Black & white illus. [16] pp. 8vo, stapled wrappers. Jamaica, NY: [2025]. Fine, stamped on final page. ❧ “Named after Amiri Baraka’s 1966 play A Black Mass, this independent publishing venture was founded by Yusuf Hassan in 2018 with Project BlackMass, a spiral-bound publication with contributions from artists Arthur Jafa, Devin B. Johnson, Jacob Mason-Macklin, Frida Orupabo, Kwamé Sorrell, and others. Hassan and Sorrell, who continue as BlackMass’s publishers today, have produced dozens of... Read More
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Anthony Braxton and Rammellzee, Gothic Futurism the Anti Bodies
by BLACKMASS PUBLISHING
Black & white illus. [8] pp. 8vo, transparent plastic wrappers, stapled. Jamaica, NY: [2025]. Fine. Stamped on final page. ❧ “Named after Amiri Baraka’s 1966 play A Black Mass, this independent publishing venture was founded by Yusuf Hassan in 2018 with Project BlackMass, a spiral-bound publication with contributions from artists Arthur Jafa, Devin B. Johnson, Jacob Mason-Macklin, Frida Orupabo, Kwamé Sorrell, and others. Hassan and Sorrell, who continue as BlackMass’s publishers today, have produced dozens... Read More
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Anthony Braxton: Synthesis Music
by BLACKMASS PUBLISHING
Black & white diagrams. [8] pp. 8vo, transparent plastic wrappers, stapled. Jamaica, NY: [2025]. Fine. Stamped on final page. ❧ “Named after Amiri Baraka’s 1966 play A Black Mass, this independent publishing venture was founded by Yusuf Hassan in 2018 with Project BlackMass, a spiral-bound publication with contributions from artists Arthur Jafa, Devin B. Johnson, Jacob Mason-Macklin, Frida Orupabo, Kwamé Sorrell, and others. Hassan and Sorrell, who continue as BlackMass’s publishers today, have produced dozens... Read More
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malcolm x.
by BLACKMASS PUBLISHING
Black & white illus. [8] pp. 8vo, stapled wrappers. Jamaica, NY: [2025]. Fine. Stamped on lower wrapper. ❧ “Named after Amiri Baraka’s 1966 play A Black Mass, this independent publishing venture was founded by Yusuf Hassan in 2018 with Project BlackMass, a spiral-bound publication with contributions from artists Arthur Jafa, Devin B. Johnson, Jacob Mason-Macklin, Frida Orupabo, Kwamé Sorrell, and others. Hassan and Sorrell, who continue as BlackMass’s publishers today, have produced dozens of zines... Read More
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![Shi jia zhai yang xin lu 十駕齋養新錄 [Records for Nurturing New Virtues & Bringing Up New Knowledge from the Studio of “Riding for Ten Days”]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/656/562/1563562656.0.l.jpg)
Shi jia zhai yang xin lu 十駕齋養新錄 [Records for Nurturing New Virtues & Bringing Up New Knowledge from the Studio of “Riding for Ten Days”]
by QIAN, Daxin 錢大昕
with yu lu 餘錄 [further records] in the supplement. 20 & 3 juan in six vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers (lower wrapper of final vol. torn), new stitching. [China]: 1806. First edition of this collection of scholarly notes or “jottings” (biji 筆記) by one of the leading Chinese intellectuals of the 18th century, Qian Daxin (1728-1804). “The gentleman says: Learning must never stop.” Thus reads the first sentence in the ancient philosophical work Xunzi. Further on,... Read More
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![Yu zuan Chun qiu zhi jie 御纂春秋直解 [Direct Explanations to the “Spring and Autumn Annals,” Compiled by the Emperor]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/306/841/1520841306.0.l.jpg)
Yu zuan Chun qiu zhi jie 御纂春秋直解 [Direct Explanations to the “Spring and Autumn Annals,” Compiled by the Emperor]
by QIANLONG, Emperor, nominal author
Eight vols. 8vo, later wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, new stitching, heads & tails of spines covered in blue silk (a few worn). [China]: Preface dated 1758. A commentary, nominally by the Qianlong emperor (1711-99, reigned 1735-96), of the Spring and Autumn Annals, one of the Confucian classics. The commentary rejects a previously current interpretation of the Annals in favor of a reading favorable to the Manchu monarchy. The Spring and Autumn... Read More
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![Nan Song shu 南宋書 [Book of the Southern Song]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/343/843/1572843343.0.l.jpg)
Nan Song shu 南宋書 [Book of the Southern Song]
by QIAN, Shisheng 錢士升
Ten vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching. [China]: Saoye shanfang 掃葉山房, [1798]. An edition of an abridgment of the History of the Song, with additions by the author. These additions provide a certain amount of information not found in the standard histories, but Qian’s work has been criticized by some for lacking in detail (Lao, Zhonghua yeshi cidian, 315). Qian Shisheng (1575-1652), served as a compiler in the Hanlin Academy and later held... Read More
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![[Excerpted and Recorded Manchu Phrases]. Containing Ch.: Ya shu ming mu 衙署名目, Ma.: Jurgan yamun-i gebu [Titles of Government Offices]; Ch.: Gong wen cheng yu 公文成語, Ma.: Siden-i bithe icihiyara de baitalara toktoho gisun [Fixed Expressions for Use When Preparing Official Documents]; Ch.: Guan xian ming mu 官銜名目, Ma.: Hafan hergen-i gebu [Titles of Official Ranks]; & Ch.: Zhe zou cheng yu 摺奏成語, Ma.: Wesimbure bithe icihiyara de baitalara toktoho gisun [Fixed Expressions for Use When Preparing Memorials]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/332/551/1585551332.0.l.jpg)
[Excerpted and Recorded Manchu Phrases]. Containing Ch.: Ya shu ming mu 衙署名目, Ma.: Jurgan yamun-i gebu [Titles of Government Offices]; Ch.: Gong wen cheng yu 公文成語, Ma.: Siden-i bithe icihiyara de baitalara toktoho gisun [Fixed Expressions for Use When Preparing Official Documents]; Ch.: Guan xian ming mu 官銜名目, Ma.: Hafan hergen-i gebu [Titles of Official Ranks]; & Ch.: Zhe zou cheng yu 摺奏成語, Ma.: Wesimbure bithe icihiyara de baitalara toktoho gisun [Fixed Expressions for Use When Preparing Memorials]
by QING YU ZHAI CHAO 清語摘鈔
Four vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching, orig. title slips on wrappers (some a little torn). Beijing: San huai tang 三槐堂, 1889-90. First or early edition of this collection of Manchu-Chinese vocabularies with official terms. Manchu was one of the official languages of the Qing empire, and down to the fall of the Manchu dynasty in 1911, certain kinds of government records were kept either in Manchu or in bilingual Manchu-Chinese form. The government recruited... Read More
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![Xi yu ji 西域記 [Record of Things Seen & Heard in the Western Regions]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/766/046/1564046766.0.l.jpg)
Xi yu ji 西域記 [Record of Things Seen & Heard in the Western Regions]
by QISHIYI 七十一
One double-page woodcut map in the text. 56; 60 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, new stitching. [China]: Wei jing tang, Preface dated 1814. An early, variorum edition (1st ed.: 1777) of this great classic, the Xiyu wenjianlu 西域聞見錄. The Manchu official Qishiyi, in [the present work], offers a frontiersman’s view of the conquest quite different from that of the imperial center. Qishiyi, who earned his jinshi degree in 1754, served as... Read More
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![Chuja hakchŏk 朱子學的 [Ch. Zhuzi xuedi; Essence of Master Zhu’s Learning]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/713/760/1728760713.0.l.jpg)
Chuja hakchŏk 朱子學的 [Ch. Zhuzi xuedi; Essence of Master Zhu’s Learning]
by QIU, Jun 丘濬
Printed with wooden & metal movable type. 69; 87 folding leaves. Two kwŏn in two volumes. Small folio (295 x 178 mm.), orig. wrappers (wrappers a little stained), handwritten titles in black ink on upper covers, new stitching. [Korea]: [Kyosŏgwan], [before 1748]. A rare movable-type edition of a 15th-century primer on Neo-Confucian philosophy, printed in the first half of the 18th century. The Chuja hakchŏk — or in Chinese, Zhuzi xuedi — is a thematically... Read More
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![Illustrated scroll on paper, entitled “Shiki no susami” [trans.: “Four Seasons of Pleasure Seeking”]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/912/954/1112954912.0.l.jpg)
Illustrated scroll on paper, entitled “Shiki no susami” [trans.: “Four Seasons of Pleasure Seeking”]
by JOURNEY TO THE PLEASURE QUARTER
Many finely drawn illustrations in brush, ink, & colors. Scroll (285 x 9310 mm.), 23 joined sheets (some inoffensive worming, carefully repaired). Japan: copied before 1857. A finely illustrated scroll, created in the witty and refined realistic style of Yamato-e and Ukiyo-e brush work, depicting the route taken — a distance of about 4 km. — by pleasure-seekers from Ryogoku Bridge to Shin Yoshiwara, the center of prostitution in the city of Edo. By the 18th century, it... Read More
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Catalogue of the Earl of Radnor’s Collection of Pictures. By Helen Matilda, Countess of Radnor
by (RADNOR, Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl)
Four plates of floor plans of Longford Castle. 60 pp. 8vo, orig. tan printed wrappers. [London: Chiswick Press]; “To be Obtained from the Housekeeper, Longford Castle,” 1910. “Third edition, edited and revised by William Barclay Squire, F.S.A.”; this is the most complete record of the collection. Radnor (1868-1903), was a prominent Conservative politician and his mother Helen Matilda Chaplin (1846-1929) helped compile this catalogue. The collection began with the father-son pair of Sir Jacob de Bouverie, 1st Viscount... Read More
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![Dainihon meibutsu zukushi 大日本名物尽 [Specialty Products of All the Regions of Japan]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/772/452/1693452772.0.l.jpg)
Dainihon meibutsu zukushi 大日本名物尽 [Specialty Products of All the Regions of Japan]
by ŌRAIMONO 往来物
Color-printed illus. on each page. 19.5; 20.5 folding leaves. 12mo (126 x 93 mm.), orig. finely woodblock color-printed pictorial wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: mid-Edo. A splendid and beautifully preserved example of an illustrated ōraimono, a book of popular learning. “Another very substantial market, which catered to the growing need and demand for literacy, was that for the popular educational works known as ōraimono. These have had a poor survival rate and have hitherto been treated in a... Read More
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Announcement card: Tomas Rajlich (opens 15 May 1974)
by (RAJLICH, Tomas)
Printed on one side. Card. Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1974. Announcement card for Lambert’s 1974 presentation of painter Tomas Rajlich (b. 1940). Near fine.
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Exhibition postcard: Rauschenberg (opens 15 May 1975)
by (RAUSCHENBERG, Robert)
Black & white photographic illus. to recto. Pictorial postcard, mailed. Paris: Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, 1975. A mailed copy of this postcard invitation to Rauschenberg’s 1975 show in Paris with Ileana Sonnabend. The recto photograph depicts the artist’s “muse wall” in his studio where he pinned up images that he liked (with thanks to Lawrence Voytek for this information). Near fine. Mailed to the great Dutch collectors Martin & Mia Visser.
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