A Drawing Book of Landscapes

1810. Philadelphia: Johnson and Warner, 1810. 4 b/w plates on one sheet, folded, 2 copies in a green cloth folder. ß AAS records 2 vols., (i.e. 2 parts?). We have two copies of one part. Extremely rare -- only two copies of this one part recorded as sold by RBH which cites Shaw & Shoemaker 19994.

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The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, M,DCCC,IV The Thirty-sixth

1804. London: B. McMillan printer to the Royal Academy, [1804]. 4to, 41, [1]pp. Disbound. Slightly dusty but very good. ß A fascinating glimpse of the famous and fashionable artists whose works were being shown at the RA.

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The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, M,DCCC,II The Thirty-fourth

1802. London: B. McMillan printer to the Royal Academy, [1802]. 4to, 41, [1]pp. Disbound. Slightly dusty but very good. ß A fascinating glimpse of the famous and fashionable artists whose works were being shown at the RA.

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The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, M,DCC,XCVIII. The Thirtieth

1798. London: J. Cooper, printer to the Royal Academy, 1798. 4to, 35, [36-44]pp. Disbound. Slightly dusty but very good. ß A fascinating glimpse of the famous and fashionable artists whose works were being shown at the RA. In this issue we find 1054 works, followed by the list of artists locating where their art was (the Council Room, the Library, etc.), then a list of the Members, and finally a List of the Exhibitors with their... Read More

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The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, M,DCCC,I. The Thirty-third

1801. London: B. McMillan printer to the Royal Academy, [1801]. 4to, 37 [1]pp. Disbound. Slightly dusty but very good. A few manuscript checkmarks from a visitor at the time. ß A fascinating glimpse of the famous and fashionable artists whose works were being shown at the RA.

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Three Egyptian Souvenir Paintings

n.p.:n.d. 12 x 15 color paintings and a map on papyrus; like new. ß A printed modern reproduction of the Oldest Map in the World According to Herodotus 450 B.C. After Bunbury, History of Ancient Geography. A hand painted reproduction of a scene from the Eighteenth Dynasty tomb of Rekhmire shows metal workers. A hand painted reproduction from a platar wall fragment, from 18th Dynasty, Reign of Akhentaten (1353 - 1335 BC).... Read More

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Zamorano Club Programs 1928- 1991

1992. Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1992. Small folio. xii, 93 pp. Clothbacked decorative boards, gilt spine. A fine copy. ß First edition, one of 200 copies printed for the 21st Joint Meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs. Designed and set by Old Mill Graphics, South Pasadena. An excellent record of the doings of the second most prestigious bibliophile Clubs in California.

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Sunday World April 26th

1896. New York: n.d. [1896]. Broadside 12 x 18 , color lithograph, text in black. Upper left corner is chipped, some small tears and foxing to outer margins; good. ß Original print, shows an artist painting a life size woman on a large canvas. LOC 2015647299.

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CM Russell's West: Photography by Sam Abell

by Abell, Sam

1987. Thomasson-Grant, 1987. Large 4to, oblong, 126 pp. Illustrated in full color throughout. Near fine with a touch of age toning. ß Contemporary photographer Sam Abell traced the steps of self-taught cowboy artist Charles Marion Russell (1864-1926). This volumes presents their images of the West side by side.

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The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments..

by [Ackermann]. Combe W.

1812. London: R. Ackermann, 1812. 2 vols, large 4to, [i-xx], [1]-330 including appendix, [6, index]; [i-iv], [1]-275, [1, blank],[4, index]pp. 83 plates in all, viz: 1 plan and 1 portrait both uncolored, 1 colored line engraving and 80 full-page aquatints. Old half red morocco, rebacked preserving original gilt-pannelled backstrip, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt, bookplates. Binding worn at extremities with small losses to marbled paper, internally very good with portrait offset onto title page, some... Read More

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William Blake. A Reading of the Shorter Poems

by Adams, Hazard

1963. Seattle: University of Washington Press, [1963]. Large 4to, xiv, 337 pp. Illustrations to title-page and fly titles after works by Blake. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Some shelf wear, dust jacket considerably worn. ß First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 780: particularly useful .

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William Blake. A Reading of the Shorter Poems

by Adams, Hazard

1963. Seattle: University of Washington Press, [1963]. Large 4to, xiv, 337 pages. Illustrations to title-page and fly titles after works by Blake. Original cloth, dust-jacket. Annotated and underlined throughout in ink by Kay Long. ß First edition. Bentley, Blake Books, 780: particularly useful .

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The Education Of Henry Adams. An Autobiography

by Adams, Henry. Chamberlain, Samuel (illustrator). Canby, Henry Seidel (introduction)

1942. [New York]: The Limited Editions Club, Printed by The Merrymount Press, Boston, 1942. 4to, xvii, 485 pp. 12 etched plates by Chamberlain. Publisher's red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, original slipcase. Slightest hit of fading to backstrip else a fine copy inside and out, slipcase sunned, paper label to slipcase with slight wear. ß Copy #1290 of 1500 numbered copies, signed by Chamberlain. Illustrated with twelve etchings by Samuel Chamberlain. Introduction by the American critic... Read More

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The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers... from The Spectator, London 1711-1712

by Addison, Joseph. Steele, Richard. Budgell, Eustace. Ross, Gordon (illustrator)

1945. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. 8vo, xxviii, 198 pp. Signed by Ross on the colophon. Padded floral patterned cloth binding, red label with gilt lettering to backstrip, red cloth slipcase. Fine copy. ß Limited edition of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator, Gordon Ross. Prefatory notes by W. M. Thackeray. Printed by Richard Ellis at The Aldus Printers in New York. Gordon Ross (1872-1946) was a Scotsman who emigrated to San Francisco in 1894,... Read More

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Truth in fiction: or, morality in masquerade. A collection of two hundred twenty five select fables of Δsop, and other authors. Done into English verse. By Edmund Arwaker, Rector of Donaghmore in Ireland, and Chaplain to His Grace The Duke of Ormond

by Aesop. Arwaker, Edmund

1708. London : printed for J. Churchill, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster-Row, 1708. 8vo, [8], xvi, 326, [2]pp. With the final advertisement leaf. Old speckled calf, upper cover rehinged, a bit worn but internally very good. ß First edition, widely held in Institutions but very scarce in commerce -- the last copy sold was in 2004 (£160). Foxon, English Verse, p.31. ESTC T84697.

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

by Agee, James and Walker Evans

1941. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. 8vo, 471 pp. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver on backstrip, in dust jacket. Dust jacket chipped at top of spine. Very good. ß First edition. Publisher s complimentary copy, with enclosure slip. One of the most important 20th-century literary and photography books, an extended essay on rural poverty with the now-iconic photos of Walker Evans. In the summer of 1936, during the Great Depression, Agee and Evans spent eight... Read More

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The Cowboy in Art. Forward by John Wayne

by Ainsworth, Ed

1968. New York & Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1968. 4to, 242 pp. Illustrated in black and white. Tan cloth boards, gilt lettering to backstrip, gilt illustration to upper cover. Very good, text block edges spotted. Illustrated unclipped dust-jacket, a little scuffed with some short tears and loss to spine and rear panel. ß "The Cowboy in Art tells the complete history of cowboy art and artists--a story as romantic and exciting as the rugged conquests... Read More

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The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside

by Akenside, Mark. Dyce, A. [ed.]

1835. London: William Pickering, 1835. 8vo., xciv, 303 pp., engraved frontisportrait, and Aldine device on the title-page. Contemporary half green calf, red marbled boards heightened in gilt, five raised bands with gilt-tooled panel decoration to backstrip, red and black morocco label strips with title information in gilt to backstrip, marbled endpapers. Joints and corners of boards have some slight rubbing, minor foxing to outer margins; otherwise very good. Bookplate of Thomas Lee Marshall to first pastedown. ... Read More

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Louisa Alcott's People

by [Alcott, Louisa May]. Becker, May Lamberton (arranged by)

1936. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. 4to, 211 pp. Illustrated with full page and inset black and white illustrations. Black cloth, inset color illustration to upper cover, gilt lettering to backstrip, illustrated endpapers. Hint of sunning to backstrip and age-toning to pages but overall very good. ß First edition. Extracts from the books of Louisa May Alcott featuring her most beloved creations, selected by May Lamberton Becker.

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The Story of a Bad Boy

by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. Brett, Harold M. (illus)

1923. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. 8vo, 279 pp. 8 color plates. Navy cloth with illustrated plate to upper board, gilt decoration and lettering to backstrip. A very good copy with light rubbing to the board corners. ß Riverside Bookshelf series. First published in 1870, Aldrich's semi-autobiographical novel follows the mischievous adventures of Tom Bailey, a young boy growing up in a fictional New England town during the mid-1800s. The book was a... Read More

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Three works on algae, inscribed by American and German botanists

by [Algae/Phycology, Inscribed]. Engler, Adolf; Klebs, Georg; Farlow, W.G., Georg; Pierce, George James, et al.

1879. Various places and publishers: 1879-20. 3 vols. ß Three works on algae published between 1879 and 1920, all inscribed by the author or from one botanist to another, the collection illustrating the collegiality of American and German botanists. 1) Engler, Adolf and Karl Prantl. Die nat¸rlichen Pflanzenfamilien - nebst ihren Gattungen und wichtigeren Arten insbesondere den Nutzpflanzen. 236 und 237 Lieferung. Conjugatae und Chlorophycceae. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Englemann, 1909. 8vo, 144 pp. Single... Read More

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Jealousy

by Allen Press. Robbe-Grillet, Alain

1971. Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1971. 4to, 115 pp. Original illustrated boards, yellow endpapers. Bookplate. A fine copy in the acetate dust-jacket. ß One of 140 copies. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings by Michele Forgeois, with text printed in several colors. A handsome presentation of the novel by French film-maker and writer Alain Robbe-Grillet, leading proponent of the Nouveau Roman, as translated into English by Robert Howard.

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Pictures from Italy: Genoa Venice Rome Naples Florence

by Allen Press. Dickens, Charles

1982. Greenbrae, CA: Allen Press, 1982. 8vo, 122 pp. With title in red and black and headings in various colors. Fine in hand-blocked Fortuny fabric over boards and original clear acetate wrapper with the original prospectus laid in. ß One of 140 copies. Printed on all-rag paper. Dickens' account of his year in Italy, 1844-1845. A classic in travel literature.

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On the Ambitious Projects of Russia in Regard to North West America, with Particular reference to New Albion & New California by an Englishman

by Allen Press. Hammond, George P. introd

1955. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1955. 8vo, 79 pp. Frontispiece map, running decorative border in red Cyrillic characters. Original gray-blue boards with white parchment back, lettered in red, in clear acetate jacket as issued. Bookplate. Spine lightly age-toned, a small split in the acetate. A very good copy with the prospectus laid in. ß Limited to 350 copies printed by the Allen Press. Magee: "Reprinted from the only recorded copy in the Bancroft... Read More

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On the Ambitious Projects of Russia... In Regards to North West America, with Particular Reference to New Albion & New California. By an Englishman

by Allen Press. Hammond, George P. introd

1955. San Francisco: Lewis and Dorothy Allen Press for The Book Club of California, 1955. 8vo, 79 pp. Frontispiece map, running decorative border in red Cyrillic characters. Original gray-blue boards with white parchment back, title in red on back, Russian characters in red on covers. As issued. ß Limited to 350 copies. Magee: "Reprinted from the only recorded copy in the Bancroft Library. The author is unknown. The book is an appeal to the British Government... Read More

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