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[BLINDNESS / PHOTOGRAPHY]. Deputy M. [Georges] Scapini [SIGNED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH]

by Abbott, Berenice

1927. Very good. Original ferrotyped gelatin silver print (image size: 241 x 188 mm), signed in pencil and with the photographer's credit stamp on the reverse: "Photograph by Berenice Abbott / All Rights Reserved." Very slight curling, some very light superficial indentations visible only in raking light. Matte size: 500 x 400 mm. RARELY SEEN PARIS PORTRAIT BY BERENICE ABBOTT OF A BLIND FRENCH GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, SEATED AT HIS DESK ON WHICH APPEARS A BOOK WITH RAISED CHARACTERS... Read More

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[FRENCH RENAISSANCE BINDING BY THE CUPID'S BOW BINDER]. Theophylacti Bulgariae archiepiscopi In quatuor Prophetas enarrationes (trans. Jean Loncier)

by Theophylactus of Achrida

Paris: Jacob (Jacques) Bogard, 1549. 8vo (175 x 67 mm). [8], 112 ff., ruled in red. Collation: *8 A-O8, COMPLETE. Contemporary Paris binding by the Cupid's Bow Binder: smooth polished calf, gold-tooled (rebacked with new spine, corners and extremities refurbished, modern pastedowns and endpapers), a.e.g. Contemporary French Renaissance binding by the "Cupid's Bow Binder" who was active from 1545-1556 and was responsible for some of the finest bindings of that age. Among his great patrons were Jean Grolier, Catherine... Read More

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[AMERICANA]. MANUSCRIPT Tax Records for the Town of Quincy, Massachusetts for the year 1813

by [ADAMS, JOHN, et al.]. Assessors of the Town of Quincy

Quincy, MA, 1813. Very Good. Manuscript. 20 pp. 165 x 200 mm. Stitched as issued. At some point folded to pocket size and thus retains large fold down middle of pages, small chips and tears along edges, some age-toning, a few pages very browned. An ownership inscription on the front leaf in pencil reads "Elijah Baxter Nichols." Highly interesting Tax Roll for the town of Quincy, whose residents at that time included retired President John Adams; his son... Read More

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Thema: Faust

by Moirandat Company AG

Basel: Moirandat Company AG, 1998. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo, 32 numbered pages, illustrated throughout in black and white. Original illustrated wrappers. ¶ Scarce catalogue of a collection unified by the theme of Faust. 34 lots described and illustrated.

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[MATHEMATICS - THE FIRST WOMAN MATHEMATICIAN]. Instituzioni analitiche, ad usi della gioventù italiana

by Agnesi, Maria Gaetana

Milan: Regia-Ducal Corte, 1748. First Edition. Very good. Two vols., thick quarto. COMPLETE: [10] ff. (including title-page, dedication, letter to the reader, Imprimatur, and Table of Contents), 428 pp., [1] f. errata + 35 engraved plates (numbered 1-35); [1] f. (title), pp. 431-1020 pp., [1] f. errata, 2 folding letterpress tables, with 17 + 6 + 1 plates for a total of 59 engraved plates. Copperplate vignettes on title-pages, headpiece vignette, and two initials engraved by Marc'Antonio Del... Read More

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[ANTIQUARIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY / LIBRARY SALE CATALOGUE]. Catalogue des livres imprimes et manuscrits, de la Bibliotheque de feu Monsieur d'Aguesseau [...] Dispose par ordre des Matieres; avec une Table des Auteurs

by Aguesseau, Jean-Baptiste-Paulin (1701-1784)

Paris: Chez Gogue & Nee de La Rochelle, 1785. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (195 x 130 mm). xxxvi, 366, 80 pp. (Index). Contemporary French green glazed boards, smooth spine gilt, brown lettering piece in second compartment, headcap chipped with loss, extremities worn all round, portion of outer blank margin of title-page torn away (with loss of one letter on the verso), probably to remove a former library stamp, and aiii (touching two letters) both leaves repaired,... Read More

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[AFRICAN COLONIALISM FOR CHILDREN]. Photo Album of Belgian Children (novitiates?) posed as missionary nuns, some of whom are in blackface

by [Vernacular photo album]

Belgium, 1938. Very good. Small album (4" by 5.5"), containing 12 unnumbered black (blank) leaves, with seven (7) original photographs affixed to the leaves within paper corner mounts; each photo is captioned in MS in white ink in French in the margins. Album: contemporary "faux crocodile skin" embossed paper boards, fastened with brown cord (minor surface rubbing and wear to extremities). AN UNSETTLING AND VISCERAL EXAMPLE OF 1938 COLONIALISM AND MISSIONARY WORK INFUSED BY ADULTS INTO CHILD'S PLAY.... Read More

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The Reader Revealed

by Alcorn Brown, Sabrina, et al.

Washington DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto, 158 pages, illustrated in black and white. ¶ Through the underlinings, emendations, and other marginalia common to early modern readers, this title shows the variety of ways in which readers have related to books over the centuries. The use of books as repositories of birth records, and marginalia (scholarly, esoteric, and profane) is also examined.

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Italian Renaissance Illuminations

by Alexander, J.J.G.

New York: George Braziller, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto, 118 number pages. Illustrated in both black and white and color. ¶ 40 vibrant color plates, predominantly full page, from the most important religious and secular works of the Italian Renaissance. Images are accompanied by text exploring the figurative and symbolic nature of the illustrations and placing them in textual context.

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[RENAISSANCE BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS]. Comedia di Dante Aligieri con la nova espositione di Alessandro Vellutello

by Dante Alighieri

Venice: Francesco Marcolini for Alessandro Vellutello, 1544. First edition thus. Very good. 4to. AA-BB8 CC10 A-Z8 AB-AZ8 BC-BI8 = 442 ff., COMPLETE with integral final blank. An early issue, without the ink-stamp (textual correction) on fol. V7. Illustrations: 87 woodcuts of which 3 are full-page (these illustrate the beginning of the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso). Curious 5-hole perforation in lower blank margin of sigs. Q-T (not objectionable, and not affecting text). Upper blank gutter margins of fols. AE4-AH2... Read More

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[THE BEATLES]. "Happiness is a Warm Gun" -- COMPLETE YEAR (12 ISSUES) OF THE 1968 "AMERICAN RIFLEMAN" MAGAZINE, including the infamous May issue which was the inspiration for John Lennon's song of the same name

by [The Beatles / John Lennon / National Rifle Association of America]

Washington DC: National Rifle Association of America, 1968. Very good. Complete run of 12 issues (binder size: 315 x 230 mm), each profusely illustrated with photographs and preserved in original color-printed wrappers, stapled as issued, housed in original NRA-issued binder with working metal catches (SEE IMAGES): maroon cloth, upper cover embossed with depictions of rifles, American eagles, and the NRA logo, spine embossed with depiction of an early rifleman (upper joint splitting, some unobjectionable wear to contents, the... Read More

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[WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR, 1802]. Anacreontis Odaria ad textus Barnesiani fidem emendata

by Anacreon. Forster, Edward (editor). Forster, Lavinia Banks (illustrator)

London: B.R. Howlette / John Murray, 1813. Second edition. Good. 8vo. [2], 130 pp. Printed in Greek throughout on fine paper. Contemporary English red diced russia calf (rubbed and worn), tooled in blind, outer frame of gilt palmette rolls, all edges gilt, drab endpapers. Front endpaper waterstained; second blank leaf with paper flaw; outer margins of final pages darkened from turn-ins. With faults, and priced accordingly. THE ONLY KNOWN ILLUSTRATIONS BY MRS. LAVINIA FORSTER. Our copy bears learned... Read More

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[EROTICA / CURIOUSA / ISLAMIC LAW]. Original painting, with designs of six animals in which appear multiple orgies

by Anonymous Indian Artist / Burhan al-Shariah, Mahmud ibn Ubayd Allah

India, Early 20th century (?). Very good. Large painting on a manuscript leaf (in Arabic) from the "Sharh al-Wiqayah" by Burhan al-Shariah, Mahmud ibn Ubayd Allah (SEE BELOW), 353 x 216 mm, hinged onto plexiglas mount with clear tape so that the text of the manuscript is visible from the back; matted (matte size: 500 x 360). A remarkable erotic Indian painting of an uncommon type, which we describe as "zoomorphic erotica." The painting depicts a camel within... Read More

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[MANUSCRIPT - UNPUBLISHED GERMAN PLAY]. Der Katzenkomodie, erster Theil, oder Lottchus Todt. Historisches Trauerspiel mit Gesangen in vier Aufzugen. WITH: Der Katzenkomodie, zweiter Theil, oder Das Gluck de Ehe

by [Anonymous]

1835. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Small 4to. Manuscript on paper. [2], 53 pp. Complete. Stitched (plain paper wrappers torn and frayed along spine, with loss), edges untrimmed. Minor blemishes to the text but unsophisticated. Preserved in a protective cloth case. Highly curious and apparently unpublished German Romantic play concerning the "Death of Lottchus" (in Part 1) and his ghost (in Part 2), "The Happiness of Marriage." The action takes place in Rubeland (Saxony-Anhalt). Other performers include Flanko,... Read More

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[BINDING - PHILADELPHIA CA. 1865]. The Photograph Album

by [Anonymous]

Philadelphia: W.W. Harding, 1865. Album 5 x 6 x 2.5 in. Title-page (a little foxed, verso blank), Index to portraits (2 pp.), followed by 25 thick cards creating 50 slots; all are filled, with 47 cartes-de-visite, 2 views, and one chromolithograph (a little foxed). Bound in original blue-green roan over deeply embossed carved boards, covers and spine gilt, edges dazzlingly gilt and gauffered, each board with four porcelain beads, two working catches and clasps with luxuriously wrought mounts and... Read More

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[MEXICAN RELIGIOUS ARCHIVE OF EPHEMERA AND PRINTED BOOKS - 33 items dating from 1759-1941]

by [MEXICAN RELIGIOUS ARCHIVE]

Mexico City, 1941. Fair. Altogether 33 items (plus 14 duplicate pieces of religious ephemera). Includes 5 monographs dating from 1759-1941, various bindings, various conditions (see below). INTRIGUING "COLECCION RELIGIOSA MEXICANA" totalling 33 items (of which 5 are monographs dating from 1759, 1833, 1857, 1933, and 1941), with a goodly quantity of "unfindable" Mexican pilgrims flyers, prayer cards, etc. CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION: ¶ 1-28 (ephemera): Archive of Mexican religious broadsheets, pilgrims flyers, and prayer cards,... Read More

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[CURIOSA]. [A matching pair of strange Indian erotic paintings of exceptionally high quality]

by [Anonymous Indian Artist]

n.d. (19th or 20th century). Two illuminations on thin India paper some vertical creasing, professionally matted and framed. Ad 1 (priapus): 300 x 250 mm (frame size), 198 x 140 mm (visible), 147 x 93 mm (size of illumination). Ad 2 (she-devil): 306 x 231 mm (frame size), 205 x 140 mm (visible), 150 x 83 mm (size of illumination). Sold as a pair. TWO WEIRD EROTIC INDIAN ILLUMINATIONS, THE LIKES OF WHICH WE HAVE NEVER BEFORE ENCOUNTERED, AND... Read More

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[INDIAN PAINTING ON MANUSCRIPT LEAF: WESTERN YELLOW WAGTAIL BIRD]. Painted in gold and color, overpainted on a manuscript of Ibn Nafis "Mujiz al-Qanun

by Anonymous Indian Artist

India, 19th or 20th century. Good. Painting on manuscript leaf (ca. 270 x 160 mm), hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, matted (matte size: 367 x 250 mm, some spotting on the matte). Manuscript leaf with some damage outside painted area; a very attractive ornithological painting. A delicate Indian painting of a Western Yellow Wagtail, likely made for the tourist trade, painted on a manuscript leaf that has nothing to do with the images. The... Read More

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[INDIAN PAINTING: AN IMAGINARY "DYNASTIC" SCENE WITH IMAGINARY WRITING]. Painted in gold and color, overpainted on a partially printed leaf with manuscript annotations

by Anonymous Indian Artist

India, 19th or 20th century. Good. Painting with extensive gold, applied on a partially printed leaf with some manuscript annotations (ca. 358 x 260 mm), hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, matted (matte size: 475 x 327 mm). Minor staining to the paper, but the painting is in excellent condition. An intriguing Indian painting with extensive gilding which mimics Persian dynastic or genealogical manuscripts but was in fact written in a fake language. Likely created... Read More

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[INDIAN PAINTINGS ON MANUSCRIPT LEAVES: A BULL AND A CAMEL]. A pair of paintings in gold and color, overpainted on a manuscript of a Persian / Urdu dictionary

by Anonymous Indian Artist

India, 19th or 20th century. Good. Two paintings on manuscript leaves (ca. 300 x 220 mm), both hinged on plexiglas so that the verso is visible, both matted (matte size: 400 x 315 mm). Edges of manuscript leaves significantly worm-damaged, without loss to painting of the bull, but intruding in several places into that of the camel. Colors vibrant and gold quite bright. Very attractive paintings. Two delicate Indian paintings that were likely made for the tourist trade,... Read More

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[EROTICA / CURIOSA]. A quantity of three original paintings on recycled leaves from the same Indian Urdu manuscript

by Anonymous Indian Artist

India, 18th or 19th century (?). Very good. Three matted paintings (matte size: 323 x 266; leaf size: 215 x 145 mm; visible image: 170 x 115 mm), hinged to clear Plexiglas so that the manuscript texts on the versos are perfectly legible. Leaves with some soiling, edges slightly frayed along inner gutter margins. A remarkable assemblage of three erotic Indian paintings, all of have been executed on the same unidentified Urdu manuscript. The settings are intriguing, and... Read More

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[CHILDREN'S BOOK]. A manuscript album of colored drawings and b/w sketches of Africans, Native Americans and Aboriginal Australians

by [Anonymous Juvenile Artist]

s.l. (Germany or Austria?), s.d. (late 19th or early 20th century?). Poor. 64mo (70 x 55 mm). Homemade binding, cloth spine (loosening, front cover perished); back cover: board covered with glazed paper, present on the pastedown inside (detaching) but the glazed paper on the outside is torn away. VERY WORN (see the 44 IMAGES on our website), the back cover becoming unstable but all the leaves are attached. Preserved in a fine cloth case which is perfectly fitted... Read More

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[TWO INDIAN PAINTINGS OF PROCESSIONAL SCENES AT TWILIGHT]. Painted in color and heightened in gold

by Anonymous Indian Artist

India, 19th or 20th century. Very good. Painting with extensive gold, applied on a partially printed leaf with some manuscript annotations (ca. 354 x 164 mm), mounted on card, matted (matte size: 460 x 278 mm). Each painting has a scratch to the surface area (SEE IMAGES), overall in very good condition. In these delicately rendered Indian processional paintings are depicted no less than 43 people, three elephants, four bulls, two carriages, and two horses. Alongside a waterfront,... Read More

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[UNDERGROUND CANADIANA]. [DEGENERATE HIPPY 'ZINE]. Mrclean's (sic) - Canada's Unnatural Magazine - a Harbinger Magazine Supplement / Eat Shit (Premier Issue)

by [Anonymous Canadian Hippy Artists]

Toronto, Canada: Harbinger Magazine, 1969. First Edition. Fair. Large folio (445 x 290 mm) printed on cheap newsprint (browned and brittle, soiled along horizontal fold, a few short tears). [16] pp. of collages and texts, printed "head-over-heels" so that there are in fact two covers: "Mrclean's - A Harbinger Supplement" and "Eat Shit Magazine - Premier Issue." Preserved in a mylar L-sleeve with lig-free support board. BAFFLING AND INSCRUTABLE CANADIAN HIPPY (YIPPY?) 'ZINE. At it was printed on... Read More

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[HAND-PAINTED ART-DECO DEPICTIONS OF PEOPLE FROM EXOTIC LANDS IN ORNAMENTAL COSTUMES]. A set of four paintings on paper, matted

by [Unknown artist]

S.l.: s.n., 1980. Very good. A quantity of four paintings on paper, generally 370 x 280 mm each, hinged with cloth tape to mattes ca. 1980s (?). Some age toning, the painting of the Native American is slightly creased on the lower blank margin (SEE IMAGES). INTRIGUING COLLECTION OF FOUR STYLIZED PAINTINGS OF "EXOTIC" PEOPLES IN THE ART-DECO STYLE. The subjects are as follows: 1. African (bust) 2. Native American (full-length) 3. Persian or Mongol (full-length) 4.... Read More

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