Literature from Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints

Printed under the direction of Bruce Rogers at the press of William Edwin Rudge. Limited edition to 400 copies. Description: Black paper covered boards. Sextodecimo: 17 × 11 cm; pp. [4], 23, [1]. With a colour wood engraving headpiece by Florence Wyman Ivins. Ref.: Warde: 66 Condition: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends, the printed spine label is missing. Pages are bright… Read more about this item

First edition. Limited edition, one of 60 copies printed on Hollande Van Gelder, numbered I to LX, of which this is no. XXXI. Description: Quarter navy blue morocco over marbled boards. Octavo: 23 × 15 cm; pp. 90, [1]. Illustrated with numerous decorative borders, head- and tailpieces by Gabriel Pinta. Top edge gilt. Condition: Despite light wear to the extremities, the… Read more about this item

One of the very few copies of this work. Complete with the handwritten addressed envelope. Limited edition of 111 copies, of which this is number xli. Description: Sewn as issued in original printed wrappers and original glassine jacket. Quarto: 31 × 21 cm; [14] ll. (unpaginated). Printed from 16 pt Astrée on hand-made paper, edges uncut. Enclosed: Original envelope with… Read more about this item

Second, expanded edition of Nodot's translation of Petronius' Satyricon. Description: 2 vols.. Contemporary calf, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Sextodecimo: 16 × 9 cm; [43]ll., 407pp.; [4]ll., 454pp. Each vol. with a frontispiece (repeating) and a total of 9 engraved plates. Edges speckled red. Provenance: Bookplate of L. Gratien-Le Bon, on the front pastedown of the… Read more about this item

First edition, number 261 of 750 numbered copies. Description: Paperback in glassine wraps. Duodecimo: 18.5 × 14 cm; pp. 61, untrimmed. Illustrated with 3 woodcuts by Jean Kéfalinos. Condition: Covers in good condition. Spine somewhat discoloured. Internally in very good condition.

First edition, number 266 of 785 numbered copies. Description: Paperback in glassine wraps. Octavo: 24.5 × 16 cm; pp. 122, untrimmed. Illustrated with 6 full-page woodcuts, numerous borders, initials and tailpieces by Picard le Doux. Condition: Glassine wraps slightly yellowed. Internally quite fine.

First edition, number 868 of 1100 numbered copies. Description: Paperback in glassine wraps. Duodecimo: 19.5 × 14 cm; pp. 149, [3], untrimmed. Illustrated with 6 full-page woodcuts, numerous head- and tailpieces, initials and culs-de-lampe by Gabrielle Faure, 1 etching (portrait of Georges Duhamel) and a facsimile of the handwritten preface on 2 folding plates. Condition: The binding is in very good… Read more about this item

First edition, number 467 of 585 numbered copies. Description: Paperback in glassine wraps. Octavo: 25 × 16 cm; pp. 112, untrimmed. Condition: Glassine wraps near mint with only a few minor signs of age. Internally quite fine.

The beautifully made book combines Burns poems with photos of places that inspired him (photographs by the author). The book comes in its own original box and covering paper. First Edition. Description: Publisher's cloth, decorated and titled in gilt to upper board and spine. Black endpapers. Original cardboard box. 16mo 16 × 11 cm; pp. 148. Illustrated with a lithographed… Read more about this item

First edition. With the two loosely inserted original lithographs by Francis Picabia. Limited edition, number 336, printed on wove paper, from an edition of 365. Description: Paperback, with a colour illustration by Picabia on the front cover. Quarto: 28 × 22 cm; pp. 33, [1]. 2 loosely enclosed original lithographs. Printed on wove paper. Inserted: Loose enclosed the original publisher's subscription… Read more about this item

Rare edition with 10 contemporary hand-coloured engravings. Second edition of the Latin translation of Heinrich Campes' adaptation of 'Robinson Crusoe'. Signed by the translator F.J. Goffaux. Description: Contemporary calf, sides with rolled gilt borders, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label lettered in gilt. Vigesimo-quarto: 14 × 9 cm; pp. 284, [1]. With hand-coloured frontispiece and 9 hand-coloured plates. Condition:… Read more about this item

Rare edition by Officina Bodoni with songs by Robert Burns translated into Swiss German. Limited edition, number 69 of only 100 numbered copies. Dedication copy. Description: Publisher's pigskin, double-ruled border to boards in black, gilt spine label, in original slipcase. Octavo: 20 × 13 cm; pp. 119, [2] ll. Title page with coloured woodcut vignette. Top edge gilt. Bilingual text:… Read more about this item

First edition of the famous 4-volume edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Pierre-François Basan (1723-1797) and Noël Le Mire (1724-1801), illustrated by Baquoy, Choffard, Duclos, Legrand and many others after Bocuehr, Eisen, Gravelot, Moreau, etc. "It is one of the most brilliantly illustrated of the entire century" (Cohen). Large paper issue. Description: 4 vols., contemporary marbled calf, sides ruled with triple… Read more about this item

One of a rare pre-publication copy of the elaborately produced edition of "De la terre à la lune", published by de Tartas in 1970. These "handmade" editions were given in a few copies to selected collectors and dealers to promote the printed edition. Description: Cardboard portfolio, wrapped in an original colour lithograph. Folio: 38 × 28 cm; 8 folded leaves… Read more about this item

The first translation of the 'Commentarii' into French. Description: Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink. Quarto: 25 × 20 cm; [18] ll., 623, [1], 64, [36] pp. Engraved frontispice. Condition: Binding somewhat soiled and stained, title on spine somewhat faded. Occasional paper repairs to endpapers and cracked at head and tail. Pages slightly toned, light dampstaining to first few leaves. Some pencil… Read more about this item

Voltaire's notable critique of the prevailing conditions of his time. Description: Contemporary burgundy calf, triple gilt fillet to sides, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Vigesimo-quarto: 11.5 × 6.5 cm; [3] ll., 300 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Joan of Arc, engraved by N.[icolas] Delaunay after a painting from the City Hall of Orléans. Gilt edges. Condition: Binding a bit scuffed and… Read more about this item

Vol. 2 (of 4) of the complete works of Virgil in Latin printed by Wetstein in Amsterdam. This volume contains the first 5 books of the Aeneid. Description: Contemporary full vellum, fillet border to boards in blind, enclosing flourish ornament on front and rear boards, handwritten title to spine. Quarto: 26 × 20 cm; pp. [2], 706. Title page printed… Read more about this item

A brief history of the Doves Press, the famous Doves typeface and the destruction of the punches and matrices by Cobden-Sanderson. One of 350 copies, signed by the author. Description: Bound in Morris 'Willow', purple and cream patterend paper covers. Tall octavo: 26.5 × 17 cm; pp. 23. Printed from Monotype Caslon on Sommerville laid paper. Condition: A very good clean… Read more about this item

Limited edition of Maurice de Vlaminck's autobiographical text, this being no. 133, from a total edition of 320. Description: Publisher's wrappers, titled in black. Quarto: 28.5 × 23 cm; pp. 202, [2]. With initials, ornaments and 6 original lithographs by Vlaminck. Condition: Binding in very good condition despite some minor creases. Internally quite fresh and clean, some foxing (as usual) to margins… Read more about this item

First edition of the poem with an illustration by Raymond Gid. Limited to 145 copies, of which this is no. 128. Desciption: Unbound folded sheets (as issued) in printed wrappers. Octavo: 20 × 16 cm; 16 ll.; pp. (9-28) paginated A-T. 1 drawing by Raymond Gid. Printed from different typefaces (Plantin, Gill, Bodoni, Garamond) in different sizes (16, 18, 24 pt.). Ref.:… Read more about this item