Recent Arrivals from Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints

This speech illustrates Morris's life, craftsmanship and politics. Second edition, following the Doves Press edition of the previous year. Description: Bound in brown paper covered boards and vellum spine. William Morris printed vertically on the spine. Octavo: 22 × 15 cm; unpaginated, pp. [36]. Printed by the Chiswick Press on Batchelor's Anvil & Hammer handmade paper. Ref.: Walsdorf 201 Condition: Light toning… Read more about this item

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

Atlas to the English edition of the report of the famous voyage around the world by La Pérouse, who - in addition to Bougainville and Cook - contributed decisively to the exploration of the Pacific region. Without the two text volumes. Description: Contemporary quarter calf with marbled paper boards. Flat spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Quarto: 44 × 28.5 cm;… Read more about this item

A nice Victorian travel book of twenty-four original watercolour drawings dated 1898–1902. Description: Original beige cloth binding, titled on front cover Ilfracombe 1898, Scotland 1901 and Wales 1902. Bookbinder's label on the front paste-down. Obl. octavo: 14 × 24 cm; pp. 24ll., [1 loosely inserted]. 24 watercolour drawings on Whatman's handmade drawing paper. Provenance: Owner's name written in pencil on the front… 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.

Two works in one volume, with the editorial notes by François Sweerts (1567-1629). 2nd edition. Description: 2 works in 1 vol. contemporary calf, spine with raised bands, decorated with single gilt fillets and red morocco label lettered in gilt. Vigesimo-quarto: 13 × 7 cm; (vol. 1): [1]ll., [15]ll., 151pp., [13]ll. (vol. 2): [16]ll., 196pp., [7]ll. With a engraved frontispiece by… Read more about this item

A beautiful historical document with personal notes taken while travelling in Egypt in 1899. Description: Publisher's brown limp boards, decorations on upper cover in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. Endpapers marbled. Octavo: 18 × 12 cm; pp. xv, 443. Illustrated throughout, 2 maps. All edges marbled. Provenance: Autograph of Dudley H. [illegible], S.S. Nitocris, Mar: 1899. Condition: Some rubbing to extremities and… Read more about this item

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 of the French translation reviewed by the Richardsons and collectors A. Rutgers and L.H. Ten Kate. Description: 3 parts in 2 vols. Contemporary marbled calf, spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments, morocco label lettered in gilt. Octavo: 19 × 12 cm; (v.1): [14] ll., 216 pp., [3] pl.; (v.2): [2] ll., 238 pp.; (v.3): [2] ll.,… 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

Second edition of the work first published in 1755. Undoubtedly one of the best general treatises on gnomonics of its time. Description: Contemporary calf, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands. Octavo: 20 × 12 cm; pp. [6], xxii, 404, [4]. Engraved frontispiece by Gazot, a printer's device on title page, 34 fold-out plates and a map of France… 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

Nollet's probably most interesting work on the cause, nature and effect of electricity. 2nd edition (1st ed. 1746) with 4 fold-out engravings and a frontispiece engraved after Blaise-Nicolas Le Sueur. Description: Contemporary mottled calf, sides ruled in black, spine richly gilt in compartments between 5 raised bands and red morocco label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Octavo: 17 × 10… Read more about this item