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California: Typed by Margaret Bem from Pacific Bindery Talk, 1935. BOGARDUS, D.F.. . The Hand Bound Book. By D.F. Bogardus. Chief Binder Huntington Library and Art Gallery. San Marino, California: Typed by Margaret Bem from Pacific Bindery Talk, [1935]. First and only edition. Small quarto. 124 pp, (every other page is blank). Bound by Warner Richmond in full orange cloth. Typed by Margaret Bem from Pacific Bindery Talk. Previous owner's bookplate on rear pastedown causing a bit of offsetting to rear endpaper. Spine sunned.. The book has 3 sections: "The Hand-Bound Book," "Revitalization of Old Bindings" and "Questions Answered." Very good and very unique as it appears to be one of a kind, typed in hand and with pen and pencil corrections throughout. HBS 66691. $300.

Denver: J.A. Blake & F.C. Willett, 1872. J.A. BLAKE & F. C. WILLETT. . Hand-Book of Colorado. With Maps and Illustrations. Second Year of Publication. Denver: J.A. Blake & F.C. Willett, 1872. First edition of second publication, (although no first publication has been listed on OCLC, nor at auction in last 40 years). Octavo. 136 pp. With many full page ads throughout. Original purple pebbled cloth, gilt-stamped on front cover. Front endpapers are ads as is rear paste-down. Front hinge starting, spine with small split to cloth, covers stained, extremities rubbed, very good. Contains ads of the period and maps, as well as a map with railroad connections. HBS 66658. $500.

Washington D.C.: Printed for the Author, 1908. Washington D.C.: [Printed for the Author, 1908]. Legal pamphlet examining the legal and constitutional basis for the 14th amendment. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 210 x 137 mm). 26, [6] pp. With errata in red on the back outer wrapper. Bound with staples in original printed wrappers. Wrappers printed in black on front and a red errata on back wrapper. Some minor creasing and and a tiny closed tear to wrappers. Overall very good. "While the subject herein treated has been , and is, a bone of contention between the two great political parties, and has thus to a greater or less extent been regarded as a partisan issue, the author has complied the within information from a broad standpoint of a citizen, desiring the welfare of the Country more than the welfare of any political party. To this end the author has furnished copies of within compilation to the recognized leaders of both the rest political parties that they might make such use thereof, not by… Read More

Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, 1930. First edition, one of 500 copies on handmade Vidalon Royal paper, of which this is number 218. Small folio. Original wrappers printed in black and green, glassine and publisher's green and gold slipcase. Pages unopened. Tiny chip to bottom of spine, some wear and short splits to slipcase edges. Otherwise, fine. Slocum and Cahoon A41. HBS 66327. $1,000.

London: Edm. Bollifant for Bonham and John Norton, 1597. Full Description: GERARD, John. The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London, Master in Chirurgerie. London: [Edm. Bollifant for Bonham and] John Norton, 1597. First edition. Folio. (12 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 315 x 210 mm). [20], 1392, [34 index] pp. Engraved title-page by William Rogers with woodcut arms verso. Engraved portrait of Gerard by Rogers. With more than 2,000 woodcut illustrations of plants in the text, numerous woodcut historiated initials and head- and tailpieces. Bound without the final 19 leaves (5e2-5i4) which comprise all the English indexes. The Latin indexes are present. There are numerous mispaginations, but collation is correct and complete for the text. Full 19th century mottled calf, rebacked with original spine preserved. Spine with two original red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Boards double ruled in blind. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. dentelles tooled in blind.… Read More

Hereford and London: Jakeman and Carver/ Journal of Horticulture Office, 1876. HOGG, Robert; BULL, Henry Graves. editor]. BULL, Henry Graves, [editor]. The Herefordshire Pomona,. Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of the Most Esteemed Kinds of Apples and Pears. With illustrations drawn and coloured from nature by Miss Ellis and Miss Bull. Hereford and London: Jakeman and Carver/ Journal of Horticulture Office, 1876. Full Description: HOGG, Robert & BULL, Henry Graves, [editors]. The Herefordshire Pomona. Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of the Most Esteemed Kinds of Apples and Pears. With illustrations drawn and coloured from nature by Miss Ellis and Miss Bull. Hereford and London: Jakeman and Carver/ Journal of Horticulture Office, 1876-1885. First edition. Two folio volumes (14 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches; 375 x 295 mm). With seventy-seven chromolithographic plates (including plate VXXVII bound in within the introduction) and four plain plates (including two portraits) by Alice… Read More

London: Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield.., 1648. RIVIÈRE & SON. Heperides: or, the Works both Humane & Divine. London: Printed for John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, 1648. First edition. Octavo (170 x 109 mm). [8], 398, [2], 79, [1, blank] pp. Engraved frontispiece (inserted) by William Marshall depicting a bust of Herrick on a pedestal with an eight-line Latin inscription beneath (with the small rosebuds and foliage in the background bearing a minute amount of pale contemporary coloring), dedication to the Prince of Wales, errata leaf, and the section title page for His Noble Numbers. Contemporary English blind ruled sheep, smooth spine divided by double blind rules. Light wear to corners and joints, flap repair to upper spine with a little loss, small section of upper joint cracked. Text block shaved a little close at top margin, tiny worm hole to title and dedication leaf affecting just one letter, small piece torn from bottom margin of Bb2 & 3, faint traces of dampstaining… Read More

Paris: Chez L'Auteur, 1695. BOOK OF HOURS; SENAULT, L.. First Edition of this Engraved Work [BOOK OF HOURS]. SENAULT, L., [illustrator]. Heures Nouvelles Tirées de la Sainte Ecriture. Écrites et gravées par L. Senault. Paris: Chez L Auteur 1695. First edition, second state (without dedication leaf to the Dauphine, Marie Anne Christine Victoire de Baviere, who died in 1690, and the breasts of the "impudiques sirenes" on p. 210 are not exposed). The prayer for the Dauphine is on p. 69. Octavo. [2], 1-46, 48-223, 223-260, [4, blank] pp. Engraved throughout, the text in a double rule border, with numerous lovely engraved vignettes, head- and tailpieces, initials by Senault. Early full green morocco. Boards tooled in gilt and with gilt central device. Spine elaborately stamped in gilt. With red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With some rubbing to board edges and corners. Previous owner's old ink signature on front free endpaper, date 1823. Internally very… Read More

Paris: Nicolas Du Chemin, 1570. BOOK OF HOURS. Paris: Nicolas Du Chemin, 1570]. Rare early printed Book of Hours. Two parts in one octavo volume (7 x 4 1/4 inches; 177 x 110 mm). [43], 114, [98] pp. Bound without first title-page. Printed in red and black, with engraved allegorical borders throughout. Numerous woodcut miniatures throughout the text. Section two with separate section title, with engraved vignette. Final page with engraved printer's device of griffin. We could only find two copies at libraries, one of which was also missing its title-page. Aside from this copy we could only find one other copy at auction. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. Boards and spine elaborately stamped in gilt and blind. With arabesque central devices. Professional repairs to bottom margin of leaves 91-109, 114generally only affecting the blank bottom margin, and occasionally touching the engraved border. Section two with some worming, also just along blank bottom margin, occasionally… Read More

Paris: [Par Jacques Kerver], 1561. BOOK OF HOURS. Heures de nostre dame a l'usage de Paris... Paris: Par Jacques Kerver, 1561]. Printed on vellum. Octavo (6 7/8 x 4 1/4 inches; 175 x 110 mm). With Calendar. With eight large oval illuminated miniatures in the calendar, forty-one full page miniatures, some with borders, and some without for a total of forty-nine large miniatures. And with thirty smaller miniatures in the text of saints and other holy figures. With 171 of 184 leaves. Text leaves after calendar are numbered XV- CLCCCI, and the 14 previous leaves not numbered. Of these 14 preliminary and calendar leaves, present copy is lacking A1-A5, (Title-page, next page and the months January-April). Also lacking B6 (the calendar facing the miniature for December). Text pages lacking leaves D2, I7, K7, V1, and Z6-8. Text ruled in red. Numerous illuminated one and two-line initial heightend in gold with alternating red and blue backgrounds. Miniatures are beautifully hand-colored and heightened in… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912. Full Description: [LEWIS, Sinclair]. Hike and the Aeroplane. by Tom Graham. With Illustrations in Two Colors by Arthur Hutchins. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1912. First edition, one of only 1,000 copies printed and one of only two copies surviving in dust jacket. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 187 x 128 mm). [xii], 1-275 pp. With color frontispiece and three illustrations inserted. Original light grey cloth, decoratively stamped in orange and dark blue on front board and spine, dust jacket. Jacket is chipped at spine extremities and corners, with one chip at upper front panel and upper rear panel, a tear to lower front panel. Extremities rubbed, with some light soiling. Cloth spine slightly rubbed at extremities, some light foxing to endleaves, p. 149 somewhat soiled, p. 152's upper corner is dog-eared due to publisher's improperly cut corner, slight tear to p. 243. Still, a fine copy of this incredible rarity. Housed in full morocco clamshell… Read More

Londom: John Murray, 1854. Full Description: HOOKER, Joseph Dalton. Himalayan Journals. Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. Londom: John Murray, 1854. First edition. Two octavo volumes (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 140 mm). xxvii, [1], 408, [32 ie 30 publisher's ads]; xii, 487, [1, colophon] pp. With two colored folding maps, thirteen color plates, one of which is folding, and including two frontispieces. Numerous illustrations in the text, six of which are full page but included in the pagination. Half-titles and errata slips in each volume. With publisher's 32-page catalogue dated January 1854 at end of Volume 1, but catalog is lacking one leaf (pg 13-14) and the bottom third of page 21-22. With dedication to Charles Darwin. Publisher's original full brick cloth. Boards tooled in blind with a gilt central device on front boards. Stamped in blind on back boards. Spines stamped in blind and lettered in gilt Top edges dyed brown, others… Read More

New York: Ezra Sargeant, 1809. New York: Ezra Sargeant 1809 First Edition. Octavo (9 1/8 x 6 inches; 231 x 150 mm). vi [2, advertisement], vii-xxi, 688 pp. The advertisement leaf bound between page vi and vii via a printer's error. We could find no copies at auction. Original drab boards over paper spine. Rebacked. Partially unopened. All edges uncut. A few pages opened rough, but not affecting text. Dampstain to title-page and preliminary leaves. Pages toned as expected on American paper of this era. Still overall a very good copy. "John Bristed was a British-American author and Episcopal clergyman. He is mostly remembered for his service as a rector of St. Michael's Church... During his life Bristed followed three different professions. He first studied medicine at Edinburgh and practised it for a short time; next he studied law under Joseph Chitty, editor of Blackstone's Commentaries, and was admitted to the Inner Temple; later in life he was to be a clergyman... Before leaving England John… Read More

London: Printed for Thomas Dring, 1665. STANLEY, Thomas. Claudius Aelianus His Various History. London: Printed for Thomas Dring, 1665. First edition. Octavo. 314 pp. (26 pp., The Arguments). Dedicated to Lady Newton. Modern full brown calf, gilt-stamped red morocco label on spine. Off-setting to first and last few pages. Overall, a very good copy. Claudius Aelianus (175 AD-235 AD). Roman author and teacher of rhetoric often known for his "honey-tounge." HBS 64689. $850.

Salamanca: En Casa de Juan de Canova, 1564. Full Description: THUCYDIDES. Historia De Thucydides. Que Trata des las Guerras entre los Peloponeses y Athenie[n]ses... Traduzida de lengua Griega en Castellana... por el secretario Diego Cracian. Salamanca: En Casa de Juan de Canova, 1564. First edition in Spanish. Translated from the Greek to Spanish by Diego Gracián. Small quarto in eights (11 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches; 285 x 200 mm). [8], CCX, [11] leaves. As in most copies, bound without leaf Dd1 which is presumed to be a blank. Engraved title-page and historiated initials. With a small limitation leaf inserted after title-page. Full eighteenth-century calf, rebacked with spine laid down. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Edges dyed red. Marbled endpapers. Newer flyleaves. Previous owner's armorial stamp of "Beardsley" on front fly-leaf. Some minor fraying and small tears to fore-edges of a few pages, not affecting text and occasionally neatly repaired. The… Read More

Mexico: Joseph Antonio de Hogel, 1770. LORENZANA, Francisco Antonio. Historia de Nueva-Espana. Escrita por su Conquistador Hernan Cortes aumentada con otros documentos, y notas Mexico: Joseph Antonio de Hogel, 1770. First edition of one of the seminal works on the early civilization of Mexico and its conquest. Folio (10 11/16 x 7 3/4 inches; 271 x 196 mm.). [20], xvi, 400, [18, index] pp. With frontispiece engraved by Navarro, folding map of new Spain engraved in 1769, large folding plate of the great temple of Mexico, thirty-one plates of Mexican hieroglyphics, folding map of California (by the pilot Domingo del Castillo in 1541), and a full page engraving of the ancient Mayan calendar. With errata. Contemporary vellum with brown morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Some minor staining to vellum. Spine label a bit chipped. A small professional repair to first folding map. Inner hinges cracked but firm. Some light spotting and a bit of worming throughout. Overall, a very good copy; exceptionally… Read More

Venice: Bernard Maler, Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. One of the Earliest Examples of a Venetian Woodcut Border [APPIAN OF ALEXANDRIA. Historia romana. [And:] De bellis civilibus. Venice: Bernard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt, and Peter Löslein, 1477]. First complete edition of Appian's Roman history (De bellis civilibus had been printed by Vindelinus de Spira in 1472). Two parts in one volume. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches; 286 x 206 mm.). [131] (of [132], lacks initial blank); [212] leaves. Roman type, thirty-two lines, printed marginalia. Two full-page white-vine woodcut title borders (the first use of each border), five- and nine-line white-on-black woodcut initials, all hand-colored in this copy. Ruled in red throughout, headlines supplied in red, some paragraph marks supplied in red and blue. Early ink pagination in lower margin. The lower part of c1 verso and all of c2 recto have been left blank intentionally, to correspond with a lacuna of one folio in Appian's manuscript,… Read More

Strassburg: Georg Husner, 1486. Full Description: COLUMNA, Guido de. Historia Destructionis Troiae. [Strassburg: George Husner, October 9, 1486]. Sixth edition overall and second edition printed in Strassburg. Folio in sixes (11 1/16 x 8 inches; 280 x 204 mm.). Unpaginated. Eighty-eight leaves, complete. Printed in double column, 43 lines, gothic letter, rubricated throughout in red. Early calf, rebacked to style. Spine lettered in gilt. Edges dyed red. Newer endpapers. Leaves with some minor soiling throughout. Occasional small professional repairs to tiny closed tears at bottom margin. A small wormhole to blank fore-edge margin, not affecting text. Overall a very good copy with generous margins. This prose version of the story of the Trojan War, the most popular medieval version, was based on Benoit de St. Maur's Roman de Troie. In it, Achilles and Hector became complete chivalric heroes, and Thersite a dwarf; the walls of Ilium were of marble and the palace of Priam was as splendid as any… Read More

London: R. Ackermann, 1826. sacada de los Mejores Historiadores Espanoles, y de los Manuscritos, y de las Pinturas Antiguas de los Indios... London: R. Ackermann, 1826. First edition in Spanish (originally published in Italian in 1780, and then in English in 1787). Two octavo volumes. [xxxii], 432 pp., with one fold-out map and nineteen inserted plates (two are fold-out); iv, 449, [1, "Nota"], [2, publisher's list of books in Spanish] pp., with one fold-out map and one inserted plate. Later half red morocco over contemporary marbled paper boards, spines lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to boards, small embossed ownership stamps to both title-pages, bookplates, some light soiling in text, two plates in vol. I have a small amout of neat amateur coloring. Still, a near fine set. "The first great Mexican historian who, by combining scientific method with profound critical insight and solid learning, was to present a marvelous picture of both the Aztec civilization and the accomplishments of the… Read More

London: Albion Press Prinmted: Published by James Cundee, 1805. Full Description: RAINSFORD, Marcus. An Historical Account if the Black Empire of Hayti. Comprehending a View of the Principal Transactions in the Revolution of Saint Domingo; With its Ancient and Modern State. London: Albion Press Prinmted: Published by James Cundee, 1805. First edition. Quarto (11 x 8 3/4 inches; 280 x 222 mm). xxiii, [1, errata], 467, [1, blank], [9, index], [3, advertisements] pp. Complete with eleven engraved plates including the frontispiece and a two leaf facsimile letter in French of Toussaint Louverture. In addition, there is a folding map and a folding plan. With half-title. Original drab boards, rebacked to style with original printed paper label. Uncut and partially unopened. Boards and spine rubbed and a bit soiled. Paper label is a bit rubbed but still legible. Some foxing and toning, mainly to preliminary leaves. Edges a bit darkend and brittle. Small closed tear to lower margin of plate captioned "View… Read More