Paris: Salet, n.d. [ca. 1959-60]. First edition. Soft cover. 90p, many ills. including a number of bindings. Bookseller catalogue with 273 entries--incunabula and other early works, illustrated books, fine bindings, etc., including history, literature, religious texts, belles lettres, etc. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default..... More

Caligari: Paolo Pisano, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 174p, many photos and line ills., several in color. Monograph on the pre-Christian grotto-crypt of the church of Santa Restituta in Caligari, Sardinia, and its excavation. Chapters on its history, some reproductions and transcriptions of documents relating to the later church, inscriptions found..... More

Paris: Prisma, 1943. First edition. Hardcover (original boards). 30p + 49 pls. followed by fold-out captions. No. 715 of 1590 copies. Ink name of previous owner, a Boston-area photographer. No d.j. (as issued?). The first book on Hippolyte Bayard, the early French photographer of the 1840s. Reproduces his portraits (including..... More

New York: Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 1997. First edition. No binding. One sheet of glossy card stock, folded to make 6 panels, 2 ills. Ca. 8 x 10 inches, folded. Announcement of an exhibition of recent gridded paintings by this abstract and color field artist. With Wilkins's text on 3..... More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1974. First edition. Hardcover (boards). 133p + 8p of photos. Lacks original glassine jacket. Presentation from art historian Carl Nordenfalk. On the surface, was there ever a less likely pair of correspondents than the plainspoken Midwestern novelist and the erudite German emigre art historian? "What..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. Macaulay, David. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 80p, many ills. by the author. Unclipped jacket (price $6.95). Jacket photo is cropped. Macaulay's pioneering first book, filled with his detailed pen-and-ink drawings that illustrate the step-by-step creation of the fictional catheral of Chutreaux--its buttresses, sculptures, stained glass..... More

Utrecht: A. Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatschappij for the International Union of Crystallography, 1965. Escher, M.C. First edition. Hardcover. 84p, 41 pls., many in color. A few light stains to front cover, two tiny spots to one inside margin. No jacket. Description and analysis of Escher's patterns--how they use classical symmetry, black-and-white symmetry..... More

London: Maggs Bros. 1914. First edition. Soft cover. 56p + many detailed plates. A wide range of 146 books. If not illustrated, most bindings are described in detail. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More

London: Maggs Bros. Summer 1932. First edition. Soft cover. 120p, a few plates. Bookseller catalogue of more than 400 annotated items handwritten by royal and noble women, actresses, novelists and dramatists, artists, women in religious orders, and others from throughout Britain and Europe, of the 16th-19th centuries. The item numbering..... More

London: Maggs Bros. Spring 1940. First edition. Soft cover. 96p + 23 ills. 264 items "written mainly on clay, papyrus, vellum and paper; but also on linen, leather, bamboo leaves, etc." Issued early in what became the year of the Battle of Britain. Second photo shows the summary table of..... More

No place (printed in San Mateo, CA): San Carlos Villagers, n.d. [1967-68]. First edition. Hardcover. 117p, several photos and line ills.  Covers are splayed due to cross-grain binding.  No jacket, as issued. . San Carlos lies between San Francisco and San Jose, in San Mateo County on the San Francisco Peninsula. ..... More

New York: Viking Press, 1996. First American edition. Hardcover. 372p + many ills. Printed on the inside of the jacket is "The Reader's Timeline" of significant dates in "6000 years of reading history." "Mangruel's erudition is awe-inspiring, and in general he writes lucidly. . . .[He] has provided a fine..... More

London: Marlborough Rare Books, n.d. [1950s-60s]. First edition. Soft cover (bumped, some handling wear). 44p, several ills. 209 items, described in detail. Opens with George Bernard Shaw's copy of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, with 6 MS leaves in Shaw's hand on the help he gave to Lawrence and other..... More