Paris: Albert Besombes, n.d. [1930s?]. First edition. Soft cover. 79p, several pls., 1 in color. Bookseller catalogue of 310 items, with many bindings. The color plate is an 18th-century mosaic binding. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Valley Cottage, NY: Aleph-Bet Books, n.d. [1984]. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 22 ills. (somewhat faintly reproduced). A wide variety of titles from this leading specialist, 258 items in all. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1928. First edition. Soft cover. 34p, a few line ills. Laid in: Anderson Galleries sale catalogue 2233 offering the "Manuscript Horae together with the only perfect copy in America of Nicolaus de Lyra's 'Postillae super Bibliam' [Strassburg, ca. 1472], the property of Professor Paul Soubeiran de..... More
Utrecht: Antiquariaat Forum, 1998. First edition. Soft cover. 197p, many ills., many in color. Bookseller's large handsome catalogue of 752 manuscripts, books, and globes relating to travels, voyages, discoveries, atlases, natural history, architecture and gardens, navigation and related fields. Fully indexed. More
Utrecht: Antiquariaat Forum, 2002. First edition. Soft cover. 463p, many ills., many in color. Bookseller's large handsome catalogue of over 500 "rare books, prints, manuscripts, drawings and a painting, ca. 1600-1850," all with detailed descriptions. The topics include "history of the book, bibliography, (occult) sciences, astronomy, travel, atlases, medicine, dentistry..... More
New York: Argosy Book Stores, n.d. [1949]. First edition. Soft cover. 38p, no ills. Dated from penciled acquisition date, "July -49-." Addressed to Massachusetts historian H. Leavitt Horton; the pencil marks and notes within are presumably his. Lists 420 items, including "[Maxim] Karolik material" as noted on the cover. Can..... More
London: B. Weinreb Architectural Books, 1975. First edition. Sewn soft cover. 319p, many ills. Catalogue of 1,979 books and other sources on furniture, interior design, murals, mosaics, ceilings, exhibitions, ceramics, metalwork, jewelry, textiles, vases, ornament, and some original drawings and watercolors. Chiefly British and European titles of the 18th-20th centuries..... More
Tunbridge Wells: P.M. Barnard, n.d. [ca. 1910-12]. First edition. Soft cover. 74p, several ills. Bookseller catalogue with 162 items, often described and documented in detail. The "facsimiles" are reproductions of woodcut illustrations. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, n.d. [1920s]. No stated edition. Soft cover. [16]p, no ills. Catalogue of publisher/printer Bernheim-Jeune's books, portfolios, and original prints for sale. All with prices; the book listings include edition details. Cezanne, Courbet, Matisse, Manet, Van Gogh, and many more late 19th- and early 20th-century masters. The books are..... More
N.p. [New York?]: Brentano's, 1949. Williams, Gluyas. First edition. Soft cover. 12p, many small ills. including author photos, book jackets, and Gluyas Williams cartoon on cover (from Father of the Bride). Advertising pamphlet for the "top current books" of June 1949 from Brentano's, "booksellers to the world." Among the featured..... More
Paris: Rodolphe Chamonal, 1997. First edition. Soft cover. 68p, many ills., some in color. In French. Handsome antiquarian bookseller's catalogue offering over 400 books on games and pastimes, plus some children's books. Includes entertainment and performing arts, gymnastics and boxing, fireworks, billiards, playing cards, chess, hunting, mountaineering, bullfighting, golf, etc...... More
Cambridge, MA: Charles B. Wood III, n.d. [1980s-90s]. First edition. Soft cover. 97p, many black-and-white ills. Bookseller's catalogue of 397 antiquarian books and other printed materials on art conservation and restoration, all described in detail. Chiefly American, British, and French. Can be sent outside the US for less than the..... More
![Item #30459 The Photograph and the Book V [Catalogue 105]; 19th Century Photographically...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30459.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973593)
Cambridge, MA: Charles B. Wood III, n.d. [2000]. First edition. Soft cover. 79p, many ills. Bookseller catalogue, continuing Wood's pioneering catalogues of books about and containing photographs. 203 entries, all scrupulously described. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Cambridge, MA: Charles Wood, n.d. [2003]. First edition. Soft cover. 83p, many photos. Offers 221 illustrated books, albums, catalogues, and technical manuals, all described in scrupulous detail. More
London: Christopher Mendez, 1977. First edition. Soft cover. 32p, ca. 76 ills. Pricelist laid in. Sale catalogue of the astonishingly detailed landscapes and animal studies by this German etcher-engraver. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate. More
Geneva: Musee de l'Athenee, 1960. Dufy; Buffet. First edition. Soft cover. [20]p, many ills., 1 in color. Exhibition announcement laid in. In French. Exhibition catalogue. Checklists of 37 works by Dufy and 37 works by Buffet, all chiefly oils. "Raoul Dufy ou le Triomphe de la Joie" by Courthion, reprinted..... More
![Item #31826 Paul Klee [3 catalogues]. Saidenberg Gallery Curt Valentin Gallery](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31826.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701124684)
New York: Curt Valentin Gallery, Saidenberg Gallery, 1953, 1955, 1963. Klee, Paul. First edition. Soft cover. Three exhibition catalogues of paintings, drawings, and prints by Klee. Variously paged and illustrated. (1) Curt Valentin Gallery, Sept. 29-Oct. 24, 1953. 52 items, many ills., unpublished excerpts from Klee's journal. (2) Saidenberg Gallery..... More
Philadelphia and New York: Rosenbach Company, n.d. [1920]. First edition. Soft cover. [10]p, no ills. Pages age browned. Published to promote Rosenbach's offering of these books. With contemporary penciling, often noting buyer and price. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate... More
New York: Ernest Dressel North, n.d. [1931]. First edition. 72p, no ills. Printed by The Southworth Press, Portland, ME. Bookseller's catalogue with short descriptions of hundreds of works. Chiefly fiction and poetry, also philosophy, history, etc., from the 1870s on. Also many earlier titles, including a 1542 Chaucer. Small; can..... More
![Item #30079 Catalogue of Famous First Editions Rare and Standard Books; [catalogue LXVII = 67]....](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30079.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1648559180)
New York: Ernest Dressel North, 1923. First edition. Paperbound. N.p. (429 items), a few plates of fine bindings. Covers soiled inside and out, creased; upper rear cover corner chipped off. Chiefly literature. The plates show bindings by Cobden-Sanderson, Sauty, Bradstreet's, Riviere and Son, and two embroidered bindings (one from the..... More
London, Marlborough: F.S. Ellis, 1933, 1934, [1938]. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated. 300: Old & Rare Books and Manuscripts, 1933. 155 items, several ills. 309: A Catalogue of Books of English Interest to 1640, Part 3, 1934. Items 251-462, a few line ills. 342: Rare Books on..... More
Boulder, CO: Four Rivers Books, n.d. [ca. 1999-2000]. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., several ills. + 22 in color including covers. Bookseller's catalogue of "fine and private press books, artists' books, Limited Editions Club books, books on books." 394 items with descriptions, chiefly British and American 20th century. Can be..... More
![Item #31014 Catalogue 571: Atlases and Maps from the 15th to 20th Century [cover title]. Francis...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31014.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1658836804)
London: Francis Edwards, 1934. First edition. Soft cover. 103p + 3 pls. (maps by Ptolemy, Ortelius, Speed). Bookseller catalogue of 1453 items: "rare atlases, old maps and charts, original manuscript maps, facsimiles of early maps, road books [including the first known such], books of geographical interest. Single sheet and decorated..... More
London: Francis Edwards, 1968. Soft cover. Cover reads: Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift and Their Times. 69p, 1 ill. on cover. 69 items. "With Selections on The Bangorian Controversy, Banking and Coinage, Dr. Dover, William Higden, London, The Duke of Marlborough, Relations with Spain, The Standing Army, Union with Scotland, etc...... More
![Item #30350 [Catalogue] 24: A Further Romance of Letters; To which is added The Cabinet d'un...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30350.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1633973561)
London: G. Michelmore & Co., n.d. [ca. 1930]. First edition. Soft cover. 264p, 386 generally long entries. Very occasional penciling. Comprises "many important Business, Political, and Literary Documents and Letters," including the Goodricke and Banks papers, early charters, a Hans Christian Andersen collection, fine bindings, illuminated manuscripts, a Luther collection..... More
