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No place, no publisher, no date, but ca. turn of the century (1890), and probably distributed by the various businesses advertised at the beginning and the end of the booklet. Original pictorial wrappers. A child's ABC with delicate woodcut illustrations throughout. (Item #4168)

Goteborg, Sweden: Skriv- & Ritboks-Akticbolaget, ca. 1920. A wonderful folding pocket book that opens up to 31 superb pockets, each filled with multiple little cards printed in red and black. In original green printed paper covers. A truly wonderful, unique item. Near fine. An amazing survival. (Item #4165)

Offered here is a nice octavo size gouche watercolor of classic woman looking at herself in a tambourine-shaped mirror, measuring 10 x 8 inches and executed on brown card paper, signed lower left, G. Barbier. Attractive composition with Barbier's popular flowing garment designs, delicate line and subtle coloration. Provenance: Drouot... (Item #3847)

University of Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1716. Sueprb 18th Century full black wavy grain calf with ornate gilt borders on both covers and spine. AEG. Together with The Whole Book of Psalms (as found) London, Stephen Gilbert, 1716. Printed in red and... (Item #3928)

Hannover: Druck von A. Molling, 1919. First edition. Original pictorial paper covered boards with superb cover illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. Full-page frontispiece illustration, also Beardsley. Bookseller's catalog (Hans Kaiser), Germany, printed in German. 24pp. Near fine. Scarce. (Item #4546)

London: E. Newbery, 1780. First Newbery Editioin. Very finely bound miniature Bible (1 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches; 3/4 inches thick). Bound in fine red crushed morocco with elaborate gilt flourishes, vine and cornucopia motif with central green morocco onlay in with initials JHS (i.e. Christogram) etc. in gilt on... (Item #2327)

London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1615; 1628. 24mo. Superb contemporary embroidered binding, woven with braids of silver threads patterned on both covers and spine, over embroidered oink, yellow and blue flower petals, over calf boards, with gauffered edges. Binding worn and reapplied to boards, but original and contemporary... (Item #3913)

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864. First edition. Large, thick quarto, sumptuously bound in full, black crushed morocco, gilt lettering on spine with lavish full red morocco doublures surrounded by black morocco and the two intricately adorned with flowing gilt designs. On the front doublure, in gilt, is... (Item #3198)

Privately Printed by Women Painters of Washington, Seattle, 1948. Spiral bound with cover woodblock print by Ebba Rapp. 8.25 x 9.5î, 24pp.A superb compendium of local artists with a full-sized, captioned block print on each page, totalling 13 images. The artists represented are Ebba Rapp, Frieda Portmann, Jule Kulberg, Lilian... (Item #3238)

San Francisco: The Phelan Builiding, 1913. Brown printed card wrappers with large red-brown woodcut logo on cover by John Henry Nash, stitched at spine, as issued. The first report of the Book Club of California. 22pp printed on thicker handmade paper. 350 copies printed by Taylor, Nash and Taylor. Fine. Quite scarce. (Item #3164)

4to. Paris, 1899. 4pp. Prospectus for "One Hunded Merrie and Delightsome Stories," Woodcut illustration on front, laid-in list of "Mierrie Stories," totalling 100 titles as well as four illustrations by M. Leon Lebeque (one hand-colored); together with, Prospectus for "A Spahi's Love Story," by Pierre Loti, Paris, [1907], 8vo, 4pp with order form. (Item #3160)

Hertogenbosch: H. Palier en Zoon, [ca. 1810]. Original or contemporary beige paper covered card wrappers. 62pp. 6 engravings in the text of which one has pasted-in hand-colored plate (contemporary). Somewhat loose in binding. Scarce. (Item #3305)

Franeker: G.Ypma, 1822. First edition. 12mo. Original printed card wrappers, 168pp. Various small color illustrations and two full-page hand-colored engravings. Wear, well-preserved. (Item #3290)