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)

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)

Leipzig: Insel, 1914. First edition. Tall, narrow quarto (12 x 7 inches) Original publisher's black card paper wrappers, Japanese bound with black ties across spine in lattice fashion (i.e. bound as a book block with cord stitching), with superb illustrated covers. Number 88 of a Limited Edition of Only 200..... (Item #3626)

Offered here is an original folio size sheet (14 x 11 inches) on heavy coated beige paper for the cover of the Mosher Press book, The Book of Ecclesiastes. Mosher took the design from Lucien's Pissarro's decorative cover for "The Book of Ruth and Esther," published by the Eragny Press..... (Item #3367)

Amstelodami: Ex Officina Elzerviriana, ca. 1680. 16mo. Finely bound in early polished calf with concentric gilt ruled lines on both covers, spine with five raised bands and nicely gilt floral motif in five panels. 261pp. Finely engraved full page title with angels and cherubs. A.E.G. Very nice copy of an..... (Item #1983)

London: S. & J. Fuller, [1816]. First edition. ALKEN, HENRY The Beauties and Defects in the Figure of the Horse... London: S. & J. Fuller, [1816]. First edition. Original boards, rebacked. 10 x 7 inches (25 x 17 cm); engraved title, 18 hand-colored plates with accompanying text. Boards very rubbed, the..... (Item #4280)

Lyon: N. Scheuring, 1859. Superbly bound by Zaehnsdorf(signed in gilt pallet front dentelle) in Grolieresque light brown morocco, with both covers creatively sectioned in wide onlaid black strapwork and tooled in gilt, similar pattering in gilt. AEG. Near fine. (Item #4677)

Berlin: Wertheim, 1904. Large folio size. This is an original large album designed by a contemporary artist, likely Viennese, and possible Heinrich Vogeler, with full cover pictorial design featuring luxurious red leather covers, produced by Wertheim department stores and given as a gift to only longtime employees of the famous..... (Item #4513)

London, Edinburgh, Dublin: Printed by Spottiswoode and Shaw for] Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. Bell & Bradfute; Cumming and Ferguson. Green smooth buckram with dark green goatskin label on spine, gilt lettering, bund by Birdsall & Son. of Northampton. An early reprint of the edition of 1833 (Gilson D3). Bentley..... (Item #4519)

London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co., 1830. First edition. Bound in full contemporary wavy grain calf with bold gilt vine and blossom pattern on both covers and spine, beautiful crimson wavy silk endsheets. Inscribed by the author to his son, William Badnall. A fascinating and vanishingly scarce book of poetry by..... (Item #1332)

Paris: Jean Baptiste Loyson, 1659. 2 vol., Modern red roan, morocco labels (black), gilt lettering on spine. Title pages and additional engraved titles, 139 wonderful full-page engraved emblems, some signed in the plates by Isaac Briot and his daughter Marie, important French engravers, a few plates mounted as called for..... (Item #4829)

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1904. First edition. Original red cloth with pictorial cover stamped in sliver, black blue and green. Sixteen full page color plates by John R. Neil as well as many line drawings in the text throughout. 287pp. Illustrated endpapers. First edition, second binding state and..... (Item #2511)

St. Petersburg: Expeditsii Zagotovlenya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag, 1901. First edition. Square 4to. Original color pictorial card wrappers. Eight exquisite chromolithographed illustrations (two full-page) by Ivan Bilibin, decorative borders printed in brown, line illustration on last page. Neat tape spine, very good. (Item #2566)