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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: 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)
![Binding, Fine- Early 17th Century Embroidered Binding] The Psalter or Psalmes of David [bound...](/pictures/thumb/3913_1.jpg?v=1557341197)
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)
![Binding, Fine- R. W. Smith Presentation] The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ](/pictures/thumb/3198_1.jpg?v=1557340888)
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)
![Bradley, Will- Scarce Poster, Inland Poster, Fine Condition] March Issue Ready, The Inland...](/pictures/thumb/5135_2.jpg?v=1618613522)
10 x 12 1/2 inches. Stunning original lithograph poster by Will Bradley for the March issue of "The Inland Printer," Bradley's primary influence for many years, depicting a design of a woman with a windblown hat in the narrow right border, a wide border of stylized leaves to the left..... (Item #5135)
![Copeland and Day- Fine Binding: Marian Lane] This is of Aucassin and Nicolette](/pictures/thumb/2151.jpg?v=1557340774)
Boston: Copeland & Day, 1897. First edition thus. 12mo. Superb binding by Marian Lane [signed in gilt pallet rear dentelle, "Marian Lane," in full blue crushed morocco with central double gilt ruling and lettering surrounded by leaf and blossom design on both covers, gilt ruled raised bands on spine, similar..... (Item #2151)
![Juvenile- Scarce Title] Willem en Jakob eene kleine Vertelling voor Kinderen (Wiliiam and Jacob,...](/pictures/thumb/3430.jpg?v=1557340960)
Amsterdam: Hendrik Frijlink, (1828). First edition thus. Oblong 12mo. Original pages complete with blank wrappers comprising the versos of the frontispiec and the last woodcut illustration. 12pp. Nine exquisite full-page hand-colored woodcut engravings. Exceedingly scarce, PiCarta mentions the title, but no copies found. Extremely well-preserved, near fine. (Item #3430)
![Juvenile] Het Lichtbeelden-Theater](/pictures/thumb/3451.jpg?v=1557340974)
ca. 1895. (31 x 45 cm.).L Superb color pictorial paper covered thick cardboard box, two parts. Translated: "Light Sculptures Theater Edition cinema-play with the red seal denoting publisher. Ca. 1895. Complete with 10 superb colore images interchangably placed into a large hinged fold-out theater, and a weighted 'draw' for the..... (Item #3451)
![Loffler, Bertold] Festschrift zur 74. Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Arzte](/pictures/thumb/3346.jpg?v=1557340927)
Karlsbad: Gewidmet von Der Stadt Karlsbad, 1902. First edition. Very thick quarto. Light blue linen cloth with superb gitl-stampedArt Nouveau design by Bertold Loffler. Full-page color title-page, and full-page chapter frontispiece headings in black and white throughout by Loffler, a central figure in the Vienna Succession, and chief pupil of..... (Item #3346)
![Mosher Press- Original Printed Cover, Unused] The Book of Ecclesiastes](/pictures/thumb/3367.jpg?v=1557340933)
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)
![Victoriana- Textile] "Fire! Fire! At Windsor Castle."](/pictures/thumb/4426_1.jpg?v=1557341327)
A wonderful period linen textile illustrated with scenes of the fine in the Prince of Wales' Tower, 1853, and produced probably dating to the 1860's. "Fire! Fire! At Windsor Castle. Destruction of the Private Apartments of the Queen and Prince Albert," a fine linen scarf illustration measuring 15 x 20..... (Item #4426)
![Vogeler, Heinrich] An Uncut Bookplate of Ida Perutz, designed by Vogeler and Hand-Initialed](/pictures/thumb/3627_1.jpg?v=1557341056)
Superb bookplate designed by Heinrich Vogeler and initialed in the plate, as well as in pencil by Vogeler beneath the image. Printed on its large sheet (Japan Vellum) meauring 6 x 8 inches; the impressed image measures slightly smaller than 3 x 3 inches. A wonderful image, designed for Ida..... (Item #3627)
![Ainsworth, William Harrison] Saint James's: or, The Court of Queen Anne. William Harrison Ainsworth](/pictures/thumb/3041.jpg?v=1557340849)
London: John Mortimer, 1844. First edition. Three volumes. Exquisitely bound in full wavy grain morocco by Bickers & Son, gilt ruled edges and devices at corners both covers, spine elaborately gilt with two morocco labels, gilt decorated dentelles. A total of nine superb illustrations by George Cruikshank, three in each..... (Item #3041)
![Binding, Fine- Zaehnsdorf] Les Routiers au XIVe Siecle. Allut, M P](/pictures/thumb/4677_1.jpg?v=1570231395)
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)
![Arnoux, Guy- Illus] Tambours et Trompettes. Guy Arnoux](/pictures/thumb/27_1.jpg?v=1557340375)
Paris: Devambez, editeur. First edition. n.d. (ca. 1918). Huge folio (13 x 17 inches) suite of ten superbly colored full-page illustrations loose, as issued, and a full-color illustrated title page by note French illustrator Guy Arnoux. Original color pictorial folding covers with ribbon ties. Limited to 475 numbered copies (#218)..... (Item #27)
![Art Nouveau Luxury Photo Album] 1904, Wertheim Department Store. Art Nouveau](/pictures/thumb/4513_1.jpg?v=1557341339)
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)
![Austen, Jane] Mansfield Park. A Novel. Jane Austen](/pictures/thumb/4519_1.jpg?v=1557341341)
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, bound by Birdsall & Son. of Northampton. An early reprint of the edition of 1833 (Gilson D3). Bentley..... (Item #4519)
![Roycroft Press-50 Copies Only on 3/4 Levant, Hand-Illumined] The Story of a Passion. Irving...](/pictures/thumb/4729_1.jpg?v=1570231707)
East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1901. First edition thus. Bound by Roycroft in three-quarter crimson morocco with gilt ruling bordering marbled boards, ornate gilt decorated spine, marbled endpapers. 50 Copies Only, in original brown box with printed paper label. Printed on Imperial Japan Vellum (Copy #14), and hand-illumined by Lily Ess..... (Item #4729)
![Roycroft Press] The Story of a Passion. Irving Bacheller](/pictures/thumb/4645_1.jpg?v=1570231258)
East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1901. First edition thus. Publishers light blue 'cloudy' three-quarter levant, superbly gilt spine, marbled paper covered boards and endpapers. Printed in two colors on Roycroft handmade paper, with hand illumined title page and running heads by Anna Paine (signed in colophon with Roycroft monogram). In original..... (Item #4645)
![Badnall, Richard] Zelinda; A Persian Tale. Richard Badnall](/pictures/thumb/1332.jpg?v=1557340752)
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)
![Binding, Fine- Zaehnsdorf] A Heifer of the Dawn. F. W. Bain](/pictures/thumb/2000.jpg?v=1557340758)
London: James Parker and Co., 1904. First edition. Sumptuously bound by Zahensdorf in 1904, signed with gilt bookbinder's pallete on lower front dentelle: "Bound by Zaehnsdorf 1904," and further with the Zaehnsdorf "Exhibition" seal stamped into the lower portion of the rear silk pastedown. A magnificent period binding by Zaehnsdorf..... (Item #2000)
![Philosopher Press] A Strange Experiment. Laura Cooke Barker](/pictures/thumb/2953.jpg?v=1557340841)
Wausau: Van Vechten & Ellis, The Philosopher Press, 1897. First edition. 12mo. Illustrated card wrappers. Exceedingly scarce true first title of the Philosopher Press, NOT IN RANSOM. Art Nouveau-style cover design by Gardner C. Teall. Importantly inscribed on first page by co-publisher Ellis to the owner of the book, famed..... (Item #2953)
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)
![Beardsley, Aubrey] "La Dame aux Camelias," Printer's Proof. Aubrey Beardsley](/pictures/thumb/3548.jpg?v=1557341007)
4 1/2 x 7 inches. Famous lithograph image of "La Dame aux Camelias," by Aubrey Beardsley. A framed and matted original printer's proof with remnants of Heritage Gallery on verso verifying as Printer's Proof from a representative of the British Museum. As well, stated at lower right of image, "there..... (Item #3548)
![Behrens, Peter] Feste Des Lebens Und der Kunst. Peter Behrens](/pictures/thumb/3635_1.jpg?v=1557341062)
Leipzig: Eugen Diederichs, 1900. First edition. Original exquisite pictorial paper covered boards with gold spine and gold highlighted cover design of stylized flowers in two planters extending all the way up the front cover on both sides, by Behrens. A gorgeous and delicately printed book typifying Behrens' genius, printed in..... (Item #3635)
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