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![4 [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)
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)
![Baskett Imprint- with Fore-edge Painting] The Book of Common Prayer... etc](/pictures/thumb/3928_1.jpg?v=1557341205)
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)
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 gitl 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)
![Bradley, Will- Scarce Whiting's Poster, 1896] Whiting's Ledger Papers](/pictures/thumb/5134_1.jpg?v=1618613522)
9 19 1/2 inches. Exquisitely Art Nouveau poster by Will Bradley, known as the "Acorns" poster, was the first Bradley lithograph poster for Whiting's. The poster pictures a kneeling woman with poppies in the foreground, within a border of oak leaves and acrons, signed BRADLEY in the printing. A wonderful..... (Item #5134)
![Jugendstil- Insel Verlag] Die Geschichte von Kagsagsuk](/pictures/thumb/3626_1.jpg?v=1557341056)
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 fasion (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)
![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)
![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)
![Victoria, Queen- Fine Petit Point of Victoria and Albert] Attending an Infant Baptism, ca. 1840](/pictures/thumb/5207_1.jpg?v=1629300006)
30.25 x 25.75 inches (76.8 x 65.4 cm), framed to 33 x 25.5 inches (83.8 x 64.8 cm). A finely executed beaded petit point of Victoria and Albert attending an infant's baptism, executed ca. 1840, just following her coronation. An outstanding and scarce survival, with only minor toning and ares..... (Item #5207)
![Victoria, Queen] Superb Large Silk Commorating the First Diamond Jubilee in Royal History](/pictures/thumb/5205_1.jpg?v=1629300006)
22 x 26.5 inches. Scarce turn-of-the-century full silk commemorative, bearing the printed image of Queen Victoria. Printed in red, light blue-green, and beige on silk. The image shows Queen Victoria with a red fan, crown and standing in a decorative dress. This marked the the first Diamond Jubilee celebration of..... (Item #5205)
![Victorian Souvenir Album] Exquisitely produced Victorian souvenir gift album & scrapbook filled...](/pictures/thumb/3434.jpg?v=1557340962)
n.p. 1792-1879. 4to. Original nineteenth century embossed and polished full calf (black), decorative borders, raised gilt bands on spine, gilt inner dentelles, red silk moirÈ endpapers, AEG. 88 leaves (unnumbered), title leaf with gilt embossed border, mounted title engraved card of an explorer holding a flag with the words: "Album."..... (Item #3434)
![Victoriana- Textile] "Fire! Fire! At Windsor Castle."](/pictures/thumb/4426_1.jpg?v=1629300003)
A wonderful period linen textile illustrated with scenes of the fire 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)
![Vienna Secession] Brigitte](/pictures/thumb/3791_1.jpg?v=1557341123)
12mo. Original publisher's limp vellum with superb Secessionist style gilt stamped covers comprising stylized flame motif, and designs surrounding lettering, illustrated endpapers with similar design motif. Leipzig., Poeschel & Trepte, ca. 1910. Exquisite Secessionist and Art Nouveau illustrations, one full-page illustratin at end, vignettes and border designs in text. 32pp..... (Item #3791)
![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)
![Allingham, William- Presentation Copy] Poems. William Allingham](/pictures/thumb/2501.jpg?v=1629299354)
London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. First edition. Presentation Copy: "To Mrs. Ferguson from W. Alllingham," on front free endpaper. Mrs. Ferguson was the wife of Samuel Ferguson, noted Irish poet and most important Ulster poet of the 19th Century. Letters from Allingham to Samuel Ferguson are well documented. Bound in..... (Item #2501)
![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)
![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 Vienese, 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)
A stunning and large framed embroidery dated 1900 bearing the inscription, "Vesta/MS/1900," and paper label on verso, "M.E.F.S." 63 cm x 21.5 cm. The composition depicts the virgin goddess of hearth, home and family, Vesta, in long flowing gown, holding the 'sacred fire' that burned at her hearth and temples..... (Item #2581)
![2 [Austen, Jane] Mansfield Park. A Novel. Jane Austen](/pictures/thumb/4518_1.jpg?v=1557341341)
Belfast & London: Printed by Simms and McIntyre; Published for W. S. Orr and Co. Amen Corner, 1846. Original publisher's plum cloth with covers blocked in blind, spine blocked in blind and with gilt lettering. With a woodcut title for "The Parlour Novelist. A Series of Works of Fiction. By..... (Item #4518)
![2 [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)
![2 [Austen, Jane] Sense and Sensibility. A Novel. Jane Austen](/pictures/thumb/4521_1.jpg?v=1557341341)
London: H.G. Clarke and Co., 1844. Two volumes bound in one. Bound in contemporary or early dark green cloth, smooth spine, lettered in gilt between gilt double fillets, glazed yellow endleaves, sprinkled edges. The first separate edition of "Sense and Sensibility" to be published after the expiration of the copyright..... (Item #4521)
![2 [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)
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