New Arrivals

Paris: ca 1889. 11 x 9 inches. Circa 1889, Day became intrigued with the French author Balzac, and during a trip to Paris painted three watercolors while he was researching Balzac and making connections with other artists and authors. As well, he photographed these houses, and some of those original..... (Item #6249)

Large quarto (11.7 x 8 1/2 inches). Jansenist full crushed morocco binding. A stunningly beautiful manuscript on superfine and heavy vellum featuring 15 exquisite hand-illuminated and watercolor-paintings with illuminations, of the highest quality, two of which are full-page, depicting various aspects of childhood pleasure and idyllic countryside in the context..... (Item #6245)

Offered here is a wonderful crisp and clear albumen print by the firm of ND Phot, the Eglise Saint-Martin (the Abbey of Saint-Martin, in Leon, France. ND. Phot. was the "signature" used by Neurdein Freres, French photographer, active in the 1860's. 10 1/2 x 8." Fine. Scarce. (Item #6241)

Two superb albumen prints mounted to card of the mosque El Azhar in Cairo, by Jean Pascal Sebah, son of Pascal Sebah who was a photographer in Constantinople in the mid-1850's. His son Jean inherited the photography business in 1883, signing his photographs J. P. Sebah, as in these photographs..... (Item #6239)

Offered here are 12 very large (10æx14º") mounted albumen photographs of wall paintings in an elegant French salle. Most mount cards bear Marville's embossed stamp. Charles Marville, the pseudonym of Charles FranÁois Bossu (1813 - 1879), worked as an illustrator before taking up photography around 1850. He mainly photographed architecture..... (Item #6237)

Paris: Arts et MÈtiers Graphiques, 1936, 1938. First Edition. 4to. Color pictorial paper wrappers. Issue #46 (1936) and #65 (1938) of the AMG series issued by Arts et MÈtiers Graphiques featuring superb color lithography, photo and print work by Bonnard, Raynal, Dupassage, Selz, Vitrac, Noriey, Zuber and many others. Near..... (Item #6231)

Berlin: Ernst Waysmuth, ca. 1901. First Edition. Offered here are 52 folio printed leaves from the original portfolio, loose as issued, of the eventual 150 plates in the series, consisting of architectural floor plans, sketches, some full page and in color, including the color study for a house in Darmstadt..... (Item #6226)

Paris: Firmin-Didiot Freres, ca. 1880. Deuxieme Edition. Large folio, with the original publisher's (16 x 12 inches) green cloth folders with cover stamped in white, and top sections of each the four flaps with attractive ornamental printed design. Title page in red and black, and ONE HUNDRED exquisite plates in..... (Item #6224)

St. Louis: Haberly, 1943. Finely bound by Haberly in full red-brown calf with Haberly's all-over ornate and pleasing stylized gilt work which has become quite recognizable. Limited to only 48 copies. Beautifully patterned green endpapers. This copy is inscribed by Haberly in the form of a poem, on the leaf..... (Item #6222)

Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1927-1928. First Edition. Two volumes. Folio (17 x 12 inches). Extremely scarce in the Ashendene full pigskin binding which Ashendene procured W. H. Smith to expertly bind (signed on rear lower dentelle of volume two in gilt pallet: "Bound by W. H. Smith and Son," An impressive..... (Item #6220)

London: Jacob Tonson, 1683. First Edition. Bound in attractive three-quarter red-brown crushed morocco, light gray paper-covered boards. 60pp, first blank lacking as often seen. This is Dryden's reply to Hunt and Shadwell's "reflections" on the political overtones of his (Dryden's) "Duke of Guise." A nicely preserved copy with small tears..... (Item #6218)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925. First Edition Thus. Original cloth-backed gray paper covered boards, printed paper label on spine. Spare label attached at rear. A few pages roughly opened, endsheets tone, near fine. (Item #6216)

Frankfurt: Rutten & Loening, 1922. Original publishers pictorial parchment with super cover design stamped in black and gold, spine similarly detailed. 304 pp. Printed on pulp paper, pirated most likely, a German printing, with illustrated double title, twelve illustrated subtitles and illustrations as well as numerous vignettes and illustrated endpapers..... (Item #6214)