A COLLECTION OF THE SPEECHES OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS, AT THE OPENING OF EVERY SESSION, WITH THEIR ANSWERS. ALSO, THE ADDRESSES TO THE PRESIDENT, WITH HIS ANSWERS, FROM THE TIME OF HIS ELECTION: by GEORGE WASHINGTON - 1796 WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE CIRCULAR LETTER OF GENERAL WASHINGTON TO THE GOVERNORS OF THE SEVERAL STATES, AND HIS FAREWELL ORDERS, TO THE ARMIES OF AMERICA, AND THE ANSWER.

Good+ hardcover. Text in Dutch. Contemporary vellum over boards; blind stamped central strapwork lozenge on each cover; raised bands on spine; 3 engraved title pages; woodcut decorative drop-cap initials and head and tail pieces; 686 numbered woodcuts by van Sichem. The vellum is in Very Good condition with some scuffing/light soiling; small splits at cover joints, head and tail but vellum remains supple; tightly bound; generally bright and clean interior with woodcuts ranging from Good to Fine condition; one leaf (3C6) has 2 cm abraded hole that doesn't affect text on recto but slightly affects woodcut on verso; leaf 3C7 has 2 small areas of text effacement (2 cm each). The work is complete but has numerous pagination errors and some signature errors. Pagination: Title Page 1, 2-598,Title Page 2, 600-722, Title Page 3 ,723-800. Collation: A-V8 2A-2V8 3A-3H8. 8vo, 19 x 13 cm. Cf, STCN #ppn 842875999; OCLC #1008001235.

Beautifully signature-bound in publisher's raw tan linen; front board & spine decoratively lettered; decorative endpapers. Generally, a very good or better set with signature satiric & anarchistic illustrations. One of the most important illustrated radical periodicals. Artists include but are not limited to: A. Roubille, Gustave-Henri Jossot, Konrad-Wagner, Valery Muller, Hermann-Paul, Leonetto Cappiello, Jules Cheret, Juan Gris, Jules-Alexandre Grun, Jossot, Frantisek Kupka, Paul Iribe, Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Orazi, Adrien Barrere, Poulbot, H. G. Ibels, Kees van Dongen, Armand Gallo, Ricardo Flores, and many others. Being a periodical that did not shy away from less attractive topics, they covered such topics as crime, economy, leisure and travel, politics, current events, international relations, religion, health and even the Press itself. Color and black and white illustrations copiously throughout. Vol. 1, 2, and 9: front board and spine are beginning to detach but are still sturdy. 10 1/4… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. First Edition. hardcover. Fine. 9 3/8" × 6 1/8" × 1". The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master-Craftsman; by Sparling, H. Halliday. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh. 1924. First Edition. First Printing. Tall 8vo: 9 3/8" x 6 1/8" x 1" (23.8 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and paper title label. Uncut. [ix], [1], 176, [4] pp. Photogravure frontispiece portrait of Morris engraved by Emery Walker from a photograph by Sparling, with tissue guard present. Includes 16 plates and examples of types and illustrations from the Kelmscott Press. Henry Halliday Sparling (1860–1924) provides an informative history of William Morris's Press. Sparling was a former Kelmscott Press employee and as the husband of Morris's daughter, May Morris, from 1890–1898, was keenly familiar with Morris and his Press. Sparling provides a… Read More

Paris: Volontés, 1937. Fine. Volontés, Paris Décembre 1937 - Août 1939, 14x20cm, 20 numéros brochés en 20 volumes. - Edition originale de cette revue dirigée par Pierre Guégen, Eugène Jolas, Joseph Csaky et Frédéric Joliot. Nombreuses contributions dont celles de Le Corbusier, Henry Miller, Raymond Queneau, Eugène Jolas, Léonce Rosenberg, Jacques Audiberti, Jean Hélion, Armand Robin, Paul Guth, Roger Caillois, Joë Bousquet, Jean Follain, Jules Monnerot, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Pierre Klosssowski, Michel Leiris, Aimé Césaire... Le numéro 20 de la revue Volonté contient en édition originale, l'intégralité de ""Cahier d'un retour au pays natal"" d'Aimé Césaire, texte fondamental et fondateur de la ""Négritude"". Deux plats salis, sinon rare et agréable ensemble incomplet du rarissime et dernier numéro, le 21ème, imprimé en Avril 1940 et qui manque à la plupart des collections. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Volontés.… Read More

Six volumes only of this rare eight-volume set. (Vol. VIII was discontinued after only 4 issues with 12 plates.)With 352 hand-coloured engraved plates (of 360).Incomplete set of this rare handy pocket-sized edition of 18th century natural history describing many newly discovered species.Text and plates copied from accounts published by Count Buffon, George Edwards, George Shaw, James Bruce, Thomas Pennant, Maria Sybilla Merian and others. Includes the extinct dodo and sukotyro, endangered animals and birds (Siau Island tarsier, white rhinoceros, polar bear, Indian bustard, great green macaw, wild water buffalo, banded cotinga, Russian mink, African grey parrot). Also notable for the early images of plants and animals discovered in New South Wales, Australia (short-beaked echidna, kangaroo, black swan, eastern quoll, waratah, Banksia, etc.).Half contemporary calf with red and black morocco gilt spine labels, marbled boards scuffed, front board off Vol. VI. Some plates loose or trimmed, foxing and… Read More

All text in French/langue francaise. Two items: Work by Toulet with copper plate engravings by David and separate portfolio of same engravings; both items with coordinated covers with original glassine dust jackets. 1st) Salmon color paper over thin card covers, black and red titles on front cover; black titles on spine; engraved print title page; 2-color text on title page and throughout; 16 engraved plates (13 full page - incl title page, tissue-guarded; 3 half page); wove paper, presumably 'old Japan' (vieux japon) paper. 2nd) White thin card cover, red titles on front cover; 16 prints enclosed: title page engraving (without text), 12 full page and 3 half page - printed 1 per page, 1 side only, showing intaglio platemarks; tissue-guarded (2 lacking); no text apart from front cover. Item 1 (book) is limited print 225 of which 25 are on old Japan paper and 200 are on Arches; this copy is No. 2. No indication of print numbers in item 2 (portfolio). Item 1: 4to, 148 pp, see, OCLC #64762731. Item 2:… Read More

Hardcover. Original blue cloth, faded and worn; enclosed in blue cloth box. New Directions (New York, James Laughlin 1949). New (Offset) Edition. Gallup A27B. Presentation copy inscribed from Pound to a literary critic. "Mr. . . . Aug. 56 Ezra Pound." With the recipient's notes in the text. A nice copy.

No Binding. Very Good. Printed letter, signed in ink, from H. Johnson, Governor of Louisiana, to the Governor of New York (DeWitt Clinton), dated February 16th, 1826, stating that the state of Louisiana rejects Ohio's plan for the gradual emancipation of slaves. 2 pages, 8 by 10 inches. The letter reads: In compliance with the request of the Legislature of this State, I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a resolution of the said Legislature, passed at their present session, and to request that you will be pleased to lay the same before the Legislature of the State over which you preside . . . Your Excellencys Obedient servant, H. Johnson. The address leaf carries a New Orleans circular cancel with a 25 ms rate. Together with the resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened, That this legislature does not concur in certain resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of Ohio, at their session in the year one thousand… Read More

Vol I: 799p, 31 pl. [i]; Vol. II: 799p, 60 pl. Pp 594-600 tear into text without loss; Vol III: 806p, 20pl.; Vol IV. 793p, 26 pl.; Vol V: 807p, 24 pl.; Vol VI: 794p, 22 pl.; Vol VII: 797p, 38 pl. Neatsfoot oil stained pages,; Vol VIII: 800p, 18 pl.; Vol IX: 800p, 31 pl. lacking plate 260; Vol X: 788p, 22 pl.; Vol XI:814p, 19 pl. Several neatsfoot oil stained pages, plate 299 bound in Vol XII on page 78; Vol XII: 799p, 35 pl.; Vol XIII: 799p, 32 pl.Deep neatsfoot oil stains to fore edge, ; Vol XIV: 797p, 16 pl.Initial and last pages with neatsfoot oil stains ; Vol XV: 799p, 41 pl. Several pages detached but present; plates 433-434 bound in Vol XVI; Vol XVI: 799p, 12 pl.; Vol XVII: 827p, 37 pl.Several pages detached but present,; Vol XVIII: 945p, 59 pl. 486 placed at end. Despite internal oddities, a handsome set in the original sturdy calf. Sabin 22555

(4), 108, (8) pages with woodcut heraldic vignette on title and woodcut head- and tail-piece; 8 pages.Cont. calf on five raised bands, red gilt morocco label to second compartment, all others richly gilt. Sprinkled edges. 4to (255 x 188 mm). Extremeties rubbed. I. Barbier, II, 30. First edition, published a year after the promulgation, of the royal edict of August 1686. This edict, despite its title, applies to the entire kingdom. "Within a very difficult context as far as the book trade in the provinces was concerned - since the latter was being stifled by the stringent economic policies of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the famous Superintendent of Finances under Louis XIV, which also extended to control of the press and were biased in favour of the major Parisian publishers whose privileges kept on being renewed - the regulations of 1686, structured into sixty-nine articles under various headings, were the last major set of book trade regulations to be promulgated in France in the seventeenth century.… Read More