To the Lighthouse by Woolf, Virginia - 1927

EGYPT: G. Lekegian & Co., 1880. Book. Illus. by Gabriel Lekegian. Very Good. No Binding. c.1880 , Albumen print photograph by G. Lekegian of Cairo , unmounted. # 251 ( Femme dela Haule ) . A nice toned original photo by the artist , name and plate info. in the negitive . Condition : Very Good . Size: 8 x 10.

New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition with the publisher's price and the correct first issue code on the front flap. Cloth and papercovered illustrated boards. A bit of foxing to the boards, near fine in a modestly toned, very good dustwrapper with a couple of faint splash marks. Nicely Inscribed by Sendak in 1966 with a small drawing of a dog.

[Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1495. First Aldine edition, and the first complete edition of Theocritus (printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time); the first edition of HESIOD'S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; and first editions of most of the other minor works (enumerated below); and first setting of quires £I °E F and £K °E G.. Title in Greek and Roman, introduction by Aldus in Latin;, text entirely in Greek. Woodcut decorated initials and floral or strapwork headpieces, ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT IN COLORS AND GOLD IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. [140] leaves. 1 vols. Folio, (315 x 210 mm.). Bound in early 18th-century mottled calf, spine in 7 compartments with citron morocco lettering piece in one and ornamental tooling in the rest; title soiled and shaved along fore-edge, extensive neatly penned marginalia in Greek and Latin, in two different hands; gilt edges, gauffered to all-over pattern of intersecting diagonal fillets and fleurons. Bookplate of St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort… Read More

21 double-page (one with a "trick" fold-out) & four full-page color-printed woodblock illus. 17; 12; 15 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers (rubbed), orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers (not present on the first vol.), orig. stitching. [Japan]: Preface dated 1826. A remarkable and unusual shunga, which depicts a hermaphrodite (three scenes), a ménage à trois, scenes of voyeurism and masturbation, a childbirth scene, a deity with the face of a vagina, and a nun having sex with a man (two scenes). The color printing and embossing are exquisite throughout, fresh and highly detailed. The third volume begins with two extremely rare images. The first depicts a husband praying for a baby girl, while his wife prays for a male child. The following scene depicts a midwife assisting the wife, who is bearing a hermaphroditic baby. There is much to be studied in this book; we have only suggested some of the complex subjects. There is some debate regarding the… Read More

London: The Chiswick Press Ltd,, 1935 & 1937. A homage to the royal panoramas of the previous century Two splendid panoramas, created to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of George V in 1935 and the Coronation of George VI in 1937, respectively number 25 of 100 and 93 of 125 copies. Both were commissioned by J. R. Abbey, the great collector of colour plate books and of panoramas, whose reference works in the subject are still the standard in the field. "A by-product of the collector's intense interest in colour-plate books was the commissioning of two modem panoramas to illustrate the Silver Jubilee of George V and the Coronation of George VI. The panoramas of the 19th century had always attracted Major Abbey and he therefore had the happy idea of commemorating in this genre two of the State Occasions of the 1930s. The artist was Miss Mary McNiele and her medium a stencil, which was coloured by hand, no light task" (Hobson & Munby, pp. 41-2). 2 panoramas, in original wooden cylinders with title and… Read More

EGYPT: G. Lekegian & Co., 1880. Book. Illus. by Gabriel Lekegian. Very Good. No Binding. c.1880 , Albumen print photograph by G. Lekegian of Cairo , unmounted. # 251 ( Femme dela Haule ) . A nice toned original photo by the artist , name and plate info. in the negitive . Condition : Very Good . Size: 8 x 10.

New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition with the publisher's price and the correct first issue code on the front flap. Cloth and papercovered illustrated boards. A bit of foxing to the boards, near fine in a modestly toned, very good dustwrapper with a couple of faint splash marks. Nicely Inscribed by Sendak in 1966 with a small drawing of a dog.

[Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1495. First Aldine edition, and the first complete edition of Theocritus (printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time); the first edition of HESIOD'S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; and first editions of most of the other minor works (enumerated below); and first setting of quires £I °E F and £K °E G.. Title in Greek and Roman, introduction by Aldus in Latin;, text entirely in Greek. Woodcut decorated initials and floral or strapwork headpieces, ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT IN COLORS AND GOLD IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. [140] leaves. 1 vols. Folio, (315 x 210 mm.). Bound in early 18th-century mottled calf, spine in 7 compartments with citron morocco lettering piece in one and ornamental tooling in the rest; title soiled and shaved along fore-edge, extensive neatly penned marginalia in Greek and Latin, in two different hands; gilt edges, gauffered to all-over pattern of intersecting diagonal fillets and fleurons. Bookplate of St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort… Read More

21 double-page (one with a "trick" fold-out) & four full-page color-printed woodblock illus. 17; 12; 15 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers (rubbed), orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers (not present on the first vol.), orig. stitching. [Japan]: Preface dated 1826. A remarkable and unusual shunga, which depicts a hermaphrodite (three scenes), a ménage à trois, scenes of voyeurism and masturbation, a childbirth scene, a deity with the face of a vagina, and a nun having sex with a man (two scenes). The color printing and embossing are exquisite throughout, fresh and highly detailed. The third volume begins with two extremely rare images. The first depicts a husband praying for a baby girl, while his wife prays for a male child. The following scene depicts a midwife assisting the wife, who is bearing a hermaphroditic baby. There is much to be studied in this book; we have only suggested some of the complex subjects. There is some debate regarding the… Read More

London: The Chiswick Press Ltd,, 1935 & 1937. A homage to the royal panoramas of the previous century Two splendid panoramas, created to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of George V in 1935 and the Coronation of George VI in 1937, respectively number 25 of 100 and 93 of 125 copies. Both were commissioned by J. R. Abbey, the great collector of colour plate books and of panoramas, whose reference works in the subject are still the standard in the field. "A by-product of the collector's intense interest in colour-plate books was the commissioning of two modem panoramas to illustrate the Silver Jubilee of George V and the Coronation of George VI. The panoramas of the 19th century had always attracted Major Abbey and he therefore had the happy idea of commemorating in this genre two of the State Occasions of the 1930s. The artist was Miss Mary McNiele and her medium a stencil, which was coloured by hand, no light task" (Hobson & Munby, pp. 41-2). 2 panoramas, in original wooden cylinders with title and… Read More