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Paris: Durand, 1862. First Edition. Very good. Together 13 vols. (from a total of 16). 8vo. Contemporary French quarter morocco over marbled boards, worn (see images), ownership stamps from various sources, various defects, the most egregious being some worming to the outside of the binding of the last volume (not affecting text or structural integrity). All the bindings are perfectly sound, and the texts are unspoiled. THIS IS THE LARGEST PUBLISHED COLLECTION OF SPANISH-AMERICAN AND PORTUGUESE-AMERICAN TREATISES, DATING FROM THE 16TH CENTURY TO THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY; AND OF THE LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTION -- STILL INDESPENSIBLE; A MASSIVE WORK IN THE STUDY OF LATIN AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY. Complete sets are virtually impossible to find in private ownership or on the market. Our set is substantially complete, containing 13 of the 16 volumes. According to Rare Book Hub, no complete set has ever appeared at auction (!) Among Latin American diplomats in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century, a debate… Read More

Paris: Pierre Didot, l'aine, 1799. First Edition. 4to., 300 x 220 mm. 2 ff., 83 pp., COMPLETE with 9 folding engraved plates (one loose, another with short tear), and with the "Projet d'arrete du département de la Seine sur les sepultures" (pp. [73]-83) which is certainly not present in all copies. Original "temporary" drab boards; extremities worn, spine perished but boards quite intact (although quite foxed, text less so). Two sewing supports almost invisibly strengthened. Uncommon in commerce: ours appears to be the only copy on the market. VISIONARY FUNERARY LANDSCAPES AND MONUMENTS, a work now very little known; it preceded the establishment of Pere Lachaise (1804) which was the earliest of the spacious landscaped-style cemeteries. There are 9 folding engraved plates of which several recall the epic neo-classicism of Ledoux and Boullee, but more restrained: these designs were created for urban planners and politicians, not for the aggrandizement of the artist. Jacques Cambry (1749-1807) was… Read More

Bethany, Virginia: Printed and Published by the Editor, 1831. First Edition. 2 volumes, 8vo (202 x 120 mm - 8" x 4.75"), contemporary Kentucky sheep, morocco spine labels. COMPLETE unbroken monthly run of the first two volumes, from Volume I, Number 1 (January 4, 1830) to Volume II, No. 12 (Dec. 5, 1831). Volume I with "Millenial Harbinger Extras" nos. 1 & 2 bound at end followed by the index; Volume II with index at end included in the pagination, followed by "Millenial Harbinger Extra" no. 3. [2], 576, 88, 4; [2], 574 (misnumbered 174), 48 pp. Textblock browned and stained, bindings worn but perfectly sound and completely unsophisticated. Rarely found complete. Our copy is distinguished by the fact that it is preserved in its first binding, which is actually SIGNED by the provincial Kentucky binder (see below), and is PRICED by an early owner who may well have been identical with one of the original Mormon pioneers (see below). In the second number of Volume II of the Millennial Harbinger, Campbell… Read More

Madrid: Antonio de Sancha, 1774. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (4 ff.), cxcviii pp. Bound in contemporary stiff vellum, evidence of two pair of ties. Text very crisp & clean. True first edition of this crucial work on bringing parity to the tradesmen in Spain, with particular emphasis in reforming the Spanish economy. Conde de Campomanes "probably influenced Spanish economic thought of his time more than any other writer" (La Force p. 156). The present work is described as: "one of the fundamental books of the Spanish Enlightenment" (Venturi, Italy and the Enlightenment. Studies in a Cosmopolitan Century, p. 274). Campomanes advocates household industry - mainly textiles - rather than large-scale industry, so that people will not have to move from small towns and farms. In order to spread the knowledge that would make such industry possible, he strongly advocates the formation of local economic societies. Campomanes analyzes the natural resources, existing industry, and available… Read More

Madrid: Antonio de Sancha, 1775. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. [24], 475, [1] pp. Binding with minor rubbing (a few insignificant wormholes) but overall in excellent condition, the text very clean and crisp. Contemporary Spanish mottled sheep, smooth spine gilt, red morocco label, early paper shelf label at foot, marbled endpapers and edges. ¶ An extraordinary work on Spanish business development through education of artisans and craftsmen. The work deals with female labor, trades, apprenticeships, as well as provisions and funds for the disabled and old aged members of the working class. It also has a chapter about Spanish foreign trade, notably with the West Indies. ¶ Albert Boime gives an insightful overview of the Spanish government at the time: "Goya's print of the 'Crockery Vendor' celebrates the Spanish government's ideal of a prosperous and proud artisan class, enunciated in Campomanes's publications of 1774-1775, 'Discurso sobre el fomento de la industria popular and Discurso… Read More

S.l.: s.n., 1835. Very good. Collection of seven Chinese gouache paintings on pith paper (sizes vary: ca. 300 x 220 mm, some blank areas in fragile pith paper cracked or with loss, not affecting gouache paintings -- SEE IMAGES), a few retaining their original blue silk border edges. Each painting is hinged onto stiff lig-free board (377 x 277 mm) utilizing existing (old) cloth hinges and very lightly tipped onto backing board using reversable adhesive; light-green vertical cloth "window" mattes, in front of which are protective mylar sheets, the entire ensemble preserved in a protective cloth case. FASCINATING COLLECTION OF SEVEN CHINESE GOUACHE PAINTINGS ON PITH PAPER OF PERUVIAN AND ARGENTINEAN "COSTUMBRISMO." Examples such as ours are not often seen on the market and due to their fragility, and are absent from many relevant museums and research libraries worldwide. Among the rarest and least studied 19th-century Cantonese export watercolors are those depicting South American costumbrisimo (or… Read More

Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo, 275 pages, illustrated in black and white. Ownership mark inside front cover. ¶ In his dedicated investigation into the early history of the book, Carlson provides insight in changing technology during the transition from fifteenth to sixteenth century and its interaction with contemporary humanist culture. Black and white illustrations throughout.

Charleston, South Carolina: Printed at the Office of the Charleston Courier, 1805. First Edition. Fair. 8vo. [3]-127, INCOMPLETE: lacking half-title, title-page (here in facsimile), and pp. 93-127 (paperstock browned throughout, p. [5] stained and a little soiled). Recent sympathetic wrappers, title written in ink on upper cover. Described in 1893 as "One of the rarest of American trials" (Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of Law Trials made by the late Edmund B. Wynn, no. 1275). Whereas our copy is significantly incomplete, we invite all haters to find another, but please be patient because no copy (complete or otherwise) has appeared at auction since 1963. McDade explains that this is "an unusual case at Goosecreek, South Carolina, in which the wife's lover murdered her husband outside the house and put the body in bed with the wife who attempted to conceal the crime. He was convicted and hanged. She, with Southern consideration for womankind, was acquitted" [but nonetheless she was… Read More

Tours: Chez Jamet Mettayer, Imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, 1594. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 33 pp. Mettayer's wodcut device on title-page with motto: "Omni praestantior arte." Sympathetically bound in the antique style: recent quarter calf over speckled boards, red morocco label; small blemish on title; four leaves (including title) with blind-stamp of the Theological Institute of Connecticut (now known as the Hartford Seminary). NB: in 1976 a collection of more than 200,000 books from the Hartford Seminary Library were sold to Emory University, including this one --> deaccessioned from Pitts Theology Library. A rare item on the Catholic League printed in Tours by the itinerant printer Jamet Mettayer, who is known to have been active in Paris (1573-1588), Blois (1589), Tours (1589-1594 where he fled during the troubles of the League), and again in Paris until ca. 1605. The text of this rare work concerns Cardinal Filippo Sega (1537-1596) and is dated 18 February 1594. ¶ Worldcat lists… Read More

Paris: Librairie Ch. Chadenat, 1898. First Edition. Together 21 catalogues in two volumes, numbered 2-22 (no. 1 "does not exist" - see below), all original wrappers bound in (mostly folded vertically in half, some chipped or a little soiled). Contemporary blue half calf over blue cloth boards (extremities rubbed but the bindings are perfectly sound), inner margins of certain catalogues are very tight. In vol. 1, the verso of the final binder's leaf bears a contemporary inscription in pencil: "Dec. 29, 1898" (presumably when the catalogues were bound). SIGNIFICANT, UNBROKEN RUN OF ORIGINAL CHADENAT "BIBLIOPHILE AMERICAIN" CATALOGUES, rare in private ownership. It is with good reason that Chadenat's name is very frequently found alongside that of Sabin in superior catalogue descriptions of Americana and European Americana, despite the fact that Chadenat's catalogues almost never come up for sale. Our set is distinguished by the fact that it contains NINE catalogues that are not in the BnF. Indeed,… Read More

Belton and Dallas, TX: Hillyer Photographers, 1889. Good. Original photograph CDV (162 x 105 mm) on Hillyer stock (extremities worn, one small tear in photograph, for which see images). Interesting Texas photograph of a young woman; on the verso in an inscription (in extremely faint pencil) "Odna M. Chappell [?], age 15." It has been impossible for us to locate biographical information about this individual. Hillyer Studio was among the foremost cabinet card photographers in Texas during the late 19th-century. H.B. Hillyer (1835-1903) is credited with making some of the earliest photographs on paper in Texas. He moved from Austin to Dallas in 1887, branching out to Belton in 1889. "Hillyer's photographs won many awards at state fairs. For many years, as official photographer for the state of Texas" (SOURCE: TSA Handbook, online). Hillyer's CDV with both Belton and Dallas studios on the imprint are uncommon. From the Dorothy Sloan Collection of Women in the West.

Ann Arbor: Published by the author, 1867. 'Forty-Fifth Edition" / "Three Hundred and Fourth Thousand. Very good. 8vo. [2], xxix, [2], 34-384 pp. Illustrated with a portrait of the author and numerous in-text woodcuts and diagrams throughout. Original publisher's morocco binding gilt extra, at the corners of both covers are medicine bottles labeled "Alternative," "Bitters," "Syrup," and "Cough," smooth spine gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed, inherent foxing and browning to text as is true in all copies. EXCELLENT COPY IN ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S GILT MOROCCO, SCARCE IN GOOD UNSOPHISTICATED CONDITION, AS HERE. "Immensely popular in the nineteenth-century, Dr. Chase's Recipes [...] went through dozens of editions and was believed to have sold over four million copies (second only to the Bible in total sales). This book was a vital reference to young Americans, particularly homesteaders, who depended upon it for information on health, diet, cooking, animal husbandry, household hints, and general how-to's.… Read More

Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Large 8vo. ix, [3], 145 pp. Bound in contemporary French half calf over comb-marbled boards, comb-marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges (minor wear along extremities; lower left corner of front cover a little scraped). ¶ Presentation copy from the author to M. Anatole Gruger ("hommage cordial de l'auteur"). This is the catalogue of the Musee du Conservatoire National de Musique, which describes an extraordinary array of musical instruments, including Paganini instruments, and is at the same time a small encyclopedia, engaging and instructive. ¶ Gustave Chouquet (1819-1886) was born in The Hague into a life of music and music criticism. In 1864, the Academy of Fine Arts awarded him the Bordin Prize for a history of music from the fourteenth century until the end of the seventeenth. In 1868, he won another award on a history of dramatic music in France from its origins. In 1870 he received the Cross of the Legion of Honor. In 1871,… Read More

Bordeaux: Imprimerie Taffard, 1972. Softcover. Very good. 16 x 24 cm. 6 pp. Original cream wrappers, stapled as issued (covers a little soiled). Scarce essay by the great Parisian bookseller Andre ("Monsieur") Jammes concerning this little-known book restorer. Loosely inserted: handwritten card from Christian Rieder dated 1974.

London: Library of Imperial History, 1976. Fine. Complete set of 38 volumes. The bindings elaborately produced in full white vellum (natural variation in the vellum color), covers decorated in 22 ct. gold with Churchill's armorial device, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, silk place markers. All original leatherette slipcases present, some with cosmetic defects (nothing structural) from having been squeezed together on the same shelves UNTOUCHED for almost fifty years, the result being small portions of adjacent slipcase covers peeled away. Some volumes (e.g. Vol. 1) are very tight in their slipcases on account of the natural vellum bindings swelling. NONE of the slipcases are bumped or split, and the bindings and the contents of every volume are in IMMACULATE CONDITION, without blemishes (of any kind), bookplates, inscriptions, or ownership stamps. FIRST COMPLETE COLLECTION OF CHURCHILL'S WRITINGS, AND THE MOST LAVISH ISSUE OF IT. All of Churchill's book length writings are included, many in new… Read More

Chicago: M.A. Donahue & Company, 1914. Very good/Fair. 8vo. [2], 247 pp. Textblock weak and age-toned as is true of all copies on account of the cheap quality of the paper. Original publisher's green cloth, decoratively stamped in black and red (worn and somewhat soiled at head and tail, but generally in bright condition, the joints quite perfect), color-printed dust-jacket (worn and soiled, significant traces of damp on back cover and spine, inside with two tape repairs). With condition problems, and priced accordingly. This is probably the only surviving example of this particular dust-jacket. While the title-page is not dated, the dust-jacket is datable to 1914 because the publisher announces that Amy Brooks "Lady Linda's Gay Friends" is "now ready." While the illustrator of the dust-jacket is not named, it is sensitively rendered in thin line and pale colors. The driver of the car (a man) is obscured by the woman in the passenger seat. Her gaze is pensive and she does not smile, reflecting… Read More

New York: The Grolier Club, 2015. First Edition. Very good. Large 4to (285 x 210 mm). 351, [1] pp. Title-page printed in red and black, frontispiece portrait of Aldus Manutius. 141 works described, each with one or more accompanying illustrations in color. Original green cloth (trifle shelf-wear), Aldine dolphin and anchor on front cover printed in gold. Edition limited to 500 copies, now scarce in commerce. The indespensable monograph which accompanied the sensational exhibition "Aldus Manutius: A Legacy More Lasting than Bronze" held at The Grolier Club 25 February - 25 April 2015. The majority of the items in the exhibit came from the private collections of G. Scott Clemons and H. George Fletcher. The preface and descriptions were written by Clemons and Fletcher (the latter wrote the essays "Jean Grolier, Aldus Manutius, and the Aldine Press" and "Jean Grolier's 1514 Aldine Virgil on Blue Paper." With an extensive bibliography and three indices. The book was designed by Jerry Kelly, who also… Read More

South Bend, Indiana. Trade card, printed on blue paper on one side. With original mailing envelope. "This remedy also purifies the blood and cleanses and renovates the entire system, curing eruptions of the skin and pimples of the face.

Paris: Librairie Rene Colas, 1933. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes (COMPLETE) bound in one. [viii] pp., 1412 cols., colonne 1412 (numeraz. continuata), 70 pp. (Table methodique) + iv pp. (Index to the Table). Bound for Martin Breslauer in contemporary German maroon half calf over maroon cloth, all original wrappers bound in (spine sunned and faded to chestnut brown), t.e.g., others untrimmed. Internally FINE. Beautiful Copy of the First Edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies (this one being No. 849). The still-indispensable, virtually comprehensive repertoire for the understanding and study of the Costume from antiquity to the 20th-century, including civil, military, and religious costume, clothing and fashion. While the work is principally European in scope, there is significant coverage given to other parts of the world. Approximately 3,121 work are meticulously described, with full collations and plate counts. The work is arranged alphabetically according to author (or if… Read More

Uppsala: Svenska Litteratursällskapet, 1946. Very good. 3 vols., large 8vo. 1 f., 37, 383 pp., 38 plates, 5 folding reproductions (fig. 13, 22, 27, 47, 83, two of them in red and black) unpaged, 87 reproductions, numbered 1-92, many full-page and some in red and black, in the text, plus 5 supplementary illustrations; 1 f., 4, 528 pp., 2 unpaged folding plates (fig. 42 & 170), 188 reproductions in the text, numbered 1-190, some full-page, a few in red and black; 1 f., 358 pp., 82 plates, 64 reproductions in the text, numbered 191-255, some full-page, several in red and black. -- Sveriges Bibliografi, 1600-Talet. 2 parts in one vol, large 8vo. 1 f., 11 pp., 1,080 cols. (without the separate title to Part II between col. 752 and 753). Together 4 vols., uniformly bound by Lindskogs in polished brown half calf, marbled sides, red and olive morocco labels (vol. 1 label chipped with loss of 1.5 x 3 cm), top edges gilt, original wrappers of all the parts bound in. Complete set, well bound by Lindskogs of… Read More