Horatius ad serenissimum galliarum delphinum. by RODELLII, PETRI - 1683

Rome: Appresso Gioacchino, e Giovanni Giuseppe Salvioni Stampatori Pontifici Vaticani, 1758. A little internal spotting, minor rubbing to binding with chipping loss to spine foot, but remarkably well preserved, slipcase similar. There are a series of small holes where clasps were attached. xxx, [ii], 598p. Printed in red and black and illustrated with 14 full-page engravings, head- and tail-pieces, and historiated initials. Bound in full contemporary calf with marbled paste-downs and ornate gauffering, a.e.g., the spine and covers with extensive gilt decoration including a tool of a bird with an olive branch and urns with flowers. Housed in full leather pull-off box lined with pattern paper and decorated with panel designs. Holy Week Offices.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Knickerbocker Press, 1894. First Edition. Octavo. A superb copy , 238pp. bound in full, rich red morocco with morocco doublures and silk in an edition of 12 specially bound by the Knickerbocker Press for the father of the author. Two letters laid in from Francis H. Saltus (author's father) to Edna M. Green. Francis Saltus Saltus (as he was known) led a gang of bohemians including his brother James and a Young James Huneker whose desire for absinthe was mixed with a devotion to the erotic and sensuous. (See Yungfrau, p. 19, Ophelia, p.31, and the Awakening, P. 230.) Laid in: From Francis H. Saltus (writing at the age 103) to Miss Greene who knew his sone though she was a member of the DAR. (1) 4 p.. ALS dated October 15, 1895. Refers to a waltz his son had composed in Paris in the earl 1870's and was performed there with him conducting an orchestra of 70 members. He notes of her many admirers but says none of can match his late son's literary and musical genius. (2). 2p.… Read More

[Marquand Editions,Tieton, Washington, 2007]. Quarto. A pristine copy of an exquisite Marquand fine hand bookbinding (this volume is the one on their website). Bound in Harmatan leather with Cockerell Marbled endsheets. It has been letterpress printed on Zerkall book and typeset in Montotype Bembo and Monotype Poliphus. The only two copies in the fine binding that have been identified are at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the Mayer Library at the Dallas Museum of Art. Each plate is hand mounted. A beautiful copy.

Paris, 1868. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. First Editions, 7 volumes published between 1868 and 1873. A complete set of what must have been one of the most impressive bibliographical publications of 19th Century France - indeed Europe. Copiously illustrated with facsimiles and colour reproductions, (many of which are fold-out and impressively large) of remarkable manuscripts and bindings throughout history. In contemporary 1/4 calf with raised bands and blue labels at one stage this set must have been particularly eye-catching but sadly time has taken its toll somewhat. In various states of condition ranging from Good/VG to Fair only. Most with substantial off-setting in places, many tissue-guards missing from the plates. Some occasional spotting and damp-staining to odd volumes but not terribly so. The bindings are overall in Fair condition with several split (and one entirely loose) backstrips and corners. This has been a working set and as well as bearing the bookplate of their original owner at… Read More

London: George G. Harrap 1961. (Hardcover) 192pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Finely bound cloth over 3 / 4 leather with rules and title in gilt and raised bands on the spine. Binding signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt and with an erotic fore-edge painting. The spine lightly faded. Binding by Sangosrki and Sutcliffe. (Fiction, Fore-Edge Painting).

Amsterdam. Henri Bordesius. 1725-1726 Mixed matching binding. Bound in full calfskin. Gilt tooled spine compartments with fleural motifs. 2 volumes with raised bands. Morocco labels. Marbled endsheets. 12mo (6.5" x 4"). An esteemed reprinting of the Le Duchat Edition ( 1711 ). Brunet 4; 1059 Illustrated with an engraved pictorial half-title page, frontis,3 folding engraved plates a folding map and various page decorations throughout. Covers and spines well rubbed. Several joints starting but all covers are firmly attatched. Several head pieces lacking. Several tiny insect holes to spine label of volume 1. Several plates lightly toned with one or two folding wrinkles. Map presents toning and marginal folding and one tear to lower quadrant.A Very Good, highly decorative eighteenth century set of this very desireable printing.Featured Sets.

Archibald Constable & Co. Westminster. London. 1897-1900. SIX VOLUMES. FIRST KATE WARREN EDITION. 8vo.(6.8 x 4.4 inches). Illustrated frontis to each volume - 3 portraits and 3 sepia photographic views (River Blackwater, County Cork, ; Ruins of Kilcolman, Spenser's home in Ireland, ; Glengarriff, County Cork.) each with a tissue guard. Each volume with an extra, decorative title page. A fine and clean set with a few of the gatherings still unopened. Finely bound, by Riviere, in early twentieth century quarter vellum with single raised bands. Green title labels, ruled and lettered in gilt. Arts and Crafts style tall flower design with stems, leaves and flower in gilt to each spine. Blue cloth on boards. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Some minor marks to the cloth on a few of the boards but the spines all clean and the gilt bright so the set looks great on the shelf. A very attractive set of vellum bindings.

J. Maisonneuve et Ch. Leclerc. Paris. 1889. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9.9 x 6.4 inches). vii, 300pp. A very good copy in a fine early leather binding of full dark green morocco. Spine with gilt ruled lines, floral design and lettering. Front board with ruled panels and floral designs, all in gilt Single gilt ruled border to the rear board and board edges. Gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Armorial bookplate of noted author of books on folklore and topography, Sir George Laurence Gomme (1853 - 1916) on the front pastedown. Some offsetting to the endpapers from the leather turn-ins. A little rubbing to the extremities and the spine faded to an attractive brown but overall still a lovely copy of this scarce work in a fine quality binding. The binding is unsigned but is certainly the work of a master bookbinder.

Boston - Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Autographed edition limited to 100 copies, this being copy 31, inscribed on the limitation page. Stated First Edition. Bound in full crushed Levant by Harcourt Bindery, Boston; spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Dentelle and marbled endpapers; sewn-in silk ribbon. Printed on mold-made white Arches paper. Designed by Moses F. Carr. Some light soiling on about a dozen pages, otherwise fine. 27 illustrations on plates (eight of them two-page spreads) and a tipped-in color frontispiece. Slipcase in ochre cloth with paper label on back side; one of the top rear corners of slipcase is bumped. 244 pages. Inscribed on the limitation page, ''[This copy is Number] 31 / and is for my friend Hal Daugherty, Jr. / Tom Lea / At El Paso del Norte / Day of San Miguel / anno Di 1964''. Hal M. Daugherty and Tom Lea were both executive officers of the El Paso Museum of Art in the early 1960s.… Read More

Chapman & hall, Limited, London and Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press American Branch. New York. - No date. circa 1910. COMPLETE SET OF WORKS. 20 volumes. 8vo (6.7 x 4.4 inches). Illustrated throughout with line engravings by various artists. A very good bright set in the publishers delux full dark green roan leather Oxford bindings. Spines with five blind ruled bands, dyed black. The compartments are ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Boards with triple blind ruled panel and floral corner pieces. Attractive green and white illustrated endpapers. Top edges gilt. Silk bookmarkers sewn into each volume. Some minor rubbing to the edges but overall an attractive set in very good condition. -- Sketches by Boz; Hard Times etc; American notes / Pictures From Italy; Old Curiosity Shop; David Copperfield; Great Expectations; Oliver Twist / Uncommercial Traveller; Barnaby Rudge; Christmas Stories; Little Dorrit; Our Mutual Friend; Nicholas Nickleby; Martin Chuzzlewit; Bleak House; Pickwick Papers;… Read More