Original Leaf from the Kleine Print Bybel c. 1750.

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1991. 0. Hardcover. Miniature book. 20, [ii]pp. Limited to sixty copies, printed by Pall Bohne for Dawson's Book Shop. With a half-title. 2 1/2 by 1 7/8 inches/64x48mm). Quarter red calf over patterned boards by Pall Bohne. With an illustrated leaf from the 'Kleine print Bybel ofte 170 geschiedenissen des O. en N. Testaments konstig afgebeeld .' printed by Daniel Langeweg around 1750-1760. Bradley 89. Very fine copy. Very Good.

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Book number: 1875

Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Private Press/Fine Printing, Fine Bindings

Keywords: Miniature Book; Leaf Book

Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de.

Histoires Naturelles. Textes choisis. Illustrés de lithographies originales par Hans Erni.

A Lausanne: André Gonin, 1954, 0. Hardcover. Folio. [iv], 140, 1, [iii]pp. On Rives wove paper. Sheets loose as issued. Copy number XX of an edition limited to 250 copies, signed by Erni and Gonin on the justification page. Very Good.

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Book number: 2255

Catalogue: Artbooks, Illustrated Books, Private Press/Fine Printing

Caxton, William.

The Lyf of Saynt George.

New Fairfield, Conn: Bruce Rogers, 1957. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Edition limited to 300 copies. Black cloth, stamped in blind and colors and gold, with the arms of the Saint in color. Binding and book designed by Bruce Rogers. Illustrated with a large rondel of Saint George by Valenti Angelo in red and gold, and the arms of Bruce Rogers in color on the bastard title (from the Prospectus). Prospectus and order form from P. Duschnes laid in. Good.

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Book number: 410

Catalogue: First Editions, Illustrated Books, Private Press/Fine Printing

Keywords: FINE PRINTING, BRUCE ROGERS First Editions

Fiorentino, Ser Giovanni.

Die Fünfzig Novellen des Pecorone.

München: Georg Müller Verlag, 1921. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 2 volumes. I: XXXIV, 261, [i]pp.; II: XI, 307, [i]pp. Edition limited to 800 copies. Quarter vellum over boards. Colored woodcut on each upper cover. With 12 full-page woodcuts by Hans Pape. Fine. Fine.

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Book number: 1437

Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Private Press/Fine Printing

France, Anatole.

Amycus et Celestin.

New York: Museum Press, 1916. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. Edition limited to 203 copies, designed by Bryson Burroughs. In yellow wrappers, with a title label on upper cover. With two woodcuts by Timothy Cole. Good.

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Book number: 105

Catalogue: First Editions, Illustrated Books, Private Press/Fine Printing

Keywords: FRENCH L:ITERATURE, FINE PRINTING, MODERN PRESSES First Editions

George, Stefan & Karl Wolfskehl.

Deutsche Dichtung. Das Jahrhundert Goethes, hrsg. und eingeleitet von Stefan George und Karl Wolfskehl.

Berlin: Blätter für die Kunst, 1902. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 182 pages. First edition. Limited to 303 copies, three of which are on imperial Japanese paper. Printed in blue and black, with blue borders on all pages. Cloth, with title-page in different colors repeated on upper cover. Label somewhat soiled. Corners slightly bumped. Illustrated with a full-page woodcut as frontispiece, and two additional pages with arabesque designs (one in blue) by Melchior Lechter. An exquisite book. A very good copy. With a dedication inscription by Lechter: "Fuer Dr. Leo Salinger, in verehrung und dank barkeit zu weihnachten 1902. melchior Lechter." Good.

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Book number: 1435

Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Private Press/Fine Printing

Hewlett, Maurice.

A Masque of Dead Florentines.

London: J.M. Dent & Co. 1895. 0. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 51pp. First edition, second issue binding. Title-page in two colors. Original gilt-stamped white cloth, top edge unstained. The first state is bound in coarse brown cloth with black titles, the second is bound in white cloth with gilt titles. Illustrated with four plates and many smaller black & white illustrations in art nouveau style by J. D. Batten. Good.

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Book number: 1441

Catalogue: Nineteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Private Press/Fine Printing

Hubbard, Elbert & Alice.

Justinian and Theodora. A Drama Being a Chapter of History and the One Gleam of Light During the Dark Ages.

East Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters, 1906. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 109 pages. First edition. Title-page printed in orange and black. Designed by Dard Hunter. Bound in three-quarter purple crushed levant morocco over marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine. Double-spread title page, headpieces, decorative initials and colophon all designed by Dard Hunter. Near Fine.

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Book number: 1265

Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Private Press/Fine Printing, Fine Bindings

McCord, Howard.

Bone/Hueso.

Terre Haute, Indiana: Hare of the Dog Press, 2000. 0. Soft cover. Quarto. Edition limited to 80 copies; this is No. 70. Book designed by Russell McKnight and printed from digitally set Joanna types off polymer plates on Rives paper. Signed by McCord. With 32 cut linoleum block prints by Adrian Tio Diaz. In paper boards. In a slipcase. With the prospectus. New.

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Book number: 1326

Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Private Press/Fine Printing, Poetry

Molo, Walter Von.

Fugen des Seins.

Berlin: Im Eigenbrödler-Verlag, 1924. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 70, [vi] pages. Edition limited to 550 copies; this is No. 176, signed by both the author and the artist. Bouind in half red morocco by Hubel & Denck. Protective blue dustwrapper and blue slipcase. Illustrated with 8 original etchings by Willi Jaeckel. Isphording II, 131; Lang, Expressionismus 140; Sennewald 24.3; Stilijanov-Nedo 98; Wilpert-G.þ 81. Not in Rodenberg. Good.

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Book number: 869

Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Signed and/or Presentation Copies, Private Press/Fine Printing

Keywords: Artist's Books

Sterne, Laurence.

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.

San Francisco & New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1936. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. 6], [i] - [vii], [4], 136 pp. Edition limited to 1,500 copies. Hand-set in Bunyan type, designed by Eric Gill and first used in this book. In the publisher's original tan buckram with pink and blue stamped border design and fanciful initials L S on both covers, gilt title on spine. With the slipcase. Illustrated by Denis Tegetmeier. Signed by both Gill and Tegetmeier. Good.

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Book number: 942

Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Private Press/Fine Printing

Tasso, Torquato.

Ventiquattro sonetti.

[Vienna]: A. l'insegna del Santuccio, 1939. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 34, [i]pp. With motto: A[d] m[aiorum] d[ei] g[loriam] on recto of last leaf. Printed in semi-uncial characters. Designed by Victor Hammer. Type and type founding: Hammar Pindar Uncial. Gray paper over boards, black title on paper spine label, edges untrimmed, gray endpapers/pastedown, in a gray dust jacket with black title on paper spine label. With title vignette - portrait. According to Bromer's List: "Victor Hammer Collection," it is limited to 50 copies. New.

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Book number: 2580

Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Private Press/Fine Printing

Wescott, Glenway.

Natives of Rock: XX Poems 1921-22

New York: Francesco Bianco, 1925. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 20, [i]pp. First edition. One of 550 copies. Boards. Two-piece cardboard box, small piece at foot missing. Illustrated by Pamela Bianco. Good.

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Book number: 2070

Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Private Press/Fine Printing