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Cased stipple-engraved picture, hand-colored, with cut-out figures. Image is circular and measures seven inches in diameter, within a frame that measures 12 by 14 by 3 inches. The picture shows a boy playing the pipe and drums, while activating a pair of dancing dolls on a plank of wood with... more

Price: $1,350.00

(30)ff. The famous verse from "A Apple Pie, B Bit It, C Cut It," etc. is illustrated with large calligraphic-style letters in this micro-miniature book. It is the smallest book printed in California. Printed by William Cheney for Dawson's Book Shop and bound by Bela Blau. A very fine copy... more

Price: $250.00

Two oblong octavo volumes comprising seven parts. (118); (120); (122); (122); (120); 120; (ii), 120; (iv), (124)pp. A collection of sheet music and lyrics for pianoforte gathered from a variety of composers, including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. This set features wrap-around fore-edge paintings by modern British artist Clare Brooksbank on... more

Price: $4,500.00

A near-miniature English translation of this medieval French story. Bound in full leather by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with gilt decorations on the spine, board edges, and turn-ins, and five raised bands. T.e.g. Spine and rear board faded irregularly where another book sat, edges lightly worn, and offsetting onto endpapers, otherwise... more

Price: $125.00

16mo. 16pp. Illustrated with title page vignette of the Crucifixion and seven wood engravings. A collection of seven stories from the Old and New Testaments, retold for children: Moses Viewing Canaan; Samson Carrying Away the Gates of Gaza; David and Goliath; John Baptizing Christ; Water Changed to Wine; Christ Blessing... more

Price: $175.00

Octavo. (6)ff. Manuscript alphabet book in Danish with hand-colored illustrations throughout. Written in cursive script, the book opens with lowercase and capital-letter alphabets. These are followed by tables of small, precise, colored drawings of items beginning with each letter of the alphabet, accompanied by descriptions of the items. Other pages... more

Price: $1,250.00

12mo. 282ff. Bound by Edwards of Halifax in full vellum with a gilt pentaglyph and metope roll border on a blue wash background. Both covers ornamented with gilt wavy broken line and sprig roll borders on a blue wash background, enclosing a gilt roll with the leaf spray initials "MLC"... more

Price: $4,500.00

(50)pp. Printed by Allan Armstrong. Favorite psalms illustrated by Richard Pope with intricate full-page illustrations, and a hand-colored frontispiece and title page. Mint in gilt-stamped black morocco with brass clasp. (1 1/16 by 15/16; 24x30mm). ... more

Price: $75.00

Octavo. (22)pp. Album of Chinese landscapes in original watercolors, facing depictions of women's antique costumes painted on silk, interleaved with tissue. "Chinoiserie" refers to European art characterized by imagery of a romanticized China, and it appears that the brightly-colored landscapes in this album were done later than the silk paintings,... more

Price: $2,750.00

64mo. 8pp. Chapbook with six woodcuts, uncolored. A little tale of a girl who was good until the age of seven, becoming ill-natured thereafter, and the story of her reform. In yellow, printed wrappers with an additional woodcut on the front cover. Slightest soiling to wrappers, else a very fine... more

Price: $450.00

22-panel panorama of hand-colored lithographs. The tiny illustrations show men and women from the different Swiss cantons in their native dress. The images are meticulously colored, with the small costume and background details showing careful attention. In the original marbled boards and housed in the original paper sleeve with hand-colored,... more

Price: $950.00

Large octavo. (vi), 55pp., + 17ff. A scarce handwriting manual with seventeen fold-out engraved plates subsequent to the text. A new edition published a year after a first edition was published by W. T. Honders, there is only one institutional copy listed in WorldCat. Bound in original mottled-paper wrappers, which... more

Price: $400.00

32mo. 120pp. Facsimile of the original, printed in Meissen in 1824 and in the collection of the State Library of Berlin. Illustrated throughout in color. Text in Fraktur. Includes a booklet with essays about the text by Gabriele Spitzer and Carola Pohlmann. Fine in blue wrappers, with a blue paper... more

Price: $50.00

A single printed sheet, framed in cloth, measuring 8 by 10 inches. An engraved scene of Christ being tied and nailed to the Cross, surrounded by his followers, onlookers, military personnel, and various other figures. Portions of the printed illustration have been carefully excised and substituted with various fabrics in... more

Price: $750.00

Quarto. 251pp., + 12 plates. One of 1,000 copies signed and numbered by the artist. Illustrated with twelve brightly-colored full-page plates by Dulac, protected by tissue guards. Bound in gilt-accented vellum-backed blue buckram. A near fine copy with some wear to extremities, especially spine ends, spotting and soiling to boards,... more

Price: $750.00

191pp. A later American edition of the title, which was first published by Tilt & Bogue in London circa 1840. Contains forty-eight wood-engravings, with short biographies, of famous men such as the Venerable Bede, Captain Cook, Robert Boyle, and James Watt. Some spotting and soiling to covers, front hinge starting,... more

Price: $175.00

Five bifolium sheets, each measuring approximately 7 5/8 by 10 3/4 inches. All contain images of Biblical scenes, composed of miniature writing known as micrography. The images, therefore, are composed of the words from the Biblical passages that describe the action being depicted. Four of these images are framed with... more

Price: $6,500.00

19pp. A facsimile of a book on Cricket dating from 1775. A very rare Challenger book. Bound in characteristic red morocco with Challenger's insignia stamped in gilt on both covers, gilt-titled to spine. Some light discoloration to page edges, else very fine. (2 1/2 by 1 5/8; 65x43mm). ... more

Price: $250.00