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Three small octavo volumes. (7); (4); (10)ff. Each volume is one of fifteen copies. A collection of unusual artist's books. Defensive Book is an expression of paranoia and fear, underscoring its point by ending with the repeated words "Don't trust anybody." The book bristles with pins embedded between the pages.... more

Price: $650.00

Quarto. (20)ff. One of forty copies on Chinese paper. Bound by Thomas Zwang of Hamburg in sculptural form. English translation and Chinese calligraphy by Bun-Ching Lam. With hand-colored etchings by Gunnar Kaldewey and signed by the artist/publisher. Kaldewey brings together subject and form in this book which, when opened, takes... more

Price: $1,500.00

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

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

Two octavo volumes. (17), 104; (5), 199, (1)pp, numbered and mostly printed on rectos only. One of 200 copies. Printed entirely on leaves of cork and bound in leather-backed, cork-covered boards. The text is based on the edition by Juan Suné Benages and includes "La Gitanilla," "Riconete y Cortadillo," "La... more

Price: $4,500.00

Also called "jetons" or tokens, these brass coin-like discs were used for casting accounts in the counting-houses of nobles and merchants. The practice was at its height in Nuremberg during its sixteenth-century trading boom. In the rest of Europe, this method of accounting declined in the later fifteenth century when... more

Price: $350.00

Six uncropped quarto-sized sheets for a peepshow with Engelbrecht's name printed in the lower right corner of each sheet. These brilliantly hand-colored engravings show a gala festivity by the riverside with gaily-dressed men and women "jousting" in boats, some falling into the water. The "lances" are rendered harmless with rounded... more

Price: $1,750.00

Quarto. (30)ff. scrapbook belonging to a member of the Spilimbergo Choral School, and containing eight hand-tinted photographs, a roster of members, mimeographed sheets with lyrics to songs and a guide to a folk dance, and hand-written sheet music. One photograph shows the entire group in folkloric attire. The other photographs... more

Price: $1,500.00

Souvenir of the Century of Progress Exposition, from the Ripley's "Believe it or Not" Odditorium. Blystone won the Grand Prize in the 1932 Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" contest by writing 2,871 letters on a single grain of rice. This single grain, which is attached to a printed card commemorating... more

Price: $225.00