San Francisco: Peregrine Press for the Porpoise Bookshop, 1962. Quarto. 20pp. One of 76 copies printed and illustrated by Henry Evans at the Peregrine Press for the Porpoise Bookshop. With illustrations throughout in pale terracotta. This leaf book explores the contents of a journal recording the business transactions of a.... More about Champagne and Shoes. An Essay on John T. Little's Coloma Emporium with an Original Double Leaf...

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1995. Quarto. lxxxiv, 242pp., leaf tipped in at rear. One of 100 copies of the special first edition distributed for the Friends of the Brigham Young University Library by W. Thomas Taylor. Specially bound in quarter goatskin, with an original leaf from the 1524 Colines edition... More about Simon de Colines: An Annotated Catalogue of 230 Examples of His Press, 1520-1546

(Fullerton, CA): Stone & Lorson, 1985. Folio. 23pp. From an edition of 115 copies, this is one of 89 copies quarter-bound in vellum, together with an original bifolium leaf from the edition of 1619. This copy contains a full hand-colored map of Palatinatus Bavariae in southwestern Germany, complete with text... More about A Leaf From the Mercator-Hondius World Atlas, Edition of 1619 with an Essay by Norman J.W. Thrower

Glastonbury, CT: Blue Moon Press, 1992. Octavo. (7)pp. One of ninety copies. Four color images printed from reduction woodcuts, collaged plates, etched zinc plates, and a photo-engraving. One is a fold-out illustration. Napora's poem provides narration and context to the main illustration, which is presented in its original form on... More about The Immigrants

(Columbus, OH): Logan Elm Press, 1990. Quarto. (38)pp. One of 115 copies, printed on handmade paper and signed by the poet, David Citino, the artist, Anthony Rice, and the designer of the book, Robert Tauber. A stunning production crafted in advance of the quincentennial celebration of Columbus’s voyage. Illustrated throughout... More about A Letter of Columbus

(1860). Handscroll. An elegant makimono-e painting in sumi ink and color wash on paper by 83-year-old artist Toshin. Handscrolls are meant to be viewed right to left in sections, traveling arms-length by arms-length through the continuous landscape. This painting takes the viewer through each of the four seasons in a.... More about A screen of the four seasons, mountains and water, or, Living live through the four seasons

(c. 1470). A single miniature manuscript leaf from a fifteenth-century Dutch or German Psalter executed in a miniscule gothic hand. The text of the recto includes the last three verses of Psalm 144 and the first three and a half verses of Psalm 145. The leaf contains eight initials executed... More about Manuscript Psalter Leaf

(Ramsgate: (c. 1900). Oblong 48mo. (36)ff. Illustrated with thirty-six fine and accomplished pen-and-ink sketches by W.G. Bayly. The sketches provide a unique glimpse into Bayly's round-trip journey from Ramsgate to the Cape of St. Vincent, Port Said, Aden, the Bay of Biscay, Yangon, and finally Colombo in Sri Lanka. At... More about Travel sketches by a steamboat passenger

(Dutch: 18th century). 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... More about Five Micrographic Biblical Passages

Wellington, New Zealand: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1962-1965. 526; 567; 559pp. All with illustrations throughout. The Proverbs and Place Names are reprinted from "regular" volumes at the time still in print. The Gospels is the first Lilliput edition, published by permission of the British Foreign Bible Society, first publishers of... More about Lilliput Maori Proverbs. Together with: Lilliput Maori Place Names; and Illustrated Gospels in Maori

N.P. Miniature Book Society, 1988. Fine in printed wrappers. (2 7/8 by 2 7/8; 73x73mm). More about A Catalog of the Miniature Book Competition

(New Britain, CT: Art Press), 1971. (16)pp., frenchfold. One of 50 copies. The Foreword by Massmann is signed by him. Hunter's account of the post-Civil War reuse of Egyptian mummies' wrappings by a Maine paper merchant is bound in stiff wrappers in the shape of a sarcophagus with the profile... More about Dard Hunter on Papyrus. Excerpted from The Story of Early Printing

(Newark, NJ: Caterteret Book Club, 1924). 16mo. (20)pp. One of 100 copies, printed on Swedish handmade paper for the members of the Carteret Book Club in December 1924. Contains remarks and descriptions of the items on display, arranged by type. In tan wrappers. Sewn into protective folio made of board... More about A Showing of Miniature Books, Under the Auspices of the Carteret Book Club of Newark. At The...