Roma: Edizioni d'Italia, 1971. Limited Edition, #537/1449. Folio, 156 pages; VG; bound in full brown leather, gilt lettering; housed in a VG- matching brown leather slipcase with paper boards, some scuffing; mild sun-fading to spine; with 89 full page engravings; shelved under front case. More

Volair Books/National Audubon Society, 1978-1979. First Thus. Octavo, five volumes; VG; quarter bindings of tan cloth, covers in brown paper; mild shelf wear to all volumes; closed tear to crown of vol. 1 spine; pages clean; shelved above Case 8 and 1/2. More

New York: George R Lockwood, ND [1870?]. Early Edition. Quarto; VG-; 334 pages; Tooled leather with gilt titling on spine, raised bands; VOL. 2 ONLY; Full color plates intact, protected by tissue guards; Gilt edges; Sewn-in silk bookmark; Marbled endpapers; Bookstore bookplate on front pastedown; Scuffing and some fraying to the edges of the boards and spine; Bumping/fraying to the corners; Some foxing to the edges of the text block; Toning to pages as typical; PS Consignment, shelved case 10. More

London: The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust, 1954. Limited Edition, #395/1600. Octavo, unpaginated; VG; bound in quarter tan calf, gilt titling to spine brown speckled paper-covered boards; top edge gilt; Housed in matching brown speckled paper-covered slipcase, tan calf edge; mild rubbing, primarily to spine, calf edges of slipcase; gift inscription to sfep; Printed on Arches pure rag paper, which was made to match what Blake originally used, and watermarked with his monogram; shelved case 0. More

Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art/Steidl, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto, 187 pages; VG/VG-; white spine with grey and black lettering; minimal shelf wear, some staining to the front of the dust jacket, pages clean; shelved in Illustration. More

Paris: Henry Creuzevault, 1953. Limited Edition, #15/140. Folio (10" x 15"), 52 leaves in 26 signatures in original paper folded cover (covered in a glassine protective wrapper); Fine; Bound in cloth sleeve covered in paper with a box enclosure. Number 15 of 140 copies, on Rives paper. Printed by Janine Daragnès on May 11, 1953. With 21 original etchings by Buffet, including 7 full page and 3 double-page, plus one on cover; plus a separate suite of 23 drawings, including 3 double-page drawings. Limited edition reissue of 1939 work, with illustrations by Bernard Buffet (1928-1999), signed by Giono and Buffet, with a foreword by Pierre Bergé.; shelved case 11. More

New York: Rock Foundation, 1988. First Edition. Folios, 3 volumes, VG/no DJs as issued; gray cloth boards, black lettering to spines: very mild overall wear to boards, spines faded beige (lettering clear and legible); minimal wear to clean text-blocks; interiors clean; VOLUME 3.1 [COSMIC GAMES]; VOLUME 3.2 [THE LABYRINTH & OTHER PATHS TO OTHER WORLDS]; VOLUME 3.3 [THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN]; frontispieces; volumes housed in VG- brown cloth slipcase; shelved front table. More

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1969. Collector's Edition. Octavo, 198 pages; VG-; full binding of genuine blue leather; spine with gilt lettering; mild shelf wear; mild light-colored staining; mild rubbing to cover gilding; all edges gilt; silk moire end papers; satin ribbon bookmark; contains black and white illustrations; pages clean; shelved Franklin Library. More

New York: J. S. Redfield, 1847. Quarto, 112 pages; G; quarter bound in black cloth; spine has gold panel lining; binding has heavy wear, spine has severe cracking and detachment, with chunks missing at the top and bottom, has tearing along the sides; boards have bumping and fraying along the edges, have heavy discoloration small stain marks throughout; pages have severe age toning, have minor detachment at the front and back hinges, have minor foxing along the fore edge; shelved case 12. More

London: Nattali and Bond, 1855. Ninth Edition. Octavos, 3 volumes; VG; all volumes bound uniformly in unsigned full polished brown calf, paneled spines with gilt tooling, 2 green labels with gilt titling; housed in a custom slipcase, lined inside, cloth cover, both sides covered in marbled paper; all volumes with very light and mild wear, primarily to hinges and corners; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; bookplate to front pastedowns; light scattered foxing; The Tour of Doctor Syntax has 31 hand-colored etched plates, The Second Tour with 24 hand-colored etched plates, and The Third Tour with 25 hand-colored etched plates.; 80 color illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson in total, including 3 frontispieces and two second title-pages with vignettes (Second title not present or called for in volume two); The title page calls for 81 plates, but the second title of volume two was never made; shelved case 0. More

Paris: Librairie Floury, 1929. First Edition, 1/200. Quarto, 247, [2] VG/VG; protected in original waxed glassine, mild chipping; original etching as frontispiece, illustrated with sixteen full-page illustrations with paper-guards, ten in color, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations; limited to 200 copies; shelved case 11. More

Berlin: Umsler & Ruthardt, 1928. Octavo, unpaginated; VG; quarter bound in vellum, spine has gilt lettering; binding has gilt lettering and tooling, has minimal shelf wear, has bumping on the fore edge corners; pages have minor age toning; shelved case 9. More

Norfolk, VA: Donning, 1977. Limited Edition 159/1000. Quarto, 119 pages; VG; in VG green slipcase; spine green with gilt lettering; full binding of green leather; mild shelf wear; inscribed by Freas on front paste-down; contains numerous full color illustrations; pages clean; shelved Illustration. More

Putney, VT: Year of Dog Press, 1972. Limited First Edition [#103/650]. Octavo, 69 pages, VG/VG-; red matte paper wrapper, gold and black lettering: mild fading mostly to spine; wear with mild fraying to head, tail, and corners; closed tear to head; scattered minor imperfections to wrapper; back cover of wrapper pasted to back board (possibly as issued); covers protected by plastic covering; plain uncovered boards, modern Coptic-style binding with adhesive: slight bumping to corners; light age-toning to text-block, deckle fore- and bottom-edges; interior clean, black lettering and color-woodcut illustrations printed on tan Nideggen mould-made paper stated to limitation page, No. 103 out of 650 copies; SIGNED by both editors/illustrators to limitation page; shelved Poetry Anthologies. More

Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1854. First Edition. Quarto, 300 pages; G-; rebound in modern burgundy cloth, gilt to spine, original light brown crushed morocco boards with gilt-stamped decorations attached to front covers; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; lacking illuminated additional title page and frontispiece; fore edge of title page and four following pages with tape on the fore edge; some finger-staining and sparse pencil; illustrated throughout with 10 chromolithographs depicting some of the birds mentioned in the book; shelved case 4. More

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001. Limited Edition, #244/1000. Square quarto, 132 pages; VG in VG slipcase; bound in black cloth, gilt titling to spine; mild shelfwear; Signed by both Greg and Tim Hildebrandt on the limitation page, #244/1000; large fold-out poster bound in rear; shelved front table. More

Nürnberg: Verlegung des auxtoris Gedruckt bey Johann Ernst Adelbuler, 1731. Folio; G; bound in faded red cloth, faded titling to front cover; moderate wear, including fraying to corners, spine largely detached, remnants of cloth ties to boards; With title page, 42 pages of text in German, 14 maps of the celestial sphere, 77 terrestrial maps; all celestial and 73 terrestrial maps hand-colored contemporaneously; lacking allegorical frontispiece engraved by Casper Luyken and the portrait of Charles VI in black and white; the backs of the majority of maps with a child's drawings, majority in pencil, some crayon, circa 1880, very sparse pencil to the maps themselves; some scattered repair; title page missing the lower fore corner, does not impact text; With a fully global collection of maps, including the constellations, both the Copernican and Tychonic models of the orbits, maps of both hemispheres, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Maps of North America do include the names of some Native American Tribes. Interestingly, the maps are inconsistent as to whether California is an island. The title vignette is a map of the world as seen from above the north pole, includes California as an island. All maps with emblematic cartouches and ornamented with engravings.; consignment; shelved map case. More

Lausanne: Andre Gonin, 1943. Limited Edition, #159/174. 136 pages plus indices. Text in French. Small folio, loose-bound in salmon-colored wraps with black title and device on front, housed in a protective outer cover of paper-covered cloth boards with a gilt title on the spine. Included are 21 original engravings, 11 of which are full-page. The volume is signed by the engraver and the publisher (André Gonin), and is a limited edition (edition number 159/174). Condition: Very Good. There is some loss of paper covering at the joints of the outer cover, along with water staining at bottom left and general light marking and discoloration. The inner wraps have a 1 ¼ in. split to the bottom front joint and very minor wear to the corners and the head of the spine. The text block shows light age-toning and some foxing to pages, especially at the fore-edges. Dimensions 11.125 x 15 x 1.25 inches Shelved case 11. More

[London]: [Day & Son], [1861]. Folio; VG; bound in publisher's original full elaborately embossed calf over wooden boards, beveled edges; all edges gilt; mild wear and rubbing primarily to head and tail of spine, corners; printed on 53 beautiful chromolithographic leaves on heavy cream stock in three reds, three blues, gold and black, each page featuring different borders; tissue-guards between about half the leaves; heavy; TP consignment; shelved above mythology. More

Jin Yiru, 1996. First Edition. Quarto, 136 pages; VG; bound in gray/green cloth, red lettering; mild rubbing and shelfwear; beautifully illustrated with examples of James Yi-ru King's calligraphy; shelved Front Table. More

In aedibus Story-Scientia: Gandavi [Ghent], 1968. Limited Edition, #418/675. Folio, unpaginated; VG; bound in full vellum covered boards, gilt titling to spine, gilt illustration to front board; some vellum separating from the pastedowns, as expected; mild rubbing and wear to binding; This publication was issued to commemorate the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the State University of Ghent. This edition is limited to six hundred and seventy-five copies, of which seventy-five were numbered I to LXXV, and printed for the University Council, and six hundred, numbered 1 to 600, were to be offered for sale, of which this is #418; shelved front case. More

London: Hidgson, Boys, and Graves, n.d [1835]. First Edition. Folio, unpaginated; VG; bound in full gilted and blind brown morocco, paneled spine with gilt lettering; marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; bookplate of the Baron Northwick to the front pastedown; with 37 plates, edges of some plates foxed; MM consignment; shelved above Mythology. More

London: Halton and Truscott Smith Ltd., 1924. Limited Edition (58/1000). Quarto, 36 pages + 86 plates; VG-; bound in full dark blue cloth, spine has gilt lettering, front cover has gilt lettering and tooling; binding has minor wear along the top and bottom edges, has bumping on the fore edge corners, spine has moderate discoloration; pages have gilt along the top edge, have minor age toning; shelved front table. More

London: Heinemann, 1921. Limited Edition, #460/550. Quarto; VG; Bound in full leather by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt lettering and designs; Raised bands on spine with titles in gilt; Satyr design on front board in leather and gilt; All edges gilt; End papers have been repaired at the gutters; Binding tight; Text block toned but free of marking; All illustrations guarded by tissue with text. Previous owners small bookplate on interior of rear end paper, gift inscription by previous owner in pen; Book is SIGNED by Rackham on the limitations page and numbered 460 of a limited edition of 550. LP Consignment; Shelved case 14. More

1845. Oblong folio, 24 plates; G; bound in quarter dark green calf, marbled paper boards; some wear and rubbing to binding; contains Plan de la Ville de Rome 1845, followed by 23 plates by Alessandro Moschetti; mild foxing to plates; The 23 plates are: Tempio della Concordia, Tempio di Antonino e Faustina, Tempio della Pace, Tempio di Venere e Roma, Avanzi del Foro di Nerva, Arco di Gallieno, Portico di Ottavia, Avanzi del Teatro di Marcelllo, Arco di Giano Quadrifronte, Tempio di Vesta, Arco di Druso, Sepolcro di Cecillia Metella, Piazza del Popolo, Trinita di Monti, Fontana di Trevi, Piazza Colonna, Foro Trajano, Piazza della Minerva, Piazza Navona, Basilica di S. Ma. Maggiore, Pantehon di Agrippa detta la Rotonda, Interno del Pantheon, Campidoglio; RR consignment; shelved above mythology. More