Fine Books and Mansucripts

AMIOT, Joseph Marie (1718-1793), and others. Memoires concernant l 'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les meurs, les usages, &c. des chinois: par ...

ARIOSTO, Ludovico (1474-1533).   Orlando furioso. Venice: Felice Valgrisi, 1587.  4to (267 x 186 mm). Title within architectural woodcut border, f...

ARIOSTO, Ludovico (1474-1533).   Orlando Furioso. Venice: Zatta, 1772-1773.  4 volumes, 4to (277 x 203 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved portra...

ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.).  De Animalium generatione libri quinque cum Philiponi Commentariis. Venice: Joannes Antonius and Fratres de Sabio, Febru...

ASHMEAD, Henry B. The Illustrated Book of Natural History. Philadelphia: Ashmead & Evans, 1859.  4to (318 x 255 mm). 17 (of 32) colored plates. (S...

[ARCHITECTURE]. The Builder's Dictionary: or, Gentleman and Architect's Companion.  London:   A. Bettesworth, C. Hitch, and S. Austen, 1734.2 volu...

[ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN]. BAILEY, Vernon Howe (1874-1953). Empire State. A Pictorial Record of Its Construction. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 193...

[ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN]. Dekorative Vorbilder. Eine Sammlung von figurlichen Darstellungen, kunstgewerblichen Verzierungen ... Volume 19. Stuttgar...

[ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN]. DUFRENE, Maurice. Ensembles Mobiliers. Exposition Internationale 1925. Paris: Editions Charles Moreau, 1926.  3 volumes c...

[ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN]. RAPIN, Henri (1873-1939). La Sculpture Decorative Moderne, Series I-III. Paris: Editions Charles Moreau, [1925]-1929.  3 ...

[ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN]. -- SOCIETY OF BEAUX-ARTS ARCHITECTS.   Winning Designs 1904-1927. Paris Prize in Architecture. New York: Pencil Points Pr...

BACON, Francis, Sir (1561-1626). Certaine Miscellany Works. London: John Haviland for Humphrey Robinson, 1629.  Small 4to (185 x 163 mm). Title-pa...

BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547). A sammelband of rare early Venice editions of Bembo's works, comprising:  Prose e Rime di M. Pietro Bembo. Venice: Greg...

BEROALDUS, Philippus (1453-1505). Declamatio ebriosi, scortatoris et aleatoris. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 1499.Small 4to (197 x 145 mm). Colla...

[BIBLE, in English]. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New. -- Index Biblicus: or an Exact Concordance to the Holy Bible. -- The...

BIBLE, in German. Biblia, Das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrift altes und neues Testaments verteutschet durch D. Mart. Luth. Luneburg: Johann Stern,...

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). [Filocolo]. Inamoramẽto di Florio & di Biãzafiore chiamato Philocolo. Venice: Bernardino de Lissona Vercellen...

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Il Decamerone novissimamente alla sua vera e sana lettione ridotto. Edited by Lodovico Dolce. Venice: Francesco B...

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Il Decameron. Amsterdam: [Elzevir], 1665.  12mo. Title-page printed in red and black and with woodcut globe devic...

BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus (480?-524?). Consolationis Philosophiae Libri V. Leiden: Ex Officina Hackiana, 1671.8vo (197 x 120 m...

[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. ADLER, Elmer (1884-1962) and WINTERICH, John T. (1891-1970), editors. The Colophon. A Book Collectors' Quarterly. Vols. 1-18,...

[BOOK ILLUSTRATION -- WOODCUT]. -- [BIBLE, in German. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 17 February 1483.]Folio (381 x 261 mm). 4 leaves of the Koberger ...

[BOOK ILLUSTRATION -- WOODCUTS]. -- [VERGILIUS MARO, Publius.  Opera. Strassburg: Johannes   Gruninger, 1502.]Folio (300 x 212 mm). 12 leaves of V...

BOSWELL, James (1740-1795). The Life of Samuel Johnson.  London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. [With:]  The Principal Corrections and Add...

BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius (1612-1653). Monumenta Illustrium Virorum et Elogia. Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium, 1638.  4to (302 x 194 mm). Engraved ti...

[BRITISH HISTORY]. A group of 3 works, comprising:  RYMER, Thomas. Acta Regia; being the account which Mr. Rapin de Thoyras published of the Histo...

BUONAMICI, Francesco (1533-1603). Discorsi Poetici Nella Accademia Fiorentina In Difesa d ' Aristotile. Florence: Giorgio Marescotti, 1597.  4to (...

CAESAR, Caius Julius (100-44 B.C.). [The Commentaries].   Commentarii. Milan: Philippus Lavagna, 1478.  Folio (311 x 224 mm).   Collation: a–p?qr?...

CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare (1478-1529). [The Courtier.]  Il Libro del Cortegiano. Florence: Benedetto Giunta, 1537.  Small 8vo (154 x 102 mm). Woodcu...

[CAVENDISH, George (1500?-1562)].   The Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey, the Great Cardinall of England... London: for William Sheeres, 1641.  Smal...

[CAXTON CLUB]. WILKINS, Ernest Hatch. The Trees of the Genealogia Deorum of Boccaccio. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1923.  4to. 24 plates, some print...

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (1547-1616). [Don Quixote]. The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote.  Tobias Smollett, translator. Lo...

CHAUCER, Geoffrey (1340?-1400). [The Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed, with divers addicions...] London: Jhon Kyngston for Jhon Wight, 15...

[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. A group of 4 works, comprising:    GOREY, Edward. The Vinegar Works. The Gashlycrumb Tinies; The Insect God; The West Wing. Ne...

[CHINA -- TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. ALLOM, Thomas (1804-1872), illustrator. -- WRIGHT, George Newenham (1794-1877). China in a Series of Views, Displ...

[CHINA -- TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. A group of 13 works in 18 volumes, including:COSSIGNY, Joseph Francois Charpentier de. Voyage a Canton. Paris: [1...

[CHINA -- TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. A group of 13 works in 15 volumes, including:  STAUNTON, George. An Historical Account of the Embassy to the Empe...

[CHINESE ART]. JONES, Owen (1809-1874). Examples of Chinese Ornament Selected from Objects in the South Kensington Museum and Other Collections. L...

[CHINESE ART & OPERA]. STOWITTS, Hubert Julian (1892-1953). The Work of Stowitts for the Fox-God. Lyric Ballet in 3 Acts. Hollywood, CA: George Pa...

[CHINESE LAW]. STAUNTON, George Thomas (1781-1859), translator. Ta Tsing Leu Lee; Being the Fundamental Laws, and a Selection from the Supplementa...

CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). Tusculanae disputationes, with anonymous commentary. Venice: Joannes Tacuinus, de Tridino, 3 February 1494/5...

CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Comp...

CLEMENS, Samuel ("Mark Twain"). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.  Square 8vo...

[CLUB BINDERY] -- [GROLIER CLUB].  Effigies of the Most Famous English Writers from Chaucer to Johnson. New York: The De Vinne Press for the Groli...

[CRANBROOK PRESS]. CAXTON, William (1422?-1491). The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers: A Facsimile. Detroit: Cranbrook Press, 1901.  4to. Pr...

CRANMER, Thomas (1489-1556). An Aunswer by the Reverend Father in God Thomas Archbyshop of Canterbury...Unto a craftie and Sophisticall cavillatio...

DANIEL, Samuel (1562-1619). The Civile Wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke. London: Simon Waterson, 1609.  Small 4to (180 x 134 mm). ...

DANTE Alighieri (1265-1321). Dante col sito, et forma dell'inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del poeta. [Toscolano:] Alessandro Paganino B...

DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). [Opere]. La Divina Commedia... con varie annotazioni, e copiosi rami adornata (Prose, e Rime Liriche Edite, ed Inedit...

[DERRYDALE PRESS] -- PALMEDO, Roland (1895-1977), editor. Skiing: The International Sport. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937.4to. Etched frontis...

DE STAEL-HOLSTEIN, Anne Louise Germaine, Madame (1766-1817). Autograph letter signed "Mme de Stael". [1813]. To Giovanni Battista Viotti.  1 page...

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.   London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. [Bound with:] PAILTHORPE, Frederick W....

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Master Humphrey 's Clock. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841.3 volumes, 8vo (252 x 170 mm). Engraved frontispieces ...

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). American Notes For General Circulation. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842.2 volumes, 8vo (197 x 120 mm). Half-titles. (...

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Pictures From Italy. London: Bradbury & Evans for the Author, 1846.8vo (172 x 110 mm). 2-page publisher's advertisem...

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870).  Dombey and Son.  London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.8vo (210 x 135 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, 36 (of...

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Personal History...of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849-1850.20 parts in 19, 8vo. Engraved fro...

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850.  8vo. (206 x 130 mm).   Half-title, engra...

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). [The Christmas Numbers from Household Words and All the Year Round]. Household Words. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850...

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). A Child 's History of England. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852-1854.  3 volumes, 8vo (151 x 118 mm). Wood-engraved fr...