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Harlequin-Horace: or, The Art of Modern Poetry

[MILLER, James, 1704-1744] · 1731

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

London printed for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's church, in Fleetstreet Scarce First Edition, written in 56 stanzas of rhyming verse, of this satirical poem. Foxson's second state (no known priority): correct catchword on p. 57 and p. 58 correctly numbe...

[Origami] [Juvenile] [Geometry] [Paper-Modeling] Art de fabriquer toutes sortes d'ouvrages en papier, pour l'instruction et l'amusement des jeunes gens des deux sexes

BECOURT, A. de · 1828

$589.00 (€534.39 | £445.83 | ¥94,056)

Paris Audot, Editeur, rue des maçons-sorbonne, no. 11 A charming juvenile, with directions, patterns, and finished views for the construction of paper and cardboard toys—a sentry box, a thatched cottage, furniture, a bridge, a windmill, a medieval tower, and more—intended to t...

[Hand-Colored] Utopia Found: being An Apology for Irish Absentees. Addressed to a Friend in Connaught By an absentee, residing in Bath [Association Copy]

[MANGIN, Edward, 1772-1852] · 1813

$1,999.00 (€1,813.68 | £1,513.09 | ¥319,214)

Bath Printed by Gye and Son, Market-Place First (and only) Edition of this satirical account, signed on title page by the author's second wife, Mary. Crown 8vo (189 x 104 mm): [2],125,[1]pp, with hand-colored folding frontispiece, one further folding plate (of bourgeois Britis...

[Fairy Tales] [Sagor] Märchen. Bilder und Buchschmuck von Thorsten Schonberg [Treasures of World Literature]

STRINDBERG, August (1849-1912); Thorsten Schonberg, 1882-1970 (Illustrates) · 1916

$364.00 (€330.25 | £275.52 | ¥58,126)

Munich Georg W. Dietrich Limited Edition Copy No. 78 of this richly illustrated edition of Strindberg's Fairy Tales, from a bibliophile edition of 200 numbered copies on heavy paper. Volume 9 of the publisher's Treasures of World Literature series. Translated by Emil Schering....

The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even. A Typographic Version by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp's Green Box, Translated by George Heard Hamilton; [together with] The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even Again: A Reconstruction by Richard Hamilton of Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass

DUCHAMP, Marcel (1887-1968); Richard Hamilton (interprets); George Heard Hamilton (translates) · 1963

$649.00 (€588.83 | £491.24 | ¥103,637)

London Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. First British Edition On offer are two complementary works: the artist Richard Hamilton's typographic interpretation of Marcel Duchamp's Green Box (1963) and the scarce documentation of Hamilton's yearlong reconstruction of Duchamp's "The Lar...

AHH 2: Love the ART HATE: ART HATE Graphics 1972-2010 [Signed]

CHILDISH, Billy (b. 1959); Harry Adams · 2010

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

London L-13 First Edition (so stated), one of only 500 copies privately published for subscribers. Oblong royal 8vo (210 x 230): [2],7-230pp, copiously illustrated in color throughout. Publisher's saffron quarter-cloth over thick card boards, spine lettered in black, paper AHH...

[Original Cloth] The poetry of geography: a journey round the globe. In which a comprehensive view of the earth is taken, and facts made familiar to the mind of all. A Book for Families, Students, and Schools

LIVINGSTON, Peter · 1853

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

London Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster Row First Edition of this scarce and unusual geography primer. Foolscap 8vo (161 x 98mm): x,100pp, with engraved folding frontispiece depicting the globe's hemispheres. Original publisher's burgundy cloth stamped in gilt and blind, cit...

[Surveying] Méthode Simple Et Facile Pour Lever Les Plans, Suivie D'Un Traité Du Nivellement Et D'Un Abrégé Des Règles Du Lavis : Avec onze Planches, dont neuf enluminées

LECOY, F. (Francois) · 1803

$1,249.00 (€1,133.21 | £945.40 | ¥199,449)

A Paris Chez Duponcent, Libraire, quai de la Grève, N. 34 Rare First Edition of this map-maker’s manual with brilliant hand-colored plates. 8vo (): xii,95,[1]pp, with title page vignette and 11 folding engraved plates (of surveyor’s instruments and sample maps and plans), nine...

[Movable Book] [Novelty Book] [Paper Engineering] Wat er alzoo in de wereld te zien is. een aardig boek voor kinderen, met bijschriften

ANDRIESSEN, P. J. (Pieter Jacob, 1815-1877) · 1874

$1,024.00 (€929.07 | £775.09 | ¥163,520)

Amsterdam G. Theod. Bom Crown 8vo (180 x 128mm): [8]pp, with six color lithographs (printed by Emrik & Binger, Haarlem), each with flaps that, when flipped, reveal a completely different image (a ship at sea becomes Bedouins in the desert, a volcano erupts into walruses in the...

The Sleepers : a poem

WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892); Marcel Gaillard (illustrates) · 1919

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

Paris from the press of François Bernouard, 71, Rue des Saints-Pères Limited Edition First Separate Edition of one of the three major poems of 1855 (with "I Sing the Body Electric" and "Song of Myself") merged in the first edition of Leaves of Grass, with plates designed and e...

Drunken Barnaby’s four journeys to the north of England. In Latin and English metre. Wittily and merrily (tho’ an hundred years ago) compos’d; found among some old musty Books that had lain a long time by in a Corner, and now at last made publick. Together with Bessy Bell

CORYMBAEUS [Brathwait[e], Richard, 1588?-1673] · 1723

$476.00 (€431.87 | £360.29 | ¥76,011)

London printed for S. Illidge, under Serle’s Gate Lincolns-Inn New-Square The Third Edition, "illustrated with several new copper cuts," of Brathwait’s most famous work, a mischievous doggerel featuring perhaps "the world’s most celebrated pub crawl.” (Bowes). Foolscap 8vo (14...

[Travel] [Ireland] Mearing Stones; Leaves from my Note-Book on Tramp in Donegal

CAMPBELL, Joseph (Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil, 1879-1944) · 1911

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

Dublin Maunsel & Company Scarce First Edition of the Irish poet's reminiscences of wanderings about Donegal, beautifully illustrated. 8vo (215 x 169mm): viii,[2],56pp, with 16 full-page plates (including frontispiece) after pencil drawings by the author. Original blue-grey pap...

Twenty-Four Portraits: with critical appreciations by various hands

ROTHENSTEIN, Sir William (1872-1945) · 1920

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

New York Harcourt, Brace Limited Edition (2,000 unnumbered copies printed, of which 1,200 for sale in Great Britain and 800 in the United States), collecting portraits of Rothenstein's friend and contemporaries (including Max Beerbohm, Joseph Conrad, Sir Edward Elgar, André Gi...

Poems on various subjects . . . In two parts [Charles Whibley's copy]

FERGUSSON, Robert (1750-1774) · 178889

$949.00 (€861.02 | £718.32 | ¥151,543)

Perth Printed by R. Morison, Junr. For R. Romison and Son, Booksellers; and Sold by J. Murray, No. 32, Fleet-street, London First Edition thus First Printing of this uncommon edition (published for Morison's Edition of Scottish Poets), with no copies currently on the market an...

Mornings in Florence: Being Simple Studies of Christian Art, for English Travellers. I. Santa Croce II. The Golden Gate III. Before the Soldan IV. The Vaulted Book V. The Strait Gate VI. The Shepherd's Tower. 1877

RUSKIN, John (1819-1900) · 1875

$649.00 (€588.83 | £491.24 | ¥103,637)

London George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent [through 1881] First Editions (excepting Santa Croce, which is a second edition, with preface folios in Roman numerals), complete in six parts, of this great classic on Renaissance art. Crown 8vo (172 x 115mm): iv,23,[1]; [4],25-...

[Hand-Colored] A Picturesque Tour through the Isle of Wight. Illustrated by Numerous Views

RAYE, Charles · 1825

$2,074.00 (€1,881.72 | £1,569.86 | ¥331,191)

London For the Proprietor by Howlett and Brimmer, Frith Street, Soho First Edition Oblong 4to (195 x 263mm): [52]pp, with 24 hand-colored plates (23 aquatints and one engraving) and blank interleaves, each plate preceded by two-page letterpress description. Plate VIII, Sand Ro...

[Auction Catalogues] The W. H. Bruton Collections. Catalogue of the very choice collections of printed books, autograph letters and book illustrations, also drawings by Thomas Rowlandson : the property of the late Henry William Bruton, Esq., Bewick House, Gloucester . . . including one of the finest known copies of The Pickwick Papers . . . very fine unpublished drawings . . . by Thomas Rowlandson . . . books illustrated by George Cruikshank . . . ; [with] frontispiece to Roland’s Comic Songs by Cruikshank; [and with] The Chignon, etching by Cruikshank.

SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE [BRUTON, Henry William, 1843-1920] · 1921

$949.00 (€861.02 | £718.32 | ¥151,543)

London Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge Limited Edition Large Paper copies, each number 3 of 125 sets of which 60 were for sale, with printed prices and buyer’s names. Complete in two volumes (Printed Books and Old Engravings). Royal 8vo (277 x 182mm): [2],iv,62,[2],vii,[1], with po...

Living Painters. With an Introduction by Roger Fry

GRANT, Duncan (1885-1978) · 1930

$1,024.00 (€929.07 | £775.09 | ¥163,520)

London Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 52 Tavistock Square New Edition, bound from first edition sheets with cancel title page and newly printed covers reproducing the design of the first edition. Total print run, combining first and new editions, was only 101...

[Juvenile] Ann at Highwood Hall: Poems for Children

GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985); Edward Ardizzone (Illustrates) · 1964

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,825)

London Cassell First Edition First Printing of this juvenile, collecting seven poems, one of 5,000 copies printed. Slim demy 8vo (216 x 161mm): [8],38,[2]pp, with 35 pen drawings (including illustrated title page), each with single color wash, alternating green and peach. Publ...

Nine Abstract Artists, their Work and Theory

ALLOWAY, Lawrence (1926-1990) · 1954

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

London Alec Tiranti First edition.  Slim foolscap 8vo (179 x 124mm): 38pp and 56 full-page plates. Publisher's original pictorial paper-covered boards, dust jacket repeating cover design by William Scott (one of the nine artists), priced 7s / 6d. Neat ownership inscription and...