Sketches & Speeches by Forgan, David Robertson - 1925

Santa Fe: Press of the Palace of the Governors, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. 1st ltd. #25/150 SIGNED by Saul Cohen. Pictorial boards with red cloth spine (unstamped), no dj, a beautiful book in vg+ condition (boards very lightly bowed).

London: Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, 1825. Hardcover. Second Edition revised. 8vo. 2 volumes. Volume I. pp. [6], 448. Volume II. pp. [2], 449-899, [1]. Bound in modern quarter calf with marbled boards and endpapers after 19th century style. Pages are generally clean with occasional mild scattered marginal foxing; a few minor tears are professionally sealed; a tiny hole in pp. 723/24 effects a couple letters of text; a name is lightly written in an early hand on corner of front fly-leaf of each volume. Dibdin discusses the best books with which to fill an English gentleman’s antiquarian library. Primarily covers works in the humanities - history, voyages and travels, belles letters, poetry, English drama etc. Copious notes are included on many titles in regards to content, scarcity, best editions etc.

New York: Macmillan, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/frayed and torn. Four 8vo volumes. Blue buckram. A wide-ranging bibliography of all writers up to the beginning of the 20th Century.

New York: Arrow Editions, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Slip-case darkened. Else near fine copy/frayed glassine. 8vo. Paper boards with linen back-strip and printed label. Pp. (ii), 96, (ii). Slip-case. Limited to 500 copies.

Léon Arnoult: La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts. Les phases ornamentales de la mode (The variability of taste in the arts. The ornamental phases of fashion). Printed and published by Devambez "À l'enseigne du masque d'Or". Paris, 1921. ARNOULT Léon - William ABLETT (1877-1937 illustrator). Preowned, Signed. A l'Enseigne du Masque d'Or, chez Devambez, 1921, in-4°, 87 pp + 7 plate illustrations, printed in 303 numbered copies. Sewn, original printed stiff wrapper over blind wrapper. Printed wrapper, interior fine, uncut and unopened copy. Two of the illustrations are mixed technique plates by William Ablett, one is signed in pencil by the artist: a circular engraving with a lithographic image printed on it and heightened with gold. Editorial paperback, Jacket with title to the framed flat, beautiful allegorical friezes, endpapers, eyelet, cover page with the same frieze (antique collection stamp). The quantity of circulation - 303 copies justified, and numbering - №120, a preface paper,… Read More

581 pages with facsimile imprints and index. Quarto (11" x 8 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter leather with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. This edition edited by A Millares Carlo. Limited to 2000 copies this is a reprint of the 1886 edition.The pride of Hispanic American scholars and collectors in the work of the sixteenth-century press of Mexico has found its reflection in a group of special bibliographies and bibliographical monographs of which one customarily speaks in superlatives. Without in any sense lessening the degree of praise accorded the other, it can be said that the greatest among them all is the Bibliografiamexicana del siglo XVIof Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta, first published in a splendid volume in 1886. That book declared itself on every page to be one of the most distinguished bibliographical works of the century, a noble tribute to the press whose work it recorded. Its historical discussion of the origins of the press in Mexico move the whole question into the… Read More

Wright Books. First edition-first printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Mint condition. Wright Books, 1998. Very Rare First Edition. Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nick on the back cover)with Dj(two small creases and nicks on the Dj cover), both in mint condition.The book includes an extra clear Dj cover(small tear, nick and scratches on the edges of the extra Dj cover) over the original Dj cover with black border and the worlds Official Status, December 1944-Never To Be Released.Illustrated with colour, b/w photos, drawings, maps.Very rare and collectable book.196pp including index.Price un-clipped.

New York: Kathryn I. Rickard, 1989. cloth, dust jacket. Miniature Books. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 250 pages. Edited with a preface by Msgr. Francis J. Weber. First edition, limited to 500 copies. The first major work of its kind. An essential guide for anybody involved in this area of book collecting. Compliments card loosely inserted signed by the author. Dust jacket has slight discoloration at spine, very light rubbing at spine corners. Inside is as new.

United Kingdom: Mayfield Books, 1996. Previous owners name impressed to top of title page. 272 pages with b/w illustrations. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Henri Lamertin, 1901. Hardcover. Good. Complete 13-volume set of the Catalogue des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique - a catalogue of the voluminous manuscript holdings of the Belgian Royal Library in Brussels. Bruxelles, Henri Lamertin, 1901. Rebound in library buckram. Over 6,000 pages of entries. Text in French. Includes the following: Écriture sainte et Liturgie, Patrologie, ThéologieJurisprudence et Philosophie, Histoire & Hagiographie, Histoire des ordres religieux et des églises particulières, Histoire des Pays: Allemagne, Angleterre, Autriche, Belgique (histoire générale), Histoire de Belgique (Histoire particulière): Anvers et Brabant, Flandre, Hainaut, Liège, Limbourg, Luxembourg et Namur, Histoire d'Espagne, de France et d'Italie Histoire de Hollande Mélanges d'histoire, Géographie, Voyages, Itinéraires,… Read More