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Quattro canzoni quattro incisioni.
Engravings by Agostino Bonalumi printed in Milan by Giancarlo Sardella on handmade Etna Sicars paper, text printed by handpress by Alessandro Zanella on Hahnemüle paper in Santa Lucia ai Monti, Verona. No. 27/75.
“Voi ch' ascoltate in rime sparse il…
Le fort inexpvgnable de l’honnevr dv sexe femenin.
Provenance: Signed by Billon and with the gilt arms of the Baron de Seillière.
One of the principal theorists of feminism in the sixteenth century, François de Billon served as secretary to Cardinal Jean du Bellay. Billon wrote this ambitious…
One of the principal theorists of feminism in the sixteenth century, François de Billon served as secretary to Cardinal Jean du Bellay. Billon wrote this ambitious…
Vol. 1 of My Sketch Book.
George Cruikshank designed, etched and published this album of thirty-six hand-colored caricatures of daily life during the period 1833–36 and sold them through the London bookseller and publisher Charles Tilt. These copper etchings were issued in…
Four autograph letters signed, to: (1) Louis XV, King of France, St. James’s, January 13, 1724; (2) the Duchess of Orléans, St. James’s, May 13, 1724; (3) the Duke of Orléans; and (4) the Duke of Bourbon (the latter two sealed and unopened but presumably signed).
In January 1724, George I appointed Horatio Walpole (diplomat, politician, and younger brother of Sir Robert Walpole, the first British prime minister and uncle of the author, Horace) as an envoy extraordinary to the court of France. The first and…
Civic Insomnia.
Aquatint, 10⅞ x 14 in.
Begun in 1976, my collection of American prints spans the period from 1900 to World War II, with a particular emphasis on the 1930s. Between 1929 and 1933, Gerald Geerlings created a series of masterful urban images. A…
Begun in 1976, my collection of American prints spans the period from 1900 to World War II, with a particular emphasis on the 1930s. Between 1929 and 1933, Gerald Geerlings created a series of masterful urban images. A…
De subitaneis mortibus, libri duo. First edition.
Provenance: Pope Clement XI (born G. F. Albani), with the large engraved papal shield vignette and small circular Albani stamp on the title page; bound in contemporary calf, with the shield of Clement XI as pope on the front and rear covers, with…
Ricerche bibliografiche sulle edizioni Ferraresi del secolo XV.
Provenance: Franco Carresi, with his bookplate.
The origins of printing in Ferrara is a short story that focuses on eight printers and 121 books printed before 1501. Giuseppe Antonelli, one of the early bibliographer of printing in Ferrara,…
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life.
Provenance: Presentation from the author to Henry A. Smythe.
I set out to read Herman Melville, not collect him. After hearing the writer Robert Penn Warren read the poem “Shiloh,” I resolved to read all of Melville's works. Inevitably I became a…
I set out to read Herman Melville, not collect him. After hearing the writer Robert Penn Warren read the poem “Shiloh,” I resolved to read all of Melville's works. Inevitably I became a…
Ein Arbeitsbericht.
Hermann Zapf was my boss in 1977, when he was appointed Cary Professor of Graphic Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology. I was curator of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at that time. Years later he gave me this handsome account of his…
Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening.
Provenance: Dumbarton Oaks co-founder Mildred Bliss, with her bookplate.
I have lived to see many of my plans beautifully realized, but many more cruelly marred sometimes by false economy, sometimes by injudicious extravagance.
Humphry Repton,…
I have lived to see many of my plans beautifully realized, but many more cruelly marred sometimes by false economy, sometimes by injudicious extravagance.
Humphry Repton,…